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Of course, she may be a ''normal'' person, but even normal people get mixed up with names sometimes. Or she's just a jerk, and doesn't really care about Bob or his name. The outcome is the same - she can't pin the name down. This may be a RunningGag.
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* On an episode of ''Series/M*A*S*H'', a visiting surgeon keeps getting BJ's name wrong. The only time he gets it right is when he's drunk.
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* Vita in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' always screwed up Nanoha's name before they became allies. "Nantoka" actually means "something" and is used when someone refers to something that they do not know the name of. Also a bit of a pun, since the ''nano'' in her actual name is basically something you stick at the end of a sentence when you're not sure (which was the main aspect of the first season's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming).
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** Vita in''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'' always screwed up Nanoha's name before they became allies. "Nantoka" actually means "something" and is used when someone refers to something that they do not know the name of. Also a bit of a pun, since the ''nano'' in her actual name is basically something you stick at the end of a sentence when you're not sure (which was the main aspect of the first season's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming).
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* Levi the Slasher of ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Gears of Destiny'', who becomes TheNicknamer because she has a hard time remembering people's name, even simple one's like "Fate", who she keeps mispronouncing as "Hate", before she decides to just call her "[[{{Doppelganger}} Original]]" since it's easier to remember for her.
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** In MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory, Bowser himself gets this, as Broque Monsieur always reffers to him as "Monsieur Turtle Bits".
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* ''{{Friends}}'': Phoebe accidentally calls her boyfriend David by the name of her ex-boyfriend Mike. She tries to cover by claiming Monica calls Chandler 'Richard' (her ex-boyfriend) all the time and its totally normal. Of course Chandler gets worried and Monica is annoyed given she's never done anything of the sort.
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* ''{{Friends}}'': Phoebe accidentally calls her boyfriend David by the name of her ex-boyfriend Mike. She tries to cover by claiming Monica calls Chandler 'Richard' (her ex-boyfriend) all the time and its it's totally normal. Of course Chandler gets worried and Monica is annoyed given she's never done anything of the sort.
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** Ichigo, after meeting Kurumadani Zennosuke, ends up often calling him "Imoyama". He gets quite annoyed, saying "If you don't know, just say so! Don't try to guess people's names!!"
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* In ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', Koromo tends to call Nodoka "Nonoka".
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* ''{{Drowtales}}'' has Zith, a cameo character who [[http://www.drowtales.com/mainarchive.php?sid=9470 chronically mispronounces everyone's names]]. Her concept art features her calling Quain'tana "Quainana" much to the Ill'haress' disdain. Also something of a FandomNod since many members of the comic's forum have trouble spelling character's names.
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* in ''Fanfic/AGameComesToEquestria'', this is [[spoiler: Hermos']] problem with his first appearance in the story, having his name mislabeled as "Hymie" [[spoiler: when he entered the [[Recap/TheLastRoundup rodeo]]]]. It isn't until the end that everpony else gets to know his ''actual'' name.
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* In ''ThePenguinsofMadagascar'' episode "Misfortune Cookie", Julien keeps getting Rico's name wrong and calling him "Chico" or "Freako".
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* On one episode of ''TheNanny'', a photographer refers to C.C. Babcock as "Miss Boobcock", which gets reprinted in several places and even on a billboard.
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* In ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'', Hachikuji has a RunningGag of always mispronouncing Araragi's name in increasingly inventive ways, then claiming she "stuttered". It's implied she does this on purpose to tease him, rather than not remembering his name.
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* In ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'' and ''Manga/ACertainScientificRailgun'', Touma Kamijo has a lot of trouble remembering Mikoto Misaka's name, so he almost always calls her Biri-Biri (Bug-Zapper in the English dub).
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** Due to the difficuly of pronouncing his name and her being a {{cloudcuckoolander}}, Orihime always calls Shishigawara "Sushigawara".
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* In ''FindingNemo'', the absent-minded Dory can never the name of Marlin's eponymous son, calling him at various points Chico, Harpo, Elmo, and Fabio. She eventually gets it right and recognizes him as Nemo near the end of the movie, much to her own delight.
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'''Dexter:''' Yeah thanks, Billy.
'''Dexter:''' Yeah thanks, Billy.
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* In ''ThePenguinsofMadagascar'' episode "Misfortune Cookie", Julien keeps getting Rico's name wrong.
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* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8045114/42/A-Marauder-s-Plan A Marauder's Plan]]'' Sirius was having a hard time remembering the name of Fudge's assistant after some inadvertent Dementor exposure. He successively thought of the man as Marty, Monty, Murphy and Murray.
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* In ''MrBelvedere'', Heather's friend Angela constantly gets Mr. Belvedere surname wrong, calling him "Mr. Bellybutton", "Mr. Bellpepper", etcetera. Angela never said the same (wrong) surname twice.
