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'''Lea:''' Axel? Please. The name's Lea. [[CharacterCatchphrase Got it memorized?]]\\

'''Lea:''' No, I told you my name's-- [[SureLetsGoWithThat Augh, whatever, Axel, fine.]]

** It turns out that Zoro's ultimate rival Mihawk similarly had the epithet of "Naval Hunter", until he became a [[{{Privateer}} Warlord]] who works ''with'' the Navy.

** Sideshow Bob (real name: Robert Underdunk Terwilliger) still goes by his stage moniker long after his career with Krusty ended in "Krusty Gets Busted". He doesn't seem to mind being called by this name either; he doesn't correct anyone or get mad when anyone refers to him as such. Even his mayoral campaign ads say "Vote for Sideshow Bob" as opposed to "Vote for Terwilliger" or simply "Vote for Bob". The only time he ever seems to get angry at the name is when he is about to crash a plane into Krusty in "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming". Bart begs him not to saying that Krusty "made [Bob] into who he is" and without him he wouldn't even be known as "Sideshow". Bart's plea [[BerserkButton just makes Bob scream in fury while he increases the speed of the plane]]. Lampshaded in "The Great Louse Detective", when he's introduced as [[RecruitingTheCriminal the criminal being recruited to find Homer's attempted murderer]]. After Bart and Lisa scream "Aah, Sideshow Bob!", Bob answers "Oh, come now. We've been through so much together. Just call me 'Bob.'", to which they oblige, screaming "Aah, Bob!".

** In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E2ThePrincipalAndThePauper The Principal and the Pauper]]", it's revealed that the man known as Seymour Skinner is actually a former juvenile delinquent named Armin Tamzarian, who assumed the real Seymour Skinner's identity when he seemingly died in Vietnam; the truth is revealed when he turns out to be alive. This lasts about half an episode before real Skinner proves to be [[WeWantOurJerkBack more overbearing than Armin]]. Real Skinner is exiled from Springfield, [[StatusQuoIsGod Armin's name is legally changed to Seymour Skinner]], [[TheScottishTrope the name "Armin Tamzarian"]] is [[EnforcedTrope declared unutterable]] [[SeriousBusiness under penalty of torture]], and [[ResetButton the series continues like nothing happened]].
** Sideshow Bob (real name: Robert Underdunk Terwilliger) still goes by his stage moniker long after his career with Krusty ended in "Krusty Gets Busted". He doesn't seem to mind being called by this name either; he doesn't correct anyone or get mad when anyone refers to him as such. Even his mayoral campaign ads say "Vote for Sideshow Bob" as opposed to "Vote for Terwilliger" or simply "Vote for Bob". The only time he ever seems to get angry at the name is when he is about to crash a plane into Krusty in "Sideshow Bob's Last Gleaming". Bart begs him not to saying that Krusty "made [Bob] into who he is" and without him he wouldn't even be known as "Sideshow". Bart's plea [[BerserkButton just makes Bob scream in fury while he increases the speed of the plane]].

'''Lea:''' Axel? Please. The name's Lea. Got it memorized?\\

'''Lea:''' No, I told you my name's-- Augh, whatever, Axel, fine.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': At the end of her personal quest, Shadowheart finds out that her real name is Jenevelle Hallowleaf and that she is a daughter of two Selunites who had been kidnapped by Sharrans as a child. However, even if [[spoiler:she was abandoned by Shar]], she feels like [[spoiler:she is too different a person to respond to the name "Jenevelle" anymore]] and so holds on to the name "Shadowheart" [[spoiler:and vows to redeem it in her new goddess's name]].

** Throughout the original trilogy but especially in [[Film/ANewHope the first film]], even after Luke learns that the hermit "Old Ben Kenobi" is really the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke continues to call him Ben (it isn't until Luke himself becomes a Jedi in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' that he calls him Obi-Wan). An odd example as it's unclear where the name "Ben" comes from; [[PaperThinDisguise it's certainly not likely to fool any Imperials who come knocking.]]

