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. Hwarang has it; Judo and Kung Fu do not.

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? [/B]Batwhat? Hold on, lemme check Yesterdayland (http://www.yesterdayland.com)...

You've got to be kidding me. That was pretty unconvincing.

A few words about assuming that anything appearing on television is necessarily cool, or even remotely worthy, for having done so. Well, really just one word...

WRONG!!

[death tribble]

It could have been worse. They might have said something like The Power Rangers, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe or Bullwinkle and Rocky.
Fetch the buckets 'cos I've just made you all sick.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Mob Mentality is a Mafia employed emotion controller who specialises in stirring up crowds. Mind Crime similarly.Mob Mentality just doesn't cut it for a good sound. Mentality is OK but is already on the list.

Mind Crime goes back on the list, but it strikes only as a name for a petty criminal who couldn't come up with something better.
If Molotov Cocktail is not acceptable, is Molotov?OK, Molotov works.
Needle. Plenty of people fear Needles. Unless of course this name is copyright but if so I don't know who has it.Hmmmnn... Dumb name, but just the right sort of dumb for a two-bit villain who thinks the name is intimidating. I'll put it back, but I'd never actually use it, because just about every group I've known would just call him Needle D**k.
No 2. Numbers greater than this might sound ridiculous when applied to the genre, but 2 is referred to a lot in real life.Yeah... in reference to poop.
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.One Man Army made it beause it's an established and durable turn of phrase. The others just sound dumb.
Paper, Scissors and Stone were all submitted but I never saw if they made it on the old boards.Rock and Stone stand by themselves. Scissors sounds like a Pulp mobster with an MO or a fetish and got chopped by the Genre filter. Paper works only as part of a gag combo.
Piltdown Man was a famous fraudulant attempt to fool people with the origin of man. Then an evil sorceror actually imbued it with life...Sorry, Dumb Name filter.
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?See my comments about Lemur and Chipmunk in a recent post.
Poetic Justice is an ideal vigilante name. Either as a crusader or as someone fairly Punisher like.Justice is an ideal vigilante name. Poetic Justice is an ideal spoof name.
If you don't like Profit Motive (which might be better as a team name), what about Prophet Motive?You're right, Profit Motive would make a good team name, but I don't think it makes a good individual super name. Prophet Motive would be good for spoof pulp or modern (e.g. Father JT Motive's weekly TV show Prophecy Hour) but still doesn't cut it as a super name.
There are around 250 new ones after all of this.Bring 'em on. >cue SFX-chainsaw<
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 ? Agree that they would be daft super names. Disagree that together they make a team name.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
It could have been worse. They might have said something like The Power Rangers, He-Man and the Masters of the Universe or Bullwinkle and Rocky.
Fetch the buckets 'cos I've just made you all sick. Power Rangers?! *twitch*twitch* (checks enraged 11-, rolls 12)

[death tribble]

Dave,

Here we go again

Public Enemy
Public Enemy No 1
Public Prosecutor
Public Relations
Public Spirit
Punch Drunk
Punishment (Crime's partner)
Purple Heart
Rabies
Red Badge
Red Cent
Red Deer
Redoubtable
Resolution
Rogue
Round Robin
Ryanna the Jungle Queen
Sacrifice
Sap
Science Assassin
Scholar
Scotsman
Second
Secure
Semi-Tough
Sense of Wonder
Sexton (member of the clergy)
Seyditlez (German warship)
Shangri La
Short Round

Some criminals would rejoice in declaring themselves the Public Enemy or Public Enemy No 1. The Press could declare them that as well. Granted it could fail on a too general term.

Of the other Public ones I think Public Spirit might be copyright having appeared in the Marshall Law comic.
The Public Prosecutor is more of a specific American vigilante due to what other countries call the lawyers for the Prosecution. And one who wants to tie himself more to the law might use Public Prosecutor rather than Prosecutor or Prosecution.

Rogue. If you disallowing D+D character types then Rogue would go. Regardless that it is also the name of the X-Man.

If Ryanna is dumped on name grounds, what about Jungle Queen ?

Second can either be used as the number o to do with time.

Shangri La is a hippy paranormal.

[Ranxerox]

A few more to add to the list

Trueno Azul - Blue Thunder, spanish

Circuit - has the ability to turn his body into any conceivable electronic circuit that does not require mechanical parts

Cowgirl

Heartsong - a female adolescent telepath/empath

Roughneck - hometown hero of Bakersfield, CA

[Doug McCrae]

Originally posted by death tribble
Dave,

Here we go again
I think some of those (a minority mind you) are good names!

Redoubtable I'd change to Redoubt, becoming a slow-moving tough guy with a name akin to Fortress, Bastion or the like.

Round Robin is my favourite! Calls to mind a Bouncing Boy-type character.

Sap (which I think may have been one of mine originally) is used in the sense of drain or a thug's weapon, not the stuff that flows thru plants.

Scholar is perfectly serviceable. Reminds me of Savant in Alan Moore's WildCATS.

I like Shangri La even though it's a place name. You're right the character's gotta be a hippy.

The rest aren't much cop. I still like Science Assassin (another one of my babies) but it may be too weird for some tastes.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Some criminals would rejoice in declaring themselves the Public Enemy or Public Enemy No 1. The Press could declare them that as well. Granted it could fail on a too general term.

Of the other Public ones I think Public Spirit might be copyright having appeared in the Marshall Law comic.
The Public Prosecutor is more of a specific American vigilante due to what other countries call the lawyers for the Prosecution. And one who wants to tie himself more to the law might use Public Prosecutor rather than Prosecutor or Prosecution.

Rogue. If you disallowing D+D character types then Rogue would go. Regardless that it is also the name of the X-Man.

If Ryanna is dumped on name grounds, what about Jungle Queen ?

Second can either be used as the number o to do with time.

Shangri La is a hippy paranormal.From your list, I've re-admitted:
Rabies
Jungle Queen
Shangri La

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Doug McCrae
I think some of those (a minority mind you) are good names!

Redoubtable I'd change to Redoubt, becoming a slow-moving tough guy with a name akin to Fortress, Bastion or the like.

Round Robin is my favourite! Calls to mind a Bouncing Boy-type character.

Sap (which I think may have been one of mine originally) is used in the sense of drain or a thug's weapon, not the stuff that flows thru plants.

Scholar is perfectly serviceable. Reminds me of Savant in Alan Moore's WildCATS.

I like Shangri La even though it's a place name. You're right the character's gotta be a hippy.

The rest aren't much cop. I still like Science Assassin (another one of my babies) but it may be too weird for some tastes. Agree about Redoubt, but I hadn't axed that one.
Hate Round Robin.
In the States, Sap means one who is easily fooled.
Scholar just doesn't sound right.
Yeah, Shangri La has to go back in.
Science Assassin isn't so much weird as dorky.

[Dynamo]

Edit: List deleted. New roundup posted

[death tribble]

Dave,

One more after this but there are less than 20 in it.

Sibyl
Silver Age
SLAD (Supreme Lord Admiral of Deneb)
SLED (Supreme Lord Executioner of Deneb)
Small Change
Sound of the Crowd
Southern Gentleman
Spearfish
Squire Go
St Lawrence
Stagger
Steeleye Span
Storvak
Suit, The
Super Criminal
Superhero
Superhuman
Supervillain
Syndicate
Termagent (British ship)
Testify
Thermocouple
Torc
Transporter
Trilobite
Turcopole (cavalry of the Crusades)
Turncoat
Undercover Operative
Underworld

The Sibyl was an Oracle in ancient Rome.

SLAD and SLED. You stated that you wanted acronyms to be fully set out. Whether you believe that these members of the military of Deneb, aliens from my campaign are worthy is your call.

Sound of the Crowd was sonic powered.

The Suit was power armour developed by the government.

Testify had mind control powers based on religon.

Thermocouple had heat and cold powers. Character sheet again in the Super Images thread.

Torc is an old term for a crown or a weapon which was like a tiara. Circular, it went around the head or on top of the head. Celtish I believe.

Transporter is the name of a criminal whose power is to get colleagues to a place. And that's all.

Trilobite is a fossil, so one coming back to life was the idea

[death tribble]

Dave,

You asked earlier in the thread about Scrum. But received no answer that I could see.

