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.


 * 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 One)
 * Weapon of Mass Destruction (used to refer to any weapon of unknown nature that is very powerful)

Individuals
 * The Barnum (P. T. Barnum)
 * Bowdlerise (Thomas Bowdler)
 * The Caligula
 * Casanova
 * Charles Atlas Superpower
 * The Chris Carter Effect
 * Cincinnatus
 * Dan Browned
 * The Danza (Tony Danza)
 * E=MC Hammer (cross-reference to MC Hammer and Albert Einstein's theories of relativity)
 * Finagle's Law
 * Garfunkel (Art Garfunkel, nominally of the band Simon and Garfunkel)
 * Germans Love David Hasselhoff
 * Godiva Hair
 * Jackie Robinson Story
 * Mata Hari
 * Mock Cousteau (Jacques Cousteau)
 * More Teeth Than the Osmond Family
 * The Munchausen (Karl Friedrich Hieronymus, a.k.a. Baron Münchhausen)
 * The Napoleon
 * Patrick Stewart Speech
 * The Peter Principle (coined by Dr. Laurence J. Peter)
 * The Quisling (Vidkun Quisling)
 * Red Baron
 * Sedgwick Speech (John Sedgwick)
 * Sturgeon's Law
 * Tom Hanks Syndrome
 * Word of Dante


 * Archimedes
 * Eureka Moment


 * Aristotle
 * Intellectual Animal
 * Magic A Is Magic A


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


 * George Carlin
 * Seven Dirty Words


 * 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


 * Charles Darwin
 * The Social Darwinist


 * 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


 * Whoopi Goldberg
 * Whoopi Epiphany Speech


 * Wayne Gretzky
 * Gretzky Has the Ball


 * The Brothers Grimm
 * Grimmification


 * Butch Hartman
 * Hartman Hips


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


 * Alfred Hitchcock
 * Fridge Logic
 * MacGuffin


 * Adolf Hitler (see also: Godwin's Law)
 * Hitler Ate Sugar
 * Hitler Cam
 * Hitler's Time Travel Exemption Act
 * Springtime for Hitler
 * Stupid Jetpack Hitler


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


 * 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


 * Sam Raimi
 * Fake Shemp


 * Grigori Rasputin
 * Ra Ra Rasputin
 * Rasputinian Death


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


 * Arnold Schwarzenegger
 * The Ahnold


 * Andy Serkis
 * Serkis Folk


 * Yakov Smirnoff
 * In Soviet Russia, Trope Mocks You


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


 * * 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
 * Space Brasilia