Stormrider wrote:It's a cool name. It kind of sounds German.
Loki120 wrote:My guess is that it sounded alien, and that was good enough. In the end, what does Zarak mean, or derived from? How about Monzo?
Cyberstrike wrote:Loki120 wrote:My guess is that it sounded alien, and that was good enough. In the end, what does Zarak mean, or derived from? How about Monzo?
Good point. Most of the orginal Nebulans had weird names to begin with Gort, Stylor, Duros, Arcanna, Spike, Zarak, Monzo,
Grax etc al.
Raymond T. wrote:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+Krunk
Loki120 wrote:Raymond T. wrote:http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=define%3A+Krunk
Problem being that the Nebulon name Krunk came before either of those defintions. So at the time, the name meant nothing other than sounding alien and somewhat evil.
Wheeljack35 wrote:Stormrider wrote:It's a cool name. It kind of sounds German.
Actually more Klingon then German
I remember watching an old Batman episode from that crappy 1960's version and when he and Robin fought they used to put up words on the screen like "POW" "BANG" and one of the words was "KRUNK"
I wonder where that came from?
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Galen - gallant
Arcana - arcane (IE old)
Duros - durable
Stylor -stylish
Gort - no too sure about him but he shares the name with the robot from The day The Earth Stood Still, perhaps the person naming him was a fan of that movie in the same way that Ratchet is named after Nurse Ratched (from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )
Zarak - I'm sure it's a cooincidence but theres a 1956 film called Zarak. Most likely the name was chosen for sounding like a cool sci-fi name as it starts with Z.
Monzo - Weak link to the word Muzzle?
Grax - Possibly based on Drax (who was the villain in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker)
Vorath - Possibly based on the word Wrath.
Spasma - Spasm (or spastic if you prefer)
Krunk - I'd agree with the onomatopoeia explanation.
Perhaps I'm trying to hard for the explanations of the decepticon headmasters. It might be that they just picked sci-fi sounding names for all of them, using the futuristic letters Z, X and V.
OptimusPrive wrote:High Command wrote:I'll have a bash at this.
Galen - gallant
Arcana - arcane (IE old)
Duros - durable
Stylor -stylish
Gort - no too sure about him but he shares the name with the robot from The day The Earth Stood Still, perhaps the person naming him was a fan of that movie in the same way that Ratchet is named after Nurse Ratched (from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )
Zarak - I'm sure it's a cooincidence but theres a 1956 film called Zarak. Most likely the name was chosen for sounding like a cool sci-fi name as it starts with Z.
Monzo - Weak link to the word Muzzle?
Grax - Possibly based on Drax (who was the villain in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker)
Vorath - Possibly based on the word Wrath.
Spasma - Spasm (or spastic if you prefer)
Krunk - I'd agree with the onomatopoeia explanation.
Perhaps I'm trying to hard for the explanations of the decepticon headmasters. It might be that they just picked sci-fi sounding names for all of them, using the futuristic letters Z, X and V.
Pretty good reasoning there.
"Monzo" could also be related to "mondo" or "gonzo"?
"Spasma" is a (portmantu?) combination of "spasm" and "plasma" methinks.
High Command wrote:[...]Ratchet is named after Nurse Ratched (from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )[...]
Leonardo wrote:High Command wrote:[...]Ratchet is named after Nurse Ratched (from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )[...]
Is that true?
OptimusPrive wrote:High Command wrote:I'll have a bash at this.
Galen - gallant
Arcana - arcane (IE old)
Duros - durable
Stylor -stylish
Gort - no too sure about him but he shares the name with the robot from The day The Earth Stood Still, perhaps the person naming him was a fan of that movie in the same way that Ratchet is named after Nurse Ratched (from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )
Zarak - I'm sure it's a cooincidence but theres a 1956 film called Zarak. Most likely the name was chosen for sounding like a cool sci-fi name as it starts with Z.
Monzo - Weak link to the word Muzzle?
Grax - Possibly based on Drax (who was the villain in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker)
Vorath - Possibly based on the word Wrath.
Spasma - Spasm (or spastic if you prefer)
Krunk - I'd agree with the onomatopoeia explanation.
Perhaps I'm trying to hard for the explanations of the decepticon headmasters. It might be that they just picked sci-fi sounding names for all of them, using the futuristic letters Z, X and V.
Pretty good reasoning there.
"Monzo" could also be related to "mondo" or "gonzo"?
"Spasma" is a (portmantu?) combination of "spasm" and "plasma" methinks.
Dagon wrote:OptimusPrive wrote:High Command wrote:I'll have a bash at this.
Galen - gallant
Arcana - arcane (IE old)
Duros - durable
Stylor -stylish
Gort - no too sure about him but he shares the name with the robot from The day The Earth Stood Still, perhaps the person naming him was a fan of that movie in the same way that Ratchet is named after Nurse Ratched (from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )
Zarak - I'm sure it's a cooincidence but theres a 1956 film called Zarak. Most likely the name was chosen for sounding like a cool sci-fi name as it starts with Z.
Monzo - Weak link to the word Muzzle?
Grax - Possibly based on Drax (who was the villain in the 1979 James Bond film, Moonraker)
Vorath - Possibly based on the word Wrath.
Spasma - Spasm (or spastic if you prefer)
Krunk - I'd agree with the onomatopoeia explanation.
Perhaps I'm trying to hard for the explanations of the decepticon headmasters. It might be that they just picked sci-fi sounding names for all of them, using the futuristic letters Z, X and V.
Pretty good reasoning there.
"Monzo" could also be related to "mondo" or "gonzo"?
"Spasma" is a (portmantu?) combination of "spasm" and "plasma" methinks.
As far as "Monzo" goes, wouldn't 'mondo gonzo' roughly mean, like, 'big crazy'?
For "krunk", I'm thinking along the Monzo and Spasma lines, like Krunk is a purposeful misspelling or crunch or crush of something. Those name make a certain amount of sense considering they are the heads of what's supposed to be wild, maniacal robot animals, I think.
Loki120 wrote:Leonardo wrote:High Command wrote:[...]Ratchet is named after Nurse Ratched (from One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest )[...]
Is that true?
And it wouldn't have anything to do with the fact that Ratchet is a mechanic and a ratchet is a tool?
I doubt the Nurse Ratched thing.
Uncle Bob on naming transformers said not wrote:Do you remember any Transformers in particular that you came up with names and personalities for?
Megatron, whichever the first couple dozen were. Ravage. I think Bumblebee was mine. Ironhide, um who was the ambulence? Ratchet, which I got from "One Flew Over the Cukoo's Nest", Nurse Ratchet you know that story. Ironhide I got from the old TV series Ironside. I pulled all these names from different things.
Megatron was "Mega" from "Megaton", you know. "Tron" was from "electronics". I can't say for sure, but my belief is that that name became one of the best known. I remember it was in Doonesbury where the son of Doonsbury is saying that the President is Megatron or something like that. I think it's the best known and regarded among a lot of the names I came up with. At the time, Hasbro actually initially rejected it, and the reasoning was "Well, it sounds too scary because Megatron makes you think of nuclear bombs." and I said "Well, he's the head of the bad guys, the whole idea is for him to be scary." They dropped their protest after that. They would reject names every so often for all sorts of reasons. Although they were really happy, I mean they were just ecstatic generally when I came up with a batch of names for them to look at.
I know sometimes in other years they actually used companies to come up with names. At that time I think there was some really nascent computer software to generate names, and they would do that. And they would always come back to me. For like, five years they did that.
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