People'll going to hate me, but in my opinion DC is a true treasure vault of corny codenames: Sun Boy, Plastic Man, Beast Boy, Karate Kid, all these self-explanatory, way to obvious names are pretty wierd for me. I mean, Batman and Catwoman are okay, both animals are symbolic enough (not to mention the connection between women and cats as metafors), Superman is fair enough, after all, he's prety much the prototyp of the paragon type of superheroes, but I couldn't take most of the other names in this fashion seriously. All the names beginning with "dead" or "death" are also a tad dull nowadays, but this is mostly due to their being overused.
Of course, this is also a question of how much you know a character, for there might be points in thier history that gives additional meaning to their names. For an example, I've always found Superboy Prime weird. Why should such a near omnipotent antagonist, who is supposed to give you the impression of sublimity and allmightiness, should have such a diminutive name? Yet, as I've read more and more about him here at comicvine, it became perfectly logical: he is the enfant terrible, the fallen prodigy that apostolates the incompetence and "sins" of his predecessors, which ultimately ruined his chance to become the ultimate savior he was promised to be, leading to his corruption. This way Superboy Prime doesn't sound stupid at all. Well, I as I said, I'd drawn all this conclusion from second hand sources, so please do tell me if you think I've totally missed the point and am yappin bull XD, but this is the impression I've had.
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