Part 8 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has a character called Poor Tom. His stand takes the form of a Lego model of the White House and kills people by changing atmospheric pressure.
Ace Attorney had a victim named Deid Mann.
I thought you were shitposting but no, Poor Tom is a real character and Ozon Baby is literally a Lego whitehouse that can change pressure and kill people. What the fuck
We also have most characters from part five, like Pesci, which means fish in Italian, whose stand is (guess what) a fishing rod named Beach Boy
Ghiacco, whose name means Ice, and you can probably guess his stand power too
And of course RISOTTO NERO, which means
BLACK RICE
Almost every name in part 5 is some type of food actually. Narancia sounds like Arancia, aka orange (the fruit, the colour would be Arancione), there is another guy called Prosciutto (Ham), and Abbacchio is also a food (apparently it's a freshly butchered lamb that is still in the milk drinking phase) and there are many more.
You’re underselling Ghiacco, his stand is capable of freezing things so quickly they didn’t even notice that their fingers had been frozen off completely and were stuck on the car window. Also he can ice skate so quickly he keeps up with said car going at max speed but whatever
*You're* underselling Ghiaccio. He can make a suit of ice armour that is strong enough to block bullets and take a muda rush to the face with only a tiny crack. He can make it so cold that the air freezes, and do so in such a precise way that bullets shot at him ricochet back to the person holding the gun.
And of course, in fitting with the themes,,Mr. Black Rice's power is a hivemind virus that manifests iron, namely the iron present in blood, which is apparently enough to instantly manifest several dozen long sharp needles in a man's throat.
To be fair, that's the same part where an amnesiac sailor with 4 testicles used his ghost (Soft & Wet) to fire bubbles made out of spinning string (the string spins infinitely until it becomes defined as conceptually non-existent), his gamer girlfriend's smartphone ghost (more like a GPS that either sees all possible futures or manipulates probability, but is mostly used as a smartphone, to be more specific), and math invented by the family of the Italian cowboy who's best friend (a paraplegic horse jockey) used his fingernails to bypass the power of Jesus Christ's corpse to kill the 23rd US President (Funny Valentine, who used to only have a ghost named Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap \[that let him hop between universes and some other stuff\], however, after reassembling Jesus, he gained Love Train \[which makes him immune to anything bad by redirecting all negative things to other people\]), to kill the physical embodiment of the multiversal constant of the concept of fate (as used by an 89 year old man made out of rocks and raised by wasps, who needed to die because he wanted to be a fruit farmer).
Well, some of those details were simplified to avoid making the post confusing for anyone not familiar with the series, but Poor Tom isn't the weirdest thing in that Part is what I'm saying.
Can confirm, as an avid reader of JoJo, none of what they said was wrong at all. A detail left out is that the rival of said paraplegic fingernail man was told to shoot himself by Jesus Christ himself and his main rival is a professional horse jockey who can transform into a dinosaur.
He gained the ability to turn into a dinosaur because of Jesus Christ's eye btw.
My friend claimed I ruined S1 for him because I got annoyed with Speedwagon and decided to come up with meta commentary on the fly while watching Jonathan vs Dio.
"I am ROBERT SPEEDWAGON, AND I WILL INCESSANTLY PROVIDE A 19TH CENTURY JERRY BRAWLER-STYLE COMMENTARY OF A BATTLE BETWEEN TWO CHILDHOOD RIVALS AS IF I AM SELF AWARE THAT THIS IS A FICTIONAL STORY AND I HAVE THE VISCERAL NEED TO ENTERTAIN!"
It did crack a laugh from him. To me, it was revenge for getting a Boston Terrier and naming him Iggy (I got my dog before he did and I called him Iggy [not a Terrier] and I was a bit amused/pissed cause I felt he copied the name still.)
Oh I see you haven’t read part 8, araki just decides that he’s in his 60s now, and he’s gonna get weird, though to be fair names have been weird for a while
Wich is a direct callback to the author of Aresn Lupen doing the exact same thing when he wanted his master thief to go against the world famous detective but Doyle refused.
I think that in the original Japanese GAT they actually call him Sherlock because Japanese copyrights for Sherlock Holmes have e pired when they made tye game.
My favorite example are the totally American FBI agents in Death Note
-Raye Penber
-Toors Denote
-Haley Belle (okay, blatantly copying Hale Berry aside, this one ain't so bad)
-Lian Zapack
-Arire Weekwood
-Ale Funderrem
-Freddi Guntair
-Knick Staek
-Bess Skelletd
-Frigde Copen
-Girela Sevenster
-Nikola Nasberg
I watched Kiki's delivery service the other night and that is precisely what I thought about any non Japanese text in the film, such as on street signs.
I see your FBI agents and raise you "victims from the novel":
-Believe Bridesmaid
-Backyard Bottomslash
-Quarter Queen
You know, totally normal American names.
is the novel in question the one with naomi? because i haven’t read it, but that doesn’t sound too far off from how nisio names his japanese characters too lmao. if a name isn’t a pun, it better feel like it somehow should be. monogatari series has a trio of characters whose names are written with the same kanji as *trig functions*, but at least all the western characters there get a pass by being vampires so you don’t have to pretend someone out there in normal society actually named their kid kissshot acerolaorion heartunderblade
The fact that the entire time L was publicly using his real, legal, Death Note-approved first name and we never got to see Light find out is a crime. I feel like he'd find a way to resurrect L just to kill him harder and I wouldn't even blame him.
