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Same Face, Different Name
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Sometimes an artist who is known for a particular area of expertise gets tired of the same old thing and wants to try something new. Most of the time, these creative people sign their own work, satisfied to ride their own coat-tails. Other times, the artist feels that they need to hide their actual identity behind a new name. There are several reasons for this. Sometimes, it's just that the artist wants to succeed or fail on the merits of the new work and wants to avoid the impression that they are simply riding their previous fame to new glory. Sometimes the new area is questionable or not seen as "up to standard". And other times they just want to avoid squicking their own fanbase. This is a Sub-Trope of Pen Name, where the person in question is already known, and successful, by another identity. For example, Marshall Mathers issuing records as Eminem is still the same old rap music; but if Eminem used the name "Bohunk Anthrax" to publish a country album, it would count as Same Face Different Name. For books in particular, once the secret comes out they will probably be republished as by "Well-Known Name writing as Different Name", with the well-known name in much bigger letters. Compare with Moustache de Plume. Sounds similar to, but isn't, Only Six Faces, where many characters have the same faces and different names. If it's a case of Different Face, Same Name, then you're looking for Collective Identity. Examples |
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Jenny Colgan, known for writing romantic comedy, wrote a series of books about a boarding school as Jane Beaton, and her Doctor Who Expanded Universe New Series Adventures novel under the name J.T. Colgan (although her Doctor Who: Time Trips novella was as Jenny Colgan). | |
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Gardner Fox, the creator of The Flash, the Justice Society of America, and the Justice League of America, wrote romance novels under the name Lynna Cooper. | |
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Peter O'Donnell, the creator of Modesty Blaise, wrote romance novels as Madeleine Brent. | |
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An interesting example is Chris Comstock, whose early hard edm and trap work were released under the name Dotcom, before shifting to a more upbeat synthpop- and futurebass-leaning sound, and the emergence of a mysterious masked DJ by the name of Marshmello. | |
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Similarly, engineer Nevil S. Norway published his works, including On the Beach, under his first two names, Nevil Shute. | |
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Douglas Lawrence Osowski, for his work on Rocko's Modern Life, was credited as Doug Lawrence for the episodes he wrote, and as "Mr. Lawrence" for voicing Filburt. For the rest of his career, Mr. Lawrence would be his sole credit. | |
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Rob Grant and Doug Naylor use their own names when writing their television shows, most notably Red Dwarf. When they collaboratively ventured into novel writing, they did so as the "gestalt entity" Grant Naylor, which also came to serve as the name of their TV production company. They were also credited as Grant Naylor when 'he' directed about half of the episodes of Red Dwarf Series V. Funnily enough, in those same episodes their writing credits remained separate. |
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Todd McFarlane returned to write his creator-owned Spawn with #185, and wrote it until #200, after which another writer named "Will Carlton" took over the writing for the next 19 issues. Then McFarlane revealed that it was actually himself, and from #220 onward he was once more using his real name. | |
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Ian Gibson also did 2000 AD art credited as 'Emberton'. | |
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"David Agnew" was twice used for 1970s Doctor Who scripts co-written by the producer and script editor. The pen name was originated by writer Anthony Read on a couple of drama anthology series such as Play for Today, then carried over when Read became script editor on Who, using it for a serial ('The Invasion of Time') he cobbled together along with producer Graham Williams. Williams then borrowed it for his rewrite on 'City of Death' with script editor Douglas Adams of an original idea by David Fisher. The name was also used in at least one other BBC series, and in 2000 resurfaced as an 'author' in a Doctor Who short story collection. It was further played with on the DVD release of 'The Invasion of Time', where "Agnew" was the subject of a mockumentary, The Elusive David Agnew — directed by one "Alan Smithee"... | |
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This was quite common in the 1960's, with freelancers working for DC Comics taking up assignments for the (at the time) less established Marvel and not wanting to potentially burn their bridge to DC. Among them, George Roussos inked early issues of Fantastic Four as "George Bell", and Superman co-creator Jerry Siegel wrote a couple of issues as "Joe Carter" | |
