History Main / FantasticHonorifics

* In ''Webcomic/{{Erfworld}},'' when Lord Stanley is called a "tool" by Parson, he declares that "Tool" will be his title from now on, because he didn't realize it was an insult.

* ''Series/Foundation2021'': Each of the Emperor clones that comprise the ruling Genetic Dynasty is addressed as "Empire", with failure to address them as such considered immensely disrespectful.

* The nation of Adara in the ''Literature/OneRoseTrilogy'' uses the title of "Reinine" instead of "Queen". Well, technically it could mean a monarch of either sex, but since Adara is a matriarchy where the position of monarch isn't hereditary but rather elected by a gathering of nobles and church officials (the overwhelming majority of whom are ''also'' women), no one expects a man to be elected Reinine any time soon.

* ''VideoGame/DiscoElysium'': The main character's rank in the Revachol police force is "Lieutenant double-yefreitor". Lieutenant is from our world, but "yefreitor" is unique. The exact meaning is unclear, but it seems to be based on the Russian military rank of ''yefreytor''.

* ''Literature/StarTrekVulcansSoul'': "T'Kehr", a [[ProudScholarRaceGuy Vulcan]] honorific for learned scientists or philosophers in positions of leadership.

* In ''Literature/TheWheelOfTime'' series, Aes Sedai always have "Sedai" fixed onto the ends of their names after being raised to the shawl, since "Aes Sedai" roughly translates to "Servants Of All" the honorfic most likely translate to "Moraine The Servant" or something similar.
* The ''Franchise/WorldOfWarcraft'' novel ''Literature/CycleOfHatred'', the Guardians of Tirisfal are referred to by the honorific "Magna", Jaina insists on using to refer to Aegwynn despite the later's protests.

* In the ''Literature/NewJediOrder'', there are several examples among the Yuuzhan Vong, notably "Fearsome One" (used for high-ranking members of the warrior caste such as the Warmaster and his Supreme Commanders), "Eminence" (for priests) and "Dread Lord" (for [[GodEmperor the Supreme Overlord]]). The prefix "Yun-" is also added to the names of deities, though it's never used for mortal characters.
* The original ''Franchise/PlanetOfTheApes'' novel had a mention of "Mai" as an honorific-Uylsses uses it on Zaius when he's trying to learn the language. It's not in the movies, though.
* In Creator/TamoraPierce's ''[[Literature/CircleOfMagic The Circle Opens]]'' quartet, every new country the characters visit has its own system of Fantastic Honorifics, with variations appropriate to each culture. All of them seem to have a special honorific for mages, which is usually gender-neutral, even when no gender-neutral honorifics are used for non-mages.
* In Diane Duane's ''Literature/YoungWizards'' series, wizards are formally addressed as "Emissary", presumably in reference to their status as mortal agents of the divine PowersThatBe. It is traditional for wizards to address each other as "cousin" and any of the aforementioned Powers that they might speak to personally as "elder sister/brother".
* In ''Literature/StarTrekVulcansSoul'', "T'Kehr", a [[ProudScholarRaceGuy Vulcan]] honorific for learned scientists or philosophers in positions of leadership.
* In ''The Buried Age'' - a novel of ''Literature/StarTrekTheLostEra'' - a very minor character named Deb'ni has the academic title "Questor". Qr. Deb'ni is Algolian, and Questor seems to be the Algolian equivalent of "honoured research scientist".
* The web-novel ''Literature/{{Domina}}'' has more than a few, which cross over with FantasticRankSystem. Elites are referred to as "honored," and each culture has their own title for them--vampires would be addressed as "Honored Nightstalker," angels "Honored Daybreaker," and so on. Then above that are the warlords, who also get their own honorifics; in addition to the title itself (which is basically a rank), men get referred to as "Knight," and women as "Dame." Ex; "Knight Derek," "Dame Laura."
* In the world of ''Literature/HarryPotter'', a delegate of the International Confederation of Wizards is referred to as a ''Mugwump'' and a male justice of the Wizarding supreme court is a ''Warlock''. In real life, a mugwump is an anti-corruption activist, who is holier-than-thou in public but acts less than ethically in private.
* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels ''grag'', the dwarfish word for "master of dwarfish lore", is used as an honorific, as in "Grag Bashfulsson". There's also ''dezka-knik'', which means "chief mining engineer", but is usually translated into Morporkian as "king".

