Fan Nickname/Video Games G-M

• Ganbare Goemon
  • Robo-Shota - Robot Buddy Sasuke, thanks to his small stature, naiveté, and reputation as the perennial Uke in the Japanese fandom. The maid costume he gets in Goemon's Great Adventure only makes things worse.
• Gothic
  • Bezi/Bezio - the Polish fans' name for the series' nameless protagonist. A shortened form of the word bezimienny ("nameless"); can be translated e.g. as "Namly".
• Guild Wars
  • Bunnythumper/Thumperbunny - A Ranger/Warrior character build that relies on Expertise, a pet and a hammer.
  • Captain Suicide - Prince Rurik.
  • Wammo - A Warrior/Monk player character, often derogatory.
  • Toucher - A Ranger/Necromancer with max Expertise and Blood Magic and spams Vampiric Touch and Vampiric Bite.
  • Kurzuck, Kur Sicks, Turdzicks - Offensive term used for Kurzick players.
  • Suxon - Offensive term used for Luxon players.
  • Shiro Tamagotchi
  • Tahnhakai Temphell - Named for Tahnhakai Temple, a terrible difficulty spike amongst many in Factions.
  • Grand Court of Seb'hellkeh: Named for the Grand court of Sebelkeh, Nightfalls Difficulty Spike mission.
• Guilty Gear
  • Coconut - Ky Kiske, due to his Stun Edge special where he says the word because of the game's multiple-voice system.
    • King Ky - In Overture, intended as a pun on Dragonball Z.
    • King Valeth - For those who have the English version, due to his voice actor.
  • Buri - Bridget, for obvious reasons.
  • Testicle Mania - I-No's boss/CPU/EX-only super.
  • Bacon - Baiken
  • HOS - Abbreviation for Holy Order-Sol.
• Halo
  • Captain King - Master Chief, after a thread on 4chan's /v/.
  • Fans seem to have taken up on the Covenant's name for the monitors, oracle.
  • HaaH WaaW - Halo Wars, from a bastardized version of the game's box art.
  • Noob Combo - The plasma pistol and battle rifle from Halo 2, two weapons which, together, were practically a Game Breaker. The pistol received a nerf in 3 to undermine this.
  • Half-Jaw: The Shipmaster (named Rtas 'Vadum in the fluff), an Elite commander, named after the fact that he is missing two of the predatorish mandibles that Elites have.
  • Arby/Arbs - The Arbiter
    • Arbitur - M4stur Ch!3f (or some variant) of Arby 'n' the Chief calls the Arbiter this. He's called him many things, of course, but this is the only one translatable from L 33 t Lingo I can think of.
  • Infection form flood are commonly known as "bogies" or "boogers" by players. Also have been referred to as "heads," possibly because of the similarities the flood have with zombies (and the necessity of shooting "the heads" first.)
    • Carrier Flood have also been referred to as "Pods" or "Puffer Pods."
    • Popcorn can also apply to the infection and carrier forms.
  • "Gaylo Reacharound" for Halo Reach, by either detractors to the series or fans looking to mock detractors to the series.
• Harry Potter: Hogwarts Mystery:
  • Wilfred Levi Kidd is often called "Leviosa Kid" by fans, a nickname used long before the character was given an official name. This nickname was used in-game in the quest "The Great Hogwarts Cook-Off", released three years after the fandom started using the name.
• Harvest Moon:
  • Jack: The first, and previously most common, protagonist. He's called "Pete" several times in canon, but "Jack" took off due to the SNES "Jack and the Beanstock" styled scene. The name is used for most other male protagonists, despite them having their own names too.
  • Jill: The Another Wonderful Life protagonist. It goes with Jack's name. Her canon name is "Pony" but it's atypical sounding. Sometimes used to refer to Claire, the blond protagonist from Back to Nature For Girl.
  • Hansel and Gretel: The protagonists of Grand Bazaar
  • Phillip and Lillian: The protagonists of A Tale of Two Villages.
  • Bokumono: The Portmanteau Series Nickname.
• Heroes of Might and Magic
  • Ubival: Portmanteau of Ubisoft and Nival, the producer and developer of the fifth game.
• Journey to Silius has a hovering Demonic Spider enemy in its third stage that one Let's Player nicknamed HumpBot, for its habit of homing in on and Collision Damage-raping you. Or maybe it's named after a certain robot in Robot Chicken.
• Kamui
  • The Angry Spacestation - The Adjudicator.
• Katawa Shoujo
  • The Master of Romance: Hisao, for his being a Clueless Chick Magnet.
• Kingdom Hearts
  • The Agrabah WEAPON - Bonus Boss "Kurt Zisa", so named after the winner of a contest. Comes from its location and its resemblance to various Lost Technology enemies from the Final Fantasy games. Used most often by people who think Kurt Ziza is a stupid name.
  • BHK (Blonde-Haired Kid) - Roxas from Kingdom Hearts II, due to his appearance in the teaser for KHII featured in the original game.
  • Mansex - Xemnas, due to a rather unfortunate anagram of this name. (If I have to revert the Wikipedia page on Org. XIII about this one more time...)
    • "Sexman" and "X-Mas" for the same reason.
  • Bigrax - Xigbar. See above.
    • And "Ziggy" as well.
