Help me name my weapon

[SonofaJohannes]

Greetings my fellow escapist-people, I am need of your assistance.
I have designed a weapon for a book/comic/game (that I have no intention of ever making, but it sure is fun to think about it) but I can't come up with a name for it, no matter how hard I try.

The weapon is pretty basic, it's a chainsaw on stick meant for slashing like a glaive/naginata/guandao.

Spoiler: mad drawing skillz here

[http://s1280.photobucket.com/user/EphraimIsak/media/Chainsawonastick_zps2fc752ef.png.html]

So I would greatly appreciate it if you guys could come up with a cool-sounding name, because I got nothing. But I would really like it if the name didn't start with "The", but it's not a requirement, just personal preference.

Edit: Should probably mention that the main character uses it to fight dragons, if that may help. Doesn't need a dragon-y name either though, as long as it's cool.

 

[JoJo]

How about a chainspear? Seems like a fairly basic description for what it is and does.

 

[Aerosteam]

"The Buzzkill".

That's the best I can think of. Also your weapon seems oddly familiar to the Ripper from Fallout. (Not criticising or anything!)

 

[Barbas]

Hedgebane; it looks like a cross between a thermal lance and a ripper, both from the Fallout series. It actually brings to mind the shishkebab as well.

Alternatively, you could call it Mr. Tickle, since it reaches up and tickles dragons' tummies!

 

[Groxnax]

The Gutgrinder?

 

[Johnny Novgorod]

Sawstick? Chainstick? Sawspear?

One easy/cool way of naming weapons is looking for a vague Latin equivalent.

Here's the Latin semantic field for "spear": hasta, verutum, pilum, lancea.
No Latin for chainsaw though I'm afraid. Chain is "catena", saw is "serra".
Maybe you can come up with something with all those words. Merge catena + serra into "caserra" or something like that, annex one of the Latin words for spear.

 

[Zykon TheLich_v1legacy]

Those do exist you know. It's called a pole chainsaw. Mainly for cutting low branches without the need for a ladder or climbing the tree.

 

[SonofaJohannes]

Those do exist you know. It's called a pole chainsaw. Mainly for cutting low branches without the need for a ladder or climbing the tree.

Yikes, I guess I'm even less creative than I thought I was before. Thanks for informing me of their existence though, now I really want one.

 

[TheRookie8]

Butcher of Dragons.

Scale-Ripper.

Don't-Run-Out-Of-Gas (or DROOG)

Linda.

 

[geK0]

Chain Lance
Motor Halberd
Spear Saw

Those do exist you know. It's called a pole chainsaw. Mainly for cutting low branches without the need for a ladder or climbing the tree.

Yikes, I guess I'm even less creative than I thought I was before. Thanks for informing me of their existence though, now I really want one.

I wouldn't completely scrap the idea, simply giving the weapon a different aesthetic to fit your setting would differentiate it enough from it's Fallout and real-life counterparts. I mean how many truly original weapons do you really see in games/comics/anime/movies (not all that many).

 

[Thaluikhain]

I think 40k calls those chain glaives.

One wonders why you'd want something like that, though...sure, look cool, but you've made it much heavier and more unwieldy than a spear, probably more expensive than a handugn.

 

[Wraith]

If it's meant to be set on fire at the chainsaw part, you could name it 'Dragon's Maw'. But if not 'Shark's Maw'. Because all those teeth reminds someone of a trashing shark attack.

 

[Redlin5_v1legacy]

You mean a pol-

Those do exist you know. It's called a pole chainsaw. Mainly for cutting low branches without the need for a ladder or climbing the tree.

That. My Dad has one for trimming the many trees on our property and he can't go on ladders with his old chainsaw anymore.

If its to hunt dragons, maybe the chain is made of Dragon teeth/claws?

As for giving it a personal name for an individual weapon, that really depends on the character who weilds it now doesn't it? ;D

 

[PsychicTaco115]

*Bone-Ripper

*Tail-Tearer

*Rippy McDeathbringer 3700

Is it more of a fantasy setting or more in the science-fictiony?

 

[Mossberg Shotty]

I used to sell those back in Odessa, but let's just ignore that for now.

Why don't you call it 'This is Permanent"?

 

[Souplex]

How about a chainspear? Seems like a fairly basic description for what it is and does.

To be fair, that's a Glaive, not a Spear.
But Chain-Glaive seems fine.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glaive

I think 40k calls those chain glaives.

One wonders why you'd want something like that, though...sure, look cool, but you've made it much heavier and more unwieldy than a spear, probably more expensive than a handugn.

...Well there we go.
My favorite silly weapon idea is a rocket-powered drill-lance.
You could make it out of depleted uranium and say it's a +7 _____ of Soviet Slaying. (Soviets take bonus damage from depleted uranium weaponry)

 

[Gottesstrafe]

I would question the viability of fighting dragons with a weapon that has an exposed fuel tank right next the user, not to mention that upon contact with its scales the chain is far more likely to snap and hit the user in the face than pose any significant threat to the dragon (assuming we're talking about the kind that breathes fire and has scales as hard as steel). If we're taking the scales-like-steel aspect of the dragon in consideration though, it may be better to make the chainsaw part your secondary focus. For example, maybe a spear that can slip between the dragon's scales with a chainsaw build into the haft? Or perhaps a hammer that can smash apart the scales with a chainsaw running along the perimeter?

That being said, you could probably name it after the Greek monster Charybdis (which could be succinctly described as a whirlpool made of teeth). If you replace the weighted end with a poison-tipped spear head you could also name it after the Manticore.

 

[Ten Foot Bunny]

*Rippy McDeathbringer 3700

10,000 bonus points for reminding me of Face McShooty from Borderlands 2!

How about the name "Anal Probe?" Just because nobody seems interested in the location of dragons' rectums, that doesn't necessarily mean they don't have them. And this name gives you a chance to use the ever-hilarious phrase, "Rectum? Damn near killed 'im!"

(Nobody's ever accused me of having a clean mind...)

 

[Catfood220]

Whenever I have crafted a weapon in a game and been able to name it I have always named it something like "stabby" or "slashy" because giving cool sounding names to weapons is for chumps.

 

[Starblazer117]

Bilboballbaggins. Change the fuel tank to look like a nutsack and you could have a weapon that would make a blind person blush.