History Main / TheMagnificent

** [[UsefulNotes/TheHouseOfHanover George III]] was sometimes called "Farmer George" or "George the Farmer" because of his interest in the new farming techniques developed and perfected during his reign (he even wrote a few agricultural pamphlets under the pseudonym "Ralph Robinson").
** Before he became king, George IV was nicknamed the "Prince of Whales" due to his morbid obesity.

* ''Webcomic/Aurora2019'': The storm god Tynan goes by Tynan, Shadow of Thunder, a moniker he chose for himself.

** King John was called "John Lackland" originally because his father Henry II left him cash as an inheritance instead of land,[[note]]Mostly; nominally, John was also supposed to inherit Ireland, but as the Angevin/Plantagenet hold on that was tenuous, it didn't mean much.[[/note]] but later because he lost almost all of the English royal house's lands in France. He also got the unfortunate sobriquet "John Softsword" for supposedly being bad at fighting/commanding armies.

* Mario Lemieux had many nicknames and "The Magnificent" was one of them.

* In the ''Series/DoctorWho'' story "[[Recap/DoctorWhoS25E1RemembranceOfTheDaleks Rememberance of the Daleks]]" the Doctor discribes himself to Davros as "The Doctor, President-elect of the High Council of Time Lords. Keeper of the legacy of Rassilon. Defender of the Laws of Time, Protector of Gallifrey." Of course, he's just being dramatic, as he runs away from any such responsibility to go with these titles.

* Many, many characters from ''Manga/GiantRobo'' have these kind of titles including, appropriately enough, one called "Fitzgerald the Magnificent."

* ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'': Almost all Elder Evils have grandiose and fearsome titles appended to their names, chiefly describing their alien natures or the specific reasons they world is doomed if they return, such as Atropus the World Born Dead, Pandorym the Slayer of Gods, Ragnorra the Mother of Monsters, and Zargon the Returner.

* The Swedish Fantasy RPG ''TabletopGame/{{Eon}}'' has the wizard Maxander Guilk, otherwise known as "Maxander The Magnificent"... Who, save for having some skill with [[PlayingWithFire Pyrotropic spells]], is an incompetent bumbling bufoon, an embarassment to his father, a constant source of danger to those who [[LastSecondWordSwap lo-- uh]], ''tolerate'' his presence and [[SmallNameBigEgo the only one who would ever associate the name "Maxander Guilk" with the word "Magnificent"]]... He's a kind of amusing ButtMonkey, though.
** There's also the necromancer Driobutus the Diabolical... Who spends his nights writing goth-y poetry; once claimed, in a drunken stupor, to be "the most evil man in Asharia" and who's greatest accomplishment as a necromancer was creating one zombie. He's not so much a HarmlessVillain as he is mildly annoying... He can be a kind of amusing ButtMonkey, though.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Exalted}}'': The Dragon Blooded woman who saved the world from TheFairFolk and established [[TheEmpire the Realm]] came to be known exclusively as the Scarlet Empress, to the point that many modern people don't know what her actual name is.

* In the TabletopGame/ForgottenRealms, the northern tribes use a BadassBoast consisting of achievements, epithets, and anything else they think will psych an opponent out; one specifically called himsef "Dragon's Bane".
* ''Grave'': Being a game designed for Dark Souls-inspired stories, not only do characters have titles, all player characters roll on a table for a title at character creation.
* In ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'', a single character is often represented on multiple cards, so this is nearly always used to distinguish the different cards. The most extreme example is Nissa Revane. As of this writing, she is represented on the cards Nissa Revane; Nissa, Worldwaker; Nissa, Vastwood Seer; Nissa, Sage Animist; Nissa, Voice of Zendikar; Nissa, Nature's Artisan; Nissa, Vital Force; Nissa, Steward of Elements; and Nissa, Genesis Mage. Averted with the card Borborygmos, which infamously led to one player losing a tournament when they named "Borborygmos" instead of "Borborygmos, Enraged" like they intended.
* ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer}}'' has plenty of its own.
** The Ogres have "Big Names" as an ''equipment upgrade'', each of which gives some kind of special ability. In-universe, these are given as remembrances of some notable thing the Ogre has done, such as Beastkiller (killed a very large and tough monster), Deathcheater (escaped seemingly certain doom), Kineater (a Tyrant who got their position by killing and eating a family member), or Mountaineater (scaled a particularly harsh mountain and ritualistically ate a rock from its summit). Then, of course, there's [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Tradelord Greasus Tribestealer Drakecrush Hoardmaster Goldtooth the Shockingly Obese]].
** There are also the Empire's Grand Theogonist Volkmar the Grim; the High Elf Phoenix Kings Aenarion the Defender, Caledor I the Conqueror and Caledor II the Warrior; Settra the Imperishable, the greatest of the Tomb Kings; the Orc warlord Azhag the Slaughterer; and Sigvald the Magnificent, Kholek Suneater and Archaon the Everchosen of the Warriors of Chaos.
*** Excuse me, that's [[ExaggeratedTrope Great King Settra the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, and Breaker of Djaf's Bonds]] to you

