Only Known By Their Nickname / Fan Works

aka: Fanfic

People who are Only Known by Their Nickname in fan works.

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• In Absolute Power Sucks Absolutely, Maria is the only one who ever refers to Maxime by name. Everyone else knows him as "the Miracle Man", "the Wishmaker", "the Saint of Crime Alley", "Jesus", or "Deus Ex". At one point, he's so peeved by this that he begs Charles, aka Kite Man, to just call him by his name rather than worship him as the Wishmaker after restoring him to life.
• All Guardsmen Party: The Guardsmen are all known only by their nicknames - Sarge, Doc, Heavy, Cutter, Nubby, Twitch, Tink. Eventually Sarge's name is revealed - it's Greg Sargent.
  • There's also one unnamed Interrogator, later an Inquisitor, who's only known as the Rupert, and his batman, who is christened "Alfred" by the party.
  • And then the Inquisitor who's their boss, who's only referred to as Professor Oak. His real name is eventually revealed by the diplomacy adept to be Quercus, which means... Oak.
  • Averted by Aimy, whose name is eventually revealed to be a contraction of her Overly Long Name, Amelia Delorisista Amanita Trigestrata Zeldana Malifee von Humpeding.
• Commander Tess Phohl's real first name "Tesjha" is only rarely used in Bait and Switch. "The Universe Doesn't Cheat" reveals that "Tesjha Phohl" is itself a shortened form of "Siritesjha sh'Phohlhi".
• Hilariously done in A Black Comedy. Until The Reveal near the end of the story, the mysterious wizard constantly interfering with Voldemort's plans is only known by the name Voldemort gives him: That Fucker.
• Boldores and Boomsticks: Nox, as Ruby's Zubat/Crobat is called, is never referred to as Nocturne after the name is given. Not even the narrator calls him that.
• The Candygirl: Firecracker, formerly known as Numbuh 451. While the narration does reveal her name at one point (Ava Baros), at only one point in the story is she actually referred to with her first name.
• C.I.A.: Agents has the Leader. The agents call him "Piero" and his code name is Grandell.
• The Contractually Obligated Chaos series has the original characters of the Fairy Godfather and Lady Delphine. These are almost certainly not their real names - the second story more or less says as much for Delphine - but no one has any idea what their real names might be. Among the canon cast members, it's not widely known that Donny's real first name is actually Dobsonfly.
• Played for Laughs with Flynn in the Frozen fanfic A Date with the Drum Major:
  Flynn: [to Anna] My name's Eugene—
  Rest of the room: [in near-unison] Who's Eugene?
  Flynn: —but everyone here calls me Flynn.
  Rest of the room: [over-dramatically] Ohhhhhhhh.
• A Diplomatic Visit: The Alpha, supreme leader of the Packlands. He is only ever referred to by that title, having cast aside his real name before the Royal Sisters became ruler of Equestria.
• Eleutherophobia has Bountiful Sunshine Park, better known as Bonnie. According to Tom, her parents were "whacky hippie atheists". Tom himself is only called Thomas by strangers trying to be formal.
• The My Little Pony fic Eternal has baby ponies' names (such as "Baby Firefly" and "Baby Gusty") actually being nicknames that they outgrow when they're older.
• From the Gensokyo 20XX series, we have An Yakumo, whose real name is Anohana and the similar occurs for Yume Ni, with her being mostly called "Yu" or "Yu-Ni". Likewise, the same occurs for Maribel and Renko, who are mostly called Merry and Wren.
  • For a while, Reimu's mother wasn't called by her name; she was called "Mikosan" or, as Yukari called her, "the Slattern". We eventually find out, from Word of God, that her name is Reiko.
• Almost everyone in The Gift (BMeph), is known by a nickname, usually based on their regular name: Johanna Josephine "JoJo", Louisa Lively "L.L.", and William "B-4" Bates the Fourth, Guinevere Elizabeth "Lizzi" Bates, William "Bill" Bates the Third, Catherine "Cathy" and Amelia "Amy" Rockford, Lilian "Lily" Huysmann, et al. Only Paul and Dawn Ryan don't, likely because they already have one-syllable names.
• In the oneshot A Great and Powerful Legacy, Twilight finds out that Starswirl has a living descendant her age named Beatrix Lulamoon. Only upon paying Beatrix a visit does Twilight realize that they've already met. Beatrix is the Great and Powerful Trixie.
• Gym Leader Wiki:
  • Red's name is not really "Red". That's just what the media knows him as.
  • Blue's name is "Gary", but he's been called "Blue" since childhood because he really likes the color. Most know him as such, but his birth name is also frequently cited thanks to internet memes.
  • The male Johto protagonist is only known as "Gold" to the press.
• Ranger Fink of The Hamsterball Show. Her real name is Rachel Fink. Only Mr. Raptis calls her by this name.
