A Dick in Name

He's a real...jerk.

"'Don't be clever with me, dick.' She wasn't using my name or referring to the fact that I'm a private detective. She was just calling me a dick."

— Alastair Robertson, "The Drunk Detective"

Subtrope of Meaningful Name and Punny Name.

So this one's pretty simple:

Q: What's the easiest way of letting the audience know that a character is a real dick?
A: Make it his name.

Doing so is a pretty easy way of sneaking in a joke that will go over children's heads because a person can simply say, "Thanks, Dick!" and emphasize it in a specific manner that allows the adults in the audience to understand that this character is not addressing the person exclusively by name.

Please note that this trope doesn't apply to ALL characters of note named Richard or Dick. Basic rule of thumb is, if they manage to cram puns on their name into dialogue, the author most likely intended this trope to be used.

As "Dick" as a nickname is less common than it once was, this often overlaps with Baby Name Trend Killer and Outdated Name. If used as a Double Entendre, that it falls under Euphemistic Names.

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Examples:

Advertising

• In an M&Ms commercial, a plain M&M complains, "'Plain' is the worst name ever!". The man he's talking to replies, "No, that would be Dick."
• Dublin City Council's "Don't Be Dick" campaign highlights the issue of disposable coffee cups littering Dublin by depicting the titular Dick as a careless litterer and focusing on the visual of the coffee cup with his name on it he has just thrown away.

Anime & Manga

• In Funimation's English dub of Case Closed, detective Kogoro Moori received the Dub Name Change of Richard Moore. Unsurprisingly, this lead to his ex-wife, Eri/Eva, referring to him as "Dick" on more than one occasion.

Comic Books

• Astro City: One of the British villains is named "Clever Dick", he's not actually shown doing anything but is shown leering nastily.^note The term is British slang and has a slightly different connotation, closer to Too Clever by Half or maybe Know-Nothing Know-It-All.
• Animal Man: In Vol. 1 #1, Buddy Baker attempts to rejuvenate his superhero career by appearing on a talk show hosted by one Dick Griffith. However, during his segment, Griffith humiliates him with a string of lewd and otherwise belittling "animal" jokes. The day after it airs, the Bakers' next-door neighbour Tricia says, "Whoever christened that guy knew how he was gonna turn out."
• Batman: There's Richard "Dick" Grayson, aka Nightwing (formerly Robin). Things like this◊ can't be an accident. The character was created in 1940 so it's understandable why he uses this now outdated nickname. They've tried several times over the decades to change his name to some other nickname of Richard but it's never stuck.
  • The irony is that he's actually a thoroughly likable person and one of the few heroes who can rival Superman in terms of general trust and respect. Hasn't stopped the jokes, of course.
  • In one issue of Titans, he insists the team can't reveal their secret identities to the newbies, even when they're just hanging out. Arsenal interrupts Tempest when the latter tries to make the obvious joke.
  • And then finally just straight-out said in Batgirl (Rebirth): In a flashback to her early days as Batgirl, Babs is angry with Robin for using the fact he knows her secret identity, but not vice versa, and tells him "You're a dick, you know?" Robin laughingly replies "You have no idea."
  • In Gotham City Garage, Dick tries -and fails- to use Kara Gordon as bait to escape from a killer robot, which gives us the next exchange:
    Dick: We've got one option— split up!
    Kara: But it'll keep following one of us!
    Dick: Exactly!
    Kara: What? Come back, you complete and total dick!
    Dick: What can I say, it's in the name!
  • Double-entendres aside, this name is such an important part of who he is that when he was Put on a Bus in 2018 via gunshot-induced brain damage, amnesia, and deciding to rename himself as "Ric" as a symbol that he absolutely refused to be Nightwing ever again, there was absolutely no one who was okay with it (yes, especially the "Ric" thing).
• The Boys: The Herogasm miniseries introduces a superhero team based off the Fantastic Four called Fantastico, with the Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic stand-in being named Reacher Dick. Reacher Dick shows little concern over one of his teammates, a Thing expy called The Doofer, dying of a drug overdose and is said by Oh Father in the main comic's "Believe" arc to have helped an old woman cross the street just to steal her wallet.
• Nova: The original Nova was named Richard Rider. Despite the very obvious Unfortunate Name, the books almost never went with this. However, one notable exception occurs in New Warriors volume 3 in which "Dick Rider" was used very much for the sake of annoying him.

