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  • 12 oz. Mouse:
    • There's a shark named Shark, an eyeball named Eye, and Peanut Cop, who is not an actual peanut, but is shaped like one, and is a cop. The main character's full name, Mouse Fitzgerald, falls under this trope since he's a mouse.
    • Rectangular Businessman is a square, which is a specific type of rectangle even if not normally thought of as suchnote .
  • Adventure Time: Many characters, including Mr. Pig.
  • Aladdin has the genie named Genie. Lampshaded in one episode of Aladdin: The Series, where he meets a female genie named Eden. When he proudly shouts "Hi, I'm Genie!" she snarks "oh, that's original."
  • A Little Curious has several members of its cast with names like this. "Mop" is a mop, "Mr. String" is a piece of string, "Plush" is a plush dog, "Little Cup" is a small cup, "Pad" is a notepad, and "Pencil" is a no. 2 pencil. There's a pair of mary janes named "Mary Jane", but her older sister (a pair of sneakers) has a Punny Name of "Lacey" instead.
  • Most of the cast of Almost Naked Animals. Oddly, Howie the dog is the only exception.
  • The living hotdog in The Amazing World of Gumball turns out to really be named Hot Dog Guy.
    • There is also a donut cop named Donut Cop, a turd named Mr. Poop, a male doctor named Dr. Man, a butt doctor named Dr. Butt, a green gummy bear named The Green Bear, a fuzz ball named Fuzzball, a dog named Dog, a cat named Kitty, and a mushroom named Mushroom.
  • Angel's Friends: Dolce/Sweet has a Butterfly familiar named Butterfly.
  • Animal Mechanicals has a unicorn named Unicorn, a mouse named Mouse and a sasquatch named Sasquatch. In fact, all the characters are named after what they are.
  • The entire cast of Apple & Onion is this; one episode had the titular duo name a cat "Cat".
  • Most of The Babaloos are just named after what they are- Baby Towel, Teaspoon, Mr. Bowl, Mrs. Coffeepot, Mr. Vac, etc.- although there are exceptions (such as Victor the trophy).
  • Uniqua from The Backyardigans. Turns out her species is called the uniqua.
  • Bird from Bob the Builder.
  • Boy Girl Dog Cat Mouse Cheese: There is indeed a dog named Dog. And a cat named Cat, and a boy named Boy, and so on...
  • CatDog is about a cat named Cat and a dog named Dog who were born fused together.
  • Centaurworld: The main characters include a horse named Horse and her rider, who is named Rider.
  • Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers: No points for guessing Fat Cat's species (though it's also got a double meaning as he is a wealthy animal businessman/criminal too). Also, his henchman Mole is a mole. For that matter, Chip is a chipmunk (which gets a lampshade hung on it in Of Mice and Mayhem).
  • Christmas In Tattertown: A girl named Debbie has a living stuffed dog, who's called simply "Dog".
  • City Island (2022): Watt's grandmother is a candle named Candle.
  • Codename: Kids Next Door has the The Delightful Children From Down the Lane's adoptive father be named Father.
  • Cow and Chicken who are respectively a cow and a chicken.
  • Cupcake & Dino: General Services stars, of course, a cupcake named Cupcake, and a dinosaur named Dino. Also of note is their grandmother, a piece of steak named Grandma Steak.
  • Danny Phantom: One recurring character is a wolflike ghost named Wulf.
  • In Detention, Shareena has a pet pig named Pig.
  • Die Sendung mit der Maus: "Trude und ihr Tier". (May count as subversion, as Tiernote  is no animal anyway, but belongs to Benevolent Monsters.) An episode to name him ended in a fail. (And there where he comes from he probably has one anyway.)
    • The show's mascots may also count. It's never come up onscreen one way or another, but Word of God persistently refers to them as simply Maus, Elefanten & Ente (mouse, elephant and duck).
  • The Dog & Pony Show has the titular duo, an anthropomorphic dog and pony.
  • On Dora the Explorer, Dora's puppy is named "Perrito," which is Spanish for "puppy."
