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* [[Green Lantern]] Hal Jordan, whose real name is "Harold" but is never addressed as such, ''ever''.
** His friend Tom Kalmaku once had the nickname "[[Unfortunate Names|Pieface]]", and he was referred to as such constantly. It was a more ignorant time.
* For the first two decades of her published existence, Rogue of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]] was known just as "Rogue", even to her nearest and dearest (which according to at least one version of her origin published before 2001 was shown to be her nickname before she discovered her powers). Only after the makers of the first movie decided to saddle her with "Marie" did that eventually bleed over into the comics, [[Chris Claremont]] eventually naming her Anna Marie Raven. (The surname is almost certainly an assumed name, it is identical with the the first name of her adoptive mother, Raven Darkhölme aka Mystique).
* The [[Daredevil]] villain Bullseye, is only known by that name and when asked for his name, "Bullseye" is what he always responds with.
** Turns out his first name is ''Lester''. again with the nickname being an improvement.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Foxface from ''[[The Hunger Games (novel)|The Hunger Games]]''{{'}} trilogy. Katniss gives her the name on the basis that she looks like a fox, and we never learn what her real name is.
* Andrew "Ender" Wiggin from ''[[Ender's Game]]'', to the point where he can go around inconspicuously as Andrew Wiggin in ''Speaker for the Dead''. (Granted, that is 3,000 years in the future due to relativistic time travel, but still...)
** Well, and the fact that Andrew and Wiggin aren't exactly uncommon names. Ender [[Meaningful Name|is]].
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* In Glen Cook's ''[[Black Company]]'' novels, all members of the titular mercenary group are given nicknames upon joining, and their real names are never used again. Sometimes overlaps with [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]].
** Taken to the extreme with Croaker. He once is asked for his real name so that he can be promoted, and he has to spend a little bit just trying to remember what his original name is.
* The [[Mad Max|strangely familiar]] road-warrior dwarf in ''[[
{{quote|"Most people call me Mad."
"Just 'Mad'? That's an ... unusual name."
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* In the 1988 TV miniseries version of ''[[The Bourne Series (novel)|The Bourne Identity]]'', the bespectacled leader of the Swiss assassins is simply called "[[Scary Shiny Glasses|Gold Glasses]]."
** In Robert Ludlum's original novel his nickname is "the owl." (Or it is implied when a subordinate tells [[Big Bad|Carlos]] "the owl is dead."
* Hoban Washburn (Wash) and Kaywinnit Lee Frye (Kaylee) of ''[[Firefly (TV series)|Firefly]]''
* Coach in ''[[Cheers]]''.
** Somewhat parodied when Coach answers the phone, and when the person on the other end asks for Ernie Pantusso, he asks where that person is. Sam Malone says "That's you, Coach," at which point Coach gets back on the phone and says "Speaking!"
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* [[Evelyn Evelyn]] is a performance art duo supposedly made up of [[Conjoined Twins]], both named Evelyn. Their official names are Eva and Lyn Neville, but during their [[Hilariously Abusive Childhood]] nobody ever bothered to remember which one was which, so the twins themselves can't remember either.
* Canadian [[Synth Rock]] band [[The Birthday Massacre]] have stage nicknames; while some members just use their real names (Owen, formerly O-en Falcore and Nate) some band members' real names are not public knowledge (Rainbow and Chibi, as well as former members Aslan and Dank).
* The title character of the song "Delta Dawn" (a 1972 hit for [[Tanya Tucker]] and a number one hit for [[Helen Reddy]] in 1973) is referred to throughout only by the nickname she acquired as a young woman.
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
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* Abused in the [[MSF High Forum]], with NPCs of Mitchell. There's a good reason, though. He's terrible with names!
** Examples include Snuggles, the hug-happy Kappa; Apprentice, the apprentice demonslayer; and The Mysterious Deviling, a Deviling cowgirl.
* The Mallers from ''[[
* On the game music podcast [[Nitro Game Injection]], co-host Suraida never goes by her real name on the air.
* Odd example in [[Something Awful]]'s Spring/Summer[[Webcomic Time|(/Fall/Winter]] 2011) Ghost Story Thread: The [http://nothotbutspicy.com/para/50fa3/ "Site Kilo-29"] (finished on SA) and [http://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3402557&userid=64773 "Cursed Snoopy"] (after the pictures; apparently abandoned?) epics by users 50 Foot Ant andOneWhiteWhisker. Because these eerie stories are framed as actual events, they're always referred to as Fifty or Sgt. Ant and Whisker (son of Mr. and Mrs. White) by characters within the story but only as covers for their real names. Which makes the time when Sgt. Ant actually shouts [[Punctuated! For! Emphasis!|"I AM THE FIFTY FOOT ANT!"]] extra hilarious ("Sgt. Ant, are you calling yourself an ant?").
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