The thing is that tropes like Theme Naming and Meaningful Name have context for what they're about, generally speaking, through aspects like personality and story. To write up an example you need to provide a bit of background to explain why it's meaningful or part of a theme, so there aren't many ZCEs.
Alliterative Name doesn't have that sense of purpose. They're easy to remember and pronounce, yes, but that's usually not relevant to the story... Since this is a common trope, it just ends up becoming a list of names. People Sit On Chairs, I guess. DiamondWeapon mentioned this earlier; the trope really just needs something to define it besides just being alliterative. My suggestion was having the alliterative name mean something in-story, but I honestly think anything could work, as long as it provides context.
edited 30th May '16 7:58:20 PM by NoUsername
Since forcing examples to be acknowledged In-Universe would give this trope 0 wicks, it would cut down on some of the abuse.
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickI think in-universe acknowledgement is the wrong idea for character name tropes. It's not unknown for Alliterative Name, as proved by this example on the quotes page: "Salladhor Saan is a good name for songs." But what kind of a statement is that? Most of the time, there doesn't seem to be any meaning to alliteration, in or out of the story, other than that it sounds neat.
It's not People Sit On Chairs because there's no context. People Sit On Chairs is when there's no meaning to it. If it has a purpose to make people remember it more easily, it has a meaning. Not a meaning for the story, but to the audience, so they can more easily remember what the characters they're reading about are named. It's basically Notice This for names.
I think it's enough if any kind of attention is brought to it, in or out of universe, or if it's a pattern within a work or by a creator (which would show it's probably not a coincidence).
edited 31st May '16 6:30:36 PM by AnotherDuck
Check out my fanfiction!Yeah, you're right about Chairs; it's not exactly what I was talking about. What I'm trying to get at, I guess, is that there's something "missing" from this trope. The only requirement here is that both names start with the same letter or sound, resulting in nothing but lists. If we add some kind of other rule, it'd help give it a bit more of a backbone: for example, having an in-universe or out-of-universe acknowledgement, or having alliterative names in a group to help distinguish each member. That's something I know most people here agree on.
Shoving it in trivia because you can't make it functional is not an answer. Right now this is trending to being 0% useful though. It's about as functional as a "trope" pointing out red chairs. There is no context in any example and just a scramble to shove some grasping at meaning in the description.
If we don't want to make it about a naming theme for a whole work and thus giving it some chance at context, we should probably just axe it.
edited 1st Jun '16 5:53:57 AM by shimaspawn
Reality is that, which when you stop believing in it, doesn't go away. -Philip K. DickTwo First Names is another trope page facing the same issue.
edited 5th Jun '16 5:26:08 AM by eroock
I figured. "Unusual" is kind of vague, though, and not something to define a trope after. It also means it's something that breaks a pattern, which is moving away from what a trope is.
Check out my fanfiction!The main reason I am against redefining this trope is that alliterative naming is a thing that authors actually do. Usually in the form of theme naming or code names, but something they sometimes do with select characters as well, just to up their aesthetics or improve memorability.
For this reason, I'd actually prefer an example sectionomy over a rename. I would like to preserve the documentation of this author's activity.
edited 14th Jun '16 9:08:18 AM by war877
Then again, many title tropes talk about the structure of the title itself rather than what's behind the naming. Sure reasoning may exist but they're ultimately only implicit to what the trope focuses on.
Btw, making this into part of Theme Naming seems too limiting without a good reason.
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Massive ZCE issues. Almost no wicks have any context at all.

We do not require Word of God for any other naming trope like Meaningful Name, Alternate Character Reading or Theme Naming and such. Writers do it, it's obvious and they don't need to go to a mic and say 'I did it' for us to notice it.
edited 30th May '16 7:42:16 PM by Memers