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* In ''[[Catch Twenty Two]]'', Yossarian censors letters under the name Washington Irving. This is eventually copied by Major Major, who is delighted by the fact that "Washington Irving" can be flipped around and people will know the difference.
* In the [[Ellery Queen]] novel ''The Origin of Evil'', there is a character who calls himself Alfred Wallace. Recognising the connotations of the name (Wallace was a naturalist and contemporary of Darwin who independently proposed a theory of natural selection) is what starts Ellery down the path to the solution of the mystery.
* In ''[[Ender's Game]]'', Ender's brother and sister make [
* In [[Daniel Pinkwater]]'s ''Young Adult Novel'', the Wild Dada Ducks of Himmler High School, who use their Dada names instead of their real names, include the Honorable Venustiano Carranza (President of Mexico), previously known as Pecos Bill.
* The main character of ''Little Brother'' originally goes by "w1n5t0n", as in the protagonist of ''[[Nineteen Eighty-Four|1984]]''. When the plot starts heating up, he realized it might be a tad too obvious, and gets a new alias.
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* One ''[[CSI]]'' episode featured a serial killer who used the names of slasher villains as aliases.
* Sam and Dean on ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'' almost always use the names of musicians whenever they pose as policemen/agents/reporters to interview people.
** They've also used ''[[Star Wars]]'' [[Shout
* ''[[Psych]]'' has done this at least a few times.
* The ''[[
** Rose once introduced him as [[Star Trek (Franchise)|Mr. Spock]].
* In an episode of ''[[Life On Mars]]'', Sam Tyler goes undercover as "Tony Blair" with Annie as his wife, "Cherie". When Gene tags along, Sam introduces him as "Gordon Brown".
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*** And the reverse: He referred to himself as "Fred Scarran" during an Earth episode.
* The aliases used in ''[[Leverage]]'' generally have some connection to the heist they're pulling. [[Word of God]] states that this is because Hardison picks them.
** And at least once they were names of characters or actors from ''[[
* ''[[The Middleman]]'' did this in every single episode, not just with the heroes' aliases; in any given episode, virtually every proper name, real or alias, was part of a pop-culture-allusion theme of the week.
* On ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'', [[Christopher Eccleston]]'s character, who can turn invisible, introduces himself as Claude Rains, after the actor who played ''[[The Invisible Man (Film)|The Invisible Man]]''. The line was actually improvised by Eccleston, but they decided to [[Throw It In]], and eventually, it was decided that this might even be the character's real name.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Freefall (Webcomic)|Freefall]]'', as part of Sam Starfall's plan to get Florence out of Ecosystems Unlimited, [http://freefall.purrsia.com/ff1700/fc01683.htm he identifies himself] to [[Pointy-Haired Boss|Kornada]] as "[
* In [[Homestuck]], Dave tells Terezi that his name is [[Ben Stiller]].
* In ''[[El Goonish Shive (Webcomic)|El Goonish Shive]],'' Grace utterly fails at using this trope. Because of an earlier comparison [[Clark Kenting|between her and]] [[Superman]], the name she chose was Clark.
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* A common tactic of [[
## It's more amusing if they manage to fool the scammer.
## The scammer may use it as a false name later, making his future scams more obvious.
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