| abstract | - Basic Trope: A character has a really cool name, made up of unusual components and/or in a setting that would make such an awesome name seem strange.
* Straight: Bob has a friend called Odysseus Obsidian.
* Exaggerated: Every single person on Earth has an impossibly cool name. Or everyone calls him "O." because if they heard his true name, their heads would explode.
* Justified: Odysseus' family members all have really cool names as a family tradition.
* Inverted:
* In a world full of cool names, there is one unfortunate man named Bob Bland.
* Also, Unfortunate Name and Fail O'Suckyname.
* Subverted: Everyone treats Odysseus' name like it's just another name.
* Doubly Subverted: ...Except for Bob, who really thinks it's a cool name.
* Parodied:
* Odysseus makes a big show of introducing himself, expecting everyone to fall down in awe at hearing his name.
* Alternatively, the character's name is ridiculously long and used in full every time it is said.
* Everyone treats Bob's name like it's a really cool name.
* Deconstructed: Odysseus hates his unusual name because the other kids make fun of him. He resents his parents for giving it to him and changes it the first chance he gets.
* Reconstruction:
* Odysseus' old name was boring and plain, so he changed it to something more exotic.
* Odysseus' name reflects a personal change he went through in his life, prompting him to get a new, cooler name to distance himself from the person he was.
* Zig Zagged:
* Odysseus changes his name several times, from mundane to awesome and back again.
* Odysseus changes his name every time he introduces himself: Obsidian, Brimstone, Onyx, Mithril, etc. Bob calls him out on this, and reveals his real name: Smith. Everybody laughs it off for a while... but then they start thinking: what is the profession where men work on raw materials to make incredible weapons?
* Averted: No one has unusual/cool names.
* Enforced: "I've got a really cool idea for a character name! Let's use it!"
* Lampshaded: "Dude, that's such a cool name!"
* Invoked: A baby is given a cool name after much discussion between the parents.
* Defied: A cool name for the new baby is rejected by the parents in favor of something more conventional.
* Discussed: "Did you hear what the name of that new kid is? It's so cool it's ridiculous!"
* Conversed: "What am I going to call him? I was thinking either Xerxes, Ozymandias or Indiana. Which one do you like best?" On the birth certificate is your Awesome McCoolname.
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