Mantis Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Dexies (from "Spandex"). Breakers (proclivity for breakling things). Dans (rearranged DNA). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandi Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Randis - a reference to James Randi, who would doubtless deny the existence of a super even as superman was flinging him into orbit. No, that kind of skeptic would be a Scully. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Randis - a reference to James Randi' date=' who would doubtless deny the existence of a super even as superman was flinging him into orbit. This pejorative has a "whistling in the dark" aspect to it.[/quote'] No' date=' that kind of skeptic would be a Scully.[/quote'] No, BoneDaddy's right; the kind he describes would be a Randi. A Scully waits until being flung into orbit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
megaplayboy Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Spand*cks--arrogant camera-hogs who do random property damage Car-wrecker--a pulchritudinous superheroine wearing a skintight costume, with or without magic cleavage window, and the subsequent rubbernecking that ensues. The Suffix Brigade--a group of supers arriving on the scene--"oh, look, another Suffix Brigade is here." (a reference to so many supers having -man, -boy, -girl, or -woman in their nom de plume). GWA--Gods With Attitude Capef**kers--supers groupies FEMA-bait--super with a rep for massive property damage Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted September 6, 2007 Report Share Posted September 6, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! The Suffix Brigade--a group of supers arriving on the scene--"oh' date=' look, another Suffix Brigade is here." (a reference to so many supers having -man, -boy, -girl, or -woman in their nom de plume).[/quote']This could also lead to more terms such as Hyphen-People or Icon Wannabes. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Impudite Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Fork-Thrower: A clueless wannabe super who isn't anywhere near ready for the "big leagues" (obviously a Mystery Men reference) Shoveler: See Fork-Thrower above. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterBaldy Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! The "Let's Pretenders"? Captain "Make-believe"? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! If someone collects all of these, could you email me a copy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Certified Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! If someone collects all of these' date=' could you email me a copy?[/quote'] Will this work? I've tried to format them all in the same way for ease of reference. and I can update this list as new ones come in even if I never get back around to the word doc. Note: In alphabetizing the list the order of some variants were rearranged such as Cain's kids/Esau's kids/Ham's kids. After School Specials: Superheroes with an open agenda, or cause beyond merely crime fighting that they openly advocate with speeches, rallies, etc. Given for the lecturing tones they often are assumed to have. Bashers/Smashers/Trashers: If known for a lot of collateral damage. Bats/Doves: If all can fly. Blackhats: The bad guys, not considered too offensive even by the bad guys. Obviously a cowboy reference. Bouncers: Bouncing bullets Boy Scout/Cub Scout/Girl Scout Brainers: Mental power origin Breakers: Proclivity for breaking things. Broken Ladders/Warped Ladders: Referring to their DNA? As with "muties" it's great because for some supers it's not even accurate Capef**kers: Supers groupies Capes Captain "Make-believe" Car-wrecker: A pulchritudinous superheroine wearing a skintight costume, with or without magic cleavage window, and the subsequent rubbernecking that ensues. Choppers: Martial arts based origin Chromos Cain's kids/Esau's kids/Ham's kids: Such a moniker has been used to justify any number of atrocities in the past, and can easily be dusted off for re-use. Civicpirate: The opposite of the Civicninja, these superheroes are flamboyant and buckle swashes openly and loudly. They give interviews, and draw attention. Civicninja: Refers to superheroes who try never to be seen (with some inference to out of their head paranoia) save by the people they stop. Will not hang around, will not give interviews etc. Crash-and-Burners Crutch: As supers often resolve real problems with ease. Dans: Short for Fancy Dan or rearranged DNA Darwins Darwin's Nightmares Demolition Derby Dexies: From "Spandex" Dips: Due to their serenDIPitous mutations. Drag Queens with Toys Faded Glories: Supers who once stood for an ideal or nation that is no longer valid or has veered from their former selves. Fallout : If there was a global creation event. This also implies they should