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An Alien Named "Bob"

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An Alien Named "Bob"	comment	Aliens usually have names like Zartog or Zod. This is when aliens have names like Bob or Alice. May overlap with Translation Convention if the audience hears the alien saying an earthly name, but the human characters don't. This is a subtrope of Special Person, Normal Name. Will sometimes cross over with Some Call Me "Tim" or My Nayme Is. Can cross over with Aerith and Bob if most of the other aliens have strange names and just a few have normal names. Contrast Law of Alien Names. This is common in characters who were Raised by Humans. See also Call a Smeerp a "Rabbit".
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_11335bf2	comment	R.O.B. the Robot: Downplayed with Ema the green alien. Her name is an unorthodox spelling of "Emma".
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_1480faf8	comment	An episode of Alphablocks features an alien named Fred.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_17415b19	comment	Star Ocean is full of this. On backwater planets that have no connection to the rest of the galaxy you'll meet aliens with names like Clair, Roger, Sarah and Celine. The fifth game has Fiore, which is Italian for flower. The third game has Nel which is one one l short of the name Nell.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_193287c8	comment	Subnautica: Below Zero: Robin meets one of the ancient alien Precursor Architects. It gives itself a designation derived from Alterra's tentative name for his species and his "seed code", producing a surprisingly mundane name. She Lampshades it.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_1bdeba5a	comment	X-Men: Gladiator, a member of the Strontian race serving the Shi'ar Empire, is actually named "Kallark". This is because he is an expy of Superman, aka "Clark".
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_26ef902d	comment	Home (2015): Kyle has a rather normal name, unlike most of the other Boov. A few other Boov have normal names such as Tony.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_2dab4fef	comment	Snopes: This joke response to a claim features aliens named "Judy" and "Katherine".
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_2f7dfbcd	comment	Space Family Carlvinson is set in the year 4001 on a distant planet, but it is a Slice of Life work with no space battles or epic moments, so it makes sense that several aliens and robots have mundane names like Andy, Ken and John.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_30b255fb	comment	Justified with Supergirl. She is an alien female named Kara Zor-El, but after being adopted she is renamed Linda Lee Danvers, Linda Lang, Linda Lee or Kara Danvers (depending on the continuity) by her adoptive family. Also, her original first name is not exotic sounding anymore.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_353b7af3	comment	One recurring character on Star Trek: Discovery is a Saurian named Linus. Since his language is unpronounceable for humans, this may be a human-bestowed nickname.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_3f3abe9	comment	Rick and Morty: Played with; Many Gromflomites have alien-sounding first names, paired with last names that sound like mundane human first names. Examples include Krombopulos Michael the assassin, and Cornvelious Daniel the interrogation agent.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_453a04b0	comment	The Fairly Oddparents has an alien named Mark Chang.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood has a sewer-dwelling alien with gigantic fangs that the team captured. Captain Jack named it Janet, because "Barbara just never seemed right."
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_4c300a8c	comment	Lilo & Stitch: The Series: In "Fibber", it's revealed that Pleakley's first name is Wendy. Apparently, it means "brave warrior" back on his home planet. Dr. Rupert Jacques von HÃ¤msterviel is an alien (though he resembles a gerbil with rabbit ears).
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_503d3d54	comment	The Rocky Horror Picture Show: Frank is an alien, though his full name being Frank N. Furter is rather more unusual and the other Transylvanians have quite strange names.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_50b9086a	comment	Ready Jet Go!: Downplayed with Jet, as his name is pretty rare, but he gave himself an "Earthie" name after he and his family moved from Bortron 7 to Earth. His other family members named themselves after vegetables (Carrot, Celery, etc).
