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Tom the Dark Lord
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When a character who's evil doesn't have a particularly evil-sounding name. While generally Played for Laughs, this can also be used to chilling effect in combination with tropes such as From Nobody to Nightmare and/or Paranoia Fuel. Tom the Dark Lord sometimes goes hand in hand with Embarrassing First Name, but not always. Bonus points if it manages to be meaningful or ironic. Contrast with Names to Run Away from Really Fast, which is about evil people with Obviously Evil names. Also contrast Louis Cypher, which are names that indicate someone is a/the devil; these may include a normal first name (especially a variant of Lou/Lucy or Nick) but overall are not normal names because they're too much of a pun. Note that for an example to count, the mundanity of the name must be jarring to a degree. Whether it be with the setting (e.g: A fantastic setting where all the characters are wizards with names like Gortyna, Argus or Spyridon and featuring an Evil Sorcerer simply called Fred) or with the nature of the villain (e.g: A terrifying Serial Killer covered in scars and deformities, who's overly tall and burly and reputed for killing hundreds...and his name is Jimmy). If an example is the latter, there's a good chance it will be brought up at some point in the story, often for comedy. Otherwise, a normal human having a normal name, regardless how evil he is, isn't noteworthy. A common justification of this trope is that the villain used to be a regular human in the past. In this case they may end up picking a new name, as the Trope Namer did in Harry Potter. See also, Demon of Human Origin. A Sub-Trope of Ominous Mundanity. See also Fluffy the Terrible, which is about vicious animals and beasts with cutesy names. Compare Special Person, Normal Name. Not to be confused with Ron the Death Eater, although that can lead to this in fan works, and also not to be confused with Mike Nelson, Destroyer of Worlds, although there's a possibility of overlap. noreallife |
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Narbonic gives us the Dave Conspiracy, a secret society controlling much of the world, made up of everyone named Dave. | |
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Adventure Time has Marceline's father, Hunson Abadeer. Neither are particularly common names, but it's oddly normal for a demonic, soul-sucking Humanoid Abomination who rules over a World of Chaotic Evil. (It's also a bit odd for the setting, as most characters don't have "normal" surnames.) | |
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Darla from Finding Nemo is another Humans Are Cthulhu example. | |
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The Funniest Minecraft Videos Ever: After going unnamed for most of the "Dragon Morph" video, the name of dragon!Wilbur is revealed to be Keith Smith. | |
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In Super Star, the final boss who betrays Kirby and aims to take over Pop Star is named Mark. While this fits in that he was just another harmless puffball until he manipulated his way to ultimate power, it's still a bit hard to take seriously, so the localization changed it to Marx. This has been carried to Kirby Mass Attack pinball mini-game, which the official name translation for him is Marx even in Japanese version. | |
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Syndrome's real name from The Incredibles is Buddy Pine. | |
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The Frantics: Mr. Canoe Head's arch nemesis is the Evil Galactic Warlord...Larry! | |
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Fallout 76: Earle Williams the Wendigo Colossus. Justified because he Was Once a Man. | |
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In Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics) evil warlock Naugus turns out to be going by his last name. His first name is Walter, which wouldn't be too bad if not for the fact that the heroes and other villains also found out that his sister affectionately calls him Wally. Now everyone refers to him as Wally just because they know it pisses him off. | |
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One of the deadliest villains in Ranma ½, a sadistic young man capable of transforming into a monster whose component parts include a yeti and an ox, had the unfortunate name of Pantyhose Taro. Getting that name changed is his primary motivation (his village's traditions prevent him from just doing it himself). While he feels that anything would be better, he fancies the name "Awesome Taro". | |
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In Sluggy Freelance we have "Chaz," an unstoppable sword also known as the Unholy Evil Death Bringer, forged in the most insidious of flame by the blacksmith known only as... Bob. | |
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In The Sparticle Mystery, the Big Bad of the second season is a mobster teenager who controls a small army of thugs and has declared himself King of England ... and his name is Fizzy. | |
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Bleak Expectations: The Big Bad is Mr. Gently Kissy Nice-Nice Benevolent (his mother's maiden name was "Malevolent.") | |
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One of the gang leaders in Goldfinger has the name "Billy Ring". He's also got quite a nightmarish appearance. James Bond notes that "he had never seen anyone who was less of a 'Billy'." | |
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There's also demon antagonist "Skip" in Angel. | |
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Some Disney Animated Canon villains have names like this. Yeah, some of them have names like Grimhilde, Maleficent, and Scar, but others have names like Ratcliffe (who was actually a real guy), Clayton, and Kevin, Raymond, and Doug. Other villains have names that sound "foreign" in the Anglosphere but are unremarkable in the countries where the films take place, like Claude Frollo from The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Jafar from Aladdin, Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, and Hans from Frozen. | |
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The demon from the Paranormal Activity series is called "Toby" by Robbie and Kristi, though justified given that they're childrennote Kristi is a child in the third installment, where she first comes in contact with the demon being manipulated by it. However, the demon's real name is unknown (assuming it even has a name). | |
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In Legend of Mana, two of the Big Bads have very menacing-sounding names: the Dragon arc has Drakonis, while the villain of the Jumi arc is only known as the Lord of Jewels. However, the name of the Big Bad of the Faerie arc, a demon bent on destroying the world? Irwin. | |
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Sideshow Bob from The Simpsons, although he is rarely referred to simply as "Bob." In the "Death Tome" Treehouse of Horror skit, the Shinigami that serves as the Ryuk parody is named "Steve Johnson". He states that it was a much more exotic name eons ago. |
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Fleming, Lord of the Demons from Shadows of the Damned. | |
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In The Matrix, the Agents all have extremely common names like Brown and Smith, suiting their role as The Men in Black. The good guys, on the other hand, have Faux Symbolism handles like Neo, Trinity, Morpheus, etc. | |
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The Friday the 13th films (mostly) feature an undead killer named Jason Voorhees (though like Freddy above, he used to be human... probably). | |
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In Dave the Barbarian, the main recurring villain is the Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy. | |
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Little Goody Two Shoes: The true name of the Strange Boy, the sadistic Demon Lord villain? Ozzy. Though it is implied to be short for Asmodeus. | |
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In Cucumber Quest, Thebestmaster eventually reveals that the Nightmare Knight is really named Steve. | |
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From JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Steel Ball Run, President Valentine is a nice sinister name for a Big Bad... but his first name? Funny. | |
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In V for Vendetta, the Big Bad's surname was changed from "Susan" to "Sutler" to, among other reasons, avert this. | |
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Meet the Robinsons has Wilbur Robinson unintentionally altering history so that he now lives in Magma City ruled by Emperor Stanley, which he can't take seriously. | |
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RWBY fanfic Vale's Underground: While Meaningful Name is in play as the writer admits, these two examples are pretty unremarkable at first glance. The story changes Cinder Fall's name to make "Cinder" an alias. In this story, Cinder is a ruthless and sadistic mob boss who is feared throughout Vale. Her name alone is enough to strike fear into people's hearts. Well, her alias at least. She has taken great precautions to make sure no one knows what her real name is to cover her tracks. Her real name? Kenna Carter. She isn't ashamed of the name, but she knows it's dangerous for her to make it known. Salem also counts. "Salem" is an alias and she is human in this story. Her real name is Emily Carter. She was Cinder's mother and predecessor as a mob boss. She was ruthless and taught Cinder everything she needed to know to be a mobster. When she recognized that Cinder was a sadistic child, she decided to test it by letting her kill her own father. She also molested her daughter, something that still angers Cinder. |
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Kirby: In Super Star, the final boss who betrays Kirby and aims to take over Pop Star is named Mark. While this fits in that he was just another harmless puffball until he manipulated his way to ultimate power, it's still a bit hard to take seriously, so the localization changed it to Marx. This has been carried to Kirby Mass Attack pinball mini-game, which the official name translation for him is Marx even in Japanese version. All three of the major villains in Kirby: Planet Robobot have harmless-sounding names: Susie and Max Haltmann, and Star Dream. They are easily among the darkest villains in the series. |
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The Last Hero has Harry Dread, the last of the true Evil Overlords. | |
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In the My Little Pony Friendship is Magic comic's 6th issue, the leader of the Nightmare forces identifies himself as Shadowfright. This doesn't stop his subordinate from calling him by what's apparently his real name: Larry. | |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_39984dd2 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_39984dd2 | comment |
Come Play: The monster of the movie calls itself Larry. While it claims to be misunderstood, it considers stalking and scaring a young boy in his own home acceptable. | |
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Come Play | hasFeature |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_39c20861 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_39c20861 | comment |
