Instances of Aerith and Bob in Fan Works.
- Riding the Dragon has Cecilia and her daughter Siriwan, as well as Hanse and his wife Nelith. This isn't unusual for Battletech and Siriwan is a name of historical significance in the setting.
- A Man of Iron mostly averts this, as the Marvel characters who show up have their names changed, when applicable, to their Westeros-style version (with the author cursing Martin for not just creating names wholesale like Tolkien did). One exception, however, is Jane Foster's counterpart Jane Seaworth, whose name is not changed to the Westerosi "Jeyne".
- Present in The Night Unfurls:
- Amongst the Good Hunter's party, there are common names like Hugh, Lily, and Soren versus uncommon names like Kyril, Evetta, and Sanakan.
- The Seven Shields is this as well. We have Celestine, Claudia, Alicia, Prim, Maia, Kaguya, and Luu-Luu.
- Olga, the Dark Queen, and Chloe, her shadow.
- Ex-Black Dog members (Boris, Fredrick, Oliver, Soren) versus prominent Black Dogs (Vault, Kin, Hicks).
- In the Star Wars/Mass Effect/Borderlands/Halo crossover Origins, some acolytes of the main villain (for a while anyway) fall under this trope with names like "Zera Zelit", "Urthula Shurken", "Drythlyn Narb", and "Venera Sola." Given that the canon background/galaxy they come from is written about on this very page, it's not surprising.
- In the Danny Phantom/Beetlejuice crossover story, Say It Thrice, the characters include (but are not limited to) Danny, Sam, Tucker, Aunt Melinda, Lydia, Adam, Barbara, Juno, Poindexter, Skulker, Betelgeuse, and Sanduleak. In the flashback portion, Betelgeuse lived in the same area as Peter, William, Agnes, Elinor, Remfrey, Galeren, Lord Gilbert, Hamund, Ysembert, and Sibylla. The time period helps make it more reasonable.
- Universe Falls:
- In "Peridot in the Wild", Celestiabellebethabelle's fellow unicorns are given the names Barry and Maurice.
- Similarly, the alien refugees Ford meets in "The Nightmare Realm" are Yottos, Hocoh, Qharquains, and George.
- Downplayed somewhat in Kunoichis Like Us, where the main protagonist has the western name Alex, as one would from someone who is ethnically French-American, but his sisters, who are not adopted or from a remarriage, are given the decidedly Japanese names of Rika and Mayu.
- In Death Note II: The Hidden Note, the new Shinigami who we're introduced to are named Arik, Ruoma, Muerte and Greg.
- Justin and Landras from Kira Is Justice. Justified, since Shinigami in the canon don't have normal human names.
- The Daleks in The Bugger Anthology have a wide variety of names, ranging from sufficiently alien-sounding ones (Caan, Malek) to names that are normal by human standards but do not fit giant pepperpots from space well (Ricky, Bertha, Lynda) to names intended primarily to be jokes (None Pizza With Left Beef, Thanks For 25K, ABBA Megamix).
- Though A Song of Ice and Fire/Game of Thrones already has examples of this, such as the name Jon existing in the same part of the world as the name Rhaegar, Forum of Thrones takes this to even more of an extreme thanks to some of the characters created by readers. On one hand, there are canonical characters with names like Argella and Mern. On the other hand, there are characters like Federico, Richard and Christian.
- Hazbin Hotel: Lucifer's Folly: Much like it's canon source, expect there to be many crazy and outlandish demonic names like Angel Dust, Sex Machine, Rift Landshark, Purr-Vert and Sparky Kaboom only to also be greeted with demons with more normal names like Fitz, Steve Stinger, Leonard and Toby.
- In Heroes of the Desk, we have the Heroes (like Valla, Nova, Jim, and, well, Diablo), the Player and...Bokat-Anne Vizsla.
- For the Glory of Irk: Dib notes several times that the Syndicate members' names can vary from human-like to extremely bizarre-sounding. For example, the most prominent Syndicate characters are Captain Rose and the brothers Lor and Carrius.
- FFS, I Believe in You: The lizalfos names — Isolda, Candis, Tristram, Doomsnarl... and Gerald.
- Savu0211 doesn't follow the standard of The Lion King characters having African (usually Swahili) names. For example, Sarafina's brother is named "Riku" (a Japanese and Finnish name) and another character is named "Loki" (a Norse name).
- legolas by laura's title character is named "Laura" by Legolas ... ('Laure' is in fact the Noldorin word for 'golden colored,' but a Sindarin Elf like Legolas wouldn't be using Noldorin names.)
- Miraculous: The Phoenix Rises has one major character named Moof, which is revealed to come from "'Moof out of the way".
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Anthropology, Lyra is obsessed with humans and is determined to prove that they exist. She considers "human" names, like Pony Joe, to be evidence of human influence in a land where names like Rainbow Dash and Star Swirl are commonplace.
- In Curse of the Demon Pony, what does the author choose to call Twilight Sparkle's love interest from the past? Ben. What is the name of the fantastically racist Gaston rip-off who picks on him? Boris. They don't exactly fit in with the names of the canon characters, do they?
- In Dusk's Dawn Donut is a name alongside Iridescence and Star Whistle.
- In The Equestria Chronicles a reason is provided for why some ponies have regular names and others don't. Since ponies are named at birth but don't receive their cutie marks until they come of age there is just as much chance that the name will turn out to be completely wrong as there is of it lining up properly (e.g. a plumber whose baker father named him Nine Grain). Most parents choose not to take the risk and instead use generic names.
