Sleepless in Seattle… or Wherever This Is SetOur main character, played by Edward Norton, is a man with no name. He attends support groups for diseases he doesn't have—sickle-cell anemia, brain...

Don't BlinkBefore we officially "meet" Tyler, when our main character sits next to him on a plane, we see him in a series of subliminal flashes, like near a copier or behind a doctor. This is our f...

The Accidental TouristMarla Singer might have one of the best entrances in movie history. She walks into a support group smoking a cigarette, exhales, and says "This is cancer, right?" Awesome. Lik...

Dude Looks Like a LadyAside from Marla and Chloe, every named character in this movie is a man. Bob is a man, too. A man with boobs. Our narrator explains, "Bob had b****-tits." The reason Bob is b...

Jared Leto's character doesn't even get a name. He's just so beautiful that he's called Angel Face. He joins fight club, and then Project Mayhem, and then starts being doted on by Tyler. This makes...

Death Becomes HerChloe is worth mentioning simply to quote one of the film's classic lines: NARRATOR: Chloe looked the way Meryl Streep's skeleton would look if you made it smile and walk around th...

Freeze!We learn part of Project Mayhem's mission when Tyler threatens Police Commissioner Jacobs. They intend for the common man—clerks, waiters, car washers—to rise up and take control of soci...

Space MonkeysThere are a few other characters worth a quick mention, like Ricky, the office boy who is the best example, actually, of what it's like to join fight club. He's one of the first member...