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Gratuitous Greek

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Gratuitous Greek	comment	Want to make something sound scientific and from the future? Just put Greek into it! It worked for: Alpha Centauri, Gamma Radiation, proton ("first"), electron ("amber", since static electricity was first discovered in properties of amber), lepton ("small"), meson ("middle"), baryon ("heavy"), hadron ("thick"), atom ("indivisible"), photon ("light"), synthesis ("combination"), photosynthesis ("combination from light"), technology ("craft studies"), biology ("life studies"), psychology ("soul/mind studies"), cryostasis ("frozen standing still"), metamorphosis ("transformation"), Cybernetics ("piloting"), hexagons... Common Greek letters to be used are Î‘Î± Alpha, Î’Î² Beta, Î“Î³ Gamma, Î”Î´ Delta, Î•Îµ Epsilon, Î–Î¶ Zeta and Î©Ï‰ Omega. Other Greek letters like Î Ï€ Pi or Î§Ï‡ Chi will rarely get used because it would confuse viewers, while letters like Î—Î· Eta or ÎšÎº Kappa would rarely get used for risk of the viewer not understanding the connection and think maybe they're referring to the mountain? Or the other mountain? Or perhaps the Composer? Or even a river imp that likes cucumbers? More rarely, actual Greek quotations may appear. Names drawn from Classical Mythology are rather more common, as are biblical/philosophical words such as "logos", "theos" and "agape", as well as Gnostic terms like "sophia" and "archon" in more postmodern series. Note, however, that it almost never matches its Latin counterpart in prominence. This is due to the fact that, while an average speaker of English might recognize quite a number of Greek words,note And only provided that those are written in the Latin alphabet rather than Greek original, which, aside from some of the letters used in intermediate mathematics, is absolutely alien to almost every non-Greek-speaking person in the West (although those familiar with the Cyryllic script will most definitely have an easier time figuring out the correct pronunciation). chances are they would be unable to decipher the meaning of an actual sentence, something quite common when dealing with Latin, even with no prior background in that language. Greek might be part of the Indo-European language family, much like Latin, but it happens to be classified in a rather isolated subgroup. Let's just say, had it not been for Ancient Greece's powerful influence on European history, modern Greek would appear just as strange as, say, Albanian (which also forms part of the Indo-European language group). This is a very old trope; some Roman authors had a habit of inserting Greek quotations into their works, and Latin acquired influences from Greek. At the time, Greece was seen as the source of culture, philosophy, science and learning in general, hence why science, mathematics, philosophynote which is roughly a Greek word for love of wisdom and such matters of academia have an addiction to do this, reinforcing the impression that if Smart People Know Latin, then really smart people know Greek (reinforced by the fact that most students of the two languages seem to agree that Greek puts Latin to shame in the difficulty department) and how everything in Greek sounds like futuristic Techno Babble. Also, the Greek language was pretty much the lingua franca for the eastern half of the Empire. This endured until the Renaissance. A part of why Rome is confused with Greece. Part of why, in Science Fiction, if something is really high-tech or related to electronics/computing, people just put the suffix "-tron" on it (as with Tron Lines). Also see Gratuitous Latin, Xtreme Kool Letterz and The Backwards Я. Often part of a Mad Lib Thriller Title. This is a subtrope of Gratuitous Foreign Language and really should be used with extreme care.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_1215a23d	comment	Genshin Impact names its seven elements in Greek: Anemo, Cryo, Pyro, Hydro, Electro, Geo and Dendro.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_155c7e93	comment	Maplestory features Greek in an unusual way, trying to pass it off as an ancient language that is still used on occasion, mainly for town name signs. Some of the letters were slightly altered, however. Possibly justifiable that this fantasy culture planet would use any Earth languages, as there have been many in-universe crossovers between their planet and Earth throughout history. Though whether they learned those languages from us, or we learned it from them, that's another matter.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_1861f45b	comment	In the original Starcraft, the different colors of Terran units and buildings represented different "Squadrons" of the Confederate Military, which were named after Greek letters: Alpha Squadron, for instance, was the "first-in, first-out" Blood Knights led by General Duke. Additionally, the "Protoss," the "firstborn" of the Xel'naga, just happen to have a name that means "first" in Greek.