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3# Characters.StarWarsRiseOfTheEmpireEraJediOrder: Tallisibeth?
4# Literature.ViridianSaga: Andromeda Slate.
5# Recap.YutakasBigFatYoukaiWedding: Keine Kamishirasawa's name is lampshaded by Marisa, calling her Keine Kami-whatsimacallit.
6# Characters.ClearSkies: Tarquin Smith.
7# Fridge.{{Psychonauts}}: "Fred"'s an unassuming, affable-enough-sounding name that was probably picked to give the Nice Guy with a Famous Ancestor an inverted SesquipedalianSmith kind of name. Turns a little ironic when you consider that Napoleon was actually a pretty big fan of a guy named Fred.
8# Characters.HarryPotterHufflepuff: A slightly more literal example; his family name is 'Smith' but his given name is a very uncommon Biblical name.
9# Wrestling.RicoConstantino: Inverted as Rico Constantino with his first name shortened, completely averted with his full name.
10# Characters.GameOfTouhouWoodlands: Has a notably sesquipedalian surname.
11# Characters.AlderaminOnTheSky: "Tamutsukusuku Safida" is quite a mouthful, but the surname's much shorter.
12# Series.TheWesterner: Lovable Rogue, Con Man and all round pain in Dave Blassinghame's ass, Burgundy Smith.
13# Wrestling.XavierWoods: The Consequences Creed name.
14# Characters.PacificRimHumans: Invoked — he named himself after his favorite historical figure (Hannibal) and his second favorite Chinese restaurant (the otherwise unremarkable name Chau). The result is the very catchy name "Hannibal Chau".
15# Characters.SesameStreetAnythingMuppets: He has a three-syllable first name to go with the short last name Jones.
16# Characters.MediochreQSethSeries: ''Index entry or ZCE''
17# Characters.WastelandCaliforniaFactions: It's standard for members of the clergy to adopt this sort of name as a Rite-of-Passage Name Change, taking a relevant noun as their first name as a sort of meaningful title and personal statement of intent.
18# Characters.{{Bratz}}: Sharidan Jones.
19# Recap.SchittsCreekS310SebastienRaine: Sebastien Raine, a sophisticated New York artist.
20# WesternAnimation.LongHairedHare: "Giovanni Jones"
21# Characters.PsychonautsTheRealWorld: Inverted, befitting of a down-to-earth Nice Guy who's content considering himself to be pretty unassuming despite his impressive-sounding lineage.
22# WesternAnimation.BuzzLightyearOfStarCommand: Recurring villain Rentwhistle Swack is a good example of having a fancy-sounding first name and a mundane surname.
23# Series.InspectorMorse: Endeavour Morse himself.
24# Characters.DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory: Inverted. Short first name, long last name.
25# Recap.AvatarTheLastAirbenderTheKingOfOmashu: Aang initially identifies himself as "Bonzu Pipinpadalopsicopolis III," with Katara introducing herself as "June Pipinpadalopsicopolis."
26# ComicBook.TheSword: Inverted with Julie Seosoudavannavong, who knows the shit has hit the fan when the news stations have all gotten her name right.
27# Characters.DragonAgeIICompanions: He has a very long first name and a very short last name (Vael is pronounced like "veil").
28# Wrestling.GeorgeHackenschmidt: Inverted from the perspective of English speakers.
29# Webcomic.NuzlockeComicsFanWorks: CoverIdentityAnomaly: When he doesn't know the name of the grunt whose outfit it is, and has to check on an ID card - which says 'Becky Smith'. He tries to pass it off as being a Fauxreigner, saying first "It's short for... Beckisander" and then "It's pronounced Beikai. [[SesquipedalianSmith Beikaisander... Smith]]." The desk-grunt waves him through on a "the chances of it being fake aren't worth the hassle if it's genuine" policy. He then encounters the real Becky Smith upstairs recovering, at which point his cover is blown anyway. Basically, this whole sequence runs on the Rule of Funny like cars run on petrol.
30# Music.JohnMellencamp: Inverted, and how.
31# Film.MrSmithGoesToWashington: Jefferson Smith
32# Literature.TheThreeInvestigators: Jupiter Jones
33# Characters.TheLibrarians2014: Ezekiel Jones.
34# Literature.{{Lochinvar}}: Madcap Mehitabel Smith.
35# Characters.CormoranStrikeNovels: "Cormoran Strike".
36# JustForFun.TVTropesAdditionalHeroVowsPodB: I shall adopt a plain and mundane name, such as Bob, or Alice, or something just as common. Those with an Awesome [=McCoolname,=] like The Destroyer, tend to last two seconds in a fight. Those with boring names, they can take out entire armies. [[SesquipedalianSmith A combination of names]] is also not unheard of.
37# AvatarTheLastAirbender.TropesQToZ: In "The King of Omashu", while disguised as an old man, Aang identifies himself as "Bonzu Pipinpadaloxicopolis III", and says that Katara and Sokka are his grandkids. Katara then immediately says her name is "June Pipinpadaloxicopolis". Somehow, she manages to pronounce the name exactly the same way, as does the king.
