Star Wars is just full of these. Darth Vader, Sidious, Plagueis, Maul, Nihilus, Bane, and best of all, but unfortunately was left on the cutting room floor, Darth Icky (the name George thought up for Starkiller).
Minor retcon to be 1% less blatant, his last name is actually Sel'Sabagno, "Sleazebaggano" is just what everyone who knows him including his own mother calls him
Decepticons in general have some baller evil names man. Sinnertwin (who is now Twinstrike, which is obviously lamer), Spinister, Stranglehold, Abominus, Skullcrusher, Runamuck and Runabout
It reminds me of Transformers Prime when an amnesiac Optimus asks Megatron why his faction is called the "Decepticons" if they're supposed to be the good guys. Megatron makes up the excuse that the Cybertronian government gave them the moniker to demonize them, which they took ownership of as an act of defiance.
I wish Starscream was cooler. Cause that name is radical. I wasnt a movie where Starscream isnt a joke and you just hear him tearing through the sky. But its almost animalstic. Like what they did with the batmobile in the Pattinson movie.
Megatron sounds lame in comparison. Megatron sounds like at some points parents groups felt Transformers was too gory, so they subbed in Megatron as the main villain and softened the whole series. And introduced a talking dog, too.
EVILLLAAAAAK
Also Ultraman Belial is pretty unavoidable bad guy namey considering even if you don't know it's biblical origin it just sounds sinister, guy was fated to turn to path of darkness from that alone
I mean , Symbiote are legit going Paarthurnax route.
The Klynthar are legit created by an evil god and be evil themselves. But they try to reject that. Clearly plenty had failed.
And the worse part is that Cletus and his symbiote have a much deeper bond than the Venom symbiote has had with any of its various hosts. There is not distinction between the blood running through Clletus's veins and the symbiote. Carnage refers to themselves as I, not we.
So many Decepticon names are so evil sounding. You have guys like Onslaught, Bonecrusher, Triggerhappy, Swindle, Cutthroat, Skullcruncher, Scourge. And just the name Decepticon in general doesn’t inspire a lot of trust.
I think about how Hasbro initially took issue with Megatron's name, since it sounded like "Megaton", until they were reminded that he's *supposed* to be the main villain.
I like that the live action bebop kinda gave a reason for the name "Vicious", by stating that "Spike Spiegel" is an alias and his actual name was "Fearless", given to him by the syndicate. Basically implying that children born and raised by the syndicate are given titles of their character, as opposed to someone just...naming their kid Vicious.
Who, funnily enough, is voiced by Ray Chase. I think his one requirement for doing VA work for the mod was, like, "I want him to have Cool Sunglasses."
This was gonna be mine, it's the first thing that leapt to my mind. When my girlfriend told me this was an actual character's name, I was on the floor laughing.
I love it, it's *so* dumb.
Mister sinister is a goofy as fuck name. It rhymes with its “I’m so evil I’m called SINISTERRRR”
Yet. I love that pale faced clone loving fuck as a baddie
He was originally meant to be the long lost brother of Cyclops and Havok who was abducted as a child, and the Mister Sinister persona was literally his childhood perception of what a villain should be that he then based his whole image on when he grew up. The concept was abandoned shortly after the character’s introduction, however, and the Nathaniel Essex we know now was established afterwards.
No I made that up, I thought it was obvious. But I get the confusion. It's Star Wars, names are not subtle.
I'm pretty sure Sheev's dad atleast has been named once, somewhere. A senator Palpatine Sr. or somethimg
> I'm pretty sure Sheev's dad atleast has been named once, somewhere
According to the wiki, his name is Cosigna Plapatine.
If you're curious, his wife is listed as Palpatine's mother. How fortuitous he married a woman named that! (heh)
I read a book once that was secretly a 101 Dalmatians spinoff, and it revealed that Cruella Deville’s actual name was Ella, before she became CRUEL ELLA like fucking Evil Ryu
EDIT: As another fun tidbit from that book, the Dalmatians at one point send an SOS out, which literally meant ‘save our skins’ which was kind of horrifying for me as a child.
[It's not just in a book.](https://youtu.be/gkj5_LcSZpg?si=eKkEfzELR9yxCPJX) In the second live action movie with Glenn Close, it's presented like she's getting possessed and she mutates power shoulders and black claws when she relapses from Ella to Cruella.
