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* Hazard Company, one of the street leagues in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback'', is an off-road racing outfit run by a [[CorruptHick crooked construction magnate]] whose members all have proud "hick to the core" names like Forrest, Bobbi Jo, Cletus and Leanne. They're some of the toughest opponents in the game [[spoiler:thanks entirely to the experimental self-driving car tech [[NebulousCriminalConspiracy the House]] set them up; without it, they'd apparently be terrible]].

* Hazard Company, one of the street leagues in ''VideoGame/NeedForSpeedPayback'', is an off-road racing outfit run by a [[CorruptHick crooked construction magnate]] whose members all have proud "hick to the core" names like Forrest, Peach, Cletus and Leanne. They're some of the toughest opponents in the game [[spoiler:thanks entirely to the experimental self-driving car tech [[NebulousCriminalConspiracy the House]] set them up; without it, they'd apparently be terrible]].

* Compound or hyphenated names. Men will incorporate "second" names like "Joe", "Bob", or "Billy", resulting in names like Billy Bob. Women might have names like "Lou", "Anne", or "Mae", "Lynn", resulting in names like "Daisy Mae" or "Lou Anne". For the latter, "belle" may also be used for a longer first name, such as "Clarabelle".

* The Orcs of Hazzard team in ''Mutant Football League'' plays in (the post-apocalyptic orc-and-zombie-inhabited version of) Georgia and the players are all named like this to an exaggerated degree. Some choice examples include Festus Podunk, Elrod Cornfed, Bubba Colt, Raleigh Barnstormer, and Cletus Moonshine. A decent percentage are specifically named after ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' characters or famous country singers.

* ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' has Kaywinnit Lee, although she goes by Kaylee.

* In ‘’Anime/StarBlazers’’, Yamamoto Akio from Anime/SpaceBattleshipYamato was renamed Jefferson-Davis Hardy.

* Invoked in ''Film/ForrestGump''; Benjamin Buford Blue AKA Bubba notes bemusedly that his nickname is "like one of them redneck boys." Like Forrest, he's from rural Alabama.

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'''s Ebenezar [=McCoy=][[note]]"Ebenezer" is a Biblical name[[/note]] is an elderly wizard who is also a homesteader in rural Missouri in his off-time. {{Justified|Trope}} since he's around [[WizardsLiveLonger 300 years old]], substantially predating the modern connotations of the name.

* ''Literature/{{Patternist}}'': Asa Elias Doyle is, in fact, a BlackAndNerdy SouthernFriedGenius geologist and astronaut despite his double-barreled Puritan name, but is very good at code-switching and playing up his accent when he wants to be underestimated.
* One early villain in the ''Literature/SkulduggeryPleasant'' series is named Billy-Ray [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Sanguine]].

* In [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Marzipan's Answering Machine 17.2]], Strong Bad calls pretending to be "the new girl character in town", a hot-tempered redneck type named Sharpdene, which is apparently a {{Malaproper}}-flavored attempt at this kind of name.

* ''''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''

--> "Hey, Alison? What's with that lil' blue bit o' letters, right down there?"
--> "Why that's just TheStinger, Bobby Joe."

* The Headsman from the ComicBook/DarkReign version of ''ComicBook/{{Thunderbolts}}'' is a Louisiana bayou boy named Cleavon Twain, which doubles as a PunnyName that alludes to his giant axe and fascination with decapitation ("cleave in twain").

* Wrestling/{{ECW}} had a stable called Wrestling/TheDudleyBoys, the many disparate sons of a father who ReallyGetsAround. One was a stuttering simpleton with a Confederate flag bandana named Bubba Ray.

--> "Why that's just TheStinger, Bob."

* Wrestling/{{WWE}} has had a number of exanples:
** There was a stable of wrestling hillbillies in the 80s - Hillbilly Jim isn't quite in the spirit of the trope, but Uncle Elmer, Cousin Luke, and Cousin Junior are.

** Briefly in the mid 90s there was a team of uncivilized mountain men called the Blu Brothers: Jacob, Eli, and their Uncle Zebekiah. Zebekiah, later Zeb Colter, previously wrestled as whip-wielding desperado "Dirty Dutch" Mantell.

* The Orcs of Hazzard team in ''Mutant Football League'' plays in (the post-apocalyptic orc-and-zombie-inhabited version of) Georgia, and the players are all named like this to an exaggerated degree. Some choice examples include Festus Podunk, Elrod Cornfed, Bubba Colt, Raleigh Barnstormer, and Cletus Moonshine. A decent percentage are specifically named after ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' characters or famous country singers.

* In [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Marzipan's Answering Machine 17.2]], Strong Bad calls pretending to be "the new girl character in town", a hot tempered redneck type named Sharpdene, which is apparently a {{Malaproper}}-flavored attempt at this kind of name.

* In a severely exaggerated example, ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' has Fiddleford [=McGucket=], a hillbilly who dresses like a prospector, communicates by hamboning, laces his speech with countryisms, married a raccoon, and [[spoiler: was a genius inventor who suffered emotional trauma, developed a device to erase traumatic memories, and turned his brain into pineapple Jell-O by overusing it. His accent's real, though.]]

-->'''Emil:''' ''[quietly]'' ...Emil Sava.\\

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* The [[Wrestling/{{WCW}} Jim Crockett]] answer to Hillbilly Jim was a giant farmboy named Mighty Wilbur. Uniquely, though he had a hickish accent, he was neither from the South nor "flyover country" -- he was said to be a vineyard worker from northern California.

** Briefly in the mid 90s there was a team of uncivilized mountain men called the Blu Brothers: Jacob, Eli, and their Uncle Zebekiah.

* In [[WebAnimation/HomestarRunner Marzipan's Answering Machine 17.2]], Strong Bad calls pretending to be "the new girl character in town", a hot tempered redneck type named Sharpdene, which is apparently an attempt at this kind of name.

* In [[Marzipan's Answering Machine 17.2 WebAnimation/HomestarRunner]], Strong Bad calls pretending to be "the new girl character in town", a hot tempered redneck type named Sharpdene, which is apparently an attempt at this kind of name.

* ''Series/TheWaltons'' is ''full'' of these: John-Boy, Jim-Bob, Zebulon, Esther...

* The Orcs of Hazzard team in ''Mutant Football League'' plays in (the post-apocalyptic orc-and-zombie-inhabited version of) Georgia, and the players are all named like this to an exaggerated degree. Some choice examples including Festus Podunk, Elrod Cornfed, Bubba Colt, Raleigh Barnstormer, and Cletus Moonshine. A decent percentage are specifically named after ''Series/TheDukesOfHazzard'' characters.