Mister Descriptor
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Damien: What is your name? |
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Characters with only a surname, which describes them.
Sister Trope of Something Person.
If the word for their surname doesn't have any obvious relation to the character in question, it's Mister Strangenoun. If it's not a character but an offhand description of a prop, look toward I Call It Vera (or the demonstrative I Call Him "Mister Happy"). If their name reflects their color, it's also Colorful Theme Naming.
Examples of Mister Descriptor include:
Comic Books
- Mr. Men
- The Riddler of Batman, born Edward Nashton, legally changed his surname - making him E. Nigma.
- Mr. Sinister of X Men fame, who took that name because it was the last word his wife said to him as she died, when she realized what a monster he was.
Film
- Ditto Reservoir Dogs.
- Mr. Furious in Mystery Men.
- Mr. Glass from Unbreakable.
Live Action Televsion
- Mr. Big in the first episode of Get Smart.
Literature
- Mr. Pump in the Discworld novel Going Postal. Of course, he's a Golem who was employed pumping water at the bottom of a well for a few hundred years, so it's an apt description (his 'name' was previously Pump 19)
Radio
- Mr. Show with Bob and David
Tabletop Games
- The characters in Clue are named after the color of their pieces: Mr. Green, Mrs. White, Ms. Scarlet, Mrs. Peacock, Colonel Mustard, and Professor Plum.
Theatre
- The song "Mister Cellophane" from Chicago.
Web Comic
- El Goonish Shive chimerae are usually called by some reference to their "beast" part (like Nioi/Kaoli with a Bilingual Bonus). So despite Elliot being horrible at lying his captor mistaking him for one of these didn't even doubt:
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Web Original
- Invoked with the Mister Collector series from the SCP Foundation. They were built to be that way.
Western Animation
- From South Park, Mr. Garrison's puppet Mr. Hat, followed by his replacements, Mr. Stick and Mr. Slave.