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A variety of Meaningful Name, sometimes an offshoot of Theme Naming, but not always. This describes the situation where what one names someone or something results in that something or someone taking on the aspects of what they are named after. Sometimes this is merely intentionally descriptive after the fact, but if not, then circumstances will change to fit them. Sometimes you wonder what the parents were thinking. (Hint: Naming a computer system after a bloodthirsty god or demon is never a good idea. Naming an organization this usually implies premeditation of purpose already.) Genre Blindness prevents anyone from recognizing this and predicting future plot developments. Steven Ulysses Perhero is a subset of this, focused specifically on the tendency for names to relate to super-powers and/or secret identities. This happens in real life more often than you would expect — for example, by the name-letter effect. New Scientist coined and popularised the term "Nominative Determinism" for this. The Romans had their own term: the "nomen omen" (name omen). As some of the examples show, Icarus seems to be an unusually favored name in this regard — perhaps it has something to do with the name itself having a nice ring to it, combined with the built-in allegory about literally flying too close to the sun. See also What Did You Expect When You Named It ____? and Names to Run Away from Really Fast. Contrast Artifact Name, which is reflective of the person, place or thing when it's given, but eventually loses its meaning. Examples |
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Thud! has a character whose full, legal name is A.E. Pessimal, described as not having been named, but initialed. Fittingly, he is a government clerk. | |
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Worm has a guy named Andrew Richter who dies due to undersea earthquakes destroying the island he lived on. | |
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The various members of the student council are named after Kaguya and her suitors from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Every one of them (sans Kaguya and Fujiwara) is connected in some way to a girl who is named after their counterpart's respective impossible task (who are even known in-universe as the "Impossible Girls"). Iino and her Childhood Friend Osaragi are based off of Ishidzukuri no Miko and the Begging Bowl of the Buddha. In the original story, Ishidzukuri no Miko presented Kaguya-hime with a fake bowl because he couldn't find the real one, much like how her and Iino only became friends because they couldn't get "real" ones. Shirogane and his former student council mate Momo Ryuju are based off of Ootomo no Miyuki and the Pearl from the Dragon's Neck. During the culture festival, Momo helps Shirogane prepare his Grand Romantic Gesture for Kaguya (a giant balloon filled with hundreds of smaller heart shaped balloons) which is disguised as a giant pearl being wrapped by a paper mache dragon. Ishigami and his crush Tsubame are based off of Isonokami no Maro and the Cowry from the Swallow's Nest. In the original story, Isonokami no Maro falls to his death while attempting to get the cowry shell, much like how Ishigami suffers a Staircase Tumble out of despair after Tsubame turns down his Love Confession (only surviving unharmed due to Iino breaking his fall). |
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In Starcraft, the Protoss praetor Fenix "dies" and then is "reborn" as a dragoon. His name is obviously derived from the legendary phoenix, which is reborn from its ashes after it dies. | |
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Fell is about Richard Fell, a detective who falls from grace and is reassigned to the worst city in America. | |
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X-Men: The Vanisher, who is a teleporter. His real name? Telford Porter. | |
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The prophetic names in Sluggy Freelance usually hint at the sound effects of their bearers' demises: Squishbug McPiñatanote skull burst by his equally appropriately named business rival Crushestro, Bob Voooshsplatnote shot with a bazooka, and Chief Kulsplatnote knocked onto spikes from above. | |
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Dr. Otto Octavius. Take a guess, was he Doctor Octopus or Sandman? | |
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One page of Awkward Zombie portrays Phoenix Wright insisting that his defense record is based on building trust with the client... while he's actually cherry-picking his clients based on whether their names indicate that they are trustworthy. | |
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Season 3 of Angel has a Badass Normal man whose surname was Holtz (meaning wood) seeking revenge on a formerly evil vampire who murdered his family. He was able to capture and harm said vampire, but was never able to kill him and later stopped trying to. Season 7 of Buffy, a year later, has a man whose actual surname is Wood; if you make the connection, you can guess what he turned out to be. | |
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Invoked for a gag in The Simpsons where Cletus the Yokel comments; | |
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'Buddenbrooks'': Dr. Brecht (German for "break it") who ended up being a dentist. | |
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In Winx Club, Brandon's name translates to "prince" (in Celtic, at least), although he has no royal blood. As time progresses, it could refer to his noble personality or marriage to Stella, the crown princess of Solaria. | |
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In Miraculous Ladybug, the character Marinette is a seamstress (although she stitches clothes together, not nets). She also establishes a "net" of cooperating superheroes across the world. | |
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In Castle, a character nicknamed Jimmy the Rat is a mob informant. Lampshaded by Castle, naturally. | |
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Red (2003) is about Paul Moses, whose death is decreed by the CIA. | |
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Linkara has made this observation several times on Atop the Fourth Wall: "If your name means anything, you will become a supervillain." | |
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RWBY: Nora Valkyrie is an Action Girl and, yes, a little bit of a Blood Knight. It's also revealed that her Semblance (read: superpower) is turning electrical energy into Super-Strength. Pyrrha Nikos' name can be translated as "Pyrrhic Victory"... which is how she dies. Lampshaded in Volume 5 by Raven on Cinder Fall's last name, saying that it's just so appropriate for a Fall Maiden that she suspects Cinder chose it herself. Similarly to Cinder, Ironwood tries to set up circumstances so that Winter will inherit the powers of the Winter Maiden when the current one dies. |
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Slightly subverted by Joey Singer, who played Adele in Falling Down and now works in music clearance. | |
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Wonder Woman Vol. 1: The Magician Hypnota was already using that as their name prior to the accident which led to them developing the power of "hypnotic rays". | |
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A tragic example in Angel Sanctuary is Yue Katou. His father called him "Yue," which is a name usually given to still-born children and miscarriages in Japan, because Yue is his wife's son by her lover and he basically wants him to die young. Guess what? He dies young. Twice. | |
