Malicious Misnaming in Western Animation.
- In 101 Dalmatians: The Series, Cruella has a habit of addressing Roger with other R words like Rupert, Roadhog, Retro, Rudolph, etc. Very rarely does she get his name right.
- Nikki of 6teen often refers to her much-despised workplace, the Khaki Barn, as the Tacky Barn or the Crappy Barn.
- In the Teddy Ruxpin franchise (which includes the series The Adventures of Teddy Ruxpin), Jack W. Tweeg constantly gets this from his Lead Bounder (and Dragon) L.B.
- In The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius, when Cindy is not calling Jimmy Neutron by his last name, she is usually using insulting variations of it such as "Nerdtron" or "Puketron".
- Amphibia: In the finale of Season 1, Anne is called "Boobchuy" by a school bully named Maggie back on Earth.
- In the All-New Popeye Hour short "Take It or Lump It", after Bluto takes over as host of the eponymous game show, a spoof of Truth or Consequences, he continually addresses contestant Popeye by such names as "Slopeye" and "Dropeye".
- Animaniacs: In the Slappy Squirrel episode "Bully for Skippy", one of Duke's bullying tactics is deliberately calling Skippy by similar-sounding but still incorrect names.
- Arthur:
- In one episode, Arthur tells his babysitter that the "D" and the "W" of his little sister D.W. stands for "Disaster Warning".
- In "Vomitrocious", Francine throws up at school and has a nightmare that her classmates call her "Barfine". By an unfortunate coincidence, her sister Catherine also comes up with that nickname. She also considers "Ralphine", but thinks that's too confusing.
- A Beavis and Butt-Head episode spoofing Leave It to Beaver has Beavis as "The Beavis" and Todd as Eddie.Todd: So... Beaver.
Beavis: Um, the name's "Beavis", sir.
Todd: Oh, well excuse me... Beaver. - Captain Planet and the Planeteers: In "The Guinea Pigs", recognizing Suchi, Dr. Blight insultingly addresses him as Screechy, Scratchy, Smelly, Sonny, Scuzzy, and Scurvy. Once she gets trapped and Suchi closes in on her with the electric saw to give her a "special haircut", Dr. Blight desperately tries to appease him by addressing him correctly.
- Codename: Kids Next Door:
- The Delightful Children from Down the Lane often referred to the Kids Next Door as "Kids Next Dumb".
- Abigail Lincoln, better known as Numbuh Five, was often referred to as "Crabigail" by her older sister Cree.
- In Courage the Cowardly Dog, Eustace's dead brother Horst used to call him "Useless".
- Cow and Chicken: In "The Ugliest Weenie", Chicken constantly mocks Mr. Fleur (pronounced "Flew-er") by calling him "Mr. Flower".
- Danny Phantom: Dash's name insults involving Danny's last name, like Fen-turd. Enough said.
- In the Darkwing Duck episode "Smarter Than a Speeding Bullet", Steelbeak at one point mockingly addresses Comet Guy as "Comatose Guy".
- DC Animated Universe:
- In the Batman: The Animated Series episode "Girl's Night Out", Livewire calls Batgirl "Bratgirl" and Supergirl "Supersnot".
- In the Batman Beyond episode "Out of the Past", Terry persistently mispronounces Ra's Al Ghul as RAUZ (the same pronunciation used in Batman Begins) instead of the "proper" DCAU pronunciation, RAYSH. Talia constantly corrects him, getting more and more annoyed when Terry never tries to get it right. It may look accidental, but Word of God says this was Terry's subtle way of dissing the criminal mastermind by not even getting his name right.
- Justice League:
- In the episode "Wild Cards", the Joker refers to Superman as "Stupidman" and Batman as "Batguano".
- In the episode "The Once and Future Thing Part One: Weird Western Tales", Tobias Manning insults the Native American character Ohiyesa Smith by calling him "Pow Wow", which pisses Smith off.
- In Drak Pack, main villain Dr. Dred willfully gets the team name wrong (with names like Drip Pack or Dog Pack), as well as the name of its leader, Drak Jr. (calling him names like Clack, Drake, or Plaque).
- Kevin in Ed, Edd n Eddy often refers to the Eds as "Dork, Dorkk 'n' Dorky", as well as calling them a variation of names replaced with the word "dork" ("Dork and Beans", "Ugly Dorkling", etc.).
