I used to play Oregon Trail, but failed miserably every time. When I got tired of it telling me all my friends died, I named myself Lord Voldemort, accompanied by bellatrix lestrange and the like. Guess which game made it?

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This Troper likes to name the heroes "Hero". Unless there's a default name. Bo-ring.

This Troper did not realize, at first, that you could name your custom Lords in Lords of Magic; she went through her first three games as "Lord Enter Name" before figuring it out, and liked it so much that now, every encounter with {{NPC}}s results in messages like, "We welcome you, Lord Enter Name!" and, "Our people shall fight you, Lord Enter Name, to the very end!" It is surprisingly amusing.

This troper remembers how one of her friends once named a pokemon 'you jerk' just to release it-"So long, you jerk!"

Certain Pokemon lend themselves to certain names

When immature, bored British schoolboys play Pokemon emulators, terrible things can happen, as this troper can remember. Names changed to protect the innocent.\\ J.D: Right, I just got a Bellsprout. What do I call it? I was thinking PENIS, but...\\ J.C: How about Bellend?\\ J.D: Perfect! There's even room to fit the "male" symbol ? on the end!

How I hope that they make an evolved Victreebell...

This troper named a pokemon PENIS, then used TM's to teach it growth, harden, and explosion...

Only that last one is actually a TM move. However, one Pokemon is able to learn all 3 - Seedot.

I named an Octillery "TentaclRpe" and taught it Gunk Shot.

This Troper's Friend caught Chatot in D&P and made it say THIS!IS!SPARTA! Every time it used Chatter.

That can give an interesting spin on the concept of the move confusing the enemy

This Troper's Chatot says "Don't forget DL-6!" - or, when in a more sombre mood, "I miss you."

This troper's says "Welcome to your doom" in a really robotic voice.

This Troper fights against the forces of those that don't capitalize "Troper" and make references to {{Altered Beast}}!

This Troper has a friend who once named his Chatot "Exodia" and made it scream Abridged Series}} "BAAAAAAAAH" every time it came out.

This Troper's Chatot used to ask, "What squid?" when it appeared. Before that he asked "Do you love me?" and at the present he says "Hail Buddha!"

This Troper named her Chatot "Link" just so she could make it scream "HHHEEAAARRRRGGGGGH!!!!" Recording that was... interesting.

This Troper named his Chatot Dalek. Its Chatter doesn't just cause confusion, it makes seasoned alien space fighters break down into tears. EXTERMINATE! EXTERMINAAAAAATE!

This troper made Chatot yell GARBAGE DAY.

The whole joke in this strip from ''Super Effective'', the ''VGCats'' spinoff (the character himself later insists on "Blue"). This editor remembers that he himself couldn't think of a good rival name at the time, and ignored the seven-character limit, meaning he played through a game with a rival named ''Butthea''.

I had named my character "Beavis" and the rival "Butthea".

Actually,his name is Green,in both the japanese version and remakes.

Sounds like someone hasn't read ''PokemonSpecial''.

Sounds like someone hasn't seen the games...

This editor named him "Toilet" in his first playthrough and "Stinky" the next. To his defense, he WAS 11 at the time...

This editor's brother, meanwhile, named the hero and rival "Jackash" and "Ashhole." Didn't really matter who was what. They were both Ashes in the end.

This troper, since Silver, has made it tradition to name his rival "[=MyBalls=]". Mostly for the amusement of seeing "[=MyBalls=] sent out RATTATA!" or some such. But he was not prepared for Diamond & Pearl's Battle Tower, where his rival's father said (in no uncertain terms) "I remember you! You used to play with [=MyBalls=] when you were little, didn't you?"

Once I let my brother name my character and rival in D/P "I'm gay" and "My dick" and mostly got characters calling themselves gay. But the gem was when we talked to one male NPC: "Hi, I'm gay, are you looking for my dick?"

The name my dick worked brilliantly for your rival in one of the earlier games. You show up at his house and his sister says "I'm sorry, my dick isn't home right now."

This troper had a friend who used to name his character "I Suck" just so that any [=NPCs=] that say the characters name end up insulting themselves.

This troper was feeling mischievous when starting Silver, and so named his rival 'FARTHED'. He was eight at the time.

This troper named his rival in Red "JACKASS"

The first time you see the rival in Silver is before he's named, so his "name" is just ???. When an NPC asks you what the name is, guess what this troper always puts in.

This Troper has always wanted to call her rival in HG/SS "[=MissingNo=]." for just that reason. Sadly, the character namer only supports seven letters...

I did that too on my first playthrough of Silver, but unintentionally. In Red/Blue you put in the rival's name at the start right after inputting yours. The rival explicitly says "My name's ???" before you can name him, and I was GenreBlind enough at the time to actually think this was what his name was supposed to be. So when the rival name entry screen came up...

Christ, someone else who did that? That's exactly what I did.

NO WAI, I do that too! (At least in Gold/Silver.)

Another person who did that right here. My brother pointed out my stupidity.

In [=SoulSilver=], this troper named his sentret "Gondor". Because it calls for aid! (Rimshot)

This troper's brother named his rival in Pokemon "Stupid", which resulted in many humorous phrases, including Professor Oak saying "Hang on, Stupid, you'll get your Pokemon next."

This troper once demonized his rival in [=FireRed=]. Literally--his name was GRAZ'ZT.

What is my grandson's name? That's it! His name is DORK!

This Troper uses names for the trainer based on the game version (Red, Sean, and Ash for generation 1, Crystal, Silva, and the example for gen 2, Landon/Ruby, Sean, Leif Green and Red, and Ray(quaza) for 3, and Dymion and so far Pearl for 4). Aurelius has eight letters. Pokemon Gold Version has space for seven letters. This troper played as "Aurelus" long enough to get the gold-specific pokemon and hadn't picked it up since (hopefully Heart Gold can be better, or at least have 8+ spaces).

I named most of my Pokemon after my original fanfic characters... But some had some distinctive names such as Shroudlure and Oceanreign :3

My brother named his character Fadee (fatty) and his rival Redard (retard). He swore that after a while he would come back to his forgotten game and wonder what he was thinking when naming his characters, forgetting the jokes behind them.

This troper had a friend who named his trainer Allah, and his rival The west! Allah defeated the west! Tasteless but funny when you're 14.

This troper's character was Bush, rival Osama. Pokemon named Cheney, Condoleezza, and Oil followed.

That's nothing, Allah guy. How about Hitler defeated Earth!

A friend of mine, a devout Christian, always names his character Jesus, and his rival Satan. This came up with some pretty hilarious in game messages, like "Jesus saved the game!" This instantly became an awesome bit of FridgeBrilliance in XD: Gale of Darkness when the character's father was described as the greatest [[{{God}} being anyone had ever known.

Reiko-chan will always name her trainer Rose, and her rival... well... their CanonName. Yeah, I'm... not one of those people who likes to name them stupid names.

This Troper was waiting in line to get a Mew at an event, and a younger fan ahead in line noted that he would name his some variation of Optimus Prime so he could teach him Transform and Rollout.

This troper once named a Sandshrew 'Away Forever!' (however, due to the letter limit, it kinda ended up something like '[=AwyFrevr=]!'), so that every time she sent it out, it would seem like her character was commanding that Pokemon to go away.

This troper rarely renames his Pokemon, but upon reaching the first area in Silver in which he could find Mareep he made sure to catch one so that he could name it (in abbreviated form, if I remember correctly, due to character limits) "Do Androids Dream?" (Mareep being, quite literally, an Electric Sheep). By aggressively powerleveling he kept "Do Androids Dream?" at the same level as his starter throughout the entire game, sniggering almost every time he sent him out.

Or, you know, you could have done the much less funny abbreviated version - DAD.

On my most recent file of Pearl Version, I named the player character (a girl) and every Pokemon I caught 'Laszlo'. It got confusing after a while.

On one playthrough of [=LeafGreen=], this Troper named both himself and his Rival "Oak", leading for a very hilarious and confusing conversation with the Professor.

On a related note that shows just how creative (or idiotic) this troper was as a child, on a playthrough of Pokemon Red after a lot of Mario RPG, he named his player character "Booster", and renamed every Pokemon he caught "Snifit", to imagine Booster traveling the world with an army of elemental Snifits. Can't remember what he named the rival but he probably named him "Mario". Of course, this being Gen I, this made withdrawing Pokemon from boxes ''really annoying''.

This troper has a few Pokemon with an OT of "I Suck", from a friend who named his character this so all of the other characters would end up insulting themselves whenever they addressed the player character. Made for really funny exchanges during the endgame.

The Pokemon Snover summons a hailstorm when it enters the battle...so, naturally, I named mine Lelouch.

Just today, I had to do a Pokemon trade so that I could get my Manaphy onto my Platinum game. So I handed Pearl over to my friend, then when we were both in the Union Room, she started laughing at what I named the Machop I was trading for the Manaphy- Ass.

This troper's friend once named an unfortunate Metapod 'My wang', solely for gems like, "My wang used Harden! My wang's Defense rose!"

''This'' troper ''defies you all'' to name a Pokemon "Oh no! It", use it in battle/gameplay, and not die laughing. I did this to a Bibarel I used for [=HMs=], which led to such gems as, "Oh no! It used Strength!" "Oh no! It gained 241 EXP!" "Oh no! It grew to level 17!" And my personal favorite: "Oh no! It is evolving!"

I used something similar for a Magikarp, named "Oh shit it". Oh shit it used Tackle! Oh shit it fainted! What? Oh shit it is evolving! Congratulations! Your Oh shit it evolved into a Gyarados! Run!

