Line #65 SignificantAnagram/VideoGames


1	!!Games with their own pages
2	[[index]]
3	* ''[[SignificantAnagram/{{Wynncraft}} Cry Waft N.N. (Wynncraft)]]''
4	[[/index]]
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6	* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''
7	** After the apocalypse in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', Edgar works incognito as the bandit chief "Gerad". Oddly, he does this even if you change his name to something other than the default.
8	** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII'':
9	*** Aerith's name anagrams to "I, Earth", though it's obscured by the fact that the English localisation [[LostInTranslation romanised her name as "Aeris"]].
10	*** Aerith's late mother was named Ifalna, which is an almost-anagram of "final", not only referencing the series but also the fact that she was the last full-blooded Cetra.
11	** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII'', the song "Fithos Lusec Wecos Vinosec" is an anagram for "Love" and "Succession of Witches" (two of the game's major themes.)
12	* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'':
13	** The names of the members of Organization XIII are anagrams of their original names -- or in one case, a name they stole from someone else -- with an [[LetXBeTheUnknown X added in]]. Of particular note, Xion, the "14th member", is [[spoiler:No. ''i'', as in [[YouAreNumberSix the imaginary number]].]]
14	** Xehanort's name is an anagram-plus-X of both "another" and [[TheHeartless "no heart"]]. "No Heart" is used as the name of a {{Superboss}} in ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep Birth by Sleep Final Mix]]'': Xehanort's Keyblade Armor.
15	** "Ansem" can be rearranged into "Names", which is oddly appropriate given the amount of people who've called themselves that.
16	** Eraqus is an anagram of Square, one of the series' developers. This is to parallel [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Yen Sid]], which as noted in the Western Animation section is [[Creator/WaltDisney Disney]] backwards.
17	** Bragi from ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsX Kingdom Hearts Dark Road]]'' is an anagram of Braig, Xigbar's human self. [[spoiler:As it turns out, they're both vessels of the ancient Keyblade Master Luxu.]]
18	* ''[[VideoGame/TrailsSeries The Legend of Heroes - Trails]]'': In ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsOfColdSteel Trails of Cold Steel IV]]'', the team receives a request from a woman called Rimabella to recover her stolen dolls from Bleublanc, the {{phantom thief}} from ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsInTheSky''. Once the dolls are retrieved, the group is ambushed by Rimabella, who (as Musse figured out) reveals her actual identity as [[spoiler:Mariabell]], one of the villains in ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfHeroesTrailsToAzure Trails to Azure]]''.
19	* In ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity: Override'', the three alien races/cultures known as the Strands are named Azdgari, Zidagar and Igadzra, and there's a planet known as Gadzair. WordOfGod says that the Strands are all the same species (this part is [[AllThereInTheManual in the manual]]) and Gadzair is their homeworld (this isn't); this isn't actually part of any plots but was added as a plot hook for mods and future sequels.
20	* In the MMORPG ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'':
21	** Much has been made by fans over the possible relationship between new character Mender Silos and established villain [[TheChessmaster Lord Nemesis]]. Whether or not this is significant has yet to be revealed, and it may just be a red herring. Of course, "Mender Silos" came into the game shortly after "The Honoree", which was a [[PaperThinDisguise Paper Thin Codename]] for [[spoiler:backstory character Hero-1]]. The ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' staff do love their Significant Anagrams.
22	** Issue 19 of City of Heroes [[spoiler:confirms that Mender Silos is a future version of Lord Nemesis]].
23	** The ''City of Villains'' respec trial contacts are named Sparcetriel, Trepsarciel, and Ractespriel.
24	* In ''VideoGame/BaldursGateII'', the famous ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' character Elminster may appear to speak to one of the party. When doing so, he uses the rather transparent anagram "Terminsel".
25	* ''VideoGame/TheSeventhGuest'':
26	** The main villain is a man named Stauf, who apparently came by his riches and success via a deal with the devil. If this isn't clear enough, one of the [[SolveTheSoupCans puzzles in the series]] involves rearranging trains to spell his name. They are initially positioned to spell Faust.
27	** Another puzzle also qualifies as a Significant Anagram; the player is presented with a TabletopGame/TicTacToe-like board on which TabletopGame/{{Scrabble}}sque tiles are arranged. The letters must be rearranged to spell three words, one in each row. [[spoiler:The words are GET BOY TAD, which gives the player some idea of what Stauf wants from his guests and how the game is going to end.]]
