Tropescilloscope: Bland-Name Product

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

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