Personal nicknames or terms for things.

Have you ever seen a character group of characters in a movie otr TV show and come up with your own term for them, whether or not they have a fandom term already? For instance, I have a friend who calls Star Trek's redshirts 'suicide squads'.

So how about you?

To start: I call the three UFOs In Close Encountersofthe Third Kind that appear at the base and initiate conversation with humans 'The Magi'.

There were three (Caspar, Melchior and Balthazar) and they bore a gift (in this case, true contact with alien life).

edited 15th Feb '17 11:00:20 PM by HextarVigar

I call all people Oliver meets on the island in Arrow "Ollie's New Friend". The main "New Friend" is Slade, but I call all of them that too.

The bad guy with blue lips in the Dungeons and Dragons movie gets called "Ichiban" by a friend and I due to a joke from Friends.

Also I gave all the regulars on Whose Line Is It Anyway? nicknames based on the Spice Girls.

You know that metal bars that form a barrier on the edge of a bridge, to prevent people from falling? Me and my friends call this thing a 'belly-guard' because nobody knows what is it called.

Also, in the region I live (Minas Gerais, a state in Brazil), we are used to call everything a 'train'. Seriously, everything is a train here- food, sandals, chairs, TV Tropes, even actual trains!

Now, about movies, me and my brother call the jawas from Star Wars the Kee-bee (because of the sound they make).

I have given names to unnamed side characters in Fujio Akatsuka anime. One of them is the robotic sextuplet clone from Osomatsu-kun 1966, who I refer to as Robomatsu. Another would be Parabou, an extra who Bakabon's Papa is next to in the pool during a scene is Heisei Tensai Bakabon. Parabou is just a Hatabou clone that wears a small beach parasol on his head instead of a flag. (Unlike Robomatsu, Parabou is of no importance and doesn't even speak in the episode, I believe.)

I work at a McDonald's and the warming cabinet for the chicken nuggets only has four letters in the readout. Thus, it says "NUGG". I've taken to calling chicken nuggets "nugg" as a result. Most of my managers are not amused, especially not after other workers started saying "nugg" too.

I call guitars "strumgy strum six string" but that's more in jest.

edited 16th Feb '17 1:52:33 PM by HowInKraidable

Super Mario World terminology, courtesy of my little brother when he was six years old: Goombas are dogs, Koopas are ducks (?), mushrooms are bigs, and capes are flyguys. (Our whole family still uses "bigs" and "flyguys.")

Online piracy isn't digital theft, it's me being an asshole to my team and it almost got me banned on here. But fuck their whining: If you want it so badly, then go kill it yourself.

And to "ruin someone's day" means playing at lower levels to kill inexperinced players farm money...Or me being lazy and leeching off of an victory (or an loss, it goes both ways and the rage is worth it) while being as something important.

edited 17th Feb '17 5:39:41 PM by RabidTanker

Ibuprofen is "Ibuhbuh". Demerara sugar is "Demaraderp". Butter chicken with naan bread is "Baachikky naan". Spaghetti is "sketty".

All of these came from me and my siblings being unable to pronounce stuff, obviously, but they have persisted long after we learned to get the names right.

Any kind of sharp weapon, spike-based trap or annoying obstacle is a "death stick", or "dödspinne" in Swedish. Most commonly used as a warning when me and siblings play video games. ("Watch out for the death sticks!") Variations include "death spinner" and "murder-dude".

Also, "eggon and bake" for "bacon and eggs".

My family used to call the Fire Flower in Super Mario Bros "Flower Power" so we called it that almost to this day.

Corvidae, thanks. From now on, I am going to think of every unnamed mook as a Murder Dude.

Halberdier 17, in my house, the flower was a "fire guy," a burden to be swapped out with a flyguy as soon as possible.

I've got a couple. When I used to be a soldier, back when I had most of my hair and most of my teeth, I used to call the bayonet that came with our British SA-80 rifle the "short, pointy, stabby thing".

More recently in this site's forum thread for Fallout: New Vegas, I call the faction the game names "Caesar's Legion" instead the "Sallow's Merry Band of Baby Killing Rapists" because that's what they do if you read the game's fluff.

A friend and I tend to refer to Jojos Bizarre Adventure as Jojo's Bizarre Nail Spa.

It's because there's a Jojo Nails Spa near me.

When I was a kid, I called Mouser "Evil Chuck E. Cheese" simply For the Lulz. Even now, I still call him that sometimes.

Anything metal that is heavier than it looks is known to me and a friend as "Mew-Mew".

This mostly happens with Magic: The Gathering amongst my friends. For example, the card Child of Alara is "the baby" because of the art.

My sisters and I call rocks "dudes". But only the rocks at the forest preserve in our town, which is where we put rock-dudes on boats of bark in the pond.

My youngest sister has a dolphin pillow that's more pillow than dolphin, and consequently looks like a cross between a blobfish and a whale. We call it the blobfhale.

I don't know about having my own words for things, but I do name the things I have (mostly after Greek figures). My laptop is named Cassiopeia (I call her "Cass" for short), my phone is Andromeda, my keyboard is Apollo, and my rarely-played violin is named Artemis (because she's good with a bow ).

...does this count?

For some reason, I call superheroes ending in "man" as "guy" (for instance: "Batguy"), and call my laptop 'Lappie'.

Yep.

Remember the friend with Jojo's Bizarre Nails Spa? Well, he have another thing like that, stemmed from my little sister. It's called Shit Frog.

So, it was when my sister was younger and she didn't know Sgt. was pronounced Sergeant. So she pronounced it as "shit" instead; got no clue why.

The Sun: Daylight Orb

Plasma Beam (Metroid): Not Communism (don’t ask)

Anything unexplainable: Bird Magic

There's a local charter school whose students I think of as "ducklings". See, there's a public park I pass on my way to work and they sometimes use it for recess activities - the first time I was out at the right time to encounter them, they were all lined up behind the teacher heading to the park and I had to wait for them all to pass before I could move on along the sidewalk, and I thought of the children's book Make Way For Ducklings.

Because a friend once used the term, those coin op vending machines that give you little toys in an egg-shaped plastic container are Magic Chicken Machines.

Michael Buble is Michael Bubble. I briefly thought his name was actually pronounced like that, and now I keep it up because it sounds funny.

Awwww! I was a duckling as a little kid! My school didn't have a playground, so we walked to the public park. ^_^

Personal nickname for a specific taste: Planty.

My kid came up with that one. My twin brother had made some basil, cucumber, and cucumber infused water. The kid tried it. He said, "This tastes too planty." It's hard to describe the taste, so here are some things I think are too planty: Kale, green tea, parsley, granny smith apples, and rutabagas.

I've taken to calling potato gems (tater tots to you Americans) "spud nuggets" because it's just more fun to say.