Mister Descriptor

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    Damien: What is your name?
    Elliot: Um, well, what with me being a cat and all... Cat?
    Damien: All of you animal people have horrible names.

    Elliot: Well, uh, what can you expect? We were named by scientists, not writers or cartoonists.

    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

    Live Action Televsion

    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

    Damien: All of you animal people have horrible names.
    Elliot: Well, uh, what can you expect? We were named by scientists, not writers or cartoonists.

    Web Original

    Western Animation

    • From South Park, Mr. Garrison's puppet Mr. Hat, followed by his replacements, Mr. Stick and Mr. Slave.
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