Fan Nickname / Video Games: A to F

• Ace Online
  • rapecannon: A Gears, for their fast-killing hails of gunfire.
    • Rape Carpet: whole formations of A-Gears lined up to gun down anything that tries to fly past.
    • Ping-Pong Ball of Doom: the A-Gear's Beehive Barrier.
  • Stealth Bombers: B Gears that abuse the Camouflage skill.
  • Paper planes: I Gears, for their non-existent defenses.
  • Summoners: M-Gears rigged to make use of their "Call of Hero" skill to rapidly mobilize brigades and formations deep inside enemy territory.
    • Kill of Hero: abusing the Call of Hero alongside the B Gear's Big Bang skill to break enemy camps.
  • Diaper - What players call the 10,000hp Shield Adhesive given to Nation leaders.
• Adventure Island
  • Mexican players nicknamed the titular character Master Higgins/Takahashi Capulina, since his in-game sprite in the first game looks a lot like a famous Mexican comedian of the same name. It does help the series was very popular in Mexico in the 80s and 90s.
• Possibly due to its WWII-esque setting, the fighting game Akatsuki Blitzkampf may be as well as be alternatively called JewPuncher. This has become a Discredited Meme in later years.
• Alan Wake II: Known as Alan Woke by people unhappy about Saga Noren's white-to-black Race Lift.
• Alone in the Dark (2008): Alone in the Park.
• Amnesia: The Dark Descent
  • The Grunt is called "Mooseman" by Markiplier.
  • The Finnish fandom almost exclusively calls the Grunt a "Morso". The name comes from a mouse in a Finnish kid's series◊ that looks a bit creepier than intended by the creators.
• Ancient Domains of Mystery
  • Kenny - The Cute Puppy, which is the target of a difficult early-game Escort Mission and dies automatically after the fourth day of game-time, and hence almost never survives.
  • Barney - Srraxxarrakex, the Ancient Blue Wyrm. So named because its sprite is a purple W.
• Animal Crossing
  • The Forbidden Five: Mario Bros.., Ice Climber, Punch-Out!!, Super Mario Bros. and The Legend of Zelda: the five NES games in the Nintendo GameCube version that were not available by regular in-game means or by giveaways on the official Animal Crossing Web site. Mario Bros. and Ice Climber were eventually given out by e-Reader cards, and code generators were used to obtain Punch-Out, but the two other games remain available only through cheat devices. (Some use the variation of "Forbidden Four" and exclude Punch-Out from the list due to it being obtainable freely in the game without any extra purchases, even though it wasn't given out officially.)
  • Population Growing: The international Gamecube one is called this in order to contrast it with "Wild World". "City Folk" (Let's Go to the City), "New Leaf" and "New Horizons". The name comes from the tag line.
  • Some have started calling Celeste “space chicken” because she comes around during meteor showers in "New Horizons".
• Another World has an alien companion that is never named (thanks to Aliens Speaking English being averted), so most fans ended up calling him "Buddy."
  • The Game Grumps playthrough took his sole spoken line (roughly "mycaruba") and anglicized it to "Mike Aruba."
• Antichamber: The yellow gun is called "The Butter Gun" by some as dragged lines of yellow blocks look like sticks of butter.
• Assassin's Creed
  • Faffing About Creed: After Yahtzee's Zero Punctuation review of the first game wherein he points out the comparative lack of assassinating compared to the running about gathering flags and rescuing oppressed citizens. As each subsequent game has added more and more stuff to do outside the main story quest, this nickname is more and more applicable.
• Baldur's Gate
  • Charname, CHARNAME - The Featureless Protagonist. Technically not a 'fan' nickname, as internal scripting uses 'CHARNAME' as a token to display the player's chosen name.
  • Corgi - Korgan Bloodaxe
  • Immy - Imoen
  • Hairy D - Haer'Dalis
  • Vicky - Viconia
  • Jonboy - Jon Irenicus
    • The Russian fandom refers to Irenicus as "Varennik"
  • Chateau/Château Irenicus - Irenicus' labratory-lair the game starts in. Every. Single. Time.
• Baldur's Gate III
  • Fans of Astarion have taken to shortening his name to "Star" or "Starry".
  • Shadowheart is sometimes comedically shortened to "Shart".
  • The Dark Urge is often shortened to "Durge".
• Battlefield 3
  • Players often refer to the tactical flashlight as the "Nuclear Powered Flashlight" because of it's ability to blind other players even in daylight
    • Also referred to occasionally as the "Solar Flare Flashlight" because the blinding effect has been compared to the intensity of the Sun.
    • Sometimes known as "The Stick of a Thousand Suns"
  • The Doctor Doom Tank for the Tunguska, because it possesses Hidden Missiles.
  • The Wesker Helicopter for the Viper, because of how nigh-unstoppable it is with the right attachments.
  • Guns that shoot with little or no recoil are commonly referred to as lasers.
  • PTFO and PTFO'ing: This means "Playing The Fucking Objective", used to describe playing with teamwork, squad tactics and actually trying to win the game and not just about your KDR.
  • The term "Try Harder" crossed over from the Call of Duty fandom into the Battlefield community via youtube commentators who are involved with both games.
    • In Battlefield it means someone playing overly serious and not PTFO'ing because they are trying to get a leet KDR. It's generally an insult, especially when the person doing it actually sucks even when try harding.
    • "Putting on your try hard pants" means switching from 'for fun' weapons and playing outside your best roles, to using your best weapons and roles, playing as seriously as you can can to win the match. When groups of high quality players end up in a single public server, it can lead to the entire server putting on their try hard pants. In Clan matches it's already assumed everyone has their try hard pants on already and thus the term is only meant in the context of pub servers.
• Combat Amphibians, Fight Frogs, or any synonym for "battle" and "toads" stuck together - Battletoads.
  • Rubber Duckie — Steel-Beak, an enemy which is surprisingly dangerous despite looking like a rubber duck.
• Bayonetta
  • Diva May Cry - Due to the title character being a Distaff Counterpart to Dante from Devil May Cry. Also, she hunts angels instead of demons. ^note Until Bayonetta 2.
  • Devil Trigger for Bayonetta's Umbran Climax in the sequel, also as a reference to Devil May Cry.
  • Nintendo's Witch due to Nintendo funding every game from the second one onward.
• Bethesda, after the infamously botched launch of Fallout 76, was called names alluding to complete lack of software quality control like "Bugthesda" or "Pajeethesda"
• BlazBlue:
  • The T.O.P. Hat — Carl Clover's tall top hat, coined from one of Garou: Mark of the Wolves' system mechanics.
  • Evil Simon: Jin Kisaragi, named for the titular role of his voice actor Tetsuya Kakihara.
    • The Ice Car: Jin's QCB+ C attack.
  • Robo-Dizzy: Nu -13-.
  • Future-Jin: Hakumen.
  • Boobie Lady: Resident Anime Chinese Girl Litchi Faye Ling. Due to her Stripperiffic clothes that reveal a good portion of her big boobs, combined with what Taokaka, the resident ditz, calls her.
    • Also "Rawrgna" or "Ragnya" for Ragna, another Taokaka creation.
    • Another good one is "No-Titty Lady" for Noel.
    • In the English version, Taokaka calls Noel "Lacking Lady".
  • Shitty Kitty: Taokaka.
  • C-Men: Hakumen.
  • Nu-Gundam: v -13-'s 4th color in her DLC pack is a Gundam.
  • Gay Man: Bang wearing his pink costume. His butt whistles when he flies!
  • Clap Loop / The Clapper: Again, Carl. This involves positioning Nirvana right behind the opponent and repeatedly keeping the opponent juggled in the air while throwing them. Only certain characters can escape this loop, and only under certain circumstances.
  • Smooth Criminal: Hazama
    • Also, Trollzama.
  • Moel: Noel Vermillion
  • NoBoobs, NoPersonality and Muel also for Noel.
  • Lamb-Chan: Lambda-11, Nu-13's much-nerfed replacement in Continuum Shift.
    • Lambchop over in America.
  • Hakumen vi Britannia, for his new voice clips in Continuum Shift which sound like Lelouch.
    • There's also Jin vi Kisaragi.
  • Hype Dog: The big fluffy dog that appears in one of the backgrounds in Continuum Shift. Shown here.
  • Asstral Finish: Mu's Continuum Shift Astral Heat, both for poor animation quality and gratuitous ass shot.
  • Assdrill Finish / Asstroll Finish: Relius' Astral Heat, where it's heavily implied he rapes the opponent. Since the first footage of it was done on Ragna, the first one seems to be the more popular. Tsubaki also has a "hard" time getting out of the light due to the way she is restrained in the Astral Heat.
    • Rapelius Clover for the same above.
    • Asstroll Finish also serves as another Fan Nickname of a Meta Game tendencies of trying to fish in an Astral Finish just to rub salt to the wounds of the would-be defeated player, like delaying your fight by not using Barrier Burst, filling your meter up to 100 and sparing the enemy to ensure the Astral setup doesn't accidentally kill the opponent. Of course, done unskillfully, then it would backfire and could cost you the round or even the whole match.
  • Babality/Sethan: Amane's Astral, where he turns everyone into younger versions of themselves.
  • Team Douchebag: The duo of Terumi Yuuki and Relius Clover, for their over the top Complete Monster tendencies.
• Bloodborne:
  • The Good Hunter- the protagonist, since the doll always prefaces your title of 'Hunter' with 'good' (much like saying 'good sir', but it gives something to distinguish the protagonist from all the other hunters).
  • Father Gassy Coin, Father Gasolyne, Papa G - Father Gascoigne, the Wake-Up Call Boss of the game.
  • Hotdog - Watchdog of the Old Lords, named this for the obvious reason of being on fire.
  • Loran Camerabeast - Loran Darkbeast, infamous for, you guess it, camera problems during the fight.
  • Memelash - Micolash, Host of the Nightmare, for spawning numerous joke images and other memes.
