Line #11 KillerRabbit/Literature


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9	* ''Literature/{{Bunnicula}}'' has a vampire-like rabbit that Chester ''assumes'' is a killer rabbit, but there's no evidence that he ever actually does any harm whatsoever besides draining vegetables. Another author reimagined ''Bunnicula'' as an EvilOverlord [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4_oc8ITUOA&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL2A287A964951D6AC which is pretty charming]].
10	* ''Literature/CodexAlera'': The young cubs of the [[WolfMan Canim]] are described as looking like [[PreciousPuppies adorable little puppies]] with opposable thumbs. They can also tear someone's hand off with just their fangs at only five years old, and also do so with enough force to dislocate someone's shoulder.
11	* ''Literature/DarkLordOfDerkholm'': One of Derk's experiments resulted in a flock of carnivorous sheep. This was apparently an accident, but it comes in handy when his children need to keep an army of dangerous criminals in line.
12	* ''Literature/{{Dragaera}}'': Norska are omnivorous rabbits that eat dragons.
13	* Kierkegaard in Literature/DragomirsDiary is a penguin wearing a top hat. ''Fantastic.'' Get to know him, though, and you discover that [[spoiler:he's surprisingly adept at murdering things with his small trident, and may have the ability to transform into something far less cutesy.]]
14	* ''Literature/TheEdgeChronicles'': The Deepwoods are full of [[DeathWorld all manner of horrific animals]] and [[ManEatingPlant plants]], but the effectively undisputed top of the foodchain are wig-wigs. These are small, orange fluffballs that also happen to be pack hunters that can and will kill anything they can reach, no matter how big or strong it is. Their only real weakness is their inability to climb.
15	* In the ''Literature/HeraldsOfValdemar'' anthology ''Seasons'', the short story ''A Midnight Clear'' features the village of Kettleford and its beloved guardians, [[GiantSpider giant]] talking {{Friendly Neighborhood Spider}}s. The primary spider and most of her spiderlings hibernate for the winter, but Harmony and Rhapsody prefer to stay awake, so the villagers have knit them sweaters and booties and connected their attics with passageways the village cats also appreciate, to make the cold easier on them. Quite some ink is spilled on how cute and sweet they are, fully integrated into Kettleford life, but then bandits show up. The lamb-sized spiderlings eagerly leap on the bandits and envenomate them, killing them horribly and [[ToServeMan eating their liquiefied innards]]. [[Literature/LastHeraldMageTrilogy Vanyel Ashkevron]], visiting and having probably the best Midwinter of his life, is quite dismayed to find that the cuddly childlike spiderlings are willing to ''eat people'', but the villagers wave away his concern and help their guardians stash the remaining bodies so Harmony and Rhapsody can eat the others later.
16	--> “They’re adorable. And they can go from adorable to bloodthirsty killer in the blink of an eye.”
17	* [[https://www.reddit.com/r/HFY/comments/5tzksw/oc_peritite_slavers_get_too_close_to_adorable/ This]] is a [[HumansAreWarriors HFY thread]] that describes humans as a ''race'' of Killer Rabbits, and the galaxy knows it. It's even lampshaded multiple times. Basically, humanity goes out into the stars and the galaxy goes [[CutenessProximity "Aw, they're adorable"]]. This trope also gets [[DeconstructedTrope deconstructed]] in that humanity, while very clearly taking offense to this reaction, the general reaction is to swallow their pride and shamelessly put both the "Killer" and "Rabbit" parts to good use.
18	* ''Literature/{{Hometown\|2014}}'': One of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Heart Eater's]] primary servants is a coydog puppy. It has no more physical strength than any other puppy, but then, considering that it can ForceChoke a full-grown German Shepherd, it doesn't really ''need'' physical strength.
19	* ''Literature/HonorHarrington'': Treecats are cute, fluffy, six-limbed felinoids who are great with children, wonderful, supportive companions for life who'll be with you through thick and thin... and will turn into fuzzy, flying ''buzz saws'' if they think you're a threat to their kittens or adopted humans. Treecats think that enemies come in only two states: those that have been properly dealt with, and those that are still alive.
20	* ''Literature/TheHungerGames'': There are carnivorous squirrels, poisonous butterflies, killer monkeys, and much much more.
21	* ''Literature/InCryptid'': On their own, an Aeslin mouse is almost as vulnerable as an ordinary mouse, though they do make and use weapons. In a group, they've been known to take down large snakes, venomous gila monsters, and even alligators.
