Greatest character names in film

Drop Dead Fred.

That’s Betelgeuse.

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

The Stranger, from High Plains Drifter

XXXX, from L4yer Cake

He and She, from Antichrist

Mr. Book
Mr. Hand
Mr. Quick
Mr. Rain
Mr. Sleep
Mr. Wall

Dr. Mantis Toboggan

Not to mention Natasha Fatale and Snidely Whiplash.

I love this name. I’ve adopted it as my “go to” alias.

Biggs Darklighter

I can’t believe I forgot Sho’Nuff!

Then don’t forget Jay Ward’s earlier “top-hatted melodrama villain” Dudley Nightshade

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)

Jame Gumb (Silence of the Lambs)

Frederica Bimmel (Silence of the Lambs)

Apu Nahasapeemapetilon (The Simpsons Movie)

Bob Dylan’s character in “Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid”

Alias

“Alias what?”

long pause, “Just Alias.”

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.”