have died with the event. FEMA-bait: Super with a rep for massive property damage Flags: Colorful, symbolic, dangerous, and frequently at the front of any battle. More often sources for conflict rather than solutions. Refers primarily to costumed heroes rather than paranormals generally. Flashers: both for the tight outfits and the careless speed they use to evade problems so that it falls splat! Right on the Little Guy. Fork-Thrower/Shoveller: A clueless wannabe super who isn't anywhere near ready for the "big leagues" (obviously a Mystery Men reference) Freaks: Good ol' standby F/X: Doing stuff normally only seen in Hollywood special effects GAS/GAs: Genetic Anomalies Gene Joke: Anti Mutant Slang Gestapo: Referring to Supers who uphold the law or their laws with or without sanctioned police powers. GFs: Genetic Freaks Glowers/ Shiners: If they share a common sfx such as glowing eyes Glowies GWA: Gods With Attitude Halos: For 'good guys' Hazards: could be a critique and also taken back as cool by the powered folk. Heavy Metal Flasher Horns: For 'bad guys' Horn Section: Supervillain support for an operation/organization Hyperactive : all energy, no direction, knocking the plaster off the walls. Hyphen-People Icon Wannabes Imps: As a contraction of "impossible" Juicers: Super drug origin LAUGHs: Law Abiding Unique Genetic Heritage Larks: Like a Bird, they are there to look good and fly away whenever they fell like it. The Last Son/Daughter Of Krapton (or Krapped-On): applies to extraterrestrial supers (possible origin: a MAD Magazine send-up of a Superman movie) Let's Pretenders Leotard Loonies Lieutenant Leotard Little Leaguers: Belittling, works best if The Big Team is "League of something, something." Loose Nukes: An extension of "loose cannons" but much more powerful Masks Mister: As in Cockney rhyming slang: "Mister (Arm) Twister” Muties Muts: Genetic mutant origin NRP: Not Real People Paras: Paranormals The Pajama Patrol: Applicable even to plainclothes supers Pajama Prancers Pedigrees (Dogs): because they're very special, mentally unstable and probably the result of too much inbreeding Pigeon: both for clay pigeon and the much despised rat with wings. Pot Luck Powerhouse: Referring to supers with a mix of powers that seem unrelated. Rats with Capes Randis: A reference to James Randi, who would doubtless deny the existence of a super even as superman was flinging him into orbit. This pejorative has a "whistling in the dark" aspect to it. Rejects: For Supers with less than amazing powers. Retrodeath: Term coined for supervillains who insist on using fluttering cloaks, grandiose speeches, and other aspects that might be considered corny or cliché, and yet are incredibly bad ass and powerful. The idea being you can mock their outdated ways, but you won't last long if you do. SBDs: Soon Be Dead Sickos/ Sickies: Viral/ infectious based origin Spandex Soldiers Spand*cks: Arrogant camera-hogs who do random property damage Sparklers Spastics: similar to Hyperactive but more derogative, rhyming slang with elastic, fantastic. The Suffix Brigade: A group of supers arriving on the scene--"oh, look, another Suffix Brigade is here." (A reference to so many supers having -man, -boy, -girl, or -woman in their nom de plume.) Super Goofs Supers (obvious) Superbob Pajamapants Superfreaks Superspread: Derogatory term for any superheroine (or villainess) who is scantily clad and under-dressed. The idea being she looks like she is ready for a playboy type photo spread. Superloons Super Losers: For Supervillains Tights Toons: Meaning the stuff they do should only work in cartoons Triple Fs: Stands for Flukes, Freaks, and (really, really) Foreign Trousers: Derived from "All mouth and trousers" folksy British slang meaning blowhard, also a call to stop prancing around with no clothes on. U.F.A. (Unidentified Flying A-hole): Self-explanatory, applies only to supers with Flight. Vistors from alternate realities Walking Disaster Areas Wannabe Cops: For Superheroes Whitehats: the good guys, see Blackhats above. Wierdos: Negative, Serpent already took Freaks Zealot Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Would it be okay to add this to my website's resources? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brandi Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! No' date=' BoneDaddy's right; the kind he describes would be a Randi. A Scully waits [i']until[/i] being flung into orbit. You seem to assume that James Randi is a stupid skeptic. Whatsamatta, did he poke a hole in your favorite belief? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! You seem to assume that James Randi is a stupid skeptic. Whatsamatta' date=' did he poke a hole in your favorite belief?[/quote'] No, he's just a zealot, and a hystrionic self-important jack-ass. Penn, Teller, and the Mythbuster's crowd are AOK by me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterBaldy Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Would it be okay to add this to my website's resources?I'm wondering if maybe you should wait a little longer... I'll bet we can come up with a few more!!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! I'll wait... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterBaldy Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Leotard Loonies... Superbob Pajamapants (a bit of a stretch) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
