Tropescilloscope: Bland-Name Product

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

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