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* The [[HornyVikings Skandians]] of ''Literature/{{Brotherband}}'' take adult names from a trait or important feat. Thorn, who lost a hand in a sea storm, is occasionally known as Thorn One-Hand (and refers to himself as "Thorn Hookyhand" after his prosthetic). One side character is missing a few toes after an axe accident and is known as Jurgen Half-Foot.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'': In the days before the founding of the Gotei 13, Shigekuni Yamamoto was nicknamed "Eijisai" because of the scar on his forehead, which was shaped like the "ei" (丿) radical. If there was one thing Yamamot hated, [[EmbarrassingNickname it was being called Eijisai]]. In spite of this, Sasakibe would repeatedly call him "Eijisai-dono" because he thought calling him by his actual name would be disrespectful. After Sasakibe fought Yamamoto in order to demonstrate the power of his newly-acquired [[SuperMode Bankai]], Sasakibe ended up giving Yamamoto a new scar across the old one, after which people started calling him "Jūjisai" because of its new shape. Much to Yamamoto's chagrin, Sasakibe stuck to his old nickname because he thought it would be presumptuous to call him something different because of a scar he gave him. Thus, out of consideration for Sasakibe, Yamamoto decided to give himself a new nickname: "Genryūsai". The new name stuck, and Yamamoto bore it for the next thousand years.
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* ''Series/TheWire'': a crate falls on a dock worker called New Charles, severing his leg. After he returns to the dock worker's bar from the hospital, the workers insist he needs a new nickname, with Ziggy Sobotka suggesting "Tilt", which after a consideration, the guy likes.
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* Music/{{Gorillaz}}: 2-D's name is short for "Two Dents", his permanently blackened eyes caused by hyphema from two car accidents.
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* Music/{{Gorillaz}}: 2-D's name is short for "Two Dents", his permanently blackened eyes caused by hyphema from two car accidents.
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** ''Literature/FireAndBlood'': Aemond Targaryen was popularly referred to as Aemond One-Eye as a result of losing a left eye to a fight Rhaenyra's children.
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* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': The Baldurian crime boss Asteele Keene is referred to as Nine-Fingers Keene due to her left pinky being severed at the base.
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** Another elder, One-eye, was named after completely losing one of her eyes. She was originally called "White-eye" as she'd previously only lost all vision in this eye.
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* There are several theories regarding the unusual name of the 9th-century viking leader Ivar the Boneless, but the most prevalent is that he had lost a leg and "boneless" was a mistranslation by monks further south.
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* There are several theories regarding the unusual name of the 9th-century viking leader Ivar the Boneless, but the most prevalent is that he had lost a leg and "boneless" was a mistranslation by monks further south. Another popular theory is that he had some form of brittle bone disease. Likewise, the semi-mythical Sigurd Snake-In-The-Eye, associated with Ivar, is thought to have been named after some kind of injury or deformity in his eye.
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* Emperor Timur the Lame suffered a crippling injury to his leg during childhood which left him with a limp for the rest of his life, causing him to be known as "Timurlang"/"Tamerlane" (variations on "Timur-the-Lame" in Persian) henceforth.
