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6	The OneSteveLimit in western animation.
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9	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfJimmyNeutronBoyGenius'' has Jimmy and one of his clones gone rogue, Evil Jimmy. There’s Jimmy’s crush named Betty Quinlan and then there’s Captain Betty [[GenderBlenderName a guy]] who’s gone by the name since June 3, 1999.
10	* ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'':
11	** There's Billy, the legendary hero, and Billy, the buzzard.
12	** Simon the ladybug and Simon Petrikov, [[spoiler:the Ice King]].
13	** [[DependingOnTheWriter Depending on the episode]], the Ice King's penguin minions may ''all'' be named Gunther or slight variations therof. And Ice King is not aware of it, but [[spoiler:he subconsciously named all of the penguins after the original Gunther, a dinosaur who served Evergeen, the wizard who created Ice King's crown.]]
14	** The show has both James Baxter, a horse, and James, a candy person [[spoiler:who was repeatedly cloned]].
15	** "Two Swords" introduces Fern, though he isn't officially named until "Do No Harm". The ''ComicBook/AdventureTimeGraphicNovels'' already had a character named Princess Fern.
16	* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
17	** Three characters (Banana Bob, Bobert, and Rob) all have names derivative of "Robert".
18	** There are also two Williams: the floating eyeball with unholy powers and the young boy who more commonly goes by "Billy".
19	** One of Billy's [[OverlyLongName many middle names]] is also "Fitzgerald", the surname of Penny's family.
20	** There are four Harrys: One is Gumball and Darwin's purple moose neighbor who hides under the identity of "Gary" instead, the 8-bit spider in Elmore Junior High who goes more often by "Ocho", and two unseen characters who were in Gumball and Richard's third grade classes.
21	** Wilson is the [[TwoFirstNames surname]] for Tobias' family and the first name for one of Anais' classmates.
22	* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDad'', Francine adopted every child in an orphanage. All of the workers there were so grateful for her generosity, that they went to ridiculous extremes to start worshipping her. One of the things they did was they all legally changed their names to Francine Smith, just so that everybody there would remember her name.
23	** There's also the cheerleader love interest and bully of Steve, known as Lisa Silver, and The Smith Family's neighbor, Lisa Collins.
24	** The first {{Christmas Episode}} starts off as YetAnotherChristmasCarol, with the Ghost of Christmas Past, named Michelle, being a major character. The second Christmas Episode has Stan die and go to Heaven, where he interacts with an angel named Michelle.
25	* ''WesternAnimation/AquaTeenHungerForce'':
26	-->'''Frylock''': Where is Carl's brain?\
27	'''Carl Brain''': I am Carl Brain.\
28	'''Frylock''': No, our friend Carl.\
29	'''Carl Brain''': I am Carl Brain.\
30	'''Frylock''': No, different Carl!\
31	'''Carl Brain''': ''[beat]'' I am Carl Brain.
32	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'':
33	** Unintentionally done in the episode "Buster's Back", which includes the titular character and musician ''[[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Arthur]]'' [[Music/SimonAndGarfunkel Garfunkel]] (though in this case, his name is never mentioned).
34	** There's also Arthur's father (named David), and Arthur's maternal grandfather (Grampa Dave).
35	** There are two rabbit girls with the names "Marina" and "Maria". The former is Prunella's friend and the latter was a LivingProp for the first [[LongRunners 19 seasons]] of the show's run. Neither character have met each other. Muffy's full name is "Mary Alice", but she almost never goes by that name.
36	* ''WesternAnimation/AsToldByGinger'' has Macie's parents both named Bobby and Bobbie Lightfoot. Hoodsey's first name is Robert as well.
37	* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'':
38	** There are many characters that have "Lee"/"Li"[[note]]"Lee" is the Korean spelling and "Li" is the Chinese spelling of the same Hanji character,李[[/note]] or [[SpellMyNameWithAnS something that sounds similar]] somewhere in their name. TruthInTelevision, because they are both the second most common surname in their respective countries, after "Kim" and "Wang", respectively.
39	*** Captain ''Li'' of the Fire Nation Army.
40	*** A young boy named "Lei" who Zuko bonds with in his [[ADayInTheLimelight day in the limelight]].
41	*** [[GenkiGirl Ty Lee]].
42	*** Li, one of the old ladies who act as adviser for Azula.
43	*** Quon Lee, imperial guard from finale who had a talk with an engineer in airship.
44	*** Halfway through season 2, Zuko took on the name "Lee" while incognito, and stopped using the alias once the "Dai Li" (that's pronounced "Die Lee") showed up.
45	*** And Dai Li is just a different transliteration of the exact same Chinese characters for Ty Lee's name!
46	*** The whole thing is {{lampshade\|Hanging}}d in "Sokka's Master":
47	---->''"You're gonna need a better Fire Nation cover name. Try Lee. There's a million Lees."''
48	** On a semi-related note, The Dai Li's Government Conspiracy was upheld by placing several women who called themselves "Joo Dee" to watch over suspicious citizens. {{Justified\|Trope}} in this case because they were all brainwashed into the identity anyway.
49	* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': Louise's classmate Rudy Steiblitz is known as "Regular-Sized Rudy", to differentiate him from a little person student known as "Pocket-Sized Rudy".
50	* ''WesternAnimation/BunsenIsABeast'': There are two characters named Bob, one of them being one half of a pair of recurring newscasters in Muckledunk and the other being Bunsen's cousin introduced in the ChristmasEpisode "Bunsen Saves Christmas", who turns out to be [[BigfootSasquatchAndYeti the Abominable Snowman]].
51	* ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'': The {{Backstory}} for the Music/MariahCarey-Creator/JimCarrey fight was that they were arguing over parking spaces due to their similar last names.
52	* In ''WesternAnimation/TheClevelandShow'', there are two characters named Larry. Cleveland Junior's stuffed leopard toy, Larry the Leopard, and the casually profane mayor of Stoolbend, Mayor Larry Box.
53	* Similarly, ''WesternAnimation/CodeMonkeys'' has Black Steve, who was probably called that to differentiate himself from Gameavision's original owner Steve Wozniak, but he continues to be called that even after Wozniak sells the company to Mr. Larrity in the first episode. In later episodes, it serves to remind people who might otherwise try to co-opt his blackness, [[ThisIsForEmphasisBitch bitch.]]
54	** Ultimately inverted, as Steve isn't even his real name.
55	* ''WesternAnimation/CraigOfTheCreek'':
56	** Within the Creek, there's Bobby, the boy who's always eating (and dropping) candy, and there's Bobby, the 23-year-old cousin of Paintball Mike and Paintball Benny.
57	** Also within the Creek, there's Tony, the secretary of the Junior Forest Scouts, and Tony Mozafari, a rich kid who's always mentioned to have connections, [[TheGhost but is never shown]].
58	** The very first episode, "Itch to Explore", mentions a Creek kid named Michelle Xin (named after a crew member). In a later episode, [[spoiler: it was revealed that the first Green Poncho's real name is Michelle Green.]]
59	** Outside the Creek, there's Elder David, a teenager, and two of the members of the band Bad Moves, who themselves have members David Combs and Daoud Tyler-Ameen (Daoud being the Arabic form of "David").
60	** There's Duane Williams, Craig's father. And Tony Mozafari knows Wrestling/TheRock's phone number (but when Kelsey tried to call, she got some guy named [[Creator/DwayneJohnson Dwayne]]).
61	** Music/MariahCarey's famed Christmas album is mentioned in one episode. Season 4 introduces us to Mariah, the leader of the Roller Bladers on the Other Side of the Creek.
