Line #75 AccidentalMisnaming/FanWorks


1	Times when a character is subjected to AccidentalMisnaming in fan works.
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3	[[AC:''Literature/{{Animorphs}}'']]
4	* In ''[[Fanfic/TheWordOfYourBody Your Body is Not an Apology]]'', Santa Barbara PD has search warrants for Jude and Rachel under their dead names, Judith and Reuben.
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6	[[AC:''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'']]
7	* Examples from Fanfic/{{the Calvinverse}}:
8	** Played with in ''Fanfic/RetroChill'': it first appears that Evil Calvin calls Susie "Marcie", but he then reveals he was actually talking to ''Moe''. He then calls him "Mack" and "Ginger".
9	** From ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries'':
10	*** In a {{Crossover}} with ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'', Calvin calls Alfred "Horus". Whether or not's it's intentional or not is unclear.
11	*** Brainstorm mistakes Socrates for "Caesar", the only thing he remembers being that "[it] was Roman".
12	*** When defending Jack Freewater, Calvin keeps forgetting his name until the end.
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14	[[AC:Crossovers]]
15	* ''Fanfic/TheBridge'':
16	** The Cutie Mark Crusaders constantly botch Destroyah's name, calling her "Destoroyana", "Desotroyah", etc. When they finally get her name right in chapter 23, she is very happy.
17	** Sweetie Belle calls Xenilla "Zenallia" in one scene.
18	** The ponies get confused by Ki Seong's name and call her "Tea Song" instead.
19	* 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/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicS2E14TheLastRoundup rodeo]]]]. It isn't until the end of the whole event (and the events that follow) that everypony else gets to know his ''actual'' name.
20	* In ''FanFic/GensokyosHeart,'' Cirno can't pronounce Patchouli's name right.
21	--> '''Cirno''': Not now, Path... Pac... Pactouli!
22	* ''Fanfic/HarbingerFinmonster'' (''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'', ''WesternAnimation/ParaNorman''): Neil calls Dipper and Mabel "Dropper and Maple", which even Tucker, who doesn't know them at all, can tell is wrong even before Wendy corrects the boy.
23	* ''Fanfic/HarryPotterAndTheNatural20'': Milo is extremely prone to this, largely due to his unwillingness to pay attention to things he considers non-relevant fluff material. Victims include Gilderoy Lockhart, Dean and Seamus, and Dumbledore's lengthy list of titles. The one time he does get the last one correct, [[spoiler:everyone immediately realize he's controlled by the Imperius Curse]].
24	* In ''Fanfic/TheSpongeHouse'', a FusionFic where characters from ''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'' reenact ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarepants'' episodes, the story "The Great Dog Race" (parodying "The Great Snail Race") has Mr. Grouse get misnamed as Mr. "Goose", "Grease", and "Gross".
25	* ''WebAnimation/TurnaboutStorm'':
26	** [[Franchise/AceAttorney Phoenix]] unintentionally misnames [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Fluttershy]] as Butshersty, Flutterscotch, and Firefly at 3 different times. The latter two just so happen to be names of ponies [[MythologyGag of previous generations of]] ''Franchise/MyLittlePony''.[[note]]Not to mention Flutterscotch is real close to the name of Fluttershy's RuleSixtyThree self, Butterscotch.[[/note]]
27	** [[NiceGuy Lenora]] keeps referring to Twilight Sparkle as "Twilight Sparkler" for some reason. It gets on Twilight's nerves after a while, and she loses it after Rainbow gets acquitted.
28	* In ''Fanfic/WeightOfTheWorld'', Canada has trouble remembering people's names, especially Pyrrha's. He calls her Pamela, Patricia, Penelope, and Pepper just to name a few. He eventually misnames her intentionally because it makes her smile. It's revealed Pyrrha likes it because his misnaming signified he and Alfred [[IJustWantToBeNormal did not recognize her]].
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30	[[AC:''Franchise/{{Danganronpa}}'']]
31	* A minor RunningGag in ''Fanfic/DanganronpaKommSusserTod'' involves people, even childhood fans such as the protagonist Reiji, mistakenly referring to the ShowWithinAShow ''Shogun Yamato'' as ''Samurai Yamato'', whether it'd be due to general ignorance or an inability to concentrate and remember.
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33	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom'']]
34	* In the ''Fanfic/FacingTheFutureSeries'', the ghostly doberman of mechanic ghost Burner is called Desile. In life, Burner intended to name him Diesel, but dog tag he ordered ended up being misspelled.
