View Poll Results: Who wins the worst code-name contest?

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  • Spoiler

    8 4.71%
  • Batwing

    8 4.71%
  • Orphan

    41 24.12%
  • Signal

    33 19.41%
  • Drake

    76 44.71%
  • Other - specify in comments

    4 2.35%
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    All of the above.

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    Drake and Orphan. Why can't we call Cassandra Black Bat anymore?

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    Quote Originally Posted by Godlike13 View Post
    It’s not an issue of being silly but blatantly unoriginal. Some of these names are like walking into a room and seeing a lamp, and then calling yourself the Lamp. They are just taking known Batman things and parts of Batman’s mythos and using them as names.
    Then how is Orphan worse than Black Bat?
    Black Bat is derivative of Batman and thus horribly unoriginal. In comparison Orphan is original.
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    When did I say Black Bat was any better?
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    I really don't mind Orphan.
    Drake is silly as it's his name and a duck. I can't take it seriously. Tim deserves better (and the new uniform is ugly).
    But I think Signal is the worse. Spoiler is only slightly better than Signal but still worse than Drake.
    Red Robin was working fine for me.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NexusTenebrare View Post
    Then how is Orphan worse than Black Bat?
    Black Bat is derivative of Batman and thus horribly unoriginal. In comparison Orphan is original.
    Black Bat has some alliteration which is always nice and fits Cass since she's loyal to the symbol of the bat.
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    Quote Originally Posted by NexusTenebrare View Post
    I don't think any of them sound bad. Maybe spoiler, but it was pretty apt to what she was doing. At least when she was re-introduced in the New52 (didn't read about her in pre-Flashpoint).

    I don't think there's anything wrong with Orphan. It's evocative.
    As for Drake and people saying it's a duck. You know what it also is? A dragon. In fact, the word is far more famously connected to dragons than with ducks.
    I get the feeling people are just looking for reasons to complain.
    It is? This is the first time I’ve ever heard the name attributed to a dragon. Vampire, or duck? Yes. Dragon? No.

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    Quote Originally Posted by NexusTenebrare View Post
    Then how is Orphan worse than Black Bat?
    Black Bat is derivative of Batman and thus horribly unoriginal. In comparison Orphan is original.
    Except that the first "Black Bat" was a pulp hero that predates Batman.
    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_...irst_Black_Bat

    It always seemed to me that DC choosing that name for Cass was a weird attempt to claim the name.

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    Quote Originally Posted by KangMiRae View Post
    Drake and Signal are the dumbest names on the planet, lol.
    Yeah.
    I like Orphan, it sounds badass to me. And Red Robin was okay!

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    Signal for me. Just why?

    I don't see Drake as any worse than Robin or Blue Bird. Scratch that - Blue Bird is the worst because it makes me think of Big Bird and that is terrible for a gritty superhero.

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    Drake. It's so goddamn lazy. Let's make the hero's surname his codename because that makes sense. Tim might as well not have a secret identity.

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    Tim-I am The Drake!
    Condiment King- Like the dragon from medieval lore?
    Tim- No, like the bird.
    Condiment King- Isn't that a duck?
    Tim- Well, yes but-
    Condiment King- Really kid? You have my sympathies.

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    Orphan. By far the worse name currently in Gotham, and there's some pretty horrible names out there.

    I'd say Red Robin was the worst, if that were in play. Compared to being named after a fast food chain, Drake is sheer genius. And really, everyone bitching about it being a duck.....I mean, I get it, but "Robin" isn't exactly awe-inspiring. It's a small, annoying bird and the only reason y'all dont think that's lame as hell is because it's been a part of comic book culture for eighty years.

    Orphan though.....man, that's just bad *and* sad.
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    I still prefer Drake to people suggesting cardinal. Makes him sound like the Duchess of Malfi character. My connotation of cardinal with never be the bird, especially since I've never really heard of them in the UK
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    NOTE: This thread was originally started back in September of 2019.
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    With 94 people having voted so far,
    * Drake = 32 votes
    * Orphan = 25 votes
    * Signal = 23 votes
    * Batwing = 6 votes
    * Spoiler = 6 votes
    * "Other" = 2 votes


    I know it's not Batman-related, but I wonder where "Shazadam" would come in when compared to Drake, Orphan, and Signal?

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