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In 1993, the musician [[Prince]] changed his name to an [[Lucky Charms Title|unpronounceable symbol]] (roughly Ƭ̵̬̊) as part of a [[Take That]] to Warner Bros. legally preventing him from recording under the name "Prince", which is his legal [[One Name Only|given name]]. The phrase "the artist formerly known as Prince" was [[Memetic Mutation|coined by]] a public that had no idea what else to call him. Seven years later, his contract with that recording company expired and he went back to being known as simply Prince, making him [[Shaped Like Itself|the artist formerly known as the artist formerly known as Prince]], if you're being technical.
However, the media loves to parody this moniker even to this day, although as time goes on the joke gets less and less topical.
Not to be confused with [[Renamed Tropes]].
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== Comic Books ==
* Used in the ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]'' strip "A Character With No Name" where Dave refuses to name his new character, and eventually ends up creating an unpronounceable symbol to designate the character. B.A. eventually tires of the whole thing and has the character smote by the gods.
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* Also used in ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'', though it might have been topical when it was printed. Galford, a member of the Quirky Miniboss Squad, after getting some augmentations, changes his name to "大死". His boss's reaction:
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* The Superbuddies - Formerly Known As [[Justice League of America|Justice League America]].
== Fan
* One ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'' fanfic featured several Princes. One was called "The Prince Formerly Known as Artist", probably referencing the theatre adaptation mentioned below.
== Film ==
* In ''[[
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* ''[[Garfield (
* ''Cindrella: The Sillicious Musical'': The Artist Formerly Known as The Prince. TAFKATP
* In ''[[An Inconvenient Truth]]'', a slowly-melting glacier park is referred to as 'The Park Formerly Known as Glacier.'
* Long before the Prince situation, in ''[[Monty Python and
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'''Random Knight''': Ni!
'''Head Knight''': Shh. We are now The Knights Who Say... Ekky-ekky-ekky-ekky-pi''kang''-zoom-Boing-z'nourrrwringmm.
'''Random Knight''': Ni!
'''Head Knight''':Therefore, we must give you a test.
'''King Arthur''':What is this test, O Knights Of - Knights Who Till Recently Said Ni? }}
** ''[[Monty Python and
* From ''[[Digimon]]: The Movie'':
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== Literature ==
* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' novels ''The Eugenics Wars: The Rise and Fall of Khan Noonian Singh'', Roberta Lincoln calls Khan "The Artist Formerly Known As Noon."
* In ''[[
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** Marco can't really talk. When Rachel [[Bluff the Impostor|tests him]] by saying "You know you're a toad, right?" his answer is:
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* In the ''[[1632]]'' series, Don Fernando, the Spanish king's younger brother, was in holy orders as the "cardinal-infante" ("infante" is Spanish for "prince who's not heir to the throne"). Then he got a dispensation to give up being a cardinal. From that point on, there're occasional references to him as "the prince formerly known as cardinal-infante."
== Live
* ''The Show Formerly Known as
* On ''[[
* ''[[Roundhouse]]'' had a ''Cinderella'' parody with TAFKAP as the Prince. His name was announced as holding a cardboard sign with the symbol up and the sound effect of the first electronic riff plus 'uhn' in Prince's "Kiss".
* On an episode of ''[[The Drew Carey Show]]'' Ryan Stiles was pretending to be a frog: "The frog formerly known as Prince."
* On ''[[30
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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* [[WCW]], near the end, had The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Iaukaea, which was former island boy Prince Iaukaea now doing a parody Prince gimmick.
** An angle that was dropped once the ''real'' Prince dropped the unpronounceable symbol shortly after the gimmick started. This led to a mock press conference to announce that "The Artist Formerly Known as Prince Iaukaea" was changing his name to "The Artist."
* Meanwhile, after [[Goldust]]'s [[Heel Face Turn]] didn't go so well, [[
== Radio ==
* The subject of a game of 'Limerick' on ''[[
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On stage he would posture and mince,
Then just for a giggle,
He changed his name to a squiggle,
And nobody's heard of him since. }}
* At the time when Prince was 'the Artist Formerly Known as Prince', Tony Martin and Mick Molloy did a bit on the ''[[Martin Molloy]]'' radio show about how his close friends get to call him 'Formerly'. It was later included on one of their albums.
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== Theater ==
* From ''[[
* In a stage adaptation of ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]'', one prince vying for Jasmine's affection is "The Prince formerly known as The Artist"
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Ansom of ''[[
* ''[[8-
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'''[[Omnicidal Maniac|Black Mage]]:''' Killing you is going to be the greatest moment of my life. }}
* In ''[[
* ''[[
* In ''[[
== Web Original ==
* In ''[[
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'''Marzipan:''' More like [[No Accounting for Taste|the former girlfriend]] known as Marzipan.
'''Homestar Runner:''' Sounds like a plan! }}
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Abridged Series
* An episode of ''[[
== Western Animation ==
* Used twice by ''[[The Simpsons (
** There's also one of the flashback episodes (possibly "Lisa's First Word"),{{verify}} set during a time when "The Artist Formerly Known As Prince was currently known as Prince."
* In an episode of ''[[House of Mouse]]'' [[Donald Duck]] tries to become a celebrity and changes his name to the "Artist Formerly Known as Donald."
** And Mickey ended the episode by calling himself "The Mouse Currently Known As Mickey".
* In one episode of ''[[Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
** In another episode, "The Frog Princess," the title character entreats the prince to help her cook, and when he refuses on the grounds that he is a prince and thus can't cook, she sings him a song that includes the lyrics, "You could be the prince formerly known as helpless."
* "The Artist Formerly Known as Spot" from ''[[101 Dalmatians
== Real Life ==
* [[
** Music website Rhapsody used a subversion of this trope as a [[Take That]] against Prince in one instance, referring to him as "[[The Napoleon|The Artist Never Known as Tall]]".
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