+Legendary Detective Wobbaffet hail mr satan, savior of the earth, 3 times now then again, satan is latin for foe/opponent...that doesn't seem evil to me
Doctor Strange breaks rule#2. He's a hero who uses his god-given name as a moniker. The door to his office when he was a surgeon probably read: Dr. Strange MD.
His abilities aren't really related to his doctorate, like Iron Man's or Mr. Fantastic's. Also, Dr. Manhattan is almost universally agreed to be a total dick.
I'm going to add a THIRD reminder that this is a reference to the 1960 film "Little Shop of Horrors" directed by Roger Corman. Although it is more popularly known for its 1982 musical remake by Frank Oz. In both versions, the main villain Orin Scrivello is a dentist. Just so we are absolutely clear.
Exactly what I thought when he said evil dudes are Dr Whatever,,, dentist's titles are 'Dr'. When I was a young child my parents insisted on taking me to a dentist named Dr Blood !!!! Needless to say I'm now traumatised & become paralyzed by fear whenever I hear anything that sounds vaguely similar to a dentist's drill !
I am Captain WhyHow! And this is my sidekick, Wonder What?! Take THAT Doctor Whom and Professor WhenWhere?! *POW* *OOF* *THUD* *BLAM* *ZZZ* *HUH* *BARF* *SKEET* *YAWN* *FART* *POOP* *PEE* *SNEEZE* *HICCUP* *SNIFF* *SMOKE* *TIE* *TAP* *PUSH* *PULL* *ARM* *DOWN* *LAY* *BACK* *LOVE* *LIFE* *PEACE* *OUT*
Also, missed the fact that maul means "hammer". Still there are even less subtle names in star wars like Moralo Eval, Savage Opress, Cad Bane, Durge, and Darths Plagueis, Venamis, Stryfe, and Nihilus.
I think Darth Nox from TOR is more blatant if you know Roman mythology. Nox was the goddess of the night and the patron goddess of prostitutes and "women of the night" in Roman society. Whereas Darth Nox was a psychopathic Sith Lord who used her sexuality like a weapon, despite being surprisingly strong in the force and incredibly devious.
Dr strange was kind of a dick for half the movie they made and his doctor title was like a symbol of his growth. He lead away from his harsh critique of what he didn’t agree with and became more open minded, his character began as a diligent skeptic. And for that his name is representative of his roots and how he’s ironically not like that anymore. It still represents the shittiest parts of his character.
*Says doctors are evil characters and military are good* "Captain Jack Harkness from Doctor Who" *Doesn't mention the Doctor when telling of good doctors*
+Tenebris Signum OK! I spotted that too... But in Crack'd's Defence... While the Doctor has got a Doctorate (We don't know what it is but he has one...) - He does not actually have the Formal Title of "Doctor"... Quite early on and often repeated since the reboot - It is a Title he chose himself and not based on any form of education... In the same way The MASTER is not actually a Master of Anything... Its a Title he chose for himself... (Or now, Herself...)... Aha! Yup! I knew it was discussed in the Reboot.... David Tennat Era!!! The "Prime Minister Saxon" story... Saxon (The Master) asks Tennat to call him by his name... Its at this point they both reveal that they were names they CHOSE for themselves - They are not their actual Titles in anyway but Names they have adopted.
+Warren “Phoenix” Marris Actually the Doctor has admitted to having multiple doctorates, non of which actually qualify him to be a medical doctor though. Also since you mentioned the Master and "herself" she is not called the Master anymore. Her name is the Mistress or Missy for short because she felt she couldn't keep calling herself Master after regenerating into a woman. It should also be noted that it has been said at one point that we actually got the name for healer from The Doctor, so he didn't choose name because of what it meant, it's meaning didn't come into existence until after he chose it.
I mean... to be fair, when you're such a powerful sorcerer you can survive having all of your blood turned to acid, all your bones turned to ash and your skin turned to stone and being thrown literally millions of years into the past, have visited thousands of universes, have managed to build robots comparable in computational power to Ultron (Who are still *less intelligent than you* ), and decided to go back to the dawn of sorcery and then just... lived through the time to the present, constantly studying either the mystic arts or some scientific phenomena. while simultaneously being the world's only chance at actual world peace as stated by a literal omniversal cat god... does it *really* matter if you got your doctorate from a university?
