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* Throughout ''{{Zombieland}}'', the only person referred to by name is [[spoiler:Bill Murray]] - everyone else is referred to by their home or destination. The girls' names are revealed at the end (though one is hard to catch), but the men never really have names.
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* Throughout ''{{Zombieland}}'', ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', the only person referred to by name is [[spoiler:Bill Murray]] - everyone else is referred to by their home or destination. The girls' names are revealed at the end (though one is hard to catch), but the men never really have names.
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* ''CastleCrashers'' gives names to none of its characters, only referring them by what they are (The "X" Knight, The Cyclops, The King, etc.)
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* Only three characters get names in ''{{Curse of the Zodiac}}'', and one of those names is only revealed in text just before the credits, which only list the actors, no character names or titles.
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* Several stories by HansChristianAndersen.
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* The two friends from ''TwoBestFriendsPlay''. Since they are in the same room talking to each after already staring up a game, it makes snese that they would have already said their names to each other.
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* The only names mentioned while playing ''ShadowOfTheColossus'' are those of Dormin and Agro (and since the main character is speaking in a made-up language, Agro could very well be that language's word for "horse"), the rest are given only through the credits. The colossi are never named in-game.
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* The only names mentioned clearly while playing ''ShadowOfTheColossus'' are those of Dormin and Agro (and since the main character is speaking in a made-up language, Agro could very well be that language's word for "horse"), "horse"); the main character mumbles Mono's name in a blink-and-you'll-miss-it scene, and the rest are given only through the credits. The colossi Colossi are never named in-game.
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* ''[[http://www.phdcomics.com/ Piled Higher and Deeper]]" includes many named characters but the central semi-autobiographical grad student has no name.
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* The only names mentioned while playing ''ShadowOfTheColossus'' are those of Dormin and Agro (and since the main character is speaking in a made-up language, Agro could very well be that language's word for "horse"), the rest are given only through the credits. The colossi are never named in-game.
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** ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/index.html East of the Sun, West of the Moon]]'': the heroine is "the girl"; the hero is "the White Bear".
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** ''[[http://www.surlalunefairytales.com/eastsunwestmoon/index.html East of the Sun, West of the Moon]]'': the heroine is "the girl"; the hero is "the White Bear".Bear," and later, "the Prince."
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** Technically ''SnowWhite'' is just a description.
** In the original story, the princess is just ''SleepingBeauty.''
** In the original story, the princess is just ''SleepingBeauty.''
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* Appears ''everywhere'' in ''The Heptameron.'' Most stories HandWave it as "I won't name this guy because I used to know him once" or "I forgot her name, but anyway." Titles of characters abound, and proper names are few.
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* In HGWells' ''TheTimeMachine'', the Time Traveller and the people to whom he's relating his story are just identified by their role, such as the Doctor ([[DoctorWho no, not that one]] [''Maybe'' [[DoctorWho not that one]]--he'd be interested,after all!]) and the Writer.
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* Several modern videogames tactically (and sometimes not-so-tactically) avoid using the main character's name if you can choose it, otherwise voice acting would be impossible. For example, FinalFantasyX only ever uses "him" or "you" when referring to Tidus, and in DragonAgeOrigins you're constantly being called "Warden" (or "Elf" or "Mage" or any other race and class specific things). In MassEffect they do say "Shepard", but never your first name.
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* Several modern videogames tactically (and sometimes not-so-tactically) avoid using the main character's name if you can choose it, otherwise voice acting would be impossible. For example, FinalFantasyX ''FinalFantasyX'' only ever uses "him" or "you" when referring to Tidus, and in DragonAgeOrigins you're constantly being called "Warden" (or "Elf" or "Mage" or any other race and class specific things). In MassEffect they do say "Shepard", but never your first name.
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* In {{Ace Attorney Investigations}}, Phoenix is never referred to by name, being only mentioned as "that lawyer" in Edgeworth's monologue. It isn't that noticeable, until Larry calls him "that guy in the blue suit", and Larry is Phoenix's best friend since childhood.
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* In {{Ace ''{{Ace Attorney Investigations}}, Investigations}}'', Phoenix is never referred to by name, being only mentioned as "that lawyer" in Edgeworth's monologue. It isn't that noticeable, until Larry calls him "that guy in the blue suit", and Larry is Phoenix's best friend since childhood.
