Super Names

**Dynamo** · Feb 21st, '03, 10:13 AM

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), 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** · Feb 21st, '03, 10:19 AM

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

**EternityShard** · Feb 21st, '03, 10:33 AM

Mannequin, The
Flair
Mason Shield
Weathervane
Melee

**Chaosliege** · Feb 21st, '03, 10:41 AM

Brawl (no er)
Scatterbrain

**lemming** · Feb 21st, '03, 04:30 PM

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

**nHammer** · Feb 21st, '03, 04:52 PM

Strike Eagle
White Owl
Starpower
Mystery Man
Blue Knight
Girbralter

**RPMiller** · Feb 21st, '03, 06:11 PM

Xenon

**Kara Zor-El** · Feb 21st, '03, 11:04 PM

Penari (Indonesian: Dancer)

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

**Lord Thaingar** · Feb 22nd, '03, 12:26 PM

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** · Feb 22nd, '03, 02:45 PM

Night spectre(vigilante)\
Electrik
Cheif

**lemming** · Feb 22nd, '03, 06:55 PM

Dug out of the Red October site

Wavelength
Speed Trap
Requiem
Odd Fellow
Lurker
Grave Digger

**dbsousa** · Feb 22nd, '03, 07:50 PM

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** · Feb 22nd, '03, 07:57 PM

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** · Feb 22nd, '03, 08:35 PM

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** · Feb 22nd, '03, 08:40 PM

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.