So here is one. Scrum is a term used in the sport Rugby, you know American Football without helmets, body armour, forward passing, TV timeouts, and downs. It refers to a point when the ball goes out of play. The referee calls for a scrum and 10 players on each side form a sort of tortoise in three ranks. Each side then links and pushes against the others while the ball is thrown into the scrum from one side. so you then have a pushing contest while the players try to hook the ball with their fet and pass it backwards out of their side of the scrum.

I like the idea of Scrum as a name. And just check the rules of Rugby if my explanation is insufficient. Good name for a strength based character who pushes instead of lifts.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble

*List omitted*

The Sibyl was an Oracle in ancient Rome.

SLAD and SLED. You stated that you wanted acronyms to be fully set out. Whether you believe that these members of the military of Deneb, aliens from my campaign are worthy is your call.

Sound of the Crowd was sonic powered.

The Suit was power armour developed by the government.

Testify had mind control powers based on religon.

Thermocouple had heat and cold powers. Character sheet again in the Super Images thread.

Torc is an old term for a crown or a weapon which was like a tiara. Circular, it went around the head or on top of the head. Celtish I believe.

Transporter is the name of a criminal whose power is to get colleagues to a place. And that's all.

Trilobite is a fossil, so one coming back to life was the idea Sibyl - This one's a toughie, because most people know it simply as a woman's name, and cultural connotations largely point toward the famed split-personality patient. But I'm gonna pass it anyway, the alternate spelling individualizes it somewhat.

SLAD/SLED - Yes, you've provided the extended versions of these acronyms, but they end up being Genre Inappropriate. (Maybe this is just a nitpick, but why would aliens from another star system use an English-language acronym?)

Sound of the Crowd - Ironically, this one lacks the sound of a good super name. For the record, I really hate _____ of _____-type names for supers. They can make decent epithets, but I'm likely to reject them as primary names.

The Suit - As a proper noun, this one already has a place as a derogative nickname for corporate executives. I refer you to the comments I made earlier about PR-awareness in the military; the same applies to government.

Testify - Hey, this is a new one (I made a backup of the list before expurgating), and I like it.

Thermocouple - Another new one. Also good.

Torc - I dunno, no one calls themselves bracelet, hat, or necklace either. BTW, the torc was worn around the neck; a variant called an arm torc was worn, logically enough, around the upper arm. I am fairly certain that it was never used as a weapon as it was bent into shape around the wearer, so it didn't come off readily.

Transporter - I yanked that one because we already had Transport, which was WAY better.

Trilobite - It's a little tiny fossil of a bottom-feeding scavenger. I just don't see it.

From the remainder of your list, I like Stagger and pulled Steel Eye out of Steeleye Span.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
I like the idea of Scrum as a name. And just check the rules of Rugby if my explanation is insufficient. Good name for a strength based character who pushes instead of lifts. Yeah, Scrum sounds like a decent name for a British super with athletic-style powers (fast, strong, durable) who likes to get a little rough. He'd have to stay in Britain, though. Anywhere else, he's end up changing his name, because he'd get tired of explaining it.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Thanks. As for Scrum you really don't ask an American Footballer on the line how or why they use the name so he could go elsewhere. Plus Italy, France, the rest of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa play World class Rugby.
All parts of the old British Empire also know what Rugby is.

And here are the last of the old names

US Ardent
US Giant
Vapours
Vaudville (or VaudvilIian)
White Hat (trad Good Guy)
White Hunter
White Russian (name of the anti-Bolsheviks)
Yamato (Japanese Battleship)
Young Turk (common term for an up and comer)
Zoltan the Magnificent

I think Ardent on its own if US Ardent fails. Both it an the Giant were on the list originally.

Vapours is a mist like villain

Vaudville is for a theme villain dressed in old theatrical costume. This has been done in the comics like DC's The Prankster and members of Clown like Slapstick in Champions.

White Hat like Black Hat was a generic to show good and bad.

White Hunter is like the people of old who went on Safari. However like Kraven in Spiderman or in various film versions they now hunt the most dangerous game. People. Super powered people. And they have the safari costume to show them as people who stand out from the crowd. If you really want to show someone with an ego. Great White Hunter.

White Russian. Apart from being the name of a drink was the name of the faction that supported the Czar in Russia after the Communists try to take over.

Young Turk was the name given to the Turkish army officers who revitalised Turkey around and after the First World War.

I have also built up a new names bank of around 580 odd names. More on this soon.

[Siberian Tiger]

Since Scrum was a character in my campaign, I always imagined him as having duplication powers as well as super-strength. Saw him as a typical low-powered supervillain for hire type.

Here's a few more names for you - taken from my campaigns and from other postings on this message board

Baal Milchamah ("battle master" or "war master") (Hebrew)
Blue Smoke
Britain's Fist
Channel
Cytell
Daedalus
Din (judgement, generally stringent in context) (Hebrew)
El lobo Miedo (Spanish - Dire Wolf)
Elektrycznosc (Polish - Electricity)
Flavius
Freelance
Gold Dragon
Greaseball
Ha'Sayif (The Sword) (Hebrew)
Inviant
Bomba, la
Lambda
Lion Heart
Lost Innocence
Maccabe
Maccabeus
Magen (shield) - star of david throwing stars? An israeli cap? (Hebrew)
Mane Man
Merkava (chariot, but also the israeli tank) (Hebrew)
Mother Lode
Mut (German)
Opor (Polish - Resistance)
Paluma (Australian aboriginal)
Pamiec (Polish - Memory)
Pole Star
Purple Wraith
Rasp
Scarlet Sleuth
Scrapyard
Seismos
Sheid-Adom (Red Devil or Red Demon) (Hebrew)
Shimshon (Sampson - big warrior) (Hebrew)
Silver Crescent, the
Slick
Soundbite
Tamarlane
Tarcza (Polish - Shield)
Tzevakot (host, as in heavenly host, or military horde) (Hebrew)
Uzi
White Wizard
Wildclaw

[death tribble]

I had Britain's Fist on the new list I was doing so I will remove it from mine.

Siberian Tiger,
Was your Britain's Fist a racist ? Ours was.

[Siberian Tiger]

Hi Death Tribble (great name by the way)

Britain's Fist was one of the names that I took from other postings on this board - probably one on ethnicicty and political correctness.

But a good name and one I would use if I ever GM or even roleplay again (my gaming group have all moved away and got married, had children etc. Sniff)

Siberian Tiger

[death tribble]

Whereabouts in London are you ?

And I should be at GenCon at Olympia so i could see you there.

[Siberian Tiger]

Hi Death Tribble

I'm in Enfield (North London) but currently work in Paddington.

Where are you ?

When's GenCon ?

Siberian Tiger

[death tribble]

I'm in Crouch End

Work near Victoria

GenCon UK is over Easter at Olympia

[Balok]

A few more of mine:

CORPSICLE: After a heart attack, a rich man was cryogenically preserved -- ironically, this activated his metagene, restoring him to a semblance of life. Problem is, he needs the life and warmth of living beings to maintain that existence... Named by a newspaper wag, as he now either won't or can't speak.

FIRE THIS TIME, THE: South American rebel doused with gasoline and set afire by a death squad -- who did not die. Instead, he gained what he calls his "inner fire" (charisma and presence) that allows him to captivate and control people. He's more effective than ever.

MACABRE: A death themed villain whose strange powers seem different each time he's encountered.

MEDUSA MACHINE: A large, roughly spherical robot of uncertain pedigree (at least, no one is admitting to it). It's covered with instrument and weapon tipped tentacles. It does not speak, and was given its name by a hero who saw its shadow first.

PRETTY POISON: Female killer who as a master of chemistry, especially poison chemistry, and forensics, and uses this knowledge to kill and taunt detective characters. She's nuttier than the Planters Factory.

PSILENCE: Mentalist who can, among other things, cause his victim to experience total sensory deprivation for extended periods. This attack usually leaves lingering side effects.

TICKTOCK: Time obsessed villain whose ability to glimpse the immediate future makes him tactically very dangerous.

