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12->''"As they come around now for the bell lap. Rooin Mahmood the Indian, Pissenmiov the Russian, just behind, the Italian, Beinsilli... there's another runner there on the inside, Whoskrapisdacsz from Poland, and dropping away now, the Swede, Lars Persson."''
13-->-- '''[[Creator/BillyBirmingham The Twelfth Man]]''', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R0tEeddshTw "Bruce 2000"]]
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15Sometimes, a name isn't exactly meaningful or hiding something, but there's still something about it that is weird. And then you read it really fast, and go, "Oh!" and have your chuckle over the pun.
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17Pun names are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just that]]: Names that make puns. They don't have to be {{Meaningful Name}}s, but often are. An overlap would be with StevenUlyssesPerhero, where the pun lines up with the character's job, e.g. a baseball player named Homer (of which there have been several actual Major League Baseball players with that moniker, although a few were pitchers).
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19The pun name is a staple of the prank caller, who will disguise it just right so the other guy doesn't get the pun until he blurts it out.
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21A subtrope is SirVerbALot. Another subtrope, for TV or radio stations with punny names, is {{WPUN}}. CampWackyname is also a subtrope, and MissXPun is one when used for names. If the name is a DoubleEntendre, then it's a {{Euphemistic Name|s}}. If a lot of characters in a given work have a punny name, it could be an example of Punny ThemeNaming. If a group of people's last names forms a pun, it could relate to TheLawFirmOfPunPunAndWordplay. Also overlaps often with RealJokeName, where someone laughs at what they think is a pun only to be told that that's actually the character's real name. (And they've NeverHeardThatOneBefore.)
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23See also: WhosOnFirst and WhoNamesTheirKidDude For a list of tropes with Punny Names, see JustForFun/PunnyTropeNames.
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25If it's a title, then it's PunBasedTitle. If it's the name of an entire species designed around the pun, see PunBasedCreature.
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27!!Example subpages:
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29[[index]]
30* PunnyName/AnimeAndManga
31* PunnyName/ComicBooks
32* PunnyName/{{Film}}
33* PunnyName/{{Literature}}
34* PunnyName/LiveActionTV
35* PunnyName/{{Music}}
36* PunnyName/TabletopGames
37* PunnyName/VideoGames
38* PunnyName/{{Webcomics}}
39** PunnyName/EverydayHeroes
40* PunnyName/WebOriginal
41* PunnyName/WesternAnimation
42* PunnyName/RealLife
43[[/index]]
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45!!Other examples:
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48[[folder:Advertising]]
49* A lot of [[CommercialSwitcheroo fictional products]] seen in the Advertising/EnergizerBunny commercials have these kinds of names. These include Sitagin[[note]]Sit again[[/note]] hemmorhoid ointment, Ligamint[[note]]Ligament[[/note]] back medicine, and Darnitol[[note]]Darn it all[[/note]] headache medicine with Easamigraine.[[note]]Ease a migraine[[/note]]
50* ''Advertising/SupermanVsNickOTeen'': Nick O'Teen. Nicotine. He's a drug addict who tries to get children addicted to cigarettes.
51* An Australian ad for Dare Iced Coffee has a man, Mr. Murray, name his newborn son "Callum". After drinking the coffee he has several flashforwards of his son being called "calamari" and then opts for a different name.
52* The personable [[BlatantBurglar ski mask-wearing burglar]] with the interesting mustache who serves as the spokesman for [=SimpliSafe=] home security products is named Robbert Larson, a name that invokes both robbery and larceny.
53* The 1980-90s British Telecom ads featuring Creator/MaureenLipman as JewishMother Beattie Bellman. Lampshaded with a 1993 poster campaign about the second round of shares going on sale, which showed a confused-looking Mr Bellman with the caption "Get a piece of BT's other half".
54* Advertising/TommyMcAnairey: In keeping with Tommy's "any fuel can harm" message, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqlP6tXvpUY this [=PSA=] for Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week 2016]] features a song title dedicated to a deceased relative of Tommy named Annie Fuel. In the background there's a memorial picture of her posing with coal, turf, gas and wood.
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58[[folder:Asian Animation]]
59* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy Galaxy'' features a group of {{Monster Clown}}s named the BAD DUDES. Besides fitting their villainous personalities, "bad dude" sounds like "badut", the Malaysian and Indonesian word for "clown".
60* In ''Animation/DobyAndDisy'', Caesar is a thief who often impedes Doby and Disy's adventures by stealing important items they need to progress. Fittingly, his name sounds like "seizer".
61* In ''Animation/FruityRobo'', Berry-Donna's name is a pun on "Bella Donna", a name that means "beautiful lady".
62* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': In Season 2 Episode 6, Headmaster Tele sounds like he's complementing his students when in reality he's talking to the bus driver, who is named Tong Xuemen (同学们, pinyin "tongxuemen", means "classmates"; the name of Tong Xuemen the bus driver is one Chinese character off but pronounced the same way). The English version of the episode reworks the joke so that the bus driver is instead named Avery One, a soundalike of "everyone".
63* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'':
64** Weslie's Chinese name is Xǐ Yángyáng. This is meant to be a pun on the Chinese idiom "Xǐqìyángyáng", which means "full of joy", and the homophonic "yáng" which means "sheep" or "goat".
65** The wolves' Chinese names end in "太狼" ("Tàiláng"). This is a pun on the Japanese language. "太狼" ("Tàiláng") and "太郎" ("Tàiláng") are homophones in the Chinese language, and "太郎" is also the Japanese name Tarō, meaning "the first son". Japanese names can appear aggressive in the Chinese language, and this fits the evil wolves.
