Trope Namers/Real Life

Believe it or not, Trope Namers pop up in that thing you call "the real world," too. Technically Real Life names every trope, ever.

Exactly What it Says on the Tin

 * Acquired Situational Narcissism
 * All Bikers Are Hells Angels
 * Artificial Limbs
 * Asexuality
 * Battle Cry
 * Bulletproof Vest
 * Can Not Tell a Lie (from a myth about George Washington)
 * Cargo Cult (natives conducting rituals to lure back the World War Two supply planes; famous for Richard Feynman's lecture on "Cargo Cult Science")
 * Cool and Unusual Punishment (referencing the Eighth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution)
 * Dewey Defeats Truman
 * Dress Code
 * Drinking the Kool Aid (kinda; the substance used in the infamous Jonestown incident was actually Flavr-Aid)
 * The Empire (the term which lent this trope its name originated in the Roman Empire - or rather the Republic, if you wanted to get really specific)
 * Enforced Cold War
 * Fighting Irish (University of Notre Dame)
 * Food Fight
 * Force Feeding
 * Groin Attack
 * Knight Templar (The Knights Templar)
 * Lies, Damned Lies, and Statistics (attributed to Benjamin Disraeli and Mark Twain)
 * Lima Syndrome
 * Logic Bomb
 * Missing White Woman Syndrome
 * Mystery Meat
 * Nightmare Dreams
 * No FEMA Response (after the United States' Federal Emergency Management Agency, charged with helping citizens clean up after natural disasters strike)
 * No OSHA Compliance (after the United States' Occupational Safety and Health Administration, charged with workplace safety and the like)
 * No True Scotsman
 * One Riot, One Ranger (motto of the Texas Rangers)
 * Pandering to the Base
 * Pirate Booty
 * The Plague
 * Plausible Deniability
 * Police Brutality
 * Police Lineup
 * The Power of Cheese
 * Prison Rape
 * The Republic (from the Latin res publica)
 * Recursive Acronym
 * The Scourge of God
 * Snipe Hunt
 * Stockholm Syndrome
 * Swiss Army Appendage
 * Swiss Army Weapon (after the ubiquitous Swiss Army knives)
 * This Is Your Brain on Evil (from the "This Is Your Brain on Drugs" Public Service Announcement)
 * Uncanny Valley
 * Uncle Sam Wants You
 * Unnecessary Roughness (an actual term used by NFL referees)
 * Vaudeville Hook
 * Vicious Cycle
 * Wardrobe Malfunction (from the infamous Super Bowl XXXVIII performance by Janet Jackson and Justin Timberlake)
 * The War to End All Wars (World War I)
 * Weapon of Mass Destruction (used to refer to any weapon of unknown nature that is very powerful)

Individuals

 * E=MC Hammer (cross-reference to MC Hammer and Albert Einstein's theories of relativity)
 * Finagle's Law
 * Godiva Hair
 * More Teeth Than the Osmond Family
 * The Munchausen (Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, a.k.a. Baron Münchhausen)

A-H

 * Dante Alighieri
 * Word of Dante


 * Archimedes
 * Eureka Moment


 * Aristotle
 * Intellectual Animal
 * Magic A Is Magic A


 * Isaac Asimov
 * Spell My Name with an "S"


 * Charles Atlas
 * Charles Atlas Superpower


 * Attila the Hun
 * The Scourge of God


 * P. T. Barnum
 * The Barnum


 * Napoléon Bonaparte
 * The Napoleon


 * Thomas Bowdler
 * Bowdlerise


 * Dan Brown
 * Dan Browned


 * Caligula
 * The Caligula


 * George Carlin
 * Seven Dirty Words


 * Chris Carter
 * The Chris Carter Effect


 * Giacomo Casanova
 * Casanova


 * Anton Chekhov
 * Chekhov's Gun and all of its punny subtropes


 * Agatha Christie
 * Acquitted Too Late
 * Poirot Speak


 * Francis P. Church
 * Yes, Virginia


 * Winston Churchill
 * The Eternal Churchill
 * Iron Curtain (although he apparently wasn't the first to use this phrase, he was certainly the most notable)
 * A Riddle Wrapped in a Mystery Inside An Enigma
 * Written by the Winners


