Fan Nickname / Azur Lane

• The level cap breaking system is often dubbed as "Mindbreak" as they require Cognitive chips to break a shipgirl's level limit.
• Rarities are often named by color for simplicity in terms of talking about equipment and because the global version has different rarity names than Japan and China (though China once used the same as global before a certain point) with the biggest offenders being Super Rare or SR which for Japan and China refers to the purple rarity (which Global calls Elite, which is also the subtitle of Japan/China's purple rarity) while in global refers to the Gold one (in Japan/China, called SSR with Super Rare as its subtitle).
• "Fox Mines" for 3-4, where players can farm Akagi and Kaga.
  • "Poi Mines" and "Dog Mines" for 6-4 (Yuudachi) and 8-4 (Maya), respectively.
• "Lusty" for Illustrious and her excellent figure. It was also the actual real world nickname of the subsequent ship to bear the name.
  • She is also sometimes referred to as "useless carrier" not so much for any lack of utility, but because she shares a voice actress with Aqua (who is frequently berated as a "useless goddess") from Konosuba.
  • It seems that devs also more or less agree with that◊ by turning her into a light aircraft carrier, though this is likely just an incidental error.
  • In Indonesian circles, she is called "Lastri" (common Indonesian girl name) because the Illustrious sounds very similar to the name.
  • Similarly, Little Illustrious has already garnered "Lolillustrious", "Lolustrious", "Smolustrious" and so on.
• Her sister Victorious is sometimes called Vicky.
• And their younger sister Formidable is sometimes called Formi. In addition, her skill "Don't Move an Inch!" is often called "Za Warudo".
  • Formidable also has the less flattering nickname of "Lumbering", due to Carabiniere's memorable mistake of pushing her Berserk Button by calling her just that.
• Unicorn has the rather less flattering nickname of Uniporn.
  • Due to how it sounds, the first two syllable of Unicorn also forms Indonesian nickname for Unicorn: Yuni (another common Indonesian girl name).
• For San Diego, she has "Sandy" and "3D5" (Japanese language number play on her name). In some forums, she's also known as "Salt Diego" and "Salty" since she often appears to players trying to pull other rare ships that are considered better than her, to the point where San Diego was often considered only useful for medals of honor. "Number One" (and how she says it, i.e. "Numbah Wan") are also used, more so since her remodel hit.
  • Some Indonesian fans called San Diego "Sandiaga" as wordplay of one particular businessman-turned-politician
• "Longlegs Monster" for Souryuu and her disproportionately long legs in her artwork.
• "Akaga" for the combination of Akagi and Kaga, who work extremely well together and both drop in the infamous "Fox Mines" of 3-4.
  • When Nagato released and she was revealed to work well with them, the nickname "Nakaga" was born.
  • With the debut of Amagi, a fleet consisting of Amagi and Akaga will be called Amakaga.
    • Speaking of Kaga, her battleship version (before converting to aircraft carrier Kaga) is often called "Baga," "BBKaga," "Bakaga" or Idiot Kaga.
    • And speaking of Amagi, she's often called Mama Amagi or Mamagi when she's depicted together with Akagi-chan, or even Akagi and Kaga, especially if they're acting especially childish.
• King George V is usually called KGV. As one would expect, her sister ships have their own in the same vein as well:
  • "PoW" or "Wales" for Prince of Wales.
  • Duke of York is called DoY or Dork. Some have also started calling her Yorkie, which is her older sister King George V's Affectionate Nickname for her.
• "Belfap" due to Belfast being a particularly sexy maid.
  • A more affectionate name is "Bel-chan." This name is shared with her limited smaller version, also called Belchan (less obvious in the English servers since she was renamed Little Bel there).
• "Clevedad" or "Clevebro" for Cleveland and her awesome anti-air capability and general utility in the game. This originated from her nickname in the Chinese World of Warships server due to being a very good ship, and being a World War II-era cruiser at Tier 6 where most other cruisers are from the interwar era, before the line split moved her to Tier 8. The nickname has become Ascended Fanon when her younger version is dubbed Clevelad in the English version, and Cleveland herself objects to the nickname Clevedad in both her secretary lines and during a short story sent out in game to celebrate the Fourth of July
  • "Cheatland" is another name from World of Warships, although not too prominent at current time.
• Montpelier sometimes gets called Markiplier due to how similar their names are.
• Yorktown is sometimes called "Iri" due to being nearly a dead ringer for Irisviel von Einzbern.