- In the Futurama episode, "Less Then Hero" with Fry, Leela and Bender as superheroes facing off against a villain called The Zookeeper.Zookeeper: Aw, if it isn't the superheroes or should I say, superzeroes!
Fry: (sadly) That was uncalled for. - In Generation O!, the episode "Deviated Tonsils" has Molly refusing to talk after her tonsils are removed for fear of her voice sounding different. Buzz calls her "Molly No-Voice".
- On Hey Arnold! Helga does this to insult Harold in the episode "Beaned" where she fools Arnold (and the rest) into thinking she's got amnesia.Harold: HELLO HELGA. MY NAME IS HAR-OOOLD! DO YOU REMEMBER ME?
Helga: Why, of course I remember you, Cheryl.
Arnold: Come on, I'll help you find your locker.
Helga: What is 'locker'?
Stinky: I reckon' that's the most pathetic thing I've ever seen...
Rhonda: She's turned into a total freak!
Harold: And she's calling me Cheryl! - In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, Mertle often calls Lilo "Weird-lo".
- Cecil Turtle in The Looney Tunes Show pronounces Bugs Bunny's name with long "u" sounds (Byoogs Byoony) just to annoy him.
- In The Loud House:
- Lincoln is sometimes insulted with the name "Stinkin'", most prominently by Lynn. Starting from "Schooled!", he's also been called "Lincoln Lame" by Chandler.
- At the old folks' home, there's a fussy nurse named Sue, who the residents call "Shrew".
- Bessie Higgenbottom from The Mighty B! is referred to by Portia and Gwen as "Messy" and by the latter as "Stinkenbottom".
- In an episode of My Gym Partner's a Monkey, Adam's classmates call him "A-dumb", and one of them gets even more juvenile and says, "He's so dumb his name should be A-stupid!".
- In My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, a lot of Rainbow Dash's colleagues like to address her as "Rainbow Crash". In "Bridle Gossip", when the protagonists get affected by some flowers called "Poison Joke", Spike calls Rainbow Dash by that name because her wings were upside-down and made her crash. He also calls the rest of them "Twilight Flopple" (Twilight Sparkle's horn had gone floppy), "Spitty Pie" (Pinkie Pie's tongue was too big for her mouth), "Appleteeny" (Applejack had shrunk), "Flutterguy" (Fluttershy's voice sounded like a stallion's) and "Hairity" (because Rarity's fur had grown long).
- The Powerpuff Girls (1998): Several characters like to mock the Powerpuff Girls this way. For example, Mojo Jojo has called them "Powerless Girls" and "Punypuff Girls".
- Wizard Kelly, Oscar Proud's Sitcom Arch-Nemesis from The Proud Family, is known for doing this, calling Oscar himself "Oliver Prune" or "Orenthal Proud".
- On ReBoot, Enzo often calls the viruses insulting nicknames, such as Megabreath and Hexadismal. Also, only Dot seems to pronounce Cecil's name correctly (Ceh-cil, not Cee-cil).
- The 1990s revival segment of Secret Squirrel from 2 Stupid Dogs had an episode where a villain called the Quark repeatedly addressed Secret Squirrel as "Stupid Squirrel".
- The Simpsons:
- In a flashback episode, Homer and Marge are trying to think of names for Bart (who Marge was pregnant with at the time). Homer shot down several names Marge suggested in order to avoid this trope.Marge: If the baby is a boy what do think about Larry for a name?
Homer: Marge, we can't do that. The kids will call him "Larry Fairy!"
Marge: What about Louie?
Homer: They'll call him "Screwy Louie."
Marge: Bob?
Homer: Flob.
Marge: Marcus?
Homer: Mucus.
Marge: What about Bart?
Homer: Let's see... Bart, cart, dart, ee-art... nope, nothing wrong with that.note - In "Black-Eyed Please", Skinner tells the class not to call Ms. Cantwell by her "obvious dirty nickname".
- In one of the Treehouse of Horror episodes, Bart gains stretchy powers and calls himself "Stretch Dude" while Lisa gains super strength and calls herself "Clobber Girl". Comic Book Guy (as The Collector) then calls them "Retch Dude" and "Slobber Girl".
- In "Homer and Lisa Exchange Crosswords", Lisa disowns Homer as her father and renounces the name "Simpson", opting instead to go by her mother's maiden name of Bouvier. Marge tries to talk her out of it by saying that boys used to call her "Marge Boobie-ier" in high school.
