Fan Nickname/Tabletop Games

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  • General
    • FLGS - Friendly Local Game Shop, the place where you spend your money on the entertainment below. Sometimes the "Friendly" is replaced with another word that starts with the letter F depending on the quality (or lack thereof) of the venue in question.
  • Duel Masters
    • Bob - A card with a very long, confusing name. Earned the name from a fan site rant. Notable for being the only Duel Masters card nickname to date that has stuck.
  • Dungeons & Dragons
    • Big El - Elminster, the most famous and almost most powerful wizard in the Forgotten Realms.
    • Loli-Pope - In Eberron, Jaela Daran, the current leader of the Church of the Silver Flame, happens to be a little girl. Also Sailor Pope, for hopefully obvious reasons...
      • In the same setting, the NPC known as the Lord of Blades (Lo B) is often referred to as the Lo Bster.
    • Big T - The Tarrasque, one of the strongest monsters that is included in most editions of D&D. Often a standard to compare a character's battle prowess is beating Big T (though not killing it, because that requires a caster with wish or miracle to finish off once it's down).
    • Purple People Eater: The Purple Worm. Named as such because in almost every edition, it is used to showcase the "swallow whole" monster ability.
    • Creating a new character is nicknamed 'rerolling', since to make it, you have to roll more dice. This has carried over into MMOs.
    • CoDzilla - A (3.X edition) Cleric or Druid, so named for their incredible power in the hands of a competent player.
    • Batman Wizard - Crazy Prepared Wizard with a spell for everything.
    • Pun-Pun - A character who uses the Sarrukh's Manipulate Form ability to give themselves any ability they want. Any. From a famous message-board post with a Kobold named Pun-Pun using this ability to demonstrate exactly how silly it could get, and in Pun-Pun's case that's the single silliest Game Breaker yet known.
    • Mr. Shouty Man - RPGNet term for D&D 4E's Warlord.
    • Fightbrain - RPGNet term for D&D 4E's Battlemind, often used by those annoyed with the class name (which often leads to discussions about WOTC/Hasbro's wiki-word style naming conventions for D&D).
    • BBEG: Big Bad Evil Guy. The name for major, Big Bad-level villains.
    • Drizzt: Any ranger whose primary offense is dual-wielding melee weapons.
    • PoLand: A term for the "generic" setting of D&D Fourth Edition, given the portrayal of civilization in the game world as "Points of Light" against a vast untamed landscape.
    • Caltrop: A d4. Anyone who has ever found one while barefoot in the middle of the night can tell you why.
    • Some Sourcebooks have nicknames:
      • Book of Bad Latin: Libris Mortis. If the creators intended for the book to be called "Book of the Dead," the correct phrase would be "Liber Mortis."
      • It's Hot Outside: Sandstorm, a book focusing on desert settings.
      • It's Cold Outside: Frostburn, a book focusing on arctic/tundra settings.
      • It's Wet Outside: Stormwrack, a book focusing on sailing/nautical settings.
      • It's Crowded Outside: Cityscape, a book focusing on urban settings.
      • It's Not Outside: Dungeonscape, a book focusing on... you can figure this one out can't you?
      • Book of Mild Dimness: Book of Vile Darkness, so nicknamed for its often laughably over-the-top take on being evil.
      • Book of Erroneous Design: Book of Exalted Deeds, due to the Game Breakers in that book.
      • Book of Weaboo Fightan Magic: Book of Nine Swords, named so because of its attempts to solve the Linear Warriors, Quadratic Wizards problem, with classes that had spell-like combat abilities. Used both as a pejorative by those who dislike it and a lovable nickname by those who like it.
      • Complete Crud: Complete Psionics. Infamous for it's low quality: plots holes [1], nerfing balanced and underpowered things [2] and for introducing classes for both types of broken [3]. The one things fans consistently like about the book is free as an excerpt (Soulbow), a variant of a feat in a better book (Practiced Manifester is Practiced spellcaster for psionics) and Ardent.
    • Happy Stick: A Wand of Cure Light Wounds, considered perhaps the most indespensible magic item for a low-level party.
    • Greyhawk (verb): To loot. Example: "After we kill the orcs, we Greyhawk their bodies."
    • Laser Cleric: Nickname for 4E clerics that focus on dealing Radiant (i.e. light, holy) damage rather than typical clerical duties.
    • Complete Book of the Master Race: 2E's The Complete Book of Elves, which fully embraced the "Elves are better than everyone else" mentality.
    • Thundercats: A common nickname for Shifters, especially Razorclaws.
