# Unnamed lead characters in movies. **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [December 22, 2007, 1:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930 "2007-12-22T13:45:56Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![brianmelendez](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/65b543/32.png) [@brianmelendez](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/brianmelendez)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 12:05pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930/41 "2007-12-23T12:05:59Z")
The captain of the _Nautilus_ in the movie adaptations of Jules Verne’s novels _20,000 Leagues Under the Sea_ and _The Mysterious Island_ never uses a name other than “Nemo,” Latin for “no man.” Not a movie but, in the television series _The Prisoner_, the protagonist is never named, and is known only by the number that his captors assign him. ---
**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:** [December 23, 2007, 3:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930/42 "2007-12-23T15:22:55Z")
Terence Hill’s character in [My Name Is Nobody](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0070215/). [QUOTE=spoke-] **Clint Eastwood** was also a man with no name (“The Stranger”) in [High Plains Drifter](http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0068699/). [/QUOTE] And “Preacher” in _Pale Rider_. ---
**Author:** ![coffinjumper](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/8baadc/32.png) [@coffinjumper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/coffinjumper)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 3:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930/43 "2007-12-23T15:25:14Z")
None of the characters are named in the J-Horror film Versus. It made imdb-ing one of the actors quite difficult. ---
**Author:** ![Justin\_Bailey](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/justin_bailey/32/8792_2.png) [@Justin\_Bailey](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Justin_Bailey)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 3:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930/44 "2007-12-23T15:52:38Z")
[QUOTE=Diceman] True, but in the first movie they never reveal her name. They even bleep out her name in a line that Vernita Green speaks. [/QUOTE] Which never made any sense to me because “The Bride” means about as much to me as “Beatrix Kiddo.” I think Tarantino was going for a Man With No Name-vibe and just couldn’t quite pull it off. Milla Jovovich’s character in Resident Evil is never given a name. And for some reason critics hated this, so her first line in the sequel is “My name is Alice.” ---
**Author:** ![Labtrash](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/labtrash/32/528_2.png) [@Labtrash](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Labtrash)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 5:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930/45 "2007-12-23T17:36:19Z")
[QUOTE=Hazle Weatherfield] From Halloween “The Shape.” [/QUOTE] Credited, yes, but isn’t he identified as Michael Myers in the movie? ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 6:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930/46 "2007-12-23T18:45:37Z")
None of the various Terminators have names. ---
**Author:** ![Raguleader](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/r/258eb7/32.png) [@Raguleader](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Raguleader)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930/47 "2007-12-23T18:56:49Z")
[QUOTE=Der Trihs] None of the various Terminators have names. [/QUOTE] Aren’t they all named “Cyberdyne Systems Model 101”? 😃 ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [December 23, 2007, 7:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930/48 "2007-12-23T19:28:57Z")
[QUOTE=Raguleader] Aren’t they all named “Cyberdyne Systems Model 101”? 😃 [/QUOTE] Only in the same sense I’m named “_Homo Sapiens_ Mark 1”. Not that I’d turn down an upgrade . . . [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/unnamed-lead-characters-in-movies/430930.md?page=2)