Coolest, most memorable, or far-out character names in shows or movies. by chrisisall

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Coolest, most memorable, or far-out character names in shows or movies.

POSTED BY: CHRISISALL
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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:57 AM

The most interesting character name that still haunts my memory from childhood is:
Napoleon Solo . It is so rich and full of possible meanings (shame on you if you don't know where it's from, young persons).

Let the lists begin!

Illya Chrisisall

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:13 AM

MUTT999

Gotta go with "Buckaroo Banzai".

"That's the buffet table....."

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:17 AM

MONKSDAD

isnt that from man from uncle??? That was my dad's favorite, lol!

"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:20 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by Mutt999:
Gotta go with "Buckaroo Banzai".

GOOD ONE!

wherever you go, Chrisisall

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:23 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by monksdad:
isnt that from man from uncle???

Yep.
Here's another from Brisco County, Jr.
The Swill Brothers. Their name says it all.

Chrisisall, namin' names

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:25 AM

MONKSDAD

my fav name all tie for a character in a movie or tv show is, pussy galore. nuff said

"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:39 AM

PATSRULE

I liked "Ze Craw" from Get Smart, who considered his name "The Claw". People would say "Hey...its Ze Craw", and he would say "It's not 'Ze Craw'! It's 'Ze Craw'!"

To this day its one of my favorite funny lines of a tv show.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 7:55 AM

DAVESHAYNE

Tough question.

From The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy we have many fine entrants:

Zaphod Beeblebrox
Ford Prefect
Vroomfondle
Majikthighs

Hard to choose.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:18 AM

STORYMARK

Snake Plisskin

Captain Jack Sparrow

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 8:59 AM

MAVOURNEEN

Quote:
Originally posted by daveshayne:
Tough question.

From The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy we have many fine entrants:

Zaphod Beeblebrox
Ford Prefect
Vroomfondle
Majikthighs

Hard to choose.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

Hey! I was gonna go for Eccentrica Golombits, the triple breasted whore from Eroticon 7!

"Have you ever been with a Warrior Woman?"

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:00 AM

GIXXER

Ruth Badger.

Ira Grossel

Dallas Burrows

Ermes Effron Borgnino

Truman Streckfus Persons

Burle Icle Ivanhoe. Respect...

Jack Lord's real name is Jack Ryan...

Carlos Ray

Spangler Arlington Brugh. Not preppie at all...

G

Google's over there a ways. "Stage names" would be good

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:03 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by Storymark:
Snake Plisskin

Classic.

Duke of Chrisisall

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:23 AM

THESOMNAMBULIST

INDIANA JONES!!! C'mon....

Closely followed by:

Han Solo

Then

Lando Calrissian

also

TRON

then

Buckaroo Banzai

The
Somnambulist

www.cirqus.com

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 9:32 AM

CHRISISALL

Quote:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
INDIANA JONES!!! C'mon....

Also classic.

Idaho Chrisisall

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:09 AM

SWEETSERENDIPITY

Have to go with Lelu Multipass!
Oooh, wait, Mrs Crabapple from the Simpsons( but only for the pronunciation).

Deb
Serendipityagain.com

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:13 AM

CHRISISALL

I must add Donald Lydecker , at once a friendly and mysterious name...
His lies come double and triple decker....

DA fan Chrisisall

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:16 AM

DAVESHAYNE

Quote:
Originally posted by Mavourneen:
Hey! I was gonna go for Eccentrica Golombits, the triple breasted whore from Eroticon 7!

Another worthy choice.

David

"Not completely as well as the series of Firefly..." - From a review of Serenity at amazon.de

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 10:26 AM

BIGDAMNNOBODY

Keyzer Soze.

De-lurking to stir stuff up.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:02 AM

RALEIGHBROWNCOAT

James Bond girls are always a good starting point, such as:

Pussy Galore
Plenty O'Toole
Honey Ryder
Kissy Suzuki

I mean, seriously, come on. How old were the writers of those movies?

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 11:07 AM

TRISTAN

Johnny Dangerously.

Seven of Nine (not a Star Trek fan, but I did always like that name)

Kagemusha

Just a few

Holding until you get back, Captain.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:18 PM

MONKSDAD

B.A. Barracus, Ford Fairlane, ASH

"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:19 PM

MONKSDAD

Did Ash have a last name???

