Alliterative Name / Video Games

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• The Monster Compendium of Abomi Nation is called the Abomi Archive.
• Many examples from the Ace Attorney series, often combined with the series' tradition of Punny Names:
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney has Yanni Yogi and Mike Meekins.
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All has Mimi Miney and Adrian Andrews. The latter (Kamiya Kirio in Japanese) is particularly notable because it's actually a minor plot point.
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Trials and Tribulations has Desirée DeLite.
  • Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney has Shadi Smith (although that one is simply an alias for Shadi Enigmar, aka Zak Gramarye) and Olga Orly.
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies has Ted Tonate, Constance Courte, and Solomon Starbuck.
  • Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice has Roger Retinz, Manov Mistree, Taifu Toneido, Jove Justice, Sorin Sprocket, and Selena Sprocket (the last two doubling as an example of Alliterative Family).
  • The Great Ace Attorney has Kyurio Korekuta, Magnus McGilded, and Mason Milverton.
• Arknights has Rochelle Rockwell, also known as Rockrock.
• Klein Kiesling of Atelier Iris: Eternal Mana.
• Backyard Sports has Luanne Lui, Billy Jean Blackwood, and Kenny Kawaguchi.
• One of the playable carachters in Bacon Man: An Adventure is a girl named Lard Lass.
• Band Camp Boyfriend:
  • Many characters — but not with their first and last names. The band has Tom the trombonist, Clark the clarinetist, Samuel the saxophonist, Doug the drummer, Susie the sousaphonist, Felicity the flautist, and Garth from the color guard.
• Some of the levels in the Banjo-Kazooie series: Mumbo's Mountain, Clanker's Cavern, Mad Monster Mansion, Cloud Cuckooland, Terrarium of Terror.
• Battlefield Heroes loves this: Buccaneer Bay, Coastal Clash, Seaside Skirmish, Victory Village... and that's just (ALL of) the levels! Burning Bullets, Troop Trap, and almost all of the weapon names: Greg's Greasy Gun, Wolfgang's Wonderful, Florenz's Flurry, etc.
• Imagic's Beauty And The Beast has Bashful Buford and Horrible Hank.
• Bendy and the Ink Machine:
  • Alice Angel, an invoked example since she is a cartoon character within the story.
  • Two of Bendy's nicknames: the Dancing Demon, and, the other with an adjective in front, the Little Devil Darling.
• Billy Blade and the Temple of Time: No prizes for guessing what the Player Character's name is.
• Carl Clover of BlazBlue.
• The title of Bound by Blades. BbB. The player characters are heroes of the Bound, hence the name.
• Cave Story has Sue Sakamoto.
• Click Medic: No other patients share the same english initial as both their first and last names aside from Saki Sakura.
• Shouko Shiomi from Close To Inori No Oka.
• Cloud Cutter, the eponymous Cool Plane you pilot in the game.
• Cuphead being a game inspired by classical rubberhose cartoons, many characters and levels have alliterative names:
  • Among the bosses, there is Goopy le Grande, Cagney Carnation, Baroness Von Bon Bon, Wally Warbles, Sally Stageplay and Werner Werman.
  • All six of the Run N'Gun stages have alliterative names and some of the boss stages too. Examples include Funfair Fever, Honeycomb Herald or Pyramid Peril.
• The Cat in the Hat likes to use this naming scheme for its levels — it includes Musical Madness, Mechanical Madness, Wishy Washy, Boiler Bonanza, Chemical Chaos, and Attic Adventure.
• Buster Badshot, from classic arcade game Cheyenne by Exidy.
• Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair and Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony give us Kyoko Kirigiri, Aoi Asahina, Hajime Hinata, Peko Pekoyama, Nekomaru Nidai, Shuichi Saihara, and Gonta Gokuhara.
• Moe Mortelli from Daughter for Dessert.
• The protagonist of Day of the Tentacle is named Bernard Bernoulli. There's also Edna Edison and (Weird) Ed Edison.
• Serph Sheffield of Digital Devil Saga.
• Disgaea 3 co-stars the hapless Heroic Wannabe Almaz Almandine von Adamant. Also, Nippon Ichi's wandering protagonist Asagi gets a full name in Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero? — Asagi Asagiri.
