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'''Basic Trope''': Someone is referred to by their race or species, often as a form of contempt.
* '''Straight''': Many characters typically call [[TokenNonHuman Archer]] "that tiger-man over there".
* '''Exaggerated''':
** Archer is frequently referred to by [[FantasticSlur derogatory terms for his species]].
** Nobody, not even Archer's closest friends, call him by his real name. The fact that his name is even confirmed to be Archer is AllInTheManual.
** The story features multiple characters of different races and species, and they're all referred to solely by their race/species.
* '''Downplayed''': Archer does often get called "the tiger-man", but only by the main antagonist.
* '''Justified''':
** The people calling Archer "tiger-man" are trying to [[FantasticRacism show prejudice against his species]].
** Alternatively, they just don't know Archer's name and "the tiger-man" is about the only description of him they can come up with, considering he is [[CatFolk a humanoid tiger]].
* '''Inverted''': For some reason, Archer's species is often called by ''his'' name.
* '''Subverted''': Some characters refer to Archer as "the tiger-man", but they stop once they learn his real name.
* '''Double Subverted''': They do use it as an insult on occasion, though.
* '''Parodied''': Every single time they're mad at Archer, they call him ''Panthera tigris x Homo sapiens''.
* '''Zig-Zagged''':
** Some characters call Archer by his real name, and some just call him variants of "a tiger-man".
** Archer is frequently introduced as "Archer the Tiger-Man".
* '''Averted''':
** Everyone refers to characters by their name, regardless of their race or species.
** There are no characters of different races or species to begin with.
* '''Enforced''': To show the bigoted nature of a character, sometimes.
* '''Lampshaded''': "Are you calling him by his species again?"
* '''Invoked''': ???
* '''Exploited''': ???
* '''Defied''': ???
* '''Discussed''': "You do know I have a name, don't you?"
* '''Conversed''': "I wonder why the prejudiced fictional characters often refer to others by their race or species."
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