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Some names, frequently taken from historical events, seem to be jinxed. No one wants to ride on a ship (or a spaceship) named "Titanic" or "Hindenburg". Similarly, anything named "Icarus" is begging for a wing-clipping, and sooner or later, the Goliath is going down hard, probably to a smaller opponent (bonus points if said smaller opponent is named David). Likewise, don't compare your defenses to the walls of Jericho — that'll just make 'em go splat like an ant beneath an elephant's foot (with said ant being you, and said elephant's foot being the wrath of God.) It's probably not a good idea to name your vehicle the Doom Buggy, either, especially if you plan on driving your friends around in it. And if you're assigned to name a computer, let alone a supercomputer, then "Skynet", "Hal", and variations thereof are strictly off limits; after all, what good is a computer if all it wants to do is kill people and/or Take Over the World? And no matter its size or intended role, Colossus and Guardian are also bad choices. Note that it has to be the name of something that has already gone down: The original Hindenburg (named after the German general Paul von Hindenburg, who did not meet any kind of horrible fate) was not an example of this trope (but Titanic arguably was, see the Real Life section below). Compare Names to Run Away from Really Fast, Prophetic Names, I Don't Like the Sound of That Place, and Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?. Related to Analogy Backfire and of course Tempting Fate. Due to the nature of this trope, expect spoilers. |
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For a twofer, there's a Japanese company called Cyberdyne, whose most famous project is a powered exoskeleton, but they thankfully decided not to name it any variatiion of "Terminator"... they named it "HAL" instead (Hybrid Assistive Limb). | |
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There's a comforter set called the Othello. Presumably the intention was to name it after the game rather than the original play, and for those that don't know, the climax involves Othello smothering his wife to death in their bed after being thoroughly hoodwinked by his smarmy, deceptive, ambitious flagbearer. | |
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Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam: The Titans develop "Psychic Communicator" technology that interfaces with Newtype minds, which is usually called "Psycommu" for short. However, when it's first implement into a mobile suit, it's given the much more alarming abbreviation "Psyco Gundam", which unfortunately reflects the fates of its pilots. | |
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StarCraft has the Goliath: A potent Mini-Mecha, equipped with AA missiles and machine guns, it can do heavy damage to most targets and is fairly durable. If a few of them are alone and are attacked by numerous smaller units, however, their targeting systems are really bad at prioritization. So a few Zerglings, the game's cheapest units, can bring down an expensive and powerful unit a few times their size. Sound familiar? | |
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While the flying city of Bioshock Infinite is named Columbia, its government codename was... "Project Icarus". This being Bioshock, things go badly there. Not to mention the original BioShock. It may not be fitting to name a projected utopian city "Rapture". |
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There was a notable subversion in the second season of Yu-Gi-Oh! ZEXAL; two minor antagonists, Umimi and Tobio, competed in a team duel against Yuma and Anna, with Umimi using a monster named "Supercolossal, Unsinkable Superliner Elegant Titanic" and Tobio using one named "Supercolossal Airship Giant Hindenburg". (They lost the duel, but these two monsters actually did their job rather well; if any card failed, it was the Barian Chaos Xyz that Vector gave them.) | |
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Icarus of the X-Men, a mutant born with wings. Reverend Stryker cuts his wings off, tricks him into helping kill a busload of his former friends, and then murders him. | |
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Rise of the Planet of the Apes: The main primate is named Caesar. He eventually leads the ape rebellion. If you pay attention to the TV in the background during one scene, you'll see news coverage of a NASA launch which is called Icarus (implied to be the ship that crash lands in the beginning of the original movie). Sure enough, just a few scenes later, a newspaper headline can be seen proclaiming that the ship has mysteriously vanished, and we all know what happened to it after that. |
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House: Dr. House talks to a patient who apparently tried to kill himself: | |
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Lampshaded in one of the Honor Harrington books. The Havenite battle plan is code-named Icarus, and one of the commanding officers muses that if he were in charge, he wouldn't have named the plan after the one whose wings fell apart. Strangely, it's one of Haven's most successful operations. It's possible that the "Icarus" in "Operation Icarus" actually referred to the Manticorans. Also: The Solarian League named a series of ships the Joseph Buckley class. They should've known. They probably did — given that the scientist himself was well known in-universe for his reckless disregard of common sense. And it gets worse: Every Solarian ship named after Joseph Buckley (and there were quite a few) met bad ends. Several of them were lost to accidents instead of combat. In the Manticore Ascendant novel A Call To Duty, a Manticoran sloop is called Phobos, after one of the moons of Mars,note She and her sister ship, Deimos, were built mostly from the parts of the decommissioned battlecruiser Mars but by extension, also after the Greek personification of fear. The ship proves to be a nightmare for her builders and crew, and meets a disastrous end. |
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In Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., one supervillain is mentioned to have gotten his powers from a project manipulating "Darkforce". It is immediately lampshaded by Coulson, who snarks that "nothing bad ever happens when you're working with something called 'Darkforce'." | |
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In Cherrybomb (2009), the health centre where Malachy works is called "Titanic Leisureplex". And people are surprised when bad things start happening there. | |
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After the success of the movie Titanic, someone tried to build a replica of the famous ship to cater to all the movie fans who wanted to have a romantic ocean cruise on a ship like that. They couldn't find enough investors willing to tempt fate that boldly. Until Australian millionaire Clive Palmer took on the project in 2012. | |
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It managed to get a sequel in 2022 which saw a third Titanic being built and going over the exact same area again. Much like its predecessors, this one sinks as well, this time to the angered spirits of the original crew. | |
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Invoked in The Sound and the Fury when the younger Quentin Compson disappears. Her grandmother promptly looks for a suicide note, assuming she followed the lead of her deceased uncle Quentin. | |
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The Chevy Nova was said to have sold poorly in Spanish speaking countries as the Spanish phrase "no va" means "doesn't go". As snopes.com explains, this is pure myth. Not only would a spanish speaker not read "Nova" as "no va" any more than an English speaker would read "Notable" as "no table," not only is nova an actual Spanish word (meaning the same thing as its English cognate), the real kicker is that there's no failure for this supposed naming goof to explain. The Nova sold just fine in Latin America. | |
