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)

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