Amaterasu's title of Okami depending on how you spell it in Japanese can either mean "Great God" or "Wolf". This pun is actually carried into gameplay when people who believe in you can see your celestial markings, and people who don't believe in you just see a white wolf.
Vagrant Story is home to Ashley Riot, Sydney Losstarot and Romeo Guildenstern.
Zelda actually subverts this trope: no matter how Bad Ass he is, you have to admit that "Link" isn't exactly an awe-inspiring name. Ganondorf, on the other hand...
Not just Ganondorf. It's Ganondorf Dragmire. Not that his full name gets brought up more than once or twice in the whole series....
There's also Talon, the guy who runs Lon Lon Ranch, and a long list of characters ranging from critical-to-the-plot major to barely-rate-a-name minor who have AwesomeMcCoolnames that aren't real-world words, like Nabooru and Impaz.
Impossible Creatures gives us Rex Chance. Science tells us that this is the manliest name possible.
Tekken's Marshall Law (a play on "Martial Law"). Admittedly, this isn't an obvious one.
Don't forget his buddy Paul Phoenix, which sounds like something out of a 70s airport novel. Ditto for Bryan Fury. Craig Marduk also qualifies — it's not a wise idea to pick a fight with a guy named after a god, of all things.
If at all possible, Craig Marduk looks even more intimidating than his name sounds.◊ His appearance is based on Nathan Jones who, during his time in prison, earned the nickname "The Colossus of Boggo Road." During a prison riot, he managed to rip his cell door off of the hinges.
Pretty much every character in Ace Attorney has an incredibly badass name! Phoenix Wright himself may have had debatably the most awesome name of all in the Ace Attorney series, and that's saying something with people named Maya Fey and Miles Edgeworth and Franziska von Karma in the same zip code, until Apollo Justice came along, and with him people with names such as Shadi Enigmar, and Kristoph and Klavier Gavin.
Also the famed rivals Juan Corrida (Corrida is a bullfighting term) and Matt Engarde (Engarde is a fencing term).
Don't forget Max Galactica (although his real name is Billy-Bob Johns), Magnifi and his daughter, Thalassa Gramarye and Tyrell Badd.
WIIILL POOOWERS, HE'S THE MAN WHOSE NAME YOU'D LOVE TO TOOOOOOOOOOOOUCH
The flagship character of the Purple Moon games is named "Rockett Movado". This has an in-game explanation in that her parents were hippies (her siblings are named Jasper and Juno Artemis). The only other "odd" name belongs to Token Minority Arrow (and that's a nickname).
The various codenames in Metal Gear Solid, to the point that some normal names are excluded.
Captain Falcon, along with most other characters from F-Zero.
Max Payne. Lampshaded by a mook, who admits to envying Max's name.
Mona Sax.
The fictional Dick Justice.
William J. Blazkowicz (the protagonist of Wolfenstein 3 D) and his grandson Billy Blaze (better known as Commander Keen). Granted, William's name takes a turn for the Suckyname territory when it's shortened into BJ Blazkowicz. Just don't tell him that to his face.
Suikoden IV actually GAVE us Schtoltenheim Reinbach III as a recruitable character! Imagine the surprise on peoples faces when they saw that the guy actually EXISTED.
Classic adventure game Wasteland lets you name your starting party whatever you want, but the default names are Hell Razor, Angela Deth, Thrasher, and Snake Vargas.
In Strong Bad's Cool Game for Attractive People, episode 4, there is a character, who is Homestar Runner as "Dangeresque, Too?", as a robot copy of the character, by the name of Uzi Bazooka. Even Strong Bad/Dangeresque thinks it's a cool name. (But then again, he did write the script..)
Final Fantasy VII seems to be a weird subversion of this trope... Until you see their surnames. "Tifa Lockheart", "Vincent Valentine", "Aerith Gainsborough", "Red XIII"/ Nanaki... Cloud Strife also manages to overcome his otherwise improbable name by being incredibly Bad Ass. Oh, and they're fighting Sephiroth. The only really normal one is "Barret Wallace".
Barret in Japanese is Baretto, which is how you pronounce "bullet" in Japanese so he definitely qualifies for Awesome McCoolname. Sephiroth or Sephirot are the 10 attributes/emanations through which God can manifest in Jewish Kabbalah. However, there's also brothers Nero and Weiss in Dirge Of Cerberus: Final Fantasy VII (Black and White respectively).
"Cid Highwind" is an awesome name that just automatically commands respect when you hear it.
Final Fantasy XIII has the main character named Lightning. That's...that's just great.
"Lightning" is just her code name. Her real name is Eclair Farron, or just Claire in the English localization. Guess what that means in French? No, not the pastry. It means "lightning". The reason behind her going by "Lightning" is a plot point.