VICTORIAN, THE: Never speaks, always appears dressed in Victorian period costume (top hat, tails, walking stick, etc.), which he wields effectively in combat. Strangely, he's never lost either stick or hat, and his clothes never seem to be damaged. Strong, fast, tough, and determined. Has fought both heros and villains. Has some (so far) infallible way of escaping at the conclusion of the battle. Another one named by journalists.

I realize you don't need the descriptions -- I provide them to perhaps give you a little help evaluating the name for "worthiness" in the same context it was used.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
As for Scrum you really don't ask an American Footballer on the line how or why they use the name so he could go elsewhere. Plus Italy, France, the rest of the United Kingdom, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa play World class Rugby.

All parts of the old British Empire also know what Rugby is.Knowing what rugby is has little relation to being familiar with the frankly dumb-sounding (to an American) terminology used in the game. While reading up on the topic, I ran into at least a score of words that sound like they were made up by a young child with brain damage. :p

I'd stay away from American football comparisons were I you. The attempts at football-themed supers have been some of the worst garbage the comic-reading public has ever attempted to choke down. Just thinking about it makes me want to go through the list again and hack out anything that even smells like a sports reference. :D

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Dynamo
:D Dragon #306 (Apr 2003), Dork Tower on pg 90. :D And on a related note:

Irregular Webcomic #56 (http://www.dangermouse.net/cgi-bin/comic.pl?comic=0056)

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
I think Ardent on its own if US Ardent fails. Both it an the Giant were on the list originally.

Vapours is a mist like villain

Vaudville is for a theme villain dressed in old theatrical costume. This has been done in the comics like DC's The Prankster and members of Clown like Slapstick in Champions.

White Hat like Black Hat was a generic to show good and bad.

White Hunter is like the people of old who went on Safari. However like Kraven in Spiderman or in various film versions they now hunt the most dangerous game. People. Super powered people. And they have the safari costume to show them as people who stand out from the crowd. If you really want to show someone with an ego. Great White Hunter.

White Russian. Apart from being the name of a drink was the name of the faction that supported the Czar in Russia after the Communists try to take over.

Young Turk was the name given to the Turkish army officers who revitalised Turkey around and after the First World War.

I have also built up a new names bank of around 580 odd names. More on this soon. US Ardent and US Giant both got clobbered by the Dumb Name filter, but I agree that Ardent and Giant belong on the list.

I originally hacked Vapours because we already had a Vapor, but I've changed my minds. The English spelling, plurality, and historical connotations all add up to a sufficiently different concept.

Vaudeville sounds better to me this time around. Sounds like a villain with no powers, a thinker who delights in outwitting the heros and overacting while doing it.

White Hat completely fails to do it for me. Genre inappropriate.

White Hunter gave me pause, but I'm so picky that I have to let at least some borderline names in. If only so I can go on to axe names like...

White Russian. Sounds like a one from Column A one from Column B name, while evoking a negative cultural connotation while you're at it. I think this one is best left as a drink.

Young Turk lacks the genre feel.

[Dynamo]

Edit: List deleted. Fresh roundup posted

[Alex Raven]

Unbelievable listing! Didn't see "The Giggling Phantom" (a personal favorite of mine from our group).

[death tribble]

Dave,

Thanks. I am working on an expanded list that will hopefully take the list past 6000 and lay the foundations for 7000. Over the weekend I got some more and once these are sorted alphabetically I will set them down in discrete chunks for your consideration. I had around 600. But will check them against the latest version of the luist before posting.

Well the list is over 900. I will check these against the current list and post in discrete batches.

[Siberian Tiger]

A few more names for the list

Rhapsody - sonic powered teenager
Mob - duplication powers
DevilEye - cursed with having the eyes of a demon - can see evil
Judge Mental
Deliverance
K9
Rogue Trader
Pawn Broker - supplier of thugs and henchmen
Bowman
Goldbug
Ultra Hooligan - Many European soccer sides have hooligan groups named Ultras.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Here are the first batch of new names. These will be in alphabetical order and in easy to digest chunks. Hopefully.
Also some reasoning in some cases to show where the name has come from originally. And thus why it may be apt. Or not.

20th Century Boy
21st Century Girl
24/7 (the always active hero/villain)
Abductor
Adonis
Adrenaline
Adrenaline Junkie
Agamemnon
Agent Killer 74 (built as counterpart to Michael 16 AK74 for short)
Agent of Destruction
Aggressor
Aggressor Knight 47 (built as counterpart to Michael 16 AK47 for short)
Aggro
Ahketon
Air-Rider
Airborne Bandit
Alexander the Great
Alexandria
Alamo, The
All Seeing Eye
Alligator
Allosaur
Alps
Ambrosia
Ammo
Amphetamine
Anachronistic Man
Ancient, The
Ancient Mariner
Angel Eyes
Angel Face
Angel Leader

24/7 was names by the press as he doesn't have time for a name. 24/7 is slightly mad. They do not sleep as who will save people while he's sleeping. Eating and drinking must be done as must filling out arrest reports and court appearances. But otherwise the country must be criss-crossed as there is always someone committing a crime. And 24/7 is going to be there to stop them.

Adonis was so good looking that the gods brought him up to Mount Olympus. So a good looking villain could call himself this.

Agamemnon was the Greek general in overall charge at the siege of Troy.

Aggro is short for Aggravation and is a common term in Britain for trouble. Usually violent trouble.

The Alamo comes from Texas. Naturally.

Alexandria was one of many cities named after Alexander the Great. The main one was in Egypt and was home of one of the woprld's greatest libraries. Ideal therefore for an intelligence based character or one with ancient Greek or Egyptian knowledge/skills.

Allosaurus was a carnivore dinosaur in the same line as a T-Rex. Allosaur for short.

Alps after the mountain range in Europe.

Ambrosia was the food of the gods.

Anachronistic Man uses history and re-enactments to commit crimes. His goons may be dressed as Roman soldiers and then pull guns or be dressed as American Civil War soldiers and then pull out swords and shields from Roman Legions.

Ancient Mariner is named for the famous poem.

[death tribble]

Dave,

And another batch

This completes the all the current ones with A.

Angel of Death
Angel of Destruction
Angel of Mercy
Angel of Vengeance
Antaeous
Anti-American
Anti-Grav
Anti-Hero
Antidelivulian
Antioch
Anxiety
Apocalypse
Apostate
APC (Armour Piercing Commando)
Argo
Argon
Argos
Aria
Armourer
Armoury
Aryan
Astaroth
Atlanticus
Atlantica
Augustus
Auntie American (partner of Uncle Sam)
Auvernge
Avalon
Aviatrix
Ax

Antaeous was one of the Titans of myth, like Atlas.

Anti- All these are fairly obvious. With Anti-American, I wanted something akin to Flag Smasher from Captain America.

Apostate. The anti-apostle if you like and a name that is not often used. But should be.

APC. I wanted an idea to work with the acronym APC. If you do not like the one listed, can you think of a better one ?

Argo was Jason and the Argonaut's ship.

Argon is the noble gas.

Argos is one of the Greek city states.

Aria is a song in Opera so Aria is a singing villain/villainess.

Armourer makes the nice weapons and battle suits that heroes end up fighting.

Armoury can either be a battle suit with multiple weapons or a commando like character with lots of weapons

Aryan. Fairly obvious and useful for the racist bad guy.

Astaroth was one of the fallen angels.

Augustus after the first emporer of Rome.

Having put down Anti-American as an idea, it occurred to me that you could have it down as well as Auntie American and make her Uncle Sam's partner.

Auvernge is a region of France where there are extinct volcanoes. And you get bottled water. I wanted a French hero (and please no more Jerry Lewis etc jokes/comments) different to the norm and what is usually said. The area gives them a possible good focus for an origin either through the earth contaminated by volcanic activity or via the volcanoes themselves. And the name is different to anything to do with the Musketeers etc

Avalon is one of the mystical places of the world and is where supposedly King Arthur was taken.

[Dynamo]

Awright, new stuff. Some good, some bad. I'll do another roundup either Friday or Sunday.

[death tribble]

Dave,

With over 500 to suggest, how many do you want in batches before you put up the lists ?
I have scoured the site as well for interesting names that have not been included previously. Or perhaps even suggested.

