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Sometimes, you just don't need names. Why bother remembering all those names? Just call everyone the same thing! This rarely seems to cause any confusion, at least for you. Outsiders, not so much. Sometimes they'll also be Inexplicably Identical Individuals. Not only named the same, but they'll look the same too. This tends to happen in Science Fiction and Fantasy, not so much in other genres, unless it's Played for Laughs (which many examples below are). Opposite of the One-Steve Limit. Compare Identically Named Group, which is when everyone in a group has the same name, but the setting otherwise has diverse names. If a small number of people have the same name, and this is important to the plot in some way, that's a Significant Name Overlap. See also Pokémon Speak. Compare Race-Name Basis when the characters have names, but the race is used anyway. I Am Spartacus is when characters pretend this is the case. Often overlaps with Smurfing. Can serve as the logical conclusion of Planet of Hats. |
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Every year, Dave Davenport of Narbonic attends a meeting of the Dave Conspiracy. All the attendees wear name tags saying "Hello My Name Is Dave." To explain a bit further, each and every one really is named Dave, and if a Dave should ever be expelled from the Conspiracy, he will lose the right — and the ability — to be called Dave. Instead, those around him will subconsciously begin addressing him as "David". So not only is everyone at the meeting named Dave, everyone named Dave is at the meeting. |
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According to the Adventure Time episode "Princess Monster Wife", the Ice King has named all his penguin minions Gunter, or something that sounds like it. | |
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In Finding Nemo, Marlin proposes to Coral that instead of naming their children, they should just call half Marlin Jr. and half Coral Jr. They did have hundreds of eggs. How many baby names can one think of? | |
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Pan Tadeusz has the Dobrzyński clan, where boys are always christened Bartek or Maciej and girls Katarzyna or Maryna. They have to resort to nicknames. | |
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Mister Rogers' Neighborhood featured Planet Purple, a planet where everything was purple, including the people, who were named Paul if they were male and Pauline if they were female. (To make things even duller, everyone spoke in the same monotone voice.) | |
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This tends to happen in stories where the Multiverse is common knowledge in some manner, and the No-Zone from Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) is no exception. Though here it's less Planet of Steves and more Planet of Multiple Copies of the Same Person from All Possible Universes. Multiple Sonics, Tails and many others are part of it, and duplicates of the main characters serve as its main enforcers note Though they're named slightly different, with their names always beginning with Z — Zonic instead of Sonic, for example. After the lawsuit forced a reboot, the No-Zone went with it, though it is still popular across the fanbase. | |
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Cosmic Osmo: The Osmos of the Osmoian System are all named some variation on "Osmo". Captain Osmo, Cosmic Osmo, Señor Osmollo, Princess Osmorella, Professor Elvis Osmostein... | |
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The Debbies from the short-lived Oblongs. | |
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In The Smurfs, Smurfs who don't have a specific name are named just "Smurf". "I picked Smurf's bottle smurfer/smurf screwer" "Poor Smurf !" "Vote for Smurf"... | |
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There is a group of Digimon called Chaosmon. Not all of them look the same, not all have the same abilities and not all of them are even related but they are all called Chaosmon, except for the biggest one, which is called UltimateChaosmon. To some extent, every Digimon has this trope. None of them have names beyond their species name, are widely known to everyone by said species names and treat them as their actual names, and some species names even apply to multiple species/subspecies (see: Greymon, Greymon and Greymon). Furthering this is how there seems to be a tendency for large groups of the same species to live together, such as the Pyocomon village featured in the fourth episode of Digimon Adventure. The exception is the Digimon V-Tamer 01 canon, where the majority of plot-relevant Digimon have their own proper names. |
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The Adventures of Pete & Pete features the main character, Pete, and his younger brother, Pete. Their mom wanted the names to rhyme. (Fans usually refer to them as "big Pete" and "little Pete.") | |
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The aliens (Red [evil] and Black [good] Lectroids) in The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension all chose the covername 'John'. Yes, even the women. | |
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This gag in Hercules, though Pain and Panic are trying to convince Hades that Hercules is a popular name and it's totally not the same one, when it rather obviously is. | |
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Pawn Stars has Richard "The Old Man" Harrison, Richard "Rick" Harrison and Richard "Corey" Harrison. In one episode, a package addressed to "Richard Harrison" is delivered to the shop, spurring an argument between Rick and the Old Man because both had ordered a package. It turns out to be something Corey ordered. | |
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The Fire Emblem series has the Annas. An entire family of mostly merchants all named "Anna." One of them can join your team in Fire Emblem: Awakening and most of the games released thereafter. She insists that, much like the Zathras of Babylon 5, each Anna's name is pronounced just a little differently to differentiate each other. | |
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Nearing the fourth season finale, Angel featured a hell dimension of spider-like demons in which no one has a name (though the important people can be named according to their professional titles, such as "High Priest" or "Name Keeper"). In fact, one of them actively mocks humans' weakness of everyone having names. It wasn't that the spider-demons didn't have names, but it was that giving away their names as freely as humans weakened them. And weakened Jasmine, the season's big bad. Angel's trip to the dimension was to retrieve Jasmine's true name so she might be brought down to their level. |
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The Simpsons: This classic gag: In "The City of New York vs. Homer Simpson," the Parking Violations Bureau phone tree messages seem to indicate that every parking officer in New York is named "Steve." |
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In Blaseball, this has happened twice: At the end of season 3, due to developer error, everyone on the LA/Unlimited Tacos was renamed Wyatt Mason. An ARG-like event on Twitter partially "localized" them back to normal, but there are still numerous players with the first name Wyatt or the last name Mason. In Season 14, every team that built "Psychoacoustics" into their stadium received a new player called Wyatt Mason, Wyatt Mason II, Wyatt Mason III, Wyatt Mason IV, etc. These players then canceled each other out when they played each other, both turning into "static" and being removed from the game. (It's not clear whether or not this is actually them dying.) |
