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Ominous Mundanity
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A perfectly mundane or simplistic name is used for dramatic and sinister effect. When the writers don't want to invoke Doomy Dooms of Doom, this makes a nice substitute. Something about a realistic name brings the plot closer to home and if done properly, a name like "The Cliffs" is scarier than "Spiky Cliffs of Evil Soul-Crushing Damnation". (Often, if the name is taken out of context, it wouldn't sound scary at all.) This trope is also the reason you ought to watch out for anyone named "John Smith". Unless he has a blue box. No, especially if he has a blue box. Frequently overlaps with Capital Letters Are Magic. Compare Tom the Dark Lord and Special Person, Normal Name, two versions specific to people, and Trouble Entendre, which is casual conversation with sinister hidden meanings. |
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Tooth and Tail has "The Kitchens", which are the headquarters for the military faction. Sounds like a very unfitting name, unless you know that all the characters are cannibals. Similarly, the player character in charge of the Kitchens is just called "The Quartermaster". This would be a low rank in most armies, but in light of the aforementioned fact, "in charge of stored food" translates to "in charge of prisoners, who will be eaten" and by extension Intelligence. | |
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Worm: The leader of the Slaughterhouse Nine, a group of superpowered serial killers and mass murderers (whatever feels funnier that day), deliberately invokes this, naming himself "Jack Slash" rather than something more grandiose. Some of the other members follow his lead, choosing unassuming names like Crawler or Mannequin that seem very ordinary in comparison to their horrifying actions. | |
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Over the Garden Wall takes place in an Eldritch Location known simply as "the Unknown". | |
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Many horror movie villains tend to have rather common names but have become so infamous they have become synonymous with each other. Jason, Freddy and as of late, Gordy are just a few examples | |
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Half-Life 2: City 17 and the Combine themselves. | |
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SCP Foundation practically has this trope as its basis. The Special Containment Procedures (SCP) Foundation keeps track of various strange objects, unnatural beings, and other anomalies. It does so in a fairly dry style, such as giving their prisoners numbers for names (e.g. SCP-049, SCP-106, SCP-682, etc.) and writes about alien horrors in the style of matter-of-fact entries. | |
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Elden Ring: The lategame boss the Fire Giant has no actual name, nor any ornate titles preceding or following one. He is simply referred to by his species... which by itself is quite significant as he's the only one left. Queen Marika waged a brutal holy war against the Fire Giants and their Fell God, but when she discovered that the Fell God's flame could not be extinguished, she deliberately left one Fire Giant alive and forced him to tend to the flame for eternity so that it wouldn't go out of control. | |
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The Mandalorian has the titular Mandalorian, a mysterious badass Mandalorian bounty hunter who refuses to let anyone see his face or know his name due to his cultural beliefs, and his cultural beliefs are in itself a mystery as they don't match what we already know about Mandalorian culture. Everyone just calls him the Mandalorian or "Mando" for short. As his mystique fades, revealing the human beneath, so do the mysteries: his name is Din Djarin, he's part of a fringe, radical cult even other Mandalorians find odd, and he has a bad case of hat hair when the helmet finally comes off. | |
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The Resident Evil series sees many mini-Zombie Apocalypses and countless other bioweapon atrocities, courtesy of the Umbrella Corporation. | |
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Higurashi: When They Cry: the story's Japanese title, Higurashi no Naku Koro ni translates to 'When the Cicadas Cry', which essentially holds the implication of 'in a hot summer day', while still holding a vague hint of menace, since the Japanese word 'naku' has the same double meaning as the English 'cry'. Unfortunately the English translation went with much more unambiguously creepy title, When They Cry - mostly because large parts of the Western world don't have that sort of cicada, meaning the implications fall completely flat. | |
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Steven Universe: The Movie introduces the Rejuvenator, a Sinister Scythe used to reset deviant Gems back to their "default settings": Identity Amnesia and forced assimilation in one handy package. | |
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Subverted in Undertale. The first and final levels of the game are 'Home' and 'New Home', respectively. In-universe history books lampshade this by explaining that King Asgore is really bad at naming things. | |
