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Some writers, instead of just including the odd Shout-Out, name entire groups of characters after characters in some other work of fiction. Super-Trope to Religious and Mythological Theme Naming. Compare Named After Somebody Famous (a Shout-Out to a Real Life person's name), Famous-Named Foreigner (when foreign characters are named after people from their countries) and Character Name Alias (when the name is a fake one used by a character after a real or fictional famous person). Can overlap with Unusual Pop Culture Name when the latter is given to multiple characters. Examples |
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In Fight Club, Edward Norton originally wanted all the aliases his character uses when infiltrating support meetings to be taken from the names of characters in Planet of the Apes (1968), although ultimately, only Cornelius made it into the final cut. | |
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Twilight Princess has the barmaid Telma and her cat Louise, alluding to Thelma & Louise. | |
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A Link Between Worlds featured a Mirror Universe to Hyrule. Naturally, Zelda's counterpart was named Hilda. | |
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Kamen Rider Fourze, being the 40th anniversary of the franchise, names the Kamen Rider Club members after the Seven Legendary Riders: Kengo Utahoshi is an anagram of "Takeshi Hongou", Kamen Rider #1. Shun Daimonji comes from taking Hayato Ichimonji (Kamen Rider #2) and merging the kanji "Ichi" and "To" to create "Dai" ("Shun" is an Alternate Character Reading of "Haya"). Miu Kazashiro is an anagram of "Shirou Kazami", Kamen Rider V3. Yuki Joujima is a play on Jouji Yuki, Riderman. JK takes his name from the initials of Keisuke Jin, Kamen Rider X. His real name, Jingu Kaizo, is Keisuke's surname plus "Kaizorg", the type of Cyborg he is. Tomoko Nozama's surname is "Amazon" backwards; additionally, the "Tomo" kanji in her name means "friend", a word Amazon was quite fond of. Gentaro Kisaragi doesn't quite fit the theme (ironically enough since he's The Hero), though some fans finagle it by pointing out that his name contains the letters that make up "Stronger". This is emphasized by the fact that in Kamen Rider X Kamen Rider Fourze And OOO Movie War Megamax, Gentaro dresses as Stronger as part of the KRC's club presentation. Megamax also introduces a Love Interest for Gentaro named Nadeshiko Misaki, who shares her surname with Yuriko Misaki, Electro-Wave Human Tackle (Stronger's partner and love interest). |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): The newborn Manda's name continues the A Dog Named "Dog" tradition with the kaiju species and individuals in the Godzilla franchise. | |
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Several suspects in the Nancy Drew game White Wolf Of Icicle Creek have lupine-themed names, including Lou Talbot (for Larry Talbot) and Bill Kessler (for David Kessler). | |
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Kamen Rider Revice fic One More Time introduces an Evil Counterpart to Kamen Rider Aguilera known as Kamen Rider Spears. | |
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Wonder Woman (1942): The Huntress feature includes a character named Dr. Amos Tarr who it is eventually revealed has taken over Arkham by imprisoning the staff and various police officers and put the inmates in charge and is working with an unhinged scientist named Professer Fether. The whole thing being a reference to "The System of Dr. Tarr and Professor Fether" by Edgar Allan Poe. | |
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The Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam spinoff Advance of Zeta combines this with Cultural Cross-Reference, as all the experimental mobile suits in it are named for characters from Watership Down. | |
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Limbus Company: All of the Sinners are named after characters from literature: Faust, Don Quixote, Ry�shūnote An Alternate Character Reading of Yoshihide, the main character of the short story Hell Screen, Mersault, Heathcliff, Ishmael, Rodion, Sinclairnote Named for the main character of Hermann Hesse's novel Demian, Gregor, Dante, and Vergil. The only exceptions to the "character name" rule are Yi Sangnote The pen name of the author of The Wings, Hong Lunote Named for a type of jade in Dream of the Red Chamber and Outisnote Named after the alias Odysseus uses to trick Polyphemus the cyclops. | |
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Kimba's father from Kimba the White Lion is named Caesar and one of the villains is named Cassius, which reflected his bitter past with Caesar. | |
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In Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Athrun's Mid-Season Upgrade, Infinite Justice, is named after "Operation Infinite Justice", the original name for "Operation Enduring Freedom". Likewise, Kira's Freedom is likely named after "Operation Enduring Freedom". | |
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The trend is particularly apparent with the Velvet Siblings, with the ladies all being named after characters from the original novel. Elizabeth from Persona 3 is named after Victor's bride, Margaret from Persona 4 is named after the sister of the arctic explorer Robert Walton, and Caroline and Justine from Persona 5 are respectively named after Victor's mother and the Frankenstein family home's servant. The true form of the latter two when fused together, Lavenza, is also named after Victor's bride, whose maiden name is Elizabeth Lavenza. Theodore from Persona 3 Portable is more obscure; he's most likely named after — given that he's a male replacement for Elizabeth — Theodore Roszak, who authored Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein, but it's possible he's instead named after Theodor von Holst, who did the illustrations for the 1831 edition of Frankenstein. | |
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The movie Heathers does this with the protagonist, Veronica Sawyer, and her former best friend Betty Finn, a reference to famous best friend pairs Veronica Lodge and Betty Cooper and Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn. | |
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Wild ARMs 2: It drew inspiration from The Divine Comedy, as the terrorist organization the party fights through the first arc is named "Cocytus" (the ninth and lowest circle of Hell), with its four main generals named after the concentric zones within: Caina, Antenora, Judecca, and Ptolomea. | |
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The side characters in the audio drama "Return of the Rocket Men" are named after characters in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — van Cleef (named after actor Lee Van Cleef who played "the Bad"), Ramirez (named after Tuco Ramirez, "the Ugly" and Bill Carson (named after the Almost Dead Guy who tells Tuco and Blondie about the Confederate gold buried in the grave). | |
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In Arrow season seven, the high ups of the Ninth Circle (except Emiko) are all named after characters from The Divine Comedy: Dante, Virgil and, in the final episode, Beatrice. | |
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The Decagon House Murders: All the names in this Japanese mystery novel are shout-outs. Invoked by the members of the mystery club, who all go by nicknames from famous mystery writers - Ellery, Carr, Van, Leroux, Agatha, and Orczy - but the cast also includes a Kawaminami, an Alternate Character Reading of "Conan", a Morisu, after Maurice Leblanc, and a Kiyoshi Shimada, after author Soji Shimada and his Great Detective Kiyoshi Mitarai. | |
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Rosenberg and Guildenstein from Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle. Named after Rosencrantz and Guildenstern, of course. | |
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Umineko: When They Cry has Beatrice, Virgilia, and Clair Vaux of Bernard. | |
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Cirque Royale: All mime characters have first names based on various French artists. Doubles as an Easter Egg. | |
