Names to Run Away From Really Fast/Verbs

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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 R Names.

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

Film

• Arthur Burns from The Proposition.

Live-Action TV

• Frank Burns from MASH

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 Centurions.
• One half of Megabyte's Quirky Miniboss Squad on Re Boot, averts this trope since both of them are all but harmless.

Kill

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

Anime and Manga

• Killer the Butcher
• "Massacre Soldier" Killer.
• Killer Bee from Naruto- not a bad guy, but certainly not someone you want to mess with.
• Kira in Death Note.

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.
• Arkillo of the Sinestro Corps

Film

• Mr. Kil, a James Bond villain from Die Another Day
  • There's also a corrupt cop Killifer in Licence to Kill.
• Damon Killian, the Evil Executive/Smarmy Game Show Host of the Arnold Schwarzenegger flick The Running Man. Played by none other than Richard Dawson.
• Col. Kilgore 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

Professional Wrestling

• Ron Killings of TNA.
  • Now known as R-Truth in the WWE. Another one who should have stuck with his real name.

Tabletop Games

• The pirates of 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, in the fridge.

Video Games

• Killian. It's the name of a Clint Eastwood lookalike Badass sheriff in the original. Also appears in Fallout.
• Dr. Killjoy from The Suffering.
• Then there's Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney villain Shelly de Killer. Who is a contract killer.
• Killer from Shadow Hearts: From the New World. Who is a serial killer.
• The Kill Master of Brutal Legend (voiced by Lemmy Kilmister of Motorhead) named himself that so people would leave him alone. He's the team healer.

Web Comics

• Killum from Sluggy Freelance.

Western Animation

• Duff Killigan of Kim Possible.
• "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-Carrying Villain named Dr. Murder.

Comic Books

• Donald Pierce, member of the Hellfire Club, the Reavers, and the Purifiers.

Live-Action TV

• Aaron Pierce in 24, although he is a good guy with a heart of gold, he is still a complete and utter Badass.
• 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: Bonecrusher
  • Devastator. He devastates things.
    • 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 Chrono Trigger
• Also the name of the caveman from the Eternal Champions games.
• Mega Man 7 gives us Slash Man, who if you don't know what you're doing, can be a pain in the arse.

Western Animation

• The other half of the Quirky Miniboss Squad in Re Boot.

Comic Books

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

Literature

• The Exclusively Evil Psychic Powers Space Jews in The Iron Dream were called Dominators.

Live-Action TV

• Doctor Who had an actual race calling themselves "The Dominators". (They come with dwarves in suits Creepy Monotone killer robots, of course.)

Anime and Manga

• Annex Zaboom from Ninja Senshi Tobikage. As if his appearance wasn't a big enough hint...

Comic Books

• Doctor Shocc, Former-Nazi Mad Scientist from Marshal Law.
• Superhero Blastoman and his sidekick, Explodo.

Film

• 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.

Live-Action TV

• Uncle Fester. "It means, to rot!"

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 superbosses from Armored Core: Last Raven: the Pulverizers.
• You should probably run very fast from a weapon the military designates an "Annihilation Platform". Especially when the individual unit's name has a 'mor' in it, being "Moritz-G."
• Bang Shishigami. "BANG BANG BANG BANG!!!!"
• 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.

Webcomics

• Goblins spin-off Tempts Fate has a minor villain called Suffer.

Western Animation

• Xiaolin Showdown's Chase Young. Meaningful Name in that he traded his soul for eternal youth.
• The Fairly OddParents: Jorgen von Strangle, Crusher McPersoncrusher, and Princess Mandie (pronounced Man-Die, if you didn't get it).

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 Malcolm 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 Wrestling

• Professional Wrestler and G.I. Joe character Sergeant Slaughter.

Real Life

• Karin Slaughter. She writes thrillers.
• A.J. Slaughter, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.
• Tod Slaughter, known for his roles in film adaptations of Victorian horror melodramas and is particularly known for his portrayal of the original Sweeney Todd from the penny-dreadful "The String of Pearls".
• Former Cleveland Browns wide receiver Webster Slaughter.
• Baseball Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter, particularly if you were a pitcher in the 1940s.
• 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 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

• 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

• Pokémon Black and White, of all things, gives us Genosect.

Literature

• Ripred from The Underland Chronicles.

Live-Action TV

• 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

• Ripper Roo from Crash Bandicoot.

Film

• Imperial Star 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 Borderlands is named the Destroyer. Amusingly, the mission where you fight it is named "Destroy The Destroyer".