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Sometimes, the reversed spelling may be altered to look a little more plausible and/or be easier to pronounce, like "'''st'''raw'''ck'''ab" instead of "'''sd'''raw'''kc'''ab" -- as "st" and "ck" are common digraphs in English, which makes it look more believable as a word.

 

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== Agnam & Emina ==

* This is what clues Goku in to Uub being the reincarnation of the evil Buu in the final episodes of ''[[Dragonball Z]]''. Considering Uub had no idea he was Buu's reincarnation, this makes it an awfully convenient name.

* Dr. Mashirito, the [[Mad Scientist]] antagonist in ''[[Doctor Slump]]'' was named after Toriyama's editor at the time, whose surname was Torishima. It may not be obvious, but written in the Japanese syllable-alpabet, it is indeed a Sdrawkcab Name. To western eyes, it just looks like an anagram.

** 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 Haired Ghost Girl]].

* 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.

* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro Ni]]''

** The sixth arc provides Kanon's [[Only Known By Their Nickname|real name]], {{spoiler|Yoshiya}}. This is, in fact, a modified Japanese reversal of {{spoiler|Shannon's real name, Sayo}}. {{spoiler|Shi and ya need to be slurred together into one sound, as the Japanese kana does to write the letter "Sha," and you wind up with "Shayo," which is only slightly different from "Sayo."}} This was one of the many big hints given in that arc that {{spoiler|Shannon and Kanon are probably the same character with some sort of [[Split Personality]] disorder}}.

* Not used as a disguise, but Krad and Dark of ''[[D.N.Angel]]'' have each others' names spelled backwards. This is most likely intentional, as they are two halves of the same artwork.

* Elbaf, the land of giants, in ''[[One Piece]]''. The Viz translation missed this and translated it as "Elbaph".

== Semag Drac ==

* ''[[Magic the Gathering]]'':

** The Citanul Druids (and other such) -- "Citanul" becomes "lunatic"....

 

* Strongman, from ''Crash Comics'', was active during the 1940s and fought against troops from the country of Aissur (Russia). Their leader was even called Linats, which is very close to being a backwards name for Stalin.

* It once took the [[Justice Society of America]] an entire issue to realise that evil Professor Elba and kindly Professor Able were one and the same. Not exactly their finest moment.

* [[Fantastic Four]] foe Diablo once used the alias 'Mr Olbaid'.

* In ''[[Zombo]]'', the title character's successor was deliberately named Obmoz to indicate how he is the opposite of Zombo.

* In ''Time Runner'' with [[Mark Hamill]], the evil alien mole [[President Evil|bidding for President]] of the United States is named "Neila". Did we mention he is an alien?

* The very character of Emit Flesti, played by Willem Dafoe, in ''Faraway, So Close!''

* "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.

 

== Erutaretil ==

* In Piers Anthony's ''[[Incarnations of Immortality|Being a Green Mother]]'', the heroine Orb shares a romantic attachment with a man named Natasha, whose true identity is revealed when he proposes marriage to her: "Ah, [[Satan]]".

* The syllabic version of this trope is [[Older Than Print]]: Tristram disguises himself as "Tramtris" in the [[King Arthur|Arthurian]] legends.

 

== VT Noicta-Evil ==

* 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.

* In the ''[[Frasier (TV)|Frasier]]'' episode "The Show Must Go Off", Jackson Hedley is mentioned as playing an android named TOBOR on TV.

* In an episode of ''[[Round the Twist]]'', the kids discover a machine in the top room of the lighthouse that makes mirror-image copies of whatever you put into it. When Linda [[Cloning Blues|clones]] herself, the mirror-image copy is dubbed "Adnil".

* One episode of ''[[Farscape (TV)|Farscape]]'' features a villainous alien geneticist named Namtar -- {{spoiler|he's a genetically-altered lab-rodent.}}

* The {{spoiler|"H. Maddas" files}} in ''[[Arrested Development (TV)|Arrested Development]]'' turn out to be this (and a [[Chekhov's Gun]]).

* 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).

 

 

== Cisum ==

* 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 (Music)|Dream Theater]]'s first album featured a song called The Ytse Jam, which was their original band name, Majesty, spelled backwards.

** Swond dna spu ynam os/ My heart's a battleground/ snoitome eurt deen I...

** The names of all the Nobodies from ''[[Kingdom Hearts|Kingdom Hearts 2]]'' are anagrams of their original names plus an x. {{spoiler|This makes the name of Roxas' Somebody incredibly easy to guess.}}

* ''[[Leisure Suit Larry]] 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work'' involves Passionate Patti infiltrating the offices of ''des Rever Records'', whom her employers suspect are slipping [[Subliminal Seduction|subliminal messages]] into their records.

* The XGen Studios game ''MotherLoad'' features a helpful gentleman named Mr. Natas, who, if you dig down far enough, {{spoiler|turns into a giant demon with whom you fight.}}

* In ''Breakline'', a 1993 [[Breaking Out]] game, copy protection and the save-state system use codes built from eight symbols, the "Runes of Power". Four of them have Sdrawckab Names, slightly disguised: Drasah (hazard), Terces, Telfer (reflect) and Immenne (enemy).

* [[Conan the Barbarian|Nanoc the Obliviator]] from ''[[Comic Jumper]]''.

* In ''[[Ghost Trick]]'', a big part of the game's plot is kicked off by a meteor landing in Temsik Park... a meteor that {{spoiler|[[Green Rocks|grants people the ability to manipulate objects]], or even [[Screw Destiny|go back in time and alter the past to save people from death]].}} "Temsik" spelled backwards is "kismet", which means "fate" in Turkish.

* ''Fortix'' has the [[Evil Sorcerer]] Xitrof as its [[Big Bad]].

* A small street in Annapolis, MD bears the name Silopanna Road.

* The actor [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871636/ Robert Trebor]. Trebor is best known as Salmoneus in both ''[[Hercules: The Legendary Journeys]]'' and ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]''.

** While not named after the State, there is a town in Texas called Reklaw named after the founder, whose last name was Walker.

* There are two different Canadian communities called Adanac, both in the province of Ontario. Pluralized, it's the name of a lacrosse team in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and there's also the Adanac Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in northeastern France.

* Inva Mula, the women who sang "The Diva Dance" from ''[[The Fifth Element]]'', first name is her father's name (Avni) backwards.

* 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).

** ''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.

*** [[Bilingual Bonus|Trilingual Bonus]]: You now see another connection between a raised middle finger and its slang "flipping the bird". Have fun with that.

* The Enola Gay, the infamous bomber that dropped the A-Bomb, was named after the commanding pilot's mother, who wanted the plane's name to be unique. Which is kind of strange considering what Enola spelled backwards is.

* Ambulance labels are particular variations of this for drivers to read it properly in their rear view mirrors.

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