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36	[[AC:''Franchise/DragonAge'']]
37	* In [[VideoGame/DragonAgeII Isabela]]'s section of ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/20765477/chapters/49342994 Sugar and Spice and Everything Nice]]'', it's a RunningGag that she can't remember the correct name of [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Josephine]]'s betrothed, Lord Otranto. Throughout the narrative, she repeatedly (in her own head, never out loud) calls him something different each time, including Lord Oregano, Lord Oreo, and Lord [[WesternAnimation/HeManAndTheMastersOfTheUniverse Orko]].
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39	[[AC:''Franchise/TheDCU'']]
40	* In "Wayne Manor", part of the ''Fanfic/SorrowfulAndImmaculateHearts'' series, Martha Wayne initially appears to be a bubble-headed socialite who calls Alfred Pennyworth "Shillingsweight" and "Pennywork". An invoked instance, because she's a lot smarter than she chooses to appear, and once she decides to let him know it, she never gets his name wrong again.
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42	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'']]
43	* In the ''Fanfic/MegsFamilySeries'', Mayor Adam West ''always'' gets Maddie's name wrong, to the point where he calls her names that don't even sound remotely like her's.
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45	[[AC:''ComicStrip/ForBetterOrForWorse'']]
46	* It's mentioned early on in ''Fanfic/TheNewRetcons'' that John's fellow dentist Everett had to take out a full page ad in the local paper to tell him his name was not "Elliot".
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48	[[AC:''Franchise/{{Ghostbusters}}'']]
49	* In ''[[http://www.ectozone.com/ff/gb101.php Ghostbusting 101]]'', Venkman is drunk and fails to pronounce the names of Egon Spengler and Ryan Harness, calling them "Egosh" and "Shpengsh" and "Rine".
50	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13082584/1/Here-Comes-the-Boogieman Here Comes the Boogieman]]'', Danny calls Egon "Ethan" and "Eddie".
51	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12514154/1/I-blame-myself I Blame Myself]]'', Oscar calls Winston "Inston" and Janine "Jenni". Justified, since he's only about eleven months old.
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53	[[AC:''VideoGame/{{Hamsterball}}'']]
54	* ''FanFic/TheHamsterballShow'': Rachel Fink was accidentally called "Ranger Fink" by her younger sister Peepums once, [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname and it stuck]].
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56	[[AC:''Franchise/HarryPotter'']]
57	* In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8045114/42/A-Marauder-s-Plan A Marauder's Plan]]'', Sirius has a hard time remembering the name of Fudge's assistant after some inadvertent Dementor exposure. He successively thinks of the man as Marty, Monty, Murphy and Murray.
58	* In ''Fanfic/HowFriendshipAccidentallySavedMagicalBritain'', Umbridge accosts Tom at dinner, and he (genuinely) accidentally calls her "Professor Um''bitch''" with perfect sincerity, much to his classmates' horror and delighted awe. He decides to roll with it and insist that, yes, he was in fact referring to ''her'', Professor Umbitch, which she responds to by attempting to curse him, prompting Moody to descend upon her and transform her into a toad. He doesn't even get detention or any kind of discipline for disrespecting a faculty member, and she stays the hell away from Tom for the rest of the school year. So it all works out in the end.
59	* In ''FanFic/WeasleyGirl'', after Colin and Hermione have mentioned the Literature/SherlockHolmes books to Ronnie, she misremembers the name and makes the occasional reference to "that Muggle girl, Shirley Holes." The first time she mentions the name is when she's talking to Dobby, and he seems to get the idea that this is what she'd like to be called. Hence, whenever he appears in the fic afterwards, he always addresses her as "Miss Shirley Holes."
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61	[[AC:''Ride/TheHauntedMansion'']]
62	* It happens once in a story of the ''Fanfic/HauntedMansionAndTheHatboxGhost'' FanVerse: when seeing the Ghost Host for the first time in "New at the Mansion", the ghost Purply Shroud mispronounces his name successively "Host Ghos" and "Spook Master", and then eventually gives up and decides to call him "Thing".
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64	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/InvaderZim'']]
65	* ''Fanfic/ForTheGloryOfIrk'':
66	** It takes a while before Skoodge gets Dib's name right, instead calling him things like "Dab", "Dob", and "Dub".
