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* In ''Literature/TheAdventuresOfStefonRudel'', the planet Earth is usually referred to as "World-Earth". There's also a single reference to "Main-Earth", though how it differentiates from the former is unclear.
* In ''Literature/AlternateRoutes'', the members of a government agency attempting to study ghosts as an objective scientific phenomenon insist on referring to the objects of their study as "deleted persons".
* In the ''Literature/AmberBrown'' books, Amber hates the term "babysitter" and insists on referring to anyone who babysits her as her "Amber-sitter".
* In ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'', The Time Paradox: Artemis would like everyone to remember that the silky sifaka is a ''lemur'', '''''not''''' a monkey.
* In the ''Literature/AubreyMaturin'' series, when HMS Surprise is bought from the Navy, Jack Aubrey hates it being referred to as a Privateer, which were seen as little more than legalised pirates. He prefers the term "Letter of Marque" or "Private Man-o-War".
* The ''Barker and Llewelyn'' series by Will Thomas, set in Victorian London, features Cyrus Barker, the city's premiere private detective--sorry, ''private enquiry agent''.
* Maiza Avaro and Firo Prochainezo of ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'' often remind other characters that the particular type of criminal sydicate of Italian origin to which they belong is ''not'' TheMafia, but the ''Camorra''.
* ''Literature/BazilBroketail'': Penbar's deity, Dian, is merely the way he perceives a goddess whom everyone else in Argonath worship as the Great Mother. However, he will not stand anyone openly saying that. To him, there is "Dian" and "Dian" only.
* In the ''Literature/CuriousGeorge'' parody ''Bi-Curious George'':
-->''The man picked him up quickly and popped him into his shoulder bag.''\\
''"It's a man-purse." said the man.''
* In ''Literature/BlackLegion'', Khayon insists that Black Legion ''aren't'' the Sons of Horus. He notes that, first, the Sons have died before the Legion was born, that they severed any ties to Horus and that they consist of many ex-members of different Nine Legions.
** He's also rather adamant that sorcery isn't magic, despite Lheor's constant teasing.
* ''Literature/BlowingUpTheMovies'': "If, in 1977, when I am 13, you show me a movie called ''[[Film/StarWarsANewHope Star Wars]]'', it's still called ''Star Wars'' now."
* In ''The Book of Wizard Craft'' the narrator refers to sea monsters as "Physically Gifted Marine Presences" in the section about them because he believes it's more politically correct-- he catches himself calling them "monsters" once after introducing the term and immediately apologizes "Er, I mean presences."
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Nightmares'': Andrew in ''Drawing the Moon'' insists that his parents aren't dead, they were ''stolen''. And you can get stolen things back. [[spoiler:His sister is the same way when he gets his parents back but is one of the two people taken in their place.]]
* From ''[[Literature/CarrerasLegions The Lotus Eaters]]'': in the Republic of Gaul's navy, "There is 'My God' and 'My ass', but there is no ''mon capitaine''."[[note]]"My captain", in case anyone was uncertain.[[/note]]
* ''Literature/ConstanceVeritySavesTheWorld'': There is a difference between a "replicant" and a "replicoid" and Connie once spent twenty minutes explaining it to Tia.
--> '''Connie:''' You'll thank me for that if you ever end up stranded in the future.
* From ''Literature/TheCurseOfChalion'', it's a [[TakingYouWithMe Death Miracle]], not "death magic".
* As with the Poirot article above, in the ''Literature/CHERUBSeries'' there is a ''Ukrainian'' character named Yosyp Kazakhov. Call him Russian, and you'll get an earful and a half (if you're lucky).
* ''Literature/DiaryOfAWimpyKid'': "First off, let me get this straight: This is a JOURNAL, not a diary."
* Kei and Yuri's codename is "LovelyAngels". Don't ever call them the Literature/DirtyPair, you jerk!
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** ''Literature/{{Mort}}'' has Mortimer, who, whatever the topic of conversation, would reflexively correct anyone who called him "boy" or "you" by giving his name. [[spoiler:In the final duel, this becomes a BerserkButton.]]
