CrosshairCollie Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) I only heard about this one -- "Rectifier." And then there was the guy who was brutally honest about his name -- "I... don't have a name yet." Finally, we had a guy in a sweatsuit and ski mask with electrical powers -- the Unishocker. I once created an anthropomorphic horse with a horn that had explosive powers. Yes, the Unibomber. I never did anything with her, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
RexMundi Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) Hands down, in my old 4e BBB campaing, would be: Captain Ego. Who had, Magnetic Powers, and Dressed, like a cross between Fat Vegas Elvis,, Captain Ultra from Marvel Comics, and King Leonidas from Sparta. This was back in the day after all when you were supposed to draw your character first before you made them, heh..... Lot of plays on Captain Ego......pronounce the last three letters as you would think. If the player had a thick, Alabama accent. ~Rex Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
torchwolf Posted March 4, 2010 Report Share Posted March 4, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) A player in my campaign played a somewhat eccentric teleporting mentalist named Vanyar, and wanted her character to have a smart animal sidekick to share a Mind Link with... which eventually turned out as an alien bat-like creature she picked up and took with her back home after the team's brief sojourn into another dimension. She named this little guy "Batty Bat". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GoldenAge Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) A friend once came up with a tavern security guard (bouncer) who was a giant, fat, beer-swilling dude who would sit on you if you got out of line. His name was Chugalug. I still use him in Epic City! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Clonus Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) One of the worst character names I ever encountered for it's sheer lack of inspiration was an Iron Man knock-off named "Ore" Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tigereye Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) In a Champions campaign in 1986 North Carolina, we had a guy create Fat-Man and his husky boy sidekick, Flobbin... I then threatened to create Flatman and Ribbon... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BoloOfEarth Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) Oh, geez, you just reminded me of another character one of my players wanted to create: Frat Man, and his faithful sidekick, the Boy Kegger. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Susano Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) I only heard about Super-Hippy. And someone else did Captain Sixpack. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EvilDrPuma Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) We had Captain Cadaver, but he was really more of a running joke: a John Doe corpse who turned up in unlikely places as an exercise in GM creativity. He did have a character sheet, however. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Querysphinx Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) I only head about Super-Hippy. And someone else did Captain Sixpack. This reminds me of a character that was actually played in my first Champions game (I wasa player). His name was Speeeeeed Hippy. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Burrito Boy Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) In the first D&D game I ever played, one of the characters had a dog he named Yourdog the War Dog. "Yourdog chewed my boots." "He's not my dog, he's Yourdog" I guess you had to be there. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lapsedgamer Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) The guy who introduced me to D&D in junior high school had an NPC kobold in the game called Stop n' Maybe. He wasn't dangerous, but he always hung out around the local tavern (adventure start point) and tried to sell you fish. You couldn't really ignore him. He would get underfoot, yell, wheedle, and beg, saying "Stop" over and over until you did. He would then look up at you with those pitiful little humanoid eyes and say "Maybe" pleadingly. He would be holding up this fish as he did it. The joke was that it was always the same fish until someone bought it, or it went so bad it fell apart. If you bought the damn thing just to get rid of him, he would stalk you twice as hard the next time. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drhoz Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) We were going to have Spellweaver Beaver in our Edge City campaign. We thought about this and my wife's Smut Field and unanimously said "No." Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mattingly Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) At a convention bring-your-own-character game, someone came up with Captain Not-in-the-Face! In my convention, there were bad jokes galore about our martial artist Wang. Also Sprick, the speedster brick NPC. He was a bit of a bully and a jerk, and often, the "S" was silent. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christougher Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) My Hollywood Knights superhero game has the tagline "Bright Lights. Big City. Bad Puns." A lot of names were stolen from the 3000 names project elwhere on the forums. Here are some of my favorite worst villain names: Alter Ego, the mentalist who multiforms into Alter ID and Alter Superego. Bad News, the speedster with emotion sfx. Beauty and the Beast; flipped the stereotype and made Beast the mentalist and Beauty the brick. Bee Negative, the blood wasp. Replacement for Oh! Positive! because she's at home in bed. Bipolar, the magnetic sfx mentalist. Black Jack, the Batman-esque rabbit. Blowhard, the invulnerable, but not superstrong air sfx blaster. BRAIN, robotic egoist with brick follower PINKIE. Cat 'o Nine Flails, just like it says, anthrocat with nine flails. Cutting Edge with the high tech 4d6K AP axe. Dain Bramage, the vibration sfx mentalist. Deus Ex Machine Gun, who sold his soul for magical weapons. Fine Red Mist, the desolid cloud of blood. Gorilla Warfare, the ape with a grenade launcher. Grindstone, brick with a STR/Armor transfer damage shield. Haberdasher, T-1000 with the Joker's insanity. Hadron, the particle sfx speedster. The Invincible Brick, with invisibility and teleport, obvious taunt with slight changes to his name. Khan Crete, the stone sfx mentalist. Little Red Riding Wolf, female werewolf with a cape. Minion, the duplicating metal brick. Muscles Sprout, the shrinking brick. Ol' Sparky, electric blaster, gained superpowers by surviving his execution. One Eyed Jack, homage to X-Men's Cyclops. Oxford, the highly intelligent minotaur brick. Plutonium Blonde, the radioactive brick. PSI, the air sfx blaster - Pounds per Square Inch. Ragna Rock, the giant stone brick. Sick Puppy, the masochistic mentalist with absorption and mind control "hurt me". Static Fling, the electrical demibrick with double knockback damage shield. Tae Kwon Doe, animal martial artist stolen from the DC Animated pictures thread. Tankerbell, the ballerina brick with a cybernetic arm, stolen from Ctrl+Alt+Del. War Glock, the magical gun blaster. And several dozen other whose names are apt descriptions of their powers/sfx/tactics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Steve Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) Kid Target - Invulnerable Teen Lucky - Worst Dice Roller Ever Nemesis6 - Brick Duplicator Cheers QM That was not my fault. My dice hate me. And the leaping off the building plan worked, didn't it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil Steve Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) I had a villain gadgeteer named Thingamabob. He was a dumpy, middle aged shmuck wearing overalls. The nametag on his chest read "Robert". But I can't forget the Spirit of '76. Of course he was referring to 1976. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cygnia Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) We don't know who the character was originally supposed to be, but the paint job on one of the GM's miniatures had us dubbing him "Lemon Poppyseed Man". Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
teh bunneh Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) I had a character named Target. His costume had a big red target in the middle of his chest. He was sorta like Marvel's Sebastian Shaw -- the more you hit him (or shot him), the stronger he got. So I wouldn't consider that a bad name. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Balabanto Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) Here are the worst hero names in my game. Most of these guys are second stringers or losers. But they TRY to get onto PC superteams. Laundromaxx: That's right, he has powered armor that looks like the torso of a washing machine. Foghead: Large clouds of obscuring smoke pour out of his ears. Exodus: Controls the powers of the 10 plagues of Egypt. Unfortunately, he's really religious and really enthusiastic. (Want to see what I can do? (Massive gestures and incantations! "RAAAINNNNNNNNNN OF FROGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGS!" in a deep booming voice) Captain Canard and the Deadly Duck: Captain Canard is a relatively mediocre martial artist, however, the duck (His follower) has a powerful sonic quack. Players have often asked if they could get the duck without Captain Canard. The Big Cheese: He turns into a large eight foot cube of Swiss Cheese. That's it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CrosshairCollie Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) Black Jack, the Batman-esque rabbit. Blowhard, the invulnerable, but not superstrong air sfx blaster. Cutting Edge with the high tech 4d6K AP axe. Gorilla Warfare, the ape with a grenade launcher. Plutonium Blonde, the radioactive brick. I kinda like these. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Certified Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) I had a villain gadgeteer named Thingamabob. He was a dumpy, middle aged shmuck wearing overalls. The nametag on his chest read "Robert". But I can't forget the Spirit of '76. Of course he was referring to 1976. Did he look like David Cassidy? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Escafarc Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) How did I miss seeing that? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SSgt Baloo Posted March 5, 2010 Report Share Posted March 5, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) Tae Kwon Doe' date=' animal martial artist stolen from the DC Animated pictures thread.[/quote'] That would be mine. Tae Kwon Doe Did he look like David Cassidy? Now I want to know where I can get that on DVD? It can't have done well at the box office (so it should be cheap) but it looks like a hoot! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dmjalund Posted March 6, 2010 Report Share Posted March 6, 2010 Re: Worst Hero Names (of your campaigns) We had a super powers policeman called Poltron Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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