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{{quote|"Soup Nazi? You people have a little pet name for everybody."|''[[Seinfeld]]''}}

 

 

 

 

* Yachiru Kusajishi from ''[[Bleach]]'', the most infamous of her nicknames being "Ken-chan" (Kenny in the dub) to her giant, [[Blood Knight|bloodthirsty]] behemoth of a captain. Although it's not assured ''what'' she will call you or even if her nickname will be consistent, but she ''will'' give anyone, and ''everyone'' a nickname of some sort. Always.

** "Jiggles! Big guy! Pencil! Tough guy! Let's go!"

* Gigalt from ''[[Planetes]]'' cannot remember a name, and makes up a nickname for each character he interacts with, but it must have meaning for him. He cannot seem to remember names otherwise. He gave Hachi his nickname, called Ai 'Angel', etc.

* The titular character of ''[[Naruto]]'' almost never refers to certain people by their names, instead using nicknames he has chosen for them, often against their wishes. "Old Hag" (obaa-chan) and "Pervy Sage" (ero-sennin) are the most notorious examples, though he also called the previous Hokage "Old Man" (ojii-san).

* Gold from the ''[[Pokémon Special]]'' manga has a nickname for everyone except his rival, Silver. Examples include Strict/Serious Girl (Crystal), Prissy Boy (Ruby) and Wild Girl (Sapphire).

** Most characters nickname their Pokémon in ''[[Pokémon Special|PokeSpe]]'', for that matter. Though some are more original than others.

** Probably intentional; Suzuna calls [[Jerk Jock]] Agon "Agon-nii." Yep. [[Don't Explain the Joke|Agony.]]

** Agon himself has a nickname for almost everyone. Short Trash (Sena), Slimy Trash (Hiruma), Fat Pig/Fat Trash (Kurita), Garbage Brothers (Ha-Ha Bros), and Unko-Chan (Unsui) are the more memorable ones. Ikkyu seems to be the only one Agon calls by name.

** After Lavi re-named Link "two spot" and the person in question got irked by the remark ("How rude!"), Allen commented in nonchalant fashion:

'''Lavi:''' "Say Allen, have you forgotten that I'm actually older than you...?" }}

** Tyki Mikk also has a habit of doing this, calling Lavi "[[Eyepatch of Power|Eyepatch-kun]]", Kanda "[[Katanas Are Just Better|Kitchen-Knife]]", and exclusively referring to the young protagonist Allen as "[[Kid Hero|shonen]]" (boy).

** Kanda almost never calls people by their first names. [[Kid Hero|Allen]] is "Moyashi," (beansprout) and Lavi is "Baka Usagi" (stupid rabbit) or "Baka Lavi" (Stupid Lavi).

* [[Rurouni Kenshin|Sanosuke Sagara]] has shades of this since he barely ever calls anyone by their given name. He calls Kaoru "Jou-chan" (translated to "Missy" in English), Megumi "kitsune" ("vixen" in English) most often, but anyone else he meets is probably not going to get called by their real name and will instead be referred to by whatever outstanding feature Sano notices. Humorously, Megumi calls him "tori-atama" (translated roughly to "birdhead" or "roosterhead") as retaliation.

* In ''[[One Piece]]'' you have to earn the right for Luffy to remember your real name. Especially apparent with Hancock, who remained Hammock while Luffy was still mad at her for turning her loving subjects to stone, and only became Hancock when she regained Luffy's respect by going the extra mile by facing her fears of going to fight for the marines so she could help him save Ace. But even if Luffy likes you, you might end up with one of his affectionate nicknames, like Cricket the "diamond head guy" or Inazuma "Crab-chan".

* Sakuragi Hanamichi in ''[[Slam Dunk]]'' has a tendency of giving nicknames to some of his rivals: Akagi is "Gori" (short for 'Gorilla'), Uozumi is "Boss Monkey", Hanagata is "Glasses", and Nobunaga is "Wild Monkey" (and in turn, he's called "Red-haired Monkey" by Nobunaga)

 

* ''[[The Incredible Hulk]]'' did this when he was a member of The Defenders. Dr. Strange became "Dumb Magician", Valkyrie became "Sword Girl" and Nighthawk became "Bird Nose".

** Savage Hulk calls ''everybody'' by a simplified nickname. In Heroes Reborn, he named Project X9500, worn by an [[Iron Man|Anthony Stark]], ''[[Appropriated Appellation|Iron Man]]''..

