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Number 48: Let me introduce myself — I'm number 48.
Ed: 48. Catchy.
Ed: 48. Catchy.
"My name? Do Parasites like us get names? But, well, my designation is 002. Everyone calls me 02."
Film — Live-Action
Was he, himself, anything but a number — number 11811 — crammed into his linen, his clothes, his cap? Had not the number also become imprinted into his soul, into his brain, into his blood, that he must even stop and think of his own name?
"Oh, that Number 11. I wish I had 12 of her!"
Poe: Hey, what's your name?
FN-2187: FN-2187!
Poe: F-what?
FN-2187: That's the only name they ever gave me.
Poe: Well, I ain't using it. F-N, huh? Finn. I'm gonna call you Finn. Is that all right?
Finn: Finn... Yeah! I like that! I like that!
FN-2187: FN-2187!
Poe: F-what?
FN-2187: That's the only name they ever gave me.
Poe: Well, I ain't using it. F-N, huh? Finn. I'm gonna call you Finn. Is that all right?
Finn: Finn... Yeah! I like that! I like that!
— Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens
Aaron: Anybody asks, you're June Monroe from Bethesda. You lost your wallet. I'm driving you home. My name is James. James and June, you got it?
Marta: Yeah.
Aaron: Okay.
Marta: Is that your name?
Aaron: What, James? No! You don't know my name? What do you call me? What do you put on my blood work?
Marta: Five.
Aaron: Five? The number five? Do you know how many times we've met? Thirteen. Thirteen exams over the last four years. And that's what I get, a number?
Marta: Yeah.
Aaron: Okay.
Marta: Is that your name?
Aaron: What, James? No! You don't know my name? What do you call me? What do you put on my blood work?
Marta: Five.
Aaron: Five? The number five? Do you know how many times we've met? Thirteen. Thirteen exams over the last four years. And that's what I get, a number?
"He doesn't have a name, he has a number, Scott. Do you have any idea how many ants there are?"
— Hank Pym on 247, Ant-Man
Literature
"I am Number Six."
Live-Action TV
Allison: Diego—
Diego: My name is Number Two. You know why? Because our father couldn't be bothered to give us actual names. He had Mom do it!
Diego: My name is Number Two. You know why? Because our father couldn't be bothered to give us actual names. He had Mom do it!
Seven of Nine: Six of Ten, this is not your assignment.
Harry Kim: Please, stop calling me that.
Seven of Nine: You are compromising our productivity. I am reassigning you to chamber maintenance. Your new designation is Two of Ten.
Harry: Wait a minute, you're demoting me? Since when did the Borg pull rank?
Seven of Nine: It's Starfleet Protocol I adapted. I find it most useful.
Harry Kim: Please, stop calling me that.
Seven of Nine: You are compromising our productivity. I am reassigning you to chamber maintenance. Your new designation is Two of Ten.
Harry: Wait a minute, you're demoting me? Since when did the Borg pull rank?
Seven of Nine: It's Starfleet Protocol I adapted. I find it most useful.
Three of Nine: I have a name. It's Marika. Marika Willkarah. Willkarah.
Two of Nine: Hello, Marika Willkarah.
Seven of Nine: Her designation is Three of Nine!
Two of Nine: Hello, Marika Willkarah.
Seven of Nine: Her designation is Three of Nine!
Roy Harper: Who was he?
Detective Lance: Well, that's the thing. When you're alive, you get a name. When you wind up down here, you get a number. Meet 26. See, your pal, the Hood, he's already sent 26 stiffs down here since he started his little one-man... war.
Detective Lance: Well, that's the thing. When you're alive, you get a name. When you wind up down here, you get a number. Meet 26. See, your pal, the Hood, he's already sent 26 stiffs down here since he started his little one-man... war.
— Arrow, "Home Invasion"
Cyborg: 722?
722: Well, that's my name.
Cyborg: Are you sure that's not your room number?
722: One and the same, bud.
722: Well, that's my name.
Cyborg: Are you sure that's not your room number?
722: One and the same, bud.
— Doom Patrol (2019), "Cyborg Patrol"
Music
They've given you a number
And taken away your name
And taken away your name
— Johnny Rivers, "Secret Agent Man"
Maybe beyond a date with the lead, there's something else meant for
A prisoner with the beauty of 247290-Z
A prisoner with the beauty of 247290-Z
— El-P, "Habeas Corpses (Draconian Love)"
Role-Playing Games
19: Well, look... I'm a mass produced soldier, meant only as cannon fodder... I'm less a person than a weapon. A statistic.
Chuck: Well you aren't one here, for fuck's sake.
Chuck: Well you aren't one here, for fuck's sake.
Theatre
Video Games
"I am the Commandant. You are Recruit 273. That number is not random. It was assigned to you because I have broken 272 recruits before you. You are nothing more than the next link in the chain."
— The Commandant, Fable II
"Never call me by my number! My name is Seth, and I am UNIQUE!"
— Seth, Street Fighter IV
Clay Kaczmareck: Just walked right past me.
Desmond: Sixteen?
Clay: Aw, they didn't tell you my name?
Desmond: Sixteen?
Clay: Aw, they didn't tell you my name?
Rokuro: What's your name, kid?
Malak Number 2: Malak Number 2.
Rokuro: That's a title, not a name.
Malak Number 2: ...
Rokuro: Oh, man, they didn't even give you a name? That's messed up.
Velvet: Doesn't "Rokuro" mean "sixth son?"
Malak Number 2: Malak Number 2.
Rokuro: That's a title, not a name.
Malak Number 2: ...
Rokuro: Oh, man, they didn't even give you a name? That's messed up.
Velvet: Doesn't "Rokuro" mean "sixth son?"
"In a cold laboratory, beneath the lullay-lullay of a waterfall, an ancient vampire is a kept in enforced hibernation. The Carpathian mountains once rang with the name of Janos Dragosani. He carved his legend with fang and claw. Now he is forgotten Soviet experiment, designation #9."
— The Buzzing, The Secret World
Agent 47: I think they called me "47".
Diana: That's... not a name.
Agent 47: So make it one.
Diana: All right. Agent 47.
Diana: That's... not a name.
Agent 47: So make it one.
Diana: All right. Agent 47.
— Call Me 47, Hitman (2016)
Web Animation
"27,note 99,note put the statue over there. 79,note you come with me, bring the sledgehammer."
— Zlatan Ibrahimovic, The Champions (2018)
Western Animation
"I am not a number! I am a man! And don't you eve— oh, wait, I'm number 5. Ha, ha! In your face, number 6!"
— Homer Simpson, The Simpsons, "The Computer Wore Menace Shoes"
Dr. Wakeman: Is that clear, XJ9?
Jenny: [under her breath(?)] ...Jenny.
Dr. Wakeman: Wha...?
Jenny: Jenny! I changed my name to "Jenny!"
Jenny: [under her breath(?)] ...Jenny.
Dr. Wakeman: Wha...?
Jenny: Jenny! I changed my name to "Jenny!"
Real Life
"I speak to you as a man, who 50 years and nine days ago had no name, no hope, no future and was known only by his number, A7713."
— Elie Wiesel, at the ceremony to mark the 50th anniversary of the liberation of Auschwitz
