Punny Name / Video Games

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Punny Names in video games.

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• The 3DO was the first game console designed for polygons. So after audio and video, we've got three-dee-o.
• The Adventures of Bayou Billy has mooks named Tolouse L'Attack.
• Alan Wake, who is A. Wake. And that's exactly the problem.
• Most characters in the Amateur Surgeon series. The protagonists are Alan Probe (anal probe), Ophelia Payne (I feel your pain), and Ignacius Bleed (I. Bleed). According to the sequel, when Probe becomes a legitimate doctor they open hospitals called Bleed Everywhere. Some of their patients qualify as well — for instance, the suspicious Trent Coat and the slimy, insect-filled Dwayne Pipe.
• The Angry Video Game Nerd Adventures spoofs Navi with Naggi, the Patronizing Firefly.
• Antichamber: The name of the game is Anti-chamber, kind of meaning the rooms are not what you expect normal rooms to be. And you start off in a proper antechamber, ie a small room leading into a much larger room.
• The only other character besides the player in Aperture Tag: The Paint Gun Testing Initiative is Nigel, a play on the game's central mechanic of using surface-altering "gels".
• In APICO, Various residents of APICO Islands have "bee" in their names such Nana Beelia, Dr. Beenjamin, Abbee... the list goes on.
• Artix Entertainment, being the Hurricane of Puns it is, just loves these. For example, we have the Knights of the Pactagonal Table, present across both DragonFable and AdventureQuest Worlds's universes.
  • Sir Prize and Sir Cus the local pranksters.
  • Sir Loin.
  • Sir Casm.
  • Sir Valence and Sir Vey, scouts.
  • Sir Junn.
  • Sir Jing.
  • Sir Comvent.
  • Sir Pent, who guards the bridge to Falconreach in DragonFable, where you will be attacked by a Hydra the first time you pass.
  • Sir Rated and Sir Culation, who are in the infirmary (No doubt related to the puns in their names).
  • Sir Vivor, who repeatedly launches himself to dangerous ruins and makes it out alive. Ironically, he is the only Knight of the Pactogonal Table to get killed in AdventureQuest Worlds.
  • Not to mention Sir Chandestroy.
  • In fact, this trope is a requirement to join them, it seems. Sir Baumbard (whose name is a pun by itself) had to get his knighthood from the King in Swordhaven because the Pactogonal Knights didn't let him join them. Why? Because his name didn't work with "Sir" in front of it.
• Backyard Hockey has Buddy Cheque, a play on "body check." Backyard Skateboarding has Erik Stream, a play on "air extreme." Backyard Football has Chuck Downfield, a pun on chucking the football downfield. Notice a trend?
• In Baku Baku Animal, the player characters are a girl named Polly and a boy named Gon. Like everything else in the game, they're made of polygons.
• Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden has the one-way love interest of Charles Barkley named Juwanna Mann. The character may also be named for the 2002 movie Juwanna Mann, which features a male protagonist posing as a woman in the WNBA.
• In The Beast of Torrack Moor the editor of the Lowsea Gazette is called C. D. Slime.
• Bill Nye the Science Guy: Stop the Rock! is full of these.
  • Everyone who isn't Bill Nye has one. Their punny names also cross over with Meaningful Name as they tell you what their particular field of expertise is. For example, Connie Vection specializes in atmospheric sciences, while Sue Nami specializes in oceanic sciences.
  • Impending Dumé, the asteroid which heralds impending doom and will destroy Earth if you don't solve all of MAAX's riddles.
• Hakumen from BlazBlue. His name is a portmanteau of "Haku" (white) and "Kamen" (mask).
• The Jacksepticeye fan game The BOSS has the residents of Jack's computer affectionately refer to their home as "Wireland", a pun on Jack's home country Ireland.
• Most of the cast of Bravely Default have puns for names. Because these puns tend to end up relating to their character, they usually cross over into Meaningful Names as well.
  • Agnès Oblige in a pun on "noblesse oblige", a term used to refer to the moral obligations of those in high social standings.
  • Tiz Arrior is a pun on "this warrior".
  • Perhaps the most obvious pun is Ringabel, a pun on the term "ring a bell". His real name, Alternis Dim (and by extension, the name of his main universe counterpart), is also a pun on "alternate dimension".
  • Edea Lee is a pun on "ideally".
  • Airy's name is both a pun on "air", as she's the guide for the Wind Vestal, and "fairy", given that that's what she is. The later ends up being even more important when taking the game's subtitle, Where the Fairy Flies, into account. Take out the Fs in the last two words and you get Airy Lies.
  • Braev Lee is a pun on "bravely". Fittingly, he has a tendency to perform the Default action a lot.
  • Victor S. Court's middle initial and last name are a pun on "escort", fitting him being the caretaker to Victoria. Speaking of whom, Victoria F. Stein is a pun on "Victor Frankenstein", fitting her role as the Frankenstein's Monster to Victor's Dr. Frankenstein.
  • Barras Lehr is a pun on "bear wrestler". His partner, Holly Whyte, is also a pun on "holy white".
  • Ominas Crowe is a pun on "ominous crow".
  • Eloch Quentis Khamer's pun is a bit hard to notice at first, but speak his name is quick succession, and you'll realize it's actually a play on the words "eloquent scammer".
  • Einheria Venus' first name is a pun on "Einherjar", warriors who were taken to Valhalla by Valkyries in Norse Mythology, rather fitting for a Valkyrie herself.
  • Artemia Venus' first name is a play on "Artemis", the Greek goddess of the hunt, rather fitting for a Ranger.
  • Zatz Mightee's last name is a pun on "mighty". Because he's the little guy to Datz's big guy, this is something he apparently gets made fun of for.
  • Egil is a pun on "egg", his favorite food.
  • Edea's mother, Mahzer Lee, is a pun on "motherly".
  • From the game's sequel, Bravely Second:
    • Yew Geneolgia's first name is a pun on "you", fitting him being the protagonist of the game. Meanwhile, his last name is a pun on "Genealogy", which refers to a line of descent traced over the course of several generations.
    • Kaiser Oblivion's real name, Denys Geneolgia, is a play on the words "Deny" and "Genealogy", rather fitting for a man whose goal is to wipe his bloodline from existence.
    • Janne Angard's last name is a pun on "en garde", the French term for "on your guard", fitting him being a fencer.
    • Bella, when combined with the name of her doll (and by extension, the name of her dead sister), Donna, form "belladonna", a poisonous weed black berries grow from.
    • Minette Napkatti's last name is a pun on "Catnap".
    • Aimee Matchlock's first name is a pun on "aim", fitting her being a gunslinger.
    • Griede Geneolgia, Yew's long deceased father, has a first name that acts as a pun on "greed", which we learn over time to be quite fitting.
    • Foundar Geneolgia, the founder of House Geneoglia, has a first name that is a pun on "founder".
• In Breath of Fire, a floating eyeball enemy late in the game is called an "Icu". Its name, with each of the letters pronounced out loud, is "I see you."
• Bug Fables: A pair of identical Ant twin Explorers are named Gen and Eri — as in, they are rather generic-looking compared to the game's Cast of Snowflakes. Combined with the names of two criminals that they assist Team Snakemouth in fighting, Cenn (pronounced with a hard "C") and Pisci, and it's altogether Gen-Eri-Cenn-Pisci, or "generic NPC."
• Carmageddon: Most of the enemy drivers in this racing/fighting game were very crude puns, the most memorable being "Mike Hunt".
• Carmen Sandiego:
  • Having one of these is apparently a prerequisite for working under Carmen, as every member of V.I.L.E. has a pun for a name except for Carmen herself. Examples over the course of the series include:
    • Sarah Nade, Russ T. Hinge, and Mylar Naugahyde.
    • Avery "Little Bit" Phelps, Sarah "Auntie" Bellum (a rare multi-layer pun)
    • Justin Case, and Verna-Lee Kwinox.
    • The Ding brothers, Lee and Bill.
    • One Master of Disguise is named Frank M. Poster.
    • There are even a few Genius Bonus names, such as Claire d'Loon and Rudy Lepay (after a fashionable shopping street in Paris called Rue de la Paix).
  • Not that the good guys are any less punny:
    • Ann Tickwittee, Ivan Idea.
    • Dee Plomassy and the very subtle Rock Solid.
    • And then there's your travel agent, Shirley Eugest (doubling as a Stealth Pun seeing that she's only referred to as either "Shirley" or "Miss Eugest" and her full name is never stated all together).
• Castle Chase: From Word of God:
  Monica's full name, Monica Logelin, is a play on the word monologue, in light of her constant moments of talking to the player.
• Cel Damage gives us a sexy woman named Dominique Trix who wears black and carries a whip (the whip is only seen on the box art and in menus, however), a fire-breathing imp named Sinder, a duck named Fowl Mouth, a bull named Whack Angus, a dinosaur named T. Wrecks, and a Brain in a Jar named Brian.
