This troper was playing Disgaea 2, and due to the game's rather idiosyncratic random naming for generic characters, ended up with a Lv. 1 Healer named... Deathsatan. Kind of ironic, if you think about it.

This troper lived next door to Killer, a shy toy Yorkie who could put all four paws in the palm of an adult's hand.

This one lives next door to an adorable, impeccably-behaved, fluffy Cockapoo named Spartacus.

This editor has a pet chihuahua mix named Bruiser. He calls it "the rat". It barely stands taller than his ankles.

Are you sure you're not on this troper's old paper route? Someone there had this cute little chihuahua-type thing named Bruiser. Every time this troper approached the house, Bruiser would come running, doing his best Rottweiler impression, but never actually got very close, and would run off if yelled at.

This troper's aunt has a dog named Bruiser. He's the most neurotic dog she's ever met. He's terrified of trees!

This troper's best friend has always planned on buying an evil looking dog and naming it Cujo, however she plans on it being extremely sweet and terribly dumb. This same friend's mother had a dog named Mad Dog, which caused a bit of trouble when she called its name in the streets.

This Troper named her kind, sweet-tempered, and extremely shy cat Cats}} Hawkfrost. This was before she found out the canon Hawkfrost's actual personality...

HilariousInHindsight much?

This troper, as a 16-year-old with an 8-week-old miniature Rat Terrier puppy, named her Dragon. The joke is she will learn to breathe fire and fly when she grows up.

'''My''' rat terrier is named Thor, but he's a hydrophobic little skittish freak! I'm extremely excited! For no fuckin' reason!

This troper always wanted a dog, but due to Parental Meddling ended up with a goldfish. She named it Spike. This turned out to be a subversion, as it then ''ate its tankmates''.

This troper has named his new baby bunny in advance: Colonel Fear, Lord of Darkness.

More a nickname than an actual name, but this troper has taken to calling Monty, his sister's ball python, "Monster," solely to invoke this. Monty is a cute, sweet-tempered, cuddly sort of creature who likes warm hiding places and tickling people with his tongue. Monsty is actually the reson this troper is no longer scared of snakes.

This troper's best friend has a Pomeranian named Ripper.

This troper's cat, Psycho, may just be the single most cuddly and affectionate animal ever.

This troper named one of his Nintendogs Deathbringer ([=DthBrng=], actually, due to the name length limit) solely due to this trope's existence. And it is adorable.

This troper knows of a Labrador puppy (although it's probably a full grown Lab by now), named Killer. Strangely, the name made it seem even cuter.

ThisTroper has 3 dogs named Randy, Taz, and Blondie. When there are salesmen nearbye, they are Werewolf, Satan, and Beelzebub

This troper originally had subverted this when she named her Siamese kitten Meany, as he was wild and crazy and would bite, claw, or destroy everything in sight. However, when Meany grew up, he apparently learned to accept himself and turned into a feline drag queen who loved to prance around in pink ribbons and flowers and the like. It was hard to explain why the frilly little critter had that name while he was begging for his favorite pink bow to be put around his neck.

This troper had a leopard gecko named Spike. He wasn't sweet, as such, but he wasn't threatening, either. Mostly, he would just lie around in his terrarium.

This troper lives next to a man who keeps three rottweilers: Ripper, Shredder and Gouger. They're adorable, though Shredder has, apparently, chased an incompetent burglar out of the house.

Same guy keeps Varelisus the Spineborn, Eater of Hearts. He's a hedgehog.

This troper and her boyfriend are planning on getting a Dachshund puppy and naming it Evangelion Unit 01. 'Eva' for short.

Tropers, meet Fenrir and Cerebus, the world's most lazy pair of Dutch Barge Dogs.

This troper used to have a kitten she named Hercules. This trope's continued with all her cats. Especially the ginger Persian named Cuchulainn.

Wait a second there. You called a cat "The HOUND of Chulann"?! WTH??!!

This troper knew a guy at university with a hamster called Mumm-Ra the Ever-Living.

But hamsters only live three years...

This Troper's family named their basset hound puppy Loki, after the Norse God of Fire and Mischief. Although he will run up and bark at you madly if you dare to come near his yard, if you lean over to pet him, he runs as though the hounds of Hell are chasing him, ''still barking defiantly.'' No one is impressed.

This troper's sister-in-law's family owns a German Shorthaired Pointer named Kaiser. He comes up to this troper(6'1")'s stomach and is the biggest puppy you've ever met. He can leap the fence, though, so might partially be a subversion...

This troper's guinea pig is called Cthulhu

This troper's mother, as a child, had a pet dachshund (aka wiener god) named "Brutus", who was a sweet dog that like having his ears stroked.

Subversion, though: Brutus killed a deer in the back yard one day, and the animal control people had to pry his jaws open with a crowbar. He was a throwback to the original dachshunds, which were used to hunt badgers. ''In their dens.''

This troper knows a woman who named her kitten Rasputin. Troper herself has always wanted to name one of her own pets after a serial killer.

I named my cat {{Dexter}}. Close enough?