  • One of Webby's friends in DuckTales (2017) is a hummingbird girl named Violet Sabrewing.
  • Dudley Do-Right's horse is named Horse.
  • In the special The Easter Bunny is Coming To Town Sunny and his friends decide to deliver eggs in the somber town of Town.
  • The titular main character of Face's Music Party is a face named "Face".
  • The titular canine of Family Dog is never referred to by any name other than "the dog." His Christmas stocking even says "Dog" on it!
  • Fireman Sam: Series 6 introduces a lamb named Lambykins.
  • The Forgotten Toys: One of the main characters is a teddy bear named Teddy.
  • The Foxbusters: Dog the dog.
  • Franklin: Practically everyone besides the title turtle. His friends include a bear named Bear, a rabbit named Rabbit, a beaver named Beaver, a fox named Fox, a snail named Snail etc. Apparently only turtles are creative enough to give their offspring names not taken after their respective species. Turtle, however, is his Species Surname.
    • Averted in the French Dub. Bear is named Martin, Snail is named Arnaud, Rabbit is Basil and Beaver is Lili. In the French Canadian Dub, Franklin's name is changed to Benjamin.
  • Fred the Caveman: Fred named his dog "dog".
  • The Garfield Show: One of the recurring characters is a Rottweiler who is actually named Rottweiler.
  • George of the Jungle: When he gets in a scrape, he makes his escape with the help of his friend, an ape named Ape.
  • Glenn Martin, DDS: The main family, the Martins’ pet dog is named “Canine” which is the family where a dog belongs in. This has a Double Meaning, as it reflects the titular father's occupation as a dentist, referring to the canine teeth.
  • Bear is this in Goldie & Bear, except that it's not quite played straight - Bear is actually his last name. His first name is actually Jack, but when he was little his parents also called him "Baby Bear" and "Bear" ended up sticking.
  • Hamster & Gretel: Gretel's superpowered pet hamster is named, well, Hamster.
  • Happy Monster Band: Each band member sounds similar to the name of their colors. Ink is pink, L.O. is yellow, Frred is red, and Bluz is blue.
  • Infinity Train includes "the Cat." Curiously avoided with the dog character, however, who is named (King) Atticus.
  • It's Pony stars a talking pony named Pony.
  • Julius Jr.: Worry Bear sticks out like a sore thumb as the other characters have fantastic names like Julius and Sheree.
  • Kaeloo: The name "Kaeloo" sounds like the Japanese word for frog, "kaeru". Kaeloo, the main character of the show, is a frog.
  • The Souphanousinphones' dog in King of the Hill is named Doggy.
  • This trope applies to the members of the Furious Five in Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, whose names are Tigress, Crane, Monkey, Viperess, and Mantis. The show makes fun of this trope in an episode in which the Furious Five forget who they are and Crane proceeds to question whether villain of the week, Taotie, is also named for his animal.
  • In The Legend of Korra, Lord Zuko has a dragon named Druk; druk is Bhutanese for '(Thunder) Dragon'.
  • In Legend Quest, Alebrije is both the name of a character and his species. He is said to have a real name, but it is too hard for humans to pronounce, and thus is not known.
  • Let's Go Luna!: The Moon is named Luna. "Luna" is the word for "moon" in Spanish, Portuguese, Italian, Latin, and Romanian.
  • One may wonder if Little Bear would still keep the "Little" part of his name when he grows up. Likewise, his friends include a hen named Hen, an owl named Owl, a duck named Duck and a cat named Cat. Averted with Mitzi the monkey, Nofeet the snake and Tutu the dog, however.
  • In Looney Tunes, the canine foil of Foghorn Leghorn had been identified on model sheets as Barnyard Dawg.
    • Also, the bull from the short Bully for Bugs is called Toro, which is Spanish for bull.
  • Mike, Lu & Og: Played straight with Goat and Pig, but subverted with Spiny the porcupine.
  • Subverted with Pigeon in Mike Tyson Mysteries. His actual name is Richard since he's a human who was magically cursed to be a pigeon, but none of the other characters care enough to remember his real name nor does he care enough to correct them regularly.
