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{{quote|'''Ted:''' So, Captain, how'd you get that name anyway?

'''The Captain:''' Gave it to myself. A real man chooses his own name.

 

Get lost, John Smith, here comes Johnathan Q. Public. Sometimes, people grow up with boring names, and they imagine more exciting and exotic names for themselves. If you let this person write a piece of fiction, expect this ''flair'' for the exotic to show up in a lot of their characters. Try to imagine this person as a baby or as a toddler and everyone calling them this. [[Who Names Their Kid "Dude"?|Try to imagine the parents who would name them this.]]

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== People with Awesome/Cool Names ==

=== Advertising ===

* A Fed-Ex features a [[Witness Protection]] man who is given the name Eric Gustafson. Unfortunately he gets it taken away and becomes Paul Matheson

* Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch, known to most as simply Cap'n Crunch.

 

** You'd think Gold Roger would have been his bounty name, but no, his name is actually {{spoiler|Gol D. Roger}}.

** Other cool people have a "D" middle name like Monkey D. Luffy or Portgas D. Ace. {{spoiler|Considering Ace was Roger's son, he could be called "Gol D. Ace". Gold Ace? Yes.}}

** The ''[[One Piece]]'' world is rife with these: Trafalgar Law, Boa Hancock, Roranoa Zoro (recursive transliteration of L'Ollonais [[Zorro]]), Fisher Tiger, Nefertiti Cobra, Bartholomew Kuma, San Juan Wolf, Jesus Burgess, Avolo Pizarro...

* ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]'' has a number of examples, though various characters might be living under aliases:

** Spike Spiegel. When asked if Spike was Jewish due to his last name, the creators responded that they just thought it [[Rule of Cool|sounded cool]].

** Incidentally, Evangeline's last name is an anglicization of the Gaelic phrase for [[Bilingual Bonus|Child of the Dark Stranger]].

* ''[[Code Geass]]'' has [[Magnificent Bastard|Lelouch Lamperouge]], [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Jeremiah Gottwald]] and Bismarck Waldstein. [[Action Girl|Kallen Stadtfeld]] doesn't sound too shabby either.

** What, no love for Villetta Nu?

* ''[[Hellsing]]'': Alucard, Seras Victoria and - infamously - Sir Integra Wingates Hellsing (who is a woman, incidentally).

* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' is full of them. Natsu Dragneel/{{spoiler|Dragion}}, Gray Fullbuster/{{spoiler|Surge}}, Erza Scarlett/{{spoiler|Knightwalker}}, Zeref, Gildartz, Ren Akatsuki, Makarov, Laxus, Gajeel Redfox, Juvia, Levy, Hades, and Zancrow.

** And with the newest chapter, we have {{spoiler|Bluenote Stinger}}. 

* [[Ghost in the Shell (manga)|Motoko ''Kusanagi'']]. That's like being called Girl Caliburn, or Girl Excalibur, because Motoko is a girl's name meaning "child", and [[Public Domain Artifact|the Kusanagi]] (literally "grass-cutter") is a sword of Japanese legend. [[wikipedia:Kusanagi|The Kusanagi is essentially equivalent to Excalibur.]]

* Dude. [[Berserk|Guts]]. '''[[Rule of Cool|GUTS]]'''.

** Kaname Chidori has a nice ring to it as well.

* The [[Lyrical Nanoha]] franchise Gives us names like Fate Testarossa, Subaru Nakajima, Teana Lanster, Vita, Signum etc. Some devices' names, such as Mach Caliber, Cross Mirage and Storm Raider sound cool as well. Ironically, the most [[Badass]] among all of them goes by the rather plain name of "Nanoha Takamachi" and her device is named "Raising Heart."

 

* ''[[Tintin]]''.

** Tintin means something along the lines of "nothing at all." It's apparently his last name.

* ''[[Casanova (comics)|Casanova]]'': Casanova Quinn

* Detectives Walker and Pilgrim of ''[[Powers]]''.

* Also in that vein, John Constantine from ''[[Hellblazer]]''. Although the character himself may actually have been partly responsible for making his name take on such mythical proportions.