DekCheMc Yup, but considering how smart he is, I guess he gets a pass. Also, I noticed how a lot of characters in Marvel that are geniuses happen to have alliteration in their names. Reed Richards, Bruce Banner, Peter Parker (his intelligence is underrated for some reason, but his IQ is 250 or higher) Doctor Doom, Stephen Strange etc.
@@stanfordfeynman2796 It's not just geniuses. Stan Lee's memory was terrible, so he alliterated a lot of names to make them easier to remember. I mean... Bruce Banner's name was originally David until Stan Lee just sort of... forgot, and they had to retcon it saying "He goes by his middle name"
This video makes me want to write a short story with a hero called Dr Malachi Von Hammerschmidt and a villain called Captain Joseph Claymore. Just to show that it can be done. But something makes me think you might be right, and that going against the grain this hard might force me to unconsciously start writing in support of the villain.
Disney's Atlantis: Commander Rourke - Bad guy, Doctor Sweet - Good guy James Cameron's Avatar: Colonel Quaritch - Bad guy, Doctor Augustine - Good guy Doctor Who: The Doctor BBCs Sherlock: Army Doctor John Watson - main protagonist Doctor Strange....Doctor Strange I could probably go on for a while. Doctors aren't always baddies and the military isn't a haven of goodness.
+Nicholas Epsilon And where was Dr. Strange, I ask? And the Eye of Agamotto? He ultimately became the Sorcerer Supreme, for chrissakes. He must be honored. But I did like this.
I tend to either name my hero after my self or use fives (the name i plan on using if a second kid with the same name as me starts going to my school (it is a small school)).
+gethsoftware And the name was decided way before the devs knew they would kill Shepard, then ressurect him, and then make him save the galaxy by "dying" again. (By the way, "dying" in red, blue or green. Get it, get it?)
+gethsoftware Says who? The developers, after hearing the Good Shepherd analogy, trying to cover themselves from being too cliche? +Gaius Baltar That may all be true, but very few heroic characters don't sacrifice something in their run. They made a heroic character, even if they didn't know about his Jesus-esque resurrection, they knew he would sacrifice something. Do something heroic. And I'm sure if you go down the hero list of JCs and Shepards, you'll find many among them didn't make a life sacrifice, but did make SOME sacrifice. It's in the very nature of the modern hero.
jedisalamander gaming while I understand the whole Jesus subplot and it makes sense. Like you said Commander Shepard was named after an astronaut with the names John and Jane are names they give to unidentified people.
Darth Maul is not just "kind of close" to being "Mal" but a maul is also another name for a hammer, which we're already come to accept is an "evil" weapon. So in a way it's a bit of a two-fer!
***** Yeah, but as I understand it, they get renamed when they get the title "Darth". Vader isn't Darth Vader's name, it was a name the Emperor made up for him. They have actual excuses for having ludicrously evil names. They were created that way in the lore specifically to sound evil as fuck.
Here's a villainous name for you, 'Voldemort' - 'volde' from old Scandinavian roots meaning 'violence' and 'mort' from French meaning 'death'. On the opposing side you have Harry Potter. A short form of Harold; who was considered the last just king of England by many. And Potter; someone who takes earth and forms it (through harsh fire) into something useful, beautiful or both. Subtle Ms. Rowling, very subtle.
Does that mean Mal from Firefly is a bad guy? But he's also a Captain, so good guy. Ah, I see what you did there Joss. The roguish starship captain with the heart of gold who's always looking out for a easy payload.
kinda surprised Cruella De Vil from 101 Dalmatians wasn't mentioned in either the video or the comments (the ones I've read that is) since her name consists literally of the words cruel and devil
So glad you asked. Ahem. "Mercy is the mark of a great man. {stabs him a little}. Guess I’m just a good one. {stabs him a little more}. Well I’m all right." :D
Mal can also mean "sick" in latin, which could refer to post-traumatic stress disorder from his time with the independents - or just a rotten personality. Damn, I hate it got cancelled.