This troper just thought of something similar, naming a Pokémon "You" (though that might result in YouNoTakeCandle), "me," or "For It" (with the last one so you can see "Go! For It!" or "For It is evolving!" Everything For It does would be like "For (he) is a Jolly Good Fellow")

Thanks to your suggestion, I was told "Oh no! She recovered 13HP!"

"Oh no! It wants to learn Cut! However, Oh no! It can only learn four moves." "Oh no! It learned cut!" "Oh no! It used surf!" It's perfect for HM slaves.

This troper, whenever playing on an emulator, names his rival "that dirtbag" or something along the lines of that.

Less funny, but the source of much awesome: a Piplup starter named SKIPPER.

I named mine Mumble.

Whenever Tropers/RitiTroll plays D/P/Pt she always gets a Chimchar and names it Wukong because this was the first game that she followed from the beginning, so of course her Gokuzaru needs to have an appropriate nickname. (And currently it is one of only two or three of the 20-ish pokemon she's caught that ''doesn't'' have the name of a character from FinalFantasy, with THIEF (Now-Staravia, got the name because it's quick), Rosa (Budew), and Ashe (Geodude) as some of her more useful other pokemon, depsite naming Ashe that because she hates that pokemon (and game, and character) with a passion. And guess what she named her Kricketot-now-Kricketune. Go on, guess.

All this troper remembers is that he named the rival from the first generation Gary after the show character and the rival of Silver/Crystal "Johto" after the continent/island/whatever. Hooray for lack of imagination back in the old days.

This troper has named her ditto Dugger.

When this troper was 8 it was HILARIOUS to name her rival 'FUCK', leading to statements like 'Oh yeah FUCK passed through here!' and 'FUCK sent out Eevee!'. Obviously, not very witty now, but incredibly amusing when you're in 3rd grade. This troper's two main pokemon are currently named 'her vag' and 'his cock' which gives you 'Charlie sent out his cock!'

I nickname every single Pokemon, just because it's so much fun--which is why my PC boxes are full of Fuck Buddies and Sex Slaves (for breeding), HM Slaves, God, Batmans, Mews, Oh Fuck it's, Voldemorts, Jesus, Stupid, and Fuck You. The last is reserved for Zubats, and it never gets old. I also used to name myself something like Jesus or God, just so I could hear/read people say, nonchalantly, "Oh, yeah, God passed through here a while ago."

A wild ZUBAT appeared! Go, JESUS! What would JESUS do?

This troper had a habit of renaming her strongest mon's to things like 'Caterpie' and 'Zubat' before going into multiplayer battles. "Troper is about to use Metapod! Do you want to change your pokemon?" And out comes a Blastoise.

I don't think that would work. If I recall correctly, multiplayer battles usually don't let you change your pokemon before the opponent sends out theirs. And besides, even if that happened, it would say the real name of the pokemon, not the nickname.

This Troper, at the tender age of eight, named the Red Gyarados, that giant, red sea serpent who could fly without wings, that dragon of destruction tormenting the lake and kicking the ass of Team Rocket to avenge his fallen comrades, the tormented and yet complex sea beast whose badassery hides a heart of gold and love for his Trainer, my trump card in all battles, the crown jewel of my Pokemon Silver team... Carl. He never fails to get a laugh out of people when I pitch it this way in a dramatic tone of voice. My brother hated me for this and kept yelling for me to change Carl's name. I refused. I love Carl. Carl is my giant, frightening, man eating, murderous best friend forever and he and I are going surfing, so screw you.

CAAAAAARRRLLLLLLL!

This troper always nicknames her Pokemon, often with strange results when she is having a momentary lapse in creativity. A few examples: normal names I think sound nice like "Lucian" for a Shinx(now a Luxray, I'm so proud of him!), puns on famous characters that share a real-world species that the Pokemon may resemble like "Geico" for any of the Treecko family or "Mumble" for a Piplup, lazy ones like "Bug" for... well, any Bug-type, I guess, and celebrity names like "AdamSavage" for an Electrode or "Mike Rowe" for a Muk.

This troper now wants to catch a female Pelipper, name it 'Slut' and teach it Swallow and Spit Up.

This Troper named his Infernape in Pearl Dhalsim.

This Troper got a mantyke off the GTS who had been named "Mandyke," got a Pokemon whose OT was "TITTIES" from the GTS, and got a stunky from a friend named "Assface." This troper also names her dittos things like "Britney" and "Paris" and may name the next one "Duggar," and names treeckos after unsavory persons due to the shapes of their heads. On a less dirty note, she also has a Roserade named Mario (who sadly can learn no fire attacks), a Floatzel named Miles whom she wishes could fly, and just recently traded away a Togepi named Bart.

I named all my Pokemon in Platinum after elements in the Periodic Table. And arranged them according to the same Periodic Table. Box 2, which has the last two rows set aside for the transition metals, has the first three rows empty. It saddens me.

This Troper names every female Geodude she catches "Dudette".

Technically, the correct feminine version of Dude is Dudine

Actually, the correct feminine version of Dude is Dudess.

This troper, when he was younger, named a Metapod he caught as "[Male symbol]". It was quite amusing when it used Harden or String Shot...

This Troper started nicknaming everything after random inside jokes with friends, but the oddest one is Snookums, the level 100 Kyogre capable of destroying most enemies in one hit.

This troper nicknamed a Pokémon "virginity" and left it in the daycare in Platinum. "If you want your virginity back, it will cost $10,000."

This troper is VERY fond of naming my pokemon, often with wierd names. I remember my level 100 Feraligtr was called Gnawercuts. My current pokemon (in Diamond) are no different. I had: a Ponyta called Freezer, a Grotle called Fred, a Kadabra called Helga, a Luxray called Ratchet (yes, i know :P), a Gastroden called Shelly, and a Staravia called Tuna. Yes, I am 15 years old, and no, I wasn't high on drugs.

In Pearl this troper named her main character Mira because it sounded pretty. I was more than a little confused when I ran into a little girl with the same name later in the game.

This troper makes it a tradition to name all his Tentacool and Tentacruel "Dr. Light." After giggling, he then notes to himself that he is a horrible, horrible person.

He also called his Sentret "Hamburger", then "Hot Dog" when it evolved. His favorite, though, is his Crobat, named simply "DAMN BATS". Not only does it reference the trope, it also makes his character sound like he's randomly swearing out bats. For example, "GO! DAMN BATS!" "DAMN BATS USED FLY!" "DAMN BATS! SWITCH OUT!" The bats are everywhere, according to him.

"{{Godzilla}}'s INTIMIDATE cut foe RATTATA's ATTACK!" Yes, I love my Gyarados, why do you ask?

My Piplup is named "dood".

This troper usually gives her pokemon fairly normal names. However, I simply could not resist hatching two Houndour eggs and naming the resulting male offspring after the Elric brothers.

This Troper named herself "writers" and her rival "the CPC" (the Communist Party of China). Earlier when the game was refusing to save she'd named herself "a mouse". Being a mouse was funnier than being writers.

I named my Magikarp "Jesus" in preparation for it's evolution, which I found rather amusing while leveling up. I liked imagining the {{NPC}}s cowering at the name, then going, "...Oh, come on! A Magikarp?" ...And then, later, a two-foot-tall bird intimidated him. As he was a 21-foot-tall, 518 pound sea monster named after the son of God by then, I found it slightly worrisome and quickly fled the battle.

I only name my Pokémon I don't intend to use. So I did stuff like name my Pansage "Oh no! It" so it would say "Oh no! It gained 320 EXP!" and "Oh no! It learned Cut." I also have named Trubbish "GARBAGEDAY" and Darmanitan A."

This Troper breeds Charizards, and often gives couples/battle partners theme names. When she had two eggs close to hatching, she decided to name them Sherlock and Watson in order to raise them together for double battles. When it turned out Watson was a girl, it made years of HoYay speculation hilarious.

This Troper once named her Treecko 'MUDKIP'. Which led to 'Your MUDKIP evolved into GROVYLE!' (This was back in Sapphire, when {{Mon}}s had names in all-caps.) This was due to a lack of creativity at the time.

She's also used unusual and totally original nicknames, such as 'SABUL' the Gyarados (Blue's powerhouse), 'KERAT' the Nidoking and 'KOLIE' the Nidoqueen. All-caps necessary. As well as a female Snubbull named 'BRUNO' and a Marill called 'PIKABLU'. In fact, the only Pokemon she doesn't nickname are the unused ones. And sometimes not even then. At least it's better than what she used to do. Blank names in a text-based box? Not a good idea. Multiple Gyarados named 'MAGICARP'? (Troper couldn't spell back then.) Also not a good idea. Especially when there were quite a few. This Troper is glad she grew out of it.

This troper named Tidus "that guy", leading to an amusing exchange where Wakka referred to him as "this guy". No, Wakka, ''that'' guy.

Or "Him", to establish some continuity with the sequel.

This troper got really sick of him really fast, but loved the battle system enough to replay it. So the idiot main character got named MORON. (yes, in all caps.)

This troper wanted an in-universe explanation for why no one referred to Him by name, so his name became Sin.

My younger brother, in our shared {{Pokemon}} Emerald game, wanted to have a Beautifly he'd evolved from a Wurmple, but the Wurmple he caught kept evolving into Dustox (well, technically into Cascoon, which then evolves into Dustox). Finally, he caught three Wurmple that he named [=PleaseBFly=], [=IfItsNot=] and [=IllBeMad=]. 'Dawn sent out [=IllBeMad=]! [=IllBeMad=], go!' (We called the player character Dawn and her hyperactive buddy Noon.)

