I mean, Palantir literally must have thought "Gee, let's name our company after the magic items Sauron uses to spy on everyone!"
Or the old steampunk game Space: 1889 clearly naming itself as a tongue-in-cheek reference to it!
Charisma may affect how well you bonk or at least how often you get a chance to, although perhaps we are thinking of bonk in different senses.
Heck, there was a toy Xenomorph for 1979's Alien too! And that was even weirder because Alien was R rated and theoretically no children should have been allowed to watch it.