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* The monster from the 13th and final ''[[Dragonball Z]]'' movie, Hirudegarn, was apparently named after the film's animation supervisor whose name was Hiruda. Apparently, when he saw the design for the thing his jaw dropped, an expression characterised in Japanese with the onomatopoeia "[[Unsound Effect|GAAN]]".

* ''[[Gundam Seed]]'' has Erica Simmons, named after Mark Simmons, a [[Big Name Fan]] turned [[Promoted Fanboy]] when Bandai America hired him to help with the localization of the ''[[Gundam]]'' franchise. Erica is a mobile suit engineer, likely a nod to Mark's old website Gundam Project, which featured detailed mobile suit profiles and hand-drawn lineart.

== Comic Books ==

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* Carlie Cooper of ''[[Spider-Man]]'' was named after [[Joe Quesada]]'s daughter. The fandom was not amused.

* A few members of the Sinestro Corps in ''[[Green Lantern]]'' were named after DC staff members. Bur'Gunza (Eddie Berganza), Schlagg-Man (Adam Schlagman), Scivor (Ethan Van Sciver), and Duel Eknham (Doug Mahnke). Another member, Imecsub, was based off of actor Steve Buscemi.

== Fan Works ==

* Fans of ''[[Touhou]]'' often put the nickname of the series' creator, ZUN, into their derivative works—most often as an [[Unsound Effect]]. Strangely enough, ZUN's real name, Oota Jun'ya is rarely used, if ever.

* In L-Dog Z's ''Spider-Man Evolution'' series all minor mooks that are not pre-existing comic book characters are named after comic book writers, basically combining this trope with [[Take That]] (although they're also (fan) [[Canon Immigrant]]s from the [[Daredevil]] film adaption).

* The author of the ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' fanfic series has admitted in [[All There in the Manual|his concordances]] that some of the minor original characters bear the names of ~~his coworkers~~ or former coworkers.

* The author of the ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'' fanfic series has admitted in [[All There in the Manual|his concordances]] that some of the minor original characters bear the names of current or former coworkers.

== Films -- Live-Action ==

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* Narrowly averted in ''[[The Usual Suspects]]'': Keyser Söze was originally going to be named "Keyser Sume," after the former boss of screenwriter Christopher McQuarrie. Mr. Sume, however, was not too keen on having his name attached to a [[Diabolical Mastermind]] who murdered his own family, so they changed it.

* A promient criminal in the [[Daredevil]] film is named [[Joe Quesada|Jose Quesada]] (a fact that has become [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] after some...controversal decessions Quesada made as Editor-In-Chief of Marvel has some fans casting him as a villian common place), a "[[Stan Lee|Mr. Lee"]] that pays for his legal fees in fish, and other characters named [[Jack Kirby]], Bendis, and Romita, all named after writers and artists that contributed to the Daredevil mythos. Really, that filmed loved this trope.

== Literature ==

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* In [[Elizabeth Moon]]'s novel ''[[Vatta's War|Victory Conditions]]'', the section in which the villains attack the Moray shipyards features heroic deaths for a group of the author's friends.

* As Piers Anthony's ''[[Xanth]]'' series now consists almost entirely of [[Running the Asylum|material suggested by fans]], the series now includes many references to actual readers. A major character, Jenny Elf, is named in honor of a real girl and Xanth reader who was paralyzed in a car accident.

* There are several of these in the [[Dragaera]] books, particularly in the introductions to the ''Khaavren'' books. One, written by "The Dean of Pamlar University" was written by author Pamela Dean; another, by a magician named Ilen was written by [[Neil Gaiman]]. Similarly, in the book ''Athyra'', there is a reference to a ''Book of the Seven Wizards'', with each wizard being a [[Shout-Out]] to writer friends of Brust, except for one which describes himself.

