Super Names

[Dynamo]

This got started over on the old boards as Project 3000, referring to the statistic in Champions Universe that there are ~3000 costumed supers on Champions Earth. Alistair posted a challenge to collect 3000 halfway decent names, positing that it was perhaps not possible.

Boy, was he in for a shock. We shot past 3000 names before stalling a bit somewhere around 4000, with occassional contributions getting us to about 5000.

Then the boards went down. It came back on these boards as Bring back Project 3000 (maybe 6000) (http://www.herogames.com/forums/showthread.php?s=&threadid=186), but I thought such a useful thread should be more intuitively titled. So here it is.

Contributions are encouraged. Having emerged as the maintainer of the list, I'll do periodic roundups to keep it orderly.

Some contribution guidelines:

Try to stick to original names. That said, I'm willing to credit most claims that either you came up with a name before Marvel/DC/Whoever did or you just hadn't seen the name used and came up with it independently.
Try to stay in genre. Common given names, like Jonathan or Steve, make lousy superhero/villain names, and nonsense names, like Alistorinus, are more at home in swords & sorcery than in comicbook superheroes.
Foreign names should identify the language and provide a translation to keep them from being lumped with nonsense names above.
Try to avoid outright stupid names. Humor is cool, but the Chicago Hopping Slasher, Fart Boy, and Kitchen Woman are likely to be "missed" in the next roundup.

Let's go! I can smell 6000 already.

EDIT 3/27/06: FAQ
The #1 Most Frequently Asked Question
Q. Where is this list?
A. As the master list grows and is reposted, it gets further back in the thread pages. Start with the last page and work forward looking for 2 very long list posts and a few shorter ones. There will also be a post with the whole list as an attachment.

[Dynamo]

EDIT: List deleted. Fresh roundup posted 2/25/03

[EternityShard]

Mannequin, The
Flair
Mason Shield
Weathervane
Melee

[Chaosliege]

Brawl (no er)
Scatterbrain

[lemming]

Just to make things easier for those collecting these. A zip file is attached.

[nHammer]

Strike Eagle
White Owl
Starpower
Mystery Man
Blue Knight
Girbralter

[RPMiller]

Xenon

[Kara Zor-El]

Penari (Indonesian: Dancer)

My wife's character, a martial artist. : )

[Lord Thaingar]

Good guys

Champion -- flying brick
Micheal -- as in the arch-angel of biblical reknown
Thermal -- heat / cold powers
Thaingar -- brick from alternate universe
Barrak -- speedster from another alternate universe
Bat-man -- bat-wielding skilled normal
Dark-man -- pistol-wielding skilled normal (partner to Bat-man)
Max Gunne -- blaster-wielding legendary normal
Cheetah -- speedster
Freak -- ugly brick
Bounty Hunter -- archer
Maxima -- flying female brick with various "brick trick" powers
Tech Knight -- power-armored hero (leader of the Ultra-Knights consisting also of The Bronze Dragon, Ace, and Dimension)
The Bronze Dragon -- guy that changes into a BIG dragon-man
Ace -- lucky superhuman martial artist
Dimension -- energy projector / teleporter whose powers come from the alien dimension his body has "merged" with
Rock-Steady -- density increase hero
Vulcan -- Collossus (of X-man fame) type hero
Beowulf -- Wolverine-type hero
Pele -- after the fire-goddess of Hawaii, not the soccer player
Venus -- love/lust-based mind control powers
Superion -- a cross between Superman and Silver Surfer
Magistar -- fighter/mage with magic sword
Justice -- knight with magic sword and armor and a pegasus named Victory
Liberty Belle -- daughter of a WWII super-agent with minor superhuman physical ability and "super agent" skills and gadgets
Synapse -- TK / mentalist, his most notable ability is the power to create a mind link and "direct" a battle (sharing combat levels with those he is linked to)


Villains

The Ravager -- the poor-man's Dr. Destroyer
Missile Man -- the destitute man's Ravager
Dr. Demolition -- skilled normal with skills / gadgets relating to explosives (leads the Demolition Crew which includes Bulldozer, Blowtorch, Buzzsaw, Piledriver, and Tower)
Black Tarantula -- evil spiderman with poisonous claws and no webs
Widow -- seduction-based mind-control and a deadly poisonous bite
Daddy Long Legs -- Dr. Octopus type gadgeteer
Nibor -- demon lord and ruler of a small island nation ... much of his power comes from a magical trident he wields
Hellfire -- biker-type granted fire-based powers by a demon including a fiery motorcycle and an animated chain
Ragdoll -- a dwarf with an unnaturally soft and flexible body (making him highly resistant to normal physical damage ... smokes cigars and carries a tommy-gun, leads the Toy Box Bunch which also includes Yo-Yo, Tin Soldier, Paper Doll, and Teddy Bear)
Yo-Yo -- mutant with enhanced phsyique and a fettish for yo-yos ... wields two mechanically-enhanced yo-yos (made of advanced metals with built-in motors and spent-uranium weights) with great martial skill
Tin Soldier -- wears a power-suit that looks like an old tin soldier and carries a powerful energy rifle that looks like an old tin-soldier's rifle
Paper Doll -- female with the ability to transform herself into a two-dimensional state and create duplicates of herself while in this state (the edge of her body is a nasty NND killing attack that does body because of it's 2D state)
Teddy Bear -- a large bear-like mutant with superhuman strength, regeneration, and tracking abilities as well as nasty claws

[Patriot]

Night spectre(vigilante)\
Electrik
Cheif

[lemming]

Dug out of the Red October site

Wavelength
Speed Trap
Requiem
Odd Fellow
Lurker
Grave Digger

[dbsousa]

Here are some names from a Kindom Come/Astro City type game I never ran. The Ambassador (already listed) was a Superman/Samaritan type, and his pantheon included:

Red Mantis, The spirit of justice. A corruption of Rhadmanthus, Greek judge of the Underworld.
Bigfoot, A Neanderthal analogue of the Ambassador
Galatea, an artificial woman whose love for the Ambassador freed her from her Pygmalion.
Polymer Man, a malleable hero.
Sophont, The Trancendant One

[Ranxerox]

Emperador, El (The Emperor, spanish)
MoonCat
Penumbra
Pragmatist, the
Renaissance
Shark-Grrl
SpiritWalker
Steely Dan
Tiburon, El (The Shark, spanish)

It would seem that there is no end to the number of viable hereo names.

[zornwil]

Jericho Lad
Beach Ball
Bud Girl
Dampener
Existential Man
The Game Show Host
Mover Shaker
Octal Fist
The Pterydactyl
Stigmata

This is a lazy list, it's all NPC supers I've used before that aren't as likely to have been listed yet.

[zornwil]

Originally posted by Dynamo
<li>Try to avoid outright stupid names. Humor is cool, but the Chicago Hopping Slasher, Fart Boy, and Kitchen Woman are likely to be "missed" in the next roundup.</li></ol>
Let's go! I can smell 6000 already.

posting the list next - stand by

What in the world is wrong with Kichen Woman? I don't mean in any PC way, either, I just mean it's easy for me to envision a superheroine possessing these powers.

[GradonSilverton]

Titeen : Russian Equivalent of Titanium

[Enforcer84]

Omniscience
Harvester
Nimbus
Rose Dragon
Sunset Kid
Fireheart

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by zornwil
What in the world is wrong with Kichen Woman? I don't mean in any PC way, either, I just mean it's easy for me to envision a superheroine possessing these powers.
If the first publication that comes to mind when I read a name is Too Much Coffee Man (http://www.tmcm.com), said name is unlikely to make it to the next roundup.

[death tribble]

Well having to reregister was more of a pain than I thought.
And the new format of the names is not transferring to well either.
Now that is not Dave's fault but having to import into Excel and then into Word is not my idea of a good time.
I will have to review what is now in the list and then ask for ones to be added or readded from the original list.

Dave,
What are you using to be track of all the names ?

[Siberian Tiger]

Scrum - British brick with duplication powers
Weerstand - Resistance [Dutch]
Middernacht - Midnight [Dutch]
Kapitein zonne - Cpt Solar [Dutch]
El espadachÃ*n - Swordsman [Spanish]

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Now that is not Dave's fault but having to import into Excel and then into Word is not my idea of a good time.Not as bad as you think:
copy, paste special > unformatted text, sort, scrub for duplicates (quick because new entries have no number), renumber, reformat numbers to 4 digits, save as tab-separated-values text file (I keep as much of my data archive as possible in ascii-compatible file formats), open text file in Editpad, find/replace the quotation marks out (why does Excel put those in?).
When it's time to post a roundup, I find/replace all the tabs with " - " and copy/paste into a posting dialog. All done.
death tribble
I will have to review what is now in the list and then ask for ones to be added or readded from the original list..Everything that was in the last roundup on the old boards is in the first list posted in this thread.
death tribble
What are you using to be track of all the names ? I use MS Excel, following the procedure I outlined above.

[Dynamo]

Fresh roundup tomorrow morning. Was going to do it today, but I lost track of time and gotta go to class and take my test on solid state power supplies.

First thing tomorrow, I promise.

[theskaven]

Here are some of the heroes that I have used:

1. Ebony Blade
2. Fluke
3. The Merc
4. Vermin Queen
5. Null
6. Drive-By
7. Singe
8. Ragnorak
9. The Peacemaker
10. Veil

[Alibear]

Keep up the good work Dynamo.

Your efforts have been worth it, I was looking through the list last night and got inspiration for a few characters. Coming up with a name post-character was always a bit-ch for me anyway!

[Bazza]

not sure if these have ever been done before.

Memphis (ancient Egyptian city)
Thebian (citizen of ancient Thebes)
Ealdormann (Old English for 'alderman' ie an elected member of a town council)

[Amnesia]

My suggestion

Amnesia (mentalist who specialises in memory alteration, esp. erasing them).

Well how could I not suggest that...

;)

[Doctor Agenda]

Doctor Archetype (Channeler)
Talion (Vigilante, from Hebraic Law "an eye for an eye, a tooth for a tooth)
Bifrost (from the Norse "Rainbow Bridge", a teleporter)
Action Grrl
Marduk (Babylonian storm god)
Techyon (Fast gadgeteer)
Lurker
Matrix (Power mimic)
Archmage
Online (Cyberpath)

[death tribble]

Dave,

Thanks. However just before the old boards went down I asked why some of the names were gone. I concede the funny/humerous ones but with others there was no reason I could see as to why they went. Now the boards went before I saw an answer if one was given.

There is no point in me adding these in Dribs and Drabs. Rather I will bundle them together in groups and you can say yay or nay if the reasoning behind their going is right ie too controversial, too silly, actual name etc

There are a few I would like to see go back but I will reason these and they can be verified.

I have only got as far as P.

[Dynamo]

Roundup

Got some great new names this time. Keep 'em coming.

Siberian Tiger, care to provide an etymology for Scrum?

EDIT: List deleted. Fresh roundup posted 3/5/03.

