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== Comic Books ==
* To quote [https://web.archive.org/web/20140209201625/http://superdickery.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=447:a-killer-called-honey-bun&catid=33:weird-science-index&Itemid=37 Superdickery.com]: ''Who, in their right mind, would name their giant mechanized killing machine "Honeybun?"''
* Atlantis in ''[[Gold Digger (Comic Book)|Gold Digger]]'' has a guardian monster, the giant 2-kilometer across crab/kraken.... 'Flaky'. Flaky likes to play with a stuffed plushie of a normal sized crab. [[Berserk Button|Do not mess with the plushie.]]
* In ''The Annotated Mantooth'', the giant robot powered by a uranium core was called "World's Greatest Grandpa." It was also built by [[Adolf Hitler|Hitler]], who died in his own [[Death Trap]] with man-eating ducks and peanut butter. The entire Mantooth series was made of this.
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== Literature ==
* In ''[[
** Other similarly terrifying creatures with cutesy names appear throughout the series; Hagrid has a tendency to treat dangerous supernatural creatures as if they were fluffy little housepets. He's half-giant, and they usually respond quite well to such treatment. The more dangerous the animal, the cuter the name. See Norbert the dragon.
** On the other hand, he named his extremely friendly but cowardly sissy dog Fang.
* ''[[Discworld]]''
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** And then there's Errol the swamp dragon. He may not be particularly terrifying, but he ''will'' melt a hole in your floor.
** One of [[Those Two Bad Guys]] in ''[[
** In ''[[
** Adora Belle Dearhart. Despite her cutesy name - which she hates - she chainsmokes, prefers golems to people, has a ''very'' dry sense of humour, and can do nasty things to your feet with her stilettos.
* An [[Empathic Weapon]] sort-of example from ''[[Dragaera]]'' - The owner of the Great Weapon Godslayer thinks that its/her name is melodramatic and instead calls her by the name of the person whose personality she has (from eating her soul, no less.) Thus, we get a magical knife that can and does destroy souls entirely accidentally, eliminates magical effects, and was designed to kill the Demon Goddess Verra (who, despite the title, is not a villain, exactly)... and it's referred to as {{spoiler|Lady Teldra}}.
* One of the major plots in ''[[The Diamond Age]]'' revolves about a chinese crime lord suspected to deal in child trafficing {{spoiler|but is actually rescuing tens of thousands of abandoned baby girls and raising them in secret over many years with heavy use of nano technology to be an army of [[Tyke Bomb]]s}}. As the chinese love to give flowery names to things, he calles them the Mouse Army. Even {{spoiler|at the age of twelve}} they become the largest and by far strongest army in the civil war.
* The [[Anti-Hero]] protagonist of the ''[[Burke]]'' novels by [[Andrew Vachss]] has a hulking Neapolitan mastiff named Pansy. This is intentional as authorities are automatically suspicious of dogs with names like 'Killer' or 'Satan,' and tough guys are reluctant to report that they were savaged by a dog named 'Pansy.'
* In the ancient Roman novel ''The Satyricon'', one character has a hulking watchdog whose name translates as "Puppy" and apparently, this was a joke also found in some earlier satirical works. This makes this trope [[Older Than Feudalism]].
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* The [[The Men in Black|Orphan Disposal Agency]] in Sean Cullen's ''[[Hamish X]]'' series are led by [[Those Two Bad Guys|Mr. Candy and Mr. Sweet]]. All the other agents we see [[Theme Naming|keep this in mind.]]
* In ''[[Good Omens]]'', by [[Terry Pratchett]] and [[Neil Gaiman]], Adam, the young man who is fated to {{spoiler|become the anti-Christ}} names his dog "Dog." Dog, however, is {{spoiler|a hell hound.}}
** This slowly
* In ''Hiero's Journey'' and ''The Unforsaken Hiero'', Hiero's morse (a giant, combat-trained, mutant moose riding animal) is named "Klootz." During one fight, it caves in the skull of an equally-large mutant bear with one kick.
