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Appropriated Appellation
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When a person (often a superhero, villain or more grounded criminal) takes his name from a nickname, an insult, or a botched pronunciation, spoken or spread in print by someone else. In real life, this could extend to criminals who adopt the moniker given them in the press. A subversion could be a criminal corresponding with the press to "correct" the error like Son of Sam or Jack the Ripper. Can be a form of Insult Backfire when the name was meant to be derogatory. Arguably a form of in-universe Ascended Fanon. Compare: Line-of-Sight Name, Namedar, Title Drop, Ascended Meme, and the real concept of Reappropriation. Compare and contrast Named by Democracy where someone is often forced to accept the name others use instead of willfully adopting it, possibly even lacking the ability to appropriate or protest the name. When a whole group of people does this it's N-Word Privileges. |
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Adventure Time: In the Season 2 episode "Susan Strong", the eponymous character unwittingly names herself when Finn asks her what her name is, and she's still struggling with the word "Sun": "Suh... Sun." During the events of the "Islands" miniseries, she regains her memories of her life before coming to Ooo, including her real name, "Kara." She ultimately decides to keep her name as "Susan." Princess Bubblegum's royal status is later revealed to have stemmed from a condescending nickname that she got from her uncle Gumbald. |
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Ultimate Spider-Man: Miles Morales tries to decide a new codename for himself to not be confused with Peter Parker after he ends up stranded in Peter's dimension. After going through several bad names, Doctor Octopus mockingly calls him Spider-Man's "Kid Arachnid", and Miles takes a liking to it. | |
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Abraxas (Hrodvitnon): "San" is at first merely a nickname that Vivienne Graham gave to Ghidorah's left head while Ghidorah was frozen, but following San's Heel–Face Turn, he takes it as his name officially. | |
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Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Namor explains to Shuri that, when he killed the Spanish settlers as a child, a dying priest called him "niño sin amor", "child without love". He liked the way Namor sounded, and took it as his name. | |
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Samurai Jack: "Jack" is not his name, but rather a slang term like "man", "guy", or "dude" that he was called by the first people he encountered in the future. | |
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Akudama Drive: The main character came up with her "Swindler" alias by flashing back to the police and takoyaki stand owner accusing her of being a swindler. | |
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In the backstory of The Story of Saiunkoku, Ko Houju was called "kijin (weirdo)" as an insult. After he was rejected by a woman for being much more beautiful than herself, he began wearing masks constantly and calling himself Ko Kijin, which is the name that most of the other characters of the series know him by. | |
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The All Guardsmen Party is assigned to an upper crust, noble officer they refer to only as "the Rupert". Despite this being an offensive term for incompetent blue blood officers, the Rupert wholeheartedly adopted the term and even insists the guardsmen refer to him as such. | |
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Dragon Age: Anders, who is first introduced in Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, refused to speak when he was initially brought to the Circle as a child. Not knowing his true name, other apprentices started to call him "the Ander" because of his Anders heritage. This became the only name he later uses. In Dragon Age II, many residents of Kirkwall use "Dog Lord" as a slur against refugees from Ferelden, a reference to Fereldan culture's deep-seated love of Mabari hounds. In Act II, Hawke encounters a Fereldan expat street gang called the Dog Lords. (Incidentally, the Dog Lords are probably the toughest of the gangs encountered in Act II...because they're backed up by Mabari.) During Mask of the Assassin, after Hawke asks Varric why they never got a nickname, depending on their personality, he suggests "Waffles" and "Killer" for paragon Hawke and renegade Hawke. Snarky!Hawke on the other hand, admits to genuinely liking "Chuckles". The Trespasser DLC in Dragon Age: Inquisition reveals that Solas's true name actually is Solas. Fen'Harel was an insult used by his enemies, and he took up the name as a badge of pride. |
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In Tokyo Ghoul, it's standard practice for the CCG to assign an alias to unknown Ghouls. Many embrace them and start using these nicknames as their alias among their own kind as well. Perhaps the most famous example is the One-Eyed Owl, who gleefully embraced this title as their own. | |
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Dragonheart: When Draco grows tired of Bowen calling him “Dragon� Bowen questions what his name actually is, Draco claims that it would be impossible for a human to pronounce and before he can say it he is interrupted and so Bowen decides to nickname him “Draco� after the Constellation Draco, while Draco is amused that Bowen essentially is still just calling him Dragon in another language he happily accepts the nickname due to being honored to be named after the Constellation. | |
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"Chad" of Bleach got his name when Ichigo met him, and mispronounced his real name "Sado" (the Japanese version uses "Chado"). | |
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In She's Out of My League, the hero's best friend says that children taunted him with the name "stainer" after an accident, but the hero suggested he adopt it. Stainer's story is told near the end of the movie as an example of the hero's great qualities. | |
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The title character of Ghostrunner was nicknamed Jack by the resistance because when they found him, one of them, Diego, remarked that he was "all jacked up". As the game progresses, Jack grows more and more attached to this name, to the point where when the Architect loses it in the final level and raves about how he won't beaten by a "mere tool", the Ghostrunner responds, "My name is Jack" before killing him. | |
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Avengers: Age of Ultron: Vision starts off as an intended new body for Ultron. When he's brought to life independently by the Avengers, Thor makes reference to "having had a vision", and for want of anything else to call him this becomes his name. | |
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Prehistoric Park Reimagined: As a result of a less then flattering initial impression he gets of Leon's competency and skills (or lack thereof) as a member of the rescue team, Jack takes to calling him 'Dolittle' as an insulting reference to how he views Leon as largely 'a walking textbook' containing knowledge of various animals. But while at first less then pleased with the nickname, Leon eventually ends up inspired to incorporate an audio recording device containing recordings of various animal vocalizations into his work when he remembers how Doctor Dolittle himself quite famously Speaks Fluent Animal. | |
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The Dirty Dozen: Sergeant Bowren nicknames the twelve convicts 'the dirty dozen' after they refuse to bathe or shave as a protest regarding their poor living conditions. The name sticks. | |
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In the There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton series, Supergirl was a name Jameson called Kara in his newspapers as a condescending insult. After some thought, Kara decides to take it up as her superhero name. | |
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Sailor Moon S: The Movie: The main villainess runs into Kakeru Ohzora, a guy who is completely obsessed with Princess Kaguya from the story The Tale of the Bamboo Cutter. He mistakes her for Princess Kaguya. She is confused, but decides she likes that name and uses it. Her real name is never mentioned. | |
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In Dracula Untold, when he was initially reminded that he's the "son of the devil", Vlad corrected this: Dracula means "son of the dragon". However, at the climax of the movie he says "I'm Dracula, son of the devil". | |
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Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012) Mikey names almost all of the villains they go up against. Some of them like their names enough to start using them themselves, such as Pizza Face and Rocksteady (contrasting Bebop, who hates his new name). Y'Gthgba is a name he has difficulty pronouncing, so Raphael suggests nicknaming his Love Interest after the most beautiful woman in art, Mona Lisa. She accepts it, mostly because of the flattering origin. |