* There are several of these in the ''[[Dragaera]]'' books, particularly in the introductions to the ''Khaavren'' books. One, written by "The Dean of Pamlar University" was written by author Pamela Dean; another, by a magician named Ilen was written by [[Neil Gaiman]]. Similarly, in the book ''Athyra'', there is a reference to a ''Book of the Seven Wizards'', with each wizard being a [[Shout-Out]] to writer friends of Brust, except for one which describes himself.

* In the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Expanded Universe]] novel ''How Much For Just The Planet?'' by [[John M. Ford]], the ''Enterprise'' visits a planet colonized by a group of eccentric artists; nearly all the colonists with speaking parts are based on the author's friends and fellow-writers, including [[Pamela Dean]], [[Neil Gaiman]], [[Diane Duane]], [[Peter Morwood]], and [[Janet Kagan]].

** Interestingly, ''How Much For Just The Planet?'' was used in Duane's ''[[Young Wizards]]'' Series as the title of an alien TV show.

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** The critic in question [https://web.archive.org/web/20121209111545/http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/002156.php responded in an appropriately wry manner.] [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|To the point of heroism.]]

* In the fourth ''[[Harry Potter]]'' book, a girl named Natalie MacDonald briefly appears and is put in Gryffindor. This was the name of a cancer patient who sent J.K. Rowling a very nice fan letter. Sadly, Natalie had died by the time the book was released.

** Natalie's death was the ''reason'' Rowling named her as a tribute - the ~~litle~~ girl had asked to be told how the ~~story~~ ended before she died, but Rowling didn't get to respond in time, so name-dropping a character with that name was her making up for this.

** Natalie's death was the ''reason'' Rowling named her as a tribute - the little girl had asked to be told how the series ended before she died, but Rowling didn't get to respond in time, so name-dropping a character with that name was her making up for this.

** Rowling also stated that "Potter" comes from her childhood neighbours.

* Science fiction publisher [[Baen Books]] is probably the king of tuckerizations. [[David Weber]], [[John Ringo]], and [[Eric Flint]] have been doing it for years with forum members whose names are chosen to be characters. Joe Buckley is infamous as a member who appears and gets brutally killed in nearly every work of fiction at Baen after a contest started between the different authors. When the ''Baen Universe'' online magazine launched, they added Tuckerizations as a perk of the higher levels of the club.

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* In [[Esther Friesner]]'s ''Majyk by...'' series, the three village idiots are named Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon, a shout-out to author [[Lawrence Watt-Evans]].

* Taken to an art form in Bill Fitzhugh's ''Pest Control'', whose lead is named Bob Dillon. It didn't make for a happy childhood. He spends the entire book being confused with [[Bob Dylan]], even by ''the CIA''.

* A [[William Gibson]] / [[Bruce Sterling]] novel ''[[The Difference Engine]]'' featured a character named [[Godwin's Law|Michael Godwin]].

* The [[William Gibson]]/[[Bruce Sterling]] novel ''[[The Difference Engine]]'' featured a character named [[Godwin's Law|Michael Godwin]].

* [[Tamora Pierce]] does this more and more, usually with a variation in spelling. Kyrsty Street and Hollyskyt Street keep being mentioned as locations in Kugisko in ''Cold Fire''; sure enough, the acknowledgements include a Holly Skeet and a Kirsty Something-or-other. And most members of the author's [http://www.sheroescentral.com message board] noticed Joshain Street in ''Trickster's Choice'' and Ratey's Inn in ''The Will of the Empress'', both of which are variations on the usernames of [[Big Name Fan]]s.

* [[Matthew Reilly]] at one point went on the popular Australian radio show ''Hamish & Andy'', and held an impromptu competition: Call in if you have a good-sounding name, and the best one will be in his next novel, ''The Five Greatest Warriors''. The resulting character, General Jackson Dyer, lasted 29 pages, which is, as Reilly said himself, 'a huge number of pages for a Matthew Reilly book'.

