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