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* In ''VideoGame/PopfulMail'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaCD, one of the reptillian Gaw creatures explains that Gaw have no personal names. True to Creator/WorkingDesigns' [[{{Woolseyism}} style]], he follows it up by saying "It's hell when you're being paged..."

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* In ''VideoGame/PopfulMail'' for the UsefulNotes/SegaCD, Platform/SegaCD, one of the reptillian Gaw creatures explains that Gaw have no personal names. True to Creator/WorkingDesigns' [[{{Woolseyism}} style]], he follows it up by saying "It's hell when you're being paged..."
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* Music/TheArrogantWorms have described [[CanadaEh Northern Ontario]] as "eighty billion kilometres long. There are thirteen people who live there. All of whom are named Frank. Even the girl." This is not TruthInTelevision, obviously, but some people would tell you it's exaggeration rather than an outright lie.

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* Music/TheArrogantWorms have described [[CanadaEh Northern Ontario]] Ontario as "eighty billion kilometres long. There are thirteen people who live there. All of whom are named Frank. Even the girl." This is not TruthInTelevision, obviously, but some people would tell you it's exaggeration rather than an outright lie.
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*** Not helping matters is a scene where a character walks into a room, specifically addresses Steve and the tree people on screen turns around.

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*** Not helping matters is a scene where a character walks into a room, specifically addresses Steve and the tree three people on screen turns turn around.
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** Used as a running gag in the episode "Night of the Blood Beast". In the movie, the characters say the name "Steve" a disproportionate number of times, so Mike and the Bots assume that everyone in the film is named Steve. An example of their riffing:

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** Used as a running gag in the episode "Night of the Blood Beast". "Film/NightOfTheBloodBeast". In the movie, the characters say the name "Steve" a disproportionate number of times, times,[[note]]There are only six human character (and the titular Blood Beast), two of them die, but one gets better, for awhile. Two of them are women. The last two, Steve and Dave, are pretty much interchangeable, and Dave's name is rarely spoken.[[/note]] so Mike and the Bots assume that everyone in the film is named Steve. An example of their riffing:


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*** Not helping matters is a scene where a character walks into a room, specifically addresses Steve and the tree people on screen turns around.
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* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. The titular trio of mean girls are named Heather Chandler, Heather Duke, and Heather McNamara. They regularly refer to each other by their first names and there never seems to be any confusion.

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* [[DownplayedTrope Downplayed]] in ''Film/{{Heathers}}''. The titular trio of mean girls are named Heather Chandler, Heather Duke, and Heather McNamara.[=McNamara=]. They regularly refer to each other by their first names and there never seems to be any confusion.
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* In ''Million Dollar Legs'', every woman in Klopstockia is named Angela, and all the men are named George.
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* Not only are both members of Music/TheyMightBeGiants named John, their backing band, formerly and aptly named the “Band of Dans”, consisted of three guys named Dan (although one of them was replaced in 2004 with Marty Beller).
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* In the ''WebVideo/MapMen'' episode about English counties, [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans the Normans]] are depicted as this. They all have the name "Norman" and speak in an overly formal, almost artificial manner.
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* On ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'', all nisse go by the name Tontu. Since one individual nisse is a major character in the show, fans choose to differentiate him from the rest by calling him "Tontu (Alpha)".

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Did we ever see any Zinoboppians outside the royal family?


* ''Webcomic/AddictiveScience'': Every agent of TheMenInBlack was codenamed Mister Smith and looked uncannily similar, before they started getting transformed by mad science and/or magic on a regular basis and at least one agent decided to stay a foxgirl. They don't seem to have trouble distinguishing each other [[https://addictivescience.kemono.cafe/comic/page1006/ though.]]



* In ''Webcomic/{{Melonpool}}'', it appears every Zinoboppian, from the planet Zinobop, is surnamed Zinobop. And the process of [[ItMakesSenseInContext creating a new Planet Zinobop]] is [[GenesisEffect Zinoforming]].



* [=PSmIth=] from ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire''. And yes, there's an entire planet of him, all called Psmith. Including the women. The P is silent, but serves as a subtle hint that he/she/it is actually a [[PsychicPowers telepathic]] HiveMind of mentally-connected individuals... hence them all having just one name.

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* [=PSmIth=] [=PSmith=] from ''ComicBook/BuckGodotZapGunForHire''. And yes, there's an entire planet of him, all called Psmith. Including the women. The P is silent, but serves as a subtle hint that he/she/it he/she/they is actually a [[PsychicPowers telepathic]] HiveMind of mentally-connected individuals... hence them all having just one name.
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* In ''VideoGame/BangOnBallsChronicles'' all of the named characters are named 'Bob', which are also the initials of the game's title (minus the "Chronicles"). The only character with a semi-different name is the BigBad Bob Boss, who consistently gets referred to on a FullNameBasis to differientate him from the PlayerCharacter, also named Bob.
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* When Stephen Colbert was covering the 2016 Iowa Caucus, he explained that Republican Candidate Jim Gilmore received a mere ''EpicFail/twelve'' votes, then delighted in revealing that that number is actually fewer than the number of people currently living in Iowa named Jim Gilmore.

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* When Stephen Colbert was covering the 2016 Iowa Caucus, he explained that Republican Candidate Jim Gilmore received a mere ''EpicFail/twelve'' ''[[EpicFail twelve]]'' votes, then delighted in revealing that that number is actually fewer than the number of people currently living in Iowa named Jim Gilmore.
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