Fan Nickname/Video Games/A-F

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Examples of Fan Nicknames in Video Games include:

  • Ace Attorney
    • "Naruhobo" for Phoenix's appearance in Apollo Justice, from his Japanese name (Ryuichi Naruhodo), and the fact that he looks like he's been getting his meals from a dumpster recently. Also occasionally "Hobohodo".
    • HoboPhoenix or Hobonix, for the same reasons.
    • Edgey - Edgeworth. Used by Larry Butz in the first game.
      • Edgey-poo - Used by Wendy Oldbag in the games.
    • Bratworth - The younger Edgeworth as he appears in case 4 of Trials and Tribulations and case 4 of Ace Attorney Investigations, from his smug attitude and extremely youthful appearance.
    • Evil Phoenix - Don Tigre's de facto English name before the game was translated.
    • Busty Glory - Fan nickname referring to Mia Fey's prodigious assets. Named from a topic at GameFAQs that wondered why Phoenix never asked Mia what it's like in the afterlife, as the potential was right there in all its 'busty glory.'
    • Dickhead - Daryan Crescend, because of his hairdo and personality
    • Loliziska/Bratziska - The younger version of Franziska, from the same time period as Bratworth.
    • Japanifornia - The setting of the (English) games, which is an odd mix of Japanese culture and architecture with what's supposed to be a city in California.
    • "The Liar Hawthorne" or just "Liar Hawthorne" for Dahlia Hawthorne, just to drive the point home that she's evil. For those who like it even more obvious, there's also "The Liar Has-Thorns".
    • Super Objection - The Objection! at the very end of Trials and Tribulations, when Mia's ghost appears next to Phoenix when he calls Godot out.
    • Key Lady was in use for Kay Faraday, before her English name was revealed. Also, Jacques Portsman was often called "Dennis" because it sounds similar to "Tennis", in order to go with the series' Punny Names.
    • Detective Tyrell Badd has been affectionately nicknamed Detective Baddass, 'cause, you know... He's badass.** Gyakuten Kenji 2: As for now, Hakari Mikagami is known as "Judgette" to the western fanbase. Meanwhile, the prison guard from case two is "Olga's Mom".
    • Logicgasm, from Investigations. Edgeworth has an epiphany, and gains several Logic "dots" at the same time.
  • Ace Online
    • rapecannon: A Gears, for their fast-killing hails of gunfire.
    • Stealth Bombers: B Gears that abuse the Camouflage skill.
    • Paper planes: I Gears, for their non-existent defenses.
    • Summoners: M-Gears rigged to make use of their "Call of Hero" skill to rapidly mobilize brigades and formations deep inside enemy territory.
      • Kill of Hero: abusing the Call of Hero alongside the B Gear's Big Bang skill to break enemy camps.
    • Diaper - What players call the 10,000hp Shield Adhesive given to Nation leaders.
  • Ancient Domains of Mystery
    • Kenny - The Cute Puppy, which is the target of a difficult early-game Escort Mission and dies automatically after the fourth day of game-time, and hence almost never survives.
    • Barney - Srraxxarrakex, the Ancient Blue Wyrm. So named because its sprite is a purple W.
  • Animal Crossing
    • The Forbidden Five: Mario Bros.., Ice Climber, Punch-Out!!, Super Mario Bros.. and The Legend of Zelda: the five NES games in the Nintendo GameCube version that were not available by regular in-game means or by giveaways on the official Animal Crossing Web site. Mario Bros. and Ice Climber were eventually given out by e-Reader cards, and code generators were used to obtain Punch-Out, but the two other games remain available only through cheat devices.
  • Baldur's Gate
    • Charname, CHARNAME - The Featureless Protagonist. Technically not a 'fan' nickname, as internal scripting uses 'CHARNAME' as a token to display the player's chosen name.
    • Corgi - Korgan Bloodaxe
    • Immy - Imoen
    • Hairy D - Haer'Dalis
    • Vicky - Viconia
    • Jonboy - Jon Irenicus
      • The Russian fandom refers to Irenicus as "Varennik"
  • Battlefield 3
    • Players often refer to the tactical flashlight as the "Nuclear Powered Flashlight" because of it's ability to blind other players even in daylight
  • BlazBlue
    • The T.O.P. Hat - Carl Clover's Nice Hat, coined from one of Garou: Mark of the Wolves' system mechanics.
    • Evil Simon: Jin Kisaragi, named for the titular role of his voice actor Tetsuya Kakihara
      • The Ice Car: Jin's QCB+ C attack.
    • Robo-Dizzy: Nu -13-
    • Future-Jin: Hakumen.
    • Boobie Lady: Resident Chinese Girl Litchi Faye Ling. Due to her Stripperiffic clothes that reveal a good portion of her big boobs, combined with how Taokaka, the resident ditz called her.
    • Shitty Kitty: Taokaka.
    • C-Men: Hakumen.
    • Nu-Gundam: v -13-'s 4th color in her DLC pack is a Gundam.
    • Gay Man: Bang wearing his pink costume. His butt whistles when he flies!
    • Clap Loop / The Clapper: Again, Carl. This involves positioning Nirvana right behind the opponent and repeatedly keeping the opponent juggled in the air while throwing them. Only certain characters can escape this loop, and only under certain circumstances.
    • Smooth Criminal: Hazama
    • Moel: Noel Vermillion
    • NoBoobs and NoPersonality, also for Noel.
    • Lamb-Chan: Lambda-11, Nu-13's much-nerfed replacement in Continuum Shift.
      • Lambchop over in America.
    • Hakumen vi Britannia, for his new voice clips in Continuum Shift which sound like Lelouch.
      • There's also Jin vi Kisaragi.
    • Hype Dog: The big fluffy dog that appears in one of the backgrounds in Continuum Shift. Shown here.
    • Asstral Finish: Mu's Astral Heat, both for poor animation quality and gratuitous ass shot.
