Another Character Name from The Force Awakens Revealed – Captain Phasma?
The site StitchKingdom is reporting that Lucasfilm and Disney registered several applications for several of the characters revealed in the new teaser trailer, including: BB-8, Kylo Ren and Poe Dameron. Intrestingly there is another name we haven’t heard before among the registrations…
From StitchKingdom (via ComicBook):
Lucasfilm and Walt Disney Studios recently announced the names for several of the characters featured in the trailer for Star Wars Episode VII: The Force Awakens (December 18, 2015). On December 11, Lucasfilm went ahead and registered several related applications for several of these characters, including: BB-8, the ball-droid; Kylo Ren, the sith; and Poe Dameron, the X-Wing Fighter pilot.
Among the registrations, however, were many for a ‘Captain Phasma,’ for which we were unable to find any previous documentation outside of an extensive fan-fiction titled Tarkin’s Fist and random usernames.
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Er… what?
Lol, absolute crap.
Ok, this one made me laugh.
Captain Phasma, so… he runs a strip-club or something? Or maybe he’s a crack-dealer?
Just saying, could take a while to warm up to this.
Just occurred to me Poe Dameron isn’t that bad of a name now.
I like hats. Captain Phasma!, sounds like a soda drink mascot.
Did you notice at the end of this article it says many were for Captain Plasma.
As in MANY?
Is it possible that this is a generic name like Foodles was or AVCO. To protect names reveals during the registration process?
Sure.
Dameron is a real surname, but Poe is a Teletubbie.
^Don’t be daft – Poe is a kung-fu-panda!
That’s Po, not Poe. Poe wrote horror fiction.
Poe is what comes out of posh peoples bottoms, clearly
Poe wrote Noo-noo, the story of a possessed vacuum cleaner.
So you do like Teletubbies!
And know their names and backgrounds, history etc.
That explains a lot!!
Cool name!
Maybe it’s Gwendoline Christie’s character?
I’m almost certain it is.
Why?
Going off what I’ve read (it’s all speculation, mind you), it seems very logical that a military rank would fit into her name. I can provide links, if you’d like.
Nice name. Agreed!
She would have made for a grand Sith
My thoughts as well.
It’s a dynamic name, love it, whether it’s in the movie or not. Very ‘1970-80s pulp sci-fi’ and would also suit a Flash Gordon character, wearing a Romanesque gold helmet and piloting a rocket ship 🙂
Maybe its the name of Domhnall Glesson character.
I’m REALLY sorry.. I just can’t believe any of these names..i REALLY hope they are alias’s.. REALLY..
really really?
I agree. I have to say that I’m not a huge fan of most of these names. Kylo Ren is pretty cool, but the others aren’t my favorite. Poe would be a cool name for Daisy Ridley’s character to me. BB-8? To me, like BB (ball bearing) or beach ball 8. Just seems a bit silly to me personally.
I’m not trying to be a troll by any stretch of the imaginiation. I guess the other strange names like Lando Calrissian, Boba Fett, ect.. don’t sound odd to me as I grew up with these names. I thought that Padme Amildala (Yabadabadoo) sounded dumb to me, even to this day. To me though, the new names don’t sound very Star Warsy.
Carrie Fisher called her Queen Armadillo once….
Well what then, should we just name everyone Danny, John, Carl, and Ed? It’s Star Wars for crying out loud!
You cry about the phonetics of a name and actually link the letter Y at the end of Star Wars. STAR WARSY ….that is beyond lame, the names are fine.
COME ONN!! REALLY? PHASMA?? sorry…
I had a Phasma once!
Anything is better then Dooku.
Almost anything, but yeah this is better kind of, at least i can laugh at it.
Yeah. so is Syfo Dias, at least here in Brazil. “From ass(Do cu), Fuck himself (Se fodia)”
Sorry. Poop… I mean Poe is horrendous…
You do this too much, with poo this and that every other post, enough already we know you are a loser.
I like Dooku, these sounds stupid.
All SW 7 names so far sound stupid.
Agreed – but c’mon…’Han’, ‘Leia’, ‘Boba’, ‘Jabba’??? I could go on and on. These are all pretty stupid names. It’s the characters behind the names that made them who they are.
A rose by any other name would still smell as sweet. Let’s leave it to the actor’s performances to make these new names mean something to us
Jabba is an alien so its not a stupid name, nothing wrong with Han or Leia.