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Fallout: Equestria: Velvet is a staunch follower of Fluttershy, the Element of Kindness. She has a breakdown when she realizes that Fluttershy is the one who created the megaspells that destroyed the world, but eventually recovers and rededicates herself to the cause. Reggie points out that this basically means she's a follower of the apocalypse. Velvet accepts that name, and in the epilogue the Followers of the Apocalypse are one of the greatest forces of good in the reviving Wasteland, taking care of children and spreading knowledge. | |
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He-Man and the Masters of the Universe (2021): After transforming for the first time, Adam is referred to as 'some kind of He-Man' by Krass. In this series, Cringer is not a Lovable Coward, but a wise Team Dad and Technical Pacifist. He was given the name Cringer by Evil Poacher R'Qazz because of how he could intimidate the cat and because he wouldn't fight in his Beastly Bloodsports. When R'Qazz meets Cringer again, he wonders why Cringer kept the demeaning name. Duncan is a variation; he gets his name from a title his enemy boasted of having. When his former mentor Kronis boasted of being the former Man-At-Arms for Eternos, Duncan declares himself Man-At-Arms for Castle Greyskull shortly before beating him. |
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In Rave Master, the name of the Demon Card organization was originally supposed to be Demon Guard instead (as they were an anti-demon security force before their Start of Darkness), but the original founder painted the sign the wrong way in the middle of the night and failed to notice it in time. However, the name stuck. | |
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The Bratz get their name from Kirstee and Kaycee in Bratz: Rock Angelz. | |
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In a G.I. Joe skit on Robot Chicken, a new recruit is given the name Fumbles after slipping on his spilled soda. This leads him to defect to COBRA for the sake of revenge. Unfortunately for the Joes, "Fumbles" happens to be a Badass Bookworm Cold Sniper who is capable of single-handedly killing them all. Even better, at the end of the sketch, Cobra Commander is so impressed that he wants to give the sniper a much better nickname, only for him to coldly respond "It's Fumbles. It's always been Fumbles." | |
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In Lord of War Arms dealer Yuri is called a "lord of war" by one of his clients. He thinks the man mispronounced "warlord". Later he realizes that is exactly what he is. | |
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Back Arrow: The main character is an Amnesiac Hero and doesn't remember his name. Bit calls him "Bakayarou", which means "idiot", but he mishears it as "Back Arrow" and decides to make it his name. In the English dub, Bit instead calls him a "blunt arrow" to signify he thinks the man is useless, but he again mishears it as "Back Arrow" and makes it his name. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS: In Ai’s final moments, he admits that despite the fact Yusaku gave him his name in a moment of laziness, he came to genuinely like it, to the point that all of the Spell and Trap Cards he uses contain puns on it. | |
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The Trespasser DLC in Dragon Age: Inquisition reveals that Solas's true name actually is Solas. Fen'Harel was an insult used by his enemies, and he took up the name as a badge of pride. | |
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Idiocracy: Time-travelling Cpl. Joe Bauers is re-named Not Sure by the bar code machine as he tries to explain that he doesn't understand how it's supposed to work. That's President Not Sure to you, private! | |
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The being that creates Battleworld in season 4 of Avengers Assemble always responds that he is "from beyond" whenever he's asked who he is, prompting Ms. Marvel to label him the Beyonder, which he likes and adopts for himself. | |
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Sonic the Hedgehog (2020): Not only does the film give a nod to the Eggman nickname, but throughout the film, Sonic refers to Tom as Donut Lord (partly due to not knowing Tom's actual name until after the first act), much to the latter's annoyance. Come Sonic's Disney Death, this exchange happens after using one of Sonic's rings to surprise Robotnik in his eggmobile: | |
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Played straight in Mobile Suit Gundam 00 with Patrick Colasour. He survives getting his ass kicked by the Gundams enough that he earns the nickname "Colasour The Indestructible". He seems oblivious they're disparaging him. Kati Mannequin tries to explain it to him once; apparently, he doesn't know what "disparage" means. | |
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Jimquisition ended up with a case of this. After the "epic meltdown of the Slaughtering Grounds developer", Jim started calling themself Jim Fucking Sterling, Son, which was an insult thrown at them in the developer's review of their review. ("I don't need to fix thatnote because it's the player's job to fix the sound problem apparently because I'm Jim fucking Sterling, son!") They've since made it into a catchphrase, and at one point their Twitter name was "JimFnSterlingSon". | |
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In The Fallen Gods, Tuatha's horse is named Haku'Yethin, which is goblin for "Pain in my Ass". Hak's a sweetheart though, it was just the goblins that found him a pain. | |
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In the Rick and Morty episode "Mortynight Run", Rick mocks the cloud alien that Morty saved by calling him a "mind-reading fart". The alien however likes the name Fart and then on prefers himself to be called that, despite Morty's protests and much to the amusement of Rick. | |
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Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings downplays this with Xu Wenwu, who doesn't actually go by "The Mandarin" in the way that Trevor Slattery did while briefly appropriating his and the Ten Rings' identity. However, he is rather amused by it, if only because "a pretender named after an orange" was able to strike genuine fear in the U.S. government, so he does at least consider it one of the many names he's gone by in his very long lifetime. | |
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The SCP Foundation's SCP-1370 is an omnicidal but utterly harmless mini-robot that gives itself luridly grandiose titles like Robo Lord the Destructor. In a Not So Above It All moment, researchers found out that it will adopt almost any name that's spoken with enough feigned horror. | |
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Nikolai Stirling in Queen of Thieves is known by both the press and the Paris underworld as "Thief Lord." In his first season he explains that it was originally a mocking nickname he was tagged with when he was still new to Paris, as the more seasoned criminals of the Underbelly felt he was far too arrogant and full of himself for a homeless teenage pickpocket. Once he formed the Gilded Poppy and began pulling off more and more audacious heists, he was regarded with more respect, until newcomers to the community didn't even realize it was supposed to have been a joke. | |
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Rain Man was named by his little brother, who couldn't pronounce "Raymond." | |
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Pirates SMP: Many of Jojo's peers on the Isles refer to her boat as an "eyesore" at first glance, noting how the bright lime green sailsnote (due to dye colour limitations) of the ship clash with the bright pink cherry-wood trim and garish orange acacia-wood hull. Jojo soon adopts the title and names her boat "the S.S. Eyesore", even after she gets a nicer hull and some custom dye for her sails to make the green look less bright and match her outfit more. | |
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In Wonderful (Mazinja): Taylor's fans came up with the “Wonder Red� name. She didn't like it, but she accepted it anyway. Averted with “Crimson Fists�. Taylor found out about that name after she was stuck with “Wonder Red�. |
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Iron Man: Tony Stark gets the name Iron Man from a news headline. Although he points out that it's not technically accurate, since his suit isn't actually made of iron, but a gold-titanium alloy, he likes the sound of it and begins to use the name himself. In the novelization, he mentions the Black Sabbath song of the same name and has the chords playing in his head during his announcement. | |
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In Iron Man 2, when Rhodey puts on the earlier suit and gets into a brawl with Tony, Tony asks him, "You wanna be the War Machine?" Rhodey grows to like it, even after his Pentagon backers rechristen him as Iron Patriot in Iron Man 3. | |
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Beast Wars: Uprising: Wanna-be gangleader Gnashteeth is given a beatdown by Thunderhoof and Terrorsaur, who responds to a dramatic threat Gnash gives that he must think he's Megatron. A few weeks later, after Gnashteeth has ruined and murdered Thunderhoof, he decides the name Megatron suits him, yes. | |
