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* The '''D'''eadly '''V'''iper '''A'''ssassination '''S'''quad or [[Kill Bill|D(I)VAS]] (er, [[My Friends and Zoidberg|plus Budd]]).
* The [[G.I. Joe]] movie, ''[[G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra|G.I. Joe the Rise of Cobra]]'', has a lot of changes from the source material (much to fans' displeasure), one of them being that the "Real American Heroes" are now international. "G.I. Joe" was a reference to World War II-era General Infantry units, with "Joe" a generic moniker; with the name retained for the movie despite the "American" part going out the window, the creative minds behind the movie decided to shoehorn in an appropriately awkward acronym. Feast your eyes upon the '''G'''lobal '''I'''ntegrated '''J'''oint '''O'''perating '''E'''ntity!
** Actually, GI seems to have started out as an abbreviation for 'Galvanised Iron' military equipment, then for 'General Issue' equipment and adopted in that sense by the troops for themselves, not 'General Infantry.'
* ''[[Glengarry Glen Ross]]'': '''A'''lways '''B'''e '''C'''losing; '''A'''ttention '''I'''nterest '''D'''ecision '''A'''ction
* In ''[[The Avengers (1998 film)|The Avengers 1998]]'', one of the [[Villain]] organizations is named the '''B'''ritish '''R'''oyal '''O'''rganization for '''L'''asting '''L'''iquid '''Y'''ears. "Brolly" is British slang for "umbrella", which is appropriate since the plot of the movie involves weather control.
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* In ''[[Star Wars]]'', TIE fighters were called that because the original TIE fighter looks like a bowtie. It canonically stands for '''T'''win '''I'''on '''E'''ngine.
* According to [[All There in the Manual|the manual]] ([http://www.pasivdevice.org quite literally, in this case]) for ''[[Inception]]'', the device the characters use to administer sedatives and facilitate the sharing of dreams is called the '''P'''ortable '''A'''utomated '''S'''omnacin '''I'''ntra'''V'''enous Device.
* The low budget [[Captain America (comics)]] film staring [[Reb Brown]] had the [[Super Serum]] '''F'''ull '''L'''atent '''A'''bility '''G'''ain.
* In ''Kiss Of Death'', Little Junior claims to have an acronym for himself: B.A.D. for "Balls, Attitude, Determination". He suggests Jimmy Kilmartin (who's secretly informing on him) get one too - since he's spent most of the film as the [[Butt Monkey]], Jimmy gives the snarky suggestion of "F.A.B." for "Fucked at birth". {{spoiler|What seems like just a comic moment turns out to be important later, when Jimmy finds his missing young daughter... with "BAD" written on her forehead}}.
* In the Adam West [[Batman: The Movie|Batman]] movie, Catwoman masqueraded as a writer from the Moscow Bugle named '''K'''itayna '''I'''reyna '''T'''atanya '''K'''erenska '''A'''lisoff...but suggested that Bruce call her KITKA for short. He even commented that it was a charming acronym.
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