Below is a list of names for the Prisoners of War used from Metal Slug: Super Vehicle-001 to Metal Slug 5. All of these are chosen randomly in the Recaptured Prisoners screen; support POWs such as Rumi Aikawa and the President have their names set and are listed at the very end. "Achilles" does not have an actual name and is instead randomly picked from the list. The executives from Metal Slug 5 have their own list of names.
Metal Slug 2 has an error where "z" is replaced by "j".
The names in the game's files are organized in sets based on the number of characters, and these sets are alphabetized.
TWO LETTERS:
- Ai
- Al
- Ho
- In
- Li
- Lo
- Ly
- Lü
- Ma
- No
- Ou
- Pi
- Pu
- Tu
- Vu
- Yü
THREE LETTERS:
- Abe
- Abū
- Ali
- Amy
- Aoi
- Bak
- Bay
- Cao
- Cho
- Eda
- Ely
- Fan
- Hai
- Hsi
- Huc
- Hui
- Ibn
- Ito
- Job
- Kim
- Kui
- K'o
- Lao
- Lei
- Liu
- Mao
- Min
- Nan
- Niü
- Nūr
- Pai
- Rau
- Ryo
- Tao
- Tzū
- Uno
- Van
- Wei
- Yao
- Yen
FOUR LETTERS:
- Aino
- Ajax
- Ando
- Anna
- Anno
- Azād
- Chōn
- Clio
- Coty
- Daff
- Date
- Dido
- Echo
- Eros
- Fork
- Gaea
- Goto
- Gras
- Gris
- Hara
- Hebe
- Hera
- Hero
- Hino
- Huai
- Ioku
- Iris
- Jung
- Juno
- Jōng
- Karr
- Kato
- Kent
- King
- Kino
- Kirk
- Kise
- Kita
- Kuan
- Kujo
- Ling
- Lung
- Lutz
- Maia
- Mars
- Miki
- Mori
- Mort
- Nike
- Noma
- Odum
- Okui
- Owen
- Pham
- Phya
- Ping
- Plum
- P'an
- P'ei
- P'ya
- Raux
- Rhea
- Rinz
- Sade
- Sato
- Saya
- Seki
- Shih
- Soga
- Sugo
- Taki
- Thor
- Toda
- Tran
- T'ai
- Undo
- Wang
- Ward
- West
- Xuan
- Yang
- Yule
- YÜan
FIVE LETTERS:
- Adams
- Albee
- Allen
- Amagi
- Amano
- Annue
- Araki
- Argus
- Atlas
- Bidan
- Bitār
- Bowly
- Bülow
- Cacus
- Ceres
- Chang
- Chaos
- Circe
- Clark
- Cooke
- Creon
- Csoma
- Cupid
- Danaë
- Diana
- Dione
- Domon
- Dryad
- Duong
- Eliot
- Elman
- Elton
- Eugen
- Evens
- Fabre
- Flora
- Freud
- Freya
- Gamou
- Gibbs
- Godai
- Grape
- Green
- Hades
- Haupt
- Hoang
- Hours
- Hsüeh
- Ijuin
- Ikeda
- Iljin
- Inada
- Inoue
- Ioffe
- James
- Janus
- Jason
- Jinbo
- Jones
- Kaida
- Kaifu
- Kaioh
- Kanai
- Kawai
- Keath
- Kempf
- Khung
- Kishi
- Klapf
- Koiso
- Konev
- Konoe
- Kouda
- Lailā
- Laing
- Landė
- Lappe
- Leibl
- Lemon
- Liang
- Lobos
- Lopez
- Maria
- Medea
- Meioh
- Midas
- Minos
- Mintz
- Moore
- Morga
- Morse
- Murai
- Muses
- Müsel
- Naiad
- Nanao
- Natta
- Ngone
- Ninja
- Niobe
- Nishi
- Obari
- Ochoa
- Ogata
- Ogawa
- Ohira
- Okano
- Okinu
- Okuma
- Orion
- Orlau
- Otomo
- Oyabu
- Pales
- Paris
- Peach
- Pluto
- Popov
- Priam
- Qābūs
- Remus
- Rheea
- Ricci
- Rippa
- Rücke
- Sande
- Sanjo
- Satyr
- Sawai
- Scott
- Sears
- Seton
- Simon
- Siren
- Surry
- Taung
- Tomoe
- Tracy
- Ts'ao
- Ts'ui
- T'ang
- T'ien
- Venus
- Vogel
- Volta
