Basic Trope: A positive-sounding name that signifies a similarly heroic, positive character.
- Straight: Sunny Tenderheart is an incorruptibly pure heroine.
- Exaggerated: Sunshine Grace Goodfellow-Tenderheart is an incorruptibly pure Messianic Archetype ingenue who wouldn't hurt a fly.
- Downplayed: Sunshine Smith is a positive and friendly character.
- Justified: Sunny was given her name by her parents because they thought she would become a good person to live up to her name, and it worked.
- Inverted:
- Names to Run Away from Really Fast
- Sunny Tenderheart is a heartless, cruel villain.
- Edvard "Bloodsplatterer" Evulz is a very nice guy.
- Subverted:
- Sunny Tenderheart acts kind and nice...for all of five seconds. She's really a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
- Fluffy the Terrible
- Double Subverted: ...She was just brainwashed at the time; she genuinely is a good-hearted person.
- Parodied: A bad guy renames himself to Sunny Tenderheart and goes to a Heel–Face Turn.
- Zig Zagged: Sunny Tenderheart goes through the Heel–Face Revolving Door.
- Averted: Sunny's name doesn't provide any hints to her morality or alignment.
- Enforced: The editors complain that "Samantha Smith" by itself isn't positive enough for the character, so the author changes the character's name to "Sunshine".
- Lampshaded: "How can you distrust anyone named 'Sunny Tenderheart'?"
- Invoked: Samantha Smith undergoes a Heel–Face Turn and changes her name to "Sunny Tenderheart" to reflect her new, good alignment.
- Exploited: A villain conducts secret illicit operations under the name of "Sunny Tenderheart", knowing that no one would ever suspect such a name.
- Defied: Samantha Smith refuses to change her name to something more positive-sounding upon becoming good.
- Discussed: "Sunny Tenderheart? We should definitely trust her! Video games have taught me that positive names are always linked to good character!"
- Conversed: "The main character's name is Sunny Tenderheart? What kind of author names their character that? I know they were going for positive and trustworthy, but it's just so hippy-dippy."
Back to Names to Trust Immediately.
