History Quotes / MeaningfulName

-->-- '''Creator/LewisCarroll''', ''Through the Looking-Glass'' [[note]]Interestingly enough, it is largely because of this work that the name Alice [[AliceAllusion does mean something]]. (More literally, it means "of nobility".)[[/note]]

->'''Clumsy:''' Just because your ''name'' is Grouchy doesn't mean you always have to ''be'' grouchy!
->'''Grouchy:''' Uh, yeah. It does.

->'''Maurice:''' Well hi there, son, what's your name?
->'''Chip:''' Chip![[note]]He's a teacup.[[/note]]
->'''Maurice:''' ''*examines the large "chip" in his teacup body*'' Figures.

->'''Johnny Blaze:''' You know the local top cop, Wyatt?
->'''Wyatt Wingfoot:''' Captain Tyrell Manhunter, appropiate name, huh?

->'''Ranger Park:''' I'm Ranger Park, the park ranger.
->'''Fry:''' I get it!

-> ''So the ''bad guy'' was Dominic ''[[ObviousJudas Badguy]]!''\\

[[LampshadeHanging Honestly we should have seen that one coming.]]''

->'''Sorrelkit''': "What are you going to name them when they're born?"
->'''Sandstorm''': "Well, we won't decide on names until they're born. We need to see what they look like before we decide what to call them."
->'''Sorrelkit''': "Why?"
->'''Sandstorm''': "Think about it this way. Would it make sense if a queen chose to name her kits Flamekit, Sunkit, and Dawnkit only for all of them to be gray with brown eyes?"

->'''Bill''': Ah'm Bill.
->'''Kazooie''': I'll bet your other name is gold-related. What is it? Gold Bar Bill? Klondike Bill?
->'''Bill''': Nope. Bullion Bill's mah name!
->'''Kazooie''': Thought so.

'''Frank''': Jason. From [[Myth/ClassicalMythology Greek mythology]], "to heal". Gideon, a hero from the Old Testament who led the Israelites against the Midianites. Your parents had great expectations of you. I'm Frank. Germanic, third century, derived from the name of a kind of spear. I wonder what expectations my parents had of [[SerialKiller me]]?

->''"I said I went to heaven because I thought it would get me attention. ... People have profited from lies, and continue to." Alex's retraction also became a sensation, with reporters unable to resist the sudden, hilarious perfection of his last name: Malarkey.''
-->--"I Did Not Die. I Did Not Go to Heaven." [[https://getpocket.com/explore/item/i-did-not-die-i-did-not-go-to-heaven]]

->''"Your whole case was founded on the idea that a man looking like a young god couldn't be called Potter? Believe me, names are not so appropriately distributed.."''
-->-- ''Literature/FatherBrown'', which deconstructs the trope.

->'''Uncle Writes-Prompt-Thank-You-Cards''': Dear boy, your name is... not without meaning.
->'''Jedrington Secret-Past''': What, [[ComicallyMissingThePoint Jedrington?]]

->''"This is Erotica, daughter, and she's just been with one of her ''X'' lovers. "X" being the Latin word for 'ten'."''

-->-- 'Literature/FatherBrown'', deconstructing the trope.

-->-- ''Literature/FatherBrown'', deconstructing the trope.

-->'' You are so incurably romantic that your whole case was founded on the idea that a man looking like a young god couldn't be called Potter. Believe me, names are not so appropriately distributed.''

-->-- '''''Website/TheAgonyBooth''''', ''Film/SDarko: A Donnie Darko Tale''

-->-- '''''{{Website/Cracked}}''''', [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/5-movies-plots-given-away-by-characters-names_p2/#ixzz33LvWGIPf "5 Movies Plot Given Away by the Character's Names"]]

->Margaret is Greek, you geek\\

I'm a pure girl...
-->-- '''Philistine''', ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' 2 OST

-->-- '''Robert Gustavsson''', as the Homofobic Herman Ers majestät, in one of his sketches.

->''They both started to feel themselves lose warmth, even as the upper floors' fire spread around them. They were alight as if in hell itself. Jaune could barely feel them, but he'd had a revelation once that he would go up in flames.''

-->-- ''[[Machinima/FreemansMind Ross]]'s Game Dungeon''

->''"Fishiest of all fishy places was the Try Pots, which well deserved its name; for the pots there were always boiling chowders. Chowder for breakfast, and chowder for dinner, and chowder for supper, till you began to look for fish-bones coming through your clothes. The area before the house was paved with clam-shells."''

-->-- '''Mapson''', ''VideoGame/{{Mother 3}}''

-> So the ''bad guy'' was Dominic ''[[ObviousJudas Badguy]]!''\\

[[LampshadeHanging Honestly we should have seen that one coming.]]

-->-- '''Literature/TheFamousFive: Five Have A Wonderful Time'''

-->--'''"I Did Not Die. I Did Not Go to Heaven."''' [[https://getpocket.com/explore/item/i-did-not-die-i-did-not-go-to-heaven]]

->''"Believe it or not, one of the most difficult tasks you face as Dungeon Master is dreaming up cool names for all those places, [[OddJobGods gods]], [[OurMonstersAreDifferent monsters]], and {{NPC}}s you create. As superficial as this chore might seem, nothing kills interest in an ''[[TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons AD&D]]''[[TradeSnark ®]] game faster than goofy names. The minute your players are attacked by Gargathrank the Unclean, a great deal of the credibility you've carefully fostered flies straight out the window. Don't forget that the players' first impressions of your game world are based, in part, on the names you choose."''

-->-- ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger''

'''Pyrrha:''' Hmm. ''(mulls over the name for a second)'' Nihilus. Nihil. Means nothingness. Seems fitting, I guess.

->'''Iron Man:''' Don't worry. I'm keeping an eye on Dr. Vincent Stegron. And by the way, how's that for nominative determinism? pretty much knew what you'd be the day you were born, huh, Steggy? What was it like when you told your parents you were gonna be a paleontologist? I'm guessing they didn't even bother trying to steer you towards law school.\\