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Fun with Palindromes
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Palindrome is a word sequence that can be read backwards but remains the same. Just as writers like to play with anagrams, acronyms and initialisms, so indeed do they seize opportunities to use palindromes. However, since it's hard to come up with a palindrome—let alone a meaningful one—it's unlikely to be a plot point, and is usually a result of the Rule of Fun. Not to be confused with Sdrawkcab Name, though the two can overlap a little. Has nothing to do with Sarah Palin. note "Palindrome" comes from Greek πάλιν "again" and δρóμος "way, direction", while "Palin" the surname is British in origin, so likely unrelated. |
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Story Shuffle 2: Double Masters: The chapter title: "God, a Red Nugget, a Fat Egg Under a Dog". | |
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The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: Seres's name is a palindrome. | |
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Kamen Rider Revice had Kamen Riders Evil and Live. Their final form is a fusion of the two named EvilytyLive. | |
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A sidequest in Might and Magic V: Darkside of Xeen involves the Drawkcab Monks, who speak in palindromes. | |
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Probe's "Untouched by Human Hands": Austin uses a discovery of palindromic math as an excuse to interrupt Mickey's date. At the end of the episode, Mickey asks him what a palindromic prime is, which he defines as a number that is only divisible by itself and eleven. | |
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One of the supporting characters in Quark is the aptly named Otto Palindrome. | |
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The Simpsons: In "They Saved Lisa's Brain", the Springfield members of Mensa have new palindrome discoveries on their meeting agenda. Comic Book Guy's mention of "Rise to vote, sir" is misinterpreted as an actual request for a democratic procedure until Lisa, who understood, pointed it out. One of the very first episodes, "Bart the Genius", Bart cheats on an exam and finds himself transferred to an advanced class. One of the advanced class students liked to make up palindromes on the fly. He greeted Bart with "O Memsahib Bart, rabbi has memo." In "The Otto Show", after Otto's fired and the kids find out Skinner's the new bus driver, he says, "Otto, that's one palindrome you won't be hearing for a while." |
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In Callahan's Legacy by Spider Robinson, every chapter title is a palindrome. Notably, the chapter in which Nikola Tesla visits the bar glories in the title, "I, Madam, I Made Radio. So I Dared. Am I Mad? Am I?" And the subversion in the chapter named "Rettebs, I Flahd Noces, Eh? Tu, But the Second Half is Better..." | |
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The Japanese name of the antagonist of Mother and Mother 2, ギーグ (giigu), is officially transliterated as Gyiyg. | |
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Angels & Demons contains a variant in the form of ambigrams, which read the same when turned upside down. | |
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The third case of Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations has Blue Screens Inc., a computer firm where all of the employees have palindromes for names: Lisa Basil, Glen Elg, and Adam Mada. | |
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Palindramas probably has more examples than every other work put together. | |
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In Holes, the main character, Stanley Yelnats IV, is so named because his great-great-grandmother noticed that Yelnats was Stanley spelled backwards, and so decided to name her boy Stanley. Needless to say, it stuck. | |
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In Bamse, Lille Skutt's wife is called "Nina Kanin" (meaning "Nina Rabbit"). | |
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Lampshaded in The Middle Man with a villain called The Palindrome (whose name turns out to be Ivan Avi), who leaves hints in the form of palindromes. | |
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The protagonist of Desk Set is given a test which includes identifying "Able was I ere I saw Elba" as a palindrome. This leads to some banter about how Napoleon likely never said that, and Adam probably never said "Madam, I'm Adam" either. | |