casualplayer Posted September 7, 2007 Report Share Posted September 7, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! No' date=' he's just a zealot, and a hystrionic self-important jack-ass.[/quote']Well, at least I'm not a zealot. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! It vaguely disturbs me that you guys came up with so many perjoratives, with such great enthusiasm, so very quickly... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Marcus Impudite Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! I went back and made corrections to Fork-Thrower/Shoveler in my post, you may want to edit list accordingly. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wormhole Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! U.F.A. (Unidentified Flying A-hole): Self-explainatory, applies only to supers with Flight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BobGreenwade Posted September 8, 2007 Report Share Posted September 8, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! You seem to assume that James Randi is a stupid skeptic. Whatsamatta' date=' did he poke a hole in your favorite belief?[/quote']No, he's actually a stupid skeptic, unlike (as BoneDaddy mentioned) folks like Adam Savage or Penn Gillette, and fictional character Dana Scully, who actually are willing to test superenatural claims with an open-minded, balanced scientific perception. I mean, hasn't anyone explained to Randi that it makes no sense to strictly apply the laws of nature to the supernatural? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wormhole Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! One more from me: The Last Son/Daughter Of Krapton (or Krapped-On): applies to extraterrestrial supers (possible origin: a MAD Magazine send-up of a Superman movie) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MisterBaldy Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Pajama Prancers Lieutenant Leotard and the Pajama Patrol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Korvar Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! No' date=' he's actually a stupid skeptic, unlike (as BoneDaddy mentioned) folks like Adam Savage or Penn Gillette, and fictional character Dana Scully, who actually are willing to test superenatural claims with an open-minded, balanced scientific perception. I mean, hasn't anyone explained to Randi that it makes no sense to strictly apply the laws of nature to the [i']super[/i]natural? No, because there is no such thing as supernatural phenomena. Either something exists or it doesn't. If it exists, it is part of the universe, and thus subject to the laws of physics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoneDaddy Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! No' date=' because there is no such thing as [i']super[/i]natural phenomena. Either something exists or it doesn't. If it exists, it is part of the universe, and thus subject to the laws of physics. Like Dark Matter, quantum entanglement, or the acceleration of the voyager probes. Randi's biggest crime is hubris - he assumes that we understand and can explain everything that happens around us, when 80 percent of the mass around us we can't even observe directly. Seriously - we don't know jack about how the universe works, and claims to absolute knowledge as to what is possible or not are all exaggerated. Randi is siding with "science," but he's treating science like a religion. Science doesn't have all the answers yet, and good scientists recognize that. He's a stage magician. He should stick with that. "Pajama Prancers" is hilarious. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Certified Posted September 9, 2007 Report Share Posted September 9, 2007 Re: Need Perjoratives! Randi's biggest crime is hubris His smallest crime being the Million Dollar Challenge to anyone who can scientifically prove something believed to be supernatural? I'm not trying to get in on this argument I just wanted to remind you cats and kiddos that this thread is about insulting superheroes not skeptics either real or fictional. On the positive side, it did remind me to add Zealot to list. My personal favorite so far is Lieutenant Leotard. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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