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 Post subject: Re: Worst GI Joe character name of all time???
PostPosted: Mon Feb 11, 2013 2:53 am 
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Well, I'm looking at the upcoming Convention Set and wondering why a character that looks like female Hydra agent is called "Crimson Asp".

I think she'll get a rename...maybe make her an Agent Provacateur...

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 Post subject: Worst Character Names
PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2013 11:30 am 
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3DJoes wrote:
They wrote a joe prose book a while back and skidmark was featured in a nice short story (20 pages or so). The writer called him "Skid" the whole time. He was kinda bad ass in the story. It made me like the figure more, as good stories often do.

Still his name has to win the worst of all time award.


Good to hear on the story, I haven't got that far in the book yet. I'm glad they wrote him seriously as I love the character and was glad to read he was included.
Now my votes for the worst actually come from ones where it's Hasbro's stupidity at work:
Airborne II - I renamed him Six because he wasn't Talltree.
Major Altitude - again because of the reuse of a name for a different character.
Ghostrider - come on they worked in conjunction with Marvel and they still let this one pass.

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 Post subject: Re: Worst GI Joe character name of all time???
PostPosted: Mon May 27, 2013 7:12 pm 
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Ok I forgot about Hard Master, that's just uhm..... gives you some bad thoughts

But..
Soft Master, in conjunction with the name above I kinda feel sorry for him. Maybe he needs to see Dr. Viagra and everything will work out, but probably not.


Yeah bad, but then again that's kinda a running theme in this thread.

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That is pretty amazing that Hasbro released a Ghostrider figure in the late 80s, knowing they had a long running partnership with Marvel.


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PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 2:52 am 
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3DJoes wrote:
That is pretty amazing that Hasbro released a Ghostrider figure in the late 80s, knowing they had a long running partnership with Marvel.


I think that was the reason why no one could ever remember (re:say) his name in the comics

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 Post subject: Re: Worst GI Joe character name of all time???
PostPosted: Sun Sep 22, 2013 11:46 am 
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3DJoes wrote:
That is pretty amazing that Hasbro released a Ghostrider figure in the late 80s, knowing they had a long running partnership with Marvel.

Back in those days you could give your character a name that another company used for another character without really getting sued unless the rest of the character was a ripoff of said existing character.

Tonka used the names Rumble and Blaster in their GoBots toyline. Their Rumble came after the Transformers' Rumble, but their Blaster predated the Transformers' Blaster. It was just one of those things you could do back when companies were less litigous and not as obsessed with "That's OUR name! You can't use OUR name!".

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:00 pm 
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stad wrote:
Yeah, I never understood the bagging on Snow Job either. Snow job was a common term for a con job, but it's never been another term for BJ, it just rhymes with it, which is a stupid reason to bag on it.


I agree that, on its own, there's nothing wrong with Snow Job's code name (even though anyone who's been a kiid or has a kid knows that rhyming someone's name with something bad is absolutely going to happen).

My point had more to do with the fact that he and Blowtorchh were released/introduced at about the same time, practically setting excited kids up to say something wildly inappropriate and confusing when telling mom or dad what they wanted for Christmas.

Also, what if they were deployed as part of the same squad? In the heat of the moment, who's to say Duke or Hawk wouldn't mix those names up inadvertently while talking to Scarlett or Covergirl?


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 Post subject: Re: Worst GI Joe character name of all time???
PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:09 pm 
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Suburbanator wrote:
3DJoes wrote:
That is pretty amazing that Hasbro released a Ghostrider figure in the late 80s, knowing they had a long running partnership with Marvel.


I think that was the reason why no one could ever remember (re:say) his name in the comics


HA! That's probably right, or even if it isn't, it's a reference to it...

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 Post subject: Re: Worst GI Joe character name of all time???
PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 2:14 pm 
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stad wrote:
Yeah, I never understood the bagging on Snow Job either. Snow job was a common term for a con job, but it's never been another term for BJ, it just rhymes with it, which is a stupid reason to bag on it.


At least they didn't name him Snowball. If you don't know what it means, you probably don't want to :shifty:

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PostPosted: Mon Sep 23, 2013 3:18 pm 
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and the other Python *-Vipers too.


There were five of them. They were put in charge of comedy/morale in the Springfield cinema. They were originally in charge of the Cobra mess hall, but all they ever served was Spam.

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PostPosted: Tue Sep 24, 2013 3:20 pm 
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Even though I've always loved the figure, as a kid, I thought Crazy Legs was a pretty bad codename. I understand that there's some sort of military slang tie there (like Ice Cream Soldier), but it still always struck me as a pretty weird codename.


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 10:51 pm 

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I liked Crazylegs, because I pictured his legs running in mid air as he parachuted. Don't know why....


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PostPosted: Wed Sep 25, 2013 10:55 pm 

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Jay wrote:
3DJoes wrote:
That is pretty amazing that Hasbro released a Ghostrider figure in the late 80s, knowing they had a long running partnership with Marvel.

Back in those days you could give your character a name that another company used for another character without really getting sued unless the rest of the character was a ripoff of said existing character.

Tonka used the names Rumble and Blaster in their GoBots toyline. Their Rumble came after the Transformers' Rumble, but their Blaster predated the Transformers' Blaster. It was just one of those things you could do back when companies were less litigous and not as obsessed with "That's OUR name! You can't use OUR name!".


These days they'd name him Jonas "Ghostrider" Jeffries to get around any trademark disputes.


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:34 pm 
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Lady Jaye sounds like a cabaret dancer


I think Brenda works better as her codename.


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PostPosted: Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:43 pm 
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Well look what the cat dragged in!

hello levantine

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