History Main / PlanetOfSteves

->'''Marklar Leader:''' ''You see, we call everything Marklar.''\\

*** [[Understatement A few?]]

-->I knew it! I'm surrounded by Assholes! Keep firing, Assholes!

*** Also, all of Ghouls (Rare Hunters) is apparently staffed by people named Steve as per Marik's power to control anyone called Steve.

** This gets even better in the original French, which can gramatically distinguish between "le schtroumpf", "la schtroumpf", "un schtroumpf", "une schtroumpf" and "les schtroumpfs". Not to mention all forms of the verb "schtroumpfer" ("to smurf")

* In TadWilliams' ''{{Otherland}}'' one simulation is a skewd version of ''TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'', where all women are called "Emily" and the men "Henry". They have numbers to differetiate them.

* A commercial for Spam (the food, not the thing a troll does online) shows a classroom where the teacher and all the students are eggs. The teacher is role calling, and you see everyone's name is "egg."

* On the cartoon ''{{Recess}}'', all the popular girls were named Ashley. This was the focus of an episode in which it was revealed that tough girl Spinelli's first name was Ashley, and she was forcibly inducted into their clique.

*** And an episode with a ChainOfDeals involved getting Ashley A's diary back from her kindergarden-age sister Brittany. When Spinelli says "Which one of you is Brittany?", of course, a group of toddlers resembling all the Ashleys step forward, and she has to specify "Um ... Brittany A?"

-->'''Spirit of the Millennium Ring:''' Actually, we're both called Bakura.\\
'''Yami:''' What? But that's just confusing! Not to mention highly unlikely.\\
'''Spirit:''' Oh, just wait until Season 5 when there's three of me running around. Even the fans have trouble keeping up with that one.\\

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Sometimes they'll also be [[NurseJenny Nurse Jennys]]. Not only named the same, but they'll look the same too.

* More than [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Project_Steve 1000 Steves]] support the Theory of Evolution.

** And girls called Steve. But those are really hard to find.
*** Pegasus knows a few.
**** Why am I not surprised?

** The StarTrek novel ''Q-Squared'' explicitly stated that Trelane (and his "mother" and "father" who appeared at the end of the episode) were members of the Q Continuum, so it isn't just {{Fanon}}. In the novel, Q implied that Trelane was Q's son, the result of an affair with Trelane's "mother".
*** Whether or not the novels are canon is debated.

** The Vorlon who replaced Kosh claimed that "we are all Kosh", but his name was actually Ulkesh.
*** This may be because the Vorlons break off pieces off themselves and share them with other Vorlons, so that part of Kosh always remains with them. Kosh did the same thing with Sheridan. At one point a character says something like: "every Vorlon carries a little piece of every other Vorlon," which sort of justifies "We are all Kosh."
**** This didn't stop this troper and others like her persisting in making endless silly jokes and writing Vorlon plays in which every character was called Kosh.

* [[SuperMario Bros. Mario, meet Yoshi, Yoshi, Yoshi, Yoshi, and, of course, Yoshi.]]
** Actually, the ''species'' is "Yoshi" with only the green Yoshi of SuperMarioWorld fame having that as his name, though it's more likely a title. SuperMarioRPG featured a purple Yoshi with studs named Boshi.

* Although they prefer to go by their nicknames to avoid confusion, ''EdEddNEddy'' are all Edward.
** To be fair, this is never made explicitely clear; they could easily also be Edwin or Edgar.
*** Double-D is explicitly named as Eddward.

* The [[CosmicOsmo Osmos of the Osmoian System]] are all named with some variation on "Osmo". Captain Osmo, Cosmic Osmo, Professor Osmostein, Princess Osmorella, Señor Osmollo...

* [[CosmicOsmo Cosmic Osmo, Captain Osmo, Se˜or Osmollo, Princess Osmorella, Professor Osmostein...]]

* Similarly, during the late 19th and early 20th centuries it was common for the (mostly black) sleeping car porters on American trains to be called "George", regardless of their actual name, in honor of George Pullman, whose company had manufactured most of said cars. This eventually lead to the formation of an organization called the "Society for the Prevention of Calling Sleeping Car Porters "George"", which at its height counted King George V of the [=UK=] as a member.

** And one about a guy who name all his cats "Cat": what's the point of giving 'em names when none come when they're called?

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* There's a racist joke about a black woman with five sons named Leroy...
** The UK has a similar one about a {{Chav}} with five sons named Noel...
** And one about a guy who name all his cats "Cat": what's the point of giving 'em names when none come when they're called?
*** How is that racist? Speciesist, maybe, hobbyist, maybe...

* The aliens (Red (good) and Black (evil) Lectroids) in the film ''The Adventures of BuckarooBanzai Across the 8th Dimension'' all chose the covername 'John'. Yes, even the women.

** Um...[[DidNotDoTheResearch you've got backwards.]] The Red Lectroids were the bad guys.