So as long as it’s an alien it’s not a weird name, but humans who live in a world with aliens with weird names and the force and lightsabers and hyperspace can’t have weird names. Because then that’s just TOO weird. Right.
Whats wrong with Han or Leia? At least they don’t sound like a derivative of feces slang.
Really wouldn’t surprise me if this was a classic case of Starwars Disinformation from JJ, just to get tongues wagging etc, seems weird to just make up a bunch of random names for speculation purposes
I’m Going with Gwendolyn Christie
a fat pilot got called porkins , nothing shocks me now.
Oh well, it’s not that bad. I always laugh when I hear Porkins.
Its kind of like Mon Mothma .
err yeah I’m just not liking this Phasma
Phasers on stun!
Mothma +Phasma
By the way there is a new photo up on Star Wars.com main page.Looks like a prequel photo but I’m not sure.
phasma phasers – daffy duck
Yep that shot is from Episode III, at the Tantive IV. You have Bail Organa in the center and Cap. Antilles at your right, Bail gives to Antilles the property of R2-D2 and C-3PO. They decided also to wipe out C-3PO’s memory in this scene
Thanks..Been trying to figure out were I saw that from.
That lady off to the left of Bail Organa in the photo looks like the same one I’ve seen in the fan posters by Tiziano.
I just thought it was new photo.
i believe leia is on the vader suit. Just likethe Bosch thing.
They wouldn’t do that.
Come and buy your new 40″ TV from Captain Plasma. Christmas sale starts Boxing Day!
or 1 kilo(gram) of potatoes …hahaha lousy names
Captain Caw Phasma, the mascot for ventalin and asthma awareness
Another flying creature name.
These’s names are getting worse all the time….
However, a phasmid is a name for a group of predatory insects that hide in plain site – they look like leaves or sticks. If there’s a clue in the name, it could be that the character won’t behave like we expect them too…
Honestly guys, these names will grow on you. All Star Wars names are questionable on first glance. I wouldn’t worry:)
Yeah! Jar Jar grew on me – like a fungus!
i don’t think his name is exactly what bothered me….
Jar Jar is the name of the fungus. It’s Latin for festering ulcer.
Hey, I’m fun!!!
I hope so because Rey is a pretty bad one.
Rei is a Japanese female name. It’s spelled differently but I think it’s fine.
Kira is much better in my opinion.
“Kira” is a Star Trek character. I wouldn’t want overlap.
Ummm… Is this the first confirmation that kylo Ren is sith??..
“..Kylo Ren, the sith..”
This IS from Lucasfilm, correct?
That quote is not from Lucasfilm. Lucasfilm merely registered the names.
NOOOO….kilo is a KGR of potatoes or tomatoes…hahaha….
(In)vader, (in)sidious, skywalker — and perhaps the most transparent of all: Greed(o). I learned “chedi” in architectural school, a word loaded with religious significance for Thai Buddhists — it’s no coincidence that in the same entry the synonym “dagoba” appears. The rule book is unclear on Naming Conventions, Star Wars Style, but I quite like the hypocorism of “phantasmagoria” — PHASMA. And it benefits from being unprecedented! John Caliber’s thoughts mirror my own.
Wow dude. Much cred for the references there.
Did you ever consider it might just be stupid name instead of all those subtle meaning
Finn was so bad and now this name.
These names are getting worse and worse.
I hope that JJ Abrams is better in directing than in inventing names.
Rocket Raccoon,Drax,Gamora,Groot
Wait a minute sorry wrong movie.
But Captain Phasma sounds more for GotG
and would have been perfect for that movie.
ITS LIKE PHASER AND PLASMA IN ONE WORD OMG.
To everyone out there that just simply keep hating on every single new piece of information on this movie; perhaps its time to consider the fact that you’re really not that bigger Star Wars fan. Maybe find something better suited to your tastes and leave the rest of us to our excitement.
I think these type of arguements are hilarious. You don’t have to agree with everything to be a fan. For example, I like everything about the ST thus far except for the horrid names, although I’ll admit most of them are growing on me. But mindless exceptance does not make you a better fan than being highly critical.
It’s funny how on Yoda Chronicles they have Luke watching a holocron and when hearing the names Count Dooku and others mentioned he says:
“What crazy names they had back then”
And this on a Lego Star Wars show!
