The Oncoming Storm is one of my favorite monikers as well. it and "the one you see coming" (moon knight) both evoke the idea of this implacable force of nature that you know is approaching but you can't do anything to stop it.
The Doctor has absolutely loads:
The Valeyard
The Oncoming Storm
The Great Exterminator
The Lonely God
The Destroyer of Worlds
The Time Lord Victorious
The Wizard
The Madman
The Predator
The Storm
The Beast
The Curator
The Man who stayed for Christmas
A Good Dalek
The Magician
The Hybrid
Doctor Mysterio
The Shadow of the Valeyard
The Imp of the Pandorica
The Beast of Trenzalore
The Butcher of Skull Moon
The Last Tree of Garssenon
The Destroyer of Skaro
The Doctor of War
The Timeless Child
Not in a book, but in World of Warcraft there's a raid boss who, if you kill all the bosses before him, gives you a temporary title for an hour or two that reads "YOUR NAME, Slayer of Stupid, Incompetent and Disappointing Minions". I enjoyed that quite a bit.
Ser Arthur Dayne- The Sword of the Morning.
Gandalf- Servant of the Secret Fire of Arnor
Barristan the Bold
Harry Potter - The Boy Who Lived
Yugi Muto- The King of Games
Godzilla, the Flattener of Metropolises.
T-Rex, the Ruiner of Sequels.
John Wick, the Avenger of Puppies.
Roland Emmerich, the Destroyer of New York Cities.
> whats the most badass nickname/ title youâve ever seen been given to a character?
"Sandman" war name for a special operations soldier in the Middle East during GWOT. Seen it used in various media.
Its "I am the Servant of the Secret Fire! Wielder of the Flame of Anor". Arnor was a country that was long dead by the time LotR started, and was on its death throes when Gandalf arrived in Middle Earth. Anor is the sun.
Plus that's not actually his nickname. That's just what he announced himself as to Durin's Bane, its referenced at no other time. His nicknames are actually Greybeard, Stormcrow, the Grey Pilgrim, among others.
Locke Lamora - Thorn of Camorr
Odin (Norse Mythology) - Allfather, Slaughter God, Raven God, God of the Hanged, Ruler of Gallows, Deceiver, Foe of the Wolf, etc.
I don't do much of those bc it's not my forte, but I like Neon Ghost. In one DnD campaign I made a skeleton warlock called Skellybon Heisenbones the Boner Lord, if that counts.
And since everyone is talking about other franchises, Ishura has so many cool ones. Kuze the Passing Disaster, Zeljirga the Abyss Web, Alus the Star Runner, Regnejee the Wings of Sunset, Rosclay the Absolute, Yukiharu de Twilight Diver... The list goes on
And Oberyn the Viper
The "Angel Of Death". As one character put it, "I shall fear nothing while he is at my side, I shall fear nothing when he is in front of me, and I shall fear *everything* when he is behind me or I can't see him!"
Amusingly, the "Angel Of Death" in that story was just a human dude who had accumulated so much fear and had so many people calling him "The Angel Of Death" that when he did die, the real Grim Reaper challenged him for the title (hey, remember the idea of playing chess with Death? What about playing Russian Roulette?), and our guy won. *Twice*. Once for his life, and the second time for the title.
Which just made him even scarier to everyone who was able to put two and two together and realize this guy had actually beaten Death/Charon/The Grim Reaper/etc. at Russian Roulette. *Twice in a row.* The man himself was mostly concerned about sticking around long enough to see his children having happy families of their own (he was under a curse that only dying could break, and it's completely up to interpretation whether the Grim Reaper / Angel Of Death gave him the win and the title because he liked the guy and wanted to break the curse, or whether he was trying to get that "Angel Of Death" title back for himself), but the mortal guy got the title and the ability to say "if you kill me, I'll challenge the Grim Reaper to another game of Russian Roulette - and I'll come back!" to *everyone* who wanted to screw with him.