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* In Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'', the high school principal is an out-of-touch nebbish. He first calls Carrie "Carrie Wright" instead of White, and then misremembers her first name as Cassie.
* Early in ''WatershipDown'', there's a memorable scene where the Threarah accidentally refers to Hazel as "Walnut."
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'', the high school principal is an out-of-touch nebbish. He first calls Carrie "Carrie Wright" instead of White, and then misremembers her first name as Cassie.
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* A character in ''Film/TheDukesOfHazzard'' movie misremembers Enos' name as "Anus". WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy did the same joke, and they're probably not the only ones.
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* In Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'', the high school principal is an out-of-touch nebbish. He first calls Carrie "Carrie Wright" instead of White, and then misremembers her first name as Cassie.
* Early in ''WatershipDown'', there's a memorable scene where the Threarah accidentally refers to Hazel as "Walnut."
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* A character in ''Film/TheDukesOfHazzard'' movie misremembers Enos' name as "Anus". WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy did the same joke, and they're probably not the only ones.
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* In Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'', the high school principal is an out-of-touch nebbish. He first calls Carrie "Carrie Wright" instead of White, and then misremembers her first name as Cassie.
* Early in ''WatershipDown'', there's a memorable scene where the Threarah accidentally refers to Hazel as "Walnut."
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* In ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' Billy gets a new friend (a parody of HannaBarbera characters) who introduces himself as "Wiggy Gee Jed". Billy calls him "Wiggy Jiggy Jed".
* Characters often get WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead's names wrong, such as "Buffcoat and Beaver", "B and Butter", and "Buttbrain and Beatrice".
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* ''{{WesternAnimation/Motorcity}}'': Texas frequently calls Julie by other names, such as "Babs" or "Lisa." He does call her Julie every now and then.
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* ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'': Bunnies (that is, [[FanCommunityNicknames EGS fans]]) do this sort of thing a lot on the forum. The most common seems to be calling Susan "Sarah" or Sarah "Susan".
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Old Man Dexter", as Dexter is deemed too young to watch late night TV, he scientifically ages himself... [[GrumpyOldMan a little too much.]] As such, senility kicks in as he asks his sister to help him up on the living room couch.
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Alice is TheDitz, TheFool, a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}... the point is, she's an idiot. And since she's an idiot, she can't remember Bob's name, even though she's known him for ages. She can try, but it's unlikely that she'll ever hit upon the right name - [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious unless things have just gotten real.]] Maybe she actually ''likes'' him and just has an odd way of showing it.
Of course, she may be a ''normal'' person, but even normal people get mixed up with names sometimes. The outcome is the same - she can't pin the name down. This may be a RunningGag.
Better yet, maybe Bob is an [[LawOfAlienNames alien]], SuperHero, or an otherworldly creature in general, with a strange and/or [[OverlyLongName long]] name - how ''could'' she know it?
Sandbox/IntentionalMisnaming is a SisterTrope in which using the wrong name on purpose is a bullying tactic.
If the misnaming is a one-off incident in an emotional moment, it's WrongNameOutburst. If TheFool genuinely'' thinks'' Person B is someone else, it's ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity.
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* In a [=FedEx=] commercial, a guy walks into a [=FedEx=]/Kinko's and sets down a package that he says needs to be shipped to Pahonicks. The rep claims they can ship anything anywhere, but he's never heard of Pahonicks. The customer gets exasperated and says it's the largest city in Arizona, to which another customer says, "You mean ''Phoenix''?" Cue awkward laughter from stupid guy, as everyone looks on in pity.
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* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Ichigo does this a lot according to Tatsuki, though not too frequently onscreen -- not only does he get names wrong, but he misread Uryu's name as a GIRL. He also manages to totally forget about a classmate who's been bugging him for years to join his club.
** Ichigo, upon meeting Yasutora Sado, misreads his name card, and keeps calling him "Chad" despite being corrected. The nickname eventually sticks, and in the dub and English manga (in which the classmates [[FirstNameBasis typically use first names]]), his classmates, teachers and Ichigo's other friends call him "Chad", when in the original, they had called him "Sado" -- only his grandfather calls him Yasutora.
** Due to the difficuly of pronouncing his name and her being a {{cloudcuckoolander}}, Orihime always calls Shishigawara "Sushigawara".
* In ''Manga/{{Club 9}}'': Haruo Hattori has such a thick country accent that when she introduces herself to Tokyo club hostesses, they immediately start calling her "Hello-chan".
* In the episode of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' where the crew finds Ed's father, he has an assistant named [=MacIntyre=]. He never gets it right, always forgetting and at times calling him [=MacIntosh=] or something else beginning with "Mac". At least he's ''aware'' of the problem, at one point referring to his assistant as "[=MacInwhatever=]" when he was in a particular hurry and didn't have time to even ''attempt'' to get it right. (The assistant, naturally, yells a correction even as they hurry off.)
