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Unfortunately for them, it does not always stick; someone will always call them by their old name, much to their chagrin. This person is not [[Only Known by Their Nickname|only known by their nickname]], despite his best efforts. The person who calls them by his real name might be trying to mock them or threaten them, or perhaps is unaware that they feel this way.
The name comes from the fact that the [[Professional Wrestling|professional wrestlers]] [[Triple H]] [Paul Levesque] and [[The Big Show]] [Paul Wight] both have told fans who refer to them by their birth names that since all their friends and even their wives refer to them by their ring names, as far as they are concerned, those are their real names. This trope is hardly limited to people named Paul, however. [[
Could be related to [[Embarrassing First Name]], but that is more about an annoyance. This one is more prideful and dramatic.
For obvious reasons, this is very common with [[
And then there's [[Porn Names|porn]], where performers would understandably want to keep their legal names and their stage names very separate.
Some entertainers invert this trope when they want to put their personas behind them (often because their work has become an [[Old Shame]] to them), refusing to answer to their [[Stage Name]]s.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]]
* The main character of ''[[Steins;Gate]]'' prefers Hououin Kyouma to Okabe Rintarou.
* In ''[[Princess Resurrection]]'', the real name of Hime is Liliane, but she doesn't like to be called that. Two of her brothers, Emil and Severin, call her that, however. The latter did it under dramatic circumstances—a duel between him and Hime where we learn the background of the name:
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'''Hime (Liliane):''' The cat you were rough with and killed. Severin! }}
* Annie from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''; her full first name is Anastasia but she claims that only two people have the right to call her by that name—Spike, apparently, is not one of them, at least not since he "died".
* In ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]'', Albireo Imma adopted the name "Ku:Nel Sanders" for the Mahora Budokai, and liked it so much that every appearance of his afterwards, he refused to reply to his real name. (In Japanese, "Ku-neru" is a combination verb for "eat" and "sleep," plus the added "Sanders" and every time his name is said in its entirety you see the [[wikipedia:Curse of the Colonel|KFC Guy...]])
** Then there's Fate Averruncus, who apparently loathes his real name: "{{spoiler|Tertium}}".
* Yamato of ''[[Naruto
* Gai Daigoji ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' very much dislikes being addressed by his real name "Jiro Yamada" because he's thinks it's too boring.
{{quote|'''Gai''': Jiro Yamada is just the boring old name my mother gave me. Gai Daigoji is the name that belongs to my soul!!!}}
* Son Goku of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' will always insist "My name isn't Kakarotto! ''I am Son Goku!!''". Although in Goku's case, while "Kakarotto" is indeed his birth name, he was unaware of his Saiyan heritage until his mid 20s, so...
** He does eventually accept Vegeta calling him this, probably because he knows Vegeta is too stubborn to stop if asked. Indeed, Vegeta makes something of a point of always calling him "Kakarotto", as he feels that Goku should be proud of his Saiyan heritage. There was one story where Vegeta ''does'' call him "Goku", and Goku quickly realizes [[OOC Is Serious Business|something is wrong with him.]]
* Yusaku Godai of ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' is only ever called by his first name by his parents and his grandmother in the original Japanese (some translations change this). The only time someone else used his first name, it was schoolgirl stalker, Ibuki Yagami (when he insisted she stop calling him Godai-sensei, since he wasn't her teacher anymore, she says, "I understand, Yusaku-san.") Poor guy looked like it gave him hives.
* Played straight and inverted in ''[[Tekkaman Blade]]''. At the beginning of the series, Blade claims to have forgotten his name, which leads to Noal nicknaming him D-Boy. About 20 episodes later, when the crew finds out his given name (Aiba Takaya), he insists that his name is D-boy (For about half an episode anyway before spilling the beans.) It becomes an inversion toward the end of the series when he {{spoiler|"forgets that the Space Knights have nicknamed him "D-boy" and insists that they call him his given name"}} Played straight again when after defeating his brother, he sheds his birthname and nickname, claiming that he is Tekkaman Blade
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** ''"Is my blood Tsunegawa? No. Is my flesh Tsunegawa? No. Tsunegawa is vague and intangible. According to the Hikari Club, I am designated as Zera."''
