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A form of Names to Run Away from Really Fast: Usually, this is the extremity they'll hit you with, or the one that's the most scarred. Blood, talon, skull, fang.


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    Blood 

Anime and Manga

Comic Books

  • Jason Blood, to whom an actual demon from Hell is bound. He's extremely knowledgeable as a mystic and demonologist, and he's also immortal.
  • Bloodsport, the name of three Superman villains.
  • Sebastian "Brother" Blood, immortal human sacrificing cult leader.

Literature

  • Rafael Sabatini's famous pirate, Captain Blood, started his career as Doctor Blood. It works either way! He was not bloodthirsty at all (though he was generally sanguine), and was a complex and sensitive man, so his name had a touch of irony to it... Which was completely lost in the movie, turning him into an uncomplicated badass with an appropriate name.
  • The Bloody Baron from the Harry Potter series, as well as a vampire named Sanguini.
  • The crimelord who forms the main antagonist in Gene Wolfe's Nightside the Long Sun goes by the name of Blood. (In their city men all have single names that refer to animals or animal byproducts, like the protagonist Silk and his student Horn, but Blood is still an alarming name even in context.)
  • Averted in the second series of Welkin Weasels novels, where one of the main characters is named Bryony Bludd, which is lampshaded by (wouldn't you know it?) a vampiric stoat. It's still a Meaningful Name, though; she's a veterinary surgeon (which within the series actually means a doctor to her fellow Talking Animals).
  • There's a whole evil Clan called BloodClan in Warrior Cats.
  • The Icelandic Sagas describe a brutal killing technique called the "blood eagle", which involved carving the victim's back open and tearing the lungs out like wings. It's uncertain whether this historically happened to anyone, though.

Live-Action TV

Professional Wrestling

  • The evil-sounding connotations of Blood as a name is what led a young, babyface pro-wrestler to switch from his real name, Richard Blood, to the stage name Ricky Steamboat (arguably the only example of a wrestler having a more Badass real name than stage name)

Tabletop Games

  • The Primarch of the Blood Angels Space Marines chapter was imaginatively named Sanguinus. He was a formidable fighter but not an evil man — or primarch.
  • The Eldar god of murder/violence/destruction/war Kaela Mensha Khaine the Bloody Handed God, his Avatars also count.

Video Games

Western Animation

  • Sebastian Bludd, better known as G.I. Joe villain Major Blood.

Real Life

  • The Bloods, a notorious Los Angeles street gang and sworn enemy of the Crips.
  • The only person to get close to successfully stealing the crown jewels of England was named Colonel Thomas Blood. His son Colonel Holcroft Blood was a noted military engineer, as well as the commander of the allied artillery at the Battle of Blenheim.
  • Ricky Steamboat and Richie Steamboat are both named Richard Blood in Real Life. They are both faces, but as pro wrestlers, they're still guys you wouldn't want to mess with.
  • Elizabeth Báthory, an infamous Serial Killer of sixteenth- and seventeenth-century Hungary, was nicknamed the "Blood Countess".

    Bone, Skeleton, Skull 
Comic Books

Film

Literature

  • The short story "Satan's Incubator" by Randolph Craig has a main character named Dr. Skull: This initially seems like an aversion, as he's initially portrayed as a kindly, well-respected and elderly doctor... Then it turns out Dr. Skull is wearing makeup and a wig to disguise his appearance, and is but one of two alter-egos of the actually young and agile main character - The other is a heroic but deadly vigilante known as The Skull Killer.
  • In Warrior Cats, the second-in-command of the evil BloodClan is named Bone.

Live-Action TV

  • Raul "Skull" Hidalgo, the leader of a gang of carjackers and the villain of the Walker, Texas Ranger episode "Without a Sound".

Video Games

    Claw, Finger, Fist, Hand 

In general, "The Fist" or "The Claw" is not here to welcome you with a friendly handshake.

Anime and Manga

Comic Books

Film

Literature

  • Logen Ninefingers of The First Law, a barbarian with a Superpowered Evil Side (and his good side isn't someone you want to mess with either).
  • Selena, Morzan's and also Brom's lover from the Inheritance Cycle, is nicknamed "The Black Hand".
  • According to Terry Pratchett, "If your gang consists of two people—if it is, in fact, a gangette—one will be the brains of the outfit and one will supply the muscle and speak like dis. They must both, of course, wear black suits. If there are three of them, this still applies, but the new one will be called Fingers".
  • In Warrior Cats, several characters' names end in "-claw", but special mention goes to Tigerclaw, the Big Bad. His mentor, a fierce fighter who was on the villainous side himself, was named Thistleclaw. However, some cats with the name 'claw' are actually good cats, like Thornclaw.
  • In Wings of Fire, Mightyclaws' name is supposed to be this, but he's just an emaciated, mostly kind, secretly bitter dragonet. Six-claws, on the other hand, was formerly a competent, if reluctant general of Burn until his desertion.

