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8	->''"If I'm Beetle and you're Monkey, why isn't he called Boy?"''
9	-->-- '''Beetle''', ''WesternAnimation/KuboAndTheTwoStrings''
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11	Some [[GiverOfLameNames completely uncreative owner]] has decided the family pet will be known as Dog. Or, perhaps, a similarly uncreative author names their feline character Kitty. Alternately, the creature in question does have a less ShapedLikeItself name, but for whatever reason, Alice the Pig prefers to go as Piggy. Usually but not always applied to animals; robots imaginatively named Robot and the like are part of this trope, too. Remarkably common in children's shows, despite the [[PlanetOfSteves obvious problems]] it should theoretically cause.
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13	One might show a touch more flair by [[ThisIsMyNameOnForeign naming something what it is in a foreign language]], like a lion named Leo.
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15	A subtrope of ShapedLikeItself. Sister trope to ADogNamedPerro where a thing is named after what's it called in a foreign language. PokemonSpeak is a closely-related trope where something's named for the sound it makes. EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep is another closely-related trope where a character is only known by their job title. RaceNameBasis is when someone thinks ''every'' dog is named "Dog". See also SpeciesSurname ("Dog Smith" is A Dog Named "Dog", "Bob T. Dog" is SpeciesSurname), {{Namedar}}, ALizardNamedLiz, APigNamedPorkchop, ADogNamedCat (if the animal is named after a different species than its own). Compare and contrast EgocentricTeamNaming. If the cast is ''full'' of these, it's AnimalThemeNaming. If a character's species is named after the character's name, it's AKindOfOne.
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17	Note that robots also have [[RobotNames their own trope]].
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20	!!Example Subpages:
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22	[[index]]
23	* ADogNamedDog/AnimeAndManga
24	* [[ADogNamedDog/AnimatedFilms Films — Animation]]
25	* [[ADogNamedDog/LiveActionFilms Films — Live-Action]]
26	* ADogNamedDog/{{Literature}}
27	* ADogNamedDog/LiveActionTV
28	* ADogNamedDog/VideoGames
29	* ADogNamedDog/{{Webcomics}}
30	* ADogNamedDog/WesternAnimation
31	* ADogNamedDog/RealLife
32	[[/index]]
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34	!!Other Examples:
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36	[[foldercontrol]]
37
38	[[folder:Advertising]]
39	* Many of the lesser Advertising/McDonaldland characters have names like this. The policeman whose giant head is made out of a Big Mac is named Big Mac, the bird is named Birdie, the orange juice tree is named the Orange Juice Tree, etc..
40	* One animated advertising campaign for Taco Bell featured the characters Nacho (a cat) and Dog (a dog), invoking and averting this trope at the same time.
41	* Peko-chan and Poko-chan, the mascots of Japanese candy company Fujiya, have a dog named Dog. Of course, it is a Japanese company and Dog's name is in English, so it probably sounds cool and exotic.
42	* One of the ''Advertising/KCLProductionsNintendoCommercials'' is a ''VideoGame/KirbyCanvasCurse'' promo with Kirby and a giant finger. The finger is just called "Finger" by the company.
43	* Gamestop and EB Games have a mascot named "Buck Wild", better known as "Buck the Bunny". A "buck" is what male rabbit is called, but it's also likely a PunnyName based around money.
44	* The mascot of Froot Loops cereal is a toucan named Toucan Sam.
45	* The Playhouse Disney mascot Clay is a talking blob of clay.
46	* The mascot of Mug Root Beer is a bulldog named "Dog".
47	* ''Advertising/MessinWithSasquatch'': A sasquatch named Sasquatch is the mascot.
48	* ''Advertising/NipperAndGramophonesChristmasTales'': From the website:
49	--> Gramophone is a gramophone. The really nice old sort, with a shiny brass horn, and a big wooden base.
50	[[/folder]]
51
52	[[folder:Asian Animation]]
53	* The ''Animation/PakdamPakdai'' movie ''Ocean Attack'' featured a yeti as a character. The yeti's name is simply Yeti.
54	* Almost all the AnthropomorphicFood characters in ''Animation/SimpleSamosa'' are named like this. Nearly every samosa in the show is named "[x] Samosa", including Simple Samosa himself; besides that, though, you have characters like Dhokla, Jalebi, Vada, and Cham Cham that are a dhokla, a jalebi... well, you get the idea.
