History Main / EgocentricTeamNaming

* Very common among mercenary groups in ''TabletopGame/BattleTech''. Famous examples include The Gray Death Legion (founded and led by Grayson Death Carlyle), the Kell Hounds (led by several generations of the Kell family), Hansen's Roughriders (led by Gerhard Hansen), Avanti's Angels (led by Marcus GioAvanti, Snord's Irregulars (led by several generations of the Snord family), Wolf's Dragoons (led by Jaime Wolf, and advance scouts from Clan Wolf), etc.

* New Japan has Taguchi Japan and Suzuki Gun, led by and named after Ryusuke Taguchi and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki, respectively.

* Various team names in the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' series invoke this. For example [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Lyndis' Legion]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance The Greil Mercenaries]]. Interestingly the Greil Mercenaries kept that name even after they changed leadership, and the name Lyndis' Legion was the idea of one of the new recruit which produced good-natured laughter... and behind everyone laughing, TheComicallySerious Kent is doing a FacePalm.

** Notably, only the Nick Xenophon Team and Palmer United Party ever managed to get candidates other than their leaders elected to federal parliament. However, KAP also has representatives in the Queensland state parliament (one of whom is Katter's son) and Hinch's Justice Party has representatives in the Victorian state parliament.

* This has become popular in UsefulNotes/AustralianPolitics lately, partly because of problems with registering more mundane names. Those with seats in the federal parliament currently include the "Nick Xenophon Team", "Katter's Australian Party", the "Jacqui Lambie Network" and "Derryn Hinch's Justice Party". Older now-defunct examples include the "Palmer United Party" and the short-lived "Pauline's United Australia Party". In the most recent election, independent senator Glenn Lazarus also ran for re-election under the "Glenn Lazarus Team" but failed to retain his seat.
** The head of the Nick Xenophon Team justified his use of this trope, saying that while he didn't like using his own name, name recognition was important in politics and his candidates would be elected on his own reputation.
** It may be noteworthy that the Nick Xenophon Team is the only one to have multiple elected members, with one Lower House MP and three senators. Bob Katter, Jacqui Lambie and Derryn Hinch are the only elected [=MPs=] from their eponymous parties in the federal Parliament, although KAP does also have two representatives in the Queensland state parliament (one of whom is Katter's son).

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* ''Franchise/ArchieComics''

* In ''Series/{{Angel}}'', there's Angel Investigations, and when he leaves, the group all try to name the group after themselves, but decide to keep the original name.

* Dave Clark Five, who were unusually named after their drummer rather than their front man.

-->'''Penguin:''' Folks, tonight we show Gotham - and the Bat-jerks - the power of Team Penguin!
-->'''Firefly:''' What if we call ourselves "The Gotham Gangsters"?
-->'''Penguin:''' Team Penguin is not up for debate!

* In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Cartman becomes the superhero The Coon. When he is later joined by other superheroes he names their SuperTeam ''Coon and Friends''. When he later gets expelled from the team they keep the name, simply to annoy him.

* New Japan has Taguchi Japan and Suzuki Gun, led by Ryusuke Taguchi and Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki, respectively.

* "[[Wrestling/MinoruSuzuki Suzuki Gun]], ICHIBAN!"

* Rejected names for The Band With Rocks In in ''Discworld/SoulMusic'' include "Glod and the Glodettes" and "Cliff and the Cliffettes".

* Referenced in ''Series/{{Icarly}}''. The [[ShowWithinAShow in-universe webshow]] is named iCarly despite Sam having equal screen time and Freddie's contributions being just as invaluable as either of theirs. In one episode, a rival who wanted to start her own webshow mentioned this as a tactic to try and get Sam to abandon iCarly and do a show with her. Though Sam brushes it off this time, she later brings it up during a fight with Carly in a later episode. Subverted, however, in that it was actually Freddie who thought of the name.

** A somewhat similar bit occurs after Arnold's burns down, and Al & Fonzie are preparing to reopen. (Fonzie has invested his life savings.) Al wants to call the new establishment Big Al's, and Fonzie wants to call it Fonzie's. The finally compromise and call it... Arnold's.
** Also from ''Happy Days'', fictional bands "Johnny Fish and the Fins" and "Leather Tuscadaro and the Suedes".

* Music/FlorenceAndTheMachine - Florence Welch and Isabella "Machine" Summers (they started as a duo, but eventually got more bandmembers, though the songs are usually written just by them - or just Florence and another person)

* The Argentine [[UsefulNotes/AssociationFootball football]] team Newell's Old Boys (no, that is not a translation, the name of the team is [[GratuitousEnglish really in English]][[note]]More specifically, the full name of the team is ''"Club Atlético Newell's Old Boys"''[[/note]]) is an interesting [[ZigzaggingTrope zig-zag]] of this trope. The team was founded by graduates and teachers of the ''Colegio Comercial Anglicano'', founded by English immigrant Issac Newell, however, the one that led the efforts to found the team was his son, Claudio Newell.

