History Main / MetaphorIsMyMiddleName

->'''Jamie:''' Trouble is my middle name.
->'''Kari:''' Really? I thought it was Earl.

* On the ''WebVideo/DreamSMP'', Tommy claims his full name is "Tommy Careful Danger Kraken Innit". "Careful" and "Danger" so he can claim that either is his middle name depending on the situation, "Kraken" because [[RuleOfCool it sounds cool]].
* It turns out that WebVideo/ScottTheWoz's middle name, as revealed in "VideoGame/MegaMan1 (NES) | Growing Pains", is [[OverlyLongName "Will Eventually Take A Look At The First Mega Man."]]

* Subverted (as it does most tropes) in ''{{WesternAnimation/Tigtone}}'':

-->'''Tigtone:''' Good! Tigtone is my middle name!

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* While not her actual middle name, Music/AmandaPalmer is also known as "Amanda [[PrecisionFStrike Fucking]] Palmer." (It’s actually McKinnon)
* American naval officer [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oliver_Hazard_Perry Commodore Oliver Hazard Perry,]] hero of the War of 1812.

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* ''Fanfic/LittleHandsBigAttitude'': Sonic's attempt to comfort [[spoiler:Shadow]] backfires when he uses this trope.
-->'''Sonic:''' Careful is my middle name!\\
'''[[spoiler:Shadow]]:''' Really?\\
'''Sonic:''' Em... [[LeeroyJenkins No, not really.]]

* On the ''LetsPlay/DreamSMP'', Tommy claims his full name is "Tommy Careful Danger Kraken Innit". "Careful" and "Danger" so he can claim that either is his middle name depending on the situation, "Kraken" because [[RuleOfCool it sounds cool]].

* In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', a man working at the License Bureau refuses to help people until he finishes his crossword puzzle. When the clue asks for Franklin Roosevelt’s middle name, he guesses "Excitement."

* The ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'' trilogy ''My Brother's Keeper'' exploring the friendship between James T. Kirk and Gary Mitchell says that Kirk once told a girl "Racquetball is my middle name" despite having never played, and Mitchell teased him about this, later claiming Kirk's middle name was "Rhinoceros" because he was trampling over a conversation. This is, apparently, why when Gary creates a headstone for the captain in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E3WhereNoManHasGoneBefore Where No Man Has Gone Before]]", it reads "James R. Kirk".

* ''Webcomic/{{Bug|Martini}}'': "My middle name is 'Cautionary Discretion'."

* In one ''Webcomic/{{Housepets}}'' [[https://www.housepetscomic.com/comic/2017/08/30/the-last-temptation-of-fate/ strip]] in which Grape is TemptingFate to an absurd degree, the AltText is "MY MIDDLE NAME IS HUBRIS! GRAPE HUBRIS JELLY SANDWICH THEY CALL ME".
* [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/bdfe.htm This]] ''Webcomic/TheHeroOfThreeFaces'' strip explains the headstone Gary Mitchell creates in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E3WhereNoManHasGoneBefore Where No Man Has Gone Before]]" reading "James R. Kirk" by saying that whenever Gary is mad at Jim, he says his middle name is "Regulations".

* [[http://www.arthurkingoftimeandspace.com/3faces/bdfe.htm This]] ''Webcomic/HeroOfThreeFaces'' strip explains the headstone Gary Mitchell creates in "[[Recap/StarTrekS1E3WhereNoManHasGoneBefore Where No Man Has Gone Before]]" reading "James R. Kirk" by saying that whenever Gary is mad at Jim, he says his middle name is "Regulations".

* In ''VideoGame/SeaOfStars'', Yolande has "[X] is my middle name!" as a CatchPhrase. As a BrickJoke, she has to register with her full name late in the game, and they really are ''all'' her middle names.

* In ''Film/BackToTheFuture'', both in 1985 and 1955, there's an election van driving around telling everyone to re-elect the mayor because progress is his middle name. Mayor Goldie Wilson uses the slogan in 1985, presumably having picked it up from Mayor Red Thomas in 1955.