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* In ''[[The Tomorrow Series]]'', Lee is the only main character not given a surname. In the film, he's credited as "Lee Takkam".
* The unnamed protagonist of the ''[[Doom]]'' video games is Flynn Taggart in the spin-off novels and John Grimm in the movie.
* In ''[[Harry Potter and
** This applies to a building instead of a character, but the books never give a name to the orphanage Voldemort lived in as a child. In a flashback from the sixth film, the sign out front reads "Wool's Orphanage". It's unclear whether this name came from Rowling or if the filmmakers invented it.
** The Hogwarts lake is never named in the books. The films call it "the Black Lake" and this name is recognized by the Harry Potter Wiki.
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* Faith from ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' never had a last name in the TV series but was given Lehane as a last name in the role-playing game. It's now treated as canon. Kendra was also given Young as a last name.
** Similarly, Spike received his surname "Pratt" in IDW's comics.
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** All the teachers are also given first names that they didn't have in the book. Miss Cackle's becomes Amelia, Miss Hardbroom is Constance, Miss Bat is Davina and Miss Drill is Imogen.
* The TV adaption of ''[[Dashiell Hammett]]'''s ''[[The Dain Curse]]'' gave the previously unnamed "Continental Op" the moniker of Hamilton Nash. The name was described as ''[[Dashiell Hammett]]'' "spelled sideways."
* Cartoonist [[Charles Addams]] never gave his characters names until his cartoons were adapted into [[The Addams Family (1964 TV series)|a TV show in the 1960s]]. At the request of the producers he came up with Gomez, Morticia, Fester, Lurch, Wednesday and Pugsley. (This last was his ''second'' try -- the producers rejected his first choice, "Pubert" -- which eventually got used for the third Addams child in ''[[Addams Family Values]]''.)
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** ''[[Beauty and the Beast]]'' is an odd case. The heroine was originally referred to as "Beauty". However, "belle" is the French word for "beauty", so the original French versions would call her "belle", but not as her name. Conveniently, it happens that "Belle" is a real first name, so Disney made it the character's actual name. Additionally, Beauty/Belle's father is given the name "Maurice".
** Princess Jasmine in ''[[Aladdin (Disney film)|Aladdin]]''. Interestingly, Disney was not the first to use that name. Aladdin's princess was first called "Jasmine" in an obscure '50s film called ''Aladdin and His Lamp''. Disney also gave the Grand Vizier character the name "[[Grand Vizier Jafar|Jafar]]".
* In the animated movie and TV show adaptations of ''[[Curious George]]'', the Man in the Yellow Hat is named Ted Shackleford.
* The ''[[U.S. Acres]]'' cartoons from ''[[Garfield and Friends]]'' gave the names Mort, Gort, and Wart to Orson's bullying brothers who had originally only appeared in the first three weeks of the original comic strip.
* All of the locomotives in the animated version of ''The Little Engine That Could''. The Little Blue Engine is named Tilly, the Broken-Down Engine Georgia, the Shiny New Engine Farnsworth, the Big Strong Engine Pete, and the Rusty Old Engine Jebediah.
* In the original [[Disney]] comics, the Beagle Boys had no names, identified by their prison numbers. [[Word of God| Carl Banks claimed]] they don't even remember their actual names. For ''[[Duck Tales]]'' (both original and recap) the group of Beagle Boys that appeared most often were given the names [[Big Eater| Burger]], [[Guys Are Slobs| Baggy]], [[Dumb Muscle| Bouncer]], [[Dragon-in-Chief| Bigtime]], [[Beatnik| Bugle]], [[The Dragon|Bankjob]], [[Annoying Younger Sibling| Babyface]], and [[Evil Matriarch| Ma Beagle]].
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