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Online Alias

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People using the internet will rarely go by their given name. Writers seem to have some very specific ideas of how this works. The Cracker and Playful Hacker will use an alias as a pseudonym for all their hacker-y deeds (in extreme cases they'll only go by that name). They tend towards single words or two word phrases (preferably cool sounding).
Expect generic references to popular characters and streams of numbers and letters appended to the end, or replacing some of the characters. It will almost certainly involve a pun on the user's given name if they're an important character. If an aforementioned "hacker" uses one of these it's generally to show that they're rather pathetic. Either way, expect usernames to be full of Xtreme Kool Letterz or be Names to Run Away from Really Fast. Their online alias could also be a Lazy Alias if poorly put together.
In more recent works, since Technology Marches On, there's a fair chance there will be a more "normal" screen name for a character with an email or IM address.
No one will go by the same or a similar handle and the main characters will never have any trouble getting a username derived from their real name no matter how common it is (unless it's being Played for Laughs), since It's A Small Net After All.note Although the One-Steve Limit is sometimes Truth in Television for websites with user accounts.
Computers often have cool names too; see Names Given to Computers.
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All the main characters in SC2VN use their online gaming aliases. Their real names are never revealed.
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Library Of The Damned has a Command Staff Chat for the Riffleet. So far, we only know that agig (The Character) is agigtheadmiral, thanks to a gag involving Xtreme Kool Letterz.
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In one episode of the 11th season of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit there is a guy who goes by "Master Bater".
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Log Horizon: Most characters also use usernames instead of their real names, when even some of them have friends who've learned their real names. At least three characters are known to have derived their username from their real name - Kei "Shiroe" Shirogane, Marie "Maryelle" Sakamoto, and... Naotsugu "Naotsugu" Hasegawa.
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Snake Fist in F.E.A.R 2: Project Origin, AKA Terry Halford. His 90's style handle is in-keeping with his status as Plucky Comic Relief who serves as a slightly awkward Mister Exposition and a Voice with an Internet Connection Until his untimely death.
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In The Matrix the rebels seems to adopt their handles as their names. Amazingly enough, their aliases are cool and mysterious... presumably because having a character named "Yoda324" would have ruined the tone of the movie.
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In Sex and the City, Stanford uses the screen name Rick9Plus on a gay hook-up site, and ends up having cybersex with someone calling himself BigTool4U. More mundanely, when Carrie sets up her first AOL account, she chooses the username "shoegal".
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ANNO: Mutationem: C takes uses of an AI hub called The Prophet to send an e-mail to Ryan under the alias of 'The Holy Grail' with secret information about N540 with the intent of luring him close enough to capture him.
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Hackers, oddly enough, averts this partly; most people use two word phrases, like Acid Burn or Crash Override.
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½ Prince has most of the characters refer to each other by their Second Life character's name once they meet offline, because it's simply easier for them to recognize each other this way.
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In Hero Chat, the Miraculous Holders use aliases related to their hero names when they use Team Chat. They vary between Shout Outs and puns.
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Garfield:
December 3, 1999: Jon goes on a chat room under the name "Stephano", describing himself as "very rich and macho." According to Garfield, "nobody can empty a chat room like Stephano."
September 24, 2008: A comic revolves around Garfield using a cat chat room. His username is Garf1, and there are unidentified users named Whiskers232 and Pussnboots113.
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In Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, the title characters are badmouthed by a bunch of anonymous internet loudmouths, all of whom are using an alias online. The most obnoxious of whom was named after an actual Troll on Kevin Smith's forums. (Perhaps a troll's CMOA.)
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In one episode of Elementary, Sherlock discovered a potential suspect who had been online with the victim, but was confused as to why a male suspect would call himself "Lego Lass". When they met him, he explained he was "Legolas5".
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In Brooklyn Nine-Nine, Corey Park, an internet hacker, hacks into the Nine-Nine's computer system under the alias Savant. When Terry introduces him as Corey Park, he angrily exclaims that his name is Savant. In another episode, Terry and Charles find a hacker named Pandemic.
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Snow Crash has Da5id and, of course, Hiro Protagonist. They go by that in meat-space, too.
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All of the main protagonists (yes, all 16 of them) of Homestuck have "chumhandles" that they use in their in-universe version of Instant Messager. All of them reflect the user's interests, personality or foreshadows their role in the series. They also follow a specific pattern of Theme Naming.
