In Series Nickname / Literature

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• The Adventures of Strong Vanya: Nobody refers to Vanya as Ivan Vasilievich, his actual name.
• Anita Blake is referred to in-universe as The Executioner; her friend Edward is simply called Death.
• Animorphs: Rachel was "Xena" courtesy of Marco, and Ax often got called 'Ax-man'. Jake was Fearless Leader from time to time. And the Andalites called Visser Three The Abomination. Tobias was sometimes called 'Bird Boy' for obvious reasons.
• In L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series has a few. Gilbert and Anne have nicknames to each other; after their marriage, he calls her "Anne-girl", while she calls him "Gil". Their oldest son James is called Jem; their twins Anne and Diana are nicknamed Di and Nan, and their youngest daughter Bertha Marilla is nicknamed Rilla. Her brother, Walter, calls her "Rilla-my-Rilla", a play on her middle name. This nickname is eventually adopted and used by her crush later, fiance, Kenneth Ford.
• In Bad News Ballet, Rocky nicknames Courtney and the rest of her Girl Posse "Bunheads" for their trait of wearing their hair up in tight buns for class, which the rest of the gang adopts. This term is used not only in-text for them, but on the books themselves—starting with the second book, Battle of the Bunheads.
• Mr. Nishimura in Baka and Test: Summon the Beasts is alternatively known as "Ironman", and he's easily the most badass character in the series.
• In Billy Budd, Captain Edward Vere is known to his crew as "Starry Vere."
• In Brother in the Land by Robert Swindells, a variety of nicknames arise to describe the survivors of a nuclear war. Those suffering from PTSD are called "spacers". Those dying from radiation sickness are called "terminals", with radiation sickness itself referred to as a "creeping dose". "Badgers" are people in domestic bomb shelters, though the protagonist initially thinks it means actual badgers. "Goths" is used to refer to exceptionally violent outsiders. Finally, those who've turned to cannibalism are called "purples" after the novelty song "The Purple People Eater".
• The firstborn daughter in any family of A Brother's Price is named Eldest and raised to be the leader of her subsequent sisters. Five years old and an only child, Eldest Porter is affectionately called Eldie by her 'aunt' Ren.
• The Buccaneers: All five young ladies have nicknames. Virginia is "Ginny", Annabel is "Nan", Elizabeth is "Lizzy", Mabel is "Mab", and Conchita is "Connie".
• The Cat Who... Series: In book #10 (The Cat Who Talked to Ghosts) only, Qwill rather disparagingly refers to Polly's new kitten Bootsie as "Bigfoot", though not where Polly can hear him.
• Inverted in Zilpha Keatley Snyder's The Changeling. Martha's family calls her Marty, Marty Mouse or just Mouse. Only her friend Ivy calls her Martha.
• Chocoholic Mysteries: It's a tradition that members of the Smith family in Moose Motive always have nicknames; Rupert C. Smith III explains that it helps them stand out as individuals, since their last name is so common. For instance, he goes by "Ace", his son Rupert IV was Buzz, and Buzz's cousin was Chip. In the final chapter, Buzz's toddler son John, who was born on Friday the 13th, is officially nicknamed "Lucky John".
• In Crysis: Legion, Alcatraz calls the CELL troops "CELLulites".
• The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids:
  • Pythagoras-858 is frequently called “Pythe”, including in narration.
  • Gorbazaglaz is sometimes referred to as “Gorby” by Doctor Sigma.
• In Dinotopia, Lee Crabb liked to call Bix 'Pinky'.
• In Dora Wilk Series, Witkacy calls Dora "Ti" for reasons unknown, which she doesn't mind, and many demons, such as As, use nicknames because someone who knows their true name has power over them.
• The Dresden Files:
  • Harry Dresden nicknames everything. While most of them don't stick, a few catch on even with other characters. Notably, the Archive is Ivy, the skinwalker is Shagnasty, and the Denarians are the Nickelheads. It says something about Harry that these are, respectively, the repository of all human knowledge, an Eldritch Abomination, and an order of psychos and fallen angels. It even gets to be a plot point at times; naming Ivy gave her her own identity separate from the Archive, which helped her avoid snapping when the Nickelheads caught her.
  • In the series, it's explicitly stated that giving something a name matters for its power and identity. Senior council Member Listens-To-Wind advises Dresden against calling the skinwalker by its proper name as a result of this. Another example is Bob, the air spirit Harry keeps in a skull: in Dead Beat, we find out just how much of Bob's genial and helpful personality is a result of being in Harry's service as opposed to that of someone more serious and less ethical.
