Naming Baby After Comic Book Character

>>18052333
You want to have sex with your daughter.
Female comic book characters are just sex objects/mental masturbation of the artist, no matter how much you whine about them being "strong females".

>>18052333
When she's old enough for kids to start picking onher the only people in a given room who will know who gwen stacy is are going to be your age.

>>18052356
Not if they keep rebooting the Spiderman movies constantly every fucking year.
I hope the capeshit era ends by then but you never know.

>>18052359
(not OP btw, of course)

>>18052356

I semi-agree, but Gwen Stacy is going to have been in the new Spider-Man Marvel movie, which I'm sure everyone will go see, and the Spider-Man cartoons have featured her pretty heavily in the past couple of years, and probably will continue to.

Nice, OP. I've always said that if I have daughters I'm naming them Selena and Talia.

>>18052359
Well, to refute that eventuality, I know about 3 of my friend's middle names.

>>18052366

Nice! I managed to sneak in Veronica as a possibility too. She vetoed the other names I picked (not all comic names).

IDK if this is relevant but the singer of Manic Street Preachers is called James Dean and kids apparently made made fun of him for that when he was in school.

Youd make the Gwen ten fans happy

>>18052333
Kek, reminds me of my great grandma, grandpa's mom.
When my grandma and grandpa were pregnant with my mom, my great grandma and my grandma hated each other.
My great grandma's name was Laura, but she always went by her middle name Lillian all her life, so Lillian suggests the name Laura to my grandma.
She convinced my grandma to name my mom after her without her even knowing lmao. Grandma was fucking pissed when she found out years late.

Anyway,
>Gwendolyne, or will she get made fun of at school for having a long, kinda weird name
Let me tell you from the perspective of a teacher, your child is going to have to be able to spell their name by the time they get into school. I find that people with these really complicated last names, often have their children lagging behind in school, because they have complications remembering how to spell their own names. The same applies to the special snowflake mom's who give their kids obscene spellings to common names, Zaquery (zachary), Amileigh (Emily), Taeylor (Taylor), etc. Between me the teacher and my mom the labor RN, we see a lot of just stupid fucking names. My personal fave was the woman who named her kid Syphilis (Cy-fliss).

So anyway, outside of kids making fun of her, that's another thing to consider. In your kid's early life, spelling their name is gonna be a challenge. Later in life this ceases to be an issue though, so it's not that big a deal.
>do you think that will be ammo for kids to pick on her? Or be kind of cool? Or just go unnoticed,
Also as a teacher, you should know that there's literally nothing you can do to prevent kids from picking on her. I've had kids find ways to make the name Johnathan into a joke. Kids are little shits. They are literally little sociopaths for a while while they learn how to function socially like a real human being.
You'll be better off teaching your kid how to roll with the punches than trying to avoid the situation.

>>18052333
Gwen stacy is a terrible idea and she'll definitely be resentful of you in the future for turning her into automatic nerd bait, let alone being made fun of. Gwen and gwendolyn are fine though.
>>18052388
I thought you could fill out your kids nickname in gradeschool and just let them use that for writing on their papers though? At least thats how it was for me, and I'm sure by middle school a kid probably shouldn't have any problems.

>>18052402
Nah, at least where I'm from being able to spell their legal name is like, a requirement in kindergarten. Yeah, most of the time they'll just go by their nick name the rest of their lives, but they still need to know how to sign their legal name. But you can look into that, some shit might be different place to place or have changed. I teach high school now, so elementary can be a whole new world from when I was in college. The education world changes pretty rapidly behind the scenes.

As I said, its a temporary problem since so long as your kid isn't completely retarded, they'll know how to sign their name eventually. The issue just is that I think we all forget how hard it was when we were that young and a blank slate. It really is, genuinely difficult learning letters when you've got nothing.

