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* Moonbase Alpha in ''Series/Space1999''
* ''Franchise/StarTrek: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'':
** ''The Omega Directive'' (but the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] is interestingly NOT called the Alpha Directive)
*** This one is something of an exception. The name of the Omega Directive is related to its subject matter (Elimination of Omega particles), not its importance or ranking order.
*** Omega particles themselves ''are'' an example.
** access codes contain those
** Betazoids, perhaps
*** And Deltans
** The quadrants of the galaxy: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
** And AttackPatternAlpha.
* There's also Alpha-5 and Alpha-6, helpful robots from ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.
* Omega, the legendary Time Lord from ''Series/DoctorWho''
* ''Franchise/StarTrek: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'':
** ''The Omega Directive'' (but the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] is interestingly NOT called the Alpha Directive)
*** This one is something of an exception. The name of the Omega Directive is related to its subject matter (Elimination of Omega particles), not its importance or ranking order.
*** Omega particles themselves ''are'' an example.
** access codes contain those
** Betazoids, perhaps
*** And Deltans
** The quadrants of the galaxy: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
** And AttackPatternAlpha.
* There's also Alpha-5 and Alpha-6, helpful robots from ''Franchise/PowerRangers''.
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** ''The Omega Directive'' (buteponymous space station of ''Series/BabylonFive'' names most of its Starfury squadrons after Greek letters and orbits a planet named Epsilon III. Psi Corps uses the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] is interestingly NOT called the Alpha Directive)
*** This one is something of an exception. The name of the Omega Directive is related toletter as its subject matter (Elimination of Omega particles), not its importance or ranking order.
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* The eponymous space station of ''Series/BabylonFive'' names most of its Starfury squadrons after Greek letters and orbits a planet named Epsilon III. Psi Corps uses the letter as its insignia and all members wear it on a badge. Earth also fields the Omega-class destroyer and many many ships named after mythological figures.
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* The eponymous space station of ''Series/BabylonFive'' names most of its Starfury squadrons after Greek letters and orbits a planet named Epsilon III. Psi Corps uses TV series ''[[Series/{{Greek}} GRSSK]]''. Seems the letter as its insignia and all members wear it on a badge. Earth also fields the Omega-class destroyer and many many ships named after mythological figures.logo designers forgot that Sigma doesn't make an "e" sound.
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* The TV series ''[[Series/{{Greek}} GRSSK]]''. Seems the logo designers forgot that Sigma doesn't make an "e" sound.
* In ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' , in the episode "The Titans", Gabrielle supposedly chants in Greek. What she says is actually a mix of casual Greek salutations, like "Hello" and "Good morning" along with some weird stuff like the Spanish word for "night" ("noche") and the name of a Greek olive oil company. This was very puzzling for Greek people when it first aired as it did sound familiar, but unless one would access the Internet for the script, Gabrielle was just speaking utter crap with a horrible Greek accent. Her chant reads: "Thank you very much, so-so, hello good morning, hello good night, hello good night". The chant that turns the titans back to stone reads: "Hail! Hail! Hail! Hello hail! Good hail! Mupolita, Mupolita, Chania, Heraklion, Elais, motanis, hello, hello". It doesn't make much sense, especially the part with the random meaningless words (mupolita and motanis), the two Greek towns (Chania, Heraklion) and a Greek olive oil company (Elais).
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* In ''Film/DeadRisingEndgame'' if you look closely at the cages as the gang walks by the cages you'll notice they're labeled with Greek Lettering. Presumably the good doctor's naming method was naming them after the Greek Alphabet.