62	** The Mercer family has John Paul "J.P." Mercer and his father John Mercer.
63	*** There's also Kat, Laura Mercer's girlfriend, and the family cat Goo, which he sometimes calls "cat".
64	* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Chowder}}'' the Arborian trees are either only named Arbor (male) or Arbola (female)
65	* ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'' plays with this a bit with Danny's "Dani-with-an-I" OppositeSexClone, Danielle. So, for at least two episodes we had both Daniel "Danny" Phantom and Danielle "Dani" Phantom.
66	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Daria}}'':
67	** There are three Toms: [[TallDarkAndSnarky Tom Sloane]], who dated Jane and later [[TheSnarkKnight Daria]], as well as [[HenpeckedHusband Tom Griffin]] ([[AlphaBitch Sandi's]] father) and Tommy Sherman (the dead JerkJock).
68	** There's also two Brians: [[EnfantTerrible Brian Taylor]], [[DumbBlonde Brittany's]] little brother, and [[OvertOperative Brian Danielson]], the guy who married Daria's cousin Erin.
69	** {{Invoked\|Trope}} in the second episode: Jane tries to get into a party and tells the security guard her name is "Tiffany," figuring that there would be at least one. ([[FridgeLogic Because apparently "Jane" isn't a common enough name?]]) It turns out there were three, [[AsianAirhead one of whom]] winds up becoming an important character.
70	** If you pay attention to [[FreezeFrameBonus Mr. O'Neill's seating chart]] in "Café Disaffecto,'' you'll notice that Quinn's class includes not only all three Tiffanies, but three Marks as well. Daria's class has three Jennifers, and two boys named Rob and Bob. (In other episodes, there's also a recurring character named Robert.)
71	* ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck'' has a rather bizarre example with two supervillains both named Negaduck: one [[LiteralSplitPersonality the evil half of Darkwing himself]] the other an EvilTwin [[spoiler:from a MirrorUniverse]].
72	* ''Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse'':
73	** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'':
74	*** The very first episode, "On Leather Wings", had both Detective Harvey Bullock and District Attorney Harvey Dent (before the latter's FaceHeelTurn). The latter even addressed the former by name (which sounded a little strange). The former also had a BigBrotherInstinct toward the latter in the episode "Pretty Poison", when he threateningly interrogated an entire restaurant staff after the latter was almost fatally poisoned there. It's largely downplayed from then on there, as Harvey Dent tends to be referred to as Two-Face after his FaceHeelTurn and Harvey Bullock tends to just be referred to as Bullock since most people can't stand him enough to be on a first-name basis with him. Notably, the original writers bible had Harvey Bullock renamed ''Harry'' Bullock, after ''Film/DirtyHarry'' according to WordOfGod, because of that first episode scene with two Harveys -- they ultimately chose not to rename him, because they knew Bullock would mostly only be referred to as his surname while Harvey Dent only had one more episode to go before he'd become Two-Face.
75	*** "I Am The Night" had, in addition to Commissioner James Gordon, a gangster nicknamed "Jazzman" whose real first name was "Jimmy." Amusingly, the latter attempted to kill the former.
76	** ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'':
77	*** There are two characters named "Ace": The Franchise/DCAnimatedUniverse's version of Ace the Bat-Hound, and the "Ace" member of the Royal Flush Gang (a mute android in ''Beyond''). The two rarely get confused.
78	*** There were also two characters named "Howard". One was a geeky classmate of Terry's, the other was one-time villain Bullwhip.
79	*** As is revealed in ''[[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague Justice League Unlimited]]'', [[spoiler:Batman was probably the closest thing to a friend the Ace of the first Royal Flush Gang had. She was an underaged girl with massive BlessedWithSuck RealityWarper powers that died of a PowerIncontinence-induced aneurism, and Batman [[StayWithMeUntilIDie stayed with her until she died]] so she wouldn't have to die alone or hurt anyone else]]. The dog was presumably named after her.
80	** ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague'':
81	*** ''Justice League'' features John Stewart, the Green Lantern, and J'onn J'onzz, the Martian Manhunter. Flash sometimes refers to them as "The Two Johns." In addition, MediaNotes/ClosedCaptioning for the episodes will sometimes get the names mixed up. Even so, "J'onn" is usually pronounced more like the French "Jean" while Stewart is often referred to as "Lantern" or "G.L.", to mitigate this. Once the show enters the ''Unlimited'' era, ComicBook/{{Steel}} (John Henry Irons) and ComicBook/RedTornado (John Smith) also join the cast, though they're usually referred to by their superhero names.
82	*** A minor example, from the ''Justice League Unlimited'' episode "The Once and Future Thing" part I:
83	---->'''Lash:''' Friends called me Bat, Bat-Lash.\
84	'''John Stewart:''' I am John. This is my friend [[Franchise/WonderWoman Diana]] and, er--\
85	'''Batman:''' ''[grimly]'' Bruce.
86	*** When it comes to similarly sounding superhero identities, there's The Atom (Professor Ray Palmer) and Captain Atom (Captain Nathaniel Adams), both key members of the League during the ''Unlimited'' era of the series, although the former is usually referred to as Professor Palmer and very rarely by his superhero name. Also, Hawk (of the superhero siblings Hawk & Dove) is not to be confused with the Thanagarians Hawkman and Hawkgirl.
87	* ''WesternAnimation/DefendersOfTheEarth'' features two minor characters named Christina/Kristina. One of the two is Professor Huxley's assistant from "The Panther Peril", while the other is the woman who's out to kill the Phantom in "Return of the Skyband", believing (wrongly) that he killed her grandmother. It is not known how Huxley's assistant spells her name, but the booklet accompanying the DVD boxed set uses Kristina for the antagonist from "Return of the Skyband".
88	* ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'', after a fashion. Edd is usually addressed as "Double-D" (as "Edd" is pronounced the same way as "Ed"), and the other Edwards are addressed by their titular nicknames. As the trio is generally seen hanging out together, the other kids collectively call them "the Eds".
89	* ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'':
90	** In the episode "Genie Meanie Minie Mo," Timmy's wish for [[RichBitch Trixie Tang]] to fall in love with him backfires when she ends up giving kisses to everyone in the country whose name is Timmy Turner, and [[YankTheDogsChain the wish is undone right before she gets to him]].
91	** In the storybook "Too Many Turners", Timmy wishes that he had lots of brother and sisters, but after he sees how much trouble all those siblings are, he calls out for Cosmo and Wanda to get rid of them, resulting in this scene:
92	--->"Cosmo! Wanda!" Timmy called, pushing through a crowd of siblings.\
93	"What?" asked a boy named Cosmo.\
94	"Yes? asked a girl named Wanda.\
95	"Never mind," Timmy said, sighing.
96	** Also, Elmer, Timmy's friend with the boil, shares his name with an elf featured in ''Film/AFairlyOddChristmas''.
97	** There are two Garys: Happy Peppy Gary in Season 2 and Imaginary Gary in Season 3.
98	** The series has had two characters named Winston, the first being Jorgen Von Strangle's godchild from the ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' short "The Zappys" ([[DroppedAfterThePilot who isn't even acknowledged]] after ''The Fairly [=OddParents=]'' became a full-fledged TV show) and the second being Winston Dunsworth, a British teen who Vicky has a crush on in "A Bad Case of Diary-Uh".
99	** Cosmo and Wanda's son Poof shares his given name with Dr. Poof Everwish, a character from the SoapWithinAShow ''All My Biceps'', which stars Poof's maternal aunt Blonda.
