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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Doctor Doom]]'', of course.
* [[Superman
== [[Film]] ==
* Thulsa Doom from ''[[Conan the Barbarian]]''.
* ''[[Who Framed Roger Rabbit?]]'': If you're a toon, Judge Doom is not someone you're going to want to hang around with. Or even if you're not, at that.
== [[Music]] ==
* Rapper [[
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* ''[[Bleach]]'': Grimmjow Jaegerjaques, with the triple whammy [[Spell My Name
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* Also, Hunter Blackthorne is [[The Chessmaster]] from ''[[Noble Causes]]''.
* "Hunter" is Robyn Canmore's alias in the ''[[
== [[Literature]] ==
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== Live-Action TV ==
* Subverted in the ''[[Star Trek:
== [[Professional Wrestling]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Hunters in ''[[Marathon
* Hunter-Killers in ''[[Spectre]]''.
* ''[[
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [[Hunter S. Thompson]].
* Not to mention that 'jaeger' is also a certain ominous bird - a kleptoparasite that literally beats up other birds and steals their food.
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* Cancer Deathmask from ''[[Saint Seiya]]''. The fact that his Zodiac Sign (Cancer) is also the name of a dreaded disease doesn't make him any more approachable.
* Not a person, but anything that goes by the name of ''[[
* ''[[Sayonara, Zetsubou
* ''[[
== [[Comic Books]] ==
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** Villainess Lady Deathstrike definitely qualifies.
** Death Adder. If the name isn't enough, [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent|he's a member of the Serpent Society.]]
** Deathbird, [[Cain and Abel|sister of]] [[Royally Screwed-Up|Shi'ar empress]] [[X-Men
* ''[[
== [[Film]] ==
* Arnold Toht from ''[[
* Todd, which sounds very much like German for "death", is a common name among badasses and horror characters (though in the latter, it's because ''they'' die).
* Dr. Totenkopf in ''[[Sky Captain and The World of Tomorrow]]''. Totenkopf is German for "skull" (but only when dead and by itself; literally a "dead's head").
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== [[Literature]] ==
* It is the middle name of detective [[Lord Peter Wimsey]], although in his case it is pronounced "Deeth" (rhymes with "teeth"). The Wimsey books also include a {{spoiler|psychotic neurologist named Sir Julian ''Freke''}}.
* The ''[[
* There's also a De'Ath in ''[[Gormenghast]]''.
* In [[Neal Stephenson]]'s ''[[The Baroque Cycle]]'', {{spoiler|Édouard de Gex}} takes the alias Edmund de Ath after he fakes his death. Given how many people he ends up killing or causing the death of, [[Rule of Symbolism|it's quite symbolic]].
* [[Patricia
* Arawn-Death-Lord of Annuvin, from the ''[[Prydain Chronicles]]''. Apparently Death-Lord itself is a title, as he usurped it from a previous Death-Lord (who wants it back).
* Death Eaters in ''[[Harry Potter]]''. To a lesser extent Voldemort himself (though his name is basically misspelled French for Fly From Death or Lord "I'm terrified of dying" basically).
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* ''[[Warhammer
** Death Korps of Krieg.
** Deathwatch.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Dracula's right hand man "Death" in the ''[[Castlevania]]'' series; like the ''Discworld'' example he is the actual [[The Grim Reaper|Grim Reaper]] but unlike that example he is definitely evil.
* Satirical example: ''[[
* ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'': ExDeath. He might be a [[When Trees Attack|tree]] (specifically, a tree with countless [[Sealed Evil in
* ''[[Battle Fantasia]]'' has, as its [[Final Boss]], a monstrous suit of [[Animated Armor]] known as Deathbringer.
* ''[[.hack]]'' has Skeith, entitled "the Terror of Death". In ''[[.hack GU Games|G.U.]]'', Haseo bears the same title during his PKK days.
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* Thanatos from ''[[Resident Evil Outbreak]]'' is named after the Greek god of death.
** There's also Thanatos in ''[[Secret of Mana]]'', who is generally considered by far one of the most evil villains in the series.
* ''[[F
* Deathwing from ''[[World of Warcraft]]''. Also Lady Deathwhisper.
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Major Payne]]'', featuring Damon Wayans as a [[Badass]] [[Drill Sergeant Nasty]].
* Also Howard Payne, villain of ''[[
* ''[[Kung Pow]]'': Master Pain. Then he changes his name to Betty. It's one of ''those'' movies.
* Pain is the name of one of Hades's servants from ''[[Hercules (Disney film)|Hercules]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Max Payne (
* Then there's Paine from ''[[Final Fantasy X 2]]''.
