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 Post subject: Re: Worst GI Joe character name of all time???
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:35 am 
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Windmill - probably because he is the only Joe from my town. and that is such a lame name, Imagine him doing a guitar solo just swinging his arm around and around

Skidmark - while funny almost seems justifiable

At least they didn't call Col. Courage - Black Hawk or something

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 Post subject: Re: Worst GI Joe character name of all time???
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 11:41 am 
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pluv wrote:
I've never had a problem with the codename Skidmark. The term came from tire marks on the street, which makes sense for a driver character.

Double Blast irks me. It is isn't horrible, but it just makes no sense for the character, specialty or anything else. Maybe a Cobra bomber but not a Joe heavy weapons guy.



Yeah, but the term skidmark's other meaning is so ridiculous, even as an adult its the first thing to come to mind. I'm pretty sure I renamed mine because I really like the Desert Fox. Can't remember what I called him though.

Double Blast vs. Rip-It, another viable option

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 12:56 pm 
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I'd agree with the "Rank + Noun/Adjective/Verb" names being the worst.
Never get why people bag on the name 'Snow Job'. Sure, it rhymes with another term, but then there's "Duke/Puke", "Lady Jay/Lay-BJ", etc. that we came up with as kids that required a reworking of the name to make it funny. Snow Job itself is a pretty good code name because it told you right away that while he was one of the good guys, he was also a guy to keep an eye on, because he'd try to con you any chance he could.


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 Post subject: Re: Worst GI Joe character name of all time???
PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 2:21 pm 
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MobileBattleBunker wrote:

At least they didn't call Col. Courage - Black Hawk or something



They do behind his back.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 3:18 pm 
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Skidmark and a few of the others like this don't bother me because their slang terms were not as commonplace when the characters were first created.

Ice Cream Soldier ranks near the top. It's not a bad-looking figure, and it certainly worked well some years later as a Cobra trooper, but that name -- yeesh!

Double Blast was pretty bad. So was Double Clutch, for that matter. I mean, what's next, the G.I. Joe Team's barista, Triple Espresso?

I was never crazy about the code-name "Effects", either.


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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 4:32 pm 
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Ice Cream Soldier was an old term used to deceive the troops with flame throwers. It's a fun ironic nick-name, but at the same time, it's long and clunky, it doesn't flow. Even to call him ICS sounds odd.

Some of the names Hasbro came up with were pretty horrible, until Larry Hama changed them. Roadblock was almost called Bubba.

Crystal Ball is horrible. Everything about him sucks.

Some rank names work for me like Sgt. Slaughter or COL. Courage, but others like Capt. Grid Iron or the Majors don't.

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PostPosted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 5:21 pm 
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Separately, Snow Job and Blowtorch are innocuous.

But together? Let the comedy commence.


What's wrong with Snow Torch!? ;P

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Major Bludd works.

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Red Spot, it sounds erm... feminine.

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Red Spot, it sounds erm... feminine.

Snarf.... coffee out the nose.

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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 9:08 am 
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revsears wrote:
Red Spot, it sounds erm... feminine.

He's only deployed once a month.


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 12:10 pm 
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Tapper wrote:
Major Bludd works.


Yeah, I never think of him as one of the rank named dudes. Guess because Bludd works as his last name naturally, so it makes sense, same with Sgt Slaughter. Both those are real last names so the rank goes with them naturally, unlike Colonel Courage or Captain Grid-Iron.


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 Post subject: Re: Worst GI Joe character name of all time???
PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 6:55 pm 
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Poor Red Spot,
I guess he's gonna get partnered with the rawhide female heavy weapons trooper -


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PostPosted: Fri Dec 21, 2012 10:26 pm 
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Agreeing with Rank/Name combo as lame most of the time.

Skid Mark I can handle, Ice Cream Soldier is stupid.

Action Man is too 50s.
Faces is just phoning it in.
Fast Draw: Quick Draw sounds better
Helix makes no sense. Are we also going to get Agent Parallelogram?
Hard Master LOL
Lady Jaye sounds like a cabaret dancer
Maverick is too obvious
Mercer "a dealer in usually expensive fabrics " is a lame name for an awesome character
Munitia is too comicbook-y
Road Pig: Road Hog sounds better
Serpentor: just never liked it. (never cared for the character either)

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