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* ''Agent A: A Puzzle in Disguise'':
-->'''Agent A:''' So you want to dance do you Ruby? Well Tango just happens to be my middle name!

* "Nasty" by [[Music/JanetJackson Janet Privacy Control]]. Miss Jackson if you're nasty.

* In ''[[Comicbook/JusticeLeagueInternational Justice League America]]'' #56, [[Comicbook/GreenLantern Guy Gardner]] declares that trouble is his middle name. The Comicbook/MartianManhunter replies "I've seen your records, Guy -- Your middle name is ''Darrin''."

* In the ''ComicBook/ArchieComicsSonicTheHedgehog'''s volume 0, Sonic says, "Ha! 'Speed' is my middle name! Actually, it's 'Maurice', but don't tell anyone, OK?", in response to Princess Sally asking him if he could keep up with her.

* In ''ComicBook/TheTransformers'' UK-exclisive story "Break-Away" (issue 263), Optimus Prime appoints Grimlock as Autobot Leader of Earth, but tells him that he only has this position on the condition that he show some restraint. Grimlock replies that restraint is his middle name.

* ''ComicStrip/{{Garfield}}'', who declares that Halloween is his middle name, and then realizes it [[OnlyOneName doesn't work very well]]: "Gar-Halloween-field." In another storyline, Jon is boasting that Garfield can't hide forever. "You may be sneaky, but I'm sneakier. ''Sneaky'' is my middle name." While Garfield is walking around with the sofa, in which Jon is sitting, on his back. Garfield [[PlayedForLaughs plays it for laughs]] after Liz scolds him for eating popcorn meant for everyone. "And "everyone" is my middle name, baby!"

* ''FanFic/PaperMarioX 2'': In chapter 32, {{VideoGame/Sonic|TheHedgehog}} states that extreme is his middle name. Spike then asks if it isn't "the".

* A very early use in the Purgatory section of Dante's ''Literature/TheDivineComedy'': as the Pilgrim and Virgil ascend the mountain, they come across a group of shades lounging in the shade of a boulder. Dante singles out a particularly exhausted-looking sinner and tells his guide, "See that man? Lazier he could not look, not even if 'Lazy' were his middle name."

* Lawrence Block's ''The Burglar Who Thought He Was Bogart'':
-->'''Tiglath:''' I need the documents. You may retain the rest, I want only the documents, and I will pay well, whatever you ask if only it is within reason. I am a reasonable man, and I believe you are a reasonable man yourself, yes?\\
'''Bernie:''' Reason is my middle name.\\
'''Tiglath:''' I thought 'Grimes.' Is it not so?

* In the "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JrGRBso3_Lc Shoe Shop]]" sketch of ''Series/ABitOfFryAndLaurie'', [[Creator/StephenFry a very strange shopkeeper]] promises: "'Discretion' is my middle letter."

* One of Bonnie Raitt's songs is "The Road Is My Middle Name".

* In Series/{{Dinosaurs}}:

** In a VerySpecialEpisode of when Big Bird's nest gets destroyed by a hurricane, his friends rebuild it and Snuffy blows air from his trunk to dry the mud they used to stick it together. He claims that his middle name is "Help" and his full name is "Aloyscious Help [[SpeciesSurname Snuffleupagus]]".

* In ''VideoGame/LostHorizon'' an Indian villager tells Fenton the mushrooms he found in the swamp are used to anesthetize animals for medical treatment, then warns that too large of a dose could knock out a water buffalo.
-->'''Fenton:''' No problem. Caution is my middle name.
* In ''[=Evermerge=]: Once Upon a Merge'' Sleeping Beauty comments that finding a stone mine was lucky.
-->'''Puss in Boots:''' Luck is my middle name, princess.\\
'''Sleeping Beauty:''' I thought it was "in."

** In ''"Frenemies"'', they pull this out twice, confusing Penny Ling both times:
-->'''Vinnie''': You're gonna need some entertainment. And "Entertainment" is my middle name.
-->'''Penny Ling''': I thought you told me your middle name was "Alfonso".
-->'''Vinnie''': Eh never mind that.
-->'''Zoe''': I'm game if she is.
-->'''Pepper''': "Game" is my middle name!
-->'''Penny Ling''': I thought you told me your middle name was "Mildred".

* ''WesternAnimation/TheMrMenShow'': Mr. Grumpy says "Tickle" and "Hug" are his middle names in "Hotels".
** He also has "Charming" as his middle name in "Shoes".

* In ''WesternAnimation/OneHundredAndOneDalmatiansTheSeries'', Spot claims that "Mystery" is his middle name as part of a spoof PrivateEyeMonologue.

* ''WesternAnimation/PoundPuppies2010''

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse''

* In [[https://notalwaysright.com/d-for-dumb-enough-to-deserve-a-drink/68167/ this]] Website/NotAlwaysRight story, invoking this trope gets a guy entry into a club.

* ''VideoGame/{{Afterlife}}'' ("Helpful is my middle name" "I thought it was "Herbert")

* Even ''WesternAnimation/BlinkyBill'' has "Careful" as his middle name.

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* In Podcast/TheAdventureZoneAmnesty, this is practically Ned Fuckin' Discretion Danger Chicane's CatchPhrase.

** From ''Discworld/InterestingTimes'':

** From ''Discworld/SoulMusic'':

** From ''Discworld/{{Hogfather}}''.

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'', "Future Vision":
-->'''Garnet:''' [...] you seem to attract a lot of danger.\\

** His middle name is ''actually'' Quartz.

* ''WesternAnimation/TheAddamsFamily1992'' episode "Dead and Breakfast" had Uncle Fester claim that crime was his middle name. Wednesday remarks that last week his middle name was fungus.

** Also, reversed in the ''Series/MacGyver'' special when Adam has to handle sodium, and Tory tells him to be careful.

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* ''Series/DiffrentStrokes'': Blair says Beauty is her middle name. Natalie says hers is Latisha.

* In ''[=EverMerge=]: Once Upon a Merge'' Sleeping Beauty comments that finding a stone mine was lucky.

* One of the lines in the ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends" song "I'm In Charge" is "Responsible is my middle name, I can not trust to luck!"