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| 6 | The standard fandom term for using a real person's name in a story as a form of in-joke or ShoutOut. It's derived from the science fiction writer Wilson Tucker, well-known for doing this. |
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| 8 | It isn't always a famous person, either: sometimes a writer will use the names of friends (or enemies). Famous writers, including Creator/StephenKing and Creator/TerryPratchett, have been known to offer their readers a chance to be tuckerized, either as [[ContestWinnerCameo the prize in a competition]] or as part of a charity auction. Characters created under these circumstances have a tendency to suffer a form of DeathByCameo. Sometimes falls into ThemeNaming (including ShoutOutThemeNaming, NamedAfterSomebodyFamous, and FamousNamedForeigner), MemorialCharacter, and WriteWhoYouKnow. |
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| 10 | See also ImMrFuturePopCultureReference (the TimeTravel variant), TributeToFido (the animal version) and TheDanza (characters who take their names from the actors who portray them). Opposite is NoCelebritiesWereHarmed. |
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| 12 | !!Examples: |
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| 16 | [[folder:Anime & Manga]] |
| 17 | * ''Manga/BusoRenkin'': The author, Creator/NobuhiroWatsuki, named the series' main character, Kazuki Muto after Creator/KazukiTakahashi, with his surname coming from Yugi Muto, the main character of Takahashi's most famous work, ''Manga/YuGiOh''. |
| 18 | * ''Anime/CardfightVanguard'': Lead character Aichi Sendou is named for the show's production company, Aichi Television. |
| 19 | * The team dubbing ''Anime/DigimonAdventure'' reportedly had a hard time translating the name of a Franchise/{{Digimon}} originally known as Plotmon. Instead of making an educated guess, the producer, Terri-Lei O'Malley, decided to rename it after her pet cat, and the digimon thus became known as Salamon. Hilariously, the digimon turned out to be a dog, not a kitten as the producer had assumed based on its evolved form, Tailmon. |
| 20 | ** Miyako's dub name "Yolei" was partially derived from Terri-''Lei'', with the first part coming from the initial considered name of "Kyo" (which Miyako can also be rendered as). |
| 21 | * Dr. Mashirito, Sembei Norimaki's nemesis in ''Manga/DoctorSlump'', is named after Toriyama's editor Kazuhiko Torishima, "Mashirito" being an anagram of Torishima. |
| 22 | * The monster from the [[Anime/WrathOfTheDragon 13th]] ''Anime/DragonBallZ'' [[Anime/WrathOfTheDragon movie]], Hirudegarn, was apparently named after the film's animation supervisor whose name was Hiruda. Apparently, when he saw the design for the thing his jaw dropped, an expression characterized in Japanese with the onomatopoeia "[[UnsoundEffect GAAN]]." |
| 23 | * When ''Anime/MagicalPrincessMinkyMomo'' was being adapted for an international release by Harmony Gold, it was decided to rename Momo "Gigi", after the associate producer Jehan "Gigi" Agrama. |
| 24 | * ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamSEED'' has Erica Simmons, named after Mark Simmons, a fan turned PromotedFanboy when Bandai America hired him to help with the localization of the ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'' franchise. Erica is a mobile suit engineer, likely a nod to Mark's old website Gundam Project, which featured detailed mobile suit profiles and hand-drawn lineart. |
| 25 | ** Earlier than that, in ''Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam'' background materials mentioned versions of the series' actual production artists working as mobile suit engineers at Anaheim electronics, though the only mention this gets in the series proper is their model numbers (for example, the prefix in the MSN-00100 Hyaku Shiki's number stands for '''M'''obile '''S'''uit '''N'''agano, after mecha designer Mamoru Nagano, rather than the earlier Zeon '''M'''obile '''S'''uit '''N'''ewtype from the original series). |
| 26 | * ''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'': |
| 27 | ** Ash from the anime. His original Japanese name is Satoshi, after the creator of the ''Franchise/{{Pokemon}}'' games, Satoshi Tajiri; some have hypothesised that "Ash" is in turn a contraction of "Satoshi". |
| 28 | ** Gary was originally named Shigeru after Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto, the game director and {{creator|s}} of such Creator/{{Nintendo}} mascots as [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Mario]], VideoGame/DonkeyKong, and [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Link]]. Probably both a poke and a tribute, as their game series are rivals and Miyamoto mentored Tajiri early in ''Pokémon'''s production. |
| 29 | ** In addition, Ash's rival Ritchie in the Indigo League tournament was named "Hiroshi" in Japanese after (now former) Nintendo president Hiroshi Yamauchi. |
| 30 | ** In the original Japanese version of ''Anime/Pokemon3'', Molly is called Mii, the nickname Creator/TakeshiShudo gave his own daughter. |
| 31 | * ''Manga/SailorMoon'': Usagi Tsukino's family members were designed after and named for author Creator/NaokoTakeuchi's actual family members. The jewelry store owned by the Osakas has an in-universe explanation for the store's name, OSA-P, but out of universe, the store was named for Fumio Osano, Takeuchi's editor at Kodansha and a good friend whom she nicknamed Osa-P. |
| 32 | * An InUniverse example combined with WriteWhoYouKnow in ''Manga/StoryOfADumbPrefectAndHighSchoolGirlWithInappropriateSkirtLength'': [[YaoiFangirl Tasaki]]'s BL manga stars superpowered versions of Izubuchi and Sakuradaimon fighting their [[EvilTwin evil doppelgangers]]. |
| 33 | * ''Anime/VoltesV'': |
| 34 | ** Tako is named after the nickname Tadao Nagahama was often called as a child. It doubles a pun, since [[ADogNamedDog Tako is an octopus]]. |
| 35 | ** Professor Hamaguchi's name is taken from Tadao Naga''hama'' (the creator of the Anime/RobotRomanceTrilogy) and and Shoichi Ta''guchi'' (the screenplay writer for ''Voltes V''). |
| 36 | * There's a character named Shigeru Kanmuri in ''Manga/YakitateJapan''. The author's editor's name? Shigeru Kanmuri. |
| 37 | * Doronjo's rarely heard true name (Hiroko Sasegawa) comes from Hiro''shi'' Sasegawa, the series director for ''Anime/{{Yatterman}}'' and the rest of the ''Anime/TimeBokan'' franchise. |
| 38 | * Reportedly, Sky Dragon of Osiris was renamed "Slifer the Sky Dragon" in the ''Anime/YuGiOh'' dub, as well as in the official translation of the manga, as a nod to [[Creator/FourKidsEntertainment 4Kids]] director Roger Slifer.[[note]]The same Roger Slifer who was a writer on the various Hasbro-based Sunbow/Marvel Productions series in the 1980s.[[/note]] |
| 39 | ** Played with in ''WebVideo/YuGiOhTheAbridgedSeries'', which calls the dragon "Slifer the Executive Producer.". |
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| 42 | [[folder:Comic Books]] |
| 43 | * ''ComicBook/AllNewAllDifferentAvengers'' Annual had various writers and artists inserted as fanfic writers and fan artists [[https://2.bp.blogspot.com/BeXysITNOfcxmnl6WLduRV0G-YfuEsRSnHjAoKmKmiU9gUKXsvzIguJ7SUHSfIbBIjEgb0WGDax-=s0 of freakingawesome.com]]. |
| 44 | * ''ComicBook/TheAtom'': Ray Palmer is a reference to the Golden Age science fiction writer. |
| 45 | * Creator/MarvelComics frequently uses names like "Marv" (Creator/MarvWolfman) and "Stan" (Creator/StanLee) for extras in various comics. |
| 46 | * ''ComicBook/{{Spawn}}'': Todd [=McFarlane=] named almost all character after everybody he knew. He got into trouble when he did this without the permission of St. Louis Blues enforcer Tony Twist. |
| 47 | * ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'' storyline "ComicBook/StarfiresRevenge": The titular crimelady has two mook brothers called Derek and Rodney, named after Delboy and Rodney Trotter from ''Series/OnlyFoolsAndHorses''. |
| 48 | * ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'': In Pre-Crisis continuity, Jor-El's father was named Jor-El also. Post-Crisis, as shown in the ''World of Krypton'' miniseries, Jor-El's father, and thus Superman's grandfather, is now named [[Creator/JerrySiegelAndJoeShuster Seyg-El]]. It remains unknown if Supes' maternal grandfather was named Shuz-Ter or somesuch. |
| 49 | * ''ComicBook/BatmanSupermanWorldsFinest'': David Sikela, aka the Boy Thunder, is named after Superboy writer John Sikela, as a nod to his being a Superman sidekick with similar powers to him... [[spoiler: And to disguise the fact that he is actually a younger version of ComicBook/KingdomCome's Magog, known in the mainline Earth as David ''Reid''.]] |
| 50 | * ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'': |
| 51 | ** In Gotham City, nearly every street, building, park, subway stop, landmark, topographical feature, bridge, shanty, lean-to, or other edifice will be named after previous Batman artists, in the instances where they're not named after Gotham City itself. For example, Martha Wayne's maiden name is Kane, as in Bob Kane, Batman's co-creator. |
| 52 | ** The third ComicBook/{{Robin}} Tim Drake is named after Tim Burton. |
| 53 | * ''ComicBook/XMen'': |
| 54 | ** John Byrne named Kitty Pryde for an art-school classmate, though it was because he thought the name was cool rather than as an inside joke. The actual Kitty Pryde reportedly hates the attention she gets for her name, to the point where [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140603064000/http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2006/03/16/comic-book-urban-legends-revealed-42/2/ she eventually changed it to “K.D. Pryde”]]. |
| 55 | ** Creator/ChrisClaremont named Madelyne Pryor, the Jean Grey clone, after Maddy Prior of the band Music/SteeleyeSpan. |
| 56 | ** Claremont also named the M-Squad (like the Ghostbusters, but for mutants) after some of his fellow ''Literature/WildCards'' writers: Dr Creator/MelindaSnodgrass, Dr Creator/LewisShiner, Dr Creator/VictorMilan, and of course, Dr [[Creator/GeorgeRRMartin George Martin]]. |
| 57 | ** Claremont again: Because the start of the Dark Phoenix storyline was a WholePlotReference of an old Avengers (the old TV show, that is) episode, Mastermind was given the real name/[[ContinuitySnarl pseudonym]] of "Jason Wyngarde", after Peter Wyngarde and the character he played there, Jason King. Then, there was Sebastian Shaw, from Robert Shaw, Donald Sutherland from Donald Pierce, etc. All of the members of the Hellfire club references the names of actors or their roles. |
| 58 | ** When Rogue’s real name was revealed she was named Anna after Creator/AnnaPaquin who played her in the Film/XMen films |
| 59 | * From the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'', Sue Storm is named after Creator/JackKirby’s daughter and Ben Grimm is named after Creator/StanLee's brother. |
| 60 | * Courtney "ComicBook/{{Stargirl|DCComics}}" Whitmore is named after Geoff Johns's deceased sister, Courtney Johns. |
| 61 | * ''ComicBook/GreenLantern'': Guy Gardner is named after legendary comics creator Gardner Fox (and some fan or another, according to Website/TheOtherWiki.) |
| 62 | * Gardner Grayle, The Atomic Knight is named after comic writer Gardner Fox. |
| 63 | * Paul Gambi, the underworld tailor who designs costumes for Franchise/TheFlash's RoguesGallery is named after DJ and comics fan Paul Gambaccini. |
| 64 | * ''ComicBook/WonderWoman'': |
| 65 | ** During the Golden Age Marston and his female cowriters introduced a one-off character named Olive. His domestic partner and inspiration for elements of Wonder Woman was named Mary Olive Byrne, and used Olive Richard as her PenName. |
| 66 | ** ''ComicBook/WonderWoman1987'': |
| 67 | *** The supporting cast of Creator/GeorgePerez's run are [[http://www.supanova.com.au/media/podcasts/george-perezs-melbourne-2010-podcast/ somewhat]] named after friends of his. He was going to name a villain after his friend Ed Indelicato, but was persuaded to name a cop after Ed instead. Ed the character hung around after Perez left the book, until Wondy left Boston. |
| 68 | *** Creator/JohnByrne named ComicBook/WonderGirl Cassandra Sandsmark after his friend Joanna Sandsmark. Later Joanna would get to write Cassie in ''Wonder Woman Secret Files and Origins'' #1. |
| 69 | * Brazilian artist Maurício de Sousa did this to many characters in ''ComicBook/MonicasGang'' (due to them [[WriteWhoYouKnow being based on people he met]] -- one of his daughters became the title character). |
| 70 | * The main character of ''ComicBook/KickAss'' was named by the winner of a contest, who chose his own name, essentially Tuckerizing himself. |
| 71 | * ''ComicBook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew'' encountered a retired comic book artist named ''Gardener'' Fox after aforementioned comics creator Gardner Fox. (And, obviously, [[SpeciesSurname he's a fox]]. They find him [[WorldOfPun in his garden. Raising foxgloves.]]). Gardener Fox then proceeds to outline a theory of alternate dimensions originally devised by his namesake. |
| 72 | * ''ComicBook/ManThing'': Dakimh the Enchanter, who was introduced as a supporting character in the same storyline that introduced us to ComicBook/HowardTheDuck, has a name that is a complex version of this. David Anthony Kraft would help Creator/SteveGerber plot his issues when he was pressed for time, and so out of gratitude, he gave this character a name that's short for "[[FunWithAcronyms David Anthony Kraft Is My Hero]]". |
| 73 | * Creator/DougMoench has gone on record stating that he does this, often naming characters after his friends. This resulted in Moon Knight retroactively becoming Jewish: when deciding what ComicBook/MoonKnight's secret identity would be, he remembered a friend named Marc Spector and decided to use it as it sounded cool and fit the character. Later, Moench was informed that real Spector was Jewish, so he made the fictional Spector Jewish. |
| 74 | * In ''ComicBook/PS238'' there's a villain named Von Fogg who flies around in an airship and wears a helmet shaped like a bowler hat. Comics artist Phil Foglio wears a bowler at all his public appearances, and his comics imprint is called Airship Entertainment. (See Webcomics below for the flip side.) |
| 75 | * ComicBook/SheHulk worked for a time in the superhero-representing TheLawFirmOfPunPunAndWordplay of Goodman [[note]]Martin Goodman, Stan Lee's uncle and the original publisher of Atlas, which was later renamed Marvel[[/note]], [[Creator/StanLee Lieber]], [[Creator/JackKirby Kurtzberg]] and Holliway. Of the four senior members, the only one that appears in person, Holden Holliway, is also the only one who is truly fictional. |
| 76 | * Issue 2 of the ''ComicBook/{{My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic|IDW}}'' comic features a cave troll named Jim, who was [[https://twitter.com/katiecandraw/status/245733313220861954 named]] [[https://twitter.com/katiecandraw/status/245877567113011200 after]] [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic show]] storyboard supervisor "Big" Jim Miller. |
| 77 | * ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'' has Billy Batson's father, Clarence Charles Batson V, named after Clarence Charles Beck, or C.C. Beck, who co-created Captain Marvel. |
| 78 | * Creator/StanLee himself is on the record as once (at least half-jokingly) stating that one perk of being a comic book writer is that if you don't like somebody, you can always name a villain after them. |
| 79 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': Transporter chief Sara Tuchinsky, from Peter David's run on Creator/DCComics' second volume, was named for an assistant editor over at Creator/MarvelComics. |
| 80 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': |
| 81 | ** Carlie Cooper is named after Creator/JoeQuesada's daughter. |
| 82 | ** J.M. [=DeMatteis=] named supporting character Ashley Kafka after (and inspired by) therapeutic hypnotist Frayda Kafka. She doesn't have a problem with the character, though she ''does'' have a problem with that character [[ComicBook/TheAmazingSpiderManDanSlott being killed off]] and [[Film/TheAmazingSpiderMan2 being made into an evil male]] MadScientist. |
| 83 | * ''ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogArchieComics'' has had a few instances of this. |
| 84 | ** Mina Mongoose was named after Karl Bollers' late grandmother Minerva. |
| 85 | ** Ben "Mutt" Muttski is rumored to be named after the late Ben Hurst, one of the writers of the ''WesternAnimation/SonicTheHedgehogSatAM'' cartoon. |
| 86 | ** Hershey the Cat was named after a cat owned by Ken Penders' son. |
| 87 | * Creator/AndreFranquin named ComicBook/GastonLagaffe after his own grandfather, who reportedly took offense at it. |
| 88 | * Materials physicist James Kakalios wrote a piece for ''Hollywood Chemistry'' suggesting that Thor's hammer contains nanotech that scans those who try to lift it for "worthiness", and uses gravitons to increase its mass if they're not. He discussed this with Creator/MarkWaid, who promptly had Bruce Banner discuss the theory in ''ComicBook/IndestructibleHulk'', citing Kakalios. |
| 89 | * Watch the sound effects in ''ComicBook/SwampThing''. Several of them are disguised references to various production staff-- "BSST" for Stephen Bissette, "TTLBN" for John Totleben. |
| 90 | * After Ostrander took over ''ComicBook/{{Starslayer}}'', a number of the newer characters (for example, Chris Heyman) were named for people he knew. This would be even more prevalent in the ComicBook/{{Grimjack}} spinoff. |
| 91 | * ''Franchise/TheFlash'': |
| 92 | ** Zoom, the second Reverse-Flash, real name Hunter Zolomon, was created by Geoff Johns and named after frequent collaborator Ethan Van Sciver's son, Hunter Zalman Van Sciver. Ethan has joked that, once Zoom was adapted for ''Series/TheFlash2014'', his son's friends joke about it and it confuses the him. |
| 93 | ** ''ComicBook/TheFlashInfiniteFrontier'': |
| 94 | *** In-universe, Linda wrote a book where many characters have names based on people she knows, including her current husband Wally (Billy West), her ex-husband Rick, and several of Wally's enemies (namely one members of Billy's crew being named after Captain Cold and Pied Piper, and the villain being named after Abra Kadabra). |
| 95 | *** [[spoiler:While the spelling is different, Wade was named after definitive ''Flash'' writer, Creator/MarkWaid.]] |
| 96 | ** The Flash of the 27th Century, John Fox, is named after John Broome, who co-created Barry Allen and Wally West, and Gardner Fox, who co-created Jay Garrick. |
| 97 | * ''ComicBook/StarTrekDebtOfHonor'': The minor character Diane Morwood is named for ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'' writer Creator/DianeDuane and her husband and occasional co-author Peter Morwood. |
| 98 | * ''ComicBook/LegendsOfTheDeadEarth'': |
| 99 | ** In ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}: Shadow of the Bat'' Annual #4, Finger City is named after Batman's co-creator Creator/BillFinger. |
| 100 | ** In ''ComicBook/ThePowerOfShazam'' Annual #1, [=CeCe=] Beck is named after Captain Marvel's co-creator Clarence Charles "C.C." Beck while her home planet Binderaan is named after prolific Marvel Family writer Otto Binder. |
| 101 | * ''ComicBook/SpiderMan2099'' creator Creator/PeterDavid was friends with actor Creator/MiguelFerrer and revealed after Ferrer's passing that lead character Miguel O'Hara was named after him. |
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| 104 | [[folder:Comic Strips]] |
| 105 | * Crossing over with WriteWhoYouKnow, Richard F. Outcault named ComicStrip/BusterBrown's sweetheart Mary Jane after his daughter. She would also eventually lend her name to a style of children's shoes worn by both her namesake character as well as Buster. |
| 106 | * As revealed in the footnotes in the ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes Tenth Anniversary Book'', C&H are both named for philosophers. Susie Derkins was named for a beagle that belonged to Bill Watterson's wife's family, and Miss Wormwood was named for a character of the same name from ''Literature/TheScrewtapeLetters.'' |
| 107 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' is named after Jim Davis' grandfather. |
| 108 | * ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' -- Charles "Sparky" Schulz named his two characters, Charlie Brown and Linus Van Pelt, after his two co-workers at the correspondence art school he worked at, although Charlie Brown quickly became semi-autobiographical, including references to his (illiterate) father the barber. The unnamed Little Red Haired Girl, whom Charlie Brown could never get the courage to meet, is based on a young woman who rejected Sparky's affection. |
| 109 | * ''Pogo'': The boats in which the characters ride are often named after Walt Kelly's friends. |
| 110 | [[/folder]] |
| 111 | |
| 112 | [[folder:Fan Works]] |
| 113 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'' story, ''Fanfic/CourtneyAndTheViolinOfDespair'', the orchestra conductors at Courtney's school and the All Province Orchestra are named after nationally acclaimed band directors whom the author played under in high school and college, respectively. |
| 114 | * Several characters in ''Fanfic/{{Dangerverse}}'' are named after its fans, or the author's friends and family. |
| 115 | * Natalie [=McDonald=] in ''Fanfic/DumbledoresArmyAndTheYearOfDarkness'', a real girl whom Rowling cameoed in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire Goblet of Fire]]'' (see below). So, basically, she is here as a cameo of a cameo. It's worth noting that she's basically there to die during the final battle... while her namesake died of cancer in real life before ''Goblet'' came out. |
| 116 | * In ''Fanfic/{{Empathy}}'', [[WesternAnimation/BigHero6 Wasabi and Honey Lemon]] are {{named|ByTheAdaptation}} Darron Waylans and Pamela Rodriguez, based on their respective voice actors, Damon Wayans and Genesis Rodriguez. |
| 117 | * Creator/EliezerYudkowsky, the author of ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheMethodsOfRationality'', offers small cameos as a thank-you to FanArt artists of his fic. He also gives them shout-outs in his Author Notes, [[http://hpmor.com/notes/chapter-79/ e.g. in his notes on chapter 79]]. |
| 118 | * ''Fanfic/LeagueOfExtraordinaryGentlemenTempestRewrite'': Dennis Brennan, the grandson of four of the Seven Stars, is named after British comics creators Dennis M. Reader and Paddy Brennan. |
| 119 | * ''Fanfic/NewTamaran'': Jump City Police Commissioner Slack is named after ''WesternAnimation/TeenTitans2003'' writer/producer David Slack. |
| 120 | * In L-Dog Z's ''Spider-Man Evolution'' series all minor {{mook}}s that are not pre-existing comic book characters are named after comic book writers, basically combining this trope with TakeThat (although they're also (fan) {{Canon Immigrant}}s from the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' film adaptation). |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
