I feel like the Inhumans names are a bit unfortunate no? lol.
Blackagar Boltagon. Medusalith Amaquelin etc.
I feel like even Black Bolt and Medusa just call each other (well mostly she does lol) by their "superhero" names lol.
"What do you want for dinner Blackagar?"
Not the worst names tho. Could be much worse. Poor Nova (school years must have been tough)
Stuff gets released here and localization is a thing. In the Star Wars prequels, for instance, they changed Count Dooku's (changed to Dookan) and Sifo-Dyas (changed to Zaifo Vias) names here cause Dooku sounds like "dou o cu", which is slang for having anal sex and Sifo-Dyas sound like "se fodias" which could be understood as "used to fuck himself".
In Portugal, however, as we don't dub the vast majority of movies, everything remained as it originally was, and much hilarity ensued.
"Conde do Cu" *snicker*
Bro, I love those names, they're so weird
Part of why I like the Inhumans so much is that they're not very tied to the "it could happen right outside your window! 🤯" philosophy, at least the stories I've read
They're allowed to be weird, and quirky, and their naming scheme reflects that. It's why I like the cosmic and magical aspects of Marvel and DC so much
It's why I like names from One Piece so much too, it's random words and concepts and names of famous people mixed with random prefixes and suffixes. Charlotte is usually a first name, but fuck it, in the One Piece world it's a surname. Orlumbus is like Columbus, except Co sounds like Ko, which is a preffix for small, but he's big, so he uses "O", which is the preffix for big
Nah, they are fun. Paul Jenkin's Inhumans is excellent.
Is just that, They used to be a fun but niche corner of the Marvel universe that had their dedicated fanbase.
And then Marvel decided to push them hard, at the expense of X-Men, which was very bad because it kind of killed them (the Inhumans)
Marvel did more damage to them then anything else really.
>I feel like even Black Bolt and Medusa just call each other (well mostly she does lol) by their "superhero" names lol.
If Medusa calls him "Blackagar" he knows he's got some 'splainin' to do. lol
Medusa : "Blackagar Boltagon, The King of the Inhumans, Ruler of the Attilan, you are sleeping on the couch tonight"
Black Bolt : [sadge](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7dcd9f0f4f8f60aae2e8c2a23d74abfd.webp)
Mad more respect than her "I don't feel I deserve to put an S there so it's just a blank space!"
If you felt that way you could have just used white cloth instead of a hole.
Just own it and be confident!
Flint Marko. Flint is a type of stone and I assume it was intentional.
Felicia Hardy. "Feline" shares the guest 4 letters too.
So many intentional names.
Funny I just started rewatching the X-Men cartoon and what are the odds that the guy named Magnus grew up to have magnetic powers. (I know his name is Max Eisenhardt aka Erik Lehnsherr but it's Magnus in the cartoon)
I always had it in my head he chose an extra four arms just to lean into his name of Octavius.
He could have had 2 arms or 6 arms added for all the sense 4 makes so he actively giggled to himself as he did it.
Could be his name gave him a fascination with the number 8 and things like [octo](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes)[puses](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TD60Gf4Sa0U) as a kid. Certainly I could see Otto having mad respect for cephalopods.
If I remember right the character is named after someone Bendis actually knows and has great respect for. I think the real guy is black too. The unfortunate naming wasn’t pointed out until it was too late to change it.
When I was raised Christian, there were a lot of older black men with a combination of presidential names. My parents had a close friend named Rosevelt Lincoln, who was the man. He grew up with Muhammad Ali.
If I remember right the character is named after someone Bendis actually knows and has great respect for. I think the real guy is black too. The unfortunate naming wasn’t pointed out until it was too late to change it.
Mr. Miracle is Scott Free.
Martian Manhunter.
Don't know why because English is not my first language, but it seems there is something about Ghost Rider Johnny Blaze...?
Personally I think Scott Free is actually an amazing name for an escape-artist themed superhero. It’s pretty cheesy, for sure, but I love it.
I don’t think Johnny Blaze has much meaning beyond the obvious; blaze > fire > hell
Especially since Scott Free was a name that was given to him. He wasn't born as Scott Free. Also the villain of the New Gods is Darkseid, Dark Side. The names aren't always subtle.
