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Mr. Smith

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The stereotypical anonymous and unmemorable name, usually "John Smith" (or "Jane Smith" for women). Other examples include "John Doe/Jane Doe/Richard Roe" (used in legal documents about a person whose name is unknown, or is being concealed, and in American hospitals for unknown dead people or comatose patients) or common names like "Johnson" or "Jones". The equivalent in Japanese works is "Tar� Yamada" for men and "Hanako Yamada" for women.
The success of this trope is supposed to work due to just how common and unremarkable it is. If you take a name like "Xavier", people will recognize it and remember it. "John Smith" is just so average that you're forgettable, and even if they do recall you, it will be nearly impossible to track down. Subversions can occur with people either recognizing that it's way too common, or a person might try the alias in a time or place where it isn't actually common.
Note: This trope only refers to someone using an obvious pseudonym — not someone whose name just happens to be Smith, as in the title character of Mr. Smith Goes to Washington.
The Men in Black, The Spook or The Nondescript are likely to do this, as is the Operator from India. See also Smithical Marriage (when an unmarried couple uses the Mr and Mrs Smith alias as a Paper-Thin Disguise) and The Nameless. May involve a Stock Foreign Name.
Compare Alan Smithee, No Name Given, Sue Donym, Real Name as an Alias and Special Person, Normal Name. Ominous Mundanity subverts this trope.
Wikipedia has a list of placeholder names around the world.
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In Batman: The Telltale Series, one of the characters in Season 1, Episode 4 simply goes by the name of John Doe. However, thanks to his white skin and green hair, the player would immediately know who he really is. Justified, as he's living in a mental asylum and refuses to give, or doesn't remember, his birth name.
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Asylum: When Peter Cushing's character places his order for the strange suit in "The Weird Tailor", Bruno asks for his name. After a moment's hesitation, he replies "Smith". Thereafter, the character is only referred to as "Mr. Smith".
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A straight example in Different Seasons: "Jane Smith" is the name the unwed mother chooses.
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Chaser John Doe, a Badass monster cat dream demon armed with a guillotine from Dream Eater Merry.
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MILGRAM: Mikoto Kayano's first voice drama is titled "John Doe", a nod to his initial presentation as a Ridiculously Average Guy. In his second voice drama, Es names Mikoto's alter "John" for convenience because it's the name assigned to unidentified male bodies.
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Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America. When the title character is press-ganged into the army, his mentor Sam Goodwin advises Julian to give a false name to hide himself from his Evil Uncle (who happens to run the entire country, let alone the army) noting that Smith is a popular choice. Adam Hazzard thinks that given Julian's aristocratic bearing Smith, Jones or such is hardly suitable. As it happens, Julian starts to blurt out his real name only to quickly change it when Sam kicks him, so ends up going by the name Julian Commongold.
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In Bleach, Hanatar� Yamada's name is a combination of Tar� Yamada and Hanako Yamada; the Western equivalent would be something like Jack Smith.
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In the Decoy episode "Scape Goat", a woman taking her mentally disabled son to a public institution introduces herself to the receptionist as Mrs. Smith. The receptionist doesn't buy it but writes the name down anyway.
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In Inquisitor Carrow Chronicles, The God-Emperor Of Mankind is disguised as a particle physicist at CERN, complete with the alias Jon Schmidt.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2024): A spy agency puts the main characters together in a fake marriage and assigns them new identities to live under: John and Jane Smith. We don't learn their real first names (Michael and Alana) until the season finale.
Through John #2 and Jane #2, the titular characters find out there are other Smith pairs that have been created by the agency.
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In the pilot episode of Are You Being Served?, Mr. Humphries and Mr. Lucas find a booklet that Captain Peacock dropped, indicating that he is a member of the Blue Cinema Club. His alias — Captain John Smith.
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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. When Butch and Sundance decide to give up crime, they tell their employer that their names are Smith and Jones.
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In the 2016 interactive movie Late Shift, Matt and May-Ling check into a hotel under the surname Smith if they end up on the run together.
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In the Black Widowers story "Northwestward", Mr Wayne reveals that he has a house in North Dakota, northwest of the convention in Minneapolis, where the people who care for the place in his absence know him as a 'Mr Smith'.