* In ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'' , in the episode "The Titans", Gabrielle supposedly chants in Greek. What she says is actually a mix of casual Greek salutations, like "Hello" and "Good morning" along with some weird stuff like the Spanish word for "night" ("noche") and the name of a Greek olive oil company. This was very puzzling for Greek people when it first aired as it did sound familiar, but unless one would access the Internet for the script, Gabrielle was just speaking utter crap with a horrible Greek accent. Her chant reads: "Thank you very much, so-so, hello good morning, hello good night, hello good night". The chant that turns the titans back to stone reads: "Hail! Hail! Hail! Hello hail! Good hail! Mupolita, Mupolita, Chania, Heraklion, Elais, motanis, hello, hello". It doesn't make much sense, especially the part with the random meaningless words (mupolita and motanis), the two Greek towns (Chania, Heraklion) and a Greek olive oil company (Elais).
* Ultra Hawk 1 and its Alpha, Beta, and Gamma flying components from ''Series/UltraSeven''.
* In ''Film/DeadRisingEndgame'' if you look closely at the cages as the gang walks by the cages you'll notice they're labeled with Greek Lettering. Presumably the good doctor's naming method was naming them after the Greek Alphabet.
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* Moonbase Alpha in ''Series/Space1999''
* ''Franchise/StarTrek: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'':
** ''The Omega Directive'' (but the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] is interestingly NOT called the Alpha Directive)
*** This one is something of an exception. The name of the Omega Directive is related to its subject matter (Elimination of Omega particles), not its importance or ranking order.
*** Omega particles themselves ''are'' an example.
** access codes contain those
** Betazoids, perhaps
*** And Deltans
** The quadrants of the galaxy: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
** And AttackPatternAlpha.
* Ultra Hawk 1 and its Alpha, Beta, and Gamma flying components from ''Series/UltraSeven''.
* ''{{Series/QI}}'' mentioned an 18th century British scientist write down quite a few of his observations in Greek, so that only a gentleman would be able to read it, because it involved [[spoiler:penguins engaging in necrophilia]].
* Moonbase Alpha in ''Series/Space1999''
* ''Franchise/StarTrek: [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration The Next Generation]]'':
** ''The Omega Directive'' (but the [[AlienNonInterferenceClause Prime Directive]] is interestingly NOT called the Alpha Directive)
*** This one is something of an exception. The name of the Omega Directive is related to its subject matter (Elimination of Omega particles), not its importance or ranking order.
*** Omega particles themselves ''are'' an example.
** access codes contain those
** Betazoids, perhaps
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** The quadrants of the galaxy: Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
** And AttackPatternAlpha.
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* The Alpha and Omega bomb from ''Film/BeneathThePlanetOfTheApes''
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** One of the prayers in a Catholic church service is the ''Kyrie'', named after the Greek ''Kyrie eleison, Christe eleison'' (Lord have mercy, Christ have mercy). It's normally recited or sung in the same language as the rest of the service, but Greek is used during Lent.
* All three letters in thethe name of T[[AC:E]]X, T'''E'''X, Donald Knuth's typesetting system, are Greek, although this is masked (or ignored) when writing the name using an "e" as the middle letter
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** The Alpha Legion use this in a way that's [[PlayingWithATrope both slightly understated and exaggerated]]. Their name aside, their leaders are Alpharius and Omegon. Also, as part of [[GangOfHats their force's trademark]] of extreme secrecy and subterfuge, to all outsiders, each and every one of them identified themselves with [[{{Catchphrase}} "I am Alpharius,"]] as Alpharius was the only member widely known to those outside the Legion since they needed at least one public face. During the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'', they didn't name their ships rather than designate them with the names of Greek letters.
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** The Alpha Legion use this in a way that's [[PlayingWithATrope both slightly understated and exaggerated]]. Their name aside, their leaders are Alpharius and Omegon. Also, as part of [[GangOfHats their force's trademark]] of extreme secrecy and subterfuge, to all outsiders, each and every one of them identified themselves with [[{{Catchphrase}} "I am Alpharius,"]] Alpharius," as Alpharius was the only member widely known to those outside the Legion since they needed at least one public face. During the ''Literature/HorusHeresy'', they didn't name their ships rather than designate them with the names of Greek letters.