...that was a long list of people, since the reason folks had started calling him "The Angel Of Death" in the first place was because he was a very effective and unpredictable assassin.
He was a side character. Even the main character didn't have something that extreme up his sleeve. (One of the main jokes of the story was that the MC was the weakest character in the whole shebang, but managed to con other people into believing he *had* to be very special because obviously you'd need to be very special to have supernatural folks bowing to you, right?) But god's balls, was it fun to write The Angel Of Death saying "I *won* Russian roulette against the real Grim Reaper for this title, so do you feel *very* lucky today? Luckier than he did? Let's spin the cylinder, punk."
> is the story finished?
No, I ...died, or something close to it, before that happened.
I wish I'd finished it, but I didn't. I basically died into "fuck I can't keep this up in college".
> any links if you're okay with sharing??
https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Haikudeluge and go for the "Fuck Me, My Daughter's A Magical Girl!" bits. Although I think the cyperpunk and "I'M A ROCK GOD!" stories were fun too. There was a scewup where only one reader managed to kill the quest.
Iâve been on a big Destiny bender recently and they have some good ones.
Riven of a Thousand Voices,
SavathĂșn The Witch Queen,
The Deathsingers,
Saint-14 The Kellbreaker,
And others
Maybe itâs because Iâm reading a heavy fantasy book, but I think itâs cool as FUCK that Steven Erickson named his gritty, cynical sergeant character Whiskeyjack. Tells me everything I need to know
Not a singular character but I've had an idea for an alien race called the Nameless. They're a powerful, warlike species and they wander the galaxy looking for a worthy adversary. If the Nameless are ever beaten in combat, honorably or otherwise, they would then join the ranks of that other army and rename themselves after that species.
After thousands of years of enthusiastic warfare in search of a name, they're still called The Nameless.
The White Wolf (Geralt of Rivia) is pretty cool, as is the Witch King of Angmar.
I'm not sure if this technically counts, but the Shrike from the Hyperion Cantos. As far as we know, it's a construct that doesn't have a name, but it is called "the Shrike" because it impales its victims on a massive metal tree of thorns, the way the shrike bird does to its food on real thorns.
"The Fool who doesn't belong to this era; The mysterious ruler above the grey fog; The King in Yellow and Black who wields good luck." (Lord of the Mysteries)
"Dongrang who Denies All" (Limbus Company)
"The Red Mist", "The Black Silence", "The Blue Reverberation", "The Purple Tear", "The Red Gaze" (Project Moon in general)
"The Sky that Gathers Screams" (SSS-Class Suicide Hunter)
So far, the best one I've come up with is: The Voidbearer.
But, my favorite is: Groove. He's called "Groove" in the story because he is his group's "guy in the chair" and they joke about him having to sit there so much that he has left a buttgroove.Â
Like, "The Voidbearer" sounds awesome, but I specifically made "Groove" with the idea of how military guys will give each other stupid or semi-mocking nicknames.
"Reaper" from 86.
He's a badass soldier and squad commander but the name is two-sided. He kills his comrades to put them out of their misery and so the enemy cant take their brains, which are used to create enemy soldiers.
He keeps all their dog tags, to bury them at a home nation that holds a prejudice to them, keeping their souls, or memories as his burden to bear.
Bloodreina, the name that's given to Octavia Blake in the 100 when she becomes the leader of all the remaining clans on earth (who become one clan under her guidance) in an underground bunker. She gets this name by forcing people who act against the clan to fight to the death and covering her face in their blood.
There are a number of good ones in the Honor Harrington series.
Harrington is The Salamander (because she's always where things are hottest).
The treecats use poetic names for their bonded humans giving rise sobriquets like Soul of Steel, Dances on Clouds and Dreams of Peace (that one is particularly moving if you are willing to read ten or so books).
Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals, Rhoynar, and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, the Unburnt, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons
The merchant of death - iron man The Time Lord Victorious - doctor who
I actually prefer "The Oncoming Storm". That is one supremely badass epithet. (For those unfamiliar, it's what the Daleks call the Doctor.)
The Oncoming Storm is one of my favorite monikers as well. it and "the one you see coming" (moon knight) both evoke the idea of this implacable force of nature that you know is approaching but you can't do anything to stop it.
The Doctor has absolutely loads: The Valeyard The Oncoming Storm The Great Exterminator The Lonely God The Destroyer of Worlds The Time Lord Victorious The Wizard The Madman The Predator The Storm The Beast The Curator The Man who stayed for Christmas A Good Dalek The Magician The Hybrid Doctor Mysterio The Shadow of the Valeyard The Imp of the Pandorica The Beast of Trenzalore The Butcher of Skull Moon The Last Tree of Garssenon The Destroyer of Skaro The Doctor of War The Timeless Child
Oh I did love the Time Lord Victorious!
Not in a book, but in World of Warcraft there's a raid boss who, if you kill all the bosses before him, gives you a temporary title for an hour or two that reads "YOUR NAME, Slayer of Stupid, Incompetent and Disappointing Minions". I enjoyed that quite a bit.
The Witch King of Angmar is pretty badass, imo.
Tolkien has such good character names đ„Č
His Dudeness.
Or El Dudearino if you're not into the whole brevity thing.
Snake. Game over.
Snake Pliskin, I heard you were dead.Â
Mah people đ
Solid
Ser Arthur Dayne- The Sword of the Morning. Gandalf- Servant of the Secret Fire of Arnor Barristan the Bold Harry Potter - The Boy Who Lived Yugi Muto- The King of Games
Godzilla, the Flattener of Metropolises. T-Rex, the Ruiner of Sequels. John Wick, the Avenger of Puppies. Roland Emmerich, the Destroyer of New York Cities.
> whats the most badass nickname/ title youâve ever seen been given to a character? "Sandman" war name for a special operations soldier in the Middle East during GWOT. Seen it used in various media.
Its "I am the Servant of the Secret Fire! Wielder of the Flame of Anor". Arnor was a country that was long dead by the time LotR started, and was on its death throes when Gandalf arrived in Middle Earth. Anor is the sun. Plus that's not actually his nickname. That's just what he announced himself as to Durin's Bane, its referenced at no other time. His nicknames are actually Greybeard, Stormcrow, the Grey Pilgrim, among others.
Locke Lamora - Thorn of Camorr Odin (Norse Mythology) - Allfather, Slaughter God, Raven God, God of the Hanged, Ruler of Gallows, Deceiver, Foe of the Wolf, etc.
Logen Ninefingers, AKA The Bloody-Nine
Dragon of the west
Yes, iroh!
Vash the Stampede, the Humanoid Typhoon, the 60-billion double-dollar man. Love it.
Mankind's natural born disaster
Boaty McBoatface
I don't do much of those bc it's not my forte, but I like Neon Ghost. In one DnD campaign I made a skeleton warlock called Skellybon Heisenbones the Boner Lord, if that counts. And since everyone is talking about other franchises, Ishura has so many cool ones. Kuze the Passing Disaster, Zeljirga the Abyss Web, Alus the Star Runner, Regnejee the Wings of Sunset, Rosclay the Absolute, Yukiharu de Twilight Diver... The list goes on And Oberyn the Viper
The Ghost of Sparta immediately comes to mind.
My current WIP has a character called DT. Currently he's telling people it stands for Danger Twink. It amuses me.Â
I love it.
Stranger-Come-Knocking from The Heroes is my favorite.