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The servants from Beauty and the Beast were all given names that will allude to which objects they will be turned into under a magic spell. For example, Lumiere (French for "light") becomes a candle, Cogsworth becomes a mechanical clock, Mrs. Potts becomes a teapot, and her son Chip (who has a loose tooth) becomes a teacup with a damaged rim. | |
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The Harry Potter books by J. K. Rowling feature many names with deliberate meanings on one level or another. A number of websites have sprung up to analyze her naming patterns, like this one. A few examples: Remus Lupin, who is a werewolf. Remus was one of the mythological founders of Rome who was raised by a wolf, and Lupin is similar to lupine, or wolflike. If he were born a werewolf into a family of werewolves this would make perfect sense, but he was a perfectly normal wizard boy until Fenrir (as in the Norse Armageddon wolf) Greyback bit him. Sirius Black has the ability to turn into a black dog. Sirius is the "dog star". Though given Sirius' sense of humor at the time he became an animagus, this might have been intentional on his part. Miserly shop owner Caractacus Burke, who bought a historical relic from a desperate and heavily pregnant young woman for a few coins. Very, very much lampshaded in Cleolinda Jones' Movies in Fifteen Minutes version of Prisoner of Azkaban: Parodied in Sluggy Freelance's book three parody. Obvious names are given to the wrong characters. Eventually lampshaded in canon on Pottermore with Naming Seers, who used to literally go around and hand these out for a price. They've become less prevalent around Harry's generation, as parents started fretting too much over their child's future. |
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Planet names in "The Chase": Aridius, which is a desert when we see it, was presumably named while it was still an ocean world, and likewise Mechanus must have been named when the intent was still that the Mechanoids would prepare it for human colonisation, rather than keeping it. The Doctor Who Magazine review for the Past Doctor Adventures novel Catastrophea refers to "the charming Terry Nation habit of naming planets after what's going to happen to them". | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam 00, the main character's (code)name means "A Moment From The Holy Eternity". If one translates it to Japanese except the From, which you will remove the other three letters after F then it would read as Setsuna From Seiei. The director said that it represents the moments of revolutions in the long history of mankind, hinting at Setsuna being the true Innovator, the one who is going to bring revolution to mankind. Appropriately, Setsuna evolves into an Innovator during the last few episodes of the series. | |
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Johnny Truant in House of Leaves. | |
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Ash in Supernatural dies in a fire, and only his badly charred remains are found. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion: The "Marduk Institute" chose child candidates to pilot the Evangelions. The fact that Marduk was also a Sumerian god to whom children were (supposedly) sacrificed is appropriate. Similarly, Rei Ayanami. Rei being a word that can be translated a variety of ways of ways in the Kanji script; most prophetically: 'Spirit' or 'Zero'. Especially since despite Rei's status as an Artificial Human Gendo came up with the name long before the need for her creation and many of the plans relating to it even arose - it was the name he would have given to Shinji if he'd been a girl. |
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The understudy-turned-main performer for Big Bird is named Matt Vogel, "Vogel" being German for "bird". Former performer Carroll Spinney took that as a good sign. | |
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Discworld: Lords and Ladies: A footnote devotes a section to prophetic names, and describes some of the effects on the Carter family of Lancre: Charity becomes a miser, Chastity a prostitute, Prudence had over a dozen kids. Meanwhile, Bestiality Carter turned out to be kind to animals. Played with in last names, for a group of men with the family names Weaver, Carpenter, Baker, Thatcher, and Tailor. Between them, they cover those same professions as well, but no one's job matches his name (Carter is the town's baker, etc.). There's also Tinker, who actually is a tinker; they probably find this confusing. Thud! has a character whose full, legal name is A.E. Pessimal, described as not having been named, but initialed. Fittingly, he is a government clerk. Small Gods has the anchorite St. Ungulant. Who isn't a saint, nor did he feel particularly attracted to the hermit life, but when people noticed his full name was Sevrian Thaddeus Ungulant, there really was nothing left for it. The additional material in the illustrated edition of The Wee Free Men includes a court transcript that reveals the toad's name, when he was a human, was James Natter. It's not known if anyone called him Jack. |
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The central figure of much of the action in Neal Stephenson's novel Snow Crash is a young half-Japanese man named "Hiro Protagonist". In fact, he changed his name to it as deliberate statement of what he feels his karmic lot is. | |
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Sephiroth, of Final Fantasy VII fame. Made out of the ten sephirot (the plural of the Hebrew "sephira"), the Sephiroticum in Kabbalah is the Path of God, and that is precisely what Sephiroth is seeking in the game. The prequel game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII introduces Angeal. He starts the game as a somewhat benevolent figure, and as the story progresses, he manages to become even more angelic. And let's not even get started on Genesis Rhapsodos. |
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Parodied with Hot Shots!: One of the characters has Deadmeat as his nickname. Gee, I wonder...? | |
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In The Sorcerer's Receptionist, King Zerolight's reign is best known for the apocalyptic battle against Stadel that occurred during that time. Stadel was blocking out the sun, so it could indeed be said there was "zero light". | |
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The prequel game Crisis Core: Final Fantasy VII introduces Angeal. He starts the game as a somewhat benevolent figure, and as the story progresses, he manages to become even more angelic. | |
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Wow, Jake Harrier from Magical Border Patrol took on the ability of magical sight! Never would have guessed it from a kid whose name means "Supplant Hawk Species". | |
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That Thing You Do!: The band originally names themselves the "One-ders" (the spelling is later changed so people quit calling them the "O'Needers". Guess what becomes of the band. Lampshaded at the end by Tom Hanks' character. The band's unnamed bass player is give the name TB Player in the "Where Are They Now?" Epilogue |
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The French erotic films Emmanuelle and Story of O were both directed by Just Jaeckin. | |
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Green Lantern: What are the chances that a guy named Thaal Sinestro would end up being a bad guy wielding a weapon based on the power of fear? | |
