What is the Origin of your Username or Avatar?

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jayjaykoolaid

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My username came from someone taking my original idea, jayjaycoola, and hearing it as jayjaykoolaid. My avatar is Player 1 from the web comic Ctrl+Alt+Del, As I am always Player 1.
 

Spawny0908

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Pr1mus said:
My username comes from a mix of Solidus, P_Prime and Optimus Prime. I used Solidus for some time after playing MGS2 because i though he was the coolest character ever but i was still young back then and didn't know any better. P_Prime (P 'cause my first name starts with P) is my version of G_Prime from Undergrads, a cartoon show and well i don't think i need to introduce Optimus Prime. The 1 replacing the i came from years of using "Primus One" whenever "Primus" was already taken.

I only found out there was a band called Primus after using the name for a little while so it has nothing to do with them.

As for the Avatar, it's Clint Eastwood on the cover of the movie Unforgiven. Its either that or i swap it for Johnny Cash giving the finger from time to time.

Spawny0908 said:
My avatar is John Marston from Red Dead Redemption biggest badass in the west!
Mr. Eastwood would like to have a word with you ;)
HE'LL HAVE TO FIND ME FIRST!!!!! *Runs like a ******
 

Ghaleon640

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Ghaleon from the Lunar Series. My favorite villain of all time, essentially, and then the picture was the first really cool one of Ghaleon i found, though its small and no one could tell what it was in the your avatar vs. the one above thread. Oh, and the 640 is because I liked the nintendo 64, and I thought if I had a number, I might as well have it start with that.
 

Grayjack

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My username is an enemy from Resistance: Fall of Man.

My avatar is from the opening of Higurashi No Naku Koro Ni.
 

silver wolf009

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Pokemon 152: Picka-mite. The self abuse pokemon. When two pickachus form a bond, it often leads to one of them becoming dominant. Try to tell which wears the badges in this relationship?

Its from the first movie, the one with Mewtwo.

And my username is my XBL name, I use it most places I go online now a-days.
 

Zeraki

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Feb 9, 2009
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New Jersey
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Well my user name is a nickname I've gone by since I was a kid(the numbers are a secret though :p), And my avatar is my Yorkshire terrier sleeping on my bed.
 

Ldude893

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I got mine after Bobby Kotick stated that he may be considering a subscription model for the Call of Duty games. I changed the text to "kill him" after he cancelled True Crime but apparently someone found it offensive.
 

OneOfTheMichael's

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I don't think anyone would really take interest in my answer but here it goes anyways.
My name says:

M-ichael
(1 ftw)
L-iam
K-eith

And my background ancestors are all but European so i'm white.
...whitem1lk

My avatar is pure random and something i look at and laugh.
 

czfjrod

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It's essentially a self-drawn anime-style version of myself with a better, more crafted backstory than my own.

And as for my name [http://www.escapistmagazine.com/forums/read/18.266012-where-did-you-get-your-escapist-username-from?page=3#10134841]...
 

OneOfTheMichael's

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Ldude893 said:
I got mine after Bobby Kotick stated that he may be considering a subscription model for the Call of Duty games. I changed the text to "kill him" after he cancelled True Crime but apparently someone found it offensive.
I remember your old 'kill him' quote and that made me laugh when i saw that.
 

Redlin5_v1legacy

Better Red than Dead
Aug 5, 2009
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Red is part of my last name, Lin is part of my first name. 5 is my favorite number. So Redlin5 is a username that feels like my own name.

The avatar's original artist doesn't do avatars anymore but [user]Timelord[/user] is now my go-to guy for avatars. I love Pokemon and Zapdos in particular.
 

Vault101

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silver wolf009 said:
Pokemon 152: Picka-mite. The self abuse pokemon. When two pickachus form a bond, it often leads to one of them becoming dominant. Try to tell which wears the badges in this relationship?

Its from the first movie, the one with Mewtwo.

And my username is my XBL name, I use it most places I go online now a-days.
haha you know I actually saw that movie in theatres, when I was young.....

anyway Vault101 from Fallout 3, I think it has a nice ring to it

my avatar is from a somwhat obscure New zealand comic strip about a dog's adventures on a farm
 

thePyro_13

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I liked playing the Pyro in TFC :(
And I added _13 because of a username clash.

My picture is a photocopy of the rad retro cloud that was on my ticket to Game On, back in 2008, when it came to Melbourne.
 

The Apothecarry

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Both my image and username come from Dawn of War II. The avatar is the icon of the Apothecary, a playable hero in multiplayer matches. The username is an accidentally misspelled version of "Apothecary." Learn from my mistake and spell check before you hit the "accept" button.
 

Helmet

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Back in my senior year in high school, I was on the soccer team. In two different games, a member of the opposing team got a concussion after headbutting me.

My friends started cracking the "Hey, if you go back to football you won't need a helmet!" jokes, and the name Helmet stuck.

I've worn it with pride for a few years now. Makes for a fun story.

As for the avatar, it's a picture I took during the lunar eclipse a few months back.
 

DanielBrown

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Dec 3, 2010
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My username is my self-given nickname, I guess you could say. In my youth I was often called "NegerDanne" which translates to Negro Daniel(Danne being the Swedish nickname for Daniel).
I wanted a nickname that wasn't offensive.

The avatar I just chose because I wanted one that would stick out a bit.
 

VanillaBean

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I'm one of the trombones in my schools marching band and our leader decided that we would all have codenames based off of coffee. I ended up getting Vanilla Bean. The funny thing is we never use them, so this is the only place where I get that name.