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Dragon Age: Origins takes the Warden and their friends to the mountain village of Haven. It sounds like a pleasant place, like a religious retreat or something. It's actually home to a murderous Ax-Crazy cult of dragon worshipers. (By the time of Dragon Age: Inquisition, which returns to the same location, it's become much more like what the name would imply.) | |
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The X-Files has The Syndicate, which is the show's Omniscient Council of Vagueness, and things associated with it sometimes. | |
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Sin City: The Roark farm at North Cross and Lennox, mostly referred to as just "The Farm", where the Roark family and their associates have been committing all manner of atrocities - raping, torturing, and sometimes eating people for generations, and using their wealth and influence to avoid any legal consequences. | |
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The Black Company: The Big Good (relatively speaking, in relation to the Villain Protagonists) of the first story arc, the greatest sorceress alive and ruler of a vast empire, is known simply as the Lady. The Black Company itself also counts, being a very plain name for her feared Elite Mooks who the Rebel have never once defeated. | |
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Grim Fandango has "The Meadow", where Hector Le Mans keeps the bodies of what must be hundreds of people he's "sprouted", either for getting in his way or failing him. | |
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The Covenant from Halo, which is named for the pact (i.e. a covenant) forged between the alien conglomerate's two founding species, the Elites and Prophets. Despite the voluntary-sounding name, the Covenant is a theocratic and authoritarian empire, with most of its member species having been forced to join on pain of death. Also, their religion tells them to kill all humans and activate ancient superweapons that will kill all sentient life in the galaxy, including themselves. | |
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District 9 is named after a ghetto for alien refugees in Johannesburg, with all the squalor, gang violence, and Fantastic Racism that that entails. | |
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Steven Universe: Many things associated with the Homeworld gems have exceedingly simple names to demonstrate their brutally utilitarian tendencies—just for starters, their home planet is never called anything but "Homeworld". The place where Gems drain the life from the environment to make more of themselves, which almost caused The End of the World as We Know It and started a war that lasted five thousand years, is called "Kindergarten".note "Kindergarten" does mean "garden of/for children" in German, so it's not actually that strange. Their superweapon, a giant ball of fused-together Gem shards meant to break Earth in half with its creation, is just called "The Cluster". Homeworld's People Zoo is simply called "The Zoo". Steven Universe: The Movie introduces the Rejuvenator, a Sinister Scythe used to reset deviant Gems back to their "default settings": Identity Amnesia and forced assimilation in one handy package. |
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Inscryption has the OLD_DATA directory on the game's disc, which sounds like a generic junk folder on a pre-used disc. Characters and the ARG imply it's actually a digitized form of the devil, along with the code for activating a Nazi Doomsday Device. | |
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The chief Republic spy agency in Star Wars: The Old Republic is the prosaically-named "Special Information Service", which sounds about as dry as the Government Accountability Office or countless other tell-the-Senators-the-facts bureaus. (This is in stark contrast to their nemeses, the no-nonsense Imperial Intelligence.) The in-game codex entry suggests that, every so often, the Republic espionage community gets in some scandal or another and reinvents itself with an even-more-innocuous name to avoid people thinking of them as a danger. | |
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Star Trek has Section 31, the top-secret black-ops division of Starfleet. It's clear from their introduction that they're The Unfettered when it comes to protecting The Federation. | |
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The closest that Girl Genius has to an overarching Big Bad would be an entity known only to the general public as "the Other" (eventually revealed to be Lucrezia Mongfish, Agatha's mom). The novelizations explain that "the Other" was named this because of a series of attacks on Europe with an unknown perpitrator, and all the suspects were killed by them, so the only thing known about them is that they were some other party. | |
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THE MONUMENT MYTHOS: Special Tree sounds like an entirely normal, almost childish term by itself. But Special Trees are ill-understood things that only vaguely look like normal trees, right until they curve in half, form an arc, and shunt everything nearby into another universe. | |