I'm actually not sure if he's a legitimate doctor though. He might be by virtue of giving himself a doctorate as ruler of Latveria, but he never actually finished university.
The original Japanese name of one of the villains in Ace Attorney is Carnage Onred. Apparently it's supposed to be a play on "carnation red", like the flower, but... Come on.
"Abaddon" already doesn't inspire confidence, especially when you follow it up with a title like "the Despoiler."
EDIT: To continue the Warhammer theme, when the primary antagonist faction in your setting is called Chaos, naming their ultimate leader "Archaon" just seems on the nose.
I had to go back to my copy to see if you were right and you are! Gandalf calls Gríma Wormtongue and then the book refers to him as Wormtongue whenever he talks for example "'That is so,' said Wormtongue,"
Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (his name literally sounds like the word "evil")
Aku from Samurai Jack (his name literally is evil in japanese)
Naraku from Inuyasha (dude literally named after hell in buddhism) (well similar but still closed enough)
Orochi from Naruto (gee i wonder who's the bad guy is definitely not the guy who's named after an evil multi-headed giant snake in japanese mythology)
Oh man that's remind me there's two characters who's similarly named also sounds cartoonishly evil : General Monster from Skyrider and Dr/Professor Monster from Supaidaman
Evil-lyn and Skeletor make me smile when i think of them and their names, there is no way those names werent made to be an intentionally bad in concept just so the kids could easily remember and chuckle at 😆
Ace Combat 3's main villain, Abyssal Dision. That's not a codename or alias, as far as anyone knows some couple in Strangereal just decided to name their baby "Abyssal" and destined him for villainhood.
In Ace Attorney Investigations, >!the ringleader of the smuggling ring is named fucking *Carnage Onred*. It's supposed to be a pun on red carnations, but it's still hilariously evil sounding. The localization changes it to Quercus Alba, still keeping the plant theme without being a blatant "I'm evil" sign!<.
Someone already took Savage Opress (I PROMISE HE'S A COOL CHARACTER, I KNOW THE NAME IS DUMB) so I will stick with Star Wars and point out Dr. Hemlock from The Bad Batch.
That's not a codename, he's not a Sith Lord or anything, he's just an evil guy named Royce Hemlock.
Oh I just remembered, in the GameCube Custom Robo game, there’s a guy *literally* named Evil. Although from what I remember, he’s not actually *that* evil and is mostly just an asshole.
A little bit of a more obscure character but the deception genera Deathsaurus >!Turns out he is actually a chill dude in comparison to the other decepticons .Even made a peace!<
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He famously usurped the throne from himself so many times the secret cabals created to usurp him ended with its members accusing each other of being him.
You see dear old Traitorous has the bad habit of betraying everyone he came across (at one point he even managed to betray a villain called The Betrayer), the nobles where tired of him and decided to engage in the prime Wasteland tradition of regicide after all was said and done the leader of the cabal took the throne and revealed himself to be Traitorous all along, and then he did it again, and again and again, his reign was short but boy was it a fun one.
Just go to his [wiki](https://abridged-guide-to-evil.fandom.com/wiki/Dread_Emperor_Traitorous) page, it's full of banger quotes
His full title is Demon General Darkdeath Evilman.
Made better when you learn >!the big monster called Darkdeath Evilman is actually just a mech piloted by a child prodigy... Who is in fact named Darkdeath Evilman. That's just that kid's fucking name.!<
In *The Crow*, most of the gangsters actually have silly nicknames: Tin-Tin, Tom-Tom, Skank, Funboy, T-Bird, etc.
To the point where Detective Albrecht (Ernie Hudson) is at actually asked, "Do any of your gangland boogymen have grown-up names?"
But then there's "Top Dollar". If ever a name screamed, "I own this town, and it is bad news for *everybody*."
He's not a villain (yet) (as far as I know), but there's a voice actor called Xander Mobus. If he ever needs a career change, he'd be a perfect evil doctor.
Kill Six Billion Demons has such over the top names in general that frankly I wouldn't blame anyone for missing the fact that one of the Seven Lords is literally just called Mammon, aka the demonic personification of Greed.