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The majority of the game in Alien: Isolation takes place on The Sevastopol Station...named after the city in Ukraine that was under siege during the Crimean War that was almost wiped out by diseases brought in by outsiders. | |
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In Short Packed, Mr. and Mrs. Bean (no, not that one) are fundamentalist Christians, and are homophobic. This is much to the disappointment of their lesbian daughter Leslie. Near the end of the comic's run, Leslie's fiancee Robin calls them out on this, naming their daughter Leslie Bean. Apparently, it's a family name. | |
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Ingress: "It’s called Niantic. Named after some ship that’s buried under San Francisco. The NIA names all their projects after shipwrecks. That should have been my first clue." | |
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A common out-of-universe reaction to the '70s storyline wherein Green Arrow's sidekick Speedy was addicted to drugs. As Superdickery put it, "It's like walking in on your ward doing a corpse and going 'Necrophilia Lad! How could you?!" | |
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Harry Potter: Professor Remus Lupin is a werewolf — "Remus" being a mythical child raised by wolves (brother to Romulus, founder of Rome), and "Lupin" is derived from "lupine", which means "wolf-like". In addition, out of the two Roman brothers, guess which one died (killed by his twin, even) when you have to be alive to found a city. He appears aware of this, as he uses "Romulus" as a pseudonym for a radio broadcast late in the series. There's a werewolf character named Fenrir Greyback. Fenrir is the wolf-shaped son of Loki in Norse mythology, and Greyback is obvious. On the other hand, Fenrir likes being a werewolf, so it's not impossible he chose the name deliberately. |
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Jurassic World has a new genetic hybrid dinosaur made to be the scariest predator named Indominus rex. Given it has "indomitable" right in the name, it's no surprise the thing turns out to be an untameable and deadly maverick. Then Fallen Kingdom introduces a dinosaur in the same vein called Indoraptor, which is quite appropriate for something designed as a killing machine. | |
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Neon Genesis Evangelion Most of the cast are named after sunken World War II battleships and carriers. Poor Asuka gets the dubious distinction of having both of her last names be associated with a terrible fate: Langley was attacked by Japanese planes and had to be scuttled, while Soryu was sunk at Midway. Is it any surprise that the place is a Dysfunction Junction? Asuka also compares the door to her room to the "impenetrable wall of Jericho" at one point, and tells Shinji not to try entering while she sleeps. Considering what really happened to Jericho, this implies she either subconsciously wants the wall to be "penetrated" or intentionally gave Shinji an oblique hint to try something (which he does not). |
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Whateley Universe: With a name like Paine Deth, it was almost inevitable that he would take a Morally Ambiguous Doctorate in Mad Science. | |
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In one episode of Married... with Children Peg got a really good deal on some chicken. The fact that it came from a place called "Chernobyl Farms" really should have set off a red flag. (Actually, the bad case of the runs it gives Al is what gives him the inspiration to build his new bathroom, something he actually manages to do right for a change, more or less.) | |
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In the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, Wizard Ponder Stibbons and Assassin Johanna Smith-Rhodes name their youngest daughter Ruth Leonora. Ruth grows up into a young girl with distinct signs of genius and has a brilliantly inventive mind. Ponder realises she is a catch-net for inspiration particles. Johanna frets that calling her Leonora is too like Leonard (of Quirm) and wonders if this is asking for trouble. Ponder reminds her the Leonora bit is after Johanna's grandmother. And that if they'd really wanted to court trouble, they'd have added a third name, Daquirmia, or something like that. Johanna tells him not to even go there. Sure enough, something is listening... | |
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For the Spirit of Creation: San Francisco: If the bad guys wanted their Dark Messiah to stay nice and subservient, they probably shouldn't have called her Lilith. | |
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In Solar System, which takes place in the far future, one character is a dog named Strelka... because you do not want to name a space dog "Laika". She also shoots down another character's suggestion to name a new shuttle "Challenger", reminding him what happened to the original space shuttle Challenger. | |
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In the Adventures of Captain Vrungel, the captain names his boat Pobeda, "Victory", because "it will sail according to how you name it. You can name your boat 'Trough' or 'Sieve"', but don't expect it to not to sink at its first sailing." Ironically, at Pobeda's first sailing, two letters fall off and the ship becomes Beda: "Trouble" (the pun is "Courage" and "Rage" in the English translation). The four letters remaining are the only part of the ship to complete the journey. The animated adaptation averts the trope, and the yacht survives until the end. It is also the Russian Trope Namer. There's a Shout-Out to this in Alpha Protocol, where a mobster's yacht in Moscow is named the same thing, with the "Po" missing; by the morning after Mike visits, it's a ghost ship with no signs of a struggle. |
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Guns N' Roses decided to title their sixth studio album Chinese Democracy. Depending on how one interprets the title, it can be taken to mean "A dramatic and powerful shift in the status quo" or "Something that will probably never happen". The latter interpretation became a bit prophetic when the album hit a notoriously Troubled Production, with one of the worst cases of Schedule Slip in rock n' roll history: it took an entire decade to record, it set a Guinness World Record for the most expensive album production of all time, and the band spent eight years promoting it on tour before it was actually released. Before it finally hit shelves in 2008, some fans understandably doubted whether it would ever come out. This led to many an Obligatory Joke that there would be actual democracy in China before Chinese Democracy was finished. | |
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Calypso is a character from The Odyssey who forcibly keeps Odysseus on her island for many years. Not much better. On the other hand, another meaning of "calypso" is "to conceal", which is appropriate for a ship that is supposed to carry the last humans away from a race of murdering aliens. | |
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The giant tower superweapon in Metropolis (2001) is named "Ziggurat", after towers said to be built by the Babylonians to show off their power, the most famous being the tower of Babel. Of course, it ends up toppling. What makes this especially ridiculous is that this is acknowledged in the actual movie. | |
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Observation: Bad things happen on the Low Orbit Space Station. The LOSS. | |