* Papillion Mask from ''[[Buso Renkin]]'' proclaimed that the only person allowed to call him by his real name (Kousaku) is the protagonist Kazuki.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! SEVENS]]'', a frequent [[Running Gag]] regarding [[Dark Action Girl| Luke's sister Tiadosia]] is her preference for her nickname, "Tiger", and her tendency to lose her temper if ''anyone'' (including Luke, who is ''terrified'' of her) uses her actual name.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
== Comics ==▼
* Rorschach from ''[[Watchmen]]'', a.k.a. Walter Kovacs: "You keep calling me Walter. I don't like you."
* [[Archie Comics]]: "Jughead" Jones would prefer that you just call him "Jughead" and not "Forsythe".
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** Subverted in that his fellow superheroes often avoid calling him [[Secret Identity|Clark]], so may actually call him "Kal" to call him something like a normal name. [[Wonder Woman]] and Supergirl are more likely to do this.
* Calling [[Incredible Hulk|The Hulk]] "Bruce" is a [[Berserk Button|good way to end up on the receiving end of the worst beat down of your life.]] Justified, though, as they really are separate personalities inhabiting the same body. And they do not like each other.
** Same goes for his
* Wanna piss off minor [[Spider-Man|Spidey]] villain/[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Frightful Four member]] The Trapster? Just refer to his past as the laughably named "Paste-Pot Pete", and see what happens.
* The Fox McCloud of the ''[[Nintendo Power]]'' ''[[Star Fox (series)|Star FOX]]'' comic does NOT like being called "Junior."
* Cassidy the vampire from ''[[Preacher (Comic Book)|Preacher]]'' really doesn't like his first name (Proinsias), and hasn't used it since 1916. He accidentally lets slip of it to Jesse, who ends up using it later to insult him {{spoiler|after the two of them have a fall-out}}.
* Jon does this a lot in ''[[Garfield]]'' by calling his brother "Doc Boy."▼
== [[Fan Works]] ==▼
▲== Fan Works ==
* In ''[[Oh God, Not Again]]'', only three people are allowed to call Tonks by her birth name [[Embarrassing First Name|Nymphadora]]. Two of them are Charlie and Cedric because she lost a bet to each of them (and doesn't make such bets anymore, no matter how often Harry asks). [[Love Interest|Remus]] can call her that as well, [[Oblivious to Love|though the significance of it escapes him at first]].
* '''[[Calvin and Hobbes: The Series|IT'S DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!]]'''<ref>His real first name is Frank.</ref>
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{{quote|'''Dr. Brainstorm: DOCTOR BRAINSTORM!''' WHY CAN'T YOU PEOPLE CALL ME THAT?
'''Calvin:''' Well, where's the humor in that? }}
* Fanfic Author [[Meowth Rocket]] (a.k.a. Meowth's Toon Dragon) has this subverted slightly. He's not that uneasy about people he knows and even strangers calling him by his real first name (at times).<ref>His birth name is Joshua.</ref> But he's very secretive on what his last name is, not as much out of privacy but more out of embarrassment. People have asked him if the name in his email address is his full name and he's flat-out refused to answer, only telling his closest friends his full name. An old Fanfiction.net profile supposedly has his full name, but he's refused to tell if that's genuine or if it's an alias.
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''Annals of Arithmancy'', the sequel to the ''[[Harry Potter]]'' fic ''[[The Arithmancer]]''. Once she gets her doctorate, Hermione Granger keeps telling people just to call her [[Doctor Who|"The Doctor"]]; to her intense disappointment, almost no one does.
* The protagonist of ''[[Magical Girl Noir Quest]]'' Chiaki Matsuda, who has identity issues (on account of amnesia) objects to being called by her past names or alternate names. The strength of her objection depends on the name she is being called and who is saying it. She ''really'' wanted to object to Hazuki calling her Nameless One, but [[Deer in the Headlights|she was too paralyzed with fear]]. She seems particularly opposed to "Nameless One" and "Akemi Homura". She probably hates being called those names even more than being called [[Embarrassing Nickname|Ol Noodles]]. The name/nickname she has renounced least strongly is Murderface (both out of futility and that she hasn't fully renounced that identity).