55	* The main character of ''Animation/ThreeThousandWhysOfBlueCat'' is a blue cat named Blue Cat.
56	* ''Animation/PleasantGoatAndBigBigWolf'':
57	** In the English dubs, the wolf serving as the show's villain is named Wolffy. In the original Chinese version and a few other dubs, the other characters are also named after their species (Pleasant Goat, Lazy Goat, etc.).
58	** Paddi owns a pet egg named Eggy.
59	* ''Animation/HappyHeroes'': Huo Haha owns a pet owl named Mau, whose name is a shortened form of "maotouying", the Chinese word for "owl".
60	* ''Animation/BoonieBears'': In the original Chinese, Briar is known as Xiong Da ("big bear") while Bramble is known as Xiong Er ("second bear").
61	* In ''Animation/DobyAndDisy'', one of Doby and Disy's recurring friends is a panda known as Panda.
62	* ''Animation/YamuchasKungFuAcademy'': In Japanese, Miko is officially named Shaomai, after the kind of food he is.
63	[[/folder]]
64
65	[[folder:Comic Books]]
66	* The undead dog from ''ComicBook/TheAmazingScrewOnHead'' is called... wait for it... ''Mr. Dog''.
67	* In ''ComicBook/EightBillionGenies'', all of the genies respond to the name, "Genie". No mention is made of how they don't get each other mixed up, but they can be summoned for advice or to make a wish simply by calling their name.
68	* ''ComicBook/UsagiYojimbo'' takes place in a WorldOfFunnyAnimals, though only a few characters have names that are really just the Japanese words for their species:
69	** The titular character, Miyamoto Usagi, whose given name "Usagi" means "rabbit". It also works as a PunnyName due to "usagi" having the same vowel placement as "[[UsefulNotes/MiyamotoMusashi Musashi]]".
70	** Kitsune the fox, though a flashback reveals that [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname it's not her real name]].
71	** Yagi the assassin, a goat whose name means "goat".
72	* In the graphic novel ''ComicBook/JonahHex: No Way back'', Jonah adopts a dog (or, rather, he allows it to follow him around and feeds it occasionally), that he names 'Dawg'.
73	* ''ComicBook/{{Owly}}'': The eponymous character is an owl. His best friend is a worm named Wormy. However, his other friend, Scampy the chipmunk, averts this trope.
74	* The character Vargen in ''ComicBook/{{Bamse}}'' is a wolf who was originally the main antagonist and eventually [[HeelFaceTurn became]] the de-facto [[SixthRanger fourth ranger]] to the PowerTrio of the comic. His name is Swedish for "the wolf", and while it might seem like a case of SpeciesSurname for the first name, it is closer to this trope: he was orphaned at a very young age, and his rather abusive step-parents never bothered to actually ''name'' him, only calling him "little wolf".
75	* ''ComicBook/JaneFosterValkyrie:'' In the third issue, Jane gets a talking horse as part of her new job, who states his name is "Horse" ("''Mister'' Horse" if Jane's feeling formal).
76	* In ''ComicBook/SpirouAndFantasio'', Spip, their squirrel, have a name that literally means "squirrel" in Walloon dialect (and so does Spirou, by the way).
77	* In ''ComicBook/RedHoodAndTheOutlaws'', [[ComicBook/{{RedHood}} Jason]] finds a dog in an abandoned prison, which he adopts and proceeds to name Dog. He admits to said Dog that he's [[GiverofLameNames "not good at names"]].
78	* ''ComicBook/SamuraiGrandpa'': One of [[TheProtagonist Ojichan]]'s old friends is a kitsune known as... Kitsune.
79	* ''ComicBook/TheAdventuresOfPeterWheat'': One of [[TheProtagonist Peter Wheat]]'s friends is a Beetle named... Beetle.
80	[[/folder]]
81
82	[[folder:Comic Strips]]
83	* The proto-dog wolf that hangs around the main characters in the post-Johnny Hart ''ComicStrip/{{BC}}'' strips is just named "Wolf".
84	* ''ComicStrip/TheFamilyCircus'' features a cat named Kittycat.
85	* The main protagonist in ''ComicStrip/FootrotFlats'' is a dog called [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Dog]]; his actual name, [[spoiler:''"Potty-Pooh,"'']][[note]]kept obscure throughout most of the comics, though revealed in at least one,[[/note]] disgusts him [[BerserkButton and he will attack anyone who tries to say it.]] (Usually Auny Dolly, the sweet old biddy who gave him the name. Oddly enough, the AntiVillain Horse is... a cat.