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| 123 | [[folder:Films — Animation]] |
| 124 | * Razoul from ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' was named after Rasoul Azadani, Disney's layout supervisor. |
| 125 | * Fievel[[note]]Initially spelled "correctly" in the opening credits as "Feivel"[[/note]] Mousekewitz from ''WesternAnimation/AnAmericanTail'' was named after Creator/StevenSpielberg's grandfather. |
| 126 | * The Goth Kid from ''WesternAnimation/TheBookOfLife'''s real name is Luka Ramirez. His first name is the name of Jorge Gutierrez's son. |
| 127 | * Lightning [=McQueen=], the hero of the ''Franchise/{{Cars}}'' series, is named after the late [[Creator/PixarRegulars Pixar regular Glenn McQueen]]. |
| 128 | * In the MadeForTVMovie ''WesternAnimation/TheElectricPiper'', an animated musical set in the late '60s, the main characters are named Janice, Mick, and Sly (if you don't get it, your parents will). |
| 129 | * Darla, from ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'', is named after [[Creator/PixarRegulars Pixar staff member]] Darla K. Anderson. |
| 130 | * Four of the main characters in ''WesternAnimation/{{Frozen|2013}}'' -- Hans, Kristoff, Anna, and Sven -- are all named after Creator/HansChristianAndersen, the author of ''Literature/TheSnowQueen'', of which the movie is a loose inspiration. When said together quickly in sequence ("Hans Kristoff Annasven"), their names sound remarkably similar to "Hans Christian Andersen". |
| 131 | * Two of the gargoyles from Disney's ''WesternAnimation/{{The Hunchback of Notre Dame|Disney}}'' are named Victor and Hugo ([[Creator/VictorHugo after the author of the book on which the film was based]]), respectively. As an in-joke, the third gargoyle was named Laverne, after Laverne Sophia of Music/TheAndrewsSisters. |
| 132 | * ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunesRabbitsRun'': The theatre showing ''Looney Tunes: Rabbits Run'' is named after producer and director Jeff Siergy. |
| 133 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MonstersInc1'', the Scare Floor's leaderboard shows that, aside from the main characters, all but one of the Scarers are named after [[Creator/PixarRegulars staff members at Pixar.]] |
| 134 | * The Fa family ancestors from ''WesternAnimation/{{Mulan}}'' are all named after the film's cast and crew. |
| 135 | * Ben from ''WesternAnimation/SongOfTheSea'' is named after director Tomm Moore's own son. |
| 136 | * The RLS Legacy starship from ''WesternAnimation/TreasurePlanet'' was named after Robert Louis Stevenson, the writer of ''Literature/TreasureIsland''. |
| 137 | * In Ralph Bakshi's ''WesternAnimation/{{Wizards}}'', a spell is cast with the magic words "frazetta krenkel morrow" for the artists Frank Frazetta, Roy Krenkel, and Gray Morrow. |
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| 140 | [[folder:Films — Live-Action]] |
| 141 | * ''Film/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'': When Boris goes to seek treatment for a head injury, signage on the medical center labels it the "J Ward", an obvious reference to the original cartoon's creator Jay Ward. |
| 142 | * In ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', Captain Willard is given an assignment by Lt. Gen. Corman and Col. Lucas, named for director Francis Ford Coppola's mentor Roger Corman and his protege George Lucas. Bonus points for the fact that Col. Lucas is played by Creator/HarrisonFord. |
| 143 | * ''Film/BackToTheFuture1'' writer/director Robert Zemeckis named the character Jennifer Parker in honor of famed injury attorney Larry H. Parker's daughter as he was instrumental in settling a copyright infringement suit in favor of him. |
| 144 | * In ''Film/BatmanReturns'', one of the bad guys is named Max Shreck, after horror actor Max Schreck, noted for his role in ''Film/{{Nosferatu}}''-- Shreck is metaphorically a "vampire" who sucks electrical energy from Gotham City for his own ends. |
| 145 | ** At the end of ''Film/BatmanForever'', Dr. Chase Meridian speaks to Edward Nygma and mentions an Arkham Asylum psychiatrist named "Dr. Burton," named after producer Creator/TimBurton. |
| 146 | * The villain in the 1934 film ''Film/TheBlackCat'' is called Hjalmar Poelzig. According to himself, in 1920 director Edgar G. Ulmer worked with architect [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_Poelzig Hans Poelzig]] on the set of Paul Wegener’s film ''Film/TheGolem''. Also, Hjalmar Poelzig happens to be an architect as well. |
| 147 | * ''Film/TheCableGuy'': though we never learn the actual name of the titular character (who has watched entirely too much television), we hear several TV-related pseudonyms he has gone by, including (but not limited to) [[Series/MyThreeSons Chip Douglas]], [[Series/{{Bewitched}} Larry Tate]], [[Series/{{Bewitched}} Darrin Stephens]], and [[WesternAnimation/TheJetsons George Jetson]]. |
| 148 | * A prominent criminal in the ''Film/{{Daredevil}}'' film is named [[Creator/JoeQuesada Jose Quesada]] [[note]] A fact that has become HilariousInHindsight after some... "controversial" decisions that Quesada made as Editor-In-Chief of Marvel[[/note]], one of Matt Murdock's clients is a "[[Creator/StanLee Mr. Lee"]] who pays for his legal fees in fish, there's a forensic examiner named [[Creator/JackKirby "Kirby"]], and Jack Murdock fights various boxers named [[Creator/FrankMiller "Miller"]], "Mack", [[Creator/BrianMichaelBendis "Bendis"]], and "John Romita". Really, that film loved this trope. |
| 149 | * Raimi and Savini in ''Film/TheDeadNextDoor'', after ''Franchise/EvilDead'' director Creator/SamRaimi and ''Film/DawnOfTheDead1978'' effects artist and actor Creator/TomSavini. |
| 150 | * In ''Film/DogSoldiers'' one of the squaddies is called Bruce Campbell, after the star of the ''Franchise/EvilDead'' films which influenced the film. Not to mention [[Creator/HGWells Sgt. Harry G. Wells]]. |
| 151 | * In the ''Film/{{Doom}}'' movie, the chief scientist is named Todd Carmack, after Creator/JohnCarmack, the lead programmer of Creator/{{id Software}} and possibly the company's CEO Todd Hollenshead. The protagonist is named "John," which could be a reference to id's most famous founders: John Carmack and Creator/JohnRomero. |
| 152 | * ''Film/{{Fido}}'' is set in the fictional town of Stanley, named after the setting of ''Film/NightOfTheLivingDead1968''. |
| 153 | * In the movie adaptation of ''Film/FightClub'', the three detectives interviewing the Narrator as he spills the beans on Project Mayhem are Detective Andrew, Detective Kevin, and Detective Walker. Andrew Kevin Walker wrote the script for the David Fincher movie Film/{{Se7en}} as well as doing some uncredited rewrites on the ''Fight Club'' script. |
| 154 | * Pretty much everyone in the ''Franchise/FinalDestination'' is one big ShoutOut to some influential horror director or another; for instance, the teacher in [[Film/FinalDestination1 the first movie]] is named after Val Lewton, who did ''Cat People''[[note]]This seems perverse, since Lewton very much took the NothingIsScarier approach to horror, and the Final Destination films... ''don't.''[[/note]]. In fact, this kind of thing seems to be fairly common in horror movies. So, if you don't want a tribute of you to feature the bloody death and dismemberment of your namesake, don't become a horror director. |
| 155 | * The evil General Sarris in ''Film/GalaxyQuest'' is named for film critic Andrew Sarris, who had given director Dean Parisot negative reviews in the past. |
| 156 | * Matthew Broderick's character Niko "Nick" Tatopoulos in the 1998 ''Film/{{Godzilla|1998}}'' remake is named after creature designer Patrick Tatopoulos's [[GenderBlenderName daughter]]. |
| 157 | * ''Film/Godzilla2014'': Dr. Ishiro Serizawa's first name is a tribute to Creator/IshiroHonda, the director of the original ''[[Film/{{Gojira}} Godzilla]]'' and the acknowledged creator of Godzilla. Though there was also a Dr. Serizawa in the original, his first name was "Daisuke". This also serves to differentiate the two characters as they have very different ideologies. |
| 158 | * The main character of ''Film/HotFuzz'', Nicholas Angel, was named after the film's music supervisor. |
| 159 | * Captain Spaulding, Otis Driftwood, and the Firefly clan in ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses'' and ''Film/TheDevilsRejects'' are named after [[Creator/MarxBrothers Groucho Marx]] characters - specifically, his characters in ''Theatre/AnimalCrackers'', ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'', and ''Film/DuckSoup'', respectively. |
| 160 | * Dr. Okun from ''Film/IndependenceDay'' is named after (and even looks like) Jeffrey A. Okun, the effects supervisor for the director's previous movie ''Film/{{Stargate}}''. |
| 161 | * George Lucas named Franchise/IndianaJones [[TributeToFido after his Alaskan Malamute dog Indiana]], which was also the inspiration for [[Franchise/StarWars Chewbacca]]. This eventually turns out to be true in-universe as well, since in ''The Last Crusade'' we learn that Indy took his nickname from his family dog - his real name is Henry Jones Jr. |
| 162 | * ''Film/{{Interstellar}}'': Dr. Mann's RobotBuddy, KIPP, is named after astrophysicist Kip Thorne, a pioneer in research on black holes who helped produce the movie and served as a scientific consultant. |
| 163 | * Used in-universe in ''Film/AKnightsTale''. Chaucer (yes [[Creator/GeoffreyChaucer that]] Chaucer) is treated poorly by some fellows to whom he owes a gambling debt. In retaliation, he promises to immortalize them in fiction. Their names are Peter the Pardoner and Simon the Summoner, who are characters in ''Literature/TheCanterburyTales'', and they don't come across very well at all. |
| 164 | * The title character of ''Film/KungFuZohra'' is named after the director's mother. |
| 165 | * ''Film/TheManWhoKilledDonQuixote'': Toby Grisoni's name is derived from screenwriter Tony Grisoni. |
| 166 | * ''Film/{{Matilda}}'' adds a subplot - absent from [[Literature/{{Matilda}} the book]] - about Miss Honey's beloved childhood doll, which she named "Lissie Doll". This is likely a reference to Felicity "Lissie" Dahl, who - in addition to being the widow of the book's author Creator/RoaldDahl - was a producer on the movie. |
| 167 | * Janis Ian in ''Film/MeanGirls'' is straight but the real Janis Ian is not. Creator/TinaFey named many of the film's characters after real people she knew, such as her college roommate Cady Garey, saying she did so because “[[https://ew.com/article/2014/11/05/mean-girls-reunion/ it's just easier]]”. |
| 168 | * Eva Gregory from ''Film/MonkeyTrouble'' is named after director Franco Amurri's daughter. |
| 169 | * The list of rejected housekeepers in ''Film/MrsDoubtfire'' is composed of crew members whose names also appear in the end credits. |
| 170 | * Lew Lord in ''Film/TheMuppetMovie'' was named after ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' producer Lord Lew Grade, who was the only person who gave Jim Henson's idea for ''Series/TheMuppetShow'' a chance when all the networks passed up on it. He even occupies a similar role in-movie in helping the Muppets get their big break. |
| 171 | * Freddy Krueger of ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet'' is named after Fred Kruger, a bully at Creator/WesCraven's school. This is probably also the origin of the character "Krug" from ''Film/TheLastHouseOnTheLeft''. |
| 172 | * During TheStateroomSketch in ''Film/ANightAtTheOpera'', one of the people involved is a girl looking for her Aunt Minnie. The Creator/MarxBrothers' mother was named Minnie. |
| 173 | * ''Film/NightOfTheCreeps'' is full of this. The hero's name is Chris [[Creator/GeorgeRomero Romero]], and his love interest's name is Cynthia [[Creator/DavidCronenberg Cronenberg]]. Chris' best friend is named James [[Creator/JohnCarpenter Carpenter]] [[Creator/TobeHooper Hooper]]. There's another major character called Detective Ray [[Creator/JamesCameron Cameron]], and a few other detectives called [[Creator/SamRaimi Raimi]] and [[Creator/JohnLandis Landis]]. Finally, there's a janitor named Mr. [[Creator/SteveMiner Miner]]. |
| 174 | * Parodied in ''Film/OfficeSpace'', where one of the main characters is named Michael Bolton... and his major character trait is constantly complaining about people bringing up the ''other'' Creator/MichaelBolton. When someone asks him why he doesn't go by "Mike," his reply is "No way! Why should I change? ''He's'' the one who [[TakeThat sucks!"]] |
| 175 | * ''Film/PitchBlack'': The Hunter-Gratzner is named after effects technicians Ian Hunter & Matthew Gratzner, founders of Creator/NewDealStudios (Who would go on to do [[Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick the sequel]]). |
| 176 | * Attempted in ''Film/TheRoom2003'' with the character of Mark, who was supposed to be named after Creator/MattDamon because Creator/TommyWiseau really liked him in ''Film/TheTalentedMrRipley'', but he misremembered the name. There really is an actor named [[https://m.imdb.com/name/nm0198941/ Mark Damon]], coincidentally. |
| 177 | * In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', Jayne's minigun ('Lux') is named after Lux Lucre, a huge fan of ''{{Series/Firefly}}'' who died before the film was released. |
| 178 | * ''Film/{{Slither}}'' is almost a WholePlotReference to the above-mentioned ''Film/NightOfTheCreeps'', and makes a point of preserving this naming convention. |
| 179 | ** There's a sign in town for "Henenlotter Dairy Days." Frank Henenlotter was the director of ''Film/BasketCase''. |
| 180 | ** Another sign promotes a store owned by one Max Renn. Max Renn was Creator/JamesWoods' character in ''Film/{{Videodrome}}''. |
| 181 | ** Grant gets meat from Brundle's Meats. Seth Brundle was Creator/JeffGoldblum's character in ''Film/TheFly1986'' |
| 182 | ** The town's mayor is named R.J. [=MacReady=], after Creator/KurtRussell's character in ''Film/TheThing1982''. |
| 183 | ** Creator/ElizabethBanks' character is a teacher as Earl Bassett Community School. Earl Bassett was Creator/FredWard's character in ''Film/{{Tremors}}''. |
| 184 | ** Someone mentions a Raglan family farm, which could be a reference to Creator/OliverReed's character, Dr. Hal Raglan, in ''Film/TheBrood''. Could be a stretch, but it would be the third reference to a Creator/DavidCronenberg movie on here. |
| 185 | * Juni Cortez of ''Film/SpyKids'' has the full name Juni Rocket Racer Rebel Cortez. Rocket, Racer and Rebel are the names of Creator/RobertRodriguez's sons. |
| 186 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 187 | ** Creator/WilliamShatner named ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'''s Sha-Ka-Ree after Creator/SeanConnery (mostly because they were hoping to get him as Sybok for this movie). |
| 188 | ** In ''Film/StarTrekFirstContact'', Ensign Lynch is the name of the Borgified crew member who Picard killed in the holodeck when he turned off the safety controls. This was a nod to Jamal Lynch who reviewed all episodes of Star Trek in the early days of the internet. |
| 189 | * ''Franchise/StarWars'' is littered with examples. See [[http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Tuckerization this Wookieepedia article]]. A particularly interesting example is the planet Stewjon, the homeworld of Obi-Wan Kenobi, which Creator/GeorgeLucas named after Creator/JonStewart in response to Stewart asking him about Obi-Wan's homeworld at Celebration V. |
| 190 | * The Comic Book/Toy Shop owner in ''Film/{{Tomorrowland}}'' is called Hugo Gernsback. [[spoiler:He's actually a robot.]] The real Gernsback was an early Science Fiction publisher and editor (and writer, though his impact in that area is dwarfed by his importance as an editor and publisher; his best-known story is "Ralph 124C41+"). The "Hugo" award for science fiction is named after him, and he is sometimes said to have coined the term "science fiction". |
| 191 | * Mikaela Banes in the Film/TransformersFilmSeries is a reference to director Michael Bay. |
| 192 | * ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie'': There are several in "It's a Good Life". |
| 193 | ** Helen Foley is named after Creator/RodSerling's favorite teacher. She shares her name with the protagonist of "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E29NightmareAsAChild Nightmare as a Child]]". |
| 194 | ** Walter Paisley mentions a town named Beaumont. This is a reference to Charles Beaumont, who wrote numerous episodes of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. |
| 195 | ** Uncle Walt is named after Creator/WaltDisney. |
| 196 | * Narrowly averted in ''Film/TheUsualSuspects'': Keyser Söze was originally going to be named "Keyser Sume," after the former boss of screenwriter Christopher [=McQuarrie=]. Mr. Sume, however, was not too keen on having his name attached to a DiabolicalMastermind who murdered his own family, so they changed it. |
| 197 | * In ''Film/{{Willow}}'', there's a dragon called an Eborsisk (though the name isn't mentioned in the film itself, only the promotional material and novelization), and one of the human villains is named General Kael. In the real world there was, [[ThereAreNoCoincidences um]], a film critic duo named [[Series/SiskelAndEbert Ebert & Siskel]], and another famous critic named Creator/PaulineKael[[note]]Kael once famously gave a scathing review of Star Wars[[/note]]. Appropriately enough, [[spoiler:both characters [[TakeThatCritics die violently]]]]. |
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| 201 | * The ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' novel ''Liberty's Torch'' featured a supporting character named Marcus Gruenwald. Creator/MarkGruenwald had famously worked on Cap's comic book stories, but had passed away some time before this book. |
| 202 | * Authors in the Franchise/CthulhuMythos frequently included shout-outs to each other in this way. |
| 203 | ** Creator/RobertBloch wrote "The Shambler from the Stars", in which an unnamed character who is clearly supposed to be Creator/HPLovecraft is horribly killed as an affectionate TakeThat. |
| 204 | ** Lovecraft responded with "The Haunter of the Dark", in which 'Robert Blake' meets a similarly horrible fate. |
| 205 | ** Lovecraft also wrote of the 'Atlantean high-priest' Klarkash-Ton (Creator/ClarkAshtonSmith) in "Literature/TheWhispererInDarkness". |
| 206 | ** Bloch wrote about Egyptian priest Luveh-Keraph in "The Suicide in the Study" and "The Grinning Ghoul". |
| 207 | ** Lovecraft's non-horror story "Old Bugs" has two examples both with his friend Alfred Galpin, who wanted to try drinking. The titular Old Bugs is an old man brought low [[VerySpecialEpisode by the evils of alcohol]], and is implied to be the same character as a "young Galpin" likewise mentioned to have fallen to alcohol. Old Bugs beseeches a young man named "Alfred Trever" to resist the temptation, and he does. Lovecraft wanted to [[ScareEmStraight scare the real Alfred straight]] by showing him what his future might be if he drank, with Alfred Trever also standing in for his present self that can still be saved.[[note]]Alfred Trever, in-story, is said to be named after young Galpin, so even though it's not stated outright, the latter's full name is most likely Alfred Galpin, as well.[[/note]] |
| 208 | * In one of Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Black Widower'' mysteries, the name of the guest was the name of a reader who had won a competition; the prize was to be included in the story. |
| 209 | * ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': |
| 210 | ** ''Literature/{{Maskerade}}'' features a brief appearance by a young woman named Colette, who draws comment for her remarkable earrings; this is a ShoutOut to a fan Terry Pratchett met at a book signing while he was working on the novel, whose name was Colette and who was wearing a pair of memorable earrings. Several subsequent Discworld novels have included characters whose names were determined by charity auctions. |
| 211 | ** Hodgesaargh, the Lancre castle falconer, based on Dave Hodges, who really does keep birds of prey. Lady Jane, the vicious gyrfalcon who keeps attacking him, is real too. RealLife Hodgesaargh is nicknamed that way because people tend to run away from him, screaming "Oh no, it's Hodges... aargh!" The fictional version is named that way because he never manages to finish introducing himself without getting attacked by his own birds. |
| 212 | ** Dr. Follett, the former head of the Assassin's Guild, was named after the author Ken Follett. |
| 213 | ** There's lots of this in ''The Compleat Ankh-Morpork City Guide'', with many of Sir Terry's friends, associates and fans having a street or business named after them. For example, Smythe's Cut is an obvious reference to his agent, and the kindly retired publisher who runs a tavern on that street is almost certainly the Discworld version of Colin Smythe himself. |
| 214 | ** FandomVIP Waddy (organisator of the "Wadfest" DW convention) became one of the watchmen in ''Literature/{{Night Watch|Discworld}}''. Fun fact: While the real Waddy talks a lot, book-Waddy has barely any lines. |
| 215 | ** The watchman Haddock (nicknamed Kipper) is another example. |
| 216 | ** Mr Betteridge, head of the Guild of Historians in ''Literature/TheLastHero'' is named after the history teacher at Sir Terry's secondary school. |
| 217 | ** The three members of the Smoking Gnu in ''Literature/GoingPostal'' -- Mad Al Winton, Sane Alex Carlton, and Undecided Adrian Emery -- are all named after fans. Prehumous Professor of Morbid Bibliomancy Ladislav Pelc is named after the fan who donated the highest sum in an auction to raise funds for the reconstruction of a Prague theatre damaged by a 2002 flood. A dramatization of Wyrd Sisters and Maskerade was performed at this theatre. |
| 218 | ** Unseen University wizard Dr. Hix is named after charity auction winner Dr. John Hicks and in fact his last name originally had the same spelling before he became a {{Necromancer}} (er... [[InsistentTerminology Post-Mortem Communicator]]) and went in for XtremeKoolLetterz. |
| 219 | ** Mr. Brooks, the Lancre Castle beekeeper, is named after the man who taught Terry about beekeeping when he was turning his Wiltshire cottage into a miniature farm. |
| 220 | * Creator/LoisMcMasterBujold did this with many of her characters in the ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga''. A list can be found [[https://vorkosigan.fandom.com/wiki/Tuckerisms here]]. |
| 221 | * Most of the minor characters in Creator/DanAbnett's works are named after fans or co-workers. Most of them also die gruesomely, sometimes within the same chapter of the book, or even the same page they were introduced in. |
