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Source: Laughing Place 2024.09.28
Say Again? Top Acronyms in the Marvel Cinematic Universe

  1. SHIELD – Strategic Homeland Intervention, Enforcement, and Logistics Division
  2. SWORD – Sentient World Observation and Response Department
  3. SABER – Strategic Aerospace Biophysics and Exolinguistic Response
  4. JARVIS – Just A Rather Very Intelligent System
  5. FRIDAY – Female Replacement Intelligent Digital Assistant Youth
  6. MARK – Model of Advanced Robotic Knowledge
  7. EDITH – Even Dead I’m The Hero
  8. BARF – Binarily Augmented Retro-Framing
  9. DODC – Department of Damage Control
  10. TAHITI – Terrestrialized Alien Host Integrative Tissue I.
  11. MODOK – Mechanized Organism Designed Only for Killing
  12. KEVIN – Knowledge Enhanced Visual Interconnectivity Nexus
  13. WEB – Worldwide Engineering Brigade

Tony Stark’s Honorable Mentions

  1. WADSWORTH – Another Tony Stark AI creation.
  2. WERNER – An AI like WADSWORTH, but more German.
  3. TADASHI – An Easter Egg referring to Disney’s 2014 animated film Big Hero 6, which is actually a Marvel comics creation.
  4. JOCASTA – A reference to Marvel Comics – Age of Ultron.
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[–] A32topsL 1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

And likely the most significant...

  • MCU = Marvel Cinematic Universe
[–] themeatbridge -1 points 1 month ago (1 children)

That's not an acronym, it's an initialism.

[–] Hope 1 points 1 month ago

That distinction is nonstandard.