Worst Character Names of Mongo 3

The Flash Gordon Sunday strips of 1948 bring us these examples of not-so-creative character-naming:

• King Justo
• Princess Glitra
• Vilan

"'I told you the metalarm was right—It detected the metal of their weapons.' King Justo laughs. 'Doctor, will they survive the sleep-fog?'" (21 March 1948)

"Justo's weakness is his daughter. He can't refuse the sensation-hungry girl's demand to see the newcomers—so Flash's first sight is of Princess Glitra!" (28 March 1948)

"But Glitra thinks fast, too. 'Why, Dale, how nice—cousin Vilan wanted to meet you. Show her around, Vilan.' Flash and Dale can hardly object..." (4 April 1948)

Flash Gordon/Savage Worlds Thought of the Day 2024-05-22

Once I acquire the new SWADE editions of the Horror Companion and the Science Fiction Companion, I think my Savage Worlds collection will be complete (except for any future releases for The Savage World of Flash Gordon—I'll buy any books they release in that line). I missed my chance to back the Science Fiction Companion crowdfunding project, which is a pity since it was the companion volume I wanted more than any other, but I'll buy it as soon as it is available. I think I'll feel more comfortable writing my own The Savage World of Flash Gordon material after I've read the Science Fiction Companion.

Table: City Encounters (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are least 12 possible persons (sample names included) the protagonists may encounter as they explore the cities of another planet. This is the twentieth table of the Build Your Own Space Opera Table.

City Encounters

Roll 1d12

1. An assassin (named Killo).
2. A common criminal (named Thefto).
3. A doctor (named Medo).
4. A guard (named Protec).
5. A laborer (named Kog).
6. A robot (named M.E.C.H.A.N.O.).
7. A scientist (named Invento).
8. An undercover rebel leader (named Sparto).
9. An undercover rebel scientist (named Eino).
10. An undercover secret police officer (named Susso).
11. A visiting dignitary (named Xeno).
12. A royal outing consisting of two armed guards, a high-ranking victim of unrequited love, and a haughty royal personage.

Table: Radium Mine Encounters (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are least 12 possible things the protagonists may encounter as they explore the radium mines of another planet. This is the nineteenth table of the Build Your Own Space Opera Table.

Radium Mine Encounters

Roll 1d12

1. A crew of radium miners.
2. A radium miner on lunch break.
3. A radium miner slacking off.
4. A radium miner foreman looking for slackers.
5. A fugitive rebel scientist in disguise.
6. A radiumegaladon on the prowl.
7. A radiumillipede minding its own business.
8. An out-of-control mining robot.
9. A group of devil-moles.
10. An electro-hydra.
11. A squad of guards searching for someone.
12. An inspection squad consisting of six guards, a high-ranking victim of unrequited love, and a haughty royal personage.

Table: Aerial Encounters (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are least 12 possible things the protagonists may encounter as they explore the skies of another planet. This is the eighteenth table of the Build Your Own Space Opera Table.

Aerial Encounters

Roll 1d12

1. A band of bandits using jetpacks.
2. A cloud city with or without cloud.
3. An enormormous sky-leviathan.
4. A flock of inferno-pigeons.
5. A fugitive rebel scientist in freefall.
6. A gliding gigantohawk.
7. A high-floating cluster of hydrogen sky-jellies.
8. An out-of-control rocketship.
9. A rocketship on patrol.
10. A squadron of rocketships.
11. A ravenous aeroshark.
12. A royal sky barge transporting six warriors, a high-ranking victim of unrequited love, and a haughty royal personage.

Table: Mountain Encounters (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are least 12 possible things the protagonists may encounter as they explore the mountain ranges of another planet. This is the seventeenth table of the Build Your Own Space Opera Table.

Mountain Encounters

Roll 1d12

1. A crew of worker insect-people at work.
2. A drill-toothed tygor.
3. A fugitive rebel scientist stuck on a cliff ledge.
4. A nesting gigantohawk.
5. A herd of mini-rams.
6. A not-so-helpful throttle-vine.
7. A pack of horned woofins.
8. A sussquatch hermit.
9. A troop of warrior insect-people at war.
10. A voracious tyranodragon.
11. An ursowl mildly confused by its surroundings.
12. A royal hunting party consisting of six warriors, a high-ranking victim of unrequited love, and a haughty royal personage.

Table: Desert Encounters (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are least 12 possible things the protagonists may encounter as they explore the deserts of another planet. This is the sixteenth table of the Build Your Own Space Opera Table.

Desert Encounters

Roll 1d12

1. A band of bandits on rocket-gliders.
2. A crashed flying saucer.
3. An erratic defense robot.
4. A fugitive rebel scientist buried to the neck in sand.
5. A giant fire-lobster.
6. A giant sand-squid.
7. A herd of solar camels.
8. A low-floating hydrogen sky-jelly.
9. A pack of octojackels.
10. A rampaging consumosaurus.
11. A ray-eating dimetrodon.
12. A royal hunting party consisting of six warriors, a high-ranking victim of unrequited love, and a haughty royal personage.

Table: Grassland Encounters (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are least 12 possible things the protagonists may encounter as they explore the grasslands of another planet. This is the fifteenth table of the Build Your Own Space Opera Table.

Grassland Encounters

Roll 1d12

1. An aggrosaur.
2. A band of bandits on hover trikes.
3. A berserk agrirobot.
4. A crashed rocketship.
5. A fugitive rebel scientist caught in a pit.
6. A giant terrotrilobite.
7. A group of inviso-cheetahs.
8. A herd of armored thunderbison.
9. A herd of horned zebrons.
10. A swarm of giant radar-locusts.
11. A two-headed psyclops.
12. A royal hunting party consisting of six warriors, a high-ranking victim of unrequited love, and a haughty royal personage.

Table: Jungle Encounters (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are least 12 possible things the protagonists may encounter as they explore the jungles of another planet. This is the fourteenth table of the Build Your Own Space Opera Table.

Jungle Encounters

Roll 1d12

1. An acid-spewing flower.
2. An armored trinoceros.
3. A band of bandits disguised as plants.
4. A flock of carnivorous razor-beaks.
5. A flying shock-eel.
6. A fugitive rebel scientist sinking in quicksand.
7. A grove of heat-seeking explosive fruit trees.
8. A horned jaguar.
9. An octorilla.
10. A saw-toothed tigor.
11. A venomous pantheron.
12. A royal hunting party consisting of six warriors, a high-ranking victim of unrequited love, and a haughty royal personage.

Table: Subterranean Encounters (Build Your Own Space Opera Table)

In a space opera, there are least 12 possible things the protagonists may encounter as they explore the subterranean environments of another planet. This is the thirteenth table of the Build Your Own Space Opera Table.

Subterranean Encounters

Roll 1d12

1. An atomic tunnelship exploring.
2. A blind echohydra.
3. A colony of stalactitans.
4. A colony of stalagmitans.
5. A friendly giant jumping spider.
6. A fugitive rebel scientist trapped under some rocks.
7. A gang of criminals hiding.
8. A loud drillworm.
9. A raging rockbeast.
10. An unreasoning magmasaur.
11. The pyromaniacal Sacred Dragon God.
12. A royal hunting party consisting of six warriors, a high-ranking victim of unrequited love, and a haughty royal personage.