The "What's a good name for this?" thread

@Marq: New World Wrestling (NWW) or New World Pro Wrestling ?

"New World" risks confusion with the already established common meaning of the phrase (i.e. that it's, geographically speaking, all about the Americas, not the whole world).

What about "One World Wrestling", then?

Helps that the acronym spells "OWW".

... Dunno. It sounds... I don't know how to describe it, but it's definitely not positive.

Oh, for the record, in this Pro Wrestling Is Real setting, professional wrestling has come to incorporate things that you'd normally associate with mixed martial arts, like greater legal acceptance of striking techniques.

Hey. I'm Aquatica, and I've been working on this series called PokeU. The premise is that there's a college for pokemon/human hybrids, where they learn to control their abilities, among other things.

The problem is, I'm not sure what to call the hybrids, or the school. (PokeU is just the nickname for the place.) Any suggestions?

Hi there, I was wondering if a good name for Evil Counterpart of Captain Obvious would be "Uncertainty Man", "Captain Vague" or "Captain Ambiguous"?

edited 30th Jun '14 10:49:04 AM by Xeroop

I've heard "Captain Oblivious" and "Professor Subtle" both used before.

As I understand it, an Evil Counterpart needn't have opposing traits (aside from the moral), being instead, essentially, an evil version of the original character.

In that case, potential Evil Counterparts to Captain Obvious might include Commander Tactless or Professor Ad Nauseum, the former stating the obvious in a way that hurts others, and the latter stating the obvious, well, ad nauseum.

If you do want a reversal of traits, you might have Professor Occult—the obvious is that which is easily perceived, while the occult is that which is hidden—or Commander Brilliance/Colonel Insight—a character able to discern facts missed by others.

edited 30th Jun '14 3:24:34 PM by ArsThaumaturgis

Okay, let me elaborate a bit. I might be misusing the term here, but with the 'evil counterpart' in this case I meant a Dark and Tortured Super'hero' character who is exceedingly vague and obfuscating, to oppose the clear-minded... obviousness of Captain Obvious.

edited 30th Jun '14 3:32:35 PM by Xeroop

If he's meant to be an anti-hero parody, what about The Obfuscater?

Ah, I see. (Although I would have thought that a clear-minded character would think to not state the obvious. :P)

In that case, what about "The Veil": relevant (a veil conceals and obscures, after all), and itself slightly vague and unobvious. It also suits a "dark and tortured" character by virtue of being occasionally used for the partition between life and death (as in "crossing the veil").

I have a tomboy character of mixed Greek/Latin American ancestry living in the US, who has the misfortune of her Spanish-speaking father having insisted on giving her a masculine name because he couldn't get over the fact that instead of his long-awaited son (and only child), he got a "mere" girl, whom he stubbornly decided to raise as a boy anyway; compounding this is that later on, her dying mother made her swear on her death bed to not upset her father by changing her name once it becomes legally possible for her. I had settled on Greek Nevrakis as the family name, and what I'm missing right now are 1) a thoroughly masculine name (preferably of Spanish/Portuguese origin), and 2) an unambiguously feminine name that is not simply a feminine form of her real name (and hopefully not "too girly", though admittedly I find this criterion rather nebulous), that the character would have as a nickname for her few friends and coworkers to use, thus technically sticking to her promise. Any help would be much appreciated.

FWIW, I've been debating "Diana" for the feminine name, considering that our tomboy is a Passionate Sports Girl, and the name refers to a Greco-Roman goddess of hunting and archery who is often associated with the Amazons.

@Aquatica: Well it depends if you want to keep the Poke- prefix or not. If so...well the only thing I can think of is Pokeman, which I dislike as it sounds like the pronunciation of someone who has no knowledge of Pokemon.

If not, it gets more complicated. Were they always around or not. If so, you might not even have a collective, catch-all term for them. If not, they might be referred to as aberrations, abominations, monsters, or something else, probably denoting that they are not natural.

