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== Anime and Manga ==
* In the one-shot ''[[Blame]]'' sequel, the lead character is referred to as "The Calamity" by the Silicon Beings. Given his penchant for [[One-Man Army|mass]] [[No Kill Like Overkill|destruction]], it fits.
* In ''[[Baccano!]]'', Claire Stanfield's most well-known title is Vino, [[The Butcher|in reference to the wine-like stains on the floor he inevitably turns his opponents into.]]
* Guts of ''[[Berserk]]'' is known both as "The Black Swordsman" and "The Hundred-Man Slayer."
* ''[[Black Lagoon]]'' has a few of these such as Sawyer the Cleaner but the most notable is Roberta, "the Bloodhound of Florencia," a name that terrifies even hardened criminals in her native Colombia.
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* Subverted in ''[[Sakigake Cromartie Koukou|Cromartie High School]]'' when Akira Maeda decides on a new nickname for himself: "The Dragon of Razors". Unfortunately, due to his [[Butt Monkey]] status, no one seems to call him by that name.
** There's also the rock star guy the students call Freddie, since he's a mute and no one seems to know his real origins.
* ''[[Darker Thanthan Black]]'' gives us [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|the Black Reaper]], Hei. Notable in that ''[[Only Known by Their Nickname|the only name we know him by]]'' is also a [[Badass Nickname|Badass]] [[Code Name]]; "Hei" is Chinese for "Black."
* Kenshiro of ''[[Fist of the North Star]]'' is known as the "Man with the Seven Scars" or the "Savior of Century's End", while his [[Aloof Big Brother]] Raoh is known as "Ken-oh" (the "King of Fist") or the "Conqueror of Century's End".
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'' is a remarkable example, going so far as to having the Amestris government actually issue every State Alchemist a similar moniker. The series occasionally [[Satire, Parody, Pastiche|spoofs]] the problems of this trope, with the people [[Expecting Someone Taller|being more familiar with the fearsome alias than the person behind it]] - resulting in them frequently mistaking Edward Elric's walking armor brother, Alphonse, for the eponymous [[Fullmetal Alchemist]].
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** Other parties in the series have such names, noms de guerre at least, usually in the form of [[The Magnificent]], but most of them aren't especially widely feared, if only because they kill most people who hear about them. Manga Wolfwood appears to have possessed a certain cache in the [[Career Killers]] community that earned him the name Nicholas the Punisher, but it's possible he was just assigned that title by his bosses. So it's just the [[Hero with Bad Publicity]] who's blood-chillingly notorious.
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'': Salamander, Titania, The Demon, "Beast Arm" Elfman, Black Steel, "The Demon Princess" Miki Chickentiger "Iron Rock" Jura.
* ''[[Durarara!!]]'''s Shizuo Heiwajima has the very well-deserved title of God of Destruction. Occasionally, this is extended to "God of Destruction [[Memetic Outfit|in a Bartender Suit]]" is added to make sure people [[Expecting Someone Taller|properly identify him]].
* It's easier to list the characters in ''[[Jackals]]'' who ''don't'' have killer nicknames, though this may have something to do with the fact that the cast is primarily made of up, you know, killers. The main hero and his rival are "Alligator" Nichol Heyward and Huya "Requiem" Godfrey. Many of the others sound a little goofy when translated into English... but then again, "the Flying Monkey" is probably an improvement over "Jasper Tennessee" anyway. Richard Domingo takes the cake here, having ''multiple'' nicknames - Lightning, the Bolt, and the Virtuoso of Firearms.
* In ''[[Corsair]]'', Ayace, the armada commander, is called "The Devil Killer".
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* Arthur Wellesley, the Duke of Wellington, was known as ''the Iron Duke'', One of many 'Iron' titles popular at the time
** Which, while badass, may be a subversion in context. To quote [[Wikipedia|The Other Wiki]]: "An opponent of parliamentary reform, he was given the epithet the "Iron Duke" because of the iron shutters he had fixed to his windows to stop the pro-reform mob from breaking them."
** [[Otto Vonvon Bismarck]] was known as the "Iron Chancellor". True, he wasn't a soldier, but he was such a supreme political genius that the moniker was well earned. Bismark also gave a very important speech which convinced the Prussian <s> Reichstag</s> ''Abgeordnetenhaus'' (House of Deputies) to make their military stronger, eventually leading to the unification of the German states. It was called the 'Blood and Iron' speech. On 30 September 1862, when he said "The great issues of the day are not decided by speeches and majority decisions - that was the error of 1848 and 1849 - but by iron and blood." However, the massive expansion of the Prussian Army was at that point already going on for two years.
** [[Margaret Thatcher]] gained the title "The Iron Lady" after a strong anti-Communist speech. ''Red Star'' (the newspaper of the [[Reds With Rockets]]) gave her that name, and it wasn't intended as a compliment. She was not yet PM at this point.
** Golda Meir, first female Prime Minister of Israel, also got the "Iron Lady" title.
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