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* On ''Series/{{TheGoodPlace}}'' Eleanor's old stand-by was "Diana Tremaine". She later learns that [[spoiler: her mother has started a new life under that name]].

* ''ComicStrip/Popeye''. J. Wellington Wimpy often claims to be "one of the Jones Boys" whenever he's in some hot water for something he did.

* ''ComicStrip/Thimble Theater''. J. Wellington Wimpy often claims to be "one of the Jones Boys" whenever he's in some hot water for something he did.

* In ''Videogame/RedDeadRedemptionII'', Arthur will typically give the name "Tacitus Kilgore" as the name to send letters to.

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* Classic ''TabletopGame/{{Traveller}}'', ''The Journal of the Traveller's Aid Society'' #16. Jon "Fast Johnny" [=McRae=] is a highly skilled and daring interstellar con artist. One of his favorite aliases is Commodore Laruskaa Korkoran of the Imperial Navy. He has gone to great effort to make it a solid identity that can't be easily exposed.

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* Franchise/{{Batman}} has his Matches Malone identity that he uses to get information about the criminal underworld. Unusually, Matches was a real person; a gangster who Batman thought could have had the potential to go straight, and who he partly blamed himself for the death of.

* Franchise/{{Batman}} has his Matches Malone identity that he uses to get information about the criminal underworld.
** And Comicbook/{{Robin}} (Tim Drake) has Alvin Draper.

* In the ''Literature/LuckyStarr'' series, Lucky's go-to alias is William Williams.

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* ''Series/{{Leverage}}'': Sophie Devereaux is [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname the alias by which we know]] Gina Bellman's con artist.

* On ''Series/BetterCallSaul'', it's revealed that before "Saul Goodman" was Jimmy's fallback alias, before he adopted it full-time as his professional name.

** Since Batman didn't want [[Comicbook/RobinSeries Tim Drake]] revealing his identity even to other heroes, he sometimes told them that his name was "Alvin Draper." Amusingly, his best friend Comicbook/{{Superboy}} immediately dismissed it, on the grounds that [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude no one with that name would willingly go by it]]; he'd have introduced himself as "Al" or "Vinnie" instead.

* Author Creator/GordonKorman used "G. Gavin Gunhold" as a running alias across multiple books. Gavin takes on a life of his own more than usual in [[MacdonaldHall ''The Wizzle War'']] (as the world's most perfect, absentee student) and ''A Semester In The Life Of A Garbage Bag'' (an obscure Canadian poet) in particular.

* Literature/LordPeterWimsey generally uses his two middle names (Death Bredon) as a NomDeGuerre.

* ''Literature/TheBelgariad'': Silk has two, the down-on-his-luck spice merchant Ambar of Kotu, and the reasonably successful wholesaler Radek of Boktor. He has others too, but Radek and Ambar see the most play because he likes the characters.

* By the time ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' starts, Silk has already established the personae "Ambar of Kotu" and "Radek of Boktor". It's indicated that those are his two favorite go-to identities, though he has others.

** Since Batman didn't want Tim Drake revealing his identity even to other heroes, he sometimes told them that his name was "Alvin Draper." Amusingly, his best friend Comicbook/{{Superboy}} immediately dismissed it, on the grounds that [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude no one with that name would willingly go by it]]; he'd have introduced himself as "Al" or "Vinnie" instead.

** One episode has him come up with a new alias...Rando.

** Since Batman didn't want Tim Drake revealing his identity even to other heroes, he sometimes told them that his name was "Alvin Draper." Amusingly, his best friend {{Superboy}} immediately dismissed it, on the grounds that [[WhoNamesTheirKidDude no one with that name would willingly go by it]]; he'd have introduced himself as "Al" or "Vinnie" instead.