Dark Side names for the Star Wars prequels. I'm a bit dissapointed. . . [Archive]

Tripler

05-19-2005, 11:16 PM

I happened across the CNN "Faces of Star Wars" little popup, and noted something. . . Have you noticed the lack of creativity in the villains' names in Episodes 1 -3?

You've got Darth Sidious - which is basically "in-sidious" without the 'in'.

Darth Maul - like, what would you describe him doing to you?
Darth Tyrannus - who is actually Count Dooku, which sounds like a kids cereal: "I'm Dooku for Vader Puffs! (With plans for the Death Star in every box!!)"
General Grievous - Well, we all know there's some sort of grieving in war

Is it just me, or do these kinda sorta seem like last-minute name choices in the script?

Tripler
. . . "Oh shoot, we forgot to name this guy! He's got a clone army, and he's tyrannical. Wait, let's call him Darth Fred!"

ISiddiqui

05-19-2005, 11:19 PM

Well the "Darth" name is a name given by the Master. Sidious gives Anakin the name of "Darth Vader", after all. So I'm not surprised that they would be 'bad' kind of names.

NoClueBoy

05-19-2005, 11:24 PM

I like the Country/Western Sith singer. Darth Garth.

And the Dark Side Family Circus dog. Darth Barfy.

Warming themselves by the fire in their Darth Hearth.

And that classic movie, Darth Takes a Holiday.

Tripler

05-19-2005, 11:42 PM

Well the "Darth" name is a name given by the Master. Sidious gives Anakin the name of "Darth Vader", after all. So I'm not surprised that they would be 'bad' kind of names.

The "Darth" notwithstanding, but when you compare the names (minus the title) to the Jedi with some fairly decent names like "Qui-Gonn Jinn, Yoda, Mace Windu" etc., it's like, where's the imagination? Hell, even the other bad guys have somewhat decent names: "Jango Fett" and "Palpatine" for example. What, did we just spaz out at the last minute and forget to name our top-echelon leadership for the new Empire or something?

But then again, I like the old gunslinger who starred in "In Harm's Way" and "Green Berets": Darth Duke

Or the shoe salesman from Chicago: Darth Bundy

Tripler
My favorite were those dudes from the 70s driving the 'General Lee': Darth Bo and Darth Luke.

ISiddiqui

05-19-2005, 11:44 PM

The "Darth" notwithstanding, but when you compare the names (minus the title) to the Jedi with some fairly decent names like "Qui-Gonn Jinn, Yoda, Mace Windu" etc., it's like, where's the imagination? Hell, even the other bad guys have somewhat decent names: "Jango Fett" and "Palpatine" for example. What, did we just spaz out at the last minute and forget to name our top-echelon leadership for the new Empire or something?

You've mentioned Palpatine... all the "Darth" villans have real names which aren't stand ins for something else. Tyrannus is Count Dooku. Though Darth Maul wasn't given enough story for us to find out his real name. Same as General Grievous.

Tripler

05-19-2005, 11:56 PM

You've mentioned Palpatine... all the "Darth" villans have real names which aren't stand ins for something else. Tyrannus is Count Dooku. Though Darth Maul wasn't given enough story for us to find out his real name. Same as General Grievous.

Aaah, good point. Do we know what Palpatine's 'Sith' name is? "Darth Clinton" or something?

Tripler
I make a bad political joke, but I'm serious in my query. :D

Happy Lendervedder

05-20-2005, 12:09 AM

Of course there was the old, proud Lakota Indian Sith Lord, Darth Swims With Trout in Brook.

And who could forget the effects of Title IX on Dark Side training policies? In retrospect, the Sithettes may have been a little more trouble than they were worth-- and an absolute PR nightmare-- but the Lady Darths 1978 lightsaber softball team? Went undefeated. 23 games, including playoffs. Not too shabby.

Do we know what Palpatine's 'Sith' name is?

Isn't it Sidious?

ISiddiqui

05-20-2005, 12:22 AM

Yes, it's Sidious for Palpatine.

sciguy

05-20-2005, 12:42 AM

Well, the Sith names were picked (or bestowed) after the person joined the Dark Side. Of course their going to choose "mean" names. You don't choose to become an agent of pure evil and rename yourself "Darth Harold".

It's a little known fact because I just made it up that Maul's mother originally named him "Horny Bunnykins". This led to him being picked on in elementary school, so his fall to the dark side was inevitable.

