In Series Nickname / Live-Action TV

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• Adam-12: Pete was known to some of the officers as the Strawberry Fox, for his way with the ladies and strawberry blonde hair.
• In All in the Family, Archie calls Gloria "little girl" and (less affectionately) calls Mike "Meathead" and Edith "Dingbat".
• Ally McBeal: John Cage is "The Biscuit" (a very old nickname from school), Nelle Porter is "Sub-zero" (she's an Ice Queen), Mark Albert is "The Closer" (he's supposed to be brilliant with his closing arguments), and one Elaine's friend and former employee of the firm is called "Peanut" (because he's little).
• On The Amazing Race, some team nicknames become so prominent that they're used in place of the team's actual names by the other racers. This includes The Guidos (Bill & Joe, Seasons 1 & 11), The Clowns (Jon & Al, Season 4), Mirna & Schmirna (Charla & Mirna, Seasons 5 & 11), The Hippies (BJ & Tyler, Season 9), The Beauty Queens (Dustin & Kandice, Seasons 10 & 11), The Goths (Kynt & Vyxsin, Seasons 12 & 18), Dandrew (Dan & Andrew, Season 13), and The Cowboys (Jet & Cord, Seasons 16 & 18).
• On the Angel end, Wes was often called 'English' by Gunn. Lorne was always using food nicknames for Angel. "Angelcakes" "Angelhair" "Angelfood". Lorne himself was often "The Host" because of his job owning Caritas. Groosalugg was called 'Groo' by Cordy. Fred apparently sometimes called Wes 'Bookman' during their all too brief romance.
• Battlestar Galactica:
  • The call-signs of the Viper- and Raptor-pilots function as nicknames to varying degrees.
    • Kara "Starbuck" Thrace and Karl "Helo" Agathon are almost always called by their call-signs in conversation.
    • Sometimes the call-sign clearly originates in a nickname, as with Louanne "Kat" Katraine.
    • Sharon "Athena" Agathon is an example of a pilot more usually called by her actual first name.
  • There are several Cylons with the same form wondering around in the story at any one time, and though it appears Cylons usually have little use for individual names, so it becomes important to distinguish between them.
  • For example, the first Number Six iteration we encounter in the story later gains the nickname "Caprica Six" amongst her people.
  • All of the Cylon models except Six also have a human name that is used as an alias by one of their members at one point, but is used later to refer to the model as a whole (e.g. the Dorals). Some of these might not be nicknames or even aliases, though, as Number One was named John Cavil by his creators.
  • William Adama has a couple of nicknames as well. There's his call sign, "Husker," which is rarely used in the main series; "The Old Man," used by several people, but mostly Col. Tigh; and "Zeus," used a few times by Tom Zarek.
  • Human-form Cylons are invariably called "skinjobs" by everyone.
  • Centurions are on one occasion called "chromejobs" but their usual designation is "toasters". In fact, "toaster" is a general name for all Cylons, flesh or metal.
• The Big Bang Theory: Rajesh is usually called Raj for short; Sheldon is called Shelley by his mom and sister; and Howard and Bernadette call each other Howie and Bernie.
• Bones:
  • Dr. Temperance Brennan is known as "Bones".
    • As a child, she was also nicknamed "Morticia" and "Jenny Dahmer" by her classmates.
  • Daisy calls Sweets "Lancelot", and Jack calls Booth 'G-man'.
• Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Faith refers to Buffy as just "B." sometimes, and she calls Giles 'G-Man' (as does Xander occasionally, though Giles isn't always thrilled).
  • Spike has nicknames for almost everyone. He calls Buffy "Slayer", Willow "Red", Xander "The Whelp" or "Harris", Anya "Demon-Girl", Dawn "Niblet" or "Little Bit", and so on. On Angel, Illyria was "Blue" or "Big Blue" or "Smurf", while Angel was "Poof" or "Peaches".
  • Harmony (Spike's Dumb Blonde vampire girlfriend and later ex) calls Spike "Blondie Bear".
  • Giles is also known as "Ripper".
  • Dawn is often referred to as "Dawnie".
  • "Spike" and "Angel/us" are also nicknames and not their actual birth names, which are "William" and "Liam" respectively. Curiously, neither one returned to their human names upon getting their souls. Spike additionally was known as "William The Bloody".
  • "Xander" is short for Alexander.
  • Drusilla was often called "Dru", mostly by Spike when they were together in Unholy Matrimony.
