# 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:** 14\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Trancephalic](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/trancephalic/32/380_2.png) [@Trancephalic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Trancephalic)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 7:02pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/101 "2014-04-24T19:02:21Z")
Drop Dead Fred. > [@Lukeinva](#): > > Beetlejuice That’s Betelgeuse. ---
**Author:** ![Jack\_Burden](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/958977/32.png) [@Jack\_Burden](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jack_Burden)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 8:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/102 "2014-04-24T20:13:25Z")
Rocky Balboa Apollo Creed Clubber Lang Ivan Drago Thunderlips Squire Red Will Danaher Michaeleen Oge Flynn Rev Cyril Playfair The Widow Terlane Winston Wolfe Marcellus Wallace Vincent and Vic Vega Beatrix Kiddo O-Ren Ishii Hattori Hanzo George Washington McLintock (!) The Ringo Kid Gaylord Focker Tony Montana Big Jim Slade Guy Fleegman ---
**Author:** ![VinylTurnip](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/b2d939/32.png) [@VinylTurnip](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/VinylTurnip)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/103 "2014-04-24T21:04:27Z")
The Stranger, from _High Plains Drifter_ XXXX, from _L4yer Cake_ He and She, from _Antichrist_ ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [April 24, 2014, 9:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/104 "2014-04-24T21:26:16Z")
Mr. Book Mr. Hand Mr. Quick Mr. Rain Mr. Sleep Mr. Wall ---
**Author:** ![Isamu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/i/7c8e57/32.png) [@Isamu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Isamu)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 1:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/105 "2014-04-25T01:05:48Z")
Dr. Mantis Toboggan ---
**Author:** ![Colibri](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/colibri/32/1841_2.png) [@Colibri](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Colibri)\ **Post date:** [April 25, 2014, 4:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/106 "2014-04-25T04:26:43Z")
> [@Qadgop\_the\_Mercotan](#): > > **Boris Badenov** Not to mention Natasha Fatale and Snidely Whiplash. ---
**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 25, 2014, 4:40am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/107 "2014-04-25T04:40:52Z")
> [@Isamu](#): > > Dr. Mantis Toboggan I love this name. I’ve adopted it as my “go to” alias. ---
**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 25, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/108 "2014-04-25T05:55:56Z")
Biggs Darklighter ---
**Author:** ![JSexton](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/96bed5/32.png) [@JSexton](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/JSexton)\ **Post date:** [April 29, 2014, 10:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/109 "2014-04-29T22:11:15Z")
I can’t believe I forgot **Sho’Nuff**! ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [April 30, 2014, 1:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/110 "2014-04-30T13:43:11Z")
> [@Colibri](#): > > Not to mention Natasha Fatale and Snidely Whiplash. Then don’t forget Jay Ward’s earlier “top-hatted melodrama villain” **Dudley Nightshade** ---
**Author:** ![Roundabout](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/dec6dc/32.png) [@Roundabout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Roundabout)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 8:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/111 "2014-05-01T20:48:12Z")
Sweet Dick Willie (Do the Right Thing) Jack Slater (Last Action Hero) Motherfucker Jones (Horrible Bosses) Freda Felcher (Dumb and Dumber) Bob Lee Swagger (Shooter) Black Dynamite John Shaft (Shaft) Castor Troy (Face/Off) Joe Cox (Robocop) ---
**Author:** ![edwards\_beard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/7bcc69/32.png) [@edwards\_beard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/edwards_beard)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 9:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/112 "2014-05-01T21:00:16Z")
Jame Gumb (Silence of the Lambs) Frederica Bimmel (Silence of the Lambs) Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (The Simpsons Movie) ---
**Author:** ![TV\_time](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f17d59/32.png) [@TV\_time](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TV_time)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 9:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/113 "2014-05-01T21:17:53Z")
Bob Dylan’s character in “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid” Alias “Alias what?” long pause, “Just Alias.” ---
**Author:** ![Siam\_Sam](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/d78d45/32.png) [@Siam\_Sam](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Siam_Sam)\ **Post date:** [May 1, 2014, 9:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761/114 "2014-05-01T21:34:21Z")
Just remembered Arnold Schwarzenegger as Handsome Stranger in _The Villain_ (1979), in which he said he was named after his father. When asked if his father was handsome, he said, “I don’t know.” [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/greatest-character-names-in-film/686761.md?page=5)