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* Locke of ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]''. He's not a thief, he's a ''treasure hunter''. And he'll '''rip your lungs out''' for saying otherwise! What makes this one line particularly funny is that the SNES translation is so aggressively kid-friendly that it refuses to acknowledge the existence of pubs and the word "death" and its variants... but threatening to pull out somebody's internal organs is A-OK?
** He's much less violent in the GBA remake. He'll just beat the crap out of you.
* Ashe from ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', leader of [[La Résistance]] - ''not'' the Insurgence.▼
* In ''[[Super Robot Wars
** Until ''OG2'', anyway, when she's impressed enough by their performance to call them by their codenames. Her selective hearing still keeps Excellen from getting a proper upgrade for "Weissy," though.
* ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'':
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** And in ''[[Professor Layton and the Curious Village]]'', Layton repeatedly corrects that he is ''not'', in fact, a detective. This doesn't stop the people of St. Mystere from constantly ''thinking'' that's the case, though.
* Dex from ''[[Saints Row]]'' wishes you to know that it's "The Carnales" or "Los Carnales", not "The Los Carnales", as [[Department of Redundancy Department|"los" means "the" in Spanish]].
▲* Ashe from ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'', leader of [[La Résistance]] - ''not'' the Insurgence.
* In ''[[Fallout 2]]'', the citizens of Vault City keep a slave labor force, but insist upon calling them "Servants", and make a habit of expelling those who say otherwise.
** Similarly, in the ''[[Fallout 3]]'' DLC Pack "The Pitt", The leader of the Pitt Raiders, Ashur, insists that his subordinates refer to the slave populace as "workers", although, to be fair, he fully intends to release them once he and his wife find a cure for the rampant mutation present in what remains of Pittsburgh.
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** And in ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]'', we have the subtle distinction between a scavenger and a ''prospector'', along with the varying ways to say Caesar's name <ref>Most characters say it as "See-Zer", like most Americans do. The Legion pronounce it more like the German "Kaiser" (which came from the original Caesar's name). The second one is the correct one.</ref>
* An example from ''[[Gabriel Knight]] 2'': "I do not know what it's like where you're from, Mr. Knight, but people refer to me as Herr Doktor Klingmann here."
* In ''[[Pokémon Diamond and Pearl]]'', the Pastoria City Gym Leader, Wake, insists on being called "Crasher Wake". When you fight him, he's still called "Leader" Wake, just like any other Gym Leader - this is mostly due to character restrictions for in-battle text.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Phantom Hourglass]]''. It is implied that Tetra got a lot of those after it was revealed that her {{spoiler|real name is ''Princess Zelda''}}, but in the game itself it only happens in one short exchange, where she told Niko to keep calling her "Tetra" instead of the other name. Tetra's level of anger about this seems to imply that it has happened before and started to annoy her.
* [[Game and Watch|It's Mr. Game & Watch. Not Mr. Game and Watch. If you type Mr. Game and Watch into Google, you don't get anything. Therefore, it's Game & Watch]].
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{{quote|"It's Magnius from the eastern ranch!"
"That's LORD Magnius, vermin!" }}
* In ''[[Kingdom Hearts: 358/2 Days|Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2]]'', Saix insists that the other Organization members refer to Xion as "it" rather than "she," showing his contempt for her {{spoiler|as a replica}}.
* Resident [[Black Magician Girl]] [[Dark Chick]] Chloe from the second ''[[Mana Khemia]]'' game insists that her curses and ''black magic that regularly summons demons in combat'' be referred to as "incantations".
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* Tear from ''[[Recettear]]'' is a loan shark (not quite [[All Devouring Black Hole Loan Sharks|that]] bad, she's nice and helpful about it) but doesn't like to be called as such.
* Creator version. The makers of the ''[[When They Cry]]'' franchise insist their [[Visual Novel]]'s are "sound novels" due to their reliance on [[Crowning Music of Awesome|reliance on]] [[Hell Is That Noise|sound]].
* In ''[[Strong Bad's
* [[Phoenix Wright]] is a lawyer. Not a dentist, policemen, detective or parliamentarian. And ''no'', his badge is not made of plastic and not available in a Gumball Machine. (He has to insist on those facts so frequently, it actually strikes him as ''strange'' whenever anyone actually gets it right.) Speaking of which, there's the whole ladder-versus-stepladder debate that happens [[Once an Episode|in just about every game]].
* ''[[Team Fortress 2]]'':
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{{quote|'''Sniper:''' Dad? Dad, I'm a--Ye--Not a "crazed gunman", dad, I'm an assassin!... Well, the difference bein' one is a job and the other's mental sickness!}}
* ''[[Fire Emblem Elibe]]''. Canas would like to remind you that it is incorrect to refer to [[Casting a Shadow|the Elder magic that he practices]] as [[Dark Is Not Evil|"Dark" magic]].
* In ''[[The Adventures of Sam & Max:
* The ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' community has any mention of possible failure or defeat referred to as "[[Hilarity Ensues|Fun]]" (after the DF motto "losing is fun"). Or "!!FUN!!" if some part of it is !!on fire!!. And insist on calling {{spoiler|[[Physical Hell|hell]]}} Hidden Fun Stuff. {{spoiler|[[The Legions of Hell|Demons]]}} are Clowns, and {{spoiler|[[Unobtanium|adamantine]]}} is cotton candy (for its low density, but it's also what lures you into the "clowncar").
* In ''[[Eien no Aselia]]'' theres a kind of pastry that's basically identical to a waffle filled with some sort of sugary fruit. Lemuria constantly corrects him when he calls it a waffle instead of a yofwal, while in turn he stubbornly refuses to refer to them as anything ''but'' waffles.
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* In ''[[Rune Factory Tides of Destiny]]'' during Joe's second frienship event Sonja calls Joe a 'pervert' for looking through a crack in the womens' bath. He insists that he is a 'treasure hunter' who is after 'a different sort of treasure'.
* ''[[Fate Extra]]'' gives you the option to beat on of the most powerful characters in the [[Nasuverse]], they balance this out by telling you at every opportunity that the only reason you can win is because her Master is a raging moron.
* ''[[Katawa Shoujo]]'':
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** {{spoiler|Lilly Satou}}, after Hisao realizes she is a [[Covert Pervert]], will say that she has "a healthy adolescent sex drive".
* This pops up in an amusing conversation between Shepard and Tali in ''[[Mass Effect 3]]'':
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'''Shepard''': ...that's a straw, Tali.
'''Tali''': ''Emerrrrrgency. Induction. Port.'' }}
* [[Barbarian Hero|'''The''' Iron Bull]] in ''[[Dragon Age: Inquisition]]''. He is ''not'' an Iron Bull, he is '''
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