History Main / HeyYou

* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', Gauron tends to address certain people in an overly familiar way, and being the {{Jerkass}} he is, becomes even more persistent about calling them that way when they express discomfort and anger. Towards Sousuke, he insists on continuing to call him "Kashim" (and occasionally "[[HoYay Honey]]"), which Sousuke ''hates'', because Gauron is ''not'' his friend. And then he called John Dunnigan by his first name "John," to which Dunnigan angrily told him to not do, since he only allows close friends to call him that. Gauron's response? Attack him, hold a gun to his privates, and [[GroinAttack threaten to shoot them off]] if he doesn't let him call him that.

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':

* In ''LightNovel/DanganronpaZero'', whenever Ryoko Otonashi introduces herself by her name, she just points at her notebook. While other characters read that name out loud, they never call her "Otonashi", "Ryoko" or by her full name. Not even Ryoko Otonashi vocally calls herself by her own name. [[spoiler:This foreshadows that "Ryoko Otonashi" is a fake name, and everyone who knows who she really is (Matsuda, Ikusaba, Naegi and Kirigiri) never call her by her real name, since the story makes the reader believe that Ryoko Otonashi and Junko Enoshima are initially two different people.]]

* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Filo always calls Motoyasu Kitamura "Spear Guy".

* ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'':

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* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', Kuuko always calls Mahiro "Boy", to the point that she calls his mother "Boy's Mother". She even keeps it up while she's trying to convince an unwanted suitor that Mahiro is [[TheBeard her fiance]].
* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'': Narberal Gamma [[FantasticRacism hates humans]] and refuses to learn their names when interacting with them. She's even surprised that her fellow Pleiades comrades, even those that eat humans, actually put the effort to learn the names of humans they interact with.
* Mashiro from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' never use any UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics, because (1) she has NoSocialSkills and (2) she spent most of her formative years in the United Kingdom.
* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Filo always calls Motoyasu Kitamura "Spear Guy".
* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', Kirito uses informal speech while talking with Kikuoka (although he does call him "Kikuoka-san" or "Mr. Kikuoka" in the localized version), something that would be considered highly rude given that Kikuoka's significantly older than him. It's indicated that this is because Kirito doesn't like Kikuoka much, although he does acknowledge that [[ObfuscatingStupidity Kikuoka is significantly more competent than he appears]].
** In the "Murder case in the area," Asuna gets annoyed when Kirito calls her "omae." He then asks if she'd rather be called "anata," then sarcastically adds "Vice Commander" and "[[RedBaron Lightning Flash]]" as alternatives, before calling her "Asuna" as she asks.
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* In at least one of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's books he bemoans the "degradation" of culture when a younger person can call an older one by their first name when they don't have an established friendship. According to him, this "lack of social politeness" is an indicator (or maybe a partial cause) of social collapse.
* It's a turning point in ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' and Holly's relationship when Holly finally calls Artemis by his first name instead of "Fowl" or "Mud boy" and much later, she calls him by an AffectionateNickname "Arty". Similarly, when Artemis calls his mother "Mum" instead of the more formal "Mother".
* In ''Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy'''s ''The Amulet of Samarkand'', prior to getting to choose the name of John Mandrake, Nathaniel is addressed by Arthur Underwood as simply "boy."
* In the ''Literature/BenjaminJanuary'' series, set in New Orleans in the 1800s, the black protagonist repeatedly notes that white French-speakers, including children and strangers, address him with the familiar "tu", rather than the more formal and respectful "vous".
* In his book ''Congo Mercenary'', Mike Hoare includes an appendix on military leadership, and the first lesson he teaches is that a [[AFatherToHisMen mercenary commander should learn the names of his men]] to avert this trope.
-->No-one likes to be spoken to as "Hey, you!", or worse still, as "Hey, you with the square head!"
* [[Literature/HarryPotter Albus Dumbledore]] likes to annoy [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]] by calling him by his first name, "Tom", [[DoNotCallMePaul which he hates]]. In the FinalBattle of ''[[Literature/HarryPotterAndTheDeathlyHallows Deathly Hallows]]'' Harry follows Dumbledore's example, calling Voldemort "Riddle" (which is his real surname, the one of his Muggle father). The Dark Lord is not happy.

** In a skit from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', as he is giving out nicknames Zelos ''literally'' dubs Lloyd "Hey You" and Genis "Brat", while giving more affectionate nicknames to the female members.

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', Kratos typically refers to his son Atreus as "Boy" to get his attention, though he does occasionally just refer to him by name. And then when he gets Mimir as a beheaded companion, he exclusively refer to him as "Head".

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'', Oghren once calls the player character "Hey You" while drunk, and you can say "[[TheyCallMemisterTibbs That's Commander Hey You]]".

* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Shinobu Kawajiri addresses her husband Kosaku as ''anta'', a rather rude Japanese pronoun, since she's [[AwfulWeddedLife unhappy about her marriage]]. After Kosaku ([[spoiler:or rather, Yoshikage Kira, who killed and impersonated him]]) starts being nicer to her, Shinobu starts calling him ''anata'', which is not only a more formal second-person pronoun, but also an affectionate way for a wife to refer to her husband.

* ''WesternAnimation/FindingNemo'': Dory never addresses Marlin by name, likely because she can't remember it due to her short term memory loss. She addresses him by name in ''WesternAnimation/FindingDory'', since she's had much more time to remember.

* ''Sideways Stories from Literature/WaysideSchool'' has two kids, Mac and Nancy, addressing each other with "You" and "Hey, you". As it turns out, though, they aren't being disrespectful; Nancy is embarrassed by ''his'' name and Mac by ''hers'', so they never properly introduced themselves to each other. They still address each other this way, though, even when [[spoiler:they start dating]].

** When Joel and Ellie first meet, they noticeably don't address each other by name for a while, with Joel calling her "kid" and Ellie usually not addressing him at all. For comparison, Tess addresses her as "Ellie" almost immediately. Joel and Ellie don't start addressing each other by name until after [[spoiler:Tess is bitten and sacrifices herself]]. Joel also never addresses Sam by name, referring to him as "kid" or "son" (due to Sam [[spoiler:getting infected and killed by Henry]], he never got the chance to bond with Joel the way Ellie did. Sarah's death likely resulted in Joel being reluctant to get attached to children.

* ''Fanfic/BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'': Terumi, abrasive troll and asshole extraordinaire he is, rarely ever calls someone by their actual name and usually goes for derogatory nicknames either to show how little he thinks of them or to get under their skin. He calls Cinder "Cindy", Tyrian "Choir Boy", Salem "Old Lady Grimm" or "Sal", and Ruby "Rosebud" or "Rosey", just to name a few.

* [[Music/TheRollingStones Hey! You! Get off of my cloud!]]

* During the "Merged Hulk" period in [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Incredible Hulk]] when the Hulk had Banner's psyche, he was a member of a group called "The Pantheon" whose other members were all related and were all named after Greek heroes. One (Paris) was an insufferable jerk who insisted on calling Doctor Robert Bruce Banner (who went by Hulk, Bruce, or Dr. Banner) "Bobby."

* ''Videogame/TheLastOfUs'': It takes a while for Joel to address Ellie by name, not doing so until after [[spoiler:Tess is bitten and sacrifices herself]]. He also never addresses Sam by name, referring to him as "kid" or "son" (due to Sam [[spoiler:getting infected and killed by Henry]], he never got the chance to bond with Joel the way Ellie did. Sarah's death likely resulted in Joel being reluctant to get attached to children.

* ''BlazBlueAlternativeRemnant'': Terumi, abrasive troll and asshole extraordinaire he is, rarely ever calls someone by their actual name and usually goes for derogatory nicknames either to show how little he thinks of them or to get under their skin. He calls Cinder "Cindy", Tyrian "Choir Boy", Salem "Old Lady Grimm" or "Sal", and Ruby "Rosebud" or "Rosey", just to name a few.

So when a son calls his dad by first name, or a "friend" will only ever address you as "Hey, you! Yeah, ''you''," people take notice... and offense.

See also OnlyKnownByTheirNickname and RaceNameBasis. Not to be confused with the YouExclamation. Or HeyYouHaymaker. Compare TermsOfEndangerment. Not to be confused with HeyWait.

->'''Kelso:''' Listen up, faces. In order to save us all some time, I will call all the males "Daves" and all the females "Debbies".\\

'''Kelso:''' Then out of fairness to the others you will be "Slagathor". Daves, Debbies, Slagathor, I will be in my office; if you need anything feel free to bother Dorian.

** In the episode "His Story [=IV=]", Doctor Kelso tells the collection of new interns that he can't be bothered to remember their names, so he'll call all the males Dave and all the females Debbie. One female says that's ok, as her name is Debbie, so he tells her that out of fairness to the others, he'll refer to her as Slagathor.

