51 minutes ago, Hiemfire said:

Maybe they consider him a poor knockoff of his brother??? Meh, kiddie and young teen shows don't tend to have a lot of depth to them, at  best slightly more than a "good" sitcom, so the lack of imagination in the naming is forgivable.

Ok, but the Clone Wars show has a heck of a lot of depth, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Savage Oppress is actually a great character, and very different from his brother.

It's just... well. The contrast between how cool he is and how dumb his name is makes the name even more jarring.

14 minutes ago, Punning Pundit said:

Ok, but the Clone Wars show has a heck of a lot of depth, and I cannot recommend it highly enough. Savage Oppress is actually a great character, and very different from his brother.

It's just... well. The contrast between how cool he is and how dumb his name is makes the name even more jarring.

His first name is a direct simile to his brother's. To savage something and to maul something are both in effect the same thing. Tacking on Opress to the end (I had misspelled it in my post) is campy as heck (How much more evil can we make this guy sound, oh hey lets make his name mean brutal subjugation..). I'll take your word on how much depth the series developed, and I still give them a pass on the naming because of the target audience.

23 hours ago, ScummyRebel said:

Nah, the Seppies wanted less government in their lives (made more apparent by the tv series).

Jar Jar consistently voted for more power to Palpatine and bigger government.

So..."Make the Republic Bombad again"?

7 hours ago, Hiemfire said:

His first name is a direct simile to his brother's. To savage something and to maul something are both in effect the same thing. Tacking on Opress to the end (I had misspelled it in my post) is campy as heck (How much more evil can we make this guy sound, oh hey lets make his name mean brutal subjugation..). I'll take your word on how much depth the series developed, and I still give them a pass on the naming because of the target audience.

I dunno about depth, but it was very enjoyable a lot of the time. It just had one particularly awful name, even by Star Wars standards. I mean they didn't even try and make it sound a bit latiny, or use a sinister word starting with "in" with the "in" removed! Hey, I just noticed: "sinister" with the "in" removed is "sister", and the Nightsisters were darkside too - coincidence?!