Nice to know Hiro Nakamura's not the only special capable of giving people silly nicknames.

Yeah...of all things...

I mean, if you aren't going to explain it at least don't pick something so..weird.


It sort of killed the cute sister-bonding scenes for me. But ah well.

Ok... I'll spell it out for you all.

Banana... Angela...

A lot of my family members have nicknames based on how small children mispronounced their names (usually siblings). E.g., I have a cousin who answers to Deedle just as often as Chyrstal. And here in the South, no one is actually named "Bubba"--it's the toddler way of saying "brother."

So I get the nickname, but it was still really distracting and did not help with the bonding at all.

Yeah, it was just a sister nickname.

I'm glad somebody asked that question. I didn't dare, I thought I'd misunderstood and would create another Ned if I brought it up in a post.

I didnt like the nickname at first, but it grew on me. If they had explained it, people would just be complaining "why did they waste screen time explaining a nickname?"

No one can stop the almighty Banana!

It didn't take me out of the scene at all, it actually made it more believable to me. Siblings have weird nicknames for eachother. I still call my sister Nicole Nikkums, heck before I was five I just called her Sissy.

Its the name game.

Actually, the extremely odd nickname aided the bonding for me. Seriously, does nobody in here have a sibling?

I used to know someone with the nickname "Bubba" back when I lived in Georgia!



But, yeah, I think dcg has the most logical explanation.



EDIT: And yeah, sometimes siblings just have weird nicknames for each other. I call HeroesCrazy8 "Kashew" (Spelt with a 'k' on purpose)

Yeah, I have a brother named Mike.

I always called him...Mike.

Thank you for making this post so I didn't have to. lol

Exactly. It doesn't need an explanation or a logical reason. It's a term of endearment, so I really don't see what the problem with it was.

Yeah and I call my brother by his name also, but I know that there are people out there who have nick names for each other. Martin Sheen's grandkids call him Peach and not Grandpa. I knew a story of a siblings who called one by an odd name because when she was a little kid she couldn't say the girl's real name, it was too hard for the child to say. Nicknames for loved ones are very common from, Love, sweetheart and maybe fruits. You may not like the nickname, but you have to at least knowledge it's a known thing.

If I had ever called my older sister Banana, she would have punched me in the face.





Banana is usually an insult in kid speak. Like Ana Banana.

Every character and person is different. I do highly doubt she called her Banana in public, it's a private thing.For all we know it was a nickname her father gave her and Alice used it, as Dad's do give silly nicknames.

Where?
I remember kid-insults being short on sense but long on outrage from the target. And I can't remember ever seeing a kid get insulted at being called Banana.

And the point that we are trying to make is also, obviously in the context of the story it was a term of endearment.

I had a friend I called Ana Banana all the time, her family did as well. It was a nickname. What's offensive about Ana Banana? (It's like how I never got how Andie Pandie was supposed to be offensive since pandie isn't even a word.)

Even assuming some kids find Banana offensive ( )...doesn't the tone of voice usually imply that offense is intended- even with kids?

Anyway, an unusual, even rather stupid, nickname for a sibling is something I thought was more common- and something that sealed the relationship between Alice and Angela for me.

I was called baloney all the time or boney. It was meant to be an insult and not a term of endearment

It matters who it comes from. I call my son 'boogs' as a term of endearment since his nose used to run all the time from allergies when he was younger. It is innocent and sentimental -- if not gross If someone else were to start calling him boogs, or booger boy, for his runny nose, it would be more of an insult. From Alice, banana was a term of endearment.

I think its a funny nickname. I name people things all the time! A couple of years ago I re-named my friend rebecca "shelly" because she had to wear a retainer for a month and sounded like shelly from south park. and there was this girl in my camp who everyone called "chunky" because she was so skinny.
I wonder where "banana" came from, though. was angela, like, promiscuous or something?

That is a slippery slope.

Actually they just let a little girl try to say Angela's name, and as the girl said "banana", they took it...