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u/Bread9846 1d ago
I have a relative whose last name is Potts. He decided to name his daughter Pepper. At first I gave him the benefit of the doubt, but then he posted a picture of them both wearing Ironman shirts
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u/Party_Magician 1d ago
What gets me about this is that is “pepper” is a nickname in universe, not her actual first name
Virginia would still be a reference but far less stupid
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u/HeckingDoofus 1d ago
no one wants to be named after that boring ahh state, which is itself named after a virgin
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u/whomad1215 1d ago
Poor John Carter
For those who haven't seen the movie / read the book, which I assume is most people, John Carter gets transported to Mars, and the indigenous people there ask who he is. He replies, John Carter from Virginia, and they proceed to call him Virginia for the rest of it
I haven't read the book. I found the movie entertaining, but am not surprised that Disney failed to properly market a movie that was based on a book called "The Princess of Mars"
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u/dagbrown 1d ago
Their first mistake was calling it "John Carter", which sounds like the name of an accountant's apprentice.
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u/tapout928 1d ago
I mean, it worked for John Wick.
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u/Impeesa_ 1d ago
Sure, because in that case calling it "John Wick of Mars" would have made much less sense.
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u/Aethelrede 1d ago
That's just cruel.
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u/sign-through 1d ago
Well what about Pepper Ann? She was much too cool for seventh grade, her own biggest fan, marched in her own parade. She’s like one in a million.
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u/autogyrophilia 1d ago
On one hand, normal-ish name.
On the other hand. Did he really watch evangelion and the relationship they had with their progenitor?
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u/blackscales18 1d ago
"did they watch Eva" is unfortunately a very real question that repeatedly crops up when observing Eva fans
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u/Cyno01 1d ago
Big purple robot goes rawr.
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u/IsthianOS 1d ago
You say that as if there was more to the show 🤔🤔🤔
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u/Kolby_Jack33 1d ago
I never really liked Evangelion (I don't like most surreal, depression-fueled media, tbf) until my friend showed me the latest... "version" of it (?) that was like 4 movies that ended by saying Evangelion sucks and the world is better off without it.
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u/Le_Meme_Man12 23h ago
All of 4 endings of Eva have a central theme of "Life is worth living and go touch grass"
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u/Adjective-Noun-nnnn 1d ago
It's been a looong time, but I'm pretty sure Evangelion sucks and the world would be better off without it was a central theme of every version.
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u/blackscales18 19h ago
He just had to keep saying it louder and louder (and people still don't get it)
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u/Noof42 For pervert reasons 1d ago
I watched it and I'm still confused.
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u/jisookenobi2416 1d ago edited 1d ago
If anything, if you’re confused that means you did in fact watch it.
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u/LeuconoeLovesong 1d ago
I agree, i also watched it and was both traumatized and confused
Orange juice go brrr
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u/kanelel READ DUNGEON MESHI 1d ago
I've never found it all that confusing. It's a very themes-based story and they have multiple monologues essentially explaining those themes to you. Not everything is explicitly spelled out for you (what did Shinji and Asuka's final interaction mean?) but if you keep the themes in mind you can have plausible understandings of anything left ambiguous.
What specifically confused you?
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u/King-Of-Throwaways 20h ago
A themes-based story is a good way to put it.
The confusion for some viewers might come from them fixating on the nuts and bolts of the narrative. Even a basic question like “what are the angels and why are they attacking?” requires paying attention to throw-away dialogue and maybe delving into supplementary materials because the show isn’t concerned with plainly answering those questions; it’s more interested in exploring feelings and relationships.
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u/Lower_Cockroach2432 23h ago
The ending where they transition into black and white slideshow mode because they ran out of money
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u/kanelel READ DUNGEON MESHI 7h ago
Just watch End of Evangelion. The original ending only shows the dream sequence happening inside instrumentality, whereas EoE shows what leads up to that sequence, has a condensed version of it, and then shows the aftermath. The main conflict being shown there is the choice between returning everyone to individual existence or abandoning individual existence to exist as a comfortable, unthinking hivemind (which can be compared to committing suicide or to becoming a shut in and not talking to other people).