67	** [[TheDragon Xia]] is utterly unable to remember the name of her new underling Ven, calling him everything from the similar-sounding "Van" and "Sven" to stuff not even close, like "Tim".
68	** Gil the waiter refers to Therron (aka Tallest Purple) as "Tallest Periwinkle".
69	* ''Fanfic/InvaderZimABadThingNeverEnds'': Zim keeps referring to [[CorruptCorporateExecutive Aldrich Coathanger]] as "Coat''rack''".
70	* ''Fanfic/TheNewAdventuresOfInvaderZim'':
71	** The actress that Viera interns for in Season 2 Episode 4 repeatedly gets her name wrong, cycling through every other name that starts with a "V". And then Rebecca, which an annoyed Viera notes doesn't even fit that pattern.
72	** In Season 2 Episode 11, it's mentioned that Purple has apparently been calling Bob "Pootchy".
73	* ''Fanfic/TopOfTheLineEditorBug'': The Tallest accidentally call Tak "Zack" during the final round of the SIR Unit tournament.
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75	[[AC:''Franchise/KingdomHearts'']]
76	* ''Fanfic/KingdomHeartsTheAntipode'':
77	** Though MaliciousMisnaming would certainly be in-character for him, Xigbar genuinely mishears Riku Replica's newly-adopted name [[SignificantAnagram Xiruk]] as "Xerox."
78	** [[WesternAnimation/Frozen2013 Olaf]] is prone to this. He refers to [[Characters/KingdomHeartsRiku Riku]] as "Rico", "Ricky" and "Ricardio", and Nahxs (better known as "Hans") as "Noxious", "Noxymus" and "Film/{{Nosferatu}}".
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80	[[AC:''Series/LaverneAndShirley'']]
81	* In ''[[http://knapp-street.org/Missy/IttyBitty.html Itty Bitty Pretty One]]'', Laverne's cousin Mary and Mary's daughter Angie call Shirley "Cheryl".
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83	[[AC:''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'']]
84	* ''FanFic/TheAwkwardAdventuresOfMeghanWhimblesby'' include her not telling that she is from another world. So Meghan pretends to be from "Ravendill", her wrong name for Rivendell.
85	* In ''Groundhog GDIME'', Charlize from England wants to visit the "Bruinduin", a river in Middle-earth. She is misnaming the Bruinen or the Anduin. Charlize seems to get her own wish and find herself in the Bruinduin, "a small, unimportant river in some obscure part of Middle Earth".
86	* ''FanFic/{{Lothiriel}}'' by [=JunoMagic=] is about a woman from Germany. Many other Germans call her "Losíriel" because they can't say the English "th" sound.
87	* ''FanFic/NotAsPlanned'' has a fan who inserts herself into Middle-earth. This girl misnames almost everything because she is too stupid to know the correct names. "Like, it's not ''my'' fault you can't use English names right." She says "Riverdale", "Bramir", and "Gamly", when the correct names are Rivendell, Boromir, and Gimli.
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89	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/TheLoudHouse'']]
90	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12525089/1/Anger-Management Anger Management]]'', Carlitos calls Ronnie Anne "Wonnie Anne". Justified in that he's only learning to speak.
91	* ''Fanfic/TheBoyWhoCriedIdiot'': Martin once calls Lincoln, "Abraham Lincoln".
92	* In ''Fanfic/TheDevicesAndMachinationsOfLisaLoud'', baby Lily calls Leni "Eni".
93	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/13159081/1/How-many How Many?]]'', Stella is having a great deal of trouble getting the Loud sisters' names straight, and when going over them, she calls Leni "Lena", Lana "Lyla", and either Luna or Luan "Lulu".
94	* In ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/12950142/1/Party-of-None Party of None]]'', Leni calls Hank "Henry" and Hawk "Hubert".
95	* In ''Fanfic/PeekingThroughTheFourthWall'', Lily has ElmuhFuddSyndwome and calls Luna "Wuna", Luan "Wuan", Lincoln "Winky", Lana "Wana", Lisa "Wisa", and Rusty "Wusty".
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97	[[AC:''Series/TheMuppetShow'']]
98	* In ''Fanfic/KedaborysMuppetMania'', guest star [[Fanfic/JuniorOfficers Kitsune Fox]] interprets Beaker's meeping as him giving his name as Mimi.
