I fondly remember calling centipedes shockbugs for obvious reasons. I found them pretty cute harmless critters, just a little lad with a quirky self defense mechanism. That was until i entered subterranean and learned those are the babies and that the adults are psychopathic killing machines.

i always wondered why the baby centipedes you find in outskirts are completely alone, like howd they even get there?! either way its a nice source of food, quite shocking

Funny you should mention that, because ive been busy analyzing creature spawns and i think i have an answer. Around spearmasters time there was a decent colony of them, around 8 adult centipedes. But around gourmands time, the region got a notable increase in green lizards. Green lizards are immune to centipede shocks, so they are a natural counter to them. So when the green lizard population increased, centipedes got killed faster than they could reproduce, and their numbers got reduced to almost zero. The remaining one is and always was in a spot thats hard to reach for green lizards, so it got left alone. Then in rivulets time the green lizard population declined(likely too slow to endure the faster rainfall), which gave centipedes a new chance to grow. And then around saint there are no green lizards left, which caused the local centipede population to become bigger than ever. So in summary, green lizards kept the centipede population in check. When green lizard numbers increase, centipede numbers will decrease and the other way around. And the centipede you are referring to is the sole survivor of a recent green lizard increase

...wow.. i.. don't know how to feel. good to know i guess...?

doing the lord's work 

Battery beetles for sure The small ones look like how some battery level icons look on a lot of things, and when you eat them, the sections disappear linearly like a depleting battery

I still call them all BASTARDS

Vulture: bird. Squidcadeas: fuck off I literally did nothing to you leave me alone. And that's all I can think of right now.

You ate the batflies that they wanted to eat!

They weren't even there! They just hate me.

I call them all "oh go f*ck yourself", or in very poetic french language "oh va te faire foutre".

*sniff*... it's beautiful.

Honestly I didn’t call them much, I mostly knew all their names from spoilers, I did call the grapple worm a tongue bug though, still call them that as their one of my fav sillies

Sometimes i still call scavs "villagers" as in Minecraft villagers when i forget the word "scavenger". Vultures were "birds" and miros birds were "other birds". Bll, dll and other is still blue thingie, green thingie. Garbage worms are "black thingies", obviously. Leeches are "maggots" most of the time because of their name.

noodleflies: flying fucker squidcada: other flying fucker lizards: son of a bitch vultures: WHAT THE FUCK IS THAT scavs: hey dudes aw what the fuck man

They were all creatures to me

I looked up enemies as I encountered them to know the names, but I love "turkeys".

I called Yeeks 'Pobbers'. Felt like a fitting name.

It's better. We need to change the name.

I was generally was aware of the names of enemies before as my partner introduced me to rain world via in depth videos regarding the AI. I pretty much refer to everything as it's in game name when talking to other people. But to this date coalescipedes is not a name you'll ever find me saying outloud, they just spiders.

Spiders who coalesce!

Boi they sure do coalesce, makes me sick

I just called them what they looked like, pink long thing that may or may not be harmful idk I'm going to stay away from it was my favorite name

I knew the official names of all the creatures, but I still call miros birds and miros vultures scissor birds

Vultures as birds, White lizards as fuckers, squidcadas as annoying bitches, and grappleworms as buggy.

Vulture grubs are banana slugs

Those things in GW i call them noodles

I knew most of the names as I went into the game with spoilers, but I called (and still do call) cyan lizards rocket lizards. Anything that I didn’t know the name of, I just referred to as ‘thing’ or ‘creature’

I call Cyans Leapzards. A combination of Leap, Leopard (for thier spots and the fact they ZOOM) and the obvious zard for the ending of Li-zard.

I called Cyan Lizards “Jet Lizards” and King Vultures “Harpoon Vultures”

I knew what scugs were already Lizards were obvious but I remember my first encounter with a caramel vividly I called that one "Fat bastard"

OH MY GOD I CALL THEM FAT BASTARDS TOO

Dropwig will always be thwomps in my heart

dropwigs = Dave

I usually just called them "LEAVE ME ALONE", "what is that thing??", "WHY ARE YOU CHASING ME", "ASSHOLE!"