* [[Hellboy (comics)|Hellboy]]'s Christian name is Hellboy, although the name given to him before his birth is ''Ahnung Un Rama''. Abe Sapien also qualifies.

* In ''[[Polly and The Pirates]]'', one of Polly's friends (who hails from [[Ruritania|Fake Netherlands]]) has the amazingly awesome name Anastasia "Stasia" Van Vervendander.

* Contessa Valentina Allegra de Fontaine, agent of S.H.I.E.L.D.

* ''[[New Gods]]'': Mister Miracle, also known as... [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Scott Free]].

* [[Jonah Hex]]

* ''[[Transmetropolitan]]'': Spider Jerusalem.

* In ''[[Echo]]'', one of the main characters is Ivy Raven, [[Action Girl|secret agent extraordinaire]].

* Slade Deathstroke the Terminator. ''Deathstroke''. His actual name is Slade Wilson. Deathstroke the Terminator is his ''nom de guerre''.

* Power Man was born Carl Lucas, but promptly changed his name to Luke Cage. These days he goes by Luke Cage because frankly that's just as bad-ass as "Power Man." ([[Nicolas Cage|Nicolas Coppola]] agreed that "Cage" was way better.)

 

=== Fan Works ===

** And then, you've got [[Mary Sue]]s with names like "Chihuatlan Razortalon." Sure, "Razortalon" fits the model...but "Chihuatlan" [[Narm|invokes small yappy lapdogs]] rather than the exoticism for which the author was no doubt shooting.

* In ''[[The Mad Scientist Wars]]'' we have the Tinker family, who '''all''' have this. For instance Andrew Omega-Particle prince Risk Tinker, or his son Frederic Zeta Risk Raize Tinker. This goes back pretty far- for instance, Grandpa '''Florian Blitz Viktor'''.

* All the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' characters, as noted above, have ridiculously cool names. In the [[Elemental Chess Trilogy]] fanfic series, Riza Hawkeye gets an extra one. After she marries Roy Mustang, the men of their unit feel awkward calling her ''Hawkeye'', but they also can't call her ''Mustang'', so they refer to her by the affectionate nickname "Ladyhawk."

* ''[[Deserving]]'' has a character called Sin. The author apparently intended it to be a [[Fail O'Suckyname]] bestowed on the child by a father who hated him and his mother, and [[Giver of Lame Names|calling him that]] is [[What Do You Mean It's Not Heinous?|allegedly]] a crossing of the [[Moral Event Horizon]], but, well, ''[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Sin]]''.

* ''[[The Dilgar War]]'' has captain Manly Power. At first the crew of the ''Space Race'' can't believe it, then they verify it and realize his crew has to call him Captain Power, and declare it the coolest name ever.

 

* ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'': Flint Lockwood. Technically, this is [[What Could Have Been|left over from when his character was a]] [[Science Hero|suave, successful scientist]].

* ''[[Lilo and Stitch]]'': Cobra Bubbles.

** Torque Redline. Well, technically his name's Rod and 'Torque' is only a nickname, but come on, ''Torque Redline''.

* Something about ''[[Surf's Up]]'''s "Cody Maverick" exudes "extreme sports legend". It's youthful, has the word "maverick" in it, and sounds smooth off the tongue.

* ''[[Idiocracy]]'' Heavyweight President of the World: President Dwayne Elizondo Mountain Dew Herbert Camacho

* RiffRaff and Rocky Horror from ''[[The Rocky Horror Picture Show]]''

* [[Samuel L. Jackson]] gets one, "Mister Señor Love Daddy" in ''[[Do the Right Thing]]'', as is his due.

* Leslie Nielson's secret agent parody "Spy Hard" had Agent WD-40: Dick Steele

 

=== Gamebooks ===

* In ''[[Lone Wolf]]'', all the Kai have names along the lines of "Adjective Animal", given upon their initiation. Many of them follow this trope. For instance, the main character started out as "Silent Wolf", but after the rest of the order was killed in the prologue to the first book, he took on the book-naming appellation ''Lone'' Wolf.