I named my main character in yellow 'u suck', his rival 'IDIOT' and the pikachu 'Moron'. in Gold and Silver I named the main character '[=DuDe=]!!!', his rival 'dUdE???', Jigglypuff 'Dude!!!!', Chikorita 'u r ugly', Spinarax 'Spiderman', Whooper 'Whoopy', Onyx 'Nooo! I', Rattata 'Ratts', Noctowl 'STUPID', Pidgey 'Moron', and Geodude 'Bonkers'. Need to expand my collection before updating

Especailly hilarious in the Generation 4 main games, where if you name yourself AHHHH and your rival fuckers. you would get this gem from your mom: AHHHHHH!! Fuckers came looking for you a while ago.

I can't be the only one naming my {{Pokemon}} [=FuckUrself=]. I mean, seriously? Who wouldn't want to scream, " Go [=FuckUrself=]!" at their Rival?

In my [=SoulSilver=] game, I'm giving everyone obscure-reference nicknames. My character is "Mari", and my rival is "Wilfre". My Feraligatr is "Toto". My Geodude is "Detritus". And so on. My favourite: my ''Sudo''woodo is "Sandwich".

This Troper has named her Kyogre Rain. A pretty generic name for a water god, yes, but Rain also has the ability Drizzle. Hence, every turn, she reads the message: "Rain continues to fall." Stupid, but amusing.

This troper's kyogre's name's Drizzle, it turned out every time i send it out it says Drizzle's drizzle made it rain.

For [=FireRed=], in addition to the obligatory naming the rival "DOUCHE," this troper has a Machoke named SUPERMAN, a Cubone from Pokemon Tower named BATMAN, an Electrode (who'd disguised itself as an item and knows Explosion) named A TRAP, a Rapidash named RBTUNICORN, and, for good measure, a Hitmonchan named CPT FALCON. Good times.

I have Leaf Green and my rival is also named "DOUCHE". My Caterpie is called "Dong", my Weedle is named "PRICK" (double meaning that applies through all 3 forms), my Gyrados is named "Water God" (I though about what the other trainer would think when I evoke the name of the water god only to release a Magikarp, then it became a huge sea monster, so it still works). I also have a Spinarak named "Boris" in Emerald.

I normally named my rival after someone I disliked. Although I did name the characters stuff like "DORK" at the start.

In Gold and Silver, my name incorporated the chemical symbols Au and Ag for each, respectively.

I got my shinx in a trade, nicknamed SINKS, which was okay, untill i ended up with a level 70 luxray with a name stick at SINKS...

In Ruby, when I played it in 4th grade, I wanted to name my Raltz "Beach Boy" for some reason. A few years later, I found the game, and cracked up, as I had named him "[=BechBoy=]."

Take a look at this guy, and then take a look at this guy. Just because of this, I went through all the trouble of finding a Male Shinx (with the Rivalry ability) and Electrike, evolve them into Luxray and Manectric, and consequently name them Yusei and Jack, respectively.

Players can make custom battle phrases for online battles by picking a pre-set phrase and filling it in Mad-Libs style from a limited wordpool. This was obviously done to prevent our dialogue from being as profane as our Pokemon nicknames. However, there's one exploitable word that made it into the otherwise squeaky-clean wordpool, being the name of a certain non-damaging Dark-type move. Nintendo's finest censors couldn't stop my heroine from gleefully exclaiming to the world: "I just wanted everyone to look at my SNATCH!"

...unfortunately after DPPt the censors caught on, and "SNATCH" was removed from the wordpool for HGSS.

This Troper and her best friend name nearly all of their Pokemon (excluding ones we get exclusively for Pokedex completion purposes and most legendaries.) This has led to This Troper having, amongst other things, a Snivy named Dave, a shiny Woobat that she caught in the East named Glint, a Zoroark named Grell and a Mewtwo named BIGCATa {{shoutout}} to issue number one of ''Pocket Games'' magazine, which had a screenshot of a Mewtwo in a small article on Pokemon Stadium. Guess what ''that'' Mewtwo's name was? As for this Troper's friend, her most recent teammates include an Audino named Audrey and a Zebstrika named Zapidash.

In the first FinalFantasy, I named the first person after myself and a white mage Sarah. Even more amusingly, I carried the first three names over to FinalFantasyII, acting as if the second game was a years-later sequel to my party's adventures in the first game, where the black mage of the first game turned on everyone between games, hence the fourth guy of the second game was a different person. My own story within the "official" story, pretty neat idea back then.

I always name Guy Beaver in [=FF2=] for the line "Beaver speak beaver."

I named the fighter 'loser', the monk 'IDIOT', the Red mage 'DUDE!', the White Mage 'Moe', and the Black Mage 'Vivi'

I picked the Fighter, Black Mage, Red Mage and Thief. I called them, respectively, "SWDCK" (Swordchuk), "HADKN" (Hadoken), DANDD and "THIEF".

In X-2, after a certain point you can rename the Trainer pets, there is potential for abuse there - if you change Kogoro's name to "Crap", you can have Yuna do an attack called "Holy Crap".

This troper's boyfriend had a bit of fun with the summons' names - Valefor was Big Bird, Bahamut turned into Megatron, Anima into Bob, and the Magus Sisters? Larry, Curly and Moe.

I did something similar with all the summons except Valefor, Ifrit was Loser, Ixion was Lil Pony, Shiva was Bewbs, Bahamut was Oh Crap!, Anima became Lulz, Yojimbo was Stupid MF and the Magus sisters were Magus, Magus and Magus.

This troper amused himself with this in VII (without naming Cloud bollocks or some such) by renaming Red XIII When you visit his hometown later in the game, he reveals what his real name is. "Hey guys, just a heads up- my name isn't actually [[spoiler:Nanaki. It's [[spoiler:Nanaki]]. Sorry for not telling you earlier!"

In FFVII I named in this recruiting order Claude, Hun Gai, Rinoa, Garnet, Nanako, Haruhi, Meowth, Eeyore and Smoker

This troper almost did that, but ended up naming him Nathaniel, simply because the character limit was such that she could.

This troper once named the whole cast of ''FinalFantasyVII'' after Nintendo characters. (Cloud=Link, Barret=Mario, Red XIII=Bowser, etc.) He named Aeris after Princess Daisy since he thought her love of flowers would match the name. Since the Nintendo counterpart is generally considered as TheScrappy, most Princess Daisy haters would have been pleased to see what would happen to her in the ''FinalFantasyVII'' version.

Name Aerith (Aeris for purists, not that it matter since she's being renamed) "Bullseye". When Sephiroth goes surprise-stab-flying-down on her, cloud will look up, raise a fist to the air and scream "BULLSEYE!"

This troper followed the above advice, but has also named Cloud "Bastard," Barret "Shit," and Tifa "Bitch," leading to other funny lines like: '''Shit''': "The Planet's dying, Bastard!" '''Bitch''': "Did you fight with Shit again?" '''Bullseye''': "Is Bitch......a girl?"

And in this same vein--this troper named Yuffie "Bitch" (and Barrett "Mr. T" for obvious reasons during a replay of ''FinalFantasyVII" so as to see Barrett utter the immortal phrase: "BITCH DONE STOLE ALL OUR MATERIA!" Yes, juvenile, but amusing. :D

This troper once named Cait Sith "3929741" (or just some other sequence of numbers) so after he sacrifices himself, and another Cait Sith comes around, he says "Hi, I'm 3929741 2." I also once named him "[=ShinraSpy=]" so that when everyone else learns that he's a Shinra spy it makes them look like morons for not noticing earlier.

This troper had a friend who once changed all of the character's names in ''FinalFantasyVII'' to "Sephiroth". ''All'' of them. It got quite funny and extremely confusing later in the game when the real Sephiroth enters the picture. To say nothing of Aerith's death scene.

And while we're talking about Square, ''ChronoTrigger'' allows you to name all your characters - and a whopping four out of seven characters go by pseudonyms for their default names. The logical outcome: Marle, Frog, Robo and Magus became Nadia, Glenn, R-66Y and Janus respectively, resulting in this line: #QUOTE#GLENN: [[CaptainObvious "Mine name is Glenn!"]]

This Troper thought he was the only one to do that. Oh course, Robo's real name CHANGES IN THE GAME. It's not always R-66Y. Lazy programmers can't Ctrl+ F.

Also, "Nadia is Princess Nadia!".

This also works with naming Dagger/Garnet Garnet in FFIX

The Chrono Compendium's translation of the game makes Marle's real name her chosen name + "dia". So name her "Diadia".

Princess Diadiadia? Is she related to King Dedede?

If you name Robo R-66Y, you get this paraphrased exchange: #QUOTE#'''Lucca''': What's your name?\\ '''Robot''': R-66Y.\\ '''Marle''': R-66Y? That's no good! Crono, help me rename him.\\ '''Crono''': R-66Y.\\ '''Marle''': R-66Y! That's perfect!

Speaking of Chrono Trigger, this troper got quite a bit of laughs when he named Marle "Drugs" in the DS version.

Crono= Dick. It's mildly amusing to hear one of the villagers in 65,000,000 BC proclaim "Dick strong! Good!" Also Frog= Frog, Marle= Slut, Ayla= Whore, Magus= Wizard and Robo= Robot.

Related joke: naming Barret Mr. T results in this exchange. #QUOTE#'''Aeris:''' Thank you so much, Mr. Mr. T!\\ '''Barret:''' What? That don't sound right! It's Mr. T!

This Troper randomly named Shiva "Mint Pizza" in ''Final Fantasy VIII'' causing Ifrit to shout "THEY HAVE MINT PIZZA!?" when she was used against him.

