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== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==

* "Blandthony" or "Blanthony", and "[[Porn Stache|Pornstache]]" are two common nicknames for Anthony from ''[[For Better or For Worse]]'' in reference to his milquetoast personality in comparison to Liz's other suitors and his distinctive mustache, respectively.

* In ''[[Dilbert]]'', a talking cat was un-named for his first several appearances. Fans dubbed him "Catbert" (after "Dogbert" and "Ratbert") and Scott Adams [[Sure Why Not|adopted the name officially later on]]. So here we have a situation where the fans actually named the character outright.

** Deeper than that. The one off character was so popular immediately that not only did the fans name him, but he became a reoccuring character.

* [[The Comics Curmudgeon]] has dubbed the [[Anthropomorphic Personification]] of death from ''[[Funky Winkerbean]]'' "Masky McDeath". It caught on among the commentators.

== [[Theatre]] ==

* ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'' due to its various incarnations in many different media is being put here. Most of the nicknames are used to differentiate between the different versions.

** Leroux!Phantom, Leroux!Erik - The original book version. This one wears a black cloth mask over his whole face, has a skull-like face, doesn't have a nose, and smells like death.

** Kay!Phantom - The version from the Susan Kay novel. Noted for wearing a white whole mask, has an addiction to opiates, is a chick magnet until he takes the mask off, and apparently had a kid with Christine.

** Crawford!Phantom - This refers generally to the ALW stage version, which is typically portrayed as a distinct entity from the movie version below. The name comes from the actor who originated the part, Michael Crawford.

*** While the Usenet newsgroup Rec.Theatre.Musicals was at its most vital, Michael Crawford himself was almost universally called "The Pants".

** Gerik, Movie!Erik, Movie!Phantom - All are commonly used to identify the version from the Andrew Lloyd Webber movie adaptation despite how many movie versions actually exist. The first name is a portmanteau of the name of the actor who portrayed the titular character and said character's actual name despite it never being said once in either the stage or movie version.

*** Third degree sunburn - The phantom's "deformity" in the ALW movie.

*** The Dread Pirate Roberts Dancers - the background dancers in the "Point of No Return" scene in the ALW movie. Usually somewhat derogatory.

** The Fop - A general derogatory nickname for Raoul. You can guess which part of the fanbase uses this one. Use it with ''extreme'' caution—calling Raoul a fop on certain sites will result in, at best, a lot of virtual eye rolling and pointed inquiries as to whether or not you have read a) the original novel or b) a dictionary.

* The sequel to ''[[The Phantom of the Opera]]'', ''[[Love Never Dies]]'', has gained the nickname "Paint Never Dries," especially after Andrew Lloyd Webber was fined for painting the Adelphi Theatre.

* While the emcee character in ''[[Mystere]]'' has the name Moha-Samedi, he's often referred to as "The Man in Pink" due to his brightly-colored suit.

* ''[[The Merchant of Venice]]'' contains--[[Spell My Name with an "S"|depending on which version of the script you're reading]]—either [[Those Two Guys|two guys]] named Salerio and Solanio or two guys named Salarino and Solanio and a third guy, a messenger, named Salerio. Either way, these two (or three) characters have long been known to actors as "the Sallies" or "the Salads".

* To superstitious actors, Macbeth was often dubbed as "[[The Scottish Trope|The Scottish Play]]".

== [[Toys]] ==

* [[LEGO]]: ''[[Crack is Cheaper|The Danish Crack]]''.

=== Scale models ===

Note: some of these are also used by [[LEGO]] fans.

* The Carpet Monster / Feeding The Carpet Monster: Losing small parts that fall off the desk or workbench. Every modeller fears the Carpet Monster.

* Rivet Counter: usually derogatory nickname tending to refer to the [["Stop Having Fun!" Guys]] of scale modeling. Though sometimes it just means someone has an eye for tiny details, more usually it refers to people obsessed with scale accuracy even in ways nobody but them will ever see on the finished model.

* AMS: After-Market Syndrome, a terrible condition where modelers find themselves instinctively detailing every model they buy to a ludicrous extent with photo-etch and other aftermarket parts.

