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A Dick in Name
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Subtrope of Meaningful Name and Punny Name. So this one's pretty simple: Doing so is a pretty easy way of sneaking in a joke that will go over children's heads because a person can simply say, "Thanks, Dick!" and emphasize it in a specific manner that allows the adults in the audience to understand that this character is not addressing the person exclusively by name. Please note that this trope doesn't apply to ALL characters of note named Richard or Dick. Basic rule of thumb is, if they manage to cram puns on their name into dialogue, the author most likely intended this trope to be used. As "Dick" as a nickname is less common than it once was, this often overlaps with Baby Name Trend Killer and Outdated Name. If used as a Double Entendre, that it falls under Euphemistic Names. |
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In The Eyre Affair by Jasper Fforde, participants in Audience Participation Richard III refer to the title role as "Dick the Shit". | |
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The main villain of Fleabag Monkey Face is named Dirk. Making things worse is that he dresses up like a chicken (as in cock, another term for penis), and his head looks suspiciously similar to that of a penis (This is a kids show, by the way). | |
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Richard Thornburg of the Die Hard film franchise, the Immoral Journalist who spends the entire first movie trying to get a scoop and endangering the hero and his estranged wife in the process (not to mention doing so by threatening their children's nanny with deportation in order to get a televised interview with them). In the second film, Holly even makes a point of calling him "Dick" to his face. The equally annoying FBI agents are a Stealth Pun variant, as their names are Johnson. |
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Nova: The original Nova was named Richard Rider. Despite the very obvious Unfortunate Name, the books almost never went with this. However, one notable exception occurs in New Warriors volume 3 in which "Dick Rider" was used very much for the sake of annoying him. | |
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Bottom, never the most subtle of shows, has the bartender aptly named Dick Head. | |
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Cybill has Mary-Anne's ex-husband Richard Thorpe, more commonly known as Doctor Dick (emphasis in original) who has cheated on both his wives, among other things. | |
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Five-year-old Callaghan from There's More Than One Way Home doesn't understand this trope, or why it applies to her mother's last boyfriend. | |
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Are You Being Served?: In one episode, we learn that Mr. Lucas's first name is Dick, which everyone else finds hilarious. However, in other episodes, his first name is James. | |
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And then finally just straight-out said in Batgirl (Rebirth): In a flashback to her early days as Batgirl, Babs is angry with Robin for using the fact he knows her secret identity, but not vice versa, and tells him "You're a dick, you know?" Robin laughingly replies "You have no idea." | |
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Used even more subtly in an episode of Beavis And Butthead. Butt-Head claims to have a cousin named Richard Head. | |
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Mega Man: Defender of the Human Race: Dick Ferguson, the tactless talk show host with a smug attitude, fits this pretty well. His boss tends to put extra emphasis on his name when making it clear that Ferguson's antics have gotten the station in hot water. | |
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An episode of Corner Gas revealed that Hank's real first name is Richard. He started going by his middle name, Henry (which "Hank" is short for), as a kid when the other kids made fun of his first name. Lacey assumes they called him "Dick", but this was apparently not the case as Hank is completely unaware that "Dick" is short for "Richard" and is confused why they would call him that. | |
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Dilbert: A rarely recurring character is Dick from the internet (he claims everyone knows him). | |
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Principal Dick Vernon from The Breakfast Club is a verbally abusive Jerkass who wields his authority over the students like a battle-axe because he's dissatisfied with how his life turned out. | |
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Supernatural has its Season 7 Arc Villain using the name and body of Dick Roman. The season has been referred to as one long dick joke for this very reason. | |
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Garfield: One strip had Garfield watch a special called "Dick, the Cat Who Didn't Save Christmas."◊ | |
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Being A DIK: The fraternity you join is Delta Iota Kappa, or DIK; and true to their name, they regularly engage in sexcapades. | |
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In Hellsing Ultimate Abridged, Richard Traitoro Hellsing murders Integra's father and tries to kill Integra as well because he wants the Hellsing Organization for himself. When Integra first meets Alucard, Alucard promptly calls Richard "that dick over there" before helping Integra take revenge on him. | |
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Murder by Numbers (2020) has the character Dick Stanford, a TV celebrity who has a friendly persona, but is secretly an abusive person to his colleagues behind the scenes. Lampshaded by K.C. | |
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Dick Solomon from 3rd Rock from the Sun. Episode titles lampoon it mercilessly. | |
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Early on in xXx, Xander Cage steals the car of a senator named Dick Hotchkiss. He goes on to explain to a video camera (and the audience) that Hotchkiss is an anti-free speech activist similar to Jack Thompson. He's been targeting rap music and video games. Cage ends the escape by driving the senator's car off a bridge and base-jumping from it on the way down. | |