- In a flashback episode, Homer and Marge are trying to think of names for Bart (who Marge was pregnant with at the time). Homer shot down several names Marge suggested in order to avoid this trope.
- In Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM), Adventures of Sonic the Hedgehog, Sonic Underground, Sonic almost always refers to Dr. Robotnik as "Ro-butt-nik" or simply "Butt-nik". In the latter show, his siblings Manic and Sonia sometimes get in on the act as well.
- In Sonic Boom, he similarly refers to Eggman as "Egghead" or "Eggface" on a regular basis. It's actually lampshaded in the very first scene of the show, which sets the tone quite nicely.Sonic: Can't catch me, Egghead!Eggman: It's Eggman! You know my name is Dr. Eggman! You do that on purpose!Sonic: Do what, Egghead?
- In Sonic Boom, he similarly refers to Eggman as "Egghead" or "Eggface" on a regular basis. It's actually lampshaded in the very first scene of the show, which sets the tone quite nicely.
- South Park:
- In the episode "Asspen" spoofing competition movies, Stan Marsh's self-proclaimed rival takes to calling him "Stan Darsh," which he seems to think is a clever put-down. A Woolseyism in the German Dub has him use the name "Stan Arsch," meaning "Stan Ass," which actually is an insult.
- Another episode had a Hispanic kid named David, pronounced the Spanish way, "da-VEED". Naturally, Cartman pronounces it the English way no matter how many times David corrects him.
- In the SpongeBob SquarePants episode "Fry Cook Games", the final match between SpongeBob and Patrick is a wrestling match. During one part, SpongeBob takes a pencil to Patrick's nametag and erases the "Pat" from it, leading Patrick to bellow out "MY NAME'S! NOT! RIIIIIIIIIIIIIIICK!"
- Earlier in the same episode, Patrick mockingly uses the name SpongeBob SuperiorPants.
- The episode "Scaredy Pants", gets its title from what SpongeBob is called by the masses for being so easily frightened on Halloween.
- In "SB-129", at one point Squidward says "Well, at least there's no sign of SpongeBrat.".
- In the Super Best Friends Forever short "Name Game", Supergirl addresses Batgirl as "Bratgirl". Batgirl responds in kind by calling Supergirl "Stupidgirl".
- Super Friends:
- The Legion of Doom was fond of calling the Super Friends names like "Super Fools". Lex Luthor once called Robin "Boy Blunder", a play on his "Boy Wonder" nickname.
- Mr. Mxyzptlk often insulted Superman's intelligence by calling him names like "Superdunce", "Superstooge", and "Supertwit".
- Baloo did this to Don Karnage once on TaleSpin, interrupting Karnage's typical long-winded self-introduction by calling him "Don Garbage". As expected, Karnage became quite irate (though given that Baloo had no intention of handing over his cargo, he felt that the confrontation was inevitable).
- In Teacher's Pet, the school's resident weirdo Ian Wazselewski is frequently called "Ew-an" by the other kids because of how disgusting they find him.
- Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012):
- Baxter Stockman is constantly misnamed by the Turtles, much to his frustration.note
- The mutant Spider Bytez called the turtles "frogs". At first, it might be seen because he's a Fat Bastard and a Fat Idiot. Though later on, it was revealed that he's intentionally calling them frogs to piss them off.
- The Tick did this during his encounter with Thrakkorzog. His first attempt may have been Accidental Misnaming. The subsequent ones weren't. Thrakkorzog responds in kind later when he has the upper hand.
- Including such gems as "Thorasmog", "Thoraxabug", "Laxativelog", "Four yaks and a dog", and finally, "Susan".Thrakazog: Now you're doing it on purpose!
- Truly, it must be seen
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- Including such gems as "Thorasmog", "Thoraxabug", "Laxativelog", "Four yaks and a dog", and finally, "Susan".
- In The Transformers, Daniel Witwicky addresses the Decepticon Cyclonus as "Cy-clown-us" in the three-part finale "The Rebirth".
- In Wakfu, in the original French, Nox- at one point in his second battle with the ancient dragon Grougalouragran- intentionally butchers his opponent's name to Rigolo-ragran (Rigolo being French for "funny").
- In Wild Kratts, antagonist Zach Varmitech would often refer to the Kratt brothers as the "Wild Ratts."
