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== Anime and Manga ==
* ''[[
* Three out of four of the main characters from ''[[Burst Angel]]'' are named after characters from the book ''[[Little Women]]'' (Jo, Meg, and Amy, with Sei being the [[Odd Name Out]]). In an interview, the creator mentioned that Sei's middle name was Bethany, thus making her still technically fit.
** Also, in the original ''[[Little Women]]'' Beth's was the only name ''not'' changed from her real life counterpart. So having her the odd name out is IN ITSELF a shout out.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (
** ''Evangelion'' references aren't just for ''GX''. In ''[[Pokémon (
** [[Older Than They Think]], since Eva's Rei and Asuka were in fact named for a character from ''[[Raideen]]'', Rei Asuka.
*** That's debatable, or possibly just synchronistic, since Rei is usually regarded as being named after [[Sailor Moon
* Speaking of ''[[Pokémon (
* Of course ''[[
** [[Conan the Barbarian|"Japanese Crom, I have never prayed to you before..."]]
* ''[[
** And the name of the Lifemaker comes from Hogan's novel ''[[Code of the Lifemaker]]''.
* Although [[Lost in Translation|it doesn't translate into English very clearly]], in ''[[Naruto]]'' Kakuzu's signature attacks come from the names of different [[Mobile Suit Gundam|Zeon mobile suits]]. Just for starters, his ability to turn into a mass of strings is called "Jiongu" (literally "Earth Grudge Fear"), which is how "Zeong" (a mobile suit which also had arms that could extend outward attached by cords) is pronounced in Japanese.
* ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing
** In ''[[
** ''[[Gundam Sentinel]]'' names all of its characters after real people from the end of the Shogunate in Japan. For example, protagonist Ryu Roots is named for Ryoma Sakamoto ("moto" being the Japanese word for "root").
** The ''[[Zeta Gundam]]'' spinoff ''Advance of Zeta'' combines this with [[Cultural Cross-Reference]], as all the experimental mobile suits in it are named for characters from ''[[Watership Down]]''.
* In ''[[
* The titular character's father from ''[[Anime/Kimba The White Lion|Kimba The White Lion]]'' is named [[Julius Caesar|Caesar]] and one of the villians is named Cassius, which reflected his bitter past with Caesar.
== Film ==
* The movie ''[[Heathers]]'' does this with the protagonist, Veronica Sawyer, and her former best friend Betty Finn, a reference to famous best friend pairs [[Archie Comics|Veronica Lodge and Betty Cooper]] and [[Mark Twain|Tom Sawyer and Huck Finn]].
* '''Rosen'''berg and '''Guilden'''stein from ''[[Harold and Kumar]]''. Named after [[Shout
** Sadly, Rosenberg doesn't [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|cast spells]].
** Similarly, ''[[The Rockford Files]]'' did an episode called "Rosendahl and Gilda Stern Are Dead."
* ''[[
* In ''[[Minority Report]]'' the three precognitives are named for Agatha Christie, Dashiell Hammett, and Arthur Conan Doyle.
* In the [[The Lorax (
* In ''[[Back to The Future]] Part III'', Doc Brown's sons are named [[Jules Verne|Jules and Verne]].
== Literature ==
* ''[[Stationery Voyagers]]'' has the Xylien Society, which contains [[Shout-Out|Shout Outs]] to a LOT of pop-cultural depictions of [[The Men in Black|Men in Black]] types. While [[Men in Black (
** Garret Nobee -> Noah Bennet, and
** Will Rook -> Bob Bishop, to name a few.
** Their enemies, [[The War
** [[All There in the Manual|Just to clarify]], the Lightning Zebra has been a theme since planning began in the summer of 2000. It is ''not'' a reference to [[Lost|any other show's]] [[Misplaced Wildlife]].