"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:07 PM

GIXXER

Rawhide, Reno, the Swede, Perfect Tommy, Big Norse, Pecos, New Jersey, Penny Priddy, Pinky Carruthers, Duck Hunter Burt and Duck Hunter Bubba, John Ya-Ya, John Bigboote (Bigboo-tay!)and my man Grabthar.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:43 PM

STORYMARK

Quote:
Originally posted by monksdad:
Did Ash have a last name???

"And I think calling him that is an insult to the psychotic lowlife community."

I don't think he was given one in the movies, but one of the videogames starts in a mental ward, and they have Ash on file as Ashley Williams. Don't know if that's official, but it's Bruce Campbell playing the role, so I buy it.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 1:45 PM

STORYMARK

Quote:
Originally posted by TheSomnambulist:
INDIANA JONES!!! C'mon....
The
Somnambulist

I am deeply ashamed of myself for not thinking of that.

"I thoroughly disapprove of duels. If a man should challenge me, I would take him kindly and forgivingly by the hand and lead him to a quiet place and kill him."

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 2:00 PM

RMMC

Other than those already mentioned...
Slartibartfast.
Ficus.
Mortimer Snerd (Yeah, it's a puppet, I know.)
Inigo Montoya

*****
RMMC

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 2:56 PM

CYBERSNARK

Danny Love (if you don't know where that's from and who played him. . . find out)

Mara Jade
Talon Karrde (bonus points for his ships, the Wild Karrde, the Starry Ice, and the Uwanna Buyer)
Thrawn

Keyan Farlander

Optimus Prime (literally "Best First")
Megatron (they had to fight for that name; 1984 censors thought it was scary [which was entirely the point

])

Accellion (Accelleration Hellion --Literally "fast-moving troublemaker" (the romanji tends to render as "Egxillion"). Possibly the coolest Transformer name ever. Then the American dub renamed him to "Hot Shot."

)

David Xanatos ("David" = "enemy of Goliath," "Xanatos" = "death")
Elisa Maza
Demona (especially in light of her daughter, Angela)

Ferris Bueller

Odo (Full form: "Odo'ital" = "unknown substance"

)

Jonathan Archer (dunno why, it just sounds cool)
Charles "Trip" Tucker III

Elias Vaughn
Thirishar "Shar" Ch'Thane
Taran'Atar

Marcus Cole

Logan Cale (cool)

Logan Huntzberger (cool, yet dorky)

Nick Logan
Sh'Lainn Blaise
Jefferson Trueblood
Ti-Yet
Ruck

Pilot
Ka D'Argo

Marty McFly
Biff Tannen ("Biff?!?")

Sesshoumaru (it means "Perfection in Killing." It doesn't get more badass)
Naraku (it means "Hell." Apparently it does get more badass.)

Mwu La Flaga
Rau La Creuset

Heero Yuy (1)
Duo Maxwell (2)
Trowa Barton (3)
Quatre Raberba-Winner (4)
Wufei Chang (5)
Zechs Marquise (6)
General Septum (7)
General Ocht (8)
Lucrezia Noin (9)

Roy Mustang
Risa Hawkeye

Robin Sena
Amon (just "Amon")

Ami Anderson-Mizuno (just for the fanwank-masquerading-as-canon)

(From the Cardcaptor dub, which I actually like better than the original.)
Sakura Avalon ("Sakura" = cherry blossom, a symbol of brevity, "Avalon" = symbol of eternity and immortality)
Tori Avalon ("Tori" = "gateway,")
Julien Star
Ruby Moon
Spinner Sun

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:39 PM

SIXSHOOTER

Quote:
Originally posted by monksdad:

Ford Fairlane.

"Do my dishes!!"
Man, that's far and away one of my all-time favorite movies.

Oh and how about MAX PAYNE or BULLET TOOTH TONY.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 3:49 PM

CAUSAL

My personal favorites right now are all from Arrested Development:

Maeby Fünke

Barry Zuckercorn

Gene Parmesan

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I wish I had a magical wish-granting plank.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:28 PM

SINGATE

I'm going to jump the tracks a little and add a few rockstar names to the list:

Ace Frehley
Freddie Mercury
Ziggy Stardust(David Bowie)
Adam Ant

They may be real people but those names, come on now!

