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* ''[[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]]'' had one character who went a step further and had his ''first'' name legally changed to "Trouble".
** Mind you, said character is an acknowledged [[Badass]], despite the fact that he gets hardly any notice.
* In her first appearance in the ''[[Doctor Who (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' [[Expanded Universe]], Benny tells the Doctor "Surprise is my middle name. Bernice Surprise Summerfield. My poor Mum wanted to hammer the point home." A subversion, since later books make it clear this is, in fact, the case.
 
== Live Action TV ==
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* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'', of the "I thought your name was" variety.
* ''[[The Tick]]'' laments some recent acts with the line "Helping people used to be my middle name: The Helping People Tick"
* In ''[[One Hundred and One101 Dalmatians (Disney)|One Hundred and One Dalmatians]]: [[The Series]]'', Spot claims that "Mystery" is his middle name as part of a spoof [[Private Eye Monologue]].
* ''[[American Dragon Jake Long]]'': In "Shapeshifter", Jake's grandfather insists that he take the mission seriously, and he says that "serious" is his middle name.
* ''[[Transformers]]: [[Beast Wars (Animation)|Beast Machines]]'' has:
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== Real Life ==
* American naval officer [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Perry:Oliver Hazard Perry|Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry]], hero of the War of 1812.
* [[Penn & Teller|Penn Jillette]] gave his firstborn daughter the middle name "Crimefighter" in the hope she could invoke this trope later in her life.
* While not her actual middle name, [[Amanda Palmer]] is also known as "Amanda [[Precision F-Strike|Fucking]] Palmer."
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