* In ''Anime/DigimonDataSquad'', Piyomon calls Masaru just that, prompting a reaction of "Where's my honorific?"
* ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'':
** A jealous Daisuke calls Takeru 'omae', prompting Hikari to angrily reply, "It's not ''you'', it's ''Takeru-kun''."
*** The joke here, for those who don't know the nuances of Japanese language, is that Daisuke actually added the honorific "-kun" to the "omae" part. That's right, he just said "you" as Takeru's ''name''.
*** The dub rendered this as "Hey, buddy!" for that particular line, and then continued the theme with Davis calling TK [[MaliciousMisnaming TO, TS, TA]], etc.
** During his time as the Digimon Kaiser, Ken Ichijouji dislikes being called "Ken-chan" by Wormmon whom he views as a slave/[[{{Pun}} worm]] and demands him to be called "Digimon Kaiser". Early on, this is hint that Wormmon is actually Ken's Partner Digimon and it would later serve as sign of Wormmon's loyalty to Ken's true self.
* ''Anime/DigimonAdventureTri'': In ''Part 4: Loss'', at the time the Partner Digimon [[spoiler:have lost their memories]], [[ShrinkingViolet Gabumon]] calls Yamato "Yamato-kun", thus Taichi gets offended when Gabumon doesn't address him with a honorific.

* Ban in ''Manga/GetBackers'' tends to address Ginji's friends with mean nicknames, such as monkey-trainer for Shido and [[RazorFloss thread-spool]] for Kazuki. (Although different translators use different names: Creator/ADVFilms used "monkey boy" and "thread spinner", while Tokyopop uses "string-boy".) A flashback reveals that Ban originally had one of these for ''Ginji'' (lightning brat), before they got used to each other. Himiko mostly calls Ginji "you" (if she speaks to him at all) and thinks of him by his full name.
* Van of ''Anime/GunXSword'' is horrible with names, rarely even remembering the names of people he travels with for months. (He learns Wendy's name after a few episodes and one of the first clues that Priscilla is a love interest is the fact that he remembers her name right off the bat.) One the rare occasions when he does address people by name, he almost never uses honorifics.

* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': Despite Setsuna being Graham Aker's rival for most of the series, and Aker developing an obsession with defeating him that he himself describes as "transcending love", Aker never seems to learn Setsuna's name. He only ever refers to Setsuna as "young man" ("shounen"), even in the movie where the two are on more friendly terms.
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Chang Wu Fei]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' referred to [[TeamMom Lucrezia Noin]] as "woman" precisely once, when the two were opponents in a heated battle and didn't know each others' names. Unfortunately for Wu Fei, [[NeverLiveItDown fan portrayals of him]] cite that one instance as concrete proof that he's a HeManWomanHater.

* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', Kuuko always calls Mahiro "Boy", to the point that she calls his mother "Boy's Mother". She even keeps it up while she's trying to convince an unwanted suitor that Mahiro is [[TheBeard her fiance]].

* In ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' it's indicated that the only time Catelyn ever addressed Jon by name was to tell him that [[WickedStepmother he should have fallen]] [[YouShouldHaveDiedInstead instead.]]
** Brienne calls Jaime "Kingslayer"; in turn, he addresses her as "wench".

* In the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' book ''Wintersmith'', Granny Weatherwax names a kitten that was foisted onto her You.
** Speaking of Pratchett: "It's an interesting fact that fewer than 17% of Real cats end their lives with the same name they started with. Much family effort goes into selecting one at the start ("She looks like a Winnifred to me"), and as the years roll by it suddenly finds itself being called Meepo or Ratbag."
** Also also Pratchett: In ''Pyramids'', we find that the name of the Discworld's greatest mathematician, who happens to be a camel, is "You Bastard". All the camels in Discworld have names apparently based on what frustrated handlers would address them such as "Bloody Stupid", "You Stupid Brute", and "Evil Brother-in-law of a Jackal".
** Talking about "Hey you!", in Rincewind's experience, the time to start running is around the ''e'' in "Hey you!"
** A RunningGag in ''Literature/{{Mort}}'' is that the other main characters all call Mort "boy", however many times he politely corrects them. By the end of the book, this has become a BerserkButton.

* In ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' Scout always refers to her dad, Atticus, by his first name. So does her brother. They love him dearly, but they always call him Atticus. It's specifically mentioned that their mean old lady neighbor, Mrs. Dubose, is appalled by this and uses it as evidence that the whole family is degenerate. (They do also call him "sir," and at least once he insists on it when he's in a stern mood, but for whatever reason they've just always called him Atticus.) She also snaps at Scout for saying "hey" to her instead of "good afternoon." And in the same book we have Dill picking up on the fact that Mr. Gilmer keeps calling Tom Robinson "boy" during his cross-examination, and when Scout finally greets Boo Radley with "Hey, Boo," Atticus corrects her that it's "Mr. Arthur."

* ''Series/PhilOfTheFuture'' had an episode where Pim says 'Hey! You with the face!' as she tries to get there attention.

* The eponymous ''Series/KamenRiderHibiki'' refers to his young student Asumu almost exclusively as "Boy" (''shounen'' in Japanese). This even applies to the AlternateUniverse version of Hibiki who appears in ''Series/KamenRiderDecade''.
* ''Series/KamenRiderExAid'': [[NominalHero Taiga]] [[DoctorJerk Hanaya]] does this to everyone because he doesn't care, but the best example is [[MoralityPet Nico]] [[LivingEmotionalCrutch Saiba]] whom he adresses as ''hey'' or ''hey, you'' and refers to as ''she'' or ''girl''. He uses her name once when overwhelmed by despair because she is dying and he can't do anything to save her.
** Hiiro Kagami regularly demeans [[ArchEnemy Taiga]], his senior, by calling him an [[StartOfDarkness ''unlicensed]] [[BackalleyDoctor doctor'']]. Taiga shares the sentiment and insults Hiiro every chance he gets.
* ''Series/KamenRiderZiO'': Geiz only uses ''Zi-O'' in relation to Sougo to keep the distance between them and that's still better than when he used ''Ohma Zi-O'', the designation of Sougo's evil overlord future self. So when Sougo is heart broken over having to give up his dream to save the future, even Geiz is concerned and calls him his name for that one time.

* Red and Eric have this dynamic in ''Series/That70sShow''. Red calls Eric (and others) dumbass a lot of the time, Eric may call Red "Sir" to his face but usually calls him by his nickname but in a disrespectful way, not in a "equals" (à la ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'') way behind his back.
* Baby Sinclair on ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'' won't call Earl anything other than "not the mama". Though he would sometimes actually call him "dada" or the like.
* In ''Series/SquarePegs'', [=LaDonna=] called the two leads "That Fat Girl" (Lauren) and "That Fat Girl's Friend" (Patty), even to their faces.

* ''Series/HaveGunWillTravel'' features, as the main character, the mysterious Paladin, a gunslinger based out of old San Francisco who puts forth an image of refinement and education at odds with his violent profession. So, it's quite [[ValuesDissonance grating]] to the modern ear to hear him refer to the Chinese bellhop at his favorite hotel as "Hey, Boy"...especially since Hey Boy's real name was divulged in the show's first season! Still, Hey Boy seemed to embrace the odd moniker, going so far as to correct a stranger who once got his attention with "hey, you."
* ''Series/KenanAndKel'': Natural Born Kenan, when Kenan decides that he's adopted after finding no baby pictures of him nor any keepsakes of his childhood (they were destroyed in a basement flood), he starts referring to his parents, Roger and Sheryl, by their first names, thinking that they aren't his birth parents. After Sheryl requests that he stop doing this, he then refers to them as "Mr. and Mrs. Rockmore".
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'':
** In the episode "Potter's Retirement", Hawkeye addresses Colonel Potter as "Sherman" while trying to convince him not to retire his command. While Potter is depicted as a Regular Army officer who wouldn't ordinarily tolerate such familiarity like his predecessor, Henry Blake, would, in this instance he's clearly touched rather than angered by it.
** In "Sons and Bowlers", Charles Winchester calls Hawkeye by his nickname during a rare bonding moment.
** In "Death Takes a Holiday", Winchester and Klinger address each other by their first names after the latter discovers the former is an AnonymousBenefactor of Christmas gifts for Korean orphans.
** While all the ''M*A*S*H'' examples above are aversions of the trope, being clearly depicted as gestures of affection and respect, it's played straight with the other characters' habitually addressing [[{{Jerkass}} Frank]] [[ButtMonkey Burns]] by his first name, usually in a tone of voice suggesting a patient parent dealing with an especially dimwitted and recalcitrant child.
* In ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'', [[UpperClassTwit Alexi]]'s lack of respect for everyone besides Melani and Mami Bibir is illustrated by his habit of not using other people's name, who he usually calls "ordinary people".
* Franchise/StarTrek:

* In the ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode, "Dreamland", one of the clues that Mulder has been [[BodySurf body-swapped]] with TheMenInBlack Morris Fletcher is that he keeps calling Scully by her first name "Dana". When Morris starts calling her "babe" Scully threatens that if he doesn't stop it, he'll end up "[[GroinAttack peeing through a catheter]]".

* Merle from ''Series/TheWalkingDead'' has a nickname for everyone. He hardly ever calls anyone by their given name.

* One of the earliest missions in ''VideoGame/MechWarrior: Mercenaries'' is a training mission, where you take orders from a veteran mech pilot, who refers to you by the callsign 'Kid' or 'Hey You'. It's even in the mission description.

* As [[RoyalBrat Lord Dearche]] of ''VideoGame/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAsPortable: The Gears of Destiny'' couldn't be bothered to remember the names of people outside of the Purple Sky family, she often addresses people in this manner. Sometimes, she might give [[TheNicknamer nicknames]] to people she deems worthy of her attention. Nicknames like, Redhead (Amita), Peach-head (Kyrie), and Stupid Crow (Hayate).