22	* ''Literature/TheJungleBook'': Rikki Tikki Tavi is a mongoose, but when facing off against [[SnakesAreSinister deadly snakes]], he comes off as a cute furry fellow who is TheHero.
23	* ''Literature/MoreauSeries'': Angel Lopez is literally one, being an [[UpliftedAnimal uplifted anthropomorphic rabbit]]. She led a gang of rabbits in Cleveland, and kicks a significant amount of ass on her own in the third book.
24	* ''Literature/OryxAndCrake'': Wolvogs look like friendly dogs and, when they are not ruthlessly killing other creatures, they ''act'' like friendly dogs. They can go from friendly to homicidal, and back, quickly.
25	* Quite literally in "Literature/NoNeedForACore?", in the form of Dire Rabbits. Sharp-horned rabbits to pierce, blunt-horned rabbits for bludgeoning damage, and rabbits with extra long and sharp teeth. And that's before we get into the ones that have breath weapons. Or the three-foot tall laganthro clans. Or the giant [[PowerOfTheVoid Void Bunny]].
26	* ''Literature/OldKingdom'': Mogget. Looks like a little white cat with a fondness for fish. Apparently ''is'' a little white cat with a fondness for fish, albeit one who can talk, and spends most of the second two books in the original trilogy asleep. In fact, he's an impossibly ancient EldritchAbomination bound into profoundly unwilling servitude who, if unbound by loosing the little collar around his neck, will demonstrate a nightmarish sadistic streak. Even bound, he is dangerously intelligent, incredibly knowledgeable, and exceptionally [[ManipulativeBastard manipulative]] - in the prequel, he very nearly manages to orchestrate the destruction of the Kingdom when his binding weakened just a little. And if the binding breaks... this line follows from [[spoiler: one of his more benevolent siblings.]]
27	-->"The Mogget is free! ''Run!''"
28	* ''Literature/PercyJacksonAndTheOlympians'': Polyphemus' island is home to a flock of carnivorous, hippopotamus-sized sheep that can devour a deer in less than a minute, leaving only a pile of bones. Percy describes them as "piranhas with wool".
29	* ''Literature/ThePerfectRun'': Ryan has a rabbit plushie stuffed with more weapons than anyone knows what to do with. Everyone is surprised and impressed when they realize what it is, but Ryan absolutely refuses to let anyone else touch it, repeatedly thinking of it as too powerful to use outside of Suicide Runs. [[spoiler:Turns out it's possessed by a spirit from the Violet world. When Ryan turns it on, it will use all those weapons to perfect and imaginative effect, until it finds a child and starts ''duplicating'']]. Ryan considers any timeline where he had to use the plushie to be a lost cause by default.
30	* ''Literature/ThePlagueStar'' features creatures called "hellkittens", which spit wads of powerfully acidic saliva.
31	* ''Literature/RainbowsEnd'': Mr. Rabbit qualifies as "the next bad thing" in the eyes of one character. The previous "bad thing" was a plague worse than bubonic, and the one before that was the nuclear destruction of Chicago. It's never made clear how much rabbit-nature he actually has.
32	* ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'': Woodland creatures like hares, mice, otters, squirrels, hedgehogs, and even ''moles'' are all quite capable of becoming fierce warriors and defeating any vermin that threaten them. (Although a badger isn't exactly in a KillerRabbit scenario when what it's fighting is a rat.) Basically, it's a WorldOfFunnyAnimals where the "Funny Animals" are Killer Rabbits. Except the actual rabbits, ironically enough.
33	* ''Literature/TheScar'': The head of Armada's underwater police force is [[DeviousDolphins a sadistic dolphin named Bastard John]].
34	* ''Literature/SixthOfTheDusk'': The island Patji is home to, among other deadly animals, mice with a single venomous tooth which, of course, can kill you. Unusually enough, they've actually been tamed and are one of the few things on the island not especially dangerous.
35	* ''Literature/TheStarchildTrilogy'': In ''The Reefs of Space'', the Planner's daughter, Donna Creery, is attended by a set of "peace doves" -- beautiful birds which have been enhanced and trained to serve as deadly bodyguards.
36	* ''Franchise/StarTrekExpandedUniverse'':
37	** ''Ghost-Walker'' features a race of diminutive fluffy bird people who are mostly ultra peaceful and sweet. Mostly. When one particularly xenophobic one gets nasty, he uses his monstrously powerful telepathy to drive an entire invading force of Klingons to suicide, {{Mind Rape}}s and possesses Captain Kirk, and almost destroys the Enterprise before he's convinced to stop.
