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