History Main / CharacterNameAlias

* Modified slightly in the {{Hustle}} episode "Conned Out of Luck" - Mickey mentions Ash to TheMark as "Mr. Bond", after which Ash simply can't resist introducing himself as "Bond... JamesBond. {{beat}} No relation."

** Ben went by [[TheWonderfulWizardOfOz Henry Gale]] before we found out his real name.

** Don't forget Ben went by [[TheWizardofOz Henry Gale]] before we found out his real name.

** In "Tangent," Jackson tries to stall a Jaffa patrol ship by impersonating a Goa'uld and identifying himself as "the great and powerful Oz."

** Crichton ''loves'' this trope. He's also claimed to be the WizardOfOz.

* In ''{{Freefall}}'', as part of Sam Starfall's plan to get Florence out of Ecosystems Unlimited, [[http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01683.htm he identifies himself]] to [[PointyHairedBoss Kornada]] as "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captain_Cold Leonard Snart. Captain of this cold facility]]".

* ''MassEffect2'' - The ''Stolen Memory'' mission has Shepard and a squadmate infiltrating the party of a ruthless arms dealer to steal a valuable neural implant. Shepard's cover is either Solomon or Allison Gunn, depending on if s/he is male or female. (Shepard didn't pick the name.)

* The ''DoctorWho'' episode "Fires of Pompeii" has the Doctor introduce himself as Spartacus. Donna Noble quickly follows with [[IAmSpartacus "and so am I."]]

** And at least once they were names of characters or actors from ''DoctorWho''.

* In ''{{Shakespeare in Love}}'', Lord Wessex brings a knife to {{Shakespeare}}'s throat and threatens him to stay away from his future wife Viola de Lesseps. Wessex demands to know Shakespeare's name to deter any future meddling. Will uses the name "ChristopherMarlowe", the name of his chief competitor.

* Real-person name example from ''{{In the Line of Fire}}'': Crazed would-be presidential assassin Mitch Leary uses the name Booth (as in John Wilkes -) when taunting Agent Frank Horrigan (a former JFK bodyguard) over the phone.

* In ''Detective Conan'' (Case Closed in the English dub), Shin'ichi Kudo is changed into a little boy by a powerful poison. When he returns to his house after the change, he is surprised by his friend Ran Mouri and hastily thinks up the name of Conan, from the famous author of Sherlock Holmes. His fake last name of Edogawa comes from a famous Japanese author.

* ''SweetValley'' had a spin-off series, ''Elizabeth'', in which Elizabeth runs away to London and becomes a servant in an aristocrat's mansion. She decides to use the alias [[PrideAndPrejudice Elizabeth Bennet]], and while people do call her out on it, she ultimately gets away with the ruse.

* The 2010 Orwell Prize for best political blog was ironically awarded to an anonymous blogger calling himself [[{{1984}} Winston Smith]].

* The 2010 Orwell Prize for best political blog was ironically awarded to an anonymous blogger calling himself [[1984 Winston Smith]].

* The MartianManhunter, shapeshifted into a woman, as "[[SailorMoon Hino Rei]]". Seriously. What's more: ''{{Batman}}'' picked up on the reference.

* In BackToTheFuture, Marty's name is assumed to be "Calvin Klein" because that's the name on his underwear. In the third movie, he adopts the name "Clint Eastwood" while stuck in the Old West.

** Although this may have been a name that popped into his head without knowledge of their cultural meaning, given his status as a human popsickle.

* TheMiddleman did this in every single episode, not just with the heroes' aliases; in any given episode, virtually every proper name, real or alias, was part of a pop-culture-allusion theme of the week.
* On ''{{Heroes}}'', Christopher Eccleston's character, who can turn invisible, introduces himself as Claude Rains, after the actor who played ''TheInvisibleMan''. The line was actually improvised by Eccleston, but they decided to ThrowItIn, and eventually, it was decided that this might even be the character's real name.

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* In the ''{{X-Files episode}}'' "El Mundo Gira," detained Mexican immigrants identify themselves to the INS as Juan Valdez, Cesar Chavez, Jose Feliciano, Placido Domingo and Erik Estrada.