History Main / YouCalledMeXItMustBeSerious

** Spock performs a variation of this in the original series [[Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse novel]] "The Entrophy Effect." Most of this novel takes place in an alternate reality where an [[MadScientest insane]] version of his former professor doctuor Dr. Georges Mordreaux interferes in the timeline and assassinates Captain Kirk. After Kirk is taken to sickbay and confirmed dead, Spock returns to the bridge and begins a ship wide broadcase. He starts by saying "This is ''Commander'' Spock." Uhura noted that he was about to make a very serious annouccement as both he and the crew rarely referred to him by his rank and usually called him Mr. Spock or by his position instead.

-->"Are you... telling the truth, Apollo Justice...?"

* In canon, Momo typically calls Yumi "[[SenpaiKohai senpai]]", occasionally referring to her as "[[LastNameBasis Kajiki]]-senpai" if she wants to be clear who she's talking about. In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9491173/1/Zero-Sum Zero-Sum]]'', after receiving a LoveConfession from Yumi in the middle of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, she says "Well, I have always loved you since we first met as well, [[FirstNameBasis Yumi]]!" Yumi lampshades how infrequently Momo used her actual name.

* In the re-adaption ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'', Thelma loves to call her husband Francis or her son Peter by [[AffectionateNickname Affectionate Nicknames]]. She usually calls Francis "Fran Fran" and Peter "Petey" (the latter is revealed to be something she called him since ''birth!''). However, when she's really angry at either of them, or both, she refuses to call them by the nicknames and calls them by real name. Which usual is a sign to both of them that they ''really'' fucked up. Best seen in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Roads_to_Vegas Roads to Vegas]]", after [[DirtyCoward Peter chickens out of killing themselves]] and yells her final line to him.

* In ''LightNovel/SwordArtOnline'', Shino "Sinon" Asada and Kyouji "Spiegel" Shinkawa are acquainted in real life and Gun Gale Online (albeit not close friends), calling each other by their [[LastNameBasis last names]] in the former and their character handles in the latter. When Spiegel makes a LoveConfession to Sinon while in GGO, he calls her "Sinon," then corrects himself and calls her "Asada-san."

** Mr. Burns almost always calls his assistant simply "Smithers" and Smithers almost always calls his boss "Mr. Burns" or "sir". However, during a heated confrontation between the two as Smithers urges him to reconsider his sun-blocking plan in "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsWhoShotMrBurns Who Shot Mr. Burns? Part 1]]", they have this exchange:

* Though we don't get to 'hear' his name, in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'' (''Literature/HaraziSuzumiya'' & ''Website/TVTropes), Yuki calls Kyon by his real name to calm and center him after a depowered fight.

* In the ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy'' re-adaption ''Fanfic/FamilyGuyFanon'', Thelma loves to call her husband Francis or her son Peter by [[AffectionateNickname Affectionate Nicknames]]. She usually calls Francis "Fran Fran" and Peter "Petey" (the latter is revealed to be something she called him since ''birth!''). However, when she's really angry at either of them, or both, she refuses to call them by the nicknames and calls them by real name. Which usual is a sign to both of them that they ''really'' fucked up. Best seen in "[[https://familyguyfanon.fandom.com/wiki/Roads_to_Vegas Roads to Vegas]]", after [[DirtyCoward Peter chickens out of killing themselves]] and yells her final line to him.
-->'''Thelma''': ''[falling]'' [[DyingDeclarationOfHate PETER, YOU DICK!!]]
* Some authors use this in ''Franchise/MassEffect'' fanfiction. In the games, Commander Shepard is never referred to by a first name, since the player can choose it. Many authors will stick with this, because it seems out of character for others to refer to Shepard as anything but "Shepard." This can go as far as audience expectations; many readers will be thrown off if a character refers to Shepard by a first name, some even prefer that not even the narration uses it. Clever authors will invoke this trope using their Shepard's first name in the same way as a PrecisionFStrike, where otherwise sticking to the expectation but having a single use of Shepard's first name will add a tremendous amount of weight to a scene.

* ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'': When [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnon San]] calls Vivienne by her name instead of calling her "sister", it's usually a sign things are frighteningly serious.
* In ''Fanfic/AshesOfThePast'', Max gives all of his [[spoiler:non-legendary]] Pokémon nicknames. On rare occasions, though, he'll refer to one of his Pokémon by their species name when giving commands in battle--which means that the ''actual'' command is to do the exact opposite of what he said to do. [[spoiler: This ends up being one of the reasons why he loses to Iwalani in the Indigo League when Iwalani has her Decidueye aim in the right direction to get Arc with Toxic. May figures that Max must have done it so many times that Iwalani figured this out and told her Pokémon.]]
* ''Blog/AskKingSombra'': Sombra never once refers to Coffee Talk by her real name. [[http://40.media.tumblr.com/f6c1571805daaa75857fe471bbd1e43d/tumblr_n3wfsaNYui1rj4ht7o8_1280.png So when he does,]] [[http://ask-king-sombra.tumblr.com/post/82747330197/come-on-there-was-a-rollercoaster-and-everything she knows something is up.]]
-->'''Coffee Talk''': After all this time together- Sombra has never ''once'' gotten my name right. Which means that ''you're'' not entirely ''him''.
* In ''Fanfic/TheBlackEmperor'', Kallen breaks years of habit of treating her mother as just another maid and calls her "mom" when she pleads with her to leave the Stadtfeld manor.
* ''Fanfic/BoldoresAndBoomsticks'': Lux realizes that when Yang gets thrown by Totem Kommo-o it's the first time Sabra has used her name instead of "Blondie".
* Invoked in the ''Franchise/PiratesOfTheCaribbean'' fic "[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/1479582/1/The-Curse-of-the-White-Sword The Curse of the White Sword]]"; for the residents of Tortuga, the idea that a mysterious barmaid who has rarely spoken in the month she spent on the island feels comfortable calling Captain Jack Sparrow 'Jack' is practically evidence that she's more than just a barmaid (she's Elizabeth Swan in disguise looking for Jack after Will left Port Royal thinking she'd chosen someone else).
* In ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'', no one ever calls Lieutenant Heymans Breda by his first name. But when Riza does it almost absently in the FanFic/ElementalChessTrilogy, he knows it's a sign that she's really, really upset.
* In ''AudioPlay/DoctorWhoovesAdventures'', the {{Series/Doctor|Who}} simply ''refuses'' to call [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Twilight Sparkle]] by her real name at first. He goes from Midnight Twinkle to Evening Glitter to Morning Glory - but when all the cards are down, he finally gives up the RunningGag.
* In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/14997911/chapters/34760702 The Horsewomen Of Las Vegas]]'', Wrestling/BeckyLynch (a criminal in this story) regularly addresses Wrestling/SashaBanks as "Nurse Magenta" (Sasha is a nurse in this story, and has magenta hair) whenever she visits her for medical treatment. After Becky is seriously injured after being attacked, she has her crew (led by Wrestling/BrookeTessmacher) trick Sasha into coming to her. Sasha is never happy having to treat Becky and is about to leave when Becky says, "Wait, Sasha." Being addressed by name makes Sasha realize just how seriously injured the usually flippant, jovial Becky really is, and stays to treat her.
* In ''Fanfic/IncarnationOfLegends'', Kojiro usually calls Bell "young master" to tease him for his humility as well as a nod to Kojiro's past as a Servant. But when Bell is about to self-deprecate after managing to complete a magic spell on his first try, Kojiro stops himself from calling him "young master" and calls him "Bell'' to show just how serious he is about getting Bell to take pride in himself and his accomplishments.
* ''Fanfic/JauneArcLordOfHunger'': Professor Goodwitch normally addresses her students by their [[LastNameBasis surnames]]. However, when her students are attacked by a [[VideoGame/KnightsOfTheOldRepublic terentatek]] during a field trip, she calls out to them by their first names to save time because they're in a life-or-death battle against a creature she has never seen before.
* Though we don't get to 'hear' his name, in ''Fanfic/KyonBigDamnHero'', Yuki calls Kyon by his real name to calm and center him after a depowered fight.
* ''FanFic/MyFamilyAndOtherEquestrians'': When Applejack calls Blade Star by name and does not use his EmbarrassingNickname of Bones, you can be sure she is serious.
%%* ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5399170/1/Older-Brother Older Brother]]'', by Pengy Chan.
* In [[http://archiveofourown.org/series/34472 The Phoenix Wright Vampire AU]], there's a scene where Edgeworth calls Phoenix "Phoenix, dear" and "Nick" over the phone. Since at this point their RelationshipUpgrade is so fresh that the obsessively-formal Edgeworth hasn't even switched to "Phoenix", let alone used "Nick" or any pet names, this makes Phoenix worry that something is very wrong. And it is -- [[spoiler: Von Karma has broken out of jail and is holding him hostage.]]
* ''Fanfic/PokemonXNimjaPlayTheGame'':
** [=OGiNiM=], the fun-loving Canadian-turned-Bulbasaur, is so devoted to the Dutch hypnotist [=YouTuber=] Nimja that he will only refer to him as "Mijnheer," [[note]]"mane-heer"[[/note]] which is Dutch for "sir." Therefore, it can safely be assumed something is very wrong if he refers to Nimja by any name other than "Mijnheer".
** In the first chapter, "Another One Bites the Dust", he refers to Nimja as “Sir” in urgency, which immediately alerts the newly-transformed Mew that something isn’t right. He heads over to the Rijksmuseum and discovers that [=OGiNiM=] has become a Bulbasaur. And he's terrified.
** Later on, in Chapter 4, "Don't Stop Me Now", he calls Nimja "Sir" out of despair and sadness, as he believes Nimja is annoyed by his continued texting. It's also worth mentioning that he [[OOCIsSeriousBusiness switches from HiS UsUaL BiCaMeRaL TeXtInG PaTtErN]] to talking in all lowercase letters, something that alerts Nimja immediately. He even lampshades this towards [=OGiNiM=] by pointing out [[LampshadeHanging how rarely [=OGiNiM=] calls him “Sir,”]] as well as all the other OOCIsSeriousBusiness actions [=OGiNiM=] has had that day. Nimja wastes no time in letting his biggest fan know that he would ''never'' tire of [=OGiNiM=]’s texting. He wasn’t angry with [=OGiNiM=], he simply wanted to help him.