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In the Transformers Aligned Universe, Megatron is named (in-universe) after Megatronus, the Transformer equivalent of Judas, and had that name before he became a villain. | |
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Disney used to have a music producer named Bambi Moé. | |
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Jason Bright in Fallout: New Vegas is a Glowing One, a ghoul that glows brightly with radiation. You'd think he adopted the name on purpose, but no, it's his real name from before ghoulification. He took this as a sign that he was chosen by a higher power to do great things. | |
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The Obernewtyn Chronicles by Isobelle Carmody feature a futureteller named Dell. This isn't a prophetic name, but in the fifth book, she develops a strong affinity for computers, and it suddenly seems stranger that she shares her name with a well-known computer company. | |
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In the James Bond movie Die Another Day, the name of the orbital mirror system Icarus rather obviously foreshadows the device's final fate. | |
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Also, Hikari Yagami of the Digimon Adventure continuity. "Hikari" means "light". Guess who gets the Crest of Light and gets partnered with an angel Digimon. | |
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Wizards of Waverly Place lampshades this in the "Wizard School" story. And again, in the episode "My Tutor, Tutor": |
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Lampshaded in Spider-Man 2. | |
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In Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic, the ghost of Sir Nedworth de Tete introduces himself, indicating that he had that name as a living adventurer, and thus before he became a disembodied head. | |
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Steel: Steel once worked with a man named Dr. Villain (pronounced "will-hane"). The good doctor did a bit of Lampshade Hanging on this trope when he was first introduced. Guess what he turned out to be? Arguably Steel himself, as his birth name was John Henry Irons, after John Henry, the "Steel-Drivin' Man". It was always in his backstory that he'd been named after the character in the story, was raised on it, and deliberately patterned his hero identity (wielding a hammer) on him. |
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Almost every project or endeavor in the Stargate-verse is named prophetically. For example, Stargate SG-1's Prometheus brought the power of the Asgard to the humans, and was later destroyed by the more powerful Ori, and Stargate Universe's Project Icarus had hoped to use the Stargate to go where no one had gone before, but ended up dying in a gigantic fireball. You'd think they'd catch on by now. That said, they didn't name it the Prometheus until after they got some Asgard technology to play with, so it was a little less than prophetic, more "appropriate name our classicist scientist came up with"... |
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In Inspector Gadget and Gadget and the Gadgetinits, Gadget actually is the hero's last name. | |
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Speed Racer. Yes, that's actually his given name. Also his brother Rex, aka Racer X. | |
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In Reynaldo The Assassin, there is a man named Captain Pirate. | |
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2000 AD: In Rogue Trooper, and the games based on it, Rogue's comrades were named Gunnar, Bagman, and Helm. They end up dying and accompanying him on his journey in the form of datachips mounted onto his gun, backpack, and helmet. No points for guessing which goes where. | |
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Honkai Impact 3rd: Raiden Mei's last name is taken from another name of Raijin, the Japanese God of Thunder - and she is the Herrscher of Thunder, one who's empowered by the "Honkai" to be one of their "agents" with the capability of wielding natural phenomena, thunder in her case. In the "Previous Era", Dr. MEI created a super AI named "Prometheus", the titan who stole the primordial flame of the gods and gave them to humanity. She ended up being the "Will of Honkai", sent to "hack" into the Honkai to ensure that they will produce the same Herrschers for the current era with the hopes of its people triumphing over the Herrschers. |
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Widely considered the greatest (North American) racehorse of all time (with the possible exception of Secretariat), Man o' War was defeated only once in his career, by a horse named Upset. | |
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Mohammad Yone named his Pro Wrestling NOAH Power Stable "Disobey". No one was surprised when Yoshinobu Kanemaru, Genba Hirayanagi and Kenta Kobayashi overthrew him as leader and renamed the group "No Mercy". | |
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Deliberately invoked in A Brother's Price, where the firstborn daughter in any family is named Eldest. Her sisters and brothers are raised to look to her and told "Listen to Eldest, she'll be Mother Eldest one day". It's halfway a title. If the family gets large enough to split, or Eldest dies, the next eldest sister inherits that title, though not the name. Since there are usually quite a few sisters they are often grouped into the eldest sisters, the middle sisters, and the little sisters, and the oldest surviving sister is not necessarily the natural leader, which makes things extra difficult for her. | |
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Not the only ship in the series with a prophetic name. Sheridan is introduced as the captain of the Agamemnon, and meets a fate similar to the Agamemnon of legend at the hands of a traitorous wife—although unlike Agamemnon, he came Back from the Dead. | |
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Sadakatsiz: Bahar's name means spring, which initially is trivial. Then, when she meets her Love Interest, Melih, he says that flowers remind him of her. | |
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Chance the Gardener in Being There was named "Chance" because "he was born by chance" (i.e., possibly illegitimate and/or unplanned). The Meaningful Name becomes prophetic when he heads out into the world and becomes incredibly powerful by way of a chance encounter with a financial titan's wife and a subsequent series of misunderstandings. As for the name of the wife, the first person Chance interacts with at length outside of his old home and beloved garden? It's Eve. | |
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Overwatch: Honestly, when your son is named after both Cole Younger and Butch Cassidy, two of The Wild West's most infamous Outlaws, don't be surprised if he eventually ends up in the same profession as them. Even if he did go straight later. | |
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Ascendance of a Bookworm: As Myne starts introducing more and more precise tools from modern-day Earth to a world that's still in its medieval period, she ends up working closely with an extremely detail-oriented blacksmith named Johann. Eventually, Myne tasks Johann with making the letter types for a proto-printing press. Now, remember Guntenberg, the inventor of letter types back on Earth? His first name was Johannes. In-universe, Myne treats the similarity in names as a Contrived Coincidence. And gives Johann a title when he succeeds in the task. You get zero points for guessing what Myne calls the title. | |
