Tropescilloscope: Only Known by Their Nickname

Even if their real name is known, no one uses it. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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