In Highlander there’s Kronos, one of the Horsemen of the Apocalypse and a mass murderer over his thousands of years, who was going by Melvin at the time he was found by Methos. | |
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Highlander | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_39c20861 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_39c5e563 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_39c5e563 | comment |
No Evil: The ostensibly human Charles, who seems to be behind the return of the Black Tezcatlipoca. | |
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No Evil (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_39c5e563 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3a5e2165 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3a5e2165 | comment |
True Villains features a sinister No-Nonsense Nemesis sorcerer who shows up out of nowhere to punch a hole through Sebastian's soul, face Xaneth in magical battle, and even return from Hell as a giant demon bent on vengeance. His name? Dove. | |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_3b34143f | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3b34143f | comment |
Harry Potter: The Trope Namer is Voldemort, whose real name is Tom Marvolo Riddle (of which "I am Lord Voldemort" is an anagram). He hates his real name, partly because it's common (something his ego can't tolerate — even as a child he reacted negatively to the fact that he shared the name Tom with other people) and partly because it's his Muggle father's name. Dumbledore naturally makes a point of always calling him Tom to his face, while Harry calls him Riddle in their final confrontation. Many of the Death Eaters have very pedestrian-sounding names, like Peter Pettigrew (although everyone calls him "Wormtail"), Barty Crouch Jr. (though his legal name is technically "Bartemius"), Evan Rosier, Wilkes, Avery. |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_3b9dab71 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3b9dab71 | comment |
The recurring main antagonist of Cutey Honey is a woman with the rather mundane name of Sister Jill. Made even more apparent when other villains have more flashy names like Panther Zora or Black Claw. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3b9dab71 | featureApplicability |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_3b9dab71 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3c4b9931 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3c4b9931 | comment |
To contrast with such exotic-sounding names as Nandor, Laszlo and Nadja, one of the antagonists of the second season of What We Do in the Shadows (2019) is Jim the Vampire. (Yes, that's verbatim what's on his business card.) | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3c4b9931 | featureApplicability |
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What We Do in the Shadows (2019) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3c4b9931 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3d2687f6 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3d2687f6 | comment |
In Hoodwinked!, the main villain berates his Mook for having the un-evil-sounding name of Keith. Keep in mind that this is the villain, a bunny named Boingo, saying this to Keith. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3d2687f6 | featureApplicability |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_3d2687f6 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3e5f3f53 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3e5f3f53 | comment |
The main antagonist of SMG4's Anime Arc is a genocidal crime lord who caused the first ever permanent death in the series, who is given the horrifying name of... Francis. Justified however, as he is a far more villainous variant of the character of the same name from Super Paper Mario. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3e5f3f53 | featureApplicability |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_3e8c09b9 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3e8c09b9 | comment |
Attack on Titan's Isayama seems to be rather fond of these as the villains of each arc continue have more and more mundane names. The living legend known to have killed slaughtered over a hundred Military Policemen, the man who taught Levi how to fight, and the leader of the Anti-Human Suppression Squad goes by Kenny. His boss, the ruler of humanity and the man responsible for their enslavement within the walls is named Rod. The mastermind behind the collapse of the walls, Annie, Bertholt, and Reiner's superior, and the man plotting extinction of everyone within the walls is called Zeke. The final enemy that kickstarts the Rumbling? Eren. However, this is likely purposely done to humanize these characters, as their backgrounds show that they are not quite the monsters they appear to be. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3e8c09b9 | featureApplicability |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_3e8c09b9 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3f61e14f | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3f61e14f | comment |
ElvenQuest: The supremely evil Lord Darkness's real name is in fact Billy. As a kid, he was known as "Little Billy Wobbles". | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3f61e14f | featureApplicability |
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ElvenQuest (Radio) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3f61e14f | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3fd18b91 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3fd18b91 | comment |
Zombidle's main character is an undead necromancer spreading destruction across many kingdoms with his demonic hordes... named Bob. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_3fd18b91 | featureApplicability |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_3fd18b91 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_406b9c00 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_406b9c00 | comment |
Sucker for Love plays with this, as while "Ln'eta", "Estir", and "Rhok'zan" look appropriately Lovecraftian, it's quite a different thing to say them out loud and realize the three monstrous, mind-bending love interests are named "Lynetta", "Esther" and "Roxanne". | |
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Sucker for Love (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_406b9c00 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_426b2536 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_426b2536 | comment |
In Rare Americans' song "Hullabaloo", the Corrupt Corporate Executive runs his drugged, demoralised workforce like a cult and is actually an Eldritch Abomination who eats his employees. His name is Uncle Graham. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_426b2536 | featureApplicability |
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Rare Americans (Music) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_426b2536 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_42c05590 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_42c05590 | comment |
Peaches the Dark Lord from Rocko's Modern Life who famously tried to take Heffer's soul twice (and one episode ended up being banned!). | |
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Rocko's Modern Life | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_42c05590 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_42c88f31 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_42c88f31 | comment |
The Floor Master of Chapter 3-1 in Your Turn to Die can be named by the player, but his default rename option is "Midori". While not an exceedingly common Japanese name, it literally translates to "green", which is the color of his hair. This trope also applies to his real name, Sou Hiyori, which is rather simple as well. However, despite his simple name, he is revealed to be responsible for much of the suffering that the cast goes through and is easily the cruelest of the floor masters. Since the player has control over what he'll be called in the game, this can be invoked as well. You could literally name him "Tom."note There's even room to put in "Tom the Dark Lord." | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_42c88f31 | featureApplicability |
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Your Turn to Die (Visual Novel) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_42c88f31 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_43576f5 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_43576f5 | comment |
Meg, Tom, and Ruby in Supernatural are the only demons shown that don't have demonic-sounding names. In Meg's case, at least, it's not her real name (her original host was named Meg). | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_43576f5 | featureApplicability |
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Supernatural | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_43576f5 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_43662a49 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_43662a49 | comment |
Yin Yang Yo! has Carl the Evil Cockroach Wizard. | |
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Yin Yang Yo! | hasFeature |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_459cda86 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_459cda86 | comment |
The Lost City: The sociopathic villain's name is Abigail, and The Dragon, a bald, mustached brute, is named Julian. In both cases, this gets lampshaded. | |
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The Lost City | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_459cda86 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_45b01d03 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_45b01d03 | comment |
Meta Runner: The Big Bad is a completely sociopath who is willing to do anything to keep his reputation clean, and his name is Derek Lucks. | |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_45b01d03 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_468bebb0 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_468bebb0 | comment |
From Discworld: Dr. John Hix, Unseen University's head of totally-not-necromancy, whose real name is actually Hicks. However, he's not really a threat, as his acts of evil fall squarely into Poke the Poodle territory by university statute. The Last Hero has Harry Dread, the last of the true Evil Overlords. |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
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Discworld | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_468bebb0 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_46b77e18 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_46b77e18 | comment |
Kung Pow! Enter the Fist, where the evil kung fu master changes his name from 'Master Pain' to 'Betty'. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_46b77e18 | featureApplicability |
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Kung Pow! Enter the Fist | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_46b77e18 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4797fe95 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4797fe95 | comment |
