The Most Aura Filled Nicknames in History

Added: 2026-05-31

[00:00:00]Historical nicknames. That's what we're going to be talking about today, okay?

[00:00:04]And understand this, this is a volume two. No, you do not need to watch volume one to understand what's going on in this video cuz the premise is in the title. We are going to be going through historical nicknames, everything from Harold the Hard Ruler Harada. Man, I was tripping over that. That was like my second take on that.

[00:00:21]Abraham the Great Emancipator Lincoln.

[00:00:24]King Leonidas. I will tell you his nickname when we get to his section, bro. I I I forgot how hard like Spartan nicknames went. And somebody as recent as Kobe the Black Mamba Bryant.

[00:00:37]Yeah, I'm so I I also got to bring that one up. We are going to be going through such historical people and I'm going to be ranking just how cool their nicknames are.

[00:00:46]And then that will be the video. If you enjoyed this and you want to a another another volume of this one, please hit a like, comment, and subscribe. We are trying to reach 400,000 subscribers before the end of the year. That is the goal. Try to get this to 4,000 likes and I will look at the the most liked video idea. Try to keep it historical cuz I want to do more historical stuff. I want to do it like once every 2 weeks. That's the main goal. And with all that out of the way, let's get into the video. Let's go.

[00:01:12]Harold Harada, otherwise known as Harold Sigurdsson, Harold the Hard Ruler.

[00:01:17]Harold has probably what I like to call like a Viking Forrest Gump life, okay?

[00:01:22]He has, you know, normal things. I mean, he comes from a war clan up in Scandinavia as all Vikings do. He has ties to some throne. He is a clan leader in his own right. And he has a lot of dudes that want to follow him, okay? But this is before he got the the nickname Harold the Hard Ruler. You [snorts] see, Harold was just another war chief and then he lost a little family dispute and decided, "You know what, bro? I ain't going to serve this bloke. I'm going to go all the way down to the Byzantine Empire and I'm going to use my talents as a mercenary and become, I'm not kidding you, the leader of the Varangian Guard." The Varangian Guard is basically the Byzantine Empire had so many assassination attempts within their empire that they were like, "A uh let's just recruit people outside of the nation that have that just do not care at all about being either dishonorable and have no ties to any other royal family and we're just going to put them here and we're going to hope for the best." And shockingly enough, it did work. You might also know Varangian Guard from For Honor.

[00:02:23]That that's a whole other tragedy, okay?

[00:02:25]But um Harold actually got the nickname Harold Hardrada. Hardrada means hard ruler roughly. Um Harold Hardrada, that's what he goes by basically this entire time because of how good of a leader he was in the Varangian Guard. A couple ploys later, a couple a couple attempts here and there that he managed to squash, it all that kind of ends with basically him being a key player and dragging out a somebody that was I like it was Frank Dude, it was an emperor in the Byzantine Empire that was so unpopular that they wanted to execute him. And this man grabs him out of his palace, throws him in front of the common people, and then he proceeds to ice him in front of everybody. Keep in mind, this is the Varangian Guard that we're dealing with. He does all this, bro, and thinks to himself, "A uh I could stay here and just be like a normal mercenary.

[00:03:16]Or you know what I'm going to do? I'm going to go up north and I'm going to co-rule with my family member, I think his name Magnus the Kind, and then he later becomes the sole king of what is now Norway."

[00:03:28]I'm sorry, bro. That is a Forrest GUMP LIFE. THE AMOUNT OF connections that bro just had, like nobody would believe him if he just said all that. Now, how am I going to How am I going to rank this one? Harold Hardrada, Harold the Hard Ruler. That repetition kind of goes hard. Harold Hardrada. I dig that, bro.

[00:03:46]Viking names just kind of had that. Like like like they always kind of had like a good reason behind it. And I think Harold the Hard Ruler goes hard. But, I think it goes more in like an absurd.

[00:03:56]It's not quite to a point where I'm OVER HERE LIKE, "WHOA!" BUT, it is to a point where like, "You did what now? That's your life? Huh? Like, I'm not GOING TO LIE. HAROLD HARADA sounds like a character from the world of Vikings and like it's like post-Ragnar Lothbrok. I'm going to put it in absurd. Attila the Hun, otherwise known as the Scourge of God. When I was talking about Genghis Khan, Genghis Khan, one of his nicknames was the Punishment of God.

