Pseudonyms and nicknames are popular. One could choose a name of someone who’s interesting, and who once lived, or still lives, in reality, or ‘merely’ in the imagination (like Robin Hood, Sherlock Holmes, James Bond).

MODELS IN ACTION, too, like to play with this, but without having much to do with the originals whose names they’ve chosen, apart from their sympathy for them, or their reputation, or out of interest for their life-times and environments. To understand MODELS one doesn’t have to know the originals, but anyway ...

Here are six out of eighteen:

LADY BRITOMART: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Britomartis

SIR DALLAS STOUDENMIRE: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dallas_Stoudenmire

SIR BARTHOLOMEW ROBERTS: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartholomew_Roberts

SIR GASTON DE FOIX : Gaston III. (Foix), Wikipedia

LADY MORELLA: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morella_(Poe)

 

And here's a nickname chosen by a male anti-model. It refers to something absolutely evil:

WILLI HEROLD: http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Willi_Herold


(The others, too, can be found easily in the same way)