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* A subversion, [[Pani Poni Dash|Tsurugi Inugami]]'s name has the deadliness of a [[Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana|Tsurugi]] and the Mythological Animalness of [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inugami Inugami]. The only problem is that he is not one bit as [[Badass]] as his name implies.

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

* ''[[Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica (Visual Novel)|Shinkyoku Soukai Polyphonica]]'' has the [[Names to Run Away From/Colors|Crimson]] [[Names to Run Away From/Nouns|Annihilator]].

* 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?).

* One ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' villain is [[Fantastic Four (Franchise)/Characters|Annihilus]], who invokes both Noun names and Ancient Dead Languages.

* [[Hellboy (Comic Book)|Ogdru Jahad]]. ''Hellboy'''s names (Anung Un Rama, Son of the Fallen One), fit in several categories.

* [[Spider-Man]]'s [[Complete Monster|foe]] [[Spider-Man (Franchise)/Characters|Carnage.]] Let's see..his supervillain alias means "gore and bloodshed", and his real name is Cletus Kasady-double hard "k" sounds, the redneck sounding "Cletus", and a variant of "Cassidy" that incorporates a K.

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

* [[Faction Paradox|The War in Heaven]]. Full stop. Hell, ''[[Faction Paradox]]''? ''The [[Ascend to A Higher Plane of Existence|Celestis]]''? '''''[[Eldritch Abomination|The Enemy]]'''''?

* ''[[Welkin Weasels]]'' features the Grand Inquisitor Torca Marda. It's got the hard K sound in the middle, it's not quite an R-ending but it sounds close to one, ''and'' it's a [[Shout Out]] to Tomas de Torquemarda, the infamous [[Real Life]] head of the Spanish Inquisition.

* [[Artemis Fowl (Literature)|Artemis Fowl]]. His first name is that of a Greek goddess, specifically the Hunter (which he lampshades in a [[Crowning Moment of Awesome]]), his second basically means chicken - but he's one of the most frightening teenagers you'll ever come across. Hell, the whole Fowl family have this status in-universe, and the Butlers probably do too.

* Sylar a.k.a. Gabriel Gray a.k.a. [[My Hero Zero|Patient Zero]] of ''[[Heroes (TV)|Heroes]]'' again. Sylar is an R-name, a German word meaning "rope maker" ("Seiler"), and getting the name off a watch is an allusion to the Zodiac killer. Gabriel (the angel of death), and last name is a color name.

* Lucien LaCroix, of ''[[Forever Knight (TV)|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 ''[[Battle Tech]]'' 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.

* One boss from ''[[Mad World]]'' appears to be named Herr Frederick Von Twirlenkiller. He appears to have weapons that could be charitably described as hybrids between a flail and a boeing jet engine strapped to each arm.

* Subverted by Capcom's Princess Devilotte de Deathsatan IX (from the Mecha game ''[[Cyberbots (Video Game)|Cyberbots]]: Fullmetal Madness''). Despite taking from Demonic Names, Noun Names, and [[Four Is Death]] (Nine is a less-used alternative), she's less an intimidating foe, and more a one-girl [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]].

* [[Blaz Blue|Ragna The Bloodedge]]: [Pagan Mythology] the [Blood][Weapon]. To put it bluntly, [[Good Is Not Nice|he isn't really a nice guy]], but with that said, [[Jerk With a Heart of Gold|he isn't bad either]]... However, in his Arcade mode ending {{spoiler|v-13 hijacks his body to become The Black Beast}}, which was just as bad as it sounds.

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

** ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]'': The bull El Odio who terrorizes a city in Edgar's [[Mental World]]. {{spoiler|True to his name, he's a manifestation of Edgar's resentment.}}

* Also in ''[[Psychonauts (Video Game)|Psychonauts]]'', Oleander. A poisonous plant. I don't trust this guy.

* [[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.

* Archagent Jack Noir of ''[[Homestuck (Webcomic)|Homestuck]]'' is an exceptionally varied example. Hard K, title, notorious killer, and foreign. But it doesn't stop there, as later on he becomes the {{spoiler|''SOVEREIGN SLAYER''}}. ''Holy shit''.

* ''[[He-Man and The Masters of The Universe (Animation)|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 (Animation)|Avatar: The Last Airbender]]:''

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 [[Baldurs 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]].

* [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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.

** [[Ozzy Osbourne (Music)|Ozzy Osbourne]], for reasons that don't really need to be explained here.

* The phenomenon of a [[Useful Notes/Black Holes|"Black Hole]] [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrophysical_X-ray_source#Black_holes Eruption]". Two things to run from, [[It Got Worse|worse together]].