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* The members of Music/WuTangClan love to use pop-culture based monikers. Ghostface Killah and Masta Killa both being characters from Kung-fu movies. Ghostface also often goes by [[ComicBook/IronMan Iron Man and Tony Starks]], Method Man sometimes goes by [[ComicBook/TheFantasticFour Johnny Blaze]]

* ''Literature/SolarPons has used both [[Literature/SherlockHolmes Holmes and Moriarty]] as aliases.

* ''Series/MidsomerMurders'': In "The Curse of the Ninth", the first VictimOfTheWeek (who is a classical violinist) rents a safe deposit box using the name of composer Anton Bruckner.

* In ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', Frank Abagnale Jr. uses the alias Barry Allen, the secret identity of ComicBook/TheFlash. One of the guys on the case figures out that the person they're looking for is probably quite young based on this information.

* A blackmailer in one episode of ''Series/{{Castle}}'' used a cheap motel as the drop point for the money. She rented the room under the name [[Literature/GoneWithTheWind Scarlett O'Hara]].

** In the very last book, they identify themselves to a rogue Yeerk ship as the Starship ''Enterprise'', from the [[Franchise/StarTrek United Federation of Planets]]. This turns out to be a bad idea, as a human-Controller responds, asking sarcastically to speak to Captain Picard.

* ''Film/{{Frenzy}}'': The protagonist, Blaney, and his girlfriend Babs check in at a hotel under the name of "Mr and Mrs Creator/OscarWilde".

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* ''Fanfic/TheRiseOfDarthVulcan'': The titular character adopts what would become his supervillain name by quoting a line from ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', introducing himself as Darth Vader from Vulcan. The 'Vader' part is quickly lost in translation, and 'Darth Vulcan' is the name he adopts for his newfound career as an evil overlord.

* ''Series/{{Psych}}'' has done this in almost every episode, usually in the form of Shaun giving himself and Gus ridiculous names such as "Galileo Humpkins" or "Byron Bojengles III".

* ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' enemy the Film Freak uses the alias Edison after UsefulNotes/ThomasEdison, inventor of the motion picture[[note]]At least in popular understanding[[/note]].

* While on the run in ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfClarkKent'', Franchise/{{Superman}} combined the last names of Batman and Franchise/GreenLantern Hal Jordan to use as an alias, "Wayne Jordan".
* The trope picture is the ComicBook/MartianManhunter shapeshifing into an (apparently) Japanese woman named "[[Franchise/SailorMoon Hino Rei]]" in an issue of ''ComicBook/JLA1997'' guest written by Creator/MarkMillar. Seriously. What's more: Franchise/{{Batman}} picked up on the reference. Out-of-universe, this is supposedly due to someone pranking Millar when he asked for a Japanese name connected with Mars.
* ''ComicBook/MegaMan'': Xander Payne went under the name Mr. Wells to inflitrate the Chronos Institute and attempt to use its time travel technology to stop robot development. He must have been hoping no one noticed he was naming himself after Creator/HGWells, author of ''Literature/TheTimeMachine''.

** When ComicBook/YoungJustice infiltrated said high school, they used even more obvious aliases, including Rob Roy (ComicBook/{{Robin|Series}}) and Helena Troy (ComicBook/WonderGirl). Mercifully the charade didn't last long.

* In ''Film/CatchMeIfYouCan'', Frank Abagnale Jr. uses the alias Barry Allen, secret identity of Franchise/TheFlash. One of the guys on the case figures out that the person they're looking for is probably quite young based on this information.

* ''Series/OnceUponATime'' has Emma trying to pass herself off as a princess while in the past of the Enchanted Forest, and claiming she's [[Film/StarWars Princess Leia]].

* In Colin Bateman's ''Mystery Man'' the narrator, who runs a crime bookshop, goes by a succession of names of crime writers and fictional detectives - unfortunately the people he's talking to are more genned up on their crime fiction than he expects and there are [[RunningGag a few]] "oh, like the writer?" jokes.

* In Creator/DanielPinkwater's ''Young Adult Novel'', the Wild Dada Ducks of Himmler High School, who use their Dada names instead of their real names, include the Honorable Venustiano Carranza (President of Mexico), previously known as Pecos Bill.

* In ''The Darkest Evening of the Year'' by Creator/DeanKoontz, one of the villains uses at least two aliases from Kurt Vonnegut novels.

* ''Series/{{Harrow}}'': In "Ut Biberent Quoniam Esse Nollent" ("Let Them Drink, Since They Won't Eat"), James is pulling a scam involving ordering mobile phones. The name he orders them under is [[Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey Christian Grey]]".