Only Known By Their Nickname / Web Original

• Everyone in The Binder of Shame is known by a Meaningful Nickname, to protect their real-life identities.
• Camp Camp:
  • Ered is only called by her full name, Meredith, by her parents in "Parents' Day", and even then she tells them to call her Ered.
  • "Space Kid" is even bigger example of this trope, for much of the series, Space Kid was the only thing any of the characters called him and when asked, he claimed he was named after his grandfather Neil Armstrong which of course no one believes, at least till "Parents Day", where his Honorary Uncle Buzz Aldrin reveals that he is in fact, named Neil Armstrong Jr.
• Vex and Vax in Critical Role don't usually get called by their full names (Vex'ahlia and Vax'ildan) unless they're being officially addressed, and Percival Frederickstein von Musel Klossowski de Rolo III just goes by Percy. Gilmore is also this, by way of Last-Name Basis.
• Several characters are nicknamed in The Dark Days, such as Jake (Andrew) and Gasman (John).
• Dawn of a New Age: Oldport Blues:
  • For a long while it was unclear whether Kev even was a diminutive, or whether it was actually his name. It was eventually clarified that Kevin is his name, he just never goes by it.
  • Patricia, a member of Nadine's gang, only goes by Patty, implied to be because she finds her first name embarrassing. Her fellow gang member, Carla, also goes by Carlie most of the time.
• In DC Super Hero Girls, none of the superheroes have secret identities, so their names rarely ever get brought up. Batgirl is an exception as she doesn't start off as a superhero, and her dad teaches at Super Hero High, so she's called "Barbara" a few times.
• Does Captain Hammer have a civilian name? Who knows?
• Dream: Of the Manhunt crew, only George goes by his regular name (as it's in his username). Dream never goes by his real name of Clay (and is shown being peeved when George calls him such on-stream), and the same goes for Sapnap and Bad (Nick and Darryl respectively).
• In Echo Chamber, Porn Girl is always "Porn Girl". For that matter, Mr. Administrator seems to be the only one of the main cast who isn't The Danza.
• The Whisperer in Enigma. Very few even know what he looks like (or what manner of feline he is), let alone his actual name.
• Epic Meal Time's Muscles Glasses.
• In the CYS story-game Eternal, your abusive teacher is initially known only as Mistress. Even after her real name is revealed, she is still often referred to as Mistress.
• In The Guild, most of the characters prefer to be addressed by the names they use in the game they all play. We, the audience, still don't know the real name of Tinkerballa, a.k.a. Tink. As of Season 5, we do. It's April Lou, which is why she hid it.
• Tanigo Motoaki, the president and CEO of hololive, is known to most by his nickname of YAGOO. Said nickname was the result of a misreading of the kanji for his family name "Tanigo" by Subaru and he went along with it instead of correcting her. It's so widely used that some of the later talent, like Coco, thought that it was actually his name for months after getting hired.
  • Some of the members also has bestowed nicknames that quickly eclipsed their original full names, including Mori Calliope, Hakos Baelz and Koseki Bijou who are mostly known by their fans and fellow members as Calli, Bae and Biboo respectively. In case of Baelz, it even gets to the point that she herself expressed confusion when Calli refers to her as such in one of their collab stream.
    Bae: "Baelz"? Who... who is Baelz?
    Calli: Isn't that your fucking name, rat!?
• If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device: The Custodes that the Emperor has chosen as his confidante is only known to the other Custodes as... Little Kitten. Those who actually want to show him some respect address him by his rank: Captain-General. He does have an actual name, which he says is a matter of public record that anyone can look up, but we never get to hear it. The current Captain-General of the Custodes in the actual 40k canon was later revealed to be named Trajann Valoris, but Text to Speech has long since gone in a different direction than the canon setting.
• If certain comments are to be believed, a rather large number of Jacksepticeye's subscribers don't seem to realize his real first name is Sean.
• From Killerbunnies we have: Computer Virus, her real name is "Cassandra Vanessa".
  • There is also Visceraline and that is only because her full real name is too long or hard to say.