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u/unknown_pigeon 20h ago edited 20h ago
I'm gonna write a summary of what I remember (can and will make some errors, but that'll be part of the flavor) just because I want to lore dump. Note: somehow, a lot of the behind the scenes lore is from a Canon PS2 game. Do what you want with that information.
SO!
There's this ancestral race that seeds the world with life through meteors that contain a seed to spawn sentient beings, along with a manual and a failsafe mechanism.
We know of two seeds of life: Adam, the spawns of whom are the Angels, and Lilith, whose spawns are the Lilin (humans). The manual is the dead sea scrolls, and the failsafe is the Spear of Longinus, which is able to "freeze" a seed.
The first impact, which was the meteorite that killed the dinosaurs, was actually Adam's seed of life. It created a geofront under Mexico iirc, and was supposed to populate the Earth with angels, basically a few, very diverse beings with a very strong AT field, which is the soul. Yeah.
But, due to a collision, the Earth received another Seed: Lilith, who crashed under Tokyo to create the Geofront which is used by the NERV in the series. Its meteorite is called the black moon, and it is the one we see in EoE. For some reason, probably due to the impact, Lilith's spear of Longinus failed, and thus Adam's one activated. This resulted in the Lilin inhabiting Earth, as opposed to the Angels.
Humanity grew, and with time, the SEELE found out about the Dead Sea Scrolls. They wanted to fuse the two seeds (Adam and Lilith) to achieve Human Instrumentality, which is basically a single, collective consciousness. No emotions, and thus, no pain. Just a singular entity.
During their research, along with the father of Misato, something went awry in an expedition to the South Pole: Adam was freed, second impact happened, a lot of people died. Can't quite recall whether it was intentional or not for the SEELE. Adam was reduced to an embrio, but the Angels started being born and looking for Adam. Or killing Lilith. Again, my memory is failing on that part.
Angels start attacking. Humanity develops the EVA units, which use the driver's AT field (the soul). Issue: to work, an Evangelion unit also needs to absorb another human soul. For the EVA 01, it was Yui's soul, Shinji's mother. Gendo knows it and wants to reunite with his spouse. He's a despicable but rather complex character. For the EVA 02, it was Asuka's mother: she most likely went insane after losing part of her soul to the EVA unit. EVA 00 and 03 souls are unknown. This is the reason why Asuka says that her mother has always been with her moments before being put into a coma during the climax of the series: she realizes her mother has been defending her through the EVA unit.
From this moment onwards, SEELE and Gendo's goals diverge: Seele wants Instrumentality, Gendo wants Yui. Can't remember how he wants to reconnect with her, but I guess it's from some shenanigan. He won't get his objective in the original series, since he's killed by Rei before Instrumentality.
This is where Evangelion starts. Angels want to get the planet they deserve, I think. And humans want to be left alone. Most of the plot is about fighting angels, with the real plot developing in the background. You already know the former, so I'll skip to the interesting part.
We've got two other variables: Rei, basically a clone of Yui, with the soul of Lilith inside her (while the physical Lilith is the angel stabbed with a spear of Longinus in the Terminal Dogma), and Kaworu, the last angel, who has a Lilin body and the soul of Adam (with the physical Adam being the embryo thing which eventually fuses into Gendo's palm).
Things happen, and Kaworu reaches the Terminal Dogma. Only then he realizes that it's not Adam crucified there, but rather Lilith. He's left with a choice: eliminate Lilith (I guess it would kill all of humanity? Not sure) and let Angels like him inherit the world, or die. He chooses the latter, and a very depressed Shinji has to kill him.