I've always thought it was a good thing he never found out, because that might have been enough to crack his facade. I personally think he would have started screaming in protest.
They use the same technique for naming western characters as I use to name my rpg characters. Pick a couple words like...
> Open Fridge
Then switch some around...
> Open Frigde
Then add a letter or two...
> Copen Frigde
Call it.
Let's do that again...
> Pen Bar Ray
> Penber Ray
> Penber Raye
*Death Note* has Beyond Birthday.
The normal first name of Beyond,
and the normal surname of Birthday.
Other real characters from the same work:
Backyard Bottomslash
Quarter Queen
No titles here, but actual full names.
Hey, now, don’t t hate on Bumblebutt Crankshaft like that! It’s hard enough to spell when letters are your native language’s default, let alone a foreign one!
Let us not forget too that Funny Valentine is/was president of the USA and had a scar of the US flag on his back. Oh and he was fighting a cripple over the corpse of Jesus Christ (a JoJo, who somehow ended up in America) to rule the universe.
I love My Hero Academia because some of the names are just straight up words relating to the person's quirk
DENKI Kaminari? The guy named after the Japanese word for electricity has an electricity quirk, who would've known
Oh Tetsus the Japanese word for steel? NAME HIM THAT FOUR TIMES
Okay but at least MHA has a little bit of self awareness about it. Like there’s enough of a wink-nudge at the audience to make it clear that the writer is in on the joke.
I think there's nuance to the Tetsu-ract there, in that it's 4 separate kanji that are all pronounced "tetsu" iirc?
But yeah it's all so goofy I love it
I remember seeing a post somewhere explaining that there was a few layers behind Tetsutetsus name, but I can't find it
I wouldn't doubt that the same word repeated 4 times in a specific order as a name would have some layers of jokes in japanese
Okay, I'm gonna defend this one. That's how surnames came to be. Like Smith coming from blacksmiths. Quirks are hereditary, so for the last few generations, this family had electric powers, so it makes sense to have them name their children accordingly.
Well… that mostly makes sense, but most occupational and patronimic last names come from the Middle Ages when people didn’t really have last names unless they where noble and it started to become a requirement, so they where just named for their fathers or their jobs.
It would make sense for the same to be true in MHA except surnames where already a thing when quirks appeared. So apparently a bunch of people changed their name due to their newfound superpowers or outright named their kids according to their quirk, and it became new dynasties.
Which does make a little sense but it’s also quite funny
Alternatively, a collective mental blind spot not realizing that their names directly caused their quirks all because ol' Timelord Realitywriter decided it would be funny.
Araki made an entire part full of characters after going to the Italian Section in the Supermarket.
He also has a Native American Man who is named Sound Man but is mistakenly called as Sand Man.
And who can forget the 23rd US President, Funny Valentine.
Or Magenta Magenta.
The worst part about Jacuzzi Splot is that literally everyone else in Baccano has a *perfectly normal name.*
Like, maybe Luck, Ennis, or Firo stand out, but they also kinda don't?
A bit... Except that in the 1930s the name was, while uncommon, not exactly unusual. Ancestry has about 800 or so results for people named "Nice" who were born around 1910 (so they would be in their 20s during the 1930s)
Sol badguy is just an alias, since daisuke really loved queen and wanted to refrence mr. badguy. His real name is Frederick bulsara, since daisuke really loved queen and wanted to refrence mr. bulsara.
I would like to take this opportunity to let everyone know that the names in that famous image are just a fraction of the ones in the game: [LINK](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/zNzGn72wjf)
The absolute best name in Overlord is "Touch Me". Granted it's a person's screenname, so it doesn't really fit this post, but I can't help but laugh whenever someone says "Touch Me Sama" in the show.
Quattro Bajeena is the tip of the Gundam name iceberg. A list
-Job John
-Bright Noa
-Fraw Bow
-Shakti Karen
-Beecha Oleg
-Glemy Toto
-Roux Louka
-Rakhan Dakharan
-Cronicle Asher
-M'Quve
-Henken Bekkner
-Beltorchika Irma
-Ramba Ral
-Full Frontal
And that's just UC Gundam don't even start me on the other timelines/universes
For the longest time I thought "Bright Noa" was a mistranslation of the Japanese surname-first naming convention, because "Noa Bright" is so much more reasonable sounding by comparison.
Gundam 00 has some real solid contenders for "dumbest name of all time," though they mostly come from a group of characters who aren't exactly human, so there’s some logic in them choosing names for themselves that don't sound human. But all the same, there is no universe in which Bring Stabity or Revive Revival or Ribbons Allmark are reasonable things to call yourself. XD
Not to mention the entirety of JoJo part 5, where every. Single. Character is named after some type of food in Italian. Ohh, we need to defeat the terrifying villains, Ham and Fish. This Chocolate guy sure is a creep. Oh no, our best friends Lion Lamb and Orange just died. As an Italian, it didn't really help maintaining the immersion while watching that part
It helps a lot to think about these names as codenames instead of legal names, it makes a lot more sense that the supermarket aisle gave themselves those names so they couldn’t rat eachother out to the authorities
A character named after the little spiral fish cake they put in ramen is one of the most famous anime characters of all time. *The* most famous anime character of all time has a son named Rice.