Baba Yaga
Bacchus
Balance, La
Ball N' Chain
Baltimore
Baltimore Area Ranger (BAR)
Barbican
Baron Frankenstein
Baron Net
Baron Opal
Baron Samedi
Bat, The
Battle Lion
Battle Master
Bayonet
Bedrock
Beekeeper
Belial
Bengal Tiger
Besieger
Beta
Big Ben
Biker
Bionica
Bionicus
Bison
Black Bear
Black Cobra
Black Death
Black Devil

Baba Yaga is the great Russian horror story villain

Bacchus is the Roman god of wine among other things.

Balance, La. French villainess who does a Count Vertigo trick with people's inner ears.

Ball N'Chain. A villain who uses the call on the end of the chain. Like the Absorbing Man but without the Absorbing powers.

Barbican is part of fortification

Baron Frankenstein. Because Dracula gets done all the time.

Baron Samedi is a well known figure in Voodoo folklore. He turns up in the Vampire game and from what I now understand the new Mutants and Masterminds product.

Battle Lion. I plead insanity. It is close to Battalion.

Belial is another fallen angel.

Big Ben is the name of the clock tower buy the Houses of Parliament in London.

Bison. Another name for Buffalo.

Black Cobra is the someone's login name on the site and I thought it should be included.

[death tribble]

Dave,

More Bs

Black Druid
Black Fox
Black King
Black Lion
Black Mail
Black Rat
Black Rhino
Black Sheep
Black Swan
Blood Brother
Blood Countess, The
Blood Feud
Blood Sister
Blood Wing
Blood Worm
Blue Death
Boa Constrictor
Boeing, The Corporate Hero
Bonechiller
Boneshaker
Borgia
Boston Bruin
Bowie
Boxer
Braindeath
Bright Sky
Brother Android
Brother Beast
Brother Death
Brown Bear
Brown Bomber
Brown Owl

Black Rhino and Swan. These are distinct to their species.

If you don't like the Blood Countess, how about Countess Blood ?

We have Boa already so Boa Constrictor is your call. And Constrictor on its own is something I am also submitting.

Boeing. I just liked the idea. And with so much air terrorism, why wouldn't the corporation try and do something about it ?

Borgia after the infamous Italian family. We have the Medici also listed.

Bowie as in the knife named after Jim Bowie. Try as I might I could not think of anything appropriate for Davy Crocket.

Brown Bomber was a nickname for a sportsman but I do not know who. Besides Black is listed like it is going out of fashion.

[death tribble]

Dave,

This completes the Bs and starts the Cs. Would you like around 300 to consider so that the list could pass 6000 before you update the list ?

Bruin
Bruise Brother
Brutus
Buffalo
Bullseye
Burning Spear
Bushman
Bushwacker
Buzz
Buzzard
Buzzbomb
Buzzcut
C4
Caeser
Caesium
Cagliostro
Calibre King
Canker
Captain Chainsaw
Captain USSR
Capture
Carbon Copy
Cardinal St Louis
Cardinal Virtue
Carthage
Cataclysm
Catapult
Cavalry
Censure
Centrifuge

Bruin is a bear

Buzzbomb was a nickname for the V1 rocket

C4 is the explosive

Caeser. You already have Kaiser and Czar. This is the original spelling, but if you feel that we have enough of this already then kindly disregard.

Cagliostro was a sorceror from olden times in Europe.

Canker is an old word for cancer

Captain USSR. If you can have Captain America, why not ? Cap USSR was cryo frozen and is now only now revived. He is horrified to see what has happened to his beloved countryn but what to do, what to do....

Carbon Copy creates duplicates of his opponents who are loyal to him and attack the original.

Cardinal St Louis. This again I plead forgiveness for.

Carthage was a major power and opponent of Rome.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
With over 500 to suggest, how many do you want in batches before you put up the lists?Whatever works for you. If I need to do more than one roundup a week, then so be it.

[Balok]

Caliogstro was an alchemist if memory serves.

CABALIST, THE: A sorcerer whose magic is based on symbology. He has some limitations, such as "target must see the symbols to be affected", and so forth. Presumably, he has a "real name", but even when captured, authorities have never been able to learn what it is. One theory holds that they do learn it, but as a name is usually a written thing, he is able to somehow "unwrite" that knowledge somehow once he manages to get free.

EYE OF HELL: Quasi demonic "punisher of evil"; he's basically an original Ghost Rider clone. His name comes from what I always thought was GR's best power: the ability to make an evildoer see the weight of his crimes (the so-called "penance stare"). I originally tried variations on HELLSEYE for this one, but was never satisfied with the way that rolled off my tongue. I'm not a huge fan of EYE OF HELL, either, but others may be.

GEISTHOUND: Inspired by a Sherlock Holmes story (in part), Geisthound has the ability to transform himself in a spectral dog -- he has some ghost powers and some dog powers. Geist, as you may know, is German for ghost. One might as easily use Ghosthound, but that was just a little too prosaic.

HEPHAESTUS: Greek god of fire and metalworking. I use this as the name of an underworld armorer a la Marvel's "The Tinkerer".

WONDERBRINGER: Loosely inspired by Twain's "The Corruption of Hadleyville", and King's "Needful Things". Wonderbringer sounds innocuous when he first appears. His goal is to magnify little hatreds until people are opening attacking and killing each other. Then he moves on and starts it up again.

[death tribble]

Dave,

More Cs

Century
Cerebal
CEO (Cerebally Enhanced Organism)
Chain Reaction
Chalice
Char
Charlatan
Charon
Charybdis
Chat, Le (French: The Cat)
Cheap Thrill
Chicane
Chicanery
Chimbrazo
Chloroform
Chlorophyl King
Cholera
Chromatic
Chromosome Avenger
Chromosome King
CIA (Critical Injury Ace)
Cleon
Clown King
Clown Prince
Clytemnestra (Agamemnon's wife and his killer)
Cohort
Coil or Coils
Collector of Skulls, The
Colorado Beetle, The
Colossus
Commanche
Conquest

Char as in burn.

Charon was the boatman who carried the dead over the river Styx.

Charybdis. One of two monsters who Odysseus/Ulysses tried to avoid. This was the more dangerous of the two as it involved creating a gigantic whirlpool which would have destroyed his ship.

Chicane. This is found on some race tracks. Ideal for a speedster, maybe ? I know that a rock group have it.

Chicanery. Cheating.

Chimbrazo is another old volcano. South America I believe.

Cholera. We have Anthrax on the list. And no I will not be putting up flu or diahorrea for consideration.

Chromosone. On its own does not sound good. But as it had not been used I put it up for consideration.

CIA. If you can think of a better use of the acronym, please do so. I am working on a villain who is using villains with this sort of name to get back at America for wrongs perpetrated against their family. So that's why I am using it.

Cleon was a dictator in Athens in Ancient Greece.

Clown Prince is a term that has been used to describe the Joker on occasion.

Commanche is another Amerind nation.

The Colorado Beetle is the pest that destroys potatoes.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Last of the Cs

Constrictor
Controversy
Copernicus
Corruptor
Cotapaxi
Count Karnak
Count Out
Count Rugen
Count S
Counterfeit
Counterfeit Hero
Counterfeiter
Crazy Ivan
Credo
Cremator
Crimson Arrow
Crimson Cavalier
Crimson Death
Crimson Knight
Crimson Ninja
Crimson Queen
Crosshair
Cryogenesis
Cryosphere
Cudgel
Cumulus
Curse
Cyber Cop
Cyberiad
Cyborg
Cyborg Assassin

Copernicus. After the monk I believe who stated that the Earth went round the Sun.

Cotapaxi. Another South American volcano.

Count Karnak and Rugen. If you don't like proper names please dispose. The former was a Vampire, the latter a nobleman.

Count Out. Rather obvious I admit.

Count S. I apologise for this. No really I do.

Crazy Ivan is a term the US Navy use to describe a manoeuvre that Russian submarines use. Cf Hunt for Red October

Credo is belief

Crosshair is what you see through a scope or sniper sight for example.

Cumulus is a form of Cloud.

[death tribble]

Dave,

With no update over the weekend please find the start of the Ds.