** Kharn the Betrayer, Abaddon the Despoiler, and Scyrak the Slaughterer, among others.
** Most special characters, though specifically all six of the Eldar Phoenix Lords have a title of this sort: Maugan Ra, the Harvester of Souls; Jain Zar, the Storm of Silence; Asurmen, the Hand of Asuryen; Karandras, the Shadow Hunter; Baharroth, the Cry of the Wind; and Fuegan, the Burning Lance.

** Everyone of the Necrons named characters have one of these titles (With a few exceptions), its pretty much like their version of last names. Imotekh the Stormlord, Trazyn the Infinite, Anrakr the Traveller, and Orikan the Diviner, also overlaps with SpellMyNameWithAThe
* Werewolves in both ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheApocalypse'' and ''TabletopGame/WerewolfTheForsaken'' have the practice of deed names, or replacing part of or the whole of a werewolf's birth name with something they're well known for. This leads to names such as "Evan Heals-the-Past" or "Mephi Faster-than-Death."

* ''TabletopGame/HELLASWorldsOfSunAndStone'': Every Hero has some boastful epitat as part of their name, and once per session they can succeed at some outrageous feat that demonstrates it. For example, if you are called "Swift-Footed Attica" then you might run fast enough to catch up with a speeding car.

* In ''Literature/TheGodsOfMars'', Issus is plentiful endowed with titles.
--->''By my first ancestor, but never was there so grotesque a figure in all the universe. That they should call such a one Goddess of Life Eternal, Goddess of Death, Mother of the Nearer Moon, and fifty other equally impossible titles, is quite beyond me.''

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'' gives us Stoick the Vast, chief of Berk. Apparently, this is custom among the vikings in this world, as [[WesternAnimation/DragonsRidersOfBerk the TV series]] introduces the leader of the Outcast tribe, Alvin the Treacherous, as well as the AxCrazy Dagur the Deranged, who recently took the chieftainship of the Berserker tribe from his father, Oswald [[NamesToTrustImmediately the Agreeable]].
** Also, [[AllThereInTheManual though many of them are never named as such in the movie or series]], the Hooligan Tribe includes such members as Gobber the Belch, Phlegma the Fierce, Silent Sven and Fearless Finn Hofferson.
* ''WesternAnimation/{{Madagascar}}'': "Presenting your royal highness, our illustrious King Julian the XIII, self-proclaimed lord of the lemurs, etc, etc, hooray, everybody."

