A Dog Named "Dog": Difference between revisions

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{{quote|''"So instead of calling me 'Dragon' in your tongue, you'll call me 'Dragon' in some other tongue?"''|'''Draco''', ''[[Dragonheart]]''}}

Some completely uncreative owner has decided the family pet will be known as Dog. Or, perhaps, a similarly creative author names their feline character Kitty. Alternately, the creature in question does have a less [[Shaped Like Itself]] name, but for whatever reason, Alice the Pig prefers to go as Piggy. Usually but not always applied to animals; robots imaginatively named Robot and the like are part of this trope, too. Remarkably common in children's shows, despite the [[Planet of Steves|obvious problems]] it should theoretically cause.

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One might show a touch more flair by [[This Is My Name On Foreign|naming something what it is in a foreign language]], like a lion named Leo. A common subversion is to name something it's ''not'', e.g. a dog named Platypus.

A subtrope of [[Shaped Like Itself]] and [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]. [[Pokémon Speak]] is a closely-related trope where something's named for the sound it makes. [[Everyone Calls Him Barkeep]] is another closely-related trope where a character is only known by their job title. See also [[Species Surname]] ("Dog Smith" is [[A Dog Named Dog]], "Bob T. Dog" is [[Species Surname]]), [[Name Dar]]. If the cast is ''full'' of these, it's [[Animal Theme Naming]].

A subtrope of [[Shaped Like Itself]] and [[Exactly What It Says On the Tin]]. [[Pokémon Speak]] is a closely-related trope where something's named for the sound it makes. [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]] is another closely-related trope where a character is only known by their job title. See also [[Species Surname]] ("Dog Smith" is [[A Dog Named "Dog"]], "Bob T. Dog" is [[Species Surname]]), [[Name Dar]]. If the cast is ''full'' of these, it's [[Animal Theme Naming]].

Note that robots also have [[Robot Names|their own trope]].

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* Adam is the Hebrew word for "man".

* George Foreman owned a dog named Doggo.

* According to a passage in his anthology ''[[Deathbird Stories (Literature)|Deathbird Stories]]'', [[Harlan Ellison (Creator)|Harlan Ellison]] once owned a dog named "Inu" (Japanese for "dog").