  • Another nickname of Ranger Fink's is simply "the Fink," which is used interchangeably with "Ranger Fink" by the narrator.
• In Home with the Fairies, Maddie almost never uses her full name, Madeline Greene, after she falls into Middle-earth. There none can guess that Maddie is short for Madeline.
• The Horseshoes and Hand Grenades sidestory Month of Sundays has the Rainbow Serpent. She later reveals her name, Ayida-weddo, but the story and the other characters (minus Mari) still refer to her as Rainbow Serpent.
• In How to Survive in Middle Earth When You're a Teenaged Girl, Priscilla Henders changes her name to Cilla, so others can say it. Priscilla is from Texas, and her name is foreign to Middle-earth.
• In the Robotboy fic Human After All, Lola's full name is "Yolanda Mbola". But everyone just knows her as "Lola".
• In the Stargate Atlantis fanfic I See the Stars, leisians usually have short names; so when Earth-born, half-leisian Adelaide Weir starts to integrate into the society, she has to find some way to shorten her name. She chooses her old nickname "Ada" and is known as Ada Weir to the point it becomes part of her identity.
• The Immortal Game has Sir Unimpressive and his Arch-Enemy the Cadet.
• In Incarnation of Legends, the narrative goes to great lengths to specifically refer to the Servants-turned-adventurers by their aliases rather than their True Names to keep their identities a secret until Kojiro introduces them in-person, upon which Kojiro will refer to them by name rather than by their title. The only exceptions to this are Ryoma and Oryou, whose aliases are only revealed after they meet Bell. Even the Legiones, Romulus-Quirinus, gets in on this, referring to the Asura by his alias and declining to mention his real name to avoid "ruining the surprise" for him and Bell.
• Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail: The ruler of the Curry Car is called either "The Curry Prince" or "Clockwork Prince". Justified in this case because his true name Soma Asman Kadar is only remembered by the elderly as said Prince has ruled for over a hundred years. The only reason that Chloe knows that name is because she's actually aware of the source material for them.
• Daphne Greengrass's little sister Astoria in Itachi, Is That A Baby? is nigh-universally referred to as "Girl-Tobi" after Hari insists on calling her such, even teachers do. Several people don't actually know her name.
• According to Kill la Kill AU, Ryuuko is mostly called "Ryuu" by mostly everyone she knows and "Repeat Offender" by the cops. Likewise, we have Seiji, who's real name is "Shinseiji" and her nickname tends to be used more than Ryuuko's. According to Meaningful Name, not very many people know Sukuyo's real name and she is mostly called by a childhood nickname of "Turtle".
• In Mega Man Reawakened, Roll's full name is Rebecca Light, but everyone calls her Roll.
• Downplayed in My Huntsman Academia. Izuku is only known as "Deku" to much of Beacon's student body because of Cardin's and Katsuki's antics. He just gets waved off when he tries to provide his real name. At the same time, most of his friends refer to him by his real name and only Ruby and Coco call him Deku (in an affectionate way).
• In the Thomas & Friends fanfic The New Engines, Hurricane's real name is Holden (A reference to James Holden, the creator of the GER Class A55 Decapod (Hurricane's Basis)). He's called Hurricane because people thought he was fast as the winds of one.
• Jacob Arrow from A New World, A New Way sidestory Swarm prefers to be referred to by X. Also counts as a One-Letter Name.
• Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse):
  • In the original fic, Hammer is only ever known as Hammer, complete with The Unreveal where he gets his hand on a document with his legal name and mentions that "nobody calls him that". An omake reveals that his name is M.C. Hamilton, and he got his nickname from the resulting "MC Hammer" jokes at school.
  • A Game of Cat and Cat:
    • The agents of Arikado's Agency are only ever referred to by their handles, such as Agent Fireball. The only exceptions to this are Eikichi, Lisa, and Jun.
    • Aoi tries to enforce this by never giving out her real name because last time she did the police started arresting everyone who had the same first name as her. The local underground doctor stuck her with the Embarrassing Nickname "Madame Pain", which is what her gang members call her by.
    • The members of Aoi's gang also only use nicknames with each other and their real names are never stated.
    • Aoi, as revenge for the "Madame Pain" nickname, stuck the Back-Alley Doctor with the nickname "Doctor Dude". An omake implies that he is Heat O'Brien.
• Because Ryuuko didn't know her name, Satsuki, in The Outside, is usually referred to as "Sis". This actually comes up in one chapter, when she, Shiro, and Nui finds letters addressed to Satsuki and she's left confused as to why, before Shiro points out that "Satsuki" is her real name because "Sis" couldn't used on any legal documents.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: The true names of the original Mane Six have long since been forgotten, and they're now known by the nicknames they earned after their deaths: the Stallion of Dedication (yes, even the gender of one has been forgotten - she's later revealed as Applejack, who explains the "stallion" part is because ponies mixed up her and her brother), the Lady (Rarity Belle), the Wise Oracle (Pinkie Pie), the Warrior (Rainbow Dash), the Stern Warden (Fluttershy) and the Magi of Stars (Twilight Sparkle). Another character whose real name has been forgotten is the Blue Sorceress (actually Trixie Lulamoon), an enemy of the Magi of Stars.
