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* In ''[[Westworld]]'', the name ''Dolores'' refers to her status as a 'doll' or plaything for her human creators. Her partner, ''Teddy'', is likely a reference to 'teddy bears', the soft and cuddly toys for kids. (Maeve's daughter is seen playing with dolls).
** 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''.
* Wednesday Addams (of [[The Addams Family]] fame) was the only character actually named by [[Charles Addams]], who was 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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