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Shoreless Isle in Fablehaven. The name comes nowhere near expressing the island's true purpose. Not to mention the first impression you would get from seeing it... paradise, at first glance. | |
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You Only Live Twice: both the film and the novel it was based on had the very competent head of the Japanese intelligence agency that assists Bond be named "Tiger" Tanaka. "Tiger" is rather distinctive, but Tanaka is one of the most common Japanese surnames out there and conveys a sense of "average Japanese civilian" in its identity, about on par with "John Smith" in the United States. | |
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Doctor Who: "The Day of the Doctor" features an ungodly powerful apocalyptic superweapon of superweapons, created by the Sufficiently Advanced Aliens of the setting, who were too terrified to use it once they realized it had developed sentience (and a conscience). Its name? The Moment. | |
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Exploited in advertising for Men in Black, which promoted its lead actors as Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith. | |
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John Wick, a seemingly mundane name that causes criminals all over the world to quake in fear and stockpile as many weapons as they can. | |
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The Prisoner (1967) is full of this, set mostly in The Village, which is located between The Mountains and The Sea. This keeps it very unclear where The Village is located, and, therefore, which side of the Cold War its masters are on. It also conveys to the various prisoners just how small their lives will be now that they're here: The Village doesn't need a name because it's the only one they'll ever see. | |
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The New Order Last Days Of Europe makes several uses of this trope: "Burgundian System" is a mundane and euphemistic name for an unimaginably extreme form of totalitarianism envisioned by Heinrich Himmler, which effectively turns an entire society into a massive concentration camp. If Russia is reunified by the Black League of Omsk, it becomes the Russian National Reclamation Government. To explain, what the Nation is trying to Reclaim is their lost pride from WWII. And the only way to reclaim that pride is to exterminate the entire Reich, and Germany in general as a nation and idea, thermonuclear war be damned. After Sergey Taboritsky reaches the superregional stage, a unique mechanism known simply as "The Clockworks" appears. It represents the regent's sanity faltering as he slowly realises that no matter what he does, the Tsarevich Alexei is dead and will never come back. At midnight, Sergey dies from the epiphany and the Holy Russian Empire he built collapses. |
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Paperinik New Adventures: A massive criminal organization from the 23rd century that uses Time Travel to steal from the entirety of history is simply known as "The Organization". Paperinik can't help but make a quip when he finds out: | |
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The Lion, the Witch, and the Wardrobe: The castle of the White Witch is referred to as her "house", by the Witch herself, and her enemies, when it is fact a small castle, filled with statues of her enemies which she has turned to stone. Calling it a "house" is especially notable when she meets Edmund, having introduced herself as the Queen of Narnia, and told him to find her house between two hills, and has even suggested he tells his siblings casually "let's see who lives here". When Edmund sees the house later, he notes that it is more of a small castle than a house, with towers that look like dunce's caps, perhaps reflecting his own foolishness in joining the witch. | |
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Control is full of this. Your Swiss-Army Gun is called the Service Weapon, the government organization you've accidentally ended up in charge of is the Federal Bureau of Control, the Bigger on the Inside setting of the game is the Oldest House, and the Enigmatic Empowering Entity is called the Board. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: The Institute, pre-war Cybertron's one-stop Mind Rape shop. As Chromedome puts it to Tailgate at the end of the "Shadowplay" trilogy, why call it that? Aside from the innocuously boring sounding name, the definitive article helps hide an even more horrific fact: There were multiple Institutes, all across Cybertron, with over a dozen in the capitol alone. | |
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In Saw, the Jigsaw killer's real name is just John. | |
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Star Trek: Enterprise Relaunch: The Ware, a series of automated repair stations scattered about space, which abduct people to use as processors for their computers, and tend to respond to anyone attempting to recover or remove them with lethal force. It eventually turns out it's automated service gone insanely wrong; the civilization that built it became too reliant, and when the original machinery went wrong, they had no idea how to fix it. | |
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The Man in the High Castle has SS Obergruppenführer John Smith. | |
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