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== Film - Animation ==
* The animators for ''[[The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Disney film)|The Hunchback of Notre Dame]]'' decided to nickname Frollo's horse [[Fluffy the Terrible|Snowball]]. This has caught on with fans, thanks to an audio commentary, and retroactively also became the name of Jafar's horse and the monster pulling Hades' chariot.
** The sequence for the song "Hellfire" was nicknamed "Mr. Frollo's Wild Ride" by the animation team.
* The roach in ''[[WALL-E]]'' is named Hal.
** [http://en.[wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Roach:Hal Roach|Hal Roach]], [[Incredibly Lame Pun|geddit]]?
 
== Film - Live-Action ==
* The shark in the movie ''[[Jaws (Filmfilm)|Jaws]]'' was nicknamed Bruce, after [[Steven Spielberg]]'s lawyer.
* "Clover" from ''[[Cloverfield]]''.
* "Steve Buscemi", the monster from ''[[The Host]]''.
* Doc Ock's tentacles in ''[[Spider-Man (Filmfilm)|Spider-Man]] 2'' were dubbed [[The Three Stooges|Moe, Curly, Larry and Joe]].
* The clown puppet in ''[[Saw]]'' is named Billy.
* While filming ''[[Manos: theThe Hands of Fate]]'', Harold Warren's crew called the film ''Mangos: The Cans of Fruit'' behind his back.
* The creature from "The Crate" segment of ''[[Creepshow]]'' was nicknamed "Fluffy" (it even illustrates [[Fluffy the Terrible]]).
* In ''[[Alien vs. Predator]]: Requiem'', the Predator was nicknamed Wolf (after [[Pulp Fiction|Winston Wolf]]) and the Predalien was nicknamed Chet (after Bill Paxton's character in ''[[Weird Science (Filmfilm)|Weird Science]]'').
 
== [[Literature]] ==
* While writing the ''[[Harry Potter (Literaturenovel)|Harry Potter]]'' series, [[JKJ. K. Rowling]] mentally used the term "The Big Seven" to refer to Harry, Ron, Hermione, Neville, Ginny, Luna, and Draco.
 
== Live-Action Television ==
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* ''[[Star Trek]]'', starting with ''The Next Generation'', has "Okudagrams" - the displays on the touchscreens and monitors - after their creator Michael Okuda.
** The engineering access tubes were dubbed "Jeffries tubes", which was a [[Canon]] name by ''TNG''.
** Irving A. Feinberg was the property master for ''[[Star Trek: theThe Original Series]]''. The little gizmos he came up with for the show (such as the medical scanner and the laser scalpel) were nicknamed "Feinbergers" by the cast and crew. The usage later spread to the fanbase.
** Similarly, the wall panels were often labeled with seemingly nonsensical phrases, like "GNDN435". This actually stood for "Goes Nowhere, Does Nothing", indicating the just-for-looks nature of all the pipes and wires in the Enterprise's interior.
* Caprica-6 from ''[[Battlestar Galactica]]'', although that eventually made it into the show dialog as well.
* HRG (Horn-Rimmed Glasses) in ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]''.
** The concentration face Hiro Nakamura makes in order to travel through time or space is apparently called the "squishy blinky" by the production crew.
* The pterodactyl, Myfanwy, in ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]''.
* The Barracks on ''[[Lost]]'' are called "New Otherton" by production, which spread to fans and then incorporated into dialogue as Sawyer's nickname for the place.
* On ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'', "kawoosh" was a production nickname used to describe the "unstable vortex" formed when a Stargate opens. The term wasn't used on the show until the episode "Crusade", in which it was coined in-universe by Samantha Carter:
{{quote| '''Mitchell''': I'm sorry, the what?<br />
'''Carter''': The unstable vortex of a forming wormhole. Kawoosh!<br />
'''Mitchell''': Don't think I've ever heard you call it that before.<br />
'''Carter''': Really?<br />
'''Mitchell''': Don't get me wrong, it's good. }}
 
== Video Games ==
* In ''[[Portal (Video Gameseries)|Portal]]'', the portal maneuver was called "flinging," and the Aperture Science Material Emancipation Grid was dubbed the "fizzler". [[The Ghost|The absent character]] who left behind dens and scrawlings on the walls was named the Rat Man (for his scrounger-in-the-wall habits). Later, he was promoted to a first-order character via an interquel comic book. His real name is [[Steven Ulysses Perhero|Doug Rattman]].
* The main character of the ''[[Wing Commander (Videovideo Gamegame)|Wing Commander]]'' series originally had no default name, but the production crew called him Bluehair. He was later given the name Blair<ref>'''Bl'''ueh'''air'''</ref> as a nod to this.
* During development, ''[[VVVVVV (Video Game)|VVVVVV]]'' was simply called "V" by its creator Terry Cavanagh.
* Guybrush Threepwood, hero of the ''[[Monkey Island]]'' franchise, was named Guybrush from the file containing the "guy-brush" the developers used to animate his sprite. It stuck as his name.
 
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