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* In the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' series, two Tribe of Endless Hunting ancestors named Fall and Slant are mentioned in ''Sign of the Moon''. We never hear their full Tribe names, just their nicknames.
* Princess Candacis in ''[[White as Snow]]'' is almost always called Coira, a name her nurse gave her, to the point that her maids instruct a doctor to call her Coira because she won't know who he's talking to if he calls her Candacis.
* Nearly everyone in ''[[Haunted
* In ''[[The Thirteenth Tale]]'', John-the-dig's legal name is John Digence, but Vida insists that if you really knew him, you knew that John-the-dig was his real name.
* Many of the characters in ''[[I, Claudius]]'' are only known by their nicknames (for example, "Caligula" and "Castor"). Roman naming customs were very unimaginative, so several people might have identical or almost-identical names; nicknames make it much easier than trying to figure out which of the eight or nine "Drusus"es someone might be talking about.<ref>[[Truth in Television]]; the ancient Romans made use of nicknames for just that reason.</ref> In the books, the narrator will usually mention the real name before telling you that that guy will just be known as "Castor" from then on; in the TV series, they generally didn't even do that.
* Many characters in ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' have nicknames, some of which are self-styled and others less so. Peasants generally don't care about the real names of other peasants, which leads to some people being known exclusively by their nicknames, such as Lommy Greenhands, a mook named Shitmouth, and most famously Hot Pie, among quite a few others. Arya becomes this once when traveling to Braavos. She would have invented a new identity at this point, but everyone just called her "Salty", so she went with it.
* Many of the characters in ''[[Someone Else's War|Someone Elses War]]'', most prominently Lieutenant Panga and Lazy.
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