* The Lady of Pain, ruler of Sigil, from ''[[Planescape]]''.
* [[Exactly What It Says
* ''[[Doom (
* Inverted with Winston Payne from the ''[[Ace Attorney]]'' series, whose name is a play on "winced in pain". But he is actually the least intimidating adversary of the series: ''He's'' the one who's usually wincing.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Master Paine from ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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== [[Film]] ==
* Honourable mention must go to the commander of the ''[[Mutiny
== [[Video Games]] ==
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* For far less intimidating versions, ''[[Captain Planet and
* ''[[Batman Beyond]]'': 'And behold, I shall be a Blight upon the land, and all I touch, shall wither and die!'
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* Blaze of ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''.
* Blaze Fielding from ''[[Streets of Rage]]'', though, is a heroine. In ''SOR 2'' she gained the ability to shoot fireballs from her palm as a special move.
* Later [[Sega]] had a character named "[[Sonic the Hedgehog
=== Jade ===
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[
* Jezebel Jade from the original [[Jonny Quest]]. Beautiful, tough and smart, wouldn't charge her friends for favors...too much.
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* Speaking of Savage, ''[[Star Wars:
== [[Real Life]] ==
* Adam Savage from ''[[
=== Ravager ===
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[That One Boss|That One]] [[Bonus Boss]] from ''[[Jade Empire]]''.
* The name of the best halberd, possibly the best weapon in the game of ''[[
* The name of planet-life-force-eating Dark Lord Darth Nihilus' flagship in ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]''. There also a mentor-turned-evil with the first name [[Meaningful Name|Saul]], as in the Old-Testament King; see "Conquerors", above. (Incidentally, Saul met his doom at a place called [[Star Wars|Endor]].)
* ''[[City of Heroes]]'' has Rularuu the Ravager, a godlike entity whose aspects ''also'' tend to have [[Names to Run Away From]].
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* [[Spell My Name
* Las Plagas in ''[[Resident Evil 4]]''.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* ''[[Hellboy (
* Anton Hellgate, recurring villain in Marvel's ''[[Ghost Rider]]'' comics during the 90's.
* Hellhound, used by two [[DC]] villains. The second bought the rights to the name.
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Possibly an allusion: Dr. Abraham van Helsing from ''[[Dracula (
* Nymeria from ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' picks up the nickname Hellbitch when she becomes alpha of a whole bunch of wolfpacks.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Grom Hellscream from ''[[
== [[Real Life]] ==
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* Zebediah ''Killgrave'' from above becomes a twofer, so you know he's bad news (of course, Luke ''Cage'' beat the tar out of him last we saw of him).
* And from the [[DC]] side of things, we have [[Lex Luthor]]'s assistant, Mercy Graves (who has ''no'' mercy).
* Also, ''[[
== Film ==
* Gustav Graves in ''[[
== [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] ==
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* [[Batman
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* Bane from the Forgotten Realms setting and 4th edition of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'', the god of war, conquest and fear.
* ''[[Warhammer
== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[Barkley, Shut Up and Jam: Gaiden]]'': Ultimate Hellbane.
== [[Real Life]] ==
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== [[Fan Fiction]] ==
* ''[[Light and Dark - The Adventures of Dark Yagami
== [[Film]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Dark Man from ''[[
* Solomon Dark, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[
== [[Western Animation]] ==
* To the extent that, upon seeing the first episode of 80s cartoon ''[[
=== Cinder ===
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Cinder, of ''[[
* Cynder from the ''[[Legend Of Spyro Trilogy]]''. Though she only has the matching personality when she was evil, after her [[Heel Face Turn]] she's quite nice.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* Surprising subversion in ''[[
=== Gore: ===
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== [[MMORPG|MMORPGs]] ==
* Teron Gorefiend from ''[[
* Gwen from ''[[Guild Wars]]'', going down in Charr history as Gwen the Goremonger.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Combat android Fulgore from ''[[
=== Dread ===
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== [[Literature]] ==
* Nyarlathotep, the Crawling Chaos, from [[
* ''[[
== [[Mythology]] and [[Religion]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The [[One-Winged Angel]] of Garland from ''[[
* There's also [[Blob Monster|Argosax the Choas]] in ''[[Devil May Cry]] 2''.
* Chaos from ''[[
* For a double example of this, you've got the villain called KAOS (yes, all caps) in ''[[Donkey Kong Country]] 3'' (and ''Donkey Kong Land 3''). K name, and Chaos. And the level it's first found in is called 'KAOS Karnage', which has got to be a name to run from even faster.
