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