Tropescilloscope: Say My Name

Dramatic uttering of somebody's name. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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