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The Temps story "Pitbull Brittan" features a Smug Super named Richard Brittan; he's known to his friends as "Pitbull", but pretty much everyone else agrees he's a Dick. | |
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Dickory from Trolls World Tour is antagonistic by circumstance, and pushy and smug about it. | |
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Richard Woolsey from the Stargate-verse starts out as a classic Obstructive Bureaucrat Jerkass, and although he does mellow over the course of the series, he is still quite the jerk. | |
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The other CIA agents in American Dad! are constantly picking on Butt-Monkey Dick. When he asks why, Bullock says "I don't know, Dick. Perhaps because your name is Dick?" | |
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In the 5th Amendment section of The Illustrated Guide to Law, a corrupt corporate executive is named Richard Head. The author lampshades this, saying: | |
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In The Goes Wrong Show "The Most Lamentable ...", Chris is playing Prince Richard in a faux-Shakespeare play. He and Robert spend the entire episode trying to sabotage each other, and whenever the name of the character is announced, Robert (playing a trumpeter) interrupts with "Dick!" | |
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In the The Powerpuff Girls (1998) episode "Knock it Off", Professor Utonium is shown to have an old college roommate named Dick Hardly, who comes to visit him for the first time after college and manipulates the titular girls into giving him the formula that the Professor used to create them so he can begin a mass production of more Powerpuff Girls, supposedly to help people but actually for profit. When the girls finally confront Dick about lying to them, Bubbles in particular emphasises his first name. | |
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Fallout 2 has a double Dick as the overarching Big Bad: the President of the Enclave, Dick Richardson. | |
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In Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Ron meets one Mr. Banger at a party and is told that his first name is Richard. To which he promptly blurts out, "So your name is Dick Banger?" Poor guy... | |
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Agent Dick Gordon from Sneakers, one of Those Two Guys who pressgang the protagonist into stealing the MacGuffin of the movie. | |
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Shadow Warrior (1997)'s protagonist is named Lo Wang, and he milks the dick jokes for all it's worth. The Lo Wang in the reboot is also a proud jackass who often makes dick jokes, and he's especially fond of telling people that his fighting style is the "Path of Wang," which is "long, hard, and powerful." In Shadow Warrior 2, he starts to tell this joke to Smith. Except halfway through, he realizes that he's telling a dick joke to a nice old man who has been nothing but helpful, and awkwardly peters out. | |
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Wacky Races: Dick Dastardly, one of the codifiers for Dastardly Whiplash. If his first name didn't tip you off, his last name should. As befitting of the trope for which he is named, he frequently stops to cheat in the various races, even though he doesn't have to. To further the point, his middle name was revealed as Milhous. | |
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Batman: There's Richard "Dick" Grayson, aka Nightwing (formerly Robin). Things like this◊ can't be an accident. The character was created in 1940 so it's understandable why he uses this now outdated nickname. They've tried several times over the decades to change his name to some other nickname of Richard but it's never stuck. The irony is that he's actually a thoroughly likable person and one of the few heroes who can rival Superman in terms of general trust and respect. Hasn't stopped the jokes, of course. In one issue of Titans, he insists the team can't reveal their secret identities to the newbies, even when they're just hanging out. Arsenal interrupts Tempest when the latter tries to make the obvious joke. And then finally just straight-out said in Batgirl (Rebirth): In a flashback to her early days as Batgirl, Babs is angry with Robin for using the fact he knows her secret identity, but not vice versa, and tells him "You're a dick, you know?" Robin laughingly replies "You have no idea." In Gotham City Garage, Dick tries -and fails- to use Kara Gordon as bait to escape from a killer robot, which gives us the next exchange: Double-entendres aside, this name is such an important part of who he is that when he was Put on a Bus in 2018 via gunshot-induced brain damage, amnesia, and deciding to rename himself as "Ric" as a symbol that he absolutely refused to be Nightwing ever again, there was absolutely no one who was okay with it (yes, especially the "Ric" thing). |
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Hotline Miami uses this trope as part of a Stealth Pun. The rooster mask is named Richard. Or in other words, the cock is named Dick. | |
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Richard Cleaver in the Diogenes Club stories, known as "Clever Dick" when he was an unlikeable Child Prodigy Kid Detective in "Clubland Heroes"; in The Haunting of Drearcliff Grange School, another child prodigy tells him outright, "You're not Clever, you're only a Dick." As a teenager, he ends up with the nickname "Spotted Dick" (for obvious reasons) and grows up to be an even more unlikeable Mad Scientist in "Cold Snap". | |
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In Gotham City Garage, Dick tries -and fails- to use Kara Gordon as bait to escape from a killer robot, which gives us the next exchange: | |
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Animal Man: In Vol. 1 #1, Buddy Baker attempts to rejuvenate his superhero career by appearing on a talk show hosted by one Dick Griffith. However, during his segment, Griffith humiliates him with a string of lewd and otherwise belittling "animal" jokes. The day after it airs, the Bakers' next-door neighbour Tricia says, "Whoever christened that guy knew how he was gonna turn out." | |
