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== [[Literature]] ==
* As with many other tropes, it shows up for its turn(s) at being skewered in Terry Pratchett's ''[[Discworld]]'' series.
** From ''[[
{{quote|"Luck is my middle name," said Rincewind, indistinctly. "Mind you, my first name is Bad."}}
** Detritus also prefaced a question with "I know 'thick' is my middle name-" to which Vimes responded "I didn't know you had a ''first'' name."
** From ''[[
{{quote|'''Glod:''' "I'm a dwarf. We know about money. Knowing about money is practically my middle name."
'''Lias:''' "That's a long middle name." }}
** From ''[[
* ''[[Artemis Fowl]]'' had one character who went a step further and had his ''first'' name legally changed to "Trouble".
** Mind you, said character is an acknowledged [[Badass]], despite the fact that he gets hardly any notice.
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'''Sadie''': Okay, what is my middle name, then?
'''Katie''': Ladybird! Your name's Sadiebug Ladybird Berrybeetle.
'''Sadie''':
'''Katie''': 'Cause maybe I've known you all my life and I'm your twin sister. }}
* In one episode of ''[[Planet Sheen]]'', Sheen not only makes several claims of what his middle name is, he produces several (presumably fake) birth certificates to prove it.
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