Hunter: The Parenting: THE GREAT AND MIGHTY KEVIN, a crazed Tremere vampire from the Sabbat, who has zero problems treating such a mundane name like the loftiest of titles... and as we find out later, there are reasons for that: He's a vampire who still tries to keep a connection to humanity, and was forced to adopt a "shitty Camarilla roleplay name" (Herbertus) when he was embraced, and then got bestowed with an Embarrassing Nickname when he managed to defect to the Sabbat until he earned enough respect to be called what he wanted. Using his own mortal name is both a sign of wanting to remain human and a symbol of the shackles he's shattered in the way... that and he despised the other names he got, with special hatred for Herbertus. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4797fe95 | featureApplicability |
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Hunter: The Parenting (Web Animation) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4797fe95 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_48d31b2a | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_48d31b2a | comment |
Infernax, while he has the demons use names mostly from the Ars Goetia, which do look intimidating, has the cutlist leader, whose name is Robert, and who is to a large extent responsible for the demonic invasion. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_48d31b2a | featureApplicability |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_48d31b2a | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_49ad83ee | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_49ad83ee | comment |
In World of Warcraft: A succubus really an imp mother that intimidates even the Council of the Black Harvest, causing one of its members to insist she's "beyond all of us" is named Agatha. High Inquisitor Whitemane is a brutal Knight Templar who serves the fanatical Scarlet Crusade faction. This is all despite the fact that her first name is Sally. |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_49ad83ee | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4b434423 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4b434423 | comment |
Pokémon Sword and Shield has a MegaCorp called Macro Cosmos, which is trying to kickstart the Darkest Day and unleash an Eldritch Abomination. Its leader has the fairly benign name of "Chairman Rose". Subverted in that Rose is a Well-Intentioned Extremist; his plan is an attempt to solve an energy crisis that he predicts will happen some thousand years in the future. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4b434423 | featureApplicability |
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Pokémon Sword and Shield (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4b434423 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4be1bdd0 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4be1bdd0 | comment |
Golden Sun: The recurring evil mastermind of the series is named Alex. It's justified in that he comes from Imil, where relatively plain Western names are the standard. More outlandish villains have more outlandish names, making Alex a distinct contrast. Subverted in Dark Dawn when Alex uses the alias "Arcanus". Not only does it match the Tarot Theme Naming of his new allies, it also upstages them, fitting Alex's self-important personality and new powers. And returns to being played straight when he finally reveals his identity, to the shock of all present. Except for Kraden, who had figured it out already. |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_4be1bdd0 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4c300a8c | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4c300a8c | comment |
In Lilo & Stitch: The Series, the main villain is a rodent-like alien named Dr. Hamsterviel, often mispronounced to sound like the not-very-threatening Hamsterwheel. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4c300a8c | featureApplicability |
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Lilo & Stitch: The Series | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4c300a8c | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4dda88e0 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4dda88e0 | comment |
Absolutely Anything: The Supreme Council of Intergalactic Beings travels the universe, destroying any species that fails to pass their convulted and morally ambiguous Secret Test of Character. The four aliens sitting on the council are named Kylie, Sharon, Maureen, and Janet. This is subverted later in the movie, though, when it turns out that a mischevious underling tampered with their translation device, and the leader of the council says that his actual title is the Death-Dealing Darkness-Bringer. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4dda88e0 | featureApplicability |
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Absolutely Anything | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4dda88e0 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4e433e78 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4e433e78 | comment |
Monty Python and the Holy Grail has an ominous enchanter in a ram's skull helmet, who is introduced raining explosions down from a mountain. When asked his name, he replies "There are some who call me... 'Tim'." | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4e433e78 | featureApplicability |
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Monty Python and the Holy Grail | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4e433e78 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4e549f11 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4e549f11 | comment |
Dreamscape: There is a Reality Warper zombie sorcerer named Ethan. This is especially jarring when you compare his name with his sister Curien. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_4e549f11 | featureApplicability |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_50bcf7a6 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_50bcf7a6 | comment |
In Homestuck, one of the most powerful and deadly enemies is named... Jack. That his last name is the slightly exotic Noir only dampens the effect a little bit. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_50bcf7a6 | featureApplicability |
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Homestuck (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_50bcf7a6 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_527fc353 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_527fc353 | comment |
Swan Song: Macklin's right-hand man inside the bunker, and in the chaos and recourse wars that follow, is called "Teddybear" Warner. | |
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Swan Song | hasFeature |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_56edb129 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_56edb129 | comment |
Freddy Krueger from the A Nightmare on Elm Street franchise. Although the name is quite harsh-sounding, it's still a name that sounds too normal for a demon who can enter and kill people in their dreams. Given that he used to be an ordinary human being, it's rather justified. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_56edb129 | featureApplicability |
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A Nightmare on Elm Street (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_56edb129 | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_59140854 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_59140854 | comment |
Kilgrave from Jessica Jones (2015) has Kevin Thompson as his real name. | |
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Jessica Jones (2015) | hasFeature |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_5a49f883 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_5a49f883 | comment |
A Hero's War: Emperor Muppy is a laughingstock among the kids, but strikes dread in adults centuries after his death; having a name too funny not to insult and personal death squads crushing the populace is not a healthy combo. | |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_5e498fad | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_5e498fad | comment |
Fright Night (1985) features a terrifying vampire named Jerry. | |
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Fright Night (1985) | hasFeature |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_5e498fad | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_5e510416 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_5e510416 | comment |
In the Reincarnation (2008) series, Lucifer, Prince of Lies, prefers to go by "Luke". His underlings are no less intimidated by him either way. | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_5e510416 | featureApplicability |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_5fe8632b | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_5fe8632b | comment |
W.I.T.C.H. has a few examples: Cedric, Thomas Vandom, Mark Zibosky, Jonathan Ludmoore, Edward Folkner, Tecla Ibsen, and Takeda (first name unknown). Justified for most of them, as they're humans from Earth and not trying to conquer the world ( Thomas Vandom and Mark Zibosky don't even know about magic, respectively being Will's father who is trying to make a quick buck and an extortionist who got on the Guardians' bad side), but Cedric is a Shapeshifting snake man, and Ludmoore comes from another world. The cartoon also adds Miranda, a Shapeshifting giant spider and Cedric's Bastard Understudy. | |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_60b9f111 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_60b9f111 | comment |
On Wynonna Earp, the leader of the revenants is a guy named Bobo. | |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_62570927 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_62570927 | comment |
Marvel Universe: The real name of the Red Skull, archnemesis of Captain America, is Johann Schmidt, the German equivalent to "John Smith". Zig-zagged with his equally psychopathic daughter Sinthea, whose name has an unconventional spelling, but is pronounced like the much more common "Cynthia", which may be why she often goes by "Sin" instead. |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_62862142 | type |
Tom the Dark Lord | |
Tom the Dark Lord / int_62862142 | comment |
Dusty Raging Fist has the Ancient Evil, a demon who assumes a regular form named... Elijah. As in, Elijah the Ancient Lord of Darkness. | |
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Dusty Raging Fist (Video Game) | hasFeature |
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Tom the Dark Lord / int_62cafa4 | type |
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The warlord that Max runs afoul of in Mad Max: Fury Road is called Immortan Joe and his real name is Joseph Moore (which is as about as common a name as you can get). Doesn't stop him from being one of the most brutal and nastiest villains in the franchise (and that is saying something). | |
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In Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, the Sherriff of Nottingham is Named by the Adaptation as "George". | |
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The Queen Who Fell To Earth: A magical terrorist takes on the name Carlos the Gerbil. | |
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Spooky Month: The antagonist of "Tender Treats" is a cannibalistic Serial Killer who actively stalks the main characters, successfully maims someone onscreen, and is consistently treated by everyone as a threat, including the two normally naive and oblivious child protagonists towards the episode's end. His name is Bob. | |
