Famous Scousers' REAL names revealed: Declan MacManus, Maurice Cole and Frederick Fowell - Liverpool Echo Famous Scousers' REAL names revealed: Declan MacManus, Maurice Cole and Frederick Fowell The ECHO reveals the famous Liverpudlians who have changed their names Share Get daily updates directly to your inbox + Subscribe Thank you for subscribing! Could not subscribe, try again laterInvalid Email Declan MacManus, Maurice Cole and Frederick Fowell may not sound familiar, but these are the birth names of three Liverpool celebrities. Here, the ECHO reveals eight famous Scousers who have changed their names - and some of the reasons may surprise you. Cilla Black = Priscilla Maria Veronica White Cilla Black Priscilla Maria Veronica White began her career as a cloakroom attendant at Liverpool’s Cavern Club, and quickly rose to stardom, known locally as “Swinging Cilla”. She was mistakenly referred to as Cilla Black in an article in the music newspaper Mersey Beat - a name she liked so much she chose to keep it as her stage name.

Elvis Costello = Declan Patrick MacManus Elvis Costello In Conversation with Mark Billingham at The Royal Court Theatre in Liverpool (Photo: David Munn) Costello was born Declan Patrick MacManus and performed under the stage name D.P.Costello as a tribute to his father, a jazz trumpeter who went by the name of Day Costello. His manager later suggested a name change, combining Elvis Presley’s first name and Costello, his father’s stage name. Kenny Everett = Maurice James Christopher Cole Kenny Everett Comedian, radio DJ and TV entertainer Kenny Everett was born in Seaforth as Maurice James Christopher Cole. To avoid legal problems while working at pirate radio station Radio London, he was advised to change his name. The name Everett came from his childhood hero, American film star Edward Everett Horton. Ringo Starr = Richard Starkey Ringo Starr (Photo by Chris Pizzello/Invision/AP) The Beatles singer was born Richard Starkey and adopted his stage name after joining the group Al Caldwell’s Texans at the age of 19. The name was partly influenced by the rings he wore and also because it implied a country and western influence.

Starr, a shortened version of his last name, stuck after he began billing his drum solos as “Starr Time”. Billy Fury = Ronald Wycherley Billy Fury British pop singer 1967 The legendary singer was born on Smithdown Road as Ronald Wycherley. At the age of 18, his manager Larry Parnes said that no one called Ronald Wycherley would become a rock star. Parnes renamed him Billy after band leader Billy Cotton, and Fury to compensate for his shyness. Les Dennis = Leslie Heseltine Les Dennis in Jigsy at Royal Court Liverpool (Photo: Steve Ullathorne) The TV presenter, actor and comedian was born in Garston under the name Leslie Heseltine. The young comedian had his first gig at Norris Green Social Club at the age of 17. His name was written as Les Dennis on the board because “Lesley Heseltine” was deemed a waste of chalk. Though his bank details are in the name of Les Dennis, his passport still says Leslie Heseltine.

Michael Holliday = Norman Alexander Milne Singer Michael Holliday poses wearing check shirt in November 1957 Kirkdale-born Norman Alexander Milne took his mother’s maiden name as his stage name after leaving the Merchant Navy. His fake name Holliday was said to go with his fake American singing and speaking voice. He was famous in the 1950s and 60s. Frankie Vaughan = Frankie Abelson Singer Frankie Vaughan with Marilyn Monroe pictured at her 20th Centruy Fox Cocktail Party 20 April 1960 The pop easylistening singer was born on Devon Street in Liverpool as Frankie Abelson. His grandmother, a Russian Jew, used to tell him he was her ‘number one’ grandson - but with her pronunciation of ‘one’ sounding like ‘Vaughan’ Frankie adopted this as his stage name. Like us on Facebook How Maurice Cole re-invented the rocker line and changed surfing. - Maurice Cole Home / Talk / How Maurice Cole re-invented the rocker line and changed surfing. How Maurice Cole re-invented the rocker line and changed surfing. 07.05.13 By Nick Carroll It was a wild time…a time not unlike right now.

Late 1991. The surf industry was battling recession. Pro surfing looked wobbly. No-one knew what was coming next. Then Tom Curren, the quiet man who’d done the impossible and gone from trials to a third world title the year before, stepped on to the sands of Haleiwa in Hawaii with a sleek yellow-railed gun. In a couple of days time, he’d have demolished the finest surfers of his generation, again, this time to win his one and only Hawaiian title at the spot where he learned to surf. But at that moment, nobody’s mind was on the coming performance. All anyone knew was that Curren’s board had no sponsor logos. Tom’s naked board was seen as a statement … of something, no-one was quite sure what. The death of corpo-surfing? The great champ turned rebel to fit the times? Truth was, Curren had just forgotten to bring the decals. He’d forgotten almost everything that day, according to Maurice Cole, who’d flown with Tom from France, and suddenly that morning found himself drafted to head back to the Kuilima condos at the other end of the North Shore to pick up the 7’3” Tom had left behind.

“I’m not a wallflower, but I’ve never driven that fast in my life,” Maurice says. “Wrong side of the road, on the dirt, everything. I had an hour through contest traffic to get there and back. I made it in 40 minutes.” Tom waxed up and went out in his heat and started winning. Tom used the 7’9” on the bigger days at Haleiwa to blow away the opposition with some of his finest and most flexible moves. The MC/TC collaboration arose two years before, following a surf at La Graviere, Hossegor, France. It was six foot plus, dredging and spitting on to La Graviere’s bent-backward sandbar. Maurice was on a 6’8”, getting pitted out of his mind, thinking this was the sort of day that made his move from Australia several years before seem like the smartest thing he’d ever done. Tom paddled out on a 6’1” and – unusually for him – struggled to get on top of the conditions.