100	** Parodied in "Old Man and the C-". When Timmy's dad goes BackToSchool in Mr. Crocker's class, Crocker realizes that since he refers to Timmy on a LastNameBasis, it'll be confusing to have two "Turner"s in the class. He then renames Timmy to Becky.
101	* In ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'', there is a character named "Bert", (Peter's Caucasian boss and husband of Sheila), and a character named "Bertram" (Stewie's time traveling evil twin brother from another mother). Fortunately, [[spoiler:Betram was [[KilledOffForReal killed off]] and completely forgotten about, like 6 seasons before Bert was introduced, so it shouldn't be too confusing.]]
102	** There's also New Brian from "The Man with Two Brians", although this was entirely because Peter wanted to have a younger, healthier dog around in case the first Brian died.
103	* ''WesternAnimation/FetchWithRuffRuffman'' had two contestants named "Brian" (Brian [=McGoff=] from season 1 and Brian Conroy from season 4) and two contestants named “Jay” (champion Jay Brosnan from season 3 and Jay Ricco from season 5). There were 2 contestants named “Marc” in season 5 (Champion Marc Frongillo[[note]][[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname referred to as Marco]][[/note]] and Marc Prophet) and in season 3 had Samuel "Sam" Blumfield and Samantha "Sammy" Boucher.
104	* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheFlintstones'' episode "[[Recap/TheFlintstonesS4E4DinoDisappears Dino Disappears]]", where Fred tries to pick Dino out of a group of InexplicablyIdenticalIndividuals by saying "[[ImpostorExposingTest Come on, Dino! We're going for a walk!]]", and ends up having the entire bunch run him over.
105	-->'''Barney:''' Well, you proved one thing, Fred. There are a lot of dogs named Dino!
106	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Futurama}}'':
107	** "Clarification: the Philip J. Fry from planet Earth or the Philip J. Fry from Hovering Squid World 97A?"
108	** In "The Luck of the Fryrish" we find out that the first person on Mars was also named Philip J. Fry, and happened to look exactly like Fry's brother Yancy. "Oh, so your brother was ''that'' Philip J. Fry?" ({{Justified\|Trope}} by the revelation that [[spoiler:Yancy named his son after his long-disappeared brother]].)
109	* ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' featured a guest appearance by Jon's cousin Marian, who was marrying a man whose surname was "John." Garfield then became very confused when he overheard Marian ([[RelativeError whom he had never met before]]) saying that, within a week, she'd be "Marian John," which he mishears as "I'll be marrying John."
110	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Gargoyles}}'' has the recurring antagonist Coyote, a robot associated with the Pack and thus sharing their AnimalThemeNaming. A later episode features Coyote, the magical figure from Myth/NativeAmericanMythology. Xanatos, with his dry sense of humor, used the former to capture the latter.
111	* ''WesternAnimation/GoldieAndBear'' has several Jacks. There's Jack of the ''Literature/JackAndTheBeanstalk'' tale, Jack of the nursery rhyme Jack and Jill, little Jack Horner, Jack B. Nimble (he claims the "B." stands for "Best") and Bear, whose first name is actually Jack. In "The Clubhouse That Jack Built", Jack B. Nimble starts a club in which only Jacks are allowed. However, the other Jacks soon start to miss their friends and quit the club.
112	* ''WesternAnimation/GoofTroop'':
113	** Two of the main characters are named Peter, one named after the other. The show generally gets around this by [[OnlyKnownByInitials calling the younger one "PJ"]] but the difference in sound between "Pete" (the elder's preferred nickname) and "Peej" (an oft-spoken diminutive of the younger's initials) is so subtle that sometimes it's possible to hear one as the other. The two are as different as night and day.
114	** There are also at various points in the series several characters named Bob: Bob Sparrowhawk (Peg's uncle), Bobby Zimmeruski (Max and PJ's friend in the movies), and just [[OnlyOneName Bob]] (a friend/acquaintance of Max in one episode). The Bobs never interact.
115	* ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' uses "Carla" for the Vanna White {{Expy}} in "Boss Mabel," Stan's ex-girlfriend (surname [=McCorkle=]) mentioned a few times in the series, and as a gag and [[EasterEgg cryptogram]] in "The Hand That Rocks The Mabel." (The first two also used the same character design, but with different coloring and clothing.)
116	* ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'':
117	** The title character has a CountryCousin named Arnie who's basically a boring, creepy BizarroUniverse version of him.[[note]]Fun fact: "Arnie" started as an OffModel drawing of Arnold that the crew decided to make into a new character.[[/note]] Obviously the name is part of the joke.
118	** One episode has Arnold going through the streets shouting for his lost pig, Abner. A man sticks his head out a window and continually calls "What?!" before giving up and going inside.
119	** Related: there's a minor recurring character named Lorenzo and a fictional, plot-significant country called ''San'' Lorenzo.
120	** In one episode Arnold has a PrecociousCrush on his substitute teacher, and is shocked when he overhears her talking about getting a romantic evening alone with "Arnold". Turns out her fiancé happens to have the same name.
121	* Obsessive ''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'' fans will note that the show has a Vortian Lard Nar leading [[LaResistance the Resisty]] and an ''Irken'' Lardnar as an Invader. A very minor example, however, since both names are [[AllThereInTheScript only used in scripts and writers' notes]].
122	* Averted in ''WesternAnimation/IvanhoeTheKingsKnight.'' There are two characters named Harold and Brian, one a main character and the other a one-shot character. They appear in "The Legend of the White Stag" and "The Traitor" respectively and in the case of the latter Bois-Guilbert's given name is only said once in the entire series while the one-shot villain has no surname or place of origin in their name and in the case of the former, the character who appears in "The Legend of the White Stag" has the surname of "Godwin" in contrast to Sir Harold who lacks one.
123	* Both of Jerrica's love interests in ''WesternAnimation/{{Jem}}'' have similar names: Rio and Riot (whose real name is "Rory" but he's exclusively referred to by his StageName).
124	* Enforced on ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes''. After [[VillainousHarlequin The Rodeo Clowns]] steal one of his shoes, Jimmy notes that without it, he's Jimmy One-Shoe. At that point, a monster dressed exactly like him with only one leg hops by, muttering "And that name is already taken."
125	* There are two "Estellas" in ''WesternAnimation/JonnyQuestTheRealAdventures'': Estella Scheele, a one-off antagonist seen in "In the Realm of the Condor", and Estella Velasquez, Jessie's mother. And they're both redheads, too.
126	* ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'':
127	** ''Kim Possible'' had a student named Ron Reager at the high school. His initial appearance was just for a [[RuleOfFunny joke]] on his sharing a name with Ron Stoppable, but he actually made two more appearances in the PostScriptSeason!
128	** Invoked in another episode, when Dr. Drakken is flabbergasted to learn that the upstart teenager who's always foiling his plans is the daughter of his old college roommate, whose mockery drove him to the evil side of mad science. He tries to claim that he never put it together before because Possible is a very common name, then wanders off to find a phone book when everyone points out that it's really not. The phone book does not help him.
129	* ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill'' has two Carls. There's the principal of Tom Landry Middle, Carl Moss. The other is a twice-appearing man that runs a delhi restaurant. Both even have similar voices.
130	** There's also Hank and his baby brother, Good Hank, or GH for short. His dad orginally attempted to take back Hank's name and give it to the baby, thus making him the only Hank, but Hank protested, thus the "Good" part was added.
131	** There was also the drug addict who, after going into rehab, declared that he didn't want to be called by his own name anymore since it was the name of a drug addict, and demanded that people call him Hank Hill from now on, since it was the name of someone more respectable.
132	** This seems to happen to Hank a lot, since there's also a Hank P. Hill that lives in West Arlen. Our Hank (Hank R. Hill) keeps getting his mail by mistake.