** And when Dr. Fate created a [[Expy|strangely similar team]] in ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'', Solomon Grundy referred to his teammates in very similar terms.

** [[The Joker]] himself does this, particularly to [[Batman|Batsy]].

* Ra's Al Ghul calls [[Batman]] "Detective", and on the occasions he's faced [[Superman]], he calls him "Icon" or "The Alien". More recently, he's taken to also calling Tim Drake "Detective" after Tim proved his skills against Ra's and earned his respect.

* Ben Grimm of the [[Fantastic Four]], usually of the semi-derogatory kind: "Stretch", "Stretcho", "Rubber Head", "Big Brains", "Professor", "Doc", "High Pockets", etc for Reed; "Match-head" "Matchstick", "Bic-head", "Flame-Brain", "Hothead", "Sparky", "Firefly", etc for Johnny. He always calls Sue by the pet names "Suzy" or "Suzy-Q" however, possibly since she's the one who pisses him off the least.

* Zoe of ''[[Baby Blues]]'' has nicknames for every person in her class, based on their personal habits.

* [[Chaotic Neutral|Bean]] [[Funny Schizophrenia|the]] [[Mad Bomber|Dynamite]] from ''[[Archie Comics Sonic the Hedgehog|Sonic The Hedgehog]]'' is quite the nicknamer. He's called Sonic "Speedy [[Mc Quickness]]", "Mr. Needlemouse" and "Speedy Cheese"; called Tails "Propellor Butt"; called Amy "Piko Piko Valkyrie" and "Shouty Hammer [[Mc Pain]]"; called Jet the Hawk "Jettinson Q. Hawkington" and called Blaze "Little Miss Flaming Lilac". He also [[Companion Cube|named one of his bombs "Jamie-Kendall Duckingworth III".]] Unusual in that the nicknames he gives are always ''longer'' than the real names.

 

** Placenames: Ketafa = Ketawful, Ta'akan = Tacky

** As'taris: Ass, Asshole, Santa's Ass, and Jeez-Ass (after he's resurrected).

** The Vasyn: The Vaseline, the Aspirin, the thingy, and [[Title Drop|the Big Pink Job]].

** The four attract their share of nicknames as well.

 

* Gunnery Sgt. Hartman from ''[[Full Metal Jacket]]'' gives each of his Marines a nickname in bootcamp. Not only does this stick throughout the movie, but for many of the characters, it's the only name the audience learns.

* Brian, the floor manager in ''[[Extract]]'', refers to almost all of his subordinates as "Dinkus", with the one exception being a character he calls "Forklift Dinkus" or "Boy Genius".

 

* Simon Darcourt, a repeat character in [[Christopher Brookmyre]] novels, makes his mark early by never calling anyone by their real name if he can substitute one of his own ("But you just ''are'' [insert nickname], don't you see?"). [[Obfuscating Stupidity|Div]], the [[Ditz|designated ditz]] in their circle of friends, even gets to call him on it:

** This tendency turns out remarkably well for Harry on several occasions. Thanks to [[I Know Your True Name|the inherent power of names]], there are at least three instances in the books in which Harry gives a very powerful magical entity a nickname and, in doing so, influences it for the better. The entities in question are a spirit of intellect with vast knowledge of magic and lore ("Bob the Skull"), the Archive of the ''entire collected knowledge of mankind'' ("Ivy") and {{spoiler|the psychic imprint or "shadow" of a fallen angel named Lasciel ("Lash"). Lash is an especially noteworthy case in that by giving her a name of her own, Harry gave her an identity separate from Lasciel and introduced her to the concept of free will.}} This is questionable about Ivy. It seems to be good, but, Luccio does make some good, if absolutely heartless, points about why The Archive isn't supposed to do that.

** "Shagnasty" the {{spoiler|skinwalker.}} Justified, since it feeds on fear and therefore calling it something that ''isn't'' silly will just make it stronger.

* As befitting the fact that they're homages to the same [[Film Noir|tradition]], Mack, of [[The Automatic Detective]], enjoys nicknaming all the mooks he interacts with in much the same manner as Dresden. Luckily for him, he lives in a world full of mutants and aliens, making his job easier, nicknames such as "Dome Head", "Hairlip" and "Jellyfish" being entirely accurate descriptions.