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Kaguya-sama: Love Is War: The various members of the student council are named after Kaguya and her suitors from The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. Every one of them (sans Kaguya and Fujiwara) is connected in some way to a girl who is named after their counterpart's respective impossible task (who are even known in-universe as the "Impossible Girls"). Iino and her Childhood Friend Osaragi are based off of Ishidzukuri no Miko and the Begging Bowl of the Buddha. In the original story, Ishidzukuri no Miko presented Kaguya-hime with a fake bowl because he couldn't find the real one, much like how her and Iino only became friends because they couldn't get "real" ones. Shirogane and his former student council mate Momo Ryuju are based off of Ootomo no Miyuki and the Pearl from the Dragon's Neck. During the culture festival, Momo helps Shirogane prepare his Grand Romantic Gesture for Kaguya (a giant balloon filled with hundreds of smaller heart shaped balloons) which is disguised as a giant pearl being wrapped by a paper mache dragon. Ishigami and his crush Tsubame are based off of Isonokami no Maro and the Cowry from the Swallow's Nest. In the original story, Isonokami no Maro falls to his death while attempting to get the cowry shell, much like how Ishigami suffers a Staircase Tumble out of despair after Tsubame turns down his Love Confession (only surviving unharmed due to Iino breaking his fall). The Mass Media Club president's first name translates to "droplet" and her last name means "morning sun", alluding to how her falling into a swamp marked the start of Kaguya and Shirogane's romance. |
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The Planet Kallamity in The Five Star Stories. Guess how this one turns out. | |
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Cradle Series: Traditionally, the Akura clan has a seer look into a baby's future and name them after the virtue they will most embody. Of course, since this is the Asskicking Leads to Leadership Crapsack World of Cradle, many of their most respected members are named after "virtues" such as Pride, Fury, and their matriarch Malice. Outside the head family, getting someone to actually peer into the future is rare, so children are just named after virtues without any actual prophecy attached to them. Overall, everyone agrees that Malice naming her daughter Mercy was even more prophetic than usual. Most of the names have a twist to them; Malice is cruel to her enemies in service of protecting humanity, Fury loves battle but is friendly to everyone, Pride has endless pride in his family but is rather dismissive of his own standing, etc. Mercy, however, is from top to bottom and deep into her very soul just a nice person. | |
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One of the production designers on AMC's The Walking Dead is Graham "Grace" Walker. | |
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Invoked by Seinfeld, when Kramer notes the appropriateness of a library detective called Bookman, and an ice cream man called Cohn (pronounced 'cone'). | |
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Batman: Invoked by The Riddler, who tells people his birth name is Edward Nygma, when (Depending on the Writer) it's actually Edward Nashton. | |
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In The Hundred and One Dalmatians the Dearlys' nannies, Nanny Cook and Nanny Butler, train as a real cook and butler after the Dearlys get married and no longer require nannying. | |
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Joshua Christopher from Chrono Crusade. "Joshua" comes from the same name as "Jesus", and "Christopher" means "Christ-bearer"—so is it really any surprise he ends up with holy powers? | |
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A recurring theme in Bravely Default. Among the most obvious examples are the courageous Braev Lee, the amnesiac Ringabel and the creepy Ominas Crowe. There are many, many more. | |
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The 7th Saga contains an advanced civilization which is an Atlantis corollary. Guess what happens to the civilization when it tries to hook up its energy source to the Dark World? (Maybe they would have had better luck if Dr. Fail hadn't been in charge of the project...) | |
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Star Trek: Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Conundrum", we're introduced to Commander MacDuff, who we eventually learn "is not of woman born." The titular ship on Star Trek: Voyager found herself 70,000 light years from home with quite the, erm, voyage ahead of her. |
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In Final Fantasy XV, it turns out that The Night That Never Ends can only be cured by the death of a guy who just so happens to be named Noctis (the Latin word for 'night'). More specifically, his name is supposed to mean "Light of the Night Sky", or it would if the Gratuitous Latin wasn't so hilariously butchered. | |
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Charlie and the Chocolate Factory: Mike Teavee becomes the first person to travel via a TV set. Too bad about the whole shrinking thing... | |
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Beyond the Beyond has a playable character named Samson, who possesses superhuman strength just like his biblical namesake. No donkey jaws, though; this Samson prefers to kick ass with an axe. | |
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Light Yagami from Death Note, who has the character for "god" in his name... His first name is also a bilingual prophecy about how he eventually replaces L as well as being a reference to Lucifer whom he eventually parallels. More directly, as it's written using the four-stroke kanji for "moon", it represents death in Japanese numerology. | |
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Ripcon in Power Rangers Ninja Steel is framed for sending a robot condemning him to the Rangers' hands. Guess what each syllable is synonymous with? | |
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Wings of Fire: The character Sunny has an idealistic personality. Glory later becomes queen of the RainWings. NightWings name all their dragonets this way, like an assassin named Deathbringer or a prophet named Morrowseer. |
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Batman: The Animated Series: During the Riddler's Start of Darkness episode, Batman lampshades this trope when Edward Nigma reveals his new identity, asking him if it's meant to be a joke. The Clock King's real name, Temple Fugate sounds a lot like Tempus Fugit (Latin for 'Time Flies'). Then there's Victor Fries. It's pronounced "freeze," though admittedly the spelling implies the opposite. |
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3 Inches of Blood vocalist Cam Pipes. | |
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The Death Gate Cycle gives us Alfred. When finally revealing his backstory states his real name is Corren, which means Chosen One in his language. Even though he is Last of His Kind, it admits it isn't all that prophetic since every family has at least one child given that name to invoke The Chosen One. | |
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The director of The Amazing Spider-Man is named Marc Webb. | |