133	* ''WesternAnimation/LanguageArtsThroughImagination'' has two aversions:
134	** There is a Jessica in "How Does Sound Sound?" and a Jessie in "Where Does Time Fly?".
135	** There's a kid named Peter in "How Does Sound Sound?" and Peter Pan in "Reading Magic With Figment and Peter Pan".
136	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'' has a mobster named "Two-Toed Ping". He actually has twelve toes, but there was already a mobster that was called "Twelve-Toed Ping" on the south side.
137	* ''WesternAnimation/LetsGoLuna'': There are 2 characters named Ali: one who appears in "Bob The Plant", and another who appears in "Turkish Delight".
138	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLifeAndTimesOfJuniperLee'': Subverted. There are two characters named "Michael". One of them is the protagonist's father and the other is a monster. So far, there's no episode featuring both Michaels.
139	* Averted in the ''WesternAnimation/LittlestPetShop2012'' episode "So You Skink You Can Dance". All the male dancers of the ''Shake-A-Leg'' show are named Igor and all the females are named Katrina.
140	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLongLongHoliday'' has a relatively small list of characters, but include a Jean (a kid and one of the main characters), Jeanne (some of the other kids' mother) and Jean-Baptiste (the friendly neighborhood mailman). The English dub [[AdaptationNameChange changed the latter]] to just "Baptiste."
141	* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'' tends to re-use names for characters:
142	** Three characters named '''Ralph''': Ralph Phillips, a daydreaming little boy, Ralph Crumden, a mouse avatar of Jackie Gleason's character from ''Series/TheHoneymooners'', and Ralph Wolf, a [[WesternAnimation/WileECoyoteAndTheRoadrunner Wile E. Coyote]] lookalike in [[WesternAnimation/RalphWolfAndSamSheepdog Chuck Jones' sheepdog-wolf series]].
143	** Three '''Sams''' as well: Ralph Wolf's sheepdog costar, the iconic cowboy WesternAnimation/YosemiteSam, and Sam Cat, a red-furred who was paired up with WesternAnimation/{{Sylvester\|The Cat And Tweety Bird}}.
144	** Also four '''Claude'''s: Claude Cat (from the early 1950s), the gangster from the 1968 "Bunny and Claude" cartoons, the iconic Tasmanian Devil whose first name was revealed to be "Claude" in one short, and a kangaroo from an early short entitled "Hop and Go".
145	** And two '''Egghead'''s. The WesternAnimation/ElmerFudd prototype and Miss Prissy's prodigy son that was more than a match for WesternAnimation/FoghornLeghorn, later renamed "Eggbert" in the comics.
146	** There were also two '''Piggy'''s (who both happen to share a page on Wikipedia). The replacement for Foxy after Creator/WaltDisney threatened to sue Creator/HarmanAndIsing and a gluttonous pig from some of Creator/FrizFreleng’s earlier shorts. Curiously, both of them starred in only two shorts before being scrapped.
147	* ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'':
148	** One of the Loud girls, Lynn Jr., is named after their dad, Lynn Sr.
149	** One of Lincoln's friends, Girl Jordan, is referred to as such because there's already a Boy Jordan, both named after members of the show’s staff.
150	** There are two characters named Jackie: One of them is a teenager who's friends with Leni, the other is a young girl who likes beauty pageants.
151	** Lance can refer to both the name of the Loud kids' paternal uncle and a recurring background character who’s a classmate of Lincoln.
152	** You also have Dana, another one of Lori and Leni's friends, and Dana Dufresne, a {{UsefulNotes/transgender}} pageant host formerly known as Donnie.
153	** A {{downplayed\|Trope}} example, in that the names only ''sound'' identical: You have Bobby Santiago, Lori's boyfriend, and Bobbie Fletcher, a race car driver that Lana idolizes.
154	** Taking the spin-off ''WesternAnimation/TheCasagrandes'' into account, you have Becky, the teenage redhead from the parent show, and then Becky the blonde wrestler girl from the spin-off.
155	* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' has the protagonist, Max(well), compete with another Max(imilian) who might actually be TheChosenOne. (Aside from the name, they were born within five minutes of each other.)
156	* ''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'' has a few aversions:
157	** There are two characters named André: André Bourgeois, the mayor, and André Glacier, the ice cream man. It is eventually revealed that André Bourgeois's birth name was actually "Anaximandre".
158	** There are also two Vincents, both of whom are photographers; Vincent Aza is a LoonyFan of rocker Jagged Stone who gets akumatized into Pixelator, and the other Vincent works around Paris, including the school's class pictures and Gabriel Agreste's photo shoots, and has never been akumatized.
159	** Chloé's butler is referred to by various compound names starting with Jean, as Chloé and her mother are [[AccidentalMisnaming too lazy and apathetic to learn his real name]]. There's also Jean Duparc, a RecurringExtra who goes to school with the main characters (albeit in the other class). Season five reveals that the butler isn't named Jean-''anything'', but rather Armand... sharing a name with Armand D'Argencourt, Adrien's fencing instructor.
160	** In the dub, there are two characters named Chris. One (whose last name is currently unknown) is a mime who is a rival of Fred Haprèle. The other is Nino's brother, Chris Lahiffe. (In the French version, however, Chris Lahiffe's name is "Noël".)
161	* ''WesternAnimation/MollyOfDenali'': Discussed in "[[Recap/MollyOfDenaliS1E3CabbagezillaNameGame Name Game]]." Molly is certain this applies to Native names. Tooey informs her that is no guarantee, then explains how he was quite surprised to discover there was another kid in Alaska named Tooey when he began receiving the latter's mail.
162	* Two students from ''WesternAnimation/MrsMungersClass'' are named George.
163	* The way ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'' characters are named causes a lot of similar sounding names and characters sharing parts of their name:
164	** There's Sunset Shimmer and Starlight Glimmer. They're two villains who ended up undergoing {{Heel Face Turn}}s and becoming Twilight's friend, albeit the former only exists in ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyEquestriaGirls''. Their names are similar because they're both meant to parallel Twilight Sparkle. Starlight's case gets lampshaded in "Triple Threat", where [[SheIsTheKing Dragon Lord]] [[TomboyPrincess Ember]] confuses Starlight Glimmer and Twilight Sparkle repeatedly, because both of them are purple ponies whose names relate to shiny things.
165	** Twilight Sparkle shares her name with her mother, Twilight Velvet (whom Twilight Sparkle [[StrongFamilyResemblance greatly resembles]]). This is due to them being based on the same character, the original Twilight from G1, who also has this issue due to other 'Twilight''s existing in G1. Creator/LaurenFaust wanted to make Twilight Sparkle the original Twilight but couldn't due to copyright issues. She ended up using the palette and name of a G3 pony, Twilight Twinkle, as her basis instead. As a MythologyGag, Twilight's mother uses the original Twilight's design. Fans took notice and {{fanon}} pinned Twilight's mother as the original Twilight. This ended up as AscendedFanon. Twilight Velvet's name is never mentioned in the cartoon itself, though. Fans usually refer to her as "[[LastNameBasis Velvet]]" in fanworks involving both her and her daughter, or call her by her [[FullNameBasis full name]] when referenced alone. When Twilight Velvet appeared in the show, the cartoon itself avoided referring to her by name (however the credits have her as "Twilight Velvet").
166	* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'': WordOfGod is that the one friend in Orel's social circle that's lumped in as 'AndTheRest' is named Billy...which goes a long way into explaining ''why'' he's lumped in as AndTheRest, as also in that circle is Billy Figurelli, who's had ADayInTheLimelight.
