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* Throughout the first season of ''Series/RemingtonSteele'', Steele invariably calls Bernice Fox (Laura Holt's secretary) "Miss Wolfe".
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* In ''[[Manga/TegamiBachi Letter Bee]]'', one older Letter Bee Bee, Moc Sullivan, derides Lag for going beyond the call of duty, and calls him "Lang" and "Lob" before departing and ignoring Lag as he calls out his actual name.
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* In ''Anime/GirlsUndPanzer'', '''So'''no Mi'''do'''ri'''ko''' is often known as "Sodoko", particularly by Maho, whom she frequently lectures for being late, as well as the student council, and she often responds by telling people not to call her that. However, she and her friends on the disciplinary committee- Gomoyo and Pazomi- tend to call each other by their nicknames.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode spoofing competition movies, Stan Marsh's self-proclaimed rival takes to calling him Stan "Darsh". This leads to a {{Woolseyism}} in the German Dub--where he calls him Stan "Arsch".
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode spoofing competition movies, Stan Marsh's self-proclaimed rival takes to calling him Stan "Darsh". This leads "Stan Darsh," which he seems to think is a clever put-down. A {{Woolseyism}} in the German Dub--where he calls Dub has him Stan "Arsch".use the name "Stan Arsch," meaning "Stan Ass," which actually ''is'' an insult.
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* In ''Anime/PantyAndStockingWithGarterbelt'', Panty and Stocking Anarchy always call Brief "Geek Boy", because he's a geek and they think it's beneath them to remember his name. At one point, Brief is held hostage at gunpoint and begs them to address him by his name before he dies. They refuse, but save him. [[spoiler: When Panty falls in love with him, she finally starts calling him by his name.]]
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* RumpoleOfTheBailey frequently addresses his obnoxious Head of Chambers, 'Soapy' Sam Ballard QC, as "Bollard".
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* In ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', Endora would constantly diss Darrin by calling him things like "Durwood", "What's-his-name," "Darwin," "Dum-Dum," etc.
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* There was an instance on [[Radio/TrueCapitalist True Capitalist Radio]] during {{Twitter}} shout outs where someone tweeted with the name "[[AdolfHitler Adolf Ghostler]]". Ghost [[BerserkButton reacted as you'd expect]], and since then it became a common and effective trolling tactic to intentionally refer to him as "Ghostler" (though the effectiveness started to wane over time, but never completely disappeared).
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* ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'': Sergeant Frog is forever known as "bokegaeru" (dumb frog) to Natsumi.
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* Tozuwa from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' jokingly refers to Masane as Masamune (big chest) because of her large breasts. In the English dub he calls her "Melanie", because of her "melons".
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* ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' has the rather unusual case of Yasu in Episode 7, a servant scorned and mocked by [[AmbiguousGender their]] older fellow servants due to their very young age and thus given this nickname. The last name is "Yasuda", but we never learn the given name, so the fandom only knows this character as "Yasu", even though they hate being called that. [[spoiler:Well, the fandom also knows them as "Shannon" or "Beatrice".]]
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* ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' ''VisualNovel/UminekoWhenTheyCry'' has the rather unusual case of Yasu in Episode 7, a servant scorned and mocked by [[AmbiguousGender their]] older fellow servants due to their very young age and inexperience and thus given this nickname. The last name is "Yasuda", but we never learn the given name, so the fandom only knows this character as "Yasu", even though they hate being called that. [[spoiler:Well, the fandom also knows them as "Shannon" "Shannon", "Kanon" or "Beatrice".]]
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May be a form of IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery and EmbarrassingNickname. See also HeyYou. For other times when somebody gets someone else's name wrong, see MyNameIsNotDurwood.
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* ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' has the rather unusual case of Yasu in Episode 7, a servant scorned and mocked by [[AmiguousGender [[AmbiguousGender their]] older fellow servants due to their very young age and thus given this nickname. The last name is "Yasuda", but we never learn the given name, so the fandom only knows this character as "Yasu", even though they hate being called that. [[spoiler:Well, the fandom also knows them as "Shannon" or "Beatrice".]]
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* ''UminekoNoNakuKoroNi'' has the rather unusual case of Yasu in Episode 7, a servant scorned and mocked by [[AmiguousGender their]] older fellow servants due to their very young age and thus given this nickname. The last name is "Yasuda", but we never learn the given name, so the fandom only knows this character as "Yasu", even though they hate being called that. [[spoiler:Well, the fandom also knows them as "Shannon" or "Beatrice".]]
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For whatever reason, Person A hates or dislikes Person B. Person A repeatedly and intentionally calls Person B a name to rile them up, specifically a mutation of their own name.
Depending on the age [[ManChild or maturity of]] Person A, it can range from a clever insult, like if Alice calls Bob "Becky" to imply he's a girl, to some embarrassingly juvenile, like if Bob calls Alice "Malice", "Callous", or something that's not even a word like "Smalice" ("Smelly Alice").
In JapaneseMedia, an older woman might do this to a younger woman intentionally to show disrespect. As per Japanese customs it is considered best to stop correcting them after it's clear they're doing it deliberately and simply tolerate the insult.
Another possibility is that the two individuals have an OddFriendship, and person A refers to person B that way as a form of casual teasing. Person B may dislike the nickname, but Person A is too daft to realise that.
