Quotes / Dark Age of Supernames

Doctor: "Captain Atom?" What kind of name is that? What's wrong with a snappy one word name? The only way he can feel important is to use a title?
Hawksmoor: You mean like Doctor?
Elsewhere!
Captain Atom: This one's called "Voodoo". All these blunt, one-word names. I don't get it. No pizzazz. No style.

— Captain Atom: Armageddon #4

"Name wild, Captain mild," as my father used to say. Those who select the most ferocious of names are without exception the ones least worthy of them.

— Twig, The Edge Chronicles

"Are you new to this line of work? Do you have a clever name like "Grifter"? One that sounds hip at first until you realize it's trying too hard?"

— Midnighter, blind to his own flaws, in Captain Atom: Armageddon #8

Superman: Grifter, take your friend hiding there in the rafters—
Deathblow: Deathblow.
Superman: Seriously?

— Superman Annual #1 (2012)

Ladytron: "Deathblow". Jeez... What is it with you guys and all this Death-Hell-Kill-Blood stuff?
Deathblow: Oh, like Ladytron is any better? Sounds like a brand of vibrator.

— Wild C.A.T.s (WildStorm) #28

"DUUUUUUUUUUDE you know what would be totally hardcore? If there was a comic that didn't feature any of those stupid 'dialog balloons' or 'plot points.' It just had a guy SHOOTIN' STUUUUUUUFF! We could call it BLOODGUN! YEAH!"

— 90's Kid, Atop the Fourth Wall review of Cable #1

"Superman was never hardcore, he'll never last like characters like Bloodsport and Bloodaxe, and other characters with "Blood" in their name."

— 90's Kid, Atop the Fourth Wall

"They [the female characters] don't even have real names, they're all like WARCHILD, VIPER, and CHROME, just straight out of the big book of 90s era Image comic books. [a montage of Rob Liefeld's comic covers appears on the screen]''

—Matt McMuscles's review of video game Girl Fight (a 2013 release)