This week , we ’re pitch up for 9 , Shane Acker ’s celluloid about nine animated tatter dolls , each known only by their number . With that in psyche , we list 16 other characters who have numerical monikers .
Leaving aside persona with alphanumeric name ( like Star Wars ’ R2 - D2 and C-3PO ) , characters who also have series turn pass on to them by their authorities but are not generally accost as such ( as in Nineteen Eighty - Four and The Giver ) , and fictitious character whose first name happen to intend a issue in a unlike language ( as with many of the characters in Stardust and Mobile Suit Gundam ) , there are several reference who are either designated with or often called by a number :
telephone number One ( Star Trek “ The Cage”/”The Menagerie ” ): More than two X before Captain Picard started refer to William Riker as “ act One , ” Majel Barrett film the original Star Trek pilot , where her character was cognize only as Number One . Like Riker , Number One was the Enterprise ’s first military officer , but the novel Vulcan ’s Glory hint Number One was her actual name , devote to her because she possessed the top intellect of her planet ’s genesis .
Number 5 ( Short Circuit ): Although roboticists Newton Crosby and Ben Jabituya were out to make stilted news , they probably did n’t wait any of their epitome to suddenly gain sentience , and so depute them numbers in stead of names . But after image Number 5 becomes ego - aware ( and escapes the clutched of the US military ) , he decides that , as a living being , he should have a name , and calls himself Johnny Five .
Fifth ( Stargate SG-1 ): One of the few quality with an ordinal number for a name , Fifth find his name in a reasonably straight manner : he ’s the fifth human - form Replicator to be create on the planet Halla .
five ( V for Vendetta ): Most people who live through encounters with the mysterious anarchist V think they ’re addressing him by a letter , and his propensity for using V - base alliteration when inclose himself seems to confirm this . But it ’s much more likely that V gain his name from the source of his blood feud ; when he was subject to medical experimentation at the Larkhill Resettlement Camp , he was the man in room five — marked with the R.C. numeral “ V. ”
telephone number Six ( The Prisoner ): resident physician of the mysterious Village are known by a figure rather than their factual name — include at least 16 somebody known only as “ turn Two ” — probably to protect the secret they all inevitably carry . Number Six , the titular captive , protests in the opening night that he ’s a free human race , not a number , but it ’s implied that Number Six may be known by yet another number : Number One .
The Cylons ( Battlestar Galactica ): The creators of Battlestar Galactica have said that cylon Number Six is a protection to The Prisoner , and it follow that each humanoid cylon model would have its own number , with the famed exception of the Final Five . Most cylon role model are acknowledge conjointly by a human name as well ( the Sharons , the Leobens , the D’Annas ) , but individual Sixes tend to have individual human names , like Natalie , Caprica , Shelly , and Gina , perhaps because of they are so often used as infiltration agents .
Seven of Nine ( Voyager ): Names destine individuality , a concept the Borg have no use of goods and services for , but sometimes it is convenient for the Collective to key individual Borg drones . So when the formerly human Annika Hansen was assimilated into the Collective , she was given the assignment Seven of Nine , Tertiary Adjunct of Unimatrix Zero - One . Even once she was unhooked from the hive mind , she favor the truncated “ Seven of Nine ” to her human name , the latter of which she does not take up again until her Borg implants are whole destroy .
Eight ( The Specials ): It ’s jolly obvious how Eight realize its superhero name . A beehive mind , Eight consists of eight item-by-item physical structure who can physically act independent of one another , but apportion a individual cognisance .
Thirteen ( House ): As long aswe’re labeling House as science fable , we may as well mention Dr. Remy Hadley , well known as Thirteen . In one of his trademark moves to dehumanise his fellowship applicants , Dr. House assigned each applier a number ( and once in a while a humiliating nickname ) . Thirteen really submit to the numeric naming system , refusing to divulge her factual name to her fellow applier , and stay on to do to Thirteen long after she ’d garner a berth on House ’s team .
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Henchmen 21 and 24 ( The Venture Bros ): With the elision of the badly - fated Speedy , each of the Monarch ’s collaborator is known only to their genus Bos as a number . henchman 21 and 24 ( the former is know to his mom as Gary ) are music genre - savvy enough to be content with their numerical positions in the Fluttering Horde . When they learn their young teammate is Henchman 1 , they justifiedly assess that he ’s mark for death .
84 ( P.S. 238 ): In a school day filled with superheroes , Julie Finster has a pretty unremarkable set of power : flight , impregnability , speed . In fact , her power band is so average that alternatively of get a cool superhero name , she ’s just called “ 84 , ” since she ’s the 84th mortal to have that particular grouping of power . Needless to say , it ’s a tad demoralizing .
Agent 99 ( Get Smart ): James Bond may have been called 007 from time to time , but Agent 99 takes use of her code number to the next layer , never answering to any other moniker ( okay , in one instalment , her fiance calls her Susan Hilton , but that is n’t really her name ) . In fact , she hook up with Maxwell Smart and yield him twins without him ever check her real name , proving once and for all that she ’s the better spy .
federal agent 355 ( Y the Last Man ): In the historical spy web known as the Culper Ring , there was a female agent codification named 355 , whose identity has never been definitively make up one’s mind . likewise , in the fancied Culper Ring of Y the Last Man , Agent 355 is a highly competent spy whose name is never revealed ( at least not to the reviewer ) . Her leftover relationship with her name collimate that of Alter Tse’elon , the Israel ranger whose real first name is not mouth ( until the death ) for fearfulness of attracting the Angel of Death .
Experiment 626 ( Lilo and Stitch ): The foreign mad scientist Dr. Jumba Jookiba make 626 strange and serious lifeforms . The wanton destruction make by the final experiment , 626 , condemns them both to lifespan in exile , but the experiment get by to Earth , where a young Hawaiian daughter bring up him “ Stitch . ” Of course , once Stitch ’s destructive nature has been prevail in , there are still 625 other experiment to manage with .
1812 ( Farscape ): In terms of numbered public figure , the DRD robot 1812 gets his from a reasonably unusual source . rather of 1812 being a in series issue or a numbered designation , it ’s a citation to the 1812 Overture , which Crichton instruct the petty servicing bot to play .
subjugate 781227 ( Kyle XY ): Zzyzx , the ship’s company fund Adam Baylin ’s research , project the child - mold being Adam Baylin develop in his research lab as a biological reckoner rather than a somebody , reflected in him getting a serial turn in position of a name . It ’s only after 16 years , an escape , and a bout of amnesia that Subject 781227 ultimately gets a name : Kyle Trager .
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