Basic Trope: A character is more important if given a name, such as being more likely to be spared.
- Straight: Of all of the bad guy's mooks who get killed off, Jeffery is one of the few to not die due to having a name.
- Exaggerated: Every single unnamed being in existence suddenly dies.
- Downplayed: There are some of the named mooks that get killed off, but the vast majority of them are unnamed.
- Justified: 'Keepsonticking' got his name for surviving these kinds of odds.
- Inverted:
- All of the named characters are insignificant and are the first to die.
- The main character has No Name Given.
- Subverted:
- Jeffery is believed to be spared due to being one of the few mooks to have a name... but then he dies.
- Jeffery's name isn't revealed until later on in the story.
- Double Subverted: It was a Disney Death.
- Parodied: An extra who says their name for the first time is immediately handed a suit of literal Plot Armor.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Averted: Whether or not a character has a name is unimportant to whether or not they're a significant impact.
- Enforced:
- "The other characters that just get killed off aren't so important, so let's not give them names."
- To avoid Anyone Can Die.
- Lampshaded: ???
- Invoked: A character gives another character a name to humanize them and keep others (or the narrative) from killing them.
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: ???
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: ???
Back to Nominal Importance. The fact that we gave the trope a name means that it's important.