38	** ''Invasion'': Most of the "Furies" resemble demonic creatures (because they're the beings that spawned the legends). A few, however, are fluffy and cute. They're still vicious killers who want their ancestral home back, though.
39	** ''To Storm Heaven'': A B-plot involves Alexander (Worf's son) receiving a hamster from Dr. Crusher as a pet. Worf starts off contemptuous of the sleepy little beast, until he mishandles it and gets the hell bitten out of his finger for his trouble. Worf actually ''respects'' its Killer Rabbitness and names it a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy Klingon]] name that means "Tribble who battles with honor". Alexander prefers the original moniker of "Fido." Of course, hamsters come from [[DeathWorld Earth]], where most everything not obviously dangerous is probably this trope.
40	* ''Literature/{{Sten}}'' has Doc, an alien who resembles a cuddly koala bear. His species are in fact vicious predators which act cute to lure in prey; Doc is so bloodthirsty that he has to be fitted with a RestrainingBolt in order to interact with his teammates without killing them out of instinct.
41	* ''Literature/SwordOfTruth'': In ''Soul of the Fire'', an embodiment of evil either possesses or impersonates a chicken. Strangely, the main characters are capable of realizing this... which means you have two badasses who rule the known freaking world and who can alternately make people her slave or destroy armies with a wave of his hand ''scared shitless by a goddamn chicken''.
42	-->"[[MemeticMutation This was no chicken! This was evil manifest!]]"
43	* ''Literature/TunnelInTheSky'': A group of teenagers on a survival-training exercise are stranded on an Earthlike planet when the wormhole they used to get there malfunctions. One local animal is the "Dopey Joe", a stupid, slow-moving cat-sized reptiloid which appears utterly harmless... until the season comes when it, well, swarms.
44	* ''Literature/TheVoyageOfMaelDuin'': On one of the unknown islands visited by Mael Duin and his companions, the voyagers discover a mysterious palace inhabited only by a playful kitten. Everything is fine until one of them tries to take one of the precious necklaces from the piles of treasure lying around; which is when the kitten jumps at him and burns him into a heap of ashes. Then it goes right back to his play.
45	* ''Literature/TheWarAgainstTheChtorr'': The bunnydogs appear to be the only friendly Chtorrans encountered by the humans. Unfortunately they also [[spoiler:represent humanity's future in the Chtorran ecology: as passive, contented creatures who are glad to be eaten by higher members of the food chain.]] There are also meeps. A mother rabbit will reject her own young to nurse meeps, who will then suckle her to death. One character darkly theorizes that the excessively cute bunnydogs are meant to be the equivalent for humans.
46	* ''Literature/WarriorCats'': [[spoiler:Longtail]] has to retire at a young age because a rabbit he was chasing [[EyeScream scratched his eyes and blinded him]].
47	* ''Literature/WatershipDown'': Gen. Woundwort, who can fight (and beat) many of the beasts that prey on rabbits. As opposed to Bigwig, who is One Badass Rabbit. Also worthy of mention is the Black Rabbit of Inle, the most extreme version of this Trope, since he's basically the Grim Reaper in rabbit-form.
48	* The ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'' has a toy cabbit owned by Tennyo -- which conceals quite a few blades and needles inside itself, and can exert three hundred pounds of force through each (while unerringly [[ArmorIsUseless passing through gaps in armor]]) when it's being animated by [[BewareTheNiceOnes Jade]].
49	** Then there's Dragonrider's pet (which she created herself): Pern, a cute little dragon the size of a housecat. If Pern gets really angry, he grows. He can reach a thirty-foot wingspan with claws that can rip through granite.
50	* ''Literature/WhiteFang'':
51	** Partway through, White Fang is thrown into a dog-fighting ring. He kills everything sent at him, even a lynx... until the ring owners bring in a bulldog. A remarkably friendly bulldog named "Cherokee" who at first doesn't attack. ''It nearly kills him.''
52	** The weasel that beats up White Fang as a pup is one for sure. The narrator even says that for size and weight the weasel was the most ferocious, vindictive, and terrible of all the killers of the Wild.
53	* ''Literature/TheYearOfTheAngryRabbit'': PlayedForLaughs. The novel involves an attempt by the Australian government to cull its rabbit population using an experimental chemical, which results in giant, man-eating (and plague-spreading) rabbits that eventually overrun the continent.
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Context KillerRabbit / Literature