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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[kickaha.livejournal.com]

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?"

[kickaha.livejournal.com]

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?"