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{{quote|'''Judge:''' State your first name, your last name, and your occupation.

 

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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* Tetsutetsu Tetsutetsu from [[My Hero Academia]]. His surname and given name are actually spelled differently in Kanji [http://kansaichick.com/japanese-kanji-blog/the-kanjis-of-tetsutesu-tetsutesu-for-my-hero-academia/].

* Lisa Lisa and Magenta Magenta from [[JoJo's Bizarre Adventure|Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]].

* 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]]''.

* 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.

* ''[[Outlaw Star]]'' has the C'tarl-C'tarl, represented in the cast by Aisha ClanClan.

 

* [[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]].

* 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]]''

* The La Brea tar pits example is lampshaded by a couple of guards in ''[[Runaways]]''.

* The [[Martian Manhunter]]'s name sounds like "John Jones". It's actually written J'onn J'onzz.

* [[Zatanna]] Zatara.

* The main character of German [[Animesque]] comic ''Losing Neverland'' is called Lawrence V Lawrence (Laurie [[In-Series Nickname|for short]]).

 

* ''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'' fanfic ''[[The Nowakverse|Under the Bridge]]'' introduces us to Captain Jürgen Jürgen Jürgen of the ''Albacore''. You see, his father stuttered, and didn't want to correct his mistake. He's called "Jürgen" throughout, so we don't find out until near the end that it's repetitive.

* ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'' has taken this approach for Sasaki; the author had [[Did Not Do the Research|a moment of confusion]] as to whether "Sasaki" was meant to be the character's given name or surname, [[Take a Third Option|so it ended up as both.]]<ref>It's almost certainly meant to be a surname in the source material, as the kanji used to write it spell an extremely common surname.</ref> [[Fridge Logic|One is led to wonder]] just how someone called Sasaki Sasaki can be certain that Kyon is still calling her by her first name.

 

* [[The Men in Black|Rick Dicker]] in ''[[The Incredibles]]''.

* ''[[Kung Fu Panda]]'':

** Chorh Gom Prison.

*** Tai Lung's name means Ultimate Dragon, and wanted to become the Dragon Warrior.

* Aaron A. Aaronson in ''[[Hot Fuzz]]'', whose name mysteriousy refers to a joke one of the Andys made earlier in the movie.

* Officer Dick Dicks in ''2001: A Space Travesty''.

* Mary Merriman from ''Deadly Little Christmas''.

 

* ''[[Catch-22]]'' has a character called Major Major Major, who was instantly promoted to Major due to a computer error. Ex-P.F.C. Wintergreen ensures that Major Major Major Major can never be promoted or demoted because [[Rule of Funny|he thinks it's funny]].

* ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'' had Dr. Montgomery Montgomery, AKA Uncle Monty. (He studies [[Monty Python|pythons]].)

* Major Channing Channing (of the Chesterfield Channings) of ''[[The Parasol Protectorate]]''.

 

* 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...

* Clark Clark from an episode of ''[[My Name Is Earl]]'', and recurring character Ray Ray.

 

* [[Duran Duran]]

* [[Talk Talk]]

* [[Bruce Dickinson]] went by Bruce Bruce (inspired by [[Monty Python]]'s [[wikipedia:Bruces sketch|sketch]]) before joining [[Iron Maiden]].

 

 

 

* ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'' has a character named Digger Digwell. On top of it, he often introduces himself to characters in the Imagination Station as "Digger, Digger Digwell", prompting many of the characters to address him as "Digger Digger Digwell".

 

* One of comedian [[Joel Hodgson]]'s stand-up skits involved a two-headed ventriloquist dummy he named Danny O'Danny.

* Stand-up comedian [[Bruce Bruce]].

* Comedian [[Ahmed Ahmed]] has a bit where he lampshades his repetitive Arabic name, saying that he has to get to the airport early "because it's not a good time to be named Ahmed, and my name's Ahmed Ahmed." (See more about Ahmed Ahmed in the Real Life section.)

 

* The hero of Martin McDonagh's play ''[[The Pillowman]]'''s name is Katurian K Katurian. Guess what the middle initial stands for. His parents "were funny people." (Although if you read/see the play, [[Nightmare Fuel|you will find they are]] not very funny at all.)

* Nicely Nicely Johnson of ''[[Guys and Dolls]]''

* In [[Anton Chekhov]]'s ''[[Uncle Vanya]]'', Waffles' real name is Ilya Ilych Telegin. Someone accidentally calls him Ivan Ivanich, and he corrects them.

 

* ''[[Escape from Monkey Island]]'' introduced us to the politician Charles L. Charles. {{spoiler|1=Actually LeChuck in disguise.}}

** ''[[Tales of Monkey Island]]'' reveals that Stan's full name is Stan S. Stanman.

* Suzu Suzuki and Sae Saionji of [[Katawa Shoujo]].

 

* Leo Leonardo (the 3rd) from ''[[VG Cats]]''.

* A case of a Repetitive Code Name: the word "Sciuridae", the family name for squirrels, means "shade-tail". Grace Sciuridae, of ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', once carried the code name Shade Tail. [[Meaningful Name|Good reason, too.]]

* The ''original'' Sporkman had Steve "The Steve" Stevenson.

 

* The title character from ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20090308003335/http://www.alexandraerin.com/stories/2007/the-redundant-man-who-was-redundant/3#more-3 The Redundant Man Who Was Redundant]'' is called Steven Stevenson II. He works in the Department Of Redundant Acronyms with his secretary, Dora.

* Title character from ''[[The Remarkable Journey of Higgins Von Higgings]]''.

* Brett Bretterson is So-and-So's imaginary boyfriend in ''[[Teen Girl Squad]].''

 

* On ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Lenny and Carl's full names are Lenford Leonard and Carlton Carlson.

** Also to a lesser extent: Joey Jo-Jo Junior Shabadoo.

* Professor Willard W. Willard from the classic ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 1987|Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]''.

* Dr. Quentin Q. Quinn from ''[[Sealab 2021]]''.

* ''[[South Park]]'''s own Tweek Tweak.

** Not to mention the Woodland Critters, including Beary the Bear, Rabbity the Rabbit, Squirrely the Squirrel, Chickadeey that Chickadee, etc.

* Luke St. Luke from ''[[The Haunted World of El Superbeasto]]''.

* Although it's never stated within the show, ''[[Gargoyles]]'' creator [[Greg Weisman]] has established that the recurring policeman character Morgan's canonical full name is actually Morgan Morgan.

* 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 OddParents]]''.

* Germain St. Germain, the effective male lead of ''[[Heavy Metal 2000]]''

 

=== People - Patronymics and similar names ===

* Due to [[Patronymic]]s, you will sometimes run into people with the same first name and patronymic, and when you're in a country that doesn't commonly use last names this becomes ''very'' confusing. Like a Pavel Pavlovich (literally Pavel son of Pavel) whose dad was ''also'' a Pavel Pavlovich.