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A form of Names to Run Away From Really Fast: Names that can also function as verbs (usually of the pain inducing variety). Often overlaps with R Names.

Examples of Names to Run Away From Really Fast/Verbs include:


Burn[]

Film[]

Live-Action TV[]

  • Frank Burns from MASH

Western Animation[]

The Fucker[]

Literature[]

  • The GCU Grey Area — AKA Meatfucker — from Iain Banks' The Culture. A sentient spaceship that kills aging despots by making them die repeatedly while they sleep. He also reads your mind, and contains a museum of torture. He doesn't get many visitors..

Live-Action TV[]

  • It's only a nickname, but by God does Cal Richards from The Thick of It live up to it.

Hack[]

Comic Books[]

  • Cassie Hack, the slasher hunter from the series Hack Slash.

Western Animation[]

Kill[]

By itself is actually kind of silly, so expect variations.

Anime and Manga[]

Comic Books[]

Film[]

Live-Action TV[]

Professional Wrestling[]

  • Ron Killings of TNA.
    • Now known as R-Truth in the WWE. Another one who should have stuck with his real name.

Tabletop Games[]

  • The pirates of WarMachine's Mercenary faction has Doc Killingsworth. The mere threat of treatment is enough to make the wounded get up and back into the fight.
  • Ax Crazy troll gang member Shoot-to-Kill from Shadowrun, most notable for winning her boyfriend back by leaving him a love letter, alongside the head of her love rival, in the fridge.

Video Games[]

Web Comics[]

Western Animation[]

Murder[]

Film[]

Webcomics[]

Pierce[]

Comic Books[]

Live-Action TV[]

Ravage[]

Toys[]

  • Ravage in Transformers, though he was rarely a threat to other Transformers, was not someone humans wanted to deal with.
    • Semi-example: Bonecrusher
    • Devastator. He devastates things.
      • Or any use of the name, really. The Harkonnen Devastator from the Dune games is the biggest, baddest tank around. In Duke Nukem 3D, Devastator is the local BFG.
    • Decepticons in general. You'd at least figure the world would realize you can't trust one. It's not 'til 25 years after their debut when, in Transformers Animated, someone actually brings up the name thing. (Jazz: "Deceived by a Decepticon. Who knew?")

Slash[]

Comic Books[]

Video Games[]

Western Animation[]

Dominate[]

Comic Books[]

  • A DC Comics alien race were also called the Dominators. Naturally, they tried to conquer the Earth.

Literature[]

Live-Action TV[]

  • Doctor Who had an actual race calling themselves "The Dominators". (They come with dwarves in suits Creepy Monotone killer robots, of course.)

Other[]

Anime and Manga[]

Comic Books[]

Film[]

  • Darth Maul.
  • The Stabbington brothers from Tangled are probably a parody, although they are rather scary.
  • Charlie Rotter from the Super Psycho Sweet 16 series.

Live-Action TV[]

Tabletop Games[]

  • Though not truly a verb, Rapine Storm of Cthulhu Tech still qualifies as something to run away from. Pity that doing so will probably mean you run into something worse, given the setting.

Theatre[]

Video Games[]

Webcomics[]

  • Goblins spin-off Tempts Fate has a minor villain called Suffer.

Western Animation[]

Real Life[]

  • Louis the Pious had three sons, Pepin II, Charles the Bald, and Lothair. Guess which one tried to take over the Holy Roman Empire...
  • Apparently, a man in Britain named Rob Banks was accused of bank robbery. The court subsequently granted him the right to be tried under a pseudonym on the grounds that his name might, in fact, influence the jury.

Slaughter[]

Live-Action TV[]

  • A Law & Order episode features Jonas Slaughter, played by Malcolm McDowell. Guess what? He's a Complete Monster.
  • Detective Slaughter on Castle is a Cowboy Cop whose nickname is "the Widowmaker". He earned it based on his partners' life expectancy. Not that gangsters fare much better with him around...

Professional Wrestling[]

  • Professional Wrestler and G.I. Joe character Sergeant Slaughter.

Real Life[]

  • Karin Slaughter. She writes thrillers.
  • A.J. Slaughter, Western Kentucky Hilltoppers.
  • Tod Slaughter, known for his roles in film adaptations of Victorian horror melodramas and is particularly known for his portrayal of the original Sweeney Todd from the penny-dreadful "The String of Pearls".
  • Former Cleveland Browns wide receiver Webster Slaughter.
  • Baseball Hall of Famer Enos Slaughter, particularly if you were a pitcher in the 1940s.
  • Alvin Slaughter. Gospel musician.

Stab[]

Live-Action TV[]

  • "Stabby Joe" from Friends. Phoebe warned Ross not to walk down a certain alley to avoid meeting this character.

Western Animation[]

  • Parodied on The Simpsons where Marge is watching a film about a convict named Johnny Stabbo and his mother, Ma Stabbo.
  • In Family Guy, Lois' cellmate "Stabby".

Genocide[]

Anime and Manga[]

Comic Books[]

  • Genocide. And she makes a point of saying that it's not just her name, it's what she does.

Literature[]

  • In the Ender's Game series, Andrew Wiggin is known variously as Ender, the Speaker for the Dead, and the Xenocide.

Video Games[]

Rip[]

Literature[]

Live-Action TV[]

  • Giles used to go by "Ripper".

Music[]

  • Rivfader, King of Trolls in many of Finntroll's songs. His name means "Rip-father" in Swedish.

Real Life[]

  • Rip Torn.
  • And of course, Jack the Ripper.

Video Games[]

Destroy[]

Film[]

  • Imperial Star Destroyers. In fact, they're this trope times two since they're usually called things like Avenger, Executor, Eviscerator, Corrupter...

Video Games[]

  • The Shivans from Free Space. Not only were they named after Shiva, the Hindu God of Destruction, but they were also dubbed as "The Destroyers" by the Ancients.
  • The final boss of the storyline in Borderlands is named the Destroyer. Amusingly, the mission where you fight it is named "Destroy The Destroyer".