History Main / VerbalTicName

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Hodor's true name is Wylis, and he only goes by 'Hodor' due to his PokemonSpeak.

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'' has Hodor, the lovable simpleton who keeps repeating this word, and people consider it to be his name. His birth name is Wilys. [[spoiler: It's revealed that the reason he can only say "Hodor" is that he had a magically caused seizure when he was a teenager, during which he foresaw his own death. "Hold the door", deformed into "Hodor", turns out to be the last words he ever hears.]]

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* Gollum from ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', because of the noise he made in his throat, and Níniel (meaning "tear-maiden") in ''The Silmarillion'', after losing her memory.

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** The [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coqui coquí]], a family of small tree frogs native to Puerto Rico, named for its distictive call, "co-KEE."

* Tocsin in ''DragonTails'', though he eventually learned how to speak properly.

* Pyoro in ''{{Vandread}}''.

* Giru in ''Anime/DragonBallGT'', as DB4649T2006RS was just too long for the main cast and the audience (the Machine Mutants still refer to him as DB4649T2006RS).

* Giru in ''Anime/DragonBallGT''

* ''Series/GameOfThrones'': Hodor's true name is Wylis, and he only goes by 'Hodor' due to his PokémonSpeak.

* In the ''LayerCake'' novel, the DiabolicalMastermind's bodyguard gained a habit from his SAS experience of calling everyone "Troop". Thus, he's identified as Mr. Troop (in the film, he doesn't have the habit, but is still given that name).

* [[CrowningMomentOfFunny In one of the funnier parts of]] ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'', when the Talking Beasts adopt Uncle Andrew as a pet they name him Brandy [[INeedAFreakingDrink because he makes that noise so often]]. Unusual in that Uncle Andrew was perfectly capable of speech. The animals named him this because they couldn't understand much of the other stuff he was saying--partly because he was [[HeroicBSOD rendered rather incoherent]] by the previous events of the novel, and partly because he shut off his mind from communication.

* In ''DaveBarry Does Japan'', Dave and his family stay in a Japanese inn and are served by a woman who tends to answer any questions with "Hai domo!", which he interpreted to mean "Yes, very!". As such, the family started referring to her as the Very Lady.

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* In VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV the player encounters an amnesiac Mammet when looking for Gentelman Inspector Hildebrand Manderville. Hildebrand opts to name the Mammet Gigi since that was the word it repeated when it woke up. As a bystander tries to point out that "gigigigi" is a general verbal tic for EVERY Mammet, he gets ignored when Gigi admits he kinda likes the name.

* The main characters of ''LightNovel/HeavyObject'' meet but never learn the name of one of the Information Alliance's Elites. They nickname her "Oh Ho Ho" because every time she speaks she starts off with a NoblwomansLaugh.

* [[CrowningMomentOfFunny In one of the funnier parts of]] ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'', when the Talking Beasts adopt Uncle Andrew as a pet they name him Brandy [[INeedAFreakingDrink because he makes that noise so often]]. Unusual in that Uncle Andrew was perfectly capable of speech. The animals named him this because they couldn't understand much of the other stuff he was saying--partly because he was [[HeroicBSOD rendered rather incoherent]] by the previous events of the novel, and partly because he shut off his mind from communication.n

* [[CrowningMomentOfFunny In one of the funnier parts of]] ''Literature/TheMagiciansNephew'', when the Talking Beasts adopt Uncle Andrew as a pet they name him Brandy [[INeedAFreakingDrink because he makes that noise so often]]. Unusual in that Uncle Andrew was perfectly capable of speech. The animals named him this because they couldn't understand much of the other stuff he was saying--partly because he was [[HeroicBSOD rendered rather incoherent]] by the previous events of the novel, and partly because he shut off his mind from communication. [invoked]

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'': "I am Groot."

* Babu, Chihiro's cat whose death and subsequent zombification triggered the plot of ''{{Sankarea}}'', was named after the sound he makes, due to malformed vocal cords.

* Mone in ''{{Yumeria}}''.

-->--'''Kouta''', ''Manga/ElfenLied''

* ''DiGiCharat's'' Pyokola Analogue III ends hers with "pyo!"

* Count Blah from ''GregTheBunny'' has an extensive vocabulary, but he's named after his Verbal Tic of saying "Blah" at the end of sentences. Which did not go well when in-universe ExecutiveMeddling made him change his name to Count A'ight, which he couldn't pronounce.

** The Japanese Cicada-[=TsukuTsuku=] Boshi.

* ''Film/GuardiansOfTheGalaxy'' "I am Groot"