History Main / YouKnowTheOne

* Spoofed in ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'', which featured at one point She Who Must Be Obeyed stealing That Which Man Was Not Meant To Know and taking it to The Lands Which Know No Name. [[DeadpanSnarker Nodwick]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the distinct lack of proper nouns.

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* Used in ''Anime/{{Pokemon}}'' sometimes when Ash gets some of his old Pokémon from Oak's lab. "Professor, can you send me that Pokémon?"

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* The second half of ''MermaidMelodyPichiPichiPitch'' had "that one". [[spoiler:"Him" would have worked, but throughout the actual run of the series, most people were convinced it was another character, one that was ''female''.]] The English version of the manga replaces it with "the Great One" so as to sound less stilted and still confer a scary aura of deference.

* ''WebAnimation/GirlchanInParadise'''s deliberate stressing of "''thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaat'' X" has caused some fans to use it to parody instances of this trope in other series, such as the repeated instance of "''thaaaaaaaaaat'' jutsu" in {{Naruto}}.

Subtrope of CrypticConversation. Whenever VaguenessIsComing, '''it''' -er- this trope is usually invoked[[SecretOrganizationCravingIntelligentEnigmaticTropersYonder .]]

-->--'''Creator/DorothyLSayers''', ''The Five Red Herrings''

* In ''TheVillage'' the monsters are referred to as "Those we do not speak of".

* Him, an {{Expy}} of Satan from the PowerpuffGirls is called "Him" because his name strikes fear when it is mentioned.

* In the first novel of the ''[[LightNovel/KinosJourney Kino's Travels]]'' series, the main character is revealed as a girl in the fifth chapter. Up until that point, a studious avoidance of gender pronouns leaves her sex up to the reader's assumptions (though at this point, new readers probably know this in advance).
* The phrase "''That'' guy" (or "''That'' jutsu" or other possible variations) comes up a lot in ''{{Naruto}}'', especially during the Chunin Exams and Invasion arcs. Characters tend to use this phrase even in ''internal'' monologues.

* The BigBad of CodeBreaker was always called "The One Being Sought", "That One", "That Man" or "Him." Even after he showed up as an actual character and the protagonists fought with him and it was revealed that Rei had a history with him, they ''still'' didn't give him a name beyond those aforementioned examples.

* In ''{{Lost}}'' the other inhabitants of the island are officially known as "The Others", and refer to a mysterious "Him"

** What was missing was fairly obvious if the reader has any knowledge at all of oil panting.

* Used in most episodes of HimeChenOtogiChikkuIdolLilpri when the girls transform using "that" card none of them question what "that" could be referring to and all agree to it being a great idea then going off to transform using the card of the day.
* Used in Anime/{{Pokemon}} sometimes when Ash gets some of his old Pokémon from Oak's lab. "Professor, can you send me that Pokémon?"

* An early episode of {{JAG}} took place in Cuba (a US Navy [[CoolPlane Tomcat]] fighter jet was damaged in a storm and had to make an emergency landing there). A few times, they run into a number of locals who don't like Fidel Castro, but never refer to him by name (perhaps due to fear of being overheard). Instead, when they refer to him, they scratch their chins, as if they had beards.

->''(Here LordPeterWimsey told the Sergeant what he was to look for and why, but as the [[ViewersAreGeniuses intelligent reader]] will [[SarcasmMode readily supply]] these details for himself, they are omitted from this page.)''

** Also parodied in ''SluggyFreelance''. When Torg enters the ''Harry Potter'' parody setting, people keep referring to "You-Probably-Don't-Know-Who". No-one will say who this actually is, but apparently the answer lies in "The-Story-We-Can't-Tell". (Later this is revealed to be because the Voldemort parody in question accidentally wiped himself from history and people's memories, but the parody works better with the original unexplained absurdity.)

* Spoofed in ''{{Nodwick}}'', which featured at one point She Who Must Be Obeyed stealing That Which Man Was Not Meant To Know and taking it to The Lands Which Know No Name. [[DeadpanSnarker Nodwick]] [[LampshadeHanging lampshaded]] the distinct lack of proper nouns.

