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Some characters will [[Last -Name Basis|stick to formal address]], some go straight for the [[First -Name Basis]]. Others [[Hey, You|don't even bother with names]]. When none of these will do, and the character is not [[No Name Given]] or [[The Trope Without a Title]], you get the [['''Full -Name Basis]]'''. This is a good sign that the character might be a [[Fish Out of Water]]. Sometimes it is used just because the full name [[Rule of Cool|sounds more cool or intimidating]], or at least the user [[What Do You Mean ItsIt's Not Awesome?|believes that it does]] (especially when it's the [[Badass Boast|user's own name]]). Obviously, if someone is on a [['''Full -Name Basis]]''', a [[Full Name Ultimatum]] loses its effectiveness.

* Tatewaki and Kodachi Kuno in ''[[Ranma One Half½]]'' have a tendency to do this in most cases, generally with the only exceptions to the rule being that they tend to refer to each ''other'' with very sarcastic terms of endearment. The other exception would be Ranma himself, whom Kodachi refers to as "Ranma darling."

* In ''[[Bleach]]'' Ichigo Kurosaki and Byakuya Kuchiki seemed unable to ''not'' refer to the other as such during their fight. They said each other's full names 20 times. Afterwards, when it was clear they were no longer enemies, Ichigo [[First -Name Basis|dropped the last name]] (to Byakuya's chagrin) and Byakuya kept calling him by his full name.

** Mayuri Kurotsuchi briefly complains about Ichigo addressing him by his full name without an honorific, but notes that it's better than a [[First -Name Basis]].

** And over in ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 00]]'', Tieria Erde refers to other people by their full names more often than not.

*** In fact, the Gundam Meisters usually end up referring to not only the other Meisters but ''themselves'' a lot this way. As shown in the quote above, [[The Typical Gundam SEED Destiny (Fanfic)|Shinn gets annoyed by it.]]

{{quote| '''HOWARD MASON!!!!!!!!!!!!'''}}

* In ''[[Death Note (Manga)|Death Note]]'', Light refers to Raye Penber by his full name, and does the same to many of his victims. It is justified, however, as his full name would need to be remembered and written in the Death Note.

* In ''[[Naruto (Manga)|Naruto]]'', the Sand Siblings typically refer to Naruto by full name. Since all of them have only one name (Gaara's "Of the Desert" title doesn't count), Naruto is technically doing the same to them.

* Scar in ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (Mangamanga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' would address everyone he spoke either by their full name or their state alchemist title. Al was one of the few that didn't have both and was thus always addressed by Scar as "Alphonse Elric." Which sounded rather awkward at times...

** In the [[Fullmetal Alchemist (Animeanime)|2003 anime version]] Van Hohenheim's is constantly referred to as "Hohenheim of Light", which was almost exclusively treated as if it (or "That Bastard") was his true name.

* In ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S (Anime)StrikerS|Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha Striker S]]'', most people address or refer to [[Big Bad|Jail Scaglietti]] by his full name, with the only exceptions being his [[Quirky Miniboss Squad|Numbers Cyborgs]] and [[Dragon Withwith an Agenda|Lutecia]]. [[Big Bad|Precia Testarossa]] is also addressed by [[Space Police|Chrono]] like this, so one could assume that [[The Federation|Time-Space Administration Bureau]] personnel in general treat all criminals in this way.

** Chrono once addresses Fate by her full name late in [[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha (Animeanime)|the original series]], presumably due to her status as a criminal. Vita addresses Nanoha by her full name throughout ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha As (Anime)A's|A's]]'', (and usually [[My Name Is Not Durwood|gets her given name wrong on purpose]]), but switches to [[First -Name Basis]] by ''StrikerS''. Signum similarly calls Nanoha "Takamachi Nanoha" in the third ''A's'' sound stage but switches to "Nanoha" after getting to know her better.

* Kaori Sakiyama of ''[[Airmaster (Manga)|Airmaster]]''; ''everyone'' says her full name. It helps that she's a force of nature who can match any martial artist except the main character not through training, but [[Power Born of Madness|sheer unadulterated crazy.]]