*** Excuse me, that's Great King Settra the Imperishable, Khemrikhara, The Great King of Nehekhara, King of Kings, Opener of the Way, Wielder of the Divine Flame, Punisher of Nomads, The Great Unifier, Commander of the Golden Legion, Sacred of Appearance, Bringer of Light, Father of Hawks, Builder of Cities, Protector of the Two Worlds, Keeper of the Hours, Chosen of Ptra, High Steward of the Horizon, Sailor of the Great Vitae, Sentinel of the Two Realms, The Undisputed, Begetter of the Begat, Scourge of the Faithless, Carrion-feeder, First of the Charnel Valley, Rider of the Sacred Chariot, Vanquisher of Vermin, Champion of the Death Arena, Mighty Lion of the Infinite Desert, Emperor of the Shifting Sands, He Who Holds The Sceptre, Great Hawk Of The Heavens, Arch-Sultan of Atalan, Waker of the Hierotitan, Monarch of the Sky, Majestic Emperor of the Shifting Sands, Champion of the Desert Gods, Breaker of the Ogre Clans, Builder of the Great Pyramid, Terror of the Living, Master of the Never-Ending Horizon, Master of the Necropolises, Taker of Souls, Tyrant to the Foolish, Bearer of Ptra's Holy Blade, Scion of Usirian, Scion of Nehek, The Great, Chaser of Nightmares, Keeper of the Royal Herat, Founder of the Mortuary Cult, Banisher of the Grand Hierophant, High Lord Admiral of the Deathfleets, Guardian of the Charnal Pass, Tamer of the Liche King, Unliving Jackal Lord, Dismisser of the Warrior Queen, Charioteer of the Gods, He Who Does Not Serve, Slayer off Reddittras, Scarab Purger, Favoured of Usirian, Player of the Great Game, Liberator of Life, Lord Sand, Wrangler of Scorpions, Emperor of the Dunes, Eternal Sovereign of Khemri's Legions, Seneschal of the Great Sandy Desert, Curserer of the Living, Regent of the Eastern Mountains, Warden of the Eternal Necropolis, Herald of all Heralds, Caller of the Bitter Wind, God-Tamer, Master of the Mortis River, Guardian of the Dead, Great Keeper of the Obelisks, Deacon of the Ash River, Belated of Wakers, General of the Mighty Frame, Summoner of Sandstorms, Master of all Necrotects, Prince of Dust, Tyrant of Araby, Purger of the Greenskin Breathers, Killer of the False God's Champions, Tyrant of the Gold Dunes, Golden Bone Lord, Avenger of the Dead, Carrion Master, Eternal Warden of Nehek's Lands, and Breaker of Djaf's Bonds to you

* Narumi of ''LightNovel/HeavensMemoPad'' keeps gathering different titles he's known by, such as the Gardening Club Kid, Vice-Admiral Fujishima, [[RedBaron God Hand...]]

* In ''LightNovel/ShakuganNoShana'', every single Flame Haze and their contracted Crimson Lords as well as the Crimson Denizens go by a title which describes their special ability in general.
* ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'': There is a tradition where powerful mages are bestowed with 'The Color' as their title, such as "Rezo the Red Priest". Lina has 'The Pink' which embarrasses her as much as her other titles.

** Clover the Clever, one of the founders of Equestria, and her mentor (and an idol for Twilight) Starswirl the Bearded.

** Not to be outdone by their Mesopotamian contemporaries, the Egyptian monarchs of did this as a matter of course, giving themselves ever-grander names in their [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_royal_titulary five-part royal titularies]] which included certain fixed phrases with special names. For instance, Amenhotep III's full title was "The Horus, the strong bull who has appeared in truth; the one protected by the Two Ladies[[note]]"the Two Ladies" being two goddesses, Wadjet and Nekhbet, represented respectively by a cobra and a vulture. They were the representative and protective deities of Lower and Upper Egypt, respectively, hence the great amount of royal regalia featuring a cobra-and-vulture device.[[/note]] who has established laws and pacified the Two Lands; the Golden Horus, the great-of-strength one who had struck down the Asiatics; the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Nebmaatre;[[note]]"Possessor of the Soul/Truth/Justice of Ra"[[/note]] the son of Ra Amenhotep,[[note]]"Amun is Satisfied"[[/note]] Lord of Thebes." (Later in his reign it seems he gave himself an upgrade to "…Amenhotep, ''Divine'' Lord of Thebes"[[note]]In Egyptian, ''Netjer-heqa Waset''[[/note]]).

** Mehmet II is rarely referred to as Mehmet in Turkey, but as Fatih, which is his title, meaning "the Conqueror": he conquered Constantinople –- and much else. Today, the historic center of Istanbul –- which is to say, the old city of Constantinople within the Theodosian Walls –- is known as the Fatih District of the modern mega-city. Non-Turks generally refer to him as "Mehmet the Conqueror".

* An ancient Athenian statesman, Aristides, was often referred to as "The Just". One probably apocryphal story tells of an illiterate citizen who, not recognizing him, asked for –- and got! –- Aristides' help ''in casting a vote for Aristides to be [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ostracism ostracized]]'' (i.e. exiled for 10 years). The fellow's reason? "I'm simply so tired of always hearing him called 'The Just'!"

** His contemporary was Rhodri Mawr, High King of Wales –- Wales being its own country at that time and not property of the English crown. ''Mawr'' roughly translates to "the Great".