- Watts
- Witty
- Woden
- Wäber
- Zahir
SIX LETTERS:
- Adonis
- Aeacus
- Aegeus
- Aeneas
- Aeolus
- Agenor
- Aihara
- Apollo
- Arnold
- Arslān
- Ashbey
- Ashida
- Ashley
- Athena
- Atreus
- Attlee
- Ayrton
- B.Kaga
- Baldur
- Bandit
- Bessyo
- Blacky
- Boltec
- Bonnet
- Boresa
- Bronze
- Bucock
- Cadmus
- Calvin
- Canova
- Canton
- Capote
- Carnap
- Carver
- Castor
- Cather
- ChaCha
- Charon
- Chiron
- Ch'ien
- Ciouet
- Cooley
- Cooper
- Cotton
- Cowley
- Cripps
- Cronos
- Curtis
- Daimyo
- Dakata
- Dawson
- Dickel
- Ebence
- Edison
- Enders
- Erebus
- Erlach
- Eucken
- Europa
- Faunus
- Feries
- Fields
- Fisher
- Flegel
- Fukuda
- Gallap
- Gasser
- Gorgon
- Gülich
- Habara
- Hamada
- Haneda
- Hecate
- Hector
- Hecuba
- Helios
- Hermes
- Hestia
- Hiyama
- Holmes
- Hongou
- Hosono
- Howood
- Hsiung
- Hyades
- Hypnos
- Icarus
- Iolaus
- Jammes
- Jenner
- Jewett
- Jochum
- Joseph
- Kamijo
- Karibe
- Kazami
- Keenan
- Khabul
- Kikuni
- Kinsey
- Kiyama
- Koyama
- Kozlov
- Kuroda
- Kusama
- M.Asia
- Marino
- Medusa
- Mehmet
- Memnon
- Mentor
- Mikami
- Minami
- Mitaka
- Mizuno
- Momoto
- Morita
- Morton
- Müller
- Möbius
- Nagura
- Naniwa
- Nereid
- Nereus
- Nessus
- Nestor
- Nghiem
- Nguyen
- Niwano
- Nouhak
- Nymphs
- Nāquid
- Oikawa
- Ondine
- Orange
- Osborn
- Paetta
- Pallas
- Peleus
- Pelias
- Pelops
- Phoebe
- Pholus
- Pollux
- Pomona
- Poplin
- Psyche
- Pyrrha
- Quezon
- Quincy
- Radlov
- Reuter
- Rokuta
- Romsky
- Rānādė
- Sanger
- Sauken
- Scilon
- Scylla
- Seeckt
- Sekiya
- Selavi
- Selene
- Shiina
- Shiine
- Shinjo
- Sinzer
- Sisley
- Sphinx
- Staden
- Stokes
- Streit
- Suarės
- Suzuki
- Sweezy
- Tadano
- Takada
- Takeda
- Tanaka
- Tennoh
- Tethys
- Thalia
- Themis
- Thetis
- Titans
- Triton
- Truong
- Turnus
- Tyutei
- Tyuuji
- Uchida
- Uranff
- Uranus
- Valcan
- Varese
- Velrna
- Wahlen
- Warner
- Weeler
- Willis
- Wilson
- Yagami
- Yama-H
- Yamada
- Yamaha
- Yeh-Lü
- Yokota
- Yoshii
- Zaydān
- Zethus
- 'Abbās
SEVEN LETTERS:
- Achates
- Actaeon
- Admetus
- Aglipay
- Akimoto
- Alarcon
- Alcmene
- Allesha
- Allport
- Almagro
- Altrich
- Amazons
- Amphion
- Ansbach
- Antaeus
- Arachne
- Aragane
- Ariadne
- Artemis
- Asteria
- Audubon
- Bacchus
- Bagdash
- Bernard
- Boochan
- Borodin
- Bradjoe
- Calchas
- Camilla
- Cardano
- Carlsen
- Cassell
- Centaur
- Cepheus
- Creamer
- Cyclops
- Daphnis
- Demeter
- Dorothy
- Drewenz
- Droisen
- Eastman
- Echidna
- Edwards
- Ehrlich
- Electra
- Ellwood
- Emerson
- Epigoni
- Eurotas
- Everett
- Faraday
- Fedorov
- Feynman
- Fleming
- Fortuna
- Galatea
- Garuski
- Georgie
- Gilbert
- Gissing
- Gladden
- Granada
- Griffis
- Hattori
- Hayashi
- Heinell
- Higashi
- Holland
- Hygieia
- Icebeer
- Imagawa
- Ingrham
- Inomata
- Isurugi
- Iyaaan!