There are some exceptions. Dr. Manhattan is a hero (even though a rather questionable one - then again, he still drives the 'technology is evil' message), while Thor uses a hammer (or a MAL-let) as a weapon (Then again, Thor is based on super-old mythology and would probably get a sword if they were to re-write him). By the way, "Captain" Jack Sparrow, anyone..?
***** The protagonist of the game Fable 2 who was a hero by birthright was named Sparrow at the start of the game (with nicknames you could latterly change this)
I'm not sure who Dr. Manhattan is but I'm sure even if he is a good guy he has done some questionable stuff like Dr Bruce Banner did as Hulk. Anyway Thor was a total dick like Victor Van Doom Jr. said, until he was banished to earth where he couldn't lift his hammer until he learned not to be a dick. On Captain Jack Sparrows case he was never really the villain, but cracked is talking about captain as military captains not captains of a ship when someone is captain of a ship the rule doesn't apply this is shown with Captain Hook, the main bad guy in peter pan, and I'm sure their are more i'm not thinking of.
That's a little scary. I'm in the middle of writing a book and one of the main characters' initials are J.C. and I plan on him sacrificing himself. The sub-conscience works in mysterious ways....
Thor is a kind of exception as he's based on the Norse god so had to have a hammer. As for the doctor; comic book villains are PhDs - scientists. The doctor has that title because he 'heals' the universe, his name is supposed to make you think of a medical doctor curing the sick, not a scientist in the lab.
I see you there, Doctor Logic, hidden behind the guise of this RU-vid commenter! Curses, my plan for an entertaining yet uninformed comment have been spoiled again!
Well, if you're still looking for a bit of lampooning fun, you could make the argument that while not _evil_, both Thor and The Doctor have several attributes/misdeeds that blemish their otherwise noble character. Thor is the God of Thunder, but he's also a proud berserker fighter in the Norse legends, meaning he gets into a crazy unrepentant nigh unstoppable rage murder bloodlust in the heat of intense battle. Hardly the attributes of a good person. In fact, even in the MCU Thor has a knack for giving in to his pride and temper, a trait he even _lost_ his hammer over. After h's banishment, he's sorta better, but in Avengers, he's still a hothead, content to rip his kid bro out of government custody without hearing the charges and instigate fights with people in parks, and in AoU, when Tony made Ultron, Thor literally lifted Tony, the oldest, most vulnerable/mortal Avenger (outside his suit) by the neck and bitched him out for his stupidity over using the Tesseract. Also, he comes across as very proud and holier-than-thou, though that could just be because he's the spoiled crown prince to an alien kingdom nicknamed "The Realm Eternal." The ego on this guy makes sense, at least. The Doctor is responsible for the genocide of his entire race in the Time War, and pays "penance" by meddling in the affairs of human history. Through his meddling, he's brought ridiculous consequences with his abuse of time travel, and even enlists human companions despite the fact that he's ruining their time stream with his double dipping. Honestly, I don't know if he's just naive or willfully ignorant. Either way, I sincerely doubt his altruism. I mean, his TARDIS must be stolen, for crying out loud! He certainly didn't build a dimension traveling spaceship with a freaking screwdriver, and who in their right minds after the Time War would entrust him with the means to evade capture for his crimes? He's a fugitive. Repentant, perhaps, but still a fugitive. As for the Doctor title, I'm pretty sure he (11th) told Clara about some promise he made someone about never giving up or something. Like I said, paying penance for crimes, e.g. a doctor who violated his Hippocratic Oath.
..Completely ignoring good guys who are doctors, like Doc Savage, Doctor Who, Doctor Strange, Doc Samson, etc... Also I can't help but notice they didn't catch on to the fact that a maul is a type of hammer. Get a thesaurus, Cracked.