• City of Heroes actually has a couple of examples. Not counting player names:
  • Paragon City's greatest champion is also the superheroic community's statesman.
  • One of the game's most infamous villains holds lordship over his own steampunk army. He is also a "nemesis" to just about everybody, hero or villain.
  • One of Lord Recluse's generals happens to be a shark-man who named himself after the mako shark while captain of a small pirate vessel.
  • A lot of badges have these as titles. That's not to mention a few of their descriptions, which can be just as punny.
• Coffee Talk:
  • The name of the drink you come up with for Gala to calm him down during his Fury is called the "Gala Had." The name of the achievement you receive for serving him the correct drink during his Fury-induced Freak Out is "Gala had a fit!"
  • Episode 2 introduces a few more punny drinks such as Bee'n Buzzy and Aqua's Tranquilitea.
• Contra:
  • Super C has a giant mouth monster named Lip O' Suction.
  • Contra III has the Corporals of Punishment.
• Cuphead: Cala Maria. Besides the obvious "calamari" pun, Calamaria is a species of snake, and Cala Maria is a beach in Spain, so it's a pileup of puns!
• Crash Bandicoot: Many villains have punny names, including N. Brio, N. Gin, N. Tropy, and N. Trance.
• Enemies in Crayon Chronicles have names like "Spelling Bee" and "Illiter-Rat".
• Cyber Grannies is an Edutainment Game meant to teach kids the alphabet. The host character is a kangaroo named Atoz. This pun depends less on the name's pronunciation (AY-tozz) and more on its spelling - A to Z.
• Dare to Dream: Bonehead and his brother Cementhead are a bone with eyes and a chunk of cement with a face.
• The Darkside Detective:
  • The inhabitants of the Dark World have names that are spooky versions of their Brightside counterparts; for instance, the protagonists, McQueen and Dooley, have counterparts named McScream and Ghouley. There's also mention of a Darkside city called San Frankensteincisco.
  • More spooky pun names can be seen on the headstones in the graveyard.
• Dink Smallwood mod Pinky the Pig has a character named Chris Mass.
• Dofus has more than its share of puns in the class names. Every class name is meaningful, and most are puns, such as the time mage class, Xelor (Rolex backwards), and Eniripsa, the healer class (aspirin backwards). Some are just silly, such as the Iops (named after a brand of yogurt).
• Enemies in the Donkey Kong series include Army Dillo, Davy Bones, Gnawty, Sassy Squatch, and Sneek. Then there are all the "K" ones like Kannon, Klank, Klobber, Klubba, Klump, Kopter, Krash, Kritter, Krossbones, Krumple, Kruncha, Krusha, and of course King K. Rool, who is actually a twofer since he is a king whose last name sounds like "rule", then you add on the K and it becomes "cruel". Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze has the Snowmads, whose name is a portmanteau of "snow" and "nomad".
• Dragon Quest received a new translation team starting with the eighth game, who started filling their localizations with all sorts of wordplay. Allegedly, it was always like this in the original Japanese; the prior translators had just replaced the puns with stereotypically fantasy-sounding names. The new team has even been able to go back and create new pun-filled translations for older games when they were remade:
  • In the games with a Job System, the place to change vocations is Alltrades Abbey, headed by Abbot Jack. Thereby making him "Jack of Alltrades". (In VII where the Abbey is led by a woman, she was named Jacqueline to keep the pun.) This name's debut in Dragon Quest IX extends the joke, as Jack is corrupted into a monster and renames himself the Master of Nu'un.
  • Dragon Quest IV:
    • The opponents Alena faces in the Inevitable Tournament are, in order, Atilla the Hunk, Quick Draw McGore, Prima Donna, Samson Knight, and the Abominable Showman.
    • Going up to the Birdsong Tower in Chapter 2 gives you an encounter with two clumsy elves who drop the Birdsong Nectar you're looking for. Their names? Oopsy and Daisy.
    • In the fourth chapter, Oojam. Add a "T" to the front of his name to get the joke.
  • In Dragon Quest V, Queen Cleohatra, ruler of the Egyptian-themed kingdom of Helmunaptra, protects the Zenithian Helmet while awaiting the arrival of the Legendary Hero. There's also the nobleman Count Uptaten and his wife Miss Count, Crispin Burns who has a mishap in a volcano, and Dr. Agon who is an actual dragon.
  • One of the towns in Dragon Quest VII turns out to be Not Quite Saved Enough, twice, forcing you to keep going back to fix things. It's fittingly named Nottagen (as in "not again!"). The original translation went for a different pun here, calling it Loomin after the sun-blotting looming darkness of the first disaster you have to save it from.
  • In Dragon Quest IX, the town of Zere seems to have a normal, non-pun name... but then you find an exact duplicate of the place carved from stone, named Zere Rocks (Xerox).
  • Dragon Quest XI continues the tradition with foes such as the painting monster Dora-In-Grey and the Brawn Hilda beast Boodica.
• All over the place in Eagle Eye Mysteries, usually connected to the characters' occupations. For example, Mr. Minas in the first game is a math teacher.
• The Endless Ocean series is set in the Pelago Commonwealth, a Micronesian archipelago of 1,000 islands.
• EVE Online: The unfortunately named Thukker Tribe.
• Evil Genius:
  • One mission involves a Chinese crime boss named Lei Ying Lo.
  • Before he became a villain, "The Butcher" was a kindly doctor named Ethan Asia.
• Final Fantasy:
  • In Final Fantasy XIII there is a "hidden pun" in Lightning's real name; Clair, éclair being the French word for lightning.
  • The various Chocobo side games have a pair of recurring characters: a White Mage named "Shiroma" and a Black Mage "Kuroma". These are obvious abbreviations of "Shiro Madoushi" (White Mage in Japanese), and "Kuro Madoushi" (Black Mage in Japanese). Unfortunately, recent translations have tended to render their names as "Shirma" and "Croma". Although these are technically acceptable romanizations, they kill the joke — failing to either translate it, or retain it as-is.
• Forum Warz uses punny names regularly, both as the name of missions and name of forums the player must pwn.
• Almost every character in Freddy Pharkas: Frontier Pharmacist has one.
• Gift: The worlds of Tiptanic, Paztec, Star Stress and Iceland.
• In Gitaroo Man, the main character is named U-1. In Japanese his name would be pronounced U-Ichi, and Yuichi is a common name for boys in Japan. In English: "You Won."
• In Golden Sun: The Lost Age, the wind-aligned Reveal spell is in the cave beneath a stone formation on the Australia-equivalent continent. Naturally, the English translation called it Air's Rock.
• In Granblue Fantasy, the first boss of the A Slice of Summer event is named the "Rising Sunfish".
• Grand Theft Auto:
  • The makers of the games love to use barely disguised naughty words when naming places and vehicles, such as having a dirtbike model named Sanchez.
  • Right from the very first game, the districts of Liberty City were puns on real New York districts, such as Hackenslash (Hackensack) and New Guernsey (New Jersey)^note Jersey and Guernsey are two of the Channel Islands.
  • Grand Theft Auto 2: Your Russian contact, Jerkov.
  • Grand Theft Auto: Vice City: Tommy Vercetti's surname sounds a lot like Vice City.
  • Grand Theft Auto III introduces a private security company called "Gruppe Sechs", which is German for "Group Six", but is pronounced "Group Sex".
• The tongue-in-cheek dating sim Harem Protagonist literally names its main character Shujin Kou, a play on shujinkou (the Japanese word for "protagonist" or "hero").
• The protagonist of Hatoful Boyfriend has the default name of "Hiyoko Tosaka". "Hiyoko" means "baby bird".
• Haunting Starring Polterguy:
  • "Polterguy" is of course a pun on "Poltergeist".
  • Rhinoceros Beetle Drone K-Buto = Kabuto = Kabutomushi = Rhinoceros Beetle or, literally, "Helmet Insect".
  • Snail Drone Dor-O = Doro = Mud.
  • Y-Ite is most likely a pun on the English word WHITE. Pronounce the Y and Ite separately and out comes White. This name probably refers to the owner's clothes and the fact that the butterfly drone is white to begin with.
  • Kris-T is obviously Christy.
  • R-Nej is probably Carnage.
  • Nhyte-R would, barring an obscure Japanese word, be either Nighter (as in All-nighter) or "Knight R".
• Her Majesty's Spiffing: The Player Character is Captain Frank Lee English. Like "frankly English".
• Hero & Daughter: Most, if not all, of the girls' names and some of the skill names. From the translation notes:
  Dieh was ディエ, pronounced "dee-eh", and the joke is that it reads as "d-i-e". Dieh was the best compromise I could get so that was clear, but people would still pronounce it differently from the word "die".
  
