TINY thing. but you know that joke where person A gets person B's name wrong to communicate that they aren't paying attention / don't value them as an individual? Like the way that Miranda Priestly calls all her assistants "Emily" to communicate that they're replaceable, or the recurring joke in 'Very Potter Musical' where Voldemort thinks Lucius Malfoy's name is Lucius Molloy. Cute, love that.
I also like the thing where person A performatively gets person B's wrong in multiple different ways, just to communicate they think B is unimportant and MAKE SURE they understand the slight. I'm thinking of the scene in 'The Sting' where Paul Newman's character has to be enough of an asshole to get the mark acting stupid, and so calls Doyle Lonnegan "Lonneman" "Lonnihan" and "Lemongan" over the course of one conversation.
But like... they're different tropes. If you want to communicate that A just can't be bothered to think about B, they're going to get their name wrong the same way every time (because they got it wrong the first time and were too powerful to correct.) Or maybe they don't even know B's name, that's fun.
But no one accidentally calls someone multiple different things over the course of a scene. That's not a thing. And yet I see it everywhere, as a easy joke.