* In ''[[Triangle Heart 3 ～sweet songs forever～|Triangle Heart 3]]'', Elise MacGaren once addresses Miyuki as "Miyuki Takamachi"- with her given name first, even while speaking Japanese.

* ''[[RinRIN-NeNE]]:'' Rinne Rokudo toward Sakura Mamiya.

* In the ''[[Pokémon (Animeanime)|Pokémon]]'' Series this happens occasionally, usually starting with: "Hi, I'm Ash Ketchum, of Pallet Town". Soon after, almost every other character in the vicinity begins rifling off names.

* Somewhat in ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. Nagato never calls people by their name, but when she refers to someone, she ''always'' uses the full name. Except for Kyon, probably because no one knows what it is!

* Maria Gracebert of ''[[Mai -Otome]]'' tends to address students by their full names, although Arika is sometimes just "[[First -Name Basis|Arika]]" to her.

* William T. Spears of ''[[Black Butler (Manga)|Black Butler]]'' seems to address most people by their full names... including himself. ''Always.''

* Ayano Sugiura from ''[[Yuru-Yuri (Manga)|Yuru-Yuri]]'' refers to everyone with normal naming patterns, except for one. '''TOSHINO KYOUKO!'''

* Takane from the anime version of ''[[The Idolmaster (Animeanime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' has the tendency to call people with their full name.

== Comic BookBooks ==

* People in ''[[Demolition Man]]'' always refers to John Spartan as "John Spartan", never just "John". (Actually, this isn't limited to just John...apparently everyone's on a [[Full -Name Basis]] with everyone else...)

* The titular ''[[Starman (Filmfilm)|Starman]]'' was a [[Fish Out of Water]] who referred to Jenny Hayden not only by her full name, but as if it were one word. "JennyHayden."

* In the ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000 (TV)|Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'' movie ''[[The Phantom Planet (Film)|The Phantom Planet]]'', one of the alien women refers to Earth astronaut Frank Chapman as "Frankchapman", because, apparently, surnames are unheard of there.

* In ''[[Avatar (Filmfilm)|Avatar]]'', Jake Sully is often referred to by his full name by the Na'vi, often as one word (With the exception of his love interest). This could be because they have [[Only One Name]].

* In the original ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer (Filmfilm)|Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' movie, Gary Murray, the school principal. In the screenplay, [[Joss Whedon]] compared him to Charlie Brown -- youBrown—you always have to say his full name.

* Used (at first) for laughs in the [[Biopic]] ''[[Temple Grandin (Film)|Temple Grandin]]''; autistic Temple has trouble staying in her new room since she doesn't feel like it's hers. Her aunt puts a sign on the door that reads "TEMPLE'S ROOM," only for Temple to come back later and write "TEMPLE'S Grandin ROOM." It takes a not so funny turn when it becomes a plot driver for Temple inventing the 'Hug Machine.'

* The [[Wu -Tang Clan]] play themselves in a skit in ''Coffee and Cigarettes''. They immediately recognize their server as [[Bill Murray]], and address him by full name at every opportunity.

* A two-year-old in ''[[The BabysittersBaby Sitters Club]]'' does this, most often with Mary Anne Spier.

* People addressed each other with their full names in ''[[Brave New World (Literaturenovel)|Brave New World]]'', since people's names are decided by random from a small pool of names of famous people's names.

* One of the ''[[Anne of Green Gables (Literature)|Anne of Green Gables]]'' books, there is a character named Rebecca Dew. Anne notes in a letter to her fiance that she finds it impossible not to use Rebecca Dew's full name.

** In ''[[Outbound Flight]]'', Mitth'raw'nuruodo and Jorj Car'das are on a Full Name Basis until Car'das says to just use his [[Last -Name Basis|last name]]; in turn, Thrawn allowed the use of his core name, since Car'das mangled the pronunciation of his full one. By the book's end, Thrawn feels they're close enough to call the human [[First -Name Basis|Jorj]].

** In the ''[[New Jedi Order]]'', the Yuuzhan Vong always go by their full names, and it's explicitly stated that using just part of the name when you're not a close relative is incredibly insulting. The exceptions seem to be priests (who have only one name, on the whole), [[God -Emperor|the Supreme Overlord]] (who is above the normal rules), and the Shamed Ones (who get no respect anyway).