  Selphie's name was originally "Hightech". That is a ridiculous name, so I came up with the best possible pun. Also, her class and first Self-Skill were "uso denwa" (fake call), and while I made the skill simply "Fake a Call". I decided to make her class "Cell Phony."
  
  Priscilla was just "Prizun". Uh... yeah. Priscilla is kind of a pun on "prison cell".
  
  Cherie was just "Chia". Not like the pet, but from "cheer". Cherie is just a bit less obvious. Although actually, it may be intended to be "Tia". which would be slightly better.
  
  Harmony was Wagokoro, "peaceful heart". However, that "wa" is also used to refer to traditional Japanese things, so everything about her has that angle to it as well. Paci-Fist was "Wadoken", which is beautiful, which is why I worked in the "down-right fist" part. Some of her skills also repeated the name of the move in all hiragana in the description, which ties into the whole classical Japanese thing.
  
  Apil and Yomi are from an old platformer called Full Swing. Apil's name is probably a pun on "ahiru", duck, but she's also kind of tachi's mascot, so I didn't care to come up with my own terrible pun name. (Not to mention one of her skills is named "Appeal" as a pun on it.)
  
  The King of Evil was "Maou-sama", a combination of "maou" (dark lord) and "ousama" (king). Of course, "Maou-sama" could be used as a respectful name for any old dark lord, but the joke is essentially "you never knew what he was the king of!"
  
  I ended up keeping the name Meiji Staff, but it's probably a pun on "Mage Staff". Maybe I could have made it "Magey" or something. I dunno.
  
  The "My First Dagger!" and "Dagger" relationship was originally based on a Japanese homophone pun. たんけん (Tanken) can mean "exploration" or "dagger", but 短剣 is unquestionably "dagger". So it's like "Yay, let's go exploring!" to "Bah, that's for kids. It's a DAGGER."
  
  Rain Bow is an entirely new pun. The original was 真弓 (mayumi), literally "True Bow", but the description acts like it's a girl's name: "Mayumi! Mayumiii! It's me! Marry me!"
  
  (Take) My Sword For It is a modified pun, but it remains somewhat intact. It was 真剣 (literally "True Sword" — yes, again), which can also be read as "serious/earnest".
  
  Ram Bow is a mostly new pun. It was 剛弓 (Sturdy Bow), and the description had another homophone pun since "lamentation" is pronounced the same way; it was basically like "when shot by a Goukyuu, you goukyuu".
  
  Smile & Bow was 千弓 (Thousand Bow), senkyuu, so the description joked about it sounding like "thank you".
  
  Cross Sword is a new pun for yet another Japanese homophone pun. 魔剣 (Demon Sword) = maken, and the description said "maken" in the "I won't lose" sense.
  
  To the Point was 短刀直入, putting the word "dagger" into 単刀直入... which means "getting right to the point". So that worked pretty well.
  
  Magic Dagger's description noted the similarity between 魔力 (magic power) and 魔刀 (magic sword).
  
  Spear It was "yarikiru", which contains "spear" (yari) and means "to do something to completion". But tachi used it to joke about "finishing up alone" in the description, because of course he would.
  
