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23	->''"'''QUIET!!!!''' This is a LIBRARY!!"''
24	-->-- '''Ms. Hushbaum''', ''Series/AllThat''
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26	Unsuspecting students will enter the library, hoping to talk to friends, [[TheSlacker goof off]] instead of working, [[SneakingSnacks sneak snacks or drinks in]], and (possibly) study a little bit or even get a book. However, these kids will soon fall victim to...the Scary Librarian.
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28	The Scary Librarian will [[BerserkButton freak out]] if you talk in the library, [[ExtremelyOverdueLibraryBook fail to return a book on time]], or, God forbid, spill something on it or damage the binding. They'll shush you at the slightest noise, and occasionally [[HypocriticalHumor will start screaming]] at non-compliant patrons. She is [[ThePerfectionist obsessed with all the books being in perfect order and alignment]]. She doesn't tolerate students [[AsleepInClass napping in the study carrels]]. Students dread asking questions, as if she thinks you've [[AskAStupidQuestion asked a stupid question]], she'll give you [[OhGreatASnarkIndex snark and attitude]]. If you make them mad, [[FigureItOutYourself don't expect any help with your research paper]].
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30	The Scary Librarian can move like a cat, without making noise, and can [[StealthHiBye appear from nowhere]] if you're up to trouble. She can [[SuperHearing hear a kid opening of a bag of Doritos from 100 feet away]]. Beware, as she confiscates contraband snacks or electronic games. Some play the role of MoralGuardian, and try to prevent kids from reading [[NationalGeographicNudity National Geographic magazines]], books about [[TheTalk how babies are made]] or books about the UsefulNotes/LGBTCommunity.
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32	She tends to be older, with grey hair, often in a strictly-controlled hairstyle (like a hairbun), [[NerdGlasses bifocal glasses]] on a neck lanyard and formal, severe clothing that was last in style in TheEighties when she graduated from library college. Her lips are often pursed and she [[PerpetualFrowner often has a sour, bitter expression]].
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34	Scary librarians can work in elementary and high school libraries, college and university libraries, public libraries and research archives.
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36	Sometimes coincides with MagicLibrarian or EvilLibrarians. Compare SadistTeacher, BadassBookworm. Contrast HotLibrarian. See also SpookySilentLibrary.
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44	* Hilde, the queen librarian in ''Webcomic/GirlGenius: The Works''. She is depicted as a slightly older woman dressed in a tight blouse and a buckled skirt with her fair hair pulled up into a tied ponytail and wearing oval glasses. Looking out at the viewer, she is shown with a stern face entreating all to '''Shhh'''.
45	%%* The Phyrexian Librarian from the tongue-in-cheek Unhinged set of ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''.
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49	* A 1970-era ''ComicBook/TheFabulousFurryFreakBrothers'' comic had Fat Freddy rushing off to the university to join in student revolution - which for him meant liberating 'f**k books' from the library. He encounters a seriously Scary librarian who sends him running off in full-tilt terror.
50	* ''ComicBook/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story "The Purple Pages Of Peril" (DC run, issue #60) had a beloved retiring librarian being replaced with an uptight and anal librarian. When kids stop coming to the library because of him, the guy turns into a purple-clad "superhero" and begins physically collecting things and placing them in alphabetical piles.
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54	* Mentioned once in ''ComicStrip/BloomCounty''... bearing an axe about the size of Milo. Actually a bit of a RunningGag: Blinky's Anxiety Closet occasionally reveals he ''still'' hadn't returned that overdue copy of ''Literature/GreenEggsAndHam''... with the AxCrazy librarian showing up to note how many days overdue it is. Every revisit (into the ''Outland'' and ''Opus'' sequels) has the day count go up.
55	* In ''ComicStrip/CalvinAndHobbes'', Calvin was once horrified at the thought of having not returned a library book on time, expecting the librarians to break his knees or something. After learning that he would simply receive a small fine, he noted to himself that he naturally expected the consequences to be more severe simply from the looks the librarians give him.
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59	* The librarian in ''WesternAnimation/MonstersUniversity'' has tentacles, can grow to an incredible height, and will throw anyone who annoys her out the window. Fortunately, she's quite slow and has poor eyesight.
