Tuesday 23 January 2018

Naming your superhero team

As I’ve mentioned before, I’m not great at naming superhero teams.

I often get stuck trying to find something alliterative, even though that’s actually not that common. For US city or regional teams, which superhero games often involve, the logical comparison would be in sports, and the NFL has just four alliterative teams out of thirty-two. More than one in twenty-six, but still not that common. (Only one, the Buffalo Bills, came from the AFL, fact fans. And the XFL had zero out of eight. The World League had four out of seventeen, however, counting either how the New York Knights sound or the Cologne Centurions read.)

Sense Of Right Alliance is an... interesting team but their name is not particularly thematic. Shrek isn’t a particularly righteous guy.

Maybe there just aren’t that many good names out there. It’s why I have stuff about two different properties called the Avengers.

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