  Cluelash was "muchi", which means whip, but also means ignorance. Frankly, I'm surprised I came up with anything close.
  
  The Whipper was "mucchi" in reference to "mucchimuchi", a word for supple skin, usually in reference to sexy women. I, uh... just felt it was better to replace that one.
  
  Brawlblade was 剣嘩 (ken-ka), replacing one of the kanji for "brawl" with "sword".
  
  Broad Sword was 太い刀, a joke on how "tachi" is written 太刀, which literally means "fat sword". Yeah, I know it has a katana sprite, but if Chrono Trigger can give a broadsword the name of a katana, I can do the opposite.
  
  The Master Bracelet was the "Sage's Bracelet", and its description was simply "Whew..." (And so it was before I got the reference.) This is in reference to "sage time", a term for the period of exhaustion after a guy ejaculates. ...Yeah. So my lewd puns there aren't unwarranted.
  
  I don't know what the joke is with the Utah Cap either. It's... it's made in Utah. That's what it said.
  
  Assass Innate was just the word "ansatsu" (assassination) split into two with a dot. So, I mean, it's totally the same thing, right?
  
  "Ninja Ninny!" was "Ninja Ninjin!" (carrot).
• In The House On Usher, Angie's boss, a realtor, is named Homer Echers.
• Idle Breakout: Bosses have plenty of block pun names. Block Head, Blocka Doodle Doo, Blockodile, Blocktopus, Roblock, Call the Blocktor, Writer's Block... and more.
• I. M. Meen: The eponymous antagonist's name is a pun on "I am mean".
• Inazuma Eleven is chock full of both this trope and Meaningful Name. For example, Endou Mamoru (円堂守) is a pun on "endo o mamoru" (エンドを守る), which means "to defend the end" ("end" being in the soccer jargon sense). Being a talented goalkeeper, that's exactly what Endou does.
• Infocom used to publish a newsletter titled The New Zork Times.
• The Jackbox Party Pack 6:
  • The host of Push The Button is DODE (Digital Officer During Emergencies), who takes the form of a dodecahedron with glasses.
  • Joke Boat is a game about performing stand-up comedy on a cruise ship, the Sea Minus, which is hosted by Captain Chuck Hull ("chuckle").
• Khimera: Puzzle Island: The four tablets that are pieces of a larger one, being sought in this puzzle game are the "Puzzle-Tablets of Rhu-minate", "Ruminate" is "to think". Puzzling.
• Kid Dracula has the Phyllis Driller mooks.
• Kindergarten has the Monstermon card Ohfaka Tornado ("Oh fuck, a tornado!"), whose Flavor Text notes that it has the power to compel its victims to say its name. Since the game is otherwise extremely sparse on swearing, it also doubles as a Precision F-Strike.
• In Kingdom Hearts χ, eggs that summon raid bosses within Union Cross and Raid events are called "Eggcognito", while those in Union Cross quests that drop extra rewards are called "Shenaneggan".
• Kingdom of Loathing: This web-based MMORPG is packed with puns:
  • The tutorial is given by a bird called the Toot Oriole.
  • Orc Chasm. Say it a few times fast and you will understand.
  • Other examples include Degrassi Knoll, John Wilke's Booth, the Malus of Forethought, The Armory and Leggery, the Worm Wood, the Palindome, and the Knob Goblins. The Armory and Leggery is run by two guys who have neither.
• The King of Fighters: The cryokinetic Kula Diamond's first name is phonetically similar to "cooler".
• Kitty Powers' Matchmaker:
  • Most of the restaurants' names are puns, such as Rainbow Roadhouse and Thai Me Up.
  • Some of the VIP clients in Kitty Powers' Speed Date have names that hint towards their Type, such as Will Barrow (who's a Practical).
• Konami:
  • Konami has an official YouTube channel, called Konami573ch. The pun is on 573, which are taken from the Japanese numbers.
  • Konami's in-house music artists are also fond of giving their works the occasional punny title. For example:
    • .59 — "point-five-nine" is pronounced "ten-go-ku" in Japanese; "tengoku" means "heaven".
    • QQQ — "three" is "san" in Japanese, thus "three-Q" is "san-Q", which sounds like "thank you".
• Layton Brothers: Mystery Room is full of them. Chase M. Downes, Destiny Knox, Uttar Mistry, and Keelan Makepeace.
• Legend of the Mystical Ninja has Tanaka U. Out.
• The Legend of Spyro:
  • The Legend of Spyro: A New Beginning:
    • The Manweersmalls, whose name sounds like "man, we're small". They're shorter than Spyro — except for their leaders, which are just below being eye level with him — and, due to being bipeds, much smaller in overall mass. Upon meeting one, Spyro even says, "Man, he is small." Their leader, Mole-Yarr, is named as a pun on "Moliere" and "Mole".
    • Mount Boyzitbig. At the very beginning of the level, Sparx says, "Boy, is it big!"
  • The Legend of Spyro: The Eternal Night: The name of the Treant boss Arborick is a portmanteau of "Arboreal" and "Rick".
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Recurring characters include the witch Syrup and her disciple Maple and Link himself (his name indicates that he is a link between the game and the player).
  • The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening: Mr. Write, who is essentially a cameo of Mr. Wright, the advisor character from the SNES SimCity. Mr. Write's name is a play on "Mr. Wright" and the word "write", as he frequently writes letters. The character "Dr. Left" from Oracle of Seasons and Minish Cap takes this further, with a name that is not only a play on the previous two names, but on the word "right" too.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask: The fairy brother and sister pair Tatl and Tael.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Oracle of Seasons: The minboss Frypolar, who alternates between a fiery state and an icy one, is named as a portmanteau of "fry" and "polar" and rhymes with "bipolar".
  • The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker: The name of King Daphnes Nohansen Hyrule is a pun on the Japanese words for "ship" (fune) and "sailboat" (hansen). It is easier to see the connection in the Japanese localization of the game (Dafunesu Nohansen Hairaru).
  • The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks: Practically all major characters, including the villains, have train-related names. A few examples: Cole, Ferrus (Latin word for iron, ferrum), and Anjean, Rael and Steem of the Lokomo (Locomotive) tribe.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword: Most of the inhabitants of Skyloft have names based on bird puns. We have Groose (combining goose and grouse), Cawlin (Colin combined with the bird onomatopoeia "caw"), Owlan (owl), Parrow (sparrow), and many more. There are also the proprietors of the Lumpy Pumpkin, Pumm and his daughter Kina.
  • The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild has two Rito characters who have a dual pun if you know Japanese. Teba on its own can mean "chicken" as in the fowl. With his wife's name, Saki, added to his it becomes "Tebasaki", which is a fried chicken dish. Made funnier when during the Vah Medoh fight, you see that he did end up getting his leg fried while acting as a distraction, though it heals after the fight. There's also a minor Goron character named Bohrin who is almost always sleeping.