  • Ringwraiths - The Shadows of Yharnam who look as if they buy they clothes from the same supplier as Nazgul from the Lord of the Rings movies.
    • Gank Squad 2.0: Another nickname garnered by most players regarding the aformentioned boss.
  • Pizza Cutter - Whirligig Saw, with its circular rotating blade.
  • Ludwig's Memeblade, Ludwig's Shitterblade - Ludwig's Holy Blade, extremely popular among players seeking easy ways to win, due to being both one of the simplest to use, and of one of, if not THE most damaging weapon in the game.
  • The Original Paleblood Waifu: Lady Maria, due to the fact that she looks like the Plain Doll, though this is because the Doll was made to look like Maria herself.
  • Fauxsefka, for the woman who takes over Iosefka's Clinic after the player reaches Oedon Chapel.
• Bubble Bobble
  • Pab and Peb named in an IGN review for P3 and P4 in Bubble Bobble Plus/Neo, who are yellow and magenta female characters, respectively. They are unfortunately not Coro and Kulu from Bubble Symphony.
• Cadillacs and Dinosaurs : The game is better known as "the Mustafa game" or simply "Mustafa" in many countries of Europe, Northern Africa, the Indian subcontinent, Southeast Asia, or in South Africa, presumably thanks to the Breakout Character Mustapha Cairo's Lightning Bruiser status, and the fact that he might be one of the very few video game main characters with a possible Arabic background.
• Call of Duty
  • Uncle Pringles - The nickname Chinese fans give to Captain Price. Apparently for his distinctive handlebar mustache.
  • Noob Tube - the underslung grenade launcher you can apply to most assault rifles. When killed with it, the correct response is "Fuckin' Noob Tube!" (c.f. Metroid)
    • The term is far older than Call of Duty; it's as old as the M203's appearance in videogames, and older noob tubes used to be far worse, with huge splash damage that would sometimes even ignore walls. Imagine the Javelin glitch, only it's a ranged attack, doesn't kill the player who uses it, and is the game functioning exactly as it's supposed to. Before that, your noob tube was typically your rocket launcher.
    • Pro Pipe - Coined by the people who defend the Noob Tube and say that it's NOT a noob weapon.
    • Which of course leads to "Grenade of Grenades: Modern Grenades"
  • The Deer Hunter - The M40 Sniper Rifle in Modern Warfare, which looks like something you'd see when hunting.
    • The M40 is based off the Remington 700 series of rifles, a popular hunting rifle which is also featured in the game.
  • Cpt./Sgt. Jack Bauer - Nickname given to one of your Marine squad mates in World at War, Sgt. Roebuck, as he is voiced by Kiefer Sutherland.
  • "Call of Grenade: Munitions Factory at War" is not the best WW2 game of the series, 2 or 1 is.
  • "Cock of Doody 4: Modern Gayfuckstupid" - Derogatory name for Call of Duty 4 said by the Master Chief in Arby 'n' the Chief, who is a parody of your typical Halo fanboy. Naturally, it spread to the Internet.
  • Easy Mode Gun- The P90 SMG in Modern Warfare which has the second-or-third highest rate-of-fire in the game with the largest magazine of any non-machine gun weapon in the game and still does average damage.
  • Stay Frosty: OSCAR MIKE (Ramirez do everything) for Modern Warfare 2's... liberal use of Military jargon.
  • COD-Mod. For the Modern Warfare subseries.
  • The original Call of Duty is confusing as the entire series is 'Call of Duty' which led to the use of 'vCOD' or Vanilla Call of Duty when referring to the first game.
  • Left-Leaning/LL'ing - Refers to rapidly tapping the lean key around a corner without being able to be shot. Naturally, only is used in Call of Duty games that have the leaning feature.
  • Killbomb - Used when referring to the level of kills one has achieved when playing the game. For example, someone may say they dropped a 40-bomb on one game, where others say they dropped a 60-bomb. Like all stats, there's no way to prove it unless you're actually in the game where you get that many kills. Saying it then is subject to people seeing you as taking the game way too seriously. Which takes us to...
  • Tryharder - Used when referring to someone that's taking a casual game like they're playing in a gaming tournament. Parody of the people in question's overuse of the term 'Cry harder'. May or may not overlap with "Stop Having Fun" Guys.
    • This has crossed over into the Battlefield community via a number of Youtube commentators who play both series.
  • Many people refer to Black Ops as Cod Blops, likely because BO for it is a rather unfortunate and misleading abbreviation.
    • Black Cops, an obvious racism joke, but surprisingly used out of praise. Black Cocks when it isn't.
  • Super Soaker - the PP90M1 in MW3, a game breaking SMG with a ludicrously fast rate of fire and a large magazine.
    • Double FAGS - FMG9's wielded akimbo, hated for the same reasons as the PP90M1.
• Capcom vs.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom 2
    • Capcom - Captain Commando. Where Captain Commando's name came from in the first place, as it turns out, since he was the company's original mascot.
    • Finger laser or butter beam - Doctor Doom's jumping fierce which creates a horizontal beam
    • Frying pan - Sentinel's jumping fierce
    • Ghostbusters beam - Cable's air Hyper Viper Beam
    • MSP - Magneto/Storm/Psylocke. A common configuration for aggressive players because Magneto and Storm's high-low games, in combination with Psylocke's assist, can make blocking pretty much useless.
    • Pink licorice - Dr. Doom's Photon Shot, particularly when done in midair
    • Doom Rocks - Dr. Doom's Molecular Shield when used as an anti-aerial Assist.
    • Team Clockw0rk - Sentinel/Strider Hiryu/Dr. Doom, named for the tournament player who popularized it.
    • Team Matrix - Storm/Sentinel/Cyclops - Cyclops is Neo, Storm is Trinity, and the Matrix universe also has killer robots named Sentinels.
    • Team Santhrax - Storm/Sentinel/Commando, named for the tournament player who popularized it.
    • Team Scrub - Sentinel/Cable/Captain Commando, a team noted for its ease of use. Also Cable/Cyclops/Ryu, but then again ANY team with Cable in it qualifies.
    • MAHVEL (BAYBEE) - The game itself, thanks to this video.
    • "Mango Sentinel" (a custom colored Sentinel), "Pringles" (Magneto's infinite combo) and "Scoops" (killing an assist character while the point is off-screen) also came from this video.
    • OCV - One Character Victory, defeating your opponent with only your first character.
    • Happy Birthday - Killing two (or, in rarer cases, all three) characters in a combo, thanks to the opponent calling out an assist and catching both characters. The person who loses their teammates is "gifting" you extra characters to KO.
  • Marvel vs. Capcom 3
    • Maximum Wesker - Alternate name for Wesker's "Phantom Dance" Hyper Combo due to its similarity to Spider-Man's "Maximum Spider" Hyper Combo.
    • Maximum Vergil - Vergil's Dimensions Slash looks a lot like the above.
    • MAX-VAS - A combination of (first to last), Phantom Dance, Dimensions Slash, and Maximum Spider
    • Mel Gibson - Frank West, for his similar appearance to, well, Mel Gibson.
    • Hot Wheels - Ghost Rider's motorcycle super.
    • The Finger Lasers and The Human Blender - For Doctor Doom's Photon Array and Doom's Time respectively. You can thank Assist Me for these ones.
    • There are a couple of moves where characters will say something that isn't the actual name of the move, but fans call it that, anyway. Some examples include Wolverine's Berserker Rage ("Swiss cheese!") and Spencer's Bionic Lancer ("Bionic... ARRRRRRRM!!").
    • Denjin Mode - Ryu's Hadou Kakusei (his utility Hyper. It means "Surge Awakening"). It was likely given this nickname, because he glows in a similar way when he charged up the Denjin Hadouken in the Street Fighter III series, even though it has nothing to do with electricity ("Denjin" means "Lightning Blade" in Japanese).
    • Snitching - Landing the "Objection!" that triggers Phoenix Wright's Turnabout Mode.
  • Capcom vs. SNK 2
    • Sagat vs Blanka 2 - A very common matchup due to Sagat and Blanka dominating the tier list.
    • 1980 - A variant of the above OCV; defeating your opponent with your last character when they still have all three of their team members left.
  • Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
    • BBQ - Baroque
    • SPACE LANCE - Tekkaman's Tek Lancer special move.
    • SPACE LARIAT - Tekkaman's Tek Win special move.
    • Min-E-Honda - Omotchama (Yatterman-2's robot), which has some moves that resemble E. Honda's, as this video explains
• Castlevania
  • Metroidvania - For the post-Symphony of the Night installments in the series for their sprawling world map and wide open exploration. It has also become a nickname for an entire sub-genre of 2D action games offering similar mechanics (for better or worse)
  • Castlevania 64 - The first Nintendo 64 game, properly named Castlevania, starring Reinhardt and Carrie.
  • The Belmont Walk; the Pimp Walk - A peculiar stride that all of the members of the vampire hunter clan Belmont use. This most likely originated from the four frames of animation use for Simon's walk from the original game, but other 2D Belmonts used it too, leading to the nickname.
  • Wall Meat - the various roast chickens that can be found by destroying walls for whatever myserious reason.
  • Somacula - Soma Cruz, in any events of the bad endings of Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow and Castlevania: Dawn of Sorrow where he became the next incarnation of Dracula.
  • Simon Yagami - Simon Belmont in Castlevania: Judgment, for his striking resemblance to Death Note protagonist Light Yagami. See for yourself.
    • Castlevanians of Ottawa-region like to call it "CastlevaNote".
    • On that note, let's see which other characters we can rename: Near Lecarde, Soicula Yagami, Misa Renard, Caryomi Takada, Mello Danasty...
  • The Samuel L. Jackson Attack - Shanoa's Nitesco + Weapon Glyph union from Castlevania: Order of Ecclesia that resembles a giant purple lightsaber, just like Master Windu's weapon of choice in Star Wars.