86	--> '''The Dog:''' AND UNDERLINE ''[[SpellMyNameWithAThe THE!]]''
87	* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'':
88	** Invoked in a strip where Lyman says that he grew up with four cats all named Cat. When Jon asked him why, Lyman said there was no point in giving a name to [[CatsAreMean an animal that won't come when you call it]].
89	** This trope applied to Odie in [[DubNameChange an early Norwegian translation]] (it seemed to be a running theme -- Jon had no name either). Later translations settled on a more personalized name.
90	* ComicStrip/HiAndLois have a dog named Dawg.
91	* Often lampshaded in ''ComicStrip/PearlsBeforeSwine''. The four main characters are a rat, pig, zebra and goat named "Rat", "Pig", "Zebra" and "Goat". At one point, "Goat" is revealed to be a [[StageNames stage name]] -- his real name is Paris.
92	* In ''ComicStrip/ScaryGary'', Leopold calls his favorite lab rat Lab Rat. Since "Lab Rat" appears to have perished or otherwise mutated beyond recognition at several points, "Lab Rat" seems to be the name of his ''[[ReplacementGoldfish current]]'' favorite lab rat.
93	* About half the cast of ''ComicStrip/{{Pogo}}'' don't have names beyond their species (or some approximation of it) and maybe a title. Porky Pine, Deacon Mushrat, Rackety-Coon Child, Miz Beaver, etc. Even some characters who technically have a name are usually just referred to by their species, like Beauregard aka Hound-Dog.
94	[[/folder]]
95
96	[[folder:Eastern Animation]]
97	* The bear from ''Animation/MashaAndTheBear'' is named "The Bear".
98	* The Polish stop-motion children's series ''Miś Uszatek'', about a kindergartener bear and his friends. Nearly everyone is named simply "Hare", "Piglet", etc. Lampshaded in one of the episodes, where Hare mentions that most other hares have more imaginative names (though they're all puns on something hare-related.)
99	[[/folder]]
100
101	[[folder:Fan Works]]
102	* Creator/PeterChimaera's ''Digimon Savez teh Wrold'' revolves around the adventures of a Digimon named Digimon. In his own words: "Auithors notel Digimon is a new Digimon because there is not actual Digimon that is called Digimon he is a new one that I invented"
103	* {{Inverted\|Trope}} in ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm''. When [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]] hears [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix Wright's]] name, she jumps to the conclusion that he's an actual phoenix who's in his "shedding his feathers before bursting into flame" stage. Nick tries to correct her, but as Twilight Sparkle points out, at least this way [[FriendToAllLivingThings Fluttershy]] is actually ''[[ShrinkingViolet talking]]'' to him.
104	** ''TabletopGame/TwilightSparklesSecretShipficFolder'' [[https://twitter.com/ithry_skylark/status/637458374813073408 takes it one step further.]]
105	* The one-time character Monkey from ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''.
106	* In the ''{{Series/Supernatural}}'' fanfic "Castiel and Canis", Castiel has a dog named [[GratuitousLatin Canis.]]
107	* In the ''Manga/OnePiece'' fanfic "FanFic/SecondWind", Luffy brings a Kung Fu Dugong with his crew on their adventure…and names him Seal.
108	* ''Fanfic/TwelveRedLines'': Albeit as a BilingualBonus, but "Geier", Miss Friday's real name, is German for "vulture."
109	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4645151/6/What-is-Right-Year-Two What Is Right: Year Two]]'' Harry and Sirius decide on Canis as the public name for Sirius' dog Animagus form.
110	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6238824/29/The-Sorting-Hat-s-Stand The Sorting Hat's Stand]]'' Harry picks up a black cat which he decides to call Neko.
111	-->'''Harry:''' I know, it means cat, but hey, it is gender neutral and descriptive.
112	* In ''Fanfic/TheElementsOfFriendship'', the country of Zebras is called Pundamilia, the Swahili word for... [[ShapedLikeItself 'zebra']]. Similarly, the Zebra Queen, Malkia, bears the Swahili word for 'queen' as a name.