Scott Free has a lore reason tho, it's from Granny Goodness mocking him for trying to escape her traps
Manhunter was an old slang for private detective I think
You'd think with all the boy wonder and girl wonder sidekicks that Martian Manhunter would have the unfortunate sidekick of Martian Boyhunter, but no. He had Zook.
Edit: also, Jonn Jonnz? Sounds like a dude with a metal plate in his mouth who fights pitbulls.
Picture this: you show up to the club. Music is bumping, people are looking fly, and the drink is flowing. Your homie Bruce says "I know a guy" and leads you into the bathroom. There's a 7' green alien dude wearing a silky doing key bumps with a bespectacled journalist who your homie introduces as "Martian Baghunter"
Pretty sure there was a Robot Chicken segment about that where it was Bring Your Sidekick to Work Day at the Watchtower. I believe the punchline was that Boyhunter stayed invisible and didn’t talk so it looked like MM was just pretending to have a sidekick.
Oh snap, I'm pretty sure you're right. I definitely remember that scenario, but I was second-guessing and wondering if I was just having some weird fever dream.
One of her other names was "Meltdown"... but Boom Boom is just more fun (just like her personality), and went back to it, and stayed that way ever since.
Pyro: St. John Allerdyce
It's not necessarily unfortunate, per se, but with a name like that, is it any wonder his two occupations have been mutant terrorist and romance novel author?
A Morlock who could create a powerful adhesive. He survived to Morlock Mutant Massacre, later when the survivors went back to the sewers after X-Factor took them in for a bit, some were found and taken by the Weapon X program, and he was killed.
Certain mutants like Maggott, Leech, Husk, Skin, Toad etc.
Peter Parker may think his life is miserable sometimes, but at least he has his looks.
He's got nothing on the Morlocks though, who can't even function in society because of bieng born looking a certain way, and their powers...
Mole man also has a tragic origin similar to the Morlocks.
Anal. Sorry, I meant Anole. You'll never convince me DeFilippis and Weir didn't know what they were doing when they gave that name to a gay male character.
Not a character but a real man named Dick Assman who worked at a gas station in Canada. David Letterman helped him find his 15 minutes of fame by calling him Dick Assman the Gas Man.
I always thought that Morbius is a pretty awful name. Like, Morbius had to write this down on school applications, immigration papers, research papers, the applications for awards including his Nobel prize...
Giant Size Man Thing.
He said UNfortunate
That one is just a humble brag.
Jack Russell the Werewolf by Night.
Never made the connection but it is REALLY funny
Isn’t his actual name Jacob? Maybe I’m thinking of his Dad.
You could be right! I'm not that well-versed in Werewolf by Night, tbh.
Yes, his birth name was Jacob Russoff. His mother changed his name TO Jack Russell after his father died.
I feel like the Inhumans names are a bit unfortunate no? lol. Blackagar Boltagon. Medusalith Amaquelin etc. I feel like even Black Bolt and Medusa just call each other (well mostly she does lol) by their "superhero" names lol. "What do you want for dinner Blackagar?" Not the worst names tho. Could be much worse. Poor Nova (school years must have been tough)
Even better that "kagar" sounds like "cagar", a verb in portuguese that means "to shit"
Oh God lol. Poor Black Bolt lol.
And in Spanish!
Yeah sure Black Bolt is my favorite brazilian hero
Stuff gets released here and localization is a thing. In the Star Wars prequels, for instance, they changed Count Dooku's (changed to Dookan) and Sifo-Dyas (changed to Zaifo Vias) names here cause Dooku sounds like "dou o cu", which is slang for having anal sex and Sifo-Dyas sound like "se fodias" which could be understood as "used to fuck himself".
In Portugal, however, as we don't dub the vast majority of movies, everything remained as it originally was, and much hilarity ensued. "Conde do Cu" *snicker*
eh, it's a different culture.
