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* '''[[My Hero Zero|Zero]]'''. The entire list is on the page.
** '''[[Cherry Blossom Girl|Sakura]]''' too.
** Also '''[[A Protagonist Is Ryu|Ryu]]'''.
** '''[[Spike of All Trades|Spike]]''' as well.
* '''Decisive Battle''' can refer to a long list of media. The two most popular are the [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|one from an extremely Mind Screw anime]] and [[Final Fantasy|the recurring Final Boss theme]].
* [[Mass Effect|Ashley Williams]] and...[[Evil Dead|Ashley Williams]]
** Most likely a [[Shout-Out]]. There's one mission in ''[[Mass Effect]]'' where Williams refers to her gun as a "boomstick".
** While we're on the subject of ''Mass Effect''...Samara. [[Green-Skinned Space Babe|Asari]] [[Knight Templar|justicar]] or [[Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl|freaky ghost]] [[The Ring|in your VCR?]] Or, for that matter, [[Name's the Same/Real vs. Fictional|a city in Russia?]]
** Geth: [[Mass Effect|A race of sentient robots]] or [[Magic: The Gathering|Lord of the Vault]]?
* '''Archie Andrews''': British [[Ventriloquism|ventriloquist's dummy]] and radio star (yes, really) or US star of ''[[Archie Comics]]''?
** Another Archie Comics example. '''Alexandra Cabot''' is a long-running supporting character in ''[[Josie and the Pussy Cats]]''; she's Josie's wealthy rival and occasional ally. There is another Alexandra Cabot featured in ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit]]'', a no-nonsense Assistant District Attorney.
* '''Amon''' is a pale-faced guy in a black leather jacket who hunts super-powered people for a living, whether they're [[Witch Hunter Robin|(mostly) malevolent witches]] or [[The Legend of Korra|(mostly) innocent element-benders]]. There's also the one [[Schindler's List|who tortures innocent Jews]].
* Mike Grell's classic barbarian comic "The Warlord" features an issue where he's rescued by a group of college professors. Among them is '''Richard Belding''',who shares a name with the educator who followed Screech around for the duration of the ''[[Saved by the Bell]]'' franchise.
** Let's not forget Travis Morgan's ally '''Shakira''', who is of course not related to the [[Shakira|Colombian singer]].
* ''[[Film/The Ballad Of Cable Hogue|The Ballad Of Cable Hogue]]'' is a 1970 western film about a failed prospector who finds a water source in the Arizona desert, attempts to found a town around it, falls in love with a prostitute, and ultimately dies saving the life of a man who betrayed him years ago. [[Calexico]] also has a song, "Ballad of Cable Hogue" (off their 2000 album ''Hot Rail''), about a successful prospector who is betrayed and killed by a [[Femme Fatale]]. John Cale (formerly of [[Velvet Underground]]) also has a "Ballad of Cable Hogue" (though it was originally released under the title "Cable Hogue"); we're not sure what it's supposed to be about.
* '''Bender'''. [[Lovable Rogue]] in ''[[Futurama]]'' or eh...LovableRogue in [[The Twelve Chairs|dilogy]] [[The Little Golden Calf|of books]] by Ilf and Petrov and its many adaptations?
** Or [[Judd Nelson]]'s character in ''[[The Breakfast Club]]''.
** Also, there's a rock band called Bender. They appeared on the soundtrack to ATV Offroad Fury
* '''Claire Bennet'''? Do you have a friend [[Heroes (TV series)|who happens to be an otaku and have time manipulation power]]? Or is your friend [[Tales of Rebirth|ice cold and prone to dramatically yell your name]]?
* '''Noah Bennet''' is the name of a character in [[Heroes (TV series)|this show]] or [[Passions|that show]]; both have been on NBC.
* Does '''Bianca''' refer to the friend of Latias and Latios in ''[[Pokémon Heroes]]'', the ditzy rival in ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'' (note: this isn't present in the original Japanese versions of both, where movie!Bianca is Kanon and game!Bianca is Bel/Belle), Nico's older sister from ''[[Percy Jackson and The Olympians]]'', or one of the eligible brides of the protagonist of ''[[Dragon Quest V]]''?
** Or RICKAAAY!'s wife in ''[[Eastenders]]''?
* '''Captain Carrot'''. All-round hero, [[The Good Captain]] and indisputably [[The Cape (trope)]] of his universe. But is he a [[Captain Carrot and His Amazing Zoo Crew|bunny rabbit with superpowers]] or a [[Discworld|watchman with kingly charisma]]?
* '''Elizabeth Shaw''': [[Doctor Who|hot scientist who's confronted aliens played by Caroline John]] or [[Prometheus|hot scientist who's confronted aliens played by Noomi Rapace]]?
* '''John Carter'''. [[John Carter of Mars|Hero of Mars]] or a doctor in [[ER|Chicago county General]]?
* '''Sharon Carter'''. [[Captain America (comics)]]'s [[Action Girl|badass]] girlfriend or the "Girl" from [[Two Guys, a Girl And A Pizza Place]]?
* ''[[Revolutionary Girl Utena]]'' and ''[[Xenogears]]'' both have [[Biological Mashup|half-mouse hybrid]] [[Team Pet]]s named '''Chu-Chu'''.
** Yellow of [[Pokémon Special]] has a Pikachu of the same name...and mouse qualities.
** Also, there's Chu Chu Rocket.
* '''The Paper''' is a paperkinetic ditzy [[Meganekko]] from ''[[Read or Die]]'', or a time-and-space-transcending piece of paper belonging to [[Homestar Runner|Strong Bad]]?
** Or a [[SpongeBob]] episode?
* '''Edward Cullen''' is either a [[Twilight (novel)|wealthy, hunky vampire]] with a much younger girlfriend or a [[Law & Order|wealthy real estate guy/murder victim]] with a much younger girlfriend/murder victim.
* '''Joanna Dark''' is either the secret agent protagonist of the ''[[Perfect Dark]]'' games or God empowered super policewoman the Maid from ''[[Top Ten]]''.
* '''Data''': Teenaged [[Bungling Inventor]] in ''[[The Goonies]]'', or [[Artificial Human|Android]] Starfleet officer on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' and its subsequent movies? And they both pronounce their name "Day-Tah". Or maybe a member of Griff Tannen's gang in 2015 in ''[[Back to The Future]] Part II''. Or perhaps [[Mega Man Legends|Mega Man's]] robot monkey.
* Things can quickly get confusing if you say you're a fan of ''[[Arrested Development (TV series)|Arrested Development]]''—indeed, the hip-hop group by that name sued the producers of the same-named sitcom, and the latter [[Lampshade Hanging|hung a lampshade]] on the situation.
* '''[[Doctor Who|The Doctor]]''' is not [[The Authority|The Doctor]]. Or [[Star Trek: Voyager|the other Doctor.]] Or [[Cave Story|the other other Doctor]].
** Nor is he [[Commedia Dell'Arte|Il Dottore]]. Of course, there's also the other Il Dottore, Valentino Rossi...
* '''Max Edison''' is a recurring character in the ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic strip, an easy going [[Agent Mulder]], and friend of the Doctor. As far as is known, he has never [[The Beatles|killed anyone with a silver hammer]].
* '''The World Eaters''': [[Soul Nomad and The World Eaters|Titanic golems led by an evil god of death]] or [[Warhammer 40,000|red power-armored super soldiers serving an evil god of war]]?
* [[DC Comics]] had a ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' character named '''Elasti-girl''' and ''[[The Incredibles]]'' had a character named Elasti-girl. Even their last names are similar: The Doom Patrol Elastigirl is Rita Farr, and the Incredibles Elastigirl is Helen Parr. Their powers are also similar, though Farr has [[Sizeshifter|size-changing]] as well.
* When you say "'''Flash'''", do you mean [[The Flash|The Fastest Man in the World]] or [[Flash Gordon (film)|The Saviour of the Universe]] ([[Queen|ah-ah!]])?