167	* ''WesternAnimation/TheOblongs'' has the Debbies, a posse of popular girls who all have the same name 'Debbie. It drifts into creepy territory since they also look ''exactly alike''.
168	* There were four unrelated ''WesternAnimation/OhYeahCartoons'' shorts that featured a character named Max.
169	** The drummer of the titular insect rock band in "The Feelers".
170	** The bully in "Terry and Chris".
171	** The title protagonist of "Max and his Special Problem" and its sequel "Max and the Pigeon Incident".
172	** The leader of the group of alien dogs Kate is acquainted with in "Planet Kate".
173	* Lampshaded in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' episode "Reaching Out" where Eda insists on calling Edric "Blight Brother" because his name is too similar to her own.
174	* On ''WesternAnimation/PegPlusCat'', the purple alien Richard actually turns out to be one of several Richards in his family. Even his sister is named Richard.
175	* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'': There are two Maurices — lemur and zookeeper.
176	* ''WesternAnimation/PennZeroPartTimeHero'': Maria the pirate and Maria the ship. Rippen lampshades it. Larry then says he has two aunts who share a same name. He says they're sisters or the same person.
177	* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'':
178	** This is played for laughs in the episode "The Lizard Whisperer", where the boys are looking for a [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever giant chameleon]] named Steve. They find other Steves and even arrive at a Steve Convention. Note the creators are [[WordOfGod on record as TVTropes readers]].
179	** There are two girls named Wendy. The first Wendy is [[TheRival the girl Candace competed with]] in the science fair episode (though [[AllThereInTheScript her name was never spoken onscreen]]), and the second Wendy is the girl Baljeet kissed in the ChristmasSpecial. Perhaps for distinguishing reasons, the latter Wendy has the surname Stinglehopper.
180	** At several points in the series, Candace mentions wanting to name her future son Xavier, while in "It's About Time!," the tour guide mentions that the time machine was invented by an Xavier Onassis. Of course, this shouldn't be much of an issue, since one's already dead and another isn't even born...until the time-traveling episode "Quantum Boogaloo," where the plot required '''''both''''' to appear. Perhaps to get around this, Onassis shows up without his name ever being mentioned.
181	** Also in "Quantum Boogaloo", An adult Candance travelling back in time and getting Phineas and Ferb busted for building the rollercoaster resulted in a BadFuture [[ButterflyOfDoom where Doofenshmirtz takes over the Tri-State Area]] and forces everyone to change their name to "Joe" so he doesn't have to bother remembering other names.
182	** In "Ballad of Badbeard", Doofenshmirtz names both of his alligators "Susan", claiming he named them after each other.
183	** Eliza Fletcher is one of Ferb's cousins. Eliza Feyersied is the founder of the Fireside Girls.
184	*** On the subject of Ferb's cousins, there are three named Beckham (not counting Eliza, whose middle name is Beckham) and two named Pele.
185	** On a semi-related note, the show introduced Phineas and Ferb's Aunt Tiana around the same time Disney was hyping a [[WesternAnimation/ThePrincessAndTheFrog different Tiana]]. Co-creator Dan Povenmire noted the similarity but [[WordOfGod said it was just a coincidence]], as he named the show's Tiana after one of his sisters (the other being the namesake of Linda).
186	** For some meta fun, {{Fanon}} had declared Baljeet's last name to be Patel, but that's actually the name of his childhood friend Mishti. ([[AllThereInTheManual His actual last name temporarily was Raj, but was later changed to Tjinder]].) Also, the character Isabella shares her name with ''two'' of the show's voice actresses, and was named after Dan Povenmire's oldest daughter to boot.
187	** In "Backyard Hodge Podge", Internet sensation Parry Gripp appears as himself, leading to some confusion whenever someone obligatorily says, "Hey, where's Perry?"
188	* In ''WesternAnimation/PostmanPat'', there's Sarah Gilbertson, a schoolgirl and the local doctor's daughter, Sara-Ann, Katy Pottage's doll, and Sara Clifton, Pat's wife and Julian's mother. Sara-Ann is a one-off from the first episode, while Sarah and Sara are rarely seen in the same episode.
189	* ''WesternAnimation/RatedAForAwesome'':
190	** The SingleMindedTwins named [[DumbBlonde the Trishas]]. Made even weirder by the fact that they appear to be sisters.
191	** In "When Mascots Attack" it's revealed they have [[StrongFamilyResemblance an identical cousin]] also named Trisha.
192	* ''WesternAnimation/ReadyJetGo'': Dr. Skelley's forename is Amy, as revealed in a PBS description for the episode "Commander Mom". Amy is also the name of the scientist who hosts the show's interstitial segments, Amy Mainzer.
193	* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheTeenageMutantNinjaTurtles'': Supporting character Casey Jones turns out to be [[spoiler:a pair of characters this time around -- the present day version is [[GenderFlip a girl]] known as Cassandra Jones, while her son is a future version]].
194	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Recess}}'':
195	** There is a GirlPosse of [[Film/{{Heathers}} non-identical looking, but identical in personality, rich fourth grade snobs named Ashley, who identify each other by name and last initial]]. One of the six protagonists is always called by her last name, Spinelli, because her first name is Ashley, and she is as different from the Ashleys as could possibly be. The episode where this is revealed has the other kids all change their names to Ashley in support.
196	** Later episodes reveal the Ashleys all have sisters named Britney in kindergarten and brothers in third grade named Tyler.
197	** One episode had Spinelli meet a group of girls who were all named Megan, a deliberate parallel to the Ashleys.
198	** There's also Becky Benson, an elementary school student, and T.J.'s older sister, Becky.
199	* ''WesternAnimation/RegularShow'' has two Thomases, one ([[spoiler:Nikolai]]) is a billy goat park intern and the other is the over 300-year-old infant son of Death. It gets lampshaded when Mordecai asks Rigby to babysit Death's Thomas:
200	-->'''Mordecai''': Dude, I need you to do me a huge favor and babysit Thomas tonight.\
201	'''Rigby''': Isn't he, like, in college?\
202	'''Mordecai''': Not ''that'' Thomas, Death's Thomas.
203	* ''Franchise/{{Rugrats}}'':
204	** In [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats1991 the 1991 series]], There are two minor characters named Steve: the first was one of a pair of two teenagers that showed up in the early seasons, the second was a snow-baby created by the babies in [[Recap/RugratsS9E11BabySaleSteve its eponymous episode]] in the final season.
205	** The 1991 series also features two characters named Timmy; Timmy [=McNulty=], the leader of the [=McNulty=] brothers who appear in a handful of episodes, and Timmy, a one-time character seen in "[[Recap/RugratsS5E4TheWordOfTheDayJonathanBabysits The Word of the Day]]".
206	** In [[WesternAnimation/Rugrats2021 the 2021 series]] episode "Mini-Mommy", there's a young girl named Betty who looks and dresses like the adult Betty. Phil and Lil believe that the two are one and the same, and that their mother de-aged into a kid after receiving a cup-and-ball toy from Tia Esperanza.
207	** "[[Recap/RugratsS6E10OppositesAttractTheArtMuseum Opposites Attract]]", an episode from the 1991 series features Freddie, a boy who is even more cowardly than Chuckie. "[[Recap/RugratsS6E21BrothersAreMonstersCookingWithSusie Brothers are Monsters]]", another episode from the 1991 series features Freddy, Betty's older brother and Phil and Lil's uncle. The 2021 series episode "The Heist" features Freddy, Kimi's stuffed ferret who gets put up for auction.
