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* ''Comicbook/{{Femforce}}'' villain No-Nose Nanette got her name after her nose was bitten off by Ripjaw.

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** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': District Attorney Harvey Dent takes on the persona of Two-Face after [[TwoFaced half of his face is scarred]] when he has acid thrown in his face while questioning a mobster in court.

* ''Literature/AlexRider:'' In "Stormbreaker", Herod Sayle's [[TheDragon Dragon]] Mr. Grin sports a GlasgowGrin, caused by a circus KnifeThrowingAct that went horribly wrong one night.

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* ''Film/MuppetTreasureIsland'': A couple of the cutthroats sailing on the ''Hispanola,'' including One-Eyed Jack (who wears an eyepatch), Black-Eyed Pea (who sports two shiners), and Headless Bill (take a guess). Exaggerated with Dead Tom.
-->'''Mudwell:''' ''[sobbing and holding a skeleton]'' Dead Tom's dead! Long John shot him!\\
'''Walleyed Pike:''' But Dead Tom's ''always'' been dead. That's why he's called "Dead Tom".\\
'''Mudwell:''' Oh. ''[drops skeleton]''
* ''Series/SesameStreet'': In a ChristmasEpisode, Oscar the Grouch adopts a cat. This cat has a prosthetic leg, so is named "Tiny Tim" after a character from ''Literature/AChristmasCarol'' who walks with a crutch.
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* ''VideoGame/ConkersBadFurDay'': [[EvilCripple Ze Professor]]'s last name is revealed to be Von Kriplespac in ''Live and Reloaded'', and [[ArtificialLimbs his arm, legs, and eye are cybernetic]]. [[MultipleChoicePast The multiplayer reveals that his legs were blown off by a bazooka, while the N64 manual claims that the Panther King cut them off]].

* ''Webcomic/TheOrderOfTheStick'':
** Redcloak gives his brother, who lost his left eye when paladins raided their village, the nickname Right-Eye. Later, after Redcloak loses his own right eye, Tsukiko mocks him by calling him Wrong-Eye, a Xykon-suggested way to get under his skin.
** Old Blind Pete was blinded by Bozzok as punishment for selling Thieves' Guild secrets. Before that, he was Eagle-Eyed Pete.

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Usually, this is played alongside NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast, indicating that a character is evil, or at least tough and/or scary. Perhaps they got the injury in an intimidating way, such as through escaping death or winning a fight, and are now known for the injury because of its famous origin. Maybe they are given this name because [[OnlyKnownByTheirNickname no one's been able to learn their real name and live to tell the tale]].

More sympathetic characters who were Named After the Injury usually got their injuries trying to survive a dangerous situation or a dangerous life in general. This is common with pets, whose owners named them to acknowledge the injury, but also emphasise that the pet's bad past is behind them (naming a quadruped who lost a leg "Tripod" is [[StockAnimalName a common one]]).

** ''Franchise/{{Batman}}'': District Attorney Harvey Dent takes on the persona of Two-Face after half of his face is scarred when he has acid thrown in his face while questioning a mobster in court.

** Black Aliss Demiurge, the Disc's most notorious WickedWitch, was not called "Black" because she was wicked, but because of the state of her teeth. That's what living in a gingerbread cottage does to you.

** ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragonsFourthEdition'': Torog, the King that Crawls, is an evil god of torturers and jailers whose body was mangled in an ancient DivineConflict.

* ''{{Literature/Redwall}}'' has a few cases of this, such as Captain Reynard Chopsnout, who has a small ball of tar for a prosthetic nosetip.

* Creator/JRRTolkien:
** In ''Literature/TheSilmarillion'', Beren is given the epithet ''Erchamion'' (Elvish for "One-hand") when his hand is bitten off by a wolf during the quest to capture a [[MacGuffin Silmaril]].

* ''WesternAnimation/ShakeHandsWithDanger'', a ScareEmStraight film about the dangers of industrial equipment, has a memorable rockabilly theme tune sung by a guy who introduces himself as Three Finger Joe. The obvious implication is that he lost two fingers in an industrial accident, but [[NoodleIncident we don't get any more detail about how]].

* ''Literature/GelsominoInTheLandOfLiars'': Zoppino's name stems from ''zoppo'', the Italian word for ''lame'', because when Rometta drew the kitten on the wall, she hadn't finished his fourth leg.

* ''Advertising/TheBurgerKingKidsClubGang'' has a Wheelchair bound member named "Wheels"

* ''WesternAnimation/Shrek2'': Captain Hook, one of the villains seen in [[BadGuyBar the Poisoned Apple]], has a HookHand.

* ''Film/TheGoonies'': One-Eyed Willie the pirate gets his name from the fact that he was only born with one eye, so he wore an EyepatchOfPower to cover it up, and his skeleton is still wearing the eyepatch in the present day.

* ''WesternAnimation/TotalDrama'': The Escaped Psycho Killer With a Chainsaw and Hook from "[[Recap/TotalDramaHookLineAndScreamer Hook, Line, and Screamer]]" has a hook that covers his mis9sing hand. He briefly shows Gwen what his arm looks like without the hook.

* ''VideoGame/{{Temtem}}'': One-Eyed Matthew, First Officer of the Narwhal Crew, is missing an eye, hence his name.

* The notorious gangster Al Capone earned the nickname "Scarface" when he suffered an injury in his youth, leaving a pretty nasty scar across his face. Humorously, he hated that nickname and preferred "Snorky".

** Goldeye Silverhand Dactylos, a metalwork artisan from ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'', creates such awe-inspiring work that his employers often end up mutilating him after he completes a job for them, not wanting him to create anything so beautiful for anyone else. His name comes from the fact that his first employer gouged out his eyes then paid him a fortune in gold, while his second cut off one of his hands then paid him a fortune in silver - he melted down their payments and turned them into prosthetic body-parts.

** Goldeye Silverhand Dactylos, a metalwork artisan from ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'', is so named because he creates such awe-inspiring work that his employers often end up mutilating him after he completes a job for them, not wanting him to create anything so beautiful for anyone else. His first employer gouged out his eyes then paid him a fortune in gold, while his second cut off one of his hands then paid him a fortune in silver - he melted down their payments and turned them into prosthetic body-parts.

* ''Videogame/{{Warcraft}}'': The orc warrior Kargath Bladefist cut off his own hand in order to free himself from some shackles that ogres had used to enslave him, and later grafted a BladeBelowTheShoulder onto what was left of his arm. He later founded an orc clan known as The Shattered Hand, whose members were encouraged to mimic their leader's act of self-mutilation.

** Mad-Eye Moody got his name after losing his eye while fighting death-eaters.

** Goldeye Silverhand Dactylos, a metalwork artisan from ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic'', is so named because he creates such awe-inspiring work that his employers often end up mutilating him after he completes a job for them, not wanting him to create anything so beautiful for anyone else. His first employer gouged out his eyes then paid him a fortune in gold, while his second cut of one of his hands then paid him a fortune in silver - he melted down their payments and turned them into prosthetic body-parts.

* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'': Black Aliss Demiurge, the Disc's most notorious WickedWitch, was not called "Black" because she was wicked, but because of the state of her teeth. That's what living in a gingerbread cottage does to you.