 

=== Literature ===

** "Slartibartfast," which was created to sound obscene but not be. Adams started with Phartiphukborlz and changed it just enough to get past the censors.

** And, of course, Ford Prefect, although it sounds much cooler to American readers who mostly didn't realize that he's actually named after a sensible British motorcar.

** Also Mightily Oats, a shortened form of "The Quite Reverend Mightily-Praiseworthy-Are-Ye-Who-Exalteth-Om Oats".

*** That's actually a title rather than a name. "Dragon" is the head of the Ankh-Morpork College of Arms, which is based on the real British College of Arms, an office of the Royal Household. The College is composed of 13 officers of arms (a.k.a. heralds), including at the time of writing Garter Principal King of Arms, Lancaster Herald and Bluemantle Pursuivant.

** '''Suffer-Not-Injustice''' Vimes.

** One Igor had former masters with names such as Screaming Dr. Berserk and Crazed Baron Ha-Ha.

* ''[[Good Omens]]'': 

** features Anathema Device. The Devices were a real family who were involved in witch trials in the 17th century (so were the Nutters), and Anathema is a word that has a variety of meanings in a religious context; put them together and you have a perfect set-up for scenes like {{spoiler|Agnes' prediction that ends in the sentence "And thou shalt be there also, Anathema" -- which the modern Anathema assumes (correctly, it is implied) to be addressed to her}}.

** Thou-Shalt-Not-Commit-Adultery Pulsifer. Newton Pulsifer said he would go on a rampage as well with a name like that

* Neil Gaiman's ''[[American Gods]]'' could make this list based simply on the gods' various real and assumed names, even without the protagonist's exceptionally cool name: Shadow Moon, aka {{spoiler|Baldur Moon}}.

* Citizens of [[The Culture]] in the novels of [[Iain Banks]] [[Overly Long Name|have ridiculously long and odd-sounding names]]. Some parts are chosen for them, some by them, some depending on where they were born/what they were designed for (AIs). Examples include Rasd-Corudesa Diziet Embless Sma 'Da Marenhide and Foristi-Whirl Skaffen Amtiskaw Handrahen Dran Easpyou.

*  Author [[Brandon Sanderson]] once expressed regret in one of his online annotations that he was unable to give character [[Mistborn|"Kelsier"]] a cool last name like Mistshadows.

* ''[[The First Law]]'': Logen Rip-Your-Fucking-Face-Off Ninefingers.

** It certainly signaled "awesome" to [[110 in the Shade|Bill Starbuck]], who changed his name from Smith because that didn't suit a man like him (who also considers "Lizzie" too prosaic a name for a woman -- "why, it don't ''stand'' for anything!").

* [[Thomas Pynchon]]: Pirate Prentice, Oedipa Maas, Patience Eggslap, Tyrone Slothrop, Mike Fallopian, Ronald Cherrycoke, and Clayton "Bloody" Chiclitz.

* The protagonist of John Ringo's [[Posleen War Series|Legacy of the Aldenata]] novels is named Michael Leonidas O'Neill. He gets a mention for Leonidas, of course.

* ''[[A Certain Magical Index]]'': "Touma Kamijou" has the alternate reading "The One Who Purifies Gods and Slays Demons" (or "The One Who Purifies God and Exorcises the Devil", depending on the translation). "Touma" can also be read as "Invisible Demon" and "Kamijou" as "Above God".

 

=== Live Action TV ===

* [[Castle]] gives us Richard [[Edgar Allan Poe|Edgar]] "Rick" Castle and his daughter Alexis Castle, as well {{spoiler|as the new captain}} Victoria Gates (better known as "Iron Gates").

* [[The Mentalist]] also gives us a few; Teresa Lisbon, Kimball Cho, and {{spoiler|former CBI supervising agent}} Madeleine Hightower.

** And of course, the Galactica itself.

* ''[[All That]]'': Randy Quench, VOLENTEEAH FIAHMAN.

* Detective Robert T. Ironside from ''[[Ironside]]''.

* Kono Kalakaua from ''[[Hawaii Five-O]]''.