• Every other level in the Donkey Kong Country series (for the most part, the only exceptions are the occasional rhyming names, or half-alliterative ones like "Oil Drum Alley"):
  • In the first game, in addition to levels, the worlds nearly all have alliterative names, with names like Monkey Mines, Vine Valley and Gorilla Glacier; the second game has Gangplank Galleon, Crocodile Cauldron and Krazy Kremland; and the third game has Lakeside Limbo, Riverside Race, Springin' Spiders and Fish Food Frenzy, only to name a few.
  • Every level in Donkey Kong 64. Jungle Japes, Angry Aztec, Frantic Factory, Gloomy Galleon, Fungi Forest, Crystal Caves, Creepy Castle, Hideout Helm. Even the majority of the minigames have alliterate titles. Also arenas, one of the shooters, and most of the Cranky abilities (a couple of the exceptions go with rhyming instead).
  • Donkey Kong Country Returns continues the alliterative level names with stuff like Poppin' Planks, Rickety Rails, Muncher Marathon and Furious Fire.
  • It extends to the names of certain characters as well: Cranky Kong, Candy Kong, and King K. Rool.
• Dot's Home has Michael H. Murphy III, the sleazy real-estate agent from Hope Equity, and Hank Hawkins, Dot's father.
• Dragon Quest:
  • Party-Planner Patty, a character from Dragon Quest III and Dragon Quest IX who helps the Hero create their own party.
  • Dragon Quest V:
    • Monty the Monster Monitor cares for any monsters the Hero isn't taking along with him at any given moment.
    • King Korol is the head of the evil Order of Zugzwang.
  • DQ games are often given alliterative titles when localized. So: Dragon Quest II: Luminaries of the Legendary Line, Dragon Quest III: The Seeds of Salvation, Dragon Quest IV: Chapters of the Chosen, Dragon Quest V: Hand of the Heavenly Bride, Dragon Quest VI: Realms of Revelation, Dragon Quest VII: Fragments of the Forgotten Past, Dragon Quest VIII: Journey of the Cursed King, Dragon Quest IX: Sentinels of the Starry Skies, Dragon Quest XI: Echoes of an Elusive Age...
• Dungeon Crawl: The slime god Jiyva has a randomly created, alliterative second name, reflecting his amorphous nature.
• Ensemble Stars! has Sengoku Shinobu. Mikejima Madara, Hidaka Hokuto, Kiryu Kuro, and Nito Nazuna.
• Eternal Evil have the title.
• Fallout:
  • Fallout 3:
    • First names being Roman leaders, Theme Naming:
    • Colonel Augustus Autumn
    • Constantine Chase.
  • Fallout: New Vegas has hippie Sunflower Summers, whose diary is found in the Lonesome Road DLC.
  • Fallout 4:
    • The Railroad's mechanic/electronic specialist, "Tinker Tom".
    • The Raider Lord, "Tower Tom".
    • The comic book hero, "Manta Man".
    • Diamond City resident, Colette Cooke.
• Rabi Ray Rana and Dr. Noore Najjar from Far Cry 4.
• Pastor Jerome Jeffries from Far Cry 5.
• Michael Max and Kim Kaphwan from Fatal Fury.
• Final Fantasy:
  • Celes Chere from Final Fantasy VI.
  • Vincent Valentine from Final Fantasy VII.
  • Laguna Loire from Final Fantasy VIII.
  • Quina Quen from Final Fantasy IX.
  • Notably, numerous Non-Player Characters in Final Fantasy XIV.
• Fire Emblem: The Binding Blade and Fire Emblem: The Blazing Blade have Durandal, the Blazing Blade.
• Five Nights at Freddy's:
  • The titular Freddy Fazbear.
  • Balloon Boy from the sequel.
• Fortnite:
  • Most POI locations, excluding occasional non-alliterative locations.
• Every character in Gary Gadget series is this, except for ones who have Only One Name. It also doubles as Meaningful Name in the case of their last names.
• Victor Vance of Grand Theft Auto: Vice City Stories
• In Growing Up, The Lad's real name is Frank Fry.
