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Entity13 posted...

As terrible as I am with my own names, like this, I'd probably go with something like "Lightning Flower," or something meaning that.

The first thing my brain thought was that sounds like something you'd hear as someone's name in an Asian exploitation martial arts sort of movie.

So then I went to Wiktionary and jury-rigged it into a Japanese name, and got Inazuma Hana (or Hana Inazuma if you're feeling Western). Which actually works out pretty well as a name that would sound plausible if it was used in a story or as an RP character.



Zeus posted...

I think he meant to say supervillain, not just villain (ie, to match superhero). The guy standing next to you may be a great villain, but he's a pretty boring supervillain. And if you're going to be a supervillain, you really need to go over the top.

Yes, I got the implied supervillain. And I'm still suggesting that truly effective supervillains don't go around proclaiming they're evil and putting good guys into easily escapable death traps.

Since you invoked "Xanatos Gambit" earlier in your post, I'll throw "Dangerously Genre Savvy" into the mix. Just because a countless stream of stupid overly theatrical criminals established the precedent doesn't mean someone clever has to follow them. Especially when you consider most of those showy spotlight-grasping egotists never actually win.

I'd take boring and ruling the world over a technicolor outfit and prison time every day of the week.

It's the difference between seeing the villain as a caricature who exists solely to give the hero something to strive against, versus as someone with flexible morals who is actively trying to achieve their unacceptable goals in a realistic manner.



Zeus posted...

The problem with that line of thought is that *no matter what* you'd still have the same thing: Reigns headlining shows and better stars being fed to him. At least now he has a title so the matches can have pretend-meaning.

Yeah, but Roman on top with the belt still sort of invalidates his opponents in ways that him "just being a guy" kind of doesn't. For all that Brock holding the title kind of devalued the title, Roman having it isn't much better. And honestly, Brock having the title and not defending it every week on TV sort of gave it a bit more gravitas anyway.

If anything, the only part of Brock having the title for the last year or so that really sucked is the fact that half his title defenses were against Roman (four of which were in direct succession with no break between), in spite of the fact that Roman getting constant rematches over other people makes zero narrative sense (unless you narratively acknowledge he's being pushed undeservedly by the boss, which is the opposite of the story they're trying to tell), and the audience was radiating raw thermonuclear hate (which made those matches terrible in ways that Brock vs Braun weren't, even though the crowd wanted Braun to win, and he didn't).

People didn't really start HATING Brock having the title until the WWE started telling them they should hate Brock for having the title, while refusing to take the title off him and repeatedly throwing Roman at him over and over again.

But now Roman has the title, is going to be the main storyline of every episode of Raw, and is going to have tons of matches against people who have no hope of winning, all in the desperate hope that people will eventually start liking him. And with the Shield being sucked into his event horizon of suck because that's the only way they can get him cheered at all at this point.


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