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''<nowiki>'</nowiki>Cats don't have names,' it said.
''<nowiki>'</nowiki>No?' said Coraline.
''<nowiki>'</nowiki>No,' said the cat. 'Now you people have names. That's because you don't know who you are. We know who we are, so we don't need names."''|'''''[[Coraline (novel)|Coraline]]'''''}}
This is when a character or group of characters have no names, and don't see the point in having them. This is not merely [[No Name Given|when their name is never revealed]], but when they actually have never been referred to by a name or assigned a name. Such characters are prone to having a [[Fan Nickname]] assigned to them, since it's kind of hard to discuss characters without a way to refer to them. If the characters in the show feel compelled to call them something, you may run into [[Only Known by Their Nickname]], [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]], or he might even be referred to by others only by the name of his nation, tribe, or species. But the character himself will not adopt this as a name.
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