Tropescilloscope: Bland-Name Product

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

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