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** Should probably be in "Theater", but it was from the first ''[[Sera Myu]]'' summer special. The young man known as Saito Kun reveals himself to actually be Kunzite.
** In the manga short story ''Ami-chan's First Love'' (and in the anime special based on it) Ami's mysterious rival known as "Mercurius" turns out to be a local geek named Kurume Suuri, and he even explains how he came up with this pseudonym.<ref>His name in Japanese is read ''Suuri Kurume''; reversing the syllable order produces ''Merukuriusu'', which is the Japanese rendition of "Mercurius".</ref>
* ''[[Keroro Gunsou]]'' already features Mine Yoshizaki's [[Author Avatar]] (known as Yoshizaki-sensei), but there's also a background character called ''Yoshi Mine''zaki - she's an [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette]] who could be easily mistaken for a [[Stringy
* Part of the [[Dub Name Change]] for the American version of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' involved renaming characters Kish and Tart to Dren and Tarb. That's a fair (if teeth-grindingly dumb) description of [[Bratty Half-Pint|Tart]], but [[4Kids! Entertainment|4Kids]] apparently thinks "nerd" is synonymous with [[Stalker with a Crush]].
* In an omake gag 4-koma in ''[[Full Moon o Sagashite]]'', Mitsuki Kouyama wonders what her name would be if she was a shinigami. Takuto thinks up her name backwards, "Mayauko Kitsumi". None of them like it.
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== Skoob Cimoc ==
* ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]''
** In the Fleetway continuity, Dr. Robotnik used to be a friend of Sonic's, a kindly scientist called Dr. [[Meaningful Name|Ovi]] Kintobor. In one of the novels, Sonic goes back in time before the transformation occurs, nearly blurting out Robotnik's name at one point before realising that, while Kintobor is a little ditzy at times, he's not stupid.
** He was also called Kintobor in the [[Sonic the Hedgehog (comics)|Archie Comic series]]. ''Julian'' Kintobor, at that. "Julian Kintobor of the House of Ivo", fully. (In SatAM, he was called "Julian", but no last name was given.)
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* Another Golden Age villain named "Dr. Doog", in the origin of Starman, was reused in ''[[All-Star Squadron]]''. It was originally supposed to be "[[Doomy Dooms of Doom|Doom]]" and needed to be changed, but the new name happens to be "Good" backwards (in other words, evil).
* In DC Comics, the extradimensional imp [[Superman|Mr. Mxyzptlk]] can (usually) only be banished by somehow tricking him into saying his name backwards.
** Also from Superman there is Htrae, the Bizarro World.
* One story of the ''Turma da Mônica'' (''[[Monica's Gang]]'') comics had Monica, Cebolinha/Jimmy Five and Cascão/Smudge meeting a knight named Rengaw (actually an RPG-obsessed man living in his very own fantasy world) and getting captured by a dragon. At one point, Cebolinha [[Lampshade Hanging|lampshades]] this by saying that Rengaw's name is just "Wagner" backwards, implying that this might be Rengaw's real name.
* In Spanish comic-book ''[[Superlopez]]'', the spell destroying the Lord of the Pacifiers is ''Etev la oonreuk'', a slight modification of a backwards ''Vete al cuerno'', which is Spanish for ''Get lost''.
* Zatanna doesn't reverse her name, but her magical spells are spoken through backwards words (but the sentence will still be read right-to-left). For example, if she wanted a nice frosty one she'd say "Teg em a reeb!"
** Her evil counterpart from another universe (featured in Countdown), however, was indeed named Annataz Arataz.
* ''[[Green Lantern]]'' sees a lot of these in the new Lanterns. Many names are simply the names of creators backwards, for example Isamot Kol's first name is Peter Tomasi's last name backwards. Sn'hoj of the Sinestro Corps is clearly backwards Geoff Johns. Duel Eknham for Doug Mahnke, and a number of others.
* An early ''[[Batman]]'' comic had a criminal masquerading as record shop owner "Old man [[The Joker|Rekoj]]". He has also gone by Dr. J. Reko, [[Depraved Dentist|DDS]].
* There is some [[Wild Mass Guessing|fan speculation]] that master of disguise [[Zeroes and Ones|Eno Orez]] from Motter and Lark's ''Terminal City'' is a robot.
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* ''[[Star Wars]]'' has [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tuckerization a few]. For just three, Coleman Trebor (reference to visual effects artist Rob Coleman), Cin Drallig (the stunt coordinator who plays him, Nick Gillard) and a huge in-joke: the canon name for the [[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|E.T.]] that cameos in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'' is [[Steven Spielberg|Grebleips]]. Not to forget the infamous Ewok (close to "Wookie" spelled backwards).
