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Deadpool: No, seriously. Who is this? I have you saved as "Fat Betsy, don't pick up." Not sure why I picked up.

• Kaguya-sama: Love Is War:
  • Makkii-senhai is shown to have Karen saved in her contacts as "Shiptrash".
  • Kei, being in the middle of her rebellious phase, has her older brother saved as "dumbass".

• Eleutherophobia: How I Live Now reveals that Tom has Eva saved in his phone contacts as "Visser Mom", his secret nickname for her.
• Everyday Craziness in Pontypandy: In "Shop Till You Drop", it's mentioned that Gabby has an emoji of a leaf next to Elvis' name in her contacts because it looks like parsley (as in, Elvis Parsley).
• In What's A Sugar Mommy, Madoka's contact name is "Serial Cutie," while Sayaka is Not_an_eldritch_horror.

• In Beetlejuice Beetlejuice, Astrid keeps her estranged mother Lydia saved as "Alleged Mom".
• Red, White & Royal Blue: Alex and Prince Henry have a not-so-nice first meeting where Alex calls Henry snobby, and Henry retorts that he desperately needs an etiquette lesson, they got off on the wrong foot. So, when Henry texts Alex one day, the latter wonders how he got his number, and then saves him as "HRH Prince Dickhead 💩."

• Break: Jonah has Naomi saved in his contacts as IMOAN (which, in his defense, is Naomi written backward).
• In Delilah Green Doesn't Care, the first book of the Bright Falls Trilogy, Delilah has her stepsister Astrid's name saved as "Ass-trid" on her phone, as they are not on the best of terms. Their relationship does improve after the book, but Delilah does still teasingly call her "Ass" on occasion.
• My Mental Choices Are... has main character Kanade Amakusa have a God calling him on the phone in order to help the former with his Absolute Choice curse. However, due to being newly appointed and being a being a bad combination of being both a Troll and The Hyena, the God in question receives no respect from Kanade, who promptly resisters the former's number as "Flippant God."
• Ratburger: Dad has Sheila (his lazy, nagging wife) listed on his phone as "Dragon".

• Ga-on from The Devil Judge has his Childhood Friend Soo-hyun saved as "Gangster" in his phone because although she's a By-the-Book Cop, she's tough and not easy at all.
• Doctor Who:
  • The Twelfth Doctor has Kate Stuart's contacts saved in his mobile phone, with a comic picture of her with a fake moustache added. Clara tells him never to let Kate see it. (This is actually a Mythology Gag, as Nicholas Courtney always wore a false moustache to play Kate's father the Brigadier.)
  • In "Mummy on the Orient Express," Clara has the Doctor saved on her phone with the image of a stick insect holding a top hat, having previously described the Doctor as looking like "a big grey-haired stick insect" in "Listen."
• Elementary: A close variant when Sherlock is revealed to have set a custom ringtone for Watson, who is implemented in the series as his sobriety companion: the "Psycho" Strings sound effect.
• Harold Finch from Person of Interest calls Detective Fusco in one episode. Finch comes up on Fusco's phone as "Mr. Good News".
• In the Red Dwarf episode, "Give & Take", it is revealed that Kryten stores all of his knowledge about Rimmer in a folder called "Captain Bollocks".
• On Resident Alien, D'arcy Bloom has her friend Judy Cooper saved in her phone as "Skank." The two of them often tease each other over this sort of thing.
• Succession: "Mass In Time Of War" shows that Shiv has set up her phone so that a picture of Saddam Hussein pops up when Logan calls.
• Ted Lasso: Rebecca Welton has this tendency.
  • In "Trent Crimm: The Independent", when she tells Siri to call "Shithead", the call goes through to her assistant Higgins.
  • In "International Break", after talking about Rupert, Rebecca, receiving a call, says, "Speak of the Devil." She then shows her phone screen to Ted, showing she's saved Rupert in her phone as "The Devil" (Ted briefly believes the actual Devil is actually calling her).
• In "Blood Hive" from Yellowjackets, Natalie Scatorccio dials "Don't pick up," which turns out to be The Unfettered Token Evil Teammate Misty Quigley.

• One of the side-quests in Cyberpunk 2077 involves a pantsless man named Jesse begging V to take him to a ripper because the cybernetic implant he had installed in his penis is overheating. V has Jesse saved in his or her cell phone's list of contacts as "Flaming Crotch Man" and even has a picture of a peeled banana as his contact picture.
• Persona 5: Futaba Sakura has the other members of the Phantom Thieves saved in her phone under their codenames (in Katakana), with Ryuji being Skull, Ann being Panther, etc. The only exception is her Sitcom Arch-Nemesis Yusuke, whom she has under her Embarrassing Nickname of "Inari".

• Helluva Boss:
  • In the pilot episode, Blitzø has Stolas listed in his contacts as "Creepy Mouth (aka one-night stand bird dick)".
  • "Sinsmas" shows that Octavia has Blitzø's number saved as "Dad (calling from shitty boyfriend's phone)" while Blitzø has Octavia saved as "Stolas' bird daughter".
• RWBY: Ruby first meets Jaune when he vomits from motion sickness on the transport to Beacon in the very first episode. Six volumes later, in "The Grimm Reaper", it's shown that she still has him saved as Vomit Boy on her scroll.

• Semantic Error:
  • Sangwoo saved Jaeyoung's number as "Freeloader 3" and his other college mates who didn't participate in the group activity as "Freeloader 1" & "Freeloader 2."
  • Likewise, Jaeyoung saved his name as "Motherfucker" since he thinks Sangwoo is an uptight asshole.

• "Your Contact List is a Mess" by Dropout (formerly CollegeHumor) has Rekha, Siobhan, and Ally all kidnapped only for the kidnapper to not find anyone in their contact list to call for ransom money because all their contacts are like this. The kidnapper finally finds "Daddy ;)" in Ally's contacts, only for it to turn out to not be her dad. Ally and Siobhan also both have Rekha saved as "New Girl From Work", despite having known her for eight months.

  Kidnapper: You have five contacts in here called Do Not Answer!
  Rekha: Yeah, I don't talk to those people!
  Kidnapper: Then why are they in your phone?!

• Honest Trailers: In the trailer for Logan, the narrator has trouble making fun of Wolverine's death scene, so he calls Ryan Reynolds, in his role as Deadpool, who is not happy to get dragged into this and claims he has the narrator listed in his phone as "Fat Betsy, don't pick up".

• Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012): In a blink-and-you'll-miss-it moment, it's shown that April has Donatello saved in her phone as "Donnie Boy".
• We Bare Bears: In "Lucy's Brother", it's revealed that Panda saved Lucy's name as "Future Mrs. Panda" in his contacts. Lucy's kid brother Clifford becomes angry and disappointed in him, assuming that he's only becoming friends with him to get closer to his sister.