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30 Helens from The Kids in the Hall. They all agree. (Or they all agree to disagree.) Also there was a sketch where Bruce sang about all of the different people named Dave who he knew. |
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In the Nickelodeon Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles cartoon, all the alien brain creatures are named Kraang. | |
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In The Ben Chatham Adventures, all Russians are named Ivan. | |
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Invader Zim (Oni): Played with in Issues 42 and 43, which feature the Planet Plim, home of the City of Plim, inhabited by the Plim species... all of whom have individual names. A major part of the Battle Void arc is a Pocket Dimension inhabited entirely by alternate versions of Zim. They have to use numbered collars to differentiate each other. |
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On one episode of Eggheads, the team of challengers was called 'The DJs' and consisted of a woman named Debbie and four men named John. | |
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The Backyardigans had a space episode, "Mission to Mars", with a song and dance routine explaining how "Boinga" could mean a thousand things in Mars. Similar thing with "Ugh" in "Cave Party", but in "Caveman's Best Friend" it didn't even got a song since it was downgraded to, according to that episode, what cave people shout when they're really happy. | |
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In Wet Hot American Summer, nearly every background girl seems to be named Debbie: Debbie Waxman, Debbie Epstein, Debbie with mono, McKinley's cousin Debbie-Debbie, Tall Debbie, and Debbie Freeman. | |
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In One Hundred Years of Solitude the 17 sons (by 17 different women) of Colonel Aureliano BuendÃa are all named Aureliano as well. Not to mention, in every generation of the family, all boys are named variations on Aureliano or José Arcadio. | |
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The Last Hero has the last two Stupid Lizard Men. They're both called Slime, because Stupid Lizard Men aren't able to remember any other name. | |
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The Gone-Away World has a circus troupe who are mostly all named K. They "use one signifier to encourage random reassessment of the nature of our relationships." | |
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Three of the four members of Imagine Dragons are named Dan. However, the bassist does go by his middle name, Wayne. | |
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Discussed in Star vs. the Forces of Evil — Star meets Marco Diaz at school, and then winds up staying with a family called the Diazes. Apparently she just assumed everyone on Earth had that name until Marco walked into the house. | |
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Dr. Kelso from Scrubs, instead of bothering to learn the hospital's new intern's names, dubbed all the men "Daves" and all the girls "Debbies"- except for one of them who actually was named Debbie, whom Kelso renamed Slagathor out of fairness to the others. | |
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Oddly enough, All Over The House also contains a 'Dave' reference, in The Army of Daves (recruiting now!); which Emily thinks is fictional. | |
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Taken to its most logical extreme in Rick and Morty with the Citadel of Ricks; a whole universe populated entirely with Ricks and Mortys from across the multiverse. Our Rick (Rick C137) has a few tussles with them throughout Seasons 1 and 2 before Season 3 opens with him sending it spiraling into chaos — "The Ricklantis Mixup" actually focuses on the Citadel and what kind of Ricks and Mortys inhabit it. There's also "Jerryboree", which is the same thing for Jerrys, but against their will in many cases. |
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One Dilbert strip had the Pointy-Haired boss announcing that their company would put everybody in a wide salary band and eliminate job position names. When Dilbert asks what job title they'll use, the boss responds, "You'll all be named Beverly." | |
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In the Cracked article "5 Horrible Things You Learn Working At A Convenience Store," everyone the author complains about is just referred to as "Biff." | |
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King of the Hill had an all-woman cult masquerading as a sorority where all the members were renamed "Jane." Luanne and later Peggy wind up joining, and are referred to as "Blonde Jane" and "Old Jane." | |
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Monster of the Month Club: Played with — Rilla and her mother and aunt have unique first names. It's the middle name, Harmony, that's the same for all three. | |
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One Piranha Club strip had Sid make a bar bet that he could memorize five pages of the New York City phone book in 10 seconds. | |
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Discworld has a clan of Igors. They're not all named Igor — the women are named Igorina or Igora. There's also an Igor who isn't an Igor at all. But he doesn't count. Lampshaded with Vimes' comment: "Igor and Igor say hi, Igor." And they can tell when you're talking about the wrong Igor. "Not Igor, thur, I'm Igor." Another Discworld example is a short incidental regarding a Klatchian ruler who was cursed by a dyslexic deity so that that everything he touched would turn to Glod. He very quickly found out what happens when a dwarf of indeterminate temper is suddenly dragged away from his home and replicated repeatedly (viz. he becomes a very grumpy dwarf). To this day people living in that city are short of stature and temper. In a sort of low-key Running Gag, Glodson is a common last name for dwarves throughout the series. The Last Hero has the last two Stupid Lizard Men. They're both called Slime, because Stupid Lizard Men aren't able to remember any other name. Another Discworld sort-of example would be the Nac Mac Feegle from The Wee Free Men and sequels — they aren't exactly all named the same thing, but there seems to be a shortage of names such that one character goes by "No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock." In The World of Poo, Geoffrey visits the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons, where both the female caretakers he meets are named Emma. Bit of a Brick Joke, as Vimes referred to the Sanctuary's staff as "Interchangeable Emmas" in previous novels. Ankh-Morpork's underworld is so extensive that getting a unique nickname can be tough. There's already a Big Dave, Fat Dave, Mad Dave, Wee Davey, and Lanky Dai, which is why Hogfather features a criminal who goes by "Medium Dave". |
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Does anybody remember No Soap, Radio? They had a spoof 1950s horror movie called The Day Everyone's Name Became Al, in which the change was caused by aliens attempting to cause chaos on Earth. | |