| 222 | * Creator/RexStout was a midshipman on President UsefulNotes/TheodoreRoosevelt's yacht from 1906 to 1908. His life was made miserable by a bullying, incompetent senior officer named Gilbert Rowcliff. Later, while writing the Literature/NeroWolfe novels, he created a bullying, incompetent police lieutenant named George Rowcliff who showed up in a number of books. Stout later admitted that he'd followed the career of his early nemesis and had been surprised when Rear Admiral Rowcliff was named [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gilbert_Jonathan_Rowcliff Judge Advocate General]] of the Navy. |
| 223 | * In Creator/ElizabethMoon's novel ''[[Literature/VattasWar Victory Conditions]]'', the section in which the villains attack the Moray shipyards features heroic deaths for a group of the author's friends. |
| 224 | * As Piers Anthony's ''Literature/{{Xanth}}'' series now consists almost entirely of [[RunningTheAsylum material suggested by fans]], the series now includes many references to actual readers (for example, if someone gives an idea for a certain magical talent, he might name the character who has it after the fan that suggested it). A major character, Jenny Elf, is named in honor of a real girl and Xanth reader who was paralyzed in a car accident. |
| 225 | * There are several of these in the ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'' books, particularly in the introductions to the ''Literature/KhaavrenRomances'' books. One, written by "The Dean of Pamlar University" was written by author Creator/PamelaDean; another, by a magician named Ilen, was written by Creator/NeilGaiman. Similarly, in the book ''Literature/{{Athyra}}'', there is a reference to a ''Book of the Seven Wizards'', with each wizard being a ShoutOut to writer friends of Brust, except for one which describes himself. |
| 226 | * ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'': |
| 227 | ** ''Literature/TheFinalReflection'' by Creator/JohnMFord is presented as if it were the text of a book published in-universe, complete with an author's foreword (signed "JMF") thanking "Mimi Panitch, my editor, who first decided the Federation was ready for this story"; in real life, Mimi Panitch was the editor at Pocket Books who brought ''The Final Reflection'' to print, along the way defending it from Paramount higher-ups who doubted its suitability. The story also includes cameos by Klingons based on the co-authors of the Klingons sourcebook for FASA's ''Star Trek: The Role-Playing Game''; many of the details of Klingon history and culture that appear in the novel also appear in the sourcebook, which Ford helped develop. |
| 228 | ** In ''Literature/HowMuchForJustThePlanet'' by Creator/JohnMFord, the ''Enterprise'' visits a planet colonized by a group of eccentric artists; nearly all the colonists with speaking parts are based on the author's friends and fellow-writers, including Creator/PamelaDean, Creator/NeilGaiman, Creator/DianeDuane, Peter Morwood, and Creator/JanetKagan. Interestingly, ''How Much For Just The Planet?'' was used in Duane's ''Literature/YoungWizards'' Series as the title of an alien TV show. |
| 229 | ** In the ''Literature/StarTrekEnterpriseRelaunch'' novels by Michael A. Martin and Andy Mangels, the ''Enterprise'''s acting chief engineer after Tucker's "death" is named Mike Burch, after the mechanic who works on Mangels's car. |
| 230 | * Creator/PeterDavid: |
| 231 | ** ''Mascot To the Rescue!'' tells the story of a boy named Josh [[Creator/FrankMiller Miller]] trying to save a comic book character from death (everything that happens to Mascot, the character, also happens to Josh). Who writes the comic that Mascot is in? Why, a man named [[Creator/StanLee Stan]] [[Creator/JackKirby Kirby]]. |
| 232 | ** An issue of ''ComicBook/TeenageMutantNinjaTurtlesAdventures'' had the Turtles meet a guy named Kirby who uses a magic pencil to bring comics to life. |
| 233 | ** He also wrote in {{Shout Out}}s to all the actors who played the main characters on his show ''Series/SpaceCases'' in the first four ''Literature/StarTrekNewFrontier'' novels. And he re-shouted out Jewel Staite in another novel after ''{{Series/Firefly}}''. Also, Roger Tang, the Starfleet ground-pounder with the CatchPhrase "All part of the service" in ''Imzadi''? Named after an enthusiastic fan. |
| 234 | ** And in ''Q-in-Law'' he named the two rival houses Nistral and Graziunas, which are shout outs to Jim Starlin (in anagram form) and Diana Graziunas, both of whom are friends of Peter's and work in the comic book industry. |
| 235 | * A very unpleasant example by Creator/MichaelCrichton: the journalist Michael Crowley, who criticised Crichton's position on global warming, was written into ''Literature/{{Next|2006}}'' under the name "Mick Crowley." Several other details (Washington journalist, went to Yale) are given just to make sure nobody misses who it's supposed to be. The fictional Mick Crowley is a homosexual baby rapist with a very small penis. |
| 236 | ** The critic in question [[https://web.archive.org/web/20140219094248/https://newrepublic.com/article/cock-and-bull responded in an appropriately wry manner.]] To the point of heroism. |
| 237 | * In ''Literature/HarryPotter'': |
| 238 | ** The name "Potter" comes from her childhood neighbors. |
| 239 | ** In the fourth book, a girl named Natalie [=MacDonald=] briefly appears and is put in Gryffindor. This was the name of a cancer patient who sent J.K. Rowling a very nice fan letter. The little girl had asked to be told how the story ended before she died, but Rowling didn't get to respond in time, so she named the character after her in tribute. |
| 240 | ** "Prewett" (Molly Weasley's maiden name) was the last name of one of Rowling's roommates. |
| 241 | ** It didn't make it into the books, but WordOfGod says that [[OvershadowedByAwesome Dawlish]]'s first name is John, because [=PotterCast=] founder [[FandomVIP John Noe]] is unusually fond of him. |
| 242 | ** The Knight Bus driver and conductor, Ernie and Stan, are named after Rowling's grandfathers, Ernest and Stanley. |
| 243 | ** Rowling manages to do this to a ''car'', of all things: the Weasleys' Ford Anglia is an homage to a blue Ford Anglia that belonged to one of Rowling's old friends (who was the inspiration for Ron). Rowling was exceptionally fond of the car because the friend used to take her joyriding in it during a period when she didn't own a car; she mentions that she used to associate the car with freedom, making the Weasleys' rescue of Harry using the fictional Ford Anglia in ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets Chamber of Secrets]]'' all the more meaningful. |
| 244 | ** If you check the dedications of the books and Rowling's website, you'll find the series is jam-packed with this trope. |
| 245 | ** In book six, a very drunk Slughorn thinks that Ron's name is "Rupert," an allusion to the actor who portrays Ron, Rupert Grint. |
| 246 | ** Lily Potter’s maiden name, Evans, comes from Creator/GeorgeEliot’s real name, Mary Ann Evans. |
| 247 | * Science fiction publisher Creator/BaenBooks is probably the king of Tuckerizations. Creator/DavidWeber, Creator/JohnRingo, and Creator/EricFlint have been doing it for years with forum members whose names are chosen to be characters. Joe Buckley is infamous as a member who appears and gets brutally killed in nearly every work of fiction at Baen after a contest started between the different authors. When the ''Baen Universe'' online magazine launched, they added Tuckerizations as a perk of the higher levels of the club. |
| 248 | ** Occasionally, Ringo puts out a call for [[RedShirt fans wanting to be killed]], usually in a brutal manner. Given that he writes a good bit of military fiction, [[MilitaryScienceFiction science]] or otherwise, there are ''plenty'' of opportunities for becoming a literary corpse. |
| 249 | * Brian Jacques named several characters in the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series after people he encountered in his life, including fans of the books. |
| 250 | ** Samkim and Arula in the book ''Salamandastron'' are modifications of the names of two fans, Samantha Kim and Laura. |
| 251 | ** Gauchee in Martin the Warrior is named for Patricia Lee Gauch, an editor of the books and friend of Brian Jacques, to whom the book is also dedicated. |
| 252 | ** Rab Streambattle in ''The Bellmaker'' was named for an enthusiastic Oregonian fan, Robert Adam Banagale. |
| 253 | ** ''Loamhedge'' features two characters named after people that Jacques mentions in the dedication: Lonna Bowstripe is named after a person named Nolan Wallace, and Martha Braebuck is inspired by Brian Jacques' friend Martha Buckley. |
| 254 | ** Tiria Wildlough from ''High Rhulain'' is based on a fan named Patricia who met Brian Jacques at a Pittsburgh book signing in 2003 and gave him a letter requesting that he name an otter character after her. |
| 255 | ** Axtel Sturnclaw, who appears in ''The Sable Quean'', seems to have been named after US soldier Pfc. Donald Reas Axtell III, to whom ''Doomwyte'' is dedicated. |
| 256 | * The "Gameras" of John Scalzi's ''Literature/OldMansWar'' series are named after classic sci-fi authors. Since the series takes place in the far future, one of them is named after [[Creator/CharlesStross a contemporary writer who has not yet been judged "classic"]]. |
| 257 | * In Creator/EstherFriesner's ''Literature/MajykByAccident'' series, the three village idiots are named Lorrenz, Wot, and Evvon, a shout-out to author Creator/LawrenceWattEvans. |
| 258 | * Taken to an art form in Bill Fitzhugh's ''Pest Control'', whose lead is named Bob Dillon. It didn't make for a happy childhood. He spends the entire book being confused with Music/BobDylan, even by ''the CIA''. |
| 259 | * A Creator/WilliamGibson / Creator/BruceSterling novel ''Literature/TheDifferenceEngine'' featured a character named Michael Godwin, after the author of the same name. |
| 260 | * Creator/TamoraPierce does this more and more, usually with a variation in spelling. Kyrsty Street and Hollyskyt Street keep being mentioned as locations in Kugisko in ''[[Literature/TheCircleOpens Cold Fire]]''; sure enough, the acknowledgements include a Holly Skeet and a Kirsty Something-or-other. And most members of the author's [[http://www.sheroescentral.com message board]] noticed Joshain Street in ''[[Literature/TrickstersDuet Trickster's Choice]]'' and Ratey's Inn in ''Literature/TheWillOfTheEmpress'', both of which are variations on the usernames of {{Fandom VIP}}s. |
| 261 | * Creator/MatthewReilly at one point went on the popular Australian radio show ''Creator/HamishAndAndy'', and held an impromptu competition: Call in if you have a good-sounding name, and the best one will be in his next novel, ''The Five Greatest Warriors''. The resulting character, General Jackson Dyer, lasted 29 pages, which is, as Reilly said himself, 'a huge number of pages for a Matthew Reilly book'. |
| 262 | * The Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures and [[Literature/DoctorWhoMissingAdventures Missing Adventures]] novels did this a ''lot''. Take a random book and compare the names of minor characters with the rec.arts.drwho folk namechecked in the acknowledgements. |
| 263 | ** Gary Russell's ''Legacy'' featured several notable names in fandom, including an alcoholic Pakhar (intelligent alien hamster) named Hyn't'n, whose death sets up the plot. By a strange coincidence, Craig Hinton's subsequent DW novel, ''The Crystal Bucephalus'', had a cameo by a dog-like creature named Garruss. |
| 264 | ** The ''Literature/PastDoctorAdventures'' novel ''The Indestructible Man'' features thinly disguised versions of characters from many Creator/GerryAnderson series, notably ''Series/CaptainScarletAndTheMysterons'' and ''Series/UFO1970''. The equivalents of those series lead characters are named Matthews and Bishop, after the actors who played them. |
| 265 | * Creator/SimonRGreen likes having characters named after SF journalist Creator/DavidLangford (starting with gossip columnist Dee Langford in ''[[Literature/{{Deathstalker}} Deathstalker Destiny]]''). He frequently writes to Langford's fanzine, ''Ansible'', to express his glee in how viciously he can kill them off. |
| 266 | * The ''Literature/LordDarcy'' stories by Randall Garrett include a brilliant magical theoretician named Sir Thomas Leseaux. Garrett was friends with the stage magician and author T.A. Waters. His sometime collaborator Michael Kurland appears in ''Too Many Magicians'' as Sergeant-At-Arms Michel Coure-Terre. Also in ''Too Many Magicians'', there is a senior wizard named James Zwinge; the real name of stage magician and arch-sceptic James Randi. There's also a shout out to Edward Elmer "Doc" Smith (author of, among other things, the ''Lensman'' series) in the form of Sir Edward Elmer, Th.D. (the equivalent of a doctorate in magic). Specifically, and fittingly, Sir Edward Elmer is the creator of a spell that makes badges which glow when touched by the specific person they're attuned to; they're used to definitively identify King's Messengers, very high level servants of the Crown. |
| 267 | * ''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'' has a character called [[DeceptivelyHumanRobots Erek King]], named after [[ContestWinnerCameo a fan who won a contest]]. Erek went on to become a major supporting character, so the real Erek lucked out. |
| 268 | * Creator/CharlesDickens named the ''Literature/OliverTwist'' villain Fagin after a man he worked with in a factory in his childhood. The real Fagin was actually a kindly man, but Dickens' memories of that period scarred him for life. |
| 269 | * ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': |
| 270 | ** In his acknowledgments of ''The Lightning Thief'', Rick Riordan includes thanks to his "cadre of middle-school beta testers," the first of whom is "Travis Stoll, clever and quick as Hermes." The Stoll brothers, Connor and Travis, appear from the next book on as the new head counselors of the Hermes cabin. It is pointed out in the books the suitability of this considering Hermes is the God of Thieves. |
| 271 | ** [[https://rickriordan.com/about/frequently-asked-questions/ In the FAQ on his official website]], he reveals other names he picked as shout-outs to people he knew. Mrs. Dodds is based (loosely) on a real Mrs. Dodds who taught math at the school where he worked. Mr. Brunner, Chiron's pseudonym when he went undercover as Percy's Latin teacher, was the name of the Latin teacher at said school. Connor Stoll, Charles Beckendorf, Nico, and Miranda are named after former students of Riordan. |
| 272 | * When Creator/IanFleming was writing the early ''Literature/JamesBond'' novels, he was informed by one Geoffrey Boothroyd that Bond's Beretta 418 was more or less [[LittleUselessGun a wimpy purse gun]]; its only advantage was that it was easily concealed. After some back-and-forth between the two, Fleming's next Bond novel ''Literature/DrNo'' had a "Major Boothroyd," introduced as "the greatest small-arms expert in the world," issuing Bond his iconic Walther PPK. The character was transferred over to the movies, although he was only referred to as Boothroyd in [[Film/DrNo the first]], as well as a blink-and-you'll-miss-it use of the name in ''Film/TheSpyWhoLovedMe''; in every other movie he was simply Quartermaster Branch, or "Q." |
| 273 | ** His successor Raymond Benson used some rather active members of the alt.fan.james-bond newsgroup. |
| 274 | ** The name James Bond itself was taken from the author of an ornithology book Fleming owned, "Birds of the West Indies." He wanted the character to have a thoroughly boring and unremarkable name (well, it seemed that way at the time). |
| 275 | ** The titular villain in ''Literature/{{Goldfinger}}'' was named after the Hungarian-born architect [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erno_Goldfinger Ernő Goldfinger]], who'd upset Fleming by knocking down some vintage cottages to build a new rowhouse. When Goldfinger threatened to sue him, Fleming threatened to name the character Gold''prick''. Fleming's publishers paid Goldfinger's legal costs and sent him six free copies of the book. |
| 276 | ** A number of other character names were drawn from Fleming's personal acquaintances. Hilary Bray, the heraldry expert in ''Literature/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', was named for a golfing buddy. And no less a personage than [[BigBad Ernst Stavro Blofeld]] himself drew his surname from Tom Blofeld, a classmate at Eton. |
| 277 | * In Creator/BrandonSanderson's ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' books, a number of minor characters [[http://www.brandonsanderson.com/blog/831/Alcatraz-3-Maze-Runner-Names are named after people who donated to charity at a particular event]]. |
| 278 | ** Sanderson also frequently names side characters after friends or beta readers. Most notably, [[Literature/{{Mistborn}} Demoux]] was named after his close friend Micah [=DeMoux=]. |
| 279 | * The ''Literature/WarriorCats'' series has done this several times. The author has admitted to using screennames from fan sites (notably Website/WandsAndWorlds and Warriors Wish), where the screennames follow the pattern of the characters' naming system. There are also three characters based on a ten-year-old fan and her parents, who all died in a tornado in 2008 -- the author told an online community about it so they could show support for the girl's family, and the members gave the girl and her parents warrior names (Brightspirit, Shiningheart, and Braveheart) to honor them. The author used these names in the next book she was planning, and that same book is dedicated to them. One of the main characters of the fourth series, Ivypool, is named after a young girl named Ivy Poole, whose family has gone to see the author on nearly every one of her tours. |
| 280 | * Like the ''Animorphs'' example above, the final book in the ''Literature/SpyHigh'' series introduced major character Kate Taylor, named after Kate Harrison who had won a fan contest. |
| 281 | * Birdwell Island, the setting of the ''Literature/CliffordTheBigRedDog'' series books and cartoon, is named after Norman Bridwell, who created this series. |
| 282 | * Armand in ''Literature/HothouseFlowerAndTheNinePlantsOfDesire'' is named after a friend of the author. |
| 283 | * ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'' has one blind-bibliotecarian called Jorge De Burgos. The character was obviously (created and) named after Creator/JorgeLuisBorges, who worked as a librarian and was legally blind for much of his life. The fact that the name of the story is the same as one of Borges' most famous poems makes this even more obvious. The author Creator/UmbertoEco also name-drops himself as "Umberto of Bologna", author of one of the books in the library. |
| 284 | * ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'': |
| 285 | ** Creator/RobertJordan (a.k.a James Rigney) gets two references via brief mentions of Lord [[SdrawkcabName Trebor Jordayne]] of the Tor, whose heraldic symbol is a quill; and Archmaester Rigney, who apparently has an interesting theory that [[Literature/TheWheelOfTime time is a wheel]]. |
| 286 | ** On an episode of ''Radio/WaitWaitDontTellMe'', Creator/GeorgeRRMartin said that Ser Patrek of King's Mountain, whose heraldry resembles that of the Dallas Cowboys, was created because he lost a bet with a friend from [[BilingualBonus Montreal]] named Patrick St. Denis, whose preferred stakes were that Martin would write him into his novels and kill him horribly if his favorites the Cowboys finished ahead of George's New York Giants in a given season. [[spoiler:Guess what creature Ser Patrek of King's Mountain gets ripped apart by?]] |
| 287 | ** Then, of course, there's Triarch Belicho, a "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2007_New_England_Patriots_season famous Volantene patriot whose unbroken succession of conquests and triumphs ended rather abruptly when he was eaten by giants.]]" |
| 288 | * M'chel Riss of ''Literature/StarRiskLtd'' is named after author Chris Bunch's friend Michelle Rice. |
| 289 | * In ''Radio/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1978'' radio drama and early versions of the novel, author Douglas Adams mentions a classmate named Paul Neil Milne Johnstone whom he considers the worst poet in the universe. (He's worse than Vogons!) The named was eventually changed to Paula Nancy Millstone Jennings in the later editions of the novel, the [[Series/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy1981 TV series]] and the [[Film/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy2005 movie]]. |
| 290 | * Grant Callin (best know for his ''Saturnalia'' series) was very fond of naming major characters after people he knew while employed at Boeing. |
| 291 | * Tao Lin's novel ''Richard Yates'' features two protagonists named Creator/HaleyJoelOsment and Creator/DakotaFanning. |
| 292 | * ''Literature/TheBabySittersClub'' #3, ''The Truth About Stacey'', is dedicated to Dr. Claudia Werner. Claudia Kishi is a main character throughout the entire book series, and this particular book features a Dr. Werner. |
| 293 | * Neal Shusterman, author of ''Literature/TheSkinjackerTrilogy'' and ''Literature/{{Unwind}}'', among other things, frequently asks on his Facebook page for people who want their names in the book. He'll often take just a last name, or else combine one person's first name and another's last name. |
| 294 | * In ''Literature/InfiniteJest'', the Antitoi brothers' surname appears to be taken from a Gil Antitoi, who author Creator/DavidFosterWallace recalls growing up and competing with in his essay "Derivative Sport in Tornado Alley". The character Kate Gompert's name is taken from a former professional tennis player and estranged friend of Wallace's, who would later sue for libel. |
| 295 | * Charles Pellegrino does this a couple of times with his friends -- engineer Ed Bishop appears in ''Literature/TheKillingStar'' (with the help of anti-aging technologies), and mammalogist Bill Schutt appears in ''Dust''. [[spoiler:Both die horribly]]. |
| 296 | * In ''Literature/OryxAndCrake'' (and its sequels) the naming rights for two minor characters were prizes in charity auctions for causes Creator/MargaretAtwood supports, the characters were named after the winners. |
| 297 | * ''Literature/EndersGame'' has two notable ones. [[LivingLegend Mazer Rackham]] is named after British illustrator Arthur Rackham and former Brigham Young University president Karl G. Maeser, while [[GeneralRipper Hyrum Graff]] is named after notable Mormon leader Hyrum Smith (Joseph Smith's brother). Both names reference Creator/OrsonScottCard's Mormon faith. |
| 298 | * Done as a TakeThat by Creator/JTEdson in ''J.T.'s Ladies''. He included a gunslinger and his sidekick named Roy Hattersley and Len Murray -- named after Labour Party politicians -- and three desperados named Alex Kitson, Alan Fisher and David Basnett -- all of them well-known trade union leaders. |
| 299 | * ''Literature/FiftyShadesOfGrey'': |
