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Unseen

Jan 28 @ 12:34am

Is doomguy a proper name for the protagonist?

Like doom was suppose to be the situation, like everyone was doomed. But doomguy seems like an odd choice for his name, considering. Does he even have a real name?

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Originally posted by Freedoom Marine:

Benakenobi, perfectly 200% correct, i don't believe you knew that fact, Doomguy is not what you call the player marine at all, the marine is called the Space Marine or the UAC Marine as a nickname. Doomguy is only artificially made up nonsense by the online internet Doom community. The Space Marines real name in the PC canon Doom series was mentioned and released only once in the first ever Doom development interview on television in 1992 by Tom Hall as he went over his bit about the Doom Bible while playtesting Doom Knee Deep In The Dead right before its official release would come in 1993, which the space marines name is Dylan Flinders Petersen(Even despite using Dwayne Hicks or Michael Biehn regarding the space marines inspirations from Aliens). I do have a facebook page with lots of neat Doom stuff and information if you need anything further on any of it, https://www.facebook.com/jonathan.j.shearman

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benakenobi Jan 28 @ 2:13am

The "doomguy" is just community's convenient handle for game protagonist, the game's manual refers to player as "you" (are a space marine, one of the Earth's toughest...)

Tom Hall of id Software began writing doom story around 2 female marines and 2 male marines: Lorelei Chen, Thi Barrett, John "Petro" Pietrovich, Dimitri Paramo - but these were scrapped and never appear in Doom 1/2/Final/64/etcetera

The doom books invented a name Flynn Taggart, this was later made into easter egg in Doom Eternal, but player character there is never addressed by that name, just by Doomslayer

Last edited by benakenobi; Jan 28 @ 2:14am

Stalker2010 has DOOM + DOOM II

Jan 28 @ 4:08am

He has no name.

Lotica

Jan 28 @ 8:03am

Originally posted by benakenobi:
The "doomguy" is just community's convenient handle for game protagonist, the game's manual refers to player as "you" (are a space marine, one of the Earth's toughest...)

Tom Hall of id Software began writing doom story around 2 female marines and 2 male marines: Lorelei Chen, Thi Barrett, John "Petro" Pietrovich, Dimitri Paramo - but these were scrapped and never appear in Doom 1/2/Final/64/etcetera

The doom books invented a name Flynn Taggart, this was later made into easter egg in Doom Eternal, but player character there is never addressed by that name, just by Doomslayer

Lorelei and Thi would appear as names in Tom's next game, Rise of The Triad, but I'm not sure if they were the same characters as their DOOM counterparts.

Dave-X

Jan 28 @ 8:08am

According to John Romero and Tom Hall, he's a member of the Blazkowicz family, although that doesn't definitively mean he's using the name. The Doom II RPG's Doomguy was called "Stan Blazkowicz", although this could well be a separate character.

I like the name "Doom", as was given in his Quake III appearance.

Enan63

Jan 28 @ 9:00am

If I can recall, he was just Doomguy. However some time later after DOOM 2, he was called Doom Slayer instead. My apology if I got some information wrong. I suggest you look up on Google.

UNBREAKABLE has DOOM + DOOM II

Jan 28 @ 9:14am

We new nothing about the protagonist originally, he was just "the guy from Doom", so Doomguy is just what people called him. It caught on enough that even the newer doom games still call him that occasionally.

Though to be honest I prefer saying "Doom Marine"... sounds a bit less cringe and more like an official title he has.

Last edited by UNBREAKABLE; Jan 28 @ 9:21am

Unseen

Jan 28 @ 9:21am

Doomslayer sounds pretty cool as it implies he's fighting the doom, and not actual doom.

I think he'd be a pretty cool dude in real life, bunnies make great pets.

Last edited by Unseen; Jan 28 @ 9:21am

Revengicide has DOOM + DOOM II

Jan 28 @ 9:21am

His real name is "John Duke Gordon of Halo".

You didn't know that? Its like, common knowledge or something dood.

Snufflegrunt has DOOM + DOOM II

Jan 28 @ 9:39am

His real name is Brian.

Unseen

Jan 28 @ 9:43am

Originally posted by Snufflegrunt:
His real name is Brian.

Really?

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Snufflegrunt has DOOM + DOOM II

Jan 28 @ 9:44am

Originally posted by Unseen:
Originally posted by Snufflegrunt:
His real name is Brian.

Really?

y e s

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Captain n00by has DOOM + DOOM II

Jan 31 @ 8:34pm

SNES' version TV add has the coolest depiction of him imo

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=exWADvKJJpc

EDIT: also, the PSX version and official comic show him in his full, Bruce Willis esque look.

Last edited by Captain n00by; Jan 31 @ 8:39pm

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Unseen

Jan 31 @ 9:20pm

I remember some of those old adds, anyone remember the alien one with the kids moms arm tapping his shoulder but turns out an aliens holding her severed arm?

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