This troper LOVES giving out nicknames. Cat, Hani, Aish, Pinky, Darth Will, Emmi, Laur, Innocent Bystander... also assigns friends random characters and occasionally addresses them as such. Note}} "Matsuda no baka!" is an oft-heard phrase in her household when yelling at her Ditz}} twin sister.

Nicknamer is actually an official position in this troper's improv club. Duplicate names are not allowed, and all people with duplicate names, except the first person with that name to join the club, are assigned nicknames.

I have a friend who used to be like this but has scaled it back a lot of late.

I do this, not with real people (as much...though my male and female best friends are CaptainObvious and {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, respectively) but with fictional characters.

I have a friend who does this. Unfortunately, I didn't know that for the first few weeks we hung out and one day she caught me playing with a bubble wand and decided to nickname me Bubbles. I thought it was a joke and played along, I even asked sarcastically to be called Blossom instead because quote: "she's the leader of the group." Sadly my friend obliged and a year later I have to explain to every new person I meet why I respond to Blossom.

A friend of This Troper's often gives people nicknames. This has lead to our friend, Fish, being only known by that name to many people.

... I think I might know this Fish of whom you speak. Is she South African?

This troper's best friend did this with everybody in high school. This troper was almost always called Chief. We also had a devout Christian in our group, nicknamed Rev. There's one Cloudcuckoolander with her hair dyed neon pink who somehow acquired the nickname Xenu.

This Troper, who has a bit of trouble remembering names (when he bothers to learn them in the first place) and just refers to the people he sees at school by various nicknames, such as "Furry", "The [=WoW=] Guy" or "The Bitch".

My English teacher is fond of giving people nicknames. Most are variations on people's real names, but the names people are called in that class are rarely the ones they go by... so far, we have MJ, Rags, Goldilocks, Kangaroo, Kates, Katy, Katerina, Meesh, Ma, Sparky, etc. Oddly enough, "Kates's" real name is Katy and "Katy's" real name is Kate, just to add confusion.

My electronics teacher was like this. We had Cokey, Norm, KB (though everyone called her that anyway), Cara Big and Hodgey. It was quite a small class.

My Drama/Speach teacher in middle school had a habit of doing this do he dubbed me Popeye since I am 6"6 fairly muscular but am the nicest person you could meet and he also had a habit of calling the guys who bugged him Buzzard

This Troper's characterized his ''WorldOfWarcraft'' Rogue this way (yes, some of us DO actually roleplay!), giving anyone who associates with her a little nickname like Boss, Hothands, Jinglebells, Mirage... It gets hard to keep track of them all after awhile.

This troper started refering to people by their nicknames in about seventh grade, and continues doing so becase he doesn't want to admit that he forgot everyone's real names, instead calling them random things like Gay Octopus Hairdresser.

My best friend in high school... many years ago... was a fan of ''TheSixMillionDollarMan''. One time when he remarked on how much he'd like to have bionics like Steve Austin's, I responded that I'd rather be Oscar Goldman, in control of all that multi-million dollar funding. From that moment, I was "Oscar" to him. I'm not sure his parents ever knew what my '''real''' name was.

This troper loves giving nicknames to her friends on ''GaiaOnline''. And she loves getting some nicknames back.

I do this every now and again. My dad now seems to have forgotten that my brother's name is Logan, not Buttmunch.

This troper had a group of friends who played ''MagicTheGathering'' back in college, and one of the guys was a Nicknamer. Two nicknames of note: one guy who always played with his cards on a leather mat and never allowed anyone else to smudge his cards with their grubby hands became known as Leathermat. Another guy who obviously never brushed his teeth became known as Cheeseteeth. You could actually see the dark yellow gunk on his teeth.

This troper's RPG characters are often this, he also happens to make up nicknames for people as well.\\ "Shirley Holmes and Miss Watson" for the two-person party in VtM. He played Miss Watson.\\ "Elliott Ness and the Untouchables" for a helpful NPC group of Tremere. Almost got killed with the stares there.\\ "Chipmunk" for his ex while they still were together. Because of her Chip'n'Dale-like laugh. And she liked it!\\ "Ejikko" for his friend's character in LegendOfTheFiveRings, because her (yes, HER) usual nickname is ''Ed''. Later, the same character got called "Nurse Misfire".\\ "Mr Grenade" for an idiot Ventrue character from VampireTheRequiem sessions, who used to solve his problems (obviously) by tossing grenades at them.\\ "Santhesomething" (with the optional surname of "Somethingelse") for a female Drow character.\\ "Osaka" for another friend's character in LegendOfTheFiveRings, a not-quite-all-there Battle Maiden named Asuka (or, more properly, "ASOOKA").

This editor had a teacher who did this. Strangely enough, she was one of the few people who never got a nickname...

This troper had a friend like this in junior high; she eventually grew out of it but alas, too late for this troper, who despite doing her best to project an image of sneering intellectual semi-androgyny still gets called Muffin from time to time.