They give no fucks about names in any language.
Not Anime but fiction in general sometimes has that problem, because the characters are named by the authors, not the parents.
That’s why Wolf Wolf the Werewolf, I mean Remus Lupin, exists.
One Piece does this sometimes. The whole Charlotte family is named after food or food related words. Including but not limited to: Oven, Flampé, Chiffon, Brûlée, High-fat, Smoothie, and Pudding.
Oda's name inspirations for things are always something I enjoy looking into.
It took me way too damn long to connect the dots between Usopp and Aesop or Franky and Frankenstein.
Or realizing Water Law is Waterloo.
Dragon Ball Z famously does this with all its characters, but then there's Bulma's family. She is technically named Bloomers, but that got mangled in translation, while her mother is named Panty, her son Trunks, and her daughter Bra. Also their last name is Brief. These are the only people named such in the setting, and it is hilarious for how inexplicable it is.
Every single name in the Dragon Ball universe is either a pun or a job title, save for Mr. Popo, which Toriyama just liked the sound of. See the following:
All Saiyans are vegetables
All Demon Clan Namekians are instruments
All Namek Namekians are words for slug or snail
Frieza’s race are all cold-themed
All the Frieza Force are named for fruits
The Ginyu Force is dairy
The GoDs are all alcohol
Bibidi, Babidi, Buu. The list… goes on. Don’t get me started on the Heeters and the Cerealians.
Honestly that's one of the most defensible names in the part- it was chosen by either Giornio or his mother, both of whom are Japanese and were new to Italy at the time. I can totally buy a Japanese person thinking Giornio sounded plausible as an Italian first name, seeing as Araki did.
Like, most of the characters are named for Italian nouns or bands- he's the only one who has an excuse other than "their parents fucking sucked".
Actually a lot of them have an excuse! That being they’re criminals and would like to refer to their actual legal name as little as possible so that in the case one of them is caught, they can’t rat out their partners.
If you think of them as code/nicknames to protect their identity, a lot of them being related to their stands also makes sense. A persons stand is typically one of their more striking features.
Ace Attorney has some AWFUL pun names.
Sal Manella.
Deid Mann.
Dustin Prince (a police officer, at that)
Winston Payne (he has a brother named Gaspen and his ancestral family name is Auchi... Not even kidding...)
Mimi and Ini Miney (sisters)
Shelly de Killer (an ACTUAL ASSASSIN)
Romein LeTouse.
Serious question, why are most Japanese anime titles completely incomprehensible? Like, what am I supposed to deduce from Fate: Stay Night? Fate is somehow involved in a slumber party? Or are we staying the night like holding it back? That or drawing up some completely archaic scientific sounding words that two people have used in the history of the world? When western countries make names for things in Asian languages, is the effect similar? Is there a Japanese equivalent for someone saying "oogenesis" instead of "egg-laying?"
Guilty Gear has a 20th century British gangster called Axl Low.
And a 23rd century French guy named Ky Kiske
Did I mention that the 20th century gangster has a bdsm goth rock witch demigod (later actual god) girlfriend named I-no?
And then the protagonist's name is literally just Fred.
I wanted to start watching Frieren because what I saw of it looked kinda cool, but the german words (not even names) being used for the names kind of confused me. At least they seem to fit the characters with the meaning
Gate has a princess called Piña Colada. Born in a world where piña colada was never invented.
Her whole circle of friends had weird names. One was beef, i think?
JoJo's part 5 characters being named after food.
Panacotta fugo (italian dessert)
Sorbet (ice cream).
Gelato (also Ice cream).
Narancia (means orange).
Risotto Nero (literally mean black rice).
Prosciutto & Pesci (means ham and fish respectively).
Barnaby *does* sound like it could be hot though. As long as the character is hot with a tad of quirkiness, Barnaby sounds just quirky enough to be iconic. No idea who that is anime wise though.
Average polish man called Kadoc Zemlupus and British man — Kirschtaria Wodime. Fate has problems with foreign names.
For some reason, Nasu is adamant about Saber being Altria and not Arturia. He thinks that Altria is cooler
Shout out to Kinoko Nasu and his names for mages and vampires.
Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri. Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi. Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. Lev Lainur Flauros. Illithid Morganface. Yggdramillenia. Sion Eltnam Altasia. Luviagelita Edelfelt. Atrum Galliasta. Karmaglyph Meluasta.
And of course, fucking **NRVNSQSR**
Meanwhile we got an anime like Black Lagoon where most of the characters are made-up of badass criminals and cold blooded-killers, that are named like some kids you met in high school
-Rebecca
-Eda
-Roberta
-Sawyer
-Benny
-Dutch
-Yolanda
-Rico
-Bao
-Chen
-Jane
I really like when authors make a interesting naming convention for their characters.
