Guardians have plenty of different names for everything in this game.
Characters
- "Gary" for Dominus Ghaul, after Cayde-6 named him such in the "Rally the Troops" trailer.
- When finally meeting Emperor Calus aboard the Leviathan, players find themselves calling him Jabba the Hutt, especially with his relaxed pose during the encounter's cutscene.
- Xol is sometimes referred to as the Alaskan Bull Worm given he's a literal giant worm and the setting for Warmind is on Mars's frozen landscape.
- Due to his annoying tendency to fire rockets in all directions during a section of his boss fight, Val Ca'uor has been christened by fans as Rockets McDickface II; a nod to the previous holder of the nickname, Valus Ta'aurc. Similarly, him slightly bending over and getting engulfed in corruption early in the boss fight is often referred to as taking a dump.
- Morgeth, the Spirekeeper is sometimes referred to as "Swolgoroth" (in reference to Golgoroth from King's Fall), due to the pustules all over his body making him look incredibly muscular compared to regular Ogres.
- Golmuut, the Ogre that serves as the boss of the Cargo Bay 3 Lost Sector on Titan, is usually referred to as the overly mundane name "Greg" by players who are constantly farming Lost Sector clears.
- In a similar vein, the Shayotet Partisan that serves as the boss of the Conflux Lost Sector on Nessus is normally referred to as "Carl" by people who do damage tests on him.
- Rather than go through the mumbo jumbo of a name that is Hashladûn, fans have shortened her to simply "Hashbrown".
- In spite of his popularity, the Neomuna Civil News reporter Jisu Calerado tends to have his name intentionally butchered by fans into similar-sounding names like "Jesus Colorado" as an Insult of Endearment.
- The Final Boss of the Deep Stone Crypt raid, a resurrected Taniks grafts its body to a giant Fallen Heavy Shank, leading to the nickname Shaniks, a nickname which even Bungie has referenced in their DSC Deep Dive.
Enemies
- "Vex Milk" when referring to the white liquid powering the Vex, officially known in-game as Radiolaria
- "Dogs" for Cabal War Beasts, due to their dog-like traits.
- "Slowva Bomb" for the Voidwalker subclass super with Attunement of Chaos equipped, due to how slowly it moves.
- Chimeras, especially the Ascendant Prime Servitor required to start the Malfeasance quest, are often referred to as "meatballs" for their visceral appearance resembling a Servitor stuffed with perfectly round flesh.
- TR3-VR, the sweeper automaton that patrols the maze and rushes towards you with a grinder in "Zero Hour", has been christened as "Trevor".
- When Eliksni hatchlings were first seen in the trailer for Season of the Splicer, they were almost immediately labeled as "Smallen."
- For Spanish speakers there's also "Eliksniños."
Guardian Classes
- The Arcstrider Subclass for Hunters has quickly been nicknamed "Pole Dancer", due to having a lot of similarities with the "Bladedancer" Subclass that it replaces, with the most noticeable difference being the use of a staff instead of the knife.
- The Sentinel Subclass has been nicknamed Captain America due to the fact its main source of combat is throwing a shield that rebounds and comes back to you no matter what.
- Titans in general are called "Crayon Eaters" because at base their three supers were all crowd control roaming attacks, the only real difference being the color of their light powers.
Weapons
- Due to the prevalence of the MIDA Multi-Tool in the Trials of the Nine, many have started referring to it as the "Trials of the MIDA".
- The Mykel's Reverence sidearm is frequently referred to as some variant of "Glock & Balls" due to the gun sporting a counterweight that vaguely resembles exactly what the name implies.
Locations
- When first discovered thanks to what was revealed to be a hacker noclipping around the High Coven's in-game environment, the room aboard the Io Pyramid with effigies of every major race plus the Guardians and barring the Vex staring at a Pyramid bust was referred to as the "Stone Crypt," not to be confused with the Deep Stone Crypt deep within Europa.
- Mounting frustration with the difficulty of "The Glassway" strike in its Nightfall iteration led to fans labelling it as the "Assway".
- Due to the overabundant flora in the "Garden of Salvation" raid, as well as fighting Vex that are covered in leaves, players have taken a liking to naming it "Vault of Grass" as a nod to Destiny's very first raid.
General
- "Teamshotting" is a term used for one of the most common strategies used in the Crucible in its 4v4 format, where most (if not all) of the fireteam simply picks on one opponent at a time.
- Discussing the various seasons tends to involve fans just shortening it to the specific keyword to denote the particular season for shorthand. Examples include Season of the Undying being just Undying, Season of Plunder becoming just Plunder, and more.
- Complaints about Bungie in general tends to have people addressing them with the Insult of Endearment "Bungo".
- After Curse of Osiris debuted the Prometheus Lens, which thanks to a bug was completely broken in PvP, and Xur ended up selling the exotic in the same weekend, the names "The Trials of Prometheus" and "Laser Tag" saw some use.
- A glitch at the Enclave and weapon crafting caused mixing weapon archetypes that were never supposed to be together, creating such mixtures as grenade launchers firing 12 grenades per shot. It took Bungie some time to roll out a fix, and during this time it was called "The Craftening" or, alternatively, "Laser Tag 2.0."
