History PlayingWith / MiddleNameBasis

* '''Subverted''': All of the Stringer family goes by their middle names... except eldest daughter Rebecca, who goes by her first name.
* '''Double Subverted''': Except she's joking. She goes by her middle name Alice.

** [[OneSteveLimit There is more than one Rebecca in town, but she's the only one with the name Alice.]]

** [[FirstNameBasis She always goes by "Rebecca".]]
** [[EmbarrassingMiddleName Rebecca thinks that her middle name is too embarrassing to mention.]]
* '''Subverted''': All of the Stringer family goes by their middle names...except eldest daughter Rebecca, who goes by her first name.

** All the characters in the work have OnlyOneName - no middle names or surnames.

* '''Straight''': Rebecca Alice Stringer goes by “Alice”.

** Alice is occasionally called “Al” as a reference to her middle name and an AffectionateNickname.

** [[FirstNameBasis She always goes by “Rebecca”.]]

* '''Double Subverted''': Except she’s joking. She goes by her middle name Alice.

* '''Zig Zagged''': As a child, Alice went by “Alice”. However, during her teen years, she went by “Rebecca” to distinguish herself from her childhood and establish herself as a teenager. But, by adulthood, she’s returned to “Alice”.

* '''Enforced''': During pre-production on a show, a character is given the name “Rebecca Alice Stringer”. However, most of the writers don’t like the first name Rebecca and prefer Alice. As a compromise, everyone calls her “Alice” but will occasionally bring up that her first name is Rebecca when it’s relevant to the plot.
* '''Lampshaded''': “Everyone calls me by my middle name, Alice. My first name’s actually Rebecca, but no one uses it.”
* '''Invoked''': When young Rebecca’s father kidnapped her in the midst of an acrimonious custody battle and whisks her away to a different country, he forces her to go by her middle name “Alice” and take a different surname “Kenyon” to avoid detection by her mother.
* '''Exploited''': Rebecca occasionally uses her middle name “Alice” instead of her first to get into specific places without her parents’ permission, so they won’t click on if they try to figure out what she’s doing.

* '''Discussed''': “Would you only want to go by your middle name?” “Depends on who I am talking to.”
* '''Conversed''': “A lot of people go by their middle name in real life, but you don’t see that often on TV. What’s with that?”
* '''Played For Drama''': Alice’s late [[AbusiveParents abusive mother]] was named Rebecca and she decided to go by her middle name instead after the woman died to distance herself from her.

Back to MiddleNameBasis

* '''Justified''': Alice simply likes her middle name better than her first.

* '''Averted''': Rebecca never goes by her middle name at any point.

* '''Subverted''': All of the Stringer family goes by their middle names...except eldest daughter Rebecca, who goes by her middle name.

* '''Exploited''': Rebecca occasionally uses her middle name “Alice” instead of her first to get into specific places without her parents’ permission, so they won’t check on if they try to figure out what she’s doing.

* '''Discussed''': “Would you only want to go by your middle name?” “Depends on xwho I am talking to.”
* '''Conversed''':

* '''Downplayed''': Some people call her by her middle name, while most do not.