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No matter what range of emotion you're feeling towards another character, the best way to express it is to say their name—preferably in either a hoarse whisper or [[Chewing the Scenery|scenery-chomping]] cry. Even if no one's around to hear you, just ''thinking'' about that character is enough of a prompt. It's all but required if you're in the midst of rescuing your [[True Companions]]/[[Love Interest]] currently facing [[Damsel in Distress|imminent doom]], you're [[Meadow Run|running towards each other]] in romantic rapture, or when [[Arch Enemy|your mortal enemy]] has simply gone too far. Sometimes those last two [[Foe Yay|get confused]].

 

Contrast [[I Know Your True Name]] where speaking it has much more dangerous implications.

 

Examples of this trope are often subjected to [[Memetic Mutation]].

 

== ADVERTISIIING! ==

* [[wikipedia:Papa & Nicole|Papa! Nicole!]]

** Played for laughs when the normally [[Belligerent Sexual Tension]] Ranma and Akane turn into [[Sickeningly Sweethearts]] because of [[Love Potion|love mushrooms]]. Instead of using their actual names, they call out to each other using terms of affection.

{{quote|'''Ranma:''' BABYYYYY!}}

* Taken to the extreme in the teaser trailer for the third ''[[Bleach]]'' movie revolving around the two, where the all Ichigo screams is RUKIA!!!!! In the most anguished and dramatic way possible. The movie is actually tagged as "Fade to Black; Call out Your Name".

** The fandom has taken notice of this, so much that it is jokingly called the [[Memetic Mutation|"Rukiagh" scream]]. [[Don't Explain the Joke|As in]]...'''''[[No Indoor Voice|RUUUUUKIIAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAGGHH]]!!!'''''

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam: Char's Counterattack|Mobile Suit Gundam Chars Counterattack]]'': "CHAAAAAAAAR!"

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam 0083: Stardust Memory|Mobile Suit Gundam 0083 Stardust Memory]]'': "GATOOOOOOOO!"

** ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam SEED Destiny]]'': "STELLAAAAAAAAA!!!" "FREEEDOOOM!!!" "KIRAAAAAAAAAA!!!"

** ''[[Mobile Suit Zeta Gundam]]'': KAAAAAAAMIIIIIIIYUUUUUUU!!: "FOOOOOOOOOUR!" "HAMAN KARNNN!"

* ''[[Puella Magi Madoka Magica]]'': [[Dark Magical Girl|Kyouko]] at the end of Episode 8: {{spoiler|SAYAKAAAAAAAAA!!!}}

** And in episode 10: {{spoiler|"MADOKA!" "Homura... You finally called me by my first name... I'm happy." * [[Mercy Kill]] * }}

* ''[[AIR]]'': Haruko in [[Tear Jerker|episode 12]]: {{spoiler|MISUZUUUUUUUU!!!}}

* ''[[Black Butler]]'' "Sebastian! Sebastian! Sebastian!" Mostly [[Ho Yay|said by Ciel]], but Mey-Rin also calls Sebastian's name sometimes.

** [[Justified Trope]]; {{spoiler|he's being a [[Large Ham]] on purpose, [[Batman Gambit|in order to fool KHAAAAAAN into thinking he's won.]] }}

** Khan has his fair share of "KIRK!", as well.

** Data's name is also shouted at him by the Borg Queen at an appropriate moment in the movie ''First Contact''. [[Moment of Awesome (Sugar Wiki)|His response?]] {{spoiler|[[Ironic Echo|"Resistance is futile."]]}}

** Also in ''Tin Man'' (Picard). It's a pretty well done western example, (but then it was ''Patrick Stewart's'' line, so the odds of it being done badly were pretty slim.)

* ''[[Cast Away]]'': WIIILLLLSSSOOONNN!!!! I'm sorry, Wilson!

* SHANE! Come back, [[Shane]]!

* Lampshaded in ''[[Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]]'': "JUUUSSTIIIICE!!!"

