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Author: WeAreAllKosh

May 1st 2013 at 8:44:16 PM

Fictional protagonist examples:

[[AC: Film]]

* ''{{Forrest Gump}}''
* ''{{Dirty Harry}}''
* ''{{The Truman Show}}'' (named after an in-universe TV show, protagonist of both being Truman Burbank)
* ''{{Carrie}}''
* ''{{Rocky}}''
* ''{{Rambo}}''
* ''{{Brubaker}}''

[[AC: Literature]]

* ''{{Friday}}'' (RobertHeinlein novel)
* ''{{Harrison Bergeron}}''
* ''{{David Copperfield}}''
* ''{{Oliver Twist}}''
* ''{{Huckleberry Finn}}''
* ''{{Tom Sawyer}}''
* ''{{Robinson Crusoe}}''
* ''{{Lolita}}''

[[AC: Live-Action TV]]

* ''{{House}}''
* ''{{Monk}}''
* ''{{Castle}}''
* ''{{Laverne and Shirley}}''
* ''{{Mork and Mindy}}''
* ''{{Dharma and Greg}}''
* ''{{Blossom}}''
* ''{{Columbo}}''
* ''{{Perry Mason}}''
* ''{{Matlock}}''
* ''{{Rhoda}}''
* ''{{Lou Grant}}''
* ''{{MacGyver}}''
... and a few oldie sitcoms named for the real name of the actor who plays the protagonist, but wasn't the protagonist character's name in the series (although [[TheDanza their first names are usually the same]]):
* ''{{The Bob Newhart Show}}'' (and later ''{{Newhart}}'')
* ''{{The Mary Tyler Moore Show}}''
* ''{{The Dick Van Dyke Show}}''
* ''{{The Andy Griffith Show}}''
... and one more recent one where the protagonist's actor ''and'' character share the same name:
* ''{{The Drew Carey Show}}''

[[AC: Theatre]]

* ''{{Annie}}''
* ''{{Romeo and Juliet}}''
* ''{{Hamlet}}''

(Come to think of it, the naming of a work after a fictional protagonist seems fairly common for TV--especially that from a few decades ago--and somewhat in (particularly older) literature, whereas it's not as common in film.)