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** Leela's full name - Turanga Leela - is a reference to the Turangalila-Symphonie, a piece of music most famous for prominently featuring the ondes Martenot, forerunner of the classc sci-fi staple the theremin. Also, in the case of purple-haired Leela. "Lila" means "purple" in German.
** In Futurama's famously esoteric style of humor, "Farnsworth" was the name of the man who built the first television system.
** Morgan [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Proctor |Proctor]] is a bureaucrat. Her name is triply appropriate, the first being the most obvious, though the others work if you stretch it <ref>if you can't figure out why, think "proctologist"</ref>: She's a bureaucrat, so she's anal, and she's also something of an [[Jerkass|ass]].
** In "Fear of a Bot Panet", a planet inhabited by robots was named "Chapek 9" as a reference to [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Theatre/[RUR?from=Main.RossumsUniversalRobots (Theatre)|Karel Capek]]'s coining of the term "robot".
** The kids involved in the re-enactment of the Sith-il War provide us with these gems: Darth Stroyer, Darth Trocious, Darth Urderer and Darth Sploder. <ref>Poking fun at a ''somewhat'' milder meaningful naming scheme in the ''[[Star Wars]]'' franchise.</ref>
* The old show ''[[Beany and Cecil]]'' has a villain named Dishonest John.
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** King Bumi's name (Bumi) means "Earth" in Tamil.
** Suki is a verb meaning "to like/love" in Japanese. Suki's name is also pronounced the same way as the Japanese word for the Moon.
** As the Fire Nation has largely Indian names, "Azula" is no doubt derived from "[http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/:Asura |Asura]]". It fits her. Azula could also be seen as a modification of "Azul." Appropriate, as most of her firebending techniques are blue. In fact, it has been said that Azula was originally going to be "Prince Azul," before the ''Avatar'' folks decided to make her female.
** According to the [[The Wiki Rule|Avatar wiki]], Ozai's name can mean either "leisurely year" (he spends a lot of time ordering others around from the comfort of his palace) or "flaming calamity", which...yeah.
** In Mandarin, Zhao means "to look / search for (someone)". Guess what Admiral Zhao does throughout the first season.
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