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* In ''[[Best Served Cold (novel)|Best Served Cold]]'' by Joe Abercrombie, Monza's epithet is "The Butcher of Caprile", thanks to the bloody sack of that city by her army. {{spoiler|It's actually another undeserved case; she gave explicit orders not to do so, but while reporting to her boss her brother countermanded them.}}

* Abdul the Butcher, the antagonist in the [[Fighting Fantasy]] gamebook ''Seas of Blood''.

* [[The Witcher]] Geralt of Rivia is sometimes known as "The Butcher of Blaviken". Granted, what went down in Blaviken wasn't entirely his fault...

* ''[[Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea]]'' [[Great White Hunter]] Ned Land accuses Nemo of this when Nemo [[Kick the Dog|Kick The Cachalots]] in a massacre.

 

== [[Real Life]] ==

* ''Megalania prisca'', a [[Badass|giant extinct monitor lizard]], has a genus name that was at first thought to mean "Giant butcher". However, it turns out that the name actually means "Giant wanderer". Shame, because the former meaning sounds much more fitting for such a [[Badass]] animal.

* The 19th century German bandit Johannes Bückler was mostly known as ''Schinderhannes'', or "John the Butcher". However, he had that name long before he became an infamous criminal since, like all the men in his family, he was a butcher by profession. While he did commit some cases of manslaughter during his criminal career, he wasn't exceptionally viscious, but his name probably helped a lot to make him one of the most well known bandits of the time.