History PlayingWith / Awesomemccoolname

** Red Baron

* '''Invoked''': A baby is given a cool name after much discussion between the parents.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob thinks his friend Odysseus Obsidian is a bit cool, but not too much.

* '''Exploited''': Bob uses his friend's cool name to get what he wants.

%%* '''Plotted A Good Waste''': ???

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Exploited''': ???

'''Basic Trope''': A character has a really cool name, made up of unusual components and/or in a setting that would make such an awesome name seem strange.
* '''Straight''': Bob has a friend called Odysseus Obsidian.

** Every single person on Earth has an impossibly cool name.

* '''Downplayed''': Bob has a friend called Leon Huntington.

** Also, UnfortunateName.

* '''Doubly Subverted''': Odysseus Obsidian's real name is Achilles Alastair.

* '''Doubly Subverted''': Odysseus Obsidian real name is Achilles Alastair.

** Odysseus is just a nickname.

* '''Doubly Subverted''': His real name is Achilles.

** Odysseus is just a nickname

** Also, UnfortunateName and FailOSuckyname.

* '''Deconstructed''': Odysseus hates his unusual name because the other kids make fun of him. He resents his parents for giving it to him and changes it the first chance he gets.

** Everyone calls him "O." because if they heard his true name, their heads would explode.

* '''Averted''': No one has unusual/cool names.

* '''Downplayed''': ???

* '''Subverted''': Odysseus is just a nickname

* '''Justified''': Odysseus' family members all have really cool names as a family tradition.

* '''Straight''': Bob has a friend called Odysseus Obsidian.
* '''Exaggerated''': Every single person on Earth has an impossibly cool name.

*** His special attack is running to his enemy and whispering his name into their ear causing their head to explode.
* '''Justified''': Odysseus' family members all have really cool names as a family tradition.

* '''Inverted''':

** Also, UnfortunateName and FailOSuckyname.
* '''Subverted''': Odysseus is just a nickname
* '''Doubly Subverted''': His real name is Achilles.
* '''Parodied''':

** Alternatively, [[OverlyLongGag the character's name is ridiculously long and used in full every time it is said.]]
** Everyone treats Bob's name like it's a really cool name.
* '''Deconstructed''': Odysseus hates his unusual name because the other kids make fun of him. He resents his parents for giving it to him and changes it the first chance he gets.
* '''Reconstruction''':
** Odysseus' old name was boring and plain, so he changed it to something more exotic.
** Odysseus' name reflects a personal change he went through in his life, prompting him to get a new, cooler name to distance himself from the person he was.
* '''Zig Zagged''':

* '''Averted''': No one has unusual/cool names.
* '''Enforced''': "I've got a really cool idea for a character name! Let's use it!"
* '''Lampshaded''': "Dude, that's such a cool name!"
* '''Invoked''': A baby is given a cool name after much discussion between the parents.
* '''Defied''': A cool name for the new baby is rejected by the parents in favor of something more conventional.
* '''Discussed''': "Did you hear what the name of that new kid is? It's so cool it's ridiculous!"
* '''Conversed''': "What am I going to call him? I was thinking either Xerxes, Ozymandias or Indiana. Which one do you like best?"

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* '''Subverted''': Everyone treats Odysseus' name like it's just another name.
* '''Doubly Subverted''': ...Except for Bob, who really thinks it's a cool name.

**Odysseus' name reflects a personal change he went through in his life, prompting him to get a new, cooler name to distance himself from the person he was.

** Odysseus changes his name every time he introduces himself: Obsidian, Brimstone, Onyx, Mithril, etc. Bob calls him out on this, and reveals his real name: Smith. Everybody laughs it off for a while... but then they start thinking: [[spoiler:what is the profession where men work on raw materials to make incredible weapons?]]

* '''Exaggerated''': Every single person on Earth has an impossibly cool name. Or everyone calls him "O." because if they heard his true name, their heads would explode.

* '''Inverted''': In a world full of cool names, there is one unfortunate man named Bob Bland.

* '''Parodied''': Odysseus makes a big show of introducing himself, expecting everyone to fall down in awe at hearing his name.

* '''Reconstruction''': Odysseus' old name was boring and plain, so he changed it to something more exotic.

* '''Zig Zagged''': Odysseus changes his name several times, from mundane to awesome and back again.

** Also, FailOSuckyname

* '''Exaggerated''': Every single person on Earth has an impossibly cool name.

On the birth certificate is your AwesomeMcCoolname.