* Trumpy: Trumpeter Models.

* DML: Dragon Models Limited.

* PE / PE Parts: Photo etched metal, a medium often used for particularly small or fine details that wouldn't be practical to make in molded plastic.

* Build pile: Term used for any kits you haven't yet made to imply an order that seldom exists.

* WEM: White Ensign Models, a company mostly specialising in aftermarket warship parts.

** Mad Pete: Peter Hall, WEM's chief designer. So called for the incredibly fine details of the company's products, such as ''windscreen wipers'' for a 1:350 scale battleship.

* GMM: Gold Medal Models, another company mostly specialising in aftermarket warship parts.

* Sinkhole: An area on a model where the plastic has warped inwards, typically due to something on the other side.

* Ejector pin mark / Knock-out mark: Usually shallow depression on a kit where a metal pin is used to punch a sprue out of a mold. The bane of the Rivet Counter.

* Flash: Thin excess plastic around the edges of kit parts, caused by molds not fitting together firmly.

* Motorisation Hole: Large holes present in the undersides of many 60s / 70s armoured vehicle kits which were originally intended to have battery-operated motors installed.

* Link-and-length: One method of assembling track links for armoured vehicles, consisting of several "lengths" of track links cast as single pieces (typically the top and bottom runs) with the remainder seperate "links" which have to be manually attached to each other.

* CA: Cyanoacrylate, better known as superglue.

* Dio: Short for diorama, an extended model base involving scenery. Many model contests require at least one vehicle in a diorama and use the term "vignette" to refer to a dio without any vehicles in it.

* Aztec stairs: Ship modelling term for crudely molded plastic kit stairs more closely resembling the side of a stepped pyramid than anything that might concievably be fitted to a ship.

* Kitbash: Model made from two or more seperate kits. Directly mentioned in the various incarnations of ''Star Trek''—if you see a new (and/or odd-looking) space-station or ship, chances are it was constructed via kitbashing.

** "Kitbash" has also worked its way into [[Transformers]] fandom to refer to the same phenomenon: custom figures constructed by incorporating parts other than those originally from the figure being customized.

* Scratchbuild: Model made largely or entirely from basic materials rather than manufactured ones.

** A common epithet among scratchbuilders is to call a model kit a "shake-the-box" kit, on the implication that [[Rated "M" for Manly|Real Men Scratchbuild]] because all you have to do to assemble a kit is shake all the parts around in the box that it came in. Has expanded to be applied by non-scratchbuilders to some excessively easy/beginner-level kits, too.

* OOB: Out Of the Box, building a kit only from the parts actually included, plus paint and glue. Also called "Box Stock".

* Factory Stock: A model that's exactly as built by the the ''subject's'' manufacturer. May or may not be Box Stock. Used mostly in car modelling.

* Bitz Box: A box of all the excess arms, guns and other add-ons that come with Games Workshop models, and are saved for later customisations. Also called the "parts box".

* Revellogram: Revell-Monogram.

* Darkside: NASCAR race car, pre-early '70s

* Mainstreamer: Car that's been converted from the high performance or otherwise top-of-the-line version as kitted, to a middle-of-the-line spec.

* Light commercial: Pickup truck, cargo van and sometimes civil emergency vehicles.

* NNL: Model show/contest where each entrant gets to vote best in each category, as opposed to a "people's choice" where everyone who ''comes through the doors'' gets a vote (usually won by a large-scale red '57 Chevy)

* 1:1 (pronounced "one to one"): The real thing.

* Promo: Factory-built models commissioned by the vehicle's manufacturer.

* Annual: Car or light truck kit that was updated yearly to reflect the latest version of the kit's subject. Usually based on the same tooling as a promo.

== Web Original ==

* ''[[Homestar Runner]]''

** Kidstar - 1-Up from the 20X6 universe. He's the anime equivalent of Homestar, and his idol Stinkoman dismisses him as being "just a kid". His name wasn't officially revealed until a year after he first appeared.

** Marzichan - The 20X6 version of Marzipan who has so far only appeared in a Main Page.

** Visor Robot - [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|A robot with a visor]]. Oddly enough, [[Sure Why Not|the series creators now actually refer to]] this robot as "Visor Robot".

