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Teen's 'fantastic' new name

A Somerset teenager has changed his name to Captain Fantastic Faster Than Superman Spiderman Batman Wolverine Hulk And The Flash Combined.

Music graduate George Garratt, 19, changed his name by deed poll online for £10, reports the Daily Telegraph. Captain Fantastic said: “I wanted to be unique. I decided upon a theme of superheroes.”

He joins a number of people with unusually long names, including Rhoshandiatellyneshiaunneveshenk Koyaanisquatsiuth Williams, a girl born in Texas in 1984.

The teenager, from Glastonbury, added that while he thought the new name was “crazy”, his grandmother was no longer speaking to him.

This was posted in Bdaily's Members' News section by Ruth Mitchell .