  • Legend of the Five Rings
    • CSI: Rokugan - The Kitsuki.
    • Stylus Boy - The Shadow Dragon. (Derived from the First Evil's nickname of 'Pencil Boy', as the character in question is a lame rip-off of.)
    • FuFu-chan - The dark god Fu Leng.'Nuff said.
  • Magic: The Gathering
    • MaRo - Mark Rosewater, Head Designer. Came from the card Maro, which was accidentally named when a file was sent to the Creative department with the abbreviation of his name listed as the creator of the card; Creative figured that it was a made-up fantasy name, and used it.
    • Trollshroud: A variant of the "Shroud" mechanic (which makes a permanent untargetable by spells or abilities) that only prevents opponents from targeting the permanent with trollshroud. Named after Troll Ascetic.
      • Notably, the 2012 Core Set is giving trollshroud an official keyword, "hexproof".
    • Bushie: Goblin Bushwhacker.
    • Dr. Teeth, Zippy - Psychatog. As one of the potentially strongest members of the atog family, it's also known simply as "The 'Tog".
    • Douchebag Marauder - Fleshbag Marauder. Drop him with a Grave Pact in play to see why.
    • Fat Pants - Hero's Resolve. It greatly boosts a monster's toughness, and monsters with high power and toughness are often known as "fatties", while creature enchantments in general are often known as "pants". (Plus the character depicted, Gerrard Capashen, looks fat in those pants.)
    • Goyf or Goofy - Tarmogoyf, widely considered to be the best pure beatstick of all time.
    • Hippie/Hyppie - Hypnotic Specter.
    • Sex Monkey - Uktabi Orangutan, which is infamous for featuring, in addition to the orangutan, two monkeys that appear to be... copulating.
    • The Stick - Isochron Scepter, which allows you to take a cheap spell and copy it every turn. Any card used with the Isochron Scepter in this manner was said to be "on a Stick".
      • Predating Isochron, "X-on-a-stick" is a nickname for a non-creature permanent that has the effects of an established spell as an activated or triggered ability: Seal of Fire is Shock-on-a-stick. "X-on-legs" is a similar nickname for creatures with abilities that evoke spells, or "X-on-wings" if the creature has flying: Nekrataal is Terror-on-legs.
    • Tim - Prodigal Sorcerer, named for the Monty Python and the Holy Grail character, which he vaguely resembles. Any card with the same "tap to deal 1 damage" mechanic will have a similar nickname; Rod of Ruin, for example, is sometimes known as "Tim on a Stick" or "Tim's Rod", while Zuran Spellcaster is known as "Old Man Tim" or "Tim's Grandpa".
      • As a companion to "Tim," Samite Healer, which prevents 1 damage by tapping, is sometimes known as "|Al."
    • Tom - The extremely creative Prodigal Pyromancer, which is effectively Tim, but red instead of blue (which, arguably, the card should have been from the beginning). Similarly, any old card reprinted in the "right" color, such as the newer red Enrage vs. the old black Howl From Beyond. Also known as "Comrade Tim" or "Communist Tim", building on the Incredibly Lame Pun of it being a red creature.
    • Stupid Elephant: The Magic: The Gathering card Loxodon Hierarch, a very powerful card that saw a lot of play in Standard around the time Ravnica block was released.
    • Sonic Boom - Not quite a card name, but a maneuver; using Guile's special ability (which allows you to play yourself a spell you counter) to throw a direct damage spell back at your opponent. Named after the signature move of Guile from Street Fighter.
    • Each winner of the annual Magic Invitational gets to design a card that will appear in a future Magic set. The cards thus produced generally have art featuring a likeness of that player, and are nicknamed after them, if they get popular enough to earn a nickname. For example, Bob (Bob Maher) for Dark Confidant, Finkel (Jon Finkel) for Shadowmage Infiltrator, and Kai (Kai Budde) for Voidmage Prodigy. Solemn Simulacrum is sometimes known as Jens (after Jens Thorens), but is more commonly known as "Sad Robot".
    • And, of course, there's Superman - Morphling to anyone who has yet to learn exactly how absurd the infamous Game Breaker can be.
      • Pemmin's Aura, a card that gives a creature all the abilities of Morphling, is an intentional anagram of "I Am Superman."
      • Torchling am not sometimes known as "Bizarro", not due to it not being a slightly stronger version of Morphling of the same color.
    • Urzatron - Collective term for Urza's Mine, Urza's Power Plant, and Urza's Tower, a trio of lands that give more mana if you have at least one of all three in play.
