Suggestion: A Planet Named Zok

Figured that one of the tropes I launched could stand to use an image, and I stumbled across this and figured it would work!

Either this, or maybe an image of Zebes from the opening of Super Metroid (where it's captioned as such).

edited 30th May '13 4:23:20 PM by BlueGuy

Not enough of the key letters, IMO. Plus it makes a bit TOO much sense as a name. :)

Oh, hey, I'm the page quote. That made my day. :D

That, especially the former point. Maybe Qo'nos◊?

• Zok◊
• Zokk◊
• Zog◊
• Mok◊
• Zark◊
• Gloob◊
• Quorg◊
• Gorzarg-5◊

edited 30th May '13 9:18:05 PM by Noaqiyeum

Personally, I'd rather have a full shot of the planet, but if I had to pick, I'd say the Gorzarg-5 one is the best.

I remember this strip, which has an example that fits the above criteria, but it'd need to be cropped.

edited 31st May '13 4:24:05 AM by BlueGuy

I prefer the OP pic, as it has the least amount of impertinent text.

I like the OP pic best because it has plenty of letters and it looks like Earth except for the name clearly making it foreign. And I think the pixel art style works well here.

So what is this, a list of all fictional planets in fiction?

Qo'nos is my pick.

No, it's a list of planets that follow a specific naming pattern.

Frankly, I'd rather not discuss the trope itself here (it took a long time to get through YKKTW).

I like the OP pic best. The planet's "name" might not be as weird as some of the other suggestions, but I think that the visual quality and the presentation more than make up for that.

Short version: OP clearly illustrates the trope and the quality of the image is good. I say, use it.

... I'm kinda with Spark, this trope seems a bit broad. I mean, I get the idea behind it. There's definitely a naming convention to random Sci-Fi-sounding planets. But the description is a bit all over the place. So are the examples. For example, Trisol from Futurama? It's a planet with three suns.

... but that's not really relevant. What is relevant is the fact that, going through the description, the only thing that Funkotron has to do with any of the listed conventions for planet names is that it has a couple "weird letters" including a couple Ns and a K. It's pretty telling that it's not in the examples list.

edited 31st May '13 7:38:22 AM by Larkmarn

I think this page convolutes (at least) two tropes. "Planet name that sounds vaguely like Zrg" is a trope, sister trope to A Villain Named "Z__rg". "Planet that is a descriptive noun with a generic suffix" (like tropolon or funktron or swampica) is a different trope. "Planet name that I think sounds cool" is not a trope.

Would it be possible to launch the "funktron" trope on YKTTW, and restrict this trope to the former? Given the perennial TRS overload, is this something we can handle here, or in the "recent launches" thread, or in "short term project"?

edited 31st May '13 8:04:30 AM by Spark9

I think the idea is essentially 'planet names that would not look out-of-place in a sci-fi B movie or comic serial'.

There's nothing in the description or Laconic to indicate Funkotron would count in this trope... except for the quote and the proposed image. If it also means that, the description needs to be changed... but I agree, just making a separate trope for that makes a lot more sense.

EDIT: "Among other variants include planets that follow the "X-tar" or "X-lar" pattern" could be describing that above phenomenon, but that's a pretty big stretch.

edited 4th Jun '13 11:48:39 AM by Larkmarn

To me, this appears to be about naming a Planet of Hats. If a planet's hat is cowardice, then whether it's named Bunnylar or Rabbitron should make no difference.

The description says nothing about planet names being "cool" - I intended it as "planet names with interesting combinations of letters" (or something similar).

The second trope would probably suffer from a dearth of examples, though.

Planet names of "descriptive name + suffix" appear all the time in parody series, such as Futurama (Wormulon, Amphibios, Igloopiter), Sin Fest (Orphantron, Furrytopia), Earth Worm Jim (Insectika), or Space Quest (Pestulon).

Incidentally, there's a series of these that may work as page image.

Eh... I dunno.

Bump.

Did we... figure out the definition of this trope yet?

This trope is about planet names having weird consonants.

I think it should be limited to planets with the odd spellings and not include the "-otron"-ish names, but methinks that's a TRS issue.

What Wilbyr said, basically. I think there are two separate tropes here, but that's not a matter for this thread.