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