Tropescilloscope: Say My Name

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

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Deliberate Values Dissonance Sacrificial Lion Mexican Standoff Rule of Funny Adorkable Spell My Name with an "S" Visual Pun All There in the Manual Imagine Spot Scenery Gorn Killed Mid-Sentence Translation Convention Real Life Writes the Plot Left the Background Music On Does Not Like Shoes Historical In-Joke Sanity Slippage Red Herring Playing Gertrude Big Bad Duumvirate Reasonable Authority Figure Badass Bookworm Grey and Gray Morality Very Loosely Based on a True Story Crucified Hero Shot Fish out of Water Bloody Hilarious Woman Scorned Overly Long Gag Fantastic Racism Black and Gray Morality Anti-Villain Sexy Discretion Shot A God Am I Posthumous Character Break the Haughty Artistic License – Physics Whole Plot Reference Gorn Let's Get Dangerous! timeperiod I'm a Humanitarian Older Than They Look Improbable Aiming Skills Demonic Possession I Have Your Wife Line-of-Sight Name Horror Comedy Neck Snap Rule of Cool Meet Cute The Oner Deus ex Machina Brick Joke You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Femme Fatale Smoking Is Cool Adaptational Attractiveness Roger Ebert: Great Movies List Authority Equals Asskicking "The Reason You Suck" Speech Roaring Rampage of Revenge Death by Irony Red Shirt Evil-Detecting Dog Neck Lift Eye Scream Film Noir Henpecked Husband Man on Fire Mr. Exposition Those Two Bad Guys B-Movie Scare Chord Ambiguous Disorder It's All About Me Crazy Jealous Guy Parental Neglect Reality Has No Subtitles German Films Unusual Euphemism Aluminum Christmas Trees Sequel Hook Big-Bad Ensemble Happily Married Adapted Out Bottomless Magazines Body Horror Nothing Is Scarier Plot Hole Drowning My Sorrows Creepy Child Badass Boast Cat Scare Adaptational Heroism Danny Peary Cult Movies List Evil Counterpart Framing Device Only Known by Their Nickname Affectionate Parody Epic Movie The Hero Dies Attempted Rape The Casanova The Quiet One Advertised Extra Calling the Old Man Out Face Death with Dignity Why Did It Have to Be Snakes? Fainting Take a Third Option Batman Gambit Evil Brit Implacable Man And the Adventure Continues Red Right Hand Animal Motifs Nice Hat Heel Realization Death of a Child Continuity Nod Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass Screw the Rules, I'm Doing What's Right! Dull Surprise Protagonist Title Too Dumb to Live Big Applesauce Dirty Coward Rich Bitch Plucky Comic Relief From Nobody to Nightmare Ragtag Bunch of Misfits Amusing Injuries Sequel Escalation Never Trust a Trailer aka: Trailers Always Lie The Ghost Super Strength Defrosting Ice Queen Aside Glance Bittersweet Ending NO INDOOR VOICE Evil Is Hammy Kill 'em All As the Good Book Says... Storming the Castle Dissonant Serenity The Stoic I Need a Freaking Drink Lock and Load Montage Logo Joke Amoral Attorney Face–Heel Turn Curse Cut Short Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Book-Ends Music Stories Redshirt Army Aww, Look! They Really Do Love Each Other Villainous Breakdown Toplessness from the Back Depraved Bisexual Canadian Movies Honor Before Reason Eyepatch of Power Evil Laugh Russian Films Throwing Your Sword Always Works Villain Ball Yandere You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! Anachronism Stew Abhorrent Admirer As Himself Silence Is Golden Mood Whiplash Combat Pragmatist Suddenly SHOUTING! Creator Cameo Catapult Nightmare After the End Wrong Genre Savvy Sports Stories Rousing Speech Villain Song Martial Arts Movie Artistic License – Geography Cool Car Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil A.I. Is a Crapshoot No OSHA Compliance Cool Shades Beware the Nice Ones Dark Is Not Evil Jerkass Badass Normal Kids Are Cruel Central Theme Diabolus ex Machina Back from the Dead The Hero No Ending Evil Sounds Deep Not What It Looks Like Arc Words Spiteful Spit Determinator aka: The Determinator The Alcoholic "Well Done, Son!" Guy Male Frontal Nudity Villain Opening Scene Bilingual Bonus Age Lift Adaptation Expansion Berserk Button Pyrrhic Victory Names to Run Away from Really Fast Big Bad Disguised in Drag Bare Your Midriff Cassandra Truth Oh, Crap! Say My Name Brutal Honesty Naïve Newcomer Unreliable Narrator Stuff