Spell My Name with an "S"/Web Comics

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Examples of Spell My Name with an "S" in Web Comics include:

  • A minor character in Men in Hats was called Ramath the first and only time he appeared, and called Ramas in the only other strip to refer to him.
  • Order of the Stick's prequel book, Start of Darkness, revolves around the villains and often has the main villain, Xykon, correcting other people's misspelling of his name (most commonly as Zykon). It's unclear how he can recognize this, since both names are pronounced the same way, which is also lampshaded. Also, a group of adventurers attempting to hunt Xykon down wind up stumbling into the lair of a completely different villain with a similarly-spelled name. It is believed that this was author Rich Burlew's way of poking fun at the constant misspelling of Xykon's name in the comic's fan forums.
    • Additionally, one of the spirits involved in Vaarsuvius's Soul Splice has been referred to in the comic as both "Haera Bloodsoak" and "Haerta Bloodsoak". There has been no indication of which of these is supposed to be correct.
    • For some strange reason, some forum goers tend to misspell Haley's name as Hayley.
  • Nothing Nice To Say has a character referred to by the comic strip's creator as outside the comic as a variation of "Chris or Charlie or whatever" due to the interchangeability of his names within the strip.
  • The above mentioned Aeris/Aerith controversy is mentioned in this Loserz strip.
  • In the webcomic Blue and Blond, Blond is able to tell when people refer to him as "Blonde". Whenever this happens, it always annoys him.
  • The Blobby minion in Building 12 has had his name written as both Slauf and Slough.
  • Apparently part of the Sluggy Freelance fanbase regularly spells Gwynn's name as "Gwen". Which is odd because not only are those two really pronounced differently, but you're reading it in the comic, not listening to it. But there you go. This may have been spoofed in the comic itself when Gwynn was being referred to as Gwen to thinly disguise her identity.
    • Also odd since the correct spelling of her name has plot relevance—since Y is only sometimes a vowel, you could say that her name has no vowels at all, thus tying her to K'Z'K, the Vowelless One. Also? That's the worst pickup line in the history of the world.
  • Drowtales. Is it Snadhya'runes or Snadhya'rune? Ven'nedia or Ven'ndia? No one knows...
  • Slightly Damned. 'Carrie Susan' is a fairly reasonable attempt at 'Kieri Suizahn', all things considered.
  • Shadowgirls; Charon's name is pronounced "Sharon". Naturally, people tend to spell it with the standard "S."