Academic terms that could used as superhero/villain names.

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The Invisible Hand of Capitalism
Major Force
Master of Divinity

Tuomas, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:30 (seventeen years ago)

Strange Attractor

Tuomas, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:34 (seventeen years ago)

Universal Pimp

Bodrick III, Monday, 17 March 2008 10:39 (seventeen years ago)

From the philosophy of mind (and sometimes cognitive psychology):

The Homunculus
The Control Processor
The Neural Net

moley, Monday, 17 March 2008 11:00 (seventeen years ago)

The Floating Signifier

The Boyler, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:16 (seventeen years ago)

Illicit Major

abanana, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 13:33 (seventeen years ago)

The Panopticon

rrrobyn, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:02 (seventeen years ago)

Hegemony
- this one is a girl

rrrobyn, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:03 (seventeen years ago)

The Other

max, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:04 (seventeen years ago)

Übermensch

max, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:07 (seventeen years ago)

The Sub-Custos

moonship journey to baja, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:10 (seventeen years ago)

pwn

HI DERE, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:14 (seventeen years ago)

These answers are submitted under the assumption that "law" is considered academic.

The Attractive Nuisance
The Putative Spouse
Res Ipsa Loquitor
The Fruit of the Poisonous Tree

B.L.A.M., Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:37 (seventeen years ago)

I, for one, would LOVE to be a villain named Res Ipsa Loquitor.

My powers would be simple, but deadly: I would be able to commit any act of negligence, and it would always get blamed on someone else.

B.L.A.M., Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:38 (seventeen years ago)

Fear the...

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...INTERIM PROVOST!

Rock Hardy, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:43 (seventeen years ago)

Beware! from the fortress of the hyperreal comes the ultimate weapon, the ideological state apparatus, from which it shall shoot down its opponents with the male gaze.

mehlt, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 19:50 (seventeen years ago)

Palimpsest
Punctum
Morpheme
Bricoleur
A good gender bending character with Flâneur/Flâneuse
Rhizomatic, or perhaps the more declarative, Rhizome! (though the exclamation mark would of course be implied).
Differand
Semiosis

And for an annoying, scrappy sidekick, "Le petit 'a'" (Lacan)

tvdisko, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:25 (seventeen years ago)

terminal degree

bug, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 20:42 (seventeen years ago)

all the terms in tvdisko's list make me feel like barfing
i guess that's a kind of superpower

rrrobyn, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 21:08 (seventeen years ago)

I'm flattered? Guess I've teaching too long, the humour done gone.

tvdisko, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 21:49 (seventeen years ago)

Force Dichotomy

remy bean, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

Diegetic
Exegetic

remy bean, Tuesday, 18 March 2008 21:50 (seventeen years ago)

Straw Man

M.V., Tuesday, 18 March 2008 23:16 (seventeen years ago)

The transcendental subject

mehlt, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:06 (seventeen years ago)

Turabian

Gavin, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:08 (seventeen years ago)

Bewildered Finn

Noodle Vague, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:09 (seventeen years ago)

The Black Sun and his sidekick, Powers of Horror

Milton Parker, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 00:11 (seventeen years ago)

The Solar Anus

freewheel, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 01:44 (seventeen years ago)

Ladypenis.

Casuistry, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 01:46 (seventeen years ago)

Well, ok, that's how my friend and I describe Derrida's description of what he read in Nietzsche.

Casuistry, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 01:47 (seventeen years ago)

Ooo. I've got a good supervillian:

Heteroglossia.

Mordy, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 02:07 (seventeen years ago)

caesura
aporia
ubermensch
Le Nom Du Père

rogermexico., Wednesday, 19 March 2008 04:19 (seventeen years ago)

The Accursed Share

rogermexico., Wednesday, 19 March 2008 04:23 (seventeen years ago)

The Infinite Conversation
Le Rhizome

rogermexico., Wednesday, 19 March 2008 04:38 (seventeen years ago)

The Central Meane -alter ego of Homunculus

ljubljana, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:11 (seventeen years ago)

urgh, Meaner

ljubljana, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:12 (seventeen years ago)

The Aristotelian Ideal

dan m, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)

Base and Superstructure - the two bumbling henchmen of the main villian.

mehlt, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 22:50 (seventeen years ago)

The Dangling Modifier

youcangoyourownway, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 23:20 (seventeen years ago)

The Tritagonist
Pharmakon
Byronic Hero
Epizeuxis

Pillbox, Wednesday, 19 March 2008 23:41 (seventeen years ago)

Executive Function

ljubljana, Thursday, 20 March 2008 09:41 (seventeen years ago)

Leviathan
The Utilitarian

ledge, Thursday, 20 March 2008 10:38 (seventeen years ago)

"Narthex"

Doctor Casino, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:20 (seventeen years ago)

The Ethical Egoist

youcangoyourownway, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:35 (seventeen years ago)

The Magical Negro

sexyDancer, Thursday, 20 March 2008 19:47 (seventeen years ago)

Pedagogy

dan m, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:06 (seventeen years ago)

Deus ex Machina

ENBB, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:07 (seventeen years ago)

Super blindsight boy

ledge, Thursday, 20 March 2008 20:13 (seventeen years ago)


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