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In World of Warcraft, the inhabitants of the Temple of Akunda in Vol'dun have all had their memories wiped and named themselves some variant of "Akunda the [adjective]" in honor of their loa, and the player has to do the same in order to enter the temple proper. When their memories are restored, they go back to using their real names. Later revisited in the Conclave of the Chosen fight in the Battle of Dazar'alor, where one member of the conclave will periodically wipe some of the raid members' memories and cause them to be renamed Akunda until it wears off or is dispelled. | |
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From Fat, French and Fabulous, everyone from New Brunswick is named Gord, all French speakers are named Jean, Marie, or Jean Marie, and all of the hosts' male friends are named Andrew. | |
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I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue: In Hastings Humphrey Littleton related that in 1066 Hastings had been invaded by King William and his 9,000 Normans after one of the most confusing roll calls in history. | |
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The Mr. Saturns of EarthBound (1994) and Mother 3. They're all named Mr. Saturn, unsurprisingly, except for one who works at the hospital in Saturn Valley... he's Dr. Saturn. | |
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In the Ready Jet Go! episode "Freebird", all of the snow-geese that come to Jet's backyard are named Hank, with the exception of Cynthia. | |
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In the Oz book The Emerald City of Oz, Billina tells Dorothy that she names all her female descendants Dorothy and her male descendants Daniel. In the Kingdom of Oogaboo (an obscure corner of Oz), every adult man has the same first name, Jo. |
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In the Littlest Pet Shop (2012) episode "So You Skink You Can Dance," all of the dancers on Shake-a-Leg are either named Igor or Karina. | |
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Robbie the Reindeer: Legend of the Lost Tribe featured a band of midget Vikings, all named Magnus (even the women). | |
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In an episode of 3rd Rock from the Sun, Harry ended up in the circus as "Hargo the Alien." In his act, he explains that "Hargo" is his full name because the beings of his world have Only One Name and then adds that this is unfortunate because Hargo is such a common name on his planet. In another episode, the replacement Commander of the mission, fed up with trying to remember names, exclaims "ENOUGH! From now on, you'll all be known as Tommy." It didn't really take though. |
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The Order of the Stick plays this as a throwaway gag in #777, also managing to riff on I Am Spartacus at the same time. As in, all the anonymous gladiators in the arena are named Spartacus, and they all know which one is being addressed during role call. | |
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The Late Show with David Letterman: In "honor" of both his timeslot rivals having the name Jimmy (Fallon and Kimmel), Dave changed his name and the name of the show for one night to The Late Show with Jimmy Letterman. | |
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For the 2010 April Fool's Day episode of The Price Is Right, every audience member was named Pat. The 2015 Halloween episode took it even further with everyone dressed up as and named Drew, even the models. Drew Carey himself was glad that his mother gave him a unisex name. |
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In Witness, the corrupt cops are looking for an Amish family called the Lapps. The sheriff of their county notes that about a third of the local Amish are named Lapp, which, combined with the relatively small paper trail that your average Amish person leaves, makes the villains' job significantly difficult. | |
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Gav is a major demographic in Schlock Mercenary ever since he cloned himself several hundred million times just before the original got killed. | |
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In The Bald Soprano, Mr. Smith brings up an old family friend, Bobby Watson, who died some years ago and left behind his children Bobby Watson and Bobby Watson, and his widow, Bobby Watson. Mrs. Bobby Watson has recently decided to remarry one of Bobby Watson's relatives, Bobby Watson. Or so we sort of maybe think. | |
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Wolf Hall lampshades this in an early scene, where Thomas Cromwell thinks that he won't be remembered by the man who he's just been pointed out to because "half the world" is named Thomas — an appropriate remark when the inquiring man is Thomas Boleyn speaking to Cromwell's boss, Thomas Wolsey. There's also his adversary Thomas Howard the Duke of Norfolk and his friend Archbishop Thomas Cramner. Later he's relieved to learn that Elizabeth Seymour goes by Bess so he won't be conflating her with his late wife Elizabeth (who was called Liz). | |
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Encountered by Dave Hollis - Space Cadet! in Son of Cliché. | |
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Vorkosigan Saga: History and genealogy on the planet Barrayar is extra-exciting because in the ruling Vor class, the traditional name for the eldest son is the first name of his paternal grandfather, followed by the first name of his maternal grandfather. The second son gets the middle names of both grandfathers, maternal followed by paternal. This is not universal, particularly given that a living grandfather can revoke the patronymic as a form of disowning, and a bad grandfather can be skipped over. Per Word of God emperors routinely violate this rule. | |
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In Ultra Fast Pony, all three of the Diamond Dogs are named David Bowie. Trixie is repeatedly called "Blue Twilight", and later shows up with her friend "Yellow Twilight". Also, Sunset Shimmer gets renamed "Orange Twilight", and there's of course "Purple Twilight". It's been mentioned they're all part of the Twilight Rangers. | |
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The "Entire language consists of a single word" version in Blade of Toshubi. | |
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In an episode of Sabrina: The Animated Series one of Sabrina's spells backfires and she arrives home to find that the town has been renamed "Sabrinaville" and everyone in the town is called Sabrina — even the boys. | |
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Roughly two-thirds of all incidental characters in Mountain Time are named Paul. | |
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In The Stormlight Archive, all Cryptics are named Pattern and have no problems figuring out who is talking to whom. Their real names are mathematical equations and thus can't be used easily by humans, and they are apparently capable of clarifying which Pattern they are addressing by intonations. The Lightweavers have to talk them into adopting other names so their Radiants can tell them apart. Wit's Cryptic is called Design, and Shallan posthumously names her first Cryptic Testament. | |
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In the Unova region, there's an identical family of Battle Club owners, all named Don George. And there's an identical family of cruise ship guides, all named Porter. | |