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The King's Speech. The Duchess of York goes to meet speech therapist Lionel Logue under the alias of Mrs. Johnson, causing him to commit a number of faux pas before she reveals she's a member of the royal family. Johnson was the cover name used by the Duke of York when he was a serving naval officer during World War I, to hide his identity from the enemy.
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One of the characters you meet in Another Code R calls himself this while he's performing an investigation of Lake Juliet. His real name is eventually found out.
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In Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond checks into a hotel as Mr. Jones. Then again given that he was played by Sean Connery, maybe he was referring to another Jones.
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In tone with the game's unimaginative/terrible naming, in Yandere Simulator, the protagonist's obsession Senpai, is called Taro Yamada and his sister is called Hanako Yamada.
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Lampshaded in Rick and Morty in a post-credits scene, in which a Vampire Monarch learns that their sleeper agent "Coach Feratu" was killed. He finds the moniker utterly ridiculous and declares that vampires should stop making gimmicky names and use normal names like "Alan Jefferson".
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The F.B.I.: In "Pound of Flesh", Erskine and Jim track down a pair of suspects to a No-Tell Motel where they had checked in as the Smith brothers. When Jim asks "Smith?", the proprietor replies:
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During Houseguest, the loan sharks after our hero Sinbad try to follow him into the exclusive golf course he's playing at. When asked at the front desk what name their reservation is under, one blurts out "Smith" at the same time the other does "Miller". Luckily for them, a family named the Miller-Smiths happens to have a reservation and so they are admitted without further delay.
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In Your Turn to Die, Gonbee Yamada's name is blatantly made up and immediately draws suspicion. His names are the rough equivalent of John Doe and John Smith, respectively.
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Supernatural. Lampshaded in Season 7 after a Leviathan is able to track down Sam and Dean via their Themed Aliases.
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In the Sherlock Holmes (BBC Radio) episode "The Eye of Horus", when a panicky man on the run from both criminals and the police dithers over giving his name to a lodging house, the landlady rather sarcastically suggests "Smith is very popular". He takes her up on it, claiming to be John Smith.
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This was the original intention behind the name James Bond, but the character became so iconic that the name now immediately makes you think of him.
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Where's Willie?: While Willie is The Runaway, he introduces himself to a stranger on the bus as Billy Smith.
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The protagonist in A Fistful of Dollars is actually called "Joe" in the script but as his name wasn't spoken on-screen, Clint Eastwood instead became The Man With No Name.
And in the remake Last Man Standing, no-one even pretends to believe that "John Smith" is the protagonist's real name.
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Played for laughs when Martha Jones goes undercover in Torchwood. Ianto gives her the name "Samantha" as part of her cover, followed by, "I thought the 'Jones' would be safe." (Ianto's last name is also "Jones".)
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The Big Bang Theory has Leonard rhetorically ask Sheldon whom he met at lunch. After a moment, Sheldon guesses "Mohammad Li," on the basis that Mohammad is the most common first name in the world, and Li the most common surname. Surprisingly, it wasn't even close.
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The Story Between a Dumb Prefect and a High School Girl with an Inappropriate Skirt Length: When Kogori asks Yamato's Gyaru Girl alter ego her name, she fumbles and says "Yamada Hanako".
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In Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge Guybrush tries to trick a guard who is on the lookout for him thus:
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A downplayed example in 3rd Rock from the Sun. The Solomons are aliens living incognito on Earth, and the males are literally named Tom, Dick, and Harry. At one point Don realizes this while using the phrase, and is met with paranoid looks by the family.
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In one of the Deathlands novels, Ryan Cawdor secretly returns to the barony from which he was outlawed. One of his companions suggest he use the alias "John Doe", and Ryan is not pleased to be told it's a pre-Apocalypse term for "corpses that have no name".
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The Metal Gear series has the recurring villain (and sometimes playable protagonist) Naked Snake/Big Boss, who manages to remain pretty anonymous and mysterious throughout the series, and the only part of his real name to ever be revealed is his first name, which just so happens to be "John" (and even then it is suggested that it is possibly another alias). Some of his comrades even just know him by the name "John Doe".
