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* Marketing materials refer to ''ComicBook/Spiderboy'' as the "Arachnid Kid", though Bailey doesn't particularly like being called "Spider-Kid" in-story. He's also called the "Webless Wonder" for being the only spider hero on Earth-616 to go without webbing of any kind.

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* Marketing materials refer to ''ComicBook/Spiderboy'' ''ComicBook/SpiderBoy'' as the "Arachnid Kid", though Bailey doesn't particularly like being called "Spider-Kid" in-story. He's also called the "Webless Wonder" for being the only spider hero on Earth-616 to go without webbing of any kind.
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* Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Dark Knight, the Caped Crusader, the Cowled Crimefighter, the World's Greatest Detective, the Bat of Gotham/Gotham's Bat, the Dark Avenger, the Dark Night Detective, the Guardian of Gotham, and, familiarly, Bats. Also called the Gotham Goliath in some late [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and early [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] stories, plus the Masked Manhunter in some [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] stories. Following the death of Creator/AdamWest, the [[Series/Batman1966 '60s television Batman]] was dubbed The Bright Knight.

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* Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Dark Knight, the Caped Crusader, the Cowled Crimefighter, the World's Greatest Detective, the Bat of Gotham/Gotham's Bat, the Dark Avenger, the Dark Night Detective, the Guardian of Gotham, and, familiarly, Bats. Also called the Gotham Goliath in some late [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and early [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] stories, plus the Masked Manhunter in some [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks [[MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] stories. Following the death of Creator/AdamWest, the [[Series/Batman1966 '60s television Batman]] was dubbed The Bright Knight.



* ComicBook/{{Superman}}: The Man of Steel, the Man of Tomorrow, the Last Son of Krypton, the Metropolis Kid, the Big Blue Boy Scout, Big Blue, the Big Red S and, again familiarly, Supes. Other nicknames seen in UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks and UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks were the Metropolis Marvel and the Action Ace.

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* ComicBook/{{Superman}}: The Man of Steel, the Man of Tomorrow, the Last Son of Krypton, the Metropolis Kid, the Big Blue Boy Scout, Big Blue, the Big Red S and, again familiarly, Supes. Other nicknames seen in UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks MediaNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks and UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks MediaNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks were the Metropolis Marvel and the Action Ace.
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* {{ComicBook/Brainiac}}, The Collector of Worlds.

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* {{ComicBook/Brainiac}}, The the Collector of Worlds.Worlds, the Terror of Kandor, the [[SuperIntelligence Twelfth-Level Intellect]].
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* Marketing materials refer to ''ComicBook/Spiderboy'' as the "Arachnid Kid", though Bailey doesn't particularly like being called "Spider-Kid" in-story. He's also called the "Webless Wonder" for being the only spider hero on Earth-616 to go without webbing of any kind.
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* [[Franchise/SpiderMan Mysterio]], MasterOfIllusion.

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* [[Franchise/SpiderMan Mysterio]], ComicBook/{{Mysterio}}, MasterOfIllusion.
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** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda The Hero of Hyrule]]

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** [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZelda [[VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaI The Hero of Hyrule]]
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* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}: King of the Seven Seas, Monarch of the Oceans, Marine Marvel, Aquatic Aristocrat, the Sea King, Sovereign of the Seven Seas.

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* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}: King of the Seven Seas, Monarch of the Oceans, Marine Marvel, Marine Monarch, Sea Sleuth, Aquatic Aristocrat, the Sea King, Sovereign of the Seven Seas.



* Franchise/WonderWoman: The Spirit of Truth, the Amazing Amazon.

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* Franchise/WonderWoman: The Spirit of Truth, the Amazing Amazon.Amazon, the Undaunted, the Bane of Ares, Lady of Justice.
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* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}: King of the Seven Seas, Monarch of the Oceans, Marine Marvel, Aquatic Aristocrat, the Sea King.

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* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}: King of the Seven Seas, Monarch of the Oceans, Marine Marvel, Aquatic Aristocrat, the Sea King.King, Sovereign of the Seven Seas.
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* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}: King of the Seven Seas, Monarch of the Oceans, the Sea King.

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* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}}: King of the Seven Seas, Monarch of the Oceans, Marine Marvel, Aquatic Aristocrat, the Sea King.
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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''LightNovel/FateZero'': Saber ([[spoiler:Arthuria, or:King Arthur]]) is King[[note]]Not Queen[[/note]] of Knights, Rider (Alexander) is King of Conquerors, while Archer (Gilgamesh) is King of Heroes.

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* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'' and ''LightNovel/FateZero'': ''Literature/FateZero'': Saber ([[spoiler:Arthuria, or:King Arthur]]) is King[[note]]Not Queen[[/note]] of Knights, Rider (Alexander) is King of Conquerors, while Archer (Gilgamesh) is King of Heroes.



* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': Lina Inverse, Queen of Destruction, Enemy of All Living Things, Dragon Spooker, and Bandit Killer. (She's a [[DesignatedHero good]] [[AntiHero guy]], but she has a poor reputation).
* In a similar vein, 3WA's "Lovely Angels" duo are better known, due to their reputations, as the LightNovel/DirtyPair.

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* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': ''Literature/{{Slayers}}'': Lina Inverse, Queen of Destruction, Enemy of All Living Things, Dragon Spooker, and Bandit Killer. (She's a [[DesignatedHero good]] [[AntiHero guy]], but she has a poor reputation).
* In a similar vein, 3WA's "Lovely Angels" duo are better known, due to their reputations, as the LightNovel/DirtyPair.Literature/DirtyPair.
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* In the Japanese half of Franchise/TheTransformers franchise, Megatron and his successors are traditionally known as "The Emperor of Destruction". Over time, the [[RuleOfCool absurd coolness]] of this title lead to it showing up in the western half of the franchise as well.
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* ComicBook/GhostRider: The Hellbound Hero, The Hellborn Biker, The Hellspawned Hero

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* ComicBook/GhostRider: Spirit of Vengeance, The Hellbound Hero, The Hellborn Biker, The Hellspawned Hero
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Compare with BurlyDetectiveSyndrome, as many of these sobriquets derived from breathless narrative captions that didn't want to keep repeating the hero's name.
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* Also from Moore, his run on ''ComicBook/{{Supreme}}'' had Supreme be called a variety of [[AlliterativeName alliterative]] sobriquets.
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* Herbie, Film/TheLoveBug.

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* %%* Herbie, Film/TheLoveBug.
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* In ''VideoGame/HollowKnight'', the player character, who is never given a proper name in the game itself, is addressed as "Ghost of Hallownest" in one cutscene.

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