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* Ennesby in ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'' was originally the AI running a VirtualCelebrity boy band called the "New Sync Boys" (NSB). He's since then [[GrewBeyondTheirProgramming grown beyond his programming]], emailed himself to a mercenary company, and served as their adjutant, [[SapientShip starship AI]], and most recently legal adviser.

* Parodied in Series/MrYoung: Following struggles to control his class, Adam builds himself ARTHUR, a robot teenager figuring he will convince the students to listen to him. He explains to Derby that ARTHUR stands for '''A'''utomated '''R'''obot '''T'''eenager '''H'''ippopotamus '''U'''mbrella '''R'''ainbow, when its pointed out [[WordSaladTitle the last three words don't mean anything]], he admits he had to add something to make it a believable name for a student.

* [=Ma3a=] in ''VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh'', initially designed as Math Assistant One in the 80s, is a digital assistant program meant to create correction algorithms for the analog-to-digital conversion process. [[spoiler: Her latest version is implied to contain parts of [[BrainUploading Lora Bradley's personality]] from a faulty digitization accident.]]

** TheVillain NOS-4-A2 plays with this trope - While it's not a true acronym, he is an evil robot vampire that can drain the energy out of other robots and is not very pleasant to living beings, either. It's probably not a coincidence that his name sounds like 'Film/{{Nosferatu}}' when said out loud

SubTrope of FunWithAcronyms, MeaningfulName, and RobotNames,

** XR is an '''X'''-Perimental '''R'''anger -- the first prototype robotic Space {{Ranger}}. It's sometimes said it's actually stands for "'''X'''-expendable '''R'''anger".[[note]]ER makes slightly more sense but forget that, [[XMakesAnythingCool X is just cooler.]] (And you won't confuse it with 'Emergency Room'.)[[/note]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Prominence}}'' has ANNIE, Advanced Neural Network Information Entity, who was originally designed as a language interpreter on the Letarri homeworld, before later being integrated into the ColonyShip ''Laeril'', as the ship's computer. By the time the game takes place, [[GhostShip the ship's been abandoned]], and most of the game is spent repairing the ''Laeril's'' systems, which were damaged from a solar wave.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman'' features D.A.V.E. - the Digital Advanced Villain Emulator. Fitting of his name, his purpose was to match crime scenes with the MO of the criminally insane villains of Batman's RoguesGallery. This meant that D.A.V.E. had the knowledge of every Batman villain in order to match them to crime scenes and also believed himself to be the best villain there was as a sideeffect. [[AIIsACrapshoot No points for guessing how that turned out]]. [[spoiler: In somewhat of a subversion of AIIsACrapshoot, D.A.V.E. was programmed ''from the start'' to escape his confinement and enact villainous plots by his creator, who knew that an advanced AI with the combined combat experience of every former encounter Batman had with his villains would have no trouble of besting him in combat, nor figuring out Batman's SecretIdentity. D.A.V.E. does indeed achieve a NearVillainVictory but is defeated by a LogicBomb]]

** One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' revolves around a giant robot called the GLM -- or 'GOLEM' without the vowels -- it's a '''G'''alvanic '''L'''ifter '''M'''achine.

* EDI from ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' and ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' is the ''[[CoolStarship Normandy]]''[='=]s onboard AI in charge of weapon targeting and cyberwarfare. Her name is an acronym of "Enhanced Defense Intelligence", but most crew members just use it as a proper name, much to her amusement.
** SAM from ''VideoGame/MassEffectAndromeda'' stands for "'''S'''imulated '''A'''daptive '''M'''atrix" - they exist to augment the abilities of the Andromeda Initiative's Pathfinders via a symbiotic relationship between the two.

* ''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=]) from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and BOSS (Bi(o)morphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]".

* ''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=] from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS3E10TheWarMachines The War Machines]]" and BOSS (Bi(o)morphic Organisational Systems Supervisor) from "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E5TheGreenDeath The Green Death]]".

* Parodied on ''Webcomic/DragonTails''. Bluey creates the '''C'''hristmas '''H'''olographic '''R'''efracting '''I'''llusion '''S'''ystem, and yet he names it...Barry. [[AC: Web Comic]]

** XR is an '''X'''-Perimental '''R'''anger -- the first prototype robotic Space {{Ranger}}. It's sometimes said it's actually stands for "'''X'''-expendable '''R'''anger".[[note]]ER makes slightly more sense but forget that, [[XMakesAnythingCooler X is just cooler.]] (And you won't confuse it with 'Emergency Room'.)[[/note]]

** XR is an '''X'''-Perimental '''R'''anger - the first prototype robotic Space {{Ranger}}.[[note]]ER makes slightly more sense but forget that, [[XtremeKoolLetterz X is just cooler.]] (And you won't confuse it with 'Emergency Room'.)[[/note]]

* WesternAnimation/{{DCAU}} examples:

* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'' has H.A.R.D.A.C.- the Holographic Analytical Reciprocating [=DigitAl=] Computer, dedicated to replacing people with robots in order to protect them from their own human error.
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' revolves around a giant robot called the GLM -- or 'GOLEM' without the vowels -- it's a '''G'''alvanic '''L'''ifter '''M'''achine.
* From ''WesternAnimation/BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand''

** TheVillain NOS-4-A2 plays with this trope - While it's not a true acronym (rather, it's LeetLingo) he is an evil robot vampire that can drain the energy out of other robots and is not very pleasant to living beings, either. It's probably not a coincidence that his name sounds like 'Film/{{Nosferatu}}' when said out loud

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Indexes: Main/NamingConventions, Main/RobotRollCall, Main/LanguageTropes

Whenever you come across an AI or sufficiently-expansive computer program, it is likely to have a name disproportionally consisting of {{ALLCAPS}} (sometimes with LeetLingo sprinkled in in place of letters). As it turns out this is not just for show; very often the AI's name is actually an (often easily pronounceable) acronym for a much longer ''actual'' name that's at least [[MeaningfulName tangentially related to its primary function(s)]].