Speedster Name Needed

[tancred]

In keeping with the sudden spate of "...Name Needed" threads, I need a name for a speedster.

The character is secretly the son of the 3rd Edition villain The Dash (from The Great Supervillain Contest and his girlfriend Microwave. The boy was taken from his parents when they were in jail 20 years ago and given to adoptive parents. He has no idea he is adopted or that his biological parents are supervillains (still active, and looking for him).

Lance Lamont Barclay (his real name), is an EMT in real life. He just moved to Millenium City 6 weeks ago, and met his new girlfriend (who is a PI) 3 weeks ago.

He has movie-star good looks, and is quite the goody-two-shoes. He's not stuffy and self-righteous, just an old-fashioned country boy who would never consider breaking the rules. (He never double-parks, never cuts in line, is always polite and helpful. In short, a Boy Scout.)

The game is a new one set in the CU (though tied into an existing game) , and will have a very Silver Age feel.

I've considered and rejected Sleight of Hand, Phase Shift (from a sci-fi book where that was the "warp drive"), Frequency, Inertia, and Kinetic (because too close to an existing CU character).
There's already a Quicksilver character in the universe.
Silly names are not entirely out of the question; PDQ is my current working "name."

Any help appreciated.

[Blue]

Dash & Microwave? How about Shake-N-Bake? Okay, sorry, couldn't resist.

[Blue]

Slipstream
The Glimpse
Prime Mover

[Corven_Ren]

Blur
Quicken
Dash
Sprint
Dragster
Cheetah
Rocket
Speed King

[rjcurrie]

Silly names are not entirely out of the question; PDQ is my current working "name."

Any help appreciated.
Actually, I like PDQ.

[Keneton]

|Dash + Microwave = Hotflash (Just kidding)

Good Speedster Name is "Autobahn|" :)

[Battlestaff]

For a good storyline, he could decide to use the name Dash, knowing that a villain is currently using the name, in an attempt to "redeem" the name. Hey, stranger things have happened. And imagine what happens when villain Dash decides to show up and punish the upstart......

[Kirby]

Quicksilver
Zip
Bullet
Ray
Hermes





Speedy Gonzales

[Supreme Serpent]

Howabout something tied into his being an EMT - fast emergency response type of thing?

911

Hermes or Mercury - the Caduceus is a prominent medical symbol


or

Redline

Mach

[RPMiller]

Ballastic
Velocity
Streak
Flash? ;)

[Derek Hiemforth]

Howabout something tied into his being an EMT - fast emergency response type of thing?I was thinking along the same lines...

How about 'Stat'?

"We need some help over here, stat!"
(zooming noise and rush of wind)
"I'm here! How can I help you?"

:)

[RPMiller]

Hey, that's a pretty good name. :)

[Doppler]

I humbly offer my own name to you.

[Beetle]

Bolt is a pretty good name for a speedster.

[BobGreenwade]

My first thought was Rush.

Stat looks pretty good to me too.

In keeping with PDQ, how about ASAP? (At least it's pronounceable.)

[tancred]

Wow!
Didn't think I'd get this many responses this quickly.
Consider them all swiped....er, used in homage. :lol:

I actually considered Speedy Gonzales (or his cousin, Slowpoke Rodriguez, for the irony factor).
I like Stat and ASAP; those will appear somewhere, somewhen.

Hotflash just became my long-lost twin sister; too funny not to use! :)

I still like PDQ, but it doesn't fit him that well.

Slipstream is my currently favorite, at least until somebody hits me with one I like better.

Thanks for all the help!

[wcw43921]

I suggested these in an earlier post--

Super-Swift
Lightning Swift
Speed Star
Lightspeeder

These are also possibilities--

Tachyon
(Insert favorite color) Streak
Hot Streak
The Racer

[Kirby]

Since he's a good ole country boy, maybe he grew up on a farm (maybe?) or has a farm in the family and with the "reap what you sow" thinking, he calls himself Whirlwind.


But Hotflash for a girl :snicker: Oh, she'd better be a bombshell, or an angry woman. :yes:

[Hyper-Man]

Dash + Microwave eh?

How about Hot-Rocket?
or Good-Feets?
or Boom? (as in Sonic-Bamm!)

:nonp:
HM

[Hypnotoad, the]

I like Stat and Slipstream myself.

If the character had a bad case of narcolepsy, I'd suggest the name Speedbump.

[Hyper-Man]

...snip...
If the character had a bad case of narcolepsy, I'd suggest the name Speedbump. That's sounds like what happens when I run over a frog in the road!
:rolleyes:
HM

[RPMiller]

Thought of another one... Nike (as in the deity?... and the shoe ;))

[A.J.Gibson]

My suggestion:

Trailblazer

You've got the inference of kinetic energy, travel, and a somewhat country sounding word.