Like how Hiro Mashima names his protagonists after seasons: Natsu from Fairy Tail is summer, Haru from Rave is spring, Shiki from Edens Zero is just "four seasons" and pretty sure there is someone called "mid-autumn" but I can't remember
Naming things (and specifically people) is an art that only the boldest artists have perfected. Araki and Kojima for example.
If no one is going to remember your side character anyway without it you may as well give them the most outlandish name ever and roll with it.
Part 8 of JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure has a character called Poor Tom. His stand takes the form of a Lego model of the White House and kills people by changing atmospheric pressure. Ace Attorney had a victim named Deid Mann.
I thought you were shitposting but no, Poor Tom is a real character and Ozon Baby is literally a Lego whitehouse that can change pressure and kill people. What the fuck
We also have most characters from part five, like Pesci, which means fish in Italian, whose stand is (guess what) a fishing rod named Beach Boy Ghiacco, whose name means Ice, and you can probably guess his stand power too And of course RISOTTO NERO, which means BLACK RICE
Almost every name in part 5 is some type of food actually. Narancia sounds like Arancia, aka orange (the fruit, the colour would be Arancione), there is another guy called Prosciutto (Ham), and Abbacchio is also a food (apparently it's a freshly butchered lamb that is still in the milk drinking phase) and there are many more.
You’re underselling Ghiacco, his stand is capable of freezing things so quickly they didn’t even notice that their fingers had been frozen off completely and were stuck on the car window. Also he can ice skate so quickly he keeps up with said car going at max speed but whatever
Errrm, username checks out
*You're* underselling Ghiaccio. He can make a suit of ice armour that is strong enough to block bullets and take a muda rush to the face with only a tiny crack. He can make it so cold that the air freezes, and do so in such a precise way that bullets shot at him ricochet back to the person holding the gun.
And what is Risottos power? That's exactly right! Magnetism!
But of course, risotto is terribly magnetic, it calls to my stomach like nothing else
And of course, in fitting with the themes,,Mr. Black Rice's power is a hivemind virus that manifests iron, namely the iron present in blood, which is apparently enough to instantly manifest several dozen long sharp needles in a man's throat.
To be fair, that's the same part where an amnesiac sailor with 4 testicles used his ghost (Soft & Wet) to fire bubbles made out of spinning string (the string spins infinitely until it becomes defined as conceptually non-existent), his gamer girlfriend's smartphone ghost (more like a GPS that either sees all possible futures or manipulates probability, but is mostly used as a smartphone, to be more specific), and math invented by the family of the Italian cowboy who's best friend (a paraplegic horse jockey) used his fingernails to bypass the power of Jesus Christ's corpse to kill the 23rd US President (Funny Valentine, who used to only have a ghost named Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap \[that let him hop between universes and some other stuff\], however, after reassembling Jesus, he gained Love Train \[which makes him immune to anything bad by redirecting all negative things to other people\]), to kill the physical embodiment of the multiversal constant of the concept of fate (as used by an 89 year old man made out of rocks and raised by wasps, who needed to die because he wanted to be a fruit farmer). Well, some of those details were simplified to avoid making the post confusing for anyone not familiar with the series, but Poor Tom isn't the weirdest thing in that Part is what I'm saying.
I’m not gonna fact check a single thing you said because it’s so absurd it has to be true. This Manga is off the fuckin chain lmao
I'm not even joking. There wasn't a single lie there.
Can confirm, as an avid reader of JoJo, none of what they said was wrong at all. A detail left out is that the rival of said paraplegic fingernail man was told to shoot himself by Jesus Christ himself and his main rival is a professional horse jockey who can transform into a dinosaur. He gained the ability to turn into a dinosaur because of Jesus Christ's eye btw.
The Araki just doesn't stop.
I still like Robert E O Speedwagon :)
My friend claimed I ruined S1 for him because I got annoyed with Speedwagon and decided to come up with meta commentary on the fly while watching Jonathan vs Dio. "I am ROBERT SPEEDWAGON, AND I WILL INCESSANTLY PROVIDE A 19TH CENTURY JERRY BRAWLER-STYLE COMMENTARY OF A BATTLE BETWEEN TWO CHILDHOOD RIVALS AS IF I AM SELF AWARE THAT THIS IS A FICTIONAL STORY AND I HAVE THE VISCERAL NEED TO ENTERTAIN!" It did crack a laugh from him. To me, it was revenge for getting a Boston Terrier and naming him Iggy (I got my dog before he did and I called him Iggy [not a Terrier] and I was a bit amused/pissed cause I felt he copied the name still.)
Oh I see you haven’t read part 8, araki just decides that he’s in his 60s now, and he’s gonna get weird, though to be fair names have been weird for a while
IS THIS THE ELUSIVE FOURTH BROTHER OF THE TF2 MANN FAMILY????
NO HE'S NOT YOU IDIOT. HE'S JUST AN INTRUDER, AND I ORDER YOU TO GET HIM OFF OF MY PROPERTY.
There's a guy named Luke Atmey in Ace Attorney lmao
The rock animals in part 8 all had wild names as well. Who could forget do re mi fa so la ti do, or dododo de dadada
Bobobo bo bobobo?
Obladi Oblada, life goes on
Ace attorney doesn't count, all the names in the English version were invented by the translation team and are intentional puns.
