Posted: 22 March 2007 at 12:16pm | IP Logged | 8
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I don't remember if I spelled Spider-Man with the hyphen all my life, but now I think of it as indicative of the character's nature, as a "spider" and a "man".
Whereas Robotman is not "man" and "robot". That would be a cyborg. He's a "robotman" or "robot man" meaning humanoid robot.
Since Batman doesn't have actual Bat-Powers, he's Batman, symbolic.
What about Nightcrawler? I guess it's a symbolic name as well, since an actual "night crawler" is a large nasty worm. Nightcrawler doesn't just come out at night, but he's ebony, "night-colored". And his motion system involves a lot of squatting and crawling. Still, he's not OF the night.
If Obsidian was called "Night-Man", would he have the hyphen? I say yes, since he has powers that call up this black, night-like terror cloud. It's part of him, but he's also a man.
Edited by Chad Carter on 22 March 2007 at 12:18pm
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