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Perhaps the original is too hard to pronounce, maybe the subject in question simply doesn't have one at all, refuses to tell, or just forgot it. For whatever reason the masses decided on a fitting name for the subject and are sticking to it regardless of any protests. They've been named by democracy. Compare Verbal Tic Name, where the subject will really have a hard time protesting this, and Appropriated Appellation, where someone will adopt their title from someone else's guess or mistake. It is also possible that it turns out that the name made on the fly by a casual observer was the actual name all along. The naming of the subject has to be depicted or described to be this trope, if we don't know how it came to be it is more likely Known Only by Their Nickname or Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep". Examples |
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The team of Kane and Daniel Bryan was bestowed the name Team Hell No by a poll on Raw. | |
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Worm: Taylor Hebert gets named Skitter by the Wards because of her bug powers. She doesn't particularly care for it, and later changes it to Weaver. Rachel Lindt gets named Hellhound by the heroes because of her ability to turn dogs and wolves into monsters. She prefers to be called Bitch. |
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Samurai Jack: The time displaced hero was called "Jack" by the first friendly people he met in the future, who were using the term "jack" in the same vein as "dude" or "bro." Jack, however, ends up adopting it as his name, never revealing his given name at any point in the show. | |
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In Haven, a Serial Killer who murders people by shooting them in the back of the head with a bolt gun is nicknamed the "Bolt Gun Killer" by the police. In a fight against Duke Crocker, the killer says that nickname is stupid. | |
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Fez from That '70s Show. His real name, which was never revealed to the audience, is said to be really long and hard to pronounce. Fez is short for Foreign Exchange Student. | |
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Scar from Fullmetal Alchemist and Fullmetal Alchemist (2003); his real Ishvalan name was never told and they went with Scar since it was one of the few particular characteristics they could obtain from witnesses at first. He seems to have adopted it to a some degree since he has done many things that go against the Ishval Teachings (mainly murder). | |
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In Community, Troy runs a Twitter poll to determine the name of his pet monkey, and ends up with "Annie's Boobs". | |
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Date A Live: Organizations like the AST and DEM tend to assign code names to the Spirits. For example, calling Tohka "Princess", Yoshino "Hermit", and Kurumi "Nightmare". They use these code names at all times, even if they learn the Spirit's real name. The Spirits themselves never use these code names. | |
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War for the Planet of the Apes: Maurice refers to the little girl they had found as "Nova", even though it's not her actual name. This is due to the fact that she is suffering from the Simian Flue that makes her The Speechless and thus cannot tell them her actual name. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV Endwalker: The monsters spawned by the Final Days - or at least the strongest, most dangerous among them - are referred to as "blasphemies". The name originates in Radz-at-Han, where the phenomenon first manifested; as the beasts resembled the country's deities to an extent, similar to primals, but the similarity was only superficial, and so they were seen as less a manifestation and more a perversion. | |
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Homestuck's character names all came from fan suggestions. | |
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Phelous' unnamed video show was called "Phelous And The Movies" on IMDB. After joking about it for a bit, he eventually decided to adopt the name. | |
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I am [REDACTED]: This is how Izuku became, well, "Redacted". Thanks to having a Secret Identity, all public records of his hero identity Nimbus have his real name blacked out with the phrase "[REDACTED]". Soon, people started calling him that as a nickname, until they forgot his hero name was "Nimbus" entirely and just called him Redacted instead. Izuku was exasperated about it at first, but by the time the main story starts, he's given up correcting people entirely. | |
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George "The Animal" Steele was originally George "The Bruiser" Steele but the fans kept calling him "the animal" until it became official. | |
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This is basically how 'wolves' are given their nom de guerre in Ben-To; usually as a result of embarrassing situations that the 'wolf' in question is caught in. For instance, Satou ended up becoming known as 'The Freak/Pervert' after being seen in public wearing women's clothing (against his will, yes, but not that that would help him). It later turns out that Shaga got her name 'Beauty by the Lake' after she fell asleep in the park after netting her first half-price meal, and Yarizui became known as the 'Ice Witch' when she unwittingly attempted to purchase a vodka mixer to go with her meal, under the impression at the time that it was a soft drink. | |
