* ''{{Babe}}''
** Farmer Hogget names Babe Pig for the sheep-herding competition. Everyone's in stitches, thinking it's a dog named Pig, until he actually shows up.
** Also applies to the name "Babe" itself. According to Babe, it's what his mother called all her children; that is, she called her babes Babe.
* Draco the dragon in ''Film/{{Dragonheart}}''. Given a droll lampshading.
* [[JohnWayne Jake's]] dog in ''BigJake'' is named Dog.
* ''Film/ETTheExtraTerrestrial''
* A rare human example: Kid the kid in ''Film/DickTracy''. By the end of the film he chooses the name "Dick Tracy Jr." but is still called "Kid" out of habit.
* ''[[http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0952682/ Shotgun Stories]]'' is centred around three impoverished brothers living in rural Arkansas called Son, Boy and Kid.
* In ''KungPow'', the Chosen One's pet dog is humorously named Dog.
* In ''TheTenthKingdom'' there's Wolf. Though he's a human/wolf hybrid.
* In ''Film/PiratesOfTheCaribbeanOnStrangerTides'', the holy man names the mermaid "Serena" which comes from the same root word as "Siren". You know, the creatures from the Odyssey that are [[SirensAreMermaids often depicted as mermaids]]. In fact, in some languages, the word for mermaid is spelled almost the same (e.g. "sirena" in Spanish, "sirène" in French...).
* ''TheRoadWarrior'' has Max's dog, named Dog. This was also the name of the dog actor.
* The Aliens from the ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' franchise. The closest they have to an in-universe name other than "Aliens" is "Xenomorph", which means "Alien form". In ''Film/AlienResurrection'', Call refers to the species as "Aliens", both in talking to Ripley-8 and when calling them to attack the villain over the intercom.
** In the comic book spinoffs they're sometimes referred to as "''Linguafoeda Acheronsis''", but that probably doesn't count.
* In ''Film/CowboysAndAliens'', nobody bothers to give the dog that follows Lonergan around a name. Except Emmett, who calls it "Dog."
* ''Basement Jack'': "You named the dog Dog?"
* Turned on its head with ''{{Tarzan}}'''s pal Cheetah, the ''chimp''.
** GeorgeOfTheJungle plays it straight with an ape named "Ape", however.
* The sequel to ''Film/ThanksKilling'' revealed the killer turkey's name is Turkie.
* Holly in "Film/BreakfastAtTiffanys" has a cat called Cat.
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