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', Luke constantly refers to Mieu as "Thing." This turns into an (unintended) InsultBackfire when Luke later (after a lot of CharacterDevelopment) tries to apologize to Mieu for the unflattering name, only to reveal that Mieu is proud that his beloved master gave him a name and doesn't want to lose it.
* In a skit from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', as he is giving out nicknames Zelos ''literally'' dubs Lloyd "Hey You" and Genis "Brat", while giving more affectionate nicknames to the female members.

** He'll also do it [[TermsOfEndangerment to his enemies]] when preparing to [[TakingYouWithMe blow himself up]] using the Equalizer/Escape Plan taunt.

* A running gag in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' is that Dr. Drakken always forgets Ron's name and usually refers to him as "sidekick", much to Ron's annoyance. Seems to extend to some of their RoguesGallery too save Monkey Fist since he likewise uses Monkey Power and thus considers Ron his arch enemy (which Ron is actually quite grateful for) and the Senor Senior due to his punctuality.
* Cotton Hill only calls Peggy "Hank's Wife", even on the rare occasion he wasn't being cruel to her on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''.
* Pete says this in a few classic Disney Cartoons such as 'Moving Day' and 'Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip'.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack,'' Kay always calls Jay "Slick" or some other mildly disrespectful nickname, as a sign that he doesn't think Jay's skills are quite as good as he [Jay] thinks. In one episode, when Jay manages to untangle an alien conspiracy/plot by himself, Kay actually does refer to him as "Jay." By the end of the episode, however, he reverts to using "Slick," out of disrespect for Jay's golf swing.
** "Slick" is also a genuinely affectionate nickname for Jay as well.
** In another episode, following a major slip-up on Jay's part, Kay starts calling his partner "Sparky", telling him he has to work his way back up to "Slick."
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ShirtTales'' episode "Kip's Dragon", Kip Kangaroo befriends a nameless dragon who is referred to as "Hey, you" by his human employer. Kip changes this by naming the dragon Sparky.
-->'''Witchita Willie:''' Hey, you. You... Y-You really can act like a dragon!
-->'''Kip:''' His name is ''not'' "Hey, you", it's Sparky!

* During the early part of their relationship, Manga/InuYasha ''never'' refers to Kagome by name, much to her annoyance. He starts addressing her by name after they team up to take on Yura.

* Genma Saotome in ''Manga/RanmaOneHalf'' tends to call Ranma "Boy" (although not exclusively so), even/especially when Ranma is in girl form.
* Nanjiroh Echizen also refers to his son Ryoma as "boy" sometimes in ''Manga/ThePrinceOfTennis''. Additional, Momoshiro and Kaidoh call each other "Mamushi" and "moron", and Kamio also refers to Kaidoh as "mamushi". [[spoiler:Until Kaidoh becomes the Seigaku captain in his third year; Momoshiro calls him by his surname, since he's implied to be his sub-captain.]]

* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** For Zoro, Sanji is just "Cook" and for Sanji, Zoro is just "Marimo" (in the original) or "Mosshead" (in the dub). The times they have called each other by their names can be counted in a single hand.
** This is one of of Robin's main characteristics, and also one of the most overlooked due to how subtle it is. It's very rare for her to actually utter the name of someone she's talking to (or just referring to) in any dialogue; Robin's defense mechanism to protect her feelings pushes her into being as impersonal as possible to people she meets. However, once Robin found her place with the Straw Hats she started using their names, though she didn't entirely drop this habit until after the TimeSkip.
* ''Manga/CardcaptorSakura'':
** Syaoran calls Sakura anything but her name (usually preferring just "Hey You" or ''Omae'' in Japanese, which is a rude form of you). In some dubs where this is LostInTranslation, when he ''absolutely'' has to use her name, he goes for LastNameBasis, while in the ''Cardcaptors'' English [[{{Macekre}} "dub"]] this point is lost altogether. [[spoiler:He doesn't use her real name until the episode they're locked in an elevator together and Sakura falls through a mysterious hole. He's so shocked that he yells for her, [[FirstNameBasis calling her "Sakura"]], and when she floats back up by using the Float card, she acknowledges the change with happiness.]] Because of this, Sakura feels obliged to refer to Syaoran formally as "Li-kun". [[spoiler:The moment he finally refers to her by first name, she asks if she can do the same, leading her to gleefully call out "Syaoran-kun" any moment she can.]]
** Also, Kero never refers to Syaoran and [[CanonForeigner Meiling]] by their names either. He uses 'kozou' (closest translation might be 'punk', but is sometimes translated as "kid") with Syaoran, with Meiling going by 'komusume' (girl punk). [[BeamMeUpScotty He never calls either of them "gaki" aka "brat"]]; the one who does is ''Sakura's brother Touya''.
* In the third ''Anime/RebuildOfEvangelion'' movie, the protagonist is rescued by someone he believes to be his long-term comrade and possibly love interest [[spoiler:Ayanami Rei.]] After a while of failing to get any sort of recognition or reaction out of her and generally observing loads of disturbing empty-shell-like behavior from her, he finds out that "[[spoiler:Ayanami Rei]]" was, in fact, the codename for a series of [[CloningBlues mass-produced]] [[ArtificialHuman artificial]] [[SuperSoldier soldiers]], and that the "[[spoiler: Ayanami Rei]]" he used to know died a long time ago, despite his futile attempt to save her life. From that point on, he refuses to refer to the currently active clone by her name, reserving it for his fallen comrade. It leads to several situations where he refers to the current clone in roundabout manners such as "Why are we not alone?" to question the reason for her presence, or calling her "that other pilot.". Being told that she isn't who her programming tells her she is ends up throwing the current clone into a full-blown identity crisis accumulating into a HeelFaceTurn of sorts.
** In the manga version of ''Anime/NeonGenesisEvangelion'', Shinji and Kaworu almost ''never'' refers to each other by name. Shinji only calls Kaworu by name three times: [[LastNameBasis "Nagisa-kun"]] (around the time they just met), [[FullNameBasis "Nagisa Kaworu!!"]] (the frustrated yell after finding out [[spoiler: Kaworu is an Angel]]) and a last "Nagisa". And Kaworu calls Shinji by his name exactly ''one'' time, in their first meeting: [[FullNameBasis "Ikari Shinji-kun".]] Other than that, they usually prefer just [[UsefulNotes/JapanesePronouns "kimi"]] for the other, signifying their more strained and tension-filled relationship, unlike their more loving relationship in the anime.
* ''Manga/XxxHolic'' features both the DefrostingIceQueen version and the AbusiveParents one.
** TallDarkAndSnarky Doumeki usually calls Watanuki "you" or "dumbass". When he does start calling Watanuki by his name, he does it without the usual expected {{honorifics}}. [[HoYay Most fans interpret that exactly how you would expect them to.]]
** One of the first hints that Kohane Tsuyuri's home life [[AbusiveParents isn't all that great]] is that her mother never calls her by her name.
* Kurogane of ''Manga/TsubasaReservoirChronicle'', being the gruffy guy he is, never calls anyone by their name, not only his pseudo-son and daughter. Fai (who is his canon ''LoveInterest'', mind you) never gets any more than "idiot" or "mage". Not even the '''Emperess of Nihon''' is safe. Well, everyone but [[LadyAndKnight Tomoyo]], though he never uses Keigo which is rather impolite (read: extremely rude). Souma is constantly on his case about it, too. Souma, by the by, also has the honour of being called by her name once. Either out of surprise or because she trained him/he respects her isn't clear.
* In the first episode of ''Anime/SoulEater'', Soul twice refers to Maka with a term that has been translated as either "shorty" or "tiny-tits."
* In ''Manga/IkkiTousen'', Hakufu usually refers to others by cutesy nicknames derived from their names: "Gaku-chan" for Gakushuu, "Mou-chan" for Ryomou, "Ryu-chan" for Ryuubi, "Fu-chin" for Ryoufu, "Ton-chan" for Kakouton, "U-chan" for Ukitsu, and so forth. The only ones she refers to by name are her adoptive sister Chuubou and her cousin Koukin.
** Likewise, Kan'u is called "Kan-san" by the other two girls in her PowerTrio, Ryuubi and Chouhi, whom she calls by [[FirstNameBasis their first names]]. (And of course, Hakufu calls her "Kan-chan")
* In ''Anime/HellGirl'', Tsugumi calls her ''father'' "Hajime-chan".
* Ban in ''Manga/GetBackers'' tends to address Ginji's friends with mean nicknames, such as monkey-trainer for Shido and [[RazorFloss thread-spool]] for Kazuki. (Although different translators use different names: Creator/ADVFilms used "monkey boy" and "thread spinner", while Tokyopop uses "string-boy".) A flashback reveals that Ban originally had one of these for ''Ginji'' (lightning brat), before they got used to each other. Himiko mostly calls Ginji "you" (if she speaks to him at all) and thinks of him by his full name.
* In ''Manga/CromartieHighSchool'', both Kamiyama and Hayashida call Hokuto's henchman this, prompting him to try to [[TheUnreveal reveal his name to them without any success.]]
* [[ArrogantKungFuGuy Chang Wu Fei]] from ''Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing'' referred to [[TeamMom Lucrezia Noin]] as "woman" precisely once, when the two were opponents in a heated battle and didn't know each others' names. Unfortunately for Wu Fei, [[NeverLiveItDown fan portrayals of him]] cite that one instance as concrete proof that he's a HeManWomanHater.
* In ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'', Gauron tends to address certain people in an overly familiar way, and being the {{Jerkass}} he is, becomes even more persistent about calling them that way when they express discomfort and anger. Towards Sousuke, he insists on continuing to call him "Kashim" (and occasionally "[[HoYay Honey]]"), which Sousuke ''hates'', because Gauron is ''not'' his friend. And then he called John Dunnigan by his first name "John," to which Dunnigan angrily told him to not do, since he only allows close friends to call him that. Gauron's response? Attack him, hold a gun to his privates, and [[GroinAttack threaten to shoot them off]] if he doesn't let him call him that.
** In the novels he also calls Kaname "Kana-chan," something only her best friend Kyoko calls her.
** He also addresses Kalinin in a very casual manner, calling him "Ivan", a name no one else uses with him.
*** It should be noted that "Ivan" is ''not'' Kalinin's first name -- which is Andrei. "Ivan" is more like an insulting way of addressing a Russian, and it's been widely used during the Cold War, at least in the European countries.

