This editor's mother had a neighbor who named her adorable, delicate, little kitten Fluffy Ninnity. As if TemptingFate, little Fluffy grew into a large, vicious, territorial tomcat who would beat up every dog in the neighborhood!

This troper once fostered a very large, black, intact pit bull with a head the size of a cinderblock. He looked very intimidating. She named him Mr. Giggles.

'Mr. Giggles'?

Actually we've just discovered that she's a Caucasuan Mountain Dog, which means she fits the trope to the T. People look at us with shocked expressions when we tell them her name.

This troper's grandparents own a toy chihuahua named Sissy. The dog has been known to run off solicitors - following them for blocks, if they happen to be on foot. And viciously bite anyone who dares stick their hands through the windows of his grandparent's van. Vicious little critter.

This troper's friend used to have a cat named Snowball, who once beat the crap out of the next door neighbor's Rottweiler. The ensuing phone call from the next door neighbor was said to be hilarious.

This troper used to have a pet named 'Sweetheart', who grew into a quarter-ton long-horned bad tempered cow who started to wreak havoc in our farm.

This troper once had a tank filled with all sorts of fish, including a happy little tiger barb that she named Sunshine. Despite her size, Sunshine went on the antagonize all the other fish in the tank, even going so far as to eat away at one goldfish's side ''until its internal organs were showing.'' Then she got caught in the filter and died.

Tiger barbs are fairly aggressive, and become even more so if they have no companions: they should be kept in groups of five or more, or this sort of thing will almost certainly happen. Poor goldfish...

This troper has 2 Ball Pythons named Lucille and Melon.

This other troper has a snake named... Fluffy. But she's a corn snake, so really not very terrible.

Ball pythons tend not to be particularly fearsome either, especially if raised in captivity. This troper's sister has one, and, at his suggestion, named him Monty. Monty is a four-foot-long scaly hug.

This troper's aunt worked in a lab of some kind. There was apparently a shrimp in the lab's decorative fish tank, which was named Stripey. Turned out, ''Stripey was carnivorous.'' They put a fish named Spot in there, and he was gone within a week.

Though not really a cute name, this troper has come across at least one person who named their Gyarados "Magikarp", and all of their other threatening Pokemon had non-threatening names. It was very, very annoying.

This troper's Gyarados is named "Hime" as a reference to another game. So in other words I have a vicious giant sea serpent named "Princess".

This Troper named her Red Gyarados Superfish. I've also met people who named theirs Carl, Lucille, Mimi and Snuggles.

This Troper didn't catch the shiny Gyarados, having already caught a Magikarp and raised it into a Gyarados (I'm very practical about these things, and I simply didn't need it). Said Gyarados was indeed named Fluffy. The hilarious part comes considering I named my Togepi Deathman.

This troper caught a level 18 Magikarp with the intent of raising it up the two levels necessary to get a Gyarados. She named it Frederich, just because she couldn't think of anything. When he evolved, she ran halfway across the map to get his name changed to Izanagi, because she didn't want to snicker every day at having a Gyarados named Fred.

On a web-based role-playing board, this troper plays a character named Fluffy -- a giant, weapons-toting DoAnythingRobot in the form of a huge metal squid with bladed tentacles. Despite his appearance, though, his name is actually fitting -- he's a sweet guy prone to engage in fits of WhatIsThisThingYouCallLove, and he has a pet llama named Little One. I am not making this -- oh, wait. Yes I did.

''ChubbChubbs!''

This troper used to frequent a message board where a man-eating plant was kept in the corner. The plant's name? Snuggly.

This troper's sister has a HUGE St. Bernard/German Shepard/Great Pyrenees/Wolf mix that is large enough to lick the counter with a slight tilt of her head and gigantic paws. The dog's name is Cinderella.

This troper's response? A Rottweiler named Boo Boo.

Does it help that I'm occasionally referred to as Bob the Babyfaced Barbarian?

Somewhat subverted: this troper knows a Doberman named Katie. The subversion lies in the fact that Katie is still a puppy, so she's not scary yet, however given that people tend to automatically avoid Dobes, she'll probably get there eventually.

I have a Beagle named Buddy. He's incredibly paranoid and barks at all kinds of stuff (sometimes when napping, he'll get up and bark spontaneously before going to the window to find the target of his barking). Oddly, he spends a lot of time sleeping.

This Troper remembers someone who had a white German Cottontail that would attack anything living! As in KillerRabbit attack! it was extremely funny, but also extremely painful! What was its name? PRECIOUS!

This troper used to catsit for the fattest, ugliest, meanest cat she'd ever met. It was deceitful, too - rub up against you, purring like an engine, then take a chunk out of you if you tried to pet it. Its name was Whiskey Whiskers.

This troper knew a sheep named Dandelion, he was bottle fed and brave compared to the other sheep in the ranch. He had great fun tossing people around when they were herding sheep. My mother was forced to wear skirts for a month since she had such a huge bruise on her back.

