History Main / ProductionNickname

* The roach in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Roach Hal]].

* "Creator/SteveBuscemi", the monster from ''Film/TheHost''.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'':

* The shark in the movie ''Film/{{Jaws}}'' was nicknamed Bruce, after Creator/StevenSpielberg's lawyer.
* The ''T. rex'' from ''Film/JurassicPark'' is labeled as "Roberta" in some production notes.

* Doc Ock's tentacles in ''Film/SpiderMan2'' were dubbed [[Film/TheThreeStooges Moe, Curly, Larry and Joe]].
* The clown puppet in ''Franchise/{{Saw}}'' is named Billy.

* The creature from "The Crate" segment of ''Film/{{Creepshow}}'' was nicknamed "Fluffy" (it even illustrated FluffyTheTerrible).
* In ''Film/AliensVsPredatorRequiem'', the Predator was nicknamed Wolf (after [[Film/PulpFiction Winston Wolf]]) and the Predalien was nicknamed Chet (after Bill Paxton's character in ''Film/WeirdScience'').
** The Berserker Predator in ''Film/{{Predators}}'' was nicknamed "Mr. Black".

* The alternate 1985 in ''Film/BackToTheFuturePartII'' was called "Biffhorrific 1985" during production.
* Slimer from ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}'' was called "Onion Head" during production.
* The monster bear from ''Film/{{Annihilation}}'' was nicknamed "Homerton" as a contrast to ''Film/{{Paddington}}''. (one is a dilapidated London overgound station, the other an impressive underground one)
* ''Film/AvengersEndgame'': [[spoiler: The merger between Bruce Banner and the Hulk was nicknamed "Smart Hulk" by the filmmakers.]]
* ''Music/TheWall'': The War-Bird featured in the "Goodbye Blue Sky" sequence was also known as the "Bauhaus Concorde."

* [[TheRuntAtTheEnd The rhino that lags behind the stampede]] in ''Film/{{Jumanji}}'' was nicknamed "Sneezy" by the effects crew who [[ThrowItIn accidentally created that image]].

* In Film/RogueOne, two Imperial Star Destroyers are present at the Battle of Scarif. In-universe, they are the ''Intimidator'' and ''Persecutor'' – the ILM crew affectionately called them Timmy and Percy.

* The [=RoboCop=] nickname for John Cable after he become a Franchise/RoboCop in ''Series/RoboCopPrimeDirectives'' first came from the production staff. In the series itself, he's either referred to by nis real name or "Crime Prevention Unit 002".

* "Clover" from ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}''.

** The engineering access tubes were dubbed "Jeffries tubes", which was a {{canon}} name by ''TNG''.

* ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'':

* The roach in ''WesternAnimation/WallE'' is named Hal.
** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Roach Hal Roach]], [[PunnyName geddit]]?

* The Creator/DCComics writing staff has a long tradition of referring to Mr. Mxyzptlk as "Bill" to sidestep the issue of how to pronounce his name.
** Mix-zees-pit-lick, according to one book.
** In the animated series, he does a rebus showing it as mix-Yess-spit-lick (blender, band 'Music/{{Yes}}' styled logo, tongue doing wet raspberry, tongue licking).

* The animators for ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' decided to nickname Frollo's horse [[FluffyTheTerrible Snowball]]. This has caught on with fans, thanks to an audio commentary, and retroactively also became the name of Jafar's horse and the monster pulling Hades' chariot.

''Music/TheWall'': The War-Bird featured in the "Goodbye Blue Sky" sequence was also known as the "Bauhaus Concorde."

* For ''WesternAnimation/SpiderManIntoTheSpiderVerse'', the Peter Parker who dies early in the film is dubbed [=RIPeter=] [[AllThereInTheScript in the script]].

* ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': [[spoiler: The merger between Bruce Banner and the Hulk was nicknamed "Smart Hulk" by the filmmakers.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': The town where the Belchers live is somewhere in New Jersey, according to a FreezeFrameBonus in "It Snakes a Village", but [[CityWithNoName has no official name]]. It's known to the cast and crew as "Seymour's Bay", after the show's film editor Mark Seymour.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', storyboard artist Jesse Zuke (then known as Lauren Zuke) dubbed the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] Mystery Girl resembling Rose Quartz in "Last One Out of Beach City" [[Music/TheRamones "Sheena"]]. All that is known is that her name starts with "S".

** [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hal_Roach Hal Roach]], [[IncrediblyLamePun geddit]]?

* The developers of ''VideoGame/NewSuperMarioBrosWii'' allegedly nicknamed Yellow Toad and Blue Toad [[JustForFun/BackstrokeOfTheWest Ala-Gold]] and Bucken-Berry respectively.

* The OneWingedAngel form of the Ocean Spirit in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' was called Koizilla during production. You'd be hard-pressed to find anyone that calls it anything else. Heck, it's a 90-foot carp. Half the people using the term probably [[PhraseCatcher coined it independently]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', storyboard artist Lauren Zuke dubbed the [[NoNameGiven unnamed]] Mystery Girl resembling Rose Quartz in "Last One Out of Beach City" [[Music/TheRamones "Sheena"]]. All that is known is that her name starts with "S".