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In Persona 5, during the sixth palace, a casino, the group needs a player card in order to proceed. Futaba, using her hacking skills, makes a card under the name "Taro Tanaka", but they realize the name is too generic, so she makes up a different name. Crow decides to use the first one, which actually works.
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According to Dave Barry Slept Here, the leader of the Jamestown colony was "'John Smith' (not his real name)". The joke is that it was his real name.
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In Daddy-Long-Legs, Judy's Anonymous Benefactor instructs her to address her correspondence to "John Smith". She dislikes the pseudonym because it is so bland and calls him "Daddy-Long-Legs" instead, because the only thing she knows about him is that he's tall and thin. His real name is eventually revealed to be Jervis Pendleton.
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James Bond:
In Diamonds Are Forever, James Bond checks into a hotel as Mr. Jones. Then again given that he was played by Sean Connery, maybe he was referring to another Jones.
In A View to a Kill, Bond plays with this trope, introducing himself with the alias of St. John Smythe, although not before the person checking his invitation misreads it as Smith.
The Big Bad in Skyfall is named "Silva", the most common surname in the Portuguese speaking world. As soon as he is first called that, he immediately demands to be called by his real name.
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For the original publications of John Dies at the End author Jason Pargin used "David Wong" as a pseudonym because he had used that name as a comedy writer on his own blog and later on Cracked when he became it's editor-in-chief. In the book, the character David Wong uses that name as a sarcastic joke, since "Wong" is an even more popular surname globally than Smith or Jones, even though the character isn't the least bit Asian.
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At the start of Fly Me to the Moon, Tsukasa lists her parents' names as Tarou and Hanako on her marriage registration form. Her parents have never been shown or mentioned, but it's likely that the names she provided are fake, since they fall into this trope.
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Averted in The Sarah Jane Adventures. Sarah Jane never has to use an alias because her last name actually is Smith. A planned Series 5 episode that went unfinished due to Elisabeth Sladen's death would have seen the Smiths' "space computer" (who is actually named Mr. Smith) become human. Since the episode was never finished, we never learned whether Mr. Smith would have taken the first name John in tribute to the Doctor.
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From Kangaroo Jack:
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The Agents are men in black who use generic surnames like Brown or Jones. Their leader is, of course, Agent Smith. Smith later goes rogue and becomes a Big Bad in his own right, but keeps the name.
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Black Lagoon. Balalaika introduces herself as Captain Jane Doe to a US black ops group.
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In the second season of iZombie, Blaine adopts the alias "John Deaux". When he becomes a person of interest in a couple cases Clive and Bozzio are working, they figure it's an alias and quickly find his real name.
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Die Hard mocks this by having two Agent Johnsons show up. ("No relation.") One's white, the other black. Amusingly, at one point when one of the agents is making a call to have the power to Nakatomi Plaza cut, he identifies himself as "Agent Johnson. No, the other one."
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The Further Adventures of Indiana Jones: In #3, Indy is imprisoned by a paranoid army colonel. When asked his name—alomst as an afterthought—he starts to say 'Indiana', but hurriedly corrects himself and gives his name as 'John Smith'. Colonel Hannigan doesn't even notice anything odd about, and merely comments that the name sounds familiar.
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On The Vampire Diaries, Elijah takes on "Smith" as his last name. Needless to say, it doesn't go unnoticed.
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In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Zuko goes by the name of Lee in his incognito persona. And Sokka's Master tells him to use this name because "There are a thousand Lees."
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The Golden Hamster Saga: In Freddy in Peril, the Mad Scientist Professor Fleischkopf introduces himself to Mr. John as Professor Schmidt. Freddy suspects he's lying because he pauses slightly before saying the name.
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Kyon from Haruhi Suzumiya used John Smith as an alias. He is a Japanese person in Japan, so it was never intended to be taken seriously. Possibly a reference to Doctor Who, since Kyon was time travelling at the time. The name has since become a Trust Password between him and Haruhi. If Kyon reveals that he was John Smith, Haruhi will believe anything he tells her, even in an alternate timeline where they never met in high school.
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In the manga adaptation of Roselia's story from BanG Dream!, the representative of Queen Records who tries to recruit Yukina gives her a business card, and the name on the card is "Hana Yamada." The woman's name was never given in the original story.