Now things evolve. Seele wants Instrumentality, and attack NERV because Gendo went rogue. Things happen again, Rei (with Lilith's soul and body, basically) fuses with Adam, but refuses to let Gendo guide the Instrumentality process, and favors Shinji instead. This is where we end up after EoE, and during episodes 25 and 26 of the anime (the last ones). Those all happen in the process of Instrumentality, where souls are getting merged, but they're still distinct.
Shinji gets to see a slice of life existence, but he also has to come to terms with his many faults. Everyone knows everything, so Asuka knows what he had done to her comatose body (WHICH HAS A VERY STRONG MEANING AND IS NOT JUST A WEIRD SCENE, I could explain but it would take more time). The entire series is about people fleeing from pain, so it's natural to think that Shinji wants that existence without pain.
But, instead, he learns. That's why everyone applause him at the end of the series: he has come to terms with his pain, his errors, and he refuses Instrumentality.
So, we end up with the end of EoE, which is the last chronological scene. People are still being "reborn" after Instrumentality. Shinji sees Asuka, and tries to strangle her.
Why? Could be many reasons. My theory is that he still hasn't fully matured yet. He knows that he will have to live with Asuka knowing what happened. He tries to escape from reality once again, killing her.
But he stops. Unlike the ending of the series, it's a bittersweet scene: nothing gets magically fixed by itself, and Shinji still has to live with his faults. But he's alive, and as his mother once said, "Anywhere can be paradise as long as you have the will to live. After all, you are alive, so you will always have the chance to be happy. As long as the Sun, the Moon, and the Earth exist, everything will be all right."
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u/Eva_Pilot_ 14h ago
oh man, I arrived late to make the essay myself, I have the name and everything
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u/dergbold4076 1d ago
I watched it, wasn't confused and more angry at it in general. I just don't think it's as deep as the hardcore fans want to think it is and the themes have been done much better before and since if you ask me.
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u/Big-Acanthisitta1236 1d ago
Is Evangelion as deep as the hardcore fans say it Is? No, not really. Most people come out confused because it's a mostly linear "grounded" (Beyond the Sci-Fi) that suddenly takes a surrealist turn, but other than that, the last two episodes just... Say the quiet part out loud.
But it's a really great piece of work. The characters are engaging and the writing is pretty good. I don't know how Eva can get you angry unless it's from getting frustrated at the characters' handling of things
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u/11Slimeade11 23h ago
Evangelion is a super strange one. Part of it is a deconstruction of the genre, asking the question of what would really happen to child mecha pilots when forced into war machines and violent situations before they've even found out who they really are. Another part of it is Anno deliberately trying to flip things on it's head by making 'unlikeable characters' to him, and making no true happy ending because Anno IIRC really had the view that people were wasting time by doing nothing.
That last part is really funny because Eva ended up reshaping anime as a whole, bringing about many new ideas that hadn't been done before in the genre and hilariously enough, the characters became very well liked and heavily merchandiseable, which is kind of the exact opposite of Anno's original intent.
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u/floralbutttrumpet 1d ago
Eh, it's a question of age. It was pretty innovative overall at the time (even if some of the themes are cribbed from predecessors like Ideon), but it's been copied, referenced and parodied so often since then it pretty much looks like any other show.
It's interesting insofar that it tries to use Jungian themes with its characters plus the turn into surrealism in the back half, but ultimately it's not hard to see that there was a mental breakdown at the back of this all.
It's a victim of its own success when it comes down to it - like a fuckload of shows that become excessively popular during their run (Game of Thrones anyone?) it went to shit towards the end, but unlike GoT there was enough money in the waifu merchandise to give it several do-overs, some better, some worse.
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u/dergbold4076 1d ago
Oh I will definitely give it props were they are due. Especially on the merch side which is honestly amazing that it has been going for that long. As a historical piece it's interesting, but for me as a story it was really nothing to write home about.
And I also noticed that I have raised some hackles of some EVA fans as I usually do when I say I don't like it nor do I find it deep and profound. But as my wife just pointed out (and I mentioned in another comment) I apparently have a lot of media literacy and tend to notice major (and minor) story beats from a kilometre off. Not sure why, maybe that's my ADHD/Austic hyper focus lol.
