Tropescilloscope: Bland-Name Product

The brand names you see in fiction that seem oddly familiar. (read more at tvtropes.org)

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