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* The most powerful spells - including one literally named "[[KillItWithIce Kosmike]] [[LiterallyShatteredLives Katastrophe]]" (Κοσμική Καταστροφή) - in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' all have incantations in High Ancient, the series' term for Ancient Greek. The {{Omake}} features entire pages listing out incantations written in Greek and explaining the terminology (and occasionally, [[FunctionalMagic the physics behind the magic]]). [[DoingItForTheArt Not for nothing]] does Creator/KenAkamatsu take frequent research breaks.
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* The most powerful spells - including one literally named "[[KillItWithIce Kosmike]] [[LiterallyShatteredLives Katastrophe]]" (Κοσμική Καταστροφή) - in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' all have incantations in High Ancient, the series' term for Ancient Greek. The {{Omake}} features entire pages listing out incantations written in Greek and explaining the terminology (and occasionally, [[FunctionalMagic the physics behind the magic]]). [[DoingItForTheArt Not for nothing]] nothing does Creator/KenAkamatsu take frequent research breaks.
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* Most of [[VideoGame/SystemShock Citadel Station's]] levels are divided into four quadrants- Alpha, Beta, Gamma, and Delta.
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** Speaking of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', the unofficial motto of Unseen University's food service is "[[IncrediblyLamePun Eta Beta Pi]]".
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''How to Write a Blackwood Article'', a parody of the (apparently poorly-written) horror stories in the magazine Poe wrote for, has the narrator being told to include some random Greek in her story just because the letters look cool:
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''How to Write a Blackwood Article'', a parody of the (apparently poorly-written) horror stories in the magazine Poe wrote for, has the narrator being told to include some random Greek in her story just because the letters look cool:
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** Speaking of ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'', the unofficial motto of Unseen University's food service is "[[IncrediblyLamePun "[[{{Pun}} Eta Beta Pi]]".
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''How to Write a Blackwood Article'', a parody of the (apparentlypoorly-written) poorly written) horror stories in the magazine Poe wrote for, has the narrator being told to include some random Greek in her story just because the letters look cool:
* Creator/EdgarAllanPoe's ''How to Write a Blackwood Article'', a parody of the (apparently
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* ''VideoGame/TunnelB1'' names it's levels and objectives after Greek gods. You'll come across levels called Aristaeus, Eurydice, Persephone, Cerberus, Oceanus, Styx, Athena, Artemis, Charon, Aphrodite, Demeter, Tartarus, Hestia, and the like.
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* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', the PSI levels are measured through Greek Symbols, not numbers. The levels usually go Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Omega, but occasionally you'll see Sigma mixed in there as well.
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* In ''VideoGame/EarthBound'', ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', the PSI levels are measured through Greek Symbols, not numbers. The levels usually go Alpha, Beta, Gamma, Omega, but occasionally you'll see Sigma mixed in there as well.
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* The "Omega Effect" from the ''ComicBook/NewGods'', Comicbook/{{Darkseid}}'s ultimate attack. Its counterpart was later named the "Alpha Effect".
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** ''Series/MADtv'''s Kappa Kappa Kappa sorority deserves special mention. The UnfortunateImplications are played for all they've got.
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* In the finale of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch names one of his plans "Apate Aletheia." Apate was the Greek personification of deceit, while aletheia is a philosophical term that, at its simplest, means "truth." [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aletheia has a lot more detail.]]
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* In the finale of ''Anime/CodeGeass'', Lelouch names one of his plans "Apate Aletheia." Apate was the Greek personification of deceit, while aletheia is a philosophical term that, at its simplest, means "truth." [[Wiki/{{Wikipedia}} [[Website/{{Wikipedia}} The Other Wiki]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aletheia has a lot more detail.]]
