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X. There'x alwayx xomething about the letter X that juxt makex x-actly anything cool (including thix artixle). A lot of people use it gratuitouxly on a name, product, model, etx. juxt xo it has xome xort of edge to it, including xere. Want xome pizzazz? Add an X somewhere in txe name. It doexn't matter where, as long as there'x an X. And it hax to be a capital X. Lowercase x is juxt too puny to be xool. Juxt don't add three of them. In order for this trope to work, though: The product isn't the 10th installment of a series that already used Roman numerals. On the other hand, if the series goes 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, X... The X doesn't stand for a multiple of something. Example would be AMD's line of Athlon and Phenom processors: Athlon X2, Phenom X3, Phenom X4, etc, which don't count because the X indicates how much cores the CPU has; on the other hand, the FX line and the overclockable Ryzens that have an X after the model number do count. There's no real justification to use the X. Another letter would easily work if the X was a part of a word. If it's in the designation of a vehicle or other object, it can't be a prototype. In such cases it stands for experimental, and gets changed or removed when it enters full production. Though it does add that extra bit of coolness to a Super Prototype, we admit. Similar to the above, the X in question is used as an abbreviation in an acronym for a word in English that has the ex- prefix, which would properly use E, but X looks cooler, of course. (Only a few English words begin with X, and most of those derive from Greek. The same holds for most European languages. Also, when starting a word with X in English, it's usually pronounced like "z" rather than like "ks".) Subtrope of Xtreme Kool Letterz. For tropes that make use of this and when a work sequel adds the X after the original title, see Lettered Sequel. See also 4X, Let X Be the Unknown. Other tropes with the letter X include "X" Marks the Spot and "X" Marks the Hero. Not to be confused with [A Metasyntactic Variable as Portrayed in This Case by X] Makes Anything Cool. |
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In The Pendragon Adventure, the biggest competition in Quillain's existence is the Grand X. | |
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Romeo × Juliet, where the X is still intended to be pronounced "and". | |
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Some skills in the Disgaea series have X-shaped areas of effect. | |
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"X Agent" from Sheep in the Big City. The trope was parodied in his first appearance: | |
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Bleach: The "Lost Agent" arc deals with an organization called Xcution. Lille Barro of the Vandenreich has an ability called "The X-Axis", one of the most powerful abilities seen among the Schrift and outside of it, and he is an expert sniper with heavy angel motifs. |
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In Star Trek: Enterprise, the "NX" designation is used for the entire class of starships that the Enerprise belongs to, as the Earth Starfleet operates under different conventions than the chronologically later series' Federation Starfleet. | |
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In Metroid Fusion, the main antagonistic threat are alien parasites called the X Parasites, with the ability to Kill and Replace their prey. The X were so dangerous, the Chozo had to bioengineer their own predators, the eponymous Metroids, just to keep the population down, which would in turn lead to everything else in the series when villainous groups decided to use the Metroids as weapons. | |
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Egosoft's X-Universe, an entire series which gets its name from the player's ship in X: Beyond the Frontier: The Xperimental Shuttle. | |
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Dimension X from Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (1987), which is alternately described as a distant spiral galaxy or an alternate dimension. | |
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The Lyrical Nanoha franchise gave us StrikerS Sound Stage X. Confused some people into thinking that this was the tenth Sound Stage (it was the eleventh, excluding the Megami Sound Stages). The X stands for the Mysterious Waif. | |
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Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness falls under the "ex-prefix" exception, as XD stands for "eXtra Darkness" and "eXtra Dimension." | |
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Present in three of the Guilty Gear sequels (and their corresponding revisions): Guilty Gear X, XX, and Xrd (pronounced "Zex", "Igzex" and "Igzird", respectively). | |
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In the backstory of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a third Zero-X mission was launched in 2068 (the second Zero-X also exploded), suggesting that the name refers to the spacecraft design, as well as with the only extant ship. | |
