I made a stalker called Ninja Night... It was from when i played US in December - February. So i decided to use it again ^_^
Not decided on anything yet. I tend to sit down with a cup of tea and a ciggy and work through my theme, costume, name, etc when I creating. Smoking Demon wasn't my original choice for my main, but came about through linking the cigar in the costume creation to a theme, background, bio (the fact I'm almost a chain smoker may of had something to do with it however). More fun for me to not know what I'm going to create until i start creating. Although I do know that I want my main as a stalker.
The Smoking Demon
Ash/Tar Corruptor
Union
@The Smoking Demon
efranof, necromancy/poison mastermind and brut E. force, super strength/energy brute, cant wait for the next hero massacre of tuesday, gonna be fun.
I am the Blaster, I have filled the role of Tank, Controller and Defender
Sometimes all at once.
Union EU player! Pip pip, tally ho, top hats and tea etc etc
Villains name is Wamdue.
Didn't need to change spelling as the Hero doesn't exist 
Mind/Psy just like you Stasis 
You erased your 50 Wam?
The Smoking Demon
Ash/Tar Corruptor
Union
@The Smoking Demon
You erased your 50 Wam?
The Smoking Demon
Ash/Tar Corruptor
Union
@The Smoking Demon
Opps
The Smoking Demon
Ash/Tar Corruptor
Union
@The Smoking Demon
Yep, Deleted her.
I dunno, maybe it's the Halloween atmosphere.
Mine are;
Jack O'Lantern - Fire/Dark Corruptor
Allhallow's Eve - Necro/Dark MM
As you might have guessed, both have more than a little of the Halloween about them.
Iron Mongrel : What happened if Weasel didn't triumph in his back story. (I found this story far better after the Unseelie)
Mr. Normal : Because serial killers always look like the person next door.(And Mr Average was taken )
Dr. Luke Cotomy : A Mannequin given life. (And an excuse for a really bad pun )
Well, seeing as I am back from a 4 month absence from Paragon. I decided to recreate my old hero as a villian. So Technoslash is back. After spending 2 days in the Rogue Isles why did I ever leave you guys for WoW.
Heroes:
Techno-Slash lvl 7 (the imposter)
PhyreStarter
Villians:
Technoslash lvl 8 (The Original)
Jeff the Minion
My Villain is Unthing's evil twin, Darkthing. I got the name by asking on my supergroup chat what Unthing's evil twin should be called. I then created a character on Union called Darkthing to reserve the name.
The backstory is the same as Unthing's, grew up in a toxic swampland, however he grew to hate rather than like people and started killing them...
I had him planned for about 2 weeks. I came up with the build on Saturday, whilst playing. Luckily no-one chose the same name between me deleting the level 1 CoH character at 9.30am and choosing the name at 9.45am. I also copied the character scaling and colours from Unthing and only modified the height ( to be about 3 inches shorter ) and the shoulder width to be less, so he looks slightly less strong.
I thought that Spines/Regen would be a bad choice for a Stalker, but couldn't change them for character concept reasons. I think I was wrong, they seem fine to me.
@Unthing ... Mostly on Union.
TimeKeeper - because calling her April felt wrong, so i based her name on her previous time controlling powers (and am gunna be rping it like so)
i had her as my first **EVER** rp character when i was 12 and playing on a Xmen/mutant high Play by post forum on neopets (don't you dare laugh) she's Pinkinatrix's foster sister. there's alot more but it's been a long time and i've forgotten. thankfully the name wasn't taken (although on the beta Acantha was - means Thorn... guess what her powers were supposed to be)
Mine will be Here2Harm.....makes sense really!...
I made three so far and funnily enough all were named because of the costumes I made:
Sinister Dexter - DM/DA Brute - I chose the name because of the 50/50 mask and the play on words with sinister (since been told there was a 2000AD char called the same......but I don't read comics so had no idea)
The Bounder - Somekind of MM - ain't played him yet but wanted to get the name. Chose the name because he's done up to look a bit like Terry Thomas (kids ask your parents!) i.e. top hat, monacle, twisty mustache
Cabaret - Claws/Ninja Stalker - simply cos the cossie looks a bit like a caberet girl from the film of the same name.
Two to date, only one of which I've given much play time to:
Alathar - Dark/Dark Corruptor, based on my favourite LARP character from the dim and distant days when I used to do such things (the original was a Trappie rules Black Elementalist). Less (zero!) RP in the CoV version, but the powers aren't a million miles away and it's good to get the old guy back in action.
King Deadly - SS/En Brute, just struck me as a good name.
Cruella de Vine, a younger, alternative version of the dog botherer, a frigid hardcore horticulturist ice queen, in a nutshell 
Botulism, giving the Rogue Isles a bad case of the squits, multiplying over time with the addition of her 'bots, E-Coli, Salmonella, Giardia....you get the idea 
Well the mad crow lady is now a villian aswell, after a little mishap with her Also a dog-faced Brute called Bone EO whose favourite food is dog biscuits
Katatsubasa no Akuma - The arch-nemesis of my hero OneWingedAngel. (Incidentally, "Katatsubasa no Akuma" is "One Winged Devil" in Japanese 
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How did you decide on your villain's name?
