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* ''ComicBook/MrA'' by Creator/SteveDitko is an example, with a variation in pronunciation.
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In most cases, the latter half of the word has something to do with the character or work. Can be {{meaningful|name}} or {{ironic|name}} depending on how it's read -- the aforementioned "Miss Spelling" could be very bad at spelling (because her name plays on ''misspelling'') or very ''good'' at spelling (since "spelling" is in her name).
Though "Miss" is the most common honorific subject to punning (due to the large number of words that begin with "mis-", and the relatively common application of applying it to beauty pageant winners who are referred to as "Miss" Something anyway), it [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible can also apply]] to puns based around other honorifics, including masculine ones (eg. "Sir Prize" = "surprise"), though such examples tend to forgo any irony for the sake of the pun.
Though "Miss" is the most common honorific subject to punning (due to the large number of words that begin with "mis-", and the relatively common application of applying it to beauty pageant winners who are referred to as "Miss" Something anyway), it [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible can also apply]] to puns based around other honorifics, including masculine ones (eg. "Sir Prize" = "surprise"), though such examples tend to forgo any irony for the sake of the pun.
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In most cases, the latter half of the word has something to do with the character or work. Can The {{pun|nyname}} can be {{meaningful|name}} or {{ironic|name}} depending on how it's read -- the aforementioned "Miss Spelling" could be very bad at spelling (because her name plays on ''misspelling'') or very ''good'' at spelling (since "spelling" is in her name).
Though This trope is Gender Neutral. While "Miss" is the most common honorific subject to punning (due to the large number of words that begin with "mis-", and the relatively common application of applying it to beauty pageant winners who are referred to as "Miss" Something anyway), it [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible can also apply]] to puns based around other honorifics, including masculine ones (eg. "Sir Prize" = "surprise"), though such examples tend to forgo any irony for the sake of the pun.
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* The titular ''WebAnimation/KnightsOfAllRealms'' all have puns on their titles. Sir Lee (surly), Lady Bugg (ladybug) and Sir Loin (sirloin steak).
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* The children's book ''Literature/MissAlaineus'' is about a student [[MondegreenGag mishears]] the vocabulary word "miscellaneous" as "Miss Alaineus". After humiliating herself by doing a presentation on what she thinks "Miss Alaineus" means, she bemoans that she's a mistake who should dress up as "Miss Stake" for the school's Vocabulary Parade. This gives her mom an idea: the protagonist dresses up as "Miss Alaineus" for the parade, carrying a basket of random objects and calling herself the "queen of all miscellaneous things." On the last page, the protagonist decides that next year, she'll dress as "Miss Sterious, investigator of all things mysterious."
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* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': One of the stories in "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E19BestOfBusterDay Best of Buster Day]]" sees Yosemite Sam apply for a job at Miss Conduct's School of Immaculate Manners. Miss Conduct herself is very prim and proper.
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** The [[CreditsGag gag credit]] for "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E15TheHorrorOfSlumberPartyMountain The Horror of Slumber Party Mountain]]" is "Elmyra's wardrobe by - Miss Take".
** One of the stories in "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E19BestOfBusterDay Best of Buster Day]]" sees Yosemite Sam apply for a job at Miss Conduct's School of Immaculate Manners. Miss Conduct herself is very prim and proper.
** The [[CreditsGag gag credit]] for "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E15TheHorrorOfSlumberPartyMountain The Horror of Slumber Party Mountain]]" is "Elmyra's wardrobe by - Miss Take".
** One of the stories in "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E19BestOfBusterDay Best of Buster Day]]" sees Yosemite Sam apply for a job at Miss Conduct's School of Immaculate Manners. Miss Conduct herself is very prim and proper.
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Not to be confused with MissConception, although that trope name is an example of this[[note]]''misconceptions'' about sex, conception, and childbirth[[/note]].
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Compare SirVerbALot, MisterDescriptor, and MisterStrangenoun. Not to be confused with MissConception, although that trope name is an example of this[[note]]''misconceptions'' about sex, conception, and childbirth[[/note]].
Compare SirVerbALot, MisterDescriptor.childbirth[[/note]].
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* The children's book ''Literature/MissAlaineus'' is about a student [[MondegreenGag mishears]] the vocabulary word "miscellaneous" as "Miss Alaineus." After humiliating herself by doing a presentation on what she thinks "Miss Alaineus" means, she bemoans that she's a mistake who should dress up as "Miss Stake" for the school's Vocabulary Parade. This gives her mom an idea: the protagonist dresses up as "Miss Alaineus" for the parade, carrying a basket of random objects and calling herself the "queen of all miscellaneous things." On the last page, the protagonist decides that next year, she'll dress as "Miss Sterious, investigator of all things mysterious."