Now, even if you did want to do a fancy spelling, you can easily get around this issue altogether by being particularly sure to read to your kid a lot as a baby and toddler (Yes, even babies benefit to being read to. You should be reading to your kid by day 1.) and teach letters and such on your own.
I went into kindergarten at a 2nd grade reading level and being able to recognize all letters when I saw them, I just couldn't recall them from memory yet. This was just because I was fortunate enough that my parents spent a lot of time with me as a preschooler teaching me the bare basics.

tldr; Start reading to your kid the day they're born lol. It really does wonders for their future education, even if it seems like a newborn isn't gonna get anything out of being read to. Studies show otherwise, plus what do you have to lose anyway? 15 minutes of your day reading to them?
Hell, read her some comic books ;)

>>18052420

Yeah, my mom did a lot of bad shit raising me, but reading to me and encouraging me to read and explore on my own was one of her strong points.

Up until I was like 13, she had a policy when we went shopping - I couldn't always have a toy, but if I wanted a book, I could always have one. (Didn't apply to comics, sadly, haha.)

If the goal is to make your daughter rebel and fuck exclusively Chads and football players who don't know comics and won't know the origin or significance of the embarrassing name you gave her, then yeah, go for it.

>>18052436
Hah my parents had the same policy basically. They would always buy me a book, no matter what it was, without question if I wanted it. They would spend all the money in the world on books for me if I asked for them.

Buuut comics didn't count either lmao. I liked to read manga a lot as a teen. They'd never buy those for me though, didn't appreciate the medium.
Personally, if I ever had kids I'd have the same policy but I would include comics. Reading comes in many forms, I'd let my kid explore all of them. Plus comics open your mind up to art in general as well.
Hell, I swear I'm not a "weeb" when I say this, but I picked up a manga one day and that's what fueled my interest in other countries and cultures. The manga made me take interest in real world Japan, and then made me take interest in world in general. So I think comics as a medium has a lot more educational value than my parents saw personally.

I like how no one has mentioned that he is hiding this fact from his wife. Hidden motives aren't cool, even if you get your daughter named that is it worth your wife finding out, obviously not divorce material but damn not a respectful way to treat her. What if one of her names is secretly from the house wives of Atlanta or some bullshit and you don't know. Your daughter will be both of yours, don't push more of your own influence secretly.

>>18052445

>Chads and football players
>Getting with the best guys in school
>Birthing a handsome and athletically talented grandson who I can teach about comics

I fail to see the problem here.

>>18052451
I'll probably be buying plenty of comics she can read, but with the current price of books these days and how quickly they can be read through, I'll probably keep the policy just for long-form books. Keep her occupied for a while, instead of 15-20 minutes.

>>18052457

Because it's lame that she'll think it's a perfectly adorable name for our child without mentioning it to her, but as soon as comics come into the equation, she'll go "ewwwww comics" and veto it.

It's like putting onions in a soup when a child insists they hate onions, but then of course they enjoy the meal because you didn't tell them.

>>18052457
Well I don't think hes really hiding anything.
He said that
>Surprisingly, I got Gwen onto our final five
Meaning she agreed she liked the name Gwen. Personally, I think if she's gonna turn her nose up to a name that she admittedly liked just because she found out a comic book character shares that name, she's being extremely petty.
I'd understand her not wanting to name her kid something stupid like Starfire, but Gwen is a normal name.
Besides, you know how many people and characters there are on the earth? Unless you treat naming your daughter like creating a username, you're never gonna find anything that doesn't share any similarities.
As I said, if she said she likes a name and then finding out after the fact theres a comic book character with the same name and THATS the only reason she has now to hate it, that shits just kind of silly.

>>18052462
Yeah, I can see that. In hindsight, might have to put a limit on short reads in general. I'll buy all the novels you want, but short stories, comics, and magazines you can have like, 5 a month on my dime lol.

>>18052471

Yep, this. We each came up with a list of 15 names we liked (starring three of our favorites for discussion if the other wanted to veto), narrowed to 10, narrowed to 5 on each side, then picked a final 5 (two selected by her, two by me, one selected from that 10 by our close friends).

Of my final 10, 7 of the ones she was cool with were names I selected from comic characters.

>>18052487
Seems pretty fair. Are you going to mutually narrow it down any further or do a pull from a hat kind of thing?
Honestly what my parents ended up doing for me and my sister was My mom picked her top fave name from a pool of names they both agreed on, then my dad picked his top fave. They talked it out until one of them won, first name was who ever won, middle was whoever lost. Though they planned on having more than one child from the start. My dad won my sister, their first child's name. Mom chose her middle name. So then when I came around, my dad let my mom name me, and he decided my middle. Same process though, the names were always mutually agreed upon as names they both liked, but they just may have liked some better than others.