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Hey, we've got a band! We've got one really great song called That Thing You Do!. What should we call ourselves? The Wonders? Perfect! Lampshaded in that, initially, they call themselves "The One-Ders" (they only have one song, get it?). The MC at their first performance thinks the joke is crap and simplifies it. Further lampshaded when the lead singer quits and Tom Hanks calls them the One-hit Wonders. "Very common tale." | |
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Due to their posters lacking a colon in the title, Chuck thought Star Trek: Insurrection and Star Trek: Nemesis were respectively rebelling against and the enemy of Star Trek. But given the fate of the franchise not long afterwards, he finds them appropriate. | |
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DuckTales, "The Uncrashable Hindentanic" went for the Double Dog-Dare with an airship named the Hindentanic. | |
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In the roleplays of White Dark Life, Arthur and Cassandra's youngest son is named Mordred, against the advice of their friends. Fast-forward 10 years, and he kidnaps a girl, rapes her repeatedly, and damn near kills his father when he hunts him down to stop him. Thankfully, Mordred cleans up his act after being sent to jail, even befriending the girl he raped when he saves her life... then he becomes extremely overprotective of her and his family, to the point of being fully willing to straight-up MURDER anyone who hurts them in any way... Luigifan says it best: | |
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Fallout: New Vegas brings us Camp Forlorn Hope — a front-line NCR military outpost on the edge of being overrun by the Legion. About the only way the camp name could be even more conducive to the loss of battles and morale is if it was 'Camp Certain Death.' Actually, it's even worse. "Forlorn Hope" is a military term coming from the Dutch "Verloren Hoop", "lost hope", referring to the first wave sent into attack who are pretty much doomed to die. Basically, it's "Camp We Have Reserves". In fact, it apparently used to be called Camp Hope. It got the name after things went to hell. There is an actual Forlorn Hope Spring in Nevada, and the camp does indeed have a spring running through it. They probably could have picked a nicer name for the spring, though. |
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In the James Bond film Die Another Day, the villain's superweapon is named "Icarus". At the end of the movie, the villain loses control of the weapon and accidentally burns the wings off his own plane, causing a spectacular crash. | |
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Starship Titanic later got its own game and novelisation. Its maiden voyage went as hilariously badly as one would expect given the name and the author. ... who is Terry Jones (novelization and parrot). |
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Mario Party 5: The Random Ride minigame features vehicles with negative names like "Totally Terrible," "Nothing's Right," and "Difficulties Ahead." Downplayed in that, from time to time, these vehicles actually prevail over vehicles with positive names. | |
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Schlock Mercenary: Parodied during a conversation between an AI-controlled, damaged, semi-kamikaze ship and the central computer. Battleplates, ships whose military purpose includes stopping high-velocity asteroid colony drops, are named after asteroid impacts. |
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In Red Dwarf, the Dwarf's mainframe computer goes interestingly insane, or at least erratic, after spending three million years in deep space with nobody to talk to. The resurrected Dwarfers call this "computer senility". The computer is called Holly - the name evokes Hal in "2001". Especially after about seven years they eventually got to the line: "Open the doors, Hol'." "I can't do that, Dave." | |
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Cave Story has the young witch Misery who, due to being The Dragon to The Doctor, causes plenty of hardships for the player character and the Mimigas on the island. Also her backstory which explains that she was cursed by Ballos and is forced to serve whoever holds the Demon Crown. | |
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Stargate: Lampshaded on Stargate SG-1 when O'Neill complains about the proposed name for the first X-303, "Prometheus", saying "It's a Greek tragedy, who wants that?" That didn't stop them from choosing the name anyway, though, because "guy who stole fire from the Gods" was too appropriate to pass up when fighting god-wannabes (and using technology stolen from them); the creators lampshaded it further by naming the episode in which it was eventually destroyed after the eagle who tormented mythological Prometheus ("Ethon"). Of course, the main reason he didn't want it called Prometheus was because he wanted to call it the Enterprise. McKay also got shut down for that by Sheppard. They went with Orion instead. None of the other named ships appear to match their name origins. Although, that was mainly because the ship's original Ancient name, Hippofaralkus, was universally considered to be kind of lame. Interestingly, despite being the same class, only a few Daedalus-class ships have similar themed names. The Daedalus herself, the Odyssey, and the Apollo (even though the Odyssey is the name of the story, not of the character). Other names are all over the place: the Korolev was given to the Russians, who named it after a Soviet rocket designer named Sergei Korolev; the Sun Tzu was given to the Chinese, who named it after a famous general; the George Hammond was originally called the Phoenix (which is, actually, fitting for this trope) but was renamed after General Hammond's death. It's not just the humans that get in on it: when the Asgard create a new class of ship (which is apparently a VERY unique occurrence for them) with all the best technology and most powerful weapons they could come up with to fight the Replicators, they name it the O'Neill. O'Neill himself is shocked, but honored. What happens? Its maiden voyage turns into a batshit crazy direct assault on the Replicators, leads them away, and self-destructs to wipe them out in the massive hyperspace explosion. Because the Replicators had never seen the logical-to-a-fault Asgard do anything like the psychotic, outside-the-box thinking strategy used, they fell for it. The first episode of Stargate Universe features the Icarus Project. Let's just say there's been a little SNAFU. The novelization of the Stargate Universe pilot has the ever Genre Savvy O'Neill planning to tear a strip off of whoever came up with the name "Icarus". |
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The Lost Fleet series gives us the Invincible, a ship name with the highest turnover rate of all. Most see the name as an affront to the ancestors and the living stars. Despite this, the fleet bureaucracy refuses to retire the name and gives it to a new ship as soon as they learn that the previous one has been destroyed. The bureaucrats are really pissed off after learning that the officers of the fleet have chosen to name a captured alien battleship Invincible. As expected, it gets destroyed in the last novel of the first spin-off series. | |
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Lampshaded on Stargate SG-1 when O'Neill complains about the proposed name for the first X-303, "Prometheus", saying "It's a Greek tragedy, who wants that?" That didn't stop them from choosing the name anyway, though, because "guy who stole fire from the Gods" was too appropriate to pass up when fighting god-wannabes (and using technology stolen from them); the creators lampshaded it further by naming the episode in which it was eventually destroyed after the eagle who tormented mythological Prometheus ("Ethon"). Of course, the main reason he didn't want it called Prometheus was because he wanted to call it the Enterprise. | |