** Or do you mean the programming language used to put games and annoying interactive ads on the web?
** Or do you mean [[wikipedia:Flash memory|a type of non-volatile memory]]?
** Or a cleaning agent? (in the UK at least)
* '''Dr. Clayton Forrester''' is the name of the good scientist hero in the 1953 movie version of ''[[The War of the Worlds (novel)|The War of the Worlds]]'', and the evil scientist villain in TV's ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]''. (Yes, the latter was a deliberate [[Shout-Out]] to the former.)
* '''Billy Flynn''': [[Dangerously Genre Savvy]] [[Chicago|defense lawyer]] or [[Criminal Minds|horrifying serial killer]]?
* A '''[[Half Life|Vorti gaunt]]''' is not a [[Warhammer 40,000|Tyranid organism]]. Neither is [[Gaunt's Ghosts|Ibram Gaunt]] a xeno.
** Not to mention [[Harry Potter|Lord Voldemort's relatives.]]
** Or the real-life Sir John of Gaunt, who was [[The Canterbury Tales|Geoffrey Chaucer]]'s patron.
** The vortigaunt should also not be confused with [[King Arthur|Vortigern of Wales]].
* Are '''The Founders''' [[Star Trek: Deep Space Nine|the shape-shifting leaders of the Dominion]], or [[Charmed|a group of elder Whitelighters (guardian angels)]]?
* The '''God-Emperor''', lord of [[Dune|the spice]], [[Breath of Fire IV|founder of the Fou Empire]] or [[Warhammer 40,000|the Imperium of Man]]?
* The '''[[God Hand]]''' is one of two magically empowered arms used to fight the demon king Angra. It could also refer to [[Berserk|a group of the most powerful demons]].
** Or [[Shadow Hearts|Lenny's]] [[One-Winged Angel]] form.
** "Godhand" is also the nickname of one of the fighters in [[Square Enix]]'s fighting game ''[[Ehrgeiz]]'', and has ever since been the name of a gauntlet-type weapon in practically every ''[[Final Fantasy]]'' game.
*** It is also a class one of your characters can evolve to in ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]''.
* '''Brian Griffin''': [[Family Guy|Wisecracking talking dog]] or [[Killing Mr Griffin|accidentally murdered English teacher]]?
** And if it's the latter, what about his wife Kathy Griffin?
* '''Hans Gruber''': German terrorist from ''[[Die Hard]]'', German schoolteacher-turned-Nazi supersoldier in ''Jack Staff'', or minor villain from ''[[Our Man Flint]]''?
* '''Tommy Gunn''': [[Rocky V|Rocky's protege]], or a gangster in [[Astro City]]?
** Not to be confused with the [[Cool Guns/Submachine Guns|Tommy Gun]].
* '''Jack Hammer''': Best pal of [[Deadpool]] better known as "Weasel", or a victim in the first ''[[Phoenix Wright]]'' game?
** Or a fighter on steroids from [[Baki the Grappler]]
*** Not to be confused with the actual machine called the "Jackhammer".
**** Or with Goldberg's finisher.
* '''Hawkeye''': Marvel Universe archer/member of [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Avengers]]? Wisecracking surgeon of the [[M*A*S*H|4077th MASH]]? Sharpshooter/right hand woman to [[Fullmetal Alchemist|Roy Mustang]]? Or protagonist of ''[[The Leatherstocking Tales]]''?
* '''Henry Hill:''' [[Goodfellas|Did he always want to be a gangster]], or did he, also known as Hank, [[King of the Hill|sell propane and propane accessories]]?
* '''Rick Hunter''', L.A. homicide detective or [[Robotech|ace veritech fighter pilot]]?
** Not in Japan, however; the ''[[Macross]]'' character's real name is Hikaru Ichijo.
** Rick Hunter is also the first of three people to portray the [[Postal]] Dude.
* One of the characters in ''[[Queer as Folk]]'' is called '''Brian Kinney'''; that's also the civilian identity of [[Astro City|Altar Boy]].
* '''[[Lois Lane]]''' (a.k.a. "Bianca") of the musical ''[[Kiss Me Kate]]'' is always true to Bill in her fashion, but she probably isn't [[Superman]]'s type.
* You want '''Doctor Light'''? Do you mean Arthur, [[The DCU]] villain; Kimiyo Hoshi, [[The DCU]] ''heroine''; or Thomas Xavier, the creator of ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''?
** You [[SCP Foundation|missed one]].
** And Dr. Wright in the SNES version of ''[[SimCity]]'', who is named after Will Wright, the founder of the series.
* Speaking of '''Lucky Star''' itself: [[Moe]] [[Lucky Star|anime series]] about [[otaku]]dom and food, or an early song by [[Madonna]], or a ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' item, or [[wikipedia:Lucky Star|anything else named as such]].
* '''Oscar Madison'''--is your [[The Odd Couple|roommate your complete opposite]]? Have you [[The Wotch|ever been turned into a woman]]?
* And [[Overly Long Gag|speaking of]] '''[[Overly Long Gag|Madonna]]''': A nickname for the virgin mother of [[The Bible|mankind's possible savior]], or a singer from Michigan who made a titanic career out of [[Getting Crap Past the Radar]]?
* '''Hugh Mann''': Obscure [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] space hero, or a [[Hugh Mann|trope-naming]] badly disguised [[Futurama|Decapodian spy]]?
* Oh look, it's '''Patricia Martin'''! Tell me, is she a [[Lucky Star|school girl otaku]] or a [[Prototype (video game)|geneticist who ends up getting eaten]]?
* Thanks to ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'s'' Robot Master [[Naming Conventions]], several comic book characters share names with Dr. Wily's creations, and by virtue of said convention you can expect their powers to be similar. [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Ice Man]], [[Aquaman]], and Shadow Man ([[Valiant Comics]], it's best not to dwell on it) immediately come to mind.
* When you say "'''Flashman'''" do you want [[Flashman|the roguish Brit]], the [[Choushinsei Flashman|Super Sentai team]], or the [[Mega Man 3|Robot Master]]? Note that the DC character[[Legacy Character|(s)]] that runs really fast is just [[The Flash]], though ''Funky'' Flashman is someone else entirely.
* '''Hawk Man''': [[Hawkman|Thanagarian hero]] of [[The DCU]], or French ''[[Kinnikuman]]'' villain? They also have remarkably similar taste in headgear.
* There's also '''Junk Man''' from ''[[Mega Man 7]]'', minor ''[[Kinnikuman]]'' malcontent Junkman, [[Jimmy Neutron]]'s Junkman, and ''[[Astro City]]'''s Junkman.
** Similarly, Kinnikuman antagonist Springman shouldn't be confused with ''[[Mega Man 7]]'''s Spring Man nor should he be confused with the Springman from ''ARMS''.
* '''Mask man'''. A ''[[Super Sentai]]'' [[Hikari Sentai Maskman|series]], or a Korean cartoon?
* '''Brock Mason'''. [[Dead Rising|Ruthless and callous soldier]], or [[Survival of the Fittest|dyslexic jock]]?
* '''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]''' ''himself'' is an example. See [http://www.mmhp.net/Appear/Influence.html this page] for more details.
* Does '''[[The Master (trope)|The Master]]'''...
** Have [[Doctor Who|six incarnations]]?
** Have [[Manos: The Hands of Fate|six wives]]?
** [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Live under the library]]?
** [[Fallout|Want to turn everyone into mutants]]?
** [[Mega Man Legends|The last of mankind]]?
** [[The Brave Little Toaster|Own a talking toaster]]?
** [[Power Rangers Mystic Force|Lead a horde of evil magical creatures]]?
* The prepubescent hero of the 1986 fantasy film ''Troll'' is named '''Harry Potter'''. Unlike the more famous [[Harry Potter]] he isn't a wizard, although he does wield magic weapons for part of the movie, and he fights a troll.
** [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s novel ''Uncle Dynamite'' includes the dimwitted Police Constable Harold Potter, and also a girl named Hermione.