28	** And another puzzle earlier on involves [[SolveTheSoupCans rearranging the cans]] in a pantry so that their labels spell out a sentence, which foreshadows later events in the game. The catch is that the only vowel provided is 'Y'. [[spoiler:The solution is "Shy gypsy slyly spryly tryst by my crypt".]]
29	* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
30	** In ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', [[spoiler:Kristoph's name in the Japanese version is Kirihito, an anagram of 'hitokiri', meaning 'killer']].
31	** Earlier in the series, the founding member of the Fey spiritualist clan is Mystic Ami. This name was chosen in the English version because it anagrams to another phrase, "I AM", which, aside from [[FauxSymbolism being grounds for the localization to be struck by the Judeo-Christian God]], is relevant in a certain case. By possible coincidence, it also anagrams to "Mia", one of Ami's descendants.
32	** And in Case 3 of ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'', [[spoiler:"Oliver Deacon" turns out to be an alias of Colin Devorae, the secretary who was forced into TakingTheHeat for the Amano group, and his Japanese assumed name is also an anagram of his real one]].
33	* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'': The father of one of the adoptable children in the Hearthfire expansion is named "Lemkil", which is an anagram of "Kill Me"; something quite a few players are [[AssholeVictim quite willing to oblige]] with [[AbusiveParents how he treats his daughter]], whom you can then adopt.
34	* ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsZ'' introduces a character named Asakim Dowen, who's essentially an EvilCounterpart to the franchise's first OriginalGeneration character, Masaki Ando. His name anagrams out as "Masaki Endow", a nod to Music/JAMProject singer Masaki Endou, for whom the character Masaki was named.
35	* ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid4GunsOfThePatriots'':
36	** [[spoiler:Rat Patrol, whose callsign is [=RAT-PT01=], an anagram of the [=LaLiLuLeLo's=] proper title]].
37	** While not appearing in the game itself, the fact that 'SOLID SNAKE' anagrams to 'SNAKE IS OLD' was emphasised in the marketing.
38	** The fact that "Raiden" is an anagram of "rained" is briefly significant in one exchange.
39	* In ''VideoGame/Mother3'', twin brothers Lucas and Claus.
40	* ''VideoGame/AncientDomainsOfMystery'' uses these for a number of names; [[TheSheriff Tywat Pare]] from Wyatt Earp, [[WretchedHive Lawenilothel]] from hole-in-the-wall, Gaab'Baay from Baba Yaga, and the fourteen statues in the Bug-Infested Temple which are named after Thomas Biskup and the thirteen prerelease testers.
41	* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'':
42	** Few fans ever notice it, but "Tauren", a player character race who loves the outdoors, is an anagram of "nature".
43	** Players meet Matthias Lehner, who turns out to be [[spoiler:Arthas Menethil. Or at least, the last remnant of his humanity]].
44	** In a more comedic than significant example, there's the group known as D.E.H.T.A.-- Druids for the Ethical and Humane Treatment of Animals. Rearranging a few letters gives you "D.E.A.T.H." (they send you out to hunt poachers for their ears).
45	** And another funny example, a boss in Naxxramas, one of the raid instances in [=WoW=], is named Loatheb. He's known for having an ability that makes it impossible to heal for most of the time you're fighting him. His name's an anagram of Healbot.
46	** In one questline, Sylvanas Windrunner masquerades as Lindsay Ravensun. It's a flawed anagram, but "Lindsay W.N.R. Ravensun" would have been rather suspicious.
47	** In the End Time instance there's the leader of the infinite dragonflight Murozond, an anagram of his uncorrupted past self Nozdormu, leader of the bronze dragonflight.
48	** Seer Hao Pham Roo in ''Mists of Pandaria'' patch 5.3 is [[spoiler:Emperor Shaohao, the emperor from ten-thousand years ago]].
49	* Alan Probe, the star of ''VideoGame/AmateurSurgeon''. Just switch two letters in his first name and you have "anal probe". Which... ''sort of'' has something to do with medicine.
50	* In ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'':
51	** The Wand of Nagamar[[note]] an anagram of anagram[[/note]] is required to defeat the main boss without exploiting the kind of loophole that tends to get immediately closed after use. This is something of a GuideDangIt moment.
52	** The December 2009 event involved a newspaper. Almost all of the newspaper's bylines are anagrams of "Mr. Skullhead", the member of the devteam who was in charge of that part of the event.
53	** Rene C. Corman, the name of the villain behind the 2010 Halloween event and 'The Skies over Valhalla', is an anagram of Necromancer.
54	* Dr. Chakwas of ''Franchise/MassEffect,'' whose name is an anagram of "hacksaw." According to WordOfGod, it's meant to play off "sawbones" as a nickname for a trauma surgeon.
