"Our hero is Kyle Crane, so called because he's quite tall and tends to overreach himself."
"Of course, King did name his daughter Elektra. What was he expecting?"
"I've always wondered about good characters that have evil sounding names, and then everybody always acts surprised when he turns evil."
"With a name like Applejack, I guess she was set up at birth to be put in that apple business."
"If your name sounds like anything, you will grow up to be a supervillain."
— Linkara, Atop the Fourth Wall.
"In the midst of all this, there was Bernie Madoff
. An embezzler named 'made off'. Hmm... Was the name not a clue? Did he have to be with the accounting firm of Dewey, Fuckyou, and Howe?"
. An embezzler named 'made off'. Hmm... Was the name not a clue? Did he have to be with the accounting firm of Dewey, Fuckyou, and Howe?"— Robin Williams, on Bernie Madoff and the 2008 financial crisis, Weapons of Self Destruction.
"You may ask yourself why he became a specialist in haemotology; well, he originally wanted to be a dancer, but when your name is Vitus Hemos, some choices are just made for ya. It's why I changed my name, my parents kind of wanted me to be a proctologist, that's why they named me Jimmy O'Buttocks."
— Noah 'The Spoony One' Antwiler, on Terror T.R.A.X -- Track of the Vampire
"You know, when you name your Son 'Jeeves', you've pretty much set up his life's path for him. What is he going to become...a hitman? 'Pardon me sir, but I'm afraid I must whack you.' "
— Jerry Seinfeld, Seinfeld
"Mr. Incredible and Elastigirl got really lucky when they named their son Dash as they had no way of knowing he'd have super speed as a superpower."
"Spirit of Justice is particularly shameless about character names, but the Ace Attorney universe has always been populated by people whose greater purpose in life (at least in the context of one murder case that they may only tangentially be related to) is prognosticated by their birth names.
Mercy was only a baby, still wailing, when Malice looked into her future. She saw her youngest daughter with a broad smile clear even on the dark statues in the World of Night. She healed, she laughed, and she cried for the sake of others.
And, in the end, Malice saw her daughter as another light rising over the dark mountains of the Akura clan.
Malice leaned back, satisfied, and let her World of Night fade. She looked down to the baby in her arms and named her.
She would be a light to complement the shadows. The Mercy to counterbalance the family's Malice.
Where the Monarch failed, her daughter would bring joy.
And, in the end, Malice saw her daughter as another light rising over the dark mountains of the Akura clan.
Malice leaned back, satisfied, and let her World of Night fade. She looked down to the baby in her arms and named her.
She would be a light to complement the shadows. The Mercy to counterbalance the family's Malice.
Where the Monarch failed, her daughter would bring joy.
— Cradle Series: Waybound
