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Related to [[What Measure Is a Mook?]]. See also [[He Had a Name]].

 

* In ''[[Mobile Suit Gundam Wing]]'', Wufei is stunned to learn that Treize Khushrenada memorizes the names of every soldier killed in action.

* In the non-existant [[Tsukihime]] anime as well as in the manga adaptation, Shiki hears a news broadcast where the entirety of Nrvnsqr Chaos' victims is listed in name. {{spoiler|This is how he learns of Satsuki's death.}}

 

 

* After the [[Green Lantern|Sinestro Corps War]], Vath Sarn takes the time to recite the names of all 400-something Green Lanterns who died in the conflict.

 

 

** Maniac refuses to follow this custom, and convinces Blair to do likewise.

* ''[[Starship Troopers]]'': After the battle of Big K, they get back to the space station Ticonderoga and there's a big display with the names of the dead scrolling on it.

* Averted in ''[[The Shawshank Redemption]]''. An inmate is brutally beaten to death by a guard. When the prisoners discuss the death the next morning, Andy asks the name of the man who died. The answer is a sharp, "Who gives a fuck."

* The group commander in ''[[Memphis Belle]]'' hands a folder full of copies he had written families to the reporter who implied that the commander didn't value the individual lives of his crews. As the reporter is reading them, the images of the screen indicate that many times 'he died quickly, and without pain' were [[Blatant Lies]].

* Near the end of the [[Starfleet Corps of Engineers]] novella ''Wildfire'', there is an extract from the Captain's Log that lists the 23 (out of a crew of 40) crewmembers who were killed in that mission. The most "important" character in the list, {{spoiler|Second Officer Duffy}} is just tossed into the list with no significant importance.

** In the [[Star Trek: Destiny]] follow-up ''[[A Singular Destiny]]'', there is a brief interlude showing a casualty list of people killed in a specific sector of space. All of the names were of characters we never met, except for {{spoiler|B'Elanna Torres and Miral Paris}}.

* ''[[In Death]]'': Eve Dallas has the gift and curse of remembering all the murder victims she stands for. ''Seduction In Death'' had her fighting with this one [[Jerkass]] of a cop who had the nerve to bring up her actions in ''Judgment In Death'' and call her the Rat Squad's ([[Internal Affairs]]) poster girl to her face. She responds that there were cops being murdered in that case and she asks if he wants their names because she has every single one of them in her head.

* In [[Jack Campbell]]'s ''[[The Lost Fleet]]'', Tanya Desjani keeps a list of "absent friends." Posted on the wall of her quarters, near the door, so she sees it every time she leaves.

 

 

* An inversion happens in the ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' episode "Heroes": at {{spoiler|Dr. Fraiser}}'s funeral, Samantha Carter recites a list of people who are ''alive'' thanks to her.

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'':

** "The Satan Pit" ends with the base commander making a log entry listing all the base personnel who have died. He even includes the Ood, who in life were so little-regarded they didn't even have names, and he doesn't just say "and all the Ood", he lists each of their ID numbers individually.

{{quote|'''The Doctor:''' I will tear down the House of Calvierri stone by stone. And you know why? {{spoiler|You didn't know Isabella's name.}}}}

** In "Midnight," after the stewardess sacrifices herself to save him, the Doctor is particularly devastated that none of the passengers knew her name.

{{quote|'''Starbuck:''' To BB, Jo-Jo, Reilly, Beano, Dipper, Flat Top, Chuckles, Jolly, Crashdown, Sheppard, Dash, Flyboy, Stepchild, Puppet, Fireball... [''stops, crying'']

'''Apollo:''' To all of 'em.

 

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