The reason is that I think that all five of the Teen Titans should be disqualified from the list, because otherwise it would rightfully be “Top Five Best Teen Titans Name Changes.”

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Red Arrow – nice way for DC to do a legacy hero, while acknowledging that it’s a different person in the costume. To me, it means Roy is all growed up. I’ve always wonder what the civilians in the DC Universe think about all of the different heroes running around with the same name.

While I agree that Kitty has never had a decent name, I have no problem with people going by first names in group situations. If Logan calls her Kitty in Genosha, is that really jeopardizing anyone’s secret identity?

“As for Shadowcat being wrong for her personality….she took the name after to being trained by a demon ninja and nearly killing Wolverine…it fits her just fine.”

Plus, being harshly dumped by Colossus…I saw it as her trying out a more adult, grown-up name and identity. I also liked her original Shadowcat costume…but I’m probably in the minority on that too lol

I always thought Power Man was an incredibly weak name to bother having a fight over in the first place.

Green Lantern to Sentinel
Eros to Starfox
Weapon Alpha to Vindicator to Guardian

I always thought Shadowcat was a great name. I’m sure some people legitimately don’t like it, but I’d bet a lot of the people who complain about it are just used to hearing Kitty referred to by a different name and find it jarring, but she was Shadowcat when I started reading, and can’t think of her any other way (just like, to me, Monica Rambeau will never be anything other than “Captain Marvel”).

I’ll freely admit, though, the main reason I cling to “Shadowcat” is that it bothers me that female X-Men are always losing their code names. Jean Grey, Cecilia Reyes, Rachel Summers/Grey, Emma Frost, Lorna Dane, and Kitty Pride have all either given up or never had code names (Polaris still uses her code name sometimes, but I’m pretty sure that they frequently just called her “Lorna Dane” on the “previously in…” page at the beginning of the book as recently as the “Rise and Fall of the Shi’ar Empire” storyline). I know it’s just because the creators went out of their way to give the women cool-sounding real names and like them better than their code names, while the male X-Men’s real names tend to be afterthoughts, and if anything it shows that the writers think of the female characters as actual people (to whom they frequently become much too attached) while the male characters are just action figures to play with, but darn it – I LIKE code names!

Lightning Lass
Light Lass
Gossamer
Pulse
Spark

(and, for short times, ‘Lightning Lad’ and ‘Live Wire’.)

Anyone with more than that?

Meltdown is better than Boomer which is better than Boom-Boom, but they all kind of suck.

I had no idea that was the case. That’s very interesting, it makes me wonder if the cartoon would’ve been saddled with Beast Boy even if it had been more Wolfman/Perez-like in tone.

(And, yeah, typical Geoff Johns…)

Also, Bobbi Morse > Mockingbird is a cool change.

Ha! I actually considered her for a sec, until I realized that she actually went from Huntress to Mockingbird, which is at BEST a lateral move.

It is more akin to Batgirl/Oracle, only Robin is a cooler name than Batgirl and Nightwing is not as a cool of a name as Oracle, hence Batgirl/Oracle getting the honorable mention.

Changeling went back to Beast Boy in the Beast Boy mini-series co-written by Geoff Johns

That about sums it up right there.