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* SpiderRobinson wrote several stories involving two characters who in their first appearance are introduced as having been named Lester Moore and Mary Gluham before marriage and having swapped surnames afterwards to become Les Gluham and Mary Moore.

* Justified in ''Literature/TheQuestOfTheUnaligned''. All aligned mages have the name of their discipline somewhere in their own name: L[[PlayingWithFire aesh]]ana, De[[MakingASplash shamai]], Na[[BlowYouAway ruah]]n, etc.
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* The kids in PowerPack actually have the last name "Power". One of them hangs a lampshade on it who she appears at a former superhero support group in ''{{Runaways}}'': "Hi, I'm Julie Power, and yes, that ''is'' my real name."

* Reversed a bit in ''Literature/GoodOmens'', in which serpent of eden is named Crawly, but changes his name to Anthony Crowley later on because it "just wasn't him." His assumed name is itself a reference to Aleister Crowley, a famous occultist who liked to spread rumors about his Satanic indulgences for a laugh.

** {{Lampshaded}} by one AmericanIdol hopeful who auditioned with a rap that she wrote herself, when she pointed out his usual sternness and bad mood with the lyric, "S., Cowell, that makes scowl." He was not amused, and she did not go to Hollywood.

* Incredibly prominent in 8-bit Theater. Black Mage's full name is Black Mage Evilwizardington. Guess what profession he adopted? This applies to all of the protagonists (Red Mage, Fighter, Thief) and many other characters. Dragoon even lampshades this in Episode 692. Muffin: "A spear? Through my brain? My... only... weakness...!" Dragoon: "And that's why they call me Dragoon. Also, it's my name. So, that's another good reason people usually call me Dragoon. I don't answer to Sebastian."

* Incredibly prominent in 8-bit Theater. Black Mage's full name is Black Mage Evilwizardington. Guess what profession he adopted? This applies to all of the protagonists (Red Mage, Fighter, Thief) and many other characters. Dragoon even lampshades this in Episode 692. Dragoon: "And that's why they call me Dragoon. Also, it's my name. So that's another good reason to call me that. I don't answer to Sebastian."

* James '''Howl'''ett became the lupine-influenced feral superhero {{Wolverine}}. It's not as well known, as Wolverine's preferred civilian name is "Logan" a name given when he did BlackOps work for the government.

* This is OlderThanFeudalism: In Literature/TheBible, many figures have names that determine their destiny, and some have their names changed to change their destiny, the thinking being "saying it comes before seeing it". in Matthew 1:21 an angel tells Joseph to name the child "Jesus". The statement in Matthew 1:21 "you are to give him the name Jesus, because he will save his people from their sins". The name "Jesus" means "Yahweh Saves", as Jesus was destined to die for the salvation of mankind. Another example were the twins Jacob and Esau: Esau's name meant "hairy" or "rough", and he grew to become a rugged hunter. Jacob's name meant "supplanter" or "heel-catcher" - Jacob ended up tricking Esau into selling him his birthright and later tricked his father into giving him the blessing reserved for the first-born, Esau, in essence supplanting his brother.
** For Jacob it began as MeaningfulName since when he and Esau were born he was holding Esau's heel.

* Similarly Martin Jarvis, who shares his last name with [[IronMan a famous comic book butler]], was the voice of (arguably) the most famous comic book butler, Alfred, in ''VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity''. He also played (arguably) the most famous literary butler, Jeeves, in the TV movie ''By Jeeves''. Even better: Alfred's father is named "Jarvis".

PropheticNames is the more general case, where names reflect a character's status, abilities, personality, or other features. A character who just never bothers with a pseudonym has a SecretPublicIdentity. See also SueDonym for real people who do this. Compare AstonishinglyAppropriateAppearance, which is when the appearance rather than the name is meaningful.

** Ron Stoppable, Wade Load, Camille Leon, Montgomery Fisk (Monty Fisk--> Monkey Fist), Gil.

** There's also his son, Luke Mochrie, who does humorous movie reviews for [[ThatGuyWithTheGlasses Channel Awesome]].

For those who don't understand the title: S.U.Perhero.

* Combined with StealthPun, ''StationeryVoyagers'' has a few of these.
** Pextel's real last name is ''Rubb''lindo, as in rubber. He nearly dies in a car crash (hence, getting ''[[IncrediblyLamePun erased]]'',) which allows him to become Pextel.
** ''O''ceanoe is named after O-Town. He at least used to be...in a boy band.
** "Sen" is another word for "heart" (seat of emotions, not the pump.) Pinkella ("Pink Cinderella") Gold''[[SpiritedAway sen]]'' is the only member in her family not seduced into aiding [[TheWarOnTerror la-Qualda]].
** Richard ''Riband''o ([[RunningGag again]] with the rubber eraser jokes) becomes a second Cybomec, when he is [[UnwillingRoboticisation mechanized against his will]].
** Erasaxo ''is'' a rubber eraser. He is the last of his kind. He gets erased from existence in Season [[FourIsDeath Four]].
** One of Neone's early mentors, Friar ''Rubberion'', [[strike: gets [[OverlyLongGag erased]]]] [[ChuckCunninghamSyndrome completely disappears]] from the plot after Season 1.

* ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. Who'd have guessed a kid named 'Vicious' would turn out to be a belligerent jerk?

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben10}}'''s main character is named Ben Tennyson. Not only does he gain ten ([[ArtifactTitle and eventually more]]) super-powered alien alter-egos, he's [[KidHero ten years old]] when it happens.

* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' is really Danny Fenton.

** Ron Stoppable, Wade Load, Camille Leon, Montgomery Fisk(Monty Fisk--> Monkey Fist), Gil.

** In the same show, one of the girls' enemies is Princess Morbucks, who is obscenely rich and spoiled.
*** She's not a princess named "Morbucks", her first name is "Princess". If that wasn't clear.

* ''{{Erfworld}}'''s Parson Gotti is [[SignificantAnagram an anagram]] of "protagonist". This is mostly significant in the comic's WorldOfPun setting because Parson is from ''our'' world, and his name was decided outside of the influence of the setting's "Signamancy," which leads to ''everyone'' having a name that is this trope.

*** The same goes for his whole supporting cast, pretty much. Dr. Keenbean is a genius, Mayda Munny and Reggie Van Dough are also rich, Freckles Friendly has freckles and is friendly, and characters who frequently cross over with him are Dot (she's obsessed with dots) and Lotta Plump (she's big. No, ''really!'' Shocking, I know. Of course, [[StoutStrength she could bench press a Sherman tank]] without breaking a sweat, so maybe it's all muscle like [[{{Daredevil}} The Ki]][[SpiderMan ngpin]].) Basically, the overwhelming majority of names in the HarveyComics universe are this.