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'''Number Two''': [[Trope Namer|You are Number Six.]]
'''Prisoner''': I am not a number, I am a free man!
'''Number Two''': ''*[[Evil Laugh|*evil laugh*]]*''
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== New Media ==
* In ''[[Conquering the Horizon]]'' Evelyn is a [[Hive Mind]]. Her individual bodies usually have semi-independent lines of thought and emotions, but they are still very much linked like a proper hive mind (same memories, know each others location, access each others senses, access to each others thoughts, and a given body considers itself much more expendable than the body (and life) of a non-hive mind person). Individual Evelyns often have a model name (based on the body type) and a number:
{{quote|And so [[Attending Your Own Funeral|we gather here today to honor]] three great Evelyns, Tinkerbell Enhanced Five, Seven, and Eleven. Though we were too lazy to give them more original names, the [[Star Wars]] reference was totally worth it.|"Mr. Mooshi" (Evelyn)| Conquering the Horizon}}
== Newspaper Comics ==
* In the early 1960s, ''[[Peanuts]]'' had a character named 5 (full name 555 95472). His sisters were 3 and 4. 5 said that his father named his kids that way as a reaction to all the numbers (such as the then-new ZIP Code) being put on people in modern life.
{{quote|'''Lucy:''' This is his way of protesting, huh?
'''5:''' No, this is his way of giving in! }}
== Tabletop Games ==
* Some of the warforged in ''[[Eberron]]'' are known by number.
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' has the Phyrexian outcast [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=12331 Xantcha]. She explains in the novel ''Planeswalker'' that "Xantcha" in Phyrexian is the number of the box she was assigned to sleep in. One of her first acts of rebellion was to continue thinking of herself as "Xantcha" after being moved to a different position, turning it into a personal name rather than the designator of an interchangeable part.
* In ''[[Paranoia (game)|Paranoia]]'', all citizens have names like John-R-ZAE-3 (Red security clearance, home sector ZAE, third member of his clone family, i.e. the first two already [[Death Is Cheap|died]] and had their memories transplanted). If it's a [[Punny Name]], then occasionally the number is part of it (like Woody-G-UTH-3 writing music for vidshows).
== Theatre ==
* Elmer Rice's stage play ''[[The Adding Machine]]'', a surrealist fantasy written in the 1920s and still performed frequently, is about a hopeless non-entity who works in a corporation where all the employees have numbers for names. His name is Mister Zero, signifying that he is the lowliest person of all...not just in the company, but in the larger society as well.
* ''[[Les Misérables (theatre)|Les Misérables]]'' is under Literature, but worth mentioning again.
{{quote|"24601..."
"My name is Jean Valjean!" }}
* Claude from the musical ''[[Hair (theatre)|Hair]]'' at one point gives an emotional speech about how being drafted for duty in Vietnam has reduced him from a human being to just another number on a government filing system.
* The song "Close Every Door" from ''[[Joseph and The Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat]]'' addresses Nazi concentration camps with "Just give me a number, instead of my name/ forget all about me, and let me decay..."
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