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Nameless Narrative

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147 feature instances
240 referencing feature instances

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Nameless Narrative	comment	Who needs names? Plenty of stories, jokes, and even myths eschew them entirely in a Nameless Narrative. If a character is "named", it's more than likely to be as their role in the story or the job they have. Sometimes, the "name" might be a unique and prominent feature to them that serves as a reminder of their basic description, such as "the one eyed man", or "the silver haired maiden". Stylistically, it's very economical in terms of prose and narrator memory (many Nameless Narratives come from the Oral Tradition) and at times elegant, distilling a character's essence down to their archetype. The Nameless Narrative also works hand in hand with The Law of Conservation of Detail and Nominal Importance, allowing for a small named central cast and many nameless extras. This is usually because it's simply easier to remember the background characters this way than to give them all sprawling motivations and backstories. May overlap with "Burly Detective" Syndrome (if descriptive epithets are used in place of names), Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep", No Name Given, The Nameless, The All-Concealing "I" and You Are Number 6. Often employs Spell My Name with a "The".
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Nameless Narrative / int_1869a077	comment	For the most part, very few characters in Samurai Jack actually have names or even address each other. Most characters are Only Known by Their Nickname instead of their real name, if they're even given a name at all.
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Nameless Narrative / int_188fb21a	comment	Akudama Drive only refers to characters by descriptors that reference their jobs or crimes, such as Brawler, Cutthroat, Pupil, and Boss. Even the protagonist is only known as "Ordinary Person" or "Swindler".
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Nameless Narrative / int_196ee6af	comment	Up until this point, there has nary been a proper noun in the entirety of the comic The Artist is Dead! In fact, it's safe to say that there won't be a proper noun in the comic, mostly because it has already been finished.
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Nameless Narrative / int_19fdf8ed	comment	In "The Feather of Finist the Falcon", Finist is the only character with an actual name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_1c1ceec7	comment	The NPCs in Monster Hunter games never seem to have real names, instead using job titles or simple descriptions to designate characters. As for you, despite whatever name you choose for yourself, you're never referred to as anything other as Hunter. Averted with the Pub Manager in Monster Hunter Generations Ultimate, who so far is the only character in the entire series to actually call the player Hunter by their name. This trend is only dropped by Monster Hunter: Rise, which is the first mainline game in the series to give every member of the cast actual names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_1c2cf038	comment	E.L. Doctorow's Ragtime starts out only mentioning the names of real people who figure into the plot while the fictional protagonists remain nameless, so "Mother" meets Harry Houdini. About a third of the way through, the pattern is subverted when the fictional Coalhouse Walker Jr. shows up.
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Nameless Narrative / int_1c4ca44a	comment	Castle Crashers gives names to none of its characters, only referring them by what they are (The "X" Knight, The Cyclops, The King, etc.)
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Nameless Narrative / int_1d30d9bf	comment	None of the characters in The Driver has a name, not even the three main characters. Ryan O'Neal is "The Driver", Bruce Dern is "The Detective", and Isabelle Adjani is "The Player".
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Nameless Narrative / int_1e60c7b4	comment	Super Ninja Meow Cat: Downplayed. The only named character is King Cobra, the boss of level 5. All the other bosses, as well as the protagonist, remain unnamed.
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Nameless Narrative / int_222fe266	comment	Notable Chinese film The Goddess, about the life of a Shanghai prostitute, does not give any names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_22c403ac	comment	Averted in Erstwhile, in which several characters who were nameless in the original Brothers Grimm tales are given names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_22dad073	comment	The Spin Room: We don't know the name of the singing man, the woman of his dreams, or other mentioned characters.
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Nameless Narrative / int_23c1779	comment	Whenever someone would be referred to by name in Little Nuns, they are instead identified by a small drawing of their face. Both this wiki's character page and Danbooru's character tags use nicknames to identify the cast due to this quality.
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Nameless Narrative / int_26101f71	comment	"The Fire-Bird, the Horse of Power, and the Princess Vasilissa": Neither the hero nor the main antagonist are given names. They are only "the archer" and "the Tsar".
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Nameless Narrative / int_2654a385	comment	Problem Sleuth: Many characters (for example, Problem Sleuth, Mobster Kingpin, Nervous Broad, the Weasel King) have titles instead of names. Madame Murel, the Midnight Crew and possibly Death are exceptions.
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Nameless Narrative / int_2751c9e1	comment	"Segregationist": The surgeon, the nurse, the med-eng, and the Senator. None of the characters are given names, although the only one who is clearly human is the Senator; the rest of the characters might not even have names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_278b8cb4	comment	No names are given in the 1971 film Two-Lane Blacktop. The credits refer to the characters by their profession or some other identifying attribute, e.g. "The Driver" (James Taylor), "The Mechanic" (Dennis Wilson), "The Girl" (Laurie Bird), and "GTO" (Warren Oates).
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Nameless Narrative / int_2a2b9c0e	comment	The characters in Spring, Summer, Fall, Winter… and Spring are never named. Even a newspaper headline involving two of them does not use their names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_2a842e3a	comment	There was a trend for a while for Doctor Who Expanded Universe stories to be told first-person or singular-viewpoint by minor characters who never really got a full explanation of what was going on. Frequently, they wouldn't even learn the names of the other characters, although they would note that one of them claimed to be a doctor.
