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The Name Is Bond, James Bond
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Bond: I admire your courage, Miss... Sylvia: Trench. Sylvia Trench. I admire your luck, Mister... Bond: Bond. James Bond.
Many a character these days will introduce themselves James Bond style (Last Name, Full Name), e.g.
"Lockhart, Sally Lockhart"
Most often set up by another character asking something like, "I didn't catch your name, Mr./Ms...."
For extra humor, characters with limited language skills or from another culture may subsequently address our Ms. Lockhart as "Lockhart Sally Lockhart".
An element of the Tuxedo and Martini style. A subtrope of Catchphrase.
Examples
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Advertising
- There was a local commercial in Toronto about ten years ago for a garment store called "Tip Top Tailors". It featured a rather silly montage of a James Bond-type character saving a girl in a Thriller environment. At the end the man says, "Tailors. Tip Top Tailors".
Anime & Manga
- In the first episode of Full Metal Panic!!, Sōsuke introduces himself to a hysterical runaway as "Sagara... Sōsuke Sagara," as he rescues her from the battlefield.
- Of course, in Japanese, family names come first; Sōsuke's line in the Japanese dialogue is "Sagara... Sagara Sōsuke," which is more comparable to saying "James... James Bond," in English.
- Jojos Bizarre Adventure: "Joestar. Joseph Joestar."
- Heroman features an example without a first name: "Minami, Doctor Minami."
- In Escaflowne, Hitomi introduces herself to Allen with her first name first, then her name in Japanese order (so it comes out as "Hitomi, Kanzaki Hitomi" in Japanese). In the English dub, she introduces herself as "Hitomi, Hitomi Kanzaki". Allen does not make any mistakes with her name, despite the fact that Asturian name order follows the English pattern.
- The title character of Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha introduces herself to Vita as "Nanoha. Takamachi Nanoha." when Vita asks for her name (Vita promptly declares it as too hard to remember). In the Battle of Aces video game, Nanoha introduces herself in this manner again when she comes across a Dark Piece that took the shape of a Vita who had yet to meet her.
- Ro Kyu Bu: Token Loli Hinata does this, when the basketball club introduces themselves to Subaru. Although "Hinata. Hakamada Hinata" is more of James, Bond James though.
- Medabots: When Karin introduced herself to Ikki, she introduced herself as "Karin, Karin Junlei".
- In Clannad, Kyou does this when Tomoyo introduces Kotomi to her.
Comics
Films — Animation
Films — Live Action
Literature
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy; Slartibartfast initially thinks Arthur's name is Dentarthurdent.
- "As in the late Dentarthurdent."
- In Neverwhere, the protagonist fumbles over his initial self-introduction. Door doesn't seem all that surprised at meeting a man seemingly named "Richard-Richard-Mayhew-Dick".
- Every single volume in the Geronimo Stilton series starts off with Geronimo introducing himself to the readers as "Stilton, Geronimo Stilton." One of the books was even titled "My Name is Stilton, Geronimo Stilton."
- In the first Harry Potter book, this is how Draco Malfoy introduces himself:
"Oh, this is Crabbe and this is Goyle," said the pale boy carelessly, noticing where Harry was looking. "And my name's Malfoy, Draco Malfoy."
- Lampshaded in one of the novels about noir-ish Swedish secret agent Carl Hamilton:
Carl could not resist the temptation. "My name is Hamilton, Carl Hamilton", he said.
- In one of the books, James Bond, while working for the villain under an assumed name, introduces himself as "Hazard. Mark Hazard." Luckily the villain doesn't pick up on it.
- Simon Tregarth introduced himself this way to the first person he met in his new world. Unfortunately, she couldn't tell him her name.
Live Action TV
Music
- In the Gorillaz biography Rise of the Ogre, 2D is quoted as explaining: "I know there's a rumour going round that my real name is Stuart Tusspot, but that's not true. It's Pot. Stuart Pot." (It was originally Tusspot, but his father had it legally changed for obvious reasons.)
Music Videos
Puppet Shows
- On the appropriate episode of The Muppet Show, Lena Horne introduced herself to Fozzie as "Day. Doris Day."
