History Main / ParodyNames

* One episode of ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' features a parody of ''Film/JohnWick'', of all things. Here, the character is renamed "Corn Wick" to fit with the show's AnthropomorphicFood setting, and another episode featured one "[[Music/PostMalone Toast Malone]]".

* ComicBook/JohnnyTurbo, being a "spokesman" for NEC and the UsefulNotes/TurboGrafx16, led his personal crusade for the console's superiority not against real-world rival Creator/{{Sega}}, but against their robot-run counterpart ''Feka''. It's probably pronounced similarly, too, as in [[TakeThat/VideoGames "Fake-uh"]].

* Earlier episodes of ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' did this, like [[{{Creator/HBO}} H]][[Creator/{{NBC}} BC]], [[Creator/CartoonNetwork Cartoon]] [[Creator/ComedyCentral Central]], and [[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube Okama Gamesphere]].

** The two-parter "Brown Evil" has Mandy playing "[[Franchise/ResidentEvil President Evil]]" on the "[[UsefulNotes/NintendoGameCube Lamecube]]".

* The national leaders in ''Nuclear War'' have names like Ronnie Raygun, Infidel Castro, Gorbachef, Colonel Malomar Kadaffy, or [[JustForPun Mao The Pun]].

** Ma Sweeney and her son Todd (on ''DerivativeWorks/SweeneyTodd'' from ''Literature/TheStringofPearls'')

** Ma Sweeney and her son Todd (on ''Literature/SweeneyTodd'')

Can be combined with ParallelPornTitles.

* Very much abused in ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'', with Pokecão instead of Pokemon, Darti Vesgo instead of Darth Vader, Superhomão instead of Superman, Ton Cruzes instead of Tom Cruise... Of course, the jokes involved make more sense in Portuguese.
* In Creator/DCComics ''Inferior Five'', the Five's parents are a parody ComicBook/JusticeLeague, While we don't get their full names, the surnames of some of their kids suggest they're suitably parodic. Mr Might (Franchise/{{Superman}}) has the Earth surname Brent, and the original name Barb-Ell, son of Dumb-Ell of the planet Neon. Power Princess (ComicBook/WonderWoman) married a man named Tremor (for ComicBook/SteveTrevor), and Bowman (ComicBook/GreenArrow) has the surname King (instead of Queen). The exceptions are ComicBook/TheFlash parody Captain Swift, who is called Cramer, not a play on Allen or Garrick, and the Uncle Sam parody Patriot, who has the surname Victor.
* Just about every single ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' movie parody. '''Ever'''. ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' had a field day with this one when ''MAD'' parodies Bart's boy band (in "New Kids on the Blecch"):

** The use of ParodyNames in ''MAD'' apparently dates back to a story in issue #3 featuring the Lone Stranger, his sidekick Pronto, and his horse Golden. After "Superduperman" in the next issue provoked a lawsuit from Creator/DCComics, their parody of ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' reiterated that it was ''not'' to be mistaken for the genuine article: "Bat Boy mit a '''Boy'''! Rubin mit a '''U'''!"

* Several strips in ''ComicBook/{{Buster}}'' used to do this, ranging from ''[[ComicBook/JudgeDredd Judge Dudd]]'' to [[Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration Captain Pilchard]].
* The first two members of the Seven Sentinels introduced in ''ComicBook/TopTen'' had last names of this stripe. The Black Boomerang is the Green Arrow stand-in, and his real name is Gilbert Marchioness (a marchioness being the female equivalent of a marquis; compare ''Queen''), while the Green Lantern-like Scarlet Scepter is Henry Nile (which is a famous river like the ''Jordan'').

* Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles, being a humorous take on Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}, do this to his mentor (Stick -> Splinter, a mouse) and a villainous group (The Hand -> Foot Clan).

** Irweena Allen (on Creator/IrwinAllen a.k.a. "Master of Disaster", maker of ''Film/TheSwarm'')

* ''M Scramble'', a [[HGame hentai]] DatingSim knockoff of ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'', is the story of Asamiya Haruka and her UFO-dan; the rest of the cast follows suit. Not only that, but the characters themselves are {{Palette Swap}}s of the ''Haruhi'' cast.[[http://www.c-games.info/games,002,5499.html]]

---> '''Jerk:''' Into the elevator, Mr. Schlock, let's beam down to the planet's surface so I can find an alien to fall in love with before the program's over."

* ''Franchise/StarWars'' also got this from ThumbWars, including such characters as Loke Groundrunner, Beboobeep (R2-D2), and Oobedoob Benubi (Obi Wan).

* In ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'', The Harvard Lampoon's parody of ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Wizards Gandalf and Saruman become "Goodgulf" and "Serutan." The parody tale starts in "The Stye" (The Shire), home to the "boggies" (hobbits), four of which are named "Frito" (Frodo), "Spam" (Sam), "Moxie" (Merry) and "Pepsi" (Pippin). Minas Tirith becomes "Minas Troney," and the equivalent of {{Mordor}} is the [[PollutedWasteland post-industrial wasteland]] of "Fordor," ruled by "Sorhed" (Sauron). Bilbo Baggins becomes "Dildo Bugger".

* ''VideoGame/RockStarAteMyHamster'' has a plethora of music stars whose names were knock-offs of real musicians: [[Music/MichaelJackson Wacky Jacko]], [[Music/{{Madonna}} Maradonna]], [[Music/EltonJohn Elvin Dwight]], [[Music/SexPistols Rotton Johnny]], [[Music/TheRollingStones Dick Knackered]], [[Music/TinaTurner Tina Turnoff]] and so on. (This also extended to the names of rival charting bands, such as [[Music/PetShopBoys The Rent Shop Boys]], [[Music/DefLeppard Deaf Leper]] and [[Music/{{Bananarama}} Bazoomarooma]], and the names of directors, such as [[Creator/BusbyBerkeley Busby Berserkely]] and [[Creator/RidleyScott Wrigley Scott]].) Some make sense in context, as you can see. But this is taken to extremes with Music/KylieMinogue's ersatz, who was baptized as ''Bimbo [[Literature/TheHobbit Baggins]]''.

* In Creator/DCComics ''Inferior Five'', the Five's parents are a parody ComicBook/JusticeLeague, While we don't get their full names, the surnames of some of their kids suggest they're suitably parodic. Mr Might ({{Superman}}) has the Earth surname Brent, and the original name Barb-Ell, son of Dumb-Ell of the planet Neon. Power Princess (ComicBook/WonderWoman) married a man named Tremor (for ComicBook/SteveTrevor), and Bowman (ComicBook/GreenArrow) has the surname King (instead of Queen). The exceptions are ComicBook/TheFlash parody Captain Swift, who is called Cramer, not a play on Allen or Garrick, and the Uncle Sam parody Patriot, who has the surname Victor.

* In ''Webcomic/{{Sinfest}}'' the burger chain is [[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=3228 McDebbil's, where they ask for a donation of your soul.]]