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* Male incarnations of WebOriginal/JennyEverywhere tend to go by "Johnny Everywhere" or "Jerry Everywhere". Also, the first Jenny ever to become cut off from the telepathic network of Jennies changed her name to [[EvilCounterpart Jenny Nowhere]] as part of her FaceHeelTurn.

* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'', one of Sonic's first furray into TheMultiverse landed him on a version of Mobius where all the characters were the [[EvilCounterpart Evil]]/GoodCounterpart referred to as "the Anti-verse". After ending up on Mobius Prime and being mutated by the Master Emerald, Anti-Sonic became Scourge the Hedgehog, with it later pointed out that outside the cosmetic and moral differences there was nothing separating him from Sonic Prime. This led him [Scourge] to return to his own reality where he took over the Anti-Freedom Fighters and reformed them into the Suppression Squad. The members also change their names and appearances ranging from Anti-Tails simply going by his first name "Miles" to Anti-Rotor making himself into a cyborg.

* ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'': Superman-X has been known to respond to just Superman, even when the original Superman is around. As a result, the team chooses to call him by the name the original Superman gives him, Kell-El, so that the two can be more easily distinguished.

* ''Manga/Persona1'': Other than the canon examples from the [[VideoGame/{{Persona1}} source material]], there's also Naoya's Shadow Self, who goes by the name Kazuya.

* In ''Series/Loki2021'', to distinguish the rogue Variant of Loki that the TVA has been hunting for from all the other Loki Variants (including the main character of the show), this rogue Variant is simply referred to as "The Variant". They would later reject being called "Loki" and instead ask to be called "Randy", after seeing a nametag from a person they possessed, although that doesn't stick. [[spoiler:The name she actually chooses to refer to herself on the regular is "Sylvie".]]

-->'''Narrator''': [[MeanwhileBackAtThe Meanwhile, in Universe A]], Hermes A heads towards the Sun... A.

* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'': In the episode "Fractured", after failing to catch Johnny Rancid results in a broken arm, Robin gets paid a visit from an alternate version of himself from another universe. After trying to comprehend this visit and pronounce his given name "[[SdrawkcabName Nosyarg Kcid]]", Beast Boy decides to call this Robin "Larry", which Larry is quick to adapt.
* In ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'', when Miles Morales arrives in the main universe and starts working alongside Peter Parker, he changes his superhero identity from Spider-Man to Kid Arachnid.
* Red Arrow (a clone of Roy Harper) in ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'' renames himself "Will" in ''Outsiders'' after retiring from the Justice League.

* ''Manga/Persona1'': Other than the canon examples from the [[VideoGame/{{Persona}} source material]], there's also Naoya's Shadow Self, who goes by the name Kazuya.

* ''VideoGame/{{Persona}}'': TheReveal is that Maki, Aki and Mai are all [[spoiler:figments of the real Maki's mind]] using anagrams of the same name.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': The Earth-2 Dinah Laurel Lance goes by her first name in her home universe but opts on using MiddleNameBasis once she settles on Earth-1 for two reasons; 1.) She's making a DeadPersonImpersonation of her DeadAlternateCounterpart who went with "Laurel", and 2.) There's already a Dinah on the main cast (not to mention her late counterpart's mother having the same name which necessitated the MiddleNameBasis in the first place).

* In a ''[[Series/{{HiFive}} Hi-5]]'' segment, Tim decides to duplicate his voice so she doesn't have to feel alone when his bandmates are too busy to sing with him. The machine he uses to duplicate his voice ends up making a copy of him, and the copy calls himself Tim 2.