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From 2006 to 2014, the Toyota Corolla's sporty trim was called XRS and its logo was a huge X with a small RS. After 2014, it's simply a big red S. (2020 will see a revival of the old Corolla Levin name for the sporty trim). Toyota's Scion make (2003-2016) had the xA and xB as its signature models. |
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The titular character from B't X is a mechanical kirin, famous for being the most powerful battler of the villainous Machine Empire. Fortunately, he decides to help the hero... | |
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Harry Potter fanfic My Immortal features goffik band XBlakXTearX, featuring Serious Blak, Snap, Lucian Malfoy, and Jamez "Samoro" Potter. Notable for the fact that the latter once shot Lucan's arm off for playing a song wrong. | |
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This trope is discussed during The Runaway Guys' Let's Play of Mario Party 4: | |
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The seventeenth and eighteenth WrestleManias, called, respectively, WrestleMania X-Seven and WrestleMania X8. | |
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Discworld: Agnes Nitt, a young woman, desperately tries to acquire some cool by (briefly) assuming the name Perdita X Dream, where "X" stands for "someone who has a cool and exciting middle name." Doesn't work though — all the people in her village refer to her as "the Agnes who calls herself Perditax." In Unseen Academicals, we find that Dr. Hicks, the head of Post-Mortem Communications at Unseen University first introduced in Making Money, has started spelling his last name Hix because "a man who wears a black robe with nasty symbols on it and has a skull ring would be mad, or let us say even madder, to pass up the chance to have an X in his name." The continent XXXX was originally a mapmaker's label, as in it was so unknown they didn't even know what a good name was for it. "Fourecks" actually became its name.note XXXX is also the name of a well known Australian beer, pronounced Fourecks. |
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Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception | |
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In Charby the Vampirate Dr. Hayter left the Blackbox project for the mysterious Project X shortly before Menulis ate the two scientists he'd been working with on the project during a full moon. | |
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Ace Combat: Ace Combat X: Skies of Deception In Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, the enemy ace Mihaly A. Shilage is often called Mister X, overlapping with Let X Be the Unknown. |
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Johnny Test has Johnny X. | |
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In Kamen Rider Agito, Kamen Rider G3 upgraded his Powered Armor to G3-X, "Generation-3 eXtension". Kamen Rider Gills also skirted this trope with the name of his Super Mode, Exceed Gills. | |
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Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, short for "Extreme Aid" (he's a doctor, so it's presumably better than first aid). Besides just his name, he gets his powers from a Fictional Video Game series whose titles usually have an X or two on the end. The same series also has Kamen Rider Para-DX, which is "paradox" with Xtreme Kool Letterz. | |
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In a tie-in movie for Kamen Rider Geats, Geats' Evil Knockoff is called Cross Geats as a pun on the cross fox, "cross" sounding like "kuro" ("black"), and importantly for this trope, it can be rendered "X Geats" as a play on Geats' own Super Mode Geats IX. | |
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Even Penny Arcade got it mixed up. | |
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In Kamen Rider Saber, Saber's Super Mode is named Xross Saber (pronounced "Cross", but with an X for coolness points). | |
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The Guardians of the Galaxy's Groot comes from Planet X. He was invented in Marvel's 1950's monster comics, where the name "Planet X" was actually recycled a few times, but the name seems to have stuck in his case. | |
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The film A.X.L. is about a Robot Dog which is codenamed that. "A.X.L." actually stands for "Attack, Exploration, Logistics." | |
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xXx, starring Vin Diesel. xXx's real name is Xander Cage, so the xXx tattooed on his neck could be his initial repeated three times. However, after he steals an anti-game senator's sports car and drives it off a bridge so he can BASE jump off it in the opening scenes, Samuel L. Jackson's character suggests the three X's could also mean three "strikes" against the law. Jackson's character goes on to use 'XXX' as the name for the new task force he has created to bring together unconventional agents to battle dangerous threats. | |
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Metal Slug X and Metal Slug XX, which were remakes of Metal Slug 2 and Metal Slug 7. | |
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Wolverine: Wolverine has a villain called Mister X. And of course Wolverine himself is Weapon X. (These days, it's the Roman numeral, making him the tenth weapon created by the Super-Soldier project. Captain America is Weapon I. But that's a retcon created recently in the scheme of things.) Then there's Wolverine's Opposite-Sex Clone X-23, who was made by a follow-up Weapon X program and is often called "X" by her friends. |