* In ''Manga/AhMyGoddess'', Keichi's and Megumi's parents require them to call them by names rather than "Mom" and "Dad".
* ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'':
** Uryuu Ishida calls his father by his given name. They are not on good terms.
** Ishida doesn't like being called by his first name by most characters. Ichigo calls almost everyone by their first name, even Shinigami captains. (Some of them are very annoyed at this.)

* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Alucard purposely refuses to call his apprentice by her name, Seras Victoria, resorting instead to the sneering nickname "Police Girl," which shows his disdain for her reluctance to drink blood and embrace her vampire nature in full. On the other hand, when he ''does'' address her by name, [[YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious shit has officially hit the fan]].
* Shizuo Heiwajima of ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'' is prone to this, either forgetting appropriate honorifics or forgetting names entirely, mostly because [[NoSocialSkills he doesn't really know any better]]. Tom notes that this is probably one of the reasons people would pick fights with him in school.
* Takeru of ''Manga/TheDevilDoesExist'' greets his crush's crush as Yuu-chan. Both Kayano and Kamijou are naturally horrified; this is ''not'' an introductory phrase. Of course, he wasn't feeling too friendly towards Kamijou, being his rival and all.
* Van of ''Anime/GunXSword'' is horrible with names, rarely even remembering the names of people he travels with for months. (He learns Wendy's name after a few episodes and one of the first clues that Priscilla is a love interest is the fact that he remembers her name right off the bat.) One the rare occasions when he does address people by name, he almost never uses honorifics.
* ''Anime/RevolutionaryGirlUtena'': When Utena wins her first duel with Saionji, Anthy stops referring to Saionji as -sama and starts using -senpai to indicate she no longer has any obligation to be subservient to him. [[spoiler: Conversely, when Utena loses Anthy to Touga, she calls her "Utena-san" until Utena recovers her spirits and wins a second duel.]]
* In the beginning of ''Manga/{{Dazzle}}'', Rahzel fights with Alzeid over this.
--> My name is ''Rahzel!'' Not "hey you" or "stupid chick" or "little rat"! I'm not some kind of small animal!
** And when he finally does call her by her name, she gets upset because he didn't use an [[UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics honorific]] like sama or dono. (Both are extremely formal and respectful.) She had to compromise on that, though.
* Barnaby from ''Anime/TigerAndBunny'' makes a point of calling Kotetsu "old man" - at least [[spoiler:[[FirstNameBasis until the end of episode 13.]]]]
* Early on in ''Anime/MyHime'', Natsuki, not getting along with Mai, typically calls her just "omae", in contrast to referring to most of her classmates by last name without honorifics, and Shizuru by her first name. In Episosde 9, however, she starts calling Mai by her first name, as she starts to become friends with her.
* Hibiki from ''Manga/{{Vandread}}'' always calls Dita "omee". The first and only time he calls her by name on-screen is the very end of the series finale, signaling a RelationshipUpgrade.
* Mashiro from ''LightNovel/ThePetGirlOfSakurasou'' never use any UsefulNotes/JapaneseHonorifics, because (1) she has NoSocialSkills and (2) she spent most of her formative years in the United Kingdom.
* Kyou from ''Manga/FruitsBasket'' usually addresses people as "you" or by a nickname or their first name. He doesn't bother with honorifics, contrasting with [[{{Keigo}} Tohru]] who always uses them. Speaking of Tohru, Kyou doesn't call her by her name until the incident with his true cursed form.
* TalkingBird Dela from ''Anime/TamakoMarket'' addresses Tamako and other young female characters as "young girl", and Mochizou as "young man".

* ''LightNovel/HaruhiSuzumiya'':
** Yuki never refers to Kyon by name (either his real one or [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname that nickname]]), instead preferring just "you."
** Kyon himself uses the Japanese no-honorific variant. He addresses everyone except for Haruhi [[LastNameBasis by their family names]], but without any honorifics. His upperclassmen are the exception, but even then he's less polite than he should be. He calls them -san ("Miss"/"Mister"), when he should be using -sempai.
* In ''Manga/YugamiKunNiWaTomodachiGaInai'', [[LonersAreFreaks Yugami]] never calls [[IJustWantToHaveFriends Chihiro]] by name. Outside of the first chapter where he calls her "[[NewTransferStudent transfer student]]" for a grand total of one time, he refers to her as "you"[[note]]Yugami switches between ''anta'' and ''anata'' with her.[[/note]] from then onwards.

* In ''Manga/YonaOfTheDawn'', Zeno never uses anybody's name. He calls Yona "miss" (''musume-san''), Hak is "mister" (''nii-chan''), and Yun is "kid" (''bouzu''), while he calls Kija, Jaeha, and Shin-ah by their dragon titles. Fans speculate he does it to distance himself from them, because his immortality means he'll outlive them, but it might just be another bit of quirkiness. Zeno and the first generation Dragon Warriors addressed each other by their dragon titles for 20 years, with only King Hiryuu calling them by their given names. The first time Zeno calls Abi by his given name is when they're saying good-bye to each other, and Abi begins to cry because it reminds him of their dead king. Guen and Shuten immediately call him by his given name, too. While the four of them never see each other again, Zeno's monologues always use their given names after this point.
* When ''Manga/FairyTail'''s Carla is first introduced, she referred to Happy only by "tomcat". This changes about an arc and a half later when Happy fiercely stands up for her.
** Gajeel initially doesn't refer to Levy by name, but does so for the first time when [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness insisting that she run away and warn the guild that the highly dangerous dark guild Grimoire Heart is attacking]], and gradually starts to do so more often over time.
* ''Anime/MobileSuitGundam00'': Despite Setsuna being Graham Aker's rival for most of the series, and Aker developing an obsession with defeating him that he himself describes as "transcending love", Aker never seems to learn Setsuna's name. He only ever refers to Setsuna as "young man" ("shounen"), even in the movie where the two are on more friendly terms.
* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', Kirito uses informal speech while talking with Kikuoka (although he does call him "Kikuoka-san" or "Mr. Kikuoka" in the localized version), something that would be considered highly rude given that Kikuoka's significantly older than him. It's indicated that this is because Kirito doesn't like Kikuoka much, although he does acknowledge that [[ObfuscatingStupidity Kikuoka is significantly more competent than he appears]].
** In the "Murder case in the area," Asuna gets annoyed when Kirito calls her "omae." He then asks if she'd rather be called "anata," then sarcastically adds "Vice Commander" and "[[RedBaron Lightning Flash]]" as alternatives, before calling her "Asuna" as she asks.
* ''Anime/{{Symphogear}}'': Even after three seasons, Chris has never called anyone by their name except Finé who was the closest person to her (after her dead parents). Most of the time, she just calls everyone "you". To Tsubasa, she calls her "Senpai" from the finale of season 2 onwards, and to Hibiki, she calls her "baka/dumbass".
* In ''LightNovel/NyarukoCrawlingWithLove'', Kuuko always calls Mahiro "Boy", to the point that she calls his mother "Boy's Mother". She even keeps it up while she's trying to convince an unwanted suitor that Mahiro is [[TheBeard her fiance]].
* ''Manga/DailyLivesOfHighSchoolBoys'': Mei is always referred to as "Imouto/Little Sister" by boys, including her brother Tadakuni. The only time her name's mentioned is in a single skit (one that focuses on the siblings of the three main characters).
* In ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'', Team Rocket likes to refer to Ash and friends as "the Twerps."
** Bea in ''Journeys'' doesn't bother to remember the names of those she's battled until they've proven themselves a WorthyOpponent. Similarly, Lt. Surge called Ash "Baby" until he's defeated in the rematch, after which he finally calls him by name.
* In ''Manga/{{Citrus}}'', Mei [[DefrostingIceQueen initially]] refuses to refer to her new stepsister Yuzu by name, which Yuzu calls her out on.
* In ''Manga/AreYouLost'', Homare initially doesn't refer to the other girls by name, and Asuka eventually gets annoyed, insisting that Homare call her "Asuka." Not long afterward, Homare starts using the others' first names, indicating that she's warming up to them.
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'': Katsuki Bakugo is a belligerent asshole who almost exclusively refers to everyone by nicknames; his friend Kirishima is one of the very rare exceptions. At the SportsFestival, when everyone wants to be on his team, he demands they all remind him of their names and [[EveryoneIsASuper Quirks]]. Keep in mind that this is several months into the school year, he's been training with them the entire time, and yet he knows ''nothing'' about them.
-->'''Mina:''' Are you kidding? We're your classmates!
* In ''Manga/HitoribocchiNoOOSeikatsu'', Nako often calls Aru ''omae'', a rude version of "you," despite being polite to most other people. Since she occasionally does it even after learning Aru's name, it seems to be a way of pushing Aru's buttons.
* In ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'', Eren never refers to Gabi by name, probably because he hates her for [[spoiler:killing his friend Sasha]].
* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** Mikoto Misaka usually refers to Touma Kamijou as "That guy" or "Idiot". In turn, Touma usually calls her "Biri-Biri" or "Bug Zapper" in the English dub. One time where he actually called her by her name, it made her blush and zone out.
** Accelerator usually refers to Touma as "Hero".
** Othinus usually refers to Touma as "Human".
** Sherry Cromwell doesn't bother to learn people's names. For example, she always calls Kaori Kanzaki "Far East Girl" and calls Lucia and Angeline "Nun 1" and "Nun 2".
* In a flashback in ''Manga/SchoolZoneGirls'', Rei politely greets Kei, whom she's just met, as "Sugiura-san," only for Kei to call her ''omae'' in return. Rei thinks, "Ah, she calls people that?"
* ''LightNovel/TheRisingOfTheShieldHero'': Filo always calls Motoyasu Kitamura "Spear Guy".
* In ''Manga/JojosBizarreAdventureDiamondIsUnbreakable'', Shinobu Kawajiri addresses her husband Kosaku as ''anta'', a rather rude Japanese pronoun, since she's [[AwfulWeddedLife unhappy about her marriage]]. After Kosaku ([[spoiler:or rather, Yoshikage Kira, who killed and impersonated him]]) starts being nicer to her, Shinobu starts calling him ''anata'', which is not only a more formal second-person pronoun, but also an affectionate way for a wife to refer to her husband.
* ''LightNovel/Overlord2012'': Narberal Gamma [[FantasticRacism hates humans]] and refuses to learn their names when interacting with them. She's even surprised that her fellow Pleiades comrades, even those that eat humans, actually put the effort to learn the names of humans they interact with.

