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In many traditions, for a very long time, a handy shortcut to giving a child a Meaningful Name has been to name that child after one of the days of the week. This is useful because each weekday has an array of meanings. Many European languages derive their names from the Roman practice of naming them after the Roman gods, either by adopting the Roman names or by replacing them with similar local gods (e.g. Germanic gods). From the original Latin, we have Monday as "Dies Lunae", Moon's day, Tuesday is "Dies Martis", Mars' day, Wednesday is "Dies Mercurii", Mercury's day, Thursday is "Dies Iovis", Jupiter's day, Friday is "Dies Veneris", Venus' day, Saturday is "Dies Saturni", Saturn's day, and Sunday, "Dies Solis", which is... Sun day. This is easier to remember in Latinate languages. The days of the week in French, for example, are lundi, mardi, mercredi, jeudi, vendredi, samedi and dimanche. In Spanish, those days are lunes, martes, miércoles, jueves, viernes, sábado and domingo. An exception but still easy is Portuguese, where considering domingo is the first day, the five following it before sabado are [ordinal number]-feira starting with second (Segunda, Terçanote Though that's "third" as in fraction, in ordinal it would be "terceira", Quarta, Quinta, Sexta). From the Germanic languages, we have Sunday as The Sun's day (Sunna), Monday as Moon day (Máni), Tuesday as Týr's day, Wednesday as Wotan's/Óðin's day, Thursday as Þór's day, and Friday as Freyja's day; in English, Saturday is unique in having a Latin-derived name, elsewhere it is bathing or pool day (Laugardagr). Hooray! This pagan-based naming has ticked off the Catholic Church, so some countries with lots of Catholic influence will have boring names, based on what prayers should be done. Or even more mind-numbingly uninventive: long ago in Iceland, a Catholic bishop renamed Tuesday to "third day", Wednesday to "middle week day", Thursday to "fifth day" and Friday to "fasting day." The Quakers also used numbers for days of the week instead of honoring Pagan deities (Sunday was the first day, etc), and in Hebrew they've always been numbers ("Sabbath" comes from the Hebrew word for seven). Naming a character in this way is a good way to connect them to some of these previously described figures. Also, naming a character after a weekday may imply he is similar to the day's feel (See Seinfeld). Someone named Monday can't be fun, because Garfield hates Mondays, right? On the other hand, Saturday must be super fun to hang out with, and, ladies, he's single. Another way is getting away with naming a character after a month. This is not as meaningful because some people actually do name their kids after months (April, May, June), and, not only that, we still use two month names originated by Roman emperors with considerably large egos (July and August, for Julius and Augustus). See also Temporal Theme Naming, "Days of the Week" Song. |
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The Thursday Next books, of course. The eponymous heroine aside, her mother is Wednesday Next, her son is Friday Next, and her daughter is Tuesday Next. The one who doesn't fit is her daughter Jenny. This foreshadows the fact that Jenny doesn't exist—she's a mindworm (an imaginary, persistent idea) implanted in Thursday that later spreads to the rest of the family, making her a Double Subversion. | |
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In Mister Rogers' Neighborhood's Land of Make-believe, there's the royal family: King Friday XIII, his wife Queen Saturday, and their son Prince Tuesday. In the spin-off Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the family was the same, plus a second son Prince Wednesday. |
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Wednesday Friday Addams, of The Addams Family, had the week's scariest name as her own. | |
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In My Hero (2000), Thermoman's Clark Kenting name is George Sunday. The Other Darrin takes the Secret Identity George Monday. | |
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A short story in the Hellboy book Oddest Jobs discusses this. Hellboy, Liz, and another B.P.R.D. worker try to think of someone named Thursday, and Hellboy ends up telling a story of a man with the last name Thursday. The man comes from a race of Thursday Men, who are trying to prevent the sinister and destructive Wednesday Men from coming through to our dimension. | |
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In Dark Cloud there are a series of enemies named after the days of the week in Wise Owl Forest. | |
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Dragnet had Joe Friday. Parodied in the 1987 movie when his grandmother showed up. His maternal grandmother, Granny Monday. Mathnet had Kate Monday and Pat Tuesday. |
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The Akutare brothers in Pretty Cure Perfume Preppy, Getsuyo, Kayo and Suiyo, are named after the Japanese words for Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday (Getsuyoubi, Kayoubi and Suiyoubi). | |
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The Looney Tunes spoof of Dragnet, "Rocket Squad": | |
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Cucumber Quest has the globetrotting thief, Saturday. She is a case of an Odd Name Out, because her name doesn't really fit in with any of the kingdoms' Theme Naming. Later subverted when we found out that her real name is Princess Azalea, of the Flower Kingdom. | |
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Aqua Teen Hunger Force: "Aqua Teens, come out and meet your doom, for we are Sunday-Monday-Tuesday-Wednesday-Thursday-Friday-Saturday!" | |
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In 1066 and All That, before the conversion of England, the Saxons worshiped gods named Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday and Saturday. | |
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Discworld Noir has Mundy, a parody of Thursby from The Maltese Falcon. | |
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Welkin Weasels: Gaslight Geezers shows Spindrick Sylver's anarchist group naming themselves after days of the week, which leads to an entertaining Who's on First? routine when he tries to ask "Saturday" for help and everyone assumes he's making an appointment for the next meeting. | |
