Be it because of its outlandish sound or its harsh structure, there seems to be a trend of naming sci-fi villains — and especially stereotypical ones — after these three consonants (sometimes with a K instead of a G), with a random vowel in-between and possibly some letters before or after.
Compare
Law of Alien Names,
Xtreme Kool Letterz,
Names to Run Away From Really Fast.
Examples:
Anime and Manga
- King Zarkon from Voltron would be a near-example.
- Zork from Yu-Gi-Oh!
- Also the cards "Dark Master Zorc" and, flipping the letter order, "Gorz the Emissary of Darkness."
Comic Books
Film
- The Fifth Element: Jean-Baptiste Emmanuel Zorg. Especially significant as the whole movie is a reconstruction of sci-fi movies and comics of the 1970s and 1980s.
- In the film Zathura, the evil lizard race are called the Zorgons.
- A case of Aerith and Bob occurs in Betty Blue, where Zorg is a perfectly normal handyman in the France of the Eighties.
- Inversion: Hans Zarkov from Flash Gordon, who's one of the good guys.
Literature
Live-Action TV
Toys
- Transformers has the Decepticon Scorponok's head, Lord Zarak.
Video Games
Western Animation
- The archnemesis of Buzz Lightyear in Toy Story 2 is called Zurg. Another reconstruction, by the way.
- Space Ghost's arch-nemesis Zorak.
- The alien villain in Space Chimps is named Zartog.