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_60f02ddb	comment	American Dad!: The alien living with the Smith family is named Roger. You might think that this is merely an easy way for Earthlings to reference him but several flashbacks to his time in space reveal that that is his actual name.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_6594e894	comment	Four Eyes!: The main protagonist of the series is an alien named Emma.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_69daf29	comment	In Grrl Power, Frix, a large alien anthropomorphic canine, belongs to a species called Woof.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_70814599	comment	Stargate SG-1: Justified when it happens because most of the "aliens" are actually Transplanted Humans, and two of the actual nonhuman species passed themselves off as ancient pagan gods (the Asgard as the Norse gods, the Goa'uld as mainly the Greco-Roman and Egyptian pantheons). Special mention to Jonas Quinn, a human from Langara who replaces Daniel Jackson on SG-1 for season 6: his name has been joked about for sounding less alien to American ears than that of his actor Corin Nemec. Spinoff series Stargate Atlantis has Wraith (vampiric aliens from another galaxy who've never been anywhere near Earth to their chagrin) with names such as Michael, Steve, and Todd. Naturally, these are more like nicknames applied by the human characters. However, a couple of the Wraith who've been given such names more or less adopt them, or at least respond to them in later encounters with the main characters.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_70adea71	comment	DÃ¦morphing: One of the Peace Yeerks is known only as Helen. Toby Hamee changes her name to Kalij because she wants to make her Hork-Bajir identity clear, and didn't like having a human name.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_76dc9f88	comment	The Troop: In "Eris Returns", the Eris Fairy Cecillia's Psycho Ex-Boyfriend is a monstrous, multi-armed Vrog from Another Dimension... named Todd. Cecillia herself has a human name, which is in stark contrast to her sister's Unpronounceable name.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_7c038c18	comment	The Phineas and Ferb episode "The Chronicles of Meap" has an evil poacher alien named Mitch.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_7c19a801	comment	FTL: Faster Than Light picks names for random crewmembers out of a pool shared between species, so you get aliens with human names and humans with alien names. Specific named characters usually have names specific to their species like the Mantis thief Kazaaakplethkilik, with the notable exceptions of a rockwoman named Ariadne and a Mantis named Robert Smith who was raised by humans.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_7ff3216c	comment	One "U.S. Acres" segment of Garfield and Friends, "The Well Dweller," features a tiny blue alien named...Al. It's promptly lampshaded when Orson captures him and remarks that most aliens have odd names, and the creature simply shrugs and says that his name is just plain Al. One "Garfield" segment features a sentient wishing well that has Reality Warper powers. It's revealed at the episode's end that it's actually a juvenile member of an alien race that happens to look like Earth wishing wells; this particular troublemaker is named Andrew.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_81692f99	comment	In the Star Trek universe, aliens frequently have names that aren't exactly "Bob" — i.e. not standard Anglo-American names — but are actually not very obscure human names. (And not just due to Defictionalization either.) One of the best-known examples is Spock, who shared his name with a famous pediatrician of the period (to the point that non-fans often mistakenly call the character "Dr. Spock"). Similarly, on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, the first and last names of alien characters Kira Nerys and Jadzia Dax are all human names (Jadzia is a diminutive of the Polish name Jadwiga, for example, and Nerys is Welsh), as is Odo. Other alien characters with human names are Justified by being part-human (see below): Star Trek: The Next Generation: Downplayed for Deanna Troi, who is half-Betazoid, and Alexander Rozhenko, who is three-quarters Klingon and was raised by his half-human, half-Klingon mother and human grandparents more than his fully-Klingon father. Star Trek: Voyager: Downplayed. The series features two alien hybrids, one of whom has the last name Torres (but the alien first name B'Elanna) and the second of whom has the completely human name Naomi Wildman. Late in the series, B'Elanna has a quarter-alien daughter, and while it's unknown what her first name will end up beingnote Though in the alternate future, it's Miral, she has her father's surname, Paris.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_86ec66cc	comment	Galaxy Zack: Nebulites, the locals of Planet Nebulon, have very human names. From the first book alone there's Fred Stevens and Drake Taylor.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_897271d7	comment	One of the two main characters of Alien in a Small Town is a Starfish Alien with an unpronounceable name, who goes by "Paul Dwightson" on Earth. The name isn't arbitrary. He's the son of Ambassador Dwight (one of the first members of Paul's race to contact Earth people. Ironically, Dwight is female, but by the time the humans realized this, the name had stuck.). He took his first name from the Apostle Paul, for reasons that don't become apparent till halfway through the book.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_90c73dda	comment	Animorphs: Comes up when the cast rescue an escaped alien Hork-Bajir, who tells them his name is Jara Hamee. While on Earth, Elfangor goes by Alan Fangor (shortened to Al) in his human morph. Jara Hamee later names his daughter Toby. Justified because she's named after Tobias.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_99b147d8	comment	Martin Mystery has an alien named Billy.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_9e76ecdf	comment	Albegas: The Dellinger Empire is led by President Azos, with General Duston, Commander Katastra, Commander Dime, Mirror Zero and General Dally being his subordinates. However, Dally has a daughter named Julia. Unlike her father, she looks forward to befriending humans.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_a0e1af96	comment	The alien Martian Manhunter's name is J'onn J'onzz, which just happens to be pronounced like "John Jones". Likewise, his Distaff Junior Counterpart, Miss Martian, is named M'gann M'orzz, which is pronounced "Megan Morse".
