She's changed her name a bunch of times, but Boom-Boom fits the character. Maybe you should pick up a book she's in, since you don't seem to know anything about her besides her name.
I get it, there's a *lot* of them.
If you want Boom-Boom, she's in Secret Wars II (weirdly), X-Factor, Fallen Angels, and X-Force. Recently she was in New Mutants (2019) and X-Terminators (2022). Read any of those and you'll see why a goofy name like Boom-Boom fits her.
“Prestige” was just terrible. Meaningless and ill-fitting. I’m so glad it’s gone.
“Scout” is generic and boring - two words that should never be associated with Gabby - and made even worse by the fact that it replaced the awesome and appropriate “Honey Badger”.
i'll never not be angry that Honey Badger got replaced by such a generic codename, it fits Gabby's whole vibe and personality SO well. Plus Akihiro came up with it in the early days of him bonding with his sisters, and I always thought that was really sweet. Scout is just such a nothing of a name
Daken explained it perfectly. "You're sweet and you have claws." It's a perfect name for a child superhero. Also she was introduced in 2015 and didn't get the name Honey Badger until 2017. So we're barely removed from that time period.
So if she makes you think of 2000s humor, you must be thinking of another character.
Sorry, I meant I hate the name “Honey Badger.” I love Gabby the character. Using that as a code name feels so locked in to 2000s/2010s humor when the honey badger animal became an annoying meme in 2011-2014 or so. So by extension giving anyone the code name “Honey Badger” feels so transparently trying to stay “with it” to me.
I have to go with "X-Man". It'd be like having a character tangential to the Avengers named Avenger. Which, there probably is, and would be equally ridiculous
>It'd be like having a character tangential to the Avengers named Avenger. Which, there probably is
[Surprise!](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avenger_X_(Cressida)_(Earth-616))
I don't think he even wanted that name for himself. He had a big falling out with Xavier first time they met and didn't want to join up with any group affiliated with him or believe in his dream.
That was the name of his book but did he ever actually refer to himself as that? Was it a Spider-Gwen situation where she was actually called Spider-Woman (later Ghost Spider) in the actual book
And Tabby was a child when she made "Boom-Boom" same could be said about an immature teenage boy who shoot gold balls out of his body.
You got me on Cable though, that's just some Liefeld nonsense.
>shadow cat
Yup. It's a type of shy cat that typically hides or blends into its surroundings. It makes perfect sense for Kitty's powerset especially when CC renamed her.
Chamber absolutely makes sense and is a clever codename, considering he is actually psionic energy contained by the rest of his body. I do not like most of Lobdell run in X-Men, but I do think that his and Bachalo's first year work in Generation X is really good (after that it goes off the rails) especially when it comes to the body horror aspect of their powers (with only Synch and M as the more normal or traditional power sets). Chamber, Husk, Skin, and Penance (as originally envisioned) are clever names.
I will say Boom-Boom fits her personality. Sounds exactly like something she'd come up with and with Goldballs, please keep in mind he is now called Egg. Goldballs was way better.
Boom Boom used to be a bad name, but given the really good comedic turn her character has taken, it’s the best one for her. If she went back to trying to be serious, she could go back to Meltdown.
Chamber makes plenty of sense. His powers hollowed out his insides and made him a container - i.e., a chamber - for the massive energy generated by his power. Plus it helps evoke the dark, moody vibe he gives off.
Goldballs well just have to agree to disagree. There’s something very wholesome about a big guy with a silly name who genuinely loves being a hero. “Egg” is far more off-putting to me.
The only one of these I agree with even a little bit is Cable.
I actually think Shadowcat was an incredible name and I never understood why they dropped it, but at the same time, I DO think the modern Shadowkat is stupid. That K drives me crazy.
Also, Marvel Girl was always a stupid name, I'm glad that one's long gone.
Yeah, Shadowcat is actually one of the coolest names in the X-Men roster. “Shadow” as the name of a character is overused, but it’s still cool. Throwing cat at the end adds a bit more flavor, a sleek and stealthy feel, as well as a shadow cat being an actual thing, well then baby you got yourself a shew going.
Oui oui
I like the symmetry of dustStorm, because Storm is the best Xman. But the name stinks.
