Sucky code names (SPOILERS)

[Vir]

RahXephon spoiler follows

Imagine yourself a spy for the Mu, or perhaps a neutral journalist. You hear the name of an exercise; or it could be a cover for a real operation maybe.

The code-name is "J-Buster".

Guess what it is.


"Jupiter Buster" you say? An attack on Tokyo Jupter perhaps? Nah, they wouldn't be that obvious, would they?

And how about the internal names of the operations in question? "Operation Overlord" and "Operation Downfall" don't actually sound like regular exercises to somebody who knows history. I guess secrecy depends on keeping a secret that there even is an operation, so perhaps the obscurity of the name doesn't matter a lot. Maybe it's chosen only as a morale booster and internally used moniker.

The real generals were pretty inventive when they called their operations stuff like "Market Garden" or "Overlord", a name that would not reveal a lot if heard by a passer-by - OK, granted, the original name of "Downfall" was a pretty obvious clue - but apart from that, how about them anime code names?

(Posted in RahXephon forum for spoiler. )

[Lord Timaeus]

In TERRA's defense, I doubt the code name would have made much difference, as Operation Downfall screwed TERRA over much more than it did the Mu. All it really did was force the Mu to go on the offensive.

As for stupid codenames, Operation Meteor from Gundam Wing is another blatantly obvious one, in which the colonists planned to drop a colony on Earth. On the less obvious but still equally stupid, there's Operation Doodlebug from Digimon Tamers.

[Vir]

I think I posted this in the wrong forum. Request a move to general anime forum, and that people use spoiler warnings as appropriate. Thanks.

[Roland]

Operation Meteor was NOT the colonists trying to crash a colony in the Earth. It was just the infiltraion of the five Gundams. And that's not a spoiler, they say it before the beginning of each of the first ten or so episodes.