Affectionate Nickname

Quite simply, when a character gives another character a cute or endearing nickname because the two are either as close as True Companions, or the namer is interested romantically in the namee. The nickname may not be well-received by the one being named, as they find it insulting or embarrassing, but in the mind of the name-giver it's sweet and/or thoughtful. The formal term for an affectionate nickname is a "hypocorism".

In short, it's a pet name. Expect The Nicknamer to dole these out a lot.

Sub-Trope of In-Series Nickname. Compare Insult of Endearment. Contrast Terms of Endangerment, where an enemy uses a superficially affectionate nickname in an irritating or disturbing manner.

See Significant Name Shift, for instances where the name is suddenly gifted.

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Examples:

Anime & Manga

• Accel World:
  • Haruyuki "Silver Crow" Arita, Takumu "Cyan Pile" Mayuzumi and Chiyuri "Lime Bell" Kurashima, generally refer to each other by nicknames- respectively Haru, Taku, or Chiyu/Chi-chan.
  • Fuko "Sky Raker" Kurasaki and Akira "Aqua Current" Himeni call Kuroyukihime "Sa-chan," ("Sacchi" in the English version of the light novel)
  • Utai "Ardor Maiden" Shinomiya is sometimes called "Uiui".
• In Azumanga Daioh, Yukari calls her friend and fellow teacher Minamo Kurosawa "Nyamo". Some of the students adopt it as well, to Nyamo's initial dismay.
• Bakuman。: Mashiro is the only character to call Takagi "Shuujin", and Takagi calls Mashiro "Saiko" in return, which is a nickname he picked up from Mashiro's friends, but as the series progresses, Takagi is the only character remaining to call him Saiko. Both nicknames are based on alternate readings of their given names (Akito and Moritaka, respectively).
• In Bleach, Yachiru is The Nicknamer and insists on giving everyone nicknames, ranging from embarrassing to cute. She even calls Kenpachi Zaraki "Ken-chan" ("Kenny" in the dub).
  • Tatsuki and Chizuru both occasionally refer to Orihime as "Hime".
  • Sado "Chad" Yasutora gets almost exclusively referred to as "Chad" by Ichigo — most of his other friends call him "Sado."
• Lelouch of Code Geass has always been Lulu to Shirley.
• Ed starts calling Faye "Faye-Faye" in the latter half of Cowboy Bebop.
• In Dagashi Kashi, Tou likes to refer to Kokomatsu as “coconuts”. This also sometimes applies to Saya (depending on the subs).
• The Dangers in My Heart:
  • Kyōtarō Ichikawa is called "Kyou/Kyou-chan" by his family. Yamada expresses a desire to call him such when the two exchange LINE. She later asks if she can call him "Kyo", but flip-flops around it out of shyness. She settles for just his regular first name after he nearly dies on the spot from whispering it to his ear. As shown later when she writes "Kyo" down to mark their heights at school, she still hasn't completely given up on it.
  • Yamada calls her friends Chihiro Kobayashi and Serina Yoshida "Chii" and "Nyaa" respectively. Kobayashi is also referred to as "Bayashiko" by Moeko.
• Date A Live: Miku Izayoi refers to Shido Itsuka as "Darling", being the only man she respects.
• In Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba, later in the series the protagonist, Tanjiro, takes part in a very grueling training to boost his physical strength and endurance, one part consisted of meditating under a waterfall for hours, the water was extremely cold so after the meditation period was over Tanjiro and his colleagues resorted to laying their bodies over large rocks, hugging them, to get some warmth, in a comic manner the hunters kept calling the boulders mother / mommy due its warmth washing the cold away; Tanjiro being the ultimate nice guy got nicknamed by his colleagues as “mommy” afterwards, due his warm and gentle nature.
• In Digimon Ghost Game, Kiyoshiro's tsundere Digimon partner Jellymon refers to him exclusively as "Darling".
• Dragon Ball:
  • From Dragon Ball to Dragon Ball Z and so on, Bulma refers to Son Goku as "Son-kun" in Japanese (or simply "Son" in the manga translation).
  • When Goku meets and befriends Android #8, he has trouble pronouncing his name and simply calls him "Eighter" ("Hacchan", in Japanese).
  • In Dragon Ball Super, Goku calls Zen'O (the king of the multiverse) "Zen-chan" ("Zenny" in the English dub). While Zen'o is completely fine with it, it nearly gives everyone else heart attacks to hear him call Zen'o by an informal nickname.
• Fruits Basket:
  • Tohru calls her best friends Arisa Uotani and Saki Hanajima "Uo-chan" and "Hana-chan", respectively.
  • Kakeru Manabe of the Student Council who, aside from having a number of nicknames himself, tends to give them to others... whether they want them or not. Case in point: resident Bishounen Yuki Sohma gets saddled with "Yun-Yun," which he points out is a ridiculous nickname since it's longer than his real name. This doesn't faze Kakeru one bit. Later on, he nicknames another member of the student council, "Chibisuke." This doesn't go over well either.
  • Most of the family refers to Ritsu as "Ritchan". Tohru, polite as always, takes to calling him "Ritchan-san". Additionally, Tohru's friends have nicknames for each other, and Hanajima gives one to Akito, to show that they're starting to become friends. Akito has no idea what to make of this.
• In Fullmetal Alchemist (2003), Colonel Badass Roy Mustang refers to his hand-selected subordinates by the names of chess pieces. It's partly a private code, partly an inside joke, and partly this trope.
  • In the manga, the Briggs soldiers sometimes refer to their Four-Star Badass leader, Olivier Armstrong, as "the Princess" and "our Queen."
• Future Card Buddyfight has Qinus Axia, a dragon wizard who starts calling Gao and Drum (who he seems to be attracted to) "Gaowow" and "Drumkins" respectively after Drum saves his life.
• In Girl Friends (2006), Akko almost always calls the main character "Mari-chan," unless she's talking with Mari's parents (in which case she uses "Mariko-san") or the teacher (in which case she uses "Kumakura-san.")
• In Great Pretender, Makoto Edamura is known as "Edamame" to Team Confidence. The name starts out as a bit of Accidental Misnaming, but sticks—and while it starts out being somewhat belittling, it becomes increasingly affectionate as the series goes on.
• In the Gundam 00 Sidestories, Gundam Meister 874 is given the nickname "Hanayo" by her teammates. It's made up of the first syllable of each number in her name: Hachi (8), Nana (7), and Yon (4).
• Haikyuu!!:
  • Hinata's childhood friend Izumi calls him "Sho" and "Sho-chan" based on his given name Shoyo. Hinata calls him "Izumin".
  • Yamaguchi calls his childhood friend Tsukishima "Tsukki" which later becomes used by other characters, much to Tsukishima's chagrin.
  • Kenma calls his childhood friend Kuroo Tetsuro "Kuro".
  • Nearly everyone calls Sugawara Koushi by the sweet nickname "Suga".
  • Similarly, Nishinoya is just called "Noya" by those close to him.
  • Tanaka Ryuunosuke is called "Ryuu" by his sister and best friend Nishinoya.
  • Nekoma's Yamamoto Taketora is called "Tora" by his friends.
  • Yachi is referred to as Yacchan on more than one occasion.
  • Oikawa refers to Iwaizumi as "Iwa-chan" which the latter puts up with it because it's a childhood nickname, but he doesn't seem to like it very much.
• Nakamura from The High School Life of a Fudanshi tends to give out these. He calls Sakaguchi "Gucchi", Ueda "Uedacchi", and Shiratori "Toricchi".
• Hell's Paradise: Jigokuraku:
  • Yuzuriha calls Sagiri "Sagirin".
  • Fuchi calls Senta and Tenza "Sen" and "Ten"
• Hetalia: Axis Powers:
  • Poland calls his best friend/partner Lithuania "Liet". Finland also uses one for Sweden, which was translated as "Su-san" in early scanlations but changed to "Sve" in later scanlations.
  • Hungary and Ukraine have these for each other as well. The scanlation roughly translated their nicknames as "Hun" and "Raine" respectively.
• In Hoshin Engi, Fugen calls Taikobo, his best friend of many decades, "Bo-chan," or simply "Bo" in the American release by Viz.
• Husky and Medley: "Husky" refers to Medley's initial description of her yuri crush, which included the fact that she owns a Siberian husky. (Thus putting the "pet" in "pet name".)
• Imaizumin-chi wa Douyara Gal no Tamariba ni Natteru Rashii: ~DEEP~: Ruri normally calls Keita "Ima-chin" as a friend.
• JoJo's Bizarre Adventure:
  • Phantom Blood: Erina inverts this, as she switches from calling her beloved Jonathan by his nickname "JoJo" to his real name after marrying him. But later, long after he died, she uses his old nickname for her beloved grandson Joseph.
  • Battle Tendency: Joseph eventually starts calling Caesar "Caesar-chan" ("Caesarino" in the dub and official manga translation), a term with potentially flirty implications.
  • Stardust Crusaders: Jotaro refers to Anne a lot as "half-pint".
  • Diamond is Unbreakable: Rohan is none too happy about Reimi calling him "Little Rohan", thinking it's overly familiar. At the time, he didn't know that she was his babysitter back when he was four.
  • Golden Wind: Tiziano's partner, Squalo, calls him "Tiz" during their battle with Narancia.
  • Stone Ocean: "JoJo" is this to Jolyne. Her mother used to call her JoJo and she wanted her boyfriend Romeo to call her JoJo as well. Anyone else, however, is not allowed to say it.
• In K-On!, when Azusa is welcomed with a gift of cat ears and is made to put them on and say "nya", Yui calls her "Azu-nyan". This becomes important later when Ui tries to sub in for a sick Yui and fools her peers for a little while. Azusa's test was to have her call her by her nickname. Ui gets it wrong, as Azusa never told her what it was when complaining about it.
• In Laughing Under the Clouds, Chutaro calls his oldest brother Tenka "Ten-nii"^note short for Ten-nii-san aka "Older Brother Ten". Both Funimation's sub and dub use "Tenny" instead. Likewise, he also calls Shirasu "Shiro-nii".
• Lupin III: Travels of Marco Polo – Another Page: Ami starts calling Goemon "Goe-Goe," much to the samurai’s irritation. Even Grandpa eventually starts addressing him as Goe-Goe.
• In Magi: The Labyrinth of Magic, Aladdin calls Morgiana "Mor". Kouha shortens his brother's Kouen and Koumei's names to "En" and "Mei". And some of Sinbad's generals call him "Sin". Ugo's real name was Uraltugo but all his friends call him Ugo.
• Himiko always calls Kurama "Tori-san" ("Mr. Bird") in the Mashin Hero Wataru Series.
• In Monthly Girls' Nozaki-kun, Nozaki started calling Mikoshiba "Mikorin" in his head thanks to how adorably awkward he is, but never uses it out loud. Sakura starts using "Mikorin" accidentally, annoying him until he eventually gives up correcting her.
• In Moriarty the Patriot:
  • Sherlock Holmes calls Professor William James Moriarty "Liam"
  • Albert and Bond call William "Will" and "Will-kun", respectively. Jack also calls him "Young Will"
  • Mycroft, Irene Adler, and eventually William, call Sherlock "Sherly"
  • Sherlock calls his brother Mycroft "Mykie/Mikey"
• My Hero Academia:
  • The series has a special case, with Uraraka nicknaming Midoriya "Deku". That nickname was initially an insult that Midoriya's former friend Bakugo used to belittle him (it means 'useless'), but Uraraka came to use the name after a misunderstanding, thinking it sounded encouraging (it sounds like "dekiru", "you can do it", in a Kansai accent). This completely changed Midoriya's outlook on that name, to the point he decided to adopt it as his superhero alias; while Katsuki looked angry about that, Ochaco was very touched.
  • Similarly, Midoriya still refers to Bakugo by his childhood nickname "Kacchan", which Bakugo allows with no objections, showing their complex history and relationship with each other.
  • Momo Yaoyozoru gets affectionately referred to as "Yaomomo" by her classmates.
  • Gran Torino tends to call Toshinori "boy" on occasion despite All Might being roughly in his forties or even fifties, and passes the nickname to Midoriya as well.
• Naruto refers to his Parental Substitute Jiraiya as "Ero-sennin" (Pervy-Sage). While definitely an Embarrassing Nickname, you can definitely tell it's much, much more about affection as their relationship develops. This becomes especially clear when Naruto still refers to him (when thinking of him affectionately) that way after he is killed. He also refers to Tsunade as "Grandma Tsunade" and is the only person who gets away with doing so without being punched into orbit.
• In Negima! Magister Negi Magi, Albireo Imma likes to tease Evangeline by calling her "Kitty" (from one of her middle names: Katherine).
• Yoriko from Nyaruko: Crawling with Love! refers to Mahiro as "Hiro-kun"; this is just one of several cute little affectations that makes it hard to believe she's his mother rather than an older sister.
• One Piece:
  • Donquixote Doflamingo of all people gets one from his Executives, "Doffy". It turns out he's genuinely close to his Executives, considering them True Companions and his true family.
  • Trafalgar Law has been referred to as "Traffy" (or Torao in Japanese) by Luffy and the Straw Hats since the Punk Hazard Arc, as Luffy cannot pronounce Law's surname to save his life. The nickname has stuck throughout the series, and Luffy only calls him by his first name when Law's been hurt or the situation is incredibly serious.
  • Zoro gets the nickname "Mr. Bushido" from Vivi. Interestingly, it wasn't initially affectionate, as she used it mockingly back when she was undercover as Miss Wednesday, but she kept using it after they became friends.
• In Pokémon: The Series, it seems very rare for trainers to nickname their Pokémon, even trainers like Ash who are very close to them. One trainer who does is Richie, Ash's rival from the Indigo Plateau. His known Pokémon — with nicknames — are:
  Pikachu: "Sparky"
  Charizard: "Zippo"
  Butterfree: "Happy"
  Taillow: "Rose"
  Pupitar: "Cruz"
  • In the manga adaptation Sparky and Zippo are changed to Chuchino and Charley, respectively. Ash also canonically nicknamed his Pokémon but never uses them.
  • In the Sword and Shield chapter of Pokémon Adventures, Piers has nicknames for his closest friends, such as "Rai-Rai" for Raihan, "Nia" and "Sonny" for Sonia, and "Leo" for Leon.
• Pretty Cure:
  • In the English dub of Futari wa Pretty Cure, Natalie and Hannah (Nagisa and Honoka) are fully cemented as friends when Hannah begins to call Natalie "Nat". This is a Cultural Translation of what happens in the original Japanese, as there, their friendship is cemented when Honoka begins to use Nagisa's given name.
  • In Fresh Pretty Cure!, after she gets over her fear of ferrets, Inori begins to call Tarte "Tarte-chan".
  • In HeartCatch Pretty Cure!, Erika sometiems refers to Tsubomi's mom Mizuki as "oba-sama" (roughly "Auntie").
  • In the first episode of Glitter Force (the English dub of Smile PreCure!), Emily calls Kelsey "Kels" when she comes to sit with her.
  • In Go! Princess Pretty Cure, Kirara nicknames Haruka "HaruHaru", as a play of her family and given names sounding so similar (Haruka Haruno).
• The Quintessential Quintuplets: After falling for Fuutarou, Nino begins calling him "Fuu-kun". This is significant since at first she referred to him by his surname.
• Rent-A-Girlfriend:
  • Kazuya's ex-girlfriend Mami calls him "Kazu-kun." This, combined with her trying to break him and Chizuru up despite being the one to dump him, suggests that she may still be infatuated with him.
  • Kazuya and Chizuru's grandmothers, being close friends, use affectionate nicknames for each other.
  • Sasano, a senpai of Kazuya's group of friends, is generally called "Sasa-pai," a play on his name and the sempai honorific.
  • Kazuya's friends sometimes call him "Kazu-chin."
• Sailor Moon: The Official Couple has the protagonist Sailor Moon i.e. "Tsukino Usagi" refer to her boyfriend as Mamo-Chan" and him calling her "Usako" (which means little bunny).
• Seraph of the End:
  • Hyakuya Yuuichiro's name is shortened into simply "Yuu" by most of the people who are close to him, but some people add different honorifics into it, such as Yoichi with "Yuu-kun", Shinoa with "Yuu-san", and Mikaela with "Yuu-chan".
  • The way Mikaela keeps referring to him as "Yuu-chan" since childhood to even after becoming teenagers actually becomes a plot point at one point: A soldier initially refuses to tell Mikaela where Yuu is when he interrogates her, telling him that she won't sell out her comrades. However, after Mikaela gets angry at that and shouts at her that they are not Yuu-chan comrades, she picks up on that in surprise and then proceeds to give his partners red herrings about the location of the squad, but secretly whispers to him about Yuu's true whereabouts. When Mika asks her why, she replies that maybe she can trust a guy who calls Yuuichiro Yuu-chan.
  • In return, Yuu also calls Mikaela "Mika", regarding their closeness as Childhood Friends (and more).
• Shimeji Simulation:
  • Shijima is called Shimeji by Majime, which is often attributed to the two namesake mushrooms growing in her head.
  • Mogawa calls both Shijima and Majime "Shimejime" in one chapter, which is a blend of the former's nickname and the latter's name.
• Shirokuma Cafe has Grizzly's mom, who calls him "Guri-chan"^note Translated as Lil' Grizz; she does this despite the fact he's an adult now.
• While Okabe of Steins;Gate likes referring to himself as "Kyouma Hououin" (and gives nicknames to his assistants), his childhood friend gives him one that's more to this trope.
  Mayuri: I still think "Okarin" sounds way cuter~
• In Sword Art Online Alternative: Gun Gale Online Karen "LLENN" Kohiruimaki's best friend Miyu "Fukarizoh" Shinohara calls her "Kohi."
• In Tamagotchi, Orenetchi considers Kuromametchi his senpai and likes to call him "Kuromame-san".
• In Tanaka-kun is Always Listless, Miyano calls Echizen "Ecchan," who in turn calls her "Myaano" (みゃーの, elongating "mya").
• Though it starts out as a purposefully Embarrassing Nickname, "Bunny" gradually becomes this in Tiger & Bunny. Probably flips the switch from embarrassing to affectionate in Episode 13:
  Kotetsu: Are you alright, Bunny?
• Tsubasa -RESERVoir CHRoNiCLE-: Fai just loves making these up for Kurogane. And there's a different one for every occasion!
• Rinne Berlinetta from ViVid Strike! refers to her Childhood Friend Fuka as "Fu-chan". That fact that she does this even a year after they had a nasty falling out is the first sign that her cold personality is merely a mask.
• Wandering Son:
  • A few volumes in Kanako gives Saori the nickname "Saorin".
  • Makoto's nickname (Mako-chan) may also count, but she actually asked Shuuichi to call her that.
• Yu-Gi-Oh!:
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! anime:
    • Yugi is called "Yug" by his best friend Joey in the dub.
    • Pegasus also tends to call male characters X-boy (e.g. "Yugi-boy" and "Kaiba-boy") in both the English dub and the original Japanese.
  • In the Yu-Gi-Oh! manga, Yugi calls Yami "mou hitori no boku" (meaning "the other me" or "my other half") and Yami calls him "aibou" (the meaning can range from "partner" to "loved one" - although that would require a different kanji writing.)
  • In the original version of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, both Sho and Kenzan call Judai "Aniki", a Japanese term for "big brother". (Meaning that they regard Judai as a Big Brother Mentor.) In the third season, Jim calls Kenzan "Dino-Boy" and calls Asuka "Tomorrow Girl". (It's a rough translation of her actual name; he tends to speak English most of the time.)
• Genkai from YuYu Hakusho often refers to her student Yusuke as "Dimwit", whether he actually acts like an idiot or when she's moments away from death. Likewise, Yusuke sometimes calls her "Grandma".
  • Kuwabara is usually the king of Last-Name Basis, but in the Japanese version, Botan playfully calls him "Kuwa-chan" sometimes, and his sister calls him "Kazu," which is short for his given name Kazuma. In the final episode, two of his high school classmates also call him "Kazu."
• Zombie Land Saga:
  • Saki starts dolling out nicknames to the girls of Franchouchou. Though they also Zigzag between this and Embarrassing Nickname.
    • Sakura: Egghead
    • Yugiri: Big Sis
    • Lily: Shrimp/Squirt
  • Maria calls her mother, Reiko, "mama". Though she's embarrassed to call her this in front of others
  • In Gaiden, Hanako and Anna start calling Eikichi "Lil' Bro" based on his relation to Yuko, another of the Sagako Busters.

Asian Animation

• Bread Barbershop: In "Choco's Blind Date", while he's dating Choco, Bagel keeps calling her "Cacao", the name for raw cocoa.
• In Pleasant Goat and Big Big Wolf, Little Fox is referred to by the affectionate nicknames of "Little Red" and "Little Pink Sister" by Wolffy.
• In Simple Samosa, Samosa's #1 fan, Vada, often refers to him by the nickname "Samosa-Bhaee" (that's pronounced "Samosa-Bhaya" and is Hindi for "Samosa-Bro"; the nickname is translated to just that in the first English dub of Season 1).

Audio Plays

• In The Princess Thieves, Princess Gwendoline's fiancée, Aaron, refers to her as "sweet pea."

Blogs

• The founder of the Knights of Fandom is known as "the Adoptive Mother of the Internet," or just "Mom" for short. Some of the members also call her "Empress."
• make up a guy: Parodied with the guy who refers to their boyfriend as "savorie" instead of "sweetie."
• In Off the Page and into Life, Sam, Hank, and Henry all have a tendency to call Gail "Gaily." In Hank's case, it's out of genuine adoration for his daughter, and as a result, is the only person who's explicitly allowed to call her that. Sam also genuinely means it to be affectionate, as he is Gail's best friend, but mostly prefers to call her "little lady." Henry, on the other hand, uses the name as Terms of Endangerment, along with "lovebug." (However, it's explicitly stated that he teases Gail because he likes her.)

