Okay, I'll admit it, quite a few of my characters' names come from cartoons, video games - heck, popular culture in general.
The vast majority, however, are either randomly generated or made up. One rather strange example of this is as follows: one time I was fooling around with an NPC generator for Dungeons and Dragons, and I decided to make some kobold NPCs. One of them happened to have the name "Banlix".
Among the ones ripped from (semi-)popular culture, there's Belial and Azmodan (these two came from the original Diablo), but some other examples include Zorak (who most people know as Cacelal; the name "Zorak" comes from Space Ghost, I think) and Miles (AKA Igasayi; "Miles" is a reference to Tails from the Sonic series). A lesser-known example would be Dravis (who I believe comes from the Descent series).
In addition, a few names were based off cartoons and such. The example I think of most distinctly are the demons Thompson and Jeremiah (whose names are, incidentally, based off the cartoon character duo of Tom and Jerry).
.......okay, I'm gonna stop with this now, as I can't remember every character name's origin. <p>
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