Loki: "Master Race", referring to "The Glorious PC Gaming Master Race" joke in Zero Punctuation and refers to Loki being more utility friendly compared to other frames, hence like the difference of PC to consoles, or Rusemaster".
"MANframe" for Rhino.
"Broberon" for Oberon.
Many variations on "Lobster" for Trinity and variations on "Chicken" for Ember.
"ASSets" for Saryn's, well, assets. This has recently extended to Wisp, a frame that takes this aspect of her design up a notch.
"Speedva" for one of Nova's builds that abuse how power strength mods scale, resulting in Nova's Molecular Prime speeding up enemies instead of slowing them down. Frequently used to speed up attack waves in defense missions for the purpose of item farming.
Conversely, "Slowva" is the term for a Nova with incredibly high power strength, to slow down enemies so much that they do not have the time to attack.
"Pokeball" for Octavia's Roller.
"Birb Prime" for Zephyr Prime.
Grendel has been referred to as "Voreframe", "Kirbyframe", or "Chonkframe", due to its robust design and ability to swallow enemies whole, as can be seen here.
Orokin Reactors & Catalysts - "potato", specifically "golden" and "blue" potatoes (respectively). Caught on with the devs early on and seems to have stuck. One of the devs was spotted wearing a Warframe-branded shirt with a golden potato on it in Livestream #19. Further, Darvo mentions a "Potent Orokin Technical Augmentation and Tactical Offensive device", AKA "POTATO", in the "A Man of Few Words" quest. Other food-related fan nicknames include:
"Tomatoes" for Exilus adapters, whose red body and hollow circular shape makes them look like tomato slices.
"Cabbages" for Void Relics, inspired by their shape and previous vegetable-themed nicknames.
"Pineapples" for Anasa Ayatan Sculptures, a common reward from Sorties, which are gold with a bulbous bottom and spiny top.
"Chilis" or "Chili Peppers" for Kuva, whose mission icon looks extremely similar to a stylized hot pepper.
"Candy" for the Health and Energy orb drops.
"Pizzas" for the team Energy/Health/Shield/Ammo Restore items.
"Cooking" for crafting to go along with the other food based nicknames. Some also use "baking" as the foundry table bears a vague resemblance to an oven.
There's been some traction for "lemon," "lime," and "orange" as nicknames for the random drop Toroids from the Orb Vallis free-roam map.
"Corn Cobs" for the Voidrig Necramech, especially when glitches cause only the central pod to be shown.
Tangentially connected to the above are frequent nicknames "Farmframe" or "Warfarm" — used by both detractors and fans in reference to the heavy amount of Money Grinding and Item Farming required to rank up if you play for free. That many of these resources tend to look like fruits and vegetables just adds fuel to the fire.
The operators themselves also are often called potatoes by the fandom, somewhat due to how their faces look. Alternatively, the playable operator mode after The War Within is sometimes called Kiddo Mode or Spoiler Mode.
The Stalker is sometimes called Santa by high-level players who farm him for the blueprints of his powerful weapons.
"Stalky" for Stalker.
Alad V: "Salad V", or "Salad 5" since the "V" in his name can be confused for a Roman numeral. Mutalist Alad V is "spoiled Salad" or "tossed Salad".
The Jat Kittag warhammer is now being called the Jet Kitty.
"Space AK" for the Karak. Odd, as the Karak has more in common with the M16note 30-round magazine, high rate-of-fire, and general design. The game files even refer to it as the "GrineerM16Rifle".
"Space AK" would be later assigned for the Soma, which look like a combination between the AK-47 and the infamous Chauchat.
"Tenno FAMAS" for the Burston.
"Powerdrills" for the Twin Gremlins or the Dex Furis.
"Space AIDS" or "Space Ebola" for the Infestation, although it's also frequently used to refer to the Helminith Cyst.
"Naked Nick" for the guy that used to be in the Defense cryopod; it's not even the player nickname for him, but that of the developers. Succeeded by Bondage Bob.