Comic Strips

• Dilbert: A rarely recurring character is Dick from the internet (he claims everyone knows him).
• Garfield: One strip had Garfield watch a special called "Dick, the Cat Who Didn't Save Christmas."◊
  TV: Dick, stop clawing the waterbed! Oh no, the presents are all soaked!
  Garfield: All right, Dick! Now go swat the ornaments off the tree!

Fan Works

• Anglerfish: Jason gets good petty mileage out of Dick's name, calling him Dickhead. It helps that Dick is himself being a bit petty and threatened Jason to start their conversation.
• In Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, Richard Traitoro Hellsing murders Integra's father and tries to kill Integra as well because he wants the Hellsing Organization for himself. When Integra first meets Alucard, Alucard promptly calls Richard "that dick over there" before helping Integra take revenge on him.
• Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race: Dick Ferguson, the tactless talk show host with a smug attitude, fits this pretty well. His boss tends to put extra emphasis on his name when making it clear that Ferguson's antics have gotten the station in hot water.

Films — Animation

• Subverted in The Incredibles. There’s a character named Rick Dicker, but despite having this trope in his name twice, he is definitely not evil. Dicker works for the Super Relocation Agency, and based on his interactions with Bob, it’s clear that he is a reasonable and respectable man. Maybe having two "Dicks" cancelled each other out.
• Used subtly in The LEGO Batman Movie, of all things: when Dick Grayson first introduces himself to Bruce Wayne, he says that his name is Richard, but most of the kids at the orphanage call him Dick. Bruce's response is that children can sometimes be cruel.

Films — Live-Action

• In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Ron meets one Mr. Banger at a party and is told that his first name is Richard. To which he promptly blurts out, "So your name is Dick Banger?" Poor guy...
• In Batman & Robin, Bruce Wayne has a tendency to emphasize Dick Grayson's first name when he starts acting really rebellious toward his mentor.
• Principal Dick Vernon from The Breakfast Club is a verbally abusive Jerkass who wields his authority over the students like a battle-axe because he's dissatisfied with how his life turned out.
• Dick, of course, has Richard "Dick" Nixon. His private tapes, which Betsy and Arlene, and eventually the public, get to listen to, prove he's not really a nice guy at all.
  "You suck, Dick!"
• Richard Thornburg of the Die Hard film franchise, the Immoral Journalist who spends the entire first movie trying to get a scoop and endangering the hero and his estranged wife in the process (not to mention doing so by threatening their children's nanny with deportation in order to get a televised interview with them). In the second film, Holly even makes a point of calling him "Dick" to his face.
  • The equally annoying FBI agents are a Stealth Pun variant, as their names are Johnson.
• A variant, also played by William Atherton: Walter Peck from Ghostbusters (1984), the Obstructive Bureaucrat who eventually shuts down the ghost containment chamber, setting all the ghosts that were captured free to rampage throughout New York City. You might even say Peck is something of an inversion, thanks to Venkman's legendary burn:
  Stantz: Everything was fine with our system until the power grid was shut off by Dickless here!
  Peck: They caused an explosion!
  The Mayor: Is this true?
  Venkman: Yes, it's true. This man has no dick.
• In the Credits Gag from Hackers, pompous Secret Service agent Richard Gill is referred to as "Dick Gill."
• Richard "Dick the Ripper" Ripley from Out of Sight. On the national level, he defrauded innocent people to the tune of multi-millions. On a personal level, he seemed to promise Jack Foley a white-collar job with upward mobility, when in reality it turns out he'd be a low-level, low-paid security guard.
• Corrupt Corporate Executive Dick Jones from RoboCop (1987) gets an underling killed by accident in his opening scene and dismisses it as a "temporary setback," not to mention has people killed as he amasses more power and attempts to take over the company he works for. Clarence Boddicker puts special emphasis on his name when addressing him ("Take a look at my face, Dick.") until Jones cuts him a very sweet deal for taking out RoboCop, at which point Boddicker is suddenly fine with just calling him "Richard".
• Agent Dick Gordon from Sneakers, one of Those Two Guys who pressgang the protagonist into stealing the MacGuffin of the movie.
  Gordon: We try to break the other fella's codes. We're the good guys, Marty.
  Martin: I can't tell you what a relief that is, Dick.
• The Suicide Squad: Blackguard's real name is Richard "Dick" Hertz, and he's an all-around jerkass even aside from the fact that he sold the rest of the team out to the Corto Maltese military.
• Dickory from Trolls World Tour is antagonistic by circumstance, and pushy and smug about it.
• The Delta Iota Kappas from Van Wilder, and especially their leader Richard Bagg.
  Van: Richard you rascal, you never told us you were a DIK! Not that you had to...
• Early on in xXx, Xander Cage steals the car of a senator named Dick Hotchkiss. He goes on to explain to a video camera (and the audience) that Hotchkiss is an anti-free speech activist similar to Jack Thompson. He's been targeting rap music and video games. Cage ends the escape by driving the senator's car off a bridge and base-jumping from it on the way down.
  Xander: And the moral of the story is "Don't be a dick, Dick!"