-->--'''DorothyLSayers''', ''The Five Red Herrings''

* In ''[[LordPeterWimsey The Five Red Herrings]]'', DorothyLSayers uses this trope purely for audience-taunting purposes. Lord Peter decides the artist Campbell couldn't have died accidentally, but must have been murdered, because a certain object is missing. According to Sayers, sufficiently intelligent readers will already know what the object is, so there's no point in ''telling'' you. We finally find out about two pages before the murderer is revealed.

** Parodied in one ''[[Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick Order of the Stick]]'' strip. "That must be the eleventh He Who Must Not Be Named!"
*** "Not to mention the four who [[HeWhoMustNotBeSeen Must Not Be Looked At]], the two who Must Not Be Spoken To, and the one who Must Not Be Toilet-Trained."
**** Thog got to use a mop!

** Parodied even harder in ''SluggyFreelance''. When Torg enters the ''Harry Potter'' parody setting, people keep referring to "You-Probably-Don't-Know-Who". No-one will say who this actually is, but apparently the answer lies in "The-Story-We-Can't-Tell". (Later this is revealed to be because the Voldemort parody in question accidentally wiped himself from history and people's memories, but the parody works better with the original unexplained absurdity.)

See also UnspokenPlan, PronounTrouble, and TheScottishTrope. Contrast AsYouKnow, when the conversation is ''more'' expository than it would be in real life.

* ''VisualNovel/AceAttorney'' has at least once used 'that piece of evidence' to allow you to hear Phoenix's thoughts about presenting evidence without actually telling you what evidence you should use.

* In ''DetectiveConan'', we are privy to the child detective's thoughts, following his deductions to the last, where we are treated to a "Aha, so the culprit is ''that person''." Who "that person" is isn't revealed until after Conan sets up the proof and makes his accusation.

** This gets a bit silly when Ran refers to her mother as "that person" in her head just because the author doesn't want the reader to know who she is meeting yet.
*** Though this does sound much more natural in Japanese, where 'ano hito' is at ''least'' as common a way of expressing the equivalent ideas to 'him' and 'her' as the actual third-person pronouns of the language.

* In "TheDayOfTheJackal", the three OAS members who hire the Jackal have his dossier but refer to him only as "The Englishman" even before his codename is agreed, but have good enough name and address information to send a representative to his flat at short notice. A look at the name (even if fake) and address in the dossier, would have removed a major subplot from the reader, of the English police trying to work out his identity.

** This is often accompanied by a "that explains why that person made "that strange statement" just now" This usually causes me to go back and reread everything to try and figure out who said something unusual.

* In the "Weird Al" Yankovic's song "Albuquerque", he talks of growing up in "the house half a block down the street from Jerry's Bait Shop... you know the place."

** At the beginning of ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'', a Toad tells the Mario Bros. that Princess Peach has been kidnapped. Luigi comes up with the first theory. "Bro, this must be the work of that guy! That bad guy!" True, [[NotMeThisTime Bowser]] has trouble [[MyNameIsNotDurwood remembering Luigi's name]], but the other way around?

->''"My lord, that's such a vague request. By 'the Dragon,' do you mean an ''actual'' dragon, or my brother's [[GiantRobot guymelef]], or some...third...thing?"''
->''"The Dragon casts its shadow over my ideal future!"''
->''"Yes, once again, if my lord could perhaps be a bit more specific..."''
-->--'''Folken and Emperor Dornkirk''', ''VisionOfEscaflowneAbridged''

* ''AceAttorney'' has at least once used 'that piece of evidence' to allow you to hear Phoenix's thoughts about presenting evidence without actually telling you what evidence you should use.
** ''AceAttorney Investigations'' does this with Phoenix himself. Whenever anyone refers to him, they do so in the vaguest way possible.

* At one point in the first ''MegaManBattleNetwork'' game, the hint button will give you this spectacularly useless response from [=MegaMan=]: "A former WWW agent... it must be that guy!"
* The BigBad of the VideoGame/GuiltyGear series is always referred to as "That Man."

* In ''VideoGame/BlazBlue'', whenever the enigmatic Phantom [[spoiler: who's heavily implied to be Nine of the Six Heroes, brainwashed]] appears, the characters will go "You!?" and afterwards might say something like "Was that...?" or "Could it be...?". Nobody ever finishes their sentences.