*** Say a fellow with the personal name "Muhammad" gets married to a woman named "Maryam". Muhammad and Maryam then have a daughter, whom they name "Fatima". At that point, Muhammad is "Abu Fatima" and Maryam is "Umm Fatima"; they are liable to call each other that around the house, as are their close friends at intimate gatherings. If they then have a son named "Abdullah", Muhammad gets the new nickname "Abu Abdullah" and Maryam becomes "Umm Abdullah", and remain so ever afterward –- even if Abdullah dies in infancy.[[note]]A good example of this is Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas, who is often called Abu Mazen, after his eldest son Mazen, even though Mazen predeceased him (Mazen Abbas died in 2001 at the age of 42 after a freak heart attack).[[/note]]

* In ''VideoGame/RunesOfMagic'', players can get various titles from defeating boss-monsters.
* In ''VideoGame/TheSimsMedieval'' the title progression for Monarchs is "Lord/Lady X" for levels 1 to 5, "Lord/Lady X the Great" for levels 5 to 9, and "Lord/Lady X the Illustrious" once they reach level 10.
* As ''VideoGame/SkiesOfArcadia'''s Vyse does more and more awesome things, his reputation gets better, and the game actually keeps track of this. He goes from Vyse the Unimpressive to (if the player [[OneHundredPercentCompletion does well enough]]) Vyse the Legend over the course of the story. The [[VideogameRemake remake]] drops hints that all Air Pirates take their "surnames" like this; Dyne of the Blue Storm, Gilder the Unfettered, and so on.

* Some of the races in ''VideoGame/SwordOfTheStars'' use this sort of naming. Morrigi have names such as "Atreus the Bloody" or "Tadc Chaac the Honey-tongued" while Zuul have "Lord Aeshma the Hungry" or "Master Kandh the Bonecrusher".
* In ''VideoGame/TalesOfTheAbyss'', all of the God-Generals have titles like this: Asch the Bloody, Legretta the Quick, Arietta the Wild, Largo the Black Lion, and Sync the Tempest. And Dist, who [[InsistentTerminology insists his title is "the Rose"]], but whom everyone else calls Dist the Reaper -- except Jade, who calls him Dist the Runny.

* The ''VideoGame/TotalWar'' series allows family members to gain similar epithets, dependent on their character traits (and, indirectly, success as a leader). They range from the embarrassing ("the Cowardly" or "the Cuckold") to the admirable ("the Just", "the Kind") to the impressive ("the Brave", "the Great", "the Mighty") to the hilarious ("the Lewd", "the Queen", "the Idiot") to the downright [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast terrifying]] ("the Bloody-Handed", "the Tyrant", "The Lord of Terror"). Sadly, the game only ever uses the most recently acquired epithet, making it entirely possible that a general goes from "the Conqueror" to "the Mean".
* In ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft'', [[BraggingRightsReward titles are purely cosmetic]], and there's plenty of them by way of achievements.