* Linkin Ball Z - Any of the Trillions of combinations of ''[[Dragonball Z|Dragon Ball Z]]'' and the band Linkin Park commonly seen in [[Fan Vid]]s.

** [http://youtube.com/results?search_query=linkin%20park%20dragonball&search=Search&sa=X&oi=spell&resnum=0&spell=1 Yah rly,] and that's just on Youtube...

* Fans of Yu-Gi-Oh: The Abridged Series generally refer to Yami Bakura and Yami Marik as "Florence" and "Melvin", respectively. That may also be their 'canon' names.

** "Melvin" was originally a mocking joke name from Yami "[We came here to fight] Marik! Not his imaginary friend Melvin!" "Florence" was the name Yami Bakura bitterly said his parents wanted to name him, and that same episode ends with him saying that "Florence is back." Both took off with fans and [[Sure Why Not|became recurring names]] shortly thereafter, though "Florence" at least still goes by Bakura most of the time, presumably because "real" Bakura isn't active enough for there to be much confusion anyway.

* ''[[Lonelygirl15]]''

** BDJ - Bree, Daniel and Jonas collectively.

** TAAG - Teen Angst Adventure Gang. All the main characters as a team.

** The Creators - Always with capitalised initial letters. The executive producers of the show, who often use this name themselves.

** Bambi - Nadia Dalton.

** Pharma Guy - Ted McKinley.

* Handlers occasionally give ''[[Survival of the Fittest]]'' characters nicknames based on their personality traits and the like, and occasionally a character gets a malicious nickname made for the purpose of mocking them. Prominent examples of fan nicknames in SOTF include Kenurton Larris for v3 character Ken Lawson, BB for Blood Boy (people tend to prefer calling him by the shorthand "BB" for whatever reason), and in the mocking sense "* charactername* v2" for characters that are obvious clones of previous SOTF characters. "Mariavel v2" = Melina, "Damien v2" = Eduardo, and "Oliver v2" = Gabe Theobaldt, for example.

** A number of members (although it was sparked by the character's handler) have begun to refer to Bobby Jacks as '[[Metal Gear|Bocelot]]' due to performing an [[Offhand Backhand|Offhand Backshoot]] on another character (and hitting him in the head). Members joke that soon he will be ricocheting bullets off walls, and that before long he will have one of his arms cut off.

** Handlers sometimes give nicknames to characters who share the same first names to differentiate them. For example in V4, there's Happy!Nick (Nick LeMonde) and Sad!Nick (Nick Reid)

*** And Sarax, Stan and Seizure Girl for Sarah Xu, Sarah Tan and Sarah Atwell respectively.

** From The Program, the SotF Mini [[Alternate Universe]] game, Logan Sorenson is almost always referred to as [[Troll|Lolgan]].

* ''[[Red vs. Blue]]''

** iTex - {{spoiler|1=When it was unclear when Tex exactly was a real person or not, Tex when she was definitely an AI was iTex}}

** iFrags - AI programs {{spoiler|that are a piece of the alpha}}

** eFrags - AI programs {{spoiler|that are pieces of the iFrag Epsilon}}

** {{spoiler|1=Alpha Church, aChurch, Robo Church}} - {{spoiler|The name for the Alpha AI. To differentiate him from Dr. Church}}

** "Shark Face" - That one badass pyro mook from Season 9 that actually manages to give ''two Freelancers'' a decent fight.

* Not a character, but the fans have nicknamed the authors of the [[Whateley Universe]] stories the 'Canon Cabal'. Occasionally in the forums the acronym TINCC shows up after mentioning this nickname: it stands for 'There Is No Canon Cabal'.

* N. Bison from [[Kickassia]] as a result of him being the Nostalgia Critic dressed as M. Bison.

** [[The Nostalgia Chick]]'s [[Sarah Palin]] persona is known as "Nostalgia Palin".

*** The Critic's Japanese fandom (yes, [[Germans Love David Hasselhoff/Web Original|it does exist]]) has nicknamed the Chick "Nosuko", combining a Japanese contraction of "Nostalgia" with a common Japanese female name ending.

