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-->'''Andy Dufrense:''' What was his name?

-->'''Andy Dugrense:''' I was just wondering if anybody knew his name.

* In Robert Jordan's ''WheelOfTime'' Rand [[spoiler: has memorized a list of every woman he has ever killed or caused to die, and once LT shows up he starts adding names from him too]]

** In "The Vampires of Venice":
-->"I will tear down the house of Calviera stone by stone and you know why? You didn't know her name."

* There's a variation in the ''DoctorWho'' episode "Midnight". After the stewardess sacrifices herself to kill the monster, the other passengers are ashamed to realize that none of them... not even the Doctor... can remember her name.
** Played straight in "The Poison Sky", where the commander of the UNIT forces notes that one of the soldiers was killed, and the Doctor corrected him.

** And in "The Vampires of Venice":
-->"I will tear down the house of Calviera stone by stone and you know why? You didn't know her name."

* Invoked in GundamWing. One of the protagonists asks an enemy leader how many countless soldiers he'll sacrifice. Said leader responds he ''has'' counted, and makes it a point to catalog and remember the name of every soldier he loses in the campaign so that their sacrifices won't be forgotten or in vain.

-->'''Filiapiano''': Nobody even remembers that dumb kid's name.

* FamilyGuy: Stewie and Brian are stranded in the desert, night's approaching, and the only shelter option is their camel, cut open Star Wars-style. Poor Stewie had already named him and given him a back-story.

'''Filiapiano''': Nobody even remembers that dumb kid's name.
'''Hardcastle''': Johnson. His name was Cyler Johnson.

* In ''Cosmic Odyssey'', a DCComics CrisisCrossover, the day is saved by Forager, one of the people known as "bugs" from the planet New Genesis who made a HeroicSacrifice. Orion, one of The ''NewGods'' of New Genesis barely acknowledges this fact, causing Batman to hit him and shout ''"His name was Forager!!"''

'''[[ScrewPolitenessImASenior Waldorf]]:''' I was saying he ''had'' a name, not that I knew what it was!

'''[[TheStinger Statler]]:''' Not that we care!\\

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--->'''Leonardo:''' [[ThatLiarLies YOU LIE!!]]
--->'''Shredder:''' [[Narm DO I?!]]

--->'''Shredder:''' [[MagnificentBastard DO]] [[Narm I?!]]

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* In Robert Jordan's ''WheelOfTime'' Rand [[spoiler: has memorized a list of every woman he has ever killed or caused to die, and once LT shows up he starts adding names from him too]]
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* In Robert Jordan's ''WheelOfTime'' Rand [[spoiler: has memorized a list of every woman he has ever killed or caused to die, and once LT shows up he starts adding names from him too]]

Someone important to one of the heroes has died. Sometimes, the dead person has been killed because their too close to the hero (or perhaps due to a HeroicSacrifice that benefits the hero in some way). Other times, the dead character was following the hero's orders. And maybe it was just their time.

Someone important to one of the heroes has died. Sometimes, the dead person has been killed because he's too close to the hero (or perhaps due to a HeroicSacrifice that benefits the hero in some way). Other times, the dead character was following the hero's orders. And maybe it was just the guy's time.

->"WE'RE ALIVE! PEOPLE SHED BLOOD AND DIE. [[ThisIsReality THIS ISN'T A GAME!]] You can't just selfishly use DEATH as your tool! This...is ALICE'S BLOOD! I bet you already forgot she existed! The same way you would've forgotten me!"

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* Yuji says this to Shana about Yukari Hirai in ''ShakuganNoShana''.
** Yuji also makes a point that he has a name and isn't just an inconsequential, forgettable Torch, and even names Shana just to establish the importance of identity.
* Invoked in GundamWing. One of the protagonists asks an enemy leader how many countless soldiers he'll sacrifice. Said leader responds he ''has'' counted, and makes it a point to catalog and remember the name of every soldier he loses in the campaign so that their sacrifices won't be forgotten or in vain.

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* Unique variation in ''[[Supernatural]]''. The BigBad of the first two seasons, the yellow-eyed demon, is finally killed in Season 2 yet we still don't know his name. A demon later reveals his name to be Azazel in Season 3, saying "You think his brothers just called him Yellow-Eyes? He had a name."

** 'Course, Eddie wouldn't have had to die if Malcolm's girlfriend Sarah wasn't such an utter [[TooDumbToLive moron.]]

-->'''Travis Touchdown''', ''[[{{Ptitleb2dbxamy}} No More Heroes 2: Desperate Struggle]]''

* Subverted in ''TheShawshankRedemption'', when the prisoner's find out that "Fat Ass" died during the night after being beaten to a bloody pulp by Captain Hadley.