** [[Monty Python's Flying Circus|Harold Potter...first victim of Creatures from Another World.]]
** The ''[[Darkstalkers]]'' cartoon, which predated the novels, just happened to also feature a bespectacled preteen wizard named Harry.
** The antagonist in the wheelchair in ''[[It's a Wonderful Life]]''? Henry F. Potter.
* There's a scene in ''[[The Proposition]]'' where Charlie Burns briefly uses the alias '''[[wikipedia:Charles Murphy (disambiguation)|Charles Murphy]]'''. It's also possible that John Hurt's character, Jellon Lamb, was named after a dinner.
* '''Navi''', [[Ocarina of Time|helpful but annoying fairy]]. Navi, [[Serial Experiments Lain|extreme graphical interface computer that puts you INTO the web]], or [[Mega Man Battle Network|the short term of Net-Navi, aka "Internet Navigator", basically an artificial intelligences walking on the Internet.]] ''The'' Na'vi, [[Avatar (film)|outgunned but determined space elves.]]
** Or a [[Kaizoku Sentai Gokaiger|robot parrot who helps find treasure?]]
* '''Nemo''': [[Western Animation/Little Nemo|A little boy who finds adventures in his dreams]] or [[Finding Nemo|a little fish who has to be found]]?
** And there's Jules Verne's Nemo!
*** [[Word of God]] says that Pixar's Nemo is a [[Shout-Out]] to Verne's Nemo.
* '''Thomas Jerome Newton''': He doesn't belong on this Earth in both [[The Man Who Fell to Earth]] and [[Fringe]]
* '''[[Duke Nukem]]''': [[Duke Nukem|Eponymous egotistical chauvinistic protagonist]], or [[Captain Planet and the Planeteers|radiation-powered villain]]? This bugged the developers of the former enough to consider changing his name to "Duke Nuk'''''u'''''m" until they found out that the latter's name wasn't trademarked.
** The [[Humongous Mecha]] in the finale of ''[[Space Quest]] III'' are called Nukem Dukem robots.
* '''Photon''' is either the original version of lasertag (which spawned a TV series), or an anime series, or one of two Marvel Comics characters.
** Also, it is the name of a form of energy in Dragonball
* '''Q''': Would that be the [[Gadgeteer Genius]] of the [[James Bond]] movies or the [[Sufficiently Advanced Alien]] on ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]''? Or a guy with a metallic mask and a trenchcoat from the ''[[Street Fighter]]'' series? Or the tea-loving British Robot in a Centurion's helmet from ''[[Armed and Dangerous]]''?
* '''Jaime Reyes''', 3rd [[Blue Beetle]] or [[Deus Ex|UNATCO doctor]]?
* '''Sam Carter''' and [[Stargate SG-1|air force space adventurer]], [[The Thing (film)|helicopter pilot]], or [[Deus Ex|jaded anti-terrorist quarter master]]?
* Both ''[[24|Twenty Four]]'' and ''[[Resident Evil 4]]'' have characters named '''Ramon Salazar'''.
* '''Greg Sanders''' (spelled Saunders in recent appearances) is the civilian identity of Vigilante, a founding member of the [[Seven Soldiers]]. It is also the name of one of the investigators in [[CSI]].
* There is a minor character in the novel ''The Accidental Tourist'' named '''Dana Scully'''. No, this character is not [[The X-Files|a skeptical FBI agent who investigates the paranormal]]. In fact, he's a dude.
* The 1939 book ''Day of the Locust'', and the 1975 film adaptation thereof, feature a character named '''Homer Simpson'''. ''[[The Simpsons]]'' is not a [[Shout-Out]], though; [[Word of God]] is that Homer Simpson was named after Homer Groening, Matt's father.
* '''Snips''', is it a nickname for Ahsoka, used by Anakin from ''[[Star Wars: The Clone Wars]]'' cartoon, or one of the bad guys from ''[[The Legendary Starfy]]''?
** [[Futurama|Or is it a murderous crab under the employ of the Zookeeper]]?
** Or [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|a not-too-bright unicorn with a friend named Snails]]?
* A year before the first ''[[Star Trek: The Original Series]]'' episode, Jack Vance's story ''Star King'' featured a second-string villain who used the alias '''Mr. Spock.''' Not to mention the author of the popular baby care book (who was actually known popularly as "Dr." Spock).
* "'''Starlite'''" is the name of [[Rainbow Brite]]'s horse. A "'''Starlyte'''" is the actual "gun" used in World of Wonder's version of "Lazer Tag" (which was copyrighted with this particular spelling).
* The '''sands of time''', a curse in a specific ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' continuity or the landscape when traveling through time in ''[[Kamen Rider Den-O]]''? In ''[[Kismet]]'', it's just the title of a song based on Borodin's "In the Steppes of Central Asia."
* '''''[[Tempest (video game)|Tempest]]''''' the arcade game, and '''''[[The Tempest]]''''' the [[Shakespeare]] play. Additionally, ''[[Forbidden Planet]]'' (which is based upon ''[[The Tempest]]'') has monsters from the deeps (of the human psyche), whilst ''[[Tempest (video game)|Tempest]]'' has monsters from the deeps (of variously-shaped pits).
** Or Tempest, the arte being used by [[Tales of Symphonia|Lloyd Irving]] and several other [[Tales (series)]] characters.
* '''Tinstar''': A segment on ''[[The Schnookums and Meat Funny Cartoon Show]]'' or a [[Super Nintendo]] game?
** And there's Tin Star the rock band.
* [[P. G. Wodehouse|PG Wodehouse]]'s famous character [[Jeeves and Wooster (novel)|Bertie Wooster]] has an '''Uncle Tom''', but not [[Uncle Tom's Cabin|the racist kind]]. It's just that his Aunt Dahlia married a man named Tom Travers.
* While most people know '''[[Ultraman]]''' as a Japanese robot, [[Superman]] had an [[Evil Counterpart]] also called Ultraman. This character even preceded the more well-known Ultraman by two years.
** Either of those two might have been the inspiration for ''My Secret Identity'''s Andrew Clements (played Jerry O'Connell) to call himself Ultraman when Dr. Jeffcoate's experiment accidentally gave him superpowers.
** And all of them were preceded by at least a quarter century by "[[wikipedia:Ultra-Man|Gary Concord, the Ultra-Man]]" a [[The Golden Age of Comic Books|Golden Age]] hero who first appeared in All-American Comics #8 in 1939.
* '''Susan Walker''', of ''[[Once in a Lifetime]]'' and ''[[Coupling]]'': two '''very''' different young women.
** And neither of them is the woman who ran Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade in ''[[Miracle on 34th Street]]''.
* '''James Wilson''': American Founding Father [[1776|portrayed]] as a meek "non-entity" who doesn't want to be remembered, or a doctor who's best friends with [[House (TV series)|House]]?
* '''George Wilson''': perpetually exasperated neighbor to ''[[Dennis the Menace US]]'' or the slightly worrisome car mechanic from ''[[The Great Gatsby]]''?
* '''Mary Jane''': [[Spider-Man]]'s love interest, [[Buster Brown]]'s sweetheart, a slang for cannabis or a style of shoes worn by little girls named for Buster Brown's sweeheart?
* '''Mary Worth''': meddlesome US newspaper comics protagonist or [[wikipedia:Bloody Mary (folklore)|ghost]]?
* A ''double'' cross-media example from ''within the same franchise''. Gary Oak's sister is named '''Daisy''' in the ''[[Pokémon Red and Blue]]'' game, and '''May''' in ''[[The Electric Tale of Pikachu]]'' manga. Unfortunately, the anime has reserved both names for completely unrelated recurring characters. Naturally, bringing Gary's sister into [[Fan Fiction]] causes a lot of head scratching unless written quite clearly, as using ''either'' name for the poor girl will get her mixed up with someone else either in or closely related to the main cast.