• In the same vein, Renown is sometimes also called "Seaber" or just "Saber" for looking a lot like Saber. She is also sometimes called "Violet" for her resemblance to the Violet Evergarden, but this is mostly due to the meme that Violet and Saber look the same^NoteWhich is funny considering that another shipgirl, Enterprise, is actually the closest to Violet's personality, and shares the same voice actress.. These are also sometimes combined, resulting in nicknames like "Violet Eversaber."
• Bataan also gets called "Violet" due to her own resemblance with said character, although she resembles Violet's younger self the most appearance-wise; she is also called "Armin" as well due to somewhat resembling Armin Arlert.
• Enterprise Alter for Code:G, who is basically an Evil Doppelgänger of Enterprise. Other variations include Alterprise, or Alty (as a reference to the normal Enterprise's nickname of Enty). This also was applied to Ember (an Evil Doppelgänger of Takao) when she made her debut in Ashen Simulacrum, who tends to be refered to as either Takao Alter or, more commonly, Altakao.
  • Funny enough the chinese script for Mirror Involution actually has "Helena Alter" as a dialogue choice concerning Helena Meta
  • Ascended on the official English Discord, which added an emote of her named ":AlterMad:"
  • Ember also nicknamed Oma Taka-O being the more powerful, dark future self of Takao.
• Ikazuchi and Inazuma are Sakura destroyers with pink and blue hair respectively. They're also sisterships. No points for guessing they've become known as Ram and Rem.
• Ranger is sometimes called RNGer due to her powerful but relatively low activation rate skills, Quick Launch and Assault Carrier. If with just one activation of Quick Launch and two activations of Assault Carrier, she can do two airstrikes back-to-back, both of which do twice their already considerable damage that results from her entirely surface-attack focused airwing (two dive bomber squadrons and one torpedo bomber squadron), and since Quick Launch can proc off Quick Launch generated airstrikes just like normally charged airstrikes, Ranger is capable of theoretically unlimited damage, however unlikely it may be. As a bonus, her skirt (base version only) actually reads "RNG" on its pleats.
• "Jewcat" for Akashi due to her being the shopkeeper for the Gem store, giving her the perception of being greedy. Unfortunate Implications for the fanbase ahoy!
• Enterprise can either be Ente/Enty, Big E, E-chan, Exodia (see below), or "OWARI DA" (her notorious line when activating her skill).
• "Furry Taco" for Furutaka, again from World of Warships.
  • Similarly, Takao is sometimes called Taco, while her Evil Doppelgänger Ember is sometimes called Dark Taco or Taco Alter.
• Lady Lex for Lexington (her real life nickname).
• Sara-chan, Sara Maru (her real life nickname), Sister Sara (again, another real life nickname) for Saratoga. Saratiny and Little Sister Sara because of her childlike appearance compared to her KanColle and Warship Girls counterparts (as well as compared to almost every other fleet carrier in the game. And even some of the escort carriers). Sarutoga because of her artist Saru.
• The trio of Helena, Wichita, and Cleveland are sometimes called "the Egyptian Gods" due to being very strong and useful Elite cruisers from the same faction (Eagle Union) and for having a blue, red, and yellow color scheme respectively. This team up has gotten a nod in a fanart that was used for both a loading screen and title screen.
  • This extends even further to referring to Enterprise as the head of the Exodia, and two other similarly powerful carriers (usually the Akaga pair, though Saratoga Kai and Essex are also candidates) as the left and right hands of the Exodia.
• West Virginia occasionally gets referred to as "Mountain Mama." At the very least, you can expect someone to reference "Take Me Home, Country Roads" whenever she gets brought up.
  • Got to the point even the new character designer for West Virginia did a drawing of her with a guitar and with John Denver's glasses.
• "Zombie" to describe skills (and the ships that have them) that heal a ship's own hitpoints when their health falls below a certain percentage, which is highly desirable for fleets intended to clear out mobs, as they can keep fighting forever so long as they don't lose too much health in a single battle (ships with such skills include Cassin, Downes, Phoenix, Yorktown, Monarch, HMS Neptune, and Minneapolis).
• "Big Wasp Yo" or simply "Big Wasp" for Hornet, due to a poor early translation of her line in the English version. This was not helped by the fact that the Chinese term for "Hornet" is 大黄蜂, which literally means Big Wasp.
  • In reference to that, it's also not unheard of for Wasp to be called "Little Hornet" or similar.