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* Hardly any of the characters in ''GoneWithTheBlastwave'' are named, and the two protagonists aren't among them. Furthermore, all the characters are GasMaskMooks wearing uniforms, so the emblems on their helmets are litteraly the only way they can be told appart.
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* Hardly any of the characters in ''GoneWithTheBlastwave'' are named, and the two protagonists aren't among them. Furthermore, all the characters are GasMaskMooks wearing uniforms, so the emblems on their helmets are litteraly the only way they can be told appart.
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* Most of the anecdotes on ''NotAlwaysRight'', as the poster won't know the names of those involved, and it wouldn't add anything anyhow, so the names are usually a description - "Husband", "Wife", "Kid", "Mother", "Father", "Stoned Guy" - or just "Me", "Customer", "Cashier", "Manager".
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** Saramago does this frequently, in whole or in part, for example in ''Seeing'', ''Death with Interruptions,'' and (ironically) ''All the Names''.
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* In the {{Twilight Zone}} episode ''Five Characters in Search of an Exit'', none of the characters have names. TheProtagonist is known simply as The Major.
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* Edgar Allan Poe's ''The Tell-tale Heart'', which makes the old man's murderer's identity and relation to him ambiguous.
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* ''{{Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName}}'' has {...}. He can't remember his own name. So he usually goes by Zombie by anyone too lazy to come up with anything creative or the random names Hanna gives him.
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* ''{{Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName}}'' ''[[HannaIsNotABoysName Hanna is Not a Boy's Name]]'' has {...}. He can't remember his own name. So he usually goes by Zombie by anyone too lazy to come up with anything creative or the random names Hanna gives him.
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* ''{{Webcomic/HannaIsNotABoysName}}'' has {...}. He can't remember his own name. So he usually goes by Zombie by anyone too lazy to come up with anything creative or the random names Hanna gives him.
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* Jessica George's "Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow" has the main character known only as 'Pika'(girl) or 'Lass' because her mother refused to name another girl, and only a mother can name the children. she's given a name by her brother(or a talking polar bear) to protect her from trolls, but it isn't until the last page she reveals it.
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* Jessica Day George's "Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow" has the main character known only as 'Pika'(girl) or 'Lass' because her mother refused to name another girl, and only a mother can name the children. she's given a name by her brother(or a talking polar bear) the white reindeer to protect her from trolls, but it isn't until the last page she reveals it.
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* ''There Is a Happy Land'' by Keith Waterhouse
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* ''Phantastes'' by George McDonald [=McDonald=] has very few names revealed
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* Throughout ''{{Zombieland}}'', the only person referred to by name is [[spoiler:Bill Murray]] - everyone else is referred to by destination. The girls's names are revealed at the end (though one is hard to catch), but the men never really have names.
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* Throughout ''{{Zombieland}}'', the only person referred to by name is [[spoiler:Bill Murray]] - everyone else is referred to by their home or destination. The girls's girls' names are revealed at the end (though one is hard to catch), but the men never really have names.
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* In ''YourFriendsAndNeighbors'', none of the characters are referred to by name. In the credits, they're given placeholder rhyming names such as Cheri, Jerry and Barry.
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* E.L. Doctorow's ''{{Ragtime}}'' starts out only mentioning the names of real people who figure into the plot while the fictional protagonists remain nameless, so "Mother" meets Harry Houdini. About a third of the way through, the pattern is subverted when the fictional Coalhouse Walker Jr. shows up.
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* In HGWells' ''TheTimeMachine'', the Time Traveller and the people to whom he's relating his story are just identified by their role, such as the Doctor ([[DoctorWho no, not that one]]) and the Writer.
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* In HGWells' ''TheTimeMachine'', the Time Traveller and the people to whom he's relating his story are just identified by their role, such as the Doctor ([[DoctorWho no, not that one]]) one]] [''Maybe'' [[DoctorWho not that one]]--he'd be interested,after all!]) and the Writer.
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* In ChristopherNolan's ''{{Following}}'', only one character is referred by a name, and that might be just a pseudonym.
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* The 2009 film ''The Road''.
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* Cormac [=McCarthy=]'s novel ''TheRoad'', and its film adaptation.
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* StephenKing's short story ''The Man Who Loved Flowers'' (published in the collection ''NightShift'').
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* StephenKing's short story ''The Man Who Loved Flowers'' (published in the collection ''NightShift'').