[aylwin13]

I'm making an Ice-man type villian with a violent, ruthless streak. The name I have at the moment is ICESHRIKE. What do you folks think? Yes? No? Maybe? Give me your opinions, or other ideas.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by aylwin13
ICESHRIKEI don't know; I'm kind of on the fence with this one. The transition between the two word parts doesn't slide off the tongue well without a little practice. What kind of villain wants reporters tripping over his name on national television? On the other hand, once you've got the pronunciation right, it sounds very cool.

I think you can count on your PCs mocking this guy's name based on their initial verbal trips, which may result in souring the flavor you want him to have. I'd recommend substituting a different word part to denote cold. How about Arctic Shrike or Coldshrike? Or perhaps a different predatory bird, like Icehawk.

I like the notion of broadening this thread's purpose to include discussion of superhero/villain names rather than just accumulating a monster list.

[zornwil]

Originally posted by Dynamo
If the first publication that comes to mind when I read a name is Too Much Coffee Man (http://www.tmcm.com), said name is unlikely to make it to the next roundup.

What a bizarre rule. This is your game so no objection, just strikes me as odd, given in particular that Too Much Coffee Man is one of the coolest names out there and a decent book.

[Doug McCrae]

It seems to me that in order to make this list into a really useful resource it would have to be ordered in other ways. Alphabetical is useful to determine if a name already exists but people needing a character name are not going to particularly want one begining with 'S'.

I propose two other kinds of ordering:
1) Power base - Categories could include Fire/Heat, Cold, Animals, Weapons and the like.
2) Period - Golden Age, Silver Age, modern.

This would be hard work though, I have to admit. The list of names I keep on my own PC could really do with such ordering but I've always put it off as too much effort. Of course the longer I leave it, the harder the job becomes.

[Alibear]

Good idea Doug, but I certainly wouldn't like the task of sorting 5,000+ names into nice groups. Too big a task even for the tireless Dynamo, I suppose.

[Gargoyle]

Going through the list, I saw that theres both a Mindblade and a Mind Blade.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by zornwil
What a bizarre rule. This is your game so no objection, just strikes me as odd, given in particular that Too Much Coffee Man is one of the coolest names out there and a decent book. That was more of a tongue-in-cheek expression of a much more subjective selection system. Project 3000, as I stated at the opening of the thread, began as an effort to name enough supers to populate Champions Earth, which is a serious comicbook setting. To that end, I felt that outright silly or stupid names just didn't belong.

Don't get me wrong. I really like Too Much Coffee Man, but when in comes to serious settings, it doesn't even make the list.

I would prefer to make the current list a tool for more serious games. When I get prospective players who are new to the genre, I'd like to able to hand them a printout of the list and not wind up with a bunch character names that sound like rejects from The Tick. Players who prefer silly names and character themes don't need help coming up with them, but newbies could use an aid that doesn't give them the wrong impression.

I hope this helps explain my selection criteria without alienating any would be contributors.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Doug McCrae
I propose two other kinds of ordering:
Power base - Categories could include Fire/Heat, Cold, Animals, Weapons and the like.
Period - Golden Age, Silver Age, modern.The problem with a system like that is that a given name can carry different connotations for different people. Even if I were omniscient and could predict every useful category that others might attach to each name, the list would balloon out of control as each entry would have to appear in several places.

Perhaps in the future, the list might be taken to a database format that would allow each name to have several keywords attached in aid search by theme, era, style, double entendre, or what have you. But that would require that every be able to access the same database format, and that's probably not happening any time soon.

On my Skills-to-Acquire-Soon list are SQL and some other database-oriented skills, both because they interest me and because they're in the second half of the IT program I'm taking in the evenings. So later this year, I may import the list into an open format that will let me render an alphabetical list for plaintext posting with the raw file attached for those with the right database capability.

For now, there is only one organization that allows each name to be listed only once and still maintain the list in a reasonable order, and that's alphabetically.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Gargoyle
Going through the list, I saw that theres both a Mindblade and a Mind Blade. Thanks. I'll yank the dupe in the next roundup.

[Doug McCrae]

Originally posted by Dynamo
Perhaps in the future, the list might be taken to a database format that would allow each name to have several keywords attached in aid search by theme, era, style, double entendre, or what have you.


My thinking is that the best place for the Soon To Be 6000 Project is as a website in its own right or perhaps as part of a website containing resources for superhero gamers. The name list on this putative site could, but would not necessarily have to be, database driven. Everyone would be able to access this as the end product seen by the user, whether driven by a database or not, would be HTML pages.

You're right that every name could probably fit within many different categories so the user would see a long list of buttons with all these, click the one required eg. 'Fire' and get all the fire names. Alternatively he/she might click 'Energy Projector' and would get a much longer list.

I've seen something similar with a list of gods from many cultures, ordered by category e.g. War, Fertility, etc. A damn useful resource for we gamers. The url is http://web.archive.org/web/20011012083319/raven.cybercom.com/~grandpa/chapter6.html

[death tribble]

Kamikaze is down twice at 2351 and 2352

Killowatt is 2402 but Kilowatt is 2405. What's the difference ?

Lastly 4795 Titania. How can she be King of the Fairies and Husband of Titania ? (OOOPS !!)

Have now finished going through and working out what was axed. Will put up these and ask for confirmation but there quite a few and I need to organise them first. Then we add new ones. Well I have two new ones so far.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Kamikaze is down twice at 2351 and 2352

Killowatt is 2402 but Kilowatt is 2405. What's the difference ?

Lastly 4795 Titania. How can she be King of the Fairies and Husband of Titania ? (OOOPS !!)Thanks.

Yanked the extra Kamikaze from my master file (along with the extra Mind Blade noted above).

Kilowatt and Killowatt both stay, since they are distinct, one being spelled correctly and the other extending the first syllable to "Kill", substantially changing the connotations of the name by giving it a psycho quality.

Fixed Titania on the master file. I must have been getting tired and just copy/pasted from her hubby Oberon and forgot to edit.

I'll be dropping off the boards for a couple days, so don't think I'm just ignoring your next few posts. I'm so sick, I'm lucky I didn't have to take a nap while typing this. Judging from how long my wife was down with this crud, I should be back on Sunday.

Oog. Somebody wake me when the floor stops tilting.

[death tribble]

Dave,

We have Moriarty and Fantomas on your list. Both are major master criminals from popular fiction. But two others are missing.
Fu Manchu or Dr Fu Manchu
and Dr Mabuse.
Both have been in films and Fu Manchu is in books by Sax Rohmer. I cannot speak for Mabuse as he is German and I have never seen English translations of any books about him.
Any plans to exclude either or both of these notables ?

[death tribble]

Dave,

Here is the first batch of rejected or missing names. these are all places or people and I am assuming that they were rejected for this reason. I will warn you now that the Silly Name one is quite big. These did not seem to qualify for that so I put them here instead.

Alabhama Montgomery
Albert (partner of Victoria)
Alcar West
Andarra
Basque (part of Spain)
Biscay
Blucher (German Pocket battleship)
Bonnie (and Cylde)
Bucephalus (Alexander the Great's horse)
Cannae (Hannibal's Great Victory over Rome)
Catalan (part of Spain)
Citizen Chauvelin
Clyde (and Bonnie)
Commander Zzak
Deutschland (Germany)
Eric the Red
Gneisenau (German battleship)
Graf Spee (Pocket Battleship)
Herr Krebs
Hipper (German Pocket battleship)
James Cole Younger
Juukinzoku the Mistress of Robots
Ki Gun Djinn
Kubla Khan
Limehouse Leopard
Lydon 'Brains' Johnson (Gang Boss)
Major Kessler
Marquis De Sade
Meneleus
Mersey
Mississipi
Missouri
Mister Otto
Mollock the Eater of Children
Montgomery
Nile
Norfolk Broads (waterway in England)
Oliver Twist
Oraclese
Oscar Wild
Pantagruel
Parsifial
Pericles
Phantom of Salt Lake City
Pretty Boy Fleming
Prinz Eugan (German Battlecruiser)
Rhianna
Robespierre
Scharnhorst (German battleship)
Seker
Serephena
Shalandra
Stella Polare
Sutekh
Thames
Tiblisi Miracle, The
Tiffany Jones
Tirpitz (German battleship)
Ulric
Verdun (WW1 battle between France and Germany)
Victoria (partner of Albert)
Volga (Russian river)
Wild Bill Hancock
Zama (Hannibal's defeat by Scipio)

In the case of the German battleships they were named after famous Germans ie Scharnhorst and Gniesenau were active in the Napoleonic wars.

[death tribble]

I believe that these were rejected on the grounds that they are or were under copyright to another company (gaming or otherwise)

451
Al Khayal Min Allah
Al-'Ain min Allah
Argurous Astraph
Big Boss Man
Big Daddy Cool
Brooklyn Dodger
Celebrity Skin
Chicago Bear
Chicago Bull
Doctor Strangelove
Don Giovanni
Flamin' Jane
Hawkeye
Johnny Ripp
Karate Kid
Lord of the Flies
Manic Street Preacher
Mighty Aphrodite
Minnesota Viking
Mississipi Burning
Mister Freeze
Ms Tree
New York Giant
New York Jet
New York Yankee
No 6 (for fans of the Prisoner)
Oakland Raider
Pittsburgh Steeler
Poison Ivy
Power Girl
Power Princess
Punisher
San Diego Charger
Shadowfax
Shrinking Violet
Universal Soldier
Wasp
Wild Fire

[death tribble]

I believe that these gun related ones were rejected for that reason. Why I don't know but would appreciate confirmation that this is the reason that these did not make it onto the list.

AK47
AK74
BAR
Luger
Kalashnikov
Martini Henry (rifle)
Mauser
M16
Smith
Sten
Wesson

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
We have Moriarty and Fantomas on your list. Both are major master criminals from popular fiction. But two others are missing.
Fu Manchu or Dr Fu Manchu
and Dr Mabuse.
Both have been in films and Fu Manchu is in books by Sax Rohmer. I cannot speak for Mabuse as he is German and I have never seen English translations of any books about him.
Any plans to exclude either or both of these notables ? Moriarty got the nod for obvious reasons.

Fantomas went back in after you mentioned him the first time because a quick web search revealed him to be a popular literary character, a fact I'd not known when I axed him the first time, thinking it was just a nonsense word.

I left out Fu Manchu for the same reason I left out Thor, overdone. In my opinion, the good doctor failed the originality test.

When I do a web search for Mabuse, the only sites on the first page of the search engine results in English are for a German R&D corporation and a Flemish renaissance painter, so Mabuse got the axe. Looking further after you brought him up again, I found more appropriate sites, but still wasn't inclined to include him, as he didn't seem a good name choice for a comicbook genre super. Then I found this (http://www.dvdjournal.com/reviews/d/drmabuse.shtml) at dvdjournal.com. OK, I'm convinced.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
I believe that these gun related ones were rejected for that reason. Why I don't know but would appreciate confirmation that this is the reason that these did not make it onto the list.

