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[[caption-width-right:258:[[The Unpronounceable|Just how are you supposed to pronounce that?]]<ref> He told you his real name, and you get to [[Hello, Insert Name Here|"report" it to the Police Officer.]]</ref>
When the name of something - be it a character, object or menu item - is unknown in a video game, it will often be represented by a string of question marks.
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[[Confused Question Mark]] is for a different meaning of the symbol. Can be related to [[My Name Is Inigo Montoya]].
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* ''[[Pokémon Gold and Silver (Video Game)|Pokémon Gold and Silver]]'': Your rival gives his own name as "???". You [[Hello, Insert Name Here|enter]] his name later.
** This caused many a small child to permanently name him ??? when asked, thinking it was a kind of trivia where there's a right answer you need to enter to continue. Kind of embarrassing when the older fans told you you had done it wrong, but [[Hilarious in Hindsight]].
** Averted in the remakes, which instead call him Passerby Boy in the battle dialogue. Similarly, he no longer tells you his name in dialogue; he instead drops his Trainer ID and the main character (but not the player himself) reads it, getting his name from there.
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** The temporary ghost party members you can get on the phantom train have the same "name".
** The xylophone-heavy song that plays when first you meet Gau is called "??".
* ''[[Final Fantasy IV the After Years (Video Game)|Final Fantasy IV the After Years]]'' does this straight, and has a variation. When a character talks from offscreen, their name is given as "???". When someone is in disguise (like in [[Instant Awesome, Just Add Ninja|Edge's Tale]]), the name is given with a question mark at the end, like "Trainee?".
* Spiruna's assistant, Hella, in ''[[Maple Story]]'' is shown as ???? in NPC form.
* Kuroko's name card in the non-continue game credits for ''[[Samurai Shodown]] 2'' is obscured and "????" is read below, regardless if you fought him or not. Supposedly what's obscured is his real name (Kuroko is an alias).
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* The lead singer of ? and the Mysterians, a band most famous for their hit "96 Tears".
* In ''[[The Specialists]]'', one character actually goes by Question Mark, or Mark.
* It's not uncommon in a [[Live Action Role Playing Game]] to see a character whose nametag reads only "???" It just means that not everyone present recognizes that person, and players who know them will have "??? is [[
* ''The Mysterious Disappearance of Leon (I Mean Noel)'' by Ellen Raskin says at the beginning of the book that Leon Carillon "changed his name to ?". What the "?" ''really'' stands for is part of the solution of the mystery.
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