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2[[caption-width-right:300:"It's Goblin spelled backwards!\
3This is their kingdom!"]]
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5->''"By the way, incredibly creative, flipping the name backwards like that."''
6-->-- '''Gannji''', ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick''
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8"Sdrawkcab" is spelled backwards. Some writers like to invent names this way. There a few different reasons:
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10* To create an unusual name: "[[{{VideoGame/Wizardry}} Trebor]]" seems more exotic than "Robert".
11* To [[ShoutOut reference]] a real person's name, usually an actor's or writer's name.
12* To barely avert ADogNamedDog: instead of a robot named Robot, here's a [[Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl robot named]] [[WesternAnimation/HamsterAndGretel Tobor]].[[note]]Probably shouldn't be used with "[[{{God}} Dog]]" itself, though.[[/note]]
13* To disguise a MeaningfulName: "Rotiart" is less obvious than "Traitor".
14* To pair two characters, as [[Literature/WheresWally Waldo]] and Odlaw. One of them may be the EvilCounterpart.
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16This is a SuperTrope for:
17* {{Alucard}}: This reversal of "Dracula" is so prevalent as to [[StealthPun count]] as its own trope.
18* SdrawkcabAlias: A character reverses their own name to disguise their identity. Of course, this fails as soon as someone thinks to reverse the pseudonym.
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20The technical term for this is an "Ananym". (And yes, it does spell "My Nana" if written backwards.) On a technical note, this trope is much more interesting depending on whether it's the ''sounds'' or ''letters'' that have been reversed, compared with whether it occurs in written or spoken form. For example, compare "[[Series/WhoWantsToBeASuperhero Rotiart]]" (Roh-Tee-Art) with "traitor" (Tray-Tor); the letters are reversed, but the way English language rules work, the result comes out with noticeably different syllabic parsing and verbal rhythm. You might spot the trope in writing, but it sounds like a genuine name when spoken aloud. Conversely, reversing the syllables instead of the spelling can pass in writing, but may sound obvious when spoken out loud. A much less common option is to reverse the phonemes themselves, which would usually give something totally unrecognisable unless you actually played the result backwards.
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22Also 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 "[[Literature/InfiniteStratos Yamada Maya]]" (やまだまや Ya-ma-da-Ma-ya).
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24Sometimes, the reversed spelling may be altered to look a little more plausible and/or be easier to pronounce, like "'''st'''raw'''ck'''ab" instead of "'''sd'''raw'''kc'''ab" -- as "st" and "ck" are common digraphs in English, which makes it look more believable as a word.
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26Compare StevenUlyssesPerhero and SdrawkcabSpeech. SubTrope of SignificantAnagram.
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32[[folder:Gnisitrevda (Advertising)]]
33* Old example: Serutan, as its commercials would point out, was "natures" spelled backwards. ''Literature/BoredOfTheRings'' appropriated the brand name for its parody counterpart of Saruman. The commercials themselves were spoofed by the chapter title "Serutan Spelled Backwards Is Mud".
34** ''Magazine/{{MAD}}'' also referenced it in "Gasoline Valley":
35--->"Skizziks spelled backwards is Skizziks!"\
36"What a dopey kid! Anybody knows that Skizziks spelled backwards is 'natures'!"
37* Tobor, an imaginatively-named children's toy from TheSeventies, advertised during the one and only televised broadcast of ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''. And just in case you didn't get it, the commercial's narrator helpfully points out, "Tobor is "robot" spelled backwards!" See it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6nzARRvoHS8 here.]]
38** [[Podcast/{{Rifftrax}} Shopper is "buy Tobor" spelled backwards.]]
39* Back in the late 90s and early 2000s, the ''Willy Wonka'' brand of candies had a website with a ''lot'' of very fun games. One of the games, ''Spooky Nerds Castle'', introduced a MadScientist named Dr. Dren (read: Nerd, like the candy), who then went on to appear in a few other games.
40* "I lov it", a sweets line. Lov? Tivoli Gardens in Denmark+this trope=Aha!
41* "noitulovE", title of a Guinness beer ad (which is played backwards too).
42* A Advertising/WilkinsCoffee commercial featured Wilkins as a fortune-teller called "Snikliw the Swamee".
43* Nike has a program "Ekin" for training their message spreaders.
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46[[folder:Emina dna Agnam (Anime and Manga)]]
47* Dr. Mashirito, the MadScientist antagonist in ''Manga/DoctorSlump'' was named after Toriyama's editor at the time, whose surname was Torishima. It may not be obvious, but written in the Japanese syllable-alpabet, it is indeed a Sdrawkcab Name. To western eyes, it just looks like an anagram.
48* ''Manga/SoulEater'':
49** Maka Albarn wields a scythe. Fitting, seeing as the word for "scythe" in Japanese is "kama"....
50** It's not just Maka -- a few of the witches have backwards names, according to their animal theme. For example, "nezumi" (rat) to Mizune.
51* ''Manga/SgtFrog'' already features Mine Yoshizaki's AuthorAvatar (known as Yoshizaki-sensei), but there's also a background character called ''Yoshi Mine''zaki - she's an EeriePaleSkinnedBrunette who could be easily mistaken for a StringyHairedGhostGirl.
52* Part of the DubNameChange for the American version of ''Manga/TokyoMewMew'' involved renaming characters Kish and Tart to Dren and Tarb. That's a fair (if teeth-grindingly dumb) description of [[BrattyHalfPint Tart]], but 'Dren' was apparently from the time that 'nerd' was viewed as something bad.
53* In an omake gag 4-koma in ''Manga/FullMoon'', Mitsuki Kouyama wonders what her name would be if she was a shinigami. Takuto thinks up her name backwards, "Mayauko Kitsumi". None of them like it.
54* ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'': Dlanor A. Knox, a reference to the author [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ronald_Knox Ronald A. Knox,]] who is her father.
55* Krad and Dark of ''Manga/DNAngel'' have each others' names spelled backwards. This is most likely intentional, as they are two halves of the same artwork.
56* Elbaf, the land of giants, in ''Manga/OnePiece''. The Viz translation missed this--or chose to obfuscate it further--and translated it as "Elbaph."
57* In ''Manga/DemonSlayerKimetsuNoYaiba'', Enmu the demon who specializes in blood demon arts that induces people into never-ending dreams meant to kill them has his name properly written in Kanji, meaning ''sleep-groaning dream'', but the way it is pronounced is exactly an anagram of Nemu, radical form of ''sleep''.
58* The Fuji television block ''Creator/NoitaminA''.
59* ''Manga/{{Diabolo}}'' has a character named Nema. As one might guess, she's not one of the good guys.
60* Madnug [[spoiler:aka. Professor [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam0083StardustMemory Gerbera]]]] from ''Anime/SDGundamForce''.
61* Bad Bird's Armor of [[CreepyCrows Worc]] from ''Anime/SamuraiPizzaCats''.
62* In the final chapter/episode of ''Anime/DragonBallZ'', Goku enters the World Martial Arts Tournament because he learned that Kid Buu's reincarnation will be there; he turns out to be a small Indian[[note]]or whatever the ''DBZ'' world equivalent is[[/note]] boy named Uub. The fact that even an IdiotHero like Goku recognized the name could be seen as LampshadeHanging.[[note]]To be fair, Goku was the one who wished for and anticipated Buu's reincarnation and Goku entered the tournament just because of the reincarnation to show up, Goku didn't need to think that long to figure that out.[[/note]]
63* ''Manga/{{Aruosumente}}'': Legna, the protagonist's name, is Angel spelled backwards. Angel is also Legna's nickname for utterly different, in-universe reasons.
64* In ''Literature/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.
65* ''Manga/ThePromisedNeverland'': In a YouAreNumberSix variant, when you flip the Grace Field kids' ID numbers they go in ascending order by age. So child #81194 would be followed by #91194, then #02194, etc. The flipping is likely part of the way to keep the children from noticing this pattern.
66* The ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'' episode "The Grass Route" featured Jessie and James entering a tournament using the names Eissej and Semaj.
67* There is a company in ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' known as Detnerat secretly recruiting people for the Meta Liberation Army. Accounting for the L- and R-sounds being interchangeable in Japanese, this is "Talented" spelled in reverse.
68* ''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.
69* ''Anime/HyperdimensionNeptuniaTheAnimation'': There is a female character named Setag who is an {{Expy}} of Bill Gates.
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73* Keymon of ''Animation/KeymonAche'' has a backwords name of sorts - his name is the word "monkey" with the syllables reversed. And yes, he is a monkey - well, a magic school bag shaped like a monkey anyway.
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77* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'':
78** [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=37 Nevinyrral's Disk,]] a ShoutOut to Creator/LarryNiven (and specifically to his story "Literature/TheMagicGoesAway"). The story involves a wizard proving that magic is a limited resource (a metaphor for fossil fuel) by creating a disk that has two spells on it -- one causes it to spin faster and faster without limit, and the other binds the disk together against the increasingly extreme forces that would otherwise tear it apart. The result is a small 'do nothing' engine that, in a very short time, consumes all the magic in the vicinity and leaves a zone in which magic does not exist and spells do not work. The Magic card works similarly; activating it immediately destroys all the spells and summoned creatures in play.
79** The Citanul Druids (and other such) -- "Citanul" becomes "lunatic"....
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82[[folder:Cimoc Skoob (Comic Books)]]
83* There were two different [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] comic book villains named "Doctor Allirog".
84* Another Golden Age villain named "Dr. Doog", in the origin of Starman, was reused in ''ComicBook/AllStarSquadron''. It was originally supposed to be "[[DoomyDoomsOfDoom Doom]]" and needed to be changed, but the new name happens to be "Good" backwards (in other words, evil).
85* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
86** The extradimensional imp Mr. Mxyzptlk can (usually) only be banished by somehow tricking him into saying or writing his name backwards.
87** One [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] comic had Superman deliver some payback by traveling to the 5th Dimension and using his powers to pranking Mxyzptlk (who was in the middle of running for town mayor). Mxy desperately tries to get him to say "Namrepus" to send him back to our world, but even when he does nothing happens; when Supes has had his fun, he voluntarily returns home by saying "[[IKnowYourTrueName Le-Lak]]".
88** There was also a Silver Age story where [[Characters/SupermanLoisLane Lois Lane]] ended up in the 5th Dimension by thinking "Kltpzyxm" to herself.
89** Htrae, the Bizarro World, is Earth written backwards.
90** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLightningLad'': Wanting to play a prank on his friends from the ComicBook/LegionOfSuperHeroes, Mon-El dons a mask and introduces himself as a team member applicant named "Lemon".
91* ''ComicBook/SergioAragonesDestroysDC'': Parodied when Batman defeated the [[BigBad villain]], [[spoiler: the DarkerAndEdgier in NinetiesAntiHero style version of company mascot Johnny DC]] saying he would buy a [[spoiler: CD player called CD Ynnhoj]]. When the villain asked "What is a [[spoiler: CD Ynnhoj]]?", he realized too late it was his name spelled backwards, and vanished exactly as Mr. Mxyzptlk would.
92* DC's ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' comics has a renegade Borg named [[Characters/BatmanBane Enab]]..
93* In Spanish comic-book ''ComicBook/{{Superlopez}}'', the spell destroying the Lord of the Pacifiers is ''Etev la oonreuk'', a slight modification of a backwards ''Vete al cuerno'', which is Spanish slang for ''Get lost''.
94* Characters/{{Zatanna}} doesn't reverse her name, but her magical spells are spoken through backwards words (but the sentence will still be read left-to-right). For example, if she wanted a nice frosty one she'd say "Teg em a reeb!" Her evil counterpart from another universe (featured in ''ComicBook/{{Countdown|ToFinalCrisis}}''), however, was indeed named Annataz Arataz.
95* ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'' sees a lot of these in the new Lanterns. Many names are simply the names of creators backwards, for example Isamot Kol's first name is Peter Tomasi's last name backwards. Sn'hoj of the Sinestro Corps is clearly backwards Creator/GeoffJohns. Duel Eknham for Doug Mahnke, and a number of others.
96* There is some [[WildMassGuessing fan speculation]] that master of disguise Eno Orez from Motter and Lark's ''Terminal City'' is a robot.
97* Rekrab, the shopkeeper and occultist in ''ComicBook/TerrorInc'', is a ShoutOut and {{Expy}} of Creator/CliveBarker. In the first issue Terror's playing with a [[Franchise/{{Hellraiser}} Lament Configuration]] puzzle box in his shop.
98* Some people saw it as significant that the given name of Marvel's ComicBook/SubMariner, Namor, is "Roman" spelled backwards. His favoured battle-cry is the CanisLatinicus "Imperius Rex!" Creator/RobLiefeld created the aquatic superhero Roy Roman to appear in his various Creator/ImageComics titles, and in case that's not obvious enough for you, people tended to just call him "Roman" in Leifeld-penned stories.
99* [[Characters/MarvelComicsMilesMorales Miles Morales]] has an EvilCounterPart clone named Selim.
100* Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' (about a SupermanSubstitute created by Liefeld) had some mentions of Emerpus, the equivalent of the "well-meaning simpleton" version of Bizarro. He comes from a mirror universe where everything is backwards. [[CaptainErsatz The local Mxyzptlk]] is named Szazs. A character even suggests tricking him into saying his name backwards until they realize it won't work, since Szazs is a palindrome. Further, the water-breathing hero is the aforementioned Roy ''Roman''.
101* Strongman, from ''Crash Comics'', was active during the 1940s and fought against troops from the country of Aissur (Russia). Their leader was even called Linats, which is very close to being a backwards name for Stalin.
102* In ''ComicBook/{{Zombo}}'', the title character's successor was deliberately named Obmoz to indicate how he is the opposite of Zombo.
103* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'':
104** Back when he was called Captain Marvel, he once fought his duplicate from a (literal) MirrorWorld, who was named Niatpac Levram.
105** Some time after his name was changed to Shazam, ComicBook/ForeverEvil2013 introduced an EvilCounterpart from [[MirrorUniverse Earth-3]] named "Mazahs".
106* While not strictly a name, per se, the "magic word" which triggers ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'s TransformationSequence is "kimota". Creator/AlanMoore's ContinuityReboot of the comic in the early 1980s {{lampshade|Hanging}}d this by having an adult, semi-amnesiac Michael Moran remember the word by seeing "atomic" written on a glass door from behind.
107* In ''ComicBook/TexWiller'', [[EvilSorcerer Mephisto]] during his second appearance once told some people that his name was "Anatas". It didn't last long, but he was quite in a hurry at the time. During his third one, he goes by the much more creative pseudonym of "Fiesmot".
108* In ''ComicBook/SonicTheComic'', Dr. Ivo Robotnik, like in the Early Sonic Canon of Sega of America (which was rejected by Sega of Japan, and {{retcon}}ned), is the SuperpoweredEvilSide of Ovi Kintobor.
109* It gets complicated in ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics''. Dr. Robotnik was originally an [[SdrawkcabAlias alias]] for Julian Kintobor. However, when the comic integrated elements of ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2'', they added in a separate Robotnik family. Eventually it was {{retcon}}ned from an alias to this trope, with the mad doctor taking his parent's names upon rising to power.
110* ''ComicBook/SuskeEnWiske'': Also a popular device in this comic strip.
111* After ComicBook/{{Werner}} has liberated not only his buddy Erwin but accidentally a few dozen people from the [[{{Cult}} Bhagwan sect]], everyone except Erwin believes he has enlightened them and sees him as their new master. So to get rid of them, they're first tested by having them open a bottle of beer with a raw egg, and after they all fail, Werner invents a "Master Renrew" who sits somewhere in Tibet and whom he claims to be able to teach the former Bhagwan people how to open a bottle with a raw egg.