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* The children's book ''Literature/MissAlaineus'' is about a student [[MondegreenGag mishears]] the vocabulary word "miscellaneous" as "Miss Alaineus." Alaineus". After humiliating herself by doing a presentation on what she thinks "Miss Alaineus" means, she bemoans that she's a mistake who should dress up as "Miss Stake" for the school's Vocabulary Parade. This gives her mom an idea: the protagonist dresses up as "Miss Alaineus" for the parade, carrying a basket of random objects and calling herself the "queen of all miscellaneous things." On the last page, the protagonist decides that next year, she'll dress as "Miss Sterious, investigator of all things mysterious."
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* In ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', AntiVillain Parian is shown to be a frequent customer of a combined tea shop and [[CasualKink BDSM emporium]] known as ''Miss Treats''.
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* In ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', AntiVillain Parian is shown to be a frequent customer of a combined tea shop and [[CasualKink BDSM emporium]] known as ''Miss Treats''.
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* ''WebVideo/JourneyQuest''[='s=] main character is [[Literature/{{Discworld}} Rincewind]] {{Expy}} Sir Perfluous, or "Perf" for short.
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-->'''Dot:''' And I'm mis''terious''.
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--->'''Princess Carolyn''': Men! What if we played up the "Ms." in Ms. Taken? In a world of increasing terror, our movie tells women they don't have to be afraid anymore.
** In "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E09Ruthie Ruthie]]", Princess Carolyn is dancing around the topic of her miscarriage, so of course the very Italian-American Sandro [[InnocentlyInsensitive obliviously]] refers to Creator/KerryWashington, Creator/CareyMulligan, Music/CarrieUnderwood, and Music/MariahCarey all as "Miss [Carry]". (Or "Miss Carey, first name Mariah" in the case of the latter).
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** In "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E09Ruthie Ruthie]]", Princess Carolyn is dancing around the topic of her miscarriage, so of course the very Italian-American Sandro [[InnocentlyInsensitive obliviously]] refers to Creator/KerryWashington, Creator/CareyMulligan, Music/CarrieUnderwood, and Music/MariahCarey all as "Miss [Carry]".
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* ''WesternAnimation/Cops1988'': Ms. Demeanor's name has a twofer meaning: a misdemeanor can refer to a minor legal offense (she's a crook) or a wrongdoing (she's a villainess).
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Magica De Spell's French name is Miss Tick.
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* A double one in ''Film/BatmanForever'' when solving the riddles he's been sent he realises that numerically they represent M,R & E or Mr.E ("Mystery") for Mr Edward Nygma whose name is already a pun on Enigma which means mystery.
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* ''WesternAnimation/RockyAndBullwinkle'': In "The Counterfeit Box Top Caper," Bullwinkle mistakes Boris and Natasha's operation for the print shop he's looking for and knocks on the door, greeting them with "Howdy, Mister Printer! Hello, Miss Print!"
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'': In "The Counterfeit Box Top Caper," Bullwinkle mistakes Boris and Natasha's operation for the print shop he's looking for and knocks on the door, greeting them with "Howdy, Mister Printer! Hello, Miss Print!"
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* The ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' episode "Miss Taken" (punning on ''mistaken'') is about someone impersonating a young woman of interest to the detectives.
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* ''TabletopGame/SentinelsOfTheMultiverse'': The villain Miss Information takes on the role of the secretary of the main hero team, and then sabotages them by sending them off on wild goose chases or leaving out crucial information about a particular threat.
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* "Miss Understanding," the school newspaper's advice column in the ''WesternAnimation/Braceface''-episode of the same name.
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* The ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' episode "Back to School Ghoul" has Beetlejuice forced to [[BackToSchool go back to school]] to regain his license to drive people crazy. His teacher is Miss Shapen, so named because she looks like a Creator/PabloPicasso portrait.
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* Minor supernatural character named Mister E figured in Creator/NeilGaiman's ''ComicBook/BooksOfMagic''.
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* In one ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'' episode, after learning about Earth gender, Dick and Sally play a game of naming gendered Earth concepts like Mother Earth and Father Time. For one of her turns, Sally picks "Mrs. Sippi" (Mississippi).
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* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has a perk called "Miss Fortune" which has a chance of summoning an ally of the same name if the player fails to kill an enemy during [[BulletTime V.A.T.S.]]. While her StaffCounterpart the Mysterious Stranger's attacks focus on raw damage, her bullets instead inflict misfortune on the target like randomly crippling a limb, causing them to fall down, or causing the target's ammunition to spontaneously explode!