** From ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Unseen University has a Department of Postmortem Communications, who summon the spirits of dead people to talk to them. They are ''not'' "necromancers". Necromancy, in fact, is strictly forbidden at Unseen University![[note]]The Head of said Department, Professor John [[XtremeKoolLetterz Hix]], is Unseen University's resident [[TokenEvilTeammate "evil"]] wizard, which allows the university to claim a monopoly on evil magic. If other wizards continue to practice evil magic despite this, Professor Hix is fully authorized to show up at their caves and serve cease and desist orders - with fireballs.[[/note]]
** From ''Literature/UnseenAcademicals'', the Bengo Macarona football chant, adjusted (at Macarona's insistence) to include all his academic appointments and titles. An Overly Long Gag as well, since after a couple repetitions the list has gone on for two pages. Worth slogging through if you like puns.
** Ankh-Morpork's Guild of Seamstresses prefer to be known as the "Ladies of Negotiable Affection". ''Not'' prostitutes, "''Ladies of Negotiable Affection''".
** Unseen University's Librarian is an ape, not [[BerserkButton the M-word]]. Knowing the difference is part of natural selection.
** ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' has the Assassin Johnathan Teatime, which he has to remind people is pronounced "[[AcCENTUponTheWrongSylLABle Teh-ah-tim-eh]]".
** ''Miss'' Susan Sto Helit (the granddaughter of Death).
** ''Mister'' Vimes, who insists on the title (even after he is technically ''Sir'' Samuel Vimes or even the ''Duke'' of Ankh.)
*** Though to most people it is ''Captain'' Vimes, because he's a copper. A ''Mister'' has to be earned. A.E. Pessimal manages to earn it "all in one go" by biting a troll.
*** Technically certain titles of his override others in proper use, but his some-time ambassadorial attaché insists on introducing "His Grace, His Excellency, The Duke of Ankh, Commander Sir Samuel Vimes"
** Rincewind's ability to do magic may well be in the negative territory, but he ''is a wizard'', okay? It says so on his hat. With two z's. Later on, when he's made Egregious Professor of Cruel and Unusual Geography (among [[TryToFitThatOnABusinessCard other things]]) he insists on being called ''Professor'' Rincewind. It may be a meaningless title, but it's his.
** The Assassins' Guild do not kill their targets, and their members can most definitely not be hired. Assassins are gentlemen, and being hired is being an employee, a servant, and no gentleman is anyone's servant. Killing is uncivilized business done by the lower orders. Assassins can, however, be ''contracted'' (or ''retained'' or ''engaged'') to ''inhume'' (or ''remove'' or ''dispose of'') a ''certain individual'' (or ''client'') in exchange for a minor ''gratuity'' (or ''consideration'' or ''compensation'').
** There's also a running gag that [[WretchedHive Ankh-Morpork]] has a very low murder rate. There are, admittedly, a lot of ''suicides'', like walking into a tavern frequented by barbarian warriors and calling yourself "Vincent [[TemptingFate the Invulnerable]]." The difference is that the Watch doesn't need to investigate suicides too thoroughly.
** At the end of ''Literature/WitchesAbroad'', Death corrects a man who's been a zombie the last several years that he wasn't ''dead'', just not alive. Otherwise, they'd have met already.
* In the ''Literature/DreambloodDuology'':
** The first Prince of Gujareeh was almost named a king, but he declared that because the goddess Hananja was the only queen, while living he would be a prince and only become a king upon death at Hananja's side.
** Gatherers ''gather'' those whose souls they send to Ina-Karekh; they do not ''kill''. Since Gathering is a sacred rite that creates a DyingDream of transcendent peace and joy and ensures the soul's safe passage to the afterlife, they feel quite strongly about the distinction.
* In ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'', do ''not'' call [[TheFairFolk the Sidhe]] "faeries". To them, the difference is as pronounced as calling a human an ape.
** In ''Literature/SkinGame'', Murphy asks if Harry really, really, actually really intends to rob Hades. Harry responds that he intends to ''burgle'' Hades, and that, in spite of his reputation, he is not about to offer violence to a god.[[note]] Robbery is "the crime of taking or attempting to take anything of value by force, threat of force, or by putting the victim in fear", burglary is "illegally entering a building or other areas to commit a crime". An important distinction and one Murphy, being a police officer, should be intimately familiar with. [[/note]]
* In ''Literature/DrugstoreInAnotherWorld'', two of the main characters get ''very'' insistent about what species or beings they are. Noella is not a "beast man", "she's a werewolf", and Mina is not a "ghost" haunting her old home, she's a "guardian spirit".