  • Genevieve is sometimes called Gigi.
• Canada's Worst Handyman: The season 5 contestants call themselves "the Wolf Pack" and thus their group challenges are "Wolf Pack Challenges". The trophy for the "winner" even has a wolf incorporated into the design.
• All four of the Chasers on The Chase have one of these. Mark is called The Beast, Shaun the Dark Destroyer, Anne The Governess and Paul The Sinnerman. There are others too according to the wiki page.
• The Chosen:
  • Jesus differentiates the two Jameses as "Big James," the brother of John and son of Zebedee, and "Little James," who begins the series as a follower of Jesus.
  • Simon the Zealot is referred to as "Zee" to differentiate him from Simon Peter.
  • Simon almost always refers to John the Baptizer as "Creepy John." This is in part to differentiate him from John the apostle, but also to show Simon's Deadpan Snarker personality. The Flash Forward in the first episode of season two shows that he's still using the nickname long after John's death.
• Cougar Town:
  • Ellie calls Laurie "Jellybean" all the time. It is not a term of endearment.
  • Jules' father Chick calls her "Junebug".
  • Bobby calls Jules "J-Bird" and Andy "Ando". One episode states that giving cool nicknames is his "superpower".
• On Criminal Minds, Garcia has nicknames for everyone, not to mention Morgan's nicknames for Garcia. Morgan also has the tendency to call Reid "kid" or occasionally "Pretty Boy". Additionally, Reid mentions in the fourth episode of the series that JJ is the only person who ever calls him "Spence". JJ herself is almost always called just JJ, short for Jennifer Jareau.
• CSI'':
  • Catherine is sometimes called "Cat."
  • Officer Mitchell is called "Mitch" more often than not.
  • Minor example: In one episode where George Eads is sporting a Porn Stash from a movie he was filming at the time, Warrick calls Nick "Mustache Boy."
  • Nick calls assistant M.E. David Philips "Super Dave" a few times. Fans picked it up as well.
  • When Ray Langston joins the team, some of them call him "Doc."
  • D.B. likes to call Julie Finlay "Jules," and she always hates it; she actually prefers to be called Finn.
• CSI: Miami:
  • A lot of the guys on the team call Horatio just plain "H."
  • Tim Speedle is called "Speed" quite often, and is even referred to that way after his death.
  • Eric often addresses his sister Marisol as "Mari."
• CSI: NY:
  • Danny started calling Lindsay "Montana" ever since her first day working on the team early in season 2 but drops it after they're married in season 5, although it does pop up once in season 9's "Unspoken." He usually just calls her a rather natural-sounding "Babe."
  • Danny and Adam frequently call Sheldon "Doc." Mac, Lindsay and Flack occasionally do as well.
  • More often than not, Adam addresses Mac simply as "Boss."
  • Flack's sister Samantha goes by "Sam."
• On Dead Like Me, Rube often refers to George as "Peanut", as do some other characters. Rube also used to give this nickname to his daughter. He also calls Daisy "Princess."
• Doctor Who:
  • The Doctor was known as "Theta Sigma" or "Good Old Thete" by his schoolfriends, apparently after his exam results. Also, Donna called him Spaceman, because he is a man from Space.
  • Ace (the always-used nickname for a companion of his seventh incarnation) had a tendency to call him "Professor".
  • Rory is well-known as "The Last Centurion" post season 5.
  • The Eleventh Doctor fondly calls Clara "My Impossible Girl" and "Souffle Girl", while Clara calls him "Chinboy" at times, and "Clever Boy" usually whenever her echoes die.
  • The Doctor spent most of "Shada" calling Chris "Bristol", after he introduced himself as "Chris Parsons, Bristol Grammar School".
• Emergency!:
  • John and Roy occasionally call each other 'pally' and 'junior.'
  • 'Dix' and 'Kel', for Dixie Mccall and Kelly Brackett, mostly by each other, but sometimes by another character (Johnny would use 'Dix' sometimes)
  • Craig Brice was 'The Perfect Paramedic' and 'The Walking Rulebook'
  • 'The Animal' Bellingham
  • 'Captain Hook' Hookraider (Hochraider?)
  • Johnny's friend Capt. 'Stoney' Stonetree
  • Chet 'The Phantom' Kelly, although he played it up as an alter ego.
