History AwesomeMcCoolname / Other

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* Captain Horatio Magellan Crunch, known to most as simply Cap'n Crunch.
* A Fed-Ex ad features a WitnessProtection man who is given the name Eric Gustafson. Unfortunately he gets it taken away and becomes Paul Matheson.
* Isaiah Mustafa, aka Advertising/TheManYourManCouldSmellLike.
* There is a real tutor named Never Wong in Hong Kong. Just google it.
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[[folder:ComicStrips]]
* There is one ''ComicStrip/TheFarSide'' cartoon about the difference between the names we give our dogs and the names they give themselves:
--> '''Man''': This is Rex, our new dog.
--> '''Dog 1''': Hello, I am known as Vexorg, Destroyer of Cats and Devourer of Chickens.
--> '''Dog 2''': I am Zornorph, the One who Comes by Night to the Neighbor's Yard, and this is Princess Sheewana, Barker of Great Annoyance and daughter of Queen La, Stainer of Persian Rugs.
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[[folder:Gamebooks]]
* In ''Literature/LoneWolf'', all the Kai have names along the lines of "Adjective Animal", given upon their initiation. Many of them follow this trope. For instance, the main character started out as "Silent Wolf", but after the rest of the order was killed in the prologue to the first book, he took on the book-naming appellation ''Lone'' Wolf.
* In the ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebooks, most of the main villains. Notable examples include: Mortis the Lich-Lord, Balthus Dire, Malbordus the Storm Child, Zanbar Bone, Razaak the Undying, Baron Sukumvit, Zagor, Warlock of Firetop Mountain, and Zharradan Marr (he changed it... from the marginally less cool Zharradan Dree). The good guys, meanwhile, have Vermithrax Moonchaser and Gereth Yaztromo.
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[[folder:Podcasts]]
* The ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' game of ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'' has this as the reasoning behind Josh and Shannon's characters, Mickey '''Spacelust''' and '''[[Music/{{Falco}} Roc Me Amadeus]]'''.
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[[folder:Professional Wrestling ]]
* Danger Bone Destroyer, who won the Wrestling/{{N|ationalWrestlingAlliance}}WA Nigeria Welterweight Title in 1993.
* Marc Mero wrestled in Wrestling/{{WCW}} as Johnny B. Badd.
* Wrestling/JohnLaurinaitis, the former Executive Vice President of Talent Relations of WWE and Interim General Manager of Monday Night Raw, formerly wrestled under the name "Johnny Ace". Because "Laurinaitis" is difficult to pronounce, smarks still often refer to him by his ring name.
* Johnny Grunge of Wrestling/ThePublicEnemyWrestling.
* Before he became Wrestling/JohnMorrison, John Hennigan's Wrestling/{{WWE}} name was "Johnny Nitro". He also had a series of minor appearances as "Johnny Blaze" and "Johnny Spade" before settling on "Nitro". He wrestled as Johnny [[BilingualBonus Mundo]] in ''Wrestling/LuchaUnderground'' and Johnny Impact in Wrestling/ImpactWrestling.
* British professional wrestler [[Wrestling/WillOspreay William Ospreay]] (his real name) is a high flyer who often perches on the turnbuckles like a large predatory bird.
* Wrestling/BrockLesnar sounds like a [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast name that would belong to a badass physical killer]]. He ''is'' a badass physical killer, and that is his real name.
* Wrestling/MichelleMcCool. That wasn't just a ring name, either. That was her legal name until she married Wrestling/TheUndertaker.
* ''[[Wrestling/TrevorMann Ricochet]]''
* Wrestling/BaronCorbin
* [[Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr Rey Mysterio (Jr.)]] It means [[MeaningfulName "King of Mystery"]] [[BilingualBonus in Spanish.]]
* There was also a WWE Diva Search contestant with a fun name to say, Joy Giovanni.
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[[folder:Radio ]]
* Johnny Dollar, the eponymous insurance investigator from the 1950s radio series ''Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar''.
* On ''It's Been a Bad Week'', an item about amusing names in an 18th century Cornish county register ends with 'Abraham Thunderwolf'.
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[[folder:Sports]]
* British boxer Tyson Fury. Son of John and Amber Fury, who were big fans of Creator/MikeTyson.
* Brazilian boxer Esquiva Falcão, whose name literally translates to ''Falcon Dodge''.
* UsefulNotes/FormulaOne driver Lando Norris, though he's no relation to Creator/ChuckNorris and his first name [[https://www.mclaren.com/racing/team/young-driver-programme/lando-norris-q-and-a-3199856/ supposedly has nothing to do with Star Wars]].
* Venues can have such names as well. Perhaps the best came about in 1997, when Temple University, located in UsefulNotes/{{Philadelphia}}, opened a new home for its men's basketball team: The Apollo of Temple. The name was apparently a [[ShoutOut shout-out]] to several ancient Greek Temples of Apollo, as well as Harlem's legendary Apollo Theater. Sadly, the name didn't last long; the venue was renamed Liacouras Center in 2000 after the university's retiring president.
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* ''[[Wrestling/TrevorMann Ricochet.]]''
* Wrestling/BaronCorbin.

* Wrestling/MichelleMcCool. That actually ''is'' the name that she was born with.

* [[Wrestling/ReyMysterioJr Rey Mysterio (Jr.)]]

* Wrestling/MichelleMcCool