Notably averted by the White Text Guy, who communicates to the protagonists through their IM clients, but doesn't have a chumhandle. Or even a computer.
Also, a good part of the fandom has adopted online aliases following the convention of two words in Lower CamelCase.
And then parodied when we see the usernames of some GameFAQs posters, such as "ChaosDemon" and "winnie the poop 2".
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A Something Awful cyberpunk parody included, among others, a character known as "Haz Cheezburger."
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In Penny Arcade:
Annarchy is of the "hacker" variety:
Strips portraying MMORPGs tend to use more of the Xtreme Kool Letterz variety.
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In Disney Magic Kingdoms, during a Turning Red sidequest, Priya mentions "PurplHairGrl1989" presumably the alias of the unnamed goth girl she danced with at Tyler's birthday party.
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Thor trash-talks Korg's rival in Fortnite in Avengers: Endgame who has the online alias of NoobMaster69.
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Matt Miller, the leader of the Deckers gang in Saints Row: The Third, uses R4gn4r0k as his alias, though that only comes up in supplemental material.
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In Joe vs. Elan School, Joe posts on Reddit under the name "gzasmyhero," which he chooses as a tribute to the GZA from the Wu-Tang Clan.
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Molly of Denali: Randall's online name is "Randallpants," revealed in ''Snowboarding Qyah Style."
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Marcus Halloway in Watch_Dogs 2 goes by "Retr0" in online hacking circles, even before he joined DedSec. Josh, another DedSec member, uses "Hawt Sauce" as his handle.
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In one The Venture Brothers episode, The Monarch's date (whom he found online) for a double-date with Phantom Limb and Dr. Girlfriend thought "The Monarch" was one of these.
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Sword Art Online Abridged uses most of the names from its source material, but throws in some twists. Agil goes by "Tiffany" in this treatment for as yet unexplained reasons, even though he's fully aware it's a woman's name. Klein got trapped in SAO under his test character profile, BallsDeep69, so soon his guildmates think "My name is Klein!" is how he says hello. And Kazuto gains enough notoriety in Aincrad as Kirito to have his preferred handle already taken when he tries out Alfheim Online - after hours spent going through permutations such as Kirito1, Kirito2, or Kiritwo, he ends up logging in under xVx_K1r1t0_xVx_KillMe; Kazuto shortens it when talking with Leafa, aka Suguha, who realizes who he is as a result and expresses squick-induced outrage back in realspace.
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Arthur: In "Buster the Myth Maker", Brain posts false information online under the name "Deep Float". The name comes from the ice cream shop his family owns.
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Everyone in Noob, that happens almost entirely in a MMORPG. Only the (real) names of the main characters, some people from their faction, the game's creator, the recurring Game Master and the recurring hacker are known.
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Several are revealed after completing Lair of the Shadow Broker in Mass Effect 2. Miranda Lawson fittingly goes by LawBringerSR2. Jack uses Jck_60734, jkz0-19510, and, (for a submission to a professional poetry forum), Jaqueline Nought. Legion humorously goes by Infiltrait0rN7 for his MMO gamer profile.
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Lonnie Machin (formerly Anarky) goes by MoneySpider.
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In Phineas and Ferb, Doofenshmirtz is on a dating site, and goes by the name of StrudelCutie4427. Unfortunately, his date thinks Perry is much cuter.
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In The Sims 3, there is a Sim in Sunset Valley who goes only by his online alias, "Cycl0n3 Sw0rd".
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Stray Gods has the latest Oracle of Delphi as a computer genius whose username is "Oracle" (which is how Apollo realised who they were).
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Chat nicknames used in General Protection Fault: Gort (Nick), Pookel (Ki), B0R0M1R (Yoshi).
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In Daughter for Dessert, KathyKat is the author of several stories on erotica websites where the main characters have striking resemblances to the protagonist and Amanda.
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Lisbeth Salander from The Millennium Trilogy goes by the hacker name "Wasp," which becomes a plot point as Mikael is able to track her down using it. She initially had a tattoo of one on her neck, but The Girl with the Wasp Tattoo doesn't have the same ring to it.
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In The Noob, a little girl gets perma-banned by the KKK-like moderator without so much as a word of explanation, when he mistakes her character for the protagonist's, due to them having similar (but not identical) appearance and name.
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Animorphs mostly features the "modern" idea of names: YeerKiller9, Gump8293, etc. But it also has some more hacker-like ones, like "Govikes" and "YrkH8er".
