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* [[SubverterdTrope Subverted]] with [=YoRHa=] in ''VideoGame/NierAutomata,'' as Creator/YokoTaro has never explained what [=YoRHa=] actually stands for, although LetsPlay/TheDarkId has theorised it stands for "Yo REAL HOT androids."

* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' featured Sylas, a rogue [[Main/FromCamouflageToCriminal special tactics]] colonel, out to capture technology to create his NewWorldOrder. After realizing that the Transformers weren't just vehicles, he sets out to create the 'perfect meld of man and machine' - this eventually comes to a head when he is nearly killed by one of his own creations falling on him, and undergoes an EmergencyTransformation into the lifeless husk of a dead transformer. He names himself "CYLAS" afterwards, as in '[=CYbernetic=] Life Augmented by Symbiosis'.

* UsefulNotes/{{Programming Language}}s, unsurprisingly, take this and run with it.

* Creator/VadimShefner's ''Literature/KovriginsChronicles'': Various robots and devices are given an acronym for a name, sometimes in a manner where the whole name is consistent with the purpose as well. For example, a portable medical diagnostic unit is named has a name which translates as 'An Electronic Rapid Concilium Which Points Out To The Treating Person Completely Correct Methods Of Aid'. The acronym translates as Aesculappp. The Emglish translation changed it to QUACK (Quick, Utilitarian Absolute Cures and Knowledge).

* Creator/VadimShefner's ''Literature/KovriginsChronicles'': Various robots and devices are given an acronym for a name, sometimes in a manner where the whole name is consistent with the purpose as well. For example, a portable medical diagnostic unit is named has a name which translates as 'An Electronic Rapid Concilium Which Points Out To The Treating Person Completely Correct Methods Of Aid'. The acronym translates as Aesculappp. The Emglish translation changed it to Quack (Quick, Utilitarian Absolute Cures and Knowledge).

* Creator/VadimShefner's ''Literature/KovriginsChronicles'': Various robots and devices are given an acronym for a name, sometimes in a manner where the whole name is consistent with the purpose as well. For example, a portable medical diagnostic unit is named has a name which translates as 'An Electronic Rapid Concilium Which Points Out To The Treating Person Completely Correct Methods Of Aid'. The acronym translates as Aesculappp.

* The Scotland Yard computer system named 'HOLMES' - Home Office Linked Major Enquiry System. While a few of those words are [[RedundantDepartmentOfRedundancy meaningless additions]] to ensure the acronym remains a reference to ''Franchise/SherlockHolmes'', the rest still describe its purpose as an enquiry system.

* ''Film/IRobot'': The [[MasterComputer massive positronic computer brain]] that operates U.S. Robotics is called the Virtual Interactive Kinetic Intelligence, or V.I.K.I. for short. She is capable of projecting a [[{{Hologram}} holographic interface]] to communicate with the employees.
* HAL (Heuristically programmed [=ALgorithmic=] computer) from ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'' - It's technically HAL 9000, suggesting it is part of a series, but no others are ever mentioned[[note]]Other [=HALs=] ''are'' mentioned, but they are ''also'' the 9000 model[[/note]]. It has been speculated that HAL was named in reference to IBM, as when "IBM" is encrypted in a [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesar_cipher Caesar cipher]] with a left shift of 1, it becomes "HAL", but the filmmakers denied this.

* In ''Film/WarGames'', the supercomputer put in charge of NORAD's missiles is called the War Operation Plan Response, or WOPR. Though its AI component is called [[spoiler: "Joshua", after its programmer's dead son.]]

* Subverted in ''Film/SteveJobs'' where the titular character named a computer program '''L'''ocally '''I'''ntegrated '''S'''ystems '''A'''rchitecture, then tries to pull off that it's ''coincidentally'' named after the daughter he denied was his for a number of years. At the end of the film he admits to her, "Locally integrated systems architecture doesn't even mean anything."
* ''Film/TerminatorSalvation'' has a T-RIP, a '''T'''erminator '''R'''esistance '''I'''nfiltrator '''P'''rototype unit.

* ''VideoGame/BeneathASteelSky'' has LINC, standing for Logical Inter-Neural Connection, which works as the assistant to Union City's council, as well as [[MasterComputer running the city's infrastructure]]. [[spoiler: Robert Foster's father merged his brain with LINC, causing it to catch onto his human negative emotions, resulting in the council's destruction and ordering Security to hunt down Foster as a new host.]]

* The controlling AI of ''Citadel Station'' in ''VideoGame/SystemShock'', known as SHODAN, Sentient Hyper-Optimized Data Access Network. She used to be a basic AI, until [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Edward Diego]] hired you to remove her [[MoralityChip ethical constraints]]. Things only get worse from there.

* All Terrain Armored Combatants or [=ATACs=], from the [=PS1=] game ''VideoGame/VanguardBandits'' are AMechaByAnyOtherName.
* In ''VideoGame/Primordia2012'', a floating robot named Scraper, stands for '''S'''ubway '''C'''onstruction, '''R'''epair, '''a'''nd '''P'''recision '''E'''xcavation '''R'''obot. [[spoiler: [[BigBad MetroMind]] had repurposed him as [[TheDragon her enforcer]], and his theft of Horatio Nullbuilt's power core started the game's plot.]]

* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Nunu and Willump have a character skin depicting Nunu as an up-and-coming competitor in a robot fighting tournament, with Willump being his fighting droid. As such, his name stands for Workframe-Integrated Lossless Lifeform, Uploaded Mainly for Punching.

* VEGA in ''VideoGame/Doom2016'' is apparently an acronym for the AI created by Samuel Hayden in charge of mission control for UAC's Argent Energy harvesting operations in Mars, but what it stands for has never been revealed.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Observation}}'' the PlayerCharacter is the AI of a space station, named SAM. As SAM's role is to operate, overview, and maintain the fundamental subsystems of the space station for the human crew, his full name ('''S'''ystems, '''A'''dministration and '''M'''aintenance) is rather to the point.
* In ''VideoGame/Splatoon3'', O.R.C.A., the artificial intelligence overseeing Alterna, [[spoiler:humanity's last refuge before their final extinction]], stands for "Omniscient Recording Computer of Alterna". [[spoiler:It being named for a ''mammalian'' sea creature in an age where mammals have long since gone extinct is [[{{Foreshadowing}} an early hint]] toward its involvement with humans.]]
* ''VideoGame/SCPSecretLaboratory'' has the Central Autonomic Service System for Internal Emergencies (also known as C.A.S.S.I.E.) which serves to handle emergency actions in the facility. Gameplay wise, C.A.S.S.I.E. primarily serves to announce in-game events, such as termination of [=SCPs=], Mobile Task Force units spawning and Light Containment being decontaminated.
* ''VideoGame/PAYDAY3'' has SINS (short for '''S'''ecurity '''I'''ntegrated '''N'''etwork '''S'''ystem), an AI-based security system in use at the Scry Digital data center. Said AI appears in the heist Syntax Error, summoning guards/drones to inspect recently-looted server rooms in stealth, and locking down said server rooms until forcibly shutdown in loud.

** BASIC ('''B'''eginners '''A'''ll-purpose '''S'''ymbolic '''I'''nstruction '''C'''ode), which drove virtually all desktop computers (e.g. UsefulNotes/AppleII, UsefulNotes/TRS80, UsefulNotes/Commodore64, UsefulNotes/IBMPersonalComputer, etc.) in the late 1970s and early 1980s.

* ''VideoGame/SCPSecretLaboratory'' has the Central Autonomic Service System for Internal Emergencies (also known as C.A.S.S.I.E.) which serves to handle emergency actions in the facility. Gameplay wise, C.A.S.S.I.E. primarily serves to announce in-game events, such as termination of SCPs, Mobile Task Force units spawning and Light Containment being decontaminated.

* The ''[[Film/IronManFilms Iron Man]]'' films turn Tony Stark's butler Jarvis into a computer/onboard AI named J.A.R.V.I.S. The novelization reveals that it's "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System". Come ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', J.A.R.V.I.S. is replaced by F.R.I.D.A.Y..

* On ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'', the Venture nanny robot H.E.L.P.eR. ('''H'''umanoid '''E'''lectric '''L'''ab '''P'''artn'''e'''r '''R'''obot; Apparently that acronym was so hard to match they had to put an "e" in for aesthetic reasons)

* The ''Film/IronMan'' movies turn Tony Stark's butler Jarvis into a computer/onboard AI named J.A.R.V.I.S. The novelization reveals that it's "Just A Rather Very Intelligent System". Come ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'', J.A.R.V.I.S. is replaced by F.R.I.D.A.Y..

* In ''Film/{{Daryl}}'', the CharacterTitle stands for '''D'''ata '''A'''nalyzing '''R'''obot '''Y'''outh '''L'''ifeform, which is a longer way of saying RobotKid.

* ''ComicBook/IronMan'': Tony has dabbled in this a few times, even before the movies came along. There's J.A.R.V.I.S., F.R.I.D.A.Y., and H.E.L.E.N. (formerly P.E.P.P.E.R., but the real Pepper Potts found this creepy and so Tony changed it). In 2018's ''Infinity Wars'', the character Iron Hammer (a merge of Tony and Thor) has his own; Heuristic Enhanced Imaging Macro Digital Awareness for Logic and Logistics. Even his creator thinks this is a mouthful, so he abbreviates it to simply H.E.I.M.D.A.L.L.

* ''Series/DoctorWho'' had a couple of "[[AIIsACrapshoot mad computer]]" villains whose creators really should have worried more about nominative determinism: WOTAN (Will Operating Thought [=ANalogue=], referring to its status as an abstract experiment in AI) from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and BOSS (Bi(o)morphic Organisational Systems Supervisor, a computer initially intended to run a chemical factory but which promptly took over the whole company) from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]".
** Missy [[Recap/DoctorWhoS34E11DarkWater claimed]] she was Mobile Intelligence Systems Interface.
* Parodied on ''Series/{{Friends}}'' with C.H.E.E.S.E.:
-->'''Joey:''' I'm up for the part of Mac Macaveli or "Mac". I'm a detective and I solve crimes with the help of my robot partner. He's a Computerized Humanoid Electronically Enhanced Secret Enforcer or "C.H.E.E.S.E."
-->'''Rachel:''' So... Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E.?
-->'''Joey:'''That's the title! Yeah! You know, they really lucked out that the initials spell cheese.
-->'''Chandler:''' That ''is'' lucky.

* In ''Film/M3gan'', the name of the eponymous android means "Model Three Generative Android".