Plumbing the Death Star - How Do Superheroes Get Their Secret Names?
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Hey everyone, and welcome to this week's episode of Plumbing the Death Star,
where we ask the important questions, like,
how do superheroes get their secret name?
I fucked that up.
It's good to sing it.
How do superheroes get their secret name?
How do superheroes get their secret name?
The name's not a secret. I wasn't thinking.
How do superheroes get their name.
I need another story.
Something to get off my chest.
My life gets kind of boring.
Need something that I can confess Till on my sleeves I stained red
From all the truth that I've said
Come back here honestly, I swear
Thought you saw me wink, no
I've been on the brink, so tell me what you want
Imagine if we did a whole episode
pretending that every superhero had a secret name.
No, Superman's secret name is John.
Yeah, it's Superman.
Clark Kent, Carl L.
John.
Tell me Carl L would be your secret name.
Yeah, well, that's a secret to some people.
Well, actually, no.
Some superheroes do have secret names.
Carl L.
Fuck.
Carl L, yeah.
What's Batman the gangster one?
Something Murdoch.
No, Malone.
Bugsy Malone.
No, no, no.
Bruce Wayne has...
John Paul something?
The Falcone family?
No.
Bruce Wayne has a third identity.
So he's Bruce Wayne Batman and he pretends to be...
Oh, right.
He does too.
And he has a fourth one as well.
He's got that one where he's like...
You look like you're about to lie to me.
No, he does.
It's going to sound like such a lie.
So there's an issue where you find out Batman created a false identity for him to revert to
if anybody found out his secret identity.
Okay.
Where he calls himself like Bat-Zara of the fifth dimension
and he wears like a multicolored costume and he roams around like a crazy person.
I've seen the costume.
No, but the question is like, cause so Toad.
Yeah.
Right.
So what was the question?
How does superheroes get their name?
Their superhero name.
So obviously.
Matches Malone.
That's the name I was thinking of.
So I guess Batman has two secret names.
But you'll find Spider-Man, no secret names.
Oh, he did have a secret, secret identity at one point.
The Amazing Bagman?
And when he became like Ricochet and the Hornet and...
When Ant-Man became Yellowjacket?
Because when it was like,
Spider-Man is sort of like,
maybe potentially has committed a crime,
so I'll create four other identities.
But that's still not really a secret name,
because that's kind of just back to the question at hand, right?
It's kind of like, as an aside,
is a smart way to be a vigilante.
Like, rather than be like, I'm not Batman,
I'm several different other men.
That's clever, actually.
I'm Batman.
I'm fucking the hyena.
Why are so many superheroes
and villains care about
branding? Because they could rebrand
at any moment in time.
Yes, I'm Spider-Man. Yes, I'm a wall crawler.
Yes, I am the...
Because all he has to do is...
The webbing is his own invention.
Invent something else. Absolutely.
Change the colour of the webbing.
That's enough.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Make it blue.
Make it so it doesn't stick together and look like web.
I am the human bug.
Yeah, or I'm puffer fish.
It's weirder when a villain does it.
It's weird that fucking the rhino, I guess he's got his rhino suit.
Because he's stuck in the suit.
Maybe rhino's a bad choice.
Bad choice.
Green goblin.
Oh, no, he runs a business. No, but also, if they're committing crimes, who cares? Like, if you're being a bad choice. Bad choice. Green Goblin. Oh, no, he runs a business.
No, but also, if they're committing crimes, who cares?
Like, if you're being a bad blo-
Okay, let's take, like, Batroc the Leaper.
Who the fuck is that?
Who's, like, a villain of Cap America.
He was in, like, The Winter Soldier, I think.
He just kicked a lot.
Cool.
But I think the comic book, maybe he's got super jumping.
Cool.
Maybe.
Or maybe a suit where he can super jump yeah
maybe i don't know basically he leaps around a bit like a dickhead yeah so him being like
yeah just just just what if i wore all green call myself the grasshopper yeah exactly what if i call
yeah but i guess with a lot of super villains like they're disfigured and that's where they
get their name from is the problem like if you're if you're red skull you can't start calling yourself something different because they're gonna be like you're
red skull you get that fucking skull face well because i was thinking like say because matt
murdoch aka daredevil the reason he calls himself daredevil is because that was what the kids used
to pick on him and bully him and call him when he was younger they used to call him daredevil like
like a cruel name which to me isn't it's a weird thing
you know what i mean like they're calling him that because he's blind and clumsy no because he
i think because he used to just do whatever he wanted like he used to be a bit of a daredevil
like it's a cool nickname but he was like they mocked me and called me a daredevil oh my god
was he shy if he was shy i get it no but if he was a daredevil because he was a daredevil I think he was a daredevil
that's on comic books of being fucking dumb
or is this like is a daredevil
something like back in the like what
the 60s or 70s that meant something
completely different
no one likes being called a daredevil
they are uncouth
that's weird
that's why he named himself daredevil
it's funny that it could have been any
bullied nickname, and he would have...
They called me Tiny Pean.
That's who I shall be.
Nerd cunt.
Spider-Man Homecoming is like,
I am the amazing
Penis Parker.
That'll show the bullies.
Watch out, it's
the amazing penis.
It's also really sad that that means Matt Murdock,
when he becomes Daredevil as an adult,
it's like, that'll show those bullies.
Does he go up to them and he's like,
who's the Daredevil now?
Also, I'd just like to point out that if you're using a name that used to get bullied as your secret identity,
pretty easy to put the...
It's like if he's like, hey, I'm Penis Barker.
They're like, oh my god, that's Peter Barketer barker penis parker's a pretty special yeah yeah yeah i mean let's say he just
called himself the sensational penis so uh sans pants alumni adam carnavale in in primary school
was called adam fardinale so if he would like the amazing fardinale people would probably figure it
out well actually it's funny that we mention this
because like oh it's a bit sad they've held on to that
we've only known Adam as an adult and he's told us that story a lot
so I guess you do hold on to that stuff
I guess you do
in his formative years you're kind of like
what did I get picked on what did they call me
well I would just be the douche
which looked creative and also never really hurt my feelings
because I was like yeah alright
because you got the douche which is
unfortunately you're not a hero you're a villain creative and also never really hurt my feelings because I was like, yeah, alright. But that's alright because you got the douche, which is, unfortunately
you're not a hero, you're a villain. Yeah. And you have a lot
of water themed powers.
Nah, like Doi Zama just decided
you were a villain. No, no hero
is called the douche. Ah, that's fair.
That's a good point. That's my point. He's got you there, you're a bad guy.
I also got called Jay Dizzle. See,
Jay Dizzle, that's the hero. That's a bit weird
to say you and you're like, I'm Jay Dizzle.
I'm like, I don't know if that's appropriate. I'm trying to think, what about the Dizzle, that's the hero. That's a bit weird to say you, and you're like, I'm Jay Dizzle. I'm like, I don't know if that's appropriate.
I'm trying to think, what about the Dizzler?
I feel like Jay Dizzler or the Dizzler, he's like, you're a white man with dreads.
Yeah.
The Dizzler, though, I'm like, can you Dizzle for me?
Watch me Dizzle.
I'm trying to think what I was... I wasn't that bullied, surprisingly.
Nobody ever really, you know...