* [[Matthew Reilly]] at one point went on the popular Australian radio show ''[[Hamish & Andy]]'', and held an impromptu competition: Call in if you have a good-sounding name, and the best one will be in his next novel, ''The Five Greatest Warriors''. The resulting character, General Jackson Dyer, lasted 29 pages, which is, as Reilly said himself, 'a huge number of pages for a Matthew Reilly book'.

* Gary Russell's ''[[Doctor Who]]'' [[Virgin New Adventures]] novel ''Legacy'' featured several notable names in fandom, including an alcoholic Pakhar (intelligent alien hamster) named Hyn't'n, whose death sets up the plot. By a strange coincidence, Craig Hinton's subsequent DW novel, ''The Crystal Bucephalus'', had a cameo by a doglike creature named Garruss.

** The Virgin Publishing ''[[Doctor Who]]'' novels did this a ''lot''. Take a random book and compare the names of minor characters with the rec.arts.drwho folk namechecked in the aknowledgements.

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* ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' makes a brief mention of Lord [[Sdrawkcab Name|Trebor Jordayne]] of the Tor. His heraldic symbol is a quill, and he apparently has an interesting theory that [[The Wheel of Time|time is a wheel]].

* M'chel Riss of ''[[Star Risk, Ltd.]]'' is named after author [[Chris Bunch]]'s friend Michelle Rice.

* In the 1967 "psychedelic science fiction" novel ''[[The Butterfly Kid]]'', in addition to [[Author Avatar]] Chester Anderson, there is [[Michael Kurland]] (who wrote the first sequel) and Tom Waters (who wrote the second sequel).

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* In ''~~The~~ [[~~Hitch~~ ~~Hikers~~ Guide to ~~The~~ Galaxy]]'' radio drama and early versions of the novel, author Douglas Adams mentions a classmate named Paul Neil Milne Johnstone whom he considers the worst poet in the universe. ([[Beyond the Impossible|He's worse than Vogons!]]) The named was eventually changed to Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings in the later editions of the novel, the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (TV series)|TV series]] and the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|movie]].

** There is an uncertain instance in the character of Andrew Blake, an unashamed pornographer with artistic pretensions. Some fifteen or so years after the book was published, porn director/producer Paul Nevitt began working under the name "Andrew Blake" and began releasing [[True Art Is Incomprehensible|almost incomprehensibly-artistic]] adult films; it is unknown if Nevitt was known to Anderson and had been using the name already, or if he just took the pseudonym in tribute, or if it was all just a coincidence.

*** [https://web.archive.org/web/20170107040930/http://jamesdavisnicoll.com/review/panicky-teenyboppers At least one reviewer] is of the opinion that the fictional Blake is in fact a Tuckerized Nevitt.

** At least two Amazon.com reviewers claim to have been neighbors of Anderson, Kurland and Waters in the 1960s and indicate that ''everyone'' in the book, even walk-on characters, is based on a real person.

== Live-Action TV ==

* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', ~~Psicorps~~ agent Alfred Bester is named after the science fiction writer, whose work often dealt with [[Psychic Powers]]. In particular, his novel ''The Demolished Man'' is about a set of psychics that bear a marked resemblance to the ~~Psicorps~~.

* In ''[[Babylon 5]]'', Psi Corps agent Alfred Bester is named after the science fiction writer, whose work often dealt with [[Psychic Powers]]. In particular, his novel ''The Demolished Man'' is about a set of psychics that bear a marked resemblance to the Psi Corps.

** Dr Lillian Hobbes won a charity auction where the prize was to be the 'victim' of this trope.

** Dr Lillian Hobbes won a charity auction where the prize was to be the "victim" of this trope.

** The [[Expanded Universe]] reveals that Bester was named after the author in-universe as well, since the man who took him to be raised by Psi-Corps after his parents' deaths was a big fan and entered him under the name.

