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* In Brazil and Portugal, [[Disney Ducks Comic Universe|Scrooge McDuck]] is known as "Patinhas McPatinhas".
* Hawk, son of Tomahawk in [[The DCU]]. This doesn't actually get addressed in-story, but since Tomahawk's real name is Tom Hawk, logically Hawk would be...
* ''[[Richie Rich (comics)|Richie Rich]]''
* ''[[Terry and the Pirates]]'' has Charles C. Charles, a.k.a. "Hotshot Charlie".
* The La Brea tar pits example is lampshaded by a couple of guards in ''[[Runaways]]''.
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* Chester W. Chester IV of [[Keith Laumer]]'s SF novel ''[[The Great Time Machine Hoax]]'' (1964).
* Joseph Joséphin, alias [[wikipedia:Joseph Rouletabille|Rouletabille]].
* ''[[Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey]]'' by Chuck Palahniuk has Echo Lawrence, whose father was named Larry. She points this out and seems annoyed at the constant jokes, but [[Fridge Brilliance|her nickname takes on an interesting light.]]
* Rickard Dickens in the gangster spoofs by Rolf and Alexandra Becker—better known as Dickie Dick Dickens.
* Jameson Jameson from Richmal Crompton's ''[[Just William]]'' stories.
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Thing T. Thing of ''[[The Addams Family]]'' (the T stands for Thing).
* The famous wise neighbor from ''[[Home Improvement (TV series)|Home Improvement]]'', Wilson. Last name? Wilson. Oh, so then what's his first name? It's Wilson. Oh yes, Wilson W. Wilson. Guess what the "W" stands for...
* Jimmy James from ''[[News Radio]]'', "the man so nice they named him twice." The head script writer has said the character was named after the [[Beastie Boys]] song.
* Richard (Richie) Richard in ''[[Bottom]]''.
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* On ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', Carl's full name is Carl Karl, according to the credits of more recent episodes. Originally he was credited as "Karl," while "Carl" was seen the first time his name was spelled in the show proper, making this a sort of gag/AuthorsSavingThrow.
* Jeong Jeong from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'', though it's not a first-name-last-name thing. He just has two identical names.
* Cosmo Cosma from ''[[The Fairly
* ''[[South Park]]'' doctor Dr. Doctor.
* [[The Dating Guy]] provides us with Anderson Anderson. Apparently, his parents thought it was funny.
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