History FluffyTheTerrible / Film

* Double example: The name used by the Devil in ''Film/TheExorcist'' AND by a psychotic killer in ''Film/{{Strangeland}}''? Captain Howdy.

* The carnivorous ape monster with a set of bear trap jaws and capable of completely devouring three adult humans (or rather [[AssholeVictim "two human beings and Wilma"]]) from ''The Crate'' segment of the movie ''Film/Creepshow'' was actually named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Fluffy"]] by the production staff.

* The unnamed carnivorous ape monster with a set of bear trap jaws and capable of completely devouring three adult humans (or rather [[AssholeVictim "two human beings and Wilma"]]) from ''The Crate'' segment of the movie ''Film/Creepshow'' was actually named [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin "Fluffy"]] by the production staff.

* The unnamed carnivorous ape monster with a set of bear trap jaws and capable of completely devouring three adult humans, or rather [{AssholeVictim "two human beings and Wilma"]], from ''The Crate'' segment of the movie ''Film/Creepshow'' was actually named [[ExactlyAsItSaysOnTheTin "Fluffy"]] by the production staff.

* The monster in ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' became known as... Clover. And before that, his FanNickname was Mr Grumpy Pants.

* When your name sounds like "Saccharine", people probably expect you to be as sweet as your name, right? Not true for the BigBad in ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfTintin'', where Mr. Ivan Ivanovich Sahkrine is willing to kidnap, murder, and steal all to find the location of Red Rackham's Treasure. [[spoiler: Well, he is Rackham's descendant and possible reincarnation, after all...]]. [[note]] However, it should be noted that it is a case of AdaptationalVillainy; in the original graphic novel by Hergé, Saccharine (written Saccharine, not Sahkrine) was actually a friendly RedHerring.[[/note]]

* The black horse owned by Judge Frollo in ''WesternAnimation/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' is actually named [[AllThereInTheManual Snowball]].

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'', there is a giant, fearsome ''Baryonyx'' that even scares a ''T. rex''. CrazySurvivalist Buck names it... Rudy.

* [[PsychoForHire Bunny]] in ''Film/{{Platoon}}'', a soldier who rapes and kills civilians during a pacification mission in a Vietnamese village.
* 'Pumpkin'/'Ringo' from ''Film/PulpFiction'' isn't psycho enough, but his girlfriend 'Honeybunny' most definitely is.

** At one point, Bowler Hat Guy sics a brainwashed ''{{Tyrannosaurus rex}}'' named "Tiny" on Lewis.

* In ''WesternAnimation/IceAge3DawnOfTheDinosaurs'', there is a giant, fearsome Baryonyx that even scares a ''T. rex''. CrazySurvivalist Buck names it... Rudy.

* In ''Film/KungPowEnterTheFist'', the main (male) villain was named "Betty". It's actually quite a bit worse than that, his name ''used'' to be "Master Pain;" he then changed it to Betty.
* In ''Film/WintersBone'' the criminal, prone-to-AxCrazy-violence, meth-addicted uncle of the main character is named... "Teardrop".

* Double example: The name used by the Devil in ''Film/TheExorcist'' AND by a psychotic killer in ''Film/{{Strangeland}}''? Captain Howdy.
* The diabolical crime lord from ''Film/RoboCop1987'' has the unassuming name of Clarence. In keeping with the joke, he also looks like a balding, bespectacled accountant (the director went with this look because he wanted a villain evocative of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Heinrich Himmler]]). His banality becomes [[HilariousInHindsight even stronger to today's viewers]] who will likely recognize him as the same actor who played the cranky dad on ''Series/ThatSeventiesShow''.
* In ''Film/TalesFromMuppetlandTheFrogPrince,'' the evil witch has a very large ogre henchman named "Sweetums." Sweetums became a recurring character in other Muppet works, and gradually acquired a GentleGiant persona more in line with his name.
* Prince Nuada in ''Film/HellboyIITheGoldenArmy'' has a large cave troll with a robotic fist on a chain. He calls him Mr. Wink. He's named after Creator/SelmaBlair's one-eyed dog.