  • Even less known is E-sexual, for Lexaeus, as above.
  • And Rent-Xa-Ho (Rents a ho) for Xehanort. Of course, none of these are surprising considering they´re all members of..
  • Orgy XIII - Organization XIII, for the fandom's tendency to ship everyone with each other. So many permutations...
    • 78 possible OTPs, to be exact. And there's a fic out there for all of them.
      • With Xion's inclusion you get 13 new pairings.
  • Repliku - Riku Replica.
    • Interestingly, this actually IS the character's name in the German version of the game.
  • Sorangle - Derisive term for Sora, due to the impressive stunts he pulled out in KHII thanks to the Action Commands (IE, the triangle button).
  • King Of Hearts - Sora due to his many appearances with a crown and the fact he has one of if not the strongest heart in the series.
  • Zebra Mansex, The Evil Cow - Final Form Xemnas, dues to his black and white cloak.
  • Baldinort - Master Xehanort from the incoming prequel Kingdom Hearts: Birth by Sleep to distinguish him from the current Xehanort. Also known as Baldsem, Geezernort, or Oldynort.
    • And don't forget about Grampinort and (before his name was revealed) Old Bald Man.
    • Conversely, pre-game Xehanort (before he takes over the Radiant Garden) is sometimes called Tinynort.
    • And now that the game's been released in Japan, we have Terranort, the final boss of Last Episode, which, unsurprisingly, is the result of Master Xehanort committing Grand Theft Me on Terra.
    • Recently, fans have come up with Rikunort for the Ansem-Possessed-Riku. Bonus points for basing it on Terranort.
    • In relation to the above, we get Xehanorterransemnas
      • Following on from this, we get Venitas, which is for more or less the same reasons but with Ven getting (Temporarily) GTM'd by Vanitas.
  • McFlurry - Axel, from his official title, "The Flurry of Dancing Flames."
  • 411 - The strangely popular Vexen/Marluxia pairing (they are the 4th and 11th members of the Organization)
  • The Sporking Bitch - Axel, due to his appearance in nearly all MSTs of Kingdom Hearts fanfiction.
  • Xaldouche - Xaldin, due to his jerkass behavior in Kingdom Hearts 358 Days Over 2
  • Zexy for Zexion, made up from his actual name and the word "Sexy". Fangirls tend to use variations of the phrase "Zexy is so sexy with his lexy"("Lexy" for Lexicon, as in the book which he uses for a weapon).
    • This one was actually used in Chain of Memories, making not so much a fan nickname as an actual nickname that caught on with the fanbase.
    • Incidentally, 'Lexy' may also refer to Lexaeus, given the fact that they're consistently seen (and, thus, paired in the fandom) together whenever they're shown at all.
  • Xarmy Use/Xarmy Sue: Xion, due to being yet another female Kingdom Hearts Character in loose relation to Kairi, who falls victim to the Common Mary Sue Traits. The fact that she's pretty Emo for most of the game though she's got her reasons, to say the least and ends up being a second Implied Love Interest for Roxas, besides Namine, doesn't help.
  • Xomg/Gloomex: The Organization Moogle in 358/2 Days, due to the member's habits of rearranging their names with an 'X'.
    • Mooglex: A less creative variation of the above.
  • Somebodies: An unofficial name for the human forms of the members of Org. XIII, as opposed to Nobody.
    • Others: An alternative of the above. Taken from Roxas telling Sora that he "make(s) a good other"
  • Double K: For Rikku to differentiate her from...
  • Single K: Riku.
  • Sexy Back: Aqua.
  • Young!Nort, Trollnort or D-Nort for Young Master Xehanort.
  • Xehaborg for the second Organization XIII
• Kingdom of Loathing
  • TPTB - "The Powers That Be", i.e. the creators of the game.
    • This is sometimes extended to TPTMBG: The Powers That Might Be Giants.
  • Smurf: Substituted for many spoilerific phrases, but most commonly the Wand of Nagamar that is used to win the final battle.
  • Titfairy (also Boobfruit): A recent item-of-the-month earned this name after people saw not a mushroom fairy with a bowl on her head, but a pair of breasts squeezed between a bowl and a skirt.
  • Oxycore: A hardcore oxygenarian run, turned into a portmanteau for brevity.
• The King of Fighters, Fatal Fury, Art of Fighting... let's just say the majority of SNK's fighting games...
  • Let's start with the one thing this company is known for: SNK Boss Syndrome.
  • Ass Crimson - Ash Crimson from The King of Fighters 2003, who is so flamboyant that he might qualify as a Gorgeous George.
    • Ass Crapson: Call it a derogatory variant of the above.
    • Fish Crimson, stemming from an unfortunately squished uppercase "A" in one of the XI menus resembling the letter F.
    • Fist Crimson, a typo of the above.
    • Ashley Crishit and Ash Shitson are less popular but still common variations of the above. You can tell that a lot of people hate Ash, but SNK (and the Japanese) just love him.
  • The Beijing King: Kim Kaphwan, thanks to the My Way Entertainment fan dub of one of the Fatal Fury OVAs.
  • Old Hero Team, Team Japan, Team Esaka - Kyo, Benimaru, and Daimon, with the last one being due to their theme music (which is usually entitled Esaka or a variation thereof).