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Fallout 3: Vault 108 is infested with clones of some guy named Gary. Well, that might be his name, but it's all any of the clones can say. The original is presumably dead, and could presumably say things other than his name. Presumably. In the add-on pack Operation Anchorage you find Gary 18 in the outcasts base. |
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Taken literally on the TV version of Weird Science. One set of recurring characters is a race of porcine aliens all named Steve who try to convince Lisa to be their new queen. | |
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Chowder has the Arborians, and gets quite a few overly long gags out of them all being named "Arbor" or "Arbora". | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: Piandao, suggesting a name for a Fire Nation disguise: "Try Lee; there a million Lees." This is a Continuity Nod to Zuko successfully using "Lee" as an alias across the Earth Kingdom. Zuko once didn't bother with the alias when he met a kid named... Lee. Evidently it's a very common name in both countries. And in Ba Sing Se, all the tour guides are named Joo Dee. This is only one of their many creepy aspects. |
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Steven Universe: The Gems are all named after whatever gem they are. Later episodes reveal that there are actually multiple of each kind on Homeworld, meaning that you have a whole race of Pearls all named Pearl, Rubies named Ruby, etc. They're told apart by codes denoting the cut and facet of their gemstones, but are casually referred to by name. It doesn't help that members of each Gem-race look nearly identical, share the same voice actor, and have the same job, either, due to their Hive Caste System. Of course, the lack of individuality is part of the point. When Peridot first meets Steven, she assumes that Steven is a species name and not a personal moniker, probably building off the above naming system. She even asks him if "Stevens" had replaced humans as Earth's dominant species, meaning she thought Earth literally was a Planet of Steve(n)s! Steven explains humans are still around, and mentions a few of his friends by name, but he didn't technically specify he was a Half-Human Hybrid, so Peridot keeps calling him "the Steven". Much later, it's discovered she also assumed the friends he mentioned were types of humans, not individuals, and wrote such on her reports. So, when Homeworld start abducting more humans for their People Zoo, those are the people they start with. |
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In part 36 of Make a Wish, it's Played for Laughs as the Australian DMLE reveals itself to be somewhat Bruce-heavy: | |
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Mass Effect's geth, as demonstrated by Legion when you meet it, who wants Shepard to call it geth, as "We are all geth." It's actually something of a Mind Hive running more than a thousand geth programs, and adopts the name "Legion" at EDI's suggestion. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: In "Phineas and Ferb's Quantum Boogaloo", an older Candace travels back in time to bust her brothers and succeeds. When she travels back to her time, she finds herself in a Bad Future where everyone is named Joe. This is because Dr. Doofenshmirtz, now the Evil Overlord of the world, wants to remember everyone's name for public relations reasons, but doesn't want to put any effort into it. A later episode shows that Ferb's cousins are named Beckham, Beckham, Pelé, Beckham, Pelé and Eliza (whose middle name is Beckham). One episode has Phineas, Ferb and Isabella at a convention consisting of people named Steve (which provided the page image for One-Steve Limit) when they're actually trying to find the chameleon named Steve. Discussed in Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension when Doofenshmirtz meets Phineas and Ferb's platypus, Perry, and doesn't recognize him as the Perry the Platypus whom he fights every day. |
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In Gunnerkrigg Court all laser cows are named Elsie according to The Rant. note It's their model. Laser Cow. | |
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Addictive Science: Every agent of The Men in Black was codenamed Mister Smith and looked uncannily similar, before they started getting transformed by mad science and/or magic on a regular basis and at least one agent decided to stay a foxgirl. They don't seem to have trouble distinguishing each other though. | |
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The head writer of Mobile Suit Gundam Wing apparently really likes the name Catherine, because in the span of the series and the side-stories he's written, we've been introduced to five of them: Katrina Peacecraft (Relena's mother), Quatrina Winner (Quatre's mother), Catherine Bloom, Kathy Po (Sally's daughter), and Quatrina Winner II (Quatre's younger sister). | |
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The Star Trek novel Q-Squared explicitly stated that Trelane (and his "mother" and "father" who appeared at the end of the episode) were members of the Q Continuum, so it isn't just Fanon. In the novel, Q implied that Trelane was Q's son, the result of an affair with Trelane's "mother". Then again, the novels aren't canonical. It's implied that "Q" is an alias. Originally, there were supposed to be several different beings assuming an identical appearance and calling themselves by the same name popping in from time to time. |
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An old New Yorker cartoon showed a class photo of a bunch of smiling kindergartners with a completely frazzled and exhausted teacher in the middle. The caption reads: "Right to left: Jennifer, Jennifer, Jason, Jennifer, Jason, Jennifer, Jennifer, Jason, Jason, Jason, Jennifer, Miss Alice Nelson, Jennifer, Jason...." | |
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Historically, the titular race in Gargoyles all look different from each other and cite this as a reason for not needing particular names. Most either gained them as epithets or terms of affection from humans. "What do you call each other?" "Friend." |
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Over the course of the Gamera series, Joel and the 'bots quickly notice that every young boy is named Kenny, but all are implicitly different characters. | |
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RuneScape has a town named Pollnivneach, a Fantasy Counterpart Culture of the Middle East. Almost every person in town is named "Ali", including a woman (She insists it's short for "Alisha") an "Ali Cat", and two camels, which makes locating a missing person named Ali a bit frustrating. Though at the end of the quest the player character figures out that the Ali you were sent to find didn't exist, and it was all a marketing ploy by the quest-giver to drive the gangs out of Pollnivneach. After the quest ends, all the NPC's names change to their real names. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance the town of Rockport, populated exclusively by Tom Bodetts. And they do leave the light on for ya... | |
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A Hat in Time has the Mafia of Cooks, a gang of large burly men that are all physically identical (with their leader being the only one who looks different) and all of whom refer to themselves solely as Mafia. | |