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The titular Blue Eye Samurai, Mizu, is not a samurai—she is of thoroughly ignoble birth as a mixed-race child of an unknown woman and a foreign white man, and she isn't in service to any feudal lord either. People simply call her that because she acts like a Rōnin, traveling from place to place with an extremely high level of skill in wielding a katana. When Ringo becomes disillusioned and says that her behavior is un-samurai-like, Mizu points out that she never claimed to be one in the first place. | |
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Invisibo from the Freakazoid! episode of the same name was initially known as Ahmon Kor-Unch, but was named "Invisibo" by Freakazoid because they already had title cards made up and everything. The villain accepts his new name because he likes it and admits that it has a somewhat sinister ring to it. | |
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The titular heroes of Tokyo Mew Mew got their name from reporters mishearing Ichigo's introduction of "Uh, we're from Cafe Mew Mew in Tokyo...", partially thanks to Minto, who, having some sense, muffled her to protect their secret identities. | |
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The reason why members of the Something Awful forums are collectively referred to as "goons" by themselves and other Internet denizens. | |
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When Stan Ridgway played a friend some music he and Mark Moreland were working on for a film soundtrack, he jokingly compared the layered production to Phil Spector's "Wall Of Sound". Because of how unnerving the music was, his friend quipped that it was more like a "Wall of Voodoo". | |
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Star Wars: The Clone Wars: In "Clone Cadets", the clone trooper CT-4040 has an argument with a drill sergeant during which he's called a cut-up. CT-4040 decides that he likes this name and calls himself Cutup from then on. | |
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Penny from Binary Break is actually Mark Penwell, but in elementary school kids called him "Penny" to make fun of him. He either liked it, or simply didn't realize it was meant to be an insult, so he still goes by it. | |
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Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): During the final battle, the main villain of the film, Ronan the Accuser, sarcastically refers to the main characters as the "Guardians of the Galaxy" after their initial attempts to stop him have failed. When they finally turn the tables on him, they accept the moniker with pride. | |
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In Cinderella, Ella initially despises her stepsisters' awful nickname for her, but eventually comes to accept it and then embrace it, to the point that she even introduces herself to the prince as Cinderella. | |
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Fallout: New Vegas has Novac's resident Cloudcuckoolander and Conspiracy Theorist No-Bark Noonan. He was given that name because "not all of his dogs are barking" after being stung in the head by Radscorpions, but he uses it himself because he thinks it's a compliment on how he's "no bark, all bite". There may be some truth to that given that he's often the only one in town who more or less knows what's going on. | |
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Fans of Undertale often call themselves "Undertale Trash" for the same reasons as the "PC Master Race". | |
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In the Warcraft universe, the orphaned son of Orc chieftan Durotan was raised as a gladiator by a sadistic human who only called him "Thrall" (slave). He kept his name even after gaining his freedom, rising to the position of Warchief of the entire Orcish Horde, and learning his birthname (Go'el) from his grandmother. | |
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Superman: The Animated Series As seen in other adaptations, Lois Lane also names Superman here. After discussing the new hero at the Daily Planet, Lois sums up with "A regular superman," referring to him metaphorically as being the embodiment of the Nietzschen ideal. Perry quickly agrees that this is what they should call him. Clark, who is in the room, is surprised at first, but likes the name by the time everyone leaves. A degraded Superman clone gets his name when Lex Luthor's henchwoman describes him as being "Bizarro!" |
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Dial: During the discussion to eliminate the HYDRA moles within SHIELD, and the decision to dismantle SHIELD as well, Mahmoud proposes another solution, to rebuild it into something better, the organization that SHIELD was meant to be, "the bridge between what people consider normal, and all the weirdness out there", to not only protect the innocent the misuse of power, but to also assist those that gain powers. Afterwards, SHIELD is indeed disbanded and reformed into the Bureau of Reconnaissance, Intelligence, Development, and General Enhancement, a.k.a. BRIDGE. | |
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Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening: When they first meet, Lady, having discarded her birth name Mary, tells Dante she doesn't have a name and to call her whatever he wants, to which Dante retorts, "Whatever, lady." At the end of the game, she embraces "Lady" as her name, telling her father that "Mary died a long time ago." Dante decides to name his shop Devil May Cry after an off-the-cuff response by Lady to him crying over Vergil's fate. |
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Spider-Man: When Peter Parker tries out at an underground fight club just after he gained his super powers, he calls himself "The Human Spider". The fight announcer thinks that is a stupid name and instead introduces him as "The Amazing Spider-Man". Peter is annoyed at first but then embraces it after hearing the crowd triumphantly chanting "Spider-Man! Spider-Man!". Green Goblin is also named by the press, as is Doctor Octopus in the sequel. |
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Dismember was filed a lawsuit over the Gorn lyrics of "Skin Her Alive", calling the band "pornographic, obscene or indecent". After it was settled (in their favor), they released their next album, titled Indecent and Obscene. | |
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The Last Jedi: In their climatic showdown, Captain Phasma furiously tells Finn "You were always scum". He immediately corrects her: "Rebel scum". It signals his pivot from only caring about Rey to fighting for the Resistance and what it stands for. | |
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Bounty of One: Tom is a Wild West Armadillo Sheriff who loves the new title that The Undertaker gave him, "Simple Tom". In his case, he's too dumb to even realize it's an insult. | |
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Cute Bite: The origin of Buttercup's name, since Saule, who names her, gets it from the Old Master calling pre-Buttercup as "my little buttercup". | |
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In Captain America: The First Avenger, the name "Captain America" was given to Steve during the USO tours, but he would use that name during his first military mission. The soldiers he rescued would also use that name without any sarcasm. And by the time he is an Avenger, he's still referred to as "Captain" (to the point some call him "Captain Rogers"). Given he uses this to pull rank early on, it seems that they actually made him an Army Captain even though he was mainly an entertainer at first. | |
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King from The Owl House got his name this way, as revealed in "Echoes of the Past". After Eda took him home, he started making statues out of random things and marching around, causing Eda to jokingly call him "a king amongst his subjects". | |
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Super Robot Wars: Original Generation refers to the assault on the White Star as "Operation SRW". While an official meaning for the acronym is never given, Ascended Fanboy Ryusei announces that it must mean - you guessed it - "Super Robot Wars!" There's also Ibis Douglas, whose partner/rival dubbed her "Shooting Star" because of her tendency to get shot down during training exercises. When her boss finds out, he mentions that it's a great name for someone who dreams of exploring space. She finally accepts the nickname during her "No More Holding Back" Speech, which is accompanied by a theme song of the same name. The Alteisen's name. For those of you who are unaware it translates as old/pig iron which is a low quality metal. In-universe the Alteisen is considered old-fashioned for not using Extra Over Technology (some very advanced technology that has been reversed engineered). The name stuck. |
