History Main / SuperheroSobriquets

* From Creator/AlanMoore's ''ComicBook/{{Miracleman}}'', Big Ben, the Man With No Time for Crime.

** Fellow Green Latern Katma Tui got [[http://luchins.com/what-were-they-thinking/hes-pining-for-the-fjords/ the "Girl Gladiator" and the "Female Crusader"]]. Cut her some slack, she was the first female Green Lantern introduced.

** ComicBook/{{Storm}}, the Beautiful Windrider.

** The ''Series/ZyudenSentaiKyoryuger'' are [[LoadsAndLoadsOfCharacters (deep breath)]] The Fanged Hero (Red), The Bullet Hero (Black), The Armored Hero (Blue), The Slashing Hero (Green), The Horned Heroine (Pink), The Thunderous Hero (Gold), The Steel Hero (Cyan), The Clashing Hero (Grey), The Marine Heroine (Violet), and The Radiant Hero (Silver).

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* Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} (Barbara Gordon): The [[AlliterativeName Dominoed Daredoll]].
* Comicbook/{{Robin}}: The Boy Wonder, and eventually the Teen Wonder. (Oracle once called ComicBook/{{Nightwing}} the Twentysomething Wonder, but it never caught on.)

* ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}: The Girl of Steel, the Maid of Might, the Maid of Steel, the Last Daughter of Krypton, the ''Comicbook/RedDaughterOfKrypton'', the Girl of Tomorrow, the Princess of Power, the Blonde Blockbuster, and during her college years she was called the Stanhope Sensation.

* Comicbook/{{Aquaman}}: King of the Seven Seas, Monarch of the Oceans, the Sea King.

** During ''Comicbook/JusticeLeagueInternational'', Guy Gardner usually called him "Captain Whitebread".

* Comicbook/CaptainCarrotAndHisAmazingZooCrew has a few:

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* Comicbook/SubMariner is a common moniker for Namor, but he's also occasionally known as "The Avenging Son of Atlantis"; "Avenging Son" is the literal translation of his name.
* [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHulk The Hulk]]: The Jade Giant, Ol' Greenskin, Ol' Jadejaws, The Green Goliath.
* Comicbook/SheHulk: The Jade Giantess, The Glorious Green Glamazon. (Also [[EmbarrassingNickname "Shulkie"]], but she ''doesn't'' like that one.)
* Comicbook/TheSentry: The Golden Guardian of Good.
* Comicbook/{{Deadpool}}: The Merc with the Mouth, The Regenerating Degenerate, and The Crimson Comedian
* Comicbook/CaptainAmerica: The Sentinel of Liberty, the Star-Spangled Avenger, the Living Legend of WWII, or just plain Cap. The [[Film/CaptainAmericaTheFirstAvenger movie]] names him "The First Avenger", plus he gets "The Star-Spangled Man with A Plan" in-story as part of a USO campaign.

* Comicbook/{{Daredevil}}: The Man Without Fear, Hornhead, the Devil of Hell's Kitchen, and sometimes just "Red".
* Comicbook/DoctorStrange: Master of the Mystic Arts, the Sorcerer Supreme (the latter is actually an official title granted to Earth's most powerful sorcerer. Strange has surrendered the title more than once). His lover, Clea, was sometimes called the Mystic Maiden.
* [[Comicbook/TheIncredibleHercules Hercules]]: The Prince of Power, the Lion of Olympus. Herc's sidekick, Amadeus Cho, briefly inherited the "Prince of Power" title when it seemed that Herc was dead.
* Comicbook/IronMan: The Armored Avenger, The Golden Avenger, Shellhead.
* Comicbook/IronFist: The Living Weapon, Young Dragon, and most recently he has become both famous and infamous for being "The Immortal Iron Fist, protector of Kun Lun, Sworn enemy of the Hand".
* Comicbook/SpiderMan: The Webslinger, Wallcrawler, Webhead, the Arachknight, and yet again (and not coincidentally) familiarly, Spidey, and Your Friendly Neighborhood Spider-Man, [[Film/TheBigLebowski if you're not into that whole "brevity" thing]].

* Comicbook/TheMightyThor: The God of Thunder, Thunderer, the Golden Avenger (seriously) and the Odinson. And, once more familiarly, Goldilocks (it's mainly Iron Man and Hawkeye who call him that).

** Comicbook/{{Wolverine}}: The Canucklehead, Runt, Berserker
** Comicbook/{{Nightcrawler}}: The (Fuzzy Blue) Elf, The Demon, shares "Wallcrawler" with Spider-Man.

* 2010's entries in the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse have dubbed [[Comicbook/TheMightyThor Thor]] "The Mighty Avenger" and Comicbook/CaptainAmerica "The First Avenger". New Comicbook/IronMan merchandise during the period was also labeled "The Armored Avenger" to match.

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* [[VideoGame/DisgaeaHourOfDarkness Captain Gordon]]: '''[[MemeticMutation DEFENDER OF EARTH!]]'''
* VideoGame/{{Touhou}}: Nearly all named characters have titles which often change from game to game.
* VideoGame/HalfLife: Dr Gordon Freeman is The One Free Man.

* VideoGame/TheWonderful101: All of the 100 Wonderful Ones have them. Of the main characters;

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* ComicBook/{{Magneto}}: Master of Magnetism, and Buckethead, though that last one is shared with a [[Comicbook/IronMan hero]] [[https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Comicbook/Nova or]] [[Comicbook/DarkHawk two]].