** The name "[[Ask That Guy With The Glasses|Ask That Guy]]" probably counts too, as to distinguish him from Doug's handle [[That Guy With The Glasses]].

** 'Meg the Magic Gun Girl' for the girl whose soul is inside [[Atop the Fourth Wall|Linkara's]] magic gun.

*** Also from ''[[Atop the Fourth Wall]]'', Linkara's [[Power Rangers]] costume has earned the nickname "Pimpkara".

* The [[Tipping Forties]] crew has come up with a few, most of them for [[Tales of Symphonia]]:

** [[Heavy Metal Umlaut|Rüsty]] for [[Final Fantasy X|Titus]].

** [[The Napoleon|Small Ronso]] for [[Final Fantasy X|Kimahri]].

** [[Totally Radical|Rad]] for [[Tales of Symphonia|Kratos]].

** Old Kentucky for [[Summon Magic|summon spirit]] [[Tales of Symphonia|Corrine]].

** [[Yiddish as a Second Language|Bagel Nosh]] for [[Tales of Symphonia|Noishe]].

* In the original run of the Webcomic "Earthsong", vampire Tristram was occasionally referred to as "Vampy [[Mc Emopants]]" for his overly melodramatic backstory.

* ''The Classic [[Doctor Who]] Twitter Blog'' likes using this trope when the proprietor doesn't know/can't spell a character's name. Examples include "[[Ominous Latin Chanting|Random Chanting Asian Man]]" (Kaleed from "Time-Flight"), "[[Everything's Better with Sparkles|sparkles]]" (the Megara from "The Stones of Blood"), and "[[What Do You Mean It's for Kids?|BDSM-man]]" (Sharaz Jek from "The Caves of Androzani").

* [[The Slender Man Mythos|The Slender Man]], paragon of nightmares and [[Paranoia Fuel|source of paranoia]], is affectionately referred to as "Slendy".

** And in the Slendy-inspired web series ''[[Marble Hornets]]'', totheark/Masked Man, a silent man in a creepy theatre mask who attacks, stalks, and watches the protoganist sleep at night, is generally referred to simply as "Masky".

** The second Masky, introduced in Entry #41, has been frequently nicknamed either "Hoody" or "Blasky".

*** The boys of ''Marble Hornets'' themselves have become known in some circles as [[Memetic Mutation|"the Wifers."]]

*** While Tim's sideburns are affectionately known as the Suttonchops.

* The [[Minoto Series|Minoto game]] ''[http://www.escapegames24.com/2010/03/bread-girl-walkthrough.html Bread Girl]'' was given a "Disturb Through" that gave the woman at the vegetable stand the name "Miami Mom" and painted her as a neglectful, domineering mother. It's actually just [[The Little Match Girl|the alive-and-successful Little Match Girl,]] but the nickname stuck anyways.

* Commenters on [[FSTDT]] have come up with a number of nicknames for some of the websites and people that are frequently quoted:

** Rapture Ready is often referred to as "Ruptured Retards", and the its member "Raptards".

** His4Life, a member of Rapture Ready forums who frequently comments on FSTDT is commonly referred to as "Troll4Life".

** Andrew Schlafy is called "Assfly", thanks to his [[Conservapedia]] handle of "Aschlafy".

** Supersport, someone often quoted on the site and considered incredibly stupid ''even by FSTDT standards'', is sometimes referred to as "Stuporsport".

* In [[Rhett and Link|Rhett&Link]]'s "[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xe07j8_epic-rap-battle_music Epic Rap Battle]," Rhett gives a guy a Half-Nelson, and Link gives the same guy a Full-Nelson. The fandom has decided to name him "Nelson."

* The ''[[Downfall (film)|Downfall]]'' parody meme has a lot of these. Hitler himself is often called "Dolfy" by fans, Burgdorf has the fan nickname of "Burger-Dork", and Goebbels' nickname "Skeletor" probably started as one of these before actually becomming an [[In-Series Nickname]].

* [[Die Anstalt]]: Lyall for {{spoiler|the wolf inside Dolly. For [[Meaningful Name]] bonus points, it means "shield wolf".}}

=== Web Sites ===

* "The Pit of Voles" - Fanfiction.net. "The Pit" for short.

