# Let's hear your weird/funny RPG character names! **URL:** \ **Category:** The Game Room\ **Created:** [June 30, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015 "2014-06-30T16:32:28Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/it_s_not_rocket_surgery/32/312_2.png) [@It\_s\_Not\_Rocket\_Surgery](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/It_s_Not_Rocket_Surgery)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 4:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/1 "2014-06-30T16:32:28Z")
With all the creative RPG and computer game players on here, I suspect many of you have given your characters humorous and oddball names, as I have. Let’s hear them! I really only played the superhero game Champions (the board game version). I had such characters as: A Wolverine knockoff character named **The Otter**. An Iron Man copy named **Ferric Man**. A Mystique-like character called **Mystaque**. A character with Power Drain abilities called **Drano**. A character called **The Potato**. His real name was Russ…short for Russet. A character called\*\* El Autobus\*\*, just because I thought that would be a cool superhero name. The game came set up with an initial mission in which you fight COBRA (led by The Brick). So we opposed them with a group called MONGOOSE. ---
**Author:** ![Miller](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/miller/32/481_2.png) [@Miller](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Miller)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/2 "2014-06-30T18:06:28Z")
I had an Egyptian themed sorcerer named Amun Joi once. ---
**Author:** ![Amateur\_Barbarian](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/59ef9b/32.png) [@Amateur\_Barbarian](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Amateur_Barbarian)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/3 "2014-06-30T18:17:46Z")
CoH… a huge yellow tanker named **Mean Mr. Mustard**. A pretty good Rorschach clone (scrapper) who got genned and renamed **Mr. Cellophane**. A very good V clone (stalker) named **Count Q**. My blaster babe, **Sgt. Glory B.** (Accompanied for a time by a brute, **Glory Daze**.) A blaster named\*\* Sioux Sheff\*\*. A half-human, half Rikti controller named **Dr. Gigglez**. And then there were the prosaic but always commented on (by the savvy) **R A Heinlein** , **Sir Richard F. Burton** , **Vond** , \*\*Grav Bent Diebstall \*\*(both grav controllers, natch) and **Jha’Dur** (a damned good clone, if I do say so myself.) Miss 'em all, along with my beloved main. ---
**Author:** ![Ludovic](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/7ab992/32.png) [@Ludovic](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ludovic)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/4 "2014-06-30T18:24:19Z")
A few years ago my DM had to come up with a village name on the fly and for some reason burst out with **Yom Kippur**. Which divorced from the context actually sounds like a foreign, but not silly-sounding, name. Much better than the other on the fly name he came up with: **Ronzoid**. ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/5 "2014-06-30T18:43:03Z")
Only got him high enough for The Hollows in CoH before I wiped him but I had a defender called **Z-3PO**. His battlecry was “Protocol this!” ---
**Author:** ![Jophiel](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jophiel/32/66_2.png) [@Jophiel](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jophiel)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 6:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/6 "2014-06-30T18:53:05Z")
I usually stayed away from pun names in City of Heroes but I did have fondness for my big game (i.e. Giant Monsters) hunter, **Rose Veldt**. ---
**Author:** ![Ethilrist](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ethilrist/32/4604_2.png) [@Ethilrist](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Ethilrist)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/7 "2014-06-30T19:00:25Z")
I had a bounty hunter in SW:TOR named Obvious (they get a title at the start of the game; as they own a ship, the title is Captain…). I figure there’s one on every server. ---
**Author:** ![zoid](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/zoid/32/336_2.png) [@zoid](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/zoid)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/8 "2014-06-30T19:07:08Z")
> [@Ludovic](#): > > A few years ago my DM had to come up with a village name on the fly and for some reason burst out with **Yom Kippur**. Which divorced from the context actually sounds like a foreign, but not silly-sounding, name. Much better than the other on the fly name he came up with: **Ronzoid**. Hey! :mad: ---
