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Foreign names can be difficult to pronounce for English speakers, but the names of aliens and monsters are often worse still.
In the mildest version, the character's name is simply unusually long, set up with a phonetic maze like a Tongue Twister, or merely linguistically bizarre even given where it originates; Romanadvoratrelundar, Nahasapeemapetilon, Vijayaraghavensatyanaryanamurthy, Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar, Wendissofigelroc, Abalamahalamatandra, Maheswaran. Pronouncing names like these correctly is a sign of linguistic skill. Mispronouncing them is allegedly funny.
In practice, most languages contain at least one sound, or sound combination, not allowed in English. Names containing such sounds will always be unpronounceable, though spelling may obscure this. Naturally, this works both ways. English has more sounds than most other major languages, and its speakers pile up consonants in ways which the rest of the world wouldn't dream of, so it is rich in unpronounceable names. Some languages even have linguistic variables that don't affect meaning at all in English — most famously, changing voice-pitch of a Chinese word changes its meaning,note In some variants of the language, there are up to nine words that could be pronounced from a single character whereas in English tone doesn't do much other than change the emphasis of a sentence.
Characters who are seriously alien, and/or members of The Legions of Hell, get names genuinely unpronounceable in English. Mostly, they get names intended to be unpronounceable by a human mouth at all, but guaranteeing that requires some familiarity with other languages than English. Here is where Pronouncing My Name for You will not help the listeners.
Curiously, these same unpronounceable names can almost always still be written in the Latin alphabet: Cthulhu, Mxyzptlk, WxrtHltl-jwlpklz. (Of course, there is no guarantee that what is written down sounds anything like the actual pronunciation - "bark" and "woof" isn't exactly what a dog sounds like, but is the closest we can get.) They are more commonly seen in print than on screen, since most actors are not stunt linguists. When they do appear on TV, if the character is friendly they'll get called something easier to say. Giving someone who is supposed to be awe-inspiring and mysterious a shortened and silly nickname is also a way of humanizing them — or even humiliating them, if they're a bad guy.
At the more extreme end of the unpronounceable scale are names which aren't even recognizable as "words". You can't say them or write them down. These tend to appear either in hard science fiction, or as parody. The serious variants are often described as animal or other noises — roars, grunts, clicks, pops, etc. Parody variants typically get elaborate descriptions, such as "a name which sounds approximately like a trolley of squawking chickens being chased downhill by a bagpipe player on horseback, but played backwards at twice the speed". Names like this are easy enough to do as sound effects, but difficult to handle in print.
Beyond even that are the names which aren't sounds at all — a flash of green light and the smell of roses, binary code, telepathy, and so on.
When it's even possible, correctly pronouncing the most extreme names is often actually dangerous — you could damage body and/or soul or call forth unspeakable evil.
Names which aren't even comprehensible are usually reserved for particularly Eldritch Abominations, or the REALLY seriously alien. And at the extreme end of this, names that can't even be depicted are Too Strange to Show.
See also Punctuation Shaker and Word Purée Title. Can often cause Viewer Pronunciation Confusion. Compare Some Call Me "Tim" and My Name Is ???.
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Sonic Universe features the Mad Scientist Dr. Fukurokov. No one, be they his enemies or his allies, could pronounce his name. Lampshaded:
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Munchkin Cthulhu has one such monster. If it defeats you, it forces you to pronounce its name, causing you to sprain your tongue and be unable to ask for help next turn.
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Sluggy Freelance:
The demon K'Z'K, also known as "'The Vowelless One". Commonly called "Kizke" by the main cast of the strip, though he repeatedly indicates this is a completely wrong pronunciation. The fact that it's unpronounceable is actually a plot point; he gains power from his name being said, so the gods changed it from Kozoaku to weaken him.
During the "Oceans Unmoving" Arc, this gets subverted and then played straight.
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Rocketship Voyager. When Nee'Lix first arrives on Voyager speaking his own language, much of it is too high pitched for human ears to hear, including most of his name—Captain Janeway only hears Neee and Lix! and decides Sure, Let's Go with That.
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The real name of Draco from Dragonheart "can't be uttered in your tongue" and is presumably a mighty roar. He was named Draco by his friend as it is the name of a constellation that is the shape of a dragon.
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Subverted in the Disney version of Hercules, where several characters have halfway-unpronounceable Greek names like Philoctetes, and say, "Just call me Phil for short".
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Channel Awesome:
None of the crew can pronounce the name of actor Tone Loc, though it's The Nostalgia Critic who has the problem first.
Neither seem to detect the macron above the "o" in Lōc as his name is displayed and is there for a reason.
The Nostalgia Chick had similar trouble with Schuyler Fisk, but she just went to Wikipedia. (It's "Skyler")
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Captain Simian and the Space Monkeys. The " " race refuses to divulge their actual name, which they claim is so complex that it "cannot be spoken or written, only thought".
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Agent "!" in Doom Patrol. One of the other characters wonders how you're supposed to pronounce it; he just says, "Simple: just '!'".
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In the old AD&D parody The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters, the heroes plan to trick the Big Bad into following them onto the plane of Fordinchuarlikomfterrablaxxuuuuuchh'chh'chh-pt. The last part after the u's sounds like an Autobot transforming, followed by someone spitting.
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The Simpsons:
Apu Nahasapeemapetilon.
News reporter Kent Brockman tries to report on Kuala Lumpur, but instead says there was a tidal wave in "Kuallall... Kulalum... Klumallu..." then changes the report to read "France" instead.
