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== Literature ==

* ''[[Discworld]]''

* Pippin Galadriel Moonshine in ''[[Good Omens]]'' goes by Pepper, as she is a short scruffy tomboy with a temper.

* Festina Ramos from ''[[The League of Peoples Verse]]'': in ''Expendable'', she bitterly notes in her narration that "Festina" means "The Happy One" and her typical state of mind is anything but happy.

{{quote|'''[[Bill Hicks]]:''' So this guy, officer ''Koon''... Is life too fucking weird, or what?}}

* Similarly, the last racist anthropologist to be taken seriously was named Carleton ''Coon''.

** When he started school as a kid, his parents legally changed his name to Kevin Michael from his birth name in hopes he wouldn’t be made fun of. What was Allin’s birth name…? His birth name was “Jesus Christ” Allin… you heard right.

* There’s a breed of dog known as [https://web.archive.org/web/20150221201639/http://www.ukcdogs.com/Web.nsf/Breeds/CompanionDog/AmericanBully American Bully], that’s similar to their Pit-bull cousin. However, one of the main traits that are deemed objectionable is [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=noOLZyOOjUA aggressive behavior] towards humans and other animals although they would likely protect their families when they have to, common in dogs. {{context|reason=How is this an example of the trope as written? The name sounds completely non-ironic to me.}}

 

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