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* In ''Fanfic/DeviceOfLife'', the name of the digital city where Miku lives is Silicon's Gate, a pun of Silicon Valley and Bill Gates. Also, the social media that Iroha and Miki use is the "[=NicoTube=]", a portmanteau of Website/NicoNicoDouga and Website/{{YouTube}}.
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* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': The title character's name. ("Dick" is slang for "detective".)One storyline included the characters Chris Chendo, Virgil Ohso, and Phil Harmonic. Guess where the action is taking place.
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* ''ComicStrip/DickTracy'': The title character's name. One ("Dick" is slang for "detective".)One storyline included the characters Chris Chendo, Virgil Ohso, and Phil Harmonic. Guess where the action is taking place.
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* "Radio Quiz Game" on ''Monty Python's Previous Record'' features a panelist named Lord Elpus.
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* ''WebAnimation/MonaLisasSillyTalk'', in a manner similar to ''Grim Reaper Flag Chan'', has three characters named Mobumi, Moburo, and Mobuko, often called the "Mobu Trio," a reference to the Japanese slang word mobu, which is used to refer to background characters or [=NPCs=]. And indeed, the three characters rarely play a major role in any episodes.
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* ''WebAnimation/MangaSoprano'': Some antagonists have names based on puns about their defining traits.
** [[https://youtu.be/xFJ6SfeLCaY "My Sister Robbed My Fiancee! However, the person who looted it was…"]] [sic]: Burimi's name means "acts like [a] beauty," which coincides with her trying to prove she's prettier than Kanade, she is actually a cartoonishly GonkyFemme.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2fB1u8b9Ak "Mom Friend Makes Me Pay For Her Restaurant Bill → But When I Said I Canceled My Reservation…"]]: Kechimi's name comes from ''kechi'', which means stingy or cheapskate, which fits her personality as a penny-pinching mother and housewife who leeches off a richer one like Haru to get free stuff.
** [[https://youtu.be/xFJ6SfeLCaY "My Sister Robbed My Fiancee! However, the person who looted it was…"]] [sic]: Burimi's name means "acts like [a] beauty," which coincides with her trying to prove she's prettier than Kanade, she is actually a cartoonishly GonkyFemme.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z2fB1u8b9Ak "Mom Friend Makes Me Pay For Her Restaurant Bill → But When I Said I Canceled My Reservation…"]]: Kechimi's name comes from ''kechi'', which means stingy or cheapskate, which fits her personality as a penny-pinching mother and housewife who leeches off a richer one like Haru to get free stuff.
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** A know-it-all with delusions of grandeur about being descended from Genghis Khan ends up with the derogatory nickname "Genghis Khan't".
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* ''Theatre/{{Shucked}}'': Maizy, from "maize", the native word for corn. Lampshaded; Grandpa talks about what she was named for, gesturing toward some corn stalks, before saying she was named for her grandmother.
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See also: WhosOnFirst and WhoNamesTheirKidDude For a list of tropes with Punny Names, see JustForPun.
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See also: WhosOnFirst and WhoNamesTheirKidDude For a list of tropes with Punny Names, see JustForPun.JustForFun/PunnyTropeNames.
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** In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', there is [[MellowFellow Rantaro Amami]]. [[spoiler:An alternative reading of his name's kanji is "tenkai", which when written with a different set of kanji (展開), can be translated as "plot twist", referring to his "talent" as the Ultimate ???.]] Another accidental example would be [[LoveableSexManiac Miu]] '''[[LoveableSexManiac Iruma]]''', whose last name sounds a lot like '''irruma'''tio, a sex act.
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** In ''VisualNovel/DanganronpaV3KillingHarmony'', there is [[RidiculouslyHumanRobot K1-B0]], whose name for "Kibō" (the Japanese word for "Hope"). To English speakers, it can also sound similar to "keyboard", and it is also the nickname of a Japanese science module for the International Space Station (ISS). There is also [[MellowFellow Rantaro Amami]]. [[spoiler:An [[spoiler: In his case, an alternative reading of his name's kanji is "tenkai", which when written with a different set of kanji (展開), can be translated as "plot twist", referring to his "talent" as the Ultimate ???.]] Another accidental example would be [[LoveableSexManiac Miu]] '''[[LoveableSexManiac Iruma]]''', whose last name sounds a lot like '''irruma'''tio, a sex act.