* In [[Terry Pratchett]]'s ''[[Johnny Maxwell Trilogy]]'', Johnny is the official nickname generator for his friends. In the second book it takes him a moment to remember that Bigmac's social worker would know him as Simon.

* Though she rarely addresses them by their nicknames to their faces, [[Everworld|Senna Wales]] can get into this habit. By her account, the four members of the series' [[Nakama]] are called, "[[Heroic Wannabe|General Davideus]]", "[[Plucky Comic Relief|the clown]]", "[[The Smart Guy|the smug bastard]]", and "[[The Chick|the cow]]."

* [[Aaron Allston]]'s [[Star Wars Expanded Universe]] short story [http://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/The_Clone_Wars:_The_Pengalan_Tradeoff The Pengalan Tradeoff] has Joram Kithe, an accountant sent to gauge the skills of clone troopers, finding himself cut off in enemy territory with them. Annoyed with their lack of names and [[You Are Number Six|the inconvenience of using their numbers]], he gives them all nicknames - Tooth, Mapper, Digger, Hash - based on little differences, which he encourages in order to make it easier for him to tell them apart. In doing this he damages their absolute unity, making them considerably less interchangeable, but also encouraging them to think more creatively and humanizing them, for himself and the readers.

* In David Carkeet's whimsical linguist mystery ''Double Negative'', the characters' [[Meaningful Name|MeaningfulNames]] (the clumsy guy is called Woeps, the weird inquisitive guy is Aaskhugh, the {{spoiler|soon-to-be-dead guy is called Stiph}}, etc.) are reinforced for the reader, though not for the slightly oblivious characters, by Aaskhugh's peculiar nicknames (his name for Woeps is "Daisy," and so on).

 

* Sawyer from ''[[Lost]]''. So much so that at one point the rest of the islanders forbade him from using nicknames when he lost a bet. Juliet is noted as the only major character to not have any of them, outside of briefly being called "Blondie" in season 5's finale.

* Dr. Cox does this on ''[[Scrubs]]''. Elliot is "Barbie", J.D. is "Newbie" or "random feminine name", Turk is "Gandhi" or "Turtlehead"/"Turtleneck" and Kelso is "Bob/Bobbo/Beelzebob/Bobcat".

** Colonel Doctor, Snoop Dogg Intern/Resident/Attending, The Todd, Tasty Coma Wife, Gift Shop Girl, Crazy Eyes Margo, and Cabbage. Even the Janitor is a nickname, and he sometimes goes by "Dr. Jan Itor".

** In one episode, where J.D. is assigned with surgical teams, he gives them all nicknames. They all sound strangely phallic.

* This was the schtick of Rob Schneider's ''[[Saturday Night Live]]'' character "The Richmeister".

* On ''[[Friends]]'', Ross had trouble remembering his students' names, so he came up with nicknames. Elizabeth was "Cutie McPretty".

** Similarly, Joey names the other people in the apartment building this way. Examples include "Some Kids I've Seen" and "Guy with Red Hair Who Does Not Like to Be Called Rusty".

** Heavy D, D (D'Argo)

** Pip (Chiana)

*** He called Buffy "Goldilocks" until Buffy responded by getting an [[Important Haircut]].

** Faith had a habit of calling Buffy 'B', but does so less later in the series.

** Lorne, "And stop calling me pastries!"

* Somewhat like Xander above, Topher on ''[[Dollhouse]]'' usually uses real names but often makes up nicknames. Most are only used once; his most persistent one is "Man-Friend" for Boyd.

* ''[[Stargate Atlantis]]'': John Sheppard does a similar thing with all the Wraith they meet, including Steve, Bob, Todd, and Michael. (The Wraith either don't have names or don't tell Humans their names, so Sheppard generally gives them very ordinary, human nicknames to make up for it). Lt. Ford tries to name a lot of things, but he is repeatedly shot down by the master (aforementioned [[Badass|John Sheppard]]), most notably in the debate between calling the Lantian Shuttle "Gate Ship" (It's a ship that goes through the 'Gate!) or Sheppard's version: Puddle Jumper. Sheppard wins out in the end.

* Spinelli, resident [[Cloudcuckoolander]] of ''[[General Hospital]]'', pathologically refuses to call anyone by their given name, instead nicknaming them according to one of their perceived attributes. A short list:

* Malcolm Tucker from ''[[The Thick of It]]'' and ''[[In the Loop]]'' has an insulting nickname for everyone. He hardly ever uses the same nickname twice, but they are inevitably themed - Julius Nicholson's relate to him being bald ("Nosferatu", "Baldemort"), Ollie's relate to the fact that he looks young ("Joe 90", "Baby from ''[[Eraserhead]]''"), and Nicola seems destined to be stuck with "Glummy Mummy".

