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This person does not like his birth name; if you call him by it, he will either correct you or ignore you. This could be for a number of reasons. He might feel that you are assuming too much familiarity with him. He might find his real name embarrassing (though his alias is not always much better). He could want to reinvent himself. Or it might be that no one calls him by that name besides his parents. Could be related to Embarrassing First Name, but that is more about an annoyance. This one is more prideful and dramatic. For obvious reasons, this is very common with Transsexual characters.

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  • This person does not like his birth name; if you call him by it, he will either correct you or ignore you. This could be for a number of reasons. He might feel that you are assuming too much familiarity with him. He might find his real name embarrassing (though his alias is not always much better). He could want to reinvent himself. Or it might be that no one calls him by that name besides his parents. Could be related to Embarrassing First Name, but that is more about an annoyance. This one is more prideful and dramatic. For obvious reasons, this is very common with Transsexual characters.
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  • This person does not like his birth name; if you call him by it, he will either correct you or ignore you. This could be for a number of reasons. He might feel that you are assuming too much familiarity with him. He might find his real name embarrassing (though his alias is not always much better). He could want to reinvent himself. Or it might be that no one calls him by that name besides his parents. Unfortunately for him, it does not always stick; someone will always call him by his old name, much to his chagrin. This person is not only known by his nickname, despite his best efforts. The person who calls him by his real name might be trying to mock him or threaten him, or perhaps is unaware that he feels this way. The name comes from the fact that the professional wrestlers Triple H [Paul Levesque] and The Big Show [Paul Wight] both have told fans who refer to them by their birth names that since all their friends and even their wives refer to them by their ring names, as far as they are concerned, those are their real names. This trope is hardly limited to people named Paul, however. Raven [Scott Levy] is well known for his insistence on being called Raven by everyone. As noted in one of his many shoot interviews, the only people who can call him Scotty are those who first knew him as Scotty the Body. Could be related to Embarrassing First Name, but that is more about an annoyance. This one is more prideful and dramatic. For obvious reasons, this is very common with Transsexual characters. Some entertainers invert this trope when they want to put their personas behind them (often because their work has become an Old Shame to them), refusing to answer to their Stage Names. May also be related to That Man Is Dead and Becoming the Mask. Compare My Name Is Not Durwood, Insistent Terminology, They Call Me Mister Tibbs. Also compare Embarrassing Nickname - someone dubbed him something insulting, and it stuck like a venereal disease. Examples of Do Not Call Me Paul include:
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