Can't decide on a name...

[Ultimo]

What you guys think?  The character is based on Red Skull, but I can't decide on what name I want to use.

 

My first thought was the Red Scourge, but that's in use.

So, I looked for other names, and came up with the Red Blight... but I'm not sure it carries the same sense of menace.

I recreated him as the Red Bane... but it just lacks a certain something I can't quite put a finger on...

I thought about the Red Woe, but I can't play if I keep hearing Keanu Reeves in my head.

What do you guys think, Blight?  Bane?  Something else?

[CursedSorcerer]

The Crimson Cranium?

 

cranium - Bing

[RebornRose]

Scarlet Scourge?

 

Cardinal Sin?

 

Crimson Visage?

 

The Red Pill?   (mostly joking with that last one :D)

[Lens Perchance]

Red Bane is pretty good IMO

[Spaghetti Betty]

Skully McSkullface

[cranebump]

Roter Schadel? Or maybe Rotergeist (red ghost)?

 

Or maybe a combo of the various IDs, like Malik Schmidt. 

[Ultimo]

To clarify, he's not THE Red Skull, he's just based on him.  His powers are Mercs and Radiation, so I initially thought scourge or blight.  He wears a red helmet and rebreather mask to protect him from the toxic clouds he produces, which gives him a vaguely skull-like appearance.

 

Scourge was my first choice... but as with most of my characters, the name isn't available.

[Sakai]

While I don't have a suggestion for you I have taken to placeholder names that eventually evolve into something if I find the character worthy. 

 

Hero Name TBD became Hero Named Ted when  I fell in love with him. 

 

The original Bssigh-man became Bird-man while playing around in the costume creator. I was pleasantly surprised it was available. Sadly he was one of many Kin Melee that has been abandoned. Latest version is some kind of a Corrupror I don't play. 

 

Unfortunately New Cool 2.3 now languishes as a Influence mule. 

Edited June 26, 2021 by Sakai

[DoctorDitko]

Is Crimson Scourge available?

[Techwright]

1 hour ago, DoctorDitko said:

Is Crimson Scourge available?

Not sure if that's passable or not.  Crimson Scourge is apparently an animal character in the He-Man universe.  Not techically a humanoid hero or villain, but I'm not sure how far the game's ban goes on characters in popular works.  I'd run it by the dev team first, just to be sure.

 

 

How about The Red Scowl?  😁

 

Perhaps terms related to the concern of a threat from Soviet-era Russia:  The Red Scare, the Red Menace, etc.?

 

There's Red Death or Red Deathmask borrowing words from Edgar Allen Poe's work The Mask of the Red Death.

 

You said he creates toxic clouds, so maybe Red Pestilence, or Blood Tox (perhaps as one: Bloodtox), or Bloodborn, since blood is of course associated with red. 

[MTeague]

Vermillion Visage.

 

and there's always the option of other colors.

Cobalt Casque, etc.

[DoctorDitko]

There's always the Crimson Terror.

There may be a certain doctor who might raise an eyebrow, but there was no character called that, and titles per se can't be copyrighted.

Edited June 26, 2021 by DoctorDitko

[TheOtherTed]

Take the many "real" names of those who posed as Red Skull, and mix-and-match until you get something that you like.  Johann Malik, for example, or Sin Maxon.  Throw in the names of authors who wrote for the character, or actors who played him, and you've got an open field.

 

If you really want to keep the "red" and "skull" parts intact somehow, I'd recommend playing around with those words in Wiktionary.org or Google Translate.

[DoctorDitko]

2 hours ago, TheOtherTed said:

Throw in the names of authors who wrote for the character, or actors who played him, and you've got an open field.

Excellent advice!

But don't forget the artists!

And if you add in a bit of parody, or commentary, or critical analysis, you are golden for copyright purposes.

Thank goodness, or a friend of mine might be in trouble!

 

[SwitchFade]

Bonesnap

 

Skullworx

 

australopithecus afarensis

[Dazl]

Leroy Jenkins

[Dahkness]

Ultiskul 

[Crisis]

The Red Death

The Crimson Death

Blood Skull?

Red Terror

 

I'm presuming he's a total villain.

 

[Ultimo]

When I created the character back in the day for live, he was called the Red Death.  Unfortunately, like most other names, it's not available.

[dtjunkie]

12 hours ago, Techwright said:

Red Pestilence

 

+1

[oedipus_tex]

You could make a female movie star named "Starlet Fever."

[Pengy]

If he lobbed poison gas grenades, he'd be Red Lobster.

[srmalloy]

If it's just based on the Red Skull, then taking the idea of German from back up the thread, 'Rote Geißel' (probably have to enter it as 'Geissel', since I don't think the character name entry will take an eszet). But slapping 'Red Scourge' into Google Translate and picking different destination languages until you see something you like is an option -- Latin gives you 'Flagellum Rubrum', for example.

[Xeres]

Sanguine Scourge

[TheOtherTed]

6 hours ago, srmalloy said:

But slapping 'Red Scourge' into Google Translate and picking different destination languages until you see something you like is an option -- Latin gives you 'Flagellum Rubrum', for example.

One caveat (also Latin!) about Google Translate - if you translate from English to another language, be sure to reverse the translation.  For example, 'flagellum rubrum' back-translates as 'red whip' in English, which may not mean what you want it to mean.