    • Assdrill Finish / Asstroll Finish: Relius' Astral Heat, where it's heavily implied he rapes the opponent. Since the first footage of it was done on Ragna, the first one seems to be the more popular.
  • Bubble Bobble
    • Pab and Peb named in an IGN review for P3 and P4 in Bubble Bobble Plus/Neo, who are yellow and magenta female characters, respectively. They are unfortunately not Coro and Kulu from Bubble Symphony.
  • Call of Duty
    • Uncle Pringles - The nickname Chinese fans give to Captain Price. Apparently for his distinctive handlebar mustache.
    • Noob Tube - the underslung grenade launcher you can apply to most assault rifles. When killed with it, the correct response is "Fuckin' Noob Tube!" (c.f. Metroid)
      • The term is far older than Call of Duty; it's as old as the M203's appearance in videogames, and older noob tubes used to be far worse, with huge splash damage that would sometimes even ignore walls. Imagine the Javelin glitch, only it's a ranged attack, doesn't kill the player who uses it, and is the game functioning exactly as it's supposed to. Before that, your noob tube was typically your rocket launcher.
        • Pro Pipe - Coined by the people who defend the Noob Tube and say that it's NOT a noob weapon.
      • Which of course leads to "Grenade of Grenades: Modern Grenades"
    • The Deer Hunter - The M40 Sniper Rifle in Modern Warfare, which looks like something you'd see when hunting.
      • The M40 is based off the Remington 700 series of rifles, a popular hunting rifle which is also featured in the game.
    • Cpt./Sgt. Jack Bauer - Nickname given to one of your Marine squad mates in World at War, Sgt. Roebuck, as he is voiced by Kiefer Sutherland.
    • "Call of Grenade: Munitions Factory at War" is not the best WW 2 game of the series, 2 or 1 is.
    • "Cock of Doody 4: Modern Gayfuckstupid" - Deragatory name for Call of Duty 4 said by the Master Chief in Arby 'n' the Chief, who is a parody of your typical Halo fanboy. Naturally, it spread to the Internet.
    • Easy Mode Gun- The P90 SMG in Modern Warfare which has the second-or-third highest rate-of-fire in the game with the largest magazine of any non-machine gun weapon in the game and still does average damage.
    • Stay Frosty: OSCAR MIKE (Ramirez do everything) for MW 2's... liberal use of Military jargon.
    • COD-Mod. For the Modern Warfare subseries.
    • The original Call of Duty is confusing as the entire series is 'Call of Duty' which led to the use of 'vCOD' or Vanilla Call of Duty when referring to the first game.
    • Left-Leaning/LL'ing - Refers to rapidly tapping the lean key around a corner without being able to be shot. Naturally, only is used in Call of Duty games that have the leaning feature.
    • Killbomb - Used when referring to the level of kills one has achieved when playing the game. For example, someone may say they dropped a 40-bomb on one game, where others say they dropped a 60-bomb. Like all stats, there's no way to prove it unless you're actually in the game where you get that many kills. Saying it then is subject to people seeing you as taking the game way too seriously. Which takes us to...
    • Tryharder - Used when referring to someone that's taking a casual game like they're playing in a gaming tournament. Parody of the people in question's overuse of the term 'Cry harder'. May or may not overlap with "Stop Having Fun!" Guys.
    • Many people refer to the recently released Black Ops as Cod Blops, likely because BO for it is a rather unfortunate and misleading abbreviation.
      • Black Cops, an obvious racism joke, but surprisingly used out of praise. Black Cocks when it isn't.
  • Capcom vs. Whatever
    • Marvel vs. Capcom 2
      • Capcom - Captain Commando. Where Captain Commando's name came from in the first place, as it turns out, since he was the company's original mascot.
      • Finger laser or butter beam - Doctor Doom's jumping fierce which creates a horizontal beam
      • Frying pan - Sentinel's jumping fierce
      • Ghostbusters beam - Comic Book/Cable's air Hyper Viper Beam
      • MSP - Magneto/Storm/Psylocke. A common configuration for aggressive players because Magneto and Storm's high-low games, in combination with Psylocke's assist, can make blocking pretty much useless.
      • Pink licorice - Dr. Doom's Photon Shot, particularly when done in midair
      • Doom Rocks - Dr. Doom's Molecular Shield when used as an anti-aerial Assist.
      • Team Clockw0rk - Sentinel/Strider Hiryu/Dr. Doom, named for the tournament player who popularized it.
      • Team Matrix - Storm/Sentinel/Cyclops - Cyclops is Neo, Storm is Trinity, and the Matrix universe also has killer robots named Sentinels.
      • Team Santhrax - Storm/Sentinel/Commando, named for the tournament player who popularized it.
      • Team Scrub - Sentinel/Cable/Captain Commando, a team noted for its ease of use. Also Cable/Cyclops/Ryu, but then again ANY team with Cable in it qualifies.
      • MAHVEL (BAYBEE) - The game itself, thanks to this video.
        • "Mango Sentinel" (a custom colored Sentinel), "Pringles" (Magneto's infinite combo) and "Scoops" (killing an assist character while the point is off-screen) also came from this video.
      • OCV - One Character Victory, defeating your opponent with only your first character.
      • Happy Birthday - Killing two (or, in rarer cases, all three) characters in a combo, thanks to the opponent calling out an assist and catching both characters. The person who loses their teammates is "gifting" you extra characters to KO.
    • Marvel vs. Capcom 3
      • Maximum Wesker - Alternate name for Wesker's "Phantom Dance" Hyper Combo due to its similarity to Spider-Man's "Maximum Spider" Hyper Combo.
        • Maximum Vergil - Vergil's Dimensions Slash looks a lot like the above.
    • Mel Gibson - Frank West, for his similar appearance to, well, Mel Gibson.