* In ''Literature/{{Durarara}}'' while Izaya and Shizuo are decidedly human, neither consider the other to be human. Izaya is especially adamant on calling Shizuo a monster.
* ''Literature/TheDwarves'': "It's dwarf, not groundling!"
* In ''Literature/{{Everworld}}'', Sobek insists on being addressed as "Sobek, god of the crocodiles of the Nile, called Rager, son of Seth and his consort Neith, nurse of the crocodiles". As he's a [[AllMythsAreTrue living god]] with thousands of [[ImAHumanitarian crocodiles]] at his command, no-one disputes it.
* ''Literature/FireAndBlood:''
** King Aegon, Second of his Name, made it a decree that his half-sister Rhaenyra was not actually queen, despite having been named as heir to their dad Viserys I and even crowned and reigned (for about six months). Therefore, she goes down in the history books not as Queen Rhaenyra I, but just Princess Rhaenyra. Curiously enough, though, Aegon II gets remembered by history as "TheUsurper".
** Meanwhile, Rhaenyra only ever referred to Aegon and his brothers Aemond and Daeron as her "half-brothers", though this distinction did not apply to Helaena, who Rhaenyra referred to as a sister proper.
* ''Literature/GirlsKingdom'' has a hilarious case of ''competing'' insistent terminologies between master and servant. Asuka insists that the name of the salon she runs is the Paradise Palace (which happens to be its official name), whereas Mei, her [[{{meido}} seraph]] who created the entrance criteria and picks all members, calls it the Petite Palace, because the only ones she allows to join are those under 4'9". Said name pisses Asuka off to no end.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter''
** Hermione Granger gets rather snippy when people refer to her "Society for the Promotion of Elvish Welfare" by its [[FunWithAcronyms acronym]].
*** The name is even better in Dutch: "Stichting Huiself voor Inburgering en Tolerantie" (The House-Elf Society for Naturalization and Tolerance).
** Also, whenever Harry calls Snape "Snape", the nearest adult (or Hermione) corrects him: "''Professor'' Snape."
** All wizards insist on referring to Voldemort through alternate titles, usually "You-Know-Who" or "He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named", out of fear. Dumbledore is one the few people brave enough to call Voldemort by that name, a trait that Harry and eventually his friends pick up on. Interestingly, whenever Dumbledore is speaking to Voldemort ''in person'', he makes a point of using Voldemort's real name, "Tom", which Harry also copies during their final showdown.
* In ''Literature/HeartOfSteel'':
** The chimeras aren't ''minions'', they're ''assistants''.
** Alistair's engineered guardian animals aren't just wolves, they're ''dire'' wolves. Justified in that they're wolves the size of vans.
* In ''Literature/HaruhiSuzumiya'', the SOS Brigade is ''not'' a club, as that requires approval they couldn't get since [[ClubStub they don't have enough members to qualify as a club]].
* ''Literature/HelpMyStoryHasTheMarySueDisease'': Played straight with Mary-Sue Disease, but zig-zags between using Sue and Chief Infected Character.
* ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' has horse-shaped creatures called "Companions". They are not "horses", however, and they get quite upset when anyone mistakes them for one.
* Belgian Literature/HerculePoirot objects to being called French -- which is an error of fact, not of terminology, but produces similar comic moments.
-->'''Poirot:''' I am not a 'bloody little Frog!' I am a bloody little Belgian!
** Parodied by his {{Expy}} in the movie ''Film/MurderByDeath''
--->'''Milo Perrier:''' I'm not a Frenchie! I'm a Belgie!
*** There was also a "I am not Belgian, I am FRENCH!" moment, followed immediately by "My apologies. Correcting people has become a reflex."