  • The Pretzel - the motion for Geese Howard's Raging Storm attack: down-back, half-circle back, down-forward. So named because the thumb traces a pretzel shape on the directional pad while inputting the move.
  • The Almighty Stance - Robert Garcia's idle animation from Neo Geo Battle Coliseum and The King of Fighters XI, where he dances back and forth constantly. The name comes from the ~GameFAQs~ fighting games boards, where, during a discussion about character stances, a user declared Robert's grooving to be "almighty".
  • Cheesenitz - Goenitz.
  • Goenadz - Goenitz.
  • In some circles, all of Shen Woo's moves have nicknames, most of them consisting of "SHEN WOO <move>". Yes, uppercase is mandatory.
  • Yaoiori - Say his last name backwards. It's Im-a-gay.
  • Rugalspin - Rugal's Dead End Screamer DM from '98, when coupled with Dead of Alive's "You Spin Me Right Round". Became a small meme in a short amount of time, thanks to MUGEN (see below).
    • Wolfgang Krauser has a variation of this as well (his SDM is a throw where he, you guessed it, SPINS YOU RIGHT ROUND BABY RIGHT ROUND), aptly named "Krauserspin".
    • And now with 2002: Unlimited Match, Goenitz now has his own take on the fad, with his MAX2/HSDM summoning a tornado which SPINS YOU RIGHT ROUND BABY RIGHT ROUND LIKE A RECORD BABY RIGHT ROUND ROUND ROUND. We christen it the Goenitzspin.
    • And just in case you thought we'd forget, Kyoshiro Senryo predates them all by a hundred or so years with the Kyoshirospin.
  • Alucard, Emil Castagnier: Igniz. The first one should be the other way around because he's voiced by Norio Wakamoto (And not Johnny Yong Bosch) and Norio Wakamoto is Dracula, but it isn't because Dracula does not have blonde hair and isn't a Bishonen. Although, unlike Emil, Igniz is ANYTHING but timid. And he doesn't need a Superpowered Alternate Side to fight for him.
    • Iggy, short for Igniz.
  • Billy Idol for Krizalid, so named for his resemblance to the singer.
  • Commander Pringles: Clone Zero from 2000.
    • Also "Penis" for no reason whatsoever. Although it might be due to his mustache's resemblance to Dr. Robotnik's.
  • Geeser the Cheeser, Geeseter Bunnie: Geese Howard, obviously.
    • Actually, Nightmare Geese (his One-Winged Angel of a True Final Boss SNK Boss that appeared in Real Bout Fatal Fury Special) was a fan nickname until SNK canonized it in Maximum Impact 2.
    • The same applied for Mr. Karate, the alter-ego of Takuma Sakazaki that everyone knows about.
  • Lameness: Nameless, the Suspiciously Similar Substitute of K9999 in KOF 2002: Unlimited Match. He's called that by those who don't like him. Yes, it is an unimaginative nickname.
  • Gay Bash: K', due to the unfortunate coincidence that his name rhymes with this.
    • There is also K-Douche in some circles.
  • Tetsuo for K9999.
  • Samurai Shodown: In Mexico Kyoshiro was usually called "the clown" (due the face paint) and Amakusa "the witch".
  • Fathena for Athena's appearance in The King of Fighters XII, thanks in part to her Moeness and chubby legs. It's rapidly gaining speed.
  • The Amazing Flying Jhun: Yet another Good Bad Bug (the games are chockful of them). In 2003, one Jhun Hoon's aerial moves involved stomping on your head. If you performed a roll quickly after successfully executing this technique, Jhun would be left hovering in the air. In addition, his pushback would no longer be functional, allowing him to smash anyone open with the purest of ease. You can see the ensuing onslaught here and here.
  • SNK Gals Fighters, a comedic Spin-Off of The King of Fighters featuring the likes of Mai, Athena, Yuri, Leona, Shermie, Nakoruru, Shiki, Akari, Whip, Yuki (Kyo's girlfriend), and Miss X (a crossdressing Iori Yagami) is usually called The Queen of Fighters.
• Kirby
  • Bandana Dee - A Waddle Dee wearing a blue bandana who originally appeared in the Megaton Punch minigame in Kirby Super Star. He was given a larger role in the Updated Rerelease as a character in the Revenge of the King game, and is set to become a playable character in Kirbys Return to Dream Land, though the game still refers to him as simply 'Waddle Dee'.
  • Sailor Dee - Similarly, a Waddle Dee with a sailor hat that appears in the Revenge of Meta Knight game from Super Star.
  • Sugar Rush - Kirby's Invincibility mode after he eats a Super Lolipop.
  • Meta Knight - MK, Meta, and occasionally Sir Meta Knight (although that's canon in the anime).
  • King Dedede - Triple D, 3D, or DDD. Occasionally, D^3 or D³.
• Knights of the Old Republic
  • Bratsila/Bitchila - Bastila Shan; generally used by players who dislike her constant 'The Jedi Council is never wrong! You're falling to the Dark Side and will go to hell!" rants.
  • Captain Paranoid (self explanatory)/Fashion Disaster/Flyboy - Carth Onasi. Three words - The Orange Jacket. (shudder..)
  • Big Z - Zaalbar's in-game nickname.
