Fan Community Nicknames: Difference between revisions

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** On the same lines of the first, we also have 'Daiohtard'.

* Black Knights (''[[Code Geass]]'')

* Dollars (''[[Durarara]]'') This is from the show's version of 4chan that has spawned two real-life counterparts.

* Dragonballers (''[[Dragon Ball]]'')

* Evageeks (''[[Neon Genesis Evangelion]]'')

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** Another one from [[Live Journal]] is the [[Hetalia Fandomly]]

* Miniskirt Army for the ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' fangirls, presumably

** And "Risembool Rangers". Specifically, these two are often used to refer to fans of [[Vic Mignogna|Vic]] and [[Travis Willingham|Travis]] as well. To clarify, Vic's official fan club is the Risembool Rangers, and Travis's is the Miniskirt Army.

* Moonies (''[[Sailor Moon]]'')

* Narutards (''[[Naruto]]'')

* Orange Roadies (''[[Kimagure Orange Road]]'') or, alternatively, HardKOR fans.

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** And before that they were The Merry Marvel Marching Society

* Wingnuts ([[Batman|Nightwing]])

* ''[[Sonic the Comic]]'' and its fan continuation ''[[Sonic the Comic Online]]'' have the term "Boomers", which is actually canon.

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* Holmesians/Sherlockians (''[[Sherlock Holmes]]'')

** Also, Baker Street Irregulars.

* [[Horatio Hornblower]] fans have no overall nickname, but fans of [[Ensemble Darkhorse|Archie Kennedy]] call themselves "Crumpeteers," based on the [[Fan Nickname]] for him.

* Janeites ([[Jane Austen]])

* Lemmings of Discord (''[[Sword of Truth]]'' [[Hatedom]]), coined in one of the more creative insults they've received.

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*** "Phangirls" and "Phanbrats" also crop up in this sense, especially in reference to fans of the 2004 film who spend more time drooling over Gerard Butler's open shirt than anything else.

**** Note that fans of the older movies (which typically have even less to do with the source material than the musical) usually aren't deemed worthy of even a derogatory nickname, and flame wars may insue if they refer to themselves as 'Phans'. There has been some amount of fan-wankery due to this.

** This is also the same name for the ''[[Danny Phantom]]'' fans. They're also called "Phandoms" as well.

** Fans of the band [[Phish]] also call themselves Phans. This is all getting a bit confusing...

*** Fans of the band [[Phish]] would more likely call themselves and their community Phishheads and in the Phishhead community everything that starts with an "F" is changed to a "Ph". It is possible this originated from when the band used to play a bar in Burlington, Vermont called the Front and created posters stating "Phish at the Phront" to advertise this show. Then trend sorta gained popularity up phrom there.

** And let's not forget the fans of the ''[[Phantasm (Film)|Phantasm]]'' series.

* Potterites (''[[Harry Potter]]''). Pottheads, for a more pejorative term. "Potterheads" is a common variant. Also "Potterphile".

** Another common name is Dumbledore's Army or the D.A.

** Harmonians for the infamously vocal Harry/Hermione shippers

*** Herons for their arch-enemies, the Ron/Hermione shippers.

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* WOFers for members of the ''[[Warrior Cats]]'' official forum and Wishians for members of the fansite [[Warriors Wish]].

* Hard Core Fan Freaks for those devoted to following Robert Jordan's massive [[[The Wheel of Time]]] series

* Phagers for members of the [[Gone]] fansite Gaiaphage.com, and Fayzians for fans of the series itself. That being said, most Fayzians are members of Gaiaphage, so the terms overlap a lot.

* Phagers for members of the [[Gone (novel)]] fansite Gaiaphage.com, and Fayzians for fans of the series itself. That being said, most Fayzians are members of Gaiaphage, so the terms overlap a lot.

* Not used often, but several fans of [[The Dark Tower]] series have referred to themselves as "Tower Junkies" based on an offhand(and completely spot-on) comment about Roland made by [[Deadpan Snarker|Eddie Dean]] in "The Drawing Of The Three".

* The major ''[[Hunger Games]]'' fansites had a poll for fans to select their own fandom nickname. "Tributes" won narrowly over "Mockingjays".

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* ''[[Skulduggery Pleasant]]'' fans are known as "minions", or occasionally "munchkins".

* "Afpers" for ''[[Discworld]]'' fans who are on the [[UseNet]] group alt.fan.pratchett.

* Fans of [[His Dark Materials]] who inhabit the [[Bridge To The Stars]] website style themselves Sraffies.

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* Wingnuts (''[[The West Wing]]'')

* Whosers (''[[Whose Line Is It Anyway?]]?'')

* [[Doctor Who Fans|Whovians]] (''[[Doctor Who]]'')

** "Wholigans" is an alternative sometimes used in the UK.

*** That must be confusing whenever they run into someone [[Just for Pun|who]] likes [[The Who]] (see Music examples below).

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** Paul Heyman usually refers to the Mutants as "you crazy bastards", which is accurate.

