This weird little dude can't throw their weight around the racetrack, but they can throw their head: they're the lightest character in Mario Kart
Dry Bones
Don't look now! Both Perseus and Percy Jackson have killed this monster
Medusa
She was the last of the original Avengers to star in a solo movie
Black Widow
This actor looks so much like Natalie Portman that she played fake Natalie Portman in Star Wars
Keira Knightley
This is Sam's dad's name
Hamfast Gamgee
This sad Pokémon has some serious mommy issues
Cubone
Hold the phone! This Greek goddess is associated with pomegranates
Persephone
Shazam got his current name after DC Comics lost a lawsuit. Another companies' character, now played by Brie Larson, had a pretty obvious claim to this name
Captain Marvel
People say Minka Kelly looks like this "Good Girls Go Bad" singer, which is probably why I mixed up Friday Night Lights and Gossip Girl when I was on Jeopardy
Leighton Meester
This character is the first to speak in The Two Towers
Aragorn
She played Bones's cousin on Bones
Zooey Deschanel
Circe sticks it to the male chauvinists when she turns Odysseus's men into these animals
Pigs
This friend of both Captain Americas is named after President James Buchanan
Bucky Barnes
No, Zach Braff is on Scrubs. This guy is Kristen Bell's husband
Dax Shepard
These two orc commanders get into an argument in the tower of Cirith Ungol
Gorbag and Shagrat
A three-year lawsuit ended in 2026 when a judge ruled that the name of this appetizer, while inaccurate, is not false advertising
Boneless wings
This gifted runner was from Boeotia, not Georgia
Atalanta
These are the two New York City boroughs that none of the Avengers call home
The Bronx and Staten Island
At least until you hear him speak, a lot of people mix Javier Bardem up with this Supernatural dad
Jeffrey Dean Morgan
While we know him as Frodo Baggins, his "untranslated" name is this
Maura Labingi
On Community, Jeff explain how he successfully guessed that this was Troy's nickname: "because you play football and your name starts with T"
T-Bone
This sorceress is from Colchis which is in Georgia (but not the same Georgia that a similar-sounding film character is from)
Medea
It's the missing word in these Batman panels (I considered putting it in another category)


This singer sometimes gets confused for an actress who played Bones's cousin on Bones
Katy Perry
In Chapter 5 of The Fellowship of the Ring, Gandalf says this to the Balrog
"You cannot pass."