Literature

• Richard Cleaver in the Diogenes Club stories, known as "Clever Dick" when he was an unlikeable Child Prodigy Kid Detective in "Clubland Heroes"; in The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School, another child prodigy tells him outright, "You're not Clever, you're only a Dick." As a teenager, he ends up with the nickname "Spotted Dick" (for obvious reasons) and grows up to be an even more unlikeable Mad Scientist in "Cold Snap".
• In The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, participants in Audience Participation Richard III refer to the title role as "Dick the Shit".
• A Running Gag in the Galaxy Game series by Phil Janes is people calling the main character "Dick", him correcting them that it's Richard, and them thinking "He looks like a Dick to me."
• Invoked in Taylor Mali's poem "I'll Fight You For The Library", a series of four letters written by a teacher who had initially reserved the school library for his classes finds out that he had been preempted by Dr. Richard Blackstone, Dean of Instruction for that library...for a meeting on facility utilization. The invocation comes in during the greeting for the third letter addressed to Dr. Blackstone himself — while in the other letters, the teacher addresses the recipient politely, for this one when the teacher is writing with barely-contained fury and indignation he simply starts with "Dear Dick".
• Olga Dies Dreaming: Dick, Olga's on-and-off wealthy boyfriend. While their relationship is thoroughly dysfunctional thanks to both of them, he puts the final nail in the coffin by telling her he humiliated him by assisting when a friend of hers working at a party falls, "You acted like a maid and now you'll be hired as one." That's when she breaks up with him. And that's not even counting when he rapes her later in the book.
• An infamous example crops up in Jane Austen's Persuasion, of all places: "He had, in fact, though now his sisters were doing all they could for him, by calling him “poor Richard,” been nothing better than a thick-headed, unfeeling, unprofitable Dick Musgrove, who had never done anything to entitle him to more than the abbreviation of his name, living or dead." It's worth noting, though, that there's almost certainly an element of Have a Gay Old Time at play here: Jane Austen might have associated the name "Dick" with something equivalent to the modern-day usage of "Average Joe", rather than intentionally using it with phallic connotations.
• Yellow Dick, a man-at-arms of House Bolton in A Song of Ice and Fire is both a dick in the metaphorical sense (he willingly serves a noble house infamous for cruelty) and is associated with his genitals in-universe by other characters. Including his killer, who shoved his (presumably yellow) dick in his mouth after killing him. The same series also has minor characters named Nimble Dick Crabb and Dickon Manwoody. The sexual innuendo in their names couldn't be accidental.
• The Temps story "Pitbull Brittan" features a Smug Super named Richard Brittan; he's known to his friends as "Pitbull", but pretty much everyone else agrees he's a Dick.
• Five-year-old Callaghan from There's More Than One Way Home doesn't understand this trope, or why it applies to her mother's last boyfriend.
  Callaghan: His name was Dick and she kept saying it was the perfect name for him. What did she mean? I asked Magdalena if it meant something in Spanish but she said no. Does it mean something in French?
• Wanted has Dick Arren, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who manipulates and murders anyone in his way.

