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When something's title becomes outdated, it may be renamed, but often the original name sticks because of familiarity or because it would be difficult to change. Sometimes, however, the creators deal with this by changing not the name, but the meaning of the name. This can happen in different ways, such as changing the meaning of an acronym, or using wordplay that conveniently fits the original name. If the title refers to someone or something ambiguous, it may be re-explained as actually referring to a different character or plot point. This can come as a result of a of Retcon. May also be a case of Permanent Placeholder if the title/name was originally meant to be replaced but kept once a fitting reason to keep it came along. Can be considered a meta form of Renamed the Same. Contrast Meaningful Rename. |
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Sluggy Freelance started out as a Word Salad Title (at least as far as the audience knew), but as the story has gone on more and more possible meanings for it have been revealed. And in fact, the current conflux of people and events with the name appears to be the result of a Long Game by Uncle Time. | |
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In Runaways, Nico Minoru's Staff of One was originally named because it could only cast any spell once. In Runaways (Rainbow Rowell), it's revealed that the name actually comes from the fact that it's powered by an entity called The One. The same series also retconned the origin of the Gibborim's name; apparently, they're not really fallen angels (as the name implies) but three godlike beings who happen to be named Gib, Bo, and Rim. | |
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Black Canarys superhero name took on a different meaning when the "Canary Cry" was introduced in the '60s. | |
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The Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. have a nice understanding of this trope: | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, every line of mobile suits use a distinctive inner frame. Gundam are 72 machines that use the "Gundam Frame" which is built with two Ahab Reactors's working in unison instead of the standard one and are responsible for winning the Calamity War. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Gundam refers to mobile suits that utilize the "GN Drive," a reactor powered by protonic decay producing the GN particle as a byproduct that makes them outperform every other machine. Interestingly, the name was coined by the founder of Celestial Being centuries before it was even clear what kind of machine a Gundam would even be. | |
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In Star Trek (2009), Leonard McCoy gets his nickname "Bones" after joking that all his wife left him in the divorce were his bones. This is a change from the original TV series, in which it's an old Civil War nickname for a doctor (and McCoy is from Georgia). "Bones" from "sawbones" i.e. battlefield amputations. | |
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In the 2004 film adaptation of The Manchurian Candidate, "Manchurian" is used in reference to an in-universe corporation, rather than the region in China as in the original novel and film. | |
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Done in-universe in Schlock Mercenary. Originally, the crew built a cargo-unloading robot dubbed LOTA, for "Longshoreman Of The Apocalypse". After it gets control of a weapon that can fire an unstoppable plasma beam anywhere in the galazy, it gets renamed "Long-gunner Of The Apocalypse". | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, "GUNDAM" is an acronym for the suits' operating system, though there are many different version of what the letters stand for. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, their name refers to "Gundanium" the hyper-durable metal alloy they're uniquely constructed from. It's also a reference to the "Gundarium alloy" Gundams were made of in the UC, though there it was the alloy being (re)named after the suits. | |
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All the different continuities of Gundam feature a very powerful (line of) mobile suits called "Gundam", but what the name refers to varies, when it even has a specific meaning: In the original Universal Century continuity, "Gundam" doesn't have an exact meaning* Out-of-universe, it was a combination of the English words "gun" and "freedom", with the latter part spelled like "dam" to evoke a hydroelectric dam., but it was part of a line of suits with a "Gun[X]" name formula, the others having the more descriptive names "Guntank" and "Guncannon". The name then took on a life of its own after the One Year War, gaining an almost religious meaning. In Mobile Suit Gundam Wing, their name refers to "Gundanium" the hyper-durable metal alloy they're uniquely constructed from. It's also a reference to the "Gundarium alloy" Gundams were made of in the UC, though there it was the alloy being (re)named after the suits. In Mobile Suit Gundam SEED, "GUNDAM" is an acronym for the suits' operating system, though there are many different version of what the letters stand for. In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, Gundam refers to mobile suits that utilize the "GN Drive," a reactor powered by protonic decay producing the GN particle as a byproduct that makes them outperform every other machine. Interestingly, the name was coined by the founder of Celestial Being centuries before it was even clear what kind of machine a Gundam would even be. In Mobile Suit Gundam: Iron-Blooded Orphans, every line of mobile suits use a distinctive inner frame. Gundam are 72 machines that use the "Gundam Frame" which is built with two Ahab Reactors's working in unison instead of the standard one and are responsible for winning the Calamity War. In Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, "GUND-ARM" is derived from the "GUND Format" that links the suit to the pilot's nervous system with Gundam being a common nickname. An easy way to recognize a Gundam in this setting is the black "shell unit" that glows red Tron Lines when GUND Format is activated. They're also nearly the only suits that use wireless Attack Drones. |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam: The Witch from Mercury, "GUND-ARM" is derived from the "GUND Format" that links the suit to the pilot's nervous system with Gundam being a common nickname. An easy way to recognize a Gundam in this setting is the black "shell unit" that glows red Tron Lines when GUND Format is activated. They're also nearly the only suits that use wireless Attack Drones. | |