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Daniel Handler has written some rather explicit novels under his own name, and A Series of Unfortunate Events as Lemony Snicket— although the latter also involves an elaborate Direct Line to the Author played out to some degree both in the books and in Real Life (with Handler presented as Snicket's representative). | |
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In the 1960s Ronnie Barker (later one of The Two Ronnies) wanted to have a go at writing for David Frost's satirical sketch show The Frost Report, which he was appearing in. In order that his writing would be considered on its own merits, he sent in a sketch under the name of "Gerald Wiley". 'Wiley' later became a very successful writer on The Two Ronnies, but 'he' remained entirely enigmatic (Barker once turned down his own work to maintain his cover), building a huge mystery among others working on the show as to his true identity – jokey speculation ranged from Frank Muir to Tom Stoppard. When Barker finally outed himself they initially refused to believe him, assuming he was just joining in with the joking. He continued to do all his writing under a number of different pseudonyms. | |
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This strategy has become Disney's method for all their banners beyond themselves and Pixar (Marvel, Lucasfilm, and now Fox). The only indicator that Avengers: Endgame and The Rise of Skywalker are Disney movies is the card at the end of the credits saying that the films were "distributed by Walt Disney Studios Motion Pictures". | |
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Naoki Maeda, best known for writing a lot of the music in DanceDanceRevolution, has dozens of aliases that he uses for different styles and genres of music. Another Bemani artist, Takayuki Ishikawa, better known as dj TAKA, also uses different aliases for different styles, such as Lion MUSASHI for house music, D.J. Setup for psychedelic music, and D.J. Amuro for classical music. |
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In a 1999 episode of Saturday Night Live, the host was Garth Brooks, and the musical guest was...Chris Gaines. | |
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There are quite a few examples of this on Doctor Who. Sometimes it was because the script had been rewritten to the extent that the original writer used a pseudonym. 'The Daemons' was credited to "Guy Leopold", when it was co-written by Robert Sloman and Barry Letts: it's often assumed this is because Letts was the producer (The BBC's rules forbade staff from taking a second credit on a show, e.g. for writing), although Sloman once claimed it was because he had another writing partner at the time and didn't want people to think they'd fallen out. "David Agnew" was twice used for 1970s Doctor Who scripts co-written by the producer and script editor. The pen name was originated by writer Anthony Read on a couple of drama anthology series such as Play for Today, then carried over when Read became script editor on Who, using it for a serial ('The Invasion of Time') he cobbled together along with producer Graham Williams. Williams then borrowed it for his rewrite on 'City of Death' with script editor Douglas Adams of an original idea by David Fisher. The name was also used in at least one other BBC series, and in 2000 resurfaced as an 'author' in a Doctor Who short story collection. It was further played with on the DVD release of 'The Invasion of Time', where "Agnew" was the subject of a mockumentary, The Elusive David Agnew — directed by one "Alan Smithee"... |
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Singer/songwriter Carole King once made a very unobtrusive acting appearance in a The Mary Tyler Moore Show episode, billed under her married name of 'Carole Larkey'. | |
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It has been confirmed that two of the regular contributing writers to the Buffy the Vampire Slayer fan fiction archive Twisting the Hellmouth are well-known, Hugo Award-winning science fiction authors who use pseudonyms because neither of them want the "rabid fanboy" effect to hit the site. The admins of the site know which writers are the big name pro's, and know who they really are, but they aren't telling. | |
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Porter Robinson used several different aliases during his early years as a producer (including Ekowraith and Bloodsphere) before using his given name for the bulk of the house, dubstep and synthpop work that would propel him to prominence. Later on he started the side projects Virtual Self and Air to Earth as means to explore other genres (Bemani-esque Eurobeat and neotrance for the former and “sample driven prog house and airy disco” for the latter, with Air to Earth limited to live shows only). | |
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