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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })Part of the Dark Age of Super Heroes involved making not only their appearance, morality, and demeanor Darker and Edgier, but also their names. Heroes born during the nineties ditched the Something Person Naming Conventions and took a page from Names to Run Away from Really Fast, using names both scary and trite. Most names became one word, usually gritty, edgy, and trendy. At times, two words were merged into a single name, usually including some combination of Dark, Blood, or a verb for killing. Because substandard literacy is kewl, they are occasionally misspelled in clever ways like Darkchylde, Stryker, or Blüdwulf — which, not coincidentally, also makes the names easier to trademark. Characters surviving from this time period may have to struggle with sounding dated, but then again, surviving the nineties hopefully means they have more to them than just boasts of Badassness. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })See also Fad Super. Contrast The Adjectival Superhero. Examples: |
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Some capes in Worm have names like this, particularly the Slaughterhouse 9. Burnscar, Crawler, Mannequin, Bonesaw, Siberian, Hookwolf, Screamer, Breed, Miasma, Nyx, Psychosoma, and Skinslip are the stand-outs, but Jack Slash counts as well. Given the setting and the characters, they still manage to come across as threatening rather than Narm. | |
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Darkdeath Evilman, from Zettai Hero Project. | |
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Although the regular heroes in Astro City avoid this trope, it was invoked (usually briefly) for characters who appeared during the series' aptly-named "Dark Age," such as Stonecold, Broadsword, Hellhound, Pale Horseman, and Hollowpoint. | |
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Supporting The Savage Dragon character KillCat is a parody of this sort of thing — not that it stopped some writers from having him play the '90s Anti-Hero completely straight, though. | |
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The above also applies to Champions Online (AKA The Other City of Heroes). | |
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Just about everyone in Antihero for Hire does this intentionally. Early on, one of the recurring villains was constantly changing his name into ice-related puns during the fight with the main character. | |
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X-Men villain Holocaust is notable for having too dark a name. When toy company ToyBiz made an action figure of him, they changed it to the less genocidal Dark Nemesis. This carried over to the comics with a name change to Nemesis. They later switched him back to Holocaust just in time for him to be snorted to death by an evil Superman expy. Holocaust was originally known as Nemesis prior to the events of Age of Apocalypse. When Magneto ripped him apart for killing Scarlet Witch, he got a new name after coming back. | |
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Common Grounds features perennial nice guy Captain Gallant's three sons, Bloodstain, Die-Cut, and Deathmarch. | |
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As seen on the quotes page, Linkara pokes fun at this trope with his Dark Age fanboy character, 90's Kid and his character, Bloodgun. Though in the later review of Darker Image #1 even 90's Kid concedes that Deathblow is stupid name. | |
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Although a mild example, Arsenal counts. Notably, he started off as "Speedy" when he was a Kid Sidekick, then became "Arsenal," switched to "Red Arrow" when he joined the Justice League of America, and then switched back to "Arsenal" when he went Darker and Edgier. However, one of the reasons behind Roy's name change was that Arsenal represented that he used other weapons besides a bow, and later, he mastered a form of martial arts that allows him to use anything as a weapon. After the loss of his arm and the death of his daughter Lian in Justice League: Cry for Justice, his change back to Arsenal was followed by him completely dropping the bow (his badly designed prosthetic made it unable for him to use a bow like he used to) and switching to knives and some sort of staff on his back. | |
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Mystery Men: "Dark... Phoenix... Phoenix Dark, yeah, that's my name". | |
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Deathstroke the Terminator. A good example of a character managing to stay top-tier despite a name that seems hilariously over the top today. It's probably for the best the cartoon stuck with "Slade." Apparently, his name wasn't intended to be quite that bad: in his first battle with the Titans, he was called only Deathstroke to a certain point, and then called only Terminator as if he'd been called that all along. Apparently something went wrong at the editing stage. This was handwaved by saying his full handle was "Deathstroke the Terminator." You'd think they'd have dropped one name or the other by this point (especially with Crisis on Infinite Earths giving them the opportunity to say that in the new combined reality, he'd never been called anything but Deathstroke), but for whatever reason, the over-the-top name stuck. What's even weirder is that DC barely uses his Terminator in his full name for obvious reasons (despite the character debuting before the movie). But, for some reason, they use it just often enough so people never forget that it was his original name all along. | |
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The same goes for World of Warcraft, especially for rogues, especially on PvP servers. If you haven't seen it, you will never believe how many variations of names like "ShadowKiller" there are. | |