People threw slurs at me, but I'm not going to call myself that.
That's also very textbook bullying.
The difference is, it was the same with me.
People tried to, but...
Because it didn't land, I don't feel like that I was bullied.
I don't think I'm going to be like,
Watch out, villains, it's me, the gay drama kid.
Yeah, exactly.
That's a pretty good name.
Now that I think about it, I'm all in.
That's pretty cool.
Watch out, it's gay drama.
Yes, it's me, gay drama.
The streets fear him.
He's a villain for some reason?
Like a real scary violent one.
But this name
doesn't suit at all!
I was expecting someone camping
fun! He just breaks my
arms and legs! I'm so scared
of him! I've noticed
you haven't delivered the gay drama
his money today.
Give me your fingers!
I'm gonna break them all one by one.
Time for the gay drama to have a
round of golf on your kneecaps.
This doesn't match your
theme! Why did you call
yourself that? I was bullied.
That's no excuse.
Have you heard of Daredevil?
That was his excuse.
I hate this scene!
Whack! Whack, whack.
So that's one way I guess you get your name.
You're like, what cruel thing do kids call me?
I'm that.
That's me.
Or if we look at, say, the mutants, like as you're saying with Toad,
it's like you look like a green, small, gross thing.
You leap and you have a long tongue.
Did your mum maybe, I don't know, get cursed or something?
I always find Toad so rude because, yes, he looks like a toad,
but he's not a toad.
Toad never got bit by a radioactive toad.
Toad never fucking got inhaled toad fumes or anything.
No, he didn't.
Hoffed a toad.
He didn't huff a toad.
He didn't chuck a toad in a bag, huff the shit out of it.
With a cursed toad.
He didn't do any of those kind of things. He just is a guy who is pretty sticky. He just has a toad. He didn't chuck a toad in a bag, huff the shit out of it and be like, oh. With a cursed toad. He didn't do any of those kind of things. He just is a guy
who is pretty sticky. He's just like,
has a long tongue. Your mutant power
is you're sticky leap and you have a long
tongue. You could have been called,
you can't call him the frog. I mean, you could have called him
the frog. Frog is a lot nicer than toad.
Yeah, frog is nicer. Maybe, ugh.
Cane? Cane?
Out of cane toad? You can imagine
cane is a better name.
Stick Toad.
It sounds tougher.
It does sound tougher.
But if you call him Toad.
I'm Kane Toad.
You like, drop the Toad, Kane.
Because if he's Toad, but also like, he's born to be a villain under like a sleazebag
one.
Because imagine if you're calling someone Toad, they're going to be like, yeah, give
me a kiss, I'll turn into a prince.
But did Toad call himself Toad?
Or was he like, Magneto's like, welcome to the brotherhood.
Toad fuck.
Toadling guy Toad.
All right.
Okay.
You're in the Brotherhood of the Immutants or Brothers of the Mutants.
You come across.
You yourself have this immutability.
You can leap pretty far than most other people.
You have a giant tongue that it's a parental and you can like, you know,
flick it around.
It's quite useful.
You also kind of sneaky, you know, attack people with it, flick it around. It's quite useful. You're also kind of sneaky.
You know, because of the X-Men and other people like that, these costume crusaders as they were, that they have nicknames or code names.
What do you call yourself?
Because your real name is Mortimer.
I don't call myself that.
Well, am I a villainous? Nowous now look you're not villainous it's you because you yourself
don't see yourself as a villain if i'm villainous i just call myself mortimer because if you're a
villain use your real name yeah yeah if you're like i'm toad i'm gonna be like lime yeah uh like
i'm mortimer well let's let's say um you know you're know, you are Toad in this situation,
and you're not the villain in your own story.
Yeah, I'm the protagonist.
You're looking for, you know, mutant rights.
Am I the only human being that's the villain in my own story
instead of the protagonist?
No, I feel like I see myself as the antagonist of the world.
A Skeletor type, if you will.
No, surely, like, there's surely bad blokes that are like i'm a bad bloke
i think everyone thinks they're a good bloke in their core because like i think so because it's
kind of like even if you look at say maybe serial killers or so those people that are kind of like
you know they're too far gone i'm talking like jordan bellman or whatever his name is
belford wolf of wall street all right yeah yeah i'm, who the hell is Jordan Bellman?
Jordan Bellmont?
Jordan Belford?
Fuckhead.
That's what I call him.
Yeah, he probably sees himself.
But does he see himself as a villain?
Is he like, I, the genius, played the system?
I think he sees himself as he used to be the villain
and now is the good guy.
Because he gives inspirational speeches.
Sell me this pen.
Yeah.
No. It's my pen now
sell me this pen no it's my pen now that's stealing that's how i made my millions
why do we just like what what what's the lesson here everyone's just really confused like am i
meant to be listening to the guy that pretended to steal the pen?
I'm like, what is it?
Did he pretend to steal the pen or has he actually stolen the pen?
And I'm rich in pens?
Actually.
And how's he doing?
I imagine.
Okay, he's like, sell me this pen.
Take the pen.
I don't have a pen.
Give me another pen.
And he keeps doing that.
Sorry, I lost the pen.
I'm fresh out of stock.
Sorry, yeah. Pre-order one. He's like, I lost the pen. I'm fresh out of stock. Sorry, yeah.
Pre-order one.
He's like, I think you're missing this metaphor.
I can take as many pre-orders as you like.
Anybody want to pre-order a pen?
Payment up front.
Payment up front.
Only $1 deposit.
I do have some pens.
As you can see with this pen in my top pocket,
this one's not for sale.
It's a display model.
The metaphor is totally lost.
You just destroy an entire seminar.
Make millions as a pen salesman.
I kind of want to go to one of his speeches now
and just see what happens.
Yeah, see what you're capable of.
No.
Give us a pen.
Give us another one.
I want a blue one.
I would like more pens, please.
But yes, if you're Toad.
So you're Toad and you come up and Magneto's like, look, I need you. Look, we can't just call yourself. What's like more pants, please. But yes, if you're Toad... So you're Toad, and you come up,
and Megiddo's like,
look, I need you...
Look, we can't just call yourself...
What's your name?
Mortimer.
Mortimer, yeah.
We have to have a code name.
Again, I'd be like, why?
Yeah.
I don't want it.
But let's assume we have to have code names.
Those were the names
that your human suppressors gave you.
This is where we're taking it back,
so you make your own name. You choose who
you are and who you want to be called.
I think I would be aware
obviously that I am Toad-like.
But I wouldn't want to be Toad.
I'd call myself maybe the Amphibian.
See, that's cool. Couldn't I just be like, can I be
Killstreak? Yeah.
But do you think Magneto will look at Toad and be like,
yeah, you can be Killstreak. I'd be like, why Killstreak?
And then you just Glock him.
And then you turn to the room and you're like, anyone else got any questions?
It's my brotherhood now.
Well, you Glocked Magneto, he would have stopped the bullet.
Turns it around, shoots you.
This guy was Toad.
All right, everyone?
He's dead now.
He was Toad, now he's brains.
Toad in life, Toad in death. He's dead now He was turned, now he's brains Okay So say you're not Say Dusha, your mutant ability is
You've grown a mane
And you have fangs like a lion
And a lion's tail
Zamit, you've got a dolphin's body
But your head
Can he walk on his flippers?