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_1d417633	comment	Monsters University combines Greek letters with monster-related words to name its fraternities and sororities, such as Roar Omega Roar, Python Nu Kappa, and Oozma Kappa.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_2268ce39	comment	The TV series GRSSK. Seems the logo designers forgot that Sigma doesn't make an "e" sound.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_243f5fd3	comment	The E-series robots from the Sonic The Hedgehog series (well, numbers 100 to 123 anyway), the most famous being E-102 Gamma and E-123 Omega. E-100 Alpha is called ZERO in the games, but is known as Alpha by Word of God. E-121 is named Phi, even though 121 should be Chi and 120 should be Phi.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_25f6f1a0	comment	Lambdadelta from Umineko: When They Cry. While her name in the VN is usually written as "Lambdadelta", she herself writes "Î›Î”". The firing sequence of the Siestas in the VN also counts, it's Japanese transliterated into the Greek alphabet.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_2ae406c1	comment	The Cybernetic Consciousness, in the Alien Crossfire expansion of Sid Meier's Alpha Centauri, have base names that all use Greek letters (Alpha Prime, Beta Crossing, etc.), as well as personal names; the leader is known as Aki Zeta-5.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_3565350a	comment	Final Fantasy Tactics Advance has the skills Omega and Alpha. Omega, the Signature Move of Llednar, is an extremely powerful ability that can generally kill in one hit. Alpha, described as the "Fatherspell of Omega and Ultima," is a move used by the Final Boss that has a similar effect to Omega, but also strikes all adjacent tiles to the one that it targets.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_35ada324	comment	The eponymous creatures in the Alien franchise are often referred to by fans as "xenomorphs", after a line by a character in the second film. The world means "alien form" in Greek.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_3967984f	comment	The mutated corpses from Dead Space are called necromorphs. Even though "dead shaped" doesn't make any sense.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_3b7abee2	comment	Half-Life, being a series that centers on a team of theoretical physicists fighting an alien invasion of Earth, is full with lots of references to modern physics, which is using the Greek alphabet as symbols for new discovered and defined units and constants in Real Life. Most famous is the lambda Î» (the lambda) as the official symbol of the series, which also is the logo of a research project that plays a central role in the first game. Since they made the now iconic orange suits made famous by the main character, the lambda is on his chest, and as such later became the symbol of the human resistance started by his former coworkers. It also is the symbol for the decay constant, which is an important part in the calculation of the Half-Life of radioactive elements. In the first game there is also the Tau Cannon, which apparently fires subatomic particles known as the Tau, which are related to electrons and named after another greek letter.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_3c4b9931	comment	What We Do in the Shadows (2019): One episode has Nadja conducting a seance using a Greek incantation... and an unbelievably hammy delivery.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_3f918bcd	comment	An timeline for Task Force Games' game Starfire in Nexus magazine #6. The Terran Federation's Survey Command issues Omega Contingency orders to govern the use of starship weapons against hostile aliens.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_3feb4baa	comment	Tunnel B1 names it's levels and objectives after Greek gods. You'll come across levels called Aristaeus, Eurydice, Persephone, Cerberus, Oceanus, Styx, Athena, Artemis, Charon, Aphrodite, Demeter, Tartarus, Hestia, and the like.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_40822817	comment	Only Connect previously had its contestants choose questions by Greek letters (alpha through zeta). Apparently they got complaints that this was pretentious, so they responded by replacing the Greek letters with Egyptian hieroglyphs.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_43628937	comment	Some lines in Greek Ninja.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_44127c7c	comment	There's also Alpha-5 and Alpha-6, helpful robots from Power Rangers.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_44fe781e	comment	The title of Neon Genesis Evangelion, literally meaning "New Beginning Gospel".
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Gratuitous Greek / int_4561a852	comment	Planetes's name is actually written in Greek (Î Î»Î±Î½Î®Ï„ÎµÏ‚).