** Not that any of the other characters are slouches, [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEDILRgNESM as evidenced here].

** When Hiro meets a man in Africa who has the same power as Isaac, he takes to calling him "Mr. African Isaac." "Mister Africany Sock" hasn't caught on, though.

* ''[[Mystery Science Theater 3000]]'': "Meet the Hobgoblins: Frankie, Sniffles, Bounce-Bounce and ''The Claw!''"

** It's worse than that. Joel/Mike and the Mads have no shortage of nicknames for each other. There's a massive list of all instances of this [http://www.mst3kinfo.com/ward_e/Listnick.html here], for those interested.

* On an episode of ''[[Just Shoot Me]]'', an intern was giving cute nicknames for everyone in the office, except for Elliot. When he confronts him about it, Elliot learns that the intern had too much respect for him to give him a nickname. Once he got the intern to loosen up, however, he found that none of the nicknames he came up for him ("Clicky", "Snaps") were not to his liking.

* CJ Cregg from ''[[The West Wing]]'', whose nicknames are frequent but mostly one-offs. She does however have some recurring ones such as "Spanky" for Sam, "Tobus" for Toby, and "____ my man" for anyone, male ''or'' female. She also constantly addresses Charlie as "Chaz", "Chip", "Chuck", "Chuckles", "Chipper", "Sparky", "Gilligan", etc (the two of them have a lot of [[True Companions|semi-adopted-sibling]] [[Sibling Rivalry|rivalry]].)

** Josh also has a little bit of this going on, like his random decision to call a high school boy named Billy "Fred" throughout an episode just for the hell of it.

** Lampshaded when Kurt protests that last one, and Sue allows him to choose from three other possible nicknames: Gelfling, Porcelain, and Tickle Me Doe-Face (he chooses Porcelain).

** Blaine is either "Other Gay" or "Young Burt Reynolds".

** This is to be expected (see the fraternity entry under "Real Life" examples.

* ''[[Oliver Beene]]'' featured a kid called Nickname, who would come up with nicknames for everyone based on an unfortunate situation or quirk of that person.

* Rumpole of ''[[Rumpole of the Bailey]]'' gives most characters in the series nicknames, most of which only he uses. Some of these are [[Affectionate Nickname|affectionate]] (e.g. "Portia" for Phyllida (Trant) Erskine-Brown), some are joking ("Soapy Sam" for Sam Ballard, "Miz Liz" for Liz Probert), and some are not particularly complimentary ("Bollard" for Ballard, and the judges--"The Mad Bull" for [[Hanging Judge|Mr Justice Bullingham]] being the most notable). The most notable is his nickname for his wife, which she never hears: "[[She|She-Who-Must-Be-Obeyed]]".

 

* For better or worse, Nate in ''[[Big Nate]]'' has gained a reputation as the school nickname guru.

 

 

* A sketch in ''The Long Hot Satsuma'' took nicknames, and those who give them, to ridiculous extremes.

'''Woman #2:''' But you must call him Zog, King of the Pixies! }}

 

** Also Larry, who appears to have officially dubbed Phoenix and Edgeworth "Nick" and "Edgey."

** Pearl is something of a nickname ''catcher'', as only her mother calls her by her proper name - Phoenix calls her "Pearls" (in the Japanese version, her first name+[[Japanese Honorifics|chan]]) and Maya calls her "Pearly".

** Senny (Senel)

** Teach (Wil)

** Shirl (Shirley)

** Norma gets a nickname herself from Moses, who calls her Bubbles.

* Kreia from ''[[Knights of the Old Republic|KOTOR II]]'' almost never refers to or even ''addresses'' any of the Exile's other [[Nakama|companions]] by their actual names/numbers, only titles:

** Atton: "the fool" (or when they're alone together "murderer")

** Bao-Dur: "the alien" or "The Iridonian"(which is what other members of the party call him as well)

** Visas: "the seer"

* Jinx, a minor character from the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' series frequently refers to Jak as "pretty boy", "Goldielocks", "blondie" or "Jakey-boy".