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In Sailor Moon R: The Movie, the main villain is named Fiore, which is Italian for "flower". As it turns out, Fiore is being controlled by an evil flower. | |
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Jennings invokes this trope in Anthony Buckeridge's classic Jennings Goes To School, in which he and Darbishire are trying to co-write a pulp detective story and are arguing about what name their protagonist should have: | |
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Lords and Ladies: A footnote devotes a section to prophetic names, and describes some of the effects on the Carter family of Lancre: Charity becomes a miser, Chastity a prostitute, Prudence had over a dozen kids. Meanwhile, Bestiality Carter turned out to be kind to animals. Played with in last names, for a group of men with the family names Weaver, Carpenter, Baker, Thatcher, and Tailor. Between them, they cover those same professions as well, but no one's job matches his name (Carter is the town's baker, etc.). There's also Tinker, who actually is a tinker; they probably find this confusing. |
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Subverted in Hidden Agenda (1988). Colonel Horatio Ehrlich is anything but honest. | |
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One Piece Smoker, whose habit and ability centers around smoke. The Boa sisters (Boa Hancock, Boa Marigold, and Boa Sandersonia) have respective appearances and abilities are inspired around snakes. Charlotte Cracker obtains biscuit based power. How surprising. Although his crime-lord family might have preserved that ability just for him. Kozuki Oden shares his name with a type of soup. Not only does oden become his favorite food to make and eat, and he's sentenced to death by boiling in oil... though that itself doesn't actually kill Oden. |
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The prophecy in Pokémon 2000 says "...then the world will turn to ash...". It turns out it's referring to Ash Ketchum, the protagonist. Averted in the Japanese version as his name is "Satoshi". | |
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Nearly all of the cast of Sayonara, Zetsubou-Sensei and its sequel series have such names. The title character, for example, Itoshiki Nozomu, is an eternally depressed schoolteacher who has a fairly normal sounding name when written vertically, but when written horizontally in kanji, his name spells "despair" (zetsubou). His given name, Nozomu means "hope" (it becomes the "bou" in "zetsubou", which still means "hope" as in "totally without hope"), further cementing the irony. Of note is the fact that most, if not all, members of his family have names of this sort, courtesy of their surname which, when written horizontally and tightly enough that the two characters it is written with to appear to be one character, reverses the meaning of most names written after it ("hope" becomes "despair", "life" becomes "death", and so on). | |
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Big City Greens: The main Running Gag with Chip Whistler is that, whenever he appears, he is almost bound to chip his tooth (or some variation thereof) near the end of the episode. With his chipped tooth, he makes a whistling noise whenever he talks. | |
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Chitty Chitty Bang Bang With an surname like Scrumptious (spelt "Skrumshus" in the book) is it any wonder Truly Scrumptious's father went into sweet production? See also Caractacus Pott ("Crackpot," and later "Jackpot"), who in the movie had an S added to the surname. | |
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Farseer trilogy: It is ancient tradition in the Farseer dynasty to name children after certain qualities, which inevitably come to be a defining characteristic of the individual as they grow up. For example, King Shrewd is cunning and clever, Prince Verity is honest and trustworthy, and Prince Regal is arrogant and proud. | |
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Invoked in Friendship is Witchcraft with the Apple family, who farms apples. The main members are Applejack, Big McIntosh, Apple Bloom, and Granny Smith. Apple Bloom has wants to be president (nevermind that Equestria has princesses, not presidents) but according to her sister "We didn't name ya Apple Bloom so you could grow up to be the president". | |
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Code Geass: Suzaku Kururugi has a name that means 'phoenix'. This comes to make sense in the series finale, where he technically 'dies' as Suzaku Kururugi, and comes back to 'save the world' as Zero. To make it even more blatant, the way he "dies" is in an explosion of flames. Also Nina Einstein who ultimately invents something which isn't technically a nuclear weapon but might as well be. |
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Very common in The Bible. Usually given by God, whether at birth or as a rename (and in some cases, at conception). | |
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Bibliophile Yomiko Readman of Read or Die fits this quite well. (Yomiko literally meaning "reading child" and Readman being quite obvious) | |
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Mimpi Metropolitan: When Bambang, Alan, and Prima decides to start a laundry business, Prima names it "Baper" since the first three letters are also their initials. But "baper" is an Indonesian slang for "easily upset" and, as Alan lampshades, their customers quickly abandon them after one bad wash. | |
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On The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy's parents were nicknamed Mom and Dad as children. This was done basically as The Un-Reveal to their real names. | |
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Melony in The Cider House Rules. Her name was apparently supposed to be "Melody," but there was never anything melodious about her. | |
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Poor Officer Getskilled in Girly spends his first story arc with a narrative bullseye painted on his back. To everyone's surprise, he survives that arc, and most of the comic, until he Takes The Bullet in a Heroic Sacrifice — only to be rescued out of the blue by an immortal man who whisks him off to a higher plane of existence. | |
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Lenny the lyrebird of Ty the Tasmanian Tiger. Exactly What It Says on the Tin. | |
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In the Takeshi Kovacs novel Woken Furies, the revolutionary leader Nadia Makita took the name Quellcrist Falconer centuries before the events of the book. In the setting, "quellcrist" is a sort of plant that regenerates from finely scattered dust. At the very end of the book, it is revealed that Ms. Makita has returned from being Deader than Dead and taken control of an array of alien Kill Sats. | |
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On Touched by an Angel, Andrew the Angel of Death was played by actor John Dye (a homonym, but still...) | |
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Spider-Man: Dr. Otto Octavius. Take a guess, was he Doctor Octopus or Sandman? Referenced in the Secret Wars (2015) tie-in Spider-Island with Stegron the Dinosaur Man, birth name Vincent Stegron. |
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In Ergo Proxy, the name Daedalus is originally just prophetic of him being a brilliant scientist and inventor. Towards the end of the show, he gives one of his loved ones wings and they fly towards the sun. | |