** Arnold Rubblindo is named after [[The Magic School Bus|Arnold Perlstein]].
** Rhodney Antilles is a reference to [[Self-Deprecation|Rodney Dangerfield]], Colossus of Rhodes, and [[The Iliad
** Marlack Inkripe is named after [[Bonanza|Adam Cartwright]].
** Pinkella Goldsen = Pink + [[Cinderella (
** Neone Delft's birth name is [[Peter Pan|Wendim]] [[Anastasia|Shinroff]].
** Cybomec is [[Averted Trope|NOT]] named after [[Heroes (TV series)|Sylar]], [[Battlestar Galactica|nor the Cylons]] [http://dozerfleetwiki2.wiki-site.com/index.php/Heroes_versus_Stationery_Voyagers_mythology for that matter]. His [[Jack the Ripoff|serial killing ways]] and [[The Dark Side|psychotic lust for power]] are more [[Freudian Excuse|due to]] abuse from his [[Evil Teacher|grade school teachers]] than [[Oedipus Rex|his aloof parents]]. For those who [[Viewers Are Geniuses|still can't figure it out]], his name is merely shorthand for {{spoiler|"Cybernetic Mechanical."}}
* In ''[[The Hobbit]]'' the names of Gandalf and all the Dwarves (except [[Odd Name Out|Balin]]) are drawn from dwarves in the Old Norse ''Poetic Edda''.
* The monster hunters in ''[[
** The names of all the ships that make up the pirate city in ''The Scar'' have a connection with other works of literature involving ships. There's the ''Arronax'' (after the narrator of ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]''), ''Wintershaw Market'' (after the protagonist of [[William Hope Hodgeson]]'s ''Boats of the Glen Carrig'') etc.
* ''Mission of Honor'' introduces several characters who are plotting to become the heads of various planetary governments. Most, if not all, are named after movie directors.
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== Live Action TV ==
* In ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'', the [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute]] versions of the previous ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' heroes are references to their original series (see Decade's page for details). The biggest exception is Yuusuke Onodera, the alternate [[Kamen Rider Kuuga|Kuuga]], who is named for ''[[Kamen Rider]]'' creator [[Shotaro Ishinomori]] (whose birth name was Shotaro ''Onodera'').
** ''[[
* As a carryover from the books it's based on, Tristan and Siegfried from ''[[
** That's because those names tend to stick out more in the English countryside than Donald and Brian (their [[Real Life|real]] names)
** For that matter James Herriot is a shout out as well, this time to a Scottish goalie.
* The main characters of ''[[Tokusou Sentai Dekaranger]]'' were all named after detective authors.
** Banban '''Akaza''' comes from '''[[Agatha Christie
** Houji '''Tomasu''' comes from '''Thomas''' Harris.
** Sen'ichi '''Enari''' comes from '''Ellery''' Queen.
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* The four elemental fiends in ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' were originally named for demons from Dante's ''[[Divine Comedy|Inferno]]'' -- Scarmiglione, Cagnazzo, Barbariccia, and Rubicante. A display issue caused their names to get changed in the English translation, to Milon, Kainazzo, Valvalis, and Rubicant, respectively. All four are also corrected in the official GBA re-release.
** To say nothing of [[Those Two Guys]] in every game named [[Star Wars|Biggs and Wedge]].
* The Koopalings, debuting in ''[[
** As is ''[[Super Mario World (
* In the English translation of ''[[Trauma Center]]'', all the patients have names that are a mix and match of the characters and actors of ''[[House (TV series)|House]]'', ''[[Scrubs]]'', and ''[[ER]]'', three popular medical shows.
* In the ''[[Onimusha]]'' series of games, the names of the major demon antagonists (excepting ''Onimusha 2'' for some reason) are all taken from Shakespeare's ''Hamlet''.
** As does ''[[Vagrant Story]]'', with characters named Rosencrantz and Guildenstern as antagonists.
* Most of the important characters of the ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' series have names based on ''The Divine Comedy'' -- Dante, Vergil, Trish (shortened from Beatrice), Lucia and Mary ("Lady"). Seven of the demon types that appear in the third game are named for the [[Seven Deadly Sins]].
* ''[[
* ''[[Metal Gear]] Solid'' had a Dave, a Hal, a Frank, a Naomi, and a Miller, and there was a submarine called the Discovery - all names from ''2001: A Space Odyssey''.
* The inhabitants of the Velvet Room from the ''[[Persona]]'' series have, of all things, theme naming based on ''[[Frankenstein]]''. Igor is named for the hunchbacked assistant that became associated with the Frankenstein mythos after Fritz in the Universal film -- the name "Igor" probably originally came from the non-hunch-backed assistant from the 1953 version of ''[[House of Wax]]'' or a conflation of Fritz with Ygor from the Universal films, and was codified as an element of ''Frankenstein'' in ''[[Young Frankenstein]]'' -- Nameless for the monster, and Elizabeth for Victor's bride from the novel. Margaret from ''[[
** Theodore is more obscure; assuming he follows the pattern, he's most likely named for -- given that he's a male replacement for Elizabeth -- Theodore Roszak, who authored ''Memoirs of Elizabeth Frankenstein'', but it's possible he's instead named for Theodor von Holst, who did the illustrations for the 1831 edition of ''Frankenstein''.