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In Demon Knight, Brayker checks into the hotel under the name of 'Mister Smith'. He pays Irene enough in cash that she doesn't care.
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In The Replacement Killers, Chow Yun-Fat's character gives his name as "John Lee", which Mira Sorvino notes is obviously a generic alias... and then it turns out that, no that is his name.
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Psychonauts 2 has the mail clerk who has the unusual name Nick Johnsmith. This generic name serves as a hint that "Nick Johnsmith" is just an alias.
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Lampshaded in The Gray Man (2022) when Sierra Six goes to have a fake passport made, though as he wants an Ecuadorian passport the forger suggests that Juan Pablo would be more appropriate than John Smith.
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The Goodies Rule - OK?, the winning candidate for election is a clothing dummy called John "I'm No Dummy" Smith.
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The Evil That Men Do. Charles Bronson plays a hitman who introduces himself to a target as "Bart Smith", a tourist from Nebraska.
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In A View to a Kill, Bond plays with this trope, introducing himself with the alias of St. John Smythe, although not before the person checking his invitation misreads it as Smith.
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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005), about a pair of married assassins called John and Jane Smith. Strangely, the trope is only lampshaded once, when Jane asks for a database search on her husband and her assistant points out it's the most common name in the English language.
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The Lord of the Rings: In The Fellowship of the Ring, Frodo Baggins travels under the common hobbit name of "Mr. Underhill". It backfires when he reaches Bree and meets a group of hobbits actually named Underhill who, being genealogy buffs (a common interest among hobbits) ask him detailed questions about this supposed lineage to try and find out how their families are related.
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In Hitoribocchi no OO Seikatsu, one of Bocchi's classmates, who happens to be a friend of Aru's, is named Hanako Yamada. Her name stands out from the rest of Bocchi's classmates due to not having a pun in it, and sounds more normal than the rest of the class.
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In Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online, the novelist who sponsored the first and third Squad Jams sends an email announcing a Test Play tournament, which he says was the idea of an acquaintance from Zaskar (GGO's developer), and refers to that person as "Mr. Smith" in the email.
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The Mrs. Hawking play series: In Vivat Regina, "Mrs. Johanna Braun" — which translates to Joan Brown — is clearly a pseudonym used by the client.
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18if has the Dream Witch go by the name Hanako Sumitomo in both the dream world and her blogs. The English subtitles even switch to calling her Jane Doe to keep the effect.
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Ghost in the Shell: SAC_2045. John Smith, an NSA agent of the American Empire, is a stereotypical Man In Black type, though he's also an expy of Agent Smith from The Matrix, looking and sounding like Hugo Weaving.
The main character of the series also has an obviously fake name. Translated from Japanese to English, "Motoko Kusanagi" is roughly equivalent to "Jane Excalibur", and the first chapter of the original manga states that it's an obvious pseudonym, though Motoko's real name is never revealed.
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Hogan's Heroes. Colonel Klink is buried under paperwork and the heroes need him free for one of their zany schemes. Hogan gives him the idea that while buried under paperwork at the Pentagon, he marked all of his work "ATTN: Colonel John Smith", as there had to be dozens of officers with that name. Since Klink can't use an obviously English name, Hogan tells him to use the literal German translation which would be Colonel Johann Schmidt.
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Not a pseudonym, but a similar phenomenon: in season 2 of Lost, Libby died before we could find out her last name. Fans clamored for years for more of Libby's story, including her last name, despite having been told by Word of God that none was forthcoming. Finally, at ComicCon between seasons 5 and 6, a montage of deceased characters finally gave her the name... Smith. It was as if the writers said, "You need her name? OK, it's Smith."
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"Mr. Smith" is a common fake name in the spy-filled world of Darker than Black, which most people in the business treat as "I wish to remain anonymous". November 11 uses it in the first season, while the second season has a character only known by this title.
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Foundation Series' "The Mayors": To hide the fact that Poly Verisof, high priest and ambassador representing Terminus, is visiting Mayor Hardin, he makes an appointment as Jan Smite (which sounds similar/identical to John Smith depending on your accent).
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In City Heat (1984) two elderly gentlemen arrive at a brothel. One is greeted by the madam as "Mr. Smith", and he introduces his companion who's also called Smith.