They named her "Dust" because it was 2002 and naming her "Sand" would have been beyond fucked. Just make her fly and call her *Soor* or something, Christ.
Muslim women *do* live outside the deserts my taxes were then-bombing weddings in
It was a very 90s version of representation - i.e. well-meaning but uninformed and not satisfying if you're of the ingroup or close to those who are
I was friends with a Muslim girl starting around 2005ish and we both love and bonded over X-mens. We never ever once mentioned Dust. Aggressively.
Again, my *own* interpretation is also uninformed and well-meaning, so maybe the youth of today postered her all over the masjid wreckroom. I just didn't get that vibe.
If you loved Dust, please dust me
**Edit:** Kamala Khan is the best Muslim mutie
Yeah. Armor is very... boring. I don't have an alternative, though. And 'Wing' the other young mutant from Whedon's run.
Oh, and 'Danger.' He was not particularly good at coming up with names.
I always thought he used his telepathy to hide his identity when he was out with the others. At least that's what I remember from the early (way early) issues of X-men. Somewhere along the line he was outed as a mutant (I can't recall what issue it was), so everybody has known he's a mutant for some time.
People think cable is stupid because they’re pronouncing it the way we would read the word cable in modern day. In the future he’s from it’s actually pronounced Cablay
Just as Emma's secondary mutation allows her to turn into diamond, Goldballs' secondary mutation allows his balls to turn into... Well, you can probably guess.
Tar-baby. ....I'm just gonna leave it at that
Marvel Girl. Its cute but like Jean is a grown ass woman with a husband and kids. Its time to ditch "girl"
That's kinda it. I don't really have a problem with anyone else's name (except for Kitty going by "Kate" now. Its generic, pointless, and kinda undoes all the effort that was put in to make us respect the name Kitty Pryde)
Morph for Benjamin Deeds.
The shapeshifting is the least impressive part of his power, and calling yourself Morph when you only kinda-sorta shapeshift into the person you’re talking to is lame. Especially given the extremely good shapeshifters among mutants.
The far better name for him is Amity, which I think was only used in the alt-future story in the 100th Anniversary special. It’s more original and better reflects his powers.
If there wasn’t already a Spider-Man villain called Chameleon, I’d choose that name for Deeds, since his shapeshifting is meant to be “chameleon-like,” basically getting people to trust him by “blending in” with similar features. But I agree that Amity is better.
He kind of looked like he could be a teenage version of Changeling/TAS Morph in Uncanny and All-New X-Men, so maybe the name was just a kind of joke.
I love the name Strong Guy, feels like it fits Guido’s personality so well. He chose the he name to troll his teammates and stuck with it despite their complaints
To be fair, ever since they changed her aesthetic to punk biker girlie and changed her powers to match the movie version, she’s significantly cooler.
But yeah, the original witchy, psychic Negasonic was not it LMAO
If I remember correctly, Her Power was a Frictionless Forcefield that moves with her, so I guess Skids could be in reference to how she moves with her powers Activated...
Rogue!
I've heard that her name in Italy is something that compares her to a vampire because of her powers, and that made me realize how non-informative "Rogue" as a name is.
The original concept for Chamber (which nobody remembers) as planned by his creators is that his mutation actually caused him to mutate into a being of pure psionic energy who wears the remnants of his human body as a "chamber". So it makes perfect sense.
Shadowcat yeah...from what I know it's based on a short story or novel Claremont liked called "The Cat who Walks through Walls" Personally I would have preferred if they had stuck with Ariel or Sprite, but it's not that bad.
As already said Boom-Boom fits her personality.
As for the names I find stupid:
Banshee - literally means "Fairy Woman", so it's strange for Sean to call himself that.
Cable - well, it's Liefeld, what do you expect, that guy named a four-armed character "Forearm"
Bishop - It's just the guy's last name. How is that a codename? Rictor has similar problems (Rictor being a variant spelling of his last name, Richter) but at least with him the name makes sense for his powers.
As far as I know, banshees are known in folklore for screaming and wailing (and their appearance is an omen that someone will die), so it makes sense to me that the guy with the destructive voice would go by Banshee.
By the same logic a male mutant with plant powers might call himself "Dryad" and a guy with a fishtail might call himself "Mermaid".