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On 4chan, the term "30 year old boomer" was created as a jab at people in this age group who still consume media from their child/teenage years. After a while, this group started to proudly call themselves boomers, making memes in which boomers show their dominance over "zoomers" AKA Generation Z, and one game on Steam even calls itself "boomercore" for using the Doom engine and being inspired by it and other 90s FPSs. Other "-oomer" appellations such as "doomer"note initially referring to outwardly depressed individuals perceived as bordering on wangsty before being used as an umbrella term for anything dark and/or cynical and "coomer"note initially referring to people addicted to pornography or sexual stimulation before being applied to anyone who even so much hinted at being sexually expressive came to be adopted by the exact people they were intended to mock, leading to such things as the creation of "doomer" playlists centered around dark and depressing music and the use of the "coomer" character as a PFP by individuals who "fail" No Nut November (an increasingly popular online challenge, spawned from No Fap September, in which participants attempt to abstain from masturbating for the entirety of the month of November). "Coomer", however, is still a bit of an indecisive case in that, while it has been appropriated by sexually expressive individuals seeking to make fun of the label's neopuritan background (having originally been created by far-right 4chan users attempting to label sexual expression as "degenerate"), it still sees more negative reception in other areas of the internet where people spam it unironically. | |
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Marvel Cinematic Universe: Iron Man: Tony Stark gets the name Iron Man from a news headline. Although he points out that it's not technically accurate, since his suit isn't actually made of iron, but a gold-titanium alloy, he likes the sound of it and begins to use the name himself. In the novelization, he mentions the Black Sabbath song of the same name and has the chords playing in his head during his announcement. In The Incredible Hulk (2008), a student on the news says "It was like some kind of... Hulk!" Also, when Blonsky is forcing Sterns to give him Hulk powers, Sterns warns him that the combination of the Super Serum and Gamma Radiation might result in "An Abomination". Both of these are straight out of the comics. In Iron Man 2, when Rhodey puts on the earlier suit and gets into a brawl with Tony, Tony asks him, "You wanna be the War Machine?" Rhodey grows to like it, even after his Pentagon backers rechristen him as Iron Patriot in Iron Man 3. In Captain America: The First Avenger, the name "Captain America" was given to Steve during the USO tours, but he would use that name during his first military mission. The soldiers he rescued would also use that name without any sarcasm. And by the time he is an Avenger, he's still referred to as "Captain" (to the point some call him "Captain Rogers"). Given he uses this to pull rank early on, it seems that they actually made him an Army Captain even though he was mainly an entertainer at first. Guardians of the Galaxy (2014): During the final battle, the main villain of the film, Ronan the Accuser, sarcastically refers to the main characters as the "Guardians of the Galaxy" after their initial attempts to stop him have failed. When they finally turn the tables on him, they accept the moniker with pride. Avengers: Age of Ultron: Vision starts off as an intended new body for Ultron. When he's brought to life independently by the Avengers, Thor makes reference to "having had a vision", and for want of anything else to call him this becomes his name. Spider-Man: Far From Home: Quentin Beck is referred to in an Italian news broadcast as "l'uomo di mistero" (literally "the man of mystery"), and Peter's classmates coin the name "Mysterio" from a mishearing of the term. Peter later relays the name to Beck, and he decides to adopt it as his official moniker. Shang-Chi and the Legend of the Ten Rings downplays this with Xu Wenwu, who doesn't actually go by "The Mandarin" in the way that Trevor Slattery did while briefly appropriating his and the Ten Rings' identity. However, he is rather amused by it, if only because "a pretender named after an orange" was able to strike genuine fear in the U.S. government, so he does at least consider it one of the many names he's gone by in his very long lifetime. Black Panther: Wakanda Forever: Namor explains to Shuri that, when he killed the Spanish settlers as a child, a dying priest called him "niño sin amor", "child without love". He liked the way Namor sounded, and took it as his name. |
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Anders, who is first introduced in Dragon Age: Origins – Awakening, refused to speak when he was initially brought to the Circle as a child. Not knowing his true name, other apprentices started to call him "the Ander" because of his Anders heritage. This became the only name he later uses. | |
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When Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition was newly announced, a number of angry gamers weren't just satisfied with expressing their unhappiness and spent a lot of time spreading unfounded rumors on the Wizards of the Coast boards. Other posters went out of their way to correct them and one frustrated rumormonger angrily denounced his being 'oppressed' by what he called the '4e Avengers'. Within a week, dozens of posters had that name in their sig with Super Hero names like '4e Batman'. | |
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A variant occurs in Overwatch with a character's catchphrase as opposed to their name. In the tie-in comic for the Uprising event when Tracer first joins the team being sent in, Torbjörn dryly remarks, "Looks like the cavalry's here." Lena liked the way it sounded so much, she adopted it for herself. | |
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In Earthsong, the villain takes his name from one of his first victims. He calls him "beluosis," or "full of monsters." | |
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Arcane has Jinx, whose birth name was Powder. As a kid, she was The Jinx, with her adopted brother Mylo never passing up the chance to reminder her that she's often the reason for something going wrong, with even Vi calling her a "jinx" after Powder gets the rest of their family killed. When she's adopted by Silco after that event, she adopts Jinx as her new name, though she treated it more as a nickname until she accidentally kills Silco at the end of the first season, at which point she refuses to be called anything other than Jinx. | |
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Arthur: The band "U Stink" got their name like this. Arthur would sometimes state that the initials of his little sister D.W.'s name stood for "Disaster Warning." In "Sue Ellen Gets Her Goose Cooked," D.W. played Virtual Goose under the username DisasterWarning99. |
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In Record of Grancrest War, Theo refers to Siluca affectionately as "my witch", although witch in that setting refers to a mage that's criminal or serving Chaos. This is for two reasons; first, having grown up where he did, Theo doesn't know much about mages outside of fairytales, and secondly, mage magic is quite common and lacks mystique. Witches are what do impossible feats, villainous though they are. | |
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Spider-Man: Far From Home: Quentin Beck is referred to in an Italian news broadcast as "l'uomo di mistero" (literally "the man of mystery"), and Peter's classmates coin the name "Mysterio" from a mishearing of the term. Peter later relays the name to Beck, and he decides to adopt it as his official moniker. | |
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Rebuild World: Viola being called a "bad girl" often is adopted like this, with Viola and Carol each calling each other it and taking a sort of pride in it. Sheryl is less happy about being grouped in with the two as such. | |
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Zebra Girl: When returning home at the end of the Subfusc arc, Sandra is talking with some kind of insectoid customs officer who can't say the name "Sandra" and keeps calling her "Zzzandra", so she says her name is "Zandra" to get by it. The news posts suggest she likes it and will be using "Zandra" from now on. | |
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In Fable II you get to meet a woman named Hannah who is nicknamed "Sister Hammer" by the monks of the Temple of Light because of her Brawn Hilda aspect and strength. After her father, the abott, is killed and she joins the main character as the hero of strength, she takes the name in stride. | |
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Oni Ga Shiku Series: Back in middle school Mikumo Akatani's bullies used to call him "Yamikumo" for being overly gloomy. Years later, he used that name for his Yakuza family, being refered to as the Yamikumo clan as opposed to the Akatani clan. | |
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As a joke on his strained relationship with the press, then-Minnesota governor Jesse Ventura issued media credential badges to his press corps labeled something along the lines of "Press Jackal." The issue-ees were none too pleased, but the badges soon became collectors' items among the better-humored. | |
