History NamesToRunAwayFrom / ForeignLanguageNames

* The eponymous character in ''Les Chants de Maldoror''.

* ''AngelSanctuary'''s Katou's seldom mentioned first name is Yue, given by his father, because he was not his child, but the result of his mother's betrayal. It didn't finish him off after birth, but in the course of the series he gets killed - or most often kills himself - four times total.

* Yue Ayase from MahouSenseiNegima averts the majority of this trope, despite all signs that she might.

* Ja'far ibn Yahya al-Barmaki, aka the GrandVizierJafar, was a Persian nobleman and the Grand Vizier (i.e. Prime Minister) of the Abbasid Caliph Harun al-Rashid. He was executed under suspicion of having an affair with the Caliph's sister Abbasa. He appears in the ''Literature/ArabianNights'' as a sort of detective (in a tale often cited as the UrExample of the DetectiveStory), but his patronage of learning--specifically the revival of Greek and Persian science and the encouragement of the paper industry, recently arrived from China--may have led to a reputation as a sorcerer: hence the villainous connotations.

* {{Lobo}}. Even on earth, it conjures the idea of a rabid wolf, but on his planet, it translated into "He who devours your entrails and thoroughly enjoys it."

* ''TheLegendOfZeldaSpiritTracks'': Malladus. Hoo boy.

* In the film ''Film/{{Sicario}}'' (which itself is a case of this trope, being a slang term for ''hitman'') The Big Bad Fausto Alarcon is nicknamed "El Verdugo", which stands for The Executioner.

* In the film ''[[Film/{{Sicario}}]]'' (which itself is a case of this trope, being a slang term for ''hitman'') The Big Bad Fausto Alarcon is nicknamed "El Verdugo", which stands for The Executioner.

* In the film ''[[Film/Sicario]]'' (which itself is a case of this trope, being a slang term for ''hitman'') The Big Bad Fausto Alarcon is nicknamed "El Verdugo", which stands for The Executioner.

* In the film ''Film/Sicario'' (which itself is a case of this trope, being a slang term for ''hitman'') The Big Bad Fausto Alarcon is nicknamed "El Verdugo", which stands for The Executioner.

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* Otto Von Todt, the first vampire met in ''RequiemVampireKnight''.

* The Jaegers are an elite police squad in Manga/AkameGaKill/

* Doku (see Count Dooku above), TheDragon in the XBox reboot of ''NinjaGaiden''.

* The robots in ''PN03'' all have German plant names, such as Eichel (acorn), Birne (pear), Seerose (water lily), Sonnenblume (sunflower), Loewenzahn (dandelion), and Alraune (mandrake, a hallucinogenic nightshade).

* The bosses Sonnenblume (German for sunflower), Loewenzahn (dandelion), and Alraune (mandrake, a hallucinogenic nightshade) in ''PN03''.

* Doku (see Count Dooku above), the BigBad of the XBox remake of ''NinjaGaiden''.

From the Arabic Ja`far, meaning, of all things, "[[SpecialPersonNormalName brook]]." Probably gained its notoriety from Ja'far ibn Yahia al-Bamarki, about whom read below.

* Creator/ConradVeidt's role as the evil grand vizier, later caliph in ''Film/TheThiefOfBagdad''.

* Veled from ''LastRes0rt''. It's Arameic for "Rose", which isn't terrifying in itself, [[ChaoticEvil but she sure is thorny.]]

From the Arabic Ja`far, meaning, of all things, "[[SpecialPersonNormalname brook]]." Probably gained its notoriety from Ja'far ibn Yahia al-Bamarki, about whom read below.

A common BadAss name. It translates as "ghost" or "spirit," but people/things named Ghost tend to be far less threatening... unless of course [[{{Starcraft}} you've built up your tech tree]].

* ''MDGeist''