Big Daddy
Sunstreaker
Erector
Roughstuff
Skids
Slag
Slow Poke!

In the UK, Slag is a derogatory term for a woman that sleeps around.
and Skids is a mark that you could find in your underwear.

and Slowpoke could be a sexual term.

In the UK anyway!

 

Gas Skunk

Sky Garry, I just can't get over the fact that an Autobot would be called 'Gary'

 

From the RID Ruination team:
Mega-Octane
Movor (he MOVES! Cower in fear!)
Ro-Tor (seriously?? This is a Gobot name, like Cop-Tur or Cy-Kill)

I've never liked the name Kup. It's something you drink out of, not an old, crusty warrior robot.

 

Three horrible TF names, all on the same team
-Alan
-Joe
-Leaf
Sixliner - Transformers Wiki

 

over run... well the other name that is.

 

Alan like seriously? Why does a Robot have a name like that?

 

swagger

I mean, seriously?!
SWAGGER?!
what's next, yolo?

 

Really? How exactly did that get past the lawyers?

Not a bad name per say, and kinda fits, but I always found Cheetor to be an odd name for a peppy and heroic Maximal who doesn't, you know, cheat.

Flame war
Grimlock for a steam shovel
Landfill
Overlord (sounds way too generic)
Slapper
Twin-Cast
Erector
Tasmanian Kid

 

Nexus Maximus for obvious and hilarious reasons.

Que. Just awful. A crappy nod that just shouldn't have been there.

 

Thanks! I was hoping it would be. And thank you for the post that inspired it. 

Also, isn't Vortex a brand of bathroom cleaner?

 

I'm apalled by the bad taste demonstrated in this thread. Monstructor is a great name! So is Flamewar! Sheesh.

There are plenty of genuinely bad names listed here too, though. Leaf, Alan, Diego and San Diego, Erector (snicker), Omega Supreme (sounds like an ice cream flavor), Movor & Ro-Tor, and many more... really bad.

However!

My top two worst, most terrible, least acceptable names:

THRUST
=====
Go Thrust yourself.

Please. I understand it's a jet engine term, but it's awful name. It expresses the idea that "I want to sound cool, but I can't think of anything, all the good names are already taken." Plus it's unavoidably sexual, and it's too brief, like it's incomplete. And it's a name that "deflates" as you say it... just pathetic. ("Thruster," though also an innuendo, would work better -- shout out to Thrustor, the cyborg velociraptor.)



RODIMUS PRIME
==========
Hot Rodimus for your hot bottomus!

I remember watching the movie in the theaters in '86. I was young, but even then I knew that "Rodimus" was an awful name. "RODimus"? WTF? His name was Hot Rod, so he became Rodimus. What's a Rodimus? Nothing. It has no meaning. His name should have been either Calidus Prime or Radius Prime. Calidus is a Latin word meaning "warm, hot, fiery, fierce, vehement, spirited, impassioned, rash, eager." Totally appropriate to the character. Radius is also Latin, and though a little less fitting to the character it sounds more like it derives from "Hot ROD" and it's meaning is good: as well as being the spoke of a wheel and half the diameter of a circle, it also means a ray of light or a ROD. So, yeah, Calidus Prime or Radius Prime. Not Rodimus Prime. Yuck.

 

Alan and Nancy? i smell a sitcom.

 

Impactor. The medical terms associated with the word "impacted" always come to mind when I see this name. Ugh...

 

 

Dent

Well, all the good names are taken- Ratchet

 

no hate for It? not kidding a character has the name of It. just the letters I and T together

 

Lube (although technically he's a nebulon powermaster)

Also, regarding G2 Windbreaker, at least they made G2 Skram's function "crack patrol" instead of his.

 

Everyone who mentioned Erector is WRONG.

The answer is Alan!

 

Cut throat and Que

 

Cutthroat is a great name, you silly person! Que is pretty bad though.

Gotta admit, I forgot about LUBE. I mean, damn...