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Verbal Tic Name

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65 feature instances
24 referencing feature instances

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Verbal Tic Name	label	Verbal Tic Name
Verbal Tic Name	page	VerbalTicName
Verbal Tic Name	comment	In PokÃ©mon Speak, the only thing a character says is their name. This is essentially the inverse: a character is named for the only thing they say. If it's the only thing they've ever said, it might be unclear (or forgotten) which came first, especially if the first question they were asked was "what's your name?" The way it usually works is someone with a limited or one-word vocabulary is named after that one word. Often, this will occur because other characters don't know this character's real name (if there even is one), and are uncomfortable with not having something to call them beyond "Hey, You!." The simple solution: Take the only word(s) they ever utter and turn that into their name. Note that, despite the title, the source of the name isn't necessarily a Verbal Tic. However, the spirit is there in that the character's limited vocabulary is their defining attribute.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: Susan Strong. Her first name came from her trying to say "sun", and her last name came from saying she was strong.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_13652756	comment	Finding Nemo: Bubbles the yellow tang gets his name from the treasure chest-shaped aquarium decoration that periodically spouts bubbles, and his obsession with it.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_187a332	comment	The Smurfs: The Howlibird, due to its screeching noise of "howli howli howli".
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Verbal Tic Name / int_1f140feb	comment	The Silmarillion: After losing her memory, Nienor is found weeping, lost and terrified by a group of Haladin warriors, who named her NÃniel (meaning "tear-maiden") for lack of knowledge of her real identity.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_21e321da	comment	Dragon Quest VII: Ruff is so named because after becoming human, he could only say "Ruff" (he later gains the ability to speak).
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Verbal Tic Name / int_2bbcacd9	comment	Looney Tunes: Tweety Bird in spirit — he doesn't actually tweet much, but, well, he's a canary. In the French translation of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Road Runner is named "Bip Bip", the French equivalent of his "Beep Beep" Verbal Tic. Benny and Hugo calls anyone "George".
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Verbal Tic Name / int_2cdeb829	comment	Greg the Bunny: Count Blah has an extensive vocabulary, but he's named after his Verbal Tic of saying "Blah" at the end of sentences. Which did not go well when in-universe Executive Meddling made him change his name to Count A'ight, which he couldn't pronounce.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_343ad13c	comment	The Babadook: The titular character is described in a book as announcing its arrival with a rumble and three knocks that sound "Ba BA-ba DOOK! DOOK! DOOK!"
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Verbal Tic Name / int_3ba81aa2	comment	Toriko: Yun. In the anime, Komatsu used the Wall Penguin chick's cry to call out for it when it got lost, and the name fell into place afterwards.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_3cd90f30	comment	Arrested Development: Lucille Bluth adopts a Korean boy that doesn't speak English. He pretty much only says the word "Anyang," which means "hello" or "how do you do" in Korean, and the Bluths decide that it is actually his name. Whenever he's present and one of them mentions Anyang, he usually says his name back (because that is the polite response if they were speaking Korean). It turns out his real name is "Hel-loh."
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Verbal Tic Name / int_3d0e59ba	comment	MotÃ¶rhead: According to legend, Lemmy earned his nickname as a schoolboy by constantly mooching from friends, such as with the phrase, "Lemmy a quid!"
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Verbal Tic Name / int_404622d6	comment	Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: Goo got her name because her parents let her choose her name when she was born and the only thing she could say was "goo goo gaa gaa."
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Verbal Tic Name / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Hodgesaargh the falconer from the kingdom of Lancre. He speaks normally, but that's what he says whenever asked for his name (thanks to one of his overzealous falcons trying to attack him): "I'm Hodges... aargh!". The Wee Free Men: Sneebs, so called because that's all he says, though whenever he says "Sneebs" you hear words in your head.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_49a88442	comment	Final Fantasy XIV: The player encounters an amnesiac Mammet when looking for Gentleman Inspector Hildebrand Manderville. Hildebrand opts to name the Mammet Gigi since that was the word it repeated when it woke up. As a bystander tries to point out that "gigigigi" is a general verbal tic for every Mammet, he gets ignored when Gigi admits he kinda likes the name.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_49e4bc8c	comment	Juuni Senshi Bakuretsu Eto Ranger: Nyorori ends every sentence with his name, Nyorori.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_4d30cecb	comment	In the French translation of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, Road Runner is named "Bip Bip", the French equivalent of his "Beep Beep" Verbal Tic.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_5106ee7e	comment	Galaxy Angel II: While she's fully capable of proper speech, Nano-Nano Pudding always ends her sentences with "nano da".