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The Superjail! fanfic Extended Stay does this with the Warden and the Mistress's twins Matilda and Ethan. A review gave the author suggestions that the twins be named after the star-crossed lovers in Ethan Frome. Obviously, the author took the suggestions for the names but then added in "Elizabeth" and "Victor" for their middle names. Hmm... Considering that the twins eventually become owners of Ultraprison and Superjail, almost like coming-of-age monarchs in a kingdom, could it be that they were also named for famous real-life monarchs as well and English monarchs no less? Possibly combined with Named After Somebody Famous. This could possibly be an in-universe example given how close the Warden and the Mistress were to becoming star-crossed lovers themselves. "Elizabeth" could either refer to Henry VIII's daughter, Elizabeth I; the now-deceased mother of Elizabeth II, the former Queen of the United Kingdom from 1952-2022, or the former Queen herself. "Victor" is a masculine form of "Victoria", which was the name of the English queen who reigned from 1837 to 1901. "Elizabeth" and "Victor" most likely came from another pair of lovers, this time from Frankenstein. These are the first names of the infamous Doctor and his wife. His parents raised them as something like adopted siblings with the intention of two marrying each other as adults. Their little brother Edward is probably named after the English king who succeeded Queen Victoria after she died. Either that or he could've been named for King Henry VIII's surviving son. |
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One story in Doctor Who (IDW) features characters named for actors from Castle: Fillion, Katic, Huertas, Dever, and Quinn. | |
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Super Danganronpa Another 2: Hibiki and Kanade Otonokoji's first names are derived from the main heroines of Suite Pretty Cure ♪. | |
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Several characters across several Cool Kids Table games. Oliver Kennedy from Creepy Town is named after Jaime Kennedy, the actor who played Randy Meeks in Scream. Janus from Small Magic is named after the character from Chrono Trigger. Josh's cat Geno from the Harry Potter-themed game Hogwarts: The New Class is named after the character from Super Mario RPG. |
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Their rival crew, the Zomburger employees, are all named after characters from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Cesare is the most obvious, since he's even modeled after his namesake, while the others are Conrad (Conrad Veidt, the actor who played Cesare in the movie), Frances (Francis), and Doctor (Dr. Caligari). The episode "Backpack" reveals an extra layer to the theming: Frances reveals that Doctor's actual name is "Allen", which is named after Alan, the name of the film's protagonist's best friend/love rival. | |
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Igor is named for the hunchbacked assistant that became associated with the Frankenstein mythos after Fritz in the first Universal film — the name "Igor" probably originally came from the non-hunch-backed assistant from House of Wax (1953) or a conflation of Fritz with Ygor from the Universal films, and was codified as an element of Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein. | |
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The Matrintis are all based on movies featuring robots and technology. Matrintis itself comes from The Matrix, while Robogog is from RoboCop (1987), Metal-Alice comes from Metropolis and one of their monsters, Bakutofuji-ER of the Timer, is named after Back to the Future. | |
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Kozue Sumiyoshi takes her first name from Kozue Ayuhara from Attack No. 1 and her last name from Nobara Sumiyoshi from Crimson Hero, with all characters being Passionate Sports Girls with a penchant for volleyball. | |
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The second Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon featured a fighter called Kluh, from Planet Levram. Later on, his father, Ammag, was introduced, continuing the theme. | |
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Naruto: Although it doesn't translate into English very clearly, Kakuzu's signature attacks come from the names of different Zeon mobile suits. Just for starters, his ability to turn into a mass of strings is called "Jiongu" (literally "Earth Grudge Fear"), which is how "Zeong" (a mobile suit which also had arms that could extend outward attached by cords) is pronounced in Japanese. The Fourth Tails' real name is Son Goku. While this can be chalked up to be a reference to Journey to the West instead of Dragon Ball (which itself is a loose adaptation of the novel), his host is also named Roshi. Then there is the Nine Tails' real name, Kurama, which Word of God confirmed is a deliberate homage to YuYu Hakusho. |
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In the first game, Borderlands, all of Brick's tier 4 skills are movie references: Bloodsport, Unbreakable, with "Master Blaster" a reference to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. | |
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Borderlands 2: Salvador has many skills that are movie references. Among the ones revealed in the E3 gameplay demonstration are to Die Hard: "Yippee-Ki-Yay", They Live!: "Out of Bubblegum", and Bad Boys II: Just Got Real. | |
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RWBY: There are extensive theme naming across the entire work. For example, each academy team tends to have a theme around which all the characters are based. To use the main characters as examples: The adults involved in the Big Bad and Big Good's Secret War are associated with The Wonderful Wizard of Oz: Professor Ozpin is the Wizard; Professor Lionheart is the Cowardly Lion; General Ironwood is the Tin Woodsman; Headmaster Theodore is Dorothy; Professor Glynda Goodwitch is Glinda the Goodwitch; Qrow Branwen is the Scarecrow; the Big Bad is the Wicked Witch of the West. Professor Ozpin's original form was actually a male Princess Ozma; his successor, Oscar Pine, is a mixture of both the Wizard and Princess Ozma. Each member of Team RWBY is based on a fairy tale: Ruby Rose is Little Red Riding Hood; Weiss Schnee is Snow White; Blake Belladonna is Beauty and the Beast; Yang Xiao Long is Goldilocks and the Three Bears. The members of Team JNPR are based on famous figures who are associated with opposite-gender identities: Jaune Arc is Joan of Arc; Nora Valkyrie is Thor; Pyrrha Nikos is Achilles; Lie Ren is Mulan. Oscar Pine is an unofficial member from Volume 7, and his Princess Ozma association gives him the appropriate theme due to Princess Ozma spending time disguised as a boy. |
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In G.I. Joe, the villainous Dreadnok trio of Torch, Ripper, and Buzzer. Their real names, Thomas Winken, Henry Nod, and Richard Blinken-Smythe, follow two themes; Their first names are Tom, Dick, and Harry, and their last names are Winken, Blinken, and Nod. Monkey Wrench, a later addition to the crew, was named Bill Winkie: "Wee Willie Winkie," in keeping with the nursery rhyme theme of the original three. | |
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The main cast is full of names from The Tempest. It's set in the fictional Prospero Keys, home to a company called Sycorax, with characters named Miranda, Sebastian, Alonso, Iris, Ariel, and even a villain named Mr. Setebos. His Mook is named Callahan, which Word of God confirms is a reference to Caliban. For another Shakespeare reference, there's a street called "Goodfellow Lane." | |
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Dragon Ball: A very codifying example is the (in)famous Son Goku (or Gokuu); his name is basically the Japanese on'yomi reading of the Chinese name Sun Wukong, even written with the same Asian characters (å« æ‚Ÿç©º). It's almost a wonder why people think of the Saiyan rather than the actual mythological figure himself, aside from the fact that Dragon Ball beat Journey to the West to the punch in being popular as hell in the West back then. This even applies to the Ox King; he too, is named after one of the characters from that very novel in the same on'yomi reading (his Japanese name literally is "Bull Demon King"; read in Chinese as Niumouwang or on'yomi as Gyuumaou). Also applies to the Goku in Saiyuki, though he's much more closely based off of his source material than the above example and also applies to the fellow characters as well. Dragon Ball Z contains a nod to Disney's Cinderella with the ancient mage Bibidi, his doppelgänger Babidi, and the demon that they summoned, Majin Buu. ("Bibbidi-bobbidi-boo!") Tie-in materials such as Dragon Ball Heroes and Dragon Ball: Fusions add two NPCs named Salaga and Doola, and the ruler of the Demon Realm who is named Mechikabura ("Salagadoola mechicka boola"). |
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Yandere Simulator: The Photography Club are a collective Expy of Mystery Inc. of Scooby-Doo fame. All of their names are mangled Japanese versions of their respective counterparts. | |