- Jackson
- Jocaste
- Joestar
- Jupiter
- Kalinin
- Karimen
- Kendall
- Kessler
- Kourogi
- Kujirai
- Kurlich
- Kurooka
- Landino
- Lansing
- Laocoon
- Lavinia
- Laërtes
- Lebedev
- Leumann
- Maenads
- Makedir
- Marsyas
- Maubont
- Megaera
- Mengrai
- Mercury
- Merkatz
- Mikoian
- Minerva
- Mitsuru
- Nemesis
- Neptune
- Nilsson
- Nishida
- O'Brien
- O'neill
- Oceanus
- Oedipus
- Olivier
- Omphale
- Orestes
- Orikasa
- Orpheus
- Oyabeen
- Pandora
- Perseus
- Pfeifer
- Phaedra
- Phineus
- Phoebus
- Priapus
- Proteus
- Pushkin
- Pylades
- Quirino
- Rokudou
- Romains
- Romulus
- Rundoll
- Saionji
- Sargent
- Schacft
- Schwarz
- Schüler
- Seaborg
- Sheriff
- Shestov
- Shibaki
- Silenus
- Simpson
- Sitolet
- Sjahrir
- Snowbit
- Sombart
- Theseus
- Tirsias
- Togashi
- Tshombe
- Tsukino
- Umezawa
- Viollet
- Walajah
- Watsuki
- Webster
- Woeikov
- Yamada2
- Ya'q_ub
- Yoshida
- Yotsuya
EIGHT LETTERS:
- Achelous
- Achilles
- Adrastus
- Aglauros
- Alcestis
- Alcmaeon
- Alekseev
- Amalthea
- Anchises
- Antigone
- Appleton
- Arethusa
- Ashikaga
- Bigpower
- Boltwood
- Brentano
- Calliope
- Carnegie
- Caselnes
- Cercopes
- Chappman
- Chartian
- Connally
- Coolidge
- Coquelin
- Cubresly
- Daedalus
- Damicles
- Deianira
- Dekachin
- Diomedes
- Dionysus
- Doc.Yama
- Eastlake
- Eastwood
- Eisenach
- Elizalde
- Endymion
- Eteocles
- Eurydice
- Eurynome
- Frederik
- Fukumimi
- Fullpath
- Ganymede
- Garfield
- Giddings
- Goodmann
- Goodyear
- Grüneman
- Hamachan
- Harmonia
- Hatoyama
- Hercules
- Hermione
- Hisakawa
- Hiyamuta
- Hosokawa
- Hymeneus
- Hyperion
- Ice-Muta
- Ichinose
- Iwashige
- Jetstone
- Jongkind
- Kasahara
- Katayama
- Kingston
- Kircheis
- Kiriyama
- Kissling
- Kreutzer
- Krockett
- Kyui-Kun
- Lancelot
- Laomedon
- Lefėbvre
- Lucretia
- Machungo
- Malaviya
- Marinesk
- McCadeau
- Melampus
- Meleager
- Menelaus
- Mercator
- Mikimoto
- Miliukov
- Minamoto
- Minotaur
- Miyazaki
- Miyazawa
- Mizutani
- Morikawa
- Morpheus
- Murasame
- Murayama
- Nack-Key
- Nakagawa
- Nakasone
- Nakayama
- Namihira
- Nausicaä
- Ninomiya
- Nyandaba
- O'Conner
- Odysseus
- Ofresser
- Otonashi
- Pasiphaë
- Pastolle
- Penelope
- Pentheus
- Phaëthon
- Philemon
- Pleiades
- Polyxena
- Poseidon
- Pudovkin
- Putiatin
- Riazanov
- Rookwell
- Roppongi
- Rrmashov
- Rubinsky
- Rāmānuja
- Sarpedon
- Saturnus
- Silvanus
- Sinclaia
- Sisyphus
- Sullivan
- Sylveter
- Takahara