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Nameless Narrative / int_2a99e3d6	comment	The Lobster uses this. The protagonist is named David, and his dog is Bob, but the main cast otherwise consists of the Limping Man, the Lisping Man, the Shortsighted Girl, the Heartless Woman, the Hotel Manager, and many others. Only the Limping Man and the Lisping Man get their actual names revealed.
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Nameless Narrative / int_2bca217e	comment	About half of the characters in the fairy-tale-based Into the Woods are nameless (e.g. the two princes). Most of the rest are named because they are familiar fairy tale characters (Cinderella, Jack, Rapunzel, etc.); only Cinderella's stepsisters get somewhat gratuitous names (Florinda and Lucinda).
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Nameless Narrative / int_2c2a9cf2	comment	"Morozko" has the titular Father Frost... and the old man, the old woman, her stepdaughter -the heroine- and her daughter.
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Nameless Narrative / int_2c651d33	comment	"The Elf Maiden": No character is referred to by name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_2e45b03b	comment	"The Two Brothers", which gets a bit awkward when the two brothers are together. The main way it's got around is by distinguishing one as "the younger brother", even though it's also a plot point that they're identical twins.
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Nameless Narrative / int_2f879a72	comment	Red Ears: This gag comic has no recurring characters and thus many remain nameless.
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Nameless Narrative / int_30c8b440	comment	Edmond by David Mamet features just two named characters in its sizable cast: the titular lead, and a waitress named Glenna.
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Nameless Narrative / int_32fa0e9f	comment	In "The Lady, or the Tiger?", all of the characters — the king, the princess, the youth, the lady and the tiger — are identified by their roles instead of their names. This helps the story work, because the readers are supposed to put themselves into the princess's situation and answer the title question (which the story itself does not resolve) for themselves.
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Nameless Narrative / int_355bf9f2	comment	In Your Friends & Neighbors, none of the characters are referred to by name. In the credits, they're given placeholder rhyming names such as Cheri, Jerry and Barry.
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Nameless Narrative / int_36092143	comment	No one in The Little Prince is named, though the narrator is apparently supposed to be the author, Antoine de Saint-Exupery, himself. (The story was based on a real incident when he crashed his plane in the desert and, according to legend, hallucinated a young boy who inspired the Little Prince.)
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Nameless Narrative / int_368ee010	comment	Under the Skin: The end credits list the actors in order of appearance, but give no character names. The only time that people are named during the film is in a "missing persons" report that we hear on the radio.
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Nameless Narrative / int_36a2eedb	comment	Fifteen Minds: Due to the lack of text in the comics, none of the characters in any of the stories are ever named. The most we ever get from the artist on the subject is out-of-universe descriptors for the characters, such as "bunny and dino", hence the monikers used throughout the works page.
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Nameless Narrative / int_36df24f9	comment	Hyper Light Drifter: All information is non-verbal, so nobody is called by name. However, some characters have official names drawn from Tarot Motifs.
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Nameless Narrative / int_375652e4	comment	Hiroshima Mon Amour combines this with Minimalist Cast. The two lovers who are the protagonists, and have about 98% of the dialogue, aren't named, nor is anyone else.
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Nameless Narrative / int_3845aa1f	comment	"The Three Aunts"
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Nameless Narrative / int_38814a9a	comment	Every person in Dead Cells is only known by their title at best. The only two things that can even be considered named are Conjuntivius and Mama Tick, both of which are monsters.
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Nameless Narrative / int_3b7abee2	comment	Aside from protagonist Gordon Freeman and a few names on the lockers in the locker room, there are no named characters in Half-Life whatsoever. Other named characters were introduced in the expansion packs and the sequel though.
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Nameless Narrative / int_3bf5c9f7	comment	In The Polar Express, only two characters are named: the protagonist's sister, Sarah, who barely appears, and Billy, the sad boy who is last to board the train. (Well, also Santa Claus.) The main character is credited as Hero Boy, with the other main kids called Hero Girl and Know-It-All Kid.
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Nameless Narrative / int_452b566	comment	Only two characters in Eraserhead are named: main character Henry and his fiancee Mary. Everyone else is named either by their relation to those two or where they live, such as Mary's Mother, The Beautiful Girl Across the Hall, The Man in the Planet and the Baby. This, coupled by the general lack of dialogue and oppressive music gives the film an extremely disturbing and alien feel.
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Nameless Narrative / int_46f6a19c	comment	In the Spanish children's play El Principe Que Todo Lo Aprendio De Los Libros (The Prince Who Learned Everything in Books) all of the characters are called only by their role ("The King", "The Ogre" etc.) The only seeming exception is the protagonist, Principe Azul, which literally means "Prince Blue" — however, Principe Azul is the Spanish equivalent of saying "Prince Charming" so it doesn't really count as a name either.
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Nameless Narrative / int_478a2580	comment	Screen Rant Pitch Meetings stars a Screenwriter and a Producer, neither of whom are referred to by name, as they discuss the former's movie pitches.note Though it's mentioned in one video that Screenwriter Guy and Producer Guy are their actual names
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Nameless Narrative / int_499973d6	comment	Nobody has names in Dra+Koi. There's the dragon, the dragonslayer, the protagonist's mother and the protagonist, who later becomes the hero by attacking the dragonslayer, which was just a suit of armor that now recognizes him as a worthy hero. It's metafiction, so names would just get in the way.