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63	* Wong in ''Film/DoctorStrange2016'' guards the library of an order of sorcerers; given [[TomeOfEldritchLore the kind of books]] on their shelves, he takes the job very seriously.
64	%%* It could have been much worse: do an image search on the movie ''Film/FrightNight1985'' to see the ghost they rejected for being too hideous.
65	* ''Film/{{Ghostbusters\|1984}}'' opens with a genuinely alarming spectral librarian, who at first appears to be a homely old woman (who responds with a "Shhh!" when they try to speak to her), but who [[GameFace turns scary and horrific when they make a rush at her]]. The [[VideoGame/GhostbustersTheVideoGame 2009 video game]] makes her surprisingly sympathetic: [[spoiler:she was seduced and murdered by a man who would later become Azetlor the Collector, the true "boss" of the Public Library.]]
66	%%* ''Film/TheLibrarian'' had one in the character of Charlene.
67	* ''[[RealTrailerFakeMovie Conan The Librarian]]'', from Music/WeirdAlYankovic's ''Film/{{UHF}}''.
68	-->"DON'T YOU KNOW THE DEWEY DECIMAL SYSTEM?"
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72	* ''Literature/AkataWitch'': Sugar Cream is the head librarian of one MagicalSociety community -- which, because knowledge is power in that society, means she's both TheArchmage and a justiciar with huge discretionary power, and the library in question is a [[MagicalLibrary profoundly magical]] EldritchLocation besides.
73	* ''[[Literature/AlcatrazSeries Alcatraz versus the Evil Librarians]]'' - The second book has scary undead soul-stealing librarians.
74	* Technically, Myne from Ascendance Of A Bookworm might be considered an example of this trope since she was a professional librarian in her previous life and retains a strong interest in books in her current life. Her scary aspect comes into play when a fellow priest named Egmont deliberately vandalized the temple book collection that she had been placed in charge of which causes her to start ranting about the need to punish him in a Festival Of Blood "To strike fear into our enemies and encourage our allies!". Nobody doubts that she is serious and all regard it as scary. This is doubly intimidating because she is normally kind and peaceful. It is only after she has determined that no actual harm was done to the books themselves that she calms down and stops being homicidal.
75	* In the seventh ''Literature/CaptainUnderpants'' book, the librarian is a cranky {{Moral Guardian\|s}} who has banned almost all the books in the library, leaving only one book that can be read. The library itself has posters warning about the dangers of reading.
76	* Philip K. Dick's ''Counter-Clock World'' has a really scary librarian, in a future where libraries don't store books but destroy them.
77	* While generally friendly unless called a [[BerserkButton monkey]], the Librarian of Unseen University in Literature/{{Discworld}} is a human wizard transformed into an orangutan (still a wizard by courtesy), who is noted to be very successful at his job, as a single display of his fangs ensures that books will be returned on time (and woe betide the student who returns them in damaged condition!) Being able to climb the shelves without a stepladder and sort and stack books with his feet doesn't exactly hurt. According to the ''Unseen University Diary'', if you damage a book, you should immediately inform the Dean, who will arrange for you to be smuggled out of the building to start a new life under an assumed name on the other side of the continent. The Librarian isn't terribly keen on people ''reading'' books; he thinks they belong on shelves and reading them wears out the words.
78	* "The Library Policeman" from Creator/StephenKing's ''Literature/FourPastMidnight'' has Ardelia Lortz, a [[OurVampiresAreDifferent more-different-than-most vampire]] with insectlike attributes who [[EmotionEater feeds on the terror of children]]. The titular Library Policeman is some kind of servant or familiar who takes a form resembling [[RapeIsASpecialKindOfEvil the man who molested the protagonist as a child]].
79	** King has another, more mundane, example with [[spoiler:Ramona Norville]], in "[[Literature/FullDarkNoStars Big Driver]]", who [[spoiler:deliberately sends the protagonist into a trap that gets her raped and nearly murdered by Ramona's son]].
80	* One of the ''{{Literature/Goosebumps}}'' books [[http://www.bloggerbeware.com/2006/07/08-girl-who-cried-monster.html had a librarian who was a literal monster]]. Although, [[spoiler:since it is revealed in the twist ending that everyone is a monster, and the librarian gets eaten by the main character's parents,]] this might be an inversion.
