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* The Malfoy family from ''[[Harry Potter]]''. This one is actually only indirectly derived from Latin; thanks to Rowling's obsession with French/Old French wordplay, the name is rough Old French for "bad faith" (modern French would have something else).
* ''[[Ivanhoe]]'' has a lot of these. The [[The Knights Templar|Templar]] Preceptor Albert de Malvoisin ("bad neighbor"), for one.
* Maladict{{spoiler|a}}, [[Must Have Caffeine|coffee-addicted]] [[Our Vampires Are Different|vampire]] {{spoiler|and [[Sweet Polly Oliver]]}} from ''[[Discworld/Monstrous Regiment|Monstrous Regiment]]''.
* Matron Malice from the ''Dark Elf Trilogy''.
* ''[[The Demonata]]'' - Malice.