 * Lucius Quinctius Cincinnatus
 * Cincinnatus


 * Jacques Cousteau
 * Mock Cousteau


 * Charles Darwin
 * The Social Darwinist


 * Tony Danza
 * The Danza


 * Richard Dawkins
 * Memetic Mutation


 * Firmin Didot
 * Stereotype


 * Walt Disney
 * Beware of Hitch-Hiking Ghosts (The Haunted Mansion)
 * Disney Acid Sequence
 * Disney Death
 * Disney Villain Death
 * Disney Dog Fight
 * Disneyesque
 * Disneyfication
 * Disney Owns This Trope
 * Disney School of Acting and Mime
 * Mickey Mousing


 * Clint Eastwood
 * Clint Squint


 * Roger Ebert
 * Hyperlink Story
 * Idiot Plot


 * Mark Evanier
 * The Complainer Is Always Wrong


 * Benjamin Franklin
 * For Want of a Nail


 * Sigmund Freud
 * All Psychology Is Freudian
 * Freudian Couch
 * Freudian Excuse
 * Freudian Slip
 * Freudian Slippery Slope
 * Freud Was Right


 * Mike Godwin
 * Godwin's Law


 * Whoopi Goldberg
 * Whoopi Epiphany Speech


 * Wayne Gretzky
 * Gretzky Has the Ball


 * The Brothers Grimm
 * Grimmification


 * Tom Hanks
 * Tom Hanks Syndrome


 * Butch Hartman
 * Hartman Hips


 * David Hasselhoff
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff


 * Patrick Henry
 * Give Me Liberty, or Give Me Death!


 * Alfred Hitchcock
 * Fridge Logic
 * MacGuffin


 * Adolf Hitler
 * Hitler Ate Sugar
 * Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
 * Springtime for Hitler
 * Stupid Jetpack Hitler


 * Harry Houdini
 * Elimination Houdini
 * Karma Houdini
 * Idiot Houdini

I-Q

 * Jack the Ripper
 * Jack the Ripoff


 * Chief Joseph
 * I Will Fight No More Forever


 * Joan of Arc
 * Jeanne D'Archetype


 * Jack Kirby
 * Kirby Dots


 * Stanley Kubrick
 * Kubrick Stare


 * Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
 * Lamarck Was Right


 * Bruce Lee
 * Bruce Lee Clone
 * Don't Think...Feel
 * Funny Bruce Lee Noises


 * George Lucas
 * George Lucas Throwback


 * Carl Macek
 * Macekre


 * Harpo Marx
 * Harpo Does Something Funny


 * Abraham Maslow
 * When All You Have Is a Hammer


 * William Topaz McGonagall
 * Giftedly Bad


 * Frederich Mohs
 * Mohs Scale of Rock and Metal Hardness
 * Mohs Scale of Sci Fi Hardness
 * (both named for the "Mohs scale of mineral hardness")


 * Marilyn Monroe
 * Marilyn Maneuver (you know the one!)


 * Friedrich Nietzsche
 * Also Sprach Zarathustra
 * Eternal Recurrence
 * God Is Dead
 * He Who Fights Monsters
 * Nietzsche Wannabe
 * Ubermensch


 * Richard Nixon
 * Scandalgate
 * Nixon Mask
 * Richard Nixon the Used Car Salesman
 * Silent Majority


