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