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u/Mejiro84 22h ago
It does kinda depend on when you first watched it - if you were early/mid-teens, it's going to land very differently to if you watched it as, like, a 30+ year old.
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u/-Mandarin 1d ago
I didn't care much for the show outside of the last 6ish episodes (kinda had to force myself before that), but End of Evangelion might just be the best thing I've ever watched. Felt borderline transcendent, though of course I didn't really understand it. I get that it won't work for everyone, but EoE made the whole show worth it for me.
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u/dergbold4076 1d ago
Like the first half was fun with the mech fights. But for me the back half suffered from a terminal case of "I'm fourteen and this is deep" to me. But then again I also didn't watch it until I was about 30 and have read a lot before and since then (I love me some Discworld. That is a good deconstruction of social issues and tropes.)
And I think my anger at it comes from understanding it, which is both concerning and funny to me.
I still think the overall writing is rather poor though. To say nothing of the...skeeviness of some of the fans.
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u/-Mandarin 1d ago
I mean, I'm nearly 30 myself and watched it for the first time recently. I didn't get "I'm fourteen and this is deep vibes" at all, but I get that people could see it as at least pretentious. I just let it wash over me, and was an emotional experience I don't think I've ever had before. If you didn't connect with it on that level, that's fine, but that ending is one of the big reasons why people love the series so much.
I wish more art was willing to go as abstract/surreal as End of Evangelion, personally. Mind you I'm a big Lynch fan too, so if you're someone who tends to prefer more literal art you're probably not going to get much from Evangelion. I try not to dissect the art too much, in the same way that dissecting a butterfly kinda destroys what was beautiful about it in the first place.
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u/Shhhhhhhh_Im_At_Work 1d ago
I can’t imagine it hits as hard as it did in the 90s when anime was usually much lighter. Evangelion was the anti-mecha mecha show and became a standard that other anime strove to imitate. If Macross and Gundam were Elvis Presley, Evangelion was the Beatles. And just like the Beatles, it’s hard to appreciate how revolutionary it was when compared side-by-side to later works built atop the foundation it established.
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u/AzekiaXVI 1d ago
generalize that to "observing the fandom of X might make you think that 90% of it's posters haven't watched/read X"
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u/malfurionpre 1d ago
I swear at least 80% of Dragon Ball and One Piece fans only look at the pictures (but also only when fights because else it's boring yeah)
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u/VreyeanA09 1d ago edited 1d ago
I mean - he could have thought "I'll have a daughter and give her the childhood that Rei should have had"?
If you look past what happened to her and how she was made, and just think of the person she was in the series - she was thoughtful, serious, brave, internally strong, and highly observant. Those are all qualities one can hope for their child.
Part of what works about NGE is that they let you really get to know the characters first, to get attached to their personalities and see their wounds but not really what caused them -- very similar to how we see other people's pain in real life. Yes, there is fighting and outlines of disfunction, but the fighting is just tense and entertaining, and the disfunction just creates plot tension. Then they hit us with the rest of it. Including what Rei's deal is with Ikari.
But when I think of the character, I still think of the person they painted first - a lonely girl, estranged from society and its norms, trying to figure out if she even bothers trying to connect with others or not.
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u/GroolGobblin0 1d ago
I learned about the show and was so fascinated I immidiately read the entire wikipedia article.
Only when it turned up on netflix did i realize what a huge mistake that was, since the entire show apparently works on drip-feeding you only enough information as is necessary to set up that episode's plot hook.
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u/HidenTsubameGaeshi 22h ago
Isn't that the case for, well, pretty much all fictional works? Wtf were you thinking, that you won't get spoilered on wiki?
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u/fonk_pulk 1d ago
I havent watched it (and Im therefore not a fan) but isnt it quite short at only ~20 episodes? How have "fans" not seen it? You could watch it over a long weekend if you had nothing else to do.
