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In Close Encounters, a new transfer student allows the male protagonist to use her first name, which he finds shocking since they just met.
In El Goonish Shive, Adrian Raven asks Noah to refer to him as Adrian or Raven anywhere other than at school in this strip.
In Erstwhile, shortly before the wedding, the farmer's clever daughter call the king "sire," and he tells her that his name is Lennart.
Most General Protection Fault employees begin by calling Dwayne "Mr. Duncan" or "sir", but eventually switch to his first name.
Girl Genius:
- Everyone calls Ardsley Wooster by his full or last name save fellow English adventurer and agent Trelawney Thorpe who calls him Ardsley.
- Almost everyone refers to Lucrezia Mongfish as "the Lady Lucrezia" when being formal. Justified as she dropped her maiden name "Mongfish," and calling her by her married name as "Lady Heterodyne" might cause confusion with her daughter.
Parley in Gunnerkrigg Court switches from using her nickname for Andrew Smith (Smitty) to his first name after a Relationship Upgrade.
In Kevin & Kell, after Fenton officially gets engaged to Lindesfarne, he starts calling Kevin by his first name, at his suggestion.

Megatokyo chapter 6, when Nanasawa Kimiko requests that Piro call her "Kimiko," followed by their least awkward conversation to date.

Outsider: Alex Jardin is usually referred to by the Loroi as either "Captain"^note or "Enzin"^note. Late in chapter 2, he tells the systems analyst Beryl, who has been the Loroi most interested in learning about him and humanity in general and who the story has given a fair amount of Ship Tease with Jardin, that she can call him Alex. This appears to greatly please her.
Pacificators: Cinna Grossul and Muneca Powell do not get along at all, and Cinna always addresses Muneca as Doll or some variant of the said name for the first 28 chapters. In the 29th chapter, after Daryl have been encouraging them to improve their relationship, we finally see Cinna calling Muneca by her first name, and respectfully at that.
PHD: Discussed in strip #1151 "First name basis" and the three following strips.
In Sandra and Woo, Larisa calls her parents, Jelena and Ivan, by their first names. It's part of her laissez-faire attitude about life in general.
In Sleepless Domain, after their first night of hunting monsters together and a talk the next day, Heartful Punch gives Undine permission to use her real name, Kokoro. This is significant because HP considers "Kokoro" an Embarrassing First Name and generally prefers to go by Heartful Punch, or HP for short. Even members of HP's training club don't call her Kokoro, describing it as the "Forbidden Name", treating it like a Berserk Button, and being surprised she's okay with Undine's use of it.

In Weak Hero, Gray calling Eugene by his first name is a sign that he's starting to regard him as a friend. When Eugene realises this, he blushes.

First Name Basis / Webcomics