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Clever Pokémon Nicknames

Lessee...

Torterra: A'Tuin - In Discworld, it's the turtle that carries the world on its back.

Dialga: Kronos - Obvious.

Heatran: Furnax - Roman godess of ovens.

Giratina: Nemesis.

Ninjask: La Mojca - A misspeling of "La mosca", meaning "the fly" in Spanish.

Medicham: Zas! - Comes from a Family Guy episode in Spanish where Peter said "Zas! En toda la boca!" (that's "Zas! Right in the mouth!", I'll check to see what he originally said in English).
Edited: Found it. "Pow! Right in the kisser!", a reference to Jackie Gleason.

Smeargle: Jihad - Substitute+Belly Drum+Explosion. Hehe.

Hippowdon: Arrakis - The desert planet in Dune.

Vaporeon: Jocántaro - A sea monster in the Spanish B-movie "Karate a muerte en Torremolinos"

Drifblim: Sustitocho - "Sustituto"=Substitute, "Tocho"=Huge.

Lopunny: Travelo - He was a male Lopunny, you can guess what "travelo" means then.

Dunsparce: LOL HAX - This one is pretty obvious.







Seriously? I named my Dialga Chronos!!!!
 
Don't like to use nicknames, because I like the original names :D But I used to nicknames when I started to play Pokémon Red many years ago.
 
I normaly dont nickname mine neither, but I kinda wanted to this time around. Alot of mine are pretty obvious.

Purugly: Prudence

Leafeon: Forest

Driftblim: Aire

Rapidash: Freya

Vapoeon: Skye (because when I was in a pokemon chat years ago, my icon was always a vapoeon and I'd show up under the name Skye)

Mismagius: Gothica
 
I have a few new nicknames.

Dratini= Spyro

I know, the video game character


Eevee (And I want it to stay eevee)= Mikey

After the kid in the Kanto seasons of pokemon anime who did not want to evolve his eevee.


Skitty=Mayefet

A combo of May and Wobbuffet


Vulpix= Kitsune

It looks like one


Nidoran Male= Moony

It evolves with a moon stone.


Nidorina= Quepoikant

Que-part of a spanish word poi- part of poison kant- part of Kanto


Gabite= Jet

Its evolved form looks like a jet plane. But it's female. Weird, huh?


Azelf=Temurge

tempt+urge


Uxie=Einstein

He's the trio member of intelligence, right?


and finally, last, but not least,


Oceao the Vaporeon!!!

Oceao's name is pronounced Oh-say-oh, and is the current eeveeloution in training!

His name is based off of the word ocean.
 
Arcanine - Roxie- After my dog. <3
Blastiose - L'earoi - Water King, I think I used French words. XD; I can't remember at the moment, but I know I left a letter out of "water" on purpose.
Magmortar- Moeyuku - Stole it from one of the ending theme's lyrics from Bleach.
Leafeon - Erika - After the Pokemon Gym Leader.
Espeon - Anabel - After the Pokemon Frontier Brain.
Wailord - DeLorean - After the Back to the Future car.


Dragonite - Kasumi - Asked a friend for a nickname.
Luxray- Relucesca - Latin for "light" I believe. I can't remember.
Empoleon - Memphis - After the character from Happy Feet.
Staraptor - Talliehawk - After the character from Silverhawks.
Dusknoir - Violet - After the character from the Series of Unfortunate Events.
Typholsion - Hinoarashi - Cyndaquil's Japanese name.

Golduck - Kona-chan - After the character from Lucky Star
Torterra - Bonsai - After the tree.
Medicham - Atara - Asked a friend.
Toxicroak - Zaraki - After the character from Bleach.
Froslass - Kyo-chan -After the character from Lucky Star.
Charizard - Deva - Asked Blackjack.

Ampharos - Alexandria - After the tower.
Urasaring - Kuma - Bear, roar.
Aggron - Bossgodora - Japanese name, plus reminds me of Godzilla villains.
Sceptile - Jukain - Japanese name.

Clefable - Staranna - Asked Blackjack.
Ninjask - Suzumonka - Bleach references.
Starmie - Bellatrix - After the star.
Gliscor - Glaudusa - Asked a friend.
Skarmory - Excalibur - After the sword + Fate/Stay Night reference.
Gallade - Kolase - Old username I used to use.

Tangrowth - Klifurei - Vine King, I can't remember what languages, asked a friend.
Bannette - Beaumont - Guess, lawl.
Glameow - Lenore - After one of my favorite comic characters, Lenore the Cute Little Dead Girl.
Togetic - Link - After the game character.
Lopunny - Pink - 'Cause he's Shiny.
Lucario - Haruhi - After the anime character.

Bronzong - Notre Dame - Asked a friend. XD;
Bidoof - God - 'Cause he is. XD;
Linoone - Z.Z.Topper - Band reference with "per" at the end.
Scizor - Ichigo - After the Bleach character.
Hitmonlee - Van Damme - After the action star.
Machoke - Billy - Named after a friend.

Manectric - Electro - After the Spider-Man villain.
Walrein - Kori - I can't remember why, something to do with ice, if I remember correctly.
Blaziken - King - He is the King of Fighters. >> <<
Metagross - Prophecy - I thought it would be a cool name for a Metagross. XD;
Rhyperior - Chevrolet - After the brand of cars.


Infernape - Wiola - After a nail polish if I remember correctly.
Pelipper - Hush - After a song.
Alakazam - Kaoru - Asked a friend.
Honchkrow - Banderas - After the actor Antonio Banderas.
Steelix - Onyx - After a brand.
Luxio - Rukia - After the Bleach character.