• Gryphon Knight Epic has Lorraine Learn, a Pirate Girl who's one of the bosses.
• Ragnus Raguel of Gungnir.
• Hazelnut Hex, the title referring to the main character Nat's best-selling trademark cereal brand. Same goes for Nat's nemesis, Lamona, with her "Cauliflower Curse" cereal.
• Henry Hatsworth in the Puzzling Adventure has the title character.
• I Miss the Sunrise: Rami Ransend.
• Jazz Jackrabbit: The title character and Eva Earlong.
• The Jump Start edutainment games series introduced four characters in JumpStart Preschool to which this trope applies: Casey Cat, Eleanor Elephant, Kisha Koala, and Pierre Polar Bear. Too bad Kisha was retconned into a tiger in 2005, ruining the Alliterative Name! (Pierre also got turned into a different species, but the alliteration was maintained — he became a panda.) Thankfully, Kisha was redesigned back into a koala starting with the 2018 JumpStart Academy series of games.
• Rico Rodriguez from Just Cause.
• Katawa Shoujo has Hideaki Hakamichi, Suzu Suzuki and Sae Saionji.
• Keystone Kapers has Keystone Kelly and Harry Hooligan.
• Two of the Monstermon cards in Kindergarten are called Wizard Worm and Sneaky Snake. The Flavor Text of the former implies that Mage Maggot and Sorcerer Serpent also exist, but are not among the 25 the player can collect.
• The King of Fighters: Kyo Kusanagi.
• King's Quest VI: Heir Today, Gone Tomorrow: The forces of evil Abdul Alhazred and Shamir Shamazel.
• Last Word: Professor Chet Chatters
• The Legend of Zelda has Majora's Mask, The Wind Waker and Skyward Sword. Some of the dungeons in the series have alliterative names as well (e.g. Parapa Palace, Forsaken Fortress, Temple of Time).
• Leisure Suit Larry: Larry Laffer.
• Liar Liar has Yukari's sister, Minami Minamida.
• Mario Kart Tour does this with some of its real world-city tracks:
  • Paris Promenade
  • London Loop
  • Los Angeles Laps
  • Vancouver Velocity
  • Sydney Sprint
  • Berlin Byways
  • Singapore Speedway
  • Averted for Tokyo Blur, New York Minute, Amsterdam Drift, Bangkok Rush, Athens Dash, Rome Avanti and Madrid Drive.
• Mega Man:
  • Some of the Robot Masters in the classic series have Alliterative Names just by virtue of their gimmick starting with M, e.g. Magnet Man, and the title character.
  • Mega Man X series: In Mega Man X: Armored Armadillo. In Mega Man X2: Overdrive Ostrich and Morph Moth. In Mega Man X3: Blizzard Buffalo and Crush Crawfish. In Mega Man X5 (none in Mega Man X4): Dark Dizzy. In Mega Man X6: Shield Sheldon. In Mega Man X7: Soldier Stonekong and Tornado Tonion. Mega Man X8 has Vile V.
  • In Mega Man Battle Network, Lan's late twin brother, who was reborn as MegaMan.EXE, was named Hub Hikari. There's also Lan's mother, Haruka Hikari.
  • From Mega Man Star Force you have Sonia Strumm and Bud Bison. There's also the Wave Changed form of Damian Wolfe, Wolf Woods.
• Bon Bonne from the Mega Man Legends games.
• Metal Gear. Hideo Kojima likes these, and says he deliberately selected the names "Big Boss" and "Solid Snake" to alliterate:
  • Big Boss.
  • Solid Snake.
  • Title + last name variation: Colonel Campbell.
  • Similarly, Master Miller.
  • Holly White from Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake was chosen as one to give the character a campy Bond-girl feel and to parallel Solid Snake, but it only sounds like this in Japanese (Horri Horaito).
  • Emma Emmerich. Snake actually points out that this name is peculiarly repetitive, and Otacon says he always called her "E.E.".
  • Solidus Snake.
  • The name of the U.S. president in Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty is James Johnson.
  • In Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Raging Raven.
