Punny Names in webcomics.
Comics with their own pages.
Comics without their own pages:
- Alfie (2010): The title character has the surname Tolman, which would seem less profoundly ironic were it not for the number of humans and so forth she is involved with.
- Angel Moxie: Shugari has a rather sugary personality.
- Awful Hospital: Pretty much everyone, even the protagonist (her name is Fern, and she's green...)
- Bruno the Bandit: In one of the comics, a powerful demon named "Baeshan" appears. Wouldn't be that bad, if his evil followers wouldn't call him "master".
- Building 12: Crazy dictator Klaus Der Phobia.
- Charby the Vampirate: A number of the missing humans from Kellwood, such as Wendy Rhodes, Roland Dunhill, and Jess Kiddin.
- Cheer!
and The Wotch: Cher Lita Harper is a pun on "cheerleader". Her name as a male was Sonny, making her "Sonny & Cher". - Corgi Quest features Privious de la Cage'd, who was first encountered hanging in a giant cage.
- Darths & Droids: Poe Dameron's alleged twin brother Allan Dameron sounds like a reference to both Alan Cameron and Edgar Allan Poe.
- Dominic Deegan: Professor Runcible Spoon. A "Runcible Spoon" is a spork. Runcible is also a rather "spoony" man, though not a bard.
- Dragon Ball Multiverse: Merkit (Yakon's sister) is a pun on Kermit the frog.
- Dumbing of Age has Ruth Lessick, the no-nonsense residential assistant. Dina picks up on the pun immediately, but is told to shut up about it if she doesn't want her femurs broken.
- Eerie Cuties has 14-year-old Brooke Lyn, whose name is self-explanatory (say it fast a couple of times). But, just in case: it's an obvious nod to Brooklyn, NY.
- El Goonish Shive: One reader pointed out an unintentional pun on Shive's part with the name Tedd D. Verres (for certain pronunciations of Verres anyway). Appropriate, considering Grace's love of stuffed animals.
- Ennui GO!: The name of the webcomic is one that you might miss if you're mispronouncing "Ennui". note
- Several of the character names in Erfworld are puns (e.g. "Jillian Zamussels" — "jillions of muscles")
- FireSoup has a few examples:
- Ramy’s name is used here as a pun on “ramen,” which is more obvious if you know that she’s called “Noodles” as a superhero.
- The name of Frida’s superhero alias “FireDra” is a pun on both her name and “fire dragon.”
- The Fox Sister: Soot Bull in Korean means Charcoal Fire (숫불). He is a black dog.
- Girl Genius: Seaman Axel Higgs was introduced as a ship's bosun for Klaus Von Wulfenbach. He was the Higgs Bosun.
- Hell Inc: demonic manager B.L. Zebub, main character Doug's boss, is a pretty obvious play on the name Beelzebub.
- Homestuck:
- Nepeta's lusus is a panther named Pounce de Leon after Ponce de Leon, a historical figure whose last name means "Lion".
- The In-Universe band Mobius Trip and Hadron Kaleido's names are puns on a Möbius strip and the Large Hadron Collider, which is a particle accelerator.
- WV's companion Serenity is a firefly.
- Paradox Space: In "Night at the 100DSEUM", the Sweati's name is a simple portmanteau on "sweaty" and "yeti".
- Housepets!: The demonic entity Eudoant, a mysterious entity who works in the shadows to take down Heaven and capture Earth for Heck. He's not the devil you know, but the devil Eudoant.
- The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob!: Almost every character. Examples: Hibachi the dragon, Princess Voluptua, Agent Ben and Agent Jerry, Heywood J. Lookathat, Fructose Riboflavin, O. Blivius Bystander, Roofus the roof-repair robot, Mrs. Spitoonelli, Mr. Kreplach, etc. etc. etc.
- Karin-dou 4koma features Catherine, a half fire-eating bird and half dog youkai. "Fire-bird-dog" —> "Ka-Tori-Inu" —> "Catherine". Her real name is Inukai Suzume, but no one calls her that.
- Kill Six Billion Demons: Ciocie Cioelle isn't so obvious, though the author hints right away there's something there if you pronounce it right. It doesn't directly sound like another name, but it spells it: ci-o-ci-e ci-o-ci-ell-e = C-O-C-A C-O-L-A.
- Klunscomic: No points for guessing what "Toona Cassirole" is supposed to be.note
- Last Place Comics: "Will Win" involves a mayoral candidate named... well, Will Win, who insists he'll win because of his name. Until Kant Lose decides to run against him.
- Leif & Thorn: Everyone from Ceannis has plant-related names. Leif isn't from there, but his name is a pun on "leaf."
- Ménage à 3 and its spin-off Sticky Dilly Buns have "Chanelle Numberfine" (Chanel No.9, geddit). That's actually a Porn Name (and presumably not the character's birth name), but it's also a pun.
- The Misadventures Of Gaijin Kun: The title character's name is Guy Jean.
