Tropescilloscope: Bland-Name Product

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

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