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Basic Trope: Person (more often than not a wrestler) with unknown birthplace.

  • Straight: "Name: Bob. Age: 30. Birthplace: Unknown."
  • Exaggerated: "Name: Unknown. Age: Unknown. Birthplace: Unknown."
  • Downplayed: "Name: Bob. Age: 30. Birthplace: U.S.A., unknown town."
  • Justified:
    • Bob is anonymous.
    • Bob is a Humanoid Abomination that defies the concept of an "origin".
    • Bob hails from a family of drifters, whose cultural roots are so murky that not even his ancestors have a clear idea of what they are.
    • "Name: Robert Doe. Age: 30-35. Nationality: Assumed to be Mexican. Diagnosis: Amnesia"
  • Subverted: Bob answered in an interview about his birthplace, saying that he was from Mexico.
  • Double Subverted:
    • ...but the answer was just a joke on April Fool's Day.
    • … but that was on an international flight that just happened to be going over the nation.
  • Parodied:
    • As it turns out "???" is somehow a real place going by that name where Bob was indeed born. Bonus points if it's an Eldritch Location.
    • Bob comes from Unknownstan.
    • Bo is introduced as being from "parts unknown... parts in-nowan?" He's actually from the town Partson Noane.
  • Inverted: Everything is known about Bob.
  • Zig Zagged:
    • Bob changes information about himself after each fight.
    • Alternatively, nothing is known about Bob except for his birthplace.
  • Discussed: "So, you're from the Parts Unknown too?"
  • Conversed: "Another guy from the Parts Unknown? What's with these guys, not wanting to say where they're from?"
  • Enforced: Bob is the Big Bad of a multinational cast, and the creators want to avoid any (invoked) Unfortunate Implications that would come from him being from a specific country.
  • Averted: The birthplace of Bob is known. He's Mexican.

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