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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy Galaxy'' features a group of {{Monster Clown}}s named the BAD DUDES. Besides fitting their villainous personalities, "bad dude" sounds like "badut", the Malay and Indonesian word for "clown".

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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy Galaxy'' features a group of {{Monster Clown}}s named the BAD DUDES. Besides fitting their villainous personalities, "bad dude" sounds like "badut", the Malay and Indonesian word for "clown". One of its members is named Jugglenaut, a combination of "juggle" and "juggernaut" referring to how clowns juggle and how Jugglenaut is the biggest of the BAD DUDES who are shown.
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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy Galaxy'' features a group of {{Monster Clown}}s named the BAD DUDES. Besides fitting their villainous personalities, "bad dude" sounds like "badut", the Malaysian and Indonesian word for "clown".

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* ''Animation/BoBoiBoy Galaxy'' features a group of {{Monster Clown}}s named the BAD DUDES. Besides fitting their villainous personalities, "bad dude" sounds like "badut", the Malaysian Malay and Indonesian word for "clown".
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** Brother Tai, in the Chinese original, is known as Tài Gē. That's pronounced like the English word "tiger".

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** Brother Tai, in the Chinese original, is known as Tài Gē. That's pronounced like the English word "tiger"."tiger", a reference to what his species is.
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* The host of the educational Website/YouTube series [[https://www.youtube.com/@KnowingBetter Knowing Better]] is known for keeping his real name a secret, generally behaving as if "Knowing Better" is actually his name.[[note]] This has become something of a RunningGag in his videos: his video on Mormonism features him playing a Mormon missionary named "Elder Better"; and his video on his military service features him wearing an Army uniform with "Better" written on the name tag.[[/note]] For a joke, his video on the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YLyU1WCQQ8A US Postal Service]] briefly features him playing a US Army sergeant in UsefulNotes/WorldWarI named "Noah L. Moore". The "L" stands for "Little".



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* In ''Toys/PinkieCooperAndTheJetSetPets'', Pepper's pet dog is named ''Salt''ine.
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Pun names are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just that]]: Names that make puns. They don't have to be {{Meaningful Name}}s, but often are. An overlap would be a baseball player named Homer (of which there have been several actual Major League Baseball players with that moniker, although a few were pitchers).

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Pun names are [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin just that]]: Names that make puns. They don't have to be {{Meaningful Name}}s, but often are. An overlap would be with StevenUlyssesPerhero, where the pun lines up with the character's job, e.g. a baseball player named Homer (of which there have been several actual Major League Baseball players with that moniker, although a few were pitchers).
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[[folder:Manhua]]
* ''Manhua/ThirteenDotCartoons'': The name of 13-Dot's father means "made of money", her mother's "hot for her age". The names of most regular characters are likewise puns.
* ''Manhua/KitchenGoddessAndTheAssassin'': Many of the assassins. Notably, Sol Crest and Dom Ping, also known as Salt Crust and Dumpling.
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[[folder:Manhwa]]
* ''Manhwa/MissNotSoSidekick'': The story holds a whole bunch of these: a stalker named Zeelove Cray, the family medic Doctor Tordoc, and a protagonist named after a café latte.
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