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Discussed in Episode 10 of I Can't Understand What My Husband Is Saying when Hajime and Kaoru are trying to come up with hypothetical baby names. Hajime even points out that just about every name ever has been used in anime, manga, and games so it'd be near impossible to defy this. | |
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Open Blue's players tend to name Avelian NPC's after Halo characters in similar positions. Admirals Hood and Harper, Lieutenant Sobeck and Admiral Standish, and so on. The Espartanos from v1 — v4 were an obvious reference to the Spartans, and the fortress colony of Reach is named for a planet in the Haloverse that serves a similar purpose. | |
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Stone Ocean goes back to theme-naming characters themselves, with a great deal of its cast named after fashion labels and designers. Examples: Ermes Costello (Hermès), Thunder McQueen (Alexander McQueen), Donatello Versus (Donatella Versace and Versus, a Versace brand). | |
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Supernatural: Dean and Sam Winchester are named after Dean Moriarty and Sal Paradise from On the Road. | |
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In the GBA remake, the Jocks gang has three members named Spike, Vic and Jett, referencing three characters (Spike, Vicious and Jett) from Cowboy Bebop. | |
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The creators of Married... with Children are wrestling fans and decided to name the Bundys and the Rhoades after King Kong Bundy (who appeared in the show twice: once as one of Peggy's relatives and later As Himself; they're not named after serial killer Ted Bundy despite what fans originally thought) and Dusty Rhodes respectively. | |
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Speaking of Bert and Ernie, by the way, it's often been assumed that they were named after the characters from It's a Wonderful Life. The show's creators have denied this, but that didn't stop them from playing up the association in the Christmas Special Elmo Saves Christmas, which features the movie playing on TV as a Running Gag: In one scene Bert and Ernie walk past a TV just as George calls out their names, and they react with alarm. | |
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Versions of the Doku wiki are named after characters from Discworld books. | |
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For some reason, the fighters on each level of the pagoda of the Five Mighty Gods in Wutai in Final Fantasy VII have names to do with (mainly Russian) drama: Gorky, Staniv (Stanislavsky), Shake (Shakespeare), Chekhovs and Godo (Godot, as in Waiting for Godot). | |
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World of Warcraft: Multiple: The Ritualists encountered before the Dark Animus in Throne of Thunder (you face a random set of 6 out of 24, and there's an achievement for killing all of them) are named after alien species in the original Doctor Who series. In Stormwind's west bank there are three bankers on the left side named after Kristin Scott-Thomas, while the bankers on the right are named after Olivia Newton-John. |
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Razzberry Jazzberry Jam: The Jazzberries are all named after famous jazz musicians- specifically, Louis Armstrong, Ray Charles, Billie Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Gene Krupa, and Buddy Rich. Their relatives are also in on the act - Billie’s father Elmore is named after Elmore James, “King of the Slide Guitar�, and Ella’s cousin Herbie is named after Herbie Hancock. | |
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RoboCop: The Series had a pair of recurring thugs named Tom and Jerry. | |
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Three out of four of the main characters from Burst Angel are named after characters from the book Little Women (Jo, Meg, and Amy, with Sei being the Odd Name Out). In an interview, the creator mentioned that Sei's middle name was Bethany, thus making her still technically fit. In the original Little Women Beth's was the only name not changed from her real life counterpart. So having her the odd name out is IN ITSELF a shout out. | |
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Rocket Raccoon is named after The Beatles' song "Rocky Raccoon". His debut even opens with a version of the opening lyrics.◊ | |
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The boojum, the Snark, and the Bandersnatch, all of them patterns that are capable of reflecting or shifting input gliders, are all references to fictional animal species from The Hunting of the Snark. | |
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Some of the features on Pluto are named after fictional underworld and eldritch figures (fitting for the dwarf planet named after the Roman underworld god), such as Balrog, Morgoth, and Cthulhu. Features on Pluto's moon Charon are named after creators of and characters, locations, and vehicles from pop-culture: Vader Crater, Kubrick Mons, Macross Chasma, Vulcan Planum... |
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In the first two games, Nameless is "named" after the monster, and there's also a case to be made for the Demon Artist, though the latter is more of a title than a name. The Odd Name Out is Belladonna — although visually modeled on the Bride from the film Bride of Frankenstein, her name is original. | |
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Marie from Persona 4 Golden, yet another Velvet Room attendant, is most likely named for author Mary Shelley. | |
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In Persona 5, most of the protagonists' Personas are named after various folk heroes and thieves from literature (Arsene, Goemon, Zorro, etc.). | |
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Shilf = Silpheed | |
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Wilde Life's cast is full of literary references. The most obvious is the protagonist, named after Oscar Wilde. His landlady is Barbara Yaga, and his Cute Ghost Girl roommate, Sylvia, is named after Sylvia Plath. Clifford can turn into a large red wolf, Eliza Proctor is a witch, and Darcy is in a relationship with Eliza(beth). | |
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In Minority Report the three precognitives are named for Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and Arthur Conan Doyle. | |
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Rain of the Ghosts: The main cast is full of names from The Tempest. It's set in the fictional Prospero Keys, home to a company called Sycorax, with characters named Miranda, Sebastian, Alonso, Iris, Ariel, and even a villain named Mr. Setebos. His Mook is named Callahan, which Word of God confirms is a reference to Caliban. For another Shakespeare reference, there's a street called "Goodfellow Lane." In the second book, a family has kids named Wendy, John and Michael. It's Lampshaded with a discussion of Fridge Logic: the parents chose "Wendy" because they liked Peter Pan, but what if John or Michael had been girls? Would they have been "Tiger Lily" and "Tinkerbell?" Was this planned from the beginning, or did they just like the name "Wendy" and choose the theme later? |
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In the English translation of Trauma Center, all the patients have names that are a mix and match of the characters and actors of House, Scrubs, and ER, three popular medical shows. | |
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The Koopalings, debuting in Super Mario Bros. 3, are all named after famous musicians. These include Larry Koopa (after Larry Mullen, drummer for U2, Morton Koopa Jr., Wendy O. Koopa, Iggy Koopa, Roy Koopa, Lemmy Koopa, and Ludwig Von Koopa. Same with the Reznors in Super Mario World, named after Trent Reznor.' The recurring ghost enemy now known simply as "Boo" used to be called "Boo Diddly". |
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In The Mansion of E, most of the forest gnomes are named after magic spells from old Zork Interactive Fiction games. | |
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In Man-Thing film adaptation, characters Steve Gerber, Mike Ploog, and Val Mayerik are named after comic book creators who worked on the character's series. | |
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In BlazBlue, Amane's attack names are derived from the Super Sentai franchise (for example, Kaizoku Senkou: "Gokai Rasen Renpa" and Juken Dageki: "Gekiren") while Izayoi's are derived from the post-2000 entries in the Gundam franchise (Freedom Justice Judge of Destiny, Slaver Trans-Am). | |
