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A Famous-Named Foreigner is a character hailing from some foreign nation who, due to the authors not knowing anything about local naming conventions and/or thinking it would make their nationality more recognizable and/or just being lazy, is named after some very famous person from the respective nation's history or culture. Which most of the time sounds pretty ridiculous to the local ear, due to those names often being quite rare and primarily associated with those same famous persons. This trope, as noted earlier, is often the result of Small Reference Pools. If the authors care even less, it often results in As Long as It Sounds Foreign. And of course, names do become popular because famous people have them—for example, "Muhammad" is by far the most common name for Muslim boys (and in fact, is the single most common boys' name in the world). Compare Named After Somebody Famous, when this is done deliberately as a reference, and not just with foreign characters. |
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Miss Wenceslas in Sherlock, presumably named for Wenceslaus of Bohemia. Unfortunately for the makers, the Czech version of the name is Václav, which is not used as a family name, and even if it were, would be lacking the "-ová" ending of all female surnames that have a noun root. | |
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Played with in Rally Round the Flag, Boys!: Guido di Maggio doesn't really like to play baseball, but he always has to because, as someone says to him, "Whoever heard of anybody named di Maggio who didn't feel like playing ball?" | |
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The protagonist of the Italian opera Madame Butterfly is named Benjamin Franklin Pinkerton. | |
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X-Men: The real name of the Marauders mutant Scrambler is Kim Il Sung, after the communist revolutionary leader. | |
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Wild C.A.T.s (WildStorm): Adrianna Tereshkova (The Void). | |
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Sunset Riders: El Greco, though the character appears to be Mexican. (Greco-Mexican?) | |
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On the Angel episode "Players," a Japanese character is named Takeshi Morimoto, doubtless referencing Takeshi Kaga and Masaharu Moriomto from Iron Chef. | |
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The German TV miniseries Winnetou - Der Mythos lebt, set in the Wild West, includes an episode with three Polish immigrants who incongruously share their names with three famous 20th century Polish poets (Tadeusz Różewicz, Czesław Miłosz, Zbigniew Herbert.) | |
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Apparently Jerry Jenkins and Ann M. Martin took the same creative writing class. Mallory of The Baby-Sitters Club gets a boyfriend in Australian Ben Hobart. Although that name would pass entirely unremarked in Australia. It helps that the city was named for Robert Hobart, 4th Earl of Buckinghamshire. Had she picked a different a different state capital, like Adelaide or Perth, it would have been a lot odder. |
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The Young Indiana Jones Chronicles episode "Masks of Evil" has Indy travelling to Transylvania to investigate a general named Mattias Targo, and his local link being an inkeeper named Nicholas Hunyadi. Both identify as Romanian and want independence from Austria-Hungary, even though Hunyadi is a Hungarian surname. | |
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James Bond: General Gogol and General Pushkin in The Living Daylights. General Orlov in Octopussy. Valentin Zukovsky in GoldenEye and The World Is Not Enough. Tatiana Romanova in From Russia with Love. This one, at least, was lampshaded/justified in the original novel. The Soviets viewed her with suspicion because of her surname, even though she wasn't actually related to the ex-royal family ("Romanov" is a pretty common surname and so the Soviets would have had no reason to suspect anyone solely because of their surname). |
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The owner of the Shelbyville nuclear power station in The Simpsons is named Aristotle Amadopolis, in reference to the most famous Greek shipping tycoon of all time: Aristoteles (English: Aristotle) Onassis. | |
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In BloodRayne you have to kill Dr. Bathory Mengele. | |
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The British prime minister in Empress Theresa is named Peter Blair. | |
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Major General Abraham Lincoln in Fantasy Mission Force might be a case of this. (Though it's possible he is meant to be the historical Lincoln; it's that kind of movie.) | |