Final Fantasy VIII qualifies too: Squall Leonhart? Rinoa Heartilly? Seifer Almasy, Laguna Loire, Kiros Seagill, Ward Zabac, Edea, Ultimecia?
Final Fantasy XII gives us some gems in the form of Vayne Solidor, Basch fon Ronsenburg, and King Raithwall. The Imperial Judges get some sweet names too, like Gabranth and Zargabaath, but those are assumed names.
Vaan's name was Van in the Japanese version too.
And let's not forget Final Fantasy IX, which gives us Zidane, Dagger, Steiner, and Amarant.
Don't forget Ruby and Blank from Tantalus. Oh, and Lord Puck of Burmecia. Amarant in Japanese is Salamander Coral, too, which means his nickname in that version is "The Flaming Salamander".
Final Fantasy X has names like Tidus, Yuna, Auron, Wakka, Kimahri, and Rikku with Lulu being the only normal sounding name of the main cast of characters.
Final Fantasy V has Butz Klauser, changed to Bartz in the English release for obvious reasons.
Final Fantasy VI. Even if most characters don't have really astounding names, we still have Clyde Arrowny A.K.A. Shadow, Cyan Garamonde or Kefka Palazzo.
So many characters in World Of Warcraft (and presumably other MMORPGs) have those, it's not even awesome anymore. The whole game is loaded with Doomhowls and Deatheyes and Nightwhispers etc.
Note that most, if not all of those are clan-names or at least family names. It makes sense for an orc or ogre clan to pick an intimidating name.
For what it's worth, more family-friendly games may enforce this: both FusionFall and Free Realms use a name generator as the default; in Free Realms at least you can make up your own name but it has to be approved.
Guilty Gear: Sol Badguy, Slayer, Millia Rage, Axl Low, Potemkin, Kliff Undersn, and Justice.
Upcoming Team Ico game The Last Guardian is known in Japan as "Hitokui Ōwashi Trico," which can be translated as "Trico, the Man-Eating Sea-Eagle."
Luke Skywalker may have avoided the last name "Starkiller," but Galen Marek of Star Wars: The Force Unleashed did not escape being called "Starkiller" pretty much the entire game.
And even before him, there was Bendak Starkiller. Neo Crusader, Bounty Hunter and Deathmatch Champion.
And, of course, who can forget Carmageddon, and the lovely protagonists Max Damage and Die Anna, though the latter is half this and half a Punny Name.
Chun Li. When somebody is named after the most famous female martial artist ever, plus the most famous male martial artist as well, you know she isn't messing around.
Trauma Team features an orthopedist named Hank Freebird, who also happens to be a Made of Iron part-time superhero.
StarCraft sports some rather interesting contrast in its Terran names, but the standout for coolness is General Horace Warfield.
November Anabella Terra or "Nova". Bonus points (to her parents) for giving her an elegant name that shortens to something a Ghost would actually go by.
In Mass Effect, whatever goofy first name that may be given to him (or her, for that matter), there is something just so intrinsically panty wetting about the moniker Commander Shepard.
During Kasumi's heist in the second game, Shepard is given the awesome alias of "Solomon/Allison Gunn" along with a fake backstory of being a badass mercenary... and a full-page spread in the latest issue of "Badass Weekly".
Don't forget Urdnot Wrex, Garrus Vakarian, Kaidan Alenko, Donnel Udina, Saren Arturius, Urdnot Grunt, Thane Krios, Zaeed Massani, Tela Vasir, and Kai Leng.
In Kingdom Hearts we have Organization XIII, made up of thirteen Nobodies, and each and every one has an awesome name: We have Xemnas, Xibgar, Xaldin, Vexen, Lexaeus, Zexion, Saďx, Axel, Demyx, Luxord, Marluxia, Larxene, Roxas, and finally, for 358/2 Days, Xion. Most of the names are justified because when a person with a strong will is turned into a humanoid Nobody, Xemnas recruits them and gives them a new name by scrambling the letters and adding an 'x' into it. Even then, quite a few had less-than-average names, with Vexen's (Even) being the most common.
In the Sonic the Hedgehog series, we have the title character Sonic the Hedgehog, Miles "Tails" Prower, Knuckles the Echidna, Shadow the Hedgehog, Silver the Hedgehog, Amy Rose, Rouge the Bat, Dr. Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik, and many more.
Keep in mind that Mega Man is also known as Rockman. Also keep in mind that his little sister is known as Roll. Rock and Roll anyone?
Then in the Mega Man X series, his newer model was just known as X with Zero as the Proto Man counterpart.
Pretty much all of the robot masters and mavericks fall under this description, with a few exceptions.
Wild ARMs took this trope home and married it: Jack Van Burace, Ashley Winchester, Gallows Carradine, the list goes on.
There's also the Dragon-type Pokémon with axe-blades for its teeth, "Haxorus", which may also incorporate Leet Lingo in the name as well.