Live-Action TV

Mythology

  • The Hekatoncheires ("the hundred-handed ones") from Classical Mythology, who, well...each had a hundred hands (and fifty heads).
    • Subverted with Chiron, the wise centaur who taught many of Greece's greatest heroes. His name means "hand," but it had more the meaning of a hand that guides and assists— a "helping hand."

Video Games

  • Deathclaws—Sneaks the "Death" in there as well. They're appropriately named though—you really don't want to screw with these guys.
  • The Black Hand from the Command & Conquer series. Which may or may not be the same Black Hand that started WWI, and are the most elite forces of the Brotherhood of Nod.
  • The dreaded Dead Hand from The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time is a zombie-like abomination which, despite its name, lacks actual hands (it only has severed stumps in place of hands). However, it's surrounded by several arms (complete with hands) sticking up from the ground, and they can grab Link to assist the Dead Hand in battle.

Webcomics

Web Original

  • Michelle Clore (sounds like "claw" in the right accent), the Big Bad of KateModern, a pun which was lampshaded on more than one occasion.

Western Animation

Real Life

    Corpse, Carcas, Cadaver 

Live-Action TV

Video Games

Western Animation

    Eye 

Literature

  • In Warrior Cats there are two characters named One Eye/One-Eye; one is a grumpy elder and the oldest cat in ThunderClan, while the other is one of the villains of Dawn of the Clans.

Mythology

  • Argus Panoptes, whose name means "all-eyes," which points to his constantly watchful nature as well as Eyes Do Not Belong There.

Webcomics

  • Charby the Vampirate has "Devil Eyes" Quixoto, a vampire that likes to use his telepathy to mentally torture his victims before feeding from them and leaving them to be finished off by wild animals. His preferred food is human children.

Western Animation

  • Red Eye, a parody of Goldfinger and one-time villain in the Dexter's Laboratory episode "Photo Finish"
    Dexter: Do you expect me to talk?
    Red Eye: No, Agent Dexter, I expect you to smile.

    Fang 

Literature

  • "-fang" is an occasional suffix in Warrior Cats. Two particular characters of note are Adderfang, a powerful warrior, and Yellowfang, a grumpy elderly medicine cat who, rather unusually, was a warrior before becoming a medicine cat.

Live-Action TV

  • Kamen Rider Double: Fang Joker. It's first appearance on the screen has Shotaro trying to stop Phillip from killing Akiko!
  • Averted with Cardinal Fang, possibly the least intimidating Inquisitor in history, in Monty Python's Flying Circus.

Other

Video Games

  • Final Fantasy XIII's Oerba Yun Fang: Wields a dual headed collapsible spear that can be separated and dual wielded. She's naturally the best attacker of the game Plus she had turned into Ragnarok centuries ago and made that huge hole in Cocoon's shell you always see.
  • Helicopter-chucking Shootfighter Tekken titan Iron Kiba. He's also larger and sturdier than most Hokuto no Ken/Fist of the North Star Big Bads to boot.

Webcomics

  • Marquise Spinneret Mindfang from Homestuck is Vriska's ancestor and leader of the Gam8ligants, a band of Alternian pirates. She's adept with her mind control powers, using it on her captives and enemies to equal terrifying effect, in particular mind-controlling a mob into turning on and executing a Legislacerator who was about to execute her.

Western Animation

    Genitals 
When not played for laughs (à la Biggus Dickus or Long Duk Dong), this tends to indicate either The Vamp or a legendarily virile badass.

Film

Web Original

  • One of ContraPoints's characters is a Straw Feminist named Abigail Cockbane. To clarify, the video series supports feminism in general, but Abigail is specifically a caricature of certain self-proclaimed radical feminists who disparage trans women as false appropriators of womanhood. Hence Abigail's memorable lines like "Dost thou bleed?" and "That's not a pussy, it's a fuckhole! You'll never know what it's like to squeeze life out of your sacred passage!" Understandably, AS A TRANS WOMAN, the series's creator Natalie Wynn isn't too fond of those sorts.