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The Pillars of the Earth: The family Jack stays with in Toledo identify as "Christian Arabs" and have names like Rashid al-Haroun. While this might be possible for Christians in the Middle East, it is evident that Ken Follett confused the Spanish Mudejars (Moors under Christian rule, who kept Arab traditions including names) with the Mozarabs (Iberian Christians who adopted some Arab trappings while under Muslim rule, but were conscious about their Visigothic heritage, had Roman-Visigothic names, and spoke a Latin-derived language). By 1145, 60 years after the conquest of Toledo, the Mozarabs had lost any Arab-Muslim influence and integrated into the dominant Christian society. There was no such thing as a "Christian Arab" in the city, nor any incentive for anyone to identify as one. | |
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In Frankenstein 1970, the Baron's hulking servant who is doubling as the monster in the Film Within a Film is named Hans Himmler. And his given name is only revealed in the credits. For most of the movie, he is just addressed as Himmler. | |
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Alan Mendelsohn, the Boy from Mars has Clarence Yojimbo, author of Yojimbo's Japanese-English Dictionary. Subverted by the revelation that he's not actually Japanese but Venusian. | |
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The Spaniard in Narcos is named Efram Gonzales after a Colombian 20th century bandit, even though he's supposed to be a Spaniard (unsurprisingly, the name isn't Spaniard-sounding at all). | |
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Tamagotchi: Bill is modeled after American foreigner stereotypes, and is named after Bill Clinton, US president at the time the Tamagotchi toys launched. | |
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Harry Potter has the WronskiFeint, named for a Polish Seeker. Wronski is pronounced the same as Vronsky, Anna's lover in Anna Karenina. Although in this case there is also a "Wronskian" in math. (Yes, invented by some guy named "Wronski". Jozef Hoene-Wronski, in fact.) It's pronounced "Vronsky" as well. |
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Invisible Kid II from the Legion of Super-Heroes was named Jacques Foccart. For added irony appeal, he was also black. | |
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In the Tatort set in Münster, Frank Thiel's assistant, Nadeshda Krusenstern, was born in the former Soviet Union to a family of German extraction. Her family name is that of the commander of the first Russian circumnavigation of the world (in Russian he was called Ivan Fyodorovich Kruzenshtern), and Nadezhda ("Hope", which actually is a very common Russian given name for women) was the name of one of his two ships. | |
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In the late 1980s sitcom Head of the Class, an Indian-American character is named "Jawaharlal Choudhury." Not only do the given name and the family name unlikely to be paired in a real Indian person because they come from two different ethnicities, but also "Jawaharlal" is obviously taken from the name of India's first prime minister, Jawaharlal Nehru. Also, naming fashions change from generation to generation in India; thus, to an Indian, someone named Jawaharlal should have been born in the late 19th century, not someone who is a teenager in 1986. | |
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The Benengeli family in the anime Nasu: Summer in Andalusia is Spanish but is named after Cide Hamete Benengeli, a fictional Arab author in Don Quixote. | |
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The Tibetian bicycle repairman reincarnated as a supercomputer in The Long Earth is also named Lobsang. As Sir Terry Pratchett once said, in regard to Lobsang Dibbler: | |
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The Kindaichi Case Files has a young boy genius called Chris Einstein. | |
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Final Fantasy VII has a fat villain named Heidegger, with an annoying laugh. He is in no way to be confused with either the Dr. Heidegger in Nathaniel Hawthorne's short story or the eponymous German philosopher, author of "Being and Time," an inquiry into the nature and meaning of existence. | |
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The random name generator in Europa Universalis III will occasionally churn out a name that belonged to a famous historical figure, not least because the Polish surnames in the generator's data file all belonged to figures of note in Renaissance Poland. | |
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Arsenic and Old Lace has a Doctor Einstein. Somewhat lampshaded in that Elaine expresses obvious surprise at hearing his name. The play goes even further when Jonathan clears it up for her by revealing that his first name is Herman, not Albert. | |
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Ultimate Marvel Captain Italy: Umberto Landi. | |
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Lucky Dog 1 has Giancarlo Bourbon del Monte, Giulio di Bondone and possibly Alessandro del Salto / del Sarto. | |
