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Pseudonyms include stage names, user names, ring names, pen names, aliases, superhero or villain identities and code names, gamer identifications, and regnal names of emperors, popes, and other monarchs. In some cases, it may also include nicknames. Historically, they have sometimes taken the form of anagrams, Graecisms, and Latinisations.
Name Domain Status Notes Sources American News americannews.com Published a false story claiming actor Denzel Washington endorsed Donald Trump for president. The fictional headline led to thousands of people sharing it on Facebook, a prominent example of fake news spreading on the social network prior to the 2016 presidential election.
A gag name is a pseudonym intended to be humorous through its similarity to both a real name and a term or phrase that is funny, strange, or vulgar. The source of humor stems from the double meaning behind the phrase, although use of the name without prior knowledge of the joke could also be funny. Examples of the use of gag names occur in ...
• Fake email addresses - Malicious actors sometimes send from email addresses made to look like an official email address but in fact is missing a letter(s), misspelled, replaces a letter with a lookalike number (e.g. “O” and “0”), or originates from free email services that would not be used for official communications.
d'Artagnan ( Charles de Batz-Castelmore) – The Three Musketeers. Dylan Sharp (Deryn Sharp – Leviathan by Scott Westerfeld) Jeff (Othello Jeffries from the comic strip Mutt and Jeff) Locke ( Peter Wiggin) – Ender's Game series – OSC. M ( Sir Miles Messervy) – James Bond novels. Q ( Major Boothroyd) – James Bond novels.
Also used as a fake name for former Yugoslavia by Lawrence Durrell in some of his Antrobus short stories. W. Warnerstock: a small country between France and Germany in the film Wakko's Wish; Weselton: a duchy in Frozen, neighbour of Arendelle. Wolfkrone: a small kingdom in the Soulcalibur video game series.
In the Finnish Defence Forces, placeholder names for soldiers include Nönnönnöö (no meaning, derived from N.N. ), Senjanen (rendered from genitive Senjasen expanding into sen-ja-sen (this-and-that), Omanimi ("Private His-name") and Te ("Private You"). Any weapon, device or piece of equipment is called vekotin.
This is a list of pen names used by notable authors of written work. A pen name or nom de plume is a pseudonym adopted by an author.A pen name may be used to make the author' name more distinctive, to disguise the author's gender, to distance the author from their other works, to protect the author from retribution for their writings, to combine more than one author into a single author, or ...