Tropescilloscope: Say My Name

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

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