History AccidentalMisnaming / VideoGames

** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII'' during the visit to [[WesternAnimation/MonstersInc Monstropolis]], Boo mistakenly addresses Donald as Mike Wazowski. Mike Wazowski himself takes umbrage. Justified by Boo's age.

** Tons of people aren't able to properly pronounce Neptune's name [[FridgeLogic (yet they can pronounce Planeptune perfectly fine)]], meaning that she gets tons of nicknames. Neptune lampshades this in '''VideoGame/MegadimensionNeptuniaVII'' when she first runs into Uzume, who also can't pronounce her name.

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* In ''Videogame/TheWonderful101'', [[TheRival Prince Vorkken]] always calls Wonder Red "Blunder Red" as well as referring to Earth as "Dearth". Despite being a villain, this is just him being clueless rather than malicious since [[spoiler:he gets Wonder Red's name right, but never really figures out the "Dearth" thing.]]
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* ''Videogame/BeyondGoodAndEvil''
** The heroine Jade first meets her sidekick Double H after freeing him from ElectricTorture. His brain is... [[EasyAmnesia a little fried]], and after hearing her mention the [[LaResistance "IRIS" Network]], he starts calling her "Miss Thyrus." (He also calls himself "Triple Z" at one point.)
** Jade herself once refers to the suspicious "Mr. de Castellac" who hired her on a mission (which was actually a charade aiming at establishing a contact between her and the IRIS Network) as "de Cadillac".

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* ''VideoGame/LeisureSuitLarry5PassionatePattiDoesALittleUndercoverWork'': Silas Scruemall keeps calling Larry Laffer wrong names, like Larcher, Loafer, and Loaner.
* Professor Hotchkiss, a recurring character from the ''VideoGame/NancyDrew'' games ''Treasure in the Royal Tower'' and ''Legend of the Crystal Skull'', calls Nancy by a different name every time, even in the same piece of dialogue. An expert on wood whom Nancy consults over the phone in ''Danger on Deception Island'' has the same problem.
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* ''VIdeoGame/GenshinImpact'': Despite being a nun, Rosaria can't be bothered to properly remember how to pronounce Barbatos' name and tends to mangle it whenever she tries to use it.

* ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' has this as a RunningGag: if you're playing as a character with "dumb dialogue" (either actually having Intelligence of 4 or less, or using certain backgrounds), asking Virgil for advice will result in your character failing to pronounce his name correctly, something that leads to hilarious reactions on his part. "Virgoo", "Virtigo", "Voratio", "Vortigoon", "''Voghhkloorh''"...
-->'''Virgil:''' "I... don't even know what you just called me."
* ''VideoGame/{{Atelier Iris 2|The Azoth of Destiny}}'''s Max addresses Felt by increasingly bizarre permutations of his name, at one point referring to him as "Klein" (the name of the protagonist from the previous Atelier Iris game). If corrected, he'll call him Felt for the remainder of the current conversation, so apparently he's just that bad with names.
* ''Videogame/BeyondGoodAndEvil''
** The heroine Jade first meets her sidekick Double H after freeing him from ElectricTorture. His brain is... [[EasyAmnesia a little fried]], and after hearing her mention the [[LaResistance "IRIS" Network]], he starts calling her "Miss Thyrus." (He also calls himself "Triple Z" at one point.)
** Jade herself once refers to the suspicious "Mr. de Castellac" who hired her on a mission (which was actually a charade aiming at establishing a contact between her and the IRIS Network) as "de Cadillac".