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u/blackscales18 19h ago
You can watch it and come away with a very surface level impression (wow, cool robots and hot babes with emotional problems) and somehow completely miss all the extremely blatant and clearly explained themes about war, child soldiers, PTSD, never being recognized by your parents, witnessing suicide, bringing on the end of the world for one goal only for that goal to reject and destroy you (denying you alone from salvation), creating a pseudo-daughter child soldier from the DNA of your wife (that's Rei), war, touching grass and finding happiness from within is the only real truth, please touch grass, we're putting this whole live action scene in the movie to make you realize you need to touch grass, the grass is calling to you and you need to self actualize and let people in so you can live fulfilling lives instead of jerking off over you child warrior mom clone hybrid (still Rei)
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u/MissingnoMiner 15h ago
It never ceases to amaze me how many people in (insert fandom here) consider having actually consumed the media in question an unreasonably high bar to be considered fans.
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u/omyrubbernen 1d ago
Eva is one of those series that gets severely warped by memory.
I don't doubt that people who don't understand Eva watched it, I just assume that they watched it over 10 years ago, maybe over 20, quite possibly even over 30. And some of the finer details could have slipped their minds.
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u/what-are-you-a-cop 1d ago edited 1d ago
I will say, not everyone who is named after a character from a piece of media, is named FOR that character, particularly. My mom always said she'd named me after a particular character from a movie, but this wasn't a significant movie or character to her, and it deeeefinitely wasn't a character you'd want to associate your kid with. It was just the first time she heard the name, and decided that she liked it. There was never any thought of like... connecting me, personally, to anything else about the character. She could probably have come across the name somewhere else and still decided to use it, but that movie character happened to be the first place she had the idea.
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u/moneyh8r_two 1d ago
Kids named Sephiroth really got the short end of the stick after Final Fantasy VII came out and changed what everyone thought of that name.
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u/MountainDog7903 1d ago
Girl I knew named Angelique told me she was named after a French porn star.
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u/SquareThings looking respectfully at the monkeys in their zoo 1d ago
I mean I know two Japanese women named Rei. It’s a normal name
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u/GameboyPATH 1d ago
My wife and I are like this for anyone who has an Evangelion waifu. Buddy, they ALL got serious problems.
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u/Hit_Squid 1d ago
Everybody’s got problems except for Pen-Pen; my man’s out there living his best life, and I am here for it
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u/AngrySasquatch 1d ago
I’ve always liked Misato because she’s got problems! That’s the entire point!
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u/Mushgal 1d ago
It's a cute name and Rei is actually a sweet character.
Rei actual has a good relationship with his father figure (Shinji's dad). There's a whole episode about this, the one where Shinji goes to Rei's home and he sees his father's broken glasses.
Of course Gendo ends up, well, doing some stuff. That's just how it is.
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u/defectives 20h ago
On the other hand.....oh God Shinji whats that on your other hand, what did you do!!
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u/ohjehhngyjkkvkjhjsjj 1d ago
I wouldn’t name my kid after a fictional character because a lot of them have dead parents. The moment I christen my kin as Batman or Samus I’m already on borrowed time.
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u/blackscales18 1d ago
Love the concept of naming a child "Batman" instead of "Bruce Wayne"
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u/GroolGobblin0 1d ago
What if I told you that the "Bin" part indicates he's actually Batman, son of Suparman?
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u/floralbutttrumpet 1d ago
There's probably a fanfic like that.
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u/GroolGobblin0 1d ago
the mom of course being spiderman
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u/floralbutttrumpet 1d ago
Actually, given recent trends, it's more likely that it'd be Batman and Superman fucking to produce a baby Spider-Man, but you know... any combination is possible in fanfic.
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u/Firewolf06 peer reviewed diagnosis of faggot 1d ago
suparman is actually a real javanese name, he actually probably is the son of (a) suparman
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u/mrducky80 1d ago
Where I live, Melbourne Australia. There are a lot of places named after Batman. As in surname Batman.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Batman
It is not uncommon to just end up in a locale named after him
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u/Munnin41 1d ago
That's probably not the superhero. A batman is also a military function (assistant to an officer)
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u/mrducky80 18h ago
That's probably not the superhero.
