# Drug names that sound like comic book characters **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [November 23, 2011, 2:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869 "2011-11-23T14:01:03Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 4
**Author:** ![Taomist](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/53a042/32.png) [@Taomist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Taomist)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 6:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/61 "2011-12-13T06:17:52Z")
I’m somewhat ashamed to say that I once named a bank mule alt, in WoW, Levitra. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![Corresponder](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/22d042/32.png) [@Corresponder](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corresponder)\ **Post date:** [December 13, 2011, 9:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/62 "2011-12-13T09:48:17Z")
Don’t worry, Colace will soften them up. (By the way, I actually once met a young man named Darvon.) ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 1:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/63 "2011-12-14T01:55:33Z")
The pharmaceutical company I used to work for let employees suggest names for drugs entering clinical trials. They stopped because too many jokers submitted suggestions like “wham-bam-thank-you-maam” for lactam derivatives. ---
**Author:** ![Toxgoddess](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/f08c70/32.png) [@Toxgoddess](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Toxgoddess)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 1:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/64 "2011-12-14T01:56:37Z")
Celexa, queen of the galaxy. ---
**Author:** ![Hippy\_Hollow](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/hippy_hollow/32/4841_2.png) [@Hippy\_Hollow](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Hippy_Hollow)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 7:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/65 "2011-12-14T07:50:53Z")
Albuterol will take care of all of this… you’ll be sorry you ever messed with him! ---
**Author:** ![Ellen\_Cherry](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ellen_cherry/32/3600_2.png) [@Ellen\_Cherry](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ellen_Cherry)\ **Post date:** [December 14, 2011, 9:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/66 "2011-12-14T21:30:18Z")
Stay out of the way of Protonix! He is a proton, never a neutron! ---
**Author:** ![Jackmannii](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jackmannii/32/311_2.png) [@Jackmannii](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackmannii)\ **Post date:** [December 15, 2011, 1:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/67 "2011-12-15T01:33:56Z")
There is a poster on an anti-quackery blog who calls himself “Lord Draconis Zeneca, VC, iH7L. Forward Mavoon of the Great Fleet, Suzerain of V’tar and Pharmaca Magna of Terra PharmaCOM Orbital HQ”. :dubious: ---
**Author:** ![Machine\_Elf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Machine\_Elf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Machine_Elf)\ **Post date:** [December 16, 2011, 8:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/68 "2011-12-16T20:50:33Z")
> [@RealityChuck](#): > > Viagra is up to no good again. It’ll be hard to stop him. Is he [giving Uranus a pounding again?](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=635098) ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Storm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/8c91f0/32.png) [@Dark\_Storm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Storm)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 3:57am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/69 "2011-12-17T03:57:56Z")
> [@Cub\_Mistress](#): > > The Belching Hero, Aciphex! I always thought Aciphex sounded more like a weapon wielded by Howard Sterns’ “Fartman”. :eek: “Put on your gas masks! He’s using Aciphex!” 😉 She and her army of clones can defeat any foe, she’s Clonazepam! ---
**Author:** ![bleach](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bleach/32/3106_2.png) [@bleach](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/bleach)\ **Post date:** [December 17, 2011, 8:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/70 "2011-12-17T20:22:17Z")
I have to brag that I still have a mint condition Issue #87, where Zevalin and Rituxan defeated Bexxar on planet Revlimid. ---
**Author:** ![Superdude](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/superdude/32/13450_2.png) [@Superdude](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Superdude)\ **Post date:** [December 21, 2011, 12:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869/71 "2011-12-21T00:03:01Z")
You all will bow (and possibly sleep, waking up with your tights disheveled) before the might of… **Rohypnol**!! [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/drug-names-that-sound-like-comic-book-characters/603869.md?page=3)