Blowing Up Psychopathic Manchild Novelization Arranged Marriage Actually Pretty Funny Conspicuous CG The Ace The '50s Belligerent Sexual Tension For the Evulz Bound and Gagged Not Even Bothering with the Accent Bald of Evil Dual Wielding MacGuffin Light Is Not Good Greater-Scope Villain Artistic License – History Truth in Television All Just a Dream Australian Movies Only Sane Man Brother–Sister Incest Would Hurt a Child Jump Scare Leitmotif Reality Is Unrealistic Spiritual Successor Cluster F-Bomb Zombie Stories Manchild He Who Fights Monsters Parental Incest Rated M for Manly Scenery Porn Ripped from the Headlines The Bad Guy Wins Sole Survivor Superhero Apocalypse How Slashed Throat Deadpan Snarker Dropped a Bridge on Him He Knows Too Much Fourth Date Marriage Enemy Mine La Résistance N-Word Privileges Funny Foreigner A Father to His Men Camp Gay Credits Gag Off-into-the-Distance Ending Call-Forward Insistent Terminology Ax-Crazy Air-Vent Passageway The Chessmaster Beard of Evil Meaningful Name Screw the Money, I Have Rules! 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Pretty Little Headshots Distracted by the Sexy Fat Bastard Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Karma Houdini Asshole Victim Adaptation Name Change Dark and Troubled Past Antagonist Title Slasher Smile The Place Time Skip The Starscream This Is Gonna Suck Shoot the Shaggy Dog Non-Indicative Name Famous Last Words Adaptation Dye-Job Narrator Not So Stoic The Film of the Book Never My Fault Black Comedy Fingore Alas, Poor Villain Due to the Dead Karmic Death Re-Cut Foil Police Brutality Random Events Plot "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Evil Is Petty Victoria's Secret Compartment I Want My Beloved to Be Happy Epic Fail Daylight Horror Serious Business Wretched Hive Insane Troll Logic Motor Mouth Scary Black Man Not So Above It All Hypocrite Daddy's Girl Male Gaze Took a Level in Jerkass Ghost Fiction Final Girl The Big Guy Improbable Infant Survival aka: Infant Immortality Black Dude Dies First Disney Death The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Instant Death Bullet Despair Event Horizon Film Series Chekhov's Gunman Action Prologue Gratuitous English Dwindling Party Everyone Has Standards Hate Sink Even Bad Men Love Their Mamas Animal Title Index Interrupted Suicide Leave the Camera Running Those Wacky Nazis Destination Defenestration Take That! 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Stepford Smiler Awesome, but Impractical Homage Properly Paranoid Fanservice Extra Action Genre Suspiciously Specific Denial Recycled IN SPACE! Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Token Minority Gone Horribly Right Chekhov's Skill Disproportionate Retribution She's Got Legs Manly Tears Mr. Fanservice Big Eater "Awesome McCool" Name My Beloved Smother You Have Failed Me The Dog Bites Back Maybe Ever After 20 Minutes into the Future Funny Background Event Refuge in Audacity Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Biopic Needs Wiki Magic Love The Ditz Retcon Crazy-Prepared Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Bring My Brown Pants Here We Go Again! Does This Remind You of Anything? The '80s The Musical No Celebrities Were Harmed Cloudcuckoolander The Great Depression Hell Is That Noise Match Cut Our Vampires Are Different Shipper on Deck Gainax Ending Loophole Abuse Vomit Indiscretion Shot The Stinger Romantic Comedy Faking the Dead Darker and Edgier Captain Obvious Your Cheating Heart Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" Worthy Opponent Deal with the Devil Affably Evil Bavarian Fire Drill Important Haircut There Is No Kill Like Overkill Easily Forgiven Babies Ever After Get Out! Unwitting Instigator of Doom Sadistic Choice Intrepid Reporter "Shaggy Dog" Story Only a Flesh Wound Failed a Spot Check Fiery Redhead Hero of Another Story Romantic False Lead Action Girl Eureka Moment Slasher Movie The Atoner Fatal Family Photo Domestic Abuse The Un-Reveal The Dragon Ironic Echo Hidden Depths Hooker with a Heart of Gold The Cameo Paper-Thin Disguise Small Name, Big Ego Peek-a-Boo Corpse Soundtrack Dissonance Beauty Is Never Tarnished The Power of Love Unresolved Sexual Tension Overprotective Dad Sliding Scale of Idealism vs. Cynicism Chewing