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== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
* Most [[Professional Wrestling|Pro Wrestlers]] operate under a stage name. Some are easy to pick out, while others are subtle.
** [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] did a rather fun storyline on this, with ''Tough Enough'' season 3 winner John Hennigan being completely unable to decide on a stage name, and thus changing his name each and every week. He went through Johnny Blaze, Johnny Spade, Johnny Onyx, and Johnny Superstar before finally settling on Johnny Nitro—which was intended to be a kissass maneuver towards Eric Bischoff, the former architect of ''[[WCW]] Monday Nitro'' and then-current general manager of the Raw brand. Now, in his new gimmick as the second coming of Jim Morrison (lead singer of the Doors, who Hennigan looks remarkably like), he's taken the name John Morrison.
** "Hulk Hogan" was born Terrence Eugene Bollea. (What, not intimidating enough...?)
*** He started out wrestling as Terry Boulder, than added "Hulk" as a nickname to that, before dropping the first name and changing the last name to Hogan.
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** Ditto for another wrestler famously spiraling out of control, Chyna (born Joanie Marie Laurer.)
** Ask a non-[[Smark]] if they've ever heard of James Janos. More likely than not you'll get a "huh?" or somesuch in reply. Until you mention that he's more famous as Jesse Ventura, a name he adopted to shield his family from [[Fan Dumb|nutcase fans]].
** Brian Lawler went by Brian Christopher when he entered wrestling, to distance himself from his famous father, Memphis wrestling legend and current [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]] commentator Jerry "The King" Lawler. It didn't work very well for a number of reasons (not the least of which is an extremely strong family resemblance), and Brian Christopher's lineage soon became the single worst-kept secret in wrestling history (and keep in mind, this is the "sport" that spent the better part of a century badly hiding the fact that it was all a show).
** Virgil Riley Runnels? Not a wrestling name. Dusty Rhodes? Better.
*** His sons have continued the tradition. Dustin Runnels, better known as "Goldust", wrestled as "Dustin Rhodes" in the early part of his career, and Cody Runnels also uses the "Rhodes" surname.
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*** Stage name adopted by David Hayter for the ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' dub, "Sean Barker", comes from the character he played in the live-action ''[[Guyver]]'' movie.
* A few other voice actors with multiple stage names:
** Steven Jay Blum (who has performed under the names Daniel Andrews, Roger Canfield, Richard Cardona, Steven Jay, David Lucas and Andrew Watto)
** Melissa Charles (Tina Dixon, Melissa Fahn and Heather Lee Joelson).
** Dorothy Elias-Fahn (Dorothy Elias, Dorothy Fahn, Midge Mayes, Dorothy Melendez, Dorothy Melendrez, Jacky Morris and Annie Pastrano).
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