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{{quote|'''A NAME IS A CLOAK OF LETTERS THROWN UPON A MAN. IT MEANS ''NOTHING.'''''|'''The Transcendent One''', [[Planescape: Torment]] }}
Someone or something is given a fancy name taken from mythology, religious lore or history, laden with implications for the educated audience - but never turns out to actually have a [[Meaningful Name]]. Maybe the writer just needed an [[Awesome McCoolname]] for their plucky protagonist or a [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|name to run away from really fast]] for their [[Big Bad]] and didn't bother about any specific connotations, or they hoped their [[MacGuffin]] would seem more important with a sufficiently cabbalistic name - in any case, it turns out that [[Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory|no one's Jesus in Purgatory]].
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== Anime And Manga ==
* ''[[Earth Maiden Arjuna]]'' has an archer heroine named after the Hindu hero of the ''Baghavad Gita'', but the series is a [[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The ''[[
* The ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' went through a phase in the [[Dark Age]] when a lot of new characters had Biblical or religious names, sometimes appropriately (Apocalypse, Nimrod), vaguely appropriately (Babel spires), or for no particular reason at all (Bishop, Gideon). Ahab would count, except that he's an obvious reference to ''[[
* The trope is parodied in ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)]]'' when someone pointed out that Jesse Custer's name has "J.C." for initials and Jesse says it's a ridiculous idea.
== [[Film]] - Live Action ==
* In ''[[
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* Many of the characters in ''[[Sacrifice]]'' have names from mythology, but none of them seem to have any meaningful connection with the relevant myth.
* ''[[Metal Gear Acid]] 2'' names the Test Subjects (Golab, Harab Serap, Chagadiel) after the Kabbalist Qliphoth for no good reason.
* ''[[
** This is because ''[[
** ''[[
* ''[[
* A lot of the monsters in the [[Final Fantasy]] series are given names of creatures and heroes from various different myths, but many seem like an excuse to give mooks an awesome name.
* The [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|four enemy Mega Men]] in ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
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