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Arin and Danny of Game Grumps discuss this trope during their Super Mario Sunshine series while talking about the real-life incident where Andy Dick got beaten up by Jon Lovitz due to the former mocking the tragic death of Phil Hartman. They mention how they find it funny that a man named Dick "was being a dick." | |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 1 has a character named Dickson instead of the more common spelling of "Dixon", who is indeed a gruff, war-hardened jerk. However, it’s subverted in that he is a Jerk with a Heart of Gold who really cares about Shulk and the people of Bionis, until it’s Double Subverted as he really is an evil bastard who lives to up to his name- if anything, calling him a dick is an understatement. Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has Moebius D, which stands for Dirk. He is probably one of the most evil Moebius in the game, (which is saying something) considering that he kills people for fun and collects their decapitated heads. A dick, indeed. |
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Xenoblade Chronicles 3 has Moebius D, which stands for Dirk. He is probably one of the most evil Moebius in the game, (which is saying something) considering that he kills people for fun and collects their decapitated heads. A dick, indeed. | |
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Amazingly averted by Red vs. Blue, where Dick Simmons still retains a Last-Name Basis no matter how much he annoys and argues with the others. At most, there are moments in some of the PSAs ("We are not Simmons. We are The Unidentified. We are hacktivists fighting for a better world and there are lots of us." "Oh yeah? I only see one of you. Dick.") | |
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Anglerfish: Jason gets good petty mileage out of Dick's name, calling him Dickhead. It helps that Dick is himself being a bit petty and threatened Jason to start their conversation. | |
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Richard "Dick the Ripper" Ripley from Out of Sight. On the national level, he defrauded innocent people to the tune of multi-millions. On a personal level, he seemed to promise Jack Foley a white-collar job with upward mobility, when in reality it turns out he'd be a low-level, low-paid security guard. | |
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Lampshaded by Eddie Brill, when talking about some of the odd nicknames we've come up with (e.g. "Bob" for Robert, "Bill" for William), noting there are several fine nicknames for people named "Richard" that don't also work so effectively as Stealth Insults: | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney. The case with Dick Gumshoe is this, only here it emphasises exclusively the fact he is a detective since both his first and last names are slang for "detective". And that he actually is a nice guy, only pretends to act like a dick sometimes. Still leads to quite a clumsy introduction: | |
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Yellow Dick, a man-at-arms of House Bolton in A Song of Ice and Fire is both a dick in the metaphorical sense (he willingly serves a noble house infamous for cruelty) and is associated with his genitals in-universe by other characters. Including his killer, who shoved his (presumably yellow) dick in his mouth after killing him. The same series also has minor characters named Nimble Dick Crabb and Dickon Manwoody. The sexual innuendo in their names couldn't be accidental. | |
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The Boys: The Herogasm miniseries introduces a superhero team based off the Fantastic Four called Fantastico, with the Reed Richards/Mr. Fantastic stand-in being named Reacher Dick. Reacher Dick shows little concern over one of his teammates, a Thing expy called The Doofer, dying of a drug overdose and is said by Oh Father in the main comic's "Believe" arc to have helped an old woman cross the street just to steal her wallet. | |
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The Nutshack gives us Richard Cabeza, better known as Tito Dick, as a downplayed example. He cares for his nephews Phil and Jack, but approaches to act like a jerk toward the former whenever he finds a way. | |
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Olga Dies Dreaming: Dick, Olga's on-and-off wealthy boyfriend. While their relationship is thoroughly dysfunctional thanks to both of them, he puts the final nail in the coffin by telling her he humiliated him by assisting when a friend of hers working at a party falls, "You acted like a maid and now you'll be hired as one." That's when she breaks up with him. And that's not even counting when he rapes her later in the book. | |
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A good deal of the Dilbert episode "The Holiday" has Dilbert dealing with an obnoxious co-worker named Dick. He has no last name, but the show makes a point about how he's from procurement. | |
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Desmond's father in Devil's Hunt, Richard, is a wealthy entrepreneur who ignores his son after his wife's passing, and talks down on Desmond after he lose a fight. Desmond's relationship with his dad isn't a healthy one, to say the least. | |
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Father Dick Byrne from Father Ted exists to screw with Ted Sitcom Arch-Nemesis-style, like goading him into giving up smoking for Lent by pretending to have done the same. Ted is far from perfect himself and actually cheats more often when their rivalry flares up, but personality-wise, Father Dick still makes him look downright nice. | |
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Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All has a straighter example with Richard Wellington, a pretentious know-it-all who regards himself as superior to everyone else despite being a self-proclaimed drifter. He's never actually called "Dick", possibly due to the One-Steve Limit, but everything else about his personality combined with the series' penchant for Punny Names means this was probably the desired effect. | |