"Hallway Hero(es)" for people in Defense maps (both regular and mobile) who camp enemies at spawnpoints or chokepoints instead of near the terminal.note This is frowned upon for several reasons: One, someone will have to waste precious time and possibly get the terminal damaged by a stray enemy if said hallway hero is downed; two, it leaves players who dutifully defend the objective with little to no action; three, XP is shared based on proximity to the player who earned it; four, it screws up enemy spawns, who attempt to spawn a certain distance away from players; and five, it'll get any rare materials or modules to drop far from the defense point.
"Zorencopter", or simply "coptering", for the trick of performing sliding melee attacks with Dual Zorens equipped, in order to glide across the map.* An early glitch caused melee slide attacks to effectively catapult players in a straight line at a velocity based on the attack speed of the melee weapon; at the time this was discovered, the Dual Zoren were by far the fastest melee weapon in the game, featuring a base 2.0 swings per second, with the next highest weapon at no more than 1.5 swings per second. With the Fury mod, the Dual Zoren reached 3.2 swings per second - more with Warframe abilities - allowing players to literally fling themselves from one end of the largest outdoor tiles to the other. The developers initially liked the glitch so much they kept it in, but it proved too much when players were able to perform Sequence Breaking by outrunning door animations and the like. With the Melee 2.0 update, both Zoren and the Fury mod were nerfed* Melee 2.0 introduced an attack comboing system which favored high attack speed weapons, requiring that weapon speeds be normalized as a result, and the Scoliac whip and Amphis staff outstripped the Zorens for coptering potential, due to higher attack speeds allowing for more impulse on the slide attack. The nickname has stuck though, even though U17 and Parkour 2.0 killed off the maneuver for good.
"Lotus Interrupt" for when the Lotus interrupts your current mission to tell you to kill everything in sight.
"Spinny Bois" for the Ratels.
"Discoball" for the Sentients' spinning laser attack.
"Friendship Door" for the doors that need two players to open in multiplayer games.
"Shrino" for the giant Rhino statue in the middle of the Relay hubs.
"Alertium" for Nitain Extract, the once alert-exclusive resource introduced in 17.12. Funnily enough, that's also how it's referred to in the game's code.
"Twin Bolsak"* Ballsack for the (once) insultingly-underpowered Twin Basolk.
Fashionframe, jokingly referred to as "the True Endgame of Warframe": people who will spend a fortune on cosmetic items so their Warframe looks absolutely beautiful, badass, FABULOUS, ugly or any combination thereof.
"Space Mom" for the Lotus, whose relationship with the Tenno is decidedly maternal. Also applied by extension to Rebecca Ford, the Warframe Community Manager and Lotus' voice actor. Really came into preeminence after the Natah and Second Dream quests, but had been used before those as well.
"Space Uncle" for Teshin or, even more rarely, Space Hat Adoptive Dad for Tenno.
"Space Robot Butler" for Ordis.
"Space Grandpa" for Hunhow, though he has also been called "Space Uncle" on rare occasions.
"Space Stepdad" for Ballas.
"Space Dad" and "Warfriend" rapidly became the new nicknames for Umbra after The Sacrifice.
"Batpuppies" for Kubrow.
"Cancer Pupper" for the Helminth Charger.
Katbrows for Kavats, being the Kubrows' feline counterparts.
After the announcement of Warframe for the Nintendo Switch, the community wasted no time in dubbing the Switch players the NinTenno.
"Roflcopter" for Ropalolyst.
While there aren't many fans of this particular mechanic, the underwater sections on Uranus where you're required to use your Archwing to maneuver around are sometimes referred to as "Sharkwing" levels.
Some have taken to calling the Kuva Liches "Kuva Leeches", due to the sheer amount of pain they cause players just by having one active, from stealing drops from the mission to having one-hit kill attacks.
The MOA that gets crushed by the Jackal in its post Update 28 fight intro has been named "Popcorn".
"Gundition Overload" for the mods Galvanized Aptitude, Galvanized Savvy, and Galvanized Shot, due to them boosting damage based on the target's status effects, making them the gun version of the Condition Overload melee mod.
The Purified Bloom Ephemera is also known as the "Flashbang Ephemera" due to its extremely bright visual effects, causing huge amounts of bloom and blinding the player if it's used with bright colors.
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