** [[Neil Gaiman]] has an entire ''race'' named after him; the Gaim, whose heads resemble [[The Sandman]]'s helmet.

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* One of the characters on ''[[The Wire]]'' is Sergeant Jay Landsman, who is named after and shares certain similarities with a real life Baltimore homicide detective that series creator [[David Simon]] met while writing ''[[Homicide: Life on the Street|Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets]]''. Even stranger, the real Landsman retired from police work and became an actor, and he appears on ''The Wire'' as Major Dennis Mello, a character named after ''another'' real-life Baltimore cop.

** Stranger than that, Mello meets with Landsman's expy from the television series, none other than [[John Munch]].

* A large corporation that's popped up a couple of times on [[Law ~~and Order SVU|Law and~~ Order: Special Victims Unit]] is Taucher-Leto Pharmaceuticals. Take a look at the end credits sometime and see if you can't figure out why the names seem so familiar...

* A large corporation that's popped up a couple of times on ''[[Law & Order: Special Victims Unit]]'' is Taucher-Leto Pharmaceuticals. Take a look at the end credits sometime and see if you can't figure out why the names seem so familiar...

* [[Gene Roddenberry]] allegedly named [[Star Trek|Khan Noonien Singh]] after an old friend with whom he'd lost touch, in the hopes that the friend would see it and contact him. Though it's a bit odd, in that case, that he gave the name to a villain...

** The Klingon race was named after Lieutenant Wilbur Clingan, who served with Roddenberry in the Los Angeles Police Department.

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* A number of characters from ''[[The Thick of It]]'' were named after players from one writer Jesse Armstrong's five-a-side football team. They include Malcolm Tucker, a particularly neat example of this trope.

* ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' held a contest with the prize being the honor of appearing on the show. The winner got to see his Claymation self right in the center of the Deathmatch ring—where his liver was promptly ripped out by John Tesh.

* In the episode "Breaking and Entering" from the ~~2nd~~ season of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', Michael's cover ID for infiltrating a [[Private Military Contractor|mercenary company]] is Terry Miller, which is the name of the show's unit production supervisor.

* In the episode "Breaking and Entering" from the second season of ''[[Burn Notice]]'', Michael's cover ID for infiltrating a [[Private Military Contractor|mercenary company]] is Terry Miller, which is the name of the show's unit production supervisor.

** The lead character himself is an example: Michael West'''en''', not to be confused with actor Michael West'''on''', who appeared in ''[[Garden State]]'', had recurrent roles on ''[[Scrubs]]'', ''[[Law and Order Special Victims Unit|Law and Order SVU]]'', and ''[[House (TV series)|House]]''—and made a guest appearance on ''[[Burn Notice]]''.

* Collective example: A written list of murder victims seen on ''[[Forever Knight]]'' consisted entirely of the names of [[Real Life]] fans, from a newsgroup dedicated to the show.

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** Also done with one of the other staff members, Robin Weiner, whose name gets attached to some hot-dogs.

* Cameron from ''[[The Sarah Connor Chronicles]]'' was quite obviously named after [[James Cameron]], the creator of the entire ''[[Terminator (franchise)|Terminator]]'' series.

* The surnames of the ''[[The X-~~Files|The X~~ Files]]'' main duo: Mulder is the maiden name of [[Chris Carter]]'s mother, and Scully is [[Named After Somebody Famous|after Dodger announcer Vin Scully.]] And it appears every now and then in the series (for instance, the [[Creepy Twins|Creepy Twin Clones]] from "Eve" are named after the writers' wives).

* The surnames of the ''[[The X-Files]]''{{'}} main duo: Mulder is the maiden name of [[Chris Carter]]'s mother, and Scully is [[Named After Somebody Famous|after Dodger announcer Vin Scully.]] And it appears every now and then in the series (for instance, the [[Creepy Twins|Creepy Twin Clones]] from "Eve" are named after the writers' wives).

* Piz from ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' was named after a regular director for the show, Piznarski.

* Gil Grissom on ''[[CSI]]'' is named after astronaut Virgil 'Gus' Grissom; Petersen is a space buff.

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* Another collective version: All the background officers on ''[[Adam-12]]'' were named for officers Jack Webb knew during his radio days.