* In ''The Hitchiker'', a short story by Creator/RoaldDahl, the titular hitchhiker insists that his profession is "fingersmith" rather than a "pickpocket". He's an artist, as skilled in the use of his fingers as a blacksmith is with metal, not a common criminal who robs blind old ladies.
* In a bit of an inversion, when Bilbo Baggins balks at getting hired as a "burglar" in ''Literature/TheHobbit'', the dwarves miss the point and tell him he can be an "expert treasure hunter" instead.
* In ''Literature/HonorHarrington'', the Committee of Public Safety regime in [[PeoplesRepublicOfTyranny the People's Republic of Haven]] is quite insistent upon the honorific "Citizen" before military ranks and titles of office.
* ''Literature/HowARealistHeroRebuiltTheKingdom'': Polygamy is a common practice in Elfrieden, with it being routine for the monarch and other nobles to have a RoyalHarem (regardless of the sex of the noble). One previous king declared that all his consorts were full queens of equal stature, because [[{{Polyamory}} he loved them equally]] whether they were {{Blue Blood}}ed or not and insisted all of them were "wives" rather than have the lower-ranked ones be called concubines. The modern concept of primary and secondary consorts is a compromise between this tradition and [[SuccessionCrisis the need to keep the succession clear]]: primary consorts have to be from high nobility or royalty, while secondary consorts, formerly concubines, can be of any rank but their children are excluded from succession to the throne.
* Count von Glöda in ''Literature/{{Icebreaker}}'' insists upon being called Führer in part of his mimicking of UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler.
* In {{Literature/Idlewild}}, Halloween repeatedly defends that he is not a ''necrologist'', he is a ''thanatologist''.
* In ''Literature/TheImmortalJourney'', Death doesn't "kill" people, he "reaps" them. In other words, he doesn't directly causes the deaths but makes sure they happen at the scheduled time. He's also very adamant about not refering to zombies as "dead" but as "undead", since they are technically two very different things. These vocabulary details cause Emily to pull out her hair more than once when Death keeps correcting her mid-sentence.
* ''Literature/LeftBehind'': ''Captain'' Rayford Steele. Always Captain Steele. While the character doesn't explicitly insist on it, the author is very careful to write his name this way when being addressed by others.
* The Kzarchians from ''Literature/InvasionOfKzarch'' all have apostrophes in their last names, and they ''insist'' on that apostrophe being pronounced, although no-one aside from them can tell the difference. Also, Bloody Jack insists on being called ''Bloody'' Jack, for some odd reason.
* ''Literature/JourneyToChaos'':
** Tahart Ligo is ''not'' "fat". He is "heavily muscled".
** Kasile would never call Eric her "tool". He is her "co-conspirator".
** Sias is ''not'' "insane". She is "possessed of a unique mindset".
* ''Literature/TheLastDogs'':
** ''The Vanishing'': When Dandyclaw's name is introduced, Rocky (DeadpanSnarker dachshund that he is) starts deliberately calls him different names like "Dandypuff", so the poodle responds with "It's Dandy''claw''". When Rocky, Max, and Gizmo start to leave the Enclave and Dandyclaw is furious, Rocky snaps at him and calls him by his actual name. Dandyclaw starts correcting him, only to realize that Rocky actually got his name right this time.
** In the same book, Dandyclaw insists that the dogs in the Enclave go by the names he gives him instead of what their owners named them ("Softspike" for Gizmo and "Sturdystep" for Brahms).
* Creator/IsaacAsimov's ''Literature/TheCompleteAdventuresOfLuckyStarr'': Lucky's {{sidekick}}, John Bigman Jones, who allowed no one to call him anything but Bigman, and "[[TheNapoleon who was five feet two inches tall if he stretched a little]]." He often won't even put up with being addressed as "Mr. Jones", insisting on Bigman instead.
* The titular character in Creator/AnneRice's ''[[Literature/TheVampireChronicles Memnoch the Devil]]'' insists that Lestat call him "Memnoch", not "TheDevil", Satan, Lucifer, or any other names the humans have come up with for him. Besides, all those names carry with them certain preconceptions, and Memnoch would rather Lestat let him tell his story from a fresh perspective.
* ''Literature/MercyWatson'': Mercy is a [[HousepetPig pig]], but her owners repeatedly call her a "porcine wonder."
