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* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #3, Indy is imprisoned by a [[ColonelKilgore paranoid army colonel]]. When asked his name--alomst as an afterthought--he starts to say 'Indiana', but hurriedly corrects himself and gives his name as 'John Smith'. Colonel Hannigan doesn't even notice anything odd about, and merely comments that the name sounds familiar.
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* ''ComicBook/TheFurtherAdventuresOfIndianaJones'': In #3, Indy is imprisoned by a [[ColonelKilgore paranoid army colonel]]. When asked his name--alomst name--almost as an afterthought--he starts to say 'Indiana', but hurriedly corrects himself and gives his name as 'John Smith'. Colonel Hannigan doesn't even notice anything odd about, and merely comments that the name sounds familiar.
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* ''Film/{{Cleanskin}}'': After learning there is an SIS team hunting them, Charlotte books Mark and Ewan into a hotel under the names Michael and John Smith.
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* ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan'' (1940 FilmSerial)''. When Bob Wayne's ParentalSubstitute starts talking about Bob's deceased father he says LetMeTellYouAStory about a man called "Smith", though Bob quickly realises who he's really talking about.
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* ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan'' (1940 FilmSerial)''.FilmSerial). When Bob Wayne's ParentalSubstitute starts talking about Bob's deceased father he says LetMeTellYouAStory about a man called "Smith", though Bob quickly realises who he's really talking about.
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* ''Film/MysteriousDoctorSatan'' (1940 FilmSerial)''. When Bob Wayne's ParentalSubstitute starts talking about Bob's deceased father he says LetMeTellYouAStory about a man called "Smith", though Bob quickly realises who he's really talking about.
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* ''Series/MrAndMrsSmith2024'': A spy agency puts the main characters together in a fake marriage and assigns them new identities to live under: John and Jane Smith. We don't learn their real first names ([[spoiler:Michael and Alana]]) until the season finale.
** Through John #2 and Jane #2, the titular characters find out there are other Smith pairs that have been created by the agency.
** Through John #2 and Jane #2, the titular characters find out there are other Smith pairs that have been created by the agency.
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* Subverted in Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDeadZone''. A man buys a rifle in a store under the name "John Smith". The clerk thinks "If I never saw me an alias before in my life, there's one there." However, the man (the protagonist) is actually named John Smith.
** In the TV series, Johnny Smith has constant problems of this nature.
* In one of the ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' novels, Ryan Cawdor secretly returns to the barony from which he was outlawed. One of his companions suggest he use the alias "John Doe", and Ryan is [[TemptingFate less than amused]] to be told it's a pre-Apocalypse term for "corpses that have no name".
** In the TV series, Johnny Smith has constant problems of this nature.
* In one of the ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' novels, Ryan Cawdor secretly returns to the barony from which he was outlawed. One of his companions suggest he use the alias "John Doe", and Ryan is [[TemptingFate less than amused]] to be told it's a pre-Apocalypse term for "corpses that have no name".
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* Subverted in Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/TheDeadZone''. A man buys a rifle in a store under the name "John Smith". The clerk thinks "If I never saw me an alias before in my life, there's one there." However, the man (the protagonist) is actually named John Smith.
**Smith. In the [[Series/TheDeadZone TV series, series]], Johnny Smith has constant problems of this nature.
* In one of the ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' novels, Ryan Cawdor secretly returns to the barony from which he was outlawed. One of his companions suggest he use the alias "John Doe", and Ryan is [[TemptingFateless than amused]] not pleased to be told it's a pre-Apocalypse term for "corpses that have no name".]]
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* In one of the ''Literature/{{Deathlands}}'' novels, Ryan Cawdor secretly returns to the barony from which he was outlawed. One of his companions suggest he use the alias "John Doe", and Ryan is [[TemptingFate
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* ''[[Literature/JulianComstock Julian Comstock: A Story of 22nd-Century America]]''. When the title character is press-ganged into the army, his mentor Sam Goodwin advises Julian to give a false name to hide himself from his EvilUncle (who happens to [[PresidentEvil run the entire country, let alone the army]]) noting that Smith is a popular choice. Adam Hazzard thinks that given Julian's aristocratic bearing Smith, Jones or such is hardly suitable. As it happens, Julian starts to blurt out his real name only to quickly change it when Sam kicks him, so ends up going by the name Julian Commongold.
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* In the UNACO novels (from a film series conceived by Creator/AlistairMaclean and later adapted by other authors) there's a criminal mastermind called Mr. Smith. Until he's captured at the end of ''The Hostage Tower'' no-one knows who he is or [[MasterOfDisguise what he looks like]], so it's obviously an alias.
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* In the UNACO Literature/{{UNACO}} novels (from a film series conceived by Creator/AlistairMaclean and later adapted by other authors) there's a criminal mastermind called Mr. Smith. Until he's captured at the end of ''The Hostage Tower'' no-one knows who he is or [[MasterOfDisguise what he looks like]], so it's obviously an alias.
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* The kid novel ''101 Ways to Bug Your Parents'' features a BigManOnCampus called [[TheAce Ace]], whose real name is unknown to any of his classmates. Eventually he and the protagonist are both waiting to talk to the principal and Ace gets called in by the name "John Smith." The protagonist is rather stunned while Ace seems embarrassed.
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* The kid novel ''101 Ways to Bug Your Parents'' ''Literature/OneHundredAndOneWaysToBugYourParents'' features a BigManOnCampus called [[TheAce Ace]], whose real name is unknown to any of his classmates. Eventually he and the protagonist are both waiting to talk to the principal and Ace gets called in by the name "John Smith." The protagonist is rather stunned while Ace seems embarrassed.
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* Subverted in ''The Contortionist's Handbook'' by Craig Clevenger. The main character lives his life in one false identity generated after another. When he meets a woman and starts teaching her the tricks of the trade, he tells her that she needs to have a fake name. She suggests "Smith?" which he rules out as too obvious. It has to be something that you immediately forget, like Carpenter or [=McIntyre=].
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* Subverted in ''The Contortionist's Handbook'' ''Literature/TheContortionistsHandbook'' by Craig Clevenger. The main character lives his life in one false identity generated after another. When he meets a woman and starts teaching her the tricks of the trade, he tells her that she needs to have a fake name. She suggests "Smith?" which he rules out as too obvious. It has to be something that you immediately forget, like Carpenter or [=McIntyre=].
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* In one spy novel (possibly ''Jack Lane's Browning'' by David Gethin) a secret agent gripes about trying to track down someone using the name John Smith, and asks why people can't have distinctive ''Film/JamesBond'' names like Moneypenny or Gotobed.
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* In one spy novel (possibly ''Jack Lane's Browning'' ''Literature/JackLanesBrowning'' by David Gethin) a secret agent gripes about trying to track down someone using the name John Smith, and asks why people can't have distinctive ''Film/JamesBond'' names like Moneypenny or Gotobed.
