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It is sometimes possible to read an entire forum about a show and never see a direct reference to the character's scripted name. A natural result if the producers take too long in providing a character with an official name.
Abandon Shipping is a fandom trope for an event or events which lead a Shipping fandom to abandon a pairing, irrespective of the ongoing canon or non-canon.
An index page listing Fan Nickname content. A name given to a character by fan communities. It is sometimes possible to read an entire forum about a show and. The Linux kernel is a monolithic kernel, supporting true preemptive multitasking (both in user mode and, since the 2.6 series, in kernel mode), virtual memory, shared.
Anime fans often use . Another option is - gumi, meaning .
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These can also be applied in jest to Western fandoms: Harry- tachi, Frodo- gumi, etcetera. Common sets, props, and special effects can also earn nicknames from the fans. Even (parts of) the series itself can be referred to with a nickname.
Works suffering from Recycled Title syndrome often have a fan nickname to avoid confusion. Also, in series that sequels are numbered, the first is often nicknamed with a Title 1 when oficially doesn't have it. Not to be confused with Fan Community Nicknames, which are names for the communities themselves. Actual canon nicknames used onscreen, however witty, also don't count, unless they were adopted by the producers as a Shout- Out to the fans, or are used far more extensively in the fandom than in- canon.
Also compare Canon Name, which is a Fan Nickname applied to a nameless hero who was given that name in adaptations. When he's a in a specific state of being, many fans tend to use the suffix 'batch' following an adjective. For instance, if he has his natural reddish hair color, they may refer to him as Gingerbatch. If he is acting in a nerdy/awkward sort a way? He's Dorkybatch. If a fan is referring to a specific body part of Benedict or something else that he owns, fans use the prefix 'cumber'.
Examples of this include cumberfeet, cumberjeans, and cumberbum. He encourages the latter. He's also known as Cols.
This is his nickname because his first name Paul starts with the letter P and his last name starts with the letter W; the word . His fan base are known as P- Dubbers. His fan base are known as Somerholics. Her fan base are called Dobrevics. It's been reported that he'd like to strangle whoever came up with the name. Makes sense if you've seen her on the red carpet. It caught on, and became exceedingly popular during the Tonight Show debacle.
Conan absolutely hated it, but has since then reluctantly embraced it (his official website even goes by the name . He is, however, horrified that even his own children sometimes call him . Comes from over 9. That's not exaggeration- - there are over 9. Even MS Word complains about it. A Sad Story is known in some circles as .
I told you I hate chumpits. Celebrian being known in some circles as . Appropriately, her Fan Nickname is 'the Emma- peror'.
First, fans took to calling Dark World! Applebloom . Later on, when Nightmare. Eclipse/Paradox first reveals herself, but before we learn her name, fans took to calling her Nightmare Ouroboros and Nightmare Encore; the first for the recurring motif in her reveal, and the latter for her plan. Said name is always written out in rainbow text. Rei is also occasionally referred to as Tsunde.
Rei, which gave birth to one of their two ship names, Tsunde. Reinbow. Trout. The Prince of Wales is . Therefore, now officially a 'Dark Lord'!). There was even an instance where he autographed a fan's paper with the phrase 'from the Dark Lord'? Confirmation. As Mock the Week's Frankie Boyle put it, ? The Sith?!! This, naturally, is one of his kinder nicknames.
Some also call him Kevin 0. Prime Ministerial campaign. Probably intentionally, said campaign name mutated memetically around Australia and gave rise to other nicknames punning upon it, including Kevin 2. Kevin 7. 47 (after the amount of international travel he did in his tenure). This has caused the rise of the nickname Dial Tone. It quickly degraded from 'double- you' to 'dubya'.
Bush, jr., III. That name stuck too. Liberals everywhere started using it immediately afterwards. The current President Indonesia, Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, is also affectionally having a nickname . The name is now used as a derogatory nickname by detractors. The fact that the word also refers to a penis is not lost on the people who call him this.
Google an image of him to see why he was nicknamed Harry Potter. Austrian soldiers in WWI were called . This is somewhat amusing, as students of history recognize him as a Magnificent Bastard paralleled in his time only by Bismarck. Bush applied to him. Also, Bill Clitoris for the same reasons like in the U.
S. However, since the nickname was given by liberals, it actually qualifies as an Ironic Nickname. There's Lolbama, OBambi, Obama bin Laden, Osabama, Ogabe, Obimbo, Barry Soetoro, Comrade Obama, BO, Failbama, the Obamessiah (for his messianic portrayal of himself and of him by his supporters), Obamanation, Doh! Bama, Bam- Bam, Oba. Mao, and so on. Supposedly, Barack Obama is really Barry Soetoro, a Kenyan National brainwashed to become a manchurian candidate by the Democratic party. It spins off of an internet hoax on a fake birth certificate created by photoshoppers to troll Birthers like Orly Taitz.
