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Originally Posted by ToTheNines
I did a deep dive on this earlier this year, didn’t come up with much. I searched posts here with various possible spellings. I can only assume it came from a fanfic that might even predate this forum.
I also think someone might have edited IMDb to reflect it back when you could do that easily and that helped it stick.
Fanon that became canon.
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I believe ssomething similar happened with Pokémon. In many fanfics you see Brock being called Brock Slate and Misty being called Misty Waterflower, even though in the anime, the manga and the video games... they're literally just called Brock and Misty. In fact, it's quite rare for Pokémon characters to have surnames, so I dunno why fanfic writers felt like Misty and Brock needed surnames.