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* In ''[[The Wrestler]]'', Randy "The Ram" Robinson gets rather upset when the name badge he's given at his day job has his given name, Robin, and not his ring name, which he usually uses.
* In the third ''[[Resident Evil]]'' movie, a character is called "K-Mart" by the band of people who found her abandoned in a K-Mart because she does not like her given name.
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* In the fake rockumentary ''Hard Core Logo'', the singer is Joe Dick (not Joe Mulgrew), the lead guitarist is Billy Tallent (not Bill Boise), and the drummer is Pipefitter (who may have forgotten his original name). The other member is John Oxenberger, who could never find a good nickname. {{spoiler|In the credits, it is revealed that with his new band, John is known as "The Ox".}}
* ''[[Despicable Me]]'': "It's Vector. Victor was my nerd name."
** And not even Vector calls Gru by ''his'' actual name, "Felonious". Nor does his wife, the Minions, his brother, his adoptive daughters, even ''his mother''. (Who calls him "son".) Clearly he hates his name.
* ''[[Stripes]]'': One of the soldiers introduces himself as nicknamed "Psycho". "If you call me Francis, I'll kill you."
* Darth Vader initially plays this trope straight in ''[[Star Wars|Return of the Jedi]]''. When Luke addresses him as 'Anakin', he responds, [[That Man Is Dead|"That name no longer has any meaning for me!"]]
* In the ''[[X-Men (film)|X
* One of the bullies in ''[[Hocus Pocus]]'', Ice, hates being called "Ernie." This is presented as a fairly pathetic effort to seem cooler.
* <s>Ajax</s> Francis, in ''[[Deadpool (film)|Deadpool]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==▼
* An inversion is found in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Anansi Boys]]'': Fat Charlie wishes people would use his birth name.▼
▲== Literature ==
▲* An inversion in [[Neil Gaiman]]'s ''[[Anansi Boys]]'': Fat Charlie wishes people would use his birth name.
** But played straight in ''[[Good Omens]]''. Calling Pippin Galadriel Moonchild anything but Pepper is a [[Berserk Button|spectacularly bad idea]].
* ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]'' has a few examples:
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** ... and Usul and Mahdi, others call him Kwisatz Hadderach. The man has more names than stillsuits.
* In ''[[Anne of Green Gables|Anne of Avonlea]]'', one of Anne's students introduces himself on the first day of school as "Jacob." Only later does Anne learn that he's actually named St. Clair, and his mother is very insistent that Anne call him by that name. Anne and her student soon reach a compromise: she, as his teacher, is allowed to call him St. Clair - but if any of his classmates uses the name, he'll beat them up.
* In the book of ''[[Lark Rise to Candleford]]'', this is mentioned regarding the Pratt sisters, Pearl (nee Prudence) and Ruby (nee Ruth). In the TV series, a whole episode was devoted to the way Dorcas Lane found this out, and was therefore able to deliver some letters from their father, which she had previously put to one side as undeliverable.
* In ''The Adventures of Peter Cottontail'' by Thornton W. Burgess, Peter Rabbit decides that his name is too lame, and tries to get everyone to call him "Peter Cottontail." He refuses to hear anyone using his old name. Eventually, he is taught a lesson, as various friends try to inform him that {{spoiler|Reddy Fox is behind the bush up ahead}}.
* In ''[[Ender's Game]]'', Ender doesn't like to be called Andrew.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* The second season of ''[[WMAC Masters]]'' introduced Tracy Swedom who always insisted on being called by his key symbol Tracer. Since he was a [[Jerkass]], everyone called him Tracy; of course, his name was a [[Significant Anagram]] (Destroy WMAC).
* Recurring villain Ari Haswari from ''[[NCIS]]'' responds to "Haswari" (his Arab name), but not "Ari" (his Jewish name).
* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]''{{'}}s Seven of Nine was born Annika Hansen, but resists being called that.
* In ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'', Sylar insists on being called by his new nickname, as opposed to his birth name Gabriel, which is part of his discarded, "normal" identity.
* In ''[[The X-
* In ''[[Happy Days]]'', only Mrs. Cunningham can call the Fonz "Arthur."
