Mister X and Mister Y

A couple of gentlemen, whose last names are X and Y, exchange polite banter, in which they frequently call each other "Mister X" and "Mister Y."

Examples of Mister X and Mister Y include:

Comic Books

In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Crabbe and Goyle are faithfully following minions clichés and call each other "Mr. Crabbe" and "Mr. Goyle".

Those Two Bad Guys in Diamonds Are Forever always call each other Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.

The League of Gentlemen, as a Shout-Out to Diamonds Are Forever, has a pair of surveyors who call each other Mr. Wint and Mr. Kidd.

The song "Mister Gallagher and Mister Shean" by Ed Gallagher and Al Shean. Probably the Trope Maker; certainly the exchange "Absolutely, Mr. Gallagher?" -- "Positively, Mr. Shean" became a popular meme.

In The Golden Apple, shifty stockbrokers Mister Scylla (played by the same actor as Menelaus) and Mister Charybdis (alias Hector) do a pastiche of the Gallagher and Shean number.
In Seventeen Seventy Six, when John Adams and Thomas Jefferson are arguing over who will write the Declaration of Independence they refer to each other as Mr. A and Mr. J.
Classic Vaudeville Schtick: e.g. Mr. Bones and Mr. Jones, done by such as... Mr. Gallagher and Mr. Shean.

Mr. Wink and Mr. Fibb (parodies of Wint and Kidd) from Codename: Kids Next Door.
Mr. Doe and Mr. Cardholder, the mysterious OSI agents, in The Venture Brothers.
Mr. Touch and Mr. Go on Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 2003.

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