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The Witchery Game Mod has a demon lord named Leonard. Not the mod creator's fault in this case, as Leonard is actually the name of a demon associated with witches in the Dictionnaire Infernal, a 19th-century book on diabolism. | |
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The Owl House The true name of Emperor Belos is Philip Wittebane. Pretty good surname, first name... not so much. Unlike most examples of this trope, he actually prefers to be addressed as Philip, and only changed his name once he got run out of too many towns under his real identity. The Elder of the Titan Trappers, who has dedicated his life to hunting Titans to near extinction, is called Bill. |
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Blade Strangers gives us the all-terrifying wrath of a ravenous Humanoid Abomination bent on devouring everything in The Multiverse named... Lina. Yep, that's her name. And in the form of a cute, teenage girl to boot. | |
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In Grrl Power, we learn after his defeat and incarceration that Vehemence's actual given name is Kevin. The author mentions he specifically chose it as a non-threatening name for an extremely dangerous villain. | |
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Bob is one of the major villains of the sprite comic Bob and George. He's also a fiery supervillain known as Napalm, but most people refer to him as "Bob" even when he's manifesting his "Napalm" superpowers. | |
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One of the most iconic characters in Mortal Kombat is the massive four-armed warrior Goro. In Japan, Goro is a very common boy's name. | |
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Monsters, Inc. plays with this trope. The characters are monsters hiding under children's bed and in their closet, but behind this, they are all Punch-Clock Villains who live in a monster society just like humans, and all of them have human names. The actual villain is named Randall Boggs. | |
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West of Loathing has a sinister Eldritch Abomination lurking in the El Vibrato Ruins which answers to the name... Roberto. There's also a demon lord named Barnaby Bob. | |
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Berserk: One of the Godhand, the Demon Lords that pull at the strings of destiny, is named "Conrad". This stands out rather starkly against names like "Slan", "Ubik", and "Void". | |
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Bastard!! (1988) has a Big Bad named Dark Schneider. There's also a male Dark Priest who went by the name Abigail. | |
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Honkai Impact 3rd: While this is averted with the first "proper" Big Bad, Otto Apocalypse, it is played straight with the leader of World Serpent, Kevin Kaslana. Kaslana isn't that bad, but Kevin... That's a pretty mundane name for the World's Best Warrior, especially compared to his descendant, Siegfried, who shares a name with the dragon-slaying hero of the Nibelungenlied. | |
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The Life and Times of Juniper Lee: The League Of Villainous Evildoers (LOVE) featured in one episode. June also goes up against a Government Conspiracy called Humans for the Abolishment of Magic... HAM. Another recurring villain in the series is the Sandman, who prefers to go by his real name: Stephen. (But does not like to be called "Steve".) |
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Archer: Barry Dylan. He may not start out particularly villainous, but once he receives a cyborg upgrade, he certainly qualifies. The vicious (male) leader of the Irish Mob is named Franny Delaney. To a lesser extent, Conway Stern. Good surname, but that first name doesn't inspire a lot of fear... The ruthless hitman couple of...Charles and Rudy. |
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In the original V for Vendetta comics, Adam Susan, leader of the fascist regime, definitely counts. | |
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Beastars has a sociopathic villain named "Melon", as in the fruit. He is introduced as an ivory trader in a world where animals are intelligent who lures his elephant victims in by working as a therapist before brutally murdering his victims, and he later takes over the lion yakuza and works to drive carnivores into a meat loving frenzy, which causes serious problems for a society where carnivores and herbivores can barely coexist at all. His mother claims that she named him this because he is a hybrid and melons have traits of both fruits and vegetables, but he realized she was lying and really named him this because of her desire to eat him, so he killed her remorselessly before she could do so. | |
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The strongest villain of the manga is Majin Buu, named after the phrase Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo. (Bibidi and Babidi are two related characters, namely his former masters) | |
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Twin Peaks: BOB, also known as "Killer BOB", the demonic Big Bad who regularly accesses the material plane to cause human suffering. Another entity known as "MIKE" used to be Bob's partner-in-crime, but he's since repented and now seeks to stop BOB. The Greater-Scope Villain is an impossibly ancient demon that feasts on human suffering and may be the key to The End of the World as We Know It. Her name is Judy. |
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Tales of Symphonia has a variation. Most of the major villains have menacing-sounding names (Magnius, Kvar, Rodyle, Forcystus, Pronyma) while the Big Bad's name is the equally cool-sounding Yggdrasill. However, his actual first name is Mithos, which, while certainly not a normal name in real life, sounds a lot less threatening and is explicitly stated to be a common boy's name in-universe. | |
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Mutant Chronicles: The Prophet of the Dark and Harbinger of Destruction... is named Billy. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Doof started an Evil League called the League Of Villainous Evildoers Maniacally United For Frightening Investment in Naughtiness. Or as it's better known, L.O.V.E.M.U.F.F.I.N.. There's also Meap's sworn enemy, Evil Poacher and would-be galactic overlord Mitch. Some people call him "Big Mitch". Another episode has Doofenshmirtz telling Perry about his mentor whom his temporary island hideout belonged to, Professor Destructicon... or "Kevin" to his friends, which Doof refers him by as he continues his story. |
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The Flash (2014): Some of the metahumans have rather mundane names, like Tony, Becky, or Mark, to make them seem more personal to the audience. It's eventually revealed that Savitar's real name is Barry because he's a potential future version of Barry Allen. The Big Bad of Season Four, a criminal mastermind and terrorist, is named Clifford DeVoe. In-universe, he shares even his surname with over a thousand people in the nearby area. |
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The Goodies. In "The Lost Island of Munga" the Goodies meet a Diabolical Mastermind of previous acquaintance. | |
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Bravely Second's main antagonist is Kaiser Oblivion, which is obviously a pseudonym. His real name is Denys (rhymes with "Danny"). | |
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From Earthworm Jim, there's Bob the Killer Goldfish. Despite being as weak as an ordinary goldfish, he still fits the title since his authority over an army of brutes and a nearly impenetrable fortress makes him fearsome. | |
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Virtually all of the villainous characters in the Despicable Me movies: Felonious Gru, the Villain Protagonist of the main films. His first name does sound like something a villain would have, but you wouldn't know that he even had a first name since he's only ever referred to as "Gru". However, he actually subverts (if not inverts) this trope as Gru performs a Heel–Face Turn over the course of the first film. There are also his minions who, though the "evil" part is questionable, all have normal sounding names such as Kevin, Stuart, Bob, Dave, etc. Vector, the actual Big Bad from the first film whose real name is Victor Perkins. El Macho in the second one, whose real name is Edwardo Perez. Balthazar Bratt from the third. Neither are particularly common but they're still average sounding names for a supervillain. From Minions, Scarlett Overkill actually averts this with a legitimate evil-sounding name. |
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The Dark Tower (2017): Despite being haunted by visions of his utterly evil nature, Jake can't help but laugh when told that the Man in Black's name is the rather ordinary "Walter". | |
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In New Vindicators, the main villain of the Laputa arc in the European story, Laputa-Prime, is really named Elizabeth, but often addressed by a very cutesy-sounding nickname, Little Lizzie. | |
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Star Trek: In Star Trek Into Darkness, several attacks on Starfleet facilities are launched by a rogue Section 31 officer by the name of John Harrison, including an attempted Decapitation Strike against Starfleet's leadership. Captain Kirk is ordered to track him down and kill him. The Reveal midway into the film is that "John Harrison" is actually an alias for Khan Noonien Singh, and that Kirk's boss, Admiral Marcus, is trying to play them both against each other as part of a plot to start a war with the Klingon Empire. Star Trek Beyond plays with the trope, with Krall's original name being revealed as Balthazar Edison. While Balthazar is an unusual name, it's not unheard of in the western world, being the name of one of the Three Wise Men. |
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In EDENS ZERO, the deceased Demon King and ruler of the Sakura Cosmos, feared across space as a powerful Gravity Master, and looks like a robotic skeletal Evil Overlord, was graced with the awe-inspiring name of...Ziggy. This might be a hint of his true nature, given how Shiki always saw him as a kindly grandfather figure before his passing. | |
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From Minions, Scarlett Overkill actually averts this with a legitimate evil-sounding name. | |
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David Xanathos of Gargoyles has a cool last name but a pretty common first one. The irony lay is his enemy being named "Goliath." | |
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The Adventures of Tom Rynosseros: The villainous characters, like Bolo May and Dewi Dammo, tend to have fairly innocuous names. | |
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In RuneScape, trolls are named for the first thing they try to eat (or the sounds it makes if the trolls don't know what it is). Naturally, this leads to a quest where you make an alliance with the dreaded troll warlord "Pretty Flower". He's not happy about his name, and hopes his son gets a cooler one. His son ends up with the name 'Sparkly Crystal'. | |
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The Adventure Zone: Balance: Played for laughs with the first major villain, the Black Spider, whose real name is...Brian. A more ominous example is the avatar and true form of the Hunger, who goes by "John". |