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Superman villain Doomsday technically doesn't even have a name (the closest thing would be "The Ultimate Lifeform" given to him by his creator). The name came from Booster Gold describing the creature's rampage in his first appearance as being "like the arrival of Doomsday", which then spread through the media and became the creature's name amongst the Justice League. | |
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xkcd: "Exoplanet Names" is about the International Astronomical Union accepting suggestions from the public for the names of astronomical objects, only to regret doing so after receiving an absurd amount of suggestions that aren't suitable names for various reasons, such as Eternia Prime, How Do I Join the IAU, Unicode Snowman, and e'); DROP TABLE PLANETS;—. | |
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In Azumanga Daioh, Ayumu Kasuga is quickly nicknamed Osaka (after the city she just transferred from) in spite of her protests. By Year Two, this name catches on to the extent that even the teacher forgets her real name. At one point, she even forgets what her real name is. | |
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In Pathfinder the kyton race of fiends know themselves "velstracs". However one of their number, Kaikyton The Stitchweaver, spent thousands of years on the material plane and mortals confused part of her name with that of all their kind. Because Kaikyton is very highly regarded they don't object to being conflated with her (though it's possible some of her fellow demagogues might find it insulting). | |
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Cheeseburger got his name after Rhett Titus and Charlie Haas saw him in two separate instances and decided that's what he needed. The latter calling him such during a match lead to the fans cheering it and ROH creating a "Cheeseburger" t-shirt, which became a best seller in New Japan. So Cheeseburger came to embrace the name he initially hated. | |
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Birds of Prey (2020): Helena Bertinelli goes around killing anyone connected to the murder of her family with a crossbow. Since no one knows who she is, she is labeled "The Crossbow Killer". She gets annoyed and constantly tries to introduce herself as Huntress. | |
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After Evan Bourne and Kofi Kingston became tag team champions, a poll was held on Twitter to decide on what the new tag team would be called. Air Boom has been derided by some, but democracy had spoken. Earlier in Ring of Honor, Matt Sydal(Bourne) had teamed up with Fast Eddie and were named, "Air Devils" by the fans, so this was not a huge surprise. | |
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Dave Sim (creator of Cerebus the Aardvark) once mentioned how several grown-up members of his family spent several hours naming the new cat, finally settling on "Puss". He took this as a sign that Democracy Is Bad. | |
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Garrus of Mass Effect, when anonymously doing good works around Omega, is called Archangel. When Shepard finds him, he asks you to just call him Garrus. | |
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While Tomomi Tsuruta was competing in Amarillo early in his career, a fan contest led to him being renamed "Jumbo". | |
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The Village in An Outcast in Another World was formed by disparate communities ravaged by The Cataclysm coming together. They couldn’t collectively decide what to name their new village, so everyone just kept calling it The Village, and the name stuck. | |
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In Red vs. Blue, Church decides that their new medic's name DuFresne is too hard to say, and dubs him "Doc" instead. Doc protests that he's not a doctor but a medic, but everyone else overrules him and goes with Church's idea. He never bothers protesting again after that, and everyone just continues calling him Doc (though he does always refer to himself as DuFresne whenever the matter comes up). | |
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The Black Tower of The Wheel of Time is an example of a place whose name was agreed upon by its residents, to differentiate from the white tower their counterparts work at. | |
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The Inscrutable Machine in Please Don't Tell My Parents I'm a Supervillain is the name Penny came up with for herself, but she eventually ended up with Bad Penny, with the trio as a whole as The Inscrutable Machine. Generic Girl didn't pick the name for herself either, as she's all business and doesn't take the time to chat. | |
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Numerous people kept calling Anya Corazón as "Spider-Girl" no matter how many times she corrected them. The codename she chose for herself in the web corps was "Araña" and even after she got kicked out it is still the title she prefers but Anya eventually relented and stopped correcting people when she realized it wasn't working. It's her own fault really. The name mixup started when she adopted Julia Carpenter's old costume. People thought she a new young Spider-Woman, hence Spider-Girl. |
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Wonder Woman Vol 3 foe Genocide does not appreciate the name democracy chose for her. She offered no alternative though so people kept calling her Genocide. | |
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Adam's gang in Good Omens has had multiple names depending on what Adam's been reading, but everyone else in Tadfield darkly calls them "Them", so in the end that's what they called themselves too. | |
