And don't forget...

Mini appearances in canon by classicfilmfan on 2018-10-09 14:22:00 UTC Reply

The Ghostbusters Master System game misspelled Gozer as Gorza. Can you think of other canonical minis?

I can't really think of any, but thanks for making my day! by twistedwindowpane on 2018-10-15 01:22:00 UTC Reply

Hehe, I was into Ghostbusters for a while (the original, though the reboot wasn't yet a thing when I started), and my favorite character was Gozer, because up until recently I've always gravitated towards the villain of any medium. This thread brought back a couple memories of that.

-Twistey
Re: Mini appearances in canon by Tawaki on 2018-10-12 16:37:00 UTC Reply

In a journal in Riven, Gehn misspelled "wahrk" as "whark".

Don't know what an Agatha Christie mini would be, but a copy of Death Comes as the End spelled "Imhotep" (the father's name) as "Imhtep" once.

I think they should be mini-corpses. (nm) by Snowblaze on 2018-10-13 13:45:00 UTC Reply

o.O Because that's not disturbing at all. (nm) by Huinesoron on 2018-10-13 21:53:00 UTC Reply

I suppose it is, but... by Snowblaze on 2018-10-14 08:01:00 UTC Reply

That’s about the only thing I could think of that connects almost all of the books. There aren’t any monsters or anything, so I don’t know what else it would be.

A mini-Grey Cell? by Huinesoron on 2018-10-14 14:37:00 UTC Reply

Only more of a really big Grey Cell. You can buy some really adorable plushie cells, I'm sure there's a cute neuron out there.

hS

That made me grin. by Snowblaze on 2018-10-14 14:59:00 UTC Reply

I suppose it makes sense for a mini of something that’s already little to be big. Maybe Average-Sized Grey Cells? Or would that mean average by grey cell standards - still little?
Not really sure it applies to the non-Poirot books, though. Alternatively, we could compromise by combining our ideas... Dead grey cells???

I think it does, actually. by Huinesoron on 2018-10-14 22:54:00 UTC Reply

Inarguably, all of Christie's heroes make extensive use of their brains. Arguably, ze little grey cells are also the prime antagonist: specifically, when they're /not/ doing their job and putting the pieces together.

hS

I almost pity the fangirls... by Snowblaze on 2018-10-15 16:49:00 UTC Reply

at the Agatha Christie OFU. Their schemes will never last ten seconds without the grey cells figuring them out and thwarting them in the most ironic way possible.

...then again, that’s more or less what happens at every OFU.

Re: I almost pity the fangirls... by Tawaki on 2018-10-16 12:47:00 UTC Reply

And the most cunning of her detectives and the most cunning of her criminals would put their heads together to find novel ways of thwarting them. Of course, most of the incidents would have to be of the noodle variety.

The fangirls don't die, though... by Scapegrace on 2018-10-16 21:30:00 UTC Reply

They just disappear for about ten days. =]

I am soooooo fed up... by Huinesoron on 2018-10-15 16:53:00 UTC Reply

... of people giving me amazing ideas for OFUs that I know full well I would never, ever be able to write.

So you can have this one. ^_^

hS

I couldnÂ’t write it either. by Snowblaze on 2018-10-16 08:05:00 UTC Reply

My canonical knowledge is nowhere near good enough: I haven’t read all the books and those that I have I got from the library.

Glory to the Marines Errantor! by 61516 on 2018-10-12 01:56:00 UTC Reply

This obscure chapter of Space Marines appeared in the Warhammer 40,000 supplement "Chapter Approved 2001." They are probably a typo of "Marines Errant," a chapter mentioned elsewhere in the same publication.

No, no, no... by Huinesoron on 2018-10-12 11:26:00 UTC Reply

... they're obviously a typo for the Marines Errator, which consists of the survivors of every Space Marine Chapter which has ever been misspelled. ^_^

(Though actually Errantor is apparently a valid Latin word: Wiktionary calls it the third-person plural future passive imperative of errō, which means 'I wander'. So... what is that, 'let it be that they will wander'? Or 'let them wander!'. Is that the same linguistic formulation as 'let them eat cake'?)

hS

Sometime I should make a kill-team of Marines Errantor... (nm) by 61516 on 2018-10-13 01:36:00 UTC Reply

Not exactly canon but... by Snowy the Sane Fangirl on 2018-10-11 08:07:00 UTC Reply

I had a junior high unit study of The Lord of the Rings that tried to refer to Aragorn, Legolas, and Gimli as "The Threee Hunters". For some reason it stuck with me all this time.

My copy of The Lord of the Rings also misspells the name of some elf or other at one point, but I don't remember where or who, unfortunately. I missed it on my last rereading.

By the way... by Snowblaze on 2018-10-12 07:33:00 UTC Reply

Have you had time to look at my Permission doc yet? I emailed it last week. Sorry if I’m being too impatient: I’m new to being beta-read so I don’t know how long it usually takes.