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* ''VisualNovel/AceInSpace'': "T-3R4" is based on "Terra", which is a name commonly given to Earth in science fiction stories.
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** "Herne the Hunted" is a ShoutOut to a god in Literature/{{Discworld}}, based loosely on the folkloric Herne the Hunt''er.''
** "[[Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo Dantes]] [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Infernal]]" is a revenge-obsessed torture survivor.
** "The Line of Fire" is a multi-generation family whose traumatic stories are all related to war and who all pick fire-themed individual nicknames for themselves.
** Out of universe, the group the narration calls "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy the Friends of Dorothy]]" are [[Film/TheWizardOfOz literally the friends of Dorothy Gale]], in a story about queer history.
** "[[Literature/TheCountOfMonteCristo Dantes]] [[Literature/TheDivineComedy Infernal]]" is a revenge-obsessed torture survivor.
** "The Line of Fire" is a multi-generation family whose traumatic stories are all related to war and who all pick fire-themed individual nicknames for themselves.
** Out of universe, the group the narration calls "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friend_of_Dorothy the Friends of Dorothy]]" are [[Film/TheWizardOfOz literally the friends of Dorothy Gale]], in a story about queer history.
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* The title of Pulltop-Latte's ''Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort'' plays on the phrase "last resort" for... some reason. The best one can see is that the story takes place in a beautiful ''resort'' and the protagonist gets to have sex with a bunch of beautiful young women; as for how "last" that resort is, the reason becomes clear once you finish playing all the routes; each woman is in a complicated position in life (afraid to leave the resort due to unresolved guilt, trying to help a friend suffering from depression, earning money to support her bankrupt family, etc.), and their work at the resort is literally a "last resort" for them to get their life together and move on from what's halting them. [[TitleDrop The phrase is even used in one of the routes]].
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* The title of Pulltop-Latte's ''Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort'' [[DoubleMeaningTitle plays on the phrase "last resort" for... some reason. The for a reason]]. At first glance, the best one can see is that the story takes place in a beautiful ''resort'' and the protagonist gets to have sex with a bunch of beautiful young women; as women. As for how "last" that resort is, the reason becomes clear once you finish playing all the routes; each woman is in a complicated position in life (afraid to leave the resort due to unresolved guilt, trying to help a friend suffering from depression, earning money to support her bankrupt family, etc.), and their work at the resort is literally a "last resort" for them to get their life together and move on from what's halting them. [[TitleDrop The phrase is even used in one of the routes]].
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* Advertising/TommyMcAnairey: In keeping with Tommy's "any fuel can harm" message, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqlP6tXvpUY this [=PSA=] for Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week 2016]] features a song title dedicated to a deceased relative of Tommy named Annie Fuel. In the background there's a memorial picture of her posing with coal, turf, gas and wood.
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** The reason becomes clear once you finish playing all the routes; each woman is in a complicated position in life (afraid to leave the resort due to unresolved guilt, trying to help a friend suffering from depression, earning money to support her bankrupt family, etc.), and their work at the resort is literally a "last resort" for them to get their life together and move on from what's halting them. The phrase is even used in one of the routes.
** The reason becomes clear once you finish playing all the routes; each woman is in a complicated position in life (afraid to leave the resort due to unresolved guilt, trying to help a friend suffering from depression, earning money to support her bankrupt family, etc.), and their work at the resort is literally a "last resort" for them to get their life together and move on from what's halting them. The phrase is even used in one of the routes.
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* The title of Pulltop-Latte's ''Koisuru Natsu no Last Resort'' plays on the phrase "last resort" for... some reason. The best one can see is that the story takes place in a beautiful ''resort'' and the protagonist gets to have sex with a bunch of beautiful young women; as for how "last" that resort is, it's hard to tell.
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* The Creator/CheechAndChong sketch/song, "Basketball Jones" features a character named Tyrone Shoelaces.
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* ''Fanfic/WithPearlAndRubyGlowing'': several characters pick punny nicknames for themselves.
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* The 1980-90s British Telecom ads featuring Maureen Lipman as JewishMother Beattie Bellman. Lampshaded with a 1993 poster campaign about the second round of shares going on sale, which showed a confused-looking Mr Bellman with the caption "Get a piece of BT's other half".
