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* The Silver Age [[The Flash|Flash]], Barry Allen, was named for one of the Twelve Apostles; sure enough, he's practically a saint within the DC superhero community thanks to his [[Heroic Sacrifice]] in the [[Crisis on Infinite Earths]] (he's back now, if you somehow missed it). <ref>The name "Bartholomew" normally wouldn't be special, since most of the Apostles' names are quite common, but it does stand out because it's a name not in common usage nowadays.</ref>
* Many of the villains in ''[[Dick Tracy]]'' famously had nicknames describing their physical appearance or criminal specialty, such as Flattop, Pouch, Pruneface, the Brow, the Mole. During the first fifteen years of this long-lived strip, it was also commonplace for characters to possess names that become descriptive when spelled backwards: a midget named Trohs, a bandleader named Seton, a playboy named Kroywen, an honest man named Toirtap, a crook named Doolb, and (long before [[Stephen King]] was born) a killer named Redrum.
* The [[Big Bad]] of ''[[Kick-Ass]]'' is named John Genovese. This is a reference to [[wikipedia:Kitty Genovese|Kitty Genovese]], a woman who was murdered apparently without her neighbors bothering to intervene (the situation may have been more complex, but that was the public perception). This incident is commonly cited as sparking the [https://web.archive.org/web/20060112190728/http://www.worldsuperheroregistry.com/ real-life superhero movement].
** Genovese is also the name of a major Mafia boss/family.
* The title character in ''[[Werewolf By Night]]'' is named [[wikipedia:Jack Russell Terrier|Jack Russell]].
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* Ray Palmer, [[The Atom]], had two notable enemies who shared this trait: The Bug-Eyed Bandit (Bertram Larvan), and the Floronic Man (Jason Woodrue). The Bug-Eyed Bandit had a son, Bertram Larvan, Jr., who would become his [[Legacy Character]].
* Lampshaded in ''Albion'', where Zip Nolan doesn't believe the Spider's real name is Alfred Chinard because "A. Chinard" is an anagram of "arachnid." "It's a phony name!" The Spider then sarcastically claims his true name to be "Arthur O'Pod" -- arthropod.
* [[Green Lantern]] and [[Batman]] villain Solomon Grundy was given the name by a group of crooks he fell in with shortly after rising as a swamp-zombie. All he could remember - at the time - was that he was born on a Monday, so they named him after [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solomon_Grundy_(nursery_rhyme) the nursery rhyme character.]
* [[Daredevil]]'s sensei, the martial arts master [[Badass Grandpa|Stick]]; he got that name from his mastery of fighting with a [[Simple Staff]].
* Ghost Spider (aka ''[[Spider-Gwen]]'') is an [[Alternate Dimension]] version of Gwen Stacy, was given that moniker first by Miles Morales, who wondered if she ''was'' a ghost, as the Gwen he knows is dead. When Gwen learns that his version of Gwen is far from the only version of Gwen to die from violence (and there's already a Spider-Woman in this reality), she decides to keep the name, seeing as it is fitting for someone so "loved" by Death.
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