** For bonus points, in ''Electric Tale of Pikachu'' Ash had a crush on May Oak, and [[Shipping|shippers]] will occasionally pair Ash with May from the anime as well. It's like an [[Who's on First?|Abbott and Costello routine]] just waiting to happen.
* '''Kiba Daioh''' (Great King Fang): The leader of the Kiba Clan from ''[[Fist of the North Star]]''? Or the [[Combining Mecha|combined form]] of the [[Sixth Ranger|Kiba Ranger]]'s [[Humongous Mecha|giant robot]] and four other mechas from ''[[Gosei Sentai Dairanger]]''?
* '''Red Falcon''': The evil alien army from the ''[[Contra]]'' series? Or the [[Super Sentai|Red Ranger]] from ''[[Choujuu Sentai Liveman]]''?
* The '''Egg Emperor''' from the ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' franchise. Is it the [[Final Boss]] (not counting [[Perfect Run Final Boss|Metal Overlord]]) of ''[[Sonic Heroes]]'', or the Japanese codename for E-99, the [[Humongous Mecha]] [[Transforming Mecha]] from ''[[Sonic X]]''?
* '''Jack {{spoiler|Ryan}}''' -- protagonist of ''[[The Hunt for Red October]]'' or ''[[BioShock (series)]]''? [[Wild Mass Guessing|Or both]]?
* '''Itsuki''' the esper? From the ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'' series or the Elite Four member in ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'' (Will in English)?
** There's also [[Yu Yu Hakusho|"Gatekeeper" Itsuki]], a demon with the ability to breach through dimensions and control lesser demons from other worlds.
** And there's Itsuki, the [[Wholesome Crossdresser]] [[Student Council President]] who will [[Heartcatch Pretty Cure|"light the darkness in your heart".]]
* The nation of '''Belka''', with its Germanic airs - A homeland of [[Lyrical Nanoha|powerful mage-warriors]] or [[Ace Combat|skilled fighter pilots]]?
** Speaking of Belka, there's a small village within it named Arlon, pronounced exactly the same as [[King of the Hill|Arlen, Texas]].
* '''''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]''''' was also used in a gag on ''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?|Whose Line Is It Anyway]]'' several years earlier.
* Who is '''Doctor Evil''' the [[Arch Enemy]] of? [[Austin Powers]], or [[DC Comics]] hero Captain Action?
* The [[Gorillaz]] biography ''Rise of the Ogre'' makes reference to a preteen Murdoc's run-in with a bully named '''Tony Chopper''', who apparently has no connection to ''[[One Piece]]''.
* '''Gou Hibiki''': [[Street Fighter|Dan Hibiki]]'s father? Or the name of [[Speed Racer]] in the Japanese version of ''Mach GoGoGo '97''
* '''G-Force'''. [[G-Force|A group of Disney rodents with gizmos]] or a certain [[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman|group of science ninjas]]...
** Also not to be confused with [[wikipedia:G-force|the unit for measuring an object's graviational pull]].
** And not to be confused with a group dedicated with finding and stopping [[Godzilla|a certain gigantic green, atomic fire-breathing lizard]].
** Or the fourth game on the horrendus [[Action 52]].
* '''Steve Austin''': [[The Six Million Dollar Man]] or the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] [[Stone Cold Steve Austin|superstar]]?
** The latter actually was named for the former, as one of his nicknames, "The Bionic Redneck", suggest.
* '''The Brood''' are either ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' villains or a [[Professional Wrestling]] stable consisting of [[Edge]], [[Christian]], and Gangrel (and later The Hardys).
** Also the name for an almost-extinct [[Breath of Fire III|Dragon Clan]].
* '''The Beast''' is an ''[[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]'' member, a [[Fairy Tale]] [[Beauty and The Beast|character]], or [[Satan]].
* Does anyone want to see a battle between '''[[Castlevania|Alucard]]''' and '''[[Hellsing|Alucard]]'''?
* There is '''[[The Sandman]]''', [[Spider-Man (Comic Book)|The Sandman]], [[ECW|The Sandman]], and...[[Painting the Frost on Windows|The Sandman]].
** You forgot about [[Metallica|the Sandman]]!
* '''(The) Thing''': [[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|a rocky superhero]], [[The Addams Family|a disembodied hand]], or [[The Thing (film)|an extraterrestrial abomination]]?
* '''Blue Falcon''': a blue-clad [[Hanna-Barbera]] superhero and [[Dynomutt Dog Wonder|Dynomutt]]'s companion? The giant mech in ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]''? Or [[F-Zero|Captain Falcon's]] ship? It doesn't help matters that Captain Falcon himself is often [[I Am Not Shazam|mistakenly called]] "Blue Falcon" and bears a bit of a resemblance to the Hanna-Barbera character.
* '''Blood Falcon''': Captain Falcon's [[Evil Counterpart]]? or the terrorist group in ''[[Contra]]: Shattered Soldier''?
* '''Andros''', [[Power Rangers in Space|Red Ranger]], or '''Andross''' [[Star Fox (series)|the one with the brains to rule Lylat]]?
* '''Black Condor''': A DC Comics superhero? Or the [[Super Sentai|Black Ranger]] from ''[[Choujin Sentai Jetman]]''?
* Who owns a parrot named '''Iago'''? Is it [[Tintin|Bianca Castafiore]] or Jafar in Disney's ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''?
** The Disney one was named after the villain from Shakespeare's ''[[Othello]]''. The Tintin one was named after the villain from Verdi's opera based on ''Othello''. Confused yet?
* '''[[Mega Man 5|Star Man]]''', not to be confused with [[MOTHER|Starman]], [[David Bowie|Starman, waiting in the sky]], [[Super Mario|Starman, waiting in a ? block]] or [[Starman (comics)|the Knight family.]]
** Or [[Starman (film)|Jeff Bridges]].
*** A winner may be you if you pick Star Man in the NES title ''Pro Wrestling''.
* Both ''[[Blackadder]]'' and ''[[Redwall]]'' featured characters named '''Friar Bellows.'''
* '''Dirk ''the'' Daring''' from ''[[Dragon's Lair]]'' is not to be confused with '''Dirk Daring''', the [[Dub Name Change|name change]] given to Joe Asakura in the ''G-Force'' dub of ''[[Science Ninja Team Gatchaman]]''.
* '''Rerun''': Younger brother of [[Peanuts|Lucy and Linus van Pelt]], or friend of Roger and Dwayne on ''What's Happening!!''?
* Try not to confuse '''Jim Halper''t'',''' [[The Office|a smug and sexy paper salesman]] with '''Lt. Jim Halper''in'',''' [[12 Monkeys|a skeptical hard-ass cop from the past/present/1996]].
* '''Mike Brady''', head of [[The Brady Bunch|the Brady household]] or the [[Slugs|heroic health inspector]]?
* '''Goemon''' is the name of a character in ''[[Lupin III]]'', and also the name of the protagonist of the ''[[Mystical Ninja]]'' series.
** Both are named after the legendary Japanese bandit Ishikawa Goemon though, so it's not a coincidence in this case.
* '''''[[Avatar (film)|Avatar]]''''' the film, or ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''? To avoid [[Title Confusion]] (and possible lawsuits) [[The Last Airbender|the film adaptation]] of the latter dropped the ''Avatar'' from the title.
* [[James Cameron]]'s '''''[[Dark Angel]]''''' (which also had a video game adaptation) vs. ''Dark Angel: Vampire Apocalypse'' (a horrible [[PlayStation 2]] game).
** Not to mention the [[Dolph Lundgren]] movie ''[[I Come in Peace (film)|I Come in Peace]]'', also known as ''Dark Angel''.
* '''Sugar Ray''' (Leonard), a boxer, Sugar Ray (Robinson), another boxer, and Sugar Ray the rock band.
* '''Ayla''' of ''[[Clan of the Cave Bear]]'' and Ayla of ''[[Chrono Trigger]]''. The latter is also somewhat of a [[Shout-Out]] to the former, since both characters are prehistoric women. Ayla (pronounced eye-la, from Turkish) is also an [[I Have Many Names|alias]] of electronica musician Ingo Kunzi (aka DJ Tandu).
