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No matter what range of emotion you're feeling towards another character, the best way to express it is to say their name — preferably in either a hoarse whisper or [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chomping]] cry. Even if no one's around to hear you, just ''thinking'' about that character is enough of a prompt. It's all but required if you're in the midst of rescuing your {{True Companion|s}}[=/=]{{Love Interest|s}} currently facing [[DamselInDistress imminent doom]], you're [[MeadowRun running towards each other]] in romantic rapture, or when [[ArchEnemy your mortal enemy]] has simply gone too far. Sometimes those last two [[FoeRomanceSubtext get confused]].

->"'''[[AC:Wiki/{{TV Tro|pes}}ooo[[TvTropesWillRuinYourLife ooo]][[TheStinger ooo]][[SelfDemonstratingArticle ooopes!!!!!]]]]'''"

* ''[[Franchise/MonsterVerse Skull Island: The Birth of Kong]]'': [[Characters/MonsterVerseSkullIslandExpedition Dr. Brooks]] just {{Facepalm}}s and somberly says, "Oh, Aaron" when he realizes while listening to his son Aaron's ApocalypticLog and realizes that Aaron went to Skull Island after their argument.

* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Th:e Chitauri blow up the office building that Hawkeye and his crew were demolishinging. Black Widow, at the building in the other block, shouts his name in the comlink, ignoring if he was caught in the blast.

-->'''Dende:''' (''smacks Krillin'') You will call me Dende! '''Dende'''! Say it! ''Say my name''...\\

-->'''Goku:''' Hey, Broly! ''Say my name!''

%% * ''ComicBook/FantasticFour'': Doctor Doom: "RIIICHAAARDS!!!"
%% * ''ComicBook/XMen'' are prone to this a lot, given the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} shouting Mongul's name after freeing himself of the Black Mercy in "ComicBook/ForTheManWhoHasEverything". The force of the shout knocks Robin clean off his feet, and lets Mongul know he's only got a fraction of a second before Superman plows into him.
--> "He hears a [[MakeMeWannaShout voice like Armageddon shouting his name]], and he starts to turn--he knows he has perhaps [[SuperSpeed less than half a second in which to defend himself]] …but the rock of the far wall seems to [[DungeonBypass ripple outwards in a sudden cascade of powder]] and a [[UnstoppableRage four-hundred-mile-an-hour wind slams into him like a steam hammer as big as the world]]--and he knows that he is far too late."
* ''ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}'': In ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', a furious Supergirl hisses "Luthor" when she's about to attack him. ComicBook/LexLuthor dispassionately notes that they are no longer on a first-name basis.

* In the Franchise/{{Batman}} storyline ''Comicbook/{{Knightfall}}'', Bane attempts to make Batman scream his name for mercy. Batman tells him "Go back to Hell" and Bane promptly breaks him. Years later, in the one-shot ''Batman: Bane'', Batman finally does shout Bane's name. It's not for mercy, though, it's in frustration--the villain escaped capture.
%% * ComicBook/ZeroHourCrisisInTime: "Hal." "Ollie."
* Used by ''ComicBook/{{Empowered}}'' during sex. "What's… my… name?"
--> '''Thugboy''': Which one, baby?!
* ''Comicbook/{{Bookhunter}}'': When a PhoneTraceRace ends with his target eluding him, all Agent Bay can do is scream, "Damn you, [[InSeriesNickname Kettle Stitch!]]"
* One 90's ''ComicBook/{{XMen}}''[=/=]''ComicBook/TheAvengers'' crossover featured this with a LampshadeHanging. Fabian Cortez kidnapped Luna Maximoff, and when her father, ComicBook/{{Quicksilver}}, shows up, he screams out Cortez's name, with Cortez [[DeadpanSnarker commenting drily]] that he should get Quicksilver to announce his name with such conviction whenever he enters a room.
* ''ComicBook/TheUltimates'': Th:e Chitauri blow up the office building that Hawkeye and his crew were demolishinging. Black Widow, at the building in the other block, shouts his name in the comlink, ignoring if he was caught in the blast.

%%* ''Webcomic/TheInexplicableAdventuresOfBob:'' [[http://bobadventures.comicgenesis.com/d/20100710.html Here,]] when Jean and Voluptua think that Bob and Hibachi have been killed.

