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* KryptoTheSuperdog is named after his home planet. It'd be like naming your dog Eartho.
** The Kryptonian race falls under this trope.

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* An Aversion in {{Traveller}} . Aslan got their name because FirstContact was made by a ship with a Turkish-speaking crew that thought they looked like lions and so gave them the Turkish name for lion. However there are instances of played straight in {{Traveller}} as well.

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* The Draenei in ''{{Warcraft}}'' come from Draenor... but so do the orcs, ogres and a few other sentient species, none of which were named after their world. Further averted later when it turns out that Draenei come from yet ''another'' planet, Argus, and used to be called Eredar. They fled to the orcs' world and named it Draenor, or "Exile's Refuge" in their language, and apparently their new neighbours hadn't thought of how to call their name yet.

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*** Well, "terra" is Latin for "earth", you just wouldn't use this form in Latin.

* ''{{Starcraft}}'' averts this nicely. The Protoss used to live on Aiur and the original Zerg homeworld is called Zerus, but they seem to like Char. The Terrans, while originally from Earth, had their capital on Tarsonis.
** Further averted in that humans from Earth still refer to themselves and terrans as (hu)mankind.

* {{Halo}} mostly averts this, with only the Sangheili (Elites) having a similarly named homeworld, Sanghelios.

* Averted in ''SwordOfTheStars''. The [[SapientCetaceans Liir]] (their name means "Choir") come from the [[SingleBiomePlanet water world]] of Muur, the [[TheReptilians Tarka]] come from Kao'Kona ("Fortress of the Gods"), and the [[BeePeople Hivers]] hail from Tcho'to'pre. The [[PlanetLooters Zuul]] are an artificial species with no known homeworld, although it's assumed they were deployed as bioweapons on Iridia 5 (which is the human name for the planet; the Zuul have no name for it). The [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Morrigi]] homeworld is unknown. It's possible it was destroyed in their war with the [[spoiler:Suul'ka]].

* Averted in ''SwordOfTheStars''. The [[SapientCetaceans Liir]] (their name means "Choir") come from the [[SingleBiomePlanet water world]] of Muur, the [[LizardFolk Tarka]] come from Kao'Kona ("Fortress of the Gods"), and the [[BeePeople Hivers]] hail from Tcho'to'pre. The [[PlanetLooters Zuul]] are an artificial species with no known homeworld, although it's assumed they were deployed as bioweapons on Iridia 5. The [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Morrigi]] homeworld is unknown. It's possible it was destroyed in their war with the [[spoiler:Suul'ka]].

* Averted in ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', where the trolls' planet is called Alternia. Though, when you translate the inverse [[VideoGame/TheElderScrolls Daedric]] that the name is written in, you get "Trollplanet".
** However, their chat client is called "Trollian" and when they are messaging each other, it is referred to as "trolling".

* Averted in ''SwordOfTheStars''. The [[DolphinsDolphinsEverywhere Liir]] (their name means "Choir") come from the [[SingleBiomePlanet water world]] of Muur, the [[LizardFolk Tarka]] come from Kao'Kona ("Fortress of the Gods"), and the [[BeePeople Hivers]] hail from Tcho'to'pre. The [[PlanetLooters Zuul]] are an artificial species with no known homeworld, although it's assumed they were deployed as bioweapons on Iridia 5. The [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Morrigi]] homeworld is unknown. It's possible it was destroyed in their war with the [[spoiler:Suul'ka]].

* How about KryptoTheSuperdog? Like Vegeta (see above) He's actually ''one character'' named after his home planet. It'd be like naming your dog Eartho.

ƒMay be an odd side effect of TranslationConvention or TranslatorMicrobes. Often a side effect of a PlanetOfHats.

May be an odd side effect of TranslationConvention or TranslatorMicrobes. Often a side effect of a PlanetOfHats.

* Every alien race in ''Tracker''

*** Probably because it's polite among them to recognise people belonging to clans (that bit about quarians is used as a straightforward insult), but lacking more accurate information about the political system a particular human might belong to, they generalize them as Earth-clan.

* ''{{Animorphs}}'' [[InvertedTrope inverts]] this--the planets don't seem to have names, instead being referred to as "the Andalite homeworld," "the Hork-Bajir homeworld," and so on. Interestingly, they still call the human homeworld "Earth." The only time this trope seems to be played straight is with the Leerans from the planet Leera. Apparently, if the planet's dominant species decided to give their planet a name, that's their planet's name; if they didn't, it's "the (dominant species) homeworld."

** Andalites use a complex Alpha-Numiric system to designate planets, invoking the type of star to give the star a name, and giving the planet a number x/y where x is the number of the planet and y is the total number of planets in the system. To give an idea, Earth would be Sol 3/8 or Sol 3/11 (depending on if you count dwarves)

*** For reference, the Hebrew word for "Earth" (the planet) is ''Eretz'' (which, confusingly enough, also means "land," both as in "land you build on/farm" and "a country").

** The species from planet Vort are referred to as Vorts. ([[BeamMeUpScotty Not Vortians]].) {{Averted}} with the creatures from Blorch, [[DescriptivelyNamedSpecies which are called]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromRealFast the Slaughtering Rat People]].

* ''{{Animorphs}}'' uses this trope in an odd way -- the homeworlds literally don't have names. Basically, K.A. Applegate decided that the aliens' convention was to refer to "the Andalite homeworld," "the Hork-Bajir homeworld," and so on. Interestingly, they still call the human homeworld "Earth", without drawing it out. There's another notable "exception", but it's Leera (home of the Leerans), so that's only an exception to the ''Animorphs'' pattern, not the trope. Apparently, if the planet's dominant species decided to give their planet a name, that's their planet's name; if they didn't, it's "the (dominant species) homeworld."

* Subject of a gag in ''TenchiMuyo'': When Tenchi first meets Sasami, he immediately assumes that she's come from a planet called Sasami. Why he jumps to this conclusion is a bit of a headscratcher, though to be fair [[{{Understatement}} he was having kind of a bad day]] and probably wasn't thinking straight.

* Often averted in ''DoctorWho''. The Daleks are from Skaro, the Cybermen from Mondas, the Time Lords from Gallifrey...but also often applied. Sontarans are from Sontar.

** In one episode, an human alien refers to SG-1 as ''Earthens''. Jonas Quinn then "corrects" her to ''Earthlings''. Otherwise, humans from Earth go by the Goa'uld name Tau'ri to distinguish from other humans. It is implied that this name was used for the planet as well, so this may count.