    • Hot Wheels - Ghost Rider's motorcycle super.
    • The Finger Lasers and The Human Blender - For Doctor Doom's Photon Array and Doom's Time respectively. You can thank Assist Me for these ones.
    • Capcom vs. SNK 2
      • Sagat vs Blanka 2 - A very common matchup due to Sagat and Blanka dominating the tier list.
      • 1980 - A variant of the above OCV; defeating your opponent with your last character when they still have all three of their team members left.
    • Tatsunoko vs. Capcom
  • Castlevania
    • Metroidvania - For the post-Symphony of the Night installments in the series for their sprawling world map and wide open exploration. It has also become a nickname for an entire sub-genre of 2D action games offering similar mechanics (for better or worse)
    • Castlevania 64 - The first Nintendo 64 game, properly named Castlevania, starring Reinhardt and Carrie.
    • The Belmont Walk; the Pimp Walk - A peculiar stride that all of the members of the vampire hunter clan Belmont use. This most likely originated from the four frames of animation use for Simon's walk from the original game, but other 2D Belmonts used it too, leading to the nickname.
    • Somacula - Soma Cruz, in any events of the bad endings where he became the next incarnation of Dracula.
    • Simon Yagami - Simon Belmont in Castlevania Judgment, for his striking resemblance to Death Note protagonist Light Yagami. See for yourself.
      • Castlevanians of Ottawa-region like to call it "CastlevaNote".
        • On that note, let's see which other characters we can rename: Near Lecarde, Soicula Yagami, Misa Renard, Caryomi Takada, Mello Danasty...
    • The Samuel L. Jackson Attack - Shanoa's Nitesco + Weapon Glyph union from Order of Ecclesia that resembles a giant purple lightsaber, just like Master Windu's weapon of choice in Star Wars.
    • Holy Snorkel - The Holy Symbol relic from Symphony of the Night, which allows Alucard to survive underwater and happens to resemble a gold snorkle.
    • Fleaman - Originally called Hunchbacks, people started calling them Fleamen because of their erratic jumping, and the name kinda stuck, to the point that it's the official name in-game for them.
    • IGAvanias - For all the Castlevania games produced by Koji Igarashi, almost all of which were "Metroivanias".
    • Classicvanias - For all the classic stage-based Castlevania games prior to Symphony of the Night.
    • 3Dvanias - For all the 3D-based games in the series.
  • City of Heroes
    • Blueside, Redside: City of Heroes and City of Villains respectively, thanks to colour coding.
      • Praetoria is called either Goldside (for it's color scheme) or Greyside (for it's neutrality) Rogues and Vigilantes are also sometimes called Greyside.
    • CoX: Both games together. The alternate meaning of the term is often joked about.
    • The Dark Miasma debuffing pet is often known as "Fluffy". Considering he/she is a blob of pure darkness that sucks the soul out of any nearby enemies, it would also make it.... Fluffy the Terrible.
    • Extracted Essence (A Warshade Power) and Unbound Nictus are also referred to as Fluffy.
    • Frankengun: The Assault Rifle powerset. Functions as a shotgun, a machine gun, a grenade launcher, a flamethrower...
      • Also because the original gun that everyone had to use for four years really looked the part. It was also called "the Supersoaker".
    • A variety of Portmanteau names for builds that may not strictly hew to archetype, such as Scranker (Scrapper and Tanker), Blapper (Blaster and Scrapper), and the somewhat forced Scraptroller or Contrapper (Scrapper and Controller).
      • The electric blast Blaster powerset is often referred to as a Blaptroller set (Blaster, Scrapper, Controller).
      • Or Blastroller for any Blaster with a lot of stun/hold/immobilize powers.
      • The odd one out is the name for a Defender who focuses on blasting, the much-less unwieldy Offender.
      • Likewise, the rare Scrapper who uses ranged attacks (only feasible at high levels) may be called a Ranger.
      • The extremely rare Mastermind who ignores their pets in favor of direct attacks is a Blastermind.
    • Skuls: The Skulls enemy group, due to a misspelling turned meme, which also resulted in the "Kill Skuls" badge.
    • 5th Council: The Council enemy group, being a replacement/reskin of the 5th Column enemy group.
      • Fish Farm: A particularly annoying room found on many 5th Column/Council maps, so called because of the numerous pools of water. Often called the Nazi Sauna.
      • Thesaurus Nazi: A non-significant Council Archon who, thanks to the name pool for random enemy bosses, was named Archon Roget.
    • Map of a Million Zillion Ninjas: Chimera's instanced mission, due to being populated by what seems like several hundred ninja. A reference to The Tick (animation).
    • Jello: The Hamidon giant amoeba monster, due to looking like a gigantic upended bowl of green jello. The geographical depression in which it sits is also called the Jello Bowl.
    • The two Kheldian forms, one tentacley and one heavily armoured, have been nicknamed "Squid" and "Lobster" forms respectively. "Squid" is often used for Kheldians in general.
    • Clockroaches: The Clockwork enemy group, for being small, dark brown, generally annoying to kill, and the occasional ability to spawn more of themselves after defeat.
      • Also known as 'Clicky-Clacks', a nickname created by one of the players' 8 year old daughter.
    • Orange Bagel (or Orange Burger): Oranbega, the Elaborate Underground City of the Circle of Thorns. Also, "Rutabega".
    • The Bimbo, Bimbette, Hostage Lass: Fusionette, the hapless and apparently dippy NPC hero (based in the new Faultline) who is almost always found captured by villains she thought she could take on by herself, and in need of rescuing by the PC(s). (The only time she isn't in it up to her neck is when she is encountered as one of the guests at a formal reception.)
      • Part of the hate here stems from her introductory mission, where, like in many other parts of the game, you have to lead her as a hostage safely out of the mission. Unlike many other hostages, she aggros any mob she sees and has very few hit points or resistances. If she dies, it's mission failure, one of the few times in the entire game where it's a real possibility, especially if you're doing it for the first time and not aware of her suicidal tendencies.
