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Is there a trope about the changes of addressing people? Some sort relationship upgrade, but not [[RelationshipUpgrade the trope with that name]] as this isn\'t romantic.
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Is there a trope about the changes of addressing people as a way to show a relationship upgrade? [[RelationshipUpgrade The trope with that name]] won\\\'t work here as this isn\\\'t romantic.
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Lots of \\\"social\\\" examples in Live TV

* \\\'\\\'TheXFiles\\\'\\\' gets part of its peculiar feel from the male lead and female lead taking on the [[MotherNatureFatherScience aspects]] usually given to the other gender: Mulder is intuitive and ready to believe, while Scully is hard-nosed and science-minded. [[SkepticismFailure Mulder was right]].
* Similarly, in \\\'\\\'{{Stargate SG-1}}\\\'\\\' Carter is the one who can identify leptons by mass. Daniel Jackson is the one who believes aliens built the pyramids. (In Daniel\\\'s defense... they did.) It goes much deeper than that, however. Carter is also shown as the second most proficient fighter, with the current team leader being the most proficient. Especially in the early episodes Dr. Jackson is shown as barely knowing how to hold a gun, much less use it, while Carter mows down bad guys and calls tactics. Stargate, in general, has been on the good side of this trope, Teyla in Stargate Atlantis is also shown to be an extremely capable fighter, able to teach the guys a thing or two, while [=McKay=] is even worse than Jackson.

* HotAmazon Zoe and pilot Wash in \\\'\\\'{{Firefly}}\\\'\\\' are a case similar to Redlance and Nightfall from \\\'\\\'Elfquest\\\'\\\' listed above.
* Pamela Anderson sitcom \\\'\\\'Stacked\\\'\\\' was basically a GenderFlip version of the Sam & Diane relationship in \\\'\\\'{{Cheers}}\\\'\\\' with the BookDumb popular extrovert (Skyler) being female and the socially inept academic (Gavin) being male.
** Speaking of which, \\\'\\\'BarbWire\\\'\\\' is a GenderFlip version of \\\'\\\'{{Casablanca}}\\\'\\\'.
* One episode of \\\'\\\'Flight Of The Conchords\\\'\\\' had Bret in a relationship in which all the male and female clichés were reversed (Bret wanted a long-term relationship, while the woman he was with just wanted sex, and pretended she was getting shipped out to Iraq).
** A similar gag was used in \\\'\\\'{{Scrubs}}\\\'\\\' when Elliot was dating a male nurse. And to a lesser extent with her relationship with Keith.
--->\\\'\\\'\\\'Dr Kelso\\\'\\\'\\\': You were having an argument, but it was like he\\\'s the chick and you\\\'re the guy.
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