Or maybe not.

[Speedball]

I think "Stat" if you want to emphasize his work as a paramedic and make that central to his character, but PDQ is absolutely perfect if you want to emphasize him as a corn-fed country boy, since it's something his adopted parents would've used as a common phrase.

I can just *smell* the crisis of character coming down the pike for this guy when he learns that his adoptive parents lied to him and he finds out he's really the son of a couple of villains. ("How can I be good? Am I just fooling myself? What *is* good, if the people who I thought were righteous were lying to me all these years," etc.)

Fun stuff.

[HEROWEAPON]

Road Runner is the name of my teenage speedster. His quote is Bep! Bep!

[Sean Waters]

Bolt is a pretty good name for a speedster.


BANG! I shot your Bolt!

HaHa

Weeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee eeeeeeeeeee!!

(the last being my suggestion for a name, obviously) :)

Anyway he doesn't know his parents are called Microwave and Dash, so he'd probably get that completely wrong and assumed they were called, I dunno, Fridge and Dot, or something.

Then he could call himself ColdPeriod in tribute to his imaginary parents. It also has the advantage that his name isn't going to give away his power set to enemies. :nonp:

[Tanda]

I played a speedster once and just couldn't come up with a name for him so I went with the obvious and called him....

Speed

Tanda

[PhilFleischmann]

Remember that Nike is a goddess - female.

If he's the son of Dash, why not call him "Hyphen"? (Sorry)

Has "Marathon" been taken?

Swift
Tom Swift?
(Color) Runner

[Powerhouse]

"Actually, I like PDQ."

I'm missing something... PDQ?

[pinecone]

I used to have a speedster named...Speedster..."No one out speeds the Speedster!"....:)

[Speedball]

"Actually, I like PDQ."

I'm missing something... PDQ?

IF you're my mom, it means "pretty darn quick," as in: "you'd better get down here PDQ, mister!"

[Kirby]

I like the Trailblazer name, though, for some reason, I'd be inclined to call him "Blazing Saddle/s" if he was a comedic character.

[Sean Waters]

How about THERE (as no one seemed to like WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!)

As in:

'We need someone to difuse the bomb, it is 4 miles away and there's only 18 seconds on the clock...

'I'm There!'

[Kirby]

How about THERE (as no one seemed to like WEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!)

As in:

'We need someone to difuse the bomb, it is 4 miles away and there's only 18 seconds on the clock...

'I'm There!'

And of course, there's the stuck up chick in the group who would say "I am so not There!"

Then you'd have problems if someone said "Don't go There!" Especially if There wasn't around.

Or you ask "Hey, where's StrongArm?"
"Oh, he's over there."
"Aw man, that's just sick. Tell them to get a room."

[Publius]

Whichever one of these fine names you choose, give some thought to making his real name Petey Kyoo

[rjcurrie]

A friend of mine named a speedster villain in his Champions campaign History. He'd often state "I'm History" and dash off.

Rod

[Champsguy]

A friend of mine played a character called Swift Justice.

[Agent X]

Just don't name the character Thrust. You'll never hear the end of it.

[Hyper-Man]

Just don't name the character Thrust. You'll never hear the end of it.
And the same goes for Quickie.

:slap:
HM

[rjcurrie]

A friend of mine played a character called Swift Justice.
So did I. He was a V&V character.

[BoloOfEarth]

In keeping with PDQ, how about ASAP? (At least it's pronounceable.)

The only problem with ASAP is that it's pronounced "A Sap". Would *you* want to be called a sap?

[BoloOfEarth]

BTW, I'm drawing up a speedster brick in case Dave Mattingly runs his BYOB game at GenCon again. He mainly does move-bys and move-throughs; I'm naming him Pinball Whiz-Kid.

[Kirby]

The only problem with ASAP is that it's pronounced "A Sap". Would *you* want to be called a sap?
Heh. Thinking about the name, though, maybe if the character is a philosopher, he could start handing out modern advice through ASAP's fables? :hex:

[Kirby]

BTW, I'm drawing up a speedster brick in case Dave Mattingly runs his BYOB game at GenCon again. He mainly does move-bys and move-throughs; I'm naming him Pinball Whiz-Kid.
Wait? A speedster character that does move-bys & move-throughs? :shock: Unheard of! :snicker:

Okay, all kidding aside, what does BYOB mean? Bring Your Own Boy/Battle/Bolo/Boxer/Bakery/Box?

