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:
 * Averted: No one has unusual/cool names.
 * Enforced: "I've got a really cool idea for a character name! Let's use it!"
 * Lampshaded: "Dude, that's such a cool name!"
 * Invoked: A baby is given a cool name after much discussion between the parents.
 * Defied: A cool name for the new baby is rejected by the parents in favor of something more conventional.
 * Discussed: "Did you hear what the name of that new kid is? It's so cool it's ridiculous!"
 * Conversed: "What am I going to call him? I was thinking either Xerxes, Ozymandias or Indiana. Which one do you like best?"

On the birth certificate is your Awesome McCoolname.