66** Brother Tai, in the Chinese original, is known as Tài Gē. That's pronounced like the English word "tiger".
67* The ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' episode "Space Snax" features a musk melon named Melon Musk as a [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed stand-in]] for Elon Musk.
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70[[folder:Comedy]]
71* A mainstay of the ''The Twelfth Man'' audio comedies, especially with parodies of [[AsLongAsItSoundsForeign foreign sportsmen's names]]. Examples include "Wasee A-Crim" (Was He A Crim), a remarkably prescient reference to Wasim Akram some years before the match-fixing controversy; "Hafeez Andmissin" (Half His Hand Missing), a parody of Azeem Hafeez, who was born without two fingers on his right hand); and "Imheer Sohail" (I'm Here So Hail), Aamir Sohail.
72* A Creator/RowanAtkinson skit titled "Role Call" featured this trope in which Rowan played a teacher calling role, all of the student names he called out were punny and also rather inappropriate (e.g. Herpes, Ima Dick, Up Yorsh, My Prick, Your Prick, and On Top)
73-->"If you fall asleep again, Ontop, I shall be ''very'' annoyed!"
74* Creator/DavidLetterman. (Example: [[UsefulNotes/NorthKorea Kim Jong-Il's]] cousin [[TheMentallyDisturbed Menta Lee-Il.)]]
75* Every PrivateEyeMonologue done by Creator/TheCapitolSteps starts out something like: "I'm a private detective. My father named me Hugh. My mother named me Jim. My last name is Bissell. So people call me... Huuuugh Jim Bissell".
76* The Creator/CheechAndChong sketch/song, "Basketball Jones" features a character named Tyrone Shoelaces.
77* "Radio Quiz Game" on ''Monty Python's Previous Record'' features a panelist named Lord Elpus.
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80[[folder:Comic Strips]]
81* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', the author of ''Hamster Huey and the Gooey Kablooie'' is named Mabel Syrup. Also, Calvin's FilmNoir alter ego is named Tracer Bullet.
82* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': The title character's name. ("Dick" is slang for "detective".) One storyline included the characters Chris Chendo, Virgil Ohso, and Phil Harmonic. Guess where the action is taking place.
83* ''ComicStrip/{{Kudzu}}'': Rev. Will B. Dunn.
84* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'':
85** Snoopy fills his stories with punny character names such as Kitten Kaboodle. His names are considerably more clever than his stories.
86** In one run of pre-Christmas strips, Sally is playing a shepherd in a Nativity play. She tells Charlie Brown that "I give my line, 'Hark!' and then Harold Angel starts singing." Initially Charlie Brown thinks she's making a malaprop, until the end of the arc where he meets Harold Angel.
87* ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'': The Oyl Family: Olive, her brother Castor, parents Cole and Nana...
88* ''ComicStrip/RickOShay'' centered around the title character, a deputy sheriff in the Old West. Most of the supporting cast also had punny names, including love interest Gaye Abandon and TagalongKid Quyat Burp.
89* Happens sometimes in ''ComicStrip/{{Striker}}''. Warbury Warriors was once owned by Mustapha Futti Kalub. Get it? Must have a footy club!
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92[[folder:Fan Works]]
93* [[https://thejakeformerlyknownasprince.tumblr.com/post/697834169639780352/i-dont-get-how-bonnie-is-a-pun The author of]] ''Fanfic/{{Eleutherophobia}}'' decided to name Tom's [[OCStandIn controller-girlfriend]] "Bonnie" because it's an old slang word for a pretty girl, which is all we know about her in [[Literature/{{Animorphs}} canon]].
94* ''Webcomic/HetaliaAxisPowers'' fanfics ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/11989539/1/Hakkōna Hakkōna]]'' and ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12023508/1/Kaitō-Kokoro Kaitō Kokoro]]'': Kiku is basically a Henge version of a nekomata known within both stories as a nekomataneko with the "nekomata" referencing the nekomata characteristics and the "neko" referencing the base human form with cat features.
95* Examples from [[Fanfic/Swing123AndGarfieldodiesCalvinverse the Calvinverse]]:
96** The Brainstorm family. The ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' episode "Lightning Man" adds [[spoiler:Percy Lightningstorm]].
97** The C'mon Inn from ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesIILostAtSea''. Calvin doesn't get it.
98* From the ''Manga/DeathNote'' fic ''FanFic/ACureForLove'':
99-->'''L:''' Just go to sleep. You... ha, you go out like a light.\
100'''Light:''' [[NeverHeardThatOneBefore I've heard them all before, L, and they weren't funny the first time.]]
101* In ''Fanfic/DeviceOfLife'', the name of the digital city where Miku lives is Silicon's Gate, a pun of Silicon Valley and Bill Gates. Also, the social media that Iroha and Miki use is the "[=NicoTube=]", a portmanteau of Website/NicoNicoDouga and Website/{{YouTube}}.
102* In ''Fanfic/DoorsToTheUnknown'' one of the two POV groups is [[Literature/{{Worm}} Taylor Hebert]] and Co, abbreviated to [=THACo=]. This is a play on "to hit armor class 0" ([=THAC0=]), a common rule from 2e TabletopGame/Dungeons&Dragons.
