Tropescilloscope: Say My Name

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

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