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The Stormlight Archive: The series uses palindromes and near-palindromes as a Theme Naming scheme, this is justified in-universe because the world's major religion considers symmetry to be holy. Notably all the historical names of the various countries are palindromes, although by modern times they've drifted. Similarly, every letter in written Alethi is symmetrical about its horizontal centerline and all the major cities are built around symmetrical patterns. Also, the hardback edition of the first book has 1001 pages (not counting the extras at the back). Though you have to know that "th" and "sh" are single letters in the Vorin women's script to recognize some of the palindromes. In the second book it's explained that "h" can stand in for any other consonant. Most modern Alethi names are contractions of a palindrome plus a suffix. Adolin, for example, is a contraction of "Adoda" ("light") and "lin" ("born unto"). Some Alethi use actual palindromes as names, which is a minor blasphemy as it implies more holiness than humans are supposed to have. This series also has the ketek poetical form. A ketek must read the same forwards and backwards (going by word rather than letter and allowing for changes in verb form) and must be divisible into five segments which each express a complete thought. (i.e. "Radiant / of birthplace / the announcer comes / to come announce / the birthplace of Radiants.") Many keteks show up over the course of the Archive, some with plot relevance. |
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In BNA: Brand New Animal Nazuna takes pride in the fact that her name is a palindrome in syllabic Japanese (なずな), she's also a duplicitous Kitsune passing as a god while herself being manipulated by her cult's leader and his corporate backer. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages features Symmetry City, whose survival depends on the total equality between the two sides. The name of the artifact that maintains the balance? Tuni Nut! The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask's Stone Temple theme music was a palindrome. It made the an already strange temple even stranger. The Legend of Zelda: A Link Between Worlds: Seres's name is a palindrome. |
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Adah in The Poisonwood Bible makes palindromes whenever she narrates the plot, due to hemiplegia supposedly messing with her mind and making her thoughts go backwards. | |
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The Phineas and Ferb episode "My Fair Goalie" featured Professor Ross Eforp, creator of football X7. Unfortunately, "anti-palindrome" hysteria forced him to spend his life in hiding. | |
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Nursery Crime: Otto Tibbit and his sister Hannah. | |
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French band Jad Wio has the song "Un drôle de lord nu" (translated from French, it means "a weird naked lord"). The lyrics even lampshade it. | |
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Once on NCIS when the team has dealings with Mossad, Tony DiNozzo comments on a meeting between NCIS Agent Tim McGee and Mossad Officer Amit Hadar. | |
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Monk: After Monk's psychiatrist passes away, he has difficulty finding a new one. Then comes Dr. Neven Bell. His first name is the same forwards as it is backwards, thus, Monk approves. Though he points out that it's not a true palindrome as his name backwards would be neveN. The killer in the Tie-In Novel Mr. Monk Is Cleaned Out is a Bernard Madoff Expy named Bob Sebes, who defrauded investors with a Ponzi scheme in his Reinier Investment Fund. His wife's name is Anna. |
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The PBS science show Nova featured a documentary on the building of the Panama canal. Its title was taken from one of the most famous palindromes in history: "A Man, a Plan, a Canal...Panama!" | |
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The passwords for the Rocket Headquarters on Five Island in the remakes of Red and Blue are "Goldeen need log" and "Yes, nah, Chansey". | |
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Square One TV had a song about numbers that are palindromes, including the fact that if a number is not a palindrome, you can add it to itself reversed and eventually get a number that is a palindrome. | |
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Extraordinary Attorney Woo: Woo Young-woo, who is autistic, always recites a list of palindromes she knows when introducing herself because her own name is one in Hangul (우영우). Whenever Young-woo gives her introduction, the English subtitles give examples of words that are palindromes in English (Kayak, deed, rotator, noon, racecar.) but the actual examples she gives in Korean are 기러기 (Geese) 토마토 (Tomato) 스위스 (Swiss) 인도인 (Delivery) and 별똥별 (Shooting star). | |
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Leaving these at crime scenes was the schtick of Nightwing villain Torque. He was called that because Bludhaven's crime boss Blockbuster twisted his head around. | |
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Pokémon: Girafarig has a palindromic name, in both English and Japanese (Kirinriki), because it has A Head at Each End. Pokémon Scarlet and Violet introduced its evolution Farigiraf, whose name is likewise a palindrome in English (although its Japanese name, Rikikirin, isn't, being a Significant Anagram instead). The passwords for the Rocket Headquarters on Five Island in the remakes of Red and Blue are "Goldeen need log" and "Yes, nah, Chansey". |
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Used in the solution to one Encyclopedia Brown story. One student wanted to let the teacher know who had broken a globe but without being seen as a snitch. He therefore completed a captioning assignment using only palindromes. The guilty parties were the two students whose names were palindromes. | |