* The lead twins of ''[[
* Several gangs in ''[[River City Ransom]]'' (both, NES and GBA versions), most obviously the Home Boys (named after kids in 50's-70's television shows like ''[[The Brady Bunch]]'' and ''[[My Three Sons]]'') in the original.
* The full names of the two player characters in the original ''[[Contra]]'' (barring [[Spell My Name
* The Lee brothers from the ''[[Double Dragon]]'' series, as well as the recurring [[Mook|mooks]] Williams and Rowper, are named after the three main heroes from ''[[Enter the Dragon]]''. The arcade version of ''Double Dragon II'' even adds two [[Suspiciously Similar Substitute|Abobo-like]] giant mooks named after Mr. Han's henchmen called Oharra and Bolo (although the manual of Mega Drive port identifies the latter as "Abobo", which ruins the shout-out a bit). There's also a female mook named Linda, who seems to be named after [[Bruce Lee]]'s widow.
* Two characters in the sci-fi chapter of ''[[Live a Live]]'' are named [[Star Trek|Kirk]] and [[Star Wars|Darth]].
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** ''[[Twilight Princess]]'' has the barmaid Telma and her cat Louise. Hmm, [[Thelma and Louise|Telma and Louise]]...
* Oh, lord, ''[[A Witchs Tale]]''. First, all the Princesses and guardians of the kingdoms are named after characters from fairy tales or the like. Then, we get into the powerful and mysterious Queen Alice, and Liddell -- the protagonist, who wants to surpass her, and is implied to be more deeply connected to her than that.
* Several suspects in the [[Nancy Drew]] game ''White Wolf Of Icicle Creek'' have lupine-themed names, including Lou Talbot (for [[The
* Several major suspects and authors of documents in ''[[Sherlock Holmes]]: The Awakening'' are named after tabletop RPG designers.
* The two main characters of the NES [[Shoot Em Ups|shoot-em-up]] ''S.C.A.T.'' are not only [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|obvious ripoffs]] of [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] and [[Sigourney Weaver]], they are even called "Arnold" and "Sigourney". The European release, ''Action in New York'', gave them new names (Silver Man and Sparks) just in case.
* ''[[Umineko no Naku Koro
* The names of Nina and Anna Williams from ''[[Tekken]]'' are both references to ''[[La Femme Nikita]]''. Anna in particular is named and modeled after actress Anne Parillaud, who played Nikita in the original 1990 French version. Nina's name on the other hand comes from the alias used by Bridget Fonda's character in ''Point of No Return'', the 1993 American remake of ''Nikita''.
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* Major characters in ''[[Penny and Aggie]]'' tend to be introduced with two hangers-on (who, unlike [[Those Two Guys]], tend to move ''toward'' [[Ascended Extra|the spotlight]]) with [[Theme Naming]]. Specifically, Penny's [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Sara and Michelle]], Rich's [[Marvel Universe|Stan and Jack]], and Lisa's [[Scooby Doo|Fred and Daphne]]. Also, although introduced separately, an adult couple is named [[Angel|Nick and Charisma]].
* In ''[[Sabrina Online]]'', everyone in Sabrina's family is named after various media witches, from Sabrina herself and her sister Tabitha, to her mother Endora and father Warren (who only sorta sounds like 'Darrin'). There's also her online friend Carli and her husband Spike, named after the human couple from the ''Transformers'' cartoon.
* In ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* All of the Tracy children in ''[[Thunderbirds]]'' are named for the Mercury astronauts. Possibly an in-universe example given that their father used to be an astronaut himself.
* The second ''[[
** Not to mention the titular turtles being named after famous painters.
* ''[[
** Voiced by none other than John Rhys-Davies
* To say nothing of the gargoyle clan naming themselves after famous sections of New York.
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== Web Original ==
* ''[[Open Blue]]'''s players tend to name Avelian NPC's after ''[[Halo]]'' characters in similar positions. [[Four-Star Badass|Admirals Hood and Harper]], [[Cloak and Dagger|Lieutenant Sobeck and Admiral Standish]], and so on. The Espartanos from v1 - v4 were an obvious reference to the Spartans, and the fortress colony of Reach is named for a planet in the Haloverse that serves a similar purpose.
* All of the characters in ''[[
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