This troper, while playing through VII decided for kicks to give characters hillbilly names. Cloud becomes Jethro and Barret becomes Billy-Bob (or was that the other way around)? Had I gotten farther, I would've named Tifa Sally-Mae or Dixie.

This Troper named Red XIII [=FF0000=] 13. I thought it was funny.

Oh yeah? This troper once renamed all the characters to have the names of other characters. While nonsensically bizarre at some points- the group dialogues were greatly enjoyed. ...Particularly the Yuffie/Barret switch.

This troper's older brother was named Zack and when he played through the game he named Cloud after himself. Imagine his confusion when he met the real Zack's parents.

This troper used it to her advantage to prevent Aeris from dying. Simply by switching the names of Aeris and Tifa. Bam. Tifa dies.

The Tambourine Man: I kept most of the default names in VIII, except for Griever. Which I remaned Roger. Not as bad as most examples here, but it still made Ultimecia's lines about him really silly.

This Troper once named two different characters "BOB", mostly to see if it would let you give two characters the same thing. On another save I've named all of them so far after characters from other Final Fantasy games.

After finding the character named Namingway for the umpteenth time. This troper's brother once renamed the entire party EFF, YOU, NAMING and WAY to make his disgust quite clear.

This troper remembers a guy who named everyone Sephiroth. Imagine the confusion!

Try playing through VI with all the male characters named Steve and all the female characters named... Steve. That was one confusing playthrough.

Marik now owns your game.

Similar fun my be had exploiting the system in FFIX; there are exactly enough spaces to fit "America" in instead of Steiner, purely to get lines like "Captain America at your service!"

That puts this troper to shame, who merely named him Captain Pancake.

This troper named him Captain Winky.

''Falcon'' '''PUNCH!'''

How about CaptainObvious?

Captain Planet! He's a hero! Gonna take pollution down to zero!

SHAZAM! Not something I've done personally, but it would be good.

My sister always renamed Steiner to Teapot. In addition, I once started a new game that renamed Vivi as Puck, just to see the dialog go "Puck? That's a weird name. My name's Puck!"

This troper renamed Steiner as "Sarge". She didn't think that he'd be a captain.

There's also the fact that Amarant is referred to as "The Flaming Amarant". This editor always has to fight the temptation to name him "Queen".

Speaking of which, the first time this troper played through at the tender age of 11, she rather innocently called him 'Blaze' because of his red hair only to have him flatly state, 'Some call me the Flaming Blaze.' No shit, Sherlock.

This troper named him Death the first time through, then he introduced himself as "The Flaming Death". Never could have come up with that by trying.

My girlfriend named him "Asshole." After not playing the game for a few months, she was surprised when she took it up again, and he referred to himself as "The Flaming Asshole" all the time.

This troper named him Carrot on the second playthrough. This troper is a nerd.

I named mine Yan. As in, Flaming Yan. Say it out loud. (Still don't get it? Comes out sounding a little like "filet mignon". And yes, I giggled at my own wit.)

I named him "Burger." Ergo: "The Flaming Burger." Yum.

This editor has recently picked ''FinalFantasyIX'' back up again, and as such named half of the cast funny names and the other half after other FF characters(though not any past ''X''). Zidane became Zack(''VII'', and no, not ''CrisisCore'' Zack), Vivi became Pacce(''X''), Quina became Blue(After Blue Mage, since sadly he couldn't think of anything else), Eiko became Celes(''VI''), Steiner became Planet(Captain Planet!), Dagger became Sara(well, yeah), Freya became Slut(giving nearly everything she says a double meaning), and Amarant became Cock(the Flaming Cock!). This is so far leading to many hilarious exchanges, such as: #QUOTE#'''Slut:''' You gonna participate? #QUOTE#'''Zack:''' Nah, I think I'll pass.

Am I the only one who named Quina ''Liktung'', Vivi ''Orko'' and Zidane ''Goku''?

This troper also named the FFIX characters all after past characters. Eight [=PCs=], eight previous Final Fantasy games, and the fast that the whole game is a big MythologyGag... Steiner was FIGHTER, Amarant became Guy, Eiko was Refia, Vivi was named Porom, Freya became Salsa, Zidane was Locke, Quina was... Shinra, and of course, Garnet was Rinoa.

This one recently got its release on the PSN. She decided to give each one the name of her headvoice. Zidane became Bryce (naturally), Vivi became Mona, Steiner became Harold (I can not remember who I chose that from, though), Garnet took on the name "Cheno" (After Kristin Chenoweth. They're both spunky and are powerful singers and actors), Freya became Tara (After Tara Platt, Quina became JarJar, Eiko is now "Steph" (After Stephanie Sheh), and finally, Amarant is hot blooded enough to be given the name Liam.

Tropers/YonTroper did the same thing. Terra is FIGHTER, Locke is THIEF (appropriately), Edgar is Firion, Sabin is Guy, Shadow is Onion, Cyan is Knight, Gau is Cecil, Celes is Rosa, Mog is Galuf, Setzer is Bartz, Strago is Cloud, Relm is Aerith, Umaro is Squall and Gogo is Seifer.

This Troper decided to name every character after an anime character, without using the same anime twice. Made FFVI REAL fun trying to think up one for Gogo... When he decided to play an old FFIX file he discovered he had named Vivi "Negi", which he didn't think he knew existed at the time. he also tended to name Steiner "Rusty" which led to him complaining about being called by his name...

The above troper (which is me) managed to find the list of names he used for FFVI, which are as follows: Terra=Robin; Locke=Miroku (Not sure why, though...); Edgar=Edward; Sabin=Yamcha; Shadow=Aoshi; Celes=Hikari; Setzer=Bakura; Relm=Haruna (same situation as Vivi above); Galuf=Kakasi (Supposed to be Kakashi. Character limit)); Gao=Goku; and finally, Gogo=Kanako.

Even more silly names for FFIX:

Zidane=Dumbass (It's me, Dumbass!)

Vivi=66 (VI=6)

Steiner=Rusty (Obvious)

Garnet=Prncess (Surprising how well it fit into the normal dialogue, especially at the end)

Quina= ...It (“Guess that leaves me with …It.”)

Freya=Ratface (Which meant she was going to kill/fight Zidane over him using her name)

Eiko=Brat (Well, she's a brat!)

Amarant=Skull (“I'm known as the Flaming Skull.”)

This Troper named her Amarant Zidane, leading to a hilarious and rather schizophrenic looking exchange. After a mild argument with my mother it become 'Zidanc'. Eiko was named after my cousin, Steiner was inexplicably Sausage, then Roland. Roland being named after this fat kid. Weird stuff.

This troper remembers one particularly evil person who named Celes from VI "Rachel" (name of Locke's dead girlfriend.)

This troper named Terra Rachel completely by accident - he had not played the game previously. This led to some confusion when the actual Rachel entered the storyline...

On a similar note, this troper gave Shadow the name "Leo" after one of his friends, and came across a segment halfway the game where the characters referred to both Shadow and General Leo in one sentence, resulting in the confusing phrase; "''Oh no! Not only did they get Leo, but Leo, too!''"

This troper once gave Shadow the name "Stupid" just for the sake of the dream exposition dialogue: "Let's call ourselves the Stupid Bandits"

In FFVIII you get to name both the token love interest, and ''her dog''. The Spoony One pulled a joke off in his game review by naming the girl "A Whore" and the dog "Anal". Resulting in menu descriptions like "A Whore's Limit Break uses Anal". Additionally, the dog's attacks get names like "Anal Strike", "Anal Cannon", and "Anal Reverse", names that are not going to be forgotten in a hurry. also got to name the {{Big Bad}}'s summon. With the phrase "I shall junction myself, unto " during the final battle, there's yet more scope for amusing nomenclature...

This troper's seen it where a player named the girl 'hobag' and the dog 'a dildo,' so "A hobag's Limit Break uses a dildo." Mm. Dildo Cannon.

You can also rename the ''ring'' that Squall wears. It seems even more pointless than the other renamings until encounter a boss named after the ring in TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon.

SomethingAwful had something funny where Rinoa was named "Rinoa" but Angelo was named "Vaginal".

As long as we're discussing abuse of the naming system in Final Fantasy games, I named every single character KEFKA in one game, which led to some hilarity. like the real Kefka calling himself a dunderhead. Oh man those were the days.

Similarly, for this troper's second play through FFVII, I renamed everyone Sephiroth. Best script ever.

This troper is led to understand that, in Final Fantasy Legend II, when a character is hit in combat, the message follows the template " got for points of damage." Because of this, it is apparently amusing to at least one player to name one of his characters "Lade". Think about it.

LOL one the few amusing ones out of all these. Spelled so that it's passable as a name too.

This editor renamed FFII's Frionel to Scott the first time he played. Leading to a lot of confusion when an NPC in the first town says he's looking for his cousin Scott (It wasn't a name I thought would be used in FF, so I was convinced I'd accidentally sequence broke or something).

This editor was, at one point, in the habit of naming his main character "nobody". FFVII had some interesting lines: for instance, "You know what this means, don't you Hojo? Nobody has the black materia!", "I thought nobody would show up to save you.", and "Hey look, nobody's coming." Then there was the guy in Wutai, totally by accident, invited me in when he meant the opposite: "This is my house! Nobody gets in."

This troper recently played the American SNES release of FFIV and had a great deal of fun with names. Most of the characters were named random naughty words, leading to dialogue (originally between Cecil and Kain) saying things like: Ho: Tits! Tits: Ho! Rosa, however, was named 'my ass', which created some awesome dialogue... Ho: "Where is my ass?" Ho: "Golbez! Release my ass!" Cid: "Damned Golbez! First he abuses my airship, and now my ass!"