112* In the ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'' crossover, [[{{Satan}} Neron]] shows up in ''The Ray'' calling himself Kathy Noren. [[Characters/DCComicsVandalSavage Vandal Savage]] isn't fooled for a second.
113* ''ComicBook/{{Urbanus}}'': Ed Levuid is actually ''De Duivel'' (''The Devil'').
114* In the German (originally East German) children's comic-book ''Mosaik'', whose protagonists, the ''Abrafaxe'' travel through time, one storyline ended up revealing that their most notable recurring villain, 16th-century Spaniard Don Ferrando, ended up in ancient Egypt where he became a pharaoh under the name Odnarref Nod.
115* In ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMysteryGillen'', Loki transforms the spirit of his old self into a magpie companion, which he calls Ikol.
116* AntiVillain Zorglub from ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'' created a secret language based on this (Zorgspeak), where every word is reversed while keeping its place in the sentence ("Hail Zorglub" becomes "Liah Bulgroz").
117* DC Vertigo series "The Exterminators" features the Ocran Corporation, a play on "Narco".
118* ''Den'' by Richard Corben (NSFW) features a few. A place is called Nebroc, a demon summoning call is "[[Literature/CthulhuMythos ULUHTC]]!"
119* Creator/MarvelComics features two characters called Kluh, both variations on the [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk Hulk]]. The first features in ''ComicBook/{{Axis}}'' and is an inversion of the Hulk, who instead of HulkingOut because of anger becomes what it is by sadness and depression. The second is an intelligent incarnation of the Gray Hulk, a "superior" clone created by Xemnu in a failed attempt to destroy the Hulk and replace him with Kluh.
120* In the Marvel UK ''WesternAnimation/TheRealGhostbusters'' comic, the back-up strip "Blimey, it's Slimer!" claimed that in life, Slimer had been a gluttonous king named Remils.
121* ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': In ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'' Annual #20, Old Posea, who tells fables of Batman, is named after [[Literature/AesopsFables Aesop]].
122* ''ComicBook/{{Vampirella}}'': Surely there are more examples to find (the other Warren mags Magazine/CreepyMagazine and Eerie surely have a ton either), so anyway for starters: "Goddess from the Sea" features Namlooc, Namelttil, and Namgib.
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126* During his tenure as writer on ''ComicStrip/DickTracy,'' Max Allan Collins was fond of giving his villains last names that were words describing them, spelled backwards. Or forwards; so a story involving an arson ring included gang members named Crass and Craven, but the "torch" himself was Carl Nosra. So did Chester Gould himself, as witness The Blank, whose last name was Redrum.
127* ComicStrip/{{Mandrake|TheMagician}}'s MirrorWorld counterpart Ekardnam.
128* ''ComicStrip/TheWackyAdventuresOfPedro'' gave Pedro a MirrorSelf named Ordep.
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131[[folder:Sretupmoc (Computers)]]
132* In the ALGOL 68 programming language, the keywords closing block constructs are the ones that open them spelled backwards (e.g. if/fi, do/od). This convention was also adopted by UNIX's Bourne shell (whose author [[http://oldhome.schmorp.de/marc/bournegol.html used a ton of preprocessor macros to make C code look more like ALGOL 68]]). This is given a TakeThat in the semi-official Perl reference manual ''Programming Perl'', which explains that "elsif" is not "elif" (as it is spelled in both ALGOL 68 and the C preprocessor) because that would be "file" spelled backward: "Only Algol-ers would want a keyword that was the same as another word spelled backward."
133* The music manager Senuti--lampshaded by the slogan that displays as it loads, "Everything in reverse." The name is a reversal of iTunes because Senuti's main selling point is that it can transfer songs to ''and from'' one's iPod (whereas iTunes, in all but the direst circumstances, only lets you copy songs ''to'' an iPod).
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136[[folder:Naf Skrow (Fan Works)]]
137* This trope is quite often used in Russian {{Fanfic}}s because Russian writing is more phonetic based, i.e. each letter codes (mostly) exactly one sound, making such invertions easier.
138* In ''Fallen Angel'', The title of the book Katherine is reading is "''Noisull id nanoit peced''" or, fixed, "''Deception and Illusion''" Both backwards and spaced wrongly, but it makes sense when you know who's reading it.
139* In the universe of ''Fanfic/MarissaPicard'', there's a star system named "Naklab". It's home to the planets Nevolsia, Troac, Sobnia, and Bresia.
140* In ''[[Fanfic/ItsMyLife ITS MY LIFE!]]'' there is Assirram Strebor, [[spoiler:Marrissa Roberts' EvilKnockoff]].
141* In ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'', upon coming up with the theory that there's an EvilTwin of [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Rainbow Dash]] wandering about, Pinkie Pie decides to call her "Wob Niar".
142* ''Fanfic/BrendanNamronAceAttorney'': Brendan's last name is his father's first name spelled backwards. It exists only in this series.
143* Examples from [[Fanfic/Swing123AndGarfieldodiesCalvinverse the Calvinverse]]:
144** From TheStinger of ''Fanfic/AttackOfTheTeacherCreature'': "Who ordered the azzip?"
145** ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' has Nilvac and Sebboh, from the MirrorUniverse in "Mirror rorriM".
146* The Labinnac of ''[[WesternAnimation/ThunderCats2011 ThunderCats]]'' (2011) fan fic series ''Fanfic/TheEvabonSaga'' appropriately have the name of their race be "Cannibal" spelled backwards.
147* In ''Fanfic/RobbReturns'', [[spoiler:the Krats, the leader of the Company of the Rose, takes his name of Stark back when he declares that the Company of the Rose will be coming back to Westeros]].
148* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'': When Zim needs to take up a [[MalevolentMaskedMan new persona]] when he starts [[spoiler: organizing his rebellion against the Tallest]] near the end of Season 1, he takes on the alias "Miz". It's pointed out how stupid this is, but he justifies it by saying that it's so obvious, people are unlikely to think he'd actually use it.
149* ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''. Captain Proton runs into a KillerRobot calling itself Tobor because that's the name on its chest. Proton points out it was looking in a mirror at the time.
150* In ''Fanfic/MyCraft'', this is played [[ExaggeratedTrope Up to Eleven]] with Sdrawkcab. His name is ''literally'' just Backwards backwards.
151* ''Fanfic/TheReapingOfHatsuneMiku'': The series takes place in the DIVA District of the city of Diola. The city's name is the last two syllables of "Music/{{Vocaloid}}" in reverse.
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155* Disney's WartimeCartoon "WesternAnimation/ChickenLittle1943" was originally planned to have the villainous Foxy Loxy getting his inspiration from "Mein Kampf". The studio vetoed out any over reference to the Nazis, but one subtle reference remained. The "piece of the sky" that hit Chicken Little was from a sign for "Madame Izan".
156* ''WesternAnimation/CloudyWithAChanceOfMeatballs2'' has [[spoiler:Live Corp, whose logo can be reversed into being read as "Evil Corp"]].
157* The sorcerer in the "Sorcerer's Apprentice" segment of ''WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}}'' is called Yen Sid, which is Disney spelled backwards. He also shows up in the ''Franchise/KingdomHearts'' games, in a major speaking role, no less!
158* ''WesternAnimation/HeavyMetal'': In the segment "Den", the deity that several characters try to make {{Human Sacrifice}}s to is named "Uhluhtc": Cthulhu (from the Franchise/CthulhuMythos) backwards.
159* King Llort from ''WesternAnimation/ATrollInCentralPark''. Not as obvious outside of the context of this page as one might think.
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163* At one point in ''Film/WillyWonkaAndTheChocolateFactory'', the eponymous candyman takes the remaining two kids on his tour through "Hsawaknow", which is "Wonkawash" backwards. (No, it’s not Japanese.)
164* ''Film/Troll2''. "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|1986}}'' would make it better.)
165* In ''Film/TheLastSeduction'', Linda Fiorentino's character has some kind of upside-down, back-to-front spelling obsession. She's able to produce a perfect signature upside down. Having ripped off her husband and hidden in a small town, she wants to get back to New York, and chooses the name "Wendy Kroy". Knowing both her backwards-writing thing and her love of NYC helps her husband to find her.
166* In ''Film/{{Spaceballs}}'', the villainous President [[Creator/MelBrooks Skroob]]. Technically an anagram, but it's only a letter off, so most people can figure it out. Mel Brooks decided it was a cooler name than Skoorb.
167* ''Film/{{Holes}}'' features a protagonist named Stanley Yelnats the 4th. The reason it's been reused in so many generations is specifically because it's the reverse of the family name.
168* In ''The Watcher in the Woods'', when the Curtis family receives a puppy as a pet, the younger daughter Elle, under the influence of the Watcher, gives it the name Nerak, which is backwards for Karen, a girl who, during a seance-like ceremony, disappeared 30 years ago.
169* In ''Film/BillAndTedsBogusJourney'', the villain De Nomolos is sdrawkcab for one of the writers.
170* ''Film/TheMothmanProphecies''. Leek is based on the book's author Keel.
171* ''Film/TinMan'': "Ahamo" is named after the original wizard's hometown: Omaha, Nebraska.
172* In ''Time Runner'' with Creator/MarkHamill, the evil alien mole [[PresidentEvil bidding for President]] of the United States is named "Neila". Did we mention he is an alien?
173* The very character of Emit Flesti, played by Willem Dafoe, in ''Faraway, So Close!''
174* ''Franchise/StarWars'' has [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tuckerization a few.]] For just three, Coleman Trebor (reference to visual effects artist Rob Coleman), Cin Drallig (the stunt coordinator who plays him, Nick Gillard, minus the "k") and a huge in-joke: the canon name for the [[Film/ETTheExtraterrestrial E.T.]] that cameos in ''Film/ThePhantomMenace'' is [[Creator/StevenSpielberg Grebleips]]. Not to forget the infamous Ewok (close to "Wookie" spelled backwards).
175* "Grebleips" first appeared in Steven Spielberg's first feature film ''Film/{{Duel}}'', as the name of a pest control company.
176* In ''Film/{{Splice}}'', the two scientists name their creation "Dren", "nerd" backwards.
177* ''Tobor the Great'' (1954) was about a robot designed to replace astronauts.
178* Commander of the Soviet spacecraft in ''Film/TwoThousandTenTheYearWeMakeContact'' (the sequel to ''Film/TwoThousandOneASpaceOdyssey'') is Captain Kirbuk, a reference to Stanley Kubrick, who directed the original film.
179* A robot named Tobor shows up in ''Film/TheAdventuresOfSharkboyAndLavagirl''.
180* ''Film/FaceOff'' has the [[TheAlcatraz secret prison]] "Erewhon". The meaning of the reversed name ("Nowhere") comes into play when it's revealed [[spoiler:it's located on an oil rig in the middle of the ocean]].
181* Used as a CreditsGag in the Disney movie ''Film/LtRobinCrusoeUSN''. A writing credit is given to Retlaw Yensid.
182* In ''Film/ScoobyDooCurseOfTheLakeMonster'', Mystery, Inc. are looking for a modern-day descendant of the witch Wanda Grubwort. Shaggy points out that Trowburg (the name of the woman who runs the general store) is Grubwort spelt backwards.
183* In the first ''WebVideo/{{Fred}}'' movie, the title character meets a one-shot named Derf, who is basically a polar opposite of himself: calm and deep-voiced instead of manic and high-voiced, but still played by Lucas Cruikshank.
184* Main character Jerboa in ''Film/HowlingIIITheMarsupials'' comes from the town of Flow (wolf) where everyone, including herself, are were creatures.
185* In ''Film/{{Unconscious}}'', Noel, the last patient in León's thesis, is actually a pseudonym for León himself.
186* ''Film/TenThousandBC'': D'leh. You need BilingualBonus, though ("Held"="hero" in German).
187* ''Film/UnfriendedDarkWeb'': 'Norah C', the owner of the Facebook account linked to Matias' new laptop, is 'Charon' spelled backwards.
188* ''Film/TheGodfatherPartII'': The character Johnny Ola is based on real-life mobster Vincent Alo.
189* In ''Film/VoyageOfTheRockAliens'', one of the planets 1359 spies on is called Acirema.
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193* Standard German computer programmer joke: To see what comes out of "Scrum"[[note]]a conceptual framework for Agile Programming[[/note]], just read it backwards![[note]]Murcs, duh. Murks - OK, with k, but same pronounciation, let's not ruin a good TakeThat by details - is colloquial for bad work.[[/note]]
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197* In the ''Literature/CallahansCrosstimeSaloon'''s short story "Mirror/Rorrim Off the Wall", we get introduced to Robert Trebor from a ParallelUniverse. He has backwards money and an EvilTwin that he wants to be imprisoned in htrownevaeL.
198* The Diamond in the Windowpane by Jane Langton. Also, one of the main characters speaks 'Backwards English' usually to insult people. [[spoiler: Kcitsmoorb!,Sumatopoppih!]]
199* The ''Literature/DeltoraQuest'' series:
200** Nevets, the ''brother'' of Steven. Of course, initially, the protagonists believe Steven to just be crazy when he talks about having an invincible warrior brother inside him.
201** The villains with the backward names Nij and Doj prevent the heroes from realizing they are the baddies they have been warned about, and who speak backward letter-for-letter, which obviously only works on paper. With a little clear-headed enchantment, the hero Lief is able to hear their words for what they are, and realizes that they're cheerfully discussing how to cook the group for dinner.
202* An InUniverse version in ''Eveless Eden'' by Marianne Wiggins when a journalist is assigned a pretty Romanian translator called Deserdnu; which, his editor points out, is undres[s]ed backwards. "Don't thank me."
203* Sharon Shinn's novel ''The Truth-Teller's Tale'' features twins named Adele and Eleda, whose appearances are mirror images of each other. (For example, each has one blue eye and one green eye, but it's a different eye on each twin.)
204* The first teacher of the class on the 30th floor of ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' was named Mrs. Gorf. In ''Wayside School Gets a Little Stranger'', the class has a series of substitute teachers named Mr. Gorf ([[spoiler:Mrs. Gorf's son]]), Mrs. Drazil, and Wendy Nogard. ''Wayside School Beneath the Cloud of Doom'' reveals the librarian is named Mrs. Surlaw.
205* The villain of Creator/JamesThurber's juvenile fantasy ''The White Deer'' is named Nagrom Yaf.
206* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'':
207** The Discworld concept of being "knurd" -- so sober that you actually need an alcoholic beverage or two to be normal.
208** As a parody of "Erewhon/Nehwon", there is an area in the Hublands called "Ecalpon".
209** The country of Llamedos, which is "Sod'em all" backwards, and is itself a reference to the Welsh town of Llareggub in ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood''.
210** In ''Literature/TheLastHero'', Da Vinci expy Leonard of Quirm builds the Disc's second spaceship. The lever marked Troba is cited by Vetinari to be one not to pull, while the lever marked Sekarb stops the ship while it is crashing.
211** Allegedly, the one weakness that all Discworld [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] share is their belief that spelling their name backwards is an effective way of fooling people. (Their depiction owes a lot to the classic vampire movies which more or less pioneered the {{Alucard}} thing.)
212** A ThrowItIn example from ''Literature/ThiefOfTime'': Pterry had always intended [[spoiler:Ronnie Soak]] to be the [[ThePeteBest forgotten fifth Horseman]] of the Apocralypse, but didn't know what that fifth member should embody...until he realized that the character's last name spelled backwards was [[spoiler: "Kaos", which is close enough to "Chaos" as makes little difference]].
213* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' has a minor example in Trebor Jordayne, a minor background character who serves as a ShoutOut to Robert Jordan.
