History Pt / PalhacoMalvado

* Jack from the UsefulNotes/SegaDreamcast FightingGame ''VideoGame/PowerStone'' combines this with UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper.

* The {{Juggalo}} subculture has shades of this.

* ''Series/OneStepBeyond'' has an episode where a clown haunted a man, appearing in reflections reaching for his throat - [[spoiler: trope averted as the clown was the good guy, avenging the man's murdered wife.]]

* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses featured a video with Creator/DougWalker doing a pretty damn good impression of Creator/HeathLedger[[Film/TheDarkKnight 's Joker]] practicing his origin story. An attempt to spin this off into a series called "Melvin, Brother of the Joker" was not nearly as well received, and the character became TheScrappy among fans. Walker has engaged in a fair amount of SelfDeprecation about this, and Melvin was killed by other TGWTG contributors during one of the donation drives.

* ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}'' combines this with {{Mon}}s and has a classification of creatures (Specifically the Joker class) based on this concept. Some of them are very weird. Like the eye-chicken-ventriloquist [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/opticaper.htm Opticaper]], the straitjacket-snake-clown [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/insanititter.htm Insanititter]] and whatever [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/madcap.htm Madcap]] is.

* Used in a third-season episode of ''Series/ScareTactics'' for a teenager set to babysit a little girl, only instead of a clown statue, it's the little girl's NotSoImaginaryFriend.

* ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': No episódio "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]", todo mundo foi ameaçado por [[YourWorstNightmare seus piores sonhos]], incluindo nudez em público, morte, e...

** And brought out for ''real'' when Rodney [=McKay=] and Sheppard are being attacked by an entity that feeds on [[YourWorstNightmare their worst nightmares]]: rowing a boat through a stormy whale-infested sea... with a clown sitting behind them.

* ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'''s Papa Lazarou, a demonic, [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty polygamist]] blackface minstrel who runs a CircusOfFear. [[spoiler: Season 3 reveals that he [[NotAMask doesn't actually wear any makeup]]. That's his actual skin.]]

That [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy John Wayne Gacy]], one of the most famous serial killers in the United States, worked part-time as a clown doesn't really help their case. You don't want ''your'' kids around the Monster Clown, but the character's parents seem oblivious to their kid's fears. The AP [[CriticalResearchFailure once used a stock photo of Gacy for National Clown day]].

* ''[[VideoGame/CastlevaniaChroniclesOfSorrow Castlevania Dawn of Sorrow]]'' and subsequent games have the Killer Clown enemy, who juggles playing cards and throws them at you. (Get their ability and you can do that too! It's surprisingly awesome.)

* The Wiki/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-993 SCP-993]], the "Bobble the Clown" show. Once the program starts, everyone in the room over the age of ten passes out, while children under the age of ten report that an animated clown gives how-tos on cannibalism, arson, and a number of other horrifying things; further, the children who watch a show will [[{{Brainwashed}} regularly perform whatever actions Bobble instructed them in]] until the memory of the show is removed with LaserGuidedAmnesia. Worse, whoever is creating the show (and there's a certain amount of evidence that the show itself is a sapient entity that creates and broadcasts itself) appears to be aware that the SCP Foundation has found a way to intercept and block its transmission, as the two most recent episodes are [[labelnote:Bobble Hates You]] Bobble the Clown, sitting in a chair and glaring silently at the viewer for the entire episode.[[/labelnote]] and [[labelnote:*EXPLETIVE* YOU *EXPLETIVE* YOU *EXPLETIVE* YOU]] Bobble the Clown breaches classification on Foundation researchers, administrators, and [=SCPs=], including detailed instructions on how to breach containment of a number of incredibly dangerous [=SCPs=], with a special guest appearance by the animated version of an SCP researcher who happened to be passing by the room where the Foundation keeps the recordings they make of the show at the time shown on a clock in the episode.[[/labelnote]]

** [[VillainousHarlequin Quackerjack]] once made a Monster Clown toy that features SpiderLimbs, and they ended in [[AnAxeToGrind rather large axes]] to boot. It was probably [[NightmareFuel the creepiest thing]] Quackerjack ever made. The kicker? It was made by an AlternateUniverse counterpart who was actually ''a good guy''.

** Cranked UpToEleven by Romano, the Gundam Fighter for Neo-Portugal, who not only dresses up as a clown but has a ''mecha'' that looks like one. Naturally, he becomes Chibs's next opponent...

*** The NightmareFuel aspect of Sideshow Bob was turned UpToEleven in "The Bob Next Door". In one of his escape attempts, Bob visibly surgically removes the face of one of his cell mates and then switches it with his own, while still being fully conscious and screaming. The worst part is when Sideshow Bob stops at a rest stop and a waitress who takes an interest in him manages to pull off a loose thread used to keep his face on, causing his entire face to flap down, exposing all of his muscles and tissue. And then moments later, it happens again with his cellmate he switched faces with.

* Embora não essencialmente malvado, [[Series/InLivingColor Homey D. Clown]] é um manezão mesmo assim. O motivo? Ele é um ex-condenado que trabalha como palhaço. Isso faz parte do seu programa de soltura da prisão, e seu inimigo eterno é [[TheMan o governo]].

* The Jester from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry 3'' is pretty creepy, even ''before'' you find out that [[spoiler:he is TheManBehindTheMan.]]

* Violator from ''Comicbook/{{Spawn|1997}}''.