* Because of some initial confusion, all of the Deimon Devil Bats in ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' think Raimon Taro's name is "Monta." Sena misread the kanji for his name as "Kaminari Montarou"; Hiruma later uses this mistake to his advantage by claiming it's a nickname derived from football legend Joe Montana (and lies to Monta by saying he played the same position).
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'':
** Onizuka frequently calls Principal Uchiyamada "Xavier", after monk Fransisco Xavier, because of Uchiyamada's bald head. He doesn't do it on purpose at all, he seems to just associate the two in his mind for some reason.
** He also can't seem to remember Teshigawara's name at all. His attempts to recall it don't even come close. Just to give an example of how bad it gets, he once refers to him as "''Toxic Socks Warrior''", without any sign that he doesn't think it's his actual name.
* Assistant chief security maid Yashima Sanae in ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai La Vérité''. In Japan, "Sanae" is normally a first name, so people often call her Sanae instead of Yashima even though they've known her for a long time. She [[InsistentTerminology always corrects them when they do so]], telling them that Yashima is her first name and Sanae is her last name.
* Vita in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' always screwed up Nanoha's name before they became allies. "Nantoka" actually means "something" and is used when someone refers to something that they do not know the name of. Also a bit of a pun, since the ''nano'' in her actual name is basically something you stick at the end of a sentence when you're not sure (which was the main aspect of the first season's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming).
-->'''Vita:''' Takamachi Nantoka!\\
'''Nanoha:''' It's Nanoha! NA! NO! HA!
* Because Luffy of ''Manga/OnePiece'' is a complete airhead, he always calls Boa Hancock "Hammock".
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': This happens to Butch a lot in both the English and Japanese versions of the anime. He's been called Botch, Biff, Hutch, Bob, Butcher, and many others. In the original Japanese, his name is Kosaburo, but he always gets called Kosanji. Seems to happen so often that he immediately replies "It's Butch!" when spoken to. In an episode of the spinoff ''Pokémon Chronicles'', Butch is actually called the correct name for a change, and he replies with "It's Bu-Oh, wait, that's what you said!" Another time, he called himself by the wrong name when attempting to correct someone when they got it right.
* Main character Madoka in ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange'' cannot for the life of her get Villagullio's name right and he eventually gave up on trying to get her to say it right. Eventually, so does Makoka and just calls him Guivi-nii, though she almost gets it when she tries again in the second season.
* Quite a few of the dolls from the ''Anime/RozenMaiden'' anime have trouble remembering fellow doll Kanaria's name.
* ''Anime/{{S-CRY-ed}}'': Straight Cougar kept getting Mimori's name wrong because he honestly can't remember her name because he's always in a rush.
* ''Anime/SDGundamForce'': Nobody ever gets Bakunetsumaru's name right the first time around. Because it's difficult for people not native to Ark to remember it, they usually call him 'Baku'.
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'': [[TheDitz Usagi]] does this in a "Sailor Stars" episode with the VictimOfTheWeek, called Garayan, calling him ''Garapan'', which means ''colourful men's underwear'' in Japanese. She just is that much of an airhead.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': Zonge, a wannabe gourmet hunter, is frequently mislabeled as Zombie or a varient by almost everyone except his two sidekicks- even the [[UpToEleven captions]] get it wrong.
* Count Alses of ''LightNovel/{{Tytania}}'' always misremembers Fan Hyulick's name as "Fan Hyulen". He is corrected on a regular basis, but this only serves to irritate him.
* Dita from ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' is the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} version. Despite the fact that she's romantically interested in the male lead, she can't seem to remember his name and calls him "Uchuujin-[[{{Honorifics}} san]]" ("Mr. Alien") instead.
* In ''Manga/{{Working}}'', Popura is such an airhead she cannot call her co-worker Souta Takanashi properly by his name, instead calling him "Katanashi, much to his frustration." Inami got confused with that until she found out that he only lets Popura call him that. Later, Popura meets three of his sisters at their home:
-->'''Popura:''' You are all Katanashi-kun's family members!?
-->'''Kazue, Kozue and Nazuna:''' It's Ta-ka-na-shi.
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* In ''{{Tintin}}'', Bianca Castafiore just can't seem to get Captain Haddock's (or his butler, Nestor's) name quite right. The Captain gets his own back at one point. But what's funny is that she ''never gets it wrong the same way twice.''
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* From ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
** In a {{Crossover}} with ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', Calvin calls Alfred "Horus". Whether or not's it's intentional or not is unclear.
** Brainstorm mistakes Socrates for "Caesar", the only thing he remembers being that "[it] was Roman".
** When defending Jack Freewater, Calvin keeps forgetting his name until the end.
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* In Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'', the high school principal is an out-of-touch nebbish. He first calls Carrie "Carrie Wright" instead of White, and then misremembers her first name as Cassie.
* Early in ''WatershipDown'', there's a memorable scene where the Threarah accidentally refers to Hazel as "Walnut."