**Author:** ![Skywatcher](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/skywatcher/32/254_2.png) [@Skywatcher](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Skywatcher)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:13pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/9 "2014-06-30T19:13:49Z")
Also in CoH, I wanted a copy of Zero from our Finish the Superhero Story but **Zero** wasn’t available. He ended up being called **C2124** , a divide by zero error. His battlecry? “Divide and conquer!” ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2014, 7:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/10 "2014-06-30T19:30:48Z")
Sgt. Killco. Duane Bammage Sir Vere de Pression Basha the dwarf (pronounced Bar-shay) Sir Romet Epdam. ---
**Author:** ![Peter\_Morris](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/peter_morris/32/359_2.png) [@Peter\_Morris](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Peter_Morris)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 2:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/11 "2014-07-03T02:37:10Z")
Henri de Toulouse Latrine. One of my favourites. And, btw, named before I ever saw _Top Secret_. I can’t believe I forgot him. :smack: ---
**Author:** ![CandidGamera](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/candidgamera/32/2878_2.png) [@CandidGamera](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CandidGamera)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 1:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/12 "2014-07-03T13:01:37Z")
Hmmm. In an actual tabletop RPG, the one that first comes to mind was Medrin the Mediocre. His stats were… eh. I had a CoH character / NPC from a superhero game I ran called the White Russian - sort of a pale Soviet Superman. Another CoH character, with his backstory indicating that he was a time traveler, from Alpha Complex. Friend Computer had sent him back to kill Jonk O-NOR, and his name was Sup R-HRO. A friend ran a few incanrations of a Dragonball Z game, in which I played a half-Saiyan character - and all Saiyan names in the show are vegetable references, so I named him Kukuba. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 9:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/13 "2014-07-03T21:50:55Z")
When I played Final Fantasy VII the first time as a kid, I recall naming the protagonist Psi Kho, and the guy with the gun arm Maas Acre. In City of Heroes I had: Rabbit Trick, who was a rabbit girl who used Trick Arrows and according to her backstory had been pulled out of a hat by a Circle of Thorns mage who was trying to use stage magic. Yes, it was a Bullwinkle & Rocky reference. Rabbit Punch: A Street Fighting/Super Reflexes rabbit girl. Martial Artist, a Dark/Dark controller whose powers supposedly came from a magical artist’s brush and whose “dark” powers were all recolored to look paintlike. Smashy the Clown, Earth/Willpower Brute. Known crimes include increasing the number of clowns that can be fit into a small car by smashing them flat first for easy stacking. Occam the Razor, Katana/Ninjutsu Stalker (assassin). [He eliminates unnecessary entities](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor). Kitten Crusade: A Mind/Radiation Controller whose costume used the Shoulder Cat; according to her backstory the cat was the hero, she was a psychic kitten who had hijacked a nuclear powered android from the mad scientist who created her. Masochism: A Spines/Regen scrapper, his battlecry was “HURT ME MORE!” and his costume was covered in barbed wire. Mad Man Mike; Mace/Willpower Brute. Big crazy guy. Thought Policeman: Dual Pistols/Mental Blaster. Deus Ex Machinist: Robots/Storm Control mastermind. A fun combo. Taurus Malleus: A Mace/Electric Armor brute with the Bull head and hooves. Herbicidal Maniac: Plant Control/Ice Assault Dominator, with the Ice powers recolored to look poisonous. Time Crime: A Thugs/Time mastermind. ---
**Author:** ![Kobal2](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/kobal2/32/20_2.png) [@Kobal2](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kobal2)\ **Post date:** [July 3, 2014, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/14 "2014-07-03T22:38:24Z")
Well, the name’s not my own creation, but I had untold amounts of fun playing **Don Armando Adamo Rojas Martinez Mendoza Y Feliz De La Luz De Saragoz** at a pirate-themed murder party. With a name like that on your character sheet, how can you \*not \*feel obligated to irritatedly roll it out in full whenever someone calls you “Armando” or “Spaniard” ? Took me half an hour to learn it by heart, but see ? Still in there 🙂 Had a Russian rad/rad Defender in CoH with big faceted eyes and antennae. She was **The Chernobug** (a play on both Chernobyl, and the slav god Chernobog). Also a plant-themed spines/regen scrapper called **Rose Thorn**. And a fire/gadgets blaster called **ThermoCop** (“Room temperature or extra crispy, you’re coming with me”). I forget what I called my villains though. I know I had a katana assassin called **Suddenly Kebab** , but I can’t remember the others. My Everquest main was a delusional dark elf called **Ardulace Nasher’Baezon** , who fancied herself a god-queen of the realms and talked exclusively in the third person, with a capital. She was rarely amused. She also had a laundry list of self-given titles, I added one whenever I discovered a new zone or our guild achieved something important. In DAoC I was **Frejolfna Niemandsdottir**. Tragic orphan, obviously. ---