• Fellow Travelers:
  • Hawkins Fuller often refers to Joseph McCarthy as "Tail Gunner Joe."
  • According to Roy Cohn, Senator Wesley Smith is known as "Whining Wesley" and "Sanctimonious Smith" among his opponents.
• Firefly:
  • Almost everyone calls Malcolm Reynolds "Mal." Except Zoe. She was a corporal and he a sergeant in the Independent army and she always calls him "sir."
  • Simon is often just called "Doc," although it's also his title.
  • "Kaylee" is short for Kaywinnet.
  • Simon calls River "mei mei" ("little sister" in Mandarin) and Jayne sometimes calls her "moonbrain."
  • Hoban "Wash" Washburne.
  • "Nara" for Inara, usually by Mal.
  • Badger is possibly a nickname, but it's uncertain.
  • Mal dubs Saffron "YoSaffBridge" from her many aliases.
• Some of the KACL staff on Frasier call the title character "Doc": notably Bulldog and station manager Kenny.
• The characters in Friends generally shorten the others' names into nicknames such as Phoebe = "Pheebs", Rachel = "Rach", Joey = "Joe", and Monica = "Mon". Very occasionally, you hear Chandler called "Chan." Ross doesn't really get this, mostly because it's hard to make his name any shorter than it is.
• In Fringe, Walter refers to his Alternate Universe counterpart as "Walternate".
• Game of Thrones:
  • Sandor "the Hound" Clegane, Ser Gregor "the Mountain" Clegane, Petyr "Littlefinger" Baelish, Varys "the Spider", Ser Loras "the Knight of Flowers" Tyrell, Lady Melisandre "the Red Woman", Tormund "Giantsbane", Robb "the Young Wolf" Stark, Oberyn "the Red Viper" Martell.
  • Jon "the Greatjon" Umber (mostly to differentiate himself from his son, Jon "the Smalljon" Umber)
  • Following his coronation Jon is Jon "the White Wolf" Snow, though he is also known as "Lord Snow" and "King Crow".
  • Ser Brynden "the Blackfish" Tully claims, "People have been calling me 'Blackfish' for so long they don't remember my real name."
  • Ser Davos Seaworth is known as "The Onion Knight". Originally, the name was meant as an insult by the nobility who despised him because he was a commoner who bought his knighthood with a pack of onions and salt fish. However, Davos took the name with pride and made the Onion his family sigil.
  • Brienne of Tarth is known as Brienne the Beauty, an Ironic Nickname.
  • Steelshanks is named after the steel greaves over his legs.
  • Ser Jaime "the Kingslayer" Lannister. He really doesn't like it. He assassinated Aerys, the last Targaryen king, which emptied the throne for Robert. However, it also gave him a really bad reputation because he was a member of the Kingsguard, who were supposed to defend the king with their lives. This has made the people see him as a man who will quickly change his loyalty when it suits him. In the books, his other nicknames are Oathbreaker and the Young Lion.
  • The Tickler's real name isn't known, just 'Tickler'.
  • Viserys Targaryen likes to style himself as the rightful King of Westeros, along with its other titles, but most people simply refer to him as the Beggar King. During his time with the Dothraki, he is also known as the Sorefoot King and Cart King.
  • Aerys Targaryen is known by many as "The Mad King", and with good reason. In the books, he was also known as "King Scab" because he constantly cut himself with the blades of the Iron Throne.
  • Tyrion "the Imp"/"Halfman" Lannister, which is an insult, not that he's all that insulted, and he's the first to admit that he's a dwarf or to make jokes about becoming "Quarter-Man". His Hillman allies even take Half-Man as a battlecry as do the Kingsguard during the battle of Blackwater. Shae calls him "My Little Lion". The one nickname he's seemed actually bothered by is "demon monkey", and only because he's blamed for the King's atrocities by the angry mob.
• Glee:
  • Sue Sylvester is the queen of all Nicknamers, and constantly comes up with cruel nicknames. Santana is Boobs McGee or Sandbags, Finn is Frankenteen, Kurt is Porcelain or Lady Trousers, Artie is Wheels or Legs, Tina is Tina Cohen-Loser, Emma is any name that sounds similar to 'Emma' but not quite (Irma being the most popular) — or Mentally Ill Ginger Pygmy... She even had couple name for Britanna — Tweedle Dumb and Tweedle Fake Boobs.