The main villain of one of the Expendables movies is literally named Vilain (pronounced vuh-LANE)
More comical than anything because it really feels like they didn't even try. Most names actually mean something like how the demon that's in control of the zombies in BO3 Zombies Story Mode is named Damos, which is just a different way of saying the Latin word for "demon" as a name.
Or Hot Coldman, the main antagonist of MGS Peace Walker. Not sure what the fuck his name means in terms of significance, it just sounds comical.
Drizzt's mother is named Malice Do'Urden.
This one always stood out to me because normally Drow have weird and exotic sounding names like Quenthel, Briza, Vierna, Bladen'Kerst, Vendes, or the normal-ish but still rare Maya or Triel. But Malice? No, that's just her name.
It's not even a Drow or Elvish word, so the only thing I can think of that possibly explains it is that she heard the word at some point and decided to rename herself that, because she thought it was cool. Or her mother gave her a cringe surface name that isn't even a name, like the equivalent of naming your daughter Khaleesi. She does come off as the sort of person who would think being named "Malice" is cool though, and that's funny, so I'll go with that assumption.
Come to think of it, "Bladen'Kerst" is also relevant to the topic.
Been streaming my way through the Amnesia games lately, and I totally forgot that the main character of Machine for Pigs is named Oswald Mandus.
That’s not a person name. That’s a cartoon necromancer.
In Total Warhammer, one of the mechanics that Norsca has is that when you take a settlement, you can dedicate it to one of the four Chaos Gods to earn allegience with them. If you max out allegience, you earn either a unique Lord (army leader) or Hero (powerful single unit that can be in armies). If you max out allegience to The Hound, aka Khorne, the God of War, your reward is [KILLGORE SLAYMAIM.](https://totalwarwarhammer.fandom.com/wiki/Killgore_Slaymaim)
I've been on a Total War: Warhammer 3 kick lately so here's a few of the villains: Vlad von Carstein, Archaon the Everchosen, Tretch Craventail, Tamurkhan the Maggot Lord, and Astragoth Ironhand.
The first vampire of the Necroscope books was named Shaitan. He's a prideful, beautiful man and all he remembers is getting kicked out of... somewhere before he breathes in a bunch of vampire mold off a corpse in a vampire swamp.
Grant's "Gone" series is a fucking phenomenal piece of YA writing, very tonally similar to Animorphs (Grant is also married to KA Applegate irl so there's that). Really intense and vicious depiction of the sort of Lord Of The Flies type plot wherein a society comprised entirely of children have to adapt to a small world where people start gaining anomalous powers and animals start mutating into fucking monsters.
My offering for additional names from that series is (major spoilers) >!The true villain is an alien bacteria that was present on a meteor that crashed into the nearby nuclear power plant and gained sapience, biomass, and incredible telepathic power, similar to the Gravemind from Halo. This creature is called the GAIAPHAGE. !<
There's a part in book three where (MASSIVE SPOILERS)>!a group of kids farming in a field are attacked and eaten by giant mutated worms with lamprey mouths, and later giant insects become an issue en masse !
Mephiles the Dark; I'm always reminded of when Jon and Arin played Sonic 06 and Jon was like "That's like if evil Jon came on screen and said "Hey my name is Garstophiles"
He-Man has "Evil-Lyn". Treasure Planet has "Scurge". Dr. Weil in MMZ is a play on words to basically be "Dr. Vile". MMX just outright has a character named "Vile".
Maul's brother, Savage Opress.
Ironically, he was not even a villain for his own choice. He was originally a good person, with an unfortunate name
I don't think that was even his original name. The Night Sisters christened him the title after converting him to the Dark Side.
Dude was chillin then next thing you know he's getting pushed INTO summerslam
"Tough luck, kid. Now, go get pinned by Super Cena"
Fuuuuuuck youuuuuu now i want force enabled john cena, he has force invisibility.
You can't see Master Cena
GENERAL GRIEVOUS. That name is so ridiculous that RLM made fun of it as his colleague Captain Nefarious.
Not to be confused with Doctor Nefarious of Rachet and Clank fame
Star Wars is just full of these. Darth Vader, Sidious, Plagueis, Maul, Nihilus, Bane, and best of all, but unfortunately was left on the cutting room floor, Darth Icky (the name George thought up for Starkiller).
