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* Arthur Burns from ''[[The Proposition]]''.

 

 

 

 

* The GCU Grey Area - AKA Meatfucker - from [[Iain Banks]]' [[The Culture]]. A sentient spaceship that kills aging despots by making them die repeatedly while they sleep. He also reads your mind, and contains a museum of torture. He doesn't get many visitors..

 

* It's only a nickname, but by God does Cal Richards from ''[[The Thick of It]]'' live up to it.

 

 

* Cassie Hack, the slasher hunter from the series ''[[Hack Slash]]''.

 

* Hacker from ''[[Centurions]]''.

 

By itself is actually kind of silly, so expect variations.

 

* [[Zambot 3|Killer the Butcher]]

* [[One Piece|"Massacre Soldier" Killer]].

* [[Japanese Ranguage|Kira]] in ''[[Death Note]]''.

 

* [[Green Lantern|Arkillo]] of the [[Green Lantern/Characters/Sinestro Corps|Sinestro Corps]]

 

* Mr. Kil, a ''[[James Bond (film)|James Bond]]'' villain from ''[[Die Another Day]]''

* Damon Killian, the Evil Executive/Smarmy Game Show Host of the [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] flick ''[[The Running Man (film)|The Running Man]]''. Played by none other than Richard Dawson.

* Parodied in ''[[Carry On]] Doctor'' in which Doctor Killmore finds his name tends to unsettle patients.

 

* Outlaw Rud Killgore in an episode of ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]''

* Bobby Sixkiller from ''[[Renegade (TV series)|Renegade]]''

 

* Ron '''Killings''' of [[TNA]].

 

* The pirates of [[Iron Kingdoms|WarMachine's]] Mercenary faction has Doc Killingsworth. The mere threat of treatment is enough to make the wounded get up and back into the fight.

* [[Ax Crazy]] troll gang member Shoot-to-Kill from ''[[Shadowrun]]'', most notable for winning her boyfriend back by leaving him a love letter, alongside the head of her love rival, [[Stuffed Into the Fridge|in the fridge]].

 

* Killian. It's the name of a [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Clint Eastwood lookalike]] [[Badass]] sheriff in the original. Also appears in ''[[Fallout]]''.

* Dr. Killjoy from ''[[wikipedia:The Suffering (video game)|The Suffering]].''

* The Kill Master of ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' (voiced by Lemmy Kilmister of [[Motorhead]]) named himself that so people would leave him alone. [[Non-Indicative Name|He's the team healer.]]

 

* Killum from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.

 

* Duff Killigan of ''[[Kim Possible]]''.

* [[The Venture Bros|"Hello, I am Doctor Henry Killinger, unt zis is my magic murder bag."]]

 

 

* Voodoo priest Murder Legendre in ''[[White Zombie (film)|White Zombie]]''.

 

* In ''[[Checkerboard Nightmare]]'', Chex tries to write a comicbook with a [[Card-Carrying Villain]] named Dr. Murder.

 

 

* [[X-Men/Characters/Villains|Donald Pierce]], [[Complete Monster/Marvel|member of]] [[Standard Evil Organization Squad|the Hellfire Club]], [[Cyborg|the Reavers]], ''and'' [[Knight Templar|the Purifiers]].

 

* Aaron Pierce in ''[[24]]'', although he is a good guy with a heart of gold, he is still a complete and utter [[Badass]].

* [[The Men in Black|Alien-hunting unit]] head Daniel Pierce of ''[[Roswell]]''.

* Pierce in ''[[Community]]'' is a complete [[Jerkass]].

 

 

* Ravage in ''[[Transformers]]'', though he was rarely a threat to other Transformers, was not someone humans wanted to deal with.

** Semi-example: [[Transformers|Bonecrusher]]

** Decepticons in general. You'd at least figure the world would realize you can't ''trust'' one. It's not 'til 25 years after their debut when, in ''[[Transformers Animated]],'' someone actually brings up the name thing. (Jazz: "Deceived by a Decepticon. Who knew?")

 

 

* The mutant snapping turtle bad guy from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' fame.

 

* Also the name of the caveman from the ''[[Eternal Champions]]'' games.

* ''[[Mega Man (video game)|Mega Man]] 7'' gives us Slash Man, who if you don't know what you're doing, can be a [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|pain]] [[That One Boss|in]] [[Oh Crap|the]] [[Rage Quit|arse]].

 

 

 

* A [[DC Comics]] alien race were also called the Dominators. Naturally, they tried to conquer the Earth.

 

* The [[Exclusively Evil]] [[Psychic Powers]] [[Space Jews]] in ''[[The Iron Dream]]'' were called Dominators.

 

* ''[[Doctor Who]]'' had an actual race calling themselves "The Dominators". (They come with <s> dwarves in suits</s> [[Creepy Monotone]] killer robots, of course.)