From "Hungry Are the Damned" segment of the first Treehouse of Horror episode:
Also subverted in "Missionary: Impossible", where Homer is sent as a missionary to an island of aboriginals:
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Crystal Heart: As noted in an early strip, Lily's real name is Havatzelet, which is somewhat hard to pronounce for English speakers — hence the name change for the comic.
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Ayano's boyfriend, Shimotakatani, from High School Girls. In episode 10 of the series, his name is mispronounced several times.
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Kslnah Wryzyon in Chaos Fighters II-Cyberion Strike, which is to the extent that everyone calls her "the representative". The author's pseudonym, Murazrai, is also this, forcing he himself to give alternate names as replacement.
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Raising Angels The dragon who imposes himself in Lizbeth's dream, warps the dream scape with the uttering of his True Name, a name the protagonist never would be able to pronounce herself.
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Oddly enough, there was a character called Mr. Unpronounceable in the Matthew Broderick movie The Road to Wellville. His real name is probably something Slavic.
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8-Bit Theater:
In "Crossed Wires":
Also, saying Darko's true name would cause a brain to eat itself.
Black Mage didn't kill the other Light Warriors to summon Ur solely because part of the ritual involved pronouncing the deity's true name, which he couldn't.
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In Doonesbury, the country of Berzerkistan is led by Trff Bmzklfrpz. As explained in one comic, "Bmzklfrpz" is actually pronounced "Ptklm."
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Numerous examples in Twitch Plays Pokémon; in anarchy, the mob doesn't have anything even close to the coordination needed to form anything coherent on the in-game keyboard, so Pokémon frequently end up being "nicknamed" nonsensical strings of random characters like ABBBBBBK(, A♀NIIIIc33, NONNQWMMSO and !taj11yygaaa. This also happens to protagonists, since they're named with the same keyboard. This is one of the reasons it's so common for the mob to think of different, more coherent names for the Pokémon and protagonists.
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People have difficulty with Samir Nagheenanajar's name in Office Space with it implied that the Bobs fire him in part because they can't pronounce his name.
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Niklas and Friends has a character named Martin Czrnczinsky, although the issue of the pronounceability of his surname is never brought up in the comic itself. When asked about the correct pronunciation, the author replied to "pronounce it any way you like".
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In For Better or for Worse, "Mtigwaki" is the First Nations village Liz once lived and taught in. The actual pronunciation (m-tigwak-eh) appears nowhere in the strip itself, leaving most not to even attempt spelling it, let alone saying it. People would refer to it as "Liz's village". The snarkier commenters would simply run with the unpronounceable nature ("Mtitikitavi", "Mtimtibangbang", etc.)
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The name of Boss Mom Black Dragon from The Fallen Gods is a series of snarls and growls. Tuatha is able to repeat it back perfectly (as in, her player Jake states that she is able to repeat it back perfectly without actually saying the name himself).
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Also parodied in a Dilbert comic strip.◊
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In Planescape Survival Guide, "Fred" claims he can't pronounce his real name (Frd'gl'fn'd'pq'zter, after his mother's great-grand-uncle).
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Freefall: Supposedly, Sam Starfall's real name is a modulated electrical wave.
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SCP Foundation's Dr. Clef, who "maintains that its true name is that of an A major chord played on a ukelele."
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Whateley Universe example: in "Ayla and the Grinch", Phase fought a demon from a hell dimension and lost. The demon was named BKCRMWDJVG which apparently can't be pronounced properly using a human mouth and throat.
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In The Powerpuff Girls episode "Twisted Sister" the girls name their new sister Bunny after being unable to pronounce her mumbles.
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Many of the Dethklok experts on Metalocalypse have names to this effect. It was eventually revealed that Brendon Small made them unpronounceable on purpose just to see if Mark Hamill (who played the senator that introduced them) could do it.
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The eponymous Predator from Digimon 3: Predator vs. Digimon introduces himself as Krlrkak. Most dramatic readings on YouTube have trouble pronouncing it, while a film adaptation made in Garry's Mod makes the character himself having trouble pronouncing it, needing multiple takes to do so.
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Nyaruko: Crawling with Love!: The title character calls herself Nyarlathotep and goes by Nyarko, but her real name can't be spoken by human tongues. Even being able to comprehend her name is an incredible feat, one that would grant the person in question incredible insight into her being and bring them closer together.
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The Planescape campaign has the Tssng, a race native to the Elemental Plane of Earth; their entry in the guidebook specifically says that other races can't pronounce their rather difficult language, which requires their gemstone-based anatomy to speak.
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Red from Overly Sarcastic Productions often struggles with the pronunciation of various foreign names of mythological entities. She has a video example on this very page where she complains that she can't find any concrete way to pronounce 'fomoire', and she's called the Aztec mythology famous for its unpronunceable names. She also doesn't even try to pronounce Peh2uson, the proto-indo-european god who eventually became Pan, instead just showing it on screen.
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Parodied in Freakazoid! In trying to track down a Cthulhu-like monster, Cosgrove says he can't pronounce their next destination. Prof. Jones, however, finds "Romania" easy to say.
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In DC Retroactive Superman, Mxyzptlk travels to the ninth-dimensional land of Bppkss and gets in trouble with Grbnsqz the Wagerer.
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A mild example: The new civilians in The Keys Stand Alone are the G'heddi'onians. The four, being nicknamers, don't even attempt to pronounce it (“Man, what a tongue-twister of a name,” comments Paul) and promptly start calling them Geddies. This is lampshaded several times by people who find it charming that they do this when everyone else is very careful to say it correctly.