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∀ Gundam gives us the Turn-X Gundam. Whose name doesn't make a lick of sense, but the thing is awesome and deadly! | |
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XWhy. Because x can be anything, and you'll know why. | |
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xkcd. According to Word of God, it doesn't stand for anything, it's chosen to make it difficult to pronounce, and of course because it's cool. And yes, its official spelling is with all lowercase, or possibly all uppercase if that is not usable for some reason. Xkcd is "frowned upon". | |
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Speed Racer has Racer X. Who later named a child "X". | |
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Advertisements for Malcolm X often featured simply a lone "X" logo. This actually backfired a bit on them because you cannot trademark a letter, so the filmmakers could not claim a cut from knock-off merchandise. | |
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No better way to exemplify the trope than Vince Russo's early TNA stable "Sports Entertainment Xtreme", a typical Fun with Acronyms Russo idea. | |
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RahXephon. | |
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In Unseen Academicals, we find that Dr. Hicks, the head of Post-Mortem Communications at Unseen University first introduced in Making Money, has started spelling his last name Hix because "a man who wears a black robe with nasty symbols on it and has a skull ring would be mad, or let us say even madder, to pass up the chance to have an X in his name." | |
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The Powerpuff Girls were brought to life and given their ultra-super powers via Chemical X. In one episode Mojo Jojo removes their powers using Antidote X. | |
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The X-Files: The famous FBI department is called simply X-Files for no apparent reason. However, there is a really cool explanation which appeared on the show in season 5. They might have been called the U-Files for "unsolved" but weren't thanks to the filing system at the FBI in the 50's. Agent Mulder's second Mysterious Informant is known only as Mr. X. |
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Windows XP. The XP stands for eXPerience, possibly because someone at Microsoft Central had been playing Dungeons & Dragons. | |
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The tenth Mortal Kombat game is called "Mortal Kombat X" (which is "ex" as in "next"...but also "10"). | |
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Progressbar 95: Progressbar 1X. It's the most cutting-edge system available, and the only one with a radial progressbar. | |
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The LEGO X-Pod line released in the mid-2000s. | |
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Speaking of Wolverine, there's the X-Men as a whole. Because ex-men just doesn't sound cool enough. But for some reason, Ex-Mutants was...or maybe not. Stan Lee wanted to call it "The Mutants," but Executive Meddling (this was The '60s, he wasn't an executive yet) prevailed. He was told that nobody would know what a mutant was. "But they would know what an "X-Man" is?" fell on deaf ears. The X-Men's leader, Charles "Professor X" Xavier. There is, however, an excuse apart from having an X on the name: it's a fairly common Spanish name, a latinized form of the Basque name "Etxeberri", which can be spelled "Javier" or "Xavier". "Javier" is much more common in real life, but "Xavier" has the much-coveted X while also being just as correct and legitimate (and is even the local spelling in neighboring France and Portugal). X-Men spinoffs have driven this so far into the ground it's punched right through the planet. X-Treme X-Men being the ultimate offender. Not to mention peripheral X-character "Adam X the X-Treme." Created in the heyday of the '90s Anti-Hero, he has that name and the power to ignite people's blood and possesses more spikes than actual bad guys on his costume in order to expose said blood to the air. Top it all off with a baseball cap worn backwards! Basically the living definition of "trying too hard." (Last seen setting The Juggernaut on fire, and then realizing that he'd set the Juggernaut on fire. Yeah, that could've gone better.) X-Force #116 introduced the X-Statix, a Younger and Hipper group of mutants who are marketed in-universe as media superstars. Moira MacTaggert's prisoner, the mysterious Mutant X, who turned out to be her son, AKA Proteus. The name was dusted off in the '90s for the comic book starring Havok trapped in a Parallel Universe, and an unrelated TV series Marvel had some hand in (Alphas is sort of a Spiritual Successor). |
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Not to be confused, of course, with Revolution X, the only Arcade Game to run on Midway's "X-unit" board. | |
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Then there was "X-Pac," derived from how he had been known as "Syxx" as a member of the New World Order in WCW in 1996-1997, and his gear sometimes featured the words "Syxx-Pac." | |
