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Basic Trope: A hero has a unconventional name while all around them will have regular names.

  • Straight: Astral Lunaria plans on helping the people of earth overthrow Emperor Evulz.
  • Exaggerated: All members of the Five-Man Band have unique names.
  • Downplayed: The Hero's First or last names are unique, but the other part of their name is normal otherwise.
  • Justified: In Astral's homeland, those names are quite common.
  • Inverted:
  • Subverted: Astral turned out to be a superhero undercover name, the hero's real name is Alice Smith.
  • Double Subverted: However, she isn't from earth, and Alice Smith is a translation of her original name: A'licobh Smi'thee
  • Parodied: Emperor Evulz pulls a Heel–Face Turn and gets a new fancy name to boot.
  • Zig Zagged: ???
  • Averted:
    • Everyone has normal sounding names
    • Or everyone's name are unique.
  • Enforced: The writers want to highlight how distanced Astral is from the people she is going to save.
  • Lampshaded: ???
  • Implied: ???
  • Invoked: ???
  • Exploited: ???
  • Defied: Astral gets a regular name.
  • Discussed: ???
  • Conversed: ???
  • Deconstructed: Evulz uses this system to easially kill those who would dethronw him before they go on The Hero's Journey
  • Reconstructed: ???

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