History Main / OverlyLongName

** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[ProfessionalKiller Shelly de Killer]]'s Japanese name "Sazaemon Koroshiya" is nine kanji long (虎狼死家 左々右エ門). Most names clock in at four, but he uses an unusually long name by Japanese standards, composed of a string of characters using very short readings. [[note]] Actually, the middle character in his given name, 右 isn't read at all, just being a VisualPun with 左 (left-right).[[/note]]

** In ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney 2: Resolve'', one of the witnesses for the third chapter is named Wilhelm Gottsreich Sigismond Ormstein. The Court Record just gives up and calls him "Bohemian Boy".

->''"It's bad luck not to say the whole name. Now, let me start over: Field Tournament Style Up and Down On The Ground Manja Flanja Blanja Banja Ishka Bibble Babble Flabble Doma Roma Floma Boma Jingle Jangle Every Angle Bricka Bracka Flacka Stacka Two Ton Rerun Free for All Big Ball!"''

->''"It's bad luck not to say the whole name. Now, let me start over: Field Tournament Style Up and Down On The Ground Manja Flanja Banja Ishka Bibble Babble Flabble Doma Roma Floma Boma Jingle Jangle Every Angle Bricka Bracka Flacka Stacka Two Ton Rerun Free for All Big Ball!"''

* One episode of ''Thanks a Lot, Creator/MiltonJones!'' took this UpToEleven with a German countess whose name takes so long to recite that everyone falls asleep and, when they wake up the following morning, the host is ''still'' reciting it. It actually becomes a plot point at the end: trying to remember such a horrifically-long name has damaged her memory so much that she once [[spoiler:left her infant daughter in an Essex pub]] and forgot all about it.

** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[ProfessionalKiller Shelly de Killer]]'s Japanese name "Sazaemon Koroshiya" is nine kanji long (虎狼死家 左々右エ門). Most names clock in at four, but he uses an unusually long name by Japanese standards, composed of a string of characters using very short readings. [[note]] Actually, the middle character in his given name, 右 isn't read at all, just being a VisualPun with 左 (left-right).

* Abraham Delacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley ''WesternAnimation/TheAristocats''.

** A later episode has Magnus ask [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname "Kitten"]] for his full name. He's a Custodes, so they just skip forward to Magnus getting bored and telling him to stop halfway through.

* In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', [[ProfessionalKiller Shelly de Killer]]'s Japanese name "Sazaemon Koroshiya" is nine kanji long (虎狼死家 左々右エ門). Most names clock in at four, but he uses an unusually long name by Japanese standards, composed of a string of characters using very short readings. [[note]] Actually, the middle character in his given name, 右 isn't read at all, just being a VisualPun with 左 (left-right).
* In the last case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'', the full English name of the Minister of Justice for the Kingdom of Khura'in Inga Karkhuul Khura'in is Inga Karkhuul [[PunnyName Haw'kohd Dis'nahm Bi'ahni Lawga Ormo Pohmpus Da'nit Ar'edi Iz]] Khura'in III, which is pointed out when [[spoiler:the possibility of channeling him is brought up]] in the final case.

* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} had Still Life with Apricots and Pears (now known as Wrestling/EdithSurreal) and her former tag team partner Ursa Minor in the Night Sky. Surreal's match with Wrestling/TheProletariatBoarOfMoldova at ''Hour of Power 14'' was described as "the most multisyllabic name in CHIKARA history."

* [[OverlyLongName/FilmsLiveAction Films — Live-Action]]

In the broadest sense, whenever a character has more than the usual (in the Anglosphere) first, middle, and last name, they are in possession of an OverlyLongName. Also included are people who have the right number of names, but one or more of them is absurdly long, for example Ulla Inga Hansen-Bensen-Janson-Tallen-Hallen-Svaden-Swanson in the remake of ''Film/TheProducers''. (This is actually ''just'' her first name. They "[[TakeOurWordForIt don't have the time]]" to hear her last name.)

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* Horace Smith's [[DuelingWorks Dueling Work]] with Percy Bysshe Shelley's "Ozymandias" was titled "On A Stupendous Leg of Granite, Discovered Standing by Itself in the Deserts of Egypt, with the Inscription Inserted Below".
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[[caption-width-right:310:Long names: so handy in traffic violations.]]

* The official name for Drywaters, a faction on the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', is Smokey-Corn-on-The-Cob-Waterville-Dry-Hands-Desert-Land.

* ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' has The Biggest, Most Awful, Most Tragic Event In Human History; or "The Tragedy" for short.

* Shenzi Marie Predatora Vendetta Jackalina Hyena from ''[[WesternAnimation/TheLionKing1994 The Lion King]]'', at least according to the DirectToVideo film ''WesternAnimation/TheLionKingOneAndAHalf''.[[note]]It's likely, though, that Timon just made it up on the spot.[[/note]]

* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} had Still Life with Apricots and Pears (now known as Wrestling/EdithSurreal) and their former tag team partner Ursa Minor in the Night Sky. Still Life's match with Wrestling/TheProletariatBoarOfMoldova at ''Hour of Power 14'' was described as "the most multisyllabic name in CHIKARA history."

* Wrestling/{{CHIKARA}} has Wrestling/StillLifeWithApricotsAndPears and their former tag team partner Ursa Minor in the Night Sky. Still Life's match with Wrestling/TheProletariatBoarOfMoldova at ''Hour of Power 14'' was described as "the most multisyllabic name in CHIKARA history."

A variation exists with Hispanic characters, for whom having at least four names [[note]]more than one 'first' name, plus the surnames of both parents[[/note]] is the norm. For these characters, the long name may be brandished as a funny part of the culture.

Compare EmbarrassingMiddleName, OverlyLongGag, SomeCallMeTim, TheUnpronounceable, SesquipedalianSmith, and TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard. Often results in FunWithAcronyms.

* WebVideo/ScottTheWoz's full name, as revealed in the episode "''VideoGame/MegaMan1 (NES)'' | Growing Pains", is Scott "Will Eventually Take A Look At The First Mega Man" Wozniak (or Scott W.E.T.A.L.A.T.F.M.M. Wozniak for short).