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• Claude the Cat: The only named character is Claude. Even his owner's name is unknown.
• The Dairy Queen Lips were never given a proper name.
• In the "Dear Kitten" ads produced by BuzzFeed Video and Friskies, neither the feline narrator nor the aforementioned kitten gets a name.

• Venus de Milo: While the artist's name —Alexandros of Antioch— was confirmed via a signature on its plinth, the actual identity of the figure is a mystery. Most have settled on it being a depiction of Aphrodite, the Greek Goddess of Love, some scholars believe that she is actually supposed to be Amphitrite, Goddess of the Seas and wife of Poseidon.

• Adventures in a Pocket Universe series from BBV Productions: One of the two main characters is never named. The other main character, her robot sidekick, addresses her as "Mistress". The fact she's played by Lalla Ward, the robot sidekick is K-9 (who, like many Doctor Who robots and monsters, can be licenced directly from his creators), and the pocket universe is called Ecto-Space may lead some listeners to conclusions about what her name might be, but it officially isn't that, because BBV didn't have the rights to use that character.
• The protagonists of Yandere no Onna no Ko are never named. They may share the same surnames as some of their relatives (Nagisa, Yumemi, Alice and Elise), but that would the closest things you would have to a surname. One character calls him "Elison", but that's because she's delusional and is convinced that they were lovers in another life.
• The protagonists of Yandere Heaven don't have a first or a last name. The Yandere brothers tend to provide sibling terms in place of a name.

• In 4 Angies, the principle of Rongreīyn Prat̄hm Xængceîl^note Angel Elementary School is never identified by name.
• The thief in Lamput does not have an official name. Unlike the Boss, he isn't simply called "the Thief" as his moniker by any sources either.
• Prince Vladimir: The Varangian lieutenant of Dobrynya is only credited as "Ginger". According to the historical source, he's not even a Varangian, the one who was beside Vladimir along with Dobrynya is Olaf Tryggvason, who was sent to Rus when he was three after the murder of his father and was rescued from slavery by his uncle Sigurd. Vladimir took him under his wing, and Olaf's achievements in battles made him so popular among Vladimir's soldiers and women that he became afraid of him. Olaf left Rus in 981 and later became the king of Norway.

• None of the characters of Fanpro have official names. Naming them seems to be optional in fan works, and they are generally just distinguished by their numbers.
• Parodied by How to Write Badly Well in the aptly titled "Refuse to give names to characters."