  • Mish - Mission Vao
  • Candalore/Manderous - Canderous Ordo, following his promotion to leader of the Mandalorians in Knights of the Old Republic II The Sith Lords. His army of Fangirls refer to him as 'Candy' or 'Candy-man" (usually this is very tongue-in-cheek).
  • Bald Old Coot - Jolee Bindo
  • T3, Tin Can, Mobile Trashcan - T3-M4
  • Tall,Pale and Jawless/Jawless Wonder - Darth Malak. Following the reveal of his full name in the KotOR comics (Alek Squinquargesimus), he gained the nicknames Darth Squinty and Darth Squigglypants.
  • Reverend Mother - Kreia.
  • Wacky Wookiee - Hanharr
  • Di/Mike/Mikey - The Disciple (from the name he only reveals if you don't recruit him into the party)
  • Pazaak Fiend/Captain Pazaak - Atton Rand (as he's somewhat obsessed. It turned out counting cards keeps people from reading your mind)
  • Sleeps-with-vibroblades - Darth Sion
  • Darth Mumbles - Darth Nihilus
• La-Mulana (All of the following originated in Deceased Crab's ~Let's Play~ of this game)
  • Castlevania Birds - The dive-bombing gray birds found on the surface.
  • Catball - The cat-like enemy that rides on its ball.
  • Surprise Fish - The fish that hide in waterfalls and pop out to knock you off the platform you're riding on.
    • Surprise Fish is now a generic name of all fishes in video games which have an ability to appear suddenly. Let it be fish from Adventure Island or Jackie Chans Action Kung Fu.
• Left 4 Dead
  • Uncle Phil - Coach from Left 4 Dead 2 (he's the tall black guy), for his uncanny resemblance to said character.
  • Chuking - Throwing a Bile Bomb. A portmanteau of 'chucking puke'.
• Legacy of Kain
  • The Soul Reaver, when it eats blood rather than souls, is called the "blood reaver".
• The Legend of Zelda
  • Squadallah Man/The Genie - Gwonam from the ~So Bad It's Good~, Off-Model CD-i game Link: The Faces of Evil, at least in the YouTube Poop community.
    • Also sometimes referred to as Osama.
    • Also, Shopkeeper and The King for Morshu and King Harkinian from the same game
    • There's also King Harkinian's retainer, given two nicknames: "Fari" and "The Spaniard", as well as this one baker guy which was given the nickname "George the Cakes Guy"
  • CD-I Link, CD-I King, and CD-I Zelda. CD-I Link can also mean Toon Link, given some peoples thoughts on the Wind Waker.
  • Impna - Midna's cursed (or imp) form, from Twilight Princess. Not to be confused with Impa.
    • Bigna - Midna's true form, also from Twilight Princess
  • Link himself. Every now and again, a new Link will come along and fans will struggle to give him a title along the lines of "Hero of ___." Never mind that only three Links throughout the series have ever had titles. Ocarina of Time Link, Wind Waker Link, and A Link to The Past Link.
    • For the hell of pointing out the obvious, the official titles of those Links are:
      • Ocarina of Time / Majoras Mask = "the Hero of Time"
      • The Wind Waker / Phantom Hourglass = "the Hero of Winds"
      • A Link to The Past = "the Hero of (insert title here)"
    • And the Fan Nickname for Link from Twilight Princess is "the Hero of Twilight". (It really does suit him...)
  • On ~GameFAQs~, after the picture of Link for the new "Zelda Wii" game was unveiled, the Fairy near Link was suspected to be the Master Sword. Then everyone tried to decide what to call it, they decided on Steve.
    • People who actually realize that this fairy is supposed to be female tend to call her something along the lines of "Ms. Master Sword" or "Sword-Fairy".
      • We know he's a girl.
    • It's actually more of a Dev Team Nickname. Her real name is, according to recently leaked Information, "Aderu" in Katakana, which will probably be transliterated with something like "Adelle".
    • It's now official that her name is "Fi".
      • Though at the moment, there's still some question as to whether or not said leak was actually official, or just rumor/misinformation.
  • The Unholy Triforce: The three Zelda C Di games.
  • There are People on Deviant ART who decided that Toon Link should be called "Chikara" (japanese for "power", ironically) for distinction. A fanart-artist/Wind-Waker-fanfiction writer started it.
  • Ganondork instead of "Ganondorf" for people who hate his endless hijacking of other good villains in the series.
    • Ganondork was also the name given to a fan-made character featured on a Super Smash Bros. fansite. The character in question was Ganondorf's nerdy twin brother.
  • Naked Ganon-possible nickname for Demise. And in that vein, Solid Ganon for Ganondorf himself, and Liquid Ganon for Zangurak
  • Mah Boi - Link himself.
  • The Evil Chancellor - In This Wiki Chancellor Cole from Spirit Tracks is rarely ever called anything else than that, since he's just Exactly What It Says on the Tin.
  • Bellumbeck in Phantom Hourglass. It's a portmanteau of the names Linebeck and Bellum. The latter uses Demonic Possession on the former and makes him become the unnamed Final Boss of the game, which prompted Fans to name him.
  • Can anyone say Demon Lord Debbie Ghirahim the Fabulous?