  • Holy Snorkel - The Holy Symbol relic from Castlevania: Symphony of the Night, which allows Alucard to survive underwater and happens to resemble a gold snorkle.
  • Fleaman - Originally called Hunchbacks, people started calling them Fleamen because of their erratic jumping, and the name kinda stuck, to the point that it's the official name in-game for them.
  • IGAvanias - For all the Castlevania games produced by Koji Igarashi, almost all of which were "Metroivanias".
  • Classicvanias - For all the classic stage-based Castlevania games prior to Symphony of the Night.
  • 3Dvanias - For all the 3D-based games in the series.
  • The Cookie Monster - Dracula's One-Winged Angel transformation in the first game; mostly used by speedrunners.
  • Bonathan - Portmanteau of Bone + Castlevania: Circle of the Moon protagonist Nathan, named because until an even better glitch was discovered, the fastest way to beat the game was to use the Black Dog + Pluto to turn into a skeleton and hope for the rare-ish (but not impossibly rare) chance of throwing a Critical Hit big bone.
  • Demoman/Demomen - the protagonist(s) of any given Castlevania game, since in most games it ends with them watching as the castle crumbles in the distance.
• City of Heroes
  • Blueside, Redside: City of Heroes and City of Villains respectively, thanks to colour coding.
    • Praetoria is called either Goldside (for it's color scheme) or Greyside (for it's neutrality) Rogues and Vigilantes are also sometimes called Greyside or Purpleside.
  • CoX: Both games together. The alternate meaning of the term is often joked about.
  • The Dark Miasma debuffing pet is often known as "Fluffy". Considering he/she is a blob of pure darkness that sucks the soul out of any nearby enemies, it would also make it.... Fluffy the Terrible.
  • Extracted Essence (A Warshade Power) and Unbound Nictus are also referred to as Fluffy.
  • Frankengun: The Assault Rifle powerset. Functions as a shotgun, a machine gun, a grenade launcher, a flamethrower...
    • Also because the original gun that everyone had to use for four years really looked the part. It was also called "the Supersoaker".
  • A variety of portmanteau names for builds that may not strictly hew to archetype, such as Scranker (Scrapper and Tanker), Blapper (Blaster and Scrapper), and the somewhat forced Scraptroller or Contrapper (Scrapper and Controller).
    • The electric blast Blaster powerset is often referred to as a Blaptroller set (Blaster, Scrapper, Controller).
    • Or Blastroller for any Blaster with a lot of stun/hold/immobilize powers.
    • The odd one out is the name for a Defender who focuses on blasting, the much-less unwieldy Offender.
    • Likewise, the rare Scrapper who uses ranged attacks (only feasible at high levels) may be called a Ranger.
    • The extremely rare Mastermind who ignores their pets in favor of direct attacks is a Blastermind.
  • Skuls: The Skulls enemy group, due to a misspelling turned meme, which also resulted in the "Kill Skuls" badge.
  • 5th Council: The Council enemy group, being a replacement/reskin of the 5th Column enemy group.
    • Fish Farm: A particularly annoying room found on many 5th Column/Council maps, so called because of the numerous pools of water. Often called the Nazi Sauna.
    • Thesaurus Nazi: A non-significant Council Archon who, thanks to the name pool for random enemy bosses, was named Archon Roget.
    • Once The 5th Column returned and started battling the Council, the latter was referred to as "Diet Nazis".
  • Map of a Million Zillion Ninjas: Chimera's instanced mission, due to being populated by what seems like several hundred ninja. A reference to The Tick.
  • Jello: The Hamidon giant amoeba monster, due to looking like a gigantic upended bowl of green jello. The geographical depression in which it sits is also called the Jello Bowl.
  • The two Kheldian forms, one tentacley and one heavily armoured, have been nicknamed "Squid" and "Lobster" forms respectively. "Squid" is often used for Kheldians in general.
  • Clockroaches: The Clockwork enemy group, for being small, dark brown, generally annoying to kill, and the occasional ability to spawn more of themselves after defeat.
    • Also known as 'Clicky-Clacks', a nickname created by one of the players' 8 year old daughter.
  • Orange Bagel (or Orange Burger): Oranbega, the Elaborate Underground City of the Circle of Thorns. Also, "Rutabega".
  • The Bimbo, Bimbette, Hostage Lass: Fusionette, the hapless and apparently dippy NPC hero (based in the new Faultline) who is almost always found captured by villains she thought she could take on by herself, and in need of rescuing by the PC(s). (The only time she isn't in it up to her neck is when she is encountered as one of the guests at a formal reception.)
    • Part of the hate here stems from her introductory mission, where, like in many other parts of the game, you have to lead her as a hostage safely out of the mission. Unlike many other hostages, she aggros any mob she sees and has very few hit points or resistances. If she dies, it's mission failure, one of the few times in the entire game where it's a real possibility, especially if you're doing it for the first time and not aware of her suicidal tendencies.
    • At least she's a Glass Cannon and is actually useful in later missions (along with her boyfriend Faultine, or as we sometimes call him, Blockhead).
  • Layer Cake of Doom, Layer Cave of Doom: A terribly designed cave room that has five levels connected by ramps and holes in the floor.
  • Sexy Jay: Jay "JLove" Doherty, character artist and costume designer for the game. He insisted that if players wanted to suggest new costume options, they would first have to call him "sexy". Players complied en masse.
  • RikTF: The Lady Grey task force, which largely involves beating the snot out of a lot of Rikti.
  • Soon(TM): A long period of time, largely used to describe development cycles.
  • Poo: The Earth Control pet, after what it looks like and for exactly how useful it was.
  • Forum Cartel: A group whose membership comprises any long-standing poster on the official boards (more accurately anyone with over 10,000 posts), due to an odd instance of the Unpleasable Fanbase.
  • Freem Fifteen: The 15 devs left after the downsizing of Cryptic in 2005. Named after the most famous part of the "Visual Sounds" 2008 April Fool's joke.
  • Imperilous: Imperius, an NPC helper who doesn't really help much.
  • Scrapperlock: The tendency for Scrappers (or those who primarily play Scrappers) to leap into insurmountable odds and surmount them, to the exclusion of battle tactics or common sense. Usable both as an insult and a badge of pride.
  • SMASH: Brute equivalent of Scrapperlock.
  • Floor Inspectors Union — self-depriciating term for blasters, who are the game's ultimate Glass Cannon class.
  • AssBot: The Assault Bot from the Robotics Mastermind powerset.
  • Ass Impaler: The Assassin's Impaler power from the Spines Stalker powerset.
    • ... and several more in that vein.
  • Buzzsaw: A build type that emphasizes single-target DPS, putting out as much damage as quickly and consistently as possible.
    • More specifically, buzzsaw involves using quick-cycling attacks (that don't necessarily do much damage on their own) combined with lots of damage procs. Since these fast attacks gives a higher chance over time to trigger the procs you can get an impressive amount of damage out of a buzzsaw build.
  • Jedi Mind Trick: The Placate power, available to Stalkers and Night Widows. Exactly as described. Wave of hand included.
  • Debt Shroud, Orbiting Debt: The Death Shroud and Orbiting Death powers (the latter being an Expy of the former), being difficult to use early on without incurring the game's experience debt penalty for dying.
  • Treespec: The villainside Character Respecification Trial, compared to the heroside "respec". Involves a big tree.
    • Freakspec, Riktispec: The second and third hero respecs, respectively, named after the primary enemies (Freakshow and Rikti). Unfortunately, "Sky Raiders" doesn't lend itself to a portmanteau nickname.
    • Skyspec, Raiderspec
  • FCEN: Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative Energy. The "exotic" damage types (other than Psionic and Toxic), as opposed to the "common" ones of Smashing and Lethal. Used somewhat as an adjective: "I'm not fighting those critters, I don't have enough FCEN defense." "You really need more FCEN mitigation." "Aw, FCEN hell."
  • Deep Purple: Enemies which are a much higher level than the player, as the con colour system is purple for enemies four levels or higher than the player.
    • The con color system breaks down a bit at the highest levels. Purple is supposedly extremely difficult to insurmountable, but very powerful teams regularly spend their time slaughtering "light purple" monsters.
  • Positot, Statestot: The children of developers Matt "Positron" Miller and Jack "Statesman" Emmert respectively.
  • Poo(p) Pads: The Pain Pads costume option, after costume designer Jay mentioned that the inspiration for them occurred when staying at the office late "dropping the Browns off at the Super Bowl".
  • Defebcers: Condescending slang for poor Defender players, specifically those who haven't realised that healing is vastly inferior to buffing in this game, and consider doing nothing but having 'Healing Aura' on auto to be contributing to a team.
    • Similarly, a bad Mastermind player is a Disastermind.
  • Purple Triangles of Doom: The indicators for whether archvillains' resistance power is active. If it is, the Controller will have a hard time being useful.
  • Bobcat's new costume has prompted some people to add an extra "O" to her name.
    • Mother Mammaries...er, Mayhem got her own nickname after her "upgrade.
  • Maelstrom's mastery of Villain: Exit, Stage Left has caused many players on Virtue to start referring to him as "Smug Teleporting Bastard".
  • Flambimbeaux, Flambimbo for Flambeaux, an inept Attention Whore Superhero who eventually becomes a villain for attention, while coming up with silly plans to gain fame. Tends to say "I just wanted them to love me!" as she is defeated.
  • Nuke: the tier 9 blaster/corruptor/defender powers, which are designed to wipe an entire spawn but leave the user completely helpless after.
• Civilization
  • Goody huts - The nomadic settlements that can be found on the game map by exploring units. They will periodically give you extra gold, units, or cities, although sometimes you'll get a rampaging barbarian horde instead.
  • Infinite City Sprawl - The practice of building a gigantic number of tiny cities crammed as close to each other as possible. Useful because each city works the tile it's on for free, so you get more resources per population point.