- The Oversaturated World outright parodies it with two news anchors named Aerith and Bob... short for Aerith Metic and Bobby Pin, which fits the in universe naming scheme perfectly.
- What a Strange Little Colt: The name “Gabriel” doesn’t fit the naming scheme of most ponies.
- Junior Officers has characters with semi-reasonable names (Barnacles, Peso, Inkling, Tweak, Kitsune, and Deborah) alongside very outlandish names (Kwazii, ShellingtonSpoilers!, Dashi, Elekai, Lekona).
- Luffy's Renewed Adventure:
- The name of the old man who gave Luffy his second chance? Phil.
- Rather simple names are also given to a few members of Baroque Works. As opposed to the canon names like Daz Bones, Bentham, and Galdino (Misters 1, 2, & 3, respectively), Mr. 5’s name is Greg, Miss Valentine’s name is Valerie, and Miss Goldenweek’s name is Grace. Then again, Miss Doublefinger’s real name is Paula in canon, so it’s not that farfetched.
Percy Jackson and the Olympians
- Demigod Power: There are normal names, like Peter and Carly and Steven, and then you have names like Tempest, Jolon and Rhaenys. Some names, like Eteocles, are justified because they are archaic names, and the character in question is incredibly old.
- In Jessica, Cameron's Pokémon Yellow team includes the eponymous Pikachu and a Dragonite nicknamed "Gororo."
- Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Hands Of Creation has characters named Owen, Alex, and James, as well as Anam, Gahi, and Mispy, to name only a few.
- Warriors of the World has a wide spectrum of names that range from familiar to completely made-up. This actually fits with the canon, however, since the game itself hardly uses any form of standardised naming convention despite being Norse-influenced.
- The Extended Railway Series: Like the original books they're a continuation of, this series has engines with names like Evan, Brad, Scott, Simon, and Betty working with engines named Sodor Castle, Blandford, Warrior, Kaiser, and Janus.
- Although characters like Winston and Daphneare a special case, as they're also known as "Western Minister" and "The Queen's Own Scottish Borderer" respectively. Also, the full name of Sammie from "Last of the Crewe Engines" is Samarkand.
- soulless shell (Redwall) has this, to a far more entertaining extent than its originating canon. The hero's name is Leif Melyamos, which fits fairly well with the canon. His girlfriend is named Maoimi, his adoptive mother is Aveena, and his followers are named Karas, Thrnos, Monroe, and the villainous Arnold. Yeah, which of these things is not like the others?
- Sailor Moon Z has an Elf named Derith and a Dragon named... Bob. Yes, they are Those Two Guys during comedic scenes.
- The Sonic franchise's usage of this trope is explained as a cultural difference in the High School AU Shadow the Hedgehog - First Class
. Mobians use "Aerith" names while humans use "Bob" names. Shadow stands out with his human surname of "Robotnik" (which he received from his human creator and father figure Gerald Robotnik). Amy's name is explained as her having grown up in a human-oriented orphanage.
- Deep Dish Nine changes all the aliens into humans but everyone still has the same name, so you get normally-named people like Benjamin Sisko, along with people who are allegedly human but called things like Quark.
- In ToyHammer we are given a spectrum: 'Alice' and 'Vincent' are relatively common names, while 'Ishabeth', 'Tomas' and 'Eizak' are merely distillations of Elizabeth, Thomas and Isaac. Then things get weirder with 'Sohm Vekt', 'Madork Gunna' and finally we get thrown off the deep end with 'Shas'ui Fi'rios Yon'anuk Eldi'myr' (AKA Sergeant Talon).
- Frequent to see, especially among the characters' children- Elphaba and Fiyero will have a daughter named Amy, for instance. Often you'll have a "normal" name (e.g. Lucy) spelt in a way that looks more like it fits with the source characters and world, but will be pronounced normally, which fits better (e.g. Lucy as "Lucee").
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- Commonly seen in fanfics for pretty much any manga/anime series. Side by side with the Japanese names of canon characters, original characters will either have Western names, or names that the author thinks they can get away with passing off as Japanese. It is downright painful to be reading about Naruto buying equipment from Dave the blacksmith.
- In The Two Year Emperor it's played for laughs when the ruler's bodyguards are introduced as "Robert, Rob, Bob, and Aerith".
- Sburb Patch Notes has Avery, Tricia, Kira, Aaron, and Daniel. And Hazika, Blue Sunny Day, The Lich, and Goranius Mirokat.
- Happens a lot in Weiß Kreuz fanfiction. The four-man team of Hitmen with Hearts take their codenames from cat breeds. Far too many of their OC teammates either fail to notice the pattern or they just didn't care, resulting in characters with codenames like Calico, Tigera, Reflector and Suicide. In one instance, a fanficcer added an (entirely legitimate) OC sibling named 'Bryn' to a family whose canonical members were named Saijou, Reiji, Shuuichi, Kikuno, Hirofumi, Masafumi, Mamoru and Ouka. Bad, but not quite as bad as the fanficcer who furnished Corrupt Politician Reiji with a son named Windsor Wellington Markham III.
- In The Terminators: Army of Legend series, you have characters such as Alex, Ruby, Elliot, and fighting alongside characters such as Terrias, Piermont, Cheet, Arratroth, and Pyron.