* During the "Merged Hulk" period in [[ComicBook/IncredibleHulk The Incredible Hulk]] when the Hulk had Banner's psyche, he was a member of a group called "The Pantheon" whose other members were all related and were all named after Greek heroes. One (Paris) was an insufferable jerk who insisted on calling Doctor Robert Bruce Banner (who went by Hulk, Bruce, or Dr. Banner) "Bobby."

* In UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks, comic character Johnny Thunder (who still exists, but a ReTool or two has occurred) was connected to a genie-like "living thunderbolt". The word for summoning him was ''cei-u,'' but he never knew that, and was in fact unaware of the Thunderbolt's ''existence'' for a long time. Instead, he'd accidentally summon the Thunderbolt by yelling "Say, you!" at whatever bad guy he was confronting. Of course, since ''say'' as an interjection was much more common in the 1930s and '40s, nowadays he'd probably avoid the problem altogether.

* Most ''Franchise/DragonBall'' fan fiction or content (such as ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'') tends to portray Vegeta this way, with Goku and Trunks basically being the only people he refers to by name. This is despite the fact that he's only really shown to do this in the series if he didn't already know somebody's name.

* ''Fanfic/TheMountainAndTheWolf'': For most people, the closest thing to the Wolf respecting them is using their last name (such as Jon Snow or Davos Seaworth) or what he thinks is their last name (e.g. addressing Grey Worm as "Worm"). If he can use it as an insult (calling Ramsay Snow instead of Bolton) he very much will. Other people have to make do with a job description ("spymaster" for Varys or "necromancer" for Qyburn) or distinguishing feature ("gold-hand" for Jaime). People he not only respects but likes get an impressive nickname like Dragonqueen or Shield-slayer.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Coraline}}'' movie, Coraline refuses to address her Other parents as Mother and Father, and after she realizes that the Other world isn't a dream come true, she deliberately calls her Other father "Hey you."

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'': Nick keeps calling Judy "Carrots" even after he learns her real name. It becomes an InsultOfEndearment when they truly become friends.

* In the US remake of ''Film/TheRing'', Rachel's son Aidan always calls her "Rachel", much to her annoyance. We don't know why this is exactly, but it becomes a plot point in the sequel.
* "Hey you! Get your damn hands off--". George [=McFly=] in ''Film/BackToTheFuture'' uses this at the dance because he expects Marty to be in the car. Instead it turns out to be the bully, Biff, so without backing down he rephrases his demand a little more respectfully as "No, Biff, you leave her alone."
* In ''Film/ThePianist'' the Nazis address Jews by the familiar-form of "you": "du" (considered an insult in German when used towards strangers or new acquaintances). This is most notable in the scene where one Nazi is picking Jews out of a line to shoot: "du!...du!...du!". When the Good German, Capt. Hosenfeld, speaks to Szpilman he addresses him with the respectful formal "you": "Sie".

* ''Film/ASpecialDay'': UsefulNotes/BenitoMussolini had some weird ideas, one of which was to ban the common Italian word for respectful singular "you", ''Lei'', and replace it with ''voi'', which is actually the plural you ("Y'all"). Gabriele insists on addressing Antoineietta as ''Lei'', and she, being [[UsefulNotes/FascistItaly a loyal fascist]], calls him out on it.
* When Jay joins up with the ''Film/MenInBlack'', he demands to be treated as an equal and not be given some cutesy rookie nickname. So naturally Kay and Zed address him almost exclusively as "slick", "junior", "kid", etc.

* Shows up in one of Creator/CSLewis's ''Literature/{{Narnia}}'' books, ''Literature/TheVoyageOfTheDawnTreader''. Eustace's parents ''insist'' on being called by their real names (Alberta and Harold) instead of Mum and Dad.

* In ''Literature/ToKillAMockingbird'' Scout always refers to her dad, Atticus, by his first name. So does her brother. They love him dearly, but they always call him Atticus. It's specifically mentioned that their mean old lady neighbor, Mrs. Dubose, is appalled by this and uses it as evidence that the whole family is degenerate. (They do also call him "sir," and at least once he insists on it when he's in a stern mood, but for whatever reason they've just always called him Atticus.) She also snaps at Scout for saying "hey" to her instead of "good afternoon." And in the same book we have Dill picking up on the fact that Mr. Gilmer keeps calling Tom Robinson "boy" during his cross-examination, and when Scout finally greets Boo Radley with "Hey, Boo," Atticus corrects her that it's "Mr. Arthur."

* ''Sideways Stories from Literature/WaysideSchool'' has two kids, Mac and Nancy, addressing each other with "You" and "Hey, you". As it turns out, though, they aren't being disrespectful; Nancy is embarrassed by ''his'' name and Mac by ''hers'', so they never properly introduced themselves to each other. They still address each other this way, though, even when [[spoiler:they start dating]].
* In Hungarian epic ''Toldi'' a general asks Toldi (the hero) on the field: "Hey, peasant! Which way leads to Buda?" Toldi is a noble and, as expected, takes offense at the general mistaking him for a commoner due to his clothing. He doesn't say a thing but answers by pointing to Buda ''with a long rake''. '''[[RatedMForManly One handed]]'''. The entire army goes "Holy shit, that guy's STRONG!"
* In at least one of Creator/RobertAHeinlein's books he bemoans the "degradation" of culture when a younger person can call an older one by their first name when they don't have an established friendship. According to him, this "lack of social politeness" is an indicator (or maybe a partial cause) of social collapse.
* Captain Lancaster, the mean teacher in ''Literature/DannyTheChampionOfTheWorld'' never calls the students by their names, just "you", "boy", or "girl".
* In the ''Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration'' novel "Greater Than the Sum", Picard is interviewing officers for positions on his crew. One lieutenant (who's presented as a bit of a [[BunnyEarsLawyer Bunny Ears Officer]]) introduces herself to the Captain as "Lieutenant Chen. My friends call me T'ressa. I've been known to answer to 'Hey you!'"

* It's a turning point in ''Literature/ArtemisFowl'' and Holly's relationship when Holly finally calls Artemis by his first name instead of "Fowl" or "Mud boy" and much later, she calls him by an AffectionateNickname "Arty". Similarly, when Artemis calls his mother "Mum" instead of the more formal "Mother".
* In the ''Literature/BenjaminJanuary'' series, set in New Orleans in the 1800s, the black protagonist repeatedly notes that white French-speakers, including children and strangers, address him with the familiar "tu", rather than the more formal and respectful "vous".
* In ''[[Literature/TheBartimaeusTrilogy The Amulet of Samarkand]]'', prior to getting to choose the name of John Mandrake, Nathaniel is addressed by Arthur Underwood as simply "boy."