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In Shadow Star, the main character's name can be translated as "a seed that shall never sprout." How appropriate. | |
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From Ninjago, an inventor named Cyrus Borg. Guess his specialty. He even lampshades this trope by joking that when his parents named him, his career choice was set. | |
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"Valiant Servant" (Shirou) and "Guardian Shrine" (Emiya.) to directly steal the quote from the Fate/stay night page. Clearly it's his name and not the fire or being saved by Kiritsugu that made him who he is. | |
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In Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater, the protagonist has the code name of Naked Snake. He meets up with a woman named EVA. According to a specific dialogue in the game, the first spy in history was the Snake that tempted Eve in the Bible. However, the exact opposite happens in the ending, with Snake being used by EVA. | |
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Invoked with Murdoch from Offspring. Link wanted him to grow up to be strong and reliable like him, so Link and Mipha named their son "Murdoch" (which means "protector of the sea"). Murdoch did turn out athletic and protective like his parents wanted, even without their intervention and from a young age as well. | |
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Lucia of Mermaid Melody Pichi Pichi Pitch is a Messiah-type character easily spotted because of her name; in contrast, the last Big Bad is an angel named Michel, both an allusion to the biblical Michael and a hint that he, like his name, is "off" somehow from the source. Then there's Michal, an ill girl with some connection to Michel; what it is isn't revealed until the end, but thanks to the name, you catch on quickly that it's there. | |
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Just about every single named character in Warhammer 40,000. Sanguinius, Primarch of the Blood Angels (who suffer from a debilitating bloodthirst), Konrad Kurze (had the gift/curse of foresight, eventually turned traitor), Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters, (who are, to a man, Ax-Crazy Berserker Blood Knights with Unstoppable Rage), Mortarion the Primarch of the Death Guard (and its current leader Typhus) devoted to the disease god Nurgle. The Space Wolves in particular stand out: a Guile Hero named Lokas (Loki), Canis Wolfborn (Raised by Wolves)... Kharn the Betrayer (also of the World Eaters) has a multiple one: not only is his name similar to his profession of carnage, it's also similar to the Arabic for traitor (he got the nickname when both his legion and the enemy preferred to find shelter than keep fighting. Kharn found this lack of moral fibre so reprehensible he started running around with a flamer and torching every shelter and Space Marine in sight). Averted with Ciaphas Cain: despite a double dose of Biblical Bad Guy names (the priest who demanded Jesus' death and the first murderer), the worst he's ever done is built a reputation of valor and courage he claims to be entirely fraudulent. However, every time he's taken what looked like the easy way out directly leads to victory (discovering an enemy plot or entrance into the Imperial's base), and when the chips are down he always fights. And he's one of the few straight-up heroes to be found in the 40K 'verse. |
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Transformers: Animated: Wasp got his name from his "stingers", but the name takes on a new meaning when he gets mutated into a half-wasp/half-bot creature. | |
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Justified (ish) in El Goonish Shive, where sometimes people get specific magical abilities because it fits their name. There are rules though. | |
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Furiae in Drakengard, a Meaningful Name which is also another name for the Greek Furies, female personifications of vengeance. The Furies in Greek mythology were winged, monstrous women. Furiae, when placed inside a Seed of Resurrection, becomes exactly this. A thousand times over, in fact. It works even better if you think of the word "Furiae" as a sort of Latinate plural replacement for "Furies." Caim could also count, as his name is a Gaelic pronunciation of Cain, and in any of the story lines you have to fight/kill Inuart. Sure, he's not Caim's brother in the biological sense, but he was one of the few people Caim didn't want to make into a bloody mess, which is saying something. |
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In Smile Pretty Cure!, Miyuki Hoshizora's Stellar Name doubles as this because it roughly translates to "the starry sky of happiness". Her Magical Girl name is Cure Happy. Guess what her reason for existing is. | |
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Raiden Mei's last name is taken from another name of Raijin, the Japanese God of Thunder - and she is the Herrscher of Thunder, one who's empowered by the "Honkai" to be one of their "agents" with the capability of wielding natural phenomena, thunder in her case. | |
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The additional material in the illustrated edition of The Wee Free Men includes a court transcript that reveals the toad's name, when he was a human, was James Natter. It's not known if anyone called him Jack. | |
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Planetary has Elijah Snow, who can freeze things, and Jakita Wagner, who is something of a valkyrie (composer Richard Wagner wrote "The Ride of the Valkyries"). | |
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In the La Vita Nuova, Lord Love admits to Dante that Lady Giovanna was only given that name and her nickname, Primavera, to foreshadow the role she would play in coming before Beatrice on that early spring morning that Dante would see her again. | |
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The Incredibles Dashiell Robert Parr nicknamed "Dash." A speedster. Somebody really shoulda seen that coming. Likewise, older sister Violet started off shy and can turn invisible. A real "Shrinking Violet". Also, baby son Jack Jack is discovered to have a wide array of powers. A veritable "jack of all trades". |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: Pony names tends to correspond to their personality/special talent, even though they're named before their personality and talents would be apparent. Twilight Sparkle, the main protagonist, becomes a princess alongside Celestia (Equestria's daytime ruler) and Luna ("Princess of the Night"). The Cakes name one of their newborn babies Pound Cake. Guess what he proves to have a troublesome habit of doing to things once he comes home from the hospital? Hint: It's not caking things. It's indicated that some ponies rename themselves after finding their talents or marrying, as Mrs. Cake has a discussion with Applebloom about being confused about her career path when she was younger; when Applebloom quips "Weren't you always Mrs. Cake?", she responds that her name was originally Chiffon Swirl. Though the name Chiffon Swirl itself also points to baking/cake decorating, which only raises further questions about why she would have changed it. |
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David Tennant, playing the Tenth Doctor in Doctor Who. | |
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In The Last of the Mohicans, David Gamut is a Puritan church musician. His first name is that of the Biblical king to whom most Psalms are credited, his last name is a musical term (a complete scale). | |