  • Hyrule Warriors: Link, our silent hero, quickly finds a fairy companion called Proxi, who decides that she can do enough talking for the pair of them. Thus, Link has a proxy to speak for him.
• LEGO 2K Drive has a decent number of characters whose names are puns on something such as Parker Carr, Max Speed, Fossil Fueler, and Otto and Manuel.
• LEGO Island takes it to the point that everyone in the game has some name like this. Pepper Roni, who delivers hot pizza, his father Bologna Roni, his grandfather Mac Roni, his adoptive parents Mama and Papa Brickolini, Bill Ding, paramedics Enter and Return, captain D.Rom (C.D.Rom), Laura and Nick Brick, antagonist Brickster — just to name a few.
• Magical Starsign has a town full of Pyrites with punny names, like Nun Toobrite and Tawks Lykeahippy, that represent how they talk.
• In Mappy, the title character's name is a pun on "mappo", a Japanese slang term for cops. Nyamco, of course, is a pun on Bandai Namco Entertainment.
• Mass Effect:
  • Quarians have a first and last name, as well as a name that indicates which ship they serve on (Tali'Zorah vas Neema serves on the Neema). In Mass Effect 2, Tali'Zorah will introduce Shepard to one of the quarian Admirals, Zaal'Koris vas Qwib Qwib. Upon inquiry about the whimsical ship name, Koris will say he has considered transferring to a ship with a more honorable name, such as the Defrahnz or the Iktomi. That would make him Zaal'Koris vas Defrahnz or vas Iktomi.
  • When infiltrating the estate of an arms merchant on Bekenstein, Kasumi has Shepard use the alias "Solomon Gunn", which sounds like "sell him a gun" when said fast.
  • The franchise title is a punny name too. The discovery of element zero and the creation of mass effect fields by humanity, according to Captain Anderson at the beginning of the first game, advanced human technology by 200 years. In other words, eezo had a mass effect on the scientific community...
• Massmouth 2: Professor Egnogin. (As in, "egg noggin" = "egghead".)
• Master of Magic includes such unique magical artefacts as Jan's Hammer and the Shield of Brooke.
• Max Payne. Ouch.
• The Mega Man franchise:
  • Many enemies in the original Mega Man series have punny names, often with Bilingual Bonus.
  • Mega Man Battle Network has several examples, mostly with the characters you help in sidequests (one recurring example is a girl named "Meala DeVour").
• Meta Stasis: The protagonist is a girl named Mehta, not just "Meta" like in the title, but distorted a bit.
• Metroid II: Return of Samus: Moheeks look like fish with sea anemone Mohawks. Although the manual describes it as "tendrils", suggesting they are part plant.
• Mighty Aphid: The Big Bad is named Lady Bug, like the insect.
• The main character of Mighty Switch Force! is a police officer named Patricia Wagon. A shortened form of "Patricia" is "Patty", making her name a play on the term "paddy wagon", which is slang for the vehicles police use to transport criminals.
• Some locations in Miitopia have these, like the waste of Gohntu. There is also the Neksdor Kingdom, which is the second world, next door to the first one.
• The Ex Nihilo mod for Minecraft includes the Crook, an agricultural tool. The add-on Ex Aliquo mod adds the Reed Burglar, the Hay Cutpurse, and even the Golden Nixon (the item's lore states "I am probably a crook" as a parody of Richard Nixon's infamous "I am not a crook" quote).
• Many characters in the Monkey Island series, such as Governor Phatt, the portly ruler of Phatt Island, from Monkey Island 2.
• In Monster Bash, Johnny Dash is occasionally helped by a small rodent identified at first as "FLR" — which is later revealed to stand for "Frank Lloyd Rat". Cue thoughts about modern architecture, or a certain Simon & Garfunkel song running around one's head...
• Mortal Kombat: Deception introduces the character of Shujinko, who serves as the main protagonist of the game's Konquest Mode. While Asian names in the series typically adhere to the rule of "As Long as It Sounds Foreign", Shujinko is a fitting name, being Japanese for "protagonist".
• Mother:
  • EarthBound Beginnings features Ninten, referring to the system it was released on.
  • EarthBound (1994):
    • Ness, an anagram of the system (Super Nintendo Entertainment System) the game was released on.
    • Everdred, who's "connected" to kidnappings in Twoson.
    • The four major towns in EarthBound: Onett, Twoson, Threed and Fourside, in that order.
    • The Psychic Psycho and Soul Consuming Flame.
  • Mother 3:
    • The name of Porky's "utopian" city is New Pork City. Ouch.
    • One example that's sadly Lost in Translation: Both games have friendly aliens from the planet Saturn — but as the Japanese word for Saturn, dosei, sounds like dousei, which means "same name", all of the aliens are named the same — Mr. Saturn/Mr. Same Name.
    • Lots of enemies in Mother 3 also have Punny Names. Namely the Balding Eagle, Boa Transistor, Cactus Wolf (as opposed to wolf cactus), Cattlesnake, Chilly Dog, Cleocatra (a mummified cat), Einswine (a pig with an oversized brain), Muttshroom (a dog/mushroom hybrid), Navy SQUEAL (one of the Pigmasks), Pigtunia, Pseudoor, and Pyrefly.
• The second, less serious game in the Mystery Case Files series, as well as the DS entry, feature some, like the narcoleptic Constance Noring, Annie Buddyhome, Holly Day Inn, Ron N. Hyde, Phil T. Rich...
• Nancy Drew follows a chain of Punny Name clues from one cemetery plot to the next in Legend of the Crystal Skull.
• In Mutant Football League, EVERYTHING in the game is some macabre or punny play on words of a real world team franchise or player, even if it means having to really stretch to make it work. Some of the proper examples include:
  • Aaron Rodgers of the Green Bay Packers is now Airborne Dodgers of the Grim Bay Attackers.
  • Tom Brady is now Bomb Shady.
  • Legendary wide receiver Jerry Rice is now Scary Lice.
  • John Elway is now John Hellway.
  • The Indianapolis Colts are the Insane Cults.
  • The New England Patriots are the Nuked London Hatriots.
  • The Dallas Cowboys are the Malice Hellboys.
  • The only exceptions are that a handful of the states that each team is located in may or may not have changed, and some of the stadiums take place in real world locations that thematically fit the game. The Leaveland Burns still play in Ohio, Cracksumskull Jugulars are in Florida, and the Sin Fransicko Forty Nightmares play at Alcatraz (in the state of Crazedzonia). There exist both the states of Georgia as well as the state of Gore-gia.
• In Mutant Year Zero: Road to Eden, the playable characters are mutants with animalistic appearances. The two starter characters are a boar-man named Bormin and a duck-man named Dux.
• Ni no Kuni:
  • Wrath of the White Witch, much like the later Dragon Quest games, is full of these. One of the few examples that don't also fall under Meaningful Name is a painter in Al Mamoon who goes by the name of Con^note or "con artist"