  • Culture Bomb - In the fourth installation, great artists can create such a great work of art that instantly increases a city's culture value, often popping the city's radius of influence multiple times. Like a bomb. A culture bomb. The fifth installation dropped the pretense and has the same effect under the label Culture Bomb.
  • Blue jeans: Strong contendership for the Culture Victory. Originates in the fifth game, where if you're close to a Culture win other leaders may remark 'We're buying your blue jeans and listening to your pop music'. This quote was also referred to in the achievements for the sixth game. Eg. 'I stopped Sparta conquering my cities, but then it turned out I'd been buying their blue jeans the whole time.'
• Crash Bandicoot
  • Tawna Bandicoot - Crash's girlfriend from the first game is simply known as "Tawna" and has no official last name. "Tawna Bandicoot" is mainly used by fan-communities to make it clear that they're talking about the Crash Bandicoot character and not someone else.
• Command & Conquer
  • "Tiberian Dawn" - The first game in the series, given a subtitle referencing that of Command & Conquer: Tiberian Sun after it came out (there were references to "Tiberian Dawn" in documents on the original disc, which may be why the fandom gravitated so firmly on a single name). So widespread among the C&C fandom that, like some theories on the Red Alert and Tiberium timeline, they tend to forget that it isn't and has never been official.
• The Conduit
  • Abbreviated to TCon on GameFAQs.
  • Quarter Ring of Death: A glitch in the Multiplayer mode where the match starts with a black screen with a quarter of a white circle in the middle of the screen. You have to restart your Wii, or wait for the match to end to get out of it.
• Counter-Strike
  Notable in that there are no characters with names as part of the game. As such, only the guns and locations on the map (the "callouts") have nicknames. The callouts ended up getting canonized, as their names appear when you're talking via mic, thus displaying your location to friendly units.
  • Guns:
    • The AI Arctic Warfare Magnum rifle, due to a misnamed internal variable in Half-Life: Counter Strike, was known, is known and will always be known as "AWP" (which in real life is its sibling, the Arctic Warfare Police). Valve eventually acknowledged this cultural tidbit and called this rifle "AWP" in Global Offensive.
    • TEK-9 (called the Wreck-9, REKT-9, KEK-9, Shrek-9 and Columbine-9, among other things)
    • The SCAR-20 and the G3SG1 are collectively known as "Autosnipers/Autos." Auto-fags are another derogatory term known to be spoken out of the community.
    • The R8 Revolver is called "Pocket AWP" due to being just as powerful and accurate. If you can master the minigame of quickly aiming while the action is cocked, it becomes the best pistol round gun.
    • The Desert Eagle is called "Pocket AK" because its bullets are just as powerful, and its first shot is likewise always accurate.
    • The Steyr Scout is called "AWP Made in China" because it's everything bad about the AWP (lack of iron sights) with none of the good (a headshot is required to kill with one shot using the Scout).
  • Map locations/Callouts (Some of which are self-explanatory, others refer to shape or something at that particular location):
    • Standard callouts include CT and T (the spawn points), Long and Mid (the longest path to one point, as well as the middle path), A and B (the bomb sites), and Doors (whenever there's a large set of doors on the map)
    • de_dust2 has Suicide, X-Box, Tunnels, Cat, Double-Doors, and Palm, among others.
    • The tactic of rushing B in de_dust2 is often called "RASH B SUKA BLYAT"^note "suka blyat" is Russian for "fuck dammit" because Russians are portrayed as die-hard fans of this tactic.
    • de_mirage has Cat, Market/Kitchen, Palace, Alley, Apartments/Aps, Jungle, Underpass, and TETRIS, among others.
    • de_inferno has Boiler (which, for the longest time, didn't actually have a boiler), Apartments/Aps, Banana, Speedway, Pit, Graveyard, and Fountain, among others.
    • de_nuke has Marshmallow, Garage, Upper, Lower, Radio, Control, Heaven, and Semi/Truck.
    • The complete listing of these four maps, as well as others, can be found here.
• Crusader Kings
  • "Charity stacks" refers to event troops. The term is most often used in reference to the Karen event troops, but the term can be used to refer to any free units (it may or may not carry the implication that the fiefdom in question realistically shouldn't have them).
• Cuphead:
  • Some occasionally refer to Beppi the Clown as Bepis ^*A memetic name for Pepsi, due to both the similarity of names and because of his color scheme (red and blue, close to Pepsi's own).
  • Hispanics call the game as a whole "Mortgagehead", due to the creators having funded the last stretch of development with a mortgage on their own houses; a fair amount of memes have also been created involving Cuphead and said mortgage.
  • Japanese fans affectionately refer to the Devil as "Akuma-chan" ("Akuma" being the name assigned to Satan in Japanese Christianity).
  • Super Art III, the Giant Ghost, is often referred to as the "Stand" or "Stand Power" due to it being a Fighting Spirit.
  • Many fans call Dr. Kahl "Dr. Robotnik" and the gem he uses to make his Bullet Hell attack pattern the "Chaos Emerald" in reference to the Sonic The Hedgehog series (and because the gem he holds out looks a lot like one).
  • Fans tend to call The Phantom Express 'Mr. Bones' Wild Ride' due to the coincidence of a speeding train and a giant skeleton being together at once, much like the meme itself.
  • The formerly unnamed members of the Tipsy Troop have also been called Mary Teeny (martini), Bourbob (from bourbon whiskey), and Sourpuss (after Brandy Sour, a cocktail that uses brandy, which cognac is a type of). A Youtuber also referred to them as Madame Martini, Walt Whiskey (possibly a reference to Walt Disney) and Rupert Rum. The Art of Cuphead, a book showing much of the game's concept art, eventually gave the troop's real names; Ginette, Ol' Ethan and Rumulus respectively.
  • The members of The Root Pack are officially named Sal Spudder, Ollie Bulb, and Chauncey Chantenay, but prior to their names being revealed, fans called them Moe Tato, Weepy, and Psycarrot respectively. Likewise, the unused beet boss was called 'Betty Beet' by fans before the artbook officially named her 'Beatrice Lutz'.
  • Before his name was revealed in the art book, Willy Warbles was usually called Wally Jr.
  • Regarding several members of the Phantom Express, specifically who the fandom commonly calls "T-bone" and the "Blaze Brothers", The Art of Cuphead book officially refers to them as "Conductor" and the "Lollipop Ghouls", respectively.
  • Popularized by Markiplier, the parry move is sometimes called the "slappa".
  • When King Dice is drawn younger in fanart, he's referred to as "Prince Dice."
  • The fork-headed character on Inkwell Isle Three was nicknamed "Forkington" before his official name was stated to be Silverworth.^note That said, it's not entirely a fan invention; it's what the code refers to the character, so it's more likely to be the character's beta name rather than a nickname.
  • The female saluki leader of the Howling Aces is commonly called "Captain Bluebell" by fans.
• Dark Cloud
  • Weapon Hit Points, abbreviated as "WHP", could easily be called "Whamp!"
• Dark Souls:
  • Series-wide:
    • Giantdad or "The Legend": A particularly popular and annoying min-maxed PvP build, focusing on tremendous HP and defense while having powerful attacks. The first name comes from the Mask of the Father that is always used in the head slot to raise equip load, and then use very heavy armor.
    • The Bass Cannon: The Zweihander, named for a moment in the extremely memetic video that introduced the Giantdad build.
    • Fashion Souls: wearing pieces of armor for their looks rather than for their stats.
    • X-Souls: Making a point of using certain combat maneuvers or playstyles. Lots of rolling is dodgesouls. Frequent parrying is parrysouls. Spears are jabsouls. Magicsouls. Backstabsouls. Heavysouls for using very heavy gear, etc...
    • Fight Clubs: Community-arranged PvP gatherings, where multiple players will Invade a host but fight each other instead of the host.
    • Fast Roll, Fat Roll: The nicknames for the different dodge maneuvers that apply when the weight of your equipment is under 25% of its maximum for the former, or over 75% for the latter.
    • Sunbros: Members of the Warriors of Sunlight covenant (which appears in all games), whose goal is to help other players progress through the game.
    • ____bros: Most other covenant members are referred to as "bros" in emulation of the Warriors of the Sun, such as Forestbros, Bellbros, Wolfbros, Ratbros, Bluebros, etc.
    • Jolly Cooperation: Co-op play, after a memetic line from Solaire in the first game.
    • Sunny-D: The Estus Flask, the series' primary healing item.
    • Beef Jerky: The standard way to refer to the appearance of Hollows, who have shrunken, emaciated, and discolored skin.
  • Dark Souls:
    • The Shart Tank: Blighttown.
    • Dickstab Forest: The Forest Hunter's Woods, which contains respawning NPCs that constantly ambush your character.
    • Sen's Funhouse: Sen's Fortress, which is full of death traps and represents a big Difficulty Spike. The term "Funhouse" was coined by a certain Youtuber named WildPie101 and his usage of this song.
    • Brolaire/The Original Sunbro: Solaire of Astora, knight of the Warriors of Sunlight, and champion of Jolly Cooperation.
    • Onionbro: Siegmeyer of Catarina, due to his highly amusingly-shaped armor. Extended to any of the other Catarina knights, as well as, sometimes, players wearing the armor set.
    • Dickwraiths: Members of the Darkwraiths covenant, who invade other players and try to kill them. They are often unwelcome in the games they invade.
    • Baller Swag Sword: The Balder Side Sword, one of the better early game weapons available.
    • Surfboard: Dragon Greatsword
    • Ents: the living bush/tree people in Darkroot Garden. Their official name is "Demonic Foliage".
    • Harpies: the half-man half-bird things in the Painted World. Officially named "Crow Demons".
    • Open Heart Surgery Dragon for the Gaping Dragon. Or, less charitably, the Vagina Dragon.
    • Bitch Gargoyles for the Bell Gargoyles for being a very difficult bossfight unless one is overlevel.
    • The Tin Can for the Iron Golem, owing to it being a generally easy boss.
    • Wimpwheel for Pinwheel, who is disputably perhaps the easiest boss in the game.