** In ''[[Star Wars (Franchise)/Choices of One|Choices of One]]'', no one ever calls Nuso Esva by anything less than the full name.

* In ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'', Ygritte does this with Jon Snow.

* [[Captain Bluebear]] spends some time with a tribe of desert nomads who all have [[Overly Long Name|Overly Long Names]]s and insist on a [[Full -Name Basis]] as really basic courtesy; it's considered a mortal insult to refer to anyone by any shortening of their name, to not use a person's name when talking to them, or to mispronounce their name in any way. One of these has about five highly-similar-sounding rhyming names of perhaps ten syllables, followed by 'tennineeightsevensixfivefourthreeone' (note the lack of a 'two').

* In ''[[For Whom the Bell Tolls (Literature)|For Whom the Bell Tolls]]'', the narrator does this to the protagonist Robert Jordan.

{{quote| Margo Roth Spiegelman, whose six-syllable name was often spoken in its entirety with a kind of quiet reverence.}}

* [[Warrior Poet|Teal'c]] in ''[[Stargate SG -1]]'' always refers to [[Cunning Linguist|Daniel]] [[Badass Bookworm|Jackson]] by his full name, pronouncing it as though it were one word, and leaving out the salutation "Doctor."

** Also, any character without a title (Jonas Quinn, [[Stargate Atlantis|Ronon Dex]]) is referred to by full name. He'll use ranks or titles in place of first names with others ("General Hammond," "Captain/Major/Colonel Carter,") though Colonel/General O'Neill is usually simply [[Last -Name Basis|O'Neill]].

* Tracy Jordan of ''[[Thirty30 Rock (TV)|Thirty Rock]]'' calls Liz Lemon by her full name. His wife Angie does the same.

* The narrator in ''[[Pushing Daisies]]'' does this a lot. Except for Ned, who apparently doesn't have a last name.

* Bob Rooney, a minor character from ''[[Married... Withwith Children]]'' was never called simply 'Bob' (even his wife calls out his full name in the bedroom). The writers once explained that in every group of friends one person is always called by his full name.

* David Tench, Australia-based Channel 10's short-lived computer-generated parody of American talk-show hosts, had the habit of speaking to his celebrity guests by their full names.

* ''[[Star Trek: Voyager]]'' had this with Naomi Wildman, who was always "Naomi Wildman" to Seven of Nine.

* Lois Habiba from ''[[Torchwood (TV)|Torchwood]]'' almost always refers to herself with both names.

* One of the more [[Buffy -Speak|distinctive speech patterns]] on ''[[My So -Called Life]]'' was the tendency of most of the characters to refer to the others by their full names. This varied from person to person, but the one who just about ''always'' got this treatment was [[Troubled but Cute|Jordan Catalano]].

{{quote| '''Preist:''' Do you Bob Vance of Vance Refrigeration take this woman}}

* In ''[[Merlin (TV series)|Merlin]]'' everyone refers to Guinevere as "Gwen", save for her [[Love Interest|Love Interests]]s Arthur and Lancelot, who almost always call her by her full name.

** As of series 4, there has been an [[Inversion]]. Given Gwen's rise in status, she is now frequently being addressed by most characters as "Guinevere," whilst [[Love Interest|Love Interests]]s Arthur and Lancelot are using the pet name of "Gwen" as a sign of their more intimate relationships with her. The sole exception is Merlin, who always has (and probably always will, even once she's queen) refer to her as Gwen.

* In ''[[Robin Hood (TV series)|Robin Hood]]'', Djaq usually always calls Will Scarlett and Allan-a-Dale by their full names.

** Also, Kramer's offscreen pal Bob Sacomano. Unusual because Kramer usually has friends who are only identified by [[Last -Name Basis|one name]] (Newman, Spector, Lomez, Brody, even himself before "Cosmo" was revealed in Season 6), but Bob Sacomano is always Bob Sacomano.

* Franziska von Karma, from ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'', refers to practically ''everyone'' by their full names.

** After a while, several other characters switch to calling ''her'' by her full name. [[Hypocrite|Which she considers very rude]].

