Accidental Misnaming / Video Games

Action-Adventure

• Beyond Good & Evil
  • The heroine Jade first meets her sidekick Double H after freeing him from Electric Torture. His brain is... a little fried, and after hearing her mention the "IRIS" Network, he starts calling her "Miss Thyrus." (He also calls himself "Triple Z" at one point.)
  • Jade herself once refers to the suspicious "Mr. de Castellac" who hired her on a mission (which was actually a charade aiming at establishing a contact between her and the IRIS Network) as "de Cadillac".
• In Borderlands 2, the player can find an ECHO recording of Handsome Jack when he was just a low-level Hyperion employee. His Jerkass boss Mr. Tassiter always calls him "John". However, after Jack takes over the company, he calls his own vice-president by the wrong name, which suggests that this is what was done to him as well. The Pre-Sequel shows that Tassiter knows that Jack's actual name is Jack, but always calls him John whenever he's pissed at him, which is pretty much always.
• A few examples in the Kingdom Hearts series.
  • In Kingdom Hearts II, Captain Jack Sparrow calls Sora "Zola" in one scene. Sora gets annoyed and corrects him. He also calls Sora by other names, namely "Nora" or "Dora", in the novel adaptation. In the manga adaptation, Donald and Goofy were called "Ronald and Zoofy" by Yuffie. They didn't take that too well.
  • A running gag in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance] is everyone referring to Lea by his former name, Axel. He ends up giving in when Riku calls him by his former name after Lea saves Sora from Master Xehanort.
  • In Kingdom Hearts III during the visit to Monstropolis, Boo mistakenly addresses Donald as Mike Wazowski. Mike Wazowski himself takes umbrage. Justified by Boo's age.
• The LEGO Movie Videogame: In the mission "Bricksburg Under Attack", Superman refers to Emmet as Eric multiple times.
• Lego Marvel Superheroes has a civilian in the background who keeps getting the superheroes' names wrong, such as calling Spider-Man "Insect Boy" or Black Widow "Dark Window."
• Leisure Suit Larry 5: Passionate Patti Does a Little Undercover Work: Silas Scruemall keeps calling Larry Laffer wrong names, like Larcher, Loafer, and Loaner.
• Professor Hotchkiss, a recurring character from the Nancy Drew games Treasure in the Royal Tower and Legend of the Crystal Skull, calls Nancy by a different name every time, even in the same piece of dialogue. An expert on wood whom Nancy consults over the phone in Danger on Deception Island has the same problem.
• Ōkami proves that not even a God is immune to this trope. Most people you encounter find the name Amaterasu a bit too much of a mouthful to remember. The nicer ones will call you Ammy or (after a previous, respected alias) Shiranui. Less respectful ones settle for Furball.
• Ōkamiden: Amaterasu's son, Chibiterasu, gets it even worse. He has five companions over the course of the game, and each has their own terrible nickname for him: Mutt, Squiddy, Pooch, Dude, and Pork Chop.
• Shantae and the Pirate's Curse: Sky's dad pronounces Shantae's name wrong:
  Shantell, looks like your 'ol Uncle Mimic was right again.
• In The Wonderful 101, Prince Vorkken always calls Wonder Red "Blunder Red" as well as referring to Earth as "Dearth". Despite being a villain, this is just him being clueless rather than malicious since he gets Wonder Red's name right, but never really figures out the "Dearth" thing.

Card Battle

• Ensemble Stars!: Kaoru often refers to Adonis by the wrong name, claiming that since he has no interest in making friends with other guys he can't be bothered to learn his name properly. He does care deep down, however.