    • Dragon Asses- Bounding Demons of Izalith, which are obviously the back half of the Painted World's Undead Dragon.
    • The Bed of Bullshit for the Bed of Chaos.
    • The Four Gankers = The Four Kings
    • The Demon Fuckersage = The Demon Firesage
    • Most [in]famously, Fuckwad and Bitchass, Pain and Suffering, Death and Taxes, Pikachu and Snorlax, Siskel and Ebert, Mario and Luigi, Abbott and Costello, Thunder and Thighs, Cookies and Cream, the Super Londo Bros, Cheeki Breeki, Slash and Smash, Doom and Gloom, the Golden Gits, Sonic and Tails, Thunder and Lightning, Roosevelt and Taft... and many more nicknames◊ for the infamous Dual Boss of Ornstein and Smough. It's something of a running gag in the fanbase to invent ever more creative nicknames for the duo.
    • The FAP Ring: The Ring of Favor and Protection, often considered one of the best rings in the game.
  • Dark Souls 2:
    • Hippos: the cyclopian Ogres in Dark Souls 2, due to being very large, gray, and fat.
    • Blighttown 2.0: The Gutter in Dark Souls 2, which is underground, full of rickety wooden platforms, and lots of poison. Fortunately, it isn't as tough as the original.
    • Bro Ant: A strange, unique giant ant enemy found in the Gutter of Dark Souls 2. It completely ignores the player, and belches nasty looking gas. You can kill it, but the gas is actually beneficial, as it heals poison (which there is quite a lot of in the Gutter), so many players leave it alone.
    • Jabba the Hutt: The Covetous Demon, who does indeed look quite a lot like Jabba.
    • The Gank Squad: a group of three NPC Graverobbers encountered in Shulva, who act as the boss of an optional area. Unless you brought several phantoms with you, you're outnumbered, and the three of them have equipment and fighting styles that complement each other well and cover each other's weaknesses.
    • The Horsefuck Valley, Reindeer Fuckland: Frigid Outskirts, the DLC level infamous for its blinding blizzards and Ice Stallion enemies that attack during them, usually taking you by surprise.
  • Dark Souls III:
    • Spooklord Wolnir: Highlord Wolnir, the resident skeleton boss, due to how he shows up from the darkness when you first approach him.
    • Pur-Pals: Members of the Moundmakers covenant who help those who summon them rather than kill them.
    • Grapebros: Moundmakers in general, since they appear as purple phantoms.
    • Christmas Yharnam: The City of Irithyll.
    • Darth Sulyvhan: Pontiff Sulyvhan wears long, flowing robes, carries one flaming sword and a sword that glows purple with dark magic, and has a fighting style that incorporates lots of spinning. The overall effect makes him look like a Sith dual-wielding lightsabers.
    • From the DLC: Ornstein and Smough 2.0: Sister Friede and Father Ariandel
    • For the former, Friede's 3rd phase solidifies her as the Lady Maria of Dark Souls.
    • "Laser Demon" and "Fireball Demon": the two possible versions of the first boss of the second DLC, referencing their most powerful attacks (one breathes fire in a thin stream like a laser, the other throws a whole bunch of homing fireballs).
• Dawn of War
  • Many nicknames carry over from Warhammer 40,000, being a game based on it.
  • The Force Commander for the sequel is frequently called Vanilla Ice, as it was noticed a picture◊ of the rapper resembles the Force Commander greatly.
  • The Farseer of the sequel was nicknamed the Flatseer, being rather (but not entirely)... flat. Delicious Flat Chest, is of course used in a similar context.
  • The Blood Ravens are also known as "Bloody Magpies" due to their tendency to be "gifted" wargear belonging to other chapters.
  • Indrick Baldreale of the Bald Ravens is Bald and Fewlish.
  • Davian Cool (Thule) is awesome.
  • Apollo Diomedes has been nicknamed Day-o-Midis, Abaldo Diomedes, Boreale 2.0, and BRUVAIAMHITT because of both his bald head and Indrick Boreale-level accent.
  • Vance Motherfucking Stubbs the only character from Soulstorm who anyone likes (for the right reasons).
  • Some believe that Gorgutz' less-than-intelligent Number Two from Winter Assault ("Yer gonna call 'im a grot?" "I'm gonna call that Plan Stupid. Because you came up with it!") is in fact named Stupid. Speaking of Gorgutz, due to his adding a nickname after every faction's defeat in Dark Crusade, some called him "Bitchslappa" for defeating the Sisters of Battle.
  • Lord General Freddie Stalin Mercury Castor looks like an older version of Freddie Mercury and is highly willing to sacrifice the lives of his Guardsmen (as long as it actually works out).
• Deadly Premonition
  • Axe-Vivi - The Raincoat Killer, taken from this hilarious LP of the game.
• Dead Rising 2
  • Kanye Wesker: Tyrone "TK" King", since he resembles Kanye West and he's a Sunglasses at Night person who unleashed a Zombie Apocalypse.
• Death Stranding:
  • FF/The Funky Foetus: The BBs, which stands for Bridge Baby in the game itself. They are indeed hella funky.
• Defense of the Ancients/Dota 2:
  • Space Cow: Spirit Breaker, a bull-man (he was a Tauren in the orginal DotA) from Another Dimension.
  • Sheepstick: Guinsoo's Scythe of Vyse (just the Scythe of Vyse in Dota 2), and item that turns the target into a sheep in WC3 DotA (in Dota 2, it's a pig, but the name stuck.)
  • Cancer Lancer: Phantom Lancer, a hero who can make seven copies of himself and completely overrun the map if left to his own devices.
  • Nature's Profit: Nature's Prophet, one of the best farmers in the game.
  • Gillette: Razor, for obvious reasons.
  • Dropping a rock: Using Warlock's ultimate, Chaotic Offering, which summons a golem, stunning everyone in a wide area around the summoning site.
  • Birds: Visage's flying, gargoyle-like familiars.
• Deltarune:
  • The dark alternate route in Chapter 2 where you get Kris to encourage Noelle to be more violet and ruthless is known by a number of names. It's commonly known as the "Weird" route (which is how it's labelled internally in the game's code), but it's also known as the "Snowgrave" route (after a pivotal unlocked spell that lethally marks the Moral Event Horizon), the "Pipis" route (after the blue projectiles used by Spamton NEO in his boss fight, which start cropping up all over Cyber City), or the "Snow Mercy" route (as a nod to the "No Mercy" route from the original Undertale).
• Demon's Souls
  • Otsdarva of Boletaria - Ostrava, in a Shout-Out to how similar his name is to Otsdarva of Armored Core: For Answer, as both games are made by From Software.
• Descent
  • The boss robot encountered in Level 4 of Descent II has been nicknamed the "Red Fatty" by fans of the series.
• Destiny
  • The Ghost has occasionally been referred to as "Dinklbot", due to being voiced by Peter Dinklage.
  • A cave in the middle of Skywatch is nicknamed the "MurderCave", due to being an exploit point with quickly respawning enemies for the first couple months of the game. A pile of dead, interactable bones has been left there by the developers to recognize that it was once the site of mass murder by players.
• Devil Survivor
  • The game itself is often abbreviated "DeSu"
  • dBay - the devil auction, which is done electronically so it's basically eBay but for demons.
  • Atsubro - Atsuro, due to the fact that he never leaves the party regardless of which route you choose.
• Devil Survivor 2
  • Alien Ice Cream - Dubhe.
  • Dessert Overlords - The Septentriones, thanks to Dubhe.
• Diablo
  • Andy - Andariel
  • Big D (or just d) - Diablo
  • Meph or Mephy - Mephisto
  • Izzy - Izual
  • Barb - Barbarian
    • Frenzy Barb - A Barbarian who specializes in the Frenzy skill, which does its best work with two weapons.
    • Berserker - A Barbarian who specializes in the Berserk skill to deal damage at the cost of defense.
    • Singing Barb/Bard - A Barbarian who relies exclusively on war cry skills.
  • Pally - Paladin
    • Auradin - Paladin who focuses on offensive auras to do damage.
    • Hammerdin - Paladin who specializes in the "Blessed Hammer" skill.
    • Martyr - Paladin who relies on the "Sacrifice" skill, which is Cast from Hit Points.
    • Ranger - Paladin who focuses on ranged attacks and uses a bow or crossbow.
    • Zealer/Zealot/Zealadin - Paladin who specializes in the "Zeal" skill.
    • Smiter/Smitadin - Paladin who focuses on using Smite to stun enemies.
    • Tesladin - Paladin who uses the aura 'Holy Shock' as his main method of damage.
    • Vengadin/Avenger - Paladin who uses the "Vengeance" skill as his primary attack
  • Necro - Necromancer
    • Zookeeper/Summonancer/Lagmancer - Necromancer specializing in using Summons; the latter kicks in when their gigantic retinue of skeletons and revived monsters inevitably slows the game down.
    • Fishymancer - Necromancer specializing in using Skeletons and the debuff Amplify Damage as their main weapon.
    • Dentist - Necromancer specializing in using the spell 'Bone Teeth', to deal damage.
  • Sin - Assassin
    • Kicksin - An Assassin focusing on Martial Arts, most often incorporating use of powerful finishing kick moves like Dragon Talon and Dragon's Flight.
    • Trapsin - An Assassin that primarily uses traps.
  • Sorc - Sorceress
    • Meteorb - A Sorceress using meteor and frozen orb as her main attacks.
    • Clorb - Similar to Meteorb, but uses chain lightning with frozen orb instead of meteor.
    • Lit Sorc- A Sorceress using only lightning attacks.
    • Enchantress - A Sorceress focusing on the Enchant skill to deal heavy melee damage.
    • AntiNecro - A Sorceress using ice attacks (frozen enemies shatter when they die, leaving no corpse to be used for necromancy.)
