# Character Names you love **URL:** \ **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:** 2
**Author:** ![Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/elmer_j.fudd/32/1211_2.png) [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elmer_J.Fudd)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 1:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/21 "2025-02-11T01:53:31Z")
> [@dirtball](#): > > Auric Goldfinger - _Goldfinger_ Okay, but it’s no Pussy Galore or Odd Job. ---
**Author:** ![Shoeless](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shoeless/32/7099_2.png) [@Shoeless](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shoeless)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 3:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/22 "2025-02-11T03:44:31Z")
Kilgore Trout ---
**Author:** ![Mahaloth](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mahaloth/32/1079_2.png) [@Mahaloth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mahaloth)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/23 "2025-02-11T04:03:09Z")
Eustace Scrubb There once was a boy named Eustace Scrubb and he almost deserved it. ---
**Author:** ![dirtball](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dirtball/32/18772_2.png) [@dirtball](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dirtball)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/24 "2025-02-11T04:06:45Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > [@dirtball](#): > > > > Auric Goldfinger - _Goldfinger_ > > Okay, but it’s no Pussy Galore or Odd Job. Well, you have to admit, it tells you in no uncertain terms what the dude is all about. ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:25am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/25 "2025-02-11T04:25:34Z")
Miss Anne Elk Zaphod Beeblebrox ---
**Author:** ![Slithy\_Tove](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/slithy_tove/32/18248_2.png) [@Slithy\_Tove](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Slithy_Tove)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/26 "2025-02-11T05:07:21Z")
(From the Three Stooges): Hammond Egger (From Mr. Rogers): Donkey Hoodie (Don Quixote) ---
**Author:** ![Jeff\_Lichtman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jeff_lichtman/32/1531_2.png) [@Jeff\_Lichtman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jeff_Lichtman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 5:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/27 "2025-02-11T05:48:19Z")
The movie _Dr. Strangelove_ has a bunch, in addition to the title character: General Buck Turgidson Colonel “Bat” Guano Major “King” Kong President Merkin Muffley ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 6:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/28 "2025-02-11T06:36:26Z")
> [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > Doctor Strange aka…well Perhaps my very favorite little bit from the 2016 Doctor Strange MCU film: > [@](#): > > Kaecilius: “How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister…” > Doctor Strange: “Doctor!” > Kaecilius: “Mr. Doctor?” > Doctor Strange: “It’s Strange.” > Kaecilius: “Maybe. Who am I to judge?” ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 7:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/29 "2025-02-11T07:01:34Z")
From the Australian TV series, _Kath and Kim_, the no-good beach bum [Sandy Freckle](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y9eNoWykvZo), played to perfection by William McInnes. The name is also an apt pun in Australian slang. ---
**Author:** ![Banksiaman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/banksiaman/32/3334_2.png) [@Banksiaman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Banksiaman)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 7:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/30 "2025-02-11T07:23:48Z")
And further to that, in the credits he appears as Rock Hampton. Rockhampton is a regional Queensland city, and this is possibly the best made-up actor name ever imagined. ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 2:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/31 "2025-02-11T14:44:05Z")
This thread brings to mind the MST3K episode “Space Mutiny,” wherein the riffers make up a series of beefcake sounding names for the hero. For whatever reason, these names and the way they continue throughout the episode have always left me in stitches, crying laughing. Some examples: - Slab Bulkhead - Bolt Vanderhuge - Blast Hardcheese [Here’s a montage of all of them](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RFHlJ2voJHY). ETA: I forgot my favorite: Big McHugeLarge 🤣 ---
**Author:** ![kenobi\_65](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kenobi_65/32/13178_2.png) [@kenobi\_65](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/kenobi_65)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/32 "2025-02-11T16:21:46Z")
> [@ShadowFacts](#): > > This thread brings to mind the MST3K episode “Space Mutiny,” wherein the riffers make up a series of beefcake sounding names for the hero. My wife loves to watch Hallmark Channel’s Christmas movies, nearly all of which feature leading men with chiseled features and string jaws. I’ve taken to referring to all of them as “Chin McJawline.” 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Telemark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/telemark/32/372_2.png) [@Telemark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Telemark)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/33 "2025-02-11T16:30:35Z")
One of my all time favorites is from Ernie Kovacs - **Percy Dovetonsils** ---
**Author:** ![veryfrank](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/87869e/32.png) [@veryfrank](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/veryfrank)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/34 "2025-02-11T16:30:41Z")
On _Arrested Development_, Scot Baio played the lawyer Bob Loblaw (who had a Law Blog). And from _Bad Santa_: “Your name’s _Thurman Murman_?” ---
**Author:** ![ShadowFacts](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shadowfacts/32/2934_2.png) [@ShadowFacts](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ShadowFacts)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/35 "2025-02-11T16:32:59Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > Chin McJawline Perfection 😀 ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/36 "2025-02-11T16:38:14Z")
nm, replied to wrong post. ---
**Author:** ![Quondam\_Mechanic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/quondam_mechanic/32/3404_2.png) [@Quondam\_Mechanic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Quondam_Mechanic)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/37 "2025-02-11T16:41:34Z")
> [@kenobi\_65](#): > > > [@Elmer\_J.Fudd](#): > > > > Doctor Strange aka…well > > Perhaps my very favorite little bit from the 2016 Doctor Strange MCU film: > > > [@](#): > > > > Kaecilius: “How long have you been at Kamar-Taj, Mister…” > > Doctor Strange: “Doctor!” > > Kaecilius: “Mr. Doctor?” > > Doctor Strange: “It’s Strange.” > > Kaecilius: “Maybe. Who am I to judge?” And played by Benedict Cumberbatch, which ought to be a character name except nobody would believe it. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/38 "2025-02-11T16:43:12Z")
Big Pussy - The Sopranos ---
**Author:** ![zimaane](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/a3d4f5/32.png) [@zimaane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zimaane)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/39 "2025-02-11T16:50:01Z")
whose full name is Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, which is obviously his birth name, because no one would willing choose that for themselves. From the animated classic Shrek, we have Shrek (which means ‘fear’ in German) and the delightfully named Lord Farquad (which sounds suspiciously like a vulgar term of insult). ---
**Author:** ![Odesio](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/odesio/32/20003_2.png) [@Odesio](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Odesio)\ **Post date:** [February 11, 2025, 4:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138/40 "2025-02-11T16:58:12Z")
> [@zimaane](#): > > whose full name is Benedict Timothy Carlton Cumberbatch, which is obviously his birth name, because no one would willing choose that for themselves. Dwight Yoakam said the same thing when someone asked him if that was his real name. Lucy Darling is the stage persona used by magician Carisa Hendrix. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/character-names-you-love/1014138.md?page=3)