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Zatanna (2010): Issue #12 has Zatanna (who, recall, pronounces the words in her spells backward) going up against a villain with time-reversal powers that allow him to negate her spells by having them sound like normal words. She gets around his powers by casting spells in palindromes (such as "Nurses Run" causing him to be stampeded by an army of running nurse mannequins). Other palindrome spells she has cast include summoning a racecar, and "Egad! Nobody do bondage!" to untie herself. She lampshades it before casting the spell "Ogre flog a golfer, go!" to conjure an ogre to throttle the villain, who's suddenly dressed up like a golfer. | |
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A Robot Chicken skit has Batman face Palindrome, a villain who speaks entirely in these, as a parody of some of his more outlandish villains. Batman actually claps after the villain launches into a very long palindromic soliloquy. | |
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The title of Tenet, as well as several key names in the plot, as taken from the Latin Sator Square made up of palindromes. | |
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Titan's Forest: Understorians use names that read the same when said forwards or backwards — Canopians adopted into Understorey society "mirror" their old names to achieve this effect — to represent the ability to move both up and down the great trees. Exceptions to this, such as Frog and her eventual reincarnation, deliberately adopt asymmetric names to symbolize their desire to only move up towards Canopy. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask's Stone Temple theme music was a palindrome. It made the an already strange temple even stranger. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: In the classic 'Dead Parrot' sketch, the shifty pet shop owner is called out by the irate customer for claiming they were in Ipswich and not Bolton. He tries to palm it off as a pun, and when he's called out on that, he claims it was a palindrome. The customer testily replies, "The palindrome of Bolton would be 'Notlob'!" | |
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Two albums using the same idea, Live Evil (a live Black Sabbath album, the cover even spells it "live ǝvil" to make the palindrome clear) and Live-Evil (a Miles Davis album with both live and studio recordings; the back cover mirrors the artist name◊). | |
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Ulysses, at one point, has two characters conversing in palindromes. But of course it has. | |
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A Superman comic had Mr. Mxyzptlk changing his name to Mxypyxm so he couldn't be tricked into saying his name backwards. Though that would technically mean saying his name would always be saying it backwards. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Ages features Symmetry City, whose survival depends on the total equality between the two sides. The name of the artifact that maintains the balance? Tuni Nut! | |
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Cosmicomics: Many of the names of the stories' characters are palindromes, usually of random letters — besides Qfwfq himself, two of his rivals from distinct stories are called Kgwgk and Pfwfp, while one of the characters in "All in One Point" is called De XuaeauX. | |
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Jeopardy!: 1994 4-time champion and 1995 Tournament Of Champions winner Ryan "Fritz" Holznagel has been well-known for making unusual palindromic wagers in Final Jeopardy (e.g. $7,117), having done so in 3 of his 5 regular games and all his TOC games. When he uncovered a Daily Double in the final game of the TOC, he stopped to ask Alex Trebek if a $1,111 wager was possible. | |
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At various random points in Ad Verbum, the Wizard of Wordplay will wander into the current room, make a palindromic pronouncement, and then reverse out of the room again. | |
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Arrival: Louise Banks named her daughter Hannah, explaining to her that her name is a palindrome. This is a clue regarding the Heptapods' language influencing her, allowing her to see past, present and future at the same time. | |
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Kingdom of Loathing features an area called the Palindome, in which each adventure revolves around palindromes in some way. You encounter a Taco Cat, the brothers Bob Racecar and Racecar Bob, and get involved in fruit-based combat ("No, sir, away! A papaya war is on!"). A quest also requires you to face a mini-boss here named Dr. Awkward in order to get your hands on the Staff of Fats. | |
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"Able was I, ere I saw Elba" was the palindrome that appeared in I Dream of Jeannie. | |
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In Arkham Asylum: Living Hell, the Joker proposed killing everyone in Gotham City whose name was a palindrome while flipping through a phone book. And if it seems improbable that he would actually find anyone fitting that parameter within Gotham City, he then immediately spots "Nora Baron"* Which wouldn't obviously be a palindrome to anyone reading the phone book, as it would be listed as Baron, Nora... | |
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