      • At least she's a Glass Cannon and is actually useful in later missions (along with her boyfriend Faultine, or as we sometimes call him, Blockhead).
    • Layer Cake of Doom, Layer Cave of Doom: A terribly designed cave room that has five levels connected by ramps and holes in the floor.
    • Sexy Jay: Jay "JLove" Doherty, character artist and costume designer for the game. He insisted that if players wanted to suggest new costume options, they would first have to call him "sexy". Players complied en masse.
    • RikTF: The Lady Grey task force, which largely involves beating the snot out of a lot of Rikti.
    • Soon(TM): A long period of time, largely used to describe development cycles.
    • Poo: The Earth Control pet, after what it looks like and for exactly how useful it was.
    • Forum Cartel: A group whose membership comprises any long-standing poster on the official boards (more accurately anyone with over 10,000 posts), due to an odd instance of the Unpleasable Fanbase.
    • Freem Fifteen: The 15 devs left after the downsizing of Cryptic in 2005. Named after the most famous part of the "Visual Sounds" 2008 April Fool's joke.
    • Imperilous: Imperius, an NPC helper who doesn't really help much.
    • Scrapperlock: The tendency for Scrappers (or those who primarily play Scrappers) to leap into insurmountable odds and surmount them, to the exclusion of battle tactics or common sense. Usable both as an insult and a badge of pride.
    • SMASH: Brute equivalent of Scrapperlock.
    • Floor Inspectors Union -- self-depriciating term for blasters, who are the game's ultimate Glass Cannon class.
    • AssBot: The Assault Bot from the Robotics Mastermind powerset.
    • Ass Impaler: The Assassin's Impaler power from the Spines Stalker powerset.
      • ... and several more in that vein.
        • ...Ass Blow?
    • Buzzsaw: A build type that emphasizes single-target DPS, putting out as much damage as quickly and consistently as possible.
      • More specifically, buzzsaw involves using quick-cycling attacks (that don't necessarily do much damage on their own) combined with lots of damage procs. Since these fast attacks gives a higher chance over time to trigger the procs you can get an impressive amount of damage out of a buzzsaw build.
    • Jedi Mind Trick: The Placate power, available to Stalkers and Night Widows. Exactly as described. Wave of hand included.
    • Debt Shroud, Orbiting Debt: The Death Shroud and Orbiting Death powers (the latter being an Expy of the former), being difficult to use early on without incurring the game's experience debt penalty for dying.
    • Treespec: The villainside Character Respecification Trial, compared to the heroside "respec". Involves a big tree.
      • Freakspec, Riktispec: The second and third hero respecs, respectively, named after the primary enemies (Freakshow and Rikti). Unfortunately, "Sky Raiders" doesn't lend itself to a portmanteau nickname.
        • Skyspec, Raiderspec
    • FCEN: Fire, Cold, Energy, Negative Energy. The "exotic" damage types (other than Psionic and Toxic), as opposed to the "common" ones of Smashing and Lethal. Used somewhat as an adjective: "I'm not fighting those critters, I don't have enough FCEN defense." "You really need more FCEN mitigation." "Aw, FCEN hell."
    • Deep Purple: Enemies which are a much higher level than the player, as the con colour system is purple for enemies four levels or higher than the player.
      • The con color system breaks down a bit at the highest levels. Purple is supposedly extremely difficult to insurmountable, but very powerful teams regularly spend their time slaughtering "light purple" monsters.
    • Positot, Statestot: The children of developers Matt "Positron" Miller and Jack "Statesman" Emmert respectively.
    • Poo(p) Pads: The Pain Pads costume option, after costume designer Jay mentioned that the inspiration for them occurred when staying at the office late "dropping the Browns off at the Super Bowl".
    • Defebcers: Condescending slang for poor Defender players, specifically those who haven't realised that Healing Hands is vastly inferior to buffing in this game, and consider doing nothing but having 'Healing Aura' on auto to be contributing to a team.
      • Similarly, a bad Mastermind player is a Disastermind.
    • Purple Triangles of Doom: The indicators for whether archvillains' resistance power is active. If it is, the Controller will have a hard time being useful.
    • Bobcat's new costume has prompted some people to add an extra "O" to her name.
      • Mother Mammaries...er, Mayhem got her own nickname after her "upgrade.
    • Maelstrom's mastery of Villain Exit Stage Left has caused many players on Virtue to start referring to him as "Smug Teleporting Bastard".
    • Flambimbeaux, Flambimbo for Flambeaux, an inept Attention Whore Superhero who eventually becomes a villain for attention, while coming up with silly plans to gain fame. Tends to say "I just wanted them to love me!" as she is defeated.
  • Civilization
    • Goody huts - The nomadic settlements that can be found on the game map by exploring units. They will periodically give you extra gold, units, or cities, although sometimes you'll get a rampaging barbarian horde instead.
    • Infinite City Sprawl - The practice of building a gigantic number of tiny cities crammed as close to each other as possible. Useful because each city works the tile it's on for free, so you get more resources per population point.
    • Culture Bomb - In the fourth installation, great artists can create such a great work of art that instantly increases a city's culture value, often popping the city's radius of influence multiple times. Like a bomb. A culture bomb. The fifth installation dropped the pretense and has the same effect under the label Culture Bomb.
  • Crash Bandicoot
    • Tawna Bandicoot - Crash's girlfriend from the first game is simply known as "Tawna" and has no official last name. "Tawna Bandicoot" is mainly used by fan-communities to make it clear that they're talking about the Crash Bandicoot character and not someone else.
  • The Conduit
    • Abbreviated to TCon on GameFAQs.
    • Quarter Ring of Death: A glitch in the Multiplayer mode where the match starts with a black screen with a quarter of a white circle in the middle of the screen. You have to restart your Wii, or wait for the match to end to get out of it.