* In the {{Novelization}} of ''Film/TheFifthElement'', Zorg's [[TheDragon Right Arm]] at one point reflects that his own mother never called him anything but "hey, you." Ironically, despite this, the book doesn't actually give him a name.
* In his book ''Congo Mercenary'', Mike Hoare includes an appendix on military leadership, and the first lesson he teaches is that a [[AFatherToHisMen mercenary commander should learn the names of his men]] to avert this trope.
-->No-one likes to be spoken to as "Hey, you!", or worse still, as "Hey, you with the square head!"
* Cale in ''Literature/TrashOfTheCountsFamily'' is on the recieving end, courtesy of [[OurDragonsAreDifferent Raon]]. Raon refers to him simply as "human" at first because he was wary of Cale and didn't plan on sticking around him long enough to need to know his name. Even after deiciding to follow him and starting to use other people's names, Raon continues to call him "human" and refers to Cale as "the human" when talking about him with other people. It comes off a bit like an InsultOfEndearment.
* In ''LightNovel/DanganronpaZero'', whenever Ryoko Otonashi introduces herself by her name, she just points at her notebook. While other characters read that name out loud, they never call her "Otonashi", "Ryoko" or by her full name. Not even Ryoko Otonashi vocally calls herself by her own name. [[spoiler:This foreshadows that "Ryoko Otonashi" is a fake name, and everyone who knows who she really is (Matsuda, Ikusaba, Naegi and Kirigiri) never call her by her real name, since the story makes the reader believe that Ryoko Otonashi and Junko Enoshima are initially two different people.]]

* On one episode of ''[[Series/TheOfficeUS The Office]]'', Meredith's juvenile delinquent son calls her by her first name. Dwight notices this, and after the boy is disrespectful to him too, gets a little revenge later.
** Dwight himself only refers to Ryan as "temp" - even after Ryan becomes VP of the company.
* Henry in ''Series/{{Psych}}'' insists on being called by his first name.
* Red and Eric have this dynamic in ''Series/That70sShow''. Red calls Eric (and others) dumbass a lot of the time, Eric may call Red "Sir" to his face but usually calls him by his nickname but in a disrespectful way, not in a "equals" (à la ''Series/DharmaAndGreg'') way behind his back.
* Baby Sinclair on ''{{Series/Dinosaurs}}'' won't call Earl anything other than "not the mama". Though he would sometimes actually call him "dada" or the like.
* In ''Series/SquarePegs'', [=LaDonna=] called the two leads "That Fat Girl" (Lauren) and "That Fat Girl's Friend" (Patty), even to their faces.
* ''Series/{{Scrubs}}'' has a bunch of these. (Dr. Turkleton, Marshmallow, Stick, Bobbo, girl names for JD...)
** According to the Janitor, Lady (who was originally introduced by his shouting "Hey, Lady!" at her, which failed to convince JD they knew each other) has a brother named Him. Being the Janitor, of course, this may not be true.
** In the episode "His Story [=IV=]", Doctor Kelso tells the collection of new interns that he can't be bothered to remember their names, so he'll call all the males Dave and all the females Debbie. One female says that's ok, as her name is Debbie, so he tells her that out of fairness to the others, he'll refer to her as Slagathor.
* ''Series/HaveGunWillTravel'' features, as the main character, the mysterious Paladin, a gunslinger based out of old San Francisco who puts forth an image of refinement and education at odds with his violent profession. So, it's quite [[ValuesDissonance grating]] to the modern ear to hear him refer to the Chinese bellhop at his favorite hotel as "Hey, Boy"...especially since Hey Boy's real name was divulged in the show's first season! Still, Hey Boy seemed to embrace the odd moniker, going so far as to correct a stranger who once got his attention with "hey, you."
* ''Series/KenanAndKel'': Natural Born Kenan, when Kenan decides that he's adopted after finding no baby pictures of him nor any keepsakes of his childhood (they were destroyed in a basement flood), he starts referring to his parents, Roger and Sheryl, by their first names, thinking that they aren't his birth parents. After Sheryl requests that he stop doing this, he then refers to them as "Mr. and Mrs. Rockmore".
* ''Series/{{Bewitched}}'', Endora rarely referred to Darrin by name, doing so only eight times in the whole series. Usually it was "Derwood", "What's-his-name", "Darwin", "Dum-Dum", etc., all much to his annoyance.
* ''Series/{{MASH}}'':
** In the episode "Potter's Retirement", Hawkeye addresses Colonel Potter as "Sherman" while trying to convince him not to retire his command. While Potter is depicted as a Regular Army officer who wouldn't ordinarily tolerate such familiarity like his predecessor, Henry Blake, would, in this instance he's clearly touched rather than angered by it.
** In "Sons and Bowlers", Charles Winchester calls Hawkeye by his nickname during a rare bonding moment.
** In "Death Takes a Holiday", Winchester and Klinger address each other by their first names after the latter discovers the former is an AnonymousBenefactor of Christmas gifts for Korean orphans.
** While all the ''M*A*S*H'' examples above are aversions of the trope, being clearly depicted as gestures of affection and respect, it's played straight with the other characters' habitually addressing [[{{Jerkass}} Frank]] [[ButtMonkey Burns]] by his first name, usually in a tone of voice suggesting a patient parent dealing with an especially dimwitted and recalcitrant child.

* Franchise/StarTrek:
** In the classic ''Series/{{Star Trek|The Original Series}}'' episode "The Empath", Doctor [=McCoy=] decides to name an unnamed mute woman the crew encounters Gem, saying, "It's a lot better than 'Hey you'."
** ''Series/StarTrekEnterprise'': The two antagonists in the Temporal Cold War, Starfleet [[TimePolice time agent]] Daniels and his Suliban opponent Silik, both call Captain Archer by his first name "John" (short for Jonathan) as a patronising way of indicating they know all about him. In fact, they even know things he hasn't done yet. Archer just ignores this provocation, usually because these two give him more serious problems to get angry about.
** Commander Shran calls Captain Archer "pinkskin", which is ''generally'' a [[FantasticSlur derogatory reference to humans]]. In this case, it becomes an InsultOfEndearment.
** Several Series/StarTrekTheNextGeneration characters have referred to Commander Data, an android, as 'it' in different contexts. Villains often use it as a pejorative, but it has also been used innocently by characters who simply don't realize that Data is a sentient being who should be treated as a person.
*** Notably, Dr. Pulaski insistently calling Data 'it,' or otherwise implying he was an object, cemented the fandom's dislike of the character. She was [[PutOnABus put on a shuttlecraft]] after season 2.
** The Doctor (Emergency Medical Hologram) on ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' apparently got this from time to time and once commented that "If I had a name, other than Doctor or 'Hey you', it might encourage the crew to treat me with a little more respect." He never did decide on a name, though in one alternate timeline, he became "Joe."
* In the ''Series/TheXFiles'' episode, "Dreamland", one of the clues that Mulder has been [[BodySurf body-swapped]] with TheMenInBlack Morris Fletcher is that he keeps calling Scully by her first name "Dana". When Morris starts calling her "babe" Scully threatens that if he doesn't stop it, he'll end up "[[GroinAttack peeing through a catheter]]".
* The Discovery Channel showed the recruitment process for the Green Berets called Two Weeks In Hell, and one of the recruits makes the mistake of referring to one of the drill sergeants as "Hey yo". The dressing down he received was surprisingly restrained.

* From ''Series/HomeImprovement'', Tim gets addressed by his father-in-law as "hey, you". He's not happy about it.
** Also a rare example of referring to someone as "hey you" when *not* addressing them: "I wasn't talking about you, I was talking about 'hey you'."

* [[TheAlcoholic Father Jack]] from ''Series/FatherTed'' usually only speaks in [[PunctuatedForEmphasis punctuated interjections]] and [[SirSwearsALot obscenities]]. One of the few times he actually tries to get someone's attention is in Series 2's "The Plague".
-->'''Father Jack''': ''(To Ted)'' HEY! HEY! HEY, YOU!
* In ''Series/TwentyFour'' Day Five, [[BigBad President Logan]] has Special Agent Aaron Pierce tied up and demands that he keep silent about his role as the mastermind of the day's events or be killed. Pierce responds by calling Logan a traitor to his country and a disgrace to his office and that he vows to make him face justice, and caps it all by asking "Is there anything else...''Charles?''". Remember, this is a Secret Service Agent saying this to the ''President of the United States''.
* On ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Dick regularly calls Sally "Lieutenant" at the beginning of the series. Later, when she points out the fact that he had gotten used to calling her Sally, he replied that they were supposed to be a family and family members don't refer to one another by rank.
-->'''Dick''': ''They use more familiar terms like "You" and "Bastard." Or "You, bastard!"
* Jaqen H'ghar in ''Series/GameOfThrones'' uses a strange form of this trope combined with ThirdPersonPerson: he talks of everyone in very generic third-person, always addressing Arya as "a girl" and himself as "a man". It reflects how he is from a cult based on rejecting self-identity, [[spoiler:and may actually be several people using the same face]]. Even "Jaqen H'ghar" is just a pseudonym Arya was used to.