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In the Getting Together episode "Breaking Up Is Hard to Do," Lionel tells Bobby during their Break-Up/Make-Up Scenario that he has a new songwriting partner named Smith. He can't remember if Smith's first name is Joe, Bill, or Jim.
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Hopscotch. Myerson introduces himself and Joe Cutter as Smith and Jones while trying to bully Kendig's publisher into not printing his expose of CIA dirty tricks. The publisher dryly says, "You must be Myerson," in response.
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The Professionals. In "Servant with Two Masters", Cowley orders Bodie and Doyle to keep surveillance on an Arab businessman called Mahlik, but won't say why. Bodie notes that Mahlik is the Arabic equivalent of Smith.
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One episode of Sliders had our heroes recognize a spy who used this name. However, he had picked because in that world, it's apparently the name of a Greek god.
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In A Song of Ice and Fire:
When Jaime suspiciously asks Osney Kettleblack who gave him his knighthood, he says, "Ser Robert... Stone", which is an obviously generic name in Westeros. Robert is the name of the previous king, making it especially common, and "Stone" is a generic surname for bastards from the Vale. Jaime also thinks the last name may have come as a result of Kettleblack looking at the stone wall of the room as he answered.
Qyburn calls his Frankenstein's monster of a knight "Ser Robert Strong". Robert, again, for the previous king, and Strong because he's, well, strong. There's also a House Strong which was effectively destroyed many years before.
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The A-Team: There is a running gag in the movie that whenever Agent Lynch introduces himself to someone (usually someone rather Genre Savvy), they make a point of asking him if he's related to some other Agent Lynch that they knew in a previous operation. Eventually, another CIA agent appears near the end of the film and introduces himself as Agent Lynch.
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: Jack Sparrow gives the harbormaster a few shillings so he doesn't have to tell his name. The harbormaster thinks about this for a beat, then welcomes "Mr. Smith" to Port Royal. He later gives his name as "Smith" to two guards on the dock asking for his name, who clearly aren't fooled.
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Colonel Kwiatkowski invokes, discusses and exploits the trope as the basis of its plot. Kwiatkowski is one of the most common Polish surnames, so barely anyone pays attention to yet another colonel nor bothers to check if he's real.
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When they take their first case as Blunt's Brilliant Detectives in Partners in Crime, Tommy deeply impresses his first client (who admittedly, is a bit of an idiot) by deducing that "Er ... Smith" isn't his real name. Tommy, in Sherlock Holmes mode, goes on to expound that he doesn't know anyone called Smith, and is thinking of writing a monograph on the subject. He's a bit taken aback when a real Smith appears by the end of the case.
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Played with in An Alan Smithee Film: Burn Hollywood Burn where the director wants to take his name off the film but can't, because his name really is Alan Smithee.
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In an episode of Bergerac, Bergerac finds a man has checked into a hotel using the name "James Smythe", which Begerac remarks is nothing more than an upper-class version of "John Smith".
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Robot Wars: When taking part in Techno Games the Plunderbird team referred to themselves as the Smith brothers.
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Save the Enemy: After Ben is shot in the arm while investigating his and Zoey's father's disappearance, Zoey tells the hospital that his name is Hank Smith, and he was accidentally shot with a BB gun by his cousin Bob Smith.
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Spoofed in The Commish. The coroner slides open a fridge labelled "John Doe" and is outraged to discover an illegally-shot doe the police commissioner is holding for evidence.
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"Breeds There a Man...?": When Dr Ralston gets himself thrown in jail, he gives "John Smith" as his name.
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The Matrix: Path of Neo has a slightly bigger part for Agents Jackson, Johnson and Thompson from The Matrix Reloaded example above.
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Used loosely in Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All. The classy assassin Shelly DeKiller imitates a butler and uses the name John Doe. No one is Genre Savvy enough to think this guy might be a little suspicious. In Japanese, his name is 'Tarou Tanaka' instead, which is every bit as generic.
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Mystery Road: Pete is mentioned as having rented a hotel room under the name William Smith.
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In Bill, a disguised King Philip II of Spain improvises the English pseudonym "Jeff Smith". Jeff is a name used by the film's creators in other works often enough to be a Running Gag and Smith is obviously this trope in action.