No, he has to be in a tank
It's sand
Yep And I have snakes for arms Can he walk on his flippers? No, he has to be in a tank. It's sand.
Yep.
And I have snakes for arms.
Okay.
And we join the brotherhood.
And Magneto's like, what's your- So we're all fucking villains now.
Yeah, good.
Magneto's like, what's your name?
What are you going to say?
Fucking main man.
You can't-
You're going to-
Main man.
I'm the main man. You just took- This is meant to have a main man. I'm the main man.
This is meant to be my naming story, and you've taken it from me.
I think that happens to a lot of villains.
Okay, you choose.
What are you going to be?
No, see, it doesn't matter because you're going to call me main man.
I don't think you can choose your own name.
I think exactly what just happened is what happened.
A lot of heroes and villains are named in the press.
Like Spider-Man, depending where you're going to take this sort of canon from.
If it's bloody the wrestler announcer or if it's J.J. to Jameson being like Spider-Man.
Yeah, yeah.
So, again, it has to be someone else.
It's kind of like nicknames.
Yeah, yeah.
We're not talking about just being bullied, like a bullied name,
but a nickname, because it's very hard for you to make your own nickname.
That's true.
Because, again, I used to have a friend of mine in high school.
First name was Aaron, and he used to have Ace, like a card Ace.
I hate this story.
And basically, he just always wanted to be called Ace.
No one called him Ace.
And then someone came in several years later's just, like, always wanted to be called Ace. No one called him Ace. And then someone came in, like, you know, several years later into school, like, transferred.
He's like, oh, my name's, like, John, but everyone calls me Ace.
We're like, no worries, Ace.
Aaron died inside.
But nicknames can go the other way.
Because my friend in high school, Aaron, called himself, out of nowhere one day when he was drinking,
he just started referring himself as A-Mags.
Yeah.
And that's stuck.
That's stuck because you know what was there?
Drinking.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And he probably was pretty casual about it.
He was not casual about it.
But is there a difference between being like, I'm A-Mags now or him buying a jumper that says A-Mags on it?
Because that's all cuff link boy right there.
Yeah, that's true.
Also, he used to change
A to whatever he was, so like
he once was very drunk and he called himself
Dead Mags. See, that's good.
See, I'm into that.
But I think also sometimes you
probably don't get, like I'm thinking about Dolphin Zaman.
You probably just don't get a chance to nickname.
You can't fight that. Yeah, again, a lot of
these things you have to accept. Like, you can't
call yourself I am Snake Pit.
No, we're going to call you Snake Pit.
But the thing is...
Snake Pits.
Yes.
Snake Pits.
Snake Pits is a pretty cool name.
In fact, when you hear Snake Pit, you're going to be a bit...
Snake Pits.
Snake Pits.
With two S's at the end.
Two S's, two snakes.
Two S's, two snakes, two pits.
Snake Pits.
Yeah, piss.
That's...
You're gonna be like...
Snake piss.
Say you're like an X-Man.
They're like, oh, snake pits has got this fucking facility on the lockdown.
Also, just a quick aside.
I'd start a rumor that your dick was also a third snake.
Yeah.
You're like, there's actually three S's.
The third S is for his wangas.
It's just the head of a snake, though.
The head of his penis is the head of a snake.
Does it have a throat? I don't like to think about it.
Who knows, but we don't want to think.
Jackson shits all the snake's shits.
I would.
So the snake's digestive system has to
be connected to my snake.
It's a cerebral esophage.
The snake eats a whole mouse.
Can you breathe?
That's one of my mutant abilities. I can breathe? Out the snake? Out the snake?
Yeah, that's one of my mutant abilities.
I can go underwater,
and as long as I keep a snake head above water,
But then it means the other snake drowns and dies.
I have to keep all three snakes above water.
You can only do backstroke.
Including your dog.
That one I can put a scuba on, or something.
I just like the idea of one of my snakes eating a mouse,
and I'm like, I can't use that arm today, it's digesting.
Can you see from them as well?
I guess so.
Yes.
Well, if I'm shitting their shit, I better be seeing out their eyes.
Hey, guys, did you hear about Snake Pits?
He has three snakes, but one drowned tragically.
That snake was his penis.
He can't fuck or piss.
It's dead.
It is dead on his body.
But imagine you hear snake pits.
Yeah.
You're like, that sounds like a scary guy, like a venom themed guy.
And then I come at you with snakes flailing.
Well, that's more on you for flailing.
And making that noise.
I imagine the snakes are fairly independent of me.
That's bad.
They're just biting.
Oh, no.
You're a...
Ow!
You're also a... You flail your arms,
so I feel like you'd kill the snakes by just accidentally
snapping their spines.
Or just smacking one into a wall.
Oh, shit. I got a dead arm.
And then we have, like,
main man. Yeah.
A name I don't fucking want.
We'd assume you were the party animal. Yeah, I'd be like, oh, the main man. Main man, and then, like i don't want oh no we'd assume you were the party animal yeah i'd
be like oh the main man main man and then be like the party animal yeah that's his full name main
man the party animal this name is getting worse i just like you hear main man you're like hey main
man like i imagine like maybe you and me's amit superheroes were at like the facility we're like
main man and then you come out with a main and we we're like, Can I shave the mane into a mullet?
Because if so, then I'm very on board with mane men.
Make your name mean less.
Imagine the mullet's going all down his back.
Now that's cool.
Also, you still have a lion's mouth.
Zamet, on the other hand.
I don't know.
I don't know if I'd name you.
I might just keep you in a tank
Fishboy, the blowhole
Dolphin Dan
Are you scared?
I mean, yes
Great question
I mean, if I'm just a dolphin body in my face
I'm like, I'm terrified of life
What's fucked up is that a mutant ability develops
Do I speak or do I just chirp? No, you get your head I'm like, I'm terrified of life. What's fucked up is that a mutant ability develops. Do I speak or do I just chirp?
No, you get your head.
Okay.
I'm underwater, so...
You could probably swim to the surface and be like,
hey, can someone chuck a hamburger in here or something?
Oh, it's wet.
Everyone just likes to feed me fish,
but I don't like fish.
I still have a human's taste buds.
But like a dolphin's, you know what?
For health reasons. Yeah, I look a fish. And raw buds. But like a dolphin's. You know what? For health reasons.
Yeah, look at fish.
And raw is better, but I hate it.
Sushi's good, but I guess without.
So I guess a lot of sashimi.
Yeah, I guess get rid of the rice.
I like the rice.
I now imagine you kidnapped by one of those big rich supervillains
and just kept in a fish tank behind his chair.
You know what?
That's all right.
You know what?
I'm just going to call you Sushi.
You know, that's fine.
Sushi.
There he is.
Yeah, look.
I'm sad.
Sad Sushi.
Imagine you called in front of...
Sushi the sad.
Sad Sushi.
Hey, Magneto, it's me.
You're wearing a jacket that just says S-S.
Oh, no.
Magneto's like, what's that for?