AK47
AK74
BAR
Luger
Kalashnikov
Martini Henry (rifle)
Mauser
M16
Smith
Sten
Wesson Yup, whacked these for being genre-inappropriate.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
I believe that these were rejected on the grounds that they are or were under copyright to another company (gaming or otherwise)

*LIST OMITTED*Some of these got axed for being genre-inappropriate, but most for being unoriginal.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Here is the first batch of rejected or missing names. these are all places or people and I am assuming that they were rejected for this reason. I will warn you now that the Silly Name one is quite big. These did not seem to qualify for that so I put them here instead.

*LIST OMITTED*

In the case of the German battleships they were named after famous Germans ie Scharnhorst and Gniesenau were active in the Napoleonic wars. The majority of these were axed for being genre-inappropriate. Some failed the proper name test. Some were merged with other similar entries (e.g. Wild Bill Hancock is on the list as Wild Bill, which is more genre-appropriate).

I'm aware of the German naval ship naming tradition, but that doesn't make a name genre-appropriate. There are no superheroes named George Washington Carver or supervillains going by Benedict Arnold, despite their historical significance.

Regions as name got the axe for the same reason. Captain America doesn't go by America now that he's a civilian. Though, that made me think to throw Deutchland back in as Hauptmann Deutchland.

I put Commander ZZak back in. He edges into my silly name filter, but only barely.

Feel free to post the list of silly names, and I'll review it. But I stand by the silly name filter. See my earlier posts on the subject.

Fresh roundup tomorrow with the above changes and some brainstorming I did last week for "power armor"-type names.

[PhantomGM6101]

Heroes
Prince SAGA,the Tommorrow Teen-Flying brick,a cross between Superboy and Kid Supreme[from Awesome Comics]
Dataswipe-Cyberpsi with telekenesis
Rokk(pronounced 'rock']-the ultimate immovable object,a almagation of Juggernaut[from X-MEN] and Maul[from WildC.A.T.S]
Starblaze-Energy projector,cosmically powered
Dreamstar-Mystic,Magical girl with abilities to travel in dreams.
Roll-one half of the team "Rokk-n-Roll",ultimate speedster,irresistable force,speed90 mps.
Liona the She-Cat -Feliniod fighter with beastal features and temper.
Tempest-wheather manipulator,grandaughter of west cost superhero,Mealstrom,Daugther of Thor ,norse god of thunder

Vortexx-air elemental

Villians
AXE
Crazy Eight
Grenader
Deathscream
HellFyre

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by PhantomGM6101
Prince SAGA
AXEI notice that SAGA and AXE are all caps. Are they acronyms? If so, please post the full version along with the acronym.

[Tamashii2000]

Originally posted by Gargoyle
Going through the list, I saw that theres both a Mindblade and a Mind Blade.

Thats because their two supervillians with that name, and they are fighting over it!!!!

Wait...thats been done.:p

[death tribble]

Dave,

Thanks for this. With the gun ones I know that we have Gattling on the list. I thought that the others could go on as a result. The gun ones may be more appropriate for Dark Champions.

For the mean time, three new ones

Jensen Interceptor (which was a fast car)
Liberty Hex (Patriotic Witch)
Pathogen

[Dynamo]

Roundup

edit: List deleted. Updated roundup posted.

[PhantomGM6101]

Originally posted by Dynamo
I notice that SAGA and AXE are all caps. Are they acronyms? If so, please post the full version along with the acronym.
Sorry doc, Typos. Here's the real listing:
Prince Saga{Saga is the name of a fictional Superman-type regularly spoofed at in Hudson City Times for Dark Champions.his name is supposed to inspired a story an epic a saga hence the nameSAGA! in the universe of CHS Saga is the ultimate superman who is created from an supersoldier experiment gone wrong.]
Axe-brick with an axe[what else?]
Billy Blue Blazes-Speedster with an attitude[Silver age]
Gossimer-gravity controlling energy projector[golden age]
Kid Saga-the original and also the current Saga the tommorrow man[Golden Age]

[Richard Logue]

Zip-Lock. Speedster with entangles.

His No. 1 enemy...

Freezer-Burn. Half fire, half ice. All bad.

[Balok]

Here's a few of mine:

From the League of Black Hearted Men:

Gregory Talon (may fail the proper name test, although Talon isn't his original last name -- a childhood accident left him handless, until he designed mechanical claws and changed his name)

Brother Assassin (the name was taken from the title of a novel, but the character isn't anyone who appeared in the novel)

Dark Lensman
Erl-King, The (from a Goethe poem)

Mr. Crowley (might also fail the proper name test; he is a descendant of the "famous" magician, Alistair Crowley)

Spectator

Others:

Doctor Decay
Mister Mass
Witherwing
Monk, The
Killrazor
Burning Diamond
Burning Fiend, The
Malleus
Looking Glass
Green Thumb
Faceless Lord, The
Mandragora
Walking Web
Bioravager (Don't end up on his operating table.)
Dead Ringer
Phage (consumes matter)
Tchernobog (evil Russian deity/spirit most recently made famous by the Blood series of games; before that was used as the demon in the Night on Bald Mountain segment of Fantasia)

The Manhunters (I had that name before I knew these were Green Lantern foes.):
Mantrap
Pitfall
Deadlock

The Death Dealers:
Scarmind
Scumbagger
Strafer
Soulrender

Deathbelle

Timetwist
Victor Six
King Blizzard
Negaton (negates energy)
Nuclear Fire
Solex Spider
Mister Styx

Some of these characters have been around for a very long time; many were originally written up for Villains and Vigilantes (probably few on this board even remember that game -- I'm so oooooold.) Because of this, it's possible some of the names subsequently appeared somewhere. I did my best to filter for that, but as I don't read *every* comic, that task is impossible.

[death tribble]

Dave,

The latest installment. These are all names that were used in previous editions of Champions for groups like Eurostar, Clown and Voice for example. For this reason I think they fail to qualify. However some of the names have already got through being (I believe) fairly generic ie Frost and Goshawk. Some of the ones here like Requiem and Scatterbrain might thus make it on but I don't think Arrowhead and Death Commando would. Be that as it may here is the list.

Arrowhead
Carrier
Death Commando
Death Singer
Graf Von Gausrom
Halfjack
Irredencia
La Pulga
Le Sone
Lion Slayer
Lung Hung
Merry Andrew
Requiem
Scatterbrain

[death tribble]

Dave,

Right. This bunch I have no idea about. None of them are ones I know anything about so I can't complain or urge that they go in. They may easily fail the genre test but I include them for completeness sake.

Akumashibaru
Bionte
Bruja
Bulle
Citius
Deserre'
Grax
Grido
Gurk
Himavan
Hodmandod (old Norfolk word for snail)
Kalleth
Kaltrah
Kareel
Kron
Lowe
Mlastina
Pando
Shalimar
Tardak
Tarlock
Tarn
Vetali
Zashcheta

[death tribble]

Dave,

I believe that these failed to pass muster on the grounds that they could be a team name rather than a paranormal name.

1001 Knights (or 1001st Knight)
42nd Street
Army of Many
Chain Gang
Dangerous Game
Dark Forces
Deadly Force
Double Jeopardy
Double Time
Double Trouble
Extreme Measures
FBI
Fish
Goon Squad
Mafia
New Sensation
Pirate Twins
Seven Wonders (or Seventh Wonder)

[death tribble]

Dave,

These are the ones that failed the silly test. Or so I think is the reason. I also assume that anything slightly rude would also fail. Like Bastard Sword for example or Psycho Slut. The latter was one that was used by the writers of the Aces series and was censored from that as well. Of the silly names there are over 250. So in consideration for your eyesight I have only done a first batch of 60.
If however you want the rest in one foul swoop, so it shall be.

2 Minute Drill
Africa Korpse
Al-Khadr
Alaczar
Alexander the Greatest
Alien Detective
Amazing Desolidified Man
American Excess
Another Dimension Man
Armed Carl
Asskicker and Nametaker
Auntie Biotic
Auntie Climax
Auntie Cyclone
Baby Face
Babyface Neilson
Bad Samaritan
Baysune'
Beast E
Beast from the East
Belisha Beacon (sign to show it is safe to cross a road)
Best Man
Best Mate
Big Aztec Guy
Big Bully
Big City
Big Tease
Big Yellow Taxi
Bill Psychs
Billy the Adult
Blizzard of Oz
Blue Blazes
Blue Meanie
Bored Enigma
Bouncing Buddhist
Bovine
Boy Blunder
Brood Mare
Brown Ale Cowboy (partner of Captain Paralytic)
Bully Beef
Butch Cavity
Captain Paralytic (and the Brown Ale Cowboy)
Captain Platypus
Cartoonist
Centre of Attention
Chairman of the Bored
Chap, The
Cheapskate
Christmas Spirit, The
Class Action
Commander Whatsit
Crimson Pilot
Deadly Farce
Doctor Disappearance
Doctor Doctor
Doctor Platypus
Duc A L'Orange
Evil Doctor Myu-Ta-Chu
Evil Guy from the 23rd Century
Evil Twin

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
The latest installment. These are all names that were used in previous editions of Champions for groups like Eurostar, Clown and Voice for example. For this reason I think they fail to qualify. However some of the names have already got through being (I believe) fairly generic ie Frost and Goshawk. Some of the ones here like Requiem and Scatterbrain might thus make it on but I don't think Arrowhead and Death Commando would. Be that as it may here is the list.

*list omitted*Early in the original thread on the old boards, we decided to leave out the names from previously published Champions supplements until it was verified that the characters were still extant on 5e Champions Earth, since the list was originally intended as a conceptual experiment within that setting. That's why Steve's super names make the list regardless of any rule they might break. Heck, he even got in a duplicated pair, Thunderbolt 1 & 2.

Many of the more generic names (e.g. Juggernaut) that have seen publication in 4e (and prior) books made the list, as I could easily believe any claims of originality or prior art on the part of the contributor.

Are we looking at the same list? Requiem and Scatterbrain are on the list posted here.

[Mayday]

Mayday - My mentalist with telepathy/major Mindlink ability

Les Gitane - French for gypsy, a family of tattooed gypsy mages

T.R.A.C.E. - Tactical Recon And Combat E(ntity?) A car/power suit

Adam Dei - My AI android with a god complex

Manx - my streetwise acrobatic brawler

LineDrive - Energy projector shortstop on baseball team

White Fist - Brick with a glowing energy punch

Metallion - Magneto in drag

Mouse - Shrinker w/ strength, the Mouse that Roared....

Run-A-Muck - a dense pile of garbage doing move through/bys

American Valor - A friend's super patriot

Night Warden - A friend's Batman clone

Old Glory - friend's Aging Super Patriot

Shareware - Cyber Wear

NoirBuck - friends speedster (only at night), french for Night Deer

SteelFront - and x2 damage from behind (friend's)

Stardancer - Submitted in memory of a departed beloved gamer

Plinth - A megalithic standing stone (friend's brick)

Toro - Friend's brick (spanish for bull)

Ginsu - knives

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Right. This bunch I have no idea about. None of them are ones I know anything about so I can't complain or urge that they go in. They may easily fail the genre test but I include them for completeness sake.