[BobGreenwade]

If the character had a bad case of narcolepsy, I'd suggest the name Speedbump. I already have that one covered, for a super-speedster villain with a bad case of accident-proneness. :D

[BobGreenwade]

The only problem with ASAP is that it's pronounced "A Sap". Would *you* want to be called a sap?There aren't a whole lot of names that can't be twisted around in some similar manner. Besides, "ASAP" puts the accent on the first syllable, while "A Sap" puts it on the second.

[wcw43921]

Okay, all kidding aside, what does BYOB mean? Bring Your Own Boy/Battle/Bolo/Boxer/Bakery/Box?

It stands for Bring Your Own Brick. You make up two characters (they don't have to be bricks) and the GM chooses which one you'll play.

[knuckles]

Well theres been a few beauties, and a few stinkers too. Allow me to add a few more suggestions

Ricochet
Kid Ricochet
Hell-bent (as in hell bent for leather)
Full tilt
Dynamo

[tancred]

There have been MANY fine suggestions, and you all may consider yourselves swiped, er, homaged. All these names are in a file that will (eventually) be put into a Hero Names table in my Random Name Generator program.

Phil, Hyphen was actually the very first name I considered for him. But he doesn't KNOW that he's the son of Dash, so I couldn't think of an in-character way to justify it. (If you have a suggestion for that, let me know; the pun is just too good to pass up.)

Speedball, the whole bit about his not knowing his real parents is intended for just what you talked about. He has a mystery Hunted, which I assume will be his parents Dash and Microwave (whom I've written up and given to the GM). Microwave is starting to feel her age, and wants her child back.
I anticipate much good fun when they all finally meet.

[casualplayer]

How about:

Windsprint
Javelin
Accelerator
Formula One (appropriate if he has to dose up like Dash)
Jackrabbit
Tornado
Pony (or Pony Boy if he likes S.E. Hinton)
Scout (or Eagle Scout)
Marathon
Stride
Pacesetter

Just a few thoughts.

[Sean Waters]

And of course, there's the stuck up chick in the group who would say "I am so not There!"

Then you'd have problems if someone said "Don't go There!" Especially if There wasn't around.

Or you ask "Hey, where's StrongArm?"
"Oh, he's over there."
"Aw man, that's just sick. Tell them to get a room."


I was hoping no one would point that out until he'd picked the name! :D

[Phil]

I think PDQ is fabulous. Alternatively how about Shovel. As in as fast as s*** off one.

Then there's Zip, Whizz, Zoom, and similar onomatopoeiac words.
Cheetah, Impala, Greyhound and similar animal terms.
Runner, Dasher, Sprinter, and other verb-related nouns.

Or you could go down the route of my favourite ever Champions character:
Jack (because, er, that was his name).

Phil

[Sean Waters]

I think PDQ is fabulous. Alternatively how about Shovel. As in as fast as s*** off one.

Then there's Zip, Whizz, Zoom, and similar onomatopoeiac words.
Cheetah, Impala, Greyhound and similar animal terms.
Runner, Dasher, Sprinter, and other verb-related nouns.

Or you could go down the route of my favourite ever Champions character:
Jack (because, er, that was his name).

Phil

Expect acronyms to be abused, but Please Don't Quote.

[proditor]

Conversely, you should avoid the following:

The Whizzer (Especially if you wear a yellow costume. Marvel, what were you thinking?)
The Quickie
The Yellow Streak
The One Minute Wonder (Because, ya know, people talk)
Skidmark

[Constantine]

Well, someone already suggested it, but I'd go with Ballistic. That is the name of my current speedster/brick, and I like it very much...

[Kirby]

Conversely, you should avoid the following:
Well, unless in his secret ID he/she was an adult film star, I'd agree.


The Whizzer (Especially if you wear a yellow costume. Marvel, what were you thinking?)
Well, there are web sites about this... maybe a Dark Champions Character?


The Quickie
Well, okay, but if he were a convenient store owner named Abu...


The Yellow Streak
Asian nude villain?


The One Minute Wonder (Because, ya know, people talk)
But if were a woman...


Skidmark
No, we won't go there. Things about "you stepped in it" and "are you wearing clean underwear" and "What'd you stop for, Skidmark?" "Exactly." "That'll leave a mark." "Nope, that'll leave a skidmark."

No, I don't know why these idea responses came to me, but I guess it's good there aren't Anime/porn/superheroes.

There aren't are there?

[Shocker]

My first and only speedster was called Jet. He wore a mostly black costume (and was nicknamed Jet-Black almost at once).

As a sidebar, Jet was FAST! The first time I played him I was joining an established group and it went something like this:

(Friend of mine) "So Charles! What kind of character are you playing?"
(Me) "A speedster...my first."
(Friend) "Cool...how fast is he?"
(GM) "Phase One: Jet"