History NamesToRunAwayFrom / KNames

** The 'K' sound also shows up with most of the good guys: Kirk, Spock, McCoy, Scotty, Chekov...

* Prince Zuko from ''AvatarTheLastAirbender'', and almost everyone from the Water Tribes.

* Prince Zuko from "Avatar: The Last Airbender"

* Admitted by the creators of the ''{{Highlander}}'' franchise, and so common they even have a name - 'Kimmies': The Kurgan, General Katana (doubles up with a weapon name, for even greater badassery. Too bad the movie is [[SoBadItsHorrible commonly referred to as the worst movie ever made]]), Kane, Kronos, etc.

* Kang the Conqueror, a major ''{{Avengers}}'' villain. Note that 'Kang' is an alias; his birth name is the disappointingly normal Nathaniel Richards.

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* The biggest Urgals from the ''InheritanceCycle'' are called Kull.

* american liberal writer/editor Russ Kick.

** Oroku Saki (best known by his nickname, [[NamesToRunAwayFrom/Verbs Shredder]]), on the other hand, is much more dangerous.

A form of NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast: Names with a hard K sound in them, for some reason (perhaps it's a fluke of the English language), sound tougher than names without them. See also NamesToRunAwayFrom/XtremeKoolLetterz.

* Admitted by the creators of the ''{{Highlander}}'' franchise, and so common they even have a name - 'Kimmies': The Kurgan, General Katana (doubles up with a weapon name, for even greater badassery. Too bad the movie is [[SoBadItsHorrible commonly referred to as the worst movie ever made]]), Kane, Slan Quince, Kronos, Xavier StCloud, etc.

* Koschei the Deathless, from Russian folklore, ought to get a mention somewhere. "Deathless" because he's removed his soul from his body to attain immortality. It's hidden in the eye of a needle, inside a duck egg, inside a duck, inside a fox, inside an iron treasure chest wrapped in the roots of a tree on an island which ''simply isn't there'' most of the time. Possibly the original lich.
** [[CharlesStross Project]] [[AColderWar Koschei]]... of course...

* Robert E. Howard was fond of K-names, as evidenced by [[ConanTheBarbarian Conan]], King Kull, and Solomon Kane.

* Kang, Koloth, Kor, Korax and Kras of the Klingons, from ''StarTrekTheOriginalSeries''.
** Note also the non-Klingon Kodos the Executioner, a double whammy (although he gets some sympathy in the end of his episode).

* Dalek Caan and Dalek Sec of the [[DoctorWho Cult of Skaro]]. Thay and Jast, by contrast, were largely ignorable.
** Hell, just the word "Dalek" qualifies. Unless you're the Doctor, your only hope when confronted by a Dalek is to run away very, very fast.

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* The video game ''Outcast'', the protagonist's name is Lt. Cmdr. Cutter Slade.

* ''{{Warhammer 40000}}'': "[[AxCrazy Kharn]]" sounds scary enough, until you find that his title is "'the Betrayer''". You really, really want to run away from this one. Also, Khorne, Chaos God of War, whose followers are known by their battle cry "Blood for the Blood God!" The 40k universe is [[CrapsackWorld not a happy place]].
* Corax, Scryak, Marneus Calgar, and Kaelis Ra, the god of death. Oh, and Kaela Mensha Khaine, the Eldar god of war.

* Kamikaze Kate from ''{{Misfile}}''.

* JackThompson
* JackChick
* ChuckNorris.

* Red Army general Ivan Konev. The fact that he was one of Stalin's favourite officers should tell you enough.
** Also Georgy Zhukov (intelligent but willing to take brutal losses for his objectives), Konstantin Rokossovsky ("In Russia a Pole, in Poland a Russian"), and Aleksandr Kolchak (named himself Supreme Ruler of White Russia - as opposed to Red - during the Civil War). The prevalence of the hard K in some Russian names may sometimes be used as an intentional Anglo attempt to bring up [[{{Lzherusskie}} spectres]] of DirtyCommunists.