214* The eponymous country in ''Erewhon'' by Samuel Butler is an almost-reversal of "nowhere". (An exact reversal would be "Erehwon".) This is a reference to "Utopia", which means "nowhere". The inhabitants (for the most part) have names like Senoj Nosnibor.
215* On a similar note, the world of Fritz Leiber's ''Literature/FafhrdAndTheGrayMouser'' tales is Nehwon.
216* Creator/DamonKnight wrote a short story about a plant-based vampire, called "Eripmav" which was defeated by a [[spoiler:steak through the heart]].
217* A short story for a Russian history class features a group of boys going on a camping trip and being whisked away to the far-off year of circa 1957, where every country is a Socialist Republic and everyone speaks Esperanto. They meet a similar group of boys, many of whom have the reverse of their names: Grisha's counterpart is Ashirg, etc. It's {{lampshade|Hanging}}d when the story turns out to be a campfire story told by the boys' troopleader, and one of the boys points it out.
218* A more elaborate scheme is found in ''Kingdom of Warped Mirrors'' by V. Gubarew. The girl Olya has her counterpart Aylo. Most other persons have names which correspond to their character and/or position. There is the Most Important Minister Gorf, The Very Definitely Most Important Minister (!) Kwah (Hawk, which has negative associations in Russian), the king Topsed 7, the good slave Evals and so on. The book was adapted into a film.
219* Creator/MarionZimmerBradley wrote a novel entitled ''Falcons of Narabedla''. Creator/FrederikPohl wrote an apparently unrelated novel called ''Narabedla Ltd''. Both titles are derived from the star Aldebaran.
220* A series of German children's novels by James Krüss include the Baron Lefuet, from the reverse of the German word for Devil.
221* As discussed on the LostInTranslation page, a robot in a Creator/StanislawLem novel uses the battle cry "awruk", which spelled backwards is a Polish expletive literally meaning "whore" but used as an exclamation in the same way as "fuck" is in English.
222** Michael Kandel translated it as "tikcuff!" Other language translators weren't as imaginative.
223* One of the main characters of ''Literature/{{Holes}}'' is named Stanley Yelnats. It doubles as a palindrome. His great-great-grandmother actually gave her son the name Stanley [[InvokedTrope because she noticed this]].
224* ''Literature/HisDarkMaterials'' doesn't play this exactly straight, but it ''does'' feature a minor character called Sir Charles Latrom in the second book. Spell his last name backwards, then take a wild guess as to what ends up happening to him.
225* The Mirror of Erised from ''Literature/HarryPotter [[Literature/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone and the Philosopher's Stone]]'' not only has a Sdrawkcab Name for what its purpose is, but also mirror writing along its edges which essentially describes ''exactly what the mirror does''.
226-->''Erised stra ehru oyt ube cafru oyt on wohsi.''[[note]]''I show not your face but your heart's desire.''[[/note]]
227* According to WordOfGod, Creator/UrsulaKLeGuin did this in her famous story "Literature/TheOnesWhoWalkAwayFromOmelas". She saw a sign for Salem, O (regon) and reversed it, based in part by the similar sound of Salem to Shalom/Salam and the fact that when reversed, it gave a similar sound to the word helas (alas). Thus, the effect something like "{{utopia}} when read forward, {{dystopia}} when read backwards".
228* "Ecirp Nelle Hada" of ''Literature/ThePoisonwoodBible'' likes to write and speak backward.[[note]]Her real name is Adah Ellen Price.[[/note]]
229* Creator/BruceCoville's [[Literature/GoblinsInTheCastle goblins]] correct humans who mistakenly call their kingdom Goblin-land, saying it's rude (they have a point, since human kingdoms aren't called "People-land"). The correct name is, of course, "Nilbog". Muuuuch better.
230* ''Midnight's Sun -- A Story of Wolves'' by Garry Kilworth uses Sdrawkcab names for some of his characters. Athaba's mother and father are Meshiska and Aksishem, respectively. Although this is totally ignored in Athaba's case when he becomes [[spoiler: Ulaala's mate.]]
231* ''Literature/XWingSeries'': Lara Nostil -- that's one of her names, anyway -- has an assumed last name that is the same as Wes Janson's actor, Ian Liston, backwards. Wes and Lara are in the same squadron. Liston was [[http://www.starwars.internet-today.co.uk/liston_interview.htm flattered and amused]], but apparently this was unintentional on Creator/AaronAllston's part.
232** Elsewhere in the Legends continuity, there's a planet called [[https://starwars.fandom.com/wiki/Wehttam Wehttam]], "Matthew" backwards.
233* In the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' prequel ''Martin the Warrior'', Ballaw the hare [[IAmNotWeasel poses as a rabbit]] named "Tibbar".
234* ''Literature/TheShining''. While it's not a name, it is an important {{Arc Word|s}}: Redrum!
235* One of the ''Beaver Towers'' books features a villain called Retsnom.
236* Christopher Stasheff's ''Literature/AWizardInRhyme'' series features in one of the books' backstory an EvilChancellor named Reiziv. It's not commented on as a backwards word by anyone in the story, making it also a StealthPun.
237* In ''Literature/TheDeedOfPaksenarrion'', this is a feature of the elvish language; reversing a word inverts it's meaning. So light elves are "sinyi", dark elves are "iynis", Sertig the Maker, the god of the smiths, has an enemy called Gitres the Unmaker, and so on.
238* One Dutch children's book titled ''Lyc-Drop'' features a character called Seuz. He turns out to be a Greek deity; take a guess as to which one.
239* An couple of [[http://www.erbzine.com/mag18/tails.htm newspaper serials]] that ran in the 1870s tell of the adventures of a man who discovered a race of humans with tails living in New Guinea, in the village of Etihwretep. Spell "Etihwretep" backward, and you get "Peter White." The people live in the valley of "Eloc" and call themselves the "Elocwe." It should come as no surprise that the author's name is '''E'''dward '''W'''illiam Cole.
240* ''[[Literature/WheresWally Where's Waldo?]]'': Another "EvilTwin" version is Odlaw, Waldo's nemesis. He's stil called Odlaw in the UK version despite Waldo being called "Wally", presumably because Yllaw really doesn't work. Unless you made him Welsh...
241* ''Literature/TheCulture'': Done with [[spoiler:"Vatueil"]] in ''Literature/SurfaceDetail''. In this case, the name isn't the character's own name scrambled but the name of a relative. [[spoiler:Specifically, Vateuil is actually Zakalwe from ''Use of Weapons'', and his pseudonym is an anagram of Livueta, his step-sister, and the one who exposed his true identity to his Culture colleagues.]]
242* Three of the seven stories in ''Literature/TufVoyaging'' center on S'uthlam, a planet in perpetual crisis due to overpopulation.
243* The mystery short story "Death by Rubik's Cube", published in the August 2011 issue of Games Magazine, features a police detective by the name of Errol Lorre. The suspects realize that his parents loved puzzles a lot and that he himself hates them.
244* Alec Leamas from ''The Spy Who Came in from the Cold''. (Leamas reverses to [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Samael]].) [[DefiedTrope No, he's not]] {{Satan}} [[LouisCypher or any other supernatural figure in disguise]], but a FakeDefector and TheMole AntiHero whose moral dilemmas form a major part of the plot.
245* Several in ''Literature/BasilOfBakerStreet'' and sequels; for example, the MouseWorld counterpart to Irene Adler is Madmoiselle Relda.
246* Creator/RogerZelazny's ''Literature/TheChroniclesOfAmber'' series of stories. The Pattern is in Castle Amber, which is located on a mountain overlooking the sea. The Castle and Pattern have a duplicate in the seas bordering Amber, in an underwater world known as Rebma.
247* In Jane Langton's ''The Diamond in the Window'', Edward Hall speaks backwards fluently and daydreams about an alter-ego named Trebor Nosnibor. It's stated that he wishes his name were Robert Robinson specifically because he thinks it sounds much cooler backwards than "Drawde Llah" would.
248* In Creator/BrianAldiss's illustrated poem "Pile", (subtitle "Petals from St. Klaed's Computer") the hero escapes from Pile and its computer "St. Klaed" to find the alternate world of Elip run by St. Dealk.
249* In the ''Literature/CommonwealthSaga'' short story "Manhattan in Reverse", Bernadino "Dino" Paganazzi is part of the biological survey team that initially studied a recently-settled planet and the expert on the Onid, a herbivorous native species. We're not ''told'' who named the Onid and how they came up with that name...
250* ''Literature/SonicTheHedgehogInRobotniksLaboratory'' uses the back-story of the kindly Dr Kintobor training Sonic before getting involved in a horrible accident that transforms him into Robotnik.
251* ''Robert und Trebor'', a German children's book about a boy and his ImaginaryFriend who lives in the wallpaper.
252* The Creator/EdgarRiceBurroughs pastiche ''Barbarians of Mars'' by Edward P. Bradbury[[note]]Actually Creator/MichaelMoorcock[[/note]] features such names as [[Creator/MichaelMoorcock K'cocroom]], [[Creator/HarryHarrison Nosirrah]] and the Flowers of [[{{Fandom}} Modnaf]], the scent of which starts as sweet, but leads to madness.
253* The ''Literature/MythAdventures'' novel ''Myth-ing Persons'' features a married couple of werewolf writers called Idnew and Drahcir, who are a ShoutOut to [[ComicBook/ElfQuest Wendy and Richard Pini]]. A later book has a [[Literature/HonorHarrington Manticore]] called [[Creator/DavidWeber Evad]].
254* A rare non-protagonist example: "Grenzland" by Martina Wildner. Now what's this strange place called [[UsefulNotes/{{Berlin}} Nilreb]]...
255* In the second book in the ''Literature/SpaceBrat'' series, Blork is cloned by accident. The machine produces a [[EvilTwin negative copy]] of him, named Krolb.
256* One of the pen names used in the past by writer Creator/HarlanEllison is "Nalrah Nosille."
257* Cleve Cartmill wrote a short story called "Deadline" that described how to build a uranium-fission bomb; it was published in the [[UsefulNotes/WorldWarII March 1944]] issue of ''[[Magazine/{{Analog}} Astounding Science Fiction]]''. The warring factions on the alien planet were the Seilla (including Aissu), and the Sixa (including Ynamre).[[http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=d1e_1224304292]]
258* "Ceram" is the pseudonym of Kurt Wilhelm Marek. (Slight variation, but in Germany C is the [[XtremeKoolLetterz kooler]] letter.)
259* In the ''Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian'' story "Literature/BlackColossus", the desert warlord Natohk turns out to be the long-dead sorcerer Thugra Khotan returned to the world of the living.
260* Erik Simon's SF protagonist Raf Effarig, possibly. He is not a giraffe, though, just a boring public officer.
261* [[Creator/RoaldDahl Esio Trot]], a children book. One guess about a protagonist. (Also contains a whole spell in Zatannish, see the Other Wiki.)
262* In the German children book "Urmel fliegt ins All" we have the Neschnem, which is just "Menschen" (humans) backwards, modulo the usual sch phoneme problem. All their names are backward versions of normal names too, like "Arabrab".
263* ''Literature/{{Retief}}'' series by Keith Laumer - possibly. The Other Wiki noted that it's "fighter" backwards - phonetically.
264* ''Literature/{{Zomboy}}'': Bob's friend Evil-O is really named Olive. When they first met, Bob mentioned how his name is the same forward and backward. From there, Olive started wondering such about her own name. She's gone by Evil-O ever since.
265* In ''Literature/TheresAZmogusInMySoup'', there is a user with the the username "Al-Rellik". The Rellik in Al-Rellik, means killer.
266* Possible example: The Utopia [[Film/DrMabuseTheGambler Dr. Mabuse]] wants to build in Brazil (in the book that spawned the film) is called "Eitopomar". Maybe this just alludes to Utopia. Backwards, "Ramopotie" immediately invokes the German "Despotie".
267* ''Literature/{{Dragonlance}}''. One of the Dragon Highlords is named Verminaard. After he is apparently killed, he re-appears later on using the name Sevil Draanim Rev (Verminaard Lives).
268* ''Literature/OffOnAComet'' by Creator/JulesVerne has Hector Servadac. In fact, his name is in the original French title. Supposedly, Verne picked "cadavres", because he wanted to end the novel with RocksFallEveryoneDies.
269* ''Literature/WorldOfTheFiveGods'':
270** Learned Hallana, double-divine of the Mother and the Bastard, uses 'Dratsab' as a curse.
271** Rina and Otta name Otta's demon "Atto" because Penric had said that it would become "like a mirror" to Otta.
272* ''Literature/LikeAFishUnderstandsATree'' has LivingProgram Oemor, who is programmed to fall in love with players. Susan doesn't get the reference and wonders why the developers gave him such a stupid name.
273* The Brazilian book ''O Menino no Espelho'', 'The Boy in the Mirror', has the boy Fernando ending up making his reflection a real person, which due to this literal MirrorCharacter origin is named Odnanref.
274* Horace Miner's "Body Ritual Among the Nacirema" a satirical analysis of mainstream American culture in the form of an anthropological paper--an account of the Nacirema ("American" spelled backwards) tribe in North America.
275* ''Literature/MoojagAndTheAuticodeSecret'': Moojag is backwards for Gajoom, which refers to the robots he helped design.
276* ''Literature/GoblinsInTheCastle'': The goblins come from the land of Nilbog -- "Goblin" spelled backwards.
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280* Series 3 and 4 of ''Series/TheAdventureGame'' feature appearances by a character called Ron Gad (played by Bill Homewood), who gives clues to the contestants each week... provided they realise that he's speaking backwards (implying that his name might actually be Dagnor), most often by offering an encouraging "Doogy rev!" ("Very good!"). He generally enters the set by singing a backwards version of "Waltzing Matilda" with a fake Australian accent to match. Some teams catch on more or less immediately and are able to obtain and decipher many clues from him, while other teams never quite solve the puzzle of his speech and get hopelessly stuck on the tasks with which he's trying to assist them.[[note]]''Adventure Game'' producer Patrick Dowling was inspired to cast Homewood in the series after seeing him give a backwards performance of "Puff the Magic Dragon"... fitting, since his character's name, like those of the other Argonds in ''The Adventure Game'', is an anagram of "dragon".[[/note]]
281* During the All-Star season of ''Series/AmericasNextTopModel'', each of the girls had to write lyrics for, record and make a video for a song, and they were required to use the phrase "Pot Ledom is Top Model Backwards" someplace in the song. The "Pot Ledom" thing was reinforced in the videos when they would cut away from the model to show Tyra in a "Pot Ledom" shirt and repeating the full line.
282* In ''Series/TheBigBangTheory'', while the guys are trying to program an app to solve equations, Sheldon tried to keep control entirely and suggests that they refer to the idea as 'Project Nodlehs'. Leonard then calls him out on it.
283* Some Power of Veto competitions in the US version of ''Series/BigBrother'' are hosted by an animatronic mascot named Otev.
284* Rare upside-down name variant in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' episode "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS6E8TabulaRasa Tabula Rasa]]" -- when the gang is hit with a memory-loss spell they try to figure out who they are. Buffy (who decided she was named Joan) sees Dawn's name in script on a pendant. Dawn looks down at it and suggests her name may be 'Umad'.
285* ''Series/CaptainVideo'' features a robot named '''I TOBOR'''. Originally, the robot was originally named "ROBOT 1", but the stencil man messed up and painted the letters backwards.
286* ''Series/CasteloRaTimBum'' features a blue girl character named Zula. That's backwards for "azul," the Portuguese word for blue.