113	* In ''Fanfic/{{The Games We Play\|TheGamerRWBY}}'', Jaune adopts a puppy he calls Tiangou, Gou for short. Gou is Chinese for dog.
114	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10742899/11/This-time-around This Time Around]]'' the Hogwarts Sorting Hat is called Galerus, which is Latin for "hat."
115	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9677661/1/Harry-and-Luna-Meet-the-Big-Blue-Giants Harry and Luna Meet the Big Blue Giants]]'' Luna adopts a [[Film/{{Avatar}} nantang]] as a pet and decides to call it Tang.
116	* In ''[[http://archiveofourown.org/collections/hpfandom/works/635056 The House That Harry Built]]'' Snape has a cat named Cat.
117	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12878056/1/Fixing-It Fixing It]]'' a mentally-challenged Harry insists on naming the new foal "Horse." Lucius compromises by calling it Cheval Noir, which is French for "black horse."
118	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12894665/1/Not-His-Year-Chap-1-to-14 Not His Year]]'' Snape decides to call Harry's winged lion Animagus form Félin, which is French for "feline."
119	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/6642643/7/The-Change The Change]]'' Harry names a snake Kigyo, which is Hungarian for "snake."
120	* In ''Fanfic/TheHaterGood'', Wally adopts a small robin-like bird he names Robin.
121	* In ''Fanfic/PokemonMysteryDungeonWhatCameAfter'', all Pokémon are referred to by their species names with the sole [[AvertedTrope exception]] of Alesia the Eevee since she was formerly human. The author's desire to be accurate to the games enforces this trope.
122	* ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'':
123	** In ''RWBY'', Fox has an EdibleThemeNaming and is named after fox hunter's pie. In the rewrite ''Fanfic/RWBYScars'', his name is a bit more literal. He's [[AdaptationSpeciesChange now]] a fox [[LittleBitBeastly Faunus]].
124	** There's a dog Faunus with the surname "Akita".
125	* Zelda in ''Fanfic/BlindCourage'' names her daughter "Baby".
126	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/9041086/6/DUEL DUEL]]'' Susan has a winged horse named Pegasus.
127	* In ''Webcomic/RWBYAUBirds'', Blake keeps a pet sparrow named "Bird". Weiss lampshades the originality of the name.
128	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12416390/4/Too-Important-To-Die Too Important To Die]]'' the snake portrait outside the Slytherin common room is called Serpens.
129	* ''Fanfic/JuniorOfficers'':
130	** A fox named Kitsune.[[note]]Japanese for "fox."[[/note]]
131	** A short-nosed sea snake named Shorty.
132	** A fin whale named Finn.
133	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13408191/1/Damaged-Raven Damaged Raven]]'' Harry has a raven named Raven.
134	* (Sort of) human example in the ''Fanfic/AvantasiaProtagAU'' series. Entity is a half-human, half-unknown...entity. He usually goes by the nickname Enty though.
135	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/4791114/1/A-Gift-Given-Too-Soon A Gift Given Too Soon]]'' Ron had a pet turtle named Turtle.
136	* A {{Subverted\|Trope}} example shows up in Fanfic/OogwaysLittleOwl. In the Kung Fu Panda world, it’s explained that kung fu Masters do have unique names when they are born (for example, Tigress’ original name is Mulan). However, if they master the kung fu form associated with their respective species, they traditionally adopt their species’ name as their own when the become Masters. This is also why Shifu didn’t adopt “Red Panda” as his name when he became a Master; he mastered several forms instead of just one.
137	* In ''Fanfic/AGameForTheFool'', Wei Ying inherited his mother's donkey, which has the graceful name of Donkey.
138	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/14169535/8/Harry-Gets-Help-With-The-Diary Harry Gets Help With The Diary]]'' the basilisk is called Ormr, which is Old Norse for "serpent".
139	[[/folder]]
140
141	[[folder:Music]]
142	* Once there was a band. They were called Music/TheBand.
143	* Peter, Paul, and Mary put out an album called ''Album''.
144	* Music/{{Metallica}} is a borderline example, ''metallica'' being the Latin phrase for "of metal" (the name was to go for a fanzine of a friend of Lars Ulrich's way back in 1981, but he repurposed it for the band).
145	* Music/TheyMightBeGiants
146	** [[https://youtu.be/TkVHdUkMJdk Doctor Worm]] is about a worm who goes by that name, who plays drums. In the song, he sings that he's not a real doctor, but he is a real worm.