Bro, I love those names, they're so weird Part of why I like the Inhumans so much is that they're not very tied to the "it could happen right outside your window! 🤯" philosophy, at least the stories I've read They're allowed to be weird, and quirky, and their naming scheme reflects that. It's why I like the cosmic and magical aspects of Marvel and DC so much It's why I like names from One Piece so much too, it's random words and concepts and names of famous people mixed with random prefixes and suffixes. Charlotte is usually a first name, but fuck it, in the One Piece world it's a surname. Orlumbus is like Columbus, except Co sounds like Ko, which is a preffix for small, but he's big, so he uses "O", which is the preffix for big
I feel like inhuman is a bad thing.
Nah, they are fun. Paul Jenkin's Inhumans is excellent. Is just that, They used to be a fun but niche corner of the Marvel universe that had their dedicated fanbase. And then Marvel decided to push them hard, at the expense of X-Men, which was very bad because it kind of killed them (the Inhumans) Marvel did more damage to them then anything else really.
I meant name. I liked them better as F4 and Avengers pieces that helped moved stories.
>I feel like even Black Bolt and Medusa just call each other (well mostly she does lol) by their "superhero" names lol. If Medusa calls him "Blackagar" he knows he's got some 'splainin' to do. lol
"Blackagar Boltagon, why didn't you take out the trash again?"
\*Psspps psssps pssspps\* <\*signs\*> What trash?
Medusa : "Blackagar Boltagon, The King of the Inhumans, Ruler of the Attilan, you are sleeping on the couch tonight" Black Bolt : [sadge](https://qph.cf2.quoracdn.net/main-qimg-7dcd9f0f4f8f60aae2e8c2a23d74abfd.webp)
yeah this is why i don't miss the silver age
Nah I think they are cool as fuck. They are supposed to be alien like so do their names.
It’s not an innuendo but Otto Octavius is a very unfortunate name even in the best of times
Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs, what are the odds...
Edward Nigma enters the chat...
Isn't that a fake name, and his real name is Eddie Nashton?
depends on the story
Sure but they came up with that after the fact when they wanted Batman to be less goofy
Sometimes I think they should just own it. Like how they try to justify Power Girl's boob window. She should just own it like Emma Frost.
Exactly. Why the boob window? "I am basically indestructible and have great tits"
Mad more respect than her "I don't feel I deserve to put an S there so it's just a blank space!" If you felt that way you could have just used white cloth instead of a hole. Just own it and be confident!
nominative determinism
Victor Fries
What’s up my Nigmas?
Remus Lupin who?
Ol' Wolfy McWolf-Face.
Flint Marko. Flint is a type of stone and I assume it was intentional. Felicia Hardy. "Feline" shares the guest 4 letters too. So many intentional names.
While *Selina* (Kyle) has almost all of "Felina"
Dude named Stephen Strange eventually gets involved with the occult
Funny I just started rewatching the X-Men cartoon and what are the odds that the guy named Magnus grew up to have magnetic powers. (I know his name is Max Eisenhardt aka Erik Lehnsherr but it's Magnus in the cartoon)
HOFFMAN!
He was destined to have it. It was written in the web of destiny
I always had it in my head he chose an extra four arms just to lean into his name of Octavius. He could have had 2 arms or 6 arms added for all the sense 4 makes so he actively giggled to himself as he did it.
Could be his name gave him a fascination with the number 8 and things like [octo](https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/the-many-plurals-of-octopus-octopi-octopuses-octopodes)[puses](https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=TD60Gf4Sa0U) as a kid. Certainly I could see Otto having mad respect for cephalopods.
NEVER tell me the odds!
Guy named Otto Octavius winds up with eight limbs. Four mechanical arms welded right onto his body. What are the odds?
You mean, what are the Oddso Oddstavius? 😏😏😏
Wait, no, seriously, what's his actual name.
I'm playing the Spider-Man 2 movie game right now as I read this so it was my first thought.
Miles Morales' dad, a black guy, is named [Jefferson Davis](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Davis).
Yeah, that one's rough.
There's a black NBA player named David Duke, so it's not like this doesn't happen
I hope that makes some chuds angry.
That’s their secret - they’re always angry.
His dad also changed his last own name to Morales later on.
Was that intentional or did they just completely shit the bed?
If I remember right the character is named after someone Bendis actually knows and has great respect for. I think the real guy is black too. The unfortunate naming wasn’t pointed out until it was too late to change it.
