Are there any cases of authors/writers that have intentionally stolen a character name from another work?

  • @derekabutton@lemmy.world
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    Marvel’s Deadpool (Wade Wilson) was initially a parody of DC’s Deathstroke (Slade Wilson).

    JoJos Bizarre Adventure has a sizable chunk of characters whose names are 80s bands or musicians.

    Quite a few stories have biblical names or classical god names for their characters when not depicting the original, but that’s even more of a stretch than my other examples.