  • She had many marvelous nicknames for Will - Buttchin, SpongeHair SquareChin, Weepy The Vest Clown, Macaroni Hair...
  • Santana calls Brittany "Brit" or "Brit-Brit."
  • Quinn used to be called Lucy Caboosey.
  • Everyone calls Noah Puckerman "Puck," except maybe Principal Figgins, and whichever girl is hooking up with him at that moment.
• The main characters on Gossip Girl call each other by their first initial (Blair is B, Serena is S and so on), and Gossip Girl herself tends to refer to them that way. Jenny is Little J and Blair is also called Queen B. Dan does not get this treatment however, but Gossip Girl likes to refer to him as Lonely Boy.
• On Heroes, Hiro Nakamura doesn't seem capable of seeing Nathan Petrelli without punching his fists in the air and shouting "FLYING-MAN!!!".
• On Homicide: Life on the Street Stanley Bolander was universally known as "Big Man" and everyone called Lt Giardello "Gee." The latter might seem like a simple contraction of his surname, but it actually came from what he said on his first murder scene.
• Horatio Hornblower: Both people and ships have nicknames on this show.
  • Horatio has several nicknames. Jack Simpson, a midshipman of a bully, keeps calling him "Snotty", a generic Royal Navy term for a Midshipman and the lowest form of commissioned officer rank. His friend, the Duchess of Wharfedale, nicknames him "Mr Aitch," and Maria Mason who marries him calls him "Horry." The first one is clearly meant to be offensive, the second is quite affectionate and he enjoys the Duchess's flattery, but Maria genuinely doesn't know that he dislikes her pet name.
  • Captain Foster is a Living Legend of the Navy and known as "Dreadnought" Foster. He's indeed somewhat of a Fearless Fool and has an in-universe Awesome Ego.
  • One of the captains is called "Black Charlie" Hammond. This nickname was not explained in-universe.
  • Captain's Pellew's ship Indefatigable is a Cool Boat and she kicks some serious ass in series one. She's affectionately called "Indy" or "the bloody Indy." She's deeply loved by her sailors.
  • The first ship where Horatio started his career as a midshipman was referred to as Slough of Despond. Her name is in fact HMS Justinian.
• Homicide: Life on the Street: Lewis frequently refers to his partner Crosetti as "salami-brain".
• In House, the title character sometimes played the role of The Nicknamer. Most of the applicants introduced in season four aren't ever called by their real names. Some of them even have more than one nickname. They include Thirteen, Cutthroat Bitch, Grumpy, Big Love/Black Mormon, Scooter/Ridiculously Old Fraud/Bosley, and a couple of others.
• Marshall Eriksen of How I Met Your Mother was known as "Big Fudge". He once called his wife Lily "Mrs. Fudge." In various flashforwards, he's called "Judge Fudge" and "Fudge Supreme."
• In Kamen Rider Fourze, school principal Hayami refers to teacher Sonoda as "puppy"; she was the Canis Minor Zodiarts and his protege before she evolved into Scorpio and joined him as a Co-Dragon .
• In Kamen Rider Build: Upon joining the Touto riders, Kazumi Sawatari asks everyone to call him "Kazumin". They scoff at him at first, but start using it eventually.
• The sidekick on the second incarnation of Lassie was always called "Porky."
• LazyTown:
  • Trixie occasionally refers to Stephanie as "Pinkie."
  • Robbie sometimes calls Sportacus, "Sportakook" or "Sportaflop".
• Gene Hunt calls Alex Drake "Bolly", "Bols", or "Lady B", short for "Bollinger Knickers". He also rarely, if ever, used Sam Tyler's name, referring to him as "Gladys", "Dorothy", "Marjorie", "Doris", and "Boy Wonder", among many others.
• Lost has lots and lots of these, thanks to Sawyer. There's also The Others for the people who live on the island. What they call themselves is never revealed.
• The Mandalorian: Greef Karga calls the Mandalorian "Mando" since he doesn't have anything else to call him.
• In Married... with Children Al often calls Kelly "Pumpkin".
• On The Mary Tyler Moore Show, "Mare" for Mary and "Mur" for Murray.
• Most of the cast of M*A*SH have nicknames.
  • Benjamin "Hawkeye" Pierce came with his when he arrived in the unit; his father gave it to him, after The Last of the Mohicans.
  • Walter O'Reilly became "Radar" because of his extraordinary ability to detect arriving helicopters and anticipate the needs/whims of his supervisor.
