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{{quote|''What, was "Hitler von Killington" too subtle? How about "Sergeant Satanstein"?''|'''''[[Mad Magazine]]''''' on General Grievous from the '''''[[Star Wars]]''''' series.}}

People make a big deal out of names, and writers are no exception. Even if they eschew [[Theme Naming]] and other [[Naming Conventions]] they'll still use names they think are cool and dignified, powerful and appropriate, or sinister and fearsome. This is why there are inevitably certain Names To Run Away From Really Fast. For much the same reason it's unlikely [[Alice and Bob|Bob]] will turn out to be the [[Evil Makeover|outrageously stylish villain]] bent on absorbing the planet's [[The Lifestream|life stream]] [[Final Fantasy VII|t]][[Last Scenario|o]] [[A God Am I|ascend to godhood]] ,<ref> [[Bob and George|well...]]</ref>, and someone with a name like oh, say, Hannibal Murder von Uberbastard, isn't exactly going to be selling cookies for charity. If he does, [[Too Dumb to Live|don't eat the cookies]].

These come in various flavors, some of them used by [[Anti-Hero|Anti Heroes]] of the [[Badass]] variety from the [[Dark Age of Supernames]] and villains of the fearsomely competent and world destroying kind, for whom the mere [[The Scottish Trope|mention of their name]] can bring down [[Dramatic Thunder]].

Note that this is different from all those characters who got their names ''[[Red BaronSobriquet|''because]]'' [[Red Baron|they are a badass.]] It's one thing to be called Blade because you use one on vampires; it's another when a deadly fighter has the birth name "Blade" for no in-story reason.

See also [[Red BaronSobriquet]] (also known as [[Badass Nickname]]), [[He Who Must Not Be Named]], [[Meaningful Titles]], [[The Master (trope)|The Master]], [[Name of Cain]], [[My Hero Zero]], [[Alice Allusion]], [[The Magnificent]], [[One Bad Mother]], [[The Group]], [[Awesome McCoolname]], and [[What Did You Expect When You Named It?]]? Contrast [[Names to Trust Immediately]]. Compare [[Fluffy the Terrible]] and [[Tom the Dark Lord]], where the name fails to describe the nastiness, and [[Deathbringer the Adorable]], where the nastiness fails to live up to the name. For location names, see [[I Don't Like the Sound of That Place]].

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** [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast/TheAncient AdjectiveDead OneLanguages|TheAncient AdjectiveDead OneLanguages]]

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast/NounsForeign Language Names|NounsForeign Language Names]]

=== Etymology:Sounds and Letters ===

* [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast/ForeignMix LanguageAnd NamesMatch|ForeignMix LanguageAnd NamesMatch]]

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