81	* Mistress Krine, head librarian for the Royal Library in the ''Literature/GarrettPI'' series, is equally dedicated to keeping Garrett from tapping the Library's books for information ''or'' junior librarian Linda Lee for a date.
82	* Madame Pince, from the ''Literature/HarryPotter'' books. Being a witch, she doesn't even need to be in the same room as you -- start drawing in the margins and the book will come alive and attack you. Creator/JKRowling once said in an interview that the Hogwarts library had to have one of these since a nice, helpful librarian would resolve plots too quickly. She also apologized to all librarians for this portrayal.
83	--> '''Madam Pince''': WHAT DO YOU THINK YOU'RE DOING? Chocolate in the library!! OUT, OUT, OUT!
84	* Steven Piziks wrote two stories ([[http://www.bookviewcafe.com/index.php/Hoard "Hoard"]] and "A Quiet Knight's Reading") about a librarian who's actually a shapeshifted ''dragon'' (the books were originally her hoard). Thieves can expect to be eaten.
85	* The ''Literature/HowToTrainYourDragon'' series has the Hairy Scary Librarian who will (at the very least try to) kill anyone who enters the Meathead Public Library without permission. Due to vikings not being allowed to read books and therefore the library not being very public despite its name, that means anyone who isn't him. Did we mention he's also a [[MasterSwordsman Flashmaster]]?
86	* ''Literature/JacobTwoTwo'' has ''[[GratuitousNinja ninja librarians]]''. They're very personable, but will ''hunt you down'' if you have overdue books.
87	* In the ''Literature/JoshuaDread'' series, Joshua and his friends are attacked by a creepy librarian who turns out to be a half-shark mutant. She was sent by the Gyfted & Talented organization to test if they were good enough for the program.
88	* The children's book ''The Librarian From The Black Lagoon'', which is part of a series. The kids think she's scary and does horrifying things, but in the end, it's subverted, when she's actually nice. All the books are that way.
89	* [[spoiler:Jorge of Burgos]] in ''Literature/TheNameOfTheRose'', although not the official librarian, defends the Library with rather ''odd'' methods...
90	* In the ''Literature/OldKingdom'' series, the Librarians of the Clayr protect several examples of SealedEvilInACan that have been known to ''kill'' Librarians (who're almost all powerful mages, swordswomen, and seers), which they defend with swords. The head librarian's sword was called [[{{Pun}} Binder]]. Lirael, chief protagonist of ''Lirael'', ''Abhorsen'', and ''Goldenhand'', is a Second Assistant Librarian and learns a lot of her high-end magic working there, as well as the basics of swordsmanship.
91	** The difference between mundane librarians and Clayr librarians leads to some miscommunication in ''Goldenhand'' when Nick, a {{Muggle}} from Ancelstierre with some somewhat strange powers owing to a combination of a case of DemonicPossession and a last-minute Charter blessing from the Disreputable Dog [[spoiler: a.k.a. Kibeth, formerly one of the most powerful beings in the setting, who helped create the Charter]] and by this point, [[spoiler: Lirael's boyfriend]], assuming that the Great Library of the Clayr is like an ordinary library, assumes that the librarians there are like the stereotypical librarians he knew at school. Lirael is understandably put out, and Nick a) later recants his mistake, b) ironically, ends becoming a temporary part of the collection as a way to get him inside the Clayr's glacier.
92	* ''Literature/SpectralStalkers'': The Library in Limbo's librarian is a fire-breathing, talking ''dragon''.
93	* In a Creator/GeneWolfe story, a student who has stolen a great many books finds that the librarian has taken possession of his home. And the library is now closed until Monday morning.
94	* ''Literature/TheWorstWitch'': although the librarian is unseen, Miss Hardbroom humiliates Mildred by sending her to the library, to look up how to restore her enemy Ethel to her natural form, after Mildred had turned her into a pig.
95	--> Ethel was grunting loudly, and clearly doing it on purpose. Everyone in the library was most astonished to see the pig suddenly change into a furious-looking Ethel. "Now don't be angry, Ethel," said Mildred. "Remember: silence in the library at all times."
