I think it's just kinda assumed that a title inherently has some meaning, or else it wouldn't be the title (or would be a Non-Indicative Name). But if it has extra levels of meaning, it could be a Double-Meaning Title.
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, started by shokoshu on Aug 18th 2019 at 1:05:13 PM
Alright, so I'm writing something for myself, and I'm wondering what would this count as.
So an organization makes bots to protect humanity, the Bulwark series of robots, for a variety of purpose.
The Bulwark model 13 is human looking to be able to get the trust of civvies so that in times of crisis they can lead them to safety (humans tend to trust things shaped like humans more easily than a pure combat bot).
Bulwark model 13, unit 37 unexpectedly became sentient. As a later breakthrough in terms of sentient non-living entities demonstrated, the more people building an item get attached to it, the more likely it is to develop sentience. And the engineers crafting the Bulwark series got attached to it for no other reason than this bot was Bulswark 13-37, or Bulwark Leet. So the sentient bot was designed leet, which given that it is the one that became sentient, is appropriate, but it being model leet was the reason it became sentient...
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<a href="https://www.latestjobvacancies.com/"> What do you suggest is a meaningful name actually?</a>
Would this trope apply to a work wherein the meaningful name is never even revealed or noted to be meaningful? You only realize it because of outside information or background knowledge, for example, a character who is a dark wizard, and their name is Latin for dark wizard (or something). Would this still be a meaningful name? Or something else?
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More of a personal curiosity question, but is it generally considered a good thing or a bad thing if the Meaningful Name only becomes clear in hindsight?
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Personally: Hindsight. Makes the Fridge Logic a bit easier to swallow as it's a little more subtle. Harry Potter's meaningful names, for example, were just way over the top.
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Should Real Life examples be in the trivia tab of individual works? It doesn't say...
This goes under the Real Life section, but the former actor John Dye, should count just look at his most famous role, we'll wait.
@ The One Who Tropes, re: Mick Xenophon. I removed the bit about changing his name, because he hardly changed it at all, only to an older form of the same name, nothing to do with scientology. See this news story.
Is there a similar trope to this for work titles?
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