Basic Trope: Someone has an embarrassing middle name.
- Straight: Dennis Troperson reveals that his middle name is Elizabeth.
- Exaggerated:
- Dennis has several middle names, all of which are embarrassing.
- Dennis outright has a swear word as his middle name.
- Every character in the work has an embarrassing middle name.
- Downplayed:
- Dennis considers his middle name somewhat embarrassing, but doesn't mind it much.
- Dennis' full name is Dennis Robert Elizabeth Troperson. When asked, he says that Robert is his last middle name, leaving out his second one.
- Justified: ???
- Inverted:
- Embarrassing First Name or Embarrassing Last Name
- Dennis's middle name is very cool - in fact, he may even go by Middle Name Basis.
- The rest of the name is horrible, but the middle name is cool or at least decent.
- Subverted: Dennis finds his middle name embarrassing, but later learns that he was named after his Cool Old Lady great-grandmother Elizabeth.
- Double Subverted: ...He still feels that "Elizabeth" is rather embarrassing to have as a middle name personally, however.
- Parodied: ???
- Zig-Zagged: Dennis's middle name is Elizabeth, but his second middle name is Skywalker, but his third middle name is Jessica, but his fourth middle name is Lionheart...
- Averted:
- Dennis has no middle name.
- Dennis has an average middle name.
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Dennis changes his middle name to something he finds cool.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
- Played for Drama: Dennis's middle name makes him a target for bullying.
- Implied: Dennis refuses to share what his middle name is.
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