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'':

** Ghiscari nobility have the nobiliary particles "zo" and "mo" (the former appears to be more prestigious, but it's never explained what's the difference).

* ''Fanfic/TheTalesOfMilikan'': in "Starstruck" (a crossover with ''Film/IndependenceDay''), Ginny’s alien master Zellarom refers to her as his ''ezan corbaiz'', which essentially translates to ‘treasured possession’, although Ginny’s telepathic-induced language download gives her insight to recognise that the term means more than just a valued personal object. There is a reciprocal term in Zellarom’s language, but since Ginny can’t pronounce some of the syllables in that word, she simply calls him ‘master’ in turn.

* Creator/CJCherryh's ''Literature/{{Foreigner}}'' series has several of these:

* A form of this features in ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/33823474/ Apex Predator]]'', when discussing the role that non-Veela women can play in Veela society. Fleur muses that just as some past societies used eunuchs as trustworthy figures as their lack of interest in sex or children would make them more focused on other duties, some Veela choose human women to be "vessels". However, unlike human culture, such women are still allowed to remain fertile, as they aren't considered a "threat" to their Veela mistresses due to their lower sex appeal, particularly if the chosen women have some interest in other women that can be manipulated by Veela allure.

* The ''Series/DoctorWho'' serial "The Caves of Androzani" has "Trau" (Mr) and "Krau" (Ms). This was later taken up by the Literature/DoctorWhoNewAdventures novels set in the future.

* The ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'' had honorifics in the Ancient language that came after a person's name, such as -elda, -finiarel, -svitkona, and the like.

* ''Fanfic/TheTalesOfMilikan'': in "Starstruck" (a crossover with ''Film/IndependenceDay''), Ginny’s alien master Zellarom refers to her as his ''ezar corbaiz'', which essentially translates to ‘treasured possession’, although Ginny’s telepathic-induced language download gives her insight to recognise that the term means more than just a valued personal object. There is a reciprocal term in Zellarom’s language, but since Ginny can’t pronounce some of the syllables in that word, she simply calls him ‘master’ in turn.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' members of the Diamond Authority are addressed by their direct subjects as "My Diamond", and in general as "Your Radiance". Sapphires, being [[BlueBlood aristocratic]] [[{{Seer}} seers]], are addressed as "Your Clarity". According to WordOfGod, the 'My (Gem's Name Here)' statement isn't exclusive to the Diamonds, but any superior or one the one saying it holds in high regard, and is never used to denote possession of another. This makes Rose calling Pearl "My Pearl" in a conversation a huge compliment [[spoiler:especially coming from a Diamond.]]

* LifeArtificial's cyberpunk society is obsessed with anonymity, so people in formal settings call each other by the last four digits of their Social Accountability Numbers, e.g. "Lastfour 3547", or "Lastfour" for short.

* The Vahnatai in ''VideoGame/{{Avernum}}'' have a series of honorifics for various members of their communities; the three most common in-game are -Tel (for government officials), -Ihrno (for high-ranking mages and similarly powerful community members), and -Bok (a posthumous honorific; the Crystal Souls you meet all bear -Bok suffixes to their names).
* In addition to the ser-derived honorifics detailed above, ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsIIIMorrowind'' also features (far less prominently) the honorifics of "Sedura" (appears to be associated with wealth) and "Kena" (appears to be associated with scholars or wizards). They can stack, too -- one play refers to a character as "Sedura Kena Telvanni Hordalf Xyr" (Hordalf Xyr being the character's name, and Telvanni being his House) by another character pretending to be his servant.