    • Not to mention his nickname for the fallen angel Lasciel, Lash, helped the shadow of Lash that resided inside Harry's head separate from her former self and helped her gain a sense of identity, eventually resulting in her helping Harry out.
    • Because of this fact, the angel Uriel objected strenuously to being nicknamed Uri. Considering Uriel translates as "Light of God", and Harry was removing the God bit, you can kind of understand his objections. He has no complaints about being called Mr. Sunshine though.
  • Harry's not the only one to give out nicknames. Once Jerome Rudolph managed to get himself transferred from SI to Internal Affairs his old coworkers take to calling him "Rudolph the Brown-Nosed Cop Cop".
• Durarara!! fans are fond of making use of Izaya's infantilizing nicknames for his "friends" — therefore, Shizuo and Kadota find themselves called Shizu-chan (or its loose equivalent Shizzy) and Dotachin quite a bit outside of the series proper.
• "Elephant" in Flatlander by Larry Niven.
• Semirah, in Dr. Franklin's Island, is called Semi by everyone except Doctor Franklin himself. She called Miranda "Very Cool Girl" until she got to know her. After they are transformed she sometimes calls them Miranda-the-bird and Semi-the-fish and Arnie-the-snake while describing physical things they're doing. Arnie often sarcastically calls Miranda "Wonder Girl".
• In Gangsta Granny, the granny calls Ben "Benny".
• In Girls Kingdom, The Paradise Palace is nicknamed the Petite Palace, due to the fact that you need to be 4'9" or shorter to join.
• In The Giver, Jonas's father dubs Gabriel "Gabe" and it sticks.
• Gives Light: It sometimes feels like the number of people willing to call Skylar by his real name are in the minority.
• Harry Potter: The Marauders - Remus Lupin, Peter Pettigrew, Sirius Black and James Potter - called each other Moony, Wormtail, Padfoot and Prongs respectively.
• The Hearts We Sold has a few to go around.
  • Dee's full name is "Deirdre," but only her mother calls her that.
  • Cal's full name is "Carroll." He hates it and insists on being called "Cal" exclusively.
  • The Agathodaemon is usually just called "the Daemon" by the kids, which he barely tolerates. (James suggested "Aggy" as an alternate nickname, but the Daemon liked that idea even less.)
• Honor Harrington: Citizen Admiral Esther McQueen, aka Citizen Admiral Cluster Bomb.
  • The main character of the series, Admiral Honor "The Salamander" Harrington. Given to her by some of her detractors who noted that she always seemed to find herself "where the fire is hottest."
• In The Host (2008) some Souls have these since their names tend to be mouthfuls. We get Wanda for Wanderer, Sunny for Sunlight Passing Through the Ice, Pet for Petals Open to the Moon, Fords for Fords Deeps Waters and Burns for Burns Living Flowers.
• In the Moran and Moriarty stories The Hound of the D'Urbervilles, Sebastian Moran often goes by "Basher", not only cause of his first name but because he's a terrifically violent man. Also, in a nod to Holmes considering Irene Adler the woman, both M men call her that bitch.
• The Hunger Games:
  • Katniss refers to one of her fellow tributes as "Foxface". We never find out her actual name.
  • She also likes to refer to Peeta as "the boy with the bread".
  • Gale affectionately calls Katniss "Catnip".
  • Haymitch usually refers to his two tributes as "sweetheart" and "the boy".
• Jacky Hart is nicknamed Jacky Ha Ha by her classmates.
• Kim in Rudyard Kipling's novel of the same name is known in Lahore as the Little Friend of All the World.
• The Impossible Us: Bernard Eldridge, Esq. is known exclusively as "Tweedy" in Nick and Bee's conversations. Well, he started as "Tweedy Twat", but Nick soon realized the insult was uncalled for.
• King of the Bench:
  • The coach of Spirou T. Agnew Middle School is referred to by Steve as Coach Earwax because he has a habit of digging earwax out of his ears with his car keys.
  • The principal of Nike Prep is referred to as Jeeves because of how polite and butler-like he is.
• The King's Avatar:
  • Ye Xiu is often referred to as the "Glory Textbook" because he is so familiar with all of Glory's classes to the extent that he is even the creator of majority of the tricks the classes use in the Glory Alliance.
  • Among professional players, there are four that have been given epitaphs for their overall skills and use of a specific character class: Ye Xiu (Battle God), Huang Shaotian (Sword Saint), Han Wenqing (King of Fighting) and Zhou Zekai (Great Gunner).