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A more in-universe example: in one of the Gilligan's Island movies, the group finally manages to get off the island. At the end of the movie, they all get back together for a reunion cruise, on a boat named the Minnow II. Was anyone surprised by what happened next? | |
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Kid Icarus (1986) plays this trope straight... in the non-Japanese title of the series and the overseas title alone. Doesn't stop the sequels from having Pit from getting his wings burnt off, the first time in Kid Icarus: Of Myths and Monsters and again in Kid Icarus: Uprising. | |
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In Borderlands, humans are looking for fame and treasures in a legendary vault on a planet named Pandora. Never mind that even before hearing this name most people wouldn't want to spend five minutes on it. | |
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My Cat from Hell: This is basically host / cat trainer Jackson Galaxy's reaction to a Season 6 cat named Darkness. Darkness' female owner Laura was convinced the cat was demon-possessed and would freak out if he so much as moved toward her. Jackson's argument was that calling the cat Darkness, plus expecting him to act aggressively, wasn't helping anything. As such, one of Jackson's first homework assignments was having them change Darkness' name; they ended up changing it to Jedi. Similarly, one episode has Jackson dealing with a cat that is actually named Spike, but is almost never called that anymore, called "Bastard" instead by the owner because of biting/scratching behavior. One of the first things Jackson does is to nix the "Bastard" because if that's what the owner expects, that's probably what she's going to get. |
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The battle of Peleliu was one of the bloodiest and most protracted (and pointless) campaigns in the pacific theater of WWII. After an initial successful landing, American forces then faced months and months of guerilla warfare courtesy of stronger than expected Japanese forces. Its American code-name was Operation Stalemate II. | |
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In one episode of Seinfeld, Jerry joked that if you name your kid Jeeves, you are guaranteeing that he'll be a butler when he grows up. | |
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Not to mention the original BioShock. It may not be fitting to name a projected utopian city "Rapture". | |
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When Henry Pym got tired of the name "Giant Man", he changed it to "Goliath". Others who took his growth serum, such as Clint Barton and William Foster, took the name Goliath as well. And finally, during Civil War, Foster was killed by a clone of Thor, who was relatively small in comparison... | |
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The Wing Commander novel False Colors has a character refuse to name a ship the Alamo, because while the Battle of the Alamo is an inspirational bit of history and the defenders were heroes... they lost. And they all died. | |
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To the humans in Avatar — you named the new moon Pandora? Really? No-one cares if it means "All-Gifted," there's a reason you don't try to open things named after or belonging to Pandora! There are currently no apparent illusions that Pandora's anything less than a chaotic deathtrap. | |
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Conquest of the Planet of the Apes: The original Caesar fits as well, even if the name was given to him by the circus owner who adopted him — the parents named him "Milo". He would eventually lead the new ape race in their revolt against the human yoke and conquest of the Earth. | |
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In On a Clear Day You Can See Forever, Daisy is about to board a plane, but has a premonition that it will crash. It turns out that the plane's name, Trelawney, is the same as the eighteenth-century ship whose historically confirmed sinking brought her previous life to an unfortunate end. | |
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There's a musician who calls himself Mighty Casey. You've heard of him, right? ...oh. | |
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In the Manticore Ascendant novel A Call To Duty, a Manticoran sloop is called Phobos, after one of the moons of Mars,note She and her sister ship, Deimos, were built mostly from the parts of the decommissioned battlecruiser Mars but by extension, also after the Greek personification of fear. The ship proves to be a nightmare for her builders and crew, and meets a disastrous end. | |
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The Next Gen novel The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter concerns a Federation colony named Hamlin who were subjected to an alien attack in which all the children were abducted. | |
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Many, many Space Marines good and bad are named after mythological demons, evil gods, and other malevolent spirits,...small wonder that some fell to Chaos. We're looking at you, Erebus. | |
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Also completely averted with Goliath from Gargoyles. It's not his real name (his species doesn't use personal names) but is what humans have always called him. Still, being associated with the name doesn't seem to have caused him any more trouble than any other member of the group. He does end up in conflict with a man named David who is smaller than him, though. | |
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In Commander Kitty, is it really surprising that "Project Zenith", designed to eliminate imperfections in the galaxy, resulted in Zenith herself (the android assistant to the lead creator) going mad, declaring herself the Ultimate Life Form, and attempting to conquer the galaxy to make it as perfect as she is? | |
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Death Note: On the surface, naming your child "Light" doesn't seem to jinx anything. But no mother in her right mind writes her kid's name with the kanji for moon, which has four strokes. Plus, Light Yagami's name seems to mostly derive from another infamous light-associated character — Lucifer the Light-Bringer. Not to mention his last name is written with the kanji for "night" and "God". | |
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Noob is a about a MMORPG guild named Noob by its founder. Guess what kind of players its membership ended up consisting of. | |
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In Pokémon Fire Red and Leaf Green, a man in the Sevii islands enlists the help of the player character to find his lost daughter. Her name? Lostelle. | |
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League of Super Redundant Heroes: Flying-Fox Man (a Batman Captain Ersatz) shouldn't be so surprised that he'd lost a lot of sidekicks... ahem... "crime-solving junior partners" when you consider that they were all named "Dodo"... | |
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BattleTech has several Humongous Mecha with less than promising names. Most telling is the Walking Tank known as the Goliath. It's well-armored and heavily armed, but it's also notoriously hard to maneuver and has the unfortunate tendency to carry a lot of ammo in its main body. Also, the vast majority of its weapons are optimized for long range and firing forward. As a result, it's vulnerable to smaller, faster designs that can close inside its range or move outside of its firing angles to find a weak spot, including a shot to the cockpit in its head. | |