* '''Balrog''' can refer to: the demon from ''[[The Lord of the Rings]]'', the Flying Fortress in ''[[Strider Hiryu|Strider]]'', the final boss of ''[[Cadash]]'', the boxer in ''[[Street Fighter II]]'' (or the Spaniard [[Dub Name Change|if you prefer to stick with the Japanese names]]), the [[Recurring Boss]] in ''[[Cave Story]]'', Balrog Lune from ''[[Saint Seiya]]'' and the Balrog in ''[[Maple Story]]''.
* '''The Scarecrow'''. DC Comics villain, [[Marvel|Marvel Comics villain]], [[The Wonderful Wizard of Oz|brain-lacking Oz resident]], alias of the [[The Scarecrow Of Romney Marsh|Reverend Doctor Christopher Syn]] or [[Pink Floyd|Syd Barratt]] song?
* '''Jack Wade''' is both the name of a CIA operative who assists [[James Bond (film)|James Bond]] in ''[[GoldenEye (film)|GoldenEye]]'' and the protagonist of the video game ''Headhunter.''
* '''Scar''': [[The Lion King|Treacherous brother of pride leader Mufasa]] or [[Fullmetal Alchemist|religiously-motivated serial killer who comes to understand and resent the cycle of revenge?]]
** Or [[The Searchers|murderous Comanche war chief]]?
** Or [[Green Lantern/Characters/Black and White Corps|Guardian of the Black Lantern Corps]]?
* There's an ''[[Iron Man]]'' knockoff titled '''''Metal Man''''', which is the name of a Robot Master from ''[[Mega Man 2]]''.
* '''''[[Clannad (visual novel)|Clannad]]''''' the anime series, and Clannad the band.
* Talla 2XLC had a song called '''"Descent 3"''', which came out about two years before the game of the same name. Weird coincidence.
* '''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends|Cheese]]''' and [[Walkyverse|The Cheese]]. Don't get them mixed up. (considering one's [[The Ditz|basically incompetent]] and the other's [[Physical God|basically omnipotent]], this shouldn't be too difficult.)
** And Cheese the Chao from Sonic the Hedgehog.
** And the robot C.H.E.E.S.E. from the [[Show Within a Show]] "Mac and C.H.E.E.S.E." on ''[[Friends]]''.
* A '''Candroid''' is a [[Robot Me]] named after Candace Flynn in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]''. Another type of Candroid is a [[Robot Buddy]] that transforms from a soda can in ''[[Kamen Rider OOO]]''.
* '''Kasumi Asou''' is the name of a gorgeous [[Phantom Thief]] in the manga ''[[City Hunter]]'', and the name of a gorgeous teacher in the [[Dating Sim]] ''[[Tokimeki Memorial|Tokimeki Memorial 2]]''.
* The [[Big Bad]]s of ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' and ''[[Prince of Persia]]'' are both viziers named '''Jafar''' (the latter's is spelled with two f's), which was also the name of a character in ''The Arabian Nights'', although that one wasn't a villain. All three were actually named after a real [[Grand Vizier Jafar]].
** There is also an assassin named [[Fire Emblem Elibe|Jaffar]], although that's not really the subject.
* '''Zurg''' from ''[[Toy Story (franchise)|Toy Story]]'', or the '''Zerg''' from ''[[StarCraft]]''?
* '''Chimera''' was a monster in Greek mythology, the name of an order of cartilaginous fishes, a monster in ''[[Resident Evil]]'', and the alien race in ''[[Resistance]]'' (who actually look rather similar to the ''RE'' monsters).
** Don't forget that Chimeras are also hybrids of animals in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]''.
** Chimaera is also a rock band.
** And the Ultimate Chimera from Mother 3.
** Also a recurring boss in ''[[Magic Sword]]'' and ''[[Breath of Fire III]]'', and a [[Mook]] in ''[[Breath of Fire II]]''.
* '''Candy Candy''': [[Candy Candy|classic shojo anime]], or ''[[Axe Cop]]'' villain with the power to excrete explosive cars?
* '''[[Batman|Harley Quinn]]''' is [[The Joker]]'s young female apprentice, while Harley Quin (originally Quinn) is one of [[Agatha Christie]]'s (male) detectives, created over sixty years earlier. Both, of course, are a play on the word Harlequin.
* '''Bill Williamson''' is the protagonist of [[Uwe Boll]]'s ''[[Rampage (film)|Rampage]]'' and an outlaw in ''[[Red Dead Redemption]]''.
* The main character of [http://www.chick.com/reading/tracts/0078/0078_01.asp this Chick tract] is named '''[[Half Life: Full Life Consequences|John Freeman.]]'''
* '''Zuko''': [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|banished prince of the Fire Nation]] or [[Grease|dancing and singing John Travolta]]? Or a mobster who killed [[Batman|Robin's parents]]? Or maybe a [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|member of a pirate crew]]?
** Or maybe a [http://senorfuego-zuko.livejournal.com/683.html powdered Mexican soft drink?]
* '''(The) Brain''': a [[Brain In a Jar]] from ''[[Doom Patrol]]'' or a brainy mouse from ''[[Pinky and The Brain]]''?
** Or [[The Smart Guy]] from ''[[Arthur (animation)|Arthur]]''?
** Or perhaps a certain [[Bobby Heenan|"weaselly" wrestling manager]]?
** Or was he a convict who helped the president of the United States [[Escape from New York|get out of a post-apocalyptic New York]]?
* '''Pippin''' generally goes barefoot and has some sort of objection to [[Self-Immolation]]. Is he [[The Lord of the Rings|a hobbit sidekick in a high fantasy tale]] or [[Pippin|the everyman title character of a musical]] or [[Berserk|that big guy]]?
** Or Apple's [[wikipedia:Apple Bandai Pippin|failed attempt]] to enter the console market?
** Or Johnny Thunder's female sidkick in Lego's ''Adventurers'' line.
* '''Shiki''': We have [[Tsukihime|Shiki, SHIKI]], [[Kara no Kyoukai:|Shiki]], [[The World Ends With You|Shiki]], the [[Shiki]], and, [[Touhou Project|Shiki(eiki)]].<ref>In which "Eiki" may or may not be a surname</ref>
** Don't forget about [[Samurai Shodown|Shiki]]!
*** And there's an anime show that's ''called'' [[Shiki]].
* Lumpy is a [[Kingdom of Loathing|blob monster]], [[Moose Are Idiots|idiotic]] [[Happy Tree Friends|moose]], [[The Star Wars Holiday Special|Chewbacca's son]],[[Winnie the Pooh|heffalump]], [[Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door|mouse turned- oil tycoon]], and many others.
* '''Lammy''': [[Happy Tree Friends|a schizophrenic lamb]], or [[Parappa the Rapper|a guitarist in a band?]]
** Or [[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers|Scorpina]]'s Japanese name.
* '''The Avengers''': [[The Avengers (Comic Book)|The Marvel Universe super-hero team]] or the [[The Avengers (TV series)|British spy series]]?
** This resulted in a [[Market-Based Title]] for the 2012 Avengers movie, which is called ''Avengers Assemble'' in the British Isles.
* '''Captain Stern(n)''': A character from ''[[Pokémon Ruby and Sapphire]]''/''Emerald'' (and he also made an appearance in the anime), or the titular character from a segment from ''[[Heavy Metal (animation)|Heavy Metal]]''.
* '''Cooper''': [[Dino Crisis|A soldier who travels to an island, is chased through a jungle and then devoured by an enormous predatory dinosaur]], or [[Jurassic Park|a soldier who travels to an island, is chased through a jungle and then devoured by an enormous predatory dinosaur]]. Huh...
* '''Kida''', [[Durarara!!|a Japansese boy]] voiced by [[Mamoru Miyano]], or [[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|an Atlantean princess]] voiced by [[Cree Summer]]?
