Tropescilloscope: Punny Name

Character's name is a joke. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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