History NamesToRunAwayFrom / Adjectives

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* ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'': Lord Victor Nefarius AKA Nefarian the Black Dragon.

* Sinestra, [[TheDragon Deathwing's]] mate from ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''.

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* The Vile Tribe, the antagonist race from the ''Franchise/{{Lunar}}'' series, is widely feared by the "good" races as AlwaysChaoticEvil, but their situation is more complicated than it first appears.

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* ''Disney/OneHundredAndOneDalmatians'': Cruella de Vil. Triple whammy, because you have "cruel", "evil", and "devil" in her name, if you ignore the word breaks.

* Grimhilde, better known as the Evil Queen from Disney's ''Disney/SnowWhiteAndTheSevenDwarfs''.

* Honest John from ''Disney/{{Pinocchio}}''

* Maleficent, the wicked fairy in Disney's ''Disney/SleepingBeauty''. In the LiveActionAdaptation ''Film/{{Maleficent}}'' it is her birth name, leading to DeathbringerTheAdorable moments with an innocent fairy child bearing an obvious villain name.

* Greedo from ''Franchise/StarWars'' -- who is a bounty hunter, but does not [[TheDogShotFirst shoot first]].

* The [[ArtifactOfDoom Book of Darkness]] from ''Anime/MagicalGirlLyricalNanohaAs''. [[spoiler:Then again, its real name is the far mor benign "Book of the Night Sky".]]

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|AndThePlaneteers}}'' foe and serial polluter, Hoggish Greedly.

* The titular SerialKiller in ''Film/{{Evilenko}}''.

* A common misconception surrounding ''Franchise/StarWars'' is that Darth is Dutch or German for dark, when neither of these statements are accurate. Dark would be ''donker'' and ''dunkel'', respectively. [[ItWasHisSled Vader, on the other hand ''is'' Dutch for father]], though it is pronounced differently in Dutch.

* Darken Rahl from ''Literature/SwordOfTruth''.

* Dick Dastardly from ''WesternAnimation/WackyRaces''.

* There's a group of devils in the fifth ditch of the Eighth Circle named the Malebranche, which means "Evil Claws" according to the [[https://www.amazon.com/Dante-Encyclopedia-Richard-Lansing/dp/0415876117 The Dante Encyclopedia]]. Each of them has a name to reflect their sadistic nature, with their leader going by Malacoda ("evil tail") as he hunts for politicians to hook and flay.

* Aku (Japanese for Evil) from ''WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack''.

* Greedo from ''Franchise/StarWars'' -- who did not [[TheDogShotFirst shoot first]].

* ''WesternAnimation/{{Captain Planet|AndThePlaneteers}}'' foe, Hoggish Greedly.

* Mr Benjamin Grimm, otherwise known as The Thing of the ''ComicBook/FantasticFour''.

** ''Garfield'' had one manned by some "Honest Ed".

* Creator/ColmMeaney, an Irish actor who is actually by many accounts a pretty nice guy. Doesn't help that outside of Star Trek fandoms he's mostly known for playing villains or at the very least hard-assed AntiHero types.

** While he may act sophisticated much of the time, he ''is'' a cave man, and has engaged in thousands if not millions of acts of murder, torture and cannibalism in his incredibly long life.

* Subverted with Professor Sinistra, Astronomy teacher at Hogwarts in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series, who is actually a good soul, if an inveterate alarmist.

* The Lestranges in the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' series.

* V.I.L.E, the evil organization in the original ''Series/WhereInTheWorldIsCarmenSandiego'' games. (It's also FunWithAcronyms and one of the ''more'' sensible examples, as it stands for Villains' International League of Evil.)

* Several Stand names from ''[[Manga/JojosBizarreAdventure Jojo's Bizarre Adventure]]'' fit in this category, like Killer Queen, Bad Company, Cheap Trick, Scary Monsters...
* Subtly, several names translate to disabilities, though that's not always bad. On the good side, Cecile from ''Anime/CodeGeass'' ("Blind"). On the bad side, Claudia from ''Literature/TheVampireChronicles'' ("Lame"). "Cecile" comes from "caecus", which means "blind" in Latin. In olden times it implied powers of prophesy as well, since many famous seers (Tiresias for example) were blind.

* Idlebury from ''Be Careful what you wish for'' by Stef. Its citizens are constantly idle (i. e. lazy).

* Bruised Man's Curve, the dangerous mountain board course from ''WesternAnimation/RocketPower''.

* Atropa Belladonna, better known as Deadly Nightshade. When the name of a poisonous plant actually contains the word "Deadly", it's probably sign that you should ''stay the hell away''!

* Darkstripe from ''Literature/WarriorCats'' is the BigBad's [[TheDragon Dragon]]. Darktail is also a villain in the sixth series, ''A Vision of Shadows''.

* ''FanFic/SlyWitsParadise'': Awe the dragon. It is mentioned that even the dragons among other races fear him above all else.

* The ''Videogame/{{Darius}}'' series has a FinalBoss named Violent Ruler, with an even tougher variant named Savage Ruler.

* Evil Crash in the ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'' series.

* ''Franchise/CrashBandicoot'': Dr. Nefarious Tropy. Bonus points for having a sinister name even when it's shortened ([[PunnyName N. Tropy = entropy]]). And he sounds like Creator/PeterLorre.

* Miss Heinous from ''WesternAnimation/StarVsTheForcesOfEvil''.

* Sinestro from ''Franchise/GreenLantern''. It should be noted that he's left(sinister)-handed. It's not clear how his home planet's naming works.