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* ''Manga/StoryOfADumbPrefectAndHighSchoolGirlWithInappropriateSkirtLength'': When Kogori asks "[[PaperThinDisguise gal version]]" Yamato her name, she fumbles and comes up with "Yamada Hanako".

* During the VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow games, {{Alucard}} spends his time disguised as "Genya Arikado" putting his own name through a JapaneseRanguage filter.

* ''Franchise/{{XMen}}'': Jubilee's codename is a contraction of her real name: [[EmbarassingFirstName Jubilation]] Lee.

* In ''ComicBook/CableAndDeadpool'', Steve Rogers, the Star-Spangled Man with the Plan, being the ingenious [[ClarkKenting "Master of Disguise"]] that he is, infiltrated Cable's island Providence as an immigrant with the name ''Roger Stevens''. Not only that but his idea of hiding his signature blond hair is to wear a ''Brooklyn Dogers'' baseball cap.

** A favorite alias of the Joker is "Joe Kerr". This habit first appeared in UsefulNotes/{{the Silver Age|of Comic Books}}, but it still comes up every once in a while as a MythologyGag.
** Amusingly, one of the main writers on ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'' is ''Joseph Kuhr''.

* ''Fanfic/ButIWroteTheWordsToTheSwanSong'': While Juliet Capulet bothers with having widely different last names for her aliases over the course of her centuries-long life, all of her first names for her aliases are always "Juliet" or a variant of it. She even lampshades how obvious it was when Natasha Romanov asked if her "Juliet Brontë" name was real.

* In the ''Manga/DeathNote'' [[AlternateUniverseFic AU]] ''FanFic/MyStupidReality'' [[NobleFugitive when on the run from L]] many of Light's aliases are variations on his own name. Amusingly when he has to quickly think up a new one he comes up with... [[LouisCypher "Kira]] [[GhostMemory Asahi."]]
* Shirou goes under the assumed name Shane Rowe in the Fate/Stay Night fanfic [[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/7509812/1/Nails Nails]]. In fact, when Rin mispronounces his alias with her Japanese accent he panics and assumes that she knows who he is.

* ''Fanfic/TheDarkLordsOfNerima'': When [[Manga/SailorMoon Usagi]] comes to [[Manga/RanmaOneHalf Ukyo's Okonomiyaki shop]], she introduces her self as Usag...Usami. Yeah, Usami. Later, she, Ami and Rei go there again, where Ukyo addresses her as Usami. It takes Usagi a moment to remember that's supposed to be her. Ami actually has to choke back laughter while Rei just gives her an incredulous look.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/28186539/chapters/69068289 fun plague RPG]]'', the cast are creating their [=PCs=] for a tabletop game. Lara, who doesn't care that much for gaming, names her character "Clara".
* ''Fanfic/ThisBites'': During the Straw Hats' visit to Skelter Bite, Cross basically shanghais Tashigi into coming along. To help her blend in, he has her dressed up as a pirate and starts calling her "Cabin Girl T. A. Shigi". She's understandably not amused by any of this.

* After WWII, Josef Mengele ("The Angel of Death") went into hiding in South America, but when officials were closing in on his location, he secured a fake passport and escaped to Paraguay. The named he used for the passport? "José Mengele."

* When Lockeed was tasked with building part of what became Area 51, the shell company they created was "C & J Construction". The chief designer for Lockheed was '''K'''elly '''J'''onson.

--> '''Katy''' What is- what is your name change logic? You're going into hiding, and your name is Michael, you -come on- change it to "My-chell... It's like, "Hi, my name is Gina, I'm gonna go into hiding, my new name's Gyna."

--> '''Katy''' It's like if your name was Michael and you went "I need a good name for my disguise, oh, I'll call myself Makkel!"

* In one of Donald Westlake's stories about [[Literature/{{Dortmunder}} John Dortmunder]], John stammers out "John D-- Diddums." From then on, despite realizing that it doesn't sound like a real name ("It's Welsh," he'll frequently explain), whenever he needs an alias on short notice he panics and can't think of anything but "John Diddums."