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== [[Comic Books]] ==
* The Despair from ''[[The Sandman (Comic Book)|The Sandman]]'' (two of 'em, to be exact), who initiated the chain reaction that led [[
* [[Marvel Comics]] has recurring villain D'Spayre, a dream-demon.
== Fan Fiction ==
* One of the main antagonists of ''[[
== [[Video Games]] ==
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* ''Hero For Hire'': Luke Cage, Power Man. He was so cool that [[Nicolas Cage|Nicholas Coppola]] changed his own last name to match his.
* Psyko from the [[Marvel Comics]] ''[[Sleepwalker]]'' series. He's a [[Serial Killer]] and [[Mind Rape|Mind Rapist]] who likes to [[Brainwashed and Crazy|drive everyone around him insane literally just by looking at them]], try to manipulate them into [[More Than Mind Control|committing murder]], and is more or less a [[Complete Monster]].
* [[GL Red Lantern Corps/Characters|Atrocitus]], perhaps the only ''[[
* The Violator from ''[[Spawn]]''.
== [[Fanfic]] ==
* Holocaust and Necrosis from ''Three of Heart, One of Blood''. Necrosis [[Exactly What It Says
* In the ''[[
* Torment, from the [[
== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[Scanners]]'': Vale.
* The villain (played by [[Bela Lugosi]]) of the 1932 horror movie ''White Zombie'' is called "Murder Legendre." [[Anvilicious|So much for subtlety.]]
* Sheriff Freak in ''[[
* The Rancor in ''[[Star Wars]]: [[Return of the Jedi]]''.
== [[Literature]] ==
* General Woundwort from ''[[Watership Down]]''; it's a plant (virtually all rabbits in the book are named after plants), but it contains "wound". Also, "General" as a title.
* ''[[Fear Street]],'' with the nearby Fear Forest and Fear Lake. All of which are named after the Fear family. Plus the town is called ''Shady''side, which is at least gloomy by itself.
* Invoked in ''[[
* ''[[Mistborn]]'' has the [[Omnicidal Maniac]] [[Exactly What It Says
* The Enemy in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' quasi-spinoff [[Faction Paradox]], so-called because giving it a real name would only make you underestimate the sheer scope of its power. Also arguably something there's no point running from unless you have a handy universe stored away.
** Oh, and the [[Eldritch Location|Homeworld]]. [[Physical God|Compassion]] too, come to think of it, and [[Wooby Destroyer Of Worlds|Antipathy]], and... just about all the timeships, really. Then there's the [[Humanoid Abomination|Grandfather]]. Faction Paradox likes to do this a lot, is what we're saying.
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== [[Music]] ==
* Sir Nose D'Voidofunk, Star Child's [[Captain Obvious|unfunky]] nemesis in the ''[[
== [[Toys]] ==
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* The last boss in ''[[Super Smash Bros
* The Nightmare, from ''[[Metroid]]''. An extremely creepy-looking cyborg monster that can manipulate gravity and shoot lasers all over the place, and if you blow its faceplate off (which looks bad enough on its own), its ''actual face'' is just... [[Nightmare Fuel|eurgh.]] The [[Psycho Strings]] that play in its theme song in ''Other M'' do not help matters.
* From ''[[Neopets]]'', we have the [[Hopeless Boss Fight]] known as Oblivion. He may just be the [[Ultimate Evil]] of Neopia!
* Oblivion, the [[Eldritch Abomination]] in the ''[[Turok (
* Most monsters in the original ''[[Quake]]'': Scrag, Shambler, Fiend, Vore, Spawn, etc...
* Abyss, the [[Big Bad]] of ''[[
* Scumocide/Genocide in ''[[Captain Commando]]''.
* Any Servant from ''[[Fate/stay
* The big bad of ''[[
* Juggernauts (described in a terminal as "the big floaty thing that kicks our asses") in ''[[Marathon
* Queen Cadavra from ''[[Bug!
* In ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]: Trials and Tribulations'': Violetta/Viola Cadaverini.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* Subverted in [http://www.smbc-comics.com/index.php?db=comics&id=283 this] ''[[Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal]]'' strip.
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* [[Enfant Terrible|Vendetta]] and her [[Rodents of Unusual Size|assistant Grudge]] in ''[[Making Fiends]]''.
* Rampage - immortal, murderous, psychopathic Predacon from ''Beast Wars'' that feeds on fear and likes to go on, well, a rampage.
* [[My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
** Discord.
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