• "Bucky" for Fubuki, sharing the same logic chain with KanColle in that "buki" sounds somewhat like "Bucky", her name means "blizzard", and the namesake is the Winter Soldier. An emoji in Azur Lane Discord server is named "smug Bucky" featuring Fubuki with a smug face. Her "Nearly Late for School" skin has gained the Black Comedy "School Shooter Fubuki" moniker due to a belt of ammo coming out of her bag.
• "Thinkpitz" for Tirpitz, whose default art pose brings to mind Rodin's The Thinker. She also bears the name "Derpitz" (from World of Warships). This became an Ascended Meme, with an ingame emote depicting her thinking being called "thinkpitz".
• North Carolina is often called "Showboat" (her real life nickname), or NoCal, or Carol (contractions of her name). In a similar manner, USS Washington is called Washy (to shorten her name), and South Dakota is called SoDak. And the outdated PVP Meta for using Washington and South Dakota is usually called WASD.
  • Due to the fact that Z23 and Washington share the same VA (Rika Abe), some players often called the latter "Big Nimi".
• "Ayaya" for Ayanami, double as In-Series Nickname thanks to Javelin and Z23.
• In Japan, Z23's usually known as Nimi instead. ^note A slang for Two-Three This carries over to EN server. In the same manner, Z46 is often called Shiro (shi = 4, roku = 6), which pulls double duty because her character storyline leans reasonably hard on naming her "Weiss" or a similar color name. Weiss is "white" in German; Shiro is white in Japanese. In universe Z23 will even refer to herself as Nimi as well, having seemingly accepted it as a proper name. The subtitles do not reflect this.
• Big Fred for Friedrich der Große. To shorten her name, players would call her Fd G. Due to her mother-like attitude, many called her Mommy Fred.
• "Entyface" for how similar Enterprise, Bismarck and Tirpitz look to each other (especially E and 'Pitz, who share a hair color). The artist, Hao, is actually capable of a lot more variety (even in AL, they're also responsible for Akagi, both versions of Kaga, the Königsberg sisters, Cleveland, Columbia, and Benson, among others, and those last few can hardly be accused of looking like Enty) but the prominence of Enterprise and Bismarck, especially the latter around the game's second debut anniversary, made it a bit hard to miss and led to many a meme. This also led to a funny case of Palette Swap, in which both Enterprise and Bismarck share the same "lul" (Enty Lul and Bisko Lul) Discord emote with similar face, but different hair colors (Enterprise is silver platinum, Bismarck is blonde).
  • With the reveal of Zara, an similar meme is born, Luluface. Even Yostar gave Meme Acknowledgment with official wall scroll poster of Honolulu and Zara together.
  • Expect the arrival of Sovetskaya Rossiya (Soviet Russia) to be dubbed as either "Russian Enty" or "Owari Дa" despite having a different artist.
• Biscko, Bisko, Bisco and Biscuit for Bismarck. Also, due to her face being similar to Enterprise, people would often call her Blonde Enty.
• The American St. Louis is sometimes referred to as St. Lewdis due to her Shameless Fan Service Girl status. It probably doesn't help that by June 2019, she has the highest proportion of R-18 art on Pixiv; and that was before she received her Luxurious Wheels special Live2D CG in 2020, which shows the most amount of skin out of all special shipgirl CGs outside of swimsuit arts.
  • Similarly, Honolulu is sometimes referred to as Honolulewd or Honolewdlewd, due to her Reluctant Fanservice Girl status. Not to mention that she has the 2nd highest proportion of R-18 art on Pixiv by June 2019, just behind St. Louis. She's also called Hono or Lulu. With the introduction of Zara who looks similar, she started to be called Hawaiian Pizza.
• Dunkerque is nicknamed Dunk, Dunkek, Donut (for her love of the pastries and also punning on Dunkin' Donuts), and Dunkirk (by those who have trouble remembering the French spelling of the place she's named for)
• Pensacola and Juno are sometimes compared to and called Natsuki, especially the latter, due to the similar hair. Some people even consider Juno to be a younger version of her and Pensacola to be an older version. Even Saratoga is brought into the comparison in rarer cases.
• Saint Louis is sometimes called Sanrui, meant to reflect a Japanese pronunciation of her name, primarily to help distinguish her from St.Louis. Ascended on the official English Discord, where the emoticon of her is :SanruiStare:.
