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** Towa, the protagonist of ''VisualNovel/SlowDamage'', is introduced with only his first name (and only uses his physician's last name as an alias in select moments). [[spoiler: His real name is revealed to be Haruto Sakuragi, but because his childhood was marred with all kinds of horrible trauma, he becomes overcome with discomfort when the topic of his name comes up, and he has a panic attack (and even collapses at one point) when he actually hears his name being uttered.]]

'''Interviewer''': You mean you won’t even tell me what your father’s last supposed last name was or gifted last name was--?\\

* In ''Franchise/OnePiece'', we find out during the Whole Cake Island arc that [[spoiler:Sanji's family name is Vinsmoke. The Vinsmoke Family are the royals of the North Blue's Germa Kingdom and are presently made up of the patriarch Judge and 4 of his children, including his daughter Reiju and 3 sons Ichiji, Niji, and Yonji. Together, the 5 of them form the [[MurderInc assassination group]] known as "Germa 66". In short, Sanji didn't have the best time [[DarkAndTroubledPast with most of his family as a child]]. [[IHaveNoSon His own father disowns him]] and tells Sanji to keep the truth of their familial ties to himself. Thankfully, Reiju helped him escape, which ultimately lead to him meeting [[ParentalSubstitute Zeff]], and later, [[BenevolentBoss Luffy]]. Sanji considers Zeff as his true father and ''hates'' being referred to as "Vinsmoke", wanting nothing to do with his heritage, namely his [[YoureNotMyFather disowned]] ArchNemesisDad Judge. Much to his dismay, his wanted poster has since been updated and now refers to him as "Vinsmoke Sanji", instead of just his given name like before]].
** This even extends to [[spoiler:Sanji's [[RedBaron codename]] while wearing his Germa 66 [[ClothesMakeTheSuperman Raid Suit]]. Officially, said codename is "Stealth Black" and happens to fit with his pirate epithet "Black Leg". In his mind, it was enough to swallow his pride to use his estranged family's tech in the first place, realizing that it'll assist him with aiding his crewmates and others as much as possible. Even so, Sanji doesn't want to be called "Stealth Black", as that would associate him with Germa 66 and their [[ColourfulThemeNaming color-themed]] codenames. In turn, he made up a new codename, which is the [[GiverOfLameNames less cool sounding]] "Soba Mask"]].

* Former Cincinnati Bengals quarterback Boomer Esiason has gone by “Boomer” his entire life, due to his parents calling him that because of how active he was in his mother’s womb when she was pregnant with him. He makes it clear to everyone that you are not to call him by his birth name “Norman”. Anthony Cumia of Radio/OpieAndAnthony once told a story where he got into an argument with Esiason back when they were in middle school, and after Anthony called him “Norman” during it to annoy him, Esiason challenged him to a fight. Cumia lost and ended up with a broken arm.
* ZigZaggingTrope with Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar. After he converted to Islam, he would ask most people not to refer to him by any form of his birth name Lewis Alcindor, but didn’t correct anyone who first knew him as “Lew” or “Lewis” from calling him that. As of the second half of 2010, nobody addresses him by any form of his birth name, as the last person who did, his college coach John Wooden, died in June of that year.

* The [=Fox McCloud=] of the ''Magazine/NintendoPower'' ''VideoGame/StarFox'' comic does NOT like being called "Junior."

** [[spoiler:When Sanji faces off against Queen of the Beast Pirates, who has a bit of a rivalry with Judge as a fellow scientist and former associate, Queen insists on referring to Sanji as "Judge's son" and asociating him with Germa 66. Naturally, this only serves to further enrage Sanji.]]

* Titan from ''WesternAnimation/MegaMind''

* In ''Film/MysteryMen'', Mr. Furious' name is Mr. Furious. Unfortunately, his new girlfriend refuses to use his name, so he has to try making up a new one that she would accept, eventually trying out "Roy".

* ''Film/TheRightStuff''.

* In ''Literature/EndersGame'', Ender doesn't like to be called Andrew.
** In the sequels, [[spoiler: when the name Ender is right up there with Adolf (except worse)]], he has learned to just go by Andrew rather than draw unwanted attention by insisting on using his old nickname. He is so OnlyKnownByHisNickname that when people hear his name is Andrew Wiggin, they point out that he has the same last name as Ender.

* ''Series/{{CSI}}''

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}'': A temporary example with Danny and Lindsay. When she first joins the team, he jokingly calls her "Montana" after her home state, then sticks with it, much to her annoyance. He drops it the next season when he starts falling her, and they eventually become a canon couple.

* {{Parodied}} in the ''Series/SaturdayNightLive'' "Celebrity Jeopardy" skits a few times.

* ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'''s Seven of Nine was born Annika Hansen, but resists being called that. Unless it's by her Aunt Irene.
** In ''Series/StarTrekPicard'', multiple villains have independently adopted an unsettling habit of calling her Annika, while the good guys stick with Seven. In Season 3, her commanding officer Captain Shaw also calls her Annika, helping to mark him as a {{Jerkass}}. [[spoiler:It's probably because he's a ShellShockedVeteran of Wolf 359, and as such refuses to call her by a Borg name.]] Seven puts up with it for awhile, but eventually demands he use her real name.

