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)

More Tropes Pragmatic Villainy What You Are in the Dark No Celebrities Were Harmed Parental Abandonment Worthy Opponent She Cleans Up Nicely A Minor Kidroduction Dissonant Serenity Ambiguously Gay Bury Your Gays Screw This, I'm Outta Here! The Alleged Car Only a Flesh Wound Yandere Fatal Family Photo Shut Up, Hannibal! Rewatch Bonus Chekhov's Gunman Adaptation Dye-Job Not Even Bothering with the Accent N-Word Privileges Earn Your Happy Ending Only in It for the Money French Films Reality Ensues An Aesop Naked People Are Funny Meaningful Name Visual Pun Setting Update Offscreen Teleportation Defrosting Ice Queen The Dragon Gratuitous English Line-of-Sight Name Damsel in Distress Death of a Child Dirty Cop Brick Joke Spiteful Spit Anti-Hero Gorn Ironic Echo Four-Temperament Ensemble Important Haircut Roaring Rampage of Revenge Stalker with a Crush Broken Bird Would Hit a Girl The Starscream Manly Tears Taking You with Me No OSHA Compliance Framing Device Shipper on Deck Pretty Little Headshots She's Got Legs Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Pun aka: Incredibly Lame Pun Artistic License – Geography Leaning on the Fourth Wall O.O.C. Is Serious Business The Ace Bar Brawl Combat Pragmatist Motor Mouth All There in the Script Dark Is Not Evil Badass in a Nice Suit May–December Romance Alas, Poor Villain Evil-Detecting Dog Sequel Hook Irony Adaptational Villainy Knife Nut Plot Hole Well-Intentioned Extremist Better to Die than Be Killed Dirty Old Man Never My Fault Immune to Bullets Vacation Films Bullying a Dragon The Bully Camp Gay Lighter and Softer Fanservice Made of Iron What the Hell, Hero? Disproportionate Retribution Manchild Toplessness from the Back Empathic Environment Villain Opening Scene Sinister Minister Your Head A-Splode I Have Your Wife Face Death with Dignity Very Loosely Based on a True Story Meaningful Echo Big Bad Mind Screw Black Dude Dies First Even Evil Has Standards Made of Explodium Bland-Name Product Spared by the Adaptation Demoted to Extra B-Movie Love Triangle Shower Scene The Dog Bites Back Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer Fantastic Racism Those Two Guys The Mole Gender Flip All There in the Manual Silent Movie La Résistance Soft Glass Crazy Jealous Guy The Smurfette Principle Cool Shades It Can Think Dramedy Broken Pedestal Action Girl The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Bloodier and Gorier Only One Name Curse Cut Short Intergenerational Friendship Captain Ersatz Hoist by His Own Petard Captain Obvious Artistic License – Biology The Lost Lenore Reality Is Unrealistic Imagine Spot 20 Minutes into the Future Politically Incorrect Villain Woman in White Serious Business Cruel and Unusual Death Nice Guy For the Evulz Neck Lift Berserk Button Villain with Good Publicity Black Comedy Kill 'em All Together in Death The Cameo Martial Arts Movie In Name Only Crucified Hero Shot Armor-Piercing Question Say My Name Drowning My Sorrows The Smart Guy Deliberate Values Dissonance Men Are the Expendable Gender It's Personal Adaptation Expansion Book-Ends Ambiguous Disorder Psychological Thriller Manipulative Bastard folderlabel The Ghost Ambiguous Ending Kubrick Stare Advertised Extra Evil Is Hammy Creepy Child Twist Ending Fourth Date Marriage Improbable Aiming Skills The Great Depression Anti-Villain Big-Bad Ensemble The Hero Bowdlerise Unreliable Narrator Translation Convention Tranquil Fury Foregone Conclusion The Film of the Book I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Driven to Suicide Anguished Declaration of Love Every Car Is a Pinto Stealth Pun Redshirt Army Pragmatic Adaptation Suspiciously Specific Denial Breaking the Fourth Wall Henpecked Husband The '50s You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Unspoken Plan Guarantee Actor Allusion Big Fancy House Evil Brit Kick the Son of a Bitch Posthumous Character Evil Sounds Deep Idiot Ball NO INDOOR VOICE Romantic Comedy Vomit Discretion Shot Obfuscating Stupidity Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor As the Good Book Says... Karma Houdini Scary Black Man Butt-Monkey Ax-Crazy Death by Adaptation Improbable Weapon User Guile Hero Comically Missing the Point Laser-Guided Karma Evil Counterpart Bare Your Midriff Agony of the Feet Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Catch-Phrase Never Found the Body Improvised Weapon Race Against the Clock Mooks Wrong Genre Savvy Air-Vent Passageway Call-Back Shell-Shocked Veteran Diabolus ex