    • Painlands - A cycle of nonbasic lands that can be tapped for colorless mana, or for one of two types of colored mana at the cost of dealing a point of damage to you. There are two subcycles: the Allied Painlands which first appeared in Ice Age, and the Enemy Painlands which first appeared in Apocalypse.
    • Man Lands - A collective nickname for any land that can turn into a creature, such as Faerie Conclave.
      • Similar nicknames exist for other land cycles, such as the shocklands and bouncelands, which appeared throughout Ravnica block, the fetchlands from Onslaught, the taplands from Invasion, and the original dual lands.
      • Bouncelands are also known to older players as Karoos, for the most well known of the original cycle from Visions.
    • The Power Nine - Collective name for Ancestral Recall, Time Walk, Timetwister, Black Lotus, and all five of the moxes, nine notoriously powerful cards from the very early days of the game.
    • Miss America - Lightning Angel, the first and, for a long time, only creature who was red, white, and blue (without being black or green as well).
    • Moose and Squirrel: Ambassador Oak, coined by Mark Rosewater himself.
    • Kird Kitty: Loam Lion, after Kird Ape, a card with a similar ability.
    • Pancake Rockstar: Rhox War Monk. One look at the card art should tell you why. (Those are supposed to be Bant sigils, but...)
    • Flying Spaghetti Monster: Emrakul, the Aeons Torn, new contender for the largest and dumbest creature summonable. Have you been touched by Her Noodly Appendage?
    • Weenie Madness: a particular deckbuilding style, wherein a player will load his deck down with inconsequential, very weak creatures, and mana-regenerators. Lots of them. The power of a 'Weenie Madness' deck lies in the sheer number of expendable creatures: while more powerful creatures take a larger amount of mana to summon, and thus are less common, Weenie Madness-appropriate creatures are weak enough that they are plentiful in any M:tG deck. Thus, while the other player expends Mana on a few select 'power creatures', the Weenie Madness deck can just keep going, overwhelming its opponent by sheer force of numbers.
    • Tutor: Any card or ability that allows you to search your deck for a particular card or card type and improve your access to it (i.e. putting it into your hand or on top of your library). Named for Demonic Tutor, the first such card, and a number of cards which are similar in both name and effect, such as Worldly Tutor and Enlightened Tutor.
    • Combo Winter: Winter 1998, after the release of the Urza's Saga set, during which the Metagame was dominated by a large number of high-powered combo decks that were often capable of winning on the first or second turn.
    • There are a number of decks named, bizarrely, after breakfast cereals.
    • Cap'n Tickles for Giant Solifuge.
    • Phid for Ophidian.
    • Kokopuffs for Kokusho, the Evening Star.
    • Broken Hellkite for Bogardan Hellkite. (Primarily by Limited players, since only there is it truly broken.)
    • Chimney Pimp or simply the Pimp for Chimney Imp. (Related to a Forced Meme declaring it to be the best card in the game.)
    • Walletslayer Angel - Baneslayer Angel, one of the best creatures in the game at the moment, formerly worth $40-50 each and still fairly expensive. Sometimes Bankslayer instead.
      • Similarly, Jace the Wallet Sculptor for Jace, the Mind Sculptor, which was worth around $100 for a time up until it was banned from the Standard format. (Also known as Jace, the Mind-Raper or Jace, the Gamewinner.)
    • Baby Jace for Jace Beleren, which isn't broken.
    • Yawgmoth's Win - Yawgmoth's Will, a card which, used correctly, generally results in its player winning the game the turn it is played.
    • Power Tenth - This nickname has been used to refer to the aforementioned Yawgmoth's Will or, alternatively, to the Library of Alexandria. It's not difficult to see why.
    • Fat Clone - Quicksilver Gargantuan, which is a Clone the size of an elder dragon.
    • The current planeswalkers are collectively known as "Neowalkers", "Bradywalkers" or "The Brady Bunch", after Brady Dommermuth. (They have a lot of other nicknames, but "Neowalkers" and "Bradywalkers" are the most printable.)
    • Yawgmoth is also called Yawgie or Ol' Yawgie in forums.
    • The current factions of Phyrexia are known as [Colour]rexians depending on the colour of mana they require. "Whiterexia" seems to be the most popular.
      • A derogatory term used by fans of older Phyrexia who dislike the newer incarnation is Faux-rexia.
    • Skittles - Skithiryx, the Blight Dragon.
    • Jar Jar Sphinx - Sphinx of Jwar Isle
    • Dracula-penis - what quite a few fans have already taken to calling Olivia Voldaren, due to a very unfortunate last-minute change in her art which makes her look... extremely well-endowed and entirely too happy to see you.