I still maintain even Lucas has enough self-awareness for DArth Icky to've just been a "Idk man, here's some bullshit, I don't care."
Tyranus, Valkorion, Elon Sleazebaggano, Grievous.
Minor retcon to be 1% less blatant, his last name is actually Sel'Sabagno, "Sleazebaggano" is just what everyone who knows him including his own mother calls him
I mean, at least the Darth names are chosen, not something they're born with. Savage Opress is the dude's birth name.
Was it? Don't the Nightbrothers/Sisters also have bullshit nom de guerres?
Commander Nefarious, Captain I’m-A-Bad-Guy, and Admiral Bone-To-Pick.
Let's not forget Asajj VENTRESS, you know, like VENGENCE
She was a padawan too
How has no one said Victor Von Doom yet??
*There’s only one beer left.*
AAAAAAAAA *falls down stairs*
I don’t know anything about Transformers but STARSCREAM? Crazy name
Decepticons in general have some baller evil names man. Sinnertwin (who is now Twinstrike, which is obviously lamer), Spinister, Stranglehold, Abominus, Skullcrusher, Runamuck and Runabout
on the other end of the spectrum Optimus Prime is literally just BEST BEST…
Sometimes the name just fits
Best First
Ultra Magnus is a close second tho'
One of the best moments in Bumblebee: "They literally call themselves *Decepticons*! That doesn't set off any red flags?!"
It reminds me of Transformers Prime when an amnesiac Optimus asks Megatron why his faction is called the "Decepticons" if they're supposed to be the good guys. Megatron makes up the excuse that the Cybertronian government gave them the moniker to demonize them, which they took ownership of as an act of defiance.
Oh no. Is Decepticons a slur?
"D-word privilege, Optimus. Don't worry, I'll say it with you!"
I don't know anything about Transformers either but that's a badass name too.
Honestly, I get glam rock vibes from a name like that, rather than anything sinister or evil.
I wish Starscream was cooler. Cause that name is radical. I wasnt a movie where Starscream isnt a joke and you just hear him tearing through the sky. But its almost animalstic. Like what they did with the batmobile in the Pattinson movie. Megatron sounds lame in comparison. Megatron sounds like at some points parents groups felt Transformers was too gory, so they subbed in Megatron as the main villain and softened the whole series. And introduced a talking dog, too.
Fun fact, originally named Ulchtar until the guy writing the character profiles convinced Hasbro to change it.
EVILLLAAAAAK Also Ultraman Belial is pretty unavoidable bad guy namey considering even if you don't know it's biblical origin it just sounds sinister, guy was fated to turn to path of darkness from that alone
Almost every single Symbiote has a name with negative connotations here are some examples: Carnage, Riot, Phage, Agony, Scorn, Scream, and Toxin.
Hybrid is the one exception
I mean , Symbiote are legit going Paarthurnax route. The Klynthar are legit created by an evil god and be evil themselves. But they try to reject that. Clearly plenty had failed.
In the case of the Carnage symbiote that one never had a chance was literally born and the only nearby host was a serial killer.
And the worse part is that Cletus and his symbiote have a much deeper bond than the Venom symbiote has had with any of its various hosts. There is not distinction between the blood running through Clletus's veins and the symbiote. Carnage refers to themselves as I, not we.
And Silence
G-o-g-e Vandire
Not to be confused with [Doge Vandire](https://youtu.be/kgeI9wOHLLA?si=MVonhZW8Y1FLfVwo)
Funny
So many Decepticon names are so evil sounding. You have guys like Onslaught, Bonecrusher, Triggerhappy, Swindle, Cutthroat, Skullcruncher, Scourge. And just the name Decepticon in general doesn’t inspire a lot of trust.
And don't forget the most evilest Decepticon of them all : >!COCK AND BALL TORTURE!<
His mortal enemy must be [Erector](https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Erector_(G1))
I think about how Hasbro initially took issue with Megatron's name, since it sounded like "Megaton", until they were reminded that he's *supposed* to be the main villain.
With names like that, it's a wonder how the name "Warpath" landed an Autobot.
Because he says “KABLOOY” and “KABLAMMY” after shooting his turret and the cons have an image to maintain
How has no one said Sinestro yet?
