Tuckerization
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 "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.
A list of Tuckerizations in current Daria fanworks follows.
- Gina Fulton's best friend Natalie is named after Quiverwing.
- Isabelle, the Costume Mistress for Raft's Theater Department, is named for HelpfulSkittlesExplosion.
- The quarry is named the Forman Quarry, after fanfiction writer C.E. Forman.
- The Bowman Acts and Senator James Bowman are named after fanfiction writer James Bowman, who wrote the first part of Legion of Lawndale Heroes. (This Tuckerization was added by co-writer Brother Grimace.)
- 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).
- Two villains in "Visitations" are named after James Bowman and Thomas Mikkelsen, two fan fiction writers.
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