Meta Wednesday: Names, Nicknames, and Titles

[jakia]

Old folklore says that to name something is to give it power.  

Let's talk to day about the importance of names, nicknames, and even titles in the Gleeverse, and see what we find!

As always, feel free to discuss anything else your heart desires--this is just a starting point.

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Nicknames (part two)

[jakia]

Mercedes -- Baby (Sam, Shane)
Jackée, Whoopi, Brassy Hag, Wheezy (Sue)
Wheezy, Honey, Miss Blame-It-On-The-World (Santana)
Aretha (Santana, Sue)
'Cedes (Santana, Artie)
Stealth-Attack Jones (Coach Beiste)
Ms. Jones, My Client (Lauren)
Sugar, Mama, My Girl, The Black Girl From The Glee Club Whose Name I Can't Remember Right Now (Puck)
Lazy B-O-N-E-S, Laziest Person Alive (Jesse)
Effie (Dakota Stanley, Santana, Kurt and Puck)
Happy Girl Drunk (Finn)
Little Oprah (Roz Washington)
Beyoncé, Ain't No Kelly Rowland (herself)

Tina -- Asian, Tina Cohen-Loser, Cohen-Chang, Asian Number One (Sue)
Blue Eyes (Rachel)
Self-Hating Asian (Mike)
Miss Cohen-Chang (Principal Figgins)
Girl Chang(Santana)
Tina Blohen-Wang(Sebastian)
The Girlfriend (Mike Chang Sr.)
Happy Girl Drunk (Finn)
Asian Horror Movie (Roz Washington)

Artie -- Wheels, Legs, Stumbles(Sue)
Bluetooth, Stubbles McCripple Pants, The Four-Eyed Loser, A Stupid Boy, The Smoothest Criminal I Know (Santana)
The Kid in the Wheelchair (Mike Chang)
Hottie (Becky)
A Modern-day Tiny Tim, Teenage Disabled Kid (Don Barowski)
Wheelchair Kid, Young Jedi in a Wheelchair, Professor X, Chief (Puck)
Roller Boy (April Rhodes)
George Jefferson, Artie-Claus (himself)

Santana -- Sweetie, Honey (Brittany)
Sweet cheeks (Holly Holliday)
The Stick Figure (Mercedes)
Auntie Tana, Rachel Berry, Snix, Auntie Snix (herself)
Satan (Mercedes, Kurt)
Boobs McGee, Jugs The Clown, Tweedle-Fake Boobs, Sweater Meat, Lady Ta-Ta, Boobs Magoo (Sue)
Sandbags (Sue, Becky)
Weepy Hysterical Drunk (Finn)
Garbage Face (Her Abuela (Grandmother))
Salsa Caliente (Roz Washington)
Teen Lesbians (with Brittany) (Principal Figgins)
The Girl With The Lips (Rory)

Brittany -- Britt(Santana, Kurt, Finn)
Britt-Britt, Baby, Sheer genius (Santana)
Rain Man with boobs (Finn)
Tweedle-Dumb (Sue Sylvester)
Britney Spears, Mike Chang(herself)
Madam President (Jacob Ben Israel, Principal Figgins)
Girl Who Turns Into A Stripper Drunk (Finn)
Hatrack (Roz Washington)
Sexy Teen Trollop, Miss Pierce, Teen Lesbians (with Santana) (Principal Figgins)

Mike -- Fleet-Footed-Dance Ninja, Situasian, Mikey (Tina)
Changster, The Dancing Asian (Sue)
Other Asian (Sue, Tina)
The Quiet Skinny Asian Guy
The Mike Chang Dance Dance Revolution (himself)
Boy Chang(Santana)

Re: Nicknames (part two)

[out_there]

It's interesting how wide ranging Santana's nicknames are. Most of the characters nicknames are about one big characteristic (Mercedes being black, Artie in a wheelchair, Kurt being fabulous gay, Tina being asian, Mike being asian) and that characteristic is commented on by multiple characters.

Santana's is actually less focused. Even all of the boobs jokes only come from Sue, but there's a range. And interestingly, very few are about her racial heritage like the other non-white characters are nicknamed.