* ''Film/CatsAndDogs'' has Mr. Tinkles, the MagnificentBastard, LargeHam, ButtMonkey [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]] cat. "Evil DOES NOT wear a ''bonnet!''"
* ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': Two of Blofeld's minions who are keeping Willard Whyte prisoner in his house are named [[{{WesternAnimation/Bambi}} Bambi and Thumper]]. They prove to be a little difficult for Bond to deal with.
* 'Pumpkin'/'Ringo' from ''Film/PulpFiction'' isn't psycho enough, but his girlfriend 'Honeybunny' most definitely is.
* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'': Dr. Rotwang. It sounds like some kind of horrible disease in English, but "Rotwang" is actually German for "red cheek" or, perhaps more idiomatically, "rosy cheek".

* In ''Film/TrickRTreat'', the monstrous king of Halloween is named Sam. Presumably short for Samhain.

* The monster in ''Film/{{Cloverfield}}'' became known as... Clover. And before that, his FanNickname was Mr Grumpy Pants.
* In the Katharine Hepburn[=/=]Cary Grant screwball comedy ''Film/BringingUpBaby'', "Baby" is a fully-grown leopard. He's friendly enough, but he's still a ''leopard''.

* [[PsychoForHire Bunny]] in ''Film/{{Platoon}}'', a soldier who rapes and kills civilians during a pacification mission in a Vietnamese village.
* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail,'' there is the powerful and forbidding enchanter who grandiosely introduces himself, "There are some who call me... [[SomeCallMeTim Tim.]]"
* In ''Film/TheGoodTheBadAndTheUgly'', the "bad" is an utterly ruthless assassin named Angel Eyes.
* From ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' we have Calvin Candie, a cruel plantation owner who amuses himself by throwing slaves into GladiatorGames.
* Pixxi de la Chasse in ''Film/RepoChick.'' A small blonde woman dressed all in pink who can make grown men run in fear by whispering in their ears, point a pistol like she means it and throw a solid punch.
* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosophersStone'', the entrance to the tunnel leading to the titular stone is guarded by a giant, slobbering [[Myth/ClassicalMythology three-headed dog]] named Fluffy, which [[FluffyTamer Hagrid]] got from ''a Greek chappie''.
* The [[RaptorAttack raptors]] in ''Film/JurassicWorld'' are named Blue, Charlie, Delta, and Echo.
* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': The King of the Bandar-Log monkeys is a 12-foot tall hulking Gigantopithecus who [[TheDon talks like a mob boss]]. His name is Louie. This is a result of the film making him an AdaptationalBadass. In the original Disney version, Louie (originally an Orangutan) was not an intimidating or villainous character, and his name was actually a case of TheDanza, since he was voiced by - and clearly modeled on - jazz musician Louie Prima.
* The titular monster from ''Film/TheByeByeMan'' drives people into hallucinatory insanity that causes them to commit hideous acts of murder just by ''thinking'' of his name.
* ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'': Every alien who meets Goose treats the cat as a scary dangerous creature. [[spoiler:They're right.]]
* In ''Film/ActOfVengeance'', the police have nicknamed the serial rapist "Jingle Bells", because he makes his victims sing that song as he rapes them.
* The title character of ''Film/{{Candyman}}'' is a murderous ghost with a HookHand.
** Also from Creator/CliveBarker is ''Film/{{Hellraiser}}''. The Cenobites are extra-dimensional beings from a realm of pain and pleasure, and resemble grotesquely-mutilated people, so it's a little weird that one of them is credited as "Butterball Cenobite". Likewise, the character credited simply as "Lead Cenobite" was given the nickname "Pinhead" by the crew, for the many acupuncture-like needles piercing his face. The name stuck, and became his official title in most of the sequels.
* The PsychoForHire villain of ''Film/NoCountryForOldMen'', Anton Chigurh, has a surname that is pronounced an awful lot like "sugar", which one character actually comments on.

* In ''Film/TheUnborn'', the spirit of the unborn child terrorizing Odette Yustman's character is named Jumby.

* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndThePhilosopher'sStone,'' the entrance to the tunnel leading to the titular stone is guarded by a giant, slobbering three-headed dog named Fluffy, which Hagrid got from a Greek chappie.

* In ''Film/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets,'' the guardian of the Chamber of Secrets is a huge [[Mythology/Cerberus 3-headed dog]] that is called Fluffy.

* The diabolical crime lord from ''Film/RoboCop1987'' has the unassuming name of Clarence. In keeping with the joke, he also looks like a balding, bespectacled accountant (the director went with this look because he wanted a villain evocative of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Heinrich Himmler]]). His banality becomes [[HilariousInHindsight even stronger to today's viewers]] who will likely recognize him as the same actor who played the cranky dad on ''Series/ThatSEventiesShow''.