[00:04:26]He is the Scourge of God. So, technically, they had to change it a little bit not to be too similar to Genghis, but I would also argue that Genghis Khan is also a nickname. His real name is Temüjin and we'll talk about Temüjin in a second. But, what I am going to bring up here is that Genghis Khan this universal ruler is what that means. So, that's in and of itself his nickname. You can't take that. But, Attila the Hun is being known as the Scourge of God and low-key having beef and winning against what is like the Eastern Roman Empire after their fall is absolutely insane. Like, I need you to understand this, bro. Okay?

[00:05:05]If you're watching Mulan and I'm tying it back because people thought that Shan Yu was actually meant to be like the Mongols when in reality he's actually meant to represent the the Huns.

[00:05:15]I need Think about this, DUDE. WHAT WHAT WHAT THAT GUY WAS DOING TO CHINA, this guy was doing to what was the remains of the Roman Empire.

[00:05:26]Brother, we literally got what was as close as we will ever get to the Mongols versus the Romans. And I need you to understand this, bro. Attila was such a problem that this man passed on his wedding day and they were like, Oh.

[00:05:43]Oh.

[00:05:45]Thank goodness, bro. They also did the same thing with a with with with Attila where like we actually have no clue where he was buried because everybody that was at his funeral got got iced.

[00:05:55]Like literally the same exact thing.

[00:05:57]Where am I going to put Attila, Scourge of God?

[00:06:00]I'm going to be real here, dog. That one that that one's insane. I'm I'm going to put this in a Is it a they/them? I think it is a they/them. Abraham Lincoln, otherwise known as the Great Emancipator.

[00:06:13]The Emancipation Proclamation. I'm going to be so for real here, dog.

[00:06:18]Abraham Lincoln's nickname does not go hard enough. Does that make sense? The Great Emancipator.

[00:06:26]Like I don't know, bro. Like it's feel like it's been a minute since we had a president that like had a good nickname.

[00:06:32]Like Like Like what I mean by like had a good nickname but like I mean like a And maybe that is a good thing, bro.

[00:06:40]LIKE I'VE I'VE GOTTEN to the point that like maybe having a presidente that like tried to do way too much is way too damaging. Like I I think we've got we've gotten to that point that we like just want boring presidents again, okay? And Abraham Lincoln being known as the Great Emancipator and all around like signing the document that did free the slaves, that was one step closer into getting us into that Civil War that needed to happen. Oh, well, it wasn't about slavery. It was about states' rights.

[00:07:06]States' rights to do what, bro? I I still I I remember I did a war tier list a long time ago and somebody brought that up and I had to go in on them and basically be like understand this, bro.

[00:07:16]The entirety of like the Articles of Confederation that they like proposed for like what they wanted their rights to be, their rights as their new confederation, like like like as the Confederacy was literally one of the most THE THE FIRST THING that they named, okay? The Declaration of Independence had freedom of speech. They said slavery. So states' rights to do what? Slavery? Okay, no. I'm automatically I don't care anything else that you have to say. But at the same time, bro, in comparison to everybody else on this list, this is going to sound so bad, but I'm going to put Abraham Lincoln in just cool.

[00:07:52]The Great Emancipator, LIKE AND EVERYBODY else on this list, it's just cool. It's not like I'm going to put it in cool. I have to, my man. Subutai.

[00:08:03]Now, Subutai and Genghis Khan both existed around the same time, but I'm going to be real here, dog. If Genghis Khan was not around, SUBUTAI NO, MORE PEOPLE WOULD KNOW about this guy, dude.

[00:08:13]I didn't know a lot about him until I started researching for this video, so I apologize if I got it get it And first off, if I've gotten anything wrong, go into the comment section correct me. I would rather get corrected than just like just let me just say stuff. I'm kind of just going off about aura and everything. But when I'm looking at Subutai, Subutai was born as an outcast inside of the Mongol Empire, okay? No, not even the Mongol Empire, just like these these Mongolian clans in the steppe.

[00:08:37]Okay? He was a part of a group that would be really like known as like just forest people. Like in our modern day, bro, that's like I don't even know what the modern equivalent of that Like that's as low as you could possibly get.

[00:08:49]Like literally just like Oh, yeah, he's from the forest clan people. Like Oh, yeah, bro, he doesn't even have a horse.

[00:08:54]Your horse was your lifeblood back then, bro. If you did not have a horse, dude, you literally just did not have a thing, okay? And Subutai later goes on to be known as the Hound of War.

[00:09:07]Subutai has such great military exploits that he has a record that is beats out such people like a Julius Caesar. This man, if the top my head had 64 battles and did not lose any of them.