55	* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
56	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTheWindWaker'': Tetra's Italian name is "Dazel". Now switch around the letters and see what you get. The weird thing is that this painfully obvious anagram actually sounds a lot better as a name than her real, original Japanese name...
57	** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'': The Sheikah monk Oman Au and his shrine is an anagram of [[Creator/EijiAonuma (Eiji) Aonuma]], the game's producer. [[https://zelda.fandom.com/wiki/Monk Many (but not all) of the monks' names]] are based on partial phonetic anagrams of other developers.
58	* In ''Star* Soldier'', the manual for ''VideoGame/WingCommander Arena'', one of the entries in the timeline lists a "Rein Etorbs" as an author of a book series ''The Darkening''. Erin Roberts (brother of Chris, the WC creator) was in charge of what eventually became ''Privateer 2: The Darkening'' (originally just "The Darkening" before ExecutiveMeddling).
59	* In the Inferno campaign of ''VideoGame/HeroesOfMightAndMagic 5'' you play as a NobleDemon general Agrael. In the subsequent League of Shadows (dark elves) campaign you play as an aspiring dark horse warlock named Raelag. Then there's TheReveal. Players recognized the [[spoiler:Agrael/Raelag]] anagram, effectively spoiling the [[ItWasHisSled surprise before the game came out]].
60	* ''VideoGame/JustCause2'' has the arms dealer Sloth Demon. Players can use this trope to figure out he's actually [[spoiler:Tom Sheldon]].
61	* The InteractiveFiction game ''Delightful Wallpaper'', intended as an homage to Edward Gorey, was submitted by author Creator/AndrewPlotkin under the anagram "Edgar O. Weyrd".
62	* ''VideoGame/{{Runescape}}'' has a mahjarrat named Wahisietel who hasn't been seen in decades. There's also a strange man named Ali the Wise who seems to be an expert on the mahjarrat. Hmmm...
63	* In the AlternateRealityGame for ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum'' you agree to help a woman named Wendi Maga, who claims to have a doctorate in psychiatry, hack into the Arkham security system. [[spoiler:Dr. Wendi Maga anagrams to Edward Nigma.]]
64	* ''VideoGame/{{Perdition}}'': Gomadi can be rearranged to "I am {{God}}'', and Tanas is likewise an anagram for {{Satan}}. [[GodAndSatanAreBothJerks Neither of them can be considered morally righteous]].
65	* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
66	** Mareep (which resembles [[Literature/DoAndroidsDreamOfElectricSheep an electric sheep]]) actually gets its name from an anagram of the word "ampere", which is used to describe the intensity of an electric current.
67	** [[CastingAShadow Dark-type]] trainer Karen of the Johto Elite Four's name is an anagram of "darken" without the D at the beginning.
68	** Dunsparce's Japanese name, ノコッチ (Nokotchi), is an anagram of ツチノコ ({{Tsuchinoko}}), the cryptid it's based on.
69	** [[AnIcePerson Ice-type]] Eeveelution Glaceon’s name anagrams to “congeal” (to freeze).
70	** The lobster-like Clawitzer's Japanese name, ブロスター (Burosutaa), is an anagram of ロブスター (Robusutaa), meaning "lobster."
71	* ''VideoGame/{{Safecracker}}'' has a jukebox listing 12 real-life song titles, with other meaningless titles around them. The player is supposed to figure out which artists made the real ones (which you can find out elsewhere in the Crabb house), unscramble the fake songs and select them in sequence with the real ones. [[spoiler:"Stab the eel", for instance, translates to "[[Music/TheBeatles The Beatles]]".]]
72	* In the first dream world of ''VideoGame/{{Obsidian}}'', your initial objective is to find a document that can fix the BrokenBridge to the chief's office. It's filed under a two-word title, but every document in the archives is listed as single words. The trick is to [[GameWithinAGame play an anagram game]] on the archive computers that can create the longest possible word from two given words. [[spoiler:Standard Damage is revealed to be Tradesman.]]
73	* The title-giving LostSuperweapon of the InteractiveFiction game ''Videogame/TheWeapon'' is called the Yi-Lono-Mordel. This is an anagram for the term "One Room Dilly", which is a nickname for one-room InteractiveFiction games. This hints that the game takes place all in one room, but the Yi-Lono-Mordel itself is far bigger than just the room.
74	* ''Videogame/StarOceanTheLastHope'' features Arumat P. Thanatos, whose first name is an anagram of "trauma."
