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- Schrodingers Duck: I've moved the following to Line-of-Sight Name as it fits better there:
- In The Associate Whoopi Goldberg's characters needs a name for her mysterious friend and her eyes falls on a bottle of alcohol at the bar: Robert S. Cutty.
Daibhid C: I know it's not technically this trope, but on the subject of characters using varients of their real names as pseudonyms, I have to mention two of the X-Men, Robert "Iceman" Drake and Samuel "Cannonball" Guthrie, going undercover in the anti-mutant group "Friends of Humanity" as Drake Roberts and Samson Guthry. It's not the trope because, incredibly, they came up with those names after plenty of preparation time. And they got away with it, with "Roberts" becoming the Big Bad's right hand man. There were a lot of Idiot Balls being handed out in that story.
Proginoskes: An entirely different kind of not-this-trope, I arrived at Sue Donym via a link from one of the many pages associated with Mary Sues, and without seeing the content of the article, the name made me think of Anne Onymous of The Wotch: the obviously pseudonymic pen-name of one of the creators is the real name of the lead character.
Micah: Removing natter:
- How has the Family Guy example not been mentioned yet?
- (Because it's in the Line-of-Sight Name article).
Darmok: Removed "Family Guy: Peter looked around and saw a pea, a girl crying, and a small griffin flying about. The result: Pe-tear Griffin." This is an example of Line-of-Sight Name.
Devinette: in Fullmetal Alchemist there is a case similar to the one mentioned by DaibhidC with Dr Marco. The guy is a deserter with a Dark and Troubled Past trying to live a peaceful life and atone for his sins in anonimity... and goes by the name Dr Mauro. It doesn't fit this trope since there's no indication that he chose it in a rush, he's been living under that name for years and he very likely thought it out. But... yeah.