* '''Roger Smith''': [[The Big O|Negotiator]], or [[American Dad|alien]]? Or is he the "Roger" of [[Michael Moore]]'s documentary ''Roger and Me'', the [[Real Life]] CEO of General Motors?
* '''Brother Bear''': One of [[The Berenstain Bears]] or [[Brother Bear|an animated Disney movie?]]
* '''Jiraishin''': [[Jiraishin|a hardboiled detective manga by Tsutomu Takahashi]]? Or the [[Humongous Mecha]] from ''[[Sekai Ninja Sen Jiraiya]]''? The kanji used to spell both names are different though.
* '''Shin Asuka''': [[Ultra Series|Ultraman Dyna]]? Or the pilot from ''[[Gundam Seed Destiny]]''?
* '''Bert and Ernie''': [[Sesame Street|Two roommates with very different personalities]] or [[It's a Wonderful Life|a taxi driver and a cop]]?
** This one is actually lampshaded in the [[Christmas Special]] ''Elmo Saves Christmas'', which has a [[It's a Wonderful Plot|Wonderful Life Plot]].
** And it actually ''is'' a [[Shout-Out]].
* '''Renaldo''': A soccer player or [[Homestar Runner|Dangeresque's boss]].
* '''Hatchet''': [[Brian's Saga|A 1987 Gary Paulsen novel]], and a 2006 [[Slasher Movie]] [[Hatchet (film)|movie]].
* One of the segments in the 1932 [[Anthology Film]] ''If I Had a Million'' has characters named '''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle|Bullwinkle and Peabody]]'''.
* One villain from ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' is actually a [[Monster Clown]] named '''[[Pokémon|Mr. Mime.]]'''
* '''''Mathman''''' is the name of a [[Show Within a Show]] on ''[[Square One TV]]'' parodying ''[[Pac-Man]]'', and also a PC math edutainment game.
* '''Oz''': a [[Land of Oz|magical land]], a [[Kevin Nash]] gimmick and a [[HBO]] [[Oz|crime series]].
* The book '''''Bringing Down The House''''' became ''[[21 (2008 film)|21]]'' in order to avoid [[Title Confusion]] with [[Bringing Down the House|that other film]]. Of course, there were three other movies titled ''21'' before that film was made, and one more made after it (and a game show called ''[[21 (game show)|21]]'', but the movie about that show is called ''[[Quiz Show (film)|Quiz Show]]'').
* '''Red Robin''' is both a restaurant chain and a superhero identity in [[Batman]] currently used by Tim Drake.
* '''Stephen Black''' the lowly servant with a glorious destiny from ''[[Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell]]'', or '''Steven Black''', the one-shot Wayne Brady character on ''[[30 Rock|Thirty Rock]]''. And yes, both of them ''are'' [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|black.]]
* '''Hakumen''': [[BlazBlue|one of the Six Heroes who fought against the Black Beast]], or [[Ushio and Tora|a nine-tailed fox demon bent on destroying the world one nation at a time for its own enjoyment]]? (Although the latter is properly known as Hakumen no Mono.)
* They may have different surnames, but two works share a titular character of '''Arthur''': [[Arthur (film)|a Dudley Moore movie about a drunken heir]], and [[Arthur (animation)|a cartoon series about a young aardvark]]. Neither of them is [[King Arthur|king of the Britons]].
* '''Muk''' is either a [[Pokémon|living mass of sludge]] or [[Balto|a polar bear.]]
* A '''Soul Gem''' sure sounds like a powerful item...but tell us, is it one of the Infinity Gems in the [[Marvel Universe]], a device used to capture souls for use in recharging magic items in the ''[[The Elder Scrolls]]'' universe, or a key magical girl item in the universe ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]''?
* There's '''Gary''' [[SpongeBob SquarePants|A pet snail belonging to an idiot sponge]] and '''Garry''' [[The Thing (film)|a human Antarctic base commander]] as well as '''Gerry''' and '''Gerry''', a pair of hikers from a movie called [[Gerry]].
* Are the '''Coneheads''' [[Coneheads|cone-headed aliens]] or [[Transformers|cone-headed robots]] or [[Plants vs. Zombies|zombies wearing road cones on their heads?]]
* '''Gibbs:''' [[NCIS|Leroy Jethro]], [[Pirates of the Caribbean|Joshamee]], or [[Left 4 Dead|Jimmy Jr.]]?
* '''CeCe''' and '''C.C.''' One is a 13-year old dancer in a [[Shake It Up|TV Show.]] The other is the one who has [[Code Geass|Geass given to a Royal rebel.]] The latter however, is officially pronounced "C-2".
* In an episode of ''Street Fighter II V'', Ryu and Ken fight a pair of [[Giant Mook|giant mooks]] named '''Sodom''' and Gomorrah. The anime aired before the former's namesake from ''[[Final Fight]]'' appeared as a playable character in ''[[Street Fighter Alpha]]''.
* '''Evolution''' [[World Wrestling Entertainment|is]] [[Power Stable|a]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PvL4yWyjxSA mystery]...it could refer to a [[Evolution (film)|2001 film]].
** Or a transforming Pokemon
** Or [[World Wrestling Entertainment|a "line in the sand" you didn't want to cross between 2003 and 2005]] (although [[Goldberg]] and [[Chris Benoit]] did just that)
* '''Black Cat''' is [[Black Cat (manga)|an anime]] and [[Classy Cat Burglar|Felicia]] [[Dating Catwoman|Hardy]] from [[Spider-Man]].
* '''[[Brawn Hilda|Kharma]]''' is a female member of the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]. [[Lipstick Lesbian|Karma]] is a female member of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]].
* '''''[[The Darkness]]''''': Comic book-turned-video game, or a British rock band with a falsetto lead singer ("I Believe In A Thing Called Love")?
* '''Zelda''': princess who usually needs rescuing from ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' series or an evil hag alien from [[Terrahawks]]? [[Robin Williams]] named his daughter after the former, as a recent advert for the 3DS shows.
** How about [[Sabrina the Teenage Witch (TV series)|Sabrina the Teenage Witch]]'s Aunt Zelda?
* '''''The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter''''': A 1940 novel by Carson McCullers, or a [[Reba McEntire]] song?
* '''Nuts and Milk''': The eponymous [[Waddling Head]]s from an old video game, or two of the three mascot creatures in ''[[Yes! Pretty Cure 5]]''?
* '''Sam the Eagle''': [[Disney Theme Parks|Patriotic eagle]] or [[The Muppet Show|patriotic eagle]]?
* '''Animus''': Able to [[Assassin's Creed|send you to the memories of your ancestors]] or a [[Power Rangers Wild Force|God in giant robot form.]]
** Or the unconscious masculine side of the female psyche, [[wikipedia:Anima and animus|according to Carl Jung]]?
* '''Click''' the appropriate links for the 2006 [[Adam Sandler]] [[Click|film]] and the [[wikipedia:Click (game show)|kid's]] [[Game Show]] [[Retroactive Recognition|hosted by Ryan Seacrest]].
** Or a technology series from [[The BBC]].
* '''Young Frankenstein''' is a [[Mel Brooks]]' [[Young Frankenstein|film]] and a ''[[Teen Titans (Comic Book)|Teen Titans]]'' [https://web.archive.org/web/20120427170119/http://www.titanstower.com/source/whoswho/OYG/youngfrankenstein.html member].
* '''Mister America''': ''[[Justice Society of America]]'' [[Justice Society of America/Characters|member]] and [[Hulk Hogan]]'s [[Charlie Brown From Outta Town]] identity.
* '''Kimba''' is [[Kimba the White Lion|an anime-styled white lion]] and the name of the heroes' team from the ''[[Whateley Universe]]''.
* There are [[Doom Patrol|two]] [[The Incredibles|unrelated]] superheroines with [[Rubber Man|elastic powers]] named '''Elastigirl'''.
* '''Grace Holloway''' is [[BioShock (series)|a former jazz singer loyal to the Rapture Family]]...or maybe she was a [[Doctor Who|short-lived companion of The Doctor]].
