Considering he doesn't even shock? shockwaves aren't shocks... they are waves.

But you can't really call him Waver... Vibrator.. Shockwaver...

They should call him Quilt for wearing a costume that looks like a big blanket.

Superman
Batman
Hulk
Daredevil
Thing
Wasp
Flash
Hawkman
Fury
Cyborg
Robin
Raven
Cyclops
Iceman
Angel
Beast
Starfire
Changeling
Aquaman
Goliath
Hercules

Well, you know I meant names that can't be broken into two parts. Adjective Person is a *good* superhero name. Adjective Noun (like Green Lantern or Blue Beetle) is a good name. Title Adjective/Noun is a good name. And I'll back off a bit and say a name like The Noun is okay, but just Noun is not.

So from the list above, good names are:

Bat Man. Dare[-ing] Devil. Hawk Man. Ice Man. Star Fire. Aqua[-tic] Man. The Hulk. The Wasp. The Thing. The Flash. The Beast.

The Fury (of Firestorm) (or do we mean Helena Kosmotos, who is A Fury who could be called The Fury... or do we mean Hippolyta Trevor-Hall who does have a dumb name in Fury? Or that new bastardized new52 daughter of Wonder Woman and Apokolips? Then it's a dumb name.)

Names that are so-so because they're at least descriptive of the character: Cyborg (because he's a cyborg; not a great name, but okay). Cyclops (because he looks like a cyclops when using his powers). Angel (because he looks like an angel). Goliath because he's recalling the mythical character of Goliath. Raven because her soul-self has a distinctive black bird shape. Changeling because he's, well, a changeling.

And actual names are sort of not "superhero" names, so people like Hercules and Thor don't count as good *or* bad names.

So, the only bad name (imho) on that list is Robin. He's not Robin Boy or even really trying to recall Robin Hood (despite what his first appearance says). He's just a bird guy to go with a bat man, and that's pretty lame. He doesn't have bird powers or anything. Red Robin's okay, but that's a different matter.

So, yeah, Robin is as lame a name as Gambit, Cable, and all the rest. But at least we've had over 70 years to get used to him. Even still, does anybody want to get saved by Robin... or would you prefer any other hero? (I'd choose any other hero.)

Firstly, reading this made me lol, a lot.

Worst hero name to me is probably Batwing. Did he name himself after The Batwing on purpose? Which came first I wonder? I would have to guess the Jet did.

It's called rape and pillage for a reason.

He named himself after the scene in Waiting... search "waiting batwing"...

Oh, how could I have forgotten about Red She Hulk/Red Hulk....

Guys, you see they're like the hulk, BUT RED!

"Ridge" is probably the worst one I've seen in a while. Maybe as time goes on he'll create the "League of Uninspiring Geographical Features", along with a whole new cast of characters such as Stream, Escarpment and Oxbow Lake.

Here's one that never seemed that bad to me, mainly because I grew up with it as a superhero name and only heard about its other meaning later:

Shrinking Violet.
shrink′ing vi′olet
n.
a shy or self-effacing person.

Yeah, so her codename says that she's a shy person. Oh, how scared I am of that! She'll just shrink away if I so much as look at her. Oh no!

And yet, I wouldn't want her name to be changed under any circumstances either.

I think the Amalgam crossover missed it's chance to mash him & The Hangman together...they could have called him the The Well Hung Man.

You think "Robin Boy" is a better name than "Robin"?

Strong Guy...

To be fair, Strong Guy isn't meant to be a name that's taken seriously. Guido had been around the Marvel Universe for years without a codename. It wasn't until he joined the second incarnation of X-Factor that he got stuck with the name Strong Guy more or less by accident.

Actually, it isn't. The *second* Puck (Zuzha Yu) revealed in the All-New, All-Different Alpha Flight series that *she* used the name as a Shakespeare reference, but her dad (Eugene Judd, the original Puck) was just a hockey fan.

Emp, Grifter, Void, Voodoo, Maul, and Zealot. In fact, their team name, Wild C.A.T.s, is pretty bad. Warblade is a good name (I just don't like the character).