* In ''Series/{{Dexter}}'', Dexter and his eventual wife Rita have a habit of addressing each other with "Hey, You!" The episode "My Bad" reveals that it began when Dexter forgot her name midway through their first date. Rita remains unaware that the lapse happened because he was distracted by [[SerialKiller slipping out to murder a man in the parking lot]].
* In a Christmas episode of ''Series/StepByStep'' Carol's [[ObnoxiousInLaws Aunt Edna]] comes over to visit. She refuses to learn the names of any of the kids, and instead calls them whatever she feels like, although they're lucky compared to Frank, who she simply calls "Lazy Boy".
* In ''Series/MimpiMetropolitan'', [[UpperClassTwit Alexi]]'s lack of respect for everyone besides Melani and Mami Bibir is illustrated by his habit of not using other people's name, who he usually calls "ordinary people".
* ''{{Series/Kaamelott}}'':
** A good deal of comedy is created by the characters unleashing blistering insults and tongue-lashings on each other but using the formal form of address, even between close friends and married couples.
** The one subversion is Elias de Kenniwich, who calls Arthur by name without any titles, and does it specifically to get on Arthur's nerves and show he doesn't fear him.
** The Burgund king also refers to Arthur without a title, but in his case they're lucky he can say the name in the first place as no one understands what he's saying.

* If Garrus is with you at the conclusion of ''VideoGame/MassEffect1'' and you decide to [[spoiler:sacrifice the Council]] against his wishes, he will angrily refer to you as "human." This is particularly jarring since throughout the many conversions you have with him, he always politely and respectfully calls you either "Shepard" or "Commander."
** In the third game, Javik tends to refer to most of the fellow party members by their species. Liara, particularly emotional after [[spoiler:the fall of Thessia]], angrily reacts to being called "asari" by saying "I have a name. It's Liara T'Soni, and I'd appreciate you using it from now on!" For his part Javik does use her name, though only to appease her.
* ''Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda'':
** ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening,'' father-daughter pair Marin and Tarin always call each other by their first names.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess'', [[TheImp Midna]] starts off referring to Link as "you" or facetiously as "hero" when they first start traveling together to indicate her indifference to the fate of the inhabitants of the Light. Only after [[spoiler:Link saves her by bringing her to Zelda to be healed after their run-in with Zant]] does she start referring to him by his first name.
** In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaBreathOfTheWild'', Zelda only ever refers to Link as "him" and "he" in her diary when he is first made her bodyguard, both because of her independent streak and because of her [[InferioritySuperiorityComplex resentment]] that [[spoiler:he could easily wield the Master Sword while her own RoyaltySuperPower couldn't be unlocked]]. Only after he [[spoiler:saves her from Yiga clan assassins]] does she start using his real name and opening up to him.

* In a skit from ''VideoGame/TalesOfSymphonia'', as he is giving out nicknames Zelos ''literally'' dubs Lloyd "Hey You" and Genis "Brat", while giving more affectionate nicknames to the female members.
* Godot, the main prosecutor in the third ''Franchise/AceAttorney'' game, constantly calls Phoenix "Mr. Trite" to annoy him. At the end of the last case, however, Phoenix finally gains his respect and Godot addresses him by his proper name.

* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', Luke constantly refers to Mieu as "Thing." This turns into an (unintended) InsultBackfire when Luke later (after a lot of CharacterDevelopment) tries to apologize to Mieu for the unflattering name, only to reveal that Mieu is proud that his beloved master gave him a name and doesn't want to lose it.
* ''VideoGame/HotelMario:'' "HEY YOU! GET OFFA MY CLOUD!
* [[SociopathicHero Gig]] from ''VideoGame/SoulNomadAndTheWorldEaters'' refers to almost everyone in your party [[TheNicknamer with an insulting nickname]], despite being perfectly capable of remembering names properly. The main character is "kid". [[LittleBitBeastly Danette]] is "stupid cow". [[BigBrotherInstinct Levin]] is "sister-loving-man-cow". Your {{Mentor}} Layna is "Old Hag". And so on and so on.
** Danette also almost always refers to Gig as "you in there" since his soul is inhabiting the main character's body. Even after Gig gains his own body, she still refers to Gig as such, which Gig lampshades ("I'm not even ''in there'' any more!").
* For some reason, the Soldier in ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'' calls the Medic on his team "Sally", "pumpkin", "sister", and "sweetheart".
** He'll also do it [[TermsOfEndangerment to his enemies]] when preparing to [[TakingYouWithMe blow himself up]] using the Equalizer/Escape Plan taunt.
* In ''VisualNovel/KatawaShoujo'', Shizune's father, Jigoro, calls Hisao "boy" and typically merely uses "you" on Misha, or "the pink-haired girl" when he's talking about her.
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeOriginsAwakening'', Oghren once calls the player character "Hey You" while drunk, and you can say "[[TheyCallMemisterTibbs That's Commander Hey You]]".

* In the {{Pinball}} game ''Cyclone'', this is one of the MadLibsDialogue phrases that the carnival barker uses.
--> "Hey, you! Step right up!"
--> "Hey, you! With the face!"
* While ''VideoGame/JetSetRadio'' has voice acting, none of the dialogue is fully voiced (except for Professor K and the villains). Instead, a short sound bite plays to indicate who's speaking. Whenever Gum (one of the GG's, the protagonists) speaks, she says, "Hey, you!". This also happens in the half-sequel[=/=]half-remake[=/=]half-AlternateContinuity ''Jet Set Radio Future''.

* In ''VideoGame/MortalKombatMythologiesSubZero'', Quan Chi repeatedly mocks the titular character by calling him "ninja", after noticing how offended he gets when called that. ("[[InsistentTerminology I am NOT a ninja! I am]] [[McNinja Lin Kuei]]! ''[[ArchEnemy Scorpion]]'' is a ninja!")
* In ''VideoGame/AkatsukiBlitzkampf'' characters like [[spoiler: Kanae]], [[spoiler: Fritz]] and [[spoiler: Murakumo]] tend to refer to [[spoiler: the titular Akatsuki]] ''not'' by his name, but as [[spoiler: [[PlayingWithSyringes "Experiment 1"]].]]
* Characters in ''VideoGame/{{Undertale}}'' never refer to the player character by the [[HelloInsertNameHere name the player chose]], instead calling them (the) human, child, kid, etc. The lone exception to this rule is Flowey. [[spoiler: It eventually turns out that this is because the player did not name the player character, but the "Fallen Child", who resembled the PC enough for their former friend Flowey to be mistaken. The other characters genuinely didn't know the PC's real name: Frisk.]]
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarPS4'', Kratos typically refers to his son Atreus as "Boy" to get his attention, though he does occasionally just refer to him by name. And then when he gets Mimir as a beheaded companion, he exclusively refer to him as "Head".
* In ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros3'', due to the possibility to finish the game as Mario or Luigi, any character referring and talking to Mario or Luigi will not address them by name.
* ''VisualNovel/HighwayBlossoms'':
** Mariah frequently refers to others by various terms, often derogatory, such as calling her sister Tess a "twerp" or a "squirt," and referring to Marina as "the ditz," resulting in Tess saying Mariah "could at least remember her name." She only seems to refer to Joe by name.
** Tess does this to a lesser extent, since she doesn't often refer to people besides Mariah (whom she calls "Sis") and Joe by name. She gradually grows out of this, and Amber's a bit surprised when Tess calls her by name.

* ''VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed II'': Darth Vader never refers to Juno Eclipse by name, only calling her "The Woman".
* This is Terry's taunt verbatim in ''VideoGame/CapcomVsSNK2MarkOfTheMillennium''.

* There's a character in the webcomic ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' whose name is The Boy because the creator couldn't be bothered to give him a real name.
** [[EveryoneCallsHimBarkeep The Boy]] in ''Scary Go Round'' has a real name: Eustace. It's mispronounced "Useless" by Elodie, the French girl with whom he goes to stay, so he might be better off as The Boy.
** Elodie was the one who GAVE him the nickname by accident in fact, referring to him as "le garcon" ("the boy") in some provided backstory when she first visited on an exchange.
** Until very recently, The Boy's parents didn't have names either. They even referred to each other as "The Mother" and "The Father."
* In ''Webcomic/NightmareFactory'', the Game Master, Phirre, purposely calls Kreyul “Crayon”. His calling Emai “Princess”, however, has borderline TermsOfEndangerment vibes at times, but mostly still comes off as this.
* ''None'' of the three central human characters in ''How to Make a Sprite Comic in 8 Easy Bits'' have names - they're just "the author," "the friend," and "the girl."
* The main character in ''Experimental Comic Kotone'' [[strike:has no name]] has a name that cannot be known by the reader. Kotone, of course, calls him Onii-chan, and Konstantine also refers to him as "My Brother" even though they aren't related. The others usually just use second-person pronouns. Occasionally, a speech bubble in which he would be introduced is obscured by something else.
* No matter the situation, David of ''Webcomic/LivingWithInsanity'' refuses to [[http://www.livingwithinsanity.com/index/?p=85 respond to anyone who calls him Dave.]] Apparently this is also the same in RL.

* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'': Jones [[http://gunnerkrigg.com/?p=998 explains]] that as fairy culture has some issues with names, "they usually use insults to refer to each other instead".

* ''WebVideo/FriendshipIsWitchcraft's version of Cheerilee can't remember the names of her students, and awkwardly responds to a correct answer from Twist with "That's right... you." When she catches Apple Bloom trying to pass a note, she shouts "Girl with the bow!"

* Shelley in ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' hasn't called Stan by his given name since Season One, generally preferring "Turd" or, on special occasions, "Stupid Turd."
** Even more prominent is Cartman's referral. The other boys in his group ''never'' refer to him by his first name, Eric, likely to express their disdain for him (Cartman does call them by first name, but has plenty of other insulting referrals to even it out, Kyle is more commonly referred to as "Jew"). Butters and Jimmy's submissive personalities are expressed by them being few to commonly refer to him as Eric.