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Kwame in Captain Planet and the Planeteers probably fits-as stated below,'Kwame' means 'Saturday'. | |
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Legion of Super-Heroes member Mon-El (real name Lar Gand) was named that way because Superboy mistook him for his older brother (Lar had amnesia at the time) and they met on a Monday. (-El being Superboy's family surname.) | |
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The actress who played Kristen in A Nightmare on Elm Street 4: The Dream Master has the memorable name of Tuesday Knight. | |
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Missing Monday: The title character is named Monday Rhodes and she has a sister named Tuesday. | |
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The titular family of The Secret Saturdays. Don't forget their evil twins, The Mondays. Who didn't really have a specific name; Zack decided to call them "the Mondays" because Monday (the first day of the work-week, or seeing as how he's just a kid, more likely the school week) is essentially the "opposite" of Saturday (the start of the weekend.) |
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From the Discworld novel Witches Abroad, Mr./Baron Saturday, which like many Pratchett jokes works on multiple levels once you get the whole context. | |
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Wednesday Shadowmist, the heroine of Iron Sunrise by Charles Stross. | |
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Anno Dracula: Seven Days in Mayhem has Kate Reed joining a version of the Council of Seven Days as Wednesday. | |
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The 7 phoenixes in Homestuck fancomic Hexane each have a screen name made up of two words that abbreviates to the short form of on of the days of the week. For example, Qamarkino's is multiOmnician, abbreviating to MO for Monday. | |
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The Man Who Was Thursday by G. K. Chesterton, though there the days of the week are just the code names for the seven leaders of a secret anarchist society and not their actual names. Rather than gods or nursery rhymes, the names are symbolic of the (slightly adjusted) Creation Week, with the most mysterious bordering on God-like of the bunch naturally being Sunday. | |
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Tuesday Simmons is one of the titular characters of Carole & Tuesday. | |
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Sharon Creech's Bloomability stars a protagonist named Domenica Santolina Doone, or "Dinnie" for short. "Domenica" is Italian for "Sunday," her mother naming her such because she was born on a Sunday and that made her blessed. She certainly gets a lot of opportunities. | |
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In the new epic of our times, That '80s Show, a punk rocker was named June Tuesday. | |
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In Blue Avenger Cracks the Code, one of Blue's childhood friends is named Tuesday. | |
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Iron Man has an artificial intelligence called F.R.I.D.A.Y (Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth) who also serves as a Girl Friday. | |
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Mr. Monday, a particularly sillier supervillain who appeared a few times on The Venture Brothers and was obsessed with Mondays. Like when The Monarch is masterminding a jailbreak scheme, Mr. Monday insists that they do it on a Monday. | |
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In Pokémon Gold and Silver, Crystal and the remakes Pokemon Heart Gold And Soul Silver there are seven NPCs called the Week Siblings, whose names resemble days of the week: Monica of Monday, Tuscany of Tuesday, Wesley of Wednesday, Arthur of Thursday, Frieda of Friday, Santos of Saturday, and Sunny of Sunday. They appear on the day of the week they're named after in various locations and initially provide type enhancing items. In the remakes if they've all been met, they then give out ribbons for Pok | |
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The seven sisters in ''What Happened to Monday" are named for the days of the week. Because of the plot's one child rule, each girl is only allowed to go out on "her" day. | |
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His Girl Friday popularized the nickname "Girl Friday" for secretaries, based on Robinson Crusoe (see below). | |
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In Ninpuu Sentai Hurricaneger, the highest-ranking underlings of Tauzant in the Jakanja have such names: Manmaruba = Monday, Chuuzubo = Tuesday ("Chu-zu-de-i"), Wendinu = Wednesday, Sargain = Thursday ("Sa-zu-de-i"), Furabijo = Friday (Fu-ra-i-de-i), Satorakura = Saturday, Sandaru = Sunday | |
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Giado Venerdi (Italian for "Friday"), Latooni Subota (Russian for "Saturday"), and Garnet Sunday from Super Robot Wars: Original Generation. | |
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The Flintstones: "Hey, Tuesday Wednesday, what are you doing Saturday?" | |
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Nigel the elf from Landstalker has a Fairy Companion named Friday. | |
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Ruby Tuesday. | |
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Mathnet had Kate Monday and Pat Tuesday. | |
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Square One TV | hasFeature |
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A Series of Unfortunate Events has a few characters named after weekdays. The final book had Friday Caliban, with it being implied that an earlier character's name was Monday (and her father) and an unseen woman named Thursday. | |
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In Ms. Tree, Michael Tree's maiden name was Friday; her father may or may not be Sgt. Joe | |
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In the spin-off Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood, the family was the same, plus a second son Prince Wednesday. | |
