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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==
* A subversion, [[Pani Poni Dash!|Tsurugi Inugami]]'s name has the deadliness of a [[Every Japanese Sword Is a Katana|Tsurugi]] and the Mythological Animalness of [
* Nrvnsqr Chaos in ''[[Tsukihime]]''. Name looks unpronounceable, but it's actually 'Nero Chaos' so he doesn't get that one, technically. Hard K sound though. Plus, his most used name is generally 'Chaos,' a name he was given because he's just that evil as far as the Church is concerned. They ''really'' hate him. So that's both Infernal and Noun. Oh, and technically it's a title, as his real/original name is actually rather ordinary. As far as he's concerned, though, he doesn't really have a name anymore and merely responds to what people call him. It happens when you start tossing your identity away.
* ''[[Tsubasa Reservoir Chronicle]]'''s kurogane 1. foreign sounding 2. kuro= black 3. weapon name (it means black steel) 4.starts with a k.
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* [[Gundam Unicorn]] has the NZ-666 Kshatriya.
* The alias of Shinobu Sensui in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho]]'' is [[Names to Run Away From/Colors|Black]] [[Names to Run Away From/Demons Or Angels|Angel]].
* ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist (
** [[Names to Run Away From/Titles|Colonel]] Roy [[Names to Run Away From/Animal|Mustang]]
** [[Names to Run Away From/Titles|Lieutenant]] [[Names to Run Away From/Xtreme Kool Letterz|Riza]] [[Names to Run Away From/Animal|Hawk]][[Names to Run Away From/Body Part|eye]]
** [[Names to Run Away From/Titles|Major]] [[Names to Run Away From/Conquerors|Alex]] Louis [[Names to Run Away From/Body Part|Arm]][[Names to Run Away From/Adjectives|strong]]
* ''[[
== [[Card Games]] ==
* Ramses Overdark, Madaran imperial assassin from ''[[Magic:
** [[Magic:
*** To stress how "Untouchable" Phage is, there are many creatures with the deathtouch<ref>it's one word no matter what spellcheckers say</ref> ability that allows them to kill any creature they hit, Phage is no exception; however if Phage does damage to a player, they lose. Instantly. Each player, in-game, is considered to be a Planeswalker, aka. a [[Physical God]] who, at the start of the game, can take hits from dragons and eldritch abominations while still standing.
* The three Eldrazi Titans, Kozilek, the Butcher of Truth, Ulamog, The Infinite Gyre, and Emrakul, the Aeons Torn. These guys are alien to the known color concepts, and their very presence reduces the land to a smoldering wasteland.
== [[Comic Books]] ==
* One ''[[Fantastic Four (Comic Book)|Fantastic Four]]'' villain is [[Fantastic Four
** The trope is lampshaded with his [[Ultimate Universe]] counterpart, Nihil. Reed's [[Translator Microbes|translation device]] first renders his name as things like "I annihilate" and "I am nihilist", which everyone agrees is a bad sign.
{{quote| '''Thing:''' "Dude. We met our first alien and his name is like E-Vill or something."}}
*** "Nihil" is literally and unambiguously Latin for "nothing;" if Reed's translation device is interpreting it as a verb it must be broken. What are the chances their entire conflict was predicated on a translation error?
* Deathstroke the Terminator, real name Slade Wilson.
* [[Hellboy (
* Daimon Hellstrom and his sister Satana from [[Marvel Universe]]. Why, yes, they are children of [[Satan]], [[Sarcasm Mode|how did you guess]]?
* [[The Joker]]'s name follows a good amount of these rules. It combines: 1. A "The" name that contains 2. a Verb (joke), which is also 3. a Noun (as in a practical joker), which 4. Ends in R and 5. Has a harsh K sound in it. In addition, some of his nicknames or alternate titles exemplify other rules; one particularly obvious one is "The Thin White Duke of Death", which combines 1. a "The" name, which also has 2. the color white in it and also 3. has the title "Duke" in it and 4. has the noun/verb "death" in it. Those particularly sharp Tropers amongst us might know of several other titles that fit...
** "Thin White Duke" was one of David Bowie's nicknames/personas. Does that count as "named after a famous villain?"
* [[Spider-Man]]'s [[Complete Monster|foe]] [[Spider-Man
* [[X-Men (Comic Book)|Raven Darkholme]], [[X-Men
* Combining body part with weapon makes up ''[[The Mighty Thor]]'' enemy "Bloodaxe".
* Of the Adjective and Title variant is Mister Terrible.
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* And from the same [[Jim Butcher|Author]], we have [[Codex Alera|Gaius Tavarus Magnus.]] Translation; Lord Super-Wolverine the Great
* [[Discworld|Carcer]] is a Crime-Related Scary Noun in an Ancient Dead Language with a hard "k" sound that ends in an "-er". That's a [[Knife Nut|lot]] [[Implausible Deniability|of]] [[Psycho for Hire|evil]], right there.