- In The Book of Pooh, there is a story where Tigger dresses up as the hero from his favorite detective novels. "The name's McSnarl. Stripey McSnarl."
Radio
Video Games
- The title heroine from the Sega CD RPG Popful Mail sometimes introduces herself to friendly NPCs as "Mail, Popful Mail."
- The Leisure Suit Larry games featured Larry introducing himself as "Larry—Larry Laffer." At one point, a character responds with, "Oh, I so love dual first names. One time I met Boutrous Boutrous-Ghali
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- Just imagine the introduction: "Boutros-Ghali, Boutros Boutros-Ghali". It works with pretty much anyone on this list.
- Eddie Lang, a minor character from Mass Effect, introduces himself as "Lang, Officer Eddie Lang" when you first talk to him.
- In the "Bring Down The Sky" DLC, Shepard introduces himself as "Shepard. Commander Shepard."
- The title hero from the Humongous Entertainment kids' SPY Fox PC games introduces himself as "The name's Fox... Spy Fox." The games are full of many James Bond references, including this trope.
- Resident Evil: "Ada. Ada Wong."
- "Claire. Claire Redfield."
- Don Flamenco of Punch-Out!! does this as one of his taunts, the catch is that he does it in Spanish. see 5:04.
- Super Robot Wars: Zengar Zombolt tends to introduce himself this way, usually followed by a title such as "The sword that cleaves evil."
- In The Curse Of Monkey Island, Guybrush can introduce himself to King André this way, either under his own name or other aliases; but no matter which other aliases he chooses, André will know Guybrush's name anyway by calling him "Mister Threepwood".
- "I'm Sonic, Sonic the Hedgehog!"
Web Comics
- In The Inexplicable Adventures of Bob, Galatea introduces herself to the alien Riboflavin as "Galatea! Galatea Martin!" with the inevitable result that he calls her Galateagalatea Martin.
- In Jump Leads, Meaney introduces himself to special agent Jane Moore as "Meaney. Thomas Meaney."
Western Animation
- Also done by Bond's nephew James Bond Jr., in the cartoon of the same name, who would introduce himself as "Bond, James Bond, Junior."
Linkara: It's amazing how adding just that one word drains the response of any kind of power.
- Parodied in an episode of Disney's Hercules that spoof James Bond: Hercules introduced himself as "Les... Hercules" (and he was called for the rest of the episode as Mr. Les).
- In the Bond parody on Pinky and the Brain, "To Russia with Lab Mice", Brain introduces himself to Russian mouse Mousey Galore as "Brain... The Brain."
- On an episode of Arthur, a movie preview is shown for an entry in the James Hound series. In it, the hero introduces himself as "Hound. James Hound." Arthur does the same later when imagining himself in the role.
- In an episode of Ben 10 Alien Force Ben introduces himself to a Highbreed who's his partner in an Enemy Mine as "Ben, Ben Tennyson". From that point on the Highbreed addresses him as "Benben Tennyson".
- In an Episode of Timon & Pumbaa Timon introduces himself to the bad guy as Mon Timon For the rest of the episode the bad guys calls him Mr. Mon
- Some of the promotional videos for Kim Possible involved the whole Bond "Gun Barrel Scene" with the Disney logo instead of the gun circle and with Kim's silhouette. She then invokes the trope: "Possible. Kim Possible."
- There's also "Shtoppable. Ron Shtoppable." With a lisp that Sean Connery didn't pronounce that much until later in life.
- Another obvious parody in Wakfu episode 19 (as well as a Punny Name in French): "My name is Monde... Smisse Monde."
- In one episode of Jackie Chan Adventures, Jackie introduces himself to an art collector as "Chan, Jackie Chan". For the rest of the episode, the guy calls him "Chan Jackie Chan".
- Casper the Friendly Ghost once concluded a ghost he just met was a spy because that ghost introduced himself in Bond style.
- Animaniacs spoofed it when Chicken Boo becomes a secret agent. His alias is literally "Boo James Boo," and he's called by the whole thing at all times.
- In The Critic, actor Jeremy Hawke recalls the time he played an American president (in a James Bond-type film, no less).
- "The name's Man. Snowman."
Real Life
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