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CamelCase

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The first letter may or may not be capitalized depending on the context. (In the case of Wiki Words on TV Tropes, the first letter generally is.) This style of writing seems especially popular in the future.

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• BossMoss of the Freakies has his name spelled this way, and he is very adamant of it being spelled this way.

    Animation 

• The eponymous BoBoiBoy's name is rendered with two camelcases, both B's after the first one being uppercase.
• Bread Barbershop: The word "BeanStalk" in "Wilk and the BeanStalk". It's unknown why this is written like this, since "beanstalk" typically doesn't have camelcase.
• KikoRiki has camelcase in its title.
• Rocket Boy & Toro: In the Episode Title Card of the 49th episode, which spells the title as "RocketBoy To The Rescue" with Rocket Boy's name done up with a capitalized B with no space before it. This is inconsistent with earlier in the show; the first episode's title card spells his name with no capitalized B (the episode is titled "Rocketboy Squared").

    AnimeAndManga 

• Digimon uses this style for species derivatives.
• The title of Inuyasha is usually written this way in English. The character's name is usually written as Inuyasha.
• Tamagotchi Friends: There's camelcase in the episode title "YumeKira Transformation", with "YumeKira" having two capitalized letters but no spaces to separate the two words.

    ComicBooks 

• The KnightsEnd part of Knightfall had its title styled this way to keep it from being read as "Knight-send".
• The dialogue for The Flash, Quicksilver, or others with Super-Speed will sometimes be written like this in order to show they are talking extremely fast.

    FilmsAnimation 

• The title of CarGo is written this way.

    FilmsLiveAction 

• The title of MouseHunt.
• In Zig Zag (2002), ZigZag apparently spells his nickname like this.

    Literature 

• Age of Fire: Dragon names consist of two syllables, the first being inherited from the father. They use simply capitalization at birth, but males switch to CamelCase at maturity. For instance, the main character starts life as Auron, son of AuRel, and becomes AuRon late in the first book.
• Used in literature occasionally to show a character is a Motor Mouth (as in, "doesn't bother to breathe" fast.) A character in the Animorphs book series, who was something of an ethereal being who didn't so much "speak" as "telepathically slam his thoughts into your brain," had his dialogue rendered this way.
• Warrior Cats: The names of Clans are stylized in this way (e.g. ThunderClan, ShadowClan, RiverClan, etc.)
• Wings of Fire: Dragon tribes are stylized in this way (e.g. NightWing, IceWing, SandWing).

    LiveActionTV 

• The short-lived series FreakyLinks has its title spelled like this.
• The BBC's flagship soap opera is styled as EastEnders.

    Music 

• "VeryVery" by Momoland. Fitting for how those words are sung quickly in the chorus.
• Camel case is common in K-pop and J-pop, with band names such as NewJeans.
• PinkPantheress is written in Camel case.
• "ZukiZuki" and "NovemberWeddingDay" by Daoko.

    ProfessionalWrestling 

• An acronym version is the nWo. A word version are IWGP and Ring of Honor mainstays reDRagon.
• The U and M are capitalized in the name of Professional Wrestler UltraMantis Black.
• The NXT stable SAnitY could be considered a one word variant.
• Several wrestlers or wrestling personalities, some blending with Real Life, such as Vince McMahon, Ted DiBiase, and Drew McIntyre.

    Sports 

• Can also be seen in the names of a few U.S. sports teams:
  • Basketball:
    • NBA: The relocated Seattle SuperSonics.
    • G-League: Erie BayHawks (defunct).
  • Minor league baseball:
    • Triple-A: Lehigh Valley IronPigs, Scranton/Wilkes-Barrre RailRiders
    • Double-A: Akron RubberDucks, Frisco^note the Dallas suburb, not the locally hated term for San Francisco RoughRiders, Lancaster^note California, not the smaller but better-known one in Pennsylvania JetHawks, Midland RockHounds
    • Single-A: Augusta GreenJackets,^note Augusta is home to the famous Masters golf tournament, whose winner receives a green jacket Charleston^note South Carolina, not West Virginia RiverDogs, Clinton^note Iowa LumberKings, Lakewood BlueClaws
    • Short-Season A: Aberdeen^note Maryland IronBirds,^note The name is a play on the team's owner, Cal Ripken, Jr., most famous for his record-setting streak of 2,632 consecutive games, all with the Baltimore Orioles ("Birds"). Everett AquaSox, Tri-City^note the Albany–Schnectady–Troy area of New York ValleyCats
    • Independent leagues: Fargo–Moorhead RedHawks, a double dose with the Gary SouthShore RailCats, Normal^note Illinois CornBelters
  • U.S. college sports:
    • RedHawks: Miami, as in Miami University in Ohio, not to be confused with the University of Miami in Florida, nicknamed Hurricanes; also the NAIA school Martin Methodist, in Tennessee.
    • RedStorm: Rio Grande, an NAIA school in Ohio.^note Though a Non-Indicative Name to most of the country, justified since the school is in a town called Rio Grande. It's pronounced "RYE-oh Grand", not like the famous southwestern river.
    • ThunderWolves: Colorado State–Pueblo, an NCAA Division II school.
    • WolfPack: No example in the U.S., but the Canadian school Thompson Rivers uses this form.
• Shipping and logistics company FedEx holds the naming rights for the home arena of the NBA's Memphis Grizzlies as well as the home stadium of the NFL's Washington Commanders, respectively named FedExForum and FedExField.

