Names are important

[wallwalker]

Saw Green Lantern tonight. I should really be sleeping now, but it'll be at least another ten minutes before I can relax enough to try.

Heroic organizations should really know better than to let people with even vaguely evil names join their organizations. At the very least, they should require name changes. It would make them statistically less likely to defect, or go rogue, and therefore turn into villains. I mean, it's not foolproof, but it's better than nothing.

...would that be profiling? I'm too tired to think about this anymore. I'm going to try to sleep.

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[kadrin]

Well, this is why I changed my name from Evillus "the Wicked" von Puppykicher when I tried to join the Justice League. They threw me out on the basis of not having any powers, not even Ollie's Goatee of Liberalism.

A similar thing occurred to me in the Skulduggery Pleasant books. There's a bit where the heroine is told "The name you choose should fit you, define you, and already be known to you". And a name that doesn't fit and define you doesn't stick. So, really, what's the argument for not strangling Nefarian Serpine the moment he chose his name?

[wallwalker]

Oh, come on! Batman doesn't have an powers and they let him in! It's just because he's rich, isn't it?

[cypher]

...would that be profiling? I'm too tired to think about this anymore. I'm going to try to sleep.

This is kind of adorable. ^^

[wallwalker]

Wow. I was tired. ^^;

[liri]

I don't know what you're talking about. Lord Victor Nefarius is entirely trustworthy.

[wallwalker]

Yes. I trust him to betray the hell out of us absolutely!