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99	%%* In an episode of ''Series/ThirdRockFromTheSun'', Pendleton University turned out to have one of these, played by Christine Baranski. She turned out also to be a HotLibrarian.
100	* PlayedForLaughs in ''Series/AllThat'' with Ms. Hushbaum, better known as the Loud Librarian. The recurring joke in every sketch is that, if a student makes the tiniest bit of noise, she'll [[HypocriticalHumor go on screaming rants]] telling them to stop.
101	* The episode of ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' called "The Tale of the Quiet Librarian," about a ghost who kidnaps children and steals their voices.
102	* ''Series/DeadRingers'' had a parody of ''Series/HellsKitchen'' called "Hell's Library", with Simon Schama as a foul-mouthed, overbearing and violent librarian putting trainees through their paces.
103	* ''Series/MarriedWithChildren'' has a psychotic librarian who harassed Al Bundy when he was a young child, for literally any reason she could think of. She was also known for putting massive amounts of sugar in her coffee. The episode revolves around Al finding ''Literature/TheLittleEngineThatCould'' being overdue for 30 years and having to go back, but no problem... after all it's been thirty years she couldn't possibly still... Cue scene of Al entering and seeing a sugar bowl on the front desk
104	* ''Series/MontyPythonsFlyingCircus'' invoked this trope in a sketch where a gorilla [[spoiler:who is really a man in a gorilla suit]] is brought to a job interview for the position of chief librarian. The library executives are oddly excited by the idea of having a wild beast for a librarian.
105	-->'''Executive (Chapman):''' "I love seeing the customers come in to complain about some book being damaged and ask to see the chief librarian, and then, you should see their faces when the proud beast leaps from his tiny office, snatches the book from their hands and sinks his fangs into their soft...{{beat}}
106	* In a library, ''Series/MrBean'' is looking at a priceless manuscript while wearing WhiteGloves, which he accidentally scribbles in (by sneezing and blowing his tracing paper away), and then damages even more (with correction fluid, and a Stanley knife) as he tries to hide his actions. Although the librarian is a demure gentleman, Mr Bean tries to look nonchalant every time the librarian passes.
107	* ''Series/NedsDeclassifiedSchoolSurvivalGuide'' has a ''crazy'' librarian. If students claimed they returned books but they aren't in the slots, she screeches "Not ACCORDI-ON to me!" While playing the accordion awfully.
108	* Done to the extreme on ''Series/ParksAndRecreation'' where the Pawnee library department is considered by the Parks and Rec department to be actually EVIL. From the ''Ron and Tammy'' episode:
109	-->'''Leslie Knope:''' Pawnee's library department is the most diabolical, ruthless bunch of bureaucrats I've ever seen. They're like a biker gang. Only instead of shotguns and crystal meth, they use political savvy and shushing.
110	** Tammy 2, the Head of the Library Department, combines this with HotLibrarian. She's good-looking (played by Megan Mullaly) but completely psycho. She was married to Ron Swanson--and turned him into a sex freak. She also stalked him for a time. And she is not averse to using the library as a tool of power (e.g. falsely placing embarrassing books on her enemies' checkout records).
111	--->'''Ron Swanson:''' That bitch of an ex-wife is working for the ''library'' now, that is ''perfect''. The worst person in the world, working in the worst place in the world.
112	* Pee-Wee Herman once got to role-play as one of these in a later episode of ''Series/PeeWeesPlayhouse''.
113	* Series two of ''Series/{{Psychoville}}'' introduces Jeremy, a librarian who becomes obsessed with recovering a book that a woman has failed to return on time. He resorts to stalking her, calling her at all hours, breaking into her house, and threatening her young daughter - all with the aid of, or possibly under threat from, a hallucination of a horrifying creature called the Silent Singer.
114	* The aforementioned Conan the Librarian also appears in an episode of ''Series/ReadingRainbow'', albeit as a more benevolent interpretation thereof.
115	* Mr. Bookman, the library cop from ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'', treats Jerry like a murder suspect for having a book a couple of decades overdue.
