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(#14) Wolverine
- X-Men: First Class, Superhero Movie, Hulk Vs, X-Men Origins: Wolverine, X-Men: Days of Future Past, The Wolverine, X-Men, X-Men: The Last Stand, X2, Marvel Universe
Fans of Marvel Comics can be forgiven if they didn’t know Wolverine’s real name, because for most of his existence, neither did he! When he first joined up with the X-Men, Wolverine went by Logan with no hint of a surname, and it eventually came to be known that “Logan” was just a nickname he adopted after losing most of his century's worth of memories.
When his true backstory was finally told in the Origin miniseries, so, too, was his birth name. Wolverine was born at the end of the 19th century in Canada as James Howlett, though the tragedy that followed soon inspired him to give up that identity altogether. Having regained his memory in recent years, Wolverine has been slow to accept this past life - though a few select X-teammates now regularly refer to him as James.
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(#4) Sonic the Hedgehog
- Sonic Underground, Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic X, Wreck-It Ralph, Sonic the Hedgehog: The Movie, Sonic Team's Sonic the Hedgehog Universe, SEGA Universe, TMS Entertainment's Sonic X Universe, Archie Comics' Sonic the Hedgehog Universe, Sonic the Hedgehog, Mobius
Sonic the Hedgehog is one of the most recognizable protagonists in all of video games, and his name is a rather self-descriptive one - he is, after all, a hedgehog who travels at sonic speeds. As it turns out, however, "Sonic" is not the moniker he was born with.
A series of Sonic the Hedgehog adventures published by Archie Comics revealed that Sonic considers his real name embarrassing. His friends were able to discover, via a relative, that the middle portion is "Maurice," but his true first name remains hidden to this day. According to the writer of that series, Ken Penders, it was going to be "Ogilvie."
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(#11) Shaggy Rogers
- Scooby-Doo! Mystery, Inc., What's New, Scooby-Doo?, Chill Out, Scooby-Doo!, Scooby-Doo! in Where's My Mummy?, Scooby-Doo! Abracadabra-Doo, Scooby-Doo! Mask of the Blue Falcon, Scooby-Doo, Scooby-Doo 2: Monsters Unleashed, Scooby-Doo! Camp Scare, Scooby-Doo! Legend of the Phantosaur, Scooby-Doo and the Cyber Chase, Looney Tunes: Back in Action, Scooby-Doo and the Goblin King, Scooby-Doo! and the Samurai Sword, Scooby-Doo! and the Legend of the Vampire, Scooby-Doo! Pirates Ahoy!, Scooby-Doo! The Mystery Begins, Scooby-Doo! Curse of the Lake Monster
Shaggy has been on the air alongside the rest of the Mystery Machine crew since 1969, but his real name didn’t end up being revealed until a 1988 episode of A Pup Named Scooby-Doo - nearly two decades later. Shaggy, as it turns out, was born Norville Rogers, the son of a police officer and descendent of several ancestral Rogerses with various Shag-related nicknames.
As if that wasn’t a shocking enough revelation, it has since come to light that "Scooby-Doo" is a quite literal pet name, too. The Great Dane is more properly known as Scoobert Doo.
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(#13) ALF
Savvy television viewers have long known that "ALF" was just an acronymized nickname, short for Alien Life Form. Why the Tanner family needed to create a new name for the creature that joined their family is a bit of a mystery, however, because ALF already had a surprisingly regular name when he came to Earth: Gordon Shumway.
Gordon’s home world of Melmac either picked up some information from earthly radio broadcasts or experienced impossibly parallel cultural development because their society mirrors that of Earth in many ways - not the least of which is naming conventions. ALF’s parents are named Bob and Flo Shumway, and he’s got two younger siblings named Curtis and Augie.
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(#6) The Wonderful Wizard of Oz
The big twist in The Wizard of Oz is that the eponymous character is not, in fact, a wizard, but instead a particularly talented con artist from Kansas. But that doesn’t mean his real name is any less fantastical: Oscar Zoroaster Phadrig Isaac Norman Henkle Emmanuel Ambroise Diggs.
That lengthy moniker goes all the way back to L. Frank Baum's original stories, but Oscar Diggs's backstory has only rarely been explored - as it was in the 2013 film Oz the Great and Powerful.
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(#9) Pepper Potts
- Iron Man: Armored Adventures, Iron Man 3, The Invincible Iron Man, The Avengers, Iron Man, Iron Man 2, Marvel Universe
Few CEOs of multibillion-dollar corporations are known by a nickname, but Pepper Potts is an exception to the rule. Whether it's in the pages of Marvel Comics or the Marvel Cinematic Universe, Pepper is only rarely referred to by her real name of Virginia. "Pepper," as it turns out, was a childhood nickname based on her red hair and freckles.
And, apparently, Tony Stark makes a habit of hiring the permanently nicknamed. In addition to Pepper, there's also Harold "Happy" Hogan to consider - with Happy being an ironic moniker from his professional wrestling days due to his frequent grumpy behavior.
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A name is the name of a person, product, or object in a broad or narrow sense. There are also nicknames, aliases, nicknames, and baby names. Names in the broad sense include the surnames and first names of citizens and the names of legal and non-legal persons; names in the narrow sense refer only to the surnames and first names of citizens. As a combination of name and character.
Name is an important representative of a person, but also to send a good implication. Cartoon characters also have many names, some funny, some appropriate, some lovely, some warm. The random generator tool collates 18 items, collecting characters from cartoons whose real names you may never know. If you’re like Goofy, Cookie Monster, Sonic the Hedgehog, Thanos, Minnie Mouse, and so on, you probably don’t know their real names.
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