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[ffutures]

Belatedly remembered my own take on characters who prefix their name with "The" - from Forgive and Forget, one of my Saint crossovers:

"If you think about it," said Sarah Jane, sipping her wine, "there's always something a little odd about anyone who uses 'The' as part of their name. Peter the Great, Ivan the Terrible, Jack the Ripper. The Doctor, The Master, The Rani… The Saint. Not necessarily bad, just odd."

Definitely add "The Meep" to this!

Comments

[jhall1]

:)

To be fair to Ivan the Terrible, I don't suppose that adding "the Terrible" to his name was his own idea.

[ffutures]

It actually applies to most if not all of the people that history remember with a Name The Whatever combination - I doubt that Vlad The Impaler would have chosen that one either. But people who use The Whatever on its own are definitely a very strange crowd.