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| 11 | [[caption-width-right:289:[[ComicallyMissingThePoint Why, hello, Bessie!]]]] |
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| 13 | ->''"Six men came to kill me one time, and the best of them carried this. It's a Callahan Full-bore Auto-lock. Customized trigger, double cartridge, thorough gauge. This is my very favorite gun... I call it 'Vera'."'' |
| 14 | -->-- '''Jayne Cobb''', ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' |
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| 19 | When people name their body parts -- particularly their arms -- they're probably saying MeetMyGoodFriendsLeftyAndRighty. Well, this trope is where people name their "arms." |
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| 21 | Some people have really strong emotions about their weapons. So much so, they give them a name. Anyone who does this either has a [[CompanionCube sentimental attachment to said weapon]], is a [[ShellShockedVeteran veteran from some war]], is a major GunNut, is a person [[TheLostLenore who lost their love and still remembers them]], is [[PsychoForHire generally insane]], or is some combination of the above. In any case, someone who gives a name to their gun or knife is usually someone to watch out for and generally not one to mess with. Naturally, anyone who does this is considered fair game for CargoShip jokes. |
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| 23 | A subtrope of NamedWeapons -- this trope only applies when the name is a nickname given by the wielder, not a name the wielder is informed of by word of mouth or writing, or as an otherwise "official" name. "Vera" CAN graduate to a "true name" if used in great deeds and accepted by many. |
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| 25 | Sister trope to CuteAsABouncingBetty (when a type of weapon is given a cute name), LegendaryWeapon (for when the name and the weapon become truly famous), and StockWeaponNames (for when common names are used between works). The inverse is TheyCallHimSword, which occurs when somebody gets nicknamed for a weapon. {{Empathic Weapon}}s and {{Evil Weapon}}s are a different issue. Ships and planes nearly always have a name. ICallHimMisterHappy is a different named "weapon". No relation to AndCallHimGeorge. |
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| 28 | !!Examples: |
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| 31 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 32 | * In ''Manga/BattleAngelAlita: Last Order'', one character in the Zenith Tournament uses a {{BFS}} which he named Dizaster. It does live up to its name, given that it is capable of taking down SPACESHIPS. |
| 33 | * Guts in ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'' has his sword, the Dragon Slayer. This wouldn't count except that there ''are'' no dragons in the ''Berserk'' universe (unless you count Grunbeld in [[OneWingedAngel Apostle form]]); the sword was merely designed so that it ''could'' slay one if there were. Later chapters showed [[spoiler:a dragon sitting on a castle tower, so the Dragon Slayer might eventually come to earn its name.]] |
| 34 | * The main character Train from ''Manga/BlackCat'' wields the Hades, a revolver made of Orihalcon, capable of blocking regular bullets and later [[spoiler: functioning as a RAILGUN]]. |
| 35 | * Revy from ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' refers to both of her custom Berettas as her Sword Cutlasses, which is fitting, seeing as she is a modern-day pirate. |
| 36 | * ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': Subverted. Ichigo ''[[WrongGenreSavvy thinks]]'' this trope is in effect when Renji asks him his sword's name, regarding it as ridiculous sentimentality. However, he learns the hard way the trope that's actually in effect is NamedWeapons, as it's extremely important for all shinigami to [[TalkingWeapon commune]] with their named swords to achieve their full potential. Once Ichigo learns his own sword's name, he becomes far more powerful. |
| 37 | * In ''Manga/Brave10'', after their battle with Seikai, the Braves notice Kakei has gone unusually quiet and looks stricken. When they ask if he's alright, all he does is look tragically at his damaged matchlock and say, "Saaya," to their incredulity. |
| 38 | * Maya from the [[AlternateContinuity various incarnations]] of ''Anime/BurnUp'' does this with her [[GirlsWithGuns entire arsenal]]. She's even been known to say [[DoubleEntendre some pretty suggestive things to them]]. |
| 39 | * Genkaku from ''Manga/DeadmanWonderland'' calls his double machine gun electric guitar "Flying V" very affectionately. It receives better treatment than pretty much all other humans he interacts with. |
| 40 | ** Which is a bit redundant since Flying V is the model of the guitar. |
| 41 | * In ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'', Marcille names her staff Ambrosia and Laios names [[spoiler: the living armor mollusk that lives in]] his sword Kensuke. |
| 42 | * Continuing the named vehicular weapon example, Leona of ''Anime/DominionTankPolice'' named her micro-tank Bonaparte. She also appears to be [[CargoShip more attached to the tank than she is to her partner/would-be boyfriend]]. |
| 43 | * In ''Manga/DoubleArts'', the resident BloodKnight Sui had a hula hoop made of solid iron that she uses in battle. She calls it Avis. |
| 44 | * ''Manga/FairyTail100YearsQuest'': Erza and Wendy make a LaserBlade for Erza to wield. She names it Belserion after her mother, Irene Belserion. |
| 45 | * ''Anime/FullMetalPanicFumoffu'' plays it for laughs. Sousuke becomes the coach to the high school's rugby team, whose members are all of the GentleGiant type, and takes them to the woods and puts them through TheSpartanWay. In a ShoutOut to ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', each member is given a rugby ball and told that they must love the rugby ball as a girlfriend. They all start to carefully clean the balls calling then foreign female names, in an absolutely creepy scene. |
| 46 | * ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' is all up in this trope. Every single [[SuperPrototype Gundam]] has its own unique name, and a ton of the weapons get names in the [[AllThereInTheManual profile pages.]] |
| 47 | ** In ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]'', Graham Aker (AKA Mister Bushido) named the [[LaserBlade beam]] {{katana|sAreJustBetter}} wielded by his mobile suit Masurao "Howard" and "Daryl" in honor of his former wingmen. |
| 48 | ** Modern Vehicles do all have official names (Abrahms, Osprey, Blackhawk, etc.) and the mass-production MS are named similarly. Gundams just happen to be unique custom high-performance units with a unique name. |
| 49 | ** Justified in ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED Gundam SEED]]'' where ''all'' the Gundams are treated (or at least labeled) as Prototypes, and their names are likely intended to be the official name of that series. Of course, with the exception of the Strike, [[AllThereInTheManual Duel, Buster, and the Astray Red Frame]], none of the other Gundam designs are mass-produced, though some of the others get (very) limited-production derivatives. |
| 50 | ** Chang Wufei of ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' is particularly notable, in that he gave both his Mobile Suits an ''additional'', personal name [[spoiler:after his dead wife]], besides its official one. In fact, he uses it so often that some fans think that "Nataku" is the mobile suit's actual name, rather than Shenlong (original MS) or Altron (upgraded MS). |
| 51 | * In ''Anime/{{K}}'', the current Blue King, Reisi Munakata, introduced the policy of giving the Clansmen's sabers names instead of serial numbers, which has previously been the practice. He names his own sword Tenro, which is the Japanese name for the star Sirius. When Saruhiko, a new recruit who is already his favorite, refuses to come up with a name for his sword, Reisi gives him one - Subaru (the Pleiades). Theirs are the only two with celestial references. |
| 52 | ** Awashima's is named after a flower. All of the main squads' sword names are revealed, and some are video game/fandom references and other [[AscendedFanboy nerdery]]. |
| 53 | * In ''Manga/KenichiTheMightiestDisciple'', Kenichi's father has a shotgun he calls "Sebastian". He also owns a Hunting Rifle Maximilian and the Double-Barreled Rotwoski. |
| 54 | ** Shigure herself at one point wants to keep a ''freaking'' tank she'd named "Cattleya". |
| 55 | * In ''Anime/KillLaKill'', Ryuuko's sailor uniform, Senketsu, is actually sentient. However, it veers into this trope since she's the only person able to properly communicate with him, so it initially comes off as a very lonely girl talking to a piece of clothing to her adoptive family. |
| 56 | * [[AllThereInTheManual Character profiles]] for ''Anime/KnightHunters'' reveal that Aya's {{katana|sAreJustBetter}} is named Shion, after his former teacher. [[spoiler:Being the sort of series that it is, Aya is eventually obliged to kill his weapon's namesake.]] |
| 57 | * ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'': To keep with the ThemeNaming, their car is called ''See-through'', Panty's panties are named as ''[[InconsistentSpelling backlace/backless]]'' and Stocking's Stockings are named ''Stripes I and II''. |
| 58 | * In the ''Franchise/{{Patlabor}}'' anime, Police Officer Noa Izumi affectionately names her giant police robot 'Alphonse' for some unspecified reason. Her fellow police officers are quite dismayed by her naming choice and her loving devotion to her mecha. It's what she's named all her childhood pets. Labor Alphonse is Alphonse III, with the first two being her cat and dog. |
| 59 | * ''Manga/SgtFrog'': Creator/JMichaelTatum has admitted to naming Dororo's katana "Stephen". This made it into an episode when Dororo broke his sword against an indestructible spaceship hull and cried its name out in grief. |
| 60 | * Not really a weapon, but in ''Manga/SoulEater'', Death the Kid has named his [[HoverBoard hovering skateboard]] "Beelzebub". On the other hand, his ''real'' weapons, the guns Liz and Patti are [[VoluntaryShapeshifting a whole]] [[EquippableAlly other story]]. |
| 61 | * In ''Anime/StrikeWitches'' Season 2, Mio Sakamoto has "Reppumaru". It's a [[LaserBlade Katana]] she forged using magic, capable of slicing through Neuroi attacks to compensate for her lack of shields. |
| 62 | * Midvalley the Hornfreak on ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' named his saxophone Sylvia. And even without the machine-gun capacity, she is the deadliest sax ever. |
| 63 | * ''Manga/ViolenceJack'' features an inversion, in that the titular Jack named himself after his signature weapon, a folding jackknife. |
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| 66 | [[folder:Audio Plays]] |
| 67 | * Burt from ''AudioPlay/WereAlive'' calls his Desert Eagle "Shirley" after his dead wife. |
| 68 | [[/folder]] |
| 69 | |
| 70 | [[folder:Blogs]] |
| 71 | * ''Blog/ThingsMrWelchIsNoLongerAllowedToDoInAnRPG'': Mr. Welch, of [[http://theglen.livejournal.com/16735.html (Increasingly Large Number)]] fame, is forbidden from this, even if suggested by the game, per rule number 1359. |
| 72 | [[/folder]] |
| 73 | |
| 74 | [[folder:Comedy]] |
| 75 | * One of Puke and Snot's routines involves the two men in a duel. |
| 76 | -->'''Puke:''' Name your weapon.\ |
| 77 | '''Snot:''' (''looks at his sword for a second'') Alright, I name mine Wally. (''{{beat}}'') Now you name yours.\ |
| 78 | '''Puke:''' I will not. [[{{Beat}} (Beat)]] Mainly because I can't beat Wally. |
| 79 | [[/folder]] |
| 80 | |
| 81 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 82 | * In ''ComicBook/BigBangComics'', Galahad's tonfa/taser SwissArmyWeapon is named 'Excalibur'. |
| 83 | * ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire'': Buck Godot calls his pistol "Junior". A [[{{BFG}} distinctly imposing rifle]] with "Senior" inscribed on its side is also shown to be in his possession, although if there's ever been a situation where Junior wasn't sufficient, we haven't seen it yet. |
| 84 | ** Smith and Wesson, a pair of entirely sentient A.I. zap guns belonging to a SpacePirate who goes by the name "the Pistol Packin' Polaris Packrat". They also call Buck's pistol "Junior." It's probably the gun's actual name, although it isn't an A.I. and therefore doesn't talk (or if it is, it [[TheVoiceless doesn't have much to say]]. Well, other than [[BangBangBANG ZOWNT]]). |
| 85 | * ''Franchise/TheDCU'': |
| 86 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Artemis}}'' likes to name her weapons if they're not already named when she gets them. For instance, she named her battle axe Mistress. |
| 87 | ** In ''ComicBook/DCComicsBombshells'', Renee Montoya uses a rifle she named Sadie. |
| 88 | ** In ''ComicBook/MsTree'', Dan Green nicknames his HookHand "Nellie". |
| 89 | ** In ''ComicBook/SuicideSquad'', Briscoe nicknames the team's helicopter gunship 'Sheba'. After his dead daughter. |
| 90 | ** In ''ComicBook/SwampThing'', when the plant-human hybrid the Floronic Man goes on a homicidal rampage in Louisiana, a Houma resident attempts to cut him down with his chainsaw, nicknamed "Evangeline." |
| 91 | ** The Dragunov sniper rifle of Natalya Zamyatin from ''ComicBook/YTheLastMan'' is named Rodya, after her husband killed in the plague. |
| 92 | * ''ComicBook/DisneyDucksComicUniverse'' comics have Scrooge who sometimes names his old cannon (which he uses to chase away [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking witches, gangsters, and door-to-door salesmen]]) "Big Bertha". They're old friends since he bought her as a leftover from the Second Boer War. |
| 93 | * ''ComicBook/LadyDeath'': |
| 94 | ** In the Chaos contiuinty, Lady Death's original sword "Darkness" was forged by the Cremator. She later gained a new one named "Nightmare" which was forged by the Asgardian Brock to defeat Genocide and a third sword named "Apocalypse" which was forged from pure chaos by Cremator. She also had a MorphWeapon that could change between a sword and a chain with a scythe blade at the end called "Scynister". |
| 95 | ** In the Creator/CrossGen continuity, she has a sword called "Blackheart" which was created from melting down Brimstone and Challenger, the swords of her father Tvanus and her mentor Wolfram. |
| 96 | ** In the Avatar continuity, she uses a sword named Deathbringer which was specifically created to channel her power. After Deathbringer is destroyed, she gains a new sword called Apocalypse from the ruined city of Pallodyn. |
| 97 | ** In the Coffin continuity, which is a sequel/reboot of the Chaos continuity, Lady Death gains a new sword called Chaos which can [[DeaderThanDead send anyone to oblivion]]. |
| 98 | * ''Franchise/MarvelUniverse'': |
| 99 | ** In ''ComicBook/TheAwesomeSlapstick'', Slapstick calls his mallet Gertie. |
| 100 | ** ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'': |
| 101 | *** In one of the comics, ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} is in Rumekistan shooting people and his gun says "Deadpool's Gun" on it, with the little Deadpool emblem. So... well, he didn't really ''name'' it, but he did label it. |
| 102 | *** In one of the issues, ComicBook/{{Cable}} has a {{BFG}} named after Liefeld, as an in-joke on the way Liefeld used to draw ridiculously giant guns. |
| 103 | ** ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'''s shield seems to be named Shield in Steve's head. He loves that shield. He also once referred to it as "she", but when a rescued scientist asked about its name, Cap retorted, "Do you have a name for your right arm?" Naturally, the shield was lost at the end of the issue and later destroyed. It got better. |
| 104 | ** Nuke, the drug-fueled SuperSoldier from ''ComicBook/{{Daredevil}}'', had a {{BFG}} he called "Betsy", which had a ''kill counter''. |
| 105 | ** ''ComicBook/{{Warheads}}'' has Colonel Liger’s sentient gun, ‘Clementine’. |
| 106 | * In ''ComicBook/RobynHood'', Robyn's magical bow is named Scarlett, after Will Scarlett: her LoveInterest who died helping her to liberate the magical land of Myst. |
| 107 | * Marv from ''ComicBook/SinCity'' has a Colt 1911A1 by the name of Gladys, which he named after [[SternNun one of the nuns from his school days]]. According to Marv, the gun has '''almost''' lived up to its name. |
| 108 | * Jack Marlin from ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesMirage'' affectionately calls his hunting rifle "Betsy". |
| 109 | * Negan, the new villain of ''ComicBook/TheWalkingDead'', carries a barbed-wire-wrapped baseball bat that he affectionately calls "Lucille" (possibly as a B.B. King reference.) [[spoiler: He then cements his role as the bad guy by bashing longtime fan favorite Glenn's skull into the pavement with "her."]] |
| 110 | ** He's also insanely protective of it and holds a makeshift funeral for it when it finally ends up destroyed. [[spoiler: Lucille turns out to be the name of Negan's wife, who died of cancer before the zombie outbreak.]] |
| 111 | [[/folder]] |
| 112 | |
| 113 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 114 | * ''ComicStrip/KnightsOfTheDinnerTable'': |
| 115 | ** Bob Hertzog names pretty much every single one of his (numerous) dice. At least, every die that has stood out in some manner. Knowing the behavior of rather hardcore gamers, this probably isn't too much of an exaggeration from real life. |
| 116 | ** In the ''Spacehack'' back-up strip, the security officer had a {{BFG}} he called "Suzy". |
| 117 | [[/folder]] |
| 118 | |
| 119 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 120 | * In the ''Fanfic/AllGuardsmenParty'', Tink first names his Tau stealth drone as "Hannah 2.0" after a certain [[WrenchWench acolyte of the Mechanicus]]. Sarge makes him change the name to Spot. |
| 121 | * ''Fanfic/BadLittleGirl'': In the ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' fanfic a twenty-year-old Marceline carries around a big stick to defend herself with, but since she's lonely she names it (heck it's implied she TALKS to it) and what's its name? Vera. |
| 122 | * In ''Fanfic/BlessedWithAHerosHeart'', Izuku commissions for Aela an AutomaticCrossbow to the dwarf blacksmith, who christens it "Bianca" (in a ShoutOut to ''Dragon Age II'' as seen below). |
| 123 | * ''Fanfic/ACrownOfStars'': Asuka called her [[TransformingMecha Star Strider]] "Der Roter Wirbelsturm" (meaning "The Red Whirlwind" in German); later [[spoiler:Toji and Kensuke]] called their [[HumongousMecha Black Knights]] "Pride Of Osaka" and "Yamato" respectively. |
| 124 | * ''Fanfic/DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness'': In nevermore's [[http://www.journalfen.net/community/the_hms_stfu/449165.html MSTing]] everyone finds out that [[Literature/HarryPotter Neville]] has named his Mimbulus Mimbletonia Robert. Luna is the only one who doesn't find it weird. She also names objects she dislikes. |
| 125 | * In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal, the [[DualWielding Assassin]] Madame Emmanuelle les Deux-Epées names her two swords, pragmatically, ''Première'' and ''Deuxième''. |
| 126 | ** Rebecka Smith-Rhodes, a young Witch who is the daughter of an Assassin (and who has received some useful weapons training on the fly) inherits two non-ferrous throwing knives from her Godsmother which have been used, many years previously, to kill Elves. Facing down elves at Lancre's standing stones, Bekki shows them the knives, asks if they remember them from last time, and points out weapons with a history ''should'' have names. She calls them ''Pain'' and ''Hurt''. |
| 127 | * ''Fanfic/FalloutEquestria'': |
| 128 | ** Littlepip discovers [[spoiler: Applejack]]'s personal weapon – an expertly-crafted, custom-made revolver named Little Macintosh – in a ruined building. It quickly becomes her weapon of choice. |
| 129 | ** She later discovers a perfectly-preserved, custom-made anti-machine rifle named ''Spitfire's Thunder'', which she gives to Deadshot Calamity, her best friend and the team's resident sniper. He loves it so much, it ends up becoming his go-to weapon when he has the ammo for it. |
| 130 | ** Butcher of Blackwing's Talons carries a [[RemovableTurretGun dismounted]] [[ImprobableUseOfAWeapon anti-air cannon]] as her main weapon and refers to it as ''Little Gilda''. |
| 131 | ** Averted when Reggie Grimfeathers snarkily responds to the qualities of a crossbow being silent and deadly with "Like a fart?". Her eyes light up almost immediately, but thankfully her mother puts a stop to it. |
| 132 | --->'''Gawdyna "Gawd" Grimfeathers:''' No.\ |
| 133 | '''Regina "Reggie" Grimfeathers:''' "No" what? I haven't--\ |
| 134 | '''Gawd:''' No. I ain't lettin' you have a crossbow so you can name it ''The Fart''.\ |
| 135 | '''Reggie:''' (''whining'') But ''Mo-om''...! |
| 136 | * In ''Fanfic/FieldOfInnocence,'' [[BigBrotherMentor Lu Ten]] names his dual dao swords Jianhuren - [[MeaningfulName Chinese for "guardian."]] |
| 137 | * In ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'', Voel's weapon of choice is a spear he calls "Red Death". |
| 138 | * ''Fanfic/HangingTenSaga'': Max has his own surf board he named Betsy, even Broseph named his Camille. |