* "Grebleips" first appeared in Steven Spielberg's first feature film ''[[Duel (film)|Duel]]'', as the name of a pest control company.
* In ''Splice'', the two scientists name their creation "Dren", "nerd" backwards.
* ''Tobor the Great'' (1954) was about a robot designed to replace astronauts.
* Commander of the Soviet spacecraft in ''[[2010: The Year We Make Contact]]'' (the sequel to ''[[2001: A Space Odyssey]]'') is Captain Kirbuk, a reference to Stanley Kubrick, who directed the original film.
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* According to [[Word of God]], [[Ursula K. Le Guin]] did this in her famous story ''The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas''. She saw a sign for Salem, O (regon) and reversed it, based in part by the similar sound of Salem to Shalom/Salam and the fact that when reversed, it gave a similar sound to the word helas (alas). Thus, the effect something like "[[Utopia]] when read forward, [[Dystopia]] when read backwards".
* [[Bruce Coville]]'s goblins correct humans who mistakenly call their kingdom Goblin-land, saying it's rude (they have a point, since human kingdoms aren't called "People-land"). The correct name is, of course, "Nilbog". Muuuuch better.
* ''Racso and the Rats of NIMH'' by Jane Leslie Conly. Racso admits to Timothy Frisby at one stage in the book that his real name is "Oscar", but he much prefers the Sdrawkcab nom de plume he came up with.
* ''Midnight's Sun - A Story of Wolves'' by Garry Kilworth uses Sdrawkcab names for some of his characters. Athaba's mother and father are Meshiska and Aksishem, respectively. Although this is totally ignored in Athaba's case when he becomes {{spoiler|Ulaala's mate.}}
* In ''[[The Abhorsen Trilogy]]'', it's mentioned that the original [[Big Bad]] Kerrigor was born Prince Rogirek, generally known as Rogir. Kerrigor was the nickname Touchstone gave him.
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* Christopher Stasheff's ''[[A Wizard in Rhyme]]'' series features in one of the books' backstory an [[Evil Chancellor]] named Reiziv. It's not commented on as a backwards word by anyone in the story, making it also a [[Stealth Pun]]. (Well, if the definition of "[[Stealth Pun]]" is "pun nobody points out or explains in the story" rather than "pun it actually takes effort to get.")
* In ''[[The Deed of Paksenarrion]]'', Sertig, the god of the smiths, has an enemy called Gitres.
* Taken to extremes and lampshaded in ''[[Young Wizards]]'', where a {{spoiler|dog}} turns out to be {{spoiler|guess}}.
* One Dutch children's book titled ''Lyc-Drop'' features a character called Seuz. He turns out to be a Greek deity, and if you can't guess which one, you just might be an idiot.
** He's not the god of canals, is he?
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* A characteristic of the twisted magic contained in ''The Book of Atrix Wolfe'' by [[Patricia A. McKillip]].
* The mystery short story "Death by Rubik's Cube", published in the August 2011 issue of Games Magazine, features a police detective by the name of Errol Lorre. The [[Genre Savvy]] suspects realize that his parents loved puzzles a lot and that he himself hates them.
* Alec Leamas from ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold''. (Leamas reverses to [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Samael]].) [[Defied Trope|No, he's not]] [[Satan]] [[Louis Cypher|or any other supernatural figure in disguise]], but a [[Fake Defector]] and [[Reverse Mole]] [[Anti-Hero]] whose moral dilemmas form a major part of the plot.
* Several in ''[[Basil of Baker Street]]'' and sequels; for example, the [[Mouse World]] counterpart to Irene Adler is Madmoiselle Relda.
* [[Robert A. Heinlein]]'s ''Tunnel In The Sky'' includes a warning to the main character's class to watch out for stobor, the most dangerous creature they willl encounter on their field exam. The students don't realize that "stobor" is "robots" spelled backwards; {{spoiler|[[Subverted Trope|Stobor are]] [[Humans Kill Wantonly|hu]][[Humanity Is Insane|mans]]; [[What You Are in the Dark|their competing classmates]]}}.
* [[Roger Zelazny]]'s ''[[Amber]]'' series of stories. The Pattern is in Castle Amber, which is located on a mountain overlooking the sea. The Castle and Pattern have a duplicate in the seas bordering Amber, in an underwater world known as Rebma.
* In Jane Langton's ''The Diamond in the Window'', Edward Hall speaks backwards fluently and daydreams about an alter-ego named Trebor Nosnibor. It's stated that he wishes his name were Robert Robinson specifically because he thinks it sounds much cooler backwards than "Drawde Llah" would.