I've been keeping a running list! by doctorlit on 2018-10-10 13:45:00 UTC Reply

typo (correct spelling), source

Laner (Lanier), from Greg Bear's Eon

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A bunch of mini-Hunters out of the Halo universe:

Librae 23 (23 Librae), from Tobias Buckell's The Cole Protocol

Adrienne (Adriana), from The Cole Protocol

Jagger (Jaggers), from Eric Nylund's The Fall of Reach

USNC (UNSC), appearing eleven times so far that I've encountered, including on a box in Halo 3. Not going to list all the novels and short stories.

Kilo (Kiko), from Tobias Buckell's "Dirt"

Cuidad de Arias (Ciudad de Arias), from Fred Van Lente's "Blunt Instruments"

McCraw (MacCraw), from Jeff VanderMeer and Tessa Kum's "The Mona Lisa"

MAB5 (MA5B), from Eric Nylund's Ghosts of Onyx

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Rassselas (Rasselas), from Charlotte Brontë's Jane Eyre

Iluvatar (Ilúvatar), from Tolkien's The Silmarillion

Ocs (Orcs), from The Silm again

Montage (Montag), from Ray Bradbury's Fahrenheit 451

Cheno (Chen), from Douglas Preston's Blasphemy

Kublia Khan (Kublai Khan), from James Rollins's The Judas Strain

Asaph Saywer (Asaph Sawyer), from Lovecraft's "Into the Vault"

Ourkranos (Oukranos), from Lovecraft's The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Adbul Alhazred (Abdul Alhazred), from Lovecraft's The Thing on the Doorstep (Like, they got the hard part of his name right?!)

Gengis Khan (Genghis Khan), from Chris Stewart's The Fourth War (Those poor Khans!)

Thundercap Station (Thunderclap Station), from Stephen King's The Dark Tower VII: The Dark Tower

Jello-O (Jell-O), from Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

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How about a mess of mini-Atogs out of Magic: the Gathering?

Mach (Macha), from Mark Shepherd's "Gathering the Taradomnu"

For's River (Fors River), from the above

horned octipus (horned octopus), from Billie Sue Mosiman's "The Theft of Bayende, Heart and Soul"

Teriel (Telier), from Morgan Llywelyn's "Dryad's Kiss"

Vashino (Viashino), from Mark Sumner's The Prodigal Sorcerer

Aligaurius (Aligarius), from same as above

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Iliipoi (Iliiopoi), from Jack London's "The Bones of Kahekili"

Hams (Hans), from Jules Verne's A Journey to the Center of the Earth

Luisades (Lusiades), from Verne's In Search of the Castaways

Captain's King's (Captain King's), from Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues under the Sea

Nkosi Sikelel' i Africa (Nkosi Sikelel' iAfrica), from Bryce Courtenay's The Power of One

All Quite on the Western Front (All Quiet on the Western Front) I BET YOU WILL NEVER GUESS WHERE THIS WAS FROM

And finally, the kamikaze memorial inside the U.S.S. Missouri misspelled real person Petty Officer Second Class Setsuo Ishino's first name as "Setuo."

For the record, I do have notations for all of these; I just didn't have time to type it all out.

—doctorlit spends his free time in valuable and productive ways

And don't forget... by Neshomeh on 2018-10-11 20:22:00 UTC Reply

Suicides (Suicide\Suicide's), from Tungsten Monk's copy of Stephen Pressfield's Gates of Fire. That's the dubious and probably-not-a-good-idea-to-repeat way in which we got Agent Suicide. {= ) Sadly, I have no idea what printing or what page.

I'm sure I've seen characters' names (and other words) misspelled in the Horus Heresy books, too, but I haven't bothered to keep track so far. I reckon mass-produced franchise books are ripe for this sort of thing.

~Neshomeh

I've had a copy of Gates of Fire . . . by doctorlit on 2018-10-12 04:03:00 UTC Reply

on my shelf for years. I'm looking forward to finding Suicide's origin point!

—It's such a shame that doctorlit has no control over what order he reads books, and that the books themselves determine that for him. Oh well!
*Steven by Neshomeh on 2018-10-11 20:25:00 UTC Reply

Dammit, Muphry's Law got me! {X D

~Neshomeh

My personal favorite from Harry Potter: by Iximaz on 2018-10-09 16:50:00 UTC Reply

Snap was spying on me and he was taking a video tape of me!

The one misspelling My Immortal got right. :P
I can! by Huinesoron on 2018-10-09 14:55:00 UTC Reply

The (in)famous Bakshi LotR movie referred to Saruman as Aruman about half the time. Apparently they were concerned people would confuse the two S-villains... but that doesn't explain why they only bothered to change half of the instances.

Also, to anyone who watched Doctor Who night before last: does 'Tim Shaw' count as a canon mini? >:)

hS

Re your question... by Iximaz on 2018-10-09 16:51:00 UTC Reply

Probably no more than the Percy Jackson demigods calling Enceladas "Enchiladas". :P

Well, does that count? by Huinesoron on 2018-10-09 16:58:00 UTC Reply

A deliberate nickname is one thing - I don't think we have a mini-Balrog named Leggy, for instance. But getting the name wrong because you misheard or misread it is a classic way to create a mini. Heck, my own Thanduril came into being because I wrote his name from memory and got it wrong.

hS