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The 1967 Doctor Dolittle movie — the one with Rex Harrison — features this exchange: | |
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In an episode of The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, Jimmy creates a robotic salesman named the Willy Loman 3000 to sell chocolate bars. To the surprise of no-one who gets the reference, it turns out to be smarmy and incompetent, only capable of making sales by giving away inventions far more valuable than the candies along with them. | |
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Bokurano: The group's Humongous Mecha Zearth ("The Earth") was named after a fictional mecha that was similarly controlled by a bunch of kids, which they came across in an old manga (implied to be The Moon). However, none of them have read the whole thing, so they don't find out until later that it had a Downer Ending where the kids fail and Earth is destroyed. | |
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A Song of Ice and Fire gives us a few examples of the in-world naming convention faux pas and oopsie. Tagaryen examples: Maegor/Maelys/Maekar (may-you-never-be-trusted), Daemon (may-you-never-inherit), Visarys/Viserion/Visenya (may-you-be-overshadowed), Aegon (you-cannot-possibly-live-up-to-The-Dragon), Rhaenyra/Rhaegar (may-you-cause-civil-war-and-die-horribly) or Rhaenys (may-you-just-die-horribly) or Rhaegal (may-you-kill-others-horribly), Baelor (may-you-be-too-good-for-this-world) and last, but not least: Aemon (may-you-be-celibate-through-choice). There are a couple of apparent Targaryen sequence-breaker names that still manage to share a little something across the people with them, such as: the Daenaryses (beautiful, caring, initially valued solely as trade material... either a more significant footnote than most realise or a conquering exclamation mark that most don't want to think about).. and, the the Daerons; "the Young Dragon" (a bit 50/50 — undeniably brilliant, yet horribly rash), "the Good/ Wise" (who had an unbelievable mess to clean up as King, but did pretty well, with some hiccups)... and "the Drunkard"? Actually, Prince Daeron had enough of the Royalty Superpower to know he'd not be fit for the throne, so deliberately made sure he wasn't ever seen as such — wise or not, you decide. If so — he might have lived up to the name, if you see Dae as meaning "may you engender both greatness and folly, both recognised and unrecognised". Balon Greyjoy named his little son after a famous Stark king in a form of Villain Respect (from an Iron Islands' perspective). Um... Theon was doomed to live between stools even before he became a Stark hostage, wasn't he? Both Lyanna Stark and Lyanna Mormont are remarkably willful. |
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In One Piece, we have Ace of the Spades Pirates. Ace of Spades is known as the death card. Guess who died at the end of Marineford? | |
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Futurama: An episode is an entire Titanic pastiche. It takes place on a space cruise-liner named "Titanic". The spaceship resembles the original Titanic with added sci-fi bits tacked on. Naturally enough, by the end of the episode, it's sucked into a black hole. They even christened the ship with the head jar of Leonardo DiCaprio and he didn't warn them. Amusingly, nobody sees anything wrong with the name; after 1,000 years, it's not common knowledge. And when it comes to 20th-Century-born Fry's opinion, he's too much of a dumbass to know any better. Of course, none other than Captain Zapp Brannigan is repeatedly Tempting Fate. There was also the Land Titanic, the world's largest land vehicle. It sank on 7th Avenue after hitting a mailbox. This took place before the spaceship Titanic, so surely the ones who made the spaceship should have still had suspicions about the name. Mixed with Gone Horribly Right, there was "Project Satan", an attempt to create a super-intelligent (but evil) car. What went wrong? Well, the car was pure evil. |
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Apollo 13 (and since then NASA has never launched a vehicle with "13" in the name — during the Shuttle program they changed the mission numbering system after STS-9, and then changed it back after the loss of the Challenger). Bonus points: the command/service module (CSM) of Apollo 13 was named Odyssey. The craft was named after 2001: A Space Odyssey, but one definition of the word (as mentioned by Lovell's book Lost Moon) is "a long journey marked by many changes of fortune", as with the original Odyssey by Homer. This name proved prophetic when one of the CSM's oxygen tanks exploded, which put a leak in the other and eventually shut down the craft's power supply (not to mention its breathing oxygen). It took a great deal of ingenuity and hard work by the astronauts and the ground crews to bring the astronauts home, making the entire trip fit the dictionary definition of "odyssey". (And the story is known for the main character making it back home...) STS-113 flew without major incident, but due to schedule changes it was actually the 112th Shuttle mission. The next flight, the 113th, was STS-107, when the Columbia was lost on reentry. The 13th targeted flybynote a flyby in which the spacecraft's trajectory (Cassini in this case) is modified to have it passing very close to the object (a moon of Saturn for that probe) in astronomical terms (or not; one such flyby of Enceladus had Cassini skimming it at just 25 kilometers of its surface while transversing that distance in seconds) of Saturn's moon Titan by the Cassini spacecraft, in 2006, ended with the probe being hit by a cosmic ray and a good chunk of the data gathered by it in that flyby lost. |
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In Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation, the British government tried to create a backup version of MI6 known as The Syndicate. Somehow the Prime Minister was the only person who thought naming your covert counter-terrorism bureau after the word for organized crime was a bad idea, but by the time the project was disbanded it was far too late. | |
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Mega Man X3 has Vile and his new powerful Ride Armor, the Goliath. The fight with him in the armor is... not the most difficult thing you'll face. (The subsequent battle with him once he is out of the armor is a bit more challenging, but...) | |
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In Solatorobo: Red the Hunter, the ship Red infiltrates in the Prologue is named the Hindenburg. Of course, by the end of the Prologue, it's lost to a giant monster that suddenly appears in front of it. | |
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The original colonists' ship in Forbidden Planet is called the Bellerophon. In Classical Mythology, Bellerophon was a great hero, yes, and he did tame the Pegasus. However, he also fell victim to hubris, and was punished by being sent crashing down to Earth from his mount, where he died a blinded cripple. Guess what happened to the ship? | |
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Another Goliath in Marvel was Erik Josten, who formerly called himself Power Man (not this one) and the Smuggler before gaining powers similar to Pym's. Not the best villain, he eventually changed his name to Atlas when he became one of the Thunderbolts. (Still not the best name, as anyone who studies Classical Mythology knows, and he's gone downhill since their ruse was exposed.) | |