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Gratuitous Greek / int_468bebb0	comment	Also the joke motto of Unseen University: â€œEta Beta Piâ€� (Also seen in Revenge of the Nerds). Family Matters had a joke that Waldo's cooking school had just one fraternity: "I Eta Pi." Which is a use of Gratuitous Roman Alphabet within Gratuitous Greek.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_492240cf	comment	MADtv (1995)'s Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority deserves special mention. The Unfortunate Implications are played for all they've got.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_49a87cb3	comment	Final Fantasy VII likes random smatterings of Greek text spelling English words. Like the shot bar in Junon, or signs for the Golden Saucer, and the letters displayed in the elevator in the reactors.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV also goes even deeper than the rest of the series as of Shadowbringers and Endwalker. With the reveal of the Ancients, whose society and language are modeled after Classical Mythology, absolutely gratuitous amounts of Ancient Greek has been seeping into characters, locations, terms and even attack names. The terms used are not only lifted from mythology but from obscure Greek philosophy as well, with words like entelechy, dynamis and telos being thrown around willy-nilly. It gets even crazier with the Sage class, which was fittingly released with Endwalker. Every single one of its skill names is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is Raise, for the Scholar, it's called Resurrection and the Astrologian's is called Ascend. Sage? EgeiroMeaning "raise (one from sleep)". Omega or more specifically, the Omicron race that created it in this continuity also engages in its own form of Gratuitous Greek involving the Greek alphabet. While Alpha has appeared all the way back in Stormblood as a character in the Dimensional Rift raid series, Endwalker reveals that this was also the name of their homeworld of Alphatron. Eta, Lambda and Delta appear as infantry-level weapons of varying sizes and shapes, Stigma as the series of Master Computers that control their entire race, and Chi as a Tactical Superweapon Unit gone missing that has even more firepower than Omega.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_5022a2c4	comment	In Xena: Warrior Princess , in the episode "The Titans", Gabrielle supposedly chants in Greek. What she says is actually a mix of casual Greek salutations, like "Hello" and "Good morning" along with some weird stuff like the Spanish word for "night" ("noche") and the name of a Greek olive oil company. This was very puzzling for Greek people when it first aired as it did sound familiar, but unless one would access the Internet for the script, Gabrielle was just speaking utter crap with a horrible Greek accent. Her chant reads: "Thank you very much, so-so, hello good morning, hello good night, hello good night". The chant that turns the titans back to stone reads: "Hail! Hail! Hail! Hello hail! Good hail! Mupolita, Mupolita, Chania, Heraklion, Elais, motanis, hello, hello". It doesn't make much sense, especially the part with the random meaningless words (mupolita and motanis), the two Greek towns (Chania, Heraklion) and a Greek olive oil company (Elais).
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Gratuitous Greek / int_507dfb6a	comment	In EarthBound (1994), the PSI levels are measured through Greek Symbols, not numbers. The levels usually go Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Omega, but occasionally you'll see Sigma mixed in there as well.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_52a9490e	comment	Kamen Rider Ghost has Takeru and Makoto's finishers be named Omega Drive for no apparent reason.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_5489f51f	comment	Makai Kingdom has a Large Ham main character, Overlord Zetta [sic], the most badass overlord in the entire cosmos! He has a daughter named Petta, whose might be derived from "penta".
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Gratuitous Greek / int_57f80079	comment	Interestingly averted in The Mortal Instruments, despite the regular use of Gratuitous Latin and the fact that Shadowhunters are usually educated in both Classical languages. While it is mentioned that some texts, such as the Book of the White, are written in Greek, nobody seems to drop any Greek phrases to anybody that would not be expected to already know the language anyway, even though they often do so with Latin.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_5cfb879b	comment	The "Omega Effect" from the New Gods, Darkseid's ultimate attack. Its counterpart was later named the "Alpha Effect".
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Gratuitous Greek / int_5e16d550	comment	Black Clover: All of Julius Novachrono's named Time Magic spells use Greek words. "Chrono" for time, "Stasis" for standing, "Grigora" for fast, and "Anastasis" for resurrection.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_5fc0e68d	comment	Last Exile uses the Greek alphabet for in-universe text— but it's actually just English text transliterated into Greek.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_6209d3ce	comment	The Trauma Center series loves this: Under the Knife's GUILT are named after the Greek names for the seven days of the week, New Blood's Stigma are named after the Greek names of various parts of the body, and Under the Knife 2's Neo-GUILT are named after four - you guessed it - Greek-derived philosophical concepts.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_62570927	comment	The Marvel Universe has Alpha, Beta and Omega class mutants. Alpha Flight, and Beta, Gamma, and Omega Flights. Some more specific examples include The Origin of The Incredible Hulk (Gamma Radiation) and an Alien counterpart of Thor (Beta Ray Bill).