103* In ''Fanfic/EquestriaAHistoryRevealed'', most of the names fall into this trope. The in-universe conspiracy theorist narrator Loose Change, the real-life author, Hoofry Poneigher, and most of the authors listed in the bibliography all have unashamedly punny names. At a point, the bibliography has a field day with crystal pun names before promising to stop.
104* ''Fanfic/HitmanMiami'', near the beginning, mentions the name "Vladimir Cutzurnutzov". The humor in this story isn't very subtle.
105* [[http://mrmenoc.wikia.com/wiki/Little_Miss_Matched Little Miss Matched]], a ''Literature/MrMen'' fan character.
106* ''FanFic/DiariesOfAMadman'' likes this trope. Elementals and changelings all use punny names, and there's also Kat, [[CatFolk a cat]].
107* ''Fanfic/{{Pokeumans}}'': Larry Bellowich the Loudred MC, who has NoIndoorVoice.
108* ''Fanfic/MegaManRecut'' has Governor Parson and Mitchell Deacon.
109* ''FanFic/MyBravePonyStarfleetMagic'': Dr. Penny Sillion. Her name is a pun on penicillin.
110* From ''Fanfic/TheHamsterballShow'':
111** Nowya Simi, AKA Nowya Dont. She has the ability to turn invisible.
112** Pokey Dot.
113** Alicia Lily Aska. [[UsefulNotes/{{Alaska}} Guess where she's from]].[[note]]pun: A. L. Aska[[/note]]
114** Ella Vator. She's an elevator from the Up Race.
115** Haylie the Comet. Yes, [[SpellMyNameWithAnS that's how her name's spelled]]. She's actually not from any canon race, but rather, from a race created by the author: the Space Race.
116** Minnie the Mini 8-Ball.
117* ''Fanfic/TheChangelingOfTheGuard'': The title of the story, Idol Hooves, the main character, and [[PungeonMaster Wasta Matter]] as well.
118* ''Fanfic/LupineTree'' Has Lumber Jack, who picked his own name. Coincidentally, he is also the titular tree.
119* ''Fanfic/TalesOfTheUndiscoveredSwords'' has a GargleBlaster concoction called ''Ichigo Hitokuchi'' (roughly "One Life, One Sip"). The name of this drink is based on ''-kuchi'' being the counter for both bites (of food)/sips (of drink) and swords, and the sword Ichigo Hitofuri.
120* ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/6359122/chapters/14567350 Talk the Talk]]'' has [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gordian_Knot Gordion Nott]].
121* Léon and Lucette Trémaux, Lycée de Mirabeau's resident bully and his SpoiledBrat sister in ''The Legend of Royal Blue and La Sylphide''. The first half of their name sounds like très, meaning "very," and last half, maux, is the plural of mal, meaning "bad/evil." Hence Gabriel calling the siblings "Très Mal" or "Very Bad" behind their backs.
122* ''Fanfic/HalfPastAdventure'' has plenty, in the vein of ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'', including the main character's brother, the Marquess Pen of Nuts.
123* In ''Fanfic/MonstersInParadise'', residents of the ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' universe are analogues of those that live in [[Franchise/TouhouProject Gensokyo]] in some way, shape or form. In one such case, [[MoonRabbit Reisen's]] counterpart turns out to be named [[Franchise/SailorMoon Shayla Moon.]]
124* A bunch in Fanfic/LaterTraitor. There's Bonfear (a fiery amalgamation representing anxieties), Freezie (an icy clone of Frazie), and the Drag-on (A dragon that represents Vern-on's tendency to 'drag on'. Also, it's a book wyrm).
125* In the ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' fanfic ''Fanfic/MaFille'', Soda Popinski has [[OriginalCharacter a wife]] named Ivana Kycurassis ("I want to kick your asses").
126* The ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' fic ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/23361307 Destiny Vault]] has Sora, while visiting [[WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries Agrabah]], lampshade the pun in Abis Mal's name. Aladdin doesn't get it, because [[TranslatorMicrobes he's not technically speaking the same language as Sora]], though Kairi giggles when Sora points it out.
127* ''Fanfic/TheSimpsonsTeamLASH'' has several characters with pun-based names.
128** Simon Skinner-Chalmers is always bossing people around and telling them what they can and can't do at school. "Simon Says", anyone?
129** Robbie Turley likes to steal things; in other words, he ''robs'' people.
130** Axl Mann's name is not only a reference to [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]], it's a pun on "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axle axle]]", which is a part of a car or bus. Overlaps with FamilyThemeNaming; his father Otto's name is a pun on "''auto''mobile".
131* Deconstructed in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/38096386/chapters/95163517 Spirits of the Blitz]]'', where puns in a spy {{Codename}} are a potential security leak. Spy handler Reggie Diceman is at odds with her superiors for insubordination, specifically pointing out that giving a spy named Kurt Goose the codename of 'Gander' is a bad idea.
132* ''Fanfic/SkylandersReturnToTheRuins'':
133** "Grease fire" (Fire Element Skylander) + "ire" (anger issues) = Grease Ire.
134** "Amino acid" (acid powers) + "amigo" (friend) = Amigo Acid.
135* ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': several characters pick punny nicknames for themselves.
136** "Herne the Hunted" is a ShoutOut to a god in Literature/{{Discworld}}, based loosely on the folkloric Herne the Hunt''er.''
137** "[[Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo Dantes]] [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Infernal]]" is a revenge-obsessed torture survivor.
138** "The Line of Fire" is a multi-generation family whose traumatic stories are all related to war and who all pick fire-themed individual nicknames for themselves.
