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-->-- '''''ReservoirDogs'''''

->'''Mr. Pink''': "'Why do I have to be Mr. Pink? That's sounds a bit too much like Mr. Pussy, can't I just be something like Mr. Purple?'"
->'''Joe''': "''Mr. Purple is at another job, just be glad you didn't get Mr. Yellow.''""

->'''Mr. Pink''': "''Why do I have to be Mr. Pink? That's sounds a bit too much like Mr. Pussy, can't I just be something like Mr. Purple?''"

-->-- Mr. Pink and Joe from '''ReservoirDogs'''

->'''Joe'': "''Mr. Purple is at another job, just be glad you didn't get Mr. Yellow.''""

->"''Why do I have to be Mr. Pink? That's sounds a bit too much like Mr. Pussy, can't I just be something like Mr. Purple?''"
->"''Mr. Purple is at another job, just be glad you didn't get Mr. Yellow.''""

* ''Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones'' is a science fiction short story by SamuelRDelany. The protagonist was an orphan, saddled with the name Harold Clancy Everet. Turning to a life of crime, he never used that name again. His aliases, however all have the initials HCE. Indeed, he is identified by that to the reader, i.e. we are introduced to each alias and know it is him by those initials. All the aliases used by the narrator have the initials H.C.E., a reference to ''Literature/FinnegansWake'' by Creator/JamesJoyce.

* TheSaint in the original stories often used his own initials; "Sebastian Toombs" was a frequent alias (at least two science fiction writers have included a ShoutOut to this particular name).

* In the 1997 film version of ''TheSaint'', all of Simon Templar's aliases are the names of Catholic saints.

* In Lost, when Kate is on the run, all of the names she uses are saints' names.

* The ''{{Leverage}}'' team tends to use ''Series/DoctorWho''-themed aliases (probably because they're all arranged by Hardison the uber-geek).

* In ''CatchMeIfYouCan'', LeonardoDiCaprio's character uses the names of comic book characters as aliases. Something of a deconstruction since it gives the FBI agent following him something to go on.

* In the ''EightySeventhPrecinct'' novels, the Deaf Man always uses aliases that are some sort of play on words on 'deaf' in a variety of languages.

* ''TheLivesOfHarryLime'' once featured a female con artist whose aliases [[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign all meant Brown in different languages]]: Brown, Braun, Brunelle, etc.

* ''Time Considered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Stones'' is a science fiction short story by SamuelRDelany. The protagonist was an orphan, saddled with the name Harold Clancy Everet. Turning to a life of crime, he never used that name again. His aliases, however all have the initials HCE. Indeed, he is identified by that to the reader, i.e. we are introduced to each alias and know it is him by those initials. All the aliases used by the narrator have the initials H.C.E., a reference to ''FinnegansWake'' by JamesJoyce.

* ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': Sam & Dean tend to use Rock Star aliases when going undercover, like Catholic priests Father Simmons and Father Frehley. Sometimes they use other famous-names-with-connections-to-each-other aliases as well, like Agents Ford & Hamill from the US Forestry Service. They've only been called on this once or twice.

* In the ''UncleScrooge'' story "The Money Champ" by CarlBarks, Flintheart Glomgold stages a series of acts of sabotage against Scrooge, damaging his oil wells, gold mines and diamond mines and reducing their value right at the point Scrooge needs to sell them. Flintheart uses a series of aliases that are just rearrangements of the components of his name (Goldflint Heartglom, Flintgold Glomheart and Heartflint Goldglom). Not terribly subtle, but he was deliberately taunting Scrooge.

* Series/RemingtonSteele was caught doing this by Laura in the pilot. All of his passports had the names of HumphreyBogart characters.

* ''{{Supernatural}}'': Sam & Dean tend to use Rock Star aliases when going undercover, like Catholic priests Father Simmons and Father Frehley. Sometimes they use other famous-names-with-connections-to-each-other aliases as well, like Agents Ford & Hamill from the US Forestry Service. They've only been called on this once or twice.