  • Zon - The Amazon class
    • Bowazon - An Amazon specializing in bows
    • Burizon - A Bowazon who uses the Buriza-Do Kyanon, a unique Ballista which is considered one of the most powerful bows of the game.
    • Javazon - An amazon specializing in thrown javelins
  • Windy - A Druid specializing in wind-based skills
  • Chaos Run - A run through the Chaos Sanctuary, killing every single enemy inside, for massive experience and items.
  • Baal Run - Similar to the above, through the final area of the game.
  • Meph Run - Similar to the above two, killing Mephisto for good items.
  • Amp - The Necromancer's extremely effective Area of Effect debuff 'Amplify Damage', which increases all physical damage an enemy takes by 100%
  • Pindlebot - A Diablo II script designed to kill Pindleskin over and over again in order to make him drop Windforce, the best bow in the game.
  • Some of the above "class" nicknames made it out of the box and into other games with Assassins, Paladins, etc. as their classes you can choose.
  • In Diablo III, Leablo: The Diablo-possessed Leah at the start of Act IV.
• Disgaea
  • Paddlebutt-tan - Raspberyl, whose tail looks suspiciously like a paddle.
  • Mid-Boss - Vyers. Invoked in game, but so prevalent outside of it that you probably don't even remember his real name.
    • In fact, you can usually tell who in the fandom is specifically a Vyers fan, by which name they call him by. Many of the ones who especially like him will throw him a bone by not calling him Mid-Boss. So, his Fan Nickname basically comes full circle.
  • Elite-Mook - Laharl, due to Mid-Boss/Vyers being the reincarnation of Laharl's father
  • Captain Gordon, Defender of Earth! doesn't have a nickname, but rather a constant mandate of bold font in honor of his epic hammyness
  • Val - Valvatorez, coined before an official English transliteration of his name came out so the fans could consistently call him something. Somewhat of an In-Series Nickname since Fenrich sometimes calls him "Lord Val".
  • Fenfen - Fenrich, though it eventually became an In-Series Nickname nickname when NISA brought the game over.
  • Sea Of Blood Prier - A bloodthirsty version of Demon Overlord Prier who shows up in the first Disgaea 2, but not the PSP Video Game Remake. She was Obviously Evil; and petitioned the Assembly to turn Veldime into a Sea of Blood and appears many times in the Bonus Dungeon if you agree as a Boss in Mook Clothing. Later depictions of her merely have her as appreciating a good fight and not evil.
• Donkey Kong
  • Gingerbread Kong - The Atari 2600 version of DK has often been compared to a gingerbread cookie (or even The Gingerbread Man) because of his appearance in this version. Moreover, the "barrels" he throws have been referred to variously as cookies (or even chocolate chip cookies), Ritz crackers, Honeycomb cereal and even pizzas.
    • One YouTube comment has called him Chewbacca for the same reasons.
• Donkey Kong Country
  • Simon Caves - The caves in Donkey Kong Country 3: Dixie Kong's Double Trouble! where you rescue Banana Birds, because you have to memorize light patterns arranged in the pattern of the face buttons on the controller, similarly to the classic electronic game Simon.
• Doom
  • Archie - the Arch-Vile.
  • Beholder (for its resemblance to the iconic Dungeons & Dragons monster), Caco, or Tomato - the flying Cacodemon monster.
  • Cybie - the Cyberdemon.
  • Doomguy - the player character, referred to in the game as "a space marine", who happens to be the Trope Maker and Trope Namer for the First-Person Shooter variety of Space Marines.
  • Fatso - the Mancubus.
    • The nickname came from the code itself, where the Mancubus was actually called a Fatso, and its projectiles FatShots. Its frames are even the word FAT with a letter at the end.
  • Pinky - the melee monster that the game simply calls "Demon", due to its bright pink color. Come Doom (2016), it's become the critter's actual name.
    • Turbo-Pinky - their Nightmare mode variants, because of their hilariously high running speed.
  • Slaughtermap (or "HR-Style") - Custom levels for Doom built around fights with massive numbers of monsters. "HR-style" is named after Hell Revealed, the Trope Maker of slaughtermaps.
  • Tyson - a Informed Equipment sort of challenge where a player must complete a map using only his Fists, Berserk Fists, Chainsaw, or Pistol.
  • Grandmaster - An Ultra-violence speedrun with fast monsters activated
  • Doomworld - An alternate nickname for Doom's version of Hell, named after the doom website of a similar name.
• Dragon Age
  • One party member will be a war dog, which players can name whatever they want. The forum community has affectionately named him Rabbit, since his writer has stated that is his 'official' name; however, since The Darkspawn Chronicles came out, Barkspawn is also gaining popularity. Then again, Darkspawn Chronicles got the name from Penny Arcade...
  • Imoen chick for Leliana. Or sometimes Leli. As of Inquisition, some call her Murderpope.
  • Morrigan's possible child is often known as her demon baby or godbaby, or OGB for short. Inquisition reveals that his name is Kieran.
  • The human noble female is called Queen Cousland or Princess CousCous.
  • People who aren't fond of Anora call her Annoya.
    • Or Awhora.
  • Fans of the Alistair romance are called Alistairians and fans of the Zevran romance are Zevranites.
  • Alistair is often affectionately referred to as Ali or even Alibear, especially by his fangirl horde.
    • Also sometimes Stairs.
    • Also called The Royal Bastard after the dialogue option. No one's quite sure whether this is meant to be derogatory or not.
  • The character Bann Teagan Guerrin enjoys a rather dedicated fanclub...and with the fanclub comes the nickname of the Bannhammer. Unfortunately, Teagan doesn't actually fight with a hammer.
    • It's a pun on "ban hammer", which is the imaginary weapon forum mods use to ban people.
  • Cullen's fans frequently refer to themselves as Cullenites.
  • Anders in Dragon Age II is frequently called "Ser-Pouts-A-Lot", named after his cat and his tendency to pout.
  • A female Hawke is generally (and fairly obviously) Lady Hawke.
  • The knife used in cutscenes is called the Murder Knife. This became an Ascended Meme in Inquisition.
  • Greydar: the Grey Wardens' ability to sense the location of Darkspawn.
  • Dragon Age: Inquisition has the Warden Ally, used to refer to one of three characters (Alistair, Stroud, or Loghain) who appears during the quest "Here Lies the Abyss." And similarly to Mass Effect, there's the Fade Survivor, which is either the aforementioned Warden Ally or Hawke.
  • Josephine was nicknamed "Scribbles" before her name was revealed.
  • Solas is commonly referred to as an egg, due to his bald head. This too has become an Ascended Meme. Given The Reveal, his fans are often known as the Wolf Pack.
  • A female qunari rogue from the previews for the upcoming 4th game has been given the moniker "Harley Qun" by much of the fanbase.
• Dragon Ball Xenoverse and its sequel have a few of these.
  • In a game whose main appeal is making your own Dragon Ball character, the actual characters from manga and anime are called "original characters", while the player characters are instead called avatars. The fanbase came to call them the cast, or the roster, while player character became known as CaC, which stands for Create a Character.
  • Just Guard is usually called Perfect Block by the players, or PB for short.
  • Heavy Smash is more commonly called Stamina Break, which is a more descriptive name for what it does, as it breaks the stamina of an opponent that doesn't block it. Its two versions performed with light or heavy attack buttons are also known as Light Break and Heavy Break, respectively.
  • Android 17's signature Ultimate Skill, Super Electric Strike is jokingly called the Rug Beater due to his battle cry of "I'm gonna beat you like a rug!" before he launches it.
• Dragon Quest
  • Dragon Quest IV, Dragon Quest V, and Dragon Quest VI are referred to collectively as the "Zenithian Trilogy": even though the plots and settings of each game are completely different from one another, each one features the appearance of the floating castle Zenithia.
  • Dragon Quest II: The area that allows you to reach Rhone has no in-game name. NES fans tend to call it the Cave of/to Rhone while remake fans will call it the Road to Rhone.
  • Dragon Quest VI: Both Nevan and Terry are often referred to as "Voucher" in Japan due to many players making much greater use of something acquired as a result of them joining the party (the Staff of Ghent for Nevan, Lizzie for Terry) than the actual characters themselves. Nevan receives this slightly more often, as his dweeby design and lack of characterization prior to the remake caused many to ignore him entirely, whereas Terry's good looks and great strength prior to joining the party made many excited to use him only to become disappointed after discovering him to be Overrated and Underleveled. Ironically, Nevan is actually statistically superior to Terry in every category besides style, and is in fact a perfectly viable party member from the moment he joins the party.
  • Dragon Quest VII: Kiefer is iconically referred to as "Seed Thief" in Japan due to his status as a Decoy Protagonist Guest-Star Party Member causing many players to waste seeds of strength on him early on under the assumption that he'd be around for the entire game.
  • Dragon Quest VIII:
    • There are some who refer to The Hero as Eight, seeing as though that's how he's apparently referred to in the manual. Others dub him Guv, after Yangus's nickname for him.
    • Captain Douchebag for Marcello, as heard in a Let's Play of the game.
  • Dragon Quest XI:
    • Eleven for the Hero, since this is the 11th main series Dragon Quest' game.
    • Eight is used as a codename for Hendrik in order to not spoil his inclusion to the party.
• Drakengard
  • Among the Japanese fanbase, Caim is lovingly referred to as "ouji," translating to "prince".
  • The not so graceful "onanii-san", which roughly means "jacking off bro", is attributed to Leonard.
  • Verdelet is occasionally called "hage", which is a playful way of saying "baldy".
• Dwarf Fortress (some of these are used to protect spoilers)
  • Dwarven Atomsmasher: Drawbridges used in a military or waste-disposal capacity.
  • Fun (always with a capital f): Losing, or the sort of blood-splattering fiery chaos that comes before it. Sometimes used as an adjective for things that tend to cause the aforementioned losing.
  • Funnonite: Adamantine
    • Alternately called "cotton candy" or "clownite" (see below; the former is also a reference to its extremely low density).