  • Wang Jiexi is notable for being called the "Magician". Whereas the other godly titles belongs to the characters themselves, Magician belongs to Wang Jiexi alone. He is also called "Big-Eyed Wang" due to his uneven eyes.
  • Because of his slow hands and APM (actions per minutes) in comparison to other pro players, Yu Wenzhou is called "The Cripple".
  • Mo Fan gains the moniker "God Killer" after managing to defeat Huang Shaotian and Sun Xiang in his first year of joining the professional scene.
• Used liberally in the Little Women series due to the complete lack of a One-Steve Limit. Characters Margaret Curtis March, Robert March, Margaret March, Josephine March, Elizabeth March, Theodore Laurence, John Brooke Jr., Margaret Brooke, Josephine Brooke, Robert Bhaer, Theodore Bhaer, and Elizabeth Laurence are known as Marmee/Mother, Papa/Father, Meg, Jo, Beth, Laurie (Teddy by Jo), Demi, Daisy, Josy, Rob, Teddy, and Bess (originally Beth) respectively.
• Lord of the Flies: "Piggy"'s real name is never revealed.
• Loyal Enemies: Shel for Shelena. Veres, upon finding out her name, immediately takes to calling her that. She hates it, especially because that's what her former lover did, the one who couldn't accept her wholly, but it catches on and Gloom and even Virra try to use it as well. Shelena shuts both of them up quickly, but never manages to teach Veres to stop that and over time it become an Affectionate Nickname as the two of them become friends and eventually the Official Couple.
• Lythande: Other Pilgrim Adepts know Lythande as "The Shadow", due to a sneaky and stealthy reputation.
• In Masterminds, the Surety, Serenity's police squad, are called Purple People Eaters due to their purple uniforms.
• In The Maze Runner Trilogy, all the Gladers call Janson "Rat-Man" because of his rat-like facial features.
• Mistborn: The Original Trilogy:
  • The crew finds Clubs' nephew Lestibournes name too difficult to say, so Kelsier starts calling him "Spook" instead. By the end of the series it is the only name he goes by. It turns out Lesitbournes was a nickname as well, roughly meaning "I've been abandoned" in the slang he spoke.
  • Each type of Allomancer has a term based on what type of metal they can consume (and the effect it has). For example, Tin mistings are called Tineyes, and Bronze mistings are called Soothers. Pewter mistings gain enhanced strength and speed are "properly" referred to as Pewterarms, but nearly everyone just calls them "Thugs" instead. By the time of the Sequel Series, calling them Pewterarms seems to have died out almost entirely.
  • Speaking of the Sequel Series, Wax and Wayne, the main character Waxillium is referred to as "Wax". His in universe fame as a lawman also has earned him the nickname "Dawnshot".
• In The Mouse Watch, agents of the titular Heroes "R" Us organization are sometimes called "Watchers".
• The Night Garden: Alice is known as Crying Alice due to her tendency to start crying at any moment. Her husband, Bob, is known as Fixing Bob because of his job fixing and maintaining an army plane that he later steals. He tries to dub himself Flying Bob after doing so.
• My Hero Academia:
  • Momo Yaoyorozu is called "Yaomomo" by her classmates, an Affectionate Nickname coming from her family and given names in Japanese order.
  • Katsuki Bakugo is referred to by his childhood nickname "Kacchan" by Izuku.
  • Izuku Midoriya himself is nicknamed Deku. It was initially an insulting nickname given by Katsuki due to meaning "weakling", but Ochaco Uraraka started using it as an Affectionate Nickname thanks to its other meaning, "never gives up". This causes Izuku to like it enough to adopt it proudly as his hero name.
• Rob of An Outcast in Another World keeps calling his group of friends ‘Rob’s Rangers’, mostly because he thinks it’s funny. This sparks a legitimate debate among the group about what to call themselves when their team becomes more solidified. They settle on Riardin’s Rangers, discarding the nickname and adopting an official name.
• Tom and Thomasina, Franny's adoptive parents, are known as Old Tom and Sina respectively.
• Peek-a-Boo Poo: Alfie is sometimes called Alf.
• In Pinkie Pie and the Rockin' Ponypalooza Party: Iggy for Igneous, and Limey for Limestone.