208	* ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'':
209	** In the WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooDirectToVideoFilmSeries, we have Crystal the Alien from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheAlienInvaders'' and Crystal the Psychic from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAbracadabraDoo''.
210	** In ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', Fred is named after his dad, making them Fred Jones, Jr. and Fred Jones, Sr. respectively. This ends up becoming a plot point in Season 1's overarching mystery when a character says that their plans cannot be completed "as long as Fred Jones is alive." [[spoiler:They're talking about Fred Jones, Sr.]]
211	*** At the end of the show when [[spoiler:the universe goes through a CosmicRetcon, we never learn what Brad and Judy originally wanted to name Fred and he ends up keeping his first name as Fred in the new universe, presumably making him Fred Chiles(-Reeves). Meanwhile, Fred Jones is just Fred Jones now. Unless you go with the {{fanon}} that Fred legally changed his name back to Fred Jones.]]
212	** Similarly, it was believed by fans that Angel Dynamite and Angie Dinkley from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' had some sort of connection due to their names, but this ended up being debunked.
213	** There's Velma's rival-turned-friend ([[LesYay and lover?]]) [[TheSixthRanger Marcie "Hot Dog Water" Fleach]] from ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'', Velma's cousin Marcy from ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' named Marcy from one of the video games.
214	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Sealab 2021}}'' had Debbie Dupree and Debbie Love, aka "Black Debbie," who in her first appearance protested her nickname and pointed out the other wasn't called "White Debbie." Some fans call Debbie Dupree "White Debbie" for this reason.
215	-->'''Quinn''': How would you like it if people called you "White Stormy"?\
216	'''Stormy''': ''[confused]'' You mean, there's a ''Black'' Stormy?\
217	'''Quinn''': ''[looooong pause]'' No.
218	** Of course, a later episode reveals there ''is'' a Black Stormy-namely Space Stormy. Quinn and Debbie Dupree have space counterparts, named Space Quinn and Space Debbie respectively.
219	* ''WesternAnimation/SheepInTheBigCity'' averted the trope of no two characters having the same name at the end of the episode "Mistaken Identi-Sheep", where the Ranting Swede dedicates his latest rant to a person named Timmy [=McPherson=] and proceeds to rant about his annoyance at another Timmy [=McPherson=], whom he clarifies is a completely different person from the one he's dedicating his rant to.
220	* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'':
221	** ''The Simpsons'' has both the No Homers Club, as well as the Ancient Mystic Society of No-Homers; which means only one Homer can join. Unfortunately for Homer Simpson, both of them already admitted a Homer Glumplich.
222	--->"It says ''No Homer'''s'''''. We're allowed to have ''one''."
223	** ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' is particularly aversive of this trope: Homer and Ned's mothers are both named Mona, Chief Wiggum and Marge's father are both named Clancy, Prof. Frink and the camp accessory salesman from "Homer's Phobia" are both named John, notwithstanding the incredibly similar Carl (of Lenny and Carl) with Karl (Homer's one time secretary); the very closely related Eddie, Edna, and Ned (with the latter two [[spoiler:eventually getting married]]; or Lou (a cop), Louie (a [[TheMafia Mafia member]]), Lewis (a LivingProp), and Luann (Milhouse's mother). Plus rhyming names such as Rod, Todd, and Maude (all in one family); Sherri and Terri (ThemeTwinNaming) or Moe and Joe (Mayor Quimby). Milhouse shared the same name as some random Shelbyville kid ("I thought I was the only one"). And that's not even mentioning Martin Prince or Waylon Smithers, who were named after their fathers (or the prominent first-season character Marvin Monroe, not to be confused with Martin). One particularly elusive one is the presence of two Charleses, one being the minor, bespectacled plant worker "Charlie" and the other being "C. Montgomery Burns" (though the latter almost always goes by "Monty" instead). Of course, this is probably just a side-effect of having many characters.
224	*** Chief Wiggum and Ralph Wiggum weren't originally supposed to be related; they just randomly wound up with the same last name, and the writers eventually decided to make them [[ThrowItIn father and son]].
225	** An accidental reference to this trope appeared in the episode when they go to New York. Homer contacts the Parking Violations Bureau over the phone and receives a pre-recorded message read by a woman's voice, with the specific details added in, in a man's voice. The message states that he will be met by "Parking Officer Steve... ''(voice of recording suddenly changes)'' GRABOWSKI!" -- that is, "Steve" is part of the pre-recorded message, implying that all of the officers are named Steve.
226	** Another aversion: In "Waverly Hills 9-0-2-1-D'oh," there are three girls at Waverly Hills Elementary named Caitlin (with a "C"), Katelyn (with a "K"), and Kate Lynn (two words)
227	** {{Invoked\|Trope}} and played with in "The Principal and the Pauper": Just as Springfield is starting to celebrate Skinner's twentieth anniversary as principal, the actual Sgt. Seymour Skinner (voiced by Creator/MartinSheen) appears, and the principal confesses that his real name is Armin Tamzarian, and when Sgt. Skinner went MIA, his mother mistook Armin for her real son, but he didn't have the heart to tell her otherwise. Agnes is furious at Sgt. Skinner's backtalk when he comes home drunk late at night, while MommasBoy Armin was too sissified to ever sass Agnes.
228	*** Near the end of the episode, when Sgt. Skinner is sent out of town, this becomes an EnforcedTrope:
229	---->'''Principal Skinner''': Well, this is a lovely gesture, but we all have to face the fact that I'm not really Seymour Skinner.\
230	'''Homer''': Oh no we don't. Judge Snyder?\
231	'''Judge Snyder''': By authority of the City of Springfield, I hereby confer upon you the name of Seymour Skinner, as well as his past, present, future, and mother.\
232	'''Skinner''': Okay.\
233	'''Judge Snyder''': And I further decree that [[StatusQuoIsGod everything will be just like it was before all this happened]], and no one will ever mention it again... (DramaticPause) ...under penalty of torture!
234	** Yet another aversion: There are two Larrys: the bald guy that isn't Homer who can usually be seen at Moe's, and Mr. Burns's illegitimate son from "Burns, Baby Burns".
235	** Lou the police officer shares a name with the bull that Bart bonded with in "Apocalypse Cow".
236	** In "Itchy and Scratchy Land", after Bart fails to find license plates with his name but finds one with the name "Bort", a child named Bort asks for his mother to buy it, only for a man to think the mother was referring to him when she says his name. The theme park later runs out of the Bort license plates, implying there are others with that name.
237	** The Springfield bowling alley is named "Barney's Bowl-o-ramma" and it's never been made explicitly clear if this name has anything to do with Homer's loser friend Barney. One episode shows Barney working there, but Barney's indifferent uncle "Al" is the owner. So either Al named the bowling alley after his loser nephew for some reason, or there's another Barney out there.
238	** Another aversion, Dewey Largo (the music teacher) and his then-boyfriend also named Dewey.
239	** Lampshaded in "Principle Charming". When Bart tries to pass the blame for his herbicide prank to one of the other Barts in school, Skinner fires back with, '''[[SuddenlyShouting "THERE ARE NO OTHER BARTS!"]]'''.
240	** Played for laughs in the "Dial Z for Zombie" segment of "Treehouse of Horror" when the zombies return to their graves.
241	---->'''Pilgrim Zombie''': Excuse me. ''I'm'' John Smith.\
242	'''Cowboy Zombie''': [Points to gravestone] John Smith ''1882''? \
243	'''Pilgrim Zombie''': My mistake.
244	* ''WesternAnimation/SolarOpposites'': {{Averted\|Trope}} with the Stacys being the popular girls at school.