* The Kandra in ''Literature/MistbornTheOriginalTrilogy'' are carrion feeders. One of the kandra prefers to let his meat sit until it's aged just right. When Vin points out how people don't like being around rotting meat, the kandra reiterates that it's ''aged'' meat.
* In ''[[Literature/MonsterHunterInternational Monster Hunter Alpha]]'' Travis, who served with the main character during Vietnam, was not a minotaur ("Do I look Greek to you?"). He was a ''bullman.''
* [[Literature/MoonOverSoho Peter Grant]] would like you to know that it isn't Black Magic, it is Ethically Challenged Magic, thank you very much.
* ''Literature/MoongobbleAndMe'': Fireball the dragon is Edward's ''friend'', not his ''pet'', as he notes repeatedly in books 2-5.
* ''Film/{{Moxie}}'' by Jennifer Mathieu downplays this. Although [[AloofDarkHairedGirl Vivian]] [[PlotDrivingSecret doesn’t correct anyone aloud,]] she gets really annoyed when someone refers to her '''''zines''''' as “booklets.”
* Aahz, of Creator/RobertAsprin's ''Literature/MythAdventures'' books, is a demon from the dimension called Perv, and quite firm about the correct term for his race being "Pervect", not "Pervert", the latter being a [[FantasticSlurs racial slur]].
** In the [[ComicBook/MythAdventures comic book adaptation]], Aahz's apprentice Skeeve correctly addresses another Pervect, who starts to scream at him... then stops, astonished to realize someone actually got it right, and asks politely what he can do for Skeeve.
*** It's all especially funny because ''all'' racial terms in the books are insults. Skeeve, for example, is a Klahd because he's from Klah, and the characters from Trollia are Trolls or Trollops, depending on sex. Pervects are thus asking for respect that no one else gets. Then again, they are Pervects, so they mostly get it.
* ''Literature/{{Noob}}'' has Saly Asigar insist on calling Keynn Lucans "Emperor", despite Keynn himself being a DontCallMeSir type of guy.
* When Sara of [[Literature/OrigamiYoda the]] ''Literature/OrigamiYoda'' [[Literature/OrigamiYoda series]] brings the Fortune Wookiee, a cootie catcher version of Chewbacca, to school, Harvey's comment on the chapter is literally nothing but a remark on how it's a "salt cellar", not a "cootie catcher".
** In the 4th book, [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Dwight]] insists that Cassie call him "''Captain'' Dwight".
* From ''Literature/PandorasStar'': It's a flow wormhole generator, ''not'' a hyperdrive.
** Also, a slightly more meta example: Peter F. Hamilton never misses a chance to remind you that the concrete is enzyme-bonded.
* ''Literature/ProjectTau'': They're not "human clones," they're "Projects".
* Sienna from ''Literature/RainbowMagic'' enjoys telling others that her magic is ''fuchsia'', not just pink.
* In the ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' series, hares do not like to be called "rabbits". If the hare has a short enough temper, you may get beaten up for calling them a rabbit repeatedly. This is actually a justified instance, though, because most rabbits in the series are portrayed as stuck-up, prissy weaklings while most hares are soldiers. They're also world-class goofs, so they probably object just as much to the implication that they don't have a sense of humor. There is a distinction between [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_Hare hares]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rabbit rabbits]] in real life, so there's that too.
* ''Literature/{{Relativity}}'': There's no such thing as an "orphanage" any more. The place Sara runs is a "group home".
* ''Literature/RobotSeries'':
** "Literature/{{Segregationist}}": The patient keeps calling one of the two heart transplant options "plastic", while the surgeon insists it is a fibrous cyber-heart. While the surgeon is more correct, the patient is making an emotional decision to insult the pseudo-organic option by lumping it into the same category as plastic bags, preferring the stronger titanium-alloy replacement.
** "Literature/TheTercentenaryIncident": The [[TitleDrop titular incident]] refers to an AssassinationAttempt on the life of President Winkler. The severity of the situation is downplayed by claiming the [[RobotMe President's robot duplicate]] had [[MadeOfExplodium malfunctioned explosively]]. At worst, government figures admit "A mechanical device was destroyed. Nothing more." [[spoiler:Which is part of a cover-up to hide the fact that the President ''was'' assassinated, and [[KillAndReplace his duplicate replaced him]].]]