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Our Miss Brooks: "Project X" in the episode of the same name. | |
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Star Trek: Starfleet designates experimental starships' line number with NX, instead of the usual NCC. Unfortunately, NX is changed to NCC as soon as the model enters common use. In Star Trek: Enterprise, the "NX" designation is used for the entire class of starships that the Enerprise belongs to, as the Earth Starfleet operates under different conventions than the chronologically later series' Federation Starfleet. Every proper noun in the language of Neelix's species, the Talaxians, contains an X somewhere. |
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Kamen Rider: The original Showa era had Kamen Riders X, ZXnote pronounced "Zet-Cross", and BLACK RX (the "RX" denoting an upgrade from Kamen Rider BLACK). In Kamen Rider Agito, Kamen Rider G3 upgraded his Powered Armor to G3-X, "Generation-3 eXtension". Kamen Rider Gills also skirted this trope with the name of his Super Mode, Exceed Gills. Kamen Rider 555 gave us Kaixa, whose motif is the Greek letter Kai (looks like an X, and his suit is covered with them). Kamen Rider Kiva had Kamen Rider IXA, whose name is based on ikusa ("fighting", "battle", "war", etc.) but with an X. It's also an acroynm for "Intercept X Attacker", with X meaning "cross" — he's designed to be an interceptor going against attacking threats. Kamen Rider W is normally themed around his name letter, but his Super Mode swaps it out for Xes as W Xtreme. Kamen Rider OOO: As part of the show's 10th anniversary projects, Kamen Rider Birth gets a new Super Mode as Birth X, complete with X-emblazoned armor. Kamen Rider Ex-Aid, short for "Extreme Aid" (he's a doctor, so it's presumably better than first aid). Besides just his name, he gets his powers from a Fictional Video Game series whose titles usually have an X or two on the end. The same series also has Kamen Rider Para-DX, which is "paradox" with Xtreme Kool Letterz. In Kamen Rider Saber, Saber's Super Mode is named Xross Saber (pronounced "Cross", but with an X for coolness points). In a tie-in movie for Kamen Rider Geats, Geats' Evil Knockoff is called Cross Geats as a pun on the cross fox, "cross" sounding like "kuro" ("black"), and importantly for this trope, it can be rendered "X Geats" as a play on Geats' own Super Mode Geats IX. Kamen Rider Gotchard uses Cards of Power ranked from 1 to 10. The Rank 10 cards are heavily associated with Xes, incorporating them into the names and designs of the characters they depict. |
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One of the most popular Super Mario Bros. fan games has the title Super Mario Bros. X. After the original URL where the game was located, supermariobros.org, was purchased by Nintendo, the creators were able to get away with it by adding an X to it (supermariobrosx.org), also invoking this trope. | |
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In Zoids: New Century, Ultimate X is the name given to exceptionally powerful Zoids with an integrated Black Box/Organoid System. | |
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Microsoft Flight Simulator X, the tenth game in the series. All previous Flight Simulator games were named after the year they were released. | |
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On the subject of the series, Final Fantasy X-2 probably counts as an aversion, as the "X" still stands for "ten", the game that X-2 is a direct sequel to. Yes, this means there are two layers of numbering on this game; what's your point? | |
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Teen Titans (2003) features a villain named Red X. Although he does utilise a variety of tools with an "X" motif, the design of the tools would entirely depend on the user's taste, so the trope still applies. | |
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Jason X, which also just happened to be the tenth movie in the Friday the 13th series. | |
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Julia X is about Serial-Killer Killer Julia, who has an "X" branded on her butt cheek by the Serial Killer known as the "the Brand Killer." | |
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Gundam: Gundam X, though it didn't quite work... Justified, though, in that the titular Gundam's wing binders open up in the shape of an X when it deploys its Satellite Cannon. |
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The sequel to Xenoblade Chronicles 1 is entitled Xenoblade Chronicles X. No explanation has yet been given for the X in the title, though until recently the codename for the game was just "X" before it was revealed to be a Xenoblade sequel. | |
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The Pink Panther: The Inspector and Sgt. Deux Deux are out to apprehend a figure simply named "X" in the cartoon "Plastered In Paris." It turns out that X is actually the Interpol phys-ed coach and was giving the Inspector a workout. | |
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In Xenosaga, the character KOS-MOS (she's a robot... imagine that) has a development code of KP-X. | |