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Dracula could be considered a case of this. Many adaptations make Stoker's Count Dracula and Vlad the Impaler (aka Vlad Dracula) the same person, and there are hints at this in the book, but scholars debate how much of this was intentional on Bram Stoker's part and how much was just him cobbling various bits of Romanian history together. | |
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In Girl Genius, Boris Myshkin-Dolokhov shares last names with major characters from The Idiot and War and Peace, respectively. | |
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In Max Payne, the resident Russian mobster boss is called Vladimir Lem. Sound familiar? "Lem" probably refers to the Polish sci-fi author Stanisław Lem, who was very popular in USSR. |
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The Mission: Given the story's setting in colonial RÃo de la Plata, it is hard to not see the surnames Mendoza and Cabeza being based on some of the first Spanish governors of the region, Pedro de Mendoza and Cabeza de Vaca. | |
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In the Thomas Harris novel Hannibal Rising, Hannibal Lecter has a Japanese aunt-by-marriage named Lady Murasaki Shikibu. The historic Murasaki Shikibu is best known as the author of The Tale of Genji, one of the world's earliest novels as well as one of the most famous and significant works of Japanese literature. The character in the book is said to be a descendant of the historic author, but this doesn't make the name much more plausible because "Murasaki Shikibu" was the author's pen name. The author's real personal name is unknown, but she was a member of the Fujiwara clan. "Shikibu" isn't even an actual Japanese family name, it was a reference to the court position held by the historic author's father. | |
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In the 1960 13 Ghosts, the main character is named Cyrus Zorba, and the uncle who leaves him the house is Dr. Plato Zorba. By the time of the 2001 remake, the names were probably considered too silly and were changed to Arthur and Cyrus Kriticos, respectively. | |
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In the Night Watch series of novels, there is the Czech vampire VÃtÄ›zslav HrubÃn. While "VÃtÄ›zslav" is a common name, this combination obviously is merging names of two famous Czech poets, VÃtÄ›zslav Nezval and FrantiÅ¡ek HrubÃn. | |
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On one episode of American Dad!, a Greek butcher named Hercules is introduced. At only one point is the correlation between his name and the mythological hero pointed out, in the form of a pun in his store signage ("Witness the 7 Meats of Hercules!") Otherwise, the name is treated as perfectly normal name. This is particularly noticeable because Hercules is the Roman name for the Greek hero Herakles, and a Greek having the former name ahead of the latter, if either, is quite odd. Forms of Hercules are actually used in some languages, such as the Italian Ercole and the French Hercule. |
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The current führer of Reich-5 and successor to Viktor Alchsneiss is named Günter Wallraff. In our world, that's the (first AND last) name of a decidedly leftist German investigative journalist. Makes you wonder how much research they did on that. | |
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The Doctor Who episode Dinosaurs on a Spaceship features the Indian Space Agency, directed by a woman named Indira, after former prime minister Indira Ghandi. | |
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The X-Files, in the episode set in Norway, introduces the Norwegian fisherman... Trondheim (also the name of one of Norway's biggest and most important cities, and a former capital). While naming kids after cities or places is not unusual in the States, it is not a part of Norwegian naming conventions at all, neither as given names or surnames. On the other hand, Trondheim is established as having been born in Pensacola, which is in Florida... | |
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Chilly Beach also had a Russian hockey player named Gogol. | |
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There is another Václav Havel in The War That Came Early by Harry Turtledove, as the Czech soldier viewpoint character in a World War II started over the Sudeten Crisis. | |
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World Heroes: Rasputin. Note that this character is not the Real Life Grigoriy Rasputin, as some may think. According to The Other Wiki, the World Heroes Rasputin is "a philosopher of XIII century Russia, was also a known alchemist and sorcerer". | |
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Stargate SG-1: Colonel Chekov. | |
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Gyatso from Avatar: The Last Airbender and Tenzin from The Legend of Korra are both named after Dalai Lama Tenzin Gyatso. | |
