History NamesToRunAwayFrom / Conquerors

* In ''Literature/CodexAlera'', the entire House of Gaius, adopted (Isana and Aquitainius Attis) and particularly by blood (all those by blood are automatically a PersonofMassDestruction). Particular examples Gaius Sextus [[spoiler: who set the benchmark for HeroicSacrifice and an incredibly BadassGrandpa]], Gaius Septimus, one of the greatest swordsmen ever to live and almost as powerful as his father without inheriting his furies, and Gaius Octavian (later known as Gaius Tavarus Magnus, i.e. Lord Wolverine the Great) who [[spoiler: is the main character, grew up without furies]] and combines the raw power of the House of Gaius with a mind that looks at everything sideways.

* Coach Genghis, one of Count Olaf's [[PaperThinDisguise Paper Thin Disguises]] in "literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents"

* Coach Genghis, one of Count Olaf's [[PaperThinDisguise Paper Thin Disguises]] in ''literature/ASeriesOfUnfortunateEvents''

* Gilgamesh of ''Franchise/FinalFantasy''. His badassery might vary from game to game, but try telling that to [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIII Seifer]].

* Khan from ''{{Magicka}}'' was named just so they could use the [[Film/StarTrekIITheWrathOfKhan KHAAAAAN!!!!]] joke.

* The villain of the 2009 ''[[Film/StarTrek2009 Star Trek]]'' feature film is called Captain Nero.

* [[ComicBook/{{Watchmen}} Adrian]] "[[spoiler:[[CrowningMomentOfAwesome thirty five minutes ago]]]]" Veidt.

* The villain of the 2009 ''Film/StarTrek'' feature film is called Captain Nero.

* Radio/AlexJones likes to present himself as a fearless and fearsome threat to the shadowy elites who secretly control the world. Whether or not you agree with him on that one, you can't deny that his general demeanour (GutturalGrowler, NoIndoorVoice, ChewingTheScenery, etc.) can be rather intimidating or at least disconcerting.

* Marvel's Bill Foster with alias like the Black Goliath, the fourth Goliath, and the second Giant-Man is definately someone to run away from really fast.

* Caesar is an evolved chimpanzee and the main protagonist of ''Film/{{Rise of the Planet of the Apes}}'' and ''{{Film/Dawn of the Planet of the Apes}}''. Caesar goes on to lead an Ape Rebellion before going on to rule as a king/leader over the newly formed Ape Colony.

But only if they never abbreviate it to "Alex"[[note]][[Literature/AClockworkOrange Well,]] [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist usually...]][[/note]]... or for that matter "Xander"...or worst of all, [[GenderBlenderName "Sandy"]].[[note]]Though after 2012, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy "Sandy"]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting may]] count now...[[/note]] Named after UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, the Macedonian king who conquered Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Persia. And was starting on India. Bonus points for the somewhat more obscure Iskandar, which was the name the Persians knew him by; see the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskandar Other Wiki.]] Somewhat amusingly, the original Greek "Alexandros" means "''defender'' of men".

[[folder:Cyrus]]
The name's fame comes from UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. However, this name has become less popular (both for real people and fictional characters) after it became associated with Music/{{Billy Ray|Cyrus}} and his daughter Music/{{Miley|Cyrus}}.

* ''[[http://knowyourmeme.com/memes/you-see-ivan You See Ivan]]'', a meme about Russian soldiers & video game characters playing around with weapons or [[ArtisticLicenseGunSafety mishandling them]], which originated from a bug in ''[[VideoGame/{{Stalker}} S.T.A.L.K.E.R]]'' which causes a pistol to be handled like a rifle in third-person view or vice-versa.

* Inverted with [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Mazepa Ivan Mazepa]], an Ukrainian Cossack leader who rebels against the Russian Empire, now considered a national hero of Ukraine.
* [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivan_Kozhedub Ivan Kozhedub]], the best-scoring Allied pilot ace in WWII, also fights in Korean War despite official prohibition.

* Another Genghis Cohen, from ''Literature/TheCryingOfLot49'', is a subversion. By all accounts, he's little more than a harmless [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philately philatelist]].

But only if they never abbreviate it to "Alex"[[note]][[Literature/AClockworkOrange Well,]] [[Manga/FullmetalAlchemist usually...]][[/note]]... or for that matter "Xander"...or worst of all, [[GenderBlenderName "Sandy"]].[[note]]Though after 2012, [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hurricane_Sandy "Sandy"]] [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hook_Elementary_School_shooting may]] count now...[[/note]] Named after UsefulNotes/AlexanderTheGreat, the Macedonian king who conquered Greece, Asia Minor, Egypt, and Persia. And was starting on India. Bonus points for the somewhat more obscure Iskandar, which was the name the Persians knew him by; see the [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iskandar Other Wiki]]. Somewhat amusingly, the original Greek "Alexandros" means "''defender'' of men".

