History RedBaron / ComicBooks

* ''ComicBook/{{Herbie}}'' is often called "The Fat Fury". Interestingly enough, it started off as just [[RedBaron a nickname]], but he later used it as his superhero alias.

--> '''[[ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers Big Bertha]]''': She's sort of beaten ComicBook/{{MODOK}}... and ComicBook/DoctorDoom... and ComicBook/{{Thanos}}... single-handedly. \\
'''ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}''': [[BreakingTheFourthWall Oh, c'mon, those stories can't actually count in continuity]].

* ''ComicBook/{{Shazam}}'': The Artist formerly known as Captain Marvel]] is the World's Mightiest Mortal or The Big Red Cheese.

* ComicBook/{{Aquaman}} is the King of the Sea(s). He's also been called "The Sea Sleuth".

* Franchise/{{Batman}}:

* ComicBook/BlackCanary is the Sonic Siren.

* ''ComicBook/CaptainAmerica'' has been called "The Sentinel of Liberty" and "The Star Spangled Avenger." He's also retroactively known as "The First Avenger", because although he's the fifth member of the actual team, his heroics in World War II are considered their inspiration.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Chassis}}'', several of the Aero-run racers are much better known by their nicknames than their real names. These include Covergirl, Sabotage and Sky Fish.
* ComicBook/{{Daredevil}} has been known as 'The Devil of Hell's Kitchen', 'The Scarlet Swashbuckler', 'Hornhead' and, most famously, as 'The Man Without Fear'.
* Speaking of which, everybody give a great big hello to the Merc with the Mouth, the Regeneratin' Degenerate, the Crimson Comedian, iiiiiiiiiiit's...ComicBook/{{Deadpool}}!!!

* In ''ComicBook/ElCazador'', PirateGirl protagonist Donessa Cinzia Elena Marie Esperanza Diego-Luis Hidalgo is better known as 'Lady Sin'.
* Ralph Dibny, the ComicBook/ElongatedMan, was often referred to as the 'Ductile Detective', especially during his stories from the 1960s and 70s.
* Hans von Hammer, an {{Expy}} of the original Red Baron, is the ''ComicBook/EnemyAce'' to comics readers, but was known InUniverse as "The Hammer of Hell."
* Annihilus, enemy of the ComicBook/FantasticFour likes to describe himself as "The Living Death That Walks."
* Franchise/TheFlash is The Scarlet Speedster, or sometimes just The Speedster. Also The Fastest Man Alive. Less-common titles used during {{UsefulNotes/The Silver Age|OfComicBooks}} were [[AlliterativeName The Sultan of Speed and The Monarch of Motion]].
** [[ComicBook/EobardThawne Professor Zoom]], conversely, is the ''[[EvilCounterpart Sinister]]'' Speedster.
** Actually discussed in-universe in the 2014 show. The Flash [[spoiler: of Earth-2, Jay Garrick,]] reveals they called him the "Crimson Comet." They then [[LampshadeHanging question]] the consistent use of {{alliterative name}}s.
* The original ComicBook/GhostRider was known as the "Frontier Phantom". Also "He-who-rides-the-night-winds", courtesy of the natives.

* ComicBook/GreenArrow is the Emerald Archer.

* ''ComicBook/IronMan'' has been called "The Ironclad Avenger."

* ComicBook/LadyDeath has been referred to as "the Pale Queen", "the Godslayer", "the Diva of Death" and "the Goddess of All That Is Dead And Dying".
* In ''ComicBook/TheScorpion'', Armando Catalano is universally known as 'the Scorpion'.
* Some of the chapter titles in ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' are implied to be nicknames Scrooge has acquired during his adventures. To wit, he's variously known as "The King of the Klondike", "The Buckaroo of the Badlands", "The Pizen of Pizen Bluff", and "The Master of the Mississippi".
** Not a chapter title, but commonly used as Scrooge's nickname during his cowboy days is "Glasgow Kid".
* Subverted with ''ComicBook/{{Lobo}}'', as his actual name is [[TheUnpronounceable unpronounceable by humans]] but translates to "He Who Devours Your Entrails and Thoroughly Enjoys It".

* ''ComicBook/MarvelNoir''

** ''ComicBook/IronManNoir'' has the infamous pirate Captain Namor, also known as the Beast of the Blue and the Blood Mariner.
** Luke Cage himself in ''ComicBook/LukeCageNoir'' received the name "Power-Man" after taking two bullets in the chest and getting up as if nothing had happened.
* ComicBook/TheMightyThor -- it was actually a fairly common thing in the early days of the comic for especially nasty villains to be declared/declare themselves 'The enemy of all who live!' (exclamation point mandatory).

* ComicStrip/ThePhantom is usually called "The Ghost Who Walks", but has also been called "The Man Who Cannot Die"; each scion of the Walker family has donned the garb upon the death of his predecessor, resulting in LegacyImmortality.
* [[ComicBook/{{Shazam}} The Artist formerly known as Captain Marvel]] is the World's Mightiest Mortal or The Big Red Cheese.
* The first Speedy, Roy Harper, was the Cyclone Kid.
* Franchise/SpiderMan is referred to as either the "Web-Slinger" or "Wall-Crawler", based on his two main methods of transportation, or, more simply, Webs. A less common name is "The Arach-Knight", as a pun on Batman's "The Dark Knight". He's also occasionally been called the "Web-Spinner", though this is extremely rare in the modern day compared to the 60s-early 90s, where it was more common.