** Hilariously subverted when one of the names is "Bob Johnson."

** They also mocked an example of this concept mercilessly in the episode ''The Final Sacrifice''. What was the character's name? Zap Rowsdower, for a middle-aged pudgy Canadian man with a mullet.

** Taking the cool factor one step further, one alternate universe episode had the brothers as total strangers Dean Smith and Sam Wesson. That's right, Smith&Wesson

* I defy you to tell me [[Star Trek: The Original Series|James Tiberius Kirk]] is not an awesome name of awesome even without his rank of Captain.

 

=== Music ===

* [[Dierks Bentley]] is a pretty cool name too. That's his birth name, even.

 

* Fionn Mac Cumhaill, a hero of Irish mythology, whose name is pronounced "Finn McCool."

* Cu Chulainn is an Irish hero whose name means "the Hound of Culann." 

* And from Jewish mythology: the angel known as [[wikipedia:Metatron|Metatron]]!

 

 

=== Radio ===

* [[True Capitalist]] Radio gives us Ghost.

 

=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===

* In ''[[Scion]]'', another RPG by our friends at [[White Wolf]], you play as the child of a God—Hera, Loki, etc. For whatever reason, example characters have this odd tendency towards weird, unlikely names referencing their divine parent, even from a slant—such as Horace Farrow, son of... Horus.

* ''[[Exalted]]'' gives us such varied names as Harmonious Jade, Seven Devils Clever, Excessively Righteous Blossom, Chejop Kejak, Tammiz Ushun, Ma-Ha-Suchi, Lilith, The Lover Clad In The Raiment Of Tears, The Bodhisattva Anointed By Dark Water, the Bull of the North... It's justified, though, in that the main characters and most of their opponents ''are'' legendary figures who are practically expected to have a mythic reputation.

*** 4th edition, characters from the [[Wangst]]y half-demonic Tiefling race are instructed by the rulebook to take names like "Suffering" or "Melancholy" and so forth. To be fair, they also get "Art", "Hope" and... "Gladness"?!?

** [[Forgotten Realms]] had ancient mad wizard [http://forgottenrealms.wikia.com/wiki/Halaster_Blackcloak Halaster Blackcloak]. The given name was Hilather, but he thought "Halaster" sounds cool.

**  [https://web.archive.org/web/20090603091708/https://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd%2F4pod%2FAcqInc Jim Darkmagic] of the New Hampshire Darkmagics, created by [[Penny Arcade|Gabe]] for his first ever D&D session (he astounded the seasoned players by rolling 20s).

***  "Why don't you just name yourself Chet AwesomeLaser?"

 

=== [[Video Games]] ===

* Guybrush Threepwood from the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' games.

** Lampshaded in the first game, when his name is ridiculed by a pirate called Mancomb Seepgood.

** ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'' has Butz Klauser, changed to Bartz in the English release for obvious reasons.

** ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''. Even if most characters don't have really astounding names, we still have Clyde Arrowny {{spoiler|A.K.A. Shadow}}, Cyan Garamonde or [[Evil Clown|Kefka Palazzo]].

** Note that most, if not all of those are clan-names or at least family names. It makes sense for an orc or ogre clan to pick an intimidating name.

** For what it's worth, more family-friendly games may enforce this: both ''[[Fusion Fall]]'' and ''[[Free Realms]]'' use a name generator as the default; in ''Free Realms'' at least you ''can'' make up your own name but it has to be approved.

** Razor, the Lightning Revenant

** Purist Thunderwrath, the Omniknight

 

=== [[Web Comics]] ===

* ''[[Ronin Galaxy]]'': the main character's name is Cecil Onimaru, which (given the multiple meanings of Japanese names) can litterally mean, "Oni's son." or "Oni-like son." For being a ronin, such a name seems extravagant. Also Leona Gallant - she couldn't possibly be a gallant knight, could she?