* In ''VideoGame/DestroyAllHumansPathOfTheFuron'', Emperor Meningitis mistakenly addresses Crypto as "Klepto", due to being senile.
--> '''Meningitis:''' Pox? Is that you? What have you done with your body? And what's that with you? Oh, it's your little house boy, ''Klepto!''\\
'''Crypto:''' CRYP-TO.\\
'''Meningitis:''' Whatever!
* ''VideoGame/EnsembleStars'': Kaoru often refers to Adonis by the wrong name, claiming that since he has no interest in making friends with other guys he can't be bothered to learn his name properly. He does care deep down, however.
* In the ''Videogame/FalloutNewVegas'' DLC Old World Blues, Dr. 0 (Zero) is commonly referred to by the other scientists as "O" (the letter). By the time you meet him, he's still annoyed by it but doesn't care to correct it. You can suggest that he put a slash through the zero in order to alleviate the confusion (an idea which requires ''9 Intelligence'' to come up with, out of a maximum of 10), and all of the scientists will marvel at your astounding genius. You can also convince him to accept "O" as his name by likening it to the "Oh!" of scientific discovery.
* In ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV'', [[CluelessDetective Inspector Hildibrand]] calls [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyV Gilgamesh]] "Gilligan". Gilgamesh tells him that if he can't get the whole name right, to just call him "Gil"; Hildibrand then starts referring to him as Greg. Gilgamesh ends up just going along with it. [[RunningGag Later on]], he meets [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Ultros]], who calls him "Gulliver", prompting him to bemoan that no one in Eorzea can seem to remember his damn name properly. In a variant, Hildibrand keeps getting [[TheRival Briardien's]] title wrong, calling him a "convulsing detective" or a "condescending detective" instead of a "consulting detective".
* The ''VideoGame/GalaxyAngelII'' trilogy has Anise repeatedly run into this problem. Whenever [[VideoGame/GalaxyAngel Mint's]] the one whose name Anise gets wrong, she retaliates by raising the interest on Anise's debt.
* ''VIdeoGame/GenshinImpact'': Despite being a nun, Rosaria can't be bothered to properly remember how to pronounce Barbatos' name and tends to mangle it whenever she tries to use it.
-->'''Rosaria:''' May you be struck down in the name of Lord Bartabos!

* ''VideoGame/LoveAndPies'': On Day 14, Joe accidentally calls Sven "Steven", but quickly waves it off as him getting a headache [[spoiler:because he's actually [[TwinSwitch his twin brother Sam masquerading as him.]]]]
* Levi the Slasher of ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Gears of Destiny'', who becomes TheNicknamer because she has a hard time remembering people's name, even simple one's like "Fate", who she keeps mispronouncing as "Hate", before she decides to just call her "[[{{Doppelganger}} Original]]" since it's easier to remember for her.
* ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'': Flay refers to the QuirkyMinibossSquad as the "{{Mook}} Squad".
-->'''Tony:''' Who are you calling a ''mook?!''
* ''VideoGame/MegaMan7'': In the opening scene, Dr. Wily is accidentally referred to as Dr. Willy with two L's instead of one:
-->'''Narrator:''' In The Year Of 20XX AD... The world cheered Mega Man when at long last he captured and imprisoned Dr. Wily. But... Dr. Wily knew his schemes might end in failure and had planned for just such an occasion. Four robots had been hidden away and after six months without being contacted by Dr. Willy, they activate and begin searching for their master...
* ''VideoGame/MoshiMonsters'':
** The game has a {{Pirate}} named Bucky but he spells it Buck E. The reason being that when he met his first mate Lefty, Lefty thought that was how it was spelt and it stuck.
** In the "Bungle in the Jungle" mission, Crazy Bill calls the player character "Clive". Unless the player has coincidentally named their monster Clive, this qualifies.

