Basic Trope: Characters' names are pronounced normally but have deliberately strange spellings, often with Xtreme Kool Letterz.
- Straight: Alice and Bob's names are really spelled Alluce and Bawb.
- Exaggerated:
- Alice and Bob's names are really spelled Aielllllaeiouz and Bouih'lsed'lfhig'09'2f!9jj%xmcnsd.
- Alice and Bob's names are really spelled Hhgsddddddv dekbh dkhinrevbfilkjbh dejuinjgbd si;lkn vb and Tnhdebsoluhtg4309 gvhn klv 43[ubyh se -rg ieug, or some other ridiculously long names that sound like something spat out of an untrained text generation AI.
- Alice and Bob's names are really spelled N32 and Fjhza.
- Alice and Bob's names are spelled Illiz and Blob.
- Downplayed: Alice and Bob's names are really spelled Alyce and Bobb.
- Justified:
- Alice and Bob's parents wanted to be creative while naming their kids.
- Alluce and Bawb are in show business, where having a unique name is extremely important.
- Their parents can't spell Bob and Alice.
- Alice and Bob were born before standardized spelling.
- Alluce and Bawb were named that way because Great-Aunt Alice is, and Great-Great-Grandfather Bob was still alive and kicking. In other words, "Near and Dear" Baby Naming but technically without violating the One-Steve Limit.
- Their parents, who happened to be working on a Interlingual Dictionary, accidentally used the International Phonetic Alphabet.
- Something went wrong at the registration office, but Alluce and Bawb's parents liked the result enough to not bother fixing it.
- Inverted: An unpronounceable name is spelled similarly to a generic name such as "Alice" or "Bob".
- Subverted: Claire spells Alice and Bob's names Elyce and Bub. They correct her...
- Double Subverted: ...by telling her they're spelled Ullyize and Bsab.
- Parodied:
- Alice and Bob's names are spelled Bob and Alice, respectively.
- Alice and Bob's names are spelled with characters that seem unpronounceable.
- When naming their children, Alice and Bob's parents randomly mashed a keyboard to get the spellings.
- Zig-Zagged: Alice and Bob's names are spelled Alluce and Bawb. They have two nice sons named Charlie and David. These meet two nice girls: El-N and Flor'nce.
- Averted:
- All characters' names are spelled normally.
- The names are only spoken, so their spellings never come up.
- Some or all characters have fantasy names, so there is no "normal" spelling.
- It's a Nameless Narrative.
- Enforced: "We can't just call them 'Alice' and 'Bob'! There must be millions of copyrighted characters with those names! Let's make their names more wonky-spelled and stuff."
- Lampshaded:
- "Your names are spelled A-L-L-U-C-E and B-A-W-B? The hospital must have been using pretty strong painkillers when you were born, huh?"
- "That's not how you spell our names, but everyone makes that mistake." "Gee. I wonder why."
- Invoked:
- Alluce and Bawb were born Alice and Bob, but changed their names as adults to make them more memorable.
- Alice and Bob unofficially change the spellings of their names to avoid confusion with another Alice and Bob living in the same town.
- Exploited: Trope Co. uses Alluce and Bawb's bizarre naming to brandify "Alluce and Bawb's Baked Bizquits".
- Defied:
- Alice and Bob's father prevents their mother from naming them Alluce and Bawb minutes after they're born.
- The government requires all names for newborns to be submitted for approval before a birth certificate may be issued, similar to what Sweden does.
- Discussed: "Um, if I can step in for a second, deary, can we spell their names a bit more ... differently? You know, to make them more unique!"
- Conversed: "Doesn't anyone in Hypothetical Sitcom have normally spelled names?
- Implied: Alluce and Bawb tell George their names and he writes them down, but they see his paper and tell him he misspelled the names.
- Deconstructed:
- No one can understand that Alice and Bob's names are really spelled Alluce and Bawb, so they constantly make their checks to Alice Surname and Bob Surname, as opposed to Alluce Surname and Bawb Surname. They thus never get any money.
- Alluce and Bawb are depressed. The fact that nobody can spell their names correctly is yet another thing that makes them feel unloved.
- Reconstructed: Alluce and Bawb manage to correct the people in time.
- Plotted a Good Waste: A writer misspells the names and decides to keep the misspellings in.
- Played for Laughs: As a Running Gag, everyone misspells Alluce and Bawb's names as Alyss and Bzjb. For some reason, even total strangers never assume that they are spelled Alice and Bob.
- Played for Drama:
- A mix-up has been caused by someone misspelling Alluce and Bawb's names. Now they must race to fix it before it's too late...
- Alluce and Bawb are bullied for their unusally-spelled names.
- Played for Horror: The unusual name-spelling is based on macabre subject matter.
- Untwisted: Alice and Bob normally spell their names as Alice and Bob. Claire spells them as Allis and Bbob, and they don't correct her because it turns out that those are the correct spellings.
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