* Subverted in an episode of ''[[Star Trek: The Next Generation]]'' when the crew travels back in time and meets Mark Twain, who insists on being called by his real name of Samuel Clemens.
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* Bubbles, from ''[[Trailer Park Boys]],'' insists that Ricky doesn't refer to his friend, 'Shitty Bill,' by that name, as he finds that nickname offensive. When the next scene cuts in, Bubbles addresses him with a pleasant, 'Can I do the gears, Shitty?'
* Adam (born Gracie) Torres from ''[[Degrassi]]'' is a typical example of a transgender person changing their name.
* Cindy Mackenzie of ''[[Veronica Mars]]'' much prefers her nickname, Mac.
* In an episode of ''[[Doctor Who]]'', one-year-old baby Alfie prefers the name '''[[Awesome McCoolname|Stormageddon, Dark Lord of All]]'''. Being a baby, he can't exactly ''tell'' his parents this; the Doctor finds this out because [[Omniglot|he speaks Baby]].
* On ''[[The Sarah Jane Adventures]]'', Sarah Jane Smith is very clear that she prefers to go by "Sarah Jane". The Doctor gets away with calling her "Sarah," though.
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* Angela is like this on ''[[Bones]]''. She renamed herself because she hated her birth name. We can guess how bad it was by how her dad tried to name Angela's son Staccato Mamba. (the Staccato part did make a middle name, though.)
** In the episode "Mayhem On A Cross", members of various metal groups refuse to give either their birth name or another members birth name.
* Around the Las Vegas Crime Lab on ''[[CSI: Crime Scene Investigation]]'', no one calls Supervisor Russell Dienbenkorn, as he tells new old colleague Finn. It's D.B. Russell.
** And Finn herself is actually Julie-D.B. is the one person who still calls her Julie, and her writing 'Diebenkorn' on the envelope she left him was her way of getting back at him for it.
* In ''[[ALF]]'', the title character's actual name is Gordon Shumway, but he doesn't seem to like it much, preferring to go by the acronym [[Fun with Acronyms|('''A'''lien '''L'''ife '''F'''orm)]] Willie gives him.
== [[Music]] ==▼
* There's always
▲== Music ==
▲* There's always the "Boy Named Sue," immortalized in song by [[Johnny Cash]] (and others). He ''still'' hates that name...
* Paul Daniel Frehley, better known as the former guitarist for [[KISS]] Ace Frehley. He'd been known as Ace since before KISS but they decided to go with Ace because they didn't want [[One Steve Limit|two Pauls]], so now even today everyone calls him Ace, in interviews.
* [[Alice Cooper]]. There is an article about him where the interviewer called him Vincent, and Cooper replied "My mother calls me Vincent." Sorry Alice.
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* [[Lights]]. You can use her last name and call her 'Lights Poxleitner', but whatever you do, you should NOT call her Valerie.
* Rock singer [[Meat Loaf]] strongly dislikes his birth name, "Marvin". He had his first name legally changed to "Michael" to avoid having to use it at all, has the songs he's written credited to "Meat Loaf Aday", and generally prefers just to be addressed as "Meat".
* A good way to prematurely end any interview with electronic music pioneer Wendy Carlos is to [[
* Don't call [[Tori Amos]] "Myra Ellen" if you want to be her friend. She makes an exception for her family, who calls her Ellen.
* [[Five Iron Frenzy]] and [[Brave Saint Saturn]]'s lead singer, Reese Roper's actual name is Michael Reese Roper. But as the lyrics of one of his songs, All the Hype, says: "My name is Reese, don't call me Mike".
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* [[Emilie Autumn]] insists her her legal name is "Emilie Autumn Liddel", despite fans buying merchandise and receiving them from "Emily Fritzges". On her website, the words "Emily" and "Fritzges" are filtered out and discussion of this name is grounds for a banning.
* [[Paul McCartney]]'s first name is James, but he'd rather be called by his middle one - possibly because his father is also called James (and Paul gave a son this name as well).
* Bono from [[U2]]. Incidentally, his birth name ''is'' Paul (David Hewson). [[The Other Wiki]] states, however, that everyone - even his wife and the other band members - calls him "Bono." Also ironic is that he hated the nickname at first.