It's pronounced guh-heddy-OH-nee-ans.
Durothé's tribe is the Tranfardasfamira. And yes, if the four ever had to mention the tribe's name, they would call them the Trannies.
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On Ready Jet Go!, there's a good reason why Jet and his parents (Carrot and Celery) use English words as names: their real names are face-contorting strings of sound effects.
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Monster Girl Doctor: Sphwllympf is the real name of the Slime Girl nurse working at the central hospital. Since non-slimes found it impossible to pronounce, she instead uses the nickname she got in medical school due to her favorite food, Lime.
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The Order of the Stick:
Several characters are unable to pronounce "Xykon" correctly. He can hear it when people say "Zykon" instead, and gets angry about it. Though it is more like a "spelling" problem than a "pronunciation" one (the joke being that Xykon can "hear" the wrong spelling).
From Start of Darkness, there is a lizardman (who Xykon calls "Scaly") who informs Xykon that his name is "Ekdysdioksosiirwo, Viridian lord of—" at which point the sorcerer zaps him with lightning, saying that it is too long to remember. This is what prompts Redcloak to give fake names for himself (Redcloak, of course) and his younger brother, Right-Eye.
In the strip "...And It Feels So Good", a Modron (outsider from the Lawful Neutral plane) responder for the Pandemonium customer service center give its name as... "(1.67×1015)Q".
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Copperhead: a mild case with Budroxifinicus, who is dubbed Boo by Zeke and Clara within seconds of meeting him. No one else seems to have trouble with his name at all.
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In Legostar Galactica, that universe's parody of Q from Star Trek is called ; . No-one quite knows how to properly pronounce a semi-colon when used as a name.
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Space☆Dandy: Meow. His real name is Nynyamo, and it's not pronounced like how it's spelled. Extra points for it being a common name in his home star, Betelgeuse.
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In Rusty and Co., The hipster vampires claim that there's no point in revealing their real names as they are from an old language so obscure you've probably never heard of it and, thus, would be unpronounceable with your mainstream phonetics. Mimic settles on calling them Ezra and Koenig.
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Schlock Mercenary:
Tagon's Toughs employ a chef by the name of "Ch'vorthq".
Corporal "Legs" real name is Leelagaleenileeleenoleela.
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The Abyssal Exalted may not have names that are difficult to pronounce, but they certainly are long enough that only other Exalted have the Stamina to say them in one breath. And sometimes, such as in Keychain of Creation, not even them.
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xkcd has no way to enunciate it. It must be spelled out when spoken.
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Qurchhhh from American Dad!, a Cousin Itt-like alien furball voiced by Kim Kardashian. Her name is spelled as a squelch sound.
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None of the crew can pronounce the name of actor Tone Loc, though it's The Nostalgia Critic who has the problem first.
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Ultimate Vision
The first world where the Vision fell. "A world whose unpronounceable name takes the form of three prime numbers, a delicacy and a subtle glance between two strangers". Good luck trying to to picture that.
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In Atomic Robo, Doctor Dinosaur's real name is H'ssssk. This is yet another reason for Robo to slam his head into the wall while talking to him.
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Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
Nobody seems to be able to pronounce the Japanese name for Piccolo's "Special Beam Cannon" ("Makankōsappō"), including Piccolo himself.
Cell managed to say it properly, leading Kami to remark "Oh, so that's how you pronounce it."
Dragon Ball Z Kai Abridged episode 1 rendered it as "Makansapparappaka!!"
The joke continues in Dragon Ball Xenoverse with Male Voice #8 (a.k.a. "Abridged Nappa"), which pronounces it "Makansappalopolis!"
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In Fall of Cthulhu, one of the gods speaks his name to a human, and this is represented with a jet-black speech bubble and "wind" coming from behind the god. (As for the human who heard it, he goes into the fetal position and cries.)
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The Promised Neverland features man-eating demons/aliens that worship a god whose name is written in a weird, undecypherable alien script.
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"Sadachbia" from Not So Distant isn't exactly the character's name; he was named after a star, but in a language which humans (and some other species) would have trouble pronouncing. It just so happens that this is one of the stars which humans have given a name to, so that name is essentially equivalent.
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Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami gives us the shinigami Tioseafj. Word of God has it that the author came up with the name by smashing keys on the keyboard.
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Detective Randall from The Lazer Collection is made out the way, with his superior and a helicopter pilot trying and deciding to just call him Detective Randall. It's revealed that his full name is Randall Octogonapus, as in the son of Doctor Octogonapus.
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Beast Wars Neo: Rartorata, one of the servants of Unicron. Not so much in-universe, but out of it... yes. The Transformers Wiki has an absolute field-day making fun of it.
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In Grrl Power, Sydney runs into this problem when dealing with alien tourists whose names can't even be written in English. She starts giving them nicknames for official documentation purposes, much to Maxima's annoyance.
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Dungeons & Dragons:
Dragons. Crack open Races of the Dragon or The Draconomicon and you will see that damn near everything that flies and breathes fire or some other breath weapon in those books will have a name that is nigh unpronounceable. Most non-dragons tend to use a nickname or reporting name for them.
R.A. Salvatore's Sellswords series has the dragon colloquially known as Hephaestus. His real name is Velcuthimmorhar. Also by R.A. Salvatore, Drizzt Do'Urden of D'aermon Na'shez'baernon. It seems not even Salvatore himself is entirely sure how to pronounce it. (For the record, it's officially "Drist".)