Like I know my dad reallllly wanted to name me Rhiannon lol But there was some song in the 80s about a hooker named Rhiannon or something? Idk what it was, it had a negative back story regardless so my mom vetoed it. Instead my dad ended up suggesting Brianna and then that became my middle name. Close enough lol.

seems like a perfectly good name to put on the evil government grid. one should not use their corporation name in personal life, that is just for taxes and all the other evil databases.

>>18052511

We're going to select from the existing names and just narrow it down with conversation, and how the name sounds with a couple of middle name options and how they sound with my last name.

The middle name likely won't match with any of the remaining options just because of sound.

Like, we like how "Charlotte Anne" rolls off the tongue, but Anne isn't one of the names on our list. Gwen Anne would sound weird, so...

Charlotte made the list on our friends' vote but the irony of that name is that I only kind of popped it on the list because I was running out of girl names and Charlotte was the name of some camwhore I used to cam with on Stickam 9 years ago. Don't know if I wanna go with that one, haha.

>>18052539
I know nothing of comics, but Charlotte Anne does NOT roll off the tongue, and Gwen Stacy sounds 100% like a stripper name

Just do Gwen
Gwen Stacy is a bit much.
Or do Jeb, Jeb's a good name.

>>18052333
>Gwendolyne

tip top

(don't do this)

>>18052462
Lol, enjoy your rape victim single mom daughter with a baby daddy who doesn't pay child support from his trailer. Hope all the drama is worth teaching your Fetal Alcohol Syndrome grandkids about spiderman.

>>18052539
kek yeah maybe not
>>18052559
Oh that reminds me, before you do finalize a name might wanna do a quick search to make sure there aren't any like, super famous porn stars with your kids potential name.
Went to college with a girl once who legit had issue getting into teaching because when you google'd her name the first thing that came up was this porn star lmao. Didn't help that they looked somewhat similar at a glance.

>>18052575

My last name is kind of obscure, hard to pronounce, and wouldn't make any sense in porn, so I think we're okay.

>>18052589
Alright then, just something to check lol.

Also, I know technology is pretty good these days but I would also have a couple boys names on standby just in case. Granted this was a long ass time ago, just had a friend who was a "boy" until she was born lol. All the doctors and ultrasound technicians swore she was a boy, then she popped out and the doctors were like "Oh, uh, oops it's a girl". Were gonna name her Brock. And that's how she became Brooke lol.

My mom says this rarely happens still though, the ultrasounds are never 100%. She does say usually the ones that "come out wrong" are the ones that were difficult/ambiguous to tell from the start, however.
Anyway, just might wanna have that in mind in the one and a billion chance you're surprised at birth lol.

>>18052605

I like this concept. My wife pops out a baby, and BOOM. It's a son. The room panics, what will we name him?

Cool and collected, I write on the birth certificate, "BATMAN," all caps, no middle name. My wife will have no say in the matter.

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>>18052611
Legendary.

>>18052356
Who is Gwen Stacy?

>>18052333
Iktf OP. I've convinced my wife to let me name our first daughter Lorelei, who is obviously the cutest elite four member.

>>18052632
Spider-Man's girlfriend that died at the hands of the Green Goblin.

But she's had a resurrection of late in multiple books, predominately as the Spider-Woman of an alternate universe in the book Spider-Gwen.

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>>18052653
Ayy alternate universes. Serious marvel is getting shitty as fuck

>>18052828
Real question: does anyone buy these turds or is it just a virtue signalling masturbatory race to the bottom for its own sake while alienating the core audience?

>>18053595

Sales are down on most Marvel books, but there's a bigger problem in that there aren't quality writers, and constant reboots, as opposed to anything with SJWs.

Marvel's supposedly making a push to bring some real talent back.

>>18053595
it's a cash grab like everything else they've done in the last 25 years. there is no political motivation and the "core audience" is licensing deals, jagoffs who buy the actual comics are just people they fleece out of habit, if marvel ever thought about them they'd sell an actually unlimited and up to date marvel unlimited for the price of one child to be raised as a house slave per year.