
NPCs you have to deal with long enough in any game are going to facilitate memes. This is inevitable. But some NPCs wind up generating their own nicknames along the way that make understanding who you’re referring to even more difficult if you don’t know the reference. When players in various games talk about helping the Cake, you don’t necessarily know what they mean. Is there an actual cake? Is the band Cake guest-starring in the game and in need of your assistance to go the distance or something?
However, this is also overlooking that NPC nicknames can be very funny, especially if they’re snarky enough or just irreverent enough to be catchy. So what’s your favorite nickname for an MMO NPC? Whether it’s a nickname that the entire community would recognize or just one that you and your personal group of friends would know, tell us! Just please avoid any nicknames that are… y’know… not all right to repeat. (It’s fine if you made some terrible nicknames when you were a teenager – we all did! – just don’t repeat them.)