  • HFS, Hidden Fun Stuff: demons from the bowels of the earth.
    • As of version .31, the Glowing Pit has become known as the Clown Car for their infinite quantity of demons, and thus its contents has been called clowns. Sprouting from this, the fandom likes to use circus-related metaphors to hide spoilers surrounding Hell. "Cotton Candy" (see above) for Adamantite and "Freak Show" for Forgotten Beasts.
  • Dorfs: your hapless dwarves.
  • Hippies, Treehumpers: Elves.
  • Tantrum Spiral: In the old emotional systems, a really unhappy dwarf would throw a tantrum, usually doing something that would upset other dwarves into throwing tantrums and pushing yet more over the edge, and so on until everyone is dead or dying because Urist McGrumpyPants (see below) lost his favorite sock or something.
  • Many traps also have their own names, such as the Degrinchinator (which essentially amounts to an insta-freeze ice gun).
  • Cutebolds: Kobolds.
  • Skelk: skeletal elks.
  • Goblinite: Goblin loot. Previous editions had goblins using weapons dorfs wouldn't, and armor too narrow for them, making the loot useless except that it could be melted back down into iron and made as REAL equipment. Iron-deficient areas often relied on "goblinite ore" for their iron.
  • Goblin Christmas: When a goblin siege walks through a trap-filled hallway of a fortress, leaving plenty of nice goblinite for all the good little dwarves. Goblins tend to invade in winter, and when they start the will do so every year like clockwork.
  • Urist McMadLibs: A specific dwarf, with the "mad libs" replaced by a descriptive feature or occupation. Urist McEmo or Urist McSoapster or Urist McUselessNobleWhoKeepsMandatingSladeItemsEvenThoughSladeCantEvenBeWorkedInThisDamnGame...
  • Unfortunate Accident: how the player gets rid of the aforementioned Urist McUselessNobleWhoKeepsMandatingSladeItemsEvenThoughSladeCantEvenBeWorkedInThisDamnGame.
  • !!SCIENCE!!: Caps and exclamation marks necessary, this is the name for any activity that seeks to research how game mechanics interact with each other in a given situation; since the game is so complex that not even Toady has considered some of the situations involved, activities like these crop up often. The !!exclamation points!! that usually denote something is on fire are because these experiments usually involve chaos, death and fire.
  • FPS death: When a fortress "dies" due to the sheer amount of things going on slowing the game to a crawl (without proper measures, it can easily hit single-digit frames per second), and the player calling it off as unplayable by them, which is the single biggest threat any advanced fort by a long-time player can face.
  • Catsplosion- A common method of said FPS death occuring (thankfully somewhat negated later by the ability to geld creatures). Cats are promiscuous, have large litters of kittens, and adopt dwarves (meaning they can't be killed without upsetting the dwarf in question). Therefore, having a few breeding pairs of cats would, if not stopped, would result in your fortress filling up with new cats and slowing to a crawl as the game tried to process all those creatures.
• Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors/Warriors Orochi
  • Cow Cow - Cao Cao, for having his name spelled as written regardless of how it's supposed to be pronounced in the early games.
  • Cow Pee, Bovine Urine - Cao Pi, for the same reason as his father.
  • Xiahou Bieber - Xiahou Ba, for his unfortunate resemblance to the singer.
  • Chinese Jesus - Zhang Jiao, for his look in a few games and probably for his sheer televangelist-like hamminess.
  • Cockroach - what the Chinese fandom calls Lu Bu, both because of his Nigh-Invulnerability, in-story stubborn refusal to quit, and his nice hat giving him the appearance of one.
  • Yamadaaa! - A Japanese Fan Nickname for Zhang Liao. A mishearing of "Jamada!" (Out of my way!) which sounds like he's screaming someone's name. Naturally, there is crossover with another "Yamada" with a nice hat.
  • SSX - Sun Shang Xiang, an abbreviation of her name.
• Dynasty Warriors: Gundam
  • Lu Bu Gundam - The Musha Gundam, for being vastly more powerful than any other unit in the game.
  • Medieval Gundam - The Knight Gundam, due to obvious reasons.
• EarthBound (1994):
  • Mr. T - An NPC that looks a lot like him.
  • 1/128 Items - Several items that only Randomly Drop 1/128 of the time, and only from one specific enemy.
  • The penultimate boss music has no official name, but it's very well known among fans by one of two names:
    • "Pokey Means Business!" - The English fan name for the song.
    • "Inakunarinasai!" - The Japanese fan name for the song. Translates roughly to "Cease to Exist!"
• Elden Ring
  • Yakul- Torrent, the Spirit Steed, who while obstentially a horse has horns that look very similar to Yakul's.
  • Valkyrie- The redheaded knightess with the prosthetic arm and winged helmet in the game's intro. Her name was later revealed to be Malenia, but she is known as 'Valkyrie' in game; her artificial arm (a questline item) is called the Valkyrie's Prosthesis.
  • Santa Claus- Merchant Kale, due to his bright fur-lined clothing resembling the jolly old elf.
  • Turtle Pope- Miriel, Pastor of Vows, who is a tortoise in a bishop's mitre.
  • Shrimp Bro- Blackguard Big Boggart, who sells your boiled prawns if you befriend him.
  • The Pizza Cutter- Ghiza's Wheel, much like its spiritual predecessor, the Whirligig Saw.
  • T-Rex Dogs- The giant T. Rexpy dogs in Caelid.
  • Pocket Sand- the Bestial Sling incantation, which tosses a cone of small rocks that can stun enemies.
  • Leonard- the ridiculously undersized and emaciated horse that Starscourge Radahn rides. The horse is never named in canon, but Radahn's AI is named RadahnAndLeonard, so Leonard was adopted as the horse's name.
  • Soldier of God, Rick - That one Soldier of Godrick you fight at the end of the tutorial, a Memetic Badass extraordinaire.
• The Elder Scrolls:
  • Morrowind has "Walking Encyclopedias" - NPCs of the "Savant" class due to their huge amount of Dialogue Tree options.
  • Oblivion:
    • LuLa - Lucien Lachance, the resident Mr. Fanservice and leader of the Dark Brotherhood until his gruesome fridging, much to the dismay of many fangirls.
    • Garfoth - The "Adoring Fan", The Scrappy of Oblivion. Derived from Fargoth, The Scrappy of Morrowind. "The Annoying Fan" is also a very popular nickname.
  • Skyrim:
    • "Skrim" - A somewhat popular intentional mispronunciation the game's name.
    • FUCK YOU ALL - A common interception of FusRoDah, due to it pushing away anyone.
  • Online: "Jesus Beam" for Radiant Destruction, a powerful nuke spell for Templars and a major source of PvP deaths for everyone else.
• Elephant Games has established that a number of its disparate series exist in the same Shared Universe (along with Mystery Case Files, for which they were the developer on two installments). Since most of these have representative characters interacting with each other in the Detectives United series, it's sometimes referred to as "the DUniverse.
• eRepublik, Hello Kitty, would probably be the most prominent due to it being the heart and soul of the Hungarian economy.
  • Also prominent is Lion King, also very important to the Hungarian economy.
• Elsword has a few as well, though they are not as common.
  • Elsword gets called "Elboy" quite often in the game.
  • To a lesser extent, his sister is sometimes called "Elsis".
  • The Fury Guardian and Iron Paladin advancements for Chung are often called "Female Guardian" and "Iron Princess" due to his long hair. It really does make him look like a girl.
  • Chung's Tactical Trooper advancement sometimes get him labelled as "Pikachu" due to his hairstyle.
  • A rather derogatory nickname - a phrase, to be exact - for players that keep running away is "Fighting like an Aisha". Not really used much but can be seen sporadically.
    • The reason for this is due to Aisha's squishiness and the tendency for the players using her to run away.
  • Ara Haan's Yama Raja has the Hyperactive skill known as Hell Blast. Some people label it as "Spirit Bomb" just because.
  • Add is sometimes labelled "Accelerator" because of their similar personalities. Story-wise, Add is as overpowered as Accelerator when compared to the other characters. Base form Add can lay waste to the 2nd job advancement of Eve.
  • Rose is "Female Gunner" — she's literally the Female Gunner from Dungeon Fighter Online.
• Europa Universalis series
  • The Big White Blob - The nation of Austria, largely because its color on the political map is white and it has a tendency to eat the small German states to the north over the course of a game. In fact, when Europa Universalis III was released, there was a public fan outcry when Austria's color was changed to red; the Expansion Pack restored it to white, which put a lot of people's minds at ease.
    • This has become a more generalized term for any nation that, because the AI is too smart/too dumb, becomes a marauding all-consuming a-historical beast. Currently in EU III with all the expansion packs France tends to become the Big Blue Blob. Or, as someone described it on the Paradox forums, "France is the end boss of EU III."
• EVE Online
  • Disco-x - A ship setup with all smartbombs, named for the light-show produced by setting off a full set of smartbombs. Popular variants include the Discophoon and Discogeddon.
  • Nano-x - A ship setup for maximum speed and agility, often using lots of Nanofiber Internal Structure mods.
  • Fagabond - The Vagabond, a Minmatar Assault Cruiser with far too much speed and maneuverability for its own good, especially in a nano setup as described above.
  • 'geddon, 'phoon, 'thron, etc. etc. - Armageddon, Typhoon, Megathron... the list goes on and on.
  • Mushroom - The Amarrian Titan, the Avatar. So named for its odd appearance.
    • Also known by several variants of "space dick", due to CCP's statement that "The Avatar was never meant to be cost effective, it's a giant dick!" at a fan convention.
  • Calamari - A character that specializes in both Caldari and Amarrian skills and ships.
  • Carebear - Any player that focuses on non-PvP careers, especially mining.
  • Space Whale/Space Potato - The Dominix battleship.
  • Weekend Warrior, Yarrbear - A player whose main career is industrial or PvE, but does PvP on the weekends. Also called "piwates" for not having the guts to be full-time pirates.
