Wednesday, November 08, 2006

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.
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5 comments:

  1. Anonymous9:09 PM

    Yep, it's "Roman". At least that's the way I heard it.

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  2. SallyP11:20 AM

    So...if Zatanna was to say one of these characters names backwards, it would be forwards? Or something.

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  3. Matthew E11:21 AM

    ...and an archvillain named Sepip-Dael?

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  4. Anonymous10:33 PM

    It's the "Sub-MARINER" part of his name that comes from the Coleridge poem, not the "Namor" part.

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  5. Harvey Jerkwater11:03 AM

    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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