Basic Trope: A character invents a pseudonym for themselves by spelling their own name backwards.
- Straight: Alice pretends to be a stranger named Ecila. This disguise would stop working as soon as any Captain Obvious remarks, "Ecila spelled backwards is Alice!"
- Exaggerated:
- Bob disguises himself as boB! This works so well, no one ever notices that Bob and boB are really the same person!
- General Themole blends himself into a company as "Elomeht", and no one comments about his suspicious name at all!
- Downplayed:
- Alice adopts the nickname "Ecila". She is not hiding her identity. Everyone knows that Alice and Ecila are the same person.
- Alice just uses "Ecila" as her internet username.
- Alice uses "Ekilla" as her alias, messing with the pronunciation and spelling slightly so it's not a perfect match.
- Justified: Alice is in disguise. When someone asks her name, Alice says "Ecila" because she has no time to think of a better name.
- Inverted: Ecila is her real name, and "Alice" is her pseudonym.
- Subverted:
- Ecila's real name is Jane, not Alice.
- Alice misapplied the right-to-left rule of the Arab language when filling out her Visa for entry into the Emirates.
- Everyone thinks that Ecila is really Alice. Now we see Alice and Ecila in the same room. It turns out that Ecila is the Evil Twin, or an Identical Stranger.
- Double Subverted: ...but "Alice" is a fake, and "Ecila" is the real Alice.
- Parodied: The city of Baltimore changes its name to Eromitlab. It now contains landmarks like Yrnehcm Trof and the Robrah Renni.
- Zig Zagged:
- The show averts One-Steve Limit and has two characters named Alice. When Ecila appears, fans make Epileptic Trees by guessing that Ecila is one Alice, or the other Alice, or not any Alice.
- The alias's name would be a Sdrawkcab Name in its original writing system, but becomes merely an anagram in another writing system. (Ex. "Haruko" gives herself the alias of "Koruha")
- Averted:
- Alice's pseudonym is Mary.
- Alice uses a Character Name Alias, Line-of-Sight Name or Sue Donym.
- Enforced:
- The name Elomeht foreshadows that he is General Themole, who happens to be The Mole.
- The scene where Alice filled out her visa was flipped for this dub.
- Lampshaded: "So spelling your name backwards is a kind of creativity?"
- Invoked: General Themole needs a Meaningful Rename to signify his Heel–Face Turn, so he calls himself Lareneg Elomeht, except it makes him sound like an Obviously Evil Fake Defector.
- Exploited: Bob uses Ecila as his pseudonym and never meets anyone in person, so people looking for him based on his alias are suspicious of Alice instead.
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed:"So your name is Elomeht? Let's see... T, H, E, M, O, L..."
- Implied:: We never learn who Nogard is, but he and The Dragon drop off the grid at around the same time.
- Played For Laughs: Bob, Hannah, and Elle all try this, to predictable results.
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