38# Film.SevenWaysFromSundown: Seven's full names is 'Seven Ways From Sundown' Jones.
39# Film.TheGiantGilaMonster: Horatio Alger "Steamroller" Smith, the DJ.
40# ReferencedBy.GoLion: Voltron: When the Voltron Force forms Voltron and shouts, "Let's go, Voltron!" or "Let's go, Voltron Force!", they're actually matching the [=GoLion=] Team shout of "Let's [=GoLion!" Keith's=] name might be a reference to how he's nicknamed "Chief (Chifu)" in [=GoLion. Although=] it's retroactive, Keith is named "Keith Akira Kogane" and Hunk is named [[SesquipedalianSmith "Tsuyoshi Garrett"]] in comics and sequels of Voltron (Lion Force), which reference the original names of their counterparts in [=GoLion. Raible=] (referencing The Bible) is renamed Coran (referencing The Qur'an) in Voltron, thus somewhat preserving the reference.
41# Literature.TheCuckoosCalling: "Cormoran Strike".
42# Literature.TheCatWhoSeries: Eddington Smith, the soft-spoken bookstore owner.
43# ThePriceIsRight.TropesPToZ: On January 22, 1993, Rod called down a contestant named Ebunoloron Sims.
44# Characters.Ever17: Her first name is seven syllabes long.
45# AlliterativeName.TropesSToZ: ''Index entry or ZCE''
46# Characters.ZettaiHeroProject: His original Japanese name was Darkdeath Tanaka.
47# Characters.BattleBotsABCSeason2: Inverted. Referred to as just "Moebius" on the show, likely for this reason.
48# Characters.MalazanBookOfTheFallenTheMalazanEmpire: An inverted example with a simple first name but long und unusual second and last names: Ben Adaephon Delat, aka "Quick Ben".
49# Creator.ElleMacPherson: Played straight, then inverted. She was born Eleanor Gow. Her parents divorced when she was a teenager and her mother married a man named [=MacPherson.=] Elle took the new surname and balanced it out by shortening her first name.
50# VideoGame.MysteryTrackers: The Brown family members all have lengthy first names to go with their very common surname.
51# Characters.ArchipelagoExodusDrakengrad: Inverted. And Davra Surhamgiak is actually his title.
52# Creator.IrinaShayk: Inverted with her full name.
53# Series.AliasSmithAndJones: The boys' aliases: Joshua Smith and Thaddeus Jones.
54# Wrestling.{{Jacqueline}}: Not any of her ring names though, only her real one, excepting when she used her full real name as a ring name.
55# Series.RemingtonSteele: Remington Steele.
56# Characters.AceAttorneyWitnessesAndOtherCharactersDualDestinies: Ju-ni-per Woods.
57# Radio.HamishAndDougal: Inverurie Jones in "Inverurie Jones and the Thimble of Doom"
58# Creator.LSpragueDeCamp: In Solomon's Stone, the hero finds himself in a world populated by the figures people daydream of being. Everyone has a Sesquipedalian Smith name, indicating first the daydream and then the mundane reality.
59# TropesThatWillNeverHappen.XMeetsYEntriesOToS: ''Index entry or ZCE''
60# Characters.GleeOtherMajorCharacters: A mild case.
61# Characters.LittleWitchAcademiaOtherCharacters: A-nna-bel Crème. Notable because the name itself is a pseudonym, so the naming convention may have been chosen to make it catchier.
62# ShoutOut.{{Voltron}}: Hunk's retroactive real name, in turn, is [[SesquipedalianSmith "Tsuyoshi Garrett"]], with "Tsuyoshi (Seido)" being his [=GoLion=] counterpart's name.
63# Characters.GameOfTouhouSeaOfDemons: To the point where her nickname is 'Ser Sesquipedalian'.
64# Characters.{{Aveyond}}: Invokes this in her introduction, where she tells the party to call her "Elini".
65# Recap.AnimaniacsEpisode56: Inverted: Professor Otto von Schnitzelpusskrakengescheitmeyer. Lampshaded in the Friendship Song.
66# Characters.TheGuidedFateParadox: All the angels, with the exception Galtion, has their name end in "-el"note Hebrew for "God" or "of God", which is typical angel Theme Naming. However, they all surprisingly have last names, which Renya lampshades, and said last names are Japanese.
67# Characters.UniversalWrestlingFederationShootoTheOriginalEra: Though his real first name is Yoshitomi.
68# Characters.SchoolDaysISS600: Evangélion Fox.
69# Series.PushingDaisies: ''Index entry or ZCE''
70# GetAStupidAnswer.LiveActionFilms: ''Index entry or ZCE''
71# Funny.AvatarTheLastAirbenderBookOne: Aang's [[SesquipedalianSmith ridiculously long pseudonym]], which Katara is amazingly proficient at ad-libbing and Bumi somehow remembers perfectly.