147	** Played with in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0XwJC6FbtA Walking My Cat Named Dog,]] a cover of a folk-rock song by Norma Tanega.
148	* The British band Fire has a song called "Father's Name was Dad."
149	* Music/TheWhiteStripes song "The Hardest Button to Button" have lyrics that mention the birth of a baby boy that is named "Baby".
150	* Played with, in several various ways, in the song "The Name Of My Frog" by Bryant Oden:
151	-->I have a bunny named Bunny and a rat named Rat \
152	A bird named Bird and a cat named Cat \
153	A ferret named Ferret and a dog named Dog \
154	So you can probably guess the name of my frog: \
155	[[spoiler:Francis Felix Fenton Fabian \
156	Finley Farnsworth Falco Fallon \
157	Flannigan Fairfax Freddy [=McGrog=] \
158	Farley Fernando]] the Frog
159	:: It gets even sillier later.
160	[[/folder]]
161
162	[[folder: Mythology & Religion]]
163	* In the first part of the Literature/BookOfGenesis, the first person created is usually called "Ha'Adam" (literally "the person"), but a few times Adam (person) is used as a proper name.
164	[[/folder]]
165
166	[[folder:Podcasts]]
167	* Subverted with Dog from ''Podcast/ResidentsOfProserpinaPark''. She is actually an alien who takes the appearance of a dog as a form of glamour.
168	[[/folder]]
169
170	[[folder:Pro Wrestling]]
171	* Tree the tree, companion of Gateway Championship Wrestling and St. Louis Anarchy's Johnny Greenpeace, which was of course a potted tree.
172	* Nancy Sullivan used the name "Woman" in Wrestling/{{WCW}}. She was a woman named "Woman".
173	[[/folder]]
174
175	[[folder:Puppet Shows]]
176	* ''Series/IrisTheHappyProfessor'': Piano, Skeleton, and Plant are all named after what they are.
177	* ''Franchise/TheMuppets'': Miss Piggy.
178	* ''Series/SesameStreet'': Big Bird. Lampshaded in the episode "Roy".
179	* A star-shaped puppet appears on ''Series/TheGoodNightShow''. His name? Star.
180	* Bear of ''Series/BearInTheBigBlueHouse''. Shadow as well.
181	* Professor Yaffle the woodpecker in ''Series/{{Bagpuss}}'', "yaffle" being an archaic term for the green woodpecker.
182	* Rod Hull's [[HairTriggerTemper violent to the point of borderline psychotic]] puppet sidekick Emu.
183	* ''Series/TheBigGarage'': The taxis' mentor is a gas pump. The name of this gas pump? Pump.
184	* Retroactively the case for Fizzgig in ''Film/TheDarkCrystal'', as ''Series/TheDarkCrystalAgeOfResistance'' names the entire species as Fizzgigs.
185	* The French-language series ''Series/{{Telefrancais}}'' has a pineapple named Ananas.
186	* Juanín Juan Harry in ''Series/TreintaYUnMinutos''. The BigDamnMovie reveals that Juanín is the name of his species.
187	** There's also Huachimingo the [[CartoonCreature Huachimingo]]
188	* ''Series/DontEatTheNeighbours'': The main adult characters are simply named after their species. When Wolf is briefly convinced he's no longer allowed to call himself a wolf, he realizes he'll have to change his name to something normal like "Steve".
189	[[/folder]]
190
191	[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
192	* In the TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons TabletopGame/DarkSun supplement the Thri-Kreen of Athas, [[MultiArmedAndDangerous thri-kreen]] legends include a human woman named "Drasna". Drasna is the Kreen word for female human, presumably because they forgot her name over the centuries.
193	[[/folder]]
194
195	[[folder:Theatre]]
196	* In ''Little Me'' Belle names her daughter "Baby".
197	[[/folder]]
198
199	[[folder:Toys]]
200	* Creator/FisherPrice names the puppy in their ''Laugh and Learn'' line... Puppy. The monkey is named Monkey, the frog is named Froggy, the duck is named Ducky, and puppy's sister? Sis. And these are only the ''organic'' examples, the franchise also runs with this trope with the ''inorganic'' objects department like Cookie Jar, Soccer Ball and Mail Box. Granted that the line is targeted at infants, but it gives you the perception that they're shaping up children to name their pets using this trope.
