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* "Scylla" from ''Series/PrisonBreak'' has neither a "Charybdis" counterpart nor does it share any other characteristics with the sea monster of the same name.

* The trope is parodied in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' when someone pointed out that Jesse Custer's name has "J.C." for initials and Jesse says it's a ridiculous idea. He insists on it even after he heals the sick, or rather, uses the Word of God to order a mentally-tortured man to forget about his ordeal (which Jesse was responsible for in the first place).

->'''''"A ɴᴀᴍᴇ ɪs ᴀ ᴄʟᴏᴀᴋ ᴏғ ʟᴇᴛᴛᴇʀs ᴛʜʀᴏᴡɴ ᴜᴘᴏɴ ᴀ ᴍᴀɴ. Iᴛ ᴍᴇᴀɴs''''' '''ɴᴏᴛʜɪɴɢ.''''''''"'''''

* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' has Immortals (who regularly wipe most of their memory anyway) randomly taking grand names from some or other mythology. As one of them said, there's nothing as funny as a hissy fit happening whenever two "Zeus"-es meet. Which is one of reasons why he prefers "Jerry".

->''"A NAME IS A CLOAK OF LETTERS THROWN UPON A MAN. IT MEANS ''NOTHING."''

* The trope is parodied in ''ComicBook/{{Preacher}}'' when someone pointed out that Jesse Custer's name has "J.C." for initials and Jesse says it's a ridiculous idea.

* The [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad four enemy Mega Men]] in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent''. They all have names taken from mythology; none of them are at all related to their elemental powers, and at least half of them are even the wrong gender. For example, the male Siarnaq is named after a Inuit goddess of ice. There is a bit more to the ThemeNaming, however, in that three out of four-- along with another pair of characters, Prometheus and Pandora-- share their names with moons orbiting Saturn (Aeolus is the only exception).

->'''''A NAME IS A CLOAK OF LETTERS THROWN UPON A MAN. IT MEANS ''NOTHING.'''''''

** Creator/YoshitakaAmano once bragged in an interview that the common Japanese pop cultural portrayal of Bahamut as being the King of the Dragons was invented by him, because he thought dragons were cool. (The mythological Bahamut is a sort of weird goat monster.)
** The writers of '' VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' actually got asked a lot by nerds why they used the name Orthros, a Greek dog monster, for a purple octopus character. It was eventually revealed to have been inspired by a purple octopus toy called Orthros that Creator/HironobuSakaguchi had as a child. (The English localisation changed his name to Ultros, avoiding the embarrassment.)

* ''VideoGame/DawnOfWar'': The Blood Ravens don't have as well-defined a theme as other SpaceMarine chapters (who are space Vikings/Mongols/Romans/Renaissance Italians...), so their names can go from Greek myth (Endymion, Apollo Diomedes) to referencing the North (Davian Thule, Indrick Boreale), Abrahamic religion (Gabriel Angelos, Thaddeus), both (Jonah Orion) and sometimes, CanisLatinicus (Martellus, Avitus).

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* The [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad four enemy Mega Men]] in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent''. They all have names taken from mythology; none of them are at all related to their elemental powers, and at least half of them are even the wrong gender. For example, the male Siarnaq is named after a Inuit goddess of ice. There is a bit more to the ThemeNaming, however, in that three out of four� along with another pair of characters, Prometheus and Pandora� share their names with moons orbiting Saturn (Aeolus is the only exception).

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* The [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad four enemy Mega Men]] in ''VideoGame/MegaManZX Advent''. They all have names taken from mythology; none of them are at all related to their elemental powers, and at least half of them are even the wrong gender. For example, the male Siarnaq is named after a Inuit goddess of ice. There is a bit more to the ThemeNaming, however, in that three out of four— along with another pair of characters, Prometheus and Pandora— share their names with moons orbiting Saturn (Aeolus is the only exception).

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** The writers of '' VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'' actually got asked a lot by nerds why they used the name Orthros, a Greek dog monster, for a purple octopus character. It was eventually revealed to have been inspired by a purple octopus toy called Orthros that Creator/HiranobuSakaguchi had as a child. (The English localisation changed his name to Ultros, avoiding the embarrassment.)

** Gilgamesh, in Sumerian mythology, was a great hero and king. The recurring Gilgamesh in ''Final Fantasy'' is a silly VillainWithAnFInEvil with a kabuki/classical Japanese aesthetic.

* All the bosses in the ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead'' series are named after the Major Arcana of the standard Tarot deck. Sometimes, the names very vaguely describe the enemy (i.e. the multi-headed hydra dubbed "Tower" is pretty tall and the batlike "Hanged Man" is suspended in the air), but they're mostly just there to be cool.
* In any given ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' game, there's often a few people with names taken from Mythology (I.e. Cain and Abel, Minerva, Percieval, etc.), who seem to have been named at random without much consideration.

* "Scylla" from ''PrisonBreak'' has neither a "Charybdis" counterpart nor does it share any other characteristics with the sea monster of the same name.

* The ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo.

* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' has minor {{NPC}}s named Cthulhu and Santa. The latter is an ordinary Mimiga who looks almost entirely unlike SantaClaus. Funnily enough though, when ''Cave Story+'' added {{Holiday Modes}}s, Santa is dressed like Santa Claus on Christmas and the Cthulhu actually look like their namesake on Halloween.

* ''VideoGame/CaveStory'' has minor {{NPC}}s named Cthulhu and Santa. The latter is an ordinary Mimiga who looks almost entirely unlike SantaClaus.

* In any given ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' Fire Emblem game, there's often a few people with names taken from Mythology (I.e. Cain and Abel, Minerva, Percieval, etc.), who seem to have been named at random without much consideration.

* ''EarthMaidenArjuna'' has an archer heroine named after the Hindu hero of the ''Baghavad Gita'', but the series is a UsefulNotes/{{Taois|m}}t tract and the heroine's journey is completely different to that of her mythical namesake.
* Everything biblical in ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion.'' WordOfGod states that it was used because there are almost no Christians in Japan, so the imagery would seem exotic and foreign, like how westerners view ninjas, samurai, etc etc.

* All the bosses in the ''HouseOfTheDead'' series are named after the Major Arcana of the standard Tarot deck. Sometimes, the names very vaguely describe the enemy (i.e. the multi-headed hydra dubbed "Tower" is pretty tall and the batlike "Hanged Man" is suspended in the air), but they're mostly just there to be cool.

-->-- '''The Transcendent One''', ''PlanescapeTorment''

* ''EarthMaidenArjuna'' has an archer heroine named after the Hindu hero of the ''Baghavad Gita'', but the series is a [[UsefulNotes/{{Taoism}} taoist]] tract and the heroine's journey is completely different to that of her mythical namesake.
* Everything biblical in ''NeonGenesisEvangelion.'' WordOfGod states that it was used because there are almost no Christians in Japan, so the imagery would seem exotic and foreign, like how westerners view ninjas, samurai, etc etc.

* The ''ComicBook/{{X-Men}}'' went through a phase in UsefulNotes/{{the Dark Age|of Comic Books}} when a lot of new characters had Biblical or religious names, sometimes appropriately (Apocalypse, Nimrod), vaguely appropriately (Babel spires), or for no particular reason at all (Bishop, Gideon). Ahab would count, except that he's an obvious reference to ''Literature/MobyDick.''
* The trope is parodied in ''{{Preacher}}'' when someone pointed out that Jesse Custer's name has "J.C." for initials and Jesse says it's a ridiculous idea.

* The protagonist of ''Webcomic/{{Inverloch}}'' is named Acheron not after the river of death in GreekMythology, but a town in Australia near the author's home.