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[[Fail O'Suckyname]] can overlap with this. Not to be confused with [[The Nicknamer]], no matter how lame those nicknames are.

 

* Renge from ''[[Airmaster]]''. She has a tendency to give ridiculously bad names for Maki's signature moves, before one of the other girls interrupt her with a better name. They routinely joke that she has "No naming-sense".

* [[Cloudcuckoolander|Finland]] from ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]'' tried to name his pet dog "Go For It! Bomber" before [[Ho Yay|his partner]] [[Gentle Giant|Sweden]] stopped him. And then he went for "Bloody Flower Egg"....

* The Guides in ''[[Deserving]]'' apparently do this to the children the local version of the [[Harry Potter]] [[Fandom-Specific Plot|Marriage Law]] forces them to father on ex-Death Eaters. It veers into [[Informed Wrongness]] as the [http://szaleniec1000.livejournal.com/16473.html one example] of this phenomenon we meet is called [[Awesome McCoolname|Sin]].

 

* In ''[[Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs]]'', most of Flint's inventions have pretty straightforward names, even if they don't exactly roll off the tongue (Hair Un-balder, anyone?). However, his latest invention has the unwieldy title of "Flint Lockwood Diatonic Super Mutating Dynamic Food Replicator" or [[Fun with Acronyms|FLDSMDFR]] for short.

* As seen in the Western Animation section below, the military in [[South Park]]: [[The Movie|Bigger, Longer, and Uncut]] are spectacularly literal minded with their operation names. The first wave of their attack plan, consisting of african american soldiers, is called Operation [[Human Shield]], and the second wave is Operation [[Crosses the Line Twice|Get Behind the Darky]]

* Subverted then played straight in ''[[Monsters, Inc.]]:'' When a co-worker catches Mike yelling at Sulley, Mike plays it off as rehearsing for the company musical, improbably named "Put That Thing Back Where it Came from, or So Help Me...." Later played straight when it's revealed that they actually did put on the musical.

* In the ''[[Wild Wild West (film)|Wild Wild West]]'' movie, Artemus Gordon was constantly using long, awkward terms to name his inventions.

* In ''[[Down Periscope]]'', we learn early that the electrician's name is "Nitro". But he's working on a nickname: "Mike".