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100	[[AC:''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs'']]
101	* Similar to Vita in canon, Susanoo will ''never'' get Nanoha's name right in ''Fanfic/{{Infinity}}''. He seems to have the general ''sound'' of it down, but tends to usually end up with something like 'Nanako', even when others directly point out to him he's got her name wrong.
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103	[[AC:''Series/TheMandalorian'']]
104	* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/37022350/chapters/92371357 Fragile and Adored]]'', a doctor calls Peli Motto "Mrs. Djarin".
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106	[[AC:''VideoGame/MedievalIITotalWar'']]
107	* ''LetsPlay/AScotsmanInEgypt'': Gordon of Edinburgh never gets his servant's name (Eoin) right. Of course, when Eoin accidentally calls him master George, he gets kicked out.
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109	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/MiraculousLadybug'']]
110	* PlayedForDrama in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/21763249/chapters/51925756 Occam's Razor]]'', where [[ConsummateLiar Lila]] (or rather, [[MeaningfulName Lie-La]]) was actually the [[CompellingVoice charm-speaking]] Akumatized form of a shy girl named Vera. The fact that she had been Akumatized for months and spent that time as a ManipulativeBitch had left her horrified and shell-shocked. So when Kim absentmindedly calls her Lila, it causes Vera to have a panic attack and run off.
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112	[[AC:''Franchise/MyLittlePony'']]
113	* ''Fanfic/OversaturatedWorld'': ''Fanfic/{{Oversaturation}}'': The human version of Twilight Sparkle needs a notebook to remember people's names after she meets them, calling Sunset, "Sunstorm" and Fluttershy, "Shutterfly".
114	* In ''Fanfic/WhatAStrangeLittleColt'', almost nobody pronounces “Gabriel” right the first time.
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116	[[AC:''Series/OddSquad'']]
117	* ''Fanfic/ADipInTheInkwell'': The basis of the oneshot "Mr. and Mrs. O" is a new agent referring to Olive as "''Mrs.'' O" instead of by her correct title, "Ms. O". The ending implies that this is a mistake that happens fairly often, enough for Olive to strongly suggest getting place cards for her and Otto.
118	* Meta example with ''Fanfic/ForeverAndAMile'': Opie is referred to as "Obi" on sheer accident, since the author originally thought that was how his name was pronounced by Oprah in "Ms. O Uh-Oh", his only appearance. All instances of "Obi" were later corrected to "Opie" after the author was corrected on his actual name (which is shown in the credits of the episode).
119	* A second meta example with ''Fanfic/OSMUFanfictionFriction'': Oksana is repeatedly referred to as "Oskana", which is a result of the author getting her name incorrect.
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121	[[AC:''Anime/PokemonTheSeries'']]
122	* In ''Fanfic/PokemonResetBloodlines'', while Ash never calls Butch and Cassidy by name (as they never introduce themselves and he can't reveal that he knows them without bringing up his time-travel experience), he continually thinks of Butch by a different name throughout their first battle, thinking of him by terms such as 'Not James', 'Bart' or 'Dutch'.
123	* In ''FanFic/TheTrainerFromAFarAwayLand'', [[RunningGag Satoshi can not pronounce N's name right,]] although it's due to the fact Kantonese has the same language limitations as Japanese, meaning he can't make the "N" sound. It happens so often that N gives up trying to correct Satoshi. Satoshi would pronounce N's name as Een-neh, Een-ne, Ennu or Enne.
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125	[[AC:''Anime/PrettyCure'']]
126	* ''Fanfic/DontCryForMeIveAlreadyWilted'': In Chapter 8, [[Anime/SmilePrecure Akaoni]] mistakenly refers to [[Anime/FutariWaPrettyCureSplashStar Saki]] as "Maki". Joker corrects him and snarks that she's not a sushi roll.
127	* ''Fanfic/TwinklingInTheDark'': Majorina mistakenly calls [[Anime/KiraKiraPrecureALaMode Ichika Usami]] "Ichigo Masami".
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129	[[AC:''VideoGame/PunchOut'']]
130	* ''Fanfic/MaFille'':
131	** Doubles as a MythologyGag; in "Stage Name", Mr. Thompson refers to Piston Hondo as "Honda", which was his name prior to getting ScrewedByTheLawyers.
132	** A darker example: in "Aunt Laura", despite the titular aunt wanting to file for sole custody of Katrina, she doesn't remember her name and calls her "Karina".