Comic Books

• Archie Comics: Veronica has a habit of referring to Archie as "Archiekins", while her friends call her "Ronnie".
• Batman:
  • Harley Quinn calls the Joker "Mistah J" and "Puddin", Batman "Bats" or "B-Man", and Poison Ivy "Red".
  • Dick Grayson has affectionately called Jason Todd "Little Wing." In turn, Jason has called Dick "Dickie Bird," sometimes affectionately and sometimes mockingly.
  • In a fit of karma, Jason's Red Hood and the Outlaws co-star, Roy Harper, calls him "Jaybird."
  • Pre-Crisis, Jason's been called "Jay", "Jase" and "Master Jay" by Bruce, Dick, and Alfred respectively.
  • In a possibly darker sense of this, it's common for Joker to call Batman "Batsy". Given who the the Joker is, Batman likely doesn't enjoy being called that.
  • Barbara Gordon, AKA Batgirl, tends to get called either "Babs" or "Barb" by the Robins, especially Tim Drake, Dick Grayson, and Stephanie Brown.
  • Ra's al Ghul addresses Bruce (and sometimes Tim) as "Detective" as a sign of respect. His daughter Talia al Ghul usually calls Bruce "Beloved."
  • Bruce sometimes calls Dick "chum", moreso in the '60s TV show.
  • The Penguin and The Riddler are in a long-time Villainous Friendship, and actually call each other "Ozzie" and "Eddie" more than they do their actual names or even their aliases.
• Circles: Paulie always insists for everyone to refer to him as "Paulie". He got this nickname from his college days when he met his first love Colin, and he was the first to call him "Paulie".
• Crimson: Joe almost always refers to Alex as "bobo", which is Spanish for "silly". He tends to call Scarlet "red" or "rojita" because of her red head, but less often than he does with Alex.
• Green Arrow frequently calls his love interest Black Canary "pretty bird".
• Mockingbird often calls her former husband Hawkeye by the name "Sport" when the two are currently together, which originally started off as a general term of endearment for any guy she was working with. Clint, meanwhile, calls her "Birdie", as a shortened form of her name.
• New Gods: The Happily Married Scott Free and Big Barda do this a lot, with Barda's primary nickname for Scott being that he is her "Little Man". Scott actually accepts this nickname whole-heartedly, and even refers to himself as such when talking with her sometimes, especially whenever they're being lovey-dovey.
• Paperinik New Adventures: Paperinik refers to Xadhoom as "Occhibelli" ("Beauty Eyes"). Please note she is a vengeful Genius Bruiser space goddess. He gets away with this by being her Only Friend.
• Spider-Man:
  • [[Marvel Comics: Mary Jane Watson Mary Jane Watson's use of "Tiger" to refer to Peter is somewhere between this and Verbal Tic. On the one hand, she has used it to refer to other guys in the past and it was part of her early Totally Radical persona. On the other, it becomes associated with Peter exclusively pretty quickly and only she is allowed to call him that. In the 1970s she also sometimes called him "Brown-Eyes".
  • In Spider-Man/Deadpool, once Spider-Man and Deadpool become friends, the latter starts referring to Spider-Man as "Webs."
• Star Trek (IDW): Sulu's sister, Yuku, refers to him by his nickname "Hiki". When Kirk hears this, he responds that it's "adorable".
• Supergirl: In Supergirl (Rebirth), Alura calls her daughter Kara -the titular heroine- "Karanizu", a Kryptonian term of endearment.
• Superman:
  • Lois Lane has been known to call Clark Kent "Smallville", initially as a form of derision, later as a term of endearment.
  • In Superman vs. the Amazing Spider-Man after their inevitable misunderstanding-induced fight, Spider-Man calls Superman "Super-guy" or “Supes”.
• Wonder Woman: In continuities where they are romantically involved, Steve Trevor affectionately calls Wonder Woman his "Angel". Diana, in turn, has called Steve "Darling".
• Through the Moon: Allen calls Lujanne "Janey-Lu". When Callum hears this, he immediately figures out that they are in a relationship.
• X-Men:
  • Colossus often calls Katherine "Kitty" Pryde "Katya". When he broke off their teen romance after the Secret Wars, he made a point of calling her "Kitty". Later when they resumed their romance during Joss Whedon's run on Astonishing X-Men, he resumed calling her "Katya". His sister, Illyana also calls Kitty "Katya"... make of that what you will.
  • Colossus also calls his sister Illyana "Snowflake".
  • In her early days in the X-Men, when she still was a young teenager, Kitty Pryde had a few such nicknames; for instance, Storm called her "Kitten", Nightcrawler "Kätzchen" ('Kitten' in German), Wolverine "Pun'kin", or sometimes "Half-Pint".
  • Wolverine liked to call his good friend Nightcrawler "Elf" in a slightly ironic fashion. Kitty Pryde preferred the more cutesy "Fuzzy-Elf".
  • Wolverine, "Wolvie" to many of his friends, is also known for addressing Charles Xavier as "Charley" and "Chuck" (to the latter's annoyance), Jean Grey as "Jeannie" or "Red", though he's not the only one to use that, and Cyclops as "Cyke", depending on his current mood and opinion of him.
  • Speaking of Cyclops, Beast used to call him "Slim." After Schism, the two remark about how they no longer use each other's nicknames.
  • Gambit has quite a few of them, usually for women, all in French. Most famously he refers to Rogue as Chere. X-23 and Jubilee share the name Petit.

Comic Strips

• Madam & Eve: Eight-year-old Thandi often calls Mother Anderson "Gogo" (Zulu for "grandmother").
• Modesty Blaise: Willie never calls Modesty anything other than "Princess", both out of affection and respect.
• Peanuts:
  • Sally constantly calls Linus "my sweet baboo." Linus always makes sure to clarify that HE IS NOT HER SWEET BABOO!
  • One TV special (with dialogue word-for-word from a strip) has Charlie Brown call the Little Red-Haired Girl this in a letter. "It's a... family expression."
  • Peppermint Patty invariably calls Charlie Brown "Chuck". In an inversion, she usually addresses Lucy by her full name, Lucille. Patty herself is called "A Rare Gem" by her father.
  • In one of the later strips, this accidentally happened when Charlie Brown met Peggy Jean at camp. He got nervous, and introduced himself as "Brownie Charles". She called him that all the time from that point, and he actually kind of liked it, so he never corrected her.
• In Popeye, we have Scooner Seawell Georgia Washenting Christiffer Columbia Daniel Boom, or as he's more commonly known, Popeye's lil' Swee'Pea.
• Pugad Baboy: Dagul calls his wife Debbie "Honeycured" (as in bacon); she calls him "Sweet Ham". Justified as this comic is about a community of mostly fat people and the nicknames are a play on more "typical" terms of endearment.

Fan Works

• Michael Garcia of 7teen calls his son Jonesy "champ" an awful lot.
• The Accidental Warlord And His Pack: Jaskier's lovers take to calling him "lark" and "catmint".
• In A Diamond Under Pressure Raquel is called "Raq" by Lance and Shahruhru.
• In A Green Christmas Bubbles calls Buttercup "Pear Butter".
• In Almost Psycho Chuck Chicken Buford is called "Bufy" by both his grandmother Butternut and his friend Howie.
• In A Lump in My Throat, Buttercup calls Bubbles "Bubs" and later "Bubsie".
• In Amber and Emerald Harry refers to Hermione as "Her-my-honey."
• Apple Family Values: Pinkie Pie affectionately refers to Scootaloo as "Scooter-Roo".
• In Becoming the Mask (Trollhunters), Jim calls his familiar - the actual James Lake Jr. - "Jay-Jay" because it was one of the nicknames his parents were trying out before settling on "Jim" (by which time he was replaced by a changeling).
• The Story of Apollo, Daphne and Luca: An Italian Tragedy: Alberto lovingly calls Luca "Bubble".
• In Black Rose Blooms Silver, Ruby and Penny call each other "wishing star" and "firefly".
• BlazBlue Alternative: Remnant:
  • It's revealed via flashbacks in Chapter 27 that Penny's name started out as this, with it having been given to her by Pietro back when she went by Kappa-10. After her escape from the testing facility, it would go on to become her true name. She later gets another one from Nora, who calls her "Penny Pops."
  • Glynda Goodwitch is often called "Glyn" by Litchi, her oldest and closest friend from her time in Sector Seven.
• In The Legend of Korra fanfic Book 5: Legends, the young girl Fumiko's name is often shortened to just "Miko."
• The Bride of Discord verse:
  • Screwball is often referred to as "Screwy" by her friends and family.
  • Scootaloo refers to Rainbow Dash's daughter Prism as "Rainbow Junior" or RJ for short.
• In The Bridge universe, Platonic Life-Partners Godzilla Junior and Mothra Lea call each other "Goji" and "Lele." Rodan also calls Godzilla "Chief," while Zilla Junior simply calls him "G."
• In The Matrix fanfic Bringing Me To Life, there are three characters with affectionate nicknames of the romantic kind: Smith's given the nickname "Ice-eyes" because of his eye color that Neo loves. Smith in return gives Neo the nickname of "Life" for saving him. Later, Smith gives Max Jameson the nickname of "Sun" because of his blond hair.
• The Chaotic Masters:
  • Sonata refers to Monkey King as her "funny monkey".
  • The Collector called Kimiko "firecracker" back when they were friends in the latter's childhood.
• Checkmate (Anla'Shok): Johanna likes to call Finnick, her closest friend among the other victors, "boytoy".
• The Choices That Make Us: Sirius calls Harry (the son of his friend James/Prongs) "Prongslet."
• Cinderella And Prince Charming: Before she meets him, Cinder always referred to her soulmate as her "little light," because the bond was the only bright spot in her life. After they meet, she does still often refer to him that way, even out loud.
• In Code: Half Demon, we have Odd calling Aelita "Princess," thus combining this trope with In-Series Nickname. But that is only the tip of the iceberg when it comes to nicknames in general...
• Dirty Sympathy: Klavier refers to Apollo as "Schatzelein" ("Treasure"), although he has issues with being referred to by endearments himself.
• Discord's New Business: Lyra calls Discord "Dissy" as she thanks him for turning her human. Discord decides he likes it.
• In The Domino City Effect, the main character Vivian Willow's name is often shortened to "Viv" by her friends. She also gets called a "used car salesman" sometimes due to how she talks, mostly by Joey Wheeler.
• In the Elemental Chess Trilogy, after Riza Hawkeye gets married, the men of her old military unit are slightly stumped as to what to call her, since they don't feel it's appropriate to continue calling her Hawkeye. They settle on a name of their own devising - Ladyhawk. She herself has her own Affectionate Nickname for the leader of the country, who happens to be her only living biological relative - "Fuhrer Grandfather, sir." (Yes, the whole thing.)
• Fate of the Clans:
  • Tatara addresses Mikoto as "King." He's been doing it since even before Mikoto became Red King.
  • Láeg, Cú Chulainn's charioteer and childhood best friend when he was alive, called Cú Chulainn "Cucu" or "Little Hound."
• At least a dozen of these show up in Fist of the Moon. Ranma alone is "Red-chan," "Ra-chan," "Ma-chan," as well as the less affectionate "Shadow Witch" and eponymous "fist of the moon."
• Forum of Thrones:
  • Alysanne is very fond of calling Kersea "Puppy." She later explains that this is because she sees her exactly as cute and innocent as a puppy, though also just as weak.
  • Leonard constantly calling Lucas by his last name "Flowers" has shades of this. It started off as a means of belittling them, though as their friendship grew, so did the meaning of the nickname.
  • Terroma is another major case of this, as he has nicknames for those especially close to him. More specifically, he is fond of putting the words "Sweet," "Pretty," and especially "Little" in front of Ellena's and Raenna's names.
• In the Devil May Cry fanfic Frail Equilibrium, Dante takes to calling a particular character "Twig" on account of her slight build. It starts as a sarcastic nickname, but as the series progresses and their relationship improves, it takes a more affectionate tone.
• Charlotte Blanc of the Attack on Titan fic The French Mistake is interchangeably referred to as "Char," "Lottie," and "Charlie" by her friends and family.
• In The Hater Good, Pig calls his sister Melba "Melby".
• Hours 'Verse: Goro refers to Akira as "attic trash". Disscussed in Patchwork Hearts; when Sophia questions why Goro calls his boyfriend a "mean thing", Goro explains that sometimes you can call people you know well enough mean things with affection.
• In The Matrix/Supernatural crossover Hunting Series, there's Neo's "Mr. W." for John Winchester after the man saved his life as a kid in part 3 - Hunting and Saving and Neo calling his honorary uncle "Mr. Bobby," though by the time of part 5 - Ghostry Hunting, he's just "Bobby."
• In the Star Trek: The Original Series fanfic Insontis, Spock sometimes calls the de-aged Kirk pi'khartlan — "little captain."
• In The Judgement of the World (5Ds), Stardust Dragon always refers to Black Rose Dragon as "Rosy." He's the only one she lets call her that.
• The Kedabory Verse:
  • A Big Blue House in Tall Pine Grove: Theresa refers to Boober as "Boo".
  • Don't Cry For Me, I've Already Wilted: Joker refers to his daughter Maimiko as "little raven's wing".
  • Fragile; Handle with Care: All of the 4*Town boys refer to Tae-young as "Tae."
  • Glitter Force: Into the Glitterverse:
    • Honoka briefly refers to Nozomi as "Nozo-chan."
    • Later, Hugtan refers to Komachi as "Machi".
  • Healin' Good 💖 Host Club: The twins refer to Honey as "Honeypie".
  • Junior Officers:
    • Captain Barnacles sometimes refers to Shellington as "champ" and Deborah as "princess".
    • Post-"Heal", Deborah calls Shellington "Ollie".
  • Kedabory's Muppet Mania: Bunsen has a variety of pet names for Beaker, including Beakie, Beakie-boo, Beakie-kin, etc.
  • Let Me Warm Your Heart: Heike calls Narcis a variety of pet names, such as "Jamie," "darling," and "my sweet".
  • Ma Fille: Joe often calls his daughter Katrina "Katie" or "ma belle" (meaning "darling" or "sweetheart").
  • PreCure in a Nutshell: Daddy Yuckyshore refers to his daughter Honk as Honky Wonky.
  • Reflections in a Cloudy Sky:
    • Camilo is often referred to as "Camilito," "Milito," or "Milo."
    • Sabrina is called "Sabi" by Stefanie and "Sab" by Luisa.
  • In Swarming With Hatred, Akaoni refers to Battamonda as "Battamon-mon".
  • In The Wrath of Avelina (Archive of Our Own link here), Bruno calls Stefanie "Estefanía" and "mariposa."
• Limpet AU: The Solo children call each other using pet names — "Jasa" for Jacen, "Jaya" for Jaina, and "Nicky" for Anakin. They also refer to their infant cousin Ben as "Skycrawler."
• Little Hands, Big Attitude: Sonic and his family decide to name the newly adopted baby hedgehog Obsidian, and call him Obbie for short. It's only when Obsidian - in reality a de-aged Mephilles - first hears them calling him that that realizes that they are serious about adopting him into their family and that their love isn't some kind of ruse.
• The title of Little Sun by Rated Ponystar is Princess Celestia's nickname for her secret daughter, Sunset Shimmer. It caught on in the fanbase and a lot of stories use it whether Sunset is Celestia's daughter, by blood or adoption, or simply her student.
• Lucy's Secret: Rita calls Lucy "Sweetie" when she's worried about her.
• In the Mork & Mindy fanfic Mork and Mindy's Twenty-Fifth Anniversary, Mearth and Beth call each other "earthhead" and "spaceboy."
• In the DARK MOON: THE BLOOD ALTAR fanfiction My Deepest, Darkest Secret:
  • To up the Ship Tease between them, Enzy calls Solon "pup," or sometimes, "puppy". When asked why, Enzy excused it with the fact that he never got his name (He really didn't, but still) and continues calling him that even after he learned his name, much to Solon's (secret) delight. When they get together, he adds new nicknames such as "doll," "cinnamon roll," and "sweetheart" to the list.
  • Solon's brothers (most commonly Heli, Jaan, and Jakah) often shorten Solon's name to "Sol." This shows that despite how distant they have been to him lately, they still love him. As a sign that they got closer, the werewolves seemed to have adopted this nickname for him as well.
  • Solon's dad Apollo calls him "baby bat" and mom Selene calls him "pup" and "puppy" like Enzy does.
• Off Limits (Black 4 Minister):
  • As in the series, Charlie is referred to as "Buddy" by Don and "Whiz Kid" by Colby.
  • Don refers to Original Character Jasper Phillips as "Jas."
• Paradoxus:
  • For all the resentments they carry, Trish and Alty are the nicknames that the sisters Trisha and Altalune have assigned to each other. We see them being used in casual conversations and text messages. They are a hint that their relationship is still salvageable.
  • Bloom refers to her best friend Stella as "Solecito", which translates as "Little Sun".
• Once Upon a Studio: Version 2.0:
  • In this extended cut of Disney's Once Upon a Studio, there are two major instances of this. During Goofy's botched first attempt at the group photo, Raya casually refers to Mickey as "Mick" when letting him know that the coast is clear for everyone to head outside. Later, as Cinderella and Rapunzel seek to restore everyone's morale with a new rendition of "When You Wish Upon a Star" and initiate the successful second attempt, Cinderella warmly says "all yours, Raps", as she offers up the guitar her Fairy Godmother has created, so they can start up the song to lift everyone's spirits, in a very similar vein to Cassandra from Tangled: The Series. Both of these instances truly show that virtually ALL the Disney characters have been friends forever; whatever their individual film universe might be.
• Passing Days: Many Servants have nicknames for Vy the protagonist. "Little sparrow," "little flower," "Princess," so on and so forth. Vy gives nicknames to some of these Servants in return, such as calling Robin Hood "Big Robin" and Achilles "Achi."
• In RealityCheck's Nyxverse, Night Light (her grandfather), Shining Armor (her uncle), and Ink Spot (her eventual stepfather) all take to calling Nyx "Nyxy Sticks."
• Cinder, in Ruby and Nora, calls Emerald her "gem" or "little gem."
• In the Dragon Age: Origins fanfic Shadow and Rose, Oghren grows to think of the Warden like his daughter. Upon learning that her home region of Highever is technically a principality in Ferelden, he dubs her "Princess." Later, when she's engaged to marry the king, he upgrades her to "Queenie."
• In Star Wars: The Sith, Zero Lyira shortens Louise's name down to "Lou." However, only Lyira can call Louise "Lou."
• In Ties That Bind (3rdgal), back when he and Charlie were close, Doug would call him "Charlie-boy" and even continues to occasionally say it to him when they meet up again.
• The Translation in Blood has Hannah Shepard^*not our Shepard, her mother call Councilor Sparatus "bird," while he calls her "pyjak."
• For the Triptych Continuum, Shining Armor often calls Cadance "Katydid" in private. She chirps when she's happy.
• In A Voice Among the Strangers, Jessica earns three of these before she manages to communicate her real name to the Equestrians. Ebony dubs her "Legend," in reference to some legends of creatures that gave emotions (their food) freely to Changelings, just as Jessica had done to her. Meanwhile, Rarity dubs her "Mystery" and later "Luna's Melody" in an attempt to dissuade ponies from calling her "Foal-Hunter."
• Wings to Fly has various characters using nicknames like "Boss" or "Skipper" for Lucrezia Noin, based on her well-known dislike of her first name. In an amusing contrast of military cultures, she doesn't actually know what "Skipper" means the first time she hears it.
• In The Dragon's Sin of Wrath: Izuku Midoriya, Bakugo calling Izuku "Deku" is this, as it's meant to motivate Izuku to move forward instead of being the outright insult it was used as in canon.
• In Nightmares, Edward Elric takes to calling his lover, Rowan Mustang, Nightmare - a reference to both her name and his wet dreams about her. "At night a mustang mare comes to me."
• Strange Times Are Upon Us: Brokosh once privately calls Ba'wov "chaparoy'li'", which translates from Klingonese as "my little songbird".
• From Come find me, Again, in chapter 8, we have Ryuuko calls her older sister, Satsuki, "Bihbi". The end note explains that Satsuki used to refer to herself "Big sister" or, more commonly, "Bigbig" when speaking to then baby Ryuuko but the aforementioned couldn't articulate that well so it came out as "Bihbi" and stuck, calling her that even as a teenager. In that line, we get Ryuuko who's referred to as either "Ryuu" "Munro", and, by Mankanshokus, "Maigo", although the latter is because they didn't know her name.
• In many fanfiction stories of The Legend of Zelda, it's common for Link to call Zelda "Zel" for short.
• It's not rare to find "R" used for Grantaire in many fanworks, as the original novel mentions that's how he signs his name.
• In Time Out of Mind, John Laurens and Martha Manning call each other Earthling and Martian, respectively.
• In the Contractually Obligated Chaos series, BJ takes to referring to Lydia as "Wifey-Babes."
• The Sanctuary Telepath: John calls his sister Janine "sissy", who affectionately responds by calling him "you idiot," especially when he does something self-sacrificing and/or irresponsible. Janine calls Helen "little sis", and James gets the occasional "darling". John and James both call each other "old boy".
• In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfiction Pound and Pumpkin Cake's Adventures (and Misadventures) in Potty Training has Mr. and Mrs. Cake call each other "sugar plum" and "honey bun".
• There are a number of these in Twice Upon an Age, but the most prominently used one is ma da'vhenan. It's Dalish for "my little heart," and it's the closest Mahanon can get to calling his fellow Inquisitor Victoria "my little sister" in that language. She, in turn, calls him "Nonny;" according to Varric, she's the only one allowed to use that name.
• The Differentverse: Derpy refers to Dinky as "my little muffin", while Dinky and Scootaloo refer to their usual foalsitter Amethyst Star as Amy. In the last chapter of A Quest for Harmony, Cadance calls Twilight "Ladybug", and Limestone calls Marble "my shy little hermit crab".
• DWK the creator/narrator of My Little Pony: Totally Legit Recap seems to enjoy giving these to the characters, like Twiggles, Twiggy, or Twigs for Twilight, Glimmy/Glim or Glam for Starlight, Butter Ball, Fluttershush, Butters, Quiet Yellow for Fluttershy, Ponkers for Pinkie, Sweetie B. for Sweetie Belle, Magician Horse or Triscuit for Trixie, and Candy for Cadance.
• Ace Attorney fanfiction that pairs up Phoenix with Iris tends to make him call her by the nickname "Rissy".
• In Incarnation of Legends, Oryou calls Haruhime "Haru", which shows that she cares deeply about her personally rather than through obligation.
• In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Lorelei's boyfriend is fond of calling her "ice nymph".
• Jiraiya in Son of the Sannin often calls Tsunade "Hime" (Japanese for "Princess"). This is later adopted by Naruto with Hinata when they start dating.
• Found all over the place in Skyhold Academy Yearbook. Most notably, Evvy and Dorian call one another "Cinderella" and "Fairy Godfather." He also refers to her as "the sister I never had," while Varric is "the brother I never wanted." Varric himself calls the Hawke sisters "my girls." And Cullen calls his wife "darling" so often that their young daughter thinks it's her actual name.
• Child Born of Love: After he took over his father, Kid prefers people simply call him "Death." Chrona, however, still calls him Kid, something he would rather she not do in front of their children.
• In his chronological introduction in So We're A Couple's third chapter, Ty refers to series ace Pyrrha Nikos as "Sis" at least once every other time he talks to or about her thereafter.
• The Apprentice, the Student, and the Charlatan:
  • Nova likes to refer to Twilight as "Twi." He also calls Cadance "Cadenza" even though she continues to ask him not to, though he initially did it out of spite.
  • Shortly after their Relationship Upgrade, Twilight tries to give Nova one of these. She tries "lovey," "honey," "dear," and "darling," with Nova shooting them all down because he finds them emasculating. This doesn't stop him from starting to call her "love" on the side.
• A Shadow of the Titans: Jinx refers to Jade/Zhu Chan as "Blue," while Gadjo calls her "Little Shadow".
• The New Adventures of Invader Zim: Robotic Battle Butler Ying only ever refers to his mistress, Nyx, as "Madame."
• In To Hell and Back (Arrowverse), Kal-El is called "Kal" by his adoptive family ('disguised' as being attributed to his middle name 'Calvin' to cover for his alias of Clark Kent).
• Early in My Master Ed, Edward decides to start calling the newly freed-and-christened Van Hohenheim as simply Van, claiming the name Hohenheim sounds like it belongs to an old man (prompting Van himself to think, But you named me yourself!). Later, Van sometimes calls Ed "Master" just because he knows it annoys him.
• Izuku acquires a number of these in Thieves Can Be Heroes!
  • Makoto calls him "Midori" for short.
  • Carter frequently calls Izuku "kid" or "my boy" similarly to how All Might does in canon.
  • Sae calls him "Little Izu".
  • Tae and Mei call him "Guinea Pig".
  • Iwai takes to calling him "Mumbles" for his Character Tic.
• In Mastermind: Strategist for Hire, Himiko Toga calls Izuku/Mastermind "Mind-chan".
• In Amazing Fantasy, Mitsuki calls Izuku "Izu-kun", making a Pun off his name.
• The Many Dates of Danny Fenton:
  • While not really nicknames, Danny and Sabrina seem partial to calling each other Mr. Phantom and Ms. Spellman.
  • Phantasma insists on her nickname of "Phanty".
  • Katie Kaboom seems fond of calling Danny "Pookie Bear", much to his dismay.
  • Danny and Kara's daughter Allura is nicknamed "Ally".
  • Danny and Sabrina's daughter Tabitha is nicknamed "Tabbi".
  • Danny and Kitty's daughter Madeline is nicknamed "Madge".
  • Danny and Phantasma's son Eidolonius is nicknamed "Eddie".
  • Danny and Kim's daughter Anne is lovingly called "Annie" or "Annie-Bear".
  • In After Many Dates: Danny and Kim, Danny and Kim have nicknames for each other. Kim's in "Blue Fox", her Animology sign. Danny's is "Spaceman", due to his love for space.
• Asuka and Shinji both refer to Rei as "our Rei" in Advice and Trust, which basically hangs a lampshade on the Threesome Subtext between them. Its affectionate nature becomes especially apparent in chapter 11, when she reveals her true nature to Asuka.
  Asuka: You're our Rei. Lilith or whatever, I don't care. You were our Rei first.
• In Kara of Rokyn, Kal calls his cousin Kara "Karaish".
• In A Prize for Three Empires, Gladiator's pet name for his lover Carol Danvers is "Ca-Rol".
• Hellsister Trilogy: Kara calls her boyfriend Dev-Em "Devian".
• What Might Have Been:
  • Everyone calls Jasper "Buffy."
  • Rose's first pearl is referred to as "Pearly."
  • After more and more pearls join the Crystal Gems, Pearl earns the nickname "Renegade" to properly distinguish her from them. Pearly (Rose's first Pearl) calls her "White", implying that she was White Diamond's original pearl.
• In The Smeet Series, Zim and GIR refer to Ilk as "Ilk-Smeet" and "Ilkie", respectfully. Also, Red occasionally calls her "sweetie".
• Unlike in canon, where it was used as an insult, in Metallurgy, Katsumi initially called Izuku "Deku" because she misread his name. After their Relationship Upgrade, it's treated as her pet name for him.
• Bethany, in Beyond Heroes: Of Sunshine and Red Lyrium, sometimes refers to Varric as "my dwarf" or "my one-man public relations team." He, in turn, continues to call her "Sunshine" as in canon, but also mixes it up with some new ones throughout the story, including "Her Sunny Worship" and, in the last few chapters, "Lady Tethras."
• In Zim the Warlord: Irken Reversion, part of the constant Ship Tease between Zim and Gaz is him taking to calling her "Gazling".
• Achilles' Heel: Mohn used to call Lusamine "Lucy". However, it upsets her when he tries to call her it after so many years apart.
• In Butterfly Nets, Angela eventually begins calling Candace "Candy".
• Hikigaya Hachiman has gained a few of these in My Hero School Adventure Is All Wrong As Expected. Most notably, a Class Representative is typically referred to by his or her title in Japanese ("Iincho"), but the majority of Class 1-A refer to Hachiman as "Taichou" (lit. "captain") out of respect and admiration for their de facto leader, with several referring to him affectionately as "Hikitaichou".
• Final Fantasy VII Alternate Universe fic Us and Them: After they get married, Sephiroth begins referring to Aeris as his "Little Mage" (she joins a White Mages guild on Beud A'Evori), usually when he's in the mood. Aeris takes to using for herself when she's in the mood herself.
• In Make a Man Out of You, Ping's friend Wei affectionately calls him "General Flower Pot" in a letter. This is because "Hua Ping" translates to "flower pot"/"flower vase".
• In the Rule 63 The Loud House fanfic One Girl with Ten Brothers, Linka Loud is often called "Snow White" by her family and a few close friends, because of her white hair and her status as the only daughter among her brothers.
• Fate/Gamers Only: Rikku calls El-Melloi II "Sensei". According to the author's notes, Rikku didn't even notice that she called him that the first time, but "He's just so much like that one gruff teacher that the students love because he's actually a good teacher that she called him that automatically." El-Melloi thinks to himself at one point that he'd like to protest being called "Sensei", but decides that it sounds "natural" coming from Rikku.
• The Bolt Chronicles:
  • Once Bolt and Mittens become a romantic couple, they often refer to each other using terms of endearment. Mittens employs a variety of such nicknames for the dog, ranging from the commonplace ("sweetie" being encountered most often) to the more imaginative ("cuddlebug," "studmuffin," "lovebug," "puddinhead"). Bolt's go-to word for Mittens is "babe," though he sometimes calls her "kiddo."
  • In "The Clouds," Soapy ordinarily calls Mittens "Queen of Clubs" or "little missy."
• Mellorine! Mellorine!: Sanji calls his Genderbent crewmates 'Captain-chan', 'Summer-chwan', and 'Usopp-chwan'. In the central case, he deliberately uses a nickname because the fact that he's fawning over Zoro Squicks him out to no end, but he can't repress his natural tendency to swoon over attractive women.
• A Pikachu in Love: Pichi gives Pikachu several, such as 'Thunder Mouse' or 'Pika-Boy'.
• In the Thomas & Friends fanfic A Cracked Ruby, Molly calls James her "radiant ruby", while James calls Molly his "shining sun".
  • In AaronCottrell97's fanverse, all engines who are in a relationship have nicknames for their significant others - for example, Thomas calls Emily his emerald angel, while Emily calls Thomas her cobalt star and Luke and Millie call each other "lovely bluebell" and "little tree", respectively. Gordon and Rebecca, on the other hand, call each other "Big G" and "golden queen".
• In Scream, Megatron calls Starscream his "little seeker".
• In DiscordantPrincess' Hazbin Hotel fanworks, OC Megan Lowell tends to call Alastor "Allie" after they become friends; moreso after they get married. In turn, Alastor calls her "Meggie," as well as generic nicknames like "dear," "darling," "honey," etc.
• Resident Evil: A Brother's Promise: Sherry calls B.J., her older brother, "Billy."
• In Ordinary Girl, Langston — one of the few people in the Bureau that doesn't look to Jesse with contempt — calls her "Speaker" because of her uncanny skill in pacifying troublesome Altered Items.
• In Part One of Ships Ahoy!, O'Donahue refers to Oprah as "baby doll" and "doll", even before the two become boyfriend and girlfriend.
• In the Once Upon a Time/Mr. Right Fanfic Love at First Sight (Once Upon a Time), Emma takes to referring to Regina as "Panda" after learning of Regina's love for Pandas. Regina finds it adorable, and Emma keeps doing it until the end of the story.
• In both The Unwanted Harem Of Nathan Adams and Damona In The Details, Damona calls Nate "honey".
• In Star Wars's The Heir:
  • The young emperor Luke receives several stuffed animal toys as gifts from a mysterious person who refers to Luke as "little angel". Darth Vader inadvertently gives himself away when he calls Luke by the same nickname, though by then, Luke suspected it had been him. Afterwards, Darth Vader openly calls Luke "little angel" as a sign of their improving relationship.
  • Sabé had called Luke "little prince", though she switched to "little emperor" early on after Luke becomes emperor.
• bluebellwren's Ace Combat fanfictions
  • In Three Strikes, Count starts to call Naomi "Trig" instead of "Trigger." She notices it, but he tells her not to think about it too much.
  • In The Demon's Song, Kathryn (i.e., Blaze) gets called Ryn by her brother, Allen Hamiltion
• In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic The Long Eventide, multiple members of the Umbral Society have nicknames. Diamond Dust has "Dusty," Penumbra has "Penny," Brandywine has "Brandy," Masquerade has "Mask," and Zigzag has "Zig." While typically used among themselves (especially by the ever-informal Blackbird Song, who lacks a nickname of her own and instead insists on First-Name Basis), when first introducing herself, Penumbra invites the Mane Six to use her nickname in response to Twilight Sparkle's desire for informality.
• In Turtle Kittens, Tang Shen had taken to calling the turtles her "kittens."
• The School for Good and Evil (2022) fanfic Not a prince: Lesso calls Dovey both "Princess" and "My Dove" regularly, and by the end she starts to call her "My Love".
• Slice of Velvet and Pear Moondancer is sometimes called "Moonie" by her friends and more often than not, just Moon for short.
• In any My Hero Academia fanfic pairing Aizawa and Present Mic romantically it’s almost a given they’ll call each other “Sho” and “Zashi” respectively.