Later in the parking lot, he shuffled up and said in his typical hesitant style: “Err, Maurice … I was wondering … ahhh … could you make me a shaped blank? … just the shape would be great. If you can.” “Well Tom, I have a whole surfboard factory, I can make an actual board for you.” “Err … OK … what were you riding out there?” “6’8”.” “OK then, can I get a 6’9”?” Out of this sort of collision comes great surfboard design. You can’t plan it. Nobody ever has. Says Maurice, “It was a guy who liked surfing and a guy who liked making boards.” MC went back to the shaping bay and ripped a 6’9” out of a blank, without really even looking at it. Later he realised it was asymmetrical, different rails, the whole nine yards. This was the board that Tom took to Bells Beach and Santa Cruz in February and March 1990 and won both events from the first trials round, basically smashing the opposition before they’d known he was back.

The 1991 Hawaiian season and Tom Curren’s performances on that yellow-railed quiver reinforced Maurice’s reputation as a “surfer’s shaper” – someone who could make a board that a top surfer hadn’t even known he’d needed. They started beating a path to his door. All this was happening because of an idea – a way of thinking about surfboards whose time was only just coming. At a time when most designers were engaging in a measurement revolution – carefully noting each 1/16th of an inch off every half-inch of rail length, trying to do what the CAD cutter machines would soon be doing for them — Maurice shaped directly from gut feel and a kind of certainty formed from his own experiences as a surfer. In the 1970s as a champion Victorian surfer, he’d grown close to travelling Hawaiian pro Dane Kealoha and got into riding the forward-trimming semi fish twin-fins that Dane used to blow away the opposition in a wide range of surf.

The feel of those boards, tilted forward in the barrel and super fast down the line, gave him a deep feel for one of modern board design’s great key concepts: the difference in rocker curve between the rail and the centre stringer line. Mostly this difference is expressed in terms like “vee” and “concave”, but truth is, these are pretty static terms to describe what occurs through the full length of a surfboard, as those rocker lines diverge then draw back together. What looks like concave when viewed across the board from rail to rail, for instance, may when viewed at an angle, suddenly appear to be flat, or even veed. A straight line from one angle is a curve from another. MC’s design instincts told him that a surfboard’s dynamism resulted from how and where the changes in these rail and stringer rocker lines were created and resolved. That instinct was perfectly reflected in the birth of reverse vee, or forward vee as some took to calling it – a design that flipped the old idea of vee on its head, applying it through the first two thirds of a board then dropping it out through the tail where it was supposed to reside, replacing it with tail lift.

Maurice wasn’t even sure why it worked – wasn’t tail lift supposed to slow a board? Then he realised the change in relationship between rail and stringer meant the board now had a straighter rail line, meaning it flew in rail turns, while the lifted tail worked both as a water release and a perfect lever for short-arc turns. The whole thing felt so smooth, and it converted perfectly to guns; see Tom’s Haleiwa win and Backdoor cutback for examples. Maurice struggled to name his reinvention of the rocker line till one night at the old D’Amico’s Pizza place at Sunset Beach, where he bumped into legendary shaper-sander Charlie Walker. “EEV,” Charlie told him. “Vee back to front. Get it!” There weren’t too many pros who left France in 1992 or ’93 without a couple of world-beating MCs in their board bags.

This was now a part of the ritual for surfers from Occy and Curren to the rising new school wonderboys Rob Machado, Shane Dorian, Shane Powell, and a little later Kelly Slater; hanging at Maurice’s on those amazing late summer Hossegor days, talking life and design, surfing the epic beachbreaks, making boards, far from home yet totally at home. EEV led directly to its seeming opposite, the radical concaves that MC began tearing into boards in 1995. Again it was a change in the relationship between rail and stringer line, this time transferring turning curve to the rail and straight line drive to the space between and just up from the fins. The 1996 quivers were legendary; a 6’0” version turned Slater’s year around, getting him back to back wins in Hossegor and Biarritz and re-setting his title goals. But by then the Hossegor days were drawing to a close. Soon Maurice would be off to Margaret River, Australia, laying a design foundation beneath the feet of another super rookie named Taj Burrow, and designing the fastest towboards on the planet for Ross Clarke-Jones.

And those great boards were scattered: Tom’s magic ’91 quiver somewhere in South Africa after his epochal first J-Bay sessions; the first EEV (a slippery little 6’4”) somewhere in the back shed; Machado’s magic 6’3” somewhere in California. Fortunately they were around long enough for Maurice to measure up and take detailed notes in his shaper’s book – a kind of paper version of the computer. That’s what allows him to reproduce this classic line of surfcraft in the modern context – boards born in a wild time, a time not unlike today, when no-one knew what was coming next. Maurice’s epic key design lines, including the original EEV models, Pro-Tow and Metro 3 superconcaves, are now available through …lost Surfboards in the USA. Share MAURICE COLE Search for: MAURICE COLE Maurice Cole is one of an increasingly rare breed: a genuine Australian original. Through 40-plus years of surfing, shaping and theorizing he’s developed an entirely unique take on the sport of surfing and the craft we use to perform it. 20 QUESTIONS WITH MAURICE COLE 1.

39 years of not havin a real job! 2. How many boards have you made in that time? between 27 > 15,127……memory used to be better! 3. What idea rises above all others when you re shaping / designing a board? FIG JAM! What s the golden rule of shaping (for you)? ……SHAPE IT,SURF IT,AND BETTER IT 5. Describe your signature model at the moment? METRO,DEEP CONCAVE ,FASTEST BOARD ON THE PLANET.EASY PADDLING,HIGH SPEED TURNS THAT MAKE YA TREMBLE! 6. What s your local break? bELLS/WINKI What s your inspiration for making the boards you make? TOW SURFING,TESTING DESIGNS AND MATERIALS AT TWICE THE SPEED…MY FORMULA 1……. 8. Have you ever thought about doing something else? YES AND I REALISE THERES NOT MUCH ELSE I CAN DO EXCEPT SURF AND DESIGN. 9. When was your last holiday? …DON’T HAVE EM, Your most memorable manoeuvre and where was it? BOTTOM TURN HACK OFF THE TOP AT….7K BAY! 15.