** The Mario Bros. themselves, unless you go with the "Mario Mario and Luigi Mario" explanation (which [[FlipFlopOfGod is sometimes canon]]). Lampshaded in ''[[VideoGame/SuperMario64 Super Mario 64 DS]]'' in that if you were to talk to one of the Toads as Luigi, said Toad praises him and wonders if he should call him and Mario "Luigi Brothers" from now onwards.
** This is the basic premise of ''VideoGame/MarioParty 2''. The ''Mario'' characters create a new world that is initially named "Mario Land", but each one wants to name the world after himself or herself, so they have a contest to determine who gets to name it. In fact, the whole squabble only began because Wario was the first one to openly balk at the idea of calling it "Mario Land"; everyone else was going with it.

* Various team names in the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' series invoke this. For example [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Lyndis' Legion]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance The Greil Mercenaries]]. Interestingly the Greil Mercenaries kept that name even after they changed leadership, and the name Lyndis' Legion was the idea of one of the new recruit which produced good natured laughter... And behind everyone laughing, TheComicallySerious Kent is doing a FacePalm.

** It seems to be the standard for a Mercenary group to be named after their captain and a rhyming and/or alliterative word, given that the next mercenary group we see, are Jude Shafter and Shafter's Shifters. All three of the leaders that have been shown doing this were pretty cocky though, so maybe it's just their ''egos''.

** After naming his version control system Git, Torvalds claimed "[[SelfDeprecation I'm an egotistical bastard, and I name all my projects after myself. First Linux, now git]]."

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Compare {{Egopolis}}, ConspicuousConsumption and AirstripOne.

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** This is the basic premise of ''VideoGame/MarioParty 2''. The ''Mario'' characters create a new world that is initially named "Mario Land", but each one wants to name the world after himself or herself, so they have a contest to determine who gets to name it.

* Various team names in the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' series invoke this. For example [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Lyndis' Legion]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius The Greil Mercenaries]]. Interestingly the Greil Mercenaries kept that name even after they changed leadership, and the name Lyndis' Legion was the idea of one of the new recruit which produced good natured laughter... And behind everyone laughing, TheComicallySerious Kent is doing a FacePalm.

* ''Film/CasinoRoyale1967'': Once Film/JamesBond becomes head of MI6 after the previous M gets offed, the very first thing he does is rename ''all'' his agents, male ''and'' female, James Bond 007 as a ploy to confuse the enemy.

* ''VideoGame/TheGreatGianaSisters'' is named after one of the sisters, Giana.

* GIJoe's original founding member was Lt. (later General) Joseph Colton -- code name GIJOE.

* Various team names in the ''VideoGame/FireEmblem'' series invoke this. For example [[VideoGame/FireEmblemElibe Lyndis' Legion]] and [[VideoGame/FireEmblemTellius The Greil Mercenaries]]. Interestingly the Greil Mercenaries kept that name even after they changed leadership, and the name Lyndis' Legion was the idea of one of the new recruit which produced good natured laughter... [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments And behind everyone laughing]], TheComicallySerious Kent is doing a FacePalm.

* Music/AliceCooper. Actually a subversion, as "Alice Cooper" was simply a name the band members happened upon while playing with a ouija board. Vincent Furnier didn't adopt it as his actual name until he left the band.

* Referenced in ''Series/{{Icarly}}''. The {{ShowWithinAShow: in-universe webshow}} is named iCarly despite Sam having equal screen time and Freddie's contributions being just as invaluable as either of theirs. In one episode, a rival who wanted to start her own webshow mentioned this as a tactic to try and get Sam to abandon iCarly and do a show with her. Though Sam brushes it off this time, she later brings it up during a fight with Carly in a later episode. Subverted, however, in that it was actually Freddie who thought of the name.
* ''Series/ILoveLucy'': When Lucy and Ethel try to name their new dress shop, they decide to combine their names but can't settle on which one sounds better; LucyEth or EthelLu (a clever reference to Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball's production company Desilu). Another episode has the Ricardos and the Mertzes buying a diner and then each person wanting to name the diner after themselves.

* ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'':

* The Shia insurgent movement "Ansar Allah" in Yemen, populalry known as the "Houthis", took its name after their former leader Hussein Badreddin al-Houthi, who was killed during in a government military crackdown.