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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 ==

* [[Subverted Trope|Subverted]] on ''[[Lost]].'' One of the bad guys is named Tom Friendly.

* 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.

 

== Animals ==

** 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]].''

 

== Animals (Shepherd) ==

*** Ernest Shepard, illustrator of the [[Winnie the Pooh]] books.

*** President Andrew Shephard in ''[[The American President]]''.

 

== Emotion ==

* The Joy was the The Boss's old special forces name in ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3: Snake Eater]]''. She is a hero of the United States and Naked Snake's mentor of 10 years. Subverted because she defects to the enemy's side shortly after the game begins. {{spoiler|Double subverted because she's a double agent and has to sacrifice herself when things don't go as planned for the U.S.}}

* The case which made inter-racial marriage legal across all of the United States? [http://law2.umkc.edu/faculty/projects/ftrials/conlaw/loving.html Loving v. Virginia]

 

== Family Title ==

* Big Brother in ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]'' uses this for manipulative purposes.

* The Mother in ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'' is a subversion.

 

== Good ==

* The real name of Sky High in ''[[Tiger and Bunny]]'' is Keith Goodman.

* Miss Ima Goodlady from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]''. Subverted in that she's actually Sedusa in disguise.

 

== Heart ==

* [[Incorruptible Pure Pureness|Lionheart]] in ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' is a straight example. He's a pure hero, right down to the end. [[The Chosen One|Fireheart]] as well.

* Ser Arys Oakheart in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]''. A good guy, if easily manipulated and not too bright.

 

== Heaven/Religion/Mythology related ==

 

== Verbs ==

* [[Dudley Do-Right]] is a notable parody.

 

== Heroes (as in, named after other famous heroes) ==

* Dr. Thomas Light from the ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''. Of course, [[Dub Name Change|this is only in the North American versions]]. In the original Japanese games, his name is Dr. Right...which is still a much nicer name than, say, "Dr. Wrong". Of course, the [[Japanese Ranguage|L/R thing]] makes it hard to know what they truly mean his name to be. Either way, he's a nice guy.

* Hikari Yagami of ''[[Digimon Adventure]]''. [[The Messiah|''Oh'' so]] [[Light Is Good|very much]] a [[Meaningful Name]], almost to ridiculous extremes. Even her dub name counts.

* [[Subverted]] in ''[[Young Justice (comics)|Young Justice]]'' by "[[Light Is Not Good|The Light]]."

 

== Virtues ==

* Parodied in [[Anything Goes]], where Reno's four angels are named Purity, Chastity, Charity, and Virtue. They are all sleeping with the crew of the ship.

* Temperance Brennan in ''[[Bones]]''. Partially subverted in that [[No Social Skills|she is not an easy person]] [[Insufferable Genius|to get along with]].

 

== Parodies ==

** Also parodied by the Carter family of Lancre, whose parents didn't quite get how this was supposed to work. All of the girls ended up named after virtues: Hope, Prudence, Chastity, and Charity. The boys, on the other hand, were all named after vices: Anger, Jealousy, Covetousness, and Bestiality. Ironically, all the kids ended up as inversions of their name, so Chastity for example ended up as a "[[Unusual Euphemism|seamstress]]" in [[Wretched Hive|Ankh-Morpork]], while Bestiality Carter was always very kind to animals. Covetousness Carter is described as "generous to a fault."

* Parodying this trope and [[Charles Dickens]]' use of it, the villain of ''[[Bleak Expectations]]'' is named Mr Gently Benevolent. The cast also includes love interests Ripley Fecund and Sweetly Delightful.

 

== Compound names (exhibit two or more of the above) ==

 

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