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[[Who Is This Guy Again?]]
Sometimes a series just has a hard time giving you the names of its characters. People are referred to in a manner that makes it hard to work out their actual names. Sometimes it's because everyone is past the first-name basis ("Hey, man, how're you?"); by contrast, it might be because there's a more strict social structure, and people are throwing orders around ("You! Get the [[Applied Phlebotinum]] out of the vault!" "Yes [[Blue Blood|sir]]!").
Either way, nobody ever stops to introduce themselves, and nobody ever introduces anybody else, to the point you're studying the end credits just to work out what these people are called. This has the benefit of being slightly more realistic, as people generally don't go around name-dropping everyone they talk to. However, [[Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic]] -- it's generally an [[Acceptable Breaks From Reality|accepted element of fiction]] that at least the early appearances of a character will give us a name to attach to a face.
If a series takes too long to tell you a character's name, expect the [[Fan Nickname
This is different from [[No Name Given]] or [[Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep"]] in that [[Who Is This Guy Again?]] characters actually ''have'' names. They're just hard to work out. More embarrassing than [[Expecting Someone Taller]]. If you know all the names but still have trouble telling people apart, they may have [[Only Six Faces]]. [[Those Two Guys]] are when they have nothing to do with the plot besides being background and providing some mundane exposition.
Contrast with [[Intro Dump]]. The inversion is [[Remember the New Guy]], where a new character is introduced that has never appeared or been mentioned before, but the cast are long familiar with to the point where the audience should have already met them.
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