Third Person Person / Live-Action Films

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• Seen in the film American Pie, where the self-named "Shermanator" refers to himself in the third person and tries to pick up women.
• Bicentennial Man: At the beginning of the movie, Andrew refers to himself as "one". It is taken as a sign of self-awareness when he first refers to himself as "I". However, he occasionally slips back into saying "this one" when he wishes to emphasize his robotic nature.
• The Dude from The Big Lebowski does this a lot. Examples:
  • "The Dude minds! This will not stand, man!"
  • "Lotta ins, lotta outs, lotta strands in the old Duder's head."
  • "The Dude is not in. Leave a message after the beep."
  • And of course, "The Dude abides."
• Jack Burton from Big Trouble in Little China uses this on many occasions, as he is quite fond of quoting himself." Like old Jack Burton always says: It's all in the reflexes." This causes confusion when someone asks who the hell he's talking about, and an offended Jack snaps, "Jack Burton! Me!"
• Blazing Saddles: "Mongo like candy!"
• Sully from Bones and All is prone to referring to himself in the third person. When a thoroughly creeped-out Maren has finally had enough of him, she pointedly asks why he keeps talking about himself like he's two different people. She does this again when they meet again to irritate him.
• In Bostock's Cup, Alan Hardy always refers to himself by his full name, showing how pretentious he is for an average-at-best lower-league footballer, even if he legitimately is the best player on the team.
• Syd in Children of Men. Syd doesn't know why they want to get inside the camps. Syd doesn't want to know. Syd doesn't care.
• Clown Motel: In the movie prologue, one of the clowns at the motel, Gandalya, speaks in this manner.
• In Dunderklumpen, a filmatisation of the children's book Förtrollningar, En Dum En tends to speak his thoughts out loud in this manner. To make things worse, his name is just a moniker that translates to "A stupid one", so most of his lines end up like "A Stupid One think he's Santa. That we are christmas presents in his bag."
• Angela from the Eragon film speaks this way, though she didn't in the original book.
• Golden Sparrow in The Forbidden Kingdom refers to herself as she. This is due to emotional trauma (and the fact that it doesn't sound nearly as strange in Chinese).
• Full Metal Jacket uses it for a dehumanising effect. In a couple of altercations with Drill Sergeant Nasty, Private Joker refers to himself as "the private" instead of "I," e.g. "Sir, the private believes that ..." From everything else that we see, it is likely that this is rigorously enforced: he's just a cog in the military machine now, and had better think of himself as such.
• The titular heroine from the 1968 movie Great Catherine, played by Jeanne Moreau, does this sometimes.
• Good Burger: Kurt Bozwell tends to refer to himself this way, which often gets lampshaded and made fun of by the main characters.
• Tuco from The Good, the Bad and the Ugly refers to himself in this manner several times to demonstrate his egotism.
• Data in The Goonies occasionally slips into this.
  Data: Data's okay. But Data's tired of falling and Data's tired of skeletons.
• In Bruges: In the restaurant, when a (seemingly) American man gets irritable about Chloe's cigarette smoke.

  Tourist: Fucking unbelievable.

  Ray: (For a moment, you can tell he's trying not to take the bait, not to react. That doesn't last long.) What's "fucking unbelievable?"

  Tourist: You talking to me?

  Ray: (Quietly, just loud enough for the other guy to hear) He pauses, even though he knows he should just hit the cunt. And he repeats- (Louder) Yes, I am talking to you, what's "fucking unbelievable"?

• Centauri (played by the late Robert Preston in one of his final roles) in The Last Starfighter uses this trope mostly, but averts it on occasion.
• Rico in Little Caesar, the film considered the codifier for the gangster genre, did this quite a bit. In fact, his dying words are "Mother of Mercy — is this the end of Rico?"
• Machete Cortez from Machete and Machete Kills does this at times, like "Machete don't text." and "Nobody knows Machete."
• Cho-won from Marathon (2005) doesn't often refer to himself, but when he does it's usually in the third person.
• In Molly (1999), Molly talks like this before the autism treatment, with lines like "Molly like peas!" and "Molly wet."
• While the Olsen-banden series doesn't use this trope, the Swedish Foreign Remake Jönssonligan has two characters who tend to slip into it with differing effects: Ragnar Vanheden, who does this with his last name in a boastful manner, and his cousin Harry who instead comes off as more childish or humble for it. They are especially prone to this in the games, with many of their sound clips translating to "Vanheden/Harry will take care of this!"
• In The Phantom of the Opera (2004) Erik has an unfortunate tendency to slip into this.
• Pavi Largo from Repo! The Genetic Opera does this a good fifty percent of the time. Of course, he is a face-stealing narcissist... and it sort of runs in the family: both Rotti and Luigi refer to themselves in third person a few times as well. Amber breaks the tradition, never managing to use a sentence that didn't start with 'I'.
• In Siberian Education (also known as Deadly Code), Xenya (the young beautiful girl who's not quite right in her head) tends to speak like this.
• The young magician Chen from The Snow Queen (2002) always speaks like this, combining it with You No Take Candle grammar.
• Terror At Blood Fart Lake has Hambone who refers to himself in the third person once every couple of seconds, even when he's just talking to himself.
• In Tragedy Girls, McKayla's ex-boyfriend Toby constantly refers to himself in the third person. For example, when McKayla and Sadie suggest he promote their blog on his Twitter feed, he replies that Toby thinks it would be off-brand for Toby to that.
• Lampshaded and Played for Laughs in The Tuxedo. Jackie Chan's character, who is impersonating his boss Clark Devlin, inadvertently mentions that "Mr. Devlin liked insects too", and tries to remedy this slip by claiming that "I like to refer to myself in the third person." His partner Agent Del Blaine counters: "Del Blaine thinks you're an idiot."
• Valentine has Jason Marquette, an egotistical yuppie jerk who constantly refers to himself as 'Jason'.
• Swiss "The White" and Sakura "The Yellow" both frequently refer to themselves in this way in The White The Yellow The Black. Swiss does it to express himself as an egotistical bandit, and Sakura is a racial caricature who expresses his servitude in this manner.
• Winterskin: Sometimes, Agnes refers to herself by her name.
• X-Men: Apocalypse: Caliban always refers to himself by his own name.
• Eric Von Zipper from Beach Party tends to talk this way.
  Von Zipper: Eric Von Zipper likes you.
  Dolores: Who's that?
  Von Zipper: Me!

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