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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]]!").

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 Me Coffee!]]" "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.