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Other examples:
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Both Sam Brody and Sam Coleman (who are canon characters in the MonsterVerse but never appeared in the same installment) are featured in the story.
- In Ages of Shadow, Pegasus expy Brenner names his card game after Yade Khan, the god persona taken up by Jade Chan. As Kaiba expy Alonso Gragas notes, this can be a bit confusing for anyone in the know about the true nature of the game. It's also plot significant — during the Final Battle, Jade reveals that she built a loophole into the game's rules (namely, that "the will of Yade Khan" decides the winner) enabling her to decide the outcome of a match any time she wants.
- In Alone, Together, Shego's name is "Kimberly Anne van Gogh". It's especially unusual because her girlfriend Kimberly Anne "Kim" Possible shares both a given and middle name with her.
- In Amazing Fantasy, it's frowned upon in Izuku's universe to base one's superhero or supervillain identity on a comic book character, as it's seen as unoriginal and proof that they can't stand out in the crowd. Izuku ends up taking up the title of Spider-Man anyways after getting Peter's blessing early on in the story.
- Azumanga und Panzer: There's Yukari Akiyama and Yukari Tanizaki. Additionally, Nonna's real name is Noriko, the same as Noriko Isobe from Duck Team.
- The love-interests in both Life Is Strange and Lucifer (2016) are both named "Chloe." Making a crossover for both of them (as is the case with Becoming more than what I am.) will obviously create complications.
- In Bless the Children — both the Gen
and Ship version (the ship version adds the plot element of Daniel Jackson and Samantha Carter dating and getting married) — after Daniel Jackson 'adopts' his eight-year-old clone, the two are distinguished from each other because the clone is always called 'Danny' by everyone else (with the exception of Teal'c, who calls Danny 'young Daniel Jackson'). - In the Ranma ½ Elsewhere Fic Boy Scouts ½, there are three Matthews, two Bills and a Will, and (while one is a very minor character) two Kennys. (Note that as a Self Insert Fic, most of these Steves take their names from real people.)
- The Calvinverse has two characters named Rupert Chill — a human convict and an alien that imitates him. Since Double Trouble revolves around both, the alien Rupert uses a First-Name Basis while the human Rupert goes by "Chill".
- Cheating Death: Those That Lived: Chaff is selected as tribute by mistake. There are five Chaff Mitchells of reaping age in District 11, but he's the first to step forward and isn't permitted to protest when he notices the others making themselves scarce. To add insult to injury, it turns out that the name on the reaping slip was really Chuff Mitchell, and the escort read it wrong.
- In "Christmas in Kansas", part of the Sorrowful and Immaculate Hearts series, Clark Kent invites Bruce Wayne to Christmas at his parents' place, meaning the author has to avoid confusion that might result from the canon that Clark's and Bruce's mothers are both named Martha. When Clark's mother invites Bruce to call her Martha, there's an awkward moment as everyone remembers that Martha Wayne was murdered in front of her son's eyes, and then everyone spends the rest of the story carefully calling her "Mrs. Kent" to avoid bringing up unpleasant memories.
- Mass Effect Fanfic Crucible is quite realistic in the sense that many characters share the same name due to pure coincidence or just Dead Guy Junior trope.
- In Garrus's case, he's named after his grandfather just like his uncle.
- Alt!Gaius's son is also named Gaius and his daughter's name is Jane after his grandmother Jane Shepard.
- Emile's father's name is Jack.
- Vitius Crassus's wife is named Sarah, which happen to be the same as Shepard's mother.
- Defied in the Avengers of the Ring sequel Dagor Arnediad; with Spider-Man and Star-Lord both participating in the battle in Sokovia, at one point Quill calls Parker with the introduction “Hey Peter, it’s the other one”, acknowledging how they are the only two heroes to share a first name.
- "DC Multiverse Crossover" series adds Smallville to the Arrowverse crossovers, which results in the Oliver Queen of Smallville meeting his Arrow counterpart. To simplify matters when the two are in the same area, Smallville Oliver Queen agrees to go by "Ollie" so that people can distinguish which version they're talking to.
- Diaries of a Madman has two Gildas. Nav at point takes to calling them "OG" (Original Gilda), and "PG" (Princess Gilda) to differentiate between them.