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My-HiME and My-Otome have John Smith, who is part of the Searrs Foundation in the former and the head of Schwarz in the latter, although the latter case is a name adopted by whoever is in charge; the one in Sifr is a different person from the one in the main series, whose younger self appears in Sifr.
Also from My-HiME, "Yamada" the Knowledge Broker in both has a similar name to Hanataro of Bleach, above, although Natsuki suspects that it's not his real name, especially because he doesn't look Japanese.
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In My Next Life as a Villainess: All Routes Lead to Doom!, Sora comes from a neighboring country and had a Heel–Face Turn after his introductory arc, and afterwards he is assigned to work under Larna Smith in Sorcier's Magical Ministry. He has Only One Name, but Larna gives him the last name "Smith" which he only accepted because it would make the paperwork for getting employed at Ministry of Magic easier. Catarina notes that it's especially lazy because it's the same last name Larna uses, which Catarina also suspects is fake.note And Catarina is right for once. Larna is actually Suzanna Randall, the fiancée of Jeffrey, the eldest prince.
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Young Justice (2010). As Superboy was grown in a test tube he doesn't have a real name, so has to pick one for when he goes to school.
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Deus Ex: Human Revolution has a bunch of The Men in Black showing up in sidequests. Unlike the P-series from the original game, these are human G-men types using this trope as aliases: at one point, one of them slips up and nearly says his employer's name before switching back to "Mr. Grey".
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The serial killer in Se7en uses the alias John Doe, as it's his "message" that's supposed to become famous, not himself.
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"Jones" is the last name selected for the title character (a creche-raised clone) of Friday by Robert A. Heinlein, from a list of standard creche names.
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In Shadowrun, the men who give assignments to Shadowrunners are always referred to as "Mr. Johnson", for reasons of deniability. ("No, we didn't send people to blow up the manufacturing plants of a rival MegaCorp! They were hired independently by a Mr. Johnson!") Considering how often Johnsons turn on the runners they're hiring (or intended to all along), there's a good reason for that particular name. In other regions, "Johnsons" are naturally referred to by region appropriate common names: In Germany, it's "Herr Schmidt" or "Herr Müller", in Japan "Mr. Tanaka" and in Hong Kong "Mr. Wu".
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The SCV portrait from the original StarCraft is named Jim Smith.
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A Team Fortress 2 tie-in comic reveals the Soldier's real name, written on the mailbox of his house: Mr. Jane Doe. Though, as the Soldier is somewhat of a paranoid nutcase, it's most likely not his real real name.
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The Old Guard. The Big Board used to track the immortal protagonists across the centuries shows the requisite "Smith" and "Jones" aliases on fake documents.
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The episode "General Hospital" of Blackadder Goes Forth featured a man with an amazing German accent in a wartime hospital introducing himself as "Meeester... Smeeth". Subverted in that he's a British spy, named Brigadier Sir Bernard Proudfoot-Smith, who picked up the accent while undercover in Germany.
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Gunslinger Girl. John Doe or "Joe The Nameless" is an alleged former CIA agent who teaches child assassin Pinocchio.
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Doctor Who:
The Doctor regularly takes on the alias "John Smith" (or "Jane Smith" if female) whenever necessary. The pseudonym first appeared in "The Wheel in Space", when Jamie saw the manufacturer's name on a piece of medical equipment. He would next use the name in "The War Games", but it wouldn't become his go-to alias until his exile on Earth, when he starts working for UNIT and gives it at the end of "Spearhead from Space" for use in their files. The new series has retconned the First Doctor as using it as well (on his library card).
"Smith and Jones" gets part of its very title from the Doctor's favourite alias.
On the whole, it works fairly well as an alias. However, it backfires on the Tenth Doctor in "Midnight", as the page quote shows. The people, already suspicious, immediately see it for a Blatant Lie. "No-one's called John Smith!" You can see by the slight hesitation and reluctance with which the Doctor gives it that he knows how suspicious they'll find it, but it is the closest thing to a real name he has to give them.
Played for laughs when Martha Jones goes undercover in Torchwood. Ianto gives her the name "Samantha" as part of her cover, followed by, "I thought the 'Jones' would be safe." (Ianto's last name is also "Jones".)