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* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': Among the fighters of the original roster is Nadia Fortune, often referred to simply as Ms. Fortune. She's a former thief.
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* ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': The character that tells Megumi that Hime is a threat [[spoiler: (actually Iona)]] is named Miss Fortune.
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* ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfRockyAndBullwinkle'': In "The Counterfeit Box Top Caper," Bullwinkle mistakes Boris and Natasha's operation for the print shop he's looking for and knocks on the door, greeting them with "Howdy, Mister Printer! Hello, Miss Print!"
* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': Sir Cumference's name is a pun on "circumference" and he's a GadgeteerGenius.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Road Trip," Doofenshmirtz connects to Lawrence via CB radio, using "Misfortune" as his trucker alias. Much to Doofenshmirtz's embarrassment, Lawrence mistakes it for "Miss Fortune," calling Doofenshmirtz "Miss."
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* During Creator/TeamFourStar's ''[[VideoGame/PokemonGoldAndSilver Pokémon SoulSilver]]'' Nuzlocke playthrough, they name their Chikorita "Mr. Stake," tying in with the mon's reputation among competitive fans as the worst of the Johto starters.
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* A footnote in ''Puzzlecraft'' tells of two burlesque dancers known professionally as the Yes Sisters: Miss Elaine Yes ("miscellaneous") and Miss Teri Yes ("mysterious").
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A stock {{pun}} -- misspelling words that begin with "mis-" by replacing the latter with the honorifics "Miss" or "Ms" (for example, "Miss Spelling"). Usually, this is done because the phrase pertains to a woman, often young. It can be her PunnyName or alias, a PunBasedTitle, or simply done in dialogue to refer to a character.
In most cases, the latter half of the word has something to do with the character or work. Can be {{meaningful|name}} or {{ironic|name}} depending on how it's read -- the aforementioned "Miss Spelling" could be very bad at spelling (because her name plays on ''misspelling'') or very ''good'' at spelling (since "spelling" is in her name).
Though "Miss" is the most common honorific subject to punning (due to the large number of words that begin with "mis-", and the relatively common application of applying it to beauty pageant winners who are referred to as "Miss" Something anyway), it [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible can also apply]] to puns based around other honorifics, including masculine ones (eg. "Sir Prize" = "surprise"), though such examples tend to forgo any irony for the sake of the pun.
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* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''. The students nickname the professor "Korosensei" as a pun on "Korosenai", meaning "Cannot be killed", and "Sensei", the UsefulNotes/{{Japanese Honorific|s}} for a teacher.
* ''Manga/FightingFoodons'': One of King Gorge's Foodons is Sir Loin, a cow-like warrior made from animating a kobe steak.
* ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': The character that tells Megumi that Hime is a threat [[spoiler: (actually Iona)]] is named Miss Fortune.
* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' has the character Hiwatari, a friend of Fuuka. Due to an incident where she bungled introducing herself in class, her nickname is "Miss Stake".
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* Miss Tic from ''ComicBook/{{Madballs}}'' is appropriately a mystic.
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* ''Film/CarryOnGirls'' opens with an animated sequence showing the opening credits against a backdrop of cartoons of bikini-clad girls with titles as Miss Behave, Miss Direct, and Miss Terious.
* ''Film/MissConception'' is about a woman who desperately tries to conceive after learning she will only be fertile for one more month.
* In ''Film/MississippiBurning'', one of the Federal agents tell the other that Mississippi stood for Miss Is Hippie.
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* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': All the teachers in Jerome Horwitz Elementary have names that follow the "title + fragment" format that forms a punny name when read out: Ms. Ribble ("miserable"), Mr. Fyde ("mystified"), Mr. Meaner ("misdemeanor"), Mr. Rected ("misdirected"), etc. As a bonus, the teachers' full names also form a different, equally unflattering, pun.
* The Tiffany Aching ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels feature Miss Perspicacia Tick, a.k.a. Miss Tick, a witch, teacher, and "witch finder" who travels the lowlands identifying girls who have the gifts and potential to become witches so they can be properly trained. Her name is a pun on "mystic".
* The children's book ''Literature/MissAlaineus'' is about a student [[MondegreenGag mishears]] the vocabulary word "miscellaneous" as "Miss Alaineus." After humiliating herself by doing a presentation on what she thinks "Miss Alaineus" means, she bemoans that she's a mistake who should dress up as "Miss Stake" for the school's Vocabulary Parade. This gives her mom an idea: the protagonist dresses up as "Miss Alaineus" for the parade, carrying a basket of random objects and calling herself the "queen of all miscellaneous things." On the last page, the protagonist decides that next year, she'll dress as "Miss Sterious, investigator of all things mysterious."
