Tropescilloscope: Protagonist Title

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

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