* For some reason Date Masamune of ''[[Sengoku Basara]]'' always refers to his rival Sanada Yukimura by his full name. Yukimura goes through varying degrees of this, though he eventually graduates to [[First -Name Basis]] speech-wise, but still uses Masamune's full name when he thinks about him ([[Foe Yay|which is very often]]).

** To be honest, amongst the fandom most characters are known predominately by their full names. It just seems to flow better somehow.

* In the [[Visual Novel]] ''Sekien no Inganocka'', a brothel matron in the Infinitely Crowded Street prefers to be called by her full name Alisa Greg. In fact, she subtly demands it, and the naga-like woman has torn up a man's face with fangs drawn, even though he was a customer.

* Touka in ''[[Sharin no Kuni (Visual Novel)|Sharin no Kuni]]'' refers to Kenichi by his full name, Morita Kenichi, until a certain point. Apparently, the reason is that using his last name would be formal, and his first name would be [[Tsundere|too intimate]].

* Amane in ''[[Devil Survivor (Video Game)|Devil Survivor]]'' almost always calls the [[Hello, Insert Name Here|protagonist]] by his full name.

* Lampshaded in the first phase of the [[No Export for You|Japan only]] game, ''The Recollection of [[Haruhi Suzumiya (Light Novel)|Haruhi Suzumiya]]''. When Kyon is deciding how to address Haruhi in the alternate universe (the options being [[First -Name Basis|first name]], [[Last -Name Basis|last name]] or full name), Haruhi will object and ask if you call everyone by their full name if you choose the third option, leading Kyon to settle on just "[[Last -Name Basis|Suzumiya]]".

* In ''[[Homestar Runner]]'' The Cheat's name is ''always'' [[Spell My Name Withwith a "The"|The Cheat]], making for some weird dialogue, such as, "Awesome! My very own The Cheat!" Also, the Brothers Strong are always called Strong Bad/Sad/Mad. Nobody ever calls Pom Pom "Pom", always "Pom Pom". This applies to other characters like Pan Pan, Sickly Sam, and The Homestar Runner (the "[[Retraux|old-timey]]" one, not the "modern" one, who's typically just "Homestar").

* In an episode of ''[[Ben 10: Alien Force (Animation)|Ben 10 Alien Force]]'', a Highbreed refers to the main character as "Ben, Ben Tennyson"; the way he introduced himself.

* In at least one episode of ''[[Jackie Chan Adventures (Animation)|Jackie Chan Adventures]]'', the villain of the week refers to the protaganist as Mr. Chan, Jackie Chan after the character introduced himself ala [[James Bond]].

* Cad Bane in ''[[Star Wars: theThe Clone Wars]]'', likely because Star Wars already had [[Darth Bane|another bad guy named Bane]].

* [[Thor]] does this in ''[[The Avengers: EarthsEarth's Mightiest Heroes (Animation)|Avengers Earths Mightiest Heroes]]''.

* Aya, the [[Robot Girl|Robot]] [[Spaceship Girl]] on ''[[Green Lantern: theThe Animated Series]]'', did this. However, since the other characters had [[Only One Name]], it was only noticable with Hal Jordan, the others being called "Sergeant Kilowog" and "Razer".

* Richard Dean Anderson never seems to be called anything but Richard Dean Anderson. He even lampshades it on his [[The Simpsons (animation)|Simpsons]] appearance: "Did somebody mention my names?"

* Bob Dole. Sometimes "Robert Dole", but never just "Dole".

** [[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney|Diego Armando?!]]

** Although it's more likely due to the fact that there are fewer than fifty family names commonly in use in Korea, with about a third of all Koreans sharing the family names Kim, Park, or Lee.

* A variation: [[Samuel L. Jackson]]. The "L" is not optional. Unless you refer to him as "Sam Jackson" or "Sam ''Motherfuckin''' Jackson". Never Sam, never Samuel, and never Mr. Jackson

** Some presidents do this too: [[Harry S. Truman]], [[Dwight D. Eisenhower]], [[John F. Kennedy]], [[Ulysses S. Grant]], etc.

* [[Gunman Withwith Three Names|Assassins of famous people tend to get this treatment. For example, John Wilkes Booth, Mark David Chapman, Lee Harvey Oswald, James Earl Ray...]]

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