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* The [[Big Bad]] in ''[[Supercar Gattiger]]'' is named Emperor Black Demon.

* [[Gundam Unicorn]] has the NZ-666 Kshatriya.

* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (manga)|Fullmetal Alchemist]]:''

** [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast/Titles|Colonel]] Roy [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast/Animal|Mustang]]

* Ramses Overdark, Madaran imperial assassin from ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''. Actually, legends is full of these types of names. Dakkon Blackblade, Rasputin Dreamweaver, Boris Devilboon, Tuknir Deathlock, Nebuchadnezzar, and that's just the humans. The Elder Dragons have names like Palladia-Mors and Vaevictis Asmadi, though the most powerful one is named... Nicol.

** [[Magic: The Gathering|Phage the Untouchable]]. Aside from how her name is derived from the Greek word for 'devour', anyone who gets called 'the Untouchable' because touching them makes you literally rot and die on the spot (or maybe you get lucky and the contact is brief enough that only [http://www.tappedout.net/media/mtg-cards/onslaught/swat.jpg parts of you get rotted away]) would qualify. Doesn't help that she's a sadistic (worse) pit fighter (even worse) who works for the Patriarch of the evil Cabal (can it get any worse?).

* The three Eldrazi Titans, Kozilek, the Butcher of Truth, Ulamog, The Infinite Gyre, and Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. These guys are alien to the known color concepts, and their very presence reduces the land to a smoldering wasteland.

 

== [[Comic Books]] ==

** The trope is lampshaded with his [[Ultimate Universe]] counterpart, Nihil. Reed's [[Translator Microbes|translation device]] first renders his name as things like "I annihilate" and "I am nihilist", which everyone agrees is a bad sign.

{{quote|'''Thing:''' "Dude. We met our first alien and his name is like E-Vill or something."}}

* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Raven Darkholme]], [[X-Men/Characters/Villains|Mystique]]'s real name. Animal in the first name, "Dark" in the last name. The aspirated K makes it even more badass.

* Combining body part with weapon makes up ''[[The Mighty Thor]]'' enemy "Bloodaxe".

* Gideon Gordon Graves of [[Scott Pilgrim]]. Biblical first name, scary-noun last name.

* Since neither

 

== [[Live-Action TV]] ==

* Two in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Kakistos invokes K-name, Ancient Dead Languages, and Adjectives (his name is Greek for "worst of the worst"). Spike of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' is a double-inversion, though. We meet him with the relatively-easygoing name "Spike". Later, we find that he was once known as "William the Bloody". Still later, we find that he was called "William the Bloody" ''before'' he was a vampire (because his poetry was "so bloody awful"), and it's strongly implied that he's named "spike" after a preferred way of killing people.

* Lucien LaCroix, of ''[[Forever Knight]]''. It means "Light {of} the Cross, and is actually the self-given name of a "very dark anti-hero", nearly 2000 year old vampire with a literal disgust of all things holy, save for the irony of it all. He was originally Lucius, a play on "Lucifer", and calls himself "Nightcrawler" on his radio talk show, which seems to exist only for the purpose of [[Hannibal Lecture|lecturing and tormenting]] the main character remotely.

 

* [[Mecha]] war RPG/Minis-game/novel series ''[[BattleTech]]'' features ''Gray''son ''"Death"'' Carlyle, who builds one of the most feared mercenary units in the 'verse out of pretty much nothing (And sensibly names the unit after himself: The Gray Death Legion). He gets his first 'mech for the unit by intimidating its pilot into surrender with nothing more than a single-shot shoulder-fired missile launcher that ordinarily wouldn't be enough to scratch the thing's paint. (And later marries her. The pilot, not the 'Mech.) This 'verse also features similarly [[Badass]] mercs ''Mor''gan ''Kell'', Jaime ''Wolf'', et cetera.

** An obvious example in the ''Battletech'' universe: The Clans in general. If your planet was being invaded out of the blue by people calling themselves "Jade Falcons" or "Ghost Bears", you'd either be shitting bricks, running away, or a mixture of the two.

** Ghazghkull Mag Uruk Thraka sounds as scary as he is, with added [[Funetik Aksent|K's]], [[Rule of Cool|Kool letterz]], and [[Up to Eleven|improved difficulty pronunciation]].

*** Perhaps we should be thankful his name is so hard to pronounce. He's mentioned in the [[Dawn of War]] series, and, if I remember correctly, his name was pronounced painfully similar to "gay skull", [[Narm|which really shatters]] [[Nightmare Retardant|any menace in the name]].

* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' with its [[Luke Nounverber]] style random name generator has (and very often uses) the capability to create surnames and titles such as Deathsucker, Chaosknight, The Wastes of Oxen, Otterthorny, and The God-forsaken Eater of Twilight, to name a few.

** And, of course, the infamous fortress [[Boatmurdered]].

* Okay, let's do some math, folks. Demonic + Kool Letturz + Ends with R + [[Complete Monster]] + [[Hate Plague]] + [[Pokémon]] ='' '''CIPHER''' ''Yes, they are utterly evil, why do you ask?

* Not sure what category this comes under, but the name of I.M.Meen from the [[I.M. Meen|video game of the same name]]. Come on, anyone who didn't see he was a villain?

* [[Yggdra Union|Gulcasa, Emperor of Carnage]]. That he goes around riding a dragon and twirling a [[Sinister Scythe]] is bad enough, but he's an Emperor in a Japanese RPG (which is almost always bad), and Carnage, well, speaks for itself. Add to this that he's also referred to as Blazing Emperor, that his personal skill is named [[Kill'Em All|Genocide]], and that he is a direct descendant of the evil dragon [[Sealed Evil in a Can|Brongaa]]... yeah. People actually run away as soon as they hear his name in-universe.<br /><br />Ironically enough, {{spoiler|Gulcasa is actually so sweet and good-natured it's downright pitiful. He doesn't get [[Sympathetic POV]] until ''very'' late into ''[[Yggdra Union]]'', though, so unless you've played ''[[Yggdra Unison]]'' and ''[[Blaze Union]]'', you wouldn't be able to tell}}. You still don't want to make him angry, though.

* Bad-to-the-Bone Pirates from ''[[Infinite Space]]'', said to be the most ruthless pirate gang in the universe. "Merciless Night Queen" Celina and "the Bloody Prince" Teodoro are odd cases; they're not villains (Celina even helps you several times throughout the game, and Teodoro can be recruited under [[Defeat Means Friendship]]), but they certainly won't hold back when anyone gets in their way.

* The Final Boss of [[Sonic Riders|Sonic Riders: Zero Gravity]] is named Master Core: ABIS

** And the main antagonist of ''[[Shadow the Hedgehog]]'' is Black Doom.

* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]'' had the demon K'Z'K the Vowelless, a.k.a. The Soul Collector -- Xtreme Kool Letturz (including two K's!), unpronounceable, and two different titles (although the first one is kind of lame). It really, really annoys him when people pronounce his name "Kizke," and even more so when Torg dubs him "Captain Consonant."

* [[Narbonic|Dr. Lupin Madblood.]]

 

== [[Web Original]] ==

* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' practically wrote the book on cool names, but perhaps the most blatant is Hunter "Hun" Mason, the leader of the Purple Dragons. Let's see, we've got the self-explanatory word "Hunter" in there, "Mace," which refers to ''two'' weapons, "Mason" which is a dude who ''slices stone for a living'', and even when shortened it becomes the name of some of the most notorious conquerors of all time.

* ''[[He-Man and the Masters of the Universe]]'' - Skeletor. Even without his official title "Evil Lord of Destruction" that's pretty good. Although pretty much everything in the show has a terrifying name.

* "Nemesis Enforcer" from ''[[G.I. Joe: The Movie]]''. A couple of nouns saying "stay away!"

* ''[[Avatar: The Last Airbender]]:''

== [[Real Life]] ==

* [[wikipedia:Baldur von Schirach|Baldur Benedikt von Schirach]], a prominent Nazi, head of the [[Child Soldiers|Hitler-Jugend]] and Gauleiter of Vienna. His first name ends with an R and sounds like something out of [[Norse Mythology]] (or a [[Baldur's Gate|Fantasy series]]), his middle name contains the hard K and his last name has both the [[The Von Trope Family|"von" particle]] and the "ch/kh" sound that [[The Unpronounceable|does not exist in most varieties of English]].

* [[wikipedia:Markus Wolf|Markus Wolf]]. Hard K name, foreign (German), and a predatory animal. Served as [[The Spymaster|SpyMaster]] for the East German [[Secret Police|Stasi]] for 34 years.

* ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]''. Translates to 'Tyrant Lizard King'.

** [[Peter Mandelson]], for his [[Magnificent Bastard]] ability to [[The Man Behind the Man|control things from the shadows]].

* The phenomenon of a [[Black Holes|"Black Hole]] [[wikipedia:Astrophysical X-ray source#Black holes|Eruption]]". Two things to run from, [[It Got Worse|worse together]].

 

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