Live-Action TV

• Dick Solomon from 3rd Rock from the Sun. Episode titles lampoon it mercilessly.
• Are You Being Served?: In one episode, we learn that Mr. Lucas's first name is Dick, which everyone else finds hilarious. However, in other episodes, his first name is James.
• Bottom, never the most subtle of shows, has the bartender aptly named Dick Head.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Mayor Richard Wilkins is the Season 3 villain. In the finale, Buffy gets him to chase her into the school library, which is filled with explosives with this line.
  Buffy: Hey! [holds up Faith's knife] You remember this? I took it from Faith. Stuck it in her gut. Just slid in her like she was butter. You wanna get it back from me... Dick?
• Castle:
  • In the episode "Sucker Punch" the team investigates the death of an Irish mobster, whose brother Richard Coonan, a Smug Snake, turns out to be a major heroin importer amongst other significant crimes. His connection in the shipping industry, Johnny Vong, refers to him as Dick Coonan, and Castle pointedly uses the nickname as an insult at one point.
  • Oddly enough, the title character is also named Richard, and he borders on being The Gadfly to Detective Kate Beckett and other officers in the precinct, but is never referred to as "Dick." Though in combination with his last name and said quickly, his name certainly can sound like 'Rick Asshole'.
• An episode of Corner Gas revealed that Hank's real first name is Richard. He started going by his middle name, Henry (which "Hank" is short for), as a kid when the other kids made fun of his first name. Lacey assumes they called him "Dick", but this was apparently not the case as Hank is completely unaware that "Dick" is short for "Richard" and is confused why they would call him that.
• Cybill has Mary-Anne's ex-husband Richard Thorpe, more commonly known as Doctor Dick (emphasis in original) who has cheated on both his wives, among other things.
• Father Dick Byrne from Father Ted exists to screw with Ted Sitcom Arch-Nemesis-style, like goading him into giving up smoking for Lent by pretending to have done the same. Ted is far from perfect himself and actually cheats more often when their rivalry flares up, but personality-wise, Father Dick still makes him look downright nice.
• In The Goes Wrong Show "The Most Lamentable ...", Chris is playing Prince Richard in a faux-Shakespeare play. He and Robert spend the entire episode trying to sabotage each other, and whenever the name of the character is announced, Robert (playing a trumpeter) interrupts with "Dick!"
• Is It Legal? has Dick Spackman, who's fairly arrogant and has a tendency to disregard other people.
• One of the evilest villains in Justified is Dickie Bennett, a sadistic drug dealer and all-around Jerkass who's never matured from his days as a Jerk Jock.
• Midsomer Murders had a Casanova character named Roger, with Jones calling him "Roger by name and Roger by nature", 'roger' being British slang for screwing.
• Richard Woolsey from the Stargate-verse starts out as a classic Obstructive Bureaucrat Jerkass, and although he does mellow over the course of the series, he is still quite the jerk.
• Supernatural has its Season 7 Arc Villain using the name and body of Dick Roman. The season has been referred to as one long dick joke for this very reason.
• Veronica Mars has Richard "Dick" Casablancas and his father Richard "Big Dick" Casablancas, Sr. The former is a lush, misogynistic surfer dude who has spiked drinks and vandalized lower-class territories for fun, while the latter is the head of a massive pyramid scheme also designed to steal from the poor and give to himself.
• Dick Cheney got this treatment in That's My Bush!. Completely unsatisfied with his position as Vice President, he frames George Bush for losing the Middle East peace treaty, forcing Bush to step down so that Cheney can take over as President. He then goes on to abuse his staff, all of whom were George's friends and who quickly grow to dislike him. Maggie at one point outright says "I tell you, that Cheney is such a dick," and one of the commercial bumpers labels the "new" show as "What a Dick."

