Gunman with Three Names: Difference between revisions

{{quote|''"Serial killers only have two names. Ever notice that? But lone assassins always have three. [[Abraham Lincoln|John Wilkes Booth]], [[John F Kennedy|Lee Harvey Oswald]], [[John Lennon|Mark David Chapman]]..."'' |'''[[Mel Gibson (Creator)|Jerry Fletcher]]''', ''[[Conspiracy Theory (Filmfilm)|Conspiracy Theory]]''}}

* This tendency is lampshaded in one ''What If?'' comic, where, {{spoiler|during an alternate version of the [[Dark Reign (Comic Bookcomics)|Dark Reign]] storyline, Hawkeye follows through on his promise to kill Norman Osborn. The news gets out, and suddenly the whole world knows his full name.}}

* [[The Dragon]] in the [[James Bond (Filmfilm)|James Bond]] film ''[[For Your Eyes Only (Filmfilm)|For Your Eyes Only]]'' is called "Emile Leopold Locque".

* In ''[[The Bourne Series (Filmfilm)|The Bourne Identity]]'', the alias created to perform the political assassination is that of John Michael Kane.

* [[John Lithgow]] as [[Complete Monster]] Earl Talbot Blake in ''[[Ricochet (Film)|Ricochet]]''.

* Referenced in ''[[The Fast and Thethe Furious]]'' when Dom checks Brian's wallet.

* In a variant (serial killer, not gunman) there's Charles Lee Ray (referencing Manson, Oswald and the guy who killed MLK), later known as Chucky, from ''[[ChildsChild's Play (Filmfilm)|Childs Play]]''.

* ''[[The X -Files (TV)|The X Files]]'' had tons of these, including Eugene Victor Tooms, Luther Lee Boggs, Warren James Dupre, Darin Peter Oswald, Robert Patrick Modell (presumably not named after Robert Patrick, who wouldn't join the cast for another 5 years), John Lee Roche, and Wilson Pinker Rawls.

* ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'' sometimes inverts this trope giving us serial killers with three names. The most (in)famous ones are [[I Am a Humanitarian|Floyd Feylinn Ferrel]] and [[Killer Cop|Jason Clark Battle]].

* On ''[[Burn Notice (TV)|Burn Notice]]'', when the gang runs up against a serial killer, Sam suggests they call him by "Dennis Wayne Barfield" for that extra serial-killer flavor.

* Buckwheat's assassin in the famous "Buckwheat has been shot" sketches on ''[[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Saturday Night Live]]'' was named John David Stutts.

* [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] in ''[[Law and Order: Criminal Intent]]'' season 6 episode "Endgame", with regard to a serial killer.

* Riffed on in a [[Cold Open]] to an episode of ''[[The Arsenio Hall Show (TV)|The Arsenio Hall Show]]'' when [[Hannah Montana|Billy Ray Cyrus]] was the musical guest.

* John Wilkes Booth mentions this in a conversation with Lee Harvey Oswald (also referencing James Earl Ray, and referring to all three as "rednecks") in the [[Stephen Sondheim]] musical ''[[Assassins (Theatretheatre)|Assassins]]''.

* The backstory of ''[[Mass Effect (Video Game)|Mass Effect]]'' mentions a gunman named Michael Moser Lang who assassinated the US and Chinese presidents with a powerful submachine gun several years before the events of the first game. (Both at once. The Chinese president tackled the American, and the slugs fatally penetrated both bodies. It's implied he only intended to kill the American.) Shepard gets his/her hands on the original weapon (and a copy) in ''[[Mass Effect 2 (Video Game)|Mass Effect 2]]''.