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Of course this construction is ''extremely'' common in [[Real Life]] too. Firefighter, cab-driver, wine-maker, ironmonger, car dealer, [[Ambulance Chaser]], ditch-digger, lion-tamer, news-reader, coal-miner, watchmaker, computer programmer, bartender, gas-fitter, dishwasher, childminder, wine-taster, greengrocer, snack-dispenser, bricklayer, dressmaker, chess-player, piano-tuner etc. etc.
Compare [[Luke Nounverber]], when the same principle is applied to character names. See also [[We Will Use Wiki Words in
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== Anime & Manga ==
* ''[[
* ''[[Kemono no Souja Erin]]'': Translates to Beast Player Erin.
* ''[[Speed Grapher]]''
* ''[[Speed Racer]]''
* ''[[Soul Eater]]''.
* ''[[Soul Taker (
* ''[[
* Many characters in the ''[[
* ''[[Fairy Tail]]'' has Dragon Slayers.
* ''[[Princesss Lover]]''
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== [[Film]] ==
* ''[[
* ''Firestarter''
* ''[[
* ''[[Trash Humpers]]''
* [[The Onion Movie]]: ''Cockpuncher''.
* [[Super Troopers|Bear Fucker!?]] Do you require assistance?
* [[
* Nightrider in [[Mad Max]]
* ''[[Blade Runner]]''
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* The Death Eaters from ''[[Harry Potter]]''.
* In the book ''The Gift'', the [[Chosen One]]'s title is Wind Tamer.
* ''[[Alex Rider
* ''Banewreaker'' and ''Godslayer'' by Jacqueline Carey.
* [[David Gemmell]]'s Druss the Legend is known as "Deathwalker" to his enemies. Well, one nation of his enemies.
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* Less often done in the "hero pulps", but often in the paperback original series of the 1960's to 1980's. The Executioner, the Penetrator, the Sharpshooter, the Liquidator, the Destroyer, the Butcher, the Nazi Hunter, the Terminator, the Revenger, the Avenger, the Protector, etc. stand as examples. Many retrospectives on the paperback original trend (e.g. Jeff Siegel's The American Detective: An Illustrated History, Sons of Sam Spade, Geherin in American Private Eye, Warren Murphy's article in The Fine Art of Murder, Murder Off the Rack's Matt Helm article) derisively point out how common the agent noun series title turned out.
* ''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|The Chronicles of Narnia: The Voyage of the]]'' '''''[[The Chronicles of Narnia|Dawn Treader]]'''''
* In the [[Black Company]] series by Glen Cook, most of the original Ten Who Were Taken with the exception of the Limper and the Howler. (Stormbringer, Soulcatcher, Bonegnasher, Moonbiter...the list goes on. Most are [[Exactly What It Says
* And another ''[[Deathstalker (
== [[Live Action TV]] ==
* The ''[[
** And don't forget the Soul Hunters.
* ''[[Kolchak the Night Stalker]]''
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]''
* ''[[Community
* ''[[
== Music ==
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== [[Tabletop RPG]] ==
* ''[[Magic:
** Aw, c'mon, at least ''one'' of those is an Adjective Verber. Also, I think it is a creature made of gristle that is grinning.
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' also has its fair share of monsters that are nounverbers, most famously the Mind Flayer.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* ''[[
* ''[[World of Warcraft]]'' might be the number one addict of this trope. If you can make nounverbers and [[Luke Nounverber|put two words together into a made-up compound word]], congratulations, you're at least as good as the whole Blizzard creative team.
** Granted, [[Loads and Loads of Characters|they need thousands and thousands of names]] for all the mobs in the game, but that doesn't make the trope any less annoying [[Tropes Will Ruin Your Life|when you start paying attention to it.]]
* [[Fate]] has many examples of [[Noun Verber|Noun Verbers]] in its randonly-generated monster names. Each part of the names is picked at random from a list.
* And who can forget ''[[Landstalker]]''?
* ''[[Metal Gear Solid 3 Snake Eater]]: '''Snake Eater'''''
* In the opening sequence of [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''[[
* ''[[Tom Clancy]]'s [[Ghost Recon]]'': '''''Advanced Warfighter'''''.
* ''[[The Legend of Zelda:
** Note that this is due to the American translation. The original name of the game was "Kaze no Takuto" which translates to "Baton of Winds".
** Not that 'Baton of Winds' is that dramatic of a title.
* The weapons in the ''[[Mega Man (
* In the [[Interactive Fiction]] game ''The Gostak'', the darftunder [[Captain Obvious|tunds darfs]].
* No one has mention ''[[Street Fighter]]'' - weird.
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