  • Dawn of War
    • Many nicknames carry over from Warhammer40000, being a game based on it.
    • The Force Commander for the sequel is frequently called Vanilla Ice, as it was noticed a picture of the rapper resembles the Force Commander greatly.
    • The Farseer of the sequel was nicknamed the Flatseer, being rather (but not entirely)... flat. Delicious Flat Chest, is of course used in a similar context.
    • And many more.
  • Deadly Premonition
  • Demon's Souls
    • Otsdarva of Boletaria - Ostrava, in a Shout-Out to how similar his name is to Otsdarva of Armored Core: For Answer, as both games are made by From Software.
  • Devil May Cry
    • Vante - The red-wearing Vergil clone fought in Devil May Cry 3: Special Edition by Vergil.
    • Duntee - Dante in 2.
    • Desperation/Desperate Devil Trigger (abbreviated as DDT) - The Devil Trigger Majin Form, an alternative version of Dante's Super Mode, only usable when his health is in the red, where he transforms into a towering behemoth with Nigh Invulnerability and the ability to mow down everything (from generic Mooks to the Final Boss) with ludicrous ease.
    • Ichigo - Nero, because he has the same voiceover, a BFS, and the same attitude as him.
      • Bankai - Nero's Devil Trigger. Also, the shockwaves he creates can be referred to as Getsuga Tenshou.
      • Orihime - Kyrie, because of her hair and voice actress, as well as her clothes resembling Orihime's when she is a hostage of the Arrancars.
      • In fact, Devil May Cry 4 is sometimes called Bleach May Cry.
    • Captain Awesome - Hero Antagonist Credo from 4.
    • Not!Dante, Donte, Don'te, DINO (Dante In Name Only) Hipster!Dante, Nu-metalu Dante, Domteem, Tamante, Edward Cullen, Matthew Patel, Diego - Dante's new design in DmC: Devil May Cry, the seemingly In Name Only Continuity Reboot of the series.
      • Dante May Cry, Dante Made Crappy, Disappoints Many Customers, Dick Move Capcom - The game itself, provided via acronyms from the Hatedom.
      • In the same vein, DmC is also called Tameem May Cry, as Dante has been redesigned to resemble Tameem Antoniades, Ninja Theory's chief designer. This is further twisted into Tameem Will Cry, as fans don't like his smug attitude regarding the changes made for the game, as well as what they perceive as him spiting on the history of the original Dante.
      • Providing further ammunition to those declaring In Name Only is the fact that this new "Dante" is half angel instead of half human. Yeah.
  • Devil Survivor
    • The game itself is often abbreviated "DeSu"
    • dBay - the devil auction, which is done electronically so it's basically eBay but for demons.
  • Diablo
    • Andy - Andariel
    • Big D (or just d) - Diablo
    • Meph or Mephy - Mephisto
    • Izzy - Izual
    • Barb - Barbarian
    • Pally - Paladin
      • Hammerdin - Paladin who specializes in the "blessed hammer" skill.
      • Zealer/Zealot/Zealadin - Paladin who specializes in the "zeal" skill.
      • Tesladin - Paladin who uses the aura 'Holy Shock' as his main method of damage
    • Necro - Necromancer
      • Zookeeper - Necromancer specializing in using Summons.
      • Fishymancer - Necromancer specializing in using Skeletons and the debuff Amplify Damage as their main weapon.
      • Dentist - Necromancer specializing in using the spell 'Bone Teeth', to deal damage.
    • Sorc - Sorceress
      • Meteorb- A Sorceress using meteor and frozen orb as her main attacks.
      • Lit Sorc- A Sorcress using only lightning attacks.
      • AntiNecro - Ice sorceress (they tend to make their enemies freeze, burst apart, then melt. When they are around, necromancers have few enemy corpses to use for their necromancy.)
    • Zon - The Amazon class
      • Bowazon - An Amazon specializing in bows
      • Javazon - An amazon specializing in thrown javelins
    • Windy - A Druid specializing in wind-based skills
    • Chaos Run - A run through the Chaos Sanctuary, killing every single enemy inside, for massive experience and items.
    • Baal Run - Similar to the above, through the final area of the game.
    • Meph Run - Similar to the above two, killing Mephisto for good items.
    • Amp - The Necromancer's extremely effective Area of Effect debuff 'Amplify Damage', which increases all physical damage an enemy takes by 100%
    • Pindlebot - A Diablo2 script designed to kill Pindleskin over and over again in order to make him drop Windfury, the best bow in the game.
  • Disgaea
  • Dissidia Final Fantasy
  • Donkey Kong
    • Gingerbread Kong - The Atari 2600 version of DK has often been compared to a gingerbread cookie (or even The Gingerbread Man) because of his appearance in this version. Moreover, the "barrels" he throws have been referred to variously as cookies (or even chocolate chip cookies), Ritz crackers, Honeycomb cereal and even pizzas.
  • Donkey Kong Country
    • Simon Caves - The caves in DKC 3 where you rescue Banana Birds, because you have to memorize light patterns arranged in the pattern of the face buttons on the controller, similarly to the classic electronic game Simon.
  • Doom
    • Archie - the Arch-Vile.
    • Caco - the flying Cacodemon monster.
    • Cybie - the Cyberdemon.
    • Doomguy - the player character, referred to in the game as "A Space Marine Is You", who happens to be the Trope Maker and Trope Namer for the First-Person Shooter variety of Space Marines.
    • Fatso - the Mancubus.
      • The nickname came from the code itself, where the Mancubus was actually called a Fatso, and its projectiles FatShots. Its frames are even the word FAT with a letter at the end.
    • Pinky - the melee monster that the game simply calls "Demon", due to its bright pink color.
      • This troper has heard it called a "Pink fluffy/fuzzy thing" before. And it was by multiple people. Maybe it's lesser known, but it deserves mention.