Dandy (partner to Fine)
Dark Guard
Dark Malice
Dark Sentinal
Dark Shepherd
Dark Tribunal
Darkling Force
Darkness
Dashing Dilettante, The
Daughter of Darkness
Dawn
Dawnfire
Dawnkiller
Dead O'Night
Deadzone
Death Jester
Death Knell
Death Master
Death Queen
Death Spiral
Death's Disciple
Deathkite
Deathly Silence
Debacle
Debilitator
Debutante (partner to the Dashing Dilettante)
Decimator
Delamere
Delirium
Delta Wing

I am not aware of any copywright issues with these except maybe Dark Malice ?

Daughter of Darkness comes from a 60s Tom Jones song. That's where I got the idea.

Debilitator as in debilitating illness. There is no end what a mad scientist or cunning supervillain migfht use for a power.

Decimator. Several Roman legions had one in ten of theri people killed as punishment for failure. This is where Decimation comes from.

Delamere is a lake in Britain

[CPaladino]

I wrote a name generator (which does supers pretty well) in VB. I'll upload it tonight. It basically takes a "supers.dat" text file which consists of a "prefix" and "suffix" and picks one at random from each table and throws them together and allows output to a text file.

I have dat files for items, supers, and some stuff I was messing around with.

-Chris

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
With no update over the weekend...Yeah, real life intruded. I'm working on it now.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by CPaladino
I wrote a name generator (which does supers pretty well) in VB. I'll upload it tonight.Cool. I look forward to seeing it.

[Dynamo]

Edit: List deleted. Fresh roundup posted.

[McCoy]

What is the criteria for which ones go in the Fuzzys? Want to review these?

0168 - Android Ant
1248 - Crusader Wolf
1504 - Doc Croc
1562 - Doctor Silverback
3877 - Phydeaux
4515 - Semper Flea
4616 - Shockroach

Oh, and BTW,
4022 - Protomech
4023 - Protomech

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by McCoy
What is the criteria for which ones go in the Fuzzys? Want to review these?

0168 - Android Ant
1248 - Crusader Wolf
1504 - Doc Croc
1562 - Doctor Silverback
3877 - Phydeaux
4515 - Semper Flea
4616 - ShockroachYou're right. These would all be outstanding names for the Fuzzy appendix. I've moved all of them in the master file except Doctor Silverback, who stays in the main list for being an actual member of the Champions Universe super community.
McCoy
Oh, and BTW,
4022 - Protomech
4023 - ProtomechOops. Thanks. Fixed in the master file.

"Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow."
-Linus's Law

[Siberian Tiger]

Not sure if I agree with moving Doc Croc to the Fuzzy Champions list. There was a Captain Britain foe with that name - possibly in the comics only published in the UK. Think he was some form of Central African dictator who could turn into a were-crocodile... can't recall the full details at present

Would also like to take this opportunity to thank David for his work in managing this thread and compiling the contributions for us.

[death tribble]

Thanks Dave,

We are well on course for 6,000 with the ones I am submitting.

I am surprised that Borgia did not make it. We still have Medici. Obviously the Medici have a better press campaign going.

Could I make a request ?

No more updates until we can get to 6,000 with or without Fuzzy ? I can easily submit over 100 for you to cull through so that we can make it.

[Balok]

[deleted -- redundent]

[death tribble]

Dave,

next set.

Demo
Demolition
Demolition Man
Demon Barber
Demon Child
Demon Dwarf
Demon Master
Demon Soul
Demon Warrior
Demon Wolf
Desire
Destiny
Devil Butcher
Devil Daughter
Devil Ray
Devil Woman
Devil's Advocate
Devil's Disciple
Devolution Man
Devolver
Diamondhead
Dimension Man
Dinosaur Man
Dione
Dionysus
Disciple
Discordia
Disease
Distress
DN Amy

We have few demons and Devils so the above and nothing on Demolition.

Demon Barber. Sweeney Todd allegedly killed his customers and then put them in pies. This was what he was called.

Dione. I believe is a moon of Jupiter or Saturn

Dionysus. The Greek version of Bacchus.

Discordia. I got this from the book Illuminatus. All hail Eris, all hail Discordia.

DN Amy. I shamelessly stole this from a cartoon.

[death tribble]

Dave,

This finishes the Ds and starts the Es

Doctor Anomaly
Doctor Atom
Doctor Chronos
Doctor Crime
Doctor Dinosaur
Doctor Dumas
Doctor Fear
Doctor Lamprey
Doctor LSD
Doctor Savant
Doctor Strange Glove (Fuzzy)
Doctor Tentacles
Dominator
Don Quixote
Doombringer
Dornier
Downtime
Dragon Brood
Dragon Child
Dragon Dancer
Dragon Death
Dragon Lord
Dragon Master
Dragon Queen
Dream Demon
Drone
Earth Master
Eiger
Element Master
Elitist

Doctor Anomaly posts on the site.

Dornier was a German aircraft firm like Messerchmitt.

Eiger is a famous mountain cf The Eiger Sanction with Clint Eastwood.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by Siberian Tiger
Not sure if I agree with moving Doc Croc to the Fuzzy Champions list. There was a Captain Britain foe with that name - possibly in the comics only published in the UK. Think he was some form of Central African dictator who could turn into a were-crocodile... can't recall the full details at presentThere are a couple others in the Fuzzy appendix that would make good regular super names; it's a tough call.
Siberian Tiger
Would also like to take this opportunity to thank David for his work in managing this thread and compiling the contributions for us.No problem, I'm still enjoying the project. I'm glad others are finding it useful.

I'd like to thank everyone who has contributed, whether new names or error catching, especially death tribble for his tireless devil's advocacy.

[death tribble]

Dave,

All the Es and the start of F

Emerald Knight
Emmissary
Enchantress
Enlarger
Entangler
Entropy
Envoy
Enzyme
Ephemera
Epidemic
Epidermis
Epitaph
Epitome
Epoch
Equalizer
Equation
Equator
Equinox
Escapade
Eternia
Ether
Eunach
Euphoria
Evaluator
Exotic
Exterminator
Extinguisher
Eyeball
Eye Man
F.A.S.T. (Florida Advanced State Trooper)

Epoch came up as a drawing on the site.

Eternia is a character that Marchwarden on the site mentioned as a team mate.

FAST. I thought Federal for the F but it did not sound so good. I know no American cities beginning with F so I thought of Florida instead.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Next set of F

Factor
Famine
Fantasia
Fastback
Fat Bot
Fathom
Faze
Fearmaster
Feather Brain
Felony
Femazon
Femme Force
Feral
Fiasco
Fine (partner of Dandy)
Fire
Fire Arrow
Fire Bug
Fire Fox
Firestorm
Fireworks
Fission
Fissure Man
Flag, The
Flamer
Flaming June
Flash
Flechette
Flyball
Flying Dutchman

Firestorm and Flash. Granted they are comic book characters but the former ios probably less well known than the latter.

Flying Dutchman after the legend.

[death tribble]

Dave,

The last of the Fs and the start of the Gs.

Fog
Foxglove
Fountainhead
Frag
FrankenEinstein
Free Agent
Free Lancer
Free Styler
Free Will
Freon
Frigid
Frontline
Frontman
Frost Master
Frost Mistress
Fulmar
FX
Gallileo
Gambit
Gamesmaster
Gamma
Gamma Man
Gamma Master
Garter
Gaseous
Gascon, The
Gater
Gazza Ladra, La (The Thieving Magpie)
Gecko
Gemstone

FrankenEinstein. Either a self made genius, or a Genius created like Frankenstein's monster from spare parts.

Fulmar is a type of bird

FX as in Special Effects.

The Gascon. Again a region of France and this is what D'Artagnian was referred to in the Three Musketeers.

I will submit FUBAR again when I have a good enough acronym.

[death tribble]

Dave,

These are mentioned and/or detailed in Millennium City. And are not on the list

Black Mace
Bodyjacker
Chain Lightning
Freakshow
Grave
Phantom Fist
Putty
Trace

There are also three people with proper names and powers. I am assuming as before these will not be included.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Another batch. This should see us well over 6,000.