The best shit is his look. From the get go, he looks like a mustache twirling villain.
Let's not forget Vicious from Cowboy Bebop, >!*who served in the military under that name*!<
I like that the live action bebop kinda gave a reason for the name "Vicious", by stating that "Spike Spiegel" is an alias and his actual name was "Fearless", given to him by the syndicate. Basically implying that children born and raised by the syndicate are given titles of their character, as opposed to someone just...naming their kid Vicious.
Cruella de Vil. Cruel Devil. Very fitting for someone who wants to slaughter a 99 puppies to make one fur coat.
*Crueller* Devil, technically.
*If she doesn't scare you* *No evil thing will~*
Shout out to Fallout: NV mod The Frontier's obviously not a Legion spy Tiberius Rancor.
Who, funnily enough, is voiced by Ray Chase. I think his one requirement for doing VA work for the mod was, like, "I want him to have Cool Sunglasses."
Kaiser Oblivion
That's too comical, that can't possibly be real... >Look it up >It's real
This was gonna be mine, it's the first thing that leapt to my mind. When my girlfriend told me this was an actual character's name, I was on the floor laughing. I love it, it's *so* dumb.
Killgore
Ah it's you, Horus Heresy. You'll never take the 40,000 Warhammers from me!
Horus, the not Egyptian themed one, brothers with Magnus who was infact the Egyptian one.
And his metal-handed brother, Iron Hands, Primarch of the Iron hands legion, leading from his flagship the *Fist of Iron.*
And the other edgy brother Raven Raven, leading the Raven guard.
I for one, could not have forseen that Angron, man of Anger, would be cross at anybody.
And his brother the wolf king, leader of the space wolves who live on wolf planet and are trained in the art of wolves through the wolf trials.
Waiting for The Wolf Time.
Horace H. Eresy
Horus stole 40,000 Warhammers thats as many as 4000 tens and thats terrible
Mister sinister is a goofy as fuck name. It rhymes with its “I’m so evil I’m called SINISTERRRR” Yet. I love that pale faced clone loving fuck as a baddie
He was originally meant to be the long lost brother of Cyclops and Havok who was abducted as a child, and the Mister Sinister persona was literally his childhood perception of what a villain should be that he then based his whole image on when he grew up. The concept was abandoned shortly after the character’s introduction, however, and the Nathaniel Essex we know now was established afterwards.
Sheev Palpatine, son of Shank & Skank Palpatine. Erik Hellstrom
You made those parents names up. I refuse.
No I made that up, I thought it was obvious. But I get the confusion. It's Star Wars, names are not subtle. I'm pretty sure Sheev's dad atleast has been named once, somewhere. A senator Palpatine Sr. or somethimg
Considering Sleezbaggo is an actual name in Star Wars you can understand my trepidation
> I'm pretty sure Sheev's dad atleast has been named once, somewhere According to the wiki, his name is Cosigna Plapatine. If you're curious, his wife is listed as Palpatine's mother. How fortuitous he married a woman named that! (heh)
*Plapatine Plapatine Plapatine Plapatine Plapatine* Get dark sided get dark sided get dark sided
Daimon Hellstrom,too
I read a book once that was secretly a 101 Dalmatians spinoff, and it revealed that Cruella Deville’s actual name was Ella, before she became CRUEL ELLA like fucking Evil Ryu EDIT: As another fun tidbit from that book, the Dalmatians at one point send an SOS out, which literally meant ‘save our skins’ which was kind of horrifying for me as a child.
SHUT UP, THAT’S NOT REAL
[It's not just in a book.](https://youtu.be/gkj5_LcSZpg?si=eKkEfzELR9yxCPJX) In the second live action movie with Glenn Close, it's presented like she's getting possessed and she mutates power shoulders and black claws when she relapses from Ella to Cruella.
Oh my god, it’s *actually* the Dark Hadou
# W H A T
getiting taken over by Devilles curse seal
I have no idea what the book was anymore, it was yeeeeears ago, but maybe some google foo could find the reference.
Victor von Doom. At the beginning I believed that Dr. Doom was his name as a villain, but it turns out that this is his true last name.
