Significant Anagram / Western Animation

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• In Gargoyles, an evil clone named Thailog was made of the hero Goliath. Thailog is also a phonetic reversal of Goliath.
• In the Thunder Cats episode "The Mask of Gorgon", Lynx-O has a bizarre prophetic vision about "the Hills of Elfshima". Just as our heroes realize "Elfshima" is an anagram of "I am flesh", Mumm-ra uses the titular mask, in combination with a stolen Sword of Omens, on the Hills, revealing them to be the petrified body of a powerful giant.
• In the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2003) episode "The Darkness Within", the turtles run into an old man, C.F. Volpehart—an anagram of H. P. Lovecraft. Not coincidentally, the antagonist for the episode is a Cthulhu-like creature.
• The Alucard one gets reused for a bit in The Batman vs. Dracula.
• The Simpsons:
  • In "Homer's Night Out", at the Rusty Barnacle seafood restaurant, a bored Bart rearranges the sign advertising "Cod Platter" to "Cold Pet Rat".
  • In "Lisa's Rival", Allison Taylor and her father play a game of this trope with real people's names and contexts. Allison manages to turn Alec Guinness into "Genuine Class". Lisa doesn't do so well, turning Jeremy Irons into "Jeremy's Iron".
  • In "Don't Fear the Roofer", Homer befriends a man named Ray Magini (played by Ray Romano); the other Simpsons become convinced that he's an imaginary friend created by a lonely Homer, with Lisa even pointing out the anagram, causing Homer to remark "Wow, my subconscious is a genius." Subverted when it turns out that Ray is real, but was never seen thanks to a "series of unlikely events".
  • Bart (Brat) Simpson. This was referenced in "There's No Disgrace Like Home", where Mr. Burns misreads Bart's name as "Brat" at a company picnic. Bart tries to correct him.
    Homer: Don't correct the man, Brat!
  • Parodied in the episode "Jaws Wired Shut" where Lisa was at the movies and had to solve an anagram before the film. The letters were MOT HANKS and Lisa said it was insulting to the audience's intelligence... until Apu pointed out that the answer was the (fictional) Indian actor Otm Shank, "India's answer to Brian Dennehy".
  • In "Funeral for a Fiend", the Simpsons go to a restaurant called "Wes Doobner's World Famous Family Style Rib Huts", only to find out it's actually a trap by Sideshow Bob. Lisa points out that the phrase is an anagram, and Bob shuffles the letters to spell "Sideshow Bob's World Famous Family Style Return".
• Hawkgirl's Thangarian fiance in Justice League turns out to be a villain, so he couldn't be Katar "Hawkman" Hol. Instead, he's Hro Talak. And then the real Katar Hol showed up a couple seasons later in Justice League Unlimited anyway. Or did he? It was kind of unclear.
• In King of the Hill, the family's obnoxious neighbor Kahn's name is an anagram of Hank, which he lampshaded in the last (produced) episode, "Just Another Manic Kahn-Day".
• The titular Sorcerer from the classic Disney short The Sorcerer's Apprentice in Fantasia was designed after Walt Disney's likeness as a joke by the animators. The Sorcerer's canon name is "Yen Sid," and in the Kingdom Hearts video game series he plays the role of an ancient, all-knowing sage, making him somewhat of an in-universe avatar of Walt Disney.
• In one episode of The Savage Dragon, Overlord is operating out of an office building under the alias of Old Rover.
• A complicated version in the 1973/74 Super Friends episode "The Fantastic FRERPS". When King Plasto tricks the G.R.E.P.S. delivery people into giving him their shipments of plastic, he signs the receipts he gives them "Roy La Post". Marvin accidentally comes up with the term "King Plasto", and Batman puts the pieces together. The "Roy" in "Roy La Post" is based on the French word "Roi", which means "king". Thus "Roy La Post" -> "Roi La Post" -> "King La Post" -> "King Plasto"!
• In Phineas and Ferb Christmas Vacation!, Dr. Doofenshmirtz realizes the whole episode was a Batman Gambit by Santa Claus to make everyone's Christmas wishes come true (including Doof's desire to have a reason to hate Christmas) when he sees the remains of the CD Perry the Platypus got for Secret Santa, A Sal Tuscany Christmas, and notices "Sal Tuscany" is an anagram of Santa Claus "with an embarrassing left-over 'Y'."
• In the Futurama episode "A Clockwork Origin", the Planet Express crew meet a "robot naturalist" named "Dr. Widnar", who has evolved from nanobots the Professor introduced on a barren planet just days earlier.
• In the Timon & Pumbaa episode, "Kenya Be My Friend?", Timon and Pumbaa get into a feud and briefly try to make friends with each other's polar opposites, Monti and Baampu, whose names are anagrams of theirs. Monti and Bampuu resemble recolored versions of Timon and Pumbaa as well.
• In The Spectacular Spider-Man, Rhino's name when he was a regular crook was O'hirn.
• Beware the Batman sees a character named Dane Lisslow, who turned out to be Slade Wilson.
• In The Epic Tales of Captain Underpants, this is a clue to the true identity of the superintendent. Rearrange his name (Vil Endenemys, which doubles as a Meaningful/Punny Name), and you get "Melvin Sneedly".
• Both the 2000 and 2019 Animated Adaptation versions of Clifford the Big Red Dog are set on Birdwell Island, "Birdwell" being a simple and obvious anagram of the last name of Clifford creator Norman Bridwell.
• In the original pilot for The Dreamstone, the villain Zordrak was named "Nasta Shelfim", which spells "Satan Himself" when the letters are rearranged. This name was changed in the actual show out of fear of ticking off Moral Guardians.
• Danger Mouse is stumped doing a Crossword Puzzle, so Penfold (actually a robot duplicate planted by Dr. Crumhorn) helps.
  Penfold: What's the clue?
  DM: Overgrown, confused, having lost its way initially but ends up taking charge.
  Penfold: How many letters?
  DM: Eight.
  Penfold: "Governor."
  DM: What?
  Penfold: "Governor." An anagram of "overgrown" without the W which lost its way initially. First letter in "way." You see?

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