** Daxter has a nickname for ''everyone'', whether they're friends ("tall, dark and gruesome"), rivals ("feather breath"), his girlfriend ("angel cheeks"), his biggest enemy ("metalo-maniac") or himself ("orange lightning"). The list goes on.

** Yukiho is "Yukipo"

** Miki is "Mikimiki"

** Haruka is "Harurun"

** Engineer: "Hardhat, Overalls, Tough Guy"

** Pyro: "Mumbles, Mute fricken Moron, bib-wearin' dope"

** Spy: "Shape-shifting rat"

** He also calls enemies in general "Knuckleheads", "Chucklenuts", "Dummies" and his teammeates "pallies".

*** The Engineer has a few as well: "Mumbles" for Pyro, "Sawbones" for Medic, among others.

* Everyone in ''[[Endless Frontier]]'', to the point that it's rare for characters to call each other by their proper names at all.

** Neku: "Phones"

** Shiki: "Stalker"

** Beat: "Skulls/{{spoiler|Freshmeat}}/{{spoiler|Rottenmeat}}/{{spoiler|[[Embarrassing First Name|Beat itself]]}}"

** Rhyme: "Skulls Jr./{{spoiler|Rhyme}}"

** Mr. Hanekoma: "Mr. H, {{spoiler|CAT}}"

** Koki: "Lollipop"

** Mitsuki: "[[The Baroness|Iron Maiden]], Ironface, Her Iron Mugliness"

** Megumi: "Megs, Shades"

** [[An Ice Person|Jin]]: "Ice Man".

** [[Hospital Hottie|Litchi]]: "Boobie Lady". She is quite [[Gag Boobs|well-endowed]].

** [[Complete Monster|Terumi]]: "Green Guy".

*** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] by Ragna in Litchi's Gag Reel when Tao's calling names for a board game at a festival:

'''Ragna:''' "That's because you never said our names, idiot." }}

** In ''[[Dragon Age Origins]]'', the DLC-only character Shale never calls anyone by their names and always uses the pronoun "[[Verbal Tic|it]]" towards the [[Player Character]] (referred to as "The Grey Warden" in conversations with others). When questioned about this, Shale tells the PC that golems are always referred to as "golem" or "it", so Shale just pays it back in equal measure. Nicknames include "the Second Warden" (Alistair), "the Swamp Witch" (Morrigan), "the Elder Mage" (Wynne), "the Drunken Dwarf" (Ohgren), "the Painted Elf" (Zevran), "the Qunari" (Sten), and "the Sister" (Leliana).

** Ashley Williams from the ''[[Mass Effect 1]]'' will always refer to military personnel by their jargon nicknames, calling Shepard "Skipper" and Lieutenant Kaidan "L-T".

** [[Loveable Rogue|Kasumi Goto]] from ''[[Mass Effect 2]]'' will cheerfully assign nicknames to whomever she feels like, constantly calling Shepard "Shep" and referring to the Illusive Man as "Mr. Illusive."

** Javik, on Joker:

* The Elder Goddess [[The Alcoholic|Kalikai]] from ''[[Lusternia]]'' gained notoriety amongst Her peers for this. The crystalline [[The Stoic|Stoic]] Xyl was dubbed "Crystalcakes"; the [[The Brute|unstoppable, cannibalistic]] warrior Morgfyre was dubbed "Morgpie"; and [[The Chessmaster]] [[Big Bad]] Fain became "The Fainiac".

** The Malkavian has one exception to this, when {{spoiler|you call Velvet "Susan"}}.

* Rorona of ''[[Atelier Rorona]]'' does this all the time, as she's pretty [[The Ditz|ditzy]] (by her own admission and that of her peers) and doesn't digest long names very well. She calls her childhood friend Cordelia "Cory", the dancer Lionela "Liona" (and she also has nicknames for her two kitty puppets), and tries to get Sterkenburg the knight to answer to "Sterky", but it doesn't stick (most people call him "Sterk" anyway).

* [[Luminous Arc 2|Dia]] has shades of this, though she's uninspired about it; Roland, Rashe and Rina are christened Kid, Other Kid and Other Other Kid (Girl if she's lucky) before they finish introducing themselves.

* ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]'' has Namingway. The only reason to talk to Namingway is to change your character's name. Isn't that right, [[Spoony Bard|Spoony]]?