Depending on the age [[ManChild or maturity of]] Person A, it can range from a clever insult, like if Alice calls Bob "Becky" to imply he's a girl, to some embarrassingly juvenile, like if Bob calls Alice "Malice", "Callous", or something that's not even a word like "Smalice" ("Smelly Alice").
In JapaneseMedia, an older woman might do this to a younger woman intentionally to show disrespect. As per Japanese customs it is considered best to stop correcting them after it's clear they're doing it deliberately and simply tolerate the insult.
Another possibility is that the two individuals have an OddFriendship, and person A refers to person B that way as a form of casual teasing. Person B may dislike the nickname, but Person A is too daft to realise that.
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* In TheBible, the goddess Astarte is referred to as "Ashtoreth". The latter notably more resembles the word "bosheth" meaning abomination.
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* Sports reporter Jim Rome called football player Jim Everett "Chris" for years (named for the female tennis player, Chris Evert, so it was a stab at his manhood). They finally met on the TV show, ''Talk2'', and Everett warned him not to do it again. Rome did, and Everett flipped over the table and knocked Rome out of his chair, as seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNgqQVHI_8 this video]]. Many Rome detractors regard this as a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Since that incident, Rome regularly disconnects callers on his radio show who do the same thing to other male athletes.
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* Sports reporter Jim Rome called football player Jim Everett "Chris" for years (named for (a reference to the female tennis player, Chris Evert, so it was a stab at his manhood). They finally met on the TV show, ''Talk2'', and Everett warned him not to do it again. Rome did, and Everett flipped over the table and knocked Rome out of his chair, as seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNgqQVHI_8 this video]]. Many Rome detractors regard this as a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Since that incident, Rome regularly disconnects callers on his radio show who do the same thing to other male athletes.
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* {{Jerkass}} sports reporter Jim Rome called football player Jim Everett "Chris" for years (named for the female tennis player, so it was a stab at his manhood). They finally met on a sports show and Everett warned him not to do it again. Rome did, and Jim Everett flipped over the table and rushed him, as seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNgqQVHI_8 this video]]. Many Rome-haters regard this as a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Since that incident, Rome regularly disconnects callers to his radio show who do the same thing to other male athletes. Learned lesson or just bad memories of what Everett did to him?
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* {{Jerkass}} sports Sports reporter Jim Rome called football player Jim Everett "Chris" for years (named for the female tennis player, Chris Evert, so it was a stab at his manhood). They finally met on a sports show the TV show, ''Talk2'', and Everett warned him not to do it again. Rome did, and Jim Everett flipped over the table and rushed him, knocked Rome out of his chair, as seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNgqQVHI_8 this video]]. Many Rome-haters Rome detractors regard this as a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Since that incident, Rome regularly disconnects callers to on his radio show who do the same thing to other male athletes. Learned lesson or just bad memories of what Everett did to him?
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* In VideoGame/AlanWake, Agent Nightingale calls Alan by a different author's name pretty much every time he opens his mouth. Not all of them are male authors, either.
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* [[{{Series/DoctorWho}} The First Doctor]] also could never seem to remember Ian Chesterton's last name much to Ian's annoyance. Chesterman? Chesterfield? The Doctor never could get it right. How much of this was on purpose and how much was William Hartnell forgetting his lines has been the subject of some debate so this entry may be party accidental and part malicious.
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** Dr. Cox does this to people. He has a tendency to call J.D. either girls names or "Newbie" even when he's been at the hospital for several years, he calls Elliot "Barbie", and Turk "Gandhi", "Turtlehead" and "Scalpel Jockey". Dr. Kelso also seems to think Chris Turk's name is "Turk Turkleton". When Turk calls Dr. Kelso on this, pointing out his name is "Chris Turk", Kelso looks at him for a moment, then rallies by claiming he's fully aware of the fact, he just likes "Turkelton" better. He also calls Turk "Turkleberry" and "Turkledawg" at least once. It should be noted that he ''never'' calls Carla anything other than her name (Nurse Espinosa), which proves his respect for her and Dr. Cox always calls her Carla. [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious When he does call J.D., Turk, or Elliot by their real names, he's probably trying to be less of a jerk and more serious.]] This is very rare, incidentally.
** Doctor [[ItsPronouncedTropay Beardfacé]] is another constant victim of this trope, referred to as "Doctor Beardface" by pretty much everyone at Sacred Heart.
** Snoop Dogg Intern/Resident/Attending presumably has a real name that no one ever uses. Unlike all the other nicknames people on the show have, he doesn't seem to mind being called Snoop Dogg, as long as you get his title right. Although in "Their Story", it's revealed via inner monologue he'd like to be called by his name, Ronald.
** The Janitor has been called names such as Lurch and Sasquatch for two reasons: One is his imposing height and the other is that his name is guarded (by the character and the writers) like the gold at Fort Knox.
** JD calls Elliot "Smelliot" in one episode; when she reveals she wasn't that bothered by it, The Todd complains that she got mad at ''him'' for calling her [[RefugeInAudacity "Vagina Face".]]