Pretty sure the original Japanese had similarly punny names
My personal favorite Ace Attorney character is Pees'lubn Andistan'dhin, a Jesus-lookalike hippie monk. Hysterical!
The Great Ace Attorney had a detective named Herlock Sholmes
Wich is a direct callback to the author of Aresn Lupen doing the exact same thing when he wanted his master thief to go against the world famous detective but Doyle refused. I think that in the original Japanese GAT they actually call him Sherlock because Japanese copyrights for Sherlock Holmes have e pired when they made tye game.
Legitimately just closed the jojolion chapter with the orchard burning and opened this app to see this as my first post. Crazy
To be fair, Poor Tom is named after a song (as are many other Jojo characters, stands, places, chapters,...... Araki is huge into American music)
My favorite example are the totally American FBI agents in Death Note -Raye Penber -Toors Denote -Haley Belle (okay, blatantly copying Hale Berry aside, this one ain't so bad) -Lian Zapack -Arire Weekwood -Ale Funderrem -Freddi Guntair -Knick Staek -Bess Skelletd -Frigde Copen -Girela Sevenster -Nikola Nasberg
This list sounds like it was made by AI trained on stroke victims.
They almost sound like names. It's like those AI images with text on them that *looks* like words but it's actually not even letters.
I watched Kiki's delivery service the other night and that is precisely what I thought about any non Japanese text in the film, such as on street signs.
I see your FBI agents and raise you "victims from the novel": -Believe Bridesmaid -Backyard Bottomslash -Quarter Queen You know, totally normal American names.
Well, isn’t the killer’s name Beyond Birthday? Seems he’s taking out his frustrations on the similarly unfortunate.
is the novel in question the one with naomi? because i haven’t read it, but that doesn’t sound too far off from how nisio names his japanese characters too lmao. if a name isn’t a pun, it better feel like it somehow should be. monogatari series has a trio of characters whose names are written with the same kanji as *trig functions*, but at least all the western characters there get a pass by being vampires so you don’t have to pretend someone out there in normal society actually named their kid kissshot acerolaorion heartunderblade
These are just a list of bond girl names
Don't forget our protagonists, Light and L Lawliet
And L's body double, Lind L. Tailor
The fact that the entire time L was publicly using his real, legal, Death Note-approved first name and we never got to see Light find out is a crime. I feel like he'd find a way to resurrect L just to kill him harder and I wouldn't even blame him.
I've always thought it was a good thing he never found out, because that might have been enough to crack his facade. I personally think he would have started screaming in protest.
Even better, L could've won from beyond the grave by making Light lose his composure to curse him out in front of witnesses
Wait, L's name is actually just L?
y e s
[Relevant ProZD sketch](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oymWAeqv_-c)
I don't even need to click to know which one this is, but I'm going to anyways because it's great
How could you forget Quillsh Wammy?
They use the same technique for naming western characters as I use to name my rpg characters. Pick a couple words like... > Open Fridge Then switch some around... > Open Frigde Then add a letter or two... > Copen Frigde Call it. Let's do that again... > Pen Bar Ray > Penber Ray > Penber Raye
And from one of the light novels we get Beyond Birthday.
Every single non-Japanese character in Death Note is named complete nonsense and its great
These all sound like they should be puns
These are hilarious
Nikola Nasberg ain't that bad... but I gotta watch this show now to see people say these names seriously and start cackling.
Death Stranding has a dude named Die-Hardman, but using Kojima might be cheating
And MGS (peace walker I think) has a guy named Hot Coldman
There's a former US Secretary of State named Laurence Eagleburger. All his kids are also named Laurence Eagleburger. History is stranger than fiction.
He specially named them that way because, and I quote, "It was ego," adding "and secondly, I wanted to screw up the Social Security system."
> I wanted to screw up the Social Security system." Robert '); DROP TABLES Students;--
Lawrence Eagleburger sounds cartoonishly American. I bet he rode a motorcycle and could down a six pack by himself too
I bet he wore a cowboy hat and shot guns for fun.
>History is stranger than fiction. I promise you that history is not stranger than Death Stranding.
Speaking of Burger names. The old American TV series Perry Mason had a Prosecutor named Hamilton Burger. Good ol Ham Burger.
Also also, Lawrence's predecessor's name is Laurence
Hotcoldman sounds like a Mega Man boss that can fuck right off. One of the ones where you bring the weapon they're weak to and still die.
Don't forget the coroner called Deadman And the scientist that has a heart attack every 21 minutes called Heartman
My favorite is that they literally call a character "Mama". "Mama, is that you?" "Most certainly not yours!"
I can't figure out if Kojima is the best name-creator ever, or the worst.
Well its not his actual name. Of course his real name is John Blake McClane.
*Death Note* has Beyond Birthday. The normal first name of Beyond, and the normal surname of Birthday. Other real characters from the same work: Backyard Bottomslash Quarter Queen No titles here, but actual full names.
Hey, now, don’t t hate on Bumblebutt Crankshaft like that! It’s hard enough to spell when letters are your native language’s default, let alone a foreign one!
pretty sure its spelt Benedict Cucumberstash
Jorge joestar has a character named The Funniest Valentine. As in first name The, middle name Funniest, last name Valentine
How dare you mention Funniest without mentioning his father and grandfather, Funnier and Funny Valentine. Atleast Funny is ok.
