Rebar Posted May 6, 2014 Report Share Posted May 6, 2014 Alternately - a flying burst of light? How about Comet? Or meteor? Or StarHammer? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Conjureman Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 My name-developing strategy (developed due to my umpteen thousand alts on City of Heroes) is basically to do Google searches on topics related to the character's powers and see if I can use, modify, or combine them to make a name. For a character with solar powers, I would search physics terms, astronomy terms, astrophysics terms, and sun gods/solar mythology. Also, don't forget prefixes like Captain, Mister, Ms., Miss, Commander, etc. and suffixes like Man, Woman, Boy, Girl (or, if you read Legion of Superheroes, Lad and Lass). A few terms that come up in the searches include Apogee, Surge, Sunburst, Starshine (a name I use for a light-based hero of my own), Celestial, Continuum, Corona, Eclipse, Flux, Equinox, Flare, Halo, Spectrum, Solar, Sunrise, Sunburst, Pulsar. I like alliteration for combination names, so Captain Continuum, Celestial Commander, etc. work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Alternately - a flying burst of light? How about Comet? Or meteor? Or StarHammer? Bolide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Enforcer84 Posted May 15, 2014 Author Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 I think the papers would call him Guardian Angel but he'd drop the Angel part out of modesty. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cancer Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Chicxulub. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Old Man Posted May 15, 2014 Report Share Posted May 15, 2014 Permian? Cretaceous Tertiary? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Christopher Posted July 28, 2014 Report Share Posted July 28, 2014 Just stumbeled over this one: "4 Bizzare Rules for naming Fictional Characters". 1. Name them after Jesus. Either a varaint of "shepherd" Or something with the initials J.C. Also works for villaisn wich become a "Anti Jesus". 2. Name after a weapon. Swords are noble and heroic "Hammers" are villanious dickheads. Also includes the name "Dick" "Blades" are either pure evil or anti-heroic 3. Titels reveal good or bad. Doctors are either bad or never mention thier Title. Captains are usually good. 4. Evil characters are named straight up "Evil". Specifically a wordplay on Mal, from latin "malice" (bad/evil). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drunkonduty Posted July 29, 2014 Report Share Posted July 29, 2014 I'm slightly disappointed that "Baron" didn't get a mention in that video. But good fun. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Basic204 Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 Sunspot Solar Storm Zonje SolarBurn Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GhostDancer Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 Also see Belenosalias Beli MawrCeltic God of the Sun Belenos, later known as Beli Mawr (the Great), was the Celtic God of the Sun, representing the curative powers of the Sun’s heat. His festival of Beltane, when bonfires were lit to welcome in the Summer and encourage the Sun’s warmth, was held on May 1st, and is remembered in today's May Day festivities. His symbols were the horse (as shown, for example, by the clay horse figurine offerings at Belenos’ Sainte-Sabine shrine in Burgundy), and also the Wheel (as illustrated on the famous Gundestrup Cauldron). Perhaps, like Apollo, whom he became identified with, Belenos was thought to ride the Sun across the sky in a horse-drawn chariot. Indeed, a Celtic model horse and wagon, carrying a gilded sun-disc, has been found at Trundholm in Denmark. Sometimes he is illustrated riding a single horse, throwing thunder-bolts (hence an occasional identification with Jupiter) and using his symbolic radiating wheel as a shield, as he tramples the chthonic forces of a snake-limbed giant. This personification is similar to the classic depiction of the Archangel St. Michael defeating the Devil. Sacred pagan hills associated with Belenos, are thought to have had their dedications transferred to this saint (or sometimes St. George) by the early Christians. Well known examples include St. Michael’s Mount (Cornwall) and the churches of St. Michael on Brent Tor (Devon), and Burrow Mump andGlastonbury Tor (Somerset): All on a supposed ley line that faces the Rising Sun at Beltane. He may also have been worshipped on Dragon Hillbelow the great Uffington White Horse in Berkshire. It has been suggested the Welsh form of his name, Beli Mawr, lived on into Arthurian romance as King Pellinore of Listinoire. - http://www.britannia.com/celtic/gods/beli.html and ARD GREIMME (Irish, Scottish) His name means "high power" or "High sun". He is the father of the famed warrioress sisters Aife and Scathach, and probably once a sun God in his own right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted July 30, 2014 Report Share Posted July 30, 2014 It mostly involves the sharing of private photos. He knows why! Watchout for the Slivers/Splinter Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DJWebb2 Posted August 4, 2014 Report Share Posted August 4, 2014 How's... Nimbus? nim·bus ˈnimbəs/ noun 1. a luminous cloud or a halo surrounding a supernatural being or a saint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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