    TabletopGames 

• BattleTech (and its attendant spinoffs such as MechWarrior and MechCommander) have their second word capitalized, as they are technically contracted compound nouns ("Battlefield Technology" for instance).
  • This also applies to the Humongous Mecha themselves, rendered as "BattleMech" or "OmniMech" for combat units. Civilian types will have their purpose followed by the word "Mech" as names, such as MiningMech or SecurityMech.
  • Some specific 'Mech models have this in their name as well, most notably the UrbanMech and the JagerMech.

    Toys 

• The name of the Giga Pets virtual pet toy series became GigaPets, with no space in-between the words, when it got rebooted in 2018.
• The name of SuperThings is written like this.
• While Transformers is largely rendered as one word these days, some older logos render the title as TransFormers, such as the general brand logo◊ used during the early 2000's.

    VideoGames 

• Tends to be a theme in Mega Man Battle Network, with each Navi being basically SomethingMan.EXE, although somewhat justified due to all the characters being computer programs, and back when it was released, spaces were fairly uncommon in file names. It does also crop in up in names of areas due to Capcom having an obsession in some games with 8 letter character limits for just about everything, resulting in things like TownArea.
• Sony's PlayStation line of products is named this way, as is the Nintendo GameCube.
  • Similarly, the Wii U GamePad, which is that console's main controller.
• In Star Fox Adventures, the names of the various tribes are written this way.
• HardCorps from SiN, the police organization the player character leads. Inverted with the game's own title, where it's simply the first and last letters of one word that are capitalized in this manner.
• Final Fantasy I: Enemy names are contracted this way in the NES version, but with the second word in all caps. For example, "War Mech" gets contracted to "WarMECH".
• The Collection edition of Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth retains the "GoYou Airlines" name from the Japanese DS original (whereas the U.S. version was called "iFly Airlines"). Edgeworth lampshades this when examining the GoYou Piggy Bank:
  Edgeworth: You know I've seen it occur a lot recently, and it's been bothering me greatly... but why do some brands think it's acceptable to simply smash two words together and call it a day!?
• ZanZarah: The Hidden Portal: The title of the game is properly spelled with capital Zs. In-universe, Zanzarah, which is the name of a magical world where majority of the game takes place, is spelled normally.
• darkSector uses lowerCamelCase not only in its title, but also for its interface. For example, the "New Game" option in the main menu reads "newGame."

    WebAnimation 

• The Academy of Magic: MeowKitty’s name is always spelled with a capital “K” as well as "M".

    WebComics 

• Homestuck: Every Pesterchum and Trollian handle is formatted as two words, joined together, with the second word capitalized. Examples include ectoBiologist, turntechGodhead, and carcinoGeneticist.
• SideQuested: The title of the comic is in camel case. Two of the three kingdoms we've heard of at this point use it, BearWoods and DeepSea, with Aurora (mentioned as the first place Charlie should go to) as the only exception. It's hard to tell in the comics because most speech bubbles are all-caps, but the chapter title pages show them this way.

    WebOriginal 

• Used for most document names on classicthemes.com (e.g., the page on finding episodes of old TV shows).
• Used for hashtags on multiple websites containing multiple words (e.g. #TVTropes).

    WesternAnimation 

• SpongeBob SquarePants's name is written this way. A lot of people—including many tropers on This Very Wiki—forget that this is the case and usually write it as "Spongebob Squarepants".
• The title of ToddWorld.
• The title of WordGirl, as well as the character's name, are written in CamelCase.

    RealLife 

• Camel case is the standard when it comes to naming variables and functions in JavaScript, whose name also demonstrates it.
• Some people's names have these, especially if they begin with "Le" or "De", e.g. LeVar Burton or Danny DeVito. Particularly common for people of Irish and Scottish origin with a "Mc" or "Mac" name: see, e.g., McDonald's, William McKinley, John McCain, Douglas MacArthur, Ramsay MacDonald...
• Latin script transcription of Hebrew often uses it when a title includes a noun that begins with a definite article, the prepositions "to", "as", "-ly", "in" and "from", and "and", as they are written as part of the word in the respective writing systems they use: שיר (shir) is "song", השיר (hashir) - ‘the song’. So the Hebrew name of the Song of Songs would usually be Shir haShirim. Other systems might use ha-Shirim instead; this convention is usually used for Arabic (e.g. Al-Qur'an and not AlQur'an).
• Also used for some African languages, e.g., kwaZulu and kiKongo.
• Used by corporations when two or more predecessor companies are merged into one new one (as well as to create something trademarkable.)
• May overlap with Portmanteau Couple Name, Portmantitle, especially when the name comes from the first syllable of each person's name (TomKat), as opposed to merely blending them (Bennifer).
• DreamWorks SKG and former subsidiary DreamWorks Animation are made this way.
• Former Disney animation subsidiary Disneytoon Studios began as "Disney MovieToons", while their final name was commonly stylized as "DisneyToon Studios".
• Used in programming as one style for defining multi-word variables.
  • This is actually useful so you can give a succinct idea of what said variable is supposed to do, instead of having to write lengthy comments about them in the function in which they're being used.
  • For those less familiar with the limitations of programming grammars, it's mainly because usually you can't have a space in a variable name.
  • Some contexts make a distinction between Pascal Case (initial letter uppercase) and Camel Case (initial letter lowercase). E.g., in C# the standard style is for method and property names to be PascalCase, while variable names use camelCase.
• Camel case can be invoked by all caps text, often (but not always) by use of small caps. Examples include captions or movie credits (e.g. DANNY DᴇVITO).

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