** Dr. Cox does this to people. He has a tendency to call J.D. either girls names or "Newbie" even when he's been at the hospital for several years, he calls Elliot "Barbie", and Turk "Gandhi", "Turtlehead" and "Scalpel Jockey". Dr. Kelso also seems to think Chris Turk's name is "Turk Turkleton". When Turk calls Dr. Kelso on this, pointing out his name is "Chris Turk", Kelso looks at him for a moment, then rallies by claiming he's fully aware of the fact, he just likes "Turkelton" better. He also calls Turk "Turkleberry" and "Turkledawg" at least once. It should be noted that he ''never'' calls Carla anything other than her name (Nurse Espinosa), which proves his respect for her and Dr. Cox always calls her Carla. [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious When he does call J.D., Turk, or Elliot by their real names, he's probably trying to be less of a jerk and more serious.]] This is very rare, incidentally.
** Doctor [[ItsPronouncedTropay Beardfacé]] is another constant victim of this trope, referred to as "Doctor Beardface" by pretty much everyone at Sacred Heart.
** Snoop Dogg Intern/Resident/Attending presumably has a real name that no one ever uses. Unlike all the other nicknames people on the show have, he doesn't seem to mind being called Snoop Dogg, as long as you get his title right. Although in "Their Story", it's revealed via inner monologue he'd like to be called by his name, Ronald.
** The Janitor has been called names such as Lurch and Sasquatch for two reasons: One is his imposing height and the other is that his name is guarded (by the character and the writers) like the gold at Fort Knox.
** JD calls Elliot "Smelliot" in one episode; when she reveals she wasn't that bothered by it, The Todd complains that she got mad at ''him'' for calling her [[RefugeInAudacity "Vagina Face".]]
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* A ''WesternAnimation/BeavisAndButthead'' episode spoofing ''Series/LeaveItToBeaver'' has Beavis as "The Beavis" and Todd as Eddie.
--> '''Todd''': So...Beaver.
--> '''Beavis''': Um, the name's "Beavis", sir.
--> '''Todd''': Oh, well excuse me...Beaver.
--> '''Todd''': So...Beaver.
--> '''Beavis''': Um, the name's "Beavis", sir.
--> '''Todd''': Oh, well excuse me...Beaver.
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** In "The Devil's Playhouse" the two always misprounce main bad guy Skunkape's (Pronounced Skoon-KAH-Peh) as just "Skunkape". At first it might seem unintentional, but the fact that they're the ''only'' characters who don't pronounce it correctly, it soon becomes clear that they're doing it just to be obnoxious.
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* In the ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' episode spoofing competition movies, Stan Marsh's self-proclaimed rival takes to calling him Stan "Darsh". This leads to a {{Woolseyism}} in the German Dub--where he calls him Stan "Arsch".
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Diane [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-10-10 does this]] to Justin, calling him Jason. This same mistake has occurred on the boards amusingly enough [[AccidentalMisnaming unintentionally]].
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* In ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'', Diane [[http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2007-10-10 does this]] to Justin, calling him Jason. This same mistake has occurred on the boards amusingly enough [[AccidentalMisnaming unintentionally]].
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* [[{{Series/DoctorWho}} The Doctor]] used to call Mickey "Rickey," clearly to irritate him. It took over a season for him to warm up enough to use the poor bloke's real name.
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For whatever reason, Person A hates or dislikes Person B. Person A repeatedly and intentionally calls Person B a name to rile them up, specifically a mutation of their own name.
Depending on the age [[ManChild or maturity of]] Person A, it can range from a clever insult, like if Alice calls Bob "Becky" to imply he's a girl, to some embarrassingly juvenile, like if Bob calls Alice "Malice", "Callous", or something that's not even a word like "Smalice" ("Smelly Alice").
In JapaneseMedia, an older woman might do this to a younger woman intentionally to show disrespect. As per Japanese customs it is considered best to stop correcting them after it's clear they're doing it deliberately and simply tolerate the insult.
Another possibility is that the two individuals have an OddFriendship, and person A refers to person B that way as a form of casual teasing. Person B may dislike the nickname, but Person A is too daft to realise that.
May be a form of IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery and EmbarrassingNickname. See also HeyYou.
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* Hachikuji Mayoi of ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' enjoys adding extra 'ra' syllables to Koyomi Araragi's name. Arararararagi-san! [[BlatantLies When confronted, she claims she stuttered.]] She's not being mean, though. The two simply have a very strange friendship.
* In ''Anime/{{Basquash}}'', Dan twists Sela's nickname "Platinum Hurricane" into, among other things, "Platitude Hotpad" and "Plastic Candycane".
* In the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' dub, Davis calls TK "TE", "TJ", and pretty much every other combination. TK suspects he does it intentionally. In the original version, this was a none-too-translatable pronoun -- and honorific-related matter that basically amounts to Daisuke calling Takeru "HeyYou" with a bit of extra pointedness. In one instance where a flustered Davis calls him "TA", TK questions it, and Kari giggles, "He can't even spell TK!" Though it was ''definitely'' intentional when he called him "[[ToiletHumour TP]]". And it's been confirmed that the script writers were brave enough to go through the whole alphabet.
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': Gintoki often calls Katsura 'Zura', which means wig, even though they've known each other since childhood. This prompts Katsura to say "It's not Zura, it's Katsura!" Parodied so many times by Katsura himself. It's also known as his {{Catchphrase}}, but Gin still hasn't caught on.
