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* The otherwise forgettable made-for-TV ''[[X-Men|Generation X]]'' movie had [[Psychic Powers|Emma Frost]] pass off herself and Banshee off as Hootie and the Blowfish without the police officer batting an eyelash.
** "Agents Hootie and Blowfish." Luckily, Emma has also messed with the guard's mindsight.
* In the first ''[[Die Hard]]'': John McClane decides that the name he'll use with Powell will be "Roy" after [[Roy Rogers]] (which McClane referred to in a previous
* In ''[[Shock Treatment]]'', it turns out that Cosmo and Nation McKinley {{spoiler|are not real doctors, but character actors who use an assortment of last names -- all those of U.S. presidents}}.
* In ''[[The Player]]'', the blackmailer uses the alias 'Joe Gillis' (the narrator from ''[[Sunset Boulevard]]'') but this is intentional because he knows the connotations will rattle his target.
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** And in "1969", O'Neill told an interrogator that his name was [[Star Trek: The Original Series|"Captain James T. Kirk"]] and [[Star Wars|"Luke Skywalker"]].
** In "Tangent," Jackson tries to stall a Jaffa patrol ship by impersonating a Goa'uld and identifying himself as "[[The Wizard of Oz (film)|the great and powerful Oz]]".
** On [[Stargate Atlantis|Atlantis]] John Shepard introduces himself as [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Reed Richards]].
** On [[Stargate Universe|Universe]] Eli uses the name [[Futurama|Philip Fry]]. To his mother, no less.
* ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' plays a similar name game with other notable fictional detectives. Keith Mars has memorably introduced himself as [[Monk|"Adrian Monk"]] and as "[[Nancy Drew|Carson Drew, and my daughter Nancy]]". Veronica, infiltrating a rival school, went by the name [[Archie Comics|Betty]], saying she was Horny, the mascot for the Rhinos, the team at her old school...Riverdale.
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* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': "Uh... Elvis. Elvis Jagger Abdul-Jabar".
* On ''[[Gargoyles]]'', immortal [[Anti-Villain]] MacBeth uses the alias Lennox MacDuff as his modern persona. Both are characters from [[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare's]] ''[[Macbeth]]''. The first time he uses it, the person he's talking to (a writer) immediately finds him suspicious.
* [[American Dragon: Jake Long|Jake Long]] once came up with the alias [[
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