Fan Nickname/Web Comics: Difference between revisions

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* ''[[Blank It]]'': Where do we start? The authors apparently have names for all characters, but they're rarely revealed to readers. Practically everything in the comic has been given a name by fans:

** The selectively intangible people whose hamlet was centered around the shovelbeam — Unsettlers, or Adumbrates

** Helmut - The Helmeted Author.

** Shador - The Shadowy Author.

** [[The Dragon]] - Hazel.

** Stanny - [[Satan]].

{{quote|'''A Fan''': fTedd is a female version of Tedd, who is usually male.

Tess is Tedd's analog in a different reality, and is always (as far as we've seen so far) female.

You start mixing and matching your nomenclatures and you'll make discussion on this board an even bigger clusterfudge than it already is. }}

*** This practice was pretty much abandoned when a discussion thread revealed that no two posters had the same nickname for mGrace

* ''[[Girl Genius]]''

** Da Boyz: the collective name for the Jagers Maxim, Ognian, and Dimo

* ''[[Goblins]]''

** The GAP - Chief, Thaco, Complains, Big Ears, and sometimes Fumbles. Stands for Goblin Adventuring Party.

** Suicide Fairies - The Regional Fairies who undergo the test to become human. (While this is a misnomer, since they [[I Cannot Self-Terminate|Cannot Self Terminate]], it's a heck of a lot more memorable than any of the more-accurate alternatives, like "Euthanasia Fairies".) Later used on the cast page.

** Adminbot, the Guardbots, Horsebot, and Barberbot - Various robots, named after their job or appearance. (Following the example set when Tom Siddell referred to two other robots as Boxbot and Doorbot.)

** Not-Jones - Brinnie, before the revelation of her name, back when the only information about her was the [[Word of God|Word of Tom]] that she and Jones are not the same person.

** Frankenbot (later abbreviated to Frank) - The [[Super Prototype|first-generation robot]] that Kat reactivated, due to his resemblance to Boris Karloff's portrayal of the character.

* ''[[HERO (Webcomic)|HERO]]'': It's hard to discuss a nameless protagonist, so ''[[HERO (Webcomic)|HERO]]'''s nameless protagonist was fanicked "Lost", after Valentine introduces him by explaining that "He's lost. I said he could come with me," and Vin deliberately misunderstands it as his name.

* ''[[Homestuck]]''

** Dexter - The resurrected Head Alien of ''It's Walky!''. Resurrectees in the comic are mirrored left-to-right. This moved Head Alien's claw to the other side, so he became right-handed (Dexter, in Latin).

*** Was given a [[Shout-Out]] in Dumbing Of Age, which has a cartoon called ''Dexter, The Head Alien''.

*** Also called 'JFO' (Jason's Father's Organization).

*** The suggestion to call them [[Uke|UKKE]] (as a pun on [[Seme|SEMME]]) was not well received.

** Also Conbat, {{spoiler|Conrad's}} bat form. Followed by Casbat and Finbat, Casmiro and Finas as bats, and of course Sassybat, {{spoiler|Conrad's}} [[I Hate You, Vampire Dad|Vampire Mom]].

 

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