Stellar Name: Difference between revisions

** Another Hoshino, so to speak: [[Kirby: Right Back at Ya!|Hoshi no Kirby]].

** In a non-anime example, Hoshi Sato of [[Star Trek: Enterprise]], who is the Japanese linguist, was undoubtedly given that name for a reason.

* An early concept name for [[Star Wars|Luke Skywalker]] was Luke Starkiller. Recognizing the aggressive awesomeness apparent in such a name, the [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] gave it to a superweapon, to the Mandalorian [[Knights of the Old Republic|Bendak Starkiller]], and later to [[The Force Unleashed|Vader's first secret apprentice]].

** "Starkiller" might have slyly been dropped on Wedge Antilles, too, in the [[X Wing Series]]. On one planet his name is given a [[Punctuation Shaker]] to change its meaning [[You Are the Translated Foreign Word|in the native language]] from "so foul it would sicken a rancor" to ''"slayer of stars"''. This has the neat added bonus of also referring back to the fact that Wedge destroyed the second Death Star.

* A couple of [[The Federation|Argon]] ships in the ''[[X (video game)|X-Universe]]'' series are named for stellar phenomena, specifically the Nova fighter, Eclipse heavy fighter, and Magnetar military transport.

* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, when a cat becomes a Clan leader, the last half of their name is replaced with "-star", to represent how they're connected to their ancestors, StarClan. So Fireheart becomes Firestar, Nightpelt becomes Nightstar, Tigerclaw becomes Tigerstar, and so on.

 

== Other Bodies ==

* The five sisters, [[Exalted]]'s Maidens of Destiny; Mars, Maiden of Battles; Venus, Maiden of Serenity; Jupiter, Maiden of Secrets; Mercury, Maiden of Journeys; and Saturn, Maiden of Endings.

* Ethan Mars (along with his family) of ''[[Heavy Rain]]''.

 

== Miscellaneous ==

** "Astro"nema - Astro mean star.

** Ecliptor - from the word eclispe

 

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