* One of Creator/SteveMartin's children's books about mnemonics plays on this with its title: ''Literature/MissPellNeverMisspells''.
* ''[[Literature/SchoolAdventuresAtTheHarveyNTroubleElementarySchool School! Adventures at the Harvey N. Trouble Elementary School]]'': Miss Ingashoe's name is a pun on "missing a shoe", and fittingly enough, she always walks around with only one shoe on until her other shoe is found at the end of the book.
* ''Literature/SirCumference'' is a series of children's books about the titular knight and his math-related adventures.
* In ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', AntiVillain Parian is shown to be a frequent customer of a combined tea shop and [[CasualKink BDSM emporium]] known as ''Miss Treats''.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' episode "Miss Taken" (punning on ''mistaken'') is about someone impersonating a young woman of interest to the detectives.
* The Australian children's series ''Series/KylaMayMissBehaves'' is named after the protagonist's nickname at school, Miss Behaves, because she's often in trouble for zoning out in class and daydreaming, and losing track of her homework assignments. While she does get better at staying focused and getting her work done, the nickname sticks, and she mostly wears it as a badge of honor.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'': One skit features a woman named Miss Nomer (first name Ida).
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[[folder:Music]]
* Music/{{Voltaire}}: In "When You're Evil", he claims that he goes by different names to different people:
--> ''To the gentlemen, I'm Miss Fortune''
--> ''To the ladies, I'm Sir Prize''
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[[folder:Tabletop Game]]
* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': The Ms. Judge card depicts a female judge (who may or may not be misjudging).
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[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'': The theatre adaptation introduces a character called Miss Understanding, who performs Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It?" in the first act.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has a perk called "Miss Fortune" which has a chance of summoning an ally of the same name if the player fails to kill an enemy during [[BulletTime V.A.T.S.]].
* ''VideoGame/HydroThunder'' has a racing boat called Miss Behave.
* "Miss Understood", a song introduced on ''VideoGame/JustDance'' 2014. The woman claims she's always had a hard life and people tend to look down on her, but she keeps pushing on.
-->''Miss Understood''
-->''Even if I'm misunderstood''
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Miss Fortune is the alias of Sarah Fortune, a pirate bounty hunter. She brings ''misfortune'' to pirates (who are stereotypically associated with money/fortune).
* The titular thief of ''VideoGame/TheMarvellousMissTake'' is generally more interested in taking things than making mistakes, though she certainly baits the guards into making them
* In ''VideoGame/MissManagement'', the protagonist Denise is a newly hired manager for an office full of zany workers.
* ''VideoGame/NekoAtsume'': Ms. Fortune is a cat based around the ''maneki-neko'', the "waving cat" figurine common in East Asian stores since it's thought to bring good luck.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' has a trio of young female bandits appropriately called the Miss Fortune Gang.
* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', the White Knights of Falador have ThemeNaming playing on the title "Sir": Sir Rebrum, Sir Vey, Sir Renitee, Sir Vyvin, Sir Render, Sir Rogate, Sir Remony, Sir Ving, Sir Fsup, Sir Tiffy Cashien, Sir Loynst Ayke, Sir Plyan Demand...
* ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}'':
** Ms. Fortune is a cat with PsychicPowers (a FortuneTeller), who is also evil (meeting her is a misfortune).
** Ms. Fit, ValleyGirl who runs the costume store. She's not a ''misfit'' but is instead very fit, since she's noted as buxom and in great shape.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': Among the fighters of the original roster is Nadia Fortune, often referred to simply as Ms. Fortune. She's a former thief.
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch2'': Mister E, the man at Mt. Wildwood who tells you about the Crank-A-Kai, has a name that's a pun on "mystery".
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch3'': Miss Teri the 'Merican Yo-kai is said to love mystery novels, and fittingly enough, her name is a pun on "mystery".
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[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* The second case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' introduces Mr. Reus (mysterious), a StageMagician.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' has Sir Pentious, a snake demon, incorporating "serpent" into the pronunciation of his name.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': The minor supervillain Miss Stress not only has an appropriately [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast stressful-sounding name for a villain]], but she is also introduced in the comic "[[http://superredundant.com/?comic=123-assumptions Assumptions]]", in which her husband assumes that she is involved in an affair, i.e. a mistress.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/{{Charlieissocoollike}}'': At one point, Charlie corrects Mr. Information. He then calls him "Miss Information", and immediately lampshades the pun.
