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* ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'': Sophist's username used to be "Sophisticated Eevee", so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username to just "Sophist", effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, distancing himself from some random ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' character. But despite this name change, the others still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.

* Creator/FatJoe has lost about 200 pounds since he first gave himself his rap name.

* ''LetsPlay/PartyCrashers'': Sophist's username used to be "Sophisticated Eevee", so his friends would naturally refer to him as simply "Eevee" for short. However, he has since shortened his username, effectively dropping the Eevee subname. He explains in [[https://twitter.com/sophisteevee/status/1410864732622426112?s=46&t=LD_Rrj7GC49d5wFrHt1fLg this tweet]] that he did this to make himself more unique and recognizable, as he's no longer associated with some Creator/{{Nintendo}} character. Despite this change however, the others still frequently refer to him as "Eevee" to this day.

* In ''Francjise/KungFuPanda'', the Furious Five are still called like that after the [[WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda1 first movie]] despite the fact that SixthRanger Po has joined the team so they are no longer five members. It makes a bit more of sense in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' where Po becomes the new master.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', The Furious Five are still called like that after the first movie despite the fact that SixthRanger Po has joined the team so they are no longer five members. It makes a bit more of sense in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda3'' where Po becomes the new master.

* When Creator/JackKirby and Creator/JoeSimon created the Newsboy Legion in UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, they were so called because they were orphans who sold newspapers to earn a living. This had become an anachronism in later years, which was addressed in several different ways:
** When Kirby introduced their identical sons in UsefulNotes/{{the Bronze Age|of comic books}}, they were also known as the Newsboy Legion, even though they'd never sold a paper in their lives, and were far more defined by living in a genetics lab.

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': The pseudodragon from the 1st edition onwards, isn't, from 3E onward, as a it became a member of the Dragon creature type. A.k.a, ''not'' a "false dragon".
* Generally speaking, the concept of "rolling up a character" came to be since in early roleplaying games, stats were decided with dice rolls. However, the term has stuck so well that it's often used to refer to character creation in tabletop [=RPGs=] and video games even when no actual rolling of dice is involved.

* ''Literature/TalesOfKaimere'': Fabadonts, an endemic class of Tetrapods from the First Dynasty, were named by Assembky naturalists after they were first identified by bean-shaped tooth fossils from their prehistoric origins. Centuries later after further fossils along with [[NotSoExtinct living descendants]], describing Fabadonts by their teeth now seems ridiculous compared to their beaks, their wide skull and stalked eyes, and their ThirdEye in the center of their face.

* ''Series/{{ThirtyRock'': The ShowWithinAShow is named "The Girlie Show," until Tracy Jordan is hired, at which point it becomes "TGS with Tracy Jordan."

* Basketball was named that way because the inventor of the game used peach baskets as makeshift goals. By the early 1900s the "basket" had been replaced with a metal hoop, some netting and a backboard, but the original name stuck.

** This commonly happens to prehistoric animals, be it a single genus or an entire group. Notable examples include ''Hyaenodon'' (“hyena tooth”), despite being completely unrelated to today’s carnivorans (let alone hyenas specifically), ''Basilosaurus'' (“king lizard”), who was an early ''whale'' originally misidentified as a marine reptile, and ''Megarachne'' (“giant spider”), which turned to be a small eurypterid. Even the term “dinosaur” (meaning “terrible lizard”) is technically one of these since dinosaurs are far more closely related to crocodiles and even more so to birds (birds are surviving dinosaurs).

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': In season 5, Oliver recruits five new members to his team, they were referred to in-universe as The Recruits and New Team Arrow. In season 6, the remaining recruits, Curtis, Dinah, and Renee, have a major split that puts them in opposition with Original Team Arrow (Oliver, Diggle, Felicity). However, they are often still referred to as New Team Arrow both in-universe and out. Curtis eventually suggests "[[ComicBook/BatmanAndTheOutsiders The Outsiders]]" but at the end of season 6, it hasn't caught on and they don't seem to have an official name.

** In 1955, Lou's Café is a café owned by Lou Caruthers. By 1985, it has become Lou's Aerobic Fitness Center and, given his age in 1955, Lou is probably no longer the actual owner of the building (or if he is, he's just collecting rent money).

** The same can be said about ''WesternAnimation/SheRaAndThePrincessesOfPower'', which deconstructs many elements from the original cartoon, yet it features character with names such as Mermista, Catra or Double Trouble. It's most apparent with Bow the archer, when Bow's dads [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude never wanted him to be an archer anyway]].

* ''Series/{{ThirtyRock}}'': The ShowWithinAShow is named "The Girlie Show," until Tracy Jordan is hired, at which point it becomes "TGS with Tracy Jordan."

* In ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs', Brent is the living mascot of Baby Brent Sardines, a company that specalizes in canned sardines. "Baby" Brent is a hard choice to call him in the present day, as he's still performing stunts for the company as a [[FormerChildStar full grown adult]], complete with diaper. Later on in the film, he takes a whole chicken as a battle trophy and starts calling himself "Chicken" Brent.

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', The Furious Five are still called like that in the sequels despite the fact that SixthRanger Po has joined the team so they are no longer five members.

* Generally speaking, the concept of "rolling up a character" came to be since in early roleplaying games, stats were decided with dice rolls. However, the term has stuck so well that it's often used to refer to character creation in tabletop [=RPGs=¾ and video games even when no actual rolling of dice is involved.

* Generally speaking, the concept of "rolling up a character" came to be since in early roleplaying games, stats were decided with dice rolls. However, the term has stuck so well that it's often used to refer to character creation in tabletop RPGs and video games even when no actual rolling of dice is involved.

* Speaking of Spain, the Spanish Flu is so named because [[FalseCause Spain reported the most cases, creating the illusion that the disease came from there or that Spain was particularly affected by it]]. The disease was actually spreading in other countries, but the media in those countries couldn't report their cases due to wartime censorship during the UsefulNotes/WorldWarI, and as Spain was a neutral country, the Spanish press wasn't under the same restrictions. Its ultimate origin is unknown, but the first known cases were actually reported in the United States.

* ''Series/TheSopranos'': The series centres predominantly around the members of the [=DiMeo=] crime family. However, no member of the biological [=DiMeo=] bloodline appears on the show or has even been part of the family for years; Ercole [=DiMeo=], the family's founder, had been in prison with a life sentence for about four years by the time the series begins.