History Main / NounVerber

* The U.S. Military has often utilized Code Talkers, Native American servicemen and women who use their native language in conjunction with code to unbreakable radio cypher. The most famous of these were the Navajo Code Talkers who served in the Pacific theater during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

** When it's a name (like Kael'thas Sunstrider), it's clearly intended as a translation from a fantasy language. Not helping matters though, Blizzard never made these languages. Still it's [[NameThatUnfoldsLikeALotus a naming convention]] rather than this trope.

* The U.S. Military has often utilized Code Talkers, Native American servicemen and women who use their native language as an unbreakable radio cypher. The most famous of these were the Navajo Code Talkers who served in the Pacific theater during UsefulNotes/WorldWarII.

** ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' has each of the ten Orders of the Knights Radiant identified by such an appellation. Only the [[PlayingWithFire Dustbringers]] have a problem with theirs, insisting on the euphemistic "Releasers" out of a feeling that their proper name is too close to the similar name of the forces of the setting's BigBad: the Voidbringers.

** ''Literature{{Warbreaker}}'' has many of the [[PhysicalGod Returned]] with names like this, such as Blushweaver, Lifeblesser, and the titular Warbreaker, although not all Returned have this type of name.

** In ''Literature/WaxAndWayne'' 300 years after the [[Literature/{{Mistborn}} Catacendre]], Feruchemy has been diluted in the population to the point that instead of all sixteen powers, a Feruchemist only has access to one each. Each type of Feruchemist has a name, four of which are this trope: [[HealingFactor Bloodmaker]], [[EnergyAbsorption Soulbearer]], [[SuperSenses Windwhisperer]], and [[SuperSpeed Steelrunner]].

* ''Literature/TheStormlightArchive'' has each of the Orders of the Knights Radiant identified by such an appellation. Only the [[PlayingWithFire Dustbringers]] have a problem with theirs, insisting on the euphemistic "Releasers" out of a feeling that their proper name is too close to the similar name of the forces of the setting's BigBad: the Voidbringers.

* ''Series/{{Shadowhunters}}''

* ''Film/Soultaker''

* Some of the species in ''WebOriginal/{{Serina}}'' have names like this, including billion-stingers (ants that live in huge, constantly-moving colonies), gravediggers (descendants of canaries, who catch their prey using traps), and woodcrafters (deer-like descendants of guppies, who use their antler-like ears to prune trees).

* ''Film/BladeRunner''

* ''VideoGame/GhostReconAdvanced Warfighter''.

* ''Creator/TomClancy's VideoGame/GhostRecon'': '''''Advanced Warfighter'''''.

* "Star Star", by Music/TheRollingStones fits this trope in its [[CensoredTitle original form]] [[spoiler:of "Starfucker"]]

* Wiki/TVTropes:

* ''LightNovel/VampireHunterD''

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* ''Radio/TheLoneRanger''
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* A few installments of ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' uses this naming method, notably ''Literature/StarStrider'', ''Literature/{{Spellbreaker}}'', ''Literature/{{Moonrunner}}'', ''Literature/{{Magehunter}}'', ''Stormslayer'' and the spin-off adventure ''Dungeoneer''.

Compare LukeNounverber (when the same principle is applied to character names), VerberCreature (the same principle applied to how a species is called) and TheNounWhoVerbed. AdjectiveNounFred could be considered the intersection of this trope and ProtagonistTitle. See also WeWillUseWikiWordsInTheFuture.

* The Franchise/DCComics "DC Icons" series of YA novels are all titled like this: ''Literature/WonderWomanWarbringer'', ''Literature/BatmanNightwalker'', and ''ComicBook/CatwomanSoulstealer''.

* The Franchise/DCComics "DC Icons" series of YA novels are all titled like this: ''ComicBook/WonderWomanWarbringer''; ''ComicBook/BatmanNightwalker''; ''ComicBook/CatwomanSoulstealer'' and ''ComicBook/SupermanDawnbreaker''.

* The Franchise/DCComics "DC Icons" series of YA novels are all titled like this: ''Literature/WonderWomanWarbringer''; ''Literature/BatmanNightwalker''; ''Literature/CatwomanSoulstealer'' and ''Literature/SupermanDawnbreaker''.

** Granted, [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters they need thousands and thousands of names]] for all the mobs in the game, but that doesn't make the trope any less annoying [[TVTropesWillRuinYourLife when you start paying attention to it.]]

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' is positively brimming with Nounverbers, such as the famous Planeswalkers. Many of their nounverbers verb nouns with verbs that don't even make sense. How does one [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=29709 weave smoke?]] Or [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=139465 braid it?]] How does one [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=121133 grin gristle?]] Why would some elves who live in the wild want to [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=135436 slay it?]] What's so great about [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=118912 a creature who can see something six feet away?]] And who would ever want to [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=28009 buy spirits from a giant monster?]]