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Cracked compiled a list of the 9 manliest names in the world. It includes Powers Boothe, Stirling Mortlock and Staff Sgt. Max Fightmaster. | |
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Cyberforce: Ripclaw, Cyblade, Heatwave, Stryker. | |
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Ravenshadow, Pyre, and Flagg of Rising Stars. (Flagg later changes to "Patriot," not because it's a better name but due to a real life request from American Flagg! creator Howard Chaykin, which is lampshaded in the storyline itself.) | |
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In The Adventures of Dr. McNinja, Dr. McNinja's brother Sean gives himself the codename "Dark Smoke Puncher," an arguably ludicrous moniker. This fact isn't lost on Doc himself, who says that it sounds like something he got from a friend playing Counter-Strike. | |
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Parodied in Penny Arcade, with the characters Raven Darktalon Blood and Grimm Shado. | |
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One-Punch Man has a few of these, such as the sisters named Blizzard of Hell and Tornado of Terror, as well as Death Gatling, Demon Cyborg, Zombieman, Darkness Blade, Funeral Suspenders, etc. | |
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The Global Guardians PBEM Universe: Oh my, were there several. Some players just couldn't get over the fact that the games were supposedly running under Bronze Age ideals and not Dark Age ideals. Ballistic, Ambush, Battlecat, Twilight, Recoil, Fracture, Fusillade, Shift, Flux, and Ablaze are just a random ten, and those are the heroes. | |
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In The Order of the Stick, the dinosaur that Belkar rescues is later named "Bloodfeast the Extreme-inator" by Belkar. While the others in the Order are skeptical about the name, he points out it's not really a good time, because they're currently being attacked by Tarquin and his party, and it's not really brought up again. Somewhat subverted in that the dinosaur isn't actually given that name until after he's been polymorphed into a small, largely harmless lizard. | |
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Darkhawk had an obvious dark age name that sounds rather generic now. | |
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Gen¹³: Grunge. | |
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Spawn, who practically epitomized this trope in the 90s. | |
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Venom (who had his own Darker and Edgier series where he was an Anti-Hero) and his Ax-Crazy spawn Carnage. This tradition is also carried on by his spawn Toxin; fortunately he's actually a good guy. Later, after being separated from the Venon symbiote, Eddie Brock would obtain another symbiote known as Anti-Venom, born of the remnants of the Venom symbiote in Brock's body and his white blood cells with some help from Mister Negative. After losing Anti-Venom at the end of Spider-Island, Brock then is bonded to the Toxin symbiote for a time. There has also been a host of other, lesser symbiotes that have appeared in various Spider-Man and Venom-related books, including Dreadface (a symbiote with Mind Control powers encountered by the Fantastic Four), the five symbiotes spawned from Venom by the Life Foundation (named Scream, Phage, Agony, Riot, and Lasher), Hybrid (a merger of the aforementioned Life Foundation symbiotes sans Scream), and Scorn (a piece of the Carnage symbiote recovered after its apparent demise at the hands of The Sentry). Like Toxin, several of them are heroic in nature, but they have a habit of being used as C-List Fodder to advance the plotlines of the "main" symbiotes. |
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DeathSpank is a parody of this trope. | |
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In the Mutants & Masterminds setting "Freedom City," the "Iron Age" of the 1980s involved the criminalization of super-heroics in Freedom City. Enter FORCE Ops (Freelance Organization of Criminal Elimination Operatives), a bad-ass team of heroes fighting a no-holds-barred battle against crime AND the authoritarian government. Members include: Kismet, a mysterious mercenary; Network, an elite hacker turned into pure energy; and Nightrage, a super-heroic vampire. | |
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Done by Disney Italy, twice: The first time it happened was in 1969, with the character of Paperinik the Devilish Avenger. Did we mention that this is the superhero/antihero alter ego of Donald Duck? In the nineties Paperinik New Adventures gave us a rather subtle example with Xadhoom, meaning "Creditor" in Xerbian. Doesn't sound much? Well, the Evronians owe her a planet and a race, and she openly admits she plans to collect in full. |
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According to the Fiendish Codex II the Hellbred race follow this trope. When one comes Back from the Dead as one they keep their first name, but replace the last with something more infernal. Though, as an entire species of Atoners they're definitely good examples. | |
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Stryker, veteran Mortal Kombatant. | |
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Reaper from Overwatch: He picked that name to echo the upcoming death he's going to bring to his enemies, but combined with his design, it had the side-effect of encouraging fans to call him an "edgelord" and claim that he's trying too hard. Fellow Talon operatives Widowmaker, Sombra, and Doomfist also qualify. Being an agent of the Nebulous Evil Organisation requires an edgy codename, it seems. | |
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The short-lived Marvel UK sub-universe had the Warheads, Motormouth, Killpower, Death's Head, Death Metal, Death Wreck (the last three versions of the same character), Hell's Angel (later Dark Angel, following a lawsuit by Hell's Angels) and Genetix. Oh, and a number of these appeared in a comic called Overkill. | |