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Gratuitous Greek / int_6ade118b	comment	Yureka: Wun-suk heavily abuses this trope when selecting screennames for the in-universe game Lost Saga, making him very recognizable for other players.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_736170e9	comment	In Dead Rising: Endgame if you look closely at the cages as the gang walks by the cages you'll notice they're labeled with Greek Lettering. Presumably the good doctor's naming method was naming them after the Greek Alphabet.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_78d4f24	comment	Omega-Xis, the main character's alien partner from Mega Man Star Force.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_791fca44	comment	Subject Delta, the Alpha Series and half the locations in BioShock and its sequel.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_7988cb68	comment	Mass Effect series has a station called Omega a warring, violent place, and last place before the Omega 4 relay; that no ship ever comes back from. The Asari, being Greeks IN SPACE, are strongly associated with Greek place names. They live, for instance, in the Athena nebula (and are matriarchal). Illium, also, is deliberately close to the Latinate form of Ilion, Troy.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court has Gamma and Zimmy (Word of God says the latter is a diminutive of "Zeta").
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Gratuitous Greek / int_7fd403f8	comment	The Omega-13 from Galaxy Quest.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_81692f99	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: The Omega Directive (but the Prime Directive is interestingly NOT called the Alpha Directive) This one is something of an exception. The name of the Omega Directive is related to its subject matter (Elimination of Omega particles), not its importance or ranking order. Omega particles themselves are an example. access codes contain those Betazoids, perhaps And Deltans The quadrants of the galaxy: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta. And Attack Pattern Alpha.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_826ef177	comment	The four Communicators in Bionic Commando are identified by the first four letters of the Greek alphabet.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_82b3a70e	comment	Their fellow countrymen Blut aus Nord have also used this trope several times. In particular, half the song titles on Deus salutis meÃ¦ are in Greek (though two are written in the Latin alphabet; the album title, for its part, is an example of Gratuitous Latin), and that's not all. There's detailed information on the band's page.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_8ac4e993	comment	Gundam loves this trope. Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam had the Zeta Project, intended to produce next-generation Humongous Mecha; in addition to the eponymous Zeta Gundam, the Project also produced the Rick Dias (it was going to be the Gamma Gundam until Char Aznable protested) and Hyaku-Shiki (originally conceived as the Delta Gundam, which lead to the Delta Plus), and later stories introduce the Double Zeta and Superior Gundams, codenamed Theta and Iota respectively. Examples unrelated to the Zeta Project include the Nu Gundam and Alpha Azieru as well as the Xi Gundam. The arcade game Gundam Try-Age goes even further with this trope with the Digamma Azieru, a variant of the Alpha that's named for an archaic letter that isn't part of the classical Greek alphabet (but is the root of the English letter F).
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Gratuitous Greek / int_8f072a6c	comment	In New Hope University: Major In Murder, JP Laettner, the Ultimate Fraternity Brother, comes from the Chi Chi Chi fraternity. This becomes a major clue in implicating him for the second murder; his victim made a point of repeating the "Ex" syllable three times in the recording of her final moments, and while it sounded as though she was stuttering, she was actually saying "X-X-X," giving a clue to his fraternity name.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_9068877a	comment	All the artificial intelligences introduced six seasons into Red vs. Blue are named after letters of the Greek alphabet. They all come from a single intelligence, the Alpha, that had parts of it that controlled specific emotions grafted off and turned into intelligences of their own. The letter each AI is matched with is somewhat significant; take Omega, named after the last letter, who's made from the Alpha's hatred and as such, is very likely to end you.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_910dcc8c	comment	For some reason Claude occasionally slips into Greek in Fire Emblem: Three Houses: Fifth Path, despite Greece not existing and him being half-Almyran, which is a culture more akin to the Middle-East.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_924b6d63	comment	The final chapter of Xenogears is named 'Alpha and Omega.' The game also directly quotes the Bible verse at the top of the page in its intro.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_924bb56e	comment	Dollhouse uses the military alphabet to name its characters, but no doubt Alpha was selected for a significant character's name because of its cool Greek-ness. Plus, for symmetry with Alpha, Echo with all her personalities uploaded at once was called Omega.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_9321b7f4	comment	The "555" in Kamen Rider 555 is officially translated as "Î¦'s" ("Phi's" or "Faiz"), and the letter Phi is the motif of the lead character Kamen Rider Faiz. The series' theme song is titled "JustiÏ†'s" (Justiphi's, Justifaiz, Justifies). The other Kamen Riders in the series are Kaixa (Î§ Chi) and Delta (Î”). The series' Mooks called Riotroopers are even given the Omicron (ÎŸ) as a symbolic Greek letter, despite it not thematically part of the name. All of the Greek letters are motifs for the characters' armors and arsenals. The masks/visors all resemble the letter (yes, the Riotroopers' visor consists solely of a giant featureless circle). The Kamen Riders in the Non-Serial Movie Paradise Lost are Psyga (Î¨ Psi) and Orga (Î© Omega). Kamen Riders appearing in the show's action stage shows are Alpha, Beta, and Gamma.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_959dd815	comment	The Organization Of Modern Extreme Grappling Arts, aka OMEGA
