History Main / PartsUnknown

* Wrestling/TheBigShow billed as Standing at 7 feet tall.
* Wrestling/BraunStrowman billed from parts unknown after split from Wrestling/TheWyattFamily.

** In yet another example, and one that was actually retconned, [[BellyDancer Pullum Purna]] of the ''VideoGame/StreetFighterEX'' series ''used'' to be officially listed as being from Saudi Arabia. However, when her bio was revamped via the official Capcom site, she was simply listed as "Middle Eastern".

* Wrestling/TheBigShow billed as Standing at 7 feet tall.
* Wrestling/BraunStrowman billed from parts unknown after split from Wrestling/TheWyattFamily.

* AWF jobber The Bounty Hunter comes from "Tombstone", and their announcers aren't sure if that's the town in Arizona or just some grave somewhere.

* Basically, all the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'''s characters with non-Japanese names other than the Scarlet sisters (Europe), Hong Meiling (China), Seiga Kaku (China as well), Parsee Mizuhashi (implied to be Iranian) and Hecatia Lapislazuli (implied to be Greek, since she's based on the goddess Hecate) are this.

* In the same vein as ''Street Fighter'', this is mostly averted in the similarly stereotype-drenched ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' series. Most hail from real countries, although King Hippo and Mr. Dream hail from fictional places. The only ones who fit this are Rick & Nick Bruiser and [[spoiler:Franchise/DonkeyKong]], whose home country is listed as "? ? ?".

*** Surprisingly Averted with JP (real name Johann Petrovich), the main antagonist of ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'', who's properly described to be a Russian descent. Some of his special moves names are even themed after decidedly Russian/Slavic mythology beings and terms, such as "Triglav" and "Chernobog".

* The ''VideoGame/{{Darkstalkers}}'' series has a handful of examples, although most characters avoid this as they are (for the most part) [[ShoutOut shout outs]] to legendary creatures from around the globe. Examples that play this straight include Donovan, who has a Buddhist priest vibe but whose birthplace is simply listed as "unknown" and B.B. Hood, whose bio at least narrows her birthplace down to somewhere in "Northern Europe".

* [[Wrestling/KrisStatlander "The Galaxy's Greatest Alien" Kris Statlander]] is from "The Andromeda Galaxy."

*** Surprisingly Averted with JP (real name Johann Petrovich), the main antagonist of ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'', who's properly described to be a Russian descent. Some of his special moves names are even derived from decidedly Russian/Slavic mythology beings, such as "Triglav" and "Chernobog".

*** Surprisingly Averted with JP, the main antagonist of ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'', who's properly described to be a Russian descent. Some of his special moves names are even derived from decidedly Russian/Slavic mythology beings such as "Triglav" and "Chernobog".

*** Surprisingly averted with JP, the main antagonist of ''VideoGame/StreetFighter6'', who's properly described to be a Russian descent. Some of his special moves names are even derived from decidedly Russian/Slavic mythology beings such as "Triglav" and "Chernobog".

This is also often used in video games, specifically {{Fighting Game}}s. This is probably due to the fact that nationality can often lead to preconceived notions about how a character should [[NationalStereotypes look and behave]]. Parts Unknown avoids this situation, especially with regards to certain characters who are ''[[NonspecificallyForeign not]]'' designed with any specific [[NationalStereotypes cultural/nationality]] tropes in mind, meaning that it is regularly applied to overtly mysterious, more fantastical characters. It's also regularly applied to {{Final Boss}}es.

As an aside, when used ''too'' liberally amongst a series' characters, this becomes [[WillingSuspensionOfDisbelief unrealistic]]. After all, most people, especially in modern settings, ''do'' have a nationality and are aware of where they were born. Though "Parts Unknown" doesn't necessarily mean the character themself is unaware of where they're from; it could just be that they're not telling anybody else. See also NonSpecificallyForeign and UndisclosedNative.

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* Techno Destructo is from beyond Venus, beyond Jupiter, and that's way past Uranus.
* Fighting out of the enchanted forest, taller than a stack of pancakes, leaner than a pint of ice cream, she is the squirrel girl, Wrestling/SoloDarling!

* Actually subverted by former CHIKARA wrestler [=The ShareCropper=]. While he would be announced from "The Topsoil of Mother Earth", everyone would talk about him being from North Platte, Nebraska.

* Australian wrestler [=JXT=] is billed from a real place (Melbourne, Australia), but his "weight" is announced as "over 4300 Instagram followers."

* A wrestler named Chicken Neck (he worked the northeast indy circuit in the mid 90s) hailed from Perdue Farms, Maryland (a real place) but weighed in at "$2.59 a pound"

* In the same vein as ''Street Fighter'', this is mostly averted in the similarly stereotype-drenched ''VideoGame/PunchOut'' series. Most hail from real countries, although King Hippo and Mr. Dream hail from fictional places. The only ones who fit this are Rick & Nick Bruiser, whose home country is listed as "? ? ?"

--->'''Referee:''' "And in this corner, from and made of parts unknown, the Clearcutter!"

'''Jim Ross:''' [[LampshadeHanging I think it's out there past Parts Unknown]].

* Lady Frost is from the ice gardens of Babbington Estates (aka Washington DC) and weighs in at ten thousand snowflakes (we'll get back to you).

* Former [=WWE=] wrestler The Wrestling/{{Boogeyman}} is announced as from "The Bottomless Pit".

* WCW jobber Death Row is from "The State Penitentiary".

* CHIKARA's Blanche Babish, an {{Expy}} of Cherry's, is from "The Wrong Side of the Tracks."
* [[Wrestling/ScottHall The Diamond Studd]] was from "The Diamond Mine."

* One of the most infamous examples of WrestlingDoesntPay, Duke "The Dumpster" Droese, was billed as hailing from "Mt. Trashmore, Florida."[[note]]This actually ''is'' a real place, and it's not even the only "Mount Trashmore", but it's just a huge landfill. Nobody lives there.[[/note]]

* Wrestling/{{Glacier}} was billed in WCW from "Shorinji Temple, Fukuoka, Japan".[[note]]Fukuoka, Japan is a real place, but there is no Shorinji Temple there.[[/note]]