  • "Trapper John" McIntyre, a carryover from the original novel and film (where the nickname came from an incident where he and a college co-ed were caught having sex in a railroad-car restroom, and she claimed that he'd "trapped" her).
  • Frank "Ferret Face" Burns, a nickname that was first given to him by his own brother.
  • Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan
  • Oliver "Spearchucker" Jones
  • "Ugly John" Black
  • Hawkeye, Trapper, and B.J. would often address each other as "Hawk", "Trap", and "Beej", respectively.
• Merlin:
  • Merlin often calls Arthur "prat" or "clotpole." Arthur isn't amused.
  • Guinevere, queen of legend, of incomparable beauty, heroine of one of the most tragic love stories of all ti— what, you mean Gwen? Yeah, she's right over there, giggling with Merlin.
• Monday Mornings has some fun with the characters' nicknames. Some of them are affectionate or tongue-in-cheek, some of them are rather harsh.
  • Dr. Martin who gets sacked in the very first episode is called "Double Oh Seven" by his colleagues. He supposes it has something to do with a license to kill.
  • Dr. Harding Hooten is secretly called "Hardly Human". Double use of Alliterative Name.
  • Dr. Jorge Villanueva has two (or one, but in two languages) rather flattering. He's called "El Gato" and "Big Cat". Quite appropriate for a legendary trauma surgeon and a Bald of Authority.
• On Murphy Brown, Jim frequently addresses Murphy as "Slugger".
• Mystery Science Theater 3000:
  • The hosts and mad scientists had new nicknames for each other nearly every episode.
    Mike Nelson: What's up, Mother-of-Pearl?
    Pearl Forrester: I give the nicknames around here, Nel... son.
  • Pearl called Crow "Art", which was actually an In-Joke based on a fan letter to the show.
  • TV's Frank called Dr. Clayton Forrester "Steve" for no particular reason at all. There was massive debate among MSTies over whether it was some obscure pop culture reference, until Word of God from Frank Conniff confirmed that it was just a random gag.
• NCIS:
  • DiNozzo has an endless string of names for McGee based on his last name, such as McGoogle, as well as "Probie." Other members of the cast sometimes call McGee "Elf Lord," because of his online gaming hobby. "Aqua Smurf" has showed up occasionally.
  • Abby occasionally addresses Jenny Shepard as "Madam Director".
  • There's Gibbs' common nickname for Abby — "Abbs".
  • For Jimmy Palmer, he is commonly referred as the "Autopsy Gremlin".
  • Dr. Donald Mallard is called "Ducky" by most everyone.
  • Abby's mass spectrometer, despite not being a character or even a Companion Cube, goes by Major Mass-Spec.
• NCIS: Los Angeles:
  • Sam calls Callen by his first name, G. (or Gee).
  • Hetty (her real name is Henrietta).
  • Eric and Nell are occasionally called "The Wonder Twins" after the characters from Super Friends. Even Owen Granger did this. They play along with it.
  • Deeks is "Shaggy", used as both a nickname and a description to strangers. Once he was partnered with Nell, and called her "Velma".
• On NYC 22 four of the main cast have these starting from day one. Best one, though, is the rookies' Field Training Officer, Sgt. Daniel Dean, who really hates being called "Yoda."
• Odd Squad:
  • Oprah affectionately refers to her former partner O'Donahue as "O'D". On the flip side, O'Donahue refers to her as "Opes" at one point.
  • Orchid refers to Oona as "Gadget Lady" at least once. Similarly, she also refers to Ocean as "Creature Guy", a nickname which Owen also uses for him.
  • Played for laughs in "Saving Agent Orson" when Owen claims that people call him "Quickie-Owen-Ickie" due to his high levels of speed. Olympia bluntly tells him that she's never heard anyone call him that, and Owen responds by saying that a few Maintenance agents refer to him by that nickname. It's left ambiguous as to whether he's actually being truthful or not, though.
• Once Upon a Time:
  • Emma is known as The Savior.
  • Snow White and Prince Charming often go by Snow or Charming.
  • Rumplestiltskin is often called "Rumple" by his Love Interest Belle.
• Felix from Orphan Black is usually affectionately referred to as "Fee" by Sarah.
• Outlander:
  • Jamie has called Claire "Sassenach" from nearly the moment he met her. In season 5, another character mistakenly think it's actually her name as she never hears Jamie call Claire anything else.