• Batman:
  • Batman’s arch-foe, The Joker, may or may not be named Jack… or maybe Joe. However, not even he himself is sure, due in part to his Multiple-Choice Past.
  • Ra's al Ghul left his real name behind centuries ago (as, presumably, did Vandal Savage), and is referred to only by his title. But Vandal Savage's real name was Vandar Adg, it's just eons out of date and used only in cave days.
  • Ra's' half-sister, who becomes a thorn in Tim Drake's side in Red Robin, uses only the title "Daughter of Acheron". She's not the only known user of the title but the other also goes by "Promise" even though she has also left behind her name, which prevents Tim from realizing they might be allied until he's already been captured.
• The Cardboard Kingdom: Several of the real names of the kids is never shown to us, including the Knight, the Scribe, the Animal Queen, and the Blob. (Though in the second book, we find out his name is Elijah.) On the flipside, neither Sam, Peter or Roy have names for their fantasy characters.
• In The Dandy (1937) comic "Blinky", the titular character is only ever called Blinky; his real name is never revealed. In fact, the comic implies his name actually is Blinky.
• Daredevil has a kid in his 50th Anniversary issue, which is set in a distant future. We never learn the identity of the kid's mother.
• In Dennis the Menace (UK) (as featured in The Beano), Dennis's parents are simply known as "Mum" and "Dad". The creators once claimed in response to a reader's letter that his parents were actually named "Dennis's Mum" and "Dennis's Dad" at birth. This is true for all parents in The Beano except for Les Pretend's dad called Des.
• Disney Ducks Comic Universe: The Beagle Boys were never given any real names and are usually only referred to by their prison numbers (going so far that sometimes it's implied the numbers are actually their names or that even they themselves don't actually their birth names).
• "The Evil Eye (1954)": Because the lonely protagonist is the narrator and speaking in the first person perspective, her name doesn't come up.
• Garth Ennis seems to love this one, with characters like the Pilgrim, the Saint of Killers, the Female, the Frenchman, Arseface...
• Giraffes on Horseback Salad: Many of the characters are never referred to by name. This is most notable with Groucho and Chico's characters.
• Green Lantern: In Hector Hammond’s debut in Green Lantern (1960) Issue #5, it’s shown that "Hector Hammond" isn’t his real name. He was a wanted criminal who adopted the fake name to keep from getting caught by the police, though he still calls himself that after he’s caught, and his real name is never revealed. However, this is retconned in his revised origin story in the Secret Origin arc from Green Lantern (2005), where he was a law-abiding citizen before he got mutated, and Hector Hammond is his real name.
• The Grievous Journey of Ichabod Azrael: The Hunter, so named because he tracks down refugee souls to bring them back to face judgment in purgatory. Though considering he was let out of his confinement to hunt the main character from the stomach of a whale, he might be Jonah.
• The Sage and The Minstrel in Groo the Wanderer have never been given proper names, to the point some speculate that those ARE their names and they are possibly magical spirits of some sort (Sage, even flashbacks, always seems to be an old man, and the head of Minstrel's lute changes panel to panel). Famously also, Sage's dog didn't have a name for much of the book's run, and after a running gag of persistent questions about it in the letter's page, Sergio and Mark gave him the name of ANOTHER running gag from the letter's page ("Mulch").
• In The Immortal Iron Fist, the ninja-servant girl who is Orson Randall's daughter was never named, due to rather restricted freedoms. According to her, she'll have made a name for herself by the time Danny sees her again.
• Katy's younger sister in Katy Keene didn't have a name in the first run. The two revivals gave her different names, but neither was mentioned often.
• In Kid Eternity, the protagonist was originally only known as "the Kid," and his grandfather was only referred to as "Gran'pa." This only changed years later when the series underwent Canon Welding with the Shazam! series, and the Kid became Christopher "Kit" Freeman (Freddy's younger brother).
• Legends of the Dead Earth: In Robin (1993) Annual #5, Tris Plover realises that, even though she agreed to become his Robin, she does not even know the name of the former proctor who assumed the identity of Batman. He is killed before he ever has the chance to tell her.
• In The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past (1992), the boy from Kakariko doesn't have a canon name, and is known as "Sahasrala's friend."
• In Raymond Briggs' The Man, the title character's real name is never revealed. He claims not to have one.
• In My Boyfriend is a Bear, Nora's bear boyfriend is either called Bear or the Bear and has no formal name. None of Nora's exes other than Ben are named. Neither are her parents or several other friends.
• In Warren Ellis' breakout series Nextwave, a protagonist is named only "The Captain"; following his gaining powers, he discovered that almost every name which began with "Captain" had been used or was unusable; eventually, he settled for "The Captain", only to find that the name was also taken, and was forced to pay the original Captain for its use. Due to his abusive childhood, depression, and alcoholism, he refuses to divulge his real name; his teammates theorize that he may not even remember it. Ellis' original pitch also notes that the character "has been every crappy Marvel character with the word "Captain" in front of their name".
• DCU character who embodies this trope: The Phantom Stranger. This is the title used for copyright purposes, and whenever he is listed as a guest star in someone else's book. In the stories themselves, he is almost always referred to as "The Stranger" when the speaker wishes to be specific, or "my friend" when brevity is in order (and he happens to be present). Neil Gaiman used "Brotherless One" or descriptives, such as "your friend in the white turtleneck" in The Books of Magic. In a single exception, Jan or Zayna expressed amazement that almost the entire Justice League of America attended a particularly momentous gathering, "... except the Phantom Stranger."
• Robin (1993): The villain known as "The Cheater" goes out of their way to hide behind holograms and other devices and manages to keep their name from being uncovered even after being apprehended.
• The protagonist of Ronin (1983) is only ever called just that: Ronin.
• In The Smurfs, both the comic books and the cartoon show, there are important characters in the stories that don't have any names.
• Smut Peddler Presents: Sordid Past: None of the characters in "Forged Steel" are ever given names.
• In the original Stanley and His Monster, Stanley called the monster "Spot", but his actual name was never revealed. In the Post-Crisis reboot by Phil Foglio (consisting of an origins issue and a miniseries), it was explicitly established that he didn't have a name.
• Star Trek: Crew is an IDW miniseries by John Byrne about the life of Majel Barrett's character from "The Cage," who was only referred to as "Number One." Byrne manages to go through the entire series (and a few guest appearances in his other Star Trek books) without ever once revealing the character's name. Indeed, for most of it, he couldn't even call her "Number One," as that was simply a nickname for her rank in "The Cage."
• In Superman storyline A Mind-Switch in Time, supervillain Euphor never reveals his real name.
• Ghost of the Thunderbolts erased all record of his original identity after he became Ghost. When he recounts his origin, every mention of his original name is blacked out.
• In the Transformers comic series "The War Within: The Dark Ages", a character is introduced who is only ever referred to as "the Fallen," as his name was taken away from him by his fellow Transformers after he betrayed Primus and sided with Unicron. This is especially significant since Transformer names are not only personal labels, but usually define their entire purpose, personality, and/or function. (In the novel "Transformers Exodus", his original name is given as "Megatronus Prime.")
• Ultimate X-Men (2001): Kitty's Shroud identity is never named.
• V from V for Vendetta. (S)He states: "I do not have a name. You can call me V."
• Wonder Woman:
  • Wonder Woman (1942): It's entirely unclear what the Holliday College Dean's name is. Her desk is shown in a single panel with the name "Dean Strikt" on it but she's always called Dean Sourpuss, or other unflattering variants, even when her students are speaking with her.
  • Wonder Woman (1987): The ace pilot of Diana's freedom fighter Space Pirate crew goes unnamed despite the rest of the command crew getting named at least once on panel. It doesn't help that her morphic mimicking nature makes it unclear just which one she is in some panels, though she's usually bald and at least partially orange.
• X-Men:
  • Wolverine was known only as Logan (and he was around for several years before even that much was revealed). He had amnesia, and no-one knew what his real name was. In his origin series, Wolverine's name was revealed to be James Howlett, having stolen the name "Logan" from his family's groundskeeper, who turned out to be Wolverine's biological father. This information is not used in most adaptations, although in X-Men Origins: Wolverine Sabretooth refers to him as "Jimmy", and his full name is the same as it is in the comics. In spite of the revelation, he still goes by "Logan".
  • Rogue spent a large portion of her existence known only as that, but it was revealed in 2004 to be Anna Marie. She once used the alias Anna Raven, which consists of the first names of her and her foster mother, Mystique.
  • X-23 wasn't named at all in her first comics appearance in NYX. This was actually invoked in-universe, as well: She didn't receive her "real" name, Laura, until Sarah Kinney names her in the very last pages of X-23: Innocence Lost #6. She was thirteen years old before she was given a name other than her Facility codename/designation.
  • Forge is still known only as Forge.
• Y: The Last Man:
  • Alter Tse'elon, the Israeli Defense Force Colonel Badass. Her parents had already lost two children when she was born, so they followed an old Jewish superstition of keeping her real name a secret so that the Angel of Death couldn't find her. After Yorick realizes she's a Death Seeker, she announces her real name to the crowd. It's Yedida, by the way.
  • Agent 355 from the same comic. She eventually whispers her name in Yorick's ear, but it's never revealed to the readers. Word of God says you can find it somewhere hidden in the book. The popular fan theory is that it's Peace, since that's written on her gravestone.

• The Broons. Only the older kids have names. Their parents are Maw and Paw Broon (and Paw's father is Grandpaw Broon), and their younger siblings are The Twins and The Bairn.
• Calvin and Hobbes:
  • Calvin's parents are unnamed. Watterson once commented that he did this because the strip is presented from Calvin's viewpoint, and as such his parents are only important as his parents.
  • The doctor which Calvin occasionally visits. Despite being one of the few reoccurring characters, his name is never mentioned.
• Dilbert examples:
  • The Pointy-Haired Boss does not have a name. Since most of the characters in the strip are his employees, Scott Adams gets around by having them refer to the character as "the Boss" and address him as "sir". In one episode of the animated show, the Boss signs a delivery form. The delivery man looks at the clipboard incredulously, and says "that's your name?" We never see what it is, however we later hear he signed as "Eunice". The same episode established that his name is NOT "Eunice" (it's his alias for line-dancing) or "Bob Johnson" (which he uses for mail fraud).
  • Dilbert, Wally, Alice and all the other major human characters seem to simply have no last names. In this strip, two characters introduce themselves with their full names and then Alice introduces herself as... just Alice, as though that were the only name she had.
  • The hyper-intelligent Garbage-Man: In an early strip, Dilbert tells another character his Garbage-Man's name is "Gus Simpson", but this may have been before the character of the Garbage-Man was fully developed, and could refer to someone else.
  • We've never heard Dilbert's mother's actual name.
• 'The Dog' in Footrot Flats has such an Embarrassing First Name that he never allows it to be said or revealed in any way in the comic, and holds a grudge against Aunt Dolly for giving him the name.
• Nuts: The child protagonist is never named.
• Peanuts examples:
  • Pig-Pen's real name is never revealed.
  • The Little Red-Haired Girl's name is never revealed in the comic strip, though at least two of the animated specials (It's Your First Kiss, Charlie Brown and Happy New Year, Charlie Brown) called her "Heather". However, despite writing the specials himself, Schulz considered both the name and her appearance (in the strip she was The Ghost) non-canonical.
  • Almost no adults in the strip are given names, and in the animated specials, they don't even have intelligible voices. One minor exception in the strip is Linus' teacher, who we know as "Miss Othmar".
  • The girl who sits next to Rerun in school is never referred to by name, despite being a fairly major character for the last few years of the strip.
• The Scamp newspaper comic makes the odd decision to state the fact that Lady and Tramp never got around to giving Scamp's siblings names. The comic runs for two months before they decide to address this fact and actually decide to start giving them one.