+Owen Oulton Bruce Banner also introduces himself as Dr. Bruce Banner. That of course is because he wants to remind people that he's a doctor and not just a rage monster. But still, he's a doctor and calls himself a doctor and he's a good guy.
There's also Dr. Nemesis; I'm a bit fuzzy on his full backstory, but he was a science whiz for the X-Men for a while. There's also Dr. Manhattan from Watchmen. On a similar note? Nobility. Bad guys are usually dukes or counts. Good guys tend to be princes, if they're nobility at all. Empires are nearly always evil, while kingdoms are good.
Shepard died in Mass Effect 3. He got resurrected in Mass Effect 2. He got resurrected after chocking in space. He didn't get resurrected after giving his life for humanity. Great research Cracked
I was hoping you would mention Malvolio from Shakespeare's Twelfth Night while talking about the "mal" method of naming. Not only is the villainy of Malvolio hinted at in his name, but if you take the "volio" part of his name, it's very similar to Viola, the wise and good-hearted female protagonist of the play. So, in naming Malvolio, Shakespeare basically paints him as a "mal-Viola" or anti-Viola, or anti-good
S Yeah but it was a bigger deal because he was literally like "any time you see a fictional character with *doctor* in their name, they're gonna be evil", and in literally the next sentence he mentions a character from *Doctor Who*, a show whose titular character is "The Doctor," the definitive article you might say.
yeah, "Doctor" and "Doc" don't count, because they don't abbreviate. Dr. Who or Dr. Brown? looks evil. oh! it's Doctor Who and Doc Brown. that's better.
I don't recall him doing anything that could plainly be evil. He only stole from people who could afford to be stolen from, and looked out for his crew even when it was hard to.
Peter Parker (Spider Man), John Jones (Martian Manhunter), Bruce Banner (Hulk),Reed Richards (Mr. Fantastic), Scott Summers,(Cyclops) Wally West, (Flash) Stephan Strange,(*Dr* Strange; yeah, that one's in there for YOU, Danny old pal) Richard Ryder (Nova), Sue Storm (Invisible Woman) and of course, the iconic Clark Kent... Yeah, I'm just being a bit of a know it all d*ck and pointing out that *you missed a whole section* on this video of the fact that an absurd amount of heroic characters have alliterative names, too. You're very welcome, dude.
That doesn't really assign any ATTRIBUTE to them, does it? Not like JC or Shepard. It just shit comic book Authors picked up, and rolled with. It doesn't pop-up that much anywhere else. I blame Stan Lee.
Helltamirre Not sure, mire. Maybe there's some kind of subconscious desire to reinforce the positive aspects by making the name sound lyrically pleasing in some way. Still an interesting name trope
Shenruss It does make them easier to remember. Alliteration is popular mnemonic device. I remember most names you listed and I never read comics and didn't watch most of the recent torrent of comic book movies.
This adds a lot more context to Firefly. I'd heard that Mal was a subversion of expectations of a character in many ways, but I never understood why. I'd always been atuned to the hard ass yet paragon-esc leaders from video games. But his name is literally Mal, and a character even makes a "joke" about it. I just though they were being ironic. Turns out they were flipping off an industry.
Andrew Phillips Wasnt it Fox that pulled the plug because the ratings were low? Firefly only became a hit like five years after it was aired. Whedon has repeatedly said that he wants to continue the series but cant because of his schedule with Marvel and Fox owning the rights to Firefly
Darth Maul? I'll see your, "Mauling, like what bears do," and raise you one maul, a heavy hammer or club. How did you guys miss that? I know, because you came at him from the the "mal" angle rather than the "hammer" side. Interesting, how the brain works, is it not?
+Gene Rybarczyk Thought the exact same. I never leaped to Maul being named "almost Mal", I could only think of the heavy hammer contraption. Which is weird since he has that kung fu/twin blade light saber which barely resemble an actual maul but I'll let that slide.
