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== Numbers In Place of Letters ==

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* The video Game ''Driv3r''.

* ''[[Se7en]]'', which arguably brought the whole 133t-speek numbers/letters deal into the mainstream. Damn it.

** [[Older Than They Think]]: Austin [[Market-Based Title|division's]] version of the Mini was originally called "Austin Se7en"

*** An early internal name for the successor to Windows Vista was Windows Se7en. In a rare moment of intelligence, Microsoft simplified it to simply Windows 7 by the time the official announcement came around.

* ''[[Numb3rs]]''

* The film ''[[Murder by Numbers|Murd3r 8y Num8ers]]''.

* ''Thir13en Ghosts'', the modern remake of William Castle's ''Thirteen Ghosts''.

* ''[[S1m0ne]]'', which actually makes sense, as the titular computer-generated [[Idol Singer]]'s name is derived from the phrase "Simulation One".

** Also, she consists of [[Zeroes and Ones]].

* ''[[Layer Cake|L4yer C4ke]]''

* The boyband 5ive.

** The Jackson 5ive sometimes used this one first.

* The Avril Lavigne song ''Sk8er Boi''.

* Many Prince songs. (''I Would Die 4 U'', ''When 2 R in Love'', etc.)

* Roman numeral example: ''Menace Ⅱ Society''.

* Does the punny acronym title of ''[[Men in Black (film)|Men in Black]]'''s sequel, MIIB, count?

** Only to two, [[The Firesign Theatre|Mudhead]]

* [[Daft Punk]]'s ''[[Interstella 5555]]: The 5tory of the 5ecret 5tar 5ystem''

* ''[[Lucky Number Slevin|Lucky Number S7evin]]'', although to convey this properly I'd have to find a way to flip the 7 upside-down. And, yes, it's upside down because it's standing in for an "L".

* Thr3e

* Quoth [[Tom Lehrer]]: "I am reminded at this point of a fellow I used to know who's name was Henry, only to give you an idea of what an individualist he was he spelled it HEN3RY. The 3 was silent, you see."

* ''[[Left 4 Dead]]''

** In [[The Stinger]] of [[Zero Punctuation|Yahtzee's review of the above]], he derides this trope with "There's a special circle of hell 4 people who replace words with numbers"

* ''[[Tron|TR2N]]''

** Which has since been renamed ''Tron: Legacy''.

* The recently announced ''[[Thief|Thi4f]]''

** Shortly after the announcment of the above, John Walker of ''Rock Paper Shotgun'' spoofed this on [http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2009/05/12/4idos-gam4-nam4s-rev4al4d/ these photoshop jobs].

* All sen10r classes of 2010. You know who you are.

** Oops?

* ''Bandslam'', which featured Sa7m.

* ''SURV1V3'' by Jonathan Underdown, one of the soundtracks from ''[[Gran Turismo]] 5 Prologue''.

* The Architecture In Helsinki song ''It'5!'', pronounced "it's five".

* Skateboard clothing company 323K13(upsidedown)7 (Ezekiel).

* Goa trance group/artist Merr0w.

* [[The Event|The Ev3nt]]. Although it's more like a backwards "E".

* The Apocaly[[Play Station 3]], referring to the March 1, 2010 bug where the internal clock perceived 2010 as a leap year. [[Hilarity Ensues|Hilarity ensued]] if you were a Xbox 360 fan. [[Tear Jerker|If not...]]

* The [[Syfy]] original miniseries ''[[5ive Minutes to Midnight]]'' also featured this. "5ive" is just pronounced "five".

== Names with Symbols ==

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* Quite a few [[Pokémon]] have non-alphabethic symbols for names.

** Nidoran♂ and Nidoran♀. the gender symbols are canonically part of their names because they were introduced in the original games, back when Pokémon ''didn't'' have their genders displayed, but they were still intended to be each other's [[Single Gender Species]] counterpart.

** Farfetch'd; the apostrophe is part of the name. In case it's not obvious, it's supposed to be a mispronunciation of ''far fetched'', since it carries a stick for attacking.

** Porygon2, Porygon's evolution. Called so because Porygon is supposed to be a living computer program, of which the evolution is just an "upgrade".

** Porygon-Z; the hyphen is part of the name. It is the evolution of the above, and intended to be an [[Playful Hacker|unauthorized upgrade]]. The Z was also used because [[Letters 2 Numbers|it looks like a 2]]. It seems that the hyphen was added specifically to invoke this trope, too.

** Ho-Oh had a hyphen in its name two generations before Porygon-Z and was introduced in the same generation as Porygon2, though it isn't artificial like the Porygon line. (It's also a palindrome, but that's unrelated to this trope.) Possibly because a ''houou'' is a mythical Japanese bird akin to a phoenix, and it's difficult for non-Japanese speakers to pronounce "Hoou", which would be the literal Romanization.

