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== [[Fan Works]] ==
* In ''[[Sailor Moon Z]]'', Usagi's TORG counterpart is Princess Angelina Comtessa <s>Louisa Francesca Banana-fana-fo-fesca</s> Fireball the III.
== [[Film]] ==
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*** "St. John" as a name is pronounced "sen jen."
== [[Live
* ''[[Kenan and Kel]]'': When Kenan and Kel (disguised as a woman) pose as a married couple to win a car on a game show for couples, Kenan impulsively stammers out the last name "Rockersteinbergerson."
** The girl interviewing them for the show pronounces it without missing a beat, but after that no one else is able to—not even Kenan. When he is asked how to pronounce it by the show's host, he stammers a bit and then gives up and just says "I don't know."
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== [[Literature]] ==
* In ''[[
* Subverted in one of the Volo novels (''[[Forgotten Realms]]''), in which Volo and his companions are passing themselves off as drow. One makes up an Unpronounceable Alias for himself by stringing a lot of X and Z sounds together, in accordance with cliches about drow names, yet their interrogator isn't fooled for an instant, because the resulting tongue-twister is a ''woman's'' name in drow culture.
* In a somewhat hilarious story with [[Painting the Fourth Wall|absolutely NO fourth wall whatsoever]], the narrator introduces himself to the protagonist (yes, you read that right) as Sir Francis Daxiana Reginald Popniner Killamen Snap the 3rd. Call him Max.
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** Also, of course, parodying the effect of having call centers outsourced to India where your call is answered by somebody with an extremely thick Indian accent who introduces himself as "James" or "Nathan".
== [[Radio]] ==
* Arthur, in ''[[Cabin Pressure]]'', mixed with [[Bad Liar]].
{{quote|DOUGLAS: All right, answer this question with a lie: what is your name?
ARTHUR: Arth...nold Man, er, Cat...sir...man.
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DOUGLAS: That’s an unusual name. Tell me, is it made up?
ARTHUR: Yes, it is. Oh! }}
== [[Video Games]] ==▼
* In the first ''[[Suikoden]]'', the main is required to pick an alias for himself. One of them is an example, "Schtolteheim Reinbach the Third." Later in the series, in a prequel game set roughly 100 years before the first game, there's a major NPC who who is named Schtolteheim Reinbach the second, and his son, a recruitable PC: the foppish Schtolteheim Reinbach the Third.▼
** The similarity in that ridiculous name is not a coincidence: there was a well known series of books was written about him.▼
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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* [[The Three Caballeros|Panchito Pistoles]] occasionally introduces himself as either Panchito Romero Miguel Junipero Francisco Quintero Gonzales III or El Gayo Jose Francesco Sandro de Lima y Loma Pancho Allegre.
* [[Atlantis: The Lost Empire|"Ki- Kidamaschnaga- Do you have any nicknames?"]]
▲== [[Video Games]] ==
▲* In the first ''[[Suikoden]]'', the main is required to pick an alias for himself. One of them is an example, "Schtolteheim Reinbach the Third." Later in the series, in a prequel game set roughly 100 years before the first game, there's a major NPC who who is named Schtolteheim Reinbach the second, and his son, a recruitable PC: the foppish Schtolteheim Reinbach the Third.
▲** The similarity in that ridiculous name is not a coincidence: there was a well known series of books was written about him.
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[[Category:Naming Conventions]]
[[Category:Comedy Tropes]]
▲[[Category:Naming Conventions]]
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