Great character names in movies?
 

Sometimes you don't have to mention the premise or movie title to know what movie one is talking about simply by one of the characters' name in the fim to know what it is. The character name sometimes becomes so legendary and iconic.

I love a great character name that sticks with you. Of course many times it is the actor portraying that charater that makes it legendary, but good names are so vital in movies, i think.

I was thinking about what are some really great character names that just become synonymous with a movie or franchise that even if people haven't seen the movie they know what it is.

I am not necessarily talking about the title of films that are the lead characters' name.

They can be your favorites or just names that stick out and are so perfect for that particular character in that particular movie.

Some I thought of (which includes favorites):
Rick Deckard
Ripley
Sarah Connor; maybe Reese as well
John McClane
Anton Chigurh (though not legendary as yet)



So what are some of your favorites or just ones that you think are great character names in movies?

Claire Standish
John Bender
Andrew Clark
Allison Reynolds
Brian Johnson

THE BREAKFAST CLUB


Ferris Bueller
Cameron Frye
Sloan Peterson

FERRIS BUELLER'S DAY OFF

Best one ever:

Sylvester Stallone IS Lincoln Hawk IN "Over the Top"

Should we just get the obvious Star Wars ones out of the way?

Darth Vader
Luke Skywalker
Princess Leia
Han Solo
Yoda
R2-D2
C-3PO
Chewbacca
Obi-Wan Kenobi

Any character created by Tarantino

Vincent Vega
Marsellus Wallace
Mr. Pink

etc, etc, etc...

Dirk Diggler
Quint

Obvious:
James Bond and the women of the James Bond films.
Indiana Jones

if you hadn't said The Breakfast Club i never would have put the names together.

Cameron definitely stands out.

i was going to mention them, but i figured it was obvious :)

Hunk Golden

Some of my favorites:
Ellis Boyd 'Red' Redding
Freddy Krueger
Riggs & Murtaugh
Leonard Shelby
Jack Sparrow

Jason Voorhees
Michael Myers


SNAKE PLISSKEN

excellent one!

Keyser Soze. :)

Silent Bob.

And I've always liked Chester Copperpot.

Yep. :lol:

I was on XBOX live the other day and one of my team mates had a name that was "_____ Plissken". I forget what the 1st name was but it wasn't "Snake". Anyway, I was telling him that an enemy was coming and I called him "Snake", then I realized my mistake and apologized. He said, "Naw dude it's cool. Lotsa people make that mistake. But that's cool because you know where it came from." We had a good laugh.

I imagine there have been plenty of "Snake" characters in film over the years but obviously "Plissken" is the Iconic part of the name..

Humphrey Bogart's character in To Have and Have Not (1944) -- Captain Morgan

William Munny, "English" Bob - Unforgiven
H.I. McDunnough - Raising Arizona

Boston Blackie
Dolemite
Sartana
Mom Smackley (Switchblade Sisters
Otto Maddox (Repo Man)
Mole McHenry (Desperate Living
Fuad Ramses (Blood Feast)
Benny Blanco From The Bronx (Carlito's Way)
Dr. Satan (The Deathless Devil/House of 1000 Corpses)
Sweety East (She Mob)

Bruce Wayne.

Is this officially now a "Dark Knight" thread? Can it now be open to complaints and bitching? (;) JK)


I'd have to go with...

Malcolm Reynolds
Prince Humperdink
Innigo Montoya
General Buck Turgidson
Abe Frohman
Basil Exposition
Nigel Tuffnel
David St. Hubbins
Marty Dibergi
Travis Bickle
Tyler Durden


...off the top of my head.


-Doc

Pussy Galore (Goldfinger)



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Corleone.

Good stuff. Looking over the names in Unforgiven and Dr. Strangelove(!), both of those movies have great character names all around.

Sex Machine.

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Wes Anderson's films have great character names. Notably...

Dirk Calloway
Eli Cash
Raleigh St. Clair
Steve Zissou

didn't even think about Unforgiven, good call!

"Little Bill Dagget" = AWESOME name.

-Doc