Moments where somebody realizes that "I Never Told You My Name" in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- Avenging Class: Mysterious Heroine XX insists on that title and refuses to reveal her real name. She is absolutely shocked when Frigga nonchalantly calls her Artoria Igrainesdottre.
- Breath of the Wild has two instances of this where characters call Link by his name without him having told them. The first time is by the old man, who calls Link by his name, immediately creeping him out. He turns out to be the spirit of King Rhoam. The next time, it's Kass who calls Link by his name. Because his Sheikah poet music teacher had taught him everything about Link and entrusted him with the Champions' photo. Link noticed, but just didn't say anything. Kass calls himself out on it, and hoped that Link didn't notice.
- Shadowchasers: Conspiracy: Douglas faces Lord Voldemort in Duel Monsters.Lord Voldemort: Well then, Mr. Bowmaker, if I must resort to violence, it seems I simply must.
Douglas: Wait, how'd you know my name?
Lord Voldemort: The Dark Lord knows many things. I may actually enjoy this. - In Turnabout Storm, shortly after Twilight Sparkle accidentally summons Phoenix Wright to her world, she addresses Phoenix by his name before he properly introduces himself to her. When he calls her out on it she hastily claims that she had a Namedar spell performed on him when he arrived. Though it could sound plausible enough, her hesitation and some of her future actions still make clear that something's up.
- In Universe Falls, Sapphire knows Dipper and Mabel's names. When Dipper points this out, Mabel suggests that she got them when she heard them arguing with each other about whether or not to free her.
- After the Animorphs escape from the Yeerk Pool in Flufferverse: The Countdown, Tobias overhears Tom yelling that one of the Andalite bandits knew his name, and wonders how careless Jake was.
- Rapture Falls: Atlas does this to himself a couple times, the first when he knows Frank Fontaine's real name and previous alias of 'Gorland' despite never being told, and the second when he realizes that despite referring to Jack by name repeatedly in his narration, Jack was a Heroic Mime during his time in Rapture and never told it to him. Frank Fontaine knew all of the above names legitimately, and Atlas is unconsciously relying on Fontaine's memories.
- Fate/stay night [Unlimited Blade Works] Abridged: Caster is shocked when Archer casually calls her Medea.Caster: Kid's right, you do know things...
- In wasting beats of this heart of mine
, Zagreus reincarnates as a mortal, forgetting his old life in the process. By chance, he runs into Tisiphone the Fury pursuing a murderer, an encounter that goes from terrifying to disturbing when he discovers that the only words she can say are "murder," "murderer," and "Zagreus".
- In Make a Wish, the auror interviewing Harry after he kills an assassin with accidental magic refers to him by his assumed name of "Mr. Black" despite the lack of an introduction. Harry comments on this to another auror on the team. Hilariously, Harry is actually, honestly thinking he introduced himself to the former, but the aurors think he's Obfuscating Stupidity.Harry: His technique was so calm and relaxed that I don't even remember telling him my name.
- In Serpent Tongue, Harry runs away from his abusive relatives and Dumbledore sends the Order out looking for him. A disguised Tonks finds him in a London park and tries to convince him to "walk her home."Harry: I have to be somewhere. Sorry.
Tonks: I understand. Kids these days just don't have the manners they used to. I thought you looked different. Well, Harry, will you give me your arm at least, to get me to the park gates? I promise not to disappear with you!
(Harry stops and stares at her.)
Tonks: Changed our mind, have we?
Harry: I never told you my name.
- Checkmate (Anla'Shok): A Dirty Cop named Pike extorts and bullies District 4 citizens in some of the earlier chapters. He burns down the house of a man who resisted him but then refers to the victim by name in front of his honest superior, Marquise. When Pike refers to the victim, Lucino Little, by his full name, his boss points to several distinctive-looking locals and asks Pike and his men to name them, which they can’t. Marquise then comments about how odd it is Pike knew Little’s full name. Pike tries to claim that Little is a Rabble Rouser who is always in trouble, but a quick search of his past reports proves that this is a lie. This leads to a search that turns up more evidence, and then the summary executions of Pike and most of his squad.
- The Legend of Zelda: Paradise Calling: When Link saves Malon from a bandit attack, she doesn't recognise him or his name from when they were friends seven years ago, and he decides against telling her. When he calls her by name, she points this out, though he manages to cover: "Young, attractive red-headed woman, alone, driving a wagon with a prime specimen of a horse. People talk about you. I've heard good things."
- In Torque (Jak and Daxter), when Onin mentions Jak during their conversation Keira picks up on it right away as neither she nor Daxter said a thing about him. This clues them in that there is something more going on than Praxis's oppressive rule and Jak's brainwashing.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- In Little Deceptions, Blank Slate is the perfect thief, able to change identities at the drop of a hat. He sneaks into the palace using a series of disguises, the narrative changing his name with each new one, eventually disguising himself as "Feather Shift", the guard of the very vault he's planning on robbing. Everything goes according to plan until Princess Celestia shows up and addresses him by his real name outside the vault, a name he's never told anyone in all of Canterlot:“Good evening, Cuckoo Cloud. I’m glad to see we have an extra-vigilant guard on duty here tonight. It’s an important position, protecting the treasures of our nation. Especially these days…” She sighed quietly, looking away, the shining afternoon clouding over. “I’m sure you’ve heard that there have been many unfortunate thefts lately throughout the city. “It’s… very unfortunate. Equestria is a wonderful nation, but despite my best efforts, there are still some ponies that need to turn to crime to survive. We do our best to help them whenever possible. But there’s nothing that disappoints me more than knowing that there are ponies who turn to crime without truly needing to… hurting other ponies without real reason. It’s something I’ve always found hard to understand. And if there was anything I could do to discourage it further, I would. But I want you to remember – no pony is beyond redemption. There’s always another chance, always a better way to use their talents. Do you agree?”
All he could do was nod his head, the actual message too huge to truly take in. She’s… not going to…?
And she gave him another smile, the sunlight breaking through the cover once again as she gazed down at him proudly, warming him down to the tips of his hooves. “I’m glad. Good luck, Cuckoo Cloud.” She stood. “But I don’t think you’ll need it. I don’t think there will be any problems at the vault with somepony like you standing guard, will there?”
Before he could formulate a response, she was gone, leaving only the fading memory of warmth against his armour.
And Feather Sha—
And Blank Sl—
...And Cuckoo Cloud stood before the vault, guarding it fiercely, until he was relieved in the morning, and nopony dared try to open it.- It's implied by the guards he's telling this story to that this isn't the first time something like this has happened or promised a second chance to someone who would turn themselves in. Played for Laughs in the epilogue, when it's revealed that the immortal princess has a tendency to accidentally call living ponies by the names of long-dead relatives, so has devised a spell so that she can always address a pony she's talking to by the correct name. She does remember Cuckoo Cloud... as a random new guard she had had a brief chat with, easily flustered but nice enough to allow her to unload some of what she had been worrying about, so she'll have to follow up to see how he's doing.
- Thanks To Her: Inverted for laughs. Masha assumes Vee already knows her name…because of the name tag on the counter.
- A minor case occurs in a sidestory of Pokémon Reset Bloodlines. Neko Hachi, the future Black Arachnid, is visited in his home a young Sabrina after she overheard a conversation he had with Ito Jenny. Everything seems normal, until he realizes that she called him by his full name, and he never said his surname while talking to Ito. He deduces that she must have read his mind to find out, thus that she is a Bloodliner.