This troper's Tae Kwon Do teacher had a problem with remembering names, and so gave us all nicknames, usually based on what clothing we were wearing during the first class. Indian, Taz, Skorts-girl, and Peewee were this troper and several of her cousins, with the latter being more a reference to height.

In one neighborhood in Germany where ThisTroper lived, there was a greengrocer who'd nickname every boy "Siegfried" and every girl "Sieglinde".

This troper was this for a while. At one point, whenever I'd meet someone new, the person would say his or her name and I'd say, "You don't look like a ____," then give the person a new name. Sometimes, it was a cool name like ''Chago'' or ''D-Train'', but a lot of times, it was something like ''Lester'' or ''Sally''. Because of this, many people came to know me as ''George'', not my real name.

This troper has a friend who refers to him singularly by a rather unfortunate nickname of his (coincidentally, this is also how this troper thought up his username). Mainly because I look rather similar to a certain cartoon cat.

This Troper doesn't know if this counts but here is a list of what' he's called: Tarice, Dustin, Paul, Talon, Talon Jr, Kray-Z, Kiwi, Crazy Legs, Spider Monkey, Pioneer, Dusty, Narutard, Scumbag, Idiot, Dork, Creep ect. I've been called Dict once. You know, short for Dictionary. Also, I like to give everyone I meet a personal nickname. I've given people names from Alison to Zordy. Zordy's name was much longer than that. I had to shorten it up because it was an overly long name.

Mira-chan likes calling people by either their rarely-used other names or nicknames which are derived from their real names, but which she alone uses. She is also the de facto couple namer in class.

A classmate of this troper, who is both a CloudcuckooLander and a drunk, loves to call many people by unique names, such as a Japanese-descendant classmate as "Togepi". Two of his High School teachers (one of which is a SadistTeacher which he hated) also loved creating names for their students.

Come to think of it, every single person this Texan troper knows can't seem to live without having a nickname for every person in their acquaintance. Coincidence?

This troper could be a case of The Fan Nicknamer, and he will defend calling Border of Kaleidoscopic Logic Style (a sort of weaponised psychiatry) Jung Fu to the death.

This troper's father had quite a lot of Nicknamer}} nicknamers at his workplace. It made for interesting names, like Sniper's Dream, The Lighthouse on the Bog, The Flame, The Bird, Two-Box Head, Shoey, The Pigeon, Luvie, The Boi, Santy, Baa and The Cranky Man

A girl this troper knows does it a lot. Unfortunately the nickname she gave to her friend Molly has UnfortunateImplications as it is Molester. It just sounds so wrong.

This troper has a friend who likes to call everybody by the names of cartoon characters. If you have a personality even slightly resembling that of a cartoon character, he will call you by that person's name for the rest of your life. This (female) troper is nicknamed after Stan from SouthPark, which isn't actually that bad considering there's another girl that he calls Homer.

This troper's whole family nicknames things often, for reasons ranging from affection, to an insult, to just wanting something shorter to call it by. I, myself, am prone to just appending some silly syllable to somebody's name and switching between several of those (I don't often make up nicknames that completely replace someone's real name), but sometimes I get more creative.

I'm not sure if it was my mom or my dad's idea, but we call the discount store with lousy selection that replaced our local Super Valu - which uses bright yellow as its signature colour and has a bunch of bananas in its sign - the Bad Banana.

I call one of my friends Buttpants, partly because I use "$NAMEpants" and "$NAMEbutt" a lot and partly because he has a bit of a butt fixation. I've also been known to call him Malfrank (which was swapped out for Malfrancis once when he complained about the name) because Malachy, usually just Mal, is his screen name but he'd rather be Frank to his friends.

Recently I've been insisting on calling another friend "Yunnerflies & Hurricanes" (on one occasion, "Burritoflies & Hurricanes") specifically to annoy him, because he objects to Matt Bellamy's political opinions and therefore refuses to listen to Muse. Like most of my more elaborate nicknames, this one will probably only last until I find something else to bug him about.

If your RP character has no surname given, I ''will'' call them [their first name] Whatserface/Whatshisface.

This troper has this as standard practice, often using GratuitousForeignLanguage to derive a cool nickname. Everything from Spanish and Japanese to German and Icelandic. Ex: My friends are normally hermana and onii-chan since they're like siblings, while my parents are Mutti and Pabbi.

I write reviews for a friend's site, and I've recently grown into this habit as my reviews moved from blandly serious to having lots of snark. For example, I recently trashed ''Ghost in the Shell 2: Innocence'' for various reasons, complete with nicknames, either insulting (Mamoru "Pretentious" Oshii) or factual (Masamune "Haven't Read Him" Shirow). Or when I took a crack at ''GitS:SAC'' (spoiler: I love it), I spent several paragraphs detailing the main characters and coming up with nicknames (The Major ended up with "Liquid Awesome", Batou was "Steven Seagal", Togusa was "Kaji Spiegel", Armaki ended up with "El Jefe", Ishikawa was "Teh 1337 H4xx0rm3i573r", the Tachikomas got stuck with "Robot Ewoks", etc). Tho' the nicknames are mostly one-shot jokes and for the rest of the review I just refer to everybody by their actual names, unless it's more funny otherwise.