- In The Donutier the title character is called Twilight Sprinkle. Much to her annoyance, she's pretty much identical to Twilight Sparkle pre-alicorn looks, meaning that all the crazies that want to pester Twilight Sparkle show up at Twilight Sprinkle instead.
- When they finally meet, Twilight Sparkle mentions that "Twilight" is a traditional name in her family, hinting there's many other Twilights around-and that she and Sprinkle may be distant relatives.
- Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
- The Buu Bits would briefly reference the fact that Krillin's daughter Marron has a similar name to his ex-girlfriend Maron. Apparently, 18 is aware of that fact, but they decided it'd be funnier to pretend she didn't.
- A Running Gag during flashbacks to when the Saiyan race still existed is about how Vegeta, his father, and the planet all had the same name.
- Apparently, Hiccup's positive reputation has resulted in a few babies on Berk being named after him in Dragons, Butterflies, And Who Knows What Else?, the negative connotations originally associated with the name having gone after ending the war with the dragons.
- Due to being a Peanuts fanfic, the narrator in Everybody's Gotta Leave Sometime has to specify when it's plain Patty speaking instead of "Peppermint" Patty.
- In the Daria series "Falling Into College," Quinn winds up dating a guy also named Quinn, who is called "Q" to avoid confusion.
- Defied in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. When Xun Yu and Xun You interview with Cao Cao, he immediately dubs them "Big Xun" and "Little Xun" to avoid confusion. From then on, the are Only Known by Their Nickname.
- In Power Girl fanfic A Force of Four there're two Malas (an Amazon and a Kryptonian criminal) and two Karas (Power Girl and Supergirl). Lois comments on it:Lois Kent had never spoken to any Amazons except Wonder Woman and Fury, and it was even odder to know that the one she spoke to had the same name as the Kryptonian criminal who looked like her late husband.
- Much like its source material, some characters in Forum of Thrones have the same name. There are two Edwards, two Petyrs, two Darrens (and a Darreth), three Damons and two Leonards, although they are located in different regions so they don't get mixed up. On the other hand, there are many characters whose name sounds similar, such as Jared, Jaron, Jaylon, Jarrod, Jarek, Jaro and Jarow. And of course there are several Jons (or variants of it) as well as Jeynes.
- Forward has three different criminal groups using the name "Talon"—two of whom are on the same space station. Apparently none of these criminals are terribly creative.
- After Anakin went back in time in Free from Force, any scene featuring both him and his child self will refer to him as Vader to avoid confusion.
- Discussed in Grace Under Pressure, Courage Under Fire, when Kurt asks Dave why he uses his friend Azimio Adams' first name, but his other friend Anthony Rashad's last name. Dave explains that while there is only one Azimio at school, there are several Anthonys, so calling him Rashad is really just a way to avoid confusion. (Note that Anthony Rashad is the only Anthony mentioned in Canon.)
- Averted in The Great Starship Battle, since both Q from Star Trek and Q from James Bond appear.
- The DCU fanfic Hellsister Trilogy has Kara Zor-El and Kara Zor-L share screentime. In order to avoid confusion both women use their codenames or refer to each other as "K".
- Discussed in the Splatoon fic Her Fractured Spirit. Marie's parents almost named her "Pearl". Her cousin Callie notes that it would have caused confusion with a different famous singer who is also named Pearl.
- In Heroic Myth, Bell summons Asterios, better known as the Minotaur of Crete, as his Berserker-class Servant. Coincidentally, the minotaur Bell killed to become Level 2 is later reborn as another Xenos named Asterios. The author lampshades the notion in his notes, considering pitting them against each other with an enthusiastic, "MIRROR MATCH! MIRROR MATCH!"
- In Incarnation of Legends, guild advisor Hikigaya Hachiman shares his given name with Hachiman, a god of war. Bell is intrigued by this, having met the godly Hachiman during his visit to the Far East.
- Kyon: Big Damn Hero, by including characters from Higurashi: When They Cry, ends up with two characters with the given name Keiichi, who are about the same age and have similar occupations. Though Tamaru Keiichi, the canonical Haruhi Suzumiya character, is extremely minor and may not even appear more than once.
- Defied in “Lighting the Path” when Hal Jordan and new Green Lantern Kara Thrace join the Justice Society to save Alan Scott from Johnny Sorrow’s latest plan, Kara expressing surprise that Power Girl is also called ‘Kara’.
