The name game.

Names are tough, because there's such a fine line between sounding cool and sounding completely bonkers. A good name sticks with people, a bad one sticks ﷺwith people because it sounds li🧸ke something a porn star would reject for being too obvious.

We have a lot of porn star-sounding game character names in the following slides, as well as ones that are too-cool-for-school and others still that are just complete nonsense. If you've ever been picked on for having a goofy sounding name, take comfort in the fact that it could have been worse - much worse.

Pizza Pasta

Seen having a stupid name in: Punch-Out!! (arcade game)

Name is stupid because it sounds like: a first grader's attempt at i🍸dentifying 'Italian things'. Seriously, was this THE FIRST THING that popped into the developers' heads when designing their Ita꧃lian boxer? What about Gucci Gnocchi?

Bear Hugger

Seen having a stupid name in: Super Punch-Out!!

Name is stupid because it sounds like: a fun way to speed the weekend. Do you think when Bear's parents named him, they knew the🌜ir son would grow up to be a grizzled old mountain man who's also a boxer? It was destiny.

Skullomania

Seen having a stupid name in: Street Fighter EX

Name is stupid because it sounds like: WrestleMania, only deadlier.

Duff McWhalen

Seen having a stupid name in: Mega Man X5

Name is stupid because it sounds like: Duffman from The Simpsons, oh yeah! Fun fact: the Duff is apparently s♑hort for Duffin, which doesn't make i💫t any better.

Metal Shark Player

Seen having a stupid name in: Mega Man X6

Name is stupid because it sounds like: a 🧸device that plays metal sharks. What would even be on a metal shark? Music, videos, lots of teetꦓh?

Ash Crimson

Seen having a stupid name in: The King of Fighters XIII

Name is stupid because it sounds like: a grab bag of words people think sound cool. If he started a band, it would totally be called Ni🦂ghtmare Final I🌠nfinity.

Cyber Woo

Seen having a stupid name in: King of the Monsters 2

Name is stupid because it sounds like: some sort of weird, online sex slang (unlike all that totally normal online sex slang).

Miles "Tails" Prower

Seen having a stupid name in: Sonic the Hedgehog 2

Name is stupid because it sounds like: a stupid pun on the phrase "miles per hoℱur." Tails is a decent enough name, but when you learn his name i﷽s actually Miles Prower - which sounds like "prowler" - it makes him sound like a creepy stalker.

That Man

Seen having a stupid name in: Guilty Gear Xrd -SIGN-

Name is stupid because it sounds like: laziness.