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''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is full of nicknames, some of them falling into this trope:
* Jon Snow is dubbed "Lord Snow" by Ser Alliser Thorne to cast him as a spoiled noble's bastard and estrange him from the other recruits. It quickly loses its negative connotations as the recruits start looking to him for leadership, and ultimately [[spoiler:he becomes the Lord Commander, making the name official]].
* Tyrion Lannister ("The Imp") actually tells Jon Snow to use this trope.
-->'''Tyrion''': Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.
* Sandor Clegane is known as the Hound due to the hounds on his coat of arms and his perceived total lack of ethical concerns interfering with his loyalty to his master. The self-loathing Sandor wears a helm crafted into a horrible dog-face.
* The ex-smuggler Davos Seaworth was knighted for delivering food to a besieged city. The other nobility look at him as a common thug who bought his knighthood with onions, dubbing him the Onion Knight, but Davos proudly put the onion on his coat of arms.
* Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish is lord of a tiny tract of worthless land on a group of peninsulas called the Fingers, and is also physically short. He goes by the name as part of his scheme to get people to underestimate him.
* Jaime "Kingslayer" Lannister got his name for murdering Aerys Targaryen, who he had previously sworn to protect. He hates the title, but uses the name and the reputation that comes with it to get away with a lot.
* Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully was labelled the BlackSheep of the family after he refused to enter an ArrangedMarriage set up by his elder brother and leige lord. Because the sigil of House Tully is a fish, Brynden said a "black fish" would be more appropriate, and adopted it as his own personal coat of arms.
* The warrior-slaves The Unsullied are given a new (and always demeaning) name each day, to remind them they are so worthless they don't even deserve a real name. After the Unsullied are freed and allowed to choose their own names, their leader chooses to keep his current name, "Grey Worm," believing it to be lucky because it was the name he had on the day he was freed, whereas his original name was the name he had on the day he was enslaved.
* The future Maekar I Targaryen was the youngest of four sons so he was not expected to do much. He made his coat-of-arms four dragons in response.
* Tywin Lannister is said to have flecks of gold in his shit because of his wealth. Tyrion knows that the man who came up with that joke is imprisoned in Casterly Rock's dungeon while Tywin commandeered his story.
* Ned Stark's long dead friend Theo Wull was nicknamed "Buckets" because that is the sigil of his house.
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* Jon Snow is dubbed "Lord Snow" by Ser Alliser Thorne to cast him as a spoiled noble's bastard and estrange him from the other recruits. It quickly loses its negative connotations as the recruits start looking to him for leadership, and ultimately [[spoiler:he becomes the Lord Commander, making the name official]].
* Tyrion Lannister ("The Imp") actually tells Jon Snow to use this trope.
-->'''Tyrion''': Let them see that their words can cut you, and you'll never be free of the mockery. If they want to give you a name, take it, make it your own. Then they can't hurt you with it anymore.
* Sandor Clegane is known as the Hound due to the hounds on his coat of arms and his perceived total lack of ethical concerns interfering with his loyalty to his master. The self-loathing Sandor wears a helm crafted into a horrible dog-face.
* The ex-smuggler Davos Seaworth was knighted for delivering food to a besieged city. The other nobility look at him as a common thug who bought his knighthood with onions, dubbing him the Onion Knight, but Davos proudly put the onion on his coat of arms.
* Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish is lord of a tiny tract of worthless land on a group of peninsulas called the Fingers, and is also physically short. He goes by the name as part of his scheme to get people to underestimate him.
* Jaime "Kingslayer" Lannister got his name for murdering Aerys Targaryen, who he had previously sworn to protect. He hates the title, but uses the name and the reputation that comes with it to get away with a lot.
* Brynden "The Blackfish" Tully was labelled the BlackSheep of the family after he refused to enter an ArrangedMarriage set up by his elder brother and leige lord. Because the sigil of House Tully is a fish, Brynden said a "black fish" would be more appropriate, and adopted it as his own personal coat of arms.
* The warrior-slaves The Unsullied are given a new (and always demeaning) name each day, to remind them they are so worthless they don't even deserve a real name. After the Unsullied are freed and allowed to choose their own names, their leader chooses to keep his current name, "Grey Worm," believing it to be lucky because it was the name he had on the day he was freed, whereas his original name was the name he had on the day he was enslaved.
* The future Maekar I Targaryen was the youngest of four sons so he was not expected to do much. He made his coat-of-arms four dragons in response.
* Tywin Lannister is said to have flecks of gold in his shit because of his wealth. Tyrion knows that the man who came up with that joke is imprisoned in Casterly Rock's dungeon while Tywin commandeered his story.
* Ned Stark's long dead friend Theo Wull was nicknamed "Buckets" because that is the sigil of his house.
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