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  • In Feywinds there's Prince Sidney Theodorus Cassian Merriweather Findain VIII... Just call him Sid...
  • Lovely Lovecraft: Phil'Gwhanach, Leader of the Night Gaunt Legion, Hero of the Battle of the Nameless Rock and Sentinel of Ilek-Vad. He goes by Phil.
  • Planet Zebeth brought us the Trabnagian tribe (their arc starts here), who wear this as their hat. Kraid, who possesses something of a naming complex, loved them, but they wore Samus to the breaking point.
  • Secret, from Keychain of Creation, whose full name is so long that, with her low stamina, she can't say the whole thing without passing out. The name is: The Most Secret And Sorrowful Of All the Bearers Of The Endless Destiny Of All Creation Which Wander Amidst Forgotten Sights And Fallen Tears Along The Tread Of Ancient Ashen Footsteps Through The Shadow Of That Which Comes And Into That Riotous Cacophony That Births All Fools And Steals All Beauty, Who Heralds Through Her Silence The Stillness And Chill Of Those Who Were Not Born And Who Will Not 'Till All Things Fall And In That Most Grim Harvest Form The Final Tomb Of All Awakened Life And All The Sleepless Dead. (It may go on, but this is where she passed out).
  • Irregular Webcomic!:
    • Dr. Ginny Smith's (she's a Soviet Deep Cover Agent) Russian name is: Valentina Irina Ranevskaya Galina Ivana Natalya Iriyushka Anastasia Sonyechka Marinochka Ineslenka Tatyana Hvorostovskaya. Ignore the fact that it violates Russian naming conventions - Morgan-Mar clearly did for joke purposes. And the acronym for it is "VIRGINIA SMITH".
    • Death of Inciting A Worker's Rebellion In An Organisation With Supernatural Power Over Life And Death (the death with the longest name in the comic).
  • In Gored By Them Things, a tree frog exists named Barthomiolioliolus Lemontine Woolworth III. He goes by "Skippy." He, Captain Rum, Apegorn, Blotto, and Tacky are about the only characters who do anything useful.
  • In the Order of the Stick prequel volume Start of Darkness, Xykon is courted as an ally by goblin and lizardfolk tribes. The lizardfolk spokesman introduces himself as "Ekdysdioksosiirwo, Viridian Lord of—".... Xykon declares this too long to remember and blasts him dead. He then asks the goblin spokesman, ("you, in the red cloak") what his name is, and gets the answer "Redcloak." To date, Redcloak's actual goblin name has not been revealed.
  • Dominic Deegan introduced in early comics a knight by the name of Siegfried Gunther Aern Damaske von Callan. When he introduces himself to Dominic (and later to many others), Dominic's only response is to stare at him blankly even after he describes his problem, prompting Siggy to ask, "I lost you at the name, didn't I?". Dominic (and later many others) immediately says, "Er.... may I just call you Siggy?"
  • The first two villains in Antihero for Hire that aren't Wizard have this: Baron Diamond's name is actually Baron Orange Earthsmantle Von Potatoflight. Dr. Nefarious's name, meanwhile, is Doctor Albert Charious Airous Nefarious-Smith.
  • Corporal Leelagaleenileeleenoleela of Schlock Mercenary is typically just called "Legs." Guess why.
  • Digger "well actually, Digger-of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels". What's more fun is that's her personal name; none of her named relatives use the of-Unnecessarily-Convoluted-Tunnels bit. It is implied the surname is Quartzclaw as that's her clan's name.
  • And Shine Heaven Now has a minor character who sees herself as the heroine of the story, and has every intention of falling in mutual love with one of the main characters. Her (self-chosen, possibly indicating some accidental Genre Savviness) alias: Marian Amethyst Raven Yumi Sappho Urania Elizabeth.
  • Lady Sunset Autumn Honey Purity Sunflower Rainbow from Elf Only Inn (though everyone calls her M'Lady).
  • In The Way of the Metagamer, there's a town called "Townwithanequipmentstoreaplacewithmapsandatavernofcourse". Also Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
  • The goblins from Goblins have names like "One-eye" and "Big-ears" and "Can't-think-of-a-name-cos-he-looks-like-a-regular-guy." And “Stop-the-Ceremony-I-Swallowed-a-Bug.”