Gene Genie, The
Gene Therapist, The
General
General Emergency
General Quarters
Genesis
Genetic Enhancement, The
Geneticist
Ghost Archer
Ghoul
Giant Penguin
Giant Robot
Gigantus
Gilette
Glow
Glow Worm
Gog
Gold Beard
Gold Brick
Gold Golem
Golden Marauder
Golden Oldie
Good, The (partner to The Great)
Gorgon
Gorilla God
Goshawk
Grail
Grail Knight
Grand Guignol
Grand Inquisitor

Ghost Archer posts on the site.

Gilette is a blade using paranormal or hero/villain. After the firm that makes razor blades.

Gog is a legendry beast and partner to Magog

Grand Guignol was a type of theatre begun in France which specialised in horror and fright such as making it appear that you had taken someone's eye out.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Another batch. This should see us well over 6,000.Great, thanks.

Sorry I've left the thread idle for a few days. My life's gotten very busy as of last week. I've kicked most of it to the curb, but I still have a car in the shop and a friend in the ICU. Oy vey.

I may be able to do a roundup this weekend.

[Balok]

Hope your friend is getting better. Spend time there.

This thread will still be here when you get back to it.

[McCoy]

Dynamo, what Balok said. This is a friggin game, Real Life comes first.

Thank you for all that you've done in this thread, and best wishes for your friend's complete recovery.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Fine real life issues must always take precedence. Gives me more time to sort a few other things out like more names from elsewhere.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Some more for you.

Grand Larceny
Grand Vizer
Grandslam
Gravity Man
Gray Phantom
Great, The (partner to the Good)
Great Alfonso (or Alfonso)
Green Gnat
Green Goliath
Green Knight
Grenadier Guard
Grey Dawn
Greyhound
Grim Gladiator
Grim Goddess
Grim Reaper
Guass
Gunfighter
Gung Ho !
Gymnast
Gyroscope
Hailstone
Hailstorm
Halloween
Hawkeye
Hawk Master
HE (High Explosive) Man
Headcount
Heart
Heartseeker

Grenadier Guard is part of the British army.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Another official one I missed. Turbine.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Dione. I believe is a moon of Jupiter or SaturnDione turns out to be Aphrodite's mother and the densest of Saturn's moons. Make of this what you will. :)

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Doctor Strange Glove (Fuzzy)I don't understand what would put Doctor Strange Glove in the Fuzzy appendix.

[Dynamo]

Edit: List deleted. Fresh roundup posted.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Thanks for the improvement to FAST. Like it, like it a lot.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Here is the start of the next batch

Heatray
Hecate
Heinkel
Hell Hound
Hell Queen
Hellblazer
Hellfire Queen
Helloween
Hide (of Hide and Seek)
Hoodlum
Hooligan
Hoplite (Ancient Greek infantry)
Horus
Hospitalier
Host
Hotspur
Hotwire
Human Bullet, The
Human Fly
Hyaena
Hybrid
Ice
Ice Ice Baby
Ice Lord
Ice Maiden
Ice Master
Ice Scream
Illuminations
Illuminatus
Illusion

Heinkel was a German aircraft firm in WW2.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Illusionist
Immovable Object
Impasse
Imperial
Imperial Wizard
Inca, The
Infamy
Inka, The (Fuzzy)
Incendiary
Incinerator
Indecency, The
Indefatigable
Infiltraitor
Infra Red
Inhuman Skull, The
Insect
Insect Master
Intellect
Interrogater
IO
Ion Storm
Iron Golem
Iron Hand
Iron Master
Iron Warrior
Ironside
Irresistable Force
Ivory
Jack Frost
Jaeger (German Hunter)

IO again is a Jupiter or Saturn moon.
Ironside refers to Cromwell's troops in the British Civil War.

[McCoy]

0305 - Astaroth (fallen angel of Christian Old Testament)

Humm. Could we say "Hebrew Testiment" instead of "Christian Old Testament"? Calling it the CHRISTIAN Old Testiment discounts that it is part of the scripture of the Jews.

Second, Fallen Angel? Astaroth was a city in Bashan east of the Jordan, or a goddesses in the Canaanite religion, usually related to fertility. Was also (IIRC) the wizard who taught animals to talk in Bedknobs and Broomsticks.

Possibly this could have been Azazel, a fallen angel from the Book of Enoch?

"And Azazel taught men to make swords, and knives, and shields, and breastplates, and made known to them the metals of the earth and the art of working them, and bracelets, and ornaments, and the use of antimony, and the beautifying of the eyelids, and all kinds of costly stones, and all coloring tinctures. And there arose much godlessness, and they committed fornication, and they were led astray, and became corrupt in all their ways. Semjâzâ taught enchantments, and root-cuttings, 'Armârôs the resolving of enchantments, Barâqîjâl (taught) astrology, Kôkabêl the constellations, Êzêqêêl the knowledge of the clouds, Araqiêl the signs of the earth, Shamsiêl the signs of the sun, and Sariêl the course of the moon. And as men perished, they cried, and their cry went up to heaven..."

[McCoy]

0450 - Belial (fallen angel of Christian Old Testament)

"Belial" only occurs in the Hebrew Testiment as part of a compound phrase, "children of Belial," "daughter of Belial," "men of Belial," etc. It does not seem to be a proper name, but means worthless or wicked. In the Christian Testiment, Paul does us it as a Proper name.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Have you had second thoughts on Double Cross as it seems to have left the list ?

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
Have you had second thoughts on Double Cross as it seems to have left the list?Hmmn, I must have forgotten. I'm not at home right now, but I'll try to remember to add it to the master list tonight.

I'm currently not posting as much as I would like. Not only is my life a little busy right now, but my wife is job hunting, so I need to leave the phone line available during the day, which is when I'm available to post. Gaah.

But when I'm able to post more often, I hope McCoy is still monitoring this thread. He seems a ready source of biblical scholarship ripe for the picking.

Regarding Astaroth and Belial, I was working from a third-party essay on demons and angels that mentioned the two. The source was not particularly impartial, but the claimed origin seemed feasible. A lot of the gods of cultures encountered by the people of Israel wound up in the scriptures as malevolent servants of the adversary.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by McCoy
Could we say "Hebrew Testiment" instead of "Christian Old Testament"? Calling it the CHRISTIAN Old Testiment discounts that it is part of the scripture of the Jews.Unfortunately, that would introduce other inaccuracies. The Christian Old Testament is a derivative work based on certain works of Judaic scripture, but it branched from the original works a LONG time ago. And it's been through several major revisions under the hands of biased authorities.

(Before anyone jumps on me, I understand the doctrine of divine inspiration from the Holy Spirit guiding the pen of the translator/compiler/editor. Whatever you believe to be the source of the changes, the currently accepted versions of the Christian Bible contain demonstrable differences from historical versions that cannot be chalked up to translation difficulties.)

I plan to review the source where I found Belial and Astaroth and delve a little deeper to develop the origins better and find more names like them. Hopefully, I can dig up a cultural tag, because demons or devils (or whatever you want to call them) with cultural pedigree make great super-baddies.

[McCoy]

Originally posted by Dynamo
I plan to review the source where I found Belial and Astaroth and delve a little deeper to develop the origins better and find more name like them. Hopefully, I can dig up a cultural tag, because demons or devils (or whatever you want to call them) with cultural pedigree make great super-baddies.

Looking forward to it, thanks!

[TedJMill]

Here are some superhero and supervillain names that I've used, that I don't see on the list:

Athena
Demat
Doctor Reality
Electric Knight
Explorer
Kintaro (Japanese mythological hero, super-strong and able to talk to animals, means "Golden Boy")
La Chatte Charmant (French for "The Charming Cat")
Mnemonic
Night Flyer
Preserver
Roadrunner
Skyrocket
Time-line Rider
Transition

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by TedJMill
Here are some superhero and supervillain names that I've used, that I don't see on the list:
...
Demat
...Good stuff. Thanks for contributing.

Care to provide an etymology for Demat?

[TedJMill]

Originally posted by Dynamo
Good stuff. Thanks for contributing.

Care to provide an etymology for Demat?

It's short for dematerialization. I used it for a character who could make objects intangible, but I got it from a "Doctor Who" episode where the Demat Gun was a disintegration weapon.

[Shadow Shulker]

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[Dynamo]

Originally posted by TedJMill
It's short for dematerialization. I used it for a character who could make objects intangible, but I got it from a "Doctor Who" episode where the Demat Gun was a disintegration weapon.Ah, that makes sense. Thanks.