287* Used as an inside joke in the ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' episode "[[Recap/CSINYS05E10 The Triangle]]". A minor character-of-the-week who provides a clue is named Yert Yawallac. Creator/TreyCallaway wrote the episode and was one of the series' Supervising Producers.
288* ''Series/DaysOfOurLives'' is well-known for its far-fetched plots, particularly those centered around the arch-villain Stefano [=DiMera=]. One plot had several characters leave the show's usual locale of Salem during the Fall of 1995 to attend a wedding in the town of Aremid. Events conspired to make many of the characters stay in Aremid until the following spring, but in that time nobody seemed to notice that Aremid was actually [=DiMera=] spelled backwards. The show repeated the trope nine years later when several characters found themselves abducted from Salem and kept captive on the island of Melaswen (New Salem), a place filled with recreations of several landmarks from their hometown.
289* ''Series/DoctorWho'':
290** Iconic enemy the Daleks are mutated versions of a {{Human Alien|s}} race called the Kaleds.
291** In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS6E7TheWarGames The War Games]]", The War Chief's space-time-travel machines are called [=SIDRATs=].
292** More tenuous: In "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS10E1TheThreeDoctors The Three Doctors]]", Omega's name was originally conceived by the production team as an upside-down flip of 'WHO' -- 'OHM', which became Omega.
293* The ''Series/{{Farscape}}'' episode "[[Recap/FarscapeS01E09DNAMadScientist DNA Mad Scientist]]" features a villainous alien geneticist named Namtar -- [[spoiler:he's a genetically altered lab rodent]].
294* In the ''Series/{{Frasier}}'' episode "[[Recap/FrasierS08E11TheShowMustGoOff The Show Must Go Off]]", Jackson Hedley is mentioned as playing an android named TOBOR on TV.
295* ''Series/HappyDays'': In "They Call It Potsie Love," Joanie develops a crush on Potsie and nicknames him "Dren" (backwards for "nerd").
296* Archie Campbell's retelling of Cinderella ("Rindercella") in ''Series/HeeHaw''. (Actually more like anagrams and {{spoonerism}}s, but the joke is that he's telling the story backwards.)
297* Season four of ''Series/{{Homeland}}'' features a Turkish/German hacker who goes by the handle "Gabehcuod", which is "douchebag" backwards.
298* One episode of ''Series/TheJimHensonHour'' features the Muppets receiving a TV broadcast from space, which features a SimilarSquad called the Teppums, including Timrek the Gorf and Oznog.
299* ''Franchise/KamenRider'':
300** The ShoutOutThemeNaming of the main characters in ''Series/KamenRiderFourze'' has Tomoko Nozama, who was named after ''Series/KamenRiderAmazon''. Also, the Virgo Zodiart's real name is [[spoiler:Kuniteru Emoto. Emoto = Otome, which is "virgin" in English]].
301** ''Series/KamenRiderBuild'': [[spoiler:The series' BigBad, Evolto, takes a Rider form named Kamen Rider Evol, which is the letters of "love" reversed. This fits his status as an antithesis to the heroic Riders' dream of fighting for love and peace, as Evolto fights for selfishness and sadism by causing conflict.]]
302** ''Series/KamenRiderRevice'': When possessed by Kagero, Daiji Igarashi becomes Kamen Rider Evil. [[spoiler:After regaining control of his own body, he becomes Kamen Rider Live.]]
303* ''Series/KrattsCreatures'' has an [[MediumBlending animated character]] named "Ttark", possibly to sound like an African name.
304* In an episode of ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'', an innocent man who Olivia had helped to convict has been released from prison and is out to get revenge on her. As part of his plan, he sets up a phony company named "Aivilo", or "Olivia" backwards.
305* ''Series/TheLWord'' uses an {{Alucard}} variant of when one of the main cast ends up dating an expert in vampiric folklore with slightly vampiric tendencies (stronger than usual, preference for night, pale complexion, etc.). Her name is Uta Refson.
306* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'': This exchange from the Parrot Sketch, after the customer is sent to Bolton, is told by that pet shop clerk he's in Ipswich, and finds he actually ''is'' in Bolton:
307-->'''Clerk:''' It was a pun.\
308'''Customer:''' A pun?\
309'''Clerk:''' No, not a pun. What's that word that spells the same backwards as forwards?\
310'''Customer:''' A palindrome?\
311'''Clerk:''' Yeah!\
312'''Customer:''' It's not a palindrome. The palindrome for "Bolton" would be "Notlob"![[note]]Which is still incorrect, technically speaking.[[/note]]
313* ''Series/TheMuppetShow'':
314** Two episodes mention a supernatural being known only by the name "Rezal-Evad-Gib", which is backwards for "Big Dave Lazer", the executive producer of the series.
315** In one sketch, Lew Zealand and Rowlf sing "Owt Rof Aet" ("Tea for Two" backwards).
316* In ''Series/ParkerLewisCantLose'', principal Grace Musso has a devoted flunky called Lemmer; in a few episodes, her rival Norman Pankow has a flunky called Remmel. Remmel is visually an anti-Lemmer: while Frank Lemmer is a pale-skinned, dark-haired guy dressed all in black, Remmel is a black guy with blond hair who dresses all in white.
317* A musical example in ''Series/PersonOfInterest'', which utilizes a Sdrawckab {{Leitmotif}}; specifically, taking [[BenevolentAI the Machine]]'s main motif and playing it in reverse to serve as the main motif for [[AIIsACrapshoot Samaritan]].
318* In ''Series/PowerRangersTurbo'', the team meets a mysterious child who calls himself Erutan ("Nature" spelled backwards; he's actually a powerful forest spirit, maybe even a GeniusLoci).
319* Music/RingoStarr was featured in an NBC special in the late 1970s in a variation of ''The Prince and the Pauper'', with him as himself and a poor Hollywood maps peddler named Ognir Rrats.
320* ''Series/{{Raven}}'' has a villain known as Nevar and a general anagram in another character, Ervan.
321* In a 2011 episode of ''Series/RealTimeWithBillMaher'', Bill introduces the fictitious GOP candidate for the 2012 presidential election: Karab Omabo, an American who is the complete opposite of UsefulNotes/BarackObama in every way except gender, as a way to mock the excessive CommanderContrarian attitudes which the GOP holds towards Obama.
322* In the ''Series/RedDwarf'' episode "[[Recap/RedDwarfSeasonIIIBackwards Backwards]]", the main characters land on an Earth where everything is backwards, and Lister & Cat read a sign to London as "Nodnol". [[TooDumbToLive They just assume they're in Bulgaria]]. Also, in the [[Literature/RedDwarf corresponding book]], "Retsil Evad" is mentioned.
323* ''Series/{{Rellik}}'' has a backwards name as the title, along with lots of use of anagrams.
324* In an episode of ''Series/RoundTheTwist'', the kids discover a machine in the top room of the lighthouse that makes mirror-image copies of whatever you put into it. When Linda clones herself, the mirror-image copy is dubbed "Adnil".
325* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'':
326** "[[Recap/ScrubsS5E23MyUrologist My Urologist]]" has JD finding a "Rotinaj" on the hospital website and thinking it's another trick of the Janitor. It is, but the hospital actually has a Dr. Rotinaj working there. He's presumably Indian.
327** In "[[Recap/ScrubsS7E11MyPrincess My Princess]]", a FormulaBreakingEpisode in the form of a fairy-tale Dr. Cox is telling his son, Bob Kelso's counterpart is the [[EvilOverlord Dark Lord]] Oslek (which, on a completely unrelated note, is what Ted calls him when he suffers stress-induced dyslexia).
328* ''Series/StarskyAndHutch'': The PhonyPsychic Madame Yram chose her name because she doesn't think anyone would take a psychic named Mary Polanski seriously.
329* ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration''
330** One episode mentions a toxic substance called Selgninaem. One of the show's writers acknowledged this to be a comment on the meaningless nature of {{Technobabble}}.
331** The Omnipotent Being of the Week in "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E2WhereSilenceHasLease Where Silence Has Lease]]" is named "Nagilum", or "Nagillum", depending on what you read. That second name is important when you consider that the producers originally wanted Richard Mulligan for that role...
332** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS2E17SamaritanSnare Samaritan Snare]]", the captain of the Pakled ship is named "Grebnedlog" in the script. It's "Goldenberg" spelled sdrawkcab, but what significance this has, no one knows.
333** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS5E2Darmok Darmok]]", the eponymous Tamaranian figure's name is "Komrad" (read: "Comrade"), which is entirely fitting given the theme of the episode.
334** In "[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS7E4Gambit Gambit: Part I]]", the crew goes to a sleazy bar to find an informant; the guy they eventually come up with is named Yranac.
335* These work better in real life than one might think. In the reality show ''Series/WhoWantsToBeASuperhero'', each contestant has a CodeName. In the middle of the first episode, it was revealed that one of the contestants was [[TheMole actually a spy]]. The contestant Rotiart stepped forward and proclaimed dramatically, "Rotiart spelled backwards is..." ''(rip off name tag for TheReveal)'' "Traitor!"
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338[[folder:Cisum (Music)]]
339* The B-side of the classic SanitySlippageSong "They're Coming to Take Me Away Ha-Haaa!" by Napoleon XIV is "!aaaH-aH ,yawA eM ekaT oT gnimoC er'yehT". It's credited to "Noelopan VIX", and is in fact the A-side played backwards. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Napoleon_Xiv_B_side_Original_Issue.jpg Even the label of the b-side was almost entirely in mirrored writing]].
340* Rapper Music/KoolKeith, a.k.a. Dr. Octagon, has also released an album under the name Mr. Nogatco. The title of the album? ''Nogatco Rd.''
341* Symbion Project, on its Red album, has a song called Tcejorp Noibmys.
342* Australian band {{Music/TISM}} had a song called "U.O.Y. Sevol Natas", a pisstake of rockstars and rumours of backwards masking.
343* Another Australian music example is the much older, late 1960s early 1970s, band Spectrum (a rock focused group) and Murtceps (a more Progressive-flavoured alter ego)
344* The song "Dinner at Deviant's Palace" by Music/CradleOfFilth is actually the Lord's Prayer recited backwards.
345* Music/TheBeatles:
346** The end of the 1966 tune "Rain" (B-side of "Paperback Writer") has John repeating the first line of the song backwards.
347** 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. (A joke that has made the rounds over the last four decades is that if the 1978 ''Sgt. Pepper'' soundtrack album of the movie is played backwards, Paul is saying "I wish I were dead.")
348** The ''Love'' album (a CD remix compilation) includes "Gnik Nus" (gnick noos), a deliberate parody of this and backmasking and a remix of their earlier "Sun King".
349* In The Beatles spoof ''Music/TheRutles: All You Need Is Cash'', it is stated that if you play the title of "Sgt. Rutter's Only Darts Club Band" backwards it is supposed to say "Stig has been dead for ages, honestly," when it in fact says "Dnab Bulc Strad Ylno Srettur Tnaegres."
350* Music/{{Eels}} "Efil's God", sort of: It's based around a backwards sample of an earlier song of theirs called "Dog's Life".
351* After Music/{{KMFDM}} temporarily broke up in 1999, members Sascha Konietzko and Tim Skold started a new project with Lucia Cifarelli and called it MDFMK.
352* Sort of done with Music/DaftPunk's "Funk Ad", which is a backwards reprise of "Da Funk" - if it were fully backwards, it would of course be "''Knuf'' Ad".
353* The name of the FolkMetal band, Music/SuidAkrA, is the guitarist/vocalist's first name "Arkadius" spelled backwards.
354* For a while in the late eighties, there were two competing lineups of the band T.S.O.L. touring at the same time - one lineup was the founding members of the group playing songs from their earlier HardcorePunk and [[GothRock deathrock]] albums, and the other was a newer iteration of the band playing their then-current HardRock and HairMetal material. The latter had the rights to the name and threatened to sue, so the former briefly started billing themselves as LOST.
355* Related: backing vocals in the Music/UtadaHikaru songs Passion and Sanctuary are played backwards. Reversed the right way round and the lyrics are "I need more affection than you know", "So many ups and downs" and "I need true emotions."
356* The Elevator Drops' album title ''Pop Bus'' is "Sub Pop" (as in [[Creator/SubPop the independent record label]]) backwards - the cover art features a bus with a reversed Sub Pop logo on it.
357* Nosaj Thing is the musical project of Jason Chung - aside from "Nosaj" being "Jason" backwards, it's also sort of a pun on "no such thing".
358* Music/CoheedAndCambria: the character Newo Ikkin was named after Claudio Sanchez's then-girlfriend Nikki Owen.
359* ''Music/DreamTheater'' have a song on their first album called "The Ytse Jam". Ytsejam is "Majesty" backwards, which is what the band were originally going to be called.
360* Fatlip's ''The Loneliest Punk'' credits Edy Crahp as a producer for some of the songs: "Edycrahp" backwards is (The) Pharcyde, which was the name of the hip-hop group he was a founding member of, so it's been speculated that Fatlip produced these songs himself under a pseudonym.
361* Electric Light Orchestra's "Fire On High" (from their album ''Face The Music'') starts with a track of someone talking backwards. When played backwards, he is saying "The music is reversible, but time isn't. Turn back...turn back...turn back!"
362* Knarf Rellöm, German "Hamburg School" musician.
363* In the liner notes to Meco Monardo's album ''Star Wars and Other Galactic Funk'' (a long synthesized disco version of John Williams' ''Star Wars" score, plus a track of Meco's original music), some of the musicians credited include "Yrrah Htoob," "Simm Tenaj," "[[Franchise/StarWars Retsim Adoy," "Htrad Redav,]]" [[Franchise/StarTrek "Semaj Krik," and "Nacluv Kcops."]]
364* Japanese singer Kokia's stage name is her first name, Akiko, with the kana written in reverse order. Some of her songs also include lyrics written in the same way.
365* EGOIST have a song in their single ''All Alone With You'' called "elbadaernU". Spelled backward is "Unreadable".
366* Music/WolfgangAmadeusMozart liked to call himself (and occasionally signed with) "Trazom".
367* "Ytrapretfa" by the Cool Kids of Death.
368* "ECNALUBMA" by Music/TheyMightBeGiants is somewhat of a JustifiedTrope, see below under RealLife. (Although, technically, those sign are mirrored, not reversed.)
369* The Emils (a Hamburg punk band) is particularly clever, as Emil is a good old German surname. No Emil in it, though: backwards it gives Slime, a legendary Hamburg punk band.
370* "Yadnus" by the band !!!.
371* Canadian CountryMusic duo The Reklaws, consisting of brother and sister Stuart and Jenna Walker, got their name from spelling their surname "Walker" backwards.
372* Akiko Yoshida (the singer) is known by her stage name KOKIA (which is her real name backwards syllable-wise).
373* The Music/BloodhoundGang has a HiddenTrack named "Reflections of Remoh", which is Jimmy Pop doing a ''[[Westernanimation/TheSimpsons Homer]]'' Simpson impression.
374* "Nivram" by The Shadows, named after the band's lead guitarist Hank '''Marvin'''.
375* French singer Nadir Kouidri performs under the nickname Ridan.
376* Beatboxer Tioneb's stage name is simply the backwards spelling of his real first name, Benoit.
377* Saro's most famous track is titled Oras.
378* Music/{{NWA}}'s sophomore album ''[=Niggaz4life=]'' had its title shown mirrored on the cover, causing it to read as "[=Efil4zaggin=]". This is often what the album's title was {{Bowdlerise}}d as when [[NWordPrivileges the media had to cover it]].
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381[[folder:Llabnip (Pinball)]]
382* Creator/{{Bally}}'s ''Pinball/{{Xenon}}'' has a "Mota Special" score.
