I had more or less stopped following Star Wars by the time the prequel trilogy was finished, so I have no idea if those you listed were all real, canon characters (I prefer to think you made them up...and please, don't correct me if you didn't :P ), but I even thought Darth Maul and Darth Sidious were silly. ("Hmm, I'm trying to come up with a name for a Sith lord that just sounds insidious, you know? But I'm stumped." "How 'bout 'Darth Sidious'?" "You...don't think that's a little...on-the-nose?" "Nah. Nobody'll figure it out. Now let's go -- Biology class starts in 2 minutes, and if we're late again, we'll get detention!")

Well, Tyranus, Bane and Plageuis are real, the list at the end is made up. I guess it's telling that it's hard to tell the two apart :D

Also, as much as I love KOTOR 2, it gave us Darth Nihilus, who would easily fit in with my made up list.

Well, the whole "Darth is a title" and "I am your father" thing really feels like a retcon that happened between "A new Hope" and "Empire strikes back". I get the impression it wasn't meant this way initially, but they had the idea later, found it cool, and decided to incorporate it into the storyline. And many other setting stuff feels this way in the movies. Like the importance of Vader, that really fels like an overpowered goon, a killer dispatched by the Emperor but following the orders of the real bosses (Like Tarkin) in the first movie, but becomes a warlord and the Empire's n°2 in the sequels

But I'm not complaining. Those were mostly cool ideas, and the movies were awesome :)

Even if the names were silly. Come on, "Anakin Skywalker"? "Darth Vader"? "Chewbacca" (translated "Chiquetabac", i.e. "chew tobbaco", in the first French translations)?
And the titles of the movies themselves are quite kitch ^^

You mean like J'onn J'onzz?

One of the main characters of Suikoden Tierkreis, a girl called Marica. Marica is a Spanish slur which means "faggot".

probably a typo version of marcia

Good book.

I've wanted a nuke with a radio transceiver linked to my deadman switch on my heartbeat ever since.

"Beyond the Grave" has to be the worst character name in history

Lots of 'good' examples here. I'll toss in one as well: Dirk Pitt, the hero of numerous Clive Cussler novels (Actually, not sure which name is worse, the character's or the author's... :P)

Snoke... just Snoke. Makes me think of some pervy saddle sniffer comic relief rather than a serious antagonist. The title of Supreme Leader doesn't help either as the only other supreme leaders I can think of are Admiral General Aladeen and Sacha Baron Cohen's Kim Jong-un. At least Count Dooku had the count title to give the name some authority and the Darth Tyranus alias.

the fact that dooku was played by christopher lee doesnt help either
not only is lee wasted on the role
but i now cant help but name the character count dookula

the count thing with that doesnt help either


pit from kid icarus
who the hell names their man character pit ?!

That's more of an unfortunate linguistic coincidence than a terrible name. Now, if the writer who came up with it was a native Spanish-speaker, it might qualify as incredibly stupid. ;P

The motherfuckin Japanese, yo

come to think of that

every character from every bloody metal gear game
from the boss
to big boss
to solid snake
to revolver ocelot
to liquid snake
to vulcan raven
to sniper wolf
to rubber octopus lynx or whatever they are all bloody ridicilous

If I had to pick just one reason why I have no interest in playing the MGS series, that ^ would quite probably be the winner.