Character Names

Generic well famous superheros

Deciding on the names required many vital steps, one of our first moves was the Internet and our already common knowledge. e.g. Superman, Batman, Spiderman, Wonderwoman, Catwoman, The green lantern, The Hulk.Most Super Hero names tend to include gender specific pronouns: Man, Woman, Boy, Girl. Another common feature is the use of adjectives. e.g. Wonder, super. green. Lastly the most obvious one is to relate the name to the character name to their given superpower. Standing out is something the name needs to do the moment it's mentioned, something like a Buzz Word.
In all honesty using Internet name generators wasn't much help as a lot for them created extremely cheesy names which didn't fit our genre or didn't work well as a Buzz word. These are some of the websites we looked through:

http://www.superheronames.net/superhero-name-generator
http://www.namesmade.com/villain-name-generator.php

http://www.seventhsanctum.com/generate.php?Genname=superheronameorg 


-This last generator suggested the word Topaz to us a number of times, we felt it had quite a ring to it which encouraged us to  look further into the meaning behind it and what use it could be for us.


Dictionary Definition:

-Topaz: a transparent or translucent aluminium silicate mineral. Yellow, used as a gem.

After deciding we were quite fond of the word topaz and the characteristics of the word we brainstormed our own ideas for name which we could use for out Protagonist. Most of these incuded words which symbolise ivisibility to fit with the super power of the character, our favorite was:

Dictionary Definition:
-Spectre: Ghost. Menacing mental image, a haunting presentiment or preoccupation used in the names of some animals because of there thinness/transparency.


We finally came to the concussion that these together represented the characteristics of our superhero, bearing the power of invisibility -Spectre, and gave us a good grounding for a colour scheme of which we can relate our character to -Yellow.

TOPAZ SPECTRE

Next we had to decide on our villains name, we wanted something quite threatening and menacing. 

 Creating our superhero name took quite a while, we wanted to base it around the superpower to begin with like we had done with our antaganist, this made it obvious for our audience to understand what we're atempting to create in our antaganist character. Our fist though for something that would clearly demonstrate mind reading was a 'Magic 8 Ball'

Dictionary Definition:
-The Magic 8 Ball: is a toy used for fortune-telling or seeking advice, manufactured by Mattel.

from here we were ghappy with our findings and started on designing the costume, including a large silver 8 on the back of a black cape to represeant the 'Magic 8 Ball' and also the black symbolises evil within the villian. Once we had done this we had a masive brain wave as we saw the number 8 also creats the infinity sign, I loved the idea of this as it makes it seem on going (forever) Mel and I both agreed this is a great idea and something threatening for evil villian character to hold, repreenting eternal life. We then looked this up in the dictonary and slightly changed the word to make it sound more like a name to 'The Infinitice'

Dictionary Definition:

-Infinite: Without any limit or end

THE INFINITIVE