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Nameless Narrative / int_49b587be	comment	In The Canterbury Tales, almost all the pilgrims are unnamed and are identified solely by their occupation. The only pilgrims explicitly named in the work are the Prioress (Madame Eglantine), the Cook (Roger), the Reeve (Oswald), the Friar (Hubert), and the Wife of Bath (Alisoun).
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Nameless Narrative / int_4ab60cf9	comment	Technically, the name "Snow White" is just a description of the fairy tale's heroine.
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Nameless Narrative / int_4cdb7f4	comment	"The Singing, Springing Lark" (though at least one translation names the main character Lily).
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Nameless Narrative / int_4d77a31a	comment	Japanese silent film A Page of Madness doesn't even use any title cards, so it's a Nameless Narrative pretty much by default.
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Nameless Narrative / int_4e895265	comment	Conversely, the protagonist of The Downward Spiral, another concept album, is never referred to by any name of any sort.
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Nameless Narrative / int_4f337768	comment	"The Blue Mountains"
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Nameless Narrative / int_4f3a33a4	comment	"The Nix in the Mill-Pond": The cast is composed of the miller, the miller's wife, the miller's son -later the huntsman-, the huntsman's wife, the old woman and the nixie.
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Nameless Narrative / int_4f4ed73	comment	In Superman and Man, the narrator always refers to Christopher Reeve as "the actor".
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Nameless Narrative / int_4fb21def	comment	Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies is completely nameless, save for a few secondary pilots towards the end.
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Nameless Narrative / int_5062baa	comment	"Little Otik": The titular monster is the only character who goes by a name instead of a descriptor.
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Nameless Narrative / int_50851481	comment	The only two characters in Closet Land are credited as Interrogator and Victim. It's not a comedy.
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Nameless Narrative / int_535ac0ac	comment	Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World.
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Nameless Narrative / int_53a0bd32	comment	The Twilight Zone (1959) “Two”: The last two survivors of an unnamed war (played by Charles Bronson and Elizabeth Montgomery) never say their names, nor does the narrator name them. In the episode "Five Characters in Search of an Exit", an army major wakes up to find himself trapped in a circular room with a clown, a ballerina, a hobo, and a bag piper. None of the characters have names that they can remember. The Protagonist is known simply as The Major.
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Nameless Narrative / int_53b0505b	comment	Only two characters in RC Helicopter are named: Mark, a random boy, and Beakly, a woman who owns an shop.
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Nameless Narrative / int_5546299b	comment	Kero Blaster: Most of the game is this. The company president is simply known as "The President", while the protagonist and his co-workers don't even seem to have a title they are referred to by. However, there is a secret cast roll (found after finishing the final glitched area in Omake Mode) that lists names for the characters, and the bosses have names listed in the code (the names can be found on this page).
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Nameless Narrative / int_57a3683f	comment	Most of the anecdotes on Not Always Right, as the poster won't know the names of those involved, and it wouldn't add anything anyhow, so the names are usually a description - "Husband", "Wife", "Kid", "Mother", "Father", "Stoned Guy" - or just "Me", "Customer", "Cashier", "Manager".
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Nameless Narrative / int_58feb3ca	comment	In Maoyu the characters are referred to by their titles and positions even by each other, such as Hero, Lady Knight, Demon King, and Lone Winter King. "Ruby Eyes" is the closest anyone has to a proper name, and that's more of a title or epithet.
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Nameless Narrative / int_59896121	comment	In mother!, no character is named. The main characters are credited as "mother" and "Him". Everyone else gets a generic title in the credits relating to their role in the story; "man", "woman", "oldest son", "youngest brother", etc.
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Nameless Narrative / int_59a0b78e	comment	Everybody in The Tale of Genji is referred to by their titles.
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Nameless Narrative / int_59cbd290	comment	The two friends from Two Best Friends Play. Since they are in the same room talking to each after already staring up a game, it makes sense that they would have already said their names to each other. This is dropped in the second season when their names are revealed as Matt and Pat.
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Nameless Narrative / int_5c4a8cee	comment	Phantastes by George McDonald has very few names revealed.
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Nameless Narrative / int_5c8bc496	comment	Epic Battle Fantasy: Early-Installment Weirdness for the first game, Epic Battle Fantasy 1, where the player party is of "Player 1" and "Player 2", but are named in later games, as Matt and Natalie.
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Nameless Narrative / int_5cb7cb01	comment	"The Devil With the Three Golden Hairs": No character is referred to by name, unless you count "The Devil".
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Nameless Narrative / int_5d4da367	comment	Yume Nikki: Aside from Madotsuki, Monoe and Monoko (their names come from the files for their full-screen events), every character in the game has no name. Fans have gotten around this by using Fan Nicknames for everyone.
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Nameless Narrative / int_5ebaab2c	comment	Beachwalker doesn't have a single named character. Instead, the characters are named after their roles, or after figures from the protagonist's favorite childhood story.
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Nameless Narrative / int_5ee18365	comment	Lady of the Shard: No names are given for anybody. The acolytes have a tradition of not using them; the Phoenix is a title, and we never learn what her name was before she inherited it; at the end of the comic, the Goddess addresses the Old God by name, but it's written as a small cluster of stars, implying that it can't be pronounced or understood by humans anyway.
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Nameless Narrative / int_5ffb7a57	comment	Skirted by The Incredible Journey - the two dogs and cat do have names, but they're only used when their owners are around. Considering most of the book is about them trying to find their owners, this amounts to the introductory and concluding chapters, with the rest of the book using species, breed, and age to distinguish them.