• Moshi Monsters has several characters with alliterative names, including Bucky Barnacle (although he goes by Buck E. Barnacle or Captain Buck), Tamara Tesla, Agony Ant, Handy van Hookz, Jaunty Jack and Buster Bumblechops.
• MySims series: Roxie Road.
• Neptunia has Rei Ryghts, the CPU from Tari. In the Japanese version is Kiseijou, but still applies here.
• Ni GHTS Into Dreams... has Elliot Edwards.
• Ninja Battle Heroes:
  • One of the members of the Beast Brigade is named Sasuke Sarutobi.
  • The villain is named Hattori Hanzo.
• Travis Touchdown from No More Heroes.
• Overwatch: Turns out McCree's real name is Cole Cassidy.
• Paper Mario:
  • Koopa Koot. Kammy Koopa. Tayce T.
  • A group: The Shadow Sirens.
  • Title + first name variation: Princess Peach and Lady Lima (from Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga).
• Pikmin 2 has Wistful Wild, plus the caves found there (the Cavern of Chaos, the Hole of Heroes, and the Dream Den).
• Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire:
  • If you play as a girl, your rival next door will be named Brendan Birch.
  • Steven Stone.
• In Polyroll, the Big Bad is a bird named Kaiser Kiwi.
• Psychonauts gives us Razputin's father, Augustus Aquato. Not that you'd know it from the game itself...
• Punch-Out!! gives us Bald Bull and Pizza Pasta.
• In addition to the series and game titles, most of Rage Racers in-game music tracks are alliteratively named ("Silver Stream", "Mech Monster", "Volcano Vehicle", etc.), with the exception of "Mathemabeat", "Industria" and "Stimulation".
• Your titular character from Rendering Ranger: R2. R.R.R.
• Barry Burton from Resident Evil.
• Kyosuke Kagami, Nagare Namikawa, and Kurow Kirishima of Rival Schools.
• Warren Williams in Saints Row.
• Matt Miller, Jenny Jaros, and Kinzie Kensington in Saints Row: The Third.
• Many places in Scribblenauts Unlimited have alliterative names, e.g. Payper Plains, Pilcrow Peaks, and a meta-example in Alliteration Abyss.
• Every default character model in Serious Sam series has an alliterative name. For an example, Serious Sam, Hilarious Harry, Kleer Kurt, Righteous Robert, Groovy Gregory and so on.
• The Sims has a lot of this:
  • From Sims 1: Gunther Goth, Brad Burb.
  • From Sims 2: Darren Dreamer, Dirk Dreamer, Brandi Broke, Beau Broke, Consort Capp, Cornwall Capp, Mercutio Monty.
  • From Sims 3: Gunther Goth (again), Bella Bachelor, Jamie Jolina, Sam Sekemoto, Monika Morris, Ayesha Ansari... and that's just the ones in the base game neighborhood!
• Skator Gator:
  • Several of the playable gators have alliterative names: Greenjamin Gator, Goofy Galute, Cherry Cola, and Gilded Gary. You could almost say that they're alli-terative-gators.
  • Some of the levels also have alliterative names: Slundgey Swamp and Beetroot Bog in the first game, and Sunset Swamps and Midnight Mire in Skator Gator 3D.
• The Sonic the Hedgehog series has quite a few. Every level in Sonic 3D and Sonic the Hedgehog CD has an alliterative name (e.g. Rusty Ruin in the former and Collision Chaos in the latter), and many other levels from games that don't have this for every level (Mystic Mansion, Sky Sanctuary, Eternal Engine, Coral Cave, Jungle Joyride).
• Space Quest VI has Roger's old friend, Stellar Santiago.
• Splatoon has Craig Cuttlefish, along with his retired rank of Captain. With the exception of the original Japanese, this alliteration is preserved in almost all languages:
  • Dutch: Karel Kraak
  • French: Anastase MacAlamar
  • German: Karl Kuttelfisch
  • Spanish: Jerónimo Jibión
  • Russian: Каракатий Кальмостар (Karakatiy Kal'mostar)
• Karin Kanzuki of Street Fighter.
• Applies to both protagonists of Super Robot Wars X, Iori Iolite and Amari Aquamarine.
• Tales Series:
  • Gailardia Galan Gardios from Tales of the Abyss. You probably know him better as Guy, though.