Music

• Mitch Benn's "Dick Rowe", about the guy who thought The Beatles would never catch on includes the lines
  Oh, Dick Rowe,
  (What a dick,)
  Though it was such a long time ago,
  (Makes you sick,)
• Invoked/played with by Richard Cheese, whose pseudonym is a Stealth Pun on "Dick Cheese".
• The subject of the Insane Clown Posse song "The Amazing Maze" is a wealthy, abusive asshole named Rick, who the narrators immediately take to calling "Rick the Dick" and "Dickface" before subjecting him to all manner of indignities.
• The titular character of the Ian Dury song "Billericay Dickie" boasts about his sexual exploits, many of which qualify as rape. One verse in particular has Dickie gloat that he was able to bed a woman named Sandy by getting her drunk on brandy.

Stand-Up Comedy

• Tim Allen recalled how people made fun of his full name as a kid:
  "Yes. I am a Dick. My closest friends know I'm a Dick. In fact, my brothers are Dicks, my cousins are Dicks, and my sister — before she was married — a Dick. My dad? One incredible Dick, and the Dick responsible for me being a Dick. Timothy Alan Dick. Some of us are just born lucky."
• Lampshaded by Eddie Brill, when talking about some of the odd nicknames we've come up with (e.g. "Bob" for Robert, "Bill" for William), noting there are several fine nicknames for people named "Richard" that don't also work so effectively as Stealth Insults:
  "Why would you do that to yourself? Your name's not Dickard!"
• George Carlin discussed how people live differently from their name, feeling sorry for guys who were named Dick and Peter.
  [mimicking a young girl] "Mom, I brought Dick and Peter home!" (mimicking mom) "What?! What?!"
  • Another example:
    "Thanks, Dick, that's real clever. By the way, doesn't that ever get to you? Being called Dick?"
    "Being called Dick is a lot better than being called Dick-Licker."
• Invoked by Andy Dick when he was in high school running for student council president against a sports hero: "Don't vote for a jock, vote for A. Dick."