** AKA "The Pit of Shrews"...although, confusingly enough, that name seems to ''also'' be applied to Quizilla.com.

** [[Terminator|Skynet]] is sometimes used to refer to the Pit's administrators.

* "The Pit of Rabid Horny Weasels" - AdultFanfiction.net

** Sometimes also called "The Pit of Uber-Voles," "The Uber-Pit" for short.

* "The Picture Pit" - [http://www.fanart-central.net/ Fanart Central], in its role as the fanart equivalent to Fanfiction.net.

* "Rapidshit" - "Affectionate" nickname for the file-sharing <s> online dictatorship</s> site Rapidshare.

** Ditto "Megafail" among others for Megaupload - though despite being more active in moderating what you can upload, at least non-member files don't have a 10-download limit like on Rapidshit. [[Funny Aneurysm Moment|Though now that Megaupload has been shut down for good...]]

* [[The Other Wiki]] - Used here to refer to the one that's all [[Serious Business]].

* "Moontube" - Japanese streaming video site Niconico Douga ("Smile Video"). Inspired by the meme of referring to the Japanese language as "moonspeak", and Niconico's equivalence to Youtube.

* The [[Hive Mind]], Wiki-tachi, Critical Analysis Drones: Those would all be this wiki's [[The Contributors|contributors]].

* [https://web.archive.org/web/20080828013352/http://news.toonzone.net/article.php?ID=24212 Dr. Fight] - toonzone.net nickname for Joaquim Dos Santos, director of several episodes of ''[[Justice League Unlimited]]'' and in the later half of ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' (including the last two of the [[Grand Finale]]).

* The comedy site ''[[That Guy With The Glasses]]'' has a [https://web.archive.org/web/20131030205837/http://thatguywiththeglasses.com/forums/ forum]. In one of its topic, the fans talk about an episode of the Nostalgia Critic that slammed the Rob Reiner movie ''[[North]]''. In this movie, there is a boy named Winchell who, later on in the review, becomes the villain. The Nostalgia Critic made a joke that he acts like Dick Cheney. Because of this, everyone in the North topic calls Winchell, you guessed it, [https://web.archive.org/web/20130731175157/http://www.thatguywiththeglasses.com/forums/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=4857 Dick Cheney].

* Teh Floodz. Bungie.net's Flood forum.

* HuluTube - [[YouTube]], after it began promoting full-length movies and TV shows on its site (Many of which are also available on [[Hulu]]. Usually in a derogatory manner by users who've had suspensions because of DMCA violations.

** And presumably because of the ads on the those officially distributed videos.

* Fans of [[Smogon]] call themselves Smogonites.

* Hell - 2chan/4chan.

* When flame wars/trolling get particularly bad, [[Star Trek|StarTrek.com]] (ST.com) is often referred to as STD.com.

* Twitter posters who make dumb or annoying posts have picked up the nickname "Twittiots".

* Almost On Line or [[AO Hell]]: AOL nicknames given by frustrated users of it or AIM.

* Yahell or Yahooey: Derogatory nickname of many a frustrated Yahoo mail, YIM and groups user.

== Other Media ==

* Many of the trope names listed here and on [[The Other Tropes Wiki]] could ultimately be considered fan nicknames, or at least fan nicknames for literary conventions established elsewhere when applied to a specific show, genre, or situation.

* Since almost every product by Apple follows the pattern if the lowercase letter "i" and one single word (iPod, iPad, iTunes, iPhone,) the iPod Touch has always stood out, so many people have simply shortened it down to "iTouch."

* [[Battlestar Galactica|Scilons]] for [[Church of Happyology|Scientologists]] by Anonymous; also "clams" by the protesters, particularly the pre-Chanology ones, at OperationClambake.com due to one of [[L. Ron Hubbard]]'s "thought experiments" being to imagine clams "snapping open and shut! Open and shut! Open! Shut!" on a beach (I think it had something to do with perceiving the universe or thetans).

** Clams are what Hubbard believed humans had evolved from. (Being Hubbard, [[Did Not Do the Research]] is a given.)

** Replacing the s in any of these, including the real name, with a $ is also quite common. This happens to [[Microsoft|Micro$oft]] too.

