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** And since {{spoiler|Zazie's recently revealed [[Evil Twin]] sister}} won't reveal her name, Negi has taken to referring to her as "Poyo" after her [[Verbal Tic]].

* Tamahome from ''[[Fushigi Yuugi (Manga)|Fushigi Yuugi]]'' has been known as "Obake-chan" since childhood because of his markings. [[Berserk Button|Don't call him that, though]].

* In ''[[Last Exile (Anime)|Last Exile]]'', Dio calls Claus "Immelman" after his trademark piloting maneuver.

* ''[[Lucky Star (Manga)|Lucky Star]]'' plays with this one. Tsukasa calls Konata and Miyuki Kona-chan and Yuki-chan respectively. (Fairly normal.) Also, Konata tries to come up with a nickname for Kagami. Tsukasa mentions that an alternate reading for Kagami's name kanji is "Kyou", so Konata calls Kagami "Kyou-chan". That embarrasses/pisses of Kagami, and when Konata asks what she can call Kagami, Kagami's suggestion is to call her Kagami-sama (roughly translates as "The Great Kagami"). [[Crowning Moment of Funny|Naturally, this backfires when Konata actually does it.]] Kagami is so embarrassed that she asks Konata to stop, ''please, for the love of God''.

** TV's Frank called Dr. Clayton Forrester "Steve" for no particular reason at all. There was massive debate among MSTies over whether it was some obscure pop culture reference until [[Word of God]] from Frank Conniff confirmed that it was just a random gag.

* On ''[[Homicide Life On the Street (TV)|Homicide Life On the Street]]'' Stanley Bolander was universally known as "Big Man" and everyone called Lt Giardello "Gee." The latter might seem like a simple contraction of his surname, but it actually came from what he said on his first murder scene.

** Ace (a companion of his [[The Nth Doctor|seventh incarnation]]) had a tendency to call him "Professor".

* Sisko on ''[[Star Trek Deep Space Nine]]'' calls Jadzia Dax "Old Man" as the previous Dax host (Curzon) was an old friend and mentor.

* In the ''[[Harvest Moon (Video Game)|Harvest Moon]]'' games, you get a nickname from your spouse once you [[Relationship Values|get married.]] Some games will offer up their own suggestions ("Honey," "Sweetie," "Darling"), but you can also come up with your own in a [[Hello, Insert Name Here]] fashion.

* In ''[[Animal Crossing (Video Game)|Animal Crossing]],'' your neighbors will sometimes come up with nicknames for you. Some of them are independent and pre-programmed (such as "buddy" or "sparky"), but some of them are based on your name. (So if your name was "Andy," they might give you nicknames like "A-Dawg" and "A-Boss.")

** In ''[[The Legend of Zelda Majoras Mask (Video Game)|Majora's Mask]]'', Romani takes to calling Link "Grasshopper", since he apparently patters about when he walks and wears green.

{{quote| Link? That's a nice name, but... How about... '''Grasshopper'''? That's the name Romani gives you.}}

* In the webcomic ''[[The Dreamer]]'', Nathan calls Alexander "Captain Fancy Pants" behind his back.

* In ''[[Survival of the Fittest (Roleplay)|Survival of the Fittest]]'', Nathaniel Harris is referred to as Blood Boy on the sole basis that hardly anyone knew his real name. Also to an extent are most of the terrorists, and Yelizaveta 'Bounce' Volkova.

* ''[[Red vs. Blue (Machinima)|Red vs. Blue]]'' characters usually address Freelancers with a shortened version of their callsign. Thus, Freelancer Texas is called "Tex" [[Viewer Gender Confusion|(despite being female)]], Washington is called "Wash", and New York is just "York".

** When [[Cloudcuckoolander|Caboose]] has to deal with Private Donut, he can only seem to remember the other's name as [Military Rank] + [Pastry], leading to a series of nicknames like "Private McMuffin" and "Major Cinnamon Bun".

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