Basic Trope: Someone has a name that's almost a celebrity's name, but not quite.
- Straight: There's a guy named Thomas Eddison, with two "d"s.
- Exaggerated: Everybody has an almost-famous name (Thomas Eddison, Riley Cyrus, Gerda Garbo, Abraham Linker etc).
- Downplayed: A person has the real name of a celebrity that uses a Stage Name (Ex. Destiny Cyrus)
- Justified:
- "Eddison" is a real surname, and his parents named him "Thomas" because they liked the inventor.
- Bob's parents are massive trolls who think they are really funny and creative...
- Plain luck and hindsight, Eddison predated Edison.
- Inverted: A character is named after a celebrity with Two First Names, but the "First names" are transposed.
- Subverted: Thomas Eddison is actually an alias.
- Double Subverted: But his real name is Tom Curry.
- Parodied: There's a guy named Insat Femos Pasonem.
- Averted: Nobody's name resembles a celebrity's, or the ones that do are exactly the same as the celebrity's name.
- Zigzagged: He never actually spells out his last name, though it's seen written down as "Eddison" once, as "Edison" once, as "Eddison" in the credits, but as "Edison" in the subtitles.
- Lampshaded: "The second 'd' is what separates me from the famous inventor".
- Enforced: The writers want to have some jokes based on having a famous-sounding name, but they thought that it'd be too ludicrous having a character who's specifically called Thomas Edison.
- The writers want to reference a celebrity, but the celebrity's name is an unusual pseudonym that he copyrighted, so they can't legally use the name.
- Invoked: Alice and Bob Eddison name their baby Thomas so that he'll be almost named after the inventor.
- Exploited: He can dress up all ghostly and pretend to be the ghost of Thomas Edison to scare people, without having to lie about what his name is.
- Defied: Alice and Bob Eddison, for whatever reason, hate the inventor and avoid naming their son Thomas.
- Discussed:Alice Eddison: "I'm pregnant"Bob Eddison: "How about 'Thomas' for a name, if it's a boy? Then, he'll almost have the name of a famous inventor!"
- Conversed: "Isn't it funny how that guy on T.V. is almost Named After Somebody Famous?"
- Deconstructed: Thomas gets bored of being compared to the inventor.
- Reconstructed: He grows to find the jokes funny.
- Implied: ???
- Played for Laughs: There's a Running Gag of Thomas correcting people "It's spelt with two "d"s. The second "d" is what separates me from the inventor, so it makes all the difference".
- Played for Drama: He is mistaken for Thomas Edison's ghost and freaks out everyone.
- Played For Horror: Thomas Edison is the great inventor and Founding Father of the United States of America. Thomas Eddison is the mass shooter who murdered 957 people in a bloody rampage that lasted 12 hours and had him screaming "IT'S 'EDDISON'! EDDISON!!! WITH TWO "D"s, MOTHERFUCKERS!!!"
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