* The main character of ''LightNovel/JinruiWaSuitaiShimashita'' doesn't like people calling her the granddaughter (her grandfather is rather important). What she ''does'' like being called isn't clear.
* In his first appearance in ''Manga/HatenkouYuugi'', Rayborn refuses to tell Rahzel his name, so she decides to call him Spicy Diamond, shortened to Spicy or Spi. Even after they become friends, she sometimes calls him Spi if she's in a bad mood.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'': The title character and his rival Kōga rarely call one another by name; Inu-Yasha calls Kōga "''yasee ookami''" (variously translated as "wimpy wolf", "wolf boy", and the like), and Kōga calls Inu-Yasha "''inukkoro''" (translated as "dogface", "pup", or "dog crap"). This starts out as a sign of their active dislike for one another but gets less malicious as their rivalry does.
* In ''Anime/JinkiEXTEND'', Aoba Tsuzaki is contemptuously given the nickname "Ahobaka" by Ryouhei (''aho'' and ''baka'' both mean stupid). Later on, it becomes an affectionate nickname. In the English dub it is translated as "Aobimbo".
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Joseph challenges D'Arby to a water tension match -- a glass is filled to the rim with water, and they have to take turns dropping in a number of coins of their choice, with the loser being the one who causes the water to spill. Joseph ''intentionally'' gets D'Arby's name wrong ("Barby" and "Obby") in order to agitate him, which means he'd be less focused on keeping the water tension from breaking. [[spoiler:It doesn't work -- D'Arby had ''already'' set a cheat while setting up the glass.]]
* ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'': Sergeant Frog is forever known as "bokegaeru" (dumb frog) to Natsumi.
* In ''[[Manga/TegamiBachi Letter Bee]]'', one older Letter Bee derides Lag for going beyond the call of duty, calls him "Lang" and "Lob" before departing and ignoring Lag as he calls out his actual name.
* In ''Anime/{{Mai-Otome}}'', Sergey calls our lovely heroine Arika "arinko" ("ant girl") based on her name and how her [[GirlishPigtails hairstyle]] makes her braids look like antennae. It's fairly obvious the term is meant to be affectionately insulting, given his [[JerkAss immaturity]] and his [[MayDecemberRomance attraction]] to Arika [[spoiler: because of his infatuation with her mother, Lena.]] Mahya also uses this nickname on Arika in ''Anime/MaiOtomeZwei''.
* In ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', the members of the Host Club refer to Kasanoda as Casanova or Bossa-Nova in order to humiliate him.
* In ''Manga/SailorMoon'' Mamoru calls Usagi Odango-atama (literally, Dumpling Head -- or, if you go by the dub, [[{{Woolseyism}} Meatball Head]]) based on her hairstyle. She hates it at first and throughout the first season insists that "They're not odangos!" Once she and Mamoru start dating, it becomes a pet name (though Usa-ko is used far more often) and other masculine (though not male) characters, namely Haruka and Seiya, start using it as well.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', main character Lina does it frequently, to mock enemies she doesn't respect. She called Zolf only "third-rate wizard" and "mummy-man". And played it even further with [[UnknownRival Naga]]: she pretended to forget her name, then asked again ''right after'' Naga gave her name anew, ''then'' suddenly turned another way -- "remembered" their last meeting and said she was joking and is not about to forget the name of a girl who managed to [[DidntThinkThisThrough fry her own butt]]. Just to exploit every possible avenue of humiliation.
* Barnaby from ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' is not happy about the EmbarrassingNickname his partner Kotetsu insists on calling him by. While he gives up on complaining around episode 5 or so, he still continues to dislike it enough [[spoiler:to snap out of a brainwashed state of sorts just to inform Kotetsu that "[his] name is not Bunny! It's ''Barnaby!''"]]
* In ''Anime/TheTwelveKingdoms'' the maid Suzu is called "Mokurin" (which means "Fool" in the local language) by her {{Jerkass}} mistress Riyo. At some point, the poor girl has a breakdown and starts screaming, "I'm not Mokurin! My name is Suzu! SUZU!"
* Tozuwa from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' jokingly refers to Masane as Masamune (big chest) because of her large breasts. In the English dub he calls her "Melanie", because of her "melons".
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* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' has a newsletter written by Dogbert, that people can send questions to. Dogbert will invariably give an insulting answer, starting by punnily misstating their name.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Retail}}'', the original district manager, Jerry, would often refer to Marla as Darla. After Jerry got promoted to another part of the country the new D.M. revealed that Jerry knew Marla's real name, [[JerkAss but pretended that he didn't]]. A year later Jerry [[TheBusCameBack returned to the strip]] and is now calling Marla by her correct name (probably because she knew the ruse now). He's still an asshole, though.
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* When ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' [[{{Crossover}} crosses over]] with ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', Calvin calls Alfred "Horus". Whether it was intentional or not is unknown.
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* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''
** Mr. D (a.k.a. [[PhysicalGod Dionysus]]) intentionally refuses to call Percy by name, usually calling him Peter Johnson, or some other similar name.
** Annabeth also calls Percy "Seaweed Brain" for most of the first book, and continues to as an friendly/affectionate nickname for the remainder of the series.
* In Creator/KimNewman's AlternateHistory novella ''Teddy Bear's Picnic'', film director Michael Powell makes a deliberate decision to refer to the government censor Putnam as "Putt-man", and instructs all of his staff to do the same.