139** Out of universe, the group the narration calls "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy the Friends of Dorothy]]" are [[Film/TheWizardOfOz literally the friends of Dorothy Gale]], in a story about queer history.
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142[[folder:Manhua]]
143* ''Manhua/ThirteenDotCartoons'': The name of 13-Dot's father means "made of money", her mother's "hot for her age". The names of most regular characters are likewise puns.
144* ''Manhua/KitchenGoddessAndTheAssassin'': Many of the assassins. Notably, Sol Crest and Dom Ping, also known as Salt Crust and Dumpling.
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147[[folder:Manhwa]]
148* ''Manhwa/MissNotSoSidekick'': The story holds a whole bunch of these: a stalker named Zeelove Cray, the family medic Doctor Tordoc, and a protagonist named after a café latte.
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151[[folder:Pinball]]
152* ''Pinball/MedievalMadness'': Used everywhere, especially with the kings and knights -- the King of Payne, Lord Howard Hurtz, Sir Lanceless...
153* ''Pinball/RevengeFromMars'': Two of the modes are named "Tower Struggle" and "Mars Kneads Women".
154* ''Pinball/TheSimpsonsPinballParty'': The "Itchy & Scratchy" episodes are "Spay Anything", "Kitty Kitty Bang Bang", "Field of Screams", and "Esophagus Now".
155* ''Pinball/BatmanForever'' calls The Riddler's saucer "Mr. E" (mystery), while one of the game modes is named "Face Two-Face" (face-to-face).
156* ''Pinball/WhiteWater'': Wet Willie (as in, the schoolyard prank).
157* ''Pinball/TheChampionPub'': One of your opponents is the Australian '''Dan Unda''' (down under).
158* ''Pinball/ThePartyZone'': Used all over the place, starting with your host, Captain B. Zarr.
159%%* ''Pinball/TheFlintstones'': As with the source material, the game plays this to the hilt.%%How?
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162[[folder:Podcasts]]
163* In ''The Chimera Program'' arc of ''Podcast/CoolKidsTable'', Golden's ability is ''silence''.
164* ''Podcast/HelloFromTheHallowoods'': Like all the revenants made by Irene Mend, Diggory Graves was named after his function - he was created to dig graves.
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167[[folder:Print Media]]
168* ''Magazine/PrivateEye'' has writers called Phil Space, Polly Filler, and Lunchtime O'Booze. This dates back at least to shortly after Bloody Sunday, when they printed a number of obviously-made-up letters about the atrocity, nearly identically worded and all including the phrase "But we all know who is to blame --". One blamed "IRA gunmen"; the "author" was a Mrs. Ira Gunman. For a while in TheNewTens, genuine letters signed with punny names became a regular slot on the letters page called "Pseuodonyms", until it got out of hand and the editors put a stop to it. There are still occasional letters printed with punny signatures, usually discussing whether or not they should bring back "Pseudonyms".
169* In his youth, astronomer Patrick Moore and his friends delighted in winding-up the editors of crackpot magazines by submitting spoof articles under pseudonyms such as "N. Ormuss" and "Professor Meisenratz".
170* ''Magazine/{{Mad}}'' naturally has some. For example:
171** In a western segment that parodied contemporary (Fifties and Sixties) sci-fi movie exposition tropes...
172->'''Townsperson''': [[OhCrap Here comes]] [[UsefulNotes/ColdWar Spudd Nick]], [[ThisIsGonnaSuck the orneriest gunslinger in the west]].
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175[[folder:Professional Wrestling]]
176* It is fairly common for wrestlers to use punny ring names. It should be noted that the punny names listed below tended to be from the early and mid-1990s, which is regarded as an AudienceAlienatingEra by many wrestling fans. Notable examples include:
177** Justin Credible
178** [[Wrestling/{{Kane}} Dr. Isaac Yankem]] (a wrestling dentist from Decatur, Illinois)
179** [[Wrestling/MikeRotunda Irwin R. Schyster]] (IRS, a wrestling tax inspector)
180** [[Wrestling/BillDeMott Hugh Morrus]] (who later changed his name to Hugh G. Rection, claiming that Wrestling/{{WCW}} management had given him the name 'Morrus' to make him look stupid. No, really.) (he did eventually get to use his real non-punny name in the WWE Bill [=DeMott=])
181** Wrestling/TheUndertaker's manager, Wrestling/PaulBearer.
182** [[Wrestling/BryanClarke Adam Bomb]]
183* Punny names in the post-Wrestling/AttitudeEra are toned tone a bit.
184** Wrestling/{{Kane}}, which is a homophone for {{Cain|AndAbel}}, who was also a vindictive brother in Literature/TheBible.
185** Wrestling/{{Lita}}, short for "Lolita". Bit of a sell-by date on that one.
186* Even wrestling moves can have punny names. One such example is the Fisherman's Suplex, so named because it involves 'hooking' your opponent's leg. Wrestler's finishing moves sometimes have puns based on their ring name, such as "Air [[Wrestling/EvanBourne Bourne]]" or "[[Wrestling/{{Paige}} Paige]] Turner".
187* Wrestling/ProgressWrestling has a wrestling priest called Pastor William Eaver. His name can be shortened to Bill Eaver.
188* The Dupps, a WrestlingFamily of hillbillies represented over the years by Jack Dupp, Bo Dupp, Stan Dupp, Puck Dupp, and Fluff Dupp. Their names were all puns on the word up - jacked up, bowed up, and so on.
189* Wrestling/PaigeTurner, a [[WrestlingDoesntPay wrestling librarian]].