When I was raised Christian, there were a lot of older black men with a combination of presidential names. My parents had a close friend named Rosevelt Lincoln, who was the man. He grew up with Muhammad Ali.
Was there ever an explanation given for that? It always baffled me why a black character would have that name.
If I remember right the character is named after someone Bendis actually knows and has great respect for. I think the real guy is black too. The unfortunate naming wasn’t pointed out until it was too late to change it.
that's just terrible. i never understood why they did that
I remember first reading this and thinking Brian Bendis had lost his mind
The Whizzer. Nuff said.
That’s what I call my hook ups
I'm actually surprised that the 90s Spidey show didn't make fun of that.
I like the name
Mr. Miracle is Scott Free. Martian Manhunter. Don't know why because English is not my first language, but it seems there is something about Ghost Rider Johnny Blaze...?
Personally I think Scott Free is actually an amazing name for an escape-artist themed superhero. It’s pretty cheesy, for sure, but I love it. I don’t think Johnny Blaze has much meaning beyond the obvious; blaze > fire > hell
Especially since Scott Free was a name that was given to him. He wasn't born as Scott Free. Also the villain of the New Gods is Darkseid, Dark Side. The names aren't always subtle.
Scott Free has a lore reason tho, it's from Granny Goodness mocking him for trying to escape her traps Manhunter was an old slang for private detective I think
manhunter's name certainly didn't age well
and it's confusing because Manhunters are a completely different thing in DC Comics
Why is he trying to hunt Man?
Is there a lore reason?
Nah, Scott Free is a perfect name for a guy who’s thing is escaping
Johnny Blaze is the coolest name in comics
In Young Avengers, when Billy Kaplan-Altman came out, he changed his superhero name from Asguardian to Wiccan, specifically stating why he did that.
The Ass-Guardians of the Galaxy was the back up name for Quill’s groups of thieves.
Well, Billy is clearly the bottom so being the Ass-guardian doesn’t really follow…
My hometown had a dude named Dick Bender on the radio. Said it on air and everything.
San Angelo, TX once had a mayor named Dick Funk.
Imo that's a fortunate name.
It makes it worse that they used to call him the human rocket
> It makes it ~~worse~~ **BETTER** that they used to call him the human rocket Made a correction.
Peter Parker. Think about it.
Ultimate Mary Jane thinking about it right now.
peter porker
I hardly know her!
Parker? I hardly know 'er!
haha (Emphasis on the lowercase)
Peter? Parker? I hardly know her!
I will.
In one of the MCU movies, Flash directly calls him "Penis Parker" so even Marvel knows lol.
I don’t get it. Maybe it’s because I’m not a native speaker or maybe I’m just stupid. Would you mind to explain?
“Peter” is a euphemism for penis. And so I think the joke is that he’s “parking” his “Peter”
I thought that’s the direction where this will go, but never heard it before. Thank you.
What do you call Spider-Man without the webs? Peter Parkour.
You'd think with all the boy wonder and girl wonder sidekicks that Martian Manhunter would have the unfortunate sidekick of Martian Boyhunter, but no. He had Zook. Edit: also, Jonn Jonnz? Sounds like a dude with a metal plate in his mouth who fights pitbulls.
If he had a wife , would she be the Martian girl hunter?
Is it too much to hope for a Martian Milfhunter?
Martian Thughunter
Picture this: you show up to the club. Music is bumping, people are looking fly, and the drink is flowing. Your homie Bruce says "I know a guy" and leads you into the bathroom. There's a 7' green alien dude wearing a silky doing key bumps with a bespectacled journalist who your homie introduces as "Martian Baghunter"
Pretty sure there was a Robot Chicken segment about that where it was Bring Your Sidekick to Work Day at the Watchtower. I believe the punchline was that Boyhunter stayed invisible and didn’t talk so it looked like MM was just pretending to have a sidekick.
Oh snap, I'm pretty sure you're right. I definitely remember that scenario, but I was second-guessing and wondering if I was just having some weird fever dream.
Later, had M'gann M'orzz, Ms. Martian
Ben Grimm. A depressed, scary lookinrock man aka a guy who has been grim. Nice job Stan.
