Death Defiers?

SteveHorton

So I'm doing a creator owned book about four specialists who parachute into the world's deadliest situations and fix them. A modern day Challengers, but mine.

What do I call them? Death Defiers sounds dumb. Any ideas?

JimCampbell

'Chute To Kill…

SteveHorton

Haha.

Adrenaline Junkies?

EricPalicki

DIAMOND STAR HALOS (I was originally going to suggest BLACK HALOS, but that's a punk band).

a) Gives them a cool-sounding callsign (pulled out of a T. Rex song lyric). 

b) HALO has a specific parachute-related meaning: 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High-altitude_military_parachuting#HALO_-_High_Altitude_Low_Opening

EDIT TO ADD: " 'chute to Kill/Thrill" absolutely needs to be a tagline.

joshhechinger

Seconding 'Chute to Thrill as a tagline if nothing else.

Name-wise...The Ripcorps? The Four Drops? Perilchuters? Defiers of the Surprising was my Challs pastiche that I never got anywhere past the scripting on back in The Engine days; you're welcome to that name, even if it's just this side of a C&D waiting to happen.

SteveHorton

They don't ALWAYS parachute, so I'd want to steer away from parachute-related names. I like the Halos one but I might not be able to have "Halo" in a comic title without Microsoft's attention.

Jimmie_Robinson

Thirding "Chute to Kill / Thrill".

I'm sorry but you just can't walk away from gold like that.

BrandonSeifert

I don't mind "Death Defiers," personally.

JustinJordan

I actually like Death Defiers too, but I'd be inclined to just go with Defiant if Death Defiers doesn't work.

Richard_Pace

Need to know more about what constitutes 'the world's deadliest situations'.  Are we talking military coups?  Environmental disasters?  The deck of an ocean going fishing boat?

~R

SteveHorton

Yes!

marvinmann

Damned if They Do.

Dunno if that actually makes sense for your concept, but I sort of like it. Perhaps there is a price to pay for successfully dealing with these dangers.

SteveHorton

Gun Jumpers
Leap Before You Look
Death Defiant

Richard_Pace

The Damned

Owen_Jones

Final Solutions

Disaster Masters

The Last Resort

jorgefmunoz

Defiants

Endangered

Danger Dive

Danger Jumpers

Gun Seekers

DinoCaruso

I like the "shoot/chute" titles. Maybe for an issue title if not the series...?

Chute First

Chute Down In Flames

Chute Out 

marioboon

Give them all the name Murphy and call them the Drop Dead Murphys

And if the lawyers of that band have come, change the name to the Drop Deads"

SteveHorton

I kind of like The Drop Deads, actually!

Jimmie_Robinson

I like Jorge's suggestion: Danger Jumpers

And I also like Owen's suggestion: Disaster Masters (sounds like a toy line, but it works enough).

Obviously, it is all up to you what you call it, haha!

joshhechinger

I like The Drop Deads or Danger Jumpers. Also pretty sure I'm going to end up using "Perilchuters" or "Periltroopers" in something now, so hey, everyone's a winner.

_Beth_Wagner_

I like Periltroopers it's catchy!

Richard_Pace

Lateral thinking moment -- was thinking about death squads for something else earlier.  Light went on; why aren't white hat groups called life squads.  Life Squad may suggest either a group of photo journalists or some sort of anti-abortion group, so I kept walking the idea along.  Anything with "life" in front of it is essentially wrecked (though Life Brigade needs to done in some way that works), so you wander over to things like Hope Squad, which sounds like an urban youth thing.  Trying to stay away from 'death', I though; "Danger Squad"

The parachute thing still sticks, too.  IIRC, the US Rangers do a good deal of paradrops, so I thought; Danger Rangers.  It's cute, but catchy, and and toy friendly to boot.

Unless the content is really, really dark or the title has to be the group's actual name instead of a nick name or tag, I'm really liking Danger Rangers.  They could have a cool, militarized name like Black Ice Security, but everyone calls them the Danger Rangers. .  .

~R

Jimmie_Robinson

@Richard_Pace - There you go.... doing all that *thinking* again, hahah!

SteveHorton

Lateral thinking moment -- was thinking about death squads for something else earlier.  Light went on; why aren't white hat groups called life squads.  Life Squad may suggest either a group of photo journalists or some sort of anti-abortion group, so I kept walking the idea along.  Anything with "life" in front of it is essentially wrecked (though Life Brigade needs to done in some way that works), so you wander over to things like Hope Squad, which sounds like an urban youth thing.  Trying to stay away from 'death', I though; "Danger Squad"

The parachute thing still sticks, too.  IIRC, the US Rangers do a good deal of paradrops, so I thought; Danger Rangers.  It's cute, but catchy, and and toy friendly to boot.

Unless the content is really, really dark or the title has to be the group's actual name instead of a nick name or tag, I'm really liking Danger Rangers.  They could have a cool, militarized name like Black Ice Security, but everyone calls them the Danger Rangers. .  .

~R

Sounds like maybe you need an ongoing series to work on!

Richard_Pace

I'm a mini-series guy.  I think I could write an ongoing, but I doubt I could maintain an interest in a style for a subject past 6-8 issues.

~R

JasonAQuest

They could have a cool, militarized name like Black Ice Security,

Sounds like what Blackwater might've been called if Erik Prince had grown up in the UP instead of Lower Michigan.

marvinmann

Google Frank Thorne's Danger Rangerette.

ShawnRichison

Peril Troopers and Danger Jumpers are both awesome.

ShawnRichison

Hard Zone Area Deployment Team (Hazard / HaZArD Team or HZD Team, colloquially).

Jimmie_Robinson

@ShawnRichison - that's the winner right there. Just HZD.