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Verbal Tic Name / int_558b4c84	comment	Guardians of the Galaxy: Groot's only line is "I am Groot."
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Verbal Tic Name / int_56e10d85	comment	Tolkien's Legendarium: The Book of Lost Tales: Most of the elven words for cats are onomatopoeias of meowing, such as miog, miaug and miaulin ("cat", "tom" and "she-cat" in Gnomish), and meoi and later miue in Qenya. The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is named because of the swallowing noise he makes in his throat. His true name is SmÃ©agol, but nobody remembers that anymore. The Silmarillion: After losing her memory, Nienor is found weeping, lost and terrified by a group of Haladin warriors, who named her NÃniel (meaning "tear-maiden") for lack of knowledge of her real identity.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons: The story of Noh. A DM had a group of adventurers enter a room with a couple of treasures and a little girl. The girl wasn't a real person, but a magical construct who could only say two things: "No" and "Please don't take these items". The players, unsure of what to do, tried to elicit more responses from her, but failed. Finally the bard tried playing a beautiful song, and rolled so high on his skill check that the DM had a single tear roll down the girl's cheek. The players immediately decide she's too adorable to leave behind and adopt her, naming her "Noh". The DM eventually allowed her to be granted a soul and a personality (and the ability to truly speak), but the name stuck.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_6bd0cf78	comment	Monsters, Inc.: Boo is a slight variant. Her real name is Mary, but she's just a baby and doesn't know how to introduce herself. "Boo" isn't the first word she says to Sully, but she screams it later.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_6d40e4c5	comment	The Kane Chronicles: Freak the griffin is partly named because of his freakish behavior, and partly because of the screeching noise that he makes.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_6f1dfbf0	comment	Myth Adventures: Gleep the baby dragon. In a story written from Gleep's POV it's shown that he's quite intelligent and erudite — the problem isn't his linguistic ability, it's that his vocal cords aren't yet capable of human speech. He does learn to talk more understandably in later books, however.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: Chicchi the flower spirit is an odd example in that she's not named for her own verbal tic, but because it's the sound that rats — her only companions until Guts shows up — make.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: There's an Unas named Chaka. Or rather, that's what Daniel calls him, 'cause that's what he says most often. There's a language barrier, you see. Later it seems that "chaka" is the Unas equivalent to "hello".
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Verbal Tic Name / int_734ce23c	comment	Di Gi Charat's Pyokola Analogue III ends hers with "pyo!"
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Verbal Tic Name / int_7ba9ab8c	comment	Simple Samosa: Samosa names the alien Bua in the second English dub of "Anda Bhatija" because he only says "bua".
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Verbal Tic Name / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: In one episode, the characters call an alien Meap because that's the only word he says (so that's how he replies when they ask his name). He gets hold of a translator mustache at the end of the episode, though. Considering he never corrects the kids when he does speak English, and his enemy Mitch also calls him Meap, it might actually be his name.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_7d122312	comment	The Flintstones has Dino's nephew Pow Pow, who says his name at the end of his sentences.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_7fc78282	comment	The Lord of the Rings: Gollum is named because of the swallowing noise he makes in his throat. His true name is SmÃ©agol, but nobody remembers that anymore.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_86814e56	comment	Final Fantasy VI: Although Gau can say quite a few words, his favorite seems to be "gau", a Japanese onomatopoeia for roaring.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_86c3beca	comment	Girl Genius has the Nyar Spider, such named by fans after what it says when doing anything. The novels give it a more scientific name, though.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_88b580f0	comment	Werewolf: The Apocalypse: The Wyrm-corrupted Black Spiral Dancers are given a new name upon completion of their first dance around the Black Spiral, chosen after the first sound they make when they emerge. Mostly these new names are incoherent noises of rage or distress, but one notably unfortunate individual was named Parrupt, as the first sound she made did not come from her mouth...
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Verbal Tic Name / int_8d98042f	comment	Game Grumps: In their playthrough of Out of This World, the Grumps call Buddy the Alien "Mike Aruba" because the main thing the character says in-game is "Mycaruba."
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Verbal Tic Name / int_98dc652b	comment	Dragon Ball GT: Giru, as DB4649T2006RS was just too long for the main cast and the audience (the Machine Mutants still refer to him as DB4649T2006RS).
