Talk:Vox Machina/@comment-172.81.70.85-20190619185322/@comment-36661113-20190620173643

I don't think there was a huge amount of thought that went into the name: they had to change their name quickly to come up with one that sounded more respectable than the Super High Intensity Team (and its deliberately offensice acronym), and most of the other suggestions that they came up with were jokey or nonesensical too. It's probably a deliberate scrambling of the well-known phrases "Vox Populi" (voice of the people) and "Deus ex Machina" (lit. "God from the Machine" but slightly more complicated in meaning...) It would, thus, mean something like "Voice of the Machine" which doesn't really make much sense, at least in context.