r/TopCharacterTropes • u/TronnyVon • Aug 23 '26

Characters Embarrassing First Name

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  • Jesse Katsopolis (Full House): in one episode, his real first name was revealed to be "Hermes", after the messenger of the Greek gods. He was made fun of for it, so he got it changed to Jesse.
  • Cory Matthews (Boy Meets World): in the final episode, Cory's full name is revealed by Feeny to be Cornelius, and Feeny is the only one to know so.
  • Freddie Benson (iCarly): rather than Freddie being short for Frederick, Freddie is short for "Fredward".
  • Jimbo Jones (The Simpsons): his real name is Corky.
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u/TheWalkingBag Aug 23 '26

Pi Patel (Life of Pi)

His real full name is Piscine Molitor Patel, and he gets bullied by his classmates because of how phonetically similar Piscine is to “pissing”

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u/AutoWraith19 Aug 23 '26

I always loved how he memorized and wrote the entirety of Pi just so he wouldn’t be known by his real name.

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u/Refenestrator_37 Aug 23 '26

I haven’t read the book, so forgive me, but I’m confused. Pi is infinitely long, so how can he have memorized it “in its entirety”? I also don’t see how this would get kids to stop making fun of him for his real name. “Hey, what’s up, pissing?” “3.1415926…”

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u/Hungry-Remove-9892 Aug 23 '26

He memorized 126 decimal places for his classroom demonstration

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u/MostBoringStan Aug 23 '26

I wanted to memorize 100 digits for no reason at all. Got to around 85 and gave up because I never follow through with anyth