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The Awesomes: Whiskey Dick is named that because his first name is Richard, his power is to make people drunk, and he's a Jerkass. | |
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In Batman & Robin, Bruce Wayne has a tendency to emphasize Dick Grayson's first name when he starts acting really rebellious toward his mentor. | |
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Dick, of course, has Richard "Dick" Nixon. His private tapes, which Betsy and Arlene, and eventually the public, get to listen to, prove he's not really a nice guy at all. | |
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The Suicide Squad: Blackguard's real name is Richard "Dick" Hertz, and he's an all-around jerkass even aside from the fact that he sold the rest of the team out to the Corto Maltese military. | |
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Dick Cheney got this treatment in That's My Bush!. Completely unsatisfied with his position as Vice President, he frames George Bush for losing the Middle East peace treaty, forcing Bush to step down so that Cheney can take over as President. He then goes on to abuse his staff, all of whom were George's friends and who quickly grow to dislike him. Maggie at one point outright says "I tell you, that Cheney is such a dick," and one of the commercial bumpers labels the "new" show as "What a Dick." | |
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Epic Rap Battles of History: Invoked by Joan Rivers in "George Carlin vs. Richard Pryor", who asks if she can nickname Richard Pryor "Dick" and suggests that might be what his fifth wife called him when he remarried his previous wife. In "Ragnar Lodbrok vs. Richard the Lionheart", Richard uses his shortened name as a boast about his masculinity. |
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Subverted in The Incredibles. There’s a character named Rick Dicker, but despite having this trope in his name twice, he is definitely not evil. Dicker works for the Super Relocation Agency, and based on his interactions with Bob, it’s clear that he is a reasonable and respectable man. Maybe having two "Dicks" cancelled each other out. | |
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Officer Dick from the Tony Hawk's Pro Skater series, who is basically the personification of the constant conflict between skateboarders and security guards and/or police officers. The backstory for Dick—real name Richard Ennvee—in Pro Skater 2 states that he was dismissed by his peers as a poseur in his youth, and thus took up a career in law enforcement to get even at those who ostracised him. | |
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In the Central Park episode "A Fish Called Snakehead", Bitsy hires a big-game fish hunter named Dick Flake. There's a few jokes about his name, such as him being a "dick" with perfect aim and a news subtitle calling him a "master baiter". | |
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In one issue of Titans, he insists the team can't reveal their secret identities to the newbies, even when they're just hanging out. Arsenal interrupts Tempest when the latter tries to make the obvious joke. | |
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Wanted has Dick Arren, a Corrupt Corporate Executive who manipulates and murders anyone in his way. | |
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Veronica Mars has Richard "Dick" Casablancas and his father Richard "Big Dick" Casablancas, Sr. The former is a lush, misogynistic surfer dude who has spiked drinks and vandalized lower-class territories for fun, while the latter is the head of a massive pyramid scheme also designed to steal from the poor and give to himself. | |
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Astro City: One of the British villains is named "Clever Dick", he's not actually shown doing anything but is shown leering nastily.note The term is British slang and has a slightly different connotation, closer to Too Clever by Half or maybe Know-Nothing Know-It-All. | |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Mayor Richard Wilkins is the Season 3 villain. In the finale, Buffy gets him to chase her into the school library, which is filled with explosives with this line. | |
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Richard, the undead warlock in Looking for Group is the Token Evil Teammate who often engages in Comedic Sociopathy, killing random people For the Evulz. He's sometimes, mockingly, called Dick by his teammates. | |
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Midsomer Murders had a Casanova character named Roger, with Jones calling him "Roger by name and Roger by nature", 'roger' being British slang for screwing. | |
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Is It Legal? has Dick Spackman, who's fairly arrogant and has a tendency to disregard other people. | |
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It Lives Beneath introduces Richard Sutcliffe as an unpleasant man who harasses Danni. Harper can respond with "You're so right, Dick" to subtly insult Richard and humor Danni. Richard later turns out to be a member of the evil Society and tries to murder Harper after the rest of the Society is wiped out. If Harper survives the attempt, they get the option to tell him "Surprise, Dick" shortly before he dies. | |
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Used subtly in The LEGO Batman Movie, of all things: when Dick Grayson first introduces himself to Bruce Wayne, he says that his name is Richard, but most of the kids at the orphanage call him Dick. Bruce's response is that children can sometimes be cruel. | |
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One of the evilest villains in Justified is Dickie Bennett, a sadistic drug dealer and all-around Jerkass who's never matured from his days as a Jerk Jock. | |
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Age of Empires III: The Chinese campaign of the Asian Dynasties expansion features the character, Admiral Wang Jinhai. And for someone as conceited, elitist, and treacherous as him, Wang is a fitting name. | |
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