Fluffy The Terrible / Fan Works

• In Enemy of My Enemy, there are Lekgolo/Hunters, 12-foot-tall armored warriors that scare the shit out of their foes and their allies. What does young Sarah Jennings call the pair she made friends with? Jib and Jub.
• In the fan video MLP FIM FanFic, Celestia uses a Kill Sat called H.A.R.M.O.N.Y. to blow up the planet.
• In Fallout: Equestria, Angel Bunny gained this reputation among the Zebras. He even invented Stampede, the equivalent to Slasher from the Fallout series.
• In It's not the Raptor DNA, the Mosasaurus, the largest, most powerful creature on the island, is given the name...Lilly.
• The Emiya Clan managed to get Primate Murder, the White Beast of Gaia, First Dead Apostle Ancestor, the creature whose task is to destroy humanity, as a pet. It kind of came as a packaged deal when Altrouge Brunestud forced herself on Shirou as his newest wife. They call him "Primmy." This became Hilarious in Hindsight when Fate/Grand Order revealed that Primate Murder does in fact have a Fluffy the Terrible name - it’s Fou.
• Tales of the Undiscovered Swords, considering the fandom it's for, examines cases of this trope applied to Japanese swords in real life. For example, the Absurdly Sharp Blade that singlehandedly beat all others in its first tameshigiri and can chop stacks of fresh bamboo stalks was slapped with a decidedly poetic name of Sasanoyuki.^note To be fair, it's a reference to how its sharpness was described as "like snow falling from a bamboo leaf".
  Izuminokami: His name isn't as elegant as you think it is. He got it because he's sharp, not because of some artistic, poetic bullshit.
• Naruto fics just love having Naruto refer to Kyuubi, the giant nine tailed fox capable of leveling mountains with a swoop of his tails, as Fluffy. The fox is rarely amused
• In a similar vein, Harry Potter fanfics love to make such names for Voldemort, such as Voldisquirrel and Vulturemort.
• Mocked viciously in the Harry Potter / Dragonriders of Pern story On The Wings of Dragons, where a Spanish wizard terrorist goes by the name Carlos The Gerbil. At a briefing, a wizard gets rather upset when half of the room bursts into laughter.
  Dan: I meant no insult, Mr. Croaker, but your fearsome hit wizard is either totally inept at normal history or he's a certified whacko. It's possible he decided to steal the name from a world famous terrorist who was wreaking havoc in the early seventies, but if so, he got the name totally wrong. Just whispering the name of Carlos the Jackal was enough to send governments quivering in terror, but Carlos the Gerbil? The man has taken the name of a small Australian rodent that many people have as a pet. A gerbil is about as dangerous as being attacked by a marshmallow.
• Tangled Up In Blues has the manly muscled bouncer, named Pink Bunny.
• In Hivefled, the Obliviously Evil cultist Ganmed Lomust used to feed his sacrifices to his lusus, a seagoat which he named "Snowball".
• In A Brief History of Equestria, the name of the leader and founder of the largest empire in history, the Mongrellian Horde, was, indeed, "Fluffy."
• The Harmony Cannon from Mass Effect The Equestrian Equation. It looks like it fires a rainbow. It can One-Hit Kill Reapers
• The Mr. Black series has a one chapter dark lord named Fred Fredburger the Really Really Bad. Lampshaded when one of the wizards that summons Mr. Black mentions it just doesn't feel right to fear someone with that name.
• In the expanded Discworld of A.A. Pessimal, a freak accident with a gorgon and a nose-bleed returns an extinct species - the wingèd Pegasus horses - to the world. The magnificent wingèd creatures are in the keeping of Lancre-trained witches as only they can ride them - a welcome upgrade from broomsticks. And the first two Pegasii get names reflective of their proud nature and noble lineage. Rainbow Dash and Pryaniki - Sweetcakes. Well, Everything Sounds Better In Russian.