--> '''Charlie:''' Mr. Information? Ha. More like... ''Miss'' Information. ''({{Beat}})'' Get it? See, I am calling him a woman, but at the same time, he gave you ''misinformation'', so it's like a... ''(to Mr. Information, who he has just punched)'' What do you think of that.
* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': In "[[Recap/EpicRapBattlesOfHistoryCleopatraVsMarilynMonroe Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe]]", Cleopatra disses Marilyn by claiming she's lost so many babies, she should be called "Miss Carriage".
* ''WebVideo/RTGame'': During his time playing ''[[VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack Champ'd Up]]'', one of Daniel's moderators drew a character named "Mr. Steak". Daniel started a bit talking about Mr. Steak's life, before realising the pun with the name "Miss Steak" and steered his bit into being about Miss Steak.
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[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Done with a LampshadeHanging in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
-->'''Dr. Scratchansniff:''' You're misinterpreting!
-->'''Yakko:''' ''[with a beauty pageant model]'' No, ''this'' is Miss Interpreting!
-->'''Wakko:''' ''[also with a model]'' This is Miss Understanding!
-->'''Dot:''' And I'm mis''terious''.
* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'':
** Invoked in "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E05ThoughtsAndPrayers Thoughts and Prayers]]", where starlet Courtney Portnoy is supposed to appear in a female-led ''Film/{{Taken}}'' spinoff titled ''Ms. Taken'' (Portnoy plays the niece of Creator/LiamNeeson's character). The film's release gets put in jeopardy after a nationwide spate of gun violence, and Princess Carolyn suggests emphasizing "Ms" part to save face.
--->'''Princess Carolyn''': Men! What if we played up the "Ms." in Ms. Taken? In a world of increasing terror, our movie tells women they don't have to be afraid anymore.
** In "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E09Ruthie Ruthie]]", Princess Carolyn is dancing around the topic of her miscarriage, so of course the very Italian-American Sandro [[InnocentlyInsensitive obliviously]] refers to Creator/KerryWashington, Creator/CareyMulligan, Music/CarrieUnderwood, and Music/MariahCarey all as "Miss [Carry]". (Or "Miss Carey, first name Mariah" in the case of the latter).
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: The WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} short "Knight for a Day" features a jousting tournament between Sir Loin Steak and Sir Cumference (although the former gets knocked out before the joust, forcing his squire Cedric to take over).
* ''WesternAnimation/Cops1988'': Ms. Demeanor's name has a twofer meaning: a misdemeanor can refer to a minor legal offense (she's a crook) or a wrongdoing (she's a villainess).
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Magica De Spell's French name is Miss Tick.
* Miss Information in ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' is supposed to be an informative tour guide, but she's dumb as bricks and often gives out wrong facts.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdgarAndEllen'': In "Here Kitty Kitty Kitty", the twins meet a black cat who [[TheJinx causes disasters just by walking by]]. Ellen dubs her "Miss Fortune".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants'': Carrying on from the original books, many teachers have this kind of name, including the {{Canon Foreigner}}s Ms. Hurd (misheard), Señor Citizen (senior citizen), Ms. Yewh (monsieur), and Mr. Ree (mystery).
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': The only female member of the Justice Friends is a magic wielder named Miss Spell.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "WesternAnimation/KnightyKnightBugs", two of King Arthur's knights are Sir Osis of Liver and Sir Loin of Beef.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' has an episode called "Miss Understanding", which is about the penguins wrongly believing Skipper to be female.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' has a character who goes by the alias Mister E ("mystery").
* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': Sir Cumference's name is a pun on "circumference" and he's a GadgeteerGenius.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Road Trip," Doofenshmirtz connects to Lawrence via CB radio, using "Misfortune" as his trucker alias. Much to Doofenshmirtz's embarrassment, Lawrence mistakes it for "Miss Fortune," calling Doofenshmirtz "Miss."
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': "Cherokee Hair Tampons" features a New Age herbal medicine saleswoman named Miss Information, who turns out to be [[SnakeOilSalesman a total fraud]].
* A variant in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': the superheroine Miss Appear has the ability to go invisible, or ''dis''appear.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': One of the stories in "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E19BestOfBusterDay Best of Buster Day]]" sees Yosemite Sam apply for a job at Miss Conduct's School of Immaculate Manners. Miss Conduct herself is very prim and proper.
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* American drag queen Miss Understood (real name Alex Heimberg) puns on ''misunderstood'' with her name.