**Author:** ![GESancMan](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gesancman/32/2923_2.png) [@GESancMan](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GESancMan)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 5:58am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/15 "2014-07-04T05:58:23Z")
I like to call my CRPG characters something like Master or Almighty One. That way NPCs show proper respect when speaking to me. “What may I do for you, Almighty One?” On the flip-side, I’ll name a character Fucknut, or Dickwad, or whatever. Then the NPCs become abusive. I’m currently playing a character named Dipshit in Morrowind. Custom class: Loser. Earlier today I asked an NPC about a “little secret,” and was told “Not for you, Loser.” It never gets old. Now, in Baldur’s Gate and Neverwinter Nights, I always play Yosemite Sam. I created sound sets for this purpose. Fifteen years I’ve been playing these games, and it still cracks me up when my character bellows a battle cry, for instance: “Ya better say yer prayers, ya flea bitten varmint!” Or when he gets hit: “Why you mangy fang-toothed critter!” I also created a Daffy Duck set for the BG games, never got around to it for NWN. I’ve got a few more sound sets I’ve downloaded. For ultimate chaos, I’ll sometimes run a game with six custom characters: Yosemite Sam, Daffy Duck, Darth Vader, Mr. T, Eric Cartman, and Captain Kirk. ---
**Author:** ![Der\_Trihs](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/der_trihs/32/233_2.png) [@Der\_Trihs](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Der_Trihs)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 6:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/16 "2014-07-04T06:29:21Z")
> [@GESancMan](#): > > I like to call my CRPG characters something like Master or Almighty One. That way NPCs show proper respect when speaking to me. > > “What may I do for you, Almighty One?” > > On the flip-side, I’ll name a character Fucknut, or Dickwad, or whatever. Then the NPCs become abusive. Heh, I’m reminded of a player in City of Heroes who mentioned on the CoH forums that they named a character “a tiny kitten” just for the resulting NPC dialogue. “Oh no, a tiny kitten is here!” “You fate approaches…and it is a tiny kitten!” ---
**Author:** ![Grumman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/43a26b/32.png) [@Grumman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Grumman)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 7:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/17 "2014-07-04T07:20:28Z")
For _Freedom Force versus The Third Reich_, I created a character who exploited the extremely low cost of an attack type that makes world objects explode to get a cheap attack that had a huge amount of AoE, added a ton of knockback and gave him immunity to both. His name? Collateral Damage Man. ---
**Author:** ![Claptree](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/58f4c7/32.png) [@Claptree](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Claptree)\ **Post date:** [July 4, 2014, 12:06pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015/18 "2014-07-04T12:06:43Z")
In a D&D game that never really got off the ground, I created a cat-person ninja-type character and named it Masahori Halsen. It’s hilarious in Swedish. I considered leaving it with that, but that’d be somewhat pointless. Masahori sounds like ‘massa hår i’ which means ‘lots of hairs in’, and Halsen means the throat. [deadpan]Sorry, can’t continue, dying of laughter.[/deadpan] ---
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I don’t do RPG’s but I play a lot of sports games that have “Be a Pro” options. Usually I’ll just go with my real name, or “Jack Batty.” But in some of those games you can choose how the announcer pronounces your last name; there’s rarely a “Batty” or a “my real last name” option, but there’s usually a “Crockett.” And thus the birth of the fictional Baseball/Football/Hockey/Soccer/Whatever player named, **Johnny Cockrocke** t (don’t worry, it’s pronounced just like Davey’s last name). ---
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Once, for a one-off D&D game, I quickly threw together a rogue, and named him “The Notorious Hudon”. You may have heard of the many unsolved crimes which are attributed to him-- Hudon-it. And back in my Diablo II days, the most popular character build was the hammerdin: A paladin who used Blessed Hammer. I was amazed that the name “Charles Martel” wasn’t already taken: The original “paladins” being peers of Charlemagne, and “Charles the Hammer” being his grandfather. I also had a poison-using necromancer called “Captain Mercaptan” (mercaptans being the chemicals responsible for the stench of rotting corpses) and a lightning-trap assassin named “Vanna deGraff” [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-hear-your-weird-funny-rpg-character-names/692015.md?page=2)