• Flow (2024): All the characters are animals, and no word is ever said or written.
• I'll Return as the Rain: The girl in the short is never named.
• The Goat Musician: None of the all-animal cast have names.
• The Hungarian epic Heroic Times was released in two forms; internationally with no dialogue and just a musical score and domestically with a first person narrator. Neither version names any of the characters. The film was adapted from the 19th century Epic Poem Toldi, likely with the assumption that viewers would already be familiar with the story and characters or that the visuals and score alone would be enough to tell the story.
• The Key: The bratty boy who eventually learns to do things for himself has no given name, in contrast to the boy's parents, his grandfather, the scientist, and even a little Robot Girl, whom all have names.
• The Old Man Movie: The Old Man and Old Milker, the main protagonist and antagonist respectively, are not given proper names and only referred to by their respective titles.
• In Son of the White Horse, only the main character Fanyűvő (Treeshaker) and his brothers Kőmorzsoló (Stonecrumbler) and Vasgyúró (Irontemperer) get names. Everyone else just has to make do with nouns, although Fanyűvő does give the Hétszűnyű Kapanyányimonyók gnome an Affectionate Nickname: "Monyók" or "Testicles".

• In "The Cat on the Dovrefell", the traveler never reveals his name.
• "Clever Elsie": Hans and Elsie are the only ones with names, everyone else is left unnamed.
• "Clever Gretel": Gretel is the only one with a name, while the master and his guest are without any.
• In "The Death of Koschei the Deathless", the names of Prince Ivan's brothers-in-law are never revealed.
• "The Devil with the Three Golden Hairs": Unless you count "the Devil", no character is referred to by name.
• In "The Frost, the Sun, and the Wind", the traveler who the story focuses on is not identified by name.
• "Good Day, Fellow! Axe Handle!": The ferryman's wife, sons and daughter, who cause a whole mess, remain nameless.
• "Hedley Kow": The woman protagonist is never mentioned to have a name unlike the title character.
• "Maid Maleen": The titular princess is the only character who is given a name.
• In "Morozko", the characters are known as the old woman, her husband, her stepdaughter and her daughter. The titular Father Frost is the only character who is given a name.
• "The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples": Neither of the characters -the king, the young prince, his brothers, the empress, the old witch, the old servant...- are given names.
• In "Prince Ivan, the Witch Baby, and the Little Sister of the Sun", Prince Ivan's parents, the groom, the witch, the two seamstresses are known as... the king, the queen, the groom, the witch and the two seamstresses.
• In "Prince Lindworm", all the characters -the prince, his brother, their parents, the good witch, the shepherd's daughter- are nameless.
• In "The Wise Little Girl": No character is given a name. They are the rich brother, the poor brother, the Tsar, the little girl...
• "The Nix in the Mill-Pond": All characters are unnamed.
• "Little Otik": Readers never learn Otik's parents' names.
• "One-Eye, Two-Eyes, Three-Eyes": Neither the abusive mother nor the kind-hearted knight are named in the tale.
• In Franz Xaver von Schönwerth's "The Three Flowers", neither Katie's brothers, nor her stalker, nor her husband, nor her husband's family, nor the wood sprite are referred to by name.
• In "The Three Little Men in the Wood", none of the characters are referred to by name.
• "Jorinde and Joringel": The witch is the only important character who is never identified by name.
• "The Soldier and Death": The only characters who could be considered named are Death and God Himself.
• "Little Master Misery": The main character is given a name and even a family name -Ivan Ilyitch-, but his rich brother remains unnamed.
• "Follow Me, Jodel!": Readers never learn the name of the maiden who Jodel turns back into human and gets married to.

• Leave Your Spirit: In order to keep the story canon-compliant, names are omitted for a few characters. At the time of release, it wasn't mentioned who Zuko married, who Sokka ended up with (if anyone), or what Zuko's daughter's name was, so they're all nameless.

Blue Archive

• Making Blue Archive In Blue Archive: The story is crafted in a way to not reveal MX Blade's true name and the girl is doing everything within her power to not answer anyone's questions about her identity; even the resume that she has only has her alias written on it. It would later be revealed that the reason for all this effort is the truth that when she got transported to Kivotos, the city itself took MX Blade's actual name as a price.

Calvin and Hobbes

• Calvin and Hobbes' case of this is lampshaded in Calvin and Hobbes: The Movie:
  Search & Rescue team member: We have been searching the area, Mr. and Mrs... um... I forgot your names.

Crossover

• Mario in Animatronic Horror: The missing children voicing the original five are named. The soul possessing the Marionette, however, is unknown.

Disney Animated Canon

• The Bolt Chronicles:
  • The puppies in "The Seven" do not get names until they are adopted, and we only learn the names of two of them in the story, Bolt and the collie puppy Prince.
  • The name of Penny's science lab partner in "The Dowager," "The Blood Brother," "The Cameo," "The Cakes," "The Ship," and "The Teacher" is not revealed.
  • The five dogs who rescue Bolt after the dogfight scene in "The Wind" remain nameless.
  • Mittens's mother's name in "The Survivor" does not appear in the story.
  • The title character in "The Dowager" is unnamed.
• Disney High School: Eventually Subverted — "the Beast" is not named until the 49th strip, because he has no name in canon (see below). The creator eventually gave in to Fanon and called him "Adam," though.

Dungeons & Dragons

• Vow of Nudity: The author commonly does this with figures of authority, probably due to the series' heavy thematic focus on power dynamics. The Star King, the Storm Lord, and the Zeppelin Captain are all left nameless despite being major characters in their stories, their only identity coming from their station. There are also several side characters who are only given a description and/or their race like the dashing tiefling, the tiefling archer, the pale half-elf, the kalashtar merchant, the kobold librarian, etc.

Fireman Sam

• Everyday Craziness in Pontypandy: The politician who appears in "The Pontypandy Pride Protest" is not given a name, only being referred to as "The Politician", likely due to him being a One-Shot Character.

Godzilla / King Kong / MonsterVerse

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Two notable Mook Lieutenants have their names (consisting of six characters and four characters respectively) censored out, and they lack a nickname. Downplayed with several members of the Beta-3 and Theta-1 teams and Alan Jonah's cleanup crew, who of course are known by their designations. The author did this partly to slightly alienate the reader from them, and give a sense of San's perspective of them.

Harry Potter

• Eden (Obsessmuch): We are never given the name of the illegitimate son of Lucius Malfoy and Hermione Granger in the epilogue.

Hetalia: Axis Powers

• In Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità, the rude chef, the homophobe, and the bully were never actually given names. Not that Germany and Japan would have cared to learn them.

KaBlam!

• Application 29: June's user in "For Memorability" is not given a name, only being referred to as "the user".