This troper's little brother once named Rinoa of FFVIII "....." It was beautiful.

So in FinalFantasyTacticsA2...the default name was "Gully". I hated that name, it sounded '''sooooooooo''' lame. So I asked everyone in a chatroom for better names and nobody came up. So I abused it and wrote the first thing that came to mind....Piss Bagel. Yes, I named them Piss Bagel. It for some reason worked out, Ilua was making requests for Clan Piss Bagel to fight her.

This troper used a genius bonus in his game of [=FFTA2=]: the main character's last name is always Clemens, so he started naming him "Sam." And if that didn't make sense, the clan's name was "Clan Mk. Twain."

And I'm likely to name my knights in the ''TacticsOgre'' remake "The Knights of [=PissBagel=]".

''DragonQuestVIII''. You're either referred to as "guv," or the characters simply skip over saying your name while speaking, although it does sometimes still appear in the dialogue box.

Which is why many players just named the character "Guv."

This editor named him "Hero".

This editor's friend named the main character "Fatty" because he thought the bulky character in the party was the main character, only to realize that he's not. It was pretty nutty to see a slim character with a name that did not match completely.

This troper originally called the hero Eight, thanks to a misunderstanding with the demo version of the game in which the character was unchangeably named Eight. Also, debated naming him something referencing Toroiyama's obvious influence... Gohan and Goku were relatively lame, but this troper wonders... "Gofer! You must retrieve the leaf of the Yggdrasil! Quickly!"

This Troper, having never played a ''DragonQuest'' game before ''VIII'', named the save file after herself, not knowing it'd be the Hero's name - leading to " psyches himself up!" etc.

This troper is in the middle of her first playthrough of [=DQ8=]. Her last two [=RPG=]s were Final Fantasies X and XII. She is very sick of idiot protagonists, and so named "the guv" Doofus.

This Troper named the hero "PINÃTA". Just because there was "Ñ"

This troper called him Heero, cuz, you know, the pun. As a matter of fact, every protagonist of every Dragon Quest game I managed to get my hands on is called Heero.

Although This Troper never actually DID it because the payoff happens only after some 30-40 hours of gameplay, he realised that if you name the boy from SecretOfMana "Stupid" (his canonical name is actually Randy) then at the end of the game one of the characters would say "You're Stupid, aren't you?"

If you're familiar with outdated slang, this one is funny with his CanonName as well.

This editor had fun with ''Morrowind'' by naming his character "Nerevar", so one NPC near the end of the game, Dagoth Endus, would say "I greet you, Nerevar. Or Nerevar. Whoever you are."

In ''Shining Force'' for the Mega Drive/Genesis, it was possible to rename the main protagonist. This troper played through an entire run of the game with a character named Baby, purely to get the line, 'Burn, Baby, burn!' Mishaela sets fire to the only ship in town with the protagonist on board

In the second game, also for the Genesis, a code allowed you to do the same for the entire playable cast.

Those games allow spaces in the name; being an adolescent, naturally I went with "I am gay." What I didn't expect was that practically every sentence in the game contains your name. "Be careful, I am gay." "Well, I am gay, had enough swordplay for today?" "The Guardiana Knights have no need of you, I am gay!"

Similarly to other examples on this page, this troper has heard that gamers commonly name Link "Zelda" in ''Ocarina of Time'' solely to hear ''Princess'' Zelda say "Zelda ... strange ... it sounds somehow ... familiar."

Inspired by this very article, this troper named [=OoT=] Link "Navi". It made for some interesting conversations with the Deku Tree near the beginning...

This editor played through all his Legend of Zelda games with the name "...", that being the closest you can come to having no name at all, since everyone says "What's your name? ... (name) ...? Nice to meet you." or similar when they first met you.

This troper heard that gamers sometimes name Link "Nabooru" to hear Nabooru say "What kind of name is that?" about her own name.

I got pissed at Minish cap resetting, so I named my guy PENIS. guess which file I got furthest on... Not to mention the figurines with "Link" replaced by your character name.

In TwilightPrincess, you get to name both yourself and your horse. Link became "asshole", and everybody in town suddenly hated him. Additionally, Epona was named "my pussy". "Oh, hi, asshole. I washed my pussy for you!"

This troper hasn't even finished TwilightPrincess, but now I wanna put up a new file just to name my horse dong.

I named the horse "my ass," and good times were had by all. "I say, if you want to try again, just hop on my ass and holler at me!"

In the ''{{Pokemon}}'' games, you can name both yourself, and in the first two generations, your rival. In addition, you can also name the pokemon you capture.

This troper used this by naming a pokemon something like 'sister' and putting it in the daycare. "If you want your sister back, you'll have to pay $100." Alternately, whenever said pokemon evolves, "Congratulations! Your sister evolved into raticate!"

This troper didn't start renaming until it was revealed that if you uploaded pokemon from the original games to the N64 Pokemon Stadium games, their color would change depending on their name (only the original 150 qualify). Fun Fact: If you name a Ryhorn "Horny," it turns hot pink.

Odd RealLife variant: a certain Lazer Tag near This Troper's hometown let each player have a name, which would show up on an opponent's lazer's LCD screen when they were shot. He ran into numerous incidents of players using the name "Yourself".

Another real life example: The local bowling alley in this tropers hometown lets you enter your name into the computer for score tracking, then displays only your initials, but flashes the full name on an overhead monitor if you get a strike. I played through a whole game with C.H. showing on the board, and got a strike on the final set, only to display on the giant screen: CRITICAL HIT!

Or other such notes, like "A dispenser was built by " in ''Team Fortress 2''... and, seeing this right after ''Iron Man'' came out, one player had cleverly named himself "Tony Stark, in a cave!"

In the group this troper used to play Unreal Tournament with, one person would choose the name "Jesus." Being one of the better players, eventually it would pop up on screen: "Jesus is Godlike."

Even better is when someone else names their character oddly. A friend has a screenshot of "Jesus was killed by cancer," while another who is admittedly bad at FPS named himself "Bob?!" So, the game would mock you incredulously. "You were killed by Bob?!"

This troper prefers Anactov God (or, if feeling obvious, An act of God). " was killed by An act of God." "A factory was built by An act of God." "An act of God is Godlike" never comes up in the games he's used this name, though.

In some FPS games, I use "Default", since it is so much fun seeing "You were killed by default" when blowing someone else up.

This troper once played a Quake mod where the default kill message was "You eliminated ", and the friendly kill message was "You eliminated your teammate". I've seen players come to the obvious name.

That's nothing. I went to a private school which required laptops and had its own LAN. We all had a copy of Quake 2, and would play discreetly during some classes or downtime. One day, during a particularly boring "study" session, we were playing and noticed that our school's headmaster had joined our game. Cue mass disconnects and one guy trying very, VERY hard not to laugh out loud.

This troper changed their Steam Name to 'Some Guy, with his own bare hands' for Left 4 Dead 2, so when he was attacked by a hunter, a message said "Hunter incapped Some Guy, with his own bare hands"

This Troper saw someone named "his only friend" on Left 4 Dead 1 Versus mode, so when someone killed him, it showed up as "Francis killed his only friend."

This troper played Medal of Honor: Breakthrough, named "Dead Air". This, of course led to: " was perforated by dead air", "dead air pumped full of buckshot", and my personal favorites: " sniped a high-caliber hole in dead air" and "dead air was vaporized by 's rocket launcher"

First Person Tank warfare game BZFlag, For a while This Troper's name was A Bullet. Normal Kills: You got shot by A Bullet.

This is not limited to video games. This troper's high school gym teachers let us name our teams. Bad idea. Rather than the traditional animal mascots, he ended up with teams like The Osbournes, Diggity Yo-Yo, and Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It got to the point where the games would be announced as "Godzilla vs. Canada" or "Giraffro's vs. Team 5". But the worst was the time the six teams were "Us", "Them", "The Team", "The Other Team", "A Bunch of Losers", and "The Best Team Ever." (For the record, "A Bunch of Losers" ended up winning the tournament.)

This carries over into college. This troper's intramural dodgeball team always loses, so we named the team "Off in the Woods." Listening to the other teams gloating about how they "beat off in the woods" makes the losses worthwhile.

This troper's middle school class of 2008 was allowed to do the same deal - and, sure enough, we ended up with names like "Power Rangers", "Spidermaners", "Kindergarteners", "Geezers", "Cheerios", and "The Team" (yes, again).

This troper's college friends do this as a RunningGag. One event scoreboard listed "This Team", "That Team", "The Other Team" and "The Team Formerly Known As Them".

This troper's roommate's uncle named their club hockey team "Bye" in a stroke of genius. As a result they won all their matches until the semifinals by forfeit.

This troper had gone to strings camps, and they were playing a game involving teams. They had to name the teams something musical, so we came up with The F-Holes. You know, those F-shaped holes on violins, violas, cellos, and basses? HilarityEnsues.

My friends and I decided we spent too much time indoors playing video games and so we decided to form our own soccer team to participate in University soccer games. We went to the sport and recreation director's office and he asked us what our team name was, having not thought about it one of us just said 'Missing WoW Raid' and that became our team name for the rest of the semester. Next semester we changed it to 'Freitag and the Mediocres' (Freitag being the person on attack... or whatever you call the person who scores the goals) and the semester after that we were called 'Aim For Fatty' (We had a rather rotund man as our goalie).

One clever high school volleyball team managed to name themselves "Our Balls, Your Chin".

One semester, an intramural volleyball team at this troper's high school named themselves "Vs," so you'd get an announcement of, for example, "Pig Valves Vs. Vs." The next semester, they were joined by "Vs. Vs." and "Vs. Vs. Vs." Figuring out who was playing became a minor math problem.

