Lamest Super-Hero Nickname

Cafe Society
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Superman is the “Man of Steel.”

Batman is “The Dark Knight.”

Spider-Man is the “wall-crawler,” “web-slinger,” or “web-head,” depending on the day of the week. Obviously, Spidey is lacking something in the PR department here.

But can you do worse? What’s your selection for the worst moniker/nickname for a super-hero?

To get things started… while I think “web-slinger” is cringeworthy (how many people you know use “sling” in everyday chatter?), I’d award the crown to The Flash, whose arsenal of nicknames include…

…(drum roll)…

… The Sultan of Speed. :eek:

What’ve you got?

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Iron Man is “Shellhead.”

Supergirl is “the Maid of Might.”

Gambit is “the Ragin’ Cajun Sensation Who’s Sweepin’ the Nation.”

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Robin - “The Boy Wonder”

Thor - “Goldilocks”

And Mr. Fantastic’s name is so bad that he doesn’t need a stupid nickname. Mr. Fantastic - sheeeshh. You got to control that ego.

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Spider-Man is “your friendly neighborhood wall-crawler / web-slinger.”

Wonder Woman is “the Amazin’ Amazon” (a strong contender!)

Ben J. Grimm is “the ever-lovin’ blue-eyed Thing”.

Captain Marvel is “the big red cheese” (vying mightily with “AA” for this title).

The “creative folks” of Mad magazine are often billed as “the usual gang of idiots”.

Daredevil is “the man without fear”.

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The cheesy nicknames so far (e.g., Goldilocks, Big Red Cheese, and especially the ever-lovin’ blue-eyed Thing) aren’t lame, they’re ironic, and they’re funny. The Maid of Might – now that is dum.

–Cliffy

P.S. Back when Ben Grimm was headlining Marvel Two-In-One the lettercol was entitled “The Ever-Lovin’ Blue-Eyed Letters Page.” I laughed at that every month.

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Wolverine calls Professor X, leader of the X-Men “Chuck.”

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In his big dumb green days, the Incredible Hulk would give nicknames to everyone he encountered. Mostly because he was too dumb to remember their names.

IIRC, he often called Captain America “flag man” and Ant-Man and the Wasp were “bug-man” and “bug-girl.”

Quite a way with words, the Hulkster.

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Some writers call Wolverine “Canucklehead.” Never caught on real big.

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Not to mention “the Monarch of Motion.”
I swear, these must have been inspired by some of the nicknames Babe Ruth acquired during his career. At various times, Babe Ruth was “The King of Swing”, “The Sultan of Swat”, and “The Maharajah of Mash”.

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What would you prefer, “Wheels”? :wink:

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The Elongated Man has been referred to as “the Ductile Detective.” :rolleyes:

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Heh, remeber the 80s? Specifically, the comic book “Wolfpack.” One of the members went by that name.

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Not to further mention: the “Vizier of Velocity.”

(I think Cary Bates called him that a few times when he wrote the title in the 70s.)

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If we can expand this out to actual codenames, not just nicknames…

How about the two separate speedsters named Whizzer?

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Batgrl is… (or in a groovier time, was) the dominoed daredoll!

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Big Cheese :rolleyes:

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I always liked “Caped Crusader” and “Dynamic Duo” from the Batman TV series, especially when the chief and the commissioner would straightfacedly address them by their nicknames.

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Do you mean “the Big Red Cheese”? That’s different.

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Hourman’s nickname was “Tick-Tock”