    • Slaughtermap (or "HR-Style") - Custom levels for Doom built around fights with massive numbers of monsters. "HR-style" is named after Hell Revealed, the Trope Maker of slaughtermaps.
    • Tyson - a Fight in The Nude sort of challenge where a player must complete a map using only his Fists, Berserk Fists, Chainsaw, or Pistol.
    • Grandmaster - An Ultra-violence speedrun with fast monsters activated
    • Doomworld - An alternate nickname for Doom's version of Hell, named after the doom website of a similar name.
  • Dragon Age
    • One party member will be a war dog, which players can name whatever they want. The forum community has affectionately named him Rabbit but since the Darkspawn Chronicles came out Barkspawn is also gaining popularity. Then again, Darkspawn Chronicles got the name from Penny Arcade...
    • Imoen chick for Leliana. Or sometimes Leli.
    • Morrigan's child is often known as her demon baby.
      • Or her godbaby.
    • The human noble female is called Queen Cousland or Princess CousCous.
    • People who aren't fond of Anora call her Annoya.
      • Or Awhora.
    • Fans of the Alistair romance are called Alistairians and fans of the Zevran romance are Zevranites.
    • Alistair is often affectionately referred to as Ali or even Alibear, especially by his fangirl horde.
      • Also sometimes Stairs.
    • Anders in Dragon Age 2 is frequently called "Ser-Pouts-A-Lot", named after his cat and his tendency to pout.
    • The character Bann Teagan Guerrin enjoys a rather dedicated fanclub...and with the fanclub comes the nickname of the Bannhammer. Unfortunately, Teagan doesn't actually fight with a hammer.
    • The knife used in cutscenes is called the Murder Knife.
  • Dwarf Fortress (some of these are used to protect spoilers)
    • Dwarven Atomsmasher: Drawbridges used in a military or waste-disposal capacity.
    • Fun: Losing.
    • Funnonite: Adamantine
      • Alternately called "cotton candy" or "clownite" (see below; the former is also a reference to its extremely low density).
    • HFS, Hidden Fun Stuff: demons from the bowels of the earth. As of version .31, the Glowing Pit has become known as the Clown Car for their infinite quantity of demons, and thus its contents has been called clowns.
    • Dorfs: your hapless dwarves.
    • Hippies, Treehumpers: Elves.
    • Many traps also have their own names, such as the Degrinchinator (which essentially amounts to an insta-freeze ice gun).
    • Cutebolds: Kobolds.
    • Skelk: skeletal elks.
    • Urist McMadLibs: A specific dwarf, with the "mad libs" replaced by a descriptive feature or occupation. Urist McEmo or Urist McSoapster or Urist McUselessNobleWhoKeepsMandatingSladeItemsEvenThoughSladeCantEvenBeWorkedInThisDamnGame...
  • Dynasty Warriors/Samurai Warriors/Warriors Orochi
    • Cow Cow - Cao Cao, for having his name spelled as written regardless of how it's supposed to be pronounced in the early games.
    • Cow Pee, Bovine Urine - Cao Pi, for the same reason as his father.
    • Xiahou Bieber - Xiahou Ba, for his unfortunate resemblance to the singer.
    • Chinese Jesus - Zhang Jiao, for his look in a few games and probably for his sheer televangelist-like hamminess.
    • Yamadaaa! - A Japanese Fan Nickname for Zhang Liao. A Mondegreen of "Jamada!" (Out of my way!) which sounds like he's screaming someone's name. Naturally, there is crossover with another "Yamada" with a Nice Hat.
    • SSX - Sun Shang Xiang, an abbreviation of her name.
  • Dynasty Warriors: Gundam
  • EarthBound
    • Mr. T - An NPC that looks a lot like him.
    • 1/128 Items - Several items that only Randomly Drops 1/128 of the time, and only from one specific enemy.
  • The Elder Scrolls
    • LuLa - Lucien Lachance, Oblivion's resident Mr. Fanservice and leader of the Dark Brotherhood until his gruesome fridging, much to the dismay of many fangirls.
    • Garfoth - The "Adoring Fan", The Scrappy of Oblivion. Derived from Fargoth, The Scrappy of Morrowind.
      • "The Annoying Fan" is also a very popular nickname.
    • Walking Encyclopedias - Savants in Morrowind, due to their huge amount of Dialogue Tree options.
  • eRepublik, Hello Kitty, would probably be the most prominent due to it being the heart and soul of the Hungarian economy.
    • Also prominent is Lion King, also very important to the Hungarian economy.
  • Europa Universalis series
    • The Big White Blob - The nation of Austria, largely because its color on the political map is white and it has a tendency to eat the small German states to the north over the course of a game. In fact, when Europa Universalis III was released, there was a public fan outcry when Austria's color was changed to red; the Expansion Pack restored it to white, which put a lot of people's minds at ease.
      • This has become a more generalized term for any nation that, because the AI is too smart/too dumb, becomes a marauding all-consuming a-historical beast. Currently in EU III with all the expansion packs France tends to become the Big Blue Blob. Or, as someone described it on the Paradox forums, "France is the end boss of EU III."
  • EVE Online
    • Disco-x - A ship setup with all smartbombs, named for the light-show produced by setting off a full set of smartbombs. Popular variants include the Discophoon and Discogeddon.
    • Nano-x - A ship setup for maximum speed and agility, often using lots of Nanofiber Internal Structure mods.
    • Fagabond - The Vagabond, a Minmatar Assault Cruiser with far too much speed and maneuverability for its own good, especially in a nano setup as described above.
    • 'geddon, 'phoon, 'thron, etc. etc. - Armageddon, Typhoon, Megathron... the list goes on and on.
    • Mushroom - The Amarrian Titan, the Avatar. So named for its odd appearance.