| 300 | ** E.L. James includes three characters whose names echo her pen name: [[DisposableSexWorker Ella]] (the first name of Grey's birth mother), [[ReallyGetsAround Elliot]] (the first name of Grey's adopted brother), and [[DoubleStandardRapeFemaleOnMale Elena Lincoln]] (the name of the adult {{Dominatrix}} who got into a sexual relationship with fifteen-year-old Grey, thus making her guilty of statutory rape), whose initials are also ''E.L.'' There's also a fourth character, [[BrokenBird Leila]], whose name looks almost like an anagram of Elena's. |
| 301 | ** Dr. Raina Sluder, the doctor in ''Fifty Shades Freed'' who takes care of Ray Steele after he gets in a car accident. If you check the Acknowledgments, you'll see E.L. James thanking a group of people, including "Dr. Raina Sluder for help with all matters medical."[[note]]The real Raina Sluder seems to specialize in family medicine, not cardiology, neurology or coma medicine, and she lives nowhere near Washington state.[[/note]] |
| 302 | * When former ''Series/{{Today}}'' anchor Katie Couric wrote a children's book (''The Brand New Kid''), she named the two main characters Ellie and Carrie, after her two daughters. |
| 303 | * Marla in ''Literature/FightClub'' is named for a girl in Creator/ChuckPalahniuk's past, who bullied him as a child. |
| 304 | * The story "Something Passed By" by Creator/RobertRMcCammon features a typical horror small town, whose streets and landmarks are named for several contemporary horror authors. |
| 305 | -->''It floated over Grant Street, where the statues of town fathers stood, past the Victorian houses at the end of King's Lane that had burned with such beautiful flames, past the empty playground at the silent Bloch School, over Bradbury Park where paint flaked off the grinning carousel horses, down Koontz Street where the businesses used to thrive, over Ellison Field where no bat would smack another softball.'' |
| 306 | * Creator/LarryNiven wrote a story in which the villain was named after fellow science-fiction author Creator/RobertLForward (sort of; the character's first name is Julian), who reciprocated by writing a story where a main character is named Niven (''his'' first name is Pierre). |
| 307 | * Apparent {{Aversion}}: ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'''s two main characters, Bella Swan and Edward Cullen, seem to have been named in honor of the two lead actors from ''Film/Dracula1931'', Bela Lugosi and Edward Van Sloan (Count Dracula and Professor Van Helsing, respectively). However, WordOfGod says that "Bella" was the name she always wanted to give a daughter, while "Edward" is from [[Literature/JaneEyre Edward Rochester]]. |
| 308 | * In the ''Literature/WaysideSchool'' series, Creator/LouisSachar named some of the students after students of the school where he used to work, and the "yard teacher", Louis, is named after him. |
| 309 | * According to Creator/JohnGrant, his ''ComicBook/JudgeDredd'' novel ''The Hundredfold Problem'' contained "About half the UK science-fiction community of the time" (1994). Creator/CharlesStross apparently told him afterwards that he was disappointed "Chuck Strozza" hadn't been brutally killed. More of a TakeThat was the bewildered caveman Kr'sg'lm'r; Chris Gilmore had savaged Grant's fantasy novel ''The World'', so he got cast as a figure incapable of understanding ... the world. |
| 310 | * In most of Adam-Troy Castro's books, a character named Christina Santiago gets killed somehow. This is apparently a running gag between Castro and a friend of his. |
| 311 | * Creator/LewisCarroll named his famous character Literature/{{Alice|InWonderland}} after his colleague's daughter Alice Liddell, with whom he had an IntergenerationalFriendship. |
| 312 | * David Gerrold did this as a charity, where fans of ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr'' could pay to have their names used in the next novel of the series. |
| 313 | * In ''Literature/CastleHangnail'' by Creator/UrsulaVernon, mention is made of the great alchemist Sonney, named for the author's husband, Kevin Sonney. |
| 314 | * Dorothy from ''Literature/TheWonderfulWizardOfOz'' was allegedly named for L. Frank Baum's niece, Dorothy Louise Gage, who died in infancy. |
| 315 | * Combined with SignificantAnagram in ''The Monster Club'' by Creator/RChetwyndHayes. The name of film director Vinnke Rocnor is an anagram of Kevin Connor: the director of ''Film/FromBeyondTheGrave'', a film adaptation of several Chetwynd-Hayes short stories. |
| 316 | * ''Literature/Gameknight999'': [=Gameknight999=] is based on the author's son and uses his Minecraft screen name, while his father, [=Monkeypants271=], uses Mark Cheverton's Minecraft screen name. |
| 317 | * Trixie, the baby girl in ''Literature/KnuffleBunny,'' is named after [[Creator/MoWillems the author]]'s daughter Trixie. |
| 318 | * In the ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'', Creator/ChristopherPaolini named the witch Angela after his sister, and the protagonist's hometown is in Palancar Valley, named after cover artist John Jude Palencar. |
| 319 | * In the Titan Books Franchise/SherlockHolmes novel ''The Breath of God'' by Guy Adams, Holmes and Watson meet an Inspector George Mann. Creator/GeorgeMann has also written for Titan's Holmes series. |
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| 323 | * In the ''Series/TwentyFour'' episode "Day 7: 11:00pm-12:00am", the president's daughter Olivia recommends to president Taylor that she consider Rick Berman and Bob Justman, characters we never meet, for the position of White House Chief of Staff. Both Justman and Berman were producers on Star Trek (Justman worked on the [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]], and Berman helmed ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' and subsequent shows after Gene Roddenberry died). While the names come across as arbitrary on the show, the shout-out makes sense knowing the episode was written by Brannon Braga and Manny Coto, both Star Trek writers and producers. |
| 324 | ** In Day 4, Audrey Raines obtains information from a corporation by pretending to be an employee, calling herself Jane Espenson after the writer who has written for ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' and ''Series/{{Battlestar Galactica|2003}}'' among other shows. |
| 325 | * ''Series/TheFortyFourHundred'': |
| 326 | ** In "Try the Pie" and "Till We Have Built Jerusalem", the Seattle City Council member and anti-4400 activist Gabriel Hewitt is named after the series' consulting producer Robert Hewitt Wolfe. |
| 327 | ** In "Till We Have Built Jerusalem", the SuperSoldier Peters is named after the series' co-creator Scott Peters. |
| 328 | * Another collective version: All the background officers on ''Series/Adam12'' were named for officers Jack Webb knew during his radio days. |
| 329 | * On ''Series/{{ALF}}'', most of the Melmacian words, (Fappiano, Prepoon, Wernick, etc) were the names of member of the production staff. |
| 330 | * ''Series/{{Angel}}'' |
| 331 | ** Gunn was named so after the brothers Creator/JamesGunn and [[Series/GilmoreGirls Sean Gunn]], with whom Creator/JossWhedon had worked. |
| 332 | ** One-off villain Corben Fries, a mob boss with connections to the magic world, was named after Creator/JossWhedon's nephew. |
| 333 | * ''Series/{{Arrow}}'': |
| 334 | ** Season 4 antagonist Andy Diggle is directly named after the author of ''ComicBook/GreenArrow: Year One''. |
| 335 | ** RecurringCharacter Dr. Eliza Schwartz is named after series writer and eventual showrunner Beth Schwartz. |
| 336 | ** Season 7 antagonist Kevin Meltzer's full name is a ShoutOutThemeNaming to former ''Green Arrow'' comic book writers Creator/KevinSmith and Brad Meltzer. |
| 337 | * ''Series/BabylonFive'': |
| 338 | ** Psicorps agent Alfred Bester is named after the science fiction writer, whose work often dealt with PsychicPowers. In particular, his novel ''The Demolished Man'' is about a set of psychics that bear a marked resemblance to the Psicorps. |
| 339 | ** Dr Lillian Hobbes won a charity auction where the prize was to be the 'victim' of this trope. |
| 340 | ** Emperor Turhann and Prime Minister Malachi initially went nameless and were simply referred to as "the Emperor" and "Prime Minister". However, when time came for them to be named, the names of the actors who played them (Turhann Bey & Malachi Throne respectively) were used as their names. |
| 341 | ** The ExpandedUniverse reveals that Bester was named after the author in-universe as well, since the man who took him to be raised by Psi-Corps after his parents' deaths was a big fan and entered him under the name. |
| 342 | ** Creator/NeilGaiman has an entire ''race'' named after him; the Gaim, whose heads resemble ComicBook/{{The Sandman|1989}}'s helmet. |
| 343 | * ''Series/{{Bones}}'' has Dr. Temperance Brennan writing novels about Kathy Reichs. Reichs is the real life author of the Temperance Brennan novels that inspired the series. The other character, Andy Lister is a reference to Andrew Ryan, the novels’ other main character. |
| 344 | * ''Series/TheBoys2019'': US Secretary of State Robert Singer is named after producer and frequent collaborator of the show's creator, Creator/EricKripke. He also shares his name with the character his actor, Creator/JimBeaver, portrayed on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'', also created by Kripke. |
| 345 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': |
| 346 | ** Screenname version: An episode in season 4 has a Polgara demon, the name of which was after a regular poster's screenname at the Bronze board. |
| 347 | *** Polgara is the name of a character in ''Literature/TheBelgariad''. We can assume the poster was a fan. And as they later have a demon named [[Literature/TheMalloreon Toth...]] |
| 348 | ** Zachary Kralik from the episode "Helpless", a mentally ill vampire who was already a serial killer before he was turned, was named after the writer's nephew, who was a child at the time. |
| 349 | * In the episode "Breaking and Entering" from the 2nd season of ''Series/BurnNotice'', Michael's cover ID for infiltrating a [[PrivateMilitaryContractor mercenary company]] is Terry Miller, which is the name of the show's unit production supervisor. |
| 350 | ** The lead character himself is an example: Michael West'''en''', not to be confused with actor Michael West'''on''', who appeared in ''Film/GardenState'', had recurrent roles on ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'', ''[[Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit Law and Order SVU]]'', and ''Series/{{House}}''--and made a guest appearance on ''Series/BurnNotice''. |
| 351 | * In ''Series/CosmosASpacetimeOdyssey'', one animated sequence pans across the Paris World's Fair of 1878. It passes a booth for "Macfarlane's Refined Lard" with a little tuba riff--there ''was'' such a booth at the event, which apparently amused producer Creator/SethMacFarlane. |
| 352 | * Gil Grissom on ''Series/{{CSI}}'' is named after astronaut Virgil 'Gus' Grissom; Petersen is a space buff. |
| 353 | * Mac Taylor on ''Series/{{CSINY}}'' gets a double. 'Mac' is after Creator/GarySinise's son, [=McCanna=], who's called Mac as a nickname, and is himself named after Gary's brother-in-law [=McCanna=] Harris, a decorated Vietnam veteran. ([=McCanna=] has actually been said to be Mac Taylor's first name, but was never used onscreen.) 'Taylor' is after Sinise's ''Film/ForrestGump'' character, Lt. Dan Taylor. Mac's parents count, too. His father, [=McCanna=] Boyd Taylor, got his first and middle names from the same brother-in-law, and his mother is called Millie, just like Gary's mom. |
| 354 | * ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'': Brea is likely named for La Brea Avenue of Los Angeles where offices for Jim Henson Studios still remain. |
| 355 | * ''Series/DoctorWho'': |
| 356 | ** The Sontarans in "[[Recap/DoctorWho1985JFIGSAFixWithSontarans A Fix With Sontarans]]" are named "Nathan" and "Turner", according to the script, a reference to Creator/JohnNathanTurner, the showrunner at the time of broadcasting. |
| 357 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E8HumanNature Human Nature]]": The Doctor, in the [[HumanityEnsues guise]] of John Smith, tells Joan Redfern that his parents' names are Sidney and Verity, references to the original ''Doctor Who'' producers, Creator/SydneyNewman and Creator/VerityLambert. |
| 358 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS29E12TheSoundOfDrums The Sound of Drums]]": A journalist who dies an unpleasant death is named Vivian Rook, after Jean Rook, a journalist who had written a scathing article on the show in the '70s. |
| 359 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E9ForestOfTheDead Forest of the Dead]]": In the virtual reality, [[spoiler:Donna's two "children" are called Josh and Ella. Josh is the name of Creator/StevenMoffat's son, with Ella being a friend of his.]] |
| 360 | ** "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS38E5FugitiveOfTheJudoon Fugitive of the Judoon]]": Judoon captain Pol-Con-Don is named in honour of late BBC producer and series fan Paul Condon, who died in spring 2019 right as this episode was being produced. |
| 361 | ** The two Silurians played by Richard Hope, Malohkeh in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E8TheHungryEarth The Hungry Earth]]"/"[[Recap/DoctorWhoS31E9ColdBlood Cold Blood]]" and Bleytel in "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS33E2DinosaursOnASpaceship Dinosaurs on a Spaceship]]", were loosely named after Creator/MalcolmHulke and Creator/BarryLetts: the writer and producer of "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS7E2DoctorWhoAndTheSilurians Doctor Who and the Silurians]]". |
| 362 | * ''Series/EerieIndiana'': |
| 363 | ** In "The Retainer", a town in the vicinity of Eerie is named Schaefer, a reference to the series' co-creator Karl Schaefer. |
| 364 | ** In "Scariest Home Videos", the horror film actor Sir Boris von Orloff, the star of ''Bloody Revenge of the Mummy's Curse'', is named after Creator/BorisKarloff, who played the title character in ''Film/TheMummy1932''. |
| 365 | ** In "Just Say No Fun", the name of Marshall's school is given as B.F. Skinner Junior High School. |
| 366 | ** In "The Broken Record", the Pitbull Surfers are named after the Music/ButtholeSurfers. |
| 367 | ** Also in "The Broken Record", Syndi's full name is given as Syndi Marie Priscilla Teller. This is a reference to Music/ElvisPresley's ex-wife Priscilla and their daughter Lisa Marie. |
| 368 | ** In "The Hole in the Head Gang", the ghost of Grungy Bill has been trapped in [[Creator/AlfredHitchcock Hitchcock Mill]] for over 100 years. |
| 369 | ** In "Mr. Chaney", the titular werewolf is named after Creator/LonChaneyJr who played the Wolf Man Larry Talbot in the Franchise/UniversalHorror films ''Film/TheWolfMan1941'', ''Film/FrankensteinMeetsTheWolfMan'', ''Film/HouseOfFrankenstein'', ''Film/HouseOfDracula'' and ''Film/AbbottAndCostelloMeetFrankenstein''. Dash X even refers to "those old ''Wolf Man'' flicks" after he, Marshall and Simon capture Mr. Chaney in werewolf form. |
| 370 | ** In "Reality Takes a Holiday", the ''Eerie, Indiana'' writer José Schaefer decided to kill off Marshall on Dash X's urging. He is named after the series' ccreators José Rivera and Karl Schaefer. |
| 371 | * In ''Series/EmeraldCity'', the Wizard reveals that his birth name is Frank Morgan, the same as [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_Morgan the actor who played the Wizard]] in ''Film/TheWizardOfOz''. |
| 372 | * ''Series/FamilyMatters'' co-creator Michael Warren named Steve Urkel after his friend Steve Erkel. When Urkel became the show's BreakoutCharacter, the "tribute" had something of an adverse effect on the real Erkel -- he would regularly receive crank calls, and businesses tended to assume he was using a fake name. Urkel had originally been created to only appear in one episode, and Warren has said that if he'd intended the character to be a regular part of the series, he would have named him something else. |
| 373 | * ''Series/FawltyTowers'': |
| 374 | ** In "The Builders", Basil tells the old ladies that they will have to stay at Gleneagles for their dinner, after the Gleneagles hotel, from which John Cleese drew his inspiration for the series. |
| 375 | ** In "The Kipper and the Corpse", the dead man is called Mr Leeman, after a hotel owner who told John Cleese that the most difficult thing is getting rid of "the stiffs", i.e. guests who die in the night. |
| 376 | ** Also in "The Kipper and the Corpse", Basil bursts in on a guest Mr Ingrams inflating a sex-aid doll, named after a CausticCritic. |
| 377 | * The Lassiter Pistol, the {{Macguffin}} of the ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' episode "[[Recap/FireflyE11Trash Trash]]", is named after noted Creator/{{Pixar}} director Creator/JohnLasseter, an old friend and collaborator of Creator/JossWhedon. Lasseter is perhaps best known as the director of the original ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory1'', which was one of Whedon's first film credits as a screenwriter. |
| 378 | * Collective example: A written list of murder victims seen on ''Series/ForeverKnight'' consisted entirely of the names of RealLife fans, from a newsgroup dedicated to the show. Other examples included giving a fan's name to a murdered hooker, and in the last episode [[UnfortunateImplications a suicide was named for the president of the fan club]]. |
| 379 | * The ''Series/{{Fringe}}'' episode "The Cure" has a minor character named after Elizabeth Sarnoff, a writer who worked with Creator/JJAbrams on ''Series/{{Lost}}'' and also wrote for ''Series/{{Deadwood}}'' and ''Series/NYPDBlue''. |
| 380 | * A few characters in ''Series/{{Glee}}'' were named after friends of co-creator Brad Falchuck, including David 'Dave' Karofsky, Rachel Berry and Noah 'Puck' Puckerman, which had one letter changed from the real man's name, Zuckerman. |
| 381 | * ''Series/TheGoldenGirls'': Dorothy Zbornak was given her last name after comedy writer Kent Zbornak. |
| 382 | * ''Series/TheGoodPlace'': In "Chidi Sees The Time-Knife" a worm-like creature called a "Niednagel" attaches itself to Tahani while she's in an extra-dimensional space. The creature is named for David Niednagel, the visual effects producer for the series. |
| 383 | * A straight and inverted example. The youngest son "Michael" on ''Series/GoodTimes'' was indeed named after co-creator Michael Evans, who played Lionel on ''The Jeffersons''. However, the family's surname was originally going to be Black. When it was decided that the show would be a spinoff for ''Series/{{Maude}}'' character Florida Evans, the family name became Evans. Thus the "Michael Evans" character has the same first AND last name as one of the creators. |
| 384 | * Claude Rains in ''Series/{{Heroes}}'' is [[Creator/ClaudeRains named after]] the actor who played [[Film/TheInvisibleMan1933 The Invisible Man]] in the 1933 movie. This is quite appropriate, Claude's power being invisibility and all. It's hinted that this isn't his real name and he chose the name himself. |
| 385 | * ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' has several examples of this, most notably [=MacLaren=]'s Bar, and its bartender Carl which were together named after one of the creators' assistants. |
| 386 | * ''Series/ICarly'': Used occasionally to reference the creator Creator/DanSchneider, such as St. Schneider's Hospital and Schneider's Convenience Store. |
| 387 | ** Also done with one of the other staff members, Robin Weiner, whose name gets attached to some hot-dogs. |
| 388 | * ''Series/ItsAlwaysSunnyInPhiladelphia'' does this on occasion--usually with last names--whenever they need a minor character. Ari Frankel (from Season 2) and Harris Marder (from Season 9) are both named after members of the production staff. Producer Michael Rotenberg lent his last ''and'' first name to a character in the Season 9 premier. |
| 389 | ** According to a creator DVD commentary, Sweet Dee got her nickname and given name from a friend of Rob [=McElhenney's=], who reportedly wasn't happy with the [[{{Flanderization}} direction the character took]]. |
| 390 | * ''Series/LawAndOrderSpecialVictimsUnit'': |
| 391 | ** The first names of the show's original ActionDuo, Elliot Stabler and Olivia Benson, are taken directly from two of series creator Creator/DickWolf's children. |
| 392 | ** A large corporation that's popped up a couple of times on the show is Tauscher-Leto Pharmaceuticals, named after director/producer Peter Leto and production designer Dean Taucher. |
| 393 | * ''Series/{{Lost}}'' has done this a few times. A character in the 2009 AlternateRealityGame was Hans van Eeghen, likely named after the show's film editor Henk van Eeghen. The minor character "Simmons" in season 6 was hinted to be named as a shout-out to sports columnist Creator/BillSimmons. |
| 394 | * Peter Kay and Paddy [=McGuinness=] named a one-off character in ''Max & Paddy's Road To Nowhere'' Alison Graham, after a journalist who had championed their previous series ''Series/PhoenixNights''. |
| 395 | * ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': Tommy Oliver, the Green/White Ranger is named after producer Tony Oliver. Tommy's White Ranger weapon, Saba, is likely named after Haim Saban. Billy Cranston, the Blue Ranger, is named after Saban voice actor Creator/BryanCranston -- yes, that [[Series/MalcolmInTheMiddle Bryan]] [[Series/BreakingBad Cranston]] ([[Film/PowerRangers2017 who'd even return to the franchise]]). |
| 396 | * Roger Last was a production assistant on ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus''. His last name was appropriated by Michael Palin in the "Fish License" sketch, and his full name was appropriated by John Cleese for "Is There?" |
| 397 | ** The 'buying the mattress' sketch features a Mr. Verity and a Mr. Lambert, named after BBC producer Creator/VerityLambert. |
| 398 | * ''Series/TheMrPotatoHeadShow'': Dr. Fruitcake calls a press conference, and says hello to a few of the reporters present: Tom Brokaw, Nancy O'Dell, and Diane Sawyer, all of whom were news anchors at the time the show was being aired. However, he only uses the characters ''first'' names. |
| 399 | * ''Series/TheMuppetShow'': During Tony Randall's guest episode he accidentally turns Miss Piggy into a statue using a spell from a book he's reading. While searching for the reversal spell, Randall reads out a string of other spells which are actually the names of various Muppeteers [[SdrawkcabSpeech said backwards]]. |
| 400 | * One of the writing assistants for ''Series/TheOfficeUS'', Kelly Hannon, [[https://twitter.com/Hannerisms/status/1184198307473588224 inspired the name of character]] Kelly Erin Hannon, who has a MiddleNameBasis ([[OneSteveLimit because there was already a Kelly in the cast]]). |
| 401 | * ''Series/OrphanBlack'': |
| 402 | ** Main character Cosima Niehaus is based on and named for the show's scientific adviser and friend to the creator, Cosima Herter. |