    • The Powerpuff Girls has become a common fan nickname for the Red, Blue, and Green angels printed in Avacyn Restored, to the point that it was even acknowledged on the main website.
  • Net Runner
    • Bartmoss: Bartmoss Memorial Icebreaker.
    • Bounce off: To end a run by hitting a piece of ICE that otherwise does no harm.
    • Corp: The corporation.
    • Corp Score: The corporation card Accounts Receivable, because it functions identically to the Runner card Score!: pay 5 bits, gain 9 bits.
    • Crash: Draw two cards with "Crash Everett, Inventive Fixer".
    • Escape/ESC: Emergency Self-Construct, used to escape death through flatlining.
    • Neal: The runner card Fall Guy. Taken from its flavor text: "What I like best about you, Neal, is that you trust me.". Also the online name of a prominent Net Runner player and fan, who wrote a Net Runner newsletter called "Neal's Last Words".
    • Pump the Broker/Dump the Broker: Spending an action to add or remove bits from the Broker. Named after the form of stock fraud known as "Pump and Dump".
    • Smith's: To use Smith's Pawnshop to trash a card for a bit.
    • Timetwister: MIT West Tier, named as an anagram of the Magic card Timetwister which has a similar function.
    • Working at McDonalds: Gaining a bit (the currency of the game) by spending an action, rather than through some faster means. Similarly, "working a double/triple/quadruple shift at McDonalds": spending two, three, or four actions in a turn simply to gain as many bits.
  • Warhammer Fantasy Battle
    • Papamobile - the grand theogonist's war altar
    • Hellen - hellcannon
    • Hamsterwheels - Doomwheels, which are pretty much gigantic armed hamster wheels
    • Tapdance of Gork - Gork's Warpath, an orc spell that summons an ectoplasmic effigy of Gork to stomp everyone at random. Spawned due to the White Dwarf article that said this was the original working title of the spell.
  • Warhammer 40,000 (aka WH40K)
    • Empy - Because it's boring to write EMPEROR.
      • Emprah - how Indrick Boreale says it in Dawn of War: Soulstorm.
      • Also commonly called Emps and the Big E.
    • Spess Mehreens - Another one from Boreale, this time an affectionate nickname for space marines.
    • Pie Plate - The large ordnance template. Called a "Pizza" in Italy, for obvious reasons.
    • Smurfs - The (blue-and-white liveried) Ultramarines. Occasionally used for Space Marines in general (SMurfs).
      • Papa Smurf - Marneus Calgar, Chapter Master of the Ultramarines Ultrasmurfs.
      • Rowboat Girlyman - Roboute Guilliman, Primarch of the Ultramarines.
    • Blue Space Communists/Weeaboos - The Tau.
      • Weeaboo Space-Commies as well.
        • Also know as Commie-Fish because of their vehicle naming conventions.
    • Greys - Tau, because of their resemblance to the Roswell Greys
    • Bolter Bitches - Sisters of Battle. Alternate name for flamethrower-focused version: Flamer Bitches.
      • Nuns With Guns - see above
    • Toasters - Necrons
    • Space Elves, Elfdar - Eldar.
      • Among the less charitable (usually SMurf players), the nickname is often extended to Pansy Space Elves.
    • Space Puppies - Space Wolves
    • T-shirt and Flashlight - The flak armor and lasgun of guardsmen.
      • Big Mac - Any melta, but especially multi-meltas. So named because a "multi-melta" sounds like some kind of delicious cheese sandwich.
    • 'Nids - Tyranids.
    • Failaddon / Failbaddon - Abaddon thanks to losing all 13 Black Crusades and never making it past Cadia despite having an army of Space Marines, Daemons and Cults vastly outnumbering the Imperial Forces.
    • Tsundere-Sun/Sundere/ShadowTsundere - Commander Shadowsun.
    • Cap'n Gabe - Blood Ravens Brother Captain (later Chapter Master) Gabriel Angelos.
    • Space Marines, particularly the first edition models, are occasionally referred to as "Beakie Boyz" or "Beakies" due to the distinctive pointed "snout" of the Mk VI Corvus Armour's helmet (itself inspired by the medieval bascinet). Though few Space Marine models use the older helmet, the Orks still use "Beakie" as shorthand for Space Marine, and a certain image board asserts that the earlier Space Marines were much more macho and badass than the Nancy-boys in skull-faced helmets that run around today.