Do you recall the best board you ever made and what happened to it? HAVE HAD NUMEROUS…..EGES LOST ONE AT PRINCETOWN,BROWNY BURNT MY DANE K TWINNIE…BUT I STILL HAVE MY 20 YEAR OLD FRANCE TUBERIDR..THE MOST TUBED BOARD IN HISTORY! 16. How do you feel about the shift to Asian manufacturing by the larger players in the surfboard industry? INEVITABLE,AND HAS SHAKEN UP OUR INDUSTRY,BUT KILLED OFF THE NEXT GENERATION OF S/BD WORKERS… 17. Where would you like to be in 10 years? …SURFING,DESIGNING ,SHAPING…..WITH THE ODD VISIT TO THE SURGEON TO KEEP THE BODILY PARTS STILL FUNCTIONING. 18. How do you feel about the professional surfing world tour? ….ITS ALL A BIT RETRO AND BORING…NO NEW S/BD DESIGNS IN 10 YEARS,NO TIME TO TEST….BUT SOME GREAT SURFING STILL GOING ON 19. What time do you go to bed?

……MIDNITE And what time do you get up? …6.00AM Maurice Cole - Works | Archive of Our Own Maurice Cole Explicit Sexual Content Summary Life's rough when you're a werewolf. Ciel Phantomhive has it tougher than most as the runt of the pack. Having an insane vampire stalker and ever-growing number of dead packmates doesn't help either. Language: Pansexual Character Summary Time travel is a common theme in many historical fan fictions. Why wouldn’t it be? Many people arguably want to experience parts of the past whether it is the late 1990s, the Sengoku period, or even the mid to late Victorian Era. After all, in each one of these settings, there have been thrilling tales of monsters, faith, and possible romance with really intriguing characters that are difficult to find today. It’s even better when we get to see some of our favorite and most complex characters interact in crossovers, just to see what they might do, whether it is solve a mystery, battle to the death, or even just converse over hilarious or morally ambiguous topics.

In the first part of this tale, travel to the Victorian Era with time travelers from the year 2549, where Earth and all we know is ancient history, and in some ways, literal ashes. How will these travelers cope with not only the past, but near-extinct social concepts such as sexism and racism, the supernatural including demons and reapers, and the most horrible of all, no plumbing? Better yet, how will they preserve the past so that humanity will survive what is to come? This is The Beginning of the End Series Talk - Maurice Cole Surfboards Talk Korduroy.tv Feature 25.03.15 The guys over at Korduroy.tv have done a great little feature on my shaping history and philosophy for their series ‘Local Legendz’. Worth a look with your morning cuppa. Check it out over here.

Share <a href=""> Share MC TALKS ABOUT THE FIRST BOARD FOR CURREN 27.03.14 MC AT THE LOST SPRING FLING 27.03.14 Buggs Crew makes it to the Spring Fling to witness the Launch of Maurice Coles latest and greatest on “What was is, and What is was” sponsored and managed by Matt Biolos. Stoked to share the stoke – Buggs. Say no more dear reader. The LOST spring fling happened: Share A LOST X MAURICE COLE JOINT 27.03.14 STAB mag has been pumping up our tyres on my exciting new LOST partnership. Many thanks guys. Read the full article here: Share Stoked to be profiled on Patagonia’s website here: Share LOST Hipster T Review is a GO 26.03.14 Check it out the full review here: Share Some Tom Curren brilliance here, with a mention of the MC EEV: Share How Maurice Cole re-invented the rocker line and changed surfing.

07.05.13 By Nick Carroll It was a wild time…a time not unlike right now. Late 1991. The surf industry was battling recession. Pro surfing looked wobbly. No-one knew what was coming next. Then Tom Curren, the quiet man who’d done the impossible and gone from trials to a third world title the year before, stepped on to the sands of Haleiwa in Hawaii with a sleek yellow-railed gun. In a couple of days time, he’d have demolished the finest surfers of his generation, again, this time to win his one and only Hawaiian title at the spot where he learned to surf. But at that moment, nobody’s mind was on the coming performance. All anyone knew was that Curren’s board had no sponsor logos. Tom’s naked board was seen as a statement … of something, no-one was quite sure what. The death of corpo-surfing? The great champ turned rebel to fit the times? Truth was, Curren had just forgotten to bring the decals.

He’d forgotten almost everything that day, according to Maurice Cole, who’d flown with Tom from France, and suddenly that morning found himself drafted to head back to the Kuilima condos at the other end of the North Shore to pick up the 7’3” Tom had left behind. “I’m not a wallflower, but I’ve never driven that fast in my life,” Maurice says. “Wrong side of the road, on the dirt, everything. I had an hour through contest traffic to get there and back. I made it in 40 minutes.” Tom waxed up and went out in his heat and started winning. Tom used the 7’9” on the bigger days at Haleiwa to blow away the opposition with some of his finest and most flexible moves. The MC/TC collaboration arose two years before, following a surf at La Graviere, Hossegor, France. It was six foot plus, dredging and spitting on to La Graviere’s bent-backward sandbar. Maurice was on a 6’8”, getting pitted out of his mind, thinking this was the sort of day that made his move from Australia several years before seem like the smartest thing he’d ever done.

Tom paddled out on a 6’1” and – unusually for him – struggled to get on top of the conditions. Later in the parking lot, he shuffled up and said in his typical hesitant style: “Err, Maurice … I was wondering … ahhh … could you make me a shaped blank? … just the shape would be great. If you can.” “Well Tom, I have a whole surfboard factory, I can make an actual board for you.” “Err … OK … what were you riding out there?” “6’8”.” “OK then, can I get a 6’9”?” Out of this sort of collision comes great surfboard design. You can’t plan it. Nobody ever has. Says Maurice, “It was a guy who liked surfing and a guy who liked making boards.” MC went back to the shaping bay and ripped a 6’9” out of a blank, without really even looking at it. Later he realised it was asymmetrical, different rails, the whole nine yards.

