r/TopCharacterTropes • u/EntertainerPure8440 • 1d ago

Characters THE DESTROYER, otherwise known... as eric.

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Lord Voldemort - Tom

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Mister Incredible - Bob

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The Son Of God - Yeshua

Basically, really intimidating nicknames used instead of birthnames, the likes of which aren't intimidating at all.

Title taken from this video (timestamped).

  • LORD VOLDEMORT (Harry Potter): otherwise known as Tom.
  • MISTER INCREDIBLE (The Incredibles): otherwise known as Bob. My man was genuinely named Robert Regular lmao
  • THE SON OF GOD (New Testament): otherwise known as Yeshua, an extremely common name back then.
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u/HawtVelociraptor 1d ago

Yeshua has become Joshua over time, and christ means anointed with oil, so, uh your lord and savior is Oily Josh

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u/XanderWrites 1d ago

As I understand it, they started using alternate spellings to differentiate the fact that obviously several people had the same common names. And there's a famous hero named Joshua who has an entire Old Testament book so obviously Jesus couldn't be Josh. And at the same time the "Y" sound was basically a "J" back then or could be (the letter J wasn't invented officially until the Middle Ages) so the pronunciation isn't even that off.