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* ''ComicBook/NightOfTheOwls'': Batman's latest villain, the Court of Owls, is this in context. To most people, owls are a minor nuisance at worst. However, they're also one of the only natural predators of bats...
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* ''Film/TrueLies'': Could have been the page quote:
--->'''Faisal''': They call him the Sand Spider.
--->'''Trilby''': Why?
--->'''Faisal''': Probably because it sounds scary.
--->'''Faisal''': They call him the Sand Spider.
--->'''Trilby''': Why?
--->'''Faisal''': Probably because it sounds scary.
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* ''Literature/JamesBond'': In case the acronym "SPECTRE" didn't do this for you all by itself, what it stands for is "Special Executive for Counterintelligence, Terrorism, Revenge, and Extortion."
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* ''Literature/XWingSeries'': Wraith Squadron is specifically named with this in mind, as its pilots fully intended to turn it into TheDreaded of the Imperial Starfleet.
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* ''Series/{{FUBAR}}'': The paramilitary army and arms dealing syndicate run by the BigBad is named "Lape Pa Lanmo." Innocuous enough in English. It's actually Haitian Creole for "peace by death."
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* ''Series/MacGyver1985'': the fraternity of killers-for-hire that BigBad Murdoc belongs to is called "HIT." Stands for "Homicide International Trust."
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** The name of the reactionary terrorist group trying to end Mandalorian democracy and restore a military dictatorship is "Death Watch."
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* ''Main/MurderInc'': The TropeNamer is a real life group of gangsters that did contract killings for TheMafia and KosherNostra in the 1920s, 1930s, and 1940s. Slightly downplayed in that the moniker was given to them by journalists rather than themselves.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Long Feng, the corrupt leader of Ba Sing Se's secret police force, the Dai Li. His name translates from Chinese as "dragon phoenix".
** Bonus points for history nuts: Dai Li, also known as "China's Himmler", was the head of the [[StateSec Blue Shirts Society]] in the 1930s.
** Bonus points for history nuts: Dai Li, also known as "China's Himmler", was the head of the [[StateSec Blue Shirts Society]] in the 1930s.
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* ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'': Long Feng, the corrupt leader of Ba Sing Se's secret police force, the Dai Li. His name translates from Chinese as "dragon phoenix".
**phoenix". Bonus points for history nuts: Dai Li, also known as "China's Himmler", was the head of the [[StateSec Blue Shirts Society]] in the 1930s.
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Lancer}}'' has many mechs and weapons with names that are disconcerting: the Balor, a giant mech made of a massive swarm of nanites; the Barbarossa's Apocalypse Rail, a weapon made for capital ships being used on an infantry/mech scale; and, most concerning, the TBK, a weapon system so horrific that its only implied via flavor text, and stands for [[ApocalypseHow Total Biome Kill]].
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* ''TabletopGame/{{Lancer}}'' has many mechs and weapons with names that are disconcerting: the Balor, a giant mech made of a massive swarm of nanites; the Barbarossa's Apocalypse Rail, a weapon made for capital ships being used on an infantry/mech scale; and, most concerning, the TBK, a weapon system so horrific that its only implied via flavor text, and stands for [[ApocalypseHow Total Biome Kill]]. HORUS, an unorthodox and mysterious manufacturer, manages to dip into it with the actual ''systems'' their mechs have, with things like the Calendula's "[[{{Intangibility}} Execration of the Names of the Unworthy Dead]]" and the Manticore packing "[[CastFromHitPoints Destruction of the Temple of the Enemies of RA]]" and the ever-infamous "[[TakingYouWithMe Castigate The Enemies of the Godhead]]"
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* ''VideoGame/RiverCityRansom'': The Plague gang has several members named after sharp and painful things, or diseases. In the NES version these include "Blaze, Edge, Slash, Snake, Sting", and in the GBA remake these include "Edge, Pox, Sars".
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* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': Morgan's arch-enemy is an evil sorcerer named Deimos (which sounds like "demon").
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* ''ComicBook/TheWarlordDC'': ''ComicBook/{{The Warlord|DCComics}}'': Morgan's arch-enemy is an evil sorcerer named Deimos (which sounds like "demon").
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* Finnish all-around badass and hero of the Battle of Kollaa Aarne Juutilainen earned the nickname "The Terror of Marocco" after serving there with the French Foreign Legion.
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* Finnish all-around badass and hero of the Battle of Kollaa Aarne Juutilainen earned the nickname "The Terror of Marocco" Morocco" after serving there with the French Foreign Legion.Legion.
** There was also his countryman Simo Häyhä, "the White Death".
** There was also his countryman Simo Häyhä, "the White Death".
