Vole, Vole, Vole
Mar. 7th, 2012 11:19 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
stoutfellowThe following complaint is a rather stupid one. Sorry about that.
The renegade Jaeger Vole is one of the more entertaining characters in Girl Genius. (Captain Dupree's sudden crush on him is just icing on the cake.) Still, he - or rather, his name - doesn't quite work for me. There are two reasons.
Vole: "a small rodent resembling a mouse but with a stouter body, a shorter hairy tail, a slightly rounder head, smaller ears and eyes, and differently formed molars" (Wikipedia)
Leonard Vole: a rather rodent-like and thoroughly slimy character in "Witness for the Prosecution", played with utmost smarm by Tyrone Power in the 1957 film.
Neither of them is the least like Captain Vole. This distracts me whenever he appears.
I know, this is my problem, no one else's. But why did the Foglios choose that name for him?
The renegade Jaeger Vole is one of the more entertaining characters in Girl Genius. (Captain Dupree's sudden crush on him is just icing on the cake.) Still, he - or rather, his name - doesn't quite work for me. There are two reasons.
Vole: "a small rodent resembling a mouse but with a stouter body, a shorter hairy tail, a slightly rounder head, smaller ears and eyes, and differently formed molars" (Wikipedia)
Leonard Vole: a rather rodent-like and thoroughly slimy character in "Witness for the Prosecution", played with utmost smarm by Tyrone Power in the 1957 film.
Neither of them is the least like Captain Vole. This distracts me whenever he appears.
I know, this is my problem, no one else's. But why did the Foglios choose that name for him?