245	* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' seems to have a real problem with accidentally giving the parents of the children the same names:
246	** Sharon Marsh and Sheila Broflovski were both originally named Carol, as was Linda Stotch. Because of this, it became {{Fanon}} (and eventually AscendedFanon) for Kenny's mother.
247	** Butters' parents are Stephen ([[SuddenNameChange originally Chris]]) and Linda; Tolkien's parents are Steve and Linda. Jimmy's dad was originally also "Stephen", [[SuddenNameChange but is now]] "Ryan."
248	** Two of the kids (Timmy and Tweek) have dads named Richard, with a third Richard serving as the school's shop teacher.
249	** Chef's father is named Thomas, Craig's father is named Thomas, and Heidi's father is also named Thomas. There's also the kid with Tourette's syndrome from "Le petit Tourette" whose name is also Thomas.
250	** Kyle has a cousin from Connecticut who is also named Kyle, although it seems that instance only exists for the joke that Sheila considers her own son to be "Kyle 2."
251	** Other aversions exist through extremely minor characters, such as a second Terrance (who only most prominently appeared in the episode right before [[ShowWithinAShow Terrance and Phillip]] were introduced, and was later pushed to the background) and many instances of male characters being named "Kevin", most noticeably [[LivingProp a background kid]] and Kenny's older brother. [[note]][[WordOfGod According to Matt Stone]], "Kevin" is most often used for random male characters as he finds it to be the dumbest, "whitebread" name a man could have.[[/note]]
252	** There are actually [[RuleOfThree three]] Scotts: [[ArchEnemy Scott Tenorman]], Cartman's enemy and [[spoiler:half-brother]], [[{{Geek}} Scott Malkinson]], an unpopular diabetic classmate of the boys, and [[{{Jerkass}} Scott "the Dick"]], seen in various Canada-centric episodes.
253	** Clyde Donovan, one of the students at South Park Elementary, has the same name as one of Cartman's plushies, Clyde Frog.
254	** The "Brown Noise" episode featured Kenny G. None of the boys mention that he has the same name as Kenny.
255	** The names of "Rebecca" and "Kelly" have been used as stock names for various female characters, mainly Red, whose name swinged between "Rebecca" and "Red" before being officially left as the latter, although the original two were one-shot love interests of Kyle and Kenny, respectively. In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', the New Kid's mother's name is revealed to be Kelly.
256	** Butters' father, as mentioned above, was originally named "Chris" before being changed to "Stephen". In ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheFracturedButWhole'', the New Kid's father's name is revealed to be Chris.
257	** After several years, the names of the male {{Goth}} Kids were [[GivenNameReveal finally revealed]]. The kindergartener one is named Firkle (later revealed to be just a nickname and his real name being Georgie), the tallest one is named Michael, in an episode that also reprises the Vampire Kids and their leader, Mike, and the red-haired one, Pete, was given the surname "Thelman" in ''VideoGame/SouthParkTheStickOfTruth''...despite the fact that [[https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Pete_Thelman_(3rd_grader) there's a very minor character with the exact same name]], plus [[https://southpark.fandom.com/wiki/Pete_Melman another named Pete Melman]].
258	* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'':
259	** [=SpongeBob=] and Squidward once encountered a band of Vikings all named Olaf, except for their leader (Gordan), curiously enough.
260	** Outright avoided in the German dub. The show is so popular in {{German\|sLoveDavidHasselhoff}}y, the American team decided to name a background character Thaddeus in honor of Squidward's German name, Thaddäus. In return the German dub named Thaddeus "[[KeepItForeign Fischward]]" to avoid confusion.
261	** "Why hello. You're the television food critic Gene Scallop, aren't you? Allow me to introduce myself. I'm Eugene Krabs." There's not even any real indication that the writers realized what they did there.
262	** There have been SIX different characters named Larry: Larry [=SquarePants=] ([=SpongeBob=]'s cousin, mentioned in the ''Operation Krabby Patty'' game), Larry the Lobster (a lifeguard at Goo Lagoon), Larry Luciano (a ''very'' old snail), Larry the Snail (a temporary replacement for Gary), Pinhead Larry (a criminal in Sandy's dream), and Lucky Larry (a shopowner mentioned in "House Sittin' for Sandy").
263	** Harold refers to either a commonly-seen background character (best known for the line “[[MemeticMutation big meaty claws]]”) or [=SpongeBob=]’s father.
264	* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'':
265	** The show makes an obvious reference to this trope in the crossover episode [[Recap/StevenUniverseS2E4SayUncle "Say Uncle"]], where [[WesternAnimation/UncleGrandpa Pizza Steve]] refuses to share screen-time with another character named Steve. He later attempts to fool the Crystal Gems by [[PaperThinDisguise putting on a wig reminiscent of Steven's hair and calling himself "Pizza Steven Universe".]] [[HilarityEnsues Amethyst eats him, of course.]]
266	--->'''Pizza Steve:''' I told you I have two rules, Uncle G. [[BrickJoke No more than 40 or 50 vans]], and only ONE Steve allowed!
267	** Bordering on PlanetOfSteves when we learn that any Gems of the same kind have the same name — for example, the story has multiple Pearls as recurring characters, though only one of them is a main character[[note]]The scripts/fans tend to differentiate between gems of the same type via which Diamond's court they belong to, or some personality trait or physical feature (as with characters such as Blue Pearl, Yellow Pearl, and Hippie Rose Quartz).[[/note]]. When they first appear in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS3E5HitTheDiamond "Hit the Diamond"]], the [[QuirkyMinibossSquad Ruby Squad]] all introduce themselves as "Ruby", and Steven responds by eventually giving all of them nicknames based on their gem placements, which at least one of them (nicknamed "Eyeball") objects to. One episode of ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverseFuture'' focuses on two different Pearls at once, which causes things to get so awkward that Steven quickly nicknames one of them "Volleyball" [[LineOfSightName after a game being played nearby]].
268	** The trope is brought up again in [[Recap/StevenUniverseS5E15PoolHopping "Pool Hopping"]] when Garnet adopts a kitten to dote after in place of the [[TookALevelInBadass no longer weak and vulnerable]] Steven. When she tries naming the kitten "Steven", the original gently objects — so she goes with "[[PunnyName Cat Steven]]" instead.
269	* The 1987 ''WesternAnimation/{{Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles\|1987}}'' cartoon has two characters whose names can confuse the viewers due to their similarities. There's April's boss named Burne (confused as Verne) and her rival named Vernon.
270	* ''Literature/TheRailwaySeries'' and its AnimatedAdaptation, ''WesternAnimation/ThomasAndFriends'':
271	** ''The Railway Series'' had a bus named Bertie, and a small railway engine named Bert. The show then adds Bert the diesel, and a narrow gauge engine named Bertrum. Later, Sir Topham Hatt was given the first name Bertram.
272	** It also featured tank engines named Bill (introduced in Season 2) and Billy (Season 11).
273	** Perhaps the most obvious example of all, Diesel in ''Duck and the Diesel Engine'' and Diesel in ''Stepney the Bluebell Engine''. While they never interact with each other, promotional material tends to differentiate the two by calling the latter "Class 40" (the locomotive he's based on) or "[[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Diesel]]", and the former is sometimes called "[[RedBaron Devious Diesel]]".
274	** Then we also have Henry, Henrietta, and Hank (which is a pet form of the name Henry). 'Arry could also fit here, as Harry can derive from Henry and Harold (the latter of which is also the name of the helicopter).
275	** There are two Stephens; Sir Topham Hatt's grandson, and the engine [[MeaningfulName modeled after Stephenson's Rocket]].
