This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
lolwut: Isn't the pagequote on Otto Octavius an example of Steven Ulysses Perhero ? Removed.
Zephid: I must be an idiot, but I don't understand how "Daniel Plainview" translates to The Devil. Could someone explain that either here or in its example?
Jisu: My guess is Devil in Plain Sight.
Zephid: Wow, I am an idiot...
Kendra Kirai: I'm not sure if the new Keroro Gunsou examples belong here, but I put them in anyhow. If anyone thinks they're better off elsewhere, go ahead.
Andyroid: Removed the human examples for Keroro Gunsou, didn't think they really fit as examples of Meaningful Name.
arromdee: Some of the FF 7 examples are ridiculous. We're expected to believe that someone *translated* a katakana name to "Aerith" and not "Aeris" based on anagram potential (especially since some names which *are* references to things aren't translated properly), and "Yuffie" as euphoric is not only a stretch, it's a double stretch when you consider that the game is not originally English and "euphoria" is not exactly as well known an English word in Japan as "cloud". Moreover, any name of reasonable length and reasonable number of vowels has so many anagrams that it's trivial to find one that "fits". And none of these are a *pattern*. It's not as if we have seven characters all with anagram names.
I'd also be more inclined to believe that Jenova was one sound off from "Jehovah" than to believe the silly theory in the list.
lale: Moved KP list to Punny Name.
priscellie: Methinks it's time to categorize these entries by medium.
arromdee: Removed the Shampoo reference, because half of those meanings are an urban legend (particularly the mountainous breasts one, which sounds too good to be true because it is).
"This editor can't have been the only person who knew ahead of time that Remus Lupin would turn out to be a werewolf."
Ophicius: I'm fairly sure he isn't referred to as "Remus Lupin" until The Reveal. Before then the closest they get is Professor R. J. Lupin.
Fenris wasn't the one supposed to eat the sun. That was the duty of a pair of different monster wolves named Hati and Skoll. They also chased the sun and moon around to make them move.
- And also consider that the show hides what Kyon would rather be referred to with a shot of a cat.
J: With regards to the Gundam Wing entry, where is it canonically established that Quatre and Trowa are gay, as opposed to Heterosexual Life-Partners or similar?
Charred Knight: Nowhere, I deleted it
Zeke: I know it's bad form to put a new example at the top, but Charles Dickens is so famous for his colourful names that we could practically have called this trope "Dickensian Name". I can't believe he wasn't already listed.
- JRR Tolkien, the great philologist that he was, would come up with the name FIRST and extrapolate a character from it. Three of many, many examples; "Gandalf" is Old English for "Elf Wand", or a wizard, "Samwise" is another term for "half-wise" or simple, and Gollum is from golem, a creature that has no life or will of its own aside from some greater power controlling it.
Swamp Adder: I have never heard that that was the origin of Gollum's name. If no one objects, I'm going to remove it (I've already changed the reference to Old English to Old Norse, which it is).
Swamp Adder: Well, no one objected, so I removed it.
Mac Phisto: What would the inverse of this be? A name that doesn't not match the character at all?
...Where's the page gone?