My question is what would be a good name for the following class of individuals. They used to be human(well, technically, any form of sentient life), but are not human(or whatever) anymore. They are part of the feeding process of the Eldrich Abominations of my setting, who reach out to those who through hate or despair want everything they know to be destroyed, and warp them into something half-way between their original form and an eldrich abomination. However, these abominations aren't quite Lovecratian. Specifically, they need to feed, and so a strong and resilient enough defense can drive them off, making it more trouble than it's worth (or more accurately, make it take more energy to destroy us than they gain by eating us). Basically the individuals who I want help naming are extentions of the Eldrich Abominations, both trying to reduce the population's defenses before the Eldrich Abominations come to feed, and to increase the misery and despair before the Eldrich Abominations come, as they can feed on that as well as physical biomatter, and misery and despair is a more easily renewable resource. Any ideas?

edited 2nd Jul '14 9:45:02 PM by sharur

I need a name for an information brokering service with a reputable newspaper company as its cover story/side business. This is for an urban fantasy setting set in the 1930s, btw. I initially considered calling it the "Scryer's Eye Weekly" or something like that, but decided against it. The name I'm currently running with is the Throne Tribunal covering for the organization itself which is named Hliðskjálf.

@Sharur: It was kind of in between. They had started appearing about 30 years before the start of the story. So I guess I could use both then. Thanks.

Also, I've been thinking of something similar to the beings in your question for another story idea. Unfortunately, since that was a horror/urban fantasy series, I simply called them demons. If that doesn't fit the theme... Maybe they'd be called the Crafted?

...Sorry, I'm terrible at making up names. (-__-')

@Sharur: "Devourers" springs to mind, albeit that it's perhaps a little cliche; otherwise, perhaps "Teeth/Maws of the <insert name of Eldritch Abominations here>", indicating their early part in the feeding process, or "Black Maws/Teeth", indicating their role in the consumption and their past in despair or hatred.

Would either "neo pro(fessional) wrestling" or "pro(fessional) neo-wrestling" be an apt name for an evolution of modern professional wrestling that absorbs MMA's "full-contact combat sport" nature and open acceptance of both striking and grappling techniques from a diverse range of martial styles, while not ditching "traditional" pro wrestling's "sports entertainment" element and its emphasis on theatrical showmanship?

A rather important sub-question of this, is whether it's appropiate to call it "wrestling" when actual wrestling (i.e. proper grappling) is no longer the predominant aspect of the sport, despite still being a major element (and more often than not, a popular way of ending a match with a big show).

edited 3rd Jul '14 12:27:59 PM by MarqFJA

I need a name for a forgotten alien race that created the Tyrant Star.

Assuming it's not the literal Slaan-y Old Ones? Call them Skinks. It'd be suitable as a ground-level Imperial name for the race (of the sort used by Guardsmen and acolytes rather than Space Marines and Inquisitors) fits the reptilian nature sometimes attributed to the eye in the Tyrant Star, and ties in to WFB without being so direct as to be instantly obvious to one who hasn't checked that game out a little.

Of course, if you don't want an Old Ones connection I'm out of ideas.

Holy shit, dude.

Old Ones would actually kinda work.

Would Rot Kreuz (apparently that's Red Cross in German) be a bit too unusual name? The character, at least as known in the beginning, is a doctor who travels around the world, especially war-torn parts of the world, and provides medical care for those who can't afford it.

The setting is not quite the Earth - a constructed world, actually. Still, I'm wondering if any German speaking reader would raise eyebrows at that name.

Technically, it's Rotes Kreuz. Rot Kreuz is also the name of a kind of chemical weapon, nettle agents to be specific.

Ah. Damn, Wikipedia failed me. XP

Anyhow, Rotes Kreuz. Does that sound like a reasonable (as in, not eye-roll inducing) name?

edited 15th Jul '14 8:32:22 AM by dRoy

I think it'd be as unusual as someone named "Red Cross" would be in English. That is to say, very.

It's been a while since my German classes, but the grammatically valid "Rotes" as in "Rotes Kreuz"—making "Rot", or "red", into an adjective—would be an unusual if not invalid first name. In English, you don't see this, since "Red" is both a noun and an adjective. In German, though, "Rot" is the noun form, and "Rotes" is the adjectival form (for some words as the adjectival suffix will change depending on what it's modifying). He might earn the nickname "Rot", then, but that'd be grammatically invalid if you try to combine it with "Kreuz".