History Main / APlanetNamedZok

Often, fictional extraterrestrials [[LawOfAlienNames have bizarre names with Zs, Gs, and apostrophes.]] So it should come as no surprise to any ScienceFiction viewer that the planets, moons, stars, and other celestial objects from which the aliens hail carry on this strange tradition -- despite the fact that they ''still'' use the Latin alphabet and their names can still be pronounced by English speakers?[[note]]Or Spanish, or French, or really any language that uses the familiar Latin alphabet.[[/note]]

A SubTrope of LawOfAlienNames. Compare NumberedHomeworld and NamingYourColonyWorld for other ways to name a planet. See also XtremeKoolLetterz and AVillainNamedZrg. Descriptively named planets go under {{Descriptiveville}}.

Often, fictional extraterrestrials [[LawOfAlienNames have bizarre names with Z's, G's, and apostrophes.]] So it should come as no surprise to any ScienceFiction viewer that the planets, moons, stars, and other celestial objects from which the aliens hail carry on this strange tradition -- despite the fact that they ''still'' use the Latin alphabet and their names can still be pronounced by English speakers?[[note]]Or Spanish, or French, or really any language that uses the familiar Latin alphabet.[[/note]]

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* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'':

* The ComicBook/{{Nova}} Corps' HQ is located on the planet Xandar.
* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'':
** The planet H'lven has produced a number of Green Lanterns, the most famous being C'hp and his successor B'dg. The local inhabitants have tech at a similar level to that of earth and resemble earth squirrels.
** The planet Zintha is the homeworld of a Green Lantern who requested special dispensation to remain on world because her people developed a culture that was very against interstellar travel after barely surviving an interplanetary war. Zintha is also orbiting a living star, as in an actual living creature acts as their sun.
* ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Skrulls originally come from the planet Skrullos.

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* Zig & Zag, a pair of children's tv puppets that originally appeared on Irish children's television and [[ChannelHop later on]] various Channel 4 shows in England apparently originally came from Planet Zog.

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** The late and ever-iconic Krypton of the Superman and ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' comics is one of the most famous examples. Krypton, however, has a Greek root and means "The Hidden", as in 'cryptic', 'cryptography', and for that matter: 'crypt'. It is also the name of a chemical element (No. 36, a noble gas).
** In the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'' storyline Supergirl visited some weirdly-named world such like Ysmault, Grax or Primeen.
** In ''Comicbook/KryptonNoMore'', Superman and Supergirl have to protect Xonn (a planet located in Cygni-Gi system) from an AlienInvasion.
** In ''Comicbook/WarWorld'', after appropriating the eponymous super-weapon, Mongul headed straight for the Raydor galaxy.

* One of the main planets in ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' is Xandar.

[[caption-width-right:350:He's a long way from Xork.]].

[[caption-width-right:350:He's a long way from Xork]].

* ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'''s ShowWithinAShow "Limozeen - [[RecycledInSpace 'but they're in space!']]" is set on Groupulon 5, a ShoutOut to ''Series/{{Babylon 5}}''.

* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'' has Planet Xing, at least in English materials that actually use that name or "Planet Xingxing". The Miao Mi averts this by calling it "Star Planet" ("xing" means "star" in Chinese).

Among other variants include planets that follow the "X-tar" or "X-lar" pattern. A few planets have names that end with "I". Often, they're {{Punny Name}}s.

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* The Mormons have Kolob, described as the planet/star closest to God's throne.

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* The original ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'' also had this in the various alien worlds that Spaceman Spiff found himself crash-landing on.
* The Zorgons of ''ComicStrip/BrewsterRockitSpaceGuy'', who come from the planet Zorgo.
* An extremely early ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' strip has bovine-looking aliens from the planet [[PunnyName Moothron]] visit Dogbert.

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* ''VideoGame/{{Metroid}}'' has, among others, Planet Zebes.

* ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'': The late and ever-iconic Krypton of the Superman and ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'' comics is one of the most famous examples. Krypton, however, has a Greek root and means "The Hidden", as in 'cryptic', 'cryptography', and for that matter: 'crypt'. It is also the name of a chemical element (No. 36, a noble gas).

** In the Pre-Crisis universe, the survivors of Krypton settled in a world they called Rokyn (meaning "Rao's gift").

* ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes'':
** Legionnaire Timberwolf comes from a human colony on the mining planet Zuun.

* ''ComicBook/{{Legion of Super-Heroes}}'':

* Some of the planets in Milky Way Wishes from ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' have names like [[DugTooDeep Cavius]]. (Ones like [[BubblyClouds Skyhigh]] and [[LethalLavaLand Hotbeat]] don't really count.)

* Some of the planets of ''Franchise/StarWars'' fit this, the best example being Kashyyyk from ''Film/RevengeOfTheSith''.

* The StylisticSuck flash game ''[[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/540541 A Game About Courage]]'' (made by the creator of ''VideoGame/RiddleSchool'') has you unlock a secret ending by [[spoiler:[[MakesJustAsMuchSenseInContext getting a haircut while playing as]] [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII Cloud]].]] It reads:

everyone on the planet Zeputar hates you to [[FridgeLogic undeath]] [[DrivenToSuicide for not killing yourself when you had the chance]]

* ''VideoGame/{{Stellaris}}'': By default, most empires in the galaxy will not be humanoid, and many will name their colonized planets this way. They may be nonsense words, but they are appropriate to species type: a name like "Zuppox" suggests the buzzing mandibles of InsectoidAliens, "Fixash" is appropriate for the scaly hiss of TheReptilians, and "Riblagga" might be spoken through the tentacled mouths of molluscoid aliens.