75	* ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' has Nagito Komaeda, whose name is mostly an anagram of Makoto Naegi, the first game's protagonist. [[spoiler:No, they're not the same person, but Komaeda can be seen as an EvilCounterpart to Naegi]]. Incidentally, the part that's unused is "Da", a less-polite form of "Desu", roughly translating as "Is" or "Am." Keep in mind that Japanese normally doesn't use pronouns and merely implies them.
76	* An anagram is the solution to one of the puzzles in ''VideoGame/MysteryCaseFiles: The 13th Skull'', and also a significant clue to the backstory of the game. [[spoiler:Two different characters have names which are anagrams of one another - they're really the same person.]]
77	* ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonAndTheAzranLegacy'': One of the regions Layton and his friends have to visit in order to gather the Azran eggs is Mosinnia, where a mysterious event has caused all adults to fall asleep indefinitely. After the mystery behind the event is solved, the adults wake up, but since many of them had fallen asleep for a whole week, they're having a difficult time sleeping once again. Tellingly, the name of the town is an anagram for ''insomnia''.
78	* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'': Kazuya is an anagram of {{Yakuza}}, which is what the Mishima Conglomerate was supposed to be a front for. This is confirmed by the game's creator.
79	* One character in ''VideoGame/TheLostCrown'' uses the surname "Spitmoor" as a hint that he's not whom he claims he is, as it's an anagram for "impostor". Its significance is somewhat obscured by the fact that "imposter" is just as valid a spelling for the word it converts to as "impostor".
80	* ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' has a subtle, but extremely important one hidden in the name of [[spoiler:Solas']] personal quest [[spoiler:"All New, Faded For Her"]]. When the letters are rearranged, they read as [[spoiler:"Fen'Harel, Dread Wolf". One guess as to what's [[GodWasMyCopilot revealed]] in TheStinger]].
81	* In ''VideoGame/BravelyDefault'', Spell Fencer Ciggma Khint's name is an anagram of "MagicKnight". This is also true of his Japanese name: rearrange the katakana in "Ikuma Najitto" (イクマ・ナジット) and you get "Majikku Naito" (マジック・ナイト).
82	* In ''{{VideoGame/Aion}}'', you eventually learn [[spoiler:that the leader of the revolutionaries, Lephar, is Israphel]].
83	* The antagonist of ''VideoGame/BioShock'' is named And(rew) Ryan. The game is basically a deconstruction of Creator/AynRand's philosophy.
84	* ''VideoGame/KingsQuestIIRomancingTheThrone'' features an appearance by Literature/{{Dracula}}. In the FanRemake, he's replaced by a similar vampire named Cauldar.
85	* ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'':
86	** Asgore Dreemurr is "sage or murderer", [[spoiler:while his son, Asriel Dreemurr, is an anagram for "serial murderer", which doesn't describe Asriel himself at all, but fits his CameBackWrong alter ego Flowey to a T.]]
87	** The [[http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0014/1962/products/product_UT_deltarune_shirt_designview_1024x1024.jpg?v=1449349072 crest of the Dreemurr family]], which symbolizes [[spoiler:a prophecy foretelling the events of the game]], is called the "Delta Rune", an anagram of the game's title and the name of the [[VideoGame/{{Deltarune}} spinoff/sequel]].
88	** "Alphys" is an anagram of "Shy Pal".
89	* ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}'':
90	** Kris' name is a partial anagram of [[spoiler:Frisk, the true name of the player character]] in ''Undertale'', and a complete anagram of "risk," which ties in with both their status as the protagonist and [[spoiler:the endings of Chapters 1 and 2, where they tear the SOUL out to engage in various ominous shenanigans]].
91	** Susie is an anagram for "issue". She's got issues. But compared to Kris and Ralsei, this is more mysterious in authorial intent than theirs.
92	** Ralsei is another anagram referencing ''Undertale'', in this case [[spoiler:Asriel]], which foreshadows the reveal at the end of Chapter 1 that [[spoiler:Ralsei bears a physical resemblance to Asriel under his hat]].
93	* ''VideoGame/Dishonored2'': Meagan Foster's [[TheAllegedCar alleged boat]] is named the "Dreadful Wale". She's already been asked why there's no "H" in "Wale". [[spoiler:That's because it's an anagram to "Farewell Daud", which is a hint that she's definitely Billie Lurk, Daud's former apprentice.]]
94	* The dub of ''VideoGame/InazumaEleven'' ''GO'' has the leader of Fifth Sector, Alex Zabel. It's an anagram for [[spoiler:Axel Blaze]].