* William Ewart Gladstone from the Bartimaeus trilogy "was a very powerful nineteenth century British magician, who rose to become a Prime Minister. He led the Grand Army of the Empire on conquests that decimated countries and made them a part of the British empire" - [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Characters_of_the_Bartimaeus_trilogy#William_Gladstone The Other Wiki]]

* [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] villain IBAC, who gains his initials and villainy from Ivan, Borgia, Attila and Caligula.

* Billy Batson, a/k/a [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]]

* [[{{Shazam}} Captain Marvel]] villain IBAC, who gains his initials and villainy from Ivan, Borgia, Attila and Caligula.

The name's fame comes from UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. However, this name has become less popular (both for real people and fictional characters) after Music/{{Billy Ray|Cyrus}} and his daughter Music/{{Miley|Cyrus}} somewhat ruined its intimidation value.

The name's fame comes from UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. However, this name has become less popular (both for real people and fictional characters) after Music/{{Billy Ray|Cyrus}} and his daughter Music/{{Miley|Cyrus}} ruined it for everyone.

The name's fame comes from UsefulNotes/CyrusTheGreat, founder of the Achaemenid Persian Empire. However, this name has become less popular (both for real people and fictional characters) after [[Music/MileyCyrus a certain teenage pop star]] (not to mention her father) ruined it for everyone.

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UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler and UsefulNotes/JosefStalin, while both notorious tyrants and imperialists, are remembered more for their systematic mass murders than their empire-building, so they're listed under [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/NotoriousKillers Names To Run Away From: Notorious Killers]] instead.

UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler, while a notorious tyrant and imperialist, is remembered more for his systematic mass murders than his empire-building, so he's listed on [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/NotoriousKillers Names To Run Away From: Notorious Killers]] instead.

[[folder:Stalin]]
After the infamous Soviet dictator UsefulNotes/JosefStalin. Fun fact: Stalin is itself already a Name To Run Away From Really Fast, as it is an almost direct translation into Russian of Stalin's original Georgian surname, Dzhugashvili. It means "Man of Steel".

* Fran Stalinoskovichdavidovichski in ''Film/DodgeballATrueUnderdogStory'' who can knock out and possibly kill a man with one throw of a dodgeball.

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* The Katyusha multiple rocket launcher was nicknamed "Stalin's organ" by the Germans in UsefulNotes/WorldWarII partly because the missile racks resembled a church organ, but also because of the terrible howling noise and destruction they caused.
* Giant hogweed, also known as "Stalin's revenge," grows as fast as [[AlienKudzu kudzu]], and its sap is a potent, insidious, slow-acting poison causing burns like mustard gas! It can kill kids who don't know better and tamper with it. It's also fifteen feet tall and grows in massive growths of hazardous shrubbery, like some toxic alien jungle. You have to wear a hazmat suit if you want to clear a patch of this plant monster. Fun fact: it's also related to poison hemlock, also known as "that plant they used to kill Creator/{{Socrates}}."
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[[folder:Tarquin]]
The name of two of Rome's pre-Republic Etruscan kings, but especially associated with Tarquin the Proud (Tarquinius Superbus), Rome's final king and a reputed tyrant, as well as his son, Sextus Tarquinus, known as a rapist.

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But only if they never abbreviate it to "Gus" (unless one has seen ''BreakingBad''), or, worse yet, [[Literature/JeevesAndWooster "Gussie"]]. Or, for that matter, "Auggie", but that's pretty uncommon. Named after Gaius Octavius UsefulNotes/{{Augustus}}, nephew of Julius Caesar and first emperor of Rome (generally remembered by history as one of the few good emperors... as long as you didn't happen to stand in his way, of course).

* Not a character, but the [[Recap/BreakingBadS5E14Ozymandias third-to-last episode]] of ''BreakingBad'', widely considered the best episode of that series, if not television history.

* William Briden a character in Creator/HPLovecraft's work, who actually survives his first encounter with Cthulhu and escapes from R'lyeh, although having seen an EldritchAbomination and having [[GoMadFromTheRevelation Gone Mad From The Revelation]] he isn't exactly able to survive for the several weeks his ship spends at sea awaiting rescue.

* Fran Stalinoskovichdavidovichski in ''{{Dodgeball}}'' who can knock out and possibly kill a man with one throw of a dodgeball.

* "Alexander Theatre/{{Hamilton}}. My name is Alexander Hamilton. And there's a million things I haven't done, but just you wait..."