[00:09:22]LIKE I'M SORRY, THAT'S ABSURD to me, okay? How did he get Oh, well well I mean, how did he even start? You see, he was signed to basically like a like a basically like a Mongol war clan.

[00:09:33]And they were trying to figure out to take out this big bigger Mongol war clan. So, he decided that he was going to go over there because he was viewed as an outcast already. So, he go over there trying to play as a deserter and basically told everybody in there, "Hey, yo. We're weak and we won't be able to defend. I've come as a deserter. Spare me and you can take them out." So, they left their camp to go take out what was they thought the weaker forces of this other Mongol war clan and then they got bum-rushed from both sides and got absolutely demolished. Subutai would also be like the key general and tactician in such other exploits that like the Mongol Empire had with the Mongol horde in China, Korea, and a whole bunch of other places.

[00:10:12]And by the end of his life, he basically was like he he got to live long, he got to live fat, he he ended up going blind in one eye, and he they basically just carried him around to each battle because he was so smart that they were like, "Dude, he's the goat. HE'S THE GOAT. THERE'S GENGHIS KHAN, BUT RIGHT UNDER HIM is Subutai, okay? The Hound of War." It really just It goes off like this.

[00:10:36]Genghis Khan was such an aura merchant, nobody talks about Subutai, but he deserves to be talked about. So, I'm honestly, bro, I'm going to put him in absurd. But, Hound of War is fairly generic, though.

[00:10:48]It doesn't have quite that Miyamoto Musashi, the sword saint. Brother, you can go full weeb on this one. Um Miyamoto Musashi is known as the greatest duelist to ever live, especially No, no, and like undeniably if you count like just the katana.

[00:11:03]Um this man wrote a Well, he He didn't write the memoir uh students, but like wrote down all the stuff that he would say and put it into a memoir known as The Book of Five Rings, pretty good book. And he dedicated his life into swordsmanship and then came up with some other stuff, other philosophy that like, "Hey, you should do this, you should do that." And was around like was pretty ahead of the curve when it came to like philosophy, if I'm going to be real with you. This man did a whole bunch of other cool stuff, like he wanted to take on like He was basically like Goku. Like like like in a sense Goku, but like a more like philosophical version of Goku.

[00:11:37]Think like think the wolf from Sekiro.

[00:11:39]That's a lot of what he did. He would go around trying to beat people and like like all the masters of all the different martial arts. He once almost beat a dude to death with like a wooden katana. And he was like a like a nepo baby and he I don't know why he was like really angered by that. When I'm looking at Miyamoto Musashi and I'm ranking them with the nickname the sword saint, bro, I'm going to be real here.

[00:12:01]You could you own that nickname. That's such an iconic nickname that I know more people who know Miyamoto Musashi than Attila the Hun. But Attila, I I'm going to put him there, too. I'm going to put him there. Scourge of God is still crazy. Miyamoto Musashi, they own that nickname. The Red Baron. Brother, do you have any idea how much of an aura person you have to be that they you go by the nickname The Red Baron and you get turned into a pizza cover? Like I'm not even kidding you, bro. Like when I like this how American I am. When you said The Red Baron, I thought you meant the pizza. And I don't know why, bro. I thought The Red Baron was going to be like Italian. Like like off the top of my head, that's what I thought. No, The Red Baron was a real person in World War I for being a fighter pilot for Germany.

[00:12:43]So, I got to be really careful on what images I use because certain symbols will get you certain got. This man took out I think it was like anywhere from 70 to 80 different like like airplanes because there is a bit of a confirmation issue with trying to be an ace of aces.

[00:12:58]This guy also rode with a squadron that was like what what all all of it's in German, so it's very difficult to pronounce, but it's basically called The Flying Circus.

[00:13:08]And they called it The Flying Circus because a lot of the maneuvers that he was pulling out reminded people of like acrobats. In other words, this guy was the goat. He was he was literally making up new strats to be used. That's how goated he was in in in air combat. He went into the military in WW1 as a cavalryman and then came out an ace of aces go of air warfare. I'm sorry, Red Baron, very cool. Red Baron, very cool.

[00:13:35]King Leonidas. We have quite a few nicknames with King Leonidas. We have um the son of Zeus, we have the lion of Sparta, the defender of Thermopylae, and the last great Spartan.

[00:13:48]We have a lot of nicknames when we're looking at um King Leonidas. And when I'm looking at King Leonidas, bro, what's one sticks out the most TO ME?

[00:13:55]THE LION OF SPARTA IS INSANE. And I'm going to say this, dude. I don't know how much, cuz I've talked about this before. I think Sparta is probably one of the most overrated like historical like like like What's the best way?