| 139 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Hard Reset|Eakin}}'', Twilight names the baseball she uses to kill changelings "Home Run". |
| 140 | * ''Fanfic/HereComesTheNewBoss'': The Butchers named their Gatling gun Caroline. |
| 141 | * ''Fanfic/InfinityTrainBlossomingTrail'': Chloe names her pipe (no wait, that's [[InsistentTerminology a donut holer]]) "Cheshire" after the Cheshire Cat (or Purrloin) because of how Randall was tricked by The Cat to make a donut holer business. She also has a softball bat at home that she named "Silver Night" and names her fish-decorated parasol "Riddle". |
| 142 | * In various Gabby's Dollhouse RP/Fanfics, mostly those taking place after season 5, have DJ Comet (DJ Catnip's cousin) wield a ray gun he calls "Stella" |
| 143 | * ''[[http://www.tthfanfic.org/wholestory.php?no=7119 Jedi Harris]]'', a ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer''/''Franchise/StarWars'' crossover fic: Xander receives a sword he names "Aquila", Latin for "eagle", since it has an eagle on its hilt. When he throws it to kill a demon, Buffy (who didn't know he was there) recovers it from the corpse and temporarily renames it "Birdy", switching back after she learns its original name. She also has an axe called "Edge". And, as in baseline, she inherits Kendra's lucky stake "Mr. Pointy". |
| 144 | * Referenced in ''[[http://ficwad.com/story/150430 Jedi Potter]]'' when Harry teases Hermione's father about having made a lightsaber with a purple blade. |
| 145 | -->'''Harry:''' What’re you gonna call your lightsaber...[[WesternAnimation/RainbowBrite Shy Violet]]? |
| 146 | * ''[[Fanfic/TheKingdomverse Kingdom Hearts: Twilight's Awakening]]'': Twilight decides to name her Keyblade "Spellstar" shortly after getting it. |
| 147 | * ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' has Kyon naming his {{Morph Weapon}}s Altair and Vega. |
| 148 | * Referenced but ultimately subverted in ''Fanfic/LanternPrime''. Optimus tells Ganthet he misses his VERA and then explains it is his gun, not another Autobot. When the Guardian asks if he named his weapon, Optimus explains VERA is an acronym for Variable Energy Release Armament. |
| 149 | * In ''Fanfic/MyHuntsmanAcademia'', several of the transplanted ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' characters get named weapons as per ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'' tradition, such as Izuku's {{Power Fist}}s and ArmedLegs set, Emerald Gust. |
| 150 | * ''Fanfic/NaturalSelection'': When Ryuko receives her birthday sword, she and Nui excitedly bounce edgy names for it back and forth. She eventually settles on naming it 'Sorority'. |
| 151 | * ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': Nyx refers to her [[GatlingGood plasma minigun]] as "My Little Friend". |
| 152 | * In ''Fanfic/NewReality'', Brit named her first sword "Loki", and her second sword "Kerberos". |
| 153 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/3882344/51/Not-the-Only-Redhead Not the Only Redhead]]'' Frank Bones has a rifle called Ol' Bella. |
| 154 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10256543/24/Nymphadora-s-Beau Nymphadora's Beau]]'' Ted Tonks' shotgun is called Betsy. |
| 155 | * In ''Fanfic/OutOfTheCornerOfTheEye'', Kepler calls the missile launcher [[spoiler: in Captain Black's [[ArtificialLimbs robot arm]]]] "Michelle", after his ex-wife. Black finds this a little disturbing. |
| 156 | * ''Fanfic/ThePiecesLieWhereTheyFell'': Both Night Blade and Vix-Lei have named their weapons - Night Blade's sword is ''Determined Point'', and Vix-Lei's hammers are Lady Kabonk (her "fun" rubber squeaky hammer) and Señor Hardhead (her ''hammer'' hammer). Wind Breaker contemplates naming his crossbow as well. Averted by Xvital's knife and knuckle dusters, since she's not good with naming things. |
| 157 | * ''Fanfic/ProjectSunflower'': In the sequel, ''Project Sunflower: Harmony'', Pinkie Pie and Rarity both name the tablets Erin gave them. Rarity names hers "François". Pinkie's is called "Mr. Hugglebunny". |
| 158 | * In ''Fanfic/TheRules'', Switzerland calls his guns Urs and Verena. |
| 159 | * ''Fanfic/RWBYEpicOfRemnant'': Ruby Rose and EMIYA Alter make an anti-tank rifle for him. EMIYA decides to name his first original weapon "Kiritsugu", after his father. |
| 160 | * In ''Fanfic/{{The Seer|PhineasAndFerb}}'', after the characters get their armor for the coming quest, Buford and Baljeet [[DiscussedTrope discuss this trope]], asking Ferb what he's going to call the CoolSword he's been given. Ferb's reply: [[DefiedTrope "Sword."]] |
| 161 | * As in [[Franchise/DragonAge canon]], Varric's most prized possession in ''Fanfic/SkyholdAcademyYearbook'' is named Bianca. In this {{alternate universe}}, however, she's a vintage typewriter. |
| 162 | ** When he tells the [[InMediasRes flashback story]] of how he and Hawke met Tallis, he mentions her twin tasers, Kathryn and Thane. (In the actual ''Mark of the Assassin'' DLC, these are the names of the character's daggers.) |
| 163 | ** In the [[StoryWithinAStory in-series fanfic]] ''In Search of Certainty,'' the main characters are searching for a stolen sword by that name. |
| 164 | * Fu from ''Fanfic/SonOfTheSannin'' uses a felled tree trunk as her weapon of choice, taking advantage of her SuperStrength to wield it much like how a normal person might use a club. She calls it Arbor-chan. |
| 165 | * In ''Fanfic/ThirtyHs'', Harry's demonic guitar is named Fuckslayer. That probably tells you everything you could possibly wish to know about the fic. |
| 166 | * In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13247979/2/Three-Black-Birds Three Black Birds]]'' Harry and his friends' summer tutor calls the sword he picked up in Japan Kumorigurasu[[note]]Japanese for "cloudy glass".[[/note]]. |
| 167 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Uplifted}}'', Tank Commander Dieter Hertzer affectionately calls his Tiger Prototype "Sigrid". Sigrid is later sacrificed, causing Hetzer to shed some tears. In the next fic, it's revealed that Rommel assigned him a New Tiger, which is called 'Sigrid II'. This is not so much out of the goodness of Rommel's heart, but because he has no use for clunky over-engineered tanks. |
| 168 | * In ''[[http://jeconais.fanficauthors.net/White_Knight_Grey_Queen/8__Finishing/ White Knight, Grey Queen]]'' Paddy has a Magnum called Betsy. |
| 169 | * In ''Fanfic/XCOMRWBYWithin'', addition to the team's canon weapons, Ruby names [[ColonelBadass Colonel Zhang's]] [[HandCannon revolver]] from when his [[TheTriadsAndTheTongs Triad enforcer]] days "Aureate Mercy" after [[spoiler: he ends up in hospital after using it to distract an Ethereal that was using its powers to cause so much pain that most of the strike team couldn't stand]]. In the epilogue, [[spoiler: following his [[HeroicSacrifice death defending the labs]], it is given to Ruby to [[TragicKeepsake remember him]].]] In the sequel, when Weiss gifts Anette Durand a master-crafted Atlesian form-shifting weapon, she's encouraged to choose an appropriate name for it as part of cross-training as a Huntress. |
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| 172 | [[folder:Films -- Animation]] |
| 173 | * Shaw in ''WesternAnimation/OpenSeason'' has a shotgun named Lorraine. It even has the name engraved on it. |
| 174 | * Trigger from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/RobinHood1973'' carries a crossbow named Old Betsy, with a [[RuleOfFunny comically faulty]] [[ReliablyUnreliableGuns safety]]. |
| 175 | * [[JerkJock Tank]] in ''WesternAnimation/SurfsUp'' named all of his surfing trophies. |
| 176 | [[/folder]] |
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| 178 | [[folder:Films -- Live-Action]] |
| 179 | * In ''Film/{{Aliens}}'', Drake the smart gunner seems to have named his weapon "My Bitch". He kisses it at one point. |
| 180 | * Buford from ''Film/AlohaBobbyAndRose'' introduces his gun as Uncle Frank. |
| 181 | * In ''Film/BankShot'', Hermann X has a bicycle-powered drill that he calls 'Old Faithful'. |
| 182 | * In ''Film/BloodrayneIIDeliverance'', the sheriff of Deliverance has a SawedOffShotgun he calls 'Sadie'. He also talks to it. A lot. |
| 183 | * ''Film/TheBlueIguana'' has a hotel owner who named his gun "The Management" so he can say "If you don't like it, talk to the management!" while threatening dissatisfied customers. |
| 184 | * In ''Film/CanyonPassage'', Hi's mandolin is named 'Mandy'. He does seem very fond of it and refuses to swap it for a gold pocket watch Johnny offers him. |
| 185 | * In ''Film/CasAndDylan'', following an apparent hit-and-run, the title couple trade Cas' SUV for a vintage VW Beetle convertible painted bright orange, which Dylan promptly names "Jennifer." Subverted in that it was the ''original'' car that was the weapon... |
| 186 | %%* Since [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible non-weapon examples have made it onto this page]], we might as well mention [[ItWasHisSled Rosebud]] from ''Film/CitizenKane''. |
| 187 | * In ''Film/CockneysVsZombies'', "Mental" Mickey calls his combat shotgun "Tracy". Terry, in a transparent imitation of Mickey, nicknames three hand grenades he tapes together "the Bitch". |
| 188 | * ''Film/DarkHeritage'': When he goes to spend the night in the OldDarkHouse, Daryl brings with him a .357 Magnum he calls 'Old Faithful'. |
| 189 | * ''Film/{{Deadpool|2016}}'': According to Creator/RyanReynolds, the titular protagonist’s twin katanas are named [[Creator/BeaArthur "Bea" and "Arthur"]]. |
| 190 | * ''Film/DearWendy'', a film written by Creator/LarsVonTrier, is ALL about this trope. Every member of the Dandies weapon club names their gun/s and treats their gun/s as if it is their partner - if a Dandy uses another's gun instead of his/her own, it's like adultery. The film is structured with an ongoing narrator in the form of a letter to Wendy. About halfway through the movie, we realize Wendy is the main character's pistol. |
| 191 | * Played with in ''Film/DeathWish3''. Paul Kersey makes several comments about how "my friend Wildey" is coming to help him deal with the gang punks. He turns out to have mail-ordered a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wildey Wildey]] handgun. |
| 192 | -->'''The Rageaholic:''' Bronson is referring, of course, to the .475 Wildey Magnum. But you, of course, may refer to it as: WHY DOES THAT ''[[HandCannon HOWITZER]]'' HAVE A HANDLE AND ''[[PrecisionFStrike FUCKING]]'' TRIGGER?! |
| 193 | * In ''Film/DeepRising'', the charter boat's twin ''engines'' are named "Jezebel" and "Hercules". [[spoiler: As they ultimately propel the explosive-laden boat into the cruise ship to destroy the tentacled monster, the engines count as "weapons".]] |
| 194 | * In ''Film/DISCO2017'', Rudy does not actually know the names of any of the guns he sells and instead gives them his own nicknames, including the "Wascally Wabbit", "Asshole Puncher" and "Block-Cocker". |
| 195 | * Used for a BaitAndSwitch in ''Film/{{Django}}''. The title character drags a coffin around with him, and when asked if there's someone inside, he says that Django is in it. This makes him sound like a DeathSeeker until "Django" is revealed to be a machine gun. |
| 196 | * In ''Film/{{Dragonslayer}}'', the title spear's name in Latin is ''Sicarious Dracorum''. |
| 197 | * ''Film/DrTAndTheWomen'': The film opens with Doctor Sullivan Travers deep in Texas plains with his close friends. They're engaged in SpontaneousSkeetShooting at golf balls struck from a tee. Doc T steps up with his Baikal over/under, and smoothly blasts a golf ball mid-flight, then gives his shotgun a loving pat right beside an engraved plate on the upper stock that reads "Bernadette Rose." |
| 198 | * In ''Film/FairGame'', the hunters' [[CoolCar tricked out hunting truck]] is named 'the Beast'. The truck is regarded, and used, as a weapon as well. |
| 199 | * ''Film/FromParisWithLove'': Charlie Wax calls his Sig Sauer X-5 "Mrs. Jones." He goes through a lot of trouble to smuggle it into France at the beginning of the film, even though he could have requested any weapon he wanted once he met up with his local CIA contact. |
| 200 | * [[DrillSergeantNasty Gunnery Sergeant Hartmann]] from ''Film/FullMetalJacket'', in one memorable scene, forces his recruits to give girls' names to their rifles. The first indication we get of Pvt. Pyle's [[SanitySlippage decaying mental state]] is when we see him cleaning his gun (Charlene) delicately and whispering to it like a lover. |
| 201 | * ''Film/{{Hackers}}''. Joey gives the name "Lucy" to his computer, which the character would consider a weapon. |
| 202 | * ''Franchise/{{Hellboy}}'': |
| 203 | ** ''Film/{{Hellboy|2004}}'''s weapon of choice is a huge gun, which shoots bullets containing Holy water, Garlic or silver. He calls it The Good Samaritan. |
| 204 | ** In ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'', Hellboy's new weapon is the 'Big Baby,' which is a large shotgun with six barrels. "Aww, you woke up the Baby!" |
| 205 | * In ''Film/{{Hook}}'', mention is made of the pirates' massive cannon, "Long Tom". |
| 206 | * In ''Film/{{Krampus}}'', Howard's beloved Hummer is named 'Lucinda'. |
| 207 | * ''Film/TheLastStand''. Lewis Dinkum has a habit of naming his favorite firearms (and other things), including his Smith and Wesson M500 revolver "Georgette" and "Vicky" his 1939 Vickers machine gun. |
| 208 | --> '''Ray''': [[LampshadeHanging Do you have stupid names for all your shit?]]\ |
| 209 | '''Lewis:''' Only the shit I love. |
| 210 | * ''Film/TheLeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemen'': "Bruce? Matilda!" |
| 211 | * In ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheReturnOfTheKing'': Grond the Wolf's Head, the flaming, metal, battering ram, itself named after [[BigBad Morgoth's]] hammer. The Orcs love it, and it takes two massive beasts to pull. |
| 212 | -->'''Orcs''': "GROND! GROND! GROND! GROND!" |
| 213 | * In ''Film/TheMagnificentSeven2016'', Faraday's revolvers are named Ethel [[spoiler: His Wife]] and Maria [[spoiler: Ethel doesn't know about her]]. [[spoiler: Do NOT touch his ladies]]. |
| 214 | * ''Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse'': |
| 215 | ** ''Film/IronMan2'' has Hammer's bunker-buster mini-missile he calls "the Ex-wife". |
| 216 | ** In ''Film/ThorRagnarok'', Skurge has two assault rifles that he nicknamed "Des" and "Troy" because together they "Destroy" things. |
| 217 | * In the movie ''Film/MasterAndCommander: The Far Side of the World'', two of the cannons on the ''HMS Surprise'' have names inscribed on their sides: "Jumping Billy" and "Sudden Death". |
| 218 | * ''Film/{{Predator}}'s'' "Old Painless". |
| 219 | * In ''Film/{{Rimfire}}'', Judge Gardner has trusty old rimfire revolver called "Betsy" which he keeps on his bench to keep order in the court during trials. |
| 220 | * Played for laughs in ''Film/TheRundown'', wherein Travis attempts to intimidate his foes by implying phenomenal martial arts skills by wriggling his feet, first one, then the other, while telling them that the one is called Thunder and the Other is Lightning. In reality, he's trying to intimidate them enough that they won't fight him because he doesn't know any martial arts at all. |
| 221 | * In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', Jayne uses another gun with a name, a submachine gun by the name of "Lux". It was named after a poster on the Firefly message boards, [=LuxLucre=], who died of pneumonia shortly after the feature film ''Serenity'' was announced. According to the novelization, that submachine gun was called "Phoebe". |
| 222 | * In ''Film/SherlockHolmesAGameOfShadows'', the commander of the soldiers stationed at the Heilbronn arms factory refers to one of his [[{{BFG}} artillery cannons]] as 'Little Hansel'. |
| 223 | * In ''Film/TheSingingNun'', the protagonist named her Spanish guitar Adele. |
| 224 | * In ''Film/SmokinAces'', Sharice's [[{{BFG}} 50 cal. sniper rifle]] is nicknamed 'Big Mama'. |
| 225 | * During filming of ''Film/SpiderMan2'', Alfred Molina nicknamed Dr. Octopus' four tentacles (clockwise from top left) Larry, Harry, Moe, and Flo to help him keep the action straight. |
| 226 | * ''Film/TortureGarden'': In "Mr. Steinway", Leo's prized Bechstein grand piano is named Euterpe after the goddess of music. |
| 227 | * In ''Film/VampiresLosMuertos'', the scary black guy calls his gun "Miss P". |
| 228 | [[/folder]] |
| 229 | |
| 230 | [[folder:Light Novels]] |
| 231 | * Akane in ''Literature/AndYouThoughtThereIsNeverAGirlOnline'' calls her gaming computer at school “War Machine” since its specs are a lot more powerful than what she has at home. |
| 232 | * In ''Literature/BludgeoningAngelDokurochan'', the bat that can do anything, Excalibolg. |
| 233 | * In ''Literature/FateZero'', all of Gilgamesh's [[HyperspaceArsenal innumerable weapons]] are famous [[InfinityPlusOneSword Infinity+1 Swords]], except one; the prototype, old enough that it predates the very concept of "sword," which has no name. Gil refers to it as Ea. [[IAmNotShazam It is not called "Enuma Elish,'']] that is just the activation phrase for its SwordBeam. Gilgamesh also wields the chain that he had used to bind the Bull of Heaven, which he named Enkidu after his deceased best friend. |
| 234 | * Kino of ''Literature/KinosJourney'' names her guns "The Woodsman", "The Cannon", and "The Flute". |
| 235 | * In ''Literature/{{Slayers}} Try'', Filia has a mace named "Mace-sama". |
| 236 | * In ''Literature/VioletEvergarden'', the titular character, Violet Evergarden, owns a battle-axe larger than her own body, which the Major had custom-built for her. The handle itself is big enough to be used as a club, and the head is so big that she can stand behind it and use it as a shield, as shown in Chapter 3. It is named "Witchcraft". |
| 237 | [[/folder]] |
| 238 | |
| 239 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 240 | * In ''Literature/AllOurYesterdays'', James names his time machine Cassandra. |
| 241 | * In ''Literature/AnnoDracula 1999: Daikaiju'', sword-wielding vampire schoolgirl Nezumi calls her katana "Good Night Kiss". Earthguard agent [[Film/KillBill O-Ren]] approves of this, saying that women are better at naming weapons than men because they're not CompensatingForSomething. O-Ren herself has a pair of guns called Simon Smith and the Amazing Dancing Bear, and a pair of knives called Captain and Tennille. |
| 242 | * Steven Boyette's ''Literature/{{Ariel|Boyette}}'', set in post-civilization, the young hero considers several poetic names for the sword he finds and learns to use, but ultimately settles on "Fred". It's short, sweet, and does the job. |
| 243 | * ''Literature/TheAvenger'', pulp hero of the late 30s--early 40s: Ike (throwing knife) and Mike (revolver). |
| 244 | * Despite leaning heavily towards the RealRobot side of the mecha genre, this is fairly common in the ''{{TabletopGame/BattleTech}}'' universe, especially the novels. This is probably inspired by the nicknaming of vehicles in the military during real world wars. In the novels focused on the Gray Death Legion, conspicuously Scottish Davis [=McCall=] has named his ''Rifleman'' 'Mech "Bannockburn"; Lori Kalmar-Carlyle's ancient but faithful ''Shadow Hawk'' goes by "Boss Lady". There's also the "Yen Lo Wang", a ''Centurion''. Somewhat subverted in ''Endgame'' when Katrina Steiner snidely comments on her brother Victor Steiner-Davion having named his ''Dire Wolf''/''Daishi'' "Prometheus". (She then mocks a nearby guard who commented he named his gun Tabitha.) This is less common in the Clans, probably because most Clan [=MechWarriors=] don't so much own their own 'Mechs (which technically belong to the Clan as a whole) and are likely to get assigned different ones from a common pool over the course of their career. Natasha Kerensky, the legendary Black Widow, does dub the custom ''Daishi'' she earns after returning to Clan Wolf "Widowmaker", but by that point, she's already spent much of her life in the Inner Sphere and had time to "go native". |
| 245 | * The ''Literature/BazilBroketail'' series seems to take the military training route; humans don't name any of their weapons, but nearly every dragon soldier seems to have named their personal blade, whether or not it's enchanted. |
| 246 | ** Bazil's original dragon sword was named Piocar. After losing it in the first novel's finale, he was given another, more powerful sword called Ecator. |
| 247 | ** Kepabar wielded a dragon sword called Gingle. |
| 248 | ** Necessitas' dragon sword was named Mercuri. |
| 249 | ** Vlok wields a sword named "Katzbalger". |
| 250 | ** Burthong's dragon sword is named Herak. |
| 251 | ** Alsebra's sword is called "Undaunt". It is described as quite small for a dragon sword, but beautifully crafted. |
| 252 | ** Chektor and Purple-Green are some of the few named dragons to avert this trope, using an unnamed, standard-issue blade instead of a unique sword made for him. |
| 253 | * Literature/{{Beowulf}} used the sword Hrunting against Grendel's mother, given to him by Unferth. |
| 254 | * El Disgusto of ''The Literature/BinderOfShame'' wields a wooden yardstick he dubbed "the Stick of Pain". |
| 255 | * In Saberhagen's ''Literature/BookOfSwords'' series, the swords have names, though this is more a case of NamedWeapons since the names are not personal nicknames but were given by their creator (the god Vulcan) before distributing them throughout the world. |