*List omitted*All of these except Hodmandod are effectively nonsense words without translations provided. Hodmandod got cut because Snail is a lousy super name.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Dave,

I believe that these failed to pass muster on the grounds that they could be a team name rather than a paranormal name.

*List omitted*Right. Good superteam names (some of them), bad superhero names.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
These are the ones that failed the silly test. Or so I think is the reason. I also assume that anything slightly rude would also fail. Like Bastard Sword for example or Psycho Slut. The latter was one that was used by the writers of the Aces series and was censored from that as well. Of the silly names there are over 250. So in consideration for your eyesight I have only done a first batch of 60.
If however you want the rest in one foul swoop, so it shall be.

*List omitted*My eyeballs thank you for your consideration. <img src="http://www.telisphere.com/~davidl/grfx/hlmtsmly"> Batches of 60 is fine.

Yup, whacked these for being too silly and/or just dumb. Except Blue Blazes. I was going to put that one back, wondering what I had been thinking, but I found that it had not been removed. It's entry 0536 on the current roundup.

[Doug McCrae]

Originally posted by Mayday
Les Gitane - French for gypsy, a family of tattooed gypsy mages
'Gitanes' does mean gypsies but it's also the name of a popular brand of French cigarettes. Most people in this country would assume you were referring to the latter.

[Doug McCrae]

Originally posted by Dynamo
Hodmandod got cut because Snail is a lousy super name.
Reasons why 'Hodmandod' is a good name
1. It sounds good.
2. Precedent - The Flash fought a GA/SA villain called 'The Turtle' who planned to beat the scarlet speedster by travelling too slow for him to cope with. He is now in prison. Although the plan, and the character, was clearly stupid, such things exist in comic book universes.
3. Not every superbeing has to be a kickass nuclear lightning bolt-hurling laser-god with tiger DNA.
4. British things are often naff, especially in comparison to American things.

[death tribble]

Oi McRae !

I resent that remark about Brit stuff being naff in comparison to American stuff.
But then again when I think of Haggis.........

[death tribble]

Dave,

Here is the second installment. I must admit to a liking for old style ones that were in the list like I of the Hurricane, Humus Sapiens and the wonderful Gronk the Talking Monkey with a Zap Gun.
Some of these are mine particularly things like Horrid Hun. I include it for completeness sake but am grateful that you did adapt the idea on one of the others cf Pillaging Persian begat Pillage and Persian.
I can only proof read one list at a time. The one I looked at did not have Requiem and Scatterbrain. If they are on now, fair enough.

Ex-Benedict
False Hood
False Identity
Fancy Free (of Footloose and Fancy Free)
Fancy Man
Fire Drill
First Impression
Flying Fish
Flying Scotsman
Frequent Flyer
FUBAR (similar to Snafu)
Full Otto
Garrison Killer
Gerbil Man
Glamour Puss
Golden Goose
Good Fellow
Good Guy
Good Sort
Good Sport
Goody Two Shoes
Grand Opera
Grand Turk
Greasy Bastard
Great Adventure
GrimKaiser
Grimblud
Gronk the Talking Monkey with a Zap Gun
Happy Fun Ball
Has Been
Hatpin, The
Heavenly Body
Her General (female. pun on Herr General)
High Brow
High Five
Hindu Giant
Hooded Man
Horrible Hoplite
Horrid Hun
Humus Sapiens
I of the Hurricane
Impossible Dream
Instant Gratification
Intensive Therapy
Jack the Giant Killer
Jammy Dodger (Jam meaning luck)
Jest Apo (Unfunny azi clown)
Jinkies the Clown
Juan ForDemonet
Julie 8
Julius Squeezer
Knavish Norman
Kung Pow
Lady Marmalade
Laughing Threatener
Law Suit
Leaping Lizard
Living Laboratory
Lobster
Long Fingered Fiend

[death tribble]

Dave,

After going through the Silly Names there will be juat over 250 names left which don't qualify as silly but might be too General or Specific or fail the Genre test. Some of these I will make a case for as I would like to see them included so they will only start going up after the Silly ones are finished.
These I will again break down into digestable chunks, maybe 50 at a time or smaller if I am making a case for inclusion.

[death tribble]

AAAARRRRRRGGGHHHH !
Sorry managed to miss the following 33 from the first batches on the silly side. Silly old me.

Augsburg Mutant
Big Chill
Boomtown
Butch Cavity
Captain Carribean
Captain Wonderman
Cherry Baby
Chinese Burn
Chinese Whisper(s)
Comrade Bloom
Constable Wasp
Cruel
Cruel Crusader
Cruel Summer
Cruella De Ville
Cut Rate Avenger
Dangler
Daylight Robbery
Dehumaniser
Detective Dwarf
Dire Straits
Disaster Area
Egalitarian
Egyptian Mole
Even Steven
Fair Play
Frisian Gargantua
Game Bird
Gorgeous George
Great Zamboni
Heliognome
Hung Jury
Inch Perfect

[death tribble]

Dave,

These five may have been too similar to ones already there (in the list) and in one case to an established comics character (Deliberately so).

Ambusher (Ambush)
Cheat, The (Cheater)
Colour, The (Colours)
Crimson Gnome (Green Goblin)
Scam Artist (Scam)

[altamaros]

I just correct a few spelling and translations

Les Gitane - French for gypsy, a family of tattooed gypsy mages


As Doug MacRae said it's a brand of cigarettes.
You can use
"les Gitans" (means exactly the same thing; "les gitanes" would indicate a female-only group

I just help for translations in french of some english words
if it can help.
Originally posted by Dynamo
Roundup
0382 - Bette Noire (French: Black Beast)
-> right spelling is "Bête noire"

0589 - Bouc (French: Scapegoat)
--> Bouc just means goat
translation for scapegoat is "bouc emissaire" (litt Emissary goat)

0813 - Chasseuse (French: Huntress)
--> french for Huntress is "chasseresse"

1340 - Dragon-ciel (French: Sky Dragon)
--> I know it's a official NPC but the name doesn't mean anything. i don't have any satisfying way to translate that in a nice way :
Sky dragon would litteraly be "dragon du ciel" (but it sounds ugly) or dragon celeste (celestial dragon).
Anyway he's dead so who cares ?

1550 - Fantôme, la (French: Phantom)
--> grammary problem : Le fantome ("la" is female, the word "fantome" is male gender)

1587 - Feu Boule (French: Fire Ball)
--> Boule de feu.

1710 - Fusion
1711 - Fusionne, la (French: Fusion)
--> the correct translation is "la Fusion" which is too close from the previous IMHO

1747 - Gaul (France in Roman era)
--> Gaule but i would not suggest you to use that name
"avoir la gaule" (to have the G.") is a french slang expression to errr... describe the fact that a man is in a state of sexual excitation. (i don't joke)

2073 - Homme de Gel, l' (French: Frost Man)
2074 - Homme de Glace, l' (French: Ice Man)
2075 - Homme de Magie, le (French: Man of Magic)
--> it's syntaxically correct but it really sounds too bad in french. avoid hero names with "homme"


3050 - Monsieur Diamont (French: Mister Diamond)
--> Monsieur Diamand
4939 - Triomphe, la (French: Triumph)
--> Le Triomphe (male gender)

cheers

D.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Doug McCrae
Reasons why 'Hodmandod' is a good name
1. It sounds good.
2. Precedent - The Flash fought a GA/SA villain called 'The Turtle' who planned to beat the scarlet speedster by travelling too slow for him to cope with. He is now in prison. Although the plan, and the character, was clearly stupid, such things exist in comic book universes.
3. Not every superbeing has to be a kickass nuclear lightning bolt-hurling laser-god with tiger DNA.
4. British things are often naff, especially in comparison to American things. <ol><li>Maybe to you.</li><li>Turtle evokes "slow but impervious." Snail evokes "crunchy vermin you don't want in your garden" or "French snack." The Flash villain was dumb, but the name is salvageable, unlike Snail.</li><li>Lower power doesn't mean having to pick a name that makes you sound like a wimp.</li><li>Assuming "naff" means good or cool, I refer you to counterpoint #1.</li></ol>

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Dynamo
4. Assuming "naff" means good or cool, I refer you to counterpoint #1.Wait, does "naff" mean bad or dumb? As in "It's OK if it sounds stupid; it's British"?

Speak English, dude. ;)

[Supreme]

Originally posted by Dynamo
Wait, does "naff" mean bad or dumb? As in "It's OK if it sounds stupid; it's British"?

Speak English, dude. ;)
According to the English people I know, "naff" can mean corny, stupid, or just generically inferior.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Here is the second installment. I must admit to a liking for old style ones that were in the list like I of the Hurricane, Humus Sapiens and the wonderful Gronk the Talking Monkey with a Zap Gun.
Some of these are mine particularly things like Horrid Hun. I include it for completeness sake but am grateful that you did adapt the idea on one of the others cf Pillaging Persian begat Pillage and Persian.
I can only proof read one list at a time. The one I looked at did not have Requiem and Scatterbrain. If they are on now, fair enough.

*List omitted*Yup, silly/dumb rule again. I changed my mind about False Hood and Fire Drill, though I collapsed them so Falsehood and Firedrill.

I think you need to doublecheck which list you're using or work only from the most recent roundup. According to my list archive, Requiem, Scatterbrain, and now Grimblud were never editted out, but rather have been on the list since they were submitted.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
AAAARRRRRRGGGHHHH !
Sorry managed to miss the following 33 from the first batches on the silly side. Silly old me.

*List omitted*Silly old names. Except Big Chill, which was (you know the words) not deleted.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Dave,

These five may have been too similar to ones already there (in the list) and in one case to an established comics character (Deliberately so).

Ambusher (Ambush)
Cheat, The (Cheater)
Colour, The (Colours)
Crimson Gnome (Green Goblin)
Scam Artist (Scam)Some were excessively similar, some didn't sound like good super names.

[Balok]

I would consider 0004 "8 ball" and 1421 "Eight Ball" to be the same name. You may not, but in case you do, there it is...

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Balok
I would consider 0004 "8 ball" and 1421 "Eight Ball" to be the same name. You may not, but in case you do, there it is... Um... yeah, you're right. That's an easy one to miss. Good catch.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Supreme
According to the English people I know, "naff" can mean corny, stupid, or just generically inferior. Thanks.

OK, for the record, I don't plan to excuse dumb names just for being British. :dyn

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by altamaros
I just correct a few spelling and translations ... I just help for translations in french of some english words if it can help.Awright! Foreign language help. In theory, I can get by in French (1 pt Basic Conversation), but I'm sorely lacking in social context.