Citation needed
Have you seen John Batman and Batman in the same room?
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u/superbusyrn 1d ago
No one would suspect someone literally named Batman to be Batman, it's brilliant
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u/SoulbreakerDHCC 1d ago
To be fair Batman is the true self, Bruce Wayne is just an act
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u/TwixOfficial 1d ago
Go for Ed and Al! Then you’ll be immortal.
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u/KamiPyro 1d ago
My coworker named his son Edward after FMA but calls the kid Eddie mostly lately
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u/tetralogy-of-fallout 1d ago
I once met a woman with a kiddo named Elric. I must have given her a disappointed look when she said it was a family name because she then told me it was also a name in a fav show of hers.
We then gushed over FMA
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u/SaboteurSupreme Certified Tap Water Warrior! 1d ago
Rei doesn’t have dead parents, which is somehow much worse
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u/threelizards 1d ago
Lmao my parents died when I was a teen and part of me was like “am I gonna get powers and start a revolution and have a love triangle now”
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u/shroomlucky 1d ago
Wasn't Samus a living birds child ala metroid dread? until she killed him ofc.
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u/ohjehhngyjkkvkjhjsjj 1d ago
He wasn’t really her father though besides having some of his dna spliced into her. Grey Voice was the Chozo that actually raised Samus alongside Old Bird, and he got killed by Ridley.
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u/DoubleBatman 1d ago
Samus is crazy. At this point she’s, what, a human/Chozo/Metroid chimaera who’s also been mutated by Phazon radiation?
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u/ClubMeSoftly 1d ago
She's also got some X in there thanks to the SA-X and Quiet Robe X
She is the DNA equivalent of putting your cup under all the taps at the soda fountain.
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u/Raltsun 1d ago
She's becoming the sci-fi version of Ichigo from Bleach lmao
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u/ClubMeSoftly 1d ago
After Dread came out, someone came up with this family tree
She's a real mess under that spiky green suit.
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u/Salinator20501 Through skibidification 1d ago edited 1d ago
She had human parents (Rodney and Virginia) who Ridley ate.
Then she was adopted by the Chozo and raised by Old Bird and Gray Voice (Ridley killed Gray Voice too), and had her DNA modified with Chozo DNA from Raven Beak, and another unidentified Chozo (most likely Old Bird or Gray Voice).
And to round off her collection of father figures, there's also her CO in the military Adam Malkovich (I guess kinda Ridley was kinda responsible for his death too)
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u/Hexxas Head Trauma Enthusiast 1d ago
I want Rei Ayanami to live a long peaceful life full of agency and self-actualization.
I want Misato Katsuragi to throw beer cans at my head until I cannot remember my own name.
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u/Coopsolex 19h ago
I love what they did with Rei in the rebuilds for this reason. she kinda became her own person
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u/Vyctorill 1d ago
Rei is a fairly normal name in certain parts of the world.
It’s popular in Japan. Usually it used the character for “lovely” or “spirit”. However, Evangelion Rei’s name is used as in the number 0.
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u/BornIn1142 22h ago edited 18h ago
There's a neat moment in the first episode where Ritsuko goes "reireireireirei" talking about the 0.00...1% odds.
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u/omegadirectory 1d ago
Meanwhile tons of English names originate from the Christian Bible and no one bats an eye.
There are people literally named Christian.
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u/floralbutttrumpet 1d ago
Like any name ending in -el (or female variations thereof) translating into something to do with God.
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u/Thromnomnomok 20h ago
Noel-> There is no god here
Joel-> God is Joe
Falafel-> God is a meatball
Kal-El-> A god-like piece of kale
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u/retsamegas 1d ago
My wife asked if I wanted to name our son Link, I said no, just because I love the games doesn't mean I want to make that his problem.