      • Also known by several variants of "space dick", due to CCP's statement that "The Avatar was never meant to be cost effective, it's a giant dick!" at a fan convention.
    • Calamari - A character that specializes in both Caldari and Amarrian skills and ships.
    • Carebear - Any player that focuses on non-pvp careers, especially mining.
    • Space Whale - The Dominix battleship.
    • Weekend Warrior, Yarrbear - A player whose main career is industrial or PvE, but does PvP on the weekends. Also called "piwates" for not having the guts to be full-time pirates.
    • Hero Tank - A ship that just WILL. NOT. DIE. Most famously used in the 2008 Alliance Tournament, where a few ships showed the ability to take a beating from every enemy ship at once and still live. At least until their cap ran out.
    • Dick Star: a Space Station that is designed for the purpose of taking a really, really long time to destroy. They usually have no guns, just shields and armour, and so much of them that they can usually defeat the enemy by making them so bored that they just give up.
  • Fate/stay night - see Anime section
  • Fate Extra
    • "Red Saber", the Saber in the series, as she's not the same person as the original Saber. (Who is referred to thus as Blue Saber.)
  • Final Fantasy II
    • Doutei - Originally a Japanese fan nickname for Firion, a triumphant aversion of A Man Is Not a Virgin--indeed, "doutei" literally translates to "virgin." (It also rhymes with "koutei," the title of that game's Big Bad). Recently, some corners of English fandom have begun using "doutei" or similar to refer to Firion--and even in those parts that don't use it, the sentiment remains.
  • Final Fantasy IV
  • Final Fantasy IV: The After Years
    • Monk Anderson, Brown, and Coleman - The three generic Monks that join Yang in his tale, with the notion that the letter in their names is in fact their surname (e.g. Monk A as Monk Anderson). Monk Coleman is jokingly treated as a Memetic Badass within the fandon.
    • Guard Ashley, Bruce, and Campbell - The three generic Guards that join Edward in his tale, for the same reason. Also a Shout-Out to the Evil Dead series.
  • Final Fantasy VII
    • The Complication - The Compilation Of Final Fantasy VII. Usually used derogatorily by the fans who lump the sequels and prequels into the Fanon Discontinuity bin, but can be used as an affectionate tease by Compilation fans who aren't too Fan Dumb to accept that Final Fantasy VII canon has more than a few plot holes.
    • Cloudo and Cloudster seem to have sprung up lately. Usually said in fanfics by Yuffie or Sora
    • The Mommy Box - The black box with JENOVAH's... er... slime in it.
    • Mr. T - Barret for obvious reasons.
    • The Hobo Vampire - Vincent
    • Moogle Girl / Moogle Kid - The unnamed girl with the moogle doll in Advent Children
    • SHM (Silver-Haired Men) to refer to Kadaj, Loz and Yazoo.
    • Sephy?
    • Vinny for Vincent. Cid calls him "Vince" a couple times in Dirge of Cerberus, though.
    • Aerith Gainthborough, called this by fans who disapprove of the retcon to her name's spelling and pronunciation, which to some, sounds like lisping.
    • Heidegger and Scarlet are referred to as "Gya-ha-ha," and "Kya-ha-ha," respectively, due to their distinctive laughs. However, Cait Sith was the first to call them that, although he only did so once.
    • Yuffie is renamed by enough players simply as "Bitch" to warrant its mention here, due to her extremely annoying Sidequest where she steals all the party's materia. Though she is an optional character, she is oftentimes recruited simply because there is no other way to get into her hometown of Wutai, where a lot of useful items can be found.
  • Final Fantasy VIII
  • Final Fantasy X
    • Teedus - Tidus. This is apparently the correct way to pronounce his name, at least according to [[Dissidia: Final Fantasy]], Kingdom Hearts (but Kingdom Hearts II got inconsistent and went with "Tie-dus") and an interview with his voice actor James Arnold Taylor.
      • Also known as Tedious for obvious reasons.
      • Also simply known as "HA! HA! HA! HA! HA! Guy" for the infamous laughing scene.
    • Kitty, Fuzzball - Kimahri.
    • The Dumb Jock - Wakka.
  • Final Fantasy XI
    • Krini - A Real Money Trade misspelling of an iconic endgame boss.
    • Genfat, Gaybu, Genboob - Genbu, one of the easiest endgame bosses ever (so much so that a few jobs can solo it).
    • Fafhogg - A name shared by the monsters that spawn in one endgame area.
    • Dienamis - Dynamis, where it's very common for a wipe to occur.
    • Garbage Shitadel - Garlaige Citadel, a dungeon that somehow manages to be a popular leveling spot despite the fact that enemy spawns are far too close together, which often causes parties to to be attacked by multiple enemies.
    • Manthra - A male player who plays as a Mithra, the(almost) all-female catgirl race.
    • Sky - Tu'lia, an endgame area that looks like a flying castle.
    • Sea - The Lumoria region, an endgame area that contains monsters that look similar to Jellyfish and Manta Rays.
    • Blank's Aery - Any overcrowded camp by replacing the word "Blank" with whatever is being camped (Colibri's aery, Ullikummi's aery, etc.). Named after Dragon's Aery, which is famous for being overcrowded due to the Dragon that spawns there dropping the Ridill, a sword usable by six jobs that has a frequently occurring chance of additional attacks in a given attack round. And it is the source much Loot Drama -- to the extent that other powerful, contested low-drop items may be called Ridills.
    • Laggate - Aht Urhgan Whitegate, the central "hangout zone" for players, so called because it's common to see several hundred players there during prime time, leading to lots of, well, lag.
    • Crotch Hearts - When The Beast Master class uses Charm on a monster, they launch a heart... from their crotch. I suppose that's ONE way of taming an animal...
    • Buttersheep - Warrior with White Mage subjob. Refers to a hypothetical situation where a mad sheep can choose a subjob, and has the choices of Shark, Elephant, or Butterfly. Despite the other job's advantages, he chooses butterfly.
