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** Lampshaded in the DS remake of ''[[Final Fantasy IV]]''. Namingway, an NPC who could rename your characters for you in previous versions, finds himself out of a job when he realizes that since characters are referred to in spoken dialogue, he can no longer rename them.

** In the PSP remake of ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics]]'' you can name your character at the start of the game, and your character will be referred to as the name you set in text sequences. However, the main character is referred to by his default name in the voice-over cutscenes.

** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'' plays with the trope a bit: You can't name Garnet originally, but when she takes on a pseudonym, you get to choose that. Strangely enough, her default pseudonym ("Dagger") is [[Line-of-Sight Name|taken from]] ''[[Line-of-Sight Name|an actual dagger]]'', so if it's changed to anything else the scene stops making sense.

*** It makes the scene rather funny to just call her "Garnett"

* In ''[[Fate Extra|Fate/EXTRA]]'', you can name your male or female protagonist, even create a nickname for them.

* In ''[[Tales of Vesperia]]'' every character is renameable but the default names are the ones spoken in the voiced scenes.

** Ditto with the remake of the first ''[[Star Ocean]]'' for PSP.

** Not to mention the [[Star Ocean the Second Story|second]], which also featured a huge list of recruitable characters. Not only did Claude and Rena retain their names in voice-overs, the anime cutscenes treated them as the only two members of the party.

** There was also a ''second'' code you could input in Golden Sun 1 that let you rename Felix, Jenna, and Sheba.

*** In the second game, The first code lets you rename the party of the second game, while the second lets you rename the ones from the first.

* ''[[Dungeon Siege]]'' allows the player to name the main character upon creation. The film adaptation seems to play with this, referring to the main character as "Farmer," stating that he is of the belief that a person's profession should be their name. Whether this was an intentional act of custom-name-fixing or the film's writer was just lazy is unknown.

* In ''[[Chrono Trigger]]'' you can name all the playable characters. In one instance this can lead to some pretty funny results, as when you meet Robo he identifies himself by his serial number, which Marle immediately rejects. However, the number fits in the name creation box, which can lead to this exchange:

** ''[[The Missingno]]'' glitch is a result of your player name being copied accidentally into an invalid memory location. The glitch is caused by a limitation in the way the battling system interface looks up the player name. When the player talks to the [http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/Old_man_glitch old man] in Viridian City who demonstrates how to catch Pokemon, ''his'' name gets copied into the name location, and your name gets displaced. When talking to him later, this causes your name to be copied into the data causing the glitchy squares on Cinnibar Island.

** In [[Pokémon Colosseum]], you are also allowed to name your partner (canon name Rui).

* In the original ''[[Dark Cloud]]'', you could rename every single character in your party. After his story is finished, Rando still calls the main character Toan even if you changed his name.

* ''[[Dubloon]]'' has you naming your characters right on their introduction. Like in ''[[Earthbound]]'', there is a "don't care" button which gives a character one several predefined names, ranging from standard names to [[Shout-Out|shout outs]] to ''[[Monkey Island]]'', ''[[One Piece]]'' and ''[[Earthbound]]''.