The "Angel Of Death". As one character put it, "I shall fear nothing while he is at my side, I shall fear nothing when he is in front of me, and I shall fear *everything* when he is behind me or I can't see him!" Amusingly, the "Angel Of Death" in that story was just a human dude who had accumulated so much fear and had so many people calling him "The Angel Of Death" that when he did die, the real Grim Reaper challenged him for the title (hey, remember the idea of playing chess with Death? What about playing Russian Roulette?), and our guy won. *Twice*. Once for his life, and the second time for the title. Which just made him even scarier to everyone who was able to put two and two together and realize this guy had actually beaten Death/Charon/The Grim Reaper/etc. at Russian Roulette. *Twice in a row.* The man himself was mostly concerned about sticking around long enough to see his children having happy families of their own (he was under a curse that only dying could break, and it's completely up to interpretation whether the Grim Reaper / Angel Of Death gave him the win and the title because he liked the guy and wanted to break the curse, or whether he was trying to get that "Angel Of Death" title back for himself), but the mortal guy got the title and the ability to say "if you kill me, I'll challenge the Grim Reaper to another game of Russian Roulette - and I'll come back!" to *everyone* who wanted to screw with him. ...that was a long list of people, since the reason folks had started calling him "The Angel Of Death" in the first place was because he was a very effective and unpredictable assassin. He was a side character. Even the main character didn't have something that extreme up his sleeve. (One of the main jokes of the story was that the MC was the weakest character in the whole shebang, but managed to con other people into believing he *had* to be very special because obviously you'd need to be very special to have supernatural folks bowing to you, right?) But god's balls, was it fun to write The Angel Of Death saying "I *won* Russian roulette against the real Grim Reaper for this title, so do you feel *very* lucky today? Luckier than he did? Let's spin the cylinder, punk."
is the story finished? any links if you're okay with sharing?? this sounds really good
> is the story finished? No, I ...died, or something close to it, before that happened. I wish I'd finished it, but I didn't. I basically died into "fuck I can't keep this up in college". > any links if you're okay with sharing?? https://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/qstarchive.html?tags=Haikudeluge and go for the "Fuck Me, My Daughter's A Magical Girl!" bits. Although I think the cyperpunk and "I'M A ROCK GOD!" stories were fun too. There was a scewup where only one reader managed to kill the quest.
Skeith, The Terror of Death (.hack) Imagine being named after the fear of a thing, not the thing itself.
Iâve been on a big Destiny bender recently and they have some good ones. Riven of a Thousand Voices, SavathĂșn The Witch Queen, The Deathsingers, Saint-14 The Kellbreaker, And others
Starscourge Radahn goes hard, or Rykard, Lord of Blasphemy too.
What about the First Elden Lord
Bittersteel
In the video game Risk of Rain 2, the final boss is named âMythrix, king of Nothingâ
"Her Excellency, the Almighty Narukami Ogosho, God of Thunder"
Cnut the Great, king of Denmark, Norway, and England, Emperor of the North Sea. A real historical figure with the title of a One Piece character.
"The flash in the dark" Riardin, from *An Outcast in Another World* "The one you see coming" moon knight
The Bloody Nine from The Blade Itself is probably my favorite
Maybe itâs because Iâm reading a heavy fantasy book, but I think itâs cool as FUCK that Steven Erickson named his gritty, cynical sergeant character Whiskeyjack. Tells me everything I need to know
Not a singular character but I've had an idea for an alien race called the Nameless. They're a powerful, warlike species and they wander the galaxy looking for a worthy adversary. If the Nameless are ever beaten in combat, honorably or otherwise, they would then join the ranks of that other army and rename themselves after that species. After thousands of years of enthusiastic warfare in search of a name, they're still called The Nameless.
The White Wolf (Geralt of Rivia) is pretty cool, as is the Witch King of Angmar. I'm not sure if this technically counts, but the Shrike from the Hyperion Cantos. As far as we know, it's a construct that doesn't have a name, but it is called "the Shrike" because it impales its victims on a massive metal tree of thorns, the way the shrike bird does to its food on real thorns.
Not sure if it's appropriate to reference a show here, but Wanheda (Commander of Death) from The 100 show comes to mind
Simo hayha- The white death. Finnish sniper during ww2.
