Names to Run Away From Really Fast/R Names

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A variant of Names to Run Away From Really Fast, anyone who has a name that contains the letter R in it is probably someone you shouldn't trust. This is especially true if the person's name begins or ends in R. Having the name end in -er counts as well, but not if it begins with Er-.

If the person's name contains a Verb in it ending in R or -er, that's a different variant of this trope.

Anyone whose name combines several of the distinct types of Names to Run Away From Really Fast is generally someone you really, really, do not want to get mad at you. Or they're a Mary Sue, which is arguably worse.

Examples of Names to Run Away From Really Fast/R Names include:

Anime and Manga

• Obelisk the Tormentor

Comic Books

• Lex Luthor

Film

• Darth Vader
  • Exar Kun an ancient Sith Lord
  • Most of The Empire's Cool Ships have scary-ass names like Avenger, Executor, Exsanguinator, Eviscerator... Lampshaded in one of the X-Wing novels.
• Hannibal Lecter
• Jackson Rippner
• General Ripper
• David Sumner of Straw Dogs turns out to be the single most dangerous man in the universe
• Baddies in lots of 80s/90s action movies seemed to be called either Hans, Kruger/Gruber, if not both, i.e. Hans Gruber. The harsh sound of the name seems to fit both this and the next category.
• People with last names ending in "-er" seem to be the vast majority of the population of Sandford. While not all of them are in on the evil conspiracy, this does add to the creepiness of the quiet little town.
  • Truth in Television - many English names are taken from professions, which tend to end in "-er."

Literature

• Carcer
• Mordor is a placename you will want to run away from really fast.
• In Neal Stephenson's The Baroque Cycle, one of Jeffreys' hired assassins is named Bob Carver.

Live-Action TV

• Ripper.
• Sylar

Tabletop Games

• Warhammer 400000: Flesh Tearers (a Blood Angels offshoot) are technically good guys, but since their symbol is a drop of blood on a circular saw...it's kinda hard to consider them in the same league as the Salamanders or Space Wolves. Also the Soul Drinkers, who are usually good guys, but have a few issues with Chaos.
  • Well technically no one in 40k is good.

Toys

• Various characters from the numerous Transformers series play this alternatively straight or subvert it:
  • On the evil Decepticons' side, there's Thundercracker, Bonecrusher, Scavenger, Scrapper, Mixmaster, Devastator, Wildrider, Motormaster, Menasor, Reflector, Tankor and Demolishor, just to name a few.

Video Games

• All but one of the villains in Resident Evil 4 have names ending in an 'R', as does series Big Bad Albert Wesker, and The Ghost villain Ozwell E. Spenser.
• Seifer.
• Do the Pokémon Gengar and Haunter count? They're not necessarily evil, but they are scary and their Pokedex entries describe them as being generally unpleasant company.
  • Also Pokemon-related: Nascour. The guy couldn't be more Obviously Evil if he tried.
• Final Fantasy X: Seymour Guado
• Kil'jaeden the Deceiver and Archimonde the Defiler.
• Reapers from Mass Effect.

Western Animation

• Colonel Cutter, The Dragon of Antz, despite Heel Face Turn.
• Captain Planet foes, Mama Slaughter and Looten Plunder fit this trope.

Real Life

• Hitler and Himmler, Those Wacky Nazis
  • The list of high-ranking Nazis also included Drexler, the Strassers, Speer, Streicher, Kaltenbrunner, Raeder, Schlegelberger and many others.

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