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* ''WebComic/TheOrderOfTheStick'': The precursor adventuring party to the titular Order of the Stick is called the Order of the Scribble. Both parties are out to save the world from being destroyed by the same threat.
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* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': The {{nominal hero}}es receive the title of Light Warriors from a stupid king who wants them to save their world from {{harmless villain}}s who are called the Warriors of Darkness. There's another group wanting to save the world, it's called the Other Warriors. The only significant party that deviates from this pattern is a team of ForTheEvulz, effective villains called the Fiends.
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* ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'': The {{nominal hero}}es receive the title of Light Warriors from a stupid king who wants them to save their world from {{harmless villain}}s who are called the Warriors of Darkness. There's another group wanting to save the world, it's called the Other Warriors. The only significant party that deviates from this pattern is a team of ForTheEvulz, effective villains called the Fiends.
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Political parties in real life and fiction like to do this a lot too. Can be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] if both sides adopted names that were selected by a common third party, or if we're just hearing one side's nickname for the other.
Related to FunWithAcronyms and ThemeNaming. Compare VirusAndCureNames, which is this but for viruses and their cures.
Related to FunWithAcronyms and ThemeNaming. Compare VirusAndCureNames, which is this but for viruses and their cures.
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Political parties in real life and fiction like to do this a lot too. Can be [[JustifiedTrope justified]] {{justified|Trope}} if both sides adopted names that were selected by a common third party, or if we're just hearing one side's nickname for the other.
Related toFunWithAcronyms FunWithAcronyms, when an acronym spells something funny or significant., and ThemeNaming. ThemeNaming, when certain related elements of a story are named following a specific theme or pattern. Compare VirusAndCureNames, which is this but for viruses and their cures.
cures.
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* ''Literature/GulliversTravels'': There are the Big Endians and the Little Endians. Which actually refers to the reason for the conflict: [[SillyReasonForWar how to eat eggs]].
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* ''Literature/GulliversTravels'': There are the Big Endians and the Little Endians. Which actually refers to the reason for the conflict: [[SillyReasonForWar [[spoiler:[[SillyReasonForWar how to eat eggs]].eggs]]]].
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': The rival gangs are named Grove Street Families, Kilo Street Ballaz, Varrio Los Aztecas, and [[OddNameOut Los Santos Vagos]].
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* ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'': The rival ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoSanAndreas'' zig-zags this, as the primary gangs are named include the Grove Street Families, Kilo Street Ballaz, Varrio Families and Varrios Los Aztecas, and but [[OddNameOut also]] the more generically-named Los Santos Vagos]].Vagos and a set of several affiliated gangs referred to in general as just the Ballas. The latter at least do have four different subdivisions with names in the same style: Front Yard, Kilo Tray, Rollin' Heights, and Temple Drive.
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* ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'': U.N.I.T.Y vs H.A.R.M. are two enemy spy organizations.
* ''VideoGame/TiberianSeries'': GDI and the Brotherhood of Nod are by all indications not this trope, but it is a likely contributor to why Nod occasionally is referred to as NOD, and it was originally planned to be the case during the first game's development (NOD was originally going to stand for New Order of Diplomacy, but this was dropped early enough that there wasn't even any reference in the teaser or preview material).
* ''VideoGame/TiberianSeries'': GDI and the Brotherhood of Nod are by all indications not this trope, but it is a likely contributor to why Nod occasionally is referred to as NOD, and it was originally planned to be the case during the first game's development (NOD was originally going to stand for New Order of Diplomacy, but this was dropped early enough that there wasn't even any reference in the teaser or preview material).
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* ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'': U.N.I.T.Y vs and H.A.R.M. are two enemy opposing spy organizations.
organizations. Befitting the series' tone, several jokes are made about what H.A.R.M. is short for, up to and including hints that even the people of H.A.R.M. don't know what H.A.R.M. means.
*''VideoGame/TiberianSeries'': ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerTiberianSeries'': GDI and the Brotherhood of Nod are by all indications not this trope, but it is a likely contributor to why Nod occasionally is referred to as NOD, and it was originally planned to be the case during the first game's development (NOD was originally going to stand for New Order of Diplomacy, but this was dropped early enough that there wasn't even any reference in the teaser or preview material).
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Related to FunWithAcronyms and ThemeNaming.
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Related to FunWithAcronyms and ThemeNaming.
ThemeNaming. Compare VirusAndCureNames, which is this but for viruses and their cures.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RolandAndRattfink'': In "Hawks and Doves", Rattfink is the ruler of Hawkland and wages war on Doveland, defended by Roland.
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Three out of 30+ is hardly unified.
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* Website/SCPFoundation:
** It deals with so many other groups competing for anomalous objects they [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/groups-of-interest listed them all on a page]] for editors' reference. Of them, several are mainly referred to by their acronyms: the Global Occult Coalition (GOC), the Office For The Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts (ORIA), and the Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU) of the [=FBI=].
** Another group of renegade artists known as "Are We Cool Yet?" is usually referred to by OOC editors as AWCY(?).
** It deals with so many other groups competing for anomalous objects they [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/groups-of-interest listed them all on a page]] for editors' reference. Of them, several are mainly referred to by their acronyms: the Global Occult Coalition (GOC), the Office For The Reclamation of Islamic Artifacts (ORIA), and the Unusual Incidents Unit (UIU) of the [=FBI=].
** Another group of renegade artists known as "Are We Cool Yet?" is usually referred to by OOC editors as AWCY(?).