No, no, no. Sad Sushi. Sad Sushi. Sad Sushi No no no I'm sorry look I take it off
But my last
Owner I guess put it on me
As a gag
I don't even really like the name Sushi
But I am just sad
That bit's right
I just really like to imagine you
Swimming behind like a Bond style villain
And the James Bond type like seeing your face being like,
and the villain being like,
ah, I see you're admiring my sad sushi.
Please, Bond, feel free to feed him.
Yeah, look, burgers would be nice, but I mean.
It's bad for the diet
Imagine the Bond villain
Dropping Bond in
Being like
He'll tear you apart
You just swim up
You're like
I'm not gonna eat a guy
Yeah look
Again
Again
Mouth of a human
I don't know if you know this
But humans don't really
Tear other men
Or women
Limb from limb
There's James Bond
Just climbing out of the tank.
Yeah, look.
This was a strange plan.
If you've got any fish, I'll...
Please shut that man free.
Again, I don't really have the beak of a dolphin to eat a fish whole,
so you can just cut it up for me.
And I don't have the dexterity of a man with thumbs.
I have flippers, so I can't actually cut up my food. cut it up for me and i don't have the i don't have the dexterity of a man with thumbs i have
flippers so i can't actually cut up my food so i love the idea of some like greenpeace
style people being like we gotta put him back in the scene you're like no no no i'm a man who
became a dolphin not a dolphin who became a man man no no no no please please uh go free
fuck it i'm beach i'm beating myself. I don't care.
That's what I'm doing.
His last words were, put me down.
Imagine a little kid making a sandcastle.
Wave rolls in.
You're like, boom!
Kid, call the cops.
Kid, kid.
Give a sandwich?
Give a sandwich.
Feed me, call the cops.
I need to go home.
That's a catchphrase.
Feed me, call the cops. I need to go home. My goodness. That's a catchphrase Sad sushi
Feed me call the cops I need to go home
My goodness
Sad sushi is this head of
Sushi there
I'm scared of his antagonist
Harpoon man
I'm gonna eat that fucking man
Dolphin
The most delicious game of all
Dolphin man F, yes. Just a man. The most delicious game of all.
Dolphin man flesh.
I'm mostly dolphin.
Unless you're going to eat my face.
Are you going to eat my face?
That's weird.
Where's my neck?
Do I have a neck?
No.
In my mind, it's looking up.
Let me draw what I've got in here.
Ah, yes.
Plumbing the Death Star arts and crafts.
Head like this.
Yep. Neck. Head like this. Yep.
Neck.
Dolphin body.
A dolphin body with a leg.
I guess I have a bit of a neck, so I've got some mobility. A neck, but it just goes into, like, flat dolphin.
Like, you've cut a...
Are you going to draw?
Are you going to take a photo?
I'm going to take a photo, because I know people are going to ask for this.
Yeah.
Look, you can look that up.
That's what I imagine sad sushi looking like.
I'll just quickly add
a sad face.
Yeah, and give it
damn its beard.
Oh, I forgot I have a beard.
And chuck on the jacket.
I'm real bad at drawing.
Remember, he's got a jacket on
that says SS,
which stands for sad sushi,
but everyone thinks
he's a Nazi.
Everyone's like,
God, there's a man dolphin.
And he's a Nazi, I guess.
Oh, I guess the uh captain america
coming to be like i'll stop you you're like i'm not a nazi please take this jacket off it's like
oh i see the uh nazi experimented on dolphins as well there's nothing sacred you nazi dolphin
scum no i'm just a guy i'm so look yeah look i i thought the brotherhood of mutants was
i didn't realize that there was some evil overtones.
I just...
Look, to be honest, I wasn't there.
My good friend, Snake Pits, he just wheeled me there.
I didn't want to go.
I couldn't feed you because every time I tried to feed you,
my snakes tried to bite you.
Just don't punch me in the...
Ah, you punched me in the face.
I'm sorry, man.
I'm trying.
That's very good.
I wrote your catchphrase.
But I think I fucked up the order, but that's fine.
Call the cops?
Yeah.
No, that was pretty...
Hey, kid.
Feed me.
Call the cops.
I need to go home.
That's basically it.
That's sad sushi.
Yeah.
So, yeah.
So, I'm not happy with the nickname either.
Because saying sushi is a fish, I'm a...
I'm a dolphin.
I'm actually a mammal.
I'm a mammal. Apart from being like... I'm not even a dolphin. I'm not happy with the nickname either because saying sushi is a fish, I'm a dolphin, I'm a mammal.
Apart from being like, I'm not even a dolphin,
I'm a man with the body of a dolphin.
It's not actually a dolphin's body, it just
resembles one superficially.
Honestly, dolphins, they are mammals
anyway, so I just feel
I guess the people that made this
were rude. I like to imagine Captain America
just shifting it back into the sea.
One of those like tarps you have
for like move dolphins. Like, yeah, look,
it's one of those things. I just feel it was
very rude of them to be the people that kind of
made this. They just seem so ill-informed
and I just don't know why we're going.
Cool, sad sushi. Yeah, good.
I'm so tired now. Cool.
I can't even sleep normally. I kind of have a brain of a dolphin.
Anyway, I gotta go.
But also my food's here, so I've got to go.
Quick time out in the episode, but leave this in.
Keep going.
I just need to grab some food.
All right, no worries.
I'm just going to grab some food.
But you also have the press.
That's another one where the press see you and they just give you a name and that's it.
Well, that's the thing.
You think about this now in our real world, like those big mysteries or those kind of things,
or even serial killers
like again jack the ripper that was was that his name or did someone i think they called him that
was like a zodiac killer yeah yeah same thing he had like a zodiac symbol somewhere on him i'd have
been on the letters on his mask and everyone's like the zodiac killer uh as long as like the
son of sam did he he signed off i think he signed off son of sam but yeah a lot a lot of serial
killers are just named by what the press decides to call them,
you know?
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
Jack the Ripper, named famously after the fact his name was Jack.
Mm-hmm.
Hi, I'm back.
That was the worst entrance joke I've ever made.
Sure was.
But yeah, also, it's like, even just the area, like, you know, the Bay Area Killer, those
kind of things.
Oh, that's kind of cool, though, because imagine if Toad was, like, the Bay Area Mutant. Oh, yeah, that's all right. Do you know what? Area Killer those kind of things oh that's kind of cool though because imagine if
Toad was like the Bay Area Mutant
oh yeah that's alright
do you know what also that's good you'd call him Bam for short
hey that is good
Bam Margera
for long
you're back
but that's not a bad
way of like naming yourself to be like
after the place you were.
Because if you look at Batman, instead of being Batman, what if he was just like the Gotham Knight?
Yeah, yeah.
See, that'd be all right.
Gotham Knight is a better name than Batman.
He's a superhero called Gotham.
But if Batman wasn't...
Sorry.
I just want to entertain this.
It's some foolish comment.
So a guy called Gotham...
Why?
You sound drunk every time you do it.
A guy called Gotham.
Why?
You sound drunk every time you do it.
They arrive in Gotham,
and they've done some fucking wickety-whack where they can activate themselves
to give themselves superpowers,
but the superpowers are, like,
fucked powerful,
like, take out Superman powerful,
but it takes a year off their life
every time they do it.
They only need to kill Superman once.
Yeah, well, exactly.