This was the board that Tom took to Bells Beach and Santa Cruz in February and March 1990 and won both events from the first trials round, basically smashing the opposition before they’d known he was back. The 1991 Hawaiian season and Tom Curren’s performances on that yellow-railed quiver reinforced Maurice’s reputation as a “surfer’s shaper” – someone who could make a board that a top surfer hadn’t even known he’d needed. They started beating a path to his door. All this was happening because of an idea – a way of thinking about surfboards whose time was only just coming. At a time when most designers were engaging in a measurement revolution – carefully noting each 1/16th of an inch off every half-inch of rail length, trying to do what the CAD cutter machines would soon be doing for them — Maurice shaped directly from gut feel and a kind of certainty formed from his own experiences as a surfer. In the 1970s as a champion Victorian surfer, he’d grown close to travelling Hawaiian pro Dane Kealoha and got into riding the forward-trimming semi fish twin-fins that Dane used to blow away the opposition in a wide range of surf.

The feel of those boards, tilted forward in the barrel and super fast down the line, gave him a deep feel for one of modern board design’s great key concepts: the difference in rocker curve between the rail and the centre stringer line. Mostly this difference is expressed in terms like “vee” and “concave”, but truth is, these are pretty static terms to describe what occurs through the full length of a surfboard, as those rocker lines diverge then draw back together. What looks like concave when viewed across the board from rail to rail, for instance, may when viewed at an angle, suddenly appear to be flat, or even veed. A straight line from one angle is a curve from another. MC’s design instincts told him that a surfboard’s dynamism resulted from how and where the changes in these rail and stringer rocker lines were created and resolved. That instinct was perfectly reflected in the birth of reverse vee, or forward vee as some took to calling it – a design that flipped the old idea of vee on its head, applying it through the first two thirds of a board then dropping it out through the tail where it was supposed to reside, replacing it with tail lift.

Maurice wasn’t even sure why it worked – wasn’t tail lift supposed to slow a board? Then he realised the change in relationship between rail and stringer meant the board now had a straighter rail line, meaning it flew in rail turns, while the lifted tail worked both as a water release and a perfect lever for short-arc turns. The whole thing felt so smooth, and it converted perfectly to guns; see Tom’s Haleiwa win and Backdoor cutback for examples. Maurice struggled to name his reinvention of the rocker line till one night at the old D’Amico’s Pizza place at Sunset Beach, where he bumped into legendary shaper-sander Charlie Walker. “EEV,” Charlie told him. “Vee back to front. Get it!” There weren’t too many pros who left France in 1992 or ’93 without a couple of world-beating MCs in their board bags.

This was now a part of the ritual for surfers from Occy and Curren to the rising new school wonderboys Rob Machado, Shane Dorian, Shane Powell, and a little later Kelly Slater; hanging at Maurice’s on those amazing late summer Hossegor days, talking life and design, surfing the epic beachbreaks, making boards, far from home yet totally at home. EEV led directly to its seeming opposite, the radical concaves that MC began tearing into boards in 1995. Again it was a change in the relationship between rail and stringer line, this time transferring turning curve to the rail and straight line drive to the space between and just up from the fins. The 1996 quivers were legendary; a 6’0” version turned Slater’s year around, getting him back to back wins in Hossegor and Biarritz and re-setting his title goals. But by then the Hossegor days were drawing to a close. Soon Maurice would be off to Margaret River, Australia, laying a design foundation beneath the feet of another super rookie named Taj Burrow, and designing the fastest towboards on the planet for Ross Clarke-Jones.

And those great boards were scattered: Tom’s magic ’91 quiver somewhere in South Africa after his epochal first J-Bay sessions; the first EEV (a slippery little 6’4”) somewhere in the back shed; Machado’s magic 6’3” somewhere in California. Fortunately they were around long enough for Maurice to measure up and take detailed notes in his shaper’s book – a kind of paper version of the computer. That’s what allows him to reproduce this classic line of surfcraft in the modern context – boards born in a wild time, a time not unlike today, when no-one knew what was coming next. Maurice’s epic key design lines, including the original EEV models, Pro-Tow and Metro 3 superconcaves, are now available through …lost Surfboards in the USA. Share Real Name as an Alias - TV Tropes Real Name as an Alias You need to login to do this. Get Known if you don't have an account Share Real Name as an Alias × YMMV A character needs an alias for some reason and technically doesn't lie about what their name is...

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The siblings have the same name (Andy, short for both Andrea and Andrew), allowing her a legal loophole: since she signed up as "Andy," instead of Andrew or Andrea, she could hold on to her win after she was outed. Vicki Lester and Norman Maine in A Star Is Born get married under their real names by a town clerk who has no idea who they are. James Bond does this quite often, though there are several occasions he uses proper aliases too. Somewhat justified in that officially he is a globetrotting employee for something called Universal Exports, which is actually a cover for MI6. In Tomorrow Never Dies he poses as a banker named James Bond and actually has a fake employment record, but is given away as a spy because it is too perfect to be true, and because he is asking too many questions, not because of his name. Of course, making a number of blatant references about the Big Bad 's actions to his face doesn't help his case... A very important plot point in Definitely, Maybe . The Hero 's daughter insists that he tells the story about how he met her mother whom he is now divorced.

While doing so, The Hero calls his exes by alternate names to conceal their identity from his daughter who knows her mother's real name. The daughter then realizes that her dad is still in love with April, one of his exes, because he didn't gave her a Code Name . Played with by way of a Casting Gag in To The Limit . Secret agent "Collette Dubois" (Anna Nicole Smith) explains at the very end of the film that she's been using a codename the whole time, and that her real name is "Vickie Lynn" — Smith's first and middle names in Real Life . In other words, Smith used (two-thirds of) her real name as a fictional alias. The plot of U.S. Marshals kicks off when police discover that tow-truck driver Mark Warren is actually a fugitive named Mark Roberts. And much later it's uncovered that Mark Roberts is actually burned DSS agent Mark Sheridan. Literature In Katharine Kerr's Deverry novels, the character Nevyn (meaning "no one", and hence often taken to be a joke) uses his long-abandoned original name (Galrion) when he needs to be taken seriously by some nobles.