  • Remilia is an interesting case in that she was actually born Fraulein Petersen and "Remilia" was actually name given to her by he adoptive father, taking the name Remilia Fraulein Petersen. However, her real name, "Fraulein" is also in question as per her updated profile
  • The Evans Triplets are mostly known by their nicknames being either Fern, Tommie, and Flori or their nicknames Scissors, Chainsaw, and Nails.
  • According to their profile, Kamu was originally named Kuma but for some reason decided to go by "Kamu" instead. It's never stated but it could have something to do with the fact that "Kuma" can be easily misspelled as "Kamu"
  • Hattie's real name is "Harriotte".
  • According to her deviantArt description, Milo is generally known by various nicknames, one of which being "Mahalo"
  • Experiment XI0014101 is more often than not called "Marigold" and she prefers to be called that, over the aforementioned.
  • Oleander is normally called nicknames, more commonly "Imogene", because, apparently, people can never seem to remember her real name.
  • Fae Chantrea's real name is "Fleurdelice Belladonna Fae Chantrea Enderstone"
  • Farahilde is typically called "Fabienne" or "Fabie"
  • We also have Experiment 0099-404 who tends to go by "Mikie" or, rather, "Michealenne"
  • Cerise's real name is "Hyacinth Angelica Cerise Blumenthal"
  • Ardith is typically called "Ardie".
  • Xylona, Cybie, and Bria are actually named "Absinthe", "Cybele", and "Briallen".
  • Rudolphina is usually called "Rudie" and her little sister (Frieda Roxanne) often called "Frie-Rox"
  • Greasestain's real name is "Gunhilde"
  • Frankie is short for "Francinia"
  • Harlie is typically called "Gas" and you can see why
  • Racquel is called "Nia"
  • Second Liberator's real name is "Saoirse Lizanne"
• The protagonist of Lovelace ½ is named Andrea Gannett-Moore, but everyone — students and teachers alike — calls her Andi.
• Mahu: In "Frozen Flame" the mentor and friend of prince Arius is known only as Mr. Storm. The "Mr" part was added by members of the court, who thought it silly to just call someone else "Storm".
  • Examples include Snuggles, the hug-happy Kappa; Apprentice, the apprentice demonslayer; and The Mysterious Deviling, a Deviling cowgirl.
• On the game music podcast Nitro Game Injection, co-host Suraida never goes by her real name on the air.
• Due to Noob happening mostly inside the game the characters are playing, this is the case of a large majority of the cast. The real names so far known are those of Fantöm (Max Middle), Arthéon (Stanislas Chatelain), Gaea (Gabrielle Jolivet), Omega Zell (Morgan Lavande), Sparadrap (Kevin Lepape), Golgotha (Catherine Mourru), Ystos (Thomas Lepape), Saphir (Elena Penelope Gonagal), Couette (Angélique Fleur), Ivy (Fanny Blanchet) and Judge Dead (Théodore Saquebien). The game creator is the only character only called by his real name. The identity of the player behind a given avatar is a regular source of plot twists.
• Party Crashers: Discussed in "The WORST Board in Mario Party 2...", where Nick mentions how, unlike him and Brent, Sophist and Vernias only go by their YouTube handles instead of their real life names Noah and Carnig respectively. This leads to Sophist and Vernias referring to each other in First-Name Basis during the latter's Rage Breaking Point on the final turn of the game.
• In Philthon Jones, it's always "Jones", never James.
• Pretty Dudes has several of these:
  • Zario reveals his name is Hector to both Eagle and Iggy, but no one ever calls him that. His nickname is pulled from his surname, del Rosario.
  • Eagle never reveals her real name. She's so accustomed to this, it takes her a minute to realize that December's real name is December.
  • Only Jay's cousin Genie calls him by his first name, Jericho.
  • Jay has a plethora of alleged ex-girlfriends with ridiculous names who he had nicknames for: Connie (Constellation), Ricki (Hurricane), Dee Dee (Chandelier), and Tabby (Tabernacle). Though his roommates don't believe him initially, it's hinted they might all exist when his only onscreen ex-girlfriend Callie reveals her first name is actually Calligraphy.