This troper's college intramural team named itself "By(e):can't remember the spelling" so that was what popped up on the bracket. The idea was for other teams to think they had advanced freely and skipped a round, and lose to us by default. All that ended up happening was that the coordinator got angry at us. Another time we used the name "Ladies? (a guy's cell#)"

''AnimalCrossing'' was always great fun for this, as you can name both your character as well as your town's name. Try entering "My Pants" for great amusement! "Now preparing My Pants for your arrival!" It got around the limitations of voice acting by using a ''very'' crude speech synthesizer called Animalese to represent speech.

Not only that, but you can change what the villagers nickname you. This troper managed to make everyone call her "Fry".

From time to time, you can also change the villagers' catchphrases and, in the two sequels, how they greet people for added fun. People running around quoting Giygas and yelling ETREEEEEM... good times.

This troper likes to change everyone's catchphrases to "in bed". It works just as well with the dialogue as it does with fortune cookies! "Why don't you come over to my place so we can hang out... IN BED?"

This troper has never been able to stop herself, and always ends up changing her villagers' catchphrases to "kupo!"

"AAAAHHHHH!!!" (or something like that) is always a fun one. Nothing like making everyone in your town look crazy!

Okay, if I ever start playing that game again, I'm ''so'' changing everyone's catchphrase to "dood".

What, no one else made theirs all call them by titles like "my queen" or "O Great One?"

I'm going to have to go with "it hurts."

Or you could have every become BadAss or something and have every sentence be "ThisIsASentenceBitch."

Later games feature the ability to give your animal friends 'greetings' that are substantially longer than the ordinary catchphrases. Lots of messages can be twisted a certain way. For example, giving a same sex character a greeting of 'Let's make out!' is funny on it's own. It's even funnier when the next phrase is 'I need to practice lots on you so I get it right' or 'Let the great experiment begin!'

When he was playing the original game, this troper chose the nicest, sweetest person in his town, and decided to change her catchphrase to "{{ILLKILLYOU}}". HilarityEnsues.

This troper and his accomplices discovered that ''My Horse And Me 2'' becomes a very different game if you name your horse "my dick". All of a sudden, the main character becomes a nymphomanic hermaphrodite whose male love interest can't get enough of her, and the game constantly advises the player on keeping his genitalia clean and well groomed.

This troper once named a {{Halo}} 2 character "the Guardians" just so the game would tell people "You were killed by the Guardians." Natural disasters also work-- "You were killed by a tsunami" or "You were killed by lightning" or some such is always funny. For bonus points, add jokes like "You were killed by being [insert insult here]."

One of my sister's and brother-in-law's friends named his {{Halo}} character "teh herpes", leading to results like "____ was killed by teh herpes."

This troper has friends who named characters in Halo 2 "your mom" or "your dad." Resulting in exchanges such as "You killed you mom" "Your mom assassinated your dad" "Your dad stuck you." And, same as the OP, we had "The Guardians," which gave us "The Guardians killed your mom."

This troper's group of friends regularly give themselves ridiculous names during LAN parties. She herself ended up being Zellers (or, alternatively, OM NOM NOM), while her best friend is "a terrorist". Other gems include "[=ItchyTesties=]", "FALCON PUNCH", "himself", "a vehicle", "nothing", and "everyone"(especially fun when they commit suicide!)

This Troper has a habit of naming the rivals in Pokémon games things like "Jerk" and "Jackass", or just naming them after big bads or annoying characters from other series. She also always plays Zelda games as "[=AAAAAAAp=]"(using as many uppercase As as are needed to use up the entire character limit), after she ended up beating Ocarina of Time for the first time on a save file created by someone who was forced to try the game against his will and didn't care to make up a proper name.

This troper thinks the next time he does the normal path of SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters he should name Revya "Kid" because that is what Gig calls her most of the time.

This troper admits to naming a group on GuitarHero World Tour Sweaty Testicles, just to get magazine headlines like "Sweaty Testicles: Billy Corgan Thinks They're Out Of This World", or "Sweaty Testicles: They Dropped The Ball... In A Good Way" (er, in context that would be the cover you get when you play Times Square).

This Troper named the DevilSurvivor hero Simon "Digger" Starlo(ck), it worked suprisingly well thanks to the ScrewDestiny bits and "Digger" being resonable.

Mine was Uriel "Yuri" Orannis, because why the hell not? Since I got Naoya's route on the first playthrough, after that he became Laharl Kric(h)ev(skoy).

If this troper ever manages to get another copy of ''BaldursGate 2'', he will be going for the name "you idiot". (Either that or "Lord Vader".)

He's also tempted by the idea of a ''KnightsOfTheOldRepublic'' character known as Shithead Here.

Of course, you can't forget the classic name for Knights of the Old Republic (don't look if you value your unspoileredness): Revan. #QUOTE#'''Unfortunately Named PC''': I'm not Revan any more, I'm Revan. #QUOTE#'''Random NPC''': By the force, I can't believe Revan was actually Revan all along!

This troper renamed all of the Dumb-bots on her Conker: Live and Reloaded profile, and now enjoys messsages like "Travis Touchdown *saber'd* Alucard."

During a session of ''Soldat'', at a LAN party, one of this troper's friends had the smartassyness to use "your mom" as a nickname. This troper, in response, changed his to "yourself," to confuse his friends every time they killed him: "You killed yourself." "Killed by yourself."

This troper's furthest progress in the Amiga game Wings (many many years ago) happened to be cursed with the unfortunate name Nappy.

In ''Alpha Centuri'', I gave Brother Lal of the U.N forces the appropriate title of "Bitchmaster". And in a fitting turn of events, got nearly annihilated by everyone else, causing me to restart the game. But concerning the demo of "My Horse" or something like that for the PSP, I named the horse "Radical Movement", far cooler than anything else in the demo.

During one playthrough of ''{{Mother}} 3'', I named Lucas "Damn it", Claus "Damn", Flint "Asshole", Hinawa "Bitch", and Boney "Sumbitch" just to make everyone sound perpetually pissed off at each other.

''[=~Yohoho! Puzzle Pirates~=]'' allows custom-named ships, and ship names are used in several places. For example, successfully chasing down a ship to initiate a PvP match yields the message, "You have intercepted the !" This troper is the proud owner of 'the Wrong Ship'.

In World of WarCraft people are able to name their characters, guilds and Arena teams. Some hilarious ones include guild names like , , and . There are also a variety of Arena names which can exist as comments about balance in PvP such as the name "NICE TIMING ON THAT MACE STUN, BRO" which appeals to the fact that mace stuns are chance on hit stuns and require no skill. Or a personal favourite of mine "Not Enough Rage!" which was a 5v5 team made up of nothing but warriors.

Speaking of Arenas, Hunters sometimes name their pets after themselves or their arena partners so that when opposing players use /target macros it targets the hunters pet instead of the player.

This troper's brother once thought it would be hilarious to name our arena team (we're ''bad'' at PvP) Mostly Harmless. ''It was taken''.

Wanna get invited to guilds ALL THE TIME? Do what this troper did: join or create a guild named <>

On this Troper's first time playing FinalFantasyVII, he accidentally deleted the u in Cloud, playing through the game as 'Clod'. The funny thing is, when I was younger, I thought 'Clod' was how you spelled 'Claude'. So I went through the game thinking I'd given my character a ''suave'' name. There was also one time playing FinalFantasyIx that I named Freya 'Rat Chick', prompting someone to describe her as 'that rat chick Rat Chick'.

Most Worms games allow you to name your team and teamates. I named an enemy worm on a CPU team "lol that n00b", for gems such as "lol that n00b couldn't swim" when they drown.

With most [=RPG=]s and other games where you name your characters, this troper would normally go for the default or "official" name as he's a bit of a purist when it comes to canon even if adding in your own name is more fun or immersive. He's never, ever nicknamed any of his Pokémon and his biggest grievance with FinalFantasyI was that the characters had no default names (and there was no "official" party setup, for that matter). And with Morrowind and Oblivion, where there are no default names, he used various Tamriel name generators to come up with "close-to-canon" names...

This Troper can one-up you. He named his (no default name) protagonist in Dragon Quest IV "Hero."

Big whoop. This Troper named ALL his Dragon Quest heroes "Hero". Except for when they had official names. Which is okay, since you aren't the "real hero" in some of those.

This troper mostly uses her real name, Jen, as the name of all of her save files, a habit that developed because her brother and her dad often played the same games. So she ended up accidentally naming Link in OoT "Jen", and was annoyed throughout the whole game that her character had a girl's name. In QuestForGlory games, she usually picks random names for the hero, and since his name is rarely mentioned, she will usually forget what name she picked, so it's pretty hilarious when it ''is'' brought up. #QUOTE#"My, Crazy Bastard, you're looking heroic today!"

This Troper named ''his'' Quest for Glory character... The {{Word of God}} name.

From the opening scene of Final Fantasy IX... #QUOTE#"Hey? Who's there?" #QUOTE#"Bite me!" (He should say "Zidane!")

He says "It's me, (name)!" so that doesn't really work.

But it works when you name him something like "Dummy" or "Stupid. "It's me, moron!"

And from ''FinalFantasyIX''...Zidane was named, "Stupid" so he would say, "It's me, stupid!". Quina was named "Robot", Vivi was named "idiot", and everyone else was named stuff like "Moronic", "An idiot" etc. During Oelivert, the characters would say, "I am an idiot!", "I'm stupid!", "I am bogus!" while Quina said, "I Robot". Then during the end, when Puck sees all of Vivi's children, he says, "WHOA! Look at all the idiots!"