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_a183d57f	comment	In the Futurama episode "Why Must I Be a Crustacean in Love?", (John) Zoidberg's crush is a lobster-like alien like him, but her name is Edna. Also, a hermit crab-like alien named Vinny briefly features. Another episode has a Neptunian woman called Heather.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_a1a52d56	comment	Peg + Cat has an alien named Richard.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_a68aab11	comment	Daimos has the Baam, a race of Winged Humanoids. Though their culture has parallels to Greece, Rome, Egypt and Hinduism, the Baam themselves have Western-style names like Erika, Richter, Leon, Raiza, Kaya, Cindy and Margarete. Absurdly, one of them is called Gurney Halleck, after the Dune character, making it a rare instance of a Baam having a surname.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_aace9697	comment	Solar Opposites: Two of the Shlorpians are named Terry and Jesse, whose names are in contrast to the other two named Korvo and Yumyulack so as to show that the former two like being on Earth while the latter two do not.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_abc055a9	comment	Jelly Jamm: Mina and Rita are aliens from Jammbo. They also have the only normal names in the series.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_b10207a5	comment	A Norse god-powered alien cyborg named "Beta Ray" Bill. Just Bill, for short.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_b2fba3e0	comment	The Ultra Series does this with various of the Ultramen, where despite being set in the distant galaxy known as Nebula M-78, have several of their members having Earthling names. Such as Jack, Leo, or Max. Ultraman Taro and his son, Ultraman Taiga, both have common Japanese names, though their cases can be justified that they were both born after a handful of Ultras (in Taro's case) and later, dozens of them (in Taiga's case) had protected Earth and met people with those names.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_b36ef2c2	comment	The titular character of Paul is an alien. Justified because Tara named him after her dog after he accidentally killed him.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_bd310eaa	comment	In El Goonish Shive, William and Gillian are shapeshifters whose species is called Uryuom. Of course, those two Uryuoms were born and raised in America, so they would naturally have normal sounding names.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_c11df2bf	comment	Bakugan: The vestals from New Vestroia are a race of human-like aliens. Some of them have normal names, like Mira and Gus.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_c29f3831	comment	Subverted in Future Robot Daltanious. The King of Helios is Emperor Palmillion and his son is Prince Harlin. "Harlin" and "Palmillion" are actual human names, but even in 1995 (when the anime is set) they've fallen out of place and are considered old-fashioned. Same with other Heliosian names like "Gascon" and "Ramos" - they certainly sound odd, but they were common human names centuries ago. This is likely due to the fact that they're a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of old European empires (though a common fan interpretation is that they're one of pre-revolutionary America).
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_c3e7ab30	comment	Perfect Dark has Protector 1, better known as "Elvis."
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_c487221e	comment	Men in Black: Many of the aliens the agents encounter in the field have plain-sounding names like Frank or Bob. This even includes a gigantic, subway-dwelling, omnivorous worm called Jeff. Presumably these are all assumed names, and they would make sense for those aliens living as humans. No explanation for the giant worm, though.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_cac1ef14	comment	The series ALF has Gordon Shumway, who is the titular alien of the series. He actually prefers it if people call him ALF though.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_cf3e7a82	comment	Superman: Justified for Superman himself. He's an alien, and while his original name was Kal-El, he got renamed Clark by his adoptive parents. He's also sometimes called "Kal" by close friends, which can at least pass for a fairly normal human nickname. Justified with Supergirl. She is an alien female named Kara Zor-El, but after being adopted she is renamed Linda Lee Danvers, Linda Lang, Linda Lee or Kara Danvers (depending on the continuity) by her adoptive family. Also, her original first name is not exotic sounding anymore. Superman's clone, Superboy, originally had no name. However, Superman himself later gave him the name "Kon-El" in honor of a famous clone from Kryptonian legend. Superboy's friends in Young Justice began calling him "Kon", lampshading that it was "kind of a name" before he was adopted by Superman's foster parents and officially became "Conner Kent".