  • Milo Murphy's Law has an interesting spin on this: Milo's dog is named "Diogee", pronounced like "D-O-G." (For bonus points, this is actually a Tuckerization of co-creator Dan Povenmire's sister's dog.)
  • In The Moxy Show, Moxy's best friend is a flea named Flea.
  • Mr. Bogus gives us a rat named Ratty and a mole named Mole, who serve as Bogus's main adversaries.
  • Mr Moon features a crab constellation named Crab. This is a rare Justified example, as several characters are based on the Zodiac constellations, and the real life constellation based on the crab happens to be named Cancer.
  • Birch of My Life Me has a cat named Neko.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has Zecora the zebra (The word "zecora" was, but is no longer, the word used for zebra by the Oromo people of east Africa), Mayor Mare and DJ PON-3; the latter two are Ascended Fanon. Surprisingly for a children's franchise, they usually manage to avoid this.
  • My Pet Monster's title character is a monster named Monster.
  • Oscar's Orchestra: In the episode "Battle On Ice", the orchestra meets a viola named... Viola. Made more notable by the fact that the other instruments' names avert this.
  • Oswald:
    • Subverted with the sunflower character named "Daisy". And Oswald’s pet dog is named “Weenie”.
    • "Cactus Polly" is a cactus.
  • The Owl House: The Collector is actually a young member of a species that are called “Collectors.”
  • Peep and the Big Wide World: The main trio, Peep, Chirp, and Quack, are birds and they are named after sounds birds make. Specifically, Peep is a chick that goes “peep” and Quack is a duck.
  • Played straight in Peg + Cat where half of the title duo is a cat named Cat, a pig named Pig, a small chicken named Little Chicken, the group of teens are called The Teens and many other examples.
  • On Peter Rabbit, almost all of the characters have actual names (though may occasionally have a Species Surname), but the shrew character is simply "Shrew."
  • Pig Goat Banana Cricket stars a pig named Pig, goat named Goat, and a cricket named Cricket. The latter used to be a Mantis, but things changed.
  • Pocoyo's Pato (Spanish for "duck").
  • A side character in The Ren & Stimpy Show is a horse named Mr. Horse.
  • The title characters of Robot and Monster. Interestingly, all the other characters are robots and monsters, yet have distinct names.
  • Rock Paper Scissors: The titular trio, Rock, Paper, and Scissors are all named after the eponymous game.
  • Rosie's Rules: Rosie's sidekick is a cat named Gatita, which means "kitten" in Spanish.
  • The titular pet in Sarah & Duck.
  • The Secret Saturdays have a pet Komodo dragon named Komodo.
  • Sheep, the main character of Sheep in the Big City. According to the show's pilot, Farmer John apparently named him Sheep because he looked like a sheep when he was born.
  • She-Ra: Princess of Power: Imp is an imp named Imp. It's never clarified if he's part of a species, that particular class of demon, or even if it's just a nickname but his design makes it pretty clear what the animators were invoking. This is backed up by the fact that several of the characters such as Leech, Mantenna, and even Hordak are using codenames as revealed in their bios, whereas nothing appears under Imp's alias.
  • The titular character of Sheriff Callie's Wild West is of course, a Calico cat.
  • Skunk Fu! has all the characters named after their species: Skunk, Rabbit, Fox, Pig, and Panda.
  • The Simpsons: In the episode Eight Misbehavin, the mascot of SHØP is a large anthropomorphic Allen Wrench named "Alan Wrench". Which Homer comments on "Hee hee hee, He's named after what he is".
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM):
    • Bunnie Rabbot is a Funny Animal cyborg rabbit. Justified in that "Bunnie" is an actual name.
    • Sonic's non-humanoid dog is named Muttski.
    • Cat is an elderly cat.
    • Downplayed with Lupe, who's a wolf.
  • South Park:
    • Cartman's cat is called Mr. Kitty. Ironically, "Mr." Kitty is female.