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385[[folder:Lanoisseforp Gniltserw (Professional Wrestling)]]
386* Former [[Wrestling/ImpactWrestling TNA]] wrestler John Hugger, also known before that as Johnny "The Bull" Stamboli in Wrestling/{{WCW}} and Wrestling/{{WWE}}, worked under the gimmick of the monster [=RelliK=] (with a backwards K). Rellik is Killer spelled backwards. [[MemeticMutation Rellik is killer spelled backwards!]] He also went by Redrum in indy promotions. Mike Tenay '''always''' mentioned that "[[RuleOfThree Rellik is Killer spelled backwards]]" whenever he appeared. Hugger created the gimmick during his indy days between his Wrestling/{{WWE}} release and signing with TNA. The gimmick was originally called "REDRUM".
387* In Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Wrestling/UltimateWarrior decided to make a stable to combat the Wrestling/NewWorldOrder (nWo). He called it the One Warrior Nation (oWn). It only had one member besides Warrior, [[Wrestling/BrutusBeefcake Ed Leslie aka The Disciple]]. The horridness of everything Warrior did in WCW in general and Warrior's general flakiness as a performer spelled a quick end to it.
388* WCW wrestler Wrestling/{{Lodi}}, real name Brad Cain, was so named because of his resemblance to Music/BillyIdol.
389* Wrestling/MustafaAli's finisher is an imploding (inverted) 450 splash called the "054".
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392[[folder:Oidar (Radio)]]
393* The setting of ''Theatre/UnderMilkWood'' is the QuirkyTown of Llareggub (which ''looks'' Welsh but is just "bugger-all", British slang for "practially nothing", spelled backwards).
394* In ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'', the Lintilla clones are approached by Allitnil clones with offers of marriage [[spoiler:which are actually agreements to cease existence]]. The name "Allitnil" was pronounced as if "Lintilla" were played backwards on tape.
395* In Sue Limb's 1990 BBC English Civil War comedy ''[[PunnyName The Sit-Crom]]'', the housemaid Mercy is actually a Royalist spy who receives her instructions in backward code - e.g., "Eht Gnik si gnimoc worromot". Later on, when she starts to develop feelings for the Roundhead Captain Higgs she is alarmed to receive an order to "Llik eht Niatpac Sggih".
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398[[folder:Dedrocer dna Dnats-Pu Ydemoc (Recorded and Stand-Up Comedy)]]
399* Creator/TheFiresignTheatre sketch "The Further Adventures of Nick Danger" begins with the usual private-eye soliloquy:
400-->"It all began innocently enough on Tuesday. I was sitting in my office on that drizzly afternoon listening to the monotonous staccato of rain on my desktop and reading my name on the glass of my office door: 'Regnad Kcin'."
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403[[folder:Potelbat Semag (Tabletop Games)]]
404* ''TabletopGames/{{Atmosfear}}'': Hellin the poltergeist's name is the words "In Hell" swapped around and merged.
405* The dark messiah "Susej", from ''Satanis Unbound''.
406* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons''
407** In the ''TabletopGame/{{Spelljammer}}'' setting; "scro" (singular and plural) are advanced orcs.
408** ''D&D'' also has "nilbogs" and "llorts", both of which are [[ReviveKillsZombie damaged by healing magic, and vice versa]].
409** The ''D&D'' campaign that became the World of Greyhawk included Jim Ward, Robert Kuntz, and of course Creator/GaryGygax. Legendary Greyhawk wizards and heroes include Drawmij, Ztunk, Zagyg, Zagig Yragerne (who may be the same person as Zagyg), Xagyg (who probably isn't), etc.
410** ''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 (Oberon, the king of the fairies in Creator/WilliamShakespeare's play ''Theatre/AMidsummerNightsDream'').
411** [[http://forum.candlekeep.com/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=6641&whichpage=2#130898 Snilloc]], a wizard from ''TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms''.
412** Module Q1 ''Queen of the Demonweb Pits''. The names of 5 of the 6 Drow Lieutenants of Lolth were reversed versions of Drow names in module D3 ''Vault of the Drow'', with some minor changes to make them pronounceable. Ardulace (Eclavdra), Anatlab (Beltana), Minolin (Nilonim), Lirdnolu (Vlondril) and Adinirahc (Charinida). Riklaunim (Minualkir?) is the only exception.
413** '''Magazine/{{Dragon}}'' magazine
414** Issue #55, adventure "The Creature of Rhyl". Several names were backwards versions of RealLife names: Asereht (Theresa), Namreh (Herman) and Laechim (Michael).
415*** Issue #96 had an April Fools section which included the joke module ''Nogard'' ("Dragon" backwards).
416** ''Lankhmar: The New Adventures of Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser''. One city is named Kokgnab, "Bangkok" backwards.
417** Module I12 ''Egg of the Phoenix''. After the ChaoticEvil illusionist Tuke is defeated by the {{P|layerCharacter}}Cs, he shows up later under the alias Captain Ekut.
418** Modules ''Slayers of Lankhmar'' and ''Avengers in Lankhmar''. Both modules were written by Dale "Slade" Henson, and one of the characters in the modules is named Elad Edals.
419** Module C6 ''Official RPGA Tournament Handbook'' has a character named Gabtrid (Dirtbag).
420** Module [=CM3=] ''Sabre River'' has a character named Erbas, who is actually a manifestation of a magical sabre.
421** Module [=EX2=] ''The Land Beyond the Magic Mirror'' has a vorpal sword named Laprov.
422** 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).
423* ''TabletopGame/RuneQuest'' supplement ''Into the Troll Realms'', adventure "The Flying Trollkin". The leader of the title criminals is named Nesretep. Steve Petersen co-wrote the supplement.
424* In ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'', ''TabletopGame/WarhammerAgeOfSigmar'' and ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'', the Blue Scribes are a pair of twin Blue Horrors created by Tzeentch, the Chaos God of Magic, with each of their their names, P’tarix and Xirat’p, being a reversed spelling of the other.
425* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arimaa Arimaa]] is a chess-oid board game. The developer's son is named Aamir. (Don't ask what the surplus "a" does.)
426* Fairy chess has so many variants that the inventors quickly run out of names. And then sometimes the name is reversed if some condition is reversed. Thus "Elliourtap", reverse of Patrouille Chess (Patrol Chess in English).
427* The ''TabletopGame/DiscworldRoleplayingGame'' acknowledges the issue that Discworld vampires have about spelling their names backwards (see above under Literature) by suggesting that delusion as a possible quirk for vampire characters.
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430[[folder:Retaeht (Theater)]]
431* In ''Theatre/{{Picnic}}'', the town's Halloween festival is called "Neewollah".
432* ''Theatre/PokemonLive'': Professor Xalrons' name is Snorlax backwards, as he studies Snorlax.
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435[[folder:Syot (Toys)]]
436* Tobor. While this notamotua been off the line forever, it's immortalized for sponsoring the ''Film/TheStarWarsHolidaySpecial''.
437* Ogel, the BigBad featured in ''LEGO Alpha Team'' is LEGO spelt backward.
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440[[folder:Oediv Semag (Video Games)]]
441* ''[=AlienTic=]'' is a TabletopGame/TicTacToe game featuring [[WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons Trab and Asil]].
442* In ''VideoGame/{{Control}}'', the name of the MirrorBoss is esseJ, which is the protagonist Jesse's name backwards.
443* In the Sony game ''VideoGame/EverQuest'' (commonly abbreviated "EQ"), one of the major cities is named Qeynos ([=SonyEQ=] backwards)
444* ''VideoGame/ExtrapowerAttackOfDarkforce'': The Dream Demon King Maerd, whose name is... Dream, backwards.
445* In the otherwise unrelated first act of ''VideoGame/TexMurphy - Under a Killing Moon'', the robber's accomplice gives the name Ema Nymton. As Murphy himself notices, it's of course "Not My Name" spelled backwards.
446* The main protagonist of the Miyamoto-created series ''VideoGame/{{Pikmin}}'' is Captain Olimar. In Japan, though, his name is written with the three katakana characters O-RI-MA. [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Write them backward...]], as you can see the English version retains the pun via SignificantAnagram (and an l).
447* ''VideoGame/CrashBandicoot'': The title character's SpiritGuide is Aku Aku. Since his brother Uka Uka [[SiblingYinYang is his direct antithesis]], his name is just Aku Aku's name backwards.
448* In ''VisualNovel/{{Snatcher}}'', [[spoiler:the bounty hunter Random Hajile turns out to be a [[RidiculouslyHumanRobots bioroid]] made in the image of Elijah Modnar, an EvilutionaryBiologist, by his father who disagreed with his son's methods. Mondar even outright states it: "Haven't you yet realized? Random Hajile is Elijah Modnar spelled backwards."]]
449* Legna from ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}} 2'' -- "Angel" backwards. "Angel" was the name of the dragon that Caim made a pact with in the Japanese version, in English versions it was changed to "Angelus".
450* Alexandra Roivas, the heroine of ''VideoGame/EternalDarkness''. Gains extra points for stealthiness, as Roivas is a real surname (of Estonian origin).
451* ''VideoGame/FireEmblemShadowDragonAndTheBladeOfLight'' and ''VideoGame/FireEmblemMysteryOfTheEmblem'' both feature Draug, the first armored [[MightyGlacier Knight]] that joins [[TheHero Marth]]'s army.
452* In ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'', the Weapons that the entity send to the heroes in the event "Right Behind You" speak and named like this.
453* ''VideoGame/MetalGear'':
454** The climax of ''VideoGame/MetalGear2SolidSnake'' has the scientist Kio Marv supposedly store some secret information in an MSX cartridge. When the cartridge is retrieved and booted up, it displays the MSX BIOS screen, with a visual RAM of 01K - so it reads 'VRAM 01K'. Snake realises that the cartridge is genuine.
455** In ''VideoGame/MetalGearAcid'', Snake's JekyllAndHyde EnemyWithout is called Hans, which is ''similar'' to "Snake" backwards especially in capitals and with the squarish font used in ''Metal Gear'' games, making the K look right (SNAK <-> HANS). Shame about that E, though.
456* ''VideoGame/UltimaV'':
457** The MessianicArchetype Avatar could recruit a party member named SADUJ; a spy for the Oppression who would promptly turn on you and try to kill you the next time you entered combat. The smart players made him into [[UriahGambit Hairu]] in one particular battle.
458** The same game also had a royal scribe named Remoh.
459* ''Al Emmo and the Lost Dutchman's Mine'' takes place in the wild-west town of Anozira.
460* Grobyc, the assassin with a robotic arm in ''VideoGame/ChronoCross''.
461* The Skrejgib, alien antagonists from ''VideoGame/CaptainComic 2''.
462* In ''VideoGame/Corridor7AlienInvasion'', the various alien enemies are given codenames derived from real-life human names flipped around, like Nerraw (Warren), Eitak (Katie), Otrebor (Roberto), Semaj (James), Tenaj (Janet) and a few others. While the Semaj enemies are likely named after the QA Director, James Wheeler, what the other names stood for isn't really made clear.
463* ''VideoGame/LaMulana'':
464** A rather tricky one: ''La Mulana'' was developed by a programmer by the name of Naramura. Write the syllables in that name in reverse order, and you get Ramurana. And with the lack of distinction in Japanese between "r" and "l"...
465** And in an even further pronunciation stretch for English speakers: syllable-reverse the name of developer Samieru, and you get ru-mie-sa, the origin of "Lemeza", the main character's name.
466** The third developer, duplex, also got this treatment. The elder you consult at the beginning of the game is named Xelpud.
467* ''Franchise/AceAttorney'':
468** In the Japanese version of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'' case 3, the tiger and monkey are named Ratou and Ruusaa, reversed versions of the Japanese words for "tiger" and "monkey" respectively (with the vowels lengthened as well). The English localization breaks the pattern and just names them "Regent" and "Money" instead.
469** In Case 3 of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyTrialsAndTribulations'', you hear of someone going around impersonating Phoenix, and Maya immediately takes to calling this person "Xin Eohp". His actual name is Furio Tigre.
470** The "Tear of Emanon" in the third game.
471** In ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'', there's a noodle chef named Guy Eldoon. His noodle stand has a sign reading "NOODLE" on one side, and "ELDOON" on the other. [[spoiler:This is a plot point! A witness's lying about where they were standing is revealed when they say the sign read noodle, when from where he claimed to be standing it read Eldoon.]]
472* Noitu Love and Xoda Rap from the ''VideoGame/NoituLove'' indie game series.
473* ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic'':
474** In the series entry ''Darkside of Xeen'', there is an order called the Drawkcab Monks. They study [[spoiler:palindromes, and speak entirely in such.]]
475** Also in ''M&M VI: The Mandate of Heaven'', there's goblin-infested fort in New Sorpigal, which apparently belonged to these monks. It serves as a hint for solving the password lock inside.
476** Also in ''Mandate'', First Mate's Code: KCOPS Navigator's Code: ULUS Communication Officer's Code: ARUHU Engineer's Code: YTTOCS Doctor's Code: YOCCM Captain's Code: KRIK. Not one of these are any good without the proper papers, though...
477** Also, ''Heroes of Might and Magic IV'', of the strategy spinoff of the series, one of the campaign heroes for Winds of War is named 'Erutan Revol,' or 'Nature Lover.'
478* ''Franchise/FinalFantasy'':
479** The [[{{Superboss}} 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]].
480** In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', a rather GuideDangIt of a puzzle features this. Four tombstones with four "random letters" each -- [=ERAU QSSI DLRO WEHT=]. Put them back in the right order and you get "THE WORLD IS SQUARE", and a secret path to a very nice item.
481** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'': "The Hymn of the Fayth." It's Japanese lyrics written western style, left to right in rows, then read vertically eastern style (though still left to right.) The grid is four characters wide except for the last line. (Specifically, the lyrics are "Ieyui, Nobomeno / Renmiri, Yojuyogo / Hasatekanae / Kutamae". Deciphering the code gives "Inore yo, Ebon-ju / Yume mi yo, inorigo / Hatenaku / Sakaetamae", which in English means "Pray to Yu Yevon / Dream, Fayth / Forever and ever / Grant us prosperity".)
482** Llednar Twem in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyTacticsAdvance'', [[spoiler:the negative emotions of Prince Mewt Randell given form! Interestingly enough, his name in Japanese is not "Rudenra Tomyu", which would be the backwards version of his name in Japanese, but rather "Redona Twemu"]].
483* In ''VideoGame/{{Ketsui}}'', the MegaCorp that you battle is called EVAC. "EVAC" spelled backwards is "Creator/{{CAVE}}", the company that made the game.
484* The god in ''VideoGame/ShadowOfTheColossus'' is named Dormin. (A reference to the Old Testament-era god, not the modern-day insult.)
485* The goal of both ''VideoGame/{{Rogue}}'' and ''VideoGame/NetHack'' is to steal the [[MacGuffin Amulet of Yendor]] from the Wizard of Yendor.
486* 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.
487* The Seiddab from old Platform/ZXSpectrum game ''Astroclone'', making this (in video games, at least) OlderThanTheNES.
488* ''VideoGame/ThiefIITheMetalAge'' features a memorable extra named Ekim, famous for the number of people who stopped killing extras after killing him and reading his love letter. Do I need to tell you the name of the person who created him?
489* In ''VideoGame/CaveStory'', the password to a LockedDoor is revealed to be the Japanese name of the game (''Doukutsu Monogatari'') written backwards in katakana. This is not so obvious in the first English translation, which transliterated the password as "Litagano Motscoud" instead of translating it into something like "Yrot Sevac." The translator admitted he was very tired when translating that part. Later ports of the game change it to "Yrots Evac."