Anyone ever have fun with switching names around? It's fun to name Zidane "Steiner" so ''Steiner'' is hitting on Dagger all the time (And ''Amarant'' has that arc with Beatrix.) It's also funny when Dagger says "This is all Steiner's fault". Uhm...he's ''RIGHT IN FRONT OF YOU''!

This troper has also done funny things in Final Fantasy IV. No, not giving everyone names like "Cock" and "peepee". I switched everybody's names. I switched Palam and Porom's names, made Yang the hero, had him fall in love with Rydia, Rosa betrayed everyone a zillion times, Kain jumped off the airship, Edward was the ninja, Edge was the worthless Spoony bard, Cecil sacrificed himself to cast Meteor....

Now let's have some fun with ''ShadowHearts''. I had some fun once when I named Yuri "Mud" (So he would say "My name is Mud!") But then I decided to have some fun with some other stuff. In the beginning, Roger Bacon at least who you THINK is Roger Bacon calls Alice "Sister". So we named her "Eggs", then everyone else? Yuri = Deviled, Zhuzhen = Boiled, Margarete = Scrambled, Keith = Benedict, Halley = Poached.

SIM CITY 2000!!!! I had too much fun with the signs. So I would put signs up that read stuff like '''''MOVE IT YOU IDIOTS!''''' because the roads were too crowded, "Stupidville" for a ghetto...

Mayor Peach of Another Castle, anyone?

The other day when discussing ''MassEffect'', a friend mention naming the unfortunate human Spectre Agent as "German" Shepard.

Well, mine must have had an an Agent for a father, since his name is Mr. Shepard.

I took the logical route by naming my Shepard, "Commander". Suddenly, everything makes a lot more sense, and she's on first-name terms with everybody on the ship. Although, on second thought, I should have named her Komand'r instead...

In ''MySims Agents'', like at least two of the other games in the series, you get to name your Sim, using up to 12 characters (including spaces) in the names. you save the world from Morcubus, you can talk to Chef Watanabe, who's naming a roll after you. Therefore, when I recently started a new file, I named my Sim Do A Barrel.

{{Pandemic}} lets you name your disease. It's ridiculously funny to watch the world die to The Gay or Happiness or something equally silly.

90% of the world is infected with pedophilia

99.6% of the world's population has died from "love." : Curse you, Madagascar...

Love wipes out the world. By the way, the last to go was China.

I for one named it Swine Flu, on the off chance I could one day show my friends how I think Swine Flu will one day kill us all (this was during the initial panic). "You see, Swine Flu will start by becoming airborne and being spread by rats and water reservoirs, and then spread to Greenland..."

90% of the world's population has died of dysentery.

I once named the disease, "Tea Partyism". Surprisingly, it started in the U.S. (I then made it cause Dementia)

I also once wiped out the world with "Death by Chocolate".

This of course can extend past video games. This Troper's' English class recently had a game day, where we could make our own teams for the Scrabble board game. This of course led to some hilarious match-ups among the class. His favorite ones? Power Rangers vs The Theocracy and X-Men vs Godzilla.

That's nothing. This troper once had a study game in his History class, and we got to name the teams. It was JusticeLeague vs ThePowerpuffGirls, and he was on the latter.

This troper has also indulged in the above during math class, which produced the gems Disco Leg Warmers and "Cheese to the power of 3", which made us Cheese Cubed.

This troper once did this accidentally: In history class when asked for a team name I said "We're still deciding", and the teacher took it literally.

In Spore, you can name your species Grox. This leads to confusion in one dialogue, as your character frantically screams "We are not Grox!"

Many Xbox Live gamertags are something like "A trained weasel", leading to "A trained weasel killed xgamergodx11".

This Troper's enemies are killed by a lack of fiber.

In Super Paper Mario, a Pixl asks you for a catchy slogan you enjoy saying which he will yell after you tell him. Strangely, it only gives you eight characters for the slogan. There are eight characters in "Fuck you." I pretty much died laughing seeing the Pixl yell "FUCK YOU!" in a harmless children's game.

Once, while playing a game of {{Worms}}, this troper decided to name his team "The Greek Gods" and name each worm after one of them. His friends caught on, and "THE DEATHMATCH OF THE GODS" took place. (The Egyptian Gods won, if anyone was wondering. Curse you sheep.)

FinalFantasyIX: Naming Zidane "stupid" can be fun. #QUOTE#"Who's there?" #QUOTE#"It's me, stupid!" #QUOTE#"Hey, stupid! You sure are late!"

This troper named Steiner "Him", which cued this wondeful line during the second fight with him. #QUOTE# Garnet "Please Him, behind you!" #QUOTE# Zidane "He's gonna blow!"

In {{Star Ocean 2}} I named Claude 'Chihiro', Rena 'Kaorin', Precis 'Tomo' and Ashton 'Osaka'. All of these names are from {{Azumanga Daioh}}

Once, when I was young, I was an avid player of Gen I Pokémonp. I used to give my main character and rival interesting names, but the kicker came not from me, but from a friend of mine. I had lent him the game, and when I got it back, I died laughing when I noticed he had named the hero SUCKER and the rival EAT ME.

In Crono Trigger I had endless fun when I realized you can name Crono "Lavos" and Frog "Magus".

On {{Wizard101}} it makes you choose name parts off a list rather than make up something, but if you want to annoy ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' fans, one possible name combination is Edward Sparkle Pants.

There are ''way'' too many Luke Skywalkers on that game.

''Rollercoaster Tycoon 2'' lets you name not just your theme parks, but also individual rides and attractions, and these names you type in even appear ingame on the tiny electronic signs by the rides. When I was 14, and played this on my little brother's computer, I had fun twisting an innocent kids game by naming my theme park "Homo Land" and writing "XXX" on the signs for 3D Movie Theatres, and other stuff that only my adolescent self could have found funny.

This troper named her {{Neverwinter Nights 2}} character "Eleni" not knowing that there would later be a henchman named "Elanee" in the game. Adding to the confusion was the fact that Eleni was a half-elf ranger, and Elanee an elf druid. Elanee was dropped from the party as soon as a different henchman was available. (Never liked her anyway)

Fiddling with the multiplayer AI Bots' names in JediOutcast yielded this troper this gem.

My character in ShinMegamiTenseiStrangeJourney goes by the name of... ScottPilgrim. Now why does everyone think he's from America?

When playing Sims 3 this troper's friend thought it would be funny to name her toddlers "God" and "The World" so that the options like "Tickle God" and "Pic up The World" came up. God ended up surviving a fire and The World grew old and died.

I tend to stick with the default names if there are any, but I have a few stories of interesting names I've given characters.

On one Ga 2}} Final Fantasy Legend II playthrough, I named the main character Lynn, after my middle name that I was obsessed with at the time. It turns out that you meet another character named Lynn, which, needless to say, caused some confusion during cutscenes. Though it sort of adds to the plot, in a way: your father was staying with Lynn and her mother because she had the same name as his daughter?

When I first played {{Persona 3}}, I named the MC Shou Kojima; in retrospect I should have made him a bit of a troll for the lulz, but alas... Then when I started {{Persona 4}}, I named the main character Gin Yamaoka (amusement ensued when I found out there's actually a Yamaoka in the first Persona game). When I get Persona 3 Portable I'll continue the hair color + surname of a video game composer with and [[color:blue:Aoi, though I haven't thought of their last names yet.

During his playthrough of Suikoden Teirkres This Troper named his company "Butfocker" (the game doesn't allow obcenities, unless you spell them differently) and my Castle Butsecks, so it would look like some characters were really interested in a castle of Butt sex and a Butt fucker company.

Semi-related funtimes: Copy any given chapter of a bad HighSchoolAU Fic (though you may consider 'bad High School AU' to be a tautology) into Microsoft Word, and Control-F Replace words. For example, I replaced the word 'school' with 'Sparta', which made for lols when a character said the phrase 'in hell'.

The part of me that is forever stuck at twelve years old decided it would be the funniest thing ever to catch a Jynx, name it Your mom, and teach it Attract. As in, "Your mom used Attract! But it failed!"

EarthBound gives significant room for "fun" with this trope by allowing you to name your favorite food (and primary spell, aka "favorite thing"). Go home and talk to mom, "Oh Ness, you look tired. Eat some pussy and scoot up to bed!"

"PSI Murder", "Eat some Bleach and scoot up to bed", "Eat some humans and scoot up to bed."

An accidental one: In Link's Awakening I accidentally named Link "Iink" (that's a capital i, not a lowercase L) and ended up getting half way through the game before my cousin brought it up. Then, in Wind Waker, I ended up naming him "Llnk" (that time it WAS a lower case L. Try to pronounce that as an actual word) on accident, but caught it when you first meet the boat and, due to a problem with the memory card that erased all the data:I bought the memory card the same day as Wind Waker since I ran out of space on my other ones, so I only had WW on it, I was able to change the name to Link.

Vegas Stakes, one of the most obscure SNES games (but also made by HAL Labotory, who would go on to make SuperSmashBros, go figure), had this feature once you reached your $10 million goal. You're asked what you plan to do with the money. This troper put in "pay a lot of hookers."

Ever wondered how fun it would be if you gave the main character the same name as a villain? This troper has. One day she'd like to try doing a playthrough of ''{{Persona 4}}'' with the main character named Adachi. :(She got the idea from someone playing through ''Morrowind'' with a character named [[BigBad Dagoth Ur. The resulting dialogue had such gems as, "You're Dagoth Ur, the notorious outlaw!")]]

I get so used to the names I give my FF characters that when I read a game manual I have to figure out who was originally called what.