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* [[LightNovel/{{Slayers}} Lina Inverse]], Queen of Destruction, Enemy of All Living Things, Dragon Spooker, and Bandit Killer. (She's a [[DesignatedHero good]] [[AntiHero guy]], but she has a poor reputation).

* Seiichirou Kitano of Manga/AngelDensetsu starts collecting nicknames throughout the series. A LOT of nicknames:

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* ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace''. Dr. Zarkendorf claims to be the "Hidden Hand of History, the Mille-feuille[[note]]Napoleon Cake[[/note]] of Crime, the {{Master of Disguise}}."

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* [[VideoGame/Disgaea2CursedMemories Overlord Zenon]]: God Of All Overlords

* [[Franchise/TheLegendOfZelda Ganondorf]] has many: Dark Lord, King/Prince of Darkness, Demon King, Great King of Evil, Gerudo King of Thieves, pretty much anything involving royalty and villainy.

* [[Franchise/SuperMarioBros Bowser]], King of the Koopas. [[AwesomeEgo If you asked him]], he's also the King of Awesome.

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* [[WesternAnimation/SamuraiJack Aku]], the Shapeshifting Master of Darkness, the Shogun of Sorrow.

* [[Comicbook/IncredibleHulk The Hulk]]: The Jade Giant, Ol' Greenskin, Ol' Jadejaws, The Green Goliath.

* [[Comicbook/IncredibleHercules Hercules]]: The Prince of Power, the Lion of Olympus. Herc's sidekick, Amadeus Cho, briefly inherited the "Prince of Power" title when it seemed that Herc was dead.

* ''Series/{{Arrow}}''. Oliver Queen is called "The Emerald Archer" by RecurringVillain China White.

* A RunningGag in ''Fanfic/Plan7Of9FromOuterSpace'' with our hero Captain Proton, who introduces himself as "Spaceman First Class, Defender of Earth, Man of the Day After Tomorrow" and "Prince of Planeteers, Lord of the Rings of Saturn, Man of Bronzilithiocydronoxidothicideutroniumate-25." Later he's greeted as the "Hero of Science!, Sleuth of the Spaceways and Queen of the Rocket Men!" which Proton points out should actually be ''King'' of the Rocket Men!

* Comicbook/{{Batgirl}} (Barbara Gordon): The [[AddedAlliterativeAppeal Dominoed Daredoll]].

** ComicBook/{{Gambit}}: The Ragin' Cajun, Gumbo (only Wolverine calls him that)[[note]]In Cajun culture, calling someone "Gumbo" is actually a high compliment to their culinary abilities, something of which the [[ExpansionPackPast worldy]] Wolverine is most likely aware[[/note]]

* {{SelfDemonstrating/Lobo}}: The Main Man, the Last Czarnian, The Master of Frag, [[OddNameOut Archbishop of the Alpha-Centauri Diocese of the Church of the Holy Space Dolphin]]

* [[ComicBook/ImmortalIronFist Iron Fist]]: The Living Weapon, Young Dragon, and most recently he has become both famous and infamous for being "The Immortal Iron Fist, protector of Kun Lun, Sworn enemy of the Hand".

* Paperinik (DonaldDuck's superhero/antihero alter ego) is also known as the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Devilish Avenger]] (from which the English name, "Duck Avenger" came from). Notable because he came up with it himself, and it caught on after he used it in public off-screen.

* VideoGame/SonicTheHedgehog: The Blue Blur, the Fastest Thing Alive, the Azul Wind.
* VideoGame/MegaMan: The Blue Bomber

* Herbie Film/TheLoveBug

* Franchise/{{Batman}}: The Dark Knight, the Caped Crusader, the Cowled Crimefighter, the World's Greatest Detective, the Dark Avenger, the Dark Night Detective, the Guardian of Gotham, and, familiarly, Bats. Also called the Gotham Goliath in some late [[UsefulNotes/TheGoldenAgeOfComicBooks Golden Age]] and early [[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]] stories, plus the Masked Manhunter in some [[UsefulNotes/TheBronzeAgeOfComicBooks Bronze Age]] stories. Following the death of Creator/AdamWest, the [[Series/Batman1966 '60s television Batman]] was dubbed The Bright Knight.

* Franchise/{{Superman}} and Franchise/{{Batman}}: The World's Finest Team (or just "World's Finest" for short).
** These days, the two of them plus Wonder Woman are called "The Trinity"

* Franchise/TheFlash: The Fastest Man Alive, Scarlet Speedster. Also was occasionally called the Sultan of Speed, the Monarch of Motion, and the Vizier of Velocity. As a group, the speedsters strongly affiliated with the Flash - the Flash Family - are referred to as "Those Who Ride The Lightning".

* ComicBook/BoosterGold and ComicBook/BlueBeetle: The Blue and Gold

* ComicBook/GreenArrow: The Emerald Archer

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker: The Clown Prince of Crime, the Thin White Duke of Death, the Harlequin of Hate, the Mountebank of Menace, the Murderous Mountebank, the Lord of Laughs, the Jester of Genocide, the Ace of Knaves. Creator/GrantMorrison's ''The Clown at Midnight'' has the Joker reflecting on the media names for him: the Laughing Leper, the Dandy of Death and the Clown Prince of Pain.

** Xorn: The Man from Room X

** Nightcrawler: The Elf, The Demon, shares "Wallcrawler" with Spider-Man.

* ComicBook/{{Cyclops}}: The First X-Man, Fearless Leader, Cyke, Scotty, Slim, One-Eye.

* Comicbook/TheMightyThor: The God of Thunder, Thunderer, the Golden Avenger (seriously) and the Odinson.

* ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' features Mr. L, the Green Thunder.