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Newhart: "Hi, I'm Larry, this is my brother Darryl and this is my other brother Darryl" repeated as a catchphrase every time they appeared. A later episode revealed that one had his named changed to Darryl to avoid confusion. He used to be named Larry. Another episode featured one Darryl being upset with the others, and refusing to join them. Larry's introduction then became, "I'm Larry, and this is my other brother Darryl." |
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Early on in Bubble Boy, Jimmy hitch-hikes on a bus full of religious cultists whose male members are all named "Todd" and whose female members are all named "Lorraine." They, however, do fall afoul of sometimes not knowing which is being referred to. | |
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The Sqornshellous Zetan mattresses in Life, the Universe and Everything, who were all named Zem. This appeared to be because that, since they were rounded up a lot to be killed and dried, no one would miss anyone because they wouldn't know who was missing. | |
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Played for a laugh in an episode of M*A*S*H when Hawkeye, as the camp's Officer of the Day, finds himself up to his neck in locals by the name of Kim Luk: This must be our Kim Luk-y day. Justified in that what was happening was that 4077th (apparently because of regulations or standing orders) required the local population to present an ID to get medical care. The result was that everybody who wanted treatment was showing up with the same ID card that was being passed around, made out to "Kim Luk". Also in M* A* S* H, nurses were frequently named Nurse Able or Nurse Baker — regardless of who was playing them. Literally Nurse A or Nurse B in the military code alphabet in use during the Korean War. Even the terrain was subject to this, with the most common location for casualties to be coming from being "Hill 403" (when the location was actually specified). Somewhat justified, given the relatively static front in the later stages of the war. |
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Some members of the season 3 cast of RuPaul's Drag Race dubbed themselves "The Heathers" (after the film) and dubbed others "The Boogers". The Heathers would sometimes call one another "Heather" in conversation in the workroom. They wore HEATHER name necklaces to the reunion show and one of the Heathers presented hers to one of the Boogers who had felt belittled by the clique. | |
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The True Meaning of Smekday: The villainous Gorg are actually a species of aliens called Nimrogs, but are collectively known as the Gorg because they're all named Gorg. It's eventually revealed that all of the living Gorg have the same name because they're all clones of a Nimrog named Gorg. | |
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A sketch from Not the Nine O'Clock News takes place in a car factory where every person on the production line is called Bob. It builds up to the punchline, which is an allusion to a contemporary ad for Fiat: "British Leyland — built by Roberts" | |
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In The World of Poo, Geoffrey visits the Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons, where both the female caretakers he meets are named Emma. Bit of a Brick Joke, as Vimes referred to the Sanctuary's staff as "Interchangeable Emmas" in previous novels. | |
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Many A True Nerd's "Kill Everything" Let's Play of Fallout: New Vegas makes frequent use of this trope whenever a nameless mook is stealth-killed in front of someone who should probably be alarmed. | |
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In RRRrrr!!!, everyone in the Clean Hair tribe is called Pierre (even the women). It's a French movie, and in French "pierre" (lower case) means "stone", and the movie's set in the Stone Age... Bonus when one of the "Pierres" was played by an actual Pierre. |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: Used as a running gag in the episode "Night of the Blood Beast". In the movie, the characters say the name "Steve" a disproportionate number of times,note There are only six human character (and the titular Blood Beast), two of them die, but one gets better, for awhile. Two of them are women. The last two, Steve and Dave, are pretty much interchangeable, and Dave's name is rarely spoken. so Mike and the Bots assume that everyone in the film is named Steve. An example of their riffing: Not helping matters is a scene where a character walks into a room, specifically addresses Steve and the three people on screen turn around. MST3K's later seasons introduced the questionably omniscient, questionably bodiless Observers; each one is Observer. When Servo is invited to join them because he performed well on a standardized test, he has trouble getting used to the naming convention. Another example from MST3K occurs during the viewing of Fugitive Alien, with the name Ken. Within the film, there are genuinely two characters named Ken, and this is lampshaded ("...a young boy, whose name was also Ken.") Joel and the 'bots just decide to pretend that everyone is named Ken. Over the course of the Gamera series, Joel and the 'bots quickly notice that every young boy is named Kenny, but all are implicitly different characters. |
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On Hilda, all nisse go by the name Tontu. Since one individual nisse is a major character in the show, fans choose to differentiate him from the rest by calling him "Tontu (Alpha)". | |
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A U.S. Acres short from Garfield and Friends shows Orson the pig traveling to a planet of aliens who are all named Phil. When he manages to get his brothers stranded on the planet he tells them to "Ask for Phil," sending them on a wild goose chase as every Phil ends up pointing them towards a different Phil. | |
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Lizard Music: The group of lizards who welcome Victor and the Chicken Man to the island all have the same name –- Reynold. When Victor asks if all the lizards on the island are named Reynold, Reynold says that would be silly and they do have other names, like Helena and Raymond. Victor subsequently meets one lizard named Helena and three named Raymond (who are siblings), but every other lizard he encounters is named Reynold. | |
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Mr. Saitou: Every single Llamaworm is named Saitou, just like in Brandon's drawings at the start of the game. The most prominent ones have Saitou-themed nicknames such as Bosstou, Oddtou, and Subpartou. | |
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Chapter 2 of Deltarune introduces the Addisons, embodiments of Internet Ads. They all have different colored skins, but otherwise share the same name, face, clothing and pose. | |
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In The Irishman, Jimmy Hoffa similarly invokes this trope with regard to Italians after Frank tells him that Tony is upset with his course of action: | |
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In Fall Of Giants, which opens early in the twentieth century, we meet working-class Welsh teen William Williams and his father, David. A discussion ensues of how common the names William, David, and Williams are in their community and how everybody ends up being called by various nicknames to distinguish them. | |
