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* The early Japanese Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[DubNameChange renamed the Autobots and Decepticons]] to 'Cybertrons' and 'Destrons' respectively (this has been {{retcon}}ned to the US names as of the [[Film/{{Transformers}} film series]]).

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* The early Japanese Franchise/{{Transformers}} [[DubNameChange renamed the Autobots and Decepticons]] to 'Cybertrons' and 'Destrons' respectively (this has been {{retcon}}ned to the US names as of the [[Film/{{Transformers}} film series]]).Film/TransformersFilmSeries).

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* In the PilotMovie of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', Evil Emperor Zurg dubbed his {{Mind Control|Device}} [[HypnoRay Ray]] powered by the [=LGM=]'s [[HiveMind Uni-Mind]] the Zurgatronic Mega Ray. When one of his minions misnamed the "Zurgarrific Ray", he corrected them, but said it wasn't a bad name and decided to file it away for a future project.
* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' has Mr. Butlertron, a robot version of Series/MrBelvedere (and originally named Mr. Belvetron).
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has positrons and negatrons, described as "the basic building blocks of good and evil".



* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has positrons and negatrons, described as "the basic building blocks of good and evil".
* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "SB-129" had Squidward traveling to the future and meeting a cyborg version of Spongebob named Spongetron.
* In the PilotMovie of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', Evil Emperor Zurg dubbed his {{Mind Control|Device}} [[HypnoRay Ray]] powered by the [=LGM=]'s [[HiveMind Uni-Mind]] the Zurgatronic Mega Ray. When one of his minions misnamed the "Zurgarrific Ray", he corrected them, but said it wasn't a bad name and decided to file it away for a future project.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': In "The Autobot Run", the Decepticons build a device called the Transfixatron to trap the Autobots in their vehicle modes. Megatron, his name being a nod to this trope, also refers to the test subject of said device as a "guinea pigatron".
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Angelica once imagined herself as Angelitron. Her doll Cynthia became Cynthiatron [[RunningGag but remained just as defunct]].

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* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has positrons Cripple-Tron, a result of Joe and negatrons, described as "the basic building blocks of good and evil".
* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "SB-129" had Squidward traveling
other handicapped people combining to the future and meeting a cyborg version of Spongebob named Spongetron.
* In the PilotMovie of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', Evil Emperor Zurg dubbed his {{Mind Control|Device}} [[HypnoRay Ray]] powered by the [=LGM=]'s [[HiveMind Uni-Mind]] the Zurgatronic Mega Ray. When one of his minions misnamed the "Zurgarrific Ray", he corrected them, but said it wasn't a bad name and decided to file it away for a future project.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': In "The Autobot Run", the Decepticons build a device called the Transfixatron to trap the Autobots in their vehicle modes. Megatron, his name being a nod to this trope, also refers to the test subject of said device as a "guinea pigatron".
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Angelica once imagined herself as Angelitron. Her doll Cynthia became Cynthiatron [[RunningGag but remained just as defunct]].
combat Peter.



* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' short "Space Patrol", Bart is Bartron, the evil robot from Mars gone berserk.
* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' has Cripple-Tron, a result of Joe and other handicapped people combining to combat Peter.
* ''WesternAnimation/CloneHigh'' has Mr. Butlertron, a robot version of Series/MrBelvedere (and originally named Mr. Belvetron).


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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'', Angelica once imagined herself as Angelitron. Her doll Cynthia became Cynthiatron [[RunningGag but remained just as defunct]].
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' short "Space Patrol", Bart is Bartron, the evil robot from Mars gone berserk.
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicBoom'': In "[[Recap/SonicBoomS1E1TheSidekick The Sidekick]]," One of the alternate names Sonic suggests for Burnbot[[note]][[NonIndicativeName who fights using]] PowerPincers, [[NonIndicativeName not flamethrowers]][[/note]] is "Pinchitron [[AdvancedTech2000 9000]]."
* The ''WesternAnimation/SpongebobSquarepants'' episode "SB-129" had Squidward traveling to the future and meeting a cyborg version of Spongebob named Spongetron.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheTransformers'': In "The Autobot Run", the Decepticons build a device called the Transfixatron to trap the Autobots in their vehicle modes. Megatron, his name being a nod to this trope, also refers to the test subject of said device as a "guinea pigatron".
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* ''Newtron'', a Chunsoft/Enix game for the UsefulNotes/PC88, was named in reference to UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton.

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* ''Newtron'', a Chunsoft/Enix game for the UsefulNotes/PC88, Platform/PC88, was named in reference to UsefulNotes/IsaacNewton.
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But this trope is about how in fiction, it's used as a suffix just for RuleOfCool. Sometimes it's a name, sometimes it's a device that doesn't really fit the suffix, but it's called that anyway.

