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