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Can overlap with [[This Is My Name On Foreign]] if the character makes a habit of using foreign language versions of the same name. Or [[Significant Anagram]] is they use different anagrams of their actual name. At its simplest, it might just be always using the same initials.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
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* In ''[[A Series of Unfortunate Events]]'', Count Olaf and his henchman often use aliases that are anagrams of Count Olaf, such as Al Funcoot or O. Lucafont. The Baudelaires finally pick up on this in the eighth book.
* [[The Destroyer]] always uses his real first name "Remo" as part of his aliases.
* [[The Saint]] in the original stories often used his own initials; "Sebastian Toombs" was a frequent alias (at least two science fiction writers have included a [[Shout
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In the ''[[CSI]]'' episode "Living Legend", the killer uses aliases that the names of movie serial killers: Michael Myers, Pamela Voorhess and F. Krueger.
* ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]'': Sam & Dean tend to use Rock Star aliases when going undercover, like Catholic priests [[KISS (Music)|Father Simmons and Father Frehley]]. Sometimes they use other famous-names-with-connections-to-each-other aliases as well, like [[Star Wars|Agents Ford & Hamill]] from the US Forestry Service. They've only been called on this once or twice.
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* The ''[[Leverage]]'' team tends to use ''[[
{{quote| '''Hardison:''' What IDs have you got on you?<br />
'''Nate:''' Let's see... we've got Peter Davison, Sylvester McCoy, and I have a Tom Baker.<br />
'''Sophie:''' Yeah, I have a Baker. Sarah Jane. }}
* ''[[The Lone Gunmen]]'' sometimes antagonist/sometimes ally Yves Adele Harlow's assumed name is an [[Significant Anagram|anagram]] of [[Who Shot JFK?|Lee Harvey Oswald]], as are most of her one time only aliases.
* ''[[The Incredible Hulk (TV)|The Incredible Hulk]]'' TV show had him always using a last name that started with a 'B': David Banner to David Bradley, etc. The only time he didn't use that was when he ran in to his [[Identical Stranger]], a mobster named Mike Cassidy, and he tried to use that to get out of a scrape. Banner uses the Mike Cassidy alias when he comes face-to-face with his personal [[Inspector Javert]], Jack McGee, who up until the moment he sees him thinks Banner is dead. Banner uses one of his usual aliases when running into the mobsters looking for Cassidy, but they don't believe him.
* ''[[Remington Steele (TV)|Remington Steele]]'' was caught doing this by Laura in the pilot. All of his passports had the names of [[Humphrey Bogart]] characters.
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