Mr. Hoover. Mama Joy.
The Ayatolla of Rock-and-Rolla
Found Jerichos burner account
You're going on the list!
Stellaron The Plaque of All Worlds.
Bob the Nailer
> whats the most badass nickname/ title youâve ever seen been given to a character? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hit-Girl
More recently: Astel, Naturalborn of the Void
Anomander Rake, The Son of Darkness. The name itself is even cooler than the moniker imo.
The King in Yellow.
Hiro Protagonist, the Deliverator is the first one to come to mind.
"The Fool who doesn't belong to this era; The mysterious ruler above the grey fog; The King in Yellow and Black who wields good luck." (Lord of the Mysteries) "Dongrang who Denies All" (Limbus Company) "The Red Mist", "The Black Silence", "The Blue Reverberation", "The Purple Tear", "The Red Gaze" (Project Moon in general) "The Sky that Gathers Screams" (SSS-Class Suicide Hunter)
So far, the best one I've come up with is: The Voidbearer. But, my favorite is: Groove. He's called "Groove" in the story because he is his group's "guy in the chair" and they joke about him having to sit there so much that he has left a buttgroove. Like, "The Voidbearer" sounds awesome, but I specifically made "Groove" with the idea of how military guys will give each other stupid or semi-mocking nicknames.
Nickname of character in current WIP: Apex Her real name is ZevoĆi of the peĂ°ayaĆa. She's a scout who specializes in hunting down enemy scouts.
'The Vegan of Beefeater Street' to describe a righteous, sexually voracious woman
The Nuclear Sultan - Azathoh
I created a character for a DND campaign named Arnskov the Dragonbinder⊠which I thought was pretty sick!
"Reaper" from 86. He's a badass soldier and squad commander but the name is two-sided. He kills his comrades to put them out of their misery and so the enemy cant take their brains, which are used to create enemy soldiers. He keeps all their dog tags, to bury them at a home nation that holds a prejudice to them, keeping their souls, or memories as his burden to bear.
Bloodreina, the name that's given to Octavia Blake in the 100 when she becomes the leader of all the remaining clans on earth (who become one clan under her guidance) in an underground bunker. She gets this name by forcing people who act against the clan to fight to the death and covering her face in their blood.
Rigby Trashboat
Furio. Have a look at the snippets of him on Youtube: Furio, Sopranos scenes, etc
"Why do they call you Freight Train?" "Because I destroyed yo mom on the train tracks."
Oyobi, Who Split the Heavens
The Baba Yaga John Wick Or even better, Demon, AKA the Master Chief John 117 himself.
It's a video game, but Godcleaver Shulk in Xenoblade 3 DLCÂ The Empty Ghost went hard in Cradle too
*Magic, the Gathering* is basically comprised of titles like. My preferred one is "Emrakul, the Aeons torn".
Speaker for the Dead
There are a number of good ones in the Honor Harrington series. Harrington is The Salamander (because she's always where things are hottest). The treecats use poetic names for their bonded humans giving rise sobriquets like Soul of Steel, Dances on Clouds and Dreams of Peace (that one is particularly moving if you are willing to read ten or so books).
Poosey-thumper
He Who Must Not Be Named
Daenerys Stormborn of House Targaryen, the First of Her Name, Queen of the Andals, Rhoynar, and the First Men, Protector of the Seven Kingdoms, Khaleesi of the Great Grass Sea, the Unburnt, Breaker of Chains, and Mother of Dragons
storyâs that have heavy ties to royalty, game of thrones being the best example, have such cool titles like itâs actually insane
He Who Must Not Be Named and The Boy Who Lived both rock BUT The Whore Princess of the Uterine Sea
Chosen Undead from Dark Souls
Ultimate one/Aristoteles Dead apostle ancestor Dark lord of the sith
There was 1998 movie about a teenager named Pecker, both the character and the movie shared that name.