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Brigandine: Legend of Runersia: The Holy Gustava Empire is a black-color schemed empire that showed itself as a formidable force even without a Brigandine, and filled with knights of misfits rejected from other regions. You wish to know the name of its Emperor? Well, they call him... Tim? | |
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Gil's All Fright Diner has Tammy, the seventeen-year-old planning to unleash the Old Gods on the universe. She insists that her minion (she only has one) refer to her as "Mistress Lillith." | |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Star's half-demon Psycho Ex-Boyfriend, the prince of the Underworld, is literally named Tom Lucitor. In an subversion, demons in this setting are not generally evil (or even enemies of the generally xenophobic Kingdom of Mewni), and Tom's destructive behavior is something he regrets and tries to reign in (eventually, he succeeds). The "evil efficiency expert" Ludo hires in "Fortune Cookies" is a slick, suave lizard man named Toffee, who winds up being a Knight of Cerebus. |
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A Brief History of Equestria: The Mongrellian Horde was founded by a Genghis Khan Expy named Fluffy. | |
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A minor villain from the third season of Lexx had the name Fifi. It's worth mentioning that this villain is male. | |
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In Applied Cultural Anthropology, Diary Tom briefly considers teaching people to fear Dark Lord Tom. | |
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Absolute Trust reveals that Combustion Mans' actual name is "Lee". Alec finds this absolutely hilarious due to how common of a name Lee is in the Avatar World. | |
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Danganronpa: The Big Bad is a self-centered, egotistical bully and a terrorist who seeks to cause despair for its own sake, and yet has the rather casual Meaningful Name of "Junko Enoshima", which isn't at all threatening nor does it capture the extent of her misdeeds. She uses the casual aspect of her name as part of her fashionista cover. Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has a character (albeit a massive Chuunibyou) claiming to be a demon lord of destruction. His name? Tanaka- one of the most common family names in Japan, and essentially the equivalent of 'Dark Lord Smith'. On the other hand, his given name is Gundham. |
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Red vs. Blue: The main villains of The Blood Gulch Chronicles are named O'Malley, Gary, and Reggie. Though O'Malley and Gary aren't their actual names, which are the somewhat more sinister-sounding Omega and Gamma. The Director of Project Freelancer, the main villain ultimately behind basically every problem in the series is named Leonard Church. Along with his right-hand man, Aiden Price. One of the main villains of the Chorus Trilogy is simply named Felix. (The other goes by the name of his armor instead of using a proper name.) Their boss, the Chairman of Charon Industries, is named Malcolm Hargrove. |
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Animorphs: The second Yeerk who controls Jake's brother, and who turns out to be a dangerous Big Bad Wannabe in the final novels, is only ever referred to as "Tom," the name of his host. Even more in line with this is Taylor, who actually prefers using her host's name (a sign that she and the real Taylor have an unusual relationship). Her title, at least when we first meet her, is Sub-Visser Fifty-one. |
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Trombone Champ: In order to make progress through the game's meta-narrative, the player will need to collect Tromboner Cards and sacrifice them to a demon in order to unlock new trombones, with the demon promising to reveal his true name once they've become the Trombone Champ. Do so by beating the game, and talking to him has him reveal that his name is George. | |
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The Rise of Darth Vulcan: Lampshaded. The titular Darth Vulcan is actually named Ted, but figured that he wouldn't be taken seriously if he introduced himself as "the Dread Sorcerer Ted", hence the alias. | |
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Total War: Warhammer III: The Daemon Prince can be named whatever the player wishes. Whenever he shows up in official Creative Assembly videos, he's named 'Daniel', and the name is even given a mention in the introduction video to Immortal Empires when The Advisor mentions the name keeps haunting him. His name before his ascension, Yuri, would also count but The Daemon Prince is heavily implied to have rejected it. Granted, there is nothing stopping the player from using that same name again. | |
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The Yoshi's Island series almost seems to be making a trend out of this for the boss names, with all the villains having names more suited to a school or workplace than the dark side. Some examples include Roger (the potted ghost), Raphael (the raven), Gilbert (the gooey boss in world 1 of Yoshi's Island DS), Hector, Sal and (in New Island) Fred. | |
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Master Detective Archives: Rain Code: Regarding the Amaterasu Corporation, there are many names (bar one) that are rather casual despite the characters being villainous: the Peacekeepers have names like Swank Catsonell, Seth Burroughs, Martina Electro, Guillaume Hall, and Dominic Fulltank. The leader is an exception to this, being called Yomi Hellsmile. As for the game's main antagonist, the CEO of the company is called "Makoto Kagutsuchi", which is rather casual even in the context of its translation, meaning "truth" and "fire god". As a bonus, the head researcher of the company is also called Dr. Huesca, and he turns out to be among the absolute most villainous characters in the game, but certainly not to the extent of the evil-sounding Yomi. | |
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Assassin's Creed Origins: The Crocodile is one of the nastiest members of the Order of the Ancients, willing to hurt children in order to intimidate their parents and their real name is revealed to be Berenike, which is an ancient form of "Veronica". | |
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Simon the gremlin from Trollz was sealed away for 3000 years after turning most of the good magic evil and destroying the world of the Trollz as they knew it, but it's still hard to take him seriously with that name. | |
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The player protagonist from Spinal Breakers (a violent and Gorn-loaded arcade game) is Captain Waffle, a badass One-Man Army who slaughters enemy mooks by the dozens. | |
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Undertale The Ax-Crazy true villain refers to himself as Flowey the Flower. Kind of odd considering that he probably came up with that himself, and the name of his original self is Asriel Dreemurr, which is much more intimidating aside from the fact that it's just a mash-up of his parents' names. There's also the real name of the Anomaly, which is whatever the player's name is. No, not the player character, the player. It's literally you, after all. |
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In the third Jimmy-Timmy Power Hour, there is a male villain named "Shirley". | |
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The first of the three main villains in Dragon Ball GT is named Baby. He is not as pathetic as he sounds. | |
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This one seems to take the cake - in the third season of Yu-Gi-Oh! GX, it's revealed that the main protagonist - Jaden Yuki - is the Supreme King. While this may have some meaning to Hebrew fans of the Yu-Gi-Oh! anime franchise, as "Jaden" is Hebrew for "God has heard," it doesn't make this any less hilarious. | |
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El Macho in the second one, whose real name is Edwardo Perez. | |
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Balthazar Bratt from the third. Neither are particularly common but they're still average sounding names for a supervillain. | |
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In The Good Place: All of the millennia-old celestial beings have ordinary human names like Trevor, Glen, Vicky, and Todd. Some of these might be nicknames for weirder names, though. The High Judge who rules over all disputes between the Good Place and the Bad Place is named Gen—short for Hydrogen because it was the only thing that existed when she was born. The Head of The Bad Place, effectively the show's representation of Satan, is named...Shawn. |
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Septimus Heap has this several times. In the first book, The Hunter, a Scarily Competent Tracker who hunts fugitives and doesn't stop till they're dead, is named Gerald. He considers this an Embarrassing First Name and doesn't like people knowing about it. The Big Bad of Darke is named Merrin Meredith. |
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In Regular Show Death's baby son is named Thomas. | |
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One Piece: The most dangerous operative in history of CP9, who leads the other agents in the front lines, is called Rob Lucci. Despite having a name less intimidating than his superior's in Enies Lobby (Spandam), he is the greatest threat in the arc and nearly defeats Luffy. One of Emperor Kaido's three top henchmen, the Lead Performers, a man so destructive his nickname is "The Drought" for how he destroys whole lands, and who had the highest bounty in the series at that point at one billion berries. His name? Jack. Granted, it's part of a Theme Naming with his fellow Calamities, Queen and King, all of whom are named after card values (just like Kaido's ally Joker, aka Donquixote Doflamingo), but this wasn't obvious at the time of Jack's introduction. Big Mom, one of the Four Emperors of the Sea, a queen whose hands are drenched in blood, including the killing of her own family when they fail her, a gigantic powerhouse with an insatiable appetite who was killing Giants at the age of five. Her name: Charlotte Linlin (Linlin Charlotte in western order). Whitebeard, the World's Strongest Man and pirate who was second only to Gol D. Roger, was named Edward Newgate. |
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In Good Omens: The eleven-year-old Anti-Christ is named Adam. Although that is mostly because he managed to slip under the radar due to a little mixup — the kid whom the forces of Heaven and Hell thought was the Anti-Christ ended up named "Warlock" thanks to some very persuasive satanic nuns. The nun who named Adam was forced to invoke this trope, since she was really trying to give him either a 'satanic' name or an American name (long story), but she was only giving suggestions to the father. After the father vetoed her original ideas, she then suggested Adam. |
