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[[Image:Dawn.gif|left|frame|Dawn, a background character named for an MTV staff member]]
[[Image:Burnout_karen01.jpg|frame|right|Burnout Girl and her designer/inspiration, [[Karen Disher]] (MTV ''Daria'' flipbook, online).]]
'''Tuckerization''' is the act of naming a person, place, or thing in a work of fiction after a living person either as a homage or as an in-joke. The word is derived from 1950s science-fiction writer Wilson Tucker, who would name characters in his works after friends and family. In current science fiction, successful science-fiction authors have been known to auction off Tuckerizations for charity; the winner gets to have a character named after him in the next book.
A Tuckerization, however, is ''not'' a "[[real person fiction|guest appearance]]," where the character named after a living person is actually meant to represent that living person. Tuckerization is the naming of characters who are essentially different from their real-life counterparts, although they might have some similarities.
The MTV feature [http://www.mtv.com/onair/daria/flipbook/transformed/ "The Transformed Staff"] revealed that a number of background characters are tuckerisations of MTV staff, including [[Burnout Girl]], [[Cindy (backgrounder)|Cindy]], and [[Dawn]] (the last based on a former MTV production assistant). The names of two staff members, Cindy and Shane, even turn up in one of O'Neill's seating charts in "[[Cafe Disaffecto]]", and for a class where their tuckerisations will appear, no less.
"[[Camp Fear]]" would feature tuckerisation of two ''fans'': [[Michelle Klein-Hass]],then the operator of [[Lawndale Commons]] and a writer of articles on the show, and [[Erin Mills]], who won a trivia contest on MTV's ''Daria'' website with the cameo as the prize. (Further details are available [http://web.archive.org/web/20120305080054/http://www.outpost-daria.com/ep504.html here.])
[[Falling Into College]]▼
A variant of Tuckerization is frequently used in ''Daria'' fanfic, in that the online screen names of fans, authors, and artists are used in stories instead of those persons' real names: these have been used for the names of characters, such as in [[The Angst Guy]]'s "[[Scarlett (story)|Scarlett]]" and "[[A Hard Days' Night]]."
==Examples of Tuckerizations in fanfic==
A partial list of Tuckerizations in current ''Daria'' fanworks follows. Almost any appearance of a penguin, particularly if named Tux, is assumed to be [[fanservice]] for [[TAG]].
▲[[Falling Into College]]:
*Gina Fulton's best friend Natalie is named after [[Quiverwing]].
*Isabelle, the Costume Mistress for Raft's Theater Department, is named for [[HelpfulSkittlesExplosion]].
[[John Lane]]:
*The new English teacher brought in to replace [[Timothy O'Neill]], [[Ms. Ruiz]], was named after [[Liz Ruiz]].
[[Legion of Lawndale Heroes]]:
*The quarry is named the Forman Quarry, after fanfiction writer [[C.E. Forman]].
*The
*Bealer and Curtis, two members of Furmaan Singh's bodyguard, are named after fanfiction authors [[Kristen Bealer]] and [[Scissors MacGillicutty]] (although Scissors's name is misspelled).
*[[Natalia Luchinni]], the Argentinian-born lover of [[Darren Appleton]], is loosely based on [[Quiverwing]].
*Several cadets at the [[United States Academy of Extranormal Studies]] are based upon [[PPMB]] posters.
*The Doctor, one of the metahumans who frequents [[Old Stanley's]] and who used his telepathic skills to help Quinn, is based on the Russian [[PPMB]]er [[UU]].
[[Mad Dog]]
* A location "..at the corner of MacGillicutty Street and Wright Avenue, next to the storefront church with the broken-winged angel on the sidewalk outside," refers to three of the the [[Angst Lords]]: [[Scissors MacGillicutty]], [[Brother Grimace]], and [[Angelinhel]].
* Half a block away from the above corner is the "Renfield Building" which refers to the [[Angst Lord]] [[Renfield]].
[[Visitations]]:
*Two villains in "Visitations" are named after James Bowman and [[Thomas Mikkelsen]], two fan fiction writers.
[[Category: Fanwork Conventions]]
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