# Greatest character names in film **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [April 23, 2014, 12:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761 "2014-04-23T12:19:44Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Kent\_Clark](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kent_clark/32/105_2.png) [@Kent\_Clark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kent_Clark)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/21 "2014-04-23T14:19:33Z")
Major General Jack T. Ripper Colonel “Bat” Guano Major “King” Kong ---
**Author:** ![Alessan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alessan/32/465_2.png) [@Alessan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Alessan)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:20pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/22 "2014-04-23T14:20:44Z")
> [@JKilez](#): > > ETA: I am also quite fond of the name **CK Dexter Haven**. At some point I will have a cat, dog, or son with that name. 🙂 Beat you to it! ---
**Author:** ![Max\_Torque](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/e9bcb4/32.png) [@Max\_Torque](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Max_Torque)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/23 "2014-04-23T14:24:53Z")
Keyser Söze. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/24 "2014-04-23T14:26:24Z")
Most of the characters in Lil’ Abner: Stupefyin’ Jones Earthquake McGoon Evil Eye Fleagle Available Jones Moonbeam McSwine Rasmussen T. Finsdale Lonesome Polecat Hairless Joe ---
**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/25 "2014-04-23T14:29:51Z")
Judge Smails Captain Oveur ---
**Author:** ![The\_Batman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/26 "2014-04-23T14:38:15Z")
Bodhi (Point Break) Major Kong (Dr. Strangelove) Han Solo (guess) Margo Lane (The Shadow) Jean-Baptiste Emanuel Zorg (The Fifth Element) Song Jat Sharif (Ultraviolet) ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/27 "2014-04-23T14:52:17Z")
Lando Calrissian ---
**Author:** ![The\_Batman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/22d042/32.png) [@The\_Batman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Batman)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 2:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/28 "2014-04-23T14:57:31Z")
George Lucas knows how to make up cool names that fit the characters, I’ll give him that. ---
**Author:** ![El\_Kabong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/el_kabong/32/496_2.png) [@El\_Kabong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/El_Kabong)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/29 "2014-04-23T15:02:59Z")
Inigo Montoya (prepare to die) Fred C. Dobbs Kaspar Gutman ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/30 "2014-04-23T15:05:13Z")
The Toecutter (Mad Max) Jubilation T. Cornpone (L’il Abner) Egbert Sousé (The Bank Dick) ---
**Author:** ![Lukeinva](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/lukeinva/32/17872_2.png) [@Lukeinva](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Lukeinva)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/31 "2014-04-23T15:17:40Z")
Long Duck Dong - Sixteen Candles Animal Mother - Full Metal Jacket ---
**Author:** ![MovieMogul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/f08c70/32.png) [@MovieMogul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MovieMogul)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/32 "2014-04-23T15:53:44Z")
Trudy Kockenlocker ---
**Author:** ![Cuckoorex](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/ad7895/32.png) [@Cuckoorex](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cuckoorex)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/33 "2014-04-23T15:58:07Z")
McLovin Hannibal Lector Brick Tamblyn ---
**Author:** ![KneadToKnow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kneadtoknow/32/3999_2.png) [@KneadToKnow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/KneadToKnow)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 3:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/34 "2014-04-23T15:59:20Z")
Ebby Calvin “Nuke” LaLoosh Grover T. Muldoon Martin Blank Lester Burnham Bunny Wigglesworth ---
**Author:** ![Moonchild](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d9b06d/32.png) [@Moonchild](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Moonchild)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:08pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/35 "2014-04-23T16:08:44Z")
Alabama Whitman (True Romance) Buford T. Justice (Smokey and the Bandit) ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/36 "2014-04-23T16:10:16Z")
Agnes Gooch (“I’m yer sponge…”). ---
**Author:** ![RealityChuck](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/realitychuck/32/195_2.png) [@RealityChuck](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/RealityChuck)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 4:51pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/37 "2014-04-23T16:51:41Z")
> [@MovieMogul](#): > > Trudy Kockenlocker We have a winner. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![Wolf333](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/wolf333/32/3460_2.png) [@Wolf333](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wolf333)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/38 "2014-04-23T17:01:32Z")
Hanover Fiste (played by Rodger Bumpass) ---
**Author:** ![Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/earl_snake-hips_tucker/32/3269_2.png) [@Earl\_Snake-Hips\_Tucker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Earl_Snake-Hips_Tucker)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/39 "2014-04-23T17:07:07Z")
Fodderwing Forrester (The Yearling) ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [April 23, 2014, 5:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/40 "2014-04-23T17:09:45Z")
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