72# IThoughtItMeant.AToC: AmbiguouslyBrown: Ambiguously Brown should not be confused with SesquipedalianSmith. Nor Encyclopedia Brown. Or Doc Brown being ambiguous. Nor is it someone who might be a member of the Brown family. Nor is it something/somebody who/that might be brown but it's never said so.
73# Wrestling.BrianHildebrand: Inverted with his real name.
74# Creator.JTEdson: Waxahachie Smith
75# Characters.{{Bobbinsverse}}: An inversion for no particular reason, but why not?
76# Characters.MightyMorphinPowerRangersRangers: Helps seal the idea that she's the "hot popular girl", especially after becoming class president Kimberly Hart in one episode.
77# Film.WhisperingSmith: Smith's first name is actually Luke,but most folks call him "Whispering" Smith.
78# Fanfic.{{Freudian}}: The police gave Rapunzel a very mundane surname, although it's implied that "Rapunzel" is not the name her parents have given her, either. It's lampshaded by Flynn: Flynn: Rapunzel Smith? That's quite a contrast in names there.
79# Characters.PushingDaisies: Emerson Cod.
80# Characters.BoardwalkEmpireOtherGangsters: ''Index entry or ZCE''
81# Series.MightyMorphinPowerRangers: Kimberly Ann Hart. Helps seal the idea that she's the "hot popular girl," especially after becoming class president Kimberly Hart in one episode.
82# Literature.MrsDalloway: Septimus Smith. Woolf even lampshades this trope: London has swallowed up many millions of young men called Smith; thought nothing of fantastic Christian names like Septimus with which their parents have thought to distinguish them.
83# Characters.Passione24Hours: According to the intro narration, his full name is Giorno Giovavavavavavava... and in Episode 1, Bucciarati calls him "Giorno Giovavavavana".
84# Characters.DetectivesUnited: He comes from a family of these. Rafael, Angelina, Arabella, Mortimer, and Dorian are all quite lengthy and interesting first names - and then the family surname is Brown.
85# Film.AFineMess: Inverted with Ellen Frankenthaler.
86# VideoGame.TheGuidedFateParadox: Most of the angels' first names follow traditional angelic theme naming, but their last names are Japanese. Renya even lampshades it, wondering how angels have last names, and Japanese ones at that.
87# Characters.TransformersAnimatedHumans: His first name Prometheus is rather sophisticated when compared to his mundane surname of Black.
88# Literature.NightWatchDiscworld: Somewhat-comic gravedigger Legitimate First ("Leggy" to his friends). "I've always wondered about his name. I mean... Legitimate?" "Can't blame a mother for being proud, Nobby."
89# Characters.CrossingJordan: Inverted. Dr. Mahesh Vijayaraghavensatyanaryanamurthy. Even his name tag is shortened to Dr V.R.S.Murthy.
90# Characters.BackyardSports: Her first name, Jocinda, is decidedly uncommon, especially compared to her last name, Smith.
91# Recap.ArthurS14E2TheAgentOfChangeDWUntiesTheKnot: When Muffy asks who the wedding is for, D.W. gives a fake name of "Deeangeleenora Woo". She claims that she likes to be called "Dee Woo", though.
92# Literature.DalzielAndPascoe: DC Ethelbert "Hat" Bowler, who definitely thinks he has an Embarrassing First Name.
93# Characters.{{Chikara}}: Inverted with Gavin Loudspeaker.
94# UsefulNotes.JapanesePronouns: A semi-example in [=Ever17:=] [[SesquipedalianSmith Tanaka Yuubiseiharukana]] prefers to shorten her name to "Yuu"/"You", and everyone addresses her as that. She even lampshades it in her introduction: "I am You!"
95# Literature.EncyclopediaBrown: "Encyclopedia" Brown. Somewhat subverted in that it's a nickname; his real name is Leroy, but only his parents and teachers call him that.
96# Music.SufjanStevens: Sufjan himself. And he has a brother named Marzuki Stevens and sisters named Djohariah Stevens and Djamilah Stevens.... as well as siblings named Colin and Megan.
97# VideoGame.GrimTales: Although Anna Gray averts the trope herself, many of the names on her family tree qualify for it. This includes her mother, Anastasia Gray; her great-grandfather, Alister Gray; and her husband, Dorian Gray. Dorian gets bonus points for originally having been Dorian Black, meaning he fit the trope twice. (He took his wife's name when they married.)
98# Characters.IndianaJones: The Trope Codifier. His impressive first name, Indiana, contrasts his mundane surname, Jones.
99# WebVideo.NothingMuchToDo: Balthazar Jones.
100# CharacterNameAndTheNounPhrase.{{Literature}}: Brina Williamson's [[SesquipedalianSmith Merona Grant]] and the Lost Tomb of Golgotha.
101# Wrestling.YoshihiroTajiri: To Japanese readers anyway

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