* The 1970s style handlebar moustache is popularly known as the "[[Porn Stache]]".

* Australian free-to-air television network [[SBS]], jokingly said to stand for "Sex Between Soccer", or "Sex, Blood and Soccer".

* Leona Helmsley was referred to as the "Queen of Mean" (see [[The Other Wiki]] for details)

* In the various entertainment industries (i.e., not just one in particular), if the offspring of a previously (or even still) well-known celebrity becomes a celebrity in their own right, those unfamiliar (or even familiar) with the fame of the parent will often refer to the parent as "[offspring]'s [parent]". For example, Lionel Richie has been referred to by fans of his (adopted) daughter Nicole Richie as "Nicole's father".

* Due to a prank that sparked an edit war over on [[The Other Wiki]] on the day his papacy was announced (and the fact that he and Ian McDiarmid look more than a little alike), Pope Benedict XVI is still called Pope ''[[Star Wars|Sidious]]'' in some parts of the interwebs.

** Also Emperor Popeatine or Darth Benedict. (The resemblance sparked a lot of commentary.)

** Due to his history in the Hitler Youth and somewhat strained relationships with some influential Jewish organizations, some people refer to him as "Pope Nazi".

* Metformin, the front-line medication for type 2 diabetes, can have a disruptive effect on the digestive system, especially for those still acclimating to it, leading to the nickname 'metfartmin'.

* Electronics and the stores that sell them are rich veins of Fan Nicknames. For instance, the Blackberry series of mobile phones (many other functions) have been nicknamed Crackberries: like the concentrated form of cocaine known as "crack", the things are very expensive and either massively addictive or something you need rehab to get away from.

** For another example, the first USB mice Apple produced for release with the then-new iMac received the uncomplimentary nickname "hockey pucks," both for the ridiculously non-ergonomic design and for the best use [[wikipedia:File:Apple iMac USB mouse.jpg|their shape]] permitted for them.

* capslock_atla has given M. Knight Shyamalan, Director of the ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]'' [[Live Action Adaptation]] ''[[The Last Airbender]]'', some nicknames such as Shamwow, Shampow, Shamallama, Shamalamadingdong and Shamalamadingdongthewitchisdead. Recently, Shame-a-lon and Sham-a-lon have become appropriate.

* The South London district of Newington is far more commonly known as "Elephant & Castle", to the extent that even London Transport call it that. The name comes from the fact that one of London's several "Elephant & Castle" pubs stood there (there's still a pub of that name there, but whether it's the original or a successor thereto is unknown), and the pubs are in turn named for the fact that the Infanta de Castile once owned large tracts of what is now London land.

* It's very rare to find an account of Wild Bill Hickok's death or a discussion of his murderer without the phrase "the coward Jack McCall" coming up at least once.

* In Chicago the sculpture named "Cloud Gate" is universally known as The Bean... Much to the artist's annoyance.

* Also in Chicago, the newly-renamed "Willis Tower" is still the Sears Tower. We don't care who owns it now, it's still the Sears.

* Chicago again, the Marina Towers highrise is sometimes called "[[Wilco]] Towers", having appeared on the cover of ''Yankee Hotel Foxtrot''.

* In February 2010, Washington D.C., which typically shuts down for a mere three or four inches of snow, received more than ''thirty'' inches in one week. Residents have used a number of nicknames of varying levels of cleverness to the experience, but the two most common are definitely "Snowpocalypse" and "Snowmageddan."

* In downtown Vancouver, just outside one of the skytrain stops, is a sculpture universally referred to as [http://www.flickr.com/photos/32118911@N05/4344901265/ the big ball of tin foil.]

* The Japanese TV Stations TBS (Not the US one) and MBS are called "The [[Real Robot]] Network" due to the abundance of Real Robot shows that aired there since the 2000's.

* [[wikipedia:The Gherkin|30 St. Mary Axe, London,]] is rarely referred to by its address or its official name, the Swiss Re Building as, due to it's distinctive shape, most people call it The Gherkin. It's unlikely that this will ever change.