Everyone who knows him assumes he just made it up. In Robert A. Heinlein 's Friday , the title character runs out of fake passports and falls back on the real one to pull a switcheroo with one of the fake IDs. Codex Alera , by the same author , has Gaius Octavian. And you thought the name was out of place amongst the Awesome McCool Name crowd. Tavi is named Tavar among the Canim. At first, he thinks it's a poor pronunciation of his name. Then it's revealed that a Tavar is the only hunter the Vord fear. It's a multilingual Stealth Pun Real Name as an Alias . In the western novels of J.T. Edson , Dusty Fog frequently uses his middle names Edward Marsden as an alias, to the point that they become his Go-to Alias . In Unnatural Issue , Lord Peter Almsley temporarily takes on the post of gamekeeper at the estate of his friends, with his valet Garrick as his scholar half-brother, in order to befriend Susanne (working as a dairy maid) and find out more about her.

While in disguise, the two go by Peter Devlin (Devlin being Peter's middle name) and Clive Garrick (Clive being Garrick's). In For The Emperor , Inquisitor Amberley Vail goes undercover as an entertainer named Amberley Vail. She also uses her real last name for two different undercover identities in Duty Calls — the Lady haut Vail near the beginning of the novel, and Corporal Vail near the end. Possibly justified, in that anyone who can legally look at a roster of active Inquisitors already knows where she is and what she's doing, and she can kill anyone else who might blab. Live-Action TV Buffy the Vampire Slayer : When she runs away to LA, Buffy Summers calls herself "Anne," which is actually her middle name. In an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Garak tells Bashir a series of contradictory stories about a person named Elim, supposedly a high-ranking Cardassian official who either betrayed or was betrayed by Garak. Bashir later finds out that Elim is just Garak's first name, and when he confronts Garak and demands the truth, Garak says that everything he said was true. Especially the lies...

Christopher Perry Halliwell from Charmed called himself "Chris Perry" when he first introduced himself. Since he's from the future and hadn't been born yet, this didn't really raise any eyebrows. In The Cosby Show , lawyer Clair once introduced herself by her maiden name in order to speak on son Theo's behalf when he got ripped off by a T-shirt company. In Leverage , Sophie Devereaux once had to conjuer an alias from nowhere or risk losing the mark, so she introduces herself as the Duchess of Hanover. She assures the rest of the team that "this identity is very well backed up" but the mark isn't convinced. He arranges to introduce her to someone who's known the real Duchess for a very long time. While the rest of the team are convinced that Sophie's cover is blown, the Duchess's aunt takes one look at Sophie and says.... "Why Charlotte, it's so good to see you". It's never made clear if this is Sophie's real identity but it's the oldest one revealed on the show. In Breaking the Code , the spook from "Security" is John Smith. He can never get anyone to believe that, yes, that IS his real name.

In Sleepy Hollow , a captured Hessian claims he knows everything about Abbie Mills, including her real name, Grace Abigail Mills. Pro Wrestling In WWE , Shawn Michaels' mid-2009 absence was explained by him taking the job of a cook chef at an office complex under the last name of Hickenbottom — that being Michaels' real-life last name. Tabletop Games A classic Forgotten Realms character is Elminster's scribe (and butler, and apprentice) Lhaeo who was a great artist at building Jerkass Faï¿½ade for Old Mage. "Coincidentally", this work left him both ready for anything and acquainted with half or so of the most powerful people on the continent. There also was a missing prince of Tethyr, one Haedrak Errilam Alemander Olosar Lhorik... later also known as King Haedrak III. If his compatriots knew where he is before it was time to pull Rightful King Returns , he would get about as much attention from assassins as Elminster from mad wizards. Theater In Shakespeare's Henry V , King Henry goes undercover as a common soldier to learn the views and morale of his troops more closely.

He gives his name to the soldier Pistol as "Harry Leroy" (Harry being a common nickname for Henry, and le Roi being French for "the King"). He says he's a Welshman — he was born in Wales. Video Games Frank, the first NPC you meet in zOMG! , is actually Labtech 123; no official statement has been made, but the general assumption is that "Frank" is in fact his real name. Pretty much confirmed by one of the H2k10 NPCs, who has mentioned him by name. In Tales of Xillia 2 , Gaius goes by "Erston" while traveling Elympios incognito . This is actually his birth name, while "Gaius" is an alias he assumed to protect his family from his enemies. Visual Novels Played directly in Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors : near the end of the game, it's mentioned that Clover's real name is... Clover. Web Comics In The Far Side of Utopia Peter Kepler starts going by... Peter Kepler. If he was trying to stay Hidden in Plain Sight , assumed no one that knew the name was watching, or using it as The Bait remains to be seen.

and everyone thinks it's hilarious until he starts blowing things up. They still end up thinking it's a pretty good show, though, especially after Zeetha joins in. A partial version occurs with Agatha — when she's hiding from people who want to capture her because she's a Heterodyne, she hides out in a Heterodyne show, playing the part of her mother while her love interest plays her father. She's fully aware of the awkwardness. Web Original In Noob , Word of God states that Saphir's player is doing this (the actual reveal of the fact came out looking like a Sudden Name Change ). She's using her middle name Pénélope for the public and her guildmates, but her real name is Elena. The reason for which she uses an alias has not been explicitly stated, but it may have something to do with her having a real-world job and social life when she requires her guild's new recruits to have neither of these to be able to be full-time players. Zoe Nesmith is codenamed Zenith. Jobe Wilkins is literally applying the trope, with his codename being Jobe Wilkins.

Jimmy Trauger is making only a token effort, with his codename being Jimmy T. Western Animation Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends : In the episode "Imposter's Home for Um... Make 'Em Up Pals", Goofball is introduced by his first name. When Frankie overhears a group of kids calling him "John," she believes she has more proof he is not an imaginary friend. Goofball explains that it is his middle name and that he is named after his owner, Larry. He then tacks on another explanation that "Larry" is his owner's middle name. Despite all evidence , this turns out to be true. The eponymous character of Danny Phantom whose real name is Danny Fenton. This is lampshaded in "The Ultimate Enemy". Dark Danny: Hello? "Danny Fenton"? "Danny Phantom"? Ever noticed the similarities? In Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) , Karai cozies up to April using the fake name Harmony, a translation of her birth name, Miwa. Played with, in that Karai didn't know that Miwa was her real name.