Film — Animated

• In Back to the Outback, when Pretty Boy warms up to Maddie, they start referring to each other by their initials.
• The Book of Life:
  • La Muerte is called "mi amor", which is Spanish for "my love", by her husband. According to Word of God, he also calls her "Muertita".
  • Xibalba is nicknamed "Balby" by his wife.
• The titular character of Charlotte (2021) is Lotte to her parents.
• Encanto: Agustin refers to Mirabel as "Miraboo".
• How to Train Your Dragon 2: Hiccup has taken to calling Astrid "Milady". Astrid in turn sometimes calls Hiccup "Babe".
• Kronk's New Groove: Birdwell calls Kronk "Kronky-Poo". Kronk in return calls her "Birdy-Poo".
• Somewhat deconstructed in The Lorax (2012) as The Onceler's mother calls him "Oncie", but she's obviously doing it because it makes him more biddable.
• The LEGO Movie 2: The Second Part: Briefly, Batman refers to Queen Watevra as "Watevs." She also calls him "babe" from time to time like Lucy used to do when they were together.
• Monsters, Inc.: Mike and Celia refer to each other as "Smoochiepoo" and "Googly Bear" respectively. Celia also has one for Sulley, "Sulley Wulley", who makes up "Celia Welia" on the spot.
• Once Upon a Studio: Raya abbreviating Mickey's name to "Mick" when letting him know that the coast is clear for everyone to head outside for the group photo to celebrate Creator/Disney's centennial.
• Phineas and Ferb The Movie: Candace Against the Universe: Super Super Big Doctor affectionately calls Candace "Candy Cane" after becoming friends. Of course, it’s partially because “Candace” is also the sound that Super Super Big Doctor’s subjects make when they explode.
• The Princess and the Frog: Childhood best friends Tiana and Charlotte refer to each other as "Tia" and "Lottie" respectively.
• Ratatouille: Rémy is called "Little Chef" by Linguini, who can't communicate with him to learn his real one.
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse:
  • Peter B. Parker occasionally calls Miles "Bud".
  • Spider-Noir has called Miles "little fella".
• The Super Mario Bros. Movie:
  • Bowser calls Peach "Peaches" for most of the film, not that she likes it.
  • Peach calls Mario "Mustache" as she starts to grow a budding romantic interest in him.
  • Mario sometimes calls his younger brother Luigi "Lu" for short.
• The Sword in the Stone: The girl squirrel would sometimes refer to squirrel Arthur, in whom she's very interested, something sounding like "Chicoo". This seems to be what squirrels chirp to refer to loved ones, meaning she's likely calling him something like "darling" or "beloved".
• Turning Red: Mei's mother Ming frequently refers to her as "Mei-Mei".
• Wreck-It Ralph:
  • An interesting example in that for Ralph and Vanellope, names like Major Body Odor and President Fart-Feathers become affectionate rather than insulting.
  • In her backstory, Sgt. Calhoun's late fiance used to call her a "dynamite gal". Needless to say, it's become her Trauma Button as a reminder of his death.
  • Ralph Breaks the Internet: Felix calls Calhoun "Tammy", a shorter form of her first name, Tamora.
• The title character of Yellowbird, incidentally known as "Yellowbird", receives one in the film's final scene. Delf, his closest friend and implied love interest, chooses to call him "Sam". The other members of the flock all agree that that is a fine name, even Karl, who didn't care much for Sam until the end of the film.

Film — Live-Action

• In About Scout, Sam's mother Gloria calls him "Pigeon."
• Ajnabee: Vicky's first name is Vikram, but everyone just calls him Vicky instead.
• Ant-Man and its sequels: Scott refers to his daughter Cassie as "Peanut", while Janet Van Dyne uses "Jellybean" for her daughter, Hope.
• In Batman Forever and Batman & Robin, Gossip Gerty's nickname for Bruce Wayne is "Brucie".
• In Big Game, Moore calls Oskari "Ranger", as the boy jokingly suggested it earlier.
• Simon from The Black Balloon (2007) addresses his wife Maggie as "Magpie."
• In Black Swan, Tomas's nickname for Beth is "little princess". In the end, he calls Nina that.
• In Breakfast at Tiffany's, Holly first calls Paul "Fred" after her brother, because Paul reminds her of him.
• Cassanova Was A Woman: Cassanova is usually called "Cass" by her family, friends, and partners.
• Charlotte's Web: Brooks the crow is called "Brooksie" by his partner Elwyn.
• Compulsion (2016): Francesca calls Sadie (who becomes her lover) "piccola" ("small" or "little one") while she's speaking tenderly with her. It grows creepy as Francesca uses this while urging Sadie to kill Thierry later.
• Contracted: Samantha's friends and her lover Nikki call her Sam frequently.
• In Crystal Fairy & the Magical Cactus, Crystal refers to Jamie as El Pollo Loco, which gets shortened to Pollo. By the end of the movie, the brothers have picked it up, too. Less affectionately, the guys call her "Crystal Hairy."
• Cut to the Chase: Isobel is called Izzy by everyone who cares about her.
• In Dad's Army (1971), Lance Corporal Jones calls Pike "Pikey".
• Doctor... Series:
  • In Doctor in the House (1954), Grimsdyke and Taffy call each other "Taff" and "Grim" respectively.
  • In Doctor at Sea, Easter calls Captain Hogg "Father".
  • In Doctor at Large, Emerald calls Dr. Potter-Shine "Razzy", short for his first name "Erasmus".
  • In Doctor in Love, Dr. Hare calls Dr. Nicola Barrington "Nikki".
  • Doctor in Clover:
    • Sydney calls Digger "Digs".
    • Jeannine calls Symington "Symie".
    • An unusually happy Sir Lancelot calls Dr. Grimsdyke "Grimmy" before the nurses' party.
  • Doctor in Trouble:
    • Wendover calls Captain Spratt "Whiskers", a name that causes great annoyance to him.
    • Ophelia and Satterjee call Dr. Burke "Burkey".
    • Dr. Burke calls Basil "Baz".
    • Mrs. Dailey calls Dawn "Dawny", "Poopsie", and "Bubba".
    • When Disguised in Drag as Lavinia, Dr. Burke tries to get the Master-at-Arms to give him one to help sell the illusion that he is a woman:
      Dr. Burke: If you like, you can call me "Lav" for short.
      Master-at-Arms: Er, I'd just like to ask you one or two questions, if you don't mind, er... Lav. Er, purely in the line of duty, of course.
      Dr. Burke: What's your name, Captain?
      Master-at-Arms: "Humphrey". (Beat) But if you like, you can call me... "Hum", for short.
      Dr. Burke: It's a good job your name isn't "Bumfrey", isn't it?
• In Dominick and Eugene, the titular brothers refer to each other with nicknames, "Nicky" for Dominick and "Gino" for Eugene.
• Entre Nous (2021): Laetitia sometimes calls her fiancée Elodie "Elo".
• In A Face in the Crowd, Lonesome calls Marcia "Marshy."
  "That's short for marshmallow. My little marshmallow."
• Feed (2017): Olivia is usually called Liv by her twin brother, parents and friends.
• In Fly Away, Jeanne sometimes calls her daughter Mandy "Ladybug," or "Bug."
• The Ghost Ship: Erudite radioman Sparks calls Third Officer Merriam "Tertius," which means "third" in Latin.
• Ginger Snaps: Ginger mostly calls Brigitte "B". Brigitte calls Ginger "Ging" on her part. The two are sisters and very close (at first). Ginger's very protective of her.
• Girls Like Magic: Jamie calls Maggie "Magic" due to coming into her life magically when she had just had an unhappy breakup.
• One of the many connotations of The Godfather. Discussed by Michael during the Senate commission in Part II.
• A brotherly example with Pablo Ramirez in The Good, the Bad and the Ugly, who gets called "Pablito" by his brother Tuco.
• Grandpa's Psycho: Murry likes to call his granddaughter Megan "chipmunk".
• The Grizzlies: Roger calls his girlfriend Spring his sun, moon, and stars. This gets multiple grim call backs after they start having problems and he commits suicide due to feeling he has nothing left.
• In Hard Eight, Clementine calls Sydney "captain", because, as she explains, he looks like a captain on a ship. Sydney accepts this, but he gently chides John when he tries to use it on him.
• High and Tight — Shane only ever calls his little brother 'Scotty'. Their other brother Seth notably doesn't.
• The Hollow Child: Samantha's usually called Sam by her friend Emily (who it turns out is also attracted to her).
• In Holiday on the Buses, Doreen calls Betty "Bets".
• In Honey Baby, after learning she was raised on a bee farm, Tom nicknames Natascha "Honey Baby."
• How To Blow Up A Pipeline: Xochitl is called "Xochi" by all of her friends.
• India Sweets And Spices: Alia is sometimes called "Ali" by her friends.
• It's a Wonderful Knife (2023): Winnie is nicknamed Win by some of her family and friends.
• Jane Got a Gun: Jane calls Bill Hammond, her husband, "Ham" after his last name.
• The Last Letter From Your Lover: In their Affair Letters, Jenny and Anthony refer to each other as "J" and "Boots".
• Lucky Star: After observing that Mary is a sort of "black sheep", Tim nicknames her "Baa-baa".
• National Lampoon's Vacation : and all its sequels, Ellen calls husband Clark “Sparky”
• Nightfall (1988): Bet's mother calls her Betta as a sign of affection.
• Only Stwpd Cowz Txt N Drive: Cassie's mother refers to her as Cass.
• In Paddington (2014), Paddington notes that Mrs. Brown has a tendency to come up with embarrassingly affectionate nicknames for her daughter Judy, with examples including "Twinkle", "Coconut" and "Sweetie-Pops".
• In The Palm Beach Story, the Princess calls her brother "Snoodles".
• Perfect Addiction: Sienna's loved ones sometimes call her "Si".
• In The Philadelphia Story, Dexter generally addresses Tracy as "Red".
• Please Turn Over: In Jo's book Naked Revolt, Stella calls Roger "Rogey-Podgy" and Aunt Una calls Blanche "Blanchey".
• Alex from Raising the Wind calls his friends "Dear boy", "Dear girl", "Angel child", "Darling", and "Dear chap" when talking to them.
• Red, White & Royal Blue: Alex Claremont-Diaz insists on calling his boyfriend Prince Henry "Your Majesty" despite the latter's numerous attempts to correct him, as his proper royal address is "Your Royal Highness."
• The Retreat (2021): Renee usually calls her girlfriend Valerie "Val".
• In Rogue One, Jyn Erso has a couple:
  • She's called "Stardust" by her father Galen Erso. This one also has a greater significance later in the Imperial Archives on Scarif.
  • Later, Baze Malbus addresses her as "little sister" just before they head off on their mission.
• In Saw, Lawrence and Alison's marriage is tenuous and fraught with cold neglect on Lawrence's end, but when Zep, who is holding Alison and her and Lawrence's young daughter Diana hostage, has her call Lawrence on the phone, she tearfully asks, "Larry?" to which he immediately responds, just as tenderly, "Allie?"
• Shall We Play?: Stacy usually nicknames her good friend Emma as Ems. Emma calls her Stace too in turn.
• The miners in Snow White: A Tale of Terror at first mockingly call Lilli 'princess' when she joins them (since she's a noblewoman by birth). But when the time comes to say goodbye, one of them says, "Good journey, little princess."
• In Star Wars, Hans initially called Luke "kid" dismissively but by the time of Return of the Jedi, it's said affectionately.
• Summerland (2020): Alice called her lover Vera "V". Vera had called her "Al" in turn.
• Sylvie's Love: Mona calls her beloved cousin Sylvie "kiddo"; Robert's bandmates call him "B-flat".
• In To Have And Have Not Harry and Marie call each other Steve and Slim.
• In Up Pompeii, Lurcio calls Nausius "Naus".
• Watch Your Stern:
  • Some of the sailors on the HMS Terrier call Blissworth "Blissy".
  • Miss Foster uses the former and also calls Commander Fanshawe "Billy".
  • Admiral Pettigrew used to call Miss Potter "Yar", so she called him "Uncle Humpers" in return.
• In Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Jessica calls Roger "honey-bunny," and he calls her "love cup."
• Wishcraft: Samantha is called "Sam" frequently by her friends or boyfriends.
• Young & Wild: Daniela's nicknamed "Dani" by her boyfriend, and "Danielita" (little Daniela) by her aunt.