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Kamen Rider 555 gave us Kaixa, whose motif is the Greek letter Kai (looks like an X, and his suit is covered with them). | |
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Kamen Rider OOO: As part of the show's 10th anniversary projects, Kamen Rider Birth gets a new Super Mode as Birth X, complete with X-emblazoned armor. | |
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When Phoenix Wright gets a cold, his favorite brand of cold medicine is called Cold Killer X. Note, this only applies to the localization. In the original Japanese version, it was called Cold Killer Z. | |
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Command & Conquer: The First Decade has an X superimposed in the box art. Of course, it makes sense, but you know.... | |
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Thunderbirds: The spacecraft Zero-X in the first film, Thunderbirds Are GO. Not a prototype, this was the one intended for the first trip to Mars, until it failed during liftoff and exploded in the ocean. The replacement ship that launched two years later (2067) was also called Zero-X. In the backstory of Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons, a third Zero-X mission was launched in 2068 (the second Zero-X also exploded), suggesting that the name refers to the spacecraft design, as well as with the only extant ship. |
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X-Force #116 introduced the X-Statix, a Younger and Hipper group of mutants who are marketed in-universe as media superstars. | |
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The working title for Pokémon 2000 movie was Pokémon X, and in fact there is a faint X shape in the final version poster/cover of the Japanese version. This also explains why Lugia is referred to as "Mystery Pokémon X" in a Johto miniarc in the anime. | |
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Pokémon: Pokémon XD: Gale of Darkness falls under the "ex-prefix" exception, as XD stands for "eXtra Darkness" and "eXtra Dimension." Pokémon X Version is a straighter example, although its counterpart being Pokémon Y Version means it depends on whether real-world X/Y pairings are a case of this trope. |
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X Japan was also originally just named X. They had to change their name when they broke out of Japan because of the already well-established American X. | |
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David X. Cohen, a writer for Futurama. When he joined the Writer's Guild, he found his birth name, David S. Cohen, had already been taken, and the Guild has a strict "No Duplicate Names" rule for various legal reasons, so he chose the middle initial X because it sounded sci-fi. If asked what X stands for, he'll often say it just stands for X. | |
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Rapper and sometimes Riddick-antagonist Xzibit. Don't overlook his signature song that goes "X! (untz-untz-untzuntz) X! (untz-cont'd)". Snoop Dogg is also featured in the ending: |
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Splatoon 2 introduced an example of this to the Splatoon series' ever-expanding list of multiplayer ranks. First are the nine lettered ranks from Rank C- to Rank A+, then the even higher Rank S, and then the additional Rank S+, which itself contains ten numbered sub-ranks from S+0 to S+9... If one can climb their way through all of these, they will be awarded with the highest rank in the game, which contains roughly the top one percent of all players: Rank X. | |
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The Angry Video Game Nerd mentioned it in his name confusion video. | |
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X Minus One: The title comes from the countdown for a rocketship; "X minus five, minus four, minus three, minus two, X minus one...". The association is due to the emphasis on Science Fiction for this radio program. | |
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DanceDanceRevolution: DDR joined in the group of games with an X with Dance Dance Revolution X. Although there is some meaning to it as DDRX was released during the game's tenth anniversary. Some of the MAX series of songs like to throw in an extra X: "MaxX Unlimited", "Fascination MAXX", and the supposed dummied song "MAX to the XXXimum". Not to be confused, of course, with Revolution X, the only Arcade Game to run on Midway's "X-unit" board. |
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A later series goes even further: Mega Man ZX. It's very convenient that the characters Zero and X already have the naming conventions to set up the kool title. (And, in fact, the hero of the first ZX gets to use both of their powers together, hence the title.) | |
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Final Fantasy: Thanks to censorship in Final Fantasy on the NES, Kill was named XXXX. There's also the Warp/Banish spell, occasionally known as X-Zone as in Final Fantasy VI. On the subject of the series, Final Fantasy X-2 probably counts as an aversion, as the "X" still stands for "ten", the game that X-2 is a direct sequel to. Yes, this means there are two layers of numbering on this game; what's your point? |