Additionally, the Water-type specialist Gym Leader of Pastoria City from Pokemon Diamond And Pearl, Crasher Wake (with an equally awesome Japanese name, Maximum Mask).
No More Heroes and its sequel give us Travis Touchdown, Henry Cooldown, Dr. Letz Shake, Harvey Moisewich Volodarski, Thunder Ryu, Bishop Shidux, Count Townshend, Margaret Moonlight, and Alice Twilight. And this isn't even counting code names such as Shinobu, Million Gunman, Destroyman, Dark Star, Dr. Peace, Speed Buster...the list goes on.
The Shadows of Persona 3 have a lot of cool names. Death Castle, Conviction Sword, Slaughter Drive, Void Giant...and the list goes on and on.
Tales Of Hearts gives us Zex Meteoryte. Think about it for a second.
Hawke, from Dragon Age II. If you're going to set the player character's last name, better make it an awesome one.
Touhou is chock-full of these, especially in Japanese. The Western-sounding coolnames includes Lyrica and Layla Prismriver, Wriggle Nightbug, Mystia Lorelei, and Star Sapphire. The Japanese ones are:
Eirin Yagokoro: When you're an immortal genius, your name reflects it: "Intelligence of eternally clear brightness over infinitely extended area".
Shou Toramaru: star tiger-circle. Also, "-maru" postfix makes one's name sounds more Badass and manly (she is a Bifauxnen).
Kagerou Imaizumi: Given name means "Shadow Wolf". Makes sense since she's a werewolf.
Characters with archaic-sounding names: Fujiwara no Mokou, Mononobe no Futo, Toyosatomimi no Miko.
In Might & Magic VI, you can have your party have names like "Roderic", "Diana", "Tracy" and "Zoltan". Also crosses with Aerith and Bob.
Warhammer 40k: Dawn Of War and its sequel are full of these names, especially with the human characters. Gabriel Angelos, Isador Akios, Mordecai Toth...
Princess Sveta Czamaral, of the Fang Tribe of Morgal, from Golden Sun Dark Dawn. Bonus points for being one of the only two Golden Sun characters with a canonly-known surname... the other being her brother.
Disgaea has loads of characters with cool names, like Valvatorez and Axel, which may be expected since most Disgaea characters are demons. Still, when you're a human with a name like Almaz von Almandine Adamant that's pretty awesome.
Altair ibn La'Ahad from Assassin's Creed. His name basically translates to "the bastard eagle."
Ezio Auditore da Firenze.
Anghel Higure ("higure" spelled in Japanese with two Kanjii meaning 'red') in Hatoful Boyfriend is a parody. He has the real name Akagi Yoshio, but insists on being called Anghel due to believing he is a ridiculous fantasy character with the title "Crimson Angel of Judecca".
The Nords and the Dragons in Skyrim pretty much run on this trope. For example, the leader of the rebellion? Ulfric Stormcloak. The name of the main antagonist is Alduin, which translates to Destroyer Devour Master and just so happens to have the moniker World-Eater.
Immortal Souls has the Knight Templar leader Desmond Benedict the Third, enhanced by the fact that he loves to pompously announce the entire thing any time he can find the slightest excuse to do so.
Fallout 3 gives us Abraham Washington, among other such gems as Allistar Tenpenny and Desmond Lockheart.
Hailing from League Of Legends, we have Demacia's impossibly prestigious crown prince Jarvan Lightshield IV, Exemplar Of Demacia, as well as his allies, brother and sister Garen and Luxanna Crownguard. Noxus boasts Jericho Swain and Kieran Darkwill, and one could certainly argue that Malcolm Graves is worthy of this trope.
Mordekaiser deserves a mention.
Several in the Halo franchise. Fittingly, the first is the protagonist. Although his real name is simply John, only some close friends and comrades know him as such; to everyone else, he's either Master Chief, Chief, or Spartan. Even better, he scares the Scary Dogmatic Aliens so bad they have their own name for him: Demon.
The Arbiter is a pretty cool title, but there's something about "Thel Vadam" that not only sounds awesome, but fits the character perfectly.
Forerunners give their children Names That Unfold Like Lotus Blossoms, some of which are pretty sweet: Bornstellar Makes Eternal Lasting, Splendid Dust of Ancient Suns, and, perhaps coolest of all, Glory of a Far Dawn. Some are simply known by their titles, and don't tell me being known as "The Didact" wouldn't be awesome.
In Guild Wars 2, humanoid bear-people called the Kodan are given some rather flowery but badass names. Enduring Protector, Guardian Infinite Mind, Fleeting Serenity, Worthy Burden and lastly, Taught by Whales. How awesome do you have to be in order to be taught by whales?
Gungrave is full of characters with names like Brandon Heat, Balladbird Lee and Bear Walken. Even the morbidly obese Gonk character is named Bob Poundmax.
