Tropescilloscope: Bland-Name Product

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

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