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Nameless Narrative / int_604008c3	comment	Clueless Hero: None of Clueless Hero's player characters or even the villains are actually given names, not even the protagonist.
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Nameless Narrative / int_6051d6b1	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_6051d6b1	comment	Hero is a partial example — while there are a few named characters, some central and some not so much, there are also many major and minor characters known only by roles or titles.
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Nameless Narrative / int_6059ad6b	comment	Pretty much all the recurring characters in xkcd are nameless: Black Hat Guy, Black Hat Guy's Female Counterpart/Girlfriend, That Weird Guy In The Beret, etc. Pretty much the only exception is Megan. (And that's assuming it's always the same Megan.)
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Nameless Narrative / int_62044071	comment	"The Gold Mountain": Nobody, at any point in the story, gives their name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_657a921e	comment	Escape Lala has very few characters, and none of them have names. The achievements for 2 use descriptors for some of them, though. ("the snake," "the pearl," etc.)
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Nameless Narrative / int_66b0c714	comment	In Fishing Vacation, none of the characters are named and are only referred to by their relationships to each other, with the exception of Sedna, the Inuit ocean goddess.
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Nameless Narrative / int_6a66f4f2	comment	The film Blindness, like the book it's based on, does not name any characters, main or otherwise.
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Nameless Narrative / int_6c30a011	comment	Tyranno's Claw, a film set in prehistoric times, where none of the characters are named onscreen. Even the movie's IMDb page doesn't have their names!
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Nameless Narrative / int_6e9fa516	comment	Heroic Times was meant to be an entirely visual-musical movie with no voice acting, until the execs added a Character Narrator. Regardless, nobody, not even the main character is named, since he speaks in first person and refers to others from his own perspective — "my brother", "the king", "the princess", "the Czech knight", and so on. Even the title conceals his identity. The film is actually an adaptation of the Toldi book trilogy, life story of Miklós Toldi, so being familiar with the stories helps identify most characters.
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Nameless Narrative / int_6f60db91	comment	"The Enchanted Quill": The characters are referred to by a descriptor (the man, the crow, the youngest daughter...) or their job (the caretaker, the huntsman...)
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Nameless Narrative / int_7894fb5d	comment	The Four Gospels: Many of Jesus's parables are like this: the "sower" (of seed); the "man which sowed good seed in his field", also known as "the householder"; the "man" who sowed a grain of mustard seed; the "woman" who leavened her meal; the "man" who found a treasure in his field; the "merchant" who sold everything for a pearl of great price; the "good Samaritan", and so on.
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Nameless Narrative / int_79d7d5bd	comment	In A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script, only canon characters have names. All original characters are known by either their occupation or their rank (the Captain, the Youngest Ranger, the Seneschal...)
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Nameless Narrative / int_7aefccf3	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_7aefccf3	comment	None of the characters in Hotline Miami are given names of any sorts. While there are Fan Nicknames such as "Jacket" or "Richard" for the protagonist, officially he is never addressed by anything (although the developers have taken a liken to "Jacket" and other fan nicknames and have started referring to them as such). Averted with most of the new characters in the sequel, though characters that were nameless in the original, like Jacket, remain unknown.
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Nameless Narrative / int_7cd79b30	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_7cd79b30	comment	In "The Story of King Odd", Odd is the only character referred to with an actual name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_7e14f59b	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_7e14f59b	comment	In "The Old Dame and her Hen", neither the old widow, nor her daughters, nor the troll are given names in the story.
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Nameless Narrative / int_7f32a6d0	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_7f32a6d0	comment	1909's short film The Lonely Villa features nameless characters.
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Nameless Narrative / int_8125b468	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_8125b468	comment	Even though we already know their names (or perhaps because of it), Batman and The Joker are never referred to as such in The Killing Joke. Even the newspaper clippings only call them "Disfigured Homicidal Maniac" and "Bat-garbed Vigilante." This works well with one of the themes of the book, which is that the two of them have gotten so intimate with each other that there's no need for names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_81586666	comment	Embers: By nature of the movie's premise (apocalyptic amnesia virus) almost no one knows their own names; in the credits the nameless characters are listed as "Guy," "Girl," "Teacher," "Chaos," and "Boy."
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Nameless Narrative / int_8216457	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_8216457	comment	Just Shapes & Beats: The closest things we get to names for any characters are the titles of certain boss levels, which many fans have indeed adapted into their respective characters' names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_85a8ad3c	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_85a8ad3c	comment	"Prince Lindworm": All character are nameless.
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Nameless Narrative / int_881fc8ff	comment	A Hat in Time: Most of the characters are referred to with titles or descriptors, with the exceptions being Queen Vanessa, The "murdered" Owl Express member (who is revealed to be named Robin), Steve from accounting and possibly DJ Grooves. The "possibly" comes from that it could be his stage name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_8c87af83	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_8c87af83	comment	Slacker, as a result of the film switching characters every five minutes. Names used in the end titles include "Should Have Stayed at the Bus Station", "Grocery Grabber of Death's Bounty" and "Tura Satana Look-Alike".
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Nameless Narrative / int_8c9862c7	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_8c9862c7	comment	Prince of Persia (2008) almost does it, if it were not for Elika and Ahriman. Every other character goes unnamed.
