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The opposite of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]], this is for clearly heroic sounding names. [[Dead Horse Trope|It seems to be played straight less frequently than the evil version.]]
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== Adjectives ==
=== Film ===
* A resistance leader in ''[[Demolition Man]]'' is Edgar Friendly.▼
=== Literature ===
* Tod Friendly in ''[[
=== Live-Action TV ===
* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] on ''[[Lost]].'' One of the bad guys is named Tom Friendly.
* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' has Regal Bryant, both of whose names mean 'noble'. He's a double subversion, since he's an enemy the first couple times you meet him, but it wasn't really by his own choice, and he soon winds up joining the party and being one of the nicest people around.▼
=== Theatre ===
* Very common in Renaissance and Restoration drama which often gave meaningful names to characters. For instance, the hero of ''The Plain Dealer'' is named Manly, and ''The Recruiting Officer'' has a Worthy as protagonist.
* [[The Zeroth Law of Trope Examples]]: When there's a [[Twelfth Night|Malvolio]] running around, it's usually a safe bet that the local [[Romeo and Juliet|Benvolio]] is a nicer person.▼
=== Video Games ===
▲* ''[[Tales of Symphonia]]'' has Regal Bryant, both of whose names mean 'noble'. He's a double subversion, since he's an enemy the first couple times you meet him, but it wasn't really by his own choice, and he soon winds up joining the party and being one of the nicest people around.
=== Western Animation ===
* Peter Perfect from ''[[Wacky Races]]'' is the opposite number of [[Dastardly Whiplash|Dick Dastardly]].
▲* When there's a [[Twelfth Night|Malvolio]] running around it's usually a safe bet that the local [[Romeo and Juliet|Benvolio]] is a nicer person.
▲* Tod Friendly in ''[[Times Arrow]]''. Played straight as he is a great guy in his old age, then subverted {{spoiler|as he is revealed to have been a concentration camp doctor.}} Also, {{spoiler|his real last name is Unverdorben: "unspoilt" in German. (While we're at it, "Tod" -- pronounced with a long o -- just happens to be the German word for "death". Make of that what you will.)}}
▲* A resistance leader in [[Demolition Man]] is Edgar Friendly.
* [[Real Life]] example: Fred Friendly, President of CBS News during the 60s(during which time he and Edward R. Murrow produced a series of reports that are credited for helping bring down Joe McCarthy), later one of the founders of what would become Public Television. Generally regarded as a symbol of journalistic integrity.▼
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* Also common in Victorian melodrama and subject to much parody. Several of the character in the [[Gilbert and Sullivan]] work ''[[Ruddigore]]'' count as parodies- the heroine is Rosa Maybudd, and the male characters are Robin Oakapple and his servant Adam Goodheart, and Richard Dauntless- the first two male characters lead to a subversion as Robin is actually the stereotypically evilly named Sir Ruthven Murgatroyd from a family of [[Dastardly Whiplash]] types and an earlier draft had Adam changing his name to Gideon Crawle to match his master's forced [[Face Heel Turn]].▼
** Rosa Bud from [[Charles Dickens]]' ''[[The Mystery of Edwin Drood]]'' is a straight example.▼
** As is Walter Hartwright (i.e. heart-right) from [[Wilkie Collins]]' ''[[The Woman in White]]''.▼
** There is also the Rev. Farebrother in [[George Eliot]]'s ''[[Middlemarch]].''▼
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Also common in Victorian melodrama and subject to much parody.
* Any character named 'Shepherd'. Plenty of them in the military, for some reason. May be a nod to '[[Messianic Archetype|The Good Shepherd]]'.▼
=== Literature ===
*** ''[[Command & Conquer]]'': General Sheppard.▼
*** ''[[Half Life]]: Opposing Force'': Corporal Shepherd▼
*** ''[[Mass Effect]]'': Commander Shepard (played straight with [[The Paragon|Paragon]] Shepard, who tries to solve disputes with diplomacy and uses violence as a last resort; subverted with [[Anti-Hero|Renegade]] Shepard, who prefers to solve disputes with violence and uses diplomacy as a last resort. Both are more or less [[Magnetic Hero|MagneticHeroes]] to go along with the name regardless.)▼
*** ''[[Modern Warfare]]'': General Shepherd {{spoiler|although that's a subversion, since he betrays you.}}▼
*** ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'': Colonel Shepherd▼
=== Theatre ===
*** In part of his back-story in the pages of ''[[X-Men]]'', Professor Xavier served as a soldier during [[The Korean War]]. In one story, it was revealed that he was known among his fellow soldiers as "The Good Shepherd", because he went to great lengths to bring the men under his command safely home.▼
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*** ''[[Lost]]'': Jack Shepherd, though [[Your Mileage May Vary]] - he always tried to be a good shepherd, with varied success and pure intention.▼
*** Ernest Shepard, illustrator of the [[Winnie the Pooh]] books.▼
*** President Andrew Shephard in ''[[The American President]]''.▼
== Emotion ==
=== Film ===
* FBI Agent Karen Sympathy ([[Piper Perabo]]) in the 2000 live-action film ''[[The Adventures of Rocky & Bullwinkle ]]''.
=== Live-Action TV ===
* On ''[[Dharma and Greg]]'', Dharma once ran for public office against a woman named [[Punny Name|Karen Love]].
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== Heaven/Religion/Mythology related ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* Luna, Artemis, and Diana, the "mooncats" from ''[[Sailor Moon]]'', always give good advice to the humans.
=== Comic Books ===
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{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' Trust me, I'm the Doctor.}}
:* Lampshaded in "A Good Man Goes to War"; toward the end, River Song revealed that many planets (including possibly Earth) have taken the word 'Doctor' into their language as a word for 'healer' or 'learned person', because of The Doctor's influence. But many other planets use the word 'Doctor' to mean 'warrior', for much the same reason.
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== Heroes (as in, named after other famous heroes) ==
=== Multiple Examples ===
* [https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Roland Roland] was a Frankish military leader under Charlemagne who became one of the principal figures in the literary cycle known as ''The Matter of France''. His name is used several times in fiction for heroic characters, including:
** The fairy tale ''Childe Rowland'', the most popular version being by Joseph Jacobs in his ''English Folk and Fairy Tales'', published in 1892.
** English poet [[Robert Browning]]'s epic poem, ''Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came''; the title of which comes from a line in [[William Shakespeare]]'s play ''[[King Lear]]''.
** The protagonist of [[Stephen King]]'s ''[[The Dark Tower]]''.
** King Roland II from ''[[Sofia the First]]''.
** Roland from ''[[Borderlands]]'', the first Vault Hunter to open the vault on Pandora and later the founder and leader of the Crimson Raiders.
** Several heroic characters in ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' are named after characters from ''The Matter of France'', including Roland.
=== Fan Works ===
* [[The Teraverse]] has the Order of Sainte Jeanne d'Arc, a community of Catholic nuns founded (and named) by a superheroine.
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