  • In Something*Positive, Shazam Wil-Wheaton Dowden-Patel. The hyphens are the source of his power. (His parents are a pair of proud geeks, if you couldn't figure that out.)
  • Randall observed this about Soo in Long Term Roomies. For someone who usually goes by a three letter name, her full name is Sooraya Fatima Winona Massimari Katherine Habib-Johnson. She explains it as the western and eastern halves of her family getting into a fight over whether she should have a western or eastern name.
  • The true name of Mr. Jinx from Starslip Crisis is unpronounceable in our language. It is also unpronounceable in his language.
  • Some of the names in Drowtales can get into this territory, since most names follow the pattern of given name + house name (if they have one) + Val prefix (if they have one) + clan name. Some of the more noteworthy ones are Sandaur'recherrai Val'Illhar'dro (Sandaur for short) and Oil'loss'lin Xyrrai'zestu Sharen, and a complicated series of adoptions resulting in Odelia'Sigismondo Shessembrae Val'Beldrobbaen (aka The Long Name War Master) taking the cake so far.
  • In Dragon Mango, Bleu Berry's introduction leaves her out of breath.
  • Girl Genius:
  • Noblesse: Cadis Etrama Di Raizel. Not as bad as other examples but still, it's quite a mouthful.
  • Doc from The Whiteboard full name is Mortimer J. Abraham Tiberius Nickelovich-Smythe.
  • Kill Six Billion Demons:
    • Devil names in general tend towards this trope. This is due to the naming conventions of devils; the longer the name, the weaker the devil, and as they advance in power, they shed their names until a single name remains. One blue devil (the second weakest kind) is called Ciocie Cioelle Estrella von Maximus the Third.
    • Allison renames another blue demon to Princess Mamoru Moonshine Jagermeister Jack Jack Daniels Timothy Tim Bill Freddy Mercury Blueberry Luna, Esquire. She had intended to just call it Princess, but found out that one name was not enough, and had to make the others up on the spot, while under the influence of significant amounts of alcohol.
    • Typical angel names are also pretty long, being borderline nonsensical phrases like "82 White Chain Born in Emptiness Returns to Subdue Evil" — the number indicates the number of times the angel has incarnated. Some senior angels have shorter and more familiar names, like "2 Michael".

      There's a name generator for angels in the style of this comic here, which Word of God says is "pretty good."
  • One of Dark Star's many titles in L's Empire is "He who calls your mother a fat cow and gets away with it."
  • Snarlbear has Prince Narcissico Indigo Floofram III, Prince of the Rainbow Dimension and Surrounding Polychrome Territories AND his sister, Princess Cassiopeia "Stabby" Fuchsia Floofram I, Impaler of Injustices and Rightful Ruler of the Rainbow Dimension and Surrounding Polychrome Territories.
  • On Alternia in Homestuck, the trolls have racked up over a thousand years of movie history, so much so that a general movie title will go on to be incredibly descriptive of the contents of the movie, including spoilers and trigger warnings. The example below isn't even the whole title.
    Wherein numerous vigilantes confront peril; one of them betrays the others; (but it turns out to be part of the plan all along); several attractive female leads provoke romantic tension; four major characters wear unusual hats; one holds plot-critical secret; 47 on-screen explosions, one resulting in demise of key-adversary; 6 to 20 lines that could be construed as humerous...
  • Achewood overlaps this with Overly Long Gag with Todd Todd Todd Todd Todd T. Squirrel.
  • Grrl Power includes an alien introducing herself as Alar Kanthis ora Kanthis zar Morrundis ora Bithlura zar Liglalathane ora Zetch zvar Hannor ora Deus xe Lorlara, or Lorlara for short. (Since the comic uses all caps, the casing herein might be off.)
  • Widdershins gives us Lancelot Sidney Arthur Oliver Malik, although he prefers just Sid. Per Word of God, his immigrant parents wanted to give him a really English name (apparently they missed the fact that Lancelot was originally French).

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