"The Next Doctor" has the Doctor going by John Smith because he's run into a man who seems to be a future incarnation of himself with memory problems, and he doesn't want to push him too hard.
Averted in The Sarah Jane Adventures. Sarah Jane never has to use an alias because her last name actually is Smith. A planned Series 5 episode that went unfinished due to Elisabeth Sladen's death would have seen the Smiths' "space computer" (who is actually named Mr. Smith) become human. Since the episode was never finished, we never learned whether Mr. Smith would have taken the first name John in tribute to the Doctor.
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Men in Black: The movie got a lot of mileage out of advertising◊ and promotional materials featuring Mr. Jones and Mr. Smith. Within the film itself, K introduces J by the generic names "Agent Black" and "Dr White" at different times. (His own aliases are the more distinctive Agent Mannheim and Dr Manville; the joke being that together they're "Man & Black".)
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Parodied in The Last Remake of Beau Geste, where every single recruit of the French Foreign Legion introduces himself as "Smith" (including the two brothers). The only exception is a blind man who calls himself "Jones" because Smith was his real name.
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In the TV series John Doe, the title character takes the name because he doesn't remember his own.
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Person of Interest. Zoe Morgan, who works as a professional fixer, is amused and naturally skeptical when John Reese introduces himself as 'John'. The irony is we later find that's actually his real name when Detective Carter discovers his special forces file. However, the audience doesn't see the rest of the name because it's obscured, other than his middle initial being H. John Reese is simply the name he uses on a day-to-day basis, as opposed to the temporary identities he uses when needed.
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The US law enforcement use of "John Doe" for an unknown victim crops up a lot in the CSI universe, unsurprisingly given the number of unidentified bodies they get to deal with in those series.
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In The Lunar Chronicles, Thorne and Cress, either of whom could be arrested just for setting foot on Earth, are found wandering in the Sahara Desert. Thorne claims that they're a honeymooning couple named the Smiths.
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Spider's Web: Henry Hailsham-Brown is involved in sensitive negotiations with a foreign dignitary who for reasons of secrecy is to be referred to as "Mr Jones". His wife, when he tells her about it, lampshades that it's very obviously a pseudonym.
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The Matrix Reloaded introduces Agents Jackson, Johnson and Thompson.
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The 1970s Western Alias Smith and Jones, though their names are Joshua Smith and Thaddeus Jones so they're not that unobtrusive. The show (and its name) were inspired by the Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid example.
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In Atlas Shrugged, Fransisco d'Anconia marvels aloud at Jim Taggart's wedding at how many men named Smith or Gomez can afford to own large chunks of his company. Of course, this just made him curious as to who was really behind those names. Many of them are at this very party. Later, he deliberately creates a panic that crashes his stock price.
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One episode of Inch High, Private Eye featured a casino hidden in a hotel. To gain access, the clients had to tell the clerk they're looking for "Mr. Smith". Its downfall started when the Pinkertons had a lawyer named Smith.
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A variation in You (2018). Cadence claims her name is "Amy Adam," which sounds like it could be a real name, but is, as Joe notes, completely impossible to look up.
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As you can read in Courier From Warsaw, a memoir of an actual covert operative, picking such a common surname can cause some problems with suspicious authorities.
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Converge has an album also titled Jane Doe.
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In The Prisoner (1967), Number 6 at one point reveals his name as "Peter Smith" - almost certainly a lie.
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Zigzagged with "Mr. Smith", the protagonist of Shoot 'Em Up. The fact that his name is an obvious pseudonym highlights the fact that he's like the Man With No Name from The Western, but it may also be a Meaningful Name — it's suggested that he's a former gunsmith.
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On Hey Arnold!, one of the residents at the boarding house is a reclusive man named "Mr. Smith" who never comes out of his room, only communicates through notes and has a security camera watching the door to his apartment. In one episode where Arnold is trying to give him a package they manage to track down what seems to be his place of employment, only to learn that it's full of people calling themselves variants of "John Smith".
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The Amelia Peabody series has, as a recurring character, a British spymaster who often goes by "Smith", partly because spies use pseudonyms and partly because it's so much easier than coping with his real name of "the Honorable Algernon Bracegirdle-Boisdragon".