In the future maybe younger fans will think the same way about these names.
Thank you. (Anonymous December 16, 2014 at 22:33 PM)
I take it you mean to say “acceptance”, in which case my thoughts are twofold:
Randomly trashing something instinctively without any consideration or effort to understand what your complaining about is not good.
Sitting and thinking about what your saying and giving a valid (and maybe rude) opinion IS a good thing.
I’m not gonna apologize for calling Captain Phasma a strip-club owner, i’m only calling them this based on what’s in front of me, out-of-context, this name fits my description.
I can’t wait to see the name In-Context, hopefully, walking out of the theater, Captain Phasma will make perfect sense.
(Anonymous December 16, 2014 at 21:59 PM) So you just want people to like everything Star Wars or leave ? Thats the kind of brainless thought that turns movie franchises to garbage.
In the fan fiction, Phasma is a clone of Padme. It really does sound like a bad fan fiction name, but so do a lot of other official Star Wars names…
I have no problem with any of the names… except Phasma.
Sounds like a G.I. Joe name that came out some time after Sgt. Slaughter or King Cobra or maybe the Swamp dudes(whatever their names were)
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Mighty Morphine Pier Rangers Style HaHaHa.
I agree that some names like Poe and Finn are pretty lame, but for all you people bashing on Phasma, I have not seen a single good reason why this is a stupid name other than vaguely sounding like plasma or asthma. How about every time you say a name sounds not cool enough or not star warsy enough, you should suggest one that is and see just how bad your idea is and how hard it is to please a fandom that’s addicted to talking trash.
With a lot of these names, it seems like small tweeks would make a big difference. What about Captain Faisa or Phaisa instead.
Check the meanings of your alterations, it sounds like fainting or debilitating disease.
Yikes!! Brings back 80’s flashbacks…Captain Phasma and the Planateers..
(Leia) “Capt. Phasma ! Only you would be so bold !”
Actually has a nice ring to it ! Ok maybe its not a bad name.
Sounds like a pulp name a la Flash Gordon. So completely appropriate for Star Wars. I’m guessing this is probably the Gwendoline Christie character.
Phasma PUNCH!!!
Come on, lets get real….most of us were kids when the OT came out…no internet…we learned the names by watching the movie, and even then the names weren’t always said on screen. We had to learn them by buying the action figures. By then, we loved it so much that we didnt care about how weird the names were…and who cared anyway? We were kids.
Now…we are all grown up and fed these names, out of context, a year before the movie is released.
Imagine that right now there was NO Star Wars, and they’re about to release the first movie…Ep4…and you hear the character “Captain Needa”. Be honest….you’d think it was a stupid name, and jokes would fly like “Needa? NEEDA?! Yeah….needa new less-stupid name”. Yes…you would…be honest.
Hmm. I agree that the names are weird. The fact is – We do have internet. We do get to hear things before the movie comes out. Some of us are grown up. We do get to hear them out of context. And the names might grow on us. But for now they sound off. But I’ll go along with it.
“Imagine that right now there was NO Star Wars, and they’re about to release the first movie…Ep4…and you hear the character “Captain Needa”…”
Well, I wouldn’t be shocked. If — hypothetically — it’s my first time seeing it, I wouldn’t yet know Captain Needa isn’t supposed to *be* in Episode 4. I’d be blissfully ignorant that he won’t show up until Episode 5.
Otherwise, I’d be cool with the name.
Yes, I realize he is in Ep5, not 4….but I was just using that to make a point.
Phasma came from a fan fiction? Really? Kyl(b)o Ren and now this. Very lazy naming if it turns out to be true.
They are just randomly throwing things against the wall without looking. Not saying things but I hope they didn’t do that with the dialogue. “And now, Rey we will test the location of your hidden Republic base” “You’ll never be as powerful Darth Vader!!!” “RUN CHEWIE RUN!”
Looks like this name was made up during a Scrabble game.
Captain Phasma? He sounds almost as cool as General Grevious! I’m still hoping Palpatine is lurking in the wings..
Origin of PHASMA
New Latin Phasmat-, Phasma from Greek, apparition
Man, after seeing the nature of some of these complaints I’m surprised people didn’t complain about the type of sand they used for the desert.
Boooo.
Yeah, it wasn’t even sifted properly!
It had red accents. That’s messed up man!!
Can’t have that red tone, it reminds me too much of Dooku on that weird speeder bike.