* In ''ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn'', Aunt Sissy has an affinity for the name "John" and addresses all her husbands and lovers to the point that her family doesn't always learn their real names. Her third husband asserts himself toward the end, insisting that Sissy and her family call him "Steve". Sissy's affectation was changed to "Bill" in the film version, for obvious reasons. Sissy is sexually liberated for her time, but she is not a prostitute.
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[[folder: Live Action Television]]
* In season 4 of Series/{{Blackadder}} [[LargeHam Captain Flashheart]] uses this derisive nickname for the eponymous character:
-->'''Flashheart''': Well, well, well, well, well, if it isn't old captain Slackbladder.
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[[folder: Myth & Legends]]
* In TheBible, the goddess Astarte is referred to as "Ashtoreth". The latter notably more resembles the word "bosheth" meaning abomination.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Radio]]
* In Radio/AbsolutePower, Charles Prentiss always called the French waiter, Maurice, "Morris". When Maurice corrected this ("Maur-ees"), Charles would launch a more devastating putdown.
* On Radio/HelloCheeky, John Junkin casually addressed Barry Cryer as "Fatty". On one occassion, Barry calls him out on it with the reasoning that he's no longer fat. John complies — and refers to him as "Skinny" for the rest of the episode.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sports]]
* {{Jerkass}} sports reporter Jim Rome called football player Jim Everett "Chris" for years (named for the female tennis player, so it was a stab at his manhood). They finally met on a sports show and Everett warned him not to do it again. Rome did, and Jim Everett flipped over the table and rushed him, as seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNgqQVHI_8 this video]]. Many Rome-haters regard this as a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Since that incident, Rome regularly disconnects callers to his radio show who do the same thing to other male athletes. Learned lesson or just bad memories of what Everett did to him?
* For years after Muhammad Ali changed his name from Cassius Clay, many people still refused to call him by his new name.
** Ernie Terrell was one of them, and in 1967 in the fight known as the "What's My Name?" fight Ali made him pay for it. Ali pummeled Terrell mercilessly while repeatedly screaming "WHAT'S MY NAME?" at Terrell. It is regarded as one of the few times Ali actually cut loose and showed unbridled ferocity in the ring.
** Oscar Bonavena got the same treatment for the same reason.
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[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVI'', Gau is highly amused by Cyan's YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe dialect. In the conversation that follows, he starts referring to ''Sabin'' as "Mr. Thou", to Sabin's annoyance.
* When Karin recruits [[SmallNameBigEgo Eyrios]] in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Thracia 776]]'', she decides that he would not be so stuck-up if his name was more ordinary-sounding, and thus calls him Olson (much to his displeasure).
* In ''[[GanbareGoemon Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon]]'', the BigBad is a [[LargeHam theatrical]] man who repeatedly calls Goemon Fernandez despite Goemon's objections. According to one of his flunkies, he tends to give people the name he thinks they deserve. He even calls Ebisumaru Antonio once.
* ''JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'' has Polly, the [[SpoiledBrat bratty]] [[EnfanteTerrible child villainess]], repeatedly referring to the robot Botley (the game's ExpositionFairy) with insulting rhymes of his name, such as "Snotley" and "Potley".
* Linebeck, of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', calls [[HelloInsertNameHere Link]] and [[ExpositionFairy Ciela]] by any number of degrading nicknames (rarely the same one twice) right up until they head into the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon -- whereupon he admits that he envies Link's heroic resolve. After a moment, Ciela realizes he's finally [[SayMyName used her name]].
* In ''TheNamelessMod'', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Scara B. King]] pronounces the protagonist's name in a new way every time he says it. A conversation with NVShacker reveals he does this with everyone (and notes that because he pronounced it right 1 in 3 times, he thought he was on a fast track to a promotion). Scara seems to do it out of mockery. It is definitely deliberate. Trestkon calls him out on it when he uses the correct name when stressed or uses a wrong name he has used before, to which Scara responds with a new one.
* Coach Oleander uses this to mock Razputin in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.
-->'''Oleander:''' Is your name Joey?\\
'''Raz:''' No.\\
'''Oleander:''' Cause I'm gonna call you Slowy Joey.\\
'''Raz:''' That's not my name.\\
'''Oleander:''' What's that, Slowy? I can't hear you, you're talking too ''slow''.
* A running gag in the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' games is how Girl Stinky always get the eponymous duo's names wrong. She remembers their names just fine, but chooses to call them completely random names just to piss them off.
* In ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', Sonic often calls Knuckles "Knucklehead" after the latter does something particularly [[TooDumbToLive unintelligent]].
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* Okabe in ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' ''loves'' to call Kurisu "Christina" (probably due to the fact that "Kurisu" is exactly how one would render the name "Chris" in Japanese, albeit in katakana instead of kanji) much to her annoyance. So much so that she's pleasantly surprised when he doesn't. He also does this occasionally with Daru, calling him a "suupaa hakaa" (usually rendered in subtitles as "Super Haker") instead of a "suupaa hakkaa" ("Super Hacker"), which Daru is always quick to correct. It's a very subtle difference, with only a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop glottal stop]] separating the (intentionally) incorrect pronunciation from the correct one.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Out of the Past", Terry persistently mispronounces Ra's Al Ghul as RAUZ (the same pronunciation used in ''Film/BatmanBegins'') instead of the "proper" {{DCAU}} pronunciation, RAYSH. Talia constantly corrects him, getting more and more annoyed when Terry never tries to get it right. It may look accidental, but WordOfGod says this was Terry's subtle way of dissing the criminal mastermind by not even getting his name right.
