I'm seeing a pattern here.

[seldear]

The bad chicks are always called Selena or some variation thereof.

Always.

Supergirl movie: bad chick - Selena. Gets hold of the glass paperweight thingy and tries to use it to take over Earth.

Batman Returns movie: bad chick - Selena. Well, kinda good/bad/who knows/who cares? But she's not unequivocal good news, let's put it that way.

MIB II: bad chick - Serleena. Trying to get hold of the Light of Zartha.

I feel gypped.

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[venom69.livejournal.com]

*raises and eyebrow and says nothing*

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Are you casting aspersions on me, Ky?

[dannylurks.livejournal.com]

Look on the bright side.... you could be stuck forever as the goody-goody in Peter Pan. ;-)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

At least there are positive connotations of the name! *g* I always liked Wendy Darling anyway... :)

[alliesings.livejournal.com]

In Hubby's novel, which has been in the works for at least 6 years, and will likely be for the next 10 before it's just right, the heroine is named Salina, or some other dirivation of Selina. So, there's one coming... eventually ;)

[coltsbane.livejournal.com]

Dunno about the Supergirl movie, but the other two Selenas were tormented souls who kicked ass. Tormented souls can be fixed. That leaves kicking ass :D

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

but the other two Selenas were tormented souls who kicked ass

They were?

I thought Serleena in MIB II was just plain evil and wanting-to-take-over-the-world-in-lingerie.

[havocthecat]

You forgot Dracula 2000, but then again, maybe you didn't want to know about it in the first place. ;) Selina - Bride of Dracula and all-around homicidal thief. And there's Catwoman--Selina Kyle. Sometimes she's shown as a bad girl, and sometimes she's shown as a sort-of-bad-girl-with-a-heart-of-gold.

I've always thought bad girls get named Selina because it's generally thought of as a sexy name, and the good girls? Not usually allowed to be as sexualized as the bad girls in fiction are. Which is kind of nuts, I think, because why can't the good girls be sexy too?

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

You forgot Dracula 2000

Didn't know about it. *g* I'm kinda glad I didn't. Any movie title that has a year after it is mildly suspect.

The second one 'Selena' I mentioned was Selena Kyle, a.k.a. 'Catwoman' - not wholly bad, but not unequivocally good.

And somehow, I never thought of my name as sexy.

[havocthecat]

Well, it was a fun movie, but not really be best one out there. But Gerard Butler played Dracula, and he is so damn hot. *fans self*

And I should've caught that you were talking about Selina Kyle! You said "Batman Returns," which really ought to have tipped me off to it. Can I plead the fact that it was really, really early in the morning and I had a five-month old on my lap?

And I've heard that Selina is considered to be one of the sexy names--apparently Tina is too, but I don't see it about my name, so I'm in the same boat there as you. :)

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

Gerard Butler seems to be having a run of kind-of-horror parts. Or maybe that's just his publicity from Phantom.

I'll forgive you. *g* Five months? Really that long? Yeesh...

See, I have a cousin called Tina, who I always thought was sexy (not as in sexually attractive, just objectively sexy, if that makes any sense).

[pixiesio.livejournal.com]

Awwww....{{huggles}}

[cheekygal.livejournal.com]

But it's a pretty name, so who cares if it's being used for nefarious purposes. ;)

When I was little, for the space of about a year or so, many people thought it was absolutely hysterical to call me "Alison Wonderland."

I think this means that people are just odd.

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

There was an article about people with unusual names, written by a dude whose parents thought 'Archimedes' sounded cool. Which it does. He just comes under a lot of teasing/commentary for it.

[cailetr.livejournal.com]

but in Exiles, you're a saint! *grins*

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

*g* I forgot about that!

*hugs* for the reminder.

[calyx.livejournal.com]

Soooooooooooooooo....

I was talking with this gal that I am training at work and I was telling her that I couldn't have her work with me on Friday because my favorite show starts up again that night. She asks me what show it is, and I say "Stargate SG-1."

She goes, "Oh yeah! One of my friends loves Stargate, she writes fanfiction and everything!"

"Really?" I say, "That's cool. What's her name?"

She says, "Selena. She's Australian."

"Is she online? Does she have any online names?"

"Well, the screen name that I know her by is SelDear."

I literally almost fell over!

"OMG! I know her too! I met her at Gatecon!"

"Really!! That is so cool!!"

Her name is Amanda Kenyon. :D I just thought you would get a kick out of that!

[seldearslj.livejournal.com]

HOLY CRAP! You met Runyon!!! *gargles*

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