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It worked for: Alpha Centauri, [[ILoveNuclearPower Gamma Radiation]], proton ("first"), electron ("amber", since static electricity was first discovered in properties of amber), lepton ("small"), meson ("middle"), baryon ("heavy"), hadron ("thick"), atom ("indivisible"), photon ("light"), synthesis ("combination"), photosynthesis ("combination from light"), technology ("craft studies"), biology ("life studies"), psychology ("soul/mind studies"), cryostasis ("frozen standing still"), metamorphosis ("transformation"), [[{{Cyborg}} Cybernetics]] ("piloting"), [[HighTechHexagons hexagons]]...
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It worked for: Alpha Centauri, [[ILoveNuclearPower Gamma Radiation]], Radiation, proton ("first"), electron ("amber", since static electricity was first discovered in properties of amber), lepton ("small"), meson ("middle"), baryon ("heavy"), hadron ("thick"), atom ("indivisible"), photon ("light"), synthesis ("combination"), photosynthesis ("combination from light"), technology ("craft studies"), biology ("life studies"), psychology ("soul/mind studies"), cryostasis ("frozen standing still"), metamorphosis ("transformation"), [[{{Cyborg}} Cybernetics]] ("piloting"), [[HighTechHexagons hexagons]]...
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* All the artificial intelligences introduced six seasons into ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' are named after letters of the Greek alphabet. They all come from a single intelligence, the Alpha, that had parts of it that controlled specific emotions grafted off and turned into intelligences of their own. The letter each AI is matched with is somewhat significant; take Omega, named after the last letter, who's made from the Alpha's hatred and as such, is very likely to end you.
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* All the artificial intelligences introduced six seasons into ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'' ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue'' are named after letters of the Greek alphabet. They all come from a single intelligence, the Alpha, that had parts of it that controlled specific emotions grafted off and turned into intelligences of their own. The letter each AI is matched with is somewhat significant; take Omega, named after the last letter, who's made from the Alpha's hatred and as such, is very likely to end you.
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' goes even deeper as of ''Shadowbringers'' and ''Endwalker''. With the reveal of the Ancients, whose society and language are modeled after Myth/ClassicalMythology, absolutely gratuitous amounts of Ancient Greek has been seeping into characters, locations, terms and even ''attack names''. The terms used are not only lifted from mythology but from obscure Greek philosophy as well, with words like ''entelechy'', ''dynamis'' and ''telos'' being thrown around willy-nilly.
*** It gets even crazier with the [[CombatMedic Sage]] class, which was fittingly released with ''Endwalker''. ''Every single one of its skill names'' is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is ''Raise'', for the Scholar, it's called ''Resurrection'' and the Astrologian's is called ''Ascend''. Sage? ''Egeiro''[[labelnote:Meaning]]"raise (one from sleep)"[[/labelnote]].
*** It gets even crazier with the [[CombatMedic Sage]] class, which was fittingly released with ''Endwalker''. ''Every single one of its skill names'' is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is ''Raise'', for the Scholar, it's called ''Resurrection'' and the Astrologian's is called ''Ascend''. Sage? ''Egeiro''[[labelnote:Meaning]]"raise (one from sleep)"[[/labelnote]].
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** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'' also goes even deeper than the rest of the series as of ''Shadowbringers'' and ''Endwalker''. With the reveal of the Ancients, whose society and language are modeled after Myth/ClassicalMythology, absolutely gratuitous amounts of Ancient Greek has been seeping into characters, locations, terms and even ''attack names''. The terms used are not only lifted from mythology but from obscure Greek philosophy as well, with words like ''entelechy'', ''dynamis'' and ''telos'' being thrown around willy-nilly.
*** It gets even crazier with the [[CombatMedic Sage]] class, which was fittingly released with ''Endwalker''. ''Every single one of its skill names'' is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is ''Raise'', for the Scholar, it's called ''Resurrection'' and the Astrologian's is called ''Ascend''. Sage?''Egeiro''[[labelnote:Meaning]]"raise ''[[OddNameOut Egeiro]]''[[labelnote:Meaning]]"raise (one from sleep)"[[/labelnote]].sleep)"[[/labelnote]].