* Lovemaking scene in ''Children Of A Lesser God'', complicated by the fact that one of the participants is deaf-and-mute.

 

== LITERATUUURE! ==

** And later, Ginny screams Harry's name when {{spoiler|she sees him apparently dead in Hagrid's arms.}}

* In the movie version of ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia]]'', ''[[Voyage of the Dawn Treader]]'', Edmund and Lucy are constantly calling each other's name whenever they're separated from each other or when they're talking to one another.

** Hurley screams {{spoiler|"Jack!"}} in the series finale.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'', new series: "Use my name!" "...Master." Repeated later: "Doctor." "Master." "I like it when you use my name."

** One interesting twist happened in "[[Doctor Who/Recap/S30/E01 Partners in Crime|Partners in Crime]]". Donna and the Doctor see each other for the first time through windows on opposite sides of a room that they are both spying on. Cue completely silently mimed shouts of "DONNA!" and "DOCTOR!"

* Parodied in ''[[The IT Crowd]]'': Douglas Reynholm bursts into his father's [[The Fun in Funeral|funeral]], takes off his sunglasses, gets his bearings, and [[Incoming Ham|when he's sure he's got everyone's attention]] lets out an anguished "FATHEEEERRRRRRRRRRR!"

{{quote|'''Lookout''': This house is surrounded. I must ask that no one leave the room. I'm Chief Superintendent Lookout.

'''Lady Velloper''': Lookout!

'''Lady Velloper''': Why, what would we see?

'''Lookout''': I'm sorry?

** After hearing that NASA's manned space program has been stopped, "Well, we're not in space, so you can hear me scream: ''OBAMAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!''"

** In cursing [[Kanye West]], his voice was auto tuned mid anguished yell.

* ''[[Super Sentai]]'' example: Since Asuka of ''Abaranger'' gets {{spoiler|blown up, then [[Not Quite Dead]], then possessed by an [[Artifact of Doom]], many name-yelling opportunities arise.}} There's also a lot of "Nakadai-senseeeeeeei!"

* ''[[Kamen Rider Decade]]'': CURSE YOU, DECAAAAAAAADE! [[Never Live It Down|He says it less than you think]].

* ''[[Farscape]]'': ''CHRICHTON!!!''

** ''[[Most Annoying Sound|CHIANAAAAA!!!]]''

* In ''[[Over There]]'' episode 3, Hassan and his sister Sawa did this when they met each other.

* ''[[Manos A La Obra]]'': BEENIIIIITOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!. Also [[The Khan]] and [[Once an Episode]].

 

== TABLETOP GAMES!!!!! ==

 

 

* ''[[Devil May Cry]] 4'': "Kyrie! KYRIE! I swear it! I swear I'm going to get us out of here! TOGETHER, KYRIE! '''KYRIE!'''"

** '''MUNDUUUS!!!'''

* Inverted in ''Kill Switch'': part of the game's [[Mind Screw]] flashback story is a mystery girl's insistent question that the main character say her name. The trope's name itself is Arc Words for the game.

* ''[[Ninja Gaiden]] II'' (part of the original trilogy for the NES) had Ryu Hayabusa and his love interest Irene Lew doing this constantly.

*** '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ec0rRUC4BA8 "CHRIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIIISSSSSSSS!"]'''''

** "Alexia... ''Alexia...!''"

* ''[[Metal Gear]]'': '''Snake? Snake?! SNNAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAKKKKKKKKKKKEEEEEEEEE!!!'''

** Also done with Raiden in ''MGS2'' whenever you die, by both Colonel Campbell and Solid Snake (who use "Raiden"), and Rose who uses his real name, "JAAACCCKKKK!"

** And "NIIIIIIINIIIIIIAAAAAAAAAAANNNNN!"

*** Actually, [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3416313&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=40 this happens] [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3416313&userid=0&perpage=40&pagenumber=41 quite a lot], though not always in big shouts.