  • In Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom, in Goldpaw, a "Duebill" is a bird that follows around someone who has a debt they aren't able to pay at the moment, squawking "U O ME! U O ME!"
• Every named outlaw in Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath has either a punny name, or a really bizarre nickname. They range from the fairly normal (Lootin Duke) and the descriptive (Xplosives McGee) to the punny (Jo' Mamma) and the unfortunate (Fatty McBoomboom). In fact, nearly every named character in the game except Sekto has a Meaningful Name, a punny name, or a combination of the two. Stranger's real name is never revealed, unless his name actually is Stranger. Doc appears to be a nickname as well.
• Ōkami (with a long "O" at the beginning) can mean, depending on the kanji used to spell it, "wolf" or "great god". Naturally, the main character is an extremely powerful goddess incarnated as a wolf. "Kami" can also mean "paper". Guess which game uses writing sacred symbols as a key mechanic?
• Medic Herbert East in Operation Darkness is an obvious reference (in function as well as name) to H. P. Lovecraft's story Herbert West–Reanimator. Note that this is only a punny name in the Western release; in the Japanese version, he's named Herbert West.
• Robby and Ninjoy from the Papa Louie Arcade series of video games are some of the more obvious examples. Others include sisters Nevada and Utah, Delivery Boy Roy, Julep, and others.
  • The last one can also count as a Parental Bonus, since a mint julep is a type of alcoholic beverage consisting of primarily bourbon, water, crushed or shaved ice, and mint.
• In the Parodius series, the stick-figure characters Koitsu, Soitsu, Aitsu, and Doitsu have names which read in Japanese as "this guy", "that guy", "that other guy" and "what guy?" The villain of the first game is a baku named Bug (the kana for which reads "bagu").
• The Persona franchise:
  • Persona 2: Tatsuya Suou is the name of the main protagonist. Tatsuya Sudou is an antagonist with the same first name. In the Japanese order, he would be Sudou Tatsuya, or Pseudo-Tatsuya.
  • Persona 4: The Canon Name of the protagonist, Yu Narukami, is this — he's "you", the player. Better yet, Narukami phonetically can mean "Become a God" so yes, his entire name can literally be "You become a God".
  • Persona 5: Most of the Protagonists attend a high school named "Shujin Academy". In Japanese, this can be read as "The People's Academy" or "Prisoner Academy".
• Phantasy Star:
  • Phantasy Star I has a musk cat named Myau join the party. Yes, it rhymes with "meow".
  • Phantasy Star II: Rich thief, Shir Gold. She refers to herself as "Shir of the Wind".
• Plants vs. Zombies:
  • The game was going to be called "Lawn of the Dead" after Dawn Of The Dead, but PopCap felt that George A. Romero would sue.
  • The game proper has a lot of these. Your seeds come from the Bloom and Doom Seed Co. Then you have plants with names such as Peashooter, Repeater, Wall Nut, and Cherry Bomb. The Doom Shroom makes a mushroom cloud when you use it. Pop Cap clearly had a lot of fun naming stuff in this game.
• Pokémon:
  • Damn near every Pokémon has a pun somewhere in its name relating somehow to its appearance, type, or behavior. While most are fairly direct and simple, some are quite clever and work on multiple levels... and are multilingual.
    • Sometimes, you don't even have to be multilingual. In Japanese, there's a 5th-generation Pokémon called Giaru (gear; the Pokémon in question is known as Klink in English). You don't have to be a rocket scientist to figure out what it looks like, either.
    • Pokémon Sun and Moon continues to produce punny names. Palossand, a living sandcastle pokémon, has the Japanese name "Shirodesuna", from the Japanese word shiro, meaning "castle"; the English word "death"; and suna,' which means "sand". Equally, the sentence "Shiro desu na" means "That's a castle, huh."
    • This also includes the Ultra Beasts. Not only their names are punny, the moniker itself is also a pun; a man-sized mosquito? A giant roach? A gigantic electric wire?
  • Many of the Gym Leaders, too.
    • In Generation I, examples include Brock, Misty, Lt. Surge, Sabrina (a trainer of Psychic Pokémon, which may be a reference to another Sabrina), Blaine (similar to blaze; he uses strictly Fire Pokémon), and Giovanni (incorporates geo, the Greek prefix meaning "earth"). Also, Giovanni is a mafia don, making him... Don Giovanni.
    • In Generation II, there are bird-using gym leader Falkner ("falconer" or "fowl"), Bug-user Bugsy, Whitney (uses Normal Pokémon; Normal Pokémon use the white color scheme in the TCG), Ghost-user Morty (mort is French for "death"), Fighting-type leader Chuck (remind you of another famous Chuck?), and there's finally Ice user Pryce (rhymes with "ice").
    • Generation III has the Rock user Roxanne, Fighting-type Pokémon user Brawly, Electric user Wattson (watts are a measurement of electricity), Fire user Flannery (sounds like "flame"), Normal-type user Norman (almost the word "normal"), bird user Winona (wind/wing), and Psychic users Liza and Tate (sounds like levitate). Really, it's rarer for a Pokémon gym leader to not have a punny name.
    • Generation IV: Roark (ore, also similar to rock), Gardenia, Maylene (melee), Crasher Wake, Fantina (phantom), Byron, Candice, and Vol(t)kner.
    • In Pokémon Black and White, we get Cilan, Chili, and Cress (all foods that are like their type — Chili is Fire type, for example), Lenora (from "Normal" — her type), Burgh ("Bug"), Elesa (from Tesla — she's Electric), Clay the Ground leader, Skyla (guess her type; and may reference skylarks), Brycen (Ice), and dragon Trainers Drayden and Iris (Drayden from "Drake" or "Dragon", and Iris after the flower Flaming Dragon Iris).
    • In Pokémon Black 2 and White 2, there's Cheren (Bulgarian for Black, was a rival in Pokémon Black and White, Roxie (a musician/poison type user, "rock" and "toxic"), Burgh, Elesa, Clay, Skyla, and Drayden again, and Marlon (marlin (a type of fish)/marine).
    • In Pokémon X and Y, there's Viola (genus of butterfly), Grant (from "granite"), Korrina (arena), Ramos (moss), Clemont (from lemons, which can conduct electricity), Valerie (from the genus Valerianella), Olympia (from "olympian"), and Wulfric (from "wolf" and "frigid").
  • A minor NPC example in Generation II is the final trainer at the top of Sprout Tower, an old man named Elder Li. Go on, sound it out.
  • In FireRed and LeafGreen, a sidequest involves finding a lost girl named Lostelle. Another sidequest involves finding a woman named Selphy, who will selfishly ask you to show her a specific Pokémon every day once you rescue her.
  • The Holo Caster, while technically being a Portmanteau of "Holographic Broadcaster", is also a pun of holocaust, foreshadowing the fact that its creator is an Omnicidal Maniac.
  • With the player characters:
    • There's Haruka (May), which means "far away", which relates to Norman's Japanese name, Senri, which is 1000 li (a unit of measurement).
