# Favorite character names **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [March 16, 2009, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678 "2009-03-16T22:27:24Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Yllaria](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yllaria/32/3452_2.png) [@Yllaria](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yllaria)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 12:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/61 "2009-03-18T00:05:50Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > . . . Another one I always liked was **Luke Skywalker**. I just thought it fit in well with the setting and it showed a new direction for naming - it wasn’t the clever reference, and it wasn’t the made-up alien language name. I’m sure others will disagree with me, and I may be showing my ignorance of earlier sci-fi (which is, admittedly, vast). I was surprised to find out that **Skywalker** was one of the epithets used by the Norse god\*\* Loki\*\*. At least, according to Gaiman. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 1:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/62 "2009-03-18T01:13:01Z")
Two great SNL characters of Dan Ackroyd: Fred Garvin, Male Prostitute Leonard Pinth Garnell ---
**Author:** ![Ferd\_Burfel](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/ecccb3/32.png) [@Ferd\_Burfel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ferd_Burfel)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 1:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/63 "2009-03-18T01:45:19Z")
Pussy Galore Auric Goldfinger Capt. Clarence Oveur Rex Kramer Theodore “Beaver” Cleaver Bull Shannon Mike Hammer ---
**Author:** ![Lumpy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lumpy/32/446_2.png) [@Lumpy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lumpy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 1:52am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/64 "2009-03-18T01:52:34Z")
Teleporno, the formal High-elven name of Celeborn. “Grevious Bodily” Harmon. ---
**Author:** ![MeDrewNotYou](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/838e76/32.png) [@MeDrewNotYou](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MeDrewNotYou)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/65 "2009-03-18T03:10:14Z")
Lili von Shtupp and Hedley Lamarr from _Blazing Saddles_. I’m appalled that I didn’t think of them earlier. ---
**Author:** ![Kamino\_Neko](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kamino_neko/32/34_2.png) [@Kamino\_Neko](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kamino_Neko)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/66 "2009-03-18T03:37:15Z")
The Other Mother > [@Lumpy](#): > > Teleporno, the formal High-elven name of Celeborn. … Poor, poor Dr Tolkien…kicked in the nertz by changing language. \>\_\> ---
**Author:** ![Beware\_of\_Doug](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/278dde/32.png) [@Beware\_of\_Doug](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Beware_of_Doug)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 4:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/67 "2009-03-18T04:21:55Z")
Bob & Ray used to spin off some great names - often in tandem with great occupations, such as radio’s controversial Wally Ballou, or America’s outstanding lady unicyclist Miss Gwendolyn Frobisher. They also did “sign in please.” Someone would sign in as “Bonfiglio J. Rumplemeyer,” and then it would turn out he just had bad handwriting and his real name was something completely different. Then there was Wwlqlcw (“We pronounce it Abernathy”). ---
**Author:** ![Civil\_Guy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/d78d45/32.png) [@Civil\_Guy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Civil_Guy)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/68 "2009-03-18T05:00:43Z")
More Pratchett: that great sailing vessel, The Prid of Anhk Moorpark ---
**Author:** ![Sigmagirl](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c89c15/32.png) [@Sigmagirl](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sigmagirl)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 12:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/69 "2009-03-18T12:43:10Z")
> [@Beware\_of\_Doug](#): > > Bob & Ray used to spin off some great names - often in tandem with great occupations, such as radio’s controversial Wally Ballou, or America’s outstanding lady unicyclist Miss Gwendolyn Frobisher. They also did “sign in please.” Someone would sign in as “Bonfiglio J. Rumplemeyer,” and then it would turn out he just had bad handwriting and his real name was something completely different. > > Then there was Wwlqlcw (“We pronounce it Abernathy”). And Mary Backstayge, Noble Wife! ETA: I forgot Percy Dovetonsils! ---
**Author:** ![lawoot](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/35a633/32.png) [@lawoot](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lawoot)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 1:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/70 "2009-03-18T13:58:25Z")
From a play I did in High School (_The Clumsy Custard Horror Show and Ice Cream Clone Review_): Swashbuck Valpariso Lord Dacron and his Two Hench-Women Polly and Esther (The Ice Cream Clones) ---
