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{{quote|'''Barbossa''': ''Why thank ye, Jack.''
'''Jack Sparrow''': ''You're welcome.''
'''Barbossa''': ''[[Did You Actually Believe?|Not you.]] [[Trope Namer|We named the monkey Jack]].''|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: The Curse Of The Black Pearl''}}
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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 the ''[[Casper (film)|Casper]]'' movie, Dibbs mentions to Carrigan's ghost that with the treasure, he will buy among other things, a little dog named "Carrigan" ("a bitch, just like you!"). Then Carrigan flings him out the window.
* In ''[[Payback]]'', Porter's ex-girlfriend named her dog after him. This becomes useful later, when a man comes looking for Porter the man, and she takes him to Porter the dog, and has the dog attack.
* In ''[[Fierce Creatures]]'', Rollo Lee is placed in charge of the Marwood Zoo and one of the zookeepers named a lemur Rollo as a show of respect. Which leads to a bit of hilarity when the human Rollo and the lemur Rollo are together with the "''[[Small Name, Big Ego|Pronoid]]''" Vince
* Marilyn Rexroth in ''[[Intolerable Cruelty]]'' names her dog {{spoiler|Howard}} after one of her ex-husbands.
* In one of the unused scripts for ''[[Highlander: The Source|Highlander the Source]]'', Duncan has a monkey named after his cousin Connor.
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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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** Also, in "Rise of the Cybermen", Rose travels to an alternate universe, where her father is alive and still married to Jackie. She discovers that in this reality, they didn't have a daughter, but instead have a dog named Rose. She is deeply upset, but the The Doctor just starts laughing.
* In the ''[[The Man from U.N.C.L.E.]]'' episode "The Bow-Wow Affair", Illya is working alone on the case, but he names a borrowed fox Napoleon.
* In ''[[El Chavo
* In the ''[[Law and Order SVU]]'' episode "Authority", criminal Merritt Rook names a sheep "Elliot" after Elliot Stabler, implying that Elliot is a sheep who blindly follows rules. He later rescinds that statement though, saying that Elliot "is a human being, not a sheep."
* In ''[[Kaboul Kitchen]]'', General Amanullah named his two dogs "George" and "Bush". Ironically, he is supported by the American government.
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== [[Stand Up Comedy]] ==
* The ventriloquist [[Jeff Dunham]]:
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== [[Video Games]] ==
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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|crush on Danny]]. Still mindwiped and unable to remember her prior life, she and new BF Walky get a dog. Named? [https://web.archive.org/web/20081001021800/http://www.itswalky.com/d/20000422.html Daniel].
** 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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== [[Film]] ==
* [[Indiana Jones]] so disliked being named for his father that he used the nickname Indiana for most of his adult life. As revealed in ''[[Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade]]'', this was the name of the family dog.
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'''Henry''': That's his name. Henry Jones ''Junior''.
'''Indy''': I like Indiana.
'''Henry''': We named the ''dog'' Indiana.
'''Sallah''': The ''dog''? You are named after the dog?!? Hahaha!
'''Indy''': I've got some very fond memories of that dog. }}
** The decision to ditch his father's (who that last line implies he ''doesn't'' have many "fond memories" of) name in favour of the name of his beloved childhood pet tells the audience just what kind of childhood he had.
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== [[Live Action Television]] ==
* In ''[[Frasier]]'', Niles and Frasier discover their late mother's journal with numerous references (apparently) to them and their problems. After spending the episode angsting over the implications, they discover that they've been reading her lab journal from before their birth. "Niles" and "Frasier" were her experimental rats. At first they're relieved, but then it dawns on them;
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* ''[[Monk]]'' has Adrian Monk's older brother, Ambrose, whose father named him after a tortoise.
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== [[Web Comics]] ==
* In ''[[Batman and Sons]]'', Catwoman named her son, Terry, after her first cat.
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* 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.]
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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