People only known by their titles in fanfiction.
- Always Visible: This happens to a nameless, silver-haired specialist from the "Makoto Computerization Institute", to whom the author gave an unusually large number of lines. This character himself justifies himself by saying that since he is just a pathetic performer, he is not worthy to be called by name.
- In true fairy tale fashion, everyone in The Blessed Disaster
gets this treatment, giving us a cast that includes the Old Miner, the Pale Girl, the Queen, and so on. - A Certain Unknown Level 0: Accelerator. No one knows his birth name anymore.
- Dead of Night has the Detective, the AU's version of Zombie. Technically he was given a name (Marc Raney) after he woke up having totally forgotten the first thirty years of his life, but hates using it because he's sure it's not his own.
- Dungeon Keeper Ami: The first Horned Reaper has no name given, but presumably he has one, since the only other Horned Reaper seen in the story after 90 chapters, does have a name, Rabixtrel.
- Averted in Empath: The Luckiest Smurf, as in the series, with certain exceptions, every Smurf's real name is based on either a profession or a personality, including its main character Empath.
- The Gryphon King in Equestria Total War is only referred to as such. Apparently it's actually forbidden to use his name.
- In the Facing the Future Series, the Guys In White have a Mad Doctor operative known simply as "Doctor."
- Fairy Without Wings introduces Dark Blade as part of the Edolas arc. The character in question picked the nickname because the person they are inside is long since dead. Even people who know Dark Blade personally, like Erza Knightwalker, refer to the Knight of Seven by this nickname except when the armor comes off, it would seem.
- In the Ghost Trick fanfiction sequel Twisted Fates, Sissel tends to refer to the other characters as their defining traits (Cabanela is "Lean and Lanky," Kamila is the "Little Lady," etc). Given that he knows this time that he's a cat, it makes sense that he'd have a different view of the other characters. The author uses the alternate names given in-game, and also provides new ones for the original characters.
- In God Save the Esteem, Quinn is shocked to discover that a member of her gang whom everyone calls "Slutty Girl" actually has a name (Jackie Wentworth).
- The Hamsterball Show:
- Ranger Fink, who is actually not a ranger at all! Her name actually comes from Hamsterball's high score table (the name "R. Fink" at the top). For some reason, the author thought of "Ranger Fink" when he saw it, and it became the character's name. Her real name is Rachel Fink. Her sister, Peepums, mispronounced her name as "Ranger Fink" once and it stuck.
- Mr. Raptis is usually called "Professor" by the other characters.
- In the Horseshoes and Hand Grenades sidestory Wheel of Fortune, Mei Shirakawa's male 'friends' are simply known as Ros and Guil because she always keeps forgetting their names. This also extends to the forums she visits and when they're killed off, Renenutet doesn't even bother to even reveal what they are.
- Hotspring Souls! has the Hunter, the Chosen Undead, the Bearer of the Curse, the Slayer of Demons... An interesting case regarding the Doll — everyone else calls her "The Doll", except for the Hunter, who calls her by her real name, "Evetta".
- In Inquisitor Carrow Chronicles, the narration always refers to the God-Emperor Of Mankind as "the God-Emperor of Mankind," or just "The God-Emperor." Also, Dumbledore's letters to him address him as "Dear Mr. God-Emperor." Though he apparently goes by Jon Schmidt to his human colleagues.
- Interdimensional Cartoon Discussion and Support Group: The lone figure is merely known as that to the various viewers. The higher dimensional beings confirm its not actually their name, they just make everyone call them that. Their actual name is "Witness".
- Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends:
- The Announcer never gives any other name for himself.
- Prisoner 777 has been imprisoned in Moo-Ping 10 so long that he's practically forgotten his own name. The closest he's got these days is the nickname "Sevens" given to him by the other prisoners.
- The narrative of Kingdom of Isolation refers to Kristoff as "the Burning Man" because he's the only character who radiates body heat (with Elsa being naturally cold due to her ice powers and everyone else being made of snow and ice).
- Make a Wish: Most, if not all of the recurring characters. From Henchgirl to the Mechanic... who are a female henchman and a mechanic respectively. Though in Henchgirl's case it's once revealed that her legal name (if not birth name) is Henchgirl.
- In My Little Mages: The Nightmare's Return, the Grand Master of the Shadow Blades is usually just referred to by his title, or as the more generic Shadow Blade by Nightmare Moon. His real name is Clydesdale Pie.
- In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, the Samurai kid from the fourth episode of the anime is a Recurring Character, but his real name is never revealed. There's also the Hiker from "Bulbasaur's Mysterious Garden" who stars in his own sidestory, although unlike the Samurai, he does reveal his real name: Monty Near Hawkings.
- In the Pirates of the Caribbean fic "The Curse of the White Sword", Elizabeth spends a month on Tortuga working as a barmaid while waiting for the Black Pearl to help her find Will, and spends that time going by the name "Nettle" for her seemingly prickly attitude towards the customers.
- X-Men: Evolution already basically disregarded this trope for the majority of the X-Men, but the Spider-Man crossover Spider-X takes the final step by having Rogue reveal her real name (Anna) to her boyfriend, Peter Parker/Spider-Man, when they first have sex.
- In Taaroko's Buffy the Vampire Slayer series, when Angel becomes human in Season 9 as Buffy helps him draw up the legal paperwork necessary for him to have a real name and identity under his original human name of 'Liam Gallagher'. Despite the restoration of his birth name (to the point that Buffy now calls herself 'Buffy Gallagher' after their wedding), everyone still calls him Angel.
- In The Power of Love Gatekeepers have such an important role in goblin society that any goblin who obtains the position is known only as "Gatekeeper" for the rest of their life, even by family members.
- One of the villains in Twillight Sparkle's awesome adventure is always referred to as Enemy Boss Leader.
- This Bites! turns the Kung-Fu Dugongs into a race of this (except for the TWDS). Their leader is Chief Dugong. His second is Lancer Dugong, who also wields a spear. Their greatest martial arts master and teacher is Sifu Dugong. His only student used to be called Disciple Dugong, until Sifu left and Disciple was acknowledged as the best fighter in the tribe and was renamed Boss Dugong. He also happens to be in charge of the TWDS.
- In Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!, Hisashi's boss is only referred to as "the Professor" for the first six chapters of the story. His full name is later revealed to be Martin Stein, after which he's referred to as Professor Stein.
- In The Inner Lands Draco, who became a Sidhe lord five years ago, refers to the Sidhe queen.Draco: I would not bring this up randomly. Even speaking her name without cause is dangerous.
Harry: You haven't spoken her name.
Draco: She is called the Queen. She has no other name, no other position, no other title. And she always knows when she is mentioned by one of her subjects. - The Diablo III shrine of the Video Game Shrines features a bunch of characters with titles rather than names, including The Legendary Girl of Legend, The One-Winged Demoness, The Dungeon-mistress, and The Knee-cromancer.
- In the Superman fanfic The Day After You Saved the Multiverse, the head of the local crime syndicate is only referred to as "The Boss".
- In You'll Get No Answers from the Blue Sea Star, the youngest of the Eisner children does have a name (Nona, after her mother* ), but Jeralt and her sisters only ever address her as "Kid" or "the kid".