This troper now usually goes with canon names, or what is is considered canon names, however s/he sometimes changes it to sound better or related to a remake. She has decided to name Aeris "Aerith", calls the ANWL protagonist "Jill" rather than "Pony", and named Aera "Aeris".

In ''{{Civilization}} Revolution'' (and probably other entries, as well), you can name any city you settle other than the capital, as well as regions deemed especially great by the game. The game gives you the option of picking one of three randomly-chosen names, depending on which Civilization you chose (being the Americans might give you the option of naming a city St. Louis, Buffalo, or Seattle, for example)... or making your own. This troper often gives them the names of anime and manga characters, ''especially'' if he's playing as the Japanese. He may also give a city a name similar to one offered; if he sees "Kabul" in the list, he may say ''Fabul'' instead.

Additionally, when you build a road from one city to another, the road is called the "Via ''(name of source city)''". It would therefore be no surprise to find that at least one troper has named a city "gra" because of this.

It was also funny to name Darth Revan in KOTOR "Revan". "You're not Revan...you're DARTH Revan!"

I actually had some fun naming my characters in ''GuildWars'' after Carmen Sandiego villains. So I had Ella Vator, Stu Pidname, Cal I Fornia, Jane Reaction, Robyn Steele, Gill Tee, Cy Berpunk, Jess U Wait. Then I came up with my own... "Po Ching", "Emma Gration", "Lars Enny", "Drake Onian", "Ollie Terfood", "Paul Ished", "Pina Colada", "Ray Ting", as well as some other ones like "Sofa King", "Owa Tana Siam", "Les B Anne", "Mike Rotch", and "Hugh Jass".

This troper had fun keeping with the meaningful names in ''DragonQuestIV''. There is only one bird constalation left in the sky and it's known better as a harp. Yep, Lyra is my default female name with Cyguns being the SpearCounterpart. Both are of the summer bird triangle with...Aquilla.

Also done in TheLegendOfZelda. While she concours that Link is the normal name, she names a side slot a different name and hand waves these names as either embarassing or they prefer their "nickname". Handy for keeping her timeline theory in mind. So far, we have Matt for ''A Link to the Past'' and ''Link's Awakening'' (in honor of her brother who played the [=ALttP=] first) Kasuto for ''Ocarnia of Time'' and ''Majora's Mask'', Hector for ''Wind Waker'', ''Phantom Hourglass'' and ''Spirit Tracks'', John for ''Minish Cap'', Bean for ''Twilight Princess'' *snicker* and plans for Roc in ''Skyward Sword''.

I just started playing KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep. When I found out that you can rename your finishing moves in the game, my immature mind immediately started to change them to things like "Kick ass!", "Fuck shit up!", and "Mo money!" (for a move that gives you more munny).

This Troper did the exact same thing. 'Kick ass,' 'Terra SMASH' and, in a fit of fury during my 200th replay of the fight against Xehanort, 'DIE YOU BITCH!!' I'm so easily amused ¬.¬

This Troper's friend joined a guild in GuildWars, which insisted that all the characters be named "something Vaerish". The friend promtly created Vaerish Vaerish. He's also reposible for a purple-clad male assasin named Juarez Go Go.

After hearing that [=NPCs=] mostly just call you "the Grey Warden" or "Warden", I named my character in DragonAge "Warden". Similarly, I'm fond of calling characters "stupid".

Note to self: Get that game, play as a MagicKnight named "Morgan."

This troper played Ocarina of Time again yesterday... you really get a kick out of calling Link "DICKSPONGE".

This troper makes a point that, in any Pokemon game, my main team members must have names, and, in some cases, Pokemon I just really like. Some of my favorites include Quackers the Golduck, Pyrios the Rapidash, Aureo (pronounced like oreo) the Lucario, and Neptune the Starmie. I also remember way back, in Gold, I had this odd habit of naming the Pokemon a random, different Pokemon, however, off-hand, I can only remember one - Slowpoke the Onix - and I have no idea why I remember him, as I never used him. I don't try to be funny with the names - I can't stand seeing silly names like that (Quackers and Aureo are the only exceptions). I can't even stand playing as a character with a name other than my own.

This Troper started up a game of ''Monster Rancher Advance'', and named her main character with this in mind. "Hello, I'm gay. I've heard about you from the AGIMA Chairman." "Thank you for coming, I'm gay."

In just about every game I play, if I can choose the main character's name, I use my real life name. Why? Well, it's funny when in galaxies far, far away and where medieval guys fight off demonic invaders, the strongest guy in the world is named Edward.

So, when this troper bought "Rune Factory 3", she looked at the very gender-ambiguous main character on the cover and thought "Hmm, is that a boy or a girl?". So, when the time came to submit a name, she put "Sarah" (not this troper's real name, but you get the idea). The next line by an NPC: "Sarah! What a fine, manly name!"

Name your character Jesus, and then get him those boots that allow you to walk on water. HilarityEnsues.

The same thing happened to this troper in her first playthrough of FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance.

During a playthrough of ''FinalFantasyVII'', this troper named every character "Sephiroth." Let's just say that the dialogue was a tad hard to follow.

This troper (Ronfar) found a way to use this to create a ''tactical'' advantage in Halo. He advised his brother to create several Halo profiles that had names that looked very similar: "lilmonster", "1ilmonster", "li1monster", and "1i1monster". That way, when he and his friends played in a 4v4 online match, the opposing team wouldn't be able to tell them apart.

This troper decided to be sacreligious and rename Dorothy, Strawman, Tinman, and Lion after the staff members of the Backloggery during her SelfImposedChallenge of The Wizard of Oz: Beyond the Yellow Brick Road. (It was an Initial Equipment Only challenge if anyone was wondering.)

This Troper's friend named her ipod "The Ship" purely for the pleasure of the phrase "The Ship is synching"

This troper, on 2nd playthroughs of {{RPG}}s, names characters exclamations, like Hey! You! What? No! etc. Which, in FFVI, made for dialogues like "My name is ... What?!" and "You sent you, didn't he?"

This troper remembers one SuperNintendo game where your character and his dog would explore four different worlds. In the first world, you would encounter a girl who asks you for the name of your dog. This troper had chosen "wolf". But whatever you choose, the girl will state then: "Oh, ! That was the name of my grandmother!" Now "wolf" was relatively harmless, and this troper did not decide to abuse this feature, but he couldn't help but think what would happen if you decided to call your dog "arsehole" or something like that.

You're thinking about ''The Secret of Evermore'', ________.

When this troper played EarthBound for the first time, he cluelessly named Ness after his given English name, Paula ''D.W.'', Jeff ''Alan'', Poo ''Tommy'', and the dog ''Ruff'', as the game presented an actually empty input box instead of presenting a pre-filled name box like other {{RPG}}s he has played in the past. When the game prompted hum for his real name, tho, he gave his Chinese given name instead. All these were probably HarsherInHindsight in execution, cue Pokey's insults becoming very, very personal to him and the beginning of his rambling insanity to ''kill Pokey''. And that's not counting the atrocities he did in ''Pokemon Red'' when he played it for the first time. Rival = name of a bully at school. Yourname = real name. And his pokemons all received random names, like James the Raichu, Ee Von the Eevee, and much, much more.

This Troper, in her Twilight Princess game, called Link "Linku." Doesn't seem like much until you start reading the text of the spirits. "YOU ARE THE HERO, LINKOO." "ONLY YOU CAN SAVE THE WORLD, LINKOO." Freaking hilarious.

This troper, while playing Yugioh Spirit Caller, had a glitch. A character said or should I say The Great

So in ''DragonQuestIX'', I named my heroine Sheena. I then noticed that you could make Androids 17 and 18, so I had Android #17 be the healer and Android #18 be the tank. The fourth party member was a martial artist/gladiator named [=McKenzie=] who had green hair.

"Listen well. If you wish to see my master, you must first speak his true name." *Max then says "FUCKNUTS"*

There's also a part where you have to say "Let's go!" to recruit someone - so one time I said "YOU WENCH" to her.

"Razorfen Downs syndrome"

In TheElderScrolls 4: Oblivion (never played the other games, so I don't know if it works in them,) you can name not only your own character, but the spells that you can create and armor/jewelery/etc. that you can enchant if/when you get into the Arcane University. For This Troper and her friend, this has led to spells like ""The Abridged Series}} Brooklyn/Egyptian Rage" and "Gunna Hakka Shafe" (in-joke regarding how drinking alcohol in {{Bioshock}} didn't effect This Troper's ability to hack a safe,) and enchanted items such as fur greaves with a Chameleon enchantment being named "Camofurage," a black hood (''also'' with a Chameleon enchantment) being called "Nightshroud," and a Rusty Iron Dagger with a Paralysis enchantment named Tetanus. Note that This Troper is the same one who named her shiny, Eastern Woobat "Glint."

WildARMs (the first one) allows you to specify names for characters at the beginning, and freely rename spells. I took the pragmatic approach and renamed the spells after their FinalFantasy equivalents. My roommate, however, did not. He also had the tendency to call his attacks. This led to the interesting situation where, while my other roommate and I were studying for an exam, we heard "BITCH, go FUKEMUP!" shouted from the living room.

This troper played the 7 day free trial of {{RIFT}}. The name of her Necromancer's named skeleton minion? Marrowgar.

When playing the DSiWare game "Crystal Monsters", this troper named her character 'OOOOOOOOO' (or something like that). She named another save file 'Basterd'.

My sister had quite a lot of fun with Ocarina of Time. She never actually played much of the game, but she would go through the intro giving Link names like 'LOL', 'OMGITSJT', and 'Loser'.

In ''StarWarsBattlefront'' ''II'', I called myself "Someone". _______ killed someone. Someone died. Someone killed himself.