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* The 1980-90s British Telecom ads featuring Maureen Lipman Creator/MaureenLipman as JewishMother Beattie Bellman. Lampshaded with a 1993 poster campaign about the second round of shares going on sale, which showed a confused-looking Mr Bellman with the caption "Get a piece of BT's other half".
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* In ''Fanfic/DoorsToTheUnknown'' one of the two POV groups is [[Literature/{{Worm}} Taylor Hebert]] and Co, abbreviated to [=THACo=]. This is a play on "to hit armor class 0" ([=THAC0=]), a common rule from 2e TabletopGame/Dungeons&Dragons.
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** To an extent, all of Chat's names, mashing the word "Cbat" into other words, except for the first one. Atlantis, Saturn, and Otters: Chatistan, Chatlantis, Chaturn. and the Cult of Chotters.
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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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** Sun Tzu is the name of Chat's artificial sun in the Space Campaign.
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** Sun Tzu is the name of Chat's artificial sun in the Space Campaign.
** To an extent, all of Chat's names, mashing the word "Cbat" into other words, except for the first one. Atlantis, Saturn, and Otters: Chatistan, Chatlantis, Chaturn. and the Cult of Chotters.
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* ''Ride/WaltDisneyWorld'': Epcot's ''The Land'' pavilion had "Kitchen Kabaret" (and its brief replacement "Food Rocks"), with a number of {{Anthropomorphic Food}}s singing about good nutrition, all with some punny name. "Kitchen Kabaret", for example, included the hostess Bonnie Appetit and dairy-group MC Derry Goods. "Food Rocks", meanwhile, had [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed food-themed parodies of popular musicians]] like Füd Wrapper (who was even voiced by Tone Loc), the Peach Boys, and Pita Gabriel.
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* ''Ride/WaltDisneyWorld'': Epcot's ''The Land'' pavilion had "Kitchen Kabaret" ''Ride/KitchenKabaret'' (and its brief replacement "Food Rocks"), with a number of {{Anthropomorphic Food}}s singing about good nutrition, all with some punny name. "Kitchen Kabaret", for example, included the hostess Bonnie Appetit and dairy-group MC Derry Goods. "Food Rocks", meanwhile, had [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed food-themed parodies of popular musicians]] like Füd Wrapper (who was even voiced by Tone Loc), the Peach Boys, and Pita Gabriel.
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* Many Toys/BeanieBabies from Ty. Some have a MeaningfulName, too.
* The iCy from the ''Toys/IDog'' franchise. It's a penguin, which is associated with ice. The word "icy" in this case is combined with the CamelCase that comes with the IProduct trope.
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* ''Fanfic/TheSimpsonsTeamLASH'' has several characters with pun-based names.
** Simon Skinner-Chalmers is always bossing people around and telling them what they can and can't do at school. "Simon Says", anyone?
** Robbie Turley likes to steal things; in other words, he ''robs'' people.
** Axl Mann's name is not only a reference to [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]], it's a pun on "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axle axle]]", which is a part of a car or bus. Overlaps with FamilyThemeNaming; his father Otto's name is a pun on "''auto''mobile".
** Simon Skinner-Chalmers is always bossing people around and telling them what they can and can't do at school. "Simon Says", anyone?
** Robbie Turley likes to steal things; in other words, he ''robs'' people.
** Axl Mann's name is not only a reference to [[Music/GunsNRoses Axl Rose]], it's a pun on "[[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Axle axle]]", which is a part of a car or bus. Overlaps with FamilyThemeNaming; his father Otto's name is a pun on "''auto''mobile".
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* In ''Fanfic/MonstersInParadise'', residents of the ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' universe are analogues of those that live in [[Franchise/TouhouProject Gensokyo]] in some way, shape or form. In one such case, [[MoonRabbit Reisen's]] counterpart turns out to be named [[Franchise/SailorMoon Shayla Moon.]]
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* In the ''WebVideo/DanielTrasher'' video "When you have hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia", [[OverlyLongName Ann T. Disestablishmentarianism]] is a pun on the word "antidisestablishmentarianism", because the video focuses on long words. The "T" stands for thermoluminescence.
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