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== Given and Entire Names ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* Count D and his relatives in ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]''.
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* Soldat J, from ''[[GaoGaiGar]]''
* J from ''[[Heat Guy J]]''
* J from ''[[
* In the Diamond/Pearl saga of the ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]'' anime, a villain known as Pokemon Hunter J and a one-shot filler character known as O were introduced.
* [[Gravitation]]'s K. (Although his actual name is revealed later.)
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* L from ''[[Death Note]]''. A handful of other characters use one-letter codenames at some point, as well, but, as [[All There in the Manual|revealed in the "how to read" book]], {{spoiler|L actually is his first name. The full name being L Lawliet.}}
* L-sama from ''[[The Slayers]]'' novel afterwords. Though this is an abbreviation of L.O.N. or Lord of Nightmares.
* Ixpellia from the post-''[[Lyrical Nanoha|MagicalGirlLyricalNanoha]] StrikerS'' [[Time Skip]] ''[[Sound Stage X]]'', whose nickname of Ix/Ikusu is transcribed in English as "X" in the CD booklet.
* The main antagonist of the third ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]'' OVA goes by Z, remarking that his real name, Z-0001332536893, is too long.
* [[Fanon]] often refers to [[Mazinger Z]] as simply "Z" for the sake of time. [[Great Mazinger]]'s name is reduced to simply "Great". Oddly, [[Getter Robo]] G is usually called "Getter G" instead of just "G".
* The Alphabets, Major Eberbach's subordinates in ''[[From Eroica with Love]]'', are each known by one single letter as a codename. The Major always seems to have 28 of them around despite having sent some to Alaska. (Also, the letters are pronounced like German alphabets.)
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* The protagonist of "The Castle" by [[Franz Kafka]] is known only as K, making this [[Older Than Television]].
** The protagonist of Kafka's "The Trial" was named Joseph K.
* In ''[[Sputnik Sweetheart]]'', the narrator is only ever known by the letter K.
* As the title probably suggests, the heroine of the erotic classic ''The Story of O'' is known only by her initial.
* S (aka "The Stooge"), the protagonist of Paul Pope's sci-fi graphic novel, ''[[Heavy Liquid]]''.
* V from ''Vegan Virgin Valentine''. Her full name is [[
* ''[[To Kill a Mockingbird]]'' has a bit character called X Billups. Most people didn't believe that was his full name until he was asked to spell it during a court case.
* John Hackworth's nemesis Dr. X in ''[[The Diamond Age]]''. (A slight subervsion in that his actual name is quite long, but it is very hard to pronounce, so everyone just calls him Dr. X. Interestingly, his ''Chinese'' name is written with only one character as well.)
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=== [[Music]] ===
* E from the band Eels, who used to also make solo albums under that name, until he decided it made his music too hard to track down. He has gone by his real name though - his autobiography ''Things The Grandchildren Should Know'' and [[Pop Star Composer|the soundtrack to the film]] ''Levity'' are both credited to Mark Oliver Everett. He initially started being called E in high school because he just [[One Steve Limit|knew too many other people named Mark]].
* In Vivian Stanshall's comedy LP ''Sir Henry at Ndidi's Kraal'', the eponymous Sir Henry Rawlinson mounts an expedition to [[Darkest Africa|Africa, the "dark incontinent"]]. He can't remember his native bearers' names, so "to their - ahem - cheery delight, I ''numbered'' the sods. The last twenty-seven I named after the letters of our alphabet. The twenty-seventh - knew you were going to ask me that! - was a question mark."
* [[Hello! Project]] former group W. Quite tricky to search for their material, if it wasn't for one of their alternate names, Double You.
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* [[Paper-Thin Disguise|Mr. L]] from ''[[Super Paper Mario]]'', though that's not his real name. {{spoiler|He's Luigi much to the surprise of no one.}}
* Inverted in the PC game ''N'': [[I Am Not Shazam|most people think the main character ninja's name is N]], but actually the ninja is nameless and N represents "the way of the ninja", a system of beliefs to which the ninja subscribes. These details are found on N's "Story" page.
* N from ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]''. (The Japanese games actually use the English letter as his name, a rarity in a JRPG. It's short for {{spoiler|Natural, as in natural number}}, so it makes sense. {{spoiler|It's [[Wild Mass Guessing|been theorized]] that his supposed father Ghetsis has gone through thirteen other children, letters A-M, in his attempts to create the peculiar kind of idealistic [[Tyke Bomb]] he needed to take over Unova.}}
* O is the name of a minor NPC in ''[[Planescape: Torment]]''. He's not just any old O, but part of the "divine alphabet." Whatever that means, he can give you a permanent boost to your Wisdom if you ask the right questions, before vanishing.
* Dr. O from the "Old World Blues" DLC for ''[[Fallout: New Vegas]]''. {{spoiler|Only not really - while everyone ''calls'' him O, his actual name is [[You Are Number Six]].}}
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** [[Hilarious in Hindsight|Well,]] he IS [[Death Note|pretty mysterious.]]
* X, later know as Rampage, from ''[[Beast Wars]]''.
* Z from ''[[All Grown Up!]]''.
* ''[[The Zeta Project]]'' has Infiltration Unit Zeta. His companion Ro calls him Zee, and sometimes he uses "Zee Smith" as an alias while pretending to be human.
* X Racer, (named after his uncle's codename), from ''[[Speed Racer: The Next Generation]]''.
* In one episode of ''[[The Simpsons]]'', Homer decides to find out what his middle initial J stands for. It turns out, it stands for Jay.
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