- Takehira
- Tantalus
- Tokugawa
- Tokuhiro
- Toriyama
- Tsuchiya
- Tsuruoka
- Uchiyama
- Valkyrie
- Varimont
- Vespucci
- Vigneaud
- Williams
- Winckler
- Yamadera
- Yamamoto
- Yazdgard
- Yoneuchi
- Zephyrus
NINE LETTERS:
- Aegisthus
- Aeschylus
- Agamemnon
- Aldringen
- Androcles
- Andromeda
- Antiochos
- Aphrodite
- Archangel
- Arkwright
- Asklepios
- Autolycus
- BabaIaga
- Bayerline
- Birolinen
- Blackcafe
- Blumhardt
- Brauhitch
- Buchholtz
- Bukkorosu
- Caracalla
- Carothers
- Carpenter
- Cassandra
- Cavaignac
- Christian
- Cleveland
- Coubertin
- Coulanges
- Deiphobus
- Descartes
- Ephialtes
- Eumenides
- Fairchild
- Fernandes
- Fulbright
- Furuhashi
- Galbraith
- Gilgamesh
- Gladstone
- Goodelian
- Greenhill
- Grünewald
- Gutensohn
- Hashimoto
- Hauptmann
- Hippolyta
- Hyachinth
- Ichimonji
- Idomeneus
- Iphigenia
- Isherwood
- Ishibashi
- Jawlensky
- Jefferson
- Kashiwagi
- Kengamine
- Kooriyama
- Krupskaia
- Lozovskii
- Macapagal
- Marinetti
- Matsukata
- Matsumoto
- Melpomene
- Mikhailov
- Mitsuishi
- Mnemosyne
- Moroboshi
- Nakatsuka
- Narcissus
- Neisebach
- Oceanides
- Ogasawara
- Overstein
- Palamedes
- Patrichev
- Patroclus
- Phetracha
- Philomela
- Polidorus
- Polynices
- Ponomarev
- Pygmalion
- Reuentahl
- Sakaguchi
- Samuelson
- Santayana
- Schneider
- Schönkopf
- Semiramis
- Shiratori
- Siegfried
- Starfruit
- Steinmetz
- Takahashi
- Takeshita
- Theophane
- Tsirnanna
- Tsugihara
- Turneisen
- Tyndareus
- Wittfogel
- Witzleben
- Yamaguchi
- Yoko-Shoe
- Yokoshima
TEN LETTERS:
- Amphitrite
- Amphitryon
- Andromache
- Campanella
- Carmichael
- Carrington
- Cassiopeia
- Chimatsuri
- Cumberland
- Epimetheus
- Euphrosyne
- Eurystheus
- Fahrenheit
- Fusseneger
- Hephaestus
- Hesperides
- Hildesheim
- Hippodamia
- Hippolytus
- Hofmeister
- Knapfstein
- Lennenkamp
- Lohengramm
- Mariendorf
- Mecklinger
- Metastasio
- Persephone
- Polyphemus
- Procrustes
- Prometheus
- Proserpine
- Pythagoras
- Reddiamond
- Saginomiya
- Schumacher
- Sommervill
- Sonnenfels
- Southworth
- Strowberry
- Telemachus
- Vanderbilt
- Waagenseil
- Watermelon
- Wittenfeld
- Zamchevsky
ELEVEN LETTERS:
- Bellerophon
- Bergengruen
- Britomartis
- Eichendorff
- Grigorovich
- Grillparzer
- Halberstadt
- Mittermeier
- Neoptolemus
- Oppenheimer
- Penthesilea
- Philoctetes
- Pomyalovski
- Rovorovskij
- Springfield
- Stockhausen
- Terpsichore
- Triptolemus
- Yakubovskij