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Gunbuster has mostly Japanese characters, named after people on the staff, and one foreign character (Toren Smith) named after a well-known manga translator. When it came to the female German pilot, though, they fell headlong into this trap, ending up with Jung Freud, which is... not exactly a name anyone is likely to have: "Jung" is actually a not uncommon German ... family name (it means: "young"). | |
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Not Cortez but obviously related: The Borgias replaces the historical "Great Captain", Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba, with a fictional veteran of the American conquest named Hernando de Caballos. | |
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As did Thief of Time, set in a Fantasy Counterpart Culture version. There's also "Lobsang Dibbler" in Witches Abroad. Since this is an example of a conman using the same name as a probable conman, it could be described as authentically inauthentic. |
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Global Frequency: Danny Gulpilil. | |
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Bubblegum Crisis: Nene Romanova. Note that Romanov(a) is a common Russian surname, and most Romanovs in real life have absolutely no connection to the royal dynasty. On the other hand, Nene isn't a proper Russian name, but a Japanese name and a Bavarian nickname. |
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The title character of Athena Voltaire shares a name with the famous Voltaire, but Voltaire actually invented his as a pen name. That said, Athena's father was a well-known performer, and it's quite possible it wasn't his real name either — he may have borrowed Voltaire for the stage, and since Athena became part of his act, she may have become known by it too.note "Voltaire" is in fact an actual surname but it's more likely to be borne by people of Haitian descent, it's almost unheard of in France. | |
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The Monk, a vampiric foe of Batman, shares his names with possibly the two most famous Romanians who have ever lived: Nicolae Ceaușescu (albeit in an alternate Romanisation of the first name) and Vlad the Impaler. And at least one of these has very strong connections to vampirism. | |
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Trinity Blood has a character named Václav Havel, same as the first Czech president. | |
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For a fictional example, while Middle-earth: Shadow of Mordor and its sequel did extensive research on the various conlangs invented by J. R. R. Tolkien, the names of Gondorian original characters seem to have all been pulled from the ones already mentioned in The Lord of the Rings with mixed results as to their meanings. For instance, while protagonist Talion has a very appropriate translation as "Man of the Valley", his wife Ioreth (who is still fairly young) means "The Old One", which in LOTR was probably the nickname "Granny" for an elderly nurse. | |
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In A Night at the Opera, Chico Marx's stock Italian character is named Fiorello. Fiorello La Guardia was mayor of New York City at the time the movie was made. | |
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One of the Indiana Jones novels has two Mongolian characters named Jamukka and Bortay. | |
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Darker than Black: Justified in that Mao literally means cat and the character in question is a guy trapped in a cat body—and it's a code name, not his real name. | |
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Sergeant Octavio Cortez in Joe Haldeman's The Forever War. | |
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Blackhawk: Janos Prohaska. Note that Blackhawk is Polish, the RealLife Janos Prohaska was Hungarian, the surname is Czech (Slovakia was part of Hungary until 1918), and the first name isn't Polish either (that would be Janusz). | |
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Dragon Quest IV: Pisarro. | |
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In Shadowrun Returns RPG videogame, a "Lobatchevsky crime syndicate" is mentioned several times. The surname is both very rare and a household name in Russia (it is synonymous with non-Euclidean geometry in conventional speech). | |
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Star Trek: The Original Series: Pavel Chekov. | |
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Red Alert: Major Vladimir Kosygin. Yuri & Daniel Molotov. |
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The Italian Vellian Crowler in the Japanese version of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX was named Chronos de Medici. | |
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Also Lampshaded in a What If? one-shot where Natasha, Piotr and Illyana are part of a Stalinist Fantastic Four; Stalin claims to tell a lot about people by their names, and to be rather suspicious of these ones. "My own name means - " taps Colossus " - Man of Steel." | |
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Arms trafficker Claudio Vega in the pilot episode of Undercovers. | |