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* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''
** In the first series, [[BrianBlessed King Richard IV]] can never manage to remember his son Edmund's name. When he finally gets it right in the finale...
-->'''Edmund:''' Father, you called me "Edmund"!\\
'''Richard:''' WHAT? OH, SORRY, EDGAR...
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-->'''Edmund:''' You can start by not calling me "Bladder".
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* During a 1940s football game broadcast, sportscaster Red Barber accidentally introduced his play-by-play partner Russ Hodges as "Russ Hughes". An amused (or perhaps miffed) Hodges responded, "Thank you, Red Baker."
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* In ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', G(a)linda often refers to Boq as "Biq," usually because she can't remember. He politely corrects her every time.
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* ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Iris 2|The Azoth of Destiny}}'''s Max addresses Felt by increasingly bizarre permutations of his name, at one point referring to him as "Klein" (the name of the protagonist from the previous Atelier Iris game). If corrected, he'll call him Felt for the remainder of the current conversation, so apparently he's just that bad with names.
* ''Videogame/BeyondGoodAndEvil''
** The heroine Jade first meets her sidekick Double H after freeing him from ElectricTorture. His brain is... [[EasyAmnesia a little fried]], and after hearing her mention the [[LaResistance "IRIS" Network]], he starts calling her "Miss Thyrus." (He also calls himself "Triple Z" at one point.)
** Jade herself once refers to the suspicious "Mr. de Castellac" who hired her on a mission (which was actually a charade aiming at establishing a contact between her and the IRIS Network) as "de Cadillac".
* In ''DestroyAllHumans: Path of the Furon'', Emperor Meningitis mistakenly addresses Crypto as "Klepto", due to being senile.
--> '''Meningitis:''' Pox? Is that you? What have you done with your body? And what's that with you? Oh, it's your little house boy, ''Klepto!''\\
'''Crypto:''' CRYP-TO.\\
'''Meningitis:''' Whatever!
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' proves that not even a ''God'' is immune to this trope. Most people you encounter find the name Amaterasu a bit too much of a mouthful to remember. The nicer ones will call you Ammy or (after a previous, respected alias) Shiranui. Less respectful ones settle for Furball.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''
** In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', Luigi is often the victim of WhoIsThisGuyAgain. So characters use names like "[[BuffySpeak Mr. Green Mario Brother Guy]]" and "Loo...uh, some other guy!"
** Bowser does this in all three ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. Bowser has fixated on Mario as his greatest enemy, and always forgets Luigi's name. So Bowser uses names like "Green 'Stache" to refer to Luigi.
** Used repeatedly in ''[[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. The Puni elder thinks Mario's name is "Marty-o," the ancient mayor of Petalburg calls him "Murphy" due to his hearing problems, and the Yoshi who joins your party calls you "Gonzalez." That last one is {{justified|Trope}} because said Yoshi is born in a fighting-club type place, the Glitz Pit, where Mario's stage name is "the Great Gonzalez". (Mario didn't choose the name; his manager did.)
** The clueless "detective" Pennington, who thinks Mario is Luigi. ([[spoiler:In the sequence just before the final battle resumes, another character calls Mario by his proper name, and the detective is absolutely stunned at the notion of himself simply being ''wrong''.]])
** And also Zess T. who keeps referring to Mario with names such as "Stompy" and "Sir Crush-A-Lot" after he accidentally steps on her contact lenses.
** And Doopliss. [[spoiler:After he replaces Vivian of the Shadow Sirens, Beldam starts calling him "Freak-in-Sheet".]]
*** Doopliss himself calls almost everyone "Slick."
** In the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' crossover ''VideoGame/FortuneStreet'', Bowser occasionally refers to the Dragonlord as "Lizardboss".
* In ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'', Danette refers to the eponymous World Eaters as "[[BuffySpeak World... Thingies]]", due to her atrocious memory. She also never remembers Gig's name, much to his annoyance.
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* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'':
** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney 3'', Godot calls the title attorney "Trite" all the time [[spoiler:until the last episode, where, defeated, he calls Wright by his real name]]. In Japan, where Phoenix is called Ryuuichi Naruhodo, Godot calls him "Maruhodo". In the first game, Redd White insists on calling him "Mr. Wrong".
** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' also seems to be a frequent victim of this (rival prosecutor Klavier always calls him "Herr Forehead"), and there's even a scene where Apollo keeps getting the names of other characters wrong, prompting Trucy to say his name wrongly in the same way (such as calling him "Apololo" when he refers to Alita Tiala as "Alita Tialita").
* In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', every time Rin says [[RepetitiveName Sasasegawa Sasami]]'s name she manages to mess it up in some way, usually by saying something that sounds ''vaguely'' similar. The name ''is'' a mouthful, but only Rin, [[NotGoodWithPeople with a general lack of care about other people]] [[UnknownRival and Sasami in particular]] consistently gets it wrong.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* In ''WebAnimation/DoraleousAndAssociates'', a RunningGag of the series is that no-one outside the the Associates can pronounce his name right, with "Doralingus" being the most popular pronunciation.