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Golden Winter has main character, Oliver, join a gang whose heist is masterminded by Frankie Fagan. | |
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Big Finish Doctor Who: The side characters in the audio drama "Return of the Rocket Men" are named after characters in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly — van Cleef (named after actor Lee Van Cleef who played "the Bad"), Ramirez (named after Tuco Ramirez, "the Ugly" and Bill Carson (named after the Almost Dead Guy who tells Tuco and Blondie about the Confederate gold buried in the grave). The Sontarans in the audio drama Heroes of Sontar are named after the actors from Dad's Army (and loosely based on their characters): Field-Major Thurr after Arthur Lowe (Captain Manwairing); Sergeant Mezz after John Le Mesurier (Sergeant Wilson); Corporal Clunn after Clive Dunn (Corporal Jones); Trooper Vend after Ian Lavender (Private Pike); Trooper Jorr after John Laurie (Private Frazer); Trooper Nold after Arnold Ridley (Private Godfrey); and Pilot Bekk after James Beck (Private Walker). |
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Banjo-Tooie has an estranged couple of talking ice cubes named George and Mildred. There's no way to bring them back together, alas — Cruelty Is the Only Option. | |
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Josh's cat Geno from the Harry Potter-themed game Hogwarts: The New Class is named after the character from Super Mario RPG. | |
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Cells at Work! CODE BLACK: The Cancer Cell of this series has more than a passing resemblance to Tetsuo Shima from AKIRA, with his horrific mutations, short aggressive hairstyle, and wearing a makeshift tattered cape. Fittingly, he shares the same designation as a The King of Fighters character infamous for his own resemblance to Tetsuo: K9999. | |
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Tegza = Thexder | |
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Sleepaway Camp II: Unhappy Campers names the camp kids after the Brat Pack (with the camp head being Uncle John), and sequel Sleepaway Camp III: Teenage Wasteland has ones after both The Brady Bunch and West Side Story (the latter even includes Angela going undercover as "Maria"). | |
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Everyone important to the plot of Kaguya-sama: Love Is War has a name referencing The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter: Kaguya, Shirogane, Ishigami, Fujiwara, and Iino all reference Kaguya-hime herself and the princes trying to court her. Osaragi, Tsubame, and Momo, and Shiranui all reference the gifts sought by Kaguya-hime as part of her impossible tasks to her suitors (each of which has some sort of relationship with the student council members that share their respective suitor's namesake). In Tsubame's case, she becomes part of the ongoing saga of "Kaguya Shinomiya's Impossible Requests", and it's later revealed that the four of them are referred to as the "Impossible Girls" deliberately invoking the theme. Mikado Shijo (Maki's twin brother) references the the emperor who tries to marry Kaguya-hime. Ootomo also references one of the suitors, interestingly the same one as Shirogane's. Kaguya's mother is named Nayotake (Supple Bamboo), meaning that Kaguya was metaphorically born from bamboo, just like her literary counterpart. Everyone in Fujiwara's family was named after plants in some manner, as her counterpart was tasked with finding a special branch. |
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The Borderlands series: In the first game, Borderlands, all of Brick's tier 4 skills are movie references: Bloodsport, Unbreakable, with "Master Blaster" a reference to Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome. Borderlands 2: Salvador has many skills that are movie references. Among the ones revealed in the E3 gameplay demonstration are to Die Hard: "Yippee-Ki-Yay", They Live!: "Out of Bubblegum", and Bad Boys II: Just Got Real. |
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Most of the soldiers holding the title planet in Star Trek: Deep Space Nine's "The Siege of AR-558" were named after the main cast and characters of the 1962 war movie Hell Is for Heroes. | |
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Love of the S*n: The names of Michael and Sean, two of the operators for the S*n, are named after characters from The Good Place: Michael, the afterlife architect, and Shawn, the afterlife judge. | |
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The Legend of Zelda: In the English version of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, the four ghost sisters in the Forest Temple are named Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. Twilight Princess has the barmaid Telma and her cat Louise, alluding to Thelma & Louise. A Link Between Worlds featured a Mirror Universe to Hyrule. Naturally, Zelda's counterpart was named Hilda. |
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Same with the Reznors in Super Mario World, named after Trent Reznor.' | |
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The Steven Universe fanfiction series The Gemstone Saga has Steven's grandparents (and Greg's parents) Shep and Stella, named of course after two of the main characters in Interstella5555. | |
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Zootopia: Jesse and Woolter, Doug's ram assistants, are named after Jesse Pinkman and Walter White from Breaking Bad. | |
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The Williams siblings in Sandra and Woo are named Cloud and Yuna since their parents are big fans of the Final Fantasy series. | |
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Batman villains Tweedledum and Tweedledee decided to go all-in on their Lewis Carroll theme with the Wonderland Gang, bringing along existing bad guy Mad Hatter, and new characters March Hare, Lion, Unicorn, Walrus and Carpenter. | |
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The three little robots in Silent Running are called Huey, Dewey, and Louie, after Donald Duck's nephews. | |
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In Tantei Opera Milky Holmes, everybody (and everything) is named after something from detective fiction. For starters, the heroines are named Sherlock, Cordelia (as in Gray), Hercule and Nero. | |
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Conway's Game of Life: The boojum, the Snark, and the Bandersnatch, all of them patterns that are capable of reflecting or shifting input gliders, are all references to fictional animal species from The Hunting of the Snark. The methuselahs Edna, Fred, Wilma, and Homer follow a chain pattern: each one is named after a character from a different piece of media whose spouse's name happens to be the previous entry. Edna is named after Methuselah's wife in the Book of Jubilees, Fred is named after Dr. Fred Edison from Maniac Mansion, Wilma is named after Wilma Flintstone from The Flintstones, and Homer is named after Homer Parrish from The Best Years of Our Lives. |
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In We Are Legion (We Are Bob), Bob-2 names himself Riker and picks the appropriate theme (no beard though). Later on, though, he decides to drop the Trek theme and stars going by Will. Then there are Phineas and Ferb. | |
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In the GBA remake, several of the Plague gang members have names referencing anime (Duo, Ikari, Kaoru) or games (Cloud, Reno). | |
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The different major releases of the Debian operating system (and often derivatives of this system) are named after Toy Story characters, due to the early developers working for Pixar. There are three concurrent versions: the "stable" version, the "testing" version (which is the next stable version before the bugs get worked out), and the "unstable" version (for the bleeding-edge crowd); the "unstable" branch is always named Sid. | |
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Gargoyles: The gargoyle clan named themselves after famous sections of New York. There are David and Goliath from The Bible. While it's All There in the Script, the three souls that make up Coldstone are called Othello, Desdemona and Iago, chosen when the writers realized that their dynamic resembled the play. They take other names by the end of the series, though. |