My Little Pony

• The rest of Button Mash's family in Button's Adventures, especially his mother who is actually a character as opposed to just being mentioned. It wasn't before GalaCon 2018, a good four years after the premiere, that her name was revealed to be Cream Heart. For many Bronies, however, she'll always be Button's Mom.
• The Immortal Game has both Sir Unimpressive and his Arch-Enemy the Cadet.
• Pony POV Series:
  • The only member of Celestia and Luna's family who isn't named is their Father. Word of God is that His name can't be pronounced by mortals. (Though Havoc calls him "Buddy" if that's worth anything.)
  • The first Big Bad, Loneliness, never refers to herself as such. Rather, Twilight calls her that, and she doesn't bother contradicting it.
  • Patch's first antagonist in the 7 Dreams/Nightmares collection is never named during her story, referred to in the credits as the Pegasus Despot. It's only during his cameo in Starlight's story at her afterlife trial that his name (Film Critique) is given.
• Ultra Fast Pony:
  • In "The Best Episode Ever", Applejack realizes that her character in the play doesn't have a name, and she breaks character to ask if it's important.
  • In "Derp and Destruction", Derpy Hooves mentions a few times that she doesn't know if Derpy Hooves is actually her own name or not. (This is almost certainly a reference to how, in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Derpy's name was mentioned in one episode, then edited out of all subsequent broadcasts. And she commonly makes appearances in various EU material and merchandise, which all go to strange lengths to avoid officially naming her.)

Omen IV: The Awakening

• Always Visible: The characters Galbraith, Schaeymoure, Pharqraut and Baselard are never named, only referred to by their last names. The same goes for Delia's father, no one addresses him differently than mister Yonce.

Pokémon

• PMD: Another Perspective: The Rocket grunt refuses to reveal her name to anyone. When asked, she instead gives out her designation of G-509. Blazy the Cyndaquil gets around this by referring to her as "Purry".

Robotech

• The protagonists' names in Scoop, Dire Straits, and Marque and Reprisal are not revealed in-text.

RWBY

• A Hunter or Something: After discovering that the pilot sacrificed himself to save him, Ren realizes that he doesn't even know his name and guiltily admits that the pilot probably told him, only that Ren didn't care enough to remember it. Luckily, the pilot left a note for Ren where he mentions that his name was Lee Ahn, a private pilot at Beacon Academy.

Shrek

• A Small Crime:
  • Kit and Siv's last name are never mentioned.
  • And earlier, Siv is only named as the Stranger.

Space Chickens IN SPACE

• In Our New Sister Chickpea was named by Glargg after she had amnesia, her real name never being revealed.

Super Mario Bros.

• In #0 IGGY'S CASTLE, the Shopkeeper is never given a name, and it's not sure if he had one.

Dormant/Dead/Unsorted

• Beltorey's commander in The Tainted Grimoire is never given a name. He is always referred to as Commander or the Commander.
• What About Witch Queen? has Meyer's captain, who's always called "the captain" or "scout captain". It doesn't help that we only see him when it's Meyer's POV.
• The squadron medical officer in Wings to Fly is introduced to the reader as "Larishminova", with the acknowledgement that this is the best a different character can do to pronounce their name and it's not a correct pronunciation or what's on their nametag. They're never referred to in-story by name, and never referred to in narration by anything but the mispronunciation.
• In general, whenever the fanmade "Hakurei Miko" character (if that is supposed to her) is used or someone is cast as Reimu's mother, she's in general not referred to as having a name for various reasons, be it Nominal Importance or whichever, as in the case of Osana Reimu, although this is justified in the aforementioned that she is a forgotten Miko, in which case she was usually called "Mom" or "Clumsy Miko-san"
  • Likewise, for awhile in the Gensokyo 20XX, Reimu's birthmother was never reffered to as having a name, aside from "Mikosan", "Reimu's Mother" , or, by Yukari, "the slattern". Of course, this was probably because no other Youkai, besides Yukari, knew or remembered her name. It wasn't until a certain story in the series, was she given a name, revealing it to be "Reiko". In that vein, Ren, before he was named, wasn't typically called anything besides "Ran's fiance" or "Winston", until about chapter 17 of 20XXIV. We also have his ex-sister in law who is called "Baka's Bitch Wife", "Bitch Wife", or "Paintbrush Bitch" and Word of God did state her reasons for not giving her a name, as "we wouldn't like her anyway"
• Maim de Maim has this and the Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" in the form of "The Chancellor" (or, simply. "Chancellor") who is only referred to by the aforementioned. When we first see her in a flashback, she introduces herself as such.
• Dating a Team Magma Grunt has a main female protagonist who is simply known as the Magma Grunt. The author actually goes out of his way to hide her identity (including her age) when there are scenes it would be revealed.
• The Dragon and the Songstress: The rainbow colored dragon that assists Kamui and the sorcerer that cursed Aqua are not given names. Azura only gives them descriptors to identify them.
• Coveralls, an AI-created fanfic of The X-Files, everyone who isn't Scully, Mulder, or Jimmy is unnamed.