      • Many Orkish nicknames are popular among players as shorthand for various races and wargear: "Panzees" = Eldar; "Beakies" = Marines; "Umies" = Imperial Guard, regular humans; "Dakka" = guns, cannons; "Choppa" = close combat weapons; "Stunties" = Squats; "Fishies" = Tau
    • Life Support Toilet - the Emperor's Golden Throne, for the function it serves and the unfortunate implications of the word "throne."
      • Also known as the Golden Toilet or Golden Shithouse, for the same reasons mentioned above.
    • Musical Wounds - the tactic of exploiting 5th edition wound allocation rules.
    • Greenwing - regular Dark Angels soldiers, as opposed to the more elite black-armored Ravenwing and white-armored Deathwing.
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    • Pimps in Space - Rogue Trader
  • Old World of Darkness - oWoD for short.
    • Fishmalk - A derisive nickname for those who played a certain type of Malkavian in Vampire: The Masquerade. The curse of the Malkavians is that they all become insane upon Embrace, so some players use it as an excuse to play a "wacky," "unpredictable" character who basically pranks the hell out of others. Named for how these Malks are likely to slap you in the face with a fish (or otherwise do something silly involving fish or the word "fish.")
    • There's also the joke: "How many surrealists does it take to screw in a light bulb?" "FISH!" The original meaning of the term stems from a very early LARP game involving a number of Malks and a prank involving fish. More specifically, a bomb that flung fish across an entire room.
    • Rite of Pants - The Rite of Talisman Dedication in Werewolf: The Apocalypse, which allows werewolves to attune certain items so they change when the werewolf changes form. So named because it's most commonly used with clothing.
    • Otherkin: The Glamourbombing - Changeling: The Dreaming
    • Furry Captain Planet - Werewolf: The Apocalypse
    • Hunter: The Reckoning Virtues:
      • Fag - Mercy
      • Assburger - Vision
      • Teabagger - Zeal
  • New World of Darkness - nWoD for short.
    • The Lodge of Batman, a.k.a., The Lodge of the Goddamn Batman - A fast-spreading nickname for the Lodge of Spires in Werewolf: The Forsaken, a sub-group of the Iron Masters dedicated to being the perfect urban predator -- that is, mastering the geography of the city like your standard werewolf would master the forest.
    • Soul Pretzel - Legacies from Mage: The Awakening, so named because creating a Legacy involves reshaping your soul to incorporate elements of the Supernal.
  • Exalted
    • The name of the Deathlord First And Forsaken Lion is often abbreviated as FaFL, pronounced "Falafel".
      • Or "Faffle".
      • Or "Victor von Deathlord" (or, sometimes, Darth Vader).
    • The head of the Sidereal Bronze Faction, one of the most badass Supernatural Martial Arts in existence and a first-rate Manipulative Bastard is named Chejop Kejak... but better known to the fans as Ketchup Carjack, Kneecap Carjack, Sean Connery, or HULK HOGAN.
    • The Primordial named Autochthon is also known as Autobot. Also Auto-kun.
    • Each of the Sidereal castes has its own nickname, taken from them all being Color Coded for Your Convenience:
      • Yellowsids, Bananasids: Chosen of Journeys
      • Bluesids, Berrysids: Chosen of Serenity
      • Redsids, Cherrysids: Chosen of Battles
      • Greensids, Grass-sids: Chosen of Secrets
      • Purplesids, Grapesids: Chosen of Endings
    • Gazellecarp -- The capstone charm of the Dreaming Pearl Courtesan Style transforms your character into a serpentine chimera whose features include a head like a gazelle foal and multiple carp fins down the sides.
    • Her Redness, Akumacakes -- The Scarlet Empress. The former is actually used in the material.
    • Tepet Fuck-Off -- Tepet Fokuf, the Regent of the Realm. So named because, well...he's a total fuck-off.
      • For those of you who don't get this, that name works on multiple levels: the man is totally incompetent, and was chosen just so he can rubber-stamp bills for anything the Realm needs done... and because he frequently pleasures himself to passages from the Immaculate Texts. Yeah.
    • Captain Shoulderpads -- Dace, because of his outfit.
    • Harmonious Booty -- Harmonious Jade. Less because of the actual size of her booty and more that she looks and sorta acts like a Sassy Black Woman.
      • It may also be the fact that she went from wearing loose pants in the first parts of the game to the loincloth thing she has now. Her fanservice factor got kinda ramped-up over time.
    • DEMETHEMANIA -- Demetheus, a big, burly Dawn Caste. In some of the setting fluff, he wrestled giant lions with his bare hands and won; thus a Memetic Badass was born.