* The diabolical crime lord from ''Film/RoboCop1987'' has the unassuming name of Clarence. In keeping with the joke, he also looks like a balding, bespectacled accountant (the director went with this look because he wanted a villain evocative of [[ANaziByAnyOtherName Heinrich Himmler]]).
* In ''Film/TalesFromMuppetlandTheFrogPrince,'' the evil witch has a very large ogre henchman named "Sweetums."

* ''Film/{{Metropolis}}'': Dr. Rotwang. It sounds like some kind of horrible disease in English, but "Rotwang" is actually German for "red cheek".

* In ''Film/TrickRTreat'', the monstrous king of Halloween is named Sam. Short for Samhain.

* In ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail,'' there is the powerful and forbidding wizard who grandiosely introduces himself, "There are some who call me... [[SomeCallMeTim Tim.]]"

* ''Film/TheJungleBook2016'': The King of the Bandar-Log monkeys is a 12-foot tall hulking Gigantopithecus who [[TheDon talks like a mob boss]]. His name is Louie. This is a result of the film making him an AdaptationalBadass. In the source material, Louie (originally an Orangutan) was not an intimidating or villainous character, so the name was more fitting.

* In ''Film/ActOfVengeance'', the police have nicknamed the serial rapist "Jingle Bells", because he makes his victims sing that song as he rapes them.

* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the {{Snowlem|s}} bodyguard Elsa conjures in one last desperate bid to convince her sister to leave her alone is nicknamed "Marshmallow" by the happy-go-lucky snowman Olaf. At first it appears to be a one-off joke, but this persists through the credits, into all auxiliary material, all the way to his appearance as a GuestStarPartyMember in ''VideoGame/KingdomHeartsIII''.
* In ''Disney/TheGreatMouseDetective'' (remember, this is a MouseWorld), the villain Ratigan has a gigantic cat he often [[BadBoss feeds a minion that upsets him]] - called Felicia; she also has a pretty bow.

* The black horse owned by Judge Frollo in ''Disney/TheHunchbackOfNotreDame'' is actually named [[AllThereInTheManual Snowball]].

* ''Disney/LadyAndTheTrampIIScampsAdventure'' featured a large, mean, extremely vicious and brutish-looking dog who menaced Lady and Tramp's son ComicStrip/{{Scamp}} at one point named Reggie.
* Lilo's social worker in ''Disney/LiloAndStitch'' is a [[ScaryBlackMan huge black man]] (voiced by Ving Rhames in the movie, no less) who habitually dresses in formalwear and a gold earring... named Mr. Bubbles. Subverted in that his first name is Cobra.
* ''Disney/MeetTheRobinsons'':

* ''Film/DiamondsAreForever'': Two of Blofeld's minions who are keeping Willard Whyte prisoner in his house are named [[{{Disney/Bambi}} Bambi and Thumper]]. They prove to be a little difficult for Bond to deal with.

* ''Film/CaptainMarvel2019'': Every alien who meets Goose treats the cat as a scary dangerous creature. [[spoiler:They're right.]]

* ''Film/CatsAndDogs'' has Mr. Tinkles, the MagnificentBastard ButtMonkey [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]] cat (and [[EvilIsHammy hammy]] to boot). "Evil DOES NOT wear a ''bonnet!''"

* ''Film/CatsAndDogs'' has Mr. Tinkles, the MagnificentBastard ButtMonkey [[Film/JamesBond Blofeld]] cat. "Evil DOES NOT wear a ''bonnet!''"

* In ''Disney/{{Frozen}}'', the {{Snowlem|s}} bodyguard Elsa conjures in one last desperate bid to convince her sister to leave her alone is nicknamed "Marshmallow" by the happy-go-lucky snowman Olaf.

** The Bowler Hat Guy's HypercompetentSidekick and partner in crime is a robotic bowler hat named Doris. [[spoiler: She turns out to be [[TheDogWasTheMastermind the real mastermind]], taking over in the BadFuture Bowler Hat Guy unwittingly helped her create.]]

--->I've got a big head, and little arms: I'm just not sure how well this plan was thought through... Master?

* The titular monster from ''Film/TheByeByeMan'' drives people into hallucinatory insanity that causes them to commit hideous acts of murder just by ''thinking'' of his name.

* From ''Film/DjangoUnchained'' we have Calvin Candie, a plantation owner who amuses himself by throwing slaves into [[DuelToTheDeath duels to the death]].