* In ''Literature/TheSecretsOfDrearcliffGrangeSchool'', one of the school's secrets is that there's a cavern under the school that used to be the lair of the notorious pirate Captain Belyzbub. When the heroes discover the cavern, one of them notes that technically he was a sea raider (attacked settlements on land) rather than a pirate (attacks ships at sea), and from then on there's a running gag that any time he gets called a pirate it gets corrected.
* In the final book of ''Literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents'', Ishmael always says "call me Ish", but no one ever does.
* ''Literature/SherlockHolmes'' is a consulting detective.
* In ''Literature/TheShipWho Searched'', [[BrainsAndBrawn Tia and Alex]] check in on an archaeological dig and find that three quarters of the people have died and the emaciated survivors are stumbling around and seem to have lost their higher brain functions, acting for all the world like [[TechnicallyLivingZombie undead]]. Alex ''immediately'' starts calling them Zombies. Tia [[NotUsingTheZedWord protests this]] and wants to call them the survivors, but he won't be moved on this, and gradually Tia starts using that word as well. As they perform the hard work of capturing the Zombies to take to the medical quarantine center that can cure them, a little dehumanization helps.
* ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'':
** Lina Inverse insists on referring to Philionel El Di Saillune as the "First Royal Successor". Don't call him "Prince" in front of her. Just don't. In the novels, this is partly because, thanks to [[RoyallyScrewedUp some succession issues with Saillune's royal family]], this is his actual title. He really isn't a prince, even if he is the current ruler's son.
** Not to mention the number of people Lina has to, ahem, correct about the various titles she's usually introduced with. Generally by the assembly of local banditry.
* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':
** [[BastardBastard Ramsay Snow]] isn't a Snow. He is emphatically a ''Bolton'' (and that was before he was officially granted the right to use the family name).
** [[TomBoy Arya Stark]] is not a lady (technically she is, but insists on just "Arya").
** The [[MurderInc Faceless Men]] do not "kill", "murder" or "assassinate". They "give the gift".
** The [[PsychoForHire Brave Companions]] are not "Bloody Mummers". Neither are they "the footmen" or "the goats".
* In ''Literature/TheSouthernReachTrilogy'', the twelfth expedition into Area X discovers a buried structure, which most of the members describe as a "tunnel" but which the biologist insistently refers to as a "tower".
* A minor RunningGag in ''Literature/StarCarrier: Earth Strike'' has the BookDumb Marine Lieutenant Ostend trying to describe the native wildlife of Haris in terms of Earth biology (e.g. spiders), and getting corrected that, no, the terms he's using [[BizarreAlienBiology don't really apply except as a rough simile]]. One of his more learned compatriots uses the term "florauna"[[labelnote:*]]portmanteau of "flora" and "fauna"[[/labelnote]] because it's the closest English can get.
* ''Franchise/StarWarsLegends'':
** ''Literature/TheThrawnTrilogy'': Thrawn refuses to acknowledge the New Republic as anything other than "[[LaResistance the Rebellion]]", although the trilogy took place five years after ''Return of the Jedi'', by which point Coruscant itself has been retaken. This is a case where changing the name of a thing changes the thing itself. The New Republic is a sovereign foreign power. The Rebellion is an uprising of Imperial subjects. In the same way, UsefulNotes/AbrahamLincoln never called the states in secession from the Union by the name "Confederate States of America".
** ''Literature/HandOfThrawn'': Grodin Tierce, a part of the [[BigBadDuumvirate triumvirate]] who are collectively endeavoring to make it look like Thrawn has returned, once talks about the Rebellion, despite this taking place ten years after Thrawn's death, by which point the New Republic is a GalacticSuperpower and the Empire has been reduced to eight sectors in size.[[note]]That's still over a thousand inhabited star systems, though -- but still much less than the New Republic has.[[/note]] Normally he just calls it Coruscant, which is its seat of power; he never calls it the New Republic and calls it the Rebellion exactly once. This is one of many little bits of {{Foreshadowing}}, because Tierce [[spoiler:is a clone who was specifically grown as an attempt to make someone who thought like Thrawn]].
