Personally, I'd say make it Trivia or restrict the examples to "commented on in-universe only". While it's not external to the work, it's also not, as it stands, a trope, anymore than "character has Blue eyes" or ".. blonde hair" is. It's a choice the author made, but there doesn't have to be any story-related reason for it. That makes it not-a-trope.
While names can be meaningful and alliterative, alliteration alone is almost never meaningful to the story.
edited 16th Dec '16 9:06:01 AM by Madrugada
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It's a way to make the names easier to remember. It's a trope. "Has blue eyes" is comparable to "has a name", not Alliterative Name. It's about the presentation to the audience. Therefore it's a trope.
"Meaningful to the story" isn't the be-all-end-all definition of what makes a trope. That would for instance exclude jokes that aren't important to the story, and many character tropes that don't impact the story.
Check out my fanfiction!It may or may not be a way to make the name easier to remember. The most common first name in English-speaking countries is "John". The second most common surname is "Jones". Therefore, "John Jones" is simply a person with an extremely common name.
Jokes, at least, serve the purpose of (trying to) make the viewer laugh or groan. And often serve to give a character more depth.
An alliterative name is simply a thing that happens. It can be used for a specific purpose (just as a joke can be used for character development), but not all alliterative names are equal.
If I give you a list of ten minor characters from a given work, and the seventh one happens to be alliterative, are you seriously going to argue that that one is the one we're supposed to remember, when all ten characters are on-screen for just a few moments, and never reappear?
The problem is, of course, that an alliterative name can be a deliberate story element with a purpose (not chairs), or it can simply be a random thing (chairs). In a Superman story, a character named L— L— is clearly going to be important to the main character somehow, because that's a pattern which has been established in the series for decades. But in that list of ten minor characters, the fact that one happens to have an alliterative name almost certainly means nothing.
My suggestion would be to make this something like Significant Alliterative Name, so people will be encouraged to at least offer some suggestion as to why their particular example of an alliterative name has meaning.
Speaking words of fandom: let it squee, let it squee.Unless its mentioned in the work or has some kind of special meaning I still think its trivia. Characters with more than one repeating syllables I think it is a bit more than trivia though like Yukino Yukinoshita or Naru Narusegawa.
Also been seeing on a couple of pages where people link repeating names like Mimi, Toto, Yuyu, Lala, Momo, Nana as this. Which IMO isn't anything at all, Hell the last one just means 'seven' in Japanese. Misuse?
edited 16th Dec '16 1:09:28 PM by Memers
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Weren't we going to redefine it to only include when it's a pattern in a work, and not a singular occurence? Sort of like if you have a character called Mrs. Scarlet and that the only character with a colour name, it doesn't really say much, but if you have something like Clue or Mahoraba with 20+ characters following the same theme, it's notable.
edited 16th Dec '16 1:50:27 PM by AnotherDuck
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That I could see, I mean random one offs just might be incidental but when you get shows like Hentai Ouji To Warawanai Neko which every member of the cast follow it there might be something there.
Henneko got excessive with a cast like Yokodera Yoto, Azuki Azusa, Tsutsukakushi Tsukiko, Tsutsukakushi Tsukushi, Tsutsukakushi Tsukasa and Maimaki Mai.
Also Family themed naming like members of a family doing it in the same way with the same syllable, IE Misaka Mikoto and her mother Misaka Misuzu in A Certain Magical Index
edited 16th Dec '16 2:04:01 PM by Memers
I'm thinking that you have to point to some evidence of the trope being in use, rather than just assume. A pattern does show that, since while one or two examples in a work can be accidental, a repeating pattern with several characters shows there's something going on. Likewise, a lampshade or reference also shows the trope in use, although maybe not a straight example.
Check out my fanfiction!I think the first effort to be made should be to split it into Superhero and not-superhero examples. Having an alliterative name has become convention within the superhero genre, as noted, to the extent that having a horse shows up in Westerns. It's pretty much a different trope, since when it applies to a comic character it's no longer to remember the name (as the page also notes), but because it is a law of the superhero universe. We have gravity, they have people with alliterative names.
