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* ''Franchise/MassEffect'': If you leave the Council to die in the first game, Garrus Vakarian will temporarily switch to this if he is present (and against the plan), saying "I hope you know what you're doing, ''human''." Highly unusual, as he is generally respectful of Shepard to a fault, and he cannot be made to do this in any other instance in the trilogy.
** Garrus probably wants to point out that the implication of that choice is that with the death of the old Council, humans are going to take a dominant role in the new one.

* ''VideoGame/GodOfWar'': When not using Kratos's actual name, everyone, including ''gods'', call him simply "Spartan" (well, except his soldiers, who are Spartan as well). [[TheWikiRule The series wiki]] even lists Spartan as one of his aliases. The gods also sometimes call Kratos "mortal", [[spoiler:even after he's technically become a god]], and this one is used more as an insult.

* At the end of ''Literature/TheThirteenthWarrior'', Ahmad is sailing away after having helped the Vikings. One of the Vikings shouts to him, "Good-bye, Arab." To which he replies, "Good-bye, Northman."

* In ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'', Master Shifu usually refers to Po as "Panda". His other students, who seem to be examples of ADogNamedDog, might originally have had other names, but since Shifu always referred to them by their species, they started using those as their names.

* In 'Literature/HarryPotterAndTheGobletOfFire'', Amos Diggory calls Winky "elf" while interrogating her about the Dark Mark. In the same book. Voldemort calls Frank Bryce "Muggle".

* So far in ''VideoGame/{{Ultrakill}}'', none of the voiced characters addressed V1 by their name, calling them "machine" or "creature of steel".

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'', the dinosaurs have proper names as shown by the main characters, yet the adults never seem to have their names revealed. That doesn't stop [[CoolOldGuy Little Foot's grandfather]] and [[OverprotectiveDad Cera's dad]] from referring to each other as Three-Horn and Long-Neck, respectively, whenever they talk to each other, though.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BeautyAndTheBeast'', the Beast is exclusively called Beast. A very rare example of this trope where it's not considered offensive and actually is the character's official name.

* Common in ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''; NPC's will usually address the player as their race (tauren, orc, night elf, etc) or character class (warrior, mage, hunter, etc), unless there's an in-story reason for the NPC to know the player's name. Unlike most examples of this trope, it's not generally meant to be derogatory. This got extremely silly for a while after Allied Races were introduced, leading to players being addressed more specifically as 'Highmountain tauren' or 'Lightforged draenei' before the scripts were fixed.