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