      • To further elaborate - many newbies assume that having Warrior as a main job to kill monsters, and White Mage subjob to heal themselves, would make them invincible. It doesn't.
    • Ghetto Paladin - another name for Warrior/White Mage, which takes the point of view that said combo is attempting to be a cheap substitute for a paladin.
    • Noob Dunes - alternate name for Valkurm Dunes. Valkurm Dunes is a region populated by monsters between level 15 and level 30, which is about the point where you can't solo effectively anymore and have to join a party. Cue horrible Total Party Kill because a newbie player, unused to party play, screws something up epically. Alternate names: The Dunes, Noobland, Hell.
    • MGS - a character, especially a White Mage, sneaking around a dungeon populated by monsters many levels higher than he is, and that can probably one-hit kill him, using sneaking and invisibility spells.
    • WHM Airlines - White Mage Airlines, from the White Mage teleporting spells. Many White Mages work as teleporters in order to round up a bit their gil income, some even setting up macros with airplane-like announcements like "We thank you for choosing White Mage Airlines, please fasten your seatbelts and keep your arms and legs inside the teleporting field at all times..."
    • Rat, Glowing Rat, Radioactive Rat, Pikachu, Carbychu, Carby - Carbuncle, the first Summon a Summoner gains.
    • Blink Tank - A Ninja (normally a quite fragile job) tanking via high Dodge combined with Utsusemi.
  • Vaan from Final Fantasy XII has quite a few relating to the fact that Dude Looks Like a Lady, being a standout example of the pretty boy protagonists that the Final Fantasy games have had. Most simply point out his physical resemblance to either Meg Ryan, Ellen Degeneres, or Gackt.
  • Final Fantasy XIII
    • Superpope - Galenth Dysley, that man with the owl.
      • Alternatively: Pope Palpatine
    • LeBron James - Sazh Katzroy.
    • The "Motordyke" - Shiva's transformation, which consists of the Shiva sisters forming a motorcycle by entwining their legs around each other.
    • Chocofro - the chocobo hatchling that nests in Sazh's hair.
      • Or Frocobo.
      • Sazh is sometimes called Chocobro to accompany this.
  • Final Fantasy Tactics
  • Final Fantasy Type-0
    • Card-kun for the Ace, before name had been revealed, since he wields tarot cards as his weapon.
      • This also spawned the various Weaponname-kun/chan titles for the rest of the cast.
  • Fire Emblem
    • Uncle Marcus - Marcus, the Crutch Character from Sword of Flame (the first Game Boy Advance one in America), for some players' tendency to use him to mop up bosses and rescue severely injured characters.
    • Eliwood of the same game has earned some derogatory nicknames thanks to his personality and perceived stat issues; Eliwuss and Pansywood are the most commonly used. Less commonly, Smellywood.
      • On the other hand, we have Eliw00t. In a similar vein, Hector and Oswin get called Haxtor and Osw1n because they're pretty badass.
    • Failcaiah - Micaiah of Radiant Dawn. From GameFAQs. Alternatively, "Mickey", "Mickey Sue" or "Micaiah Sue".
      • Micaiah's Dawn Brigade is frequently known as the Fail Brigade/Suck Brigade/Failen Army due to how weak and EXP-starved they tend to be ingame.
      • Except for "Chuck" Nolan.
    • Lightning Rod of Hate - Shinon in Radiant Dawn, who comes with the skill "Provoke," meaning enemy units are more likely to attack him. Comes from the running gag of the same name from Whose Line Is It Anyway?.
    • Gorillaguz - Radiant Dawn Ike (In Japan), a portmanteau of "Gorilla" (Since he got really buff since the previous game) and "Laguz" (The Petting Zoo People of his games).
    • Goth Mage - Soren, also applies for Sariya.
    • One website refers to Holin from Geneaology of the Holy War as "can opener", for his Lunar Strike skill that potentially enables him to defeat high-defense armored units in one round.
      • That would be this French FE4 website you're talking about. Holin is nicknamed "Ouvre-Boéte" there, and when talking about him on English Fire Emblem forums, translate this nickname as "Can Opener".
    • Siggy - Sigurd
    • CAPTAIN GORDIN, DEFENDER OF EARTH !! - Gordin, a wholly unremarkable archer available in Marth's games.
    • Moulder the Boulder - Moulder, a mediocre priest in Sacred Stones who has some Memetic Badass points for his impressive moustache and Con score.
    • Gilliam Bojangles - Gilliam, also in Sacred Stones
    • Fazilla - Fa (The Sword of Seals)
  • Free Space
    • Lucy, Collie, Sath - the SD Lucifer, GTVA Colossus, and SJ Sathanas, respectively. The last is particularly popular due to its plural "Saths", since no one can agree on what the plural of "Sathanas" is[1].
    • Flying Potato - the GTF Ares, due to its brownish color scheme and its severe lack of maneuverability
    • Fish-wuvvers - Vasudans. Named for an Easter Egg in the second game.
    • Zods - The Vasudans again, due to Zodiac constellations being used for their wing names in the first game.
    • Battle of Endor Syndrome (BOE syndrome) - War Sequence missions. Generally frowned upon among modders due the difficulty in making them both balanced and enjoyable, as well as the resource requirements for having so many ships active at once. The few good BOE missions tend to be really good, though.
    • :V: or [V] - Volition, the game's developers. The forums even have a custom smiley resembling Volition's logo which is often used to represent them.
    • Shivantown - the Shivan homeworld. Also what the developers themselves called it.
  • The Phone Guy, Five Nights at Freddy's. None of them are given names nor titles, "the Phone Guy" is a fan-made designation.
  1. ↑ a great deal of arguing eventually resulted in the consensus that it was "Sathanes", "Sathanai", or "Sathanases", depending on what language's grammar rules you were using
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