* Screenname version: ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' had an episode in season 4 with a Polgara demon, the name of which was after a regular poster's screenname at the Bronze board.

* Peter Kay and Paddy McGuinness named a one-off character in ''Max & Paddy's Road To Nowhere'' Alison Graham, after a journalist who had championed their previous series ''[[Phoenix Nights]]''.

* Peter Kay and Paddy McGuinness named a one-off character in ''[[Max & Paddy's Road To Nowhere]]'' Alison Graham, after a journalist who had championed their previous series ''[[Phoenix Nights]]''.

== Music ==

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* Sloan are named after an old friend of the band, sort of: their friend Jason Larsen was frequently called "slow one" by his boss, but due to a heavy french accent it sounded more like "Sloan", which became his nickname. Larsen agreed to let them name their band after him on the condition that they put him on an album cover, and sure enough his face is on the cover of ''Peppermint'', their first EP.

* Miike Snow took their name from their friend Mike Snow, then added an extra "i" as a [[Shout-Out]] to [[Takashi Miike]].

== Newspaper Comics ==

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* Mary Jane from ''[[Buster Brown]]'' was named after Richard F. Outcault's daughter and is inspired by her. Miss Outcault would eventually lend her name to a style of strap shoes worn by girls and women.

== Radio ==

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* In ''[[The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy]]'' radio drama (and early versions of the novel as well), author Douglas Adams mentions a classmate named Paul Neil Milne Johnstone whom he considers the worst poet in the universe. ([[Beyond the Impossible|He's worse than Vogons!]]) The named was eventually changed to Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings in the later editions of the novel, the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (TV series)|TV series]] and the [[The Hitchhiker's Guide to The Galaxy (film)|movie]].

== Tabletop Games ==

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** [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Maro Maro] is named after lead designer '''Ma'''rk '''Ro'''sewater.

* The adventure scenario "...And I Feel Fine" for ''[[Unknown Armies]]'' (in the supplement ''One Shots'') includes two ready-to-play characters named after RPG designers: Rebecca Borgstrom and Rich Dansky.

== Theatre ==

* ''The Most Happy Fella'' does this in the prelude to the title song, when the postman calls out the townspeople's names: "Johnson" and "Sullivan" were named after the original production's featured actresses Susan Johnson (as Cleo) and Jo Sullivan (as Rosabella), and "Herbie Greene" after the conductor, Herbert Greene.

== Theme Parks ==

* At ''[[The Haunted Mansion]]'' from [[Disney Theme Parks]], Master Gracey, the Ghost Host ([[Multiple Choice Past|maybe]]), is named after Yale Gracey, who designed a lot of the ride's special effects.

** Also, Madame Leota is named after Leota Toombs, a ride designer and the face of Madame Leota.

== Toys ==

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* [[Mattel]] co-founder Ruth Handler named the [[Barbie]] and Ken dolls after her children Barbara and Kenneth respectively.

== ~~Videogames~~ ==

== Video Games ==

* In the ''[[Armored Core]]'' series, the obscenely powerful Karasawa laser rifle is named after one of the series' producers. It's always one of the strongest weapons in the game, if not ''the'' strongest.

* Quite a few [[NPC]]s and items in ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' are named after real people, often in their memory. One of the more recent is [http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=30562#comments Crusader Bridenbrad], named for '''Brad'''ley '''Briden'''becker, the brother of one the Blizzard Employees, who had died of cancer.

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* Ebsiumaru, Goemon's partner in ''[[Ganbare Goemon]]'', was named after Konami programmer Ebisu Etsunobu, who programmed ''Ganbare Goemon 2'' for the Famicom (which was incidentally Ebisumaru's debut game).

* The leaders of [[La Résistance|the Rebellion]] in ''[[EV Nova]]'' have surnames from the development team. (Or a codename, in Frandall's case.)

* [[Fallout 2]] has a couple of special encounters with Tuckerization.

