What are we?, Name for the fandom? Options

[LurkNoMore]

Did no-one say "9th Wonderers" yet?

Wonderers as in we are wondering about the show.

http://www.9thwonders.com/boards/index.php...ost&p=83107

[Niki Nathan Love...]

Fans formerly known as [insert funky Heroes symbol here].

[gin]

How bout "Cheerleader Saviors" ? LOL...j/k I like 9ers!

[shda5582]

how about Eclipsers?

[Ms. Krebstar]

"Wonderfans" of the SF Bay Area. What say ye about chartering a club? For real? I'm game.

I am so down.

[bozinka]

Someone in another (less notable) naming thread mentioned that the nickname would really only be appropriate if it invoked the show itself, which I think, in a sense, is true. But the word "Heroes" is so darned generic that it's no going to necessarily point to the show, per se.

"9ers" or "9th Wonderfans" etc., are probably the closest thing to nicknames I can think of, unless we want to start calling ourselves KRING-ons, nyuk, nyuk.

Heh, I think that might have been me there too..

I am going on strike against just arbitrarily picking a freakin' name!

I will say it yet again.. part of what I think makes "browncoats" cool is that, unless you are a freakin' browncoat, you have no clue what it means. (I didn't, and had to ask.)

A cool nickname really doesn't mean much if you just pick it out of thin air, with no meaning at all!

[HERΟ]

So I had a new idea for a name. First, a little bit o' explanation, though... Oh and, by the way, the following is all pretty goofy!

If ya notice, HEROES has extraordinary guys and gals, so the title isn't gender-specific. Otherwise it would be HEROES & HEROINES. Yet still, some people might argue that the HE in HEROES means it is a masculine term only. So, a shortened word for the show could be, um, 'ROES.

Some people have said that in the Firefly 'verse, the term 'verse was used instead of universe because it was a way to avoid the uni- prefix in the word, which is also in Unification Day... So in a similar way of creating a "new" term, 'ROES could be a gender-neutral way or just shorter way of referring to the show (though pretty unlikely).

Now, add the suffix -ian, which can mean "a person of" (like Parisian means a person of Paris). So I thought the term 'ROESians could mean fans (in the place of people) of 'ROES.

So with that idea, I also thought the name should relate to something that HRG said, which was that he did not work for an organization that goes by initials. However, something short, like the letters for some professional organizations or societies (or, of course, a Greek fraternity or sorority) still seemed kinda cool, too.

With all those ideas in mind, I thought of a way how fans could be part of a group that doesn't go by initials, yet still look like they do... Are ya ready? Here goes:

'ROESian could be pronounced like Roe-Zee-En (although probably more like Roe-Zhun, but bear with me). And guess what? With a combination of Greek and Roman (or Latin) letters, that can be written as 'ρzn (or, an apostrophe, the lower case Greek letter rho, and the Roman or Latin letters z and n, as opposed to the Greek zeta and nu)! I thought using the lower case Greek letter made it easier to remember it was "rho", since the capital letter looks like the capital P...

But wait! There's more! One thing I found out is, that way back when, if a Greek vowel or the letter rho was the first letter of a word, then "breathing marks" (or, one of the different diacritical marks) were used. A rough breathing mark (spiritus asper, dasy pneuma or dasia) meant that an "h" sound was made before the vowel or rho (aside: a rho when pronounced is a trilled "r" sound), and it was written like a c-shaped mark (like the mirror-image of a comma, but in a higher position) before the capitalized vowels or rho, or above the lower-case vowels and lc rho (tangent: a "smooth breathing mark" just meant that the first vowel sound or rho was pronounced without the "h" sound preceding it...). So a lower case rho with the dasia would be a rho with the c-shaped mark above it, and some sites explain that's why there's an "h" after the "r" in "rho"...

