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* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' actively averts this in adventurer mode, where people remark upon your strange name if you don't use one of the generated ones for your culture.
* ''[[Mass Effect]]'' [[Justified Trope|justifies]] throwing Ashley Williams into a party containing Urdnot Wrex, Garrus Vakarian, Liara T'soni, and Tali'zorah nar Rayya with cultural differences, as they are all of different species. Though this trope still exists among the human characters, as people with names like Ashley Williams, Jacob Taylor, Miranda Lawson, and David Anderson exist alongside people with names like Donnel Udina and Kaidan Alenko.
* The [https://web.archive.org/web/20131104214154/http://finalfantasy.wikia.com/wiki/List_of_Final_Fantasy_Tactics_Random_Names generics] in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' can have a range of names from the mundane to the fantastic (a fact not helped by the [[Blind Idiot Translation|horrific translation]] of the original version).
* Usually, the ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' series of games have "cool" or exotic names for the most part, with a few standard Western names for flavor. ''[[Final Fantasy II]]'' inverts this: The named cast consists of Maria, Guy, Leon, Josef, Ric([[Spell My Name with an "S"|h]])ard, Leila, Gordon, Scott, Hilda, Paul, Cid, a Mr. Borghen, and Mateus...plus [[Odd Name Out|Minwu and Firion/Frioniel]].
* ''[[Dragon Age]]'' averts this until you consider that Alistair, Wynne, Morrigan, and Leliana have perfectly respectable medieval names, while Zevran and Oghren have random fantastic names (although they are from fantasy cultures; elf and dwarf respectively). [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|Sten]] doesn't count, it's a title, not a name.
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** ''[[Last Res0rt]]'' has plenty (names of characters range from Jason and Daisy to Jigsaw, Adharia, and Golden), but it's justified since we're talking about [[Loads and Loads of Races|several different species (and cultures)]]. Within species, things are pretty consistent.
* ''[[Garanos]]'' appears to have this, with a mix of invented or symbolic names for some characters (Garanos, Styx) and ordinary names for other minor characters.
* Used for [[Running Gag|comedic effect]] in Lore Sj?g's ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20131031220301/http://badgods.com/archive-monstermanual.html Monster Manual]'' comics. Any time two monsters introduce themselves, the first has some fantastical monster name ([https://web.archive.org/web/20120423111613/http://badgods.com/pseudodragon.html Shirzah'neh], [https://web.archive.org/web/20100101210906/http://badgods.com/mindflayer.html Vsselmiar], [https://web.archive.org/web/20141025023825/http://badgods.com/mm-invisiblestalker.html Shersssh, Scion of the Hidden Wind]...). The second one is Dave.
* ''[[Questionable Content]]'' has Sven Bianchi and Hannelore Ellicott-Chatham, but other than that, no really odd names. Sven's case is [[Justified Trope|Justified]], as his mom is Swedish and his dad is Italian, and his mom claimed naming rights.
* The leads of ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' are [[Manos: The Hands of Fate|Torg]] and [[Rocky Horror Picture Show|Riff]]...and ''everyone else in the strip has a normal name'', except for minor characters with [[Punny Name|punny ones]] and obvious non-humans.
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