** ''Literature/XWingSeries'': In ''Iron Fist'', while suffering her first pangs of DoubleConsciousness, [[DeepCoverAgent Lara Notsil]] repeatedly catches herself thinking of the anti-Imperials as New Republic forces, and with vehemence corrects herself to ''Rebel'' forces.
** When the Old Republic became TheEmpire, the capital planet Coruscant was renamed "Imperial Center"; although a number of characters, even Imperials, complain about this, some use the term exclusively and don't like hearing the old word. When the New Republic takes the planet back, they change the name. They ''try'' to change the name of the Imperial Palace, where the seat of government had been ever since the Senate building had been torn down, but none of their alternate names stick.
* ''Literature/TheTaleOfMagic'': Madame Weatherberry is very adamant that she and her students are fairies, not witches.
* ''Literature/TalionRevenant'': He is Nolan ra ''Sinjaria'', not ra Hamis. Being called the latter (due to Hamis annexing Sinjaria) [[BerserkButton gets him angry]].
* ''Literature/{{Tasakeru}}'': The intelligent mammal species are called "sentients". Only non-intelligent species are referred to as "animals".
* ''Literature/TheTeresaKnightTrilogy'': Teresa, who's of Sudanese ancestry, prefers being called African over black. {{Downplayed}} however as she doesn't make an issue of it all the time.
* ''Literature/TransformersTransTech'': [[PlayingWithSyringes Shockwave]] will have you know he is ''not'' {{evil|Genius}}, he's "morally ambiguous".
* ''Literature/TheUnexploredSummonBloodSign'': The White Queen refers to her times spent with Kyousuke as "dates", regardless of the coercion and bloodshed they invariably involve. This is one of many indications that she's a {{Yandere}}.
* ''Literature/UnderHeaven'': Sima Zian is "the Banished Immortal", the foremost poet of the age. "Immortal" due to his poetry, "Banished" due to needing to take 'extended vacations' from the capital, where his verses sometimes have a habit of bruising royal egos.
* ''Literature/TheUnderlandChronicles'': "Fo-Fo? Fo-Fo? I am he called Photos Glow-Glow and will answer to no other name!"
* ''Literature/VainqueurTheDragon'': In the fifth chapter, Vainqueur can hear when people don't call him the capitalized "Majesty", with that hearing ability being implied to come from the "[Super Senses] perk".
* ''Literature/VillainsByNecessity'':
** Valerie tries to correct people on her name being ''Valeriana'', but she gets nicknamed this nonetheless.
** When Sam says his full name is "Samalander" Kaylana asks if he means "Salamandar", but he insists that it's correct.
* ''Literature/VorkosiganSaga'': In earlier books, Miles is very insistent that he's not a mutant (his prenatal damage is teratogenic, not genetic). By ''Komarr'', he's relaxed a little on the subject.
** Miles (and, later, his parents) are equally insistent on the correct terminology for their relationship to Mark: he's not Miles' ''clone'', he's Miles' ''brother''.
** In ''Captain Vorpatril's Alliance'', Ivan is insistent that he does ''not'' have claustrophobia--he has a ''perfectly rational'' fear of dark, enclosed spaces.
* In ''Literature/WatchersOfTheThrone'', Aleya insists on calling Sisters of Silence ''Anathema Psykana'', as the trait the former title focuses on (their vow of silence) is, in her eyes, much less important than the trait the latter title emphasizes (their AntiMagic nature).
* In the ''Literature/WildCards'' books, Tom Tudburry hates hit when people call him "The Turtle". He's the ''Great and Powerful'' Turtle, dog gone it!
* ''Literature/TheWanderingInn'': Drakes get ''very'' angry, if you call them lizards, as they are, according to a certain drake, "...just amphibians that learned to walk on two legs.", while they are proudly descendants of dragons.
* ''Literature/TheWitchOfKnightcharm'': One of the new rookies at an evil WizardingSchool, Caline, gets mad whenever anyone calls her Canadian. She is ''Quebecois'', and she won't let anyone forget it.
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