Awesome Mc Coolname / Live-Action Films

aka: Film

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• 25th Hour: Mary drunkenly gushes about Naturelle Riviera both as a person and her name.
  Mary: Naturelle's cool as shit. She knows everyone who works here. I love that name, right? Naturelle? One hundred percent Naturelle! All Naturelle flavors!
• "Crocodile" Dundee: One of Mick's friends is an alleged gangster named Leeroy Brown, a la the Jim Croce song. It turns out that his persona is all an act, to live up to people's expectations that someone with a name like that must be a badass.
• Deadpool has our titular nutjob finding Negasonic Teenage Warhead to be "the coolest name ever!"
• Die Hard with a Vengeance: Zeus Carver stands out. It's almost a name worthy of Samuel L. Jackson. Which leads to this:
  John McClane: Guy back there called you Jesús.
  Zeus: He didn't say Jesús. He said, "Hey, Zeus!" My name is Zeus!
  John McClane: Zeus?
  Zeus: Yeah, Zeus! As in, father of Apollo? Mount Olympus? "Don't fuck with me or I'll shove a lightning bolt up your ass", Zeus! You got a problem with that?
• Parodied in DodgeBall: A True Underdog Story:
  White Goodman: Allow me the pleasure of introducing you to Blade... Laser... Blazer...
• "Donnie Darko? What the hell kind of name is that? It's like some sort of superhero or something."
• In Eat, aspiring actress Novella McClure chose her professional name ten years ago when she thought it sounded cool. Nowadays the sheen has really worn off.
• Elektra: Abby thinks Elektra's name is cool.
• The Australian short film The House Of Names written and directed by Charlotte George revolves around two protagonists who spend all their time trying to think up something cool to change their names to. During his brainstorming protagonist John Smith shortlists cool names like Valentine Bomb, Book Western, Smoke Hitman, and Wax Flower as well as punny names like Law Freeman, Sue Yu, and Humble Longing. It’s ultimately subverted for laughs when he legally changes his name from John Smith to Cleveland Goatflap and meets the other protagonist who has already changed his name to Edwardo Saliva. The film ends with them discussing a trip to France as they brainstorm new names like Germaine LeFromage and Cosette Croissant.
• Gran Torino: It's implied that Spider gave himself the nickname because he thought it sounded cooler than his actual name, Fong. Sue apparently disagrees with this notion, as she mocks him for what she sees as an Atrocious Alias.
• Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 2: Taserface considers his moniker this, but everyone else finds it hilariously dumb.
• Hawk the Slayer: When the Abbot says, "He is called . . . HAWK!!!" he seems to be actually expecting the Awesome Music to kick in as soon as he says it.
• In Hunk, O'Brien transforms nebbish computer programmer Bradley Brinkman into the beefcake Hunk Golden. On discovering his new name, the transformed Bradley utters an incredulous "My name is Hunk Golden?"
• Imperium: white supremacist author Dallas Wolf changed his name from Randy something to sound more cool.
• Indiana Jones. Even the character admits it in Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade:
  Henry Jones: That's his name. Henry Jones, Junior.
  Indiana Jones: I like Indiana.
  Henry Jones: We named the dog Indiana.
• J-Men Forever: The Lightning Bug thinks up some better names for his overly-bland minions.
  Lightning Bug: You...you're the Freeway Freak!
  Arthur Wingnut: I'm sorry, Your Electricity, but I'm Arthur Wingnut...
  Lightning Bug: You WERE Arthur Wingnut—now you're the Freeway Freak!
• Joe Dirt: Joe suggests that Kicking Wing changes his name to "Kicking Ass." Dirt would've done the same. It happens in the sequel.
• Jumanji: Welcome to the Jungle: Subverted with Franklin "Moose" Finbar. Fridge even says when selecting his character that he sounds like a badass. Then it turns out the nickname is actually "Mouse," and if you look carefully when he selects the character, the second "o" is actually a highly stylized "u."
• In Jurassic World, the name Indominus rex, which was chosen deliberately as something scary but easy to pronounce.
  Claire: You should hear a four-year-old try to say "Archaeornithomimus."
• Mud: Neckbone. It appears to be his actual name. Mud comments that it's a pretty cool name.
• Mystery Men: When Mr. Furious tries to pretend that he has an Awesome Mc Cool Name in order to impress his Love Interest, he claims his name is "Phoenix Dark."
• In Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie, when Mike and the Bots are riffing on their own end credits, there's one crew member named "Rando Schnook", beginning a short Running Gag over him being called "The Amazing Rando".
• Of Dice and Men: "Spango Garnetkiller" was this to John Alex at the age of eight.
• Orson Fortune in Operation Fortune: Ruse de Guerre. Lampshaded by Greg Simmonds:
  Greg Simmonds: Orson Fortune. That is a sexy name.
• Pacific Rim: has Hannibal Chau, who picked the name himself.
  Hannibal Chau: Like the name? I got it from from my favorite historical character and my second-favorite Szechuan restaurant in Brooklyn.
• Lampshaded in The Predator where a bunch of scientists and MenInBlack held a vote on what to call the alien chasing them and they voted on "Predator" despite someone pointing out that it's more of a sports hunter.
• Reservoir Dogs:
  • Discussed. Joe actively avoids this, on the grounds that the groups working for him always gets hung up on who gets to be "Mr. Black" if he lets them choose their own code names.
  • And then subverted, both as a trope and within the group, by a discussion about being named "Mr. Pink", as Mr. Pink immediately gets into an argument with Joe about it, saying he might as well be "Mr. Pussy." Joe points out why he picks the names for them in the first place, and tells Mr. Pink that he should be glad he's not Mr. Yellow.
• The Santa Clause: The Tooth Fairy wants a better name, so Scott joking calls him "the Molarnator."
• Sky High: Everyone, meet our main character - William Theodore Stronghold.
• Saratoga Trunk: Regarding Clint Maroon, Clio says "What a delightful name. So American."
• Seven Samurai: Gorobei lampshades this by explaining that despite his name, he isn't really that tough.
• Parodied in Southland Tales when The Rock (whose character is named "Boxer Santaros," as it happens) is describing a film role he wrote for himself, ending with, "His name...is Jericho Cain."
• In Superbad, Fogell gives himself the name "McLovin" on his fake ID because he thinks it's cool. One of the cops says it "sounds like a sexy cheeseburger," and Seth chews him out for choosing something that no one would believe is his real name:
  Evan: It's up to you, Fogell. This guy is either gonna think "Here's another kid with a fake ID," or "Here's McLovin, the 25-year-old Hawaiian organ donor." So what's it gonna be?
  Fogell: ...I am McLovin!
  Seth: No, you're not! No one's McLovin! McLovin's never existed because it's a MADE-UP DUMB FUCKING FAIRY-TALE NAME, YOU FUCK!!!!
• Han Solo Berger in That's My Boy. No one can figure out why he uses the name Todd Peterson for his profession.
• The B-scifi movie Trancers, and its many sequels, revolve around a time-traveling future cop by the name of Jack Deth. In a subversion, everyone he meets outside of his own time period mocks his name relentlessly.
• Zack and Miri Make a Porno:
  Zack: What's your name?
  Lester: Lester... Lester the Molester Cockenschtuff.
  Zack: Wow. That's a great porn name.
  Lester: I get to pick a porn name?... Then I want to be called... Pete Jones.

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