- Lord of the Seas has a rather awkward interaction when three Rodriks (a Stark great-uncle, Lord Harlaw and the grandson to Quellon Greyjoy) realize they will have to use nicknames or the crew just won't stop giggling at them.
- Lothíriel by JunoMagic is about a woman in Germany, named after the character Lothíriel from The Lord of the Rings. Then the German Lothíriel falls into The Lord of the Rings, but that story already has a Lothíriel. Now it might have two characters named Lothíriel, and they might meet.
- Lulu's Bizarre Rebellion: Averted between Shirley's father, Joseph Fenette, and her maternal uncle, Joseph Joestar.
- Luna's Hubby has no other plot-relevant characters named Harry other than the Boy Who Lived, though the text makes clear that other "Harry"s do exist, which is how our Harry can get away with using his Real Name as an Alias.
- In Make a Man Out of You, Hua Ping's friend Wei names his son "Da Ping" after him, much to his annoyance. Though, the two Pings use different characters for their names.
- Accidentally averted in The Makings of Team CRME. In Mercury's backstory, his mother is an Original Character named "Melanie". However, the writer had admitted that they didn't realize that one of the Malachite twins was also named "Melanie" on the show before naming her and only noticed after her arc had concluded. This is mentioned when the twins show up in Roman's Empire.
- The Many Dates of Danny Fenton:
- Danny has gone out with two girls named Gwen. He's gone out with two girls whose full name is Jennifer, though one goes by Jen and the other Jenny.
- Violet tells Danny how she has a brother named Dash, though he's actually more mature than Danny's bully.
- When Danny tells Jazz about Kitty, he has to explain she's not the same Kitty who once tried to steal Jazz's body.
- Like Danny, Alex also has a friend named Samantha (Sam).
- One of Danny's dates is a girl named Spectra Vondergeist. The school she attends also had to face Danny's foe Penelope Spectra at some point.
- Mary Phillips Story: Raya's real name is "Carmen". Stormer's Missing Mom is also named "Carmen".
- The Crossover AU Me and Other Makoto involves Makoto Naegi finding out that his Hope's Peak invitation was supposed to go to Makoto Niijima, resulting in him going to Shujin Academy instead.
- Mermaid's Last Melody: The Gender Flip Kyoko Sakura has the given name Kyosuke, which is same name as the boy that Sayka has unrequited feelings for in the anime.
- Averted in My Brave Pony: Starfleet Magic, though it's not certain whether this was deliberate. There are two characters named Rani in the series: Khan's wife in The Movie, and Reginald Rolls' wife in My Brave Pony: Star Fleet Magic III.
- Averted in Metroid: Kamen Rider Generations in the case of Samus Aran and Alain, whose name shares the same sound as the bounty hunter's surname.
- In the Girls und Panzer and Saki crossover, Necessary to Win, found here, several groups of characters have the same first name, and are set apart by their last initials. For example, Saki's Momoko "Stealth Momo" Touyoko is called "Momo T.", while Girls Und Panzer's Momo Kawashima is called Momo K. to keep them distinct from one another. There are exceptions, though, in cases in which one character with the same name is much more important than the other as Saki's Saki Miyanaga, the deuteragonist of the fic, is simply called "Saki", while various other terms are used to refer to Girls und Panzer's Saki Maruyama.
- In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Alan Scott continues to go by Green Lantern even after the Green Lantern Corp revealed itself to Earth. However, Scott is the one most people think of when Earthlings think of the name "Green Lantern" due to the Corp distancing itself from Earth after the destruction wrought during the Lantern War. This is furthered by his infamy as a Well-Intentioned Extremist who will hunt down any alien he deems to be a threat to Earth (or even approaches Earth) with oftentimes lethal results.
- now that i can see your face (i can stand up to anything.): Shaggy's dad wanted to name his son after himself but Shaggy's mother didn't want to deal with the confusion caused by two "Kemal"'s. They instead named their son "Norville". Shaggy's middle name is "Kemal".
- In The Other Side (memoriaeterna), after a year of working together Peter Quill and Peter Parker are distinguished by calling themselves 'Big Peter' and 'Little Peter' when they're in the same place. Jane Foster recalls that they initially considered calling themselves 'Peter One' and 'Peter Two', but abandoned that idea as they couldn't agree on which of them should be Peter One.