      • It really didn't help that his artwork was visibly inspired by The Rock.
    • Ma-Ha Bishi -- In reference to Ma-Ha Suchi's highly Bishounen First Age appearance, complete with roses. Also known as Ma-Ha Suave.
    • The Cosmic XBOX -- The Games of Divinity that the gods spend most of their time playing.
      • Also known as the Pantheon Playstation, The Glorious Golden Gameboy, and the Wondrous World of Warcraft. And "Celestial Crack," sometimes.
    • Princess Starscream -- the deathlord Princess Magnificent, forced by the Neverborn to work for the First and Forsaken Lion, and not at all happy about it. As a logical progression of this, another nickname for the Lion is "First and Forsaken Megatron."
      • Despite this, they are sometimes depicted as Tsundere for each other, just for the lulz.
      • Princess Birdhat, due to how she dresses in all of her illustrations.
    • The Yozi (Demon Prince) She Who Lives In Her Name, an utterly alien being consisting of spheres orbiting around spheres orbiting around a fire, is sometimes called "Swillin'", from the acronym "SWLIHN".
      • Also a rather less pleasant explative by the freelancers due to the sheer wordcount "She Who Lives in Her Name" eats.
    • Likewise, Yozis Adjoran and Isidoros are sometimes called Adoorjam and Isadoor, and the Ebon Dragon is shortened to "Ebby".
    • Castration Demon Pirates for the Lintha pirates, because, well, it's what they do.
    • Robot Sparta for Lookshy, a city-state with an enormously powerful military (and Giant Robots).
    • Signature Malefactor Sulamore, the Wan Stravophore (one of the Infernal signature characters) wears, basically, a highly Stripperiffic nun's habit. Thus, she is known as Hellnun. Or Bondage Nun.
    • The source book Savant And Sorcerer is sometimes referred to as "Sex and the Sorceress" due to a small section on Seduction based magic and the rather provocative cover art.
      • Or the Book of Three Circles, Two Breasts, and One Giant Cameltoe (a reference to the earlier paperback supplement on sorcery, The Book of 3 Circles)
    • The Deathlord Mask of Winters is sometimes known as the Mask of Illiteracy, after stats were published that gave him a Lore score of 0, which means he can't read.
    • The originally-unnamed combat-twink Primordial from the Aftershock War was known as Chungira, after Jon Chung, a combat optimiser par excellence on the rpg.net forums. Its eventual canon name was Ramethus.
    • Disco Ninja Style, for the martial art Crystal Chameleon Style, which focuses on speed and stealth through bright psychadelic lights.
    • Some of the writers have their own nicknames - Michael Goodwin is generally known as Neph (short for his handle on forums, Nephilpal), while Holden Shearer is known as the Hamster due to his tendency to use hamster-based avatars.
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! Card Game:
    • Chaos: Used to describe any monster that can only be Special Summoned by banishing certain amount of monsters. Named after the cards who started the trend, Black Luster Soldier - Envoy of the Beginning (The "Black Luster Soldier" portion of the name was "Chaos Solider" in the OCG) and Chaos Emperor Dragon - Envoy of the End, both of which came out in the card set Invasion of Chaos.
    • Gogiga Gagagigo, while not widely used, was known by most that knew of it as G7. The slightly better but smaller Giga Gagagigo was G6.
    • Tutor/Recruiter: Monsters that can Special Summon other monsters from the Deck, or add them to your hand.
    • Contact Fusion: Used in GX to describe the unique Summoning method of the Neos-related Fusions, it's been used by the fandom to describe similar methods of Fusion Summoning monsters without a Fusion Spell, such as with the A-to-Z or Gladiator Beast monsters.
    • Trample: Stolen from MtG, used to describe effects that allow monsters to inflict battle damage to the opponent even when attacking a Defense Position monster back during the times when the trait hadn't received a proper keyword in the game. Now that the ability is officially called "piercing" and incorporated into card texts (both for new cards and reprints of old cards), the usage of "trample" to describe such effect in the playerbase has pretty much been abandoned.
    • Lucksworns/Sacksworms: A derogatory name for Lightsworns due to their tendency to "bully other decks easily or lose on turn 1" during their heyday.
    • Twilight: A deck that uses both Lightsworns for their milling effects and Zombies for their ability to swarm cards from the Graveyard.
    • Tag Out: The universally agreed upon term for using the effects of the Gladiator Beasts.
    • Tinzo: A Jinzo that was the promo card that came with a tin (and thus can be obtained more easily), rather than the harder-to-get Secret Rare version from the actual set.