* ''[[The Dresden Files]]'' features Harry's massive, evil-hunter mastiff/dog-a-saurus cross {{spoiler|and is actually a Foo dog, which is so reliable in its abilities that his glare could be used as evidence in the highest White Council courts}} named "Mouse", whose bark can send shocks through multiple dimensions. Dresden describes this as 'every cell of his body flinching' or something like that. It also scares the ectoplasmic piss out of every other supernatural being in the local vicinity. He also survived a hit from a speeding van and was only mildly inconvenienced at worst by a gunshot wound. Unless there's danger present, he's just a [[Big Friendly Dog]].
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== [[Live Action TV]] ==
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* In ''[[Drake and Josh]]'' when Drake is sent to remedial English, one of the other students there has a big, intimidating Rottweiler named Cuddles.
* Spot the dragon from ''[[The Munsters]]'' (never seen in full).
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* Twinkles the [[Mega Neko|monstrous kitten]] in ''[[The Goodies]]''.
* The unspeakably frightening [[Big Bad|main villain]] of ''[[Twin Peaks]]'' is a demon who likes to [[Demonic Possession|possess people]] and turn them into [[Serial Killer|serial killers]] who murder and rape the people they love. His name is Bob. Or actually BOB. It's spelled in all caps.
== Music ==
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* The bosses in ''[[Darius]]'' are giant, heavily-armed mechanical fish with frequently silly names like "Little Stripes", "Fatty Glutton", and "My Home Daddy".
* The head demons in ''[[Shadows of the Damned]]'' are grotesque abominations which can rip you apart in seconds. They have names like George, Christopher, and for the King of Demons himself, ''Fleming.''
* The player character of ''[[Ace Combat 04: Shattered Skies|Ace Combat 4]]'', Mobius One, is often times referred to as "the ribbon" or "the ribbon fighter", after the mobius strip design on his plane's tail. Mobius One is more or less singlehandedly responsible for turning the tide of the war, and in a extra mode in ''[[Ace Combat 5: The Unsung War]]'', is said to be more effective in combat than a squadron of other pilots.
* In the [[Cold War]] simulator ''Theatre Europe'', you have the option to use a massive nuclear strike that will bring about [[The End of the World as We Know It]]. It's called "Fireplan Warm Puppy".
* In ''[[Eternal Lands]]'', there is the Fluffy Rabbit, a [[Shout-Out]] to the [[Killer Rabbit]] in [[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]. It looks like an ordinary white rabbit, but actually one of the more powerful creatures in the game.
* Trolls in ''[[RuneScape]]'' after named for the first thing they eat, or the sound it made when eating it. It was only a matter of time until a vicious troll warlord named "Pretty flower" came along.
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* The Pakistan Army has a long standing tradition of giving "feminine" sounding nicknames to its Artillery guns. Popular names include "Rani" (Queen), "Shazadi"(Princess) and "Soni"(cute girl).
* "[[wikipedia:Katyusha (song)|Katyusha]]" is a Russian diminutive of the name Yekaterina, and there's a popular song about it. It's also the name of [[wikipedia:Katyusha rocket launcher|rocket artillery]] that the Russians used in WWII.
* There was a Royal Navy submarine which sent many Italian and Japanese ships to the bottom of the Ocean. She was feared and respected. Her name?
* Gustave sounds like one of the least intimidating names ever, right? It's also the name of a 20 foot crocodile in Burundi, Africa that's a notorious man-eater.
* "Love waves" sound pretty romantic, hem? They are actually the most destructive of seismic waves. The kind that tears down building foundations, brings down bridges and makes railroads wavy. (In case your wondering, geologists aren't sadists, the waves are named after the man who discovered them, [[wikipedia:Augustus Edward Hough Love|Augustus Love]].)
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