    • To a lesser extent, dear Debbie was also called Tracy at certain points, but supposedly, he was called Dt F because... he just... looks like a Debbie, you know? Not to mention he's faaaaaaabulous!!!
• Limbo of the Lost
  • Popeye the Smelly - William Nilmates. His appearance as a living corpse justifies the second part of this nickname; the first part is referring to one of his eyes falling out with an "OOOOOOPPPS" during your first meeting with him. Name coined by rpg.net user "Wields-Rulebook-Heavily" for his commentary on the game's proceedings.
  • Zombieman - The skinless character that Briggs meets near the end of the Darkmere chapter, who turns out to be the real mayor of Darkmere, as his outside body was hijacked by the Soul Taker that haunts the town. Also coined by Wields-Rulebook-Heavily.
• Mabinogi
  • Any criticism directed at Nexon, tends to be called Nexon Fail, mainly because of how many patches break more things than they fix.
  • "The Loli" - Mari, and the only female character in the game without breasts.
  • "The Emo" - Tarlach, since he always depressing things.
  • Goldbuyer - Anyone rich enough to afford nice clothing from player shops, doesn't mean they do, but just someone who buys expensive stuff. The sellers justification for high prices is usually "I'll just wait for a goldbuyer to buy it."
  • Gachapwned - Someone who bought Gachapon items from the cash shop and got lemons.
• Maple Story
  • Sin - The Assassin class, because the extremely finicky swear filter originally wouldn't let you say "ass". Especially prevalent at that time since only the first two class tiers were available, so assassin was the highest class in its path.
  • BanditSin - A bandit that uses claw skills before advancement from thief (because the 1st job claw skill is so much better over 1st job dagger skill, and bandits get an attack skill upon advancement that renders the first dagger skill obsolete anyways). Also called "assbandits" by those who dislike this practice.
  • Hybrid Spearman - A Spearman who balances weapon use between spears and polearms.
• Mass Effect
  • GARrus - Nickname for Garrus Vakarian, resident Cowboy Cop and most Badass turian among a species of badasses.
    • Space Batman as well.
  • Reapinator - A variant of the nickname for the final boss of Mass Effect 2, for obvious reasons.
    • A portion of the ME community has also started calling him "Pants" presumably because he is only a torso.
  • TIM - The Illusive Man. Also known as Timmy.
  • Miranda is called "Miri" a lot. This one actually comes from the game--Niket calls her this.
  • Mecha-Cthulhu - The Reapers. Usually refers to Sovereign since he was the first one we encountered.
  • The female Player Character is frequently called "FemShep". Acknowledged by BioWare with "FemShep Friday", the day that the FemShep Mass Effect 3 trailer was released.
    • MaleShep, ManShep, or DudeShep are also used to refer to a male Player Character.
  • A unnamed human, who is continuously tries to obtain a refund from a turian (who is probably disallowing it due to Fantastic Racism), is aptly called "Refund Guy".
  • The default male Shepard is known as "Vander!Shep", "Vanderloo!Shep", or, most commonly, "Sheploo". In fact, any combination of "Shepard" and "Vanderloo".
    • To the confused - Mark Vanderloo is the model for the default male Shepard.
    • On a related note, the default female Shepard (in the first two games, not so much in the third) is sometimes referred to as "Plain Jane."
  • The M-300 Claymore shotgun is known as the Krogun, and the M-98 Widow sniper rifle is known as the Widowmaker.
  • SuZe - Short for Subject Zero, before her actual name was revealed as Jack.
  • Jacob "The Priiize" Taylor - Named after an unfortunate bit of dialogue during his romance scene.
  • "Valley Girl Quarian" (fer sure, oh my keelah), and "Friend Zone Turian" (you deserve someone who respects you), for the two conversing in that famous Ilium bar.
  • Race Card Turian - The turian civilian at Citadel Security who keeps going on about how "You humans are all racist!" to the C-Sec officer at customs.
  • "Techno Turian" for the random turian in Thane's loyalty mission who walks onto the dancefloor and proceeds to own the place. Many a player has failed the mission due to being captivated by this guy.
  • 'Renegon' and 'Paragade', which are popular playing styles that involve playing one's Shep as a Jerk with a Heart of Gold and a Messiah-That-Has-To-Shoot the Dog-Sometimes, respectively.
    • The much-maligned Paragade path is actually referenced in one of the Tupari machine's lines in Mass Effect 2.

Only losers drink Paragade. You want Tupari! Winners drink Tupari!

• • • The game's Renegade and Paragon morality sides are also usually used as a shorthand way of referring to Chaotic Good and Lawful Good characters or actions in the game.
  • The M-920 Cain is (in)accurately called the Nuke Gun.
    • The Codex in the third game mentions Alliance soldiers calling it this, making it a piece of Ascended Fanon.
  • The unnamed sniper in the teaser for ME3 has been named "Big Ben" because he's in... Big Ben.
    • He's also known by the nickname "Nigel Fishnchips".
    • He turns up when Shepard returns to Earth at the end of the game - his real name is Major Coats.
  • Best Crew - Using Wrex and Garrus as party members in the original game. Originated from "Which crew is the best crew? Wrex-Garrus crew is the best crew!"