Literature

• Absolutely Truly: Truly's dad used to call her Truly-In-The-Middle due to her being the middle child of the family. He stopped doing that after a bomb took his arm off.
• Alexis Carew:
  • Alexis finds out via an overheard conversation in a pub that she's become known among the crew as "Little Bit", short for "Little Bit of Bosun", in reference to her A Mother to Her Men command style and reputation as a fighter (from when she fought off an Attempted Rape by a drunken crewman and said he Cut Himself Shaving to spare him from hanging).
  • Alexis's Love Interest, the culturally French Hanoverese naval lieutenant Delaine Thiebaud, calls her by any number of French pet names during their romance. She does say no to being called "mon chou" ("my little cabbage"), though.
• The Alice Network: Charlotte "Charlie" St. Clair’s nickname started out this way — Rose was the only one who called her Charlie — but after Rose’s disappearance, she begins to go by Charlie full time.
• In the Alien Chronicles trilogy, Ampris receives a few of these based on her unusual golden fur. Her mother and several other characters refer to her by some variation of 'golden one', but the most consistent is Elrabin calling her 'Goldie'.
• American Gods: Shadow's wife, Laura, called him "puppy"; when their landlord said they couldn't have pets, Shadow joked that he'd be Laura's puppy.
• Ana on the Edge: Ana's skating coach, Alex, sometimes calls her "Bean."
• V. C. Andrews:
  • Dollanganger Series: Cathy's eldest son is named Julian after his father, but is known in the family as Jory, which is a combination of his real name and that of his late uncle Cory. Cathy's brother Chris, meanwhile, calls her "my lady Cath-er-ine."
  • Casteel Series: Heaven's angelically beautiful and saintly mother Leigh was called "Angel" by Luke after he heard her call her doll that and said that the nickname fit her better. Heaven herself is called "Heavenly" by her brother Tom, who's super-close to her (but not romantically interested in her, shockingly enough).
  • Ghostwriter Andrew Neiderman
    • In the Orphans series, the dainty and shy Janet is called "Butterfly" by her orphan friends.
    • Similarly, in The Wildflowers series, the meek and timid Cathy is called "Cat" by her OWP (Orphans With Parents) friends.
• Angel Child, Dragon Child: Our main character’s first name is Hoa, but her family calls her Ut, “a tender name for smallest daughter.” When she becomes friends with Raymond, she asks him to use this name, too.
• In Animorphs, Marco would jokingly refer to Rachel, his (Dark) Action Girl teammate, as "Xena: Warrior Princess."
  • Their Token Non-Human teammate is also known as "Ax," which is short for the significantly wordier Aximili(-Esgarrouth-Isthill). Tobias calling him "Ax-man" indicates an extra level of affection between them. Ax's dad also apparently calls him "Aximili-kala," which presumably means something affectionate in the Andalite language.
  • Marco actually does this quite a bit. Jake is usually "Big Guy," while Tobias is usually "Bird-Boy."
• Nicknames are common in L. M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables series:
  • Gilbert calls Anne "Anne-girl" after their marriage (after initially calling her Carrots... he didn't make that mistake again!). Anne, in turn, is the only one in the book series to call him "Gil".
  • Their youngest daughter Rilla is called "Spider" by her older brother Jem, in reference to her gangly limbs at the start of Rilla of Ingleside. Her brother Walter also takes to calling her Rilla-my-Rilla, a play on her name (she is named after Marilla, though this is actually her middle name). Her childhood friend/crush Kenneth Ford adopts this same nickname, eventually using it to propose ("Is it Rilla-my-Rilla?").
  • Jem is always called "Little Jem" by the family's hired help, Susan, which he hates. Susan also calls Jem's youngest brother Shirley her "Little Brown Boy", owing to his dark skin, brown hair, and brown eyes.
• Annie on My Mind:
  • Liza calls Annie "Unicorn."
  • Ms. Isabelle Stevenson calls her partner Ms. Katherine Widmer "Kah".
• Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: The protagonist Robin Swift is nicknamed "Birdie" by his dearest friend Ramy almost as soon as they first meet. Ramy is the only person who uses the nickname regularly, and Robin dislikes when other people try, even other friends of his.
• In Bazil Broketail series, the titular character and other dragons of Argonath often have those, which are usually shortened version of their actual names. Bazil himself is called "Baz" (only by his dragonboy Relkin, though), Kepabar is called "Kep", Nessessitas is called "Nessi", Chektor is called "Check", et cetera.
• In Bewilderment, Robin asks his dad Theo what he used to call Robin's late mother Alyssa. Theo lists "Aly," "Ally," "Miss Lissy," and "Mom."
• In Bone Street Rumba, Carlos' two medical practitioners call each other by nicknames based on their practice. Dr. Tijou is a medical doctor (a surgeon to be precise) and Baba Eddie is a santero.
  Dr. Tijou: Dr. Voudou!
  Baba Eddie: Dr. Bonecutter!
• The Bone Wars: Julian calls his friend and fellow young fossil hunter Thad Esteemed Colleague (E.C. for short), and by the Distant Epilogue, Thad has taken to calling Julian Household Word Maker, referencing Julian vowing to make dinosaurs a household name by letting the world see their skeletons in museums.
• This trope is discussed in River Secrets, the third Book of Bayern. Razo calls his sister Rinna "Rinna-girl" because she's the only girl in a family full of boys, and calls his friend Enna "Enna-girl" because she reminds him of his sister. At one point his soon-to-be Love Interest Dasha asks him if he loves Enna, since "nicknames are a sign of affection." This makes him suddenly realize that Dasha's persistent nickname for him, "Tree rat," isn't mocking, but shows that she likes him.
• The Bronze Horseman by Paullina Simons: Due to Russian Naming Convention, the protagonists call each other by intimate-diminutive versions of their names, but have to be careful not to use them around other people as it would give away their Secret Relationship.
• In By Any Other Name (2013), Holly calls her little sister Katie 'Popsicle'.
• Can You Spare a Quarter?: Jamie calls Graham "Pop", which the latter appreciates even though Jamie using this word often is a sign of something big about to happen.
• The Chronicles of Dorsa:
  • Tasia's full name is Natasia, but she's usually called this or Tazy by lovers (her late brother also did so). She calls Mylla, her handmaid and lover, Myll. Tasia further calls her late brother Nikhost, Nik (who she loved dearly).
  • Later, Joslyn is nicknamed as "Jozzy" by Tasia (who's her lover then) or "Joz" by her friends.
  • Linna's nicknamed "little seagull" by Akella, a pirate captain. She's not fond of it, but Akella means this with affection.
  • Tasia's younger sister Adela is called "Del" by Linna, who's her chambermaid, a close friend and has a crush on her.
• In the Circle of Magic series, Briar often calls Tris (the foster sister to whom he is closest due to their shared love of books) Coppercurls, because of her curly red hair.
• The Daevabad Trilogy:
  • Prince Muntadhir and Prince Alizayd call each other Dhiru and Zaydi, indicating their close fraternal relationship that frays throughout the second book.
  • The utterly fearsome Big Bad Manizheh's lover sometimes calls her Manu in private. When one of her men overhears this, he's genuinely shocked to hear the fond nickname.
• In The Dinosaur Lords, Montserrat is usually called Montse by people who like her, in contrast to people who only interact with her in official situations and use her full name.
• Several characters in Dora Wilk Series:
  • Dora calls her demon and angel friends respectively "imp" and "little angel" ^note "Aniołek" in original, compared to "anioł", meaning "angel"..
  • Witkacy calls Dora "Ti", which in original is a ridiculously cute word.
• In Dragon Bones, Ward affectionately calls his sister Ciarra "brat." Later on, he asks Tisala (a noblewoman whom he hardly knows at that time) whether he can shorten her name to "Tissa" or "Lally". Her answer?
  "Not if you want to keep your tongue."
• Dragonvarld: Melisande is called Melis by her lover Bellona sometimes.
• Corliss in Dream High School calls you G-dow (the initials of "Grok, Destroyer of Worlds") and Gavin Gav-Gav.
• In the Elemental Logic series, Zanja calls the family's daughter Leeba "Little Hurricane."
• The Essex Serpent:
  • Joanna Ransome is often called Jo or Jojo by her family.
  • Luke Garrett is called "Imp" by Cora Seaborne which is meant to be both affectionate and teasing. Martha came up with the nickname and she's not terribly fond of Luke. Others think the nickname is very fitting.
• In the Fairy Oak series, Vanilla is nicknamed "Baboo", after the first word her twin sister ever called her; and Lavender, "La", which is a product of their aunt's talent of pruning names.
• The Fallocaust series:
  • Silas gives these to his chimeras, with a healthy dose of Gratuitous Latin. Generally, it's only chimeras who severely disappoint him, like Valen who don't get them.
  • Nero also does this, but his nicknames are far more casual.
  • Reaver frequently refers to Killian as Killicat or Killer Bee. Once he and Nero befriend each other in The Suicide King they start to call to each other as Duck and Goose.
  • Reno frequently calls Killian "Tinkerbell" or "Tink."
  • After they get married, Elish and Jade call each other "Magnus" and "Maritus," respectively.
• Go to Sleep (A Jeff the Killer Rewrite): "Benny", Jeff's nickname for his best friend Ben, which he says as he begs for him to wake up, even stammering it in a brief Hope Spot of him still being alive.
• This trope is actually a plot point in one of R.L. Stine's Goosebumps stories. The main heroine's father calls her "Fatso" and "Princess". During the course of the story, her father starts behaving strangely, and it turns out to be because it's actually an evil plant replacement. So how does the heroine eventually figure out who's her real father? The evil plant calls her by her real name, while the real Dr. Brewer is able to remember the latter nickname.
• In Grass and Sky, Grampy addresses Timmi's little sister Rebecca as "Brown Eyes," which makes her wonder if that makes her Blue Eyes.
• Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince:
  • Ron gets the nickname "Won-Won" from his girlfriend, Lavender. Harry resolves to put his foot down if Ron reciprocates by calling her "Lav-Lav" (Ron does not), and Hermione suddenly leaves to go vomit the first time she hears it. The same book also reveals Arthur Weasley's nickname for Molly when they're alone: Mollywobbles.
  • Dark witches and sisters Bellatrix and Narcissa call each other "Bella" and "Cissy".
• Honor Harrington:
  • Eloise Pritchart is called "Ellie" by both her closest friend Kevin Usher and by Javier Giscard, who is the love of her life. Interestingly, her other closest friend, Thomas Theisman, is never seen to use the nickname — perhaps because by the time they come to know each other well, she is already his President. (Theisman is, however, one of a very few people to still call her "Eloise" during her Presidency.)
  • Similarly to the above, Theisman is "Tom" to his close friends. It's a mark of their growing friendship when the title character begins to address him by this nickname.
  • Lady Gloria Michelle Samantha Evelyn Henke is known to her close friends as "Mike".
  • Queen Elizabeth III is "Beth" to her family.
• Gale calls Katniss "Catnip" in The Hunger Games, though this is really due to her being so shy when they first met that she mumbled her name and he misheard her.
  • Occasionally used is 'little duck' from Katniss to Prim, due to the latter's habit of having her shirt tails untucked.
• The Husky and His White Cat Shizun: Erha He Ta De Bai Mao Shizun: Mo Ran enjoys calling Chu Wanning "Baobei" and "Wanning" after they've gotten together, in addition to "Shizun", which takes on an affectionate tone, and in the extras "en gong gege" is also used.
• Mille of Ilivais X takes to calling Iriana "Ir" early on even before they have any romantic moments, with a justification along the lines of "it's four syllables in six letters!" Iriana has a bit of contempt for it at first but quickly gets over it.
• The Infernal Devices:
  • Theresa Gray is called Tessie by her brother, Tess by Will, and Tessa by most everyone else.
  • Will's sister Cecily is called "Cecy" by Will and later Gabriel Lightwood.
• Inkmistress:
  • Asra nicknames her lover Invasya as Ina.
  • Hal mostly calls his sister Nismae Nis.
• Isaac Asimov:
  • Foundation Series:
    • "The Mule": Bayta and Toran are newlyweds, calling each other Bay and Torie.
    • Gregory Benford's Foundation's Fear: When Seldon is walking around Streeling University, he is given two names by the excited students; "Prof Minister" and "Math Minister".
  • "I Just Make Them Up, See!": This poem refers to Isaac Asimov as "Dr. A.", which helps to characterize the fan as someone familiar with his published work. Isaac Asimov would later use this nickname as a Pen Name.
  • "Liar! (1941)": The RB model robots are called "Herbie" as a nickname.
  • "Profession":
    • When they were eight, Trevelyan would call George "Jaw-jee".
    • When they were eight, George would call Armand Trevelyan "Stubby", which changed to "Trev" when Trevelyan decided that it was too childish.
  • "Rejection Slips": "Gruff", the second letter, addresses Isaac Asimov with the very informal "Ike". This shows the poem to be more 'rough' than the other two, as Dr Asimov was often distressed with people saying/spelling his name wrong.
  • "Runaround": Rather than using the model designation, SPD 13, Powell and Donovan call their robot Speedy.
  • "The Ugly Little Boy": When surprised by the reporters, Nurse Fellowes immediately names and nicknames the titular Neanderthal boy. His name is Timothy, but throughout the story, she calls him Timmie.
• Isaac Asimov and Janet Asimov's The Norby Chronicles:
  • McGillicuddy, the lone spacer/prospector who assembled Norby from a wrecked (alien) spaceship found on an asteroid, preferred to be called Mac, so Norby usually refers to him that way.
  • Mentor First, an alien robot, built Searcher, the alien spacecraft that ended up wrecked in the Solar System's asteroid belt. After helping him refuel, Norby calls him "Father".
• Katalepsis: Evelyn is called “Evee” by her friends.
• Last Night at the Telegraph Club: Kath for Kathleen, which is what most of her friends and her girlfriend all call her.
• In Little Women, everyone calls Theodore Laurence by his preferred nickname of Laurie - except for his best friend Jo. She gets to call him Teddy. Later, when he marries her sister Amy, his wife gives him a nickname of her own - "my lord." He, in turn, calls her "Mrs. Laurence" or "my lady."
  • Meg's twins are named Margaret and John, after their parents. Everyone calls them Daisy and Demi - Demi being short for "Demijohn." In the sequel Little Men, their baby sister is named Josephine after her Aunt Jo and is known in the family as Josie. Laurie and Amy's daughter is named Elizabeth after Beth, but while she's commonly addressed as Bess, the eponymous little men more often refer to her as "the princess."
• In a disturbing use of the trope, the One Ring from Lord of the Rings makes its wearers refer to it as "My/their/the Precious".
• Loveless: As the romantic tension between them grows, Pip starts calling Rooney "Roo", while Rooney starts calling her "Pipsqueak".
• Maya's Notebook: After Maya arrives to Chiloé Island, Manuel, her host takes her out for tea. The tea shop owner hears the American Maya speak Spanish and is pleasantly surprised that la gringuita speaks the language. Manuel explains to Maya in Chile, "gringo" is just a term for any blond English speaker, but if in diminutive form ("gringuito/a"), it is meant in affection. Shortly, everybody else calls her "la gringuita".
• A Memory Called Empire: In Teixcalaan, "use-names" that pun on a person's proper name are a gesture of closeness. The protagonist finds it incredibly cute that the government agents Three Seagrass and Twelve Azalea call each other "Reed" and "Petal" offhandedly. In A Desolation Called Peace, it overlaps with You Called Me "X"; It Must Be Serious when Nine Hibiscus's Number Two calls her "Mallow" in public.
• In The Migax Cycle, Leafsong calls Summer "Hacker," due to the fact that Summer is good at hacking technology, yet hates being called a hacker.
• Mirror World has Vita and Wigavat, both of whom are respectively called "Vee" and "Wiggy" or "Earwig" by their close friends and family.
• Monster of the Month Club:
  • Mr. Tamerow calls Rilla "Rilly".
  • Book 3 reveals that Rilla's mother was nicknamed "Sparrow" by Rilla's father, which is why she chose it for her legal name when Rilla was three.
• Seregil of the Nightrunner series begins calling Alec 'Tali,' which means 'beloved.' Guess what happens next...
• Of Fire and Stars:
  • Dennaleia thinks of her sister Alisendi as Ali.
  • Thandilimon is called Thandi by his family, and he encourages Dennaleia to do the same.
  • Casmiel, Mare and Thandi's paternal uncle, is nicknamed Cas.
  • When they become closer, Mare nicknames Dennaleia Denna, which she likes.
• Once Upon A Broken Heart: Jacks to Evangaline, "Little Fox". Though some may consider it an Insult of Endearment, especially considering Jacks pre-character growth and the source material of the referenced nickname.
• In Överenskommelser by Simona Ahrnstedt, Sofia calls Beatrice "Bea" (pronounced as "Beh-ah") while Gabriel starts calling Magdalena "Malla".
• The Poster Children: Only Ernest is allowed to call June "Junebug." Roz and her little sister Libby call Jack Abuelito, which is Spanish for "grandpa." Jack in turn refers to Roz as Weena.
• Pride and Prejudice: Elizabeth Bennet is known to her family as "Lizzy" and to her closest friend, Charlotte Lucas, as "Eliza".
• Quarters:
  • Annice and Stasya are same-sex partners. They usually call each other "Nees" and "Stas".
  • Magda is often called Maggi by her loved ones.
• The Railway Series has Falcon and Stuart (later Sir Handel and Peter Sam respectively), nickname Duke 'Granpuff' "because he's so wise and kind". Though never stated, the aforementioned nickname sounds a lot like 'Grandpa', so it's very possible that the two younger engines look up to Duke as not only a mentor but a grandfather as well. Fanwork also takes this a step further, with Duke calling Sir Handel and Peter Sam by their Mid Sodor names as nicknames.
• Raybearer:
  • Prince Ekundayo is often called "Dayo" by his Council.
  • Sanjeet's name is shortened to "Jeet" by the other Council members.
  • Tarisai has "Tar" and "Sunshine Girl", the latter of which is used exclusively by her love interest, Sanjeet.
• The title character in Rick is called "Ricky" by his dad.
• Rolitania has a few examples:
  • The Queen often calls Jessie Renton "Papa," much to her chagrin.
  • Likewise, Jessie calls The Queen a shortened version of her name.
• in Sea of the Patchwork Cats, Kara calls Jen "Doggy" or "Spots" and Jaji refers to the Queen of Cats as "Kika."
• Seraphina:
  • Glisselda has one for Seraphina (Phina) and Milliphrene (Millie)
  • Prince Lucian doesn’t like to be called such outside of formal circumstances and instead prefers his shortened surname, Kiggs. However, he tells Seraphina to call him Prince Lucian after the first encounter with Imlann.
• In Skyward Spensa's (now deceased) father called her "Spin." When she becomes a pilot, she uses it as her official callsign in his honor.
• A Song of Ice and Fire:
  • Viserys affectionately calls his younger sister Daenerys "Dany." It's also how she is mostly referred to in the narration (and by extension, the fanbase), even though it is rarely heard in the dialogue since Viserys bites the dust midway through the first book.
  • Catelyn is called "Cat" for short by her relatives, husband Ned, and childhood friend Littlefinger. Her father calls her "little cat".
• Sorry Bo: Nareh's friends usually nickname her Nar, and her girlfriend later does too.
• In the Southern Sisters Mysteries, Mary Alice calls Patricia Anne "Mouse," Patricia Anne calls Mary Alice "Sister," and Haley calls Mary Alice "Aunt Sister." In case you couldn't tell, they're all related; "Mouse" and "Sister" are their childhood nicknames for one another, and Haley picked it up from her mother.
• Star Wars:
  • In many Expanded Universe titles, Admiral Ackbar's title became this among many of his closest friends in the years after the Battle of Endor; he was actually a much higher rank than Admiral by then.
  • In Star Wars Legends Mara Jade Skywalker likes to call her husband Luke "Farmboy".
  • Star Wars: Aftermath: Esmelle's wife Shirine often calls her "Esme".
• The Stranger Times: Vincent Banecroft is affectionately called "Lumpy" by his wife.
• Swan's Braid & Other Tales of Terizan: Terizan's best friend Poli always refers to her as "sweetling".
• In The Syrena Legacy, Emma's Love Interest Galen calls her "Angelfish."
• In Tales from Netheredge, some characters call their lovers exclusively by a nickname: Joy calls Blue "handsome blackhair", and Piff gets called "little soldier" by Jewel, but "brute" (with varying adjectives) by Adar.
• Tales From The Pack: Lexie's mom Summer called her Temes tumtum, which means “little heartbeat” in Chinook jargon, a pidgin language of the US Pacific Northwest.
• Tantei Team KZ Jiken Note: At the end of The Disappeared Bicycle Knows, Kuroki starts calling Aya "Aaya." Aya complained that only her mother calls her that way, but Kuroki justified his action by saying this is the Affectionate Nickname for most Aya's and Ayako's of this world. Eventually, everybody in the cast calls Aya "Aaya."
• To Shape a Dragon's Breath: Anequs' brother Niquiat and father Aponakwe call her "Chipmunk."
• Trail of Lightning: Neizghání's nickname for his apprentice is Chíníbaá, "girl who comes out fighting". During the story Rissa coins "Rabbit" for Kai after he takes a lickin' and keeps on tickin'.
• Rose Hathaway, from Vampire Academy, is "Little Dhampir" to Adrian and "Roza" to Dimitri.
  • Adrian gets in on this a lot, calling Lissa "cousin" (they're distantly related), Jill "Jailbait", and in the spin-off Literature/Bloodlines, referring to Sydney as "Sage" and Eddie as "Castile".
  • Tasha Ozera calls Dimitri "Dimka", demonstrating their close friendship.
• In Warrior Cats, on rare occasions, a cat will affectionately call their Clanmate by the first part of their name (for instance, Lionblaze once called Jayfeather "Jay".) It happens infrequently enough that it really stands out when it happens.
• Chaka of Team Kimba in the Whateley Universe often calls Ayla "Ayles". She also calls Hank "Hulkster" (he's a Flying Brick). Ayla calls Jade and Jinn (and Jade's stuff) the "J-Team".
• Who Is The Prey: Yuan Ze calls He Yan “Yan Yan”. Fu Shenxing also calls her this, much to her displeasure.
• Wives and Daughters: Mr. Gibson calls his daughter Molly "Goosey". She's the apple of his eye, and she loves nobody more than him.
• In Wolf Hall, Henry VIII takes to calling Thomas Cromwell "Crumb" when they're on their own or if he's in a good mood. A few others, like William Fitzwilliam, are also close enough to use the moniker, though on more equal footing.
• In Wonder (2012), August's family and his friend Summer call him "Auggie".