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At one point in WET, Rubi is put in contact with a Czech woman named Kafka Dvorak. Kafka is a last name! (And the above-mentioned ending convention for female surnames applies as well.) | |
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The creators of Combat Mission: Beyond Overlord decided to be nice enough to give Polish soldiers Polish names (every individual in the game had an individual name). They gave them ones they could find in the Internet quickly, though. So you could commandeer Marian Krzaklewski, Jerzy Buzek, Aleksander Kwasniewski. It could be quite fun for some people to send them to their death, as the first two were not so popular at the time. Good enough that they didn't use Karol Wojtyla. The Wojtyla dynasty, however, rules what remains of Poland in Rifts. It's baffling because the main authors of RIFTS, Kevin Siembeda and Alex Marciniszyn, have Polish ancestry. |
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One of the campers in Psychonauts is named Mikhail Bulgakov. | |
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The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou: has Pelé Dos Santos, the Brazilian in the movie's Five-Token Band. Named, of course, after perhaps the most prominent Brazilian of all time (complete with the last name, which despite being very common, possibly refers to the team Pelé played for (Santos)). | |
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Tenzin, the Tibetan villager that helps Nate in Uncharted 2: Among Thieves, was most likely named after Tenzin Gyatso, the religious name of the 14th Dalai Lama. Although, to be fair, Tenzin is a very common first name in Tibet. |
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JEAN. PIERRE. POLNAREFF. Slightly diminished by the fact that this was done on purpose. Oh, Araki. | |
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Tenzing Tharkay of the Temeraire series, presumably named after Ang Tharkay and Tenzing Norgay. | |
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Back to the Future Part II: After Japan Takes Over the World, Marty McFly addresses his boss as Fujitsu-san. The problem is Fujitsu is only the name of a corporation; it is not a Japanese surname. It's a bit like having a character named Mr. Kodak. | |
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The anime Active Raid includes a Polish character named Emilia Edelman; her name is most likely taken from Marek Edelman, famous as the leader of the uprising in Warsaw's Jewish ghetto during World War II. | |
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Paz in Metal Gear Solid: Peace Walker is named Paz Ortega Andrade, referencing the Nicaraguan communist leader Daniel Ortega. | |
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One of the Albanian traffickers in Taken is named Marko Hoxha. The sequel has his uncle, Murad Hoxha, as the Big Bad. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Captain Cortez of the Crimson Fists and Lord Inquisitor Torquemada Coteaz, High Protector of the Formosa Sector. | |
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Marvel's Destiny alias Irene Adler, named for the Sherlock Holmes character, although there are a number of famous Austrians and Germans with the same surname. | |
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Jerry Jenkins has admitted to consistently using a variant of this to name foreign characters: first name of a famous foreigner, then a notable location in their country as a last name. When this fails, it really fails (e.g. Nicolae Carpathia.) | |
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The Doctor Who serial The Abominable Snowmen, which was set in a Tibetan monastery, had characters with the names of prominent historical figures in Tibetan Buddhism. | |
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Sealab 2021: Marco's full name is Marco Rodrigo Diaz de Vivar Gabriel Garcia Marquez. Note that this is a horrible mangling of actual Spanish naming practices, but then, Rule of Funny. | |
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In the English translation of Asterix in Corsica the Corsican warrior is named Boneywasawarriorwayayix, in reference to the only Corsican the British may have heard of: Napoléon Bonaparte. It is justified, however, because the character is a parody of Napoleon as seen by the French (he is a brilliant military leader, but also very paranoid, and he does the memetic hand-in-the-jacket gesture), and his French name (Ocatarinetabellachitchix) is a reference to a Corsican song that is unknown outside France. |
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In Medieval: Total War and Medieval II: Total War the characters actually have names you could find in a history book, only sometimes assigned to wrong gender or forming strange combinations (like "Jagiellon Jagiello" a century before the reign of the dynasty founder). Empire reportedly uses the name of somewhat more obscure Polish politicians (but still fun to see them time-slipped). | |
