Tropescilloscope: Bland-Name Product

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

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