490* ''VideoGame/DragonQuestSwords'':
491** The Rorrim Mask, a boss called Draug, and a sword called Rednusadner. Then again, the game does feature a Mirror World.
492** All the {{Optional Boss}}es are cameos of enemies from previous games with reversed names.
493* In the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series Noob Saibot's name is in fact the last names of the series' creators written backwards (Tobias and Boon).
494* In ''VideoGame/MySims Kingdom'', there's a robot named... wait for it... T.O.B.O.R., mixing this with FunWithAcronyms.
495* ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'':
496** The snake Pokémon Ekans (Snake) and its evolved form Arbok ([[XtremeKoolLetterz Kobra]]). This eventually led to people making jokes about the BlobMonster Pokémon Muk.
497** Lucario's name is "oracle", written in Japanese phonetics and then reversed. O ri ka ru > Ru ka ri o > Lucario.
498** Electric/Ghost-type Rotom is "Motor" backwards. Makes sense, given that it's a spirit that possesses and powers electronic appliances.
499** The French names for the extraterrestrial mons Elgyem and Beheeyem are "Lewsor" ("[[RoswellThatEndsWell Roswel]]" backwards) and "Neitram" ("Martien", French for {{Martian|s}}, backwards).
500** Dung beetle Pokémon Rellor is "Roller" spelled backwards. Its evolution instead reverses the syllables of "scarab" to produce its name, Rabsca.
501* Subtle example in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2'': Chuck Greene's motocross sponsor is IJIEK Racing, "IJIEK" being lead developer '''Keiji''' Inafune's given name spelled backwards.
502* ''VideoGame/DoubleDragon III'': The NES version begins with Marian ([[SpellMyNameWithAnS or Marion]], as it's spelled here) [[DamselInDistress getting kidnapped yet again]]. The FinalBoss's name is Princess Noiram. [[spoiler:This is not a coincidence]].
503* Naxat Soft, the video game division of Kaga Electronics, had a short-lived American subsidiary called Taxan. Ironically, only one of the 11 games Taxan distributed (''Serpent'' for the Platform/GameBoy) was developed or published by Naxat Soft.
504* ''VideoGame/EarthBoundBeginnings'' features a bear enemy known as Raeb Yddet.
505* ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsBirthBySleep'': In what was a deliberate ShoutOut to the above Yen Sid example, Ventus, Aqua, and Terra's master is named Eraqus, another example of the use of a digraph, and one that is almost a perfect reversal in Japanese ("Erakwusu" - this would be "Swukurae" when reversed, which is not quite "Sukuwea" (Square) but close).
506* An OptionalBoss 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.
507* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry5PassionatePattiDoesALittleUndercoverWork'' involves Passionate Patti infiltrating the offices of ''des Rever Records'', whom her employers suspect are slipping [[SubliminalSeduction subliminal messages]] into their records.
508* ''VideoGame/MotherLoad'' features a helpful gentleman named Mr. Natas, who, if you dig down far enough, [[spoiler: turns into a giant demon with whom you fight.]]
509* ''VideoGame/ChaosLegion'': The Apocrypha of Yzarc. Crazy, right?
510* The [[ThoseWackyNazis Floda]] lederhosen company in ''VideoGame/FlightOfTheAmazonQueen''.
511* ''VideoGame/{{Defender}} II'' has an enemy called the Yllabian Space Guppy. Yllab is Bally backwards.
512* In the console versions of the ''WesternAnimation/{{Shrek 2}}'' game, Donkey makes the observation that ogre spelled backwards is ergo. Deep, isn't it?
513* ''VideoGame/SyphonFilter'': Mara Aramov's surname minus the suffix is her first name backwards.
514* ''VideoGame/RomeTotalWar'' features an EasterEgg unit called Yubtseb Elephant. According to the unit description, their summoning involves dark rituals dedicated to G'ni'tek'ram, the God Of Shiny Things Man Does Not Need But Desires Anyway.
515* In ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'' series, one of the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Princes]] is named Namira, which is Ariman backwards. It is an alternative spelling for "Ahriman", a Zoroastrian term for the hypostasis of chaos, destruction, and evil. Given the term's obscurity and the fact that Namira doesn't really fit these traits (other than the standard [[OrderVersusChaos chaotic nature]] possessed by most Daedric Princes), it's fair to wonder if this one wasn't intentional.
516** [[https://elderscrolls.fandom.com/wiki/Surfeit_of_Thieves Surfeit of Thieves]] is a short story about how a thief meets the Order of St. Eadnua -- whose members' names are all spelled backwards. In addition, Eadnua spelled backwards is Audnae: the name of a vampire clan in Vvardenfell. In the end, the protagonist realizes that the [[spoiler:name of the person she was impersonating is "dessert", and immediately dies when St. Eadnua's feast is over.]]
517--> She could not help laughing: "I understand. It's all backwards. Your real names are Aldrin, Celeus, Relyk, Poinot, Styllith, Parathion."
518* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' combines this with GratuitousRussian with the Dalokohs bar; "dalokohs" being the Russian word for chocolate, "shokolad", spelled backwards.
519* There is a town called Gorlab in ''VideoGame/UltimaI''. It also appears in Serpent Island as the Gorlab Swamp (the town itself was pulled into the dream realm). Gorlab is balrog backwards.
520* In the first episodes of the ''VideoGame/{{Wizardry}}'' series, the good guy is Lord Trebor and the evil antagonist is called Werdna. Predictably, the game was first written by two guys named Robert and Andrew.
521* ''VideoGame/ShufflepuckCafe'' has aliens named Eneg Doowtrop and Nerual Ttoille, after two of the developers.
522* In ''Breakline'', a 1993 BreakingOut game, copy protection and the save-state system use codes built from eight symbols, the "Runes of Power". Four of them have Sdrawckab Names, slightly disguised: Drasah (hazard), Terces, Telfer (reflect) and Immenne (enemy).
523* [[Franchise/ConanTheBarbarian Nanoc the Obliviator]] from ''VideoGame/ComicJumperTheAdventuresOfCaptainSmiley''.
524* In the "[[DevelopersRoom meet the programmers]]" ending of ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'', a guy says ".siht daer naht od ot gnithon evah I"
525* In ''VideoGame/GhostTrick'', a big part of the game's plot is kicked off by a meteor landing in Temsik Park... a meteor that [[spoiler: [[GreenRocks grants people the ability to manipulate objects]], or even [[ScrewDestiny go back in time and alter the past to save people from death]]]]. "Temsik" spelled backwards is "kismet", which means "fate" in Urdu. Even better and more meaningful, it represents "inverted fate".
526* ''Fortix'' has the EvilSorcerer Xitrof as its BigBad.
527* ''VideoGame/TheSpellcastingSeries'' has the [[{{Atlantis}} Lost City of Sitnalta]] in the third entry.
528* In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', Merlon's [[MirrorWorld Flopside]] counterpart is named Nolrem.
529* In ''[[WordSaladTitle Shinywuffles 2]]: [[VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing Rainy Soul Miasma]]'' , "xesyrruf" is a cheat code.
530* In ''[[VideoGame/SegaSuperstars Sonic & All-Stars Racing Transformed]]'', the final unlockable character is named AGES, or Sega backwards.
531* Accidentally turning yourself dyslexic in ''[[VideoGame/RagnarokRoguelike Ragnarok]]'' results in all items from then on being named backwards, until you reverse the condition.
532* In ''VideoGame/PlanescapeTorment'', one possible party member is Nordom a [[RogueDrone rogue Modron]].
533* In ''VideoGame/GuildWars'', the Elementalist possesses two Fire Magic spells named [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Rodgort's Invocation and Mark of Rodgort]].
534* In the final ''VideoGame/TheSims3'' expansion, ''Into the Future'', your Sim meets a time traveler named Emit Relevart.
535* The BigBad of the ''Dungeon Explorer'' games is a demon named Natas.
536* In "[=SpacePods=]" from the ''VideoGame/{{Glider}} PRO CD'', the area to the upper left of the fungus pod is a mirror image of the area to the upper right, with reversed room names. Also in "Slumberland," the mirror in "Looking Glass" is a transport to an upside-down version of the same room titled "sslaG gnikooL."
537* The game ''VideoGame/InnerWorlds'' has a location called Castle Drofanayrb. The game's head programmer was Bryan A. Ford.
538* The two player characters of ''VideoGame/{{Tearaway}}'' are named Iota and Atoi.
539* The main villain of the first ''VideoGame/PacManWorld'' game is "Toc-Man", a reversal of "Namcot" (the name Namco used for their home console games).
540* In ''Sram'' (a French AdventureGame for the Platform/AmstradCPC), King Egres IV and the HighPriest Cinomeh are reversals of the names of the game's writer (Serge Hauduc‎) and programmer (Jacques Hemonic).
541* ''VideoGame/StarCraftI'': Brood War featured an enigmatic character by the name of Samir Duran. In ''VideoGame/StarCraftII'', a similarly mysterious character named Emil Narud (Duran backwards) appeared. WordOfGod confirmed there is a connection between them, but exactly what it is was unknown at the time, although many fans speculate them to be one and the same. [[spoiler:The prologue of ''[[VideoGame/StarCraftIILegacyOfTheVoid Legacy of the Void]]'' confirms they are the same person.]]
542* {{Invoked|Trope}}: An UrbanLegendOfZelda spoke of a true 3D ''VideoGame/{{Marathon}}'' game called "Dr'At'Er", and one website claimed to have screenshots of it. The pictures were actually dolled up ''VideoGame/{{Quake}}'' screenshots. Note that Drater is "retard" backwards.
543* Some ''Franchise/{{Kirby}}'' games have an enemy known as Tac, originally spelled T.A.C. It's a cat enemy. Not only that, but it steals your copy ability, which makes it [[StealthPun a cat burglar]], too. There's also the recurring boss Acro the whale and a minor enemy named Gip.
544* In ''VideoGame/VectorThrust'', there exists a variant of the Su-47 Berkut with its forward-swept wings reversed to a more normalized shape. Its name? Tukreb, naturally.
545* In the ''VideoGame/{{Scribblenauts}}'' games, typing in the series's name or Maxwell's name backwards will spawn a Nintendo DS cartridge with Maxwell on it, representing the original game.
546* Creator/{{Maxis}} absolutely loves reversing its name into six-AM. This was lampshaded in ''VideoGame/SimCity 3000'' and in ''VideoGame/SimCity2013''; you can see moving trucks bearing "6AM" on them. There's also a hidden planet called Sixam in ''VideoGame/TheSims4''.
547* There's a character in the ''VideoGame/GameAndWatch'' version of ''VideoGame/BalloonFight'' named [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Oiram Repus]].
548* The main protagonists of the ''VideoGame/{{Darius}}'' series, Proco and Tiat, when put together, is "Taito Corp" spelled backwards.
549* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
550** ''[[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaCDiGames Zelda's Adventure]]'': The game's story takes place in Tolemac, which is Camelot spelled backwards.
551** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTearsOfTheKingdom'': The names of the lightroots in the underground parts of Hyrule are the names of the Zonai monks guarding the Shrines located right above them in the surface, but in reverse.
552* In ''VideoGame/{{Nectaris}}'', the level names/passwords for maps 17-31 are those of maps 1-16 spelled in reverse. (This is not true of the localized ''Military Madness'' for the Platform/TurboGrafx16.)
553* The 1991 shareware RPG ''VideoGame/DungeonOfNadroj''. Nadroj comes from Jordan, the author's last name.
554* The classic economic-theory edutainment game ''[[VideoGame/{{Mule}} M.U.L.E.]]'' is set on the planet Irata, "Atari" backwards.
555* ''VideoGame/WildArms3'' features a sound-sensitive sandworm boss called [[Film/{{Tremors}} Diobarg]].
556* ''VideoGame/HearthstoneHeroesOfWarcraft'': The ''Whispers of the Old Gods'' expansion introduced Am'gam Rager, a "corrupted" version of the basic minion Magma Rager. Even its stats are reversed: Magma Rager is [[GlassCannon a 5/1 minion]], while [[StoneWall Am'gam Rager is 1/5]].
557* "[[Creator/JohnRomero Oremorj]] the Cyberdemon Lord" is a UniqueMonster in ''[[VideoGame/{{Angband}} ZAngband]]'' (and a ShoutOut to a certain backwards speech clip in ''VideoGame/DoomII'').
558* ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'': The console/mobile boss Ocram's name is "Marco" spelt backwards, the first name of Ocram's programmer.
559* In ''VideoGame/TheGrayGarden'', there are various characters named Etihw, Kcalb, Wodahs, Emalf, and [[spoiler:Reficul]]. Even in the original Japanese, so if you went into the translation notes expecting Roshi, Roku, Geka, etc....
560* In ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'', the mountain the monsters are trapped under is called Mount Ebott. Flip that around and you get Ttobe, which, if you sound it out, sounds like "Toby". ''Undertale'''s creator is, of course, Creator/TobyFox.
561* ''VideoGame/MegaManXCommandMission'' has Spider, whose name is that of Colonel Redips' spelled backwards. [[spoiler:This isn't a coincidence; you find out much, ''much'' later on that they're the same person. Though there is some ambiguity if there really ''was'' a Spider at one point and Redips proceeded to KillAndReplace him before or even during the plot.]]
562* In ''VideoGame/MegadimensionNeptuniaVII'', the CombinationAttack performed by Uzume Tennouboshi and B-Sha, who are [[AnthropomorphicPersonification Anthropomorphic Personifications]] of the [[Platform/SegaDreamcast Sega Dreamcast]] and [[Creator/BandaiNamcoEntertainment Bandai Namco]], respecively, is called "Iadnab Ages".
563* In ''VideoGame/NelkeAndTheLegendaryAlchemistsAteliersOfTheNewWorld'' [[spoiler:Lotos is actually Sotol, the young boy who disappeared and that Nelke has long been searching for. He took the name specifically because he knew that she was bad with wordplay trickery and would never figure it out.]]
564* ''VideoGame/CatacombKids'' has the [[BlobMonster Oog]].
565* ''VideoGame/JazzJackrabbit'': The first game has a planet named Letni, which is Intel spelled backwards. The planet itself is modeled like a giant computer.
566* ''VideoGame/NomolosStormingTheCatsle'': The PlayerCharacter is a cat named Solomon who, upon leaping through a portal to another world, becomes [[AnthropomorphicTransformation an anthro cat warrior]] known as Nomolos.
567* ''VideoGame/OddworldSoulstorm'': Nolybab is Babylon spelled backwards, a powerful capital city of conquerors from the ancient middle-east that later parts of Literature/TheBible heavily associate with moral corruption and evil domination. And here, it's the [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Glukkons']] capital city--go figure!
568* ''VideoGame/ZoneOfTheEnders'': In [=ZOE2=]: Nephtis' theme - [[VillainousLegacy ALOI]][[OminousVisualGlitch VIA]]
569* ''VideoGame/ColorgraveUniverse'': The world of Ledamra, first introduced in ''VideoGame/CurseCrackersForWhomTheBelleToils'', is the name of its creator, Armadel, spelled backwards.
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573* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
574** Elan's [[CainAndAbel evil twin brother]] Nale. Apparently, these are their birth names; either the reversal is a coincidence or their parents have a unique sense of humor. Given that said parents were a Chaotic Good barmaid and a Lawful Evil warlord... (and guess who raised which boy). A GenreSavvy father could've intentionally named them both that way, without even knowing which one would be the evil twin.
575** In contrast to pure fighter and GeniusBruiser Roy, there's the Thieves' Guild's pure fighter and DumbMuscle Yor (the stereotype Roy does his best to avert).
