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** ...Except ''Mega Man 9''. Which stirs things up by adding <s>[[The Smurfette Principle|Token Female]]</s> Splashwo Man.
** Even if certain Navis in ''Battle Network'' did not have "-Man" attatched to their names, all of their names will still end with .EXE, as they are [[What Measure Is a Non-Human?|(very personal) computer programs]]. However, from the third game onwards, most Navis dropped the .EXE extension when referring to other Navis by name.
* The [[Legion of Super-Heroes]], amongst its approximately 100 members, mostly all have names of this makeup. The most popular suffixes are "-Boy", "-Lad", "-King", "-Girl", "-Lass", "-Queen", "and "-Kid". Some notable examples are Cosmic Boy, Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Bouncing Boy, Invisible Kid, Chemical King, Insect Queen, Shadow Lass and, of course, [https://web.archive.org/web/20140409071109/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=715:matter-eater-lad&catid=36:stupor-powers-index&Itemid=38 Matter Eater Lad]...
** ''Wizard'' magazine once parodied this practice with a Top 10 list of rejected Legion characters, including "Lad Lass" and "Keep-Squeezing-Them-Monkeys Lad".
** ...of course, they were about 30 years late to the party; the Legion of Substitute Heroes existed back in [[The Silver Age of Comic Books]], with characters like Stone Boy, who had the ability to turn into an immobile statue; Color Kid, who could change the color of things;<ref>though, if the [[Green Lantern]] Corps got their hands on him, he'd be indispensable</ref> and... [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|Arm-Fall-Off Boy]].
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