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Re: Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

Well, some random names from one who watches a little TV and collects wayyy to many comics.

Katar Hol (Hawkman)
Kal-El (Superman)
Dianna Troy (WonderWoman)
John Henry Irons (Steel)
J'onn J'onzz (Martain Manhunter)
Alan Scott (Original Green Lantern)
Hal Jordan (Silver Age Green Lantern)
Kyle Rayner (Current GL)
Billy Batson (Shazam)
Connar Hawke (Green Arrow's son)
Ollie Queen (Green Arrow)
Jay Garrik (Original Flash)
Barry Allen (Silver Age Flash)
Wally West (Current Flash)
Al Pratt (The Atom)
Eel O'Brian (PLastic Man)
Red Tornado,
Doomsday,
Logan (Wolverine),
Bruce Banner (Incredible Hulk),
Ben Grimm (The Thing),
Steve Rogers (Captain America),
Mon-El (Valor)
Laurel Gand (Andromeda)
Rokk Krin (Cosmic Boy)
Jo Nah (Ultra Boy)
The Slayer (Buffy Summers)
Owen Deathstalker (Lord Deathstalker)
Rohan (Melanie Rawn's Dragon Prince series)
Hieronymous Bosch (Harry Bosch, detective)

(I could go on forever there, but here are some from my youth)

Transformer Names! (sort of inactive, currently the comic is a best seller, all the originals are back).

Optimus Prime
Omega Supreme
Superion
Megatron
Galvitron
Bruticus
Devastator
Bumblebee
SoundWave
Ravage
Defensor
Rodimus Prime
etc,

Heroes best left forgotten:

The Wonder Twins!
Apache Chief!
(anyone else remember Super Friends http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif )

There are some other 'Heroes' out there as well, all very familiar to us.

Tampa Gamer
Alpha Kodiak
Atraikius
Atrocities
Growltigga
Gryphin
Suicide_Junkie,

(and the list goes on.....) http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Edit: Misspelled Gryphin http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif oh god, and Owen Deathstalker! Ugh!

[ June 01, 2002, 05:23: Message edited by: Deathstalker ]

Re: Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

Yeah, I've been thinking of a seperate comic characters list. People with weird powers like contemporary superheros seemed like a seperate Category to me. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I might not be able to gather enough names to make a decent list without them though. I like to have at least 100 names before putting a list to use.

The Transformers names sound like they'd be suitable for the Borg... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

Re: Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

Have to chime in with some B5 names http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif

John Sheridan
Jeffrey Sinclair
Susan Ivanova
Michael Garibaldi
G'Kar
Delenn
Londo Molari (well not so much a hero, yes?)
Vir
Mathew Gideon (Crusades capt.)
Galen (technomage in Crusades and trilogy)
David Martel (Legend of the rangers capt.)

Re: Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

Well, since you have Kirk, how about
Jonathan Archer
Jean-Luc Picard
Benjamin Sisko (aka The Emissary)

You know, you could easily get 100 names from Star Trek alone! Maybe you should make a Star Trek name set. Wouldn't it be fun to go into battle against a monster with the "Commodore Decker?"

A few other suggestions:
Ged (Earthsea books by Ursula K. Le Guin)
Paul Atreides (Dune)
Commander Adama (Battlestar Galactica)
Dr. Who
Dr. Frankenstein
Dr. Jekyll
Dave Bowman (2001: A Space Odyssey)
H.A.L. (good for ships with MCs)
Capt. Nemo
The Time Traveler (hero of The Time Machine, by Wells; a lousy name but the only one Wells gives; maybe the movie gives him a name?)
Commander John Koenig (Moonbase Alpha)

And my all-time Favorites: (drum roll, please)
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Wesley Crusher and Jar-jar Binks!

[ May 31, 2002, 17:53: Message edited by: dmm ]

Re: Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

This link might help you.

http://www.whataslacker.com/scifi/html/gp3.shtml

BTW, does anyone know the name of the TV series that involved a gihugic space ship that was sort of an ark, but most of the people on board no longer knew they were on a space ship, and it was on a collision course with something, and the heros were trying to make their way to the secondary bridge, each week encountering a different culture that had developed in a different section of the space ark?
(How's that for a run-on?)

Or the name of the series that had aliens attacking Earth, and the humans had a moonbase and undersea bases and ships that flew in space, in air, and under water?

Both of these were on US TV in the 1960's.

[ May 31, 2002, 18:11: Message edited by: dmm ]

Re: Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

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Originally posted by dmm:
BTW, does anyone know the name of the TV series that involved a gihugic space ship that was sort of an ark, but most of the people on board no longer knew they were on a space ship, and it was on a collision course with something, and the heros were trying to make their way to the secondary bridge, each week encountering a different culture that had developed in a different section of the space ark?
(How's that for a run-on?)

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">"Starlost" The Starlost website

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Or the name of the series that had aliens attacking Earth, and the humans had a moonbase and undersea bases and ships that flew in space, in air, and under water?

Both of these were on US TV in the 1960's.

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">That sounds like "UFO". I coundn't find a website for it, but there is a webpage dedicated to 60's sc-fi that talks about it. HERE

EDIT: Found a UFO Website HERE.

Geoschmo

[ May 31, 2002, 18:33: Message edited by: geoschmo ]

Re: Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

Geo:

Boy, add Space: 1999 and the Buck Rogers revival and you've got all the 'bad 70s hair' SciFi shows... http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

Even if UFO was made in the late 60s they've got those 70s hairstyles...

I had almost completely forgotten Starlost. I only had a vague memory of some strange series on PBS that I thought was called "Ark II" but maybe that was what they named it when it was broadcast in the US?

Re: Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

Possibly. Both of them are really before my time. I did have a vague recolection of the interceptor ship on the UFO series. I think I may have had one as a kid. But I don't remember the show at all.

Funny you mention Space 1999, cause according to the UFO website they were cancelled because te production company wanted to move on to doing that one instead. Apparently they are by the same people.

Geoschmo

Re: Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names

Deathstalker
Thanks for the include in the list.
Not to be picky but it is: "Gryphin"

I started a thread:
"Forum Posters Ship Names List idea"