Sorry I didn't reply sooner, but I wanted to set aside some time to do it right.As Doug MacRae said it's a brand of cigarettes. You can use "les Gitans" (means exactly the same thing; "les gitanes" would indicate a female-only groupThanks. Since I'm not putting groups in the roundups, this one will make it in as La Gitane.0382 - Bette Noire (French: Black Beast)
-> right spelling is "Bête noire"You are correct. I believe the contributor was attempting a name for a female super. My French instruction did not delve far into switching a noun's gender to include additional meaning. Your input on this topic would be helpful.0589 - Bouc (French: Scapegoat)
--> Bouc just means goat
translation for scapegoat is "bouc emissaire" (litt Emissary goat)Yuck. Does Bouc Emissaire sound as bad in French as I think it does? If so, it's out of there.0813 - Chasseuse (French: Huntress)
--> french for Huntress is "chasseresse"OK. Does Chasseuse mean Chaser (feminine)?1340 - Dragon-ciel (French: Sky Dragon)
--> I know it's a official NPC but the name doesn't mean anything. i don't have any satisfying way to translate that in a nice way :
Sky dragon would litteraly be "dragon du ciel" (but it sounds ugly) or dragon celeste (celestial dragon).
Anyway he's dead so who cares ?I hate this one too, but all the official names get an automatic OK.1550 - Fantôme, la (French: Phantom)
--> grammary problem : Le fantome ("la" is female, the word "fantome" is male gender)Gender switching issue again. Hopefully, you've some profound advice on the subject.1587 - Feu Boule (French: Fire Ball)
--> Boule de feu.To my American ear, that sounds clunky. Does Boule de Feu sound like a decent superhero name to a native French speaker, or is it a lost cause?1710 - Fusion
1711 - Fusionne, la (French: Fusion)
--> the correct translation is "la Fusion" which is too close from the previous IMHOI'm yanking it anyway, because it turns out to be a character from an SJGames product, and your confirmation that it's not even well-formed French just confirms the source.

However, were it not for the non-original source, I would probably leave it as it is. I'm allowing variations on correctly formed names in American English to represent the "kewlified" style occassional prevalent in super names. While "La Fusionne" is technically incorrect, it strikes me as a reasonable effort to enhance the femininity of the name, though that is the opinion of someone unused to ubiquitous gender-izations in everyday speech.1747 - Gaul (France in Roman era)
--> Gaule but i would not suggest you to use that name
"avoir la gaule" (to have the G.") is a french slang expression to errr... describe the fact that a man is in a state of sexual excitation. (i don't joke)Hu hu hu hu hu... he said "gaule."

Point taken. Thanks.2073 - Homme de Gel, l' (French: Frost Man)
2074 - Homme de Glace, l' (French: Ice Man)
2075 - Homme de Magie, le (French: Man of Magic)
--> it's syntaxically correct but it really sounds too bad in french. avoid hero names with "homme"I thought that might be the case. Can you suggest a way to salvage these?3050 - Monsieur Diamont (French: Mister Diamond)
--> Monsieur DiamandThanks.4939 - Triomphe, la (French: Triumph)
--> Le Triomphe (male gender)Gender switching again. I'll wait for your reply to mess with those.

Thanks for your help.

[st barbara]

Okay "Death Tribble" here is where "St Barbara" gets all pedantic. "Blucher" was never a german "Pocket Battleship". The first "Blucher" was an attempt by the Imperial German Navy in WWI to create a Battlecruiser. Partly because of some very clever British disinformation she emerged as an enlarged Armoured Cruiser (with 8.2 inch guns) rather than a Battlecruiser(A vessel of Battleship dimensions and armament e g 11 or 12 inch main guns in the case of German vessels, with less armour and higher speed) The "Blucher" of WWII was a standard Heavy Cruiser with an armament of 8" guns, which was permitted under the Versailles Treaty. The first "Blucher' was lost at the battle of Dogger Bank when the Germans discovered that here weaker armament couldn't match it against the British battlecruisers. The second "Blucher' had the distinction of being one of the few large warships lost to a LAND BASED torpedo when she was torpedoed (and shelled) by the Norwegian coastal defences during the German attack on Oslo in WWII. The term "pocket Battleship" rightly applies only to those ships designed by the Germans before WWII to evade the limitations of the Versailles treaty. They were "Lutzow", "Admiral Graf Spee" and "Admiral Scheer" !

[Ranxerox]

OK, some more that I would like to add. A couple of them may have problems with the silly filter, but they are both real though somewhat lighthearted characters.

Boss Nova - one guess concerning his favorite type of music

Briar Rose

Corvette- mine is named after the type of car not the warship, but that would be good also

Satori- means sudden enlightenment

Street Demon

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Ranxerox
Satori- means sudden enlightenmentLanguage?

[death tribble]

Dave,

Latest bit. Around 60.

Loose Woman
Lord of All Hopelessness
Lovecraft
Low Brow
Mad Eyed Schemer
Mademoiselle Dog
Major Problem
Malicious Medieval
Mamoth Ninja
Man from Amazonia
Mark E De Sard
Marine Copse
Marine Corpse
Marvel Louse
Mean Mr. Mustard
Mellow Yellow
Mexican Wave
Mia Moore
Mighty Flea, The
Million in Juan
Miss Ann Thrope
Miss Deed
Miss Golightly
Miss Judge
Miss Represent
Miss Rule
Mister Amoeba
Mister Monkey
Mister Peppermint Man
Molly Coddler
Monk E
Monkey Business
Moscow Mule (cocktail)
Moving Violation
Mystery Dinosaur
Naughty Louse
Nearsighted Visionary
Negie the Car
New York Nicker
Nihilistic Gardener
Old Fossil
Old McDonald
One Man One Armed Army Corpse
Orbiting Superhero
Past Tense
Patchwork Blitzkrieg
Pebble Dash
Perilous Pauline
Phyllis Stein (the Monster's daughter)
Pillaging Persian
Pink Flamingo Man
Pioneer Corpse
Poseur
Premature Burial
President of the Bored
Pro Lice Man
Purple Octopus
Purple People Eater
Rhode Island Red
Rick Tors Cale

[death tribble]

In reply to St. Barbara,

Fan of Jutland are we ?
More importantly Blucher was the Prussian General at Waterloo.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Dave,

Latest bit. Around 60.

*List omitted*Dumb/Silly & Genre filters again.

This thread sure is getting my post-count up. :)

[Balok]

A few more:

Anhyde (destroys water)
Animaster (composite of animal powers)
Balefire (evil mentalist)
Chef Death (it's a loooooong story)
Dreamassassin (kills via dreams)
Hooded Hangman, The (noose wielding killer)
Infernus (half-demon sorcerer)
Inverse (turns metahuman powers against owner)
Mister Moray (teeth, claws, swims well, fast)
Obliviax (steals minds and uses them)
Phantasm (ghostly fear powers)
Pinball Wizard, The (armored suit / pinball powers)
Ripper (Jack the Ripper's heir apparent)
Schism (separates things into their components)
Surreal McCoy, The (mentalist, illusionist)
Tarpit (made of gooey tar)
Waxman, The (animates wax figures)
Wizard of Odds, The (manipulates probability)

courtesy of a friend...

[Ranxerox]

Originally posted by Dynamo
Language?

satori - n. Zen. sudden enlightment. [1720-1730; Japn: n. deriv. of v. "to awaken" (sato- aware + -r- formatative affix)]

Webster's Encylopedic Unabriged Dictionary of the English Language

[death tribble]

Dave,

Here are the last of the silly names. And there are more than 60 but it does end the list. Now there is the one that are too general etc. So your postcount will increase again. But in your defense, there is only so much that can be done at once and you have your eyesight to think of.

Right Hand Man
Right Sort
Robert E Glee (Southern US Clown)
Rocky Mountain
Rolling Clones, The
Roman Tick
Rome E O
Sadistic Saracan
Safety First
Safety Last
San Juan Hill
Satan Claws
Screaming Beagle
Seven Caesar
Shadow Pimp
Sheik Hashud
Sheik of Araby
Sheriff Grip
Sherlock Gnomes
Shikago
Sick Puppy
Silver Dream Machine
Sitcom
Slap Happy
Slave to the Rhythm
Slippery When Wet
Slow Knight
Soft Touch
Sour Kraut (after the cabbage dish)
Spice Girl
Sports Knight
Star Spangled Batter (Patriotic Baseball Player)
Sudden Explosion
Sundown Kid, The (partner of Butch Cavity)
Suicidalien
Suite
Supercar
Superdooper
Superfluous Man
Superhero Lite
Super Radiation Man
Super Vampire
Sweet Heart
Swiss Army Knife Man
Tails (of Top Hat and Tails)
Tar Baby
Tattered Terrorist
Taxidermist
Telepathic Robot
Ten Gallon Hat
Tickler, The
Tiepin, The
Tony Contralto (Gang Boss)
Top Hat (of Top Hat and Tails)
Torch Singer
Torture Garden
Tough Love
Torso, The
Treacherous Turk
Triskaidekaphobia Lass
Troy Ounce
Tutti Frutti
Unfriendly Fire
Underground Stallion
Underwater Yoddler
Unnecessary Violence
Unusual Punishment
Vibro Monkey
Walrus, The
Warped Mentality
Water Torture
Whiner
Whirl Conundrum
Whole Tooth
Wild Western
Woody Alien
Wrongdoer
Yankee Doodle
Yankee Doodle Dandy
Yankee Doodle Pansy (Dandy's partner)
Yowie

[death tribble]

Dave,

We have on the list names corresponding to Allied aircraft of World War 2 and later.
What about the names of enemy planes from WW2 or the company names, like Messerchmitt ?

[Balok]

Dynamo, are you planning to do anything else with this thread?

Just curious...

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Balok
Dynamo, are you planning to do anything else with this thread?I was waiting for a reply from altamaros so I could clean up some of the French names, but it looks like I'm not going to get that feedback.

I'm working up a roundup tonight. Stay tuned.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Here are the last of the silly names. And there are more than 60 but it does end the list. Now there is the one that are too general etc. So your postcount will increase again. But in your defense, there is only so much that can be done at once and you have your eyesight to think of.

*list omitted*Yup, again Dumb/Silly and Genre filters. However, I changed my mind about Rocky Mountain, and I put Spice Girl back in as Spice Grrl. Screaming Beagle and Sick Puppy were moved to the Fuzzy appendix.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
We have on the list names corresponding to Allied aircraft of World War 2 and later. What about the names of enemy planes from WW2 or the company names, like Messerchmitt ? Consider Messerschmitt submitted. Got more?

[Dynamo]

Hacked out a few names and altered others based on advice from our Parisian consultant.

edit: List deleted. Fresh roundup posted.

[Balok]

Wow! Many of mine made it.

You've got Ripper in there twice. Damn, that quick I forgot what numbers, but they might be 3929 and 3930.

Out of curiosity, what didn't you like about "The Surreal McCoy"?

Thanks for going to the trouble of compiling these lists.

[Doug McCrae]

I'm not sure about Yankee Poodle, Rubber Duck or Pig Iron - they were all members of the Amazing Zoo Crew

Captain Carrot and his Amazing Zoo Crew - 'The funny animal book for people who hate funny animal books'. They should also have marketed it for people who like funny animal books. I bet it would have been more successful.

[Doug McCrae]

Horse
Smackdown
Gaunt Man, The
Dread Alkali
Motorised Algernon
Lingo
Goo, The
Secret Leader, The
Naiad
Formic Acid Man
Fortissimo - Italian: very loud
Mobius Man
Bugaboo
Puzzler, The
Blood-Red Blade
Lobster, The
Flaming Fury, The
Ruby Consciousness, The
Targeteer
Virtuoso
Ropedancer
Plastic Titan
Stellarina
Gymnastic Master

[blood-stone]

from My gaming

Red Nova
Lilly Cat
Black Fury
Spirit Shout

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Balok
Wow! Many of mine made it.