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Twitter was rebranded as "X" in 2023 following Musk's acquisition. In an inversion, most people consider the name change less cool, instead being kind of cliché and generic. It throws out the worldwide brand recognition of "Twitter" and "tweets" in favor of something untrademarkable and easily confused with the many other things out there that are named "X". | |
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The Modifyers has Agent Xero. | |
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Gundam X, though it didn't quite work... Justified, though, in that the titular Gundam's wing binders open up in the shape of an X when it deploys its Satellite Cannon. |
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The original Showa era had Kamen Riders X, ZXnote pronounced "Zet-Cross", and BLACK RX (the "RX" denoting an upgrade from Kamen Rider BLACK). | |
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There's also the χ-blade from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. It's spelled like the actual Greek letter "chi", which makes it a Multiple Reference Pun and is the reason for the Organization's naming practices mentioned above. And its wielder can fire a Sword Beam, of course in the shape of an X. | |
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In Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, the Transformation Sequence includes three Xs (and a V) because Gokaiger is the 35th Super Sentai series. | |
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This is the basis behind the name of X-Brawn in Transformers: Robots in Disguise. It was for a while thought that X-Brawn was used because Hasbro couldn't secure a trademark on "Brawn", but one of their marketers later explained that they just put in the X to look cool. | |
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Game of Thrones: The Boltons seem to think so and this includes desecrated corpses! The saltire motif is prominently displayed on Bolton heraldry and paraphernalia, and represents the Saint Andrew's Cross-like torture frame that they bind their victims to. Even the Bolton forces' little figurine on Robb Stark's map has the screaming flayed man on an X-frame. House Umber's sigil is four chains linked by a central ring on a dark red field. |
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This trope is all but explicitly stated in the Spider-Man/X-Men: Evolution crossover fic Spider-X, as Tabitha basically makes this observation when convincing Wanda to join her and Lance in defecting to the X-Men. | |
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Most Extreme Elimination Challenge or just MXC. Don't! Get! Eliminated! | |
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The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen Film of the Book is acronymed LXG. Why? Just because. | |
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Mysterious Girlfriend X. Extra strange because the X doesn't seem to mean anything (the "mysterious girlfriend" has an actual name). | |
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Super Sentai: In Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger, the Transformation Sequence includes three Xs (and a V) because Gokaiger is the 35th Super Sentai series. In Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger, the Sixth Ranger has an X theme, with them on his helmet visor and mecha. |
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Guitar Hero, Rock Band, and Dance Central developer Harmonix. | |
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Sonic X, but we all know that Sonic is cool anyway. | |
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Halfway through Digimon Adventure 02, the main hero Digimon, V-mon (Veemon), finally gets a proper digivolved form of his own, a taller, buffed version of himself called XV-mon (ExVeemon). | |
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Planet X in the Duck Dodgers cartoons. Later parodied in Duck Dodgers in the 24½th Century: they find Planet X by first searching for Planet A, followed by Planet B, followed by... | |
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In the mid-90s, a reader of Electronic Gaming Monthly who noticed this phenomenon wrote a letter to the editors asking what the deal was. EGM responded with a sarcastic, dismissive remark, because at the time, EGM responded to every letter with a sarcastic, dismissive remark. | |
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The YouTube 10-year Milestone Celebration video is an "A-to-Z". The word "experiments" is used for the X. | |
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American History X, particularly if you have Avery Brooks bark the phrase at the bratty teenager sitting in his office. | |
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While they haven't yet appeared in the show, the Yu-Gi-Oh! card game has the X-Sabers and their beefed-up cousins, the XX-Sabers. | |
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The Tree of Life: The Chromosome layer is marked as X. Downplayed as it's likely named after the well-known X chromosome, and the letter C was taken by Cells, while two letters are reserved for sublayers. | |
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Protoform X in Beast Wars. Along with Cheetor's line that the pod was branded with "a big, bad-lookin' X!" | |