  • This Discworld also expands on the marginal canon character of Arachne, a spider-obsessed graduate of the Assassins' Guild who uses arachnids as an agent for creative and stylish inhumation. The Pessimal Discworld has Arachne Webber as a senior student at the Guild School, who (where other students are allowed to keep a brace of stylish hunting dogs as pets), elects to have a companion spider. In her case, the Sloth-Eating Spider of Paraquat, which she has neglected to inform Guild authorities grows to a mature size of nine feet across from claw-tip to claw-tip, and which is perfectly capable of stunning and eating a large hunting dog. She names this pet Felicia.
• In Hard Being Pure, Phobia has a huge six-legged black monster with large mantis scytes on its back. He's called Snowball.
  Because where's the fun in calling things with names that match their appearance?
• Except It Abide in the Vine is full of alternate versions of Steve Rogers and Bucky Barnes, so Only Known by Their Nickname is necessary to avoid confusion. The biggest, scariest former Winter Soldier in the whole crew answers to Sweetpea.
• Invoked in Frozen Turtles when Karai explicitly ponders the irony that Elsa has created two living snowmen and the physically intimidating snow-golem is known as Marshmallow while the little cheery one is Olaf, as she feels it would be more appropriate the other way around. Raphael confirms that he shares that opinion and Michaelangelo suggests the alternative name of ‘Snowliath’ for Marshmallow.
• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines comments on this, and how people have died for giving a Pokemon with pride a name like Fred.
• In the Blooming Moon Chronicles, a Tyrant Wyrm is a fabled monster that leaves death and destruction in its path. In Glory Be, Scrivener Blooms artificially creates one, and then names it Poe.
• Commissar Dan, Warhammer 40,000 character from /tg/, has a pet Basilisk (a self-propelled gun, which he uses as a frontline tank) called "Fluffy".
• In Team Four Star's playthrough of Dragon Ball Xenoverse they chose to name their Majin character Dumplin. By the end of the game he's one of the most powerful beings in the universe and acquired the nickname 'Demon God Dumplin'. He'll eventually become Mr. Popo.
• White Sheep (RWBY):
  • Jaune's pet ancient Beowolf is called Manny. Though that's just Jaune's nickname for him; his real name is Man-Eater.
  • The massive Grimm dragon that was sleeping near Vale is named Kevin. And Cinder, of all people, is the one who named him.
    Jaune: She was twelve at the time. And I'm not sure she thought Mom was serious about letting her name a dragon.
• Our Blades Are Sharp: The direwolf Lady survives much longer than in the source material, and eventually rides into battle with Domeric Bolton. As such, Bitter Robard considers "Lady" a jape of a name.
• Prehistoric Park: Returned from Extinction: Besides Terence and Matilda from Prehistoric Park and Big Al from The Ballad of Big Al, there's also Finn the Acrocanthosaurus, who is a carnivorous dinosaur bigger than Al but smaller than Terence and Matilda.
• For Better or For Worse (One Piece): Luffy tames the Sea King called Lord of the Coast that bit off Shanks arm in chapter 1 of the manga/episode 1 of the anime. He names it Kinto-un and treats it like a pet.
• Under the Northern Lights: Wiglek named his huge, powerful ice golem Svipp after his old dog.
• Infinity Train: Seeker of Crocus: Chloe obtains a Mirage Houndoom — a Hellhound with devil horns and tail that are known as "The Dark Pokémon" and are Dark/Fire types — as a partner in the Ninjala Car. She calls him Hewie, after the German Shepherd of a horror video game.
• Helpy from Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator was transformed from an adorable and sweet-looking animatronic to a frightening and twisted, nightmarish monster while keeping his name. Now he doesn't look very helpful anymore, does he?
• New Beginnings: In chapter 25 of Complications, Page goes walking through a sleep-spelled Tempest Shadow's dreams. He learns her real name and promptly hangs a lapshade on it.
  Hmh. Her name isn’t really Tempest Shadow.
  Her name is Fizzlepop Berrytwist.
  I suppose I would have picked something else too if I was trying to be intimidating. Difficult to be the dark enforcer of an evil tyrant with a name like that.
  Fluffles, the terrible!
• In Prodigy James owns a pit bull/rottweiler mix that tries to tear a chunk out of Dumbledore. He calls it Sunshine.

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