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{{quote|'''Barbossa''': ''Why thank ye, Jack.''<br />
'''Jack Sparrow''': ''You're welcome.''<br />
'''Barbossa''': ''[[Did You Actually Believe?|Not you.]] [[Trope Namer|We named the monkey Jack]].''|''[[Pirates of the Caribbean]]: The Curse Of The Black Pearl''}}
This is where a human character and an animal companion share a name for some reason. This can work one of two ways:
# '''[[Pirates of the Caribbean|We Named The Monkey "Jack"]]:''' The animal was named after its human counterpart, either [[Dead Guy, Junior|to honor a fallen comrade]] or (more likely) as a subtle [[Take That]] against an enemy.
# '''[[Indiana Jones|We Named The Dog "Indiana"]]:''' The human was named for the animal, or takes a nickname (or [[Invented Individual|false identity]]) from the name given to a beloved pet or other animal companion.
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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 (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]] ''The Time Paradox'', in a combination of [[We Named the Monkey "Jack"]] and [[Dead Guy, Junior]], the heroes name a lemur {{spoiler|1=Julius Junior, or JayJay for short}}.
* ''[[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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* ''[[Hannah Montana]]'': One episode revealed that Miley once had a pig named Luann. The later episode, "Torn Between Two Hannahs" features her obnoxious cousin, Luann, whom she had named it after.
* At one point, Neal from ''[[White Collar]]'' introduces Peter as 'Mr. Satchmo', in tribute to his yellow lab. Peter then destroys Neal's perfected cover in retaliation, something Neal understood.
* In the ''[[
** 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 UNCLE]]'' episode "The Bow-Wow Affair", Illya is working alone on the case, but he names a borrowed fox Napoleon.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Monkey Island 2]]'', Elaine has named her dog Guybrush, for a series of unflattering reasons.
** Mostly because this is a [[Shout
* In ''[[Phoenix Wright Ace Attorney]]'', the name of a parrot is a clue to the real identity of a witness, as somebody important to the case lost a girlfriend. Manfred Von Karma retorts that his granddaughter has a dog named Phoenix and that it doesn't mean she named it after him.
* ''[[Ghost Trick]]'': {{spoiler|Sissel was named after Yomiel's dead fiancee, which provides a neat explanation for his [[Gender Blender Name]].}}
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* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda the Wind Waker (Video Game)|The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker]]'', a family on Outset Island names their pet pig after you.
* [[Shin Megami Tensei]]: [[Devil Survivor 2]] has [[The Big Guy|Jungo Torii]] name a cat he finds "Jungo" because it's easy to remember. It gets confusing ''very'' quickly.
** A variant occurred earlier in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Ocarina of Time|Ocarina of Time]]'' (which may overlap with [[Dead Guy, Junior]] depending on how you look at it). Darunia ends up naming his son after "The Legendary Dodongo Buster", so he's known as "[[Hello, Insert Name Here]] of the Gorons."
** Also occurs in ''[[The Legend of Zelda Twilight Princess|Twilight Princess]]'', where the cat owned by Beth's family shares Link's name. This makes no sense, until you remember the hilarious ''[[Fridge Brilliance|schoolgirl crush]]'' that Beth has for Link.
* In ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', Emperor Peony named his rappigs with the name of people from his childhood (bar Luke). Hilariously, Saphir, {{spoiler|which is Dist's real name}}, is the name of the stupid one.
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* The Swedish botanist Carl Linnaeus (Carl von Linné) is claimed to have named Geranium Robertianum (a flower mostly known for its repulsive odour) [[Take That|after a childhood bully.]]
* [[Katy Perry]] named her cat [[Punny Name|Kitty Purry.]]
* [[John Barrowman]], who played Captain Jack Harkness on ''[[
* Frequently happens when a new species is discovered, such as when [[The Far Side|Gary Larson]] had a newly-found breed of parasitic louse named after him. It was meant as a compliment.
** Sir David Attenborough has a species of echidna named after him.
** And [[Charles Darwin]] has a moth and a prehistoric lemur named after him.
* [[The Other Wiki]] has a [
* 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\]
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