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== Non-video game examples ==
=== Anime and Manga ===
* In ''[[Haruhi Suzumiya]]'', if anyone has a name, s/he will get involved in a plot in some way or another. If anyone has a full name, watch that character, because without exception, they will have a supernatural power. Of note is that we never learn the narrator's name--"Kyon" is [[Only Known by Their Nickname|just a nickname that everyone uses]].
* ''[[Simoun]]'' averts the voiceover corollary in its first episode, which is narrated by a nameless [[Red Shirt]] pilot who dies (playing the main trope straight) in the episode's climax.
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* One of the things that made ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam]]'' really stand out is that they played with this trope a lot, to often heartbreaking effect. Many enemy pilots got names and a bit of characterization, despite the fact they usually just ended up getting wasted by the Gundam in the end, anyway.
* In ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'', Akito gets replaced by an unnamed female pilot about halfway into the series. No prizes for guessing what happens to her in her first fight.
=== Film ===
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