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In most cases, the latter half of the word has something to do with the character or work. Can be {{meaningful|name}} or {{ironic|name}} depending on how it's read -- the aforementioned "Miss Spelling" could be very bad at spelling (because her name plays on ''misspelling'') or very ''good'' at spelling (since "spelling" is in her name).
Though "Miss" is the most common honorific subject to punning (due to the large number of words that begin with "mis-", and the relatively common application of applying it to beauty pageant winners who are referred to as "Miss" Something anyway), it [[Administrivia/TropesAreFlexible can also apply]] to puns based around other honorifics, including masculine ones (eg. "Sir Prize" = "surprise"), though such examples tend to forgo any irony for the sake of the pun.
Not to be confused with MissConception, although that trope name is an example of this[[note]]''misconcepcions'' about sex, conception, and childbirth[[/note]].
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!!Examples:
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[[folder:Anime and Manga]]
* {{Invoked|Trope}} in ''Manga/AssassinationClassroom''. The students nickname the professor "Korosensei" as a pun on "Korosenai", meaning "Cannot be killed", and "Sensei", the UsefulNotes/{{Japanese Honorific|s}} for a teacher.
* ''Manga/FightingFoodons'': One of King Gorge's Foodons is Sir Loin, a cow-like warrior made from animating a kobe steak.
* ''Anime/HappinessChargePrettyCure'': The character that tells Megumi that Hime is a threat [[spoiler: (actually Iona)]] is named Miss Fortune.
* ''Manga/{{Yotsuba}}'' has the character Hiwatari, a friend of Fuuka. Due to an incident where she bungled introducing herself in class, her nickname is "Miss Stake".
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* Miss Tic from ''ComicBook/{{Madballs}}'' is appropriately a mystic.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Films -- Live Action]]
* ''Film/CarryOnGirls'' opens with an animated sequence showing the opening credits against a backdrop of cartoons of bikini-clad girls with titles as Miss Behave, Miss Direct, and Miss Terious.
* ''Film/MissConception'' is about a woman who desperately tries to conceive after learning she will only be fertile for one more month.
* In ''Film/MississippiBurning'', one of the Federal agents tell the other that Mississippi stood for Miss Is Hippie.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Literature]]
* ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'': All the teachers in Jerome Horwitz Elementary have names that follow the "title + fragment" format that forms a punny name when read out: Ms. Ribble ("miserable"), Mr. Fyde ("mystified"), Mr. Meaner ("misdemeanor"), Mr. Rected ("misdirected"), etc. As a bonus, the teachers' full names also form a different, equally unflattering, pun.
* The Tiffany Aching ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' novels feature Miss Perspicacia Tick, a.k.a. Miss Tick, a witch, teacher, and "witch finder" who travels the lowlands identifying girls who have the gifts and potential to become witches so they can be properly trained. Her name is a pun on "mystic".
* The children's book ''Literature/MissAlaineus'' is about a student [[MondegreenGag mishears]] the vocabulary word "miscellaneous" as "Miss Alaineus." After humiliating herself by doing a presentation on what she thinks "Miss Alaineus" means, she bemoans that she's a mistake who should dress up as "Miss Stake" for the school's Vocabulary Parade. This gives her mom an idea: the protagonist dresses up as "Miss Alaineus" for the parade, carrying a basket of random objects and calling herself the "queen of all miscellaneous things." On the last page, the protagonist decides that next year, she'll dress as "Miss Sterious, investigator of all things mysterious."
* One of Creator/SteveMartin's children's books about mnemonics plays on this with its title: ''Literature/MissPellNeverMisspells''.
* ''[[Literature/SchoolAdventuresAtTheHarveyNTroubleElementarySchool School! Adventures at the Harvey N. Trouble Elementary School]]'': Miss Ingashoe's name is a pun on "missing a shoe", and fittingly enough, she always walks around with only one shoe on until her other shoe is found at the end of the book.
* ''Literature/SirCumference'' is a series of children's books about the titular knight and his math-related adventures.
* In ''Literature/{{Ward}}'', AntiVillain Parian is shown to be a frequent customer of a combined tea shop and [[CasualKink BDSM emporium]] known as ''Miss Treats''.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* The ''Series/{{Elementary}}'' episode "Miss Taken" (punning on ''mistaken'') is about someone impersonating a young woman of interest to the detectives.
* The Australian children's series ''Series/KylaMayMissBehaves'' is named after the protagonist's nickname at school, Miss Behaves, because she's often in trouble for zoning out in class and daydreaming, and losing track of her homework assignments. While she does get better at staying focused and getting her work done, the nickname sticks, and she mostly wears it as a badge of honor.