• In one chapter of The Racket-Rotter Chronicles, Annette finds medication prescribed to "Dennis Racket Jr." Better known as Shark.
• Raised by Jägers has Ducky, to the point where referring to herself as Evdokia in front of a lie detector will make it go off.
• Rise of the Minisukas: The titular characters are Lilliputian-sized versions of Asuka, and they are named after some particular trait or job: Leader, Professor, Hacker, Prankster, Blue, Blonde, Camo (because she wears camouflage), Hood...
• In the Fate/Zero fic The Sage's Disciple, the main character has Identity Amnesia, so he starts calling himself Crow after being called "Karasu-san" in chapter 1.
• Ash and Gary's full names in Shudo cross Modern Ash: The Professor Who Observes his Charges are Ashton and Gareth, but they prefer to go by their shorter nicknames. Their full names tend to be used only as part of serious or angered eruptions from their loved ones.
• At Skyhold Academy, Coach Bull is only known as Coach Bull. No one is ever heard to call him anything else and the kids all just accept that this is his name. Being a human version of the Iron Bull, he has another name (per Word of God) but it has yet to be revealed in the narrative. It has, however, been revealed on This Very Wiki via the Characters sheet: it's Ivan Ronbul (I. Ronbul).
  • There's also original character Eleanor, who is almost always called by her middle name, Skye.
• In Soul Eater: Troubled Souls, the real name of Kilik Lung is Kirikou, but everyone calls him Kilik instead. The writer probably did this to acknowledge both the original and the dub name of the character.
• In Sword Art Online Abridged, poor Klein got trapped in the titular game as a test character he named BallsDeep69, so Kirito, his enemies, and even the subtitles refer to him by his handle, or as "Balls" or "Ballsy." By the third episode his guildmates think "My name is Klein!" is just how he says hello, and react in confusion when Kirito actually calls him Klein for once.
• Just like his canon counterpart, though he does have a full name, everyone in-universe simply calls Natural Harmonia either "N" or "N-kun" in Tokimeki PokéLive! and TwinBee.
  • The same also applies to the Original Character Elesis Kashiwagi Kousaka, who is usually called either called "Ellie" or "Ellie-chan".
• This is used as a plot point in The Touch of Green Fire. When Ann needs to try and see how conscious Shego is, she asks Drakken what her real name is. The problem is that not even Drakken knows. Everyone, including her own brothers, calls her "Shego." In college Shego went by "Shannon", but that's explicitly not her actual name.
• Annie Stelman from the Criminal Minds fanfic "To live again" is actually named Annelise Stelman but nobody ever calls her that.
• In the My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic fanfic Undead Robot Bug Crusaders, Scootaloo is revealed to be a nickname, because her real name is too embarrassing for her to allow anyone to find out:
  As much as Uno loved seeing his sister squirm, he would not let her suffer the horror of her friends knowing her name.
  Seriously; nopony deserved to be known, in any shape, way, or form, as Schmoopy Coopie Toopa Loopy.
• The Yu-Gi-Oh! fic “Yu-Gi-Oh! 8th millennium item” introduces the Red-Eyes Queen, a duelist known for favouring the use of the Red-Eyes Black Dragon in her duels, to the extent that most of her deck is dedicated to cards focused on supporting the Red-Eyes Black Dragon, including various monsters chosen for their ability to merge with or support the Red-Eyes. She constantly wears a helmet based on the Red-Eyes and there is never any indication that anyone even knows her real name, simply referring to her by her title, even among older friends such as Seto Kaiba.
• In We Are All Pokémon Trainers, about 80% of the cast goes by a nickname of some sort, either due to personal preference or to protect their identities.
• With Pearl and Ruby Glowing is set in a rape survivors' support group in which everyone uses a nickname. This serves the in-universe purposes of helping to prevent abusers or stalkers from tracking group members down, preventing other group members accidentally revealing secrets people don't want getting out, and helping boost confidence by picking an appropriately cool Meaningful Rename. On this side of the fourth wall, it's a Massive Multiplayer Crossover massive enough to shatter the One-Steve Limit, so it helps keep track of who's who.
• Several examples found in X-Men: The Early Years:
  • As visiting Paris in "Hit Women, Goats, and Other Vacation Blunders", Jean catches a purse-snatcher. Hank calls him "Eiffel", and that's what he's called throughout the story.
  • In "Twinkies, Holdups, and Other Things That Aren't Good For You", a Satanist is given no name. He's just "the guy in the 'Satan Rules!' T-shirt".
• Young Justice: Darkness Falls: While Raven's name Rachel Roth is known by several people, she's insistent that she's only called Raven.

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