You're all gits Erector builds (erects) bridges and spreads the love. Why do you all hate him? Stupidest name is clearly Alan.
Gas Skunk. I mean, really? Not even a clever pun? Not even an actual phrase? I love Gas Skunk but his parents were assholes.
Erector is both a bad name and not that funny. I'm also not fond of the name Stepper. Always preferred Ricochet.
Agreed on this one. Personally I love names like Windbreaker and Discharge, the 13-year-old in me would never want those to be changed. The names that annoy me are thoughtless or generic names. The '86 Movie was fascinating in this regard; it introduced some of the best (Cyclonus, Scourge, Unicron, Ultra Magnus) and the worst (Arcee, Kupp, Wreck-Gar) names to the TF mythos. But the absolute worst TF name, in my opinion, is: Rodimus Prime It's such a thoughtless name. It feels like the writers had five minutes to come up with it, and the best they could do was tack Hot Rod's name onto Optimus' name in a misguided attempt at pseudo-Latin gravitas. But whereas "Optimus Prime," despite its pseudo-Latinness, actually has a meaning (he's the first and optimal Autobot), "Rodimus Prime" is just straight-up nonsense. It sounds ridiculous, and is frankly sort of insulting to the child audience of '86; it's like they thought kids couldn't grasp that this was Optimus' replacement unless his name sounded similar. But I think kids would have understood that fine just from the addition of "Prime." This was the NEW AUTOBOT LEADER, and they had the chance to come up with a really great-sounding name. And now, thanks to legacy value, we're stuck with this clunker.... even more so thanks to the trademark issues stripping Hot Rod of his original name these days. So yeah, for me Rodimus Prime takes the cake.
Rodimus Prime emphasis on the Rod,and I guess even Hot Rod too. Another one would be the ever popular Erector,I mean come on I really think that name should be struck down from TF's forever.
Why? because of the grown adults with less intellect than your average 3rd grader? The character and the name are fine, the dullards who have to act like ignorant fools are the problem. (Not the Hot Rod part to be clear)
Well...it's not really like it's gotten better with time - The fallen...seriously? I mean, yes Rodimus Prime is a little silly (I find scourge to be an awesome name though) but it's waaaay better than the fallen.
Oh, me too! I love the name Scourge (if you look back at my post, that's one of the ones I listed under great names that the movie gave us). And no question that there are some pretty bad modern TF names. "The Fallen" sounds pompous and cliched, for sure (and Hasbro made it even worse when they decided his original name was "Megatronus Prime"... that's sort of the modern equivalent of "Rodimus," I guess. Just lazy, lazy, lazy). But still, if I could retroactively change one TF name from the past so that we were no longer saddled with it, I'd pick Rodimus Prime in a heartbeat.
