# Nameless Characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 1, 2009, 2:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906 "2009-11-01T02:09:27Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 6
**Author:** ![Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/eyebrows_0f_doom/32/3119_2.png) [@Eyebrows\_0f\_Doom](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Eyebrows_0f_Doom)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 6:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906/101 "2009-11-03T06:13:49Z")
> [@Munch](#): > > you need to write something outside the spoiler box about what’s inside it, otherwise no one knows what you’re about to spoil until they actual click on the box (and get spoiled). > [@Kizarvexius](#): > > Oh yes, another one that occurs to me. It’s part of a plot twist, so I’ll put it in spoilers, but the central character of _The Day of the Jackal_ is never identified. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Kizarvexius](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/da6949/32.png) [@Kizarvexius](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kizarvexius)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 7:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906/102 "2009-11-03T19:12:07Z")
Okay, you caught me not reading the entire thread. I stand abused and humiliated. :o ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906/103 "2009-11-03T20:00:10Z")
> [@Lamia](#): > > Turns out TV Tropes has a page on nameless characters, although many of their examples are cases where the name was eventually revealed or where the character has a first or last name but not both. > > [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoNameGiven](http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/NoNameGiven) I’m surprised they didn’t include Eastwood’s “Preacher” from _Pale Rider_. ---
**Author:** ![Promethea](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/f9ae1b/32.png) [@Promethea](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Promethea)\ **Post date:** [November 3, 2009, 8:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906/104 "2009-11-03T20:23:01Z")
> [@Teacake](#): > > When he receives the telegram informing him that he’s been called back, you can read the name and address upside down after he hands it to Withnail. Huh. I’ve watched that film a dozen times and never noticed. Thanks! Does it show his first name too? What is it? ---
**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:** [November 3, 2009, 9:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906/105 "2009-11-03T21:32:03Z")
& I’s name > **[Withnail and I](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Withnail_And_I#.22I.22.27s_name)** > > Withnail and I is a 1987 British black comedy film written and directed by Bruce Robinson. Loosely based on Robinson's life in London in the late 1960s, the plot follows two unemployed actors, Withnail and "I" (portrayed by Richard E. Grant and Paul McGann, respectively) who share a flat in Camden Town in 1969. Needing a holiday, they obtain the key to a country cottage in the Lake District belonging to Withnail's eccentric uncle Monty and drive there. The weekend holiday proves less recuperat... ---
**Author:** ![BomTek](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bomtek/32/21364_2.png) [@BomTek](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BomTek)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 6:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906/106 "2009-11-04T06:11:31Z")
The guy who shot House at the end of season 2 is never referred to by name in the show… considering he is actually there interacting with anybody at PPTH during the cold open. He got out of the hospital before security or the police could grab him. I believe he was credited as Moriarty, in reference to Sherlock Holmes’ nemesis, but never called that by name. I hope I did that spoiler right… I’ve never done one before. ---
**Author:** ![Blake](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/a9a28c/32.png) [@Blake](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Blake)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 10:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906/107 "2009-11-04T10:58:17Z")
> [@Mahna\_Mahna](#): > > In film: > For all of Kill Bill Pt 1 and a good chunk of Pt 2, Uma Thurman’s character is known simply as “The Bride”. I can’t recall her ever being referred to as that in the movie. I can only ever recall her being called “Black Mamba”, regardless of what she may be credited as. ---
**Author:** ![Gyrate](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gyrate/32/3588_2.png) [@Gyrate](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gyrate)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 12:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906/108 "2009-11-04T12:00:17Z")
> [@Blake](#): > > I can’t recall her ever being referred to as that in the movie. I can only ever recall her being called “Black Mamba”, regardless of what she may be credited as. Tarantino is very cute on this point - you eventually discover you’d known her last name for a while: Bill calls her “kiddo” on several occasions - we eventually learn her name is actually Beatrix Kiddo. And what - no love for [this guy](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Janitor_(Scrubs))? I know he eventually revealed his name (_or did he?_) but he spent a full eight seasons as The Janitor. ---
**Author:** ![Munch](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/munch/32/5281_2.png) [@Munch](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Munch)\ **Post date:** [November 4, 2009, 2:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906/109 "2009-11-04T14:13:24Z")
> [@Blake](#): > > I can’t recall her ever being referred to as that in the movie. I can only ever recall her being called “Black Mamba”, regardless of what she may be credited as. Being called something and being known as something are different. Uma’s character is referred to as “The Bride” with on-screen text. I believe she’s introduced in the opening/closing credits as “Uma Thurman as The Bride/The Bride - Uma Thurman”. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/nameless-characters/515906.md?page=5)