* In ''Machinima/MeleesEnd'', Marth constantly mixes up people's names because he's a complete [[TheDitz ditz]].
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'', nobody could keep any of the names straight. Notable ones include Aragorn referring to Théoden as "King Crazypants", mixing up Sauron and Saruman, and forgetting the names of their own party members. Rivendell is Rivertown or [[ArchieComics Riverdale]], Théoden is Theogan, and the Nazgûl are [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nargazoids]].
-->'''Aragorn:''' [[Franchise/EvilDead Hail to the king, baby]]! Aragorn, son of Andúril is back!\\
'''DM:''' ... Andúril is the name of your ''sword'', dumbass.
* Reginald from ''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}'' takes this to the extreme when, at the end of an evening of romance, he accidentally calls his date Becky "Lord Voldemort".
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Old Man Dexter", as Dexter is deemed too young to watch late night TV, he scientifically ages himself... [[GrumpyOldMan a little too much.]] As such, senility kicks in as he asks his sister to help him up on the living room couch.
-->'''Dexter:''' A little help there, um... [[SpeciesLostAndFound Dodo?]]\\
'''[=DeeDee=]:''' [=DeeDee=].\\
'''Dexter:''' [[BabyLanguage Daa Daa?]]\\
'''[=DeeDee=]:''' [=DeeDee=].\\
'''Dexter:''' [[ToiletHumour Doo Doo?]]\\
'''[=DeeDee=]:''' [=DeeDee=].\\
* ''{{Duckman}}'' constantly forgets the name of his son, Mambo, calling him by other unusual or ridiculous names like La Bamba and Mandingo. In one episode, he forgets Charles' name instead.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', several characters have forgotten Timmy's name. [[AsianAirhead Trixie Tang]] is the one that comes to most fans' minds, but several others have forgotten at one point: Cosmo, his parents, Adam West, and Quddus (in the TRL interview).
* One ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' animated short ("computer.don") was about Donald Duck buying a talking personal computer that can recognize people's names, but the computer misunderstands Donald's SpeechImpediment and consistently refers to him as "Duo."
* In "The Greatest Story Never Told" of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', episode centerpiece BoosterGold is constantly referred to or otherwise mistaken for Green Lantern despite his gold-and-blue color scheme.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'': Lindsay is getting everybody's name wrong. Although she can usually remember somebody's name if they're (at the moment) important to her. For example she remembers Heather's name throughout the whole TDI season; when she calls her "Hannah" in the special Heather is clearly shocked, because is means Lindsay is no longer her puppet. It's PlayedForLaughs much more in ''World Tour'', where she just can't get her boyfriend's name right. She calls him Noah, a character she's had no on-screen interaction with. Ergo, she can remember a name or a face, but never both!
* In ''WidgetTheWorldWatcher'', the male elder keeps forgeting and mispronounces Widget's name every time they meet.
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Of course, she may be a ''normal'' person, but even normal people get mixed up with names sometimes. The outcome is the same - she can't pin the name down. This may be a RunningGag.
Better yet, maybe Bob is an [[LawOfAlienNames alien]], SuperHero, or an otherworldly creature in general, with a strange and/or [[OverlyLongName long]] name - how ''could'' she know it?
Sandbox/IntentionalMisnaming is a SisterTrope in which using the wrong name on purpose is a bullying tactic.
If the misnaming is a one-off incident in an emotional moment, it's WrongNameOutburst. If TheFool genuinely'' thinks'' Person B is someone else, it's ThoroughlyMistakenIdentity.
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!Examples:
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[[folder:Advertising]]
* In a [=FedEx=] commercial, a guy walks into a [=FedEx=]/Kinko's and sets down a package that he says needs to be shipped to Pahonicks. The rep claims they can ship anything anywhere, but he's never heard of Pahonicks. The customer gets exasperated and says it's the largest city in Arizona, to which another customer says, "You mean ''Phoenix''?" Cue awkward laughter from stupid guy, as everyone looks on in pity.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Ichigo does this a lot according to Tatsuki, though not too frequently onscreen -- not only does he get names wrong, but he misread Uryu's name as a GIRL. He also manages to totally forget about a classmate who's been bugging him for years to join his club.
** Ichigo, upon meeting Yasutora Sado, misreads his name card, and keeps calling him "Chad" despite being corrected. The nickname eventually sticks, and in the dub and English manga (in which the classmates [[FirstNameBasis typically use first names]]), his classmates, teachers and Ichigo's other friends call him "Chad", when in the original, they had called him "Sado" -- only his grandfather calls him Yasutora.
** Due to the difficuly of pronouncing his name and her being a {{cloudcuckoolander}}, Orihime always calls Shishigawara "Sushigawara".
