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Alliterative Name in this franchise.

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  • All-Star Squadron:
    • Tex Thompson, aka "Mr. America" and "Americommando", a spy-smashing superhero introduced in Action Comics #1 along with Superman. He's been revised and retconned several times since then.
    • Baron Blitzkrieg.
  • Animal Man: Buddy Baker/Animal Man.
  • Batman:
    • Bruce Wayne once had a series of alliterative romantic interests, including Vicki Vale (played by Kim Basinger in Batman) and Silver St. Cloud. While Batman's own name doesn't directly count, one of his common monikers, "the Caped Crusader", is also alliterative.
    • Cassandra Cain, the third Batgirl. Cass went on to use the hero name Black Bat after leaving Batgirl to Stephanie Brown in Batgirl (2009).
    • The Attack of the Annihilator storyline has Bob Barton, one of the colleagues of Barbara Gordon in the "Humanities Research & Development" Center.
    • Katherine "Kate" Kane, the Pre- and Post-Crisis Batwoman. Post-Crisis, Kate Kane takes this an extra step with the nickname "Candy" from her time as a cadet boxer.
    • The Red Robin title, which was first used by an Elseworlds version of Dick Grayson before being brought to the main continuity as a costume and code name for Jason Todd and being taken up by Tim Drake after Todd abandoned it.
    • Hamilton Hill and Charles Chesterfield, former mayors of Gotham City.
  • Black Canary: Larry Lance, husband of Dinah Drake, The Golden Age Black Canary.
  • Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew!:
    • Rodney Rabbit straddles both of the major alliterative traditions.
    • Peter Porkchops.
    • Felina Furr.
  • The DCU: Calvin "Cave" Carson, a Silver Age spelunker-adventurer.
  • Deathstroke: Deathstroke had a brother Wade Wilson, AKA the second Ravager, as a joke on the real name of Deadpool who was originally a Deathstroke Captain Ersatz.
  • Dial H for Hero: Robbie Reed.
  • Doctor Fate: Hector Hall.
  • Doom Patrol: Valentina Vostock/Negative Woman.
  • Doomsday Clock has Marcos Maez and Carver Colman.
  • Firestorm:
    • Ronald Raymond / Firestorm.
    • Louise Lincoln/Killer Frost
    • And Firestorm's supporting cast and rogues' gallery has a few. Jefferson Jackson, Henry Hewitt (Tokamak), Mai Miyazaki (Naiad), Quentin Quayle, David Drake (Typhoon), Cliff Carmichael, Doreen Day...
  • The Flash:
    • Wally West/The Flash (originally Kid Flash).
    • James Jesse/The Trickster
    • Sam Scudder/Mirror Master
    • Max Mercury, a time-traveling speedster with ties to the Flash, who also used the name "Whip Whirlwind" in the 1890s.
  • Green Arrow: Carrie Cutter/Cupid.
  • Green Lantern:
    • Doiby Dickles, sidekick to Alan Scott, the first, Golden Age, Green Lantern. Opposing Scott were Steven Sharpe (The Gambler), Molly Mayne (Harlequin), and Crusher Crock (Sportsmaster).
    • Guy Gardner, a later .
    • Red Lantern member Zilius Zox
  • Hawk and Dove: Hank Hall/Hawk
  • Hawkman: villains Mark Mandrill/Matter Master and Konrad Kasiak
  • Judomaster: Sonia Sato/Judomaster.
  • Justice League of America: Felix Faust.
  • Just Imagine... Stan Lee Creating the DC Universe: Stan Lee himself invoked his famous use of this, reimagining famous DC heroes with their own alliterative names. His version of Batman is named Wayne Williams, Wonder Woman is Maria Mendoza, The Flash is Mary Maxwell, Green Lantern is Leonard Lewis, Shazam! is Robert Rogers, Aquaman is Ramon Raymond (which borders on a Repetitive Name), and Catwoman is Joanie Jordan. The Canon Foreigner Big Bad of the series is also named Reverend Dominic Darrk.
  • Kid Eternity: Characters with names that are alliterations are frequent in the 1940s comics, with just some examples including Dan Doldrum, Murder Marton and Killer Karf.
  • Martian Manhunter: J'onn J'onzz/Martian Manhunter and M'gann M'orzz/Miss Martian, his Distaff Counterpart from Teen Titans. M'gann M'orzz is named after Megan Morse, a friend of Geoff Johns...but he probably chose it for its alliteration anyway.
  • Metamorpho: Simon Stagg and his daughter Sapphire Stagg
  • Miracleman: Mike Moran, Marvelman/Miracleman and Dickie Dauntless, Young Marvel/Miracleman
  • The Multiversity: Earth-8 has a couple of examples; given that that world is based on the Marvel Universe this is to be expected.
  • New Gods: Granny Goodness and Virman Vundabar.
  • O.M.A.C.: Buddy Blank and Kevin Kho, the original and New 52 versions of O.M.A.C., respectively.
  • The Outsiders: Gardner Grayle/Atomic Knight.
  • Plastic Man: Woozy Winks, sidekick of Plastic Man.
  • Sarge Steel: Sargent "Sarge" Steel, one of the Charlton Comics heroes purchased by DC. ("Sargent" is his name, not a rank.) Originally a hard-boiled detective/spy-smasher type, he became a government official in charge of many of the DCU's superhero-related agencies.
  • Secret Six: Scandal Savage
  • Shazam!:
    • Billy Batson a.k.a. Captain Marvel/Shazam
    • Freddy Freeman a.k.a. Capt. Marvel Jr./CM3
    • Mary Bromfield a.k.a. Mary Marvel
    • The newer members of the Shazam family, Pedro Peña and Darla Dudley
  • Silverblade: One of the major antagonists is Vincent Vermillion.
  • Spy Smasher: Alan Armstrong/Spy Smasher.
  • Teen Titans:
    • Rachel Roth/Raven.
    • Duela Dent/The Joker's Daughter.
    • Villains Ding Dong Daddy and Mad Mod.
  • Watchmen: Alan Moore references this trope by naming one of his heroes Daniel Dreiberg.
  • Wonder Woman:
    • Wonder Woman herself
    • Mona Menise
    • Byrna Brilyant/ Blue Snowman
    • Lita Little, one of the Holliday Girls in the Silver Age and The Legend of Wonder Woman (2016)
    • Tina Toy and Thelma Tall, two more Holliday Girls.
    • Lars Lang (a criminal) and Lyra Lang (his daughter).
    • Tigra Tropica, another Golden Age villain.
    • Marina Maru, Dr. Poison as of Wonder Woman (Rebirth).
    • Alison Addison, a worker and former battered wife at a women's shelter in Volume 3.
  • Zatanna: Zatanna Zatara; her father was Giovanni Zatara. Her cousin's name is Zachary Zatara.

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