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The protagonist of Guns, Girls and Gambling is called John Smith. This has the disadvantages of both sounding like an obvious alias, and carrying unfortunate implications related to the historical John Smith when dealing with Native Americans. While the name is an alias, it is actually the real name of the man Lee stole the ID off.
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In the BBC adaptation of Breaking the Code (1996), John Smith assures Alan Turing that his name is real despite him being an MI5 agent. He adds that he has an awful time with hotel clerks, as they never believe that's actually his real name.
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In The Great Escape, the tunnels were code named Tom, Dick and Harry because they were three highly common English personal names, and in a camp filled with hundreds of British or Commonwealth soldiers, odds are good that there was at least one person with each name somewhere in the camp.
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Mikado Ryugamine in Durarara!! uses the very generic "Taro Tanaka" as his screen name online out of distaste for his real name. The reason is that his real name roughly translates as "Emperor of The Dragon Fang Peak", and many people he meets feel compelled to comment on what an over-the-top name it is.
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Highway to Heaven: Michael Landon plays a "probationary" angel named Jonathan Smith, the main protagonist. (Contrast that with Victor French's role as Mark Gordon.) It's later revealed that this wasn't his original name when he was a human-it was Arthur. Unsurprisingly.
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The Matrix:
The Agents are men in black who use generic surnames like Brown or Jones. Their leader is, of course, Agent Smith. Smith later goes rogue and becomes a Big Bad in his own right, but keeps the name.
The Matrix Reloaded introduces Agents Jackson, Johnson and Thompson.
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Predestination. The female baby left at the door of an orphanage is called "Jane" by the staff there for lack of any other name. When she grows up and undergoes a sex change, he takes the name of "John" which, it's pointed out, is not very imaginative, but works as a suitably anonymous name when he later becomes a Temporal Agent, especially an Un-person who due to a Stable Time Loop exists outside of time.
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The villain in the Cold Case episode "The Road" claims his name is "John Smith". The fandom generally agrees he's the single most evil person ever seen on the show.
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 Die Hard / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Guns, Girls and Gambling / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Halloween III: Season of the Witch / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Hopscotch / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Hummingbird / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Ice Station Zebra / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Johnny Mnemonic / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Kangaroo Jack / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Last Man Standing (1996) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Meet John Doe / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Minority Report / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Mission: Impossible – Fallout / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Mr. & Mrs. Smith (2005) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Mr. Brooks / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Night of the Ghouls / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Predestination / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Roman Holiday / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Shoot 'Em Up / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Skyfall / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Support Your Local Sheriff / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The King's Speech / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Murderer Lives at Number 21 / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Where's Willie? / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Amelia Peabody / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Black Widowers / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Breeds There a Man...? / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Castle Perilous / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Courier From Warsaw / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Daddy-Long-Legs / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Dave Barry Slept Here / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Deathlands / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Different Seasons / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Northwestward / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Out of Sight / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Dead Zone / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Further Adventures of Batman / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Institute / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Mayors / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Obvious Factor / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Orphan Master's Son
seeAlso
Mr. Smith
 Tommy and Tuppence / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 ActionChatroom
seeAlso
Mr. Smith
 TraceMemory
seeAlso
Mr. Smith
 Fly Me to the Moon (Manga) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Hamilton Mixtape (Music) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Alex & Co. / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 From the Earth to the Moon / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 John Doe / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Robot Wars / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The A-Team / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Commish / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Lost Room / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Professionals / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Surprisingly Good Foreign Language / Sugar Wiki / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Shadowrun (Tabletop Game) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Mrs. Hawking (Theatre) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Spider's Web (Theatre) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Action Chatroom (Video Game) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Another Code (Video Game) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Dungeons & Dragons Online (Video Game) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge (Video Game) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Moon: Remix RPG Adventure (Video Game) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Psychonauts 2 (Video Game) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Matrix: Path of Neo (Video Game) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) (Web Video) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Aisopos (Webcomic) / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 The Jackson 5ive / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 Tom and Jerry: Robin Hood and His Merry Mouse / int_9ebca7d9
type
Mr. Smith
 mrsmith
sameAs
Mr. Smith