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Excessive-Menace
(Fifth Year at Tropey's)
ilovewildkratts1
(Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-06-05 22:01:05
This is a query for Trope Finder, not ATT. Though as noted in ^, this might already be covered.
You'll want to go to the Trope Idea Sounding Board
and pitch your idea there.

So, I was thinking about this and I really don't know if it could be a trope, but I've seen it in so many things that I found it tiring, annoying, but also curious.
It is when a subject, project or creature receives a title with mythological roots without really being tied to it, simply for the fact that it sounds good and is self-explanatory about its nature. For example:
Videogame: In Evolve, by Turtle Rock Studios, every monster had a name related to a mythological beign, sometimes a monster and sometimes a human: Behemoth, Kraken, Goliath, Wraith...
Movies: In the Monsterverse, by Legendary Pictures, the other titans that aren't licensed by other franchises recebed names such as Behemoth, Scylla, Tiamat, Quetzalcoatl, Mokele mbembe (althrough this is more of a british myth rather than an african one) or Kamazots.
Is not like an adaptation of those figures, more like a self explanatory nature by name using another as refference. I'm not sure if this trope already exists, but I left the idea here, in chase someone wanted to writte about it.