Tip: Finding a Good Villain Name
John Doe #37 don't cut it.
In all my dealings with RLSVs, I’ve discovered one particular issue that can sometimes lead to confusion. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all for creating confusion because confusion breeds chaos. All the same, the super villain to name ratio is a bit out of whack.
Too many super villains are running around out there with no name. That was all fine and dandy until more RLSVs started joining co-ops and other underground online communities like this one. At first, we started referring to unknowns/unnamed as Unnamed Villain – Locale. That worked well for a while. We had to drop city names in favor of zip codes. Now there are a few zip code conflicts.
Do the Villain community a favor and find a name. Hell, if you prefer in corporate your locale’s name, zip, or area code… Become the Fiend of 402 or the Blackstone Brute. If you have bigger plans and don’t want your name to imply that you are bound to a zip code, consider using a name generator.
Seventh Sanctum’s Villain Name Generator is the best one out there…
It allows you to generate up to 20 names at a time and you can pick categories to help guide the randoms so they are more fitting. Seventh Sanctum also has some other great name generators if the villain one isn’t working out. Evil Namer and a few others. I can’t wait to hear from the likes of AngerTwist or Rottena or The Red Maggot or GalTaint.
A good generator that unfortunately only generates one name at a time is Stone Dragon Press’s Villain name generator.
Here are a few less useful villain name generators:
Lee’s Villain name generator
Rum and Monkey namegen 3132
I know it may seem extra evil to be the “The Unnamed One” but when there are hundreds of “The Unnamed One” it gets old. Also, the public/media needs your name to be the word they use to describe their fear. You really don’t want to leave it up to the idiots on the evening news to assign you a name, do you?
Excellent, Admin! I’ve been thinking lately about changing my name to reflect my recent foray into the supernatural. Perhaps one of these name generators can help me select an appropriately evil moniker.