  • Cutscene Pistol of Doom: The generic pistol Shepard often wields in cutscenes, which is apparently capable of killing fully-shielded mercenaries (krogan included) in single shots, regardless of how many shots it would take to kill them in gameplay. Related to Dragon Age's Murder Knife, and occasionally even called the Murder Pistol.
    • Related are Cutscene Krogan, or Cutgan: Krogan who inexplicably die after minor wounds in cutscenes despite requiring heavy fire to bring down in-game.
    • Also "Murder Pistol," since it has the same function and lethality as the Dragon Age "Murder Knife"
  • "Ninja Bitches" for Cerberus Phantoms.
  • The final enemy of Mass Effect 3 (essentially a random Mook) is affectionately known as "Marauder Shields".
    • The Husks that precede him have been dubbed "The Three Husketeers".
  • Space Magic for the Gainax Ending.
  • "Starchild", "Godchild", and/or "Godbrat" (and more explicit nicknames) for The Catalyst at the end of the game.
  • Team Dextro - The Garrus-Tali squad. Refers to the fact that, besides being the only party members who can (potentially) be with you in all three games, they're also the only party members from dextro-amino acid-based species (contrast humans, who are levo-amino acid-based). This is a galaxy in which there are most definitely biochemical barriers.
  • Virmire Survivor:Ashley / Kaidan; you must choose to save one and let the other die on Virmire. This term is a way of referring to the survivor's appearances in the sequels.
• Mechwarrior
  • Most of the fan nicknames from BattleTech, as the franchise is based on BattleTech.
  • Boat - a Mech layout built around a single type of weapon--laser boat, missile boat, gauss boat, etc.
  • Gausszilla - An assault mech based on a large number (3-4) of Gauss Rifles, especially the famous Annihilator variant with quadruple Gauss.
  • Gladbag - the Gladiator/Executioner, which is an infamously powerful mech with extremely heavy armament, a 95-ton chassis, and standard jump jets.
  • Poptarting - Using jump jets to leap into the air from behind cover, take a shot, fall back into cover, repeat as necessary.
• Mega Man
  • Mr. Clean - Sigma from Mega Man X, who resembles the titular cleaning products mascot. Here are some more nicknames for Sigma:
    • Gamma Sigma, named for Sigma's One-Winged Angel from X5, which suspiciously looks and fights like Gamma, the Final Boss of Mega Man 3.
  • ShoulderMan - FlashMan.EXE from Mega Man Battle Network, who has an attack that involves removing one of the orbs in his shoulder. Name coined by comic author Reynard, who used it as a gag in his filler strips.
  • Pea-shooter - The initial weapon in Mega Man 1, rarely used after more powerful weapons are acquired from beating a Boss Battle, unless one is pursuing a Self-Imposed Challenge. A reference to the fact that the early games used the letter "P" (for "plasma cannon", its deceptively powerful-sounding name) to represent it on the weapon menu.
  • Rabid Cupcake - BurnerMan from Mega Man Battle Network, for his distinctive body shape.
  • Lighter Man/Zippo Man - Any incarnation of Heat Man, who resembles a Zippo Lighter.
  • Pinkfiend - Meiru/Mayl Sakurai from Mega Man Battle Network, so nicknamed by rabid yaoi fangirls who usually invoke Die for Our Ship on her.
  • The Blue Bomber - Any of the various Mega Men, based on their default outfit.
    • The Blue Bomber of the 22nd Century, The Azure Hunter - Mega Man X, due to being a Legacy Character to the original Blue Bomber, as well as being a blue Maverick Hunter.
    • The Blue Legend - X in Zero.
  • The Crimson Red Reploid - Zero, from the X series.
    • The Crimson Hunter (in X) and The Red Ripper & Crimson Warrior (in Zero) are also common.
    • Zero Omega - An inversion of The Reveal from Zero 3, something that you should know already.
    • The Red Swordsman/The Crimson Swordsman - ProtoMan from Mega Man Battle Network, partially due to his use of a sword and his outfit, and partially due to being based off of not only the original ProtoMan but also Zero, hence the similar nicknames.
  • Mr. Decaf - Tom Dubius/Shinsuke Utagai from Mega Man Star Force, born from him initially being unnamed when he was unveiled in the anime, and the shadows under his eyes making him look like he needed some serious coffee.
  • The "1st" and "2nd Maverick Wars" to the Mega Man X and Zero series, respectively.
  • Green Biker Dude - The unnamed green biker who dies at the very beginning of X2, now a Memetic Badass.
  • The Eight Maverick Wars - The central conflicts in the eight Mega Man X games.
  • The Almighty Duck - The ducking mechanic which was added in X5.
  • Jello Man - Double from X4 who turns out to be a shapeshifting Double Agent with an agenda.
  • Zero Armor - Gate's Powered Armor from X6, due to his research being based off of the Zero Virus. Keep in mind that Zero's Infinity Plus One Armor is already called that.
  • Dr. Kool-Aid - Dr. Weil thanks in part to his appearance. Sadly, there is nothing to laugh about when it comes to Weil.
  • Fabulous Man - Jewel Man from Mega Man 9.
  • Boba Fett - Vile from the X series. His name is actually VAVA in Japanese, and no matter his incarnation (the original in X, Vile MK-2 in X3, or Vile V in X8), he actually looks like Boba. Even better; Vile V's primary coloration is green, making his similarities to Boba even more noticeable.