* This is how Wizards dealing with the Darke hide themselves in ''[[Septimus Heap]]'': By spelling their name backwards. [[Played With]] in Septimus's case, as he takes only the last letters S-u-m on Marcellus Pye's advice.
* In [[Brian Aldiss]]'s illustrated poem "Pile", (subtitle "Petals from St. Klaed's Computer") the hero escapes from Pile and it's computer "St. Klaed" to find the alternate world of Elip run by St. Dealk.
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* ''[[Doctor Who]]: The War Games'', The War Chief's space-time-travel machines are called SIDRATs.
* These work better in real life than one might think. In the reality show ''[[Who Wants to Be a Superhero]]'', each contestant has a [[Code Name]]. In the middle of the first episode, it was revealed that one of the contestants was [[The Mole|actually a spy]]. The contestant Rotiart stepped forward and proclaimed dramatically, "Rotiart spelled backwards is..." ''(rip off name tag for [[The Reveal]])'' "Traitor!"
* Long-running American soap opera ''[[Days of Our Lives]]'' is well-known for its far-fetched plots, particularly those centered around the arch-villain Stefano DiMera. One plot had several characters leave the show's usual locale of Salem during the Fall of 1995 to attend a wedding in the town of Aremid. Events conspired to make many of the characters stay in Aremid until the following spring, but in that time nobody seemed to notice that Aremid was actually DiMera spelled backwards. The show repeated the trope nine years later when several characters found themselves abducted from Salem and kept captive on the island of Melaswen (New Salem), a place filled with recreations of several landmarks from their hometown.
* ''[[Scrubs]]''
** In the episode, "My Princess", a [[Something Completely Different]] episode in the form of a fairy-tale Dr. Cox is telling his son, Bob Kelso's counterpart is the [[Evil Overlord|Dark Lord]] Oslek (which, on a completely unrelated note, is what Ted calls him when he suffers stress-induced dyslexia).
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* A variation on ''[[CSI: NY]]'': Stella's psycho ex-boyfriend named a sculpture he made for her the Aresanob, which was her last name, Bonasera, spelled backward. He then uploaded a sex tape to Aresanob.com shortly after.
* In an episode of ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit|L&O SVU]]'', an innocent man who Olivia had helped to convict had been released from prison and was out to get revenge on her. As part of his plan, he set up a phony company named "Aivilo" or "Olivia" backwards.
* During the All-Star season of ''[[America's Next Top Model]]'', each of the girls had to write lyrics for, record and make a video for a song, and they were required to use the phrase "Pot Ledom is Top Model Backwards" someplace in the song. The "Pot Ledom" thing was reinforced in the videos when they would cut away from the model to show Tyra in a "Pot Ledom" shirt and repeating the full line.
* ''[[The Muppet Show]]'' features a sketch in which Lew Zealand and Rowlf sings "Owt Rof Aet" ("Tea for Two" backwards).
* The [[Shout-Out Theme Naming]] of the main characters in ''[[Kamen Rider Fourze]]'', has Tomoko Nozoma, who was named after ''[[Kamen Rider Amazon]]''.
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== Cisum ==
* The B-side of the classic [[Sanity Slippage Song]] "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV is "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT". It's credited to "Noelopan VIX", and is in fact the A-side played backwards. [[wikipedia:File:Napoleon Xiv B side Original Issue.jpg|Even the label of the b-side was almost entirely in mirrored writing]].
* Rapper [[Kool Keith]], a.k.a. Dr. Octagon, has also released an album under the name Mr. Nogatco. The title of the album? ''Nogatco Rd.''
* [[Dream Theater]]'s first album featured a song called The Ytse Jam, which was their original band name, Majesty, spelled backwards.
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* For legal reasons, the Melvins album ''Prick'' was credited to Snivlem.
* The song "Dinner at Deviant's Palace" by Cradle of Filth is actually the Lord's Prayer recited backwards.
* After vocalist Lynn Strait's death, Snot eventually reformed as Tons.
* The [[Bloodhound Gang]]'s ''One Fierce Beer Coaster'' ends with a short sketch consisting of someone doing a [[The Simpsons|Homer Simpson]] impression and [[Don't Explain the Joke|explaining the joke of the album title]] - to avoid potential copyright issues, it was titled "Reflections Of Remoh".
* [[The Beatles (band)|The Beatles]]
** The end of the 1966 tune "Rain" (B-side of "Paperback Writer") has John repeating the first line of the song backwards.
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* [[Eels]] "Efil's God", sort of: It's based around a backwards sample of an earlier song of theirs called "Dog's Life".