Video Games

• Age of Empires III: The Chinese campaign of the Asian Dynasties expansion features the character, Admiral Wang Jinhai. And for someone as conceited, elitist, and treacherous as him, Wang is a fitting name.
• Being A ΔΙΚ: The fraternity you join is Delta Iota Kappa, or DIK; and true to their name, they regularly engage in sexcapades.
• Desmond's father in Devil's Hunt, Richard, is a wealthy entrepreneur who ignores his son after his wife's passing, and talks down on Desmond after he lose a fight. Desmond's relationship with his dad isn't a healthy one, to say the least.
  Richard: Desmond, Desmond, Desmond... will you ever be anything other than a burden? First I'm cleaning up the mess you've made of my company, then you're getting your ass handed to you in front of all my friends and colleagues. The only good is your mother didn't live long enough to witness this failure.
  [after Richard left]
  Paramedic: Who was that prick?
  Desmond: That was my father.
• Fallout 2 has a double Dick as the overarching Big Bad: the President of the Enclave, Dick Richardson.
• Hotline Miami uses this trope as part of a Stealth Pun. The rooster mask is named Richard. Or in other words, the cock is named Dick.
• It Lives Beneath introduces Richard Sutcliffe as an unpleasant man who harasses Danni. Harper can respond with "You're so right, Dick" to subtly insult Richard and humor Danni. Richard later turns out to be a member of the evil Society and tries to murder Harper after the rest of the Society is wiped out. If Harper survives the attempt, they get the option to tell him "Surprise, Dick" shortly before he dies.
  Harper: Wow... You're so right, Dick.
  Richard: Well, I'm glad you agree. But, uh, it's Richard, actually.
  Harper: Huh. Really? Have you considered going by Dick? Because you really seem like a Dick to me.
• Murder by Numbers (2020) has the character Dick Stanford, a TV celebrity who has a friendly persona, but is secretly an abusive person to his colleagues behind the scenes. Lampshaded by K.C.
  Honor: I don't get it. We met Dick backstage and he was a complete jackass.
  K.C.: At least he was living up to his name.
• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. The case with Dick Gumshoe is this, only here it emphasises exclusively the fact he is a detective since both his first and last names are slang for "detective". And that he actually is a nice guy, only pretends to act like a dick sometimes. Still leads to quite a clumsy introduction:
  Gumshoe: [To Phoenix] Anyway, get the name right. And don't go calling me "Dick"...
  Police: Hey, Dick! Get over here!
  Gumshoe: Y-yes, sir!

The English dub of the anime has a lot of fun with Maggey Byrde (who blames Gumshoe for her facing trial for murder) saying his name very pointedly.

• Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All has a straighter example with Richard Wellington, a pretentious know-it-all who regards himself as superior to everyone else despite being a self-proclaimed drifter. He's never actually called "Dick", possibly due to the One-Steve Limit, but everything else about his personality combined with the series' penchant for Punny Names means this was probably the desired effect.

• Shadow Warrior (1997)'s protagonist is named Lo Wang, and he milks the dick jokes for all it's worth. The Lo Wang in the reboot is also a proud jackass who often makes dick jokes, and he's especially fond of telling people that his fighting style is the "Path of Wang," which is "long, hard, and powerful." In Shadow Warrior 2, he starts to tell this joke to Smith. Except halfway through, he realizes that he's telling a dick joke to a nice old man who has been nothing but helpful, and awkwardly peters out.
• Xenoblade Chronicles 1 has a character named Dickson instead of the more common spelling of "Dixon", who is indeed a gruff, war-hardened jerk. However, it’s subverted in that he is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who really cares about Shulk and the people of Bionis, until it’s Double Subverted as he really is an evil bastard who lives to up to his name- if anything, calling him a dick is an understatement.
  • Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has Moebius D, which stands for Dirk. He is probably one of the most evil Moebius in the game, (which is saying something) considering that he kills people for fun and collects their decapitated heads. A dick, indeed.
• Officer Dick from the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, who is basically the personification of the constant conflict between skateboarders and security guards and/or police officers. The backstory for Dick—real name Richard Ennvee—in Pro Skater 2 states that he was dismissed by his peers as a poseur in his youth, and thus took up a career in law enforcement to get even at those who ostracised him.

Webcomics

• In the 5th Amendment section of The Illustrated Guide to Law, a corrupt corporate executive is named Richard Head. The author lampshades this, saying:
  This is what happens when I let my 9-yr-old design a character.
• Richard, the undead warlock in Looking for Group is the Token Evil Teammate who often engages in Comedic Sociopathy, killing random people For the Evulz. He's sometimes, mockingly, called Dick by his teammates.