  • Tales of Hearts has three examples among the main cast: Hisui Hearts, Beryl Benito, and Gall Gruner.
  • Tales of Xillia has Milla Maxwell.
• Tangle Tower focuses on not one but two families in which every member follows this naming scheme. Tangle Tower (which itself is an Alliterative Name) is home to two rival families, the Fellows and the Pointers, all of whom have first names beginning with F and P respectively.
• The Horseless Headless Horsemann from Team Fortress 2. And his weapon, the Horseless Headless Horsemann's Headtaker.
• The female zombie of Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys is named Lori "Lefty" Lopez.
• Kiria Kurono and Mamori Minamoto from Tokyo Mirage Sessions ♯FE.
• Toontown Online has lots of denizens that have alliterative names such as Clerk Clara, Fisherman Furball, Tim Tailgater, Nina Nitelight, and Fast Freddie. Incidentally, Fast Freddie's building takes this to the extreme: Fast Freddy's Fretless Fingerboards (Fabricated From Figured Fir!).
• (Captain) Murasa Minamitsu, Koishi Komeiji, Yukari Yakumo, Medicine Melancholy, Star Sapphire, Kamishirasawa Keine, and Himekaidou Hatate of Touhou all qualify.
• Transistor: Shomar Shasberg, escape artist, probably because it makes him sound like other escape artists, such as Harry Houdini.
• Treasure Planet: Battle at Procyon: Admiral Amelia and Dr. Delbert Doppler.
• The Tree of Life: The version name starting from 1.0, Advil's Auspicious Acension [sic].
• Valkyria Chronicles:
  • It started liking this trope, beginning with the second game. Given that, as of three games, the series has tons of characters, it's needed to differentiate them.
  • Valkyria Chronicles II: Cosette Coalhearth, Lavinia Lane, Rene Randall, Gilbert Gassenarl
  • Valkyria Chronicles III: Amy Apple, Ada Ansorge, Clarissa Callaghan, Carisa Contzen
• Velvet Velour from Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines
• Andrew Schultz's Very Vile Fairy File has a protagonist named Kerry Kyle.
• Virtua Fighter 4: Evolution gives us Muay Thai kickboxer Brad Burns.
• Virtue's Last Reward: K's real name is Kyle Klim.
• The Warcraft universe has quite a few. These include Baine Bloodhoof, Belloc Brightblade, Bragor Bloodfist, Brann Bronzebeard, Dar'khan Drakhir, Genn Greymane, Svala Sorrograve and Vanessa Van Cleef.
• Wario World:
  • Two of the bosses, Dual Dragon and Winter Windster.
  • The level Mirror Mansion is also an example.
  • Most Wario Land Shake It level names, such as Foulwater Falls, Gurgle Gulch, Wavy Waters, Mt Lava Lava, Launchpad Labyrinth, Riverbloat Rapids, Prism Prison, Slipshod Slopes and Freezing Fields.
• Wild AR Ms 1 has Rudy Roughnight.
• Take a wild guess what the Player Character of Wild Woody is called.
• w0rd 0N 7h3 S7R337: Two of Sophie’s dolls are called Connie Crumpet and Manuel Muscles.
• The World Ends with You: Koki Kariya.
• World of Warcraft:
  • Many of the items that Griftah sells, such as the Stone of Stupendous Springing Strides and the Talisman of True Treasure Tracking.
  • Each expansion has included a players-vs.-computer arena event. The last three are the Amphitheater of Anguish, the Crucible of Carnage, and the Arena of Annihilation. The Crucible of Carnage had alliterative quest titles and alliterative rewards for completing the event.
• Not characters per se, but a number of the starting scenarios in the X-Universe games have these. Some examples are "Tormented Teladi," "Boring Boron," and "Lost Lar."
• Yandere Simulator: Ayano Aishi, known to her classmates as Yan-chan.
• Yooka-Laylee, being a Spiritual Successor to Banjo-Kazooie, has alliterative names for all of its main worlds: Tribalstack Tropics, Glitterglaze Glacier, Moodymaze Marsh, Capital Cashino, and Galleon Galaxy.

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