First-Name Basis/Web Comics

Examples of First-Name Basis in Web Comics

• Megatokyo chapter 6, when Nanasawa Kimiko requests that Piro call her "Kimiko," followed by their least awkward conversation to date.
• Parley in Gunnerkrigg Court switches from using her nickname for Andrew Smith (Smitty) to his first name after a Relationship Upgrade.
• Wooden Rose Please, you must call me Aidan.
• In El Goonish Shive, Adrian Raven asks Noah to refer to him as Adrian or Raven anywhere other than at school in this strip.
• Off White: Iki with his adoptive mother. She's never really accepted her adopted son.
• In Erstwhile, shortly before the wedding, the farmer's clever daughter call the king "sire," and he tells her that his name is Lennart.

Exceptions:

• In Kevin and Kell, after Fenton officially gets engaged to Lindesfarne, he starts calling Kevin by his first name, at his suggestion.
• In Close Encounters, a new transfer student allows the male protagonist to use her first name, which he finds shocking since they just met.
• Squid Row We should be on a first-name basis.
• Memoria Just Lucas, not Mr. Lucas.
• Most General Protection Fault employees begin by calling Dwayne "Mr. Duncan" or "sir", but eventually switch to his first name.