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Should HEROES fans have a name? If so...
I posted these ideas in other forums, with not a lotta people necessarily thinking they were good ideas, but if HEROES fans were to have a name, what would it be? Would it be something like Trekkies or Firefly Flans or Browncoats? Or just HEROES fans?
Well, here are my ideas, for what they're worth! How 'bout HI-TOWNers (pronounced like high-town-erz) or HI-TOWN folks, peeps, fans, etc.? Based off of (and a little fanatical-sounding) what Hiro of the Future tells Peter - "Be The One We Need", HITOWN or HI-TOWN (or something so people don't think it is "HIT OWN") stands for... (drum roll please):
HEROES IS The One We Need!
So those who think "HEROES Is The One We Need" could be called HITOWNers...  Or not. 
Or, if the Deveaux Society ends up being a helpful one for the HEROES, maybe that could be a potential name suggestion for HEROES fans?
Yeah, I just thought I'd run it up the flagpole...
Or how about this idea? First, a little bit o' explanation, though... Oh and, by the way, the following is all pretty goofy!
If ya notice, HEROES has extraordinary guys and gals, so the title isn't gender-specific. Otherwise it would be HEROES & HEROINES. Yet still, some people might argue that the HE in HEROES means it is a masculine term only. So, a shortened word for the show could be, um, 'ROES.
Some people have said that in the Firefly 'verse, the term 'verse was used instead of universe because it was a way to avoid the uni- prefix in the word, which is also in Unification Day... So in a similar way of creating a "new" term, 'ROES could be a gender-neutral way or just shorter way of referring to the show (though pretty unlikely).
Now, add the suffix -ian, which can mean "a person of" (like Parisian means a person of Paris). So I thought the term 'ROESians could mean fans (in the place of people) of 'ROES.
So with that idea, I also thought the name should relate to something that HRG said, which was that he did not work for an organization that goes by initials. However, something short, like the letters for some professional organizations or societies (or, of course, a Greek fraternity or sorority) still seemed kinda cool, too.
With all those ideas in mind, I thought of a way how fans could be part of a group that doesn't go by initials, yet still look like they do... Are ya ready? Here goes:
'ROESian could be pronounced like Roe-Zee-En (although probably more like Roe-Zhun, but bear with me). And guess what? With a combination of Greek and Roman (or Latin) letters, that name can be written as 'ρzn (or, an apostrophe, the lower case Greek letter rho, and the Roman or Latin letters z and n, as opposed to the Greek zeta and nu)! I thought using the lower case Greek letter made it easier to remember it was "rho", since the capital letter looks like the capital R, which could sound like "Are"...
But wait! There's more!
One thing I found out is, that way back when, if a Greek vowel or the letter rho was the first letter of a word, then "breathing marks" (or, one of the different diacritical marks) were used. A rough breathing mark (spiritus asper, dasy pneuma or dasia) meant that an "h" sound was made before the vowel or rho (aside: a rho when pronounced is a trilled "r" sound), and it was written like a c-shaped mark (like the mirror-image of a comma, but in a higher position) before the capitalized vowels or rho, or above the lower-case vowels and lc rho (tangent: a "smooth breathing mark" just meant that the first vowel sound or rho was pronounced without the "h" sound preceding it...). So a lower case rho with the dasia would be a rho with the c-shaped mark above it, and some sites explain that's why there's an "h" after the "r" in "rho"...
Well since the name 'ROESian's a combo of different alphabets already, why not also write it as a combo of lower case and small caps, too? I thought it would look kinda neat if the name 'ROESian was written with a combo of Greek and Roman lower and small upper case letters (click to see the original full image of this thumbnail).
This way, the "n" in the right-side-up orientation is a "z" when turned 90 degrees ccw, if ya wanted to make a pattern of it... And people might ask what the letters rho zeta nu* are short for, but they aren't initials.
And last, if the diacritical mark means an "h" should be pronounced before the rho, then you could kinda justify that the name for the HEROES fan is (H)ROESian, which sounds sorta close to HEROESian, but if the "h" isn't pronounced, you could also kinda say it was the apostrophe in 'ROESian, too!
Or not.
* I just realized that, courtesy of David Hewlett's Canadian SGA character, Dr. McKay, that the letters could look like what's pronounced as Roe-Zed-En, too, along with a lot of other pronunciations depending on the language of the person reading the letters, so I guess it may only seem kinda fun for those who see the ρzn and pronounce it like 'ROESian. Also: some people might also think the ρ is the letter p, as in Peter...
So what are your ideas?
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Nov 20, 2006 7:56 PM
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Fans of HEROES are obviously Sidekicks.
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Dec 12, 2006 1:41 AM
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I think that if "Heros" fans could have
a name,maybe it the fans could be "Hero-ites". It would be hard to name the fans.
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May 13, 2007 4:02 PM
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How about Heroics? (Hero-ics)
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May 14, 2007 11:05 AM
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We def. need a name something like loyal viewers in chinese or sidekicks in chinese maybe even andoers lol!
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May 15, 2007 6:15 PM
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I call myself a "Pigeon" at times...what can I say? I adore Claude.
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Jun 3, 2007 6:48 AM
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I like the idea of Heroes fans having a name,but I have always preferred to keep things simple when possible.
Why complicate things right?
How about adding the suffix -phile i.e. "Herophiles" because what is a fan but a lover of the show?
Besides,the tern "fan" is short for fanatic,and that brings to mind an image of Trekies that wear their Star Fleet uniforms to work and people trying to start a religion based on the teachings and philosophies of the Jedi.
I like to think that the dedicated viewer of Heroes is of a slightly more refined mind set and willing to take the high ground in identifying with the general fan base,rather than pandering to a lowest common denominator.
But that's just one mans opinion,anyone else care to comment?
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Nov 1, 2007 6:01 AM
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LordSpazmodious,
I'm not sure if I qualify as "refined," by your definition. I spent Halloween dressed up as Claude.(and I'm actually a woman)
I still call myself a "Pigeon,"
and the Sylar fans are in the "S'Army."
So irregardless of anyone who wants to "keep it simple," folks are forming groups anyway, with titles.
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Nov 1, 2007 6:33 AM
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I think that I like the "Heroesian's" the best! Did I spell it right? That would be the only problem, we would need something that was easy to spell and to remember! Just because we are devoted to Heroes, dosent mean that we are devoted to Phonics! I also like the
"Heroe-ics" that's cute, and a little easier to remember!
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Nov 10, 2007 7:41 PM
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