+Ethan Stadel - Thanks for the interesting comment. ~ An incisive translation, though one I am unable to find any evidence to support. In German (auf Deutsch), Vater means "father," as I learned in high school, way too many years ago. And I can't find any translation for dahr or darh from German (with the assistance of Google Translate), though darh is translated as "one and a half" in Hindi. "Faded" in German (auf Deutsch) is verblichen or verblüht, nor could I find anything even remotely close for fade, shadow, dark or shade. ~ And so, kind sir, I must beg to differ, though I would be glad to be schooled further.
It's so weird to watch old videos where they talk about Game of Thrones fondly. It's hard to remember that it wasn't always the symbol of wasted potential.
That first one is very old...John Carter from the "Mars" books, for example. Marvel Hero "Doctor Strange", while he has a PHD, he doesn't do surgery anymore because his hands are messed up. "Maul" is actually the name of a medieval weapon (a great big hammer)
"Maul" generally refers to a large hammer used as a tool or weapon in modern times as well as medieval. I can't believe he brought up "Darth Maul" after saying hammers are evil and didn't make that connection.
animefn . Of course he didn't bring up Thor, since Thor is a hero and refutes the thesis that hammers are evil. OTOH, Darth Maul is a villain and named for a hammer and therefore supports the thesis.
NarfBLAST The main point of the video was naming of characters, but he also states that pop culture has decided that "hammers are villainous dickheads," which is a principle incompatible with Thor being a hero. Of course the idea that Thor wields a hammer is much older than the idea that hammers are evil.
Minjun Kim is also pretty near to the evil stuff,I mean he once sold his soul to kill someone who was just protecting his own planet filled with innocent beings.
Mal is an anti-hero. I think it's quite likely the writers consciously used both heroic and villainous identifiers to express his moral ambiguity. River specifically mentions that "mal" means "bad" in Latin so they were certainly quite aware of that.
I know he's an anti-hero. I was trying to make fun of the rules, so they wouldn't be so boringly black and white. Of course I did a very bad job. I promise I'll stop commenting my stupid thoughts. :) Starting now.
Jonathan Rogers Soon as he starts talking about "Mal", I was expecting him to quote River. Of course, Firefly isn't a story about good vs evil, it's about lawful vs chaotic; the crew of Serenity are all on the chaotic side (except Simon, who's LG but being dragged chaotic through the series), but they span the whole range of good and evil. Jayne? Chaotic evil, no question about it. Mal? Chaotic Good but pretends to be Chaotic Neutral, loudly and as often as possible. Inara and Kaylee are CG, too. River's straight-up CN, complete with the insanity. Book is CN, claiming to be CG.
Chris Angelico I can see you're a big D&D fan. In real life as well as the world of the show, I don't think things break down into such convenient categories. Even D&D doesn't seem to have maintained a very clear idea of what Law, Neutrality, Chaos, Good and Evil are and how they relate to each other throughout its history. Another way to describe Mal is that he's fiercely loyal to and protective of the people nearest him and doesn't care as much for those farther away. This is perfectly normal human behavior and is why we have families, tribes and nations. You also can't claim he is against all authority since he was part of the of Browncoats.
I've never done that with my characters and have never noticed this in other characters, like John Connor for instance. I'm a Christian and I LOVE the Terminator series and never got that. this was all very entertaining 😊
I know you're from the Renaissance, but that guy was named Alan Shepard. He was the first American in space. America refers to the United States of America which is a country in the "New World". Fuck, talking to you is harder that is seems. You've missed out on a lot since 1524.
Ahm..slight bullshit in the beginning. Commander Shepard of Mass Effect is named after an astronaut. And the main character of "The Day the Earth stood still" isnt named John Carpenter...his name is Klaatu
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How do you not realize that Cracked is a company, not an individual? And you can "believe" that view traffic will magically appear all you want, but it's not true. Marketing is essential on RU-vid, deal with it.
TheNeonugget don't get me wrong I see where you're coming from but the point I'm trying to make is that just because someone breaks the laws set by an evil repressive government does not necessarily make them evil
Perhaps it's worth noting that heroic doctors like Marvel's Dr. Strange and DC's Dr, Fate are associated with magic and mysticism, rather than science or medicine.