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In RuneScape, Arrav originally lacked a name, having been found abandoned as a small child by the tribe that would soon found Varrock. He took the name Arrav from a goblin curse word that goblins yelled at him after constantly losing battles against him. Later on in the questlines, players find that Zaros, the ancient dark god of fate and control, is called the "Empty Lord" by both his loyal followers and his enemies. His followers admire him for being "empty" of the petty grudges and agendas that drive the younger gods. His enemies call him out for his "empty" promises. |
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In the season 2 premiere of Transformers: Prime, Megatron claims to Orion Pax that the term "Decepticon" was meant as a demonizing insult by the Autobots, which they took for their own. | |
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Final Fantasy XV Episode Gladiolus reveals that Cor "The Immortal" Leonis is a case of this. Thirty years prior to the events of the game, Cor was a brash, hotheaded Crownsguard recruit with a nodachi and the belief that he could handle anything. The Crownsguard discovered the "Trial of Gilgamesh", a test given by the Blademaster to judge the Shield of the King. Nobody had come out of the trial alive before Cor went in, thinking he was tough enough to handle it. He came out ass-first, sans nodachi. | |
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Mass Effect: The first example ever used in Mass Effect? Your helmsman, Jeff 'Joker' Moreau. He got the nickname in flight school for his habit of never smiling (he suffers from Osteogenesis imperfecta, which probably didn't help). He adopted the nickname after graduating, and now everyone apart from EDI (until the latter end of Mass Effect 3) and Dr Chakwas (who knows him well enough/is professional enough to stick to his real first name) uses the nickname when talking to or about him. One would think a 'morose' joke would have been too intelligent, given he becomes a wonderful barrel of snark and incidental humour. The term Reapers was originally bestowed by the Protheans, since they never learned the true name of their enemy. Notably, the Reapers never actually refer to themselves as Reapers. Harbinger occasionally uses the phrase "that which you know as 'Reapers'" to refer to their race, but this phrasing still makes it clear he doesn't consider the name valid. The Catalyst, controller and creator of the Reapers, does use the term, probably simply out of convenience, using terms that Shepard will understand. The Illusive Man in Mass Effect 2. He derives his name from a vitriolic response from an Alliance official to his anti-alien manifesto ("survivalist rhetoric written by an illusive man"). The version of Illusive he uses means deceptive. It also sounds like Elusive, which might be the point, or not. Legion also has an Appropriated Appellation, given to him by EDI. Not scorn per se, but "EDI" stands for Enhanced Defense Intelligence, simply a label of her function. As EDI's character developed, it just sorta... become her name. Partial example: when Tali gets tried for treason during her loyalty mission, the Admiralty Board legally has her ship name changed to "vas Normandy," believing that being associated with a human ship (and having a human captain represent her instead of a quarian) would hurt her chances of avoiding exile. Whether it works, backfires, or leads in an unexpected direction is up to the player. Later on, if you earn Tali's loyalty, she lets the name stick. In the second game, Legion explains that "Sovereign" was just a title used by Saren. When it communicated with the Geth, the millions of programs that comprised the Reaper instead referred to themself as "Nazara". Though, when Shepard talks to the Reaper itself, it explicitly refers to itself as Sovereign. So Legion is either lying, or it uses different names for different groups, or it's a continuity error, or Nazara simply liked the name and took it for itself. |
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The FreakAngels have been called "sick freaks" and "angels of destruction," according to Luke. | |
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The characters in Full Metal Jacket are only known by the insulting nicknames Sgt. Hartman gave them in boot camp. | |
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In The Incredible Hulk (2008), a student on the news says "It was like some kind of... Hulk!" Also, when Blonsky is forcing Sterns to give him Hulk powers, Sterns warns him that the combination of the Super Serum and Gamma Radiation might result in "An Abomination". Both of these are straight out of the comics. | |
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In Death Note, Light is quickly dubbed Kira ("killer" approximated in Japanese) by the media, and decides to use that name in his dealings with others. He dislikes how it's obviously derived from "killer", but it's what the world already knows him as, so he might as well go along with it. | |
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Slugterra: When meeting Dr. Blakk for the first time, Eli decries his mutated slug as a "ghoul". Blakk likes the name so much it that he makes it the standard nomenclature, and pretty soon everyone in Slugterra refers to them as such. | |
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Tyranny: The Disfavored were an enemy army that defected to Kyros after they were defeated, and were given the name as mockery by the Overlord's other armies. They accepted the appelation because they came to see their disfavor of having once fought the Overlord as a challenge to be overcome through loyal service. At the start of the game the Disfavored have abandoned whatever old name they once had in the Northern Empire and their symbol is their old banner with three scars marring out whatever was once underneath; having a somewhat open Inferiority Superiority Complex about their origins is kind of their shtick. | |
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In Hunters of Justice, the Shazam family don't yet have names for their superhero identities. During a battle against Mr. Mind, the Venusan mockingly calls them "living marvels". Billy Batson has that word in his mind when he finally gives his superhero name to Black Adam as Captain Marvel. | |
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Batman: The Animated Series Harleen Quinzel is jokingly addressed as Harley Quinn before becoming a villain. The Creeper gets the idea for his nickname from being called "creep", which he finds catchy but a little lacking. Before that he tried for "Yellow-skinned Wacky Man!", before switching. Sid the Squid was given this nickname as a mocking joke by his buddies who thought he was worthless as a crook. It became a badge of honor after he almost killed Batman and made a fool of the Joker. |
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BattleTech. Clan Sea Fox changed its name to Clan Diamond Shark after a rival Clan introduced the Shark into the Sea Fox habitat and killed 75% of the population. Subverted: The Clan made sure to preserve and relocate the Sea Foxes that remained, and by the turn of the 32nd century, enough Sea Foxes had re-emerged that Diamond Shark changed their name back to Sea Fox. |
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Crazy, Stupid, Love has Hannah called Nana by her family because her little sister had trouble with her name. | |
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Subverted in Angels 2200 when the six girls of Icebreaker Squad in all receive scornful call signs that are either disparaging or ironic comments on their characters: "Hammer", (the vacillating leader), "Quetzalcoatl" (The Neidermeyer) "Whiskey" (the Hard-Drinking Party Girl), "Bubblegum" (as in: can't walk and chew it at the same time), "Loser" (self-explanatory), and "Kid" (The Ingenue). It does NOT help them bond as a team, and their attempts to "make these names their own" just makes it worse. | |
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At least four villains from The Spectacular Spider-Man get their names in this manner. Adrian Toomes points out to potential victim Norman Osborn, that he's "not Toomes now, I'm what you called me, the Vulture!" Osborn sneeringly replies that he called Toomes a buzzard, and that Toomes can't even get the name right. Max Dillon, super-powered accident victim, is nicknamed Electro in the course of Spider-Man's battle banter. Later, Dillon rants that since there is no cure for his condition, he is no longer Max Dillon. "I'm... what'd you call me? I'm Electro!" Meek, submissive Otto Octavius is bullied by his boss Norman Osborn, who adds insult to injury by calling him "Doctor Octopus", a name Otto considers demeaning. One radioactive Freak accident later, he is demanding to be called the same, after delivering a ranting smackdown to both his boss and Spider-Man. Likewise Doc Ock's team, the "Sinister Six," is named by The Daily Bugle. "I have been called many names in my life. My favorite is Tombstone..." "Big Man" may or may not be one of them. |