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Red Robin
Tim Drake-Wayne/Red Robin goes by redbird.
Lonnie Machin (formerly Anarky) goes by MoneySpider.
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In one episode of The Drew Carey Show, Drew, as BeerStud2, has cybersex with a woman calling herself HoneyBee28, who turns out to be his Sitcom Archnemesis Mimi.
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Ben from Loserz is "zombiejuiceYUM". Jodie is "p0rnstar6912". See this strip.
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In Toy Story 3, someone by the name of Velocistar237 AIMs Trixie, temporarily interrupting Woody's attempts to use Bonnie's computer.
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In Life Is Strange, Max goes by "Noir Angel". A Shout-Out to another heroine named Max with strange powers.
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The Guild, being a show on the web about gamers, definitely uses this. We sort of know the real names of the characters - all but Tink - but they rarely get used in favour of their gamer handles.
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Deckers in Shadowrun used mysterious and cool names if they were established and competent and ridiculous and common aliases if they were newbies. The first type were usually used as runner aliases as well.
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Infinite Dendrogram has a few cases of "clever" usernames backfiring on their users:
Reiji and Shuichi Mukudori named their MMO characters "Ray Starling" and "Shu Starling", and are fully open about being brothers. This is such a blatant case of This Is My Name on Foreign that Reiji accidentally doxes both himself and his brother the first time he meets another Dendrogram player in real life.
"Marie Adler" roleplays as a journalist, styling herself after an obscure manga character with the same name. In real life she's the author of said manga, trying to better immerse herself in the character's head. She is actually far stronger than she appears, being the legendary hitman PKer known as the Superior Killer. Which everyone familiar with her manga has figured out already, because the manga Marie is a hitman disguised as a journalist.
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In Tad Williams' Otherland novels, one of the main characters goes by "T4b". Presumably pronounced "Tab".
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On South Park, Stan's World of Warcraft character was actually "Loves2Spooge". Leading to the line:
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Gundam Build Divers: All the main cast have GBN usernames derived from their real names - Yukio "Yukki" Hikada, Momoka "Momo" Yashiro, Koichi "KO-1" Nanasenote 1 = ichi, Aya "Ayame" Fujisawa, and... Riku "Riku" Mikami (written in English rather than kanji).
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An interesting case in Uplink. The online handle that you choose for yourself at the beginning is also used as your legal name when you hack the Social Security or law enforcement databases. That's right, your Social Security Number belongs to a person legally named L33tH4x0r. Everybody else just goes by their normal name, including the world's top hackers.
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In Transformers (2007), Sam Witwicky's eBay username of LadiesMan217 attempts to suggest he's more popular with women than he actually isnote Various adaptations and foreign dubs of the film change the term "ladies' man" to various phrases with similar connotations, such as "playboy217", "DonJuan217" (after the famed Spanish womanizer), and "hotstud217". When the Decepticons find a listing of Sam's with an item containing directions to the film's MacGuffin and track him down, Barricade ends up addressing Sam by his alias because they don't know his real name.
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In Sword Art Online, characters tend to get referred to more often by their MMORPG characters' names than their real ones, both in-series and out. A few characters' aliases are derived from their real names; for example, Kazuto Kirigaya goes by "Kirito" and Shino Asada goes by "Sinon". Asuna using her real name in Aincrad is cited by some characters as proof that she's a newbie (she adopts the aliases "Titania" and "Erika" in later games).
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In an episode of My Family Ben is getting advice from a forum. A joke is made about the wisdom in getting advice from someone going by the name "Yoda2".
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Yuusha Gojo Kumiai Kouryuugata Keijiban (AKA, Hero Union BBS) is framed as a series of threads on an interdimensional message board, so every character is primarily known by a handle. New users are called "Hero" by default, but they soon differentiate themselves by profession or world of origin, like recurring characters Student, Sage, Freeter, and Princess Shrine Maiden. A few even have new handles forced on them, like the college student who gets dubbed Magical Girl despite being mortified by her patissier-themed costume.
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Quantum Protocol: The Quantum members and other significant characters are usually referred to with their online handles. Though Leo uses his Real Name as an Alias.
Queen's real name is Elaine.
Esper's real name is Irene.
Aurora's real name is Alyssa Neskara.
Idol's real name is Lisa.
Omega, the leader of the city, has Kyril as his real name.
Kaia uses her species name, Dragoon, as her handle.
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