201	* One of the Renegades from ''[[WesternAnimation/ChallengeOfTheGoBots GoBots]]'' was named Zero. His alt-mode? A Mitsubishi Zero.
202	** Similarly, one Japan-exclusive [[Franchise/TransformersGenerationOne G1 Transformer]] was named [[https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Browning Browning]] and turned into a Browning [=M1910=] handgun.
203	** Laserbeak and Ravage were referred to as Condor and Jaguar respectively in Japanese.
204	* ''Toys/GoGosCrazyBones'' has a few examples of this, such as Eggy, a Gogo who is, well, an egg.
205	* V-Tech also does this to some extent. The blue dog's name is Puppy as well.
206	* In the ''Toys/{{Tamagotchi}}'' toys, the aliens you raise are collectively known as Tamagotchis. One species featured on the Deka Tamagotchi looks like the egg-shaped handheld you raise them on, and it's named Tamagotchi.
207	* ''Toys/TransformersBotBots'': One of the [=BotBots=] is named Tool Bag. Guess what they transform into.
208	[[/folder]]
209
210	[[folder:Visual Novels]]
211	* In ''VisualNovel/SilverCrisis'', Lucario goes by the name of his own species, confusing Lucas on why he would call himself that. It's later revealed that the reason for this is because [[spoiler: Lucario wanted to isolate himself from others after losing faith in humanity when he was betrayed by his former trainer that he dedicated his life to, the one who gave him his actual name, "Laiyu".]]
212	* In ''VisualNovel/IkemenSengoku'', Mitsunari named his pet cat "Kitty" because of his [[AccidentalMisnaming forgetfulness about names]].
213	* Drakan the [[HalfHumanHybrid half-dragon]] from ''VisualNovel/SablesGrimoire''. [[spoiler:It turns out that her real name is Naziel.]]
214	* ''VisualNovel/TrappedWithJester'': Played with for Jester, which is very indicative for his jester-like appearance, but [[spoiler:he's actually a demon]].
215	[[/folder]]
216
217	[[folder:Web Animation]]
218	* In WebAnimation/AlgicosathlonCamp, the characters are all named by their colors. Black is a black-colored stickman, White is a white-colored one and so on.
219	* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h91f9_5I9BE Acroboxle]] is an acroboxle. Whether or not [[http://centralcitytower.deviantart.com/gallery/26935878 Fuzzy]] is a fuzzy remains to be seen.
220	* ''WebAnimation/AnAdventureOfSheepAndChicken'': The Hiker. The Hiker never reveals his real name, and Sheep and Chicken don't feel the need to give him a nickname.
221	* [[SpellMyNameWithAThe The Cheat]] of ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' is [[AKindOfOne apparently a The Cheat]].
222	* Puppy, Cat, Donkey, Bunny, and Hamster from ''WebAnimation/RetardedAnimalBabies''. Guess what animals they all are!
223	* Llama the black llama from ''Webcomic/KissWood''.
224	* The nerdy character in ''WebAnimation/ADayWithBowserJr'' is called... guess what? Nerdy!
225	* Spider from ''WebAnimation/MonsterSchool''. Guess what Minecraft mob he is!
226	* Puppycat from ''WebAnimation/BeeAndPuppycat'' who is a [[MixAndMatchCritters mixture of a puppy]] [[CartoonCreature and a cat.]]
227	* The flower from ''WebAnimation/PlancysWorld'' is named, well, Flower.
228	* Storm Gray Sheep from ''WebAnimation/SakuraTheAngelSailerGod'' is well, a sheep that's storm gray in color. no wonder she prefers to be called "Storm."
229	* ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'':
230	** In the podcast sub-series, one character is a small boy who holds up the vox-caster mic for the podcast. He is called "Boy" when he couldn't get his name out fast enough.
231	** When [[spoiler:Rogal Dorn]] is asked to run a tabletop RPG, the party starts in a castle called Castle and a town called Town. GM priviliges are swiftly revoked.
232	* A majority of characters from ObjectShows like ''WebAnimation/BattleForDreamIsland'' and ''WebAnimation/InanimateInsanity'' are named after the {{Animate Inanimate Object}}s they are. If they're not, it's a case of ALizardNamedLiz.
233	* In ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', among the cast of WoodlandCreatures, there's a bear cub named Cub, a mole named [[StealthPun The Mole]], a [[DiscoDan disco-dancer bear]] named Disco Bear, and a [[HumanPopsicle frozen prehistoric marmot]] named Cro-Marmot.