 

 

* [[Morally-Ambiguous Doctorate|Doctor]] Shocc, [[Those Wacky Nazis|Former-Nazi]] [[Mad Scientist]] from ''[[Marshal Law]]''.

* Superhero [[Blastoman]] and his sidekick, Explodo.

 

* [[Star Wars|Darth Maul.]]

* The Stabbington brothers from ''[[Tangled]]'' are probably a parody, although they are rather scary.

* Charlie Rotter from the ''Super Psycho Sweet 16'' series.

 

* [[The Addams Family|Uncle Fester]]. "It means, to rot!"

 

* Though not truly a verb, Rapine Storm of ''[[Cthulhu Tech]]'' still qualifies as something to run away from. Pity that doing so will probably mean you run into something worse, given the setting.

 

* ''[[Punch and Judy]]''

 

* The aptly-named squad of [[That One Boss|superbosses]] from ''[[Armored Core|Armored Core: Last Raven]]'': the Pulverizers.

* You should probably run very fast from a weapon the military designates an [[R-Type|"Annihilation Platform"]]. Especially when the individual unit's name has a 'mor' in it, being "Moritz-G."

* [[The Man They Couldn't Hang]] Mr. Lynch in ''[[Red Dead Revolver]]''.

* [[Demon's Souls]] gives us a sword-slinging boss known as the Penetrator. Let that sink in for a moment.

 

* ''[[Goblins]]'' spin-off ''Tempts Fate'' has a minor villain called Suffer.

 

* ''[[Xiaolin Showdown]]'s'' Chase Young. [[Meaningful Name]] in that he traded his soul for eternal youth.

 

* Louis the Pious had three sons, Pepin II, Charles the Bald, and Lothair. Guess which one tried to take over the Holy Roman Empire...

* Apparently, a man in Britain named Rob Banks was accused of bank robbery. The court subsequently granted him the right to be tried under a pseudonym on the grounds that his name might, in fact, influence the jury.

 

 

* A ''[[Law and Order]]'' episode features Jonas Slaughter, played by [[A Clockwork Orange (film)|Malcolm]] [[Fallout|McDowell]]. Guess what? He's a [[Complete Monster]].

* Detective Slaughter on ''[[Castle]]'' is a [[Cowboy Cop]] whose nickname is "the Widowmaker". He earned it based on his partners' life expectancy. Not that gangsters fare much better with him around...

 

* Professional Wrestler and ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' character Sergeant Slaughter.

 

* Karin Slaughter. She writes thrillers.

* [http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/player/profile?playerId=32793 A.J. Slaughter], Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.

* Alvin Slaughter. Gospel musician.

 

 

* "Stabby Joe" from ''[[Friends]]''. Phoebe warned Ross not to walk down a certain alley to avoid meeting this character.

 

* Parodied on ''[[The Simpsons]]'' where Marge is watching a film about a convict named Johnny Stabbo and his mother, Ma Stabbo.

* In ''[[Family Guy]]'', Lois' cellmate "Stabby".

 

 

* A variant: In ''[[Trinity Blood]]'', [[Ridiculously Human Robot]] Father Tres feels the need to [[Calling Your Attacks|deliver exposition on what he's doing.]] When somebody has something called "Genocide Mode" in his repertoire, it's probably a good idea to ''be somewhere else'' when he invokes it.

 

* ''[[Wonder Woman|Genocide]]''. And she makes a point of saying that it's not just her name, it's what she does.

 

* In the ''[[Ender's Game]]'' series, Andrew Wiggin is known variously as Ender, the Speaker for the Dead, and ''the Xenocide''.

 

* ''[[Pokémon Black and White]]'', of all things, gives us [[Memetic Badass|Genosect]].

 

 

* Ripred from ''[[The Underland Chronicles]]''.

 

* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Giles]] used to go by "Ripper".

 

* Rivfader, King of Trolls in many of [[Finntroll]]'s songs. His name means "Rip-father" in Swedish.

 

* Rip Torn.

* And of course, Jack the Ripper.

 

* [[Ax Crazy|Ripper Roo]] from ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]''.

 

 

* [[The Empire|Imperial]] [[Star Wars|Star]] [[Cool Starship|Destroyers]]. In fact, they're this trope times two since they're usually called things like ''Avenger'', ''Executor'', ''Eviscerator'', ''Corrupter''...

 

* The Shivans from ''[[Free Space]]''. Not only were they named after Shiva, the Hindu God of Destruction, but they were also dubbed as "The Destroyers" by the Ancients.

* The final boss of the storyline in ''[[Borderlands]]'' is named the Destroyer. Amusingly, the mission where you fight it is named "Destroy The Destroyer".

 

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