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