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* Subverted in ''[[Wolf's Rain]]''. After feeding a stray dog, a girl named Leara meets a boy who says the dog's called Toboe. She's confused when he later calls himself Toboe. He claims this is because he and the dog are so alike. It's probably not spoileriffic to reveal that the dog is actually a wolf, and that the boy and wolf share the same name because they are one and the same. When Leara finds out the truth she freaks out, to his dismay.
* Ichigo of ''[[Tokyo Mew Mew]]'' names her fluffy mascot, Masha, after her boyfriend, Masaya.
* In light novels of ''[[
* Used for a dub-only [[Continuity Nod]] in the English dub of ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'': Judai and co. meet a trained dueling monkey named Wheeler; in [[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|the original series dub]], Joey Wheeler was frequently called (as an insult) "a dueling monkey."
** In the dub of the original ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'', Mana's bird is named Anzu, referencing the Japanese name of Tea Gardner. The bird is unnamed in the Japanese version.
* A variant occurs in ''[[Moon Light Lady]]''. Suzuna's stuffed teddy bear is named Mizuna, and unbeknownst to her shares its name with Suzuna's twin sister.
* In ''[[Futari Ecchi]]'', Rika's cat is named Yamada, after her boyfriend.
* The main character of ''[[Kimi wa Petto]]'' first decides to keep Takeshi as a 'pet' because he reminds her of her old
== [[Comics]] ==
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* In ''[[Sir Apropos of Nothing|Woad to Wuin]]'', Apropos discovers that he has named his horse Entipy, after a woman he knows.
* In [[Rudyard Kipling]]'s arctic story ''Quiquern'' Kotuko the young Inuit hunter has a sled dog named Kotuko. The story implies that this is common practice.
* In [[Sandy Mitchell]]'s ''[[Warhammer
* In the novel ''The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle'' by Haruki Murakami, the main character names his cat Noboru Wataya after his brother-in-law, whom he hates.
* [[Sharpe|Richard Sharpe]] named his dog Nosey, on the grounds that he'd spent fifteen years taking orders from the bastard, so he might as well give a few.
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* In ''Iron Dawn'', a veteran of the Trojan War who'd fought under Achilles names his horse after the wife of the Trojan hero Hector. The implication is that the old soldier can ''really'' hold a grudge, as he named it that as a snub: he's riding his enemy's wife.
* A rural French tradition according to ''[[Malevil]]''. Since the [[The French Revolution]] ranchers have named their livestock with nobility titles as a generation-spanning [[Take That]] against their [[Aristocrats Are Evil|distant ancestors' oppressors]]. Namely at Malevil, there is a Baronne, Comtesse, Marquise, and Princesse.
* In [[Artemis Fowl]] ''The Time Paradox'', in a combination of
* ''[[Misery]]'': Annie's pig is named after her favorite character.
* In Dawn Cook's ''Princess at Sea,'' Tess names her gelding "Jy" after her [[Friendly Rival]] Captain Jeck (who, incidentally, also cannot have children...)
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In the Walkyverse, Joyce has, unintentionally, named two dogs after boys she had crushes on, both times after being mindwiped of the boys' existence. In Roomies! Joyce has an [[All Love Is Unrequited|unrequited]] [[Yandere
** Additionally, her childhood dog was named Walkies. She'd met Walky onboard the alien craft that gave them superpowers, but they were both mindwiped of the encounter.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* On ''[[Total Drama Island]],'' Harold adopts a snail and names it Leshawna Jr., after his love interest. It's supposed to be a compliment, though Leshawna probably wouldn't take it that way herself.
* A possible example in [[Justice League: Crisis
* In an episode of ''[[The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack]]'', Flapjack adopts a rat and calls it "K'nuckles the second."
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* In some Shi'ite Muslim majority countries, they will frequently kick and refer to dogs as "Umar" as a reference to the 2nd Sunni Caliph.
* One Argentinian journalist, Jorge Lanata, once had a little pig in his show. He named it "Varone" (but said he was also considering naming him "Orlando"), after "Orlando Barone". Because he knew that ''"once he grows up, he will became a big pig"''. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D-RboDxJsE4\]
* The cast and crew of ''[[C&Rsenal]]'' had encountered so many examples of early 1900s US Chief of Ordinance [[General Failure|General]] William Crozier being [[It Will Never Catch On|dead set against now mainstream technological developments]] (often more due to petty rivalry or sheer nonsense than any real issue) that when they found a guinea pig found under a dumpster and adopted it they named it "Crozier" (the pet is actually beloved of the show, only spared official mascot status because guinea pigs don't live all that long).
= Examples of Type 2 =
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* In ''[[Batman and Sons]]'', Catwoman named her son, Terry, after her first cat.
{{quote|'''Batman:''' She named my son after a cat, Alfred.}}
* In ''[[Impure Blood]]'', [https://web.archive.org/web/20131027095843/http://www.impurebloodwebcomic.com/Pages/Issue4PAGES/ib082.html Mac starts to speculate about this as soon as she learns his real name is Roan, because she knew of a horse that was called a roan.]
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