• In An American Tail, Fievel's parents are only ever referred to as "Mama" and "Papa" Mousekewitz. Papa's name is revealed in Fievel's American Tails, but Mama's is still not given.
• Batman: Mask of the Phantasm: Despite being in the title of the film, the word "Phantasm" is never used and leaves the masked vigilante at the center of the plot nameless.
• In Beauty and the Beast (1991), it's never revealed what the Beast's name is. The fandom went and named him Adam anyway, which Dan Stevens (who portrayed the Beast in the 2017 remake) and Paige O'Hara (Belle's voice actress) have also accepted. Contrary to popular beliefs, that name is not from the film's creators, but rather from a trivia video game. Most Disney products keep him nameless, though a small number have used the fans' name.
• BIONICLE 2: Legends of Metru Nui: Nivawk the bird is never named in the film, although his name is spoken in the Japanese dub.
• Bolt has several examples: the director of the Bolt TV show, Bolt's owner (who plays a character named Penny on the show, but isn't addressed by name off-stage), her mom, her agent, and so on.
• In The Book of Life, none of the Detention Kids are given names except Sasha, but in the supplementary material everyone but "Goth-kid" is given a name.
• In The Boss Baby franchise, the Triplets are never addressed by their individual names.
• In Brother Bear, the name of Koda's mother, also known as the bear that Kenai blamed and killed, is never given throughout the entirety of the film.
• The Queen in A Bug's Life.
• The Cat Piano: No one in the short is given a name. The white female cat singer is seen on a poster that calls her "Le Chat Blanc", although that's almost certainly her stage name and not her real one.
• Epic (2013) has Finn, the Leafman with the orange beard. His name is only in the closing credits.
• An Extremely Goofy Movie has "Beret Girl". One of the few original characters in the movie who appear at the dancing scene in the credits and the girlfriend of one of the main characters, the movie proves extremely shy about telling us what her name is. Even the credits list her as "Beret Girl".
• How to Catch a Cold: The only characters with names are Common Sense and, in the live-action version, Goofy and Jeff. Everyone else is unnamed.
• Kitarō Birth: The Mystery of GeGeGe: Gegero's wife remains unnamed, even though Kitaro's mom is known to be called Iwako in other adaptations.
• KPop Demon Hunters: Of the Sunlight Sisters (the previous Hunters), only Celine has her name spoken. Mi-yeong's name is only seen on her gravestone, and the third member with the Odango Hair is not named at all.
• The Mayor from The Nightmare Before Christmas (though some of the merch calls him Hizzonor). Most of the citizens also seem to not have names (The Clown With The-Tear-Away-Face, The Wolf Man, etc.).
• No one is named in The Old Lady and the Pigeons save a few of the American tourists.
• Agent Classified from Penguins of Madagascar. He tells Skipper that his real name is classified, but Skipper takes it literally and calls him Classified for the rest of the film.
• In The Polar Express, the main character goes on the train and makes friends with three other kids; of the group, only one is named, and even then only at a plot-crucial moment more than halfway through the movie (it's the lonely boy, Billy). The credits refer to the others as Hero Boy, Hero Girl and Know-It-All Kid. Meanwhile Hero Boy's little sister, Sarah, gets a name despite only appearing in two scenes at the beginning and end. Hero Boy, Hero Girl, and Know-it-All Kid do actually have canon names in supplementary material (Chris, Holly, and Lenny respectively), but you wouldn't know it from just watching the film.
• While he is called "The Big Bad Wolf" for various advertising in Puss in Boots: The Last Wish,^note Despite there already being a Big Bad Wolf in the Shrek films. he is never referred to that name in the movie itself, just called "the wolf" or "lobo". He is actually Death himself.
• In Rio 2, the leader of the loggers razing the Amazon, Big Boss, is only ever referred to as "Mr. Big".
• Jack Frost's sister in Rise of the Guardians is never named. This led to a lot of confusion within the fandom, because her actress also voiced another character named Pippa, who isn't named on-screen, so some viewers accidentally assigned the name to the wrong character.
• Sleeping Beauty (1959): Princess Aurora's father is named King Stefan, but her mother is never called anything but "the Queen". Some children's books published about the movie give her the name "Leah", which many fans have adopted. Weirdly, she doesn't even get listed in the credits of the film at all. In fact, there is still no clear records of the name of the actress who provided her voice, making her a really nameless entity, though some people may have speculated that Flora's voice actress for the film, Verna Felton, might have allegedly voiced Leah as well. Similarly, the unnamed herald’s name is never called anything but the "herald". But in his real appearance in Disney Princess Enchanted Tales: Follow Your Dreams, the character in that film is given the name of "Duke" or "The Duke" in the credits. Like Leah, there have been almost no records of the name of the actor who provided the herald’s voice in the original as a result of Hans Conried (performance model and original choice of King Stefan) being replaced by Taylor Holmes as the voice of King Stefan for no valid reason, though it may be assumed that the herald’s voice and accent is sorta like Conried’s in a bit higher pitch. Still, the truth would never be revealed about the herald’s voice and unanswered questions would grow and still plague the herald’s voice mystery in the wake of Conried’s own replacement by Holmes as Stefan. Similarly, the unnamed Minstrel is not named or credited either. On the other hand, the name of Maleficent’s pet raven is not named in the film, though the name “Diablo” is used by Disney Fans.
• Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs:
  • The Huntsman, the Queen, and the Prince do not have names. However, old press material lists the Queen's name as Queen Grimhilde and merchandise released over seventy years later finally gives the Prince's name as Florian.
  • In the original story (the one Disney used to create his story), there were 100 dwarves, and none of them were given a name.
  • The doll of Snow White's prince that can be bought at the Disney store is labeled "the Prince," Cinderella's is labeled "Prince Charming," and Belle's is labeled "Beast."
• In Spirited Away, there is a bird character who serves Yubaba whose name is never revealed in the English dub (he's known as Yu-Bird in Japanese).
• The Bog King from Strange Magic never has his name revealed. Presumably he's not actually named Bog King.
• In The Super Mario Bros. Movie, the Penguin King and the Koopa General are only ever referred to by their jobs in the credits, with no actual names specified.
• In Turning Red, the girl that Priya dances with is only known as the goth girl.
• Wreck-It Ralph: The planet where Hero's Duty takes place. The intro even says "On a planet with no name...".

• All the Arc Dragons in Ciel ~The Last Autumn Story~ are referred to by names given to them by humans. Except the misanthropic Earth Dragon, who has such a name, but only tells his name to people he kills.
  • The recurring bandit also goes without a name, though in his case it's just that it never comes up.

• The last chapter of the book of Ruth features a redeemer who's called the Hebrew equivalent of "So and So". This is a literary tool used in response to his refusal to redeem lest it ruin his inheritance, thereby not retaining the name of his childless deceased relative.

• The main character of The Black Parade is never named in the album itself, and elsewhere is known only as "the Patient".
• Very few of the characters in the Ayreon albums have names; most go by descriptions like "Best Friend" or "the Knight."
• An animal variant is "A Horse With No Name" by the band America.
• The members of TISM performed in balaclavas and went by pseudonyms such as Ron Hitler-Barassi. Most of their real names are still unknown.
• The mayor, the sailor man, and the narrator in The Silent City. Justified in the narrator's case since no one officially addresses her. Taken to absurd levels with the mayor due to an exchange where he could reasonably expected to give his name and doesn't:
  Stan: And who are you?
  The Mayor: I'm the mayor!
• Sally Shapiro's real name is so far a mystery, due to her being a Reclusive Artist.
• GaMetal's creator has the stagename Jonny Atma, but his real last name is unknown. He described it in an interview as 'Long, German, and very unsexy', though.
• The narrator in Danzig's "Thirteen"
  "I was born in the soul of misery
  And I never had me a name
  They just give me a number when I was young"
• The Beatles "Nowhere Man"
  "He's a real Nowhere Man."
  "Sitting in his Nowhere Land."
  "Making all his Nowhere Plans, for nobody."
• In Barry Louis Polisar's "I've Got A Dog And My Dog's Name Is Cat", the narrator has five pets, but while his dog, cat, fish and bird are given A Dog Named "Cat" treatment, his pet goose is never referred by name.
  Now my fish Bird is in my fish tank
  Next to my pet goose who goes "Hank, hank"
  But listen to me, and just hear this
  I got a bird and I call him Fish
• On Taylor Swift's album folklore (2020), there are three songs from each person in a Love Triangle's perspective. Betty and James are named but the girl James had a fling with isn't.
• Nautilus Pompilius: A lot of characters of the songs referred to just "he", "she" or "they". But the song called "The Person with no Name" need to be separately noted.
• The bass player for punk band The Dwarves is a man in a luchador mask, boots, and speedo (or nothing else if local regulations will let him get away with it) known only as "HeWhoMustNotBeNamed" (yes, it's officially spelled without spaces).

