History Main / OneLetterName

* N from ''VideoGame/PokemonBlackAndWhite''. (The Japanese games actually use the English letter as his name, a rarity in a JRPG. It's short for [[spoiler:Natural, as in natural number]], so it makes sense. [[spoiler: It's [[WildMassGuessing been theorized]] that his supposed father Ghetsis has gone through thirteen other children, letters A-M, in his attempts to create the peculiar kind of idealistic TykeBomb he needed to take over Unova.]]

* X, leader of the alien invaders in ''Film/GodzillaFinalWars''.

* ''{{Mazinger}}'' universe: {{Fanon}} often refers to HumongousMecha ''Anime/MazingerZ'' as simply "Z" for the sake of time. ''Anime/GreatMazinger'''s name is reduced to simply "Great". Oddly, CombiningMecha ''Manga/GetterRobo'' G is usually called "Getter G" instead of just "G".

* A valid Korean name is A O. A double dose of OneLetterName!

* {{Fanon}} often refers to MazingerZ as simply "Z" for the sake of time. GreatMazinger's name is reduced to simply "Great". Oddly, GetterRobo G is usually called "Getter G" instead of just "G".

* Mr. K from ''Series/GoOn''. It may or may not be short for something, but given [[CloudCuckoolander his odd mental state]], it's probably not worth asking.

* John Hackworth's nemesis Dr. X in ''Literature/TheDiamondAge''. (A slight subervsion in that his actual name is quite long, but it is very hard to pronounce, so everyone just calls him Dr. X. Interestingly, his ''Chinese'' name is written with only one character as well.)

* A fair number of older novels (from, say, the 19th and early 20th centuries) use this as a form of "discretion shot". For example, a lot of Sherlock Holmes stories refer to "Mr. B----" as a way to imply that this is a real person and the story really happened in the real world, but that due to the potentially embarrassing nature of the events Watson is too much of a gentleman to reveal Mr. B's true identity.

* Played for laughs in ''[[Series/HermansHead Herman's Head]]''. Jay goes to a Sex Addicts meeting and to maintain his confidentiality declares he will introduce himself by the first letter of his name.

-->-- '''Sebastian Stark''', ''Shark''

* One episode of ''{{Shark}}'' involved a fashion designer named Z Pruitt. He was much ridiculed.

* ? of the band ? and the Mysterions, although ?'s name[[hottip:* :It's widely believed that his birth name was Rudy Martinez, but his legal name was "?."]] is normally rendered as "Question Mark" in interviews.
* HarryTruman's name is in full "Harry S. Truman". Besides having the name "Harry"--usually a nickname for Henry or Harold--as his actual first name,[[hottip:*:He was named after his maternal uncle Harrison "Harry" Young, but that doesn't change the fact that his name was Harry, not Harrison]] the "S" famously doesn't stand for anything. His middle name was really just "S.". This was apparently an old Scots-Irish tradition, revived by Truman's family because they couldn't decide if they wanted his middle name was to be "Solomon" (after his maternal grandfather Solomon Young) or "Shipp" (after his paternal grandfather Anderson Shipp Truman). However, the UrbanLegend that his name was "S" without a period is false--he almost always spelled his middle name with a period, despite it not standing for anything--the legend comes from a joke that the famously folksy Truman once told the press.

* H Ty Warner, the founder of Ty Inc. (creators of BeanieBabies and various other plush toys). He added the "H" as an affectation.

* Z is the name of the villain in an upcoming ''OnePiece'' movie--nothing is known about him except that he's incredibly strong and is a pirate.

* ''TheZetaProject'' has Infiltration Unit Zeta. His companion Ro calls him Zee, and sometimes he uses "Zee Smith" as an alias while pretending to be human.

* ''ToKillAMockingbird'' has a bit character called X Billups. Most people didn't believe that was his full name until he was asked to spell it during a court case.

* V from ''VForVendetta''.

* ''VForVendetta'': "Voilà! In view, a humble vaudevillian veteran, cast vicariously as both victim and villain by the vicissitudes of fate. This visage, no mere veneer of vanity, is a vestige of the vox populi, now vacant, vanished. However, this valorous visitation of a bygone vexation stands vivified, and has vowed to vanquish these venal and virulent vermin vanguarding vice and vouchsafing the violently vicious and voracious violation of volition! The only verdict is vengeance; a vendetta held as a votive, not in vain, for the value and veracity of such shall one day vindicate the vigilant and the virtuous. Verily, this vichyssoise of verbiage veers most verbose, so let me simply add that it's my very good honour to meet you and you may call me V."