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Forms of Hercules are actually used in some languages, such as the Italian Ercole and the French Hercule. | |
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The Wire: When Jimmy McNulty goes undercover to a brothel for a sting, he uses the alias James Cromwell, after the English historical figure, complete with a comically bad I Am Very British accent. Dominic West, the actor playing McNulty is actually English. | |
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Survival of the Fittest V3's: martial arts "expert" Adonis Zorba, named for both the Greek God of beauty and Zorba the Greek. | |
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Pearls Before Swine once used Ataturk as a name for a Turkish diplomat. It's uncertain whether the author realized that this was the nickname of the Republic of Turkey's founder. It's actually his official surname, but everybody else is prohibited by law to use that particular surname. So yes, that seems like a major mess up, unless it was deliberate. |
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Hadji Singh from the Jonny Quest series. Hadji is an obviously Muslim title, and Singh is obviously Hindu or Sikh. Also, the chances of a guy named Hadji Singh being the prince of Calcutta are rather low. | |
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Soul Series: Cervantes de Leon. | |
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Criminal Minds: Beyond Borders: The Serial Killer in "El Toro Bravo" is named Xavi Alonso. Alonso is a rather common name in Spain, but Word of God is that he was named after the Basque footballer. However, this choice rather works against the show: Xavi (or Xabi) is actually short for Xavier (or Xabier), not a full given name as used in the show; and Alonso, while found in the Basque Country, is not originally Basque, yet the Alonsos are supposed to be local celebrities and possibly small nobility. In such case Alonso would probably have a more uncommon or compound last name, like the real Alavese surname Alonso de MezquÃa. The same episode has a Spanish priest named "Consolmango". Given all the references to Jesuits, he is probably named after Guy Consolmagno, who is actually American (and his surname, Italian). |
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The Chinese film Tai Chi Zero has an English woman (played by a half-white, half-Chinese actress) named Claire Heathrow. | |
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A third Garibaldi appears in Chrysalis Visits The Hague as an Italian aide-de-camp to the defence (first name: Filippo). | |
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Similar to the above, Gaëtan "Mole" Molière from Atlantis: The Lost Empire is named after famous French screenwriter and actor Molière, despite it being a made-up stage name rather than a proper French surname. | |
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The pirate in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. | |
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In The Cheetah Girls sequel the girls befriend a rising Spanish pop star named Marisol. In reality no 21st-century Spanish audience would take such name seriously, because of a child singer named Marisol in The '60s who was infamously Not Allowed to Grow Up. | |
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The Tekken series has Josie Rizal from the Philippines, a genderbent version of Jose Rizal, the country's national hero. | |
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Fiends of the Eastern Front: Grigori Eisenstein. Eisenstein is actually a Jewish name, but still... | |
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The Wojtyla dynasty, however, rules what remains of Poland in Rifts. It's baffling because the main authors of RIFTS, Kevin Siembeda and Alex Marciniszyn, have Polish ancestry. | |
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In What Remains of Edith Finch, the oldest member of the Finch family was a Norwegian settler named Odin Finch. | |
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Code Geass: Bismarck Waldstein. Or perhaps this one, though the two were related. Jeremiah Gottwald. Nina Einstein (this could be a reference to her invention of the atomic bomb, a project to which Albert contributed) |
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Natasha Romanova. | |
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Family Guy: Peter Griffin's conquistador ancestor, Ponce de Leon Griffin (obviously a parody of Juan Ponce de León). | |
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Captain Tsubasa: The two main players of the French team are named El Sid Pierre, and Louis Napoléon. | |
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The Antichrist from the Left Behind series is named Nicolae Carpathia. To be absolutely fair, his other name is "Jetty" (?!?!) and this is hardly the only offensive moment in these novels. | |
