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* ''Film/SnackShack'': Upon their first meeting, Brooke takes to calling AJ "Shit Pig" even as she flirts with him. AJ is smitten by her but never seems to find the nickname endearing. He makes several attempts to get her to stop calling him that, but she ignores him. In the end, [[spoiler:she has it embroidered on her going-away present to him, and he seems to make his peace with it]].
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* Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk tends to do this with his enemies-who-become-friends when in his HulkSpeak mode. Examples:

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* Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk tends to do this with his enemies-who-become-friends when in his HulkSpeak mode. Examples:



* Lois Lane's use of "Smallville" for [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] in some continuities goes from insulting to affectionate over the course of time.

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* Lois Lane's use of "Smallville" for [[Comicbook/{{Superman}} [[ComicBook/{{Superman}} Clark Kent]] in some continuities goes from insulting to affectionate over the course of time.



** ''Fanfic/ScarTissue'': Reinforced. Before [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Third Impact]] [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] used to call [[IdiotHero Shinji]] "idiot", sometimes with scorn and anger, but other times playfully. [[AfterTheEnd After Third Impact]] [[BrokenBird she was so traumatized and unstable]] that she become very abusive for months, during which she stopped calling Shinji "idiot" and used harsher, crueller insults to hurt him. [[MyGodWhatHAveIDone One day her abuse went too far]] [[HeelRealization forcing her to face her awful behaviour]] and [[TheAtoner seek atonement for her actions]], and simultaneously she started to call him "dummy" again, this time with fondness.

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** ''Fanfic/ScarTissue'': Reinforced. Before [[EndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt Third Impact]] [[FieryRedhead Asuka]] used to call [[IdiotHero Shinji]] "idiot", sometimes with scorn and anger, but other times playfully. [[AfterTheEnd After Third Impact]] [[BrokenBird she was so traumatized and unstable]] that she become very abusive for months, during which she stopped calling Shinji "idiot" and used harsher, crueller insults to hurt him. [[MyGodWhatHAveIDone [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone One day her abuse went too far]] [[HeelRealization forcing her to face her awful behaviour]] and [[TheAtoner seek atonement for her actions]], and simultaneously she started to call him "dummy" again, this time with fondness.



* In ''[[Videogame/ShadowrunReturns Shadowrun Dragonfall]]'', teammate Eiger will refer to the player character as "Fearless Leader" in a clearly sarcastic fashion both out of erroneously believing that said player got the previous leader killed and over resentment that the player was made the new leader over her despite the player being the least senior member of the group. As the game goes on and she sees reason, she still calls the player that but in a much more respectful tone.

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* In ''[[Videogame/ShadowrunReturns ''[[VideoGame/ShadowrunReturns Shadowrun Dragonfall]]'', teammate Eiger will refer to the player character as "Fearless Leader" in a clearly sarcastic fashion both out of erroneously believing that said player got the previous leader killed and over resentment that the player was made the new leader over her despite the player being the least senior member of the group. As the game goes on and she sees reason, she still calls the player that but in a much more respectful tone.



* ''WebComic/PrincessPrincess'': "Butthead" becomes this for Vladric.

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* ''WebComic/PrincessPrincess'': ''Webcomic/PrincessPrincess2012'': "Butthead" becomes this for Vladric.

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