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== Video Games ==

* The second game in the [[Civilization]] series bestows various titles on you at the end, which start out at "[[Hello, Insert Name Here|Insert Name Here]] [[Take That|The Worthless]]" and get progressively more positive as your score increases, with "[[Hello, Insert Name Here|Insert Name Here]] The Magnificent", appropriately, being the top one.

* The second game in the ''[[Civilization]]'' series bestows various titles on you at the end, which start out at "[[Hello, Insert Name Here|Insert Name Here]] [[Take That|The Worthless]]" and get progressively more positive as your score increases, with "[[Hello, Insert Name Here|Insert Name Here]] The Magnificent", appropriately, being the top one.

* Bowser gets a variant in the ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' games: various titles based on "your highness", but with far less complimentary adjectives than "high".

** And being a gleeful [[Card-Carrying Villain]], he ''likes it that way''.

* Player characters in ''[[City of Heroes]]'' earn the right to choose from a list of these titles once they've reached a sufficiently high level.

* As ''[[Skies of Arcadia]]'''s Vyse does more and more awesome things, his reputation gets better, and the game actually keeps track of this. He goes from Vyse the Unimpressive to (if the player [[One Hundred Percent Completion|does well enough]]) Vyse the Legend over the course of the story. The [[Video Game Remake|remake]] drops hints that all Air Pirates take their "surnames" like this; Dyne of the Blue Storm, Gilder the Unfettered, and so on.

* In [[Dawn of War]]:Dark Crusade the Ork campaign has Gorgutz 'ead 'unter get more titles as he kills the other factions on the planet until he finishes and is known as Gorgutz 'Ead 'Unter, Rage Screamer, Blood Spilla, Death Killa, Daemon Killa, Gun Smasher, Ghost Killa.

* In ''[[Dawn of War]]:Dark Crusade'' the Ork campaign has Gorgutz 'ead 'unter get more titles as he kills the other factions on the planet until he finishes and is known as Gorgutz 'Ead 'Unter, Rage Screamer, Blood Spilla, Death Killa, Daemon Killa, Gun Smasher, Ghost Killa.

* In ''[[Runes of Magic]]'', players can get various titles from defeating boss-monsters.

* In ''[[Neverwinter Nights]]: Hordes of the Underdark'', everyone's secret True Name is like this, for example "Cassanduria the Beautiful" or "Tra'axfyl the Ambitious". Your character's true name is selected from a list of 9 names, based on your character alignment.

* In [[Tales of the Abyss]], all of the God-Generals have titles like this: Asch the Bloody, Legretta the Quick, Arietta the Wild, Largo the Black Lion, and Sync the Tempest. And Dist, who [[Insistent Terminology|insists his title is "the Rose"]], but whom everyone else calls Dist the Reaper - except Jade, who calls him Dist the Runny.

* In ''[[Tales of the Abyss]]'', all of the God-Generals have titles like this: Asch the Bloody, Legretta the Quick, Arietta the Wild, Largo the Black Lion, and Sync the Tempest. And Dist, who [[Insistent Terminology|insists his title is "the Rose"]], but whom everyone else calls Dist the Reaper - except Jade, who calls him Dist the Runny.

* In ''[[Fable]]'', a title is all you go as. You can purchase other titles as you go along, and townspeople will refer to you by it. Otherwise, you're a nameless hero.

* In ''[[World of Warcraft]]'', [[Bragging Rights Reward|titles are purely cosmetic]], and there's plenty of them by way of achievements.

** Some, like "[[Your Name Here]] Jenkins" are pretty easy to get once you know how. (In this case, you have to re-enact Leeroy Jenkins' infamous one-man [[Zerg Rush]]). Some... Well, let's say they don't help the stereotype of a [[WoW]] player playing all day and all night for several days without bathing or even leaving the computer for more than a few minutes. Like the aptly named and almost-impossible "[[Your Name Here]] The Insane"

** Some, like "[[Your Name Here]] Jenkins" are pretty easy to get once you know how. (In this case, you have to re-enact Leeroy Jenkins' infamous one-man [[Zerg Rush]]). Some... Well, let's say they don't help the stereotype of a ''[[WoW]]'' player playing all day and all night for several days without bathing or even leaving the computer for more than a few minutes. Like the aptly named and almost-impossible "[[Your Name Here]] The Insane"

* ''[[Mabinogi (video game)|Mabinogi]]'' has titles you can earn by fulfilling certain conditions, such as "[[Arrows on Fire|the Fire Arrow]]" and "[[Does This Remind You of Anything?|who Seduced a Succubus]]"; all of which confer some sort of stat increase and/or decrease.

* The [[Total War]] series allows family members to gain similar epithets, dependent on their character traits (and, indirectly, success as a leader). They range from the embarrassing ("the Cowardly" or "the Cuckold") to the admirable ("the Just", "the Kind") to the impressive ("the Brave", "the Great", "the Mighty") to the hilarious ("the Lewd", "the Queen", "the Idiot") to the downright [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|terrifying]] ("the Bloody-Handed", "the Tyrant", "The Lord of Terror"). Sadly, the game only ever uses the most recently acquired epithet, making it entirely possible that a general goes from "the Conqueror" to "the Mean".

* The ''[[Total War]]'' series allows family members to gain similar epithets, dependent on their character traits (and, indirectly, success as a leader). They range from the embarrassing ("the Cowardly" or "the Cuckold") to the admirable ("the Just", "the Kind") to the impressive ("the Brave", "the Great", "the Mighty") to the hilarious ("the Lewd", "the Queen", "the Idiot") to the downright [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|terrifying]] ("the Bloody-Handed", "the Tyrant", "The Lord of Terror"). Sadly, the game only ever uses the most recently acquired epithet, making it entirely possible that a general goes from "the Conqueror" to "the Mean".

* In ''[[League of Legends]]'', all of the Champions have a epithet of some sort, all of them in varying degrees of impressiveness ("The Terror of the Void", "The Grandmaster at Arms", "[[The Tiny Master Of Evil]]").

** Self-parodied in the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KrSihRXTrq4 April Fools' spotlight on Lee Sin]. "Thanks for tuning in to the Lee Sin, The Blind Monk champion spotlight, [[Department of Redundancy Department|featuring Lee Sin, The Blind Monk]].

* In ''[[Persona 3]]'', the most powerful Persona of each Arcana is introduced with an appropriately awesome-sounding epithet when the player character unlocks them by mastering that Arcana's Social Link. Examples range from "Surt, the inferno god" and "Scathach, the Teacher" through "Metatron, attendant to the infinite" and "Messiah, the savior."

* [[Skyrim]] ~~Has~~ a couple of these people. One example, an orphanage caretaker named “Grelod the Kind” who is anything but.

* ''[[Skyrim]]'' has a couple of these people. One example, an orphanage caretaker named “Grelod the Kind” who is anything but.

* Like a number of [[MMOs]], ''[[Champions Online]]'' has titles that can be earned for reaching certain levels, killing certain numbers and kinds of enemies, and so on.

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