* Pro wrestling locker room etiquette demands that new wrestlers must introduce themselves to the older wrestlers, and then call them whatever the older wrestler introduces himself as.
* Quite frequent. Despite what some smarks think, the names you hear on TV are what they are called in real life. This was spoofed on ''[[Celebrity Deathmatch]]'' where a demon mocked [[The Undertaker]] by calling him Mark. It was also alluded to during the [[Ministry of Darkness]] angle when [[Vince McMahon]] said that "Mark" had begun to think his gimmick was real.
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* In most of his professional life, [[Chris Jericho]] goes by his nickname. However, for one night on "Dancing With the Stars", he subverted this by being announced by his real name Chris Irvine, as he was honoring his late mother by dancing to her favorite song. [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|Aww]].
== [[Oral Tradition]], [[Folklore]], Myths and Legends ==
* No, ''do'' call him Paul, don't call ''Saul''.
** Acts 13:9 should make it clear that ''Paul'' is his a.k.a.; no passage states that he ''or'' God changed his name. The only thing is that "Saul" doesn't appear past that point.
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*** Ironically, this is the exact opposite of Jehovah's Witnesses, who believed God DOES like to be called by name, whether that be "Yahweh" or "Jehovah", and are slightly annoyed by the overabundant use of 'The Lord' and such.
▲* Jon does this a lot in ''[[Garfield]]'' by calling his brother "Doc Boy."
== [[Video Games]] ==
* In ''[[Devil May Cry]]'', Lady's name is actually Mary, but she tells Dante that she "doesn't have a name" because she hates her father, so Dante begins to refer to her as Lady.
** Later:
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* Literally in Professor Layton and the Unwound Future with Don Paolo. He doesn't go crazy, but it's preferred he be called don paolo instead of Paul. Probably a villain thing.
=== [[Visual Novels]] ===▼
* In ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!
▲== Visual Novels ==
▲* In ''[[Maji de Watashi ni Koi Shinasai!|Maji De Watashi Ni Koi Shinasai]]'', this is a [[Berserk Button]] for Angel.
* Anghel Higure is worried that uttering the forbidden name of {{spoiler|Toshio Akagi}} will unleash horrible evils into the world of ''[[Hatoful Boyfriend]]'', and panics every time the heroine tries (she thinks it's a nice name). Anghel [[Cloudcuckoolander|is kind of insane]].
▲== [[Web Comics]] ==
▲== Web Comics ==
* From ''[[El Goonish Shive]]'', Tiffany Susan Pompoms ONLY goes by her middle name... she really, REALLY doesn't like her first name, mostly because it's a bit too "happy" for her image.
** That, and [[Disappeared Dad|her father]] chose her first name.
* Larson of ''[[Venus Envy]]'' has good reason for his birth name being a [[Berserk Button]]; he's a
** Zoe, on the other hand, is only mildly annoyed at being called "Alex," especially by her mother, with whom she's fairly close.
* In ''[[Dumnestor's Heroes]]'', the [[Delusions of Eloquence|Dark Lordess]] [[My Nayme Is|Tyfnee]] explains that Tyfnee is her middle name; she never really liked "[[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Atrocia]]"
* Sprite artist Akuma The Hedgehog at [
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', inverted by [
* At the end of the ''[[Multiplex]]'' parody of [''[Watchmen]]'', Kurt (who is dressed as Rorschach for the premiere) fills out his incident report about [http://www.multiplexcomic.com/strip/338 breaking a rude customer's finger] in character. When his boss admonishes him for it, he quotes the movie.
{{quote|'''Neil''': Fill out a ''real'' incident report, Kurt.
'''Kurt''': You keep calling me Kurt. I don't like you. }}
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
▲== Western Animation ==
* ''[[Code Lyoko]]'': The [[Alpha Bitch]] of the show hates her first name, Élisabeth, and prefers to be called by her nickname, Sissi.
* On an episode of ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'', Numbuh One is transported to a future where he has a son named Shirly who wants to be known as Vego. Nigel tells him to stick with Shirly.
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** Although that episode was about how any girl with the first name Ashley has no choice but to join the clique of [[Alpha Bitch]]es the Ashleys. Spinelli kept her first name hidden because she didn't want to be associated with them.