• Done in Bally's Playboy pinball, which identified its Playmates simply as "Miss ________" ("Miss January", "Miss September", etc.). Also done in Stern Pinball's Playboy, which shows photos of Real Life Playmates, but only identifies them as "Miss January," etc.^note They're the 1999 Playmate roster, for the curious.
• In America's Most Haunted, none of the ghost hunters are given any names in-game.
• Ultimately subverted in Strange Science; the Mad Scientist antagonist is never named directly, but a small nametag on his lab coat identifies him as "Dr. E. Shock".
• Lights... Camera... Action!, a Pinball game themed around filming an action movie, the name of the film and the names of the stars are never given. The film's main characters are also never properly named, and are only identified by their playing card-based nicknames.

• Several episodes of The Books of Thoth don’t give the characters any names. Examples include “Starshot”, “Paleontology Conference”, and both halves of “Double Feature.” The protagonist of “Welcome to the Xenarium” never gives his name to anyone, in-universe or out.
• The narrator of Gospels of the Flood is never named.
• Mystery Show:
  • A woman in episode four is referred to only by the alias "Margaret," presumably to protect her identity.
  • In episode three, Starlee finds a blog called Sated Epicure and refers to the blogger only as "Sated."
• Mark Soloff's character in Unwell Podcast, the Old Man with the monster-dogs, is left unnamed until the season 2 finale, often credited simply with garbled radio noises.
• Welcome to Night Vale: Some characters, such as The Man In The Tan Jacket, The Traveler, and The Faceless Old Woman Who Lives In Your House, don't have names at all, and all the angels are simply referred to as "Erika."

• Ford Prefect is a name picked by The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (1978) researcher due to a misunderstanding about Earth. In the books it's revealed he never learnt to pronounce his own name (his father was the Last of His Kind following the Collapsing Hrung Disaster of Betelgeuse VII and named his son in the now extinct Praxibetel dialect), and the kids at school called him Ix (meaning "Boy who is unable to explain what a Hrung is, or why it should choose to collapse on Betelgeuse VII").
  • The misunderstanding was explained more fully in the movie by showing Ford walking out into the middle of a street and attempting to greet a car, thinking it was the dominant species on Earth. This was a joke that some fans understood without needing the explanation, as Ford Prefects are a kind of car sold in the U.K., Australia, Argentina and Canada. American fans tended not to get the joke, since Ford Prefects were never sold in the U.S.
  • Another character attempts to use this trope. When Arthur asks his name, he says "My name is not important." After some cajoling, he gives Arthur his name.
    Arthur: Slartibartfast?
    Slartibartfast: I told you it wasn't important.
    • Word of God is that Douglas Adams did this as a way of teasing the BBC typist. She was typing out this ridiculous name every time he spoke, and the name never actually occurred in dialogue in his first episode, so he could just as easily have been "Old Man."
• Journey into Space:
  • In the original series, the frequently heard Control operator's name is never stated.
  • In The Red Planet, the dingo hunter and the flying doctor are not named.
• In the Believe It episode "Party", a recurrent theme is that Richard Wilson (and Jos Vantyler, and David Tennant) all despise a certain actor, much-married, recently knighted, and apparently slept with Arabella Weir and Ian McKellen, but who Richard only ever calls "Golden Boy", explaining that he wants to keep working. On the one occasion he does have to use Golden Boy's name, it's bleeped out.

• World Tree (RPG): If the god "Here" has a name, nobody knows what it is. He's usually referred to using the word for "in this place" in whatever language the conversation is being spoken in.

• Occurs at least three times in the works of Gilbert and Sullivan. There's the title character of The Mikado and both the Pirate King and Sergeant of Police in The Pirates of Penzance.
• Many characters in Plautus's work, including the protagonist of Casina, whose name is only found in other documents, not in the script.

Individual Works

• None of the characters in the play 12 Angry Men have names. In the script, they are referred to only as "Juror #1", "Juror #2", etc.
• In 35MM: A Musical Exhibition, most of the characters lack names, often only being referred to in the first or second person. It also sometimes happens in songs with a third person narrator; for example, "The Ballad of Sara Berry" leaves Sara's father unnamed, and "Leave, Luanne" only calls Luanne's husband "the bastard." He's earned the title.
• In 1776, only two characters—the Courier and McNair's assistant Leather Apron—are unnamed because they're the only characters invented completely for the play. (Even the background members of Congress have names, though they're only in full detail in a souvenir playbill.)
• Boston Marriage revolves around best friends Anna and Claire, and the stresses put on their relationship when Anna gets a sugar daddy and Claire gets a girlfriend. The sugar daddy's name is never mentioned, reflecting the fact that Anna doesn't actually care for him as a person — and neither is the girlfriend's, despite Claire's passionate proclamations of love, foreshadowing the ending where Claire decides Anna is more important to her. Lampshaded in the case of the girlfriend; when she arrives to visit, Anna's maid can be heard offstage asking her name, but her response is not audible.
• In Jonathan Rand's Check Please short plays, the two leads are only given the names of Guy and Girl in the script and are never called by any name on stage.
• In the folk tales, pantomimes, and written accounts of Dick Whittington and His Cat, the cat's name is never mentioned. Never mind that she is arguably the true hero of the story, and Dick merely profits from her actions.
• In The Drowsy Chaperone, several characters only go by their titles: there's the Man in the Chair, who is even only given ''that'' name in the script, the titular Chaperone (who is referred to as "Chaperone", implying that it may be both her name and title), Underling (who is likewise referred to as just "Underling"), and the Gangsters/Pastry Chefs.
• The Green Pastures features "Cain's Gal" in one scene, but still doesn't give her a proper name.
• Most of the characters in Into the Woods. With the exception of Cinderella's stepsisters, the only characters who have proper names are the ones who get them in their original fairy tales.
• In J.B., the two Messengers are not named, nor is the girl who accompanies them in one scene and even seems to refer to herself as "Girl".
• In King Island Christmas, with the exception of Oolorano, Little Eir, and Father Carroll, the characters are identified only with their role in the community (Schoolteacher, Newlywed Husband, Bachelor Man, Diet Woman, etc.). The character "Little Eir's Mother" is handled both ways; she is usually notated in the score as such, but is called Mary in dialogue twice (once each by Oolorana and Newlywed Wife).
• The protagonist of Kismet is identified in the Dramatis Personae only as "a public poet, later called Hajj." (The poet is identified as "Hajj" once in a case of Thoroughly Mistaken Identity.) In the Ronald Colman film version, he's Hafiz, but again this name is spoken only once, in a moderately loud scene with many people talking at once, and it easily slips past your conscious perception.
• Kiss Me, Kate has the mobsters who come to collect on the gambling debt Bill signed in Fred's name to, who are only known as the Two Men.
• In Les Misérables, many of the revolutionaries are named in blink-and-you'll-miss-'em, quickly sung lines - including Enjolras, Grantaire, and Gavroche, who are three of the most important revolutionaries in the show (The Leader, The Cynic, and the Team Pet, respectively). However, they are all named in the script, somewhat averting this trope. Likewise, the Bishop is never named in the show and called The Bishop in the script. In the book, his name is Myriel.
• The two royal characters in Love's Labour's Lost are only ever named in dialogue as "the King" and "the French princess". The script reveals that the King's name is Ferdinand, but the Princess' real name is never said even on paper.
• In Next to Normal, it's subtle, but Gabe's name is only actually said once, and only said at the very end when Dan finally accepts his son's death. Throughout the show, this foreshadows the fact that Gabe is just one of Diana's hallucinations, and Dan finally saying the name after years of avoiding it is what signifies him accepting that he still hasn't moved on from Gabe's death.
• In the Reefer Madness musical, the man who provides the Framing Device for the story is never referred to by name; most just call him "The Lecturer".
• In The Phantom of the Opera, the titular character is only referred to using his monickers of “The Phantom” or “Angel of Music”. His name from the book: Erik is not uttered once in Webber’s Musical, although granted “Erik” wasn’t technically his real name in the novel either, but one he found "by accident".
• The Time of Your Life has a character identified as "Kit Carson" in the Dramatis Personae and who introduces himself as Murphy. Given the wild stories he tells, even he might not even remember his real name.
• The authority figures in Büchner's Woyzeck are only referred to by their position (Captain, Doctor, Drum Major).
• Women Beware Women: The Duke is only known by his title; ditto with his brother the Lord Cardinal. (Historically they were named Francesco and Giovanni respectively.) The Ward is never named either.