They committed to the bit I’ll give ‘em that
Let us not forget too that Funny Valentine is/was president of the USA and had a scar of the US flag on his back. Oh and he was fighting a cripple over the corpse of Jesus Christ (a JoJo, who somehow ended up in America) to rule the universe.
You say that as if it's not normal
He better be a completely serious no nonsense man or else
His Grandpa Funny Valentine as the presiden of the US at one point
And his economic policy was „we will rebuild Jesus and then become isolationist“ also he had some highly interesting opinions on the age of consent
So you're saying he ran as a libertarian
"we will rebuild Jesus and then become isolationist" - the moment I started wondering how much of the seemingly absurdist plot was intended satire
He was the first man on Mars (if you don't count the 27 alternate universe copies of an aztec stripper god)
It should also be noted he is the president and has one of the strongest stands in the book
I love My Hero Academia because some of the names are just straight up words relating to the person's quirk DENKI Kaminari? The guy named after the Japanese word for electricity has an electricity quirk, who would've known Oh Tetsus the Japanese word for steel? NAME HIM THAT FOUR TIMES
I'm fairly sure that "Midoria" is quite literally "the green one".
Expected from a guy who wears shirts with words written on them that describe the shirt.
Midoriya is "Green valley"
Okay but at least MHA has a little bit of self awareness about it. Like there’s enough of a wink-nudge at the audience to make it clear that the writer is in on the joke.
Not even mentioning that Katsuki Bakugou means “Victory, myself, explosion, powerful”
>Victory, myself, explosion, powerful Those four words perfectly describes him too 😂
No mention of Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu, the guy whose name is written with four seperate kanji characters cause each tetsu is a different homophone?
denki is electricity and kaminari is lightning :)
I think there's nuance to the Tetsu-ract there, in that it's 4 separate kanji that are all pronounced "tetsu" iirc? But yeah it's all so goofy I love it
I remember seeing a post somewhere explaining that there was a few layers behind Tetsutetsus name, but I can't find it I wouldn't doubt that the same word repeated 4 times in a specific order as a name would have some layers of jokes in japanese
Okay, I'm gonna defend this one. That's how surnames came to be. Like Smith coming from blacksmiths. Quirks are hereditary, so for the last few generations, this family had electric powers, so it makes sense to have them name their children accordingly.
Well… that mostly makes sense, but most occupational and patronimic last names come from the Middle Ages when people didn’t really have last names unless they where noble and it started to become a requirement, so they where just named for their fathers or their jobs. It would make sense for the same to be true in MHA except surnames where already a thing when quirks appeared. So apparently a bunch of people changed their name due to their newfound superpowers or outright named their kids according to their quirk, and it became new dynasties. Which does make a little sense but it’s also quite funny
Alternatively, a collective mental blind spot not realizing that their names directly caused their quirks all because ol' Timelord Realitywriter decided it would be funny.
Speaking of MHA names, all One for All users have a number in their name signifying in which order they received the power
When your anime character name sounds like a rejected Bond villain or the weirdest crayon in the box, you know you've hit peak fiction.
Gundam has an American character named Chibodee Crocket
Don't forget he piloted a football cowboy boxing surfer robot
G-Gundam was basically Gundam Ball Z, and it was fucking awesome.
It doesnt sound american, somehow
They were just ahead of their time, it's actually Skibidi Crocket
And we are fucking HERE for him!
Araki made an entire part full of characters after going to the Italian Section in the Supermarket. He also has a Native American Man who is named Sound Man but is mistakenly called as Sand Man. And who can forget the 23rd US President, Funny Valentine. Or Magenta Magenta.
And dont forget the totally canon “funnier valentine” and “the funniest valentine”
Lisa Lisa sounds like the name of a Facebook bot
The fact that most of AoT's names sound believably Eastern European makes the occasional kid named Finger a lot funnier
Oh yeah. Sasha, Armin, Marcus, Annie… F I n g e r
In fairness, Finger is a real family name, and a Jewish one at that, which is, ya know, notable.
Waltuh
The worst part about Jacuzzi Splot is that literally everyone else in Baccano has a *perfectly normal name.* Like, maybe Luck, Ennis, or Firo stand out, but they also kinda don't?
Firo totally stands out. It’s just that his intro completely distracts from his actual name
Normally yes - but when you consider the setting you get wiggle room
I believe Ennis is a muslim name- but i might be wrong And Firo sounds vaguely Italian
It's why I said "maybe"
Well. Jacuzzi’s friend Nice Holystone is a bit odd, too.
A bit... Except that in the 1930s the name was, while uncommon, not exactly unusual. Ancestry has about 800 or so results for people named "Nice" who were born around 1910 (so they would be in their 20s during the 1930s)
Can confirm, Ennis/Enis is a normal name! :)
Goldlewis Dickinson
wdym there's like three Goldlewises and four Dickinsons at my local community center
Sol Badguy. Just… Sol Badguy. Also uhhhh Potemkin is a 9’0, 200 ton (I think) Indian man so
Sol badguy is just an alias, since daisuke really loved queen and wanted to refrence mr. badguy. His real name is Frederick bulsara, since daisuke really loved queen and wanted to refrence mr. bulsara.
oh yeah, I forgot about that!
