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* ''Fanfic/TheDragonAndTheButterfly'': Hiccup believes his first name is [[EmbarrassingFirstName embarrassing enough]], but he isn't fond of his last name, Haddock, either. Not only is it a kind of fish, but he associates it with his father, who disowned him right before Hiccup and Toothless fled (for their lives) from the archipelago. While [[spoiler:he and Stoick ''do'' make up halfway through the fic]], Hiccup still readily takes his wife's name when he marries into the Madrigal family.
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* ''Manga/{{Nononono}}'': Kiyoshi Shiriya's surname is composed by the kanji "Shiri" (for "ass" or "butt") and "ya" ("shop"). As a result, he obviously reacts violently when people call him that way and demands they call him "Emperor".
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* In ''Film/Anchorman2TheLegendContinues'', Jame Lime is forced to rename himself "Jack Lame" after losing a bet against Ron on who will receive better ratings and isn't allowed any creative pronounciation. When Jack protests to this, Ron suggests even more embarrassing renames such "Jack Other", "Jack O'Lantern", and "Jack O'they" (again not being allowed any creative pronouncipation).

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* In ''Film/Anchorman2TheLegendContinues'', Jame Lime is forced to rename himself "Jack Lame" after losing a bet against Ron on who will receive better ratings and isn't allowed any creative pronounciation. pronunciation. When Jack protests to this, Ron suggests even more embarrassing renames such "Jack Other", "Jack O'Lantern", and "Jack O'they" (again not being allowed any creative pronouncipation).pronunciation).



** In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Skye was raised under the name of Mary Sue Poots, which might explain why she unpersoned herself and created the identity of Skye. Of course, neither of these is her real name - that's [[spoiler:ComicBook/DaisyJohnson]].
** ''Series/WandaVision'': The season finale reveals that the true identity of [[spoiler:the fake Pietro is a random civilian Agatha possessed, and his real name is Ralph Bohner. Even the character himself makes fun of the last name (when he was still in his Pietro persona), muttering "Bohner" to himself and chuckling.]]
* ''Series/MurphyBrown'': After Corky Sherwood get married, her hyphenated surname is Sherwood-Forrest. You can see the moment of horrified realisation dawn on her face as she says it aloud on air for the first time.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6FMEvNiWo a skit]] rife with them due to an earthquake at the office to legally change one's name, such as [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Donald McRonald]], Mark Peanus, [[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Pardi]], Ty Neadik, [[Series/MorkAndMindy Morgan Mindy]] (Nanu nanu!), Holden Tudiks and one that the reporter won't say because [[NWordPrivileges it sounds racist]] - even if the person insists it's pronounced like 'cigar', a Black woman says it instead sounds like the N-word on a British accent. There's also one civilian who passed by to rescue people, Alan, asks for only an initial, and they used it in the wrong one ([[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII A. Hitler]]), and the show's host (Kumdungeon).

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** In ''Series/AgentsOfSHIELD'', Skye was raised under the name of Mary Sue Poots, which might explain why she unpersoned herself and created the identity of Skye. Of course, neither of these is her real name - that's [[spoiler:ComicBook/DaisyJohnson]].
** ''Series/WandaVision'': The season finale reveals that the true identity of [[spoiler:the fake Pietro is a random civilian Agatha possessed, and his real name is Ralph Bohner. Even the character himself makes fun of the last name (when he was still in his Pietro persona), muttering "Bohner" to himself and chuckling.]]
chuckling]].
* ''Series/MurphyBrown'': After Corky Sherwood get gets married, her hyphenated surname is Sherwood-Forrest. You can see the moment of horrified realisation dawn on her face as she says it aloud on air for the first time.
* ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' has [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nv6FMEvNiWo a skit]] rife with them due to an earthquake at the office to legally change one's name, such as [[UsefulNotes/McDonalds Donald McRonald]], Mark Peanus, [[VideoGame/MarioParty Mario Pardi]], Ty Neadik, [[Series/MorkAndMindy Morgan Mindy]] (Nanu nanu!), Holden Tudiks Tudiks, and one that the reporter won't say because [[NWordPrivileges it sounds racist]] - even if the person insists it's pronounced like 'cigar', a Black woman says it instead sounds like the N-word on a British accent. There's also one civilian who passed by to rescue people, Alan, asks for only an initial, and they used it in the wrong one ([[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII A. Hitler]]), and the show's host (Kumdungeon).



* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' gets mocked by a tutorial NPC for having the full name "Peppino Spaghetti." Peppino is an uncommon but not unheard-of Italian given name, but an Italian with the surname Spaghetti slides past cliche and into the territory of deliberate parody of bad ethically-inspired names.

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* The protagonist of ''VideoGame/PizzaTower'' gets mocked by a tutorial NPC for having the full name "Peppino Spaghetti." Peppino is an uncommon but not unheard-of Italian given name, but an Italian with the surname Spaghetti slides past cliche cliché and into the territory of deliberate parody of bad ethically-inspired ethnically-inspired names.






* [[CountryMatters Cuntons]] of ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'', whose name is a combination of the surname of [[TakeThat someone Yerdian hates]] for [[FurAndLoathing wearing fur]] and...well, ''make a wild guess''. Would it surprise you to learn she's a total StrawMan?

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* [[CountryMatters Cuntons]] of ''Webcomic/VeganArtbook'', whose name is a combination of the surname of [[TakeThat someone Yerdian hates]] for [[FurAndLoathing wearing fur]] and...and… well, ''make a wild guess''. Would it surprise you to learn she's a total StrawMan?



* Alejandro from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has his last name revealed by Chris to everyone in ''All Stars''. Chris gets a good laugh at learning that his name is "[[BilingualBonus Alejandro Burros Muertos]]" (Dead Donkeys.) This gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] further into the episode. This was previously revealed in a confessional in ''World Tour'', though it was just "Burromuerto" (Dead Donkey) there, and the translation was not made clear to those who don’t know Spanish until ''All Stars''.

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* Alejandro from ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' has his last name revealed by Chris to everyone in ''All Stars''. Chris gets a good laugh at learning that his name is "[[BilingualBonus Alejandro Burros Muertos]]" (Dead Donkeys.) Donkeys). This gets [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] further into the episode. This was previously revealed in a confessional in ''World Tour'', though it was just "Burromuerto" (Dead Donkey) there, and the translation was not made clear to those who don’t know Spanish until ''All Stars''.
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* The protagonist of Donald E. Westlake's novel ''Literature/HelpIAmBeingHeldPrisoner'' has the extremely unfortunate last name of Künt (pronounced Koont, and he insists on the umlauts, or little dots above the u[[labelnote:*]]Which in reality make them NOT pronounced "oo", but the actual vowel doesn't exist in English[[/labelnote]]). This would be bad enough under ordinary circumstances, but when he goes to prison it threatens to become completely intolerable.

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* The protagonist of Donald E. Westlake's novel ''Literature/HelpIAmBeingHeldPrisoner'' has the extremely unfortunate last name of Künt (pronounced Koont, and he insists on the umlauts, or little dots above the u[[labelnote:*]]Which u[[note]]Which in reality make makes them NOT ''not'' pronounced "oo", but the actual vowel doesn't exist in English[[/labelnote]]).English[[/note]]). This would be bad enough under ordinary circumstances, but when he goes to prison it threatens to become completely intolerable.
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* From ''Film/TopGun'' we have Ice Man, also known as Kazanski.

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* %%* From ''Film/TopGun'' we have Ice Man, also known as Kazanski.

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