Well since the name 'ROESian's a combo of different alphabets already, why not also write it as a combo of lower case and small caps, too? I thought it would look kinda neat if the name 'ROESian was written with a combo of Greek and Roman lower and small upper case letters (click for a larger version):


This way, the "n" in this orientation is a "z" when turned 90 degrees ccw, if ya wanted to make a pattern of it... And people might ask what the letters rho zeta nu* are short for, but they aren't initials.

And last, if the diacritical mark means an "h" should be pronounced before the rho, then you could kinda justify that the name for the HEROES fan is (H)ROESian, which sounds sorta close to HEROESian, but if the "h" isn't pronounced, you could also kinda say it was the apostrophe in 'ROESian, too!

Or not.

* I just realized that, courtesy of David Hewlett's Canadian SGA character, Dr. McKay, that the letters could look like what's pronounced as Roe-Zed-En, too, so I guess it may only seem kinda fun for those who see the ρzn and pronounce it like 'ROESian. Another example: some people might also think the ρ is the letter p, as in Peter...

This post has been edited by HERΟ: Apr 23 2007, 08:15 AM

[theJollity]

That should totally be a co-ed fraternity (yes, there are such things).

[HERΟ]

That should totally be a co-ed fraternity (yes, there are such things).

Well, I'd be all for that, except for unisex bathrooms in the frat house... That could be, um, awkward. Sorta related (at least HEROES scribbler Aron Coleite made the graphic novel prequel for it), but have you seen The Covenant?

[theJollity]

I have not seen The Covenant!
I want to, though.

[HERΟ]

I have not seen The Covenant!
I want to, though.

When I thought of the awkwardness of unisex bathrooms in a co-ed frat house, I first thought of college, of course, and then a mist-ifyin' scene from that movie. Pretty fun flick, by the way... Like the Mustang, too.

[IHeartSylar]

A friend of mine and I were talking about this just a little while ago. I like the idea he came up with. He suggested Heroe-sans as a fan group name. He explained to me that it invokes the Japanese aspect of the show:
san "is a title of respect added to a name. It can be used with both male and female names, and with either surnames or given names. It can also be attached to the name of occupations and titles."
He even made up shirts and stuff for it already. I gotta say it's kinda grown on me since he suggested. So, for example, I'm a proud member of the Heroesans. Or, I am a Heroesan. That kind of thing. Though I quite like a few of these as while.

[pngaou]

I don't know if I like 9ers too much because it reminds me too much of the 49ers. Some of the others sound pretty good though.

How about The Yattas!

[Ororo_Munroe]

Did no-one say "9th Wonderers" yet?

how about Eclipsers?

I like both of these

[delusions_of_gra...]

I was too lazy to check the rest of the thread to see if this was already talked about...but...how about calling all of us obsessed Heroes fans "Heroholics?"

[HERΟ]

I was too lazy to check the rest of the thread to see if this was already talked about...but...how about calling all of us obsessed Heroes fans "Heroholics?"

And after that would come the 12-step recovery program called "HA"!

[Rabbit]

How about "People who are fans of the show Heroes"? Not everyone needs a nick-name.

[texgrog]

How about "People who are fans of the show Heroes"? Not everyone needs a nick-name.

Second that.

[HERΟ]

How about "People who are fans of the show Heroes"?

Yeah, it's kinda catchy and original... Simple and elegant. Would look good on a T-shirt, too.

[amolion]

take the W from wonders. the AN from fans and the K from kring. then you can call yourselves WANKers?

[ferstrIKE]

Heh heh heh, thats hillarious

[SabZero]

9th Wonders'

?

[Tecpaocelotl]

So, anyone give any thought as to what fans of Heroes should be called?

"Hero-Worshippers", maybe? Or is it too darn early for that?

Heroholics or Heroics?

[englewood]

take the W from wonders. the AN from fans and the K from kring. then you can call yourselves WANKers?

lmao

[BlackLotusDragon]

I usually use Herotics.

or you can go with Evolved Human. lol. That seems a little conceited though.