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* In ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', Toko Fukawa initially calls Komaru Naegi (Makoto's younger sister) "Omaru," a nickname that means "toilet" in Japanese. In Chapter 4, after the two finally become friends, Toko [[FirstNameBasis starts calling Komaru by her first name]]. [[SplitPersonality Genocide Jack]], however, prefers to stick with "Dekomaru".
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* In the Robot Graveyard in ''VideoGame/FreedomPlanet2'', [[spoiler:Syntax]] intentionally misinterprets the input of the other characters; it falls here because [[spoiler:Syntax]] asks their identity, then autocorrects Lilac to "[[BerserkButton SQUIDHEAD]]" and everyone else to "INTRUDER".
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MaliciousMisnaming in VideoGames.
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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.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', Bayonetta loves to piss Luka off by calling him Cheshire instead of his name.
* In ''Videogame/Borderlands2'', Handsome Jack always calls his Vice President Jeffery Blake "Jimmy" no matter how many times Blake corrects him, though at least he's got a FreudianExcuse for doing so: Back when he was just a low-level programmer at the company, his own boss Mr. Tassiter would always do this to ''him'' by calling him "John", and now that he's in charge, he gets to take pleasure in being on the other end of that. ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' confirms that Tassiter indeed deliberately called Jack by the wrong name just because he noticed it pissed him off.
* One conversation between Diya and Min in ''VisualNovel/ButterflySoup'', includes them making fun of a substitute teacher for pronouncing Diya's name "DIE-ya" instead of "DEE-ya".
* In ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', Toko Fukawa initially calls Komaru Naegi (Makoto's younger sister) "Omaru," a nickname that means "toilet" in Japanese. In Chapter 4, after the two finally become friends, Toko [[FirstNameBasis starts calling Komaru by her first name]]. [[SplitPersonality Genocide Jack]], however, prefers to stick with "Dekomaru".
* Sera of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' ''refuses'' to call the BigBad by his proper name, preferring Coryphetits, Corypheshits, Coryshenuts, ect. Call her out on this and she is unrepentant; he deserves every shred of disrespect she can muster.
* In ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'', Tori loves to call belittle Mao by calling him 'saru', a corruption of his surname 'Isara' and the Japanese word for 'monkey'.
* 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/FireEmblemThracia776'', 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 ''[=FreudBot=]'' during a conversation with her son Steve's [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing, neurotic mother]] refers to his girlfriend Samantha as "Satana."
* In ''[[VideoGame/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.
* The G-Man from the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' series always refers to Gordon Freeman, [[BadassBookworm who holds a PhD in theoretical physics]], as ''Mr.'' Freeman, with emphasis on the "Mr." ([[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable then again, that's just how he talks]]). [[spoiler:After destroying [[EvilTowerOfOminousness the Citadel]] at the end of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', he finally starts addressing him as Dr. Freeman.]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/Interstate76 Interstate '82]]'', Rank Dick takes great pleasure in addressing Taurus as "Mr. Tortoise", emphasizing the "toise" part. [[spoiler: He later finds out it's not a good idea to do this to someone holding you at gunpoint.]]
* Daxter does this to Count Veger twice in ''VideoGame/Jak3'' to annoy him out of spite for banishing Jak to the desert at the beginning of the game.
* ''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'' has Polly, the [[SpoiledBrat bratty]] [[EnfantTerrible 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]].
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'':
** Chloe constantly refers to her stepdad as "step-dork" or "step-douche".
** Nathan likes to make fun of Max' last name "Caulfield", calling her "Cockfield" or "Crackfield".
* In ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VI'', [=NPCs=] who are uninterested in talking with you may get your character's name wrong on purpose. They generally address the selected party member by an incorrect name that has the same first letter as the party member's actual name.
* In the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series, this is one of Kung Lao's {{berserk button}}s.
-->'''Kung Lao''': Still slumming with the Black Dragon?\\
'''Kabal''': Suck it, Dung Lao.\\
'''Kung Lao''': ''Never'' make fun of the name.
* In ''VideoGame/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.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Futaba is introduced to Mishima at one point in her Confidant, and ends up calling him "Nishima" for the rest of the conversation, the only scene in which the two interact. Interestingly enough, if you went to Mementos after clearing the fourth Palace (which may happen before this point in Futaba's Confidant), Futaba mentions "Mishima's website" in passing, showing that she can get his name right if she wants.
* 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 "The Devil's Playhouse" the two always mispronounce 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.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', Sheriff Shinetop (who is the series' main villain [=LeChuck=] in disguise), constantly mispronounces Guybrush Threepwood's name. In one instance, his mispronunciations are completely randomized, and many of them bear no resemblance to his actual name ("Droopface," "Nosehair," "Spicecake"). When [=LeChuck=] is talking with his first mate shortly later, he pronounces Guybrush's name perfectly, strongly implying that he was employing this trope the entire time.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Sonic often calls Knuckles "Knucklehead" after the latter [[IdiotHero does something particularly unintelligent]]. He also calls [[BigBad Eggman]] "Egghead" on occasions.
** To coincide Eggman's Japanese name with his DubNameChange, ''Sonic'' canon is that "Eggman" was an insult used by Sonic and friends for Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Eventually (as in "By ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''") he reclaimed it and calls himself "Dr. Eggman" as well.
* In the first expansion of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', there were two rival factions, the Aldor and the Scryers, that referred to each other occasionally as Aldorks and Scrybabies.