The Saurials from the Forgotten Realms (introduced with "Dragonbait" from Azure Bonds) have unpronounceable names, using the scent system described above along with a series of clicks and whistles. Fortunately, a simple tongues spell allows apt communication.
The same book has the red dragon Mistinarperadnacles. This has been known to be mangled out-of-universe into something like "mister nerple-dinkles".
The Dvati are a race of identical twins. As such, their language requires two voices used in unison, and is more sung than spoken, Dvati being natural singers. Non-Dvati can learn it, but it's very difficult. As a result, the twins will use common names to interact with other races rather than their own, unpronounceable one.
The Planescape campaign has the Tssng, a race native to the Elemental Plane of Earth; their entry in the guidebook specifically says that other races can't pronounce their rather difficult language, which requires their gemstone-based anatomy to speak.
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Former WWE Diva Aksana's real name is Živilė Raudonienė. The Other Wiki doesn't even try to pronounce it.
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In the film adaptation of The Fourth Protocol, Michael Caine's character and his son amuse themselves trying to pronounce the names of Soviet and Eastern European visitors to the UK.
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In Book of Exodus, God refers His name as "I Am Who I Am", which matches the above description.
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Subverted in Avatar: The Last Airbender, where Aang gives himself the pseudonym of "Bonzu Pippinpaddleopsicopolis the Third". Except that Katara proceeds to smoothly identify herself as June Pippinpaddleopsicopolis, and no-one has any apparent difficulty saying or remembering it.
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Seeing how Dreadnought Despair has characters from across the globe, there are bound to be a few of these. Nikola Ragnvaldsson, Vasundhara Mwamba, and even protagonist Timaeus Woodworth are good examples of this trope.
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The Flash fought an evil alien computer program called Kilg%re (the official pronunciation is given as 'Kilgiear').
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In the We Must Be Killers stories, it's mentioned that future District 3 Victor Eibhlin marched onto the reaping stage and lectured the escort for mispronouncing her name.
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In Allen the Alien, how would you pronounce "RR-TWTTW" or "565-14" note Aside from spelling them out, of course They just get called David and Jill, respectively.
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Played with in Beetlejuice. The titular character's name is actually spelled "Betelgeuse" as in the star, but the protagonists have trouble figuring out how it's pronounced from just reading it.
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The Saurials from the Forgotten Realms (introduced with "Dragonbait" from Azure Bonds) have unpronounceable names, using the scent system described above along with a series of clicks and whistles. Fortunately, a simple tongues spell allows apt communication.
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The Poleepkwa/Prawns' language in District 9 is literally unpronounceable by human tongues, so when some of them landed in South Africa, they were given human names such as Christopher Johnson, Oliver and Paul. Given the nature of the movie, this is also meant to recall the practice of giving slaves European names as to erase their identity.
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J. H. Brennan, of GrailQuest fame, also wrote a series of gamebooks starring a barbarian named Fire*Wolf.
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In How I Unleashed World War II, a Polish comedy film set during the Second World War, the main character introduces himself to the Germans as Grzegorz Brzęczyszczykiewicz of Chrząszczyrzewoszyce, county Łękołody. Bshencheeshcheekyevich. Gsheghosh. The main character's real name is Franciszek (Frantcheeshek) Dolas. The Nazis have a horrible time trying to write down his name.
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Slightly Damned's Angels tend to have difficult names. Case in point, one of the main characters is called Kieri Suizahn. The angelic disposition towards the common language is generally that it's something that happens to other people.
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Centaurworld: Mertaur names consist of dolphin noises that other creatures can't actually pronounce, so they use aliases when talking to them.
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The Simpsons: One issue deals with a country somewhere in Eastern Europe with a name no-one, not Bart, not Lisa, not U.S. Senators or Secret Servicemen seem able to pronounce. The last two make a valiant effort, at least ("I think that's a glottal stop..."), until eventually deciding to go with "Kahkf" (Inspired by Bart choking after being strangled by Lisa for ruining said country's economy).
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The bonus concert on the deluxe version of Sabaton's 2014 album Heroes has a bit where frontman Joakim Broden complains to the Polish members of the audience how hard to pronounce their city names are.
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Tamuran: The Tree Creatures tend to have names that are this. Ex: Hhr’skhygh
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The Hebrew theonym "יהוה‎" (often transliterated as "YHWH"note Yodh "Y, I, J, or a vowel"; He "H, silent, or a vowel"; and Waw "W, V, or a vowel". The name may be derived from a verb that means "to be", "to exist", "to cause to become", or "to come to pass". in Latin letters), also known as the Tetragrammaton, is not pronounceable in present days, as the original pronunciation was lost. The closest pronunciations people can come up with are "Yehweh", "Yehovah" or "Jehovah". Jewish tradition also forbids the others from misusing His name. Although the name of the Jewish God is written as YHWH (which looks unpronounceable) that's due to it being a literal transliteration of the name from Hebrew, where it is written without vowels. This doesn't mean there are no vowels, just that they aren't shown (which is done often in Hebrew; vowel marks weren't added to the written language until the 9th century). However, God may have much longer mystical names (depending on the religious theories and interpretations) of up to seventy-two letters which have been lost at this point; these might fall into this trope.
Some scholars think that pronunciation of YHWH would actually be all breath sounds, leading to "God is breath/life." Which brings up the question "Can you pronounce breathing?"
