The Trope Formerly Known as X: Difference between revisions

== 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.

* 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:

** Averted -- his new name, ''Daishi'', stuck once it was actually pronounced/written in Roman characters!

* The Superbuddies - Formerly Known As [[Justice League of America|Justice League America]].

== Film ==

* In ''[[Shriek If You Know What I Did Last Friday the Thirteenth]]'':

* ''[[Garfield (film)|Garfield]]: A Tale of Two Kitties'': "I'm not Prince. I'm not even the cat formerly known as Prince".

* ''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 The Holy Grail]]'', The Knights Who Say Ni demand... [[Cool and Unusual Punishment|a shrubbery]]! When King Arthur and co. bring a shrubbery back...

'''King Arthur''':What is this test, O Knights Of - Knights Who Till Recently Said Ni? }}

** ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]'' came out in the late 1970s, over a decade before Prince changed his name, making it possibly an [[Ur Example]] of the trope's fundamental concept.

* From ''[[Digimon]]: The Movie'':

 

 

* 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 ''[[Animorphs]]'', Ax always calls the leader of the group Prince Jake. During one issue where only the pair of them were left, Jake tells Ax that there aren't enough people around, so he should be called The Jake Formerly Known As Prince. Later, when the group is back together, the two go through their [[Running Gag]] ("Don't call me Prince." "Yes, Prince Jake") and Ax says, instead, "I will call you The Jake Formerly Known As Prince."

** Marco can't really talk. When Rachel [[Bluff the Impostor|tests him]] by saying "You know you're a toad, right?" his answer is:

* 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."

 

== Radio ==

* The subject of a game of 'Limerick' on ''[[I'm Sorry I Haven't a Clue]]'' (where the contestants are given an opening line and have to complete a limerick by supplying one line each in turn):

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.

* Ansom of ''[[Erfworld]]'', after having his views on royalty changed by the events at Gobwin Knob, insists that he is "merely a warlord formerly known as Prince."

* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'': After the gang learns that [http://www.nuklearpower.com/2003/02/25/episode-253-ive-been-waiting-a-long-time/ Thief is actually the prince of the elves:]

'''[[Omnicidal Maniac|Black Mage]]:''' Killing you is going to be the greatest moment of my life. }}

* In ''[[Sinfest]]'' during a usual squabble between [[Vitriolic Best Buds|God and Dragon]] -- "[http://www.sinfest.net/archive_page.php?comicID=1999 What are you, the artist formerly known as Buddha?]"

== Web Original ==

* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'', when Marzipan is dressed as Prince for Halloween:

'''Marzipan:''' More like [[No Accounting for Taste|the former girlfriend]] known as Marzipan.<br />

'''Homestar Runner:''' Sounds like a plan! }}