190* Wrestling/KimonaWanalaya, a stripper-turned-valet in Wrestling/{{Raven}}'s Nest in ECW in 1996. WCW renamed her Leia Meow.
191* Former wrestler Wrestling/AlexWright's [[http://prowrestlingschool.de wrestling school]] is called The Wright Stuff.
192* Not a punny name, but rather a punny RedBaron—Wrestling/{{WWE}}'s web bio of Wrestling/LaParka opens with "One of the more popular Mexican competitors to make his way to Wrestling/{{WCW}}, La Parka didn’t earn the nickname 'The Chairman of WCW' for his business acumen." During his WCW run, he habitually entered the ring carrying a steel chair, often playing air guitar on it, and wasn't above using it on his opponents.
193* Wrestling/{{Chikara}} had The Swarm - a trio of evil counterparts to popular ant-themed luchadors The Colony. Their names were puns on the word Ant - [=combatANT, assailANT, and deviANT=].
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196[[folder:Radio]]
197* ''Radio/TheBobAndTomShow'': The "Paging Richard Smoker" segment is an "adult" example of punny names with the prank call motif.
198* Staple of radio show ''Radio/CarTalk'', which has a fictional production staff consisting almost entirely of bad puns such as their Russian meter feeder Nikolai Putin (Nickle I Put in) or resident single mother Erasmus B. Dragon (Her ass must be draggin'). The Chief Legal Counsel for the show is Hugh Louis Dewey (aka Hughie Louie Dewey) of the notorious firm of [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dewey,_Cheatem_&_Howe Dewey, Cheetham, and Howe]]. Tom and Ray Magliozzi, the creators and hosts of ''Car Talk'', so love this punny name that they named their production company "Dewey, Cheetham and Howe" (the window of the DC and H corporate offices, at the corner of Brattle and JFK Streets, are a source of constant amusement to residents of Cambridge, Massachusetts).
199** The most complete list of the ''Car Talk'' staff can be found at [[http://www.cartalk.com/content/about/credits/credits.html the show's Web site]].
200* James Bond is referenced in Creator/HideoKojima's insane ''[=IdeaSpy 2.5=]'' radio drama, where the spy's old flame has the name Call Now.
201* Back when W00t Radio still did live shows, even the autoplay list had its own DJ. His name? Otto Plair.
202* ''Radio/APrairieHomeCompanion'': When Garrison Keillor is the only writer, Sarah Bellum will be the only credited writer, referring to Gary's brain. Norman Conquest, Paige Turner, Natalie Dressed, Emanuel Transmission, Warren Piece, Guy Wire, Amanda Reckinwith, Hugh Jass, Pete Moss, and Sandy Beech have also been credited occasionally.
203** In Keillor's "News from Lake Wobegon" monologues, the editor of the ''Lake Wobegon Herald-Star'' is Harold Starr.
204* ''Radio/TheGoonShow'': plenty, most notably General Kashmychek and Justin Eidelburger ("Just an Idle Bugger"). Hugh Jampton is a more complex version; think of it in terms of Hugh Jass. For non-Brits: It's an example of rhyming slang where the rhyming syllable was later removed. Here Hampton Wick -- meaning prick -- is being shortened to Hampton then disguised as Jampton, then amplied by Hugh(ge)!
205* BBC Radio 1's Chris Moyles will sometimes ask his listeners to text other radio shows using this sort of name, then send in the results. Popular names include Toby le Rone (Toblerone) and Cara Mack (Caramac, a brand of chocolate bar). More ingenious listeners come up with multiple names, such as Liz, Anya and Carl Hickbread (lasagne and garlic bread) and a man calling himself Mark who said he was in his car with his baby son Spencer, knowing that the DJ would say hello to [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marks_&_Spencer Mark and Spencer]].
206* Will you please welcome Mr. and Mrs. L'point-Of-The-Last-Arrivals-Game-On-[[Radio/ImSorryIHaventAClue I'm-Sorry-I-Haven't-A-Clue]] and their son Theo L'point-Of-The-Last-Arrivals-Game-On-I'm-Sorry-I-Haven't-A-Clue.
207* The presenters of ''Radio Active'' (and [[SoundToScreenAdaptation later]] ''Series/{{KYTV}}'') include Mike Flex, Mike Channel and Anna Daptor. (mic flex, mic channel and an adaptor. This is what happens when you come up with silly names for your characters while in a radio studio.)
208* Defied by Mr. Sergeant of the ''Radio/CabinPressure'' episode "Ipswich" who chose to become an RAF Warrant Officer so that his rank and surname would not humorously match.
209* ''Radio/JohnFinnemoresSouvenirProgramme'':
210** In the Edinburgh Festival episode, the Storyteller's story is about his encounter with two sinister figures named Pratt and Rabbit. Part of the evidence that leads him to realise they're [[GraveRobbing Grave Robbers]] is "I'd just worked out the joke in their names" (on notorious Edinburgh grave robbers Burke and Hare).
211** In another episode, asked for a tale of "Christmas cheer", the Storyteller says he has a story about his friend, Christopher Muscheer, which happens to be set at Christmas, but is "relentlessly bleak". His wife's name is also very funny when followed by "Muscheer", but the Storyteller can't recall what it was. And their son's isn't, because they didn't want him to be bullied at school.
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215* ''Theatre/CactusFlower'' features a nightclub named "The Slipped Disc".
216* Per the ''Theatre/CrazyHorse'' cabaret's tradition, its nude female dancers have suggestive Stage Names such as "Lova Moor", "Polly Underground" or "Trauma Tease".