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Kamen Rider Kiva had Kamen Rider IXA, whose name is based on ikusa ("fighting", "battle", "war", etc.) but with an X. It's also an acroynm for "Intercept X Attacker", with X meaning "cross" — he's designed to be an interceptor going against attacking threats. | |
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TNA's X-Division, the Ultimate X match, and the pay per view Destination X. | |
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In the remake of The Longest Yard, Joey Battle (played by Bill Goldberg) has "X" as his uniform "number". | |
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The xx, who also was originally named X before realizing that there were other bands with that name. | |
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In M.U.G.E.N, there is a modified, much more powerful and harder to beat version of Popeye the Sailor double-modified by ArthurDM and then DDR named Popeye X. The X was added to his name for no reason, aside from making the everyone's favourite already cool spinach-eating sailor sound even cooler. X-ellent x'cuse! | |
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X/1999, an anime made by CLAMP. Then they went overboard and came up with ×××HOLiC... (The xxx is silent, it denotes a variable in Japanese. The English pronunciation would be ___holic.) | |
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Ultraseven X, released in conjunction with the 40th anniversary of Ultraseven. | |
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Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door has the X-Nauts. And the X-Yux (supposedly pronounced "cross-yux"). Or just the Yux in general. | |
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The final boss music from Touhou Hisoutensoku ~ Choudokyuu Ginyoru no Nazo o Oe is Unknown X, Unfound Adventure. | |
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Mega Man X. This may have caused confusion, as the American release used Roman numerals to denote the title while Japan used Arabic numbers. So to Japan, Mega Man X was just a name. To Americans, they might have thought this was the tenth Mega Man game (though this was Jossed long before the release of Mega Man 10). It helps that the titular Mega Man in this series is actually named "X" by Dr. Light, and, being a Super Prototype bot, the name was likely applied to signify his status as such. The Angry Video Game Nerd mentioned it in his name confusion video. Even Penny Arcade got it mixed up. |
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Kamen Rider Gotchard uses Cards of Power ranked from 1 to 10. The Rank 10 cards are heavily associated with Xes, incorporating them into the names and designs of the characters they depict. | |
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DARLING in the FRANXX, which along with double Xs in the mechas of the title, also has the villains, the Klaxxosaurs. | |
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In Kaitou Sentai Lupinranger VS Keisatsu Sentai Patranger, the Sixth Ranger has an X theme, with them on his helmet visor and mecha. | |
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Playboy X, one of the main characters of Grand Theft Auto IV. | |
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Ultraman X puts the X on whatever it can find. Ultraman X himself has an X Chest Insignia, and was codenamed "X" because of it. He then doubles up on it with the name of his Super Mode, Exceed X. Heck, the Xio team Home Base is a giant building shaped like an X! | |
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X-COM. It stands for "eXtraterrestial COMbat unit". And sounds extremely cool. | |
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Dimension X: The title relies on the imagination of alternate dimensions, these stories were all about the unknown; what is to come and how exciting it would be. | |
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Paper Mario X. The X stands for "crossover." | |
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Thanks to censorship in Final Fantasy on the NES, Kill was named XXXX. There's also the Warp/Banish spell, occasionally known as X-Zone as in Final Fantasy VI. | |
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When Shelton Benjamin worked in New Japan and Pro Wrestling NOAH in the 2010s, he was known as Shelton X Benjamin. | |
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The anime adaptation of Rurouni Kenshin has two English dubs. One of them leaves the title unchanged, while the other renames the show Samurai X. | |
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Every proper noun in the language of Neelix's species, the Talaxians, contains an X somewhere. | |
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Street Fighter: The Japanese version of Super Street Fighter II Turbo is called Super Street Fighter II X (likely changed due to the fact that the letter X could be confused with the Roman numeral for ten). This is the reason why the letter "X" appears when a Super Combo is used in the Game Boy Advance version, as well as why the Super Turbo-like fighting style in Street Fighter Alpha 3 is called "X-ism". | |
