Tropescilloscope: Bland-Name Product

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

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