But they just start to protect Gotham,
but then Gotham himself,
he fucking dies for some reason, and Gotham goes left alive. And to protect Gotham, but then Gotham himself, he fucking dies for some reason
and Gotham goes left alive. And she's real powerful,
but every time she does it, her life expectancy
gets lower and lower and lower. They're pretty boring
as characters, honestly. No, fair enough.
That was a good side note. I'm glad
you all joined me for it. He could have just
been like, there was a superhero named Gotham
and I'd be like, that's not Gotham Knight, and then
we would have moved on. But here
we are. I was curious I was
wondering who was interesting
this is an interesting fact I really
hope it's not I hope it's a boring one
know the most the most metal serial
killer title ever servant girl
annihilator that's fucked I read about
the servant girl annihilator it is was she a servant girl that
annihilated people it was an annihilator of servant girls unfortunately but the reverse
happened in well not quite the reverse at all um so this is a sad story that has kind of a cool
ending i'm excited yeah so i think it was i might get the details wrong um but basically i think it
was mexico there was a really high rate of sexual assault and sex crimes against women happening on So I think it was, I might get the details wrong. But basically, I think it was Mexico.
There was a really high rate of sexual assault and crimes against women happening on buses by bus drivers.
And so one lady put on a blonde wig
and then just shot two bus drivers in the head.
And then that stopped.
Bus driver annihilated.
Well.
Fuck, she's got a name, but I can't remember.
I could look it up.
I hope it is bus driver.
It's nice. I hope all serial killers, or not serial killers, but I can't remember. I could look it up. I hope it is bus driver. It's nice.
Me too.
I hope all serial killers, or not serial killers, but anybody who does a murder is called a
whatever they murdered annihilator.
That'd make me not happy.
It'd make the world interesting, I guess.
Slave girl annihilator is such a sad name, but if it was a slave girl that was like,
Servant, yeah.
If it was a servant girl that had broken free of her shackles.
And was annihilating.
Killing the rich.
Yeah.
I think if you get your nickname from the press,
you have no chance of changing it.
No.
That's a rebranding thing.
Yeah.
If you were like, again, Spider-Man,
but you're like, actually, it wasn't a spider, it was a bug.
And if you look at the symbol, it's six legs.
It's, yeah. It's... Yeah.
There's a spider menace.
I guess I'm Spider-Man.
Yeah, I guess I'm going to add some extra legs to my fucking symbol.
Go to the tailor, add that in, and I guess I'll invent webbing.
Yeah, because that's the thing.
If you've chosen a nickname for yourself...
The Hunter of Boss Drivers.
That's a pretty sick name.
That's a very cool name.
If you've chosen...
The Hunter.
That's a good name.
Yeah.
If you've chosen the name yourself, then the good name yeah if you've chosen the name yourself
then the press takes it off you that has got to be the worst situation if i'm like say i've got
snake arms and i call myself venom yeah and i'm like fuck yeah i'm venom and i understand there's
a venom as well but he's got nothing to do with actual venom so like i'm venom yeah yeah and then
i go and i'm like look out citizen it's meom I'm here to fucking rob a bank But then the press is like, it's Snake Arms McGillicuddy
I can't
I can't take that back
Next time you go out, just wear a sign that says
That's not my name
People will be confused
I feel the press will double down
That's not my name, man
That's not my name, man
A.K.A. Snake Arms McGillicuddy
It's also confusing because like superheroes and something
we haven't quite touched on like she did when i went to go get food superheroes often put their
name on their chest yeah yeah absolutely yeah superman has a big s or the kryptonian symbol
for hope and why isn't he called hope man yeah surely surely how did superman get his name
was it the press again i think it was was. It sounds like it might have been
Mario Kart. Is that some kind of
Superman?
Imagine that, because eventually... I wish that was a scene
in the movie. I wish it was too.
I'm so upset
that we didn't get in the Justice League movie
like, what are we, some kind of League of
Justice? It's a shock
we didn't, frankly. In Batman
v Superman, they say say something not quite like that
but they're like we need to form a league or a team that's a lex luthor at the end he's like oh
let's form a league of our own clever making a league of extraordinary gentlemen
extraordinary gentlemen yes all right sorry um sam neill Gentleman. Yes. All right. Sorry. I'm going to say Sam Neill. That's what he's saying.
The link of Sam Neill.
Sam Neill's amazing comic book.
Sean Connery was the name I was looking for, but my brain said Sam Neill. A movie so good it killed his career.
Yeah.
Forced him into retirement.
We should have been Sam Neill.
I just think Sam Neill would have made that movie great.
Yeah.
Sam Neill plays old Mr. McGregor in the new Peter Rabbit movie, and it's weird.
That's just a fact for you Thanks man
So with Superman
If it was named by the press
I don't know how Superman got his name
Unless it's like man that guy is some kind of man
But super
If it was named to the press
There's got to be a time
When that was going around
And there's got to be that moment where he hears it,
and he's like, oh, looks down at his ass.
Oh, hey, that works.
It's kind of cool.
But then it's going to be that first time he introduces himself as,
hi, I'm Superman.
Yeah.
And I don't know, I don't care how powerful you are
or what kind of, like, alien brain you have,
but introducing yourself as Superman has's gotta be yeah weird and
like i just couldn't do it i'm like hi i'm super hi i'm i'm just carl clark it's weird as well with
superman because superman's all about like hey mankind you rule but i am the superman like i'm
a better version of you yeah it's almost quite an entitled name i don't know if i like anything
with something man is also i find very, very, very odd to tell yourself.
Even like Iron Man. Because he's like,
I'm Iron Man. But then he's like, nah, I'm Tony Stark.
But still call me Iron Man. It's cool.
Yeah, that's weird. Iron Man makes sense
in the Marvel Cinematic
Universe because he likes Black
Sabbath. So the name
actually makes sense because he's like,
like, you can see where he got the name from, if that makes sense.
But still, but if he's like, the moment Tony Stark's like i'm tony stark i would call him tony stock
you know what i mean i am iron man yeah that's how the song goes
iron man yeah he's just like singing that every time he's like blasting terror
he spends most of the avengers movie wearing a black sabbath shirt he's also a fan of paper planes based on that
but yeah like if tony it's like when peter parker is like hey everyone i'm i'm spider-man but i'm
peter parker and he takes off his spider-man mask he's like i'm peter parker would you keep calling
him spider-man or would you call him peter parker see there's a thing because it's weird because
with iron man is probably a better example like Like, if you're friends with Tony Stark
and then he's like, I'm putting on my suit,
you're like, I guess you'd go on as Iron Man. But yeah,
I wouldn't. I'd just, like what all his friends do, they're like,
hey, Tony. Yeah. I'd call him Tone.
That's just me. I wouldn't talk to him.
I'd call him Tobler Tone.
Tobler Tone Borone.
Is that a joke that's going to translate?
It'll translate for some people.
I feel with Iron Man,
unless that's his call sign,
because basically he's a jet.
Yeah.
That's true.
He is.
So I feel he'd have to have some kind of like...
To come back to sort of like,
do all pilots have nicknames?
I think if you don't have a nickname,
you're not a very good pilot.
Look, my knowledge of pilots does come from Top Gun.
Yeah.
So I feel like-
I would choose-
Or is choosing a call sign for yourself like a faux pas?