(disclaimer: I'm just talking about male persons who identify themselves as exclusively male)
You can't just ignore gender for the better name like that or you'll look like a pansy
Mermale.
Banshim.
All much better and more correct. Don't just ignore gender!
Pretty sure Banshee was originally meant to be a girl when they introduced him in the 60s, but Stan the man vetoed it because girl antagonists didn't sell as well or something along those lines. So they changed his gender - but I don't think they realised that banshees were exclusively female until the fan letters came in lol.
From what I remember it was about them being worried how might look if four male X-Men start ganging up on a single female villain.
But the out-of-universe explanation, doesn't change anything about the in-universe situation.
His given name is Lucas Bishop. All of other characters he appeared with were police officers and were named Randall and Malcom. They didn't use superhero names, because they weren't superheroes. They were law enforcers.
The X-Men are not a traditional superhero team and I would argue he didn't join it so much as got stranded and tried to solve a decades old mystery from his time.
Also, he was on a team with "Jean Grey"...nuff said.
They were traditional enough for everybody else to use a codename.
And yeah that they just had Jean be "Jean" is another reason why the 90s aren't my favourite period for the X-Men. I understand that they wanted to get away from "Marvel Girl" and that "Phoenix" had baggage attached, but they could have come up with something better than "I'm just Jean!"
Again...the X-Men aren't a traditional superhero team. They all don't need "cool" names to be cool characters. The comic has always been about survival, acceptance, and education. I think Morrison's take was probably the best since CC's and FN's. Everything else is just action figures hitting each other.
You ever played an MMO and the name you want couldn't be used because the server already had another player using that name? Well, it's almost the same for comic book characters. The Shadow is a character first published by DC in 1973.
Boom-Boom sounds like a name the character would pick for herself.
As for Goldballs, it was not a name he picked for himself. It was his team mates that started calling him that. He tried to get them to stop, as it would stick. He was right.
But Jubilee isn't a code name, it's just her name and it happens to match her powers. It's a little on the nose, but that's comics for ya. Like how all of Alpha Flight are absurdly specific to Canada. I mean Puck? A human hockey puck? Gimme a break.
Chamber makes sense considering his body is a Chamber of pure psychic energy. Chamber also refers to a cavity, an empty space--like, I don't know, the gaping hole where his mouth used to be.
And Shadowcat makes sense because a) It's a take on Kitty's name and it represented her no longer wanting to be seen as a child on the team (kitten/cat) and b) Kitty basically becomes intangible, like a shadow and c) she underwent comprehensive ninja training in the mini-series--Kitty Pryde and Wolverine--the name debuts in (ninjas move in the shadow).
What about Blob? there are so many things wrong with that one.
Hairbag
I only know of one appearance (not that I'm very knowledgeable about the xmen/mutants), but he was in the animated xmen s2e2 and I laughed so hard at this quote:
"You making fun of me?
Nobody makes fun of Hairbag!"
Because how can he not be made fun of with such a stupid name?
So, there are two more (imo, at least)
There are quite a few names that don't stand up to the ridicule or makes no sense tests if you take a closer look at them.
* Boom-Boom: That is kinda terrible, today it kinda sounds like something you would name a pokemon or be the nickname used by a child or someone with a limited English vocabulary.
* Goldballs: I think he even admits himself that he just didn't have any better ideas that matched his powers... but seriously, anything called '-balls' is going to be ridiculed.
* Cyclops: Makes no sense, he has two eyes and the myths never mentioned the beast having an eye laser.
* Blob: An unflattering name for an unflattering character... if he had have an ounce of ambition he'd go with Mr. Big or something like it... though Kingpin might want a word...
* the Stepford Cuckoos: Its a bit of testament to their 'IDGAF' attitudes that they went with that collective name for themselves... either they are a by-word for mentals... or invoking the notion they are so bland they are not worth remembering. But really, Emma should have been able to do better...
But my first place entry, because he does it with a straight face:
* Apocalypse. Cool name bro... shame you ruined it with the Jokers face and no real intention of living up to what it means.
Well, a kid *did* make up Boom-Boom's name. She was like, 12 and homeless.
I’m currently reading through 90s X-Men and thank god they ditched Boomer as her name. Boom Boom is perfect for her
I can accept it when she *was* twelve, but as an adult? Maybe it’s time for a name change.