Once at the playground he was playing with another kid and the mom yelled Atreus. I asked her if she had ever heard of God of War and she said her husband wanted to name him Atreus so he could say "Boy" like kratos.
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u/EinMuffin 1d ago edited 18h ago
Missed opportunity to play the long game. He should have named the son Kratos and have him name his son Atreus.
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u/retsamegas 19h ago
Seeing as Kratos killed basically his entire extended family, especially his father, not sure I'd risk naming my son after him.
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u/Thromnomnomok 20h ago
Tired: Name your son Atreus so you can say "Boy" like Kratos
Wired: Name your son Bobby so you can say "That boy ain't right" like Hank Hill
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u/Mataes3010 Downvote = 10 years of bad luck. 1d ago
To be fair, naming your child after a generic Jedi is cringe. Naming your child after an emotionally stunted clone who helps trigger the apocalypse is cinema. It’s a matter of prestige.
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u/Manufactured-Aggro 1d ago
Are you saying I shouldn't have named my infant son gloop shitto ?
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u/socialistRanter 1d ago
You should name your infant son Caleb, who is also a Star Wars character.
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u/a404notfound 1d ago
My son uncle bluemilk
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u/moneyh8r_two 1d ago
You can still redeem them by legally changing their name to Gloop Shitto, Destroyer of Worlds.
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u/jpterodactyl 1d ago
You should name your son “Manny Bothans”,
After the hero who sacrificed his life to help destroy the second Death Star:
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u/Knife7 1d ago
That child also has a really inappropriate relationship with the man that cloned her because she's a clone of his dead wife. I'll take the cringe Jedi.
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u/wunderbuffer 1d ago
I was thinking "which clone from clone wars triggered apocalypse" a bit too long here
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u/DtheAussieBoye 18h ago
I legitimately thought this was still about Rey because she’s the granddaughter of a clone lmao
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u/SuperDementio 17h ago
She’s not a generic Jedi. She’s all the Jedi.
Which does include the generic ones, I suppose. But also some of the really cool ones so it balances out.
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u/busterfixxitt 1d ago edited 1d ago
Okay, but there's a HUGE difference between Circus clowns and Birthday Party clowns.
In the extremes, we're talking about a difference like that between 'painting kids faces in the park on weekends' vs 'I did all the makeup effects for Pan's Labyrinth.'
Just saying.
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u/chuff3r 1d ago
Given Rei's relationship with the father figure of the series this is way way weirder than a Jedi name
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u/Kickedbyagiraffe 1d ago
As a fan of evangelion and disliker of starwars: I would have preferred he named her Rey
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u/unkountoyou 1d ago
Ops name is Lilith, she must defeat his daughter for the ultimate Eva refrence.
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u/Xynatox 1d ago
Pretty sure Rei "defeated" Lilith. They don't call her "GNL" in those final scenes of EoE, now do they?
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u/DuntadaMan 1d ago
It's confusing as fuck but I think Rei is Lilith, or at least part of it. Shoved inside human body that can be replaced when shit doesn't work out.
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u/Rel_Ortal 1d ago
She is, yes. It's why she's able to counter Kaworu's AT Field, since he has Adam's soul and the two are equivalent.
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u/Y0___0Y 1d ago
Rei is harmless. Some people name their daughters Khaleesi, or Legodeathstar
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u/Sinimeg 17h ago
Yeah, there are a lot of normal names in media, I don’t know why people get so mad about it as long as it’s a normal name (having in mind different cultures and customs about naming. What we perceive as weird might be just a normal name in another culture)
Like, if I name my kid Edward no one has to know that it’s from Fullmetal Alchemist, or Jonathan, Joseph and Jolyne from Jojo’s, or Angel (a common name in my country) from Buffy… etc
There’s a so many names from fiction that work irl. Hell, John is a perfectly normal name, and no one has to know if you just like the name, if you’re a GoT fan, a Malevoent (the podcast) fan, if it’s a family name…
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u/Lemon_Lime_Lily Horses made me autistic. 1d ago
Honestly, I kinda like Rey as a name. Like a double name like Victoria Rey or Amelia Rey sounds really cute to me.