* ''[[Keychain of Creation]]'' gives us the relatively ordinary (for an Abyssal Exalted) "[[Overly Long Name|The Most Secret and Sorrowful of the Bearers of the Endless Destiny of All Creation Which Wander Amidst Forgotten Sights and Fallen Tears Along the Tread of Ancient Ashen Footsteps Through the Shadow of That Which Comes and Into That Riotous Cacophony Which Births All Fools and Steals All Beauty, Who Heralds Through Her Silence the Stillness and Chill of Those Who Were Not Born and Who Will Not Fade 'til All Things Fall and... In That Most Grim Harvest Form the... Final Restful Tomb of... All Awakened Life and... All the... Sleep... less... De--]]" ''(passes out from lack of breath)''. Everyone calls her Secret.

*  [http://fancyadventures.com/2009/01/09/page-53/ Max Facepuncher...] Yeah... And I think [[The Fancy Adventures of Jack Cannon|Jack Cannon]], the title character, counts too.

*  The main cast of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''? They go by the names Torg, Riff, Zoe, Gwynn, Bun-Bun, and Kiki. Hanging around with these people, you can kinda understand why Sam felt he had to change his name to "Sam da Man."

** And, to a lesser extent, Dr. Raven Darktalon Blood.

** How about Jim Darkmagic?

* Parodied in ''Hark! A Vagrant''. The Brontë sisters, concerned they won't be taken seriously as women authors, choose the pseudonyms "Johnny Guns," "Bruce Punisher" and "Daddy Smash."

* Cutter Edgewise in ''[[Starslip]]''. Memnon Vanderbeam may also count.

* In ''[[Homestuck]]'', the four main characters' names were all [[Hello, Insert Name Here|suggestions provided by readers,]] so awesome names like "Jade Harley", "Rose Lalonde" and ''"Dave Strider"'' were inevitable.

** The jury is still out on whether "John Egbert" sounds cool or not though.

* In ''[[Voodoo Walrus]]'' most character names seem to be more like alias or online handles, so this is rather prominent in names like Rip Flintlock, Shmeerm, Miriam Cyradwee, and of course Villemous Quetzacoatl [[Creep Knight]]

* In ''[[Shan Shan|The Adventures of Shan Shan]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20130807014102/http://shanshan.upperrealms.com/view.php?pageid=008&chapterid=1 Cassiopeia]. The teacher has to work to pronounce it.

 

=== Web Original ===

* There was once a topic on the ''[[World of Darkness]]'' Forums where someone was asking for suggestions on what they should legally change their last name too. The general consensus? "Your new name is Hellsing."

* Shades McCoolguy is a superfluous example of this from ''[[Chicken Maker]]''

 

=== Western Animation ===

** Homer also suggested Handsome B. Wonderful and Rembrandt Q. Einstein as possibilities; the judge allowed Max Power because it was the only one he had spelled correctly.

** Don't forget his other suggestion, Hercules Rockefeller.

* ''[[Cool McCool]]'' (A cartoon from the 60s named after the main character)

* ''[[Sheep in The Big City]]'' is full of 'em. Pretty much the entire main cast.

* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'': Donatello, Leonardo, Michaelangelo, Raphael, Master Splinter. Moreso in 2K3 where they occasionally use the surname Hamato.

** There's also Shredder, Krang, Bebop, and Rocksteady.

*** And at least one whose name ''is'' a common word. Ravage.

* The Headmaster of ''[[School for Vampires]]'' has a name that could only be given to a truly ''badass'' vampire: Count Alarich von Horrificus.

** There's also DelGado. Hoss DelGado.

* While the girls of ''[[Sky Dancers]]'' got off pretty easy, the guys ended up with the names "Slam" and "Breeze".

* Lord Monochromicorn and Princess Bonnibelle Bubblegum from ''[[Adventure Time]]''.

** Also Goliad, the name of Princess Bubblegum's [[Immortality|immortal]] creation. It kinda sounds like the title of an epic. Go on, say it: '''GOLIAD!'''

** Don't forget her pet tortoise, Tank, who's [[Stone Wall|impervious to harm]] and [[Determinator|never gives up.]]

** This seems to be a running theme with the Wonderbolts; the four named ones are Spitfire, Soarin', Fleetfoot and Rapid Fire.