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Danganronpa: Memento Mori: Ren Kurusu physically resembles Joker from Persona 5, and is a fairly infamous roguish young man as well. His name is derived from both Ren Amamiya and Akira Kurusu, which were given as Joker's real name in the anime and manga adaptations of Persona 5 respectively. Kozue Sumiyoshi takes her first name from Kozue Ayuhara from Attack No. 1 and her last name from Nobara Sumiyoshi from Crimson Hero, with all characters being Passionate Sports Girls with a penchant for volleyball. Kaiji Kudo's surname is the same as fellow Kid Detective Shinichi Kudo from Case Closed. His true name, Naoya Edogawa, is also based on Case Closed, this time being based on Shinichi's child self, Conan Edogawa. |
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The Sontarans in the audio drama Heroes of Sontar are named after the actors from Dad's Army (and loosely based on their characters): Field-Major Thurr after Arthur Lowe (Captain Manwairing); Sergeant Mezz after John Le Mesurier (Sergeant Wilson); Corporal Clunn after Clive Dunn (Corporal Jones); Trooper Vend after Ian Lavender (Private Pike); Trooper Jorr after John Laurie (Private Frazer); Trooper Nold after Arnold Ridley (Private Godfrey); and Pilot Bekk after James Beck (Private Walker). | |
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The four elemental fiends in Final Fantasy IV were originally named for demons from Dante's Inferno — Scarmiglione, Cagnazzo, Barbariccia, and Rubicante. Character Name Limits caused their names to get changed in the English translation, to Milon, Kainazzo, Valvalis, and Rubicant, respectively. All four are also corrected in the official GBA re-release. | |
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Charlie Lewis and Alyson Carroll in the Alice's Adventures in Wonderland adaptation Terra Mirum Chronicles. | |
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Gundam: Gundam Wing contains references to The Wizard of Oz: Dorothy Catalonia and her gold-plated vehicles, the organization OZ (whose emblem is a lion), the Specials' emblem looking like the Tin Woodsman's head in profile, and, in Episode 34, the OZ commander's callsign is "Scarecrow 5". In Mobile Suit Gundam Seed Destiny, Athrun's Mid-Season Upgrade, Infinite Justice, is named after "Operation Infinite Justice", the original name for "Operation Enduring Freedom". Likewise, Kira's Freedom is likely named after "Operation Enduring Freedom". Gundam Sentinel names all of its characters after real people from the end of the Shogunate in Japan. For example, protagonist Ryu Roots is named for Ryoma Sakamoto ("moto" being the Japanese word for "root"). The Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam spinoff Advance of Zeta combines this with Cultural Cross-Reference, as all the experimental mobile suits in it are named for characters from Watership Down. |
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In Sabrina Online, everyone in Sabrina's family is named after various media witches, from Sabrina herself and her sister Tabitha, to her mother Endora and father Warren (who only sorta sounds like 'Darrin'). There's also her online friend Carli and her husband Spike, named after the human couple from the original Transformers cartoon. | |
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Gundam Sentinel names all of its characters after real people from the end of the Shogunate in Japan. For example, protagonist Ryu Roots is named for Ryoma Sakamoto ("moto" being the Japanese word for "root"). | |
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The inhabitants of the Velvet Room from the Persona series have, of all things, theme naming based on Frankenstein: Igor is named for the hunchbacked assistant that became associated with the Frankenstein mythos after Fritz in the first Universal film — the name "Igor" probably originally came from the non-hunch-backed assistant from House of Wax (1953) or a conflation of Fritz with Ygor from the Universal films, and was codified as an element of Frankenstein in Young Frankenstein. In the first two games, Nameless is "named" after the monster, and there's also a case to be made for the Demon Artist, though the latter is more of a title than a name. The Odd Name Out is Belladonna — although visually modeled on the Bride from the film Bride of Frankenstein, her name is original. The trend is particularly apparent with the Velvet Siblings, with the ladies all being named after characters from the original novel. Elizabeth from Persona 3 is named after Victor's bride, Margaret from Persona 4 is named after the sister of the arctic explorer Robert Walton, and Caroline and Justine from Persona 5 are respectively named after Victor's mother and the Frankenstein family home's servant. The true form of the latter two when fused together, Lavenza, is also named after Victor's bride, whose maiden name is Elizabeth Lavenza. Theodore from Persona 3 Portable is more obscure; he's most likely named after — given that he's a male replacement for Elizabeth — Theodore Roszak, who authored Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein, but it's possible he's instead named after Theodor von Holst, who did the illustrations for the 1831 edition of Frankenstein. Marie from Persona 4 Golden, yet another Velvet Room attendant, is most likely named for author Mary Shelley. In Persona 5, most of the protagonists' Personas are named after various folk heroes and thieves from literature (Arsene, Goemon, Zorro, etc.). |
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The Loud House: The Louds' pets are named after famous cartoonists: Charles (Schultz), Cliff (Sterrett, which is also the brand of Luna's amplifier), Walt (Kelly), and Geo (Herriman). Lincoln himself lampshades this in a Q&A. Similarly, the new dog the Louds take care of in "Pets Peeved" is named (Bill) Watterson. The Casagrandes' pets have the same theme, albeit named after Latinx cartoonists: Lalo (Alcaraz) and Sergio (Aragones). | |
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Animal Inn: Three of Val's four rabbits are Flopsy, Mopsy and Cottontail. Teddy's hamsters are John, Paula, George and Ringo. Jake Curran's rabbit Harvey has six babies, whose names are given in book 2 — two of them are named for Tarzan and Jane, and two are named for comic book characters: Captain Marvel and Hulk. |
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Firenese characters from Fire Emblem Engage are named after luxury brands, such as Alfred being named after the Alfred Sung fashion brand, or his sister Céline sharing a name with the brand of the same name. | |
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The Scar: The monster hunters are named after the characters from The Hunting of the Snark, but in different languages. Their leader is Tinntinnabulum — the Bellman, and their ship is the Castor — Beaver. The names of all the ships that make up the pirate city have a connection with other works of literature involving ships. There's the Arronax (after the narrator of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Wintershaw Market (after the protagonist of William Hope Hodgson's Boats of the Glen Carrig) etc. |
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Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2: The lycanthrope Gabriel takes his name from Gabriel-Ernest from a titular short story by Hector Hugh Munro. Said short story established Gabriel-Ernest to be a werewolf himself. | |
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At Winter Park Resort in Colorado, the trails and runs off of the Olympia Express lift on the backside of the Winter Park area are all named for Alice in Wonderland characters like the White Rabbit, March Hare, Cheshire Cat, Tweedledee and Tweedledum. There is even a double chairlift called Looking Glass in this area. | |
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Steel Ball Run returns to musically-themed characters names as well as Stands, with names like Gyro Zeppeli, Funny Valentine, and Pork Pie Hat Kid, plus Stand names like Ticket to Ride and 20th Century Boy. | |
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Julian and Gabriel from Pokemon: Adventures in the Millennium both follow this convention for their Pokemon. Julians are all named after TV and Video Game characters, and Gabriel names all of his after wrestlers, or wrestly-related terms. | |
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In Fatal Racing, the A.I. driver teams are mostly named after computers and robots from famous works of science fiction: Ash and Bishop, Bob and Vincent, Eddie and Marvin, Holly and Kryten, Slave and Zen... | |
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In Back to the Future Part III, Doc Brown's sons are named Jules and Verne. Earlier in the movie, he has a conversation with Clara about Jules Verne being his favourite writer. | |