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S.H.I.E.L.D. originally stood for Supreme Headquarters, International Espionage, Law-Enforcement Division; 30 years later, it became Strategic Hazard Intervention, Espionage and Logistics Directorate; and, in the current and probably most famous incarnation, Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division. | |
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In Alien Nation, Sam tells Sykes that he named his son Richard after Richard Nixon; Sykes tells Sam that in the future, he should tell people that he named him after Richard Burton. | |
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Medicated: In canon, Polly named Frobo after the robots in a game Anne was playing on her phone. Here, she originally named him "Frobro", but kept mispronouncing it. | |
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The original She-Ra: Princess of Power had a Shared Universe with He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (1983). She-Ra and the Princesses of Power lacks apparent connection to any He-Man continuity, but She-Ra still transforms with the phrase "By the honor of Grayskull!", even though Castle Grayskull (the source of He-Man and She-Ra's power) apparently doesn't exist. One of the last episodes suggests an alternate meaning when a recording of a rebellion against First Ones lead by a previous She-Ra mentions a "Grayskull Squadron". | |
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Doctor Who: Throughout the Classic Series, UNIT stood for United Nations Intelligence Taskforce, and they lived up to the name by providing security at a peace conference in "The Mind of Evil". However, when they were brought back for the Revival Series, a viral marketing campaign revolving around a website for the organization caught the attention of the actual United Nations, who accused the use of their name of violating the Geneva Convention and threatened legal action against the BBC. Consequently, the acronym was adjusted to instead mean Unified Intelligence Taskforce. | |
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Superman: What the "S" on Superman's chest originally meant changes from version to version. Originally, it was simply an "S" inside of a shield-like logo which obviously stood for the character's chosen codename. When his costume as a whole was later retconned to be derived from traditional Kryptonian fashion, the "S" was also retconned to be a family crest that belonged to the House of El. Later still, the family crest itself was revealed to mean "Hope" in the Kryptonian language, and that meaning has remained ever since. Brainiac's name was originally just a portmanteau of "brain" and "ENIAC" (the world's first electronic computer.) After the word became a slang term for genius, it was retconned to be a an abbreviation of Brain interactive construct. |
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The Lufia series is named after a character who only appears in the first game, Lufia & The Fortress of Doom. Since this game was never released in PAL territories, the German translation of Lufia II: Rise of the Sinistrals not only changed the game's name to simply Lufia but also renamed the Dual Blade to "Lufiaschwert" (Lufia Sword). | |
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In Warrior Cats, the Clans were originally named for their personality/territory: per the books' official site at the time, RiverClan was named for the river they live by and swim in, WindClan was named for their windy moorland territory, ShadowClan for their shadowy marsh, and ThunderClan for the Thunderpath (road) that borders their territory. When they later came up with an origin story for the Clans, this was retconned so that the Clans were named after their founders instead (River Ripple, Wind Runner, Tall Shadow, Thunder, and Clear Sky.) | |
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In The Railway Series and Thomas & Friends canon, Skarloey the engine is named after the Skarloey Railway, which is named after the Skarloey Lake. But since engines come pre-named in The Stories of Sodor, the railway used to be called the Crovan's Gate Railway, but was later renamed the Skarloey Railway after the engine became famous. | |
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In the original tale of Beauty and the Beast, Beauty received her nickname because she's so beautiful. In Robin McKinley's Beauty: A Retelling of Beauty and the Beast, when she first learned the meaning of her real name, Honour, as a child, she said she would rather be named Beauty, and from then on everyone called her that, even after she became a homely teenager. | |
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In the original Universal Century continuity, "Gundam" doesn't have an exact meaning* Out-of-universe, it was a combination of the English words "gun" and "freedom", with the latter part spelled like "dam" to evoke a hydroelectric dam., but it was part of a line of suits with a "Gun[X]" name formula, the others having the more descriptive names "Guntank" and "Guncannon". The name then took on a life of its own after the One Year War, gaining an almost religious meaning. | |
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