* In ''Literature/AmericanGods'': [[spoiler: [[TheOldConvict Low-Key Lyesmith]] = [[GodWasMyCoPilot Loki Lie-Smith]]]]. Which only works if you pronounce it in the English way, and not the Norse/Icelandic way. Since it's revealed that the American analogues have little connection to the originals, the only proper way to pronounce it is in American English.
** [[spoiler: Mr. Wednesday]] isn't much better. [[Wednesday is the modern English form of the Old English "Wōdnesdæg", meaning Odin's Day.]] Guess who [[spoiler: Mr. Wednesday]] really is.

* ''Literature/{{Dortmunder}}'': When asked for his name, Dortmunder started to say 'John D...' and the hurriedly changed the last name to 'Didums': the first thing that popped into his head. This later becomes his GoToAlias, despite him hating it, as it always the only alias he can think of when under stress.

* In ''Film/BatmanTheMovie'', Batman calls up the US Navy to find out how the Penguin acquired a ballistic-missile submarine. Turns out he just bought it as war surplus, after giving his name as P.N. Gwynne, and [[WhatAnIdiot only leaving a PO Box number by way of a forwarding address.]] It was admittedly an obsolete and rather clapped-out boat left over from the war, but even the writers of ''that'' incarnation of Batman couldn't let this go without some LampshadeHanging.

* In "The Assassination of Abraham Lincoln" a first season episode of ''Series/{{Timeless}}'', Lucy introduces herself to Robert Todd Lincoln as "Juliet Shakes...man", a name she derives from a poster on the wall of the Ford Theater. When the time travellers return to the present they discover that there is a school in Ohio named after her alias. There is some fun with better thought-out pseudonyms in the next couple of episodes but eventually the characters realise there is no real need for fake names and they can just use their real ones.

** In an episode, secondary villain Bertrand disguises himself as "Dr. Bert Rand". When Danny realizes who he really is, he calls himself out for not picking up on it sooner.

* The eponymous character of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' whose real name is Danny Fenton. This is lampshaded in "The Ultimate Enemy".

** In another episode, secondary villain Bertrand disguises himself as "Dr. Bert Rand". When Danny realizes who he really is, he calls himself out for not picking up on it sooner.

* After Monica of ''Series/{{Friends}}'' finds her credit card stolen, she meets the culprit, but not wanting to give her name away, calls herself "Monana". Apparently it's [[FreestateAmsterdam Dutch]].

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* A weird behind-the-scenes example happens in ''Film/AttackOfTheClones''. The Jedi learn that the Republic's new clone army was supposedly commissioned ten years ago by a Jedi named Sifo-Dyas, who no one has ever heard of before. The connection to [[BigBad Darth Sidious]] isn't exactly obvious, but it's still not hard to parse out either. However, if it wasn't for a typo, the alias would have been even worse. George Lucas originally intended for the supposed Jedi's name to be "Sido-Dyas," but hit the "f" key [[ThrowItIn by mistake]], turning a laughably overt alias into a slightly more believable one. In addition, this typo also inspired Lucas to retcon Sifo-Dyas from an alias of Sidious to [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Sifo-Dyas an actual Jedi]] who was manipulated by the Sith to build a clone army.

[[JustForFun/IThoughtItMeant Not a type]] of MarySue.

* In ''Manga/DetectiveConan'' Conan nearly did this at the very beginning, before he came up with Conan Edogawa, he nearly said "Shinichi". He's lucky that Conan can be rendered in Japanese. Imagine if it was some name with L's everywhere. Not only that, but many times when Conan and Heiji meet up for a case, Heiji (unintentionally or otherwise) slips and calls him "Kudo" in front of the girls, always covering it up with another word that sort of might sound a little bit like it (a homonym.)

* In the ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' episode "Hit The Diamond", the Crystal Gems have to disguise themselves as humans [[ItMakesSenseInContext in order to play baseball with a team of Rubies from Homeworld.]] Pearl is "Earl", Amethyst is "Amy", Sapphire is "Sophie", and Lapis Lazuli is "[[TheLastOfTheseIsNotLikeTheOthers Bob]]".

* ''[[Fanfic/TheHeartTrilogy Heart of Ashes]]'' provides an example of a character doing this with someone else's name and not their own. While [[HumanityEnsues still a human]], [[Film/TheHobbit Smaug]] takes the name of his ancestor Ancalagon and turns it into Cail Agonn.