* This happens to ''celestial bodies'', of all things, in this case '''Pandora'''. One is a [[Avatar (film)|dangerous jungle moon with stores of unobtanium being harvested by corrupt corporate executives from earth]]. [[Borderlands|The other is a barren wasteland planet resulting from strip mining by competing mega corps.]] Hilarious coincidence, as these two came out the same year.
* '''Wanda''' is either the fairy who guided [[Super Mario Bros.|Mario]] through levels when he had a bucket stuck on his head, or the fairy godparent of [[The Fairly OddParents|Timmy Turner]].
** Or [[A Fish Called Wanda|a fish]]...
* '''Cosmo''' can either be a green haired plant girl from [[Sonic X]], a green haired male fairy from [[Fairly Oddparents]] or a [[Seinfeld|weird neighbor who borrows food from your fridge]].
* '''Suzie Wong''' is a Chinese prostitute from a novel by [[Richard Mason]], and Henry's little sister on ''[[Digimon Tamers]]''.
* '''Necron''': The final boss of ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' or a ''[[Warhammer 40,000]]'' faction? Meanwhile, '''Nekron''' is a [[DC Comics]] supervillain.
* '''Son Goku''': Hero from ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' and the Japanese pronounciation of Sun Wukong, [[Journey to the West|the Monkey King]].
** Also, one of the four leads of ''[[Saiyuki]]'', which is also based off of ''Journey to the West''.
** Now, a [[Naruto|tailed]] [http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Son_Goku beast].
* '''Billy West''': [[Billy West|Voice actor]] and [[The Adventures of Bayou Billy|hero of the Bayou]].
* '''FATHER''': [[Big Bad]] from ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' or the one from ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]''? Or perhaps one of the central characters from ''[[Ragtime]]''?
* '''Sora''': Either [[Kingdom Hearts|the Keybearer]], [[Digimon|a Chosen Child]], or [[Kaleido Star|an acrobat]].
* '''Java''' is a caveman in both [[Martin Mystery]] and in DC Comics' [[Metamorpho]]-related titles.
* '''Mrs. Cake''' is either [[Discworld|a precognitive spiritualist]] or [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|co-owner of Sugar Cube Corner]].
* Is '''Poochie''' [[Yoshi's Island|Yoshi's pet dog]] or [[The Itchy and Scratchy Show|an extremely hated cartoon dog]] voiced by [[The Simpsons (animation)|Homer Simpson?]]
* '''[[John Dies at the End|John and Dave]]''', the snarky hero and goofy best friend, or '''[[Homestuck|John and Dave]]''', the goofy hero and snarky best friend?
* Princess '''Celestia''' from ''[[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]'' actually shares her name with a popular astronomy software.
* '''Elizabeth Halsey''' is of course the scientist who helps develop the SPARTAN program in [[Halo]] and also a minor character in Ayn Rand's [[Fountainhead]].
* The claymation character '''Gumby''' has nothing to do with [[Monty Python|a certain group of people who wear hankerchiefs on their heads, glasses, gumboots, sport toothbrush mustaches and talk in slow, loud, broken sentences who are fond of the sound of bricks being bashed together and often complain that their brains hurt]].
* '''Pulstar''' is either an electronic music piece by Vangelis, or a [[Neo Geo]] ''[[R-Type]]'' clone.
* '''Sanjūrō Sugata''': a student from [[Kunio-Kun|Nekketsu High School]], or the commander-in-chief of [[Hikari Sentai Maskman]]?
* '''Sector Seven''': are they trying to [[Transformers (film)|hide the existence of the Transformers]], or are they [[BlazBlue|fighting against the forces of the NOL]]? Or are they just [[Final Fantasy VII|a sector in Midgar destroyed by Shinra]]?
* '''Joey Wheeler''': [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Yugi]]'s blond friend or [[Captain Planet|the fire planeteer]]?
* '''Bellatrix''' is [[Harry Potter|a Death Eater loyal to Lord Voldemort]] or an Icelandic girls only rock group
* '''Lothar''', the black man from ''[[Mandrake the Magician]]'' and ''[[Defenders of the Earth]]'', meet '''Lothor''' the [[Big Bad]] from ''[[Power Rangers Ninja Storm]]''.
* Is '''Clu''' [[Clu Clu Land|a video game]] or [[Tron: Legacy|a computer program gone bad?]]
* '''Bust-A-Move''' is the name of a Young MC song, the overseas title of Taito's ''Puzzle Bobble'' arcade game, and the Japanese title of Enix's ''Bust-A-Groove'' rhythm game. Coincidentally, Taito is now owned by Square-Enix.
* '''Stephen Stills''': Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young guitarist, or [[Scott Pilgrim]]'s bandmate?
* Is '''Morris''' [[Moose Are Idiots|a moose with a unicorn tail]] or [[Miscellaneous Disney Shorts|a midget moose?]]
** Or the world's most finicky ginger cat?
* '''Team America''' can either be the [[Team America: World Police|team of well-meaning patriots who cause a lot of destruction for America]] or a team of motorcycle daredevils from the [[Marvel Universe]].
* '''Survivor''': that [[Survivor (TV series)|massively famous TV show]]? A certain [[Survivor (band)|rock band]] that's a lot less famous wanted you to think otherwise.
* '''Ronin''': maybe a [[Ronin (comics)|comic series set in feudal Japan]] written by Frank Miller, or a [[Ronin (film)|film about secret agents no longer needed after the Cold War]], starring Robert De Niro.
* '''Kurt Wagner''': [[X-Men|a loveable blue fuzzy mutant]] or [[Dexter|a crazy cultist and serial killer]]?
* Is '''Elmer''' [[Amazing Technicolor Wildlife|a rainbow patchwork elephant]] or [[Silly Symphonies|a misfit elephant who's in love with a tiger?]]
* '''Luke''' is either a [[Percy Jackson and The Olympians|blonde guy wielding a sword]] or [[Star Wars|a blonde guy wielding a light saber]].
* '''Nyx''': [[Big Bad]] of [[Persona 3]], or protagonist of [[Past Sins]]?, or a [[Queen's Blade|fiery wizard with a living scepter?]]
* There are at least 3 separate works titled '''[[Tamayura]]'''. The one we have here on All The Tropes is the [[Anime]] adaptation of a [[Slice of Life]] [[Manga]]; another is a (heterosexual) [[Visual Novel]] about slaying demons from Akabei Soft2; and finally, a [[Yaoi]] [[Visual Novel]], unrelated to either of them, from Palmiers. To tell one from the others, the hetero VN has "soul" character for its tama while the yaoi one has [[Does This Remind You of Anything?|"ball"]].
* '''Black Heart''': [[Ghost Rider|the son]] [[Marvel vs. Capcom 2|of Mephisto]], a boss from ''[[Battle Garegga]]'', or [[Hyperdimension Neptunia|the moe personification of the PlayStation 3?]]
* '''Devastator''': Either a [[Transformers|giant robot made up of several smaller ones]], or a [[Bionicle|giant biomechanical being capable of turning into sand]]. Or perhaps some [[LEGO Exo-Force|smaller robot dudes who ride in giant robot suits]]?
* '''Pokey the Pig''', one of Adam's few real possessions in ''I Am The Cheese'', and '''Pokey Minch''' (whose first name is actually Porky), Ness's pig-like [[Jerkass]] of a neighbor in [[EarthBound]] who becomes [[The Dragon]] and then the [[Big Bad]] in [[Mother 3]].
* '''Gauron''': Klingon warlord who hopes to lead the High Council and makes a deal to restore [[Star Trek: The Next Generation|Worf's family honor,]] or an unhinged evil mercenary [[Full Metal Panic!|mecha pilot.]]
* Here's something interesting: '''Sakura''', '''Hinata''', and '''Karin'''.
** Both '''Sakuras''' are fangirls, [[Street Fighter Alpha|the first being a competent martial artist and admirer of Ryu,]] the second [[Naruto|a fangirl who grew out of her infatuation with a traitorous Uchiha.]]