| 403 | ** Prominent antagonist Dr. Virginia Coady is named for series writer Lynn Coady. |
| 404 | ** RecurringCharacter Angela Deangelis is named for another one of the writers, Andrew De Angelis. |
| 405 | ** Dr. Nealon is named after yet another series writer, Aubrey Nealon. |
| 406 | * ''Series/TheOuterLimits1995'': |
| 407 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S1E16TheVoyageHome The Voyage Home]]", Alan Wells is one of the first three men on UsefulNotes/{{Mars}}, where he encounters a hostile alien. He is named after Creator/HGWells, who wrote ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds1898''. |
| 408 | ** In the final scene of "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S2E6BeyondTheVeil Beyond the Veil]]", Eddie Wexler is committed to the Clackson Institute for the Criminally Insane, a reference to the series' producer Brent Karl Clackson. |
| 409 | ** The character Father Puglia in "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S3E17FeasibilityStudy Feasibility Study]]" is a reference to Frank Puglia, who played the equivalent character Father Fontana in the original version, ''Series/TheOuterLimits1963'' episode "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1963S1E29AFeasibilityStudy A Feasibility Study]]". |
| 410 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E5TheOtherSide The Other Side]]", the character Warner Oland is named after the Swedish actor best known for playing the title character in sixteen ''Film/CharlieChan'' films from 1931 to 1937. |
| 411 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E9WhatWillTheNeighborsThink What Will the Neighbors Think?]]", the apartment building in which the episode takes place, the Clackson Arms, is named after Brent Karl Clackson. Mona Bailey mentions that several families, the Egans, the Peterses, the Ruppenthals and the Shankars, have recently moved out. Each family takes its name from one of the series' writers: Sam Egan, Scott Peters, Chris Ruppenthal and Naren Shankar. Dom Pardo is named after Don Pardo, the long-time announcer for such shows as ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'', ''Series/ThePriceIsRight'' and ''Series/{{Jeopardy}}''. The Clackson Arms is also seen briefly in "Skin Deep" and "Zig Zag". |
| 412 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S5E21StarCrossed Star Crossed]]", the Russian military officer Alexandra Nevsky is named after the 13th Century Prince of Novgorod Alexander Nevsky who was later canonized by the Russian Orthodox Church. |
| 413 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E1JudgmentDay Judgment Day]]", two characters are named after Music/ElvisCostello, whose real name is Declan [=MacManus=]: the convicted killer and CondemnedContestant Declan [=McMahon=] and the Justice Channel executive Everett Costello. |
| 414 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S6E19ZigZag Zig Zag]]", Roy Chance, Dell Tinker, Peter 'Yas' Yastrzemski and Stottlemeyer are named after the Major League Baseball players Bob Chance and/or Dean Chance, Joe Tinker, Carl Yastrzemski and Mel Stottlemyre and his sons Mel, Jr. and Todd. |
| 415 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S7E2PatientZero Patient Zero]]", Quisling is named after the infamous Nazi collaborator [[TheQuisling Vidkun Quisling]]. This doesn't actually prove to be a MeaningfulName. |
| 416 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S7E9AlienShop Alien Shop]]", Andy Pace passes by a building site with a sign for Crocker Construction, a reference to the series' writer and producer James Crocker. |
| 417 | ** In "[[Recap/TheOuterLimits1995S7E12FlowerChild Flower Child]]", Allan Montesi is named after Jorge Montesi, one of the series' regular directors. |
| 418 | * In a literal example of this trope, the villain in an episode of ''Series/{{Psych}}'' is named Ken Tucker, as a TakeThat to an ''Entertainment Weekly'' writer who had panned the show. |
| 419 | * The surnames of all the ''Series/RedDwarf'' crewmembers (prior to the accident) were taken from people Rob Grant and Doug Naylor went to school with. Rimmer was named after a snobby prefect and Kochanski was named after the school bully. |
| 420 | * Creator/BillLawrence admits on a ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' DVD commentary that he's terrible at naming characters, so he named a bunch of character after real people. Included are JD, Todd Quinlan (The Todd), Molly Clock, Randall Winston, and Turk; JD, Turk, and Molly are notably named after Jonathan "JD" Doris, Jon Turk, and Dolly Klock, three of the medical doctors who served as advisors on the show. Not to mention a lot of patients, including Will Forte, Jill Tracy, Mr. Burski, and many others. Interestingly, Jill Tracy the patient was named after the real Jill Tracy, who later played a heart transplant patient named Elaine. Randall Winston was named after the real Randall Winston, who plays Leonard, the security guard with the giant afro. It can get confusing. |
| 421 | * Among the many featured in ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' was a racehorse named Papa Nick, named after Pete Papanickolas, a member of the show's production crew. |
| 422 | * Half the characters on ''Series/{{SCTV}}'' are named for Canadian celebrities, but the name is often the only resemblance. For instance, oily Melonville mayor Tommy Shanks was named after decidedly non-oily Alberta jazzman (and now Senator) Tommy Banks, while stuffy alcoholic Floyd Robertson/"Count Floyd" is named after sober, down-to-earth CTV news anchor Lloyd Robertson (who eventually retired, almost [[LongRunners thirty-five years]] after Count Floyd's early appearances). |
| 423 | * Half the characters in ''Series/SpaceCases'' have names that are Tuckerized references to writers and scientists. |
| 424 | * Bill Lawrence also invoked this on another of his shows, ''Series/SpinCity''. The Mayor of New York (played by Barry Bostwick) is named Randall Winston, after the show's writer and producer, also a friend of Lawrence's who he based Carter on. |
| 425 | * ''Franchise/StarTrek'': |
| 426 | ** Creator/GeneRoddenberry allegedly named Khan Noonien Singh on ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' and Dr. Noonien Soong on ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' after an old friend with whom he'd lost touch, in the hopes that the friend would see it and contact him. Though it's a bit odd, in that case, that he gave the name to a villain (albeit a [[MagnificentBastard magnificent]] one)... |
| 427 | ** The Klingon race was named after Lieutenant Wilbur Clingan, who served with Roddenberry in the Los Angeles Police Department. |
| 428 | ** Geordi La Forge was named after George La Forge, a quadriplegic fan of the original Star Trek who had died in 1975. |
| 429 | ** The Bolians are named after Cliff Bole, the director of the first episode a Bolian appeared in ("[[Recap/StarTrekTheNextGenerationS1E24Conspiracy Conspiracy]]"). Also, the [[{{Pun}} Cliffs of Bole]] are named after him. |
| 430 | ** Samantha Wildman of ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' was named after a young girl who died in an accident, and whose organs were donated to the ailing wife of one of the screenwriters. |
| 431 | ** "Jefferies Tubes" (the maintenance area of the ships) in the ''Franchise/StarTrek'' universe were named after [[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries Original Series]] art director Matt Jefferies, as an in-joke. |
| 432 | ** Three admirals in ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'' were named Williams, Leonard and Forrest, after the lead actors of the original series, Creator/WilliamShatner, Creator/LeonardNimoy, and Creator/DeForestKelley. Among the three admirals, Forrest gets the largest recurring role throughout the series since, at the time, Kelley was the only of the three who'd passed away. |
| 433 | ** Roddenberry's middle name was [[CreatorsPet Wesley]]. |
| 434 | ** Miles O'Brien was named after producer Rick Berman's nephew. |
| 435 | ** Dr. Lewis Zimmerman, the holo-engineer who developed the Emergency Medical Hologram program on ''Voyager'', was named after Herman Zimmerman, the production designer for TNG, [=DS9=], ''Enterprise'', and the ''Star Trek'' films from ''Film/StarTrekVTheFinalFrontier'' through ''Film/StarTrekNemesis''. |
| 436 | * ''Series/StElsewhere'': |
| 437 | ** Dr. Creator/JonLovitz is paged in "Rough Cut". |
| 438 | ** In "Cheers", Rabbi Abner Singer is named after Abner "Abby" Singer, the series' executive in charge of production at the time. |
| 439 | ** In "Time Heals, Part 2", two interns at St. Eligius in a flashback to 1975 are named [[Radio/TheBurnsAndAllenShow Burns and Allen]]. |
| 440 | ** In "Family Ties" and "You, Again?", Dr. Craig has to deal with Dr. Josiah Bartlett, his Boston General counterpart and longtime rival. He is named after Josiah Bartlett, a signatory of the Declaration of Independence and a member of the Continental Congress for New Hampshire. It also serves as an ActorAllusion as Creator/WilliamDaniels' on screen and off screen wife Bonnie Bartlett (Ellen Craig) is distantly related to Bartlett. |
| 441 | ** In "Visiting Daze", Victor Ehrlich learns that his real name is Bernie Oseransky and that his parents Lech and Olga Oseransky were UsefulNotes/{{CIA}} operatives. Bernard Oseransky was the series' executive in charge of production by that time. |
| 442 | ** In "Their Town", Jack, Sam and Harry of the Warner Bros. Carpentry Company are named after three of the four founders of the film studio Creator/WarnerBros, Albert being the fourth. |
| 443 | ** In the SeriesFinale "The Last One", there are several examples. In the opening scene, Fiscus treats a patient named General Sarnoff who is having trouble with his optic nerves. Fiscus tells him that it is a great network but he shouldn't damage it by spending all of his time watching television. General David Sarnoff was the founder of Creator/{{NBC}}. While chasing the [[Series/TheFugitive one-armed fugitive Mr. Mirkin]], Warren Coolidge says, "Move the gurney, Hal!" Hal Gurnee was the regular director of ''[[Series/LateNight Late Night with David Letterman]]''. Later, there is a new first year resident named Dr. Brandon Falsey, who is named after the Creator/{{NBC}} president Brandon Tartikoff and ''St. Elsewhere'''s co-creators Joshua Brand and John Falsey. |
| 444 | * ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'': |
| 445 | ** Bobby Singer named after director/writer/executive producer Robert Singer. Lampshade duly hung in "The French Mistake" when Dean and Sam are zapped into "our" reality and meet Rob. |
| 446 | --->'''Dean:''' What kind of a douchebag names a character after himself?\ |
| 447 | '''Sam:''' Oh, that's not right. |
| 448 | ** A RedShirt character in "Shut Up, Dr. Phil" is name after ''Supernatural'' writer Jenny Klein. |
| 449 | * ''Series/{{Taken}}'': |
| 450 | ** In "Beyond the Sky", Sally Clarke reads the ''Thrilling Space Stories'' short story "The Star Tracker" by Les Bohem. The series was created and written in its entirety by Leslie Bohem. Similarly in "Jacob and Jesse", the children's book that Jesse's mother Kate reads to him, ''The Adventures of Artemis P. Fonswick'', is written by Hilda Bohem, who is named after Bohem's mother. |
| 451 | ** General Beers is named after the series' co-executive producer Steve Beers. |
| 452 | * ''Series/TerminatorTheSarahConnorChronicles'': |
| 453 | ** Cameron from was quite obviously named after Creator/JamesCameron, the creator of the entire ''Franchise/{{Terminator}}'' series. |
| 454 | ** Ellison is most likely named after Harlan Ellison, who alleged that the ''Terminator'' movies drew material from some of his works. The claim was settled out of court and he was credited in one of the films. One of Ellison's stories that he claimed was ripped off was "Demon with a Glass Hand". There's an episode called "The Demon Hand", which focuses largely on the character named Ellison. |
| 455 | ** William (Bill) Wisher, the name Andy Good takes in the future, is the name of one of the writers of ''Film/Terminator2JudgmentDay''. |
| 456 | * A number of characters from ''Series/TheThickOfIt'' were named after players from one writer Jesse Armstrong's five-a-side football team. They include Malcolm Tucker, a particularly neat example of this trope. |
| 457 | * In ''Series/{{Thunderbirds}}'', the Tracy brothers Scott, Virgil, Alan, Gordon and John are named after the first five astronauts in space. |
| 458 | * The leader of the Tomorrow People in the [[Series/TheTomorrowPeople2013 US reboot]] is named John Young. In [[Series/TheTomorrowPeople1973 the original]], John had no surname, so the surname of the original actor Nicholas Young (who later appeared in the US series) was appropriated. A similar instance had occurred in the '90s reboot, where two police officers in the first story have the surnames of Young and co-star Mike Holloway. |
| 459 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959'': |
| 460 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E5WalkingDistance Walking Distance]]", a sign says that Ralph N. Nelson is the proprietor of the service station where Martin Sloan stops. He is named after the series' production manager Ralph W. Nelson. |
| 461 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E12WhatYouNeed What You Need]]", the jockeys riding in the race on which Fred Renard bets include Serling, Houghton, Clemens, Denault and Butler. They are named after Rod Serling, the producer Buck Houghton, the director of photography George T. Clemens, the assistant director Edward Denault and the set decorator Rudy Butler. |
| 462 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E14ThirdFromTheSun Third from the Sun]]", Jody Sturka and Ann Riden are named after Rod Serling's daughters Jodi and Ann. |
| 463 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E16TheHitchHiker The Hitch-Hiker]]", Nan Adams was also named after Ann Serling, whose nickname was Nan. The same is true of the minor character Nan in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E32APassageForTrumpet A Passage for Trumpet]]". |
| 464 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E19ThePurpleTestament The Purple Testament]]", one of the soldiers in Lt. Fitzgerald's company is named Denault. He was also named after Edward Denault. |
| 465 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E23AWorldOfDifference A World of Difference]]", Arthur Curtis' daughter Tina is named after Creator/RichardMatheson's daughter. |
| 466 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E29NightmareAsAChild Nightmare as a Child]]", Helen Foley is named after Rod Serling's favorite teacher. |
| 467 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E30AStopAtWilloughby A Stop at Willoughby]]", Gart Williams' advertising company is handling the Bradbury account. This is a reference to Creator/RayBradbury, who later wrote "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E35ISingTheBodyElectric I Sing the Body Electric]]". |
| 468 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E32APassageForTrumpet A Passage for Trumpet]]", the Houghton & Co Truck Company is named after the producer Buck Houghton. |
| 469 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S1E33MrBevis Mr. Bevis]]", Mr. James B.W. Bevis' ancestors include Magellan Bevis, a 16th Century explorer, and Parnell Bevis, a member of the British Parliament who fought for Home Rule for UsefulNotes/{{Ireland}}. |
| 470 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E11TheNightOfTheMeek The Night of the Meek]]", Henry Corwin is named after the writer Norman Corwin. |
| 471 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S2E21ThePrimeMover The Prime Mover]]", Big Phil Nolan is named after the writer William F. Nolan, a friend of the screenwriter Charles Beaumont. |
| 472 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E20ShowdownWithRanceMcGrew Showdown with Rance McGrew]]", the Old West funeral parlor is run by C. Nyby, a reference to this episode's director Christian Nyby. |
| 473 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E23TheLastRitesOfJeffMyrtlebank The Last Rites of Jeff Myrtlebank]]", one of the mailboxes has the name M. Pittman on it, a reference to this episode's writer and director Montgomery Pittman. |
| 474 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S3E26LittleGirlLost Little Girl Lost]]", Ruth and Bettina "Tina" Miller are named after Creator/RichardMatheson's wife and daughter. The former also served as the namesake of Lt. Ted Mason's late wife in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E6DeathShip Death Ship]]". |
| 475 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E16OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]", the protagonist Captain William Benteen is named after Captain Frederick William Benteen, who fought in the Battle of Little Bighorn. The real Benteen is mentioned several times in "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E10The7thIsMadeUpOfPhantoms The 7th is Made Up of Phantoms]]". |
| 476 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E18BlackLeatherJackets Black Leather Jackets]]", the alien bikers Scott, Steve and Fred are named after Earl Hamner, Jr.'s son Scott and two of his friends. |
| 477 | ** In "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S5E30StopoverInAQuietTown Stopover in a Quiet Town]]", a sign outside the church in the apparent deserted town of Centerville states that the reverend is Kogh Gleason. This is a reference to F. Keogh Gleason, a regular Creator/{{MGM}} set decorator who worked on the series during its first three seasons. |
| 478 | * ''Series/TheTwilightZone1985'': |
| 479 | ** In "One Life, Furnished in Early Poverty", Jack Wheeldon is named after a boy who [[TheBully bullied]] Creator/HarlanEllison while he was growing up. |
| 480 | ** In "Cold Reading", there is a sign for Crocker Bank. James Crocker was the series' supervising producer and wrote five episodes. |
| 481 | ** In "A Day in Beaumont", there are numerous references to actors, writers and directors who worked on science fiction projects: |
| 482 | *** Dr. Kevin Carlson and Faith are named after Richard Carlson and Faith Domergue, who each starred in several 1950s sci-fi films. |
| 483 | *** The town of Beaumont is named after Charles Beaumont, who wrote many episodes of ''Series/TheTwilightZone1959''. |
| 484 | *** Sheriff Haskin is named after Byron Haskin, who directed ''Film/TheWarOfTheWorlds''. |
| 485 | *** H.G. Orson is named after Creator/HGWells, who wrote the first AlienInvasion story ''Literature/TheWarOfTheWorlds'', and Creator/OrsonWelles, who produced the [[Radio/TheWarOfTheWorlds (in)famous 1938 radio adaptation]]. |
| 486 | *** Major Whitmore is named after James Whitmore, who played Sgt. Ben Peterson in ''Film/{{Them}}''. He also played Captain William Benteen in ''The Twilight Zone'' episode "[[Recap/TheTwilightZone1959S4E16OnThursdayWeLeaveForHome On Thursday We Leave for Home]]". |
| 487 | *** The InsectoidAliens fire Bradbury rays at Kevin and Faith as they escape. The seminal writer Creator/RayBradbury wrote for both the 1959 and 1985 versions of ''The Twilight Zone''. |
| 488 | *** In the final scene, a young man reports that he saw a FlyingSaucer crash in Matheson, a reference to the prolific author and ''Twilight Zone'' writer Creator/RichardMatheson. |
| 489 | ** In "The Storyteller", Dorothy Livingston lives in Beaumont, another reference to Charles Beaumont. |
| 490 | ** In "The Junction", the Cassutt Coal Company is named after the writer Michael Cassutt. |
| 491 | * ''Series/TwinPeaks'' is full of subtle references to early 20th Century American pop culture. |
| 492 | ** The most overt of these is the name of the town sheriff, Harry S. Truman. This is one of the only ones specifically acknowledged in-show, with Agent Cooper joking that it won't be hard to remember that name, and Harry has a mounted deer head over his desk with a placard reading "The buck stopped here", a reference to a famous line from the former president. |
| 493 | ** The other big one is that the series revolves around the murder of Laura Palmer, who is named the victim[[note]]Except not really[[/note]] and title character of the classic FilmNoir ''Film/{{Laura}}''. One of the major characters in ''Laura'' is named Waldo Lydecker; ''Twin Peaks'' has a bird named Waldo who is a patient of a vet named Lydecker. |
| 494 | ** Agent Dale Cooper himself is an example, too, since we eventually learn his middle name to be Bartholomew, thus making him D. B. Cooper. |
| 495 | ** The resident GoodBadGirl, Audrey Horne, is probably named after Creator/AudreyHepburn, while the more conventionally-wholesome Donna Hayward is probably named after Creator/DonnaReed. The Hayward family might also be indirectly named for Creator/RitaHayworth. |
| 496 | ** James Hurley, a tormented young man with a [[CoolBike nice motorcycle]], is probably named after Creator/JamesDean. Both James and his uncle Ed Hurley are probably also named in homage to Dean Hurley, a sound designer who has worked on a lot of Creator/DavidLynch's projects - including ''Twin Peaks''. |
| 497 | ** There's a character named Judy and another character named Garland. |
| 498 | ** David Lynch's own character is named Gordon Cole, after a very very minor character in ''Film/SunsetBoulevard''. This actually becomes a plot point in the third season, when hearing that name in ''Sunset Boulevard'' [[spoiler: is what finally shakes Cooper out of his season-long HeroicBSOD]]. |
| 499 | ** Deputy Andy Brennan might be named after Creator/WalterBrennan; his son, Wally, definitely is[[note]]Ironically, Wally acts a lot more like Creator/MarlonBrando[[/note]]. |
| 500 | * ''Series/UltraSeven'': The [[HumongousMecha Humongous]] CombiningMecha King Joe has had a name that has confused many English-speaking fans for years. The trick? It's supposed to be ''Kinjo'', after Tetsuo Kinjo, the show's head writer. |
| 501 | * Piz from ''Series/VeronicaMars'' was named after a regular director for the show, Piznarski. |
| 502 | * One of the characters on ''Series/TheWire'' is Sergeant Jay Landsman, who is named after and shares certain similarities with a real life Baltimore homicide detective that series creator Creator/DavidSimon met while writing ''[[Series/HomicideLifeOnTheStreet Homicide: A Year On The Killing Streets]]''. Even stranger, the real Landsman retired from police work and became an actor, and he appears on ''The Wire'' as Major Dennis Mello, a character named after ''another'' real-life Baltimore cop. |
| 503 | ** Stranger than that, Mello meets with Landsman's expy from the television series, none other than JustForFun/JohnMunch. |
| 504 | * ''Series/WizardsOfWaverlyPlace'' Executive Producer Peter Murrieta likes to insert his last name randomly into episodes, such as the name of a business on Waverly Place, and in the incantation for a spell. Also, the sub station is across the street from Greenwald's Hardware. |