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By using CoH-lore and writing short stories for my main. =P My second villain is a composition of short-story-working-over/comic inspiration/tweaking of both these deciding factors.
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Does your villain have a backstory yet? Or will that be coming later?
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All my villains/heroes have complete backstories as I make them, but they also often evolve over time. =)
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How long have you had your character planned?
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My main villain has been in the works for about 1.2 years or so. =P He was constructed very early as I wrote my first few short stories and evolved into an actual project with my next set of short stories. ^^
My secondary has been around for maybe half a year or so, haven't put as much thought into him yet but I expect him to evolve more as I get into playing him. =)
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Was your ideal name available? Or have you had to mangle the spelling?
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My main villain's name was available, I would have been surprised if it wasn't. ;P
My secondary villain's name was not (I wanted "Famine"). But the alternative "Abberation" sufficed well enough. =)
Only one of the ideas I had for a villain name so far didn't work out. I wanted to create an ICE/ICE corruptor and call her 'Snow Flake' - forgetting that we share the database with all the hero names. Tried a few variations on the theme, but no luck so she ended up as 'Cold Heart'.
Other ATs worked out okay although the dominator and stalker were already second choices when I made them in Beta.
Red Rag - Energy/Fire Brute (main villain toon - half man, half cow, all attitude - and a bad attitude at that)
Nanotetrix - Robot/FF MM (MM teams are just so much fun)
Pouncing Tiger - Claws/Ninja Stalker (lvl 1)
Rose Bloodthorn - Plant/Plant Dominator (lvl 1)
Negaflitz - MA/SR stalker (Flitz's evil nemesis, lvl 1)
UNION @Flitz 50, Lead Hose 50, Red Rag 50
DEFIANT Rose Bloodthorn 34
VIGILANCE Captain Caledonia 20 - Yeah, I made toons on the French server coz we only had 4 back then (might have to transfer/recreate them on one of the US servers)
..and many more!
Currently my CoV main character is Evil T - Necromancy/Dark Mastermind.
The story behind him (which can be found in my bio ingame) is that the hero Tremulous was killed by fellow heroes in Warburg and was given the chance by Lord Recluse himself to be ressurected to take revenge on those that turned on him.
As with any hero normally Tremulous wouldn't have taken Lord Recluse up on this offer but with the anger from being turned on by fellow heroes (hellbent on getting their reputation higher rather than helping others) Tremulous lost control of reasonable thought and grasped the chance to rid the world of these so called heroes.
Tremulous didn't quite bank on what he got - Lord Recluse ressurected him as an Undead Mastermind to do his evil bidding for him. He was granted powers to ressurect his hero alter ego's - Ice Burn, Army Medic, Mini SpineBot,
Mini RadBot, DarkBot and EarthKin to help him in his new found quests. He was also given the power to summon the ghost of one of these if they were to fall in battle so that they could carry on with their reign of terror.
Unfortunately for his alter ego's they didn't have the choice of ressurection and bear no resemblance to their former selves. The only thing they have left is their loyalty to Tremulous.
On top of this he was given the power to show his enemy the darkest side of evil and to draw upon their power to in order to feed that of his own, his minions and anyone that chooses to acompany him in his quest for revenge.
The so called heroes that turned on their own will soon feel the wrath of Evil T!
I suprised myself when I originally created my CoV beta character; I can spend hours after hours trying to figure out a nice name, let alone a proper costume for my characters, but on that time, I came up with a good name almost in matter of minutes. And as I really like that name, I deciced to use it again to name my retail character.
So beware world, for a Corruptor known as Lycricia has joined the ranks of Lord Recluse!
It's probably about time I got 'round to my own thread, so here we are.
Vainglory, my main, has been planned for quite some time; her original choice of name was Vanity, but that was taken still, Vainglory works perfectly. She's, as you may have guessed, extremely vain--to the point of insanity; but her looks are magical, without the hundreds of thousands of glamour spells she uses, she's repulsive.
Then we have Sadness, a group of 'cultists' managed to place joy and happiness into an human form, but found they also had to create an opposite in order to keep the balance. Sadness is this, the human embodiment of...sadness.
And finally, Ms. Ann Thrope: a human woman who so hated mankind, that she paid a scientist friend to transform her into a human killing machine.
That's all I have for now
Now that a good deal of us have been roaming the Rogue Isles for two days, and the rest will be joining us tomorrow or later in the week, I thought I'd better ask:
How did you decide on your villain's name?
Does your villain have a backstory yet? Or will that be coming later?
How long have you had your character planned?
And the inevitable:
Was your ideal name available? Or have you had to mangle the spelling?