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Gratuitous Greek / int_980a4d78	comment	In Bomberman Tournament for the Game Boy Advance, all of the towns are named after Greek letters.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_99055407	comment	Family Matters had a joke that Waldo's cooking school had just one fraternity: "I Eta Pi." Which is a use of Gratuitous Roman Alphabet within Gratuitous Greek.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_9d34190a	comment	In The Elder Scrolls series' lore, the Magna-Ge, aka "Star Orphans", are the et'Ada ("original spirits") who fled during the creation of Mundus (the mortal plane) with their "father", Magnus. One of these Magna-Ge is known as LeÎ», spelled with the lambda.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_9f89a5f0	comment	PokÃ©mon: Arceus from Diamond and Pearl is known as the "Alpha PokÃ©mon". More than that, "Î±Ï�Ï‡Î±Î¯Î¿Ï‚" (arceos/archeos) is a greek word meaning ancient, derived from "Î±Ï�Ï‡Î®" (arche), which means "beginning/origin". The third gen remakes Omega Ruby and Alpha Sapphire not only have the last and first Greek letters in their names, their mascots Groudon and Kyogre now have the Greek letters omega and alpha added to their Tron Lines respectively. There's even a post-game plot called the "Delta Episode", and Rayquayza's Mega Evolution also incorporates the letter Delta into its design.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_a2294028	comment	Ultra Hawk 1 and its Alpha, Beta, and Gamma flying components from Ultraseven.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_a33d5778	comment	In Haru-Sari, Cortinon named all the elves he was studying after greek letters. The only one named was the young Chi-min (Omicron).
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Gratuitous Greek / int_a4a6b86a	comment	In the finale of Code Geass, Lelouch names one of his plans "Apate Aletheia." Apate was the Greek personification of deceit, while aletheia is a philosophical term that, at its simplest, means "truth." The Other Wiki has a lot more detail.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_a4e6a00a	comment	All of Aika's specials in Skies of Arcadia are named with a Greek letter: Alpha Storm, Delta Shield, etc.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_a5a0dd85	comment	The different social classes in Brave New World are Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Delta and Epsilon.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_a81325d3	comment	The various incarnations of Omega Weapon in the Final Fantasy series. Final Fantasy VII likes random smatterings of Greek text spelling English words. Like the shot bar in Junon, or signs for the Golden Saucer, and the letters displayed in the elevator in the reactors. Final Fantasy Tactics Advance has the skills Omega and Alpha. Omega, the Signature Move of Llednar, is an extremely powerful ability that can generally kill in one hit. Alpha, described as the "Fatherspell of Omega and Ultima," is a move used by the Final Boss that has a similar effect to Omega, but also strikes all adjacent tiles to the one that it targets. Final Fantasy XIV also goes even deeper than the rest of the series as of Shadowbringers and Endwalker. With the reveal of the Ancients, whose society and language are modeled after Classical Mythology, absolutely gratuitous amounts of Ancient Greek has been seeping into characters, locations, terms and even attack names. The terms used are not only lifted from mythology but from obscure Greek philosophy as well, with words like entelechy, dynamis and telos being thrown around willy-nilly. It gets even crazier with the Sage class, which was fittingly released with Endwalker. Every single one of its skill names is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is Raise, for the Scholar, it's called Resurrection and the Astrologian's is called Ascend. Sage? EgeiroMeaning "raise (one from sleep)". Omega or more specifically, the Omicron race that created it in this continuity also engages in its own form of Gratuitous Greek involving the Greek alphabet. While Alpha has appeared all the way back in Stormblood as a character in the Dimensional Rift raid series, Endwalker reveals that this was also the name of their homeworld of Alphatron. Eta, Lambda and Delta appear as infantry-level weapons of varying sizes and shapes, Stigma as the series of Master Computers that control their entire race, and Chi as a Tactical Superweapon Unit gone missing that has even more firepower than Omega.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_a9517b88	comment	The God of War franchise has a random Omega coupling the "of" in the logo. Omega shows up everywhere in the game too; even the experience point meter is a big Omega (Filling up a large letter Z with red fluid wouldn't look nearly as cool). The games do take place in ancient Greece though.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_afa87e53	comment	Backyard Skateboarding: Welcome to the Ultimate Skatepark SKATE STATION ALPHA!