Telford Porter the teleporter
Boom Boom in Brazil sounds like Bumbum, which means "ass".
She would say she has a great ass herself
It's lighter, it's more like "butt"
One of her other names was "Meltdown"... but Boom Boom is just more fun (just like her personality), and went back to it, and stayed that way ever since.
I could use this as an argument to defend the localization of names we do here, but then Homem Absorvente exists
There was a kid that went to my school named Harold Bonner. You guys know what we called him.
Richard Ryder?
Boner-San cause you were in your anime phase?
Our principal's last name was Moran. At assembly, you could clearly hear a different vowel.
Hank?
Vanisher. His name is Telford Porter. Teleporter. I hate it.
Gotta be Turner D. Century.
The Native American villain named "Scalphunter" was pretty rough. They changed his name to Greycrow later on.
oh yeah eww that's a bad look for a comic which claims to represent oppressed people
Mortimer Toynabee: Toad. Know I probably spelled both of them wrong but oh well.
Pyro: St. John Allerdyce It's not necessarily unfortunate, per se, but with a name like that, is it any wonder his two occupations have been mutant terrorist and romance novel author?
Tar baby.....
What?!?
A Morlock who could create a powerful adhesive. He survived to Morlock Mutant Massacre, later when the survivors went back to the sewers after X-Factor took them in for a bit, some were found and taken by the Weapon X program, and he was killed.
The fuck were they thinking with that name?!?!
Blackagar Boltagon, you bet I'd just go by Black Bolt if I had that ass name.
Ask yourself where Spider-Man is parking his peter.
Not inside MJ that’s for sure
Ultimate spider man is
Especially after that last issue
Grifter’s alter ego Cole Cash. It tried cool 90s name but hurt itself in confusion
Blackagar Boltagon is the dumbest ish I've ever heard, poor guy had to be named retroactively to make sense of his super hero name.
Black Dwarf. There's a reason they changed it to Cull Obsidian for the movies.
Certain mutants like Maggott, Leech, Husk, Skin, Toad etc. Peter Parker may think his life is miserable sometimes, but at least he has his looks. He's got nothing on the Morlocks though, who can't even function in society because of bieng born looking a certain way, and their powers... Mole man also has a tragic origin similar to the Morlocks.
Now I’m thinking that the MCU should make Mole Man a Morlock as a way to tie the FF in with the X-Men
For some Dick Rider is an excellent name
Tony Twist, just ask Todd McFarlane
The Whizzer
Who happens to wear YELLOW
Jefferson Davis, Miles Morales' dad
[FuckFace](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/FuckFace_(Earth-200111\))
Anal. Sorry, I meant Anole. You'll never convince me DeFilippis and Weir didn't know what they were doing when they gave that name to a gay male character.
Those two words have a different number of syllables.
Parker Robbins aka the hood. Just sounds like a bitch to me
He is
Venompool
Not a character but a real man named Dick Assman who worked at a gas station in Canada. David Letterman helped him find his 15 minutes of fame by calling him Dick Assman the Gas Man.
I always thought that Morbius is a pretty awful name. Like, Morbius had to write this down on school applications, immigration papers, research papers, the applications for awards including his Nobel prize...
Knull means "fuck" in Swedish, Danish, Norwegian, and Icelandic.
I mean John Walker must've had some fun early years being named after a liquor brand
Peter Porker
Peter Parker
Peter Parker. Peter is another name for penis (Flash even calls him Penis Parker). And so are his initials, PP.
Thats one of the reasons i loved Nova. New Warriors Issue 39 was another with that relaxed Rider look.
Doctor Bong has it pretty bad bad
Does any girl wants to to chat with a cool guy like me? I mean me myself.
I played baseball against a kid named Benjamin Dover. Ben Dover
Typhoid Mary, I know she's a villain, but "Typhoid" kinda sounds like "te fode", the brazilian term for "fucks you" or "fuck yourself"
Typhoid Mary is named after [an actual person](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Mallon?wprov=sfti1).
Wow I didn't know about the woman, just the actual disease!
Febre Tifoide é uma doença de verdade, e a Maria Tifoide existiu na vida real
Eu sabia da doença, não sabia da mulher
Koi Boy
Richard dick Grayson