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119	* The Liebrarian from ''TabletopGame/JAGSWonderland''. [[NightmareFuel "How would YOU like to be misplaced!?"]]
120	* In ''TabletopGame/WanderingMonstersHighSchool'', the school librarian is a banshee; students do NOT want her to yell at them for being noisy.
121	* Librarians in the ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' universe not only keep the Libraries of the SpaceMarine chapters in order, but each one is also a [[PsychicPowers psyker]] AND a Space Marine, and has full access to PowerArmor, [[{{BFG}} bolt weapons]], [[{{BFS}} power swords]], and [[MagicStaff psychic-energy channeling staves]].
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125	* ''VideoGame/BendyInNightmareRun'': Dewey in his [[AllThereInTheManual promotional art]] has been stated to be a librarian. His method of punishing those who misbehave in the library involves death. And Bendy misbehaved.
126	* Orloc Dracul from ''Videogame/BloodstainedRitualOfTheNight'' is a vampire librarian who will permit Miriam to borrow certain books from him, but warns her that she must always return what she borrows. If she tries to take a certain rare tome into TheVeryDefinitelyFinalDungeon, he will attack her and become one of the hardest {{Superboss}}es in the game.
127	* In ''VideoGame/CriminalCaseGrimsborough'', Case #26 features a librarian who's into voodoo and manages to terrify Jones even before he finds that out about her.
128	* In ''Franchise/DragonAge'', Finn may not be an official librarian, but could certainly be considered one given the amount of time he spends in the Circle library. The "scary" part is demonstrated during his first meeting with the Warden, where without any fear at all, he walks up to the heavily armed stranger in the Tower and [[BerserkButton proceeds to yell]] at them for [[FelonyMisdemeanor mishandling]] their most [[SeriousBusiness valuable antique books]].
129	* ''VideoGame/{{Echocalypse}}'': Katch is a terrifying librarian. She once pursued a patron who took a magazine from the Forbidden City's Library, of which there were thousands of copies elsewhere, all the way to the Empire, on the other side of the continent, killed them, and took the magazine back. She also routinely cuts to ribbons anyone who tries to find the secrets in the library.
130	* ''Franchise/TheElderScrolls'':
131	** Apocrypha, the realm of Hermaeus Mora, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[KeeperOfForbiddenKnowledge Knowledge]], takes the form of an [[EldritchLocation Eldritch]], infinite GreatBigLibraryOfEverything, said to contain all knowledge in the form of tomes. Unlike the other Daedric Princes, who typically [[AFormYouAreComfortableWith take humanoid forms when dealing with mortals]], Mora prefers a truly EldritchAbomination form of a mass of eyes, tentacles, and claws. While not an inherently malevolent entity, Mora has been known to commit ''unspeakable'' acts in the pursuit of knowledge.
132	** ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim Skyrim]]'':
133	*** Urag gro-Shub of the [[WizardingSchool College of Winterhold's]] [[MagicalLibrary Arcaneum]], is an [[OurOrcsAreDifferent Orc]] mage who takes his job ''extremely'' seriously. Several of the other mages express their fear of him and warn the player to tread lightly.
134	--->'''Urag gro-Shub:''' ''Disrupt my Arcanaeum, and I will have you torn apart by angry [[ElementalEmbodiment atronachs]]."''
135	*** In the ''Dragonborn'' DLC, you actually get to visit Apocrypha. In addition to Hermaeus Mora himself, the realm is populated by Seekers, a {{Cthulhumanoid}} form of [[OurDemonsAreDifferent lesser Daedra]] in service to Mora. Seekers typically act as the guardians and caretakers of Apocrypha, especially over the tomes of forbidden knowledge within.
136	* ''VideoGame/GenshinImpact'': As shown in her first Story Quest, Lisa takes her job surprisingly seriously, even thro she otherwise likes to be lazy. She's been known to electrocute, with her Electro powers, anyone who faces her wrath... and those with overdue books are guaranteed to face her wrath. Razor, who views Lisa as a mentor, says in his voiceline about her that she's scary. She's also a HotLibrarian.