* Inverted in ''[[Batman Beyond]]'' where outside of costume or in private, Terry doesn't mind being called by his given name but he has to remind his friend Max to not call him Terry when he's on the job as Batman.
* In ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures]]'', Babs Bunny despises her whole name Barbara Ann. Buster calls her this twice, once in the show and the other in the straight-to-video film ''[[Tiny Toon Adventures:
* Frankie Dutweiler, the bully in ''[[Wish Kid]]'', would beat up anyone who called him Francis.
{{quote|'''Frankie:''' [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|NOBODY... CALLS ME...]] ''[[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|FRANCIS!!!]]''}}
* On ''[[Rocket Power]]'', Twister doesn't like to be called by his real name "Maurice." It embarrasses him...of course, other characters use that fact to their advantage several times in-series.
== [[Web Original]] ==▼
* ''[[Shadow of the Templar]]
▲== Web Original ==
▲* [[Shadow of the Templar]] 's Jeremy Archer gets annoyed with Simon when the FBI agent jokingly calls him Jeremiah. Turns out Jeremy's birth name was Jeremiah Harbottle, a name he gave up when he gave up his life on the streets and became a high level thief.
* Let's Player [[Roahm Mythril]] generally uses that instead of his real name. The reason being that he was named after a relative who committed suicide for an outlandishly stupid reason.
* Midget Apple from ''[[The Annoying Orange]]'' insists his name is "little apple", but he's almost never called that.
* Played with and played straight with Stone of the [[Global Guardians PBEM Universe|Global Guardians]] prefers to be called "Stone", to the point that he rarely tells people his first name and refuses to give it to people when asked. After he responded to the question with "Just Stone" one too many times, his teammates began telling other people his first name was "Just". While this annoyed him at first, eventually he started ''intentionally'' telling people that "Just" was his first name. His actual first name is "Wendell".
* Done by [[The Nostalgia Chick]] to punish Maven for annoying her when she's (the Chick) still not awake yet. Maven stops her in the hallway, calling her Lindsay and asking her to hold a toy duck. The Chick throws the duck at her and storms off, saying she hates being called Chick. Maven is understandably confused.
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* Church from [[Red vs. Blue]] might technically be named {{spoiler|Epsilon}}, but he much prefers to simply be called Church, as it's what he thinks of himself as. He gets rather upset when he finds out {{spoiler|the Reds and Blues have been calling Wash "Church" while Church was trapped in the memory unit}}.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* When Cassius Clay converted to Islam and took the Muslim name [[Muhammad Ali]], Ernie Terrell and Floyd Patterson continued to call him Cassius Clay to annoy him. In the ring, Ali taunted Terrell by shouting "What's my name?" en route to victory.
* [[Toshiie to Matsu|Toshiie Maeda]], retainer of [[Oda Nobunaga]], had the birth name "Inuchiyo"; his colleagues often teased him by calling him "Inu" (i.e., "Dog") even after he came of age.
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* [[Comic Book]] writer Christopher Priest doesn't talk about why he changed his birth name of James Owsley. But we can. When he got divorced, the terms of the settlement were that his now-ex-wife was entitled to and would receive half the income "Jim Owsley" made. So Jim Owsley stopped working in comics, and Christopher Priest began.
* Yahtzee of ''[[Zero Punctuation]]'' fame doesn't like being called Ben by his fans because they come across as overly familiar despite being strangers. Matt, a friend of his, said in a podcast that only his parents call him Ben anymore.
* Clive Staples Lewis, as a child, told his parents one day that he would only answer to 'Jack'
* [[P. G. Wodehouse]]. His names are Pelham and Grenville, the surnames of two British [[The Men of Downing Street|prime ministers]]. His friends called him "Plum".