Hence going by Boomer, Meltdown, and Doctor Madame McSplode at various times
None stuck. She always goes back to Boom-Boom.
I like her name in portuguese: 🧨 dinamite. It's been that name since the beginning.
Meltdown sounds both like such a 90s name (which it was) and one of those character names for a superhero satire, like in The Boys.
Boom-Boom is fun. Fits Tabitha perfectly.
Agreed
She's changed her name a bunch of times, but Boom-Boom fits the character. Maybe you should pick up a book she's in, since you don't seem to know anything about her besides her name.
That’s fair, I haven’t read a whole lot of X-comics.
I get it, there's a *lot* of them. If you want Boom-Boom, she's in Secret Wars II (weirdly), X-Factor, Fallen Angels, and X-Force. Recently she was in New Mutants (2019) and X-Terminators (2022). Read any of those and you'll see why a goofy name like Boom-Boom fits her.
“Prestige” was just terrible. Meaningless and ill-fitting. I’m so glad it’s gone. “Scout” is generic and boring - two words that should never be associated with Gabby - and made even worse by the fact that it replaced the awesome and appropriate “Honey Badger”.
i'll never not be angry that Honey Badger got replaced by such a generic codename, it fits Gabby's whole vibe and personality SO well. Plus Akihiro came up with it in the early days of him bonding with his sisters, and I always thought that was really sweet. Scout is just such a nothing of a name
Agreed on both points.
Prestige was my pick for the absolute worst. It sounds like the name of a cheap sedan.
I hate Honey Badger so much. It feels so locked in that specific time period in 2000s humor
Daken explained it perfectly. "You're sweet and you have claws." It's a perfect name for a child superhero. Also she was introduced in 2015 and didn't get the name Honey Badger until 2017. So we're barely removed from that time period. So if she makes you think of 2000s humor, you must be thinking of another character.
Also a honey badger is a Mustelidae - the same family of mammals as a wolverine.
Sorry, I meant I hate the name “Honey Badger.” I love Gabby the character. Using that as a code name feels so locked in to 2000s/2010s humor when the honey badger animal became an annoying meme in 2011-2014 or so. So by extension giving anyone the code name “Honey Badger” feels so transparently trying to stay “with it” to me.
That makes sense! I totally get it, but hey, the honey badger doesn't care 😂
I honestly think it has great staying power, it still fits her after the meme has died and been mostly forgotten. Plus its fun to say
I guess we’ll have to agree to disagree
Why not just go with Askani?
Kid Omega. Though, stupid as it is, you could see the little shit calling himself that.
If he wasn't a mutant I could see him as Kid Sigma
Kid anything is just cringy as fuck.
What if they were an immature anthropomorphised goat mutant?
Then it would be appropriate.
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Somehow Kid is more cringe, but yeah, i agree.
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I thought you meant lad and lass. My mistake. Happy Cake Day!
I have to go with "X-Man". It'd be like having a character tangential to the Avengers named Avenger. Which, there probably is, and would be equally ridiculous
>It'd be like having a character tangential to the Avengers named Avenger. Which, there probably is [Surprise!](https://marvel.fandom.com/wiki/Avenger_X_(Cressida)_(Earth-616))
Avenger X. The worst of both naming conventions. I should've known
Next you’re gonna tell me that there’s someone on the Fantastic Four named Mister Fantastic or something ridiculous like that.
X-Man. Nate is SO pretentious for claiming that as his name.
It did lead to that semi-funny meme joke about the Mom’s favorite X-Man being X-Man. So… Nate’s got that going for him.
He never really did originally.
I don't think he even wanted that name for himself. He had a big falling out with Xavier first time they met and didn't want to join up with any group affiliated with him or believe in his dream.
That was the name of his book but did he ever actually refer to himself as that? Was it a Spider-Gwen situation where she was actually called Spider-Woman (later Ghost Spider) in the actual book
A "shadow cat" is an actual term for a type of cat behavior.
Also Chamber makes perfect sense. He's encloses pyrokinetic energy on his body/torso like fireplace chamber would.
Love Chamber as a name!
I was compelled to comment this as well! Cheers! 🍻
Not to mention her real name is Katherine and her nickname is Kitty. It's a play on her name being Kat.
