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JRPG characters with amazingly bad names
- Thread starter oni-link
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What I'm getting from some of these posts is that if it's not English it's pretentious / bad. Be it Latin, German or French.
This is weird. Im spanish and while i know rex is king in latin, i dont feel its that hard to know it can be also male name in english so it sounds completely normal. If you actually told me it reminded you to a typical dog name i would understand, but the last thing i think when a character name is Rex is in King or the dinosaur.Rex from Xenoblade Chronicles 2
It may sound good on English, even on Japanese, but to romance language natives it sounds so dumb.
Rex just means "King" to most of us.
And in xeno it would be fitting because Pyra is could be seen as excalibur, so... yeah, this is a weird stance to take.
ITT I learned that people think Rex is a weird name. It's not common by any means, but I've known multiple people with the name.
Wait are you thinking it's pronounced like "surge" and is edgy?
Is it not pronounced like "sur-gay"?
As a name atleast. There's the fabric serge prounced as surge but I assume the character is using the name pronunciation.
If it's the French name it's kinda pronounced like surge (/ˈsɜrdʒ/). Sur-gay would be Sergei which is Russian.
Serge, Rex, Zidane and Seymour are all real names, and then there are the obvious european / germanic-inspired ones that aren't really amazing or anything, just a bit unimaginative.
Braev Lee though. Ringabel. Come the fuck on.
Braev Lee though. Ringabel. Come the fuck on.
Xehanort. That name is beyond stupid sounding and sounds like the noise made when your nose is plugged up and you force the air through your nostrils so hard, you shoot out boogers. That or an alien from the planet Xubzub. "I am Xehanort! Take me to your leader, Earthling!"
Clive is a normal name, but people also forget we got a FF game (and OLD one) where the main hero was named Cecil. I think in the early years of a FF, names get mocked. That's how it was for Cloud back in the day (I do remember some FF fans saying how dumb the name was). You play games, years pass, and those names stop sounding dumb and just sound, well, part of the series. Cecil and Cloud don't sound strange in the context of Final Fantasy, and in due time, Clive will be among them.
His name is supposed to be Exdeath in the original.
People probably wanted his name to retain the sorta elemental/weather-related/time-related theme of past FF characters. "Oh, he's name should've been Blaze Flarehart!"
Clive is a normal name, but people also forget we got a FF game (and OLD one) where the main hero was named Cecil. I think in the early years of a FF, names get mocked. That's how it was for Cloud back in the day (I do remember some FF fans saying how dumb the name was). You play games, years pass, and those names stop sounding dumb and just sound, well, part of the series. Cecil and Cloud don't sound strange in the context of Final Fantasy, and in due time, Clive will be among them.
Ringabel at least isn't his real name. It's Alternis Dim which is obviously a lot better.🤭
A thread of "complex-sounding/looking names that are actually cool" would be more revealing, though a lot of these complaints come from expected western commonalities.
Oh come onnnnn. This is like a 1 out of 10 score of bad compared to all the other examples in this thread.
Curse all those real human people for having a dog's name, their parents should be ashamed.
I chuckled. Seymor isn't a terrible villain, given he isn't the main baddie.
Yeah that's what I meant by that. Zidane was a big real life name by then and with heavy association, so finding it was the new FF protagonist was wild.
Someone grabbed a Latin dictionary and just went wild. Always wonder how these names read to a Japanese audience.
None compare to Philbright Westriverside Warehouserock XXVI. Weep from the knowledge that you cannot achieve such naming perfection.
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Philbright Westriverside Warehouserock XXVI (shortened to Phil(フィル Firu)) is a BIS driver from Zone of the Enders: The Fist of Mars. An effeminate young man, Phil is often mistaken for a girl and is mocked for such by Razma and Yukito. He drives the light armored vehicle Blade, which he upgrades...
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Megamelons is like a weird pun translation that goes through like 3 steps.
Her name in the JP version is De Cameron, but written is dekameron, which translates to Mega Melon, which is localized as Megamelons
Nomura's got a Latin fetish. Only name that doesn't sound strange is "Iris". Iris is the most normally casual name (there have been girls named "Iris") among them and is a name I could actually see existing in a previous FF game.
This thread reminded me of going to GameStop way back and asking for Star Ocean 4 and the clerk goes, "Sure thing... EDGE MAVERICK!" Then he and his coworker just started cracking up.
I'm gonna go with Nooj. They must've wanted an awful name to match his outfit.
I'm gonna go with Nooj. They must've wanted an awful name to match his outfit.
Yes. It still makes me laugh. If I'm not mistaken, it's the only Japanese name in the game (the rest of the main cast being Ruby, Ronfar, Lemina, Lucia, Leo, and Jean).