| 256 | * [[CuteBruiser Havilar]] in ''Literature/BrimstoneAngels'' ''really'' like her glaive and keeps trying to come up with a cool-sounding name for it. She starts out with "Kidney Carver" (too mundane), switches to "Eater of Her Enemies' Livers" (too much of a mouthful) and ends up settling on "Devilslayer". |
| 257 | * According to ''El Cantar del Mio Cid'', Rodrigo Diaz had two swords: "La Tizona" and "La Colada". |
| 258 | * ''Literature/ChakonaSpace'': Neal Foster's shotgun, Betsy. Also Mike's version, Thumper. |
| 259 | * In the famous Civil War memoir ''Company H'', the author mentions a fellow soldier who "had the brightest gun in the army, and always called Florence Fleming". |
| 260 | * ''Literature/ACourtOfThornsAndRoses'': Azriel's favorite dagger is called Truth-Teller, after the fact he uses it to torture information out of people. |
| 261 | * Macready of ''Literature/CreatureCourt'' gives feminine names to all four of his blades (two swords and two knives) and refers to them as his "lasses". It's a minor plot point that when two of them are destroyed [[spoiler:during the dust devils' attack]], he doesn't name the new blades. |
| 262 | ** Kelpie calls her swords and knives her "Sisters" and "Nieces", respectively. |
| 263 | * ''Literature/DamselsOfDistress'': Anya names her twin auto-revolvers Mister Shots O'Plenty and Sir Caps Assalot. |
| 264 | * In the ''Literature/DeadSix'' series, Katerina favors a sawed-off M-79 grenade launcher she calls Mr. Perkins. |
| 265 | * In ''Literature/TheDinosaurLords'', Rob has an axe he calls Wanda. He sometimes talks to it as if it was a woman. |
| 266 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 267 | ** In ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', Mightily Oats makes an appearance during the BackStory, where we find he's taken to travelling through Uberwald to bring "forgiveness" to the remote villages... Then we learn "Forgiveness" is his nickname for the axe he used [[spoiler: to lop off the head of Count Magpyr]] in ''Literature/CarpeJugulum''. |
| 268 | ** ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}'' referenced the above "Smith and Wesson" line when Vimes pulls a crossbow and says "Meet my friends, Mr. Burleigh and Mr. Stronginthearm." The threat falls flat, however, because Vimes is back in time before those weapon-makers went into business, so nobody has any idea what he's talking about. |
| 269 | ** Sergeant Detritus, a troll officer of the watch, commonly carries a weapon that Vimes refers to as The Piecemaker. It's a siege crossbow and fires many, ''many'' bolts at once. The name is descriptive of what happens to anything Detritus discharges it at... and also to anything that happens to be near what he's aiming at. Vimes notes that it's the one weapon the Watch has that can blow a house's front and back doors open ''with the same shot''. |
| 270 | * ''Literature/TheDragonslayers'': Brian names his sword Dragonwhacker. |
| 271 | * In Peter Phillips' "Dreams Are Sacred" the narrator's father calls his Service Colt .45 Billy. |
| 272 | * Druss's battle axe Snaga, "The Sender", in the ''Literature/{{Drenai}}'' saga. |
| 273 | * Although no actual names are mentioned, the [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy proud warrior race]] of the Fremen in the ''Franchise/{{Dune}}'' series have ''very'' close relationships with their knives. When the main character mentions they sound "pretty ferocious" prior to meeting any, his father responds "By all accounts. They compose poems to their knives". It is later revealed that a stranger who carries a fremen knife would be accepted in any fremen community. |
| 274 | * ''[[Literature/InheritanceCycle Eragon]]'' has this with Murtagh's sword, Zar'rok, Brom's sword, Undbitr, and [[spoiler: Eragon's sword is Brisinger]] |
| 275 | * In ''Literature/TheExecutioner'' books, Mack Bolan's preferred hand weapons are named "Big Thunder" (a stainless steel [[HandCannon .44 AutoMag]]), and "Belle", his silenced Beretta Brigadier (a civilian Beretta 92S). The spin-off series ''Able Team'' has "Lyon's Crowd-Killing Device", a modified Atchisson Assault Shotgun wielded by 'Ironman' Carl Lyons. |
| 276 | * In Creator/FritzLeiber's ''Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser'' series, Fafhrd wields a sword he calls Greywand, while his partner, the Grey Mouser, wields a sword and a dagger he calls Scalpel and Cat's Claw. However, Fafhrd calls ''any'' sword he happens to be carrying Greywand, and whatever sword and dagger The Mouser wields become Scalpel and Cat's Claw. They go through many, many, many of these over the course of the stories, and therefore this is perhaps a purer example of the trope than many of the other examples: Fafhrd's sword is called "Graywand" not because of any special properties it has, but simply because that's what he calls it. |
| 277 | * In Stephen King's ''Literature/{{Firestarter}}'', one of the government operatives (his nickname is "O.J." or "The Juice") names his gun "The Windsucker." |
| 278 | * In ''Literature/GardensOfTheMoon'', the first book in the ''Literature/MalazanBookOfTheFallen'', Ganoes Paran names his standard issue sword ''Chance'' while still in the grip of his childhood dreams of becoming a hero. It [[UnwittingPawn brings down the blessing]] of Oponn on him, which [[BlessedWithSuck cures him of the idea]]. |
| 279 | * In the ''Literature/GauntsGhosts'' novel ''The Armour of Contempt'', [[DrillSergeantNasty driller Kexie]]'s best friend is Saroo, his shock maul aka cattle prod. Used to encourage discipline in the cadets. A lot. |
| 280 | * ''Literature/GloryRoad'' has Lady Vivamus, explicitly introduced. |
| 281 | * In ''Literature/HaveSpacesuitWillTravel'', the main character names his titular suit Oscar and has conversations with it. In one particular case, it even gives him a pep talk as he [[spoiler: lies dying on the surface of Pluto]]. Note that, though it's never mentioned outright, there's no indication that he actually believes he's talking to his suit. |
| 282 | * The ''[[Literature/TheHeirChronicles Heir]]'' series by Cinda Williams Chima has Warrior hero Jack uncover the legendary magical sword of his ancestor, which is named Shadowslayer. His girlfriend Ellen, also a Warrior, later acquires a similar one named Waymaker. |
| 283 | * Averted by Creator/MercedesLackey in her ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' series. Fighters operate under the philosophy that one weapon is as good as another; the only sword which has a name is an EmpathicWeapon which turns out to be a woman's spirit contained in a sword. Several main characters give their musical instruments names, however. |
| 284 | ** Defied in ''Exile's Honor,'' when Alberich thinks of his old weapons instructor in Karse. If a student ever named his weapon, the weapon was either melted down (if it belonged to the school) or returned to the student's home (if it belonged to the student), the student being prohibited from using it. Alberich makes a note to do the same now that he's a weapons instructor himself. |
| 285 | --->These things were just pieces of steel, not something sentient. And when you focused too much on "my famous blade, Gazornenplatz," you were apt to forget that it was a tool, to be used and as readily left behind if need be. |
| 286 | ** Somewhat subverted but mostly played straight in her ''Literature/TalesOfTheFiveHundredKingdoms'' series, where having a named weapon (say, Galgraling the Wyrm Slayer) will invoke Tradition (the ambient magic in the land) and give you an advantage should you meet an actual Wyrm. [[MagicKnight Champions]], however, do not name their swords -- they can make any blade magical. |
| 287 | * ''Literature/HollowKingdom2019'': Big Jim is mentioned to own a riffle named after Creator/SigourneyWeaver. According to him, the gun got its name due to its "sexy streamlined appearance and no-nonsense attitude". |
| 288 | * In ''Literature/TheHoundOfTheDurbervilles'', Moran reminisces about a custom-made rifle he used to own named "Prometheus". He buried it after he was forced to use it as a crutch while trekking injured out of the jungle. |
| 289 | * Israeli satirist Creator/EphraimKishon once had a French car "Madeleine" and a black motorbike "Dr. Kaltenbrunner". |
| 290 | * Jean Tannen, TheLancer in ''[[Literature/GentlemanBastard The Lies of Locke Lamora]]'', names his paired hatchets the Wicked Sisters. He makes a joke about the name when he has to fight a pair of female twins. |
| 291 | * In the ''{{Series/Longmire}}'' book series, Henry Standing Bear has a habit of naming vehicles after his many ex girlfriends, his favorite being Lola, his 1959 Ford Thunderbird. Walt's daughter Cady ends up naming her own daughter Lola after the car, and several books later when Walt meets the original Lola it leads to a hilarious BrickJoke where he reveals his granddaughter is technically named after her. |
| 292 | * ''Literature/TheLongShips'' by Frans G. Bengtsson features a pair of Vikings who name their favorite swords "Bluetongue" and "Redbeak". |
| 293 | * In ''Literature/MagicalGirlRaisingProject'', Swim Swim names her halberd Ruler after her deceased mentor. [[spoiler:Swim Swim was the one who arranged Ruler's death, but she still admired her.]] |
| 294 | * ''Literature/MaureenBirnbaumBarbarianSwordsperson'': Maureen names her sword Old Betsy, "because that's what Davy Crockett called his rifle or something." |
| 295 | * ''Literature/TheMechTouch'': Ves, overwhelmed by emotion, gives the first mech he makes in reality the name "Phoenix Cry," despite not being the mech's pilot. Thankfully, his customer likes the name and decides to keep it. |
| 296 | * This trope is out in force in the ''Literature/MemorySorrowAndThorn'' series by Creator/TadWilliams. Besides the titular swords themselves, just about every major character has a name for their favorite sword, spear, or miscellaneous implement of death. |
| 297 | * In Laurell Hamilton's ''Literature/MerryGentry'' series all of the magical weapons are named: Winter's Kiss, Mortal Dread, a couple magical rings and Doyle's twin daggers (which are only known by their ''nick''names--snick and snack). |
| 298 | * ''Literature/NickCarter'' has three main weapons, all of which he's named. Wilhelmina is his stripped-down German Luger, Hugo is his stiletto, and the gas-bomb that he uses is called Pierre. |
| 299 | * In the ''Literature/ParadoxTrilogy'', Devi has a habit of naming her weapons. She calls her guns Sasha and Mia, and her swords Phoebe and Elsie. |
| 300 | * Oddly enough, Alexia never gives a name to her [[ParasolOfPain favorite accessory]] in ''Literature/TheParasolProtectorate''. She does, however, add a small handgun to her arsenal which is affectionately dubbed "Ethel". |
| 301 | * ''Literature/{{Percy Jackson and the Olympians}}'': |
| 302 | ** Percy's sword is named Riptide. |
| 303 | ** Luke's sword [[spoiler:(actually Kronos' scythe)]] is named Backbiter. Parodied with Clarisse's second spear, Maimer, which everyone jokingly calls "Lamer". |
| 304 | ** In the Norse spin-off series, Magnus's sword is called Sumarbrander. [[spoiler: However, the sword is revealed to be sentient, and tells Magnus that it's not a fan of the name. Magnus names it Jack instead.]] |
| 305 | * In the Creator/DaveBarry[=/=]Ridley Pearson novel ''Literature/PeterAndTheStarcatchers'', Captain Hook deployed a special sail rigging he named "The Ladies". This specific sail was modeled after a woman's bustier, and supposedly increased his ship's speed. |
| 306 | * In ''Literature/PeterPan'', Mr. Smee has named his sword "Johnny Corkscrew", because of the way he uses it. Also featured is the pirates' massive cannon "Long Tom", said to be [[HumanCannonball large enough to launch a fully grown Indian out of]]. |
| 307 | * In the ''Literature/PhryneFisher'' novel ''Murder in the Dark'', the assassin known as the Joker has named all of his knives. The one he attempts to use on Phryne is named 'Eleanor', after his mother. |
| 308 | * For a brief while near the (publishing-order) beginning of the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series, the Sword of Martin the Warrior was dubbed "Ratdeath". Apparently Brian Jacques realized that really isn't a good name, and thus it underwent {{retcon}}. In later books, it has no real name, but "Sword" tends to be capitalized when you talk about it. |
| 309 | * ''Literature/TheReynardCycle'': Reynard calls his sword Cut-Throat. ''It ends up living up to the name.'' |
| 310 | * In the ''[[Literature/SymphonyOfAges Rhapsody]]'' series of books, Elizabeth Haydon has Grunthor -- a giant [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Bolg]] -- who names ''all'' of his weapons, because he says it makes them work better. With the exception of "Friendmaker," a huge polearm that gets its name because "When people see it, they'd much rather be my friend than my enemy," most of his weapons are named after various prostitutes he's known. |
| 311 | * In ''Literature/TheRiftwarCycle'', there's a throwaway line about the type of crossbow used by the Hadati hill people, which is called the Bessie Mauler. No one's quite sure why it's named after Bessie, but it's certainly a [[{{BFG}} mauler]]. They're normally used to hunt wyverns, the smaller, less fire-breathing-y cousins of dragons. You'd expect some other named weapons in a fantasy series, but if any have names, they're never mentioned. |
| 312 | * In the ''Creator/JackChalker'' ''Literature/RiverOfDancingGods'' series, the hero, 'Joe' is gifted with the last elf-made sword in existence. He names it 'Irving', after his son, and it proves to not respond well to enemies being astonished at its name. |
| 313 | * Averted in ''Running Blind'' by Desmond Bagley, where the protagonist uses a ''sgian-dubh'' that's a family heirloom. |
| 314 | -->A Polynesian would have said it had ''mana''; my own distant ancestors would have named it and called it ''Weazand Slitter'' or ''Blood Drinker'', but to me it was just my grandfather’s knife and his grandfather’s before him. |
| 315 | * ''Literature/TheSaint'': |
| 316 | ** Simon Templar has a favorite throwing-knife named Anna. |
| 317 | ** Hoppy Uniatz uses his Betsy to bop people. And yes, he genuinely talks like that. |
| 318 | * Chaz Villette in ''Literature/ShadowUnit'' has a ''sourdough starter'' named Elmer. [[spoiler:Not anymore, he doesn't.]] |
| 319 | ** And Daphne, referring to StraightGay Agent Brady, says, "When he was in the Army, he gave his rifle a boy's name." |
| 320 | * In ''Slaughter's Way'' by Creator/JTEdson, CampCook Coonskin has a double-barrelled eight-gauge shotgun he calls 'Betsy Two-Eyes'. |
| 321 | * ''Reason'' in Neal Stephenson's ''Literature/SnowCrash''. Used as a source of wordplay: "I know they'll listen to Reason". |
| 322 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' often uses NamedWeapons instead of this trope, particularly with the ancestral weapons (usually made of rare and prized Valyrian steel) owned by great houses. However Arya Stark's fencing blade given as a gift by her bastard brother has no name, so she calls it Needle, due to its long thing blade and also as a joke on [[TomboyPrincess Arya]]'s [[TextileWorkIsFeminine ineptness with actual needles]]. |
| 323 | * In ''Literature/SongOfTheLioness'', Alanna names her sword Lightning. She found it in some ruins and it used its own magic to save her and Sir Myles, and she's very attached to it. When it breaks in the desert, she's very upset. |
| 324 | ** In the sequel quartet ''Literature/ProtectorOfTheSmall'', Keladry names the sword that Alanna gives her upon achieving knighthood 'Griffin'. |
| 325 | * ''Literature/SplitHeirs'': Gudge named his sword “Obliterator”, fittingly. |
| 326 | * Averted in the ''Literature/{{Star Trek|Novelverse}}'' novel ''Time for Yesterday''; when Kirk asks the name of a sword, the wielder says that it doesn't have one, and, cynically, that if he were so inclined he'd just call it Killer since that's what it's for. |
| 327 | * A JustifiedTrope in the ''[[Literature/{{Dragaera}} Taltos]]'' series[[note]]by Creator/StevenBrust[[/note]]; [[spoiler:Vlad calls his [[EmpathicWeapon Great Weapon, Godslayer]] "Lady Teldra".]] The reason, in addition to the fact that he considers the actual name melodramatic, is that [[spoiler:it contains the soul of its namesake.]] |
| 328 | ** There's also "Spellbreaker", a length of chain with the AntiMagic property of [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin breaking any spell it hits]]. Vlad named it not because of sentimental attachment or mental instability, but because he was told that it would be a good idea to give it a name. |
| 329 | * In John French’s ''Literature/ThousandSons'' novels, Ignis has a hulking robot bodyguard. He calls it “Credence” and treats it like a companion. |
| 330 | * ''Franchise/TolkiensLegendarium'' mostly uses NamedWeapons instead of this trope. But "Sting" is only a nickname for the elven knife Bilbo found back in ''Literature/TheHobbit''; after killing some {{Giant Spider}}s with it, he decided that a weapon that formidable should be named. (In the [[Film/TheLordOfTheRings movie adaptation]] of ''The Lord of the Rings'', it was apparently named and the short poem ''Sting is my name, I am the spider's bane'' written on it in runes at some point, presumably by Bilbo, as the inscription is not there in the film adaptation of ''The Hobbit''.) |
| 331 | * In ''Literature/{{Trollhunters}}'', Jim Jr. calls his sword [[spoiler:"Claireblade"]]. |
| 332 | * In ''Literature/TunnelInTheSky'' both the main protagonist and his sister have foot-long Bowie-knives that they've named. The sister's is "Lady Macbeth". The protagonist's knife is called Colonel Bowie, showing an unfortunate lack of creativity on his part. A more creative example is a knife called "Occam's Razor." |
| 333 | * In ''Literature/TwentyYearsAfter'', Porthos's favorite rapier is called "Balizarde", after the hero's sword in ''Literature/TheSongOfRoland''. Which is strange, since Roland wielded [[SadlyMythtaken Durendal]] and the word Balizarde never appears in the poem. |
| 334 | * Brandon Sanderson's ''Literature/{{Warbreaker}}'' also has a sentient sword called "Nightblood". |
| 335 | * ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'' has Wax's tricked-out DepletedPhlebotinumShells-firing revolver [[PunnyName Vindication]] - named for the heroine of [[Literature/{{Mistborn}} the previous series]]. By the second volume, he's thinking of it as "she." |
| 336 | * ArcWords in ''The Way of the Sword'' by Henry Lion Oldie: [[spoiler:for a reason, as it's all about {{empathic weapon}}s.]] |
| 337 | -->Be damned that day when the weapons began to get names! |
| 338 | * Mona and Delilah are the cars owned by Joanna in the ''Literature/WeatherWardens'' series by Rachel Caine. |
| 339 | [[/folder]] |
| 340 | |
| 341 | [[folder:Live-Action TV]] |
| 342 | * In the episode "The Fighting Irish" of ''Series/ThirtyRock'', Jack Donaghy, his dad, and his brother announce their fist-names before fighting. |
| 343 | * In the ''Series/Adam12'' episode "Log 93: Once a Junkie," a man calls the police to report the theft of his beloved gun, Baby. |
| 344 | * Pete, a recurring villain on ''Series/TheAdventuresOfBriscoCountyJr'', refers to his gun as Pete's Piece. |
| 345 | * ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'': |
| 346 | ** "Don't touch [[CoolCar Lola]]". |
| 347 | ** Later on, Coulson names the {{BFG}} that he shot Loki with in ''Film/{{The Avengers|2012}}'' "The Bambino". |
| 348 | * In ''Series/AlloAllo'' Lt. Gruber named his tank Hubert. He asked if he could be buried with it as well. |
| 349 | * In ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'', Gene Hunt has a crowbar that he calls [[CowboyCop "The Search Warrant"]]. |
| 350 | * On ''Series/AshVsEvilDead'', Ash eventually reveals that he refers to his boomstick and chainsaw as "Moe and Larry". |
| 351 | * In a Season 3 episode of ''Series/TheATeam'', "The Sheriffs of Rivertown," Murdock gets two pistols and states, "I call these babies 'Betsy' and 'Bertha'." |
| 352 | * This [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xy6P41Z-jS0 scene]] in ''Series/{{Atlanta}}''. Darius calls his gun "Daddy" and Al/Paperboy finds that strange. Subverted by Al, who calls his gun "gun". |
| 353 | * ''Series/Bluestone42'' has the bomb-defusing robot Arthur, named (secretly) by Corporal Bird. After Arthur makes the ultimate sacrifice (and receives a military burial) he is replaced by Graham. |
| 354 | * In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Xander gets threatened by Jack, who reveals his knife is called "Katie". |
| 355 | -->'''Xander:''' You gave it a girl's name. How very serial killer of you. |
| 356 | ** ''Buffy'' was, of course, made by the same creator as ''Firefly'', the TropeNamer, and Jack O'Toole himself is very similar in personality to Jayne Cobb. He was almost like a dry-run for this trope. |
| 357 | ** Kendra's favourite stake is called "Mr. Pointy". |
| 358 | * In an episode of ''Series/BurnNotice'' Sam is using his Chuck Finley persona to scare information out of a villain, and he threatens him with his knife "Mr. Slicey." |