276	** The Railway Series had a mountain engine named Patrick (who was named for a passenger he rescued), and the TV series had a cement mixer named Patrick.
277	** There are two Olivers, one is a tank engine, and the other a digger. The special, ''WesternAnimation/SodorsLegendOfTheLostTreasure'' has a LampshadeHanging on this by having Marion think the tank engine Oliver turned into a digger. There is even a Wooden Railway 2-Engine pack that ties in with the special, called "Oliver and Oliver", which has models of both Olivers.
278	* ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' had an episode called "The Tick Versus The Tick", in which The Tick had to fight a guy named Barry, who also used "The Tick" as his superhero name and wasn't keen on sharing.
279	* ''WesternAnimation/TimeWarpTrio'' had main character Joe and his Uncle Joe, whom gave him the time traveling book the series revolved around. The titular trio (Joe, Sam, and Fred) would also go on to meet their great granddaughters from 2105, whom were named Jodie, Freddi, and Samantha. And that's not getting into the historical figures they'd meet, whom being real life people, also shared a first name with another historical person they met while time traveling or a member of the cast.
280	* A RunningGag in ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': "I'm Buster Bunny!" "And I'm Babs Bunny!" "No relation." For that matter, they're not related to Bugs Bunny, nor are any of the other {{Expies}} who have the same SpeciesSurname as their ''Looney Toons'' counterparts.
281	** Duncan Potter, the little rabbit boy Babs Bunny babysat in "I Was a Teenage Bunnysitter" (part of The "Acme Home Shopping Show"), and Duncan Duff, Elmyra's younger brother who appears in the episodes "Take Elmyra Please" and "Grandma's Dead."
282	* Tom's black cat friend (or enemy, depending on the premise of the short) in ''WesternAnimation/TomAndJerry'' is named "Butch." However, an alternate name used for Spike the Bulldog is also "Butch."
283	* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'', with its large cast, has fallen into this several times. A season one short introduced [[SassyBlackWoman Leshawna]]'s friend [[ItsAllAboutMe Jasmin]], while a different [[AwesomeAussie Jasmine]] was a major character in ''Pahkitew Island.'' That season also introduced a female [[ExtremeDoormat Sammy]] despite there already being a male [[LovableNerd Sam]].
284	* The SpinOff, ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaPresentsTheRidonculousRace'' does this a lot with names from the old series. There's [[SurferDude Brody]] (similar to [[{{Geek}} Beth]]'s boyfriend [[NotSoImaginaryFriend Brady]]), [[ComplexityAddiction Ellody]] (similar to [[PrincessPhase Ella]]), [[BornUnlucky Mickey]] (just a variant of Mike), and [[TheHost Don]] (pronounced in many dialects the exact same as [[CuteWitch Dawn]]).
285	** In the Canadian French dub of ''Race'', where Devin's girlfriend Shelly and Courtney have [[DubNameChange both been renamed]] Audrey.
286	** The most noticeable instance, however, is a character from ''The Ridonculous Race'' and a contestant from the 2023 season both being given the exact same name: Emma. Similarly, ''The Ridonculous Race'' has a contestant named Mary and the 2023 season has a contestant named Mary Kate, though it's averted in the latter's case as she's better known as [[OnlyKnownByInitials MK]].
287	* ''Franchise/{{Transformers}}'':
288	** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersAnimated'' gives us Sari's pet dog Sparkplug and a RecurringExtra named Sparkplug.
289	** ''WesternAnimation/TransformersPrime'' has both a Jack (Jackson Darby, the [[AudienceSurrogate main human character]]) and a Jackie (Bulkhead's nickname for Wheeljack).
290	* ''WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012'': ComicBook/SpiderMan a.k.a. Peter Parker and The Trapster a.k.a. [[EmbarrassingNickname Paste-Pot Pete]] or Peter Petruski. They got around it by never having The Trapster called by any of his other names.
291	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Visionaries}}'' has Arzon and Orzon. Arzon is a Spectral Knight and makes at least a cameo appearance in all thirteen episodes. Orzon, the leader of the Khemirites, only appears in "The Price of Freedom".
292	* Though he's never seen, another Tino is mentioned in ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders'' when the main character, Tino Tonitini, fails to get his name in the yearbook for [[OverlyNarrowSuperlative "Best Tino"]]. Also averting the "similar names" aspect is minor character Tony Tortallero, who even [[IdenticalStranger looks and sounds a lot like Tino]].
293	* ''WesternAnimation/WinxClub'': Pepe, Icy's duck, followed the Trix to Light Haven/Light Rock at the end of season one and [[LongBusTrip hasn't been seen since]]. The creators must have forgotten about him since in season four, Musa's pet bear was named Pepe.
294	* ''WesternAnimation/WorkItOutWombats'': Quique's real name is Enrique, but this is not mentioned on the show. However, "[[Recap/WorkItOutWombatsS1E33ParrandaHappyNewAcornYear The Treeborhood Parranda]]" introduces the Flapping Feathers, one of whom is named Enrique.
295	* ''WesternAnimation/XavierRiddleAndTheSecretMuseum'': So far, there are 2 Alexanders (Graham Bell and Hamilton), 3 Marys (Shelley, Leakey and Anning), 2 Georges (Washington and Washington Carver), 2 Maries (Curie and Owens), 2 Arthurs (Conan Doyle and Ashe) and 2 Jackies (Robinson and Joyner-Kersee).
296	* In ''WesternAnimation/XiaolinShowdown'', all of [[MechaMooks Jack Spicer's robots]] are called Jackbots or Robo-Jack for the more human-looking ones. Jack also adopts a parrot which he names Little Jack at one point.
297	* ''WesternAnimation/YoungJustice2010'':
298	** ComicBook/MartianManhunter suggested that ComicBook/{{Superboy}} choose the surname "Kent" for his SecretIdentity. However, since nobody on the Team knew Superman's real name yet, they assumed it was supposed to be [[DeadGuyJunior the recently deceased]] [[ComicBook/DoctorFate Kent Nelson]].
299	** Martian Manhunter himself is named J'onn J'onzz, aka "John Jones", on [[WesternAnimation/JusticeLeague a team]] that includes a [[Franchise/GreenLantern John Stewart]]. And then, on J'onn's suggestion, ComicBook/RedTornado takes the name John Smith. (For added fun, there's also [[MagiciansAreWizards Zatara]], whose first name, Giovanni, is the Italian form of John.)
300	** In season one we have the villain Hugo Strange, while season two gives us the hero Adam Strange.
301	** Aqualad's friend back home is named Garth, while ComicBook/BeastBoy's real name is Garfield "Gar" Logan. And for a meta coincidence, his voice actor is named Logan Grove.
302	** In the comics, Roy/[[spoiler:William]] Harper and Violet Harper are an example of this trope, but in this show "Violet Harper" is the character's invented identity, with her getting the surname specifically from him. However, right after that she has her first day of school and befriends ''Harper'' Row.
303	** There are three Cassandras on the show: Cassandra Savage, daughter of Vandal Savage, Cassandra Sandsmark, AKA Wonder Girl, and Cassandra [[spoiler:Wu-San,]] AKA Orphan. As the show has a large cast, no episode gave focus to two of them at once, that is, until the second story arc of Season 4 dealing with Artemis and the League of Shadows, where Savage and Orphan were both important characters.
304	** The show does something similar with code names. As of season 4, there are two Flashes and four Green Lanterns that are all members of the Justice League, and Arthur Curry decides that he's a better superhero than king and decides to resume being Aquaman but thinks that Kaldur'ahm (who'd taken up the Aquaman title after his retirement) and La'gaan also both deserve it as well, leaving the League with three active Aquamans.

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