History AerithAndBob / WebOriginal

** Arin and Jon themselves also count somewhat.

** On the ''WebVideo/{{HermitcraftServer}}'', there are Hermits named Stress, Impulse, and Hypno playing alongside Pearl, Cleo, and Joe.

** On ''WebVideo/{{Hermitcraft}}'', there are Hermits named Stress, Impulse, and Hypno playing alongside... Pearl, Cleo, and Joe.

** The second campaign is slightly more balanced in this regard, with names like Caleb and Beauregard contrasted against names like Caduceus, Jester, and Nott. Mollymauk straddles the line, since most people call him Molly.

** On the ''WebVideo/HermitcraftServer'', there are Hermits named Stress, Impulse, and Hypno playing alongside... Pearl, Cleo, and Joe.

** The ''LetsPlay/EmpiresSMP'' has rulers named Katherine, Joey, and Scott exist alongside ones named Sausage, fWhip, and Pix. Its sister series by virtue of creator overlap and CanonWelding, the ''LetsPlay/AfterlifeSMP'', doesn't have it as bad as other [=SMPs=] as most members of the ALSMP either go by their real names, or, like Gem, have online aliases that can plausibly be used as actual names, but [=fWhip=] and Sausage are ''also'' on that server.
** On the ''LetsPlay/HermitcraftServer'', there are Hermits named Stress, Impulse, and Hypno playing alongside... Pearl, Cleo, and Joe.
** ''LetsPlay/LifeSMP'' shares a great creator overlap with ''Empires'' and ''Hermitcraft'', which naturally results in this trope being in effect: those who prefer to be called their online aliases include Bdubs, LetsPlay/{{Etho|sLab}}, Tango, Mumbo, and Grian, and on the other end are names like Joel, Lizzie, Jimmy, and Martyn.

* In ''ARG/TheNoedoleckinArchives'', you've got Signal, Gabore, and Hypsypops. And then, you've got Kirk.

* On the Livejournal roleplaying community Drama Drama Duck, [[Comicbook/TheSandman Delirium]] has mentioned having two fish: Humphrey Finkleton the 75th, and his daughter, Bob. [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} It's in character for her]].

* ''Podcast/ThePenumbraPodcast'' has Peter, Vicky, Omar, Rita, Ramses . . . Juno, Miasma, and Pilot.

** On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', people who prefer to be called their online alias include Dream, Sapnap, Bad, Foolish, and Quackity, and on the other end are people called Tommy, Jack, Connor, Wilbur, and Phil. This also applies in the spin-off series ''Tales From the SMP'' occasionally, with characters named Jackie, Levi, Edward, and Laggius co-existing in the episode "The Pit".

* As noted in the General section above, most prominent ''VideoGame/{{Minecraft}}'' servers and series, in their classic mixture of roleplay and Let's Play, feature both people who prefer to be called by their online aliases (often the Aeriths) and those who prefer to be called by their real-life names (usually the Bobs).

** ''LetsPlay/LifeSMP'' shares a great creator overlap with ''Empires'' and ''Hermitcraft'', which naturally results in this trope being in effect: those who prefer to be called their online aliases include Bdubs, Etho, Tango, Mumbo, and Grian, and on the other end are names like Joel, Lizzie, Jimmy, and Martyn.

** On the ''LetsPlay/LifeSMP'', those who prefer to be called their online aliases include Bdubs, Etho, Tango, Mumbo, and Grian, and on the other end are names like Joel, Lizzie, Jimmy, and Martyn.

* ''WebOriginal/ProtectorsOfThePlotContinuum'' has this, what with [[MassiveMultiplayerCrossover agents being recruited from all continua]] and some agents being OnlyKnownByTheirNickname.

* The Daleks in ''WebVideo/TheBuggerAnthology'' have a wide variety of names, ranging from sufficiently alien-sounding ones (Caan, Malek) to names that are normal by human standards but do not fit giant pepperpots from space well (Ricky, Bertha, Lynda) to names intended primarily to be jokes (None Pizza With Left Beef, Thanks For 25K, ABBA Megamix).

** On the ''LetsPlay/LifeSMP'', those who prefer to be called their online aliases include Bdubs, Etho, Tango, Mumbo, and Grian, and on the other end are names like Joel, Lizzie, Jimmy, and Martyn.

* [[WebVideo/MatthewSantoro Matt Santoro's]] clones are named [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Hugo]], [[{{Nerd}} Eugene]], [[TheCasanova Lorrenzo]]... and [[TheBigGuy Big Shine]]

* In ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemon'', a Pokemon will either be nicknamed, and end up with a very bizarre and usually unpronounceable jumble of letters, or it will be left with its original name. [[HiveMind The Mob]] typically gives any Pokemon with a major role a nickname based on said jumble of letters.
** The Championship team in ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal'' has, on the one hand, [=LazorGator=], [[EmbarrassingNickname Breakfast Burrito]], and [[VideoGame/MetalGear METAL GEAR]], and on the other hand, Brian, Katie, and Ace.
** In terms of actual protagonists, we have [[LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonRed Red]] and [[LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemonCrystal AJDNNW]].

** On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', people who prefer to be called their online alias include Dream, Sapnap, Bad, Foolish, and Quackity, and on the other end are people called Tommy, Jack, Connor, Wilbur, and Phil. This also applies in the spin-off series ''Tales From the SMP episodes'' occasionally, with characters named Jackie, Levi, Edward, and Laggius co-existing in the episode "The Pit".

* ''Letsplay/DreamSMP'': There are people who prefer to be called their online alias such as Dream, Sapnap, Bad, Foolish, Quackity, etc. On the other end are people called Tommy, Jack, Connor, Wilbur, Phil, etc.
* ''Letsplay/LifeSMP'': Some prefer to be called their online aliases like Bdubs, Etho, Tango, Mumbo, Grin among others. On the other end are names like Joel, Lizzie, Jimmy, Ren, Martyn, etc

* '''Letsplay/DreamSMP''': There are people who prefer to be called their online alias such as Dream, Sapnap, Bad, Foolish, Quackity, etc. On the other end are people called Tommy, Jack, Connor, Wilbur, Phil, etc.
* '''Letsplay/LifeSMP''': Some prefer to be called their online aliases like Bdubs, Etho, Tango, Mumbo, Grin among others. On the other end are names like Joel, Lizzie, Jimmy, Ren, Martyn, etc

* In the ''WebVideo/ClassicGameRoom'' review of ''Franchise/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles II: Back From The Sewers'' for the UsefulNotes/GameBoy, host Mark Bussler forgets the name of the turtles and names them "Leonardo", "Donatello", "Mussolini" and "Bob".

* ''Roleplay/RiseoftheBelievers'' has quite a bit of it. [[JustifiedTrope Understandable]] when you consider that characters come from all over the world [[RecycledInSpace and beyond.]]

* In ''LetsPlay/TwitchPlaysPokemon'', a Pokemon will either be nicknamed, and end up with a very bizarre and usually unpronounceable jumble of letters, or it will be left with its original name. [[HiveMind The Mob]] typically gives any Pokemon with a major role a FanNickname based on said jumble of letters.

* ''Literature/TheGodsAreBastards'' {{lampshade|Hanging}}d at one point with a drow-human couple whose names actually ''are'' Avrith and Bob.

* ''TheGamingBeaver'' likes to give his Jurassic World creatures funny nicknames: His Pteranodon is "Pecky Eyses", his Dimetrodon is "Unicorn Wizard", his Diplocaulus is "Flaffy", his Archelon is... Dave.