A good title for an infamous killer

[RepresentingWrath]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nicknames_of_serial_killers

For reference if your poll/thread yields no result.

@SailusGebel Some of these were also given some really chuuni-like names

Sure, but why would you willingly use a chuuni name if you can pick\think of something more serious?

 

[BearlyAlive]

Murder Hobo. Flayer or Sculptor are okayish at least when you go Flesh Sculptor instead of using the pretentios "of"-version, everything else sounds like a teen trying to sound cool.

Manslayer, Butcher or anything more simple works

 

[RepresentingCaution]

It depends on the motive for killing. Money? Revenge? Cannibalism? Sport?

 

[ConansWitchBaby]

The baby kicker.

 

[Corty]

@SailusGebel Age.

 

[RynnTheTired]

I personally think it's a lot scarier when there's a kind of disconnect between the nickname and the person's actions. So for example: a guy's nickname is something silly-sounding like "The Pickle Maker," and people call him that because he kills and dismembers people and keeps their fingers pickled in jars as trophies.

 

[georgelee5786]

Flayer, i guess

All of them are meh.

Edgy, one could say

 

[Zirrboy]

Sure, but why would you willingly use a chuuni name if you can pick\think of something more serious?

Infamy is a detriment for a serious criminal. If they were voluntarily furthering their own to send some form of message, it would make no sense for the names to be as generic.
So either the character is chuuni or the story is.

 

[Deleted member 58005]

Then what would police/people who dread a murderer call them?

The Disco Strangler

 

[Placeholder]

All those names are chuuni.

Pick some trait, title, practice, or pedestrian noun.

Notable if not murderers' names from fiction:

Red Wedding, Recent Runes, the Chairmaker, the Doctor, the Limper, the Ring-bearer.

 

[T.K._Paradox]

I personally think it's a lot scarier when there's a kind of disconnect between the nickname and the person's actions. So for example: a guy's nickname is something silly-sounding like "The Pickle Maker," and people call him that because he kills and dismembers people and keeps their fingers pickled in jars as trophies.

Reminds me of a prison nickname I heard of. There was this dude nicknamed 'Tummysticks' who apparently kept on asking his cellmates about a game of the same name.

If they asked other prisoners about the game and he got wind about it he'd poke them full of holes -- in the stomach.

Hence the nickname.