576* In ''Webcomic/CornerAlley13'', Tsac Tuo is revealed to be [[spoiler:the shapeshifter Drel in disguise]], and points out that his name is 'just outcast spelled backwards'. The heroine's response? "I ''thought'' it sounded foreign."
577* In ''Webcomic/SchlockMercenary'', Lieutenant Commander [[RedShirt Der Trihs]] always manages to get himself [[OnlyMostlyDead mostly-dead]]-ified in one way or another... An added bonus is to add another little t in there and get a name that sounds suspiciously like Detritus.
578* In ''Webcomic/LookingForGroup'', the {{Jerkass}} undead warlock Richard named his imp familiar Hctib Elttil; "I was looking for something to define what his role in our partnership would be."
579* In ''Webcomic/ChasingTheSunset'' our heroes are accompanied by a pixie named Feiht, [[FauxSymbolism (pronounced "Fate")]], who lives up to her sdrawkcab name by regarding all shiny things as her possessions. HilarityEnsues (usually).
580* [[http://www.bmoviecomic.com/?cid=312 This]] ''Webcomic/TheBMovieComic'' strip.
581* ''[[http://www.geist-panik.com Geist-Panik]]'' does this with "Sevink". Which is just "Knives" backwards.
582* In possibly the most blatant example ever, the opposite of Chris-chan in ''Webcomic/{{Sonichu}}'' is called... Reldnahc Notsew Naitsirhc. This idea for names generally works better when it's simply one name spelt backwards rather than three in a row, but that's the level of unimaginativeness of this comic.
583* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' has one of the more embarrassing versions in [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/091023 this strip]]. While Torg simply goes by "Grot", Sasha has the dubious honor of being "Ass-Ass."
584* ''[[http://www.tnemrot.com/ Domain Tnemrot]]'' has one right in the title.
585* The Drab Lord of ''Webcomic/CaptainSNES''. [[spoiler:Drab as in Bard.]]
586* ''Webcomic/TwoKinds'' has a slave named Evals.
587* The author of ''Webcomic/BladeBunny'' writes under the pen name of Drowemos.
588* In ''The Rogues Gallery'' on ''Website/Fireball20XL'', there is a character called Nala Navilos, whose name is both the name of the author and the name of his AuthorAvatar, Alan Solivan, written backwards. This was poked fun at in a Q&A session on The Fallout Shelter forums - a forum-goer asked Nala if she realised that her name was Mr O.M.A.'s (the actual representation of the author in the comic, standing for "Original Manga Author") name backwards. Nala corrected them that it was actually Big Nasty's (the character Alan Solivan's nickname) name backwards, unless her name was suddenly Rohtua Agnam Lanigiro. Mr O.M.A. then remarked that that didn't sound like such a bad name. Another comic on ''Website/Fireball20XL'', one of the many short-lived sprite comics made by Psyguy, had an EvilCounterpart of Sonic named Cinos. His sprite was even just a Sonic sprite with the colours inverted.
589* In ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'' [[http://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=1842 #1842]] after [[spoiler:Dora and Marten break up, Marten is worried about going to Coffee of Doom because it'll be too awkward. Hannelore suggests a disguise, and Faye replies "Ah yes, our good friend Netram Deer, international financier and ostrich racer."]] The title of the strip is even "Tnetnoc Elbanoiseuq", just to drive the joke home.
590* In ''WebComic/YokokasQuest'', the world is named Cisum, which is "music" backwards.
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594* Spoofed nicely in the fiction blog [[http://slicedbread2.blogspot.com/2004_07_30_archive.html Sliced Bread 2]] where the protagonist correctly anticipates the name of the best fighter in the castle garrison: Snogard.
595* In the ''Roleplay/LeagueOfIntergalacticCosmicChampions'', Hamburger Pattie's real name was Suzy Wood, her DarkMagicalGirl counterpart, Soyburger Patricia's real name was Yzus Doow.
596%%* [[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/tacgnol Gnoooooooooool si Tacgnol.]]
597* A WebAnimation/StrongBadEmail from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' actually involved Strong Bad trying to make Bubs say his name backwards (minus the first B) in an attempt to get a free lunch special.
598* In chapter 8 of ''Literature/{{Reasoning}}'', the four protagonists come across a giant anthropomorphic cat with a CheshireCatGrin. Grant is fully aware of the character said cat is imitating, so he calls himself "Erihsehc" just to annoy Grant. We find out in chapter 9 that ''this is his real name'', and everyone addresses him by this moniker.
599* The Rules of the Internet. We all know RuleThirtyFour. Most people don't know Rule 43, which states "[[IncorruptiblePurePureness The more innocent and pure something is]], [[ForTheEvulz the more satisfying it is to corrupt.]]", which is basically Rule 34 from the creator of said porn's perspective.
600* "Retsinif" is "Finister" spelled backwords. No dout another one of Finister2's Internet names.
601* ''WebVideo/StupidMarioBrothers'': Merlin initially goes by the alias "Nilrem" when he first appears.
602* ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoovesAdventures'' have Murphy and Yphrum, a pair of twins with a dash of SiblingYinYang.
603* ''WebVideo/{{Retsupurae}}'' featured a creepypasta (which slowbeef titled "The True Rorroh") where the narrator abused this trope to refer to evil possessed versions of video game characters, including Oiram, Igiul, Reswob, and, to slowbeef's consternation, Hcaep Ssecnirp.
604* ''WebAnimation/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers'' has a recurring series consisting of segments of pure randomness, appropriately named "ssenmodnaR".
605* ''Series/TheCallOfWarr'': In naming the evil priest character, Prisoner Sarah said it should be "definitely Vid", referring to the actual evil priest in the show's universe. Gravesite wanted "Definitely Tim", so they settled on "Definitely Div".
606* On ''WebVideo/SevenSecondRiddles'', an invading alien attempts to disguise himself as a person named "Neil A".
607* A recurring villain of ''WebAnimation/IMMeenGetsANewJob'' is VideoGame/IMMeen's color-inverted [[EvilTwin eviler twin]] called Neem M. I. This extends even to pronunciation, as his name is not pronounced "neem-em-eye"--instead, it's pronounced "neem-meh-yah".
608* For ''WebOriginal/SeldnacRae'', it's both the name of the species and of the Art RPG itself: Read backwards, it spells "ear candles", as all Seldnacs have flames on their ears. Their world is likewise named Arbalednac, which is "candelabra" backwards, as it's where the candles live.
609* Platform/GoAnimate: Uolliac is a character who looks like ''WesternAnimation/{{Caillou}}'', but far more detached from reality.
610* ''WebVideo/SlimecicleCinematicUniverse'': On Day 10 of "We Spent 100 Days in a Hardcore Minecraft Apocalypse", after returning to the city for resources and befriending Florida Man, Charlie goes back to the house he built in the woods with Florida Man, only to find it struck and destroyed by an asteroid, which is a natural disaster with an ''astronomically low'' chance of happening. In his narration, Charlie calls himself "reverse LetsPlay/{{Dream}}", or "Maerd", because of his absolute lack of luck.
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614* ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'':
615** In "[[Recap/AmericanDadS3E5DungeonsAndWagons Dungeons and Wagons]]", Hayley breaks up with Jeff, but when she tries to get back with him he's too busy playing an {{M|assivelyMultiplayerOnlineRolePlayingGame}}MORPG with Steve. In order to get Jeff away from the game, Hayley kills Steve's character with a special command: his character's name backwards. Later on in the same episode they attempt to revive Steve by taking him to the Castle Roodpart. Hayley comments on the name, and when Jeff starts talking about how it probably has some deep significance in the game's backstory, Hayley interrupts with "[[OhCrap Crap, it's 'trapdoor' spelled backwards]]." Of course, they instantly fall into a monster's lair.
616** In "[[Recap/AmericanDadS8E7SeasonsBeatings Seasons Beatings]]", Jeff and Haley adopt a son, whom Jeff names Nemo; however, when evidence piles up that he's actually TheAntichrist, Jeff suddenly realizes that "Nemo" is "[[Film/TheOmen Omen]]" backwards! Roger {{lampshade|Hanging}}s the fact that this "clue" doesn't really make sense, given that Jeff picked the name himself.
617* ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheBraveAndTheBold'': In one episode, Batman lands on a planet with counterparts of Batman and Superman characters, and he himself gains Superman-like abilities. The Lex Luthor counterpart is named Rothul.
618* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' has Sector V visiting a MirrorUniverse. The KND counterpart is the Destructively Nefarious Kids (DNK), the Delightful Children from Down the Lane (DCFDTL) are now the Little Traitor Dudes from Children's Defense (LTDFCD), and the alternate Lizzie is named Eizzil, leading some fans to believe that this applies to all names (the DNK operatives are only referred to as Negative Numbuh X).
619* The most major recurring villain of the ''Franchise/Ben10'' franchise is Vilgax, so naturally, the thoroughly creepy Professor Xagliv who is voiced by Vilgax's voice actor and who appears in an episode that is supposed to bring back a past recurring villain is a [[RedHerring totally normal professor]] whom the team ''mightily'' pissed off by accusing of being an evil warlord and then snatching off her(!) wig. [[StevenUlyssesPerhero Bill Gacks]], who looks very much like a humanized Vilgax, is also [[spoiler: a perfectly normal human. Unlike Xagliv, he takes having people run from him or point weapons at him in stride, saying "yeah, I get that a lot."]]
620* In the ''WesternAnimation/DangerMouse'' episode "The Hickory Dickory Dock Dilemma", DM sends himself and Penfold into the future in the time-traveling grandfather clock where DM sees London is ruled by Dlofnep the Magnificent, a spitting image of and whose name is backwards for Penfold.
621* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' sees Danny and his mom travelling to Florida to attend a mother/son science symposium being run by the "Dalv" company. Unsurprisingly, the "Dalv" company turns out to be a front for Vlad Masters.
622* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'': In "[[Recap/DarkwingDuckS1E4NightOfTheLivingSpud Night of the Living Spud]]", DW attempts to rid of Posey, the giant vampire potato by shaking Bushroot and shouting "Otatop! Otatop!", when that doesn't work, he explains to Gosalyn that "otatop" is "Potato backwards", which does work. This leads to this hilarious quote: "You don't say ''potato'' backwards, you say ''[[ExactWords potato backwards]]''!"
623* In ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewSchool'', Yzma [[ClarkKenting masquerades]] as "Principal Amzy".
624* In ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', Poof's anti-fairy counterpart is Foop. He's the ''only'' anti-fairy with this kind of name, while all the others share their counterpart's names with "anti" in front of it (Anti-Cosmo, Anti-Wanda, etc.). Why he doesn't follow this naming convention? Presumably because "Anti-Poof" might be considered homophobic. Then again, the Anti-Fairies might think names like "Omsoc", "Adnaw", "Negroj", "Yknib" are too odd.
625* ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'':
626** Spoofing Superman's "Mr. Mxyzptlk", an episode has a gag where Adam West provides "Kebert Xela" as his answer on ''Final Jeopardy'', causing host Alex Trebek to disappear when he read it aloud. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=69p1xplmKl4 And then someone tried it for real on the show.]] This time it does nothing but get a laugh out of the studio.
627** Peter accidentally created an EvilTwin, who declared his name to be "Retep".
628** Another episode featured time going backwards called "Yug Ylimaf".
629* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'', the EvilTwin (so to speak) of Goliath is Thailog... not a precise reversal (unless you spell them with a Thorn: Goliaþ and Þailog). Of course, the writers admitted they did it this way because "Htailog" would have been very hard for the voice actors to say.
630* ''Franchise/GIJoe'':
631** Tomax and Xamot.
632** The character of Dusty Tadur in the toyline and comics, who was named after ''Franchise/GIJoe'' artist [[http://www.yojoe.com/faq/rudat.shtml Ron Rudat]], was renamed Dusty Rudat in the animated series.
633* In ''WesternAnimation/HamsterAndGretel'', Professor Exclamation has a robot servant named Tobor. Tobor is often seen with his creator's son Nordle since his initial debut.
634* In a first-season episode of ''WesternAnimation/JackieChanAdventures'', a talisman brings Jade's beloved Gnomekop toy to life. Remember that the G is silent. In another episode, Jade tries to guess the password to one of the safety devices protecting the talismans, and types in "Namsilat". It doesn't work, and Captain Black is briefly confused before she spells it out for him.
635* In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'' where the main four are playing at being spies, Kaeloo assigns everyone code name that are just their real names backwards: she becomes Ooleak, Stumpy becomes Ypmuts, Quack Quack becomes Kcauq Kcauq, and Mr. Cat becomes Retsim Tac.
636* Witch Hazel becomes Witch [[AdaptationNameChange Lezah]] in ''WesternAnimation/TheLooneyTunesShow''.
637* In ''WesternAnimation/MegaManFullyCharged'', Mega Man's EvilCounterpart is called Namagem, though he isn't officially called out by name until the last few episodes of the series.
638* ''WesternAnimation/MightyOrbots'' has a [[TheSyndicate Shadow-controlled]] duplicate of the Orbots called Tobor.
639* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': In "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS3E7MysteryInTheNightSkyLightsCameraPatak Lights, Camera, Patak]]", on the first cut of the video, Mr. Patak accidentally calls himself "Mr. Katap".
640* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS8E23SoundsOfSilence Sounds of Silence]]" introduces the Kirin, who when they get too angry turn into ferocious fiery monsters called Nirik.
641* ''WesternAnimation/TheNewAdventuresOfSuperman'': In the episode "Luthor Strikes Again", Lex Luthor's lair is a paint factory owned by the "Rohtul Paint Co."
642* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'', Dr. Doofenshmirtz invents a substance he names "Eulg" that works opposite to glue. In another episode, he has a diner, and he says in the commercial that Doof spelled backwards is Food.
643* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/PinkyAndTheBrain'', Pinky starts saying "Troz", which, as Pinky explained, is "Zort" backwards. A ContinuityNod to some extent, as Pinky also says "Troz" in later episodes.
644* The ''Toys/PollyPocket'' story "Pollyworld" features two exchange students named Karl and Lark.
645* ''ComicStrip/{{Popeye}}'':
646** In 1943's "The Hungry Goat", the title animal [[BornInTheTheatre tells the projectionist to run the film backwards]] so he can re-examine the title card.
647** In 1961's "There's No Space Like Home", cans of aerosol spinach cause Popeye's space capsule to blast off and go the speed of light, causing everything on Earth to go backwards.
648* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', the "Pale Kids" (the nerdy kids who prefer to stay inside playing tabletop games during recess instead of running around outside like the "normal" kids) all refer to themselves and visitors by their first name backwards (such as "Knarf" or "Yendor") as a nerdy in-joke. When TJ briefly joins them, they give him the [[SarcasmMode truly inspired]] name of "JT" (as opposed to "Erodoeht").
649* The ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' episode "[[Recap/RegularShowS02Ep05Dizzy Dizzy]]" has Pops entering an alternate dimension with [[NonStandardCharacterDesign non-humanoid versions]] of Mordecai and Rigby named Iacedrom and Ybgir.
650* All of the "Wild Brood" bikers in ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' have these, from smooth-acting leader Odnarb, to Foog and Dren, to the disgusting Gabtraf.
651* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
652** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E12MargeVsTheMonorail Marge vs. the Monorail]]", Mr. Burns introduces himself at a town hall meeting in a PaperThinDisguise as "Mr. Snrub".
653** "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS4E14BrotherFromTheSamePlanet Brother from the Same Planet]]" has a sequence where Homer forgets to pick up Bart after soccer practice and leaves him there all night. At one point, Bart tries to psychically send him the message "Pick up Bart! Pick up Bart!" -- cut to a brief ''Film/TheShining'' parody with Milhouse writing "PICK UP BART" on the wall in mirrored writing and chanting "Trab pu kicp! Trab pu kcip!".