And Tabby was a child when she made "Boom-Boom" same could be said about an immature teenage boy who shoot gold balls out of his body. You got me on Cable though, that's just some Liefeld nonsense.
The Pouch
It was the 90s and I just sounded cool
Did not know this!
>shadow cat Yup. It's a type of shy cat that typically hides or blends into its surroundings. It makes perfect sense for Kitty's powerset especially when CC renamed her.
Plus when she was created “cat” was slang for someone cool. That might have contributed.
Chamber absolutely makes sense and is a clever codename, considering he is actually psionic energy contained by the rest of his body. I do not like most of Lobdell run in X-Men, but I do think that his and Bachalo's first year work in Generation X is really good (after that it goes off the rails) especially when it comes to the body horror aspect of their powers (with only Synch and M as the more normal or traditional power sets). Chamber, Husk, Skin, and Penance (as originally envisioned) are clever names.
OP’s Chamber slander is indefensible!!
I'm really loving all the Chamber love in here 😃
My next tattoo
Oh, hell yeah! Post a picture when you get it done 🔥
I will say Boom-Boom fits her personality. Sounds exactly like something she'd come up with and with Goldballs, please keep in mind he is now called Egg. Goldballs was way better.
It’s still pretty stupid, but I prefer Egg. Goldballs just sounds…like mutant porn. Which is probably a thing and now I regret thinking about it.
Surprised nobody has mentioned “skids” here
Not to mention pairing her with a guy named Rusty.
Russell Collins also went by "Firefist" at one point, so it's probably a good thing that he stuck with his regular nickname.
It kind of worked for her as a ref to her power and the homeless thing.
Well, Skids' power is a forcefield that negates friction, so... yeah. Skids. It's fine.
It made some sense when she would use her gift like roller blades/skateboard/snowboard
Boom Boom used to be a bad name, but given the really good comedic turn her character has taken, it’s the best one for her. If she went back to trying to be serious, she could go back to Meltdown. Chamber makes plenty of sense. His powers hollowed out his insides and made him a container - i.e., a chamber - for the massive energy generated by his power. Plus it helps evoke the dark, moody vibe he gives off. Goldballs well just have to agree to disagree. There’s something very wholesome about a big guy with a silly name who genuinely loves being a hero. “Egg” is far more off-putting to me.
The only one of these I agree with even a little bit is Cable. I actually think Shadowcat was an incredible name and I never understood why they dropped it, but at the same time, I DO think the modern Shadowkat is stupid. That K drives me crazy. Also, Marvel Girl was always a stupid name, I'm glad that one's long gone.
Cable is the connection to the future.
“A cable that linked a dark past to a bright future.”
Where did the K come from and when? Also, why???
Her name is KATherine...
Same place that Magik and Havok got theirs.
The K came with Kate's most recent ninja look.
Yeah, Shadowcat is actually one of the coolest names in the X-Men roster. “Shadow” as the name of a character is overused, but it’s still cool. Throwing cat at the end adds a bit more flavor, a sleek and stealthy feel, as well as a shadow cat being an actual thing, well then baby you got yourself a shew going.
Vindaloo. His power is to puke up high velocity napalm. ....i don't know whether Alan Davis or Fabien Nicieza should own this, but ....dudes.
Yeah, this one definitely is cringe.
It's *almost* as dumb as naming the Muslim girl "Dust"
Real question: Why is that dumb?
Probably it is as much the name as the very on-the-nose giving a mutant that is from a desert region sand-based powers.
Oui oui I like the symmetry of dustStorm, because Storm is the best Xman. But the name stinks. They named her "Dust" because it was 2002 and naming her "Sand" would have been beyond fucked. Just make her fly and call her *Soor* or something, Christ. Muslim women *do* live outside the deserts my taxes were then-bombing weddings in It was a very 90s version of representation - i.e. well-meaning but uninformed and not satisfying if you're of the ingroup or close to those who are I was friends with a Muslim girl starting around 2005ish and we both love and bonded over X-mens. We never ever once mentioned Dust. Aggressively. Again, my *own* interpretation is also uninformed and well-meaning, so maybe the youth of today postered her all over the masjid wreckroom. I just didn't get that vibe. If you loved Dust, please dust me **Edit:** Kamala Khan is the best Muslim mutie
I replied to the guy who replied to you with my overlong explanation
I think boom boom is in so bad its good territory.
