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  • Aladdin: The film's MacGuffin is a magic lamp, in which a genie lives. And his name is Genie.
  • An American Tail: Fievel Goes West has Cat R. Waul and Miss Kitty, whose species should be obvious.
  • Barnyard has a pig named Pig, which is what everyone calls him.
  • The cast of The Brave Little Toaster except for Kirby, the vacuum. It's a subversion, however, as he's named after a real-life brand of vacuum cleaners.
  • Mack from Cars is a rare non-animal example, a big rig named after the Mack line of trucks. Same with Doc Hudson, a Hudson Hornet whose real name actually is Hudson Hornet.
  • The Big Bad in Cat City is a cat named Mr. Gatto.
  • Goat Story - Old Prague Legends has a goat named Goat.
  • Mavka: The Forest Song: "Mavka" is used as the character's name in the film. In Slavic Mythology, the word is used for her species.
  • Ringing Bell has a wolf named Wolf.
  • Disney Animated Canon:
    • Thomas O'Malley from The Aristocats is a tomcat named "Thomas". In this case, his full name is actually Abraham De Lacey Giuseppe Casey Thomas O'Malley.
    • The cat from The Black Cauldron is named Cat.
    • Tod and his girlfriend Vixey from The Fox and the Hound. Tod actually gets his name from the word used to describe a male fox, while Vixey gets her name from the word vixen, a female fox.
    • Simba the lion in The Lion King, getting his name from Swahili.
    • The main villain of Mulan, Shan Yu, has a falcon named Hayabusa. Hayabusa is the Japanese word for such a falcon. Well, Shan Yu's own name is the human equivalentnote .
    • Zootopia features a pop star gazelle named... Gazelle. According to Word of God, the jaguar child in the opening play is named Jaguar, as well.
    • Hercules has a Pegasus named... Pegasus. However, in this case, it is justified since this pegasus is supposed to be the mythological one from which the fictional species as a whole derives its name from.
    • Encanto: The family's Sapient House is named "Casita". It also happens that "Casita" is spanish for "Little House".
  • Finding Nemo
    • Many of the characters in Finding Nemo are named after something found underwater, but are rarely named after their own species. For example, Marlin is actually a clownfish. The one exception is the minor character Mr. Ray, a stingray.
    • The trope's also used as a joke:
      Marlin: So, Mr. Turtle—
      Crush: Whoa, dude! Mr. Turtle is my father.
  • The main villain of Flushed Away is a toad named Toad.
  • Kubo and the Two Strings. Kubo's two companions, a monkey and a beetle-man, are called Monkey and Beetle. This is lampshaded when Beetle asks why Kubo isn't called "Boy". Their true identities as Kubo's mother and father reveal their names to be Sariatu and Hanzo.
  • Kung Fu Panda:
    • The Furious Five, Mantis, Tigress, Viper, Monkey and Crane. It's both a reference to their species and to the kung fu style they use.
    • Several of the other kung-fu masters are also named after their species, sometimes with added adjectives like "Thundering Rhino". Though considering how Po is occasionally referred to as "Panda" it could be they're on a Race-Name Basis.
    • Master Oogway's name is just the Chinese word for Turtle.
    • The main antagonist of Kung Fu Panda 4 is a chameleon sorceress named "The Chameleon".
  • The famous Cowardly Lion of Lion of Oz is just called "Lion".
  • Little Blue Dragon from Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf - Mission Incredible: Adventures on the Dragon's Trail is a... dragon.
  • The Shrek franchise:
    • The main series has Donkey (a talking donkey), Puss in Boots (a pussycat) and Dragon (a dragon).
    • Puss in Boots introduces Puss' female counterpart, a declawed cat named Kitty Softpaws. In the sequel, The Last Wish, Puss and Kitty are joined by an unnamed dog companion, whom they usually call perrito (Spanish for "doggy"). In the ending, the dog decides that he wants to be called "Perrito", as that's how his friends have been referring to him. In addition, Puss is hunted by an unnamed wolf, who is only ever called "the Wolf" in-universe (or The Big Bad Wolf in promotional materials, though Shrek already had one). He eventually reveals himself to be the Shrek universe equivalent of Death, however.
  • Cù in Song of the Sea; "Cù" is simply Irish for "dog."
  • The main character in Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron is usually called "Mustang" until he gets properly named at the end.
  • In The Swan Princess, there's a puffin named Puffin.
  • Toy Story:
    • An interesting variation: rather than being named for their species or occupation, most of them are named after the brand of toy they are. Thus, Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head are a Mr. and Mrs. Potato Head, Barbie and Ken are a Barbie and Ken, etc. Also applies to characters not based on real toys: Woody is a Sheriff Woody doll and Buzz is a Buzz Lightyear action figure (one of hundreds, as we're shown).
    • The few examples that aren't directly named after their brand are nicknames derived from what kind of toy they are: for instance, Mr. Mike is a microphone toy (specifically a Playskool Rockin' Robot), and RC is a radio-controlled car.
    • The straightest examples of this trope would be Dolly the doll from Toy Story 3, Angel Kitty (a Christmas tree ornament of a cat dressed as an angel) in Toy Story That Time Forgot, and Ducky and Bunny (a plushie duck and rabbit respectively) in Toy Story 4. (Forky could also count — given he's a plastic fork — but he was given the name by a kindergartener.)
  • From the same studio as Song of the Sea above, in Wolfwalkers Robin's falcon is named Merlin, the name of a variety of falcon.

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