The fake was so real, it actually made its way around conspiracy circles, being mentioned on Alex Jones' infowars, Prison. Planet, and Coast to Coast AM. Long- legged Mac. Daddy. Though he'd probably be doing better if he wasn't trying to kill Harry Potter. It's kind of flattering at first glance as the .
Ironically, she has no children. Gerhard Schr. He's also nicknamed (in a very derogative way) as .
Thus it would read . Also, La Maestra (The Teacher), due to her job. Probably popularized by the comedy section of the newspaper . Used as a derogatory nickname, to ridicule his extremism.
A sanatorium was technically a facility used to treat tuberculosis, but it was often used as an euphemism for a Bedlam House, as in . Mitt Romney has become known simply as .
The English- speaking Internet seems to prefer . Chinese and South Korean netizens apparently call him . Happened to Lula (Luis In. Come the Cold War, it begun a new career as an Ironic Nickname, which remains the predominant usage today. In the early days he also had a slightly less affectionate nickname that translates to something like . This led to people underestimating him rather badly, often to their cost; Secretaries have more power than you might expect. The National Rifle Association, or NRA: NAMGLA, or the North American Man/Gun Love Association.
A Taiwanese fan even gave a Kirishima Nendoroid figure to her as a gift. Sometimes after using this name, Leno would pause for a beat and then say something like, .
The PM's links to the group couldn't be proved but the funding was, prompting the dimission of the Minister of the Interior Jos. The whole thing was one of the many issues that contributed to the conservative People's Party to win the elections in 1. Gonzalez in charge Former Prime Minister Jos. Bean, El Bobo Solemne (The Dignified Dunce), El Planetario (For a poorly thought speech where his first meeting with Barack Obama after strained relations with George W. Bush was defined as . Bush referred to him, Centro- man (Centrist- Man).
Convict Banker Mario Conde: 6. The Fallen Angel; Satan (Because of his alleged fascination and self- identification with the myth of Lucifer). Some Kenyan Politicians have funny nicknames.
Musalia Mudavadi, the leader of the Amani National Congress party is called Ma DVD due to his name. It may have originated with Chapo Trap House, as an American invention of what a British person would say (phrases like . Some of the best.. Favorite nicknames include: M- shitsteen, Jammomatic, The Silent Wonder (no shot = no bang), The Clicker, Mac Namara's Bastard, the matte- black mouse gun, The civil servant (you can't fire it or make it work), The Mattel Toy..
In a somewhat morbid example (considering the reference point) a common nickname in the swedish military for Claymore- type mines is Lille Skutt. The BAR fires the same rounds as the M1 Garand rifle, but is a bit larger in appearance, magazine size, and is automatic. And weighs more than twice as much as the Garand, which at 1. The Other Wikican show you. Carried over into 'killing an unpopular superior officer' in The Vietnam War, since using a fragmentation grenade to do so would make it impossible to prove the killer did it if no one would say he did, which carried over later to Video Games (though when used as a verb there, it just means 'kill').
It was so woefully inadequate against Soviet tanks that it gained the nickname . The Panzerschreck's first variant was also called the Ofenrohr (stove pipe) due to its size and the enormous amounts of smoke created on firing. The Americans called it the . The F- 4 has a lot of nicknames, including The Double Ugly, Flying Brick and the Louisville. Where a statue of a Warthog is a major landmark, and referred to as the . Don't ask about the odd few cases where helicopters received an airborne Warthog Stomp; you would need a large broom to collect the results.
The Mujahadeen referred to it as . Don't use the latter around F- 1. That's the ticket. Two possible reasons for this: the charitable one is due to its terrain following radar allowing it to 'hunt amongst the weeds' much like a pig, the less charitable reason is the colloquialism 'pigs might fly'. Such as wings. The latter refers to the French biplane that was the main aircraft of the Allies in World War I; as a piston- engined straight- winged aircraft designed during World War II, the Skyraider looked ludicrously out of place among the supersonic jets of the Vietnam War. Here's a webpage of some of them.
It's worth noting that the B- 1 has a proposed second version; the B- 1. R. You do the math. The tiny, notoriously unsafe F- 1. Starfighter was often called .
In Italy, it was nicknamed . It was also known in Germany (especially among American servicemen stationed there) as the .
Its triangular shape, for stealth purposes, earned it the inevitable nickname . In it, it was revealed that the pilots from the aircraft carriers had nicknamed such fighter .
Its German pilots called it .