** In the episode [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic/Recap/S2/E19 Putting Your Hoof Down|Putting Your Hoof Down]], Fluttershy seeks assertiveness training from a character named ''Iron Will''.

** Then there's Shining Armor who is {{spoiler|Twilight Sparkles older brother.}}

 

=== Real Life ===

* [[Frank Zappa|Moon "Unit One" Zappa]].

* Actress [[Terminator|Moon Bloodgood]].

* [[wikipedia:Wolf Blitzer|Wolf Blitzer]]. ''His granddad was named that, too.'' Added coolness: He shares his name with a high-ranking villain from the original ''Mechwarrior'' game.

* Stone Phillips is named... Stone. It's not quite on the same level, but still. It sort of gives "news anchor" a little extra... [[A Worldwide Punomenon|weight.]]

* German police minister from a few years back; Alexander von Stahl (von Stahl="of steel"). Alexander also means "protector of men" or something like that.

* Ioseb Besarionis dze Jughashvili (or Iosif Vissarionovich Jugashvili, the Russianized version) chose to be called Stalin ("Man of Steel"), as it is a direct translation of Jughashvili to Russian. He followed a tradition of renaming himself that included Vladimir Illyich Ulyanov, who went by Lenin.

* One National Guardsman legally changed his name to [[Transformers|Optimus Prime]].

* There seems to be an unwritten rule demanding that TV meteorologists bear pornst- ...''distinctive'' names. "Dallas Raines," "Storm Field," "Johnny Mountain," "Aloha Taylor," "Topper Shutt," "Sam Champion," "Ray Ban," "Monte Montello," "Flip Spiceland" and [[wikipedia:Amy Freeze|Amy Freeze]] are all actual examples. The Germans have Ben Wettervogel, which translates to "Weatherbird." Many of these are stagenames, but not all: [[wikipedia:Sara Blizzard|Sara Blizzard]] really is called that, yes.

* One-time Canadian IOC delegate Dick Pound. Yes, that's his real name, not his porn-star stage name.

* ''[[Law and Order]]'' creator Dick Wolf.

* How about [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/mobile/asia-pacific/7522952.stm Talula Does The Hula From Hawaii?]

* [[wikipedia:Wolfe+585, Senior|Adolph Blaine Charles David Earl Frederick Gerald Hubert Irvin John Kenneth Lloyd Martin Nero Oliver Paul Quincy Randolph Sherman Thomas Uncas Victor William Xerxes Yancy Zeus Wolfe schlegelstein hausenberger­dorffvoraltern waren gewissenhaft­schaferswessen schafewaren­wohlgepflege und sorgfaltigkeit­beschutzen von angreifen durch­ihrraubgierigfeinde welche voraltern­zwolftausend jahres­vorandieerscheinen wander ersteer­dem enschderraumschiff­gebrauchlicht als sein ursprung von­kraftgestart sein lange fahrt­hinzwischen sternartigraum auf der­suchenach diestern welche gehabt­bewohnbar planeten kreise drehen­sich und wohin der neurasse von­verstandigmen schlichkeit konnte­fortplanzen und sicher freuen­anlebens langlich freude und ruhe mit­nicht ein furcht vor angreifen von­anderer intelligent geschopfs von­hinzwischen sternartigraum, Senior]] might have the [[Overly Long Name|longest name ever]]. He's apparent't got a son: Adolph Blaine Charles etc. etc. ''Junior''.

* [[wikipedia:Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116|Brfxxccxxmnpcccclllmmnprxvclmnckssqlbb11116]] (pronounced Albin) was rejected as a name.

* [http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/09/11/julius-andreas-gimli-arn_n_284276.html Julius Andreas Gimli Arn MacGyver Chewbacka Highlander Elessar-Jankov.]

* [[Facebook]]'s name-filtering system tends to lock out the accounts of people with these kinds of names, as to its logic they sound made up. Native Americans are especially unhappy.

* Averted by Ricky 'The Dragon' Steamboat. who didn't use his decidedly awesome real name, Richard Blood, since it doesn't lend itself to a babyface.