  • Mettanium/Metooloy - The indestructible metal that makes up Metools, the perpetual Goddamned Bats goombas of the franchise. The fact that Wily does not design his Robot Masters with the same alloy has birthed the fan theory that it is some sort of extremely rare metal that he can only find in limited quantities.
    • Speaking of Metools, they're often nicknamed Hard Hats.
  • Due to the Elmuh Fudd Syndwome of the voice actor for Dr Light in Mega Man 8, Dr. Wily became "Doctah Wahwee."
• Metal Gear
  • Nippleshirt and Ugly Pants - Names for outfits Snake wears in Metal Gear Solid 4. The Nippleshirt is the black skintight shirt he wears in the Briefings. The Ugly Pants are the green hospital pants Snake dons for his Fan Disservice Shirtless Scene.
  • Rape Truck - The truck Big Boss uses to kidnap soldiers with in Metal Gear Solid: Portable Ops.
  • Oh, Cisco, Kojima - Mostly affectionate name used to describe anything Narmful, preachy, bizarre or shamelessly masturbatory that happens in the games.
  • Mt. Snakemore - the Outer Haven ship, for its decoration.
  • Moaning Rat - derogatory nickname for Naomi, in the MGS codename style. Derives from a popular, pornographic and highly disturbing fanfic.
  • Thunderthong - the underwear worn by Raikov.
  • Oceliquid - name given by some people to the Evil Hand mindmeld between Ocelot and Liquid, until Metal Gear Solid 4 Guns of the Patriots canonised his name as Liquid Ocelot, which most people were calling him anyway.
  • Ocelettes - the members of the Ocelot Unit.
  • Zadoorknob - intentional Mondegreen of Zadornov in Peace Walker.
  • Poop - Johnny Sasaki, a.k.a. Akiba, the perpetually bowel-issue-ridden Butt Monkey of the series.
  • Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance is already being called Ninja Raiden or Metal Gear May Cry due to similar Hack and Slash gameplay. Bonus point to the former for having a Ninja. Well a Cyborg ninja in this case.
• Metal Slug
  • Super Soldier - Allen O'Neal, Morden's bodyguard and Implacable Man extraordinaire.
  • Glen Achilles - The unused soldier prisoner in Metal Slug 5. Coined by Ragey of Metal Slug: Missing In Action. His anme apparently shows up as "[rank] Achilles" should you use hacking to rescue him and beat the level, though the first name was Ragey's invention.
• Overlord
  • Overlad - The protagonist of Overlord II, what with being a Legacy Character.
    • And by extension, the protagonist of the first game should be Overdad.
    • Overlad is actually a nickname used by the actual creators.
• Metroid
  • Noob Bridge - A collapsing bridge in Super Metroid with spikes just above it. Crossing this bridge requires holding down the easily-overlooked run button while running across it, and many players ask how to get across this rather simple trap.
  • Noob Tube - The glass tube you have to break with a Power Bomb to get into Maridia. Another pons asinorum of the game. (c.f. Call Of Duty)
  • "Boosty" and "Spidey" for a couple of Prime 2's surprisingly difficult bosses. (The Boost and Spider Guardians, respectively.)
  • Iron Ted - The unnamed Ridley robot that serves as the real final boss of Zero Mission.
    • Also known as Mecha Ridley or Ridley Robot.
  • Charge Beam Beast, Beamst - The giant worm thing that drops Charge Beam. Another boss not found in the original Metroid or named in Zero Mission.
    • Named Deorem.
  • Bob - The one missile tank in Fusion that can't be skipped. (Technically, a method has been found, but it requires such precision that no one's pulled it off on a real GBA yet.)
  • Mysterious Black Dude - The at-the-time unnamed Anthony Higgs, who had never been seen in a prior Metroid game, yet whose only line in the Metroid: Other M trailer was, "Remember me?"
  • The Gauntlet - Upon entering the Phazon Mines in Prime, there is only a save room after approximately half the area, two minibosses, and dozens of Space Pirates. Also, the area of upper Crateria in Super packed with Yapping Maws, acid, an Energy Tank and two Missile Tanks is known likewise, since you have to repeat the whole thing if you flub the positioning for getting both Missile Tanks.
  • BSL (Blonde Scientist Lady) - Melissa Bergman as of her Other M appearance in the trailer, in the same vein as Anthony Higgs above.
  • El Pollo Loco - A giant chicken lizard thing that appeared in one of the trailers, for Other M.
  • Choogle - The little rabbit/lizard-like enemy in Other M. Also known as Larval-Form Ridley. Yes, THAT Ridley.
• No mention for the Pseudo-Screw Attack/Ghetto Screw Attack? The technique involves charging your beam and flipping into an enemy, just like the Screw Attack. It typically does more damage than the average beam, but it also does damage to you if you fail to kill the enemy you're ramming.
• Then there's the Ninja Pirates that you fight two rooms away from Ridley in Super Metroid. so named because they don't shoot beams at you, but employ the use of shooting claws, martial arts, and jumping very high to fight you.
• Minecraft
  • Hellstone, Bloodstone - Nicknames for the reddish Netherrack [sic] block found in the Nether.