* ''Series/SesameStreet'': One skit features a woman named Miss Nomer (first name Ida).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Music]]
* Music/{{Voltaire}}: In "When You're Evil", he claims that he goes by different names to different people:
--> ''To the gentlemen, I'm Miss Fortune''
--> ''To the ladies, I'm Sir Prize''
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Tabletop Game]]
* ''TabletopGame/YuGiOh'': The Ms. Judge card depicts a female judge (who may or may not be misjudging).
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Theater]]
* ''Film/TheAdventuresOfPriscillaQueenOfTheDesert'': The theatre adaptation introduces a character called Miss Understanding, who performs Tina Turner's "What's Love Got to Do With It?" in the first act.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Video Games]]
* ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'' has a perk called "Miss Fortune" which has a chance of summoning an ally of the same name if the player fails to kill an enemy during [[BulletTime V.A.T.S.]].
* ''VideoGame/HydroThunder'' has a racing boat called Miss Behave.
* "Miss Understood", a song introduced on ''VideoGame/JustDance'' 2014. The woman claims she's always had a hard life and people tend to look down on her, but she keeps pushing on.
-->''Miss Understood''
-->''Even if I'm misunderstood''
* ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'': Miss Fortune is the alias of Sarah Fortune, a pirate bounty hunter. She brings ''misfortune'' to pirates (who are stereotypically associated with money/fortune).
* The titular thief of ''VideoGame/TheMarvellousMissTake'' is generally more interested in taking things than making mistakes, though she certainly baits the guards into making them
* In ''VideoGame/MissManagement'', the protagonist Denise is a newly hired manager for an office full of zany workers.
* ''VideoGame/NekoAtsume'': Ms. Fortune is a cat based around the ''maneki-neko'', the "waving cat" figurine common in East Asian stores since it's thought to bring good luck.
* ''VideoGame/PokemonLegendsArceus'' has a trio of young female bandits appropriately called the Miss Fortune Gang.
* In ''VideoGame/RuneScape'', the White Knights of Falador have ThemeNaming playing on the title "Sir": Sir Rebrum, Sir Vey, Sir Renitee, Sir Vyvin, Sir Render, Sir Rogate, Sir Remony, Sir Ving, Sir Fsup, Sir Tiffy Cashien, Sir Loynst Ayke, Sir Plyan Demand...
* ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}'':
** Ms. Fortune is a cat with PsychicPowers (a FortuneTeller), who is also evil (meeting her is a misfortune).
** Ms. Fit, ValleyGirl who runs the costume store. She's not a ''misfit'' but is instead very fit, since she's noted as buxom and in great shape.
* ''VideoGame/{{Skullgirls}}'': Among the fighters of the original roster is Nadia Fortune, often referred to simply as Ms. Fortune. She's a former thief.
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch2'': Mister E, the man at Mt. Wildwood who tells you about the Crank-A-Kai, has a name that's a pun on "mystery".
* ''VideoGame/YokaiWatch3'': Miss Teri the 'Merican Yo-kai is said to love mystery novels, and fittingly enough, her name is a pun on "mystery".
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Visual Novels]]
* The second case of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneySpiritOfJustice'' introduces Mr. Reus (mysterious), a StageMagician.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Animation]]
* ''WebAnimation/HazbinHotel'' has Sir Pentious, a snake demon, incorporating "serpent" into the pronunciation of his name.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Comics]]
* ''Webcomic/LeagueOfSuperRedundantHeroes'': The minor supervillain Miss Stress not only has an appropriately [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast stressful-sounding name for a villain]], but she is also introduced in the comic "[[http://superredundant.com/?comic=123-assumptions Assumptions]]", in which her husband assumes that she is involved in an affair, i.e. a mistress.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Web Video]]
* ''WebVideo/{{Charlieissocoollike}}'': At one point, Charlie corrects Mr. Information. He then calls him "Miss Information", and immediately lampshades the pun.
--> '''Charlie:''' Mr. Information? Ha. More like... ''Miss'' Information. ''({{Beat}})'' Get it? See, I am calling him a woman, but at the same time, he gave you ''misinformation'', so it's like a... ''(to Mr. Information, who he has just punched)'' What do you think of that.
* ''WebVideo/EpicRapBattlesOfHistory'': In "[[Recap/EpicRapBattlesOfHistoryCleopatraVsMarilynMonroe Cleopatra vs. Marilyn Monroe]]", Cleopatra disses Marilyn by claiming she's lost so many babies, she should be called "Miss Carriage".
