History PunnyName / WesternAnimation

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' is full of these:

** Token, the only black kid, is obviously a play off of TokenMinority. It became even more obvious when his name was {{retcon}}ned from "Williams" to "Black".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSmurfs'' have a group of amphibious villains called the Wartmongers, who constantly hunt after Pussywillow Pixies.

** Coupled with BilingualBonus: The villain in the pilot was a Japanese man named Otaku Senzuri, who's caught having ADateWithRosiePalms using Dr. Venture's new [[DeathRay Oo Ray]]. [[spoiler:"{{Otaku}}", of course, means an obsessive fanboy, and "Senzuri" means masturbation (lit. "a thousand rubs").]]

* ''WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanet'': The villains often have names that are puns on something unpleasant, like CorruptCorporateExecutive Looten Plunder ("loot and plunder"). In "Domes of Doom", Looten Plunder, who's incognito while trying to get control over the planet's forests, even creates a punny name as an alias: Baron Giftus (as in "beware of Greeks bearing gifts").

** "Gadget Hackwrench" is kind of an anti-pun. She's big on gadgets, but she's quite skilled (or, to put it another way, she's not a hack with a wrench).
*** It is also worth noting that hackwrench is a real tool.

* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekLowerDecks'': In "Envoys", the name of Lieutenant Shaxs' combat program initially sounds like "Smörgåsbord," the Swedish buffet, but after a dozen holographic Borg drones materialize, we realize what he actually meant was "Smorgas'''Borg'''."
* ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'' has a BlackComedy example in the episode "[[Recap/StarWarsTheCloneWarsS3E3SupplyLines Supply Lines]]", revolving around the heroic LastStand of a [[LizardFolk Nikto]] Jedi Master and the clones under his command protecting the Twi'lek homeworld. That Jedi's name? General Ima-Gun Di ("I'm a Gunn(a) Die").

* In "Small Time" from ''WesternAnimation/DragonTales'', Max and Emmy are sprayed by flowers called "shrinking violets" which shrink them to an insect-like size. "Shrinking violet" is a term for an especially shy person.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheVentureBrothers'' has several of these, like Nat King Cobra.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls198'':

** ''The Off-Beats'' had Betty-Ann Bongo, who played the bongos, and {{Rapunzel|Hair}}.

* On the Joe Oriolo ''[[WesternAnimation/JoeOrioloFelixTheCat Felix the Cat]]'' series, one of Felix's antagonists is named Rock Bottom.

* ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'':

* Abound in ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'': for instance, Wanda, [[RichBitch Remy Buxaplenty]], Vicky ("icky with a V"), and Jorgen von Strangle. Odds are these are probably the more subtle examples.

** The episode "Food Fight" has the plot involve a cooking show hosted by a German chef named Brad Wurst and features a Hispanic chef named Hal Apeno, a Japanese chef named Sue Shi and a French chef named Crepe Suzette.

** "Puffed Rangers" has UsefulNotes/HongKong-based Hu Yu ("Who? You?") and Genghis Khat.

* Every name of the main cast on ''WesternAnimation/SitDownShutUp'', such as [[UnfortunateNames Larry Littlejunk]] and Willard Deutschebog.

* Most of the characters in '''WesternAnimation/COPSAnimatedSeries'' have punny real names -- motorcycle cop Highway is David E. Harlson (as in Harley-Davidson), for instance. A few of the Crooks' toy bios list several punny ''aliases'' each: getaway driver Turbo Tutone is also known as Manuel Transmission. Explosives expert Koo Koo is also known as Thyme [=DeLay=], Francis X. Plosion, Alfred C. Fore, and Levon O'Clock.

** "When Mice Were Men" goes wild with its punny names: Monty's Spanish friend is named Don Quijole (pronounced "keyhole"), and their nemesis bull is named El Emenopio ([[IncrediblyLamePun from "L-M-N-O-P"]]).

* ''WesternAnimation/ThomasTheTankEngine'' occasionally uses this for background industries.

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* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'': Alice May's name is Pig Latin for malice, which is a hinting of her true nature.