History Main / UnusuallyUninterestingName

* The first ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie features Sector 7, a secret government organization which researches Cybertronian technology, and which for some reason also has [[SigilSpam custom vehicles and uniforms]], exactly the [[MildlyMilitary sort of thing]] you'd expect a [[OvertAgent secret organization to avoid]].

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation. Even knowing that it stands for "Secure, Contain, Protect" doesn't give an insight into their work of dealing with bizarre reality-defying objects, many with lethal potential ranging from a person's slow, hideous death to reducing the Earth to gravel. Their reports include many other blandly-named terrors, some carried out by the Foundation to prevent worse things, such as the [[NothingIsScarier mysterious]] but horiffic "Procedure 110-Montauk" that reads as a version of the Prometheus Curse with the Foundation in the role of the eagle targeting a girl between █ and ██ years old, because the first six innocent victims have already released their Evil SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan, generally through their death or going for too long without being 'forcibly reset', so the seventh could spell the end of the world.

-->-- ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen''

->''The new project went by a deliberately bland and uninformative name: the Security Studies Group (SSG). That name would frequently change. [...] The Security Studies Group. Yellow Combine. Petrel Hill. Threshold Curve. Silver See. The name changed eighteen times between 2002 and 2017. Every timeit changes, the paper trail leading to its activities becomes more muddled. With each change, a new, Top Secret special-access program grants continuing clearance to activities and intelligence that no American employee can confess or confirm. Insiders call it “the Program.”''

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* The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Office_of_Strategic_Services Office of Strategic Services]] was the WorldWarII forerunner to the modern Central Intelligence Agency.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation. Even knowing that it stands for "Secure, Contain, Protect" doesn't give an insight into their work of dealing with bizarre reality-defying objects, many with lethal potential ranging from a person's slow, hideous death to reducing the Earth to gravel. Their reports include many other blandly-named terrors, some carried out by the Foundation to prevent worse things, such as the [[NothingIsScarier mysterious]] but horiffic "Procedure 110-Montauk" that reads as a version of the Prometheus Curse with the SCP in the role of the eagle targeting a girl between █ and ██ years old, because the first six innocent victims have already released their Evil SealedInsideAPersonShapedCan, generally through their death or going for too long without being 'reset', so the seventh could spell the end of the world.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation. Even knowing that it stands for "Secure, Contain, Protect" doesn't give an insight into their work of dealing with bizarre reality-defying objects, many with lethal potential ranging from a person's slow, hideous death to reducing the Earth to gravel. Their reports include many other blandly-named terrors, some carried out by the Foundation to prevent worse things, such as the [[NothingIsScarier mysterious]] but horiffic "Procedure 110-Montauk" that reads as a version of the Prometheus Curse with the SCP in the role of the eagle targeting a girl between █ and ██ years old, because they failed to keep the first six victims alive and the seventh could spell the end of the world.

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation. Even knowing that it stands for "Secure, Contain, Protect" doesn't give an insight into their work of dealing with bizarre reality-defying objects, many with lethal potential ranging from a person's slow, hideous death to reducing the Earth to gravel. Their reports include many other blandly-named terrors, some carried out by the Foundation to prevent worse things, such as the [[NothingIsScarier mysterious]] but horrific "Procedure 110-Montauk" done to a girl between █ and ██ years old.

* In all versions of Franchise/GhostInTheShell, the heroes work for the blandly named Public Security Section Nine. It's also shown that there are other Sections in Public Security with different specializations from Section Nine.

* The [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Ankh-Morpork]] government department whose job is to deal with situations that Lord Vetinari would like ... dealt with ... are simply called "the clerks". Only when they need to be distinguished from the normal sort of clerks in the Palace are they called "the dark clerks".
** There's also Mr John "Not-A-Vampire-At-All" Smith, who tries just a little too hard not to draw attention to himself.
* Literature/LiadenUniverse: the organization behind most of the plot is called the Department of the Interior.
* The evil, world-threatening group in ''Literature/ThatHideousStrength'' is named the "National Institute for Coordinated Experiments" (NICE).

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* In the prologue of ''Film/MenInBlack'', Agent K flashes an ID at a pair of Border Patrol officers, identifying himself and his partner as being from "INS, Division Six" so that he can talk to an [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Illegal Alien]] in private. {{Subverted}}, because one of the Border Patrol agents, a moment later, states "There ''is'' no Division Six" before following after K to see what he's up to. Just in time to end up CoveredInGunge and experiencing LaserGuidedAmnesia.
* The first ''Film/{{Transformers}}'' movie features Sector 7, a secret government organization which researches Cybertronian technology, and which for some reason also has [[SigilSpam custom vehicles and uniforms]], exactly the [[MildlyMilitary sort of thing]] you'd expect a [[OvertAgent secret organization to avoid]].
* Throughout the first ''Film/IronMan1'' movie, we're told about Agent Coulson's work at the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division in a way that makes them seem like government bureaucrats. It's only at the end that it's first referred to by its more common Marvel name, SHIELD.

* Inverted by ''Series/KamenRiderDrive'', where the main character works for the Metropolitan Police Department's Special Investigations Unit[[note]]full name: Special Circumstances and Incidents Investigation Division[[/note]], which certainly sounds important, but is treated poorly by other divisions who see it as the dumping ground for all the freaks and weirdos in the PD. This is mainly because SI's job (investigating incidents relating to the [[TimeStandsStill time-warping]] [[MonsterOfTheWeek Roidmudes]]) is seen as a SnipeHunt by "regular" cops when it actually makes them one of humanity's only lines of defense against the monsters.

* Throughout the first ''Film/IronMan'' movie, we're told about Agent Coulson's work at the Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement and Logistics Division in a way that makes them seem like government bureaucrats. It's only at the end that it's first referred to by its more common Marvel name, SHIELD.