Tropescilloscope: Say My Name
Dramatic uttering of somebody's name. (read more at tvtropes.org)
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Impaled with Extreme Prejudice
Fantasy Films
Does Not Like Shoes
As You Know
Not What It Looks Like
The Place
Not Quite Dead
Undying Loyalty
Rated M for Manly
Narrator
The Cavalry
Affably Evil
Becoming the Mask
Actor Allusion
Psychopathic Manchild
British Films
Why Don't You Just Shoot Him?
The Un-Favourite
aka: The Un Favorite
Soft Glass
Bavarian Fire Drill
Big-Bad Ensemble
She Cleans Up Nicely
Coming-of-Age Story
Happily Married
Even Evil Has Standards
The Hero
Pretty Little Headshots
Expy
For the Evulz
Christmas Movies Index
Adapted Out
Shut Up, Hannibal!
Authority Equals Asskicking
Costume Porn
Author Appeal
Fat Bastard
Shirtless Scene
Fatal Family Photo
Recycled IN SPACE!
Trailers Always Spoil
Jump Scare
Evil Counterpart
The Mafia
Bottomless Magazines
Same Language Dub
Well-Intentioned Extremist
Ominous Latin Chanting
Silence Is Golden
Attempted Rape
Babies Ever After
Improbable Aiming Skills
Danny Peary Cult Movies List
A Father to His Men
FaceHeel Turn
Hair-Trigger Temper
Cassandra Truth
Abusive Parents
Intergenerational Friendship
Stock Footage
Older Than They Look
Smoking Is Cool
Soundtrack Dissonance
Reckless Gun Usage
Ambiguously Gay
Logo Joke
Camp Gay
Would Hit a Girl
Precision F-Strike
No Good Deed Goes Unpunished
Cat Scare
One Steve Limit
Wretched Hive
Mundane Made Awesome
Beware the Nice Ones
And Starring
Deus ex Machina
NO INDOOR VOICE
Amoral Attorney
Hypocritical Humor
Hooker with a Heart of Gold
I Need a Freaking Drink
Disney Death
Stealth Pun
Random Events Plot
You Have Got to Be Kidding Me!
Plot Hole
I Just Shot Marvin in the Face
Guile Hero
Together in Death
Rule of Funny
Whole Plot Reference
Unreliable Narrator
What You Are in the Dark
Green-Eyed Monster
Bad "Bad Acting"
Race Against the Clock
Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism
For Want of a Nail
Black Best Friend
My God, What Have I Done?
Dirty Old Man
Vitriolic Best Buds
Big Bad
MayDecember 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!
Mama Bear
Covers Always Lie
Shoot the Shaggy Dog
Canon Foreigner
Bar Brawl
Television Movie Index
Leave the Camera Running
Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome
You Have Failed Me
Black Comedy
Mr. Fanservice
Badass Boast
Does This Remind You of Anything?
Mystery and Detective Films
Henpecked Husband
Author Avatar
Insistent Terminology
Hidden Depths
Made of Iron
All Girls Want Bad Boys
Body Horror
Screw the Money, I Have Rules!
Our Zombies Are Different
Arranged Marriage
Expository Hairstyle Change
Vomit Discretion Shot
Fate Worse than Death
He Knows Too Much
Exactly What It Says on the Tin
Suspiciously Specific Denial
Only in It for the Money
Large Ham
Eureka Moment
Cool Old Lady
She's Got Legs
Anti-Villain
Blonde, Brunette, Redhead
Breaking the Fourth Wall
Adaptational Villainy
Fantastic Racism
Hero of Another Story
Artistic License History
It's All About Me
Only Known by Their Nickname
Easily Forgiven
Off with His Head!
