Basic Trope: Someone is referred to by their race or species, often as a form of contempt.
- Straight: Many characters typically call Archer "that tiger-man over there".
- Exaggerated:
- Archer is frequently referred to by derogatory terms for his species.
- Nobody, not even Archer's closest friends, call him by his real name. The fact that his name is even confirmed to be Archer is All in the Manual.
- The story features multiple characters of different races and species, and they're all referred to solely by their race/species.
- Downplayed: Archer does often get called "the tiger-man", but only by the main antagonist.
- Justified:
- The people calling Archer "tiger-man" are trying to show prejudice against his species.
- Alternatively, they just don't know Archer's name and "the tiger-man" is about the only description of him they can come up with, considering he is a humanoid tiger.
- Inverted: For some reason, Archer's species is often called by his name.
- Subverted: Some characters refer to Archer as "the tiger-man", but they stop once they learn his real name.
- Double Subverted: They do use it as an insult on occasion, though.
- Parodied: Every single time they're mad at Archer, they call him Panthera tigris x Homo sapiens.
- Zig-Zagged:
- Some characters call Archer by his real name, and some just call him variants of "a tiger-man".
- Archer is frequently introduced as "Archer the Tiger-Man".
- Averted:
- Everyone refers to characters by their name, regardless of their race or species.
- There are no characters of different races or species to begin with.
- Enforced: To show the bigoted nature of a character, sometimes.
- Lampshaded: "Are you calling him by his species again?"
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: "You do know I have a name, don't you?"
- Conversed: "I wonder why the prejudiced fictional characters often refer to others by their race or species."
Hey, Troper! Back to Race-Name Basis!