[Shadow Shulker]

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[Dynamo]

Hmmmn... It would appear we've developed a mild infestation of juvenile losers so disappointed with the scale of their reproductive equipment that they feel the need to impress us all with a display of advanced vocabulary.

Yawn.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Back to proper names worthy of heroes and villains.

Jaguar
Janus
Jarl
Jason
Jawbreaker
Jaws
Jet Ski
Jetskate
Jolly Reaper
Jolly Roger
Judas Goat
Judge Mentday
Junk
Junkyard Dog
Kaolin
Kaotik
Kayman
Kayoko
Karate Kid
Killer Claw
King Crimson
King of Flame
King of Pain
Kingslor (German Wizard who stole the Holy Grail)
Kite
Krait
Krakatoa
Kreig Minister
Krypton
Lady Fauna

Janus was is who the month of January is named after.

Jarl is a Scandavian word meaning chief.

Judus Goat is a form of trap. The goat is left out in the open as bait and the creature attacks it and suffers attacks from hunters. Same thing has been applied to police procedure from what I have seen.

Kaolin is one of the products that China Clay comes from and is derived from Granite I believe.

Kayman is a form of alligater/crocodile.

Kingslor is the villain in a famous German Opera. I think Wagner composed it.

Krait is a type of snake.

Krakatoa is a famous volcano and has a film named after it although the geographic direction in the film is out.

Kreig Minister means War Minister.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Another batch

Lady Mirage
Landslip
Larceny
Laser Ninja
Lasoo
Lawgiver
Leaper
Leopardess
Lethal
Liberty
Lifesbane
Light (Member of Wavelength)
Lightbringer
Limey, The
Lion Claw
Lionmane
Lioness
Little Caeser
Living Anacronhism
Lizard King
Locket
Locksmith
Lone Gunman
Lone Wolf
Looker
Lord Arcane
Lord Flora
Lord Darkness
Lord Dragon
Lord Lightning

Little Caeser in honour of Edward G Robinson

The Living Anacronhism is a construct

Lizard King in honour of Jim Morrison of the Doors.

[Dynamo]

Edit: List deleted. Fresh roundup posted.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Thanks again for adding the names in.

One question at the moment. If we have Aztec, why didn't Inca make it in ?

[death tribble]

Dave,

The next batch of 30.

Lord Tempest
Lumiere
Lunos
Lupine
Mace Master
Macho
Mad Cow
Mad Dog
Mad Shrinker
Madame Ermine
Madame Sable
Magma
Magnetrox
Magog
Magus Maximus
Maim
Malachite
Man Ape
Man Beast
Man Stalker
Man Tank
Maniak
Marchwarden
Marie (Spirit of France)
Marine Boy
Marionette
Marksman
Mass Mistress
Master Magnetism
Master Mariner

Lumiere is French for light

Magog is connected to Gog

Magus Maximus was a character posted to the site

Marchwarden is another poster on the site

Marie is the emblem of France in the same way that Uncle Sam is an emblem of America, sometimes seen in paintings et al from the Revolutionary period on.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
If we have Aztec, why didn't Inca make it in?Subjective judgement call based on the sound of each word.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Fair enough. next batch

Master Strategy
Master Stroke
Masterman
Mathmatician, The
Matter Master
Maya, The
MC, The (Master Of Chaos)
Mechanon Man
Medea
Meg (aladon)
Meganaut
Melt
Melting Man
Mercedes
Mesmerist
Messiah
Metal Mickey
Metropolis
Mexican, The
Mica
Michael 16 (M16)
Micro
Midge
Midnight
Mikado
Militant, The
Mind Mangler
Mind Master
Mind Mistress
Mind Reader

Mathmatician. Because most everyone fears Maths at school. Also based on Bronovski's the Ascent of Man. If you gave him the theory or underlying science, he could give you the Maths to support it. It is a short step to making that either heroic or villainous. I also reference Asimov's Foundation series with this.

Maya, The. Referencing South American culture again.

Mechanon Man. Either a man disguised as Mechanon or someone who has been surgically altered into a facsimile of the evil Robot. Either by the Robot or one of its enemies.

Medea. Jason's wife from the Argonauts and the Golden Fleece. As I was compiling the list the Freedom City book came out so discard if you wish.

Meg (aladon). After a giant prehistoric shark. Saw a book about this (fiction) but it did exist.

Mercedes. Again after the car firm.

Messiah. Because some paranormals think they are gods. Ergo.

Mikado. After the Gilbert and Sullivan opera which is where most people will pick up the name in public domain.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Another batch

Mind Warp
Mind Worm
Mind's Eye
Mindwitch
Mirage Master
Mirrors (partner of Smoke)
Misileer
Mister Death
Mister Elastic
Mister Grave
Mister Hide
Mister Majestic
Mister Mephistopholes
Mister Mystic
Mister Plague
Mister Smash
Mister Zoom
Mistress Flail
Mitsubishi
Monocle
Mont Blanc
Montana
Moon God
Moon Hunter
Moon Man
Moonglow
Moonlight
Moonshadow
Morphisto
Mosquito Man

Mitsubishi after the Japanese firm who built the Zero fighter.

Mont Blanc is one of the biggest mountains in Europe

[Lord Liaden]

Since "The Inca" didn't make it in (and my mother's from Peru, so I have a vested interest), may I suggest instead Inti, the Inca sun god.

[Siberian Tiger]

A few more from me:

Cerebellion - mentalist who makes you do the opposite of what you believe in - the devout Christian becomes an atheist hedonist, the ruthless corporate businessman turns into a socialist etc

Roblivion - thief who was cursed to steal for eternity

American Angel - appeared at Ground Zero on 12th September to help the disaster recovery programme. Looks like an angel, dresses in the stars and stripes. In reality, an agent of a hostile power seeking to inflitrate the USA's superteams.

Okavango -one of the longest rivers in Africa

Agwe - African divine force of the sea

Painmonger - torturer supreme

Interesting names spotted around the web (Apologies for any duplication)
Tomcat
Spotlight
Zero G
Bronco
Shadowjack
Honeybee
Damascus
Nightscream
Clockwork Man
Triangle

[Stargazer]

Darkshadow
darkstar
prowler
RIP
Stargazer :P
Starblazer
Spectra
lightning

[TheTemplar]

From our last campaign:

Conduit
Empath
Mindfox
Mindspark
Myst
New Man
Tempus
The Mole
The Templar
Trickshot
Warlock

From our upcoming campaign:

Albatross
Fantastic Man
Justice
Liberty (they're a duo..married in RL even...cute, eh?)
The Tornado

Other characters I've written up who have yet to see daylight:

Dr. Impossible
Frostbite
Iron Maiden
Megaton
Mr. Mystical

-T
The Wraith

[death tribble]

And the next batch for Dave,

Murderous Intent
Mute
Mutilator
Myopia
Nagasaki
Narcosis
Narcotic
Natannia
Neanderthal Man
Nemo
Neptune
Neriad
New York Titan
Night Slasher
Night Thief
Nitro
Nomura
Noose
Norse God
Norse Man
Northern Lights
Nosferatu
Nostradamus
Nova Centurion
Nox
NSA (New Soviet American) Man
Nucleon
Nuclear Skull, The
Numanwari (Australian name for Giant Crocodile)
Obstacle

Myopia is a form of Blindness

Nagasaki because Dr Hiroshima was done

Nomura after the Japanese financial house.

Nosferatu is a vampire

Nostradaus made predictions in code which people claim today have come true.

Nucleon is a poster on the boards.

Numanwari is the Aboriginal name for a big croc.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Next batch

Occult
Octo
Odd Ball
L'Oiseau Noire (Blackbird in French)
Opiate
Opium
Optic
Otato
Oxide
Painkiller
Panic Attack
Pancho Villa
Panda
Pantagruel (Gargantua's son.)
Patch
Paris
Parsifial (German hero who returned the Holy Grail)
Perilous Pauline
Pericles
Persephone
Petroleum
Phantom
Phantom Force
Phantom Panther
Phantom Thief
Pharmacia
Pheramone Queen
Phobia
Pi (as in the maths symbol)
Polymer

Otato is to do with Anime or so I am told.