"The Reason You Suck" Speech
Mercy Kill
Genre Savvy
Overly Long Gag
Serial Killer
Curb-Stomp Battle
Dark Action Girl
The Sociopath
Sinister Minister
Sexy Discretion Shot
Papa Wolf
I Did What I Had to Do
Every Car Is a Pinto
Abhorrent Admirer
A Minor Kidroduction
Brick Joke
Broken Aesop
Big Damn Heroes
Vampire Fiction
Unresolved Sexual Tension
The Voiceless
The Smurfette Principle
Better to Die than Be Killed
Girl-on-Girl Is Hot
Hypocrite
Homage
Demonic Possession
Silent Movie
Get Out!
Closed Circle
Real Life
Noodle Incident
Animated Credits Opening
Redshirt Army
The Dragon
Funny Foreigner
Ripped from the Headlines
Faking the Dead
Leaning on the Fourth Wall
Country Matters
Biopic
Badass Grandpa
Comically Missing the Point
Faux Affably Evil
Defrosting Ice Queen
Cloudcuckoolander
Take That!
Drugs Are Bad
Nice Hat
Tranquil Fury
Let's Get Dangerous!
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?
Friend to All Children
It Will Never Catch On
Big Bad Duumvirate
Creative Closing Credits
Damsel in Distress
Department of Redundancy Department
Laser-Guided Karma
Hope Spot
Only a Flesh Wound
Rich Bitch
Real Life Writes the Plot
Villain with Good Publicity
All Just a Dream
Driven to Suicide
Motor Mouth
Age Lift
Arch-Enemy
Early Installment Weirdness
Heel Realization
Stepford Smiler
Blackmail
Unusually Uninteresting Sight
Disproportionate Retribution
Creator Cameo
It's Personal
Fatal Flaw
Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday
Rousing Speech
Match Cut
Only One Name
Gratuitous English
Bowdlerise
Chase Scene
Jack Bauer Interrogation Technique
Daylight Horror
Artistic License Physics
Maybe Ever After
Hong Kong Films
Face Death with Dignity
Wounded Gazelle Gambit
Would Hurt a Child
Eldritch Abomination
Hate Sink
Blood from the Mouth
Belligerent Sexual Tension
German Films
Alas, Poor Villain
Deal with the Devil
And I Must Scream
Not Even Bothering with the Accent
Adorkable
Rape as Drama
Guns Akimbo
Redemption Equals Death
Taking You with Me
Sequel Hook
Lampshade Hanging
Captain Obvious
Bound and Gagged
Affectionate Parody
Wham Line
Bait-and-Switch
Outrun the Fireball
Accidental Misnaming
Works Set in World War II
Say My Name
Big Applesauce
Straight Gay
Batman Gambit
Once More, with Clarity!
The '50s
Extremely Short Timespan
Ragtag Bunch of Misfits
Sadistic Choice
B-Movie
Setting Update
Black Comedy Rape
Disney Villain Death
The Chessmaster
Kids Are Cruel
Russian Films
Shower Scene
Monumental Damage
Bald of Evil
Cluster F-Bomb
Woman Scorned
Contrived Coincidence
Rewatch Bonus
Scary Black Man
Spared by the Adaptation
Throwing Your Sword Always Works
Token Minority
Bloodless Carnage
Word of God
Shout-Out
Pragmatic Adaptation
Break the Cutie
Cruel and Unusual Death
Sequel Escalation
I Want My Beloved to Be Happy
Historical-Domain Character
Taking the Bullet
Demoted to Extra
Shown Their Work
Rule of Three
Obviously Evil
Cool Guns
Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right!
Action Survivor
And the Adventure Continues
Armor-Piercing Question
Due to the Dead
Mistaken for Gay
Punctuated! For! Emphasis!