Monstre

05-20-2005, 12:51 AM

Marley23

05-20-2005, 01:25 AM

I happened across the CNN "Faces of Star Wars" little popup, and noted something. . . Have you noticed the lack of creativity in the villains' names in Episodes 1 -3?

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You've got Darth Sidious - which is basically "in-sidious" without the 'in'.
Vader is just "invader" without the "in." [Yes, I know it's also Dutch for father.] So this is not a new development.

Monstre

05-20-2005, 01:32 AM

The next Sith Lord should be Darth Sensitive (which is "Insensitive" without the "in"). Why break the pattern? ;)

rjung

05-20-2005, 01:51 AM

I still say Kit Fisto (http://www.google.com/url?sa=U&start=1&q=http://www.starwars.com/databank/character/kitfisto/&e=9707) sounds like a sexual kink.

Larry Mudd

05-20-2005, 02:23 AM

Oh, come on, silly and obvious names are part of the Star Wars "thing."

From the start, you've got a loner named "Solo," a bounty hunter named "Greedo," a hero named "Skywalker," a hot princess named "Leia Organa,"

Hell, by the time ROTJ rolled around, we had fish-head aliens that are of the Calamari race. How can you expect to be taken seriously as a Rebel Admiral when your whole species is named after an appetizer? You can't, that's how.

ExTank

05-20-2005, 02:45 AM

You had me at "I'm Dooku for Vader Puffs!"

Larry Mudd

05-20-2005, 02:50 AM

Dooku, which sounds like a kids cereal......after it's digested, excreted, and pointed at in the potty.

Harborwolf

05-20-2005, 06:05 AM

...after it's digested, excreted, and pointed at in the potty.

That's what I thought also.

"Palpatine, the Count made a dooku."

Hey, It's That Guy!

05-20-2005, 06:49 AM

Hell, by the time ROTJ rolled around, we had fish-head aliens that are of the Calamari race. How can you expect to be taken seriously as a Rebel Admiral when your whole species is named after an appetizer? You can't, that's how.

[Admiral Ackbar] IT'S A TRAP! [/Admiral Ackbar]

Scott Plaid

05-20-2005, 07:25 AM

[Admiral Ackbar] IT'S A TRAP! [/Admiral Ackbar]Yes, a squid trapping pot. Come on here, ya little weasel! We need you for the next initiation. ::Admiral Ackbar runs away, acting suspiciously like Dr. Zoidberg:: "Wub-wub-wub"

Rashak Mani

05-20-2005, 07:37 AM

You should see how other characters name sound very silly in portuguese ! I bet there has been a brazilian mucking around the Star wars prequel staff ! These names were actually changed in the subtitles in order to avoid problems:

Panaka = Dumb guy or idiot
Dooku = similar to "from ass"

Sifo Dias = sounds like "used to be fucked up"
Amidala = sounds like tonsil to us

archmichael

05-20-2005, 12:54 PM

Well you have to take into account some of the names from the Expanded Universe.

Darth Ambiguous: Is he gay? I don't know. I'm just saying he only accepts male padawans.

Darth Cunnilingus: Turned many a female Jedi to the Darkside with his unique use of the force.

Rashak Mani

05-22-2005, 10:38 PM

hehe... these seem like names from the "alternative" universe... not the expanded universe !

Mark Twain

05-22-2005, 11:44 PM

Do you think if Mace Windu joined the Sith he'd be called.....

Darth Chocolate?

devilsknew

05-23-2005, 02:54 AM

Darth Malmofo?

05-23-2005, 03:08 AM

Tripler

05-23-2005, 06:06 AM

Do you think if Mace Windu joined the Sith he'd be called.....

Darth Chocolate?

A better one: Sean Penn as Darth Spicoli.

"But Hr. Hand, if it's your Force, and it's my Force, doesn't that make it our Force?"

Tripler
Phoebe Cates would have made a better Leia anyway.

BurnMeUp

05-23-2005, 10:11 AM

Sort of like Ivan the Terrible?

Vlad the Impaler?

Come on, lots of people throughout history have chosen "eeeevil" names, or been assigned them by others.

Odinoneeye

05-23-2005, 10:18 AM

Phoebe Cates would have made a better Leia anyway.

No, I would have kept thinking "when's she gonna take her top off, when's she gonna take her top off"

I tell ya, the lack of Phoebe's chest completely ruined Gremlins for me.

BMax

05-23-2005, 11:38 AM

A better one: Sean Penn as Darth Spicoli.

"But Hr. Hand, if it's your Force, and it's my Force, doesn't that make it our Force?"