Live-Action TV

• Sibling Team Bellamy and Octavia Blake in The 100 refer to each other as "Bell" and "O", respectively.
• On The Addams Family, Gomez calls Morticia "Tish".
• In All in the Family, Archie calls his adult daughter Gloria "little girl". Edith calls her "Glory," although this is used much more rarely.
• On All My Children
  • Hayley calls her uncle Trevor "Pork Chop," and he in turn calls her "Tinkerbell."
  • Kendall once started calling Bianca "Binks" in a mocking tone. After growing a genuine familial bond with her younger half-sister, Kendall continues to call her "Binks", however in a much more loving tone. Eventually many of Bianca's friends would also refer to her as "Binks".
• Amber Brown (2022): Amber's dad sometimes calls her "Ber" while speaking affectionately to her.
• Andor:
  • Cassian's friends and family call him Cass.
  • Those who care for B2EMO call him Bee.
• On Angel, Fred liked to call Wes Bookman during their all-too-brief romance before Illyria came to town.
  • Lorne is an enthusiastic nicknamer in general, but he goes over the edge with Angel, with whom he has always been very flirty. He usually calls him Angel Cakes, but sometimes he calls him "pudding", "angel muffin", or other desserts.
    Angel: Stop calling me pastries!
  • Lorne has affectionate nicknames for many of his friends: Harmony is Harmonica or Cacophony, Fred is Fredikkins, and Faith is Princess.
• Aranyélet: Her parents sometimes call Mira "Mira baba"/"Mira baby", and Bianka calls Márk "manó" ("elf/imp", the HBO subtitles translated it with "Smurf") very often. When she is sent to a rehab heavily utilizing horseback riding and caring for horses as therapy, she even names her horse "Manó".
• In the pilot of Arrow, Oliver Queen calls his She Is All Grown Up sister "Speedy" (to her annoyance) and he in turn is called "Ollie" (to his annoyance). Nevertheless, these childhood nicknames continue to be used between them as terms of affection, and "Speedy" eventually becomes Thea's Code Name when she becomes a masked vigilante herself (after an unsuccessful attempt to get everyone to call her "Red Arrow").
• In The A-Team, Hannibal sometimes calls Face "kid". Granted, he's old enough to be Face's father, but it also underlines the quasi-father/son relationship that they have.
• The Ballad of Big Al: "Big Al" was the name given to the complete allosaur skeleton that was found, partly because the paleontologists felt a little wistful Al lived fast and died young.
• Band of Brothers:
  • Replacement Edward Heffron is known only as 'Babe' by his comrades. A minor plot point of an episode is The Medic referring to everyone on a Last-Name Basis. At the end, when he finally calls Heffron 'Babe', it's a sign that he's getting closer to the rest of the men.
  • The Medic is an example of this trope himself. He's always called 'Doc Roe', and Dick Winters is the only one that calls him Eugene.
  • Other soldiers were Only Known by Their Nickname among the rest of the men, establishing it as this trope. It's telling that the only people who would use their proper names are their superiors. Denver Randleman was always 'Bull'. Lynn Compton was always 'Buck'. Warren Muck was always 'Skip'. Darrell Powers was always 'Shifty'. Walter Gordon was always 'Smokey'. Robert Wyn is only 'Popeye'. Floyd Talbert was sometimes 'Tab'. Johnny Martin was 'Pee-wee' in real life, but this wasn't used on the show.
  • Other men got their surnames shortened into Affectionate Nicknames. They're usually only used amongst the close friends in the group. Don Malarkey is sometimes 'Malark'. Carwood Lipton is sometimes 'Lip'. Ed Tipper is sometimes 'Tip'. This is also used with Fridge Brilliance. When Major Winter announces the end of the war, he notably calls Frank Perconte 'Perco'.
  • Guarnere seems to mockingly nickname Private Hall 'Cowboy' for no real reason. But given Guarnere's Tsundere tendencies, their last scene together implies it was really this.
  • Defied by Frank Perconte when Private O'Keefe says his friends call him 'Paddy'. He's pointedly only addressed by his last name (when Perconte can remember it anyway).
  • Dick Winters never calls his friend Lewis Nixon by his full name. He's either 'Lou' or 'Nix'.
  • A subtle one. David Kenyon Webster at first is simply known by his last name. After his POV episode, he shares a small Friendship Moment with Joe Liebgott. A few times in the next two episodes, Liebgott calls him 'Web' as a sign of affection. Never mind that they actually had a Private Webb as well.
• Birds on the Wing: Elizabeth and Samantha call Charles "Charlie".
• A Bit of Fry and Laurie: Stephen Fry and Hugh Laurie affectionately call each other m'colleague or m'col (m'coll). In real life as well, because they are best friends.
• It's rare, but sometimes Edmund Blackadder calls Baldrick "Balders." This is a particularly sweet example since Blackadder normally treats Baldrick poorly; it shows that underneath, he really does care about the guy.
• Blindspotting: Ashley is often called "Ash" by her loved ones, and Miles often calls her "Baby". Janelle is also often referred to as "Nelle".
• The Bold and the Beautiful. Ridge Forrester has consistently called the two great loves of his life, Taylor and Brooke, "Doc" and "Logan", respectively. (Taylor is a physician while "Logan" is Brooke's surname.)
• Bones:
  • Booth is both the first one to call Brennan "Bones" and the only one allowed to call her that. She hated it at first, but has come to tolerate it. As of the second-season episode "The Boneless Bride in the River", she's even been willing to refer to herself by the nickname.
  • Booth refers to everyone else at the Jeffersonian as "squints" (because they're always squinting at something in the lab). This starts out as an insult, back when Booth didn't really understand the impressive things they did, but as Booth becomes less of a Fish out of Water in the lab, it becomes much more affectionate. The rotation of interns that replace Zack are subsequently nicknamed the "squinterns".
  • Daisy nicknames her boyfriend Lance Sweets "Lancelot".
  • Angela often addresses Brennan as "Sweetie", particularly when explaining some social nuance Brennan missed.
• On Boy Meets World, Cory often calls his Heterosexual Life Partner Shawn "Shawnie".
  • In the Sequel Series Girl Meets World, Cory's daughter Riley and her own Heterosexual Life Partner Maya call each other "Riles" and "Peaches".
• Gordon Brittas frequently refers to his wife Helen as “my darling” (and to a rarer extent “my love”) on The Brittas Empire.
• Very common in Buffy the Vampire Slayer:
  • Buffy, Willow, and Dawn are all often called short-forms or diminutives of their names by loved ones - "Buff", "Will," and "Dawnie", respectively.
  • Willow called her girlfriend Tara "Baby". Drusilla and Harmony had all sorts of nicknames for Spike when they were together; Dru's were generally "My Love" or "My Sweet", whereas Harmony's were "Boo-Boo" and "Blondie-Bear".
  • Spike, being The Nicknamer, often had one or two lined up for people he cared about. Most notably, he affectionately referred to Dawn as "Niblet" and "Little Bit". He also often referred to Buffy as "Slayer", which started out as a Term Of Endangerment and quickly morphed into this the further along in his Heel–Face Turn he got. His nicknames for Angel are also arguably Insults Of Endearment, given their complex Vitriolic Best Buds relationship; "Peaches", "Poof" and "Captain Forehead" being his usual go-tos.
• Chasing Life: April calls Brenna Brenn. Conversely, Brenna calls her "Ape" sometimes. as does Natalie. They are sisters with a close relationship, while forging this with Natalie too.
• Community:
  • Jeff and Annie occasionally call each other "Milady" and "Milord".
  • Vaughn called Annie "Mountain Flower" while they were dating.
• The Confessions of Frannie Langton:
  • Marguerite is always called Meg by Hepzibah, who's revealed as being her former girlfriend.
  • Hepzibah, in turn, gets called Hep by Marguerite.
• Ari and Temo on El corazón nunca se equivoca call each other "tahi", an acronym of the phrase "I love you to infinity" in Spanish.
• Jules on Cougar Town is usually called "Junebug'' by her father. Also, Ellie frequently addresses Laurie as "Jellybean".
• Criminal Minds:
  • Morgan and Garcia call each other a myriad of affectionate nicknames; a common name for him to call her is "Baby Girl".
  • JJ is the only person - in the world, apparently - who calls Reid "Spence".
  • Morgan, on the other hand, usually calls him "Pretty Boy".
• The Crowded Room: Ariana is often called Ari by her friends.
• When Lindsay Monroe arrived on CSI: NY, Danny quickly dubbed her 'Montana' after her home state. It started out as a teasing sort of thing but evolved into a sign of affection. It's not popping up as much now that they're married, though. He's more often heard to just call her 'Linds' or 'Babe' these days. (He does use the nickname in the hospital in "Unspoken", and she says he hasn't used it in a while.)
• Dark Desire: Esteban and Zoe like to call each other "bug" affectionately.
• Dark Winds: Bernadette Manuelito is called "Bernie" or "Bern" sometimes by friends.
• Deputy: Maggie is sometimes called "Mags" by her mom and dad.
• Doctor Who:
  • "The Girl in the Fireplace": Apparently the Doctor refers to Queen Cleopatra as "Cleo."
  • Amy Pond will occasionally call the Doctor "Raggedy Man", especially to emphasize a point. In "The Time of the Doctor", the Doctor even hallucinates Amy wishing her Raggedy Man a good night, right before he regenerates.
  • "Victory of the Daleks": Amy dubbing Professor Bracewell "Paisley" because he's also Scottish helps him remember his humanity and free him from the Daleks' control.
  • The Eleventh Doctor fondly calls Clara "My Impossible Girl" and "Soufflé Girl". Similarly, Clara calls him "Chinboy" at times, and "Clever Boy" whenever she dies.
  • The Twelfth Doctor calls Rigsy "Local Knowledge" or his more general term for humans, "Pudding Brain". When the Doctor actually refers to Rigsy by name, he strenuously objects, ordering the Doctor to go back to calling him by those nicknames instead.
• Doubutsu Sentai Zyuohger has Misao lament never having friends that would call him affectionate nicknames.Yamato responds to this by nicknaming him "Micchan."
• Ray Vecchio on Due South often calls Benton Fraser "Benny". He's the only one who uses the nickname. Almost everyone else just calls him "Fraser".
• On Emergency!, John calls Roy 'Pally' (a form of 'Pal'), and Roy calls Johnny 'Junior' on occasion.
• Everything Now:
  • Mia and Alex's dad often nicknames them both. He calls Mia Meems, and Alex Al.
  • Mia later calls her girlfriend Alison Al as well.
  • Becca's friends sometimes call her Beccs.
• The Fall of the House of Usher (2023): "Affectionate" might be a strong word, but Verna considers Madeline to be one of her "favorites" from the Usher family and is clearly attracted to her. So, Verna gives her the nickname "Cleopatra", due to seeing Madeline as a "queen without a crown".
• In Fawlty Towers, Basil calls his wife Sybil things like "my little piranha fish" and "my little nest of vipers" in a tone that mocks the sweetness with which people call others by actual affectionate nicknames. Sybil doesn't seem to notice or care.
• Fellow Travelers:
  • Hawkins Fuller is nicknamed "Hawk" by all the people close to him.
  • Timothy Laughlin's social circle addresses him by his diminutive "Tim."
  • Hawk calls his Second Love Tim "Skippy" and "my boy."
  • Hawk refers to his First Love Kenneth Willard as "Kenny."
  • Hawk uses "sweetheart" for his wife Lucy, his daughter Kimberly, and one of his granddaughters.
• Wash called Zoe "Lambie Toes" at least once in Firefly and Mal occasionally calls Inara "Nara". There are also Chinese terms. Simon calls River "Mei Mei" or "little sister." "Bao bei" is "baby."
• First Kill:
  • Calliope is called "Cal" by many who know her.
  • Theseus is usually called "Theo" by his family.
  • While most people shorten Juliette to "Jules", Ben will refer to her as "Letty".
  • Elinor often refers to Juliette as "Sweet Little".
• The First Lady:
  • Lorena Hickok is fondly nicknamed "Hick" by Eleanor.
  • Malvina Thompson, Eleanor's secretary, is called "Tommy".
• In Flashpoint, like most military units, law enforcement teams, and armed services, nicknames are used more than real names. "Jules" for Julianna Callaghan, "Spike" for Michelangelo Scarlatti, "Wordy" for Kevin Wordsworth, "Lou" for Lewis Young, "Boss" for Greg Parker, "Raf" for Rafik Rousseau. So much so that it's weird and rare to hear any of their real names. But for some of the team like Sam, Ed and Leah, their names aren't shortened at all.
  • Greg and Wordy are the only ones who can call Ed "Eddie" at times as they are his closest friends.
• In Fraggle Rock, Fraggles call humans "The Silly Creatures." (This fits the trope even though it sounds like an insult; Fraggles like things that are silly.)
• Game of Thrones:
  • According to Ellie Kendrick in the "New Characters" featurette for Season 3, Jojen Reed is sometimes called "the Little Grandfather" because of his solemn wisdom.
  • Shae refers to Tyrion as "My lion". She is also heard calling Tywin that when Tyrion finds her in his bed.
  • Maester Aemon refers to his little brother, King Aegon V Targaryen, as "Egg."
  • Jorah continues to refer to Daenerys as "Khaleesi" long after the death of Khal Drogo. Averted, however, with her nickname "Dany," since the last person who called her by that name was her abusive older brother Viserys. When Jon Snow calls her by that name, she lightly tells him in no uncertain terms that she is uncomfortable having someone she cares about call her by that name. Later, however, she does let Jon refer to her as Dany, so perhaps she just needed to get used to it.
  • Jaime sometimes refers to Tyrion as "little brother," which is especially sweet because everyone else in Tyrion's immediate family treats him like garbage.
  • Sansa gets called "little bird" by Sandor — interestingly, this is initially an insult referencing how naïve she is, but later develops into affection.
  • Tormund refers to Jon Snow as 'little crow.'
• Inverted on General Hospital with Luke Spencer, who consistently called the women in his life by their full names rather than the nicknames everyone else had bestowed on them—-sister Bobbie ("Barbara"), niece Carly ("Caroline"), friend Alexis ("Natasha"), and daughter Lulu ("Lesley Lu").
• Ginny and Georgia:
  • Georgia's pet name for Ginny is Peach. It turns out Ginny's dad Zion used this for Georgia too.
  • Zion also calls likes to call Ginny "gummy bear" as a pet name.
  • Gil calls Georgia "G", though as they aren't together anymore she's not happy with it.
  • Ginny's boyfriend Marcus starts calling her "Pooh" (after the book character), but she's not really onboard with this.
• Sophia on The Golden Girls sometimes addresses her daughter Dorothy as "Pussycat." In one episode, it's revealed that her late husband Sal's nickname for Dorothy was "Spumoni Face," and he claims that her nickname for him was "Favorite Parent."
  • Blanche, meanwhile, has one of these for herself - according to one episode, she likes to call herself "Water Lily."
• Good Omens (2019): Crowley occasionally calls Aziraphale "Angel". Aziraphale is a literal angel, but the emphasis Crowley places on it makes it clear that it's more than just a statement of fact.
• Guy's Grocery Games: Guy likes to refer to frequent judge Alex Guarnaschelli, who has competed in and judged various American incarnations of Iron Chef, as "ICAG."
• Hannah Montana: After their Relationship Upgrade, Oliver starts calling Lily "Lilypop" and Lily starts calling Oliver "Olypop".
• Happy Endings:
  • Happily Married couple Brad and Jane often refer to each other as "boo", with Jane also calling Brad "boo bear". Also, sometimes to cheer Max up, some people will call him "fuzzy face."
  • When Penny is dating Jane's boss the Car Czar, he calls her "Honey boobs-boobs" due to Buxom Beauty Standard.
• Hightown: Jackie's dad calls her "flaca" (which is Spanish for "skinny") as a pet name.
• Horatio Hornblower:
  • "The Duchess and the Devil": Horatio, at this point an Acting Lieutenant, befriends a cheeky British Duchess who affectionately calls him "Mr. Aitch", sometimes pronounced "Mr. Haitch." He's a bit embarrassed at first with her likable mocking and attentions, but ultimately, he quite likes it.
  • Maria Mason calls Horatio "Horry."
• Bel and Freddie of The Hour often refer to each other as James and Moneypenny due to a shared love of James Bond. This does not help the Unresolved Sexual Tension at all.
• On House of Anubis, Eddie calls Patricia "Yacker." In a strange twist, this actually started as an insult, then took on a new meaning when they started dating.
• In How I Met Your Mother, Marshall calls his wife Lily "Lilypad", while she calls him "Marshmallow."
• I Am Not Okay With This: Sydney is usually called "Syd" by her family and friends. Additionally, she calls Liam, her little brother "Goob" tenderly.
• The Imperfects: Darcy calls Juan's Chupacabra form "Chupi".
• Imposters:
  • Jules and her sister Poppy call each other "Jujube" and "Poops".
  • Richard is called Richie by his family, friends or girlfriends.
  • Maddie calls Ezra Ez affectionately.
• Impulse: Henry (on top of this being a nickname for "Henrietta") often was called "Hank" by her dad as a girl.
• In The InBESTigators, Maudie's father calls her "Mauds".
• Intergalactic: Genevieve is mostly called "Geni" by her mother, friends, and later boyfriend.
• Interview with the Vampire (2022):
  • In "...After the Phantoms of Your Former Self", we learn that Lestat de Lioncourt's nickname for his boyfriend Louis de Pointe du Lac is "Saint Louis," which is a Call-Back to the first episode where Lestat explains that he originally intended to start a new life for himself in St. Louis, but ended up staying in New Orleans because he experienced Love at First Sight when he saw Louis. He also calls Louis "mon cher" ^note the masculine form for "my dear" in French multiple times, and once Claudia joins their family, he calls her by various pet names like "ma petite" ^note the literal translation is "my little one" (feminine form), although it can used as the equivalent of "my sweetheart" and "ma chérie" ^note the feminine form of "my darling". Furthermore, in a 5-second Season 2 TV spot, the hallucination of Lestat greets Louis with "Bonjour mon amour" ^note "Hello, my love", and because this manifestation of his ex-lover is based on Louis' subconscious, it suggests that Lestat had referred to him as "mon amour" when they were together.
  • Louis likes to call Daniel Molloy "boy" because the latter is much younger than he is, and Daniel was a 20-year-old Pretty Boy when they first met at Polynesian Mary's in 1973, with his youth being appealing to Louis, who started flirting with him shortly after Daniel entered the bar. Louis came up with it ("Get the boy whatever he wants") after Daniel rejected his initial attempt to use his diminutive "Danny" like the bartender does, and Daniel accepted being addressed in this manner. However, when they see each other again in 2022, Daniel is 69 years old, and he's offended ("I'm not your fucking boy") when Louis mentions the old nickname ("I think it best we start when our boy's had a rest"). Although Louis is careful not to bring it up again when Daniel is awake, he can't resist saying it after his guest falls asleep ("I think the medication has overwhelmed our boy"), and he means it fondly because he requests that Rashid fetch a blanket to keep Daniel "warm with his dreaming."
• In The Irregulars Billy calls Bea "bumble", presumable a play on Bumblebee.
• On Joan of Arcadia, Adam usually refers to Joan as "Jane." According to Word of God, this was initially because he was pretending to be a stoner and wanted to seem spacey, though he knew her real name perfectly well. Eventually it just becomes an affectionate nickname between the two. It's Serious Business when he refers to her as "Joan" in a second season episode after she disappoints him.
• The Journey of Flower:
  • Dongfang Yu Qing nicknames Qian Gu "Bones".
  • Qian Gu nicknames Qian Mo "Big Sister" because she mistakes him for a woman.
• Kamen Rider:
  • Kamen Rider Drive: Gou calls Shinnosuke "Shi-niisan" to poke at the Ship Tease between him and Gou's sister, Kiriko.
  • Kamen Rider Build: Gentoku calls Kazumi "potato" in reference to the latter formerly being a farmer. Kazumi calls him "beardo" in reference to what used to be a Beard of Evil.
• Dr. Bertram Chickering, Jr. on The Knick is called "Bertie" by most of his colleagues, but "Bertie the Wise" by the Chief of Surgery, Dr. Thackery. It seems initially like an affectionately ironic nickname, since Bertie is the youngest, least experienced, and lowest-ranking doctor at the Knick. It eventually becomes apparent, however, that he is also the sanest, most reasonable, and most morally decent of all the doctors at the Knick (and probably among the entire cast to boot). In any case, ironic or not, it is meant affectionately, although Chickering, Sr. does not see it that way.
• L.A.'s Finest: Isabel is usually called Izzy by her dad and stepmom.
• Law & Order: UK: DS Ronnie Brooks often referred to partner DS Matt Devlin as "Matty," "Matty-boy," and most of all, "Sunshine." Fans had a collective Berserk Button reaction when he once called his new partner DS Sam Casey by the last one.
• A League of Their Own (2022): Greta nicknames Jo "Joey", who in turn calls her "Bird".
• Let the Right One In: Mark usually calls Eleanor Ellie (she's his daughter whom he's devoted to).
• Liar (2017): Rory calls Vanessa "Ness" or "Nessie".
• On Little House on the Prairie, Charles Ingalls often calls his second daughter Laura "Half-Pint." Later, when she marries Almanzo Wilder, he dubs her "Bess," a short form of her middle name Elizabeth. Both of these are Truth in Television, as confirmed by the Little House books (on which the show was based) written by the real Laura Ingalls Wilder.^note The real Almanzo had a sister also named Laura, of whom he was not fond, so he preferred to use his wife's middle name.
• In Lost, Sawyer has nicknames for everyone, some more affectionate than others.
  • He often refers to Kate as "Freckles."
  • He occasionally calls his future girlfriend Juliet "Blondie."
  • He often calls Jack "Doc." It starts off as being somewhat mocking and resentful, but becomes more friendly throughout the series.
• Lucifer (2016):
  • Amenadiel sometimes calls Lucifer "Luci."
  • Mazikeen’s friends normally call her "Maze."
  • Lucifer usually calls Chole "Detective" and only uses her real name a few times in the show.
• The L Word: Angelica is mostly nicknamed as "Angie" by her mothers and friends.
• In Married... with Children Al calls his daughter Kelly "Pumpkin." The nickname became an Ascended Meme in Peru ever since The '90s to refer to people considered a Brainless Beauty, especially a Dumb Blonde.
• Master of Study: Hyeonjung calls Baekhyun "hubby" since she is in love with him (and quite open about it). She stops once she realizes/accepts that Baekhyun won't reciprocate her feelings.
• A few on Miami Vice:
  • Detective Stan Switek was often called "Swity" by his fellow squad members.
  • Detective Larry Zito, Stan's partner and best friend, was called "Lar" by him (pronounced like "lair").
  • Detective Crockett's one-time wife Caitlin Davies was called "Cait" (or "Kate") by him.
• On Midnight Caller, Nicky calls Jack "Ace."
• Million Yen Women: Nanaka like calling Shin "Michi" (a shorter version of his surname, "Michima"), Minami calls him "Novel" due to him being a novelist.
• Motherland: Fort Salem: Raelle comes to call Abigail "Abs" with affection. Nicte Batan, founder of the Spree turned ally, calls Tally Craven "Red," referential of her red hair.
• My Dead Ex: Charley is the nickname everyone uses for Charlotte, except Wren. In her case she calls Charlotte Charles as an affectionate personal quirk.
• Never Have I Ever:
  • Fabiola's best friends sometimes shorten her name to Fab or Fabi.
  • Ben calls Devi "David" which starts as Malicious Misnaming, but with time evolves into this trope. Paxton sometimes calls Devi "Little D".
• NOS4A2: Vic calls Wayne "Bats".
• NUMB3RS:
  • Don refers to Charlie as "Buddy" from time to time.
  • Colby's nickname for Charlie is "Whiz Kid".
  • Don is often referred to "Donnie" by his father, Alan.
• Odd Squad:
  • In "Undercover Olive", Odd Todd refers to Kooky Clown — who is really Olive in disguise — as "Kooks".
  • Ms. O refers to Shmumberman, from the comic book series of the same name, as "Juice Boy". It starts out as a nickname that she gives to him in exasperation, but as she gradually bonds with him she starts using it more affectionately.
  • At one point in "O is For Opposite", Opposite Ms. O gives Olympia the nickname "honey bunny". She also refers to her and Otis as "my darlings".
  • In "Rookie Night", giving these kinds of nicknames is tradition for the eponymous event, and almost every rookie that partakes in it has one, given to them by Orchid. Ocean's is "Flapjack", Oona's is "Veggie Sticks", and Orielle's is "Tony Danza". Olympia and Otis also give nicknames to each other in preparation for the event, with Otis calling Olympia "Dangerous" while she refers to him as "Rigatoni".
  • In "Other Olympia", the Olympia from "Assistant's Creed" refers to the main character Olympia by the titular nickname, as well as by "Triple O". Ms. O also refers to her as "Other Olympia", which she is forced to do because former-assistant Olympia is main-character Olympia's senior. However, the affection is one-sided, as the main-character Olympia doesn't want to be referred to as anything other than...well, Olympia.
• On the House: Arnold calls Gussie "Gus".
• Once Upon a Time: Rumpelstiltskin's son Baelfire is nicknamed 'Bae' by his friends and family. Note that this was before Bae as a slang term took off. Memetic Mutation ensued.
• On One Life to Live, Marty Saybrooke's lover, Patrick Thornhart, was the only one to call her by her real name "Margaret".
• In One Piece (2023), Zeff has been calling Sanji "little eggplant" since they first met.
• Party of Five:
  • The siblings naturally have affectionate nicknames for each other. Bailey is sometimes 'Bay.' Julia is sometimes 'Jewel.' And Claudia is sometimes 'Claude.' Charlie and Owen don't get this.
  • Bailey's first girlfriend Kate occasionally nicknames him 'Barley.' He mistakes this for Accidental Misnaming at first.
• In Peaky Blinders, Freddie often refers to Ada as "princess."
  • Tommy has multiple brothers, but Arthur is the only one whom he actually calls "brother" as a nickname.
  • John gets called "John boy" by Arthur and Tommy.
• Probe:
  • Austin calls Michelle Castle "Mickey."
  • Michelle (in private) calls Austin James "Jimmy."
• In Queer as Folk (US), Justin is occasionally called "Sunshine" by Debbie and sometimes even by Brian.
• Riverdale:
  • Betty calls Archie, 'Arch'.
  • Reggie and Jughead sometimes call Betty, 'Betts'.
  • Archie and Betty both call Jughead, 'Jug' or 'Juggie'
  • Veronica likes to add the suffix -kins as a term of endearment, resulting in 'Daddykins', 'Reggiekins', 'Archiekins', and, in Season 7, 'Juggiekins'.
  • Betty and Veronica call each other 'B' and 'V'.
  • Veronica is also one of the few people to call Cheryl, 'Cher'.
• In Saved by the Bell: The New Class, Screech calls Mr. Belding "(the) Chief".
• Seinfeld: Jerry often refers to Elaine as "Lainey."
  • George's friends sometimes call him "Georgie" or even "Georgie boy."
• Sesame Street: Several characters have affectionate nicknames for one another.
  • Ingrid and Humphrey have a host of them for baby Natasha, including Snookie Pooks, Pumpkin Pie, and "their little Natasha-pie". They even write a song about the names.
  • Oscar and Grungetta call each other "Grungy" and "Oscie."
  • Snuffy calls Big Bird "Bird."
  • Luis calls Big Bird "Pájaro."
  • Big Bird's aunt Nani Bird calls him "Manu Nui."
• Subverted in the mini-series Shackleton. The famous Antarctic explorer has a habit of giving everyone an affectionate nickname. However, his wife is shocked when she realizes that she doesn't have one, as she's just his wife.
• On Silk Stalkings Chris and Rita call each other Sam. It was because they were both fans of Sam Snead a golfer.
• Single Drunk Female: Samantha's friends call her "Sam" or "Sammy" pretty often.
• Siren (2018): Maddie is usually called Mads by her loved ones, like her boyfriend Ben and her stepdad Dale.
• Star Trek:
  • On Star Trek: The Next Generation, Q Calls the French Captain, Picard "Mon Capitaine."
  • On Star Trek: Deep Space Nine, Ben Sisko calls Dax "old man," having met the Dax symbiont when it was bound to a Trill man named Curzon and continuing to use the nickname after Dax bonded with a new host, a Trill woman named Jadzia.
• St. Elsewhere: In "Hello, Goodbye", before even finding out his name, Clancy gives her soon-to-be boyfriend Jack the nickname "Boomer" when she approaches him on the street and asks him to sign her nuclear freeze petition. In the next episode "Playing God, Part 1", she visits him at the hospital and refers to him as "Boomer" in the presence of his friends. For the remainder of the series, the other residents call him "Boomer," even after he and Clancy break up and he marries Joanne. In "Nothing Up My Sleeve", Phil and Jackie admit that they can't remember why they started calling him "Boomer."
• The Summer I Turned Pretty:
  • Belly is nicknamed this by her family and friends, with her full name being Isabel. Her mom also calls her Bean. Susannah and Jeremiah occasionally call her Bells.
  • Laurel always calls her best friend Susannah by Susannah's maiden name, Beck.
  • Conrad gets nicknamed Connie sometimes by his loved ones.
  • Taylor sometimes calls Belly, Cinderbelly.
• Supernatural:
  • Dean usually gives nicknames to people to whom he feels close. Sam is Sammy and Castiel is Cas.
  • Meg, a demon, regularly calls Castiel "Clarence" once they start getting flirty, after the angel from It's a Wonderful Life. Castiel has no idea what it means.
  • In one episode of season eight, Sam calls Kevin "Special K", despite nicknaming usually being Dean's domain. Crowley knows this and immediately tells "Sam" to stop it, as he doesn't want Kevin to realize that he's actually a prisoner and that Sam and Dean are merely glamoured demons. Kevin eventually figures out it anyway, because the demon versions of Sam and Dean are too polite and helpful.
• Trigonometry:
  • Gemma calls Kieran, her partner (who she later marries), Kier sometimes. In turn she's called Gem by him and her friends occasionally.
  • Ray calls Moira, her friend, Moi.
  • Ray's mom often calls her Mona. Her dad also calls her Momo or fuzzle bum.
• The Twilight Zone (1959): In "The Odyssey of Flight 33", Captain Farver repeatedly refers to his navigator Hatch as "Magellan."
• The Twilight Zone (1985):
  • In "Paladin of the Lost Hour", Billy Kinetta refers to Gaspar as "Dad" before he learns his name. He continues to call him that as a sign of affection after they get to know each other.
  • In "Wong's Lost and Found Emporium", Melinda calls David Wong "Brown Eyes" after she regains her sense of humor. He never tells her his name on screen.
  • In "The Shadow Man", Danny Hayes' friend Peter frequently refers to him as "Sherlock."
  • In "Monsters!", Toby Michaels' father regularly calls him "Ace."
  • In "Nightsong", Ace Campbell refers to his fellow DJ Andrea Fields as "the Midnight Queen" because she hosts a show from 12 to 4 am.
  • In "The Road Less Traveled", Jeff McDowell called his future wife Denise "Denny" when they were in high school together. The Alternate Universe Jeff still does as his Denise died in a motorcycle accident. This version of Jeff was called "Spaceman" by his fellow soldiers during The Vietnam War.
  • In "Time and Teresa Golowitz", Bluestone (then Blaustein) and Mary Ellen Cosgrave were called "Binky" and "Melly" by their high school classmates.
  • In "The Hellgramite Method", Miley and Frannie Judson call their son Chad "Chadder."
• The Undeclared War: Saara's brother Saj calls her Saar fondly in most cases when they talk.
• On The Waltons, Grandma and Grandpa both refer to their daughter-in-law Olivia as "Livvy." Grandpa also sometimes simply calls her "daughter," as she is the only daughter they have. Her husband John usually shortens her name even further to "Liv."
  • One of Jim-Bob's many girlfriends inverted the trope, calling him "James Robert" as a nickname.
  • Grandma and Grandpa often call each other "old man" and "old woman," which is clearly meant in this manner.
  • Corabeth calls her husband "Mr. Godsey." It's mostly interpreted by others as yet another of her prissy affectations, but it's just as much this trope.
• Warehouse 13: Steve Jinks picks up the nickname "Jinksy", which originated with Pete, but went on to predominantly be used by Claudia. In turn, he refers to her as "Claud," something that Pete and Myka both pick up but don't use nearly as often.
• Word of Honor:
  • Wen Kexing calls Zhou Zishu "A-Xu" and Gu Xiang "A-Xiang", and Zhou Zishu calls Wen Kexing "Lao-Wen".
  • Zhao Jing calls the Scorpion King "Xie'er", though in this case, it's to manipulate the Scorpion King into thinking it's an affectionate nickname when Zhao Jing doesn't really care about him at all.
  • Wen Kexing calls Chengling "little idiot". It starts as an insult then becomes a term of endearment.
• In the episode "Meat Jerkin Beef Boys" of Workaholics, Anders (who already has the in-series nickname of Ders) is visited by his father, who refers to him warmly as Dersy. In one episode, Adam calls him this as well.
• Yellowjackets:
  • Taissa is called "Tai" sometimes by her friends and her girlfriend.
  • Van's name is a nickname for "Vanessa" which no one calls her.
  • Natalie's friends often refer to her as "Nat."
  • Lottie is usually called that nickname rather than her full name "Charlotte."
  • Callie's dad, Jeff, occasionally calls her "Cal".
• You Me Her:
  • After they get into a relationship, Izzy starts to call Emma "Em" at times. Emma's best friend Carmen also calls Emma this.
  • Izzy's dad calls her "peanut", which she tells him to stop at first. Later her mom also does. She then calls Leo, a boy whom she bonds with and later adopts as her son this too.
  • Nina also calls Izzy "Iz" sometimes, as does her dad.
• Zero (2021): Sirenetta is the nickname Anna's dad uses for her. He named his company after it too.