  • Chinese players call her 6194 because these four numbers said in Mandarin is homophonic with the Chinese rendition of Louis IX, her namesake. ^note To put it simply: 6194 (六一九四 in Chinese) will be read as Liùyījiǔsì, and King Louis IX (路易九世 in Chinese) will be read as Liùyījiǔshì. Can you spot the similarity?
• San Juan has three:
  • Juanita, in part because of her use of Spanish in her English dialogue (which was later removed), and in part becuase she represents Puerto Rico.
  • Because she's one of San Diego's sisters, and they have similar names, she's sometimes called Numbah Juan.
  • Some call her Taiga, due to her bearing some resemblance to Aisaka Taiga.
• Juneau is sometimes called "Jesus" because of her War Martyr skill, which heals all allied ships when she is sunk.
• Yukikaze is known as "NANO DA" thanks to her Verbal Tic.
• The Anime itself is starting to get referenced as Yuri Lane thanks mostly to Akagi's advances towards Kaga along with Belfast's and Enterprise's relationship.
• Mikasa is often called Momikasa or Grandma due to her being one of the oldest ships in the game and often being depicted by fans as having a maternal relationship with Nagato, her successor. She's also known in Japan as "Dai Senpai" (Great Senpai), because as the oldest ship she's everyone's senpai.
• Monarch is sometimes called Mom-narch. The reasons for this are debated.
• Warspite is sometimes called Despacito because her skill line "despicio". Alternatively, "Warcorgi", or just "Corgi", because her twin hair tufts make her look like a puppy, helped by both being associated with royalty.
  • The chibi version that can appear in HMS Neptune's Christmas skin is called Smolspite.
• Apologems (apology + gems) for any compensation gems devs gift to players whenever they mess up something. In the same manner, there would also have apolocubes (Wisdom Cube), apolocoins (Coins) and such.
• Carabiniere is often called "Pizza Nimi" or "Pasta Nimi" because she looks a lot like Z23, shares some personality traits and she's from the Fantasy Counterpart Culture of Italy. They also have the same artist.
• London is often called "Sate sate" (her verbal tic whenever she activates her skills). Considering how powerful her Kai version is, you would hear it... A LOT.
• Giulio Cesare is often dubbed as (Julius) Caesar (her namesake) or Shiza.
• Littorio is shortened to Litt, or fans just outright call her Giorno or Arrivederci.
• Laffey is often called Bunbun, Sleepy Bunny or Drunk/Vodka Bunny affectionately by her fans.
• Sirius is, unsurprisingly, called Serious (played on her name), or 2B, 2B Maid. Dido is called... Di(d)o or dildo.
• Essex, due to her Adorkable status in meta, is sometimes called Dumbsex, Essegs, or just... Sex.
• "Comrade Shortstack" for Pamiat Merkuria, because of the Russian cruiser's rather endowed displacement in spite of having the body frame of a destroyer.
• Portland gained the nickname "Shortland" after Crosswave came out, due to her character model in that game being shorter than Ayanami (a destroyer).
• "177013" or "Saki" for Marblehead, because she looks very much like the protagonist of the infamously tragic hentai manga Metamorphosis and even carries a picture of herself with black hair, twin braids and glasses (from before adopting a gyaru-esque style). Her artist has officially repudiated the comparison, but that has never stopped anyone before.
• Sovetskaya Rossiya of the North Union is sometimes called Soviet ^note Due to the North Union being based off Soviet Russia Enterprise because of her resemblance to the Eagle Union ship (although unlike Bismarck and Tirpitz, they don't share the same artist) - especially when comparing her normal skin with Enterprise's Christmas skin.
  • Her sister ship, Sovetskaya Belorussiya, immediately garnered the nickname "Esdeath" upon her debut.
• Chapayev is somewhat compared to Rem due to the similar hairstyle. Many people were quick to make comparisons when she was shown on social media pages.
• Cooper is sometimes referred to as "Smoltimore" because she looks like a younger version of Baltimore.
• Algerie is called French or Baguette Belfast because they look alike (despite different artists) Accordingly, edits of the Belfast plush "Yus" image macro to look like Algerie, complete with a change to "Oui", have started to appear. Like so.
  • Due to being an easy and obvious spoonerism, calling her Allergy is gaining traction.
• Le Malin has the nickname "Mochi" from the Japanese due to how soft her cheeks look. This has since become Ascended Fanon due to one of the Commander's possible responses on her Universe in Unison Juustagram post.
  Commander: Le Mochi is cute.
• Howe is called "Howechama" because of her visual similarity to Akai Haato, something Houshou Marine also picked up when she rolled Howe for the first time.