Web Original

• Epic Rap Battles of History:
  • Invoked by Joan Rivers in "George Carlin vs. Richard Pryor", who asks if she can nickname Richard Pryor "Dick" and suggests that might be what his fifth wife called him when he remarried his previous wife.
  • In "Ragnar Lodbrok vs. Richard the Lionheart", Richard uses his shortened name as a boast about his masculinity.
    Richard: I'm the number one Dick rising up to make you feel small!
• Arin and Danny of Game Grumps discuss this trope during their Super Mario Sunshine series while talking about the real-life incident where Andy Dick got beaten up by Jon Lovitz due to the former mocking the tragic death of Phil Hartman. They mention how they find it funny that a man named Dick "was being a dick."
• Lampshaded in a short story in Modern Drunkard, "The Drunk Detective." See the page quote.
• Pointed out by the Nostalgia Critic in his review of Batman & Robin.
  Batman: She wants to kill you, Dick!
  Nostalgia Critic: You watch your language!
• Amazingly averted by Red vs. Blue, where Dick Simmons still retains a Last-Name Basis no matter how much he annoys and argues with the others. At most, there are moments in some of the PSAs ("We are not Simmons. We are The Unidentified. We are hacktivists fighting for a better world and there are lots of us." "Oh yeah? I only see one of you. Dick.")

Western Animation

• The other CIA agents in American Dad! are constantly picking on Butt-Monkey Dick. When he asks why, Bullock says "I don't know, Dick. Perhaps because your name is Dick?"
• The Awesomes: Whiskey Dick is named that because his first name is Richard, his power is to make people drunk, and he's a Jerkass.
• Used even more subtly in an episode of Beavis And Butthead. Butt-Head claims to have a cousin named Richard Head.
• In the Central Park episode "A Fish Called Snakehead", Bitsy hires a big-game fish hunter named Dick Flake. There's a few jokes about his name, such as him being a "dick" with perfect aim and a news subtitle calling him a "master baiter".
  Birdie: Do I like saying Dick Flake? Dick Flake I do.
• A good deal of the Dilbert episode "The Holiday" has Dilbert dealing with an obnoxious co-worker named Dick. He has no last name, but the show makes a point about how he's from procurement.
• The main villain of Fleabag Monkey Face is named Dirk. Making things worse is that he dresses up like a chicken (as in cock, another term for penis), and his head looks suspiciously similar to that of a penis (This is a kids show, by the way).
• The Nutshack gives us Richard Cabeza, better known as Tito Dick, as a downplayed example. He cares for his nephews Phil and Jack, but approaches to act like a jerk toward the former whenever he finds a way.
• In the The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Knock it Off", Professor Utonium is shown to have an old college roommate named Dick Hardly, who comes to visit him for the first time after college and manipulates the titular girls into giving him the formula that the Professor used to create them so he can begin a mass production of more Powerpuff Girls, supposedly to help people but actually for profit. When the girls finally confront Dick about lying to them, Bubbles in particular emphasises his first name.
• Wacky Races: Dick Dastardly, one of the codifiers for Dastardly Whiplash. If his first name didn't tip you off, his last name should. As befitting of the trope for which he is named, he frequently stops to cheat in the various races, even though he doesn't have to. To further the point, his middle name was revealed as Milhous.
• Downplayed in Young Justice (2010) Batman prefers for his proteges to keep their identities secret even from fellow superheroes. When Gar learns them, his comment—"Your name is Tim? And yours is...Dick?"—can probably be taken as a nod to this trope.
  • Impulse, whose offhand comment reveals this to Gar, is a bit more in the spirit of the trope.
    Impulse: That [Offering a drink of water to coerce a DNA sample] is such a Dick [half-Beat pause] Grayson thing to do.
  • Wally, who knows the first Robin's name is Dick from day one because they're best friends, also manages to infuse a certain level of annoyance into the nickname "Rob" when Robin does something, well, dickish. It's not hard to imagine he's referring more to his civilian nickname there...
  • Season three, which is premiering on the DC Universe streaming service and therefore isn't subject to Cartoon Network standards and practices, no longer downplays it. When Dick accidentally calls a friend of his by the wrong name because he isn't used to it yet, his friend responds in kind, "Well, Richard... I mean, Dick."

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