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Phil Mushnick, longtime sports writer for TV Guide, has written a number of blistering rants against Professional Wrestling. One of them in the '90s was aimed at wrestling fans in particular; Mushnick dubbed wrestling's mostly-18-to-24 fanbase "Degeneration X", lamenting the mental and moral degeneracy they must have to enjoy the product WWF was putting out at the time. Fast forward a few months, and Shawn Michaels and Triple H formed a tag team known for lewd and sophomoric antics — and, after Bret Hart called them and their fans "degenerates", they decided to label themselves D-Generation X. Thus making their team name an example both in-Kayfabe (Michaels and HHH appropriating the label Hart gave them) and outside of it (WWF appropriating the label Mushnick gave their fans). | |
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"Titan?" "That's what the Earth people call us!" "I like it! Engage... Sym-Bionic Titan" | |
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When the army of Katolis prepares for war in The Dragon Prince, the newly-crowned King Viren allows those unwilling to fight to lay down their arms, but commands that they wear the sigil of a broken chain link to signify themselves as deserters. When those same "deserters" show up as part of the army of Duren's Big Damn Heroes moment against Viren's troops, they carry banners bearing that self-same broken chain. | |
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Gaichû from Shadowrun Returns: Hong Kong. His name means "vermin" in Japanese, reflecting that, having been transformed into a ghoul he's considered subhuman vermin by the Japanese Imperial State. | |
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Izuku Midoriya of My Hero Academia spent his life being insulted with the nickname "Deku" (an Alternate Character Reading of his name) by childhood friend-turned-bully Bakugo. Bakugo meant "Deku" to mean "weakling," but Ochaco, Izuku's crush, initially interpreted it with another meaning, "never gives up"note from dekiru, which can be translated as "can do it" This causes Izuku to not only like it, but even adopt "Deku" as his Hero Name. | |
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DC Extended Universe: Subverted in Man of Steel. Lois is about to suggest the name "Superman", but the military party watching their conversation interrupts her. Later in the film, after Clark in costume is on good terms with the military after protecting them during an engagement with the Kryptonians, a soldier is talking to General Swanwick and using the term "Superman" to describe him. Swanwick gives him a "that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard" look. By Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Superman is his acknowledged superhero name. Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice generally avoids using "Batman" directly as a name, instead suggesting he has multiple names given by the press, from the bat, to the Gotham Bat to The Bat-Man. This is rather appropriate, as in this setting Batman is not so much of an individual but a myth, an urban legend. By Justice League and Zack Snyder's Justice League, most of the names of the heroes are taken from the Lex Corp metahuman files seen in BvS. |
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The WITCH fanfic Ripples reveals that Miranda's real name is Mimira. It's just that Cedric couldn't be bothered to remember her actual name and called her Miranda instead; being young and impressionable at the time of this initial mistake, she convinced herself that he would only be doing this if Miranda was a better name. By the time of the sequel Stirred, the only person who still calls her Mimira is Van. | |
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Early in Cars, Lightning McQueen tauntingly calls Chick Hicks "Thunder", because "thunder always comes after lightning". When Chick and McQueen meet a few days later, Chick has adopted the "Thunder" nickname as part of a new persona, much of which is stolen from McQueen. | |
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The Elder Scrolls: Mannimarco, known as "the King of Worms", is a legendary Lich/Necromancer who makes several appearances in the series. The term was originally meant as an insult by his Arch-Enemy, Galerion, but was adopted by Mannimarco with pride. (As a result of the Warp in the West, he sort of ascends to godhood, and is known as the "God of Worms".) The Renrijra Krin, a quasi-legal nationalist faction of Khajiit introduced in Oblivion. The name translates as something like 'Mercenary's Grin', 'Laugh of the Landless' or 'Smiling Scum', and was first applied to them by their enemies, but it amused them enough for them to make it their own. The Stormcloak faction in Skyrim was derisively referred to as such for following Ulfric Stormcloak's beliefs. They took that name in pride. Nords, as a race, take titles in lieu of surnames. Many of them aren't complimentary and are presumably examples of this trope. Some examples: Halfhand, the Braggart, the Mumbling, God-Hater, the Contemptible, the Ugly, the Worm. |
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In One Piece, Zoro was frequently called the Pirate Hunter, as he was a bounty hunter, and pirates were the most likely people to hold bounties. But the reality was that Zoro needed their bounty money to pay for food and to repair his swords. Also, this could have easily been the epithet for any other bounty hunter. Now that he's one of the most wanted pirates in the world, he's STILL called "Pirate Hunter Zoro", which doesn't really make sense considering he's, well, a pirate. Unless you consider that plenty of the people's he's fought have been other pirates. It's only been in his more recent incidents where he's attacked the government. |
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In Batman Returns, The Penguin gets called this initially by the press until he finds out his real name is Oswald. After his villainy is revealed, Penguin berates one of his goons for calling him Oswald. | |
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Joker (2019): The titular character adopts his moniker after watching his favorite talk show host mock his failed stand up set. Thomas Wayne insults the crowd of Gothamite protesters using "clowns", so what do they do? Well, they start wearing clown masks. |
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This is the story behind the nickname of the title character of Sally Face. His actual name is Sal, but the bullies started calling him "Sally Face". Sal, in turn, decided to own the nickname so that it couldn't be used against him anymore, and actually tells people to call him Sally Face if they want to. | |
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This is the story behind Glass Joe's stage name in Ma Fille: his daughter overheard a teacher at her school calling him that, and he took a liking to the name. | |
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Last Child of Krypton: After Shinji rescues a crashing airplane, dozens of newspapers publish headlines about the mysterious saviour of Toyko-2. However, a headline stuck out most of all: "Who is Superman?". People started calling Shinji's hero identity "Superman" and the name stuck. | |
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Subverted in Man of Steel. Lois is about to suggest the name "Superman", but the military party watching their conversation interrupts her. Later in the film, after Clark in costume is on good terms with the military after protecting them during an engagement with the Kryptonians, a soldier is talking to General Swanwick and using the term "Superman" to describe him. Swanwick gives him a "that's the stupidest thing I've ever heard" look. By Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice, Superman is his acknowledged superhero name. | |
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Man of Steel | hasFeature |
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Jeremiah Gottwald of Code Geass lands the nickname Orange in association with the scandal to which he was linked by Zero. Eventually he takes it as a symbol of loyalty once he learns of Zero's identity and motives. | |
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Unity (Finmonster): Upon first seeing the Legion of Doom organized by Enigma, Fred calls it a "secret supervillain syndicate". Enigma comments that "syndicate" is a pretty accurate name, and adopts it for the group. | |
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Far older than all of these is one of the original names for the Israelites: Hebrews. The word for "a Hebrew" in Hebrew is Ivri, and one of the first times this word appears in the The Bible is when the Pharaoh's wine steward is telling the Pharaoh about this boy Joseph that can interpret dreams. He's concerned that Pharaoh might raise him too highly, so he calls him a "na'ar eved ivri" — a boy, a slave, and an "ivri", which means a descendant of Eber, but in this case is used in the context of "across", as in "across the border", as in "foreigner". The intended insult would become one of the common names for the Israelites. | |