Music

• Rush (Band): Used by fans and band members: "Dirk" (Geddy), "Lerxst" (Alex), "Pratt" (Neil). In the 2022 video for "YYZ", when the cops (voiced by Geddy and Alex) are talking at the end, Alex refers to Geddy as "Dirk". During the band's early years, Neil was also sometimes referred to as "The Professor"; he's gone by "Bubba" in his books about his motorcycle travels.

Podcasts

• The crew of Mission to Zyxx routinely refer to their intelligent spaceship The Bargarean Jade as "Bargie". Dar calls Nermut "Nermie" when they're flirting with him.
• Red Handed host Hannah Maguire will sometimes call her fellow host Suruthi Bala by the nickname of "Suru".
• Red Panda Adventures: It doesn't take long for the Flying Squirrel's calling the Red Panda "Boss" to become this rather than a reference to the fact that he's her employer. Once the two pass through the Relationship Upgrade, this becomes a slight issue as her calling him "Boss" out of costume tends to draw attention. She tries a few nicknames in the early period, the most prominent being "Pappy", which the Panda considers more of a taunt than a nickname. The Flying Squirrel eventually settles on "Gus", a shortening of the Red Panda's real name, and occasionally "Gusworth" when issuing a Full-Name Ultimatum.
• Frank and Sadie Doyle of The Thrilling Adventure Hour will occasionally refer to one another as "Frankenstein" and "Sadistic." They also go for "Frank-Darling" and "Sadie-Love."

Professional Wrestling

• Summer Rae referred to Fandango as "my Baby Boopies" as part of her Sickeningly Sweethearts edge.
• LayCool had affectionate nicknames for each other to go with the massive amounts of Les Yay. Layla was 'Lay' and Michelle was 'Chelle'.
• Natalya Neidhart tends to get called 'Nattie' a lot by her friends, doubling as a Canon Name since it's her nickname in real life - and her former ring name.
• A.J. Lee fired back to Paige's Yandere taunts by 'affectionately' calling her "my little crumpet."
• For a while Christian tried to pull this with Triple H. It didn't stick. The nickname in question was 'Trips'.
• Alicia Fox is often called 'Foxy', sometimes even by her opponents.
• Ultimate Warrior called his child fans "Little Warriors".

Radio

• Several from The Adam Carolla Show. Adam's is Ace or Ace-Man, Engineer Matt "The Porcelain Punisher" Fondiler, Assistant Gary Half-Tard (and the now-fired Gary Full-Tard), Producer Chris "Maxipada" Laxamana, Assistant "The Stoned Pelican" Mike August, Agent James "Babydoll" Dixon, Newsgirl Alison "Baby Girl" Rosen, and of course Soundboard/Producer "Bald" Bryan Bishop. Frequent guest David Allen Grier is often referred to as DAG.
• In The Men from the Ministry Daphne Bentwater calls Sir Gregory "bunny". Sir Gregory in turn calls her "lotus blossom".

Roleplay

• Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues:
  • Hyeon gets called 'Hy-Hy' by his cloudcuckoolander drug dealer, which he likely wouldn't have been happy with if it had come from anyone else.
  • Lawrence has 'sweetpea' for his daughter Ivy. Mirielle's parents also have a doting nickname for her, calling her 'Midget'.
  • Amy and Finn try to call Katheryn 'Kathy' and 'Kath' respectively, though she doesn't like it.

Tabletop Game

• The 2nd Edition Dungeons & Dragons The Complete Book of Elves had a version of this. It stated that an elf doesn't keep the name his or her parents give him when born; he or she chooses another upon becoming legal age. The book also says, however, that even after that, an elf's parents and other elders he or she knew as a child might still call him or her by the "child name" on occasion, in which case it becomes a sort of Affectionate Nickname.
  • At the very least, this is also stated to be true in 5th Edition.

Theatre

• Spring Awakening: Several characters occasionally call Melchior just "Melchi."
• In Wicked, Glinda takes to calling Elphaba "Elphie," much to her friend's chagrin.
• When they are first reunited early in The Phantom of the Opera, Raoul teasingly calls Christine "Little Lotte" in reference to a childhood rhyme they shared.
• Actresses of the Takarazuka Revue can have one or more aishou (愛称): "pet name," "nickname," or "term of endearment". This is a confusing aspect of Takarazuka fandom and may take a while to get used to, as often their nicknames sound nothing like their stage names. The nicknames can be based on the actresses' real names, some quirk of their personality, or incidents behind the scenes. The actresses refer to each other using the nicknames on a daily basis, even in interviews.

Video Games

• Afterimage: Ifree sometimes calls Renee as "Ree" because they're True Companions. It also helps distinguish a light, heartwarming conversation from a more serious tone where Ifree calls Renee's name as-is.
• ANNO: Mutationem: Ayane often calls Ann "darling". When Ann tells her to stop using it, Ayane playfully asks if Ann would be fine with "Baby", "Honey", or "Lover" instead.
• BlazBlue has several examples:
  • Ragna being called "Rags" by Hazama.
  • Noel being called "Noellers" by Makoto.
  • Jin being called "Jinny" by Kagura.
• In Coffee Talk, Baileys' girlfriend Lua calls him "Bai".
• Cyberpunk 2077:
  • Player Character V can amass quite a collection of those from different characters:
    • Rogue, Kerry and Viktor will call them "kid".
    • Romanced Judy will call female V "calabacina".
    • Jackie will call them "chica" (female V) or "mano" (male V).
    • Kerry also calls them "Little Bird" in one mission, and can call female V "doll" in one dialogue branch in one mission.
    • River calls romanced female V "babe".
    • In the questlog for the sidemission "Bullets", Johnny refers to them as "(his) little merc". In the one for "The Beast in Me: The Big Race", he calls them "turbo". In the Polish dub, he calls them "słonko" ("sweetheart") during "Sweet Dreams". Dummied out voicelines indicate that he was supposed to call them "My prince/princess" before the player picks "The Sun" ending. They were cut/don't trigger properly for unknown reasons. And of course, in the (infamous) E3 2019 trailer, he calls them "samurai".
  • Kerry calls his bandmates Nancy and Henry "Nance" and "Hank", respectively. Johnny and potentially V can call him "Ker".
  • Alt calls Johnny "Lover" in one of the dialogue branches in Johnny's memories.
  • V calls Judy "Jud" if you befriend her.
  • Judy calls Evelyn "Evie".
• In the tenth installment of the Dark Parables, Princess Leda of Barsia is called "Goldilocks" by her sister, Queen Valla. (And yes, she's that Goldilocks.)
• In Dawn of War II, the Greater Daemon Ulkair the Unclean calls the Chaos Lord Eliphas the Inheritor "Little Eliphas."
• In Deadly Premonition 2, Patricia Woods is often called "Patty" by York.
• In the Detectives United series, Agent Brown sometimes addresses James and Anna as "partner." Anna, meanwhile, occasionally refers to her colleagues as "the boys."
• In Dot's Home, Mavis's husband Karl calls her "Mavie", while Hank calls his wife Evelyn "Ev".
• Dragon Age:
  • Dragon Age: Origins has many:
    • If Alistair is romanced, he starts calling the Warden "my dear"; if he's not romanced, but has a high friendship level, he'll sometimes call him/her "my friend!" instead.
    • A romanced Zevran calls a Warden of either gender "amor(e)."
    • If the Warden reaches high approval with Sten, he addresses him/her as "kadan," meaning "close to the heart." He will also use this nickname for Shale, if the Stone Prisoner DLC is installed.
    • Morrigan starts greeting a Warden with high friendship by saying "What comes, my friend?" For the Defrosting Ice Queen, this is a very big deal.
    • In the Human Noble Origin, the Warden's father calls him/her "Pup," which is a common nickname for Fereldan nobility to use with their children (owing to the country's love of their dogs).
    • In the Stone Prisoner DLC, Matthias addresses his young daughter as "Butterfly."
  • In Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, Nathaniel sometimes calls Velanna "my lady." She hates it, of course.
  • Varric from Dragon Age II has nicknames for everyone (except Aveline, whom he apparently fears too much for this, and Hawke). His closest examples to this trope would probably be "Daisy" for Merrill and "Sunshine" for Bethany, who also is occasionally "Milady Sunshine" or "my Sunshine."
    • Isabela joins in by calling Merrill "Kitten" and Bethany "Sweetness."
    • Anders will sometimes call a romanced Hawke "love." Sebastian uses the same nickname if he and a maxed-friendship Hawke enter a chaste marriage. Merrill will call a romanced Hawke "vhenan" (see below).
  • Varric does it again in Dragon Age: Inquisition, having nicknames for everyone except the Inquisitor (though sometimes he calls him/her "Your Inquisitorialness"). Probably the most affectionate one this time around is "Kid," for Cole.
    • Sera will give a nickname to a female Inquisitor who romances her. If she's not romanced, in her diary she dubs Gadgeteer Genius Dagna "Widdle;" the Trespasser DLC reveals that they get together. She sometimes calls a non-romanced female Inquisitor "Her Gracious Ladybits," although how affectionate this is may be up for debate.
    • Leliana sometimes calls Josephine "Josie," an indication of their sister-like relationship.
    • A romanced Blackwall calls the Inquisitor "my lady." A romanced Cullen does too, but not nearly as often.
    • Solas calls an Inquisitor who romances him "vhenan," while Dorian uses "amatus" and Iron Bull uses "kadan." All three words mean roughly the same thing ("heart" or "close to the heart") in Elvhen, Tevene, and Qunlat, respectively. If neither Dorian nor Bull is romanced, they may get together and use those nicknames for each other. Solas will greet a non-romanced Inquisitor for whom he has high regard as "My friend," which is a big concession from The Friend Nobody Likes.
    • A friendly non-romanced Iron Bull will fondly refer to the Inquisitor as "boss." He's also the one who dubbed his lieutenant, Cremisius Aclassi, "Krem." He may have been the one to give the other Chargers their nicknames as well, but this is unconfirmed. Krem, meanwhile, calls Bull "chief" (or "the chief" when speaking about him to the Inquisitor).
    • If Morrigan was romanced by the Warden in the saved world state imported for Inquisition, she refers to her beloved as "my Warden" or "my love." She also addresses her son Kieran as "little man."
    • Vivienne frequently addresses other characters as "darling" or "dear." However, depending on the context, it can be either an endearment or a condemnation.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • From The Elder Scrolls III: Morrowind, Crassius Curio, the Lovable Sex Maniac Councilor of Great House Hlaalu, calls the Player Character "dumpling," sweetie pie," "pudding," and others in line with his Camp Gay dialogue. He does this regardless of the PC's race or sex.
  • Characters who marry the player character in The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim will often address their spouse as "love" or "dear."
• In The Shadows of Karkhala, the final installment of the Enigmatis trilogy, the player character calls her partner "Rick" and the orphan child Fang "Kid."
• Very common in Ensemble Stars!, to the point that character pages on the Wiki have appellation charts.
  • The Nicknamer Subaru calls Hokuto "Hokke", Makoto "Ukki", Mao "Sari", Hajime "Shinonon", Midori "Takamin", Tsukasa "Kyashi", Yuzuru "Fusshi", Chiaki "Chi-chan-senpai", Adonis "Occhan", Souma "Zaki-san" and Koga "Gami-san".
  • Ritsu calls Mao "Maakun", Eichi "Ecchan", Tsukasa "Suuchan", Izumi "Secchan", Arashi "Nacchan" (formerly Nakkun), Mika "Mikarin", and Hajime "Haakun".
  • Shu and Kuro called each other "Ryuu-kun" and "Icchan" as kids.
  • Kanata calls Natsume "Nacchan".
  • Mika calls Mademoiselle "Mado-nee", Arashi "Naru-chan", Natsume "Nakkun", Yuzuru "Yukkun", and Tsumugi "Tsumu-chan-senpai".
  • Hajime, Tomoya, and Mitsuru all call Nazuna "Nii-chan".
  • Nazuna calls most people [name or part of their name]-chin. He also calls Shinobu "Shinobun".
  • Izumi calls Makoto "Yuu-kun", Ritsu "Kuma-kun", Arashi "Naru-kun", Tsukasa "Kasa-kun", Tori "Momo-kun", Kaoru "Kao-kun", and Nazuna "Nazunyan".
  • Leo calls Izumi and Tsukasa by their last names as nicknames. He also calls Ritsu "Rittsu", Arashi "Naru", Mitsuru "Mittsu", Tomoya "Shiro", Nazuna "Nazu", Tsumugi "Oba-chan", and Madara "Mikejimama", and he used to call Eichi "Tenshi".
  • Rei calls Koga "Wanko".
  • Wataru calls Mitsuru and Nazuna "Little Rabbit", Tori "Hime-kun", and Yuzuru "Shitsuji-san".
  • Sora calls Mitsuru "Mitsu-chan" and the twins "Hina-chan" and "Yuu-chan". He also calls Mika "Mika-chan-senpai".
  • Mitsuru calls basically everyone [name or shortened version]-chan or -chan-senpai.
  • A number of characters have special ways they refer to the player character: some of the first-years call her some variation of "nee-san", Natsume calls her "Koneko-chan", and Rei and Kuro both call her "Jou-chan".
• Fallout 4: Piper Wright likes to call the Sole Survivor "Blue" in reference to their iconic blue jumpsuit (even if they aren't wearing it at the time) and their constant "Fish out of Water" look.
• Fate/Grand Order
  • Mordred calls Mash "Shieldy" (based on her class, Shielder), several times during the London Singularity.
  • Bradamante refers to Astolfo as "A-chan"^note "Stolfo" in English version.
  • Christopher Columbus refers to the player character as "Partner" as opposed to "Master."
  • After Mandricardo bonds surprisingly easily with the protagonist over their situation as underwhelming dudes among heroes, they proceed to call each other "My Friend" (in full English) for the entire Atlantis chapter.
  • The protagonist and Mash sometimes refer to Mephistopheles as "Mephy."
  • By the time the protagonist catches up to Elisabeth and Osakabehime during "Halloween Strike! Demonic Climb - Himeji Castle War", the two have already become good friends, to the point that Osakabehime responds to Elisabeth's nickname of "Batty" with "El-El". Soon afterward, Osakabehime calls the player character "Ma-chan."
  • Tamamo, Osakabehime, and Astolfo address Kiyohime as "Kiyohi".
  • Oda Nobunaga calls Mori Nagayoshi by his childhood name, "Katsuzou," to show how close they are, as he was one of Nobunaga's retainers.
  • Salome tends to call John the Baptist "Jokanaan", his name from the opera play, itself derived from his actual Aramaic name.
  • Nobunaga had been referring to Akechi Mitsuhide as "Micchi" long before his official appearance, during several of Nobunaga's appearances including the GUDAGUDA Honnoji rerun and "Dead Heat Summer Race" events. She also calls him "Kumquat.", which is actually an inversion: 'Kumquat Head' was one of the insulting nicknames that Mitsuhide received whenever he messed up Nobunaga's orders in history (and theorized as one of the many possible reasons why he initiated the incident at Honnoji). In the game's context, Nobunaga used it on him when she's being less jokey and feeling disappointed.
  • Lev Lainur shortens Olga Marie's name to just "Olga", showing how close he is to her.
  • Most of the Crypters simply call Scandinavia Peperoncino "Pepe" for short, and it's clear that it's a term of endearment, given how he's appreciated by all of them.
  • Pepe himself calls the Foreign Priestess "U-chan," though the reason for the nickname is currently unknown. The fact that the Foreign God/Beast VII's true name is U-Olga Marie might shed a bit of light on this.
• Final Fantasy:
  • In Final Fantasy IX, despite having turned her husband, Regent Cid, into a frog for his womanizing, Lady Hildagarde is quite affectionate with him after turning him back into a human. She variously calls him "sugar-cup," "darling," and "my sweet froggy-woggy" (referential of the fact that he was a frog).
  • In Final Fantasy X Wakka calls his Will They or Won't They? love interest Lulu 'Lu' as a term of endearment from time to time. Rikku more pointedly calls her cousin Yuna 'Yunie' a few times.
• Fire Emblem:
  • Tiki in Shadow Dragon and Mystery of The Emblem calls her Parental Substitute Bantu "Ban-Ban" and later calls Marth "Mar-Mar" (an adaptation of her use of affectionate honorifics in the Japanese version). Justified in that, despite being a thousand-year-old Dragon, slow aging means she's mentally and physically still a small child. This continues in Fire Emblem: Awakening, where, despite growing physically into a young woman, she'll sometimes accidentally say "Mar-Mar" around people who remind her of Marth.
  • Also in Awakening, Cynthia's father calls her "Pega-Pony Princess", much to his embarrassment, which she demands he say to prove he's really her father.
• Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach: Throughout the game, Glamrock Freddy calls Gregory "Superstar".
• Genshin Impact:
  • Lisa likes to call the Traveler "cutie" or "darling" exclusively.
  • Tartaglia/Childe also frequently refers to them as "comrade."
  • The wolves of Wolvendom refer to family as "lupical." Razor, who was raised by them, uses this term as well.
• Zoe calls the titular character of Ghostrunner Jack, apparently after a comment her friend Diego made about him being "all jacked up" when they were repairing him. The Ghostrunner eventually takes it as his actual name in his final confrontation with the Architect.
• Goodbye Volcano High: Fang is nicknamed "Fangy" by Stella, and Fang in turn calls her "Stel". Reed is also shown calling Naomi "Mims" in a fashback, but he doesn't do so in the present day.
• Grand Theft Auto:
  • In Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas the Triad clan led by Wu Zi Mu refer to their leader as their "lucky mole" due to his uncanny ability to participate in gunfights, car races, and video games despite being blind. All his friends refer to him as "Woozie."
  • In Grand Theft Auto V Michael De Santa calls Trevor Philips "T" about 85% of the time, even when it's not necessary to hide their identities. Trevor returns the favor by often calling Michael "Porkchop" or "Sugartits," though it's not always affectionate.
• GreedFall: Each of the four romanceable companions will refer to De Sardet exclusively using a pet name once their romance is committed to:
  • Kurt adopts the affection title "Sweet Excellency"
  • Vasco uses "[His] Tempest" from a love poem he recites
  • Síora's is "Minundhanem"^note "one who shares my mind" or "soulmate"
  • Aphra's is simply "[Her] Beloved".
• In Growing Up, Jake's Bully Turned Buddy Mort calls him "J-Dog".
• Hades:
  • Zagreus acquires a lot of these. "Zag" is the most common (used by Megaera, Thanatos, and Dionysus). He is also called "lad" (Achilles), "Little Hades" (Poseidon), "Prince Z" (Sisyphus), "little godling" and "dearest" (Aphrodite), "boyo" (Skelly), "little sprout" (Demeter), "boss" and "coz" (Hermes) and "hon" (Eurydice). Patroclus initially refers to Zagreus as "stranger" fairly neutrally but if the player improves their relationship, "stranger" becomes affectionate as well.
  • On the flip side, Zagreus refers to Thanatos as "Than".
• I Was a Teenage Exocolonist:
  • Anemone is one of the few characters that doesn't go by a nickname initially, but you can give her one in an event. Her mother, on the other hand, calls her "Annie", which she doesn't like because it's too close to her mom's nickname "Anne" and she doesn't want to be associated with "that kid from the holovids" who shares that name. Meanwhile, her friends call her "Nemmie".
  • Flulu's husband, Geranium, calls her "Flulu-belle".
  • Besides being called various plant nicknames by their dad, Symbiosis, one of the love interests, calls Sol "sugarbug".
• The Legend of Heroes: Trails:
  • Trails from Zero: Nadia calls Rixia her "Ri-chan."
  • Trails of Cold Steel: Millium calls her Airgetlam "Lammy", depending on the script. She later gives Claiomh Solais a similar name ("Sammy"), but Altina is not having it. Speaking of Altina, Millium decides to call her "Tilly".
• The Legend of Zelda:
  • Ocarina of Time: Malon often refers to Link as "fairy boy", thanks to noticing right away that he comes from Kokiri Forest.
  • Twilight Princess: The Gorons all address each other as "Brother" (apparently there are no female Gorons seen in the game). After Link rescues Darbus, they also extend the same nickname to him, indicating that he is considered an honorary Goron.
  • Skyward Sword: Zelda refers to Link as "sleepy head", due to his inability to wake up early, with her usually being the one to wake him.
  • Breath of the Wild:
    • Kodah, a Zora woman who had been a Childhood Friend of Link's a century earlier, always calls him "Linny." She briefly tries to address him by name in Tears of the Kingdom, commenting that using a childish nickname for the Hero of Hyrule is rather inappropriate, but quickly decides that it doesn't sound right coming from her and just goes back to "Linny".
    • Urbosa calls Zelda "little bird". She would tell Zelda she uses that particular nickname because her dear friend, Zelda's late mother, used to call Zelda that as well.
    • Daruk continues to call Link "little guy" even after his death.
    • Purah calls Link "Linky" due to childlike state, though she keeps using the name even after managing to age herself up ini Tears of the Kingdom.
• Like a Dragon:
  • Haruka refers to her adopted father, Kiryu, as "oji-san", which gets translated as "Uncle Kaz".
  • Majima calls Kiryu "Kiryu-chan" as he hunts Kiryu down in Kiwami 1.
  • Rounding off the Kiryu nicknames, Granny White calls him "Kazu" in Yakuza 2, a shortening of his first name Kazuma.
  • Nishikiyama is referred to with the shortened "Nishiki" by his friends and loved ones.
  • Masayoshi Tanimura gets called "Ma-chan" by the residents of Little Asia, who have helped to raise him since he was a child. The original localization didn't translate honorifics, so there he was called "Masa" instead.
  • Yakuza: Like a Dragon:
    • Masumi Arakawa calls Ichiban "Ichi" as a sign of endearment, a sign that he treats Ichiban like a second son and an early hint that he's Ichiban's real father. Subverted in the case of Jo Sawashiro and Masato Arakawa, who use the nickname "Ichi" as a way of talking down to him, though in his final moments, Masato uses the name "Ichi" affectionately.
    • Saeko is the giver of these, calling Nanba "Nan-chan" and suggesting "Han-chan" for Joon-gi. She also receives one, being called "Sa-chan" by some party members.
• Love of Magic:
  • Emily refers to Owyn as "my heart", or "beloved pervert", depending on circumstances.
  • Katie and Bella, as cousins who've known each other since they were kids, initially greet each other as "coppertop" and "ass sniffer".
  • Alternate Timeline Emily refers to Owyn as "Tomcat", due to his relationships with Bella, Molly, and more. It's not initially an affectionate nickname, but it becomes one over time.
• Mass Effect:
  • If you are on friendly terms with her, Ashley Williams will refer to Commander Shepard as "Skipper."
  • Liara is referred to by her mother as "Little Wing."
  • In Mass Effect 2, Kasumi will often call you "Shep". Given that she's a fan of yours, it definitely fits this trope.
  • Male!Shepard calls Tali "Miss Vas Normandy" if romanced. It falls under this because that's not actually her last name (just the name of her ship, which got changed to the Normandy following her trial).
  • Thane calls Female!Shepard "siha" if romanced, a reference to one of the warrior-angels of the drell goddess Arashu, fierce in wrath and a tenacious protector.
  • James calls Shepard "Loco" (if male) or "Lola" (if female) in Mass Effect 3.
• Metal Gear: Though Roy Campbell has long since retired from the military, Solid Snake continues to address him as "Colonel." In an inversion, he and Otacon call each other by their actual first names (Dave and Hal), indicating the depth of their relationship.
• In Octopath Traveler II, Partitio's dad, Papp, refers to him as a "little chickadee," showing how good of a relationship they have (as opposed to Papp and his own dad).
  • Ochette also tends to dish out nicknames for the other travelers, such as "Pops" for Osvald and "Agnie" for Agnea.
• In Persona 4, Yosuke calls the protagonist 'aibo' (相棒), which is translated to 'partner' in English.
• Persona 5:
  • In an IM conversation not long after Haru joins the Phantom Thieves, the others note that she's still a bit formal with them and try to get her to loosen up. At that point, Haru refers to Makoto, the only other third-year on the team, as "Mako-chan." Makoto's a bit surprised at first but actually likes the nickname.
  • After you defeat the shadow of Yuichi Fukurai, Chairman of the Assembly of the Divine Power and the Mementos boss for the Fortune Confidant, he has a Heel Realization and apologizes to "Chi-chan." The player wonders if he means Chihaya Mifune, the fortuneteller you befriend and possibly romance in that confidant.
  • Tae Takemi, the Death Confidant, is a doctor who gets the player to serve as a test subject for her drugs, and calls him her "little guinea pig."
• Cauldron from Phantom Brave calling Marona "Maronakins" after taking a shine to her. Marona, in turn, starts calling him "Papa Cauldron."
• Penny from Pokémon Scarlet and Violet mentions that her very doting father likes to call her "Pen-Pen" among other nicknames, which she finds very abhorrent. Penny herself calls her Pokémon (who are are evolutions of Eevee) "Veevees."
  • Also in Scarlet and Violet, Hassel and Brassius refer to each other as "Brassie" and "Hass," respectively. They're mentioned to be very close after Hassel helped Brassius get out of an artistic slump.
  • Arven also refers to the player character as "little buddy."
• In Potion Permit, Cassandra's husband Osman calls her "Cas".
• Psychonauts 2:
  • Cassie O'Pia calls her friend Compton Boole "Boolie".
  • Sometimes Helmut Fullbear refers to his husband Bob as "Bobby".
• In Sengoku Basara, Uesugi Kenshin calls his Ninja retainer Kasuga "[his] most beautiful blade." This praise often sends Kasuga into The Immodest Orgasm.
• Miles Prower from the Sonic the Hedgehog series was given the nickname "Tails" by Sonic as a sign of brotherhood... and to make things less confusing.
• In Spiritfarer, most of the spirits give Stella nicknames. Her uncle Atul calls her "sprout" and sometimes "scout", as does Bruce. Summer calls her "honeybee". Astrid calls her "munchkin". Giovanni calls her "peanut", "bella" and "bambina". Alice calls her "little one". Stanley calls her "big hat". Buck calls her "Commander".
• The player may select a nickname for their character's confirmed love interest to use in Story of Seasons (2014). After the characters marry, they have the option to change to a different nickname.
• Tomb Raider (2013): Jonah and Alex call Lara "Little Bird" and "L.C.", respectively, while Grim calls Lara's late father "Dicky."
• Undertale:
  • Toriel called Asgore (before their separation) Fluffybuns due to the two of them being Sickeningly Sweethearts. The name eventually got around to everyone in the kingdom.
  • Conversely, Asgore called her Tori before they separated, though she refuses to allow him to do so anymore when they meet again in the True Pacifist ending. In this same ending, Sans also picks this up once they meet in person and learn each others' names, to Asgore's chagrin.
  • Papyrus is sometimes referred to as "Pap" or "Papy", namely by Sans and Undyne.
  • Napstablook was often referred to as "Blooky" by their cousin. It was a trait their cousin kept even after becoming Mettaton.
• The Walking Dead (Telltale):
  • Lee calls Clementine "sweet pea" and Kenny calls her "darlin'".
  • Clementine likes to call Alvin Junior "goofball", though in season four, AJ grows out of it, being annoyed when called that.
• Warframe:
  • At higher reputation, Konzu refers to Tenno as "killer." He also uses "surah," but that appears to be a more formal honorific.
  • In Fortuna, there's Eudico who calls Tenno working for her "Sparky", Roky who calls the Tenno "glinty", and Ticker who calls them "Stardust" so often it might be her Verbal Tic.
  • Within seconds from the Tenno touching down on Deimos, cephalon Otak takes to calling them "Chip". Once the player reaches the highest rank among the Entrati, this family's members will decide on calling them Ayatan, referring to shining "stars" used to animate Orokin sculptures said to hold memories.