  • Hero Tank - A ship that just WILL. NOT. DIE. Most famously used in the 2008 Alliance Tournament, where a few ships showed the ability to take a beating from every enemy ship at once and still live. At least until their cap ran out.
  • Dick Star: a Space Station that is designed for the purpose of taking a really, really long time to destroy. They usually have no guns, just shields and armor, and so much of them that they can usually defeat the enemy by making them so bored that they just give up.
  • Failguns - Originally a derisive nickname for all sizes of railguns, which were badly ineffective compared to other weaponry; subsequent tweaks and buffs allowed the small (frigate-size) and large (battleship-size) railguns to shed the name, but medium (cruiser/battlecruiser-size) railguns didn't benefit to nearly the same degree, and thus remain "medium failguns".
• The Evil Within
  • Joseph Oda is sometimes called "Jojo," which was originally coined by Markiplier during his LP of the game.
• In Evolve, the most popular and widely accepted example is calling Behemoth "Bob", originally a joke from one of the developers when its name was still unannounced. Besides that there are a number of nicknames for adaptations, usually portmanteaus of the official names or references, though most of these aren't nearly as universal.
  • Meteor Goliath = Meaty
  • Elder Kraken = Kelder
  • Glacial Behemoth = Bobsicle
  • Blitz Markov = Blitzkov
  • Wasteland Maggie = Mad Mags
  • Electro Griffin = Robogriff
  • Quantum Caira = Quaira
  • Renegade Abe = Renegabe
  • Paladin Parnell = Palnell
• Fallout 4: Console Command: The Game
• Fallout 76: "Fallout: Pajeet 76", because the early releases were plagued by glitches as nasty as one that outright uninstalled the game, another one that blocked you from uninstalling the game if you hadn't purchased it, or crashing an entire server by launching 3 nukes at once, as well as flawed designs such as tying your character's walking speed to the game's FPS, i.e. you can walk faster than the rest in a multiplayer game by just unlocking your FPS (and if your hardware is weak, you will walk slower). This extravaganza of ridiculous bugs led gamers to joke that Fallout 76's development was probably outsourced to an Indian code sweatshop with zero quality controls.
• Fantasy Zone II originally came out for the Master System. It later got a Retraux remake for the same hardware as the original arcade game. The remake is known as Fantasy Zone II DX to separate it from the Master System game. When the game got ported to 3DS, however, it was titled 3D Fantasy Zone II W.
• Fate/stay night - see Anime section
• Fate/EXTRA
  • "Red Saber", the Saber in the series, as she's not the same person as the original Saber. (Who is referred to thus as Blue Saber.)
• FE000000: People who don't like using the original name when referring to the game sometimes use Hex, Antimatter Dimensions 2, Femillion or Iron Million.
• Fear & Hunger: Termina: "Dirty degenerate furry" for Daan, derived from his Nonstandard Game Over in which Pocketcat insults him by calling him that.
• Fire Emblem
  • Series-wide: "Ambush-Spawns/Asshole Reinforcements" - Reinforcements that appear at the start of the Enemy Phase and can move the turn they spawn. A much-hated source of Trial-and-Error Gameplay.
  • Uncle Marcus - Marcus, the Crutch Character from Blazing Blade (the first Game Boy Advance one in America), for some players' tendency to use him to mop up bosses and rescue severely injured characters.
  • Eliwood of the same game has earned some derogatory nicknames thanks to his personality and perceived stat issues; Eliwuss and Pansywood are the most commonly used. Less commonly, Smellywood.
    • On the other hand, we have Eliw00t. In a similar vein, Hector and Oswin get called Haxtor and Osw1n because they're pretty badass.
  • Failcaiah - Micaiah of Radiant Dawn. From GameFAQs. Alternatively, "Mickey", "Mickey Sue" or "Micaiah Sue."
    • Micaiah's Dawn Brigade is frequently known as the Fail Brigade/Suck Brigade/Failen Army/Downs Brigade due to how weak and EXP-starved they tend to be ingame.
    • Except for "Chuck" Nolan.
  • Karel the Edgelord - Karel in Blazing Blade is often called an "Edgelord" by fans despite his good Character Development between the games he's in.
  • Lightning Rod of Hate - Shinon in Radiant Dawn, who comes with the skill "Provoke," meaning enemy units are more likely to attack him. Comes from the running gag of the same name from Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
  • Gorillaguz - Radiant Dawn Ike (In Japan), a portmanteau of "Gorilla" (Since he got really buff since the previous game) and "Laguz".
  • Goth Mage - Soren, also applies for Sariya.
  • One website refers to Holin from Genealogy of the Holy War as "can opener", for his Lunar Strike skill that potentially enables him to defeat high-defense armored units in one round.
    • That would be this French FE4 website you're talking about. Holin is nicknamed "Ouvre-Boîte" there, and when talking about him on English Fire Emblem forums, translate this nickname as "Can Opener".
  • Siggy/Zigludo - Sigurd
  • CAPTAIN GORDIN, DEFENDER OF EARTH !! - Gordin, a wholly unremarkable archer available in Marth's games.
  • Moulder the Boulder - Moulder, a stats-wise mediocre priest in Sacred Stones who has some Memetic Badass points for his impressive moustache and Con score.
  • Gilliam Bojangles - Gilliam, also in Sacred Stones
  • Fazilla - Fa/Fae (Binding Blade)
  • Fire Emblem: Awakening: It has its own section
• Five Nights at Freddy's has several for otherwise unnamed characters:
  • Phone Guy - an unseen employee who communicates with the various security guards via phone (or in 3, instructional tapes). Five Nights at Freddy's 2 has conflicting evidence on whether or not he is named Fritz Smith.
  • Phone Dude - a Fazbear's Fright employee who initially fills Phone Guy's spot, and talks like a surfer as a stark contrast.
  • The Purple Man/Purple Guy- the guy who murdered several children at the pizzeria in the backstory and is the ultimate reason the animatronics are attacking the protagonists. Unlike Phone Guy, he is seen - as a purple 8-bit sprite in minigames from 2 onward, hence the name. Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location confirms that his real name is William Afton.
  • Golden Freddy's name was originally one, as he went unnamed in the first game (save for his files calling him "yellow bear"). The second game's Custom Night screen made the name official.
  • The Marionette - an unnamed puppet animatronic appearing in 2, fans called it "the Puppet" or "the Marionette" until 3 used "Puppet".
  • Balloon Boy - One suggested name for B.B., whose name is consistently initialised throughout the series.
  • Freddles- the trio of mini-Freddy plushies that summon Nightmare Freddy to attack. Eventually canonized as of Ultimate Custom Night.
• Flight Rising
  • Derg - Dragon.
  • Irishim - The Iridescent primary/Shimmer secondary gene combination, one of if not the most popular combos on the site. There are other nicknames for pairing irishim with specific tertiary genes (irishimsmoke = Smoke tertiary, irishimcircuit = Circuit tertiary, irishimcrack = Crackle tertiary, irishimbelly = Underbelly tertiary, irishimgem = Gembond tertiary). Iri and shim can also be used separately, but it's less common simply because those genes are much more often seen together than on their own.
  • Speckfreck - The Speckle primary/Freckle secondary gene combination. Much less popular than irishim, but still has its fans.
  • Eyeburners/eyebleeders - Dragons with ridiculously bright clashing colors and genes.
  • Imps - Imperial dragons.
  • Snip-snaps - Snapper dragons.
  • Noodles - Spiral dragons, whose length makes them look like noodles with wings. Less commonly refers to not-quite-as-noodly-but-still-pretty-noodly Imperial dragons as well. Spiral hatchlings are "baby noodles".
  • Each of the elemental deities has at least one affectionate nickname which the members of their respective Flights (factions) use to refer to them:
    • Glittermom - The Lightbringer
    • Shadowmomma, Droolmomma - The Shadowbinder. "Droolmomma" refers how her official art shows her melting into the floor with her head on the ground, making her look like she's drooling.
    • Space Dad - The Arcanist
    • Bossdad, The Boss - The Stormcatcher, thanks partly to the fact that his official catchphrase is "GET BACK TO WORK!"
    • Tideloaf, Lord of Blue Gatorade, Papa Pool Noodle - The Tidelord, whose design is based off of Imperial dragons.
    • Mather, Flame Mom - The Flamecaller
    • Lord Fluffylegs, Ice Papa - The Icewarden, who does, in fact, have fluffy legs.
    • Plaguemother (formal...ish), Plaguemomma (casual) - The Plaguebringer
    • Beardmomma - The Gladekeeper, who has beard-like vines growing from her chin.
    • Daddy Earthshaker - The Earthshaker
    • Noodle Dad, Hot Dad, Windbro - The Windsinger, whose design is based off of Spiral dragons.
• FreeSpace
  • Lucy, Collie, Sath - the SD Lucifer, GTVA Colossus, and SJ Sathanas, respectively. The last is particularly popular due to its plural "Saths", since no one can agree on what the plural of "Sathanas" is^note a great deal of arguing eventually resulted in the consensus that it was "Sathanes", "Sathanai", or "Sathanases", depending on what language's grammar rules you were using.
  • Flying Potato - the GTF Ares, due to its brownish color scheme and its severe lack of maneuverability
  • Fish-wuvvers - Vasudans. Named for an Easter Egg in the second game.
  • Zods - The Vasudans again, due to Zodiac constellations being used for their wing names in the first game. Used by mod authors as a Fantastic Slur wielded by racist Terrans.
  • Battle of Endor Syndrome (BOE syndrome) - War Sequence missions. Generally frowned upon among modders due the difficulty in making them both balanced and enjoyable, as well as the resource requirements for having so many ships active at once. The few good BOE missions tend to be really good, though.
  • :V: or [V] - Volition, the game's developers. The forums even have a custom smiley resembling Volition's logo which is often used to represent them.
  • Shivantown - the Shivan homeworld. Also what the developers themselves called it.

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