Awesome McCoolname/Playing With

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?"

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On the birth certificate is your Awesome McCoolname.