* Despite what some smarks think, the names you hear on TV are what they are called in real life. This was spoofed on ''WesternAnimation/CelebrityDeathmatch'' where a demon mocked Wrestling/TheUndertaker by calling him Mark. It was also alluded to during the Wrestling/MinistryOfDarkness angle when Wrestling/VinceMcMahon said that "Mark" had begun to think his gimmick was real. Averted in a non-Deadman angle with Undertaker in 2002 involving his wife and a woman who claimed to have had an affair with him (and later confessed to being paid off by nemesis Wrestling/PaulHeyman to tell that lie); both women referred to him as "Mark" throughout the storyline.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Peanuts}}'' creator Charles M. Schulz obviously used his given name professionally, but among friends and relatives he preferred to be called Sparky, the nickname he was first given by an uncle two days after he was born.

* Creator/PeterSellers was known as "Peter" all his life, despite being named Richard Henry Sellers at birth. Apparently, his parents immediately started calling him "Peter" after Sellers' stillborn older brother, for whom they mourned for incessantly (which maybe explains some of Sellers' screwed-up later-life behaviours). In the 1950s, when Sellers was getting ''too'' carried away with himself while acting on The Goon Show, Creator/SpikeMilligan used to warn him with a quiet, serious "RICH-ard", which apparently always got Sellers back in line. Milligan himself disliked his real first name, Terence, and gave himself "Spike" as a nickname, which he used consistenly used in both public and in his personal life.

* While his acting credit is always "Creator/WilliamShatner", he goes by Bill and will correct an interviewer or a new acquaintance promptly.
** This is referenced in the movie Film/FreeEnterprise, where Shatner plays a parody of himself. After a star-struck Robert keeps calling him "Mr. Shatner" repeatedly, he says "Call me 'Bill.' My friends call me 'Bill.'" Later, after Bill has a disastrous encounter with a woman he was trying to hit on while drunk, Robert criticizes his pick-up techniques while Bill is nursing a bloody nose. Bill says "You can call me 'Mr. Shatner' now."

* ZigZagged with Creator/KareemAbdulJabbar. After he converted to Islam, he would ask most people not to refer to him by any form of his birth name Lewis Alcindor, but didn’t correct anyone who first knew him as “Lew” or “Lewis” from calling him that. As of the second half of 2010, nobody addresses him by any form of his birth name, as the last person who did, his college coach John Wooden, died in June of that year.

* Adam Torres from ''Series/{{Degrassi}}'' is a typical example of a transgender person changing name.

* Natsuno Yuuki from ''Manga/{{Shiki}}'' dislikes being called by his first name. He gives up trying to correct people after a certain point.

* Wanna piss off minor ''Franchise/SpiderMan'' villain/[[ComicBook/FantasticFour Frightful Four member]] The Trapster? Just refer to his past super-villain name, Paste-Pot Pete, and see what happens.

* He's not the only "Elvis" to invert this: ''the'' Elvis, Music/ElvisPresley, ''hated'' being called "The King" or "The King of Rock and Roll". You see, Elvis was a [[RealMenLoveJesus devout Christian]] and genuinely humble man, so to his mind "The King" was, well, [[UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} the King of Kings]], and "the King of Rock and Roll" was Music/FatsDomino (he felt that [[ButNotTooBlack he had only gotten the appellation because he was white]] and that Domino was a far better musician). To his friends and associates, if he wasn't Elvis, he was "E".

* ''Series/{{CSINY}}: A temporary example with Danny and Lindsay. When she first joins the team, he jokingly calls her "Montana" after her home state, then sticks with it, much to her annoyance. He drops it the next season when he starts falling her, and they eventually become a canon couple.

** Around the Las Vegas Crime Lab, no one calls Supervisor Russell Dienbenkorn, as he tells new old colleague Finn. It's D.B. Russell.
** Finn herself is actually Julie -- D.B. is the one person who still calls her Julie, and her writing "Diebenkorn" on the envelope she left him was her way of getting back at him for it. She also objects to "Jules".

* ZigZagged with Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. After he converted to Islam, he would ask most people not to refer to him by any form of his birth name Lewis Alcindor, but didn’t correct anyone who first knew him as “Lew” or “Lewis” from calling him that. As of the second half of 2010, nobody addresses him by any form of his birth name, as the last person who did, his college coach John Wooden, died in June of that year.

* Gou from ''Anime/{{Free}}'' does not want people to be called by her first name (due to being [[GenderBlenderName a boy's name]]) and prefers to be called Kou, as it sounds more feminine. Apparently, she has taken this trope as her CatchPhrase.

-->"[[CatchPhrase It's Stafy! STAFY!]]"

* A large number of eSports athletes and shoutcasters commonly go by their on-stage handles. This is especially common for players and casters whose names are foreign and difficult or impossible to pronounce to English speaking fans, i.e. "Sjokz" for Eefje Depoortere or "Faker" for Lee Sang-Hyeok.

'''Henry Sr.:''' That's his name. Henry Jones, ''Junior''.\\

** The comments about a dog are a play on the fact that George Lucas named Indiana Jones for his dog, an Alaskan malamute that was also the inspiration of Chewbacca due to his size and the fact that he would sit upright in the passenger seat like a copilot.
** ''Film/IndianaJonesAndTheKingdomOfTheCrystalSkull'' also reveals that Mutt is not very fond of ''his'' given name: [[spoiler: Henry Walton Jones III.]]

** The MCU also offered a live-action version of a famous one from the comics in ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'':
--->'''Iron Man''': You're Bruce Banner— [Hulk roars angrily] RIGHTRIGHTRIGHT, don't mention puny Banner!

* In the ''Kim Possible'' fic ''Fanfic/MaternalInstinct'', Shego hates her full name "Sheila Go Downe". Together it sounds embarrassing, plus she has a bad relationship with her family (and especially her parents).