It is actually forbidden to Orthodox Jews to pronounce God's real name. When reading the Torah (which is done aloud), one just replaces it with "adonai" meaning Lord (which is translated as all caps "LORD" in some versions of The Bible, like the King James Version). This is the source of the word Yehovah, reading YHWH with the vowels from adonai. Filter this through French to get Jehovah, a pronunciation witnessed at front doors worldwide.
In Book of Exodus, God refers His name as "I Am Who I Am", which matches the above description.
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In Attack of the Clones the Geonosian language was created by recording a voice actor saying the lines in English, then randomly speeding it up and slowing it down in the computer and interspersing foley effects such as a guy wrapping tissue paper over a comb, then sputtering against it.
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This is the logical conclusion of pre-recording equipment era Black Spiral Dancers in Werewolf: The Apocalypse. The Book of the Wyrm states that BSDs are named after the first sound they make after they exit the Black Spiral Labyrinth. Since this was usually a pained, guttural and utterly insane howl, sigh, scream, or giggle, somebody best to have been listening really closely, otherwise the "name" would be lost as soon as it was uttered. Even then....
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In the 2007 Transformers movie, nobody can get the name "Witwicky" right. This is not a "funny foreign last name" thing, either, as they're portrayed as a fairly "normal" American family.
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During a stream for recording a bunch of episodes of a Super Mario RPG LP at once, it was found out that Stephen Georg has a lot of trouble pronouncing the word "thermodynamics". As such, the chat's reaction was to make him say and singthat word over and over in the style of a Whose Line Is It Anyway? hoedown, as well as longer words he has less trouble with.
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Superman: Mr. Mxyzptlk from the fifth-dimensional land of Zrfff would be on this page, if it weren't for the fact that we're given a good pronunciation for his name (and, as a result, a good way to tell how to pronounce any name that's all consonants.) The pronunciations usually given are "Mix-pih-tulk" or "Mixxie-plik". (Note that "y" is a vowel in some languages such as french.) In order to make him go away, you have to get him to say his name BACKWARDS. Oddly enough, there was a second version of his name — the original spelling was "Mxyztplk," which was eventually retconned into a second entity entirely. In Superman: The Ultimate Guide to the Man of Steel they gave a pronunciation guide of "Mix-yez-pitl-ick," which likely can be considered the official Silver Age pronunciation.
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In Darken, Mink's full name is revealed to be "Minknarperadnacles"
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In Digger, demon names are not merely unpronounceable: they cannot even be HEARD by most creatures, which has them doubling as Black Speech. Fragments of their names can be heard by madmen and the newly deaf. And armadillos, for some reason.
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The names of the Demon and his brother in Friendly Hostility are depicted as random symbols and cause nosebleeds and spontaneous combustion, respectively.
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Subverted in Red vs. Blue: Reconstruction. Two characters both with the name Jones, but pronounced in seemingly difficult ways. The first Jones is continually dismayed by the fact that his team mispronounce his name as "Jo-En-Es". To continue the joke a character whose name is thought to be Jones, but is actually pronounced as Jo-En-Es was introduced for one scene.
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In BattleTech, there's the Huitzilopochtli artillery vehicle, which is named after an Aztec war god. Both in and out of universe it's simply referred to as the Huey.
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Kill Six Billion Demons has a minor character named INGSVLD. His name isn't even the weirdest thing about him — that would be the fact that he has a book for a head.
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Disney's The Cat from Outer Space has "Zunar-J-5/9 Doric-4-7"... but you can call him Jake.
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Lagrange: The Flower of Rin-ne: Laffinty Fin E Ld Si, shortened to just Lan/Ran.
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Dolphins are thought to have names — unique clicks and whistles that they use to identify each other. This theory was possibly alluded to in Splash (see entry under Film).
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Wonder Woman Vol 1: The "gremlins" language and name do not really work for human pronuciation, so they're fine with being called gremlins and being given nicknames. "Glitch's" attempt to say his species name so some kids can understand ends up rendered L:fh'gsftgyyf#d.
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WALL•E. Title-character WALL•E has a lot of trouble pronouncing EVE's name. She corrects him multiple times, but he doesn't get any further than "Ee-vah".
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Have I Got News for You: "The Americans intend to invade Iran and replace Mahmoud Ahmadinejad with a dictator whose name is easier to pronounce."
Played to the max by Stephen Colbert on a regular basis.
On the "news" website Fark, some people have taken to spelling (and pronouncing) his name as "Ahmadinnerjacket".
On AH Dot Com, "Armoured Dinner Jacket" became a Running Gag.
The Chinese has given up calling his full name, and just called him 'nejad.
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Although you wouldn't think so, the titular aliens' humanized last name in Coneheads gets this a lot.
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The DCU:
Quislet of the Legion of Super-Heroes has a real name which is an unpronounceable glyph.
Phantom Girl's home planet is named Bgztl. During the 2005 reboot, Karate Kid remarked that he wasn't sure if that was the planet's name or if she just sneezed.
Superman: Mr. Mxyzptlk from the fifth-dimensional land of Zrfff would be on this page, if it weren't for the fact that we're given a good pronunciation for his name (and, as a result, a good way to tell how to pronounce any name that's all consonants.) The pronunciations usually given are "Mix-pih-tulk" or "Mixxie-plik". (Note that "y" is a vowel in some languages such as french.) In order to make him go away, you have to get him to say his name BACKWARDS. Oddly enough, there was a second version of his name — the original spelling was "Mxyztplk," which was eventually retconned into a second entity entirely. In Superman: The Ultimate Guide to the Man of Steel they gave a pronunciation guide of "Mix-yez-pitl-ick," which likely can be considered the official Silver Age pronunciation.