* [[Those Wacky Nazis|The SS]] symbol was a pair of runic 'S'es, which look like lightning bolts.

* ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Trials & Tribulations'' features the [[Phantom Thief]] Mask*DeMasque. The fandom has recently come to a consensus that the star is "pronounced" by pausing and making a "jazz hands" gesture.

** ''[[Apollo Justice: Ace Attorney]]'' has the following exchange:

*:'''Trucy''': When I sign my name, I always put in a little diamond! "Trucy ♦ Wright" See? Cute, don'tcha think?

*:'''Apollo''': It's a little confusing. Won't people think your middle name is diamond?

*:'''Trucy''': Hey! You could write your name like "Apollo = Justice"!

*:'''Apollo''': I do like justice, but that's taking it a bit far.

*** The Italian version has Trucy suggesting "Apollo @ Justice", and Apollo remarking it would look like his e-mail address.

* ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]'''s opening theme tune is sung by the Excel♥Girls, played by the seiyuu duo of Yumiko Kobayashi and Mikako Takahashi.

* The singer [[P!nk]]. Her breakout album also had it, along with [[Xtreme Kool Letterz]]: ''M!ssundaztood''.

* The star spirit Geno in ''[[Super Mario RPG]]: Legend of the Seven Stars''. When asked for his name answers "♥♪!?" but tells you to call him Geno after the doll he is possessing, stating that his real name is [[The Unpronounceable|hard to pronounce]].

* Black☆Star in ''[[Soul Eater]]'', another one with the star being part of their name. It doesn't help that his seiyuu is the first of the aforementioned Excel♥Girls.

* ''[[Naruto]]'' [http://www.mangareader.net/naruto/495/08 writes his family name Uzumaki as a spiral] instead of in Japanese kana or kanji since that's what it means.

** Similarly, in ''[[Samurai Champloo]]'', when Mugen learns how to read, he signs his name as an infinity sign.

* [[Blue Öyster Cult|Blue Oyster Cult]]

* The Artist Formerly Known as [[Prince]] (now The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known as Prince).

** I thought he was now Prince The Artist Formerly Known As The Artist Formerly Known As Prince?

* B* Witched.

* In ''[[Snow Crash]]'', the hacker named Da5id.

* In ''[[The Demolished Man]]'' by Alfred Bester, several characters spell their names with symbols. Examples: Dr. Wyg& (pronounced Wygand), @kins.

* The seminal [[Cyberpunk]] novel ''[[Neuromancer]]'' gave us Lady 3Jane, a clone daughter of the founding fathers of the artificial satellite that the story takes place on.

* Author Jennifer 8. Lee. Yes, her middle name is the numeral 8, with a period after.

* Black★Rock Shooter, a character seen in a [[Vocaloid]] music video, sung by Hatsune Miku. [[Black★Rock Shooter (band)|The series]] title is the same name.

* ?uestlove of The Roots. It's pronounced "Questlove."

* Ke$ha has a single dollar sign in her name, said to represent the price of her integrity/virginity/[Insert your own [[Take That]] here].

** Ma$e [[Older Than They Think|did the single dollar sign]] [[Buffy-Speak|thing]] [[Older Than They Think|first]].

* A certain British synth-pop band of the 80s originally was named with an unpronounceable symbol comprised of a spiral leading into an undulating line and ending in a loop. When their label complained about their unpronounceable name, they offered the name Freur.

** Similarly, Part 4 of the "Something at the Bottom of the Sea" suite by the band Quantum Jump is given a squiggly line in lieu of a name for a title.

* [[Gahan Wilson]]'s short story in the ''[[Again, Dangerous Visions]]'' anthology has no title - it's identified by a black blob. (It's ''about'' a black blob, illustrated in the story itself, that grows and grows until...)

* Science fiction magazine ''[[Analog]]'' was for some time officially known as ''Analog Science Fiction [symbol] Science Fact''. The symbol, resembling a right-pointing arrow superimposed on an inverted U, was invented by editor [[John W. Campbell]] to represent "Analogous to".

* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]'' does this a few times. Mostly it's the A-E ligature, such as Æther Storm or Æther Flash. Originally this wasn't possible to print, so Ærathi Berserker is rathi Berserker instead. During the Tempest block, they were also fond of gratuitous use of the italics, such as the ''en''-Kor or the ''il''-Vec.

* According to an urban legend, a mother named her child [http://www.snopes.com/racial/language/le-a.asp Le-a], which she insisted should be pronounced {{spoiler|Ledasha}}.

* The Poser character Near☆Me (or にあ☆みい in the original Japanese) - alas, [http://www.contentparadise.com/productDetails.aspx?id=9885 the webpage where once can buy a copy of the model] doesn't include the star.

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