* [[Groin Attack|Dick]] [[Nightmare Fuel|Blood]].

* K-Kwik/R-Truth, who spent some time in [[TNA]] under his given name, [[Ron Killings|Ron "The Truth" Killings]].

* And, of course, James Brian Hellwig, whose real name is now Warrior "[[Ultimate Warrior]]" Warrior. Yup, (that) [[Ultimate Warrior]]. This has led to his children carrying "Warrior" as their surname. His two children are named Indiana Marin "Indy" Warrior and Mattigan Twain Warrior.

* Adewale Ogunleye, Chicago Bears defensive end. The Ogun part of his surname means "God of Iron".

* Representing the National Football League, we have Mack Strong, Rock Cartwright, Takeo Spikes, Quentin Jammer, and Peerless Price.

* Don't forget former quarterback Joe Montana. Won 4 Super Bowls with the 49ers and 1 National Championship at Notre Dame. In a contest to give him a nickname, one contestant felt "Joe Montana" already sounded like a nickname, and therefore came up with "David W. Gibson."

* [[wikipedia:Wolfgang de Beer|Wolfgang 'Teddy' de Beer]], in Germany known as Teddy de Beer (pronounced "Teddy der Bär" in German, "Teddy the Bear")

* Geof Manthorn of ''[[Ace of Cakes]]'', which is completely at odds with such a laid-back dude.

** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Castlevania]] II: Belmont's Revenge''. His battle theme is called "Son of Satan".

*** However, Castlevania's Dracula is [[Castlevania: Lament of Innocence|not Vlad Tepes]].

* Actress [[wikipedia:Venus DeMilo|Venus DeMilo]].

* THE Reverend, Doctor Martin Luther King, Junior. [[The Boondocks|It's like A Tribe Called Quest, you gotta say the whole thing.]]

* The Russian ice dancers may have [[Unfortunate Implications]] [https://web.archive.org/web/20121114155610/http://www.metro.co.uk/sport/extra/810017-russian-ice-skaters-cause-controversy-with-aboriginal-dance costumes],<ref>Not even their more "conventional" (by figure skating standards) long program costumes were without controversy, because [[Aint No Rule|they used the belts to hold on to each other]] during the performance.</ref> but their names are pretty awesome: Oksana '''Domnina''' and '''Maxim''' Shabalin.

* Norm Hiscock, a writer for ''[[Parks and Recreation]]''.

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20140827100459/http://www.dcs.warwick.ac.uk/~bane/ Dr. Sorabain Wolfheart de Lioncourt] (but it seems he does AI research, not Grendel-slaying). He apparently gets enough questions about it that he has a picture of his passport online.

* [[The Phantom (film)|Billy Zane]]. It's even played with in his [[Adam Westing]] cameo in ''[[Zoolander]]''.

* There is a Member of the Scottish Parliament called Jackson Carlaw.

* Richard Smith, a care worker from Carlisle, clearly thought his name was unremarkable and changed it to a more ''metal'' one "It's just a strange name I like the sound of," said the newly dubbed Stormhammer Deathclaw Firebrand.

* Lord Chief Justice and President of the Courts of England and Wales is Lord Igor Judge – ''Judge Judge''. He is formally addressed as Lord Chief Justice Igor Judge, Baron Judge.

* German actor [[Lexx|Dieter]] [[The Human Centipede|Laser]] ([[Its Pronounced Tropay|pronounced "lah-ser"]]).

* [[Calvin Coolidge]]. What did you expect from a guy who has 'cool' in his last name?

* Genghis Khan, as noted by [[Badass of the Week]], was born with the name "Temujin" - which literally meant ''"iron man."'' Of course, the man himself made the name "Khan" one of the scariest and coolest names ever.

* Volkan Demirel, Turkish goalkeeper. Why? His name roughly translates as "Vulcan Steelhands".

* Dutch football (soccer) trainer and former player Leo Beenhakker, whose last name literally translates as "leg chopper".