** One Spanish monarch has the distinction of having two polar opposite sobriquets: UsefulNotes/FerdinandVII, who was initially called ''el Deseado'' ("The Desired"), but ended his reign more commonly known as ''el Rey Felón'' ("The Felon King"). This is because King Ferdinand became the head of the Spanish House of Bourbon during UsefulNotes/TheNapoleonicWars, when he and his father were forced to abdicate in favor of UsefulNotes/NapoleonBonaparte's older brother Joseph. After this episode, Ferdinand became a focal point for resistance to French rule and a symbol of Spanish nationhood both in Spain and in its overseas territories in the Americas--hence the epithet "the Desired". However, most of the people nominally backing Ferdinand were also liberal constitutionalists who hoped to set up Spain and her empire as a constitutional monarchy. Unfortunately for those people, Ferdinand was an unreconstructed old-school absolutist and imperialist, and a tremendous asshole to boot. This led his American subjects to opt for outright independence (rather than the federation/personal union that had been floated before).[[note]]To give you an idea, when UsefulNotes/{{Mexico}} declared independence in 1820, the country's leaders decided to establish a constitutional monarchy, and offered to make Ferdinand Emperor of Mexico--which was nothing to sniff at, since the Imperial Constitution granted the Emperor significant powers. (More powers than he even had in Spain--one of the triggers for the final Mexican push to independence was Mexican ''conservatives'' getting horrified at the limits on royal power and Church authority imposed by the liberal constititution instituted in Spain after the 1820 Revolt of the Cádiz Garrison.) Plus he'd get to call himself an emperor! What Spanish monarch could resist being able to (procedurally) lord it over the rulers of England and France as an emperor? Well, Ferdinand could: he not only rejected the offer (because it would require him both to recognize Mexican independence and willingly accept a constitution limiting his powers--he made no bones that he only accepted constitutional rule in Spain because it was forced on him at gunpoint), he forbade any other member of the Spanish House of Bourbon from accepting the Mexican crown, and also made it clear that if any non-Spanish European prince took the Mexican throne, Spain would regard that as a diplomatic slight of the highest order (as in, cut off diplomatic relations at a minimum, and declare war if you were unfortunate enough to be weak enough for Spain to take in a fight). Thus finding no takers among the Spanish Bourbons, the French Bourbons, the Neapolitan Bourbons, the Habsburgs, or basically any other royal house in Europe, Mexico gave the throne to the ''criollo'' Mexican aristocrat and general Augustín de Iturbide--but as the Constitution specified that the throne would go to a "Spanish prince", the legitimacy of his reign was under doubt. These doubts contributed heavily to the collapse of the monarchy and establishment of the First Mexican Republic just two years later, as the "Spanish prince" thing had been a key concession to Mexican conservatives who were loyal to the Spanish monarchy even though they could be persuaded to break away from direct Spanish (mis)rule. A non-Spanish-Bourbon monarch therefore had difficulty maintaining support on his ''right'', even as the republican Left wanted to abolish the monarchy outright. It didn't help that Iturbide had just spent the past 10 years as the top general of the royalist armies crushing the republicans in an extended war to keep Mexico for Spain before suddenly switching sides in 1820, and were therefore disinclined to give him specifically the benefit of the doubt even if they were (reluctantly) open to the idea of a constitutional monarchy genrally. Had Ferdinand or another Spanish Bourbon (or, heck, even a Neapolitan Bourbon or French Bourbon or even a Habsburg, all of whom had at least semi-legitimate claims at being "Spanish princes") taken the Mexican throne, the Mexican monarchy might have lasted longer, or even endured, so besides making himself odious, Ferdinand also probably single-handedly killed serious monarchism in Mexico and, by extension, in Spanish-speaking Latin America. (UsefulNotes/SimonBolivar, in his perspicacious-about-everything-except-Venezuela 1815 Letter from Jamaica, predicted that Mexico would become a monarchy and would be the only former Spanish colony to do so; he seems to have been surprised when the Mexicans ditched their emperor for a republic just three years after they proved his predictions correct.)[[/note]] Meanwhile, his vicious authoritarianism and his sheer capriciousness led his Spanish subjects to dub him the "Felon King".

*** UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}} is labeled "the Heretic" or "the Heretic King" because of his religious experiment and his attacks on the traditional cult of Amun.

* Not to be outdone, the monarchs of [[UsefulNotes/AncientEgyptianHistory Ancient Egypt]] did this as a matter of course, giving themselves ever-grander names in their [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Egyptian_royal_titulary five-part royal titularies]] which included certain fixed phrases with special names. For instance, Amenhotep III's full title was "The Horus, the strong bull who has appeared in truth; the one protected by the Two Ladies[[note]]"the Two Ladies" being two goddesses, Wadjet and Nekhbet, represented respectively by a cobra and a vulture. They were the representative and protective deities of Lower and Upper Egypt, respectively, hence the great amount of royal regalia featuring a cobra-and-vulture device.[[/note]] who has established laws and pacified the Two Lands; the Golden Horus, the great-of-strength one who had struck down the Asiatics; the King of Upper and Lower Egypt, Nebmaatre;[[note]]"Possessor of the Soul/Truth/Justice of Ra"[[/note]] the son of Ra Amenhotep,[[note]]"Amun is Satisfied"[[/note]] Lord of Thebes." (Later in his reign it seems he gave himself an upgrade to "…Amenhotep, ''Divine'' Lord of Thebes"[[note]]In Egyptian, ''Netjer-heqa Waset''[[/note]]). More recent historians have also given several Egyptian monarchs more typical modern epithets, including UsefulNotes/RamsesII "the Great", Thutmose III "the Conqueror", Amenhotep III "the Magnificent", and UsefulNotes/{{Akhenaten}} "the Heretic King".