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Magic: The Gathering: The Planeswalker Sarkhan Vol is an interesting example. On the plane Tarkir, "Sar-khan" is a word that mean "Great-Khan," "Sky-Khan," "Khan-Of-Khans," basically ruler of the world. It was given to Vol by his own Khan sarcastically, mocking what he saw as Vol's delusions of grandeur, but Vol took the name for himself anyway, even when traveling to other worlds, and eventually started to think of himself by that name alone. Though it does cause a few misunderstandings when he returns to Tarkir for the first time in years. | |
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Athena spent two years in Booker T's PWA promotion with the ring name "Trouble" based on the fact she was labeled as such by most Texas wrestling enterprises early into her career. Eventually Athena's reputation improved enough, or perhaps her fan base grew large enough, for this to be dropped. | |
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Sailor Nothing is disparagingly called as such by one of her first opponents (that we see, at least), and shortly after approves of it enough to adopt it as her title. | |
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Played straight in Superman: The Movie, when Lois Lane decides to call the guy in a cape flying around "Superman". | |
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Bayformers was originally a nickname that the detractors of the Transformers Film Series used to describe them. More recently it has been used by fans because it's not that bad of a nickname. | |
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Dr. Eggman in Sonic the Hedgehog. While his name has always been Eggman in Japanese, he was Dr. Ivo Robotnik in Western localizations prior to Sonic Adventure, which introduced "Eggman" as an insult the heroes would use on him. Since Sonic Adventure 2, he's since adopted the name as his own. Curiously, the name Robotnik was used as the surname of his grandfather and cousin even in Japanese, but official Japanese bios list Eggman's real name as "unknown". Just don't expect him to use "Baldy McNosehair" - even his dignity has limits. | |
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The Patrick Star Show: In "Get Off My Lawnie", Granny Tentacles insults the Patrick Show's audience ("You people are sick!" and "Don't you people have lives?"). The fanbase think it's her Character Catchphrase and love it, proudly wearing shirts that say "Sick Person" and "I Have No Life" with Granny Tentacles' face on them. | |
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Weasley Girl: Snape uses the term "Potter's Gang" as an insulting description of Harry and his friends. It catches on, first among the students, then among the newly-dubbed Gang themselves. | |
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Young Justice: The Cave's computer detects an "unknown energy impulse" that turns out to be Bart Allen's time machine arriving: Arsenal got his name from Lex Luthor complimenting his "impressive arsenal". Ma'alefa'ak is both the name of a vicious Martian predator and a Fantastic Slur for White Martians. White Martian M'comm M'orzz uses it as a new title to terrify the oppressive Green and Red Martians. |
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Fairy Tail: Princess Hisui commented that the dragon Zirconis' hide was colored jade, and that her own name also meant jade. Zirconis decided "The Jade Dragon" had a nice ring to it, and it became his Red Baron. | |
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Similar to the animated example below, Meredith Dimly accidentally gives the Bratz their name in the live movie. | |
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"Stilyagi" was the insult in the Soviet Union for youth who rebelled by dressing in wild styles and listening to Rock & Roll. They later used this name as a point of pride. | |
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Inglorious Basterds: Hans Landa as seen in the beginning, when he mentions having been given the title of "Jew Hunter", which he finds to be rather catchy. Subverted in the final act, several years later, when he has come to loathe the accolade. Both reactions may have just been a lie: he states that he enjoys the moniker to LaPadite, whom he is trying to intimidate, and expresses his distaste for it to Aldo and Utivich, who he is trying to broker a deal with and who are both well known for despising the Nazi's. Or his opinion may have simply changed over time. | |
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Trapped in a Dating Sim: The World of Otome Games is Tough for Mobs: In the Alternate Timeline known as the Marie Route, a Girl Posse calling him "an upstart" is adopted with pride by Leon, who is surrounded by entitled nobles who did nothing to earn their power or wealth while he suffered and still suffers. | |
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Hazbin Hotel: The titular Hotel was originally known as the Happy Hotel but Alastor referred to it as a "has-been" Hotel and changed the sign to Hazbin. While he meant this as an insult, Charlie let the name stick while still taking pride in it, likely because it just sounded more marketable and honest. After all, the hotel takes in people who either are or feel like "has-beens" such as Sir Pentious, a wannabe villain, and Husk, a former Overlord. | |
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In Transformers: Animated, Nino Sexton adopted the name Nanosec after a throwaway comment from a bank teller after his first heist. Slight subversion: Grimlock named himself after Megatron bemoans his "prospects are grim, locked in this prison of a lab." Wreck-Gar gets his name from Angry Archer's abbreviating what he previously called himself, "worthless-wreck-walking-pile-of-garbage". |
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In El Goonish Shive, Elliot's female Superhero form is dubbed "Cheerleadra" by Internet users. This is learned mere seconds after Justin compares her skirt to a cheerleading outfit in a TV interview. | |
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In Drowtales, "Tainted" was originally an insult towards Drow who failed to control a summoned demon and got infected/partially possessed by it. Then some started to do this deliberately to gain immunity against full possession. They were derided and persecuted to some degree, but eventually adopted "Tainted" as their designation. | |
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Batman v Superman: Dawn of Justice generally avoids using "Batman" directly as a name, instead suggesting he has multiple names given by the press, from the bat, to the Gotham Bat to The Bat-Man. This is rather appropriate, as in this setting Batman is not so much of an individual but a myth, an urban legend. By Justice League and Zack Snyder's Justice League, most of the names of the heroes are taken from the Lex Corp metahuman files seen in BvS. | |
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The little pink pig avatar Haruyuki Arita uses in Accel World for day-to-day virtual interaction was originally forced on him by the bullies who tormented him as a comment on his girth. When they were removed, he did have the option to switch his avatar over to the badass knight he'd originally wanted to use, but has chosen not to. Why? Because Kuroyukihime commented that she thought the pig was cute, and now Haru has no intention of ridding himself of it. That the avatar is also small enough for Kuroyukihime's avatar to carry him around like a pocket pet while in the virtual world is probably also a big plus in his book. | |
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When Hulk Hogan made his famous Face–Heel Turn and joined Kevin Nash and Scott Hall, the group didn't have a name at the time (Nash and Hall were called "The Outsiders"). However, when Hogan got on the mic to explain the turn, he said, "You can think of us as the New World Order of wrestling!" To say the name stuck would be an understatement. | |
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Eclipse Phase: the faction known as the scum got their name when a group of survivors deserted by a corporation were denied the chance to return to civilisation by the boss of another habitat with a phrase along the lines of "get these scum off my station". His subordinates looked at him, then looked at the others, then gave their boss the chance to attain oneness with the universe, specifically the part just outside the airlock, and that's how the faction started. | |
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According to the Diablo Swing Orchestra's "backstory", the band's first incarnation lived in the 16th century, where they were hated by the church because of how they turned people against them. Because of this, priests labelled them "the Devil's orchestra", among other things, a name which caught on. Eventually, the orchestra was captured and executed, but 500 years later, their reincarnations met up and also used a variant of that name for their own band. | |
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After a Rhode Island teenager named Jessica Ahlquist got a prayer banner removed from her school, one of the many negative reactions she suffered was a Rhode Island representative dubbing her "an evil little thing" during a radio interview. Her YouTube channel is named "An Evil Little Thing". | |