217* ''Theatre/OnTheTown'' has a few of these used for one-off jokes:
218** Claire's full name is Claire De Loone.
219** John Offenblock is [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname known to all by his nickname]], Chip.
220** Mr. Uperman, Hildy's boss, is identified by the back of his jacket as "S. Uperman."
221* [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Shakespeare]] would sneak these in occasionally. Like Bottom the Weaver of ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream''. He turns into a donkey. Think about a word that can mean both "bottom" and "donkey", and you'll have it. Gotta love a Punny Name the audience has to [[StealthPun construct for themselves]]! It helps that contemporary English pronunciation was closer to current day American pronunciation.
222* ''Theatre/{{Shucked}}'': Maizy, from "maize", the native word for corn. Lampshaded; Grandpa talks about what she was named for, gesturing toward some corn stalks, before saying she was named for her grandmother.
223* In ''Theatre/TorchSongTrilogy'', Arnold's monologue at the beginning of "The International Stud" has him running off the punny {{Stage Name}}s he's used for his DragQueen act: Virginia Hamm, Kitty Litter, Bang Bang [=LaDesh=] and Bertha Venation.
224* ''Theatre/{{Urinetown}}'' has the toilet-monopolizing Urine Good Company.
225* In the musical ''Way Out West in a Dress'', everyone's name is this. For example, the hairstylist is Rogaine, the criminal is Rob Banks, the one with an ear infection is Eileen, and the judge was Levy Fines.
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229* The gangster hijacker on ''Ride/TheGreatMovieRide'' at [[Ride/DisneyThemeParks Disney's Hollywood Studios]] is named '''Mug'''sy.
230* ''Ride/WaltDisneyWorld'': Epcot's ''The Land'' pavilion had ''Ride/KitchenKabaret'' (and its brief replacement "Food Rocks"), with a number of {{Anthropomorphic Food}}s singing about good nutrition, all with some punny name. "Kitchen Kabaret", for example, included the hostess Bonnie Appetit and dairy-group MC Derry Goods. "Food Rocks", meanwhile, had [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed food-themed parodies of popular musicians]] like Füd Wrapper (who was even voiced by Tone Loc), the Peach Boys, and Pita Gabriel.
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234* Many Toys/BeanieBabies from Ty. Some have a MeaningfulName, too.
235* ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'' had the Mukau, a bovine combiner model whose name is pronounced the same as "moo-cow". However, the story team thought the pun was silly, and the creature has since been renamed to Mata Nui Cow.
236* Often done by Creator/LarryHama in the civilian names of ''Franchise/GIJoe'' action figures. Examples include an Arctic trooper named [[http://www.u-s-history.com/pages/h230.html Farley Seward]] and a Hovercraft pilot named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stone_skipping Skip A. Stone.]]
237* The iCy from the ''Toys/IDog'' franchise. It's a penguin, which is associated with ice. The word "icy" in this case is combined with the CamelCase that comes with the IProduct trope.
238* ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' gives every Mixel a pun based on their abilities, design, or element, such as Flain (a genius with fire-based abilities) coming from "flame" and "brain" or Seismo, an earthquake-causer, coming from "seismograph". Even the name of their enemies, the Nixels, manages to become a pun, thanks to their goal of eradicating all creativity, or ''nix''ing it.
239* Toys/MonsterHigh, as a WorldOfPun, extends this to all the characters' names, such as Frankie Stein, Draculaura, Cleo De Nile, and Abbey Bominable.
240* There are these plush toys called "Mushabellies" which are fat, cuddly plush animals that chatter when you squeeze (mush) their stomachs (the bigger ones, however, make a funny fart-like sound known as grumbling when you squeeze them).
241* In ''Toys/PinkieCooperAndTheJetSetPets'', Pepper's pet dog is named ''Salt''ine.
242* Some Franchise/{{Transformers}}, such as [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Sea_Clamp Sea Clamp,]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Spinister Spinister,]] [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Jhiaxus Jhiaxus,]] and [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tentakil_%28G1%29 Tentakil,]] wind up with pun names. At its worst, it's truly [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Horri-Bull Horri-Bull,]] and that makes us [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Fangry Fangry.]]
243** In ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'', most characters were given names that suited their animal modes. The munky is Optimus Primal, the cheetah is Cheetor, Blackarachnia is a (mostly) black arachnid, the pterosaur is Terrorsaur, etc.
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247* The ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' series has a ton of pun-filled names: Dick Gumshoe, Penny Nichols, Will Powers, Jack Hammer, Sal Manella, Ben & Trilo Quist, Winston Payne, Laurence "Moe" Curls, Ted Tonate, etc. In the Japanese version, they also have punny names of sorts: Wright's Japanese name is "Ryuichi Naruhodo" ("naruhodo" meaning "I see"); Winston Payne is called "Takefumi Auchi" (possibly a pun on "Ouch!"); von Karma's last name in Japanese (Karuma) means "hunting evil" - possibly giving a reference to HeWhoFightsMonsters, and Karuma Mei (Franziska von Karma) literally translates to "Hunting Evil Hades", a reference to how far she will go to fulfill her idea of justice [[spoiler:and her eventually trying to sincerely fight for justice by 'hunting' the evil her father set before her]]. In an attempt to avoid the Japanese puns going unnoticed in the English version (i.e an English player may see a name as being just as normal as the others while a Japanese player gets the pun), they [[DubNameChange changed all the names]] to evoke a similar pun in English.