- Invoked in the Arrowverse fic "Out of the Dark", when Barry Allen's first trip to Starling City sees him save Laurel Lance from jumping off a bridge before he is 'captured' by Diggle and Felicity to treat Oliver's recent poisoning. When Barry asks Team Arrow to look up the woman he saved, Oliver swiftly starts looking for Laurel rather than look for another woman in Starling City with that name, although this can be justified as him wanting to rule out the one he knows before he starts looking for someone else.
- Over the Rainbow has two characters named "Bud". An author's note clarifies that it's accidental and not of any plot relevance.
- In Padawan's Return, when Ahsoka Tano from the time of the Empire finds herself in the past during the events of The Phantom Menace, Plo Koon realises who she truly is due to his bond with her younger self. When Plo introduces the two Ahsokas to each other, the older Ahsoka quickly explains that her younger self can consider her a big sister to avoid the more complex details of their history. To avoid confusion, the older Ahsoka states that she will call her younger self "Ashla", a name meaning 'Light Side of the Force', although this will only be a nickname for the two of them.
- In Painted Blind, Riot's old bandmates can't remember if he once dated a girl named "Inga" or "Ingrid". Inga is Riot's Swedish ex-girlfriend, while Ingrid (better known as "Minx") is Riot's German bandmate and platonic friend.
- In The Prayer Warriors, two characters share the same name and are introduced within a short while of each other. William, protagonist of the Attack of the Sphinx story happens to share the same name as Prince William, who appears in The Titans Strike Back as a surviving member of the royal family and a villain; the author even puts a parenthetical note regarding the latter that says "please do not get him confused with William in my other story".
- Queens of Mewni have a number of examples:
- The most well known is Meteora, Eclipsa's canonical daughter with Globgor, and Eclipsa's grandmother Meteora the Relentless. This was invoked somewhat, Eclipsa wanted the name associated with the first mewman/monster hybrid as a way to rehabilitate the name.
- The other well known example is Etheria the Knight, and a distant descendant, Etheria, sister to Sky the Weaver.
- Other examples include two Solenas (one the Smitten Queen, the other a princess of Wyvern), and the family tree reveals two Crescentas and two Cosmicas.
- Directly defied in The Sabbat, featuring Jack Skellington being appointed as the latest Guardian of Childhood; North explicitly states "Jack is not being Jack" and has to clarify that he's referring to Skellington and Frost respectively.
- A Saga of Parallel Worlds has two characters named Vincent. Vincent Dawn is the Cinema Snob, and Vincent Price had sold his soul to the Devil for perfect vision of the future, and was Killed Off for Real as a result.
- Used in a very weird way in the Harry Potter fanfic Savior of Magic. In this story's timeline, Salazar Slytherin adopted a son and then named him... Salazar Slytherin. No reason is given as to why Slytherin gave his son his exact name. The Doylist reason is because the author wanted to make Harry the heir of Slytherin (having already made him the heir of Gryffindor) without having him be blood-related to Voldemort (Harry being descended from Salazar Senior's biological daughter).
- Averted in the Danny Phantom/Beetlejuice crossover Say It Thrice. In addition to the Dead Guy Junior with Henry sharing the same name as his paternal grandfather, there are two characters named "Adam" and two named "Roger": Adam Maitland and Roger Livingston in the present and the minor characters, Adam and Roger, from the flashback to The High Middle Ages.
- The names Rae and Raye sound the same in the Death Note fanfic "Second Chances," much to Raye Penber's displeasure. L originally invokes this trope by calling Raye R. Later in the story after Character Development causes L to stop dehumanizing his team members so much, he switches back to using Raye. As the relationship between Rae and L complicates further, though, L begins using Raye's full name, "like he has to remind himself he's not talking to his Rae."
- The Secret Return of Alex Mack plays with this.
- Charlie McGee's name change to "Shar" is partly to conceal her identity and partly to avoid confusion with Charlie O'Neill.
- Samantha Carter and Samantha Finn are both present, but haven't met each other.
- Some of the side stories add more (unrelated) O'Neills, Marie and Jordan.