* ''[[.hack GU Games|.hack//G.U.]]'':

** "Come on, come on! I'm right here! SKEEEEEEEEEEEEEEITH!!!"

* ''[[Touhou]]'': Mostly in [[Fanon]], but Ran Yakumo seems to be fond of yelling her Shikigami's name: '''''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jip6DJC7qZA "CHEEEEEEEEEEEENNNNN!!!!!"]'''''

* ''[[Guilty Gear]]'': SSSSSSOOOOOOOOOOLLLLLLLL!

** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=grsMGONocTY&feature=watch_response AHHMAAAATERRASUUUUUUUUUUUU]

** Ragna's bellowing TERUUUUMIIIIII

** '''Karnak:''' ''I heard you the first time.''

* ''[[Powerpuff Girls Doujinshi]]'': "DEEDEE!!!", "BLOSSOM!!!", "SPARKY!!!"

* In ''[[Panthera]]'', this is played for drama when {{spoiler|Jason/Leo starts doubting everything he thought he knew about himself both in relation to the rest of the team and by himself as a result of his [[Mentor Mole]] revealing his true colors and getting killed and failing to come up with a plan in North Korea.}}

{{quote|'''Leo''': {{spoiler|Cats don't need licenses, to hunt, fight, kill. But they never have to worry about '''why''' they do it, or the '''greater consequences''', either. And we...}} Tigris, what's my name?

'''Tigris''': Uh. "Leo?"

'''Leo''': {{spoiler|...no. "Leo" is the lion mask I wear into battle. And yes, the mask is deeply a part of me. But my mind -- my soul -- is '''''human'''''. My name is '''''Jason''''', and it's '''''me''''' who has to live with the things I do.}} }}

 

 

** [[7th Heaven|"SIIIIIMMOOONNNNN!!!"]]

** [[Scrubs|"THEEEOOODOOOOOOORREEE!!!!"]]

* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'': "Mendooooozzzaaaaa!"

** "SKINNER!"

* ''[[The Pirates of Dark Water]]'': "Ren, [[I Am X, Son of Y|son of King Primus]], Prince of Octopon..."

* Whenever ''[[Looney Tunes]],'' ''[[Garfield and Friends]],'' ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles|Ninja Turtles]],'' or almost ''any'' cartoon has its characters watching a [[Soap Within a Show|parody of a soap opera,]] the characters will almost always recite, "Oh John! Oh Marsha! Oh ''John!'' Oh ''Marsha!"'' referring to the [[Stan Freberg]] sketch listed in "Other."

* ''[[The Ren and Stimpy Show]]'':

** Stimpy, YOU EEDIOT!

** "HEN-RYYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!"

** ''[[Baka|"Stanley!"]]''

* ''[[Jonny Quest: The Real Adventures|Jonny Quest the Real Adventures]]'':

** JONNNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!

* [[Jackie Chan Adventures|"CHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN!!!"]]

* ''[[Space Ghost Coast to Coast]]'' - [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=boc5JfvtB28: BANJOOOOO!!!]

 

== OOOTHEEER! ==

'''NC''': Spoony? }}

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]'': SING IT WITH US NOW:

* ''[[Segata Sanshiro]]'': Anyone who crosses with him will be treated with this, especially in his early runs:

{{quote|'''Guy''': ''S... Segata Sanshiro!!''

** And another by Jason Steele: [[Llamas with Hats]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kZUPCB9533Y "CAAAARRRRRLLLLLL."]

* VANGUAAAAAAAARD!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

* A variation of this in [[Real Life]]. During [[Muhammad Ali]]'s fight with Sonny Liston, who would only refer to him as Cassius Clay (his old name), Ali repeatedly shouted, "What's my name? What's my name?"

* Comic books fans have the (usually written) cry: "[[Rob Liefeld|LIIIIIIIIEEEEEE]][[The Dark Age of Comic Books|FFFFEEEEEEEEEELLLLLDD!!!]]"

 

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