Now that I think about it, if they have the gumption to do it, the best thing they could do would be to make sure there was no possible connection to the actor's attributes. Make Zulu an ordinary guy (ie white) with no particular standout attributes off the norm. Have everyone just say names like Golf and Tango with completely straight faces, and refuse to notice. They're blank puppets/machines, afterall, not people. As long as there's no "just happens to" matches (ie don't make Zulu Black, don't make India Middle-Eastern) for anyone to latch onto, it would fit the low-end creepy dehumanization riff they're playing. And, of course, make sure Zulu and Yankee don't end up as notable characters.
Then there's the "think of them as pets" angle. In which case someone up or down the line might get cute with naming. (Reminds me of an X-Men comic set in Genosha, where mutants are a slave race, referred to only by number. The X-Men break in, and assume numbered identities. The Beast takes the number 666.) Might actually be an aspect of the show worth watching- revelatory of the attitudes of various parties toward the actives. Are they machines, people, pets, puppets, etc.
Then there's the "think of them as pets" angle. In which case someone up or down the line might get cute with naming. (Reminds me of an X-Men comic set in Genosha, where mutants are a slave race, referred to only by number. The X-Men break in, and assume numbered identities. The Beast takes the number 666.) Might actually be an aspect of the show worth watching- revelatory of the attitudes of various parties toward the actives. Are they machines, people, pets, puppets, etc.
Huh. Innnteresting.
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