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[[caption-width-right:189:Thix is the xoolest letter in xhe world. [[TheInternetIsForPorn Especially in triplicate]].]]

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[[caption-width-right:189:This is the coolest letter in the world. [[TheInternetIsForPorn Especially in triplicate]].]]

X. There'x alwayx xomething about the letter X that just makes anything cool (including this article). A lot of people use it gratuitously on a name, product, model, etc. just so it has some sort of edge to it. Want some pizzazz? Add an X somewhere in the name. It doesn't matter where, as long as there's an X. And it has to be a capital X. Lowercase x is just too puny to be cool. [[AccidentalInnuendo Just don't add 3.]]

There'x alwayx xomething about the letter X that just makes anything cool (including this article). A lot of people use it gratuitously on a name, product, model, etc. just so it has some sort of edge to it. Want some pizzazz? Add an X somewhere in the name. It doesn't matter where, as long as there's an X. And it has to be a capital X. Lowercase x is just too puny to be cool. [[AccidentalInnuendo Just don't add 3.]]

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There's always something about the letter X that just makes anything cool (including this article). A lot of people use it gratuitously on a name, product, model, etc. just so it has some sort of edge to it. Want some pizzazz? Add an X somewhere in the name. It doesn't matter where, as long as there's an X. And it has to be a capital X. Lowercase x is just too puny to be cool. [[AccidentalInnuendo Just don't add 3.]]

** The X Window System for UNIX and Linux (which includes x-terminal, x-clock, etc). Justified--it's predecessor was "W" (as in ''windowing''), which ran on the V operating system.

* This trope is {{discussed|Trope}} during LetsPlay/TheRunawayGuys' LetsPlay of ''VideoGame/MarioParty 4'':

* ''Creator/DisneyXD'', or "eXtremely Digital". That's right, little boys, [[WereStillRelevantDammit Disney is cool now and totally not just for girls]].

* In the Literature/{{Discworld}} of Creator/AAPessimal, [[UsefulNotes/Russia Rodinian]] witch Xenia Galena runs into a little problem when her name is transliterated from Cyrillic to Morporkian script; in a place fairly recently beset by Gothic dreamers who set up a pseudo-coven of their own, nobody believes anyone can really have a name beginning with an X. Puzzled by older Witches patiently asking her what her ''real'' name is, she turns to a friend who has lived among these peculiar people and knows how their minds work. Irena Politeka explains to both sides.
** A young Witch whose parents christened her "Xena" also has the same problem. Reluctantly, she trades in the "X" for a "Z" but people suspect that's a made-up ''black lacy gloves with no fingers" sort of name too.

* Film/AmericanHistoryX , particularly if you have Creator/AveryBrooks [[TitleDrop bark]] the phrase]] at the bratty teenager sitting in his office.

* Film/AmericanHistoryX , particularly if you have Creator/AveryBrooks [[AngryBlackMan bark]] [[TitleDrop the phrase]] at the bratty teenager sitting in his office.

* ''Film/JuliaX'' is about SerialKillerKiller Julia, who has an 'X' [[ButtBrand branded on her butt cheek]] by the SerialKiller known as the 'the Brand Killer'.

* ''VideoGame/Splatoon2'' introduced an example of this to the ''VideoGame/{{Splatoon}}'' series' [[RankInflation ever-expanding]] list of multiplayer ranks. First are the nine lettered ranks from Rank C- to Rank A+, then the even higher Rank S, and ''then'' the additional Rank S+, which itself contains ten numbered sub-ranks from S+0 to S+9... If one can climb their way through all of these, they will be awarded with the highest rank in the game, which contains roughly the ''top one percent'' of all players: '''Rank X'''.

*** And of course, there's the UsefulNotes/XboxOne X. When not even two X'es are cool enough. Followed by the Usefulnotes/XboxOneSeriesX (though that one has an alternate, the Series S).

'''Bender:''' [[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord 'Blackmail' is such an ugly word]], I prefer 'extortion'. The 'X' makes it sound cool.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans'' features a villain named Red X. Although he does utilise a variety of tools with an "X" motif, the design of the tools would entirely depend on the user's taste, so the trope still applies.

'''Bender:''' ''[[BlackmailIsSuchAnUglyWord "Blackmail" is such an ugly word]], I prefer 'extortion'. The 'X' makes it sound cool.

'''Bender:''' 'Blackmail' is such an ugly word. I prefer 'extortion'. The 'X' makes it sound cool.

* In ''VideoGame/MetroidFusion'', the alien baddies were named 'X'. These were so Badass, the old ones had to create a bioweapon to stop it, which was then stolen and used to terrorize the galaxy.

Subtrope of XtremeKoolLetterz. For tropes that make use of this and when a work sequel adds the ''X'' after the original title, see LetteredSequel. See also FourX, LetXBeTheUnknown. Not to be confused with [[SugarWiki/AndTheFandomRejoiced [A Metasyntactic Variable As Portrayed In This Case By X] Makes Anything Cool]].

* The Japanese version of ''[[VideoGame/StreetFighter Super Street Fighter II Turbo]]'' is called ''Super Street Fighter II X'' (likely changed due to the fact that the letter X could be confused with the roman numeral for ten). This is the reason why the letter "X" appears when a Super Combo is used in the UsefulNotes/GameBoyAdvance version, as well as why the "Super Turbo"-like fighting style in ''Street Fighter Alpha 3'' is called "X-ism".

** While the former's "x" is pronounced with a sound typical of many English language and French language "x" sounds, the latter has an "x" that sounds like the Spanish "j," which sounds like the English "h," in the non-Anglicized Spanish pronunciation. The original, non-Hispanicized form of the Nahuatl word, Mexihco, has the "x" pronounced like the English "sh" ''and'' is spelled with the letter "h."
** The abbreviation of [[UsefulNotes/MexicoCity Ciudad de Mexico]], the national capital [[note]]Complete with a federal district nonetheless. The other country which has a national capital with a federal district is the United States of America, with Washington, DC.[[/note]] of the latter nation, is [=CDMX=].

** The USA state of Texas, originally part of same state along with Coahuila (which is still a Mexican state to this day) and Coahuila y Tejas, originally had the letter "x" in its name have the same sound as the Spanish "j," but has a typical English language "x" sound nowadays as The USA has English is its primary de facto language [[note]] Neither the USA not Mexico have official or de jure languages[[/note]].
** The Mexican states of Oaxaca and (Estado de Mexico) have the letter "x" in their names pronounced the same as the non-Anglicized pronunciation of Mexico.
** The USA state, and former Mexican state, of New Mexico [[note]]named after el Valle de Mexico[[/note]] has the same pronunciation on the letter "x" as the Anglicized pronunciation of Mexico.