** Clive James of Australia changed his name ''to'' Clive as a child, since Vivian [[Have a Gay Old Time|turned into a girl's name]] once [[Vivien Leigh]] became famous for her role in ''[[Gone with the Wind
* Inverted by [[Vic Reeves Big Night Out|Vic Reeves]], who goes from being Vic on set to Jim (Moir) off it and prefers people to call him that in [[Real Life]] (in reality, he's well enough known as Vic that many interviewers can't do it). Indeed, as Jim's father was also called Jim, he says that his family call him (his middle name) Rod, his friends call him Jim and his fans call him Vic. When he appeared with his wife on the UK version of ''[[I'm a Celebrity
* The vast majority of [[
* The writers of OAFEnet prefer to be called by the names they use on the site, and even call each other those names, despite having worked together for years.
* [[Furry Fandom|Furry]] performer Matthew Davis, aka 2 the Ranting Gryphon, says that even his own mom calls him 2.
* [[Sylvester Stallone]], who prefers to be called by the diminutive 'Sly'.
* [[Bob Hope]] was born Leslie Townes Hope. There are several different stories as to why he changed it, but one can imagine that being called "Hopelessly" and "Hopeless" as a child had something to do with it.
* Glen Beaudin Kolbach, who played Malcolm Frink in ''[[Superhuman Samurai Syber-Squad]]'', prefers to be called G, and has even his first name written as G in his passport, as he says that being called Glen feels like his father is in his room or someone is trying to collect a bill.
* John, James, George and Richard... it doesn't have the same ring as [[The Beatles (band)|John, Paul, George and Ringo]], does it? Not to mention, [[Eddie Izzard]]'s joke about [[The Pope|Pope]] names wouldn't work.
* Neurobiologist and
* Legendary college basketball coach Bobby Knight hated it when Indiana University students called him "Bobby". He insisted on being called "Coach" or "Coach Knight".
* [[Marilyn Manson]] is, [[Viewers are Morons|in case you couldn't tell]], not his real name. Yet, even his dad calls him Manson. For those who are wondering, he was born Brian Hugh Warner. Originally all of the members of the band took stage names that were combinations of (female) sex symbols and serial killers, but none of the others is so well known as Marilyn, so most people never caught on.
* Inverted by Paul Muni, whose birth name was Meshilem Meier Weisenfreund. His friends and close associates called him "Muni," an Austrian diminutive of Meshilem, which he had been called since birth. Strangers called him Mr. Muni. Only those who were trying to act like they were close (such as meddling executives) called him Paul.
* Zigzagged with [[John Wayne]]. People either called him Duke or Marion (his birth name). If you called him "John", it took him a minute to figure out who the hell you were talking to.
*
* Inverted with many married or middle-aged adults, who may often prefer to be called by their first names instead of Mr. or Mrs. (or Ms.) Something-Or-Other by everyone but their own children, especially by younger people; their reasoning is that they still want to think of themselves as young, and terms like "Mr." imply adulthood. Example: David Silverman, lead animator for ''[[The Simpsons]]'', was once greeted as "Mr. Silverman" by [[And That Little Girl Was Me|a young boy]] at a film festival - and his response was "Please, call me Dave. Mr. Silverman is my ''father''."
** Could also be an emerging generational preference, with referring to one another as Mr. or Mrs. [[Report Siht|Siht]] in social settings, particularly in cases when the speakers already know one another as opposed to being introduced or meeting for the first time, being seen as stodgy and old-fashioned.
* Teller of [[Penn &
* Stormy Daniels, pornographic film director and performer, was identified by legal name in much of the media coverage of a [[Donald Trump]] political [[wikipedia:Stormy Daniels–Donald Trump scandal|scandal]] in which he was revealed to be using money and lawyers to silence his victims. She was not amused.
** She had no choice in this case. If one brings suit in civil court in the United States, one is required to use one's legal name, and the document is in the public record.
* Over the years some people have gone by their middle names instead of the first names, dropping their first names entirely when being referred to, such as Stephen [[Grover Cleveland]], Clinton [[Richard Dawkins]], and Willard [[Mitt Romney]]. No word on whether any of these examples get mad if referred to by their first or full names, but they still seem to prefer their middle ones.
* The fan author [[Eyrie Productions, Unlimited|Megazone]] legally changed his name to the nickname he acquired in college and which his [[Author Avatar]] uses in the [[Mega Crossover]] fan fic ''[[Undocumented Features]]''. He reportedly gets great amusement from seeing how direct mail marketing lists and telemarketers mangle it.
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