* [[Faction Paradox|The War in Heaven]]. Full stop. Hell, ''[[Faction Paradox]]''? ''The [[Ascend to
* ''[[Welkin Weasels]]'' features the Grand Inquisitor Torca Marda. It's got the hard K sound in the middle, it's not quite an R-ending but it sounds close to one, ''and'' it's a [[Shout
* ''[[Bridge of Birds]]'' gives us The Hand That No One Sees. Don't ask.
* [[The Lord of the Rings|Sauron's]] minions are only allowed to [[He Who Must Not Be Named|refer to him]] as ''"He"'' or more colloquially, '''''"The Eye".'''''
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* Jack Reacher, of the basically unnamed series by Lee Child. K-name, -er, Title/adjective/verb (He's always just Reacher, often for trivial things such as being like 6'5 and reaching for things for people.), Famous murderers/assassins. {{spoiler|He's destroyed one town physically, and one he destroyed the economy of. He's dismantled at least one private military establishment, and another military contractor received his foot in a sunless place.}}
* [[The Dark Tower|The Gunslinger]] {{spoiler|Roland of Gilead}} Rednecky, Weapon, Title, Ends in R, Weapon, Adjective/The Adjective One/The Man, {{spoiler|nouns}}. Definitely worth running from. Fast. Before you cross him. After, it's just too late.
* [[
* Leo Alexander of ''[[Dark Heavens]]''. As an added bonus, his first name plus being a [[Scary Black Man]] gives him the nickname [[Red Baron|"The Black Lion"]].
* Combining a Noun with a "The Person" title, we have Jessica Sorrow the Unbeliever, from Simon R Green's ''[[Nightside]]'' novels.
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* The Live Action/CGI combined series ''[[Ace Lightning]]'' contains many characters with the names of Lord Fear, Anvil, Dirty Rat and Felicity Fury... Ironically the least auspiciously named character is Kilobyte, who also happens to be the most dangerous of the bad guys.
* Two in ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' Kakistos invokes K-name, Ancient Dead Languages, and Adjectives (his name is Greek for "worst of the worst"). Spike of ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'' is a double-inversion, though. We meet him with the relatively-easygoing name "Spike". Later, we find that he was once known as "William the Bloody". Still later, we find that he was called "William the Bloody" ''before'' he was a vampire (because his poetry was "so bloody awful"), and it's strongly implied that he's named "spike" after a preferred way of killing people.
* Sylar a.k.a. Gabriel Gray a.k.a. [[My Hero Zero|Patient Zero]] of ''[[Heroes (TV series)|Heroes]]'' again. Sylar is an R-name, a German word meaning "rope maker" ("Seiler"), and getting the name off a watch is an allusion to the Zodiac killer. Gabriel (the angel of death), and last name is a color name.
* Lucien LaCroix, of ''[[
== [[Tabletop Games]] ==
* [[Mecha]] war RPG/Minis-game/novel series ''[[
** An obvious example in the ''Battletech'' universe: The Clans in general. If your planet was being invaded out of the blue by people calling themselves "Jade Falcons" or "Ghost Bears", you'd either be shitting bricks, running away, or a mixture of the two.
* And then there is ''[[Warhammer 40000]]'', Kharn the Betrayer, Lucius the Eternal, Typhus the Traveler, Abaddon the Despoiler and Ahriman of the Thousand Sons.
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== [[Video Games]] ==
* One boss from ''[[
* Subverted by Capcom's Princess Devilotte de Deathsatan IX (from the Mecha game ''[[Cyberbots:
* In a contrast to the other ''[[Star Wars]]'' examples, the names of the two prominent Jedi-turned-Sith in the first ''[[Knights of the Old Republic]]'' are rather multilayered and subtle. Consider Malak - that's an adjective (mal), a body part(the jawbone, which in his case is missing), an angel's name (Malachi), and it ends in K! And Revan - that's an animal (raven), and three nouns (revenge, revenant, and revanchist, the last of which is basically "a vengeful person". Revenant, [[Meaningful Name|by the way]] means {{spoiler|One who has returned from death or a long absence.}}) Well played, Bioware! The only other new, named Sith with a "Darth" attached is Bandon, who doesn't play nearly so big a role.
** ...this is subtle?
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** And, of course, the infamous fortress [[Let's Play|Boatmurdered]].
* One of the villains in ''[[Blood Rayne]]'' is named Dr. Bathory Mengele. First, she gets the title of "Doctor"; second, her first name is the surname of the Hungarian serial killer Countess Erszebet Bathory (also known as "the Blood Countess"), reputed to have [[Blood Bath|bathed in blood]] in a bid to remain young and beautiful); third, she shares a surname with Dr. Josef Mengele, the Nazi "Angel of Death" known for human experimentation on Auschwitz prisoners. Needless to say, she's not very nice.
* [[Blaz Blue|Ragna The Bloodedge]]: [Pagan Mythology] the [Blood][Weapon]. To put it bluntly, [[Good Is Not Nice|he isn't really a nice guy]], but with that said, [[Jerk
* Okay, let's do some math, folks. Demonic + Kool Letturz + Ends with R + [[Complete Monster]] + [[Hate Plague]] + [[Pokémon]] ='' '''CIPHER''' ''Yes, they are utterly evil, why do you ask?