the Scenery The Cavalry Your Head A-Splode My Greatest Failure Downer Ending Costume Porn Dutch Angle Psycho for Hire Casting Gag Darkest Hour Car Fu Obstructive Bureaucrat Anguished Declaration of Love Animated Credits Opening Love at First Sight Mythology Gag Adaptational Badass Faux Affably Evil Bar Brawl Anachronic Order Call-Back Knife Nut Wicked Cultured Mundane Made Awesome The Faceless Bond One-Liner Crapsack World War Is Hell Screw the Rules, I Have Money! Wham Line Red Eyes, Take Warning Boom, Headshot! Gory Discretion Shot Nice Job Breaking It, Hero! Unusually Uninteresting Sight Woman in White Covers Always Lie Star-Crossed Lovers Gold Digger Deliberately Monochrome Didn't Think This Through Brainless Beauty Vomit Discretion Shot Humans Are Bastards Sudden Sequel Death Syndrome Gender Flip Butt-Monkey Contrived Coincidence Stock Footage And Starring Drives Like Crazy Adults Are Useless Hypocritical Humor Comically Missing the Point Unspoken Plan Guarantee Determinator Trailers Always Spoil Mercy Kill Offscreen Teleportation Hoist by His Own Petard Exactly What It Says on the Tin Award-Bait Song Spanner in the Works Foreshadowing Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Vitriolic Best Buds Pragmatic Villainy Vacation Films Sassy Black Woman What You Are in the Dark Documentary Irony Ambiguously Gay For Want of a Nail Bolivian Army Ending Stylistic Suck Artistic License – Biology Loads and Loads of Characters Gilligan Cut Early-Bird Cameo Intergenerational Friendship Vampire Fiction Retirony Death by Sex Riddle for the Ages Mugging the Monster Laughing Mad Market-Based Title British Films Mystery and Detective Films The Chick Demoted to Extra May–December Romance Cain and Abel Mad Scientist Noodle Incident The Brute Bait-and-Switch Politically Incorrect Villain Fake Shemp Meaningful Echo Broken Bird No Antagonist Big Brother Instinct Stealth Hi/Bye Catch-Phrase What Happened to the Mouse? Four-Temperament Ensemble Pimped-Out Dress Chase Scene Tap on the Head Video Credits Action Survivor Expy She Cleans Up Nicely Deconstruction Improvised Weapon Impaled with Extreme Prejudice Artistic License – Gun Safety Half the Man He Used to Be Punny Name Sealed Evil in a Can Poor Communication Kills Grievous Bottley Harm Hollywood Darkness Developing Doomed Characters Author Appeal Shell-Shocked Veteran Getting Crap Past the Radar Immune to Bullets Stealth Pun Mooks Composite Character Historical-Domain Character Accidental Misnaming No-Holds-Barred Beatdown Not Using the "Z" Word Tranquil Fury Taking You with Me Dies Wide Open Offscreen Moment of Awesome Improbable Weapon User Suspiciously Similar Substitute Bloodless Carnage Drill Sergeant Nasty In the Back Guns Akimbo Index of Film Westerns Bowdlerise Dramedy Captain Ersatz The Load Country Matters Guile Hero Creative Closing Credits Self-Deprecation Japanese Films Not Quite Dead I Just Shot Marvin in the Face Hong Kong Films An Arm and a Leg How We Got Here Decoy Protagonist An Aesop Big Damn Heroes Have a Gay Old Time More Dakka Christmas Movies Index Children Are Innocent Five-Man Band Stalker with a Crush Accidental Murder Large Ham No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Closed Circle Make It Look Like an Accident Blatant Lies The Remake Slap-Slap-Kiss The Mole No Name Given The Vamp No-Sell Coming-of-Age Story As Long as It Sounds Foreign Beta Couple Ascended Extra Bitch in Sheep's Clothing It's Personal Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday A Date with Rosie Palms Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Pre-Asskicking One-Liner Punch-Clock Villain Put on a Bus Serial Killer Sci-Fi Horror Setting Update Malevolent Masked Men Mind Screw Only One Name Fate Worse than Death World of Ham Parental Substitute Shout-Out Alliterative Name Cat Fight Real Life Why Don't You Just Shoot Him? It Will Never Catch On Italian Films Moment Killer Genre Shift Mama Bear The Mafia Extreme Doormat Product Placement Madness Mantra Canon Foreigner Revenge Rape as Drama Pay Evil unto Evil Red Oni, Blue Oni Eagleland Obfuscating Stupidity Expository Hairstyle Change As You Know Knight Templar An Axe to Grind Cool Old Guy Room Full of Crazy Idiot Ball Running Gag From Bad to Worse Ungrateful Bastard Adaptation Distillation