 * Barack Obama
 * Hopemongering


 * Laurence Olivier
 * Money, Dear Boy


 * Dr. Laurence J. Peter
 * The Peter Principle


 * Vidkun Quisling
 * The Quisling

R-Z

 * Sam Raimi
 * Fake Shemp


 * Grigori Rasputin
 * Ra Ra Rasputin
 * Rasputinian Death


 * Jackie Robinson
 * Jackie Robinson Story


 * Jean-Jacques Rousseau
 * Eat the Rich
 * Rousseau Was Right


 * Arnold Schwarzenegger
 * The Ahnold


 * John Sedgwick
 * Sedgwick Speech


 * Andy Serkis
 * Serkis Folk


 * Yakov Smirnoff
 * In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You


 * Patrick Stewart
 * Patrick Stewart Speech


 * J. Michael Straczynski
 * Traveling At the Speed of Plot
 * Wham! Episode (and derived from that, Wham! Line)


 * Theodore Sturgeon
 * Sturgeon's Law


 * Jack Thompson
 * Murder Simulators


 * Bruce Timm
 * Timm Style


 * Yoshiyuki Tomino
 * Kill'Em All


 * Mike Tyson
 * The Tyson Zone (coined by sports writer Bill Simmons)


 * Mae West
 * Or Are You Just Happy to See Me?


 * Joss Whedon
 * Jossed


 * Robin Williams
 * Getting Crap Past the Radar
 * I Call Him "Mister Happy"


 * Ted Woolsey
 * Woolseyism


 * "Weird Al" Yankovic
 * "Weird Al" Effect

Organizations

 * 7-Eleven
 * Gigantic Gulp (taken from its "Big Gulp" line of beverage holders)


 * Adobe
 * Gaussian Girl (from a Photoshop feature)
 * We Will Not Use Photoshop in the Future


 * Apple Inc.
 * Everyone Owns a Mac
 * Everything Is an iPod In The Future
 * IProduct
 * iSophagus (Cross-reference to a Sluggy Freelance strip)


 * The BBC
 * BBC Quarry


 * Capcom
 * Capcom Sequel Stagnation


 * Coca-Cola Company
 * And a Diet Coke
 * Bite the Wax Tadpole (allegedly)


 * Discovery Channel
 * The World Is Just Awesome


 * Dreamworks Animation
 * Dreamworks Face


 * ESRB
 * Rated "M" for Manly (cross-reference to the video "Counter-Strike For Kids")
 * Rated "M" for Money


 * Ford Motor Company
 * Every Car Is a Pinto
 * Everybody Owns a Ford


 * Fox News Channel
 * Fox News Liberal


 * Fortune Magazine
 * Fiction 500


 * General Mills
 * Lucky Charms Title
 * Magically Delicious
 * Silly Rabbit, Idealism Is for Kids


 * Hasbro
 * Tonka Tough


 * Hershey's Food Company
 * Get the Sensation (from a commercial for York Peppermint Patties)


 * id Software
 * God Mode


 * Kellogg's
 * Follow Your Nose (catch phrase of Froot Loops mascot Toucan Sam)


 * LEGO Group
 * Built With Lego
 * Lego Genetics


 * McDonald's
 * Egg McGuffin (a play on their Egg McMuffin)


 * Microsoft
 * Fan Service Pack
 * Heroic BSOD
 * Heroic RROD
 * Wingding Eyes
 * Wingdinglish


 * Motion Picture Association of America
 * Avoid the Dreaded G Rating


 * Nintendo
 * Nintendo Hard
 * Older Than the NES
 * Super Title 64 Advance


 * PBS
 * Viewers Like You


 * Praetorian Guard


 * Ronseal
 * Exactly What It Says on the Tin


 * SNK
 * SNK Boss


 * Studio Gainax
 * Gainax Ending
 * Gainaxing


 * Studio Ghibli
 * Ghibli Hills


 * Texas Instruments
 * Inappropriate Speak and Spell


 * Time Warner Corporation
 * Alphabet News Network (for CNN)


 * Unilever
 * Bad Humor Truck
 * I Can't Believe It's Not Heroin!


 * Verizon
 * Can You Hear Me Now?

Places

 * Canada, Eh?
 * Space Brasilia