    • Omni-Heroes: The name given for 6 Elemental HERO Fusions whose Fusion Materials are 1 Elemental HERO (or, in Absolute Zero's case, any HERO) plus any 1 monster from 1 of the 6 Attributes.
    • An exhaustive list of slangs/in-jokes used by players to call/describe gameplay-related terms can be found here.
  • Shadowrun
    • The Pornomancer: A character design made possible with the latest edition got this nickname. Said design basically amounts to stuffing as many dice into seduction as possible. The joke is that he (it's usually portrayed as a man for added hilarity) can seduce anyone into doing anything.
  • BattleTech
    • The Unseen: The classic designs for several BattleMechs that were licensed from several anime series, most notably Super Dimension Fortress Macross and Dougram. A lawsuit from Harmony Gold (of Robotech fame) forced FASA to stop using the designs, and the 'Mechs in question were quietly Put on a Bus in favor of original designs. As of June, 2009, Catalyst, the current rightsholder somehow was able to renegotiate for rights to use the Dougram designs, making them "Reseen".
      • The lawsuit in question was very complicated and had no clear winners, the result being that there is no company in North America with the clear rights to distribute any derivative works based on Macross.
      • The Reseen: The game supplement Technical Readout: Project Phoenix included legally-friendly new designs for the Unseen that allowed them to re-enter circulation. Unfortunately, the developers of the latest Mechwarrior game seem to have forgotten this....
    • Alpha-Strike: Firing all of a 'Mech's weapons at once.
      • Alpha-baby, Refrigerator: A 'Mech design capable of alpha-striking constantly without overheating.
    • "Boat mech": A 'Mech design based on loading up on as many of a single weapon type as possible. One of the most common variants is putting nothing ER Large Lasers and heat sinks in a Mad Cat, referred to as a 'laser boat', or the Archer as a 'Missile Boat'
    • Meatcannon -- the AC/20, so named for ripping huge chunks out of a Mech like a predator ripping meat off its prey.
    • Ptoo or Ptwo -- on the opposite scale, the spitball-like damage of the AC/2
    • Criticator, Critseeker -- any weapon system more likely to generate critical hits rather than punch through armor, like LBX Autocannon and massed missile banks.
    • Headchopper -- a weapon strong enough to one-shot a Mech's cockpit (such as Gauss rifles), thus instantly removing it from play.
    • Several individual BattleMechs have fan nicknames:
      • Crud -- The Crusader model of Battlemech, both for its CRD serial number and the placing of ammo in the center torso where it was more likely to explode. Worse, the original CRD-3R would explode on any critical hit to its left or right side torso locations as well unless the ammo stored there was already used up thanks to said ammo bins being the only items in those locations that could be critically hit -- and critical hits to 'empty' slots are re-rolled -- thus making all three torsos filled with explodable ammo.
      • Warhampster, 'Slammer, Whammy: the Warhammer
      • Eggs, Eggheads: mechs with an egg-shaped body, like the Catapult, Stalker, Marauder, and Mad Cat
      • Low-Cost: the Locust, as a pun on it being the least expensive mech at 1.2 million C-Bills.
      • Bug-Mechs: The Wasp, Locust and Stinger, both for their insect names and their tendancy to be easily squashed.
      • Salad-shooter: The Saladin, a hovercraft armed with a massive AC/20
      • Sally: the Salamander, an assault missile boat. Also the Salamander Battlearmour
      • Urbie, The Walking Trash Can: the UrbanMech
      • Gauss Rifle on Legs: the Hollander
      • Trenchbucket: The Trebuchet
      • Timby: The Timber Wolf/Mad Cat
      • Gausszilla: Any mech carrying two (or more!) Gauss Rifles.
      • Worthless, Shitworth: The Whitworth
      • B-Mer, B-Master: The Battlemaster
      • Forceful Sodomy Mech: The Dasher D. And that's probably its most printable nickname
      • The Burninator: The Firestarter mech; also the Ignis IFV and Salamander Battle Armour
      • Slapjack: The Blackjack
      • Turkey: the Turkina
      • Daisy: the Daishi
        • While technically a videogame mod, the names given by fans for Mech variants in Mechwarrior: Living Legends fit in here as well. Some examples are "Mr. Bubbles" (Atlas), "Beat Stick" (Mad Cat Mk. II), "Scat" (Shadow Cat) and "Arrowpult" (Catapult with Arrow IV)
    • Robes: Comstar
    • Wobbies, Wobblies, Toaster Worshippers: the eccentric (later genocidal) Word of Blake.