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Mega Man: Mega Man X. This may have caused confusion, as the American release used Roman numerals to denote the title while Japan used Arabic numbers. So to Japan, Mega Man X was just a name. To Americans, they might have thought this was the tenth Mega Man game (though this was Jossed long before the release of Mega Man 10). It helps that the titular Mega Man in this series is actually named "X" by Dr. Light, and, being a Super Prototype bot, the name was likely applied to signify his status as such. The Angry Video Game Nerd mentioned it in his name confusion video. Even Penny Arcade got it mixed up. A later series goes even further: Mega Man ZX. It's very convenient that the characters Zero and X already have the naming conventions to set up the kool title. (And, in fact, the hero of the first ZX gets to use both of their powers together, hence the title.) |
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Cannon God Exaxxion has not one, but three Xs. They explain later that the XXX marks that are stamped all over the title robot aren't really Xs at all, but rather the last letter of the alphabet used by the aliens who created it. XXX is their generic symbol for an antimatter reactor, as the letter has similar connotations to the Greek letter Omega. | |
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Dottori-Kun uses up to 3 Xs as enemies. | |
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Sora's new outfit in Dream Drop Distance features a silver X on his chest. It even carries over to his Tron Lines in The Grid. The same game also reveals that the X is formally known as the "Recusant's Sigil" — a mark that gives Xehanort the ability to seek down anyone marked with it. This is the reasoning for the Theme Naming above as well as why Naminé, being exempt from said Theme Naming, is able to hide from them during 358/2 Days and II. | |
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In the crossover Mighty Morphin Power Rangers/Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles, the second volume gives Casey Jones Ranger powers as Ranger X. It turns out to be a play on TMNT's Dimension X, as the dimension once had its own team of Rangers; with Casey, the Turtles, and April all inheriting the morphers and becoming X-Rangers. | |
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In Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown, the enemy ace Mihaly A. Shilage is often called Mister X, overlapping with Let X Be the Unknown. | |
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Planet X in Transformers: Cybertron. | |
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The Kingdom Hearts series loves this, overlapping with Let X Be the Unknown: Every member of Organization XIII has an X in their names in a form of Theme Naming — their names are anagrams of their original names, plus an X. Some of these work fairly well like Dilan becoming Xaldin, but some like Axel just seemed to raise questions and eyebrows. Even when his real name was revealed to be the slightly feminine-looking Lea (pronounced "Lee" to mitigate that) in 358/2 Days. The exception is Xemnas, who stole the name Ansem before his transformation. His original self was named Xehanort, which, if the X is removed, can make "no heart" and "another" — or "no earth", given he steals the body of a guy named Terra. There's also the χ-blade from Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep. It's spelled like the actual Greek letter "chi", which makes it a Multiple Reference Pun and is the reason for the Organization's naming practices mentioned above. And its wielder can fire a Sword Beam, of course in the shape of an X. Sora's new outfit in Dream Drop Distance features a silver X on his chest. It even carries over to his Tron Lines in The Grid. The same game also reveals that the X is formally known as the "Recusant's Sigil" — a mark that gives Xehanort the ability to seek down anyone marked with it. This is the reasoning for the Theme Naming above as well as why Naminé, being exempt from said Theme Naming, is able to hide from them during 358/2 Days and II. |
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Pokémon X Version is a straighter example, although its counterpart being Pokémon Y Version means it depends on whether real-world X/Y pairings are a case of this trope. | |
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Lampshaded in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines: If you ask him for life advice Smilin' Jack will mock any Player Character whose name contains an 'X' by claiming that you should never trust people with an 'X' in their name. | |
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Transformers: This is the basis behind the name of X-Brawn in Transformers: Robots in Disguise. It was for a while thought that X-Brawn was used because Hasbro couldn't secure a trademark on "Brawn", but one of their marketers later explained that they just put in the X to look cool. Planet X in Transformers: Cybertron. |
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Kamen Rider W is normally themed around his name letter, but his Super Mode swaps it out for Xes as W Xtreme. | |
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Super Smash Bros.: Super Smash Bros. Brawl is titled Dairantou! Smash Bros. X in Japan. Melee was also DX, short for "Deluxe." | |
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