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