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In one of the Sherlock Holmes cases, "The Adventure of the Creeping Man", Doyle has a Czech character named Dvorak. A. Dvorak. Admittedly, Dvořák is indeed a very common Czech surname, but first names beginning with A not so much. | |
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Perhaps best used in Work Time Fun in the Rock–Paper–Scissors World Tournament mini-game. The Romanian character in the world league championships is named "Mayor Dracula." In fact, just about every opponent in that minigame falls under this trope, including "Victoria Potter" from England and "George Spielberg" from America. | |
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Street Fighter: Vega, the cage-fighting Spaniard. What? What do you mean it's a coincidence?! | |
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There's also the Garibaldi Temple in Castlevania: Curse of Darkness. Along with other oddities such as a town named Cordova in the middle of Valachian forests. | |
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Len Wein has gone on record that he came up with Nightcrawler's civilian name in 1975 by combining the first name of Kurt Waldheim (Austria, then secretary-general of the United Nations) with the family name of Richard Wagner. Kurt Wagner would hardly raise as much as an eyebrow with a native speaker, though. | |
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George de Sand from Mobile Fighter G Gundam. George Sand was the Moustache de Plume of a woman. It's meant to sound English — the French form of "George" is Georges and the French word for "sand" is sable. | |
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St Trinians school, in the 2007 film, has a French teacher called Miss Maupassant. | |
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Empire Earth has Sergei Molotov as the second hero of the Russian campaign (even more obvious since the first protagonist had dreams of resurrecting the Soviet Union, and his replacement tries to have Molotov killed). | |
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In Eyeshield 21, Panther's all-American, white best friend is named Homer. Not exactly a common name in the States due to who it's associated with... | |
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Fate/hollow ataraxia has Luvia Edelfelt, a Finnish Ojou and Rich Bitch extraordinaire. In Finland, Edelfelt is practically a synonym for a noble family whose members are talented architects, painters, writers et cetera. It might well be intended that in the Nasuverse, the Edelfelt line of mages are that same noble family, with those who lacked magical ability having become artists. | |
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In Babylon 5, one of the characters is Michael Garibaldi, despite Garibaldi being an uncommon surname. To reduce the perceived oddity of this choice, in the Italian dubbed version the name becomes Gariboldi. | |
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Conan the Barbarian (1982) features a Subotai as one of Conan's friends. | |
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Full Metal Panic! | |
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In season one of Downton Abbey, the family is visited by the Turkish gentleman Mr. Kemal Pamuk, a combination of two famous Turks: Mustafa Kemal (a.k.a. Atatürk), founder of the Turkish Republic and the Nobel-prize winning autor Orhan Pamuk. This is a specially poor choice because besides having a name made of two surnames, the episode takes place in 1913, and Turkish Muslims didn't have surnames until Atatürk's "Surname Law" in 1934. Mustafa's own "Kemal" ("Perfection") was a nickname originally given to him by his school teacher. | |
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Early in the movie Swordfish, a Finnish hacker is arrested. His first name, Axl, is not a commonly used Finnish name, but his last name is Torvalds — just like a certain other Finnish hacker. Axel, however, is a common enough Scandinavian name (a variant of "Absalom"), and it fits quite well with the Germanic-based surname (akin e. g. to Thorvaldsen, the name of a Danish sculptor). |
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Enforced by the random generator that names the explorer unit in Age of Empires III. The first name and the last name are drawn from separate lists, both of which are based on historical European explorers and conquerors. You can end playing with Cristóbal Cortés or Francis Smith. | |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation had Captain Picard, a scientist-explorer, who sounds suspiciously like the (French-Swiss) Piccard brothers, who were scientist-explorers. Or Jean-Felix Picard, a 17th century French astronomer. Captain Picard mentions he comes from a family of explorers, implying he is a distant descendant of said famous Picards. |
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Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom named the Big Bad after the influential Indian painter Mola Ram/ | |
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