This troper has a friend who gives people nicknames, particularly people he likes. I was known as Tiny, which he knew aggravated me intensely(I'm very short) and insisted I was so Moe he couldn't help it. In addition to that lovely nickname, when he knew I started watching BuffyTheVampireSlayer, much like a certain platinum blonde vampire he would call me pet. I in turn began to call him pup, due to his dog-like nature and fascination with werewolves. It doesn't annoy me anymore, and he doesn't do the nickname thing that much, except I will always be known as Tiny(which he won't let anyone else call me).

This troper calls all her friends darling, dear or sweetheart. My best friend is babes

This troper's {{Five Man Band}} is like this. The artist that ties us all together is Topaz, because of a usual username, the other artist is Wolfy, for the same reason, the tallest and most rational one is Melon, our Napoleon is Supreme Overlord, and I am Spaz.

If your name is Kevin or Jessica, I will call you by your last name. If your name is Catherine or any derivative thereof, your new name is Catpoo. No exceptions.

This troper is this to her friends, occasionally based off weird inside jokes. Some include Chickeeduck, Beanstalk, Twin, Tranny, Mikki and Forty.

This troper often hangs out at a local park where she plays on the flying fox. When large numbers of children gather there, it can be hard to organise things so there's no fighting over whose turn it is without knowing names... so this troper, who doesn't always remember names, tends to nickname people, usually by what they're wearing. Sometimes it's like being in ReservoirDogs- today, for instance, I ended up sharing the flying fox with Pink, Yellow, Blue, Green, Black, Brown and Navy. (For the record, I was Stripes.)

My group of friends have some pretty random nicknames. Currently we have Tiny, Jojo, Scotty, Tigger, Sandy, Caveman, Ghost, Lolli, Ducky, Waffles and Pie. Mine is Jellybean

I've had a supervisor who was very much like this, although the only specific instances I can think of is that I became "Miguel" and later "miggy", while he'd call a coworker named Kate various words that ended in -cate, such as pontifi-kate or advo-kate. I think it became contagious after a while, because the supervisor himself ended up being regularly called "Danimal".

Every time this troper met someone she would give them a nickname, and most of the time it stuck, to the point where one girl had her name legally changed to her nickname to avoid confusion. Some were okay, like R.M. and B (based on initials), but others were admittedly wierd, like Moonpie(because her username was Tsukiko).

This troper attended a party with a women's rugby team and acquired the name "Broccoli" within half an hour.

This troper has it badly. Examples include: Honeylocks, Apollo, Molestee Kid, Pretty Girl (a boy), the Vampire Sub, Caveman, Doe, Ginger, etc. Apparently, she has inherited the trait from her Dad who is even worse.

This troper's dad is pretty bad for this. For some reason he calls me Myrtle (Apparently after the midwife at my birth, who my mum emphatically said I wouldn't have been named after if I'd been a girl...) he calls my brother "Pea" for an even more bizarre reason (As a baby I wouldn't eat peas, but my brother did), his own brother is called P.B (His initials) and our next door neighbour is known as Slobby (Although that's a mutual nickname between my dad and him).

This Troper is a bit bad with names, and is also goofy and affectionate. My BloodBrother gets "Big Bro" or "Asswipe". My more creative ones. Other good nicknames include Kenny or "Butterscotch Puddingpop", Ross or "Peter Pan / Wilbur", David or "Color Coded Panty Drawer", Tyrone or "Chocolate Bear" (I'm White Cocoa Bear), and Ben or "Sexy Pants". Most of them have stories.

This troper's year group is almost entirely make up of people who have at least one nickname. We have a Hobbit, a Peewee and a Milkman (me, though not for the reason you probably think).

My friend is Sexyface. I am Uncle Gingey. We have friends who go by Tommy (her real name is Sophia), Fluffy, Scootles, Sammalama, Pedoboo, The Passenger Seat, Janono, and Kenevan. We're awesome.

This Troper's friend does this to nearly every girl we know. Her nicknaming reign of terror began when one of our friends got annoyed from sharing the same name as so many other people. We now call her Steve. Other nicknames include Clark, Martin, Gus, Phred (actually a guy), Phillip, Jonathan, Pedro, and Jacky for the nicknamer. This Troper goes by Charlie.

This troper's crush seems to do this to people he gets along with. For example, I am both 'Rosie' because my middle name is Rose, and 'Goldilocks' for my HairOfGold. Neither of these are even remotely similar to my given name.