Naming follies.

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Gorilla Grodd. Who the heck calls themselves MySpecies MyName? I mean, a one-off hyper-intelligent member of said species maaaaaaaaybe, but Grodd comes from a whole race of intelligent gorillas. It'd be like running around in our society calling yourself Human Harold.

Yes, it's silly, but it just struck me as odd. (Yes, I know, I know... geeeeeeeeeeek...)

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[badger.livejournal.com]

How often do we see him within the context of his species? Most of the time he's in the company of humans, either baseline, post-, or meta-, or other sentients of varying origin. If I was hanging out in his homeland I'd probably introduce myself or get called "Human" (although given the greying beard some gorilla fancying himself witty would probably fall down laughing calling me "Silver*face*"). So yeah, the "Gorilla" part is a useful label for me.

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Oh I can understand other sentients using the species label first in many cases, what I find amusing is that he calls *himself* that.

I love the sheer inanity of this conversation. :D

[badger.livejournal.com]

(me, in Gorilla City, picking up the telephone)

*ring ring*

"GRUNT."

"(clears throat the way I have to before saying anything in German) Err, grunt. This is the Human Steve."

"What do you want, Silverface?"

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If they ever had him throwing the definite article in there, it'd make more sense. "I am Human Steve" when in person and they can see you might be a bit of redundancy, no?

In retrospect, I think someone (Geoff Johns or Mark Waid, I can't recall who had control of the title at the time, I think Waid) noticed this in Flash - anytime the scene shifted to Gorilla City, or the humans were conversing with citizens of there, they just referred to him as "Grodd". Makes much more sense than a bunch of members of a species all prefacing their names with the bleedin' obvious. "Hi, I'm Human Steve." "Nice to meet you Human Steve, I'm Human Jason." "No kidding? On what side?"