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  2. List of fictional espionage organizations - Wikipedia

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    During the 1960s trend for action-adventure spy thrillers, it was a common practice for fictional spy organizations or their nemeses to employ names that were contrived acronyms. Sometimes these acronyms' expanded meanings made sense, but most of the time they were words incongruously crammed together for the mere purpose of obtaining a catchy ...

  3. List of fictional elements, materials, isotopes and subatomic ...

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    Each level of the game takes place on a space dreadnought named after a different metal. The last level is named after the fictional element uridium. The cassette inlay card says the name was created by one of the game developers who thought uridium really existed. (Not to be confused with real element iridium.) Uru: Marvel Comics

  4. List of fictional diseases - Wikipedia

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    The disease is contracted by touch and slowly turns the skin (small patches in children and the entire body in adults) of the victim to into a gray, stone-like form. It is said that the disease also drives its adult victims insane. Hanahaki disease, or hanahaki byou. Hanahaki Otome (花吐き乙女) by Matsuda Naoko.

  5. List of fictional secret police and intelligence organizations

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    Video game The Division: Marathon Man: Novel and film Third Echelon: Splinter Cell: Video game The Patriots The Philosophers: Metal Gear: Video game The Tribunal: Also called The Council: Metalocalypse: TV T.H.R.U.S.H. Technological Hierarchy for the Removal of Undesirables and the Subjugation of Humanity: The Man from U.N.C.L.E. TV T.I.A.

  6. List of unusual biological names - Wikipedia

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    Lunatic Fringe, Manic Fringe, and Radical Fringe. MAP kinase kinase kinase and MAP kinase kinase kinase kinase. MinosPhrime [5] Named after Minos Prime from the video game ULTRAKILL. Found in flower beds outside of college dormitory building, dug 2 inches deep into the soil. Soil was woodchip-heavy. bacteriophage.

  7. List of video game genres - Wikipedia

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    The roguelike video game subgenre borrows its name and gameplay elements from the 1980 computer game Rogue. Superficially, a roguelike is a two-dimensional dungeon crawl with a high degree of randomness via procedural generation, an emphasis on statistical character development, and the use of permadeath. Though traditionally featuring a text ...

  8. List of maze video games - Wikipedia

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    In grid capture games, also called line coloring games, the maze consists of lines, and the goal is to capture rectangular areas by traversing their perimeters. The gameplay is not fundamentally different from Pac-Man (players still have to navigate the entire maze to complete a level) but enough games have used the grid motif that it is a ...

  9. List of fictional computers - Wikipedia

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    It appeared in the video game Fallout Tactics: Brotherhood of Steel (2001) Cortana, a starship-grade "smart" AI of the UNSC and companion of the Master Chief in the Halo video games (2001) (also the inspiration for the name of Microsoft's real-world personal assistant in Windows 10) Deadly Brain, a level boss on the second level of Oni (2001)