* On ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' Helga does this to insult Harold in the episode "Beaned" where she fools Arnold (and the rest) into thinking she's got amnesia.
--> '''Harold:''' "HELLO HELGA. MY NAME IS HAR-OOOLD! DO YOU REMEMBER ME?"
--> '''Helga:''' "Why, of course I remember you, ''Cheryl''."
--> '''Arnold:''' "Come on, I'll help you find your locker."
--> '''Helga:''' "What is 'locker'?"
--> '''Stinky:''' "I reckon' that's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen..."
--> '''Rhonda:''' "She's turned into a total freak!"
--> '''Harold:''' "And she's calling me Cheryl!"
* On ''{{WesternAnimation/ReBoot}}'', Enzo often calls the viruses insulting nicknames, such as Megabreath and Hexadismal. Also, only Dot seems to pronounce Cecil's name correctly (Ceh-cil, not Cee-cil).
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Depending on the age [[ManChild or maturity of]] Person A, it can range from a clever insult, like if Alice calls Bob "Becky" to imply he's a girl, to some embarrassingly juvenile, like if Bob calls Alice "Malice", "Callous", or something that's not even a word like "Smalice" ("Smelly Alice").
In JapaneseMedia, an older woman might do this to a younger woman intentionally to show disrespect. As per Japanese customs it is considered best to stop correcting them after it's clear they're doing it deliberately and simply tolerate the insult.
Another possibility is that the two individuals have an OddFriendship, and person A refers to person B that way as a form of casual teasing. Person B may dislike the nickname, but Person A is too daft to realise that.
May be a form of IrritationIsTheSincerestFormOfFlattery and EmbarrassingNickname. See also HeyYou.
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!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Hachikuji Mayoi of ''LightNovel/{{Bakemonogatari}}'' enjoys adding extra 'ra' syllables to Koyomi Araragi's name. Arararararagi-san! [[BlatantLies When confronted, she claims she stuttered.]] She's not being mean, though. The two simply have a very strange friendship.
* In ''Anime/{{Basquash}}'', Dan twists Sela's nickname "Platinum Hurricane" into, among other things, "Platitude Hotpad" and "Plastic Candycane".
* In the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' dub, Davis calls TK "TE", "TJ", and pretty much every other combination. TK suspects he does it intentionally. In the original version, this was a none-too-translatable pronoun -- and honorific-related matter that basically amounts to Daisuke calling Takeru "HeyYou" with a bit of extra pointedness. In one instance where a flustered Davis calls him "TA", TK questions it, and Kari giggles, "He can't even spell TK!" Though it was ''definitely'' intentional when he called him "[[ToiletHumour TP]]". And it's been confirmed that the script writers were brave enough to go through the whole alphabet.
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'': Gintoki often calls Katsura 'Zura', which means wig, even though they've known each other since childhood. This prompts Katsura to say "It's not Zura, it's Katsura!" Parodied so many times by Katsura himself. It's also known as his {{Catchphrase}}, but Gin still hasn't caught on.
* The main character of ''LightNovel/JinruiWaSuitaiShimashita'' doesn't like people calling her the granddaughter (her grandfather is rather important). What she ''does'' like being called isn't clear.
* In his first appearance in ''Manga/HatenkouYuugi'', Rayborn refuses to tell Rahzel his name, so she decides to call him Spicy Diamond, shortened to Spicy or Spi. Even after they become friends, she sometimes calls him Spi if she's in a bad mood.
* ''Manga/InuYasha'': The title character and his rival Kōga rarely call one another by name; Inu-Yasha calls Kōga "''yasee ookami''" (variously translated as "wimpy wolf", "wolf boy", and the like), and Kōga calls Inu-Yasha "''inukkoro''" (translated as "dogface", "pup", or "dog crap"). This starts out as a sign of their active dislike for one another but gets less malicious as their rivalry does.
* In ''Anime/JinkiEXTEND'', Aoba Tsuzaki is contemptuously given the nickname "Ahobaka" by Ryouhei (''aho'' and ''baka'' both mean stupid). Later on, it becomes an affectionate nickname. In the English dub it is translated as "Aobimbo".
* In ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'', Joseph challenges D'Arby to a water tension match -- a glass is filled to the rim with water, and they have to take turns dropping in a number of coins of their choice, with the loser being the one who causes the water to spill. Joseph ''intentionally'' gets D'Arby's name wrong ("Barby" and "Obby") in order to agitate him, which means he'd be less focused on keeping the water tension from breaking. [[spoiler:It doesn't work -- D'Arby had ''already'' set a cheat while setting up the glass.]]
* ''Manga/KeroroGunsou'': Sergeant Frog is forever known as "bokegaeru" (dumb frog) to Natsumi.
* In ''[[Manga/TegamiBachi Letter Bee]]'', one older Letter Bee derides Lag for going beyond the call of duty, calls him "Lang" and "Lob" before departing and ignoring Lag as he calls out his actual name.
