Avatar: The Last Airbender / The Legend of Korra
- Leave Your Spirit: In order to keep the story canon-compliant, names are omitted for a few characters. At the time of release, it wasn't mentioned who Zuko married, who Sokka ended up with (if anyone), or what Zuko's daughter's name was, so they're all nameless.
- Calvin and Hobbes' case of this is lampshaded in Calvin and Hobbes: The Movie:Search & Rescue team member: We have been searching the area, Mr. and Mrs... um... I forgot your names.
Crossover
- Mario in Animatronic Horror: The missing children voicing the original five are named. The soul possessing the Marionette, however, is unknown.
- The Bolt Chronicles:
- The puppies in "The Seven" do not get names until they are adopted, and we only learn the names of two of them in the story, Bolt and the collie puppy Prince.
- The name of Penny's science lab partner in "The Blood Brother," "The Cameo," "The Cakes," "The Ship," and "The Teacher" is not revealed.
- The five dogs who rescue Bolt after the dogfight scene in "The Wind" remain nameless.
- Mittens's mother's name in "The Survivor" does not appear in the story.
- Disney High School: Eventually Subverted — "the Beast" is not named until the 49th strip, because he has no name in canon (see below). The creator eventually gave in to Fanon and called him "Adam," though.
- Vow of Nudity: The author commonly does this with figures of authority, probably due to the series' heavy thematic focus on power dynamics. The Star King, the Storm Lord, and the Zeppelin Captain are all left nameless despite being major characters in their stories, their only identity coming from their station.
Godzilla / King Kong / MonsterVerse
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): Two notable Mook Lieutenants have their names (consisting of six characters and four characters respectively) censored out, and they lack a nickname. Downplayed with several members of the Beta-3 and Theta-1 teams and Alan Jonah's cleanup crew, who of course are known by their designations. The author
did this partly to slightly alienate the reader from them, and give a sense of San's perspective of them.
- Eden, by Obsessmuch: We are never given the name of the illegitimate son of Lucius Malfoy and Hermione Granger in the epilogue.
- In Gankona, Unnachgiebig, Unità, the rude chef, the homophobe, and the bully were never actually given names. Not that Germany and Japan would have cared to learn them.
The Hunger GamesThe District 10 3rd Quarter Quell victor-tributes (a woman who can't feel pain and has been Playing Both Sides in a somewhat sympathetic way and a man who lives a feral existence and avoids other people out of fear he will kill them) are among the only unnamed victors in the story.
- The rest of Button Mash's family in Button's Adventures, especially his mother who is actually a character as opposed to just being mentioned. It wasn't before GalaCon 2018, a good four years after the premiere, that her name was revealed to be Cream Heart. For many Bronies, however, she'll always be Button's Mom.
- The Immortal Game has both Sir Unimpressive and his Arch-Enemy the Cadet.
- Pony POV Series:
- The only member of Celestia and Luna's family who isn't named is their Father. Word of God is that His name can't be pronounced by mortals. (Though Havoc calls him "Buddy" if that's worth anything.)
- The first Big Bad, Loneliness, never refers to herself as such. Rather, Twilight calls her that, and she doesn't bother contradicting it.
- Patch's first antagonist in the 7 Dreams/Nightmares collection is never named during her story, referred to in the credits as the Pegasus Despot. It's only during his cameo in Starlight's story at her afterlife trial that his name (Film Critique) is given.
- Ultra Fast Pony:
- In "The Best Episode Ever", Applejack realizes that her character in the play doesn't have a name, and she breaks character to ask if it's important.
- In "Derp and Destruction", Derpy Hooves mentions a few times that she doesn't know if Derpy Hooves is actually her own name or not. (This is almost certainly a reference to how, in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic, Derpy's name was mentioned in one episode, then edited out of all subsequent broadcasts. And she commonly makes appearances in various EU material and merchandise, which all go to strange lengths to avoid officially naming her.)
- Always Visible: The characters Galbraith, Schaeymoure, Pharqraut and Baselard are never named, only referred to by their last names. The same goes for Delia's father, no one addresses him differently than mister Yonce.
- PMD: Another Perspective: The Rocket grunt refuses to reveal her name to anyone. When asked, she instead gives out her designation of G-509. Blazy the Cyndaquil gets around this by referring to her as "Purry".
- the protagonists' names in Scoop, Dire Straits, and Marque and Reprisal are not revealed in-text.
- A Small Crime:
- Kit and Siv's last name are never mentioned.
- And earlier, Siv is only named as the Stranger.
- In Our New Sister Chickpea was named by Glargg after she had amnesia, her real name never being revealed.
Dormant/Dead/Unsorted
- Beltorey's commander in The Tainted Grimoire is never given a name. He is always referred to as Commander or the Commander.
- What About Witch Queen? has Meyer's captain, who's always called "the captain" or "scout captain". It doesn't help that we only see him when it's Meyer's POV.
- The squadron medical officer in Wings to Fly is introduced to the reader as "Larishminova", with the acknowledgement that this is the best a different character can do to pronounce their name and it's not a correct pronunciation or what's on their nametag. They're never referred to in-story by name, and never referred to in narration by anything but the mispronunciation.
- In general, whenever the fanmade "Hakurei Miko" character (if that is supposed to her) is used or someone is cast as Reimu's mother, she's in general not referred to as having a name for various reasons, be it Nominal Importance or whichever, as in the case of Osana Reimu, although this is justified in the aforementioned that she is a forgotten Miko, in which case she was usually called "Mom" or "Clumsy Miko-san"
- Likewise, for awhile in the Gensokyo 20XX, Reimu's birthmother was never reffered to as having a name, aside from "Mikosan", "Reimu's Mother" , or, by Yukari, "the slattern". Of course, this was probably because no other Youkai, besides Yukari, knew or remembered her name. It wasn't until a certain story in the series, was she given a name, revealing it to be "Reiko". In that vein, Ren, before he was named, wasn't typically called anything besides "Ran's fiance" or "Winston", until about chapter 17 of 20XXIV. We also have his ex-sister in law who is called "Baka's Bitch Wife", "Bitch Wife", or "Paintbrush Bitch" and Word of God did state her reasons for not giving her a name, as "we wouldn't like her anyway"
- Maim de Maim has this and the Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" in the form of "The Chancellor" (or, simply. "Chancellor") who is only referred to by the aforementioned. When we first see her in a flashback, she introduces herself as such.
- Dating a Team Magma Grunt has a main female protagonist who is simply known as the Magma Grunt. The author actually goes out of his way to hide her identity (including her age) when there are scenes it would be revealed.
- The Dragon and the Songstress: The rainbow colored dragon that assists Kamui and the sorcerer that cursed Aqua are not given names. Azura only gives them descriptors to identify them.
- Coveralls, an AI-created fanfic of The X-Files, everyone who isn't Scully, Mulder, or Jimmy is unnamed.