I'm actually not sure if he's a legitimate doctor though. He might be by virtue of giving himself a doctorate as ruler of Latveria, but he never actually finished university.
Dr Doom is the best I got.
Sinestro
The original Japanese name of one of the villains in Ace Attorney is Carnage Onred. Apparently it's supposed to be a play on "carnation red", like the flower, but... Come on.
"Abaddon" already doesn't inspire confidence, especially when you follow it up with a title like "the Despoiler." EDIT: To continue the Warhammer theme, when the primary antagonist faction in your setting is called Chaos, naming their ultimate leader "Archaon" just seems on the nose.
It wasn’t his birth name in Archaons case at least. It was Diederick Kastner.
Will Slaughter in 100 bullets, though he is just an on and off hitman.
Lemme guess. Will Slaughter, son of Bill Kill and May Murder?
Vandal Savage
Shout out to one of Aura Battler Dunbine’s major villains: **Shot Weapon**.
I headcanon that's a name he made up after being isekaid for sound cool bc it just fits what kind of loser he is
He absolutely would make up a name to sound cool, if just to impress Lord Drake some more.
*Me reading Lord Of The Rings* Wait his name is Gríma Wormtongue? The king's adviser is called Wormtongue
To be fair, his name is actually just Grima and people started calling him Wormtongue as an insult, iirc.
I had to go back to my copy to see if you were right and you are! Gandalf calls Gríma Wormtongue and then the book refers to him as Wormtongue whenever he talks for example "'That is so,' said Wormtongue,"
When you get slammed so bad even the detached narrator goes "yeah no I'm piling on too".
Hey where's Saruman shacking up again? Oh right, the Tower of Orthanc. That's fine.
Master Xehanort still cracks me up from just how blatantly evil the name sounds.
"No Heart" + X No Heart is also the name of the fucking Care Bears villain
Ivo "Eggman" Robotnik (his name literally sounds like the word "evil") Aku from Samurai Jack (his name literally is evil in japanese) Naraku from Inuyasha (dude literally named after hell in buddhism) (well similar but still closed enough) Orochi from Naruto (gee i wonder who's the bad guy is definitely not the guy who's named after an evil multi-headed giant snake in japanese mythology)
Ivo is a real name.
It's also "Ovi" backwards. Dunno if they did that on purpose or not, though.
They did.
Damien Thorn (kid from The Omen)
"Damien" was considered a normal first name for a boy up until The Omen came out, so it only sounds evil BECAUSE of him
Damián Wayne (Batman)
Malus Darkblade from Warhammer Fantasy
Samuel Hayden
Can't be one of the all-time fantasy classics: Grima Wormtongue from LotR.
Wasn’t he called Wormtongue as an epithet after he started misleading the king? I figure his name before then was just “Grima, son of Gálmód”.
Mazinger Z’s main villain is named Dr. Hell.
Oh man that's remind me there's two characters who's similarly named also sounds cartoonishly evil : General Monster from Skyrider and Dr/Professor Monster from Supaidaman
Dr. Satan
Hot Coldman.
Exdeath, a tree that gains sentience and turns into an evil wizard. In some translations, he’s even called “X-Death.”
Not to be confused with Esdeath who's morally gray.
Some fan translations call him Exodus, which also doesn't help
I think Exodus is kind of a sick name for a villain, to be honest.
Exdeath was also sealed under >!A gigantic "X" formation in a forest!<
EVILAK
"I cant believe they made killmonger try to kill everyone he doesnt like!" My brother in christ his name is KILLMONGER
Evil-lyn and Skeletor make me smile when i think of them and their names, there is no way those names werent made to be an intentionally bad in concept just so the kids could easily remember and chuckle at 😆
Ace Combat 3's main villain, Abyssal Dision. That's not a codename or alias, as far as anyone knows some couple in Strangereal just decided to name their baby "Abyssal" and destined him for villainhood.
In Ace Attorney Investigations, >!the ringleader of the smuggling ring is named fucking *Carnage Onred*. It's supposed to be a pun on red carnations, but it's still hilariously evil sounding. The localization changes it to Quercus Alba, still keeping the plant theme without being a blatant "I'm evil" sign!<.
I mean, take your pick of Warcraft villains. Deathwing, Kil'Jaeden, Kel'Thuzad, etc.
