We last did this back in 2009 but many new characters have been created since then.
I’ll start - Duke Caboom from Toy Story 4
Also, “Snake” Plissken from Escape from New York. I can’t believe I didn’t mention this in the previous thread.
I always liked the name Meadow Soprano.
Jimmy Two-Times in “Goodfellas”. “I’m gonna get the papers, get the papers.”
Adorabeezle Winterpop from Wreck-It Ralph.
It just hits all the right places in my dumb brain.
Nicotine Caffeine from the fighting game “Samurai Shodown.”
There’s something pleasing about saying the name Naomi Nagata (from The Expanse.)
Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.
I don’t recall the earlier thread, but I first have to say that Charles Dickens was a master at making up names that fit his characters like a glove. Could you really do better than “Ebenezer Scrooge” for his unrepentant miser, or “Uriah Heep” for his sanctimonious “'umble servant”? Modern examples seem so obvious and artless by comparison.
That said, I’ll nominate Neal Stephenson’s creation of “Hiro Protagonist” in Snow Crash
I regret that “Snopes” became an Internet-era word for fact-checking, at the expense of William Faulkner’s conception of it, which would be useful in today’s political climate
“Through treachery and corruption, Flem Snopes gathers power in Frenchman’s Bend, Miss. His cousins are emblems of depravity, including murderous Mink, pedophile Wesley, bigamist I.O., mentally disabled Ike, who lusts after a cow, and Launcelot (“Lump”), who sells tickets to view Ike’s perverted scenes.”
M’sieu Pig – Peter Lorre in Strange Cargo (1940)
Ellsworth Tooey – Bad guy in The Fountainhead (1943)
Dixon Steele (a great porn name) – Bogart In a Lonely Place (1950)
Mr. Deltoid – Aubrey Morris in A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Glaeken Trismegestus – Scott Glenn in The Keep (1983)
Screwface – Basil Wallace in Marked for Death (1990)
And of course, Caspar Gutman.
Don’t know if I replied in the other thread, but I like Troy Tempest. Plus, I always had a crush on Marina.
Also from that franchise:
- Vanellope von Schweetz
- Taffyta Muttonfudge
- Rancis Fluggerbutter
- Jubileena Bing-Bing
- Citrusella Flugpucker
Herbert Pocket—Great Expectations
Carl LaFong—It’s a Gift (We never see LaFong)
Dawn Davenport—Female Trouble
Right? I was gonna comment that all the Sugar Rush names are fantastic and fun to say, but Adorabeezle just takes the cake.
Could you spell that for me?
Clayton “Bloody” Chiclitz
Oedipa Maas and her husband Mucho
“Cut Me Own Throat” Dibbler
Billy Pilgrim - Slaughterhouse-Five
Auric Goldfinger - Goldfinger
Esmé Squalor - A Series of Unfortunate Events
If you wanted a man to encourage the van,
Or harass the foe from the rear,
Storm fort or redoubt, you had only to shout
For Abdul Abulbul Amir.
Now the heroes were plenty and well known to fame
In the troops that were led by the Czar,
And the bravest of these was a man by the name
Of Ivan Skavinsky Skavar.
Major Major Major Major - Catch-22
Jack Russell aka Werewolf by Night
Scott Free aka Mister Miracle (an escape artist)
Johnny Blaze aka Ghost Rider (with the flaming skull)
Doctor Strange aka…well