** The first '''Hinata''' [[Rival Schools|is nicknamed the ''Sunshine Girl of Taiyo High'' for her cheery disposition]]. The second [[Naruto|is a shy heiress to a powerful clan with a crush on a certain knuckleheaded jinchuuriki]].
** '''Karin''' could either be [[Street Fighter Alpha|Sakura's wealthy rival]] or [[Naruto|a former subordinate to Orochimaru and current teammate to said traitorous Uchiha.]]
* Both [[Wizards of Waverly Place|Tribeca Prep]] and [[El Goonish Shive|Moperville North]] High School have teams with the unlikely name '''the Turkeys'''.
* Which '''Asuka''' are you talking about? [[Tekken|Jun's niece and cousin to Jin]]? [[Neon Genesis Evangelion|Or the Japanese-German pilot of Unit 02 and teammate to Shinji Ikari]]?
* '''Dakota North'''. [[Marvel Comics|Private detective]]? Or [[True Jackson, VP|supermodel]]?
* '''Jack and Rose''' are [[Titanic|lovers]], [http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0357110/ father and daughter], [[Homestuck|mortal enemies]], [[Doctor Who|Companions]], and [[Johnny Depp]]'s children (Jack and Lily-Rose).
* '''Valentine''': [[Resident Evil|Jill?]] [[National Lampoon Films|Dick?]] [[Soul Series|Isabella?]] [[Final Fantasy VII|Vincent?]] [[Shadow Hearts|Joachim, Keith and Hildegard?]] [[Cowboy Bebop|Faye?]] [[Yu-Gi-Oh!|Mai?]] [[The Rocketeer (film)|Eddie?]] [[Trading Places|Billy Ray?]] [[Hollyoaks|Calvin, Leo, and Sasha?]] [[The Young and The Restless|Esther?]] [[Doug|Skeeter?]] [[Hellsing|Luke and Jan?]] [[Andromeda|Beka?]] [[Eastenders|Aubrey?]] or [[Ender's Game|Wiggin?]]
** Ironically Jill's father is named Dick in the S.D. Perry novels.
* '''Bonkers''' could easily be a [[Kirby|hammer-welding gorilla mini-boss]] or a [[Bonkers|cartoon bobcat police officer]].
* Is '''Luigi''' [[Super Mario Bros.|an Italian plumber]] or [[Cars|an Italian car?]]
* Is '''Kabuto''' [[Pokémon|a trilobite,]] [[Naruto|Orochimaru's right-hand man]] or [[Pixar Shorts|a mean Japanese car?]]
* There are two cowboys named '''Clay''' that are known for [[Dishing Out Dirt]]. One of them does it with [[Xiaolin Showdown|martial arts]] while the other does it with an [[Pokémon Black and White|Excadrill]].
* The name '''Jackson''' and the nickname '''Jax'''. But who could it be? [[Mortal Kombat|Sonya's bionic-armed commanding officer]], [[Sons of Anarchy|or the recently-promoted president of a biker gang]]?
* '''The White Queen''' is either [[X-Men (Comic Book)|a former supervillainess-turned-X-woman]] or [[Alice in Wonderland (film)|an albinistic ruler of a fantasy world that detests physical violence?]]
* '''Chun-Li''': "[[Street Fighter|The Strongest Woman in the World]]"? or [[Saint Seiya|Dragon Shiryu]]'s childhood friend?
* Is '''Barney''' [[Barney and Friends|a dinosaur]], [[The Flintstones|a caveman]], [[The Simpsons (animation)|a drunk]], [[The Andy Griffith Show|a deputy]], or just plain [[How I Met Your Mother|awesome]]?
* The name '''Rock'''. [[Fatal Fury|Son to Geese Howard and nephew to Kain?]] [[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]]'s real name? [[Soul Series|an axe-wielding Englishman looking for his adopted son?]] [[Dwayne Johnson|Rocky and Ata's son?]] [[Black Lagoon|Ex-salaryman Rokuro Okajima?]] [[The Alcatraz|Alcatraz Prison?]]
* '''Sadako.''' [[The Ring|A girl with psychic powers who was thrown down a well?]] [[wikipedia:Sadako Sasaki|Or a Hiroshima bomb survivor]] [[Thousand Origami Cranes|famous for folding paper cranes before dying of leukemia?]]
* '''Captain Jack''' could refer to a [[Crazy Awesome]] [[Pirates of the Caribbean|pirate captain]], a [[Extreme Omnisexual|polysexual]] [[Doctor Who|time]] [[Torchwood|traveler]], a [[The Dresden Files|ghost cop]], or a [[Bloody Jack|wily young girl (Captain Jacky) with a love for adventure.]]
* '''Rex'''. This can refer to [[Toy Story (franchise)|a toy dinosaur]], a droid pilot of the StarSpeeder, and [[Star Wars: The Clone Wars|a captain in the Clone Army]]. Notable in that the latter two are within the same franchise.
* '''Sakuya''': [[Fist of the North Star|Raoh's strategist?]] or [[Touhou|a knife-throwing maid?]]
* ''[[The Saboteur]]'' has an evil British man named Bishop who is voiced by John Noble. On ''[[Fringe]]'' John Noble plays Dr. Walter Bishop.
* '''[[Rip Van Winkle]]''': one of the tropes on this website? The main character of the [[wikipedia:Rip Van Winkle|story with the]] [[Trope Namer]]? Or a musket mistress from ''[[Hellsing]]''?
* '''Montana Max''' is either [[Tiny Toon Adventures|a greedy, villainous spoiled brat who runs the Acme Corporation]] or [[Hellsing|the leader of a batallion of Nazi vampires who survived World War II and want to start a war of their own]].
* '''Dora''', [[Dora the Explorer|a young girl that teaches young viewers to speak English and Spanish]] or [[Golden Axe|a centaur fighting against evil]]?
* '''Uhura''' is [[Bridge Bunny|a communication officer]] [[Star Trek|on a starship]] or [[Action Mom|a single mother warrior]] [[Quest for Glory|defending her tribe]]?
* Is '''Jin''' [[Jerk with a Heart of Gold|a man who deeply cares about his wife]] [[Lost|despite initial appearances]] or [[Girl of the Week|a young girl]] [[Avatar: The Last Airbender|interested in the new waiter at the tea shop]]?
* '''John Shep(p)ard''': he's a military man who fights aliens and has a [[Boldly Coming|unique]] approach to "first contact." But are you thinking of the one in the [[Mass Effect|Navy]] or the one in the [[Stargate Atlantis|Air Force]]?
* '''Dr. McCoy''' is improbably well versed in all areas of medical science, biochemistry, and genetics, but does he serve on a [[Star Trek: The Original Series|starship]] or at a [[X-Men|school for gifted youngsters]]?
* '''Mei Ling''': [[Cardcaptor Sakura|Li Shaoran's cousin?]], [[Touhou|a Chinese gate-keeper from the Scarlet Mansion?]], or [[Metal Gear Solid|a Chinese-American Mission Control girl?]]
* Is '''Nora Walker''' the mother of [[Brothers and Sisters|a large family]] or of a [[Tommy|single blind, deaf, mute kid]]?
* '''Aqualung''' could be [[Jethro Tull|a song by Jethro Tull]] or [[Final Fantasy VII|a really nasty water-based magic used by Jenova.]]
* '''Kuai Liang.''' [[Romance of the Three Kingdoms|Adviser to Liu Biao?]] Or [[Mortal Kombat|Bi-Han's little brother?]]
* '''Ymir''': Besides the mythological character from [[Norse Mythology]], are we talking about [[Queen's Blade|The Iron Princess]], [[Super Robot Wars Original Generation|The Sword of Magus]], or a character from ''[[Fire Emblem]]''?
* '''Sophie''': [[Tales of Graces|A mysterious girl who is named after a flower]], or a [[Power Rangers SPD|space police cadet whose real identity is an android?]]

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