248** This is even lampshaded in the first case, when if you call Cindy Stone (the victim) Cinder Block, the judge points out how bad a pun it was. Phoenix Wright seems to be aware of this when he tells a joke:
249--->'''Phoenix:''' Why am I a good defense attorney? Because I'm "wright" all the time.
250** They also make fun of this a lot in ''VisualNovel/{{Apollo Justice|AceAttorney}}''. Russian waitress Olga Orly presumably pronounces her last name "or-lee" at first, but after it's revealed that she's not really Russian, she says it's actually pronounced "oh really" (like the meme). Sleazy doctor with mob ties Pal Meraktis has the "malpractice" pun in his name pointed out by Trucy.
251** The tradition continues in ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyDualDestinies Dual Destinies]]'', where the series's punny name convention is used as ''evidence''. [[spoiler:Athena points out that "Hugh O'Conner" sounds like "You're a Goner", which puts the nature of an audio recording of the crime in jeopardy.]] [[SubvertedTrope However, he is NOT the killer.]]
252** ''VideoGame/ProfessorLaytonVsAceAttorney'' actually plays this into the plot: Why does everyone have ridiculously obvious pun names? Yes, this is (part) ''Ace Attorney'', but even by those standards, these are overkill (a wannabe knight called Knightle, a courier called Lettie Mailer, ect). But then at the end of the game it turns out that [[spoiler:everyone is a test subject who had their memories wiped and fake names and backstories given to them. The puns in their names are all bad and obvious because they were made up in-universe.]]
253** ''[[VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice Spirit of Justice]]'' uses the foreign country setting to completely abandon all sensibility in its pun names. Among others, we have a tour guide named Ahlbi Ur'gaid, a hippie monk named Pees'lubin Andistan'dhin, a monk named Tahrust Inmee and his wife Beh'leeb Inmee, another monk named Puh'ray Zeh'lot [[spoiler:which is actually a pseudonym -- his real name is [[ShapedLikeItself Rheel Neh'mu]]]], a member of LaResistance named Datz Are'bal, and the OverlyLongName Inga Karkhuul [[LampshadeHanging Haw'kohd Dis'nahm Bi'Ahni Lawga Ormo Pohmpus Da'nit Ar'edi Iz]] Khura'in III. Even in the US portions there's a masked magician named Manov Mistree with the stage name Mr. Reus, and a politician named Paul Atishon (technically Paul Atishon-Wimperson, but he prefers to drop that last part [[EmbarrassingLastName for obvious reasons]]).
254** ''VisualNovel/TheGreatAceAttorney'' duology jumped through some hoops to retain the series' punny nature. Being the first localized game not to [[AdaptationalLocationChange change Japan to LA]], since relationships between Britain and Japan are integral to the plot and Japanese places/characters are very unmistakably so, several characters got to retain their original names, including protagonist Ryunosuke Naruhodo. However, some changes were still done to make the puns more obvious, like the first witness went from Taizou Uzukumaru (meaning "to crouch") became Iyesa Nosa ("yes sir, no sir", referencing his soldier occupation). Even names intended to be in English were changed to make the pun clearer, such as the second game's William Petenshy (his last name meaning "crook") becoming William Shamspeare (retaining the Shakespeare reference while still indicating his untrustworthiness). This leads to a rather bizarre event when Ryunosuke gets chided for falling for the "obviously" fake name of "Eggert Benedict", even though it's... really not that farfetched compared to everyone else.
255* ''VisualNovel/AceInSpace'': "T-3R4" is based on "Terra", which is a name commonly given to Earth in science fiction stories.
256* A number of characters from the ''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'' have punny names. There is Monokuma, whose name is a combination of "monochrome" ("monokuroomu") and "bear" ("kuma") in Japanese.
257** ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaTriggerHappyHavoc'' has Daiya and Mondo Owada, two brothers who are [[JapaneseDelinquents both members of a bōsōzoku gang called the Crazy Diamonds]]. Their first names, when put together, form 'Daiyamondo', which is the Japanese pronunciation of the English word 'diamond'.
258** ''VisualNovel/Danganronpa2GoodbyeDespair'' has Monomi/Usami. Not only does Usami start with part of the Japanese word for rabbit (Usagi), but her new name sounds a lot like the French phrase "Mon amie", or "my friend", much like how Monokuma's name is also a foreign language pun and contains the animal that he is based on. There is also [[TheEngineer Kazuichi]] '''[[TheEngineer Soda]]''', who has a hefty cola addiction; and '''Mik'''an Tsu'''mik'''i, who has a '''[[ShrinkingViolet meek]]''' personality (though the last one is an accidental example as Kodaka did not speak English at the time of Goodbye Despair's writing).
259** In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', there is [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot K1-B0]], whose name for "Kibō" (the Japanese word for "Hope"). To English speakers, it can also sound similar to "keyboard", and it is also the nickname of a Japanese science module for the International Space Station (ISS). There is also [[MellowFellow Rantaro Amami]]. [[spoiler: In his case, an alternative reading of his name's kanji is "tenkai", which when written with a different set of kanji (展開), can be translated as "plot twist", referring to his "talent" as the Ultimate ???.]] Another accidental example would be [[LoveableSexManiac Miu]] '''[[LoveableSexManiac Iruma]]''', whose last name sounds a lot like '''irruma'''tio, a sex act.
260* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' has Fujimura ''Taiga'' (who has a strong connection with ''[[AnimalMotifs tigers]]''). [[LampshadeHanging Lampshaded]] in-universe, as even most of her students call her Tiger (despite her hating the nickname).