* For a minor example in ''Manga/OnePiece'', Luffy enters a tournament in the Dressrosa arc in disguise, and adopts the nickname "Lucy". Even after his true identity is revealed to the public, the citizens continue referring to him as Lucy out of sheer habit.
** The "Pirate Hunter" epithet Roronoa Zoro acquired is a straight example, since he no longer acquires bounties from wanted pirates (and even that he said was incidental), and became one himself.

* During the events of ''ComicBook/CivilWar2006'' and shortly following it, Franchise/SpiderMan reveals his secret identity in a press conference. Then everybody (heroes, villains, government, regular people, J. J. Jameson, etc.) knew that he is Peter Parker. Still, he kept using the mask and the name "Spider-Man." He even wondered in one moment if there was a point for that anymore. However, this was undone during "ComicBook/OneMoreDay", where his secret identity was restored.
* A particularly notable comic book example is [[ComicBook/{{Valor}} Mon-El]] of the ''ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes''. Mon-El's superhero identity is the Kryptonian name Superboy gave him when he was suffering from amnesia. His actual name, as he recalled later, is Lar Gand, but he continues to be known as Mon-El. (Pre-Crisis and Retroboot only -- other incarnations of Lar Gand either don't use the name Mon-El or have different justifications for it ... and in the ''Rebirth'' incarnation, he ''really is'' a Kryptonian of the House of El.)

** Jon Snow learns in the final season that he is Aegon Targaryen, trueborn son of Daenerys older brother Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, but prefers to keep that information private as he has no desire to claim the throne and knows the Northern lords would demand he stake his claim if they knew Daenerys wasn't the rightful heir.

** Jon Snow learns in the final season that he is Aegon Targaryen, trueborn son of Daenerys older brother Rhaegar Targaryen and Lyanna Stark, but prefers to keep that information private as the Northern lords would force him onto the Iron Throne of they knew Daenerys wasn't the rightful heir.

* In ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', all members of Organization XIII take a new name when they join. Axel spends all of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' and ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' making sure people know his name is Axel (''"Got it memorized?"''). In of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]'', he turns back into a person and goes by his previous name "Lea"...except everyone else continues to call him Axel after [[GoneHorriblyRight getting his name memorized too well]], to the point where he just gives up and lets people call him whatever they want. Information given in-game and in related promotional media treat the names as interchangeable, sometimes using "Lea", sometimes using "Axel", and sometimes calling him both at once.

* In ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'', all members of Organization XIII take a new name when they join. Axel spends all of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHeartsChainOfMemories Chain of Memories]]'' and ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'' making sure people know his name is Axel (''[[CatchPhrase "Got it memorized?"]]''). In of ''[[VideoGame/KingdomHearts3DDreamDropDistance Dream Drop Distance]]'', he turns back into a person and goes by his previous name "Lea"...except everyone else continues to call him Axel after [[GoneHorriblyRight getting his name memorized too well]], to the point where he just gives up and lets people call him whatever they want. Information given in-game and in related promotional media treat the names as interchangeable, sometimes using "Lea", sometimes using "Axel", and sometimes calling him both at once.

* Throughout the original ''Franchise/StarWars'' trilogy but especially in [[Film/ANewHope the first film]], even after Luke learns that the hermit "Old Ben Kenobi" is really the Jedi Master Obi-Wan Kenobi, Luke continues to call him Ben (it isn't until Luke himself becomes a Jedi in ''Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'' that he calls him Obi-Wan). An odd example as it's unclear where the name "Ben" comes from; [[PaperThinDisguise it's certainly not likely to fool any Imperials who come knocking.]]

* In the "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS9E2ThePrincipalAndThePauper The Principal and the Pauper]]" episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', it's revealed that the man known as Seymour Skinner is actually a former juvenile delinquent named Armin Tamzarian, who assumed the real Seymour Skinner's identity when he seemingly died in Vietnam; the truth is revealed when he turns out to be alive. This lasts about half an episode before real Skinner proves to be [[WeWantOurJerkBack more overbearing than Armin]]. Real Skinner is exiled from Springfield, [[StatusQuoIsGod Armin's name is legally changed to Seymour Skinner]], [[TheScottishTrope the name "Armin Tamzarian"]] is [[EnforcedTrope declared unutterable]] [[SeriousBusiness under penalty of torture]], and [[ResetButton the series continues like nothing happened]].