[00:14:09]Historical city-states ever. The like Sparta gets glazed so hard when it in reality it was more akin to like North Korea. Like a lot of it is they just abused like children until they became soldiers. Oh, well, they had femboys.

[00:14:24]What do you think femboys were in Sparta? Like let let let me let like think about it for a little bit. What do you think femboys were in ancient Sparta? And that's a self-report if you if you still find out and then you don't say anything.

[00:14:39]Listen, the lion of Sparta is absolutely ridiculous. Defender of Thermopylae is also crazy.

[00:14:45]And here's the thing, dog. I think you have to put that one in an absurd. Lion of Sparta is absurd. And it goes above a Harald Hardrada, but it kind of gets stopped by a hound of war and Subutai.

[00:14:56]I'm going to keep it right there, though. Albert Einstein. I have to throw on a scientist on here. There's no way.

[00:15:03]Um the father of modern science.

[00:15:06]THAT'S SICK. THAT'S SICK, DUDE. FATHER of modern science has got to be one of the coldest nicknames I've ever heard for a for a scientist. Like there's some other ones. Like you got Oppenheimer being known as the a devastator of the atom, which is like which is also crazy, dude.

[00:15:27]That's a crazy name. You know bro, you want to hear a hot take that is not even a hot take. Here's like a this is a random Ethan take. I think more people would want to be scientist if we encouraged if we encouraged it more by like insinuating that they have this crazy aura. And here's the thing dog, that sounds stupid, but I need you to understand this, dude. Being Albert Einstein and being known as the father of modern science is absolutely ridiculous. Brother, this man is so iconic that if you're smart, people just say that you're an Einstein. Albert Einstein is so smart his name became a nickname. They own that. They own it. He is the owner of that, no question.

[00:16:06]Muhammad Ali, the greatest.

[00:16:10]I'm going to be so for real with you, bro. I'm very torn on this one because it is one of the most like copy and paste nicknames I've ever heard.

[00:16:20]But at the same time, Muhammad Ali is one of the most referenced cultural figures ever. But is he like the most cultural like like like called biggest cultural figure ever? No, I'm going to cover one on here that that that like we do got to talk about a little bit especially with recent events.

[00:16:34]But Muhammad Ali just being known as the greatest, the king, one of those, I need you to understand Muhammad Ali is the probably the single biggest figure in boxing to ever live. He was not just a boxer, he was not just an athlete. He was a movie star, he was a cultural figure during a time in the Civil Rights Movement in the Vietnam War. He was really big in American pop culture and is known as a hero.

[00:16:58]And here's the thing dog, this is going to sound so crazy. I got to put that literally in the same argument as a Red Baron. Like it's he's not going into like absurd and they own it. But like in terms of like athletes, I would argue you kind of have to put them UP THERE.

[00:17:15]YOU HAVE TO PUT THEM up there quite a bit. I'm I'm going to put him I'm going to put him in very cool. Hannibal Barca, otherwise known as the bane of Rome.

[00:17:23]This man walked elephants through the Alps. How do you even do that? Do you have any idea how crazy that is, dude?

[00:17:30]He once had one other one because he was worried that the Romans were going to ambush them when he was taking a small convoy through the mountains. So, he decided to attach a bunch of different um a bunch of different torches all across like all of his wagons like way more than they actually needed because it would make his armies look bigger than they actually were.

[00:17:49]Like I need you like there's there's a joke there. There's a joke there, but I'm not going to make that joke. But, Hannibal Barca, bane of Rome is crazy. I need you to understand that, dude.

[00:18:00]Imagine being such an absolute menace that the Roman Empire, the main character basically the entirety of history, okay?

[00:18:09]You get called the bane of Rome. And here's another thing. People like get it twisted. Well, he was called the bane of Rome, but he like militarily wise like he was good, but he wasn't like amazing.

[00:18:18]No, no, no. Hannibal Barca was called the bane of Rome because he was so charismatic, he actually encouraged people in the Roman Empire to literally start revolutions. The only way that the Roman Empire could fall is fall from within and Hannibal Barca was one of those people that could cause that to happen.

[00:18:36]That's also some really good foreshadowing. Bane of Rome goes in absurd. I have to put him there, no question. Kobe Bryant, rest in peace, otherwise known as the Black Mamba. Now, I don't want to do people that are like still alive. I The reason that I'm doing I'm saying that is some people's going to be like, "Whoa, whoa, this one's very, very recent." I think that you should wait until after somebody's passed to do this. Now, if I'm going in general all around, then other people would be on here.