That voice over, man that dude has got some serious flem man. Anyway I gotta go edit that trailer man it needs some help.
I’m going to put the Jar Jar I took out of Ep1 and put him in all of those dark frames but like with a lightsaber.
i want a rise of empire spin off
That is the worst name ever…
No.
The worst name ever, is Blorg.
I thought Greedo was the worst name .
Everyone knows Jabba the Pizza Hutt and so many other names from our childhood Tee bow and not Tim Tebow and Wicket sounds like a spricket these all sound silly and would have then if we didn’t completely fall in love with the film’s etc……or maybe George L. Did a good job naming the characters and planets and didn’t ruin so many people’s childhoods as they think….
Phasma is a good name you dingleberries.
It is Commander thank you!
Star Wars isn’t Flesh Gordon JJ, it is Star Wars, please stop with these corny names paying homage to kiddie afternoon serials, you would do better to honor Japanese Samurai films, young people are far more mature today than the tykes of 60-80 years ago.
Captain Zatiochi would be way better.
If the score is not to your liking…is it JJs fault?
If you don’t like The dialogue in a scene did JJ write it?
If the poster is not up to your standards…. Is it because JJ did not make sure enough flares were used!!!!
JJ did not make EP7 The Force Awakens!!!
A group of collaborators did along with a whole massive bunch of over criticality charged crybabies that they tried to appease.
I swear “The Fans” will screw up this trilogy.
Look at the fan films, are any better than what we got? Great attempts mind you, but not close.
To Anonymous: about the Flash Gordon, it really was kind of Star Wars’ illegitimate Father. It’s Mother being Kurosawa films.
Anything cool about the situation = Samurai Plotline
The alternative Sci-Fi design = a better funded, better realized evolution of the aesthetic concepts in Flash Gordon
To me, just glancing at some stills as a non-viewer, It strikes me that Flash Gordon stands as the root that connects Star Wars and it’s estranged cousin Star Trek. Flash Gordon seems to have valid and original design ideas (albeit cheaply produced). I can totally see the hint of what Lucas would later push the envelope on with New Hope. Whereas Star Trek took the system and Plot concept and every design style that Lucas didn’t take, forking in the opposite direction from ‘Wars.
Will research this further…
I really feel like all of these names only sound bad because they’re taken completely out of context. Shit like “Lando Calrisian” and “Han Solo” sound stupid as shit when you don’t know how they relate to the character they refer to.
You hear a name like “Captain Phasma” and you picture it just as a name. Like up in neon on a big sign like “SEE! CAPTAIN PHASMA!”. But it won’t be like that. It’ll be like “Captain Phasma, have you ordered your ships to disembark to the Dantooine system?” or something.
You’re all blowing this out of proportion. Chill.
My name was the coolest… and most cryptic.
Chew + Bacca(mouth)
Chew mouth
I am Greek so I pretty much know what Phasma, a greek word means…
Ready?
Phasma or Φάσμα in Greek means range, ghost, spectrum, compass, horizon… take your pick!
It seems that Phasma will be a long range shooter special corps, probably an operative from the Remant.
Stupid name.
The Antilles is a group of islands:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antilles
…Since they say “no man is an island” and yet this Captain Antilles character apparently IS and island, we can deduce that he will be somewhat disconnected from those around him. After all, it’s all in the name.
The next day….I’m kind of liking the name.
Seems a bit silly but what other names from past trilogies don’t seem silly?
Greedo,Shmi,,Watto,Porkins,Padme,(I remember the fuss over Padme Amidala’s name when fans first heard it and thought it was terrible.)
I’m okay with other fans not liking the name.
We all don’t have to agree on the same things
all of the time.
All I want is really good movie to enjoy.
That is what I am hoping for.
Captain Phasma sounds like some bll sht JJesque Star Trek character name. Leave it to him.
Still it’s better then Poe.
Captain Phasma sounds like a portmanteau of Phantom Menace and fisting…
it’s the name of Serkis’ character. I guess that he’s an inquisitor of some sort.
Are these star warsy sounding, Quorrin Starr,Balen Darklighter,Xicor Korr,Ubo de de,Rhemo Zhel just a few of my own and much better than the one’s we are seeing IMO but hey as long as it’s a kick ass ride
JerJerrod in the Return Of The Jedi book.
That was an odd name.