137	* In the Official FanRemake of ''VideoGame/KingsQuestII'' the library is so crappy that aside from the Librarian being very cold and nasty, you can't take out books unless you're a member, and there are only two members, and they aren't allowing more, and even when you manage to borrow a card you can't even remove the books from the building, you have to read it from the front desk, and there aren't even any chairs.
138	* ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' parodies the concept with its "banshee librarian", a ShoutOut to ''Film/{{Ghostbusters 1984}}''.
139	* Pamela Ibis ''supposedly'' fills this role in ''VideoGame/ManaKhemiaAlchemistsOfAlRevis'', but she's not terribly good at the job. Students are actually ''happy'' when a monster decides to take over. As for the "scary" part, keep in mind that she's a CuteGhostGirl with a [[SealedEvilInATeddyBear possessed teddy bear]], [[SummonMagic an army of monster friends]], some [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant rather odd interests]] and [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking a mastery of fake crying]]. All in all, it's a good thing she's on your team.
140	* ''VideoGame/Metro2033'' is where we get our first glimpse of what an in-universe librarian looks like in the later levels. [[HumanoidAbomination And it's not pretty...]]
141	* In ''[[VideoGame/MightAndMagic Might & Magic VI]]'', the Wizard's Library is staffed by, well, wizards, and trying to go into the restricted area (even if you pay for membership) starts a battle with them. (Of course, this is the case with ''every'' place in the game that has restricted areas.)
142	%%* The librarian from ''VideoGame/MonkeyIsland2LeChucksRevenge''.
143	%%* Eike from ''VideoGame/SuikodenIII'', but he's a nice guy, really.
144	* Patchouli Knowledge from the ''Franchise/TouhouProject'' is a MagicLibrarian who is usually mostly inoffensive, but try to steal any books from her library or to attack her friend/employer [[OurVampiresAreDifferent Remilia]], and she '''will''' blast you out of the sky with her powerful elemental magic. She would be even more formidable if it weren't for her declining health preventing her from casting some of her most powerful spells.
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148	* In ''WebAnimation/HappyTreeFriends'', [[AxCrazy Flippy]] works as a librarian in the episode ''[[Recap/HTFRandomActsOfSilence Random Acts of Silence]]''. Said episode just happens to be the first (and so far, only) one where more than one character are afraid of him before he snaps.
149	* In ''WebAnimation/IfTheEmperorHadATextToSpeechDevice'', Cegorach, MonsterClown extraordinaire, is the librarian of the Black Library, to almost fatal results for Azhek Ahriman and his forces trying to invade the place. He does allow entrance to those he deems worth like the Custodes, but not before terrifying them to the point of trauma for no other reason but [[{{Troll}} his own amusement]].
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153	* [[http://missmab.com/Comics/Vol_579.php SAIA's librarian]] in ''[[Webcomic/DanAndMabsFurryAdventures DMFA]]'', although not shown, is implied to be rather scary. She was later revealed in [[http://www.missmab.com/DLoads/DMFA_Wallpaper28_800.jpg this wallpaper.]] And now the mystery thickens with this [[http://www.missmab.com/Comics/Ab_061.php cute version of her.]]
154	* In an ''Webcomic/ElGoonishShive'' pinup, [[note]]which can be seen [[https://danshive.deviantart.com/art/Be-Quiet-In-The-Library-644239661 here]],[[/note]] Amanda, in a {{Stripperiffic}} HotLibrarian outfit, shushes the POV character with a ShrinkRay, as an [[EmptyPilesOfClothing Empty Pile of Clothing]] sits in the foreground.
155	* ''Webcomic/QuestionableContent'': Claire isn't exactly a frightening person, being a dorky woman with a penchant for puns. However, that doesn't stop the Cubetown rumor mill from turning her, through the power of GossipEvolution, into a terrifying librarian who [[https://www.questionablecontent.net/view.php?comic=4960 once shushed someone to death.]]
156	* Marcus of ''Webcomic/TheSilverEye'' is a variation of this. He is scary, and he is a librarian. Sometimes he's scary while he's being a librarian, such as expressing his irritation at the young orphans who bother him when he's trying to read out loud (to himself) in peace. But he can be scary when he's not at work, too--Especially if Apen Shephard is involved.