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Many of the new super people created for Kingdom Come embody this trope: Nightstar (Starfire and Nightwing's daughter), 666, Bat-Knight, Black Mongul, NIL8, Swastika, Shiva the Destroyer and Cathedral... This is deliberate, since Kingdom Come is a deconstruction of the Dark Age. Minor Kingdon Come character Demon Damsel manages to be both this trope and Silver Age of Supernames, as she's allegedly a rejected candidate for the Legion of Super-Heroes, which is why her name fits the "Lightning Lad"-"Saturn Girl" format. | |
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Most of the villains (and more than few of the heroes) in the Dark Champions. Of course, the intent of this game was to simulate this genre of comics, so it's entirely fitting. | |
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Night Thrasher (of New Warriors fame). Whose name came from his advanced weaponized skateboard, thank you very much. Spider-Man once lampshaded this. While fighting alongside Night Thrasher and The Punisher, he responded to their insults to his name with "Oh please! Insults from someone who sounds like he has naughty nighttime dreams and another who sounds like he wants to spank people?!" | |
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In addition to Hellstrike and Cannon, Stormwatch also had Battalion, who channeled his telekinesis through (what else?) guns to battle his evil father, Despot of WarGuard. Notably, though, he abandoned the guns and codename after a few years to become an administrator. | |
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The Cyberpunk 2020 RPG included quotes from characters with names like Ripperjack and Morgan Blackhand. Appropriate to the Cyber Punk genre, though at times they come across more like parodies of self-consciously "edgy" tough guys, which may have been intentional. | |
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Professional Wrestling (especially in the 1990s) is chock full of these spanning pretty much the entirety of its colorful history, with varying degrees of success, ranging from the surprisingly successful (and intentionally ironic) Chyna...to the execrable Shockmaster. Dusty Rhodes, in his stint as Guest Host of RAW, admits his mistake on that one (complete with humorous Santino Marella reenactment AND Arn Anderson providing the character's voice, in a Shout-Out to tag-team partner/Kayfabe brother Ole Anderson's original role), apologetically saying to D-Generation X (another great example of this trope, by the way) "I thought it would work!" | |
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Nightwing celebrated his own ongoing series by moving to a town named Blüdhaven. It was described as being close to Gotham (the Bat-Family frequently guest-starred in each other's comics), but was also described unambiguously as more crime-ridden and corrupt than Gotham, although 50+ years of comics never saw Batman so much as chase a purse-snatcher there. Eventually the whole city got destroyed during the Infinite Crisis crossover event. | |
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In The Multiversity, the members of The Gentry have such colorful monikers as Dame Merciless, Hellmachine, Lord Broken, Demogorgunn and... Intellectron. | |
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Probably as a reference to the Dark Age of Supernames is Speedball, who changed his name to Penance supposedly to become "deep" and to escape his comedy-character background, because of the Stamford incident. His cat Niels is renamed "P-cat the Penitent Puss." (He has since gone back to Speedball, and Niels now goes by the moniker "Hairball" in his adventures with the Pet Avengers.) | |
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In Love and Capes, Mark Spencer, as the Superman Expy, is "The Crusader", but many of the other super characters have names like these, although they're pretty reasonable. Darkblade, Amazonia, Windstar (and his niece Starlet), Blurstreak, Mermantis, Arachnerd, Microdot and so on. But a handful of characters have handles more like those of the Golden Age; Major Might, Golden Torch, Dr. Karma, Steel Worker, the Evil Brain. | |
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Look through the list of Final Fantasy main character names and spot when the series went Darker and Edgier and super 90s Cyberpunk: Cecil Harvey, Bartz Klauser, Terra Branford, Cloud Strife. | |
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Also poked fun at in Wild CATS, when Ladytron asks someone "what's up with this kill-hell-death-blood name thing?" Naturally, the other guy makes fun of the name "Ladytron," and hijinx ensue. | |
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An animated version: The Ripping Friends (by John Kricfalusi) featured Crag, Rip, Slab, and Chunk. As with a lot of Kricfalusi's material, the viewer may be excused for not being 100% clear whether this was intended as a parody or a devoted, loving tribute. | |
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So many Warhammer 40,000 names, for understandable reasons. Ragnar Blackmane, Night Haunter, Doomrider, Huron Blackheart, etc. Ragnar's case even more so, as he comes from a Viking-Age Norse type culture fond of sobriquets and the name itself is a double reference to both his black hair and beard, and the fact that he killed a black Fenrisian wolf as a Neophyte and wears it's pelt. |
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El Sabueso from The Dreadful is intended as a parody of 90s comics and the works of Rob Liefeld, so it's only fitting that his name is Spanish for "The Bloodhound" and that he has a horse named Bludkolt. | |
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The Darkness. | |
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Parodied in Wildguard with Crimson Phantom Vengeance, a Batman-style vigilante (eliminated in the first round of competition as "not what we're looking for") and Mr. Transmuto, whose fashion sense is stuck in the 90s, as well. Also Red Rover's enemy Heartwyrm. The name "Wildguard" itself kind of smacks of this trope, though. | |
