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{{quote|'''Judge:''' State your first name, your last name, and your occupation.
'''Lizardman:''' Lizardman, Lizardman, and... Lizardman.
|''[[Harvey Birdman,
Sometimes, a character either a) is so very funny, [[Badass]], awesome, or all three, they don't deserve [[Only One Name]], or b) has a [[Meaningful Name]] to the Nth degree that no other name works. What do you do?
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There are four common variations on this:
* Classic Classic: Their first, last, optional middle, and in some cases, [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"|job title]], are all the exact same word. Never is there a literal [[Odd Name Out]], or even a [[My Nayme Is|intentional misspelling]], unless it spans all the names.
* Classic Classical: The name consists of a short first name and a last name that is like the first but longer (like "John Johnson").
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* Classic ''Kurashikku'': Also often used for characters named after something, it's when the two names mean the same thing, in different languages.
Compare [[Meaningful Name]] and [[Theme Naming]]. Can be confused with [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]]. Imagine any one of these characters doing [[The Name Is Bond, James Bond]]. (It hurts, doesn't it?)
When not applied to names, this is covered by [[Shaped Like Itself]]. Not to be confused with the [[Department of Redundancy Department]], which concerns repetitive dialogue.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu from ''[[My Hero Academia]]''. His surname and given name are actually spelled differently in Kanji [https://web.archive.org/web/20181212150038/http://kansaichick.com/japanese-kanji-blog/the-kanjis-of-tetsutesu-tetsutesu-for-my-hero-academia/].
* Lisa Lisa (real name Elizabeth Joestar) and Magenta Magenta from ''[[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure]]''.
* Excel in ''[[Excel Saga (manga)|Excel Saga]]'' claims her full name in the anime is Excel Excel; it's hard to tell if she is being serious or engaging in hyperbole. The manga clearly defines this and those of other ACROSS members as codenames, and we never find out what her real name is.
* Hinata Hyuga from ''[[Naruto]]'' is a strange anime example. Her first and last name ''mean'' the same thing, and are just said differently.
* Carson D. Carson, crook and erstwhile ally of the ''[[Dirty Pair]]'' from [[The Movie]].
* Yomiko means "Reading Child" in Japanese, and "Readman" speaks for itself. Thus is named the heroine of ''[[Read or Die]]''.
* ''[[Bobobo-Bo Bo-bobo]]''.
* Konoka Konoe of ''[[Negima]]'' (and her grandfather, Konoemon Konoe). Also the old teacher, Takamichi Takahata. At first it can seem like Negi had mispronounced his last name.
* ''[[Ef a Tale of Memories]]'' give us Hirono Hiro and Miyako Miyamura.
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* 90% of the cast in [[Kagihime Monogatari]] have this going on.
* Naru Narusegawa of ''[[Love Hina]]''. When calling her "Naru", you never know if it's actually her first name or her last name shortened.
* The American dub of ''[[Dragon Ball]]''
* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', the some of the Innovators names, like Regene Regette and Revive Revival.
* Ming Ming from the final season of ''[[Beyblade]]''.
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* [[Mad Scientist]] Simon von Simon (and his rival in mad science, Sigmund von Sigmund), from ''[[Little Gloomy]]''
* Thomas N. Thomas, the secret identity of the imaginatively named superhero TNT in [[The DCU]].
* J. Jonah Jameson in [[Marvel Comics]]. One ''[[Twisted
** In actual Marvel continuity, the "J" actually stands for "John".
*** And his employee, Robbie Robertson.
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* Antoine San-Antonio of the eponymous ''San-Antonio'' series of French police novels by Frédéric Dard. Also, his love interest is named Marie-Marie.
* Jay-Jay, the protagonist of the novel ''The Prince of Central Park''. The exposition explains that his deceased mother's two heroes were the Pope and President Kennedy (the book is set in the 1970s), so she named her son John John after the pair of them.
* On the [[Discworld]], it seems that some dwarfs are lacking imagination when naming their sons {{spoiler|(or daughters)}}. (This is justified, since dwarves on the Discworld are [[Literal-Minded]] in many other ways as well.) We have Albrecht Albrechtson (''[[
** This could be explained by them being named for their father, with the problem that they also use Norse naming conventions, i.e. [father's name]son for last names.
*** The dwarfs do mix it up a bit for variety, as with Snorri Snorriscousin.
** Also two counterparts of CMOT Dibbler, Dib Diblossonson and Swallow-Me-Own-Blowdart Dhlang-Dhlang.
** The Discworld counterpart of [[Crocodile Dundee]] in ''[[
** One book features a brief mention of a barbarian named something like Sven Svensonsonson.
** And Volf Volfssonssonssonsson in the [[Animated Adaptation]] of ''[[
** Glod is a common name for dwarves on the Discworld (there used to be just one of them, but then someone with a habit of bad spelling and/or [[Spoonerism]]s made a King Midas-like wish that everything he touched would be turned to "glod", so that poor dwarf got magically copied several thousand times...). Therefore, Glod Glodsson is also a common name.
*** It was an illiterate god trying to curse someone in the Ramtops. As a result, the people there tend to be rather short and...er...short-tempered.
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== [[Music]] ==
* [[Duran Duran]].
* [[Talk Talk]].
* Mr. Mister.
* The Automatic Automatic.
* Combining this trope with [[Spell My Name with a "The"]] results in [[The The]].
* [[Bruce Dickinson]] went by Bruce Bruce (inspired by [[Monty Python]]'s [[wikipedia:Bruces sketch|sketch]]) before joining [[Iron Maiden]].
* [[Lisa Lisa]], the stage name of singer and actress Lisa Velez.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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=== Not People ===
* In scientific circles, this is known as a ''tautonym'' when it applies to taxonomic classifications, where the genus and species of an animal have the same name. For example, ''Rattus rattus'' is the rat, ''Bison bison'' is the bison, while ''Puffinus puffinus'' is... the Manx Shearwater. [[
** [[wikipedia:List of tautonyms|Wikipedia has an incomplete -but not small- list of tautonyms.]]
** One that deserves special mention is the Western Lowland Gorilla - ''Gorilla gorilla gorilla''!
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