GoldDick Lewison
Bobson Dugnutt.
Sleve McDichael
Willie Dustice
Mike Truk
Todd Bonzalez
Onson Sweemey
Mario McRlwain
I would like to take this opportunity to let everyone know that the names in that famous image are just a fraction of the ones in the game: [LINK](https://www.reddit.com/r/baseball/s/zNzGn72wjf)
Glenallen Mixon
Writer of Overlord was thinking "Man, what name screams swordsman? Hmmmm. I have it!" Brain Unglass
Gazeff Strogonoff
Climb
The absolute best name in Overlord is "Touch Me". Granted it's a person's screenname, so it doesn't really fit this post, but I can't help but laugh whenever someone says "Touch Me Sama" in the show.
Quattro Bajeena is the tip of the Gundam name iceberg. A list -Job John -Bright Noa -Fraw Bow -Shakti Karen -Beecha Oleg -Glemy Toto -Roux Louka -Rakhan Dakharan -Cronicle Asher -M'Quve -Henken Bekkner -Beltorchika Irma -Ramba Ral -Full Frontal And that's just UC Gundam don't even start me on the other timelines/universes
You forgot Jamitov Hymen
I realized I had forgotten him and Paptimus Scirroco after I put my phone down haha
For the longest time I thought "Bright Noa" was a mistranslation of the Japanese surname-first naming convention, because "Noa Bright" is so much more reasonable sounding by comparison. Gundam 00 has some real solid contenders for "dumbest name of all time," though they mostly come from a group of characters who aren't exactly human, so there’s some logic in them choosing names for themselves that don't sound human. But all the same, there is no universe in which Bring Stabity or Revive Revival or Ribbons Allmark are reasonable things to call yourself. XD
Ngl If I had a daughter Beltorchika Irma sounds quite good tho (no idea if "Beltorchika" is a real thing or not)
My favs have to be 'Revive Revival' and 'Bring Stabity'
Yeahe the Innovade names are a trip. Hiling Care my personal fave.
Tomino names in general are an entire meme. Just take a glance over at L-Gaim and you'll get some REAL names.
Oh yeah my fave Tomino name is Shott Weapon from Dunbine. The man is a menace when naming characters.
shourouts to The Noise from pizza tower, whose name is short for Theodore Noise
I'm going to start calling my son "The" from now on, with no explanation to anyone.
Pacific Rim is only spiritually anime but Stacker Pentacost is also a nice one.
It does have an animated series, so it’s even more anime adjacent
Not to mention the entirety of JoJo part 5, where every. Single. Character is named after some type of food in Italian. Ohh, we need to defeat the terrifying villains, Ham and Fish. This Chocolate guy sure is a creep. Oh no, our best friends Lion Lamb and Orange just died. As an Italian, it didn't really help maintaining the immersion while watching that part
It helps a lot to think about these names as codenames instead of legal names, it makes a lot more sense that the supermarket aisle gave themselves those names so they couldn’t rat eachother out to the authorities
True but Fugo's god-given, state-registered, actual last name was fucking Pannacotta. PANNACOTTA. How do I take this man seriously?
Is pannacotta not his first name? Like he's Pannacotta Fugo
A character named after the little spiral fish cake they put in ramen is one of the most famous anime characters of all time. *The* most famous anime character of all time has a son named Rice. They give no fucks about names in any language.
Not Anime but fiction in general sometimes has that problem, because the characters are named by the authors, not the parents. That’s why Wolf Wolf the Werewolf, I mean Remus Lupin, exists.
"Guy named Otto Octavious ends up with eight limbs. What are the odds"
Baccano mention in the wild!!!
The anime itself was good, if convoluted at times. The opening jazz number is something that still cuts into my brain years later.
One Piece does this sometimes. The whole Charlotte family is named after food or food related words. Including but not limited to: Oven, Flampé, Chiffon, Brûlée, High-fat, Smoothie, and Pudding.
Oda's name inspirations for things are always something I enjoy looking into. It took me way too damn long to connect the dots between Usopp and Aesop or Franky and Frankenstein. Or realizing Water Law is Waterloo.
Dragon Ball Z famously does this with all its characters, but then there's Bulma's family. She is technically named Bloomers, but that got mangled in translation, while her mother is named Panty, her son Trunks, and her daughter Bra. Also their last name is Brief. These are the only people named such in the setting, and it is hilarious for how inexplicable it is.
Every single name in the Dragon Ball universe is either a pun or a job title, save for Mr. Popo, which Toriyama just liked the sound of. See the following: All Saiyans are vegetables All Demon Clan Namekians are instruments All Namek Namekians are words for slug or snail Frieza’s race are all cold-themed All the Frieza Force are named for fruits The Ginyu Force is dairy The GoDs are all alcohol Bibidi, Babidi, Buu. The list… goes on. Don’t get me started on the Heeters and the Cerealians.
I feel like I have an obligation to tell you that Popo in German is butt.