| 505 | * ''Series/TheXFiles'': |
| 506 | ** The surnames of the main duo: Mulder is the maiden name of Creator/ChrisCarter's mother, and Scully is [[NamedAfterSomebodyFamous after Dodger announcer Vin Scully]]. |
| 507 | ** The [[CreepyTwins Creepy Twin Clones]] from "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E11Eve Eve]]" are named after the writers' wives. |
| 508 | ** The character Malcolm Marsden from the episode "[[Recap/TheXFilesS01E12Fire Fire]]" was named after the show's hair stylist. |
| 509 | ** "[[Recap/TheXFilesS08E19Alone Alone]]" features a rookie FBI agent named Leyla Harrison who's a big fan of Mulder and Scully's work; the character is a tribute to one of the show's actual fans. |
| 510 | * ''Series/NightGallery'' did this once or twice. In the segment "Miss Lovecraft Sent Me", an unseen dispatcher at a babysitting agency is named after Creator/HPLovecraft, though the segment is not especially Lovecraftian in tone. A better example would be "Professor Peabody's Last Lecture", which is a [[LovecraftLite pretty overt spoof]] of the CosmicHorrorStory. Students at the lecture include a Lovecraft, a Bloch, and a Derleth (Robert Bloch and August Derleth were friends of Lovecraft and contributors to the Franchise/CthulhuMythos), and even the name "Peabody" was one that Lovecraft frequently used in his stories. See above under Literature for how the real Lovecraft and Bloch were big on this trope, too. |
| 511 | * Three times in ''Franchise/KamenRider'': |
| 512 | ** Yusuke Onodera, the [[Series/KamenRiderDecade Decade]] version of [[Series/KamenRiderKuuga Yusuke Godai]] gets his surname from series creator Shotaro Ishinomori's birth surname. |
| 513 | ** Shotaro Hidari, one half of Series/KamenRiderDouble gets his name from the same. |
| 514 | ** [[Series/KamenRiderZiO Tokiwa Sougo]] gets his name from Ishinomori's apartment, Tokiwa-So. |
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| 516 | |
| 517 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 518 | * Music/LynyrdSkynyrd named itself after a rather authoritarian teacher at their former high school, with slightly different spelling. |
| 519 | * Music/{{Edguy}} is an affectionate epitaph for a Mr. Edgar Siedschlag, who was their math teacher from when they were young. |
| 520 | * Music/TheDeadMilkmen's "Stuart" mentions a kid named Jonny Wurster: Jon Wurster is the drummer for Superchunk and a friend of the band. |
| 521 | * Sloan are named after an old friend of the band, sort of: their friend Jason Larsen was frequently called "slow one" by his boss, but due to a heavy french accent it sounded more like "Sloan," which became his nickname. Larsen agreed to let them name their band after him on the condition that they put him on an album cover, and sure enough his face is on the cover of ''Peppermint'', their first EP. |
| 522 | * Miike Snow took their name from their friend Mike Snow, then added an extra "i" as a ShoutOut to Creator/TakashiMiike (though it's still pronounced "Mike", not "Me-kay"). |
| 523 | * Music/PinkFloyd took their name from two obscure American bluesmen, Pink Anderson and Floyd Council. |
| 524 | * Music/MartyRobbins named the love interest Feleena in "El Paso" and "Feleena (From El Paso)" after one of his classmates growing up. |
| 525 | * Music/GretaVanFleet is named after a woman from their city, though she was actually spelled "Gretna". |
| 526 | * Music/TaylorSwift: |
| 527 | ** In the song "No Body, No Crime", the victim Este is named after Este Haim of Music/{{Haim}}. In an interview, Swift described how she texted Este to ask what her favorite restaurant was, saying she would explain why later. A few days later, she asked Haim (the group) to sing backup on the song. One of the lyrics referenced the Olive Garden, the restaurant Este had chosen. |
| 528 | ** James, Betty, and Inez from her LoveTriangle trilogy are named after Creator/RyanReynolds and Creator/BlakeLively’s daughters. |
| 529 | * A fan of Music/TheShins named Nemarca once asked James Mercer to mention her name in a song while meeting the band at a signing event - thus their song "Phantom Limb" mentions "Nemarca's porch". |
| 530 | [[/folder]] |
| 531 | |
| 532 | [[folder:Pinballs]] |
| 533 | * In Creator/DataEastPinball's ''[[Pinball/TheWhosTommy The Who's Tommy]],'' the "Sigma Bonus" is named after [-rec.games.pinball-] newsgroup member Kevin "Sigma" Martin. |
| 534 | [[/folder]] |
| 535 | |
| 536 | [[folder:Podcasts]] |
| 537 | * A reward for people who give positive shout-outs to ''Podcast/TheAdventureZone'' on social media is to have their name used as a NPC, because it prevents Griffin from having to think up NPC names on the fly. Generally speaking, the [=NPCs=] who ''don't'' have a Tuckerized name are far, far outweighed by those who do. Typically, during the Money Zone Griffin will list off the real person/people whose name(s) got used in the episode. |
| 538 | ** Special mention goes to Boyland, whom the boys pronounced as "Boy-land" rather than "Boy-lend" [[note]]Think how the "land" is pronounced in "Disneyland" vs. "England"[[/note]], as it was actually pronounced. In the episode following Boyland's introduction, Griffin mentions that the real Boyland did correct his pronunciation, but gave him express permission to keep pronouncing it as they had been because it was much funnier. |
| 539 | * In ''Podcast/TheHiddenAlmanac'', the segment on saints' feast days has occasionally included saints based on real people who had recently died. People whose deaths were marked in this way include Music/DavidBowie (as "St Jareth, patron of the lost, the fabulous, and the peculiar, of the labyrinths underground and the starmen overhead"), Creator/CarrieFisher (as "the Fisher Saint... patron of sufferers of mental illness, scriptwriters, and generals"), Creator/AlanRickman (as "St Alan, patron of sarcasm, eloquent delivery, and spoons"), and Creator/TerryPratchett ("Saint Terry, who was one of the great ethical voices of our time"). |
| 540 | [[/folder]] |
| 541 | |
| 542 | [[folder:Pro Wrestling]] |
| 543 | * The creator and most lasting member of Wrestling/TheFabulousKangaroos, Giacomo Costa (an Italian-born Australian), took his ring name of Al Costello from a combination of two (in)famous [[UsefulNotes/TheMafia American Mafia]] members: UsefulNotes/AlCapone and Frank Costello. |
| 544 | * El Canek took his name from Jacinto Canek, an Itza Amerindian who unsuccessfully rebeled against the Spanish taking his people's land, and using slave labor. Jacinto Uc de los Santos changed his name in reference to "Ajaw Kan Ek", a title granted to Mayan Kings prior to the arrival of the conquistadors. With that in mind, El Canek's HeelFaceTurn into a defender of Mexico in LLI/UWA wasn't so surprising. |
| 545 | * Wrestling/JunkYardDog's CharlieBrownFromOuttaTown disguise of "Stagger Lee" comes from Lee Shelton, who infamously killed a man over a stetson hat. |
| 546 | * When Wrestling/MickFoley made his first appearance as a jobber in the WWF in TheEighties, he wasn't allowed to use his "Cactus Jack" name, so he called himself Jack Foley — his father's name. |
| 547 | * Wrestling/AngelinaLove and Wrestling/VelvetSky of Wrestling/TheBeautifulPeople took their ring names from legit pornstars when they originally were given the pornstar gimmick "Velvet Love Entertainment". Wrestling/MadisonRayne instead took her name after a pro wrestling valet, as she joined after it became more of GirlPosse, Sorority Hybrid(although the pornstar elements never completely went away, the "sorority" was called "Mi Pi Sexy"). |
| 548 | * When indie wrestler Ace Steel appeared in WWE as a jobber, he went by Scott Colton, the real name of his friend Wrestling/ColtCabana. A few months later, when Cabana made a jobber appearance in WWE, he used Ace Steel's real name, Chris Guy. |
| 549 | * Wrestling/{{TNA}} Knockout Rhaka Khan was named after the singer Chaka Khan. |
| 550 | * Wrestling/DaizeeHaze's name comes from the Music/SavageGarden singer Darren Hayes, which she had legally wanted to change her name to when she was a teenager. |
| 551 | * When Wrestling/{{ECW}}'s [[Wrestling/MikeBucci Nova]] made his on-screen WWE debut in 2004, he was renamed "Simon Dean", in honor of the retired Wrestling/DeanMalenko (real name: Dean Simon). |
| 552 | * Wrestling/SantinoMarella got his surname in honor of Robert Marella — the legendary Wrestling/GorillaMonsoon. |
| 553 | * Wrestling/AlSnow's Leif Cassidy character was named for Creator/LeifGarrett and Creator/DavidCassidy. |
| 554 | * Wrestling/SethRollins took the latter part of his ring name from his favorite singer, Music/HenryRollins. |
| 555 | * Wrestling/LukeHarper's original and final ring name, Brodie Lee, is a combination of Creator/JasonLee's last name with the first name of Jason's ''Film/{{Mallrats}}'' character Brodie Bruce. |
| 556 | * [[Wrestling/{{Christian}} Christian Cage]]'s full ring name (shortened to just "Christian" in WWE) comes from Creator/ChristianSlater and Creator/NicolasCage. |
| 557 | [[/folder]] |
| 558 | |
| 559 | [[folder:Roleplay]] |
| 560 | * ''Roleplay/DarwinsSoldiers'' provides several instances. |
| 561 | ** The fictional actor Stephen Di Georgi mentioned in the third RP is a fusion of the names of two people that Serris knows in real life. |
| 562 | ** ''Jessica Boyle of Escondido'', a fictional play mentioned in the first RP, is named after a person LB&T knew in real life |
| 563 | ** The [[PlayingWithSyringes Dragonstorm]] scientists Dr. Phyllis Lefrak and Dr. Thomas Sotille are named after people that Serris ''hated'' (a school teacher and a former classmate, respectively). |
| 564 | ** Dr. John Volkowitz (the Pelvanida scientist mentioned in the second and third [=RPs=])is named after someone that Serris knows in real life. |
| 565 | ** Corporal Thomas Stern's last name comes from an old friend of Noname. |
| 566 | ** An amusing instance in the first RP. The terrorist commander is named Halsey. He is played by LB&T, who has the surname of Halsey. |
| 567 | ** [[spoiler:The [[HappilyAdopted adopted]] son of [[HappilyMarried Sharon and James Zanasiu-Varma]] is Erik, named for the creator of ''Darwin's Soldiers'']] |
| 568 | [[/folder]] |
| 569 | |
| 570 | [[folder:Tabletop Games]] |
| 571 | * Practically half the names of people and places in the World of Greyhawk setting for ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' are named after people E. Gary Gygax knew, and then there's Xagyg/Zagyg/Zagig himself. Or [[SdrawkcabName Yrag]] the Lord? Or the Duchy of Urnst?[[note]]The "E." stands for Ernest. Gygax's father was also named Ernst.[[/note]] Or the Ring of Gaxx? Seriously... half of the World of Greyhawk is named after Gary Gygax ''himself!'' Heck, the coat of arms that the fighter bears on the cover of the First Edition AD&D DMG is Gygax' own family heraldry. |
| 572 | * Some examples from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'': [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=433149 Nevinyrral's Disk]] is named after Creator/LarryNiven in reference to his ''Literature/TheMagicGoesAway'' stories, which feature a disc with an enchantment that makes it spin faster and faster until it has "used up" all the mana in an area so spells don't work there any more, while [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=389566 Jalum Tome]] is named after former ''Magic'' game designer Joel L. Mick (initials: JLM). |
| 573 | ** There's also Mons's Goblin Raiders for Mons Johnson and Jayemdae Tome for '''J'''. '''M'''ichael '''Davis'''. Also there are a number of Arabian Nights cards containing anagrams of Richard Garfield's friends' names when he ran out of [[GratuitousForeignLanguage Gratuitous Arabic]]. Oh, and [[SignificantAnagram Phelddagrif/Garfield PhD]]. |
| 574 | ** [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?name=Maro Maro]] is named after lead designer '''Ma'''rk '''Ro'''sewater. Interestingly this occurred by accident; the unnamed card was marked with the abbreviated name of its designer, and the creative department assumed it was a made-up fantasy name and used it. |
| 575 | * In ''TabletopGame/OverTheEdge'', a member of the Cut-Ups is named after game designer Robert "Doc" Cross. |
| 576 | * ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' supplement ''Portfolio of a Dragon: Dunkelzahn's Secrets''. The supplement ''Super Tuesday'' described an InUniverse UCAS Presidential election and had a postcard that readers could send in to FASA to "vote" in the election. Five of the ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}'' fans who sent in their ballot received bequests in Dunkelzahn's will after he died. The bequests took the form "To <name>, I leave a small token of my esteem, to be distributed by the Draco Foundation." |
| 577 | * Winners of key ''TabletopGame/StarRealms'' tournaments had their names and likeness for several Hero cards in the ''United'' expansion. |
| 578 | * In the ''TabletopGame/{{TOON}}'' setting ''Toonpunk 2020 1/2'', the famous toonpunk Floyd Blinkingchip is a Toonified version of RL hacker and ''TabletopGame/{{GURPS}} Cyberpunk'' author Loyd Blankenship. |
| 579 | * Generally, it's a common perk for supporters at higher pledge levels for crowdfunding projects of role-playing games to include names and/or pictures of the pledgers in stories or pictures. |
| 580 | * The adventure scenario "...And I Feel Fine" for ''TabletopGame/UnknownArmies'' (in the supplement ''One Shots'') includes two ready-to-play characters named after RPG designers: Rebecca Borgstrom and Rich Dansky. |
| 581 | [[/folder]] |
| 582 | |
| 583 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 584 | * ''Theatre/TheMostHappyFella'' does this in the prelude to the title song, when the postman calls out the townspeople's names: "Johnson" and "Sullivan" were named after the original production's featured actresses Susan Johnson (as Cleo) and Jo Sullivan (as Rosabella), and "Herbie Greene" after the conductor, Herbert Greene. (The RealLife identity of Greene's paramour "Pearl" seems to be an in-joke lost to history.) |
| 585 | * In ''Theatre/{{Rent}}'', the members of the Life Support group attended by Angel and Collins are named after friends of Jonathan Larson who died from HIV/AIDS. |
| 586 | [[/folder]] |
| 587 | |
| 588 | [[folder:Theme Parks]] |
| 589 | * At ''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'' from Ride/DisneyThemeParks, Master Gracey, the Ghost Host ([[MultipleChoicePast maybe]]), is named after Yale Gracey, who designed a lot of the ride's special effects. |
| 590 | ** Also, Madame Leota is named after Leota Toombs, a ride designer and the face of Madame Leota. |
| 591 | ** Many of the tombstones in the queue are dedicated to Imagineers and animators (including the aforementioned Gracey and Leota). |
| 592 | [[/folder]] |
| 593 | |
| 594 | [[folder:Toys]] |
| 595 | * Franchise/{{Barbie}} creator Ruth Handler named Barbie after her daughter, Barbara, and Barbie's boyfriend after her son, Ken. |
| 596 | * ''Toys/{{Bionicle}}'': Kiina is named after writer Greg Farshtey's ex-wife, Jackina, and a trio of Order of Mata Nui agents (Jerbraz, Johmak, Tobduk) is named after the three artists who worked on the ''BIONICLE: World'' book, Jeremy Brazeal, John [=McCormack=] and Toby Dutkiewicz. |
| 597 | * Yasmin [[note]]AKA: "Pretty Princess"[[/note]], one of the Franchise/{{Bratz}} was named for Jasmin, the daughter of their creator Isaac Larian, the CEO of MGA Entertainment. Additionally, Cameron, one of the Bratz Boyz was named for his son Cameron. |
| 598 | [[/folder]] |
| 599 | |
| 600 | [[folder:Video Games]] |
| 601 | * Some of the pitchers and batters in ''2020 Super Baseball'' and ''Baseball Stars 2'' are named Kawasaki, a reference to Creator/{{SNK}}'s president. |
| 602 | * Jacques Portsman from ''VisualNovel/AceAttorneyInvestigationsMilesEdgeworth'' is named Makoto Yuuki in the Japanese version after his voice actor, Yuuki Furukawa. |
| 603 | * In the Japanese version of ''VideoGame/AnimalCrossing'', the character known as K.K. Slider in foreign versions is called Totakeke, which is the nickname of Nintendo composer Kazumi Totaka. He's the one to go to if you want to hear [[EasterEgg Totaka's Song]] in this game. |
| 604 | * In the ''VideoGame/ArmoredCore'' series, the obscenely powerful Karasawa laser rifle is named after one of the series' producers. It's always one of the strongest weapons in the game, if not ''the'' strongest. |
| 605 | * ''VideoGame/{{Aveyond}} 4: Shadows of the Mist'' feature the Halaina Nightwatch, the members of which are named after the game's Beta Testers. |
| 606 | * Toby "Kissy" Masuyo of ''VideoGame/{{Baraduke}}'' takes her nickname from the game's designer, Yoshihiro Kishimoto. |
| 607 | * ''VideoGame/BattleForWesnoth'': Li'sar from ''Heir to the Throne'' campaign is named after the girlfriend (now wife) of the game and campaign creator David White. |
| 608 | * The ''VideoGame/BioShock'' series has some characters named after staff from publisher 2K or developer Irrational Games - particularly in the second as tribute to the first game's crew, given it was [[BTeamSequel done by another studio]], where Augustus Sinclair takes his surname from art director Scott Sinclair, and Gil Alexander is derived from effects artist Stephen Alexander. |
| 609 | * ''VideoGame/Borderlands2'' has Michael Mamaril, a character who has a chance of showing up in Sanctuary and giving the players a blue-quality or better item. He's named after a fan of the first game who died and was included in the game as a tribute (encountering him even gets you the achievement "Tribute to a Vault Hunter"). |
| 610 | ** There's also Hunter Hellquist, who is named after creative director Paul Hellquist. |
| 611 | * Eddie Riggs of ''VideoGame/BrutalLegend'' was named after Eddie the Head, Music/IronMaiden's MetalBandMascot and his designer Derek Riggs. Amusingly, due to licensing issues the game's soundtrack doesn't contain any Iron Maiden. |
| 612 | * Almost every single randomly-generated RedShirt soldier in the ''VideoGame/CallOfDuty'' series is named after members of their respective game's development team. The most prominent is Staff Sergeant Griggs from ''VideoGame/ModernWarfare'', who is named after, [[InkSuitActor looks like]], and voiced by Infinity Ward's lead animator at the time. |
| 613 | * Many characters and locations in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes'' are real-world references, such as Perez Park and Gaiman Woods. |
| 614 | * Ozzy, Slash and Flea in ''VideoGame/ChronoTrigger'' were {{Shout Out}}s to Music/OzzyOsbourne, Slash from Music/GunsNRoses, and Flea from Music/RedHotChiliPeppers. (Their Japanese names were [[EdibleThemeNaming references to food sauces]].) This caused some problems in the sequel, where there was a new character named Slash, who to keep the MusicalThemeNaming had to be changed to Nikki, after Nikki Sixx of Music/MotleyCrue. |
| 615 | * The main character of ''VideoGame/ConfidentialMission'' is named Howard Gibson. The chief localizer of said game just happens to bear the name Howard Gi'''p'''son. |
| 616 | * Isabella, Ami, Liz and Megumi from ''VideoGame/CrashTeamRacing'' were all named after various women who worked at Sony Computer Entertainment at the time of the game's creation. Isabella comes from Isabelle Tomatis, Product Manager at SCE America; Ami comes from Ami Matsumura-Blaire, Marketing Manager at SCE America; Liz comes from Elizabeth Ashford, PR Manager at SCE Europe; and Megumi comes from Megumi Hosoya, Product and Marketing Manager at SCE Japan (who is also responsible for creating Crash's iconic dance). |
| 617 | * In ''VideoGame/CrusaderKingsII'', several landless Swedish nobles are named for staff at Creator/ParadoxInteractive, which is based in Sweden. |
| 618 | * When the Creator/DataEast ShootEmUp ''Makyou Senshi'' was localized, it was renamed ''VideoGame/{{Gondomania}}''. The lead designer's family name happened to be Gondo... |
| 619 | * Online flash-based game ''VideoGame/{{Dragonfable}}'''s developers, Artix Entertainment, awarded about 10 players cameos as [[spoiler:brainwashed heroes that the player must fight]] in one of the late quests of the Fire War. |
| 620 | * The "Andy Asteroids?" segments from the first ''VideoGame/EarthwormJim'' game are named after the game's programmer, Andy Astor, and the Big Bruty in the Special Edition is named after the art director, Nick Bruty. |
| 621 | * ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'': |
| 622 | ** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' contains the ashes of two members of the official forums who died before the game shipped. Also, one of the very first characters you meet in the game -- the one that helps you choose your class and birthsign and gives you the papers to deliver -- is named Socucius Ergalla, which is a screen name that the Lead Designer of the game used, and the [[http://uesp.net/wiki/Morrowind:Socucius_Ergalla character]] also looks considerably like [[http://uesp.net/wiki/General:Ken_Rolston him]]. |
| 623 | ** ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' has a character named Erik the Slayer, based off a fan named Eric West (and whose screen name on the forums was Immok the Slayer) who died of cancer a few months before the game's release. The character wants to be an adventurer but his father doesn't have the money to help him follow his dream; if the player helps him out, they will have the option of having him join them on their journey. |
| 624 | * The leaders of [[LaResistance the Rebellion]] in ''VideoGame/EscapeVelocity Nova'' have surnames from the development team (or a codename, in Frandall's case). |
| 625 | * ''VideoGame/Fallout2'' has a couple of special encounters with Tuckerization: |
| 626 | ** 'The Cafe of Broken Dreams' -- One of the characters tells of a player who went to great lengths to keep Dogmeat alive in the original ''VideoGame/{{Fallout|1}}''. Based on a real player. |
| 627 | ** 'The Unwashed Villagers hunting a spammer' -- From the Fallout wiki, "A reference to a real life flamewar between a Fallout internet community and a forum 'troll'." The villagers are named with the handles of the people involved. |
| 628 | * In ''VideoGame/FatalFrameII: Crimson Butterfly'', several of the photographed ghosts bear the names and faces of people who won a contest to be placed in the game. |
| 629 | * One of the hunts in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXII'', Yazmat, is named for Yasumi Matsuno, the game's original director and a long-time developer at Squaresoft (later Creator/SquareEnix). Matsuno frequently went by "Yazz" amongst his colleagues. The dialog for the quest makes an oblique reference to his stepping down from the game's development and subsequent departure from Square Enix before the game was completed. The English version mistranslated this to "Yiazmat," not understanding the reference. |
