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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La Résistance Shower Scene Race Lift Better to Die than Be Killed Re-Cut Diabolus ex Machina Double Entendre Stylistic Suck Defiant to the End Sacrificial Lion Adaptation Name Change No Antagonist Evil Is Petty Man on Fire He Knows Too Much Manchild And the Adventure Continues A Minor Kidroduction Sassy Black Woman Narrator Girl-on-Girl Is Hot Roger Ebert: Great Movies List It's All About Me Blackmail Unreliable Narrator Brick Joke Heterosexual Life-Partners Psycho for Hire Corrupt Corporate Executive Whole Plot Reference Every Car Is a Pinto Rule of Symbolism folderlabel Armor-Piercing Question Agony of the Feet Sequel Escalation Face Death with Dignity Your Head A-Splode German Films Aluminum Christmas Trees Psychological Thriller Title Drop The Stoner Coming-of-Age Story Smoking Is Cool Heroic BSoD Wham Shot Insistent Terminology Scare Chord Costume Porn Red Right Hand Dying Moment of Awesome Police are Useless Dual Wielding Half the Man He Used to Be Author Avatar The Vamp Downer Ending The Un-Favourite aka: The Un Favorite Death by Irony Rated M for Manly The Mole Depraved Bisexual Grey and Gray Morality Country Matters Missing Mom Fish out of Water Cloudcuckoolander War Is Hell Facial Horror Determinator Motor Mouth Bad "Bad Acting" Translation Convention Dark Is Not Evil Hypocrite Accidental Murder O.O.C. Is Serious Business "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue Silent Movie Insane Troll Logic Real Life Extreme Doormat The Bad Guy Wins Only in It for the Money Beard of Evil Refuge in Audacity Shut Up, Hannibal! Zombie Stories Femme Fatale Dark Reprise Alliterative Name Blood Knight Bitch in Sheep's Clothing Cain and Abel The Chessmaster Bland-Name Product Scary Black Man Adaptational Heroism Evil Is Hammy Ooh, Me Accent's Slipping Book-Ends Lighter and Softer Screw This, I'm Outta Here! Pay Evil unto Evil Rape Is a Special Kind of Evil Retcon What You Are in the Dark The Stinger Department of Redundancy Department The Cameo Double-Meaning Title Actor Allusion Artistic License – Geography Immune to Bullets The Dragon Daylight Horror Ship Tease Boom, Headshot! You Have Failed Me Determinator aka: The Determinator Public Domain Feature Films 20 Minutes into the Future Let's Get Dangerous! Skewed Priorities Not Using the "Z" Word Guile Hero The Hero Arch-Enemy The Hero Dies Big Damn Heroes Kill It with Fire There Is No Kill Like Overkill Broken Bird Big Fancy House Spiteful Spit Canadian Movies Adaptation Distillation Star-Crossed Lovers Instant Death Bullet Super Strength Call-Forward What Happened to the Mouse? Jerkass Stealth Hi/Bye Imperial Stormtrooper Marksmanship Academy Setting Update Exactly What It Says on the Tin Peek-a-Boo Corpse Non-Indicative Name Five-Man Band Hollywood Darkness Politically Incorrect Villain Film Noir Hong Kong Films Red Oni, Blue Oni The Atoner Noodle Incident Genre Throwback Music Stories Adorkable Chekhov's Skill Break the Haughty BFG Chuck Cunningham Syndrome Early Installment Weirdness Brutal Honesty Revenge Aww, Look! 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Earn Your Happy Ending Have a Gay Old Time The X of Y Soundtrack Dissonance It Will Never Catch On Love at First Sight Creator Cameo Maybe Magic, Maybe Mundane Dark and Troubled Past Action Genre Bar Brawl Spell My Name with an "S" Animal Title Index Artistic License – Military The Mafia An Arm and a Leg Improbable Weapon User Cruel and Unusual Death Dramedy How We Got Here Contrived Coincidence Wham Line It Can Think Air-Vent Passageway Only a Flesh Wound You Have Outlived Your Usefulness Spared by the Adaptation Berserk Button Everyone Has Standards Deal with the Devil Documentary Hypocritical Humor Due to the Dead Annoying Younger Sibling For the Evulz Kids Are Cruel A Date with Rosie Palms Aside Glance Your Cheating Heart One-Man Army You Killed My Father Chekhov's Gunman Punctuated! For! Emphasis! May–December Romance The Lost Lenore Gorn Market-Based Title Mercy Kill No Good Deed Goes Unpunished Loads and Loads of Characters You Have Got to Be Kidding Me! 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Karma Houdini Papa Wolf Destination Defenestration Race Against the Clock No Name Given "The Reason You Suck" Speech Logo Joke Henpecked Husband Badass Longcoat Hooker with a Heart of Gold Bait-and-Switch Properly Paranoid Romantic Comedy This Is Gonna Suck The Voiceless Toilet Humour aka: Toilet Humor Evil Plan Stepford Smiler Awesome, but Impractical Face–Heel Turn Punny Name Pimped-Out Dress Stealth Pun Big Bad Horror Doesn't Settle for Simple Tuesday Fingore "Awesome McCool" Name Drill Sergeant Nasty Homage The Place Product Placement Lampshade Hanging Ax-Crazy Police Brutality MacGuffin Evil Cannot Comprehend Good Suspiciously Specific Denial Blood from the Mouth Fatal Family Photo Hair-Trigger Temper Flashback Unspoken Plan Guarantee All There in the Script Nice Guy Jerkass Has a Point Green-Eyed Monster Honor Before Reason The Un-Reveal Taking You with Me Fanservice Extremely Short Timespan Expository Hairstyle Change Dirty Coward And Starring Curb-Stomp Battle Character Development Chiaroscuro Laughing Mad True Companions Adaptational Badass Eureka Moment Bloody Hilarious Antagonist Title An Axe to Grind Vacation Films My Beloved Smother Would Hurt a Child From Nobody to Nightmare Drugs Are Bad Dissonant Serenity Hair of Gold, Heart of Gold Based on a True Story Children Are Innocent No OSHA Compliance Disappeared Dad All Just a Dream Historical-Domain Character The Cavalry Humiliation Conga Older Than They Look Index of Film Westerns Ripped from the Headlines Ascended Extra Mad Scientist Sanity Slippage World of Ham Take a Third Option Line-of-Sight Name Cat Fight Token Minority Black Dude Dies First Imagine Spot Biopic Military and Warfare Films Hope Spot Storming the Castle Arranged Marriage More Dakka Bottomless Magazines Blonde, Brunette, Redhead Disproportionate Retribution Adaptation Expansion Black and Gray Morality Gilligan Cut Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking Evil Counterpart Evil Sounds Deep Guns Akimbo Off-into-the-Distance Ending My God, What Have I Done? Bring My Brown Pants Anguished Declaration of Love Not So Above It All Creepy Child Straight Gay Tagline Running Gag Mugging the Monster Author Appeal The End... Or Is It? Made of Explodium Bavarian Fire Drill Bowdlerise Colour-Coded for Your Convenience aka: Color Coded For Your Convenience Idiot Ball Took a Level in Badass Big Applesauce It's Personal Love Triangle