Machina Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Red Herring Word of God Hate Sink Beauty Is Never Tarnished One Steve Limit Bond Villain Stupidity True Companions Deus ex Machina Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Deal with the Devil Action Survivor Face–Heel Turn Does Not Like Shoes Papa Wolf Heterosexual Life-Partners Early Installment Weirdness Big Applesauce Your Cheating Heart Cluster F-Bomb The Un-Reveal Loads and Loads of Characters Insane Troll Logic Interrupted Suicide Vitriolic Best Buds And the Adventure Continues Bolivian Army Ending Once More, with Clarity! Intrepid Reporter Conspicuous CG Logo Joke After the End Chewing the Scenery Anachronism Stew Heroic Sacrifice Dual Wielding Honor Before Reason Arch-Enemy Attempted Rape Eiffel Tower Effect Protagonist Title Creator Cameo Recap / RiffTrax aka: Riff Trax Movies Leitmotif Implacable Man Death by Sex Distracted by the Sexy Jerk with a Heart of Gold You Have Failed Me Hollywood Darkness Cool Guns Shirtless Scene Parental Substitute Dutch Angle Anachronic Order Ominous Latin Chanting Those Wacky Nazis Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Blackmail Eye Scream You Killed My Father Pre-Mortem One-Liner Not What It Looks Like Abhorrent Admirer Dirty Coward Villain Song Pyrrhic Victory Let's Get Dangerous! Cat Scare Parental Neglect Enemy Mine Fake Shemp Precision F-Strike Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Take That! Older Than They Look Canadian Movies Adults Are Useless Bavarian Fire Drill Early-Bird Cameo Sadistic Choice Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Grievous Bottley Harm Throwing Your Sword Always Works Fun with Acronyms Historical Villain Upgrade Beware the Nice Ones Would Hurt a Child The '80s Love at First Sight Fingore Alpha Bitch Red Shirt Star-Crossed Lovers Mythology Gag Red Right Hand You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Black Comedy Rape Sealed Evil in a Can Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Truth in Television Dark Action Girl Action Prologue Hooker with a Heart of Gold Ms. Fanservice Determinator aka: The Determinator Bond One-Liner Badass Longcoat Spanner in the Works Police are Useless Almost Kiss World of Ham Establishing Character Moment Chiaroscuro Flashback Villain Protagonist Serial Killer Meet Cute Insult Backfire Jerk Jock Retcon The Load Death Seeker Getting Crap Past the Radar Bloodless Carnage Science Fiction Films Arranged Marriage Retired Badass Drugs Are Bad The Quiet One Adult Fear Trailers Always Spoil Ascended Extra Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Names to Run Away from Really Fast Villainous Breakdown Off-into-the-Distance Ending Groin Attack Slasher Movie Time Skip Brother–Sister Incest Hidden Depths Paper-Thin Disguise Instant Death Bullet Developing Doomed Characters Non-Indicative Name Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Bittersweet Ending Peek-a-Boo Corpse Large Ham Leave the Camera Running Wretched Hive Last-Name Basis Real Life Writes the Plot Final Girl Did Not Get the Girl Offscreen Moment of Awesome Rape as Drama And Starring Amoral Attorney Not Using the "Z" Word The Brute Break the Cutie Brutal Honesty Camera Abuse Man on Fire Gainax Ending Freudian Excuse Training Montage Rule of Symbolism Foreshadowing Drill Sergeant Nasty Video Credits Domestic Abuse Anyone Can Die Frame-Up Overly Long Gag Arc Words Vomit Indiscretion Shot Disappeared Dad Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Properly Paranoid Eldritch Abomination Reckless Gun Usage Too Dumb to Live A God Am I As You Know A Date with Rosie Palms Half the Man He Used to Be Redemption Equals Death No Antagonist Blood from the Mouth Ship Tease Adaptational Heroism Male Gaze Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Loophole Abuse Race Lift Whole Plot Reference Gold Digger Auto Erotica Continuity Nod Woman Scorned Catapult Nightmare More Dakka Superhero There Is No Kill Like Overkill Expy Dies Wide Open Put on a Bus Chekhov's Gun The Stoner Moment Killer Red Oni, Blue Oni Mexican Standoff Thriller Crazy-Prepared Ass Shove Playing Gertrude Documentary Sci-Fi Horror Married to the Job Parental Incest Big "NO!" Fainting Stylistic Suck Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Works Set in World War II Stuff Blowing Up Artistic License – Law Death by Irony Hair-Trigger Temper Country Matters Friend to All Children Funny Foreigner Nice Hat Betty and Veronica The Vamp Artistic License – Physics The Dreaded Mercy Kill Mistaken for Gay Gilligan Cut One-Word Title Psychopathic