Tropescilloscope: Protagonist Title

When the name of the main protagonist is title of their series (read more at tvtropes.org)

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