1 | ->'''Doctor''': "Captain Atom?" What kind of name is '''that?''' What's wrong with a snappy ''one word name?'' The only way he can feel important is to use a title?\ |
2 | '''Hawksmoor''': You mean like ''Doctor?''\ |
3 | '''''[[IronicEchoCut Elsewhere!]]'''''\ |
4 | '''Captain Atom''': This one's called "Voodoo". All these blunt, one-word names. I don't ''get'' it. No [[TotallyRadical pizzazz]]. No ''style''. |
5 | -->-- ''ComicBook/CaptainAtomArmageddon #4'' |
6 | |
7 | ->''"Name wild, Captain mild," as my father used to say. Those who select the most ferocious of names are without exception the ones least worthy of them.'' |
8 | -->-- '''Twig''', ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'' |
9 | |
10 | ->''"Are you new to this line of work? Do you have a clever name like "Grifter"? One that sounds [[TotallyRadical hip]] at first until you realize it's trying too hard?"'' |
11 | -->-- '''[[ComicBook/TheAuthority Midnighter]]''', [[HypocriticalHumor blind to his own flaws]], in ''ComicBook/CaptainAtomArmageddon'' #8 |
12 | |
13 | ->'''Superman''': Grifter, take your friend hiding there in the rafters--\ |
14 | '''Deathblow''': '''''Deathblow.'''''\ |
15 | '''Superman''': Seriously? |
16 | -->-- ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Annual #1 (2012) |
17 | |
18 | ->'''Ladytron''': ''"Deathblow"''. Jeez... What is it with you guys and all this '''Death-Hell-Kill-Blood''' stuff?\ |
19 | '''Deathblow''': Oh, like '''Ladytron''' is any better? Sounds like a brand of ''vibrator''. |
20 | -->-- ''ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm'' #28 |
21 | |
22 | ->''"DUUUUUUUUUUDE you know what would be totally hardcore? If there was a comic that didn't feature any of those stupid 'dialog balloons' or 'plot points.' It just had a guy SHOOTIN' STUUUUUUUFF! We could call it BLOODGUN! YEAH!"'' |
23 | -->-- '''90's Kid''', ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' review of ''Comicbook/{{Cable}} #1'' |
24 | |
25 | ->''"Superman was never hardcore, he'll never last like characters like Bloodsport and Bloodaxe, and other characters with "Blood" in their name."'' |
26 | -->-- '''90's Kid''', ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' |
27 | |
28 | ->"''They [the female characters] don't even have real names, they're all like '''WARCHILD''', '''VIPER''', and '''CHROME''', just straight out of the big book of 90s era [[Creator/{{ImageComics}} Image]] comic books. [a montage of Creator/RobLiefeld's comic covers appears on the screen]'''' |
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