    • Lucas, which comes from lux-lucis, the Latin root word for light.
    • Lyra, which comes from lyre.
    • Hikari meaning light, in English became Dawn, meaning first light of the day.
    • Rosa and Nate, which are a pun on the word "resonate".
    • Calem and Serena, from "calm" and "serene" respectively.
    • The default names for the characters are rather punny. Landon/Terra or Sean/Marina in Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire. Emerald, however, didn't capitalize on names such as Skyler/Skye for its sky-based theme.
  • Other important NPCs are not immune to this either.
    • Black 2 and White 2 give us the owner of PokéStar Studios, Mr. Stu Deeoh, and his lead talent scout, Scout.
    • Also from Black 2 and White 2 are the models in Nimbasa's gym, which follow the Theme Naming conventions for an electric-type gym, including one named Ampère.
• Punch-Out!! has characters like Glass Joe ("glass jaw"), Soda Popinski (or Vodka Drunkenski), Bear Hugger (some people do go by the name "Bear"), and Narcis Prince.
• Puyo Puyo:
  • Onion Pixie's name references the fact that he has a head that's an onion, but also that he's an oni, a Japanese demon (weirdly, despite being called a pixie in his name; in the Japanese version, he's called "Onion").
  • Puyo Puyo!! Quest: The name "Atari" can mean a multitude of things in Japanese (just for example: strike, success, guess, tackle, jackpot, target, etc.), many of which describe Atari's general character pretty well. She is aware of this and will frequently point it out or make puns with her own name.
• Gnomes from the Quest for Glory series tend to have these kinds of names.
  • The prankster wizard Keapon Laffin from Quest for Glory II.
  • Quest for Glory IV: The gnomish jester, Punny Bones. In fact, most of the character's jokes consists of really bad puns.
  • The innkeeper Ann Agrama from Quest for Glory V.
• Rakuen: NO HOLDS BARD!!! is name of the rock band formed by the rebellious Sunflower, Lil' Budz, and Kreyg. Get it? Barred? Don't worry, they'll spell it out for you.
• Ratchet & Clank has Slim Cognito, a man who deals with weapons of questionable legality, and Emperor Otto DeStruct, the Big Bad of Size Matters.
• Rayman Origins has Betilla's sisters the Nymphs, who all have punny names based on the worlds in which they dwell: The Desert of Digeridoos is home to Holly Luya, Gourmand Land is home to Edith Up, and so on.
• The Reality-On-The-Norm series includes a Mad Scientist named Dr. Die Vie Ess.
• Rise of the Triad has a player character named I. P. Freeley.
• RollerCoaster Tycoon has randomly generated 'real' guest names starting from the Added Attractions expansion pack that can unintentionally contain puns. Like Dan D, Mickey D, Walt D, and Val V.
• In Roots of Pacha, the three glyptodons that live in the cave system and guide you through it are named Glyp, To, and Don.
• RuneScape has numerous characters with punny names. The most rampant examples are White Knights (Sir Amik Varze, Sir Tiffy Cashien) and druids (Pikkupstix).
• Ruphand: An Apothecary's Adventure: One book in Arkenvali's Grand Librarium mentions that having a pun for a name is an Arkenvali tradition, and Brill then mentions that it's caught on in Evrandel too. Some examples being:
  • Brill Yance herself. Pun on Brilliance.
  • Genn, Brill's boss at the Orvas potion shop. His full name is revealed to be a pun on "Generation", when given during the Altolatio auctions for the Pepperevenge medal, as they only work with his "patented Pepperflasks".
• In Saints Row: The Third, one of the members of S.T.A.G. is named Kia^note The military abbreviation for "killed in action", which becomes a Prophetic Name if you take the "heroic" ending.
• Some of the levels in Shadow of the Wool Ball have pun-based names such as "Fur of the Dark" or "Purranoia".
• Shall We Date?: Oz plays off on this with a majority of love interests.
• In Silent Scope, the final boss, who's guarding the President, is called "Monica the Armed Secretary".
• SimCity is quite full of these. Byallmeans Travel Agency, Deadforest Paper, Pump & Scoot Gas, Curtin Fabrics, and some odd others that weren't named after creators of the game.
• The Sims:
  • Nearly all characters in the GBA games have punny names, such as Sue Pirnova, Polly Nomial, Mel Odious, and Ewan Whatamee.
  • Objects in Sim games got punny names as well, like the Shout-Out to Harry Potter "Prisoner of Azkalamp".
  • In The Sims 2, some of the graves in Olive Spectre's yard are for Sims will Punny Names, such as Earl E. DeMise, his brother Tim Lee, Lou and Hugh Thansia, and Rigger Mortis.
  • Oh man, The Sims 3... nearly every sim has a punny name, the most well-known being Gobias Koffi.
  • In The Sims Medieval, a quest NPC is called Buzz Killington.
• The siren in Siren 1 is a borderline case, as it's a siren in the sense of "supernatural creature whose sound lures people to their death at sea", and it happens to sound like an air raid siren.
• In Sly 3: Honor Among Thieves, the villain that you defeat in China is General Tsao, a rooster. His name is pretty clearly a pun on General Tso's chicken, a Chinese dish.
• Mr. Essengebox is the man built the message boxes in the Something series. His name in the French version of Something Else is Monsieur Essengebox.
• SongBird Symphony: Egbert is, well, an egg.
• Sonic the Hedgehog:
  • Sonic's name is a pun based on supersonic speed, which is made even more blatant when he turns into Super Sonic.
  • Sonic's companion Tails has the given name of Miles Prower, a pun on "miles per hour".
  • Dr. Eggman (Whose name already references his rotund body shape) has an even more unfortunate punny name when his real name, Dr. Ivo Robotnik, is used ("Ivo" is a reverse of "Ovi", the Latin root for "egg"). The word "robotnik" is Polish for "worker", along with containing the word "robot".
  • Rouge the Bat, whose name is a pun on Baton Rouge.
  • The name of the new character introduced in Sonic Dream Team, Ariem, is the phonetic spelling of "R.E.M." (or "rapid eye movement", the state of deep sleep most connected with intense dreaming). As the game is heavily themed around dreaming this is an apt name (and also why she is a sheep-like creature, which continues the association with sleep).
• In Splatoon, it would be far easier to name the characters and locations that aren't some sort of pun, or at least a reference. To use just the original Wii U title as an example:
  • The game's Idol Singer newscasters, the Squid Sisters, are named Callie and Marie. Calamari. Marie herself comes to the sudden realization in the second game.
    Marie: Ohhhhh! I just realized that mine and Callie's names... Actually, now's not the time.
  • Booyah Base, the shopping area of Inkopolis Plaza, is two puns in one, being a play on bouillabaisse, a type of fish stew, and also referencing Shibuya, a famous Tokyo shopping district. The weapon store located there (with branch locations in other games) is called Ammo Knights, which is a play on "ammonite", an extinct marine cephalopod species.