* ''[[Fallout 2]]'' has a couple of special encounters with Tuckerization.

** 'The Cafe of Broken Dreams' - One of the characters tells of a player who went to great lengths to keep Dogmeat alive in the original [[Fallout]]. Based on a real player.

** "The Cafe of Broken Dreams" - One of the characters tells of a player who went to great lengths to keep Dogmeat alive in the original ''[[Fallout]]''. Based on a real player.

** 'The Unwashed Villagers hunting a spammer' - From the Fallout wiki, "A reference to a real life flamewar between a Fallout internet community and a forum 'troll'." The villagers are named with the handles of the people involved.

** "The Unwashed Villagers hunting a spammer" - From the Fallout wiki, "A reference to a real life flamewar between a Fallout internet community and a forum 'troll'." The villagers are named with the handles of the people involved.

== ~~Webcomics~~ ==

== Web Comics ==

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20160623225123/http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070301 This] is what happens to people who win a cameo appearance in ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.

* Similar to the ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' example above, [[Knights of the Old Coding]] had a couple contests where the victor got to be killed by the cast member of their choice.

* Similar to the ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' example above, ''[[Knights of the Old Coding]]'' had a couple contests where the victor got to be killed by the cast member of their choice.

** Worth pointing out is that [[Knights of the Old Coding]] predated [[Sluggy Freelance]] on this trend.

** Worth pointing out is that [[Knights of the Old Coding]] predated ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' on this trend.

* Similarly once more, the only character in ''[[Earthsong]]'' to be Tuckerized in was [[Sacrificial Lamb|killed...ish]] within the first 25 pages.

** Before the reboot, the character of Alyss had the name "Tehmel", which was an explicit reference to a close friend of the author. The name was altered when the character was reintroduced during the Redux because the author didn't particularly like how akward the name sounded. Alyss is apparently still a reference to the same person.

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*** For the last two years, as evidenced by the strip linked above, Tycho and Gabe have ''completely forgotten'' to do the cameo strip. And in all but the first case, they have pointed out that the people that buy the cameo appearances are either a group (as in the first case), or otherwise in possession of a lot of money. Their second cameo strip consisted entirely of them trying to convince the person who had won the appearance to ''buy them cars'' (he had won the auction with a bid of $20,000).

* Trawn from ''[[Electric Wonderland]]'' shares the same first name as one of the cartoonist's friends: Eileen Cruz, founder of Toon Zone.

* In [[Girl Genius]] there's a villain named Baron Aaronev who is served by mooks with a strong resemblance to characters in comics drawn by ''Aaron'' Williams. Williams returned the favor by making Phil Foglio a villain in [[PS238]] (see Comics, above).

* In ''[[Girl Genius]]'' there's a villain named Baron Aaronev who is served by mooks with a strong resemblance to characters in comics drawn by ''Aaron'' Williams. Williams returned the favor by making Phil Foglio a villain in [[PS238]] (see Comics, above).

* ''[[Homestuck]]'' has Gamzee Makara was named for a Turkish fan named Gamze (better known as Gammy), who was a member of the forums at the time the trolls were introduced. A variety of variations on her name were suggested (as her name at 5 letters was too short), and "Gamzee" ended up being selected, as Hussie thought it was a [[Meaningful Name]]. A similar thing happened with Tavros Nitram, as his last name is just "Martin" backwards, named after another fan. Because of these two incidents, Hussie became more selective with name suggestion, and after the trolls were fully introduced, no further naming has been possible by the fans.

* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' in Book 15 got a ''runaway'' tuckerization:

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* Several sector and zone names in ''[[Beast Wars]]'' were named after fans on the transformers irc channel.

* An example ''from [[Looney Tunes]]'': in a Bugs Bunny episode, the wolf which chases Bugs is named "Charles M. Wolf". Guess what the "Charles M." stands for. (The episode was, actually, directed by Friz Freleng.)

* All of the members of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' family are named after Matt Groening family ~~members~~, except Bart, which is an anagram of "brat".

