Tropescilloscope: Spell My Name with an "S"

I know how to say this name, but how do I spell it? (read more at tvtropes.org)

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