| 359 | * Ernie "Turtleman" Brown, Jr. on ''Series/CallOfTheWildman'' carries a huge Bowie knife he calls "Thunder", which he uses for everything from shaving to prying open the jaws of a snapping turtle when bitten by them. |
| 360 | * Creator/StephenColbert has a Colt Detective Special that he calls "Sweetness" that he frequently is seen talking to...and that he sometimes thinks is [[CompanionCube talking to him]]. He's had some... [[CargoShip interesting...]] conversations with it. (Inside joke: Colbert is deaf in his right ear IRL; he always listens to "Sweetness" on that side.) |
| 361 | * In ''Series/CornerGas'', Davis named his billy club "Billy". He encourages her Karen to name hers and she ends up calling it "Jennifer". |
| 362 | * ''Series/CougarTown'' has "Big Carl", "Big Lou", and "Big Tippi". This being ''Cougar Town'', it shouldn't surprise you these are rather large wine glasses of Jules. |
| 363 | * Parodied/lampshaded in ''Series/DarkMatter2015''. BloodKnight Three has given his numerous guns names out of love, but when One asks what his knife is called, Three gets offended and declares "I didn't ''name'' the knife, [[BlatantLies I'm not a psychopath]]!" |
| 364 | * ''Series/DeadliestCatch'''s captain Phil named his engines Good Girl and Bad Girl because one of them was reliable and the other seemed to want him and his boat to be unable to cope with the Bering Sea's... [[GiantWallOfWateryDoom bad moods]]. |
| 365 | * In ''Series/DeathInParadise'', Poole has a telescope he calls 'Lucy'. Camille is incredulous that he named it. |
| 366 | * In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS4E1TheSmugglers The Smugglers]]", Cherub has a knife named Tommy Tickler. |
| 367 | ** During the early Creator/JonPertwee years, the Doctor often drove a canary-yellow Edwardian roadster which he called Bessie. |
| 368 | * ''Franchise/{{Dragnet}}'' had a villain of the week who called his shotgun 'Big Mama'. |
| 369 | * In ''Series/{{Farscape}}'', John Crichton names his most reliable pulse pistol "[[Creator/WinonaRyder Winona]]". It gets to the point where if Winona misfires he automatically assumes it's because ''he'' didn't properly maintain her (which, as any gun enthusiast can probably tell you, isn't that unreasonable a belief). A {{lampshade|Hanging}} is hung about this at one point in the episode "John Quixote": "That's a nice sword... You should give it a name, like '[[Creator/CameronDiaz Cameron]]' or '[[Creator/UmaThurman Uma]]'." |
| 370 | ** It also becomes a recurring joke that Winona is the ONLY pulse pistol John uses that doesn't jam or otherwise fail him during a gunfight to the point where when it apparently ran out of shots on him he correctly guesses he'd accidentally grabbed a different gun because "Winona wouldn't do this to me because she's very reliable." |
| 371 | * The trope is named for Jayne's very favorite gun from ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. It has extreme sentimental value. The fact that he views his own proposal to swap it for Mal's "[[AccidentalMarriage wife]]" in "[[Recap/FireflyE06OurMrsReynolds Our Mrs. Reynolds]]" as ''theft'' is pretty telling. "Vera" itself is an Izhmash Saiga-12 conversion originally built for the movie ''Showtime''. |
| 372 | -->'''Jayne:''' It's miles better'n what you got!\ |
| 373 | '''Mal:''' "''What I got''?" She has a name!\ |
| 374 | '''Jayne:''' So does this! |
| 375 | ** The fact that he snuggles up with ''his gun'' instead of a real woman in "[[Recap/FireflyE13HeartOfGold Heart of Gold]]" is pretty telling. |
| 376 | ** In one interview, Creator/AdamBaldwin, Jayne's actor, stated that Jayne's knife is named "Binky" and his pistol "Boo", though neither name is used in the series proper, probably because the series got [[ScrewedByTheNetwork canceled]] before he got around to letting others know. |
| 377 | * ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'': Uncle Phil ends up getting into a Hustle over a game of Pool, where he baits the Hustler into upping the ante to get back Wills' money lost, asking for Geoffrey to pull out ''"Lucille"''; Phil's custom-made collapsible Pool Cue. |
| 378 | -->'''Phil''': Geoffrey. Break out Lucille. |
| 379 | * ''Series/GameOfThrones'': |
| 380 | ** The ancestral greatsword of [[Characters/GameOfThronesHouseStark House Stark]] is called "Ice". |
| 381 | ** [[Characters/GameOfThronesAryaStark Arya Stark's]] castle-forged CoolSword "Needle", a gift from her brother Jon Snow, and she gets very pissed off when it gets confiscated by Lannister men. She retrieves it later in the story. |
| 382 | ** [[Characters/GameOfThronesJonSnow Lord Jon Snow]] receives the sword "Longclaw" after saving Lord Commander Mormont's life. |
| 383 | ** BoisterousWeakling [[Characters/GameOfThronesJoffreyBaratheon Joffrey Baratheon]] chooses pompous names like "Hearteater" and "Widow's Wail" (his Valyrian sword) for his swords. Joffrey boasts that once Stannis attacks King's Landing, he'll cut him a smile with Hearteater and even forces Sansa to kiss the blade for luck. Naturally, it never gets drawn during the battle. In the books, Joffrey giving his swords ridiculously grandiose names is something of a running gag, and the one Arya threw in the river was called Lion's Tooth. |
| 384 | ** Brienne names the sword Jaime gives her "Oathkeeper." |
| 385 | ** The Hound disapproves of this practice. |
| 386 | --> '''Arya:''' Lots of people name their swords. |
| 387 | --> '''Sandor:''' Lots of cunts. |
| 388 | ** ''Series/HouseOfTheDragon'' has Blackfyre (wielded by King Viserys) and Dark Sister (wielded by Daemon Targaryen). Both are made of Valyrian steel. |
| 389 | * In ''Series/TheGlades'' episode "Honey", Honey is the nickname of a legendary blues guitar stolen from a casino. |
| 390 | * In ''Series/{{Glee}}'', Dave Karofsky nicknames ''his own fist'' 'The Fury' and then proceeds to threaten Kurt with it. Yes, Karofsky has issues. Well, actually, it's more like he has ''subscriptions''. |
| 391 | * In ''Series/GoodEats'', Alton Brown named his favorite pizza peel "[[Series/TheAvengers1960s Emma]]". |
| 392 | * ''Series/GraceAndFrankie'': Grace has a (secret) gun named Louise. |
| 393 | * In ''Series/HappyEndings'', while they're not a weapon, Brad reveals that he's named his sweatpants 'Karen'. |
| 394 | -->'''Dave:''' You named your sweatpants Karen? |
| 395 | -->'''Brad:''' ([[ScaryBlackMan Deep voice]]) I name what I name, man. |
| 396 | * ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': Harrow's old and battered, but beloved, Fiat car is nicknamed 'Gregory'. |
| 397 | * In ''Series/HellOnWheels'', Thor "The Swede" Gunderson wields a sawed-off double-barreled shotgun named "Beauty", with her name carved on the barrel. |
| 398 | * In an episode of ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'', Ted offers to make Sandy Rivers (who had been embarrassing Robin at work) listen to "Common Sense" and "Reasonable Discourse". When Robin asks Ted if those are his fists, he replies that they're his feet. Ted's a kicker. |
| 399 | ** "The Limo" gives us Not-Moby's gun which he refers to as "Janice". |
| 400 | * ''Series/Hunter1984''. Hunter starts the series with a Heckler & Koch [=P9S=] handgun that he dubs "Simon". Criminals who aren't smart enough to do what "Simon says" get [[CowboyCop shot by it]]. |
| 401 | * Otoya from ''Series/KamenRiderKiva'' gave the name ''Bloody Rose'' to his violin. |
| 402 | * In ''Series/TheLatestBuzz'', Michael names his fancy new desk 'Betsy' (just before he has to return it). |
| 403 | * ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': |
| 404 | ** In "The Boost Job", the [[TheCon mark]]'s prized racecar is named 'Veronica'. Nate wins her off him in a bet as the opening gambit in TheCon. |
| 405 | ** Hardison named his tech van "Lucille". As well as her subsequent replacements. |
| 406 | * In ''Series/LostGirl'', Kenzi named her katana Geraldine. |
| 407 | * ''Series/TheMiddle'': Mike's father nicknamed his belt 'The Enforcer'. |
| 408 | * ''Series/MurdochMysteries'': |
| 409 | ** A replacement for missing Detective Murdoch is a tough detective who calls his gun Betsy. Not to be confused with his dog Betty. |
| 410 | ** In the FishOutOfTemporalWater SpinOff ''The Murdoch Effect'', PresentDay Crabtree calls his gun "Aunt Daisy", a parody of 1900s Crabtree's large number of [[FloralThemeNaming florally named]] aunts. |
| 411 | * On ''Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000'', in the "I Was a Teenage Werewolf" episode, Tom Servo had a gun that he names Lucille. |
| 412 | * When doing cannon-related myths, the ''Series/{{MythBusters}}'' crew usually borrows a cannon that the owner has named "Old Moses", as it "speaks with a great voice and lays down the Law". This is a common thing to do with cannons - one [[ChurchMilitant preacher-turned-artilleryman]] during the Civil War named four guns [[Literature/TheFourGospels "Matthew", "Mark", "Luke", and "John"]] for the same reason. The [=MythBusters=] themselves engage this trope when they acquire a car (for doing car myths, naturally) and name it "Earl," named just because it seemed like an appropriate name for a large, black Cadillac. |
| 413 | ** The "Leather Cannon" myth had them borrow a different cannon from Old Moses. This one was named "Bonnie Blue". |
| 414 | ** Jamie Hyneman constructed a two-handled revolver in order to test BlastingItOutOfTheirHands. He named it '''Newton's Law'''. |
| 415 | ** The Build Team also occasionally names the devices/props they build to test their myths, such as Lucy the Moosey, a 600-pound rubber moose replica that they built to test a myth about animal/motor vehicle collisions. |
| 416 | * [[PerkyGoth Abby Sciuto]] of ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' names her lab equipment. Her favorite is her mass spectrometer, known as "Major Mass Spec". She has named her teeth as well as some fly larvae collected at a crime scene. |
| 417 | * Sam Hanna of ''Series/NCISLosAngeles'' calls his father's '70s Dodge Challenger "Charlene". In the big {{crossover}} with ''Series/HawaiiFive0'', he dubs Danno's Camaro "Winifred". |
| 418 | * Dwayne Pride of ''Series/NCISNewOrleans'' calls his Colt Python "Charmaine". |
| 419 | * ''Series/TheNewMikeHammer''. The title character played by Creator/StacyKeach refers to his Colt [=M1911A1=] as 'Betsy'. This differs from the original novels where Mike just calls his .45 a "rod", as per the street slang of the day. |
| 420 | * ''Series/NewTricks'': Brain calls his prized bicycle "Matilda". |
| 421 | * ''Series/NinjaTurtlesTheNextMutation'' had the hunter Bonesteel, who had a wide array of weapons such as Betty the double-barreled shotgun or Mary Lou the crossbow. Lampshaded when Leonardo asks what kind of weirdo would name his weapons and Donatello deduces that Bonesteel has an infantile attachment to inanimate objects. |
| 422 | * ''Series/PairOfKings'': Mikayla calls her machete "Stabitha". |
| 423 | * In ''Series/{{Pixelface}}'', Sgt. Riley's plasmatronic laser is named 'Mary Jane'. |
| 424 | * In ''Series/{{Primeval}}'', Danny reveals he has a club named "Molly". Makes sense, as Danny was stranded in the Pleistocene Epoch with no human company (at least, no human company capable of understanding English or even intelligent enough to hold a conversation) and spent six months being hunted by phorusrachids. He almost took it to CompanionCube levels. |
| 425 | * ''Series/{{Psych}}''. In the episode "Viagra Falls," Lassiter, the [[PoliceAreUseless somewhat incompetent cop]], hears that a retired cop has named his weapon and considers dubbing his own “Mr. Thunderstick.” Juliet quickly vetoes the idea. |
| 426 | ** The retired cop's gun was named Darla Saidman. His gun was Jewish? |
| 427 | * In ''Series/TheRomanMysteries'', the door-slave (and former gladiator) Caudex has a gladius he calls "Flora"; named, we are told, after an ex-girlfriend with a sharp tongue. |
| 428 | * Henry from ''Series/{{Sanctuary}}'' named a weapon Molly, short for Modified O-wave Linear Expeller. |
| 429 | --> '''Will''': Uh, doesn't that acronym spell "mole"?\ |
| 430 | '''Henry''': Molly's hotter.\ |
| 431 | '''Will''': Dude, it's a weapon, not a woman. |
| 432 | * In an episode of ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', a guard calls the tranquiliser rifle he is preparing to use to shoot JD out of a tree 'Megan Fox' and kisses it. |
| 433 | * ''Series/ShadowAndBone'': Tamar refers to the two axes she wields as her "girls". |
| 434 | * Played with in ''Series/SledgeHammer'' The title character talks to his gun, sleeps with it, and is generally in love with it... but it's named [[ADogNamedDog Gun]], where it isn't affectionately referred to as The Amigo. In the German dub, however, he calls it Suzie. |
| 435 | * In ''Series/StarTrekDeepSpaceNine'', Bashir tells O'Brien about how Davy Crockett and other frontiersmen used to name their weapons. O'Brien jokingly considers naming his tricorder "Sally." |
| 436 | * Oddly subverted on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Dean's beloved [[CoolCar 1967 Chevy Impala]] doesn't have an exact name, but he often calls her "Baby" and more occasionally, "Sweetheart". It is considered a real cast-member by some fans, appearing in EVERY SINGLE EPISODE to date. Additionally, it has been given a name by the fans: "The Metallicar". |
| 437 | * On ''Series/SweetVicious'', Ophelia refers to her [[TheStoner gigantic six-foot bong]] as "[=LeBong=] James". |
| 438 | * The title character from ''Series/ToddAndTheBookOfPureEvil'' forges a sword during the Season 1 finale in the school's industrial arts lab. Season 2 reveals that he names the sword "Sanddragon". |
| 439 | * In an episode of the sitcom ''Series/UnhappilyEverAfter,'' the mother gets a glass table, which she makes everyone call Sheila. |
| 440 | * Tara's SplitPersonality "Buck" in ''Series/UnitedStatesOfTara'' has a gun called Persephone. |
| 441 | * In ''Series/VeronicaMars'' Veronica will refer to her taser as "Mr. Shocky" from time to time. |
| 442 | * In ''Series/TheWalkingDead2010'', [[BigBad Negan]] carries around a bat named Lucille, after his departed wife. |
| 443 | * Ignacio from ''Series/{{Weeds}}'' has a stun gun named Mr. Zappy. |
| 444 | * ''Series/WhoseLineIsItAnyway'': "Stella is my knife. You're about to get yanked." Although it was an imaginary knife conjured from a random quote... |
| 445 | [[/folder]] |
| 446 | |
| 447 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 448 | * Many famous string instruments, especially any built by a member of the famous Stradivari family, have unique names. Website/TheOtherWiki [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Stradivarius_instruments lists some]]. |
| 449 | * Music/{{Angelspit}} call their modular synth 'The Middle Finger Of God'. |
| 450 | * Zakk Wylde of Music/BlackLabelSociety and Music/OzzyOsbourne has a bunch of these. His white and black bullseye Gibson Les Paul Custom is The Grail. His red-on-natural bullseye Les Paul Standard is Red. His Confederate flag Les Paul Custom is The Rebel (his guitar tech has another name for it, The Tetanus Special, thanks to the large number of rusty bottle caps nailed to it). His black and green camouflage bullseye Les Paul Custom is Stormin' Norman. His orange and black spiral pattern Les Paul Custom is The Buzzsaw. And to top it off, Gibson gave him a few guitars from early on in his signature guitar run and he named them after Yankees based on their serial numbers. Number 15 is Thurman Munson, Number 4 is Lou Gehrig and Number 5 is Joe [=DiMaggio=]. |
| 451 | * Tony Iommi of Music/BlackSabbath calls his prized Gibson SG-copy "The Old Boy", and his first Gibson SG "The Monkey", thanks to the monkey decal on it. |
| 452 | * Blues guitarist Joe Bonamassa has a huge collection of guitars, many of which have names such as "Spot", "Runt", "Magellan" and [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons "Principal Skinner"]]. |
| 453 | * Music/EricClapton: |
| 454 | ** Blackie, is the combination of three Stratocasters. He took his favourite parts from each, including a black body. |
| 455 | ** Brownie is another Stratocaster named for its two-tone sunburst finish. Brownie appears on the cover of ''Music/LaylaAndOtherAssortedLoveSongs'' by Music/DerekAndTheDominos, and was his main guitar at the time. |
| 456 | * Music/TomCochrane names all his guitars after hockey players. |
| 457 | * Music/TheDecemberists' "Apology Song" is about losing a friend's beloved bicycle, which is named Madeline. |
| 458 | * Bo Diddley's guitar, the Twang Machine. |
| 459 | * J Mascis of Music/DinosaurJr has a particular acoustic guitar that he's named Martin - thus, his solo acoustic live album was called ''Martin + Me''. |
| 460 | * Vadim Pruzhanov, of [=DragonForce=], plays a ''keytar'' named "Batman". |
| 461 | * Rory Gallagher's Stratocaster, supposedly one of the first bought in Ireland and his lifelong favourite instrument, was simply called "The Strat". |
| 462 | * [[Music/ZZTop Billy Gibbons]]' Pearly Gates. ''Miss'' Pearly Gates. It is named after the car Gibbons sold and used the proceeds to buy the 1959 Les Paul 'Burst. |
| 463 | ** Given a ShoutOut on ''Series/{{Bones}}'', where Angela is Billy Gibbons' daughter. Her full name is Angela Pearly Gates Montenegro. |
| 464 | * Music/GratefulDead guitarist Jerry Garcia had five main guitars, all of which he named. Alligator, which he played from 1970 to 1973, was a customized 1957 Fender Stratocaster that had been given to him by [[Music/CrosbyStillsAndNash Graham Nash]] that he let his guitar techs heavily modify. The next four were all built especially for Garcia by luthier Doug Irwin, including the famous Wolf and Rosebud guitars that were his main instruments for most of the 1970s and '80s, respectively. |
| 465 | * Music/GreenDay leader Billie Joe Armstrong's "Blue" - his first guitar ''which he still plays today''. |
| 466 | ** Also, A 1950's Gibson Les Paul Junior named "Floyd". He states that this is his favorite guitar. |
| 467 | * Though not name per se, Woody Guthrie was famed for having "THIS MACHINE KILLS FASCISTS" on the body of his guitar. |
| 468 | ** In tribute, folk singer Donovan had a sticker that read, "THIS MACHINE KILLS" on his guitar. |
| 469 | * Oderus Urungus, the former lead singer of Music/{{GWAR}}, had a 10-foot sword named "Unt Lick". |
| 470 | * Albert King called his Gibson Flying V, "Lucy". |
| 471 | * Music/BBKing names each of his guitars Lucille. According to King, early in his career, a fight broke out in the club he was playing at. This fight quickly got out of hand, the aggressors knocked over an improvised kerosene heater, and a fire started. Naturally, everyone immediately ran out, but King had left his guitar behind in his haste. Realizing that he couldn't afford to replace it, he reentered the burning club and retrieved his instrument. When he learned that the fight had started over a woman named Lucille, King decided to name all of his guitars in the future "Lucille", "to remind myself never to be that stupid again." Several guitars have had the name, including a signature model with the name. King also famously refuses to ship Lucille in a plane's cargo hold; he buys two seat tickets. One for him and one for Lucille. |
| 472 | ** This is likely why a number of examples on this page (such as ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'' above) use Lucille for their named weapons as well. |
| 473 | * Until it was stolen, Music/LedZeppelin's Jimmy Page played a black Les Paul Custom. The model was known as "Black Beauty". Since then, his number one guitar has been a Les Paul sunburst known simply as "Number One". He named another Les Paul "Number Two". This had more to do with him having an easier time to separate them since they were set up differently. A similar thing was done with the numbers on Pete Townshend's Les Paul Deluxes in the '70s. |
| 474 | * Music/YngwieMalmsteen almost always plays cream-colored Fender Stratocasters modeled after his first guitar The Duck, named for the WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck sticker he put on it as a teenager. He still plays The Duck from time to time. |
| 475 | * [[Music/{{Garbage}} Shirley Manson]] owns an orange Fender Stratocaster named 'Rita' |
| 476 | * [[Music/{{Queen}} Brian May's]] guitar, the Red Special. May hand-built the guitar with his father out of wood from an old fireplace and has several [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Red_Special#Unusual_features unique features]]. |
| 477 | * Kim Mitchell has a "Partscaster" guitar that has seen many modifications, named "Blue". |
| 478 | * Lemmy Kilmister of Music/{{Motorhead}} calls his Rickenbacker bass "Rickenbastard". |
| 479 | * Music/MyChemicalRomance: |
| 480 | ** Supposedly, this was originally the idea for Danger Days album. Instead of Killjoy names, the nicknames they selected were going to be the names of their rayguns. |
| 481 | ** Rhythm guitarist Frank Iero used to have a guitar named Pansy. |
| 482 | * Naming of instruments isn't just for guitars. Sax player Bobby Keys (most famous for playing with Music/{{The Rolling Stones|Band}} and Music/JoeCocker) had names for all of his saxes. His main one was a tenor sax named "Elmer". |
| 483 | * Music/WillieNelson's guitar, Trigger. |
| 484 | * [[Music/{{Gorillaz}} Murdoc Niccals]]' bass guitar, "El Diablo", which was in fact given to him by the Devil. |