Manchild Heroic BSoD Plucky Comic Relief Screw the Money, I Have Rules! Mugging the Monster Double Entendre Stock Footage Insistent Terminology Sanity Slippage No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Cassandra Truth Pay Evil unto Evil Dwindling Party Morality Pet Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Show Within a Show An Axe to Grind Body Horror Fire-Forged Friends Sacrificial Lion Bring My Brown Pants Accidental Murder Gory Discretion Shot Crapsack World The Chessmaster Only Sane Man Gone Horribly Right Make It Look Like an Accident Neck Snap Taking the Bullet Not Quite Dead Karmic Death Cain and Abel The Remake Expository Hairstyle Change Darkest Hour Badass Bookworm Deliberately Monochrome Lock and Load Montage Rousing Speech Boom, Headshot! Never Trust a Trailer Mr. Fanservice The X of Y Shown Their Work One-Man Army Killed Mid-Sentence Tap on the Head Extreme Doormat Laughing Mad Rich Bitch Big Eater Blatant Lies Pimped-Out Dress Film Noir Narrator Eagleland Romantic False Lead Took a Level in Jerkass Faking the Dead Danny Peary Cult Movies List Get Out! I Did What I Had to Do Decoy Protagonist Unwitting Instigator of Doom Not So Different Author Appeal Contrived Coincidence Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Smug Snake Green-Eyed Monster Blood Knight Wham Shot Good Is Not Nice Room Full of Crazy Sequel Escalation Funny Background Event Historical In-Joke Token Minority Hypocritical Humor Determinator The Bad Guy Wins Dark and Troubled Past Dogged Nice Guy Action Genre Christmas Movies Index In Medias Res War Is Hell Poor Communication Kills Heroes Want Redheads Mundane Made Awesome Market-Based Title Punch-Clock Villain Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Disguised in Drag The Reveal Sole Survivor Alliterative Name Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Straight Gay Maybe Ever After Dumb Blonde Big Damn Heroes Fantasy Films Black and Gray Morality Children Are Innocent Sexy Discretion Shot Grey and Gray Morality Naïve Newcomer Cowboy Cop Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique Product Placement Kids Are Cruel Tagline Noodle Incident Bad Boss Curb-Stomp Battle Based on a True Story Hypocrite The Voiceless The '70s Evil vs. Evil Match Cut Artistic License – History Sir Swears-a-Lot Male Frontal Nudity Ghost Fiction Punctuated! For! Emphasis! Actually Pretty Funny Military and Warfare Films Freeze-Frame Bonus Greater-Scope Villain From Nobody to Nightmare Wham Line Humiliation Conga Adorkable The End... Or Is It? Punny Name Slasher Smile Public Domain Feature Films Mood Whiplash Evil Is Petty The Power of Love Kick the Dog Fanservice Extra Film Series Be Careful What You Wish For Unresolved Sexual Tension Famous Last Words Destination Defenestration Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Australian Movies Monumental Damage Award-Bait Song The Cavalry I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Unusual Euphemism Suspiciously Similar Substitute Our Zombies Are Different Dying Moment of Awesome timeperiod Evil Laugh Pet the Dog Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Informed Ability Spiritual Successor Cold-Blooded Torture Author Avatar Small Name, Big Ego Affectionate Parody Mama Bear Defiant to the End From Bad to Worse Knight Templar Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Fat Bastard Genre Throwback The Alcoholic Self-Deprecation Badass Grandpa Historical Hero Upgrade Vampire Fiction Dramatic Irony Have a Gay Old Time I Need a Freaking Drink Japanese Films All Just a Dream Missing Mom Death Glare Only Known by Their Nickname Revenge Mighty Whitey Eyepatch of Power Epic Fail Badass Normal Becoming the Mask The '90s Took a Level in Badass Russian Films Super Strength Aluminum Christmas Trees Faux Affably Evil Covers Always Lie Age Lift The Atoner Dark Reprise All for Nothing This Is Gonna Suck Jump Scare Wounded Gazelle Gambit Title Drop Femme Fatale Mystery and Detective Films Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Same Language Dub Handicapped Badass Pretty in Mink Facial Horror Shout-Out Hollywood Law "Shaggy Dog" Story Stepford Smiler Adaptation Name Change Coming-of-Age Story Epic Movie What Happened to the Mouse? An Arm and a Leg Refuge in Audacity Disney Villain Death "Well Done, Son!" Guy Five-Man Band Amusing Injuries Big Bad Duumvirate Hong Kong Films Nothing Is Scarier Back from the Dead Daylight Horror Closed Circle Chase Scene Obstructive Bureaucrat Adaptational Badass In the Back Demonic Possession Card-Carrying