Like how choosing a nickname for yourself is a faux pas?
I don't know.
You need to-
With a nickname and if you have to call like get a call name for the same way,
you need to like plant the seeds without outright saying it.
Yeah.
Exactly.
You got to be like wearing, wearing you know cufflink aces anyone i see wearing cufflink aces
isn't getting the nickname ace is getting the nickname card boy nerd cunt watch out evil doers
it's me nerd cunt i'm really showing the bullies with this one hey you don't talk about secret
identities yeah which we kind of are you, you know, talk about secret identities.
Yeah.
Which we kind of are.
You know when, like, Spider-Man reveals himself on the train?
Yeah.
In Spider-Man 2.
Yeah.
And he's like, don't tell anyone.
Tell them what.
You know what I mean? No, that's the thing.
That's the whole point with Spider-Man.
He just looks like every guy.
Yeah, but in that scene.
Well, he's like an every white man.
That's true.
That's true.
I'm like, I know he's white.
But, like, in that scene, when he reveals his face, everybody's like,
well, keep your secrets, Spider-Man. What secret?
Well, I guess not, like, publish his face.
But if I go to a sketch artist
and be like, alright, so I want you to think of
a plain white man,
brown hair,
kind of looks like
he's
sort of angry, but not sure why he's angry he's playing a teenager
but he's not a teenager ever ever think of like all right you ever go to someone with elijah wood
i could probably get him confused with this boy yeah you know jake gillenhall yeah that but mixed
with elijah wood a bit but like less handsome than Jake Gyllenhaal. Much less handsome.
Imagine I'm going to go to...
I've seen that.
I'm on the train, Spider-Man.
Everyone's like,
I'll keep your secret, Spider-Man.
You would.
I'm like, no, I won't.
Yeah, what the fuck?
I'm going to get my phone out
and be like,
this is going to make me fucking a mint.
Click, click, click, click.
But it's not the 90s,
but the phones everybody has
are like shitty flip phones
and nobody's taking a photo.
So all I've seen is his face.
And then I'm like, I'm going to take it to the prices.
I go to J. Jonah James.
Well, okay.
I'm like, it's that guy.
Hey, J. Jonah, what?
Your photographer is him.
You got something to tell me?
Let's go racing.
That's Spider-Man.
But say I go to a different newspaper, and I'm like, I know's Spider-Man. But say I go to a different newspaper and I'm like,
I know who Spider-Man is.
And they're like, holy shit, who is he?
I'm like, some guy.
Some guy.
I saw his face.
What did he look like?
He was white, he had brown hair.
That's no help to us, Jackson.
His hair looked like it had been cut by a barber,
but not a good barber.
Yeah.
I mean, like, it would make sense, that scene,
if Spider-Man had been trying to convince everybody that he was really a spider under there. good barber yeah i mean like it would make sense that scene if spider-man had
been trying to convince everybody that he was really a spider under there you know what i mean
like if he was like ah the spider-man and i'm actually underneath this i look like a spider
and then the reveal is that he's human i think they have camera phones yeah but the more i think
about it do they take photos of him i nevertheless this is spider-man who's that no good you just published their face
and then again in the you know in i guess in our world of like facebook and twitter and social
media you can be like oh yeah that dickhead yeah we know he is here's all his information all right
i'm gonna hack into his account i'm gonna kill his aunt that was a leap from just a photograph
yeah if someone shows you a photo you can easily kill their aunt.
Yeah.
A couple of steps, one, two, you're
aunt dead. That's how it goes down.
100%.
I guess.
Maybe if Spider-Man, as he's
coming to, he's like, my name is Peter Parker,
I live at this address.
Don't kill my aunt.
She's like a mother to me because my real mum's dead.
Oh my god, I'm awake on this train.
But you have access to, like, nowadays
facial recognition technology. That's true.
That's true. Well, yeah, nowadays, that scene
would make a lot of sense. Back then,
I feel like it's very weird. I feel like
there's, like, an implication that it makes sense,
but I don't think it does. If you took a photo
of that guy, like a
maskless-speaking Spider-Man, you'd sell that to the press.
You'd sell that to the tabloids, be like, who is this man?
You would then have investigative journalists going around being like, have you seen this man?
Who is this man?
I suppose.
You would have an investigation, if not the police.
I don't remember anyone taking a photo of him, though.
I'm not saying they probably didn't, but I would.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And I would do that.
Absolutely.
I like the idea of someone taking a photo and posting it on their shitty MySpace page.
And people are like, okay, that's a weird photo, but cool.
I think there's a merit there to keep your identity secret.
Because, obviously, he's afraid.
Because what if someone knows him, who he is?
You know what I mean?
On that train?
Those people on the...
What are the odds?
Okay, well, they're very rare, but they would be, like, say something.
You could be like, oh, I've seen...
Like, I don't know, not that.
Like, if I see someone on the train that I don't know but i'd be like ah i know that i know someone that knows
them kind of thing like if you've been to a party or whatever i think you see spider-man with his
mask on for like 10 minutes maximum puts his mask back on goes off spider-man the odds you're gonna
see him again and right you look fair enough so slick but that's just like again um going back to
more like names of one what if you get, losing Spider-Man is a good example.
What if after, say, five years, you kind of get sick of that?
Yeah.
Again, rebranding.
Absolutely.
You can rebrand.
Surely.
I mean, he's tried.
Who has other than the Wasp keeps rebranding?
Does she?
Yeah.
Wasp is like a million different people.
She's like fucking, she changed her costume all the time as well, doesn't she?
She changed her costume, but she's always the wasp.
It's the Ant-Man who's like, I'm Ant-Man, I'm Yellow Jacket, I'm Giant-Man, I'm Goliath.
Yeah, fair.
I'm a wife beat a piece of shit scum.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
They always, it's funny that Ant-Man always changes, like he doesn't really rebrand.
He's like, I'm Giant-Man.
No, no, no, I'm Goliath.
He like, means the same thing.
You could have said Goliath, really.
Yeah.
To be honest, the only place you can, I think, rebrand in a way that is going to be not obvious to the people,
so you keep your identity secret, is probably, like, if you're just super strong.
You know what I mean?
Super durable.
Batman could probably rebrand.
Yeah, Batman could rebrand.
But Spider-Man, I feel like, couldn't.
I feel Spider-Man could.
I mean, he has.
Again, because he made, like, four different identities.
Yeah.
To, sort of, like, using some of his abilities and like his technology i guess
knowledge i feel like i'd still know it was spider-man the moment he climbs a wall i'm like
well like so many like what if he walks up a wall he walks up a wall i don't know it's spider-man
if he climbs a wall like he uses web at any point i'm like oh yeah spider-man's in town he doesn't
use a web like he'll go like all right so example, one of them he uses, he's called Ricochet. Yeah.
He uses bullets.
He uses little gold things that kind of bounce all over the place.
So, he uses his spider sense more and he's leaping around and doing that.
Okay.
Did you just get bored of being Spider-Man?
Again, I think Spider-Man was...
Was there a bad Spider-Man?
