# Character Names you love
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [February 10, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138 "2025-02-10T16:35:20Z")
**Posts on this page:** 20
**Page:** 1
### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 4:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/1 "2025-02-10T16:35:20Z")
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.
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### Author:  [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 4:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/2 "2025-02-10T16:36:02Z")
I always liked the name Meadow Soprano.
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### Author:  [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/3 "2025-02-10T16:39:05Z")
Jimmy Two-Times in “Goodfellas”. “I’m gonna get the papers, get the papers.”
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/4 "2025-02-10T16:39:33Z")
**Adorabeezle Winterpop** from _Wreck-It Ralph._
It just hits all the right places in my dumb brain.
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### Author:  [@DCnDC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DCnDC)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/5 "2025-02-10T16:39:57Z")
Nicotine Caffeine from the fighting game “Samurai Shodown.”
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### Author:  [@BlankSlate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BlankSlate)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 4:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/6 "2025-02-10T16:44:00Z")
There’s something pleasing about saying the name Naomi Nagata (from _The Expanse_.)
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### Author:  [@ZipperJJ](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ZipperJJ)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 4:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/7 "2025-02-10T16:45:38Z")
Sherlock and Mycroft Holmes.
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### Author:  [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/8 "2025-02-10T16:50:45Z")
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_
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 4:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/9 "2025-02-10T16:59:23Z")
I regret that “Snopes” became an Internet-era word for fact-checking, at the expense of [William Faulkner’s conception of it](https://www.oxfordreference.com/display/10.1093/oi/authority.20110803100514509#:~:text=His%20son%20Flem%20continues%20his,to%20view%20Ike's%20perverted%20relations), 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.”
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### Author:  [@Dropo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dropo)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 9:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/10 "2025-02-10T21:18:36Z")
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)
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### Author:  [@Jaycat.again](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jaycat.again)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 9:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/11 "2025-02-10T21:53:48Z")
And of course, Caspar Gutman.
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### Author:  [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 10:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/12 "2025-02-10T22:01:07Z")
Don’t know if I replied in the other thread, but I like [Troy Tempest](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=45NtEXv7DZs). Plus, I always had a crush on [Marina.](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD96RQ1-wnY)
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### Author:  [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 10:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/13 "2025-02-10T22:46:19Z")
> [@cmyk](#):
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> **Adorabeezle Winterpop** from _Wreck-It Ralph._
Also from that franchise:
- Vanellope von Schweetz
- Taffyta Muttonfudge
- Rancis Fluggerbutter
- Jubileena Bing-Bing
- Citrusella Flugpucker
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### Author:  [@peedin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/peedin)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 10:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/14 "2025-02-10T22:49:31Z")
Herbert Pocket—Great Expectations
Carl LaFong—It’s a Gift (We never see LaFong)
Dawn Davenport—Female Trouble
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### Author:  [@cmyk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cmyk)
#### Post date: [February 10, 2025, 11:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/15 "2025-02-10T23:41:49Z")
Right? I was gonna comment that all the _Sugar Rush_ names are fantastic and fun to say, but **Adorabeezle** just takes the cake.
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### Author:  [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2025, 12:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/16 "2025-02-11T00:36:38Z")
> [@peedin](#):
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> Carl LaFong—It’s a Gift (We never see LaFong)
Could you spell that for me?
Clayton “Bloody” Chiclitz
Oedipa Maas and her husband Mucho
“Cut Me Own Throat” Dibbler
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### Author:  [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2025, 12:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/17 "2025-02-11T00:53:58Z")
Billy Pilgrim - _Slaughterhouse-Five_
Auric Goldfinger - _Goldfinger_
Esmé Squalor - _A Series of Unfortunate Events_
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### Author:  [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2025, 12:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/18 "2025-02-11T00:58:21Z")
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**.
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### Author:  [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2025, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/19 "2025-02-11T01:06:10Z")
Major Major Major Major - _Catch-22_
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### Author:  [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)
#### Post date: [February 11, 2025, 1:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/20 "2025-02-11T01:50:54Z")
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
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