Wacky Americans Have Wacky Names: Difference between revisions

* Women subjected to this trope will often be given a hyphenated name like "Mary-Sue" or "Mary-Beth", with the ironic result that anyone subject to this trope called Mary-Sue is probably not going to be a [[Mary Sue]]. She's far more likely to be the butt of the joke. The hyphenated name may crop up for men, too, with characters from the Southern states or rural parts of the United States particularly likely to get this kind of moniker.

* [[Deep South]] or rural characters may alternatively get obscure Biblical names, perhaps reflecting assumptions about the prevalence of religious belief in those areas.

 

Some of the grander names have a ring of the Old West about them, perhaps because [[Americans Are Cowboys]]. If in non-U.S. media, such characters may well be [[Hawaiian-Shirted Tourist|Hawaiian Shirted Tourists]]. If so, they will comment at some point that wherever they are is "quaint", even if "wherever they are" is next to a nuclear power station.