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'', Bart often calls his father "Homer" instead of "Dad". Probably a sign of how bratty Bart is, although Homer also usually refers to Bart as "the boy". It's actually a RunningGag that Homer is forever trying to get Bart to call him "Daddy," which never happens. (In one of the comics, an impostor is standing in for Bart, and Bart tells the impostor to remember to always say "Homer" instead of "Daddy".) The episode that flashbacked to Lisa's first word did a lot of jokes on it, too. One side effect is that, on the very rare occasion that Bart does call him Dad, it's usually very touching.
** When ''The Simpsons'' was first airing, Bart addressing Homer by his first name was a bit controversial. Not only that, but there were a couple or so times that Bart made fun of his name, calling him "Homeboy".
** Bart does call Homer "dad" as often as Homer though. He usually uses "dad" when talking about him to others and "Homer" when directly addressing him, implying Bart does this mostly just to annoy Homer, rather than being genuinely disdainful of him.
** Homer also gives Frank Grimes this treatment in the one episode in which he appears, calling him "Grimey" instead of "Frank" or even "Grimes." Not to be disdainful, he was trying to be friendly with the new coworker.
** Mr. Burns is likewise not really good with names when it comes to his employees. So much so that it was a plot point in the "Who Shot Mr. Burns" when he couldn't remember Homer's name despite Homer breaking into his office at night to spray paint his name on the wall. [[spoiler: Ironically after coming out of a coma from being shot, its the first name he sprouts, listing Homer as the main suspect. However it turns out it was just minor brain damage and Homer shaking him fixes it... albeit at the cost of once more not knowing his name.]]
*** Treehouse of Horror 4's ''Bart Simpson's Dracula'' likewise poked fun at this.
--> '''Burns''': ''(Upon seeing Bart held down by a female vampire)'' Why if isn't little... uh... boy.
** Periodically, usually when he's upset with him, Homer will refer to Bart as "The Boy".
* On ''{{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}'', the will of Bender's uncle Vladimir includes his "loyal butler, 'You There', for his ''decades'' of dedicated service..."
** Speaking of {{WesternAnimation/Futurama}}, Bender frequently refers to his organic coworkers as "meatbag(s)". Likewise, Dr. Zoidberg is almost never referred to by his title (granted, he's not much of a doctor), and Zoidberg also only refers to Bender as "robot" (or, more accurately, "[[YiddishAsASecondLanguage rohbuht]]").

* An oddly affectionate version of this shows up in ''WesternAnimation/{{WITCH}}'', when Eric first acknowledges Hay Lin, he says "hey you" to her, she corrects him: "It's Hay Lin...". The next instance appears after Hay Lin saves Eric's life in "T is for Trauma": "Hey you, when did you get braces?" He continues occasionally addressing her with "hey you" for the rest of the series, Hay Lin doesn't seem to mind.
* Cotton Hill only calls Peggy "Hank's Wife", even on the rare occasion he wasn't being cruel to her on ''WesternAnimation/KingOfTheHill''.
* A running gag in ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' is that Dr. Drakken always forgets Ron's name and usually refers to him as "sidekick", much to Ron's annoyance. Seems to extend to some of their RoguesGallery too save Monkey Fist since he likewise uses Monkey Power and thus considers Ron his arch enemy (which Ron is actually quite grateful for) and the Senor Senior due to his punctuality.

* Pete says this in a few classic Disney Cartoons such as 'Moving Day' and 'Mr. Mouse Takes a Trip'.
* On ''WesternAnimation/MenInBlack,'' Kay always calls Jay "Slick" or some other mildly disrespectful nickname, as a sign that he doesn't think Jay's skills are quite as good as he [Jay] thinks. In one episode, when Jay manages to untangle an alien conspiracy/plot by himself, Kay actually does refer to him as "Jay." By the end of the episode, however, he reverts to using "Slick," out of disrespect for Jay's golf swing.
** "Slick" is also a genuinely affectionate nickname for Jay as well.
** In another episode, following a major slip-up on Jay's part, Kay starts calling his partner "Sparky", telling him he has to work his way back up to "Slick."
* WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers
** The trope name is used directly in "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS1E2RainOfTerror Rain of Terror]]" when Captain Planet shows up to stop Verminous Skumm's latest plot (a cloud of acid rain). Skumm is not pleased or respectful.
--->'''Skumm''': Hey you! [[RuleOfThree GET OFF OF MY CLOUD!]]
** In "[[Recap/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteersS1E24And25TwoFutures Two Futures]]", Wheeler gets sent into a BadFuture after changing history so he never accepted the fire ring. Wheeler never gives his name, so the older Planeteers from the alternate timeline have to find something else to call him. Their terms vary from businesslike ("young man" from Gi) to affectionate ("young one" from [[AllLovingHero Ma-Ti]]). The Planeteer who matches the usual disrespectful connotation of the trope best is Kwame, who's grown considerably gruffer over thirty years' time and defaults to calling Wheeler "boy".

* In the Buttons and Mindy shorts in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Mindy calls her parents "Lady" and "Mr. Man". Though at the end of ''WesternAnimation/WakkosWish'', she finally calls her "Mom".
* In the ''WesternAnimation/ShirtTales'' episode "Kip's Dragon", Kip Kangaroo befriends a nameless dragon who is referred to as "Hey, you" by his human employer. Kip changes this by naming the dragon Sparky.
-->'''Witchita Willie:''' Hey, you. You... Y-You really can act like a dragon!
-->'''Kip:''' His name is ''not'' "Hey, you", it's Sparky!
* ''WesternAnimation/SofiaTheFirst'': Before Sofia felt comfortable enough to call her stepfather "Dad", he allowed her to call him "Roland" or "Hey you with the crown".

* Aside from the Eds, the Kanker sisters from ''WesternAnimation/EdEddNEddy'' never seem to remember the names of anyone else in the cul-de-sac. May even suggests they rename Jimmy "Dutch" in the movie, which Lee and Marie even go along with. Though in one of the earlier episodes, they referred to Kevin by name.
* [[{{Jerkass}} Eustace]] usually refers to ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'' as "dog", or more commonly, "stupid dog". He only calls him by name a twice in the entire series, only one of which addressing the dog directly. Similarly, Courage rarely calls Eustace by his name and refers to him as "the farmer".
* For some odd reason, Ice Bear on ''WesternAnimation/WeBareBears'' is almost never referred to by name (even Grizzly and Panda just refer to him as "Bro"). Usually, the only person to call him Ice Bear is [[ThirdPersonPerson himself]]. Ice Bear hardly ever calls his brothers by their names either, so it's equal.
* Similar to the Kenan and Kel example above, in ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'', when Verne suspects he's adopted, he leaves a note to Doc and Clara saying he's off to find his real father (who he thinks is Creator/BenjaminFranklin), addressing them as "Mr. and Mrs. Brown".

* Happens twice in "Princess Potluck" from ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime''.
-->'''Finn:''' Hello, Princess Princess Princess. Hey, Embryo Princess! ''[[RuleOfThree (to Zombie Princess)]]'' Heyyy... yyyou.\\
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'''[[CallBack Squirrel]]:''' '''''YOU SON OF A BLEEBLOP!!!''''' ''(froths at the mouth)'' '''''JJJAAAAAAAAAAKE!!!'''''\\
'''Jake:''' Heyyy... ''yoouu''...
* In the ''WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck'' cartoon, "Quackodile Tears", Mrs. Duck, in an attempt to call Daffy so he can take his turn to sit on the egg that she's incubating, initially called out to him by saying, "Oh darling!" When he didn't reply, she angrily shouted, "HEY! STUPID!!!" That got his attention.
* A RunningGag in WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017 has Scrooge being unable to remember all of his Nephews' names (Dewey being on the receiving end the most). When he has to adress all three of them individually, it usually goes something like : "Huey, Louie… The third one…". When there's only one, he'll still favour "lad" rather than bother remembering their first names.

** Taken UpToEleven with the Red Triangle Circus Gang: not only does the Penguin never call any of them by name (they don't seem to have names, [[AllThereInTheManual except in the end credits]]), but he never, ''ever'' uses "you" when talking to any of them; he tends to address them collectively, or in the imperative voice, as in "Where's my list? Bring me the names!" The closest he gets to acknowledging their humanity is referring to the entire gang, himself included, as [[TheRoyalWe "we."]] ("[W]e will snatch them, carry them into the sewer, and toss them into a deep, dark, watery grave!") By contrast, [[Film/BatmanAndRobin Mr. Freeze]] called at least one of his henchmen by name; [[Film/Batman1989 the Joker]], no less than ''three''. And even [[Film/BatmanForever Two-Face]] affectionately addressed his nameless thugs as "boys."

* [[WesternAnimation/CaptainPlanetAndThePlaneteers HEY YOU!]] [[RuleOfThree GET OFF OF MY CLOUD!]]

* Similar to the Kenan and Kel example above, in ''WesternAnimation/BackToTheFuture'', when Vern suspects he's adopted, he leaves a note to Doc and Clara saying he's off to find his real father (who he thinks is Creator/BenjaminFranklin), addressing them as "Mr. and Mrs. Brown".

** [[Music/{{Animals}} Hey you, Whitehouse! Ha ha, charade you are!]]