Theron Daggershield
He is named after a D&D character of the same name, an Eleven Weaponmaster who led his own Merry Band of Misfits. To take it back even further than that.... The D&D version of Theron that "WZCW Theron" is named after, his name was a tribute to Thorin Oakenshield from The Hobbit. Theron's real life name, Shawn Daggers, came from my NWZO name from back in the days of stables here on the forum. Ironic trivial note.... Shawn Daggers' image rep was Shawn Michaels, who is also the image rep for the D&D version of Theron who "WZCW Theron" is named after. Guess I should've used HBK instead of Cloud all this time to complete that circle, huh? The Cloud image rep fits him though, given his many video game references.
Tiffany Wyatt (Kirilah the Paladin of Mystra)
Including her since I RP'ed as her in an All Stars Round. Her D&D name comes from a Paladin of Mystra named Kyla that I inherited from another handler in an old D&D group, but half the group called her Kira by mistake instead of Kyla for some reason. So I combined the two names into one, this eventually evolved into Kirilah which is easier to prounounce (Kee-ruh-luh). Her human form's name doesn't have as interesting of an origin. For her first name she is named after WWE's Tiffany. As for her last name, Bray Wyatt just happened to be onscreen while I was watching Smackdown and coming up with my All Stars Application that year, and I needed a last name, so.... Wyatt it was.
Doctor ART Anderson
So, Dr Anderson's name comes from a joke my roommate and I came up with freshman year at my college regarding a very boring art professor at our college. We didn't want the real professor to find out about it though so we came up with a name to give the character and the first "Art" pun that I could think of was a parody of Arn Anderson, thus Art Anderson was his name. We created him as a heel on several of the WWE games with the gimmick of everyone has to come to his class or else he will sabotage your day somehow. He had a stable of evil teachers named the ART Foundation, now known as The Board of Regrets.
EDIT: Throwing in some NPC's for fun.
Kaleesta "The Healer"
For those who remember my storyline involving my top heel NPC, Elora the Shadow Sage who ruled the Cult of Shar, the face version of her was Kaleena the Lady of Thunderbelle. She was going to turn face and replace Davivel in the Merry Band of Misfits, but I abruptly stopped writing that story due to it costing me matches. I still wanted to bring a new healer into the group and write out Davivel (he was boring and the toughest NPC for me to use). I revised the name of Kaleena into Kaleesta then added "The Healer" due to the Dr Who tributes the character would bring, since Healers are D&D's "doctors". In terms of canon, Kaleena/Elora and Kaleesta are NOT the same character. The former just helped me name the latter.
Sheshmish
Named after Yeshmish, an Orc Swashbuckler who a former roommate of mine was the handler of. Unlike Sheshmish, Yeshmish did not speak like a stereotypical pirate and was much more vulgar.