  • Adminium - The indestructible block that is found in the bottom five layers of the map. Officially known as bedrock.
  • Squidward Villagers, Testificates - The un-named villagers in Minecraft.
• Monster Hunter lends itself to fans creating short and/or outlandish nicknames due to the titular monsters having odd classifications and names.
  • Bananasaurus, Sponge, Spongebob: Royal Ludroth.
  • Jay Leno or The Crimson Chin: Uragaan, for his prominent rocky chin.
  • GI Jho: Deviljho, and you're Cobra.
• Mortal Kombat
  • Kittentaro - Kintaro's redesign in Mortal Kombat Armageddon and Mortal Kombat 9 (moreso the latter; he was more tiger-like in Armageddon). Also used to refer to Babality!Kintaro.
  • Mustard & Ketchup - Cyrax and Sektor, yellow and red cyborg Lin Kuei who are Palette Swaps of one another. These were, in fact, their names in pre-production before Cyrax and Sektor were decided on. In fact, one of Cyrax's Sambo combos in Deadly Alliance is named Mustard as an in-joke.
  • Subby - Sub-Zero. Can refer to both brothers, but is more commonly used to designate the younger brother from the second game onward. Sometimes further twisted into an infectiously cute pet name, Subby Wubby.
  • Noob Zero/Sub-Noob/Sub Saibot: Noob Saibot (Elder Sub-Zero) due to his Armageddon ending where his original Sub-Zero persona comes to claim control over their soul, and the two, being unable to best the other, fuse into "a being that was neither Noob Saibot or Sub-Zero, but something new..." These nicknames can also be used to differentiate Noob from his younger brother, the current Sub-Zero.
  • Cyb-Zero - In MK9, the younger Sub-Zero, who is unwillingly turned into a Cyborg instead of his best friend Smoke in the new timeline.
  • Gravity Squeeze - The first half of Ermac's "Cannonball Slam" X-Ray in Mortal Kombat 9, due to its aesthetic similarities to Magneto's Level 3 Hyper Combo in MvC3.
  • The Turkeyboy - Liu Kang. Three guesses why. (Thankfully, it's been dialed back quite a bit in 9.)
    • The Curly Shuffle: Kang's Bicycle kick, due to the sound he makes.
  • Secretshipping - Pairing up Smoke and Jade, two of the secret characters from MK2, in what happens to be a very popular example of Pair the Spares/Ships That Pass in the Night/Theme Pairing in the fandom.
• Mother 3
  • Flint Norris - Flint. Several members of the Mother series fandom compare him to Chuck Norris and he is sometimes called "The Chuck Norris of Nintendo".
  • Kuma or Kumi - Kumatora. Used as a shortened version of her name before the Fan Translation because her full name did not fit in the Japanese version using Romanji/the English Alphabet. Only 6 spaces were given to the player to name several of the main characters in the game.
• MUGEN
  • Gang Rape - The Alien's Super Move that calls forth an entire army of Xenomorphs to gang-assault the opponent. So named because they're bunched very tightly on the opponent, and the lights strobe afterwards, giving that sort of impression.
  • Master Cheese - A Game Breaker version of Geese Howard named "Master Geese". Thus dubbed due to his ridiculously high attack strength and move roster that includes two instant-kill attacks.
    • It got to the point where someone made a fan-made sound file for him that replaced his vocals with comedy sounds. His intro? This fan-made SND changes it to... "I am The Cheese!"
  • Astral Zetsumei Fatal Basara Destroyed: Pretty much any character that has a Badass finishing move (edited in or not).
  • Freddie Mercury: Super Mario By ShinRyoga and NeoAnkh/Reubenkee
  • Rugal_Excrement: For Rugal_E by EvilSlayerX5
• Myst Series
  • Saavy, Saav, Saavi, Vedrey, Vedro - All nicknames for Saavedro, the antagonist from Myst III: Exile.
  • Whark - alternate spelling of "wahrk", one of the creatures from Riven; this was how one of the characters spelled it and some fans adopted that spelling.
  • Wahrk Gallows - The tall golden teepee structure on Jungle Island in Riven.
  • All of the islands in Riven have Fan Nicknames based on what structures they feature, and even those names differ amongst fans.
    • For example, the island you start on has been called Temple Island, Dome Island, and many others, due to the presence of both, while the final island has been called Catherine's Island, Prison Island, and other many things.
  • Mazerunner - An infamous puzzle from Myst.
  • Waffle Iron, Waffle Grid: The name given to another infamous puzzle in Riven that looks like a waffle grid.
  • Lava Chamber - That room in the age of Voltaic in Myst III: Exile that fills up with lava in order to solve one of the puzzles.
  • Sirrus' Guitar, Spider Chair - Yet another infamous puzzle from Myst IV: Revelation.
  • Ye Olde Grabbye Hande - The archaic-looking hand cursor as it appears in Myst, Riven, and Myst III: Exile - the last two games have redone versions of the hand cursor, and Uru Live has a differently designed cursor entirely.
  • The Stranger - The name given to the Featureless Protagonist player character of the first four games.
  • Panic Link - What happens when your Uru Live character falls off a cliff, or towards another unsurvivable thing, such as lava - your avatar links back to his/her home age, Relto.