  • Joe Abernathy consistently calls Claire "Lady Jane."
  • Claire calls Brianna "Bree" to the amusement of her Scottish family since "Bree" sounds like the Gaelic word for a noisy disturbance.
• Justin from Queer as Folk (US) is called "Sunshine" by Debbie, and sometimes Brian.
• Sanctuary: Nikola Tesla is a persistent nicknamer, and Henry bears the brunt of this tendency. He gets referred to by such names as 'Heinrich', 'Wolf Boy', 'Furrious George' and, on one memorable occasion, 'Enrico the Wonder-Wolf'. Henry is also nicknamed 'Hank' by Kate, and 'H' by Will.
• The characters of Saved by the Bell have a few nicknames for each other. Slater calls Zack "preppie" and Jesse "mama". Jesse occasionally refers to him as "papa". And of course there's Samuel Powers, whom everyone calls "Screech."
• Scrubs:
  • Doctor Cox has nicknames for almost everybody: Elliot is Barbie, Turk is Gandi, Kelso is Bobbo, Doug is Nervous Guy or Pee Pants, and JD is either "Newbie" or whatever girl's name he can think of. Carla, who was his only friend at the beginning of the series, is the only one he doesn't nickname.
  • Everyone at Sacred Heart seems to have a nickname for at least one other person. Carla calls JD "Bambi", Turk and JD call each other "Chocolate Bear" (or Brown Bear) and "Vanilla Bear", The Janitor calls Elliot "Blonde Doctor", Cox "Mean Doctor", Carla "Scary Nurse Lady" and Turk "Bald Black Doctor", Kelso calls Turk "Dr. Turkleton" (which is really more of a misunderstanding than a nickname, but...), and then there's Snoop Dog Intern/Resident/Attending (depending on the season), Colonel Doctor, "Laverneagain", etc.
• On Seinfeld, Jerry and Elaine sometimes called each other Lainie and Jerome, usually when they were teasing the other person.
• In Smallville:
  • Lois usually calls Clark "Smallville", but "Clarky" on rare occasions. Lois almost always just call Chloe "cous" (as in, "cousin") or "Chlo,"^note Many Fan Fic writers picked this up to use as an Affectionate Nickname from whoever they are pairing Chloe with or more rarely "Goldilocks". She once calls Jimmy "Baby Bear", and he is not happy.
  • Chloe sometimes call Lois "Lo".
  • Jimmy sometimes call Chloe "Brighteyes". And yes, she has eyes that you can't stop staring at.
  • Chloe's boss at the Daily Planet used to call her "Chloster". Jimmy picked it up. She is not amused.
  Chloe: How much blunt trauma do you think a stapler to the back of the head would cause?
  • The names Martian Manhunter and Supergirl starts out as Chloe's nickname for them in Smallville. She is also known for calling Clark the Man of Steel.
  • Oliver started the tradition of calling Clark "Boy Scout" and Bart "Impulse". Bizarrely, Brainiac sometimes also call him that, but he always refer to him as Kal-El face to face.
• Stargate SG-1:
  • Jack O'Neill often calls Goa'uld symbiotes "snakes." Except for Teal'c's, which got the nickname "Junior."
  • Nine times out of ten, Vala will refer to Teal'c as "Muscles."
• Stargate Universe: Eli Wallace seems to have picked up "Math Boy".
• Star Trek:
  • Star Trek: The Original Series: Capt. Kirk calls Dr. Leonard McCoy "Bones".
  • Star Trek: The Next Generation
    • Q often calls the French Capt. Picard "mon capitaine."
    • Natasha Yar is Tasha to everyone, even on duty. The same goes for Geordi.
    • Q often calls Worf "Microbrain".
    • In "Tapestry", Picard's Starfleet Academy friends called him "Johnny".
    • Lwaxana Troi frequently refers to Worf as "Mister Woof."
    • While not strictly a nickname, Deanna Troi and Will Riker refer to each other as "Imzadi" (a word in Troi's language which means "beloved").
  • Sisko on Star Trek: Deep Space Nine calls Jadzia and Ezri Dax (both young women) "Old Man." It's a reference to the first Dax host he knew (Curzon), whose host was much older than Sisko.
  • On Star Trek: Voyager, Q appears again and calls Janeway "Madame Captain."
  • Star Trek: Enterprise: Chief Engineer Tucker is called "Trip" because his full name is Charles Tucker III.
