∇
troperville

∇
tools

∇
toys

SubpagesMain

main index

Narrative

Genre

Media

Topical Tropes

Other Categories

new edits	workshops	reviews	YKTTW	tweets	random
to do	pm	add watch	drop watch	watchlist	profile

Subpages:

source

history

edit page

Say My Name Trailer

A particular type of trailer or advertisement for a show which focuses on little besides the main character and making sure the audience damn well remembers the main character, and by extension, the film's name. Essentially, you take a bunch of unrelated scenes from the production and edit them together to get a Say My Name sequence.

This is most common with children's films with a character title name. The trailer is nothing more than the various secondary cast members saying the main character's name in quick succession (sometimes, but not usually, including the main character self-identifying). For instance, the trailer for Bob: The Movie would go something like:

Sidekick: BOB!
Girlfriend: Bob?
Villain: BOB!
Janitor: Bob!
Mother: Bob!
The Dragon: BOB?!
Crowd: BAAAAHB!

Etc. etc. etc.

Of course, Viewers Are Morons, especially children, so maybe repeating the name of the movie and main character 50 times quickly in one commercial will get it to stick into their sugar-riddled brains. It's like an Anvilicious Title Drop.

Examples:

Anime

An [adult swim] promo for Inuyasha consisted of clips of the titular character and his Love Interest Kagome saying each other's names.

Film — Animated

Wall E (Granted, being R2-D2 In Love, half the movie itself is Say My Name)
The Tinkerbell Movie
Igor
Disney's Hercules. Of course, the last one is Hades saying "Jerkules."
Bolt
The Tale Of Desperaux
Ratatouille, complete with pronunciation guide.
Shrek
Some advertising spots for How to Train Your Dragon were Say "Dragons" Trailers.
The Adventures of Tintin they say Tintin alot

Film — Live Action

Harry Potter
Stuart Little
Juno (oddly enough)
The trailer for In Bruges includes a brief montage of about half the times the word "Bruges" is used in the film. The film itself can be played as a Drinking Game. Which is good, because by the end of it, you'll really want a drink.
Salt
Charlie Wilson's War
The Adventures of Pluto Nash
It was "only" three or four times, but at least one Jonah Hex trailer has this.
There's Something About Mary
Tamara Drewe
It wasn't actually used to promote the movie, but the dvd of The Family Man has an extra called "Hi Jack Montage", which is exactly what you'd think it is.
Harriet the Spy
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest did this for Captain Jack Sparrow in one TV spot, with most of the characters just using "Jack".
Imagine the phrase "My name is Domino Harvey" repeated about seventy times and you'll have a pretty good idea of what the Domino trailer is like.
One TV ad for Mirror Mirror is a Say "Snow White" Trailer.

Live-Action TV

A few ads for Ugly Betty have done this.
The TV ads for Chuck

Video Games

Alpha Protocol

Western Animation

A variation: one ad for James Bond Jr. featured the following exchange:
Girl (with admiration): James!
—>Villain: BOND!!!
—>James Bond Jr.: Jr.!
A trailer for an episode of Star Wars: The Clone Wars had repetitions of "Deathwatch"
A TV commercial for Batman The Animated Series had a montage of several villains saying "Batman!" in varying degrees of disgust - followed by the announcer commenting: "See what everyone's talking about."
A commercial for Maya And Miguel had a montage of Miguel saying "Maya" and his sister Maya saying "Miguel" repeatedly, with the last two parts being Say My Name.