History NamesToRunAwayFrom / KNames

* Franchise/SpiderMan faced his share of "K" villains:

* Kang the Conqueror, a major ''[[Comicbook/TheAvengers Avengers]]'' villain. Note that 'Kang' is an alias; his birth name is the disappointingly normal Nathaniel Richards.

* ''Series/TheLordOfTheRingsTheRingsOfPower''':
** The Orcs of the Second Age prefer to be called Uruk.

* ''LightNovel/ACertainMagicalIndex:'' Anyone with the last name "Kihara" is either an AxCrazy, a MadScientist or both. You'd better drop everything and just '''run''' if you see them.

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* ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'': "[[AxCrazy Kharn]]" sounds scary enough, until you find that his title is "'the Betrayer''". You really, really want to run away from this one.

* And before Death Note, ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventure'' the previous bearer of the name Kira is a serial killer obsessed with hands, and his stand Killer Queen.
** And we can’t forget Kars, the proto-vampiric Pillar Man who wiped out his own people except for his one follower and two infants, and created the Stone Masks that caused so much trouble for the heroes, not to mention LITERALLY HAVING TO BE SHOT INTO SPACE TO BE DEFEATED!

* ''Manga/MahouSenseiNegima'': Jack Rakan.

* ''Manga/KatekyoHitmanReborn'': Kyoya Hibari, who's badass and isn't afraid to show it.

* [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyubey]].

* ''TabletopGame/{{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.

* ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' has Kozilek, The Butcher of Truth and Emrakul, The Aeons Torn; [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] called the Eldrazi that transcend the colors of mana.

* [[VideoGame/{{Starcraft}} Sarah Kerrigan]].

* [[VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI Kefka.]]

* [[VideoGame/{{Mother3}} Kumatora]]: It even means ''bear-tiger''.

* Van Kleiss of ‘’WesternAnimation:GeneratorRex.’’

* Disney's WesternAnimation/TaleSpin: a spin-off of their own version of The Jungle Book, above.

* [[Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica Kyubey]]

* Creator/KiyokoYoshimura got her Romanizated Name from a reputation of AnyoneCanDie regarding the content of her works.

* [[Disney/TheJungleBook Disney's The Jungle Book]]: markedly different from the original by Rudyard Kipling.

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* Comicbook/SpiderMan faced his share of "K" villains:

* [[ComicBook/{{Hellboy}} Karl Ruprecht Kroenen]]

** This trend, sometimes called "criminalizing K", was parodied by the famous Italian ''DonaldDuck'' comic, ''{{Paperinik}}''.
* A ''PifEtHercule'' comic had a villain called Krapulax.

* Kronos from Greek mythology (also spelled Cronus): in addition to being the god of time, (hence "chronology," for example) he's most famous for castrating his own father Oranos and usurping his role as King of the Titans, proceeding to eat his own children as soon as they were born to try and prevent a prophecy telling of his own defeat, and leading the Titans and their allies against Zeus and the other Olympians in the Titanomachy. Fiction usually has him as the BiggerBad as far as Ancient Greece is concerned (''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'', ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', etc.) by conspiring with mortals and even other gods to escape from Tartarus. Also the namesake for the short-necked plesiosaur ''Kronosaurus'', itself something you'd probably want to run (or rather swim) away from.

* And before Death Note, ''Manga/JoJo'sBizarreAdventure'' the previous bearer of the name Kira is a serial killer obsessed with hands, and his stand Killer Queen.

* [[Franchise/SonicTheHedgehog Dr. Eggman's]] original name is Dr. Ivo Robotnik.

* In Dungeons & Dragons Orcs and Drow tend to have k and g sounds in there names, so if one runs after hearing a name like Grak or Kagak (which are just random names btw) it's probably best for their health.
* Magic: The Gathering has Kozilek, The Butcher of Truth and Emrakul, The Aeons Torn; [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] called the Eldrazi that transcend the colors of mana.

** Grand Moff Tarkin, who blew up a whole *planet* in the first showing of the Death Star's capabilities.

* Korgoth of Barbaria.

* Kronos from Greek mythology (also spelled Cronus): in addition to being the god of time, (hence "chronology," for example) he's most famous for castrating his own father Oranos and usurping his role as King of the Titans, proceeding to eat his own children as soon as they were born to try and prevent a prophecy telling of his own defeat, and leading the Titans and their allies against Zeus and the other Olympians in the Titanomachy. Fiction usually has him as the BiggerBad as far as Ancient Greece is concerned (''VideoGame/AgeOfMythology'', ''PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'', etc.) by conspiring with mortals and even other gods to escape from Tartarus. Also the namesake for the short-necked plesiosaur ''Kronosaurus'', itself something you'd probably want to run (or rather swim) away from.

* King K. Rool from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKongCountry 1''-3 (and Land 1-3, and 64, etc). Speaking of which, pretty much every single Kremling and boss character comes under this: KAOS, Kerozene, King Kut Out, Kleever, Kroctopus, Krow and Kludgel.

* Dr. Diabolik of the WhateleyUniverse, referred to by one of the viewpoint characters as Dr. Dad.

* Disney's TaleSpin: a spin-off of their own version of The Jungle Book, above.

* ''Literature/CaseyAtTheBat'': While not particularly evil, you don't want to be putting the hopes of your baseball team on a guy named Casey, especially if he's the last guy at bat.