  • On Star Trek: Discovery, Lt. Cmdr. Joann Owosekun is sometimes called "Owo" by her shipmates.
• Succession:
  • Siobhan Roy is referred to as "Shiv".
  • Roman's nickname is Romulus.
  • Resident Butt-Monkey Greg is called "Greg the Egg" and, less embarrassingly, Cousin Greg.
  • A secondary character named Lester McCormick is consistently referred to as Uncle Mo, for reasons that become apparent later on.
• Supernatural:
  • Dean throws around nicknames a lot, but the most important one was 'Cas,' which came to denote the whole separate identity the angel Castiel developed as he bonded with humans, rebelled against Heaven, and sought to stop the Apocalypse. The name caught on in fandom in Castiel's first appearance.
  • Sam's hallucination of Lucifer, while providing Sam's side of the conversation, referred to himself as 'Lucy.' He was always a very... laid-back being, but the longer he's Sam's hallucination the more goofy and petulant he gets.
• Super Password: The device that held the check during the Ca$hword round was known as the Magic Toaster.
• Teen Wolf:
  • Stiles calls Derek a sourwolf. The fandom took it and RAN.
  • Stiles is a nickname in an of itself; his first name is never revealed because of how embarrassing it apparently is.
    Coach Finstock: Stiles, that's right. I thought "Stiles" was his last name.
    Sheriff: His last name is "Stilinski".
    Coach Finstock: You named your kid "Stiles Stilinski"?
    Sheriff: No, that's just what he likes to be called.
    Coach Finstock: Oh. Well, I like to be called "cupcake". What is his first name? *reads it on a file* Wow, that's a form of child abuse. I don't — I don't even know how to pronounce that.
• The Thick of It: Cal "The Fucker" Richards.
• This Week: Alan "Sad Man On The Left" Johnson, Michael "Choo Choo" Portillo, Liz "Four Percent" Kendall, Jacob "Sad Man In A Suit" Rees-Mogg.
• In Tipi Tales, it's rare that Sam is called Samantha; the only consistent use of her full name is in the credits.
• Captain Slow, Jezza, and the Hamster on Top Gear.
• Berta of Two and a Half Men calls Alan "Zippy", because he's quick in bed.
• WandaVision: Agnes refers to the fake Pietro that she created to manipulate Wanda as "Fietro" with no prompting. Implying that she's just been thinking of him as Fietro this entire time.
• Warehouse 13:
  • Steve Jinks is referred to as 'Jinksy' by Pete in his first episode, and it sticks, although Claudia tends to use it the most. He also picks up the somewhat less flattering 'Poopypants' due to his serious and rule-abiding nature, and Claudia refers to him by numerous one-off nicknames. In turn, he refers to her as 'Claud', something that Pete and Myka eventually pick up but don't use as often.
  • Pete is prone to nicknaming people in general, especially the various people they meet during cases. On a more consistent basis, he refers to Myka as 'Mykes' and Artie eventually gains the name 'Artiemus'.
• In What We Do in the Shadows (2019), Laszlo and Nadja start calling Guillermo 'Gizmo' because they can never remember his name.
• Jim in When I'm Sixty-Four was always known at his school as "Beaky" due to his rather prominent nose. One of the first things he does once he retires is check himself into a plastic surgery clinic to get it fixed.
• The White Queen:
  • Anne Neville is called "The Kingmaker's Daughter" In-Universe.
  • Isabel, Anne and Richard have referred to Margaret of Anjou as "The Bad Queen" since their childhoods, and Anne is pleased that Richard still remembers the nickname as an adult.
• Workaholics has this with main character Anders being almost exclusively called Ders. (He also hates it when people call him Ann-Ders, its On-Ders). In one episode, we see how Mean Boss Alice is actually kind of a misfit within the larger corporate world-she takes Ders to a conference and points out two people with nicknames: Gale Reynolds, aka The Barrucada, and Don Walters, aka Psycho D. She even mentions that no one ever gave her a nickname, and Ders calls himself (once) Stat-Cat Ders.
• In The X-Files, Mulder, by others in the FBI, is known as "Spooky" Mulder, though not originally for his work in the paranormal. Originally, the nickname referred to Mulder's incredible profiling skills when he was in the Academy, and when he worked in the VCU. The nickname the FBI gave Scully after she started working with Mulder was "Mrs. Spooky".

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