* The ''very first words'' spoken to [[VideoGame/{{Portal}} Chell]] by [=GLaDOS=] in the ''VideoGame/{{Portal}}'' fanfiction ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/7088653/1/Resolution Resolution]]'' count as this. In the games, she doesn't even bother to refer to Chell by name, instead simply going for a [[DeadpanSnarker sarcastic]] HeyYou approach. Here, however, she actively refers to Chell by her first name, shocking her greatly. Similarly, as [=GLaDOS=] slowly [[spoiler: starts to [[TookALevelInKindness take a level in kindness]]]], she begins to refer to [[MotorMouth Wheatley]] by name, rather than "the moron" or "the idiot ball."
* Throughout the second half of ''[[https://www.fanfiction.net/s/10340937/1/The-Return-Remixed The Return-Remixed]]'', the Diva Army's resident DrillSergeantNasty, [[Wrestling/CarleneMoore Jazz]], always addresses Wrestling/KellyKelly as "Blondie" and generally does not like her. [[spoiler:When Kelly wins the Divas Championship in the climactic battle royal near the end of the story]], Jazz then says, "You did good, ... Kelly",[[spoiler: and salutes her]].
* Referenced in the ''Series/{{NCIS}}'' fic ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/8935062/1/Shards-To-A-Whole Shards to a Whole]]''; since Tim and Abby's sex life leans toward CasualKink and seldom use each other's full names, Tim's SafeWord is "Abigail," while Abby's is "Timothy."
* ''Fanfic/ShenVsKai'': Like in ''WesternAnimation/KungFuPanda'' canon, Shen always calls Po by his animal name "Panda", but when he witnesses Po having a HeroicBSoD, he calls Po by his name after his attempts to call him "Panda" proved futile. And it's also what makes Po finally respond to him.
* Ichigo knows to take Zangetsu seriously in ''Fanfic/TheSnowHasStoppedTheRain'' when he calls him by his real name instead of [[spoiler: King (or some variant)]].
* ''Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries'' fanfic [[https://archiveofourown.org/works/27084541/chapters/66133225 Something Wicked This Way Comes]] have an example while Kirk and Spock are having a telepathic conversation after the latter has been seriously injured. Spock, for the most part of the conversation, is quite calm and formal, addressing Kirk as Captain, but as his condition deteriorates and he feels himself dying, he begins calling him Jim.
-->'''Spock''': ''Jim, listen, please. There’s no time.''
* In ''WebVideo/SwordArtOnlineAbridged'', Klein got trapped in the titular MMO under [[EmbarrassingNickname the unfortunate handle of "BallsDeep69,"]] so by Episode 3 his guildmates think "my name is Klein!" is how he says hello. [[{{Jerkass}} Kirito]] usually refers to him as "Balls" or "Ballsy," but if he ''does'' call him Klein, it's a sign that he's genuinely touched or his HiddenHeartOfGold is showing.
* ''Fanfic/TherellBeAnotherTime'': Stingy points this out when Pixel calls him by his real name Lachlan.
* In the ''Fanfic/TwiceUponAnAge'' series, this trope is in play any time the [[VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition Lord Inquisitor]] Mahanon refers to the [[DistaffCounterpart Lady Inquisitor]] by her full first name. He almost always addresses her by the {{Affectionate Nickname}}s "Toria" or "''ma da'vhenan''," so if he actually calls her "Victoria," he is either very angry or very afraid.

