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Post by james on Jun 23, 2022 17:31:19 GMT -5
Same here--the nickname always undercut his stature; I mean, how unheroic is "The Big Red Cheese" for a superhero? It reflects the light tone of much of the Fawcett Capt. Marvel, especially his antagonistic relationship w/ Sivana. Wonder if I can get that on a tshirt
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Post by Icctrombone on Jun 23, 2022 17:46:13 GMT -5
Man, I loved the name Shellhead. I thought the name "high pockets "was cool, too.
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Post by codystarbuck on Jun 23, 2022 17:54:33 GMT -5
There's obnoxious and there's downright offensive - I'd put Pieface in the latter category. Don't forget Steamboat, Billy Batson's unfortunate servant, in the 40s. I assume the name was derived from Minstrel Shows, on the riverboats. The caricature certainly fit. Chop-Chop was equally bad, which at least got addressed, later..... (though first in Howard Chaykin's Blackhawk mini)
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Post by Prince Hal on Jun 24, 2022 15:12:32 GMT -5
"The Dominoed Daredoll" was pretty awful, but... How about the one on this page? It doesn't rhyme, it's not alliterative, and it's tone-deaf, literally and figuratively.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jun 24, 2022 15:35:45 GMT -5
Her nickname in Detective Comics #492, as pointed out by Shaxper in his Batman Family reviews thread, was pretty bad too.
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jun 24, 2022 15:41:10 GMT -5
From Green Lantern #11:
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Post by Crimebuster on Jun 24, 2022 16:15:44 GMT -5
Chop-Chop was equally bad, which at least got addressed, later..... (though first in Howard Chaykin's Blackhawk mini) Just wanted to note that the portrayal of Chop-Chop had been addressed prior to this, as there was an extended arc about it in Mark Evanier's Blackhawk run in the early 80's where he demands to get a Blackhawk uniform like everyone else in the group, and that he be called by his real name, Wu Cheng. I believe he had been given a real name as early as the Silver Age, but I'm not sure it was used beyond his origin. He also had a costume like the rest of the team for the final two issues of the original run, before losing it again for subsequent runs.
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Post by chadwilliam on Jun 24, 2022 23:42:56 GMT -5
I haven't read enough She-Hulk comics to know if this is a nickname used in comics or just within fandom, but do people actually call her 'Shrulkie'? It sounds like a nickname devised by someone whose heart just wasn't into the challenge of coming up with one.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 24, 2022 23:57:22 GMT -5
I haven't read enough She-Hulk comics to know if this is a nickname used in comics or just within fandom, but do people actually call her 'Shrulkie'? It sounds like a nickname devised by someone whose heart just wasn't into the challenge of coming up with one. I think it was 'Shulkie" but either way it was a fail
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Post by Cei-U! on Jun 25, 2022 4:57:30 GMT -5
I haven't read enough She-Hulk comics to know if this is a nickname used in comics or just within fandom, but do people actually call her 'Shrulkie'? It sounds like a nickname devised by someone whose heart just wasn't into the challenge of coming up with one. I think it was 'Shulkie" but either way it was a fail It was indeed "Shulkie" and it was Hawkeye, I think, who first hung it on her around the time she joined the Avengers. I always thought it was kinda cute. But then my childhood nickname was "Critter" so what do I know?
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Post by berkley on Jun 25, 2022 5:59:20 GMT -5
I haven't read enough She-Hulk comics to know if this is a nickname used in comics or just within fandom, but do people actually call her 'Shrulkie'? It sounds like a nickname devised by someone whose heart just wasn't into the challenge of coming up with one. I think it was 'Shulkie" but either way it was a fail
The name "She-Hulk" itself was always a big fail for me, and the contraction was no improvement.
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Post by Ish Kabbible on Jun 25, 2022 6:16:18 GMT -5
I think it was 'Shulkie" but either way it was a fail
The name "She-Hulk" itself was always a big fail for me, and the contraction was no improvement. In the name of fairness, Bruce Banner shoud have been renamed "He-Hulk"
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Post by chaykinstevens on Jun 25, 2022 6:57:09 GMT -5
The name "She-Hulk" itself was always a big fail for me, and the contraction was no improvement. I think when Jim Starlin heard they were doing a comic called She-Hulk, he was supposed to have said they should do a female version of It, the Living Colossus called She-It.
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Post by Roquefort Raider on Jun 25, 2022 7:12:34 GMT -5
"The Dominoed Daredoll" was pretty awful, but... Slight thread drift: it's the second time I see a mention of Batgirl's brown belt (the first time being in Untold Legend of the Batman). For crying out loud... It's as if someone thought "let's be careful, here, wouldn't want to make her sound too competent or anything."
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Post by berkley on Jun 25, 2022 19:32:12 GMT -5
The name "She-Hulk" itself was always a big fail for me, and the contraction was no improvement. In the name of fairness, Bruce Banner shoud have been renamed "He-Hulk"
He could have had a crossover with He-Man (another of my least favourite character names ever).
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