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Killer7 has a creepy, wide-eyed Remnant Psyche child who shows up just before the special Heaven Smile fight in each level named Kess Bloodysunday. | |
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The preacher in There Will Be Blood is named Eli Sunday. | |
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In Kuroko's Basketball, each of the main members of the Seirin High Basketball Club (except for Kuroko), have a kanji corresponding to a day of the week in their name. In order starting from Sunday: Hyuuga(日), Izuki(月), Kagami(�), Mitobe(水), Kiyoshi(木), Koganei(金), and Tsuchida(土). | |
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The short-lived Nickelodeon cartoon The X's featured teenaged daughter Tuesday X. | |
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In Enchanted, all six girls are named for the day of the week they were born on, and fit the rhyme "Monday's Child" | |
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Disgaea: Hour of Darkness: Multi-Purpose Super-Robot Thursday! | |
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The TV film Snow White: The Fairest of Them All has this for the Seven Dwarfs' names and uses the Nursery Rhyme (see Page quote above) to introduce them. | |
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In Skies of Arcadia, Vyse’s rival explorer is named Domingo, the Spanish word for Sunday. | |
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Upin & Ipin: Tok Dalang's real name is "Senin bin Kamis", which literally means "Monday, son of Thursday". | |
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Mr. Monday from Stardust, whose name ends up playing a role in the No Man of Woman Born ending. | |
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Friday Monday from Madlax. Given that he is the creepy, irredeemably evil, Malevolent Masked Man Big Bad, his normal name serves as quite the contrast. | |
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The hamlet folk in the book of Lark Rise to Candleford nicknamed their farmer, Morris, "Old Monday". This got transferred to the TV series without the man's real name being mentioned. | |
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The eponymous heroine of Friday by Robert A. Heinlein. | |
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Friday | hasFeature |
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Doctor Who The episode "Empress of Mars" featured an Ice Warrior named Friday. He was named by a Victorian Colonel after the Robinson Crusoe character. Ruby Sunday is the companion of the Fifteenth Doctor. |
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Two from Survival of the Fittest, Wednesday Ryan and Wednesday Garci. | |
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In Digimon Fusion, the epithets of the Death Generals each start with a kanji that corresponds to a day of the week. The first four appear out of chronological sequence (fire, moon, wood, water), but the last three are in order (gold, earth, sun). | |
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Superman had a voodoo themed villain named Baron Sunday, presumably after the loa Baron Samedi, also known as Baron Saturday. | |
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One Inspector Morse episode has a female television presenter known as Friday. Her actual name is Frideswide. The prequel series Endeavour introduces us to Inspector Thursday, Constable Morse's Mentor Archetype. | |
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Inspector Morse | hasFeature |
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In Pitcairn's Island, the third book of The Bounty Trilogy, Fletcher Christian's first child on the island is born on a Thursday in October, so Christian and his wife name the boy Thursday October Christian. This also happened in real life. | |
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Mr. Wednesday from American Gods. The name is actually foreshadowing that he is actually Odin (Odin>Woden>Weden's-day). In other words, it's an Inverted Trope: The day is named after him. He even acknowledges it when he first gives his name as Wednesday, claiming that "Today is my day." though he notes that because of the stormy weather, "it might as well be Thursday" (Thor>Thur's-day) This almost spoils his identity for anyone who already knows the origin of the days' names. | |
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In The Time Traveler's Wife, Gomez mentions that he and Charisse were going to name their daughter Wednesday, but change their mind. | |
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Shortland Street's Tuesday Warner. | |
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The Italian adaptation of Yattodetaman, called Calendar Men, had a field day with this. Since the series' main theme is time travel, they decided to give everyone names related to days of the week, months and so on. For example, Mirenjo became Lunedì (Monday) and her little brother Komaro became Sabato (Saturday); her two lackeys were renamed Settembre and Ottobre, full names Primo Settembre and Due Ottobre ("September the First" and "October the Second"), the hero's wimpy alter ego Wataru Toki became Beppe Domani (something like "Joe Tomorrow")... | |
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The trustees in Garth Nix's Keys to the Kingdom series are Mister Monday, Grim Tuesday, Drowned Wednesday, Sir Thursday, Lady Friday, Superior Saturday, and Lord Sunday. This was actually the very first thing that Garth Nix thought of, leading into everything else. The names just kind of fell into his head. | |
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Robinson Crusoe's native friend, Friday. Guess what day of the week they met? (Hint: It was Friday) And any parody thereof. | |
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In the Grimm's Fairy Tale Classics Snow White episodes the Dwarfs are named after the days of the week. | |
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The main character of Rogue Trooper reboot is named Friday. | |
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