* In ''Anime/{{Mai-Otome}}'', Sergey calls our lovely heroine Arika "arinko" ("ant girl") based on her name and how her [[GirlishPigtails hairstyle]] makes her braids look like antennae. It's fairly obvious the term is meant to be affectionately insulting, given his [[JerkAss immaturity]] and his [[MayDecemberRomance attraction]] to Arika [[spoiler: because of his infatuation with her mother, Lena.]] Mahya also uses this nickname on Arika in ''Anime/MaiOtomeZwei''.
* In ''Manga/OuranHighSchoolHostClub'', the members of the Host Club refer to Kasanoda as Casanova or Bossa-Nova in order to humiliate him.
* In ''Manga/SailorMoon'' Mamoru calls Usagi Odango-atama (literally, Dumpling Head -- or, if you go by the dub, [[{{Woolseyism}} Meatball Head]]) based on her hairstyle. She hates it at first and throughout the first season insists that "They're not odangos!" Once she and Mamoru start dating, it becomes a pet name (though Usa-ko is used far more often) and other masculine (though not male) characters, namely Haruka and Seiya, start using it as well.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', main character Lina does it frequently, to mock enemies she doesn't respect. She called Zolf only "third-rate wizard" and "mummy-man". And played it even further with [[UnknownRival Naga]]: she pretended to forget her name, then asked again ''right after'' Naga gave her name anew, ''then'' suddenly turned another way -- "remembered" their last meeting and said she was joking and is not about to forget the name of a girl who managed to [[DidntThinkThisThrough fry her own butt]]. Just to exploit every possible avenue of humiliation.
* Barnaby from ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' is not happy about the EmbarrassingNickname his partner Kotetsu insists on calling him by. While he gives up on complaining around episode 5 or so, he still continues to dislike it enough [[spoiler:to snap out of a brainwashed state of sorts just to inform Kotetsu that "[his] name is not Bunny! It's ''Barnaby!''"]]
* In ''Anime/TheTwelveKingdoms'' the maid Suzu is called "Mokurin" (which means "Fool" in the local language) by her {{Jerkass}} mistress Riyo. At some point, the poor girl has a breakdown and starts screaming, "I'm not Mokurin! My name is Suzu! SUZU!"
* Tozuwa from ''Anime/{{Witchblade}}'' jokingly refers to Masane as Masamune (big chest) because of her large breasts. In the English dub he calls her "Melanie", because of her "melons".
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[[folder:Comic Strips]]
* ''ComicStrip/{{Dilbert}}'' has a newsletter written by Dogbert, that people can send questions to. Dogbert will invariably give an insulting answer, starting by punnily misstating their name.
* In ''ComicStrip/{{Retail}}'', the original district manager, Jerry, would often refer to Marla as Darla. After Jerry got promoted to another part of the country the new D.M. revealed that Jerry knew Marla's real name, [[JerkAss but pretended that he didn't]]. A year later Jerry [[TheBusCameBack returned to the strip]] and is now calling Marla by her correct name (probably because she knew the ruse now). He's still an asshole, though.
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[[folder:Fan Fic]]
* When ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'' [[{{Crossover}} crosses over]] with ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', Calvin calls Alfred "Horus". Whether it was intentional or not is unknown.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians''
** Mr. D (a.k.a. [[PhysicalGod Dionysus]]) intentionally refuses to call Percy by name, usually calling him Peter Johnson, or some other similar name.
** Annabeth also calls Percy "Seaweed Brain" for most of the first book, and continues to as an friendly/affectionate nickname for the remainder of the series.
* In Creator/KimNewman's AlternateHistory novella ''Teddy Bear's Picnic'', film director Michael Powell makes a deliberate decision to refer to the government censor Putnam as "Putt-man", and instructs all of his staff to do the same.
* In ''ATreeGrowsInBrooklyn'', Aunt Sissy has an affinity for the name "John" and addresses all her husbands and lovers to the point that her family doesn't always learn their real names. Her third husband asserts himself toward the end, insisting that Sissy and her family call him "Steve". Sissy's affectation was changed to "Bill" in the film version, for obvious reasons. Sissy is sexually liberated for her time, but she is not a prostitute.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Live Action Television]]
* In season 4 of Series/{{Blackadder}} [[LargeHam Captain Flashheart]] uses this derisive nickname for the eponymous character:
-->'''Flashheart''': Well, well, well, well, well, if it isn't old captain Slackbladder.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Myth & Legends]]
* In TheBible, the goddess Astarte is referred to as "Ashtoreth". The latter notably more resembles the word "bosheth" meaning abomination.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Radio]]
* In Radio/AbsolutePower, Charles Prentiss always called the French waiter, Maurice, "Morris". When Maurice corrected this ("Maur-ees"), Charles would launch a more devastating putdown.
* On Radio/HelloCheeky, John Junkin casually addressed Barry Cryer as "Fatty". On one occassion, Barry calls him out on it with the reasoning that he's no longer fat. John complies — and refers to him as "Skinny" for the rest of the episode.
[[/folder]]
[[folder: Sports]]
* {{Jerkass}} sports reporter Jim Rome called football player Jim Everett "Chris" for years (named for the female tennis player, so it was a stab at his manhood). They finally met on a sports show and Everett warned him not to do it again. Rome did, and Jim Everett flipped over the table and rushed him, as seen in [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9HNgqQVHI_8 this video]]. Many Rome-haters regard this as a Crowning Moment of Awesome. Since that incident, Rome regularly disconnects callers to his radio show who do the same thing to other male athletes. Learned lesson or just bad memories of what Everett did to him?