*** Omega [[spoiler:or more specifically, the Omicron race that created it]] in this continuity also engages in its own form of GratuitousGreek involving the Greek alphabet. While Alpha has appeared all the way back in ''Stormblood'' as a character in the Dimensional Rift raid series, ''Endwalker'' reveals that [[spoiler:this was also the name of their homeworld of Alphatron. Eta, Lambda and Delta appear as infantry-level weapons of varying sizes and shapes, Stigma as the series of [[MasterComputer Master Computers]] that control their entire race, and Chi as a TacticalSuperweaponUnit [[LostSuperweapon gone missing]] that has even more firepower than Omega.]]
*** It gets even crazier with the [[CombatMedic Sage]] class, which was fittingly released with ''Endwalker''. ''Every single one of its skill names'' is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is ''Raise'', for the Scholar, it's called ''Resurrection'' and the Astrologian's is called ''Ascend''. Sage?
*** Omega [[spoiler:or more specifically, the Omicron race that created it]] in this continuity also engages in its own form of GratuitousGreek involving the Greek alphabet. While Alpha has appeared all the way back in ''Stormblood'' as a character in the Dimensional Rift raid series, ''Endwalker'' reveals that [[spoiler:this was also the name of their homeworld of Alphatron. Eta, Lambda and Delta appear as infantry-level weapons of varying sizes and shapes, Stigma as the series of [[MasterComputer Master Computers]] that control their entire race, and Chi as a TacticalSuperweaponUnit [[LostSuperweapon gone missing]] that has even more firepower than Omega.]]
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*** It gets even crazier with the [[CombatMedic Sage]] class, which was fittingly released with ''Endwalker''. ''Every single one of its skill names'' is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is ''Raise'', for the Scholar, it's called ''Resurrection'' and the Astrologian's is called ''Ascend''. Sage? ''Egeiro''[[labelnote:Meaning]]"(I) raise"[[/labelnote]].
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*** It gets even crazier with the [[CombatMedic Sage]] class, which was fittingly released with ''Endwalker''. ''Every single one of its skill names'' is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is ''Raise'', for the Scholar, it's called ''Resurrection'' and the Astrologian's is called ''Ascend''. Sage? ''Egeiro''[[labelnote:Meaning]]"(I) raise"[[/labelnote]].''Egeiro''[[labelnote:Meaning]]"raise (one from sleep)"[[/labelnote]].
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*** It gets even crazier with the [[CombatMedic Sage]] class, which was fittingly released with ''Endwalker''. ''Every single one of its skill names'' is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is ''Raise'', for the Scholar, it's called ''Resurrection'' and the Astrologian's is called ''Ascend''. Sage? ''Egeiro''[[labelnote:Meaning]]"(I) raise"[[/labelnote]].
*** It gets even crazier with the [[CombatMedic Sage]] class, which was fittingly released with ''Endwalker''. ''Every single one of its skill names'' is in Ancient Greek. As an example, every class in the Healer role (which Sage falls into) has its own name for its revive spell. For the White Mage, this is ''Raise'', for the Scholar, it's called ''Resurrection'' and the Astrologian's is called ''Ascend''. Sage? ''Egeiro''[[labelnote:Meaning]]"(I) raise"[[/labelnote]].
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* A problem with older academic texts in Britain is that the "classical tradition" was so deeply engrained in British universities, after centuries of practice, that an implicit assumption was that a Gentleman would have had an Education that involved inculcation in Latin and Greek. Otherwise that Gentleman would not be at Oxford or Cambridge. Therefore even as late as TheEighties, it was not uncommon to find older textbooks that would suddenly break off and make an academic point in Greek, or quote a Latin aphorism, with no translation provided. This also bedevilled the study of languages, as the asumption from several centuries previously was that Latin was the yardstick all other lesser languages were measured against. Therefore ''every'' language would be taught as if its grammar and structure was Latin - even when Latin grammar simply did not fit. [[note]]Imagine, for instance, Irish Gaelic taught through the medium of Latin case-forms and grammatical structure. This really was the case in the late 19th and early 20th centuries[[/note]]
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* ''Series/WhatWeDoInTheShadows2019'': One episode has Nadja conducting a seance using a Greek incantation... and an ''unbelievably'' [[LargeHam hammy]] delivery.
