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One of many ways to breathe new life into something is to change its name. Sometimes the old name is an Artifact Title that no longer fits, or it's just not hip enough for the audiences of today. Maybe it's a Meaningful Rename to signify personal growth or a life-changing event. But for whatever reason, the name change doesn't fit. Fans may find that the old name fit better than the new one, or was more recognizable, or more iconic. Or maybe the event that precipitated the name change wasn't as life-changing as previously thought. Or maybe nostalgia takes over. So the name gets changed back. This trope can also apply for when a name change is part of a publicity stunt and is intentionally short-lived. See also Sudden Name Change for when a name is changed but doesn't change back. |
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On Parks and Recreation, Jerry retires temporarily. When he returns to work, he reveals that his name is actually Gary and they've been saying it wrong all this time. He asks that they call him Gary from then on. Instead, April starts calling him "Larry" and the others join in. In the final season (which takes place three years after the previous one by which time the character is now called "Terry"), Donna intentionally "misprints" his name as "Gary" on a wedding seating chart and the rest of the cast seize on it as another hilarious name change again (having forgotten it's his actual name). He tears up a little at finally being called by his real name by his best friends. | |
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When Lance Storm won titles in the later years of WCW, he would rename the titles he won to the "Canadian Heavyweight Championship", "100 Kilos and Under Championship", and "Saskatchewan Hardcore International Title" instead of US, Cruiserweight, and Hardcore titles respectively. Generally this change was reverted back to the old name once he or his stable lost the strap. | |
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Black Panther was created just before the Black Panther organization. For a short time T'Challa changed to "Black Leopard" to avoid Unfortunate Implications, but this didn't last long. | |
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Jason Todd picked up the Red Robin costume and name while traveling the multiverse only to return to being the Red Hood sometime after returning home. | |
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In the run-up to The Simpsons Movie, numerous 7-Eleven Stores in North America renamed themselves "Kwik-E-Mart" with Simpsons-themed signage on and inside the building. After the movie promotion was over the names returned to 7-Eleven. | |
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At the height of the moral panic about Dungeons & Dragons, devils and demons were renamed in the 2nd Edition as baatezu and tanar'ri. This was reversed in the 3rd edition and the names were Retconned as being of particular races of said devils and demons. | |
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British popstar Cheryl went from being Cheryl Tweedy (her birth name) to Cheryl Cole, to Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, before settling on a mononym. | |
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The Golden-Age Starman villain The Mist went by the name "Nimbus" in the Will Payton Starman series, but was back to calling himself The Mist by the time of the Jack Knight series. | |
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The Who had already settled on the name before their manager persuaded them to release their debut single under the name "The High Numbers". They reverted to their preferred moniker after the single flopped. When it was reissued many years later to promote the Quadrophenia movie, it was again credited to The High Numbers as a kind of Mythology Gag, and became a minor hit with that credit. | |
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The main character on The Greatest American Hero was originally named Ralph Hinkley, but after the assassination attempt on Ronald Reagan by John Hinckley, Jr., the character's last name was temporarily changed to "Hanley" during the first season. It was reverted back to "Hinkley" by Season 2. | |
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When Big Audio Dynamite unveiled a new lineup in 1991 (featuring only leader Mick Jones from the previous "classic" lineup) with the release of The Globe, they called themselves "Big Audio Dynamite II". On the following record, Higher Power, in 1994, they changed their name again to "Big Audio". On the record following that, F-Punk, they changed back to "Big Audio Dynamite". | |
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Saturday Night Live: "Weekend Update" went through a number of name changes (including "SNL NewsBreak" and "Saturday Night News") when Dick Ebersol produced the show in the early 1980s, but returned to its original name when Lorne Michaels returned as producer in 1985. | |
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Sean Combs passed through multiple names in his career, such as "Puff Daddy", "Puffy", "P. Diddy", "Diddy" and "Brother Love". | |
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Martha and the Muffins changed their name to "M + M" in 1984, partly to reflect a line-up change (shifting from a full band to a core duo of Martha Johnson and Mark Gane plus guests) and partly as Creator Backlash against a whimsical name they felt no longer suited them. A couple of albums later they decided the original name was better after all, and returned to it. | |
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Stephanie McMahon became Stephanie McMahon-Helmsley when she married Triple-H until returning to her maiden name after the divorce (though something else happened off-screen). | |
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Beast Boy changed his name to "Changeling" when he joined the Teen Titans in 1980. This change lasted about twenty years, before he went back to the Beast Boy name. | |
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Post-Crisis, the first Superman series was renamed Adventures of Superman with issue #424, while a second Superman series was launched. Following Infinite Crisis, the second Superman series was cancelled, and the original title returned to the name Superman with issue #650. | |
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Action Comics was revamped in 1988 as a weekly anthology series, and was renamed Action Comics Weekly. The format change was dropped a year later, and the book's title was returned to normal. | |
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In the Numberjacks episode "Being 3", Three gets turned into a four so the Numbertaker, who was taking threes, wouldn't take her. She starts calling herself Four, but since this series needs a three to work and there's already a character named Four, she got turned back into a three and was called Three again. | |
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