>The character's real name is cooler than their codename.
All these Jessica Jones threads got me to thinking about it.
Who else falls in this category?
Did anyone ever think Deathstroke was a cool name? Especially with that title of "the Terminator"?
Invisible Woman and The Human Torch
>>77627588
I'll give you the first one, but I kinda like The Human Torch as a name
>>77627546
Carl "Crusher" Creel. More harass than Absorbing Man.
Sounds like a fucking tampon.
>>77627630
>>77627588
How often are they even referred to by those names? I feel like whenever I read FF it's always Reed, Susan and Johnny.
Blackgar Boltagon
probably a lot of Kirby creations desu
Johnny Alpha > Johnny Kreelman >>>>> Strontium Dog
>>77627683
>Called Black Bolt
>Is white
>His power is killer talking
Why is this allowed?
>>77627656
>Reed
Man, with him, I even forget that he has a code name at all.
Cletus Kasady
Piotr and Illyana Rasputin
Damian Wayne
Norman Osborn
>Klyntar
>>77627586
I think Slade is cooler, but Deathstroke is a good name by itself too.
>>77627866
Eh, I dunno which way to swing for this one.
I mean, yeah Cyborg Superman has that bad 90's type of weird, but Hank Henshaw doesn't sound that threatening either...
>>77627886
Deathstroke sounds like it's trying too hard to sound cool, like the Saints Row villain Killbane.
>>77627586
yeah each part of the name is good but together it's awful
i'd have called him deathinator the termstroke
>>77627630
the weird part is the original human torch wasn't human
they should just call him the torch
but considering the other names were 'the thing' and 'mr fantastic' their names were obviously shite. and in the first place they didnt NEED codenames since they never had secret identities.. i bet lee and kirby didn't want them to, just like they didnt want them to have costumes
Kal-El is pretty cool.
>>77627705
hey powerman is a pretty cool name.. but not as cool as luke cage, yeah. sounds like liu kang and johnny cage did fusion dance
>>77627787
you think piotr rasputin is a cooler name than colossus? you could actually take someone seriously if their name was DAMIAN let alone with wayne at the end? for that matter cletus?
>>77627866
he was always 'the cyborg' to me
>>77628037
>Cletus
>Not the quintessential batshit crazy redneck name
>>77627993
it really is. i like how superman doesn't just have the one other identity, he has like four in total. the guy he is by birth, the guy he is by upbringing, the guy he pretends to be at work, and the superhero.
Waylon Jones>Killer Croc
>>77628072
yeah but it's not really a COOL name. it's appropriate for him i guess, but it hardly stands up to CARNAGE
>>77627951
It's a classic name though. Which means I still like it.
But I don't like that it's on Slade Wilson 'cause Slade is already a cool name.
>>77627705
Carl Lucas is not a cool name
>>77627738
He's a honorary black man.
>>77627769
>Man, with him, I even forget that he has a code name at all.
Probably a bit embarrassed by the code name but to embarrassed to change it as well.
>>77627951
Bane?
>>77627546
In the Jessica Jones show,Kilgrave is the code name/alias.
>>77628201
Well, that's what I'm saying. Killbane is basically a parody of Bane, with an edgier name.
>>77628201
>>77628152
haha yeah he was just feeling left out
you know it strangely reminds me of the original TMNT cartoon which, despite being very silly, is the only version that consistently uses their full names instead of shortened nicknames. but in most versions, splinter at least will call them by the full names.
>Was going to say Flint Marko
>Look it up to make sure I'm remembering it right
>Turns out it's a pseudonym
Well, that's disappointing
Kamala Khan desu
>>77627683
Kirby didn't come up with his real name.
>>77628563
speaking of:
Cain Marko. Juggernaut is a really cool name, until he's fighting Spiderman or someone like that who calls him "Juggs" and then he just seems like a dork with bitchtits.
I like Doreen Green better than Squirrel Girl. It rhymes and rolls off the tongue better.
>>77627546
Slade Wilson
>>77632265
teen titans already did this.
Death's Head, who is actually called Death'Head, yes?
Katherine Kane had a nicer ring to it than Batwoman
>>77627546
The Purple Man actually sounds scarier to me. On its own the name doesn't carry much weight, until Kilgrave tells you to kill your family and eat them for the rest of the week.
>>77633982
I kinda agree.
The Purple Man sounds like a monster from a creepy urban legend whereas Zebediah Killgrave is something a teenager would think sounds cool.
>>77628152
Ben Grimm is so much better than the Thing.
>>77633982
I love names like The Purple Man and Reverse Flash and people think I'm crazy for it.
>>77628037
Funny thing about that, Johnny Cage they named because they wanted him to have a Hollywood sounding name, so they named him after Nicolas Cage, who changed his name from Coppola to avoid being associated with his uncle and chose the name Cage from... Powerman!
>>77634579
Well, Eobard Thawne is a strange and unwieldy name. Just call the guy Zoom/Reverse Flash and be done with it, you know?
>>77634735
wow really?
i never knew that Nicky Cage was with that family
>>77627546
The Netflix show made his real name into Kevin Thompson or some bs, then all the characters laughed at the Kilgrave name "Lol What murdercorpse was taken?"
Nova - Dick Rider
>>77627630
>The Human Torch
Jim Hammond is indeed cooler than "The Human Torch"
Like every X-man. After a thousand plus issues I even get annoyed whenever they start randomly using code names again.
>>77628149
It's alright.
>>77634294
More humanizing , too.
Victor Creed
>>77627546
Reed Richards
Arthur Curry
Jessica Jones
any of the Foolkillers
>>77628037
The fuck is wrong with Damian? It's just another name.
Blackagar Boltagon is the best name in comic books period
>>77627769
Black Bolt is the blackest man in the universe. Black Bolt has so much soul, it drips through his pores like Michael Jackson until he appears white before your very eyes.
>>77627630
You're right Jim Hammond is a better name.