- In The Secret Collocation of Alex Mack — a sequel to The Secret Return of Alex Mack — Alex Mack is reunited with her other-dimensional teammates from The League of Extraordinary Women, each of whom are accompanied by their 'local' version of Alex (along with a seventh version from the universe of The Dresden Files). Although all of them were born 'Alexandra Louise Mack', each of them has adopted a different nickname even before they met their counterparts; Alex is the 'original' who became Terawatt, Alexandra Mack had a bad experience with two Goa'uld symbiotes, Lexi Mack is a new Slayer, Aly Mack is a member of the OSI after a traumatic plane crash, Alee Mack is part of the Teen Titans while Catwoman is a strange kind of mentor for her, Alexan Mack is a Muggle-born American witch, and Alexa Mack is a magic-user in the Dresden-verse who was accidentally exposed to a process that enhanced her existing abilities considerably.
- The NCIS fanfic "Shards To a Whole" ran into this issue when writer Keryl Raist wrote recurring series character Abigail Borin, a Coast Guard agent, into the story as a love interest for Gibbs. Since the story centers around the growing relationship between Tim McGee and Abby Sciuto, Keryl decided to write Borin's first name as "Abbi" to differentiate her from "Abby".
- In the Star Wars Crack Fic, Sibling Revelry, the Imperial Agent that Vader sent to infiltrate the Rebellion to split up his children from each other uses the alias "Fred Antilles", and no one comments on how he shares surnames with Wedge.
- Last name variant in Sixes and Sevens: Michael is quick to point out that Dr. Erich Schmitt, the scientist he and Emily are to track down, bears no relation to Johann Schmidt of HYDRA.
- Snic nd the OSrailian resrant has an... interesting case of double subversion by making Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the restaurant, and even Sonic's self-named burger the same, singular entity.
- This gets enforced by the characters in Songs of the Spheres: although there are lots of Lunas, plenty of Pinkies, a League of Sweetie Belles, and an entire multiversal cabal of Twilight Sparkles, they've all taken to giving themselves nicknames to differentiate from one another. Twilights being Twilights, they get their bureaucracy to give them short-form designations instead. (It probably makes filling out forms more convenient.)
- Features in at least one scene in "Spider-Who?", a Marvel Cinematic Universe fic that sees Spider-Man/Peter Parker meet Mary Jane Watson after the events of Spider-Man: Homecoming; at one point he runs past Michelle Jones yelling "So sorry MJ! I've gotta go meet MJ!"
- This issue plays a part in Splinter, when Angel Investigations arrive in a world where they initially assume Angel's counterpart has lost his soul, leading the team to refer to the alternate as 'Angelus' even after they establish that the alternate still has his soul and is only resorting to these extreme measures to try and protect his reality.
- Sunset of Time, the main antagonist shares her name with another character, but that character is featured prominently in the story, so the antagonist goes by an alias, "Vesper Radiance".
- Sunset's Isekai: Averted. As the story connects to many different universes, it is entirely possible for more than one of the same person to be present in the Isekai at the same time. Sunset has met other versions of herself enough times to ask to be called “Isekai” when there is more than one of her present at a time.
- Tales of the Emperasque averts it: while there are two people with name Vulkan—the Primarch Vulkan and Vulkan He'stan—after the former has a Double Take upon hearing latter's the name, they settle on calling the other one He'stan and narration does so as well.
- A Thing of Vikings:
- Two major villains and one neutral (for now) ruler are all named Henry: Henry, King of Francia, Sir Henry the Sinister, and Emperor Henry the Black of the Holy Roman Empire.
- Two villains are named Michael, the Byzantine Emperor Michael V and the priest Father Michael Henriksson.
- There are two characters named Magnus, though they're spelled slightly differently: Magnus the Good, King of Norway, and Maghnus, freed slave.
- Wulfhild's (deceased) mother having the same name as Astrid causes some confusion, but it's mitigated since she never actually appears.
- Both Esther's mother and her former sister-in-law are named Rivkah.
- Hiccup's daughter Valka is named after her grandmother, who unbeknownst to everyone is still alive.
- Sophia's father Alexios Makris has the same name as Sigurd's military advisor, Alexios Arianites.
- This Bites!: Averted with MI5 member Lieutenant Commander Drake and X. Drake the Supernova.
- Also Leo (or Leonardo) of the TDWS and Leo the Tontatta from the Dressrosa Saga.
