Tropescilloscope: "Awesome McCool" Name

A character, thing, or place is given an awesome name to make it seem more awesome. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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