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Basic Trope: Werewolf characters have names associated with wolves or werewolf mythology.
- Straight: There is a werewolf named Romulus Wolfgang.
- Exaggerated: Every werewolf has an obvious wolf-related name and all non-werewolf characters have names that have absolutely nothing to do with werewolves in any way.
- Downplayed: One werewolf is named Luna.
- People with wolf-like names tend to have more wolf-like personalities than others, but no actual werewolves are present.
- Justified: In this universe, werewolves are born that way and it is werewolf tradition to give wolf-like names.
- Inverted: In a work mainly focusing on werewolves with typical names, Romulus Wolfgang is the only one who is not a werewolf.
- Subverted: Romulus Wolfgang shows traits typically associated with werewolves but then he is shown as a human during a full moon.
- Double Subverted: But it turns out werewolves actually transform during a new moon, and Romulus is a werewolf after all. Or the full moon transformation just has a delayed reaction.
- Romulus Wolfgang is revealed not to be a werewolf at first, but then he is bitten by one.
- Parodied: Wolfy McWerewolf lives at 101 Wolf Street, his house is shaped like a wolf's head and he owns houseplants named Lobo and Lupe that also become wolf-like at the full moon.
- A person going by the name Wolfy McWerewolf tends to dress up in a wolf suit and acts like a wolf near everything that resembles a full moon.
- Averted: There is no connection between a person's name and their werewolf status, or there are no werewolves at all.
- Lampshaded: "Strange how all the werewolves we've met have had names that literally mean Wolfy McWerewolf."
- Exploited: A werewolf hunter uses the knowledge that werewolves tend to have wolf-like names as an advantage in figuring out who the werewolves are.
- Invoked: A werewolf specifically bites people whose names are somehow wolf related in order to make them werewolves.
- Implied: Werewolves are an established part of the work, and Romulus Wolfgang shows most of the traits werewolves typically show while human, but it is never actually shown that Romulus Wolfgang is a werewolf.