History Main / NamesToRunawayFromReallyFast

* ''Franchise/StarWars'': The head of the Separatists' military forces is called General Grievous. "Grievous" is an adjective that means to cause a great amount of pain or suffering, somewhat fitting for the slaughterer of millions.

* Oda Nobunaga obtained the sobriquet [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/DemonKingNobunaga “Demon King of the Sixth Heaven”.]] Works featuring him will sometimes make him a literal demon or other supernatural being.

* ''Series/WalkerTexasRanger'' The show's villains have plenty of these to go around.

* ''Fanfic/AFrozenFlower'': The word "''lambero''" is Latin for "disrupt, tear or sliver", which is quite a fitting meaning for the name of [[PersonOfMassDestruction people of mass destruction]] that can cause natural disasters and blow up planets and suns from the time they're born from a CrackInTheSky to the time they die.

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': The player character known as ''The Dark Urge'' suffers from uncontrollable murderous impulses. And you can, as The Dark Urge, introduce yourself to people as that too.

%%* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': ''The Dark Urge''. And your character will introduce themselves to people as that too. %% Zero Context Example

* When professional wrestlers aren't using their real name, they often have names like this. You'd want to run away too if you heard you were fighting people called Wrestling/HulkHogan, Wrestling/AndreTheGiant, Fray Tormenta ("Friar Tempest"), or Wrestling/TheUndertaker. This is more common with {{heel}} wrestlers, of course (and keep in mind that Hogan did start as one, which is why he's named after [[ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk a giant, destructive monster]]).

* ''Fanfic/ShadowsOverMeridian'': The [[SuperPersitentPredator Frostbiter]], the fierce apex predator of Meridian's northern mountains, is [[OneManArmy strong enough to crush a squad of fully armed soldiers]] and known by the Mogriffs as "the White Death".

* ''VideoGame/BaldursGateIII'': ''The Dark Urge''. And your character will introduce themselves to people as that too.

* An interesting in-universe example in ''[[Literature/TheBelgariad The Mallorean]]'': when Belgarath tells the Ulgrim (the leader of the Ulgo people) that they're looking for someone named Zandramas, the Ulgrim is shocked. Turns out "Zandramas" is the worst profanity in the Ulgo tongue (with an approximate meaning of "FUBAR"). When Belgarath notes he didn't think Ulgos even knew ''how'' to swear, the Ulgrim points out that none of them are going to say that word to ''him''.

* ''Literature/MissEllicottsSchoolForTheMagicallyMinded'': Franklin, the Marauder boy that Chantel, Anna, and Bowser meet outside Seven Buttons is apparently on the run from a Marauder known as "Karl the Bloody".

* ''Literature/CradleSeries'': The Akura clan names its main family after virtues. However, since Cradle is an AsskickingLeadsToLeadership DeathWorld, many of their virtues are things like Fury (a BoisterousBruiser WarGod known for [[PersonOfMassDestruction personally destroying cities]]) and their matriarch, '''Malice'''.
-->Malice's smirk widened into a smile. "Sometimes I wonder if you know me at all, Sesh. Your people destroyed the Rising Earth sect and tried to destroy two more of my teams." Northstrider sensed something in the great distance. The dragon and the lion looked up at the same time. "[[BestServedCold Did you think that I would let that go?]]" Malice continued. "Did you think I couldn't reach you?" Her smile widened further into a fierce, maniacal grin. "''[[MeaningfulName Did you forget my name]]?''"

* ''Literature/TheYellowBag'' has Terrível ("Terrible"), a name fitting for his status as a cockfighting rooster.

* Dr. Malcolm Betruger, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Doom 3}}'', has the double-whammy of having both a "Mal" name (which means "bad" in Latin) and a last name that means "swindler" in German and which sounds a lot like "betrayer". He's a demon cultist who is not only responsible for the demon invasion in this continuity, but plans to [[HellOnEarth bring Hell to Earth]].

* Dr. Malcolm Betruger, the BigBad of ''VideoGame/{{Doom 3}}'', has the double-whammy of having both a "Mal" name (which means "bad" in Latin) and a last name that means "swindler" in German and which sounds a lot like "betrayer". He's a demon cultist who is responsible for the demon invasion in this continuity, but plans to [[HellOnEarth bring Hell to Earth]].

* The Vandal tribe, who famously sacked Rome and plundered the Mediterranean, was so destructive that their name retroactively became the byword for "the destruction of what is beautiful".

* The Vandal tribe, who famously sacked Rome and plundered the Mediterranean, was the origin of the word "vandal". That's right, there was a barbarian tribe so destructive that their name became the byword for "property destruction".