* After [[KMFDM]] temporarily broke up in 1999, members Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold started a new project with Lucia Cifarelli and called it MDFMK.
* Sort of done with [[Daft Punk]]'s "Funk Ad", which is a backwards reprise of "Da Funk" - if it were fully backwards, it would of course be "''Knuf'' Ad".
* The name of the [[Folk Metal]] band, [[SuidAkrA]], is the guitarist/vocalist's first name "Arkadius" spelled backwards.
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* Legna from ''Drakengard'' 2 -- "Angel" backwards. Coincidentially, the dragon that Caim made a pact with in the first Drakengard is named Angelus.
* Alexandra Roivas, the heroine of ''[[Eternal Darkness]]''. Gains extra points for stealthiness: Roivas is an actual real-world surname.
* Llednar Twem in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics Advance]]'', {{spoiler|the negative emotions of Prince Mewt Randell given form!}}
* ''[[Fire Emblem]]''
** ''Fire Emblem: Shadow Dragon'' and its sequel features Draug, the first armored [[Mighty Glacier|Knight]] that joins you.
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** In the series entry ''Darkside of Xeen'', there is an order called the Drawkcab Monks. They study {{spoiler|palindromes, and speak entirely in such.}}
** Also in ''M&M VI: The Mandate of Heaven'', there's goblin-infested fort in New Sorpigal, which apparently belonged to these monks. It serves as a hint for solving the password lock inside.
** Also in ''Mandate'', First Mate's Code: KCOPS Navigator's Code: ULUS Communication Officer's Code: ARUHU Engineer's Code: YTTOCS Doctor's Code: YOCCM Captain's Code: KRIK. Not one of these are any good without the proper papers, though...
* ''[[Final Fantasy]]''
** The [[Bonus Boss|Weapon]] attack Aire Tam from ''[[Final Fantasy VII]]''. The key to not getting decimated by this attack is to {{spoiler|unequip all of your materia before entering battle with it. It does more damage based on how much materia you have equipped.}}
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* In possibly the most blatant example ever, the opposite of Chris-chan in ''[[Sonichu]]'' is called... Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc. This idea for names generally works better when it's simply one name spelt backwards rather than three in a row, but that's the level of unimaginativeness of this comic.
* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' has one of the more embarassing versions in [http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091023 this strip]. While Torg simply goes by "Grot", Sasha has the dubious honor of being "Ass-Ass."
* ''[http://www.tnemrot.com/ Domain Tnemrot]'' has one right in the title.
* The Drab Lord of ''[[Captain SNES]]''. {{spoiler|Drab as in Bard.}}
* ''[[Two Kinds]]'' has a slave named Evals.
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* In a first-season episode of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', a talisman brings Jade's beloved Gnomekop toy to life. Remember that the G is silent.
* [[Filmation]] ''[[The New Adventures of Superman]]'' episode "Luthor Strikes Again". Lex Luthor's lair is a paint factory owned by the "Rohtul Paint Co."
* ''[[Danger Mouse]]'' episode "The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma": DM sends himself and Penfold into the future in the time-traveling grandfather clock where DM sees London is ruled by Dlofnep the Magnificent, a spitting image of and whose name is backwards for Penfold.
* ''[[Polly Pocket]]'' story "Pollyworld" featured two exchange students named Karl and Lark.
* ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures]]'' had one episode where Jade tried to guess the password to one of the safety devices protecting the talismans. Her guess was "Namsilat".
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* Cornish Yarg cheese was created by Allan and Jenny Gray.
* The most popular (though likely apocryphal) explanation for how the town of Levan, Utah got its name is that it's "navel" spelled backwards (because it's in the center of the state).
* The names of certain physical units for quantities that are the reciprocal (that is, one divided by) other quantities are the names of the units of the latter quantities spelled backwards: examples include the [[wikipedia:Mho|mho]] (the unit of electric conductance, from "ohm", the unit of electrical resistance), the yrneh and the [[wikipedia:Daraf|daraf]]. (Note, however, that scientists tend to eschew such levity and use other names for these units; for example, the mho is called the [[Heh
* There's even ''a whole dialect'' of this trope in East Java, called the ''Malangan'' dialect (named after its origin region, Malang). It's a lot like a East Javanese, but some of the words are in fact reversed words of the language. Naturally it leads to [[Heh
** ''kera'', from Javanese ''arek'', which means something akin to 'boyz' in English. {{spoiler|''Kera'' in Indonesian means ape}}.
** ''kunam'', from Javanese ''manuk'', which means 'bird' in English. {{spoiler|'Manuk' is the Javanese slang for male genitalia}}, so arguably it serves an opposite purpose.
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