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Chaos Lord from Digimon World is named by the other Digimon, which is notable because Digimon usually don't give individual names to anyone. | |
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The Bible: Obed, son of Ruth and Boaz, was not named by them but by their neighbors. | |
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The French gave Ed Lewis the Red Baron "Strangler" because that's what they thought he was doing to his opponent when he applied a Sleeper Hold. | |
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The Incredible Hulk: The Hulk was an example of this trope but it's since been retconned away. | |
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Fergal Devitt ended up being known as "Prince" Devitt in Japan because hardly anyone could remember how to pronounce "Fergal". | |
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Several entities in Stranger Things are named for creatures from a Dungeons & Dragons monster manual. The Big Bad is named Vecna, The Dragon is the Demogorgon, and the Eldritch Abomination is the Mind Flayer. Since everyone needs something to keep calling these entities, the names eventually stick. Towards the end of the final season, Vecna's true name is revealed to be "Henry Creel", while it's shown that he's also been referred to as "One" in other places. This ends up starting an argument over exactly what to call him by the heroes, as Mike refers to him simply as One, while El calls him Henry. | |
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In Spartacus: Blood and Sand, after seeing the title character's performance in the arena, the Romans name him "Spartacus" after a legendary Thracian king. He is at first insulted, and tries to introduce himself, but is interrupted each time. He eventually accepts the name. | |
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Jerry Lynn debuted in ECW in September 1997 as "Dynamic" Jerry Lynn. During his feud with Rob Van Dam, who uses as one of his Red Barons "The Whole F'n Show," the fans started calling Lynn "The New F'n Show." | |
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Saw II. John Kramer introduces himself to Eric Matthews using his real name. When Matthews says he thought John preferred to go by "Jigsaw", he says that's just the name the media stuck him with. | |
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The titular character of Danny Phantom gets rather annoyed that after The Masquerade is blown everyone around town knows him as "Inviso-Bill" until he sets the record straight in the first Made-for-TV Movie. | |
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In El Goonish Shive, Elliot's superheroine name was chosen by the (In-Universe) Internet latching on to Justin's comment about Elliot's superheroine form's skirt looking like a cheerleader's. As a result, Elliot gets "Cheerleadra" as his superheroine name. | |
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In Pirates of the Caribbean: On Stranger Tides: The mermaid captured by Blackbeard's crew for the Fountain of Youth was named "Syrena" by Phillip in an attempt to prove a point to Blackbeard, since Phillip doesn't know Syrena's real name as it was never revealed. | |
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Worm Grand Order: When Taylor Hebert starts summoning Servants, the media labels her "Simulacrum", since they think her Servants are projections, beings created from her imagination. | |
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In Soul Eater Not!, it's revealed that students at DWMA can have their nickname treated as their official name—even if they don't want to, as happened with "Eternal Feather". And they won't even be allowed to change it for a full semester... | |
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The people start calling the thing that claimed to be from the beyond as the "Beyonder" in Secret Wars (1984). | |
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Who Am I? (1998): The protagonist is asked who he is in a language he can't understand. As he is amnesiac he demands to know, "Who am I?". The locals just think he's hammy and shout "Who Am I" with equal enthusiasm when they want his attention. | |
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In Tremors, the townspeople have a spirited discussion about what to call the underground monsters menacing them all, finally deciding on "graboids". The person who came up with the name is killed soon after. | |
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One Tekken character told the orphans his tag team partner looked after that he didn't have a name they could hope to pronounce. Their response? "You do now!" It was Armor King. | |
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A Family Guy cutaway gag shows that Peter's grandfather was one of the creators of Bugs Bunny who was outvoted when it came to naming the character (preferring the name "Ephraim the Retarded Rabbit"). | |
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Cyberpunk 2077: If you ask Placide why the Voodoo Boyz call themselves "Voodoo Boyz" when they don't believe in Voodoo, Placide shrugs and says you would be better off putting that question to the people who call the Voodoo Boyz the Voodoo Boyz. | |
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It's her own fault really. The name mixup started when she adopted Julia Carpenter's old costume. People thought she a new young Spider-Woman, hence Spider-Girl. | |
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Babylon 5: Some aliens have a name that is a thousand letters long and cannot be pronounced by Humans. Then their adherents whine because everyone keeps calling them "The Shadows". | |
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