* Violator from ''Comicbook/{{Spawn}}''.

* "The master and I are going to have words. He knows I hate clowns. God, I hate them. I hate them all. I hate Bozo, Ronald, Chuckles with their freakin' dumb noses and their lousy party hats!" - Violator from the movie, ''Film/{{Spawn}}''.

** Inverted with the wacky pirate: "You'd think a clown with an eyepatch and a hook hand would be even more terrifying than a normal clown, but somehow, the combination is pretty charming. There's [[CrazyAwesome something kind of awesome]] about a pirate with a rubber chicken on his shoulder."

* Subverted in ''Film/TheChase'': Creator/CharlieSheen's character Jack Hammond is pegged for a felony because he works part-time as a clown, despite the fact that he was innocent. (He's convicted, however, because a crucial piece of evidence was deemed inadmissible, which led to the events of the titular car chase.)

* In ''Film/{{Poltergeist}}'', towards the end a ''toy'' clown is possessed by evil spirits and ends up attacking the older brother. This was foreshadowed earlier in the movie when the boy covered up the clown with his jacket, because it was staring at him when he went to bed.

* In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', there is a ''playable'' monster clown named Shaco. He can set invisible jack in the boxes that cause terror and fire [[FrickinLaserBeams laser beams]], poof into invisibility with an evil laugh, backstab people with venomed knives, and make duplicates of himself.

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''. '''The''' TropeCodifier.

* As mentioned under Comic Books above, the various film incarnations of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker are classic examples.

** It's more like this in [[{{Woolseyism}} the old Ted's]] script, in the original Japanese version he's more of an [[VillainousHarlequin idiot]], even after he [[spoiler:kills Leo, destroys the world, etc.]] When brought to America, he became SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker of video games.

* SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker and his minions certainly qualify in the ''Batman: Arkham'' series. In [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum the first game]], Joker, all because he wanted a party, arranged for a revolt of Arkham Asylum, [[spoiler: as well as the creation of Titan to cause wanton amounts of destruction in Gotham.]] His actions in that game caused at least 113 personnel casualties, 103 of which were security personnel, as well as an unknown amount of deaths of inmates as well. In addition, he was also implied to have killed 3 personnel when he first escaped from the start of the game, something that he not only doesn't have any regrets to killing them, he decides that he'll try to kill 100 more next time. [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity The second game]] also has him killing several personnel and doctors as well, [[spoiler: and he also has several hospitals given Batman's blood (which was at that time tainted with his poisoned blood) that would have resulted in hundreds of casualties in order to force Batman into finding him a cure. After death, he also posthumously manages to singlehandedly cause huge riots both in Gotham City and Arkham City with a single radio broadcast that was likely to result in countless casualties, and long beforehand, he also on Independence Day committed a massacre where he has several fireworks laced with toxins that resulted in, after their being set off, several hundreds of men, women, and childrens' deaths, which was heinous enough to force Batman into locking him up in an isolated part of Arkham.]]

* ''Series/TheAvengers'' episode "Look (Stop Me if You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellas..." has a pair of killer clowns whose boss is a Punch and Judy puppet.

* ''Disney/{{Dumbo}}'' is a ''very'' early example - the clowns may not be evil, but they're a pretty unpleasant bunch, humiliating Dumbo (and having a clown play his mother is pretty cruel, considering) and not worrying about hurting him, or worse.

* Tom Foolery of the ''Roleplay/GlobalGuardiansPBEMUniverse''. Scary makeup, spine-chilling laugh, weaponized toys, and an urge to see the whole world go down in flames. He is the setting's CaptainErsatz of SelfDemonstrating/TheJoker.

** Em ''Discworld/MakingMoney'', Lord Vetinari propõe que as pessoas odeiam palhaços porque eles não são engraçados e sim trágicos.

* The Akanbes from ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' take this trope to a previously unseen level. They are the [[MonsterOfTheDay Monsters of the Day]] employed by the Bad End Kingdom, created by fusing a clown nose containing a [[MacGuffin Cure Decor]] with an every day object, meaning that anything can be turned into a ''literal'' MonsterClown: from houses, trees to mirrors and even billboards depicting a famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai Manzai]] duo that [[CelebrityVoiceActor guess-starred]] in the show. Then we have Pierrot himself: the emperor of the Bad End Kingdom and a colossal demonic clown bent on bringing the [[DownerEnding worst ending of the history]] to the whole world.

* The {{Wolverine}} levels in ''VideoGame/SpiderManAndTheXMenInArcadesRevenge'' are a complete CircusOfFear with ball pits of [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOM]], big bright colours, [[AnvilOnHead anvils on flimsy ropes]], and has Monster clowns as enemies in abundance.

* The Deathjester from ''VideoGame/SeikenDensetsu3'', [[TheDragon Dragon]] to one of the game's three potential {{Big Bad}}s.

** Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/BatmanReturns'' gives the Penguin a bunch of clowns as henchmen, despite the fact that clowns are more the territory of the Joker. One of them is a young Doug Jones (A.K.A. [[Film/{{Hellboy}} Abe Sapien]] A.K.A. [[Film/PansLabyrinth The Faun and The Pale Man]]). According to the production notes, Burton's vision of the Penguin was inspired by ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', so a CircusOfFear is a necessity. And in the briefly-mentioned backstory, the Penguin in that version also was a sideshow freak in his childhood, implying that's where his gang comes from.