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PSmith from Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire. And yes, there's an entire planet of him, all called Psmith. Including the women. The P is silent, but serves as a subtle hint that he/she/they is actually a telepathic Hive Mind of mentally-connected individuals... hence them all having just one name. | |
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Pokémon: Lampshaded in Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky. When the protagonists arrive in Shaymin Village, one of the Shaymin says that they're all named Shaymin. Played for Laughs in Pokémon Sun and Moon: A pair of Team Skull Grunts got their clothes mixed up, so one of them suggests writing their names on them to avoid further confusion. The other one replies back that it's pointless because they're all named "Grunt." |
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In the Futurama episode "Fry Am The Egg Man," there's a Scottish-themed planet where all the inhabitants are named Angus. | |
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The Englishman Who Went Up a Hill But Came Down a Mountain is set in a Welsh town where all of the men are named Morgan, Jones, Thomas, Williams, or Davies. This has led to everyone being given nicknames (e.g., Morgan the Goat, Davies the School) to differentiate. Of course, there's also a pair of twins. Their names are "Thomas Twp" and "Thomas Twp Too". No one can tell them apart. That's... pretty much Wales for you. The rural bits, at least. |
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On an episode of The West Wing, the entire speechwriting staff quits in protest of Will's hiring and instant promotion to Deputy. He thus has to rewrite an entire day's worth of speeches for, apparently, everyone in the federal government. His only help: four interns, three of whom are named Lauren. | |
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Every kerbal in Kerbal Space Program has the last name Kerman. | |
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In the New Testament, there are at least six different women named Mary. Even experts disagree on which Mary is being referred to in some scenes. | |
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In My Big Fat Greek Wedding, almost every family in the Portucalos clan has three children, always named Anita, Diane, and Nick. There are also a few extra Nicks scattered among the cousins — save for one Nicky. | |
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In The Areas of My Expertise, Arizona has a tradition of appointing a ringtail cat to a public office. By an odd coincidence, all the ringtails are named John McCain. When the real John McCain refused to be photographed eating a traditional bowl of chili with the ringtail McCain, he was described as having "a bad, anti-ringtail attitude." | |
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In The Fairly OddParents!, Timmy's wish for more Dads to spend time with goes wrong and he ends up sending them all to a Dad planet. After they abduct his Mom, he wishes up a planet of Moms for them. | |
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Used as a running gag in the episode "Night of the Blood Beast". In the movie, the characters say the name "Steve" a disproportionate number of times,note There are only six human character (and the titular Blood Beast), two of them die, but one gets better, for awhile. Two of them are women. The last two, Steve and Dave, are pretty much interchangeable, and Dave's name is rarely spoken. so Mike and the Bots assume that everyone in the film is named Steve. An example of their riffing: Not helping matters is a scene where a character walks into a room, specifically addresses Steve and the three people on screen turn around. |
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In Ever Decreasing Circles, Paul Ryman's hair salon employees are all named Debbie. | |
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In The Complete Works of William Shakespeare (abridged) members of the Reduced Shakespeare Company play with this trope, referring to house technicians and multiple audience volunteers as "Bob" to keep things simple. | |
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In Saturday Night Live, art dealers Nuni Schoener and his wife, Nuni Schoener, have the same name, but with very subtle differences in pronunciation. Two of their later sketches reveal that they have at least two children also named Nuni, but pronounced slightly differently than either of their own names. | |
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In the Map Men episode about English counties, the Normans are depicted as this. They all have the name "Norman" and speak in an overly formal, almost artificial manner. | |
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Alluded to in Babe — apparently mother sows don't give their children individual names, so the title character is just one of many Babes in his litter. | |
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Wales is a Planet Of Joneses in The Very World of Milton Jones. It's a very common surname there in Real Life as well. | |
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In The Bard's Tale, you are sent to find a man named Bodb. After speaking to a couple Bodbs, one tells you you need Magic Bodb. Magic Bodb says you need the other Magic Bodb, as he only does party tricks and you want the one with real spells. | |
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Barbie (2023): All the inhabitants of Barbieland are named either Barbie or Ken, with them mainly being differentiated by their job titles (President Barbie, Doctor Barbie, Lawyer Barbie, etc). There are a few exceptions like Allen, Midge, and the Skippers. | |
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In Montmorency, all the servants at Bargles are called Sam. | |
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In Anne Of Avonlea, Miss Lavender has a servant girl called Charlotta the Fourth. This is because her three older sisters had all worked for Miss Lavender before her; the oldest was named Charlotta, and Miss Lavender got in the habit of calling them all by that name. Truth in Television: in Victorian England, for example, many households reused the same name for a succession of servants in the same position because they didn't want to bother remembering their real names. This was apparently also done in some parts of the United States, since Lizzie Borden and her sister tended to call family maid Bridget Sullivan "Maggie" (her predecessor's name), and, as noted in the Real Life section, in many cases done with communal servants such as waiters and (most notoriously) train porters. |
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In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Dear Vikings", all of the vikings are named Olaf except for their leader, Gorton. | |
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On Blazing Saddles all the people of Rock Ridge appear to have the surname Johnson. Of course, this being some hick western town and, furthermore, this being Mel Brooks, it likely just means that everyone is related. | |
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In Welcome to Night Vale all of the angels are named Erika. No, not Erica- Erika. With a 'K'. | |
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For some time after the post-release 1.3 update came out, Minecraft suffered from a problem where skins would break, causing everyone to look like Steve (the base player skin), causing this trope to be in effect for a while. | |
