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A form of Names to Run Away from Really Fast: When a character has a name referencing crime or criminality, you can't really be sure what you're dealing with. A common variant is for The Law Firm of Pun, Pun, and Wordplay to use this as an Evil Lawyer Joke with names along the lines of "Dewey, Cheatham, and Howe" ("Do we cheat 'em? And how!").

Examples:

Traditionally, two-person teams of Team Rocket members in the Pokémon: The Series dub consist of two individuals who, when the names are combined, form the name of a well-known outlaw from the Old West. James and Jesse, the most visible pair, are named after notorious outlaw Jesse James, but there are others, like their rivals in the group, Butch and Cassidy, named after another famous outlaw, Butch Cassidy. Another example was Annie and Oakley from one of the movies (named after someone who wasn't an outlaw, but still someone who people didn't want to mess with).

The Transformers: Last Stand of the Wreckers: There's a Decepticon named Snare who tries to release Impactor. Impactor doesn't trust him because of the name, but Snare really does want to help him.
Sonic the Hedgehog (Archie Comics): Would you trust a group calling themselves Team Hooligan to abide by the law?

In Evangelion fanfic "Inheritance", Shinji Ikari changes his surname because in the post-Third Impact world, "Ikari" is the surname of a mass-murderer.
In the third arc of Hellsister Trilogy, Destruction of the Endless joins the heroes. When the main characters point out that his name isn't reassuring, Destruction explains he is merely the embodiment of change and renewal.

Star Wars is fond of giving shady names to its criminal characters. A New Hope started the trend with a bounty hunter named Greedo, Return of the Jedi named Jabba the Hutt's jester Salacious B Crumb, and the prequel Attack of the Clones introduced a drug dealer named Elan Sleazebaggano.

Double subverted with Wormtongue, who was given the name because of his Treacherous Advisor ways. And yet his true name is "Gríma, son of Galmod", directly translated from Anglo-Saxon means "Mask, son of Licentious". Nice. Even in modern English, it just sounds "Grimy".
Would you expect anything other than monkey business from an ape named Shift? (Subverted with his friend Puzzle the Donkey, who's actually a good guy.)
Would you trust a rat named Twirltongue?
Would you trust a man named Janos Slynt?
Would you vote for a Congressman named Hornswoggle?
Vermin in the Redwall series. When characters with names like Scumnose, Mangefur and Cheesethief knock on the door of your abbey, do you follow the dictates of peace and let them in, or do you put up all the barricades and start hunting down Martin the Warrior's sword?
One heroic example is Lyra "Silvertongue" Belacqua, clever heroine of His Dark Materials.
S. Wendell "Swindle" Palomino from Gordon Korman's Swindle.
Would you trust a cellmate named Low-Key Lyesmith (Loki Lie-smith)?
Jack Hyde, the nominal villain of Fifty Shades Of Grey, is one middle initial away from being a pun on "Jekyll Hyde."

Trust someone named Risky?
How 'bout Horace Schemer?
The Mr. Potato Head Show: The TV bosses set up a violent and sour supervisor over Mr. Potato Head whose name, we kid you not, was Bully-Boy McPherson.
Midnight Caller has crime lord Nathan Dread.

From Adventures in Odyssey, the evil Dr. Regis Blackgaard ("blackguard" means a troublemaker). Arguably subverted in that he has a twin brother, Edwin, who shares the name but is only guilty of being a Large Ham.

How about Pirate Girl Risky Boots?
And how about Swindle Bilk, the sneevil from Miltonius' Secret Area from AdventureQuest Worlds?
You'd want to be careful dealing with a Ravel Puzzlewell, wouldn't you?
Two words: Sol Badguy. Hilariously enough, he's not the villain of the story, he's the main character.

Transformers:
- Would you trust anything a Decepticon said to you? By now it's even been commented on in-show.
  Jazz: Deceived by a Decepticon. Who knew?
- Would you buy something from a guy named Swindle?
How about a guy named Al G. Swindler?
Would you carry valuables around a fox named Swiper?
Would you trust someone with the name Cheatsy Koopa?
- Or share a prison cell with Crimewave Clyde?
Simon Bar Sinister, Big Bad of the Underdog series.
Captain Planet and the Planeteers featured Hoggish Greedly, Sly Sludge, Verminous Skumm, and especially Looten Plunder.
You should probably watch your back when close to someone named Betrayus.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has Flim and Flam, the "world famous" Flim-Flam brothers.

Would you buy a house from Crook & Blight?
There's actually a financial service company named Standard & Poor's. Meaningful Name much?
One infamous embezzler during the 2008 recession was named Bernie Madoff (pronounced "made off" — yes, as in "he made off with all our money"). Robin Williams lampshaded the irony about an embezzler having such a name: "Was the name not a clue? Did he have to be with the accounting firm of Dewey, Fuckyou, and Howe?"
Creflo Dollar's last name sounds like something one would want to change one's name from before becoming a televangelist, not to.
If you were visiting the South Shetland Islands off of the Antarctic Peninsula, would you go anywhere near a place called Deception Island? Or, if you were in a boat off the coast of Tanzania, Mafia Island?
- Or, in waters north of Seattle Deception Pass? ^note
One corrupt Bitcoin gambling operation openly called itself "Ponzicoin" — and some chumps still fell for it.
"Ministry of Ungentlemanly Warfare" was a nickname for Britain's Special Operations Executive during World War II.

Other/Multiple Media

People named Simon, especially children (as in, "Simon Says"), may be capable of mind control or more. Unless it's Simon Belmont.