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Pokémon: In many games, the leader of the Nebulous Evil Organisation usually has a cool name; Team Rocket has Giovanni, Team Galactic has Cyrus, Team Plasma has Ghetsis, Team Flare has Lysandre, and Team Skull and Aether Foundation has Guzma and Lusamine. Team Magma and Team Aqua, however? Maxie and Archie, respectively. Pokémon Sword and Shield has a MegaCorp called Macro Cosmos, which is trying to kickstart the Darkest Day and unleash an Eldritch Abomination. Its leader has the fairly benign name of "Chairman Rose". Subverted in that Rose is a Well-Intentioned Extremist; his plan is an attempt to solve an energy crisis that he predicts will happen some thousand years in the future. The leader of the Villain In Name Only Team Star in Pokémon Scarlet and Violet has the cute and harmless name of Penny. |
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The Pig King of Mother 3 makes Giygas look tame in comparison, orchestrating the horrific Chimera projects that turn peaceful animals into deranged cyborgs, conquering your hometown and corrupting the residents into greedy, selfish people, and ultimately deciding to destroy the world for laughs. King Porky also qualifies in the previous game he appeared in. | |
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In Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily, Specter has an unstable Split Personality (later to revealed that it's a lightning bolt that accidentally struck Specter down and fused with him) that casts electricity called "Easter". Originally said personality was going to call themselves "Earth-as-Specter" before Paul London suggests the easier "Easter" since it contains the first letters for the first name and that they are currently in the 400 Rabbits Car, and Easter is associated with rabbits. | |
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Sid Phillips from Toy Story (makes sense, as he's an ordinary preteen boy in a setting where Humans Are Cthulhu). | |
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Lots-o-Huggin' Bear, or Lotso for short, from Toy Story 3. | |
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In Code Geass, the Big Bad of the show was The Emperor of Britannia. His name was never mentioned in the first season, but we had met plenty of his children, who had cool and exotic names, mostly derived from French, Latin, and German. Then the second season rolled around, and in the second episode, we finally found the Emperor's name: the very normal Charles. Curiously, this doubles as Names to Run Away from Really Fast, since "Charles the Great" is another name for the Frankish emperor better known as Charlemagne. | |
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In the Borderlands series, the most notorious villain of the series is none other than a CEO known only as Handsome Jack, full name "Jack". He has become so notorious in the series that characters actually use his name in place of God with phrases like "Oh My Jack" and "As Jack is my witness". Made even worse as his real name is said to be "John". | |
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Randall Flagg from The Stand and The Dark Tower books by Stephen King. Even better, that's not even his real name. His real name is Walter Padick, and has been known as Walter o' Dim in the past. Considering that he is an Evil Sorcerer who boasts terrifying powers, this comes off as Ominous Mundanity. | |
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Astral Chain: The Final Boss is an Eldritch Abomination that is a fusion of Yoseph, Akira, and Akira’s clones whose goal is to absorb every life form in the universe to become the most powerful being in existence. Its name? Noah. | |
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Nicol Bolas from Magic: The Gathering, which can be seen as a form of 'Nicholas'. He's an incredibly old, powerful, and evil Elder Dragon. | |
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In The Fairly OddParents! fanfiction, Never Had a Friend Like Me, the heroes get to face Bob the boil and Eldritch Abomination | |
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Exterminatus Now gives us the Conspirator, Greater Daemon of the Patterner... Kevin. | |
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YIIKA Postmodern RPG: The universe-destroying Final Boss has the rather mundane name Proto-Alex. | |
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Fatal Fury: The most fearsome crime lord in Southtown is named... Geese Howard. Yes, named after a fowl. And he'll still kick the crap of anyone that crosses him. | |
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Skullgirls: The titular Skullgirl, a massively powerful lich, is named Marie, and her predecessor was Nancy. Nancy almost destroyed the world and required all nations to ally to take her down. | |
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A recurring character in SuperMarioLogan is the devil, who is given the terrifying name of... Craig. | |
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Robin Hood: Men in Tights, parodying the above, gives the Sheriff of Rottingham an Embarrassing First Name. | |
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During Issue #9 The Secret World, players are introduced to the Black Signal, the disembodied sentience commanding the Filth in Tokyo and the voice of the Dreamers on Earth. However, despite a fanciful number of titles including "The Word Virus," "The Brain Pathogen Grammar," and "The Smoking Mirror," he's actually very upfront in revealing that his real name is, in fact... John. | |
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Voltes V Versus Voltron The Godaikin Wars: | |
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The Ender's Game series features a running subplot involving the protagonist's frighteningly intelligent, utterly sociopathic older brother, who eventually manages to become the honest-to-God Ruler of the World through a series of expert political gambits that see him appointed leader of Earth's unified world government. His name? Uh… "Peter Wiggin". Yes, an evil world dictator named "Peter Wiggin". | |
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Paper Mario: The Origami King: The one who turned Peach and Bowser's minions into origami figurines and aims to do the same thing to the rest of the world is an evil king named Olly, a name much more befitting a young boy. It makes more sense when you learn of his origins, though: not only was he "born" pretty recently, he was never intended by his creator to be a villain. | |
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In Outlaw Star we have secondary antagonists, outlaw leaders feared galaxy-wide, Ron and Harry MacDougal. While retroactively hilarious, the names do fit with the series' Space Western setting. | |
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FAITH: The Unholy Trinity deals with the matter of a Satanic cult, led by a man by the name of...Gary. He's the next-closest thing to a Big Bad after Satan himself. Although he's not actually a man, but an incarnated demon and his real name is the much more fitting Astaroth, one of the 72 demons of the Ars Goetia. | |
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In Star Trek Into Darkness, several attacks on Starfleet facilities are launched by a rogue Section 31 officer by the name of John Harrison, including an attempted Decapitation Strike against Starfleet's leadership. Captain Kirk is ordered to track him down and kill him. The Reveal midway into the film is that "John Harrison" is actually an alias for Khan Noonien Singh, and that Kirk's boss, Admiral Marcus, is trying to play them both against each other as part of a plot to start a war with the Klingon Empire. | |
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The Magnus Archives runs on this trope with avatars that channel eldritch entities of fear, with the power to trap victims in their worst nightmares, having names such as Peter or Jane. They have such mundane names that there are two unrelated evil Michaels. But it does make sense why... | |
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In Stranger Things Season 4, the Big Bad Vecna turns out to be an example of this. His name was originally Henry Creel, codename One. On finding this out, our heroes start lampshading this, calling him "Vecna slash Henry slash One." | |
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Dr. Horrible's Sing-Along Blog: Doctor Horrible. His Secret Identity is that of an awkward nerd named Billy. Of course, his villainous nickname and its accompanying catchphrase ("I've got a PhD in Horribleness") are intentionally Narmy as well. | |
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Ruby Quest has the horrible mutated monster Daisy, Knight Templar Mad Doctor Filbert, and the Ax-Crazy 'highest priority hazard', Tom. The latter is usually referred to by his subject number (#6), as he shares his name with Ruby's companion. For the very good reason that they're one and the same. The person that the players thought was Subject #6 (who was really #5) also counts, since he's an incredibly creepy borderline Eldritch Abomination whose name is also Tom. | |
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Jonathan Doe in Se7en is a psychotic Theme Serial Killer. Also an Invoked Trope, since it's pretty clearly a fake name adopted by said killer, who deliberately erased his entire background to become an enigma. | |
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The main character of Hell Inc is a demon named Doug who works in a pretty unremarkable cubicle-layout office, aside from the fact that the comic is set in Hell. | |
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Pirates of the Caribbean: The dreaded, immortal, lovelorn, tentacle-faced, murderous lord of the ocean's dead is named Davy Jones. In real-life mythology, the name's etymology is unknown- it may be a corruption of "the Devil Jonah", or derived from a Welsh sea god called Dewi. In-universe, it just happens to be his name. For another example, Davy's sadistic bo'sun is named Jimmy Legs. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Plankton has the Embarrassing First Name of Sheldon, which is not particularly evil-sounding. From the first movie, Dennis isn't exactly the first name to come to mind when you see an insane and merciless hitman. |
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El Goonish Shive gives us an alternate reality Evil Overlord version of one of the protagonists. All hail Lord Tedd! And then there's the maniac with a god complex, Damien. | |
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Unsounded: Darkest Paul’s name was chosen by the author to be a ridiculous pun on darkest pall, give Bastion one more thing to mock him over and make him unthreatening to readers. This all ensures the fact that he’s a legitimate threat that manages to overthrow the traditional leadership of the Black Tongues a surprise. | |
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Chernobyl: The three roofs of the Chernobyl power plant are nicknamed Nina, Katya, and Masha. Masha in particular is one of the most dangerous places in the world and so radioactive they can't even use robots to clean it. And, though the series doesn't explicitly mention it, there's Elena- i.e. the destroyed reactor itself, which is too radioactive to even look at. | |
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Warhammer has the legendary Chaos Champion known as Harald Hammerstorm, or "Harry the Hammer" to his friends. | |
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Beyond the Outer Gates Lies... A high school library? the "heroes" who call themselves Jeanne d'Arc and Heracles are actually name Evelyn White and Dean Bakersfield, respectively. | |
