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** This is also an example of [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]], because one of his old flames wrote a song about him called "He's a Tramp," and the name stuck.
* [[Dollars Trilogy|The Man With No Name]] gets a different nickname in each installment of the trilogy (in order "Joe," "Manco," and "Blondie"). His real name is—obviously—never given.
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* The main characters of ''[[Zombieland]]'' use the place of their destination in place of their real names to avoid personal attachment. Needless to say [[True Companions|it doesn't work.]]
* The Bride in ''[[Kill Bill]]'' is this with respect to the audience—up to a certain point, any references to her by her actual name ({{spoiler|Beatrix Kiddo}}) are censored out.
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* Goose in ''[[Top Gun]]''. Everyone, even his own wife, just calls him that. His real name, which was seen on a box, was {{spoiler|Nick Bradshaw}}.
** This seems to be based on some kind of fact. In the credits about a dozen technical advisors are listed as "<First Name> <Nickname> <Last Name>"
* In the various incarnations of ''[[RoboCop]]'', if you run Omni Consumer Products, then chances are very good your name won't be revealed. The head of OCP in the first two movies, the guy who ran it in the third movie, the man who ran it in ''The Series'', and the woman in charge of it for the first two episodes of ''Prime
* In [[Apocalypse Now]], with the exception of Lance and Willard, all the main characters are primarily referred to by a nickname fitting their characters: Chief, Chef, and Clean. {{spoiler|Interestingly enough, it's the only two men not referred to by a nickname who make it out of the film alive.}}
* In ''[[Pirates of the Caribbean|Pirates Of The Caribbean: On Stranger Tides]]'' Blackbeard's real name is mentioned only once near the beginning of the film, and from that point on he's referred to as either Blackbeard or Captain. Probably a case of [[Truth in Television]] -A lot more people know the real-life pirate as Blackbeard than Edward Teach.
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* In the Japanese horror film ''House'', the seven girls are referred only by their nicknames, even by family; namely, they're Gorgeous, Fantasy, Prof, Kung Fu, Melody, Sweet, and Mac (that's short for "stomach"). This is the first real clue that these girls are meant to be thought of as more archetypes than actual characters.
* In ''[[Bajrangi Bhaijaan]]'' the titular character real name is Pawan Kumar Chaturvedi (and he begins telling his life story to an audience of bus passengers by stating it), but he is only called that name by his late father, his fiancée, and legal authorities. For everybody else, he is Bajrangi Bhaijaan, or just Bajrangi.
* Ian and all of his henchmen in ''[[National Treasure]]'', though Ian's might be his actual first name, and the henchmen might be using their surnames only.
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