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Gratuitous Greek / int_b493baca	comment	Delta Tau Chi fraternity ("Delta house") in Animal House.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_b50cc7e6	comment	Some more specific examples include The Origin of The Incredible Hulk (Gamma Radiation) and an Alien counterpart of Thor (Beta Ray Bill).
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Gratuitous Greek / int_bcadd7cb	comment	The Tau of Warhammer 40,000 are named for a Greek letter and use Greek letters in names of attack teams (well, in Dark Crusade: Sigma, Theta...)
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Gratuitous Greek / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: Omega, the legendary Time Lord. Alpha Centauri, a character from The Curse of and The Monster of Peladon. (Technically, an unnamed ambassador from the star system of that name.) One episode mentions that, in school, the Doctor was nicknamed Theta Sigma. In The Evil of the Daleks, the first three Renegade Daleks with the Human Factor are named Alpha, Beta, and Omega. The "Old High Gallifreyan" alphabet looks suspiciously like Greek.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_c6e646e5	comment	G-Darius uses Greek letters for all its zone names; previous games used the Roman alphabet.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_c95e9d87	comment	In Up, the dogs are named Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Epsilon and so on. (One of the dogs who aren't identified by name is presumably Delta.) It's also possibly that Dug's name is actually a corruption of Omega.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_ca192152	comment	Afterimage: The four main elements are thematically named after Greek words; Anemo (wind), Pyro (fire), Geo (earth), Hydro (water).
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Gratuitous Greek / int_cbe3e313	comment	In True Lies, Harry Tasker works for the top-secret Omega Sector.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_cdae0b41	comment	Forever: The professor in "Look Before You Leap" tosses around ancient Greek repeatedly, and Henry proves he's equally fluent, spotting an ungrammatical error in a Greek quote in a supposed suicide note which was written by one of the professor's grad students who presumably had been studying Ancient Greek. Justified in that, in the era Henry was first educated, learning Greek and Latin was considered a basic skill for the wealthy who could afford a real education.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_cf39ca4f	comment	Pearls Before Swine parodies this with Zeeba Zeeba Eetas (which they say stands for Zeta Zeta Epsilon).
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Gratuitous Greek / int_d0a5a846	comment	One of the playable ships in Gradius Gaiden is called Falchion Î².
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Gratuitous Greek / int_d2bb929d	comment	In the Soul Series, while several characters are actually Greek, several of those characters' primary weapons are named for Greek letters. In chronological order: Sophitia's Î© Sword, Aeon Calcos/Lizardman's Ï‡ Sword, Cassandra's Ï� Sword, and Patroklos's Ï‚ Sword. In addition, in Soul Calibur V, Patroklos and Pyrrha's alternate fighting styles after mastering Soul Calibur and Soul Edge are referred to as Î± Patroklos and Pyrrha Î©.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_d4fe015f	comment	QI mentioned an 18th century British scientist write down quite a few of his observations in Greek, so that only a gentleman would be able to read it, because it involved penguins engaging in necrophilia.
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Gratuitous Greek / int_f2ce02ea	comment	There's a Key & Peele sketch about fraternity branding, here. What starts as Omega Pi Omega (properly Î©Î Î©) ends up being somethingâ€¦ different. The mistake is that they use an uppercase letter omega Î©, but a lowercase letter pi Ï€.
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