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A minor character on Pushing Daisies talks about this trope: "Names are destiny. If you think Dwayne Cloggin ain't gonna grow up to be a plumber, then you just think again." Considering that this show also had a dog-breeder named Hundin and a Buddy Amicus running a rent-a-friend agency, she might be on to something. | |
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Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth: Luckily they have Fort Pwned to fall back on. |
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Referenced in the Secret Wars (2015) tie-in Spider-Island with Stegron the Dinosaur Man, birth name Vincent Stegron. | |
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The Hitman character Diana Burnwood directs assassins (hunters of men) for a living, and her family was killed by a car bomb that scorched the surrounding trees. In Absolution, she could be said to have burned her bridges with the ICA. | |
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Sky Captain and the World of Tomorrow (2004). Totenkopf, literally "dead man's head" (e.g. skull) in German. | |
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The Empyrean character Violet was named decades before she developed power over lightning. Blinding violet light is the last thing many of her enemies see. | |
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Also in X/1999, Satsuki's supercomputer, Beast, emblazoned with the number 666. It probably doesn't help matters that when written in hiragana, "satsuki" looks like "sakki", which means "bloodlust". | |
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South Park's Ms. Choksondik. Guess how she dies. Go on, guess. (Sound it out) But the newscaster said her death didn't have anything to do with the... "evidence" found in her stomach. | |
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Done retroactively for the message-scrawling "Rat Man" of Portal; the cryptic promotional teasers for Portal 2 reveal that his real name was "Doug Rattmann". | |
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Honestly, what did Doctor Light EXPECT when he decided to work with someone named Dr. WILY?! | |
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Inch High, Private Eye. Inch wasn't a nickname. | |
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American Gods: Shadow. The way the titular American Gods work is as a lesser copy, or "shadow," if you will, of gods from the Old World. Shadow is American Balder, and Balder is the god of Light. | |
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Near the beginning of the novel The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy by Lawrence Sterne, the title character describes his father's theory that a person's given name has a profound influence on their life, their character, and their destiny. | |
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Eragon Son-of-None (later Bromsson), shares a first name with the original Dragon Rider, an elf. This is so prophetic because he ends up being the first new rider of his own generation, centuries after dragons became extinct. The prophetic factor is weakened slightly, however, because it is later revealed that his father was also a rider. | |
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Homestar Runner has Bubs, who runs Bubs' Concession Stand. It eventually turned out that his full name was actually Bubs Concession Stand. | |
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Fiends of the Eastern Front: Grigori Eisenstein shares his first name with Rasputin. He is accordingly difficult to kill, going so far as a Not Quite Dead moment. Being a partially transformed vampire helps. | |
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"Hypnos" in Digimon Tamers was named after a god created by H. P. Lovecraft in his Cthulhu Mythos. (He in turn borrowed the name from the Greek god of Sleep.) Lovecraft's version made certain that the physical world and the dream world were separated. The main weapons of the Digimon version, the Yuggoth and Shaggai "programs", are also Lovecraft references, and ironically resulted in the world barrier being weakened. Also, Hikari Yagami of the Digimon Adventure continuity. "Hikari" means "light". Guess who gets the Crest of Light and gets partnered with an angel Digimon. |
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In Loom, Bobbin's mother Cygna was turned into a swan after he was born. Cygna is latin for swan. | |
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The Authority has Jenny Sparks/Jenny Quantum, who can control electricity and quantum mechanics respectively, and Jack Hawksmoor, who has a psychic relationship with cities (he is named after architect Nicholas Hawksmoor). Jenny's name was deliberately chosen by analogy with her predecessor. | |
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This is a recurring theme in Ace Attorney where almost every character's name is a pun related to their job, their personality or that can serve as foreshadowing for the various court cases the player has to defend. Thus, we end up with lawyers with names such as Apollo Justice, a gratuitously German musician prosecutor named Klavier Gavin (except he plays guitar, not piano) and a tour guide named... Ahlbi Ur'gaid. | |
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Averted with Ciaphas Cain: despite a double dose of Biblical Bad Guy names (the priest who demanded Jesus' death and the first murderer), the worst he's ever done is built a reputation of valor and courage he claims to be entirely fraudulent. However, every time he's taken what looked like the easy way out directly leads to victory (discovering an enemy plot or entrance into the Imperial's base), and when the chips are down he always fights. And he's one of the few straight-up heroes to be found in the 40K 'verse. | |
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In Goblins, the goblins are all named by their tribe's fortune teller. While this isn't so bad for Chief, Big Ears, or even Complains-of-Names, you have to feel sorry for poor Dies-Horribly. And of course, Young-and-Beautiful got to name herself, even though she... well, isn't. And then you have names where the fortune teller clearly wasn't even trying, such as Go-Away-I-Have-A-Headache and Stop-The-Ceremony-I-Swallowed-A-Bug. Played with in the case of Saves-A-Fox, who decided to Screw Destiny and kill the fox she was prophesied to save. Dies-Horribly later reveals that from her description of the fox, it was probably suffering from an illness that sounds similar to rabies, so in a sense she saved it from a slow and painful death. |
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Ataru Moroboshi from Urusei Yatsura pretty much has his future laid out in his name: moroboshi-de atari means "struck by a falling star" — and in a metaphorical sense that's exactly what happens. (The joke was extended in the show's commercial bumpers, which usually featured something falling on him.) | |
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Small Gods has the anchorite St. Ungulant. Who isn't a saint, nor did he feel particularly attracted to the hermit life, but when people noticed his full name was Sevrian Thaddeus Ungulant, there really was nothing left for it. | |
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The organization "Nergal" from Martian Successor Nadesico is named after the Babylonian god of war and pestilence, for whom the Babylonians named the planet Mars. | |
