The Sub-Mariner's Rogue's Gallery, Improved
Today's dippy thought: The Sub-Mariner's name is "Namor." A good faux-foreign name. Twenty bucks and a box of doughnuts says it was derived from spelling "Roman" backwards.*
That being the case, shouldn't he have a Rogues' Gallery made up of villains named Labinnah, Nainigahtrac, Htogisiv, and Ladnav?
I'm just sayin'.
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*The Wikipedia claims that Namor's creator, Bill Everett, got the name to Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I'm not buyin' it. A quick scan of the poem shows no such name, nor even a similar-sounding name. I sez it's "Roman" backwards. The poem may have inspired the character himself, but the name? Nah.
That being the case, shouldn't he have a Rogues' Gallery made up of villains named Labinnah, Nainigahtrac, Htogisiv, and Ladnav?
I'm just sayin'.
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*The Wikipedia claims that Namor's creator, Bill Everett, got the name to Coleridge's "The Rime of the Ancient Mariner." I'm not buyin' it. A quick scan of the poem shows no such name, nor even a similar-sounding name. I sez it's "Roman" backwards. The poem may have inspired the character himself, but the name? Nah.
posted by Harvey Jerkwater at
11/08/2006 06:51:00 PM
5 Comments:
Yep, it's "Roman". At least that's the way I heard it.
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Anonymous, at 9:09 PM
So...if Zatanna was to say one of these characters names backwards, it would be forwards? Or something.
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SallyP, at 11:20 AM
...and an archvillain named Sepip-Dael?
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Matthew E, at 11:21 AM
It's the "Sub-MARINER" part of his name that comes from the Coleridge poem, not the "Namor" part.
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Anonymous, at 10:33 PM
Sure, if you want to go and make sense and stuff, that explanation will work.
Hm...maybe his recurring villain should be "Daed Ssortabla."
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Harvey Jerkwater, at 11:03 AM
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