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    I'm trying to decide on a character name for an alien

    Discussion in 'Character Development' started by rktho, Aug 23, 2017.

    I'm writing a story about an alien who visits Earth disguised as a human and I need a name for him to use. I want an incorrect long form for a short name, like Craigory, Staniel, Barold, etc. I want to compile a list and choose the best one. Make it as funny as possible.
     
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    I think you're doing pretty well with it already. Mixing similar rhyming names seems to work, which looks like what you're doing. Mix male and female names too. Like Betholomew. Or a miscellaneous object. Torchibald. Or just a weird extension of a name. Lewister.
     
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    I like the idea of mixing historical or mythological names with common names, like Fred the Destroyer or Beelzebub Jones. Or, like Douglas Adams did, just lift a vaguely human sounding name from some product. Sylvania VCR (but pronounced like Vicar, to make it less obvious).
     
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    This just unrepressed some memories of that Eddie Murphy movie.
     
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    In 3rd Rock from the Sun, they chose Solomon because they saw it on the side of a truck and said that they almost named themselves The Walmarts.

    McDonalds, Apple, Marboro... Stuff that advertises a lot.
     
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    Bah! That’s your answer to everything!
     
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    Dave Ross, creator of the Dale Lex.
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    I was gonna post a picture of Papa Lazarou, and then realised people who don’t know who he is might think it’s racist... so...

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    Joe McNotahuman, or Neil Ambrose ;)
     
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    You could mix up names from different cultures, using the first bit of a common english name and the end bit of an indian name or so, could give you some exotic looking names
     
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    Hugh Mann?
     
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    I had another idea where I combine name prefixes and suffixes with ones from different cultures, like McZhangstienkov. Scottish, German and Russian affixes on a Chinese name.
     
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    Al Lee-Ann
     
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    I just liked your post because of the League of Gentlemen reference. You don't run into those too often these days. :D
     
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    Steve or Stanley (ref. The Stanley Parable).
    IDK really, I invent all my Alien names out me arse,
    and IDK weather it is male or female, so IDK how to
    help ye.

    Good Luck senior. :superagree:
     
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    • Rosstopher (stolen from an episode of Friends)
    • Rossel (stolen from the very same scene in the very same episode of Friends)
    • Bobert (a misinterpretation of Bob/Robert)
    • Dickard (a misinterpretation of Dick/Richard)
    • Phelip (a miss-hearing of Philip)
    • Gram (if in America this is how he would hear the name Graham being pronounced - just one of many words the Americans can't say)
    • Mate/Pal/Bud/Dude (He hears a person saying, "See you later mate/pal/bud/dude" to another and assumes it is his name)
     
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    That's because they're only for local people.
     
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    If the alien is disguised as a human, it's showing a gender.


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    Marty Poppins.

    Y'all.
     
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    Maybe the funny aspect can come not from the name, but from the reason for why it's chosen. For example in a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, the alien's name was ford prefect, which was based on a car, because the alien thought that cars were the dominant species of earth.

    Like if the alien looked coincidentally at an internet site for dirty names and named himself "Ben Dover" :D

    Or even "Hugh Mungus" :-D
     
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    Yeah, I have another alien whose name is Monica (full name Monica Jane Lily Mackenzie Quinn-- even the last name is arguably a girl name.) And he's a guy. His quirk is that he's an epicure in search of Earth delicacies-- but he seems misinformed as to what they are. He thinks that what we eat most is the best food, since why would we eat garbage all the time? So McDonalds, Pizza Hut, Twinkies, etc, are all things he thinks are must-try gourmet dishes. He also eats a napkin because someone offers him one and he misinterprets their intention.
     
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    I have a guy named Fred who named himself after Freud because he's secretly an alien scientist studying human behavior and culture. His last name is Jangoodal, which is even more hilarious. Ironically, his real name, his alien name, is Robert Smith, and he changes it so he can blend in because what kind of name is Robert Smith? Of course, he didn't choose the weirdest names, but they are a little weird.
     
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