History Main / TemporalThemeNaming

* To compliment their inclusion of a real-time clock, ''PokemonGoldAndSilver'' feature seven brothers and sisters (Monica, Tuscany, Wesley, Arthur, Frieda, Santos, and Sunny) which give the player a special item on their respective day of the week.
* Crono, of ''ChronoTrigger'', whose name is a prefix relating to concepts of time.
* The tenth ''{{Touhou}}'' game, ''Mountain of Faith'', introduces the Aki (Autumn) sisters, Shizuha and Minoriko, [[JustifiedTrope so named because]] they are in fact both goddesses '''of''' autumn.

* In ''StreetFighter Alpha'', the Dolls that serve M. Bison (Vega in Japan) form a complete calendar role-call in their native (usually) languages - in order: Enero (Spain), Février (France), März (Germany), Aprile (Italy), Satsuki (Japan), Juni & Juli (Germany again), Santum (Vietnam), Xiayu and Yanyu (China), Noembelu (Mexico), and Decapre (Russia).

* The [[GuiltyGear Jellyfish Air Pirates]] are all named after months of the year, similar to the ''SolBianca'' example above. Janis (January), Febby (February), March, April, May, June, July, Augus (August), Sephy (September), Octy (October), Novel (November), Dizzy (December) and Leap (leap year).

* Crono, of ChronoTrigger, whose name is a prefix relating to concepts of time.

* In ''[[{{ptitlenqjtj2js}} 7 Seeds]]'', the five teams are each named after a season, and all the team members were chosen to have names related to their team's season.

* The BigBad of ''Film/TheAvengers'' is named August de Winter; it's mentioned he has three sisters named April, May, and June.

* ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked''' protagonist is Princess November, daughter of King January and Queen [[BilingualBonus Avril]]. Her sisters are August and September. (WordOfGod addresses the lack of an October [[http://www.forthewicked.net/about.html on the sixth Frequently Asked Question]]).

* ''Webcomic/NoRestForTheWicked''' protagonist is Princess November, daughter of King January. Her sisters are August and September. (WordOfGod addresses the lack of an October [[http://www.forthewicked.net/about.html on the sixth Frequently Asked Question]]).

* ''{{Sofuteni}}'' gives all the main characters a surname with a seasonal kanji in it. Asuna ''Haru''kaze, Kotone Sawa''natsu'', Chitose ''Aki''yama and Kurusu ''Fuyu''kawa.

* TheNewPornographers: ''[[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lcA9vv3zn24 Get thee/Back to the old truth/July Jones]]. (Ignore the oddly-dressed fellow).

* In ''7Seeds'' there are five groups, each named after a season, and each group has names based off those seasons.

The most common form is to name characters after months or seasons, but other types occasionally appear.

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* The title characters from Robin Benway's teen fantasy book, 'The Extraordinary Secrets of April, May, & June.'

* ''{{Minami-ke}}'' doubles up on this: the Minami sisters have ''Haru''ka (spring), ''Ka''na (summer), and Chi''aki'' (autumn), while the other Minami family has ''Natsu''ki (summer), ''Aki''ra (autumn), ''Tou''ma (winter)... and the oldest brother, whose [[NoNameGiven name is never mentioned]].

* Film example: the sisters in ''MyNeighborTotoro'' are named "Satsuki" and "Mei"; the word "satsuki" is the old Japanese name for the month of May.
** Their sharing a month is apparently a reference to the two of them being a single character in early drafts of the script.

* ''[[CoyoteRagtimeShow Coyote Ragtime Show]]'' has 12 [[ElegantGothicLolita elegant gothic lolita]] robot assassins each named after a month of the year.

* The hentai series Kanojo x Kanojo x Kanojo has ''Haru''omi the protagonist, ''Natsu''mi the eldest girl, ''Aki''na the middle sister, and Ma''fuyu'' the youngest of the three.

** Two words: SummerGlau.

* In ''StreetFighter Alpha'', the Dolls that serve M. Bison (Vega in Japan) form a complete calendar role-call in their native (usually) languages — in order: Enero (Spain), Février (France), März (Germany), Aprile (Italy), Satsuki (Japan), Juni & Juli (Germany again), Santum (Vietnam), Xiayu and Yanyu (China), Noembelu (Mexico), and Decapre (Russia).
** This troper is a native speaker of Vietnamese and he wonders [[DidNotDoTheResearch where the hell they take "Santum" from]]
*** It's probably a mistranslation of "Tháng Tám" (the actual Vietnamese for "August"), which would probably be written as "Santamu" in Japanese phonetics.
* Surprised no one mentioned [[AceAttorney April May]] yet.
* The [[GuiltyGear Jellyfish Air Pirates]] are all named after months of the year, similar to the SolBianca example above. Janis (January), Febby (February), March, April, May, June, July, Augus (August), Sephy (September), Octy (October), Novel (November), Dizzy (December) and Leap (leap year).

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* In ''SolBianca'', the all-woman crew of the starship Sol Bianca bear the English names of months, or simple variations thereon: Janny, Feb, April, May, and June

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** Two words: SummerGlau

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* In ''StreetFighter Alpha'', the Dolls that serve M. Bison (Vega in Japan) form a complete calendar role-call in their native (usually) languages — in order: Enero (Spain), Février (France), März (Germany), Aprile (Italy), Satsuki (Japan), Juni & Juli (Germany again), Santum (Vietnam), Xiayu and Yanyu (China), Noembelu (Mexico), and Decapre (Russia).