• In Pride and Prejudice, Elizabeth Bennet is called Lizzy by her family and Eliza by her closest friend Charlotte Lucas (and only by Charlotte). Caroline Bingley having the audacity to call her "Miss Eliza"^note the diminutive is far too informal, even with the title; "Miss Eliza" is also used by Sir William and Lady Lucas, but they have known Elizabeth since she was a child is thus a serious breach of Regency etiquette, as it's presuming on a closeness that isn't actually there.
• Qualia the Purple:
  • Hatou is always called Gaku by Yukari. Hatou's the one who actually suggested the nickname though.
  • Tenjou calls Hatou "Helmet Head", due to her haircut, as an Embarrassing Nickname. She doesn't like it.
• In The Raven Cycle, due to thinking "Blue" is too weird a name, Gansey will frequently refer to the main character as "Jane" instead, much to her annoyance.
• In Septimus Heap Jenna and Septimus call each other Jen and Sep, respectively.
• The Shadowhunter Chronicles:
  • Clary Fairchild's full first name, Clarissa, is only used by her enemies and Silent Brothers (who always use everyone's full names). Similarly, Jonathan Christopher Herondale is almost never referred to as anything other than "Jace", a nickname his adoptive mother, Maryse Lightwood, gave him, while the only person who calls Alec Lightwood "Alexander" is his boyfriend, Magnus. Isabelle Lightwood zigzags this, as she has a nickname, Izzy, but it's not regularly used.
  • Simon Lewis is often called "Daylighter" by Downworlders, for that unique, annoying detail about being a vampire that can walk around in sunlight. Thanks, Jace's angel blood.
  • Jonathan Christopher Morgenstern's moniker "Sebastian" is still regularly used to refer to him even after he is revealed to have forged his identity as Sebastian Verlac.
  • Theresa Gray is called "Tess" by Will, "Tessie" by her brother, and "Tessa" by everyone else.
  • James Carstairs is mostly known as "Jem". This becomes handy when Tessa and Will name their son after him, as he is regularly called "James".
  • The Blackthorns have baby nicknames that they retain even as they grew up: Julian "Jules", Livia "Livvy", Tiberius "Ty", Drusilla "Dru", and Octavian "Tavvy". However, Emma Carstairs begins calling Julian by his full name as she develops feelings for him.
  • Christopher Jonathan Herondale is called "Kit" by everyone.
• In Shaman of the Undead, every member of WON seems to have a nickname and most are actually Only Known By Their Nicknames. For example, Zofia is always called Redhead, Lena Wolf is Wolfie and Kruszyński is Kruchy (Brittle).
• As noted above in films, in Stephen King's The Shining, Danny is frequently referred to as "Doc".
• A few Shivers (M. D. Spenser) books uses this trope, despite the characters having their full names in the blurb. For instance, the protagonist "Your Momma's a Werewolf" is named Ignatius, but everyone - including his mother - calls him "Iggy". His bestie on the other hand had an extremely generic name, John, and goes by the name "Mole" because of his near-sightedness.
• In A. Merritt's The Ship of Ishtar, Adventurer Archaeologist John Kenton gets nicknamed "wolf cub" by his comrades, later just "Wolf." Only the priestess Sharane calls him Johnkenton after their joining.
• In Skippy Dies, pretty much every character goes by a nickname, including the titular Daniel "Skippy" Juster, as well as Howard "The Coward" Fallon, and Acting Principal Greg "The Automator" Costigan. Some minor characters are completely defined by their nickname, such as Kevin "What's" Wong. Howard describes Ireland as a place where no one every forgets your school nickname.
• In A Song of Ice and Fire:
  • A large quantity of characters have Red Baron titles. Some of the more frequent ones include Jaime "the Kingslayer" Lannister, named for his Bodyguard Betrayal, Gregor "the Mountain that Rides" Clegane, named for his huge size, Tyrion "the Imp" Lannister, named for his dwarfism, and Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, named for his short stature and lordship in the Fingers region.
  • Eddard Stark is mostly referred to as "Ned."
  • Daenerys Targaryen is almost exclusively described as "Dany" in the narration. However, the only person who actually uses that nickname in-universe is her abusive brother, Viserys, and only when he is in a good mood.
• In The Stand, Glen Bateman calls Stu Redman "East Texas" who in turn calls him "baldy". Also, Harold "Hawk" Lauder, Donald Merwin Elbert who goes by Trashcan man or simply Trash, and "Mother" Abigail Freemantle.
• P8 Blue of the Starfleet Corps of Engineers is known by the nickname "Pattie". In fact, most members of her race have a nickname - B6 Blue, for instance, is "Bishop" and Z4 Blue is "Ziff".