• Players who failed to get Shinano will dub her ShinaNO or Shinanone.
• Speaking of the Yamato-class Aircraft Carrier, the nickname "S🅱inano" came to be associated with her after the reveal of her Moonlit Chrome Race Queen CG, all because of the references in the said CG's background.^ExplanationThe nickname is in reference to the infamous "S🅱innala" meme.
• Bremerton, who has the pink twintails and gyaru-ish and appearance, made some players who also plays Idolmaster Cinderella Girls thought of her as Mika Jougasaki. Others have taken to referring to her with the diminutive "Bremmy"
• Within days after the announcement of New Jersey and her Exhilirating Steps Special CG, fans have taken to referring to the said special CG as "America's Ass." The nickname has since expanded to the rest of her special CG's due to having the same prominent feature.
• Ticonderoga immediately got the nicknames "Thighconderoga" and "THICConderoga" on account of her shapely thighs, both in her default art AND her Show Stopper Playboy Bunny attire.
• Ying Swei is often referred to as Keqing due to her purple color scheme and her hairstyle. People who play both Genshin Impact and Azur Lane were prone to joking about getting Keqing in AL during the event where Ying Swei debuted, particularly if they were also unable to get the actual Keqing in Genshin.
  • Ying Swei's sister Chao Ho is sometimes referred to as Todoroki due to her hair, which is colored in the same pattern as Shoto's.
• Penelope is sometimes referred to as Mashu due to her close resemblance to Shielder.
• Some PVP portmaneau team nicknames (besides WASD, Akaga / Nakaga / Amakaga, mentioned above):
  • Namagi: Nagato and Amagi IJN core, with variations depending on the third main fleet component:
    • Namaryuu (with Hiryuu Retrofit): The dominant PVP meta composition before the rise of Dev30 Friedrich der Grosse and Shinano.
    • Namaspite (with Warspite Retrofit): Variant focusing on early-sniping troublesome backliners with Warspite's "Divine Marksman" barrage.
    • Namagi FDG (with Friedrich): In turn upstaged by Namano and Shinaryuu below.
    • Namano (with Shinano).
  • Shinaryuu: Shinano and Hiryuu IJN core, often with Nagato as flagship. Displaced Namano with the advent of the carrier concealment mechanics.
  • Mafia Fleet: An Italian-American meta core (Vittorio Veneto, Aquila and New Jersey on main and Duca degli Abruzzi plus two other ships on vanguard, typically chosen from Anchorage, Juneau and Shimakaze), and the primary variant of the Italian preload meta (which uses the three Italian ships). Ended the traditional IJN dominance of PVP meta fleet composition.
• The META ships each have their own nicknames.
  • Hiryuu Meta is often called Miryuu
  • Ark Royal Meta had the nickname DArk Royal ever since her design was unveiled during the first Japanese anniversary stream due to her darker appearance.
  • Helena Meta is called Metlena or HelMet. ^note You might be tempted to call her "Melena" (to follow suit with Hiryuu Meta being Miryuu), but once you find out that melena is a real word with a very unpleasant definition, you might change your mind.
• Players quickly gave Kronshtadt the nickname of Kronk, due to how their names start identically. Even dishwasher1910, Kronshtadt's official artist, facilitates the joke.
• Upon the reveal of Seydlitz's CG Art, fans immediately made the connection and nicknamed her "Micchon".
• Due to their similar appearance, Harbin is sometimes referred to as "Kson".
• Giving things nicknames is not limited to the shipgirls, but their weaponry as well. In fact, fan nicknames for guns are used significantly more often amongst players than their actual names, since said names are more like full descriptions of the weapon (such as Single/Twin/Triple XYZmm Main Gun Mount) and it can be incredibly difficult to remember all of the barrel counts and millimeter sizes of all of the different weapons. It's not uncommon for newer players, or even some veterans, to get tripped up by being recommended something like a Georgia Gun and have no idea what they're talking about. Fortunately, some helpful players maintain a list with graphics of all of the commonly used weapons and their nicknames.
• Some of the non-gun weapons have nicknames as well:
  • The Twin 113mm anti-air gun is known as the "Roomba" due to its shape.
  • The High Performance Hydraulic Steering Gear is known as the "Washing Machine."
  • The VH Armor Plating is known as "Grilled Cheese."
• Taimanin Takao, due to her Ninja skin looking very similar to Rinko Akiyama's Taimanin suit.

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