Sonic SatAM : When Sally travels back in time and meets her past self, she introduces herself as "Alicia". Past Sally comments that's her middle name. Franz Hopper of Code Lyoko , whose real name is Waldo Schaeffer, derived his alias from his middle name and his wife's maiden name. That would make his full name Waldo Franz Schaeffer. Real Life British DJ Kenny Everett (real name Maurice Cole) once did a promo which ended with the words "... or my name isn't Maurice Cole!" The joke being that most of the listeners wouldn't have known his real name at the time. Many famous women continue to use their maiden name after marrying, since they're already well-known and changing names might confuse fans. J. K. Rowling continued to use her maiden name after becoming Jo Murray. Julie Andrews uses her maiden name for her film work and her married name (Julie Edwards) for some of her novels. It's quite common to use one's first and middle name as a Stage Name . One prominent example would be Tim Allen (born Timothy Allen Dick).

Lewis Carroll is a special case — the name is actually Charles Lutwidge Dodgson's real first and middle names translated into Latin, and then back again into English. Willem-Alexander, then Prince of Orange and now King of The Netherlands , ran in the New York Marathon under the name "W.A. van Buren." "Van Buren" is a lesser known title of the Dutch royal family. Likewise, Czar Peter the Great of Russia used the name "Pyotr Mikhailov" (Peter Michaelson) as an alias abroad. He was grandson of Czar Michael I Romanov. WWII Ace Pilot Major Heinrich Prinz von und zu Sayn-Wittgenstein used just his rank and surname "Wittgenstein" in everyday communication. A joke about pop singer Jack Jones went: "Did you know that Jack Jones is his real name?" "Jack Jones is WHOSE real name?" Law enforcement personnel going undercover often use their real first names so they won't seem suspiciously slow in responding. :: Indexes :: Real Name as an Alias - All The Tropes Real Name as an Alias Everything About Fiction You Never Wanted to Know.

All Subpages Create New A character needs an alias for some reason and technically doesn't lie about what their name is... it might be their real name if they're known by a nickname or vice versa, or their maiden name if they're a married woman, or their middle name being used as their first name, but the point is that the character can argue that it is their real name. Often used by disguised royalty with overly long names , since they can just pick one of their many middle names to be called by. Examples of Real Name as an Alias include: Contents Anime and Manga[ edit | hide | hide all ] In Monster , Nina Fortner uses her previous legal name, Anna Liebert, when giving a police testimony and obtaining marksmanship training. Allelujah Haptism and Tieria Erde use their names as the start up code for their Gundams in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 while their fellow Meisters, Soran Ibrahim and Neil/Lyle Dylandy, use their codenames, Setsuna F. Seiei and Lockon Stratos. FLCL 's Haruhara Haruko- her name's revealed by Amarao to be Haruha Raharu.

During Ranma ½ 's Martial Arts Rhythmic Gymnastics competition, female Ranma freely gives her full name, confident that nobody in attendance (which includes classmates from Furinkan High) will make the connection with her male side. She's right, and everyone blows it off as a bizarre coincidence. (Although Hiroshi and Daisuke would constantly pester Ranma about introducing them to "his sister" afterwards.) In Death Note , Light Yagami expends a lot of effort trying to learn the real name of "L", the Great Detective who opposes him. It's eventually revealed (although not in the manga or anime ) that L is his real first name, which raises some Fridge Logic issues...) Of course, Light never hears his last name, so he would have had to spend that effort anyway if he wanted to use the Death Note. Comic Books [ edit | hide ] Batman 's butler Alfred Pennyworth has sometimes used his middle names, Thaddeus Crane, as an alias when undertaking some activity he doesn't want linked to Bruce Wayne. The Dark Phoenix Saga sees Jean Grey being seduced by a mutant named Jason Wyngarde, an aspiring member of the Hellfire Club.

It turns out Wyngarde was one of their older and slightly more obscure enemies , the mutant villain Mastermind, and the X-Men just never found out his real name. Although he was also a Master of Illusion , and thus was able to disguise himself. Similarly, Mystique often posed as a secret service agent named Raven Darkholme in her early days. Turns out that's her real name. Amusingly, the Animated Adaptation of Days of Future Past (with some of Bishop's future thrown in) has a woman looking just like the Raven Darkholme identity, whom Mystique copied, tied up, but deliberately left alive to be a witness to "Gambit" assassinating Senator Kelly. Presumably, this came before the revelation that there was no "real" Raven Darkholme. Film[ edit | hide ] When pretending to be a handmaiden in Star Wars , Queen Amidala used her lesser-known non-royal name, Padme Nabierre. John McClane's wife at the beginning of Die Hard uses her maiden name, Gennaro. This provides a minor plot point when Hans Gruber later discovers John's real name, and doesn't realize the connection between John and Holly (for a while, anyway).

In 1937's Shall We Dance , the two leads, who are both famous under stage names, get married quietly in New Jersey under their real names. The Disney Channel movie Motocrossed involved a girl posing as her brother to enter a motocross race, after he breaks his leg. The siblings have the same name (Andy, short for both Andrea and Andrew), allowing her a legal loophole: since she signed up as "Andy," instead of Andrew or Andrea, she could hold on to her win after she was outed. Vicki Lester and Norman Maine in A Star Is Born get married under their real names by a town clerk who has no idea who they are. James Bond does this quite often, though there are several occasions he uses proper aliases too. Somewhat justified in that officially he is a globetrotting employee for something called Universal Exports, which is actually a cover for MI6. In Tomorrow Never Dies he poses as a banker named James Bond and actually has a fake employment record, but is given away as a spy because it is too perfect to be true, and because he was asking too many questions, not because of his name.