* [[Garth Nix]]

* Puritans of the New World used names like this frequently, including some that have become respectable, not-weird names, like Chastity, Hope, Constance. Other names didn't quite catch on. Praise-God Barebone was a significant Puritan figure in the [[English Civil War]], and named the Barebone's Parliament. The middle name of his son was "If-Christ-Had-Not-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Wouldst-Have-Been-Damned." He was a pioneer of free-market economics and tended to go by the much less awesome Nicholas Barbon.

* Since names in Native American languages tend to be literally translated into English, we end up with names like [[Everything's Worse with Bears|Conquering Bear]], [[Names to Run Away From|Wilma Mankiller]], Madonna Thunderhawk, One-Who-Walks-With-The-Stars, and They-Fear-Even-His-Horses.

* Admittedly [[Dragon Ball|it's more]] [[Hilarious in Hindsight]], but how much would you give to be named [[wikipedia:Kamehameha I|Kamehameha the Great]]?

* Actor Omar Doom. Interesting note: his dad was a doctor, meaning that he was the son of [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Doctor Doom]]. (Actually, he was born with the last name "Makhdomi," but that's close enough.)

* Jack Justice is an Australian philosopher.

* Linebacker [https://web.archive.org/web/20131109134404/http://www.nfl.com/draft/2012/profiles/whitney-mercilus?id=2533049 Whitney Mercilus]

* Rob McCool (who wrote a early HTTP server software)

 

== Examples of groups, places, and things with exceptionally cool names ==

* In ''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'', Lilith is housed in Terminal Dogma, the lowest level of NERV HQ. The chamber in question is behind a giant bulkhead christened "Heaven's Door"; this area is also referred to as Level-EEE.

** The control center is called Central Dogma which is also a scientific term (biology, to be exact).

** ''[[Rebuild of Evangelion]]'' appears to have switched out the two names. Also, the second film has "The Key of Nebuchadnezzar", a miniature human skeleton encased in amber.

 

* ''[[Star Wars]]'': "Death Star", "Star Destroyer", "Lightsaber", ...

* [[Indiana Jones]].

** Even the character admits it in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade|The Last Crusade]]'':

'''Indiana Jones''': I like Indiana.

'''Henry Jones''': [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"|We named the dog]] [[Trope Namer|Indiana]]. }}

 

=== Literature ===

* "[[Harry Potter (novel)|Death Eaters]]" is pretty awesome.

* In the final book of the ''[[Doom]]'' novels, due to an inability to compromise between two equally unwieldly epic names, a ship is christened "Great Descent into Maelstrom of Solar Flare of Righteous Vengeance Against Enemies of the People's State."

* In ''[[Discworld]]'' there's a chess-like game called Hneflbaflsniflwhifltafl, commonly nicknamed {{smallcaps|Thud!}}. It's a parody of a real game, Hneftafl.

* ''[[Stravaganza]]'' 's name of its [[Alternate Universe]] Venice—Belleza.

 

=== Live Action TV ===

* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'' and its Megazords.

 

=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===

* [[BattleTech]], hundreds of battle mechs have awesome names. Such as the, Battle Master, Marauder, Timber Wolf, Summoner...

** Several Clan names count, such as Jade Falcon, Goliath Scorpion, Ghost Bear...

 

=== Video Games ===

* Any Covenant fleet in ''[[Halo]]''. The one that destroyed Reach was called ''The Fleet of Particular Justice'', while others had as fancy names as ''The Fleet of Righteous Vigilance'' or ''The Fleet of Furious Redemption''.

 

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' got as many of these as hilarious [[Unfortunate Names]]. As the good book says -

{{quote|'''Maxim 16''': Your name is in the mouth of others: be sure it has teeth.}}

{{quote|'''Capt. Landon''': If they have lots of legs and look creepy then that will be the best robot name ever.

'''Kevyn''': "Longshoreman of the Apocalypse" edges it out, but I'm biased. }}

 

=== Web Original ===

 

 

=== Real Life ===

* Q14950165, HMS Violent (D57). How apt.

* [[Every Device Is a Swiss Army Knife|Victorinox]] cutlery combines the name of the founder's mother with the French for stainless steel. The end result is the name, "Victor's Steel".

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