When Apogee, the makers of Duke Nukem, originally conceived their character, the original spelling of Duke Nukem was the same as it is today. They soon realized, however, that someone else had come up with a character with the same name and spelling: Captain Planet's own Duke Nukem

vs.

Since their Duke Nukem came second, Apogee believed they had to change the name, which they did, temporarily to Duke Nukum. However, they later discovered that Turner had never actually trademarked the name of their Duke Nukem, so Apogee's Duke got the name they originally intended, which is the name that survived

http://www.3drealms.com/faq/apfaq72.txt (search for Nukum in the txt file)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dr._Blight#Duke_Nukem

That was a horrible cartoon.

Interesting fact, i did not know that.

Cool...?

No one knew.

this

lol you learn something new everyday

Thanks. I'll just file this under "Information that will never come in handy. Ever."

how dare you!

Ahh hell nah..