History Main / UnusuallyUninterestingName

* In the ''Literature/DiogenesClub'' short story "Kentish Glory in the Secret of Drearcliff Grange School", lepidoptery enthusiast Amy suggests that her classmates' detective organisation be called the Moth Club. When her friends ask what kind of name that is for a secret society, she says it's one that would cause most people to instantly lose interest.

* In ''RiversOfLondon'' the department of the London Police that enforces law in the magical community is merely mentioned as being "The Economic and Specialist Crime Team, Unit 9", no mention of VaginaDentata, BodyHorror, or throwing {{fireballs}} at all.

When something is generally implied to be ''more'' important or special because someone went out of their way to make the name as uninteresting and nondescriptive as possible. This might be because they want to [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront avoid drawing attention to the unit]], hiding it in the sea of boring names for various unimportant agencies, or just because the sort of BadAss who works there finds the bravado-filled names of many [[BadAssArmy elite units]] to be [[ConsummateProfessional distasteful]]. For various reasons, very common in many modern Western armed forces.

A savvy character might try to [[RefugeInAudacity bluff his way]] past an obstacle by identifying themselves as a member of some completely fictional agency, as long as the name is intimidatingly vague enough to make the other person [[YouDontWantToKnow think better than to investigate.]]

A SuperTrope to {{Room101}} and TheGroup; Related to MaximumFunChamber. Often overlaps with CovertGroupWithMundaneFront, CovertGroup and NoSuchAgency. For individual characters with names less interesting than the role, see SpecialPersonNormalName.

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When something is generally implied to be ''more'' important or special because someone went out of their way to make the name as uninteresting and nondescriptive as possible. This might be because they want to [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront avoid drawing attention to the unit]], hiding it in the sea of boring names for various unimportant agencies, or just because the sort of BadAss who works there finds the bravado-filled names of many [[BadAssArmy elite units]] to be [[ConsumateProfessional distasteful]]. For various reasons, very common in many modern Western armed forces.

When something is generally implied to be ''more'' important or special because someone went out of their way to make the name as uninteresting and nondescriptive as possible. This might be because they want to [[CovertGroupWithMundaneFront avoid drawing attention to the unit]], hiding it in the sea of boring names for various unimportant agencies, or just because the sort of BadAss who works there finds the bravado-filled names of many [[BadAssArmy elite units]] to be distasteful. For various reasons, very common in many modern Western armed forces.

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 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 █&#9608 years old.

* 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 231-Montauk".

* TheSpaceTrilogy: The evil, world-threatening group in ''That Hideous Strength'' is named the ''National Institute for Coordinated Experiments'' (NICE).

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

* Wiki/SCPFoundation, and more specifically, procedure 231-Montauk.

A SuperTrope to {{Room101}} and TheGroup; Related to MaximumFunChamber. Often overlaps with CovertGroupWithMundaneFront, CovertGroup and NoSuchAgency.

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* Wiki/SCPFoundation, and more specifically, procedure 231-Montauk.

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* ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'': While the Cardassians had the Obsidian Order, and the Romulans had the Tal Shiar, the Federation was eventually revealed to have Section 31, a covert operations agency so secretive that not only did nobody know about it (including effectively everybody within the Federation who was not already a member), but that what passed for its name was simply the title of the portion of the Federation Charter that allowed for the possibility of forming such an agency.

A SuperTrope to {{Room101}} and TheGroup; Related to MaximumFunChamber. Often overlaps with CovertGroupWithMundaneFront and NoSuchAgency.

* LiadenUniverse: the organization behind most of the plot is called the Department of the Interior.

A SuperTrope to {{Room101}} and TheGroup; Related to MaximumFunChamber. Often overlaps with CovertGroupWithMundaneFront.

When something is generally implied to be ''more'' important or special because someone went out of their way to make the name as uninteresting and nondescriptive as possible. This might be because they want to avoid drawing attention to the unit, hiding it in the sea of boring names for various unimportant agencies, or just because the sort of BadAss who works there finds the bravado-filled names of many [[BadAssArmy elite units]] to be distasteful. For various reasons, very common in many modern Western armed forces.

A SuperTrope to {{Room101}} and TheGroup; Related to MaximumFunChamber.

A SuperTrope to {{Room101}} and and TheGroup; Related to MaximumFunChamber.

* The [[{{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".

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

* ''StarTrek DeepSpaceNine'': While the Cardassians had the Obsidian Order, and the Romulans had the Tal Shiar, the Federation was eventually revealed to have Section 31, a covert operations agency so secretive that not only did nobody know about it (including effectively everybody within the Federation who was not already a member), but that what passed for its name was simply the title of the portion of the Federation Charter that allowed for the possibility of forming such an agency.

* WebOriginal/SCPFoundation, and more specifically, procedure 231-Montauk.

* SCPFoundation, and more specifically, procedure 231-Montauk.