**Author:** ![carlb](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carlb/32/5930_2.png) [@carlb](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carlb)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/71 "2009-03-18T14:17:11Z")
From the **Discworld** , I like the variations on Cut-Me-Own-Throat Dibbler (maybe they’re relations?). In Klatch there was a vendor named Al-Jiblah, the Agatean Empire gave us Disembowel-Meself-Honourably Dibhala, Cut-Me-Own-Hand-Off Dhblah from Omnia, etc. Otherwise, my favorite character name is Simon bar Sinister from _Underdog_. Simon the Bastard. That _has_ to have been a calculated bit of subversion on the part of the writers. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 2:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/72 "2009-03-18T14:32:00Z")
My high school art teacher used to joke about the Lear family, which made its fortune building business jets. The spoiled heiresses of the family were supposedly named Gonda, Shanda and Cava. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/malleus_incus_stapes/32/3293_2.png) [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Malleus_Incus_Stapes)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 2:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/73 "2009-03-18T14:37:19Z")
> [@Lumpy](#): > > Teleporno, the formal High-elven name of Celeborn. You’re kidding, right? Please tell me Tolkien did not create an elf named Teleporno. ---
**Author:** ![Sitnam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/6a8cbe/32.png) [@Sitnam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sitnam)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/74 "2009-03-18T15:11:54Z")
Ichabod Crane is a name that describes the character. ---
**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:** [March 18, 2009, 4:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/75 "2009-03-18T16:31:46Z")
Clem Kaddiddlehopper and Freddie the Freeloader were Red Skelton characters Max Bialystock and Roger (Elizabeth) De Bris from The Producers ---
**Author:** ![Damfino](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Damfino](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Damfino)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 5:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/76 "2009-03-18T17:48:24Z")
Shining Lighttower from _Battle Cry_ by Leon Uris. ---
**Author:** ![Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7cd45c/32.png) [@Elendil\_s\_Heir](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Elendil_s_Heir)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 6:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/77 "2009-03-18T18:35:12Z")
> [@Malleus\_Incus\_Stapes](#): > > You’re kidding, right? Please tell me Tolkien did not create an elf named Teleporno. Alas, it’s true: [http://www.glyphweb.com/ARDA/t/teleporno.html](http://www.glyphweb.com/ARDA/t/teleporno.html) He also named a coastal city Tuna and a marshland Wetwang. :: cringe :: Hey, even Babe Ruth struck out once in awhile… ---
**Author:** ![Stealth\_Potato](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Stealth\_Potato](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Stealth_Potato)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/78 "2009-03-18T23:23:53Z")
> [@footballisplayedwithyourfeet](#): > > Actually he was major alrady, they (chracters in the book) just didn’t want to change the name so they proomterd him from _major_ to the new title of _major major_ But that would have made him Major Major Major Major Major. (That’s five majors for anyone not bothering to count. :p) His full name given at birth was Major Major Major – his family name was Major, and his father gave him the first and middle names of “Major” and “Major” respectively, though he told his wife that he had named the boy Caleb. He was promoted to the rank of Major during boot camp, making him Major Major Major Major. ---
**Author:** ![zamboniracer](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/e9a140/32.png) [@zamboniracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zamboniracer)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2009, 11:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/79 "2009-03-18T23:50:12Z")
> [@Sitnam](#): > > Ichabod Crane is a name that describes the character. You want a name that describes the character? How about Stupefying Jones from Li’l Abner? 😉 Then there’s my favorite, Buffy Anne Summers, which is a great and funny name because it doesn’t describe the character, or at least the part of her that’s “The Slayer.” ---
**Author:** ![JKellyMap](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jkellymap/32/15880_2.png) [@JKellyMap](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JKellyMap)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2009, 12:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/favorite-character-names/489678/80 "2009-03-19T00:06:43Z")
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