234	* ''WebAnimation/DSBTInsaniT'': Just about every non-human character falls under this. From the main cast, there's Frog, Bear, Duck, Snake, and Balloon. Averted with Knobs, a talking door.
235	-->'''Asia:''' So of all the talking inanimate objects, you are the only one who isn't called what you are?
236	* ''WebAnimation/{{Dreamscape}}'':
237	** Megalania is a talking megalania, although he is never explicitly referred to as "Megalania".
238	** Despite [[RobotBuddy Mechelly]] sounding like an actual name, that is the name of the product line.
239	* ''WebAnimation/PonyAndBoy'' is about an unnamed boy and his pony, who he just refers to as "Pony".
240	* ''WebAnimation/HunterTheParenting''
241	** Big D's [[ParentalFavouritism favourite child]] is Horse, who is a horse [[AnimalisticAbomination (probably)]].
242	** There's also Boy, whose father is the relentlessly LiteralMinded Door.
243	* ''WebAnimation/RobotboxAndCactus'' has a cactus named Cactus P. Cactus, the son of [[SpeciesSurname Seamus P. Cactus II]].
244	* ''WebAnimation/ShapeBuddies'': With the exceptions of Gem and Bean, a decent chunk of the show's characters are named after their shapes. For example, Circle is an anthropomorphic circle.
245	* ''WebAnimation/JaidenAnimations'': In Jaiden's video on ''VideoGame/AmazingIsland'', [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IGf9jAank64 "Pokemon But Ugly"]], Jaiden celebrates unlocking the "kid" body-type by creating a child-like monster called "Child".
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249	* In ''Literature/TheIntercontinentalUnionOfDisgustingCharacters'', Ringman's warhorse is named Warhorse. (And the only city with a name in all of Central Earth is named Town.)
250	* [[http://akaichounokoe.deviantart.com/gallery/?q=Bunny#/d5lctdu Bunny]] is well, a bunny, but if one reads between the lines of some of the stories that feature her, her real name could be and mostly likely is Ethelinda Berniece Rabbitwright. Another subversion like the Linkara example being that "Bunny" is a nickname. Confirmed [[http://tokiandcowiki.wikidot.com/wiki:bunny-rabbitwright here]] that her real name is Ethelinda Berniece.
251	* ''Webcomic/PusheenTheCat'': Pusheen's name is derived from the Irish word for "kitten", and there's a sloth named Sloth.
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255	* ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'': Linkara has a stuffed bear named Bear. Subverted in that Bear is the name used in the series, its real name is [[WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime Littlefoot]].
256	* The first obstacle Group One faces in ''WebVideo/SuburbanKnights'' is a cat named Cat. This is lampshaded and then subverted when he's revealed to be a puppet.
257	* Subverted in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYAjwYZBMiw this video,]] a man has a cat named "Rabbit" who purrs (trills) like a pigeon.
258	* A Youtuber known as The Archfiend had a dog once. Some time after it passed away, he decided to get a new dog, which to this day is still known as 'New Dog'.
259	* ''WebVideo/CawCophony'': It's easy to guess what kind of bird Crow is from the name alone.
260	* In WebVideo/TheChroniclesOfJaller episode [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ta4OAiDlilE Black Piraka Gets Noticed Part 2,]] [[spoiler:Penguin the Penguin.]] Though according to him, you do say the first one a ''leetle'' differently.
261	* ''WebVideo/{{Freelancers}}'' is about a ragtag video production company called Video Production Company.
262	* It's eventually revealed that The Cheat from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner'' is a the cheat. Yes, [[SpellMyNameWithAThe the "the" is an integral part of both his name and his species name]] -- either that or it's just a quirk of Strong Bad's odd way of speaking.
263	* ''WebVideo/PokemonTalk'': As it's based on Franchise/{{Pokemon}}, the Pokemon are named by their species.
264	* ''WebVideo/TheSharkPuppet'': A shark puppet named Shark Puppet.
265	* The Platform/YouTube channel [[https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCGMTesZlKa0Lokb7ZNqOJXQ BilliSpeaks]] is about a cat named Billi. Billi is Hindi for cat.
266	* On ''Series/TheWeather'', Robby and his wife brilliantly name their adopted tornado child "Tornado".
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