* In ''Manga/{{Club 9}}'': Haruo Hattori has such a thick country accent that when she introduces herself to Tokyo club hostesses, they immediately start calling her "Hello-chan".
* In the episode of ''Anime/CowboyBebop'' where the crew finds Ed's father, he has an assistant named [=MacIntyre=]. He never gets it right, always forgetting and at times calling him [=MacIntosh=] or something else beginning with "Mac". At least he's ''aware'' of the problem, at one point referring to his assistant as "[=MacInwhatever=]" when he was in a particular hurry and didn't have time to even ''attempt'' to get it right. (The assistant, naturally, yells a correction even as they hurry off.)
* Because of some initial confusion, all of the Deimon Devil Bats in ''Manga/{{Eyeshield 21}}'' think Raimon Taro's name is "Monta." Sena misread the kanji for his name as "Kaminari Montarou"; Hiruma later uses this mistake to his advantage by claiming it's a nickname derived from football legend Joe Montana (and lies to Monta by saying he played the same position).
* ''Manga/GreatTeacherOnizuka'':
** Onizuka frequently calls Principal Uchiyamada "Xavier", after monk Fransisco Xavier, because of Uchiyamada's bald head. He doesn't do it on purpose at all, he seems to just associate the two in his mind for some reason.
** He also can't seem to remember Teshigawara's name at all. His attempts to recall it don't even come close. Just to give an example of how bad it gets, he once refers to him as "''Toxic Socks Warrior''", without any sign that he doesn't think it's his actual name.
* Assistant chief security maid Yashima Sanae in ''Anime/HanaukyoMaidTai La Vérité''. In Japan, "Sanae" is normally a first name, so people often call her Sanae instead of Yashima even though they've known her for a long time. She [[InsistentTerminology always corrects them when they do so]], telling them that Yashima is her first name and Sanae is her last name.
* Vita in ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha'' always screwed up Nanoha's name before they became allies. "Nantoka" actually means "something" and is used when someone refers to something that they do not know the name of. Also a bit of a pun, since the ''nano'' in her actual name is basically something you stick at the end of a sentence when you're not sure (which was the main aspect of the first season's IdiosyncraticEpisodeNaming).
-->'''Vita:''' Takamachi Nantoka!\\
'''Nanoha:''' It's Nanoha! NA! NO! HA!
* Because Luffy of ''Manga/OnePiece'' is a complete airhead, he always calls Boa Hancock "Hammock".
* ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'': This happens to Butch a lot in both the English and Japanese versions of the anime. He's been called Botch, Biff, Hutch, Bob, Butcher, and many others. In the original Japanese, his name is Kosaburo, but he always gets called Kosanji. Seems to happen so often that he immediately replies "It's Butch!" when spoken to. In an episode of the spinoff ''Pokémon Chronicles'', Butch is actually called the correct name for a change, and he replies with "It's Bu-Oh, wait, that's what you said!" Another time, he called himself by the wrong name when attempting to correct someone when they got it right.
* Main character Madoka in ''Anime/RinneNoLagrange'' cannot for the life of her get Villagullio's name right and he eventually gave up on trying to get her to say it right. Eventually, so does Makoka and just calls him Guivi-nii, though she almost gets it when she tries again in the second season.
* Quite a few of the dolls from the ''Anime/RozenMaiden'' anime have trouble remembering fellow doll Kanaria's name.
* ''Anime/{{S-CRY-ed}}'': Straight Cougar kept getting Mimori's name wrong because he honestly can't remember her name because he's always in a rush.
* ''Anime/SDGundamForce'': Nobody ever gets Bakunetsumaru's name right the first time around. Because it's difficult for people not native to Ark to remember it, they usually call him 'Baku'.
* ''Manga/SailorMoon'': [[TheDitz Usagi]] does this in a "Sailor Stars" episode with the VictimOfTheWeek, called Garayan, calling him ''Garapan'', which means ''colourful men's underwear'' in Japanese. She just is that much of an airhead.
* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'': Zonge, a wannabe gourmet hunter, is frequently mislabeled as Zombie or a varient by almost everyone except his two sidekicks- even the [[UpToEleven captions]] get it wrong.
* Count Alses of ''LightNovel/{{Tytania}}'' always misremembers Fan Hyulick's name as "Fan Hyulen". He is corrected on a regular basis, but this only serves to irritate him.
* Dita from ''Anime/{{Vandread}}'' is the {{Cloudcuckoolander}} version. Despite the fact that she's romantically interested in the male lead, she can't seem to remember his name and calls him "Uchuujin-[[{{Honorifics}} san]]" ("Mr. Alien") instead.
* In ''Manga/{{Working}}'', Popura is such an airhead she cannot call her co-worker Souta Takanashi properly by his name, instead calling him "Katanashi, much to his frustration." Inami got confused with that until she found out that he only lets Popura call him that. Later, Popura meets three of his sisters at their home:
-->'''Popura:''' You are all Katanashi-kun's family members!?