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All the villains in Tensou Sentai Goseiger are named after Sci-Fi movies. Often it can tell you a bit about the Monster of the Week's powers as well. The Warstar (itself derived from Star Wars) are named after sci-fi involving aliens. Their leader Great King Mons Drake is derived from Star Trek, while Dereputa is from Predator. The Yuumajuu are derived from UMA, the Japanese title for Rise Of The Gargoyles, and all their members are named after monster movies. Their leaders' names, Makuin and Kinggon, are from The Blob (1958) (by its Japanese title McQueen's Absolute Risk) and King Kong respectively. The Matrintis are all based on movies featuring robots and technology. Matrintis itself comes from The Matrix, while Robogog is from RoboCop (1987), Metal-Alice comes from Metropolis and one of their monsters, Bakutofuji-ER of the Timer, is named after Back to the Future. The Man Behind the Man in all factions is named after Blade Runner while his true identity's name comes from Brazil — both films being Tech Noir. Additionally, his Monsters of the Week are all named after fantasy movies. |
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This happens often in Case Closed. For example, bumbling private detective Kogoro Mouri is named after Kogoro Akechi, a recurring detective character in Edogawa Ranpo's books, while recurring character Inspector Megure is named after the Japanese transliteration of the French fictional detective Maigret. | |
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The names of all the ships that make up the pirate city have a connection with other works of literature involving ships. There's the Arronax (after the narrator of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea), Wintershaw Market (after the protagonist of William Hope Hodgson's Boats of the Glen Carrig) etc. | |
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All of the Tracy children in Thunderbirds are named for the Mercury astronauts. Possibly an in-universe example given that their father used to be an astronaut himself. | |
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The Highschool of the Dead fanfic World of the Dead features some of this in the epilogue, as the protagonists have named their chickens Alucard, Integra, Seras, Pip, Walter, and Alexander. Fitting, considering one of the main characters is named after the creator of Hellsing, Kohta Hirano. | |
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Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire has at least two: The Pistol Packin' Polaris Packrat's sentient, and intelligent, and talking guns are named "Smith" and "Wesson" On Gallimaufry Station, two of Para's Security Specialists, a cat and a dog, are named Rowan and Martin. |
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Devil May Cry: The series' Theme Naming borrows heavily from The Divine Comedy. Almost every major character is named after someone mentioned in that literature. Dante - From Dante Alighieri, the writer and main character of The Divine Comedy. Vergil - Dante's guide through Hell and Purgatory who was based on a real Roman poet Publius Vergilius Maro. Nelo Angelo - If read as "Black Angel," is a character that appears in Canto XXVII to assert Hell's claim over a soul. Trish - Derived from Beatrice Portinari, Dante's lover and guide through Heaven. Lucia - Taken from Saint Lucy (Lucia in Latin), a Christian martyr who acts as an intermediate and instructs Virgil to lead Dante through Hell and Purgatory. Lady/Mary - Refers to the Catholic Madonna ("Our Lady" in Italian), otherwise known as the Virgin Mary. |
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In the NES version, members of the Home Boys gang (Bobby, Brady, Chip, Doug, Ernie, Greg, Peter, Robby, Steve) are named after kids in 50's-70's television shows like The Brady Bunch and My Three Sons. | |
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The lead twins of Mother 3 were named after the lead twins of a book called The Notebook. Both stories are about horrible things happening to little boys. | |
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The turtles from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles are named after famous Italian Renaissance painters and sculptors: Raphael, Donatello, Michelangelo Buonarroti, and Leonardo da Vinci. | |
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The Golden Wind novella Purple Haze Feedback leans heavily on protagonist Pannacotta Fugo's Stand being named Purple Haze, and names all new Stands in the book after other Jimi Hendrix songs such as Voodoo Child, All Along the Watchtower, and Manic Depression. | |
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BIGTOP BURGER: The employees of the titular food truck business have names relating to Stephen King's It: Penny (Pennywise, the novel's Monster Clown), Billie (Bill Skarsgård, who played Pennywise in the 2017 film adaptation), Tim (Tim Curry, who played Pennywise in the 1990 miniseries), and Steve (Stephen King). Their rival crew, the Zomburger employees, are all named after characters from The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari. Cesare is the most obvious, since he's even modeled after his namesake, while the others are Conrad (Conrad Veidt, the actor who played Cesare in the movie), Frances (Francis), and Doctor (Dr. Caligari). The episode "Backpack" reveals an extra layer to the theming: Frances reveals that Doctor's actual name is "Allen", which is named after Alan, the name of the film's protagonist's best friend/love rival. |
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The dubiously canon Jorge Joestar has Stands (and various new Stand-like abilities) named after non-Japanese films and television including U-Boat, NYPD Blue, Dune, Singin' in the Rain, and Videodrome. | |
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There are David and Goliath from The Bible. | |
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In Policenauts, Tony Redwood's dead brother is named "Ridley Redwood". They're named after two prominent film directors/real life brothers, Tony and Ridley Scott. | |
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Metal Gear Solid had a Dave, a Hal, a Frank, a Naomi, and a Miller, and there was a submarine called the Discovery — all names from 2001: A Space Odyssey. Dave also pairs up with a Meryl Silverburgh, in reference to Hideo Kojima's earlier Policenauts. | |
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The bosses in the English version of Mega Man X5 (Except in the Legacy Collection 2 version, where they have more conventional boss names like "Shining Firefly" and "Tidal Whale") are named after members of Guns N' Roses because localizer Alyson Court’s husband was a fan of theirs (Squid Adler is Steve Adler, Duff McWhalen is Duff McKagan, Mattrex is Matt Sorum, Grizzly Slash is, well, Slash, Izzy Glow is Izzy Stradlin, Axle the Red is Axl Rose, and Dark Dizzy is Dizzy Reed. The only exception is The Skiver, named after Michael "High in the Sky" Monroe, though he did collaborate with Guns N' Roses). | |
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Final Fantasy: Many games contain Those Two Guys Biggs and Wedge. Just some of their appearances: Two Gestahlian Mauve Shirt soldiers in Final Fantasy VI. Two members of the ecoterrorist group AVALANCHE in Final Fantasy VII. A pair of Galbadian soldiers, a barking superior and a long-suffering underling, in Final Fantasy VIII. A Roegadyn engineer and his Lalafell partner in Final Fantasy XIV. The four elemental fiends in Final Fantasy IV were originally named for demons from Dante's Inferno — Scarmiglione, Cagnazzo, Barbariccia, and Rubicante. Character Name Limits caused their names to get changed in the English translation, to Milon, Kainazzo, Valvalis, and Rubicant, respectively. All four are also corrected in the official GBA re-release. For some reason, the fighters on each level of the pagoda of the Five Mighty Gods in Wutai in Final Fantasy VII have names to do with (mainly Russian) drama: Gorky, Staniv (Stanislavsky), Shake (Shakespeare), Chekhovs and Godo (Godot, as in Waiting for Godot). Final Fantasy VIII takes the Star Wars theme naming a step further: in addition to Biggs and Wedge, there is a later supporting character named Piet (as in "You are in command now, Admiral Piett") and in the original Japanese, the Headmaster of Galbadia Garden is named Dodonna. |
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Zellia = Zeliard | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! episode "Sleepover and Over", Cosmo spends the episode making random creatures his new pets and names them all after characters from sister series The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius (an ant named Carl, a bee named Cindy, and a cat named Jimmy). | |
