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* ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster''. Marion and Cassie are captured by a BountyHunter in the form of a talking horse [[AFistfulOfDollars wearing a distinctive poncho]] who sounds like ClintEastwood.

* In ''KillBill'' volume #1, they go through great lengths to hide the name of the Bride (even to the point of bleeping it out). Then in volume #2 it's [[spoiler: blurted out to be "Beatrix Kiddo"]].

* The ''{{Half-Life}}'' series has "The G-Man", who is only named according to [[WordOfGod Word of God]]; within the games themselves he is unnamed. And even "The G-Man" is just a vague nickname; a colloquialism meaning "Government Man".

* "The Place Which Is No More" from DavidEddings' ''[[{{Belgariad}} Malloreon]]''.

* A parody in ''VideoGame/Ratchet&Clank:GoingCommando'': When Ratchet first enters the arena, he is known only as "This!...Guy...". In the second Arena, Ratchet is named, Clank then takes up the "This Guy" mantle.

* In the {{Warhammer 40000}} mythos, the Eldar do not refer to the Chaos God Slaanesh by name, instead using the referents "She Who Thirsts" or the "Prince of Pleasure", due to their race's [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosmicHorrorStory connection to the demon-deity]] in question.

* In TabletopGame/UnknownArmies, members of the Invisible Clergy are meant to abstract representations of ideas about what human beings can be. Consequently, each member is known by the title of what it is representing; for example, known members include TheFool, TheTrickster, and [[TheHecateSisters TheMother]]. The Clergy used to be real mortal people with real names, but it is implied that ascension causes them to shed their old identity to become a true AnthropomorphicPersonification, and at least one recent ascension actually erased the new member's name from every written record, replacing lost text with her new title: "[[SleepsWithEveryoneButYou The Naked Goddess]]".
* In the {{Warhammer40000}} mythos, the Eldar do not refer to the Chaos God Slaanesh by name, instead using the referents "She Who Thirsts" or the "Prince of Pleasure", due to their race's [[http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CosmicHorrorStory connection to the demon-deity]] in question.

* ''BobTheAngryFlower'' lampshaded this with the [[http://www.angryflower.com/namele.html Nameless Ones]].

* ''BobTheAngryFlower'' lampshades this with the [[http://www.angryflower.com/namele.html Nameless Ones]].

* There is a book named The Name of This Book is a Secret.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. PlayedForLaughs when Angel is PerpSweating the High Priest to find out Jasmine's true name.

* ''Series/{{Angel}}''. Angel is PerpSweating the High Priest to find out Jasmine's true name.

* ''WesternAnimation/BountyHamster''. Marion and Cassie are captured by a BountyHunter in the form of a talking horse wearing a distinctive poncho and talking like ClintEastwood.

* ''TheDresdenFiles'' features a seriously nasty demonic entity known only as "He Who Walks Behind" and later "He Who Walks Before." Justified [[spoiler:because these entities are from outside the universe. Speaking their name empowers them. Speaking it with fear is even more potent.]]

* ''FanFic/KyonBigDamnHero'' plays this trope with "Haruhi's favorite website", as the fic usually refers to it with a that phrase or a variation of that. But, as the fic tells it's that website is a wiki and it inspired the {{Trope-tan}} anime, it also doesn't try to hide [[TvTropes which website it is]].

* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'' has the Outsiders; beings hailing from beyond the known cosmos, even beyond the supernatural realms of Faerie, Heaven, and Hell. Three of the most prominent Outsiders in the series have names such as "He Who Walks Behind", "He Who Walks Beside", and "He Who Walks Before". Any other name given to them (such as the pejorative "Sharkface" used by the hero to refer to He Who Walks Before) are explicitly not their true names.

* ''HarryPotter'''s "He Who Must Not Be Named" (AKA "You-Know-Who"), who is not a NoNameGiven. Indeed, it's a plot point that Harry himself refuses to use the common euphemisms, and simply refers to him as Voldemort.

** This is subverted in the final book, where Voldemort turns the superstition to his advantage: since the people who are brave enough to speak his name are precisely the ones he is after, Voldemort casts a spell which allows him to locate anyone who speaks his proper name, even through strong protections meant to prevent just that.

* The monsters who hold ''TheVillage'' in fear are called "those we do not speak of".
* In ''{{Armageddon}}'', character several times refer to "The Russian space station" instead of just calling it by its proper name "MIR" -- though it's technically MIR with bits stuck on to make it more impressive.

* Lawrence Dimmick. [[TheMole Freddy Newandyke]]. [[AxCrazy Vic Vega]]. [[ReservoirDogs And three other guys]].

* ESPN's BillSimmons refers to the Oklahoma City Thunder as "The Team That Shall Not Be Named" in solidarity with the people of Seattle, who had the Supersonics stolen out from under them by the OKC ownership group. Simmons is also known to call them the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot Zombie Sonics]] or simply the Zombies.

* More seriously, there's "the former Yugoslav Republic of Macedonia": [[RuleOfCautiousEditingJudgment we'll leave the reasons why it's called that]] on [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Macedonia_naming_dispute the Other Wiki]].

* ''TheStand'' and ''TheDarkTower'' have Randall Flagg, who is often known as The Black Man, The Dark Man, The Walkin' Dude or The Man Without A Face.

** His name is actually His Imperial Majesty.