In DC Retroactive Superman, Mxyzptlk travels to the ninth-dimensional land of Bppkss and gets in trouble with Grbnsqz the Wagerer.
Detective Chimp's real name is in chimpanzee language, and is best transcribed as "mostly three grunts and an incoherent shriek". It translation is much more understandable, meaning "Magnificent Finder of Tasty Grubs".
Agent "!" in Doom Patrol. One of the other characters wonders how you're supposed to pronounce it; he just says, "Simple: just '!'".
The Flash fought an evil alien computer program called Kilg%re (the official pronunciation is given as 'Kilgiear').
Wonder Woman Vol 1: The "gremlins" language and name do not really work for human pronuciation, so they're fine with being called gremlins and being given nicknames. "Glitch's" attempt to say his species name so some kids can understand ends up rendered L:fh'gsftgyyf#d.
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In Toy Story 2, toys for Buzz Lightyear's nemesis Zurg said his home planet was Xrghthung. But in Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, it's just "Planet Z".
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Futurama:
Subverted in the episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean In Love", when an old acquaintance of Zoidberg's refers to him as "Dr. (unintelligible slurping/gurgling noise)."
Used straight in "The Day The Earth Stood Stupid", where Nibbler tells Leela that "in the time it would take to pronounce one letter of my true name, a trillion cosmoses would flare into existence and fade into eternal night." One wonders how they communicate with each other.
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There is a horselike race in Fading Suns, whose members' names can look like "Aluuuraloooraaaa" or "[long, fading whistle]". The creators cared enough to avert Rubber-Forehead Aliens and point out several races (this one as well as bird- and bugpeople) have their voice apparatus working differently than that of primates.
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In Spider-Man: Homecoming, Happy Hogan quickly renounces trying to pronounce "Megingjörð", instead just calling it "Thor's magic belt".
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In Buzz Lightyear of Star Command, the Little Green Men's home planet is identified on-screen as Œzạ£▪◊βGæ!.
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Magic: The Gathering — One word: Asmoranomardicadaistinaculdacar. In the one story she appears in, she is usually just called Asmor. And her boss's name? Vincent.
And then there's the totally lost Ravnican homunculus Fblthp.
Actually, judging by Mklthd and Zndrsplt, unpronounceable names are a trademark of Homunculi.
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The Nostalgia Chick had similar trouble with Schuyler Fisk, but she just went to Wikipedia. (It's "Skyler")
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The Japanese title of the fourth and final film in the Rebuild of Evangelion series is Shin Evangelion Gekijōban:��. No official Japanese pronunciation has so far been given for the symbol at the end, which is a symbol in musical notation that essentially means "Go back to the beginning and play the whole piece again". The official English release changes the title to Evangelion 3.0+1.0: Thrice Upon a Time.
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In Pokémon Opal and Garnet, Clopin the Touceet's name is pretty much this to everyone. Since his name contains a French nasal vowel (he is named for a character in The Hunchback of Notre Dame, after all), he'll often get mispronounciations such as "klop-pin," "kloh-PAN," "kloh-pin," or the like. It's actually "kloh-PAH~n," and the way to get this sound according to Clopin himself is to say the word "pang" out loud. Then, once you've said it, cut off the "-ng" at the end abruptly. Usually, they'll say "kloh-PAY," but Clopin makes it clear to them that they need to cut off the entire sound.
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A running gag in The Man with Two Brains. Steve Martin's character Dr. Hfuhruhurr calmly insists that his name is pronounced exactly as it's spelled. Various characters find many different ways to attempt it. Martin pronounces it like "Huff-haaaahhhhrrrrr." One of his bonding moments with Anne Uumellmahaye is that they're both say each other's name correctly on the first try.
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When Seth Meyers reported on the disaster for Weekend Update, he lampshaded and subverted it by referring to it as "Iceland's — I hope I'm saying this right: volcano."
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Chronicles of Darkness: The True Name of any Infernal demon is a psychic blast of synaesthetic evil and horror. Humans have a bit of trouble with those, but they can make up a spoken or written approximation as long as it has a sincere intention to communicate the Name.
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In Thor, Darcy never pronounces Mjölnir's name correctly. She always pronounces it as "Myeh-myeh."
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Youtuber Muselk's name, as admitted in his own channel trailer. According to him, he thought of his name just by stringing together random syllables and choosing some that sounded nice, only to watch his viewers completely butcher it every attempt at pronouncing it. For the record, it's pronounced "Mew-selk".
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There's a Korn song called K@£$%!. One would presume it is for censoring.
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In Pay Me, Bug!, one character is named "Ktkt'tkkt'kktt'tkkk'tktk'ttkt'tkkk'kktt'kktk'tk" ("Ktk" for short).
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The Dark Eye:
The maritime Zilites communicate through their gills. Land creatures are unable to reproduce these sounds, and in return Zilites cannot speak languages, that require vocal chords. Risso, who own both bodyparts, are typically used as translators.
While basic communication is possible, on advanced levels, the languages of the elves (which require the speaker to speak with two voices at once) and dragons (which requires telepathy) are impossible to master for humans.
Kobolds use a whistling, clicking language that other species cannot reproduce. This is a good thing for them, as a kobold's name confers magical power over its owner — it's a bit hard to take advantage of this trick when you physically can't produce the name's sounds.
