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When a character wants to make things a little less formal, perhaps to show how amicable and gracious he is, or just because he's laid back and being friendly, he might decide to [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!|drop the formalities]] and invite others to use his first name, or even a nickname.
A common [[Subversion]] is for the other character to then pointedly abstain from using the more casual name, or for the first character to specify that while his ''friends'' call him that, the character they are ''talking to'' [[They Call Me
A subtrope of [[Don't Call Me "Sir"!]]. When subverted, often overlaps with [[They Call Me
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** The trope is very commonly subverted in ''The Dresden Files'' - Harry constantly corrects people (most often, Nicodemus Archleone and John Marcone) trying to call him that, insisting that they would never be his friends. He also [[Invoked Trope|does it himself]] all the time to grind people's gears, continuing to use first names after being explicitly told not to.
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* From the ''[[Criminal Minds]]'' episode, "Riding the Lightning."
{{quote|''(JJ enters the room where Hotch is speaking with convicted serial killer Jacob)''
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* ''[[The Dukes of Hazzard]]'': Boss Hogg uses his Speed Trap to stop any famous singers passing through. The fine is six months in jail or one song at the Boar's Nest. Tammy Wynette gets stopped, and [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3z-EU5Sx8-k sings for her freedom.] After the song the Dukes go up to her and congratulate her, each calling her Miss Wynette, to which she replies "you can call me Tammy." Then Boss Hogg steps up.
{{quote|'''Boss Hogg''': That fine performance of yours squares the fine on this speeding ticket, ''Tammy''.
'''Tammy''': [[They Call Me
* In ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'''s "Hogwart's Academy" sketch in [[Lindsay Lohan]]'s episode, when Snape briefly gets [[Distracted by the Sexy|distracted by]] [[She's All Grown Up|Hermione's breasts]], he tells her to call him Severus. Then he snaps out of it and says to call him Professor Snape.
* ''[[I, Claudius]]'': Castor, the nickname by which Drusus Julius Caesar is commonly known, invokes this with Sejanus.
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