** Levi the Slasher, who apparently has trouble remembering the name of anyone who isn't a fellow [[Humanoid Abomination|Material]], no matter how short the name is. So she just calls them things like Original (Fate, [[Evil Twin|who she was based on]]), Black Feather ([[Winged Humanoid|Reinforce]]), and Bushido ([[Lady of War|Signum]]).

 

 

* Senor "[[Cloudcuckoolander|Alonzo Mourning to you, Myrtlebeth]]" Cardgage from ''[[Homestar Runner]]''.

* Faun from ''[[Tasakeru]]'' gives everyone nicknames. The theory is that it's because she [[My Name Is Not Durwood|loathes her full name,]] and is trying to cope.

* Az of ''[[Gaijin Smash]]'' has private (except on said blog) nicknames for some of his Japanese students and coworkers. Justified in one of the earlier entries in that he had ''hundreds'' of students, "so learning everyone's names is quite hard."

 

* Toph from ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]''. Oddly, she doesn't use nicknames nearly [[Never Live It Down|as often]] as [[Fanon|fans seem to think.]] "Twinkle Toes" is really the only nickname she ever sticks with. Others such as "Snoozles", "Sheddy," "Sugar Queen", "Madame Fussy-Britches" and "Sweetness" are all one timers.

** Sokka as well. "Sparky-Sparky Boom-Boom Man" didn't stick, but "Combustion Man" did. "Team Avatar" was invented by him too.

* Mr. <s> Belvertron</s> Butlertron of ''[[Clone High]]'' calls everyone Wesley.

* ''[[Robot Chicken]]'' featured a sketch where [[Dick Tracy]] is one of these.

* [[Lethal Chef|Chef Hatchet]] from ''[[Total Drama Island]]'' refers to all the campers by nickname, [[Loads and Loads of Characters|possibly because he can't be bothered remembering their real names.]]

** Occasionally, [[Sassy Black Woman|Leshawna]] would do it as well, mostly as a way to show her attitude.

* One of these was the "villain" in an episode of ''[[Captain Flamingo]]''.

 

** Used in [[Will Ferrell]]'s one-man show ''You're Welcome America'', where he plays Bush as an ignorant (but not [[Psychopathic Manchild|psychopathic]]) manchild. In an improvised bit, he asks various audience members' occupations and gives them each a corresponding nickname.

** Allegedly, Bush gave president-to-be Sen. [[Barack Obama]] the nickname "Rock Bama", which is probably the coolest thing ever. '''PRESIDENT ROCK'''.

** In ''[[Biopic|W.]]'', the nicknames are a mnemonic device that young Dubya uses to help him remember all his frat brothers names during his hazing (fortunately the brothers think the nicknames are funny instead of insulting). Impressively, he gets them all correct despite being drunk, half-naked, and soaking in ice water.

* [[Harry Truman]] did this too. For example, referring to Estes Kefauver (D-Tenn.) as "Cow-fever".

** In the case of Andre [[Creedence Clearwater Revival|"Bad Moon" Rison]], it actually was picked up by other announcers. And him. He has a "Bad Moon Rison" tattoo.

** Mexican sportscaster Enrique Bermúdez, apart from his deep voice and his unorthodox diction, is also famous for this. Some nicknames include "Duke of Catalunya" to Rafael Márquez, "Sa-sa-sa-salsita" to Carlos Salcido, "The Matador" for Luis Hernández, and "Little Pea" for Javier Hernández.

* The late Peter Freyne, a local political columnist in Vermont. Two of the ones more recognizable to the rest of the country were "Ol'Bernardo" (Sen. Bernie Sanders, I-VT) and "Ho-Ho" (Former Gov. and DNC chairman Howard Dean).

* It has been a tradition in virtually all college fraternities to give new initiates a nickname. Typically, the brothers who are in charge of choosing a nickname will tap into one of two sources:

** Type A: an obvious trait. Someone who talks very low would be called Mumbles, and Sasquatch would be used for a large, hairy guy. If the initiate looks like a famous person or (even an obscure) character, then they will likely be named after their likeness.

** Type C: Completely random or done for comedic irony, such as nicknaming a very mild-mannered pledge "Stone Cold" or nicknaming a pledge known for being very masculine and macho "Cupcakes".

* The professional [[Poker]] scene as a whole is this trope. Most famous poker player get nicknames that they are commonly known by. However they are known by their real name as well.

* In highschool, you probably did this to talk about people without them knowing.

* Queen Elizabeth I was said to have come up with nicknames for her courtiers.

 

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