Tropescilloscope: Bland-Name Product

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

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