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* Harry Stamper's daughter Grace in ''Film/Armageddon1998'' refers to her dad as "Harry" as a mark of her disrespect towards him.

* ''Fanfic/AYoungGirlsGameOfThrones'': Myrcella starts calling Cersei by her name both to her face and out of earshot after she finds about her role in [[spoiler:her father's assassination]], which kicked off the war in the first place, [[BrokenPedestal showing she's pretty much lost all respect for the woman.]]

* In ''Literature/FateZero'', Kariya calls Zouken, a distant ancestor who's technically his father, by name, although he once uses "Father". Kariya ''hates'' Zouken for a variety of reasons, especially what he's doing to Sakura.

* Subverted in ''Series/TheBradyBunch'' episode "Our Son, the Man". As a high school freshman, Greg feels like an adult, and says good morning "Mike" and "Carol" to his parents at breakfast. Mike says that despite what he considers to be a fad, the rule at the Brady house stands: they are still to be addressed as "Mom" and "Dad".

* In the episode "Papa's Got A Brand New Excuse" of ''Series/TheFreshPrinceOfBelAir'', Will calls his biological father Lou after he has a new excuse as to why he can't spend time with his son. The ending shows that Uncle Phil is probably the closest thing Will has to a father.
* In one of the flashbacks in the ''Series/{{Friends}}'' episode "The One With All The Thanksgivings", when Ross is back home from college and hears Rachel say she's tired of boys and wants to date men, he attempts to demonstrate his maturity by calling his parents Jack and Judy. The effect is spoiled by Monica's disbelieving "Call them Mom and Dad, you loser!"

* Scott from the rebooted show ''Series/TeenWolf'' refers to his dad, Rafael, by his first name when he returns because he doesn't feel connected to him by anything other than blood. To the point where he also calls him a "gene donor".

** In "Don't Make Me Over", it's a sign of her AcquiredSituationalNarcissism when Meg starts calling her mom "Lois".

* In the ''WesternAnimation/OKKOLetsBeHeroes'' episode "Big Reveal", when K.O. learns the identity of his father, [[spoiler:Laserblast (whom he believes to be dead),]] he initially refers to him as "my daddy". Then he learns that [[spoiler:Laserblast is actually still alive, and now living under the identity of Professor Venomous, [[FallenHero a villain]] who's acted as [[ArchnemesisDad K.O.'s enemy]] in prior episodes]]. After this, he still refers to him as "my dad" occasionally when speaking to others or in his own inner thoughts, but when directly addressing him, always continues to call him [[spoiler:"Professor Venomous" or just "Professor"]], showing that, in spite of his efforts to form a relationship with him, K.O. is still very wary of and not completely comfortable around him.

* ''WesternAnimation/RosiesRules'': Crystal always calls her father 'Marco,' but this isn't out of rudeness, it's because he's her step-father.

** Aspiring DJ Sour Cream has a somewhat strained relationship with his stepdad Yellowtail, who wants Sour Cream to follow in his footsteps and be a fisherman. Sour Cream even calls his dad by name a few times in "Drop Beat Dad", though after he helps salvage a rave that Sour Cream's biological father Marty bailed on, Sour Cream calls him "Yellowdad".

* In ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'', Shirou alternates between referring to his adoptive father, who's passed away some time before the start of the series, as "My father" or "Kiritsugu." Unlike many examples, Shirou [[HappilyAdopted considered his days with Kiritsugu to be the happiest of his life]], so there's no disrespect intended.
* In ''Literature/FateZero'', Kariya calls Zouken, a distant ancestor who's technically his father, by name, although he once uses "Father". Kariya ''hates'' Zouken for a variety of reasons, especially what he's doing to Sakura.

* 'In ''Manga/CrayonShinChan'', Shin, in the early episodes, often refers to his parents by their names. This is, at least partially, him imitating them. As the show goes on, he begins referring to them properly, though occasionally still calling them by name.

* ''Fanfic/TheMythOfLinkAndZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', adapting events from the namesake game in a novelized format, expands upon the "Father and Daughter" memory seen in the canon game. In this, the confrontation is more adversarial between King Rhoam and Zelda, where she finally loses it on her father and calls him out on the way he's barely been a father to her since her mother died. She starts it out by calling him by his first name, and not even preceding it with "King", something that's ''very'' disrespectful, especially among royalty.

* ''Fanfic/LightAndDarkTheAdventuresOfDarkYagami'': At several points Sayu Yagami refers to her father Soichiro by his name. She does not do this with her mother, so it gets especially noticeable when she refers to both her parents as "Mom and Soichiro". It is treated pretty casually.

** In ''It's An Aardvark-Eat-Turtle World'', also by Paula Danziger, Rosie has called her hippie single mother by her first name for years. "You haven't called me Mom since you were five years old, came home from kindergarten, and announced that since it was just the two of us, we'd be pals and on a first-name basis."

* ''Series/LambChopsPlayAlong'': Lamb Chop, Hush Puppy, and Charlie Horse refer to Shari Lewis by her first name, while she refers to each of them as her kids.

* ''VideoGame/{{Tekken}}'' has Kazuya calling his father Heihachi by name, which is an obvious sign of his hatred towards him. His son, Jin, followed suit for the same reason.

* The parents of ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'' actually insist on this, preferring their son address them by name and not by any parental title. This is because they're somewhat New Age, rather than out of any negativity.

** Lindesfarne starts calling her adoptive mother Angelique by name when temporarily staying with her, since Lindesfarne no longer considers Angelique her mother. Her feelings are justified, considering that Angelique never made any serious attempt to get close to Lindesfarne, and abandoned her and Kevin.