History Main / FluffyTheTerrible

* In Basque mythology, the almighty snake-god of [[ShockAndAwe lightning]] is called...''Sugar''. It's more a case of InMyLanguageThatSoundsLike though, since this will only sounds funny to English speakers.

** [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer]]. She's a tiny blonde who routinely breaks necks, chops off heads, ''[[GroinAttack slices priest's goods off]]'', and does other things most men named Jed or Dirk would shudder at.
*** Lampshaded when Wishverse Vampire Xander says "Someone has to talk to her people. That name is striking fear in nobody's hearts."
*** Even her allies can't quite believe it:

* Dally Rumpe, the BigBad of ''TheWitchesOfBailiwick''. A powerful, cackling. usurping sorcerer. Named ''[[FailOSuckyname Dally Rumpe]]''.

* In a somewhat meta example, animal handlers, wranglers and trainers often give innocuous-sounding names to potentially dangerous or frightening animals such as snakes, bears and spiders to make actors feel more at ease when dealing with them and to reinforce the controlled nature of such animal action. A spider wrangler who worked on ''{{Arachnophobia}}'' says that he would call a spider who had to crawl across an actor "Fred" to disarm the actor.

* "[[EmperorCaligula Caligula]]" roughly translates to "little boots." His real name was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.

* "[[EmperorCaligula Caligula]] roughly translates to "little boots." His real name was Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus.

* [[Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer Buffy Summers, the Vampire Slayer]]. She's a tiny blonde who routinely breaks necks, chops off heads, ''[[GroinAttack slices priest's goods off]]'', and does other things most men named Jed or Dirk would shudder at.
** Lampshaded when Wishverse Vampire Xander says "Someone has to talk to her people. That name is striking fear in nobody's hearts."

* DragonCave: one dragon species in particular was designed for this. Its release went like this; people picked up eggs with the sweet, unassuming description "This egg is bright. And pink." The hatchlings were sweet, adorable, stood on one leg (and yes, were pink). Alphabetical sort revealed that they began with the letter "f", and everyone was squeeing over the adorable little Flamingo Wyverns. Then they grew up into ferocious, deadly looking (but still pink) monsters that were incredibly violent and territorial.

* ''FarCry3'' has Jason Brody, a pirate-killing badass, who is known on the island as ''Snow White''.

* During WorldWarTwo the Germans planned to build a 188-ton superheavy tank called the Mouse. And designed a 1000-ton monster called the Rat.
* The German sense of humour also gave a self-propelled 150mm (6") gun the name ''Hummel'' - the Bumblebee. Its smaller 105mm cousin was called the ''Wespe'' - Wasp. To complete the family, the version mounting a deadly 88mm anti-tank gun was called the ''Hornisse'' - the Hornet. All were capable of delivering more than just a sting.

* ''In {{Temeraire}}'' most dragons are given impressive Latin names. However, Captain Harcourt's egg hatched unexpectedly early, so she had nothing prepared...leading to her dubbing her huge, veracious, acid-spitting dragon Lily. It actually fits her personality.

* Any of the monstrous Summoned Beasts and Demons that hang out around FluffyTamer Keelyn in ''FallFromHeaven''. This includes a vicious Imp she named 'Puppy', and a towering, sulphur-smelling, horned Balorg called 'Giggles'.

* ''MutantChronicles'': The Prophet of the Great Darkness, the Harbinger of Doom, the only individual respected by all followers of the Dark is named... Billy.

* [[SchindlersList Amon Goeth]]'s nickname had been "Mony".

* Another example from the war in 'Nam. The AC-47 was a fixed-wing gunship created by slapping [[MoreDakka a ton of miniguns]] to a WW2-era C-47 Skytrain. The U.S Air Force called it [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast "Spooky"]]. The troops who received it's [[GunshipRescue air support]] took to calling it "Puff, the Magic Dragon" after the famous children's song.

* Dangerous drugs often have innocent-sounding nicknames. "Angel dust" means PCP (a RealLife PsychoSerum). "Whippers" and "poppets" mean inhalants (noxious, deadly chemicals that people foolishly inhale to get high). Perhaps most famously of all, "roofies" means Rohypnol (a drug slipped into food to sedate people, usually for the purpose of sexually assaulting them).

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* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Pac-Man and The Ghostly Adventures}}'' as a possible ShoutOut to HarryPotter, there is a three-headed poodle named Fluffy. Normally, it looks cutesy but it turns darker and puts on a NightmareFace when it wants to be threatening.

* In ''Literature/LifeOfPi'', due to a mix-up at its arrival, the [[PantheraAwesome Bengal tiger]] earned the name "Richard Parker", the name of the hunter who actually caught him. The hunter's name on the application was listed as "Thirsty (the intended name of the tiger) Non-Given".