What is a name?

What is a name? Names actually play pretty important roles in plots and help set the mood for stories. They can be common names, too indicate that the hero is a regular person (like Harry Potter or Alex Rider). Or they can be heroic sounding names that sound fantasy like (such as Gandalf or Eragon). And then villans always have evil sounding names, full of evil intent (like Voldemort). Seriously, try saying Harry Potter evily. Doesn't work out too well does it? And imagine if all the Lord of the Rings characters had names like Bob and Joe.

"The Evil Dark Lord Bob has stolen the ring! Now I the mighty wizard Jim must set out to stop him!" Ridiculous.

Which is a reason I'm a bit mad at Hot Shot. The main character's love interest is named GuGu Chicken. Everyone else has cool heroic Chinese sounding names, like Dong Fang Xiang, but seriously, GuGu Chicken? Sure it was a pretty good joke for a while, but now it sort of dampers the mood. Especially in dramatic scenes where Da Ying talks about his love for GuGu Chicken. It makes is seem likes he's addicted to some type of Chinese poultry dish.

But, in real life, there are some pretty cool/weird/strange/bizzare/why-didn't-I-think-of-that names out there, as the following list shows.

1) Cutout Dissection.com

That's right, someone named themself after a website. And yes, it is completly legal. She's technically Ms.Dissection.com. Pretty good advertising actually. Maybe I should change my name to Theazncrewdot Blogspotdotcom.

2) Zealand-New

A girl born in, you guessed it, New Zealand! Creative parents.

3) @

Wow that must be pretty confusing. In school teachers will be like "Spell your name." and @ will be like "@". How do you even say that? At?

4) Autumn Sullivan Corbett Fitzsimmons Jeffries Hart Burns Johnson Willard Dempsey Tunney Schmeling Sharkey Carnera Baer Braddock Louis Charles Walcott Marciano Patterson Johansson Liston Clay Frazier Foreman Brown

Probably the longest name in the world. 25 Middle names... I wonder if she has to write them all out when asked for her full name. Must've taken a long time to memorize too.

5) Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk and The Flash Combined

Now THAT is a cool name. Imagine being asked what your name is by a policeman or teacher. And imagine their reactions when they find out that's your real name. But you know what's a cooler name? I'm Faster Than Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk and The Flash Combined.