Basic Trope: A character insists they be addressed by a specific name or title.
- Straight:
- "Excuse me, mister, uh, Bob-" "You refer to me as Sir Bob."
- "Excuse me, Sir Charles-" "Relax, you can call me Charlie."
- "Excuse me, Dr. Supercalifragili-" "Please, just call me Dr. Bob."
- Exaggerated: Anyone who refers to Sir Bob as anything different than that specific title will get brutally murdered.
- Downplayed: Bob would prefer to be called Sir Bob, but lets it slide.
- Justified:
- Dr. Bob has a complicated last name that is either difficult to spell and/or pronounce, so he just has his staff and patients call him "Dr. Bob" for the sake of simplicity.
- Medical Doctor Joseph Hawking, doesn't want to abuse his late uncle Stephen's fame.
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: ???
- Double Subverted: ???
- Parodied:
- "Hey, uh, Reginald?" "It's Sir Bob to... wait, where did you get that from?"
- "Pardon my ignorance, Sir Robert the Great, Protector of the Nation on We Call Home and Issuer of Fair Justice, but-" slap "That's Sir Robert the Great, Protector of the Nation We Call Home and Enforcer of Fair Justice to you!"
- The Gadfly
- Zig-Zagged: Bob insists that some people call him "Sir," that others not call him "Sir," and doesn't care what some others call him.
- Averted: ???
- Enforced: ???
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied:
- This exchange:
Clay: Hey, Bob, ya motherfu-Bob: You refer to me as Sir Bob.Clay: Up. Your. Ass. Bob."- "Excuse me, Sir Charles-" "Relax, you can call me Charlie." "I'm sorry, but I really should be calling you by your title."
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
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