This troper has a couple next door that have a dachshund named Raider. He comes up barking at you and will back away, still barking, if you try to come over and pet him. If you leave walking, he runs after you, barking. This troper believes that he thinks he's running you off his turf.

This troper's cat is named Sekhmet, after the Egyptian lion-headed goddess who was so violent and bloodthirsty that the only way to calm her down was to spike a hundred barrels of beer with red dye so that she would mistake it for blood, drink it all, and then pass out drunk. The cat? Has ''never'' used her teeth or claws in anger, and loves to cuddle.

This troper once knew a pit bull named Cain, who was the sweetest dog you would ever meet, and who loved to invite himself over to play with our dog.

This troper has named a Goldfish Hercules. Possibly a subversion as he was the biggest fish in the tank; and if my dad's theory about whether or not he was responsible for the deaths of several other fish, may have lived up to his name. My friend also named his adorable, black lab puppy Caesar, though I'm not sure if that counts since it's a common name for people and animals, but the dog was adorable.

This troper has a pet dachshund named Maximilian(or Max/Maxi for short). He made a Rottweiler twice his size back away from him, and a large fox run away.

When my mother's cat had kittens, she allowed me and my siblings to name them. I named one Crassus, after an Ancient Roman general and politican, who defeated the Spartacus Revolt and had the surviving slaves crucified. I just like the sound of the name.

My dad once had a Chihuahua named, and I quote *clears throat* Chico Bananas Gonzales Hernandez Fernandez Desoto Pancho Cisco Pedro Juan Emmanuel Chili Con-Carne Bacon. And it apparently thought it was a Doberman.

Your father (if he named it) must have had good memory to remember all that. This Troper bets just about everyone else had a shorter nickname for it (and it was probably Chico).

Gigantic (and I mean gigantic, I think there's some lynx or something in it) orange cat owned by an ex-army South African named Ghengis Khat. Complete wuss. Attatched to owner to a suspicious degree, seems to be jealous of wife.

Whenever my dad takes our three-year-old, very cute but balding Pomeranian named Koda for a walk and encounters anyone, especially if they have a big dog, he calls our Koda, "Killer"

Now, because of this trope, I'm gonna name my grandma's kittens weird things. Thanks, TV Tropes.

This troper has Oberon the houseplant and Poison the two-inch long fish. Poison ''is'' a Siamese Fighting Fish, though, so this troper guesses he kinda deserves his name. This troper actually got that name by butchering "poisson", the French word for "fish".

It is to be noted that poison is spelled the same in in French and English, but is pronounced almost exactly the same as poisson, but with a zz sound instead of an ss sound. So, really, not that hard.

Game example: My Raticate started as a Deathbringer. A Rattata named Ravage, not very intimidating. After evolving, it grew into its name.

This troper invoked this deliberately on two seperate occasions. Deathman the Togepi and Doom the Eevee (Now a Togetic and an Espeon respectively)

This troper knows a friend who has a rottweiler named War. The reason he's on this page is because he's really a sweetheart.

Don't really know if this counts, but... This troper had a gerbil she happily called León (Lion) after a character from a book she had just read. This troper's mother decided to call the poor thing Ratigan. He never did anything beyond escaping from his cage once.

This Troper's Yellow Labrador was named Baron by his mother (as in after the RedBaron). And he just loves to be petted (and will lie down lazily when he gets it). Also loves to play with water (one of his funny habits is to splash around in a vat used to collect rain water).

My mother has a dog who's about a feet high (he's a mix between a small poodle and a papillon), and he's an absolute sweetheart. His real name is Harry, but we call him "the great beast."

ThisTroper has a friend whose brother got a Pit Bull and named him Tank. And oh my gosh does he belong on this page! He thinks he's a lapdog, he always wants to be petted, and he's perfectly fine with being subordinate to the tiny older female dog the family owns. He's the sweetest thing ever, wants to be loved on and lick people, and is just so cute!

This troper has a pet Pekingese, all of a foot high and two feet long, named Zeus. He likes licking people and is the closest thing to a living ragdoll she's ever owned, since he goes completely limp when picked up.

This tropers old teacher told him about when she lived on a farm with chickens. I asked the names of the chickens, but i cannot remember any of them but one called '''Firebird.'''

This troper plans to name her future puppy "Goliath." :)

This troper has a 12-lb toy poodle named Jack, who is also known as the Jagerpoodle . He thinks he's a guard dog, and has taken on the neighbor's pit bull and won (it was more of a play fight, but Jack vs Spike always ends with Jack winning). He's a cuddle monster, but can destroy things like you wouldn't believe.

The Kitten Cthulhu. You're welcome.

This troper, an avid Pokemon player with a creepy sense of humor, has had such gems as Hitler the Pidgey, Mussolini the Mankey, and Leatherface the Pachirisu.

So a year ago, my parents decide to get a new dog, a Shih Tzu. They found out that a friend of theirs at work had to get rid of a 2 year old dog, so we adopted him. His name? Cujo. He's just this adorable little gray and white dog with a love for being cuddled and absolutely no mean bones in his body. The person who named him? Had no idea there was even a movie or book called Cujo, and named him after a hockey player's nickname.

My cat, an adorable Birman, is named Nazi.