654** In "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS12E14NewKidsOnTheBlecch New Kids on the Blecch]]", Bart, Milhouse, Ralph Wiggum, and Nelson are in a boy band that is secretly sponsored by a military force. The main song's hook had the lyrics "yvan eht nioj." Strangely enough, the backwards lyrics are pronounced phonetically as they're written ("Ee-van et nee-oj"), yet when Lisa plays the video backwards, they still come out clearly as "Join the navy", even though actually playing what the kids were singing backwards wouldn't sound anything like that.
655** In the [[Franchise/JamesBond Moefinger]] segment of "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS28E4TreehouseOfHorrorXXVII Treehouse of Horror XXVII]]", Moe's Tavern and its regulars are a cover for an [=MI6=] like organization. They're pitted against Remoh Industries, an unknown organization that has been buying up the entire world's beer supply. Need any hints who is the head of Remoh? Lampshaded and played for laughs when it's pointed out and even Supervillain!Homer is surprised.
656--->'''Moe:''' Of course. Remoh spelled backwards is Homer.\
657'''Supervillain-Homer:''' It is? Uh, I mean, it's intentional.
658* ''WesternAnimation/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeries''
659** The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS1E7TheInfiniteVulcan The Infinite Vulcan]]", written by Creator/WalterKoenig ("Pavel Chekov"), features a poisonous plant called a retlaw.
660** The episode "[[Recap/StarTrekTheAnimatedSeriesS2E6TheCounterClockIncident The Counter-Clock Incident]]" has a planet named Arret in a universe where time runs backwards. Arret is Terra backwards, and Terra is [[PlanetTerra often used as an alternate name for Earth]].
661* ''WesternAnimation/ShimmerAndShine'': In Season 2, Zac has a genie named Kaz.
662* In the ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil'' episode "[[Recap/StarVsTheForcesOfEvilS4E11OutOfBusiness Out of Business]]", Janna creates hundreds of evil Marcos named Ocram.
663* ''WesternAnimation/{{Superfriends}}'':
664** In the ''Challenge of the Superfriends'' episode "Superfriends Rest In Peace", they mention a former member of the Legion of Doom called Dr. Natas, "Satan" spelled backwards.
665** In the ''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.
666* ''WesternAnimation/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtles2003'' uses several of these in a non-alias context, the most notable being Mortu the Utrom. There is also a running gag involving recurring character Kluh ([[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk "Hulk"]]), where concepts related to him are also backwards names for things related to the Marvel character--his father is called Ammag ("gamma"), and his home planet is named Levram ("Marvel").
667* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' has an imp called Nosyarg Kcid (Dick Grayson spelled backwards).
668* ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitansGo'' has an episode involving the Titans' Bizarro World counterparts, who oddly have most of their names simply being the names of their standard selves spelled backwards rather than the standard names with "Bizarro" in front of it (such as Starfire's counterpart being named Erifrats rather than Bizarro Starfire).
669* One of Gene Deitch's earliest Creator/TerryToons has old standby character Dinky Duck abruptly quit his cartoon and walk out of the theater to the greener pastures of television, where he gets dragged through making one commercial after another, including one for the drug Niripsa, aspirin spelled backwards.
670* Most of the races in ''WesternAnimation/{{Wakfu}}'' have some meaning when spelled backwards, some being doubling as a PunnyName.
671** The Eniripsa ("Aspirine" the French spelling of Aspirin) heal others.
672** The Xelor ("Rolex" the watch brand) can manipulate time.
673** The Sadida ("Adidas") after the shoe brand which explains why their class has the word "Shoe" in its name. Ironically, most Sadida [[PrefersGoingBarefoot prefer going barefoot]].
674** The Enutrof ("Fortune") because they really like money.
675** The Ecaflip ("Pile ou face", French for Heads or Tails) use a fighting style made of randomness.
676** The Osamodas ("Sado-maso") are [[WhipOfDominance whip-wielding beastmasters]].
677** The Cra ("Arc" the French spelling of bow) are [[MasterArcher superb archers]].
678** The Sram ("Mars") after the candy brand.
679** The Feca ("Acef" the French spelling of coffee) create translucent shields and are quite intelligent.
680** The Eliatrope ("E portaile", French for portal child) founded the World of Twelve, with its inhabitants wondering why they suddenly disappeared.
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684* The names of two stars in constellation Delphinus, "Sualocin" and "Rotanev" are "Nicolaus" and "Venator" backwards, referring to Latin name of Italian astronomer Niccolo Cacciatore.
685* Professional baseball player Nomar Garciaparra's unique name is his father's name, Ramon, spelled backwards.
686* One name that has become somewhat popular in recent years is Nevaeh, "heaven" written backwards (it all started with Christian rock singer Sonny Sandoval). It seems to be a rule that if a new parent is telling you that they named a child Nevaeh, the conversation will almost inevitably go, in a breathless rush, "We named her Nevaeh -- that's Heaven spelled backwards." It begins to grate after a while.
687* Other backwards-spelled names that have come into somewhat occasional use (though not to the extent of Nevaeh, which is in the U.S. top 100 as of 2005) include: Semaj, Senga (popular in Scotland for some reason), Traeh, and Neleh. The last one was the name of a contestant on ''Series/{{Survivor}}'' in 2002.
688* "Norac" was the codename of French agent (and playwright) Caron de Beaumarchais.
689* During the Russian Revolution of 1905, university students went on strike. A conservative newspaper "Novoe Vremya" published letters of "outraged students" calling for putting the strike to an end. Such letters were often signed by such names as Karud, Toidi, Noipsh or Tseipulg, which can be translated into English as Norom, Toidi, Yps and Loof.
690* Following the Russian Revolution, the name "Ninel" was used for a number of women. "Ninel" is Lenin backwards.
691* We have the OMON, or "Otryad Militsii Osobogo Naznacheniya", the Russian special police force. In cyrillic (Отряд Милиции Особого Назначения) it abbreviates to OMOH. There's no end of [[https://i.imgur.com/qfYnGSn.png mirrored photos]] of them floating around the internet for [[CrossCulturalKerfluffle English speakers to poke fun at]].
692* [[Music/SkinnyPuppy Nivek Ogre]]. First name is Kevin backwards.
693* A small street in Annapolis, MD bears the name Silopanna Road.
694* The actor [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0871636/ Robert Trebor]]. Trebor is best known as Salmoneus in both ''Series/HerculesTheLegendaryJourneys'' and ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess''.
695* Lots of places in Nebraska named Aksarben. [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ak-Sar-Ben Ak-Sar-Ben arena and racetrack]] started it. (Stress is on the middle syllable.)
696* Just South of Sioux City, there is an Atokad Park, Located in Dakota County, Nebraska
697* While not named after the State, there is a town in Texas called Reklaw named after the founder, whose last name was Walker. There is also a gun show in Austin called the Saxet Gun Show.
698* Another actor and former Fall bass player, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steve_Evets Steve]] [[http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0263740/ Evets]] (ne Murphy).
699* There are two different Canadian communities called Adanac, both in the province of Ontario. Pluralized, it's the name of a lacrosse team in Coquitlam, British Columbia, and there's also the Adanac Military Commonwealth War Graves Commission Cemetery in northeastern France.
700* Inva Mula, the women who sang "The Diva Dance" from ''Film/TheFifthElement'', first name is her father's name (Avni) backwards.
701* Napoleon's sister Caroline married Joachim Murat, who in 1808 became king of Naples (Italian: Napoli), but lost his throne and his life in 1815 when he rashly went to war in support of his brother-in-law. For the rest of her life, Caroline Murat went by the title of Countess Lipona, a syllabic inversion of "Napoli" (which works better for Italian in any case).
702* Cornish Yarg cheese was created by Allan and Jenny Gray.
703* The most popular (though likely apocryphal) explanation for how the town of Levan, Utah got its name is that it's "navel" spelled backwards (because it's in the center of the state).
704* The names of certain physical units for quantities that are the reciprocal (that is, one divided by) other quantities are the names of the units of the latter quantities spelled backwards: examples include the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mho mho]] (the unit of electric conductance, from "ohm", the unit of electrical resistance), the yrneh and the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daraf daraf.]] (Note, however, that scientists tend to eschew such levity and use other names for these units; for example, the mho is called the [[HehHehYouSaidX siemens]].)
705* There's even ''a whole dialect'' of this trope in East Java, called the ''Malangan'' dialect (named after its origin region, Malang). It's a lot like a East Javanese, but some of the words are in fact reversed words of the language. Naturally it leads to HehHehYouSaidX and HilarityEnsues situations. Some examples:
706** ''kera'', from Javanese ''arek'', which means something akin to 'boyz' in English. [[spoiler: ''Kera'' in Indonesian means ape.]]
707** ''kunam'', from Javanese ''manuk'', which means 'bird' in English. [[spoiler: 'Manuk' is the Javanese slang for male genitalia.]]
708* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Ortsac Operation Ortsac.]] Yes, the plan to invade Cuba was named Castro, spelled backwards.
709* The Enola Gay, the infamous bomber that dropped the A-Bomb, was named after the commanding pilot's Colonel Paul K.Tibbets's mother Enola Gay Tibbets, as Col. Tibbets wanted the plane's name to be unique. Which is kind of strange considering what Enola spelled backwards is.
710** "Enola Gay" was a character in a novel, "Enola; or her Fatal Mistake," by Mary Young Ridenbaugh (1866) that was popular in the US shortly before Tibbets' mother was born. The title character is well aware of the origin of her name.
711* Ambulance labels are particular variations of this for drivers to read it properly in their rear view mirrors.
712* In Fairfax, Virginia, there is a street by the name of "Derosnec Drive". No idea why they chose that word to reverse though.
713* Two points on the Denver and Salt Lake line - the Moffat Road, in Colorado: Dotsero, where the lines to Tennessee Pass and the Moffat Tunnel diverge, and Orestod, a point near Bond where the Denver and Rio Grande Western merged with the D&SL.
714* The group Creator/TeamStarkid constantly refer to an evil group called the 'Dikrats'.
715* This Sdrawkcab Name is a Sollasac Name: Comic artist Eman Casallos signs his art with "Name".
716* Retlaw, the company that owned the monorails for the Ride/DisneyThemeParks.
717* The Chicago, Burlington, and Quincy Railroad once ran a streamlined train from Lincoln, Nebraska to named the Ak-Sar-Ben Zephyr. It was originally eastbound only, running the reverse route of the Nebraska Zephyr.
718* Champion Aircraft cheated a bit. Their [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citabria Citabria]] is aerobatic, not really airbatic.
719* Frank Bunker Gilbreth cheated too, but less ("th" is one letter in Greek, and one phoneme anyway) with his [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therblig "Therbligs".]]
720* In the Apollo program, the navigation computer was programmed to recognize certain stars. Most of them had names in the Western vernacular (Sirius, Vega, Procyon, etc.), but three did not. Gus Grissom of Apollo 1, as a practical joke, gave them names according to this trope: "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Cassiopeiae Navi]]" (after Grissom's own middle name), "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iota_Ursae_Majoris Dnoces]]" (for Ed White II, who happened to be the second-in-command), and "[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma_Velorum Regor]]" (for Roger Chaffee). The stars--and names--were used often to align the Apollo spacecrafts' navigation platforms. It wasn't until ''after'' the Apollo missions that the source of the names was made clear.
721* The codec Divx. Forget all allusions of "divide" or even ∇x - the "div" part is simply vid(eo) backwards. (Xvid, turning it in the right direction again, comes even later.)
722* "Mynona" is the pseudonym of Salomo Friedlaender. ("Anonym" backwards, duh)
723* "Assiac" is the pseudonym of Heinrich Fraenkel. (He's a chess book author - Caissa is the muse of chess.)[[note]]Invented as late as 1763, so don't expect to find her in Greek mythology.[[/note]]
724* [[http://www.arxiv.org ArXiv]], the big science preprint server, of course has a policy against cranks and crackpots, lest being flooded by garbage. Now clearly one mans crackpot is another mans Einstein, and this spawned its counterpart where no peer review whatsoever is required: [[http://www.vixra.org ViXra.]]
725* There's a "language" called [[http://home.comcast.net/~mathwhiz217/shilgnesdrawkabcnavdair.html Shilgne S'drawkab C'navdair]], which consists of English words spelled backwards, with grammatical endings attached (''Shilgne S'drawkab C'navdair'' is "Advanced Backwards English"). This was based in part on actual backwards slang-languages like [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Verlan Verlan]] and Rechtub Klat.
726* The German Panzer (tank) "Leo", allegedly, in a political joke, at the time when it was sold to the Saudis. Backwards you get "Oel", oil, and that was the purpose of the sale.
727* The Gnaborretni is an upside-down interrobang which even is present in Unicode as U+2E18. [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interrobang#Inverted_interrobang See the Other Wiki for its use.]]
728* Fetish artist "Eneg" (Gene Bilbrew) simply reversed his first name.
729* Brazilian dubber Ronaldo Artinic, whose stage surname is his given one, Cintra, backwards (though he added an "I" to it at some point, specially as it doesn't change the pronounciation).
730* Chicago Cubs broadcaster Harry Carey was fond of trying to pronounce players' names backwards during slow parts of ballgames.
731* Math typesetting: The "Xits" font is "Stix" font plus math symbols. Good to use with [[FunWithPalindromes ΧƎΤΕΧ]].
732* One company that used to own Arby's franchises in Michigan and neighboring states was named "Sybra".
733* One of Creator/DrSeuss' other pen names was "Theo [=LeSieg=]", which comes from his real name, Theodor Seuss Geisel.
734* A satirical 1956 page on anthropology talked about the Nacirema tribe, which many people fell for who didn't know it was "American" spelled backwards.
735* [[https://www.ragus.co.uk/home/ Ragus Sugars]] supply sugar products for the catering industry. Need a bucketful of Invert Sugar Syrup [=OL82=]? They can sort you out!
736* A joke goes that Evian (a brand of bottled water) is "Naive" spelled backwards, as in people would pay money for bottled water. This is just a coincidence as it was named after the town Evian-les-Bains.
737* Estimated scientists sometimes use this trope for not hiding authorship, but avoiding PoesLaw at all cost. Take e.g. math professor Nats Wolraf (who was involved in the legendary "Piffles", although under his real name then).
738* The name of the Langorf hotel in London is the reverse of the street it stands on, Frognal.
739* [[https://untappd.com/b/shanghai-asia-pacific-brewery-co-ltd-reeb-beer/8593 Reeb]], a Shanghai brand of beer.
740* Composer Philip Heseltine (1894-1930) edited the book ''Merry-Go-Down, A Gallery Of Gorgeous Drunkards Through The Ages'' [[PenName under the name]] "Rab Noolas".
741* Efilism, a radical form of antinatalism that assigns a negative value to birth of all sentient species, takes its name from reversing the letters in "life" for its first four letters.
742* Creator/{{Arika}} is founded by Akira Nishitani who, along with Akira Yasuda, co-created ''Videogame/StreetFighterII'' (hence the company's foundation in 1995 by ex-Creator/{{Capcom}} employees). The company's name is Nishitani's given name written backwards.
743* Funspot, the large retro arcade in Laconia, New Hampshire, has a dragon mascot named "Topsnuf".
744* After the sinking of the Titanic in 1912, survivor J. Bruce Ismay, who was chairman and managing director of the White Star Line, sent telegrams to his company signed Yamsi. It was his surname Ismay written backwards.
745* Cosmetic brand [[https://www.lorac.com/ Lorac]], founded by makeup artist Carol Shaw.
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