* For years after Muhammad Ali changed his name from Cassius Clay, many people still refused to call him by his new name.
** Ernie Terrell was one of them, and in 1967 in the fight known as the "What's My Name?" fight Ali made him pay for it. Ali pummeled Terrell mercilessly while repeatedly screaming "WHAT'S MY NAME?" at Terrell. It is regarded as one of the few times Ali actually cut loose and showed unbridled ferocity in the ring.
** Oscar Bonavena got the same treatment for the same reason.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* In ''Videogame/FinalFantasyVI'', Gau is highly amused by Cyan's YeOldeButcheredeEnglishe dialect. In the conversation that follows, he starts referring to ''Sabin'' as "Mr. Thou", to Sabin's annoyance.
* When Karin recruits [[SmallNameBigEgo Eyrios]] in ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemJugdral Fire Emblem: Thracia 776]]'', she decides that he would not be so stuck-up if his name was more ordinary-sounding, and thus calls him Olson (much to his displeasure).
* In ''[[GanbareGoemon Mystical Ninja: Starring Goemon]]'', the BigBad is a [[LargeHam theatrical]] man who repeatedly calls Goemon Fernandez despite Goemon's objections. According to one of his flunkies, he tends to give people the name he thinks they deserve. He even calls Ebisumaru Antonio once.
* ''JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'' has Polly, the [[SpoiledBrat bratty]] [[EnfanteTerrible child villainess]], repeatedly referring to the robot Botley (the game's ExpositionFairy) with insulting rhymes of his name, such as "Snotley" and "Potley".
* Linebeck, of ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaPhantomHourglass'', calls [[HelloInsertNameHere Link]] and [[ExpositionFairy Ciela]] by any number of degrading nicknames (rarely the same one twice) right up until they head into the VeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon -- whereupon he admits that he envies Link's heroic resolve. After a moment, Ciela realizes he's finally [[SayMyName used her name]].
* In ''TheNamelessMod'', [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Scara B. King]] pronounces the protagonist's name in a new way every time he says it. A conversation with NVShacker reveals he does this with everyone (and notes that because he pronounced it right 1 in 3 times, he thought he was on a fast track to a promotion). Scara seems to do it out of mockery. It is definitely deliberate. Trestkon calls him out on it when he uses the correct name when stressed or uses a wrong name he has used before, to which Scara responds with a new one.
* Coach Oleander uses this to mock Razputin in ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}''.
-->'''Oleander:''' Is your name Joey?\\
'''Raz:''' No.\\
'''Oleander:''' Cause I'm gonna call you Slowy Joey.\\
'''Raz:''' That's not my name.\\
'''Oleander:''' What's that, Slowy? I can't hear you, you're talking too ''slow''.
* A running gag in the ''VideoGame/SamAndMaxFreelancePolice'' games is how Girl Stinky always get the eponymous duo's names wrong. She remembers their names just fine, but chooses to call them completely random names just to piss them off.
* In ''Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog'', Sonic often calls Knuckles "Knucklehead" after the latter does something particularly [[TooDumbToLive unintelligent]].
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* Okabe in ''VisualNovel/SteinsGate'' ''loves'' to call Kurisu "Christina" (probably due to the fact that "Kurisu" is exactly how one would render the name "Chris" in Japanese, albeit in katakana instead of kanji) much to her annoyance. So much so that she's pleasantly surprised when he doesn't. He also does this occasionally with Daru, calling him a "suupaa hakaa" (usually rendered in subtitles as "Super Haker") instead of a "suupaa hakkaa" ("Super Hacker"), which Daru is always quick to correct. It's a very subtle difference, with only a [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glottal_stop glottal stop]] separating the (intentionally) incorrect pronunciation from the correct one.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BatmanBeyond'' episode "Out of the Past", Terry persistently mispronounces Ra's Al Ghul as RAUZ (the same pronunciation used in ''Film/BatmanBegins'') instead of the "proper" {{DCAU}} pronunciation, RAYSH. Talia constantly corrects him, getting more and more annoyed when Terry never tries to get it right. It may look accidental, but WordOfGod says this was Terry's subtle way of dissing the criminal mastermind by not even getting his name right.
* On ''WesternAnimation/HeyArnold'' Helga does this to insult Harold in the episode "Beaned" where she fools Arnold (and the rest) into thinking she's got amnesia.
--> '''Harold:''' "HELLO HELGA. MY NAME IS HAR-OOOLD! DO YOU REMEMBER ME?"
--> '''Helga:''' "Why, of course I remember you, ''Cheryl''."
--> '''Arnold:''' "Come on, I'll help you find your locker."
--> '''Helga:''' "What is 'locker'?"
--> '''Stinky:''' "I reckon' that's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen..."
--> '''Rhonda:''' "She's turned into a total freak!"
--> '''Harold:''' "And she's calling me Cheryl!"
* On ''{{WesternAnimation/ReBoot}}'', Enzo often calls the viruses insulting nicknames, such as Megabreath and Hexadismal. Also, only Dot seems to pronounce Cecil's name correctly (Ceh-cil, not Cee-cil).
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