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! They Really Do Love Each Other
The Brute
Adult Fear
Tagline
Married to the Job
Immune to Bullets
The Starscream
Foregone Conclusion
Woman in White
Training Montage
Chiaroscuro
Horror Comedy
The Lost Lenore
Dumb Blonde
Spiritual Successor
Slasher Smile
Last-Name Basis
Deadpan Snarker
Blood Knight
Mighty Whitey
Four-Temperament Ensemble
The Hero Dies
Advertised Extra
MacGuffin
Manly Tears
Documentary
Crazy-Prepared
"Shaggy Dog" Story
Irony
20 Minutes into the Future
The X of Y
Ship Tease
Adults Are Useless
Deconstruction
Dull Surprise
You Killed My Father
Fire-Forged Friends
Not So Different
Karma Houdini
Nice Guy
Pay Evil unto Evil
Riddle for the Ages
Getting Crap Past the Radar
Male Frontal Nudity
Offscreen Moment of Awesome
One-Word Title
Disappeared Dad
Fainting
Meaningful Background Event
From Nobody to Nightmare
Crazy Jealous Guy
I Have Your Wife
Ambiguous Ending
Artistic License Biology
Unusual Euphemism
Protagonist Title
Important Haircut
Dirty Coward
Yandere
Action Film, Quiet Drama Scene
Asshole Victim
Australian Movies
Evil Sounds Deep
Everyone Has Standards
The Big Guy
Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking
Refuge in Audacity
Be Careful What You Wish For
The Chick
Gilligan Cut
Reality Ensues
Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"
Villain Opening Scene
Those Wacky Nazis
Truth in Television
Pre-Asskicking One-Liner
HeelFace Turn
Fourth Date Marriage
Villain Ball
Celebrity Paradox
Serious Business
Very Loosely Based on a True Story
'80s Hair
Jerkass
Air-Vent Passageway
Evil Plan
As Long as It Sounds Foreign
Badass Normal
Creepy Child
Bad Boss
Bare Your Midriff
No Antagonist
Evil-Detecting Dog
Hell Is That Noise
A.I. 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. Is Serious Business
Aside Glance
In Medias Res
Cool Old Guy
Spell My Name with an "S"
Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping
Insane Troll Logic
Back from the Dead
The Great Depression
Offscreen Teleportation
Eiffel Tower Effect
Broken Bird
Posthumous Character
Playing Gertrude
Defiant to the End
Bond Villain Stupidity
Psycho for Hire
Badass in a Nice Suit
Enemy Mine
Continuity Nod
Sole Survivor
La Résistance
Grey and Gray Morality
Big Eater
Bury Your Gays
Sir Not-Appearing-in-This-Trailer
Facial Horror
From Bad to Worse
You Have Outlived Your Usefulness
Villain Protagonist
Recap /
RiffTrax
aka: Riff Trax Movies
Death of a Child
Meaningful Echo
Took a Level in Badass
Anachronism Stew
Loads and Loads of Characters
Antagonist Title
Sports Stories
Apocalypse How
Romantic Comedy
Visual Pun
Those Two Guys
Bullying a Dragon
The '60s
Villainous Breakdown
Dark and Troubled Past
Heroic BSoD
Determinator
The Bully
Decoy Protagonist
Fun with Acronyms
Brainless Beauty
Meet Cute
Retcon
Crapsack World
Obstructive Bureaucrat
Epic Movie
Dark Reprise
Poor Communication Kills
Parental Neglect
Fingore
Stuff Blowing Up
Left the Background Music On
Ass Shove
Animal Title Index
Developing Doomed Characters
Took a Level in Jerkass
Fanservice Extra
Action Girl
Those Two Bad Guys
Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy
Morality Pet
Shipper on Deck
Leitmotif
Awesome, but Impractical
Freeze-Frame Bonus
Re-Cut
Neck Snap
French Films
Naked People Are Funny
The Musical
An Aesop
Boom, Headshot!
Super Strength
Really Gets Around
Alpha Bitch
Market-Based Title
Crucified Hero Shot
Japanese Films
Up to Eleven
Foil
Psychological Thriller
Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?
