Tropescilloscope: Protagonist Title

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

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