Tropescilloscope: Say My Name

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

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Dirty Old Man Vitriolic Best Buds Big Bad May–December Romance Evil Brit Character Development Interrupted Suicide The Ditz War Is Hell Not So Stoic Sci-Fi Horror Wham Shot Imagine Spot Never Trust a Trailer Dramatic Gun Cock Pet the Dog Red Shirt Have a Gay Old Time Almost Kiss Historical In-Joke Big Fancy House Police Brutality Bolivian Army Ending Malevolent Masked Men Suspiciously Similar Substitute A Date with Rosie Palms Chekhov's Gunman Deliberate Values Dissonance Brutal Honesty Rule of Symbolism Beard of Evil Improbable Weapon User Eagleland Laughing Mad Bilingual Bonus Animal Motifs Scenery Porn Heroic Sacrifice Catapult Nightmare Canadian Movies Epic Fail Lock and Load Montage Bloodier and Gorier Flipping the Bird Kill 'em All Alliterative Name The Bad Guy Wins Badass Longcoat The Mole Mexican Standoff Evil Is Petty Man on Fire Neck Lift Car Fu Knife Nut Broken Pedestal All for Nothing The Stinger Badass Bookworm Totally Radical Dwindling Party Berserk Button The Cameo Chewing the Scenery Final Girl Extreme Doormat Mr. Exposition Film Series Killed Mid-Sentence Novelization Paper-Thin Disguise Dying Moment of Awesome Children Are Innocent Dutch Angle Dramedy Mood Whiplash Spanner in the Works Informed Ability Put on a Bus Make It Look Like an Accident The Atoner Video Credits Framing Device Handicapped Badass Ambiguous Disorder The Alleged Car Time Skip Too Dumb to Live Butt-Monkey Drowning My Sorrows In Name Only Screw the Rules, I Have Money! 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Intrepid Reporter Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie Reality Is Unrealistic The Faceless Annoying Younger Sibling Frame-Up Pyrrhic Victory Pimped-Out Dress Obfuscating Stupidity Camera Abuse Action Genre Mythology Gag Betty and Veronica Darkest Hour Loophole Abuse Card-Carrying Villain Pretty in Mink Overprotective Dad Mooks Kill It with Fire Toplessness from the Back No Celebrities Were Harmed Sanity Slippage Italian Films Evil Cannot Comprehend Good What the Hell, Hero? 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Eye Scream Eyepatch of Power Title Drop Take a Third Option All There in the Manual Thriller Vomit Indiscretion Shot Reality Has No Subtitles Jitter Cam Corrupt Corporate Executive Adaptation Name Change Famous Last Words "Well Done, Son!" Guy Drives Like Crazy Missing Mom Deliberately Monochrome Knight Templar Death by Sex Jerkass Has a Point Double Entendre Nice Job Fixing It, Villain! Music Stories Anachronic Order He Who Fights Monsters Worthy Opponent Credits Gag Composite Character Wrong Genre Savvy Aww, Look! 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Is a Crapshoot Mad Scientist Artistic License – Geography The Vamp Cool Shades Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Gender Flip Suddenly SHOUTING! Our Vampires Are Different Major Injury Underreaction Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds Instant Death Bullet Roaring Rampage of Revenge Dramatic Irony Public Domain Feature Films Establishing Character Moment Twist Ending The Alcoholic Corpsing The '90s Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality The Power of Love Agony of the Feet Heterosexual Life-Partners Needs Wiki Magic Love Grievous Bottley Harm Anti-Hero Sacrificial Lion Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Bloody Hilarious N-Word Privileges No OSHA Compliance Tap on the Head Central Theme How We Got Here Historical Villain Upgrade Dressing as the Enemy Stylistic Suck Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Running Gag True Companions Freudian Excuse O.O.C. 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Adaptational Heroism Humans Are Bastards The Remake Plucky Comic Relief Auto Erotica Nothing Is Scarier Cool Car Empathic Environment Dark Is Not Evil Adaptational Attractiveness Room Full of Crazy As Himself Didn't Think This Through Heroes Want Redheads Artistic License – Gun Safety No Ending Science Fiction Films Manic Pixie Dream Girl Parental Abandonment Self-Deprecation Reasonable Authority Figure Bittersweet Ending Actually Pretty Funny Dissonant Serenity Jerk with a Heart of Gold Evil Laugh Hollywood Law Male Gaze Film Noir Index The Film of the Book Anguished Declaration of Love The Reveal Zombie Stories Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Gainax Ending Chekhov's Skill No-Sell Politically Incorrect Villain Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Ax-Crazy This Is Gonna Suck All Men Are Perverts Black and Gray Morality Parental Substitute Book-Ends Never My Fault Gorn Revenge Double-Meaning Title Foreshadowing Love Triangle Rule of Cool Fake Shemp Did Not Get the Girl Naïve Newcomer Dual Wielding Red Oni, Blue Oni Depraved Bisexual Bring My Brown Pants Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Death Glare BFG Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Evil Is Hammy Genre Shift Implacable Man Ghost Fiction Captain Ersatz There Is No Kill Like Overkill Call-Back The Ghost Skewed Priorities Combat Pragmatist Ungrateful Bastard Gory Discretion Shot Exact Words Ironic Echo Hero Antagonist All There in the Script Earn Your Happy Ending The Dreaded Tempting Fate Dropped a Bridge on Him Sealed Evil in a Can The Oner Cat Fight Unwitting Instigator of Doom Show Within a Show Punny Name Cold-Blooded Torture The Un-Reveal Stalker with a Crush Cain and Abel Film Noir Fan Disservice Brother–Sister Incest