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It comes up all of once, but the eponymous Riddick from The Chronicles of Riddick is named Richard. | |
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Minecraft: Word of God, the Ender Dragon's name is "Jean". The Witchery Game Mod has a demon lord named Leonard. Not the mod creator's fault in this case, as Leonard is actually the name of a demon associated with witches in the Dictionnaire Infernal, a 19th-century book on diabolism. |
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Star Trek Beyond plays with the trope, with Krall's original name being revealed as Balthazar Edison. While Balthazar is an unusual name, it's not unheard of in the western world, being the name of one of the Three Wise Men. | |
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The TV Series of How to Train Your Dragon gives us Alvin the Treacherous. Also lampshaded in the show itself. | |
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The most significant villain in Final Fantasy X is named Seymour. It's a Meaningful Name as it is rendered in Japanese as Shīmoa, which contains shī, meaning "death", but still a rather mundane one. | |
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The Supervillainy Saga is riddled with this as not only is the Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass protagonist named Gary but the Lex Luthor analog and the most feared supervillain in the world is a literal example of this trope, being named Tom Terror. Notably, he's quite annoyed not to be called Doctor Terror. | |
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Danganronpa 2: Goodbye Despair has a character (albeit a massive Chuunibyou) claiming to be a demon lord of destruction. His name? Tanaka- one of the most common family names in Japan, and essentially the equivalent of 'Dark Lord Smith'. On the other hand, his given name is Gundham. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The series has villains with names like Nightmare Moon, Discord, Queen Chrysalis, King Sombra, Tirek, and... Starlight Glimmer, a fairly standard pony name. But she's got a pretty impressive rap sheet: in the season five premiere, she runs a cult based around convincing (or forcing) ponies to give up their cutie marks, which define who they are and their purpose in life. Then in the season five finale, she uses a time-travel spell to stop Rainbow Dash's first Sonic Rainboom (which is what got Twilight Sparkle and her friends their cutie marks), accidentally creating a series of Bad Futures where previous villains took over Equestria. Starlight's tatical skills gave her the upperhand in the entire situation that Twilight, the Princess of Friendship, was only able to beat her by talking her into a Heel–Face Turn. In the season eight finale, the villain responsible for draining Equestria's magic and locking the main heroes of the series in Tartarus is Cozy Glow. |
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In Doctor Who, the leader of the Zygon extremists, alien shapeshifters who wish to reveal themselves openly to the humans, is named Bonnie. Most of the extremists are from the Zygon generation born after they settled on Earth, explaining her ordinary human name. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series: Marik's psychopathic evil personality is named "Melvin." Yami Bakura is "Florence". | |
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The Strangers of Dark City all go by names involving Mr. and a simple everyday word, e.g. Mr. Hand, Mr. Quick, Mr. Book. It comes from them attempting to pick ordinary, mundane "human" names, but misunderstanding exactly what that meant. | |
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Child of the Storm: The original example, Tom Riddle, is present. The fic has Magneto, who for all that he's (mostly) reformed, still casts a very long shadow over good guys and bad guys alike. His real name, which he usually uses, is Erik. Harry invokes this against the omnicidal Elder Wyrm, by asking for his name, getting something suitably ominous, and dubbing him 'Dave' instead. |
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Dorkly Originals did this as a joke regarding Sonic the Hedgehog fan characters. Robotnik shows up and releases a container containing the "Ultimate Original Character". As the light fades, it reveals a tall Echidna with a metal belt, dark eyeliner, Knuckles' signature gloves, two tails (not unlike Tails himself), and sharp dreadlocks like Sonic's spines. He shouts his name to everyone dramatically. | |
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Deus Ex has as its main enemy.... a guy called Bob. Technically his full name is Robert Page, but he insists that people call him Bob. | |
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Bring Me to Life: In chapter 9, Buffy lampshades how silly Skip's name is for a villain: | |
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Charles Muntz from Up. | |
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Fable: The player character is Only Known by Their Nickname... which, if he has a Start of Darkness and doesn't purchase a new title, will remain "Chicken Chaser" long after he becomes the most infamous and feared villain on the continent. The Big Bad is Jack of Blades, often referred to simply as "Jack". The Lost Chapters expansion reveals him to be the surviving member of a trio of Eldritch Abominations with Theme Naming, the other two being the Knight and Queen of Blades. |
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Dokapon Kingdom has Overlord Rico, but he fits right in with the ridiculous nature of the world. | |
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The Locked Tomb: The Emperor of the Nine Houses, also known as God, Necrolord Prime, the King Undying, the Kindly Prince of Death, the Resurrector, et cetera, is revealed in Harrow the Ninth to be named John, to the great chagrin of one of His subjects. His last name is Gaius, which makes up for it a little. | |
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Criminal Minds does this with some episode names: "Jones", "Lucky", "Mosley Lane", etc., since one of the scary things about the murderers the team hunts is that They Look Just Like Everyone Else!. | |
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Many villains from Dragon Ball have funny Punny Names, mostly after food. Lampshaded by Lunch, when we learn about the Great Demon King named Piccolo (named after the small flute). We later learn that it's Namekian for "another world", so he was the "Great Demon King From Another World", which implies that he subconsciously was aware of his extraterrestrial origin even without realizing it. The American fans know the villain who destroyed Planet Vegeta as Frieza. It's not this trope, unless you know that's just his name in the English dub. In the Japanese dub, he's mainly known as "Freeza" or "Freezer" (the latter also in German and French). It still sounds evil, but the meaning of his name is just laughable. The strongest villain of the manga is Majin Buu, named after the phrase Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo. (Bibidi and Babidi are two related characters, namely his former masters) The first of the three main villains in Dragon Ball GT is named Baby. He is not as pathetic as he sounds. |
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The Avengers: The true name of Kang the Conqueror (and all his varied identities), the most dangerous time traveler in the Marvel universe? Nathaniel Richards. "Nate" to his friends, if he had any. Sometimes he also goes by the equally unassuming alias of "Victor Timely". | |
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Ignited Spark: "Nine" doesn't sound like a very intimidating for the leader of a rising villain organization bent on destroying society. He makes up for it by being utterly terrfying. | |
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In the Twilight Illustrated Guide: Alistair's back story involves his father making a deal with the demon Asteroth. Ashteroth, however, was actually a vampire, not a demon, and his real name was George. He just likes to mess with people, apparently. A lot of the villains have relatively normal names, like James, the villain of the first novel, and his girlfriend Victoria, from the third. The overall Big Bads are a group called the Volturi, made up of vampires from various times and places, who include members like Jane and Chelsea. |
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The Halloween series had Michael Myers, who has a human body but acts nothing like one. This one became even more of an example after the comedian Mike Myers became famous in the '90s. | |
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Battlestar Galactica (2003): Near the end of the series, it's revealed that Number One, the Cylon who orchestrated the attempted total genocide of the Twelve Colonies of Man and later wiped out half his own species when they turned on him, is actually named "John". He tells the person who calls him this that he does not care for that name. Earlier, he had used the fake name "Cavil" while impersonating a priest. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: In-universe, some of Ed's horror comics, like Marlene of the Deep or Evil Tim. Tim isn't exactly a scary name, no matter how evil he is. | |
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Francis from Deadpool. He's so ashamed of the name he changed it to Ajax and calling him Francis is one of Wade's preferred methods of annoying him. | |
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Two of the nastiest villains in the Mercy Thompson series include the Ax-Crazy vampire Cory Littleton and the necromancer William Frost. | |
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In The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks, the most active antagonist and main servant of Malladus is known as Chancellor Cole. | |
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In T.U.F.F. Puppy, when Larry took over D.O.O.M. he changed his name to Murray, which made everyone in T.U.F.F. gasp in fear. | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines has the infamous criminal 20 Gyarados Bill, who gained his infamy for razing coastal cities to the ground with said serpents and killing a lot of people with them. | |
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Esther Diamond: Lampshaded in the first book, although it is an alias and the villains real name is more distinctive and intimidating. | |
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Wario Land 3 has Rudy the Clown as the main antagonist. Keep in mind that he is essentially a Monster Clown with supernatural powers and a terrifying appearance. But then again, he is a clown so the name doesn't sound too inapropriate. | |
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The Emperor of the Souballo Empire's name is "Brian" in Our Little Adventure. | |
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John Sheppard of Stargate Atlantis played this trope with the Wraith whether they wanted it or not, which gave us such villains (or in one case, an Anti-Villain) as Steve, Michael, Bob, Todd and Kenny. The Wraith never bothered to reveal their true names to the humansnote It turns out that Wraith don't have names in the same way humans do; as a race of telepaths, their "names" are simply whatever word best describes what their mind feels like to other Wraith., so the monickers stuck. | |