-->'''Kazue, Kozue and Nazuna:''' It's Ta-ka-na-shi.
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* In ''{{Tintin}}'', Bianca Castafiore just can't seem to get Captain Haddock's (or his butler, Nestor's) name quite right. The Captain gets his own back at one point. But what's funny is that she ''never gets it wrong the same way twice.''
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[[folder:Fan Fic]]
* From ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
** In a {{Crossover}} with ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', Calvin calls Alfred "Horus". Whether or not's it's intentional or not is unclear.
** Brainstorm mistakes Socrates for "Caesar", the only thing he remembers being that "[it] was Roman".
** When defending Jack Freewater, Calvin keeps forgetting his name until the end.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* In Creator/StephenKing's ''{{Carrie}}'', the high school principal is an out-of-touch nebbish. He first calls Carrie "Carrie Wright" instead of White, and then misremembers her first name as Cassie.
* Early in ''WatershipDown'', there's a memorable scene where the Threarah accidentally refers to Hazel as "Walnut."
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* ''Series/{{Blackadder}}''
** In the first series, [[BrianBlessed King Richard IV]] can never manage to remember his son Edmund's name. When he finally gets it right in the finale...
-->'''Edmund:''' Father, you called me "Edmund"!\\
'''Richard:''' WHAT? OH, SORRY, EDGAR...
** Combined with ThrowItIn in season 3, as HughLaurie actually screwed up his line.
-->'''Edmund:''' You can start by not calling me "Bladder".
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[[folder: Sports]]
* During a 1940s football game broadcast, sportscaster Red Barber accidentally introduced his play-by-play partner Russ Hodges as "Russ Hughes". An amused (or perhaps miffed) Hodges responded, "Thank you, Red Baker."
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[[folder:Theatre]]
* In ''Theatre/{{Wicked}}'', G(a)linda often refers to Boq as "Biq," usually because she can't remember. He politely corrects her every time.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Iris 2|The Azoth of Destiny}}'''s Max addresses Felt by increasingly bizarre permutations of his name, at one point referring to him as "Klein" (the name of the protagonist from the previous Atelier Iris game). If corrected, he'll call him Felt for the remainder of the current conversation, so apparently he's just that bad with names.
* ''Videogame/BeyondGoodAndEvil''
** The heroine Jade first meets her sidekick Double H after freeing him from ElectricTorture. His brain is... [[EasyAmnesia a little fried]], and after hearing her mention the [[LaResistance "IRIS" Network]], he starts calling her "Miss Thyrus." (He also calls himself "Triple Z" at one point.)
** Jade herself once refers to the suspicious "Mr. de Castellac" who hired her on a mission (which was actually a charade aiming at establishing a contact between her and the IRIS Network) as "de Cadillac".
* In ''DestroyAllHumans: Path of the Furon'', Emperor Meningitis mistakenly addresses Crypto as "Klepto", due to being senile.
--> '''Meningitis:''' Pox? Is that you? What have you done with your body? And what's that with you? Oh, it's your little house boy, ''Klepto!''\\
'''Crypto:''' CRYP-TO.\\
'''Meningitis:''' Whatever!
* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' proves that not even a ''God'' is immune to this trope. Most people you encounter find the name Amaterasu a bit too much of a mouthful to remember. The nicer ones will call you Ammy or (after a previous, respected alias) Shiranui. Less respectful ones settle for Furball.
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''
** In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', Luigi is often the victim of WhoIsThisGuyAgain. So characters use names like "[[BuffySpeak Mr. Green Mario Brother Guy]]" and "Loo...uh, some other guy!"
** Bowser does this in all three ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. Bowser has fixated on Mario as his greatest enemy, and always forgets Luigi's name. So Bowser uses names like "Green 'Stache" to refer to Luigi.
** Used repeatedly in ''[[VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door]]''. The Puni elder thinks Mario's name is "Marty-o," the ancient mayor of Petalburg calls him "Murphy" due to his hearing problems, and the Yoshi who joins your party calls you "Gonzalez." That last one is {{justified|Trope}} because said Yoshi is born in a fighting-club type place, the Glitz Pit, where Mario's stage name is "the Great Gonzalez". (Mario didn't choose the name; his manager did.)
** The clueless "detective" Pennington, who thinks Mario is Luigi. ([[spoiler:In the sequence just before the final battle resumes, another character calls Mario by his proper name, and the detective is absolutely stunned at the notion of himself simply being ''wrong''.]])
** And also Zess T. who keeps referring to Mario with names such as "Stompy" and "Sir Crush-A-Lot" after he accidentally steps on her contact lenses.
