Your favorite name of a fictional character? (trailer, south park, film)

[happygrrrl]

Jeffrey Lebowski

[Grant Ames]

Originally Posted by arr430

Not favorite character, but the one with the greatest name.

A lot of people do seem to be just listing fictional characters they really like. But as far as names go, here are a few that I think are particularly interesting in and of themselves.

Bilbo Baggins
Ziggy Stardust
T.S. Garp
Darth Vader
Inigo Montoya

[arr430]

From the absurd era when ventriloquists appeared on the radio -- Mortimer Snerd

[DubbleT]

Originally Posted by carnelian

Oliver Twist a mixed drink!

Miss Havisham Dickens.

I am a fan of many of the names of Dickens' characters too. They trip off the tongue.

Uriah Heep
Seth Pecksniff
Martin Chuzzlewit
Sairey Gamp
Noddy Boffin
Lord Decimus Tite Barnacle
Ninetta Crummles
Josiah Bounderby
Captain Swosser and Professor Dingo
Gradgrind, the teacher

[dizzybint]

Jack Sparrow.

[Clark Fork Fantast]

Originally Posted by GeoffD

My WiFi SSID is Zaphod. Zaphod Beeblebrox.

Slartibartfast! He really did a great job on those Norwegian fjords.

Otherwise, in no particular order, off the top of my head:

Edmond Dantes.
Cruella Deville.
Gilgamesh.
Scarlett O'Hara.
Arya Stark.
Mowgli.
Holly Golightly.
Robin of Locksley.
Ivanhoe.
Sam Spade.
Philip Marlowe.
Sgt. John Stryker
Raylan Givens.
Victor Lazlo.
Clarice Starling.
And, okay, Hannibal Lecter.

[Jewel City Joe]

Keyser Soze from the movie "The Usual Suspects".

[skippercollector]

Lucifer Morningstar (the name is a bit of a pun), Marjorie Morningstar (love the name but the book was stupid), Rhoda Morgenstern (I have to wonder if these folks are related)
Fitzwilliam Darcy
Pandora Spocks
From The Waltons: Zebulon Walton, Yancy Tucker, Marmaduke Bridges, Zuleika Dunbar, Fanny Tatum
From The Flintstones: Pebbles, Bamm-Bamm, Pearl Slaghoople, Grandma Dynamite, Eppy Brianstone, Ann Margrock, Jimmy Darrock, Weirdly and Creepella Gruesome, Stony Curtis
From Dark Shadows: Barnabas, Quentin, Josette, Angelique, Magda, Bramwell, Charity, Judah, Gabriel
Dorothy Gale (her surname is a pun, of course), Oscar Zoroaster Diggs, Elphaba Thropp/Elmyra Gulch, Glinda Chuffrey
Morticia, Puggsley and Fester Addams

[TheProtege]

Mike Wazowski (Monsters Inc.)
Pazuzu (Futurama) I always thought that the professor called him Asuzu.
Crush & Squirt (Finding Nemo)
Shnitzel (Chowder) The rada rada rada guy.
Kahn Souphanousinphone (King Of The Hill)

[skippercollector]

Eulalie Mackechnie Shinn

She's the one who makes everyone pronounce the writer's name as BAAAALL-zac.