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134	[[AC:''Franchise/RatchetAndClank'']]
135	* In ''Fanfic/WidgetandClankLombaxBebop'': Mr. Micron gets Widget's name wrong twice- first calling her "Wingding" and then, less than two minutes later, "Gidget." Widget calmly corrects him the first time, but gets fired up when he does it again, and loudly spells out her name letter by letter- only for him to whack her on the head with his cane for her trouble.
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137	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'']]
138	* In the prequel fanfic ''Fanfic/{{Prerugrats}}'', both Tommy and the twins call Chuckie "Chubby" when they're first born.
139	* In ''Fanfic/TommyPicklesTheTerribleTwos'', when Tommy gets amnesia in "[[AmnesiaEpisode Tommy's Fear]]", he calls Chuckie "Chubby" and Lil "Lillip".
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141	[[AC:''WebAnimation/{{RWBY}}'']]
142	* ''Fanfic/TheOzpinFiles'': Ozpin forgets Professor Port's name and calls him Mr. Moustache for a while, and when he later finds out his name, he thinks it's 'Porter'.
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144	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'']]
145	* In ''Fanfic/MustLoveNedFlanders'', Homer accidentally calls [[AuthorAvatar Naomi]] "Natalie".
146	* Similarly, in ''Fanfic/TheSimpsonsTeamLASH'', Mr. Burns has an adoptive daughter named Anastasia, and Homer can never remember her name, instead referring to her with sound-alikes like "Angelica" or "Anesthesia". This is meant to mirror the original show's RunningGag of [[TooImportantToRememberYou Mr. Burns not remembering who Homer Simpson is]].
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148	[[AC:''Franchise/TheSmurfs'']]
149	* In ''Fanfic/EmpathTheLuckiestSmurf'', BraveScot Smurf Duncan [=McSmurf=] ''does not like'' being called Gutsy, a nickname that he got from Hefty for always having the guts to stand up to him. In "A Wild Winter Solstice", though, Papa Smurf accidentally refers to Duncan as Gutsy before realizing his mistake.
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151	[[AC:''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'']]
152	* ''Fanfic/ForumOfThrones'': Initially, [[TheBrute Marak]] mishears [[TheFundamentalist Noelle]] when she mentions the name of her god, R'hllor. In the following, he calls the god "rollmop", much to her annoyance. He eventually seems to catch up on the real pronunciation, [[TheGadfly but continues to misname it on purpose, to annoy her even further]].
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154	[[AC:''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'']]
155	* In ''[[http://www.thyla.com/preschool.html Rude Preschool Person]]'', a ParodyFic lampooning the FandomSpecificPlot where Kirk and Spock have sex due to the latter being on [[MatingSeasonMayhem pon farr]], the narrator gets several characters' names wrong due to being a toddler. She calls Spock "Pock", Rand "Toys/{{Barbie}}", and Uhura "Hurra".
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157	[[AC:''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'']]
158	* [[DiscussedTrope Discussed]] in the fan fic series [[http://archiveofourown.org/works/6743572/chapters/15411358 TIE Fighter]] in relation to Chiss names and the difficulty humans have pronouncing the full versions and why they prefer humans just not try. “Pronounced improperly, [Thelea’s] name can inadvertently sound like our language’s word for a small tunneling rodent that lives in the high snow pack on our world.”
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160	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/{{Trollhunters}}'']]
161	* In ''Fanfic/ClaireTheKind'', Claire has a habit of mispronouncing Jim's name before quickly correcting herself.
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163	[[AC:''Literature/WarriorCats'']]
164	* ''Fanfic/WarriorsTheDayTheClansDied'': When asked who the previous medicine cat was, Sandfreckles guesses it was someone called "Jayclaw". She never met Jayfeather because he died before she was apprenticed.
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166	[[AC:''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'']]
167	* In ''Fanfic/{{Ripples}}'', it's revealed that Miranda's real name is Mimira. "Miranda" is just what Cedric called her because he couldn't be bothered to remember her actual name; being young and impressionable, she decided that if he was calling her that, it must be a better name, and so started going by it.
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169	[[AC:''Literature/{{Worm}}'']]
170	* In ''Fanfic/RightMinded'', Taylor's brain damage makes her incapable of correctly or consistently speaking proper names: she will call any person, place, or organization by a different wrong name every time. On top of that, ''she'' hears the names she meant to say, meaning that she has to rely on her teammates to tell her what's actually coming out of her mouth.
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Context AccidentalMisnaming / FanWorks