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* At the end of the ''[[Kim Possible]]'' movie ''So the Drama'', Dr. Drakken, the [[Big Bad]], finally remembers the name of Kim's sidekick; throughout the show, he always referred to Ron as something along the lines of "the buffoon whose name escapes me."
* Most of the operatives on ''[[Codename: Kids Next Door]]'' refer to each other by number. If two refer to each other by first name, it's safe to assume they're particularly close (Numbers 3 and 4 call each other "Wally" and "Kuki" ''all the time'') or the moment is particularly deep (Number 1 calls a discouraged Number 362 "Rachel" when she's ready to give up her job as Supreme Leader).
* In the early episodes of ''[[
** Though it's a bit different here, as it's shown early on that gargoyles traditionally don't have naming conventions, or names at all, like the way the humans do (Goliath and Demona were originally the only two with names, and the others got them early on, and only out of convenience for Elisa rather than any attachment to a particular name).
* All throughout the first and second seasons of ''[[
** The first gang member he calls by name is Sokka (whom he had previously called [[Fantastic Racism|"you Water Tribe peasant"]]), followed closely by Appa, both in "The Boiling Rock."
* It's easy to determine the level of sympathy Batman has for a villain by how he refers to them in ''[[Batman:
** Mr. Freeze was usually referred to by his full name of Victor Fries.
** Two-Face was almost always called Harvey, due to Bruce Wayne's close friendship with Dent before the accident.
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** Up until "The Problem With Popplers", Fry didn't know Leela's family name, and Bender didn't know Fry's given name.
** There was also an episode with a past girlfriend coming to the future who only referred to Fry by his last name. It seems to be that the only people who called him Phillip were his parents and brother.
* There was an episode of ''[[The Simpsons (
** Without having seen the episode in question, the [[Straw Feminist]] may have a point: It's generally polite, when speaking to an authority figure, stranger, etc., to use the surname, especially to a man. People have the tendency to refer to women by their first names (Hillary Clinton becomes "Hillary" instead of "Clinton" or "Mrs. Clinton", for example) and it's uncommon for adults to refer to children the same way. Bring in old patriarchal notions regarding men, women, children, and their roles in the home, and you can see how some women feel that First Name Basis is treating them like children, or otherwise of a lower status.
** A completely non-romantic example is present in "Two Bad Neighbors", between Bart and former President George H.W. Bush.
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