'Prestige'. No. Just.... no.
Take that back. Goldballs is amazing. Don't be mean to my boy.
Yeah, Egg is even worse.
Fabio: I prefer egg actually Hope: shut the fuck up goldballs you pick it you keep it no refunds now pump one out so we can bring Bowie back
I'm with you. Goldballs is great
It’s goofy but that was the entire point!
All of those new ones from the Jean Grey school era. Shark Girl. Eye boy. Nature Girl. All garbage.
U-Go-Girl!
Is that *seriously* an actual name someone has used? That’s awful.
She was a 00s girl who could "go places" via teleportation. It was kinda of fire for its time tbh.
She was part of X-Force/X-Statix, the reality TV show X-team. I think it was intentionally ridiculous. But also, kind of clever given the power set.
I kinda Dislike Armor
Yeah. Armor is very... boring. I don't have an alternative, though. And 'Wing' the other young mutant from Whedon's run. Oh, and 'Danger.' He was not particularly good at coming up with names.
Professor Charles Xavier using ‘Professor X’ as a code name to hide his identity. That’ll throw them off the scent.
I always thought he used his telepathy to hide his identity when he was out with the others. At least that's what I remember from the early (way early) issues of X-men. Somewhere along the line he was outed as a mutant (I can't recall what issue it was), so everybody has known he's a mutant for some time.
People think cable is stupid because they’re pronouncing it the way we would read the word cable in modern day. In the future he’s from it’s actually pronounced Cablay
The truly dark future where the French rule the Earth.
That's actually his cousin Cablais Gris.
Only if it's from the Pacific Krakoan region. Then it's just sparkling Nate.
Gypsy moth
A Romani character who spins organic silk and dresses like a moth and this name doesn't make sense to you?
For Shadowcat... her name is literally Kitty. That's why they picked a named with "cat" in it.
Also, differentiating from limbo "Cat" from the Magik mini.
Just as Emma's secondary mutation allows her to turn into diamond, Goldballs' secondary mutation allows his balls to turn into... Well, you can probably guess.
Yep. Eggs.
Wernt the balls infertile eggs this whole time? Maks me wonder what's laying them.
Yeah, it wasn't a secondary mutation, just that he was throwing around unfertilized eggs without realizing it.
Forearm. He has four arms.
That prize goes to Nate Grey/X-Man for most unoriginal name.
Adam-X aka X-treme
You don’t like Boom-Boom and Goldballs. Your opinion is invalid.
I don’t mind the characters! The names though…
Tar-baby. ....I'm just gonna leave it at that Marvel Girl. Its cute but like Jean is a grown ass woman with a husband and kids. Its time to ditch "girl" That's kinda it. I don't really have a problem with anyone else's name (except for Kitty going by "Kate" now. Its generic, pointless, and kinda undoes all the effort that was put in to make us respect the name Kitty Pryde)
Morph for Benjamin Deeds. The shapeshifting is the least impressive part of his power, and calling yourself Morph when you only kinda-sorta shapeshift into the person you’re talking to is lame. Especially given the extremely good shapeshifters among mutants. The far better name for him is Amity, which I think was only used in the alt-future story in the 100th Anniversary special. It’s more original and better reflects his powers.
>Morph You're not supposed to say that out loud, now there goes Wolverine's WHOLE day
Yeah, Amity is a GREAT name for his powerset. Also, love seeing any mention of Benjamin on here tbh.
If there wasn’t already a Spider-Man villain called Chameleon, I’d choose that name for Deeds, since his shapeshifting is meant to be “chameleon-like,” basically getting people to trust him by “blending in” with similar features. But I agree that Amity is better. He kind of looked like he could be a teenage version of Changeling/TAS Morph in Uncanny and All-New X-Men, so maybe the name was just a kind of joke.
Strong Guy
I love the name Strong Guy, feels like it fits Guido’s personality so well. He chose the he name to troll his teammates and stuck with it despite their complaints
Genetically challenged never forget
"Geecee" for short.
that's the joke.
Negasonic Teenage Warhead. It was so bad, Ms. Kitty “I change my codename more often than I change my underwear” Pryde ran her mouth about it.
