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** [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|Grimms']] "[[The Twelve Dancing Princesses]]"
** "[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/368.htm The Golden Blackbird]"
** "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718142221/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/diamondstoads/stories/witch.html The Old Witch]"
** [[The Brothers Grimm (creator)|Grimms']] "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718153153/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/stories/lark.html The Singing, Springing Lark]"
** "[https://web.archive.org/web/20130718140429/http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/beautybeast/stories/smalldog.html The Small-Toothed Dog]": The heroine tells the dog its name is "Sweet as a Honeycomb" when she's trying to coax it, but there are no other names.
** "[http://www.mythfolklore.net/andrewlang/009.htm The Blue Mountains]"
** Technically, the name "[[Snow White and The Seven Dwarfs (novel)|Snow White]]" is just a description of the fairy tale's heroine.
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* ''[[Echo Bazaar]]'' is almost devoted to this trope. Characters with names other than "The Adjective Job Title" are limited to the Masters of the Bazaar (Mr. Thing, where Thing is what they trade in), the dueling opponents in the Black Ribbon, and a few others (F.F. Gebrant, Huffam, Esq., Madame Shoshanna, Mrs. Plenty) who have their own Twitter feeds and were thus grandfathered into the universe.
** This is plausible true in-universe as well; the Traitor Empress has forbidden the use of her name, and it seems likely that, 30 years after the Fall, society has imitated this, with all remotely-fashionable individuals being referred to by role. All of those who have names are either on the margins of society or businesspeople (possibly aping the Masters rather than the Empress). Assuming you count semi-suicidal as being the margins of society.
* All of the characters in the ''[[The Lighthouse]]'' have no name, only being referred by their relation to the main character.
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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