[00:19:03]But, Kobe Bryant and I also want to talk about Kobe Bryant a little bit cuz I think Kobe Bryant is one of the best examples, him and Michael Jordan, to this weird thing that you see in like high-level athletes where they develop this alter ego in order to escape into that higher level of flow state. I do believe there is something there. There is something within people that when we have to perform at a super high level, instead of people going into a flow state every once in a while, they create this alter ego that is that flow state.

[00:19:35]And for Kobe Bryant, I think when Kobe's doing interviews, that's Kobe. When Kobe is talking with his family, that's Kobe.

[00:19:42]But when Kobe was on the court, WHEN HE IS LOCKED IN IN PRACTICE, THAT is Black Mamba.

[00:19:51]That is him. You see this with people like a Tom Brady. Like I think that I think when Tom Brady gets on that like on that field, I think that guy becomes the goat. He is just the goat. That he like I he will behave like the goat. You go to MMA, Conor McGregor. Conor McGregor, although is not the goat of all time, that's not what I'm saying.

[00:20:10]But there was a key like almost like like split personality that Conor had when he became the Notorious. And you see that with Kobe Bryant to the point that Mamba mentality took up its own thing. And I think there's something that needs to be talked about. I'm going to put Kobe Bryant in very cool next to Muhammad Ali. Michael Jackson, the king of pop.

[00:20:34]I need you to understand this. Michael Jackson, in terms of popularity, is only comparable to Jesus.

[00:20:42]Like Michael Jackson reached a level of popularity that is so unheard of that the only people that we can relate it to is Muhammad from Islam, okay? And Jesus from the Bible.

[00:20:56]Everybody else, not even remotely close.

[00:20:58]That's why it makes me cringe whenever I hear somebody like Drake talk about say I'm like the I'm like modern Michael Jackson. There will never be another Michael Jackson. That will literally never occur. I think y'all are talented.

[00:21:10]I think Taylor Swift is talented. I THINK LIKE I I need this to be understood. There will never be another Michael Jackson unless Drake literally turned out to be the reincarnation of Jesus.

[00:21:22]That is the only way that that would happen again. You could never GET ANOTHER MICHAEL JACKSON. MICHAEL JACKSON was not a national figure. He was He wasn't just an icon in music that literally changed everything. He was a global figure. When there was 5 billion people on this planet, 4 billion of them were Michael Jackson fans. Michael Jackson is bro He is immortal in how like I need you to like I'm sorry.

[00:21:50]He owns it. He owns it. King of Pop, ridiculously he does own it. No question in my mind. Grigori Rasputin, otherwise known as the Mad Monk.

[00:22:01]I'mma be real. Rasputin's just an absolute crazy person to talk about, bro. He's like one of those like he's not quite a cult leader, but he has the ability of a cult leader. He was a priest sir back in like what was like old Russia. He goes into um what is essentially like the like the Russian royal family and one of their kids like had an illness that stopped his his blood from clotting. So, he went over there and he technically did like like spiritual healing, but in reality he just gave him a medicine that like was able to make his blood clot. And that's not like that crazy. But, he was able to convince people that he was like a legitimate spiritual healer, but he was also kind of crazy and an absolute horn dog. Fun fact, his granddaughter put his John, his pork, his his schlong into a pickle jar. Apparently, he was Not apparently, he was very very well endowed and a lot of people cheated on their husbands with him.

[00:22:56]Um so much so that they absolutely hated the guy and then one time he got jumped.

[00:23:01]Let me let me see this. He got He got kerplunked in the back of the head. He got beaten with a with a few like He got kicked around. He got rolled up in a carpet in the middle of a Soviet No, not Soviet. In the middle of a Russian winter, he got thrown into the water.

[00:23:16]Um, all He got hypothermia, came back to the same place that they tried to get him, and then got beaten with got beaten to and then the next lobby by those same said dudes.

[00:23:27]I'm sorry.

[00:23:29]That that that's crazy to me. But, the Mad Monk, I'm sorry. That goes above Great Emancipator. That's about it.

[00:23:36]That that's about it, bro. I'm going to be real here. I might even move these around, but I'm going to put It's actually kind of funny to put Grigori Rasputin above Abraham Lincoln. So, I'm going to put him in dope because I think that's kind of funny. And there you go.

[00:23:47]Those are historical nicknames with the most aura. If you enjoyed this video, and if you want a volume three, then start to like, comment, and subscribe.

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