->'''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?\\
'''Hawksmoor''': You mean like ''Doctor?''\\
'''''[[IronicEchoCut Elsewhere!]]'''''\\
'''Captain Atom''': This one's called "Voodoo". All these blunt, one-word names. I don't ''get'' it. No [[TotallyRadical pizzazz]]. No ''style''.
-->-- ''ComicBook/CaptainAtomArmageddon #4''

->''"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.''
-->-- '''Twig''', ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles''

->''"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?"''
-->-- '''[[ComicBook/TheAuthority Midnighter]]''', [[HypocriticalHumor blind to his own flaws]], in ''ComicBook/CaptainAtomArmageddon'' #8

->'''Superman''': Grifter, take your friend hiding there in the rafters--\\
'''Deathblow''': '''''Deathblow.'''''\\
'''Superman''': Seriously?
-->-- ''Franchise/{{Superman}}'' Annual #1 (2012)

->'''Ladytron''': ''"Deathblow"''. Jeez... What is it with you guys and all this '''Death-Hell-Kill-Blood''' stuff?\\
'''Deathblow''': Oh, like '''Ladytron''' is any better? Sounds like a brand of ''vibrator''.
-->-- ''ComicBook/WildCATsWildStorm'' #28

->''"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!"''
-->-- '''90's Kid''', ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall'' review of ''Comicbook/{{Cable}} #1''

->''"Superman was never hardcore, he'll never last like characters like Bloodsport and Bloodaxe, and other characters with "Blood" in their name."''
-->-- '''90's Kid''', ''WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall''

->"''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]''''
-->--''WebVideo/MattMcMuscles'''s review of video game ''Girl Fight'' (a 2013 release)