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Nameless Narrative / int_8cb9077e	comment	Not one character is given a name in Haunt the House. The tutorial is told in the second person, which is why the player character is never named.
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Nameless Narrative / int_91bfc484	comment	Cormac McCarthy's novel The Road, and its film adaptation has a Double Subversion. None of the characters are named (the two main characters are known simply as "the Man" and "the Boy"), but at one point, they meet an old man named Ely. However, it's shortly after revealed that Ely is just a pseudonym, and he doesn't give his real name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_93722215	comment	Paper Chase: Bluto is the only character with a name. Everyone else is referred to by their job/position.
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Nameless Narrative / int_95f94bd6	comment	The Girl and the Robot: Not one single character in the game is ever identified by name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_9944ea99	comment	Notably subverted in the prequel game Mask of the Rose, which is set immediately after the fall and before this rule was implemented. Indeed, it actually provides names for a few characters from the first game if you can figure out who's what.
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Nameless Narrative / int_99501fe2	comment	In Girl: "Who are you?" Alien: "Er, I'm an alien.", none of the characters are given specific names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_99a637ac	comment	In Strike the only named character is the worker whose suicide precipitates the strike.
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Nameless Narrative / int_99ee6dbe	comment	Through the Woods: Several of the short stories, including the most famous, (His Face All Red) are full of unnamed characters. For example, in His Face All Red, there's only three characters that even get a title; the main character/narrator, the narrator's brother, and the brother's "starry eyed" wife. None of them ever gets called by name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_9b05f5b6	comment	This is actually a plot point in Ill Boy, Ill Girl, where the main characters suffer from a disease that obscures everything related to a person's identity, including their names. Even the protagonists' names aren't revealed, and they are simply referred to as "the boy" and "the girl".
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Nameless Narrative / int_9b2f5b8f	comment	The Air I Breathe: The four main characters are known only by their Theme Naming, respectively Happiness, Pleasure, Sorrow, and Love, and these are All There in the Script. Their real names are never spoken either, though Sorrow is referred to several times by her stage name "Trista".
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Nameless Narrative / int_9c174cb1	comment	Hello Neighbor gives neither of its characters (the protagonist and their neighbor) names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_9ca14a5b	comment	In F.W. Murnau's classic silent film Sunrise, the main characters are called the Man, the Wife, and the Woman From The City.
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Nameless Narrative / int_9df187c8	comment	In the Ryuhei Kitamura film Versus, none of the characters have names. The closest thing the main character has to a name is his prisoner number (KSC2-303).
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Nameless Narrative / int_a0793728	comment	Jessica Day George's Sun and Moon, Ice and Snow (based on "East of the Sun, West of the Moon") has the main character known only as 'Pika' (girl) or 'Lass' because her mother refused to name another girl, and only a mother can name the daughters. She's given a name by the white reindeer to protect her from trolls, but it isn't until late in the story that she reveals it. The prince in the story also remains nameless for the majority of the story, but mostly because he never did get a chance to tell the Lass his name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_a710a15a	comment	In The Wonderful Adventures of Nils, the narrator only ever refers to Nils as "the boy" and Mårten as "the goosey-gander"; we only learn their names from conversation with other characters - and, in the case of Nils, the book's title.
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Nameless Narrative / int_a9aabc71	comment	"The Goose Girl"
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Nameless Narrative / int_a9cd7cc8	comment	In Juniper's Knot, neither character is given a name. They are identified as "boy" and "demon" or "fiend".
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Nameless Narrative / int_aad7c51	comment	In "The Turnip Princess", the characters are the prince, the queen, the bear and the old woman.
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Nameless Narrative / int_afe583d9	comment	The first Propagation doesn't have any named characters. Averted in the sequel.
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Nameless Narrative / int_b04e2a92	comment	Machinal has a Dramatis Personae and plot synopsis which identify the characters only as generic archetypes, and many of the characters are in the habit of referring to others only by their initials. However, the three most significant characters are given full names in dialogue: the protagonist (billed only as "Young Woman") is Helen Jones by marriage (her maiden name is not revealed beyond "Miss A."), her husband is George H. Jones, and her lover is Richard Roe.
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Nameless Narrative / int_b0675efc	comment	Hardly any of the characters in Gone with the Blastwave are named, and the two protagonists aren't among them. Furthermore, all the characters are Gas Mask Mooks wearing uniforms, so the emblems on their helmets are the only way they can be told apart.
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Nameless Narrative / int_b2edd00b	comment	Throughout Zombieland, the only person referred to by name is Bill Murray - everyone else is referred to by their home or destination. The girls' names are revealed at the end (though one is hard to catch), but the men never really have names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_b36a4699	comment	In Exam, the main characters insist that they only go by pseudonyms based on their physical appearances (save for one character): White, Black, Blonde, Brown, Brunette, Dark, Deaf, and Chinese Woman. The other two characters are the Guard and the Invigilator.
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Nameless Narrative / int_b4269f5e	comment	Only three characters get names in Curse of the Zodiac, and one of those names is only revealed in text just before the credits, which only list the actors, no character names or titles.
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Nameless Narrative / int_b4a2783e	comment	"Bearskin" — unless you regard "The Devil" as a proper name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_b9aa83b5	comment	Every single character in Citizens of Earth is named by their profession, such as Vice-President, Photojournalist, or Bodybuilder. Subverted in that once you recruit them, you can name them whatever you want.