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Return to Krocodile Isle: K. Rool's given name is revealed to be Keith, an unexpectedly ordinary name for a tyrannical crocodile king. | |
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By nature of being represented by a player-chosen Mii, the Dark Lord in Miitopia can be this. And if the Mii's name is Tom, then you'll get an actual Tom the Dark Lord. In the Switch version of the game, his default name is Stan. | |
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The major villains in the Ace Attorney series tend to have cool or menacing-sounding names, such as Manfred von Karma from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney, the phantom from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies (whose real name is never even revealed) or Ga'ran Sigatar Khura'in from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Spirit of Justice. Matt Engarde from Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Justice For All, however, doesn't sound particularly evil, despite being one of cruelest villains in the series. | |
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From Looking for Group, there is a character whose titles include "Chief Warlock of the Brothers of Darkness, Lord of the Thirteen Hells, Master of the Bones, Emperor of the Black, Lord of the Undead, King of the Dance, Mistress of Magma and mayor of a little (undead) village up the coast." The character's name? Richard. This is constantly mocked in the comic. The protagonist Cale is fond of referring to him as Dick just to get on his nerves. | |
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One of the most powerful and depraved characters in Empowered is named Willy Pete. This, however, is a subversion - "Willy Pete" is US military slang for white phosphorus, which burns horrifically hot, and Willy Pete is a man made out of fire. Still a kinda silly name, but there's a reason for it. | |
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In The Bridge it's zig-zagged. Godzilla Junior is The Dreaded to his enemies whom often refer to him as just "Godzilla". But to his allies and himself, the King of the Monsters and terror to his enemies is just "Junior". Thankfully he turns out to just be a Horrifying Hero. | |
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Zig-zagged with The Wandering Inn's Necromancer. His current name is the suitably eldritch-sounding Az'kerash, but it is quickly revealed that his true name before he started his reign of terror was the very normal Perril Chandler… but then again, his (few) friends already shortened Perril as "Peril". | |
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PJ Masks has the Wolfy Kids, a trio of werewolf-like villains named Rip, Howler and....Kevin. | |
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The final boss of Street Fighter IV is named Seth. Like Seymour above, it's a religious reference that sounds exotic in Japan, but to English speakers it just sounds silly unless they know Egyptian Mythology (especially compared to "Akuma", "Sagat", or "M. Bison"). Helping somewhat is that it's also a reference to Promoted Fanboy Seth Killian. | |
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Ernesto De La Cruz from Coco. | |
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Metroid: A giant, purple carnivorous space dragon who can shoot fire, fly through space and regenerate his body after incredible injuries. His name? Ridley. While that's an uncommon name, it is still a very human one. Probably a Shout-Out to Ridley Scott, as Alien was clearly an influence on the Metroid series, and Ridley himself is a Xenomorph Xerox. |
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The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant: It's never commented upon, but in the fantasy world of the Land, where characters called Saltheart Foamfollower and Lord Mhoram exist, a central figure in the backstory is High Lord Kevin. This is likely a suggestion that Kevin was, like Thomas Covenant himself, from Earth. | |
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Housepets! has the Cosmic Gryphon, an extremely powerful demigod. Though not really Evil, he's a callous narcissist with a dangerously competitive spirit who views mortals as little more than toys, and his cruel actions set in motion much of the plot. His name is Pete. | |
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Breaking Bad: The Villain Protagonist Heisenberg is a cold-blooded drug cook who has no problems murdering business partners and rivals alike when he feels it's necessary. Heisenberg's real name? Walter. Justified as the series portrays the rise from a dorky chemistry teacher to a menacing drug lord. | |
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From the Buffyverse: Angel and Spike, whose real names are respectively Liam and William. Angel's sire forgot her real name a long time ago, but unlike Angel or Spike, the alias she currently uses isn't particularly intimidating: Darla. Adam, the Big Bad of Buffy the Vampire Slayer's fourth season, also counts. Though it's a bit more intimidating if you know the context. There's also demon antagonist "Skip" in Angel. |
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In She-Hulk: Attorney at Law to get back to Earth Madisynn makes a deal with a goat demon named Jake. Although the event occurs offscreen and she was extremely drunk both when it was happening and when she was recounting it, so she might have got the name wrong. | |
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The Dunwich Horror is one of H. P. Lovecraft's best known horror stories. It concerns the backwoods town of Dunwich, and the Whateley family, who is creepy even by that town's standards. The main antagonist of the story, a weird goatish Humanoid Abomination who is Younger Than He Looks, and attempts to unleash an elder evil upon the world, is named Wilbur. | |
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In Burn Notice most of the villains have fairly common names: Management, Larry, James, Simon, Anson. Even the two major organizations they oppose have generic names: The Organization and The Family. | |
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In My Little Pony: The Movie (2017), we eventually find out Tempest Shadow's birth name. The intimidating unicorn who spread terror as the leader of the Storm King's army was born Fizzlepop Berrytwist. | |
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In Postknight, the mastermind behind the villains of the first game, Disc-One Final Boss of the second game, whose legacy still haunts the Postknights until three arcs later and culprit for the spread of the plague is Dark Knight Kraig. | |
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The Saga of Darren Shan: The book has the evil Lord of the Vampaneze, revealed at the end of book 9 to be Steve Leonard. Justified in that book 1, where Steve first appears, was written and published before the rest of the series was planned, and also in that he is usually referred to as Steve Leopard, which is slightly more badass. Desmond Tiny, often called Mr Tiny. Although it's mentioned he prefers "(Mr) Des Tiny" |
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Swordsman And Enchantress: In the prequel, Swordsman At Large, the protagonists are terrorized by a fearsome bandit warlord called... the "Happy King". | |
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The main antagonist of The King's Beard is a spurned nobleman called Jasper, trying to usurp the throne of his brother Cuthbert. Not Lord Jasper or Prince Jasper or anything of the sort — always just… Jasper. | |
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Don't Hug Me I'm Scared: The villain of the second video is a talking clock with control over the flow of time who uses his power to rot the puppets alive for questioning him. Word of God is that his name is Tony. Shrignold in the third video doesn't qualify, but Malcolm, the god he serves, does. In the fourth video, the puppets are trapped in a deteriorating virtual world where there is nothing to do but open three doors over and over again by a sentient computer. Word of God is that the computer's name is Colin. The Big Bad of the entire series? Yellow Guy's dad, Roy. |
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The giant monster player-characters of the coin-op Rampage are George (giant gorilla), Lizzie (lizard) and Ralph (werewolf). The latter (along with the nature of Rampage) may have been part of the inspiration for Wreck-It Ralph. In their case, it's justified as they're actually regular humans who were mutated into Kaiju. | |
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All three of the major villains in Kirby: Planet Robobot have harmless-sounding names: Susie and Max Haltmann, and Star Dream. They are easily among the darkest villains in the series. | |
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Saw: Jigsaw, the series' Evil Genius Serial Killer who later becomes a borderline Dark Messiah, is an unassuming old man named John. Ditto for his notorious successor who racked a much larger body count than him; he goes by the plain name of Mark. | |
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In The Cabin in the Woods, a number of terrifying monsters could be used to kill the teens, depending on which artifact in the basement they used, and the control team even had a betting pool on which one it would be. Among the entries who had typical horror movie monster names, one was simply named Kevin, perhaps to include an element of Nothing Is Scarier. When pressed about Kevin at a con, Joss Whedon had to improvise a description, and described him as a "sweet, harmless-looking guy who could exsanguinate you in seconds." Some have taken this as a reference to We Need to Talk About Kevin. | |
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The (most frequently appearing) super-powered, evil trickster of the Mountain Time universe is Dave. | |
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In the TV adaptation of The Man in the High Castle, in which the Axis powers won World War II and conquered America, the most senior Nazi in New York is Obergruppenführer, later Oberstgruppenführer, and later still Reichsmarshall of North America, John Smith. | |
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The Super Hero Squad Show once had The Trapster appear. However, due to his original villain name being 'Paste Pot Pete', he is mocked by M.O.D.O.K. and the Abomination for being named "Pete". | |
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The trio of trolls in The Hobbit are named Bert, Bill, and Tom. | |
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A lot of Bosses in the Final Fight series have pretty average names, such as Abigail in the first game, Freddie and Philippe in the second, Dave, Wong and Drake in the third, and Hugo in Revenge. | |
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The villain in the Cold Case episode "The Road" claims his name is John Smith. The fandom generally agrees he's the single most evil person ever seen on the show. | |
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Sunshine: The Big Bad, a master vampire who's a despicable Humanoid Abomination even by vampire standards, turns out to be named Beauregard. Rae is justifiably terrified of him, but still snarks that it sounds more like the name of a sheepdog. | |
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