| 630 | * In the ''Franchise/FireEmblem Tellius'' series, one of the villains is named Izuka (who appeared only as a brief cameo in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemPathOfRadiance Path of Radiance]]'' only to come back with importance in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemRadiantDawn Radiant Dawn]]''), which is also the surname of the character and set designer for ''Path of Radiance'', Daisuke Izuka. |
| 631 | * Ebisumaru, Goemon's partner in ''VideoGame/GanbareGoemon'', was named after Konami programmer Ebisu Etsunobu, who programmed ''Ganbare Goemon 2'' for the Famicom (which was incidentally Ebisumaru's debut game). |
| 632 | * In ''VideoGame/{{GoldenEye|1997}} 007'', a gun called [[JokeItem the Klobb]] is named after Ken Lobb, a Nintendo of America employee at the time who helped develop the game. This wasn't originally planned -- the gun was originally named the Spyder (and the manual even referenced it with this name), but when the developers discovered such a gun really existed, they had to quickly change it to something else for legal reasons. There's also a Dr. Doak, after one of the developers, David Doak, [[http://www.edge-online.com/features/the-story-of-goldeneye-007s-most-notorius-gun-the-klobb-and-its-design-secret/ as was]] the [=DD44=] gun. |
| 633 | * ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'': RedShirt marines in ''VideoGame/Halo3'' are named after either developers at [[{{Creator/Bungie}} Bungie Studios]] or cast members of the ''Halo'' machinima ''WebAnimation/RedVsBlue''. A number of Army troopers in ''VideoGame/HaloReach'' are also named after Bungie staff. |
| 634 | * There's a character in two of the ''VideoGame/HarvestMoon'' games named "Wada." His name is a tribute to Yasuhiro Wada, the creator of the franchise. |
| 635 | * In ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'', there are several masks which are named after real-life people, such as the wolf mask Dennis (named after Dennis Wedin, the co-developer of the game), the camel mask Rami (named after Rami Ismail, a fellow IndieGame developer and a personal friend of Dennaton Games), and the bat mask Nigel (named after Nigel Lowrie, an employee of Devolver Digital, who also has an achievement named after him). |
| 636 | * Contest winner Kurt Zisa got a powerful US-exclusive OptionalBoss named after him in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsI''. |
| 637 | * Depending on who at Nintendo you ask, VideoGame/{{Kirby}} was either named after a lawyer who helped Nintendo in their legal battle against Universal over ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong'', ''or'' Kirby vacuum cleaners. |
| 638 | * Many of the characters in the ''VideoGame/KunioKun'' series were named after employees of Technos Japan Corp., or people they knew. In fact, Kunio himself was named after Technos Japan's president, Kunio Taki. |
| 639 | * Creator/ShigeruMiyamoto originally intended to name Link from ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'' "Chris" or "Christo" after his godfather. ExecutiveMeddling stopped his plans. |
| 640 | * There's an enemy called Lobb in the Platform/VirtualBoy game ''VideoGame/MarioClash'', supposedly named after Ken Lobb. |
| 641 | * ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' has a mission regarding a crashed ship called the ''Hugo Gernsback'', after the founder of ''Magazine/AmazingStories'', the first ever sci-fi magazine. According to some accounts, Gernsback coined the term "science fiction". |
| 642 | * The protagonist of Creator/{{Taito}}'s ''VideoGame/MasterOfWeapon'', Yukiwo, has the same name as its programmer, Yukiwo Ishikawa. |
| 643 | * ''Franchise/MegaMan'': |
| 644 | ** In the English version of ''VideoGame/MegaManX5'', the bosses are named after the members of Music/GunsNRoses because the translator's wife (none other than Creator/AlysonCourt, the longtime voice actress of [[Franchise/ResidentEvil Claire Redfield]]) was a fan; For example, Duff [=McWhalen=] instead of Duff [=McKagan=], Squid Adler instead of Steve Adler, Axl the Red instead of Axl Rose, etc. [[CompilationRerelease Later versions]] use the Japanese names, though. |
| 645 | ** In the ''[[VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork Rockman.EXE]]'' series, both the games and [[Anime/MegaManNTWarrior the anime]], there's a character named Meijin Eguchi (literally, "The Famous Eguchi," Mr Famous in the Translations), who plays a minor role in each game (mostly a fan-Navi vehicle) and is basically the commander in the anime. The name of the scenario writer for ''EXE''? Eguchi Masakazu. |
| 646 | ** Likewise, Legendary Master Shin in ''VideoGame/MegaManStarForce'' is named after Shinsuke Kodama who worked on the game. And the ''extremely'' minor character SoulBattler Takeshi, who is sometimes mentioned in BSS chats and also appears as a sidequest NPC in Battle Network 6, is named after a tournament announcer for Battle Network who was known for his energetic style. |
| 647 | * Scott Dolph, head of the Marine Corps in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid2SonsOfLiberty'', was named after the American coordinator working on that game and the first. Cécile Cosima Caminandes in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolidPeaceWalker'' is named after Konami's real life French coordinator, since Kojima thought her middle name and last name sounded like 'Kojima kaminandesu' (Kojima is God). The character is modeled to look somewhat like her as well. |
| 648 | ** The original ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid'' had the inept guard Johnny Sasaki, named after character model designer Hideki Sasaki. For some reason, he dropped the Sasaki surname in ''VideoGame/{{Metal Gear Solid 4|GunsOfThePatriots}}''. |
| 649 | * To quote Robert Alan Koeneke, creator of the {{Roguelike}} ''VideoGame/{{Moria}}'': |
| 650 | -->"If anyone managed to win, I immediately found out how, and 'enhanced' the game to make it harder. I once vowed it was 'unbeatable', and a week later a friend of mine beat it! His character, 'Iggy', was placed into the game as 'The Evil Iggy', and immortalized... And of course, I went in and plugged up the trick he used to win..." |
| 651 | * Noob Saibot from ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' is the names of the two lead developers (Boon and Tobias) [[SdrawkcabName spelled backwards]]. The story behind it is that Ed Boon got in trouble with John Tobias following the release of [[VideoGame/MortalKombat1992 the first game]] due to Boon (who was the game's programmer) sneaking in Reptile as a SecretCharacter, which only he knew about before the game shipped to arcades. For the making of ''VideoGame/MortalKombatII'', while measures were in place to have everyone in development be aware of the game's new unlockable characters (Smoke and Jade), Boon repeated the stunt by secretly adding in a new all-black ninja character, with their names being referenced as an in-joke to their previous scuffle. |
| 652 | * In ''Mother 2'', there is an unnamed girl in Magicant who invites Ness to sing a song with her. When the game was brought to the US and (much later) Europe as ''VideoGame/EarthBound1994'', she was named Nico after Marcus Lindblom's daughter, who was born during localization. |
| 653 | * The only guaranteed shopkeeper in ''VideoGame/NetHack'' is Izchak, named for the late coder Izchak Miller (who did a lot of work on the shopkeeper logic). [[SelfImposedChallenge Extinctionist gameplay]] is very ropey on whether it's acceptable to kill him (anything other than extinctionism and the rule is simple: don't). Several other shopkeeper names are anagrams of names of various Dev Team members. |
| 654 | * ''VideoGame/NoOneLivesForever'' did similar to ''Goldeneye'''s Klobb: one of the sniper rifles was named the "Geldmacher SVD," after developer Jim Geldmacher. |
| 655 | * ''VideoGame/{{Overwatch}}'': |
| 656 | ** The series' resident [[TheGunslinger cowboy gunslinger hero]] formerly named Jesse [=McCree=] got his name from one of the developers at Creator/BlizzardEntertainment, the story being that as the game and character were being created, someone put his name in as a placeholder, [[PermanentPlaceholder but everyone kept preferring it to whatever other names they could come up with, so it stuck.]] However, as a show of what could go wrong with this trope, the real Jesse [=McCree=] [[RoleEndingMisdemeanor was fired from Blizzard years later after being outed on sexual harassment allegations]], and the character [[SuddenNameChange was officially renamed]] to Cole Cassidy (the in-universe explanation is that [=McCree=] was [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname a criminal alias used while working in the Deadlock Gang]], while Cassidy is his real birth name [[MeaningfulRename that he chose to return to while rebuilding Overwatch]]). As part of this, Blizzard as a whole announced [[DefiedTrope they'd no longer continue the practice of naming characters after real devs]] as to not potentially recreate this issue again. |
| 657 | ** In the initial announcements of ''Overwatch 2'' and the reveal of the New York City map, there's a store called "Jeph's Corner Pizza", a reference to former Blizzard VP and ''Overwatch'' director Jeff Kaplan (based on an in-joke back when a Starbucks opened at Blizzard campus, [[MyNaymeIs writing his name as "Jeph"]]). However, [[SubvertedTrope this was removed come its actual release]] as a direct result of the aforementioned change in naming policy... [[DoubleSubversion though there still exists another tribute]] in the same map with the Omnic firefighter on the map's payload, whose jacket reveals his name to be "Chacko", referencing former ''Overwatch'' executive producer Chacko Sonny. |
| 658 | * ''VideoGame/PerfectDark Zero'' from the same team has a side-character named Bjorn Madsen, a [=dataDyne=] employee who sells the protagonists information in one level, named after one of the developers. |
| 659 | * Satomi Tadashi, the [[GenerationXerox (group of)]] people who run the drugstores in ''VideoGame/Persona1'', are named after the scenario designer. |
| 660 | * The Franchise/{{Pokemon}} Hitmonlee and Hitmonchan are named after Creator/BruceLee and Creator/JackieChan respectively. Their Japanese names, Sawamular and Ebiwalar are taken from Tadashi Sawamura, the world's first kickboxer, and Hiroyuki Ebihara, a world champion Japanese boxer. |
| 661 | ** A similar situation happens with the Japanese names of Abra, Kadabra, and Alakazam. |
| 662 | *** Casey (Abra) comes from Edward Cayce. |
| 663 | *** Yungerer (Kadabra) comes from Uri Geller. The real Uri Geller actually sued Nintendo of America for this. He lost, of course, because he sued Nintendo of ''America'', who had no part in creating Kadabra. [[note]]Even though he lost, enough damage was done that the Trading Card Game and the anime [[ExiledFromContinuity eventually stopped]] showing new appearances from Kadabra.[[/note]] |
| 664 | *** Foodin (Alakazam) comes from Harry Houdini. |
| 665 | ** In ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite'', the musicians of the Village Bridge Koontz (the singer), Aickman (the guitarist), Derleth (the flutist), and Russo (the beatboxer) are named after science fiction writers August Derleth, Dean Koontz, Robert Aickman, and Richard Paul Russo. |
| 666 | * ''VideoGame/ProjectWingman'' includes the airship ''R. Astley'', either a reference to either a Patreon backer or Music/RickAstley. |
| 667 | * Veteran RPG writer Dennis Detwiller contributed the story for ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'', but before that, he was well-known for his work on ''TabletopGame/DeltaGreen'' alongside writers like John Tynes. Among the various characters Alex ends up eating as part of the Web of Intrigue is a Dr. Jon Tynes. |
| 668 | * ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'': Razputin Aquato is named for former Creator/DoubleFine staff member Razmig Mavlian. |
| 669 | * ''VideoGame/RivalsOfAether'' contains quite a few examples: |
| 670 | ** Wrastor is named after Ryan Sicat, otherwise known as Wrastor, who is an illustrator and concept artist. |
| 671 | ** Etalus is named after George "Etalus" Rogers, the community manager. |
| 672 | ** Ranno is named after concept artist Marc Knelsen, otherwise known as El Ranno. |
| 673 | ** Elliana is named after pixel artist and animator, Ellian. |
| 674 | ** Ayala, Elliana's alternate skin, is named after the artist who designed her, Andy Ayala. |
| 675 | * One of the creatures in ''VideoGame/RivenTheSequelToMyst'' was named a ''Ytram,'' which was named such after the creators of ''Myst'' and ''Riven'' received numerous messages from an overzealous fan. "Ytram" is his name spelled backwards. |
| 676 | * The main character of ''[[VideoGame/Robotron2084 Robotron 64]]'' is called Eugene, a reference to the creator of the original game, Creator/EugeneJarvis. |
| 677 | * ''VideoGame/ShadowComplex'': Jason Fleming has [[Literature/TheBourneSeries Jason Bourne]]'s first name and Creator/IanFleming's last name. |
| 678 | * Practically every street name in the town of ''Franchise/SilentHill'' is the name of a horror, fantasy/SF, mystery or true-crime author -- or director. [[Film/InvasionOfTheBodySnatchers Finney Street]], [[Creator/RichardMatheson Matheson Street]], [[Creator/RobertBloch Bloch Street]], [[Creator/DeanKoontz Koontz Street]], [[Creator/RayBradbury Bradbury Street]], Levin Street, [[Creator/StephenKing Bachman Road]], [[Creator/MichaelCrichton Crichton Street]].. |
| 679 | * Many characters and place names in Creator/SpiderwebSoftware games are named after Jeff Vogel's friends and Usenet acquaintances. [[http://www.spiderwebsoftware.com/misc/interviews/aolchat.html According to]] WordOfGod, "The provinces in ''VideoGame/{{Exile}} III'' are named after women I've been ... ummmmmm .... intimate with." ''VideoGame/{{Nethergate}}'' has a shopkeeper named for the game's illustrator, Creator/PhilFoglio. See [[http://spiderwebforums.ipbhost.com/index.php?/topic/9166-name-cameos-in-jeffs-games/ this thread]] for a list. |
| 680 | * ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros'': Mario was named after Nintendo of America's landlord, Mario Segali. |
| 681 | ** In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG'', there's a boss called the Gunyolk, which is probably a play on the name of Creator/GunpeiYokoi, a key figure in Nintendo's history. |
| 682 | * Sometimes the developers of Japanese [=RPGs=] actually make it into the game themselves. Examples include Creator/MotoiSakuraba, the music composer, in ''VideoGame/TalesOfPhantasia'' and ''VideoGame/TalesOfDestiny'' and Shinji Hashimoto, the producer of ''VideoGame/TheWorldEndsWithYou''. |
| 683 | * Dr. Cinnamon from the ''VideoGame/TwinBee'' series is named after a nickname of Creator/{{Konami}} programmer Kazuhiro Aoyama, who was credited as "Kazuhiro Shinamon" in the first two games in which Dr. Cinnamon appeared (''Moero!! [=TwinBee=]''[[note]]Released as "Stinger" in North America.[[/note]] and ''Konami VideoGame/WaiWaiWorld''). |
| 684 | * ''VideoGame/TransportTycoon'' originally used real-world vehicles. For the US version, these were changed to fake vehicle company names. Some of these come from the last names of Microprose's QA testers (Bakewell, Kirby, Luckett, Sampson, Witcombe). Others reference places near creator Chris Sawyer's hometown of Chipping Sodbury (Yate, the Cotswold hills) |
| 685 | * Many characters in the ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' series are named after the games' creators and their friends, most notably Lord British and the Avatar's Companions (although Lord British may canonically be, quite literally, [[AuthorAvatar Garriott himself]]). |
| 686 | ** In the ''Martian Dreams'' spin-off from ''VideoGame/UltimaVI'', you get to hang out with Warren Spector, one of the game's designers. |
| 687 | *** And in the previous game, ''Savage Empire,'' Warren Spector also shows up as [[spoiler:the BigBad]]. |
| 688 | * Quite a few [[NonPlayerCharacter NPCs]] and items in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'' are named after real people, often in their memory. One example is [[http://www.wowhead.com/?npc=30562#comments Crusader Bridenbrad,]] named for '''Brad'''ley '''Briden'''becker, the brother of one the Creator/{{Blizzard|Entertainment}} employees, who had died of cancer, while another is Robin, the [[WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}} Genie]] of Comedy, added to the game by popular demand after Creator/RobinWilliams' passing. |
| 689 | ** One of the more bizarre ones is Gorge the Corpsegrinder, a Horde NPC named after George "Corpsegrinder" Fisher of Music/CannibalCorpse. Fisher is apparently a huge fan of the game, owning multiple accounts and often lamenting in interviews that he doesn't get a chance to play as much as he'd like on the road, as well as the presence of elves in the Horde. |
| 690 | ** One Ian Bates, memetically known as the Red Shirt Guy, corrected the writers of the game live on stage at Blizzcon on a glaring mistake regarding Falstad Wildhammer who was not, as they had presumed, dead. The developers not only fixed the error but at the same time placed an NPC "Wildhammer Fact Checker" next to the subject, pointedly wearing a red top as a reference to his memetic nickname. |
| 691 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Xevious}}: Fardraut Saga'', the list of "New Weapons" includes one named Mootani, after Creator/{{Compile}}'s Masamitsu "Moo" Niitani. |
| 692 | [[/folder]] |
| 693 | |
| 694 | [[folder:Webcomics]] |
| 695 | * ''Webcomic/AndShineHeavenNow'' takes this to extremes, with a mostly-annual storyline in which fans of the series (it's a ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'' fancomic) are drawn in by the dozens. Another storyline had a few of the main cast visiting a convention, which was staffed by real-life con volunteers. |
| 696 | * Similarly once more, the only character in ''Webcomic/{{Earthsong}}'' to be Tuckerized in was [[SacrificialLamb killed...ish]] within the first 25 pages. |
| 697 | ** Before the reboot, the character of Alyss had the name "Tehmel," which was an explicit reference to a close friend of the author. The name was altered when the character was reintroduced during the Redux because the author didn't particularly like how awkward the name sounded. Alyss is apparently still a reference to the same person. |
| 698 | * ''Webcomic/BadMoonRising'' occasionally features the bartender Lee, who gets both his name and appearance with writer K.A. Maples's father. |
| 699 | * Trawn from ''Webcomic/ElectricWonderland'' shares the same first name as one of the cartoonist's friends: Eileen Cruz, founder of Toon Zone. |
| 700 | * In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Greg is [[https://www.egscomics.com/comic/2002-04-08 named]] after a guy Dan knew in high school. |
| 701 | * In ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' there's a villain named Baron Aaronev who is served by mooks with a strong resemblance to characters in comics drawn by ''Aaron'' Williams. Williams returned the favor by making Phil Foglio a villain in ''ComicBook/PS238''. |
| 702 | * ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'': |
| 703 | ** Gamzee Makara was named for a Turkish fan named Gamze Kurtlooz (better known as Gammy), who was a member of the forums at the time the trolls were introduced. A variety of variations on her name were suggested (as her name at 5 letters was too short), and "Gamzee" ended up being selected, as Hussie thought it was a MeaningfulName. A similar thing happened with Tavros Nitram, as his last name is just "Martin" backwards, named after another fan. Because of these two incidents, Hussie became more selective with name suggestion, and after the trolls were fully introduced, no further naming has been possible by the fans. |
| 704 | ** Then there's Kurloz Makara, named after Gamze's last name. |
| 705 | * ''Webcomic/KevinAndKell'' creator Bill Holbrook does include especially generous patrons in the strip. One example of this is the platypus [[http://www.kevinandkell.com/2015/kk0820.html Mr. Chapman]]. |
| 706 | * ''Webcomic/RustyAndCo'' has featured cameos -- not necessarily of the supporter who paid for it. |
| 707 | ** The psychic Zar is an RPG character of a supporter. |
| 708 | ** The gnoll Slobber is a supporter's pet pug. |
| 709 | ** The cleric Dorylis is another supporter's RPG character. |
| 710 | ** The unnamed angel summoned by Derek is a Patreon supporter's character. |
| 711 | * ''Webcomic/KnightsOfTheOldCoding'' had a couple contests where the victor got to be killed by the cast member of their choice. Worth pointing out that ''Webcomic/KnightsOfTheOldCoding'' predated ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' on this trend. |
| 712 | * ''Webcomic/MyLifeInBlue'' lead character Alex's last name is Charbonneau, which is also the author's mother's maiden name.[[note]]Zan (Lawrence) Gullo's mother is Eileen Charbonneau, who is a notable author in her own right.[[/note]] |
| 713 | * ''Webcomic/PennyArcade'' auctions off cameo appearances for the Child's Play charity. An example can be seen [[http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2009/12/9/ here.]] Although for several years, Tycho and Gabe have ''completely forgotten'' to do the cameo strip. And in all but the first case, they have pointed out that the people that buy the cameo appearances are either a group (as in the first case), or otherwise in possession of a lot of money. Their second cameo strip consisted entirely of them trying to convince the person who had won the appearance to ''buy them cars'' (he had won the auction with a bid of $20,000). |
| 714 | * ''Webcomic/PeterAndCompany'' uses the real names of all the people in Jon's past; the only exception is the author's own avatar, Peter. |
| 715 | * [[http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=070301 This]] is what happens to people who win a cameo appearance in ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance''. |
| 716 | * ''Webcomic/YumisCells'' and its follow-up comic, ''Webcomic/DailyJoJo'', feature several brands and stores named Julli, after the author's wife (who also serves as the latter series' colorist). |
| 717 | [[/folder]] |
| 718 | |
| 719 | [[folder:Web Original]] |
| 720 | * Many stories on Website/AlternateHistoryDotCom have this. Taken to ridiculous levels in Doctor What's novels. Snake Oil has no less than 24 cameos. |
| 721 | * In [[http://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/03/16/interlude-19-y/ Interlude 19 (Donation Bonus #2)]] of ''Literature/{{Worm}}'', which consists mostly of samples of forum posts from the in-universe website Parahumans Online, the author names most of the forum posters by coming up with CaptainErsatz versions of the names of various fans. |