| 485 | * New York rapper Qadir has released a single, featured in ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoIV'', called "Nickname", which is, you guessed it, about having a nickname for your guns. |
| 486 | -->"I got a nickname for all my guns: a Desert Eagle that I call Music/BigPun, a two-shot that I call [[Music/TupacShakur Tupac]]... my TEC-9 I'm-a call T-Pain, my .38 snub I'm-a call Music/LilWayne..." |
| 487 | * Tom Morello of Music/RageAgainstTheMachine and Audioslave calls his super-customized guitar "Arm The Homeless." It's written on the face of the instrument, in big red letters. He also has a customized Fender Stratocaster called "Soul Power." |
| 488 | * Music/RaymondScott named most of the instruments he built: "Karloff", "Bandito the Bongo Bandit," etc. Of course, he needed names like that so his employees would know which one he was talking about, since telling them to go switch on "the one with all the knobs on the top and the buttons--no, to the left--down--right" would get in the way at ol Manhattan Research Inc. |
| 489 | * Music/EdSheeran names each of his guitars, as well as his loop pedal (Chewie Monsta II) |
| 490 | * Music/TheSistersOfMercy always call their current drum machine "Doktor Avalanche". The Doktor has been swapped out a few times for newer models over the last three decades. |
| 491 | * Devo Spice apparently named his [[Platform/Atari2600 Atari]] "Heather". |
| 492 | * Music/BruceSpringsteen's Esquire, Excalibur. |
| 493 | ** In Music/BruceSpringsteen 's song ''Youngstown'', the moniker "sweet Jenny" does not refer to the protagonist steelworker's girlfriend or wife, but to Youngstown Sheet and Tube Co. blast furnace named "Jeannette", which was demolished in 1997. |
| 494 | * Music/LindseyStirling names each of her violins. She has a Roth violin called Excalibur, a [[StuntDouble stunt violin]] for videos called Ingrid, a carbon-fiber violin called Nero, a blinged-out electric called Cleopatra, and an "LS"-monogram-shaped violin called Paris (after the city that gifted it to her). |
| 495 | * Music/SteveVai has names for the various prototypes and one-off guitars Ibanez has made for him. Most notable is his go-to guitar for almost twenty years, Evo, and Evo's bastardized-Charvel predecessor from his time with Music/FrankZappa and Music/DavidLeeRoth, The Green Meanie. |
| 496 | * Eddie Music/VanHalen's striped guitar, [[FrankenX Frankenstrat]]. Eddie, by his own admission, didn't really know what he was doing when he threw all the parts together. Turned out just fine. The black-and-yellow striped guitar Eddie is holding on the back cover of the Van Halen II album was called "the Bumblebee". The guitar was placed in the casket of Dimebag Darrell Abbott of Music/{{Pantera}} and buried with him. |
| 497 | * Stevie Ray Vaughan's guitars. The most famous is First wife also known as #1. Others include Lenny for example, after his then-wife who gave it to him. |
| 498 | * Former Music/{{Whitesnake}} guitarist Bernie Marsden has a 1959 Les Paul called "The Beast". |
| 499 | * Mason Williams's guitar (which he named a song after, too), $13 Stella. |
| 500 | * Music/NeilYoung's primary guitar, an old modified Gibson Les Paul, is called Old Black, in reference to the refinish colour. He has another guitar named Hank since it used to belong to Hank Williams. |
| 501 | [[/folder]] |
| 502 | |
| 503 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 504 | * Merle from ''Podcast/TheAdventureZoneBalance'' names his warhammer "Smusher", and his hand-axe "Lil' Choppy". |
| 505 | ** Killian calls her giant crossbow "Billips." |
| 506 | * Maggie from the ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' game ''Small Magic'' has an axe named "[[Series/TheGoldenGirls Golden Girl]]" |
| 507 | * Criss Angel's flying Bugatti in ''Podcast/InterstitialActualPlay'' can spawn a pair of turrets named Sigfried and Roy. |
| 508 | * Many weapons in ''[[Podcast/NotAnotherDnDPodcast Not Another D&D Podcast]]'' are named. Examples include the axe, Gemma, and the swords Rosaline and [[PortmanteauCoupleName HardShine]]. |
| 509 | * In an ''Podcast/RPPRActualPlay'' episode, Dave's character's beloved tommy gun is called Lucille. |
| 510 | --> ''"Not a woman, exactly. My... partner. She's been with me through thick'n'thin."'' |
| 511 | [[/folder]] |
| 512 | |
| 513 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 514 | * Wrestling/MickFoley calls his favorite baseball-bat-wrapped-in-barbed-wire "Barbie". His [[ImprobableWeaponUser tube sock]] is Mr. Socko, which he uses to apply the dreaded Mandible Claw. [[AxCrazy He even drew a face on it]] |
| 515 | * Wrestling/OutlawRonBass carried a bullwhip that he called "Miss Betsy." He also had a pair of spurs with which he once attacked Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake, and which, on at least one occasion, he referred to as "Bret" and "Bart". (Probably after the brothers in ''Series/{{Maverick}}''.) |
| 516 | * Dutch Mantel also carried a whip, which he called "Shoo Baby". |
| 517 | * [[Website/{{WrestleCrap}} T. L. Hopper]], the [[WrestlingDoesntPay wrestling plumber]], carried a plunger named "Bessie". |
| 518 | * Manager "Playboy" Gary Hart used to carry a loaded sock he called "Sweet Lucy." |
| 519 | * The Wrestling/JunkyardDog's chain, Ruby. |
| 520 | * Wrestling/{{Abyss}} named his nail-laden 2x4 "Janice". This was actually named for the mother of Wrestling/{{TNA}} president Dixie Carter; in its early appearances, it was accompanied by a branding iron called "Bob" (after Dixie's father) which never took off like Janice did. |
| 521 | * Back when he was [[Wrestling/RingOfHonor ROH]] Commissioner, Wrestling/JimCornette would threaten anyone who messed with him with his faithful Louisville Slugger, "Ol' Thelma Lou". |
| 522 | * Frank Stone referred to the Future Of Wrestling Heavyweight Title belt as "Goldie White" and sometimes called it "her". |
| 523 | * Wrestling/DrewMcIntyre wields a Scottish claymore that he calls "Angela" after his late mother. |
| 524 | [[/folder]] |
| 525 | |
| 526 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 527 | * Non-weapon example: In ''Roleplay/SurvivalOfTheFittest'', Cody Jenson names the motorcycle he finds "Loretta", and apparently falls in love with it as the game goes on. |
| 528 | ** In v4, Roland Harte names his kris Charlene, as a ShoutOut to ''Film/FullMetalJacket''. |
| 529 | ** Meanwhile, within the same thread as Roland, Isabel Guerra names her [[JokeWeapon trumpet]] / [[ImprovisedWeapon shiv]] [[Series/LookAroundYou Partario]]. |
| 530 | ** In v5, we have [[PunnyName Kiki]], Joey Caputo's [[KukrisAreKool kukri knife]], and [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyoko]], Miranda Millers' war spear. |
| 531 | [[/folder]] |
| 532 | |
| 533 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 534 | * While individual instances of this trope are generally rare in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'', encountering an example is usually a good shorthand for "AcePilot at the controls." They also double as NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast, given named 'Mechs such as Widowmaker, Ebony Dragon, and Yen-Lo-Wang (essentially China's answer to Hades himself). |
| 535 | * In ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' most notable magic items are named, including weapons. Some of the more famous include the paladin blade Holy Avenger, the cursed sword Nine-Lives Slayer, and the soul-stealing axe Life-Drinker. |
| 536 | ** TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms canonically have few "swords +2": weapons of significant power are made for people of significant power and usually with specific purpose in mind -- so they usually have names and stories. |
| 537 | ** Salvatore's [[Literature/TheLegendOfDrizzt Drizzt books]]: Drizzt Do'Urden got two scimitars, Icingdeath and Twinkle. Wulfgar's war hammer, Aegis-fang, named by its maker; Cattie-brie's bow, Taulmaril the Heartseeker; and her sword, Khazid'hea (translated from Drow, 'Cutter'; although as a sentient sword, being named is justified). Similarly, Artemis Entreri eventually acquires the sentient sword Charon's Claw. Though never named in the novels, game rule information gives names to the twin longswords of Zaknafein, Drizzt's father: one is called Reaper, the other Reaver. As they are borderline epic in their abilities, and he was epic level, they no doubt earned their name. Averted with Enteri's dagger, which despite its impressive power, is only known by the rubies on it. That is enough. |
| 538 | ** ''Violet Dawn'' / ''The Broken Isles'' campaign setting (d20) has feat "Named Weapon", which means that the character got the single "very special" bonded weapon; mechanically this gives +2 to attacks with it and -1 with anything else, including weapons of the same type. Replacing / changing the bonded weapon is rather hard. |
| 539 | * Dita (and her sexy twin Rita) the tricked out sample Colt [=M4A1=] from ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}}: Gun Fu''. Twin-drum magazine, reflex sight, night sight, targeting laser and, tactical light, all held on with aftermarket accessory rails. It's intentionally ridiculous. |
| 540 | * In the ''TabletopGame/IronHeroes'' setting, the Weaponmaster class is required to name his weapon at 11th level. Doing so causes his reputation to precede him. |
| 541 | * In the ''TabletopGame/IronKingdoms'' setting, Orsus "TheButcher of Khardov" Zoktavir calls his axe "Lola". As long as we're talking IK, there's also Ashlynn's ''Nemesis'', Croe's ''Hiss'', Gorten's ''Forge Father'', Seige's ''Ground Pounder'', Vlad's ''Skirmisher'' & ''Ruin'', Magnus' ''Foecleaver'', Bart's ''Red Tide'' & ''Ace'', Fiona's ''Viper'', and Brocker's ''Thrasher'', and that only covers the some of the mercenaries and a few faction combatants. Naming your weapon is pretty common in the Iron Kingdoms. |
| 542 | ** Special note should be made for Liche Lord Asphyxious, whose spear Daemortus is named after the previous Liche Lord, whom Asphyxious killed and turned into said spear. |
| 543 | * ''TabletopGame/IronswornStarforged'' has the Gunner asset, for characters who prefer [[Main/{{BFG}} heavy ranged personal weapons]]; upgrading the asset unlocks the ability to name your favorite gun, and subsequently gain bonuses for using it in combat. Given the setting, it's likely a reference to the [[TropeNamer Trope]] [[Series/{{Firefly}} Namer]]. |
| 544 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Paranoia}} XP'' supplement "Service, Service". Vulture Squadron Warriors can carry most weapons that exist in Alpha Complex and usually do. They give nicknames to not only each weapon they carry but each piece of ammunition as well. |
| 545 | * In ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'', artifact-level weapons, as well as less powerful but culturally significant weapons, tend to have names. Examples include the Sinswords, seven swords from the ancient nation of Thassilon each named after their first wielder; the Draddeth Edge, a sentient mace that grants the wielder exceptional tactical knowledge; and every weapon wielded by an archfiend, like Apollyon's Usher of the Black Rain or Moloch's Ramithaine and Goreletch. |
| 546 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' includes several visual gags of tough mercenaries carrying guns with odd names written on them. In one example, an Orc who looks for all the world like Creator/DannyTrejo has two pistols bearing the names Meat and Potatoes. |
| 547 | * Sigmar's warhammer, from which ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' takes its name, is named Ghal-Maraz (Skull-splitter in [[OurDwarvesAreAllTheSame Khazalid]]). The game's second most famous weapons, the twelve swords forged for the rulers of what became the Empire's provinces, are something of an aversion, being known simply as "The (Name of Province) Runefang". A great many other examples exist in the setting. |
| 548 | ** A lot of Chaos weapons tend to have names in BlackSpeech, not so much as a nickname, but because a daemon of that name is literally bound into the blade and will probably suck your soul out through your hand if you don't treat it with respect. |
| 549 | [[/folder]] |
| 550 | |
| 551 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 552 | * The protagonist of ''VideoGame/ActionDoom2UrbanBrawl'' refers to his pistol as "Sarah, the only woman left in my life". |
| 553 | * In ''VideoGame/AFKArena'', the main weapons of mad bomber Kren are a portable cannon [[{{BFG}} which is as tall as he is]] and a [[ArmCannon wrist-mounted grenade launcher]], which he named "Hot Stuff" and "Lady", respectively. |
| 554 | * ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossingNewHorizons'': A random comment from Flick at the Roost reveals he calls his self made black, spike-studded bug catching net "Bügnir". |
| 555 | * ''VideoGame/{{Arcanum}}'': GreatWhiteHunter Franklin Payne's signature weapon is a blunderbuss which he sometimes refers to as "Old Mary". |
| 556 | * From ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'', as soon as Bartolomeo gets back to his home after being freed from prison by Ezio, he goes around the thrashed place looking for "Bianca", who turns out to be a [[{{BFS}} claymore]]. |
| 557 | ** Referenced in ''[[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood Brotherhood]]'', where he starts searching for Pantasilea and Ezio asks if he looked behind the table. Then it turns out Pantasilea [[UglyGuyHotWife is Bartolomeo's wife]][[note]]And decidedly ''not'' another weapon[[/note]], much to Ezio's shock. |
| 558 | * [[ColdSniper Raelynn]] from ''VideoGame/{{Awesomenauts}}'' has a [[{{BFG}} pulserifle]] which she names Cuddles. |
| 559 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Battlerite}}'', [[NeverMessWithGranny Iva]] affectionately calls her machine gun "Bessy". |
| 560 | * All the customized weapons ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'' gets at The Gates of Hell are named. In most cases, it's a result of Rodin making them [[LivingWeapon out of demons' souls]], so one assumes they share the names of the demons in question, but her four-piece handgun sets have no such excuse: Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme (collectively known as Scarborough Fair [[note]]Named after the song of the same name, specifically the Simon & Garfunkel version that appeared on the album Parsley, Sage, Rosemary, and Thyme[[/note]]) in ''Bayo 1''; Prelude, Minuet, Toccata, and Nocturne (collectively known as Love is Blue [[note]]Named after the song of the same name[[/note]]) in ''Bayo 2''. |
| 561 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bloodborne}}'' has the Avelyn's spiritual successor: the Evelyn, a pistol used by the Cainhurst knights, lovingly named after a woman. Bullet for bullet, it has [[PunchPackingPistol the highest Bloodtinge scaling in the game.]] |
| 562 | * Axton in ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' is a [[TheTurretMaster Turret Master]] whose beloved (non-sentient) turret is a CompanionCube that he [[CargoShip outright calls his girlfriend]]. She doesn't have an actual name, but he often refers to her as "honey", "sweetheart", "beautiful", etc. |
| 563 | -->'''Axton:''' ''[summoning turret]'' You fellas meet the missus? |
| 564 | * ''VideoGame/BrawlStars'': |
| 565 | ** Bibi calls [[BatterUp her baseball bat]] "Mr. Bat". One line of dialogue even has her address it like a person and tell Mr. Bat that she loves it. It even has a face drawn on it that [[ExpressiveAccessory sometimes changes]]. |
| 566 | ** Bonnie's special cannon that she drives is called Clyde, as a reference to the historical Bonnie and Clyde. It also has a face painted on it. |
| 567 | * In ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' Eddie Riggs uses a guitar he calls Clementine which can [[ThePowerOfRock summon lightning, fire, melt faces, inspire legions of headbangers and bring down giant flaming zeppelins on top of people]]. Of course he couples it with an axe called the "Separator" (he didn't name that one, though). |
| 568 | -->'''Mittens:''' Allow me to introduce you to my enforcers, ''Fear'', (holds up fist) and ''Pain''. ''(holds up other fist)'' |
| 569 | * ''VideoGame/{{Bulletstorm}}'': He was called [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s-RPItMYcyY "Waggleton P. Tallylicker".]] And we never got to tell him. *sniff*. |
| 570 | * The ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series assigns callsigns to many of its vehicles, which you can see by looking in their general direction. Some are dynamically assigned from a pool of names while others are worked into the plot. |
| 571 | ** ''Call of Duty 2'' has some dynamically named tanks called names such as "Hole In One", "Queen of Diamonds", etc. |
| 572 | ** ''Call of Duty 3'' features a Jeep affectionately named Vera with a twin named Lynn. |
| 573 | ** ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'' has a couple of levels revolving around escorting a tank named "War Pig" out of danger. |
| 574 | ** ''Modern Warfare 2'' features some neighborhood clearing with a Stryker Armored Vehicle named "Honey Badger." In addition, many vehicles in the Afghanistan convoy are named - including "Curb Stomper", "Punta Gorda", and bridge-layer "Bigfoot." |
| 575 | ** ''[[VideoGame/CallOfDutyBlackOps Black Ops]]'''s cover shows that [[PlayerCharacter Mason's]] Colt M1911 is called "Sally". |
| 576 | *** In the Zombies mode, upgrading it pairs it with a second pistol named "Mustang" that shoots grenades. This is actually one of three sets of "woman's name for first gun/matching adjective for second gun" sets in Zombies: the others are "Jane"/"Calamity" and "Mary"/"Typhoid". |
| 577 | *** In multiplayer, players can scratch a clantag onto the side of their guns, allowing you to actually name your gun "Vera" if you so choose. |
| 578 | * ''VideoGame/CobaltCore'': Isaac names all of his drones, and will often happily announce these names as they're launched... and sadly bid them farewell as they're destroyed. Though occasionally he'll take the latter in stride, stating that at least they were able to serve their purpose. |
| 579 | * ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' has something like 20 or 30 NamedWeapons, but one that arguably counts as a Vera is Skippy. There's even a quest that involves returning Skippy to his rightful owner, who is overjoyed to learn that you have found him. Depending on the choices you make in-game, she can rename him Daisy upon return. Skippy is also a TalkingWeapon with many memorable quotes, such as "According to traditional Christian doctrine, you are going to burn in Hell" and "Bad user! Bad user!" |
| 580 | * ''VideoGame/DarkestDungeon'': Level 5 weapons and armor sets for all heroes have unique names relevant to their classes. |
| 581 | * ''VideoGame/DarkSouls'' has Avelyn, an AutomaticCrossbow left in the Duke's Archive, it was once belonged to Domhnall of Zena according to WordOfGod. |
| 582 | * In ''VideoGame/DeepRockGalactic'', the dwarves tend to have affectionate nicknames for the various robots they work with. The M.U.L.E. is Molly, the Drilldozer is Doretta/Dotty, and the All-Purpose Drone is Bosco, just to name a few. The upper management at DRG strongly discourages this behavior, but the dwarves insist on doing it anyway, and even the MissionControl [[NotSoAboveItAll occasionally slips up by referring to the M.U.L.E. as Molly]]. |
| 583 | * In ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumans'', when you read a soldier's mind, you may hear the following phrase "I have a rifle, her name is Sue!" |
| 584 | * In ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'', Lady has a ''rocket launcher'' named Kalina Ann, named after her deceased mother. |
| 585 | ** Dante's weapons tend to have proper names too, but it's because they're ''alive''. Then there's Ebony and Ivory, his twin pistols; while they're black and gunmetal-gray, those are also female names. As well as Sparda's two guns, Luce and Ombra ("Light" and "Shadow" in Italian). |
| 586 | ** Ebony and Ivory are named after the Stevie Wonder/Paul [=McCartney=] song. All of Dante's weapons are named, including an electric guitar that's actually a succubus. |
| 587 | ** Going one step further: In the [=PS2=] port of ''VideoGame/ViewtifulJoe'', it's revealed that Blade Master Alastor is also Dante's sword. |
| 588 | ** Nero's SwordAndGun from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' are named Red Queen and Blue Rose respectively. |
| 589 | ** The SawedOffShotgun that appears in every game in the series earns the name "Coyote-A" in the fourth game. |
| 590 | * In ''VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories'', you can rename your weapons and items in their Item Worlds. |
| 591 | * In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOrigins'', Sten names his sword Asala (according to him it means 'soul'), which he sees as a part of himself, and actually murdered an entire family because he lost it. |
| 592 | ** Note that they had not stolen it and he did not believe that they had, he simply ''went insane from grief'' (his religion really does consider the weapon to be part of him, and he has no way of legally returning home without it). When he recovered he turned himself in, and he's refusing food in a drawn-out suicide attempt when you meet him. |