No, there was a Spider-'re like he's done a murder
and so spider-man decided or peter parker decided to do off become for other heroes okay to try to
investigate and clear spider-man's name the bombastic because i guess he missed being spider-man
i would be like fuck it i guess that i sequenced that he is bust in the goes in the bin well i
think about as ricochet kill a guy i'm like i killed spider-man
yeah if you i mean it's a bit much for spidey but
spider-man what the hell that's crazy but also you know so say you're a mutant yeah you get
your mutant abilities as a teenager at a teenager if you're choosing your name then
it is gonna be bad this is why i think but look at anyone's email address and i At a teenager, if you're choosing your name then, it is gonna be bad. This is why I think
a lot of them... Look at anyone's email address
if you know it's a teenager. Yeah, that's your superhero
identity right there. No, thank you.
Your hot legs...
No, that's not even... That's even too silly.
I'm hot male at hot male.
Now, that's alright.
It's the hot male.
Boom!
And his good friend, main man.
But that's why I think a lot of the...
Borat is the greatest movie ever made, underscore 1991.
Exactly.
That's why I think a lot of the superhero names cannot be named by you.
You have to be named by someone else.
Like, say, Cyclops.
I guess that has to be a cruel nickname that someone gave him.
Yeah, did Professor X...
Well, then why did they call him Cyclops?
Because he had two eyes.
Yeah, Cyclops is the weirdest nickname for Cyclops.
No, the only way it makes sense
is if Professor X gave it to him.
It has to.
Because he would have to get it after the visor.
I always thought Bullseye
would be a much better name for Cyclops.
Yeah.
Surely.
Yeah.
Bullseye works so much better.
Hot Eyes is good as well.
Red Eye, mate.
Red Eye, like the flight.
I'd go in pink eye.
Oh, who bloody farted in your head, mate?
That's what I'd say to him.
And then he'd laser me.
And then he'd be a murderer, and he'd have to join the Brotherhood.
Yeah.
It makes sense if Professor X names them, because they are all pretty lazy nicknames.
That seems like the kind of thing Professor X would do.
I feel he does.
I don't know. Beast.
So, hey, Professor,
so I've got big hands and big
feet, and I can leap around
a bit. Beast. Beast?
I don't really look like a beast.
I'm a good guy.
Have you ever seen that drawing
that someone does,
and it's like,
here's where all of the sensitive parts of the human body are.
Like a sexual homunculi looking thing?
We'll call you homunculus.
Well, no, because if it's Professor X,
like what I just did there.
Like, if they don't like the name,
he can just be like, now you do.
Yeah, exactly.
I guess, oh, that's, okay.
Okay, so like that.
Although.
Iceman, yes yes you told it to
ice and you're a boy ice man done done next question pride picks a name though that's true
she and she picks sprite and it doesn't stick no she's like i hated it i'm doing this now yeah and
well jean gray gets to be jean gray marvel girl marvel girl was that when did she become jean gray
uh i think after ages she's like i hate this hate this. So, like, just call me Jean Grey.
But everyone was basically calling her Marvel Girl.
And she's had, like, Marvel Girl and Phoenix.
Yeah, she has been Phoenix.
That's fair.
And yeah, Kitty Pryde was Sprite and then Pepsi.
No, I can't remember.
She did have another name, though.
Yeah, yeah.
Pepsi's a pretty good name, actually, for a superhero.
What about just Piss?
Yeah, I think that's all right.
If you're a villain and your name's just Piss
I'd be afraid
I'd be scared of Piss
I don't know what Piss is capable of
Exactly
Does he have Piss powers?
Doesn't matter
Even if he just
Hi, I'm Piss and I'm gonna break your fucking legs
Ariel as well was her name
Yeah, that's right
I think you can choose
Like, I mean
I think some of them choose
I think Kitty Pryde is a good example
Because I think she was given the opportunity to choose her name.
Yeah.
And so she was like, well, I'm going to be called Ariel.
Then she's like, no, I'm going to choose Sprite.
Yeah, yeah.
And she decided Shadowcat.
Captain America's an interesting one because he was named by the military.
Was he ever a captain?
Did he ever achieve that rank?
Did he ever pilot a ship?
No.
No.
I don't think Captain America's ever been a captain.
But he was named Captain America for the OSO for the oso shows or the yeah yeah the uso shows i don't know what it stands for
yeah united states show show yes yes but like that's where he got his name and that just kind
of stuck let's get through the the avengers all right so uh captain america he's called captain
america because yeah that's because That was literally media branding
That was just media branding
Then he's like I give up being Captain America
So I'm going to call myself Nomad
This is why we don't let you choose your own name Cap
I hate America now
Just call yourself Captain Not America
You're an idiot
Iron Man
He's a big fan of Black Sabbath
And he's like this is thematically appropriate
I'll choose this name
It's not made of iron
Isn't the first one kind of like an iron alloy?
Not
Yeah but when he calls himself Iron Man it's not
I'm sad he didn't call himself Metal Man
That just sounds silly
Hulk
Who called him the Hulk?
Well what is a Hulk?
Well, hulking is, I think, a thing that, you know, like a hulking great behemoth.
Because a Hulk was a prison ship back in the day.
Oh.
And it used to be like a prison Hulk.
And that's where it sort of came from.
But I mean, is hulking a thing that sort of like, does that exist because of the comic book character?
No, I don't think so.
Are you sure?
A hulking mask is surely a thing hulk yeah like a hulking surely hulking doesn't exist because of the hulk sure they refer to the hulk in the incredible hulk as like a hulking man or something
yeah i'm looking it up hulk hulk etymology okay yeah old english fast ship reinforced uh your middle english by middle
german and middle dutch hulk probably of mediterranean origin and relating to greek
hulkus cargo ship it meant cargo ship that's so weird someone sees the hulk and they're like
that reminds me of a quick ship oh did the name change can you get confirmation the name changed
because of a comic book? Because that's fucked.
Comics shouldn't have that much power.
Yeah, I think hulking probably... The name of a character created by Stan Lee and Jack Kirby for the Marvel Comic Universe,
it has since entered everyday English lexicon.
The name itself is most likely derived from the same word hulk,
which predates the existence of the character.
And the hulk being a ship.
That's very weird.
Holy shit, Stan Lee!
You did it! You changed English language! That's very weird. Holy shit, Stan Lee, you did it.
You changed English language.
That's what I'm gathering from Wikipedia.
Because now it simply means a person resembling, especially physically, the Hulk in the Marvel Comics universe.
Or by extension, a strong man.
When did Hulk, when was the first Hulk issue?
Was it the 60s?
Yeah.
Okay.
Yeah.
Hulk exists.
Well, then him getting the name Hulk is so strange
Hey did you see that man
Looks like a fucking ship
Looks like a quick fast ship
No it doesn't
Yeah let's call him the Hulk
The incredible Hulk
We should call him Green Man
We should actually not name him
Abomination suits in battle
Let's see.
There was a big and possibly clumsy person is another definition,
and an excessively muscled person.
But I'm trying to work out when that was.
Yeah, I don't know if that came about because the Hulk is both those things.
Yeah, okay.
So, yeah, the etymology of Hulk is very...
It's weird that he's called that.
Yeah, that's very bizarre.
So that's strange. That also means in the Marvel Cinematic Universe it's weird that he's called that. Yeah, that's very bizarre. So that's strange.
That also means in the Marvel Cinematic Universe
it's fucked that they call him a Hulk
because they're like, he's hulking, but hulking
came from the Hulk.