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Verbal Tic Name / int_9d47a2a2	comment	A Song of Ice and Fire: Hodor, a simple-minded stable hand, doesn't have any words besides "Hodor". Later on, his great-grandmother Old Nan explains that his real name is Walder, which she thinks is what he's trying to say, but few people even remember him having another name.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_9ed7e864	comment	Sankarea: Babu, Chihiro's cat whose death and subsequent zombification triggered the plot, was named after the sound he makes, due to malformed vocal cords.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_a81325d3	comment	Final Fantasy: Final Fantasy VI: Although Gau can say quite a few words, his favorite seems to be "gau", a Japanese onomatopoeia for roaring. Final Fantasy XIV: The player encounters an amnesiac Mammet when looking for Gentleman Inspector Hildebrand Manderville. Hildebrand opts to name the Mammet Gigi since that was the word it repeated when it woke up. As a bystander tries to point out that "gigigigi" is a general verbal tic for every Mammet, he gets ignored when Gigi admits he kinda likes the name.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering: t's an obscure fact about goblins that they are named after the noise their mother made when giving birth to them. Though there wouldn't be a whole lot of creativity going into their names anyway, considering that goblins are born in litters (giving them their iconic numbers) and are none too bright to begin with (giving them there iconic tactics).
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Verbal Tic Name / int_a9f1e264	comment	Chobits: Chi. After Hideki first activates her, she turns out to have no memories and the only thing she can say is "Chi", so Hideki decides to call her that. It's revealed later on that her original name was Elda.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_aa5b1ac8	comment	Brotherband: Hal names the dog he finds in the mountains after her distinctive bark, rendered as "KLOOF".
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Verbal Tic Name / int_b1feec39	comment	Breath of Fire: Dragon Quarter: Nina is named after the only sound her damaged vocal cords are capable of producing.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_b2c187a7	comment	The Magician's Nephew: When the Talking Beasts adopt Uncle Andrew as a pet they name him Brandy because he makes that noise so often. Unusual in that Uncle Andrew was perfectly capable of speech. The animals named him this because they can't understand much of the other stuff he was saying — partly because he's rendered rather incoherent by the previous events of the novel, and partly because he shut off his mind from communication.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_b30ae4db	comment	Game of Thrones has Hodor, the lovable simpleton who keeps repeating this word, and people consider it to be his name. His birth name is Wylis. It's revealed that the reason he can only say "Hodor" is that he had a magically caused seizure when he was a teenager, during which he foresaw his own death. "Hold the door", deformed into "Hodor", turns out to be the last words he ever hears.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_b3bbaa6d	comment	Paulus de Boskabouter: Krakras the crow, whose name is based on the crow sound Kra, described as krassen in Dutch. Oehoeboeroe the owl's name is based on the sounds an owl makes.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_b7bbb8f5	comment	The Edge Chronicles: Twig is named his own name by a trog insistent on keeping him as a pet. Her mother insists that she won't have a pet that talks, and when Twig unthinkingly answers her question "What's your name?", he tries to make it sound like a verbal tic: "Twigtwigtwigtwig. Twigtwigtwig". The trog delightedly responds "I think I'll call him Twig."
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Verbal Tic Name / int_c3e981f2	comment	Jacob Two-Two: The main character got his nickname because, being the youngest of five siblings, he's used to saying things twice since he's not noticed the first time.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who "Utopia": Chantho precedes everything she says with "chan" and follows it with "tho." Apparently, leaving them out is rude where she comes from. Possibly Dorothy "Ace" Mc Shane, who tends to shout "Ace!" when she's enthusiastic about something.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_cebbba4f	comment	The Dark Tower: Oy is a billy-bumbler, which is a talking raccoon-like creature native to Mid-World. The name comes from his attempts to say "boy".
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Verbal Tic Name / int_d72face7	comment	The World According to Garp, inverted. Technical Sergeant Garp's name is the only thing he can say.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_e381e71f	comment	Digimon Tamers: It's suggested from the director's notes that Culumon (Calumon in the dub), not being a real Digimon at first, gave himself his name and adopted a Verbal Tic from it.
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Verbal Tic Name / int_e64b0d38	comment	Elfen Lied: Nyu. Her speech pathology makes sense, as she took a bullet to the head (see "Tan" in real life below for what brain damage can do) but her recovering then becomes an issue.
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