Eastern RPG

• Atelier Iris 2's Max addresses Felt by increasingly bizarre permutations of his name, at one point referring to him as "Klein" (the name of the protagonist from the previous Atelier Iris game). If corrected, he'll call him Felt for the remainder of the current conversation, so apparently he's just that bad with names.
• Mana Khemia: Alchemists of Al-Revis: Flay refers to the Quirky Miniboss Squad as the "Mook Squad".
  Tony: Who are you calling a mook?!
• The Neptunia franchise uses this quite a bit as a Running Gag.
  • Tons of people aren't able to properly pronounce Neptune's name (yet they can pronounce Planeptune perfectly fine), meaning that she gets tons of nicknames. Neptune lampshades this in Megadimension Neptunia VII when she first runs into Uzume, who also can't pronounce her name.
  • Few people ever get Arfoire's name right, which annoys her enough that when someone does actually say her name right, she cries Tears of Joy (she still tries to kill them though). Then again, considering that the one doing the misnaming is usually Neptune, it straddles the line between this trope and Malicious Misnaming.
• Fei Fong Wong, the hero of Xeno Gears is frequently referred to by alternate names, typically by people who've known past incarnations of him (example, Krellian calling him Lacan or Emeralda referring to him as Kim,) or by people who only know him by his Split Personality (Ramsus only ever refers to him as Id.) In addition, his mentor, Citan, is referred to as Hyuga by all his former comrades from Solaris.

Fighting Games

• Levi the Slasher of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha A's Portable: The Gears of Destiny, who becomes The Nicknamer because she has a hard time remembering people's name, even simple one's like "Fate", who she keeps mispronouncing as "Hate", before she decides to just call her "Original" since it's easier to remember for her.

Gacha Games

• Genshin Impact: Despite being a nun, Rosaria can't be bothered to properly remember how to pronounce Barbatos' name and tends to mangle it whenever she tries to use it.
  Rosaria: May you be struck down in the name of Lord Bartabos!

Massively Multiplayer Online

• In Final Fantasy XIV, Inspector Hildibrand calls Gilgamesh "Gilligan". Gilgamesh tells him that if he can't get the whole name right, to just call him "Gil"; Hildibrand then starts referring to him as Greg. Gilgamesh ends up just going along with it. Later on, he meets Ultros, who calls him "Gulliver", prompting him to bemoan that no one in Eorzea can seem to remember his damn name properly. In a variant, Hildibrand keeps getting Briardien's title wrong, calling him a "convulsing detective" or a "condescending detective" instead of a "consulting detective".

Platformers

• Mega Man 7: In the opening scene, Dr. Wily is accidentally referred to as Dr. Willy with two L's instead of one:
  Narrator: In The Year Of 20XX AD... The world cheered Mega Man when at long last he captured and imprisoned Dr. Wily. But... Dr. Wily knew his schemes might end in failure and had planned for just such an occasion. Four robots had been hidden away and after six months without being contacted by Dr. Willy, they activate and begin searching for their master...
• Super Mario Bros.
  • In Mario & Luigi: Superstar Saga, Luigi is often the victim of this. So characters use names like "Mr. Green Mario Brother Guy" and "Loo...uh, some other guy!"
  • Bowser does this in the Mario & Luigi games. Bowser has fixated on Mario as his greatest enemy, and always forgets Luigi's name. So Bowser uses names like "Green 'Stache" to refer to Luigi. He finally gets it right at the end of Dream Team, showing that he now considers him a Worthy Opponent.
  • In Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story, Bowser himself gets this, as Broque Monsieur always refers to him as "Monsieur Turtle Bits".
  • Used repeatedly in Paper Mario: The Thousand-Year Door. The Puni elder thinks Mario's name is "Marty-o," the ancient mayor of Petalburg calls him "Murphy" due to his hearing problems, and the Yoshi who joins your party calls you "Gonzales." That last one is justified because said Yoshi is born in a fighting-club type place, the Glitz Pit, where Mario's stage name is "the Great Gonzales". (Mario didn't choose the name; his manager did.)
  • The clueless "detective" Pennington, who thinks Mario is Luigi. (In the sequence just before the final battle resumes, another character calls Mario by his proper name, and the detective is absolutely stunned at the notion of himself simply being wrong.)
  • And also Zess T. who keeps referring to Mario with names such as "Stompy" and "Sir Crush-A-Lot" after he accidentally steps on her contact lenses.
  • And Doopliss. After he replaces Vivian of the Shadow Sirens, Beldam starts calling him "Freak-in-Sheet".
    • Doopliss himself calls almost everyone "Slick."
  • In Super Paper Mario, O'Chunks mishears Tippi saying Mario's name, and proceeds to call him Maria.
  • In the Dragon Quest crossover Fortune Street, Bowser occasionally refers to the Dragonlord as "Lizardboss".