Like, he's a hulking great mass.
I like to imagine Stan Lee read that
and just got like a nosebleed.
So that's the Hulk, which is an issue in and of itself. Yep. Who else have we got? The Hulk paradox. Falcon? Well, that's that's the hulk which is an issue of itself yeah um who else we got paradox yeah
uh falcon well that's simple he's wearing a suit that makes him falcon why was that the bird of
choice why was he not seagull or crow well that's a good good question why was he not
because he had like a red and white theme that makes zero sense yeah that's not what a falcon
in the in the comic books is because
he has like a psychic connection to an actual um falcon well see that's sick but uh yeah why would
he be unless it was like one of those military things was like military code falcon x1 oh yeah
that kind of stuff maybe that was the name of his wing like the the wherever they yeah yeah okay
so if that's the case that kind of a lot of these make sense if
you look at it from a military point of view yeah yeah point of view where it's like these are code
names or like the names that they're giving a um like a project like project iron man yeah it makes
more sense than just call me iron man whatever project hulk yeah yeah we're making uh we're
transporting uh large amounts of gamma from one area to another by sea.
So we're going to do it by big ships.
And oh no, that resulted in a man becoming a green thing.
Let's call him Hulk.
Yeah, sure.
That makes sense.
Here's a confusing one from the Avengers.
Vision.
Yeah.
Does he think of himself as a vision of the future?
Is he called Vision because he can see?
He's got good vision.
Who names him Vision?
Does he come out and he's like, hello, yeah, I'm Vision.
What's up?
How you doing, everyone?
I'm Vision.
I'm going to have a cape like Thor.
Sick.
And on that note.
We don't have enough sudden ends in the middle of a sentence.
That's very good.
And on that note...
We should do it more.
Yeah, I know.
Anyway, yeah, that's a hard one.
It's a weird one, Vision.
I don't have an answer, which is why I tried to end the episode.
Either Iron Man, the moment he makes him, is like this guy's vision.
Here was my vision?
Yeah.
Did anyone have a vision of him when they made him?
I guess, well, Tony Stark was like, this was my vision of the future, maybe.
Oh, yeah, because he's Iron Man.
Well, that's in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
How is he created in?
He's still the son of Ultron.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, actually, that makes sense.
Oh, no, because isn't he?
He's a vision of the future.
Yeah, Iron Man's ideal vision of what was meant to happen.
It's still a weird way to get your name.
There's still a leap of, like, you know, a logical leap there.
Wanda, that's just her name.
No, Scarlet Witch.
Scarlet Witch is weird.
I guess she's doing magic, but not really.
I'm like, I am doing magic, and I dress in red, so call me the Scarlet Witch.
And again, she's Romanian, or, like, from, like, those kind of...
Is she Romanian in the film?
I think she's from, like, Soklovia, yeah.
So in the, I guess, like, culturally?
Yeah, maybe there's something there,
like in that kind of Slavic area or something.
I don't...
Quicksilver?
I'm a metal, you shouldn't drink me.
I'm a poisonous metal No you're not
You're far
Yep
Quicks in the title
You know
When I was down in Melbourne
Like Australia
And I saw this
Real cool surfing brand
And I was like
What a cool name
Sort of based myself on that
I'll do that
Sick
Yeah
So that's like
Yeah
Quicksilver
Is like
Was he thinking
Well I'm fast And I'm quick and my hair is silver.
Ah, Quicksilver.
And his sister's like, that's a metal?
Yeah, whatever.
Who knows that?
People don't know.
That's not common, is it?
Hawk eyes weird.
He's the eyes of a hawk.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Again, that could be a nickname.
He served the military.
He was a sniper.
He's like, fuck, man.
You got the eyes of a hawk.
Yeah, yeah.
And then he became codename Hawkeye.
Yeah, that's true.
That makes sense.
Black Widow.
Same kind of difference.
Same kind of weird.
No, but Black Widow's strange.
Was she a honeypot?
Yeah, because that's the only thing.
Because a Black Widow is a spider that people know it as,
the spider that eats when the dudes finish banging.
Yeah.
But also it's implied that she used to.
So she used to be a honeypot?
Kind of.
Or at least, like, would seduce, use powers of seduction to murder.
Okay, well, that's fine.
That's just kind of like Hawkeye.
They're like, that's what you're good at, so that's going to be your animal nickname.
Although that's weird to be like, I'm going to, like, lean into that and me call myself the black widow because it's basically calling yourself honeypot yeah yeah yeah it's a
bit odd that it's stuck around when clearly he was just a super spy but she's like guys i'm more
than just seducing yeah yeah for fuck's sake well then that probably shows how she's so good at it
people are still talking she's like i okay all right you were the best honeypot we ever had
this is this is borderlining on uncomfortable you and roldal are the best honeypot we ever had. This is borderlining on uncomfortable now.
You and Roald Dahl are the greatest honeypots that we've ever seen.
Yeah, you don't call Roald Dahl the honeypot, do you?
Well, maybe we should.
That man fucked his way through the fucking...
I don't know who he was a honeypot for, but he was very good at it.
He was banging a lot of Nazi ladies.
I'm not sure if they were Nazis.
I don't know.
Nazi sympathizers?
Possibly. I just know that he did it. He was amazing at it of Nazi ladies. I'm not sure if they were Nazis. I don't know. Nazi sympathizers? Possibly.
I just know that he did it.
He was amazing at it and he hated it.
He was like, I cannot believe I keep dicking all these old women.
I think there's like an actual quote that he's like, hey, I'm fucked out.
Can I come home?
And they're like, you're fucking for your country.
And he's like, oh, God.
Good on you, Roald Dahl.
That's good because he his superior name would...
Then he wrote Joel in the trunk, Patrick.
And the giant peach, which was something else in time.
That's so good, because if you just give him a minor superpower,
he's fucked out.
That's his name.
That's me, fucked out.
And I'm cut.
I'm in a fucking kick-ass ass And I'm all out of fuck
Ant-Man
But that's a moniker that
Was in his heritage
And that was a military moniker to begin with
Exactly, so Project Ant-Man makes sense
And the Wasp, I guess is the same thing
Same kind of deal, Project Wasp, Project Ant-Man
Again, that sort of makes
A lot of these things, You put project in front of it
I'm like so on board
Black Panther
That's a cultural thing
That's fine
That makes sense
Bucky
Bucky
That's his name
That's his nickname
No he's James Buchanan
Buchanan
That's just a nickname
That nickname was kind of nice
He's the only one
The Winter Soldier though
The White Wolf
As they called him
Yeah
The White Wolf was like a mystery
That was what like I guess the press, if the press were, like, underground, like, conspiracy theories would call him.
They called him the White Wolf.
That's, yeah.
And there's one more.
Who am I missing?
Spider-Man.
But we've covered Spider-Man.
At the great lengths.
With great Lance Combs, great responsibility.
And on that note, I've been Joel.
I've been Jackson.
And I've also been Joel.
Thank you for listening.
And also, I just want to clarify, before I said Hunter of Boss Drivers,
her name was Diana Hunter of Boss Drivers,
and she took that from Roman times.
Mythology.
Mythology, that's what I was looking for.
It's right there
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