* In ''Fanfic/WeekendAtHisaos'', when Misha calls up Hisao to yell at him for upsetting Shizune during their argument and force him to open up about his problem with seeing his old friends again, she uses a FullNameUltimatum, which is also one of the few times she doesn't call him "Hicchan".
* In ''{{Manga/Saki}}'', Momo typically calls Yumi "[[SenpaiKohai senpai]]", occasionally referring to her as "[[LastNameBasis Kajiki]]-senpai" if she wants to be clear who she's talking about. In ''[[http://www.fanfiction.net/s/9491173/1/Zero-Sum Zero-Sum]]'', after receiving a LoveConfession from Yumi in the middle of TheEndOfTheWorldAsWeKnowIt, she says "Well, I have always loved you since we first met as well, [[FirstNameBasis Yumi]]!" Yumi lampshades how infrequently Momo used her actual name.

{{Honorifics}} also merit mention seeing as anime characters in this situation will likely start using more affectionate terms for each other. One of the many complaints of English-speaking fandom is that important moments lose their impact because of the limitations of the English language in translation.

* ''VideoGame/PaperMarioTheThousandYearDoor'': [[HelloInsertNameHere The baby Yoshi]] that joins your group was born in the Glitz Pit, where Mario was having a stint as a fighter named "The Great Gonzales". Due to this, Yoshi runs with the name and reffers to Mario exclusively as "Gonzales"... until the end of the game. When Mario is leaving Rogueport and his allies go to say good-bye, Yoshi calls him by his real name for the first time.

-->--''Series/{{Friends}}'', "The One with All the Cheesecakes"

* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarRagnarok'', Brok notices that [[spoiler:Tyr, who is secretly Odin in disguise,]] is acting remarkably out-of-character. What really tips him off is noticing that he calls Atreus "Loki" and Freya "Frigg," two names that had never been used to address either in his and Sindri's house.

*** The narrative itself does this at the end of the book when Voldemort dies; it switches to calling him "Tom Riddle", showing that he was as ordinary a man as any other in death, which Voldemort always feared most.
---->''Tom Riddle hit the floor with a mundane finality, his body feeble and shrunken, the white hands empty, the snake-like face vacant and unknowing.''

* Throughout the Machinima series ''Machinima/TheCodex'', Jack calls Candice "Candy" because she gets angry enough to need to be ''physically restrained'' by ''other Spartans''. [[spoiler:In the finale, when he says "Hey Candice", it's such a break from his normal immaturity and cheerful arrogance that the moment serves as ''all'' of his character depth. Before he snaps back to normal and charges through the plasma fire, of course.]]

* ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': In [[Machinima/RedVsBlueSeason14 Season 14]]'s "The 'Mission'", Idaho and Ohio use each other's and Iowa's real names in one conversation, showing how serious the moment is. Ohio starts off angry at Idaho, but then he breaks out her real name and she is taken aback.

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Varric, who tends to refer to most people (except for Hawke, Aveline, and [[ICallItVera his crossbow Bianca]]) by pet names, starts to call Fenris "Elf". The moment he invokes this trope to him is when says his actual name when [[spoiler:trying to convince him not to kill his sister who lead Fenris to his former slave master in exchange of becoming his apparentice. It is serious because like Fenris, Varric also faced his brother who betrayed him and Hawke back at the expedition at the Deep Roads. Regardless whether said brother was killed or being sent to be taken care of for the rest of his life, it brought no satisfaction to Varric.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Varric, who tends to refer to most people (except for Hawke, Aveline, and [[ICallItVera his crossbow Bianca]]) by pet names, starts to call Fenris "Elf". The moment he invokes this trope to him is when says his actual name when [[spoiler:trying to convince him not to kill his sister. It is serious because like Fenris, Varric also faced his brother who betrayed him and Hawke back at the expedition at the Deep Roads. Regardless whether said brother was killed or being sent to be taken care of for the rest of his life, it brought no satisfaction to Varric.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Varric, who tends to refer to most people (except for Hawke, Aveline, and [[ICallItVera his crossbow Bianca]]) by pet names, starts to call Fenris "Elf". The moment he invokes this trope to him is when says his actual name when [[spoiler:trying to convince him not to kill his sister. It is serious because like Fenris, Varric also faced his brother who left him and Hawke at the Deep Roads. Regardless whether said brother was killed or being sent to be taken care of, it brought no satisfaction to Varric.]]

* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeII'', Varric, who tends to refer to most people (except for Hawke, Aveline, and [[ICallItVera his crossbow Bianca]]) by pet names, starts to call Fenris "Elf", then says his actual name when [[spoiler:trying to convince him not to kill his sister]].

* Podcast/Wolf359'': In the finale, Minkowski decides to send Eiffel back to Earth so that, no matter how things play out, she'll know at least one member of the crew got home. She sadly says "Goodbye, Doug" as he pleads "Renée, don't do this!", the first time in a long time they've used each other's given names. (It happens a few times in season one as EarlyInstallmentWeirdness.)