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* The boarding schools from ''{{Literature/Woodwalkers}}'' and ''Literature/{{Seawalkers}}'' are named Clear''water'' High and Blue ''Reef'' High.

* Two examples from ''VideoGame/AVeryLongRopeToTheTopOfTheSky'':
** [[FamilyThemeNaming Ivy, Mint, and Rose]] are all named after plants. Lampshaded in Rose's soul tear, where [[spoiler:Claire]] jokes that Rose always has her mind on the garden.
** Regular status protection rings are named after gemstones, often playing off of folk lore (emerald rings prevent poison, for instance). Rings that protect against multiple status effects are named after snakes; the best one is the Ouroboros Ring.

* The second ''Manga/CaseClosed'' movie ''The Fourteenth Target'' centers around a series of attacks on a group of people, with the order based on the numerical element in the kanji or pronunciation of the target's name based on playing cards (starting at Joker and working down). The English dub, obviously unable to use an allusion that strongly centers around Japanese language, dropped that theme and [[DubNameChange changed several names]], basing the necessary allusions on their careers instead, such as how many patents an inventor had filed, or a professional golfer's national ranking.

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** This was given a reference in ''Anime/DokiDokiPrettyCure'' where it also uses the suits of cards motif for the four main characters, Mana Aida/Cure Heart (Heart), Rikka Hishikawa/Cure Diamond (Diamond), Alice Yotsuba/Cure Rosetta (Club), Makoto Kenzaki/Cure Sword (Spade) and Aguri Madoka/Cure Ace (Ace).

* For a show set in New Mexico, ''Series/BreakingBad'' has an awful lot of characters with German last names in it, like Hank Schrader, Elliot Shwartz[[note]]even becomes a minor plot point as his name means "black" in German, which he combines with Walter White to name his company Grey Matter[[/note]], Mike Ehrmantraut[[note]]lampshaded in the prequel when a German character translates his last name for him[[/note]], Gale Boetticher, Gus Frings, Ted Beneke, and Dan Wachsberger. While the White family themselves has no German name, Walt uses the very German "Heisenberg" as his work alias.

* For a show set in New Mexico, ''Series/BreakingBad'' has an awful lot of characters with German last names in it, like Hank Schrader, Elliot Shwartz[[note]]even becomes a minor plot point as his name means "black" in German, which he combines with Walter White to name his company Grey Matter[[/note]], Mike Ehrmantraut[[note]]lampshaded in the prequel when a German character translates his last name for him[[/note]], Gale Boetticher, Gus Frings, Ted Beneke, and Dan Wachsberger. The White family themselves has no German name, but Walt uses the very German "Heisenberg" as his work alias.

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* ''Fanfic/ThePalaververse'': A version of ''TabletopGame/{{Clue}}'' is played as a form of gambling in ''Wedding March'', and uses the same ColorfulThemeNaming as in the game, but also mixing AllierativeName and "job title" ThemeNaming in as well:

* ''VideoGame/TheGameOfLife'' has oscillators known as Rich's p16, Rob's p16, and Charity's p16. The latter has also been referred to as "Rity's p16", for AddedAlliterativeAppeal.

* ''ThemeNaming/TheGameOfLife'' (includes subtropes)

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* NamedAfterSomebodyFamous

* In the [[ShowWithinAShow Movie-Within-A-Show]] of ''[[Pinball/LightsCameraAction Lights... Camera... Action!]],'' the characters are named after playing card ranks — "Ace" (TheHero), "King" (BigBad), "Queen" (CampGay), "Jack" (TheDragon), and "10" (TheChick). This was because the game originally had a card game motif that was changed midway through development.

* Most named characters in ''Manga/DesertPunk'' have surnames or nicknames that refer to water in some form, with characters such as 'mizu' (水, ''water''), 'kawa' (川, ''river'') and 'ike' (池, ''pond, lake'') being common across names. The protagonist Kanta Mizuno's surname, for example, means 'water valley', while his apprentice Taiko Koizumi's means 'little fountain'. This also gives us a whole cast of {{Ironic Name}}s, as the setting is a vast, post-apocalyptic ThirstyDesert.

* Frieza and his family in ''Manga/DragonBall'' are all named after English terms for cold or cooling kitchen appliances (King Cold, Cooler, etc.).

* Most named characters in ''Manga/DesertPunk'' have surnames or nicknames that refer to water in some form, with characters such as 'mizu' (水, ''water''), 'kawa' (川, ''river'') and 'ike' (池, ''lake'') frequently occurring in names. The protagonist Kanta Mizuno's surname, for example, means 'water valley', while his apprentice Taiko Koizumi's means 'little fountain'. This also makes for a cast full of {{Ironic Name}}s, as the setting is a vast, post-apocalyptic ThirstyDesert.

* Most named characters in ''Manga/DesertPunk'' have surnames or nicknames that refer to water in some form, with characters such 'mizu' (水, ''water''), 'kawa' (川, ''river'') and 'ike' (池, ''lake'') frequently occurring in names. The protagonist Kanta Mizuno's surname, for example, means 'water valley', while his apprentice Taiko Koizumi's means 'little fountain'. This also makes for a cast full of {{Ironic Name}}s, as the setting is a vast, post-apocalyptic ThirstyDesert.

* Most named characters in ''Manga/DesertPunk'' have surnames or nicknames that refer to water in some form, with characters such 'mizu' (水, ''water''), 'kawa' (川, ''river'') and 'ike' (池, ''pond'') frequently occurring in names. The protagonist Kanta Mizuno's surname, for example, means 'water valley', while his apprentice Taiko Koizumi's means 'little fountain'. This also makes for a cast full of {{Ironic Name}}s, as the setting is a vast, post-apocalyptic ThirstyDesert.

* ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' concludes each chapter with a boss whose name invokes the Latin word "odio", meaning "I hate" -- Odo in Prehistory, Ou Di Wan Lee in Imperial China ([[BilingualBonus "Wan" is equivalent to the Japanese word "Oh"]]), Ode Iou in Edo Japan, O. Dio in the Wild West, Odie O'Bright in the present, Odeo in the Near Future, and OD-10 in the Distant Future.

* In ''LightNovel/OnlyTheRingFingerKnows'', all the novels in the series have "hand" or "ring finger" in the title.

* The ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' villain [=KGBeast=] is so named because he was empowered by the KGB. Other products of the same program are the [=NKVDemon=] (named after the Stalin-era StateSec) and the [=SVRmiger=] (named after the Russian Federation's intelligence service, combined with a slightly forced play on "armiger" - arms-bearer in Latin).

* In ''FanFic/PrettyCurePerfumePreppy'', a motif of scents stretches itself through the Cures and the mascots (Lavvie is short for lavender, and Pittan's name is supposed to be derivated from the Brazillian name of the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eugenia_uniflora Eugenia uniflora]]). Even [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rafflesia Raflesina]] and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ylang_ylang monsters]] fall under this.

* ''WebComic/DragonBallMultiverse'': Overlapping with SdrawkcabName in many cases, the Heliorites from U19 are named after different brands of electrical appliances: Eleim (Miele), Xeniloum (Moulinex), Tidar (Radit), Naurb (Braun), Phipsil (Philips), Magsuns (Samsung), Loopwhirl (Whirlpool) and Nedwook (Kenwood).

* In ''WebAnimation/EtraChanSawIt'', the main cast is named after flowers and plants (ex. Azami means "thistle", Yuzuriha means "false daphne", Tsutsuji means "azalea", Akamatsu means "red pine", Kuroki means "black wood", etc.)