This is discussion archived from a time before the current discussion method was installed.
Ununnilium: Where would this go? In the first season of Doctor Who, aliens from Raxacoricofallapatorious show up; in the episode "Love And Monsters", it's revealed that Raxacoricofallapatorious has a twin planet named Clom.
Red Shoe: Hrm. I'm reminded of two things. One is a translation gag, where a long string of (fake) foreign language speech is subtitled as a single word, and vice versa (there's a very old Bugs Bunny sketch I associate with this). The other is a troupe of local Rennaisance Festival performers who introduce themselves as "Sir James Ratfellow, Esquire" and "Bob".
Ununnilium: Hmmmmmmm, those seem like they could be two different tropes.
Fast Eddie: Did a paragraph-flip, because the lead was buried. <later> Then came back and yanked:
- The names of television characters are usually subject to a great deal of thought, with main characters in particular often undergoing several name changes before they finally reach the air. Star Trek The Original Series is a good case in point -- the name of the captain of the Enterprise went from "Robert April" to "Christopher Pike" before Gene Roddenberry settled on "James T. Kirk". (The earlier names were later recycled as Kirk's predecessors.)
... because it seemed to be off-point.
Little Beast: Is there a trope for when people call someone by what they introduced themselves, even though it's not really their name? e.g. always saying "Bond James Bond" or "J-Jack" or "Captain Picard of the U.S.S. Enterprise" rather than "James", "Jack", or "Picard".