95	* ''VideoGame/GrooveCoaster'':
96	** Three arranges of classic Taito game songs use anagrams of the titles of the songs that they are arranges of:
97	*** "I CANNOT APE" = [[VideoGame/{{Darius}} "CAPTAIN NEO"]]
98	*** "BURN ALT AIR" = [[VideoGame/NightStriker "URBAN TRAIL"]]
99	*** "BEFORE TEN ORB" = [[VideoGame/MetalBlack "BORN TO BE FREE"]]
100	** E.G.G.'s "Groove" series of boss songs:
101	*** "Got more raves?" = "Groove master?"
102	*** "Got a pain cover?" = "Groove captain?"
103	*** "Got noir forever." = "Groove frontier."
104	*** "EU over Progress" = "Groove [=PressUre=]"[[note]]It's not clear where the capital 'E' goes.[[/note]]
105	*** "Got hive of Ra" = "[=GRoove=] faith"
106	* ''VisualNovel/ZeroEscape'':
107	** ''VisualNovel/VirtuesLastReward''
108	*** "Two milkmen go comedy" = "Welcome to my kingdom." Zero's greeting to the players, which connects with Zero III's proclamation of being the "King of this kingdom". [[spoiler:Possibly unintended, but the "Two milkmen" part might also refer to two players of the Ambidex Game, [[PlayerCharacter Sigma Klim]] and [[LaserGuidedAmnesia K]]/Kyle Klim. "Two Klim men".]]
109	*** "Memento Mori, if the nineth lion ate the sun" = "The man on the moon rules the infinite time". [[spoiler:The man on the moon refers to Sigma, and infinite time refers to sending his consciousness back decades into the past. Memento Mori when the nineth lion ate the sun also acts in itself as the key for Sigma to pull from the login and password from other timelines when the ninth lion he's seen so far is eating a sun on the login screen. Phi also brings up the intentional typo in "nineth", where the extra "e" was needed to make the anagram work.]]
110	** ''VisualNovel/ZeroTimeDilemma''
111	*** "Let's inhibit the virus" = "The truth is invisible." [[spoiler:There is another participant who is hidden from the player.]]
112	*** "Let the game end where I treat two" = [[spoiler:"Together with me, Delta, we are ten".]]
113	*** "When a curious hate oozes calamity" = "What you choose can materialize us". [[spoiler:Certain choices lead to the birth of Phi and Delta.]]
114	*** The game's title itself can be rearranged to spell [[spoiler:"Me? I'm Zero, I'm Delta."]]
115	* While exploring the Shrouded Moors in ''Videogame/DiabloIII'', you encounter a traveller named Daivin, who forces his way into your party and later appears to be killed during a ritual by some cultists. At the end of the temple, Daivin reveals that he's the cult leader, and that he's actually a demon in disguise... his true name is Vidian, Lord of Envy.
116	* In ''VideoGame/{{Catherine}}'', [[spoiler:Trisha's]] name is revealed to be an anagram of [[spoiler:Ishtar]], alluding to her role as the mastermind of the story as [[spoiler:the goddess of fertility and love.]]
117	* In ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'', Captain Olimar's name in Japanese is Orima, an anagram of Franchise/{{Mario}}. In Olimar's DummiedOut cameo in ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', he dubs Mario "Marlio".
118	* In ''VisualNovel/YourTurnToDie'', Sou Hiyori's first name is an anagram of "Uso", which is Japanese for "Lie". Not only is he both a [[ConsummateLiar Consummate]] and CompulsiveLiar, [[spoiler:Shin Tsukimi has also [[DeadPersonImpersonation taken on the identity of a dead man]]]].
119	* The name of ''VideoGame/KirbyAndTheForgottenLand's'' BigGood, Elfilin, is an anagram of "Nil Life", hinting at his nature as [[spoiler:the kindness and compassion within Fecto Elfilis, an OmnicidalManiac, given form.]] It should be noted that, in Japanese, Chinese and Korean, Elfilin is named Efillin, which is a SdrawkcabName
120	* ''Gamma Zee'', an obscure Macintosh shareware game, is an anagram for "Maze Game".
121	* ''VideoGame/Depict1'', if spelt as "Depict One", is an anagram for "deception". Deception is the CentralTheme of the game, with [[MissionControlIsOffItsMeds your advisor lying to you throughout the entire game]].
122	* In ''VideoGame/UnicornOverlord'', after defeating Renault in the game's first story arc, he briefly reappears during liberation missions as Laurent, a KnightErrant secret identity he created to distance himself from his time serving TheEmpire. By the third time you encounter him, Clive, one of his former comrades, sees right through "Laurent's" disguise and pleads for him to join the Liberation army.

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