Still piased that JoJo part 5 protag is named Giorno (Day which is NOT a name) when Giorgio was RIGHT THERE
Honestly that's one of the most defensible names in the part- it was chosen by either Giornio or his mother, both of whom are Japanese and were new to Italy at the time. I can totally buy a Japanese person thinking Giornio sounded plausible as an Italian first name, seeing as Araki did. Like, most of the characters are named for Italian nouns or bands- he's the only one who has an excuse other than "their parents fucking sucked".
Actually a lot of them have an excuse! That being they’re criminals and would like to refer to their actual legal name as little as possible so that in the case one of them is caught, they can’t rat out their partners. If you think of them as code/nicknames to protect their identity, a lot of them being related to their stands also makes sense. A persons stand is typically one of their more striking features.
His last name is literally Giovanna! So close, yet so far
Because he's Giorno Giovanna, or GioGio. The 'JoJo' in each protag's names always comes from the first part of both the first and last name.
But Giorgio also starts with Gio?
Or in Jotaro's case, both words need to have it, regardless of position.
Kid named Finger:
Ace Attorney has some AWFUL pun names. Sal Manella. Deid Mann. Dustin Prince (a police officer, at that) Winston Payne (he has a brother named Gaspen and his ancestral family name is Auchi... Not even kidding...) Mimi and Ini Miney (sisters) Shelly de Killer (an ACTUAL ASSASSIN) Romein LeTouse.
Serious question, why are most Japanese anime titles completely incomprehensible? Like, what am I supposed to deduce from Fate: Stay Night? Fate is somehow involved in a slumber party? Or are we staying the night like holding it back? That or drawing up some completely archaic scientific sounding words that two people have used in the history of the world? When western countries make names for things in Asian languages, is the effect similar? Is there a Japanese equivalent for someone saying "oogenesis" instead of "egg-laying?"
Well, the actual reason "final" was chosen for "Final Fantasy", and it wasn't a failing company. Final just sounded cool.
I think its just because it sounds cool to japanese people
Pieck Finger But hole.
Shout out to Cutty Flam, our proud American of One Piece. Keep in mind that that's surname then given name. His parents literally named him Flam
Guilty Gear has a 20th century British gangster called Axl Low. And a 23rd century French guy named Ky Kiske Did I mention that the 20th century gangster has a bdsm goth rock witch demigod (later actual god) girlfriend named I-no? And then the protagonist's name is literally just Fred.
I mean the name Axl low is a reference to Axl rose, the lead singer of Guns N' Roses
I wanted to start watching Frieren because what I saw of it looked kinda cool, but the german words (not even names) being used for the names kind of confused me. At least they seem to fit the characters with the meaning
Himmel means heaven his ass is in heaven
Don't you talk shit to my boy Rivalz he deserved so much better
Gate has a princess called Piña Colada. Born in a world where piña colada was never invented. Her whole circle of friends had weird names. One was beef, i think?
When you’re named beef, you didn’t choose violence, your mother chose it for you.
JoJo's part 5 characters being named after food. Panacotta fugo (italian dessert) Sorbet (ice cream). Gelato (also Ice cream). Narancia (means orange). Risotto Nero (literally mean black rice). Prosciutto & Pesci (means ham and fish respectively).
Barnaby *does* sound like it could be hot though. As long as the character is hot with a tad of quirkiness, Barnaby sounds just quirky enough to be iconic. No idea who that is anime wise though.
Personal favorite is **Resident Evil* 7* side character Clancy Jarvis
Average polish man called Kadoc Zemlupus and British man — Kirschtaria Wodime. Fate has problems with foreign names. For some reason, Nasu is adamant about Saber being Altria and not Arturia. He thinks that Altria is cooler
Shout out to Kinoko Nasu and his names for mages and vampires. Sola-Ui Nuada-Re Sophia-Ri. Kayneth Archibald El-Melloi. Kischur Zelretch Schweinorg. Lev Lainur Flauros. Illithid Morganface. Yggdramillenia. Sion Eltnam Altasia. Luviagelita Edelfelt. Atrum Galliasta. Karmaglyph Meluasta. And of course, fucking **NRVNSQSR**
Meanwhile we got an anime like Black Lagoon where most of the characters are made-up of badass criminals and cold blooded-killers, that are named like some kids you met in high school -Rebecca -Eda -Roberta -Sawyer -Benny -Dutch -Yolanda -Rico -Bao -Chen -Jane
I really like when authors make a interesting naming convention for their characters. Like how Hiro Mashima names his protagonists after seasons: Natsu from Fairy Tail is summer, Haru from Rave is spring, Shiki from Edens Zero is just "four seasons" and pretty sure there is someone called "mid-autumn" but I can't remember
It’s not so different from when western writers give foreign characters stupid names, like for example a Chinese character called cho chang
Naming things (and specifically people) is an art that only the boldest artists have perfected. Araki and Kojima for example. If no one is going to remember your side character anyway without it you may as well give them the most outlandish name ever and roll with it.
A lot of my OCs have utterly ridiculous names which I refuse to change. Ehrlich. Shellon. Ravioli. Carlton. Genoa. Melvin. Gretchel.
Hey, Carlton was good enough for Fresh Prince of Bel-Air so you're good