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** At least one person on ThisVeryWiki thought that "Sheppard" was Book's first name. ''[[FandomBerserkButton "Shepherd"]]'' is his title as a preacher, akin to "Pastor" (which is actually the Latin word for "shepherd").

* The Frankenstein example is brought up in an episode of ''Series/{{Monk}}'' where a man in a Frankenstein monster costume is terrorizing trick-or-treaters. Stottlemeyer and Monk just call him Frankenstein, leading Monk's brother Ambrose to repeatedly correct the both of them each time they make the mistake.

* In an episode of ''Series/ModernFamily'', Phil is shown mistakenly referring to the protagonist of ''TheBlindSide'' as "Blindside."

* The "V" of the series ''{{Series/V}}'' wasn't originally meant to be a shorthand reference to the alien "Visitors". Although the word "visitor" happens to start with the letter 'V' is a coincidence, 'V' was the resistance symbol for "Victory". The remake, however does refer to the Visitors as Vs.

** Although 12th doctor actor Creator/PeterCapaldi calls his own character "Doctor Who" all the time, e. g. probably a dozen times in the documentary ''[[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n9pjbDoctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour]]'' alone. If he does it, we may as well all do it.

** It's gotten so out of hand that one of the most popular baby names for girls is now "Khaleesi".

** Although 12th doctor actor PeterCapaldi calls his own character "Doctor Who" all the time, e. g. probably a dozen times in the documentary ''[[http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04n9pjbDoctor Who: Earth Conquest - The World Tour]]'' alone. If he does it, we may as well all do it.

* In-universe example in ''Series/{{Atlanta}}'', where one of Earn's coworkers asks him "What are you, '[[Film/TwelveYearsASlave 12 Years A Slave]]'?"
-->'''Earn''': [[LampshadeHanging Yeah. My name is "12 Years A Slave, the Slave."]]

* In-universe example in ''Series/{{Atlanta}}'', where one of Earn's coworkers asks him "What are you, 'Film/12YearsASlave'?"

** Conversely, DavidTennant actually asked to be credited as "The Doctor", after predecessor ChristopherEccleston was the first Doctor in nearly 25 years to be credited as "Doctor Who".

** In the (non-canon) film ''Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' his name actually is Doctor Who.

* In ''Series/{{Community}}'' episode "[[Recap/CommunityS2E06Epidemiology Epidemiology]]" Troy claims his costume is a "sexy {{Dracula}}," and doesn't get why Abed insists he means "sexy vampire."
-->'''Troy:''' I don't need to know which Dracula I am to know I'm a Dracula. Nerd.

** Individual episode titles are prone to such misunderstandings as well. For example, the title of the pilot episode, "Children of the Gods", refers to the Goa'uld (that's what their name literally means in their language).

* In the first season of ''{{Series/Arrow}}'', Oliver Queen's crimefighting persona went by "The Hood" or occasionally "The Vigilante," which didn't stop many viewers from calling him "Arrow." (When they didn't just go ahead and call him GreenArrow). Became a moot point in the second and third season, which saw him change his name to "The Arrow," but this trope has reared its head again in the fourth season now that he's going by Green Arrow officially.

** And god help you if you call ''the Doctor'', ''Music/TheWho'' in front of a rabid ''whovian''. The only thing those two have in common are that they're long-running British icons that began in the 60s. The more easygoing whovians may enjoy both and crack an occasional joke about it tho.

** In the (non-canon) film ''Film/DrWhoAndTheDaleks'' his name actually is Doctor Who

** In the (non-canon) film ''Film/DoctorWhoAndTheDaleks'' his name actually is Doctor Who

** Spoofed by Creator/PatrickStewart when he appeared on ''SaturdayNightLive''. Claiming to be a "''Star Trek'' trivia maniac," he malaprops several names of the characters on ''TOS'', and tells the audience, "Did you know, the name of the ship was ''not'' the ''Star Trek''?"

** And god help you if you call ''the Doctor'', ''Music/TheWho'' in front of a rabid ''whovian''. The only thing those two have in common are that they're British icons from the 60s. The more easygoing whovians may enjoy both and crack an occasional joke about it tho.

** And god help you if you call ''the Doctor'', ''Music/TheWho'' in front of a rabid ''whovian''. The only thing those two have in common are that they're British icons from the 60s. The more easygoing Whovians may enjoy both and crack an occasional joke about it tho.

** And god help you if you call ''the Doctor'', ''Music/TheWho'' in front of a rabid ''whovian''.