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* Used several times in the [[Dresden Files]] fic ''[[Fair Vote]]''. Exploited spectacularly so near the end.
* In ''[[Drunkard's Walk]]'', all the many and varied gods and demons of every pantheon in every world are essentially "roleplaying characters" for a group of [[Eldritch Abomination|cosmically powerful 12-dimensional beings]] -- none of whom use their real names with any of the masks they wear in the many universes. That said, Doug admits that he knows the True Name of his commanding officer, one of these beings who incarnated ''all of itself'' as a mortal, in order to understand what it was like to live as one. Averted, though, in that knowing this does not seem to give him any power over her, but instead testifies to their respect and affection for each other.
* This is a [[Discussed Trope]] in ''[[My Apartment Manager is not an Isekai Character]]'', when one of the [[Author Avatar]]s explains the English-magic Law of Names to a Japanese [[Magical Girl]] to justify not introducing themselves.
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