Tropescilloscope: Only One Name

Rather than having a first name and a last name, a character has only one name. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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