The rest of the time, yes it's still striking and to be more memorable. Characters within a superhero world should have their own, separate, trope. The rest of the examples, then, will need some qualifier (like thus far discussed: main characters, some overbearing relation in the work, mnemonic - like in the final season of Glee literally half of the new characters all had 'MM' initials.)
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!I would actually be fine with making this super hero or super hero inspired only, otherwise it just is not a thing anywhere else.
Move the actual repetitive starting names like say Maimaki Mai and Yokodera Yoto, to Repetitive Name.
edited 1st Jan '17 8:11:55 PM by Memers
Well, a trend was started back in the 1950s, clearly to remember the names more easily when you have a lot of characters in a story arc. However, it has since morphed into a different usage. Fans became aware of the trope as a generic convention of the superhero genre, and so the reason for using alliterative names is now that it is part of the genre and a superhero world would be odd if it wasn't expected to have alliterative names.
In fact, it's probably harder now to remember the names since in the world of Superman, for example, a lot of them have the initials LL. Like, a lot. So that logic is gone.
And there are non-comic examples where there is a superhero storyline and the trope is employed there — there is no need for it, given the standalone status of the work, but since it is in a world with superheroes, it is in a world with alliterative names (like, most recently, the 2016 Doctor Who Christmas episode, where the superhero-world characters are Grant Gordon/The Ghost and Lucy Lombard).
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!I think it's more about some works doing it as a homage to those comics, but I don't think that means the trope doesn't exist outside superhero comics.
Check out my fanfiction!Yeh, it definitely exists, but as a separate trope. The suggestion to ban it from character trope lists should help cut down misuse. I also think a tweak of the name to be Alliterative Naming, instead of Alliterative Name, would help cut down on ZCE.
OH MY GOD; MY PARENTS ARE GARDENIIIIINNNNGGGGG!!!!!Outside of super hero inspired stuff I don't think it is a trope, there is really nothing to them outside of it. It is just not a thing.
Especially since the only other trope worthy examples on the page imo belong on or already on Repetitive Name, like the entire anime section and most of the video game section should be or already is there.
edited 2nd Jan '17 10:18:43 AM by Memers
Outside the superhero genre, this is also a very common naming convention in Funny Animal cartoons, especially those who apply Species Surname. Mickey Mouse, Donald Duck, Daffy Duck, Bugs Bunny, Porky Pig, Woody Woodpecker, to name a few.
of course, that can exist as an Internal Subtrope of Species Surname.
I find that to be shoehorning the trope into a subtrope. It's the same pattern as with superheroes. It's not a distinct trope from that. They're pretty much all simpler names that are easy to remember.
Check out my fanfiction!I think that, actually, shimaspawn's original proposal, Alliterative Theme Naming, would work the best. If a work or franchise has many characters with Alliterative Name (such as Superman, Marvel Comics, Classic Disney Shorts, Looney Tunes, My Little Pony), that makes it a trope, a specific variant to Theme Naming.
And maybe the other proposed trope, Alliterative Protagonist Name or Alliterative Main Character Name could work, where the alliteration draws attention to the protagonist and makes their name easier to remember. Peter Parker, Bilbo Baggins, Bruce Banner, Hiro Hamada, etc. can fall under this.
When there's only one or two non-central characters have alliterative names, those can be cut.
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Well, one noted problem is between Japanese and English. So why not split it along those lines?
In Japanese, it's only notable when its the same sound / morae / syllable / whatever between first and last names.
In English, it's a bit more flexible, where it could be sound or just typographical.
Could split along those lines as well, adding adjectives as needed, Japanese Alliterative Name, Typographical Alliterative Name, etc.
Personally, I'm working mainly on My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfics, which have names like Dinky Doo, Ditzy Doo, Time Turner...
edited 16th Dec '16 8:15:30 AM by Malady
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