This page needs... serious cleaning. The definition of "wacky name" seems to be... ill-defined, most examples are zero context (they list the names, but not the wacky character part), there are definite non-wacky people, we've got non-Americans, and examples where everyone is American, which doesn't really make sense for this trope as it's about National Stereotypes.
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Agreed. I don't understand why in "On the subject of Mitt Romney: "Mitt? What a stupid name. What the hell is it short for? 'Mitthew'?", said... Marcus Brigstocke." - Marcus Brigstocke redirects to Hypocritical Humour? I'm a Brit here, so it may just be that this is Lost in Translation for me.
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They really don't have Dwights or Hanks in other Anglophone countries!?
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Do people really think "Hiram" is a common American name?
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It's a Semitic name, so it may be more common in Jewish or Arab circles.
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I suppose that even if Real Life examples were allowed, this American was not particularly wacky, but I always did like the name of 1840s murderer Dr. Valorous P. Coolidge.
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I WISH that they wouldn't delete the ENTIRE Real Life section. Pick through it, take out the specific examples/of living people and LEAVE the general/historical ones!
One thing that strikes me as odd in Death Note are the names of the FBI agents that are dispatched to Japan to help hunt Kira down. I mean, I know they are meant to be fictional, but those are way past fictional, and I don't mean just Raye Penber who was the only one with any screentime. If this doesn't fit here, where would it go?
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