I used to be into a Bleach, lawl. I stopped watching after Kariya's death.
 
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I've never nicknamed pokemon in my game but for a few exceptions.
Once I nicknamed a Rattata in some store demo Ratfink.
In a restart of Ruby, I was trying for a female Treecko. Once I got it, I made a whole team of female Grass types, each with a name punning their Grass type, except for the female Treecko, which I named Julianne. This was inspired by Sceptile's JP name, Jukain. (She is indeed a Sceptile now and the mate of my team's Sceptile) She was transferred to Pearl and the rest of them were deleted.

The only other nicknamed Pokemon I have made exist in a fic I wrote.
Phoebe, a female Charizard: the sister of the sun god Phoebus, from Greek mythology. A suitable Fire type name.
Wildfire, a Rapidash: It seems like something you name a horse.
Obsidian, a shiny Camerupt: the shiny volcanic rock, because the poke is shiny, black, and has volcanoes on its back
 
Lets see...
My Typhlosion I named Bakufuun, that being Typhlosion's Japanese name.
My Meganium was named Chrysante after the flower.
My Raichu I named Lt. Surge, simply cuz I love the guy (NO, NOT LIKE THAT!! *flails arms*) and so I can mentally disturb the minds of others with a special move... >w>
My Espeon I named Eifii, after its Japanese name.
My Crobat, I named Mephisto after Mephisto in "Diablo 2"
 
Some of the nicknames here are quite extensive...:p. Me gusta.

I've only named members of my team and shinies (see sig) and random tool pokes:
Garchomp - Galileo
Milotic - Raphael
Snorlax - Milton
Scizor - Vincent
Venusaur - Leonardo
Houndoom - Dante
[Surprisingly...they're all male...never noticed until now.]

And with the 11 shiny Caterpies I caught, I named the male & female with the best stats Oberon & Titania (now king and queen of the Butterfrees) and the rest after Roman gods and goddesses.
 
Porygon-Z=Tim/Crow: Named after Crow from MST3K
Infernape♀=Shiva: short for Shivani(I'm thinking of changing her name to the longer version of that).
Lucario♀=Julie: In memorium of my late dog Judie.
Togekiss♂=Raito: Named after Yagami Light from Death Note(my Togekiss hates to lose and I find that even more hilarious). It's an inside joke. XD
Croagunk♂=Greg: It's Japanese name is Greggle...
Bibarel♂=Mr. Derp: Another pokemon named after an inside joke.
 
Here are my shinys(the name are all from friends):

Shysor The Quagsire
Rayra The Beautifly
Blass The Gaverlar

I need an idea for my shiny Rattata (PM me for Ideas)
 
I rarely name my Pokemon.

In fact, in DP I've only nicknamed 1 of them. My Shinx. It's named Dio Brando, due to Luxio's (and Luxray to some extent) cry sounding very close to Dio's "WRRRYYYYYY!"
 
Infernape-Male-Char- named after Prince Charmont from Ella Enchanted
Gyarados- Female- Maggy- short for Magikarp, may ce changed soon to Geyser
Roselia- Female- Rosy- short for Roselia
Pachirisu- Female- Jenny- after Officer Jenny
Chingling- Male- Chris- I like that name
Staravia- Female- Lea- Also like that name
 
Torterra♀ - Pearl
Golduck♀ - Crusher
Raichu♂ - Sparky
Flareon♀ - Emma
Lucario♂ - Luc
Pidgeot♂ - Heartless
 
I nicknamed my inbreed Larvitar:Loputousu, so that all of 10 people can laugh at the injoke.
 
Lugia: Mystical
Charizard: Zippo (heehee)
Rayquaza: Pythorion
Flygon: Draco
Honchkrow: Ominous
Empoleon: Pingu
Infernape: Azu
Blastoise: Blizen
Entei: Leonardo
Raikou: Lightning
Suicune: Aurora
Nidoqueen: Bella
Nidoking: Dante
Skarmory: Skarlet
Groudon: Zordrac


Basically, I give nicknames to all my pokemon.... except for those I've obtained in trades. Theres' heaps more but too many to name XD
 
All my Pokemon have nicknames! I just put the best here...

Marowak - Rashka (I read it meant demon?)
Chingling - Ribbon
Tauros - Frenzy
Glaceon - Starlight
Nidoqueen - Celeste (star)
Cresselia - Zenith
Espeon - Angel
Aerodactyl - Pteradon
Dewgong - Ice Baby
Vespiquen - Dot (She was so cute when she was a Combee, with the little dot...)
Umbreon - Abyss
Dragonite - Excalibur (King Arthur's sword)
Jolteon - Nicolai (OMG my fave name!)
Ninetails - Bailin (I love ninetails)
Vileplume - Sunline
 
I nickname all of my Pokemon. Some of the ones I use regularly are:
Wiggy: Torterra
DX-ness: Crobat (using the available emoticon, not the letters)
(note)Toasty(note): Luxray
Nom Nom IV: Charizard

My party that is used for battle has these nicknames:
Ridiculass: Togekiss (sweeper)
Ridiculad: Togekiss (sweeper)
Togi: Togekiss (balanced)
Toga: Togekiss (balanced)
Edward: Togekiss (tank)
Alphonse: Togekiss (tank)

One of my friends names his Pokemon after characters he RPs on Livejournal.
 
Me and my brothers normally name our pokemon after mythical creatures and characters from other games and such examles are:
Mewtwo: Sammael
Sceptile:Laj
Kyogre: Neptune
Rayquaza: Arcanagos
 
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