• BIONICLE's Big Bad was known as "the Makuta" for most of the line's run, which the fans originally thought was his actual name, until it was revealed to be the name of his species. Eight years into the story, the writer named him Teridax, which caused such a massive uproar from the fans that he has since refused to give out the name of the other big villain, the Shadowed One. The members of the latter's organization, the Dark Hunters are also mostly known by code names, since LEGO couldn't afford to clear the rights for so many unique names. In fact, there are many toyless characters who have no name for the same reason. One of the few nameless toys is the Rahkshi of heat vision from the brand's last setline.
• The six Protectors from BIONICLE (2015) weren't named until the first book's author suggested to LEGO that maybe they should be. The 2015 villains were also only given descriptive or generic designations, with only Kulta the Skull Grinder getting a personal name in a magazine description.

• From the Ace Attorney series:
  • In Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth, Calisto Yew. Her real name is never given; the only thing we know about it for certain is that it absolutely is not Calisto Yew. Or Shih-na.
  • He's been around for 6 games and counting, and no-one knows His Honor's name. Or his brother's, who is also a judge. Or his Khura'inese counterpart's own. Most judges in general in the series seem not to get given names, although there have been a few exceptions.
  • There's a hypochondriac who likes to impersonate doctors. He's gone by Dr. Hotti and Dr. Hickfield, but we don't know his real name.
  • One character is even "The Bellhop Who Swore The Affidavit".
  • Gumshoe's boss (the guy who invented the Blue Badger) is only ever referred to as Chief.
  • In Investigations 2, the real name of President Wang's body double is never revealed, even after he turns out to be one of the key characters in the overarching plot.
  • In Dual Destinies, despite being the Big Bad, we never learn the name of the phantom. Then again, this isn't unexplained, because he comments that he lost and forgot his identity long ago, and now only lives by the personality of whomever he impersonates.
• The heroine from Amnesia: Memories has no name given, as it's up to the player. She doesn't even have an official name, with even the homepage simply listing her as 'heroine'. The anime expanded her amnesia to include having forgotten her own name.
• Cat President: A More Purrfect Union: One particular Thunderpaw supporter in Kale's and Rover's stories appears multiple times and has lots of dialogue. His name is never revealed, and the text box just refers to him as "Thunderpaw Supporter".
• Class of '09: None of the members of Nicole's family are given names, with her mother and older brother only being referred to as "Mom" and "Gamer Brother" by the game's IU respectively. Similarly, the school's counselor is the only member of the school's faculty to not be given a name, being referred to as just "Counselor".
• Danganronpa:
  • In Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair, the Ultimate Imposter only lives through stealing other peoples' identities, as the imposter has none of their own.
  • Danganronpa Another Episode: Ultra Despair Girls plays with this in regards to Nagito Komaeda. In-game, he's never ever referred to by name, only ever being called "Servant" both in-universe and by the game UI and profiles. But anyone who's played Danganronpa 2 (the previous game) will know perfectly well who he is.
• In Dies Irae, one of the two Big Bad's have no proper name as it has long since been lost to history due to him being so inconceivably ancient that even he himself no longer remembers it. Instead he is only ever referred to by one of his many, many aliases, most commonly either Karl Erst Krafft, Alessandro Cagliostro or his perhaps oldest known one, Mercurius.
• In Heart of the Woods, none of the fairies have names, since they believe names are "for humans." Madison assigns three fairies the names Hae, Anan, and Frio. The fairies repeatedly mention one of their kind known as "the moonsick one," who's better known by the name Evelyn Fischer.
• In the Murder Mystery Jisei, the protagonist's name is never mentioned, even though you are able to see his face and body. He is also the only character in the game who is not voiced.
• In Juniper's Knot both characters stay unnamed through the story. The concept of names doesn't even come up.
• In The Many Deaths of Lily Kosen, the protagonist has no canon name as they are named by the player. Promotional material refers to them simply as Protagonist.
• In Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors you learn the true identities of the other participants of the Nonary Game... except for Seven, who is an amnesiac and doesn't remember his own name for most of the game.
  • But even then, only Ace, Santa, June, and the 9th Man get their full names revealed. Lotus only receives a last name and the others have only first names. One of these eventually gets a canon full name as of the sequel: Junpei Tenmyouji. The rest have full names given to them by the creator, but which he considers to be more of a "possibility" than true Canon.
• The main characters in SC2VN use their online aliases instead.
• In Slay the Princess, none of the characters are named. There's the Princess, the Narrator, and the various voices that can echo in the head of the Player Character, but there's not so much as a hint as to what anyone's name is. If you ask the Princess for her name, she claims she's been locked in the cabin so long that she can't remember what her name is. Instead, she asks that you call her "Your Royal Highness" or just "Princess". However, one of the voices in your head wonders if that means she's named "Princess Princess".
• At one point in Kagetsu Tohya Kohaku shows up for the school festival and doesn't really know what to put for her surname, so she just writes Tohno. She, and Hisui by extension, don't actually have last names. Or at least, they don't remember their families or childhood. Ciel's last name is also never given and Ciel also happens to be a pseudonym. Her real first name is Elesia, something mentioned only in passing. It's something a bit more important in her case, marking her as someone who doesn't entirely belong.