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X-Men 2099 had some of the best. Skullfire, Bloodhawk, Metalhead, Meanstreak, Junkpile, and Psyclone. Note that those are all members of the actual X-Men note though one of them turns traitor almost immediately — Skullfire in particular is the leader! That said, Skullfire never really used his codename, just going by "Tim" 99% of the time. Apparently even he knew how 90s that codename it was. A notable exception in X-Men 2099 was Serpentina — Tina to her friends. Naturally, she dies in the third issue. |
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Despite not having anything to do with superheroes, Light and Dark The Adventures of Dark Yagami has this in a big way, with Original Characters having names like "Blud," "Dusk," "Khaos," and the unpronounceable "TIOSEFAJ." | |
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The cast of the F-Zero series includes various superheroes and supervillains, with masks, exaggerated body builds, capes, and all. The most evil characters all have names straight from the Dark Age of Supernames. There's Captain Falcon's Evil Knockoff, Blood Falcon; Blood Falcon's evil master and the apparent Big Bad, Black Shadow; and then his boss, The Man Behind the Man, Deathborn. Even their racing machines get the name treatment — Blood Hawk, Black Bull, and Dark Schneider respectively. | |
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The trade for The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers gives us a standout example, even though we never see him in person — Gorelock. | |
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In Shadowboy, the Heroes who are stated as starting in the 90s have names that reflect this. Of particular note being Razordemon. | |
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In the nineties Paperinik New Adventures gave us a rather subtle example with Xadhoom, meaning "Creditor" in Xerbian. Doesn't sound much? Well, the Evronians owe her a planet and a race, and she openly admits she plans to collect in full. | |
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Also from the 70s: Raza Longknife, Killraven and Daimon Hellstrom (the Son of Satan). | |
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Even the Legion of Super-Heroes went through this phase. Traditionally a bastion of Something Person names, the '90s-era reboot turned Lightning Lad into "Live Wire", Triplicate Girl into "Triad," Colossal Boy into "Leviathan," Princess Projectra into "Sensor," and so forth. When the series was rebooted again in 2004, most of the new names went by the wayside, and the Something Person codenames returned to the fore. | |
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Darkchylde. For what you could probably consider bonus points, her real name is Ariel Chylde. Even as a civilian, her name is super kewl! | |
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Later, after being separated from the Venon symbiote, Eddie Brock would obtain another symbiote known as Anti-Venom, born of the remnants of the Venom symbiote in Brock's body and his white blood cells with some help from Mister Negative. After losing Anti-Venom at the end of Spider-Island, Brock then is bonded to the Toxin symbiote for a time. | |
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Youngblood: Deathshot, Riptide, Badrock, Combat, Psi-Fire, Psylence (sometimes Psilence), Bloodwulf, Diehard, Wylder. Rob Liefeld was one of the big popularizers of this trope, and probably helped everyone get sick of it too. Badrock was initially called a more mild name, "Bedrock," whose Catch-Phrase was "Yabba Dabba Doom!" Lawyers from a certain Stone Age town resulted in Liefeld and his studio renaming him Badrock, thus invoking this trope. Of course, some members' names are fairly muted in comparison: Chapel, Shaft, Cougar, Troll, Vogue, and Brahman, for instance. |
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If you want to see this trope in the extreme, look no further than the City of Heroes playerbase itself. The number of heroes with names like this has spawned much derision from the playerbase, especially from the role-players. Granted, most of the "creatively misspelled" names are simply a way to get a desired name that's long since been taken by another player, but it's a safe bet that there are plenty of people who were fans of the Dark Age of Comics and do this deliberately. Perhaps fortunately, there aren't many examples of this among NPC heroes and villains, with the only real examples being among the more minor "Rogues Gallery" rather than the Signature characters. Notable cases are Mangle, Hollow Point, Comatorium, and Blood Thorn. |
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The Authority's Midnighter (despite him snarking about someone else on the Quotes page) is actually a sort of hidden reference. The Midnighters were a 60s soul band — of the sort that would perform at The Apollo, which is his partner's name. | |
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At least half the Transformers have names that sound like this. Ravage, Prowl, Deadend, Dirge, Snarl, Razorclaw, etc... It got worse later on in the franchise. And then Generation 2 happened, and they must have thought "We're running out of names, so let's take older names and make 'em cooler", so that gave stuff like Staxx (who is a semi-truck with smokestacks...) To be fair, this was G2, i.e., before the standard practice with new Transformers stuff was to simply set the series in an alternate universe and primarily re-use old names. Of course, even in G1, you had guys like Megastorm... The trade for The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers gives us a standout example, even though we never see him in person — Gorelock. |
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