This troper's youth featured a large Tarantula named Fuzzy ('cause, well, they really are very fuzzy creatures).

Similarly, an old science teacher of this troper's had a tarantula named Rosie.

As does Denver's Butterfly Pavillion.

This troper's mother has a slightly neurotic poodle named Bonnie. Bonnie has killed not one but two Chihuahuas of ours. So Bonnie is not so much neurotic as psycho, and Ball}} why she wasn't destroyed is beyond me...

This troper and her sister found an abandoned kitten who was so tiny that her head was the size of a bottlecap, and they named her Lulu. Lulu is now full grown and once in a while jumps on the 60-pound dog's back with her claws and rides the shrieking canine around, as best we can figure out, FOR FUN.

This troper owns an adult male Rottweiler. His name? Kitty.

This troper's mother owns a cute li'l kitty named Scamper. Who will pounce on literally anything.

This troper's pet is a large and very aggressive Maine Coon named Boo. Boo is very affectionate and lovable to the troper, but is liable to attack anything that moves in her presence - including open refrigerator doors, this troper's bicycle, and this troper's girlfriend the first time he brought her home (they've gotten used to each other by now, though).

Of the seven cats this troper has had, only two were not a straight use or inversion of FluffyTheTerrible. Hobbes, the friendliest cat you'd ever seen, and Tiamet, who for a few years was a people-despising terror (though she is leaning towards inversion). All the others were severe victims of naming dissonance.

This troper owns a dog named Mickey, as in Mickey Mouse. He's incredibly jealous and will bark and bite at anything that competes for his master's affections. This doesn't work very well, since he's a Chihuahua.

This Troper once had a cute little parakeet named Sweetie Pie. We believed it to be evil incarnate, as it attacked our other parrots which were four times its size, dive bombed our cats, and bit so hard he drew blood several times from us. We also had an adorable little kitten named Mittens that grew into a huge, battle-scarred cat which would regularly chase the neighborhood dogs.

This troper's cousin owned a Pomeranian named Moe who was very vicious he would bark and growl all the time, and try to bite you when you got near him except when he was in a good mood, as he got older he mellowed out and became very lazy and frail and would only grunt when you pet him before he eventually died.

This troper has a mean catfish that had to be placed in a separate tank because it ate a few goldfish. It also seems to scare me sometimes. Its name is Binky.

This troper has heard of and encountered several of these Fluffies:

Her father once had a pitbull named Chocolate, which was beautiful and unusually small, but ripped apart a hardwood deck trying to get me and snapped a 3-inch thick link of a reinforced iron chain. I was glad when a deer killed her.

Bo was this troper's dad's pet grizzly bear, whom he walked at night in D.C. He was a cub but still...

Baby Girl. Her father's pet wolf, who was shot and killed by police after stopping 4 men armed with shotguns.

Daisy. Her father's pet cow. Who had been sold 10 times and returned after terrorizing her new owners. And chased her father across a cornfield and knocked down the front door of the house.

Pearl. A beautiful white Clydesdale. Who on occasion killed sheep by kicking them in the heads ''just for the fun of it''. We lost a total of 16 sheep.

And Bebe. This troper's dad's pet raccoon. He loved kids and he would sit up on his hind legs and beg for candies from neighborhood kids. One man said he was going to feed him to his Rottweiler. Bebe beat up said Rott and proceeded to maul the man. When he called the police, a little boy walked up to the 'deranged' animal and fed him an ice cream sandwich by hand while the raccoon begged.

It's official - your father is Hagrid.

Lady Marmalade (Marmals for short): scariest cat to ever walk the earth. Pretty sure if she was in the bathroom SamuelLJackson and ChuckNorris would decide to pee outside rather than take her on.

This troper owns a cat named "Trouble", or more affectionately known as "Shit Head", "Turd", and "Stupid Cat", because she is the exact embodiment of this trope. A cute and beautiful Calico who will randomly bite you until there is blood. She used to walk up to your legs and start attacking them.

This troper's cat, Scooter, is completely schizophrenic in terms of behavior. One moment, she's snuggling up next to you and purring, and the next, she's trying to bite your hand off! Lately, this troper has taken to calling her, "Mad Cat".

This troper's other cat, Vinny, however: Despite being the bigger and stronger of the two, he's about the sweetest, most affectionate ball of fluff you'll ever meet. Shame he doesn't get along with Scooter, though...

This troper's parents, when they first married, had a cat called "Tinker" - it was a sheer nightmare for anyone, except amazingly, to his dad. No-one else could get near the cat at times without being jumped upon, and many a cattery would refuse to house the cat for a second time. Yet to this troper's father... the cat was an absolute soppy. He could carry the cat around on his shoulders like a child.

This troper has a hamster named Sparky. Sparky gets very jealous whenever he doesn't have this troper's full attention, he suddenly bites for no real reason, he terrified this troper's brother a few days after we got him by screaming and lunging at him, he is systematically destroying his own cage by gnawing it to pieces (far more so than any other hamster this troper has had) and is capable of some truly epic temper tantrums. Of course, to this troper, he is her adorably evil little fluffball baby and she loves him to pieces, even if he does seem to have a taste for human flesh.