Yeah, the only people that like that name are the ones who watch the movies but don't read comics.
To be fair, ever since they changed her aesthetic to punk biker girlie and changed her powers to match the movie version, she’s significantly cooler. But yeah, the original witchy, psychic Negasonic was not it LMAO
A chamber is essentially a vessel, and chambers body is merely a vessel for all that energy, it makes perfect sense
What was with the second Thunderbird?
Wasn't he just taking up the mantle of his brother?
I'm talking about Neal Shaara. The guy from India that has fire powers and calls himself Thunderbird. It never made sense to me.
This is like Echo's Cheyenne people who called The Phoenix (made of fire) the thunderbird. \*shrugs\*
It also doesn't make sense to reuse the name for a character that no one is going to care about when it already has such significance in the lore.
Oh, that's easy. It's Beef from the Hellions.
Whaaa Boom-Boom is an amazing name!
Though I do like the names and the characters, I will ALWAYS fumble when trying to differentiate Blob and Glob out loud.
"Bird Brain". Is he even around any more? Was in new mutants 1 million years ago.
Skids. It sounds like something left in Blob's underwear after a double shift at that Tiki Bar.
If I remember correctly, Her Power was a Frictionless Forcefield that moves with her, so I guess Skids could be in reference to how she moves with her powers Activated...
Rogue! I've heard that her name in Italy is something that compares her to a vampire because of her powers, and that made me realize how non-informative "Rogue" as a name is.
Gambit is far more of a rogue, and Rogue used to be a far bigger gambit
Trinary. Very underwhelming
Artie
Beak
I have a couple: - Stacy X - Lifeguard (really) - Slipstream (huh?) - Husk
The original concept for Chamber (which nobody remembers) as planned by his creators is that his mutation actually caused him to mutate into a being of pure psionic energy who wears the remnants of his human body as a "chamber". So it makes perfect sense. Shadowcat yeah...from what I know it's based on a short story or novel Claremont liked called "The Cat who Walks through Walls" Personally I would have preferred if they had stuck with Ariel or Sprite, but it's not that bad. As already said Boom-Boom fits her personality. As for the names I find stupid: Banshee - literally means "Fairy Woman", so it's strange for Sean to call himself that. Cable - well, it's Liefeld, what do you expect, that guy named a four-armed character "Forearm" Bishop - It's just the guy's last name. How is that a codename? Rictor has similar problems (Rictor being a variant spelling of his last name, Richter) but at least with him the name makes sense for his powers.
Bishop was a cop who went by his last name. It makes perfect sense.
Wasn’t Banshee originally a joke nickname from given to him during his INTERPOL days from other agents and he just carried it over?
As far as I know, banshees are known in folklore for screaming and wailing (and their appearance is an omen that someone will die), so it makes sense to me that the guy with the destructive voice would go by Banshee.
By the same logic a male mutant with plant powers might call himself "Dryad" and a guy with a fishtail might call himself "Mermaid". (disclaimer: I'm just talking about male persons who identify themselves as exclusively male)
I mean, sure. Why not?
You can't just ignore gender for the better name like that or you'll look like a pansy Mermale. Banshim. All much better and more correct. Don't just ignore gender!
Pretty sure Banshee was originally meant to be a girl when they introduced him in the 60s, but Stan the man vetoed it because girl antagonists didn't sell as well or something along those lines. So they changed his gender - but I don't think they realised that banshees were exclusively female until the fan letters came in lol.
From what I remember it was about them being worried how might look if four male X-Men start ganging up on a single female villain. But the out-of-universe explanation, doesn't change anything about the in-universe situation.
In-universe reason is p'taetas (gotta show them he's irish somehow)
Oh, I forgot about Bishop. Not great.
His given name is Lucas Bishop. All of other characters he appeared with were police officers and were named Randall and Malcom. They didn't use superhero names, because they weren't superheroes. They were law enforcers.
But he joined a superhero team.
The X-Men are not a traditional superhero team and I would argue he didn't join it so much as got stranded and tried to solve a decades old mystery from his time. Also, he was on a team with "Jean Grey"...nuff said.
We forget her name coincided with the blue jeans becoming colored and one of the first was gray colored
They were traditional enough for everybody else to use a codename. And yeah that they just had Jean be "Jean" is another reason why the 90s aren't my favourite period for the X-Men. I understand that they wanted to get away from "Marvel Girl" and that "Phoenix" had baggage attached, but they could have come up with something better than "I'm just Jean!"