You've got Ripper in there twice. Damn, that quick I forgot what numbers, but they might be 3929 and 3930.

Out of curiosity, what didn't you like about "The Surreal McCoy"?

Thanks for going to the trouble of compiling these lists. Thanks for spotting the extra Ripper. It's out of the master file and won't be in the next round up.

Surreal McCoy got the axe for a compound reason. First, it's more than a bit silly, so it was already red flagged. A moderate degree of genre-inappropriateness pushed it over the edge.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Doug McCrae
I'm not sure about Yankee Poodle, Rubber Duck or Pig Iron - they were all members of the Amazing Zoo Crew.It's my policy to accept any reasonable claim of originality, including:<ul><li>"I came up with it first."</li><li>"I hadn't heard of the original when I came up with it."</li><li>"I created that published character."</li></ul>I can vouch directly for Rubber Duck, since I created and played him for a few months in a Fuzzy Champions game in college.

[death tribble]

Dave,

I'll post more on the German bit when I do a list of completely new names.

Here are the first batch of names which are perhaps too nebulous, too specific or too general. Included are reasons for inclusion, references or non-inclusion.

101 (after George Orwell's book 1984. Rm 101 contains your worst nightmare)
Alcibiadies (Athenian Greek General)
Andarra
Anti-Drugs Crusader
Anti-Pope
Anti Vigilante
Apt Pupil
Aqus
Arab
Arabia
Arabian
Arak
Arch Foe
Armed Robbery
Attorney General
Backstabber
Bad Guy
Bad Man
Badge
Barramundi
Belle of the Ball
Bells, The
Big Boss
Big Business
Big Chief
Bigot
Black Belt
Black Hat (trad. The bad guy)
Black Rod (British Parliamentary official)
Blonde, The

Alcibiadies was a Greek general who fought against Sparta. See The History of the Peliponnesian War by Thucydidies (spelling may be a little off). The leader of Athens at the time Pericles is mentioned more often and is the subject of a play by Shakespeare. Alcibiadies was exiled from Athens.
Bizarrely you had Alcibiadies down as an Asian Shangri La beforehand.
The Anti Drugs Crusader was a vigilante who went after drug dealers and faked psychosis, so that people thought he was a driveling gun toting loon. He killed criminals to mask his vendetta against a Mafia family in the UK.
The Anti-Vigilante was a specially trained policeman sent out after a rash of costumed vigilantes hit London, such as the Anti Drugs Crusader.
Arch Foe, Bad Guy, Bad Man, Big Boss and Big Chief could be claimed as names by anybody in addition to the normal name and might fail the filters as a result.
I can confirm that Black Rod is a Parliamentary official.

[Doug McCrae]

Johnny Radar
ESP Maiden
Deflector
Costume, The
Myth
Weapon
Symbol
Mobster From Saturn, The
Extra-man, the Man With Extra Powers!
Masked Blaster
President Hate
Silicon Soldier
Automatic Dragon
Tree, The
Plutonium Worm
Chaos
Secret Sphinx
Archaeopteryx
Mesmerine
Duke Nihil - 'Nihil' is Latin for 'nothing'
Xenon
Crescent Knight

War
Boy Electric
Coma
A-Man
RoboGo
Tantric Jupiter
Slam
Freestyle
Head, The
Uberfly
Toxin
Volcano
Roach
Fever Dream
Sabbath
TNTeen
Bullet
Big Boom
Dittolad
Ghostdance
Organik
Bronco
NRG
Gravity
Cannon
Boneyard
Clockwork
Furnace

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Here are the first batch of names which are perhaps too nebulous, too specific or too general. Included are reasons for inclusion, references or non-inclusion.

*list omitted*

Alcibiadies was a Greek general who fought against Sparta. See The History of the Peliponnesian War by Thucydidies (spelling may be a little off). The leader of Athens at the time Pericles is mentioned more often and is the subject of a play by Shakespeare. Alcibiadies was exiled from Athens.
Bizarrely you had Alcibiadies down as an Asian Shangri La beforehand.
The Anti Drugs Crusader was a vigilante who went after drug dealers and faked psychosis, so that people thought he was a driveling gun toting loon. He killed criminals to mask his vendetta against a Mafia family in the UK.
The Anti-Vigilante was a specially trained policeman sent out after a rash of costumed vigilantes hit London, such as the Anti Drugs Crusader.
Arch Foe, Bad Guy, Bad Man, Big Boss and Big Chief could be claimed as names by anybody in addition to the normal name and might fail the filters as a result.
I can confirm that Black Rod is a Parliamentary official. I tossed out these names for a variety of reasons. A few hit the Dumb Name filter, a few the Silly Name filter, but most hit the Genre-Inappropriate filter.

To answer your specific points:

Alcibiades: I can't explain the Asian Shangri-La thing. Doing a web search now results in no similar hits. Beats me. Must have been late.
However, it's still genre-inappropriate. I cite the dearth of supers named for similarly obscure historical figures with difficult to pronounce names. Historical name inspirations typically fall into 3 categories:<ol><li>well-known figures that carry their own contemporary cultural connotations,</li><li>cool sounding names regardless of origin, and</li><li>throwaway comic-relief characters we're happy to forget.</li></ol>Anti-Drugs Crusader: A fine epithet, but otherwise a lousy superhero name. I could see maybe Anabuse the Anti-Drugs Crusader, but I'd probably just shorten it to Anabuse.

Anti-Vigilante: It's a job description, not a super name.

Arch Foe, Bad Guy, Bad Man, Big Boss, Big Chief: These haven't sounded good since the 50s. They're valid campaign NPC roles (every super team needs an arch foe, a rogue's gallery of bad guys, and a big boss to try and take down), but they just aren't super names.

Black Rod: Hooboy... You mean aside from the phallic connotations? Outa dere right along with Gaul.

[Dynamo]

:D Dragon #306 (Apr 2003), Dork Tower on pg 90. :D

[death tribble]

Dave,

Next batch on the General theme.

Body Double
Bogatyr
Breeze Block
Bronze Age
Buddha
Bully
Bunyip
Busy Bee
Cabracan
Campeon
Cape
Caper
Carpathia
Cathedral
Cat Lord
CEO
Cerval (Asian Cat)
Chairman
China Boy
Churchill
Cimmerian
Cinnamon Girl
Clean Getaway
Cleaner, The (Intelligence term for someone who cleans up a mess ie dead bodies cf La Femme Nikita and Assassin)
Cold Blood
Cold Storage
Collaborator
Combat Thought
Complicity
Composite Slayer
Consequences

Bogatyr is Russian in origin (I believe)
Bronze Age is included as various other ages are in the List like Old Age and Middle Age. If you want to fail the one you may wish to yank the others.
Bunyip is Australian.
Carpathia is another name for the Transylvanian/Romanian area.
Cerval is an Asian cat, admittadly not as big as a lion or tiger. But possibly a good name for characters operatin in South East Asia. Interesting fact. Ceval Coffee is the most expensive coffee in the world. The Cat easts the coffee husks and after the coffee beans are passed through its system, the beans are collected for making coffee.
Consequences partner Truth has been included in the list

[urbwar]

Here's one I played in a game that I didn't see on the last roundup:

American Gothic (dark, vigilante styled patriot hero with phasing powers similar to the vision)

Another one I recently came up with is Deathstrike (electrocutes people by touch)

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Next batch on the General theme.

*list omitted*

Bogatyr is Russian in origin (I believe)
Bronze Age is included as various other ages are in the List like Old Age and Middle Age. If you want to fail the one you may wish to yank the others.
Bunyip is Australian.
Carpathia is another name for the Transylvanian/Romanian area.
Cerval is an Asian cat, admittadly not as big as a lion or tiger. But possibly a good name for characters operatin in South East Asia. Interesting fact. Ceval Coffee is the most expensive coffee in the world. The Cat easts the coffee husks and after the coffee beans are passed through its system, the beans are collected for making coffee.
Consequences partner Truth has been included in the list Most of these lost out to the Genre-Inappropriate filter, though I relented on Cold Blood and Cerval (corrected to Serval, an African wildcat; I couldn't find a reference to a cerval as an Asian feline of any sort).

Bogatyr: Submitted along with a bunch of names from a published product. Non-Original filter.

Bronze Age: You're right. I've yanked Middle Age and Old Age.

Bunyip: If now >< 1980s then Autralian >< cool. No one is going to call themselves Bunyip (or Yowie for that matter). Dumb Name filter.

Carpathia: Genre-Inappropriate filter. Just a region with no other name-part simply doesn't work for me.

Cerval: Put back in as Serval. Cerval seems to be a popular misspelling of Serval. I had heard similar stories about coffee beans fed to goats, which seems more believable, since cats are carnivores and are thus unlikely to eat coffee beans. See Exotic Coffees of the World (http://www.toadalamode.com/coffee.html).

Consequences: Genre-Inappropriate filter. Truth stands alone as a decent super name, but Consequences works only as part of a gag combo.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Next batch

Consul General (Diplomatic term)
Core Commander
Corporate Raider
Coup De Grace
Covert Operative
Crayfish
Crime (Punishment's partner)
Criminal Emporer
Criminal Intent
Crook
Critical Condition
Cruise Control
Cruise Missile
DA, The
Danube
Darwin
Dartmoor
Decoy
Delamore
Devil Incarnate
Diamond Jim
Double Agent
Double Cross
Dover
Drill Instructor
Dural
Dwindler
Echidna
Egyptian
Elf

Consul was part of the Criminal Empire set up.
Corporate Raider was an idea I got from the Champions business book which had Dr Destroyer on the cover.
Criminal Emporer was the name for the head of the riminal Empire. And well, Monarch was taken and IP.
Diamond Jim has been used before by various people but not in a Champs context. I believe that Errol Flynn once played a Diamond Jim.
Double Cross is one name that I would beg to get included. Way back in 1990 I met a fellow Champions GM at GenCon. As usual when two or more Champs players meet they compare Character Sheets. Double Cross was actually a hero but did not know it. The Hero's DNPC was manipulating them and causing them blackouts. During these blackouts they became the villainous Double Cross. I was really impressed by this as an example of duplicity. And so I would like to shamelessly beg for this one to be included.

[altamaros]

Originally posted by Dynamo
I was waiting for a reply from altamaros so I could clean up some of the French names, but it looks like I'm not going to get that feedback.

I'm working up a roundup tonight. Stay tuned.

Argh, i totally missed your post !!

i'm sorry; i promised i will be flogging myself with freshly cut nettles tonight

So :

quote:
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0813 - Chasseuse (French: Huntress)
--> french for Huntress is "chasseresse"
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OK. Does Chasseuse mean Chaser (feminine)?

