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== Anime
* This is omnipresent in ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''. While the species names are either [[Pokémon-Speak]] or [[Verbal Tic Name]], it's a little weird that nearly every pet Pokémon is named after its species.
** In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', trainers who bother nicknaming their Pokémon usually give nicknames that barely deviate from the species' name anyways.
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* In ''[[Saiyuki]]'', the [[Team Pet]] Jeep (aka Hakuryuu) is a white dragon who [[Voluntary Shapeshifting|can turn into]] a [[Cool Car|Jeep]]. ''Hakuryuu'' means "white dragon."
* The heroine of ''[[Princess Tutu]]'' is a duck who can turn into a human girl. Her name is Duck. Often she's still referred to by her Japanese name, Ahiru... which is Japanese for "Duck."
* Subverted in ''[[
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Subverted by Kodachi's pet, Mister Turtle, {{spoiler|a crocodile}}.
* In ''[[Toradora!]]'', Ryuuji's parakeet is named "Inko-chan". "Inko" happens to be Japanese for "parakeet".
* In ''[[Wild Life]]'', Tesshou's dog is named Inu. Which is dog in Japanese, {{spoiler|he also befriends a bear, which he calls Kuma, that is bear in japanese}}
== Comic Books ==
* The undead dog from ''[[The Amazing Screw-On Head]]'' is called... wait for it... ''Mr. Dog''.
* Calamity James' pet Lemming in ''[[The Beano]]'' is called Alexander ''Lemming''.
* The main protagonist in ''[[Footrot Flats]]'' is a dog called [[Spell My Name with a "The"|The Dog]]; he has a real name, but it's never revealed, because the Dog [[Berserk Button|hates the name and attacks anyone who tries to say it.]] Oddly enough, the [[Anti-Villain]] Horse is... a cat.▼
* Often lampshaded in ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]''. The four main characters are a rat, pig, zebra and goat named "Rat", "Pig", "Zebra" and "Goat". At one point, "Goat" is revealed to be a [[Stage Names|stage name]]—his real name is Paris.▼
* Invoked in a ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' strip where Lyman says that he grew up with four cats all named Cat. When Jon asked him why, Lyman said there was no point in giving a name to [[Cats Are Mean|an animal that won't come when you call it]].▼
* [[Hi and Lois]] have a dog named Dawg.▼
== Fan Works ==
* [[Peter Chimaera]]'s ''Digimon Savez teh Wrold'' revolves around the adventures of a Digimon named Digimon. In his own words: "Auithors notel Digimon is a new Digimon because there is not actual Digimon that is called Digimon he is a new one that I invented"
* [[Inverted Trope]] in ''[[Turnabout Storm]]''; when [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|Fluttershy]] hears [[Ace Attorney|Phoenix Wright's]] name, she jumps to the conclusion that he's an actual phoenix who's in his "shedding his feathers before bursting into flame" stage. Nick tries to correct her, but as Twilight Sparkle points out, at least this way [[Friend to All Living Things|Fluttershy]] is actually ''[[Shrinking Violet|talking]]'' to him.
== Films -- Animation ==
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* Tod and his girlfriend Vixey from ''[[The Fox and the Hound (film)]]''. Tod actually gets his name from the word used to describe a male fox, while Vixey gets her name from the word vixen, a female fox.
* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Cat City]]'' is a cat named Mr. Gatto.
== Films -- Live-Action ==
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* In ''[[Cowboys and Aliens (film)|Cowboys and Aliens]]'', nobody bothers to give the dog that follows Lonergan around a name. Except Emmett, who calls it "Dog."
* ''Basement Jack'': "You named the dog Dog?"
== Literature ==
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* Mouse from the sequels to ''[[If You Give a Mouse a Cookie]]''.
* Subverted in [[Wayside School Gets A Little Stranger]] where one student has a cat named "Dog" and another has a dog named "Cat."
== Live-Action TV ==
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* Played with in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' where Willow and Tara's cat is named "Miss Kitty Fantastico".
== Newspaper Comics ==
▲* The
▲* Often lampshaded in ''[[Pearls Before Swine]]''. The four main characters are a rat, pig, zebra and goat named "Rat", "Pig", "Zebra" and "Goat". At one point, "Goat" is revealed to be a [[Stage Names|stage name]]—his real name is Paris.
▲* Invoked in a ''[[Garfield (Comic Strip)|Garfield]]'' strip where Lyman says that he grew up with four cats all named Cat. When Jon asked him why, Lyman said there was no point in giving a name to [[Cats Are Mean|an animal that won't come when you call it]].
▲* ''[[Hi and Lois]]'' have a dog named Dawg.
== Puppet Shows ==
* ''[[Sesame Street]]'': Big Bird. Lampshaded in the episode "Roy".
* ''[[The Muppets]]'': Miss Piggy.
== Video Games ==
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* [[Spell My Name with a "The"|The Cheat]] of ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' is apparently a The Cheat.
* Puppy, Cat, Donkey, Bunny, and Hamster from ''[[Retarded Animal Babies]]''. Guess what animals they all are!
== Web Comics ==
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* Annie in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]'' builds a robot in the very first chapter and starts calling him Robot.
* In ''[[No Rest for The Wicked (webcomic)|No Rest for The Wicked]]'', [http://www.forthewicked.net/archive/04i-10.html a boy named Boy.]
== Web Original ==
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* Subverted in [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYAjwYZBMiw this video], a man has a cat named "Rabbit" who purrs (trills) like a pigeon.
* In ''[[The Intercontinental Union of Disgusting Characters]]'', Ringman's warhorse is named Warhorse. (And the only city with a name in all of Central Earth is named Town.)
== Western Animation ==
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* Every character in ''[[Word World]]''. Which makes a certain amount of sense, since most objects in ''[[Word World]]'' are made of the letters that spell what it is.
* In ''[[Taz-Mania]]'', Taz has a pet named 'Dog'. Who is a turtle. [[All Animals Are Dogs|Who thinks he is a dog]].
== Real Life ==
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