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{{quote|"It's stitched on your colorful new uniform and you don't even know. Well, here's what blind faith will get you."}}
:* Then there's '''HYDRA''', which doesn't actually stand for anything. Or rather, it seems it just stands for the mythologic monster itself, known for being (almost) impossible to destroy, reflecting their thoughts on their own organization. It's just that, despite always being written in ALL CAPS, HYDRA is not actually an acronym.
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:* S.H.I.E.L.D. also had a (now disbanded) splinter group called W.A.N.D., the Wizardry Alchemy Necromancy Department, which is in charge handling of magic-related threats to national security. ▼
* Parodied in Jim Valentino's ''normalman'', which had a superspy organization dubbed '''S.C.H.M.U.C.K.''', but as the footnotes claim, the name "Stands for Nothing in Particular."
* In DC Comics' ''Stars and S.T.R.I.P.E.'', the writers didn't bother to figure out what '''S.T.R.I.P.E.''' stood for. A fan suggested '''S'''pecial '''T'''actics '''R'''obotic '''I'''ntegrated '''P'''ower '''E'''nhancer, which DC adopted.
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** ''[[All-Star Squadron]]'', a DC super-teamup comic in the 1980s (taking place during World War II), had similar acronym issues.
*** This was lampshaded by the Golden Age Superman in one of the first few issues, where he says that people should be careful how they abbreviate the group's name.
▲:* S.H.I.E.L.D. also had a (now disbanded) splinter group called W.A.N.D., the Wizardry Alchemy Necromancy Department, which is in charge handling of magic-related threats to national security.
* S.T.A.R. Labs (Itself an acronym for Scientific and Technological Advanced Research) has a device called the '''A'''mbient '''N'''uclear '''U'''ltra '''S'''pectrograph. Lampshaded when Jimmy Olsen says that it's an overly long name and they should just use the acronym. The scientist operating it replies "You just think about that..."
* The ''[[Legion of Super-Heroes]]'' character Wildfire was originally known as '''E'''nergy '''R'''elease '''G'''enerator 1, or E.R.G.-1.
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