| 593 | ** Another example in ''Dragon Age'' would be in the DLC ''Witch Hunt'', in which Finn has a staff [[ShoutOut named Vera]]. |
| 594 | ** ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'' gives us Varric, the dwarf rogue. He has a super-duper custom crossbow named Bianca, but he won't tell you where or how she got the name. |
| 595 | *** The ''Legacy'' DLC reveals that Bianca is a unique repeating crossbow designed by a friend of his in the Carta. Apparently, Bianca is the only one that he has managed to get working. Retconned in ''Inquisition'', as the real creator is [[spoiler:Varric's ex-girlfriend, Bianca Davri]]. [[AllThereInTheManual The discrepancy is explained]] in ''The World of Thedas, Vol. 2'' as his Carta friend being the designer, but the spoilered character being the engineer who actually made the design work. |
| 596 | ** In the ''Mark of the Assassin'' DLC, Tallis has a pair of daggers; she doesn't identify them by name in dialogue, but their FlavorText shows that she calls them "Kathryn" and "Thane." |
| 597 | ** The introduction of ItemCrafting in ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' allows this to be done to any weapon made by the player character. |
| 598 | ** Also in ''Inquisition'', Samson's sword is named "Certainty." |
| 599 | * ''VideoGame/DungeonDogs'': Gaspard has named his crossbow “Colette". |
| 600 | * Dwarves in ''VideoGame/DwarfFortress'' may get very attached to their tools and weapons of the trade. If such thing happens, they are likely to give them names. |
| 601 | * ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' allows you to name your weapons after enchanting them. [[VideoGameCrueltyPotential This can be taken further]] if you trap a named enemy in a black soul gem, use their soul to enchant a weapon and name the weapon after the soul you used to create it. |
| 602 | * ''VideoGame/EVEOnline'' always starts the ship name as <PlayerCharacter>'s <ship name>. You have the option to change it. Depending on what you do this may be important to you or not. If you're in RVB, naming ships is generally pointless as you'll probably lose in 5 minutes anyway. This has led to people doing interesting things such as naming the combat ship Primary----> or Don't Shoot Me. Among other more colorful names. |
| 603 | * Every character in ''VideoGame/ExitFate'' has a personal weapon (you employ blacksmiths to upgrade the weapon rather than trading up), and while some have simple, descriptive names (hatchet, red pen, handbag) many are named poetically and/or after people. The amnesiac former assassin Frore named his blade "Kella" after his friend/lover/companion/rival/? (They both lost parts of their memories, so neither is fully certain how they relate.) |
| 604 | * ''VideoGame/FableIII'' gives the hero a set of {{evolving weapon}}s, and lets you name them. |
| 605 | ** In the novel tie-in "Blood Ties", it's revealed Ben Finn's rifle is named Vanessa. [[spoiler: He had named it after the prostitute who took his virginity.]] |
| 606 | * The game ''VideoGame/TheFallLastDaysOfGaia'' actually allows you to name every weapon. This is useful to mark which gun is whose since the more a character uses a certain weapon (the EXACT weapon, not another of the same name) the more accurate s/he becomes when using it. |
| 607 | * A staple of the ''Franchise/{{Fallout}}'' series is the named unique weapons, ranging from the typical NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast to [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin matter-of-fact-descriptors]] or women's names. |
| 608 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' has "Little Jesus", a Combat Knife owned by Lil' Jesus Mordino. |
| 609 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout3'': |
| 610 | *** Brick of Reilly's Rangers introduces her minigun as "Eugene", in a southern drawl no less. |
| 611 | *** "Ol' Painless" a hunting rifle owned by Dave, president of the Republic of Dave, an homage to a couple of other guns of the same name. Not to mention the epitome of BoringButPractical. |
| 612 | *** The Terrible Shotgun, Smiling Jack's Combat Shotgun. |
| 613 | *** The Gatling Laser "Vengeance" the [[ChainsawGood Ripper]] Jack, both found in the Deathclaw Sanctuary. |
| 614 | ** ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'': |
| 615 | *** From the base game: "That Gun"[[note]]short for "That Gun From ''VideoGame/Fallout2''"; the non-unique .223 Pistol came with DLC later[[/note]], Pew-Pew[[note]]laser pistol[[/note]], Knock-Knock[[note]]pulaski/fire axe[[/note]], Pushy[[note]]displacer glove[[/note]], Lucky[[note]].357 Revolver[[/note]], Maria[[note]]Benny's 9mm pistol[[/note]], This Machine[[note]]Battle Rifle, though like That Gun above the base version wasn't in the game proper until DLC[[/note]], Dinner Bell[[note]]Hunting Shotgun obtained by completing "Bleed Me Dry" for Red Lucy in The Thorn[[/note]], Annabelle[[note]]missile launcher[[/note]], All-American[[note]]Marksman Carbine[[/note]], La Longue Carabine[[note]]Corporal Sterling's cowboy repeater[[/note]], Ratslayer[[note]]varmit rifle[[/note]], and a multitude other weapons to be found (or stolen) in the Mojave. |
| 616 | *** The ''Gun Runner's Arsenal'' expansion pack adds Esther[[note]]a modified Fat Man[[/note]], Medicine Stick[[note]]Brush Gun[[/note]], [[WebVideo/FalloutNukaBreak The Nuka Breaker]][[note]]a huge club made from a Nuka-Cola sign[[/note]], Greased Lightning[[note]]a modified PowerFist[[/note]], Sleepytyme[[note]]a powerful suppressed 9mm SMG[[/note]], Sprtel-Wood 9700[[note]]a SuperPrototype to the Gatling Lasers[[/note]], Li'l Devil[[note]]a cleaned up and shortened 12.7mm pistol[[/note]], The Smitty Special[[note]]a heavily modified Winchester P94 plasma caster[[/note]], Two-Step Goodbye[[note]]a ballistic fist with contact-triggered explosives[[/note]], the Embrace of the Mantis King![[note]]a mantis gauntlet made with a much deadlier forearm[[/note]], Gehenna[[note]]a shishkebab with a bright yellow flame[[/note]], the Cleansing Flame[[note]]a Flamer with a bright blue flame[[/note]], and Paciencia[[note]]an old Mexican hunting rifle tied with an old world flag at the butt[[/note]]. |
| 617 | *** ''Honest Hearts'' has Joshua Graham's "A Light Shining in Darkness" and the Survivalist's Rifle [[note]]A Service Rifle chambered with 12.7mm ammo and used during the U.S.-Canadian Conflict by [[spoiler:Randal Clark, the Survivalist]][[/note]]. |
| 618 | *** ''Old World Blues'' has FIDO, the bigger and meaner upgrade to the K9000 cyberdog gun. |
| 619 | *** ''Lonesome Road'' has Ulysses's "Old Glory" flag pole/quarterstaff, the Red Glare rocket launcher, and your "Fist of Rawr", or alternatively with the Wild Wasteland trait, [[Anime/FistOfTheNorthStar Fist of the North Rawr]]. |
| 620 | ** ''VideoGame/Fallout4'' now allows you to give your own names to any gun (along with melee weapons and ''most'' armor pieces) in your possession. |
| 621 | *** Reba and Reba II are in-universe examples carried by Barney Rook, a gunsmith who hunts Mirelurks in Salem for a living, he sees the Rebas as sisters and should you helped him, he gifts you Reba II. |
| 622 | ** ''VideoGame/FalloutShelter'' has the Henrietta, a unique lever action rifle carried by the Old Longfellow, his ''Fallout 4'' counterpart didn't give a name to his rifle, however. |
| 623 | * ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'': Vincent Valentine's main sidearm is called "Cerberus" which is fitting as it has three barrels, each one with a sculpted dog head on the end of the barrel. |
| 624 | ** In the [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake remake]], one of Barret's gun-arm weapons is called Big Bertha. |
| 625 | ** Likewise, Irvine Kinneas, the resident sharpshooter and gunslinger from ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVIII'' used four specialized rifles throughout the game, named the Valiant, the Ulysses, the Bismarck and the Exeter, all named after real-world Battleships. |
| 626 | * Many of the better weapons in the ''Franchise/FireEmblem'' series, such as Ike's sword Ragnell and his father's greataxe Urvan in ''Fire Emblem 9'' and ''10''. The player can also name the custom made weapons in ''FE 9'' and ''10''. |
| 627 | ** Owain, a character in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemAwakening'', firmly believes naming your weapons adds more power to it. He comes up with ridiculous names for the most mundane of weapons, naturally. This gets lampshaded by Lissa. |
| 628 | -->'''Lissa:''' That Holy Slayer, Saintly Dragon blah-blah kinda stuff you're always talking about. I was wondering if you really didn't know the word "Staff"! Hee hee! |
| 629 | -->'''Owain:''' ...I'm pretty sure I should be offended by both of those statements. |
| 630 | ** Owain also appears in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemFates'' (using the name Odin). His special ability? His crit chance goes up by 10 if you give him a custom weapon with a name at least eleven characters long. |
| 631 | ** In Owain and Niles' support in ''VideoGame/FireEmblemWarriors'', Niles asks Owain for help in naming the sword Prince Leo gave him. Owain suggests "The Nightmare Sword of Gloom" because he thinks it should have a "dark" name to go with it. |
| 632 | * In the ''VideoGame/GuildWars'' Factions campaign there is a boss named [[Series/{{Firefly}} Jayne]] Forestlight who drops a hammer called Vera. |
| 633 | * According to [[WordOfGod supplemental material]], I-No from ''VideoGame/GuiltyGear'' calls her guitar "Marlene". I-No being a MusicalAssassin, this fits particularly well into the trope. |
| 634 | * [[BadassPreacher Father Grigori's]] Winchester rifle in ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'' is named "Annabelle", according to the game files. |
| 635 | * ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': |
| 636 | ** One of the marines in ''VideoGame/Halo3'' is voiced by Creator/AdamBaldwin; the actor who played Jayne in ''Series/{{Firefly}}''. In a ShoutOut to ''Firefly'', he will occasionally yell "Say hello to Vera!" during combat. As well as "Me and Vera have a little life-lesson for ya'!" |
| 637 | ** Edward Buck's personal magnum is named "Whispered Truth". |
| 638 | ** Played with by Kelly-087. Her self-customized shotgun is named "Oathsworn", but she's actually had several such guns; every time one "Oathsworn" becomes unusable for whatever reason, she simply gets another one. |
| 639 | * In ''VideoGame/HealthyWeapon'', each character is listed with the name of the weapon they wield. For all of them it's a descriptive word, except for Anna Ban's firearm, listed as "Caroline". |
| 640 | * In ''VideoGame/HorizonZeroDawn'', Nil calls his bow "The Voice of Our Teeth," and is shocked that Aloy hasn't named hers. When Aloy asks about his knife's name, however, he responds with confusion as to why someone would name a knife. |
| 641 | * ''VideoGame/{{Incision}}'' have your eldritch, sentient, tentacled [[LivingWeapon living gun]] who spits acid at enemies, which you name "[[FluffyTheTerrible Kitty]]". |
| 642 | * From ''VideoGame/Interstate76'', we have Taurus' car "Eloise". |
| 643 | * In ''VideoGame/IronTank'', many of the tanks and other vehicles are named Louis, Walter, Fritz, etc. [[AllThereInTheManual in the manual]]. |
| 644 | * ''VideoGame/IWasATeenageExocolonist'': While fighting alongside Anemone during their late teens, the PlayerCharacter might notice that she stenciled [[spoiler:the name of her older brother who was killed by the very aliens they are fighting]] on her plasrifle's barrel. |
| 645 | * From ''VideoGame/JadeEmpire'': Sir Roderick Von Fauntlebottom the MagnificentBastard's rifle is named Mirabelle. |
| 646 | * ''VideoGame/LastAlert'': |
| 647 | --> '''Black:''' Hey, Guy! Let my baby Betty throw you a kiss! |
| 648 | --> '''Guy Kazama:''' [[LampshadeHanging You're some weirdo, naming your helicopter!]] |
| 649 | * Several of the champions from ''VideoGame/{{League of Legends}}'' have affectionate names for their weapons. |
| 650 | ** [[AxCrazy Jinx]] names her minigun Pow-Pow and her shark-shaped rocket launcher Fishbones. |
| 651 | ** Miss Fortune refers to her dual blunderbuss pistols as Shock and Awe. |
| 652 | ** Graves liberally used a huge shotgun which he named Destiny. After it was destroyed during an [[WhamEpisode especially drastic status quo change]], he picked up a new one, appropriately called New Destiny. |
| 653 | ** Jhin carries a massive four-round revolver he calls Whisper. |
| 654 | ** Subverted with Ornn. The UltimateBlacksmith doesn't name his creations - he makes so many things, after all - with the exception of his hammer, which was forged from the [[ThunderboltIron starmetal]] he was given by the Three Sisters to build the Howling Abyss bridge, and is important enough to him that it ''does'' merit a name. Ornn being a direct and taciturn sort, not much given to flights of fancy or poetic phrasing, he named his hammer "[[ADogNamedDog Hammer]]." |
| 655 | * ''Franchise/MassEffect'': |
| 656 | ** Zaeed Massani from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' carries a worn-out old rifle around with him affectionately named "Jessie", although he was forced to retire it about five years beforehand when it was damaged beyond repair. Zaeed's essentially a walking ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' ShoutOut. However, in ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'', Shepard can learn that Zaeed has custom-ordered replacement parts to repair Jessie and carry her in the war against [[PrecursorKillers the Reapers]]. |
| 657 | ** There is also [[WrenchWench Tali]]'s non-sentient combat drone, [[ShoutOut Chikktika]] [[VideoGame/BaldursGate vas Paus]], whom she shouts encouragement and advice to in combat, and praises after the fighting's done. |
| 658 | * In ''VideoGame/MatchingtonMansion,'' hunky carpenter Jack calls his hammer Claudia, which he first mentions during one of his many ShipTease moments with Tiffany. |
| 659 | * In ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1'', two mooks discuss the tendency of their more intense co-workers to name their guns. One mook sheepishly admits he too named his gun. In a possible subversion, he didn't give it a girly name but instead named it 'Dick Justice'. The other mooks also point out how weird it is to name your weapon. |
| 660 | * Most ''VideoGame/MechWarrior'' games, as well as the 2018 ''VideoGame/BattleTech'' video game by Harebrained Schemes, allow the player to invoke this with their AceCustom [=BattleMechs=]. ''[=MechWarrior=] Online'' introduces Hero 'Mechs to the equation, which are supposedly pre-built AceCustom 'Mechs used by {{Ace Pilot}}s throughout ''TabletopGame/BattleTech'' history. Only a handful of these are actually based on or named after canon {{Ace Custom}}s, and of the ones that aren't, a good chunk of the [=MechWarriors=] who supposedly used these 'Mechs are {{Canon Foreigner}}s. The Hero 'Mechs themselves can also be customized and renamed as the player wishes. |
| 661 | * The second mission of the original ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' has Patterson destroy a railroad-borne artillery piece named Greta. |
| 662 | * The first time Matthias picks up an assault rifle in ''VideoGame/{{Mercenaries}} 2'' has him naming it "Lovisa", and then declare "[[AxCrazy Let's kill a whole lot of people now, Lovisa!]]". |
| 663 | * ''VideoGame/MetalGear'': |
| 664 | ** The rather odd name of "Nikita" for the fictional [[PlayerGuidedMissile steerable-missile]] launcher suggests that it's a callsign or affectionate nickname. It's named after the French movie ''Film/{{Nikita}}'', which is Creator/HideoKojima's favorite Creator/LucBesson movie. |
| 665 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid3SnakeEater'', The Fear wields two crossbows he calls the Little Joe and the William Tell. |
| 666 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearRisingRevengeance'', the Winds of Destruction have all named their weapons; Sundowner wielding a pair of high-frequency machetes called "Bloodlust", Mistral a long staff that also acts as a whip called "L'Etranger", Monsoon dual sais called "Dystopia". |
| 667 | ** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidVThePhantomPain'', Quiet can either carry standard rifle "Wicked Butterfly", non-lethal rifle "Guilty Butterfly", or high-powered lethal rifle "Sinful Butterfly". |
| 668 | * ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'''s weapon-naming system is similar to that of ''Skyrim'', allowing the player to spend experience levels that would otherwise be spent on imbuing weapons (and other items) with actual enchantments in order to give them in-game names. Not a complete waste as this does prevent the cost of [[BuffySpeak anvil-ing]] the weapon from increasing with each go on said anvil, however. Apart from the increase from naming it in the first place that is. |
| 669 | * In ''VideoGame/NeoQuest 2'', you find a yellow skeith named Bledynn, who happens to call his BFS [[http://i50.tinypic.com/2uptlsi.png Vera]]. |
| 670 | * ''VideoGame/NetHack'' features a variety of named magical weapons mostly from other sources, such as Excalibur, Stormblade, and Snickersnee. It also allows you to give a name to any item, and in some cases naming a normal weapon after a magical one causes it to become magic. |
| 671 | * Cowboy-esque gunslingin' vigilante Cassidy in ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'' carries a [[RevolversAreJustBetter huge revolver]] he calls the Peacekeeper. |
| 672 | * The end game of ''VideoGame/ParasiteEve'' allows you to give a name a gun and piece of armor of your choice. Naming them lets you use them in NewGamePlus. |
| 673 | * While most guns in ''VideoGame/Payday2'' get the AKA47 treatment, a select few get Vera-esque names, like the double-barrelled Joceline. Once you own a gun you can also give it another name; it's ostensibly supposed to be for telling differently-modified versions of the same weapon apart from one another at a glance, since the names are only visible to you in your inventory before a heist, but you can give a gun whatever name you want. |
| 674 | * The [[MightyGlacier Heavy Knight]] from ''[[VideoGame/PiratesVikingsAndKnights Pirates Vikings and Knights II]]'' would like to introduce you to his sword, Beatrice. |
| 675 | * Many of the pistols in ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'' are given actual names rather than their model number or manufacturer in their inventory listing (Matilda, Broken Butterfly, Killer 7, etc). The Matilda is named after the DamselInDistress in ''Film/TheProfessional''. |
| 676 | * Played with in ''VideoGame/SandsOfDestruction''. Morte's starting weapon is The Nameless Blade, but she's definitely the [[AxCrazy craziest]] of your team members. It's just that the smith who forged her sword didn't give it a name, so she never bothered coming up with one, either. If you find him, he'll ask you to give him the sword because he now sees it as an OldShame and offers to make a new one if you can bring him the materials. This sword just ends up being named the Zephyr Blade, as it's a wind element weapon; apparently he's not a very creative dude (and all Morte cares is that her sword can destroy things, not what it's called). Everyone's respective InfinityPlusOneSword (or gun or whip or whatever) has a name, however it's more likely a case of NamedWeapons. |
| 677 | * ''VideoGame/SeriousSam'': [[AllThereInTheManual Apparently]] the titular character’s [[GunsAkimbo dual revolvers]] in ''The First Encounter'' are named "Smith" and "Wesson". He jokes about meeting Mr. Smith and Mr. Wesson again in the third game upon picking up its [[AKA47 not-a-Deagle]]. |
| 678 | * ''VideoGame/ShowByRock'': The instruments of all the members of both Plasmagica and Shingencrimsonz all have names. [[Anime/ShowByRock The Anime]] adds another layer of this trope to Cyan's Strawberry Heart, by making it a floating sentient guitar [[spoiler: as a result of being possessed by the previous owner in a bid to stop the villain.]] |
| 679 | * In ''VideoGame/StarcraftII'''s campaign mission "Belly of the Beast", [[TheEngineer Rory Swann]] carries around a portable [[KillItWithFire flamethrower turret]] called Flaming Betty. It's subtitled "Swann's [[{{BFG}} BFF]]", [[DontExplainTheJoke which is a]] DoubleEntendre [[DontExplainTheJoke for "Best Friend Forever"]]. |
| 680 | * ''VideoGame/StarWarsTheOldRepublic'' gives us Corso Riggs, the Smuggler's first companion, who has no less than ''six'' named weapons (and provides DescriptionPorn for most!): a deluxe heavy blaster (which gets stolen by [[spoiler: Skavak]]) named "Torchy," a customizable blaster (which he gives to the PlayerCharacter) named "Flashy," another blaster pistol offered to the PlayerCharacter later named "Sparkles," a blaster rifle named "Sergeant Boom Boom," a blaster pistol named "Sparky," and a vibroblade named "Hewie". Which goes to show that he is a GiverOfLameNames. |
| 681 | ** Invoked during a conversation between the Sith Inquisitor and Andronikos Revel, where the latter averts this trope, claiming the reason he ''doesn't'' give his weapons names is ''because'' he's afraid he might get too attached to them. |