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Nameless Narrative / int_ba43d0e2	comment	In "The Three Snake Leaves", the main character is the young man (later prince). The remainder characters are the main character's father, the king, the princess, the old servant and the skipper.
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Nameless Narrative / int_bb67dbb5	comment	The short video To The Death has a total of five characters, only two of which get actual lines. None of them get a name, or even a descriptive title in the credits. The video's trope page settles for calling the characters by roughly descriptive titles: the teacher, the student, the janitor, the man in the black suit, and the bearded man/the master.
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Nameless Narrative / int_bc5296c9	comment	a letter of challenge: No character in the story has a name. The game's antagonist is usually referred to as "the mysterious girl."
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Nameless Narrative / int_c01df100	comment	In the concept album The Wall, none of the characters except for Pink, the main character, have names.
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Nameless Narrative / int_c0d295c4	comment	All the player characters and the Announcer in Team Fortress 2 are referred to solely by profession/class in-game (which admittedly doesn't have a plot) and in the machinima videos. The webcomics do eventually give the majority of them names (and Miss Pauling), but they're still mostly referred to by class.
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Nameless Narrative / int_c1cc14e5	comment	In the first book of The Southern Reach Trilogy, the main characters are forbidden to tell each other their names. Throughout the narrative, they are referred to only by their job titles: the psychologist, the biologist, the anthropologist, and the surveyor. The later books in the series reveal the characters' names, except for the biologist, who insists on being called by a nickname instead.
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Nameless Narrative / int_c4d1c0e8	comment	Bloom Into You has the School Play, in which none of the characters are referred to by name, merely described by their relationship to the protagonist (her nurse, her schoolmate, her younger brother and her girlfriend).
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Nameless Narrative / int_c5fde0fe	comment	None of the characters in DREDGE are given names and are instead called by their occupation. It's possible to ask the Fishmonger for his name but he thinks it's not worth sharing since he is just a passerby.
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Nameless Narrative / int_c6a870ce	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_c6a870ce	comment	Intolerance where this trope is used to powerful effect, causing the characters to become allegorical and thus universal (although some of them are historical figures). The Mountain Girl, the Rhapsode, the Dear One, the Boy, Brown Eyes.
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Nameless Narrative / int_c7d49368	comment	Due to the use of pictures instead of dialogue, the only named character in Dropsy is the eponymous clown.
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Nameless Narrative / int_cb2942e9	comment	Waking Life takes this a step further: aside from the protagonist ("the Dreamer"), it barely has any recurring characters, so you can't even qualify people in relationship to each other. As such, the credits just show pictures of everyone alongside the actors' names. The one exception is Steven Soderbergh, who plays himself.
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Nameless Narrative / int_cbe67cb4	comment	"The Nine Peahens and the Golden Apples": The characters are the king, the young prince, his brothers, the empress, the old witch, the old servant... There is not one single named character.
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Nameless Narrative / int_cc7ba5c1	comment	Neither the proagonist of Gorogoa nor the dragon he seeks are given names, fitting into the game's complete lack of dialogue.
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Nameless Narrative / int_d4601845	comment	Life in a Tin is centered around the repetitiveness of an ordinary life, and as such, the main character and any character he interacts with remain nameless in order for its message to have a more general reach.
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Nameless Narrative / int_d4d50202	comment	Cloud: Due to having the only character be No Name Given.
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Nameless Narrative / int_da356efd	comment	Bikini Warriors has none of the human characters give their proper name, with all the heroines referring to each other by their combat class. Fair enough for a series of sexual comedic shorts meant to lampoon the conventions of old-school role-playing games.
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Nameless Narrative / int_da9e859	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_da9e859	comment	minus.: Aside from a small number of bit characters and minus herself, no one in the comic is given a name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_db17b59e	comment	In "The White Duck", the characters are the king, the queen and the witch.
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Nameless Narrative / int_dc25de3f	comment	While the characters in Portal do have names, they never actually refer to each other or themselves by name except Cave Johnson and Caroline, and Wheatley referring to himself by name once. Their names are only mentioned in subtitles and end credits.
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Nameless Narrative / int_dc72c82f	comment	Fallen London is almost devoted to this trope. Characters with names other than "The Adjective Job Title" are limited to the Masters of the Bazaar (Mr Thing, where Thing is what they trade in), the dueling opponents in the Black Ribbon, and a few others (F.F. Gebrandt, Huffam, Esq., Madame Shoshana, Mrs Plenty) who have their own Twitter feeds and were thus grandfathered into the universe. This is true in-universe as well; the Traitor Empress has forbidden the use of her name, and it seems likely that, 30 years after the Fall, society has imitated this, with all remotely-fashionable individuals being referred to by role. All of those who have names are either on the margins of society or businesspeople (possibly aping the Masters rather than the Empress). Assuming you count semi-suicidal as being the margins of society. Notably subverted in the prequel game Mask of the Rose, which is set immediately after the fall and before this rule was implemented. Indeed, it actually provides names for a few characters from the first game if you can figure out who's what.
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Nameless Narrative / int_e5d5d23c	comment	Doom, specifically Ultimate Doom and Doom II. Proper nouns are never given for any character, as the only human of any consequence is Doomguy and there are no unique demon characters. The sole exception to this is when Ultimate Doom Episode 4 names Doomguy's pet rabbit "Daisy". Averted by later games in the series.
