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The fearsome recurring villain has struck again! The heroes grit their teeth and draw their weapons, prepared for the fight of their lives. They've spent most of the arc waiting for this battle. It's time to bring down... umm... If a series takes too long to tell you a character's name, expect the Fan Nicknames to flow. Contrast with Intro Dump. The inversion is Remember the New Guy?, where a new character is introduced that has never appeared or been mentioned before, but the cast are long familiar with to the point where the audience should have already met them.

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  • The fearsome recurring villain has struck again! The heroes grit their teeth and draw their weapons, prepared for the fight of their lives. They've spent most of the arc waiting for this battle. It's time to bring down... umm... If a series takes too long to tell you a character's name, expect the Fan Nicknames to flow. Contrast with Intro Dump. The inversion is Remember the New Guy?, where a new character is introduced that has never appeared or been mentioned before, but the cast are long familiar with to the point where the audience should have already met them.
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  • The fearsome recurring villain has struck again! The heroes grit their teeth and draw their weapons, prepared for the fight of their lives. They've spent most of the arc waiting for this battle. It's time to bring down... umm... Sometimes a series just has a hard time giving you the names of its characters. People are referred to in a manner that makes it hard to work out their actual names. Sometimes it's because everyone is past the first-name basis ("Hey, man, how're you?"); by contrast, it might be because there's a more strict social structure, and people are throwing orders around ("You! Get the Applied Phlebotinum out of the vault!" "Yes sir!"). Either way, nobody ever stops to introduce themselves, and nobody ever introduces anybody else, to the point you're studying the end credits just to work out what these people are called. This has the benefit of being slightly more realistic, as people generally don't go around name-dropping everyone they talk to. However, Realistic Diction Is Unrealistic -- it's generally an accepted element of fiction that at least the early appearances of a character will give us a name to attach to a face. If a series takes too long to tell you a character's name, expect the Fan Nicknames to flow. This is different from No Name Given or Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep" in that Who Is This Guy Again? characters actually have names. They're just hard to work out. More embarrassing than Expecting Someone Taller. If you know all the names but still have trouble telling people apart, they may have Only Six Faces. Those Two Guys are when they have nothing to do with the plot besides being background and providing some mundane exposition. Contrast with Intro Dump. The inversion is Remember the New Guy?, where a new character is introduced that has never appeared or been mentioned before, but the cast are long familiar with to the point where the audience should have already met them. Examples of Who Is This Guy Again? include:
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