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MaliciousMisnaming in VideoGames.
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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.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Bayonetta}}'', Bayonetta loves to piss Luka off by calling him Cheshire instead of his name.
* In ''Videogame/Borderlands2'', Handsome Jack always calls his Vice President Jeffery Blake "Jimmy" no matter how many times Blake corrects him, though at least he's got a FreudianExcuse for doing so: Back when he was just a low-level programmer at the company, his own boss Mr. Tassiter would always do this to ''him'' by calling him "John", and now that he's in charge, he gets to take pleasure in being on the other end of that. ''VideoGame/BorderlandsThePreSequel'' confirms that Tassiter indeed deliberately called Jack by the wrong name just because he noticed it pissed him off.
* One conversation between Diya and Min in ''VisualNovel/ButterflySoup'', includes them making fun of a substitute teacher for pronouncing Diya's name "DIE-ya" instead of "DEE-ya".
* In ''VideoGame/DanganronpaAnotherEpisodeUltraDespairGirls'', Toko Fukawa initially calls Komaru Naegi (Makoto's younger sister) "Omaru," a nickname that means "toilet" in Japanese. In Chapter 4, after the two finally become friends, Toko [[FirstNameBasis starts calling Komaru by her first name]]. [[SplitPersonality Genocide Jack]], however, prefers to stick with "Dekomaru".
* Sera of ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'' ''refuses'' to call the BigBad by his proper name, preferring Coryphetits, Corypheshits, Coryshenuts, ect. Call her out on this and she is unrepentant; he deserves every shred of disrespect she can muster.
* In ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'', Tori loves to call belittle Mao by calling him 'saru', a corruption of his surname 'Isara' and the Japanese word for 'monkey'.
* 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/FireEmblemThracia776'', 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 ''[=FreudBot=]'' during a conversation with her son Steve's [[MyBelovedSmother overbearing, neurotic mother]] refers to his girlfriend Samantha as "Satana."
* In ''[[VideoGame/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.
* The G-Man from the ''VideoGame/HalfLife'' series always refers to Gordon Freeman, [[BadassBookworm who holds a PhD in theoretical physics]], as ''Mr.'' Freeman, with emphasis on the "Mr." ([[AccentUponTheWrongSyllable then again, that's just how he talks]]). [[spoiler:After destroying [[EvilTowerOfOminousness the Citadel]] at the end of ''VideoGame/HalfLife2'', he finally starts addressing him as Dr. Freeman.]]
* In ''[[VideoGame/Interstate76 Interstate '82]]'', Rank Dick takes great pleasure in addressing Taurus as "Mr. Tortoise", emphasizing the "toise" part. [[spoiler: He later finds out it's not a good idea to do this to someone holding you at gunpoint.]]
* Daxter does this to Count Veger twice in ''VideoGame/Jak3'' to annoy him out of spite for banishing Jak to the desert at the beginning of the game.
* ''VideoGame/JumpStartAdventures3rdGradeMysteryMountain'' has Polly, the [[SpoiledBrat bratty]] [[EnfantTerrible 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]].
* ''VideoGame/LifeIsStrange'':
** Chloe constantly refers to her stepdad as "step-dork" or "step-douche".
** Nathan likes to make fun of Max' last name "Caulfield", calling her "Cockfield" or "Crackfield".
* In ''VideoGame/MightAndMagic VI'', [=NPCs=] who are uninterested in talking with you may get your character's name wrong on purpose. They generally address the selected party member by an incorrect name that has the same first letter as the party member's actual name.
* In the ''Franchise/MortalKombat'' series, this is one of Kung Lao's {{berserk button}}s.
-->'''Kung Lao''': Still slumming with the Black Dragon?\\
'''Kabal''': Suck it, Dung Lao.\\
'''Kung Lao''': ''Never'' make fun of the name.
* In ''VideoGame/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.
* In ''VideoGame/Persona5'', Futaba is introduced to Mishima at one point in her Confidant, and ends up calling him "Nishima" for the rest of the conversation, the only scene in which the two interact. Interestingly enough, if you went to Mementos after clearing the fourth Palace (which may happen before this point in Futaba's Confidant), Futaba mentions "Mishima's website" in passing, showing that she can get his name right if she wants.
* 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 "The Devil's Playhouse" the two always mispronounce 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.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSecretOfMonkeyIsland'', Sheriff Shinetop (who is the series' main villain [=LeChuck=] in disguise), constantly mispronounces Guybrush Threepwood's name. In one instance, his mispronunciations are completely randomized, and many of them bear no resemblance to his actual name ("Droopface," "Nosehair," "Spicecake"). When [=LeChuck=] is talking with his first mate shortly later, he pronounces Guybrush's name perfectly, strongly implying that he was employing this trope the entire time.
* ''VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog'':
** Sonic often calls Knuckles "Knucklehead" after the latter [[IdiotHero does something particularly unintelligent]]. He also calls [[BigBad Eggman]] "Egghead" on occasions.
** To coincide Eggman's Japanese name with his DubNameChange, ''Sonic'' canon is that "Eggman" was an insult used by Sonic and friends for Dr. Ivo Robotnik. Eventually (as in "By ''VideoGame/SonicAdventure2''") he reclaimed it and calls himself "Dr. Eggman" as well.
* In the first expansion of ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', there were two rival factions, the Aldor and the Scryers, that referred to each other occasionally as Aldorks and Scrybabies.
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