Tripler
Phoebe Cates would have made a better Leia anyway.

she was only 11 when they filmed Star Wars.

Ike Witt

05-23-2005, 12:03 PM

Sort of like Ivan the Terrible?

Come on, lots of people throughout history have chosen "eeeevil" names, or been assigned them by others.

Ivan the Terrible wasn't an 'evil' name per se. In fact, IIRC, it is a compliment more than anything. It was the equivilent Ivan the Bad MoFo - you don't mess with him.

JohnT

05-23-2005, 12:08 PM

Darth Tyrannus - who is actually Count Dooku, which sounds like a kids cereal: "I'm Dooku for Vader Puffs! (With plans for the Death Star in every box!!)"

I disagree. "Dooku" is obviously what a 3 year-old does in the potty. "Mommy, I gotta go dooku!"

Rufus Xavier

05-23-2005, 12:27 PM

"Party on, Wayne."
"Party on, Darth."

Ponder Stibbons

05-23-2005, 01:08 PM

The next Sith Lord should be Darth Sensitive (which is "Insensitive" without the "in"). Why break the pattern? ;)
Yes, and after him would be the Sith Lady who turned out to be the most frightening Sith of all. I'm talking, of course, of Darth Law.

middleman

05-23-2005, 01:58 PM

I was reading this thread while I was talking on the phone with my wife. She kind of noticed I was not paying attention everytime I giggled!

The thought of Mom Mothma sneaking up on Admiral Ackbar with marinara sauce....I couldn't stop chuckling!

"Party on, Wayne."
"Party on, Darth."

31 posts in, my joke was intact. DAMBIT, #32!

dotchan

05-23-2005, 03:27 PM

What about Darth Flammable? :D

Cervaise

05-23-2005, 04:31 PM

I heard a rumor that George let his kids name some of the characters. True?

(Where else would that Sleazebaggo dude get his moniker?)

NoClueBoy

05-23-2005, 04:48 PM

I heard a rumor that George let his kids name some of the characters. True?

I heard a similar thing concerning Ep I. Makes sense, eh? Jar Jar, Watto, Senator Palpatine...

Sweetums

05-31-2005, 02:19 PM

Darth Pooky
Darth Sweetums
Darth Schmoopie

Curses, I've been found out! :cool:

(missed this whole thread the first time out too).

ISiddiqui

05-31-2005, 03:13 PM

I heard a similar thing concerning Ep I. Makes sense, eh? Jar Jar, Watto, Senator Palpatine...

Um... I believe Palpatine was named that before Episode 1 came out. At least in the Extended Universe.

Trunk

05-31-2005, 03:46 PM

You know why Lucas named "Attack of the Clones", "Attack of the Clones"?

It had nothing to do with the movie plot. I mean, the clones didn't see action until the very end and their impact on the plot was pretty minimal.

He named that after the clone armies that attacked him after "The Phantom Menace".

"Ooooo. . .I just hated that Jar Jar."

Yeah, I hated him too.

"And that kid was so stupid. Yippee? Come on."

Yeah, I hated that too.

"And, midichlorians, what's up with that?"

Yeah, I hated that too.

"Let's all email each other about it."

Wolfian

05-31-2005, 03:58 PM

Candian villian: Garth Vader.

Dunderman

05-31-2005, 04:35 PM

Um... I believe Palpatine was named that before Episode 1 came out. At least in the Extended Universe.
Yep. I have no idea who came up with the name, but that the Emperor's name was Palpatine has been known for ages.

NoClueBoy

05-31-2005, 04:37 PM

Um... I believe Palpatine was named that before Episode 1 came out. At least in the Extended Universe.

;)

I added Palpatine to that post just to be silly. Since we're in a silly thread after all.

(Stay tuned for the multiple Python refs to come from this post)

Scott Plaid

05-31-2005, 05:27 PM

;)

I added Palpatine to that post just to be silly. Since we're in a silly thread after all. :dubious: Do you just say " 'Tis a silly place." ? Well, it's only a model. :)
(Stay tuned for the multiple Python refs to come from this post)We can only hope. :D

Scissorjack

05-31-2005, 06:00 PM

The next Sith Lord should be Darth Sensitive (which is "Insensitive" without the "in"). Why break the pattern? ;)

You rang? Of course, if there were a Marxist Sith, he could be Darth Kapital.

NoClueBoy

05-31-2005, 06:03 PM

A Marxist Sith?