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Nameless Narrative / int_e5d6d1d9	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_e5d6d1d9	comment	None of the bosses in Furi are ever given a proper name, only a title revealed during the credits. This convention is also shared with the main character The Stranger/The Rider, who may not even have a name, and his guide The Voice, aka The Architect, which is how he addresses himself. The only exception is the DLC Superboss named Bernard.
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Nameless Narrative / int_e76b6f7b	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_e76b6f7b	comment	In "King Goldenlocks", the protagonist is the only named character, and even so he is often referred to as "the prince" or "the gardener".
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Nameless Narrative / int_e944602	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_e944602	comment	In Goblin Slayer, no one actually is named. Everyone is known by either their occupation (such as the titular Goblin Slayer, Cow Girl, etc.) or their class (like the Priestess, Spearman, Witch, etc.) Played for Laughs in volume 9 when Harefolk Hunter tells her mother to "look after Brother and Sister and Brother and Brother and Sister and Brother and Sister!".
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Nameless Narrative / int_ec48eddf	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_ec48eddf	comment	Fleabag employs this trope widely but not universally. The Protagonist goes nameless (the title of the show is understood to refer to her and it is how the character is listed in the credits, a nickname borrowed from creator Phoebe Waller-Bridge's own family nickname - but no one in the series actually calls her that). Many if not most of the other characters lack names too: they are just credited as Godmother, Dad, Bank Manager, Arsehole Guy, Bus Rodent, Priest (or Hot Priest), Counsellor and Hot Misogynist. In fact, all the characters with whom Fleabag has any kind of significant relationship are nameless with just a few exceptions: her sister, who is named Claire, her brother-in-law Martin, her late best friend Boo, and her on-agan-off-again boyfriend Harry. There certainly seems to be some significance around naming and not-naming in Fleabag; perhaps most obviously that this is a story being told from Fleabag's point of view. People are referred to by the labels that are most significant to how she relates by them - including herself.
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Nameless Narrative / int_f0811e2a	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_f0811e2a	comment	"The Twelve Dancing Princesses"
Nameless Narrative / int_f0811e2a	featureApplicability	1.0
Nameless Narrative / int_f0811e2a	featureConfidence	1.0
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Nameless Narrative / int_f3056f30	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_f3056f30	comment	"East of the Sun, West of the Moon": The heroine is "the girl"; the hero is "the White Bear", and later, "the Prince".
Nameless Narrative / int_f3056f30	featureApplicability	1.0
Nameless Narrative / int_f3056f30	featureConfidence	1.0
EastOfTheSunWestOfTheMoon	hasFeature	Nameless Narrative / int_f3056f30
Nameless Narrative / int_f99b4497	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_f99b4497	comment	Friday Night Funkin': All of the original characters are only referred to by their role in the narrative: the player character is The Boyfriend, his girlfriend is The Girlfriend, and her parents are The Father and The Mom (Also known as Daddy Dearest and Mommy Mearest, respectively). While Monster breaks the trend of being named "The [X]", its name is still just Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
Nameless Narrative / int_f99b4497	featureApplicability	1.0
Nameless Narrative / int_f99b4497	featureConfidence	1.0
Friday Night Funkin' (Video Game)	hasFeature	Nameless Narrative / int_f99b4497
Nameless Narrative / int_fd6b9666	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_fd6b9666	comment	The Little Prince (2015) is an Adaptation Expansion with several Canon Foreigners, but as in the book, they remain nameless—the Little Girl, the Mother, etc. Played With in the third act, where we meet "Mr. Prince." Given the circumstances, this probably shouldn't be considered his "real" name.
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Nameless Narrative / int_fd6b9666	featureConfidence	1.0
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Nameless Narrative / int_ff0fa162	type	Nameless Narrative
Nameless Narrative / int_ff0fa162	comment	In I Killed Adolf Hitler the only character other than Fuhrer who has a name is David, the unnamed heroine's date.