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Another Discworld sort-of example would be the Nac Mac Feegle from The Wee Free Men and sequels — they aren't exactly all named the same thing, but there seems to be a shortage of names such that one character goes by "No'-as-big-as-Medium-Sized-Jock-but-bigger-than-Wee-Jock-Jock." | |
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In Judge Dredd, everyone in Fargoville, the hometown of Eustace Fargo in the Cursed Earth, is named Eustace in honour of the first Chief Judge. | |
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Blackadder: In "Head," the royal jailer is "Ploppy, son of Ploppy" and last meal cook is "Mrs. Ploppy;" Blackadder assumes they're related, but they say it's pure coincidence. Then he discovers that the executioner is his manservant Baldrick, who offers to change his name to Ploppy "if it'll make things easier." Blackadder declines, but for the rest of the episodes Ploppy the Jailer refers to him as "Young Ploppy." | |
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Doctor Who: Happens in a fairly literal fashion in "The End of Time", when Master uses alien technology to transform everyone on Earth into a copy of himself: a Master Race, if you will. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: | |
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In Goodfellas, Karen at one point goes on a rant in the narration that all of the mobsters seem to be named either Peter or Paul, and all of them are married to women named Marie, who all wind up naming their daughters Marie. To punctuate the point, this narration is delivered over a sequence of Paulie introducing the various mafia members at Karen's wedding, where every person whose hand she shakes is one of those three names. | |
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Several Monty Python's Flying Circus sketches. Apparently all Australians are named Bruce. When a Brit arrives: There's also Whicker Island, where everyone was Alan Whicker, except (maybe) for Father Pierre. John Cleese's character in the Fish Licence sketch owns numerous pets called Eric, and claimed that he was emulating Kemal Ataturk who owned an entire menagerie called Abdul. (The other character in the sketch — the license bureau guy — is also an Eric.) Cleese's character was also called Eric. Eric Praline. In the Batsmen of the Kalaharis sketch, the titular cricket team faces an English team made up of B. Pratt, Z. Pratt, M.J.K. Pratt, V.E. Pratt, C.U. Pratt, P.B.T.R. Pratt, B.B.C.T.V. Pratt, P.D.A. Pratt, O. Pratt, W.G. Pratt, and Y.E.T.A.N.O.T.H.E.R. Pratt. |
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In Chuck Palahniuk's Survivor (1999), all first born males in the Creedish cult/faith are named "Adam." All subsequent males are named "Tender," and every female, including firstborn, are named "Biddy." | |
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In the original Chinese version of Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, nearly every goat is named "[X] Goat". Similarly, nearly every wolf is named "[X] Wolf". | |
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In Battlestar Galactica (2003), there are seven humanoid Cylon models that are known for most of the series. Each of them is known mainly by a model number and nothing else (Six, the Eights, etc). Even when they start to use the names the humans call them, it's still one name per model (the Simons, the Dorals, etc). Two aversions to this are Caprica-Six and Boomer, who are given special names by the other Cylons. Six in general is a partial aversion, as several different copies of her show up with unique names over the course of the show. Fandom is fond of asking the question of whether the Earth the survivors settle on will be known as "the planet of the Eights". |
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In The Golden Girls Season 3 Episode 9 "A Visit from Little Sven," Rose breaks down the Svens she's related to: | |
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The Giant Intelligent Friendly Talking Spiders that appear in the Exile/Avernum series (and in Nethergate too, probably) are all named Spider. Exile 3/Avernum 3 makes a "riddle" from this — a guard spider won't let you see the chief spider unless you know him already, in which case you should know his name. Of course, you have a pretty good idea already, and whether you were using Exile 3's type-the-keyword-in interface or Avernum 3's fixed dialogue options you could immediately guess correctly. | |
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In Pokémon: The Series: All nurses are named Nurse Joy, and all police officers are named Officer Jenny. In the Unova region, there's an identical family of Battle Club owners, all named Don George. And there's an identical family of cruise ship guides, all named Porter. |
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In Codename: Kids Next Door, there is a tribe living inside Sector V's sofa whose names are all Dave. | |
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In The Sandman (1989) story "A Game of You," Wilkinson reveals his parents called all their children "Wilkinson." "It was hardest on the girls." | |
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South Park: The former trope title comes from "Starvin' Marvin in Space", which introduced the Marklar. All named Marklar, and they replaced all nouns with Marklar. "Cartman Joins NAMBLA", it is shown that whenever Kenny dies his parents have another child that they also call Kenny, and who ages in record time to match the previous Kenny's age. Later, in "Coon vs Coon & Friends" it is shown that each of these children are the reincarnation of the same Kenny's soul due to his parents once attending meetings of the Cult of Cthulhu. A more subtle example: especially in the early episodes, virtually any minor male character would be named "Kevin." Word of God (specifically Matt Stone) even noted that they would throw it in all the time just because he thinks of it as generic. Also, just about all of the main boys' mothers was named "Carol" at some point before being retconned into the names that stuck. Since Kenny's mother received the least characterization out of the four, she got to keep the name. |
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The Marra of The Madness Season are all known by others as simply "Marra." Sometimes with a suffix attached, if the embodied want to distinguish between them. The Marra always know. |
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Similar to the film example above, the British animation series Ivor the Engine follows the rural Welsh practice of "Surname the Occupation", e.g. "Jones the Steam" or "Dai Station". | |
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In Casino Royale (1967), Sir James Bond, now heading the secret service, assigns all his agents the name and number of James Bond 007 to confuse the enemy. Previously, when he had resigned, his superiors had assigned his name and number to the 007 we all know for agency morale purposes. | |
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In Bang-On Balls: Chronicles all of the named characters are named 'Bob', which are also the initials of the game's title (minus the "Chronicles"). The only character with a semi-different name is the Big Bad Bob Boss, who consistently gets referred to on a Full-Name Basis to differientate him from the Player Character, also named Bob. | |