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In the Troy Rising series, the alien Rangora are rather baffled by the fact that Earth's first two Battlestations are named after famous, historical defeats — the Troy and the Thermopylae. (Of course, any defeat is a victory for someone else — the Greeks won one of those, and technically lost the other.) But ultimately, the trope is subverted — both battlestations wind up facing scenarios similar to their historical counterparts, but weather them. In the third book, Tyler Vernon admits that he named the first two stations after those historic defeats because back then, he didn't know if they'd work — his main hope was that, even in defeat, they'd be memorable and serve as an inspirational example to future resistance, similar to how the fall of Troy is believed to have caused the birth of the Roman Empire, and the Battle of Thermopylae catalyzed Greece into an ultimately successful union to oppose the Persian invaders. | |
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Windows-NT has an important file containing the standard drivers that the kernel needs to work (the first file loaded by the bootloader), similar to the IO.SYS on DOS. How is it called? HAL.DLL — Hardware Abstraction Layer. | |
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One FoxTrot strip had Jason submitting an idea to James Cameron for Titanic II about a ship named "Titanic II", complete with a "They thought it couldn't go wrong again..." narration. | |
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In The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, there is an item found early in the game called Scroll of Icarian Flight. It boosts your Acrobatics skill by 1000, which both allows you to jump very high/far. The problem? This skill boost only lasts 7 seconds. You won't be able to reach the ground before the scroll wears off. To give you more of a hint, you get the scroll off the dead body of a mage, when he lands in front of you from out of nowhere. If you're quick you can save him by casting a Slowfall spell, but he'll just tell you "I don't want to talk about it" and then walk away. You can use the scroll to leap to the top of a mountain or into a lake, which can actually make them useful. | |
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In Mimic, genetic engineers attempt to exterminate cockroaches with their own genetically altered cockroach. They call it the Judas Breed. Three guesses what the new species prefers as prey. | |
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Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater: The game has an espionage mission set during the Cold War, with a trio of spies code-named "ADAM, EVA, and Snake" assigned to the case. Come on, what's the worst that could happen? It's not like one of them could be a traitor or anything... right? In a subversion, though, Snake is the only completely trustworthy agent of the three (at least, at the time). One of the several major ending spoilers of the game is that when a guy who calls himself Snake asks to see ADAM, it doesn't take a genius for a woman to say her name is EVA and see how far it will get her. |
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The Starship Titanic is mentioned in The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, along with the GSS Suicidal Insanity. The latter is part of a crescendo sequence, GSS Daring, GSS Audacity, and GSS Suicidal Insanity. Daring and Audacity are actual names of Royal Navy ships. Starship Titanic later got its own game and novelisation. Its maiden voyage went as hilariously badly as one would expect given the name and the author. ... who is Terry Jones (novelization and parrot). |
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DC supervillain Everyman, introduced in 52, is a shapeshifter with the ability to turn into anything that he's consumed some part of — he doesn't actually need anything more significant than a single hair or a fingernail, but he is downright gleeful about eating much more than a fingernail. His real name? Hannibal Bates. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Space Hulks are gigantic derelict spaceships adrift in the warp where they occasionally smash into other space hulks. When they emerge back to realspace, the people who find them always give them names like Spawn of Damnation, Judgement of Carrion or Monolith of Woe (lampshaded by Inquisitor Vail, who notes that whichever Inquisitorial conclave named the Spawn of Damnation has a thing for the melodramatic). Though in this case, they name it expecting bad things inside, like sleeping genestealers, very much awake Orks, and/or daemons. Many, many Space Marines good and bad are named after mythological demons, evil gods, and other malevolent spirits,...small wonder that some fell to Chaos. We're looking at you, Erebus. One of the most glaring examples: the planet that has had some of the most apocalyptic wars fought over it in the entire setting happens to be named Armageddon. There are only slightly less planets with foreboding names than made-up ones: Typhon, Settler's Bane, Eldritch, Medusa, Gunpoint, Woe, Murder, Baal, Firestorm, Birmingham... Kharn the Betrayer (what a guy!) is famous for singlehandedly destroying his own Legion as collateral damage during a battle with the Emperor's Children, taking offense at the idea of nobody wanting to fight just because it was a few degrees below zero and these days for hitting every time he swings in close combat (not necessarily an enemy). Of course, when your first name is literally "traitor" (in Arabic, though Kharn is supposedly from what was Germany)... |
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On Brows Held High, Kyle Kallgren complains about Melancholia on how NASA names a giant planet that will probably destroy Earth with such a negative name. He even suggests alternatives such as "Happy Fun Ball". | |
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The first episode of Stargate Universe features the Icarus Project. Let's just say there's been a little SNAFU. The novelization of the Stargate Universe pilot has the ever Genre Savvy O'Neill planning to tear a strip off of whoever came up with the name "Icarus". | |
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Chrono Trigger's Kingdom of Zeal named their generator the Mammon Machine. The original Japanese name was the only-slightly-less-ominous "majinki", or "Demon God Device". Surprisingly, the planet-eating Eldritch Abomination the generator was getting its energy from ended up destroying Zeal first. | |
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Duke Nukem Forever's name proved to be prophetic regarding the length of its development. There was also much amusement to be had in its initials; in some contexts DNF stands for Did Not Finish. Although this was eventually averted. | |
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Doctor Who: "Voyage of the Damned" features a spacefaring vessel called Titanic that resembles the famed ship. Used for tourist visits to a primitive planet (namely Earth), it was named after a "famous ocean-going Earth vessel." The Doctor comments on how poor a name that is, and isn't too surprised when the ship starts to blow up and "sink". It was an Invoked Trope. The ship was supposed to crash into the planet and go nuclear, as a sort of genocidal corporate revenge scheme... As the resident "expert" on Earth culture clearly has a rather incomplete and distorted understanding of the planet, the lack of picking up on the significance of the name isn't all that surprising. | |
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Changeling: The Lost says that changelings avoid naming their freeholds after myths, legends, or fairy tales for exactly this reason, because the Wyrd sometimes like to make sure the story repeats itself. Mention is made of "the grave fate that befell New Lyonesse." | |
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Speaking of Lolita, Nabokov has claimed that he's singlehandedly responsible for the disappearance of Lolita as a girl's name, averting this trope. | |
