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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".

* ''[[Mother 3 (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|Mother 3]]'', we have "Lucas" and "Claus". Think about that one for a second.

** 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.

** {{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 [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

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