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The weird and disturbing world that results when John Malkovich goes inside his own head in Being John Malkovich | |
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One of the books, features Q, his wife Q, and their son Q. Although to avoid this trope the author referred to Q's wife as "Lady Q," and their son as "q." | |
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Due to being clones, Oscar Mike and the rest of the Mike clones from Battleborn are all named Mike in one form or another. For example, info from his lore challenges reveals that the leaders of the Mike clones are named King Mike and Queen Mike. Additionally, the Mike clones settled in the past on a planet which they aptly named Planet Mike, so basically a literal interpretation of this trope. | |
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Middlemost Post: The Purpleton region of Mt. Middlemost has weird creatures who are all named Reggie and creepily Speak in Unison. | |
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Also, most of the bridge crew aboard Spaceball One are Assholes. | |
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The word "Cirbozoid" in Starslip. Just... see it for yourselves. | |
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In the Family Guy episode "Road to Germany", all of the Jewish men in the 1939 Warsaw synagogue are named Mr. Goldman and half of them are named Mr. Mort Goldman when Brian and Stewie are looking for him. Mind it is a wedding so most of them would be related to each other. | |
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In Popful Mail for the Sega CD, one of the reptillian Gaw creatures explains that Gaw have no personal names. True to Working Designs' style, he follows it up by saying "It's hell when you're being paged..." | |
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Igor, in which The Igor is seen as some type of caste, and they are all named Igor. | |
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In Soul, all the soul counselors are named "Jerry" for convenience to mortal souls. | |
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In Great Gusliar novel Esteemed Microbe there's an alien from the planet Tori-Tori where everybody's name is Tori. As he explains "It's simpler that way. To avoid confusion." Presumably, since all Tori are unrivalled linguists, there may be some nuances non-Tori can't notice. Also Kir Bulychev may have recycled a Soviet joke about naming everything after Lenin. | |
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Being personifications of cells, the cast of Cells at Work! don't have names. Some groups have official number designations (like the courier red blood cells and the Killer T squadron), but most are referred to by species name. | |
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In How I Met Your Mother, we have Marvin Eriksen (Marshall's father), Marvin Eriksen Jr. (Marshall's brother) and Marvin Wait-For-It Eriksen (Marshall's son). | |
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In The Conduit and its sequel, there's nothing to prevent multiple online users from having the same screen name. Seeing as the default name is "Mr. Ford" and many players are too busy shooting things to think up a unique name, you'll end up not knowing exactly who gunned you down half the time. Interestingly, "Sr. Ford" is a slight variation that pops up extremely often. | |
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In the animated version of The Tick, one of the villains, The Terror, invents a Ray Gun. "One blast could turn half a town into a guy named Ray." Then he came up with the Tommy Gun.... | |
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4chan in BoxxyQuest: The Gathering Storm, naturally. All of its inhabitants are named Anonymous, and all of the Anons are identical. (Except for the lone Femanon, who is pink instead of green). | |
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In Sgt. Frog, there appears to be an entire species of Snake People all named Viper. | |
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Babylon 5: There were multiple beings, all appearing alike, that go by the name of "Zathras," but each one is pronounced slightly differently. However, the differences aren't noticeable by the human ear, leading to much confusion for Commander Ivanova. The Vorlon who replaced Kosh claimed that "We are all Kosh," but his name was actually Ulkesh. This may be because the Vorlons break off pieces off themselves and share them with other Vorlons, so that part of Kosh always remains with them. Kosh did the same thing with Sheridan. At one point a character says something like: "Every Vorlon carries a little piece of every other Vorlon," which sort of justifies "We are all Kosh." The CCG managed to swerve around this by spelling the names of all Zathras cards with apostrophes in different places (Z'athras, Za'thras, etc.), except for two (Zathras and Zathras Who Was). |
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Another example from MST3K occurs during the viewing of Fugitive Alien, with the name Ken. Within the film, there are genuinely two characters named Ken, and this is lampshaded ("...a young boy, whose name was also Ken.") Joel and the 'bots just decide to pretend that everyone is named Ken. Over the course of the Gamera series, Joel and the 'bots quickly notice that every young boy is named Kenny, but all are implicitly different characters. |
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Star Trek: The Next Generation and Star Trek: Voyager has the Q, who are all named Q. The first Q we met had an affair with Q, and they had a child, Q. This makes for some confusing family trees, as well as a hole in the popular Fanon theory that Trelane, the Squire of Gothos from the original series, is a Q. Justified as the Q are omniscient, so they know who they are talking about. One of the books, features Q, his wife Q, and their son Q. Although to avoid this trope the author referred to Q's wife as "Lady Q," and their son as "q." Q's kid Q at least gets a nickname in the TV show — Qball. Onscreen, Captain Janeway just said Ms. Q when distinction was required. And then the Q who wanted to die was named Quinn when he was granted mortality. It appears that canonically there have only been two actual births of Q: Amanda Rogers (who they no longer speak about) and q. The Star Trek novel Q-Squared explicitly stated that Trelane (and his "mother" and "father" who appeared at the end of the episode) were members of the Q Continuum, so it isn't just Fanon. In the novel, Q implied that Trelane was Q's son, the result of an affair with Trelane's "mother". Then again, the novels aren't canonical. It's implied that "Q" is an alias. Originally, there were supposed to be several different beings assuming an identical appearance and calling themselves by the same name popping in from time to time. |
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The Weebl & Bob flash vid "Dan" features an alien race that uses the name "Dan De Zille" (the name of their ruler) for everything on their planet. Like many Planet of Steves examples, they don't find this at all confusing. Dan himself was the winner of a contest to get his name and likeness into one of the cartoons, and the aliens' space ship is shaped like his head. | |
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