Western Animation

  • In the episode "The Headband" of Avatar: The Last Airbender, Sokka briefly wears a fake beard and adopts the alias "Wang Fire" (yes, Wang Fire, on a Nickelodeon cartoon) while posing as Aang's father. note  Although not particularly intimidating in the show, Wang Fire has become a Memetic Badass among fans, identified as the god of manliness and beards and as a separate entity from Sokka.

    Guts 
Anime and Manga
  • The Anti-Hero of Berserk, who both spills plenty of them in his berserker rages, and has plenty of them in fighting men and demons alike.

Comic Books

Live-Action TV

  • Ultraseven has the Guts, a race of bird-like aliens infamous for having defeated Ultraseven and then crucifying him in preparation for his execution.

    Scar 
Anime and Manga
  • Only known name of a revenge-driven serial killer in Fullmetal Alchemist who is out to get every single state alchemist and all those who get in his way via alchemical brain explosion. He's so effective at this that all high-ranking officers temporarily abandon their HQ in Central City when he was spotted there and head out to the Eastern boondocks.

Film — Animated

Film — Live-Action

  • Subverted in John Ford's classic, The Searchers: Cicatrice, aka "Scar", does indeed commit a heinous act in killing a settler family and kidnapping the two daughters...but after that he spends his time either oblivious to (as in, living his life and leading his tribe) or running from the man who spends years hunting him down, Determinator Ethan Edwards.

Literature

Live-Action TV

  • Doctor Who has Skaro (home planet of the genocidal Daleks), as well as one-time villain Scarlioni.

Real Life

  • Belgian firearms manufacturer Fabrique Nationale makes the SCARnote  family of gas-operated self-loading rifles.

    Wing 
For the implications of Death from Above.

Literature

  • In Warrior Cats, "-wing" is an occasional suffix, although it's almost always used for a gentle character (Whitewing, Kestrelwing, Softwing, etc). There's also "Wing Shadow Over Water" (usually called "Wing", for short), a Tribe cat who - like all Tribe cats - got her name from the first thing her mother saw at her birth, and knowing the mountains, it was probably a hunting eagle or falcon.

Toys

  • Blitzwing, Thunderwing, Darkwing, Wing Dagger, Wing Saber, and about a dozen other Transformers with "wing" in their name. Although the Decepticon Darkwing's name is less threatening, due to the unfortunate coincidence of being shared with a Disney duck character.

    Other 
Anime & Manga
  • The Primevals in GaoGaiGar are all named after body parts, and each wields a power vaguely related to the part in question (Arm can punch people with gravity waves, Eye has precognition, etc.) Might not sound so scary until you realize that they can turn regular people into Zonders with The Virus, turn famous landmarks and the moons of Jupiter into weapons and fuse into the planet-sized Z-Master
  • Naruto has the Nine Bijuu, aka Tailed Beasts, with immense amounts of power that increase exponentially with each tail. Their names are, in order of tails: Ichibi (a sand tanooki), Niibi (a fire-cat), Sanbi (a genjutsu turtle), Yonbi (a lava-breathing gorilla), Gobi (a dolphin-horse), Rokubi (a slug), Nanabi (an armored rhinoceros beetle), Hachibi (an ox with an octopus behind), and Kyuubi (a Kitsune)

Fan Works

  • in the Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, the patriarch of a tough family is one Barbarossa Smith-Rhodes. Granted, he was born Andreas Smith-Rhodes. But only his wife calls him that these days, usually when she's annoyed with him. Barbarossa is a huge bear of a man and got his nickname when his beard began growing. And didn't stop growing. It may be more grey than red, now he's a grandfather. But he is still capable of beating Mustrum Ridcully one time in two at arm-wrestling. And can match him drink-for drink when quaffing. His name, to the Zulus across the river, is something like Roaring Silverback Gorilla. They should know. He's fought them on enough occassions. In his sixties at this point on the timeline, he is still capable of pitching into a fight, especially if one of his daughters is threatened.note  Anyone doing the threatening is advised to run away very fast while they still can.

Film

Literature

  • The Maze Runner: The Right Arm from The Death Cure. It's a rebel organization devoted to fighting WICKED.

Webcomics

  • An honourable mention must go the Hyena People from Digger, whose females have the following, friendly, lovable names; Grim- Eyes, Blood-Eyes, Blood-Tail, Shadebones... most female hyenas seem to have them. Even the benevolent ones have names like Boneclaw Mother, and the smaller less aggressive males names like Owl-Caller.
  • Pirate Captain "Blackheart" Robert Black from Charby the Vampirate who treated Charby like a slave from infancy forcing him to fight with dogs for scraps of food and regularly beating him. Black was also a skilled swordsman and notorious for his cruelty.

Western Animation


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