Visual Novels

• Ace Attorney has nicknames for several player characters, typically made by each character's respective sidekick:
  • Phoenix: "Nick" by Larry and Maya, "Mr. Nick" by Pearl, and "Feenie" by Dahlia and Iris.
  • Dahlia was called "Dollie" by Phoenix. Or rather, Iris was.
  • Mia: "Kitten", by Diego.
  • Apollo: "Polly", by Trucy, "Herr Forehead" by Klavier.
  • Kay Faraday also calls Detective Gumshoe "Gummy".
  • Larry Butz calls Edgeworth "Edgey".
  • Wendy Oldbag uses "Edgey-poo" fairly often, and while Oldbag thinks she's being affectionate, Edgeworth finds her nicknames very, very embarrassing.
  • Athena Cykes and Juniper Woods have nicknames for each other. Athena gets called "Thena", while Juniper is "Junie"(although Athena calls her "Ms. Woods" in court). In the third case, Athena notices that Juniper is unusually distant when she stops using the nickname.
  • Pearl is called Pearly and Pearls by her cousin Maya and Phoenix, respectively.
  • In The Great Ace Attorney, Iris calls Ryunosuke "Runo", Susato "Susie", and Herlock "Hurley". Gina calls Ryunosuke "Oddo"; she pronounces his last name (Naruhodo) as "Narra-Oddo" and the last part stuck. She also calls Susato "Sooze".
• The vampire Lucius from Ballads at Midnight will refer to the protagonist as "my radiance" when romanced.
• In Blooming Panic, NakedToaster is called "Toasty" by the other server members, even the protagonist if they date him.
• Cafe Enchante:
  • Misyr sometimes refers to Kotone as "princess".
  • Both Rindo and Misyr has called Kotone in some shape or form as their "cute café owner".
  • Locals around town call Canus some variation of "Helmet", such as "Helmety" or "Mister Helmet".
  • Titania calls Vennia "Nia".
• Code:Realize:
  • Lupin has referred to Cardia as "princess".
  • Impey also refers to her as "princess" at times, such as dubbing his airship "HMS Impey and Princess and Their Manservants," after himself and Cardia (and the other love interests, of course).
  • Saint-Germain has been affectionately called "Saint-G" by Impey.
• Collar × Malice:
  • Sasazuka frequently refers to Ichika as "stupid cat/baka neko" and "poochie" even after it's made clear he has feelings for her.
  • Okazaki enjoys teasing Ichika by calling her "kitty" early on in his route.
  • Enomoto calls Sasazuka "Cyber-seaweed head" as an insult but it's clear that both care about each other even if they would never admit it.
• In Danganronpa: Trigger Happy Havoc, Kyoko tends to call Makoto "Open Book" (sometimes translated as "foolishly open/honest"), due to how Makoto wears his heart on his sleeve. At first, Makoto found the name annoying but by the time of the last Free Time event with Kyoko, it grows on him where Kyoko tells him she prefers him to be that way.
• Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony:
  • Kaito refers to Maki as "Maki Roll", much to her initial annoyance, though later on, she loosens up enough that she's okay with her friends calling her that. She isn't happy when Kokichi starts using it.
  • Kaito also starts calling Shuichi "bro".
  • In the English translation^ExplanationIn the Japanese version, Shuichi politely calls Kaede "Akamatsu-san," and she asks him to use her first name instead, during Shuichi's Love Suite event with Kaede, she asks him to call her by a pet name like "sweetheart", but then blushes when he does start using it.
• In Heart of the Woods, Madison Raines most often goes by "Maddie," and her best friend Tara sometimes calls her "Mads." Shortly after meeting Morgan, Madison says that it's fine to call her "Maddie." In an interesting twist on this trope, Madison's Love Interest Abigail exclusively calls her "Madison" when not using terms of endearment.
• Higurashi: When They Cry:
  • Rena refers to Mion as "Mii-chan", despite her being a year older to denote how close they are.
  • Mion dubs Keiichi the rather condescending "Kei-chan", but given her rather huge crush on him, it could be read as affectionate instead.
  • The Games Club also uses nicknames to highlight their most definitive/best traits:
    • Cute-Mode for Rena, whose tendency to freak out over cute things brings out her focused, dangerous side.
    • Master of Words for Keiichi, for his tendency to make a Rousing Speech at vital moments and general charisma.
    • Trap Master for Satoko, for her ingenuity in designing new ways to lure opponents into danger and trap them.
    • Raccoon for Rika, to highlight her cuteness.
    • Finally, The Leader for Mion, as the group's cohesive force.
• Ikemen Sengoku: On some routes, the female main character gets an affectionate nickname from her love interest; "kitten" from Masamune, "goddess" or "angel" from Shingen, and "little mouse" from Mitsuhide.
• In Kamigami no Asobi, the heroine Yui got three different nicknames from three of her love interests: "Fairy", "Kitten", and "Weed", though the last one is more of an Insult of Endearment.
• Misha in Katawa Shoujo refers to Hisao as "Hicchan" and her best friend Shizune as "Shicchan". This could also apply to her own name, as her real name is Shiina Mikado.
• Majikoi! Love Me Seriously! has plenty of nicknames to go around: Gen-san's actual name is Tadakatsu Minamoto, which doesn't come up very often. The whole family calls Shouichi "Cap", short for Captain, and Momoyo, being a year older than everyone else, is "Momo-senpai". Yukie is called Mayucchi by her friends and Mayumayu by Momoyo; Kazuko is known by all as Wanko, but she's also in the habit of doling out nicknames herself — Tacchan for Gen-san, for instance, and Kuri for Chris. This is important later on in the latter two's respective routes, where Yamato starts calling them by their given names instead — in particular, in Wanko's path, Momoyo catches on to their Relationship Upgrade via a sudden lack of this trope.
• Minotaur Hotel: Asterion gets called "Angus" by Luke, and "Moo" by the protagonist.
• In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors, Junpei is called "Jumpy" by his childhood friend June, while June is called "Kanny" by Junpei.
• Hamin in Seven Kingdoms: The Princess Problem dubs the Player Character "Glitter" during their first meeting. It takes a specific and pointed request from her to get him to even once call her by her actual name, and then he only does so to prove that he's serious about her.
• In the visual novel Sharin no Kuni, all three heroines have a unique nickname for the protagonist, Morita Kenichi. Touka always calls him by his full name, "Morita Kenichi". Sacchi calls him "Moriken", a mashing of his first and last name. Natsumi calls him "Ken-chan" because they are affectionate childhood friends.

Web Animation

• Dreamscape: Vampire Lord calls Dylan 'Human-Buddy'.
• DSBT InsaniT: Lisa acts like this when calling Asia 'quirky' just to get on her nerves.
• Hello Kitty and Friends Supercute Adventures: "My Mel" for My Melody, particularly from Kuromi. Badtz-Maru often refers to Pompompurin as "Pompom".
• Helluva Boss: Stolas frequently calls his daughter Octavia "Via." Blitzo also calls his adopted daughter "Loonie."
• Lackadaisy's whiskey-running Caper Crew has an affectionate rapport illustrated in Twenties slang.
  • The Leader Rocky refers to his cousin Freckle as "Baby-Face" as the latter makes a suitably infantile expression.
  • Rocky, further teasing Freckle, refers to Freckle's girlfriend and Getaway Driver Ivy as "Hotsy-Totsy", who rolls her eyes at his comment.
  • While tempting Freckle into the role of their Caper Crew's gunsel, Rocky calls him "Torpedo Boy," "torpedo" being period-accurate slang for a Hired Gun.
  • Highwaymen Nico and Serafine, both Affably Evil Louisiana Cajuns, each refer to their capo, Professional Killer Mordecai as "Cher" (French for "Dear") at least once.
  • While fleeing a quarry, Ivy refers to Rocky as "Mudbug" due to her finding him face-first in the giant mud pit that resulted when he accidentally blew up a water tower during a Construction Vehicle Rampage.
• In Root & Digby, Digby is nicknamed "Dibbles" by Root.
• RWBY:
  • Boys who like Weiss Schnee have a habit of calling her "Snow Angel".
  • James Ironwood and Qrow Branwen, who have apparently known Ozpin for a long time, both call him "Oz".
  • Qrow has a habit of nicknaming people, but his affectionate nicknames for his nieces are "Pipsqueak" or "Kiddo" for Ruby and "Firecracker" for Yang.

Webcomics

• Gunnora of Alfdis & Gunnora has two - her siblings call her "Two Bits" and her best friend calls her "Bobcat" at one point.
• Rowan's father in Boy and Dog calls Rowan "Squishy Bub", "Little Squat", "Mr. Tiny", "Squishy Squisher", "Squaty Stumps", and "Spud". He calls Murphy "Mr. Fuzz", "Doggeroo", "Fluffy Flumper", "Pooch", and "Fuzzy Britches".
• Claire tends to call her boyfriend Menu "Puppy" in Charby the Vampirate.
• Averted and played straight in Cobweb and Stripes. Lydia calls Betelgeuse "BJ" not so much because of this trope, but more because using his actual name is how he's summoned, and he'd rather she only use it for that purpose. He, on the other hand, dubs her "Lyds" and "Babe," almost never calling her by her name. He also calls Jacques the skeleton "Bones."
• Coga Nito: Niko almost never calls Eric anything other than 'Captain'.
• Darkest Night: Magdalena Harrera is always called "Mags" by her friends.
• Demonseed Redux: Most heroic characters don't refer to each other by their full names, using nicknames instead.
• Five Nights At Freddy's: Lost Souls: Golden Freddy calls Freddy "Junior", which is fitting seeing as the latter is the former's successor.
• Eerie Cuties: Brooke refers to her boyfriend, Ace, as "Acey" whenever they're dating, that is. Which is the one nickname he doesn't mind.
• El Goonish Shive: Diane calls Rhoda "Pup".
• In Godslave, Edith's friends call her Eddy, in addition to her boss calling her 'my bombae'.
• In Housepets! Sasha practically gives everyone a nickname, mostly due to her cheerful personality. Grape also calls her boyfriend, Maxwell, 'Maxie', which she also claimed to Peanut it's something only she can call him by. Maxwell in return called Grape 'Kitty Whiskers' one time, which also belonged to his Ex-Girlfriend at one time.
• Lore Olympus:
  • Hades and Zeus both call Hera "Bunny," though she doesn't especially seem to appreciate it.
  • Hades also calls Minthe "Tadpole" as an endearment.
  • Apollo calls Persephone "Persie." She doesn't like it.
• Kind Of Love, being a love-themed anthology, features several characters with these.
  • "Cons" for Connie in The Breakup. Particularly fitting given she and Mike go to, well, cons together.
  • "Ames" for Amy in The Best Girl.
• Kubera: Ran calls Leez "Chickie" most of the time. He was close with her father Rao Leez, so it feels awkward for him to address her by name.
• In MoringMark - TOH Comics, Hunter calls his daughter Pandora "Pancake", continuing the breakfast theme set by his palismen Flapjack and Waffle in canon.
• In My Impossible Soulmate, Belial playfully calls Keegan "Shortstuff", despite the latter not even being that especially short.
• In Mystery Babylon, Kick Girl sometimes affectionately calls Delilah "Little Flower", though Delilah dislikes the nickname.
• Tetsu in Never Satisfied is on the receiving end of several, mostly from their mentor and her cheerful wife, though their best friend joins in the fun as well. Their reaction is usually a little miffed, especially when January repeats the nicknames.
• In Roommates many people end up with a nickname or two, but Mr. King (aka. the Erlkönig) calling his (ex-)wife (Jadis, the White Witch) "My Snowflake" takes the cake (and is a CMOF).
• Blue from The Silver Eye calls Velvare "Bay", short for his original name, Bhatair.
• These pop up a lot in Skyvein, one example is Emi calling her brother Firefly, and he calling her Meteorite.
• Mr. and Mrs. Cake in Slice of Life always call each other using a variety of confectionery-related terms, with a Running Gag that they don't reuse the same nickname in the same strip.
  Mrs. Cake: "Well, let's get this over with, ginger-beer."
  Mr. Cake: "We should probably knock, sugarpie."
  Mrs. Cake: "Oh, one of us should, toffeebean."
  Mr. Cake: "Sometime soon, fizzypop."
  Mrs. Cake: "Any time, gummi bear."
  Mr. Cake: "When you're ready, sugarpie."
  Mrs. Cake: "You used that one already."
• In Something*Positive, childhood friends Davan and Aubrey sometimes call each other "Woogie" (Davan) and "Monkeybutter" (Aubrey). A Flashback series of strips gives the origin of this in their first meeting: Davan showed her a toy Wookie, which she couldn't pronounce, while "monkeybutter" was his weird attempt at an insult that she found hilarious.
• Til Debt Do Us Part: Invoked by Subin. To make their fake marriage more convincing, she insists that she and Yejun call each other "Honey", "Baby", or "Sweetheart" thrice a day. This "H.B.S." training causes a lot of romantic tension when the nicknames start to hit home.
• Tony Comics: Tony's parents affectionately refer to him as "Shortcake". He finds the nickname embarrassing, though.
• Unsounded: Duane calls Sette a little squirrel on several occasions while he's feeling a fatherly sort of affection for her.
• In unTouchable, Sia's best friend Baryu calls her Simba, because her red hair reminds him of a lion's mane.
• In Weak Hero, Ben refers to his childhood friend and Heterosexual Life-Partner Alex Go by "Gogo". It catches on with the rest of their friend group as they slowly get closer to the two.
• Widdershins: Heinrich Wolfe calls Jack O'Malley "Mal". A bonus comic reveals that it began soon after their fraught first meeting to poke gentle fun at O'Malley's refusal to pronounce Wolfe's surname correctly, but quickly became a term of endearment.
• Zoophobia's Damian (and a few other characters) calls Addison "Addi".

Web Videos

• Critical Role:
  • Vax uses these on occasion, although they don't tend to stick. He seems to be particularly fond of mangling Tiberius's name ("Tibber-hoods" got him magically silenced) and also calls Keyleth "Kiki" at least once. Vax is a nickname in and of itself, a shortening of "Vax'ildan".
  • Subverted: the whole group — especially Tiberius — calls Keyleth "Your Highness", which was thought to be an affectionate term for her as a representative of the Air Ashari. The Fire Ashari in episode 22 do refer to her as "Princess", however.
  • Jester from Campaign 2 is often referred to as "Jessie" or "Jess" by the rest of the party, often when she's in danger or upset about something. Her mother refers to her as "my little sapphire" which alludes to her mother's stage name "The Ruby of the Sea" and Jester's blue skin.
• Game Grumps: Dan sometimes affectionately calls Arin "big cat" when he wants to comfort him.
• Kontrola:
  • Natalia fondly calls Majka "my Maja". Her friends also call her Maja. She's also called Sunshine by Kuba, one friend she has, as well.
  • Weronika is always called Wera by everyone she's friends with (like Majka) and her boyfriend.
  • Franek is only called by his full name a couple times at his wedding. His friends call him Anu, as does his girlfriend (later wife) Wera.
• Lissy of The Bowlingotter Show has several for her co-host and husband Matt, including "Buckets", "Buckwheat", and "Matty".
• Manic Pixie Dream Wife: Simone invariably calls her husband Chance by the pet names "Chancey" or "Chancey Bear".
• SMPLive: Travis often calls Cooper, one of his best friends on the server, "Coopie".
• Unwanted Houseguest: Doctor Wolfula calls the Houseguest "Guesty."