==> i didn't even know that this term eixsted before checking in the dictionary : apparently it's used to describe a woman practising hunting as a sport. Chasseresse is used more in a "romantic" way; it's the translation for Batman's Huntress.

quote:
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1587 - Feu Boule (French: Fire Ball)
--> Boule de feu.
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To my American ear, that sounds clunky. Does Boule de Feu sound like a decent superhero name to a native French speaker, or is it a lost cause?

==> well, i do think it sounds much better in english. Well, to have an spherical/flaming hero (head-itching interruption here) :
- Feu Follet ? (Will'o the wisp) ?

But frankly it's not because an hero is french that he cannot use a english name.

quote:
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2073 - Homme de Gel, l' (French: Frost Man)
2074 - Homme de Glace, l' (French: Ice Man)
2075 - Homme de Magie, le (French: Man of Magic)
--> it's syntaxically correct but it really sounds too bad in french. avoid hero names with "homme"
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I thought that might be the case. Can you suggest a way to salvage these?

==>(head itching session but longer)

For a frost-based character, words to consider are :
- Froid (frost/cold)
- Glace (Ice but also Ice cream/mirror)
- Gel (Freeze but also gelly)
- Hiver/hivernal (winter/wintry)

I would suggest
2073 - Pierre-Fendre : means literaly "Stone"+"to crack/cleave". it comes from a old expression meaning " a stone-cracking cold"
2074 - ?
- l'Hivernal (the wintry one)
- (l')Ange de Glace : (the) ice angel
- (l')Ange de l'Hiver : (the) angel of winter
- (la) reine des glaces ((the) Ice queen ) those last two are both from swiss/alpine fairy tales
2075 - "Man of magic" ?
sorry no idea of what you really want here.
a mage ? magician?


sorry ofr the late reply

Altamaros

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by altamaros
sorry for the late replyHey, it's cool. This is good stuff, and I will definitely refer to it when I assemble the next roundup.

On more question. European speech, French and German in particular, seems to use determiners much more frequently than American English. Just how necessary is it to include le, la, or l' to make a name sound right to a native speaker? For example, my Cannibal Comics (http://www.telisphere.com/~davidl/gaming/campaign/cannibal) campaign features a Parisian speedster, La Vitesse. Would she be referred to informally as Vitesse, or would it always be La Vitesse?

[Doug McCrae]

Originally posted by altamaros
For a frost-based character, words to consider are :
- Froid (frost/cold)
How about Doctor Froid?

[altamaros]

Originally posted by Dynamo
Hey, it's cool. This is good stuff, and I will definitely refer to it when I assemble the next roundup.

On more question. European speech, French and German in particular, seems to use determiners much more frequently than American English. Just how necessary is it to include le, la, or l' to make a name sound right to a native speaker? For example, my Cannibal Comics (http://www.telisphere.com/~davidl/gaming/campaign/cannibal) campaign features a Parisian speedster, La Vitesse. Would she be referred to informally as Vitesse, or would it always be La Vitesse?

mmh, for german i cannot answer; i think we tend to use determiners if the word is of "too" common use in everyday conversation. and not to use determiners if the word/expression designs something really "specific"
but frankly this is really personal feeling; (maybe it just sounds more pompous ?)
i can find examples and counter-examples :

determiners :
Spiderman --> l'Araignée ("the spider")

without
X-men's Storm --> Tornade (without "la")
X-Men's Cyclops --> Cyclope (wthout "le").

i got no special rules for that, just feeling.



How about Doctor Froid?
If you think about Batman's Doctor Freeze they once tried to translate it as Docteur Frisson (doctor Chill) (in the old series with Adam West) before they realize it sucked and used the original name. i go not "pretty" names for the combination doctor (ice-based them)
Maybe Docteur Givre (doctor hoarfrost or doctor rime). ironically it's the name of one of my old teachers (i hope you will make him a villain)

[Dynamo]

Thanks, altamaros.

No Doug, no Sigmund Freud puns.

Fresh roundup this weekend.

Originally posted by death tribble
Next batch

*list omitted*

Consul was part of the Criminal Empire set up.

Corporate Raider was an idea I got from the Champions business book which had Dr Destroyer on the cover.

Criminal Emporer was the name for the head of the riminal Empire. And well, Monarch was taken and IP.

Diamond Jim has been used before by various people but not in a Champs context. I believe that Errol Flynn once played a Diamond Jim.

Double Cross is one name that I would beg to get included. Way back in 1990 I met a fellow Champions GM at GenCon. As usual when two or more Champs players meet they compare Character Sheets. Double Cross was actually a hero but did not know it. The Hero's DNPC was manipulating them and causing them blackouts. During these blackouts they became the villainous Double Cross. I was really impressed by this as an example of duplicity. And so I would like to shamelessly beg for this one to be included.Genre-Inappropriate filter for almost all of these.

Consul: Now this variation I like. Consul General doesn't work for me, but Consul would be good for an arch-villain. That might explain why it's still on the list.

Corporate Raider: Plural, it would make a halfway decent team name, but singular, it's more of a job description than a good monicker.

Criminal Emperor: Good job description, dumb name. Shadow Emperor or Emperor of the Underworld would be better. Criminal Emperor in Latin might sound cool. Anyone want to look it up?

Diamond Jim: Entirely inappropriate to the genre. Pulp yes, superheroes no.

Double Cross: Very cool character concept. Neat campaign role. Calling this guy Double Cross would only get him killed in any campaign featuring villains with at least three brain cells. ("Hi Double Cross, glad to meet you. I'm going to shoot you now, just in case you're named for your signature move.") However, I will include it, because while I was typing, I realized I could picture a vigilante sporting a crusades cross as an emblem and leaving them as calling cards. Heck, sharpen the post and throw them like stilettos.

[Balok]

Possibly you already know the following, but in case you don't:

The proper spelling of the world for "slaughterhouse" is 'Abattoir'. This would affect 0006 - Abatoir.

The proper spelling of the (Anglicized) version of the Hebrew word for 'destruction' is 'Abaddon'. This would affect 0007 - Abbadon.

Digging through some more old characters, I came across a couple more:

Agni (Vedic god of Fire)
ARMOR (Automatic Remote Mobile Ordnance Resource) [1]
Cerberus (three-headed, vaguely canine/human hybrid)
Dark Druid (evil plant/animal powers)
Dark Page (evil wizard)
Death's Head (skull-masked assassin) [2]
Doctor Darkmind (evil mentalist/psychiatrist)
Elemental Tyrant, The (uses the four ancient elements)
Grey Man, The (agent for extradimensional monster)
Spindevil (spinning speedster)
Wrack (strong, tough, induces pain at range)

[1] ARMOR is used by the government to capture rogue superheroes, but is strangely never available to deal with supervillains :) It fills the same niche as Marvel's Mandroids but is largely self-guided with remote overrides. Unknown to the government, even as it builds more, ARMOR has gained a limited self-awareness.

[2] WARNING: I created Death's Head many years ago as a skull-masked killer with minor fear powers and a wide range of skills. Since then, I have discovered that there was a "Death's Head" unit of the German SS. If you feel that inclusion of this name might offend anyone, by all means leave it out.

[Arthur]

Here are some that have a prayer of being original:

Jack Hammer (two words: his real name!). Pronounced as two separate words, not "jackhammer".

Megadyne
Mack the Knife
Nemesis
Starhawk

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Balok
The proper spelling of the world for "slaughterhouse" is 'Abattoir'. This would affect 0006 - Abatoir.

The proper spelling of the (Anglicized) version of the Hebrew word for 'destruction' is 'Abaddon'. This would affect 0007 - Abbadon.Thanks. Fixed.

I know how to spell those two. It must have been getting late.

[Thirdbase]

Cobalt Crusader
Dias - Spanish (day) partner of Noches
Grimoire - Book of Spells
Halberd - Middle ages Axe
Ice - Frozen water
Noches - Spanish (night)partner of Dias
ShadowKnight
Talbot, Larry Talbot - The original Werewolf (God I got tired of explaining this one)


These are all characters that I have played.

Great list.

[Monday Knights]

Power Charge (extradimensional plasma energy alien)
Stalker (subterranean nocturnal race)
Overlord (CEO super)
Lucy Sky Diamonds (mentalist villain)
Witch Doctor
Deathgrip
8 Ball
Screwball (nutso villain)
Myrmidon
Jungle Girl
Dr. Righteous (crusading priest)
Stomper (giant growth)
Wild Thang
Extinguisher (firefighter super)
Desert Fox
Slo-mo (speedster- everybody else is in "slow motion")
Mindblower (Abigail Headstrom)
Stake
Crescendo
Ground Zero
Jester (ego blast- jokes that hurt)
White Eyebrow (kungfu fighter)
Iron Ox (kungfu fighter)
Bullethead (speedster w/move through specialty)
Pencil Neck (stretching power super w/Distinctive Feature)

If anybody has time and resources, I'd be curious to know what names have been recommended that have already been used in comics.

It seems like everything in the Audubon Field Guides has already been used twice.

[Dynamo]

edit: List deleted. Fresh roundup posted.

[Agent X]

Kewl! Do you think by January, it might reach 10,000!?:)

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Agent X
Kewl! Do you think by January, it might reach 10,000!?:)That's up to everyone else. I throw in a few every time I do a roundup, about enough to replace the ones I screen out for various reasons, but the bulk of the new names come from other contributors. As soon as death tribble gives up trying to talk me into replacing names I've already rejected, he'll start throwing new ones. Hopefully, that will spur others into a fresh spate of creativity.

Onward to 10K.

[Dr. Anomaly]

Kittyhawk--"a flying wet brick with a Jedi mind trick" (a PC water elementalist with a number of other apparently unrelated powers, including feline affinity, flight, a little mind control and general strength and toughness)
Hideous Key--mentalist with a nightmare face
Hidden Dragon--martial artist with invisibility
Catalyst Lass--speeds up different processes, everything from chemical reactions to good ideas

[urbwar]

Originally posted by Dynamo
That's up to everyone else. I throw in a few every time I do a roundup, about enough to replace the ones I screen out for various reasons, but the bulk of the new names come from other contributors. As soon as death tribble gives up trying to talk me into replacing names I've already rejected, he'll start throwing new ones. Hopefully, that will spur others into a fresh spate of creativity.

Onward to 10K.

Here's a few more:

Ahriman (Persian Deity. Personificaton of darkness. Basically the Persian Satan)

Mithra (Persian god of light/war; also known as Mithras)

Lamashtu (Mesopotamian disease demon/goddess)

Guererra Sagrada (Sacred Warrior in Mexican)

[death tribble]

Dave,

Thanks for including Double Cross. As for trying to talk you out of ones that have been rejected, Hah ! some wish. I have a few more batches of these again. Then I have a new list

Would you find it helpful for a full list of the ones who appeared in the Palladium books and the GURPS books ?