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The Lee brothers from the Double Dragon series, as well as the recurring mooks Williams and Rowper, are named after the three main heroes from Enter the Dragon. The arcade version of Double Dragon II even adds two Abobo-like giant mooks named after Mr. Han's henchmen called Oharra and Bolo (although the manual of Mega Drive port identifies the latter as "Abobo", which ruins the shout-out a bit). There's also a female mook named Linda, who seems to be named after Bruce Lee's widow. | |
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Eerie, Indiana: In "Foreverware", Betty Wilson's twin sons are named Bert and Ernie. Also in "Foreverware", the women who use Foreverware are Betty Wilson, Imogene Crocker, Beatrice Pillsbury, Winifred Swanson and Phyllis Stouffer. The first two are named after the food advertising mascot Betty Cocker while the others all take their names from food companies. |
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The Collector: Frederick kidnaps a beautiful girl Miranda. He calls himself Ferdinand, but she thinks of him as Caliban. Miranda is the heroine of The Tempest, Frederick being her Love Interest and Caliban is a monstrous creature. | |
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In the English version of Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, the four ghost sisters in the Forest Temple are named Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy. | |
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Vagrant Story has characters named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as antagonists. | |
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In the earlier story arcs of JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, nearly all characters' names were shout-outs to non-Japanese music, with characters named Zeppeli, Robert E.O. Speedwagon, Tonpetty, Wamuu, Kars, Captain Tennille, Steely Dan, and Vanilla Ice, just to name a few. In subsequent story arcs, the Stands are given musically themed names instead such as Killer Queen, Sex Pistols, Spice Girl, KISS, Limp Bizkit, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap, and Born This Way. Stone Ocean goes back to theme-naming characters themselves, with a great deal of its cast named after fashion labels and designers. Examples: Ermes Costello (Hermès), Thunder McQueen (Alexander McQueen), Donatello Versus (Donatella Versace and Versus, a Versace brand). Steel Ball Run returns to musically-themed characters names as well as Stands, with names like Gyro Zeppeli, Funny Valentine, and Pork Pie Hat Kid, plus Stand names like Ticket to Ride and 20th Century Boy. The Golden Wind novella Purple Haze Feedback leans heavily on protagonist Pannacotta Fugo's Stand being named Purple Haze, and names all new Stands in the book after other Jimi Hendrix songs such as Voodoo Child, All Along the Watchtower, and Manic Depression. The dubiously canon Jorge Joestar has Stands (and various new Stand-like abilities) named after non-Japanese films and television including U-Boat, NYPD Blue, Dune, Singin' in the Rain, and Videodrome. |
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Aqua Regia has all of the chapter titles named after rock and heavy metal songs, considering the author is metalhead, it's not surprising. | |
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River City Ransom: In the NES version, members of the Home Boys gang (Bobby, Brady, Chip, Doug, Ernie, Greg, Peter, Robby, Steve) are named after kids in 50's-70's television shows like The Brady Bunch and My Three Sons. In the GBA remake, several of the Plague gang members have names referencing anime (Duo, Ikari, Kaoru) or games (Cloud, Reno). In the GBA remake, the Jocks gang has three members named Spike, Vic and Jett, referencing three characters (Spike, Vicious and Jett) from Cowboy Bebop. |
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Batman C-lister Kite Man's real name is Chuck Brown. The reference is made more apparent starting from DC Rebirth on, where he gains a son named after him that goes by "Charlie". | |
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Stranger Things: Creatures from the Upside-Down tend to be nicknamed after monsters from Dungeons & Dragons, due to the main protagonists being kids who play DND in their spare time. Amusingly, though, they actually get the names kind of backwards; the Big Bad is dubbed the Mind-Flayer after an Always Chaotic Evil race of minions, while its servants are referred to as Demogorgons, Demogorgon being an evil god that has a fair bit in common with the aforementioned Big Bad. | |
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Takotsubo's East 13 gang uses code-names from The Wizard of Oz. Normal members are the Quadlings, their leader Cord is the Tin Man, and his best friends are the Scarecrow and Glinda. In the beginning of the play, they recruit a young woman with magical powers who Cord immediately calls Elphaba. | |
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All of the characters in Ruby Quest are named after animals from Animal Crossing. | |
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The main characters of Timeless were named in homage to Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure. Lucy Preston after Bill S. Preston, Wyatt Logan after Ted Logan, and Rufus Carlin in reference to George Carlin and his character Rufus. | |
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As a carryover from the books it's based on, Tristan and Siegfried from All Creatures Great And Small are named such because of the real life James Herriot's love of Richard Wagner operas. That's because those names tend to stick out more in the English countryside than Donald and Brian (their real names). | |
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In the Tiny Toon Adventures episode "Grandma's Dead", Elmyra names her pet hamsters after the kids of The Brady Bunch. | |
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In the Onimusha series of games, the names of the major demon antagonists (excepting Onimusha 2 for some reason) are all taken from Shakespeare's Hamlet. | |
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Son of the Sannin: Akashi Sutoku's Plasma Release attacks all come from attacks in other works of media that have "light" in their names. There's Light of Death, Light of Judgement, and Light That Burns the Sky. In the epilogue, Kiba and Tamaki's daughter has both a dog and a cat as her battle partners. They are respectively named Riku and Sora. Three of Zabuza and Mei's children are called Kasumi, Satoshi, and Haruka. |
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Janus from Small Magic is named after the character from Chrono Trigger. | |
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Before Pinkie Pie's family were given official names, her sisters were commonly referred to as Inky and Blinky and the parents Clyde and Sue—after the Pac-Man ghosts, with Sue being Clyde's Distaff Counterpart in Ms. Pac-Man. | |
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The Ritualists encountered before the Dark Animus in Throne of Thunder (you face a random set of 6 out of 24, and there's an achievement for killing all of them) are named after alien species in the original Doctor Who series. | |
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A Witch's Tale. First, all the Princesses and guardians of the kingdoms are named after characters from fairy tales or the like. Then, we get into the powerful and mysterious Queen Alice, and Liddell — the protagonist, who wants to surpass her, and is implied to be more deeply connected to her than that. | |
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Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams and its companion series Ultimate Spider-Woman: Change With The Light do this with several characters. The Daily Bugle employs an Objectivist named Steve as its newspaper cartoonist, an art professor named John Kirby teaches at Empire State University, and Mary Jane Watson's maternal grandfather is named Stanley Lieber. | |
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The full names of the two player characters in the original Contra (barring spelling variations), Bill Rizer and Lance Bean, are a mix and match of the names of four actors who appeared in Aliens: Bill Paxton, Paul Reiser, Lance Henriksen, and Michael Biehn in that order. | |
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Spike Out have a Wolfpack Boss trio of brawlers, whom were given the names Huey, Dewey and Louie. They even share the same outfit colours! | |
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In Dance Central, many of the move names are named after the choreographers and producers of the game (e.g. Marcos Wind, Repka Roll, Barreto Clap). | |