• Amanandrala Grookonomonslf in Star Risk, Ltd. goes by "Grok" among humans because his full name is a mouthful and too hard to pronounce.
• Star Wars Legends:
  • Quite a few fighter pilots, especially in the X-Wing Series, have nicknames, either given or used as callsigns. For example, Garik Loran is "The Face" (or simply "Face"), Voort Sa Binring is "Piggy", Jaina Solo is "Sticks", etc. Many astromech droids also get nicknames, such as Corran Horn's R2 unit, "Whistler".
  • Doctor Evazan, first appearing in A New Hope but having a real role in Galaxy of Fear: City of the Dead, is also called Doctor Death.
• In Janet Evanovich's Stephanie Plum series, Ranger calls Stephanie "Babe", though it's always with affection (and occasional amusement). Morelli calls her "Cupcake", probably more frequently than he uses her actual name.
• The Stormlight Archive:
  • Kaladin grew up being called "Kal," as he felt his real name sound too much like a lighteyed name. He grew out of it, but in the second book his friend Moash starts using it again. Also Adolin calls him "bridgeboy" at first as a straight insult, but later as an Insult of Endearment.
  • Several of the Heralds of the Almighty use nicknames for each other. Chanarach is Chana, Paliah is Pali, Shallash is Ash, and Talenel is Taln.
  • Kaladin's spren companion is named Sylphrena but she is just called Syl for short. Also Shallan's spren is nicknamed Pattern because his real name is a bunch of numbers, and after Adolin finds out that the dead spren that is his Shardblade was named Mayalaran he immediately starts calling her Maya.
• In Terra Ignota, Mycroft Guildbreaker was nicknamed Martin by J.E.D.D. Mason during their early acquaintance and the name caught on so much that everyone calls him Martin by the time of the series. For years, he himself and several other people wonder who the name refers to, considering Saint Martin, Martin Luther, and other historical personalities. Mycroft Canner eventually figures out that it refers to Martin the Manichean and is based on "Martin" Guildbreaker's Manichean-like view of the world. He later apologizes to Martin for taking away his opportunity of figuring it out himself.
• Those That Wake has "Man in Suit" for... the man in the suit.
• Treasure Island: Long John Silver is often called "Barbecue" by his old shipmates.
• Iris, leader of The Ultra Violets is sometimes referred to as "Riri."
• Ukiah Oregon Indigo is called "The FBI" as a short form of "Frigid Bitch of Ice" by law enforcement, though letting her know that is a very bad idea. The Pack, talking about her to Ukiah, call her "Your lady of steel."
• Universal Monsters:
  • A self-given one — Bob Hardin wants everyone to call him "Captain Bob", adapted when his favorite uncle gave him a worn-out yacht captain's hat. Only Joe really uses it though. He also calls Captain Bob by the nickname "madman" from time to time.
  • Francisco Trejo, introduced in book 3, prefers to be called Trey.
  • Skylar Crockett, featured in book 5, is sometimes called "Sky" for short.
• Vampire Academy:
• Frequently seen in the Village Tales series. Quite a few of the characters are ex-Forces, Old Etonians, or were up at Oxford together (or all three); and many are titled (i.e., peers). They all tend to use surnames or titles in addressing or speaking of one another (and some minor academic characters appear only by position-title); when they don't, they use school-era nicknames … affectionate or otherwise.
  The Duke of Taunton to Teddy Gates, on the subject, in Evensong: "… the Archdeacon's always 'Flops' to me. Has been since we were at the same prepper. Glib, facile, and mean with his tuck, was Flops.... Nobby was called as such at school, and at University, by the generality, the groundlings and small deer; 'Tigger' was exclusive to those of us who were on the first XI with him. And I knew Fr Pryor as a dangerous Harrow bowler well before he ever went up to Keble and then became a clergyman: of course he was 'Googly' Pryor to us, who faced him in the Schools Match. People acquire and outgrow and shed nicknames, Tedders – and don't think I don't know you were called 'Banging' Gates at school, for all too evident reasons....'
• Vorkosigan Saga:
  • In the backstory, The Dragon of Emperor Dorca the Just was called Pierre La Sanguinere (or "The Bloody"), used to emphasize both his badassery and ruthlessness.
  • In A Civil Campaign, Rene Vorbretten gets called "Ghembretten" by his enemies when it's discovered that his grandfather was one of the Cetagandan Ghem-caste invaders, not the Count Vorbretten that his right to the countship derives from.