- MS Paint Masterpieces: The unseen Leon Diedde dies during surgery. He was literally a throwaway gag and just served to show how much of an ass Colonel Fodder is when he dismisses the death despite being a "little attached" to the man.
- Octopus Pie: The main character and her brother were named Everest and Rushmore ("Eve" and "Mor" for short). Since their last name is "Ning", that makes them Eve Ning and Mor Ning. Also, Eve's mother is Dawn Ning.
- Ozy and Millie has the school principal Beau Vine. Take a wild guess at his species.
- Penny Arcade has a recurring newscaster named Randy Pinkwood, if you know what I'm talking about. And I think you know what I'm talking about. I'm talking about his ''penis''.
- The Petri Dish features iBall the cyborg made from a whale's eye.
- Precocious:
- The Hu family, leading to many Abbott and Costello-style jokes. The most blatant example is the matriarch of the family, Shii Ann Hu, for whom incredibly lame puns are used shamelessly.
- The alt-text mentions that the rights live next door.
- The Hu family, leading to many Abbott and Costello-style jokes. The most blatant example is the matriarch of the family, Shii Ann Hu, for whom incredibly lame puns are used shamelessly
- Princess Chroma: June Summer. April Showers. May Flowers. If it's not an obvious pun, it's probably a Meaningful Name with punny leanings, or at least a punny Bilingual Bonus.
- PvP has a character named Max Power.
- Questionable Content gives us obsessive World of Warcraft player Marigold Farmer.
- Ragnarok Wisdom makes one at the expense of Ragnarok Online's character transfer service, where characters can be transferred from one server to another. If a character with the same name already exists, they'll have a suffix added to their name; someone transferring from Sakray would, for example, have "_Sak" added. And this comic... had the character... I Love My Nut with the same name as someone on Sakray...
- Rain: The full name of Randy, who’s just a minor supporting character, is Rand M. Guy. His parents, Norm Al Guy and Notta Guy, also have similarly punnerific names.
- Sleepless Domain: The magical girl Alchemical Aether's real name is Tessa Quinn. Reverse her given name and surname, and it sounds a lot like "quintessence", another name for the element of Aether.
- Soil That Binds Us: Dandelion Tuft-Flores is said to "grow like a weed".
- Sparklecare: Barry Ill, as in "very ill", because he is a patient at the titular hospital.
- Strange School: Lots of characters. Such as:
- Anna Tomi, the anatomical model, for one.
- Brandi Aid, the school nurse. Pun on Band-aids.
- Suicide for Hire gives us a Romeo and Juliet Shout-Out with Tybalt and Rosaline Montlet. Their relationship ends about as well as that of their inspiration, though for different reasons. Also, Tybalt is a cat, in a reference to Shakespeare's Tybalt being referred to as "Prince of Cats". When he asks Hunter what he wants, Hunter responds with "Good King of Cats, nothing but all of your nine lives!"
- Trying Human: Self-inflicted by the vigilante duo Guinea and Pig, with all the Black Comedy implied. They ran away from Area 51.
- TRU-Life Adventures: Derek Ulysses Law, the Friendly Neighborhood Vampire.
- Uh-Oh, It’s a Dinosaur: Beatrice, who's really into bees. Also Tyrone Asarus and Jill Anjack.
- Violet Zombie: "Penelope Martinez" dies and becomes the zombie girl "Penelope Mortinez."
- VHV: Rumbah like to give their kits punny names, as seen with Buttercup Cookee, Annabelle Rinnin, and Sam Aritan among the main characters. They sometimes even change surnames to fit the joke, which plays havoc with geneaology as noted by Butter.
- Walkyverse: Whitney Howard Lesse is witless, Ruth Lesse is ruthless, Dick Lesse is cuckolded freely, Leslie Bean is a lesbian, Sydney Yus is not actually insidious, Dick P. Johnson...no comment, and Dina Sarazu is...um...a scientist (specifically, a paleontologist by training).
- A subtler one is Faz O. Lee, named for a certain fast food chain who had an ad campaign featuring a kid with an infuriatingly smug grin similar to Faz's own. Not so subtle is Alan, who's an Alien.
- One of the recurring customers in Shortpacked! is Hughes Assat. Ultra Car is so used to this, she's surprised to hear Jacob's last name (Williams) isn't some awful pun.
- Wilde Life: Repeatedly lampshaded by Clifford the Big Red... werewolf, though he insists that it's a family name and his mother doesn't know about his shapeshifting.
- Most of the wildlife in Within a Mile of Home gets these types of names. You have a butter ball (a small round yellow-feathered bird), a hedge-hog (a pig actually made of wood and shrubbery), and a burnt rarebit (a scary looking rabbit that is implied to breathe fire).
- The World is Flat depicts this with an optometry clinic named "The Eyes Have It" in this comic.
- Mina's partner in Magical Mina is a stuffed fox named Mulder.
