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A name given to a character by fan communities. It is sometimes possible to read an entire forum about a show and never see a direct reference to the character's scripted name. A natural result if the producers [[No Name Given|take too long in providing a character with an official name]].

* Annual: Car or light truck kit that was updated yearly to reflect the latest version of the kit's subject. Usually based on the same tooling as a promo.

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]''

** Kidstar - 1-Up from the 20X6 universe. He's the anime equivalent of Homestar, and his idol Stinkoman dismisses him as being "just a kid". His name wasn't officially revealed until a year after he first appeared.

== Other Media ==

* Many of the trope names listed here and on [[The Other Tropes Wiki]] could ultimately be considered fan nicknames, or at least fan nicknames for literary conventions established elsewhere when applied to a specific show, genre, or situation.

* Since almost every product by Apple follows the pattern if the lowercase letter "i" and one single word (iPod, iPad, iTunes, iPhone,) the iPod Touch has always stood out, so many people have simply shortened it down to "iTouch."

* [[Battlestar Galactica|Scilons]] for [[Church of Happyology|Scientologists]] by Anonymous; also "clams" by the protesters, particularly the pre-Chanology ones, at OperationClambake.com due to one of [[L. Ron Hubbard]]'s "thought experiments" being to imagine clams "snapping open and shut! Open and shut! Open! Shut!" on a beach (I think it had something to do with perceiving the universe or thetans).

** Clams are what Hubbard believed humans had evolved from. (Being Hubbard, [[Did Not Do the Research]] is a given.)

** Replacing the s in any of these, including the real name, with a $ is also quite common. This happens to [[Microsoft|Micro$oft]] too.

* Australian free-to-air television network [[SBS]], jokingly said to stand for "Sex Between Soccer", or "Sex, Blood and Soccer".

* Electronics and the stores that sell them are rich veins of Fan Nicknames. For instance, the Blackberry series of mobile phones (many other functions) have been nicknamed Crackberries: like the concentrated form of cocaine known as "crack", the things are very expensive and either massively addictive or something you need rehab to get away from.

** For another example, the first USB mice Apple produced for release with the then-new iMac received the uncomplimentary nickname "hockey pucks," both for the ridiculously non-ergonomic design and for the best use [[wikipedia:File:Apple iMac USB mouse.jpg|their shape]] permitted for them.

* The South London district of Newington is far more commonly known as "Elephant & Castle", to the extent that even London Transport call it that. The name comes from the fact that one of London's several "Elephant & Castle" pubs stood there (there's still a pub of that name there, but whether it's the original or a successor thereto is unknown), and the pubs are in turn named for the fact that the Infanta de Castile once owned large tracts of what is now London land.

* In Chicago the sculpture named "Cloud Gate" is universally known as The Bean... Much to the artist's annoyance.

* Also in Chicago, the newly-renamed "Willis Tower" is still the Sears Tower. We don't care who owns it now, it's still the Sears.

** LM: Lunar Module, but pronounced 'Lem' after the old Lunar Excursion Module name

* A style of dress shoes typically worn by children during the early 20th century (though shoes similar to them have been worn by the likes of [[Henry VIII]] as depicted in paintings of the era) and later exclusively worn by girls and women are known as "[[Mary Jane (shoe)|Mary Jane]]" shoes after the ''[[Buster Brown]]'' character of the same name.

=== Celebrities ===

* [[Maggie Gyllenhaal|Maggie Trollsbane]] - For her [[Sarcasm Mode|massive popularity]] on [[IMDb]].

* In the fandom, [[Misha Collins]] is sometimes referred to as MishMish or "The Overlord". He encourages the latter.

=== Politics ===