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** In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny (Anime)|Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'', Athrun's [[Mid Season Upgrade]], Infinite Justice, is named after "Operation Infinite Justice", the original name for "Operation Enduring Freedom". Likewise, Kira's Freedom is likely named after "Operation Enduring Freedom".

** ''[[Gundam Sentinel]]'' names all of its characters after real people from the end of the Shogunate in Japan. For example, protagonist Ryu Roots is named for Ryoma Sakamoto ("moto" being the Japanese word for "root").

** The ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' spinoff ''Advance of Zeta'' combines this with [[~~Cross~~ Cultural Reference]], as all the experimental mobile suits in it are named for characters from ''[[Watership Down]]''.

** The ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' spinoff ''Advance of Zeta'' combines this with [[Cultural Cross Reference]], as all the experimental mobile suits in it are named for characters from ''[[Watership Down]]''.

* In ''[[Tantei Opera Milky Holmes (Anime)|Tantei Opera Milky Holmes]]'', pretty much everybody (and everything) is named after something from detective fiction. For starters, the heroines are named Sherlock (obvious), Cordelia (as in Gray), Hercule (as in Poirot) and Nero (as in Wolfe).

* The titular character's father from ''[[Anime/Kimba The White Lion|Kimba The White Lion]]'' is named [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]] and one of the villians is named Cassius, which reflected his bitter past with Caesar.