History Main / ADickInName

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* The titular character of the Ian Dury song "Billericay Dickie" boasts about his sexual exploits, many of which qualify as rape. One verse in particular has Dickie gloat that he was able to bed a woman named Sandy by [[ButLiquorIsQuicker getting her drunk on brandy]].

** In the episode "[[Recap/CastleS2E13SuckerPunch Sucker Punch]]" the team investigates the death of an {{Irish mob}}ster, whose brother Richard Coonan, a SmugSnake, turns out to be a major heroin importer amongst other significant crimes. His connection in the shipping industry, Johnny Vong, refers to him as Dick Coonan, and Castle pointedly uses the nickname as an insult at one point.

As "Dick" as a nickname is less common than it once was, this often overlaps with OutdatedName. If used as a DoubleEntendre, that it falls under EuphemisticNames.

* Creator/TimAllen recalled how people made fun of his full name as a kid:

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'''Kara:''' But it''ll keep following one of us!\\

--->'':Richard:''' I'm the number one Dick rising up to make you feel small!

-->'''TV''': Dick, stop clawing the waterbed! Oh no, the presents are all soaked!
-->'''Garfield''': All right, Dick! Now go swat the ornaments off the tree!

-->'''Stantz:''' Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by Dickless here!
-->'''Peck:''' ''They caused an explosion!''
-->'''The Mayor:''' Is this true?
-->'''Venkman:''' Yes, it's true. [[TakeThat This man has no dick.]]

-->'''Gordon''': We try to break the ''other'' fella's codes. We're the good guys, Marty.\\
'''Martin''': I can't tell you what a relief that is, ''Dick''.

-->'''Van''': Richard you rascal, you never told us you were a DIK! [-Not that you had to...-]

-->'''Callaghan''': His name was Dick and she kept saying it was the perfect name for him. What did she mean? I asked Magdalena if it meant something in Spanish but she said no. Does it mean something in French?

-->(''mimicking a young girl'') "Mom, I brought Dick and Peter home!" (''mimicking mom'') "What?! What?!"

--> '''Richard''': Desmond, Desmond, Desmond... will you ever be anything other than a burden? First I'm cleaning up the mess you've made of my company, then you're getting your ass handed to you in front of all my friends and colleagues. The only good is your mother didn't live long enough to witness this failure.\\
[''after Richard left'']\\
'''Paramedic''': Who was that prick?\\
'''Desmond''': That ''was'' my father.

-->'''Harper:''' Wow... You're so right, Dick.
-->'''Richard:''' Well, I'm glad you agree. But, uh, it's Richard, actually.
-->'''Harper:''' Huh. Really? Have you considered going by Dick? Because you ''really'' seem like a Dick to me.

-->'''Gumshoe:''' [To Phoenix] Anyway, get the name right. And don't go calling me "Dick"...
-->'''Police:''' Hey, Dick! Get over here!
-->'''Gumshoe:''' Y-yes, sir!
** The English dub of the anime has a lot of fun with Maggey Byrde (who blames Gumshoe for her facing trial for murder) saying his name ''very pointedly''.

--->''I'm the number one Dick rising up to make you feel small!''

-->'''Batman''': She wants to kill you, Dick!\\
'''Nostalgia Critic''': ''[[HypocriticalHumor You watch your language!]]''

--->'''Impulse''': "That [Offering a drink of water to coerce a [=DNA=] sample] is such a ''Dick'' [half-{{Beat}} pause] Grayson thing to do."

* In ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'', UsefulNotes/RichardTheLionheart uses his shortened name as a boast about his masculinity.
-->''I'm the number one Dick rising up to make you feel small!''

* ''VisualNovel/MurderByNumbers2020'' has the character Dick Stanford, a TV personality who has a friendly persona, but is secretly an abusive person to his colleagues behind the scenes. Lampshaded by K.C.

* ''Series/{{Castle}}'':

* ''Comicbook/AstroCity'': One of the British villains is named "Clever Dick", he's not actually shown doing anything but is shown leering nastily.[[note]]The term is British slang and has a slightly different connotation, closer to TooCleverByHalf or maybe KnowNothingKnowItAll.[[/note]]
* In ''Comicbook/AnimalMan'' Vol. 1 #1, Buddy Baker attempts to rejuvenate his superhero career by appearing on a talk show hosted by one Dick Griffith. However, during his segment, Griffith humiliates him with a string of lewd and otherwise belittling "animal" jokes. The day after it airs, the Bakers' next-door neighbour Tricia says, "Whoever christened ''that'' guy knew how he was gonna turn out."
* ''ComicBook/TheBoys'': The ''Herogasm'' miniseries introduces a superhero team [[TheFantasticFaux based off the Fantastic Four]] called Fantastico, with the Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic stand-in being named Reacher Dick. Reacher Dick shows little concern over one of his teammates, a Thing expy called The Doofer, dying of a drug overdose and is said by Oh Father in the main comic's "Believe" arc to have helped an old woman cross the street just to steal her wallet.
* A rarely recurring character in ''Dilbert'' is Dick from the internet (he claims everyone knows him).
* There's Richard "Dick" Grayson, aka ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} (formerly ComicBook/{{Robin}}). Things like [[https://i.imgur.com/7dCOh3A.jpeg this]] can't be an accident. The character was created in 1940 so it's understandable why he uses this now outdated nickname. They've tried several times over the decades to change his name to some other nickname of Richard but it's never stuck.

** In one issue of ''[[Comicbook/TeenTitans Titans]]'', he insists the team can't reveal their secret identities to the newbies, even when they're just hanging out. Arsenal interrupts Tempest when the latter tries to make the obvious joke.
** And then finally just straight-out said in ''Comicbook/BatgirlRebirth'': In a flashback to her early days as Batgirl, Babs is angry with Robin for using the fact he knows her secret identity, but not vice versa, and tells him "You're a dick, you know?" Robin laughingly replies "You have no idea."

* The original ''ComicBook/{{Nova}}'' was named Richard Rider. Despite the very obvious UnfortunateName, the books almost never went with this. However, one notable exception occurs in ''Comicbook/NewWarriors'' volume 3 in which "Dick Rider" was used very much for the sake of annoying him.

* One ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'' strip had Garfield watch a special called [[http://images.ucomics.com/comics/ga/2014/ga141218.gif "Dick, the Cat Who Didn't Save Christmas."]]