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_d7765410	comment	Parodied in every version of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. One of the alien characters takes what he thinks is a perfectly normal Earth name, to better blend in on the planet. His problem is that he thinks cars are the dominant lifeform, not humans, so he winds up with the name Ford Prefect.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_dbb6bdf2	comment	Mork & Mindy: While most alien Orkans have unusual names, one of them is named Orson.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_dc58e87b	comment	Discussed in What Tomorrow Brings. Tobias introduces himself as Elfangor's son, and Tom thinks that "Tobias" is an oddly human name for an alien Andalite.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_dfc5bbd0	comment	Dad has a species of Human Aliens living on Kepler 22-B. The names we know from that planet include Andan, Emily, and Ella.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_e081af79	comment	The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob! has a hostile, action-figure sized alien warlord who identifies himself as "he who is known as Barry."
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_e4732abc	comment	Spinoff series Stargate Atlantis has Wraith (vampiric aliens from another galaxy who've never been anywhere near Earth to their chagrin) with names such as Michael, Steve, and Todd. Naturally, these are more like nicknames applied by the human characters. However, a couple of the Wraith who've been given such names more or less adopt them, or at least respond to them in later encounters with the main characters.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_e5f9c831	comment	Awesomenauts runs the gamut, with some aliens named things like Derpl Zork or Qi'Tara, but others named Penny, Rocco, Leon, Vinnie, etc.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_e8c6ad43	comment	Nana Moon has the lunarian princess of Moon Haven on the moon, Princess Amy.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: Downplayed. The series features two alien hybrids, one of whom has the last name Torres (but the alien first name B'Elanna) and the second of whom has the completely human name Naomi Wildman. Late in the series, B'Elanna has a quarter-alien daughter, and while it's unknown what her first name will end up beingnote Though in the alternate future, it's Miral, she has her father's surname, Paris.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_f04b4111	comment	Metroid: The leader of the Space Pirate is a draconian alien named "Ridley". While not exactly a common name, it's still a real name of English origin. Made all the more jarring considering that the protagonist of the same series is named "Samus" which sounds far more alien despite her being human.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_f3b0acd8	comment	Carnival in a Fix: The Protagonist of the book is a little tailed humanoid alien girl who lives at Funfair Moon. Her name's Emily.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_f42befdb	comment	Captain Underpants: In the third book, the three aliens that come to Earth and disguise as cafeteria ladies are named Zorx, Klax, and Jennifer.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_f651fac4	comment	In Titan A.E., the Drej Queen's name is (according to the supplemental materials) "Susquehana", a slightly altered spelling of the name of a river in the Eastern United States.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_f980cee9	comment	Rod Allbright Alien Adventures: Phil the sunflower-looking Plant Alien has the only human-sounding name among the alien crew of the Ferkel. That said, it's short for Philogenus esk Piemondum.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_fb0c0a3b	comment	Voltes V: The aliens of the Boazanian Empire are Heinel, Jangal, Zuhl, Zambajil, Gurul, Belgan, Oral and...Katherine. Incidentally she's also the Only Sane Woman. Then again, some minor Boazanians are called Nina and Bernard, so human names aren't that uncommon.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_fe49cc8b	comment	Creative Galaxy: Several of the aliens have normal names, such as Arty, Georgia, Annie, and Jackson.
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An Alien Named "Bob" / int_ff9ab17f	comment	Star Trek: The Next Generation: Downplayed for Deanna Troi, who is half-Betazoid, and Alexander Rozhenko, who is three-quarters Klingon and was raised by his half-human, half-Klingon mother and human grandparents more than his fully-Klingon father.
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