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* To barely avert ADogNamedDog: instead of a robot named Robot, here's a [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl robot named Tobor]]. [[note]]Probably shouldn't be used with "[[{{God}} Dog]]" itself, though.[[/note]]

* Most of the races in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}''.
** The Eniripsa (the French spelling of Aspirin) heal others.
** The Xelor (the watch brand) manipulate time.
** The Sadida (the shoe brand).
** The Enutrof (they really like money).
** The Ecaflip ("Pile ou face", French for Heads or Tails) using a fighting style made of randomness.
** The whip-wielding beastmasters are called "Osamodas" -- "Sado-maso".
** The Cra (the French spelling of bow) are supurb archers.
** The Sram (the candy brand).
** The Feca (the French spelling of coffee) create translucent shields and are quite intelligent.

** Module DL2 ''Dragons of Flame'' has a Dragon Highlord named Verminaard who may be killed during the adventure. Module DL12 ''Dragons of Faith'' has a character named Sevil Draanim Rev (Verminaard Lives).

** ''D&D'' gods include TheTrickster Olidammara, who has the ability to summon a nine-banded shell around himself (c.f. armadillo), and a god of chance called Norebo.

* In ''Racso and the Rats of NIMH'' (a sequel to ''Literature/MrsFrisbyAndTheRatsOfNIMH'') the titular character's name is his real name, Oscar, spelt backwards. For a time, his friends Timothy, Brendan, Sally and Christopher also adopt such aliases, becoming Yhtomit, Nadnerb, Yllas and Rehpotsirhc.

* Following the Russian Revolution, the name "Ninel" was used for a number of females. "Ninel" is Lenin backwards.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' features Danny and his mom taking a "free" (i.e.: it's an evil plot) vacation thanks to the "Dalv" Cooperation. Gee, I wonder who could be behind this....

** The [[WhipItGood whip-wielding beastmasters]] are called "Osamodas" -- "Sado-maso".

* Anime/YuGiOh: In the Grand Championship arc, Joey’s first opponent is one [[PaperThinDisguise Apdnarg Otum]]. He remains the only one fooled by the disguise.

* Creator/{{Arika}} is founded by Akira Nishitani who, along with Akira Yasuda, co-created ''Videogame/StreetFighterII''. The company's name is Nishitani's given name written backwards.

* Creator/{{Arika}} is founded by Akira Nishitani. The company's name is his given name written backwards.

* ComicBook/{{Shazam}}

* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] once fought his duplicate from a (literal) MirrorWorld, who was named Niatpac Levram.

* In ''VideoGame/LegoDCSuperVillains'', the CanonForeigner [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]] EvilCounterpart of ComicBook/{{Shazam}} is named "Mazahs".

Also note that some other languages, such as Chinese and Japanese, assign ''whole syllables'' to each character, so while the names really ''were'' spelled backwards in their native alphabet, their English equivalents got LostInTranslation. This includes palindromes, such as "[[Manga/LoveHina Maeda Ema]]" (spelled まえだえま Ma-e-da-E-ma) and "[[LightNovel/InfiniteStratos Yamada Maya]]" (やまだまや Ya-ma-da-Ma-ya).

* In ''LightNovel/AmagiBrilliantPark'', a video of Moffle fighting the family of a BrattyHalfPint customer is uploaded by Seiya under the alias "AYIES". It takes Moffle a few seconds to figure it out.

* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'': In [=ZOE2=}: Nephtis' theme - [[VillainousLegacy ALOI]][[OminousVisualGlitch VIA]]

* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'': In ZOE2: Nephtis' theme - [[VillainousLegacy ALOIVIA]]

** In ''VideoGame/{{Nethack}}'', many of the dev team actually appear -- as shopkeepers. The most famous is of course Izchak, who will forever be the Minetown light shop owner. But only slightly less well known is this: the names of many hardware store owners are the devteam's names, written backwards.

** The [[BonusBoss Weapon]] attack Aire Tam Storm from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVII''. The key to not getting decimated by this attack is to [[spoiler:limit how many materia each character brings with them into the battle. It does 1111 damage for every materia you have equipped, so if you have 9999 HP and a maximum of eight materia, you can at least survive it. Removing ''all'' your materia is not a good idea, though, since you'll need at least one to [[SuperNotDrowningSkills remove the time limit]] from fighting Emerald Weapon underwater]].

** Also, all the {{Bonus Boss}}es are cameos of enemies from previous games with reversed names.

* A BonusBoss in ''VideoGame/LiveALive'' is a robot named Erauqs. Presumably, they changed it to Eraqus when they revisited the idea in ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' to make it easier to pronounce.

** Zig-zagged: "Revolution No. 9" has a voice loop of someone calling "number nine" ad infinitum, which if when played backwards is supposedly "Turn me on, dead man," one of many clues to the "death" of Paul.

* In the ''[[WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}} The Super Powers Team: Galactic Guardians]]'' episode "The Bizarro Super Powers Team", to finally put a stop on Mr. Mxyzptlk and get Bizarro to return to his home world with the Bizarro versions of Wonder Woman, Cyborg, and Firestorm, the real Wonder Woman uses the duplicator ray that created the Bizarro versions of the heroes on Mxyzptlk himself, creating a Bizarro version of him called Mr. Kltpzyxm. Naturally, given how Mr. Mxyzptlk is sent back to the Fifth Dimension whenever he either says, spells, or write his name backwards, him saying the name of his Bizarro version results in his defeat.

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* ''Film/{{Troll 2}}''. "Nilbog! It's Goblin spelled backwards!" (Actually, "Goblin" was supposed to be the original title of the movie. Someone thought that making people think it was an actual sequel to ''Film/{{Troll}}'' would make it better.)