Tropescilloscope: Only One Name

Rather than having a first name and a last name, a character has only one name. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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Biopic Historical Villain Upgrade Sacrificial Lion The '90s Market-Based Title Anachronism Stew Up to Eleven Cain and Abel Victoria's Secret Compartment Cool Car Defrosting Ice Queen Body Horror Show Within a Show Say My Name Neck Snap Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Canon Foreigner She's Got Legs Off-into-the-Distance Ending Dropped a Bridge on Him Almost Kiss Adorkable Bloodier and Gorier Covers Always Lie Vampire Fiction Throwing Your Sword Always Works Properly Paranoid Celebrity Paradox The Ditz Improbable Weapon User Aluminum Christmas Trees Car Fu Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Adapted Out Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane No Celebrities Were Harmed Pyrrhic Victory Dark Action Girl Accidental Murder As Long as It Sounds Foreign Really Gets Around Race Against the Clock Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! 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Is Serious Business Parental Abandonment Corrupt Corporate Executive Funny Background Event Same Language Dub Only in It for the Money An Axe to Grind You Have Failed Me The Ghost Big Bad Bare Your Midriff Belligerent Sexual Tension Cool Guns Historical Hero Upgrade Creepy Child Rewatch Bonus No OSHA Compliance Rousing Speech Mama Bear Evil Sounds Deep Big "NO!" 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Is a Crapshoot Hero Antagonist Japanese Films Chekhov's Gun Demonic Possession Credits Gag Jerk with a Heart of Gold Creator Cameo Shipper on Deck Blood from the Mouth Big Applesauce Motor Mouth Evil Is Hammy Redshirt Army Fat Bastard Intergenerational Friendship Bad Boss Irony The Faceless Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Training Montage Gory Discretion Shot Daylight Horror Artistic License – Military Scenery Porn The Hero Dies Unreliable Narrator Reasonable Authority Figure Disappeared Dad Not Using the "Z" Word Fingore Mighty Whitey From Bad to Worse Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Suspiciously Similar Substitute Television Movie Index Betty and Veronica My Beloved Smother Karma Houdini Have a Gay Old Time Arranged Marriage B-Movie Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Slasher Movie Playing Gertrude Bowdlerise Ambiguously Gay Shoot the Shaggy Dog Hollywood Darkness Closed Circle Bar Brawl Aww, Look! 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