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But this trope is about how in fiction, it's used as a suffix just for RuleOfCool. Sometimes it's a name, sometimes it's a device that doesn't really fit the suffix, but it's called that anyway.
anyway. This trope was especially common in TheEighties as the explosion in personal computer and video game console sales during that decade made elec'''tron'''ic devices and the resulting discourse around them much more mainstream.
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[[caption-width-right:350:UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum games/programs of "Tron".]]

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* ''Vectron'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} was inspired in gameplay and name by ''VideoGame/{{Tempest}}'', which had [[VectorGame vector graphics]]. (The "tron" suffix came to be because the game's WorkingTitle, ''Vectrix'', was too similar to the recently announced UsefulNotes/{{Vectrex}}.)

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* ''Vectron'' for the UsefulNotes/{{Intellivision}} Platform/{{Intellivision}} was inspired in gameplay and name by ''VideoGame/{{Tempest}}'', which had [[VectorGame vector graphics]]. (The "tron" suffix came to be because the game's WorkingTitle, ''Vectrix'', was too similar to the recently announced UsefulNotes/{{Vectrex}}.Platform/{{Vectrex}}.)



* ''Quazatron'', the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum adaptation of ''VideoGame/{{Paradroid}}'', and its sequel ''Magnetron''.

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* ''Quazatron'', the UsefulNotes/ZXSpectrum Platform/ZXSpectrum adaptation of ''VideoGame/{{Paradroid}}'', and its sequel ''Magnetron''.



* ''Sinistron'', a horizontally scrolling shooter for the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16.

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* ''Sinistron'', a horizontally scrolling shooter for the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16.Platform/TurboGrafx16.



* Logotron, a British publisher of educational software and, for a few years in the 1980s, computer games, was apparently named after its first product, an implementation of the programming language [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) Logo]] for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro.

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* Logotron, a British publisher of educational software and, for a few years in the 1980s, computer games, was apparently named after its first product, an implementation of the programming language [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logo_(programming_language) Logo]] for the UsefulNotes/BBCMicro.Platform/BBCMicro.
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* ''Pinball/FooFighters2023'': The part of the heads-up display that keeps track of combos is dubbed the "Combo-Tron" in-universe.
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* ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'': One arc has Calvin invent a device called a Cerebral Enhance-O-Tron to enhance his brain when he needs to write an essay for school.
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* ''Fanfic/TheVictorsProject'': Hardcore fans of District Six's Hunger Games tributes are dubbed Sixatrons. They become increasingly unruly as more time passes without anyone from the District wining, to the point of violently rioting after a quarter century with no wins and the Gamemakers eventually deciding to appease them by rigging the Twenty-Eighth Hunger Games so the tributes from Six are more likely to succeed.
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* ''WesternAnimation/ThePatrickStarShow'':
** Parodied with Pat-Tron's home planet being called ''[[RepetitiveName Tron-tron]]''. This applies not only to Pat-Tron himself, but his grandfather Grand-Tron and cousin Inga-Tron.
** In "[[Recap/ThePatrickStarShowS2E1ThePatrickShowCashesInStarGames The Star Games]]", Patrick gets around the house for {{Game Show}}s on a motorized vehicle [[AllThereInTheScript called Host-Tron in the credits]].

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* Hector Guerrero briefly worked as a masker wrestler named "Lasertron", winning the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA World Junior Heavyweight Title while in Jim Crocket Promotions.

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* Hector Guerrero briefly worked as a masker masked wrestler named "Lasertron", winning the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA World Junior Heavyweight Title while in Jim Crocket Promotions.



* The Vectron is a modern electric locomotive.



* Surprisingly, there is a Vectron in real life: It's a family of locomotives made by Siemens[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectron_%28locomotive%29]].

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* Surprisingly, there is a The Vectron in real life: It's is a family of modern electric locomotives made by Siemens[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vectron_%28locomotive%29]].
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* In David Macaulay's book ''Mill'', the epilogue has the last cotton mill in Wicksbridge acquired by the Fabritron Corporation, who eventually shut it down as obsolete.
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* Freezepop's song "Robotron 2000".
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* [[WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand Evil Emperor Zurg's]] Zurgatronic Mega Ray.

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* [[WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand In the PilotMovie of ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand'', Evil Emperor Zurg's]] Zurg dubbed his {{Mind Control|Device}} [[HypnoRay Ray]] powered by the [=LGM=]'s [[HiveMind Uni-Mind]] the Zurgatronic Mega Ray.Ray. When one of his minions misnamed the "Zurgarrific Ray", he corrected them, but said it wasn't a bad name and decided to file it away for a future project.

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