• Several Protectors of the Plot Continuum agents work this way, picking whatever sounds cool. Agents adopted from badfics also tend to have to change their names. Within Real Life this is because of copyright issues in case the badfic author sees it and gets annoyed, and within the canon the characters tend not to want to be reminded of their badfic-related pasts.
• The Red Panda is never referred to by his real name, even in his secret identity.
• In Red vs. Blue, after Frank DuFresne makes his introduction, his teammates declare his name too hard to remember, so for the rest of the series he's only been known as "Doc." [Grif's] Sister is an even worse case, since her real name Kaikaina was first revealed in external materials. Most of the Freelancer agents are only known by their codenames, though we do know the first names of some of the more relevant ones — Tex is Alison (later revealed to be Alison Church), Washington is David, Wyoming is Reginald, etc. Sarge fell under this trope for a long time, until Season 14 revealed that His Name Really Is "Barkeep".
• The only guest of The Runaway Guys who usually has this trope in play is MasaeAnela; the majority of the guests either have their real name known or it's in their online name (as is the case with main member Jon, the only one of the three main members whose online name has his real name in it). Masae's real name is Shauntelle.
• YouTube-based sword enthusiast Skallagrim is always referred to by that name, or just Skall. He does not make his real identity public.
• Odd example in Something Awful's Spring/Summer(/Fall/Winter 2011) Ghost Story Thread: The "Site Kilo-29" (finished on SA) and "Cursed Snoopy" (after the pictures; apparently abandoned?) epics by users 50 Foot Ant andOneWhiteWhisker. Because these eerie stories are framed as actual events, they're always referred to as Fifty or Sgt. Ant and Whisker (son of Mr. and Mrs. White) by characters within the story but only as covers for their real names. Which makes the time when Sgt. Ant actually shouts "I AM THE FIFTY FOOT ANT!" extra hilarious ("Sgt. Ant, are you calling yourself an ant?").
• Stampylongnose is almost exclusively known by his nickname or variations of it — Stampy, Stampy Cat, Mr. Stampy Cat, Stamps, etc. His real life name is rarely ever mentioned in any of his videos, and even when it is, it's primarily in a few of his pre-100 Lovely World episodes. His Minecraft gamertag/username, "stampylongnose", or his channel name, "stampylonghead", aren't mentioned often either — he even signs off his annual Christmas greetings with "Mr. Stampy Cat" and is rarely ever addressed by his gamertag outside of his older videos.
• Avianaut, the Big Bad of Starship Goldfish, in his own words he doesn't have a name for himself, but other people call him that so that's what he uses.
• The Let's Players of Tipping Forties have all taken to using their real names rather than online handles with the exception of Micheal aka bandunk, who is generally referred to as bandunk with the exception to the Once an Episode greeting.
  • Conversely, the Freelance Astronauts all call each other by their respected handles (Maxwell Adams, Evek, Ferr, and pipes!!). Of course, every once in awhile, they'll slip up (either in a moment of Is This Thing Still On?? for Evek or Angrish for pipes!!), and that's when their Ustream erupts in chatter.
• WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK.: Given how little was known about her, the name "Val" was assumed to just be an alias. TapeWorm had never given a definitive answer as to what her true identity is aside from an AI that had gained sentience. Subverted when "Abstract Idents (2003)" was uploaded, where it was revealed that she is a rogue AI and the entity responsible for the broadcast anomalies.
• The Mallers from We're Alive seem fond of this. Latch, Scratch, Bricks, and Puck are all nicknames or may be nicknames. The Colony also has Gatekeeper who names himself after whatever job he has at the time.
• Calling Yahtzee "Ben" is good way to piss him off.
• Hunter: The Parenting
  • Big D is only ever called Big D. In the fourth audiolog, he mentions the name Ditryck Tettela, but it's left ambiguous whether that's his real name or an alias he was using
  • This series' version of Kitten has a double case. He's only ever referred to as Kitten in the credits, and in-show he's just referred to by various epithets; "love" and "companion" from Marckus, "son-in-law" by Big D, etc.
  • Two of The Licks are only ever referred to by the insulting names given to new Sabbat recruits: Ape and Shitbeard.

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