Person with the Clothing

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When a character is referred to by a signature outfit of piece of clothing that they wear. It is NOT just for any character who has a signature article of clothing; the clothing must be in the title of the work or else be part of the name the character is consistently called by. Often, no other name is even given for the person in question.

See also Clothes Make the Legend, Everyone Calls Him "Barkeep", and No Name Given.

Examples of Person with the Clothing include:

Anime and Manga

  • Luffy from One Piece is often called "Strawhat boy" and is the leader of the Straw Hat Pirates (despite being the only member of the crew wearing one). He even has it on his Jolly Roger!

Comic Books

  • One of the members of the Elite in The DCU is called Hat, after his magic hat.

Fairy Tales

Film

Literature

Live-Action TV

  • Bennett from Heroes earned himself the Fan Nickname "The Man With The Horn-Rimmed Glasses" (despite his glasses not actually being horn-rimmed), but this was often shortened to HRG.
  • The Man in Black in Lost.

Music

See the girl with the diamond ring
She knows how to shake that thing
See the girl with the red dress on
She can do the Birdland all night long

  • Johnny Cash, "The Man in Black".
  • Chris DeBurgh, "The Lady in Red".

Professional Wrestling

Theatre

Video Games

  • Pyramid Head from the Silent Hill series. Listed as "Red Pyramid" in the movie credits.

Web Comics

  • Black Hat Guy and Beret Guy from xkcd.
  • The Idiot in an Awesome Hat (listed as such on the vol.7 cast page) from Girl Genius.
  • The Booted Wight from The Order of the Stick.
  • Because the gag-a-day comic Cyanide & Happiness has no long-term recurring characters, regulars in its comment section have adopted the convention of referring to its stick doll characters by the color of their clothes, such as "green shirt".
    • A few panels in its Random Comic Generator subtly imply that this is canon.
  • Chirault, while does not refer this way to Kiran in text, has the character description for him on cast page simply "Scarf-boy.", and uses page title "Scarf boy wuz here".

Web Original

Western Animation

  • A Looney Tunes short titled "Boston Quackie" had secret agent Daffy Duck tracking down the Man in the Green Hat
  • An animated segment on Sesame Street about the letter V featured "the villain in the Panama hat" (who even referred to himself as that).
  • Throughout the South Park episode "Woodland Critter Christmas," the narrator refers to Stan as "the boy in the red poofball hat."

Real Life

  • Man in the Iron Mask, who inspired books and movies but was indeed a real person, although his true identity is unknown.