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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
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.
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{{examples}}
== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Martian Successor Nadesico]]'' is a major offender in this regard. For example, there are three [[Bridge Bunnies]]. Megumi is part of the [[Love Dodecahedron]], so her name comes up a lot. Ruri is quite distinctive. But name the third. {{spoiler|Minato}}. While you're at it, name the guy with the bowl cut who joins the crew along with Akatsuki and Erina. {{spoiler|Admiral Munetake}}. Or the head chef {{spoiler|Ms. Howmei}}. The characters in the [[Show Within a Show]], ''Gekiganger 3'', are easier to identify by name than the cast of this show.
** Minato has a romantic subplot that is an important part of the
* ''[[Tengen Toppa Gurren Lagann]]'' is rather stingy when it comes to even often-seen [https://web.archive.org/web/20090612071244/http://gurennlagann.wikia.com/wiki/Minor_Characters_of_Team_Dai-Gurren members of the Team Dai-Gurren]. Name four of them, not counting Kamina, Simon, Yoko, Nia, Leeron, Rossiu, Kittan and his sisters, {{spoiler|Viral, or Lord Genome}}. Hard, isn't it? Of all of the other characters, five are namedropped exactly twice in the first two ''arcs'', one takes fifteen episodes to get a name, and the rest have their names mentioned once and then left unsaid
** How bad is it for these characters, you ask? The page linked to above has been ''[[Unperson|deleted]]'' from Wikia.
* The Mechanic Couple in ''[[
** Nanae Hayashi is rather important to the resolution of the final crisis. And... okay, Morimoto might not even have a given name.
* In ''[[Saint Luminous Mission High School]]'', most of the characters aren't addressed by name until the episode focusing on them.
* Canada in ''[[Axis Powers Hetalia]]''. In fact, he's the ''definition'' of this trope.
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== [[Film]] ==
* Colonel Mertz von Quirnheim in ''[[Valkyrie (film)|Valkyrie]]''
* The first film of ''[[The Mummy Trilogy]]'' doesn't seem to mention Ardeth Bay's name anywhere. His first speaking scene in the sequel comes complete with two characters greeting him by name, as if to make sure you know what it is.
* The terrible lighting and sound quality of ''[[Ax 'Em]]'' makes it impossible to figure out who ''anyone'' is, which isn't helped by the fact that some major characters die offscreen and others seem to die onscreen [[Beyond the Impossible|multiple times.]]
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** This was actually a meta joke about how Andrew was the only member of the trio who had never appeared on the show before, so fans would likely be [[Remember the New Guy?|calling him that anyway]]. Originally Tucker himself was going to be in the group, but his actor wasn't available so they had to create someone new.
** He's the [[Big Bad]] of the [[Musical Episode]], he threatens to take Dawn to the underworld and make her his queen, he has many names... But he never actually gives one. The end credits say say 'sweet demon makeup done by...' and so the fandom has adopted the name Sweet for him ever since.
* [[Battlestar Galactica (2004 TV series)|The rebooted ''
== Theater ==
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