* Most of the main characters in ''ComicBook/StrontiumDog'' shed their old names and take up new ones. Very few people in-universe know who John Kreelman and Archibald MacNulty are, but will be wetting themselves if you refer to them as Johnny Alpha and The Tartan Terror.
* Before her FaceHeelTurn, [[ComicBook/SuicideSquad June Moone's Enchantress]] was known as "the Switcheroo-Witcheroo", "the Charming Charmer, "the Magic Maiden" and "the Wizard Girl".[[note]]These last three were used exclusively in ''Strange Adeventures'' #200 -- the last comic to depict the Enchantress as a heroine Pre-Crisis[[/note]]
* Franchise/{{Superman}} is the Man of Steel, the Man of Tomorrow, the Last Son of Krypton, the Metropolis Marvel, the ComicBook/{{Action|Comics}} Ace, the Big Blue Boy Scout, and the Man of Might (you may notice [[AlliterativeName a trend]] with some of these). His cousin, ComicBook/{{Supergirl}}, is either the Girl of Steel, the Maid of Might, the Stanhope Sensation or the Blonde Blockbuster. His alternate universe daughter, Ariella, is called R'E'L, the Destroyer of Worlds. Even ComicBook/JimmyOlsen has been sometimes called Mr. Action.
* Adrian "The World's Smartest Man" Veidt, formerly Ozymandias, in ''{{ComicBook/Watchmen}}''.
* Gilbert Shelton's Wonder Wart-hog was called the 'Hog of Steel', in an obvious parody of Superman.
* Franchise/WonderWoman is sometimes called "the Amazing Amazon" or "the Spirit of Truth".
* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} of the ComicBook/XMen used to be just "Wolverine". Then we learned his name was Logan. And ''then'' we learned his ''real'' name was James Howlett. Originally, his official code-name (given to him by the Canadian government) was "Weapon-X". "Wolverine" was a name he chose for himself, apparently.

* In ''ComicBook/LeScorpion'', Armando Catalano is universally known as 'the Scorpion'.

** Depending on the continuity, he is referred to as the Caped Crusader, Masked, Manhunter, Dark Knight (which came from Darknight Detective), and occasionally just The Detective, usually by Comicbook/RasAlGhul. A more obscure one, but no less alliterative, was Gotham Gangbuster.

** Comicbook/{{Robin}} was originally known as the Boy Wonder, and later as the Teen Wonder.

** "Comicbook/TwoFace" was originally the nickname used to identify Harvey Dent once his face was half-scarred by acid and he became a criminal. Later versions of the character used this as a persona Dent adopted as part of his multiple personality disorder.

* Comicbook/BlackCanary is the Sonic Siren.

* Hans von Hammer, an {{Expy}} of the original Red Baron, is the ''Comicbook/EnemyAce'' to comics readers, but was known InUniverse as "The Hammer of Hell."

* Comicbook/GreenArrow is the Emerald Archer.
* ''ComicBook/TheIncredibleHulk'': The Hulk lives and breathes these, since his name itself is always an example. He has gained other epithets in the recent past, such as "ComicBook/{{Indestructible|Hulk}}" and "ComicBook/{{Immortal|Hulk}}". His traditional Stan Lee-given kennings are "Jade Giant" and "Green Goliath". His [[ComicBook/SheHulk cousin]], meanwhile, is the [[StatuesqueStunner Green Glamazon]] and is usually accompanied by the adjective "ComicBook/{{Sensational|SheHulk}}". Hulk's ''ComicBook/MiniMarvels'' counterpart is the [[AgeLift Jade Juvenile]].

* Some of the chapter titles in ''Comicbook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' are implied to be nicknames Scrooge has acquired during his adventures. To wit, he's variously known as "The King of the Klondike", "The Buckaroo of the Badlands", "The Pizen of Pizen Bluff", and "The Master of the Mississippi".

* One character in the Franchise/MarvelUniverse is referred to by {{Mooks}} as "The Anti-Life" and "The Slayer of All That Breathes". [[LethalJokeCharacter That character]] is Comicbook/SquirrelGirl.
--> '''[[ComicBook/GreatLakesAvengers Big Bertha]]''': She's sort of beaten ComicBook/{{MODOK}}... and ComicBook/DoctorDoom... and Comicbook/{{Thanos}}... single-handedly. \\

* Adrian "The World's Smartest Man" Veidt, formerly Ozymandias, in ''{{Comicbook/Watchmen}}''.

* ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} of the Comicbook/XMen used to be just "Wolverine". Then we learned his name was Logan. And ''then'' we learned his ''real'' name was James Howlett. Originally, his official code-name (given to him by the Canadian government) was "Weapon-X". "Wolverine" was a name he chose for himself, apparently.

* The ComicBook/IncredibleHulk lives and breathes these, since his name itself is always an example. He has gained other epithets in the recent past, such as "Indestructible" and "ComicBook/{{Immortal|Hulk}}". His traditional Stan Lee-given kennings are "Jade Giant" and "Green Goliath". His [[ComicBook/SheHulk cousin]], meanwhile, is the [[StatuesqueStunner Green Glamazon]] and is usually accompanied by the adjective "Sensational". Hulk's ''ComicBook/MiniMarvels'' counterpart is the [[AgeLift Jade Juvenile]].

** Depending on the continuity, he is referred to as the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, [[spoiler:Which came from Darknight Detective,]] and occasionally The Detective, usually by Comicbook/RasAlGhul. A more obscure one, but no less alliterative, was Gotham Gangbuster.
*** More ominously, in the criminal world he's also known as "The Bat" empathizing his role as {{The Dreaded}} among criminals.

** Depending on the continuity, he is referred to as the Caped Crusader, the Dark Knight, [[spoiler:Which came from Darknight Detective,]] and occasionally The Detective, usually by Comicbook/RasAlGhul.

** [[ComicBook/TheScarecrow Scarecrow]] is "The Master of Fear" while ComicBook/TheRiddler is "The Prince of Puzzlers", "the Duke of Dilemmas", "the Wizard of Quiz", and "the Count of Conundrums".