* Nicknames have been a big NASA thing.

** Vomit Comet: The KC 135 weightlessness trainer

** Flying Bedstead: The LLTV, or Lunar Landing Training Vehicle

** LM: Lunar Module, but pronounced 'Lem' after the old Lunar Excursion Module name

* A style of dress shoes typically worn by children during the early 20th century (though shoes similar to them have been worn by the likes of [[Henry VIII]] as depicted in paintings of the era) and later exclusively worn by girls and women are known as "[[Mary Jane (shoe)|Mary Jane]]" shoes after the ''[[Buster Brown]]'' character of the same name.

== Real Life ==

* In ''[[Armageddon]]'', Bruce Willis's character says that NASA undoubtably has a crew of guys "just sitting around thinking shit up". These guys... the crew that sits around thinking shit up, are known as the "Steely Eyed Missile Men" for their ability to cooly and calmly think up technological solutions to the hardest problems on Earth or in Space.

** Being called a 'Steely Eyed Missile Man' is the absolute ''highest'' of NASA compliments; those 'guys that sit around thinking shit up' are the ''very'' best at what they do, so being counted among their ranks means you've ''really'' impressed people. And only the best of ''those'' people, the ones who come through under incredible pressure, get to be called "steely-eyed missile men."

* People related to [[Video Games]]:

** The Other "Wacko Jacko" - Jack Thompson.

*** Also, [[Harry Potter|"He-Who-Must-Not-Be-Named"]], "Bumblefoot the Insignificant" and "Voldemort" - comes from the theory that Jack is an attention whore and that simply ignoring him and not talking about him or even mentioning his name will make him shut up.

** Shiggy - [[Shigeru Miyamoto]]

*** God - Used by [[Moviebob]] as a running gag (The image of Miyamoto holding up a DS running ''Super Mario 64'' shows up whenever the word "God" is used).

** Dayter - ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' fandom nickname for David Hayter (Solid Snake's English voice actor), used mostly by his sizeable [[Estrogen Brigade]].

** Eeguh - Koji "IGA" Igarashi, the current producer of the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series. Used occasionally by [[Broken Base|fans who feel that IGA has ruined Castlevania]].

** Low Strong - David Sirlin, due to winning the final match of a ''[[Street Fighter Alpha]]'' tournament by [[Whoring]] Rose's low strong for all it was worth.

** The Beast - Daigo Umehara, who is (or at least was) regarded by some as simply the best player of fighting games in the world. That ''[[Street Fighter]]'' video where [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B0CHNAsDH3o# Ken full parries Chun-Li's super with no health left and then combos her to death with his own super?] That's Daigo.

** Fail Man - Hironobu Takeshita, after repeatedly getting himself killed (even on Easy Mode) while demonstrating ''[[Mega Man 10]]'' on a live webcast.

** Trolljima - [[Hideo Kojima]], who is known to [[Trolling Creator|say and do things specifically to mislead and annoy his own fanbase]]. Also occasionally "God", after his 'Kojima kaminandesu' stunt in ''[[Metal Gear Solid Peace Walker]]''. When his name is used, it tends to be "Kojima-san", after he told Kotaku that he would be able to stop making ''[[Metal Gear]]'' games if everyone on Kotaku said "Kojima-san doesn't have to make ''[[Metal Gear]]'' any more".

** Sonifags - Obsessive fans of ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'', such as the infamous Chris-chan.

* There's a whole language of fan nicknames in the CB Radio circuit, it would take far too much space to list them all here, though.

== [[Real Life]] ==

=== Celebrities ===

* [[Maggie Gyllenhaal|Maggie Trollsbane]] - For her [[Sarcasm Mode|massive popularity]] on [[IMDb]].

* In the fandom, [[Misha Collins]] is sometimes referred to as MishMish or "The Overlord". He encourages the latter.

=== Politics ===

=== Military ===

===Vehicles===

=== Countries ===

=== Cities ===

*** Its capital city, Guadalajara, is nicknamed ''La Perla de Occidente'' (The Pearl of the West) and its neighbor city, Zapopan, is ''La Tierra del Maiz'' (Land of the Corn).

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