* Not sure what category this comes under, but the name of I.M.Meen from the [[
* [[Hexen|Korax]]. It means "raven", it has a hard K, it ends with an X -- what more needs to be said?
* In [[Don Pachi|DoDonPachi DaiFukkatsu BLACK Label]], Taisabachi, the penultimate [[True Final Boss]], had it's name changed to "[[Bullet Hell|Supreme Weapon of Extreme Hellish Annihilation]] - [[Nintendo Hard|Golden]] [[Harder Than Hard|Disaster]]."
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* ''Odio'', which is Spanish for hate/hatred:
** [[Live a Live|Odio]] and [[Punny Name|variations of it]]. One for each chapter of the game.
** ''[[
* Also in ''[[
* [[Yggdra Union|Gulcasa, Emperor of Carnage]]. That he goes around riding a dragon and twirling a [[Sinister Scythe]] is bad enough, but he's an Emperor in a Japanese RPG (which is almost always bad), and Carnage, well, speaks for itself. Add to this that he's also referred to as Blazing Emperor, that his personal skill is named [[Kill'Em All|Genocide]], and that he is a direct descendant of the evil dragon [[Sealed Evil in
* Bad-to-the-Bone Pirates from ''[[Infinite Space]]'', said to be the most ruthless pirate gang in the universe. "Merciless Night Queen" Celina and "the Bloody Prince" Teodoro are odd cases; they're not villains (Celina even helps you several times throughout the game, and Teodoro can be recruited under [[Defeat Means Friendship]]), but they certainly won't hold back when anyone gets in their way.
* Another [[Luke Nounverber]] example comes with Nounverber-style titles for all Dungeoneering bosses in ''[[Runescape]]''. There are bosses with names like Plane-freezer Lakhrahnaz, Shadow-forger Ihlakhizan, Night-gazer Khighorahk, Flesh-spoiler Haasghenahk, To'Kash the Bloodchiller, Har'Lakk the Riftsplitter, Bal'Lak the Pummeller, and the behemoths don't really lack in the threatening name department either. After all, facing a giant hulking beast called the Hope devourer can cause a bit of a fright. And then, of course Jagex took these titles [[Up to Eleven]] and gave us ''World-gorger'' Shukarhazh. Due to the Stalkers being [[The Unpronounceable]], and attempts at pronouncing these often resulting in lots of [[Black Speech|guttural sounds]] certainly doesn't detract from the value.
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* In ''[[Starslip Crisis]]'', a character questions whether a certain CEO is really all that bad. I mean, how much can you tell from a name like Archcount Obdrath von Lucifuge? "His name's, like, Lord Murdertron or something."
* [http://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2005/5/4/ Dr. Raven Darktalon Blood]
* Archagent Jack Noir of ''[[
** And now he has another nickname: {{spoiler|Bec Noir, from Becquerel, a [[Reality Warper]] dog who is named after the SI unit of radiation... ''[[It Got Worse|whose powers Jack now wields]]''.}}
*** Doc Scratch, aka the First Guardian of the Troll's session. Name X + Verb. {{spoiler|And is also themed like a rapper's name since he's based off Lil' Cal, who is a creepy sentient doll.}}
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== [[Western Animation]] ==
* ''[[Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles]]'' practically wrote the book on cool names, but perhaps the most blatant is Hunter "Hun" Mason, the leader of the Purple Dragons. Let's see, we've got the self-explanatory word "Hunter" in there, "Mace," which refers to ''two'' weapons, "Mason" which is a dude who ''slices stone for a living'', and even when shortened it becomes the name of some of the most notorious conquerors of all time.
* ''[[He-Man and
** Adding to the snake motif of his name with a conqueror, Kobra Khan.
* "Nemesis Enforcer" from ''[[G.I. Joe:
* ''[[
** [[Names to Run Away From/Nouns|Fire]] [[Names to Run Away From/Titles|Lord]] [[Names to Run Away From/Xtreme Kool Letterz|Ozai]]
** [[Names to Run Away From/Titles|General]] Iroh, the [[Names to Run Away From/Animal|Dragon]] of the West
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== [[Real Life]] ==
* [
** In Norse mythology Baldur was the god of hope, very gentle, and loved by everyone. Was there ever a more painful case of irony?
* [
* ''[[Tyrannosaurus Rex]]''. Translates to 'Tyrant Lizard King'.
* "Prince of Darkness" and related terms (The Dark Prince, The Lord of Darkness, etc.) are a combination of title and color/word. ''[[Gratuitous French|Par example]]'':
** [[
** [[Peter Mandelson]], for his [[Magnificent Bastard]] ability to [[The Man Behind the Man|control things from the shadows]].
* The phenomenon of a [[Useful Notes/Black Holes|"Black Hole]] [
* The swedish name of the Eurasian Bullfinch is "Domherre", litterly meaning Judgement Lord.
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