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In Yokoka's Quest, Blinky, Pinky, Inky, and Clyde, are named after the four ghosts in Pacman, the first three of which are also rhyming names. Lady Pachi also more subtly fits the Pacman theme. | |
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On Gallimaufry Station, two of Para's Security Specialists, a cat and a dog, are named Rowan and Martin. | |
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Pokémon Crossing: Holly, the main character, names her Pokémon after anime/manga characters: Jojo the Blaziken, Makoto the Gardevoir, Asuka the Gyarados, Kenshiro the Lairon , Freiza the Manectric and Coffret the Altaria. | |
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In Amazing Fantasy, the chapters are all called "issues" as in a "comic book issue" and are named after arcs, entries, devices, and events in the Spider-Man mythos. | |
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Two characters in the sci-fi chapter of Live A Live are named Kirk and Darthe. | |
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Jake Curran's rabbit Harvey has six babies, whose names are given in book 2 — two of them are named for Tarzan and Jane, and two are named for comic book characters: Captain Marvel and Hulk. | |
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The Fourth Tails' real name is Son Goku. While this can be chalked up to be a reference to Journey to the West instead of Dragon Ball (which itself is a loose adaptation of the novel), his host is also named Roshi. | |
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In Faria, the later towns are named after Game Arts' previous games, though the references are somewhat obscured by being abbreviated in Japanese and then translated into English: Tegza = Thexder Shilf = Silpheed Zellia = Zeliard Beig = Veigues |
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The firearms company Alexander Arms has produced two unique assault rifle cartridges: .50 Beowulf and 6.5mm Grendel. | |
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Three of Zabuza and Mei's children are called Kasumi, Satoshi, and Haruka. | |
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In MOTHER 2 (but not the Earthbound 1994 localization), one obviously matched set of alternate names for Ness, Paula, Jeff, Poo and Ness's dog is John, Yoko, Paul, George and Ringo. Another set is Mario, Peach, Luigi, Kinopio (=Toad) and Yoshi. Yet another references the Japanese boy band SMAP. The lead twins of Mother 3 were named after the lead twins of a book called The Notebook. Both stories are about horrible things happening to little boys. |
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In the earlier issues of Marvel Adventures: Avengers, there was something of a naming theme going on in some of the issues. "Finding Zemo", "A Not-So-Beautiful Mind", "Attack of the Fifty Foot Girl"(complete with an obvious Homage on the cover to the poster), "The Avenging Seven", "From Russia With HATE", and probably a few more. | |
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During its early years of business, Prusa Research had five 3D Printers nicknamed "Stan", "Kyle", "Cartman", "Kenny", and "Butters". | |
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Major characters in Penny and Aggie tend to be introduced with two hangers-on (who, unlike Those Two Guys, tend to move toward the spotlight) with Theme Naming. Specifically, Penny's Sara and Michelle, Rich's Stan and Jack, and Lisa's Fred and Daphne. Also, although introduced separately, an adult couple is named Nick and Charisma. | |
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In What Tomorrow Brings, the big cats at The Gardens are all named after characters from Arthurian legend. | |
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Code Geass: Oz the Reflection to The Wizard of Oz. The Glinda Knights are parallels to Dorothy and her friends, such as Leon, Tink, and Toto. Taken a step further near the end of the series with a Humongous Mecha named Elphaba. |
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The names of Nina and Anna Williams from Tekken are both references to La Femme Nikita. Anna in particular is named and modeled after actress Anne Parillaud, who played Nikita in the original 1990 French version. Nina's name on the other hand comes from the alias used by Bridget Fonda's character in Point of No Return, the 1993 American remake of Nikita. | |
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The Tetris characters in Puyo Puyo Tetris are, fittingly, all named after the different tetromino shapes: Tee (T), O (O), Jay (J), Elle (L), Ai (I), Zed (Z), and Ess (S). | |
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Negima! Magister Negi Magi has a surprising bit of Cultural Cross-Reference with Nodoka's four treasure hunter friends in the Magic World Story Arc. All of them are named after characters in James P. Hogan's Inherit the Stars novel. Craig Caldwell is named after Gregg Caldwell, Kristin Danchecker is named after Professor Christian Danchekker, Lynn Gulland is named after Lyn Garland, and Aisha Coryell is named after Koriel. There's also a character named Jean Luc Ricardo. | |
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Major 2nd: Coach Kunitomo of Tsujido Academy has two sons who are players in his team. Said sons' names are Mario and Luigi. | |
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The main characters of Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger were all named after detective authors. Banban Akaza comes from Agatha Christie. Houji Tomasu comes from Thomas Harris. Sen'ichi Enari comes from Ellery Queen. Marika Reimon comes from Raymond Chandler. Koume Kodou comes from Kodou Nomura. Tekkan Aira comes from Ira Levin. |
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Dragon Slayer II: Xanadu has "Warp-Up" and "Warp-Down" items called the Black Onyx and Fire Crystal, named after a duology of Wizardry-like games originally developed for the PC-88. | |
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Final Fantasy VIII takes the Star Wars theme naming a step further: in addition to Biggs and Wedge, there is a later supporting character named Piet (as in "You are in command now, Admiral Piett") and in the original Japanese, the Headmaster of Galbadia Garden is named Dodonna. | |
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Miu Kazashiro is an anagram of "Shirou Kazami", Kamen Rider V3. | |
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Also applies to the Goku in Saiyuki, though he's much more closely based off of his source material than the above example and also applies to the fellow characters as well. | |
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In Gasp!, the kids of the family are named Fred and Ginger. This is never commented on. | |
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Akashi Sutoku's Plasma Release attacks all come from attacks in other works of media that have "light" in their names. There's Light of Death, Light of Judgement, and Light That Burns the Sky. | |
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Several major suspects and authors of documents in Sherlock Holmes: The Awakening are named after tabletop RPG designers. | |
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All of the Milton Ferrets in Housepets! are named (loosely) after characters from Captain N: The Game Master - Keene, Rock (Mega Man), Pit, Lana, Duke, and Simon. | |
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Hiveswap has many, including Daraya Jonjet (from Daria and Joan Jett), Nihkee Moolah (from The Fabulous Moolah), and Tegiri Calbur (from Excalibur) | |
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In the epilogue, Kiba and Tamaki's daughter has both a dog and a cat as her battle partners. They are respectively named Riku and Sora. | |
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The Mordesh of WildStar have a German/Russian theme to their names, and many of their notable people like Dr. Victor Lazarin are named after famous Horror characters. | |
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The Hobbit: The names of Gandalf and all the Dwarves (except Balin) are drawn from dwarves in the Old Norse Poetic Edda. | |
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In Kamen Rider Decade, the Suspiciously Similar Substitute versions of the previous Kamen Rider heroes are references to their original series (see Decade's page for details). The biggest exception is Yuusuke Onodera, the alternate Kuuga, who is named for Kamen Rider creator Shotaro Ishinomori (whose birth name was Shotaro Onodera). | |
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