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#Blessed: Joanna has trouble with one of the god's names after she first wakes up, so she declares him Alex. Later, she tries to learn his real name, but he's gotten attached to Alex.
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Superhero Sleepwalker's actual name cannot be pronounced by humans. Since he's part of a race of Sleepwalkers, he simply has humans call him by his race's name when manifesting in the human world.
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Quislet of the Legion of Super-Heroes has a real name which is an unpronounceable glyph.
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Warhammer 40,000:
The Tau are said to have names effectively unpronounceable in Imperial Gothic, the humans' lingua franca of the setting. This is somewhat ironic as far as the symbolism is concerned, considering that the Tau are the idealists of the setting and are mostly immune to its daemonic menaces. Tau language, however, isn't nearly as hard to pronounce as some other examples. It is however quite different from the human language, consisting of long flowing series of syllables. An example of a Tau name would be Shas'O Vior'La O'Kais Mont'Yr O'Shovah (meaning Commander Farsight, the skilled and the bloodied, of the sept Vior'La).
There are several examples of Daemon names in the style of Lovecraft — so much so that, on the GW website, there is a Daemon name generator that strings together random syllables to form names such as Yyeaag'gaeffthlgzaaq'ffdhppccdhergzbhyyiieduii. And it should be known that if you happen to roll correctly on the generator table, you might get a Knornate daemon named "Deathdeath the Deathbringer" Daemons true names are often long and generally unpronounceable. Black Crusade gave us the Tzeentchian daemon prince whose public name is "Phokulozortus", and a percentile table of rolling up true names. Honsou is a Chaos Lord who had inherited a possessed Marine bodyguard from his predecessor, whom Honsou calls Onyx, because that was the only part of his true name Honsou could pronounce.
The Warhammer book series, Malus Darkblade, goes a little further with this for Daemon names. At one point, Malus is attempting to convince T'zarkan, the daemon possessing him, to tell him its true name; T'zarkan replies that it wouldn't do Malus any good since he doesn't have the mouth parts required to pronounce it properly to begin with.
The Chaos Gods, though they have generally accepted names and pronunciations throughout the 'verse, tend to be called by dozens of alternative names and aliases by folks throughout the galaxy. Their true names, if they even have them, would be unpronounceable, even unknowable to mortal minds.
The Chaos god Tzeentch has at least three pronunciations to his name none of which Games Workshop claims is right. In alternative media where sound is actually part of it, his name is most often pronounced zeench.
His counterpart Nurgle has also been pronounced as nergl, Ner-GAL, and even ner-GOOL.
Despite having a relatively simple name, this frequently is an issue for people trying to pronounce Roboute Gulliman. It's Rob-Oot Jewel-Ee-Man, but is nonetheless frequently misspoken as Rob-Oot-Ee Gill-Ee-Man.
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When Regular Car Reviews covered the Smart ForTwo, Mr. Regular mentioned several of the unpronounceable and terrible knockoffs made in China, like the Shijiazhunag Shuanghuan Automobile Company's Noble.
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The Warhammer book series, Malus Darkblade, goes a little further with this for Daemon names. At one point, Malus is attempting to convince T'zarkan, the daemon possessing him, to tell him its true name; T'zarkan replies that it wouldn't do Malus any good since he doesn't have the mouth parts required to pronounce it properly to begin with.
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In PepsiaPhobia, there is the netherbeast called Krphxyzwlps. A whole comic is solely about Phobia's efforts to pronounce it, as seen pictured above. The about page now addresses this, saying it's pronounced as Ker-fixy-whelps (the z is silent).
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Both used and parodied at the same time by Men in Black with the Twins, identical aliens that maintain the MIB database. One has a name that is completely incoherent, using the infamous Welsh gurgle-sound, technically called a voiceless alveolar lateral fricative. The other is "Bob".
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Marik can't pronounce the name of Akhnaten/Akunadan/Just Forget It (Hakuna Matata?). He eventually decides to just call him "Bob".
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Todd in the Shadows calls Gotye this, even pronouncing it "Goatse" at one point.
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In the The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past episode of The Completionist, neither Jirard or Greg can pronounce Agahnim. So they decide to call him Agrabah.
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Wait, Wait, Don't Tell Me: In the lightning round on the 14 Jan 2017 show, Tom Hanks (filling in for host Peter Sagal) made a crack about not saying the name of the Polish foreign minister "because it would blow NPR's annual consonant budget".note Witold Waszczykowski
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Vilhjalmur Sigurbjornsson from Survival of the Fittest. Given that the medium is written, it might be more apt to call him "The Unspellable". Also notable in that his author intentionally picked a name they thought would be as obnoxiously difficult to spell and pronounce as possible.
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On the Harmontown Podcast, Mayor Dan Harmon asked two audience members pick the first and last name of Comptroller Jeff Davis's Dungeons and Dragons character. The first audience member supplied the first name, "Quark," but the second person just made an inarticulate noise rather than respond. Thus "Quark Pffffhhh...." became the character's permanent name.
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Also parodied in Spliced. The name of the species of bird Lord Wingus Eternum belongs to can't be pronounced; it has to be expressed as a laser dance show.
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When Buffy asks a fairy who she is in issue 5 of Buffy the Vampire Slayer season 9, she answers Buffy couldn't pronounce her name.
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The entire Centaurian language in The Pentagon War is unpronounceable, due to Centaurians having four mouths.
