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{{trope}}
A form of [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast]]: Names that can also function as verbs (usually of the pain inducing variety). Often overlaps with [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast/R Names|R Names]].
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▲== [[Film]] ==
* Arthur Burns from ''[[The Proposition]]''.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Frank Burns from ''[[
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Montgomery Burns in ''[[The Simpsons]]''
=== [[Literature]] ===
* 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..
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* It's only a nickname, but by God does Cal Richards from ''[[The Thick of It]]'' live up to it.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Cassie Hack, the slasher hunter from the series ''[[Hack Slash]]''.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Hacker from ''[[
* One half of Megabyte's [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] on ''[[
By itself is actually kind of silly, so expect variations.
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* [[Zambot 3|Killer the Butcher]]
* [[One Piece|"Massacre Soldier" Killer]].
* Killer Bee from ''[[Naruto]]''- not a bad guy, but [[Not So Harmless|certainly not someone you want to mess with]].
* [[Japanese Ranguage|Kira]] in ''[[
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* Killgrave (a ''[[Daredevil]]'' villain unfortunately known as The Purple Man. Shoulda just stuck with his real name...).
* A [[Black Panther]] villain named Erik Killmonger.
* [[Green Lantern
=== [[Film]] ===
* Mr. Kil, a ''[[James Bond (
** There's also a corrupt cop Killifer in ''[[
* Damon Killian, the Evil Executive/Smarmy Game Show Host of the [[Arnold Schwarzenegger]] flick ''[[The Running Man (
* Col. Kil''gore'' from ''[[Apocalypse Now]]'', a man who just can't get enough of the smell of napalm in the morning.
* Parodied in ''[[Carry On]] Doctor'' in which Doctor Killmore finds his name tends to unsettle patients.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Outlaw Rud Killgore in an episode of ''[[Walker, Texas Ranger]]''
* Bobby Sixkiller from ''[[Renegade (TV series)|Renegade]]''
=== [[Professional Wrestling]] ===
* Ron '''Killings''' of [[TNA]].
** Now known as R-Truth in the [[World Wrestling Entertainment|WWE]]. Another one who should have stuck with his real name.
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* 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]].
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* 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 ''[[
* Then there's ''[[Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney]]'' villain Shelly de Killer. Who is a contract killer.
* Killer from ''[[Shadow Hearts|Shadow Hearts: From the New World]]''. Who is a serial killer.
* The Kill Master of ''[[Brutal Legend]]'' (voiced by Lemmy Kilmister of [[
=== [[Web Comics]] ===
* Killum from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* Duff Killigan of ''[[Kim Possible]]''.
* [[The Venture Bros|"Hello, I am Doctor Henry Killinger, unt zis is my magic murder bag."]]
=== [[Film]] ===
* Voodoo priest Murder Legendre in ''[[White Zombie (
=== Webcomics ===
* In ''[[Checkerboard Nightmare]]'', Chex tries to write a comicbook with a [[Card
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* [[X-Men
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* Aaron Pierce in ''[[
* [[The Men in Black|Alien-hunting unit]] head Daniel Pierce of ''[[Roswell]]''.
* Pierce in ''[[Community]]'' is a complete [[Jerkass]].
=== [[Toys]] ===
* Ravage in ''[[Transformers]]'', though he was rarely a threat to other Transformers, was not someone humans wanted to deal with.
** Semi-example: [[Transformers|Bonecrusher]]
** Devastator. [[Exactly What It Says
*** Or any use of the name, really. The Harkonnen Devastator from the ''[[Dune]]'' games is the biggest, baddest tank around. In [[Duke Nukem 3D]], Devastator is the local BFG.
** 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?")
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* The mutant snapping turtle bad guy from ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' fame.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* One of Magus' minions in ''[[
* Also the name of the caveman from the ''[[Eternal Champions]]'' games.
* ''[[Mega Man (
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* The other half of the [[Quirky Miniboss Squad]] in ''[[
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* A [[DC Comics]] alien race were also called the Dominators. Naturally, they tried to conquer the Earth.
=== [[Literature]] ===
* The [[
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* ''[[
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* Annex Zaboom from ''[[Ninja Senshi Tobikage]]''. [[Obviously Evil|As if his appearance wasn't a big enough hint...]]
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* [[Morally
* Superhero [[Blastoman]] and his sidekick, Explodo.
=== [[Film]] ===
* [[Star Wars|Darth Maul.]]
* The Stabbington brothers from ''[[
* Charlie Rotter from the ''Super Psycho Sweet 16'' series.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* [[The Addams Family
=== [[Tabletop Games]] ===
* 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.
=== [[Theatre]] ===
* ''[[Punch and Judy]]''
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* The aptly-named squad of [[That One Boss|superbosses]] from ''[[Armored Core
* 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]]''.
* [[
=== Webcomics ===
* ''[[Goblins]]'' spin-off ''Tempts Fate'' has a minor villain called Suffer.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* ''[[
* ''[[The Fairly
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* 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.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* A ''[[Law and Order]]'' episode features Jonas Slaughter, played by [[A Clockwork Orange (
* 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 Wrestling]] ===
* Professional Wrestler and ''[[G.I. Joe]]'' character Sergeant Slaughter.
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* Karin Slaughter. She writes thrillers.
* [http://sports.espn.go.com/ncb/player/profile?playerId=32793 A.J. Slaughter], Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.
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* Alvin Slaughter. Gospel musician.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* "Stabby Joe" from ''[[Friends]]''. Phoebe warned Ross not to walk down a certain alley to avoid meeting this character.
=== [[Western Animation]] ===
* 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".
=== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ===
* 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.
=== [[Comic Books]] ===
* ''[[Wonder Woman|Genocide]]''. And she makes a point of saying that it's not just her name, it's what she does.
=== Literature ===
* In the ''[[Ender's Game]]'' series, Andrew Wiggin is known variously as Ender, the Speaker for the Dead, and ''the Xenocide''.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* ''[[
=== [[Literature]] ===
* Ripred from ''[[The Underland Chronicles]]''.
=== [[Live-Action TV]] ===
* [[Buffy the Vampire Slayer|Giles]] used to go by "Ripper".
=== [[Music]] ===
* Rivfader, King of Trolls in many of [[Finntroll]]'s songs. His name means "Rip-father" in Swedish.
=== [[Real Life]] ===
* Rip Torn.
* And of course, Jack the Ripper.
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* [[Ax Crazy|Ripper Roo]] from ''[[Crash Bandicoot]]''.
=== Film ===
* [[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''...
=== [[Video Games]] ===
* 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 ''[[
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