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The titular ship on Star Trek: Voyager found herself 70,000 light years from home with quite the, erm, voyage ahead of her. | |
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In The Sylvester and Tweety Mysteries it was revealed that Granny was always called Granny. | |
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Fantastic Four: Victor Von Doom, better known as Doctor Doom. The surprising thing is not that he became a supervillain, but that his father Werner had not already been one. (Doctor Doom however quite frequently fails to live up to the "victor" part, though). | |
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Ryan George's characters usually don't have names, but when they do they have a tendency to fall into this. In "old town road remixes are getting out of hand" he plays Jonathan Lawyer - Lawyer at Law and in "The first guy to ever make a commercial he plays "Frederick Noisemaker" who makes noises on TV and "Michael Pickleseller" who sells pickles. some theorize that all his sketches take place in the same universe, and if you accept that theory "The first guy to ever have a name" would imply that these people came up with their names themselves. | |
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In Horizon Zero Dawn, the Eclipse cult named themselves that because they wanted to usurp a Sun-King. That's not the prophetic part, though. What is is that the war against them brought together a kingdom of sun-worshippers and a tribe of earth-worshippers. There was indeed a symbolic eclipse, but it was lunar, not solar. | |
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In the special features of The Lord of the Rings, Sean Astin discusses his fascination that the man assigned to work on his hobbit foot prosthetics was named Sean Foot. | |
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Buffyverse: Season 3 of Angel has a Badass Normal man whose surname was Holtz (meaning wood) seeking revenge on a formerly evil vampire who murdered his family. He was able to capture and harm said vampire, but was never able to kill him and later stopped trying to. Season 7 of Buffy, a year later, has a man whose actual surname is Wood; if you make the connection, you can guess what he turned out to be. Scott Hope in Season 3 of Buffy. Now, if only his first name were Dash... Spike's name when he was human was William Pratt. "Pratt" = "idiot" in English parlance. Faith. You can take this from several view-points. For instance, her sponsorship by Angel, or (in the comic series) Faith's loyalty to him. After all, Faith manages. |
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There are a ton of examples in Eyeshield 21 of peoples whose names just happen to emphasise their abilities. This list doesn't even cover half the examples: Sena Kobayakawa, the puny but swift protagonist, whose speed and ability to dodge opponents makes him a stellar running back. His last name means "small, swift river". Joe Tetsuma, a powerhouse who cuts through the field like a train. His name means "Iron Horse". Kengo Mizumachi, whose style was perfected by his previous experience as a swimming ace, has "Mizu", the Japanese word for water, in his name. Manabu Yukimitsu's name means "To Study." While it is his outstanding trait (that, and going bald in high school), it was probably a deliberate ploy by his mother, who wanted a hard-working, studious son. Hiroshi Ohira and Hiroshi Onishi, the high-wave defence characters from the Poseidons. Their names mean Pacific and Atlantic Ocean, respectively. |
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Transformers: Cybertron: Overhaul, who gets a Mid-Season Upgrade into Leobreaker. | |
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Frasier: Lilith. If you have a little information on that name, a lot of jokes about the character become a lot more understandable. | |
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Babylon 5 mentions a science ship named the Icarus. The ship gets a bit too daring in its explorations and meets an unfortunate end, to the surprise of absolutely no-one. Not the only ship in the series with a prophetic name. Sheridan is introduced as the captain of the Agamemnon, and meets a fate similar to the Agamemnon of legend at the hands of a traitorous wife—although unlike Agamemnon, he came Back from the Dead. |
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Sunshine featured a ship called the Icarus... which was in charge of a mission that not only involved restarting the Sun but said mission was vital to the Earth's survival. Even more stupidly, when the first ship is lost, the second ship (which due to the massive resources involved in the Sun restarting device cannot be rebuilt) was named the Icarus II. Director Danny Boyle admitted this was unrealistic, saying that Americans would likely call it Ship of Destiny or Hope. | |
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The Transformers: More than Meets the Eye: The term 'nominative determinism' is mentioned by Whirl when commenting that his 'Archnemesis' didn't "strike a blow [against it]" when renaming himself from "Murderking" to "Killmaster". | |
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Sailor Moon: All of the Sailor Senshi, as well as Tuxedo Kamen, were somehow conveniently reborn into families whose family names reference the particular senshi's planet. Further, the kanji for Sailor Venus's first name, "Minako," can also be read as "Binasu", which is very close to the way "Venus" is pronounced in Japanese. In Sailor Moon R: The Movie, the main villain is named Fiore, which is Italian for "flower". As it turns out, Fiore is being controlled by an evil flower. |
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Transformers: In the Transformers Aligned Universe, Megatron is named (in-universe) after Megatronus, the Transformer equivalent of Judas, and had that name before he became a villain. Transformers: Animated: Wasp got his name from his "stingers", but the name takes on a new meaning when he gets mutated into a half-wasp/half-bot creature. Transformers: Cybertron: Overhaul, who gets a Mid-Season Upgrade into Leobreaker. |
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Chloe from Noir, when pronounced using Japanese phonemes, sounds very similar to "kuroi" — which means "black" in Japanese. The word "Noir" is French for "black." | |
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Gravity Falls: The show's title itself in a meta variation. At first, it just seems like a normal The Place title (Gravity Falls is the name of the quirky and odd Oregon town), but gains another level of meaning when in "Not What He Seems", the portal starts to cause gravity anomalies that perpetually grow stronger and affect the entire town. | |
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Reigen Arataka from Mob Psycho 100, who works as a (fake) exorcist and whose surname translates to “spirit phantom�. | |
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In Sunshine, the eponymous character turns out to be good with sun magic. Although it doesn't hurt that she's the daughter and grand-daughter of some very powerful magicians. For extra irony, her real name? Rae. Yes, as in 'a drop of golden sun'. Well, her original real name, her birth name, is actually "Raven." Her mother changed it when they left her father the sorcerer. |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation: In "Conundrum", we're introduced to Commander MacDuff, who we eventually learn "is not of woman born." | |
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