    • Parodied with the holiday episode, "Woodland Critter Christmas", where this trope is combined with Buffy Speak. The critters (who also happen to be devil worshippers) are named as follows: Squirrely the squirrel, Rabbity the rabbit, Beavery the beaver, Beary the bear, Porcupiney the porcupine, Skunky the skunk, Foxy the fox, Deery the deer, Woodpeckery the woodpecker, Mousey the mouse, Racoony the raccoon, and Chickadee-y the chickadee. It makes sense considering the entire story was cooked up by Cartman at the end of the episode.
  • SpongeBob SquarePants:
  • Star Trek: Lower Decks: In "Much Ado About Boimler", this is done literally with Tendi's dog-like creation, which is officially named "The Dog".
  • Steven Universe:
    • Steven adopts a magical pink lion and names it "Lion", and later on creates a pumpkin Planimal which gets named "Pumpkin".
    • The Gems all look humanoid, but their physical forms are actually holograms and they're literally just their gemstone. So we have a pearl named "Pearl", a ruby named "Ruby", etc., despite the fact that there are more than one of each type. In cases of confusion, they use serial numbers - for instance, the "main" Amethyst is revealed to be named Amethyst Facet-5 Cut-8XM. The only exceptions are the Diamonds, who are distinguished by color and have only one of each.
    • Because some Gems assume other species should follow their conventions, they have trouble with human characters' names. Peridot initially refers to the eponymous character as "the Steven" and presumes other humans are also Stevens.
  • Inverted in Stunt Dawgs. Their pet dog is named Human.
  • Hedgehog from Summer Camp Island is a Funny Animal hedgehog girl. She's the Odd Name Out amongst the characters as everyone else has names like "Oscar" and "Alice".
  • Tangled: The Series:
    • Rapunzel's handmaiden/bodyguard Cassandra has an owl companion named... Owl.
    • Varian's pet raccoon is called Rudiger; in this case this trope is combined with Bilingual Bonus, since that is German for "raccoon".
  • In Taz-Mania, Taz has a pet named 'Dog'. Who is a turtle. Who thinks he is a dog.
  • Terrytoons' Deputy Dawg had a character named Al E. Gator.
  • In Thomas & Friends, the main diesel character is named simply Diesel.
  • ThunderCats (1985) and Thunder Cats 2011 does have some Odd Names Out, but many of the cast of Catfolk have names denoting their species: Lion-O, Cheetara, Tygra, Jaga, Panthro, Leo and Panthera, as does enemy Chameleon Khamai, and Team Pet Snarf, a snarf.
  • Subverted in Tom and Jerry; Tom's name is actually short for Thomas, and is not just a reflection on the fact that he is, in fact, a tomcat.
  • In Total Drama's first season, D.J. finds a rabbit during the camping challenge, adopts it as a pet and names it Bunny.
  • Several characters in Unikitty! including Unikitty herself, her brother Puppycorn (both of them unicorn hybrids, Unikitty being a cat/unicorn hybrid and Puppycorn a dog/unicorn), and their bodyguard Hawkodile.
  • Dick Dastardly's canine minion on Wacky Races (and its myriad spinoffs and updates) is Muttley.
  • In Wanda and the Alien, Alien's name actually is "Alien", as revealed in one episode where the pair visit Alien's family when Alien is sick.
  • In We Bare Bears, The main characters are Grizzly the grizzly bear and Panda the panda bear (lampshaded in one episode). Downplayed with Ice Bear the polar bear.
  • Downplayed with The Wild Puffalumps, as their names are actually the name of the animals that they are based on.
  • On Wishfart, Dez's friend and roommate is a talking puffin named Puffin.
  • Every character in WordWorld. Which makes a certain amount of sense, since most objects in Word World are made of the letters that spell what it is.
  • The title character of Whatever Happened to... Robot Jones? is a robot whose first name is Robot.
  • Young Justice (2010) has the alien robot sphere named Sphere and the albino wolf named Wolf. Lampshaded when Conner (who named the above two) is introduced to a monkey named Monkey. He says that's a good name.

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