Elk
Elusive Butterfly
Entrance (hypnotise)
F.A.S.T.
Fellow Traveller
Fighter
Fire & Ice
Firefighter
Flash Dog
Flash Harry
Forestal
Fuss
Gang Boss
Giant Frog
Good Samaritan
Gooner (fan of Arsenal Football club)
Grandee
Greasepaint
Grebe
Grey Nurse
Grey Ray
Hero
Heroine
Hill
Himeki
Hottentot (African native. Cf King Solomon's Mines)
Housecarl (Saxon/Norman infantry)
Illustrator
Impostor
Impressionist
Industrial Espionage


Couple of these might be too generic like Fighter, Hero and Heroine.
I have no idea what F.A.S.T. stood for. But for a speedster it might be appropriate.
Fellow Traveller is the name of a paranormal aiding Communists in America. Even today.
Flash Harry is an English name used to imply that someone is a bit of a show off and maybe tied to something not quite legal.
The Hottentot tribe are resiliant to heat but not cold as the book King Solomon's mines prove.
Imposter is like the Chameleon in Spiderman. You may noty know that this is who you are dealing with.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Would you find it helpful for a full list of the ones who appeared in the Palladium books and the GURPS books?Do you really want to give me tool to reject more names? :)

I'm already familiar with most of the characters appearing in GURPS supplements, though as I said, I credit almost any claim of originality, so I'm rejecting those names only if they are particularly distinctive (e.g. Argurous Astraph and La Fusionne) or submitted along with too many other names from the the same publication (making it a lot less likely that any of them are original).

I don't own any of Palladium's Heroes Unlimited line, partly because I disapprove of Siembieda's litigous history, and partly because I like a little quality in my RPG supplements. If this lack of IP pollution means I allow too many name copies directly from HU products, Kevin can flippin' sue me.death tribble again
Couple of these might be too generic like Fighter, Hero and Heroine.
I have no idea what F.A.S.T. stood for. But for a speedster it might be appropriate.
Fellow Traveller is the name of a paranormal aiding Communists in America. Even today.
Flash Harry is an English name used to imply that someone is a bit of a show off and maybe tied to something not quite legal.
The Hottentot tribe are resiliant to heat but not cold as the book King Solomon's mines prove.
Imposter is like the Chameleon in Spiderman. You may noty know that this is who you are dealing with.Fighter/Hero/Heroine: Yeah, I hate these. Fighter sounds dumb, and Hero or Heroine are honorifics given by others in response to your actions.

F.A.S.T.: I yanked all the acronyms with no extended version provided unless it was obvious or something came quickly to mind.

Fellow Traveller: Decent euphemism, lousy super name.

Flash Harry: See Fellow Traveller.

Hottentot: History aside, it sounds dumb.

Imposter: OK, I'll put this one back in.

[Tetsuyama]

Came up with a few which don't seem to be on the list. Hopefully some of them are interesting enough to make it.

Aleph-Null/Aleph-One
Carver
Crafter/Craftsman (, The/, Hell's/of Dreams/etc..)
Divinity
Downdraft
Evermore
Mender
Moratorium
Ordinance (related to law)
Ordnance (As in Explosive Ordnance Disposal)
Pellucid (means "clear")
Perjury/Perjurer
Skipjack
Stonemason
Suborn/Suborner
Thrall


These seem likely to have been suggested and possibly rejected, but I thought I'd throw them out there anyways.

General Mayhem
Major Havoc (maybe with his Dogs of War)

[death tribble]

Dave,

Here are the latest batch.

Ingenious
Ingenuity
Ingenuous
Intellectual
Jericho Siren (what Stuka's had on their undercarraige)
Judo
Kleptomaniac
Kung Fu
Last Exit
Lawrencium
Lawyer
Lemur
Lemurian, The
Lightning Conductor
Liquidiser
Liverbird (symbol of Liverpool)
Lizard Lord
Loge
Lolita
Loot
Looter
Lord Chief Justice
Lovable Rogue
Mafia
Manxman
Master of Disguise
Melting Man
Mess, The
Military Action
Military Intelligence
Military Mindset

The list has Intelligence and Intelligensia but not Intellectual. Again suitable for brainy characters or those with mental powers.

With Judo and Kung Fu, if you are filtering out martial arts you have Hwarang at 2207 currently. But if you are excluding these on the same sort of grounds that you exclude the gun ones then fair enough.

Lawrencium was on the list but then removed. It is the heaviest known element and is radio active. A character sheet for Lawrencium is actually on the Superhero Images thread. Member of the Chemical compound Mk 3. I'll post the page for you. It is on Page 11 of the thread and currently page 2 of the boards topics. Easiest to go to the last page and then jump back. I apologise if I am preaching to the converted. I will also try and post some more images to get the thread back on page 1.

Lemur is probably suitable as the resident hero of Madagascar.

We have a Lemurian Hawk, so The Lemurian could be included.

Lord Chief Justice is a judicial title over here in the same way that Supreme justice or Supreme Court Justice is in America.

Master of Disguise. If this is being excluded because of the awful film with Dana Carvey, fair enough. Also with imposter back in, it might be a moot point.

As for the last three, Military Action, Intelligence and Mindset, it occurred to me that these were good names for army based paranormals. Granted it sounds a trifle silly but instead of coming up with meaningless names the Army has names which do exactly what it says on the can. Intelligence and Mindset are mind powered and Action is capable of being anything the army needs. It could refer to a brick, a speedster or an all-rounder. On their own, the names could be applied to the list but with Military in fron it shows their affiliation. It also shows that the generals are quite capable of reversing a joke with deadly effect on their critics.

There will be a couple more of these yet. When the old board went down I was not able to see what ones had not been considered and adopted or rejected. So I had to start from scratch with the last ones I knew had been submitted. If this means that you are looking at those that have been rejected before, then my apologies. However I cannot overlook the possibility that you maybe missed some, overwrote one in error for example. You are only human. And as one of the few who have actually tried to proof read the entire list for you, I know myself how time consuming and tiring it can be. It is appreciated. There are some great names that have come up through this.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
The list has Intelligence and Intelligensia but not Intellectual. Again suitable for brainy characters or those with mental powers.Intellectual does not sound as good as the others, and I do not feel it makes a worthy proper noun.With Judo and Kung Fu, if you are filtering out martial arts you have Hwarang at 2207 currently. But if you are excluding these on the same sort of grounds that you exclude the gun ones then fair enough.Many martial styles and guns were filtered out for not sounding like names. There's a rhythm and feel to a good super name. Hwarang has it; Judo and Kung Fu do not.Lawrencium was on the list but then removed. It is the heaviest known element and is radio active. A character sheet for Lawrencium is actually on the Superhero Images thread. Member of the Chemical compound Mk 3. I'll post the page for you. It is on Page 11 of the thread and currently page 2 of the boards topics. Easiest to go to the last page and then jump back. I apologise if I am preaching to the converted. I will also try and post some more images to get the thread back on page 1.The properties of Lawrencium are indeed impressive, the word Lawrencium sounds dorky.Lemur is probably suitable as the resident hero of Madagascar.Lemur has about as much to recommend it as Chipmunk does, cute but hardly impressive.We have a Lemurian Hawk, so The Lemurian could be included.Nope, doesn't sound good. American Lotsastuff also works, but American doesn't.Lord Chief Justice is a judicial title over here in the same way that Supreme justice or Supreme Court Justice is in America.Supreme Justice sounds good and and carries connotations that Lord Chief Justice and Supreme Court Justice do not. Lord Justice sounds good though, so that's in.Master of Disguise. If this is being excluded because of the awful film with Dana Carvey, fair enough. Also with imposter back in, it might be a moot point.Skill-based epithet, yes. Good super name, no.As for the last three, Military Action, Intelligence and Mindset, it occurred to me that these were good names for army based paranormals. Granted it sounds a trifle silly but instead of coming up with meaningless names the Army has names which do exactly what it says on the can. Intelligence and Mindset are mind powered and Action is capable of being anything the army needs. It could refer to a brick, a speedster or an all-rounder. On their own, the names could be applied to the list but with Military in fron it shows their affiliation. It also shows that the generals are quite capable of reversing a joke with deadly effect on their critics.In each of these cases, adding Military to the beginning makes the name sound stupid. Modern militaries are very aware of the PR impact of their visible activities.There will be a couple more of these yet. When the old board went down I was not able to see what ones had not been considered and adopted or rejected. So I had to start from scratch with the last ones I knew had been submitted. If this means that you are looking at those that have been rejected before, then my apologies. However I cannot overlook the possibility that you maybe missed some, overwrote one in error for example. You are only human. And as one of the few who have actually tried to proof read the entire list for you, I know myself how time consuming and tiring it can be. It is appreciated. There are some great names that have come up through this.If you're working from an old roundup, then you're not catching anything I missed. I kept copies of all the roundups on my harddrive, and anything that disappeared from one roundup to the next was purposefully hacked. If you copied any submissions posted after the last roundup on the old boards, post those.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Trouble is I don't know which ones are which now.

And the next.

Mind Crime
Mob Mentality
Molotov Cocktail
Needle (of Pins and Needles)
No 2
One Man Airforce
One Man Conspiracy
One Man Gang
One Man Navy
Opponent
Paper (partner of Scissors and Stone)
Paramilitary
Pelican
Picture Perfect
Piltdown Man
Pin (of Pins and Needles)
Pine Martin
Plain Jane
Plaintiff
Poetic Justice
Pongid
Possum
Praetorian Guard
President
Prime Suspect
Private Detective
Private Investigator
Professional Killer
Profit Motive
Prussic Acid

Mob Mentality is a Mafia employed emotion controller who specialises in stirring up crowds. Mind Crime similarly.

If Molotov Cocktail is not acceptable, is Molotov ?

Needle. Plenty of people fear Needles. Unless of course this name is copyright but if so I don't know who has it.

No 2. Numbers greater than this might sound ridiculous when applied to the genre, but 2 is referred to a lot in real life.

As regards the One Man names, One Man Army made it in I know but the others may have fallen foul of the genre filter One Man Conspiracy particularly. A significantly powerful flyer could easily qualify as One Man Airforce but One Man Navy is I admit stretching it. I have a vague feeling that One Man Gang might be copyright but cannot say for certain.

Paper, Scissors and Stone were all submitted but I never saw if they made it on the old boards.

Piltdown Man was a famous fraudulant attempt to fool people with the origin of man. Then an evil sorceror actually imbued it with life....

Pine Martin was included as Raccoon was in the original Enemies book. And if Raccoon could get in the Pine Martin which is related to Minks, Stoats etc, then why not ?

Poetic Justice is an ideal vigilante name. Either as a crusader or as someone fairly Punisher like.

If you don't like Profit Motive (which might be better as a team name), what about Prophet Motive ?

Some of the others might be too general again.
There are around 250 new ones after all of this.
One question. One of the German WW2 airplane companies was Blohm and Voss. Might sound ok as a team name and a company but looks daft to me as names for individuals. What do you think ?

[Alibear]

[There's a rhythm and feel to a good super name. Hwarang has it; Judo and Kung Fu do not.[/B][/QUOTE]

Hold on a second there fella...

Batfink's "my wings are like a shield of steel" sidekick was called Karate! He made onto the telly so he can't be too bad!;)

If Kararte can make it why couldn't Kung Fu or Judo?

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Alibear
There's a rhythm and feel to a good super name. Hwa