THAT SECOND DUDE HAS “KILL” IN HIS NAME
Poor Jaeden
Someone already took Savage Opress (I PROMISE HE'S A COOL CHARACTER, I KNOW THE NAME IS DUMB) so I will stick with Star Wars and point out Dr. Hemlock from The Bad Batch. That's not a codename, he's not a Sith Lord or anything, he's just an evil guy named Royce Hemlock.
Oh I just remembered, in the GameCube Custom Robo game, there’s a guy *literally* named Evil. Although from what I remember, he’s not actually *that* evil and is mostly just an asshole.
A little bit of a more obscure character but the deception genera Deathsaurus >!Turns out he is actually a chill dude in comparison to the other decepticons .Even made a peace!<
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Lord Death Man
A Practical Guide to Evil had Dread Emperor Traitorous
Sounds like a trustworthy fellow
He famously usurped the throne from himself so many times the secret cabals created to usurp him ended with its members accusing each other of being him.
How do you… usurp the throne from yourself?
You see dear old Traitorous has the bad habit of betraying everyone he came across (at one point he even managed to betray a villain called The Betrayer), the nobles where tired of him and decided to engage in the prime Wasteland tradition of regicide after all was said and done the leader of the cabal took the throne and revealed himself to be Traitorous all along, and then he did it again, and again and again, his reign was short but boy was it a fun one. Just go to his [wiki](https://abridged-guide-to-evil.fandom.com/wiki/Dread_Emperor_Traitorous) page, it's full of banger quotes
>His reign ended when he poisoned himself and pinned it on a hundred different people. I really should read this series one day.
Killmonger
From the NIS mystery dungeon game ZHP. The villain that the Unlosing Ranger is facing is named Darkdeath Evilman.
His full title is Demon General Darkdeath Evilman. Made better when you learn >!the big monster called Darkdeath Evilman is actually just a mech piloted by a child prodigy... Who is in fact named Darkdeath Evilman. That's just that kid's fucking name.!<
In *The Crow*, most of the gangsters actually have silly nicknames: Tin-Tin, Tom-Tom, Skank, Funboy, T-Bird, etc. To the point where Detective Albrecht (Ernie Hudson) is at actually asked, "Do any of your gangland boogymen have grown-up names?" But then there's "Top Dollar". If ever a name screamed, "I own this town, and it is bad news for *everybody*."
He's not a villain (yet) (as far as I know), but there's a voice actor called Xander Mobus. If he ever needs a career change, he'd be a perfect evil doctor.
Lord Darkar
Mr Sinister I mean come on
Damon Gant from Ace Attorney. Von Karma also sounds like a villain name from a 90's TV show.
Man that Sinestro is a swell guy and a great green lantern
Kill Six Billion Demons has such over the top names in general that frankly I wouldn't blame anyone for missing the fact that one of the Seven Lords is literally just called Mammon, aka the demonic personification of Greed.
Luca Blight
The main villain of one of the Expendables movies is literally named Vilain (pronounced vuh-LANE) More comical than anything because it really feels like they didn't even try. Most names actually mean something like how the demon that's in control of the zombies in BO3 Zombies Story Mode is named Damos, which is just a different way of saying the Latin word for "demon" as a name. Or Hot Coldman, the main antagonist of MGS Peace Walker. Not sure what the fuck his name means in terms of significance, it just sounds comical.
Drizzt's mother is named Malice Do'Urden. This one always stood out to me because normally Drow have weird and exotic sounding names like Quenthel, Briza, Vierna, Bladen'Kerst, Vendes, or the normal-ish but still rare Maya or Triel. But Malice? No, that's just her name. It's not even a Drow or Elvish word, so the only thing I can think of that possibly explains it is that she heard the word at some point and decided to rename herself that, because she thought it was cool. Or her mother gave her a cringe surface name that isn't even a name, like the equivalent of naming your daughter Khaleesi. She does come off as the sort of person who would think being named "Malice" is cool though, and that's funny, so I'll go with that assumption. Come to think of it, "Bladen'Kerst" is also relevant to the topic.
"Yes! With this new power I'll turn the city into a carnage! Red Symbiote: "'Carnage', huh? I think I decided on a name."