Western Animation

• On Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, Oblina will call her best friends, Ickis and Krumm, "Icky" and "Krummy" respectively, with "Icky" coming up a lot more in conversation. She also calls Ickis a "lazy bunny" both playfully and out of annoyance. His retort is usually "Stick-Lips" although he has admitted that he likes that feature in her.
• All Hail King Julien: While he generally uses their full names the most often, when King Julien is feeling particularly close, Maurice becomes "Mo-mo" and Clover becomes "Clo-clo". Even rarer is "Julie" for Julien himself, which due to his position has so far only ever been used by his parents and his old friend Rob.
• Megan Clark of The Amazing Spiez! has personal nicknames for her brothers. Lee has "Jockstrap", Marc has "Genius" and Tony has "Brony".
• Amphibia: Marcy is sometimes called "Mar-Mar" or "Marbles" by Anne and Sasha.
• Arcane:
  • Though Caitlyn is named "Cupcake" by Vi in a teasing manner at first and Caitlyn tells her to stop calling her that, it quickly grows in affection.
  • Vi is generally prone to giving these out to people she's fond of; she also calls her younger sister Powder "Pow-Pow", and calls Ekko "Little Man".
• In Archer, after Cheryl and Cecil have stopped fighting at the end of "Sea Tunt: Part 1'' because he was trying to get her put under conservatorship so he could have her split of their parents' inheritance, he calls her "Beans" while he apologizes.
• In Avatar: The Last Airbender, Toph calls Aang "Twinkle Toes". It started off as an insult, before soon turning into an Insult of Endearment after they became friends. And as the sequel series The Legend of Korra shows, she continued using the nickname well into their adult years, to Aang's embarrassment.
• In Batman: The Animated Series, Harley Quinn usually refers to the Joker as either "Mistah J" or "Puddin'", and Poison Ivy as "Red".
• Beetlejuice is more likely to address Lydia as "Lyds" or "Babes" than her real name. On very few occasions, he calls her "my dear," although this usually for playful drama. She returns it by sometimes calling him "BJ" or "Beej," and the instances of her doing so become more frequent as the series goes on. Their car, the Dragster of Doom, is affectionately dubbed "Doomie" by both.
• Bubble Guppies:
  • Molly refers to Gil as "Gilly". Doesn't help their "subtext" at all.
  • Deema calls Nonny "Nonners".
• Captain Planet and the Planeteers: Wheeler, who already loves giving out nicknames, naturally has his own special variety for other members of the team.
  • When talking to or about Captain Planet (who's only known by that name and title), Wheeler often shortens it to "Cap." This stands out a bit because the others all tend to use the full name.
  • Wheeler has an Odd Friendship with Ma-Ti and often calls him "little buddy" or variants thereon.
• Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers:
  • Tammy calls Chip "Chipper". To be fair, so does Dale on occasion.
  • Speaking of Dale, notice how he is the first to call Foxglove "Foxy".
  • Camembert Kate still calls her son Monterey Jack "Cheezer", much to his dismay.
• In Code Lyoko, Odd, Urich, and Yumi often call Aelita "Princess", and Jérémie "Einstein".
• In Codename: Kids Next Door, Numbuh One's girlfriend Lizzie often calls him "Nigey" as his real name is Nigel. His teammates, and occasionally enemies, often tease him about it.
  • Numbuh 5 calls her candy-hunting rival and former friend Heinrich Von Marzipan "Heiny", which is hated by the latter for obvious reasons. Incidentally, his nickname for Numbuh 5 is "Liebchen" (or "dear" in German).
  • Numbuh 362 tends to call Numbuh 1 "soldier".
• Daniel Tiger's Neighborhood:
  • Jodi Platypus's mother often refers to her as "JoJo-bean."
  • Miss Elaina's mother Lady Elaine sometimes refers to her as "Elaina-berry."
• Daria:
  • Jake often refers to Daria as "Kiddo," though he never uses it for his younger daughter, Quinn. This comes among other hints that Jake and Daria are particularly close.
  • Trent always refers to Jane as "Janie." This could also be used to show their particular closeness (though there's at least one example of their other brother, Wind, using this one, too).
• Darkwing Duck: Darkwing calls his daughter "hockey player", "slugger" and other similarly descriptive pet names in addition to "Gos" and refers to Launchpad as "sidekick" or "L.P." during friendlier moments. Launchpad, still The Nicknamer, calls Darkwing "D.W." habitually and Gosalyn "Gosaroonie" in at least one episode.
• Doug:
  • The title character's older sister refers to him as "Dougie."
  • Doug himself calls his dog Porkchop "Porky".
  • Over the course of the show, you'll find out that "Skeeter" is actually a nickname, and his real name is Mosquito.
  • The clearer it is, though, that Patti's name is actually Patricia.
• On Dragon Tales, Quetzal often refers to Max as "Maxito," Quetzal being of Hispanic origin.
• In DuckTales (1987), a number of the characters have friendly nicknames for the others. Launchpad, being The Nicknamer as a matter of course, has special nicknames he uses for the people close to him: "little buddy/little buddies" for the triplets and Doofus Drake and "Mr. McD" for Scrooge. Scrooge himself has (mostly) less effusive versions: the triplets often end up being called "my boys" or "lads", Webby gets "me darlin' Webbigail" and, while he calls Launchpad by his first name all the time, at rare gentle moments, he'll append "lad" or "my boy" to it.
• DuckTales (2017):
  • Webby is sometimes called "Webs" by the triplets (usually Louie); meanwhile, her best friend Lena often calls her "Pink".
  • Gladstone Gander does this often with his relatives (calling Huey, Dewey and Louie "Red Hat", "Dewdrop" and "Greener Pastures" respectively), though with him it comes across as more a shallow attempt to be seen as the "cool uncle".
  • Goldie O'Gilt tends to call Scrooge "Scroogie" (sometimes genuinely, sometimes teasingly). She also later takes to calling Louie "Sharpie" (in reference to his sharing Scrooge's trait of being "sharper than the sharpies") - at first dismissively, but later with more affection as she finds herself genuinely growing to like him.
• In the Earthworm Jim cartoon, Jim uses "Fuzzbuddy" for Peter Puppy. He has a whole slew of affectionate terms for Princess What's-Her-Name, including "My luxuriant tapestry of bliss".
• On Elinor Wonders Why, Elinor's mother Ranger Rabbit sometimes refers to her as "Honey Bunny."
• The Fairly OddParents!: Wanda calls Timmy "Sport" very often, though one episode explains that it's because she keeps forgetting his real name.
• In Gargoyles, the titular species originally felt that they had No Need for Names, but occasionally use these instead. Most notable is Goliath calling his former mate Demona his "Angel of the Night."
• Gravity Falls:
  • Mabel is fond of calling Dipper "Bro-Bro" or "Broseph".
  • She also nicknames them "Mystery Twins". Dipper initially dislikes it, but it soon grows on him.
  • When he was a kid, Stan called his twin brother Ford "Sixer", a nod to his polydactyly, and often called him "Poindexter" for his smarts. They also called each other "Kings of New Jersey".
• Grojband:
  • Corey calls Laney "Lanes" and Laney calls Corey "Core" respectively.
  • Corey's evil sister Trina also has a bunch of cutesy nicknames for Mina.
• Harley Quinn (2019): Best friends Harley Quinn and Poison Ivy nickname each other as "Harls" and "Ive" respectively.
• Heathcliff & the Catillac Cats: Cleo usually refers to her boyfriend, Riff-Raff, as "Riffy". Whereas he often addresses her as "gorgeous" and "baby" whenever he's smooth talking her.
• In He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021), Evelyn occasionally calls her partner in crime Kronis "[her] dear Kronis" and later "[her] dearest Trap Jaw".
• Hey Arnold!:
  • Helga's older sister Olga calls her "Baby Sister". Helga clearly doesn't like it.
  • Arnold's Grandpa often refers to him as "Short Man". This turns out to be a case of Hidden in Plain Sight meeting Not Hyperbole when it's revealed that Arnold's mysterious surname is, in fact, "Shortman."
• Jorel's Brother: The title character is always known by others just as "Jorel's brother"; out of universe, nobody knows his true name, while in-universe, only his family members know it. As a result, most of his family members have their own nickname for Jorel's brother as it wouldn't make sense for them to call him that, but they also don't say his real name onscreen to keep the mystery. For example, his older brother Nico calls him "dude"; Granny Gigi calls him by an usually dragged-out "booooy...", and Granny Juju calls him "dear". The talking pets, on the other hand, just call him "Jorel's brother" like everyone else does, and Jorel himself rarely speaks on-screen so he doesn't really call his brother anything.
• Jimmy of Jimmy Two-Shoes calls Lucius Heinous the 7th "Lucy", despite Lucius' hatred of the name (and of Jimmy).
• A few episodes of Kaeloo have Mr. Cat refer to Kaeloo as "coochy-coo".
  • One episode had him call her "Priscilla", which was a terrible choice.
• Kim Possible is called "KP" by her best friend (later boyfriend) Ron Stoppable. She's also called "Kimmie" by her mother, and "Kimmie-Cub" by her father.
• Les Sisters:
  • Wendy occasionally refers to her boyfriend Maxence as "Maxou".
  • Wendy and Sandrine sometimes call Marine "Marinou".
  • Rachel calls Marine "Marinette" while pretending to be nice to her. She stops once Marine finds out that Rachel is a Bitch in Sheep's Clothing.
• The Legend of Vox Machina: Keyleth is called "Kiki" by Vax multiple times in the show and eventually by Vex.
• The Loud House:
  • Lincoln Loud has "Linc" from all his sisters and the at least partly Fanon "Linky" from the older girls.
  • Lori and Bobby call each other "Babe" and "Bobby Boo-Boo Bear", respectively.
  • Bobby calls his little sister Ronnie Anne "Nie-Nie".
• Mega Man (Ruby-Spears):
  • All of Mega Man's friends and family affectionately call him Mega. Dr. Wily also called him Mega when he was under his control.
  • Protoman calls Mega Man 'little bro' both when he is being sarcastic or praising his brother.
• Miraculous Ladybug:
  • While Cat Noir, Adrien often addresses his fighting partner Ladybug (a.k.a. Marinette) as "milady". He also calls her "bugaboo", invariably prompting her to tell him not to call her that. Ladybug, in turn, occasionally calls Cat Noir "kitty".
  • Chloé frequently calls her Childhood Friend Adrien "Adrikins".
  • Plagg, Cat Noir's kwami, calls Tikki, Ladybug's kwami, "sugar cube". She hates it and threatens to call him "stinky sock" in retaliation, but he likes the sound of it.
• Molly of Denali: Sometimes, Molly's best friend Tooey calls her "Moll." Her father Walter also tends to call her "Molly Doodle."
• Motorcity: Mike calls Julie "Jules/Jewels." Mike and Chuck often refer to each other as "Mikey" and "Chuckles" which adds to the Ho Yay factor.
• My Adventures with Superman: Lois soon develops a habit of referring to Clark as "Smallville", the same as her comic book and movie incarnations. Except this version reserves it strictly for romantic occasions.
  Lois: You know, when I was getting ready, I kept wondering if this counted as a date.
  Clark: (drapes his jacket around her shoulders) Aannd... what did you decide?
  Lois: (blushes and pecks Clark's cheek) Walk me back, "Smallville.
• My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic:
  • Twilight Sparkle's older brother Shining Armor calls her "Twiley", and she calls him BBBFF (short for "Big Brother Best Friend Forever").
  • Spike is called "Spikey-Wikey" first by Pinkie, then by Rarity after the events of "Secret of My Excess". Season 4 has Rarity addressing Spike even more affectionately as "Spikey-boo", "Spikey-poo", and "Precious Scales".
  • In partially the same vein as "Twiley", Pinkie Pie calls Rainbow Dash "Dashie".
  • Applejack calls her friends "Sugarcube", just as Rarity calls her friends "Darling."
  • According to the Journal of the Two Sisters, Luna used to call Princess Celestia "Cellie".
  • Big Macintosh gets called "Big Mac" by his younger sisters.
• Once Upon a Studio: Raya casually refers to Mickey as "Mick" when mentioning that the coast is clear for everyone to take the group photo.
• The Owl House:
  • Amity's family calls her "Mittens". When it comes to her older siblings, it cycles between this and an Embarrassing Nickname depending on how nice they're being at the time, while her mother is distinctly less affectionate whenever she does so. The nickname came from her tendency to wear mittens made of her father's abomination sludge as a child, though she doesn't piece this together until the end of Season 2.
  • Hooty and Lilith of all people end up becoming friends in the season 2 premier, and almost exclusively refer to each other as "Hootsifer" and "Lulu" afterwards.
  • Eda's mother Gwendolyn calls her "Witchlet" and her older sister Lilith "Sweet Flea". Her father is also shown calling her "pumpkin" in a flashback (it's unknown if he as a nickname for Lilith as they never interact onscreen).
  • Eda refers to her ex Raine as "Rainestorm".
  • Halfway through season 2, Amity starts trying to teach herself Spanish to impress her girlfriend Luz, who is Latina. However, all she has to work with is a Spanish cookbook, leading to her greeting her with, "Hola, batata!", which Luz informs her means sweet potato. Luz finds this cute and affectionately refers to Amity as "sweet potato" in return.
  • Hunter, after joining Willow's flyer derby team for their first match and developing a strong respect for her, takes to calling Willow "Captain" even off the field.
• Pet Alien: Gumpers often calls Tommy, his human friend, "Tom" as a sign of their friendship.
• Inverted in Phineas and Ferb with Jeremy. In the episode "The Baljeatles," Jeremy suddenly becomes The Nicknamer and nicknames everybody except Candace. When she finally stops trying to make him nickname her and confronts him about it, he says, "I call you Candace, but not because I don't care enough to come up with a cute nickname for you. I call you Candace because I happen to really like that name." Aww...
  • There are some straight examples too. Candace often calls Stacy 'Stace', and Isabella's mother calls her 'Isa'.
• As of the Ready Jet Go! episode "Constellation Prize", Sean refers to his mother as "Dr. Mom".
  • As of Season 2, Jet loves calling Sean "Sean-zo".
• In Rick and Morty, Rick affectionately refers to his daughter Beth as "sweetie," and she's the only member of the family he doesn't insult or swear at. From Season 3 onwards, he sometimes addresses his granddaughter Summer as "Sum-Sum". Other one-off nicknames for her include Summerfest and Summer-Camp.
• Rosie's Rules: Rosie's mom calls her "Rosie Posie." She also calls Iggy "Iggy Wiggy."
• Samurai Jack got his name — or rather, the one he goes by — this way. When he arrived in Aku's dystopian future, the first folks he met were a bunch of street toughs who called him "Jack", as a way of saying "dude" or "pal". Not fully understanding modern slang, when asked his name later, he simply said "They call me Jack" and it stuck.
• She-Ra and the Princesses of Power:
  • Scorpia refers to Catra, on whom she has an incredibly obvious crush, as "Wildcat". When she pulls a Heel–Face Turn, she quickly befriends Frosta and starts calling her "Little Buddy".
  • After they bond, Adora starts calling Swift Wind, her talking, flying unicorn, "Swifty".
  • When we see them interacting in the portal, Micah calls his wife, Queen Angella, "Angie".
  • Double Trouble calls Catra "Kitten" after she hires them. Darkly subverted after Double Trouble switches sides; they still call her "Kitten", but now it has knives in it.
  • In "Destiny, Part 2", Catra calls Glimmer "Sparkles".
  • For a darker example, Horde Prime calls Hordak "Little Brother", but his treatment of Hordak is anything but brotherly.
• Marge Simpson often calls Bart "my special little guy," and also uses "Homie" for Homer. Bart calls Lisa "Lis."
• Sofia the First:
  • Sofia is referred to as "Sof" by James and Clover.
  • Prince Hugo's older brother, Axel, almost always calls him "Baby bro" while their father, King Garrick, calls him "Champ".
  • Baileywick's older brother Nigel calls him "Wicky", which the royal children find funny.
  • Cedric's parents, Goodwyn and Winifred, call each other "Goodie" and "Winnie". Winnie, in return, calls Cedric "Ceddy-kins", to his embarrassment when she calls him that in front of the Buttercups in "Mystic Meadows".
• Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM): Multiple:
  • Bunnie tends to call Sonic "sugah-hog", Sally "Sally-girl", Antoine "sugah-'twan", and Tails "sugah-Tails".
  • Tails calls Sally and Bunnie "Aunt Sally" and "Aunt Bunnie". The former more than the latter.
• In South Park, Jimmy occasionally calls Timmy "Tim" or "Tim-Tim".
• The Spectacular Spider-Man: Liz calls Peter "Petey" and as per usual MJ calls him "Tiger". Peter's "affectionate" nicknames for his villains fit better under You Fight Like a Cow.
  • Eddie and Peter (who in this continuity were essentially surrogate brothers growing up) often call each other "bro"... even after Eddie becomes Venom, though it's decidedly less affectionate on his part by that point.
• Steven Universe:
  • Most nicknames are courtesy of Amethyst. This is lampshaded in the episode "Message Received".
    Amethyst: Man, I'm taking back all my cool nicknames for her [Peridot]! Goodbye "Peri" and "P-dot", hello, P... Puh... uhh... ARGH, I'M TOO MAD! I'll think of something later...
  • As mentioned above, Peridot has the nicknames "Peri" and "P-dot" from Amethyst. Steven calls her "Dot" on occasion.
  • Amethyst calls Pearl "P" or "Pierogi" in relaxed situations.
  • She's also called Garnet "G" or "G-Squad" once or twice.
  • She often calls Steven "Ste-Man". Greg calls Steven "Shtewball", and Mayor Dewey calls him "Carwash-Kid".
  • Marty calls Greg "Starchild", and Steven "Starchild Junior".
  • Ruby calls Sapphire "Laughy Sapphy".
  • Amethyst herself doesn't really have a nickname, but Peridot calls her "Ams" and "Big A" in the episode Beta.
• In the DC Showcase short Superman/Shazam!: The Return of Black Adam, the homeless man who Billy defends (or at least tries to) from some nameless thugs calls him "Captain". Considering that Billy eventually becomes Captain Marvel and the man is eventually revealed to be Shazam's lackey Tawky Tawny, one might find the nickname more significant than it appears.
• Tangled: The Series
  • Cassandra gets called "Cass" by the other main characters
  • Eugene has no shortage of nicknames for his girlfriend, such as "Sweetheart," "Sunshine," "Blondie," etc.
  • Cassandra and Eugene also refer to Rapunzel as "Raps" often — a cute nickname that is distinguished apart from the nickname that only Mother Gothel had used for her previously: "Punzie"
• In the Teen Titans (2003) episode "Troq", Val-Yor gives each of the Titans a nickname. Robin is "Spike", Cyborg is "Metal-Butt", Raven is "Sunshine", and Beast Boy is "Champ". His nickname for Starfire, "Troq", is actually a racial slur, but Cyborg mistakenly assumes it was supposed to be affectionate.
• Thomas & Friends has Donald and Douglas call each other 'Donnie' and 'Douggie' respective in the CGI episode Love Me Tender. In the books, 'Douggie' was also used, but not 'Donnie'.
• On Timothy Goes to School, Yoko's mother calls her "cherry blossom" and Nora's mother calls her "sugar snap."
• On Toot & Puddle, Toot often refers to Puddle affectionately as "Puds."
• Total Drama:
  • Duncan seems to do this for girls he likes; his first girlfriend, Courtney, was "Princess," while his second, Gwen, is "Pasty."
  • As per his Sarcastic Devotee nature, Noah gives semi-affectionate nicknames to people he cares about; Izzy is "Nutsie", Eva is "Iron Woman", Owen is "Lunchbox", etc.
  • Owen in turn, refers to Noah as his "little buddy".
  • In the Spin-Off Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race Jacques refers to Josee as mon petit chou (my little pastry), a French term of endearment.
• Totally Spies!:
  • Alex calls Sam "Sammy" all the time.
  • The girls occasionally refer to Jerry as "Jer".
• Jim Lake from Trollhunters is called "Young Atlas" by Strickler, referring to his need to "carry the weight of the world on [his] shoulders."
  • Nomura starts calling him "Little Gynt", after hearing him whistling In the Hall of the Mountain King to calm his nerves.
• Work It Out Wombats!: Super tends to call her grandchildren her little "squishes."
• X-Men: Evolution:
  • Lance likes to refer to Kitty as "Pretty Kitty" and "KitKat" alternately. Pretty Kitty seemed originally intended as a teasing insult, while KitKat shows up more often once he starts admitting his crush on her.
  • Wolverine calling Kitty "Half-pint" also showed up enough that she could use it to snap him out of brainwashing. Wolverine also calls Kurt "elf".
• Young Justice (2010):
  • Cheshire calls her husband Roy "Red."
  • Miss Martian gets dubbed "Angelfish" by Lagoon Boy while they're dating in Season 2.
  • A very twisted example with Sportsmaster, who always addresses his daughters, Cheshire and Artemis, as "little girl" and "baby girl" respectively, even when fighting them. It's probably the closest to "affection" he can manage.

Real Life

• Prince Philip, husband of Elizabeth II, called his wife "Cabbage", probably derived from the French endearment mon petit chou, which literally translates to "my little cabbage".
  • As a child, she was called "Lilibet" in the family, which is why her grandson Harry gave that name to his first daughter.
• Charles de Gaulle was named The Man of June 18th after his Rousing Speech on June 18, 1940.
• French singer Claude François was nicknamed Clo-Clo by his fans.
• Louis Armstrong was nicknamed Satchmo and Pops by his fans.
• Humphrey Bogart was nicknamed "Bogie" by his friends and fans. It was never spelled as "Bogey" and was said to have annoyed him (and others) if spelt so.
• Jean-Claude Van Damme: The Muscles From Brussels.
• Daisy Ridley and John Boyega, who play Rey and Finn in Star Wars: The Force Awakens, both refer to one another as "Peanut."
• According to her book, when Tina Yothers played Jennifer on Family Ties, Michael J. Fox's nickname for her was "Bear."
• Michael Jackson was usually called "Mike" by his siblings and fans. Sometimes it's even "Mikey". He himself sometimes called his brother Jermaine "Maine".
• Queen Victoria's favorite uncle, Leopold I of the Belgians, was her "solo padre," because he filled the role left when her father died while she was still a baby. Her husband's friend Baron von Stockmar, who served as an advisor to the young queen, was fondly called "Stocky" by both Victoria and her husband Albert.
  • They also had nicknames for several of their nine children:
    • Their eldest child, Princess Victoria, was called "Pussy" for a while when she was very small, before graduating to "Vicky".
    • Albert Edward, the Prince of Wales, was "Bertie." (Later, when he became King Edward VII, he was more commonly nicknamed "Teddy.") His grandson Albert, the future King George VI, was also nicknamed "Bertie".
    • Prince Alfred was "Affie."
    • Princess Helena was familiarly called "Lenchen," a nickname given to her by her German-born father.
    • The youngest child, Princess Beatrice, was often called "Baby."
    • Alexandra, Princess of Wales (later Queen Alexandra), was known among the family as "Alix". As a result, Queen Victoria's granddaughter Princess Alix of Hesse and by Rhine, daughter of Princess Alice, was known as "Alicky" to avoid confusing the two.
    • Edward VII and Alexandra's eldest son Albert Victor was nicknamed "Eddy" (Edward was one of his middle names).
• Victoria's grandfather George III referred to his youngest and favorite daughter, Princess Amelia, as Emily.
• NASA's Opportunity, a Mars rover, was known to her team and, eventually, to the whole world as simply "Oppy".
• Classic Sherlockians - fans of the original Sherlock Holmes novels - are known to fondly refer to the Great Detective as "the Master."
• Laura Bailey and Liam O'Brien sometimes refer to each other as "my twin", or "twinnie". This is partly a reference to their portrayals of the twins Vex and Vax in Critical Role, but it's also because they actually do have the same birthday.
• Vincent D'Onofrio affectionately refers to his longtime Criminal Intent co-star Kathryn Erbe as "Kate".
• Vera Farmiga affectionately calls her close friend and The Conjuring co-star Patrick Wilson "Aqua-Guy", a reference to his role in Aquaman (2018).
• Wil Wheaton frequently refers to Gates McFadden, who played his onscreen mother on Star Trek: The Next Generation, as "Space Mom".
• Harriet Lane, niece and acting First Lady of President James Buchanan, was known in the family as "Hal." When she befriended Queen Victoria, she became "dear Miss Lane" to the entire royal family. She herself called her uncle "Nunc."
• Oliver Hardy (of Laurel and Hardy fame), in addition to "Ollie", was known as "Babe" among his co-workers and friends.

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