Collaboration: SciFi and Fantasy character names
 

Yes, I'm trying to compile yet another thematic list of shipnames. This time it's 'heros' and other major characters of SciFi and Fantasy stories. Literature, mythology, movies, tv, are all fair game. But I want active characters. Not 'also present' types but really powerful and dangerous types. Originally I was going to call the list 'Heros' but I don't think there are enough big-time protagonist/hero names without going into weirdly obscure books and/or using very ordinary sounding names that might conflict with other lists. The biggest problem is that some of the best sources of names, like Greek mythology, are already used in another list. Some of the names I've already got are kind of marginal as it is. And, please note, female characters would go into a different list. With that intro, here are the names I've come up with so far:

Ali Baba
Aladdin
Angatyr
Aramis
Athos
Atreyu
Beowulf
Buck Rogers
Captain Kirk
Conan
Corum
Corwin
Count Brass
Cyrano de Bergerac
Doc Savage
Dvim Tvar
Elric
Enkidu
Erekose
Eternal Champion
Fafhrd
Flash Gordon
Forrest Gump
Gilgamesh
Grey Mouser
Han Solo
Havelock
Hawkmoon
Heathcliff
Indiana Jones
Jherek
Kickaha
Kim Kinnison
Kull
Kullervo
Lochinvar
Luke Skywalker
Mister Spock
Moonglum
Ningauble
Porthos
Rakhir
Rick Deckard
Robin Hood
Robinson Crusoe
Roland
Sam Spade
Sheelba
Sherlock Holmes
Siegfried
Sinbad
Tarl Cabot
Theleb Kaarna
Tyrone Slothrop
Urlik
Vainamoinen
Yossarian
Yyrkoon

[ May 31, 2002, 05:55: Message edited by: Baron Munchausen ]

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Should "Captain Kirk" be listed down in the J's for James Kirk?
Titles don't appear in any other names on the list...

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Don Quijote
Elliot Ness
Aslan
Hari Seldon
Dixon Hill
Paul Bunyon

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How about:
Merlin
Mordred
King Arthur
Galahad
Paul Bunyon
Dick Tracy

and the Tasmanian Devil http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon12.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/image...s/rolleyes.gif http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif

[ May 31, 2002, 04:35: Message edited by: Taz-in-Space ]

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William Tell

And I thought it was Paul Bunyan?

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Just did a Google search both ways...and found it spelled both ways! (sometimes on the SAME site!!!)

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All the King Arthur related names are used in another list titled 'Chivalry', just like all the greek heroes are used in the Greek list. http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif I've also got alist of American Indian tribes that includes a few famous/mythic indivuduals like Hiawatha. See how hard it can be to come up with names once you've got to avoid inter-locking lists? http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

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Here are a few from my kid's current favorite book series (I have to admit to liking it too):

Harry Potter http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon6.gif
Voldemort http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/shock.gif
Albus Dumbledore
Hagrid
Sirius Black
Hermione Granger
Ron Weasley
Severus Snape
Remus Lupin
Draco Malfoy

Don't laugh. There is some serious firepower (some good, some evil) in that list. I have to admit, though, that they don't sound too serious.

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Some from Pratchet (off the top of my head)

Cohen
Rincewind
Two Flowers
Mort
Ridcully
Ponder Stibbons
Cut-My-Throat Dibbler
Commander Grimes
Captain Carrot
Seargent Detritus
Corporal Nobby
Seargent Colon
Reggie Shoe

Askan

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Action heros from a few of my favourite sf&f (ish)films:

Kaneda (Main character from "Akira")
Edgar Frog
Alan Frog (The vamp hunters from "The Lost Boys")
Eric Draven (The Crow himself)
Corben Dallas (5th Element - hey, I liked it)

Decker (Blade Runner- What was his 1st name?)

Uhh.. that's it for now.

*Edit - removed female character Leeloo from this chauvanistic list http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon7.gif

[ May 31, 2002, 09:06: Message edited by: dogscoff ]

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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 ]

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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

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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.)

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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 ]

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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 ]

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

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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?

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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

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http://www.wizlow.co.uk/names.htm

off topic but has a huge list of names

http://www.magicdragon.com/UltimateSF/timeline.html

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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"

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"Paul Bunyan" is correct; the other spelling is a mistake. Other figures from American folklore would be:

Pecos Bill
John Henry
Joe Magarac
Casey Jones
Johnny Appleseed

but some of those don't fit the hero characteristics you wanted very well.

"The Starlost" premiered in 1975, had Harlan Ellison and Ben Bova among the writers, and starred Keir Dullea (Dave Bowman in 2001: A Space Odyssey).

"Ark II" premiered in 1976, and had little else to recommend it that I recall.

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Thanks for reminding me of Starlost (or, I do remember it being called "Ark II"). I have been trying to remember that show for years, but couldn't remember what it was called. Everyone I described it to had never heard of anything like it. You just never know what you are going to find on this forum! http://forum.shrapnelgames.com/images/icons/icon10.gif

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I got one for you, make a list with all the transformers names.