* ROHbots ([[ROH|Ring of Honor]])

* Hulkamaniacs ([[Hulk Hogan]])

* Creatures of the Night ([[The Undertaker]])

* Peeps ([[Christian]])

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* Jellicles (''[[Cats]]'')

* Mizzies (''[[Les Misérables]]'')

* Phans (''[[Phantom of the Opera]]'')

* Sondheads (fans of [[Stephen Sondheim]])

* [tos]ser (''[[Title of Show]]'')

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* Type-Lunatics (games by ''[[Type Moon]]'')

* Adventurers for players of ''[[Kingdom of Loathing]]''.

* Questers for fans of [[Sierra]] games.

* Pokemaniacs (''[[Pokémon]]'')

** Alternately, Pokefags

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* Dot pokers (''[[DJMAX Technika]]'')

* Sonicfags (''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'')

* Smashers (''[[Super Smash Bros]]'')

* Smashers (''[[Super Smash Bros.]]'')

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** There's also Hannafans and fHannas, both of which came from the (new) forum.

* Homestuckers (''[[Homestuck]]'')

** These days, shortening it to Homestucks (as in, the singular [[Iconic Character Forgotten Title|is also "Homestuck"]]) is much more common, generally used by the fandom humourously/ironically as well as calling the webcomic as a whole Homostuck (homo and stuck), Homesuck, or Homosuck by the hatedom.

** "Hamsteak" is also sometimes used in certain places.

* Housers (''[[All Over the House]]'')

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* Floodians for the Bungie.net Off-Topic forum [[Halo|The Flood.]]

* Gaffers (NeoGAF, although it tends to be "reversed" often by detractors)

* [[~~Game FAQs~~]] has different names for the users of different social boards;

* [[GameFAQs]] has different names for the users of different social boards;

** Random Insanity (RI) - RIers

** Life, the Universe and Everything (LUE) - LUEsers

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** Poll Of the Day (PoTD) - PoTDers

** GameFAQs Contests (Board 8) - B8ers

** Users of [[~~Game FAQs~~]] in general are known as FAQers

** Users of [[GameFAQs]] in general are known as FAQers

*** Or GameFAGs, by less charitable people.

** Don't go to The Couch and call yourself a couchie. That is, unless everyone kisses your ass. Otherwise sit back and watch the flames.

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* Smogonites (''[[Smogon]]'')

** Smogonites often deride members of another ''[[Pokémon]]'' fansite, Serebii.net (its owner is infamous for trying to start fights between his site and other ''Pokémon'' communities, and pretty much everyone else), as "'Biitards".

* And fans of the [[Image Board]] 4chan have names depending on which of the boards they prefer to post. To name a handful -

** /a/ is for /a/ssholes OR wee/a/boos.

** /b/ is for /b/tards, /b/astards, /b/rothers, /b/rethren, /b/edophiles, /b/ronies (if they happen to be fans of [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic|My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic]]) and others. They stick, and depends on the situation.

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* MUnchkins (the [[Mai-HiME|Mai Universe]] forum)

* MeFites (''MetaFilter'')

* Evil Lesbian Minions (''Pottersues'') It comes from an angry letter from someone who got sporked.

* Ravelers (''ravelry.com'')

* Redditors (''Reddit'')

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* Starmen (''[[Earthbound|Starmen.net]]'')

* TaBBers (''Truth and Beauty Bombs'', the forum for ''[[The Non-Adventures of Wonderella]]'' and formerly the ''[[Dinosaur Comics]]'' and ''Wondermark'' forum)

* Tropers (''[[TV Tropes|Rather obvious, isn't it?]]'')

* Tubers (''[[YouTube]]'')

* Uncyclopedians (''Uncyclopedia'')

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** Technically, both "bronies" and "ponies" are gender-neutral, but tend to have a gendered connotation.

** The variant "/b/ronies", as well as the unique "/co/lts" and "ponyfags", are used by the fanbase present on 4chan.

* ''[[My Little Pony]]'' fans, pre-FiM, often go by PegaSis or Filly. Though it hasn't quite been decided what a male fan would be called.

* Campers, a term voice actor Christian Potenza lovingly uses to call fans of his show ''[[Total Drama Island]]''. Whenever he does a [[YouTube]] video, he always starts it by looking at the camera and saying "Hey campers!"

* Darklings (''[[Darkwing Duck]]'')

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* In-universe examples from ''[[Phineas and Ferb]]'': Fans of ''Space Adventure'' are called "Spekkies" while fans of ''Stumpleberry Finkbat'' are "Finkies." They have a [[Fandom Rivalry]].

* Go-ers (''[[Filmation's Ghostbusters|Filmations Ghostbusters]]'' animated series)

* KaBlammoids (''[[Ka Blam!]]'') Double points for it coming from a term for the fans used in the show itself.

* Rangerphiles (''[[Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers (animation)|Chip 'n Dale Rescue Rangers]]'')

* Spinners (''[[Tale Spin]]'')