"Was Christine a person that you knew?" Thor asks. The name was Midgardian; Jane had a cousin named Christine. Humans liked to hang out given names that had already belonged to others, Thor had noticed. Some people, like Jane's cousin, were named after other people; others, like Jane were named for something else, like a fictional character from a series of novels.

Thor, on the other hand, had been named after nothing, and he was quite fine with that.