Villain The Hero Dies As Long as It Sounds Foreign Hero Antagonist Spell My Name with an "S" Scenery Gorn Foil Soundtrack Dissonance Cool Old Lady Fiery Redhead Beard of Evil Ripped from the Headlines He Who Fights Monsters Bad "Bad Acting" Happily Married Adaptation Distillation Music Stories All Girls Want Bad Boys Jitter Cam Brainless Beauty Really Gets Around Adapted Out Up to Eleven Here We Go Again! Deconstruction Left the Background Music On Bait-and-Switch Zombie Stories The Stoic Car Fu Downer Ending Aside Glance Outrun the Fireball Heel–Face Turn Everyone Has Standards Costume Porn Call-Forward Humans Are Bastards Hell Is That Noise Does This Remind You of Anything? Double-Meaning Title Slap-Slap-Kiss Casting Gag MacGuffin Television Movie Index Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? Canon Foreigner '80s Hair Fish out of Water The Casanova I'm a Humanitarian Biopic Bottomless Magazines Composite Character Totally Radical Evil Plan Department of Redundancy Department Credits Gag The Sociopath Hero of Another Story Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene Big Brother Instinct The '60s Cool Car Shoot the Shaggy Dog Depraved Bisexual Off with His Head! Sports Stories Antagonist Title Badass Boast My God, What Have I Done? Not So Above It All Undying Loyalty Fate Worse than Death Suddenly SHOUTING! Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience No-Sell Broken Aesop Recycled IN SPACE! He Knows Too Much Novelization Hope Spot Scare Chord Bilingual Bonus Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Rule of Funny Affably Evil Artistic License – Gun Safety Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Scenery Porn Not So Stoic Despair Event Horizon Didn't Think This Through Take a Third Option Genre Savvy Those Two Bad Guys BFG Celebrity Paradox Central Theme Character Development Apocalypse How Villain Ball Corrupt Corporate Executive Artistic License – Military Psycho for Hire Fan Disservice Dressing as the Enemy "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Disney Death Silence Is Golden Belligerent Sexual Tension Creative Closing Credits Ungrateful Bastard Ugly Guy, Hot Wife Meaningful Background Event The Place Lampshade Hanging It Will Never Catch On Victoria's Secret Compartment A.I. Is a Crapshoot German Films Oh, Crap! No Ending Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Annoying Younger Sibling Calling the Old Man Out The Lancer The Chick Homage The Big Guy Light Is Not Good Batman Gambit Sassy Black Woman Smoking Is Cool Jerkass Has a Point Animal Title Index Cool Old Guy Storming the Castle Police Brutality Our Vampires Are Different Tempting Fate Jerkass Re-Cut British Films The Ditz How We Got Here Overprotective Dad Reality Has No Subtitles Easily Forgiven Even Evil Has Loved Ones Malevolent Masked Men Madness Mantra Mr. Exposition Rasputinian Death The Musical Extremely Short Timespan Horror Comedy Exact Words No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Red Eyes, Take Warning Dull Surprise Bound and Gagged Corpsing A Father to His Men Manic Pixie Dream Girl Bloody Hilarious Rule of Three Asshole Victim Slashed Throat Kill It with Fire Failed a Spot Check Riddle for the Ages Needs Wiki Magic Love Daddy's Girl Drives Like Crazy Bald of Evil Real Life Deadpan Snarker Break the Haughty All Men Are Perverts Adaptational Attractiveness Index of Film Westerns "The Reason You Suck" Speech Obviously Evil Heel Realization Accidental Misnaming Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Flipping the Bird Abusive Parents Film Noir Index Roger Ebert: Great Movies List The Mafia Cat Fight Reasonable Authority Figure For Want of a Nail Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday And I Must Scream My Beloved Smother Exactly What It Says on the Tin Guns Akimbo "Awesome McCool" Name Animal Motifs Dropped a Bridge on Him Awesome, but Impractical Historical-Domain Character Fatal Flaw It's All About Me Random Events Plot Wicked Cultured As Himself Due to the Dead Babies Ever After Unusually Uninteresting Sight Chekhov's Skill Beta Couple Animated Credits Opening Rated M for Manly Italian Films The Faceless Darker and Edgier Running Gag The Stinger Bunny-Ears Lawyer Horror Films Skewed Priorities The Oner Black Best Friend My Greatest Failure Retirony Mad Scientist Stealth Hi/Bye Authority Equals Asskicking Eureka Moment Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Major Injury Underreaction Rule of Cool Dramatic Gun Cock Cloudcuckoolander Bi the Way No Name Given Genre Shift