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...)

Comments

[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.

[georgmi.livejournal.com]

What you obviously missed is the fact that, in young Grodd's elementary school, there were no fewer than four students named "Grodd", and the epithet was added to make it easier to tell to which Grodd the speaker was referring.

[meep.livejournal.com]

What about Grape Ape?

[kaneda-khan.livejournal.com]

Maybe it's just a subterfuge. BEHOLD!