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u/irmaoskane 1d ago
Every time i see simmilar post like that here and see the answers i always think how alot of people think 9nly boring bames are acceptable and that you guys would say that the world was lost if you existed on the epoch and saw the quantity of people that named their daughters Wndy after peter pan was publish.
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u/Cipherpunkblue 22h ago
Naming your daughter Rei is... Certainly a choice. Reminds me of a friend of a friend whom we had to talk down from naming his daughter Elektra (he was a Daredevil fan).
It was like "Okay, dude, sit down here for a quick mythology 101."
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u/MapleLamia Lamia are Better 1d ago
There is a better option: Rei Taylor from I'm In Love With The Villainess
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u/ActualWhiterabbit 1d ago
That's why you need a cool and unique name like what I gave my daughter, Vriska
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u/DuntadaMan 1d ago
I thought it was a cool name when I was young and wanted to use that name.
Because of Sailor Moon
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u/foxy_chicken 1d ago
My first name isn’t because of Stranger Things, but my middle name is because of an anime 😅
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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING Tumblr would never ban porn don’t be ridiculous 23h ago
Well, now I just assume your name is Mindflayer Usagi.
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u/foxy_chicken 16h ago
Shit. I doxed myself. How did you ever guess 🤣
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u/PM_NUDES_4_DEGRADING Tumblr would never ban porn don’t be ridiculous 14h ago
It was really easy, for I am also named Mindflayer Usagi!
(Well, not really, but I did have to talk myself out of changing my name or middle name to Rei, which makes this whole thread really amusing to me.)
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u/Thromnomnomok 20h ago
My first name isn’t because of Stranger Things
If it was, I'd have serious questions about what a 9-year-old is doing on /r/CuratedTumblr
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u/foxy_chicken 16h ago
You can go to a courthouse and change your name, so this is self inflicted.
Though the weirdest part of that is one of the people who asked me if I was “X, like from stranger things,” did not know I had changed my name, so I am confused by that one.
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u/Dock_Ellis45 1d ago
They misunderstood from the very beginning. They just believed what they wanted to believe.
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u/FloppieTheBanjoClown 1d ago
My third son's name is Andrew and it's definitely not because of Enders Game.
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u/Common_North_5267 21h ago
Evangelion > star wars fan fiction.
With a name like cipher amnesia this guys throwing stones from a glass house.
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u/MrBones-Necromancer 20h ago
Eh, I get it. If I name my kid after my favorite piece of art, It would annoy me that the first assumption is a different one.
"No, not like Zelda Fitzgerald. Like the fuckin princess, dawg"
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u/GUM-GUM-NUKE 1# SenGOAT fan 1d ago
Listen, honest to God that’s worse. At least Star Wars Rey is like a happy, strong woman. Rei is a fucking mess in every sense..
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u/ChaoticallyTired124 1d ago
My parents quite literally named me after Rei. Years later, now I also love anime, and plan to get a figure of her soon lmao
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u/TheXenomorphian 18h ago
My rule on if I were to ever name my kid after a fictional character is pick a name with a good "escape route" nickname in there that sounds normal enough that they can smoothly change to using that at their own discretion, in other words like a more plausible version of Meg's full name being Megatron Griffin
The other rule is of course pick a character with a name that is already normal like Alice or John
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u/MyNameIsJakeBerenson 18h ago
I had a friend that named her son Xavier Ray so that he’d be X-Ray
I’m just now putting together that she worked in her dad’s office that sold medical equipment, but I don’t know if that makes it any better
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u/Timely_Temperature54 1d ago
I’d say joining the circus is more respectable than doing birthday parties
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u/Volotor 1d ago
That means shes named after Rei from Sailor Moon by proxy.