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** [[Knight in Shining Armor|Alistair]] is a Scottish form of Alexander, "defender of men", and he is the toughest of the warriors you can recruit due to his weapon-and-shield specialization.

** [[White Mage|Wynne]] means "blessed", appropriate for a character who is being sustained by a spirit of Faith.

** [[Jeanne D Archetype|Leliana]] is a variant of a French diminutive of Elizabeth, which has strong religious connotations in the original Hebrew.

** [[Jeanne D'Archetype|Leliana]] is a variant of a French diminutive of Elizabeth, which has strong religious connotations in the original Hebrew.

** [[The Archer|Sebastian]] was a 3rd-century saint martyred by arrows.

** [[Troubled but Cute|Fenris]] is an in-universe example, his master intended a name meaning 'little wolf' to be intimidating.

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*** Nastasia, whose name is similar to the greek "Anastasia", meaning "Resurrection". {{spoiler|Who apparently survives a fatal attack}}.

*** Luvbi (as in "love", i.e. hearts), a Nimbi. {{spoiler|She ends up turning into a Pure Heart.}}

** From ''[[Paper Mario ~~the~~ Thousand Year Door]]'':

** From ''[[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]'':

*** At some point in the game, Mario can fight generic mooks called "X-Yux", which are alien creatures serving as guards for the same organization as TEC-XX, and using Goombella's [[Stat-O-Vision]] move makes clear that the "X" in the X-Yux's name is pronounced "Cross." Sure enough, TEC-'''XX''' double-crosses the organization.

*** Beldam, head of the Shadow Sisters from ''The Thousand Year Door'', is extremely old and withered. Her name means "crone", and was once a word for witches (see: ''[[Coraline (novel)|Coraline]]''). Comes as little surprise {{spoiler|she serves the Shadow Queen}} when you know that.

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** Thrall--formerly Orc warchief, now a shaman trying to save the world of Azeroth--has the birth name "Go'el". "Go'el" is Hebrew for "redeemer" (and one of the titles of the Messiah). His given human name, Thrall (meaning "slave"), was also quite obviously this trope at the time, but has since been quite soundly subverted by the Orc himself.

** Considering Varian's two personalities and the mood swings they cause, it's interesting that his name is Spanish for "they vary".

** [http://www.wowpedia.org/images/d/dd/Akama_TCG.jpg Akama] wields [[wikipedia:Kama ~~chr~~(~~28)weaponchr(29~~)|kamas]].

** [http://www.wowpedia.org/images/d/dd/Akama_TCG.jpg Akama] wields [[wikipedia:Kama (weapon)|kamas]].

* ''[[Mother 3]]'' has the villain Fassad, called Yokuba in the Japanese. Yokuba comes from the japanese word Yokubari, which means greed. The fan translation named him Fassad, [[Woolseyism|to make a similar pun]], as "Facade" means a false appearance, and in Arabic, "Fassad" means "Corruption". All of which point to Fassad's nature as {{spoiler|a corruptive force on Tazmily, and the kind face he puts up to trick Tazmily.}} Going even further, Fassad has a secret identity, and a name to go along with it: {{spoiler|Locria, the missing Magypsie. All the Magypsies have names based on the musical modes. Out of the musical modes, the Locrian mode has a tritone as its tonic code, instead of a perfect fifth like all the others. Historically, the trintone has been associated with evil and the devil.}} How's that for meaningful?

** Also from ''[[Mother 3]]'', we have "Lucas" and "Claus". Think about that one for a second.

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** Curiously, [[Ax Crazy|Jacqueline]] is a feminine derivative of [[Only Sane Man|Jacob]]...Doesn't have quite the same significance as most examples on this page, but still...

** [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Miranda]] is apparently a derivation of a Latin term meaning "admirable", and given her history it is entirely possible that is intentional. Also, her original last name (before they cast an Australian to voice her) was "Solheim", meaning "Sun home", which probably had something to do with the fact that she is the only major character (except for ([[Multiple Choice Past|possibly]]) Commander Shepard) who is from Earth.

*** Miranda's last name is either a reference to [[wikipedia:Henry Lawson|Henry Lawson]], one of Australia's best and most well-known writers; or to [[wikipedia:William Lawson ~~chr~~(~~28)explorerchr(29~~)|William Lawson]], one of the trio of explorers who discovered a route through the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, and who subsequently become one of the largest landowners in the country as well as the commander of the Bathurst settlement and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.<ref>Hopefully it ''isn't'' a reference to [[wikipedia:Len Lawson|Len Lawson.]]</ref>

*** Miranda's last name is either a reference to [[wikipedia:Henry Lawson|Henry Lawson]], one of Australia's best and most well-known writers; or to [[wikipedia:William Lawson (explorer)|William Lawson]], one of the trio of explorers who discovered a route through the Blue Mountains west of Sydney, and who subsequently become one of the largest landowners in the country as well as the commander of the Bathurst settlement and a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council.<ref>Hopefully it ''isn't'' a reference to [[wikipedia:Len Lawson|Len Lawson.]]</ref>

** {{spoiler|"Reaper" is a disturbingly appropriate name for the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]}}. {{spoiler|The first game reveals that they "sow" organic life along the lines drawn by their mass relay network. The second game shows the "reaping": they liquefy entire sentient species to provide the raw material needed to ''create new Reapers''}}.

** Shepard is probably so obvious that it doesn't even warrant a mention. Especially since in ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' the whole [[Messianic Archetype|Jesus-thing]] is made really obvious when {{spoiler|s/he's not only resurrected, but resurrected because s/he is humanity's only hope}}... ''and'' you recruit a team of twelve people. Shepard also shares a name with [[wikipedia:Alan Shepard|Alan Bartlett Shepard, Jr.]], the first American in space. [[Word of God]] is the name was deliberately chosen as a reference to Rear Admiral Shepard.