261* The title of Pulltop-Latte's ''Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort'' [[DoubleMeaningTitle plays on the phrase "last resort" for a reason]]. At first glance, the best one can see is that the story takes place in a beautiful ''resort'' and the protagonist gets to have sex with a bunch of beautiful young women. As for how "last" that resort is, the reason becomes clear once you finish playing all the routes; each woman is in a complicated position in life (afraid to leave the resort due to unresolved guilt, trying to help a friend suffering from depression, earning money to support her bankrupt family, etc.), and their work at the resort is literally a "last resort" for them to get their life together and move on from what's halting them. [[TitleDrop The phrase is even used in one of the routes]].
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265* ''WebAnimation/FreedomToons'': "What White Knights Actually Believe" features an internet white knight named [[{{Cuckold}} "Chris Cucker"]].
266* The three knights among the ''WebAnimation/KnightsOfAllRealms''. Sir Lee the Irritable, Lady Bugg the Diminutive, and Sir Loin the One who is the Fat One.
267* ''WebVideo/UltraFastPony'': In the episode "The Pet Games", one of the color commentators is named Dick Hardman. Mainly he has that name as an excuse to cram as many dick jokes into the dialogue as possible. "Yes, farting in your opponents' faces is a classic Dick move."
268* ''WebAnimation/GrimReaperFlagChan'': Mobuo's and Mobumi's names are a reference to the Japanese slang word mobu, which is used to refer to background characters or [=NPCs=].
269* As Ninomae Ina'nis of ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}} EN'' is a PungeonMaster of the highest degree[[note]]Heck, ''her own name'' could be considered a pun, as "inanis" is Latin for "empty", and "ninomae" could be interpreted as "ni no mae", Japanese for "before two". And what comes before two? One, as in "empty one". And considering that in her lore, Ina'nis is a TouchedByVorlons priestess of a pseudo-EldritchAbomination known as "The Ancient Ones"...[[/note]], it should come as little surprise that when [[WebAnimation/HololiveEnglishMythbreakers the girls played a tabletop RPG campaign together]], she named her character "Yuul B. Alwright". GameMaster Calliope Mori then decided to run with the joke by populating Ina'nis' tutorial session with characters with equally punny names, such as Yuul's friend Nitta Friend, the teacher/MadScientist Ail S. Stonishyu, and the cronically late Justin Time. [[LampshadedTrope Lampshaded]] when an NPC asked for Yuul's name.
270-->'''Yuul:''' Ummm... Yuul B. Alwright\
271'''Victor:''' [[WhosOnFirst Yeah, I'll be fine, but what's your name?]]
272* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'': Some antagonists have names based on puns about their defining traits.
273** [[https://youtu.be/xFJ6SfeLCaY "My Sister Robbed My Fiancee! However, the person who looted it was…"]] [sic]: Burimi's name means "acts like [a] beauty," which coincides with her trying to prove she's prettier than Kanade, she is actually a cartoonishly GonkyFemme.
274** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2fB1u8b9Ak "Mom Friend Makes Me Pay For Her Restaurant Bill → But When I Said I Canceled My Reservation…"]]: Kechimi's name comes from ''kechi'', which means stingy or cheapskate, which fits her personality as a penny-pinching mother and housewife who leeches off a richer one like Haru to get free stuff.
275* ''WebAnimation/MonaLisasSillyTalk'', in a manner similar to ''Grim Reaper Flag Chan'', has three characters named Mobumi, Moburo, and Mobuko, often called the "Mobu Trio," a reference to the Japanese slang word mobu, which is used to refer to background characters or [=NPCs=]. And indeed, the three characters rarely play a major role in any episodes.
276* ''WebAnimation/RobotboxAndCactus'': Cactus's boss from "Outside the Box" is named B. Sting.
277* ''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'': The Cenitaur is an evolved form of the Centinel, a giant centipede Grimm. Its name is a play on the "centaur"; while the bottom half remains a centipede, the top half evolves to take on some humanoid elements, such as having a pair of arms that end in spikes that match the centipede legs instead of having human hands.
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281* In the ''WebVideo/DanielTrasher'' video "When you have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia", [[OverlyLongName Ann T. Disestablishmentarianism]] is a pun on the word "antidisestablishmentarianism", because the video focuses on long words. The "T" stands for thermoluminescence.
282* ''WebVideo/DougDougAIInvasion'':
283** Sun Tzu is the name of Chat's artificial sun in the Space Campaign.
284** To an extent, all of Chat's names, mashing the word "Chat" into other words, except for the first one. Atlantis, Saturn, and Otters: Chatistan, Chatlantis, Chaturn. and the Cult of Chotters.
285* ''WebVideos/{{iTomFoolery}}'': The eponymous Tom Foolery's name is a pun on the word "tomfoolery" which means a silly behavior.
286* The host of the educational Website/YouTube series [[https://www.youtube.com/@KnowingBetter Knowing Better]] is known for keeping his real name a secret, generally behaving as if "Knowing Better" is actually his name.[[note]] This has become something of a RunningGag in his videos: his video on Mormonism features him playing a Mormon missionary named "Elder Better"; and his video on his military service features him wearing an Army uniform with "Better" written on the name tag.[[/note]] For a joke, his video on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLyU1WCQQ8A US Postal Service]] briefly features him playing a US Army sergeant in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI named "Noah L. Moore". The "L" stands for "Little".
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