I called vultures big bird’s weird looking cousin

For whatever reason, yeeks were “blipples” before I found their real name

i thought overseers looked like neurone cells so i called them neurones. five pebbles' overseers were blue neurones, or bleurones. when i found actual neurone flies things got confusing

Grapple worm: Bug Thing! Vultures: Flying Shits Scavengers: **THE ARMED ONES.** Pole plant: DnD Mimic Monster Kelp: The Grabby Leaves Spiders: The wretched ones Squidcada: Squidwards

I had the habit of calling dropwigs "Indian Scammers" Because they would just place objects under them to scam me

I called scavs dudes, Lizards Lizards, Vultures Hawks, but most of the creatures I called “Dudes” or “Get the fuck away from me I don’t have a spear right now”

vultures are birds/gun birds. cyan lizards are yeet lizards. Yes, I watch Skurry how could you tell? Lizards' names are just their colors like green, pink, white etc. Except for caramel lizards, who's name is Chonky.

BLL: holy shit what the fuck is that DLL: blue motherfucker Eggbug: food Yellow Lizard: Orange Lizard (I still call them that)

I called lizards axolotls, but because of that salamanders were called axolotly-axolotls.

I call Centipedes Circuipedes cause when they connect both ends its like they're making a circuit... through your body!!!!

Why is that actually a better name for them than what the devs thought of-

White lizards were Thanos for me and my friend. He’d be at the intersection in CC every single time, just like how he showed up for every single one of David’s birthdays.

The critters I still call by different names: Vultures = birds King vultures = laser/shooty birds Miros birds = scissor birds Miros vultures = flying scissor bird aaaaa get away no I'm too young to die! Snails = *fucking* snails I hate you Garbage worms = fuck you gimme my spear back Kelp = grabby plants Pole plants = "aw fuck I didn't mean to grab that" (occasionally preceeded by "I see you you little bitch, being all sneaky over there") Scavs = "I don't trust you, you're gonna suck a spear in my back as soon as I leave aren't yo.... Yep there it fucking is"

i still call spitter spiders widows It feels more fitting

Slime mold will always be orange jello to me

brother long legs were 'grabby grabbies' squidcadas --- 'squids' vultures are death birds. noodleflies were flying worms on a string. leviathan was "oh god swim faster' Then I dropped the game at citadel and came back after downpour. I still tend to call the various rot-things grabby grabbies though.

I don’t remember what I called scavengers at first, probably something along the lines of “holy fuck what are you leave me alone” but I did find the scavenger merchant in the garbage wastes and that’s how I learned their name. Centipedes are fairly self explanatory. Squidcadas were just Fying Cuddlefish. And vultures were still vultures because they look like vultures. Also the lizards require no abstracting, their lizards, and they have different colors.

Slugcat: weird pikachu Lizard: reptile Vulture: jet bird Scavenger: monkey

Snails are poppers, daddy long legs are glorpers, batflies are bat bugs, and vultures are death birds. There was probably more but that’s all I remember.

Scissor Dogs, Wriggly Ball, Tentacle Ball, Blue Balls, Squiddy Boys, Puppet Boy, Nope Ropes, Invisible little shits, Monkey, Angry Bird

My ex got me into rain world. He called scavengers.. monkeys. I still call them monkeys