* ''VideoGame/{{Okami}}'' proves that not even a ''God'' is immune to this trope. Most people you encounter find the name Amaterasu a bit too much of a mouthful to remember. The nicer ones will call you Ammy or (after a previous, respected alias) Shiranui. Less respectful ones settle for Furball.
* ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'': Amaterasu's son, Chibiterasu, gets it even worse. He has five companions over the course of the game, and each has their own terrible nickname for him: Mutt, Squiddy, Pooch, Dude, and ''Pork Chop''.
* ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyo'':
** In the first game, Arle ruins Satan's epic entrance by calling him "Santa."
** Sig tends to get Raffina's name wrong, calling her "Wuffina"/"Rahena" or, when corrected, "Waffina". This joke carries over to the English version of ''VideoGame/PuyoPuyoTetris2'', where he calls her "Ragamuffin" and she wonders out loud if he'll ever get her name right.
* In ''VideoGame/{{Runefall}}'' the spoiled Princess of Silverdale keeps referring to local villager Hadrick as "Hatrack."
* ''Franchise/SuperMarioBros''
** In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiSuperstarSaga'', Luigi is often the victim of this. So characters use names like "[[BuffySpeak Mr. Green Mario Brother Guy]]" and "Loo...uh, some other guy!"
** Bowser does this in the ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigi'' games. Bowser has fixated on Mario as his greatest enemy, and always forgets Luigi's name. So Bowser uses names like "Green 'Stache" to refer to Luigi. [[spoiler: He finally gets it right at the end of ''[[VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiDreamTeam Dream Team]]'', showing that he now considers him a WorthyOpponent.]]
** In ''VideoGame/MarioAndLuigiBowsersInsideStory'', Bowser himself gets this, as Broque Monsieur always refers to him as "Monsieur Turtle Bits".
** Used repeatedly in ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor''. The Puni elder thinks Mario's name is "Marty-o," the ancient mayor of Petalburg calls him "Murphy" due to his hearing problems, and the Yoshi who joins your party calls you "Gonzales." That last one is justified because said Yoshi is born in a fighting-club type place, the Glitz Pit, where Mario's stage name is "the Great Gonzales". (Mario didn't choose the name; his manager did.)
** The clueless "detective" Pennington, who thinks Mario is Luigi. ([[spoiler:In the sequence just before the final battle resumes, another character calls Mario by his proper name, and the detective is absolutely stunned at the notion of himself simply being ''wrong''.]])
** And also Zess T. who keeps referring to Mario with names such as "Stompy" and "Sir Crush-A-Lot" after he accidentally steps on her contact lenses.
** And Doopliss. [[spoiler:After he replaces Vivian of the Shadow Sirens, Beldam starts calling him "Freak-in-Sheet".]]
*** Doopliss himself calls almost everyone "Slick."
** In ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', O'Chunks mishears Tippi saying Mario's name, and proceeds to call him Maria.
** In the ''VideoGame/DragonQuest'' crossover ''VideoGame/FortuneStreet'', Bowser occasionally refers to the Dragonlord as "Lizardboss".
* In ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'', Danette refers to the eponymous World Eaters as "[[BuffySpeak World... Thingies]]", due to her atrocious memory. She also never remembers Gig's name, much to his annoyance.
* In ''VideoGame/SuperRobotWarsUX'', Richard Kruger tends to call Joey Jonathan, which is a reference to a time when Creator/JurotaKosugi voiced [[Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureStardustCrusaders Jotaro Kujo]].
* In ''Tales of Lagoona 2: Peril at Poseidon Park'' scatterbrained Mayor Abraham Tobias Peabody kept calling the granddaughter of the park owners Linda, Lorraine and every other L-name ''except'' her ''actual'' name, Leona. At one point he asked his aide "Bubbles" (real name Vinny) "Who's this Leona I keep hearing about?"
* In ''Videogame/TheWonderful101'', [[TheRival Prince Vorkken]] always calls Wonder Red "Blunder Red" as well as referring to Earth as "Dearth". Despite being a villain, this is just him being clueless rather than malicious since [[spoiler:he gets Wonder Red's name right, but never really figures out the "Dearth" thing.]]

* ''VideoGame/ShantaeAndThePiratesCurse'': Sky's dad pronounces Shantae's name wrong:
--> Shantell, looks like your 'ol Uncle Mimic was right again.

* [[VideoGame/GalaxyAngel The Galaxy Angel II trilogy]] has Anise repeatedly run into this problem. Whenever Mint's the one whose name Anise gets wrong, she retaliates by raising the interest on Anise's debt.

** In ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsII'', Captain Jack Sparrow calls Sora "Zola" in one scene. Sora gets annoyed and corrects him. He also calls Sora by other names, namely "Nora" or "Dora", in the novel adaptation.
*** In the [[Manga/KingdomHeartsII manga adaptation]], Donald and Goofy were called "Ronald and Zoofy" by Yuffie. They didn't take that too well.

* In ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', the player can find an ECHO recording of Handsome Jack when he was just a low-level Hyperion employee. His {{Jerkass}} boss Mr. Tassiter always calls him "John". However, after Jack takes over the company, he calls his own vice-president by the wrong name, which suggests that this is what was done to him as well. The Pre-Sequel shows that Tassiter knows that Jack's actual name is Jack, but always calls him John whenever he's pissed at him, which is pretty much always.

** In the sequel ''VideoGame/{{Okamiden}}'', Amaterasu's son, Chibiterasu, gets it even worse. He has five companions over the course of the game, and each has their own terrible nickname for him: Mutt, Squiddy, Pooch, Dude, and ''Pork Chop''.

* ''VideoGame/ArcanumOfSteamworksAndMagickObscura'' has this as a RunningGag: if you're playing a character with "dumb dialogue" (either actually having Intelligence of 4 or less, or using certain backgrounds), asking Virgil for advice will result in you failing to pronounce his name correctly, something that leads to hilarious reactions on his part. [[spoiler: "Virgoo", "Virtigo", "Voratio", "Vortigoon", "''Voghhkloorh''"...]]