Basic Trope: A person or a place has a very long name.
- Straight: There is a guy named Bob Randel Henriksen von Fahrenheit Strauser.
- Exaggerated:
- There is a guy named Bob Randel Henriksen von Fahrenheit Strauser Heinrich Clausen von Stratcher Ericson Johnson von Harch von.
- There is a guy named Bob Randel Henriksen von Fahrenheit Strauser Heinrich Clausen von Stratcher Ericson Johnson von Harch von Harch von Harch von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von von.
- Downplayed: There is a guy named Bob Randel Henriksen.
- Justified:
- Bob came from a long line of European ancestry that kept the tradition going.
- Bob carries both his father's family name and his mother's family name, who both carry the family names of both of their parents, who all...
- Some languages have less than 26 letters in their alphabet, so they need names to be longer to allow for differentiation between persons. (EG: Hawaiian has only 13 letters)
- Inverted: There is a guy named B.
- Subverted:
- Bob's long name actually is something he made up, and his real one is just Bob Henriksen.
- The dozen vons presumed to be in Bob von Henriksen's name came from a record that started skipping at "von... von... von... von... von... von... von... von... von... von... von... von..."
- Double Subverted:
- Until it turns out that he was joking, and his long name is his real one.
- "Seriously? Is that actually your name?" "Ha, no, not really. [Beat] That's just the short version."
- only half of the vons were from the record skipping.
- Parodied:
- Bob names number over a thousand.
- Bob and the other characters pronounce his full name everytime they address him.
- Bob's full name is Bob Randel Hendriksen Howinde Helles Dysneim Solon Gandkin Tryve von Fahrenheit Strauser.Explanation
- Zigzagged: Brq'zsr'ftr'rdzt seems like it would be long written out it is from an alien language and while it sounds weird is still brief as 'Alex' phonetically just with bizarre syllables by human standards. It is only four of their characters which is below average for their name. Any human doing a rough approximation that they could understand would have to go with something even longer from having to add in 'filler syllables'.
- Averted: Bob's real name is just Bob Henriksen.
- Enforced: Rule of Funny.
- Lampshaded: "Hey! I thought names were supposedly just made up of two words!"
- Invoked: Alice insist Bob pretend to have a longer name so he sounds aristocratic when she introduces him to her family.
- Exploited: Bob names himself in this manner to protect himself from being killed by a notebook.
- Defied: Bob intentionally renames himself to Bob Henriksen, after he hated having a long name.
- Discussed: "So, what's your name?" "I'll tell you, but it might take a while"
- Conversed: Alice complains that the names of characters in the novel she must make a presentation about are too long for her to remember.
- Implied: Detective Abraham noted Bob's true name during his speech to the public.
- Deconstructed: Bob's overly long name makes him unable to fill his entire name in a small sheet of paper.
- Reconstructed: Not until somebody hands over a bigger piece of paper so that he could write it all down there.
- Played for Laughs: Bob's entire name is made up of funny words.
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