Darth Harpo

Bippy the Beardless

05-31-2005, 06:50 PM

I want to meet Darth Ebriated and Darth Toxicated, but Darth Continent should be avoided.

Scissorjack

05-31-2005, 06:56 PM

A malign but perpetually late Sith would be Darth Tardly.

Tripler

05-31-2005, 11:08 PM

A malign but perpetually late Sith would be Darth Tardly.

Darth VanHalen would say . . . "I don't feel Darth Tardly".

Tripler
:: ducks & runs ::

Monstre

06-01-2005, 12:21 AM

And then there was Darth Ray. I think he lived back in the 1920's.

Queen Bruin

06-01-2005, 12:58 AM

Everytime I hear "Palpatine" I shudder. Cause it sounds like "palpating", and that sounds like a pelvic exam.

Winston Bongo

06-01-2005, 09:55 AM

Darth Fatuation -- Palpatine's original choice for Vader's new name, until Padme died and took care of that little problem.

Darth Sulin -- has to give himself injections twice a day and watch his diet.

Darth Fomercial -- stars in late night TV ads hawking that little bread-slicing lightsaber from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

Monstre

06-01-2005, 11:15 AM

Darth Capacitated -- He wields the force from his wheelchair.

Darth Corrigible -- Don't en-corrige him!

Darth Cognito -- Uses the force to stay unobserved.

Bosstone

06-01-2005, 11:22 AM

Darth Conceivable -- I do not think he means what you think he means.

Bippy the Beardless

06-01-2005, 11:26 AM

Darth Subordination didn't last too long.
Darth Curable-Stutter "Feel the power of the d'd'd'd'd'dark side of the force"
Darth Concevable "The force does not mean what you think it means."

Bippy the Beardless

06-01-2005, 11:27 AM

Simupost :) Great minds think alikle, but don't spell alike.

carterba

06-01-2005, 11:34 AM

Why restrict to words starting with "in-"?

Darth Potent hawks Viagra.
Darth Gruntled hates his job.
Darth Enfranchised keeps supporters of the Rebels from voting.
Darth Friendly is rude.

CapnPitt

06-01-2005, 11:49 AM

A George Lucas cross-over movie with a female Sith:

Darth Diana Jones and the Jedi Temple of Doom

Ragiel

06-01-2005, 07:24 PM

Well, there's always that bastion of Sith bureaucracy,

Darth Flexible.

Scissorjack

06-01-2005, 07:35 PM

Darth Salubrious honed his dark powers by hanging out in sleazy bars.

Darth Digo went over to the Dark Side after being spoiled by New Age parents.

Darth Fidel's Cuban accent more than makes up for his lack of faith.

Monstre

06-01-2005, 07:42 PM

Darth Bred -- A young Sith lord.
Darth Cest -- his father.

Scissorjack

06-01-2005, 08:38 PM

Darth Sectivorous eats bugs.

Bosstone

06-01-2005, 09:08 PM

Darth Resistable is the smoothest Sith of all.
Darth Terminable drones on and on and on...

carnivorousplant

06-01-2005, 09:16 PM

The point has probably been made in this lengthy thread, but I think it's like "A Boy Named Sue".

"There's only two of us, Darth Snuggles, and we've gotta be tough!"

Albert Rose

06-01-2005, 09:30 PM

Say, wasn't Darth Maul the same guy as Sifo Diaz? That's the implication I got.

More Sithheads:

Darth Ghastly
Darth Timidator
Darth Grimm ("It's light-saberrin' time!")
Darth Bominable
Darth Bilious
Darth Splunge

We could go on forever...

Yumblie

06-01-2005, 10:16 PM

Darth Quisition: Nobody expects Darth Quisition!

Darth Ternational House of Pancakes: Ok this is just getting silly now.

Ragiel

06-02-2005, 06:38 AM

If you want the job done right, Darth Ept is not the Sith you're looking for. Darth Ane, however, might do a better job if he could just shut up.

Tripler

06-02-2005, 07:13 AM

Say, wasn't Darth Maul the same guy as Sifo Diaz? That's the implication I got.

I don't think he could be. Maul was killed in Ep. 1, but I think I distinctly remember a Sifo Diaz in Ep. 3. Please, correct me if I'm wrong. (They could have been played by the same actor, though. . .)

And you guys are leaning way too much on the Dark Side. Don't forget about Luke's cousin, who won the Golden Gloves on Yavin IV: Jake Haymaker.

Tripler
This link (http://boards.theforce.net/Literature/b10003/19824408/p1/) has a few leads on Sifo, but I can't make much out.