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Star Trek Expanded Universe: Discussed in Diane Duane's novel My Enemy, My Ally. The Rihannsu (Romulan) belief system places great meaning on names, and it is considered unlucky to name a ship after a virtue, as it is all too likely to take too much of the spirit of that virtue. Kirk then muses on the unlucky histories of ships named Intrepid, and the Rihannsu renegade he's speaking with explains, "Name a ship for the spirit of fearlessness, and it forgets to fear." (She also thinks it explains why the ship named for the spirit of enterprise is so constantly in the thick of things.) The Next Gen novel The Children of Hamlin by Carmen Carter concerns a Federation colony named Hamlin who were subjected to an alien attack in which all the children were abducted. |
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The fan-favorite Call of Duty: Zombies map "Mob of the Dead" has a group of mobsters in Alcatraz Prison build a plane out of clothing, wire frames, and air conditioners. If you build the plane, as you might expect, it promptly crashes. The plane’s name? The Icarus. | |
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There was a Hägar the Horrible strip that featured Hagar looking at a ship Unsinkable II and wondering "What happened to the first one?" | |
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... who is Terry Jones (novelization and parrot). | |
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CSI: The Body of the Week of the "Angle of Attack" episode turns out to have been killed by a experimental jet engine powered wingsuit that was code named "Project Icarus". This is Lampshaded by Nick. | |
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The Purple Man, evil mind-controller and one of Marvel's most sadistic supervillains, is named Zebediah Killgrave. In an issue of Daredevil, Kirsten wonders aloud if his parents just assumed he'd grow up to be evil. Matt quips back that "We call it the Victor von Doom paradox". | |
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Used as part of Spoony's spoof of Final Fantasy VIII, where the people of America vote Dr. Insano into the White House. He even lampshades it himself by asking what the hell they expected, voting for a guy who calls himself "Insano". | |
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My Life as a Teenage Robot has some fun with this with Armagedroid. He was built during an alien invasion to stop Armageddon, but ends up nearly causing it later on (twice). | |
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Alien Legacy gives us two colony ships with dubious names: the UNS Tantalus and the UNS Calypso. Tantalus is a figure in Classical Mythology who killed his son and was being a dick to the gods. His punishment was to be put into Tartarus with food and water nearby that would move out of his reach when he tried to take them (hence the word "tantalizing") and a rock suspended over his head. Why anyone would name a ship carrying one of the last representatives of humanity is unclear. For reference, you play The Captain of the Calypso as it arrives to a system already colonized by the Tantalus. You find only ruins and no trace of the people. Calypso is a character from The Odyssey who forcibly keeps Odysseus on her island for many years. Not much better. On the other hand, another meaning of "calypso" is "to conceal", which is appropriate for a ship that is supposed to carry the last humans away from a race of murdering aliens. |
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During one of Vinesauce streamer Joel's The Sims 3 hacking streams, he named the child of his hideous Pikachu-man "Missingno". The face proceeded to become a stream of polygons that engulfed the entire map, with the texture eventually glitching so much it started to bear an eerie resemblance to it's namesake. | |
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The Avengers were named that way, in-universe, simply by Rule of Cool. A villain committed a human sacrifice during The Gatherers Saga, and Sersi killed him on the spot. All the others were horrified, and the Black Widow asked her if she realized what has she just done. "Of course, Natasha. I was an Avenger!" | |
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Andromeda: All Nietzscheans have names like this, though most of them are pretty obscure references. The season 2 finale had an example so blatant, Trance just had to lampshade it. | |
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In Cabin Pressure, Martin makes ends meet by running a moving company called Icarus Removals in the time he can spare from being a volunteer pilot. Douglas helpfully Lampshades the implications of a pilot naming a company after Icarus. | |
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Lampshaded in Diablo III by Bron the Barkeep with regards to naming New Tristram after a city destroyed by demons, undead, and an insane king. | |
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In Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Won't-Walk-the-Dog Cure, the problem that Einstein Treadupon has to have solved by Missy Piggle-Wiggle is that he's a know-it-all, a child genius who won't shut up explaining things to people they don't want to hear and is always interrupting and being rude. Prior to her curing him, however, some felt that the Treadupons got exactly what they should have expected when they named Einstein this. | |
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Happens in Duke Forecastle, one of Erfworld's side stories. The first five paragraphs describe the flagship HMS Superbia commanded by Royal Lord Admiral Hubris Unsinkable setting sail to enemy territory, no-one gets to hear about the ship or the admiral again. The succeeding flagship gets named HMS Hubris Unsinkable, sharing the same fate, and the one succeeding it HMS Hubris Unsinkable II. A lampshade is hung on the trope latter when a character comments that naming a ship HMS Hubris Unsinkable III would be completely out of question. | |
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Lampshaded in Two Evil Scientists when Sonic meets Vile: | |
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The description for the Onslaught map "Icarus Plaza" in Unreal Tournament 2004, which takes place atop a series of big, abandoned skyscrapers: | |
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When Hawke is tasked to find out what happened to the workers at a mine near Kirkwall in Dragon Age II, s/he mentions to its owner that his first mistake was naming his mine "The Bone Pit." Subverted in that the owner, Hubert, didn't actually name the mine; the locals did, largely due to the area's grisly history. | |
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Watchmen: Adrian's chosen codename is "Ozymandias", because of the greatness of that historical figure. Ozymandias is also a symbol for futility, from a famous Percy Bysshe Shelley poem that Moore even quotes, and the end of the series suggests that Rorschach's journal could be discovered and cause Adrian's plan to fail. Apparently, he wanted to reclaim the name from the elegant ignominy to which Shelley's poem had consigned it, but considering what happens later on it does backfire somewhat. A recurring brand of door-locks come from a company that was rather stupidly (but appropriately) named "Gordian Knot Locks". Fittingly, we see the locks broken several times, but apparently never picked. |
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Space Hulks are gigantic derelict spaceships adrift in the warp where they occasionally smash into other space hulks. When they emerge back to realspace, the people who find them always give them names like Spawn of Damnation, Judgement of Carrion or Monolith of Woe (lampshaded by Inquisitor Vail, who notes that whichever Inquisitorial conclave named the Spawn of Damnation has a thing for the melodramatic). Though in this case, they name it expecting bad things inside, like sleeping genestealers, very much awake Orks, and/or daemons. | |