| 682 | ** Additionally, in Knights of the Fallen Empire [[spoiler: Vette]] picks up an assault cannon that she names "Spewie" |
| 683 | * One tribe in ''VideoGame/{{Suikoden}}'' named their swords after the most important person in their life. Then there's Flik, who named his sword Odessa, after the QuicklyDemotedWoman he was attached to. He's from that tribe too. |
| 684 | * A variation: Elzam Branstein in ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWars'' usually calls whatever HumongousMecha he's currently riding "Trombe", after his favorite horse. This includes the battleship ''Kurogane''. |
| 685 | ** Barbiel the Needle gave the An Ares its current name in ''Third VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ: Tengoku-hen'' because [[spoiler:Gun (like in Gunbuster and Gundam) was a thing used everywhere in his world and it makes him saaad]]. |
| 686 | * ''VideoGame/TacticsOgreTheKnightOfLodis'' features four Snap Dragon scrolls which seal the soul of the character that uses them in a sword which bears the name of the user. In addition to being powerful in their own right, the swords also carry over a portion of the unit's stats to buff the person wielding it, copy the unit's element (each element has a different design for the sword as well), and certain classes grant special effects (a snapped Sword Master would give an Instant Kill effect, a Fairy would increase luck, [[GameBreaker Angel Knights increase morale for units within a certain range of the wielder]], ect.). |
| 687 | * Heavy Weapons Guy from ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' calls his eponymous heavy weapon "Sasha". See this trope in full galore in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mY5qJHZCz2I Meet the Heavy]]. Additionally, Valve has introduced a second Heavy unlockable weapon: an alternate minigun by the name of "Natascha". [[http://steamgames.com/tf2/heavy/natascha.htm Check out]] her guns (the others have special names for many of their weapons, too, but those are more on the level of model names, as opposed to individuals). |
| 688 | ** Mocked by [[{{Jerkass}} The Scout]] who, if he manages to dominate a Heavy player, will sometimes taunt "I think I'll take Sasha out for a steak dinner tonight. What d'ya think of that?" |
| 689 | ** The Sniper's kukri knife is named "Sharpy", though he treats this name as a one-off joke. |
| 690 | ** Players can do this too, with the addition of Name Tags, a one-use item, from the Mann Co. store. Use it, and you can call any item in your inventory anything you want! "Vera" has predictably become one of the more common names. |
| 691 | ** [[AllThereInTheManual As revealed in the tie-in comic "The Showdown"]], the Heavy has named all of his unlockable Miniguns: in addition to the aforementioned Sasha and Natasha, he refers to the Tomislav as "Svetlana", the Brass Beast as "Oksana", and the Huo-Long Heater as "Sheila". |
| 692 | * The {{Infinity Plus One Sword}}s of ''VideoGame/TelepathTactics'' get special names: the rapier Aravel, the bow Lyrio, and the mace Fangiss Ka. The last one is explicitly named by one character, and translates to something of a BadassBoast in [[ConLang their native tongue]]. |
| 693 | * ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' has an example (of course): Youmu Konpaku's swords, Roukanken and Hakurouken. |
| 694 | * In ''[[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonOne The Walking Dead: Season One]]'', Danny St. John's scoped hunting rifle is named "Charlotte", and he can be seen lovingly stroking his weapon at one point in the game. He even obtained a nameplate for his rifle. Also, Molly calls her ice axe "Hilda". |
| 695 | * In ''[[VideoGame/TheWalkingDeadSeasonFour The Walking Dead: The Final Season]]'', Louis's weapon of choice against the walkers is a chair leg with nails stuck through it, which he affectionately refers to as "Chairles". |
| 696 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}},'' players can do this to any weapon of their choice for a small fee of Platinum, the game's cash-only currency. In addition, it can be done once for free whenever a Tenno gilds a Zaw or a Kitgun. |
| 697 | * Wonder-Green, from ''VideoGame/TheWonderful101'', wields a proton gun he's dubbed "[[Franchise/ThePhantomOfTheOpera Christine Daaé]]". |
| 698 | * ''VideoGame/YaibaNinjaGaidenZ'': Yaiba calls his sword Heartless. A comic set prior to the events of the game gives the history of the sword's name. Originally called the Tempest Blade, the sword was sought out by many for its rumored power. Yaiba and a kunoichi he met along his quest, Keiko, found the blade in the hands of a powerful Kamaitachi ninja, Gorou. After his companion, Keiko, found out he had murdered her brothers he left her on the mountains and made off with the blade. Keiko curses him and his wickedness, calling him what he would later call his sword: Heartless. |
| 699 | [[/folder]] |
| 700 | |
| 701 | [[folder:Visual Novels]] |
| 702 | * In ''VisualNovel/ShiningSongStarnova'', prospective IdolSinger Nemu Akimoto carries a knife in her purse. She calls it Gunter-kun. [[spoiler:In her bad ending, she names the meat cleaver she uses to murder her stepmother Strobanov.]] |
| 703 | [[/folder]] |
| 704 | |
| 705 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 706 | * Dewey (and later, Phooie) uses a rocket launcher named "Captain Satan" in the ''WebAnimation/{{Ducktalez}}'' series. |
| 707 | * First invoked, then enforced, ''then'' subverted in the ''WebAnimation/{{Eddsworld}}'' episode "Saloonatics", when Far West!Tom (Sheriff Thompson) gives Far West!Edd (Detective Edward Gold) his first pistol. |
| 708 | --> '''Sheriff Thompson:''' You can't fire a gun without givin' her a name first!\ |
| 709 | '''Edward Gold:''' Alright... I shall call him... Brian!\ |
| 710 | '''Sheriff Thompson:''' What?! No! You can't give her a man's name!\ |
| 711 | '''Edward Gold:''' ... What's yours called?\ |
| 712 | '''Sheriff Thompson:''' "''Gun''"! |
| 713 | * In ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' Marzipan's acoustic guitar is called "Carol". |
| 714 | * ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'': |
| 715 | ** We have the Blue Team's Tank named "Sheila". Although that's not the name of the tank, it's the name of the AI that runs the tutorial program. |
| 716 | --->'''Tucker:''' Dude! I knew you could pick up chicks in a tank! |
| 717 | ** Grif calls his Brute Shot "The Grif Shot". |
| 718 | ** In season 11, Caboose finds a giant MANTIS robot that he calls "Freckles" (for the spots on its nose). After Freckles is irreparably damaged, Freckles' AI chip is loaded into Caboose's rifle in season 12. This results in Caboose calling his rifle Freckles. |
| 719 | [[/folder]] |
| 720 | |
| 721 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 722 | * In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'' Fighter named the swords he got from Drizzl "Stabby" and "Slashy". |
| 723 | * In ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfWiglafAndMordred'', Azrael has a (male) sword he calls Grace that he also treats as a CompanionCube. It's later revealed [[spoiler:there is an evil spirit bound to the sword, who taught him to speak to the sword instead of him]] because it looks ''less'' insane that way. |
| 724 | * ''Webcomic/AngelDown'': Samuel has an anti-materiel SniperRifle named Serenity. |
| 725 | * ''Webcomic/ABeginnersGuideToTheEndOfTheUniverse'': Each piece of equipment has a specific fancy name; the electric sword BLAZING HOT BETTY is the most straightforward example. |
| 726 | * ''Webcomic/{{Concerned}}'': Spoofed when Frohman remembers going completely nuts with the Gravity Gun, which he called the Claw. |
| 727 | -->'''Dr. Judith Mossman:''' Is that you, Gordon? Come inside, it's getting late.\ |
| 728 | '''Gordon Frohman:''' There is no Gordon, Judith. There is only... the Claw. |
| 729 | * Mae from ''Webcomic/DandyAndCompany'' [[http://www.dandyandcompany.com/2008/04/17/it-is-her-very-favorite-gun/ has a gun named "Vera"]], apparently. |
| 730 | * In ''Webcomic/FakeNewsRumble'', Stephen decides that 'Grizzlebane' is a [[http://www.star-crossedcomic.com/fnr/fnr_2_4.html good name for his spear at that moment]]. It gets never mentioned with that name elsewhere. |
| 731 | * In ''Webcomic/FullFrontalNerdity'' [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php?date=php?date=2006-11-29 here]], Lewis has named his sword "Betsy". It's never mentioned again. |
| 732 | ** [[http://nodwick.humor.gamespy.com/ffn/index.php?date=2010-08-17 Lewis has also named a lightsaber "Lucille".]] |
| 733 | * Ben's character 'Nameless' from ''Webcomic/FuzzyKnights'' actually sleeps with his weapons, I just hope he didn't mean the knives as well. |
| 734 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' |
| 735 | ** Mamma Gkika mit her "[[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20111230 Dollink]]". |
| 736 | ** The Storm King had a mace called "The Platonic Solid" and a sword named "Archimedes' Lever." The Jaegers called them [[https://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20160622#.Yex3oVlMFPY "Smasher and Slasher."]] |
| 737 | * ''Webcomic/{{Goats}}'' has [[http://web.archive.org/web/20061205134321/http://goats.com/archive/060123.html three]] [[http://web.archive.org/web/20061205134321/http://goats.com/archive/050921.html unrelated]] [[http://web.archive.org/web/20061205134321/http://goats.com/archive/060306.html characters]] all owning guns named "Bessie". |
| 738 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Goblins}}'', Minmax creates a sword made of oblivion, which is only able to exist thanks to [[AchievementsInIgnorance his own lack of understanding of the concepts involved]]. He decides to christen his new sword "Oblivious". |
| 739 | * ''Webcomic/GuildedAge'': Bayen and Brayen, Byron's hatchets. Named after [[spoiler: his dead brothers whom he killed while berserk]]. |
| 740 | * In ''Webcomic/TheHandbookOfHeroes'', Inquisitor owns a giant battle-axe which she calls "Mercy". Unlike Fighter's magic sword Mr. Stabby, it isn't an intelligent weapon, so Mercy is just a nickname rather than a self-chosen proper name. |
| 741 | * In ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob,'' Captain Antan Eel of the Pirates of Ipecac had a favorite ray gun named Nancy. [[PunnyName (Nancy Ray Gun. Get it?)]] |
| 742 | * Serafine Savoy in ''Webcomic/{{Lackadaisy}}'' uses a Browning BAR named "Boudreaux." |
| 743 | * In ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'', Kurgh the Conqueror's battleaxe is called "Elza", as can attest the plaque above his mayoral desk. [[http://superredundant.com/?comic=207-adapting Not that he's using it anymore]] -- since Shitropolis politics require ''heavy firepower'' instead. |
| 744 | * Famine's flamethrower "Stevie" in ''Webcomic/{{Matchu}}''. Amber thinks it's a pet at first after being told about "him" over the phone and is proven wrong by almost being set on fire. |
| 745 | * ''Webcomic/AModestDestiny'' has Maxim naming his [[WithThisHerring flimsy 1d4 stick]] Lucile. |
| 746 | * Frank from ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' has a gun nicknamed "Mabel". Then again, Frank is a spoof of the ShellShockedVeteran archetype anyway, taken ''way'' over-the-top and then put in charge of an EB Games. |
| 747 | -->"Will you face me? [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2003/03/10/ This tube goes by many names, some you are not worthy to hear.]]" |
| 748 | ** In the ShowWithinAShow ''[[StylisticSuck The Song of the Sorcelator]]'' that Gabe reads, a character carries twin wands, called "Hurt" and "Burn". [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2006/05/19/ Exhibit A]]. |
| 749 | * ''Webcomic/PunchAnPie'' [[http://www.punchanpie.net/cgi-bin/autokeenlite.cgi?date=20070307 here]] when Angela is imagining herself in a warzone (while packing her stuff). |
| 750 | * Subverted in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'': Schlock didn't have a chance to name his plasgun before Kevyn used it as a bomb. |
| 751 | -->'''Schlock:''' I was gonna ''name'' that gun. |
| 752 | * ''Webcomic/SequentialArt'': While Art and Pip were in college, they chose to prank the fashion students by absconding one of their dressmaker dummies. Their victim was Rebecca Mace, who has a bizarre obsession with her dummy, to the point of conversing with it. When she discovers it gone, Rebecca goes unhinged, telling a classmate in strip #1015 "That dummy has a name. It's Vanessa." |
| 753 | * ''Webcomic/SidekickGirl'' has a baseball bat with the unoriginal name of Mr. Bat. It gets broken and replaced with Mr. Bat II. |
| 754 | * ''Webcomic/TheSilverEye'': Atieus loves his magic axe. Her name is Gwladys. |
| 755 | * ''Webcomic/SkinHorse'': Tip carries a revolver named [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/much-with-his-smarts/ Alice]]. It is noteworthy that he usually does not bother to learn the name of the women he sleeps with, yet still names his gun. |
| 756 | ** Don't forget Konstantin, whose "biceps have clever names. [[http://www.webcomicsnation.com/shaenongarrity/skinhorse/series.php?view=archive&chapter=43404#strip4 Are you wishing to hear?"]] |
| 757 | ** Tip asks Unity to use "gentle persuasion" to get Sweetheart out of the rubber plant, unaware that Gentle Persuasion is the name of Unity's [[http://skin-horse.com/comic/was-true/ flamethrower]]. |
| 758 | * ''Webcomic/SleeplessDomain'': Harley refers to her knuckle dusters as "Knucks", and even apologizes to them when she can't use them in a sparring match with her friend Kokoro. |
| 759 | * How can we forget ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' and Chaz. Again, a sentient sword, now with a surprisingly normal name. |
| 760 | * Hunter Ravenwood of ''Webcomic/SuicideForHire'' names his guns. He has a .22 "carry-around piece" named Bop, and a much larger gun "which liquefies your target - kinda like a blender, but more satisfying" which he keeps in a glass case for emergency use, labelled "Idiot Magnum: In case of extreme stupidity, break glass". |
| 761 | * ''Webcomic/Trevor2020'': Enid refers to her gun collection as her "grandchildren". The gun she has on her [[spoiler: the day Trevor breaks loose]] is a desert eagle named Benny. |
| 762 | * In the now-defunct webcomic ''[[http://yahtzee.comicgenesis.com/cast.htm Yahtzee Takes On The World]]'', Yahtzee names an experimental laser he found "Archibald". |
| 763 | [[/folder]] |
| 764 | |
| 765 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 766 | * In the Michael chapter of J.C. Hutchins ''7th Son'' prequel series ''7th Son 7 Days'' has a customized shotgun he calls [[Film/RoboCop1987 Clarence, that has the phrase "Bitches, leave." etched on it]]. |
| 767 | * Kat from ''Kat and Mouse: Guns for hire'' named her pair of Colt-Springfield M2001 .45-caliber high-capacity pistols Bonnie and Clyde. |
| 768 | [[/folder]] |
| 769 | |
| 770 | [[folder:Website]] |
| 771 | * ''Website/{{Fenspace}}'': More examples than we could even begin to catalogue appear albeit for vehicles rather than weapons. |
| 772 | * ''Website/{{Neopets}}'': An NPC in Neoquest II, a GameWithinAGame, has a sword named Vera. His cowboy-like speech patterns (which he shares with no other character in the game) and the fact that there are several self-proclaimed [[FanCommunityNicknames Browncoats]] on the Neopets staff suggest that this is a direct ShoutOut. |
| 773 | * ''Website/NotAlwaysRight'': [[http://notalwaysright.com/make-a-bullet-point-about-bertha/7542 Bertha the shotgun]]. |
| 774 | * ''Website/{{YouTube}}'': A video by Creator/Blunty3000 features a ninja who has named his sword "Suzette". |
| 775 | [[/folder]] |
| 776 | |
| 777 | [[folder:Web Videos]] |
| 778 | * ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': |
| 779 | ** Played with in the case Linkara's Magic Gun. His name is Mark. Not because he named him that, but because that is the name of the [[PoweredByAForsakenChild spirit that enchants it]]. |
| 780 | ** In one episode, his then-girlfriend Iron Liz introduces her two swords, [[Literature/ForgottenRealms Twinkle and Icingdeath]]. |
| 781 | * ''WebVideo/CampfireStories'': Zach mentions that back in the Army he has named his rifle Piper, not after anyone in particular, but because everyone else was naming ''their'' rifles after their wives/girlfriends and he wanted to join in the fun. Mike then jokes he named his rifle after its serial number. |
| 782 | -->'''Mike:''' Good old 0309823! |
| 783 | * In ''WebVideo/ChellsMind'', [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Chell]] names her Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device [=ASHPoD=]. (Well, Aperture Science Handheld Portal Device ''is'' a long name.) |
| 784 | * ''WebVideo/CriticalRole'': |
| 785 | ** Percy has named his three weapons [[RevolversAreJustBetter The List]], [[{{BFG}} Bad News]], and [[StaticStunGun Diplomacy]]. After [[spoiler:The List is dissolved in acid]], he builds a new pistol which he names "Retort". |
| 786 | ** Vax calls his belt -- which can transform into a snake -- "Simon". |
| 787 | ** Nott from the second campaign eventually designs an improvised explosive, which she names [[CuteAsABouncingBetty Fluffernutter]]. Because bombs are a one-use-only kind of weapon, there have been many iterations of Fluffernutter throughout the campaign. |
| 788 | ** Dagen, the Mighty Nein's guide through Eisselcross, has a battleaxe named Sheila. |
| 789 | * Nappa from ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' named the Saibamen: Snoogums, Foofoo, Cabbagehead, Other Cabbagehead, and Vegeta Junior. |
| 790 | * ''WebVideo/FalloutNukaBreak'' carries on the ''Fallout'' tradition of unique weapon variants named this way with "Artemis", [[spoiler:the Fat Man that the BigBad uses to nuke Eastwood.]] |
| 791 | * Cam from ''[[WebVideo/HighRollers2016 High Rollers]]'' has a dagger named "Duracell". [[LeaningOnTheFourthWall It's a dwarven name]]. |
| 792 | * In ''WebVideo/ImAMarvelAndImADC'', ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}'s guitar is called Lucille (a ShoutOut to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucille_%28guitar%29 B. B. King's guitar]]). In its latest appearance, [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Rorschach]] shoots it. |
| 793 | * ''WebVideo/IronLiz'' calls her swords [[Literature/TheDarkElfTrilogy Twinkle and Icingdeath]]. |
| 794 | * Boris of ''WebVideo/LifeOfBoris'' uses a sledgehammer named Svetlana to tenderize meat. |
| 795 | * LetsPlay/MikeBurnFire: Zach apparently named his China Lake grenade launcher "Betsy", as evidenced by his anguished cries after Mike lies about "upgrading" it. |
| 796 | * ''WebVideo/{{Oxventure}}'': In the ''TabletopGame/{{Deadlands}}'' campaign, Luke's character Delacy - an inexperienced farmboy who happens to be an incredible shot - calls his beloved custom pistol Rooster, "because when it crows, it's going to be a beautiful day." |
| 797 | * ''WebVideo/SMPLive'': |
| 798 | ** Cooper's sword is named "DAD". |
| 799 | ** A variant with a tool instead of a weapon, but Connor's pickaxe is named "Ice Fucker 3000", [[ItMakesSenseInContext in reference to his ice shop at Spawn]]. |
| 800 | ** All of Poke's axes are named "asspenis". |
| 801 | ** Joko has his bow, which is named "Bustdown Thottiamnn bustodwn", and his sword, named "7.7 INCHES". |
| 802 | ** [=CaptainSparklez=]'s sword is named [[BitingTheHandHumor "The Demonetizor"]]. |
| 803 | * Lemley, a {{Cyborg}} warrior in ''WebVideo/TitansgraveTheAshesOfValkana'' fights with a BladeBelowTheShoulder which she christened "Doctor Lobotomy". |
| 804 | [[/folder]] |
| 805 | |
| 806 | |
| 807 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 808 | * One of the strigoi (vampire-like creatures that suck blood from dragons instead of humans) in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'' named his fangs "Lefty" and "Bitey". |
| 809 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Archer}}'': [[AgentPeacock Ray Gilette's]] weapons of choice are a [[GunsAkimbo pair]] of nickel-plated M1911 pistols with the names [[Creator/BarbraStreisand Barbra]] and [[Creator/LizaMinnelli Liza]] engraved on them. |
| 810 | * ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' example: Sokka's [[CompanionCube Boomerang]]. Space Sword might also count. Hey, nobody said Sokka was ''good'' at naming things... |
| 811 | * ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': The villain Black Mask wields a laser cannon he refers to as "Daddy's Little Helper." |
| 812 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': The slumber party episode reveals that, as weapons in pillow fights, the Belcher kids have dubbed their parents' memory foam pillows [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII "Fat Man" and "Little Boy"]]. In addition, as part of Bob's habit of talking to inanimate objects, he does occasionally name them. In "An Indecent Thanksgiving Proposal", he names the turkey Lance. |
| 813 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Bravestarr}}'': Bravestarr's cyborg horse sidekick Thirty/Thirty had a {{BFG}} called Sarah Jane. He himself is named for a bullet. |
| 814 | * ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': Eustace's older brother Horst would go hunting with an enormous laser blaster that he named "Big Bob." |
