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* In the manga version of ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' Vash uses "boku" to refer to himself, but switches to "ore" [[spoiler:After Wolfwood dies]]. This is sadly LostInTranslation and those reading English translations won't really pick up on the change.

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* In the manga version of ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' Vash uses starts out using "boku" to refer to himself, but switches to "ore" [[spoiler:After Wolfwood dies]]. This is sadly LostInTranslation and those reading English translations won't really pick up on the change.
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* In the manga version of ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'' Vash uses "boku" to refer to himself, but switches to "ore" [[spoiler:After Wolfwood dies]]. This is sadly LostInTranslation and those reading English translations won't really pick up on the change.
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* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Eowyn uses the archaic "thou/thee" to address others, which goes with the slightly outdated kind of speech the Rohirrim are supposed to speak. In fact, AntiquatedLinguistics is common outside the Shire, moreso as you move east and especially south -- so the hobbits' ''failure'' to distinguish between the formal and informal forms of "you" (as Modern English also does not) confuses the people of Rohan and Minas Tirith into thinking they must be very high-ranking nobles indeed, if they can get away with talking to Gandalf like that.

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* ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'': Eowyn uses the archaic "thou/thee" to address others, which goes with the slightly outdated kind of speech the Rohirrim are supposed to speak. In fact, AntiquatedLinguistics is common outside the Shire, moreso especially as you move east and especially south -- so the hobbits' ''failure'' to distinguish between the formal and informal forms of "you" (as Modern English also does not) confuses the people of Rohan and Minas Tirith into thinking they must be very high-ranking nobles indeed, if they can get away with talking to Gandalf like that.
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* ''Manga/OnePiece'': Kanjuro uses ''soregashi'', a humbling pronoun similar to ''sessha'' used by many of his fellow samurai. [[spoiler:The moment he outs himself as TheMole for Orochi, casting aside any image as an honorable samurai, he switches to the informal ''ore''.]]

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* ''Manga/DragonBall'': Son Goku normally uses the bumpkin-esque ''ora'', but when he hits the RageBreakingPoint and first becomes a Super Saiyan, he switches to the more aggressive ''ore''. Once he has better control of the transformation without needing to be enraged, he continues using ''ora''.

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Son Goku normally uses the bumpkin-esque ''ora'', but when he hits the RageBreakingPoint and first becomes a Super Saiyan, he switches to the more aggressive ''ore''. Once he has better control of the transformation without needing to be enraged, he continues using ''ora''.''ora''.
** Majin Buu initially uses ''ore'' along with simple sentences lacking kanji, but absorbing Piccolo (and Gotenks) boosts his intelligence to using more sophisticated speech and switching to the more formal ''watashi'' (despite Piccolo also using ''ore'').
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* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'': Eren has a CatapultNightmare after experiencing [[spoiler:his father's memories of his comrades and first wife getting Titanized]], whereupon Armin notices Eren using [[spoiler:his father's pronoun]] ''watashi'' instead of his usual ''ore''.
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* ''Webcomic/{{Lone}}'': The effigy uses we/us pronouns both for itself and for Lone, reinforcing that it's part of her.

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