Pancho Villa after the Mexican revolutionary leader

Pantagruel is the son of Gargantua in the famous book by Rabelais

Parsifial returns the Grail after it is stolen. Famous opera by Wagner I believe.

Pericles was a leader of Athens and is a play by Shakespeare

Persephone was the daughter of the goddess Demeter and was married to Hades/Pluto

[altamaros]

Hi Dave.

I found these in my first attempts to create an european team (it was still EEC a this time) :
i removed the doubles :

Doctor Gulliver (size-changing powers, U.K. or Ireland)
Comte de (count of) Saint-Germain (time-displaced immortal sorcerer, France).
Holger Danske (Ogier the Dane, sword-wielding living legend, Danemark)
The Black Tulip (swashbuckling hero from Netherlands)
Das Heulen (The Howling, sonic powers, german)
Arlecchina (female form of "Arlecchino" (Arlequin) Illusionist, Italian)
Medianoche ("Midnight", Dark force/shadow powers, spanish)
Geyser (Icelander with geothermic powers)
Khroma ("color", half-goddess with light/rainbow powers, Greece)

From the Cyb-Gang (a bunch of cyborgs) :
Motormouth
Hand Job
Hot Wheel

the others are doublets.

(note to Death tribble :
Blackbird (the specie) : Merle (female : Merlette)
Blackbird (a bird who is black: a crow or else): Oiseau noir.
hope this helps)

[death tribble]

A friend of mine called Paul Geelan came up with the name as a member of the wartime resistance in France. L'Oiseau Noir was female. Paul was studying Geology when I met him.
Vanished (from everyone) about a decade ago now.

We all kind of liked the way the name sounded.

[Memona]

Oh neat lets see what names I can round up...

Blackfang
Fallout
Grace
Sol
Ironball
Absorbian
Devilskin
Blacken Monk
Red Lazer
Wicked Groundbound
Twisted
Possossum
Pincer
Abu Jafar, character from 1001 Arbian Nights
FarRange
Wastelander
Bomb Fragment
Sky Archer
Reality
Samson
Sidous Factor
Sidous Falcon
Dragon's Knight
Zepter
Land Shark
Ultrum Magnet
Lionheart
Red Rum
Antipodes, means the parrarel side of the earth
Mad Marco
Witchhunt
Stranger

[Stephen_H-G]

The Whippet (yeah, I know it's a little silly)

Swampgas

Mister Shade

Featherweight

Witness

Basenji

Silver Water

Heartless

The Lead Mask

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by altamaros
From the Cyb-Gang (a bunch of cyborgs) :
Motormouth
Hand Job
Hot WheelGreat names, but we'll have to leave out Hand Job. In the US, it's common slang for 2nd party manual sexual stimulation.

[Dynamo]

Edit: List deleted. Fresh roundup posted.

[death tribble]

Dave,

Just a quick note to say thank you for including L'Oiseau Noir.
Now back to the usual hunting for names.

[altamaros]

Originally posted by Dynamo
Great names, but we'll have to leave out Hand Job. In the US, it's common slang for 2nd party manual sexual stimulation. Precisely ...

[sachmo]

Force of Nature
Scarlet Swordsman
Slap Shot


Any of the above could have appeared in a comic book at one time or another...I haven't read on in years. :)

[death tribble]

Dave,

Next batch of 30

Polyphemus
Pompeii Man
Pompey
Popacatapetl
Portcullis
Poseidon
Positron
Power Man
Powerplay
Preserver
Professor Death
Professor Hormone
Professor Peril
Professor J P Skunkbreath
Professor TNT
Projectile
Projectile Princess
Projector
Prometheus
Prophet Motive
Proton Pusher
Psi-Guard
Psi-Jammer
Psiklops
PsiLord
Psi-Mistress
Psi-Shock
Psitan
Psycho
Psychotic

Polyphemus was the Cyclops that fought Odysseus/Ulyssess.

Pompeii was the city destroyed by Vesuvius erupting in AD79
So Pompeii Man is a resident brought back to life.

Pompey was a rival of Caesar's. His father also had the same name and was also a feared soldier

Popacatapetl is another South American volcano.

Poseidon was the Greek god of the sea.

Power Man was a name of a character on the site that someone was attempting to do as a Superman but based on the Greek gods instead. Sort of a Quasi-Shazam (Captain Marvel)

Prometheus was the Titan who gave man fire and was punished for it.

[rurwin]

Pacifist, The - AoE cumulative transform to pacifist, gestures, incantations, focused on a soapbox. No one's let me play him yet, I wonder why not... But in a big world he's sure to be out there somewhere.

[death tribble]

Dave,

The next batch

Pterra Don (Part Dinosaur bird, part Mafia head, all Evil)
Public Executioner
Puppet Maker
Puritan
Purity
Purple Mask
Purple Panther
Pylon
Pyroclastic
Pyrofly
Pyrotechnics
Queen Bee
Queen of Hearts
Quisling
Rabid
Raccoon
Radar
Radar Rider
Radical
Radical Rose
Radioactive Material
Radion
Radiowave
Ragamuffin
Raging Inferno
Raging Paranoia
Raider
Ramrod
Ramses, the Living Pharoah
Rapscallion

Pterra Don. As opposed to the dinosaur bird Pterradon. What can I say ? the idea simply appealed to me. Go on, you know you want to include it.

Pyroclastic. This is after the vulcanologist term (Pyroclastic Flow) for a cloud of volcanic debris or cloud that comes down at terrific speed and kills instantly. This is what is now reckoned to have done for the inhabitants of Pompeii and Herculaneam during Vesuvius's eruption in AD79. It has only been witnessed twice and is a recently discovered phenomenon.

Quisling. After the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling who worked with the Germans during WW2.

Radioactive Material is a fashion designer obsess with adding radiation to fashion

Radar Rider is another colleague of Marchwarden

Raging Inferno/Paranoia. Wrestlers or bricks with low tolerance but obvious powers/side effects.

Ragamuffin is an English word for a youngster.

Rapscallion is an English word usually applied to youngsters

[death tribble]

Dave,

The next batch and now edited to remove the double post bit

Razorfist
Razorwire
Razzamataz
Reactor
Ready
Rebel Lion
Rebellion
Red Beard
Red Flag
Red Lightning
Red Menace
Red Monarch
Red Moon
Red Winter
Redneck
Refract
Replica
Replicator
Reptile
Reptilian
Revenge
Rico
Rimshot
Ringneck
Risky Business
Roadkill
Roanfox
Robot Boy
Rocket Girl
Rot

Rebel Lion. The king of the jungle in Marlon Brando's leathers from The Wild One.

Red Menace is a poster on the site.

Red Monarch. Name attributed to Stalin but also a name of a Butterfly

Refract as when light hits crystals. Pretty useful vs energy beams.

Rico can either be taken as the name or as an anti or pro rackets paranormal after the American legislation of the same name.

Ringneck is a type of snake

[Siberian Tiger]

Saw this on the DC Comics Board and had to share it with you guys.

Alabaman

Was originally a typo - adding the n to Alabama

[death tribble]

Dave,

What do we do re the list and Agent Escafarc ?
He is licenced to Hero Games as it says on his sig.

[Balok]

Originally posted by death tribble
Quisling
...

Quisling. After the Norwegian Vidkun Quisling who worked with the Germans during WW2.

This one got me laughing...

"What can we do with the secret plans?"
"Give them to Quisling -- the one man we're sure won't betray us!"

[Alibear]

Dynamo, keep up the good work, you da man.

[Enforcer84]

Originally posted by death tribble


Radar Rider is another colleague of Marchwarden



Also a song on the Heavy Metal Soundtrack. I think it was Nazareth's contribution.

[Dynamo]

Originally posted by death tribble
What do we do re the list and Agent Escafarc?
He is licenced to Hero Games as it says on his sig.Um... why would anything need to be done?<ol><li>His name's not on the list;</li><li>I suspect "Licensed to HERO" is merely an attempt at being clever;</li><li>Just about every other super name owned by DOJ is already on the list, and we've had no complaints from the management.</li></ol>Or am I missing a joke? :-|