Name Change Request Thread

[Barry Poppins]

Shit do I gotta think of a communist name now?

Damn.

You got this I believe in you!

 

[Chris]

...storm trooper kinda works already tho right?

 

[Barry Poppins]

...storm trooper kinda works already tho right?

Maybe as a Nazi theme

 

[Ricky Smarks]

Maybe as a Nazi theme

Which fits because of their coin flip wars.

 

[Barry Poppins]

If storm wants to make it really Communist, he should do Shturmovik

 

[Ricky Smarks]

It’s funny because I always consider Stalin and Hitler two heads of the same Hydra that for some reason wanted to kill each other.

 

[R-Troop]

pardon my ignorance but does my shoot (WS) name have legit Nazi ties? Never heard that before.

 

[Ricky Smarks]

pardon my ignorance but does my shoot (WS) name have legit Nazi ties? Never heard that before.

Sort of. Storm Troopers were a paramilitary group in Germany during the First World War and there’s a unit during the second under the Nazis with a similar name of SA or Storm Detachment that were also sometimes called Storm Troopers after the OG unit from WW1.

 

[R-Troop]

fuck me I had no idea. Now I gotta think about changing my shoot WS name not just the theme one?

 

[Ricky Smarks]

fuck me I had no idea. Now I gotta think about changing my shoot WS name not just the theme one?

I was never gonna give you shit because I assume you got it from Star Wars, but George literally lifted it from the Nazis because the Empire were Nazis in his allegory.

 

[Chris]

I would certainly not change it due to it bc I think having it related to Star Wars is a victory against the Nazis instead and that's what every associates it with

 

[Ricky Smarks]

To be honest, the thing that ruins, storm troopers more than it being a name of a military organization since it predated the Nazis, is that it’s generally also been co-opted by neo-Nazis. It was also the name of their neo-Nazi magazine the storm trooper.

 

[Ricky Smarks]

But I do like what Chris said though. I do like that it probably is more associated with Star Wars now.

 

[Samoa Looch]

...the heck happened in here

 

[Comrade Khan]

For the record, Jeff’s name is so perfect that I don’t want him to change it even with everyone else gives up on the gimmick, because I think his name is just a great name in general.

@Comrade Khan

I'm keeping it prob till 2025