- Boss and Boss Kabuto as well. The latter's name was simply Boss before the popularity of the SBS.
- Played with in Time Fixers: Nicktoons of the Future where Jimmy briefly considers naming his son after Thomas Edison, only to suddenly remember that it is already Tommy's first name.
- In "TMNT Turtles together and forever", when the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles of the 2012 series end up in the reality of the 2003 series, the 2012 Turtles are referred to in-writing by their nicknames to acknowledge that they're the younger Turtles, with April and Casey's counterparts being identified as 'Elder' and 'Young' respectively as they don't have nicknames.
- The author of Trickshot gave this as a reason for not including canon character Lisa Turpin along with an OC named Lisa, stating that "one Lisa is enough".
- True Potential: Chapter 77 lampshades that there are two characters named Fū. The first Omake of Chapter 85 has Naruto and his friends trying to find a way to avoid confusing one with the other.
- Ultra Fast Pony has a main character named Twilight, and an occasionally recurring character named Blue Twilight. The names highlight the fact that these are foils for each other. (UFP is an abridged series, and in the original, unabridged canon, Blue Twilight was named Trixie.) A later episode introduces Yellow Twilight — she's the Author Avatar of an Ascended Fangirl who wrote herself into the series as Blue Twilight's twin sister.
- Averted in Unity, as Mr Incredible and 'Benzoate Ostylezene Bicarbonate' meet, with the Monsters observing the challenges of both individuals being known as 'Bob' with no clear way to distinguish one from the other when calling them by name.
- Averted on a large scale in The Victors Project, to the point that the sheer number of examples in the fic series warrant their own page.
- The Wedding Crashers has both Sam Winchester and Sam Uley appear. Nearly everyone at Renesmee's wedding assumes that Leah brought the former as one of her guests solely as some sort of convoluted revenge scheme against the latter, even though she and Uley broke up years ago and she's long since gotten over it.
- In What About Witch Queen?, the eleven-years-old heiress to the Southern Isles is also named Anna, which leads to Hans freaking out for a moment when he thinks Anna of Arendelle arrived in his home. There's also Admiral Klaus Hauser, who shares his name with Hans' late father.
- With Pearl and Ruby Glowing, being a Massive Multiplayer Crossover fic, averts this since characters from different media with the same first name tend to coexist. However, the series focuses on a rape support group where everyone uses codenames instead of real names, which helps to keep track of who's who.
- In XSGCOM, Jack O'Neill succeeds in getting Cronus's captured Ha'tak named Enterprise. The ship's new captain, Colonel Steven Caldwell, isn't happy, especially since his bald spot results in him being called "Jean-Luc" by the crew (Jack suggests he get a toupee and make out with Anise the Tok'ra to get a new nickname). Unexpectedly, the authorities actually like the name. This way, if anyone unauthorized ends up hearing someone talk about a ship named Enterprise, they'll assume the conversation is about the aircraft carrier. When the second captured Ha'tak (the one with Jaffa ninjas) is given to the Russians, they follow suit and name it Admiral Kuznetsov after their own carrier.
- Yamujiburo: Butch and Cassidy's daughter is named "Bonnie". This is also the name of Clemont's younger sister.
- The main character of Yokai Watch Re! is named Katie. There's also a more minor character named Katherine.
- This is done in the historical Hellsing fic, A Young Vampire's Everyday Life.. In the usual Roman fashion, the main character and both of her sisters are named Julia while her brother and father are both named Gaius. Even characters long dead are not safe from being mixed up with their contemporaries as Lucius Junius Brutus (who overthrew Tarquin the Proud at the end of the old Roman Kingdom) appears just one scene after his descendant Brutus the Elder with both being referred to by that one name.
- Subverted in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series, where Marik's Millennium Rod can only control people whose names are, of course, Steve. Given that Marik controls a bunch of one-shot characters with it, the series ends up with a lot of Steves.
- It is revealed that only one of their names has to be Steve; "Steve" Arcana, Steve Jobs, and Keith Steve Howard (Bandit Keith) are all under his control at some point. Later, he mind controls Joey and Téa by tricking them into legally changing their names to Steve.
- At a convention, LK explained the background of the entire gag, mentioning that in his version, "Steve" has pretty much become another word for "henchman".
