# Iconic self-identifications **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 12, 2024, 1:06am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446 "2024-02-12T01:06:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 4
**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:** [February 12, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/61 "2024-02-12T13:39:41Z")
> [@purplehorseshoe](#): > > I’ve gotten almost all the others, but could I request a lil’ help with this one, please? It’s Jean Valjean declaring his identity as former prisoner 24601 to his nemesis Javert in the musical version of **Les Miserables.** ---
**Author:** ![Horatius](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/horatius/32/3572_2.png) [@Horatius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Horatius)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 1:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/62 "2024-02-12T13:39:42Z")
Another good Walken one is from The Prophecy: - [Gabriel](https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0000686/?ref_=ttqu_qu): I’m an angel. I kill firstborns while their mamas watch. I turn cities into salt. I even, when I feel like it, rip the souls from little girls, and from now till kingdom come, the only thing you can count on in your existence is never understanding why. ---
**Author:** ![The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/the_other_waldo_pepper/32/12370_2.png) [@The\_Other\_Waldo\_Pepper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_Other_Waldo_Pepper)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/63 "2024-02-12T13:41:05Z")
> [@CalMeacham](#): > > It’s Jean Valjean declaring his identity as former prisoner 24601 to his nemesis Javert in the musical version of **Les Miserables.** Ideally, while tearing his shirt open like Superman. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2024, 1:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/64 "2024-02-12T13:41:55Z")
> [@dorvann](#): > > “I’m the best there is, the best there was, the best there will be.”— Bret “The Hitman” Hart Pavel: Gant, can you fly that plane? Really fly it? Mitchell Gant (Clint Eastwood): (beat) Yeah. I can fly it. I’m the best there is. – **Firefox** (1982) ---
**Author:** ![Dung\_Beetle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/dung_beetle/32/7945_2.png) [@Dung\_Beetle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dung_Beetle)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 1:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/65 "2024-02-12T13:47:10Z")
My name’s Jim, but most people call me… Jim. I used to be known as The Waco Kid. ---
**Author:** ![dorvann](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/df705f/32.png) [@dorvann](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dorvann)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 1:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/66 "2024-02-12T13:52:39Z")
Does this count: “HULK, SMASH!!!” ---
**Author:** ![MrAtoz](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/45deac/32.png) [@MrAtoz](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrAtoz)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 1:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/67 "2024-02-12T13:55:27Z")
I like Tom Baker’s version: “You may be _a_ doctor, but I’m _the_ Doctor. The definite article, you might say.” Not nearly so over-written. ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 1:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/68 "2024-02-12T13:59:47Z")
There are some who call me… Tim. ---
**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:** [February 12, 2024, 2:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/69 "2024-02-12T14:03:48Z")
“Do you know who I am? I’m Moe Greene. I made my bones while you were going out with cheerleaders.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/70 "2024-02-12T14:17:21Z")
> [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](#): > > There are some who call me… Tim. That’s what @Elmer_J.Fudd gets for not posting searchable text, I guess. Speaking of whom… “I am Elmer J. Fudd, millionaire. I own a mansion and a yacht.” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/71 "2024-02-12T14:25:54Z")
D’oh! Speaking of millionaires… “Hello, my name is Mister Snrub! And I come from…someplace far away! Yes, that’ll do.” ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/72 "2024-02-12T14:40:16Z")
“I am NOT an animal! I… am a human being!” ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:40pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/73 "2024-02-12T14:40:38Z")
That’s one I was thinking about. ---
**Author:** ![E-DUB](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/e-dub/32/403_2.png) [@E-DUB](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/E-DUB)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/74 "2024-02-12T14:43:07Z")
My name is Oliver Queen. Call me Ishmael. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/75 "2024-02-12T14:45:30Z")
My name’s Johnny, and it might be a sin I’ll take your bet, you’re gonna regret I’m the best there’s ever been. ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/76 "2024-02-12T14:46:14Z")
“I am [the Whistler](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Whistler_(radio_series)), and I know many things, for I walk by night. I know many strange tales, many secrets hidden in the hearts of men and women who have stepped into the shadows. I know the nameless terrors of which they dare not speak.” ---
**Author:** ![Thudlow\_Boink](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/thudlow_boink/32/320_2.png) [@Thudlow\_Boink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Thudlow_Boink)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/77 "2024-02-12T14:50:47Z")
“And God said unto Moses, **I Am That I Am** : and he said, Thus shalt thou say unto the children of Israel, **I Am** hath sent me unto you.” ---
**Author:** ![Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/q.q.switcheroo/32/5713_2.png) [@Q.Q.Switcheroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Q.Q.Switcheroo)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/78 "2024-02-12T14:53:39Z")
“Hello, I’m Troy McClure! You may remember me from such films as…” ---
**Author:** ![Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/left_hand_of_dorkness/32/7156_2.png) [@Left\_Hand\_of\_Dorkness](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Left_Hand_of_Dorkness)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/79 "2024-02-12T14:55:45Z")
I’m a little teapot, short and stout! ---
**Author:** ![MrDibble](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mrdibble/32/114_2.png) [@MrDibble](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/MrDibble)\ **Post date:** [February 12, 2024, 2:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446/80 "2024-02-12T14:58:31Z")
Wile E. Coyote. Genius. (later, _Super_!Genius.) > **[Wile E. Coyote: Genius](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PufFA8kDWFk%2F)** > > IQ of 207. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446.md?page=3) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/iconic-self-identifications/997446.md?page=5)