Failed a Spot Check
Index of Film Westerns
The '70s
Punch-Clock Villain
Femme Fatale
Wicked Cultured
Colour-Coded for Your Convenience
aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience
Funny Background Event
Groin Attack
Break the Haughty
Pragmatic Villainy
Destination Defenestration
Determinator
aka: The Determinator
Adaptation Dye-Job
Death by Adaptation
No-Holds-Barred Beatdown
Adaptation Distillation
Despair Event Horizon
Black Dude Dies First
"Where Are They Now?" Epilogue
Never Found the Body
In the Back
Peek-a-Boo Corpse
Daddy's Girl
Domestic Abuse
Scenery Gorn
Jerk Jock
Beta Couple
Small Name, Big Ego
Award-Bait Song
Half the Man He Used to Be
Casting Gag
Adaptational Badass
Red Herring
Race Lift
Mugging the Monster
Gold Digger
Dogged Nice Guy
The Ace
The '80s
Lighter and Softer
Not Using the "Z" Word
Star-Crossed Lovers
Amusing Injuries
Flashback
World of Ham
Good Is Not Nice
Honor Before Reason
More Dakka
Insult Backfire
Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil
Early-Bird Cameo
Action Prologue
Military and Warfare Films
Unspoken Plan Guarantee
Adaptation Expansion
Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane
Only Sane Man
Light Is Not Good
Ugly Guy, Hot Wife
Slap-Slap-Kiss
After the End
What Happened to the Mouse?
My Beloved Smother
Pre-Mortem One-Liner
Accidental Murder
Diabolus ex Machina
Hoist by His Own Petard
Mind Screw
Not So Above It All
Vacation Films
Police are Useless
Moment Killer
Storming the Castle
Roger Ebert: Great Movies List
Parental Incest
Idiot Ball
Victoria's Secret Compartment
Off-into-the-Distance Ending
Big Brother Instinct
Disguised in Drag
Drill Sergeant Nasty
Red Eyes, Take Warning
Fish out of Water
Ascended Extra
Dirty Cop
Based on a True Story
Names to Run Away from Really Fast
The Stoic
Romantic False Lead
Gone Horribly Right
Dies Wide Open
Translation Convention
Sassy Black Woman
Men Are the Expendable Gender
Kick the Son of a Bitch
Even Evil Has Loved Ones
The End... Or Is It?
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"Awesome McCool" Name
Greater-Scope Villain
Improvised Weapon
As the Good Book Says...
Retirony
An Axe to Grind
It Can Think
Shell-Shocked Veteran
Arc Words
Darker and Edgier
Bond One-Liner
No Name Given
Villain Song
Smug Snake
Death by Irony
Your Cheating Heart
Made of Explodium
Stealth Hi/Bye
Your Head A-Splode
Manipulative Bastard
Madness Mantra
Blatant Lies
The Quiet One
The Dog Bites Back
Properly Paranoid
Conspicuous CG
Product Placement
Bunny-Ears Lawyer
Superhero
Artistic License Law
Kick the Dog
Fiery Redhead
I'm a Humanitarian
Catch-Phrase
The Lancer
Distracted by the Sexy
Oh, Crap!
Horror Films
Nice Job Breaking It, Hero!
Evil vs. Evil
Kubrick Stare
Chekhov's Gun
Aluminum Christmas Trees
Love at First Sight
Calling the Old Man Out
Call-Forward
Scare Chord
Ms. Fanservice
Bi the Way
Karmic Death
Death Seeker
Line-of-Sight Name
Humiliation Conga
Hollywood Darkness
One-Man Army
Meaningful Name
Martial Arts Movie
Five-Man Band
Curse Cut Short
Rasputinian Death
Slashed Throat
Historical Hero Upgrade
My Greatest Failure
Slasher Movie
Manchild
Beauty Is Never Tarnished
The Load
The Stoner
Retired Badass
Pun
aka: Incredibly Lame Pun
Anyone Can Die
Fanservice
Genre Throwback
Cowboy Cop
Sir Swears-a-Lot
timeperiod
An Arm and a Leg
Big "NO!"
Downer Ending
Spiteful Spit
Red Right Hand
Non-Indicative Name
The Smart Guy
Artistic License Military
A God Am I
Bland-Name Product
The Casanova
Here We Go Again!
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
BrotherSister Incest