History Main / MillitaryRankSuperheroVillainNames

* Sergeant Stomp from ''The Intimates''

* Captain Metropolis from ''Watchmen''.

* Major Force, archvillain of CaptainAtom and perpetrator of the original StuffedInTheFridge moment.

* In Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Wrestling/HughMorrus went by "General Hugh G. Rection" for a while when he led the Misfits In Action (MIA). His cohorts were "Major Gunns", "Private Stash" (Van Hammer), "Lt. Loco" (Chavo Guerrero), "Corporal Cajun" (Lash LeRoux) and Sgt. A-WOL (The Wall).

* Heck, ThisVeryWiki has CaptainGeographic, CaptainPatriotic, [[CaptainEthnic CaptainEthni]]---you get the idea.

* In Wrestling/{{WCW}}, Hugh Morrus went by "General Hugh G. Rection" for a while when he led the Misfits In Action (MIA). His cohorts were "Major Gunns", "Private Stash" (Van Hammer), "Lt. Loco" (Chavo Guerrero), "Corporal Cajun" (Lash LeRoux) and Sgt. A-WOL (The Wall).

* Pro wrestling managers WrestlingGeneralSkandorAkbar and General Adnan.

* Sgt. Slaughter

* In {{WCW}}, Hugh Morrus went by "General Hugh G. Rection" for a while when he led the Misfits In Action (MIA). His cohorts were "Major Gunns", "Private Stash" (Van Hammer), "Lt. Loco" (Chavo Guerrero), "Corporal Cajun" (Lash LeRoux) and Sgt. A-WOL (The Wall).
* Pro wrestling managers General Skandor Akbar and General Adnan.

* In {{WCW}}, Hugh Morrus went by "General Hugh G. Rection" for a while, and had as some of his cohorts "Major Gunns" and "Private Stash".

* VideoGame/CommanderKeen.

* Speaking of Batman, early issues of Detective Comics featured a back-up about Colonel Blimp.

* The General, a minor ''Comicbook/{{Batman}}'' villain obsessed with military history and strategy. For the record, he's a very young man who even went by "Li'l General" in his early appearances.

SuperTrope of TheGoodCaptain. Related to ColonelBadass.

* Commander Steel of the ''{{All-Star Squadron}}''. Two of his grandchildren tried to keep his legacy going, but out of respect to the fact that he really was a commander in the Marine Corps they went by Steel and Citizen Steel, respectively - averting and ''in''verting the trope.

* General Jumbo and his ''ComicBook/JackStaff'' Captain Ersatz General Tubbs. Jack Staff and Captain Cold are sharing a good laugh right about now.

* Sergeant Superior, one of the Actioneers from ''The Astounding Wolf-Man''.

* Commander Steel of the ''{{All- Star Squadron}}''. Two of his grandchildren tried to keep his legacy going, but out of respect to the fact that he really was a commander in the Marine Corps they went by Steel and Citizen Steel, respectively - averting and ''in''verting the trope.

* Sgt. Marvel of ''Savage Dragon''

* Lt. Surge of ''{{Pokemon}}''.

* Commander Steel of the ''All Star Squadron''. Two of his grandchildren tried to keep his legacy going, but out of respect to the fact that he really was a commander in the Marine Corps they went by Steel and Citizen Steel, respectively - averting and ''in''verting the trope.

* Major Glory from ''DextersLaboratory''

* Major Battle, a member of the Brute Force from ''SavageDragon''

* [[StreetFighter General M. Bison]]

* The General, a minor ''{{Batman}}'' villain obsessed with military history and strategy. For the record, he's a very young man who even went by "Li'l General" in his early appearances.

* Classic ''DoomPatrol'' foe General Immortus

* General Disarray from ''SouthPark''.

* Major Glory from ''[=~Dexter's Laboratory~=]''

* Major Havoc, a teammate of {{Empowered}}'s on the Superhomies.

* CommanderKeen.

* ''Commander Keen''.

Basically, the tendency of heroes and villains to have names that start with Captain, Major, General, Sergeant, etc., especially when it's doubtful that the character even has that millitary rank. Or has even been in the millitary.

[[AC: Lieutenants]]
* Lt. Surge of ''{{Pokemon}}''.
* Lieutenant Liberty, one of the superheroes fantasized about by ''Insane Jane''
* In the MarvelUniverse, the NYPD's Code: BLUE is called in to deal with superhuman threats, and can thus be considered superheroes in their own right. Their leader is Lt. Stone

[[AC: Commanders]]
* Commander Steel of the ''All Star Squadron''. Two of his grandchildren tried to keep his legacy going, but out of respect to the fact that he really was a commander in the Marine Corps they went by Steel and Citizen Steel, respectively - averting and ''in''verting the trope.
* Commander Kraken, though as leader of a band of pirates he'd technically be a Captain.
* Commander Capitalism, a prominent member of Capes, Inc.
* Minor ''{{Wolverine}}'' foe Commander Courage is not only a supervillain, not only a real Lieutenant-Commander in the Belgian army, but his real name is Guillaume Courage.
* As if to mock us, Captain Cold shows up here ''again'' with a 25th Century LegacyCharacter known as Commander Cold - and another one in the ''853rd'' century!
* Commander Power from ''CommonGrounds''
* ''Commander Keen''.

Basically, the tendency of heroes and villains to have names that start with Captain, Major, General, Sargeant, etc., especially when it's doubtful that the character even has that millitary rank. Or has even been in the millitary.

* Sgt. States, ''Jack Staff'''s CaptainErsatz version of Captain America

* Kapitan Krieg, ''Jack Staff'''s greatest enemy

* General Jumbo and his ''JackStaff'' counterpart General Tubbs. Jack Staff and Captain Cold are sharing a good laugh right about now.

* Private HIVE from ''TeenTitans''

* Commander Steel of the ''AllStarSquadron''. Two of his grandchildren tried to keep his legacy going, but out of respect to the fact that he really was a commander in the Marine Corps they went by Steel and Citizen Steel, respectively - averting and ''in''verting the trope.

* General Jumbo and his ''JackStaff'' counterpart General Tubbs

* See TheGoodCaptain for countless heroic examples

* Captain Cold
* In Dragonball Z, Captaing Ginyuu holds a quick job interview to find replacements for the lost members of his Quirky Miniboss Squad. One of the candidates tries to invoke this trope but accidentally "outranks" the captain and gets punted over the horizon for his insolence.

* Major Glory

* Colonel America in the Marvel Zombies Alternate Continuity.

* In WCW Hugh Morrus went by "General Hugh G. Rection" for a while, and had as some of his cohorts "Major Gunns" and "Private Stash."
* They've called the cruel Russian environment "General Winter" and then some. Thus because the winter has kept invaders away with frightening success.
* [[StreetFighter General M. Bison]]