Live Action TV [ edit | hide ] Buffy the Vampire Slayer : When she runs away to LA, Buffy Summers calls herself "Anne," which is actually her middle name. In an episode of Star Trek: Deep Space Nine , Garak tells Bashir a series of contradictory stories about a person named Elim, supposedly a high-ranking Cardassian official who either betrayed or was betrayed by Garak. Bashir later finds out that Elim is just Garak's first name, and when he confronts Garak and demands the truth, Garak says hat all the stories were true. Christopher Perry Halliwell from Charmed called himself "Chris Perry" when he first introduced himself. In The Cosby Show , lawyer Clair once introduced herself by her maiden name in order to speak on son Theo's behalf when he got ripped off by a T-shirt company. Literature [ edit | hide ] In Katharine Kerr's Deverry novels, the character Nevyn (meaning "no one", and hence often taken to be a joke) uses his long-abandoned original name (Galrion) when he needs to be taken seriously by some nobles. Everyone who knows him assumes he just made it up.

In Robert Heinlein 's Friday , the title character runs out of fake passports and falls back on the real one to pull a switcheroo with one of the fake IDs. Lord Peter Death Bredon Wimsey uses the name Death Bredon in the Dorothy L. Sayers novel Murder Must Advertise. It's pronounced 'deeth'. By most people. Death Bredon just says it the way it looks. In the novel The School Story , Zoe pretends to be a literary agent and uses her nickname "Zee Zee" together with a misspelling of her last name. In Belgarath the Sorcerer , the eponymous character once used his old name Garath when working undercover. It lasted until he had to use magic to fend off an attack. As well, his daughter Polgara sometimes goes as the Dutchess of Erat, a title she technically owns although the duchy itself has been gone for thousands of years. In The Truth-Teller's Tale, members of the royal family have secret names that no one outside the family knows. A prince in disguise uses his as an alias.

The narrator is a Truth-Teller, who can detect when someone is lying , but since it's technically the prince's real name, she doesn't register that as a lie. The L. M. Montgomery short story "The Pot and the Kettle" combines a double use of this with a Two-Person Love Triangle . In The Ordinary Princess , Princess Amethyst works as a kitchen maid under her nickname, Amy. The king of the kingdom she's working in does the same thing--she knows the king's name is Algernon, but he uses one of his many middle names. In How Not to Spend Your Senior Year, when Jo and her father fake their deaths and go into witness protection, she uses her middle name and her mother's maiden name to enroll at another school. When the federal marshals who put them in witness protection want her to use a completely fake name, Jo tells them about an incident when she and a friend switched names as a prank on a substitute teacher and couldn't pull it off because they weren't used to responding to someone else's name. In The Goose Girl, the princess' full name is Anidori-Kiladra Talianna Isilee. When she goes into hiding, she calls herself Isi.

The prince in Sherwood Smith's A Posse of Princesses. Miles Naismith Vorkosigan spent ten years running top secret operations under the cover identity of Admiral Miles Naismith. Once, on the point of being found out, he covered by pretending that "Admiral Naismith" was his clone, who used his Betan mother's maiden name because Betan law grants clones the legal status of family members. In Spindle's End, when Katriona and Aunt take in the little princess, they take the last of her many names, Briar-Rose, and decide to call her Rosie. In 1632 , King Gustav II Adolf of Sweden decides to send cavalry to help out his time-displaced American allies, and despite the misgivings of his prime minister puts the 'notably headstrong and reckless' Captain Gars in command. It's only after Gars helps save the Americans from an attack that it's explained to them that his name is an acronym for Gustavus Adolphus Rex Sueciae - 'Gustav Adolf the King of the Swedes' in Latin.

In Monstrous Regiment , a regiment composed of women dressed up as men dress up as washerwomen to get themselves into a fort, and use their real names as their aliases. In The Birthday Ball, Princess Patricia Priscilla dresses as a peasant and goes to the village school. When the schoolmaster asks for her name, she calls herself Pat. ("Quite a short name because I'm merely a humble peasant .") In The Count of Monte Cristo , the aristocrat-born radical Nortier de Vilefort just goes by the name Nortier. In contrast, his conservative son calls himself de Vilefort. This is plot important, as the direct reason Dantes ended up wrongfully imprisoned, is because he unknowingly told de Vilefort about a letter that incriminated Nortier for treason. In Andre Norton 's A Prince Commands, Michael uses this while passing himself off as the American friend of the prince. Real Life [ edit | hide ] British DJ Kenny Everett (real name Maurice Cole) once did a promo which ended with the words "...or my name isn't Maurice Cole!" The joke being that most of the listeners wouldn't have known his real name at the time.

Many famous women continue to use their maiden name after marrying, since they're already well-known and changing names might confuse fans. For example, J. K. Rowling continued to use her maiden name after becoming Jo Murray. It's quite common to use one's first and middle name as a Stage Name . One prominent example would be Tim Allen (born Timothy Allen Dick). Tabletop RPG [ edit | hide ] Crossed with Significant Monogram in a classic Forgotten Realms character Lhaeo - Elminster's scribe (and butler, and apprentice) who was a great artist at building Jerkass Facade for Old Mage. " Coincidentally ", this job made him good at digging through papers and turning people away politely, alert, ready for anything and acquainted either personally or from first-hand accounts with half or so of the most powerful people on the continent. There also was a missing prince of Tethyr, one Haedrak Errilam Alemander Olosar Lhorik... later also known as King Haedrak III. If his compatriots knew where he is before he was set to pull Rightful King Returns , he would receive about as much attention from assassins as Elminster gets from mad wizards.

As it was, only one is known to get through (who was magically imprisoned, as seen in Forgotten Realms Comics). Western Animation [ edit | hide ] Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends : In the episode "Imposter's Home for Um... Make 'Em Up Pals" this happens with two characters: Goofball John McGee and John Larry McGee, Goofball's owner. Goofball is introduced by his first name. When Frankie overhears a group of kids calling him "John," she believes she has more proof he is not an imaginary friend. Goofball explains that it is his middle name and that he is named after his owner, Larry. He then tacks on another explanation that "Larry" is his owner's middle name. In Teen Titans , Cyborg infiltrates the HIVE by donning a hologram to make him look human until he "powers up" into a rocklike form. He calls himself "Stone." Vic Stone is, of course, his real name. There's also Slade, whose real name is Slade Wilson. In the original comic his alias was Deathstroke the Terminator. On Family Guy , Peter Griffin once tried to pull of a Line-of-Sight Name .