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Sonic X: Dark Chaos:
Demonish, the common Demon language. Most of it is translated, but not all of it. The easiest way to replicate it is to "roll your face on your keyboard". It is described in-story as a combination of Latin and Enochian put in reverse.
Demonese Skript, an ancient form of Demonish, is literally only translatable by Maledict himself.
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Paddington (2014): Paddington's real name is a sort of roaring noise that humans can't manage. Mr Brown's attempt gets an Informed Obscenity reaction from Paddington. Hilariously Paddington is seen giving Judy lessons in bear language and she's rather adept at it.
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According to Sybok in Star Trek V: The Final Frontier, the Andorian name for the fabled planet Sha-Ka-Ree is unpronounceable for humans and Vulcans.
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Takopi's Original Sin: When Takopi first meets Shizuka, he introduces himself by his real name, Nnu-anu-kf. After some time struggling to pronounce it, Shizuka settles on calling him Takopi (based on his octopus-like appearance and "-pi" verbal tic) instead.
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Pete's Dragon (1977): A Running Gag has the villain utterly unable to pronounce the name of the town, Passamaquoddy. The name is actually a real Native American tribe in Maine and that of a part of the Bay of Fundy on the Maine/New Brunswick border.
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Tales of MU:
Lizardwoman "Hissy" has a real name that's a combination of hisses and rattles.
The nymphs are identified by sensory impressions of sun and wind; the pair who elect to go to college name themselves after their fields, becoming Amaranth and Barley.
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A running gag in Godzilla (1998) remake is that no one can properly pronounce the name of worm expert Niko Tatopoulos (the surname of the VFX designer). He is therefore usually just called "The Worm Guy".
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Author James Rollins, AKA James Clemens for his early fantasy novels through a different publisher, real last name is Czajkowski. He adopted the pseudonyms specifically to avoid this trope.
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The side-comic "Tempts Fate" from Goblins has a brilliant subversion. There is a dragon whose name coincides with the D&D dragons being unpronounceable, but to the point that if you utter it, any who hear it would be sent to the abyss. The dragon elects to destroy him instead.
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Subversion: in Starslip, Jinx, a Cirbozoid, tells Cutter that his real name is unpronounceable in English. When Cutter says he'd like to hear it anyway, Jinx mentions that it is also unpronounceable in Cirbozoid.
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Although almost pronounceable with some effort, ToyHammer gives us "Shas'ui Fi'rios Yon'anuk Eldi'myr", which means "Fire cast veteran trooper of the Fi'rios colony, flying-hunter winged-knife". A.k.a. "Sergeant Talon".
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Fhqwhgads (full name fhqwhgadshgnsdhjsdbkhsdabkfabkveybvf) was the sender of the Strong Bad Email i love you. Strong Bad comments that in the time that it took him to say that, he could've painted a picture of a big guy with a knife. "Fhqwhgads" became a Running Gag, with Strong Bad pronouncing it something like "fuh-who-goo-gods."
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Les Guignols de l'Info:
Rémy Pflimlin, PDG of France Télévisions. None of his employees can pronounce his name correctly.
Also invoked once with right-wing deputy Pierre Méhaignerie.
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In Housepets!, Pete was given the name for this reason.
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Key & Peele have a sketch parodying (usually black) football players' Ghetto Names, including Torque [Construction Drilling Noise] Lewith and EEEEE EEEEEEEEE, who just makes a dolphin noise when saying his name.
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The joke continues in Dragon Ball Xenoverse with Male Voice #8 (a.k.a. "Abridged Nappa"), which pronounces it "Makansappalopolis!"
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Moonbeam City has Aiaiaia, the beautiful chime-playing singer managed by main character Dazzle instead of doing his actual job. Dazzle's rival Rad also starts managing a foreign chime-playing singer named UAKPASIA9;A (pronounced "*eagle-like shriek*")
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In The Badger, the full name of the Badger's ally Ham the Weather Wizard is Hammaglystwythkbrngxxaxolotl. This name is intended as, not alien, but fourth-century Welsh.
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Hiroyuki Sawano plays around with this in his song titles for soundtrack scores, although sometimes it's highly coded, written in the International Phonetic Alphabet, replaces words with punctuation marks meant to be read as the word being replaced, or Wingdings that in recent years have been elevated to emoji.
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When the Swedish diplomat Dag Hammarskjöld became Secretary-General of the UN he told reporters that it was OK for English-speakers who had problems pronouncing his name to use the direct translation of it and simply call him "Mr. Hammershield." For reference, it's pronounced "HA-mur-hweld", according to The Other Wiki here.
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One of Captain Flamingo's regular stable of kids that he rescues is named Mthgregronifsqumineousrassitrick. Although it's sometimes shortened to "Mith" in conversation, he's often called by his full name, and everybody takes the trouble to get it right.
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 Spacetrawler (Webcomic) / int_d5656fbe
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The Unpronounceable
 Tamuran (Webcomic) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 The Dragon Doctors (Webcomic) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 The Volet (Webcomic) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 2/0 (Webcomic) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Wurr (Webcomic) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 xkcd (Webcomic) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Yosh! (Webcomic) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Awful Hospital Roleplay Forum (Website) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Fantendo (Website) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Overused Sci-Fi Settings (Website) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Atlantis: The Lost Empire / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Bubble Guppies / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Buzz Lightyear of Star Command / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Megas XLR / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Moonbeam City / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Pocahontas II: Journey to a New World / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Superfriends / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 What About Mimi? / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Aksana (Wrestling) / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable
 Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami / Fan Fic / int_d5656fbe
type
The Unpronounceable