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Superwomen of Eva 2: Lone Heir of Krypton: When Asuka started out her super-heroine career, "Tokyo Tattle" -a tabloid- called her Power Girl. She liked that name. Later she resolved to change her costume and heroine identity, and she asked Shinji what they were calling the new superwoman. Shinji told "Tokyo Tattle" had baptized her Supergirl, and she chose that name for herself. | |
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Gon, the main character of Hunter × Hunter, names his Rock-Paper-Scissor (Janken) move Jajanken after he stutters on the first syllable and his opponent thinks he called it Jajanken on purpose (Jajan! as a surprise, and Janken for the rock-paper-scissors). | |
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Slam Dunk: Protagonist Hanamichi Sakuragi begins using the title "Rebound King" on himself after Haruko calls him this way. A rare instance where the nickname is genuinely meant to be motivational, rather than insulting or demeaning. | |
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They Call Me Bruce. The Korean protagonist works as the cook for a mob boss who calls him "Bruce" after Bruce Lee because Interchangeable Asian Cultures. So he starts calling himself Bruce, leading to a Running Gag of people assuming he knows Kung Fu if he's called by that name. | |
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The title protagonist of Mad Rat Dead initially has No Name Given. Heart eventually starts calling him Mad Rat due to his one-track mind driven on revenge, which leads to Mad Rat adopting it as his actual name. | |
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Triple-Q's Twitter profile describes him as "the guy whos claim to fame is mashing up other people's work", a dismissive comment that Risk of Rain composer Chris Christodoulou made about him after he complained about Christodoulou's attitudes towards fan remixes and covers of his music. | |
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In My Clueless First Friend: Nishimura is called a Shinigami (or Grim Reaper in the translations) by her classmates, and the name is definitely meant to be insulting, but the name seems to bother her less than the general ostracism that accompanies it. However, once the eponymous first friend, Takada, decides that that nickname is extremely cool and keeps using it, it starts to grow on Nishimura specifically when he uses it, to the point that when he offers to stop, she asks him to continue calling her that. Downplayed in that even after this, Nishimura does not especially like being called a Shinigami by her other classmates, although her attitude shifts from dejection to indifference. | |
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The Creeper gets the idea for his nickname from being called "creep", which he finds catchy but a little lacking. Before that he tried for "Yellow-skinned Wacky Man!", before switching. | |
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In Codename: Kids Next Door, the tradition of numerical codenames dates back to the KND's original founder, Numbuh 0, when his brother told him he had zero chance of standing up to Grandfather. | |
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Invader Zim: A Bad Thing Never Ends: Zim starts referring to Gaz as "Gaz-Beast" as an insult, but she decides that she likes the ring of it. | |
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Lemonade Mouth: The titular band gets its name from an insult hurled at Stella by the resident alpha brat after she spits lemonade in his face in defense of her friends. | |
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In Dragons: Race to the Edge, although villain Viggo Grimborn claims that his ancestors created the Dragon Eye that inspired Hiccup to set up the titular outpost, when Hiccup reveals what he calls the device, Viggo decides that he likes the name and decides to use it in future. | |
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In Dragon Age II, many residents of Kirkwall use "Dog Lord" as a slur against refugees from Ferelden, a reference to Fereldan culture's deep-seated love of Mabari hounds. In Act II, Hawke encounters a Fereldan expat street gang called the Dog Lords. (Incidentally, the Dog Lords are probably the toughest of the gangs encountered in Act II...because they're backed up by Mabari.) | |
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The Oathbreakers from Modest Medusa rebelled against their new leadership (breaking their oath doing so) and took the name for themselves. They apply it to people they recruit, even when there's no oath involved. | |
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Homestar Runner's The Cheat got his name when when Homestar pledged to "uncover that CHEAT!" in the original book. | |
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In Sex Note, a Death Note AU where Light Yagami picks up a Sex Note instead of a Death Note the media gives him the name Kougoukan (literally "anti-rape") instead of Kira because instead of using a Death Note to kill people Light is using his magic sex toy to prevent rapes from occurring. | |
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Tully Blanchard, the Anderson Brothers and Ric Flair were thrown together at the last minute to fill up the NWA's tv time. The segment was well received and compared to the Four Horsemen in the Bible, so the fans began calling them The Four Horsemen of Wrestling, which the group then adopted themselves. Being a carbon copy, Evolution tried to invoke the same thing but it was only in story; the fans didn't jump on the name that time. | |
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Pride (2014): Which is a Based on a True Story about the Lesbians and Gays Support the Miners campaign of 1984–1985, discusses this and uses it as the Inciting Incident for the group organising the actual "Pits and Perverts" benefit concert. | |
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Shy: The Big Bad, Stigma, took that name from his opponents nicknaming him that. | |
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Arknights: One of Zima's Archive Files mentions that a gang of rival delinquents used to mockingly call her "General", based on a common Ursus stereotype that generals are incompetent and untrustworthy. After she successfully beat them and became the undisputed top dog of her school, however, her followers took to calling her "General Zima" as a show of respect. | |
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In Mighty Mouse: The New Adventures, the Origins Episode "Mouse from Another House" establishes that Mighty Mouse got his name from a remark his adoptive father made about his powers. | |
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In Girl House, the Spree Killer Loverboy takes his online handle (and the only name anyone knows him by) from a mocking insult thrown at him by girls when he was a child. | |
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Epic Tales has the villain Sponge who was given the name by the newspapers. It seems to have stuck, as the following story has her referred to as such. | |
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Inverted in Dis Raps For Hire. In one video where he takes on some homophobes, Epic Lloyd tries to reclaim "faggot" as an insult'', using it against homophobes. | |
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Robin from The Batman took his alias from a nickname his mother gave him, which he initially resented. If you're wondering, the Golden Age origin of the name was Dick paying tribute to Robin Hood. Hence the green outfit, shirt lacing, and so forth. | |
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A Girl and Her Bike: Yang decides to name her new bike Bumblebee. B-127 decides that it's as good a name as any and takes it up as his new identity. The Ascenticons were insultingly called Decepticons back on Cybertron. When Megatron's true nature surfaced, he took this as their cause's new name. |
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Ace Combat 7: Skies Unknown: Members of the 444th penal squadron have their tail art painted over with "scratches" or "sin lines" indicating the severity of their crime. Trigger is the only one to have three. Once he's served his sentence, he has the iconography incorporated into his new tail art, since friend and foe alike already recognize it. By the end of the war, takeoff sequences show the Nom de Guerre Three Strikes with his actual TAC name in parentheses. | |
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Major League: Initially, the Cleveland Indians fans call Rick Vaughn "Wild Thing" because he has control issues and can't pitch the ball over the plate. After he gets glasses and becomes an elite pitcher, they still use the name, now in reference to his bad boy personality. | |
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In Gravity Falls, Dipper admits that beneath his hat is a birthmark he does not want anyone to see. This Distinguishing Mark on his forehead is a perfect likeness of a constellation: The Big Dipper. He explains that other kids teased him about this until he grew to accept the name Dipper. Now he is Only Known by His Nickname. | |
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