* ''WebVideo/RTGame'': During his time playing ''[[VideoGame/TheJackboxPartyPack Champ'd Up]]'', one of Daniel's moderators drew a character named "Mr. Steak". Daniel started a bit talking about Mr. Steak's life, before realising the pun with the name "Miss Steak" and steered his bit into being about Miss Steak.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Western Animation]]
* Done with a LampshadeHanging in ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'':
-->'''Dr. Scratchansniff:''' You're misinterpreting!
-->'''Yakko:''' ''[with a beauty pageant model]'' No, ''this'' is Miss Interpreting!
-->'''Wakko:''' ''[also with a model]'' This is Miss Understanding!
-->'''Dot:''' And I'm mis''terious''.
* ''WesternAnimation/BojackHorseman'':
** Invoked in "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E05ThoughtsAndPrayers Thoughts and Prayers]]", where starlet Courtney Portnoy is supposed to appear in a female-led ''Film/{{Taken}}'' spinoff titled ''Ms. Taken'' (Portnoy plays the niece of Creator/LiamNeeson's character). The film's release gets put in jeopardy after a nationwide spate of gun violence, and Princess Carolyn suggests emphasizing "Ms" part to save face.
--->'''Princess Carolyn''': Men! What if we played up the "Ms." in Ms. Taken? In a world of increasing terror, our movie tells women they don't have to be afraid anymore.
** In "[[Recap/BojackHorsemanS4E09Ruthie Ruthie]]", Princess Carolyn is dancing around the topic of her miscarriage, so of course the very Italian-American Sandro [[InnocentlyInsensitive obliviously]] refers to Creator/KerryWashington, Creator/CareyMulligan, Music/CarrieUnderwood, and Music/MariahCarey all as "Miss [Carry]". (Or "Miss Carey, first name Mariah" in the case of the latter).
* WesternAnimation/ClassicDisneyShorts: The WesternAnimation/{{Goofy}} short "Knight for a Day" features a jousting tournament between Sir Loin Steak and Sir Cumference (although the former gets knocked out before the joust, forcing his squire Cedric to take over).
* ''WesternAnimation/Cops1988'': Ms. Demeanor's name has a twofer meaning: a misdemeanor can refer to a minor legal offense (she's a crook) or a wrongdoing (she's a villainess).
* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales1987'': Magica De Spell's French name is Miss Tick.
* Miss Information in ''WesternAnimation/{{Histeria}}'' is supposed to be an informative tour guide, but she's dumb as bricks and often gives out wrong facts.
* ''WesternAnimation/EdgarAndEllen'': In "Here Kitty Kitty Kitty", the twins meet a black cat who [[TheJinx causes disasters just by walking by]]. Ellen dubs her "Miss Fortune".
* ''WesternAnimation/TheEpicTalesOfCaptainUnderpants'': Carrying on from the original books, many teachers have this kind of name, including the {{Canon Foreigner}}s Ms. Hurd (misheard), Señor Citizen (senior citizen), Ms. Yewh (monsieur), and Mr. Ree (mystery).
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': The only female member of the Justice Friends is a magic wielder named Miss Spell.
* ''WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes'': In "WesternAnimation/KnightyKnightBugs", two of King Arthur's knights are Sir Osis of Liver and Sir Loin of Beef.
* ''WesternAnimation/ThePenguinsOfMadagascar'' has an episode called "Miss Understanding", which is about the penguins wrongly believing Skipper to be female.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' has a character who goes by the alias Mister E ("mystery").
* ''WesternAnimation/PacManAndTheGhostlyAdventures'': Sir Cumference's name is a pun on "circumference" and he's a GadgeteerGenius.
* ''WesternAnimation/PhineasAndFerb'': In "Road Trip," Doofenshmirtz connects to Lawrence via CB radio, using "Misfortune" as his trucker alias. Much to Doofenshmirtz's embarrassment, Lawrence mistakes it for "Miss Fortune," calling Doofenshmirtz "Miss."
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'': "Cherokee Hair Tampons" features a New Age herbal medicine saleswoman named Miss Information, who turns out to be [[SnakeOilSalesman a total fraud]].
* A variant in ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': the superheroine Miss Appear has the ability to go invisible, or ''dis''appear.
* ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'': One of the stories in "[[Recap/TinyToonAdventuresS3E19BestOfBusterDay Best of Buster Day]]" sees Yosemite Sam apply for a job at Miss Conduct's School of Immaculate Manners. Miss Conduct herself is very prim and proper.
[[/folder]]
[[folder:Real Life]]
* American drag queen Miss Understood (real name Alex Heimberg) puns on ''misunderstood'' with her name.
[[/folder]]
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