    • PAD -- Pop-and-Drop, a tactic in online games where you would pop out of cover just long enough to fire, then drop out of sight to recycle weapons.
    • Underweight Heavy -- any mech under 60 tons with a top speed of 64kph or less, such as the Panther or Hunchback
    • Zombie - A 'Mech that carries primarily energy weapons, maximum armor, standard or compact engines and/or gyros to a degree that it takes pretty much a center torso coring to defeat.
    • Flashbulb - A laser-(or sometimes PPC)only 'Mech.
    • Fourth of July - When a mech with a large number of Rocket Launchers fires them all at once; especially if it hits with very few of them.
    • Flailing Death - Repeatedly and spectacularly failing Standing Piloting Rolls to the point where the 'Mech destroys itself in the process. AKA: Breakdancing. Emphasis on the 'break'. Which leads to the dreaded...
    • Seatbelt Check - the piloting roll required to avoid pilot damage when a 'Mech falls.
    • Sponge - a 'Mech that through a combination of luck and good positioning, takes a huge amount of damage and keeps going. ANY 'Mech can sponge, as its a factor of taking more damage than you should be able to.
      • The Bushwacker in Mechwarrior 4 is an infamous sponge, due to its tendency to spread damage around its narrow and angular torso.
      • Donut is exactly the opposite, where an otherwise pristine mech take all its damage to just its center torso, and dies.
    • Highlander Burial - a Death From Above maneuver (jumping on top of another 'Mech) performed by a 90-ton Highlander (especially on a smaller 'Mech), which can make it seem like the victim is being driven into the ground.
  • Monsterpocalypse
    • Meatball, Meatwad -- the Lords of Cthul unit Meat Slave.
    • Grape Ape -- Quantum King Kondo. He's purple, he's a giant ape, what did you expect?
    • Truck Monkey -- Frontline Ape, because of the truck held overhead, and in reference to the Transformers meme.
    • The Buggernaught (Bitch!) - Xixorax. The second part is almost always added.
    • Lobstroyer -- This is beyond just a fan nickname. You almost never hear Crustaceor referred to as anything else.
    • G-tank -- G-thang, G-unit, 50 Cent, Fiddy, etc.
    • Hurricana -- Hurricanus, due to the misapplication of Latin gender endings, as well as the unfortunate last four letters.
  • Warmachine/Hordes
    • Warmahordes
    • Chickens -- Used to refer to Cryxian bonejacks, which have small, compact bodies set atop two, four-toed feet.
    • Dirty D -- Deneghra, because she kinda is.
    • Dirty Pirate Hooker -- Skarre, mostly because of her ability to brutalise enemy warcasters with automatic high-power hits.
    • Soulless Elven Hooker -- Eiryss because her power to disrupt anyone's game plan forces people to have a plan to kill her as quickly as possible.
    • Darth Stryker -- Coleman Stryker after he became a Knight Templar and crossed the Moral Event Horizon.
    • Poledance Haley -- Just look at her epic model and tell us it's not true.
    • Gaspy, Ol' Gaspy -- Asphyxious. Probably because his name is annoying to spell and contains part of the word asphyxiate, which carries more or less the same general idea as Gaspy.
    • Gun Bunnies -- Like Chickens, Gun Bunnies refer to Rhulic warjacks with two very wide feet and no arms.
    • Pimp Daddy Thagrosh -- Thagrosh, Everblight's Dragon/Avatar as the rest of the name members of the Legion are all female.
  • Hero Clix
    • LAMP - Lockjaw, Armor Piercing, Mastermind, Poison; a strategy where a player uses a Lockjaw figure combined with a figure that has a combination of the other three abilities.
  • FGU (game company from the 70s and 80s)
    • Fucking Game's Unplayable - Gee, wonder why they went out of business...
  • TSR (D&D's original publisher)
    • They Sue Regularly - due to the company's draconian policy about fansites back in the early days of the Internet. Again, no wonder they went out of business.
    • T$R - Derisive nickname for later-era TSR, due to both their sue-happy tendencies (see above) and their increasing product proliferation.
  1. ↑ Mind Flayer descendants, despite the species reproducing parasitically. Fans have created a variant where they are the ancestors of the mind flayers, but this was only a fan creation and clearly not the original intent.
  2. ↑ You are only allowed to have have one astral construct at a time because... uh...
  3. ↑ Divine Mind is the "unplayable as written" and Eurdite is broken once abilities added to it by web supplement are added, with even normal Eurdite being crazy powerful and oddly written
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