Nameless Narrative / int_ff0fa162	featureApplicability	1.0
Nameless Narrative / int_ff0fa162	featureConfidence	1.0
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Nameless Narrative	processingCategory2	Naming Conventions
Nameless Narrative	processingCategory2	Older Than Dirt
Mutya (Animation) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Pied Piper (Animation) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
I Killed Adolf Hitler (Comic Book) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Red Ears (Comic Book) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Killing Joke (Comic Book) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Magicians (2022) (Comic Book) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Through the Woods (Comic Book) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Among You / Fan Fic / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Say It Thrice / Fan Fic / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
A Boy, a Girl and a Dog: The Leithian Script (Fanfic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Better Off Not Knowing (Fanfic)	seeAlso	Nameless Narrative
Playthings Series (Fanfic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
A Date With Your Family / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
A Page of Madness / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Bullet Train / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Cirque Du Soleil: Journey Of Man	seeAlso	Nameless Narrative
City Lights / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Coney Island / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Convict 13 / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Curse of the Zodiac / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Death by Hanging / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Dogtooth / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Eagles Gathered	seeAlso	Nameless Narrative
Enemies Within / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Eraserhead / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Exam / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Following / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Gai dimanche! / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Intolerance / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Is It The Design On The Wrapper / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Mœbius / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Mœbius (2013) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
mother! (2017) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Nekromantik / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Omnibus / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Parable / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Rashomon / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Snuff 102 / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Spell My Name with an / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Sunrise / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Air I Breathe / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Black Pirate / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Country Doctor / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Cure (1917) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Distance Between Us and the Sky / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Driver / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Green Elephant / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Killer (2023) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Kiss 1958 / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Last Laugh / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Lonely Villa / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Lunch Date / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
To the Wonder / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
12 (2007) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
12 Angry Men / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Two-Lane Blacktop / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Under the Skin / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Unknown (2006) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Walkabout / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Warning Shadows / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
You Can't Win / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Your Friends & Neighbors / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Goblin Slayer / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Ancilla / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Beachwalker / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Bearskin / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Bisclavret / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Brother and Sister / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Daddy's Roommate / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Elfslayer Chronicles / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
European Folk and Fairy Tales / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
50 Short Science Fiction Tales / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Goblin Slayer / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Grimoire of Zero / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
How The Six Made Their Way In The World / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
If You Give a Mouse a Cookie / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Isaac Asimov Presents: The Great Science Fiction Stories, Volume 21 (1959) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Kate Crackernuts / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
King Goldenlocks / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Little Otik / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Maoyu / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Morozko / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Night Shift (1978) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Nothing Like The Sun / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Ratman's Notebooks / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Ballad of Mulan / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Blind Assassin / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Bloody Chamber / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Devil With The Three Golden Hairs / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Elf Maiden / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Emperor's New Clothes / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Enchanted Quill / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Erl-King / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Giving Tree / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Gold Mountain / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Grave Mound / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Hare and the Pineapple / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Hunting of the Snark / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Incredible Journey / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Lady, or the Tiger? / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Little Match Girl / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Little Mermaid / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Nine Peahens And The Golden Apples / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Nix in the Mill-Pond / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Old Dame and her Hen / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Road / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Seven Ravens / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Southern Reach Trilogy / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Steadfast Tin Soldier / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Swan Maiden / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Tale of Genji / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Tell-Tale Heart / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Three Snake Leaves / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Tinder Box / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Turn of the Screw / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Turnip Princess / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Twelve Dancing Princesses / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Two Brothers / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Wonderful Adventures of Nils / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Worlds of Science Fiction (1979) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Tsuki No Sango / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
AboutRoleplayingGames	seeAlso	Nameless Narrative
Corteo	seeAlso	Nameless Narrative
Fable / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
TeenageCaveman	seeAlso	Nameless Narrative
Bloom Into You (Manga) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Goodbye, Eri (Manga) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Gunjo (Manga) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Kami no Kodomo (Manga) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Precarious Woman Executive Miss Black General (Manga) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Girl from the Other Side (Manga) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Spiderland (Music) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Spin Room (Music) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Within the Wires (Podcast) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Tropes N to S / Real Life / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Mandalorian / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Corteo	seeAlso	Nameless Narrative
Edmond (Theatre) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Into the Woods (Theatre) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Rusalka (Theatre) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
A Hat in Time (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
a pet shop after dark (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Breathless (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Captive (RPG Maker) (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Chants of Sennaar (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Darkest Dungeon (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Darkwood (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Death Palette (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Deep Rock Galactic (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Depict1 (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Do It For Me (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Doom (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
DREDGE (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Dropsy (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Eden Blues (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
En Garde! (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Escape Lala (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Fallen London (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Fishing Vacation (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Friday Night Funkin' (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Furi (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Hello Neighbor (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Hotline Miami (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Hyper Light Drifter (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Just Shapes & Beats (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Kero Blaster (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Knytt Stories (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Leave (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Level Up (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Master Detective Archives: Rain Code (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Monster Hunter: Rise (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
nameless (2023) (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Primordia (2022) (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Propagation (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Stygian (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Super Ninja Meow Cat (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Superhot (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Tauronos (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The ClueFinders Math Adventures Ages 9–12: Mystery in the Himalayas (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Girl and the Robot (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
There Is No Game: Wrong Dimension (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Trine (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Twelve Minutes (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Twinsomnia (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Untitled Goose Game (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Vanish (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Castle Crashers (Video Game) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
a letter of challenge (Visual Novel) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
BAD END THEATER (Visual Novel) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk (Visual Novel) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Slay the Princess (Visual Novel) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
T E T R I S ' D (Web Animation) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Girl in a Blue Wig in Musicals (Web Video) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Hire (Web Video) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
To The Death (Web Video) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Two Best Friends Play (Web Video) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Boyfriends. (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Buni (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Clueless Hero (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Diamond in the Rough (Aladdin) (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Erstwhile (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Ganbare Douki-chan (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
HERO (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
He Is a Good Boy (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
History (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
I Love You, Little One, More Than Anything (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Jailbreak (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Little Nuns (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Problem Sleuth (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Tawawa on Monday (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Artist is Dead! (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Bully's Bully (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
xkcd (Webcomic) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Realm-Mesh Reality (Website) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
A Single Life / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Boundin' / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
El Héroe / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Flowers and Trees / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Life in a Tin / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
More / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Pachyderme / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
SHOP: A Pop Opera / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Spirit: Stallion of the Cimarron / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Sprite Fright / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Strange Planet (2023) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Strings (1991) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Bear That Wasn't / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Cat Piano / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Little Prince (2015) / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Red Turtle / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
The Street / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Waking Life / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
Blindness / int_8c41d6e9	type	Nameless Narrative
namelessnarrative	sameAs	Nameless Narrative

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