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** Suffice it to say, this trope is absolutely ubiquitous in the mathematics and sciences. Wiki/TheOtherWiki has an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathematics,_science,_and_engineering extensive list of examples.]]
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** Suffice it to say, this trope is absolutely ubiquitous in the mathematics and sciences. Wiki/TheOtherWiki Website/TheOtherWiki has an [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greek_letters_used_in_mathematics,_science,_and_engineering extensive list of examples.]]
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* ''Series/OnlyConnect'' previously had its contestants choose questions by Greek letters (alpha through zeta). Apparently they got complaints that this was pretentious, so they responded by replacing the Greek letters [[TakeThatCritics with Egyptian hieroglyphs.]]
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* Music/TheyMightBeGiants recorded a Greek version of their song Number Three (sung entirely by John Linnell as opposed to both him and John Flansburgh), including changing the verse about buying a guitar to buying a bağlama.
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* Music/TheyMightBeGiants recorded a (modern) Greek version of their song Number Three (sung entirely by John Linnell as opposed to both him and John Flansburgh), including changing the verse about buying a guitar to buying a bağlama.bağlama. They cheerfully admit that native speakers of Greek have described their pronunciation as "crappy."
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* ''{{VideoGame/Grow}}'' Series: The mobile versions of ''Grow Cube'' and ''Grow RPG'' have Japan-exclusive extensions called ''Grow Cube Omega'' and ''Grow RPG Sigma''.
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* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series has an interesting use of this. The series centers on a certain kind of weapon called "Keyblade", which is simply the English words key + blade, i.e. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a blade shaped and has a function like a key]]. However, ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' reveals that the swords are merely recreations of the one and only "χ-Blade", which is pronounced the same as the former but with the Greek letter χ-"khi" replacing "key". Indeed, one of the protagonists, Ventus, actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this when he doesn't realize that what the villain says about "[[ItIsPronouncedTroPay kee-blaed]]" isn't quite what he thinks it is. Seeing that the Greek language has a significantly longer history than English, it's probably meant to symbolize that it's very old and very, ''very'' powerful compared to ordinary keyblades.
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* ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' series has an interesting use of this. The series centers on a certain kind of weapon called "Keyblade", which is simply the English words key + blade, i.e. [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin a blade shaped and has a function like a key]]. However, ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'' reveals that the swords are merely recreations of the one and only "χ-Blade", which is pronounced the same as the former but with the Greek letter χ-"khi" replacing "key". Indeed, one of the protagonists, Ventus, actually [[LampshadeHanging lampshades]] this when he doesn't realize that what the villain says about "[[ItIsPronouncedTroPay kee-blaed]]" "kee-blaed" isn't quite what he thinks it is. Seeing that the Greek language has a significantly longer history than English, it's probably meant to symbolize that it's very old and very, ''very'' powerful compared to ordinary keyblades.
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* For some reason Claude occasionally slips into Greek in ''Fanfic/FireEmblemThreeHousesFifthPath'', despite Greece not existing and him being half-Almyran, which is a culture more akin to the Middle-East.
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Part of why, in Science Fiction, if something is really high-tech or related to electronics/computing, people just [[ElSpanishO put the suffix "-tron" on it]] (as with TronLines). Also see GratuitousLatin, XtremeKoolLetterz and TheBackwardsR. Often part of a MadLibThrillerTitle.
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Part of why, in Science Fiction, if something is really high-tech or related to electronics/computing, people just [[ElSpanishO [[NameTron put the suffix "-tron" on it]] (as with TronLines). Also see GratuitousLatin, XtremeKoolLetterz and TheBackwardsR. Often part of a MadLibThrillerTitle.