StarterofthreadsChrisisall

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We live on a placid island of ignorance in the midst of black seas of infinity, and it was not meant that we should voyage far.

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Tuesday, May 23, 2006 6:56 PM

CHYNNAPRINCESS

Kitty Pryde
Ororo Munroe
Remy LeBeau
Vilandra

and come on! Hoban Washburn. How neat is that name?

And of all the names in Hitchiker I liked Fook.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:20 AM

CHRISISALL

M-m-m-max H-h-headroom

C-c-c-chrisisall

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 1:36 AM

EST120

Some of my favorites:

Leeloo Minai Lekarariba-Laminai-Tchai Ekbat De Seba from The Fifth Element. Say that fast five times in a row!

Duke Leto Atredies from Dune. While we are at it, Mua'Dib is pretty cool too.

Has a good sound to it when you imagine thousands of Fremen chanting it like an M-V-P chant at an NBA game.

Agent Smith. Ah, so faceless, so impersonal. It was a great choice of name for the character.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:26 AM

ARABIKUM

film:

Gaius Helen Mohiam (Dune)
Luke Skywalker (what movie was zet…?!)
Magneto (X-Men)

book:

Kickaha (P.J. Farmer´s World of Tiers)
Dildo Bugger (BOTR)

A.

Ted Striker: My orders came through. My squadron ships out tomorrow. We're bombing the storage depots at Daiquiri at 1800 hours. We're coming in from the north, below their radar.

Elaine Dickinson: When will you be back?

Ted Striker: I can't tell you that. It's classified.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:31 AM

SPACEANJL

Slippery Jim DiGriz

Roy Batty (Time...to die...)

Snake Plissken

The Man They Call...Jayne!

Quellcrist Falconer

Banichi and Jago

Seth Gecko

The Doctor - 'the Oncoming Storm' or 'the Lonely God'

(I'm cheating - some of these are from books. But they should have BDM's of their own.)

SpaceAnJL

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:49 AM

TAYEATRA

Quote:
Originally posted by Cybersnark:

Elias Vaughn
Thirishar "Shar" Ch'Thane
Taran'Atar

Ah ha! I believe we have a DS9 season 8 fan! Right there with you snark!

Actually there's lots of good names from StarTrek. All the Jem-Hadar for a start. Oh, and 'Burgoyne 172'. Great name!

*****
Taya
*****
I'm going to S3!!!
(*Insert hysterical celebration dance here*)

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:14 AM

CAUSAL

Can't believe I forgot...

Ender Wiggin

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:11 PM

MISSTRESSAHARA

How could anyone not put in the ultimate badass name:

Darth Vader: Or was that too obvious to use? I mean when he WAS badass his name sent shivers down peoples spines. And it's just so cool and unique, anyone can be named Agent Smith but how many can be called Vader?

It's an animation but... Elastigirl, good solid superhero name.

And speaking of Superhero's, Clarks original Krypton name Kal-el. Always loved that name.

Leiah, I wanted to be called Leiah when I was younger. It's lovely to hear and say. Not so much Organa (sounds like an opening title for a porn movie)

And that leads me to Alotta Fagina... always funny to see if TBS would put that in considering....

Octopussy, and she was actually called that in the movie. (James Bond written by prepubescent men)

Chewbacca, *rawr*

Inarah Serra. Beautiful name.

Can't think of any others right now.

And now I can almost guesse which threads are going to be Chrisisall's. They just have a flavour to them.

If I'm a bitch, then life just got interesting

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 2:30 PM

SHINYYUKARI

Dante Hicks
Angel DuMont Schunard
Mimi Marquez

"Well next time you be the bait!"~Andy Hurley
"Okay! Everybody not talking about sex, in here. Everybody else, elsewhere."~Wash
Browncoats are the coolest fans I've ever seen.

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Wednesday, May 24, 2006 3:34 PM

CYBERSNARK

Quote:
Originally posted by Tayeatra:
Ah ha! I believe we have a DS9 season 8 fan! Right there with you snark!

Shiny! (I'm about to re-read that book cycle before tackling "Warpath." I want the full experience.)

And if you know Burgy, you must know the best, most mockable crewman in Starfleet: Ensign Foetus. There's plenty of womb for him here.

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