This troper's cousin has a miniature pincher named Mini, who is the rudest, loudest, most annoying little brat this troper has ever encountered. And when Mini gets together with other dogs, even if they're twice her size, she turns into the dog equivalent of the DrillSergeantNasty. There's a reason I call Mini "Devildog".

My family had a Black Lab named "Shamri Shomar" when my brother and I were young. She wasn't mean, and in fact was very fun-loving. But when we were in the yard, everyone coming within 10 yards would get a growling DeathGlare that stated quite clearly, "One wrong step towards these two and I will ''end'' your shit". It sounds like a Fluffy name to English speakers, but apparently means "Black Guardian" in Hebrew.

This troper's cousins used to have a rather large dog (I'm not sure what breed, but it was big enough for a three year old to ride) named Pookie. She was also rather aggressive, and my aunt and uncle had to have her put down because she kept biting people and attacking other dogs in the neighborhood, eventually killing one.

Our Maine Coon, Nutmeg, is pretty friendly to everyone, until she gets pissed. She once got in a fight with another cat (a cat who lives outside and has claws vs. a spoiled housecat who has no front claws and sleeps 22.5 hours a day. I wouldn't bet on the latter in most cases). Our cat (the lazy one) began beating the other cat into submission, then, when the other cat tried to flee, Nutmeg chased her down and delivered more hurt. The only damage the other kitty did to our cat was a minor scratch.

She also jumped on the back of a bird that was as big as her as it took off and killed it in mid-air. My cat is awesome.

Lampshaded in this troper's roleplay. The group had previously locked a Hunter in a room, and threw the evil mastermind trying to engineer the zombie apocolypse to it. After it had smeared the villain's insides across the room, they put a violence-preventing collar on it... and named it Irving.

Had two pets like this. First off was a rather small tomcat named Moonbeam. He had this amazing tendency to tear chunks of fur, skin and all, off the neighbor's huge tabby. Also, we had to hold him when there were bears because he would try to go out and chase them off. I wouldn't be surprised if he could have, seeing as once we heard coyotes in our area, he disappeared for a few days, came home with a torn ear, we never heard any coyotes anymore. Second was a small female Siamese Fighting Fish named Plecia. I swear to you, this girl thought she was a rottweiler. Had her in a divided tank with two males, when suddenly she and one of the boys started being mysteriously beat up. Turns out that she had found a way into his portion and had been tearing into him whenever she got the chance. When I replaced him with another male, all trouble stopped. Oddly enough, the male she'd been fighting with was the only fish older than her in the house.

This Troper used to deliver pamphlets in her local area, and as a result used to encounter many of the neighbourhood dogs. All of them were pretty friendly except for one Aussie Blue cattle dog that used to charge the fence and bark incessantly, following me the length of its yard, and once, when the gate was open, almost chasing me up the street. My fear lessened slightly when on one of these occasions the owner called the dog inside: "Jingles! Here, Jingles!" One can assume it was a Christmas present, maybe...?

This Troper's wife adopted a rather large stray, who it turned out was still an incredibly hyperactive Lab/Bloodhound puppy. Our daughter wanted to name him "Flower" after the skunk in {{Bambi}}, but Mrs. Troper wasn't going to let that happen. The first name that popped into her head was "Fluffy", and the dog responded to it, so that became his name. She quickly regretted this, as she wanted the dog to have a more threatening name, in case his size, athleticism, rowdiness, and huge teeth weren't enough to scare away potential attackers. So, he became "Fluffy Savage". He was once a scary dog to own, though his personality trends more "Fluffy" than "Savage" these days.

Shimei ("Spot" in Japanese) is my sister's massive white tomcat. I still have the scars from when I tried to move him one day. He hung on and bit down hard, right through the sleeve I'd wrapped around my hand as a precaution (I knew his reputation).

This troper's aunt used to have a a huge (don't know what breed) named Fifi, who eventually had to be put down for biting and hospitalizing people.

This troper's mother was attacked by a vicious dog named Tinkerbell.

This troper's dog is this trope incarnate. She is a 16-year-old Pomeranian named Tiki. She is a neurotic, crazy thing who barks at absolutely nothing, is scared to go out her dog door for no reason, snaps at me and any other unfortunate person to cross her path when she is in a foul mood. ''Buttt'', it could be a bit of Fridge Brilliance there in her name, if you interpret Tiki as being like a tiki torch or a vengeful tiki goddess.

Not a real pet, per se, but this troper's Hydreigon is named Fluffy (specifically after Hagrid's pet cerberus, but also to invoke this trope in general). It has 4 perfect IV's. Two of them are Speed and Sp. Attack.

Inverted trope; this troper has two kittens, who are basically little balls of cuddley fluff. Their names? Millions Knives and Legato Bluesummers. Back to FluffyTheTerrible, if you're ''sure'' it's asleep.