• 13 Cards: Fëdor's neighbor is simply listed as "Granny" in the credits.
• An Adventure of Sheep and Chicken: A hiker, the main antagonist, is never given a name because the two protagonists never ask him for it. Subverted with Sheep and Chicken, the heroes. Sheep and Chicken, respectively, are their actual names.
• Blank: A Vinylmation Love Story: None of the protagonists have names.
• Combat Devolved: Parodied in the case of Rookie. He tries to tell the others his name, but no-one cares and resorts to calling him Rookie.
• "'Dayum'': A few characters are only referred to as things like “son”, “teacher”, and “kid”.
• Dreamscape: Eleenin's fairy trio are just called 'fairies' without any distinction between the three.
• Fallen Kingdom (CaptainSparklez): Except for Herobrine, the Wither, and the Ender Dragon (who aren't named in the actual videos either), no one has a name due to the lack of dialogue.
• Fallout Lore: The Storyteller: The Storyteller does have a name, but we never hear it since whoever says it is either interrupted or drowned out by something.
• G’s Paragate features a red-skinned buff man wearing an iron helmet in every episode of the "Jungle on a Jungle" story arc. This character never has his name mentioned (the narrator simply refers to him and his acquaintance, Galfriche, as “the two strong men”), and he also never has any dialogue, so his name is likewise never revealed by the subtitle box.
• Kouka and Bibi has an interesting variation on this trope: while we know what names the titular characters could technically have, whether each character is named Bibi or Kouka is anybody's guess — even the creator's.
• Minecraft Endventures: The Rebel Leader isn't named anywhere in the series. The creator stated that the viewer can call him whatever they want to.
• Misadventures of Apu: Apu’s wife and kids unnamed.
• Musophobia: The main character's name is not mentioned at all in the film.
• RWBY:
  • While the show is famous for its heavy use of Named Weapons, there are some weapons without names despite repeated attempts by the FNDM to create them. Winter's swords are the most prevalent example, but there are also Vernal's deerstalker knives and Watts' revolver. Many minor characters also have their weapons unnamed.
  • Discussed Trope: Untold years ago, two gods lived on Remnant, whose actions in their lifetime affected humanity for centuries to come. Despite his importance to the show's plot, the male's name has been lost to history. Jinn reveals that Ozma's first reincarnation triggered a mistake that led to the secret Forever War being fought between him and Salem, which included the pair faking gods to try and unite humanity. Ozma's current host, Oscar, is horrified to realise that Ozma never learned the name of his first host. Jinn confirms that it took Ozma a long time to learn how to live in harmony with his hosts, leaving the heroes assuming the worst about Oscar's eventual fate.
  • The Grimm Reaper is a legendary Huntress who was active on Remnant when Qrow was a student. The only thing anyone ever knew about this enigmatic Huntress was that she never revealed her name and always hid her identity behind a decorative skull mask. When she mysteriously disappeared, everyone eventually accepted that she had died. Qrow based his Sinister Scythe on her dual kama. Maria reveals in Volume 6 that she was the Grimm Reaper; she hid her identity because her father realised Silver-Eyed Warriors were being hunted to extinction for unknown reasons. Despite her precautions, Salem's subordinate found her but could only blind her. Maria went into hiding out of fear that assassins would reappear to finish the job.
• Played for Laughs in Senpai Club with a characters name who is pronounced unintelligibly and the subtitles refer to as "(???)".
• Voodont: There are four characters that physically appear in this story. Out of all of them, Ellie's friend is the only one with no known name. The doll is also not given a name and is simply referred to as Doll by Sam, but that's likely because she had just been made to resemble and torture Ellie.
• The two leading pigs from The Oats Series are never named despite being the main characters. They simply refer to each other as "brother" although they can be identified by their American (Older Pig) and British (Younger Pig) accents.

• Played with in Killerbunnies, as technically, any Killerbunny born, raised, or used in a lab for laboratory use don't normally have names, aside from their identification codes, which wouldn't be a name, unless it is counted as such, as would be the case with Test Subject 001892300012 ("Lucy"), Experiment XI0014101 ("Marigold"), Child #999 ("Lilith"), and Subject 200167 ("Mango"). However, this, according to Word of God, is subverted in the case of Michealenne, as that is the name on one of her ID tags.

• Lots of AlienMyth64's main characters lack a proper name.
  • Neither of the cats are ever referred to by name. They simply call each other "son" and "dad". This is a justified example, as they're both strays.
  • Emobob's boss at work, who sounds very much like Mr Krabs, is never referred to by name. The same goes for one of Emobob's friends, who's an emo version of Squidward. He's only ever referred to by nicknames, such as "Shitward" or "Slit-your-wrists-ward".
  • The dumb alien and his mother are never referred to by name. Though, if they had any, they probably wouldn't be pronouncable in English, given their weird alien language.
• The little girl who became the gun of Atop the Fourth Wall has lost her name. It is later found: Margaret.
• KateModern:
  • Kate revealed in the fourth episode that her name wasn't really Kate. Her real first name, Genevieve, wasn't revealed until Episode 88, "Birthday Surprise", while her surname, Strathcarron, wasn't revealed until Episode 163, "Prime Suspect".
  • The Watcher and the Shadow, whose lack of names befit their status as anonymous Order agents.
• In "The Last Days Of Dr. Wily", Dr. Wily's project manager and the construction union representative aren't addressed by name, though his robot designer is named Greg.
• Manatee Girl: The Movie has Hunky Marine Biologist Boyfriend...who is known only as Hunky Marine Biologist Boyfriend.
• Hyper Fangirl from The Nostalgia Critic. Her Villain Protagonist vlogs don't even help, as she calls herself Hyper.
• Petscop: This applies to both the uploader of the videos and the game's protagonist. There is no clear name given to either of them. At the beginning of the first video, the uploader names his save file "Paul", but it is unclear whether it is his own name or the name he wants to give to the protagonist. For the protagonist, in video 5, the strange artifact known as "TOOL" answers the question "Who am I?" with "Newmaker". This answer is vague, as TOOL is not clear who is named "Newmaker". Despite this, fans have just taken to referring to both the uploader of the videos and game protagonist as "Paul". In order to differentiate between the uploader of the videos and the game protagonist, a popular solution is to refer to the video uploader as "Paul" and the game protagonist as "Naul", a combination of "Newmaker" and "Paul".
• The title character of Pittsburgh Dad hasn't been given a name, though his wife (Deb) and next-door neighbor (Tom) have.
• StacheBros: The former tyrannical king of the Mushroom Kingdom, the main antagonist of the Halloween special "The Curse of Toadsworth Mansion", is never referred to by name, with everyone calling him "the King".
• In the SuperMarioLogan series, a recurring character with many different jobs and a thick Brooklyn accent is referred to as "The Brooklyn Guy". In "Bowser Junior Loses Thomas", he works as a Toys R Us employee. When Chef Pee Pee asks him where his name tag is, he states that he doesn't have a name tag because he doesn't have a name.

• The last member of the Yahi tribe of Northern California never disclosed his name, as the tribe's customs stated that the only way to reveal one's name to an outsider was to be introduced by another member of the tribe. Since he was the last one of his tribe, there was no one to introduce him, and he therefore became known as "Ishi", the word for "man" in his language. His real name will never be known.
• Similarly, Juana Maria, better known as the Lone Woman of San Nicolas Island, a native woman who lived for two decades on an otherwise-uninhabited island^*the award-winning novel Island of the Blue Dolphins was based on her story. By the time she was rescued, her language was all but extinct, and she would die less than two months later, before anyone could develop a means to effectively communicate with her; as such, her rescuers were never able to ascertain her true name. The name Juana Maria, by which she is usually remembered, was given to her by a priest at the mission where she spent the last weeks of her life.