  • Recurring side character Crusty Sean, who appears as a shoe store owner in this first game, is a shrimp. Say his name fast, and you get "crustacean".
  • DJ Octavio's name references both octaves for his musical theme and octopuses for... well, being an octopus.
• Star Wars: DroidWorks has a recurring side character named RD-RR ("hardy har har"), who is best known for telling jokes.
• Super Mario Bros.:
  • Super Mario 3D World: Bowser's cat form is called... Meowser. No prizes for guessing what that's based off of.
  • Many of the characters in the Mario & Luigi series come under this, such as the Emoglobin in Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, who are microorganisms inside Bowser's body that give the player tips, or the Pi'illo inhabitants from Mario & Luigi: Dream Team, who happen to be shaped like "pillows" and usable as such to enter the Dream World. Or the Mega Pi'illos in the same game, who are called Cush and Shawn and Phil and Lowe respectively (put each of those two names together).
  • Paper Mario 64:
    • Many of the Toads' names end in "T.", providing a treasure trove of "-ty" puns. For example: Vanna T., Chuck Quizmo's assistant^note Who may also be a reference to Vanna White; Tayce T., the local chef of Toad Town (as well as Zess T., the local chef of Rogueport); and Fice T., the guard to the entrance of Forever Forest.
    • There is a miniboss in the form of a gigantic Koopa in incongruous Nerd Glasses — his name is Kent C. Koopa.
  • Mario Party Advance: The Gaddgets, being a play on Gadd (as in Elvin Gadd, their inventor) and gadgets.
• Valve produces Steam. Get it?
• Supreme Commander 2:
  • The base game has some shameless ones for some of the units of the Illuminate faction:
    • Fighter-Bomber: Weedoboth
    • Mobile Missile Launcher: Fisttosh
    • Experimental Multiple-Drone-Tank: Wylfindya
    • Experimental Anti-Air: Airnomo
    • Experimental Vortex Generator: Pullensmash
  • And from the DLC:
    • Sniper Bot: Shotja
    • Experimental Gunship: Zooprizer
• Tekken brings us Marshall Law. As in, "martial law".
• The Terminator: Dawn of Fate: You must escort a demolitions expert named Pvt. B. Last.
• Total War: Warhammer:
  • Many of the Skinks have names like these. Besides the tabletop character Tiktaq'to, there are such characters as your in-game advisor Yukcannadoozat, while Klo'aqa is a one of the pool of random general names. Slann can also spawn with names such as Hydroxyanthrapur'in.
  • One of the potential names for Iridescent Horror heroes is Liar'lar'panz'oun'fyre.
• Touhou names are often some form of pun, or otherwise Meaningful Names, relying on the odd rules of the Japanese language. Were-Hakutaku Keine Kamishirasawa, for example: the kanji characters for Keine can mean "Wise sound" while Kamishirasawa literally means "Upper stream of a white valley". However, the Kamishirasawa kanji can be read as "ue-hakutaku" and so likely a pun by ZUN when he named the "Were-Hakutaku" character.
• TRON 2.0: The digital commander of EMCON's ICPs (intrusion countermeasure programs) is called "The Kernel". This is an appropriate enough name for him, being the highest authority within the system as far as the audience sees^note  In computer science, the kernel is the core of an operating system, with total control over hardware access, but being the leader of its military/police force would also make him the Colonel.
• Ty the Tasmanian Tiger has Lenny the lyrebird. Guess who you shouldn't listen to in his level.
• One of the minor side characters in Ultima VII is a talking fox with no sense of tact whatsoever — he always speaks his mind, no matter how insulting what he says is. His name is Frank.
• Undertale has a number of characters with punny names:
  • Toriel, the goat woman who guides you through the Ruins and introduces you to the puzzles and combat mechanics (including the ability to Spare monsters), is a play on "tutorial".
  • A minor enemy in the Ruins is Loox (whose family name is apparently Eyewalker). He's in fact little more than a giant eye with limbs, so an eye that walks and looks... and a pun on Luke Skywalker as well.
  • Lampshade Hanging: "Snowdrake realized its own name is a pun and is freaking out."
  • Moldsmal is a harmless slime monster found in the Ruins that resembles a gelatin mold. Waterfall introduces a larger, more aggressive version of Moldsmal called... Moldbygg (rescribed in-game as "one size greater than Moldaverage").
  • Shyren is a bashful siren-like creature who lives in Waterfall.
  • Tsundereplane, an enemy found in the Hotlands, is rather obviously a talking airplane that acts tsundere towards the main character.
  • One of the monsters found in the True Lab is a monster composed of an amalgam of several dog-like monsters called Endogeny (En-dog-eny).
• Unemployment Quest: One of the enemies is called an IMPulse.
• Wario Land:
  • The first two games have the same main female antagonist: Captain Syrup. Her return in the sequel reveals her first name: Maple.
  • Wario Land: Shake It!:
    • The Shake King, and the bosses Hot Roderick, Bloomsday/Scumflower, and Large Fry.
    • The level Its-all Mine. A fitting level name considering Wario's obsession for treasure.
• Kat & Ana from WarioWare, twin sisters that happen to be ninjas.
• The hero of Werewolf: The Last Warrior is a Wolf Man named War Wolf. "War Wolf" would be identical to "Werewolf" if written in katakana, which is why the game's Japanese title uses romaji.
• In the official app of Wingspan, a board game about birds, the park ranger who gives you the tutorial is named Robin.
• WildStar is incredibly fond of this. Particularly notable is the fact that all Tradeskill Work Order Dailies are puns.
• The player character of Will You Snail? is a snail named Shelly.
• The MMORPG Wizard101 has a few punny names, such as Chester Droors and Kelvin the Ice Tree. There's also Abby K. Doodle and Abner K. Doodle, who are named after the game's official webcomic, Abracadoodle.
• The X-Universe:
  • The Lizard Folk Teladi are united under the Teladi Space Company, lead by their Chairman, "Ceo".
  • X3: Terran Conflict has a Boron scientist by the name of Mahi Ma. Mahi-mahi are a type of fish, and "mahi" is also "fish" in Persian. The Boron are squid people. Coincidence?
• Poppi's latter forms from Xenoblade Chronicles 2, Poppi QT and Poppi QTπ. She's a cutie-pie, alright! The Japanese version names Hana's designations after Japanese internet jargon that would be unfamiliar to Western players.
• A majority of the characters in Yandere Simulator have punny names, some translated from the Japanese language. For example, the Basu sisters are called Inkyu and Sakyu, which are puns for incubus and succubus. One of the classmates, Oka Ruto (which is a pun for "occult"), is trying to prove that there's something supernatural about them. Notice anything here?
• According to the Nintendo Power Player's Guide for Yoshi's Island, the infamous Fuzzy enemy is the sole species in the class "Dudim Phreykunoutonthis" ("Dude, I'm freaking out on this").

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