** And Doopliss. [[spoiler:After he replaces Vivian of the Shadow Sirens, Beldam starts calling him "Freak-in-Sheet".]]
*** Doopliss himself calls almost everyone "Slick."
** In the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' crossover ''VideoGame/FortuneStreet'', Bowser occasionally refers to the Dragonlord as "Lizardboss".
* In ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'', Danette refers to the eponymous World Eaters as "[[BuffySpeak World... Thingies]]", due to her atrocious memory. She also never remembers Gig's name, much to his annoyance.
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'':
** In ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorney 3'', Godot calls the title attorney "Trite" all the time [[spoiler:until the last episode, where, defeated, he calls Wright by his real name]]. In Japan, where Phoenix is called Ryuuichi Naruhodo, Godot calls him "Maruhodo". In the first game, Redd White insists on calling him "Mr. Wrong".
** ''VisualNovel/ApolloJusticeAceAttorney'' also seems to be a frequent victim of this (rival prosecutor Klavier always calls him "Herr Forehead"), and there's even a scene where Apollo keeps getting the names of other characters wrong, prompting Trucy to say his name wrongly in the same way (such as calling him "Apololo" when he refers to Alita Tiala as "Alita Tialita").
* In ''VisualNovel/LittleBusters'', every time Rin says [[RepetitiveName Sasasegawa Sasami]]'s name she manages to mess it up in some way, usually by saying something that sounds ''vaguely'' similar. The name ''is'' a mouthful, but only Rin, [[NotGoodWithPeople with a general lack of care about other people]] [[UnknownRival and Sasami in particular]] consistently gets it wrong.
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[[folder:Web Animation]]
* In ''WebAnimation/DoraleousAndAssociates'', a RunningGag of the series is that no-one outside the the Associates can pronounce his name right, with "Doralingus" being the most popular pronunciation.
* In ''Machinima/MeleesEnd'', Marth constantly mixes up people's names because he's a complete [[TheDitz ditz]].
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[[folder:Web Comics]]
* In ''Webcomic/DMOfTheRings'', nobody could keep any of the names straight. Notable ones include Aragorn referring to Théoden as "King Crazypants", mixing up Sauron and Saruman, and forgetting the names of their own party members. Rivendell is Rivertown or [[ArchieComics Riverdale]], Théoden is Theogan, and the Nazgûl are [[CrowningMomentOfFunny Nargazoids]].
-->'''Aragorn:''' [[Franchise/EvilDead Hail to the king, baby]]! Aragorn, son of Andúril is back!\\
'''DM:''' ... Andúril is the name of your ''sword'', dumbass.
* Reginald from ''Webcomic/{{Nedroid}}'' takes this to the extreme when, at the end of an evening of romance, he accidentally calls his date Becky "Lord Voldemort".
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' episode "Old Man Dexter", as Dexter is deemed too young to watch late night TV, he scientifically ages himself... [[GrumpyOldMan a little too much.]] As such, senility kicks in as he asks his sister to help him up on the living room couch.
-->'''Dexter:''' A little help there, um... [[SpeciesLostAndFound Dodo?]]\\
'''[=DeeDee=]:''' [=DeeDee=].\\
'''Dexter:''' [[BabyLanguage Daa Daa?]]\\
'''[=DeeDee=]:''' [=DeeDee=].\\
'''Dexter:''' [[ToiletHumour Doo Doo?]]\\
'''[=DeeDee=]:''' [=DeeDee=].\\
* ''{{Duckman}}'' constantly forgets the name of his son, Mambo, calling him by other unusual or ridiculous names like La Bamba and Mandingo. In one episode, he forgets Charles' name instead.
* On ''WesternAnimation/TheFairlyOddParents'', several characters have forgotten Timmy's name. [[AsianAirhead Trixie Tang]] is the one that comes to most fans' minds, but several others have forgotten at one point: Cosmo, his parents, Adam West, and Quddus (in the TRL interview).
* One ''WesternAnimation/HouseOfMouse'' animated short ("computer.don") was about Donald Duck buying a talking personal computer that can recognize people's names, but the computer misunderstands Donald's SpeechImpediment and consistently refers to him as "Duo."
* In "The Greatest Story Never Told" of ''WesternAnimation/JusticeLeagueUnlimited'', episode centerpiece BoosterGold is constantly referred to or otherwise mistaken for Green Lantern despite his gold-and-blue color scheme.
* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDramaIsland'': Lindsay is getting everybody's name wrong. Although she can usually remember somebody's name if they're (at the moment) important to her. For example she remembers Heather's name throughout the whole TDI season; when she calls her "Hannah" in the special Heather is clearly shocked, because is means Lindsay is no longer her puppet. It's PlayedForLaughs much more in ''World Tour'', where she just can't get her boyfriend's name right. She calls him Noah, a character she's had no on-screen interaction with. Ergo, she can remember a name or a face, but never both!
* In ''WidgetTheWorldWatcher'', the male elder keeps forgeting and mispronounces Widget's name every time they meet.
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