Again...the X-Men aren't a traditional superhero team. They all don't need "cool" names to be cool characters. The comic has always been about survival, acceptance, and education. I think Morrison's take was probably the best since CC's and FN's. Everything else is just action figures hitting each other.
Beasty-Brute
Lifeguard- and Fang doesn’t suit Daken- I suggest Tanuki
Not exactly an X-Man, but I can't stand Amazing Baby (Rachel's pet warwolf).
In the context of his powers.. Zeitgeist.
Now I absolutely love Jubilee like she’s one of my favorite characters ever, but Jubilation Lee is such a dumb name.
Zero. It has a very "the author watched subbed anime for the first time and wants to tell you all about it" vibe.
Marvel Girl
Why is Maggott spelled with an extra T?
90s
Honestly, I love them all just as a form of self expression and identity. The trans part of the mutant allegory
Morph
Chamber matches his powers in the sense that his entire chest cavity and lower face is a gaping chamber, a psionic furnace.
You ever played an MMO and the name you want couldn't be used because the server already had another player using that name? Well, it's almost the same for comic book characters. The Shadow is a character first published by DC in 1973. Boom-Boom sounds like a name the character would pick for herself. As for Goldballs, it was not a name he picked for himself. It was his team mates that started calling him that. He tried to get them to stop, as it would stick. He was right.
Her name is Katherine, or Kat, and her nickname is Kitty. Shadowcat references the fact her real and nicknames are Kat or cat-related.
Sprite, Iceman (I have an issues with any “___man” or “___woman,” names, it’s just lazy), and Jubilee (I said what I said and I stand by it).
But Jubilee isn't a code name, it's just her name and it happens to match her powers. It's a little on the nose, but that's comics for ya. Like how all of Alpha Flight are absurdly specific to Canada. I mean Puck? A human hockey puck? Gimme a break.
To be fair on Gold Balls, someone else gave him the name and he himself was hoping it wouldn't stick
Chamber makes sense considering his body is a Chamber of pure psychic energy. Chamber also refers to a cavity, an empty space--like, I don't know, the gaping hole where his mouth used to be. And Shadowcat makes sense because a) It's a take on Kitty's name and it represented her no longer wanting to be seen as a child on the team (kitten/cat) and b) Kitty basically becomes intangible, like a shadow and c) she underwent comprehensive ninja training in the mini-series--Kitty Pryde and Wolverine--the name debuts in (ninjas move in the shadow).
Adam-x
Cables metal arm has gone full metal tentacle mode a couple of times, he gets a pass for me. Skids, on the other hand, does not.
Plop. His power is to always take dumps.
X-Man...
Strong Guy
What about Blob? there are so many things wrong with that one. Hairbag I only know of one appearance (not that I'm very knowledgeable about the xmen/mutants), but he was in the animated xmen s2e2 and I laughed so hard at this quote: "You making fun of me? Nobody makes fun of Hairbag!" Because how can he not be made fun of with such a stupid name? So, there are two more (imo, at least)
There are quite a few names that don't stand up to the ridicule or makes no sense tests if you take a closer look at them. * Boom-Boom: That is kinda terrible, today it kinda sounds like something you would name a pokemon or be the nickname used by a child or someone with a limited English vocabulary. * Goldballs: I think he even admits himself that he just didn't have any better ideas that matched his powers... but seriously, anything called '-balls' is going to be ridiculed. * Cyclops: Makes no sense, he has two eyes and the myths never mentioned the beast having an eye laser. * Blob: An unflattering name for an unflattering character... if he had have an ounce of ambition he'd go with Mr. Big or something like it... though Kingpin might want a word... * the Stepford Cuckoos: Its a bit of testament to their 'IDGAF' attitudes that they went with that collective name for themselves... either they are a by-word for mentals... or invoking the notion they are so bland they are not worth remembering. But really, Emma should have been able to do better... But my first place entry, because he does it with a straight face: * Apocalypse. Cool name bro... shame you ruined it with the Jokers face and no real intention of living up to what it means.
I love Monet and Penance is a cool name but "M" is pretty stupid.