Tropescilloscope: Say My Name

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

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