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{{quote|'''exenefevex:''' Now according to the nice people on the internet... World 6, will feature Morton, who is not Roy.
'''exenefevex's Dad:''' Oh, but Morton is ''not'' Roy?
'''exenefevex:''' Yes. Do we ever fight the Morton who ''is'' Roy? There's no such thing. But that is, in fact, Morton, and not Roy.|''[[Let's Play|Let's Fail]] [[
The fearsome recurring villain has struck again! The heroes grit their teeth and draw their weapons, prepared for the fight of their lives. They've spent most of the arc waiting for this battle. It's time to bring down... umm...
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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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* The ''French'' [[Macekre]] of ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' went through this phase on the Saiyan and Namek arcs, as villains, even Vegeta and Freeza, ''respective [[Big Bad]]s of each arc'', would be called almost always the rather generic term "the enemy", confusing the hell out of viewers. Some villains, such as [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Zarbon]], were lucky to have their name said on dialogue once or twice, but never on recaps. At one random episode, they started giving people names again.
* Genzo in ''[[Oh! Edo Rocket]]''. Funny enough, he shares [[Katsuyuki Konishi|the same seiyuu as Canada.]]
* Helmeppo from ''[[One Piece]]'' is the butt of this several times. Despite being one of the series' first villains, neither Luffy nor Zoro remember him or his name when he and Coby see them again in Water 7, much to his comedic chagrin.
* ''[[Kamichama Karin]]'': Kirio fails to give his name the first time he shows up, which leads to Karin calling him "Mr. Glasses Man" for the rest of the series, due to not remembering his name.
* Averted in ''[[Legend of Galactic Heroes]]'': Whenever a character appears who has not been onscreen for a while, his/her name is shown in the subtitles. [[Loads and Loads of Characters|Sometimes it isn't enough.]]
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* ''[[Seven Samurai]]'' has had at least two sets of English subtitles; in one of them, two of the title characters are never named.
* In ''[[Inglourious Basterds]]'', some of the Basterds don't get any mention on-screen.
* In ''[[Dungeons
* The Ewok that Leia first meets in ''[[Return of the Jedi]]'' is called "Wicket", but you only find that out in the end titles, as the Ewoks can't talk. In fact, because of their lack of speech, the word "Ewok" is never mentioned in the actual film either.
** [[Big Bad|Palpatine's]] name is never given in the original trilogy; he is only ever refered to as The Emperor (or variants like "Your Highness", "My master" etc.), but he is called Senator Palpatine in his first scene in ''[[The Phantom Menace]]'', which is an [[Easter Egg]] for those fans who learnt is name [[All There in the Manual|from other sources]] and he becomes a [[Devil in Plain Sight]] for them (and those who looked at the cast credits / knew the actor, of course).
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* In ''[[The Amazing Race]]'', teams are usually referred to by the names of both contestants. Because of this, it's easy to forget which team member is which on homogenous teams (such as the second season's Chris & Alex and Osward & Danny).
** In an attempt to make this easier on the viewers, when next to each other, such as on the mat or in post-leg interviews, teams sit or stand in the same order as their names will appear on the screen. Meaning the racer whose name is first is always on the viewer's left.
* "The [[Engaging Chevrons|Chevron]] Guy" from ''[[Stargate SG-1]]'' took many seasons to be identified despite being ever-present—it's actually {{spoiler|Chief Master Sergeant Walter Harriman}}). For the longest time, though, his nametag said "Davis," as did the nametags of many a random extra.)
** This is largely subverted in the later seasons, though, as he gained [[Ensemble Darkhorse|enough popularity]] to be directly addressed by his name even several times in a single episode.
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* Tom on ''[[Lost]]'' first appeared in the season 1 finale but was not named besides being credited as "Mr. Friendly"; his repeated appearances in season 2 also left him without a real name. When his name was finally revealed as Tom in the season 2 finale, some fans continued calling him Mr. Friendly, to the point that up until {{spoiler|his death}} the press releases continued to call the character "Tom/Mr. Friendly" to avoid confusion. As [[No Name Given|his last name has never been revealed]], some speculate his full name is "Tom Friendly," a name that was made pseudo-canon in the captions of an enhanced episode.
** Mikhail Bakunin was also not named when he first mysteriously appeared on a TV in the Pearl station; his nickname onset was "Patchy" and this was adopted by the fan community. However, his name was revealed immediately upon his second appearance, and so he didn't fall victim to the same confusion Tom did.
* "Future Guy", the recurring one-man [[Omniscient Council of Vagueness]] from ''[[Star Trek: Enterprise]]''. They never did give him a name, or even come up with one. Eventually, the [[Star Trek Novel Verse]] offered answers; see [[Star Trek: Department of Temporal Investigations]].
* ''[[The Wire]]'', as part of its [[Viewers Are Geniuses]]/[[Better on DVD]] package, often doesn't namedrop characters on first appearance, and not very often afterwards. Add to this that actors' names in the credits aren't even linked to their character name, and that many of them go by nicknames, and things can get confusing...
* The Cigarette Smoking Man from ''[[The X-Files]]''. It makes sense that none of the characters know who (or say) this mysterious figure's name, and it's not in his interests to tell them, but it meant he was just known by [[Fan Nickname]]s, at least until Mulder referred to him as "Cancer Man".
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* ''[[Darths and Droids]]'' parodies the trope in [http://www.darthsanddroids.net/episodes/0485.html this strip]. [[The Rant]] points out the inherent problem with making NPCs too memorable; your players tend to completely forget about the "ordinary" ones.
* Xykon treats protagonists like this in general, particular Roy and the ''[[Order of the Stick]].'' During their showdown at the battle of Azure City, he eventually recalls Roy from the dungeon with the first gate as "that guy! Who was angry about… something…"
** Although sometimes he can remember Roy's last name, [[They Call Him "Sword"|Greenhilt]], well enough to make a passing comment about "Bluepommel."
** This is at least in part due to what [[But for Me It Was Tuesday|he does on a daily basis.]] When Roy tries to narrow it down for Xykon, he mentions that he killed several unrelated people with the same name in the same city. Xykon remembers well enough once he connects that particular murder to how hard it was to clean out the blood stains.
* In ''[[Shortpacked]]'' there's Ken, who rarely showed up and had no importance for a long time. This was lampshaded when one of the characters asked who he was despite him working at the titular store for 6 months at that point. The next strip featured Ken actually doing something.
* In the [[Ace Attorney]] fan-comic [[Kristoph Gavin Ace Attorney]], we have, uhhh... that detective. The science guy. Simon Taylor. Yeah, him.
* [[Scandinavia and The World]] has the Faroe Islands.
* Any time Penny appears in [[Domain Tnemrot]], at least one commenter will ask who she is.
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