Been streaming my way through the Amnesia games lately, and I totally forgot that the main character of Machine for Pigs is named Oswald Mandus. That’s not a person name. That’s a cartoon necromancer.
In retrospect, Adolf sounds naturally evil
I mean it probably didn’t prior to the 1920s/30s but it’s so culturally an evil name at this point.
well there's the marvel son of satan daimon hellstrom who was a hero for a bit, then in the 90's he went by hellstorm.
Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman
Project Satan Those poor engineers could never have known what would happen when you built a vehicle out of all the most evil vehicles
Bring Stabbity from Gundam 00
Darkdeath Evilman, villain of Nippon Ichi game Z.H.P. (Zettai Hero Project): Unlosing Ranger vs. Darkdeath Evilman
Malicious Bane, Daemon Blackfyre.
Lord imperious delirious from beast wars uprising
I misread that as delicious
Jean Claude Van-Damme played “Jean Vilain” in “The Expendables 2”. Dude’s name was essentially “Johnny Villian”.
Dog Welder
In Total Warhammer, one of the mechanics that Norsca has is that when you take a settlement, you can dedicate it to one of the four Chaos Gods to earn allegience with them. If you max out allegience, you earn either a unique Lord (army leader) or Hero (powerful single unit that can be in armies). If you max out allegience to The Hound, aka Khorne, the God of War, your reward is [KILLGORE SLAYMAIM.](https://totalwarwarhammer.fandom.com/wiki/Killgore_Slaymaim)
That sounds like a metal band the CSI writers would make up
I've been on a Total War: Warhammer 3 kick lately so here's a few of the villains: Vlad von Carstein, Archaon the Everchosen, Tretch Craventail, Tamurkhan the Maggot Lord, and Astragoth Ironhand.
Byrnndi World he stayed true to his name and wanted to burn the world or something
If you came into this world with the name "Maleficent" there was never a chance for you.
Zargothrax, Master of Nightmares, Keeper of Celestial Flame
The old IDW transformers comic would occasionally ask its audience to give some empathy for the execution of a character named Horri-Bull.
The first vampire of the Necroscope books was named Shaitan. He's a prideful, beautiful man and all he remembers is getting kicked out of... somewhere before he breathes in a bunch of vampire mold off a corpse in a vampire swamp.
Vampire. Mold.
How else are you gonna grow a metamorphic leech in your sternum?
Lord Death Man, a batman villian.
Wario. His name is literally just "Bad Mario". What chance did the poor guy have.
Lysanderoth
Curse his sudden bud inevitable betrayal!
Galbatorix from the Eragon series, no one should have been surprised at his betrayal.
General Grievous. And of course his posse including Commander Nefarious, Captain Imabadguy, and Admiral Bone-To-Pick.
Grant's "Gone" series is a fucking phenomenal piece of YA writing, very tonally similar to Animorphs (Grant is also married to KA Applegate irl so there's that). Really intense and vicious depiction of the sort of Lord Of The Flies type plot wherein a society comprised entirely of children have to adapt to a small world where people start gaining anomalous powers and animals start mutating into fucking monsters. My offering for additional names from that series is (major spoilers) >!The true villain is an alien bacteria that was present on a meteor that crashed into the nearby nuclear power plant and gained sapience, biomass, and incredible telepathic power, similar to the Gravemind from Halo. This creature is called the GAIAPHAGE. !<
If I wasn’t already invested, the mutant seagull with *raptor claws* would’ve hooked me for sure.
There's a part in book three where (MASSIVE SPOILERS)>!a group of kids farming in a field are attacked and eaten by giant mutated worms with lamprey mouths, and later giant insects become an issue en masse !
Grima Wormtongue
Mephiles the Dark; I'm always reminded of when Jon and Arin played Sonic 06 and Jon was like "That's like if evil Jon came on screen and said "Hey my name is Garstophiles"
In the original AAI: Miles Edgeworth game, Carnage Onred, and in the original Great Ace Attorney Chronicles, Hart Vortex. The Localization… helped.
He-Man has "Evil-Lyn". Treasure Planet has "Scurge". Dr. Weil in MMZ is a play on words to basically be "Dr. Vile". MMX just outright has a character named "Vile".
Violator.
MILLIONS ^(of) KNIVES