* All of the members of ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' family are named after members of Matt Groening's family, except Bart, which is an anagram of "brat".

** Also, they all have the middle initial "J", as a tribute to Jay Ward, who created ''Bullwinkle''.

** Also, they all have the middle initial "J", as a tribute to Jay Ward, who created ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]''.

** Also, John Frink is an executive produced of the show.

** In an ''attempt'' to subvert this trope, when Groening decided it was time to give Grampa a real name he didn't want to use another name from his family and just asked the rest of the writing staff to come up with one. They decided on Abraham, not knowing that this was in fact the name of Groening's paternal grandfather. He decided to keep the name anyway.

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** In "Sisters", the creepy abandoned warehouse where the rave is held has huge giant letters on the roof spelling "SOTO", after episdoe directer Alex Soto.

** There is also a sort of minor villain called Soto. Not sure if it's a Tuckerization or not, but as the character is an incredibly childlike rockish alien with a spaceship like a playpen, it seems likely.

** In the [[Trapped in TV Land]] episode, there's a talk show where the guest is "Dr. Victor Payton who has discovered the secret to world peace." Victor Payton is the father of Cyborg [[Voice Actor]] Khary Payton.

** In the [[Trapped in TV Land]] episode, there's a talk show where the guest is "Dr. Victor Payton who has discovered the secret to world peace." Victor Payton is the father of Cyborg's [[Voice Actor]] Khary Payton.

* In ''[[South Park]]'', Stan's parents and sister are named after Trey Parker's parents and sister, Kyle's parents are named after Matt Stone's parents, [[Really Gets Around|Cartman's mom]] is named after Parker's fiancee who left him for another man, Cartman's name is based off their friend Eric Carpman, Butters is named after their friend and then-animation director (now a producer) Eric "Butters" Stough, and [[Living Prop]] Jason is named after close friend Jason McHugh who worked on ''Cannibal! The Musical'' and ''Orgazmo''.

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together," the band in question is composed of Danny (named after Dan Povenmire, one of the creators), "Swampy" Sherman (the other creator, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh), and Bobbi Fabulous (whose name comes from Bobby Gaylor, a writer on the show). The last one is...''[[Ambiguously Gay|subtlety at its finest]]''...

* In the ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'' episode "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together", the band in question is composed of Danny (named after Dan Povenmire, one of the creators), "Swampy" Sherman (the other creator, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh), and Bobbi Fabulous (whose name comes from Bobby Gaylor, a writer on the show). The last one is...''[[Ambiguously Gay|subtlety at its finest]]''...

** Also in [[Phineas and Ferb]], Ferb is named after a real life friend of Dan and Swampy's named Frank. But everyone called him Ferb~~, but his name were Frank~~. Like the fictional Ferb, Ferb has every tool imaginable.

** Also in ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'', Ferb is named after a real life friend of Dan and Swampy's named Frank. But everyone called him Ferb. Like the fictional Ferb, Ferb has every tool imaginable.

* ''[[The Fairly OddParents]]'': Elmer, Butch Hartman's real name, is used as the name of one of Timmy's friends. His boil, Bob, is named after art director Bob [[A Worldwide Punomenon|Boyle]].

** The doctor on ''[[Family Guy]]'' was also named after Butch Hartman. His name: Dr. Elmer Hartman.

* In the ''[[Ben 10: ~~Alien Force|Ben 10~~ Alien Force]]'' episode "Pet Project" Gwen mentions that a store called McDuffie's, named after [[Dwayne McDuffie]], one of the writers, is closing down.

* In the ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force]]'' episode "Pet Project" Gwen mentions that a store called McDuffie's, named after [[Dwayne McDuffie]], one of the writers, is closing down.

** [[Heartwarming in Hindsight]], given McDuffie's untimely death in February 2011.

* "[[Invader Zim|It was forseen that you would come. Forseen by...]][[Mystery Science Theater 3000|Frank.]]"