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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]].
A subtrope of [[Faux Symbolism]] (applied to names). Can overlap with [[Religious and Mythological Theme Naming]]. Contrast [[Non
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== Anime And Manga ==
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* The ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (Franchise)|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'': Leonardo, Donatello, Raphael, Michelangelo.
* 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 ''[[Moby Dick (Literature)|Moby Dick]].''
* 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 ==
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