| 815 | * Parodied in ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'', when Amy and Nibbler go after the dean that denied Amy her doctorate: |
| 816 | --> '''Nibbler''': *''holds up gun''* If they have a problem, they can take it up with Smith & Wesson! *''holds up bigger gun''* Or if that fails, Consolidated Head-Melter! |
| 817 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', recurring character Vinnie Grigori's [[spoiler:pie-cannon]] is named [[Series/WelcomeBackKotter Mr. Carter]], Mr. C for short. |
| 818 | * The EVO-hating Hunter Cain in ''WesternAnimation/GeneratorRex'' carries a gun emblazoned with the name "Sweet Caroline" in his first appearance. |
| 819 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': In the episode "The Taking Tree", we learn that Grim calls his scythe "Jodie". |
| 820 | * ''WesternAnimation/JadeArmor'': Lan Jun's cellphone is named "Celly" and her new bike is named "Siclara". |
| 821 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Jellystone}}'': El Kabong calls his guitar "Susan". |
| 822 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': Of all the names, he could have picked for his bazooka, [[HairTriggerTemper Mr.]] [[AxCrazy Cat]] ironically chose the name "Patience". |
| 823 | * ''WesternAnimation/KipoAndTheAgeOfWonderbeasts'': Wolf calls her polearm with the scorpion sting "Stalky" and gets quite belligerent towards anyone who touches it without permission. |
| 824 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MaoMaoHeroesOfPureHeart'', Mao Mao's [[GoldMakesEverythingShiny gold]] sword is named Geraldine. |
| 825 | -->'''Badgerclops:''' What? You named your sword Geraldine? |
| 826 | -->'''Mao Mao:''' All great heroes name their weapons! |
| 827 | -->'''Adorabat:''' I think she should be named "Goldie Chops". |
| 828 | * ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "The Qyah Ice Classic," a tripod is placed on ice and the town holds a contest to predict exactly when the ice will break. Based on a dream he had, Tooey names the tripod "Timmy." |
| 829 | * The pirates' massive cannon "Long Tom" is shown many times in the animated ''WesternAnimation/PeterPanAndThePirates'' series, where it is portrayed as being decorated in the style of a white tiger. |
| 830 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Phineas and Ferb}}'', Doofenshmirtz hires a platypus hunter who has a collection of boomerangs and gives them lady names. |
| 831 | * Although Matrix in ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' didn't give his weapon a proper name, based on dialogue, it's clear that at least he and [=AndrAIa=] consider 'Gun' to be the name of his gun. He DOES get a response from his gun since it can operate (and likely also fire) itself with voice commands. |
| 832 | * ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'': "You know, I always wanted to date a girl named 'The Power.'" |
| 833 | * In ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'', after Rick accidentally "Cronenbergs" the world, Jerry names the crowbar he uses for defense. |
| 834 | -->'''Jerry:''' ''I'm her husband, Jerry. And this is my friend, Mister Crowbar. Who is also a crowbar.''\ |
| 835 | '''Beth's Mutated Coworker:''' ''That's stupid.''\ |
| 836 | '''Jerry:''' (Beats the coworker to death) ''Yeah? Well, look where being smart got you.'' |
| 837 | ** Parodied in "A Rickle in Time." Shleemypants the time cop has a gun named Chris that he's quite attached to, but it's actually alive, which Rick finds out [[https://youtu.be/eIolNCxxGfQ much to his disgust.]] |
| 838 | --->'''Rick:''' Ugh! God! Gross and weird! ''<drops the gun, which runs out into the street>''\ |
| 839 | '''Shleemypants:''' ''Chris!''\ |
| 840 | ''<A passing car squishes Chris>''\ |
| 841 | '''Shleemypants:''' ''<emotionally, as if Rick had just murdered his beloved pet> You killed my gun!'' |
| 842 | * ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': During the "Missouri Mish-Mosh" arc, the Hatfulls at one point employed a Civil War-era cannon named "Li'l Orvie". |
| 843 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' parodied ''Film/FullMetalJacket'' in the episode "Dead Putting Society" wherein Homer forces Bart to call his golf putter "Charlene". |
| 844 | ** In "Bart Gets An F", Mrs. Krabappel refers to her grading pen as "Ol' Red." |
| 845 | ** In "Who Shot Mr. Burns, Part II", Willie exhorts his tractor, "Pull, Duchess! PULL!!!" |
| 846 | *** In the earlier "Whacking Day", he confided to this same tractor, ''"were it not a violation of God's law, I'd make you my wife."'' |
| 847 | ** In "Mona Leaves-a", Homer wields a cinder block on a chain he calls "The Defender". |
| 848 | * Eli's slugs in ''WesternAnimation/{{Slugterra}}'' might count. More or less [[JustifiedTrope Justified]], as they're shown to be pets to some people. |
| 849 | * ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': |
| 850 | ** In "Nature Pants" and "The Pink Purloiner", [=SpongeBob=]'s jellyfish net is named "Ol' Reliable". |
| 851 | ** In "All That Glitters", [=SpongeBob=] calls his spatula "Spat". However, he calls it "Fifi" in "Little Yellow Book". |
| 852 | * On ''WesternAnimation/{{Stoked}}!'', Broseph's favourite long board is named Angelina. |
| 853 | * In ''WesternAnimation/StormHawks'', [[WardensAreEvil evil warden]] Mr. Moss rides a customised Heli-Blade he calls "Bessie". |
| 854 | * [[EgomaniacHunter Big-game hunter]] Mr. Marlin, a one-shot character from ''[[WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003 Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' (2003), called his custom laser rifle "Betsy", and basically treats it as if it were a person. After the rifle is damaged to the point where it threatens to blow up, he remarks that "she's just that type of girl". |
| 855 | ** Also, Michaelangelo calls his nunchucks "Chuck" and "Chuck 2: the {{Sequel}}". |
| 856 | * In ''WesternAnimation/ThunderbirdsAreGo'', Parker has a [[CrowbarCombatant crowbar]] named Alice (or "H'alice" as he pronounces it). He is quite distraught when she gets destroyed in an explosion in "Up from the Depths - Part 2". |
| 857 | * The unfortunately named Lugnutz of ''Anime/TransformersCybertron'', according to his official bio, calls his rifle "Dutch". |
| 858 | ** In the same series, Metroplex's colossal axe is known as [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Sparkdrinker]][[note]]for those who don't know, a Spark is a Transformer's [[OurSoulsAreDifferent soul]][[/note]]. |
| 859 | [[/folder]] |
| 860 | |
| 861 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 862 | * There is some reason for this beyond telling one rifle from another. Just like anything else, when someone gives something a name, they tend to care more about it. |
| 863 | * [[http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=gun&searchmode=none The English word "gun" itself]] comes from the feminine name "Gunilde". The English maintained the old Germanic tradition of naming their weapons for a long time, and in particular they named their siege weapons after women. A particularly venerable ballista mounted at Windsor Castle in the 14th century was named "Domina Gunilda" (Lady Gunilda), a somewhat archaic name derived from the Old Norse ''Gunnhildr'', which (fittingly) roughly translates to "Battle-Maiden." The name of the ballista was later assigned to various giant bombards,[[note]]Bombard=ginormous late-medieval cannon[[/note]] and from there the name was shortened (giving us first ''gonne'' and then ''gun'') and assigned to firearms of ever-smaller size. |
| 864 | * The Germans, in both [[UsefulNotes/PrussiansInPickelhauben the First]] and [[UsefulNotes/NazisWithGnarlyWeapons Second]] World Wars, had a tendency to name artillery pieces. The most famous is [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Big_Bertha_(howitzer) "Big Bertha"]] (named after the wife of [[ArmsDealer Fritz Krupp]]), but you also have [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/38_cm_SK_L/45_%22Max%22 "Long Max"]], [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/28_cm_SK_L/40_%22Bruno%22 "Bruno"]], and the biggest ever, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schwerer_Gustav "Heavy Gustav" and his sister "Dora"]] |
| 865 | ** The Americans nicknamed the two [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Krupp_K5 Krupp K5s]] that bombarded them during Operation Shingle "Anzio Annie", though the Germans called them "Robert" and "Leopold". |
| 866 | ** The British also got in on the fun, with [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BL_18-inch_railway_howitzer "Boche Buster"]]. |
| 867 | * Richard Hammond of ''Series/TopGearUK'' was mocked by his co-hosts when he referred to the car he was driving as "Oliver" (which wound up becoming Hammond's CompanionCube). |
| 868 | * According to legend, Davy Crockett named three different guns Betsy, which is most likely what brought this trope to public consciousness. |
| 869 | * From the Third Crusade: The catapults Bad Neighbor and God's Own Catapult (Crusaders) and Bad Relative (Saladin's forces) |
| 870 | * It's not uncommon for players of {{Collectible Card Game}}s to name their decks, particularly if it is a particular archetype. On the other hand, oblique or nonsense names allow you to refer to something and not give away too much about it to opponents who haven't seen it play yet. |
| 871 | * Naming electronics, computers in particular, seems to be a general geek thing. Of course, most modern [=OSes=] specifically support computer naming for good networking/management purposes, but many geeks take it further by using a personal naming scheme that's standard across all their stuff. |
| 872 | ** Sometimes people (or IT departments) name their computers after ships, or after places (Often, naming the desktop/tower machines after places, usually stationary bases, and portable machines after ships, perhaps naming handheld devices after aircraft which are smaller than most ships). |
| 873 | ** There is one joke about a former IT guy naming the company servers after famous poets and a new guy joins the company after he has left. The new guy sees that one of the servers is named ''Homer'', gets the wrong idea, and any subsequent server the company acquires ends up named after ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' characters. |
| 874 | ** When the {{UsefulNotes/Vatican|City}} developed its own website in 1996, the first three servers installed were named after the [[CelestialParagonsAndArchangels Archangels]] [[ArchangelRaphael Raphael,]] [[ArchangelGabriel Gabriel,]] and [[ArchangelMichael Michael.]] |
| 875 | ** One of the first Apple [=PCs=] was called the 'Apple Lisa', presumably named after Steve's daughter Lisa Jobs. The acronym 'Local Integrated Software Architecture' was [[FunWithAcronyms [=Backronym=]]] invented after it had been named Lisa. |
| 876 | ** Fred Gallagher of ''Webcomic/MegaTokyo'' had a pattern of naming the succession of servers for the webcomic after girls from ''VisualNovel/{{Kanon}}'', and his laptops after ''Anime/HaibaneRenmei''. This is taken to an extreme end in a few of the {{omake}}, depicting the comic server as a female [[Manga/{{Chobits}} persocom]] just sitting in the colocation center, who gets ''kidnapped''. |
| 877 | ** [[http://www.gpf-comics.com/faq.php#jeff4 Jeff Darlington]] provides a really good example. |
| 878 | ** Creator/GarthGraham named his computer "Alice". In ''Webcomic/{{Comedity}}'', Alice is a RobotGirl. |
| 879 | ** Registering an Amazon Kindle allows you to name it. |
| 880 | ** Apple products, such as iPods and iPhones, when first plugged into a computer and thereafter, offer one the opportunity to "name" the device. |
| 881 | ** Michael, the first Sherman delivered to Britain as part of the lend-lease program. |
| 882 | ** Creator/{{Atari}} designers would name projects after female coworker's, ex. "Candy" for the 400. The Platform/Atari2600 is the lone exception with "Stella" being taken from the name of a bicycle. |
| 883 | ** Being the network administrator of a Wi-Fi hub tends to allow you to give it a name to appear as on other's devices. Averted, as most people either leave the default code, give it a silly name like 'The Bat Cave', or at least a handful of occasions when neighbours used them to passive-aggressively snipe at each other. |
| 884 | ** Common in hospitals with multiple pieces of computer equipment, such as one ER that named their ultrasound, bladder scanner and C.O.Ws (computer on wheels) after fictional robots including R2-D2, [=C3PO=] and Optimus Prime. |
| 885 | * There's a 15th-century cannon at Edinburgh Castle called "Mons Meg". (Mons being where it was built, and Meg being short for Margaret.) The barrel is almost big enough to crawl into. |
| 886 | * Nicknaming vehicles: |
| 887 | ** In NASCAR, race teams and drivers would give names to their multiple cars. Jeff Gordon, for example, gave his racecars names starting with the letter B, including Boomer, Backdraft, Boo, WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead, Blythe Baxter, Bunnicula, Brooke, Bullseye Brookie, Beth, Bethany, Backbone, Backburn, Black, Blue, Blythe, Beauty, Beezus, Beatrice, Britney, Brittany, Borge, Bowser, Barney, Billy, Buford, Brandon, Brad, Bryan, Brian, Brett, Bryant, Butterfly, Beautiful, Benny, Benjamin, ballet, ballerina, Ben. |
| 888 | ** In UsefulNotes/FormulaOne, [[strike:Red Bull]] Ferrari driver Sebastian Vettel gives his cars girls' names. During the 2008 season while with Scuderia Torro-Rosso, he named his STR-Ferrari car "Julie." The following season when he joined Red Bull Racing, he named his first RBR-Renault car "Kate". When Kate was wrecked following the Australian Grand Prix, the team gave him a new one. He found this car to be faster and more aggressive, so he named it "Kate's Dirty Sister". In the 2010 season, his first car was named "Luscious Liz". When it turned out the chassis was unrepairable and got replaced, he renamed it "Randy Mandy". In 2011 he named his car "Kinky Kylie", 2012 "Abbey" (no relation to Music/TheBeatles's album Abbey Road, reportedly), 2013 "Hungry Heidi" (after Heidi Klum), and 2014 "Suzie". Upon moving to Ferrari, the tradition was duly kept. His 2015 car is "Eva". In 2016, he is going to name another of his cars "Stylin' Maddie". Vettel got the word of "Stylin'" from one of his older daughter's Girl Tech PC accessories, Stylin' Studio, because she uses it to email her digital homecoming makeovers to him via his cell phone (along with "Maddie", a character on ''Series/TheSuiteLifeOfZackAndCody''). His older daughter is about 16 or 17. Her name is Sara Vettel. |
| 889 | ** There are numerous Volkswagen buses with names. |
| 890 | * US bombers in WWII were often given female names by their pilots and crews, such as the famous "Enola Gay" and "Memphis Belle". |
| 891 | ** And not only US bombers. This personification of airplanes is almost universal. The Canadian Warplane Heritage Museum's Lancaster (one of only two flying in the world) still carries her wartime squadron letters VR-A, the name given her is accordingly "Vera", and in the aviation context, she should be the (or at least ''a'') trope codifier. |
| 892 | ** And tankers got in on the fun too. Lafayette G. Pool, the US Army's highest-scoring tank ace of World War Two, named all the tanks under his command "In The Mood", after the Glenn Miller number. |
| 893 | ** Chuck Yeager (the first man to fly past the speed of sound) named every plane he flew 'Glamorous Glennis' after his wife. Even the X-1, although the nose art was airbrushed out for publicity photos. |
| 894 | * William Fredrick "Buffalo Bill" Cody named his favorite rifle "Lucrezia Borgia". |
| 895 | * Famed golfer Bobby Jones named his putter "Calamity Jane". |
| 896 | * The H-4 Hercules was given the sarcastic name of "Spruce Goose" by critics (despite being made of birch). The press picked it up and ran with it so well, most people know it only as such. Calling it that around Howard Hughes, its designer, [[BerserkButton was a good way to get fired]]. |
| 897 | * A very disturbing real-life occurrence was one of the guns used by Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold in the [[UsefulNotes/{{Columbine}} Columbine High School Massacre]], which Eric had named "Arlene". |
| 898 | * British Paralympian Hannah Cockroft calls her racing chair "Sally". |
| 899 | * The electric chair that claimed the lives of Ted Bundy among others is nicknamed "Old Sparky". |
| 900 | * American comedienne Paula Poundstone often speaks about her most memorable car, a blue Ford Mustang convertible she called Dave. |
| 901 | * In ''A Light That Never Goes Out'', Tony Fletcher's excellent biography of Music/TheSmiths, we learn that the metalwork teacher at St. Mary's Roman Catholic Secondary Modern, Music/{{Morrissey}}'s alma mater, "[[SadisticTeacher had a two-foot-long piece of tapered wood that he nicknamed Charlie and administered freely on the boys' backsides]]." |
| 902 | * In Patti [=LuPone=]'s memoir, she mentions that she called the tuba she played in the 2005 revival of ''Theatre/SweeneyTodd'', "Irene". |
| 903 | * The tunnel boring machine digging the SR-99 highway tunnel in Seattle, WA is named "Bertha", after Bertha Knight Landes, the city's first female mayor. Also appropriate since the machine is the largest of its kind ever built. |
| 904 | ** Similarly, the borers digging the Central Subway light rail extension under and through San Francisco's Chinatown are nicknamed "Big Alma" and "Mom Chung" (after local notables [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alma_de_Bretteville_Spreckels Alma de Bretteville Spreckles]] and [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret_Chung Margaret Chung]]). |
| 905 | ** The boring machine digging the first stage of a tunnel that will connect the polyhalite mine near Whitby to the processing plant at Teesside is called Stella Rose, having been named by a local schoolboy who won a competition. |
| 906 | * The largest [[SiegeEngines trebuchet]] ever made was named [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Warwolf Warwolf]]. |
| 907 | * According to the memoirs of Andy [=McNab=], the Special Air Service nicknamed their [[SawedOffShotgun short-barreled pump shotguns]] loaded with [[ShootOutTheLock door-breaching ammunition]] "the Barclaycard", after a mildly famous series of adverts for Barclays Bank[[note]]starring Rowan Atkinson as an early version of the character who would become famous as Film/JohnnyEnglish[[/note]] with the slogan, "A Barclaycard gets you anywhere." |
| 908 | * On a related note, UsefulNotes/BritishCoppers nigh-universally refer to their standard-issue handheld BatteringRam as "the big red key". |
| 909 | * Across the pond, Knight's Armament makes and markets the [[https://www.knightarmco.com/14048/shop/military/master-key "Master Key"]], a modified 870 shotgun for door breaching that mounts underneath a rifle barrel. |
| 910 | * [[https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/are-soldiers-getting-too-emotionally-attached-to-war-robots Soldiers are getting emotionally attached with their Bomb Disposal Robots]], giving them nicknames, culminating with funerals when the robots get destroyed. Which begs the question: |
| 911 | -->''If military members start to feel empathy for the same tools built to keep humans out of harm's way, does it defeat the whole purpose of these machines? Does it put the soldiers, or their mission, at risk?'' |
| 912 | * [[SteelMill Blast furnaces]] have traditionally been named with girls' names, as they give birth to iron. The four British Steel blast furnaces at Scunthorpe bear names Bess, Anne, Vicky, and Mary - after the four English queens: Elizabeth, Anne, Victoria, and Mary. |
| 913 | * The English Civil War cannon "Humpty Dumpty", the weapon that may have inspired the nursery rhyme[[note]]The evidence in favour of this origin is sketchy and in several cases, it's been pointed out that some of the evidence doesn't fit with earlier versions of the rhyme, such as the earlier versions not mentioning the king's horses or men[[/note]]. |
| 914 | * The American tank that fought at the Battle of Castle Itter was named Besotten Jenny. |
| 915 | * The Advanced Armament Corporation (AAC) Honey Badger was a short-barreled suppressed variant of the M4 carbine intended for Special Forces usage. The project was scrapped in 2013 when AAC decided to focus on making suppressors instead of weapons, allowing Sig Sauer to introduce their MCX line to the special forces market. Kevin Brittingham, founder of AAC and creator of the Honey Badger has described the MCX as the “Black Mamba,” after the only snake whose venom can kill an actual honey badger. |
| 916 | ** Brittingham has since started a new company called “Q” and has revived the Honey Badger as a semiautomatic only carbine available on the civilian market. |
| 917 | * Those with multiple firearms tend to refer to them by their make and model but if one happens to have multiples of the same model, such as multiple customized AR-15s, giving them nicknames can be convenient when needing to differentiate between them especially if shared with multiple users. |
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