Puzzle Games

• Love & Pies: On Day 14, Joe accidentally calls Sven "Steven", but quickly waves it off as him getting a headache because he's actually his twin brother Sam masquerading as him.
• Puyo Puyo:
  • In the first game, Arle ruins Satan's epic entrance by calling him "Santa."
  • Sig tends to get Raffina's name wrong, calling her "Wuffina"/"Rahena" or, when corrected, "Waffina". This joke carries over to the English version of Puyo Puyo Tetris 2, where he calls her "Ragamuffin" and she wonders out loud if he'll ever get her name right.
• In Runefall, the spoiled Princess of Silverdale keeps referring to local villager Hadrick as "Hatrack."
• In Tales of Lagoona 2: Peril at Poseidon Park scatterbrained Mayor Abraham Tobias Peabody kept calling the granddaughter of the park owners Linda, Lorraine and every other L-name except her actual name, Leona. At one point he asked his aide "Bubbles" (real name Vinny) "Who's this Leona I keep hearing about?"

Simulation Games

• Moshi Monsters:
  • The game has a Pirate named Bucky but he spells it Buck E. The reason being that when he met his first mate Lefty, Lefty thought that was how it was spelt and it stuck.
  • In the "Bungle in the Jungle" mission, Crazy Bill calls the player character "Clive". Unless the player has coincidentally named their monster Clive, this qualifies.

Strategy RPG

• In Soul Nomad & the World Eaters, Danette refers to the eponymous World Eaters as "World... Thingies", due to her atrocious memory. She also never remembers Gig's name, much to his annoyance.
• In Super Robot Wars UX, Richard Kruger tends to call Joey Jonathan, which is a reference to a time when Jurota Kosugi voiced Jotaro Kujo.

Visual Novel

• The Galaxy Angel II trilogy has Anise repeatedly run into this problem. Whenever Mint's the one whose name Anise gets wrong, she retaliates by raising the interest on Anise's debt.

Western RPG

• Arcanum: Of Steamworks & Magick Obscura has this as a Running Gag: if you're playing as a character with "dumb dialogue" (either actually having Intelligence of 4 or less, or using certain backgrounds), asking Virgil for advice will result in your character failing to pronounce his name correctly, something that leads to hilarious reactions on his part. "Virgoo", "Virtigo", "Voratio", "Vortigoon", "Voghhkloorh"...
  Virgil: "I... don't even know what you just called me."
• In the Fallout: New Vegas DLC Old World Blues, Dr. 0 (Zero) is commonly referred to by the other scientists as "O" (the letter). By the time you meet him, he's still annoyed by it but doesn't care to correct it. You can suggest that he put a slash through the zero in order to alleviate the confusion (an idea which requires 9 Intelligence to come up with, out of a maximum of 10), and all of the scientists will marvel at your astounding genius. You can also convince him to accept "O" as his name by likening it to the "Oh!" of scientific discovery.

Wide-Open Sandbox

• In Destroy All Humans! Path of the Furon, Emperor Meningitis mistakenly addresses Crypto as "Klepto", due to being senile.
  Meningitis: Pox? Is that you? What have you done with your body? And what's that with you? Oh, it's your little house boy, Klepto!
  Crypto: CRYP-TO.
  Meningitis: Whatever!

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