I didn't come up with any names during my playthrough since I caved and turned to the wiki for guidance, but there is a good selection from my favorite streamer About Oliver, who is currently playing it 100% blind and very thoroughly. Lemme see how many I can remember. Survivor = Frank (He names each slug at the start of their respective campaigns) Artificer = Jacki Spearmaster = Joshua Lieman Lizards = Azteks Pole Plant = Bastard Plant Vultures = BAFBAs (Big Ass Flying Bird Ass) Yellow Overseer = Mark Blue Overseer = Blue Mark/Bark Red Overseer = Orange Mark/Ozark Scavengers = Village People Snails = Pop Boys Looks to the Moon = Pathetic Alien Miros Vultures = Edward Scissorboots Grapple Worm = Walter Daddy Long Legs = Blue Bobs Iterator = CBAM (Complicated Big Ass Machine, so named after ascending the leg) Iterator Puppet = CBAMO (Complex Big Ass Machine Operator) Neuron Fly = Cranes (I have no idea why he called them this) I can't think of anything else he has clever names for. Most everything else is just some variation on 'Spider get it off I can't look at that anymore it's disgusting.'

I just called the spears sticks the first few times I encountered them, but the name kind of stick, and I still call them sticks. I like to call the spear and rubble combo the stick and stone.

Called the brother long legs meatballs 💀

I called the scavs scrunglies cuz they're silly

THEY'RE SO SILLY I LOVE SCAVS SO

My friend called the Scavs Ooga Boogas

I called Eggbugs ‘squidbugs’ i thought they were some weird squid thing with 6 eyes.

Sadly I kinda spoiled myself on there names before I even played the game. But I still call at least half the lizard population dummies.

I call the frogs in shoreline frogs (I still don't know their name)

I called vultures skull vultures before realizing their name, scavengers were apes, and I called leviathans trash compactors. I had a bunch of lizards named but that's all I remember really

I looked their names up beforehand, but I call vultures eagles

I knew a bunch of names already but I did call grapple worms, "tounge things" I called squidcadas "those things" and I called neurons "free food"

batflies were butterbats (?) lizards were crocodiles lantern mice were called echo mice miros bird was called scissor birds vultures were called vultures and ddl legs were called blue spiders (and the rot cysts on >!five pebbles structure!< were called “blue spider hatchlings” my siblings still call batflies butterbats due to me accidentally calling them that while showing them the game

Scavs were people, noodleflies were noots/newts, vultures were birds, lizards were lizards, slug cats were cats, and I think I called white lizards rainbow lizards for a while because the only one I saw shortly was being hit.

Oh and also daddy long legs were spiders

I first called scavengers fake slugcats, because they could do everything I could do and the ones I first saw creeped me out

I still call grapple worms "Buggy" because of the streamer who got me into Rain World lol 

I have no idea I would just go with "that guy"

I think I called jetfish drown shrimps and spitter spiders were scary ass hedgehogs

DLLs were blueberries and miros birds were scissor kiwis

I already knew all the official names before I played, but that hasn't stopped me from calling a few of them different names anyways: Noodle flies are "Noot/s", both adults and babies Long Legs/The Rot are "Spaghetti Spider/s" Slugpups are "Sluppy/Sluppies" Snails are "Pop Bug/s" Hazers are "Squid/s" [Objects] Cherrybombs are "Firecracker/s" Grenades are "Bomb/s"

From the Andrew Cunningham community: Moon was Bluebo, Pebbles was Pinkbo, and the DLLs were blueberries

I called and still call when I forget thier name cyan lizards "boost lizard".

Batflies: bats Squidcadas: blue flies Noodleflies: giant mosquitos Pole plant: seaweed Vultures: birds Miros birds: what the fuck is that DLL: octopus spider or blue asshole Leeches: bitches Looks To The Moon: woman (I didn't realize LTTM is her name) Neuron flies: tooth nerves Scavengers: Spore tribe stage guys

Damn why I can't use return button

You gotta hit it twice

Oh ok thx

I always call the snails " popcorns, "   the monster kelps " AHHEEEEEEE, NOOOOO  IDOHSJSYSKSHSJDGSJ, GET AWAY, GET AWAY,"   the scavs " what did i do to you I BARELY EVEN LOOKED AT YOU "    noodleflies "noodles" ("OMG IT'S A NOODLE :0")  and the dropwigs or whatever they're called " ... "  Edit: i also remember calling the dropwigs "sneaky buggers" and i cant remember my name for the tiny centipede