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* On ''[[Angel]]'' a wizard who intended to [[Virgin Sacrifice|sacrifice his virgin daughter]] to a demon on his 50th birthday named said daughter ''Virginia''. It didn't work out, as his efforts to isolate her were extremely unsuccessful.
** And Gwen Raiden, named for the Japanese god of lightning. [[Shock and Awe|Guess what ability she has.]]
** Angel, named because his sister though he'd returned to her from the dead as an angel. Historical volumes describe him as "the one with the angelic face" and "the demon with the face of an angel". (In the opinion of some viewers, though, this was a case of [[Informed Attractiveness]].)
** Jasmine, so named because she loved the smell of Jasmine flowers, which in itself is meaningful, as The Language of Flowers states that the Jasmine flower symbolizes "attachment and amiability". [[Makes Sense in Context|Trust me, this is a
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'' had Eve, who was destined to bring about the "Twilight of the Gods". ''Eve''ning and ''Twilight'' are both times of day. Or... night I suppose...
** This is more of an out of universe example, as In Universe, Eve was named by her {{spoiler|dead older brother, who was completely unaware of Eve's destiny}}, during one of [[To Hell and Back|Xena and Gabrielle's many day-trips to the Underworld.]]
* ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]'' had George Michael's love interest Maeby, who was his [[Incest Is Relative|cousin]]... ''maybe.'' (By the end of the series, {{spoiler|we know they're not blood related}}.)
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* ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' is full of examples of meaningful names.
** ''[[Kamen Rider Kabuto]]'' has a couple of characters whose [[Catch Phrase]] contains the kanji of their own name. This includes protagonist Souji Tendou ("Walking the path of heaven, ruling over all") and [[The Rival]] Tsurugi Kamishiro ("The man who replaces the gods with a sword's slash"). Parodied in the Hyper Battle video, when [[The Lancer]] Arata Kagami asks for a [[Catch Phrase]] of his own, and Tendou suggests "The man who washes his face in front of a mirror (kagami) every day."
** ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'': Protagonist Tsukasa's name contains the kanji for "gate", befitting his status as a dimensional wanderer; Kamen Rider Decade is the tenth main Rider of the Heisei era of the franchise (from 2000
*** [[Kamen Rider Kuuga|Yuusuke Onodera]] is named for ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' creator [[Shotaro Ishinomori]] (birth name: Shotaro Onodera).
*** [[Kamen Rider Agito|Shoichi Ashikawa]]'s name is a combination of the names of the three ''Agito'' Riders: '''Shoichi''' Tsugami (Agito), Ryo '''Ashi'''hara (Gills), and Makoto Hi'''kawa''' (G3). {{spoiler|The ''Decade'' version of Shoichi was once G3, evolved into Gills before Tsukasa arrived, and became Agito by the end of the arc.}}
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* One episode of ''[[Austin and Ally]]'' features the vile, unscrupulous music manager, '''Demonic'''a Dixon.
* ''[[Once Upon a Time (TV series)|Once Upon a Time]]'' lives and breathes this trope. Snow White is Mary Margaret ''Blanc''hard ("blanc" is French for white), Red Riding Hood is ''Ruby'', the Evil Queen is ''Regina'' Mills...
* In ''[[Westworld]]'', the name ''Dolores'' refers to her status as a 'doll' or plaything for her human creators
** The name of the company behind Westworld, ''Delos'', is taken from the Greek for 'visible, manifest',<ref>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/%CE%B4%E1%BF%86%CE%BB%CE%BF%CF%82#Ancient_Greek δῆλος in Ancient Greek] ''wiktionary.org''</ref> which is where the word 'psychedelic'<ref>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/psychedelic psychedelic] ''wiktionary.org''</ref> (mind-manifesting) comes from. A slightly more obscure reference would be to the Greek island of Delos<ref>[https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Delos Delos in Greece] ''wikipedia.org''</ref> which alludes to the fact that Westworld is an isolated location, cut off from the world. Combine these two concepts together and you get ''an isolated location where artificially intelligent minds are made manifest''.
* When asked by the producers of ''[[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|The Addams Family]]'' to name his heretofore-unnamed cartoon characters, [[Charles Addams]] included several meaningful names, such as Fester and Morticia. But the most prominent such name (and ironically the least noticeable as such) was that of daughter Wednesday -- one of Addams' friends suggested her name, inspired by the third line of the nursery rhyme [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Monday%27s_Child "Monday's Child"]: "Wednesday's child is full of woe"; that does indeed seem to describe Wednesday Addams. In the pilot of the [[Netflix]] series ''[[Wednesday]]'', Morticia claims that is why she named her, citing the rhyme as her favorite, making it a [[Prophetic Name]] as well.
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