The first three things he saw were a pea, a person crying one tear, and a griffin that flew in through the window. In Young Justice , Artemis' real name is... Artemis Crock. Real Name As An Alias - TV Tropes Real Name As An Alias Name Space: Page Type: Trope A character needs an alias for some reason and technically DOESN'T lie about what their name is... it might be their real name if they're known by a nickname or vice versa, or their maiden name if they're a married woman, or their middle name being used as their first name, but the point is that the character can argue that it IS their real name. Examples: Film When pretending to be a handmaiden in Star Wars , Queen Amidala used her lesser-known non-royal name, Padme Nabirre. John Mclane's wife at the beginning of Die Hard sues her maiden name. In 1937's Shall We Dance, the two leads, who are both famous under stage names, get married quietly in New Jersey under their real names.

The Disney Channel movie Motocrossed involved a girl posing as her brother to enter a motocross race, after he breaks his leg. The siblings have the same name (Andy, short for both Andrea and Andrew), allowing her a legal loophole: since she signed up as 'Andy,' instead of Andrew or Andrea, she could hold on to her win after she was outed. Vicki Lester and Norman Maine in A Star Is Born get married under their real names by a town clerk who has no idea who they are. Western Animation Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends: In the episode "Imposter's Home for Um... Make 'Em Up Pals" this happens with two characters: Goofball John Mc Gee and John Larry Mc Gee , Goofball's owner. Goofball is introduced by his first name. When Frankie overhears a group of kids calling him "John," she believes she has more proof he is not an imaginary friend. Goofball explains that it is his middle name and that he is named after his owner, Larry. He then tacks on another explanation that "Larry" is his owner's middle name.

British DJ Kenny Everett (real name Maurice Cole) once did a promo which ended with the words "...or my name isn't Maurice Cole!" The joke being that most of the listeners wouldn't have known his real name at the time. TV When she runs away to LA, Buffy Summers calls herself 'Anne', which is actually her middle name. Anime In Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon uses 'John Smith' to pass off the question of who he is. But in a lot of things, it actually proves to be possible. Literature In Katharine Kerr's Deverry novels, the character Nevyn (meaning "no one", and hence often taken to be a joke) uses his long-abandoned original name (Galrion) when he needs to be taken seriously by some nobles. Everyone who knows him assumes he just made it up. Seen It A Million Times where a character runs out of fake passports and falls back on the real one to pull a switcheroo with one of the fake I Ds . Friday does this in Heinlein's novel of same name. In Monster Nina Fortner uses her previous legal name, Anna Liebert, when giving a police testimony and obtaining marksmanship training.

Lord Peter Death Bredon Whimsey uses the name Death Bredon in the Dorothy Sayers novel Murder Must Advertise. It's pronounced 'deeth'. In the novel The School Story, Zoe pretends to be a literary agent and uses her nickname "Zee Zee" together with a misspelling of her last name. Up for Grabs . A character needs an alias for some reason and technically DOESN'T lie about what their name is... it might be their real name if they're known by a nickname or vice versa, or their maiden name if they're a married woman, or their middle name being used as their first name, but the point is that the character can argue that it IS their real name. Examples: Film * When pretending to be a handmaiden in StarWars, Queen Amidala used her lesser-known non-royal name, Padme Nabirre. * John Mclane's wife at the beginning of Die Hard sues her maiden name. * In 1937's Shall We Dance, the two leads, who are both famous under stage names, get married quietly in New Jersey under their real names.

* The Disney Channel movie Motocrossed involved a girl posing as her brother to enter a motocross race, after he breaks his leg. The siblings have the same name (Andy, short for both Andrea and Andrew), allowing her a legal loophole: since she signed up as 'Andy,' instead of Andrew or Andrea, she could hold on to her win after she was outed. * Vicki Lester and Norman Maine in A Star Is Born get married under their real names by a town clerk who has no idea who they are. WesternAnimation * Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends: In the episode "Imposter's Home for Um... Make 'Em Up Pals" this happens with two characters: Goofball John McGee and John Larry McGee, Goofball's owner. ** Goofball is introduced by his first name. When Frankie overhears a group of kids calling him "John," she believes she has more proof he is not an imaginary friend. Goofball explains that it is his middle name and that he is named after his owner, Larry. He then tacks on another explanation that "Larry" is his owner's middle name.

ComicBooks * Batman's butler Alfred Pennyworth has sometimes used his middle names, Thaddeus Crane, as an alias when undertaking some activity he doesn't want linked to Bruce Wayne. RealLife * British DJ Kenny Everett (real name Maurice Cole) once did a promo which ended with the words "...or my name isn't Maurice Cole!" The joke being that most of the listeners wouldn't have known his real name at the time. TV * When she runs away to LA, Buffy Summers calls herself 'Anne', which is actually her middle name. Anime * In Haruhi Suzumiya, Kyon uses 'John Smith' to pass off the question of who he is. But in a lot of things, it actually proves to be possible. Literature * In Katharine Kerr's Deverry novels, the character Nevyn (meaning "no one", and hence often taken to be a joke) uses his long-abandoned original name (Galrion) when he needs to be taken seriously by some nobles. Everyone who knows him assumes he just made it up. * Seen It A Million Times where a character runs out of fake passports and falls back on the real one to pull a switcheroo with one of the fake IDs.

Friday does this in Heinlein's novel of same name. * In Monster Nina Fortner uses her previous legal name, Anna Liebert, when giving a police testimony and obtaining marksmanship training. * Lord Peter Death Bredon Whimsey uses the name Death Bredon in the Dorothy Sayers novel Murder Must Advertise. It's pronounced 'deeth'. * In the novel The School Story, Zoe pretends to be a literary agent and uses her nickname "Zee Zee" together with a misspelling of her last name. ProfessionalWrestling * In WWE, Shawn Michaels' recent lengthy absence was explained by him taking the job of a cook chef at an office complex under the last name of Hickenbottom - that being Michaels' real-life last name. UpForGrabs. Cancel

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