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In Quake IV the convoys carrying the bomb to destroy the Strogg Nexus were called War, Famine, Pestilence and Death. As this takes place early in the game while Kane is still a human, the results speak for themselves: the former three were destroyed as they were being carried, while a Harvester inutilizes the fourth. | |
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More than one character on Firefly has wondered why Mal would name Serenity after the valley where the Browncoats lost a battle and, consequently, the entire war. | |
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In one episode of Family Guy, Peter jumps up shouting "Quick, to the Petercopter!, and immediately crashes a helicopter with his face on the front lawn of his neighbor Joe. A few scenes later, the situation repeats itself with Peter shouting "To the Hindenpeter!" and all we get to see is a zeppelin with Peter's face passing by through the window with exactly the results you would expect. | |
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The good airship Hubris in More Information Than You Require. | |
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Much like in the source material The Camp Half-Blood Series, Sally Jackson in they'll name a city after us named her demigod child after the ancient hero Perseus in hope that his good luck of having a happy ending would rub off, but unfortunately Percy is also a variant of Persephone, who just like Percy was kidnapped by a lovesick god. | |
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The research ship Prometheus from the film of the same name. Prometheus was a titan who stole fire from the Gods to give it to mankind, and was caught and eternally tortured by the Gods for his trespass by having his liver pecked out by an eagle for all eternity. Guess what happens to the titular ship when it goes looking for the gods' knowledge? | |
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In Kyon: Big Damn Hero, Kyon names his new learning phone (which was created from a piece of data left behind by Ryoko Asakura) Skynet. Subverted, in that the reason he named it Skynet is because he fully expects it to betray him. | |
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Babylon 5: One episode featured some barely-audible background dialogue along the lines of "Transport Marie Celeste now docking." When fans pointed out online that no one would be crazy enough to name a starship after a famous ocean-going ship whose crew vanished mysteriously, creator J. Michael Straczynski pointed out that Australians might indeed be just that crazy. Elsewhere in the series was also a ship named the "Icarus". It was an archaeological explorer's vessel, and it was destroyed with all hands lost when it went to Z'ha'dum, the home of the Shadows, and woke them up. That "5" in the name of the show's primary setting is there because there were four other Babylon stations before it, all either destroyed or, in one case, vanished. The actual ancient city of Babylon didn't fare too well either... It is emblematic of humans in the series that they stuck with the concept, when another species would have given up, or at least picked a different name. Also, since Babylon is the name of the diplomatic project, it becomes a lot simpler to see why the Babylon stations had so many problems. We're outright told that Babylons 1 through 3 were destroyed by terrorist attacks, while 4 mysteriously vanished without a trace. It was actually commandeered by Sinclair to battle the Shadows a thousand years in the past. 1-3 were destroyed because there were people who were determined to prevent organised diplomacy happening for some reason. In any case, it's rather like the swamp castle in Monty Python's Search For The Holy Grail. The station is seen as a necessity, so they're gonna keep building stations, and the stations are named after the project. According to the fluff, they used surviving parts of the destroyed stations to help build the new ones, implying that B4 had parts of B1-3. Obviously, they didn't think the name was cursed, as they wouldn't have used the parts otherwise. |
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In Helliconia trilogy, the eponymous planet is observed by Terrans from a space station called Avernus, which by the final book turns into utter chaos as its inhabitants go mad from being locked up in space,note They can't touch down on the planet, however Earth-like it is, as its atmosphere is filled with microscopic lifeforms that would over time kill Terran humans. The idea of genetic modifications or even simply wearing spacesuits is never brought up. genetically engineering obscene creatures among many depravities. Perhaps it wasn't such a brilliant idea to give that station a name alluding to a purported entrance to the underworld. | |
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The ship in Sunshine is flying to the Sun with the name Icarus II. As if the name isn't Tempting Fate enough, they still stuck with it after losing the original Icarus. On the other hand, it does feel appropriate on some level for a ship whose primary purpose is "flying dangerously close to the sun". | |
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In the Saturn's Children short story "Bit Rot", the interstellar ship Lanford Hastings suffer an accident that leaves most of the robot crew crazy and with an insatiable need for uncontaminated materials, which mostly means unaffected crewmembers (in other words, a mechanical Zombie Apocalypse). The ship is named after the developer of the Hastings Cutoff, a 19th century shortcut through Utah, which would be a good name for an exploratory vessel, except the Cutoff is where the Donner Party happened. | |
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In 1898, a merchant seaman wrote a novel called Futility, or the Wreck of the Titan, about a giant cruiseliner called the Titan which is meant to be unsinkable, whose passengers include lots of famous and rich people, and on one of whose voyages in its first year of service — yes, across the Atlantic — it hits an iceberg in the middle of the night in April and sinks. And no, there weren't enough lifeboats for the characters in his story either.note Not having enough lifeboats for the entire crew was actually more common in that period; back then, the primary purpose of a lifeboat wasn't to evacuate the entire compliment of the ship at once, but to ferry them to a waiting rescue ship; as a result, the number of lifeboats of a ship's design wasn't to have enough to take everyone off the ship at once, but rather to have enough for an orderly multi-trip evacuation from one ship to another. Of course, the fact that even in the novel, not having enough lifeboats for a total evacuation contributed to a massive loss of life likely shows that people were starting to see the inherent flaws in the "ferrying to a rescue ship" mindset, but unfortunately, nobody made a move to remedy this until it was too late to save the passengers of the Titanic. | |
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Transformers has an in-universe example: the villain of every series, Megatron, is named after the Transformer equivalent of Judas Iscariot, although it varies from series to series whether it's the name he was created with or if he chose it as a symbol of rebellion against a corrupt government. Either way, it somehow still surprises 'bots when he becomes He Who Fights Monsters and ends up more evil than the villains he started out fighting. | |
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