%% * ComicBook/ZeroHour: "Hal." "Ollie."

''[[Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers SMG4]]'':

* ''Machinima/Supermarioglitchy4sSuperMario64Bloopers''

%% * ''WesternAnimation/{{Aladdin}}'': Aladdin and Jasmine are really bad about this.

'''''"PLAAAAAAAAANKTOOOOOOOOON."'''''

* Before her execution at the end of the first trial in ''Fanfic/ThreePointShot'', Tsumugi, in full VillainousBreakdown mode, screams Kaede's name as her FamousLastWords.

->'''Walt:''' Now... say my name.\\
'''Declan:''' ''[pauses]'' ... you're Heisenberg.\\

* Twice to date in ''[[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW]]'', a female character has shrieked another's name.
** During the [[ZombieApocalypse Metal Virus Saga]], [[spoiler: Tangle the Lemur gets infected with Dr. Eggman's Metal Virus]]. When the [[TheQuietOne normally quiet]] Whisper the Wolf hears the news, she screams her friend’s name, tears in her eyes.

* In [[ComicBook/SonicTheHedgehogIDW IDW's ''Sonic the Hedgehog'']] issue #24, after the [[TheQuietOne normally quiet]] Whisper the Wolf that [[spoiler: Tangle the Lemur got infected with the Metal Virus]], she screams her friend’s name, tears in her eyes.
-->[[spoiler:'''Whisper''': '''''TANGLE!''''']]

No matter what range of emotion you're feeling towards another character, the best way to express it is to say their name — preferably in either a hoarse whisper or [[ChewingTheScenery scenery-chomping]] cry. Even if no one's around to hear you, just ''thinking'' about that character is enough of a prompt. It's all but required if you're in the midst of rescuing your {{True Companion|s}}[=/=]{{Love Interest|s}} currently facing [[DamselInDistress imminent doom]], you're [[MeadowRun running towards each other]] in romantic rapture, or when [[ArchEnemy your mortal enemy]] has simply gone too far. Sometimes those last two [[FoeYay get confused]].

%% * ''Comicbook/FantasticFour'': Doctor Doom: "RIIICHAAARDS!!!"
%% * ''Comicbook/XMen'' are prone to this a lot, given the LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters.

* ''Comicbook/{{Supergirl}}'': In ''ComicBook/ElseworldsFinestSupergirlAndBatgirl'', a furious Supergirl hisses "Luthor" when she's about to attack him. Comicbook/LexLuthor dispassionately notes that they are no longer on a first-name basis.

* ''Comicbook/IncredibleHulk'':

* ''Comicbook/{{Shazam}}'': Invoked in Captain Marvel's origin story, when the ancient wizard commands Billy Batson to speak his name: '''[[ByThePowerOfGrayskull SHAZAM]]!'''

* In first part of FanFic/StallionsOfHarmonyVerse, two main characters, Shining Armor and Prince Blueblood, managed to never say each others name, despite being stuck together for an entire day and then a several days of adventure in Everfree Forest. They even noticed that themselves after everything went back to normal and they had a long, heartfelt conversation ending with going into FirstNameBasis… and being MistakenForGay by the crowd.
* In the ''FanFic/{{Horseshoes and Hand Grenades}}'' story, ''A Month of Sundays'', Yayoi screams Damballa's name when she catches up to him after [[spoiler: he resurrected Haruto into a CreepyDoll.]]

* After being awakened from a particularly disturbing dream in ''FanFic/FantasyOfUtterRidiculousness'', Patchouli immediately screams Marisa's surname while drawing out each syllable.

* ''VisualNovel/MajiDeWatashiNiKoiShinasai'': Tatsuko, at one point during the Ryuuzetsuran route, is reduced to repeating "Yamato-kun" over and over again [[UnstoppableRage while fighting]].

Compare FirstNameBasis, FirstNameUltimatum, LoudLastName, YouSquared, SkywardScream. If you have a lot of people, all doing a "Say My Name" to each other, it's a RockyRollCall.

* {{DanTDM}}: Near the end of [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6PBc5hi65AQ the first part of Custom Vacation Adventure]], Dan shouts his friend Trayaurus' name when he can't find him on the island.