• Andrej Tschichatschow from Why We Took the Car is always called Tschick.
• Wicked Lovely has a few, most notably Aislinn being referred to as Ash more often than not. Niall is also most often called Gancanagh, although that's more because he is a gancanagh.
• Karl May lived by this trope, for instance in the Winnetou stories set in the American West, most of the Westmänner (Westmen) go by their colourful nicknames, not their real ones, for instance Old Shatterhand, Old Surehand, Old Firehand, Old Death, Old Wabble, Gunstick-Uncle, Earless and Tante Droll ("Aunt Droll").
• Simona Ahrnstedt has a few.
  • Överenskommelser: Sofia calls Beatrice "Bea" (pronounced as "Beh-ah").
  • "Betvingade": Markus is some times called "Järven", meaning "Wolverine".
  • "De skandalösa": Gabriel starts calling Magdalena "Malla".
• Somewhither: A lot of characters from alternate Earths have complicated names, so no wonder the protagonist comes up with lots of handy nicknames. Examples include "Abby" for Abanshaddi, "Knack" for Kaqqudu Nakasu, and "Master Ossifrage" for Sua'u-su'u-ussushibu-re'u (a literal translation of his name).
• Isaac Asimov:
  • "The Bicentennial Man": Little Miss is the first one to call their NDR model Robot Butler "Andrew". He's eventually called "Andrew Martin", especially after he gains his freedom.
  • "A Boy's Best Friend": The Robot Dog in this work is called Robutt; a Portmanteau of "robot-mutt".
  • "Catch That Rabbit": The DV series model is unofficially called 'Dave'.
  • "Dreaming is a Private Thing": The method of Virtual Reality storytelling employed in this story are called both "dreams" and "dreamies". The second name references that movies with sound were called "talkies". The technology is new enough that "dreamed" stories are specifically mentioned to be more expensive than "filmed" stories.
  • "Feminine Intuition": US Robots were originally assuming they would nickname the JN series "John". Once they come up with the gimmick of presenting their creative brain as "feminine intuition", the nickname was changed to "Jane".
  • "First Law":
    • The robot in this work is from the MA series, and is therefore nicknamed Emma.
    • MacFarlane is addressed by the common nickname Mac.
  • "Galley Slave": The robot in this work is given the model name/number of EZ-27, which is shortened to Easy.
  • "Jokester": Grand Master Meyerhof is called a "Jokester" by the people he socializes with, because he's the best at telling jokes. This nickname starts to bother him when he realizes that he's never invented a joke, merely repeated them.
  • "Lenny": The robot in this work is the LNE model, so Dr Calvin nicknames it Lenny.
  • "Liar! (1941)": The RB model robots are called "Herbie" as a nickname.
  • "Light Verse": Avis Lardner always gives her robots names, such as Courtney and Max.
  • "Little Lost Robot": The NS-2 robots are nicknamed "Nestor", a Shout-Out to The Iliad, where Nestor is a character who enjoys long-winded speeches.
  • "Reason": Powell and Donovan call the QT prototype 'Cutie'.
  • "Sally": Matthew, the first of the Automated Automobiles to live on the Farm, used to be known as a Mat-O-Mot. After taking care of it for years, Jake began to think of him as Matthew. He then started to name each of the cars that retired at the Farm.
  • "Satisfaction Guaranteed": The robot in this work is from the TN-3 series, and is therefore nicknamed 'Tony'.
  • "...That Thou Art Mindful of Him": The JG robot model series is given the nickname George. Thus, JG-10 and JG-9 become George Ten and George Nine.
  • "Victory Unintentional": United States Robots and Mechanical Men Corporation usually nicknames each series, and one technician suggested the ZZ series be known by the Ironic "Sissy", but ultimately an Averted Trope (because said technician was immediately shushed and the subject never mentioned again).
• Isaac Asimov and Janet Asimov's The Norby Chronicles: Farley Gordon Wells insists on shortening his name to Fargo Wells. His brother, Jefferson Wells, is usually just called "Jeff", but isn't as insistent on the nickname.
• Isaac Asimov and Robert Silverberg's The Positronic Man: Little Miss, whose name is actually Amanda, is typically called Mandy by her father.
• Power: Omishto is typically just called "Sister" or some variant, even by her mother.
• In The Worst Thing About My Sister, the protagonist, Martina, goes by Marty, Curlynob (by her father, which she also calls him) or Farty Marty (by her guy friends).

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