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Unusually Uninteresting Name

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Unusually Uninteresting Name	comment	Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_1'); })When something is generally implied to be more important or special because someone went out of their way to make the name as uninteresting and nondescriptive as possible. This might be because they want to avoid drawing attention to the unit, hiding it in the sea of boring names for various unimportant agencies, or just because the sort of badass who works there finds the bravado-filled names of many elite units to be distasteful. For various reasons, very common in many modern Western armed forces. A savvy character might try to bluff his way past an obstacle by identifying themselves as a member of some completely fictional agency, as long as the name is intimidatingly vague enough to make the other person think better than to investigate. Of course, sometimes an agency has such a bland name because it really isn't all that important, and nobody involved could be bothered to try and come up with a good name for it. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_mobile_ad_2'); })A Super-Trope to Room 101 and The Group; Related to Maximum Fun Chamber. Often overlaps with Covert Group with Mundane Front, Covert Group and No Such Agency. For individual characters with names less interesting than the role, see Special Person, Normal Name. Examples:
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: The Ankh-Morpork government department whose job is to deal with situations that Lord Vetinari would like ... dealt with ... are simply called "the clerks". Only when they need to be distinguished from the normal sort of clerks in the Palace are they called "the dark clerks". There's also Mr. John "Not-A-Vampire-At-All" Smith, who tries just a little too hard not to draw attention to himself.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_4b790c79	comment	Throughout the first Iron Man movie, we're told about Agent Coulson's work at the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division in a way that makes them seem like government bureaucrats. It's only at the end that it's first referred to by its more common Marvel name, SHIELD.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_52837809	comment	Inverted by Kamen Rider Drive, where the main character works for the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Investigations Unitnote full name: Special Circumstances and Incidents Investigation Division, which certainly sounds important, but is treated poorly by other divisions who see it as the dumping ground for all the freaks and weirdos in the PD. This is mainly because SI's job (investigating incidents relating to the time-warping Roidmudes) is seen as a Snipe Hunt by "regular" cops when it actually makes them one of humanity's only lines of defense against the monsters.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_53ebf3bb	comment	Liaden Universe: the organization behind most of the plot is called the Department of the Interior.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_6196490	comment	In all versions of Ghost in the Shell, the heroes work for the blandly named Public Security Section Nine. It's also shown that there are other Sections in Public Security with different specializations from Section Nine.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_73d7930f	comment	Star Trek: Deep Space Nine: While the Cardassians had the Obsidian Order, and the Romulans had the Tal Shiar, the Federation was eventually revealed to have Section 31, a covert operations agency so secretive that not only did nobody know about it (including effectively everybody within the Federation who was not already a member — though it probably helps that the Federation has an official counterpart to the Tal Shiar and the Obsidian Order in Starfleet Intelligence), but that what passed for its name was simply the title of the portion of the Federation Charter that allowed for the possibility of forming such an agency.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_771fc130	comment	Delta Green After Delta Green was officially reactivated in 2002, it held the official codename "DELTA GREEN" for two months before switching to the deliberately bland and uninformative "Security Studies Group", which was then switched to much more generic codenames like "Yellow Combine", "Petrel Hill", "Threshold Curve" or "Silver See" every few months or years to muddle the paper trail. Insiders eventually just nicknamed it "The Program". M-EPIC, a secret anti-occult government agency, stands for "Environment Policy Impact Commission", and it's oficially part of the Department of Environment attached Royal Canadian Mounted Police. It's a deliberate name to mask their operations under the guise of environmental investigations and easily secure any rubber stamps from the Parliament without any questions.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_8c1caf4	comment	The first Transformers movie features Sector 7, a secret government organization which researches Cybertronian technology, and which for some reason also has custom vehicles and uniforms, exactly the sort of thing you'd expect a secret organization to avoid.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_8fc9aeb7	comment	In Alternate Routes, the villains operate out of an organization vaguely, and misleadingly, named the Transportation Utility Agency.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_90304058	comment	The evil, world-threatening group in That Hideous Strength is named the "National Institute for Coordinated Experiments" (NICE).
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_9ac6b8f8	comment	In The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School, lepidoptery enthusiast Amy suggests that her classmates' detective organisation be called the Moth Club. When her friends ask what kind of name that is for a secret society, she says it's one that would cause most people to instantly lose interest.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_c487221e	comment	In the prologue of Men in Black, Agent K flashes an ID at a pair of Border Patrol officers, identifying himself and his partner as being from "INS, Division Six" so that he can talk to an Illegal Alien in private. Subverted, because one of the Border Patrol agents, a moment later, states "There is no Division Six" before following after K to see what he's up to. Just in time to end up Covered in Gunge and experiencing Laser-Guided Amnesia.
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Unusually Uninteresting Name / int_da52a723	comment	In Rivers of London the department of the London Police that enforces law in the magical community is merely mentioned as being "The Economic and Specialist Crime Team, Unit 9", no mention of Vagina Dentata, Body Horror, or throwing fireballs at all.
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The Divine Cities / int_61d94b59	type	Unusually Uninteresting Name
The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School / int_61d94b59	type	Unusually Uninteresting Name
Delta Green (Tabletop Game) / int_61d94b59	type	Unusually Uninteresting Name
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