| 722 | * ''WebOriginal/Sagan4'': Continents, rivers, oceans, hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, volcanoes, mountains, caves, islands, reefs, and other features of the world map are named after contributors and other fans. |
| 723 | [[/folder]] |
| 724 | |
| 725 | [[folder:Western Animation]] |
| 726 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'': |
| 727 | ** In the pilot, Finn was named Pen, after the show's creator, Creator/PendletonWard. |
| 728 | ** "Marceline" is the middle name of one of Pen Ward's friends, Marie, who sounds like a PerkyGoth from his description. |
| 729 | ** {{Inverted}} with Princess Bubblegum--she was originally going to be named "Betty", but Ward decided against it ''because'' that's his mother's name. This name would later be used for [[spoiler:the Ice King/Simon's ex-fiancée]], though. |
| 730 | * ''WesternAnimation/AeonFlux'': Despite the MeaningfulName overtones, Peter Chung has claimed that Trevor Goodchild was named randomly after a school classmate. |
| 731 | * ''WesternAnimation/AladdinTheSeries'': Mozenrath is named for series writers Bill Motz and Bob Roth. |
| 732 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'': |
| 733 | ** Richard, Nicole and Anais are named after Ben Bocquelet's (the show creator) father, mother and sister, respectively. |
| 734 | ** Steve Small, the guidance counselor, is named after his character designer. |
| 735 | ** Alan Keane was named for one of the show's writers. |
| 736 | ** Tobias Wilson gets his surname from show writer Tobi Wilson (Tobi having joined the crew in the second season, after Tobias' was already given his first name). |
| 737 | ** The names "Mic Graves" and "Guillaume Cassuto" appear several times in in-series media. They are both show staff in real life. |
| 738 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'': In "The Great [=MacGrady=]", Mrs. [=MacGrady=]'s first name is said to be Leah, in honor of Leah Ryan, who wrote the episode and also has cancer. This doubles as a SeriesContinuityError, as her name was previously Sarah. |
| 739 | * A few side characters in ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': |
| 740 | ** The playwright for the play based on the main characters' adventures in is named Pu-On Tim, after series writer Tim Hedrick. |
| 741 | ** The prisoner who helps Sokka, Zuko, Suki, and Hakoda escape the Fire Nation prison is named Chit Sang after writer May Chan's father. |
| 742 | ** The boy Azula kissed in "The Beach" is named Chan, after writer May Chan. |
| 743 | * ''Franchise/Ben10'': |
| 744 | ** In the ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' episode "Pet Project" Gwen mentions that a store called [=McDuffie's=], named after head writer Creator/DwayneMcDuffie, is closing down. |
| 745 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/Ben10Omniverse'' Blukic and Driba are named for directors Butch Lukic and Dan Riba. |
| 746 | * ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': While it [[AllThereInTheManual very rarely comes up in the show itself]], the town the Belchers reside in is called Seymour's Bay. The name started out as an [[CreatorInJoke in-joke]] among the crew, referencing the show's longtime editor Mark Seymour and all the time he spends in his "editing bay". |
| 747 | * ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' held a contest with the prize being the honor of appearing on the show. The winner got to see his Claymation self right in the center of the Deathmatch ring -- where his liver was promptly ripped out by John Tesh. |
| 748 | * The setting of ''WesternAnimation/CliffordTheBigRedDog'', Birdwell Island, was named after Norman Bridwell, the author of the original Clifford books. |
| 749 | * ''WesternAnimation/DanVs'': The titular protagonist and his friend Chris are named after the creators of the show, Dan Mandel and Chris Pearson. |
| 750 | * The title character of ''WesternAnimation/{{Doug}}'' was named after creator Jim Jinkins' godson. Patti Mayonnaise was named after two girls Jim Jinkins had crushes on as a middle school student: Patti and Mayo. |
| 751 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheDragonPrince'': [[HandicappedBadass Captain Villads]] is named for the show's supervising director, Villads Spangsberg. |
| 752 | * ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'' features a character named Zan Owlson, named for producer Suzanna Olson. |
| 753 | * ''WesternAnimation/ElinorWondersWhy'': Jorge Cham stated that Elinor was inspired by his own daughter, whose name is also Elinor. |
| 754 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddparents'': |
| 755 | ** Timmy Turner was named after creator Butch Hartman's brother. Interestingly, Timmy was supposed to be named Matt, after Butch's older brother, Matt Hartman. A massive argument between the brothers caused the change to Timmy, their younger brother |
| 756 | ** Elmer, Butch Hartman's real name, is used as the name of one of Timmy's friends. His sapient boil, Bob, is named after art director Bob [[{{Pun}} Boyle]]. |
| 757 | * In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' episode "[[Recap/FamilyGuyS9E9AndImJoyceKinney And I'm Joyce Kinney]]" [[spoiler:the title character was known as Joyce Chevapravatdumrong in high school]], a reference to Cherry Chevapravatdumrong, a writer on ''Family Guy''. |
| 758 | ** The doctor was also named after Butch Hartman. His name: Dr. Elmer Hartman. |
| 759 | * Combined with AdaptationNameChange, ''WesternAnimation/FlashGordon1996'' has the titular Flash's name changed to "Alex" after Alex Raymond, the creator of the original comic strip, with "Flash" merely as a nickname. |
| 760 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'': |
| 761 | ** Fry's first name is Phillip as a tribute to Creator/PhilHartman, who had been a regular cast member of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' and was supposed to provide the voice of Zapp Brannigan before his death. |
| 762 | ** In "Silence of the Clamps" the crew mistake a farming robot for Bender. The farmbot is named for Creator/BillyWest who is one of the main cast members. On learning the character's name Fry, who is played by West, [[SelfDeprecation makes fun of it]]. |
| 763 | --->'''Fry:''' Billy West? What a stupid, phony, made-up name! |
| 764 | * On ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'', the town of Spoonerville is named for J. Michael Spooner, who worked on layouts for the show. |
| 765 | * ''WesternAnimation/GhostForce'': This series has a character named Professor Pascal and a writer named Pascal Boutboul. |
| 766 | * On Disney cartoons where WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} plays all the characters in a sports team, the names of the players are those of various Disney artists. |
| 767 | * ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'': |
| 768 | ** Soos Ramirez is based on Jesús Chambrot, a friend of Alex Hirsch at [=CalArts=], and his middle and last names are a reference to storyboard artist Alonso Ramirez Ramos. |
| 769 | ** Shandra Jimenez may be named after Sean Jimenez, Gravity Falls' Background Design Supervisor, or on Sarah Jimenez, one of Alex Hirsch's friends from when he attended [=CalArts=]. |
| 770 | ** Aoshima, the bizarre four-armed dolphin from Mabel's [[GRatedDrug Smile Dip-induced]] [[MushroomSamba hallucination]] in "The Inconveniencing", is named after director John Aoshima. |
| 771 | ** The Billy Mays {{Expy}} Bobby Renzobbi from "The Land Before Swine" is likely named after producer Rob Renzetti. |
| 772 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'': According to [[https://maxwellatoms.tumblr.com/post/172976961332/did-you-know-that-the-name-of-your-character a Tumblr post]] form series creator Maxwell Atoms, Sperg is named after a childhood friend of one of the show's writers; said friend's last name was Spergel. |
| 773 | * The title character of ''WesternAnimation/HarveyBeaks'' shares his name from creator Carl Greenblatt's middle name. |
| 774 | * One villain in ''WesternAnimation/TheHoundcats'' is named [=McCabe=] after animator Norm [=McCabe=]. |
| 775 | * ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'': "It was foreseen that you would come. Foreseen by... [[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 Frank.]]" |
| 776 | -->'''Frank:''' Yep. Told you he'd come. |
| 777 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' |
| 778 | ** Mako is named after [[Creator/{{Mako}} Mako Iwamatsu]], the original voice actor of Iroh in [[WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender the original series]] who died near the end of production for Book 2. |
| 779 | ** Tenzin and Pema's fourth child, Rohan, is named after co-creator Bryan Konietzko's nephew. |
| 780 | * An example from ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': in a WesternAnimation/BugsBunny episode, the wolf which chases Bugs is named "Charles M. Wolf." Guess what the "Charles M." stands for. (The episode was directed by Creator/FrizFreleng.) |
| 781 | ** The Creator/ChuckJones directed ''WesternAnimation/RabbitOfSeville'' opens with an establishing shot of a sign for a performance of ''Theatre/TheBarberOfSeville'', with all the credits being [[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign Italian-seeming versions]] of the real staff's name: Eduardo Selzeri (Eddie Selzer, Looney Tunes' head bean-counter), Carlo Jonzi (Chuck Jones) and Michelle Maltese (Michael Maltese, writer and frequent collaborator with Jones). |
| 782 | ** The Warner Bros. short ''Punch Trunk'' about a tiny elephant mentions the ship "U.S.S. Michael Maltese" after the writer, and has the line "Thank you, Mr. Pratt" after artist Hawley Pratt. |
| 783 | * ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'', another show created by Povenmire and Marsh, allowed the former to honor his other daughter, Melissa, with a main-character namesake.[[note]]Reportedly, Isabella Povenmire is gunning for a second character as well.[[/note]] Milo's dog, [[ADogNamedDog Diogee]], is named after Povenmire's sister's dog. |
| 784 | * In ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'', one-off character Prince Ali is named after the creator's brother, despite sounding like an ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'' reference. |
| 785 | * ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' and its merchandise provide a few examples: |
| 786 | ** Soarin' was named after Soren, the son of one of the show's writers Amy Keating Rogers (who got to name the character when she wrote the episode "[[Recap/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS1E26TheBestNightEver The Best Night Ever]]"). |
| 787 | ** [[CompanionCube "Tom"]] was named after Tom Sales, one of the show's storyboard artists. |
| 788 | ** Princess Cadance was [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/04/inside-my-little-pony-royal-wedding.html named]] [[http://comicsonline.com/2012/04/_special_event_my_little_pony_friendship_is_magic_royal_wedding/ after]] [[http://www.equestriadaily.com/2012/04/inside-my-little-pony-royal-wedding.html#IDComment339833120 Cadince]], [[http://comicsonline.com/sites/default/files/2012-04-14_10-32-22_30.jpg the]] [[http://2.bp.blogspot.com/-1Jd5jD3-3hk/T4tJ40kHrlI/AAAAAAAAmFA/nEGbHwb-Q3U/s1600/1.JPG daughter]] of Stephen Davis (executive producer of the show and president of Hasbro Studios). |
| 789 | ** [[CreatorCameo Holly Dash]] was named after her [[http://princesschuchi.deviantart.com/art/Holly-Dash-175865424 creator]], animator [[https://twitter.com/hollygjill Holly Giesbrecht]]. |
| 790 | * ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' has two that reference the voice actor who plays them both, Creator/RobbieDaymond: Raymond and Robbie. |
| 791 | ** Rad’s mother Theodosia is named after [[Creator/IanJonesQuartey Ian Jones-Quartey’s]] grandmother. |
| 792 | * Luz Noceda from ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' is named after Luz Batista, a friend of Dana Terrace's who works as a storyboard artist on the show [[WriteWhoYouKnow and was a major inspiration for the character]]. |
| 793 | ** Hexside student Viney is named for show writer Rachel Vine. |
| 794 | ** Other minor Hexside students are also named after and visually based on crew members. There's Cat (after storyboard artist Cat Harman-Mitchell), Bo (after director/storyboard artist Bosook "Bo" Coburn), and Amelia (after director/storyboard artist Amelia Lorenz). |
| 795 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'' episode "Dude, We're Getting the Band Back Together," the band in question is composed of Danny (named after Dan Povenmire, one of the creators), "Swampy" Sherman (the other creator, Jeff "Swampy" Marsh), and Bobbi Fabulous (whose name comes from Bobby Gaylor, a writer on the show & voice of Buford). The last one is...'' [[AmbiguouslyGay subtlety at its finest]]''... |
| 796 | ** Ferb is named after a real life friend of Dan and Swampy's named Frank, who everyone called Ferb. [[WriteWhoYouKnow Like the fictional Ferb]], Ferb has every tool imaginable. |
| 797 | ** A couple more examples; Linda and her sister Tiana are named after both of Povenmire's real-life sisters. Povenmire even states that, when figuring out how to write Linda, he thinks about how his real sister would react in that situation. |
| 798 | ** Isabella is named after Povenmire's daughter, who is apparently quite happy with that. Another one-off character was named after his other daughter, Melissa, who was born too late to get a bigger part (but see the ''WesternAnimation/MiloMurphysLaw'' example above). |
| 799 | *** Baljeet is named after a friend of Jon Colton Barry, a writer and storyboard artist for the show. |
| 800 | *** The boys' [[DemotedToExtra now-rarely-seen]] friend Django is named after Django Marsh, Swampy's son, who often does kid voices on the show. |
| 801 | * These turn up quite often in ''WesternAnimation/TheRaccoons''. The most notable example is Wendo the weasel, named after animator Wendo Van Essen. Another example is a 'Gibbons' brand peanut butter jar, which turns up in 'Stop the Clock', and is named after background artist Greg Gibbons. |
| 802 | * On ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'', T.J. was going to be named P.J., to stand for the first initials of the show's creators (Paul (Germain) and Joe (Ansolabehere)), but was changed to T.J. shortly before animation was done to the pilot. |
| 803 | ** Mikey Blumberg's last name is a ShoutOut to the president of Walt Disney Television, Barry Blumberg, who helped give ''Recess'' the greenlight. |
| 804 | ** Vince was named after the creators' friend in college. |
| 805 | ** Miss Salamone, the music teacher from "The Voice", was named after Walt Disney Television executive producer Lisa Salamone. |
| 806 | * In ''Franchise/RoboCop: Alpha Commando'', Special Agent Nancy Miller and Dr. Cornelius Neumeier were were named after Michael Miller and Edward Neumeier, the creators of [=RoboCop=] and writers of [[Film/RoboCop1987 the original movie]]. The former character's first name may've also come from Creator/NancyAllen, the actress who played Lewis in the film. |
| 807 | * The ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'' supporting character Capt. Peter "Wrong-Way" Peachfuzz is named after Peter Piech, whose Producer's Associates of Television was responsible for distributing the series. |
| 808 | ** The protagonists also both have the middle initial of J, for creator Jay Ward. |
| 809 | * [[Creator/KelseyGrammer Doctor Frankenollie]], the MadScientist from ''WesternAnimation/RunawayBrain'', is named after former Disney animators Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, respectively. |
| 810 | * All of the members of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' family are named after Creator/MattGroening's family members, except Bart, which is an anagram of “brat”. His mother’s maiden name provided the surname of Chief Wiggum and Ralph Wiggum. This led his family members to receive some [[https://web.archive.org/web/20080103120252/http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/entertainment/2003818762_realsimpsons030.html fan attention]]: |
| 811 | --> ""Some people, when they make the connection, act star struck," says Lisa Groening, a 49-year-old English teacher at a private middle school in Pasadena, Calif. "Yes, it's strange. I have to explain that I had nothing to do with creating the show ... and I'm not Lisa Simpson."" |
| 812 | ** Also, Homer, Marge, and Bart all have the middle initial "J" as a tribute to Jay Ward, who created ''Rocky and Bullwinkle''. |
| 813 | ** John Frink is named after a friend of the writers (who later became an executive producer). |
| 814 | ** In an ''attempt'' to subvert this trope, when Groening decided it was time to give Grampa a real name, he didn't want to use another name from his family and just asked the rest of the writing staff to come up with one. They decided on Abraham, not knowing that this was in fact the name of Groening's paternal grandfather. He decided to keep the name anyway. |
| 815 | *** Several other characters are named after streets in Portland, Oregon, including Flanders, Lovejoy, Quimby, Burns(ide), Terwilliger, Kearney, and Van Houten. Perhaps the most abnormal is of Aunt Selma's iguana, Jubjub. Jubjub was, reportedly, named after what Conan O'Brien would say during awkward silences in meetings. The story goes that when the time came for the writers to name it, the whole room went awkwardly silent. The rest is history. |
| 816 | ** Groening has stated that he doesn't know which of his family members are more angry with him: the ones who got characters named after them, or the ones that didn't. He also named one of his sons Homer to "make it up" to his father. |
| 817 | ** The DVD commentaries reveal that one writer had a class in high school or college with an Indian student named Nahasapeema Petilon. When it came time to give Apu a last name, that's what he went with. |
| 818 | ** One episode featured a travel agent named Wally Kogen, a combination of the names of collaborative writers Jay Kogen and Wally Wolodarsky. |
| 819 | * In ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'', Stan's parents and sister are named after Trey Parker's parents and sister, Kyle's parents are named after Matt Stone's parents, [[ReallyGetsAround Cartman's mom]] is named after Parker's fiancee who left him for another man, Cartman's name is based off their friend Matt Karpman, Butters is named after their friend and then-animation director (now a producer) Eric "Butters" Stough, Wendy Testaburger is named after Parker's friend's wife Wendy Westaburger, and LivingProp Jason is named after close friend Jason [=McHugh=] who worked on ''Cannibal! The Musical'' and ''Orgazmo''. |
| 820 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarshipTroopersInvasion'' mostly takes place on a Federation starship dubbed the ''John A. Warden'', named for the American Air Force officer credited with developing the [[DeathFromAbove air warfare strategy]] used with such [[CurbStompBattle brutal effectiveness]] in [[UsefulNotes/GulfWar Desert Storm]]. Warden is also an off-and-on collaborator and acquaintance with Edward Neumeier, who has had his hands in the ''Franchise/StarshipTroopers'' since the [[Film/StarshipTroopers first movie]] came out in the 90's. It's at least semi-justified, since real ships are often named after prominent military officers, and the original book had the ''Rodger Young'' and the ''Audie Murphy''. |
| 821 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsRebels'': Protocol droid AP-5, named after producer '''A'''thena '''P'''ortillo and her height in feet. |
| 822 | * ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsResistance'': Astromech droid CB-23, named in honour of Lucasfilm Story Group member '''C'''arrie '''B'''eck. |
| 823 | * ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' is named after, and loosely based on, creator Rebecca Sugar's younger brother, who also works on the show. |
| 824 | * It was a rare episode of ''WesternAnimation/{{Teen Titans|2003}}'' that didn't feature a crew member's name snuck into the script somewhere. One JustForFun/{{egregious}} example was the Tamaranian-language joke: "How many Okaarans does it take to Hoegee a Morflark? Finbar!" with Hoegee and Finbar being crew members' names. |
| 825 | ** Hell, sometimes the creators just went ahead and drew themselves in the series as random civilians! Story editor David Slack is the human form of Plasmus. |
| 826 | ** In "Deep Six", a cargo ship that gets attacked by the villain in the ColdOpening is called the S.S. Vargas, after the producer A.J. Vargas. |
| 827 | ** In "Sisters", the creepy abandoned warehouse where the rave is held has huge giant letters on the roof spelling "SOTO", after episode directer Alex Soto. |
| 828 | ** There is also a sort of minor villain called Soto. Not sure if it's a Tuckerization or not, but as the character is an incredibly childlike rockish alien with a spaceship like a playpen, it seems likely. |
| 829 | ** In the TrappedInTVLand episode, there's a talk show where the guest is "Dr. Victor Payton who has discovered the secret to world peace." Victor Payton is the father of Cyborg's VoiceActor Creator/KharyPayton. |
| 830 | * ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'': |
| 831 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' series, there's a human supervillain called the Angry Archer, named after [[http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Aaron_Archer Aaron Archer]], design-work Grand Poobah for the toyline. |
| 832 | *** And the villainess Slo-Mo is named after and resembles Samantha Lomow, Hasbro's VP of marketing. |
| 833 | *** The design of one of the street racers in the Master Disaster episode is based on one of the writers' daughters. |
| 834 | *** The trend goes up to ridiculous levels in the ''Allspark Almanac'', a guidebook to the show's characters and settings. Every seemingly irrelevant throwaway name is either a reference to another show/movie or a reference to a real person, often friends or family of the writers. |
| 835 | ** Several sector and zone names in ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' were named after fans on the Transformers irc channel. |
| 836 | ** In ''WesternAnimation/TransformersRescueBots'', one Griffin Rock resident is an astronaut named Mr. Cullen, named after Creator/PeterCullen, the voice of Optimus Prime. |
| 837 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/YogiBear'' short "The Buzzin' Bear", the rangers' names are Bill and Joe, after Bill Hanna and Joe Barbera. |
| 838 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Young Justice|2010}}'' is created by Creator/GregWeisman and Brandon Vietti. During the ''[[ShowWithinAShow Hello, Megan!]]'' theme song, you can [[FreezeFrameBonus briefly see]] that it was created by "Greg Vietti" and "Brandon Weisman". |
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