157	* Dewey Oak, the elderly librarian in ''Webcomic/TwilightsFirstDay'', appears to be this from young Twilight's perspective. She mistakes his workshop, where he repairs and re-binds damaged books, for a "book torture chamber". Once the misunderstanding is cleared up, he turns out to just be a little gruff, but ultimately friendly.
158	* Subverted in the webcomic ''Webcomic/{{Unshelved}}'' by making the librarian a young male slacker who responds to most inquiries with sarcasm. The rest of the cast has their own quirks as well.
159	* In ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'', Phix is the sphinx that guards the great interdimensional Library, and she [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/adventureorknowledge/ presents herself as pretty scary,]] though the trope is often subverted [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/wherestherestroom/ once you get to know her.]]
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163	* In the ''WebVideo/RealTimeFandub'' of ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil2Remake'', [[ImplacableMan Mr. X]] was reimagined from being Umbrella's CleanupCrew to being a librarian who is going after the cast [[DisproportionateRetribution because they didn't return their books to the library in time]].
164	* [[http://wanderers-library.wikidot.com/the-librarians The librarians and other staff]] of ''Website/TheWanderersLibrary'' are humans who ran afoul of the Library's rules and so were transformed into monstrous forms and forced to work in the Library until the end of their sentence.
165	* In the ''Literature/WhateleyUniverse'', the [[SuperheroSchool Whateley Academy]] head librarian Miss Henderson is tough enough to keep superpowered mutant students in line, but the really scary part is one of her student assistants: PersonOfMassDestruction Tennyo, who most students will run from.
166	* ''Podcast/WelcomeToNightVale'': The Librarians of the Night Vale Public Library are deadly [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]] that are feared by all. [[Recap/WelcomeToNightValeLiveEpisodeTheLibrarian When one escapes from the library]], it sends the town into a panic.
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170	* ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' subverts this. There is a ghost of a librarian, and Jughead has terrifying memories of her when he was little, making his time in the library miserable. First she snatches a book from him saying in a nasty tone "This isn't for children!" He reads a joke book which she starts nastily lecturing him, and she yells at him for playing on the large globe." The librarian ghost when revealed justifiably explains her reasons. She took the book from him because it was heavily damaged and didn't want it to fall apart, she lectured him about the joke book because he was laughing very loudly disrupting the other readers, and she stopped him from playing on the globe because it was dangerous. And she wasn't even acting nasty, Jughead's fear of her exaggerated the events in his mind, making her seem worse than she actually was.
171	* The librarian in ''WesternAnimation/{{Arthur}}'', Miss Turner, is a repeat victim of this stereotype to judge by the {{Imagine Spot}}s she appears in. "Next time, don't make me use the crank!"
172	* Wan Shi Tong, the [[OminousOwl owl-like knowledge spirit]] from the ''WesternAnimation/AvatarTheLastAirbender'' episode "The Library." He's a nice enough guy if you're a true knowledge seeker, but ''any'' hint that you intend to use the knowledge found in his tomes to gain an advantage over others -- even if those others are certifiably ''evil'' -- is his BerserkButton, and he won't hesitate to trap you in the library ''forever'' for your troubles.
173	* The ''WesternAnimation/BigCityGreens'' episode "Quiet Please" has the family visit the library to teach Cricket about reading and have a run-in with a rather strict librarian, who has such good hearing she kicks out anyone who makes the slightest sound. To avoid facing her wrath, Tilly suggests they communicate with each other through sign language and charades. By the end of the episode, Bill ends up banned from every library worldwide, while Tilly remains the only Green who did not get in trouble.
174	* Miss Dickens from the ''WesternAnimation/CarlSquared'' episode "Carl's Techno-Jinx." She crash-tackles and handcuffs offenders, puts Carl's library card through a blender and drinks it, and C2 is convinced that she put a curse on him.
175	* Count Spankulot from ''WesternAnimation/CodenameKidsNextDoor'' may not actually be a librarian, but he does seem to work for them, seeing as he punishes children who have overdue books by hunting them down and spanking them. And by the way, [[OurVampiresAreDifferent he's a vampire]], which definitely makes him scary.
176	* ''WesternAnimation/CourageTheCowardlyDog'': The old librarian from "Wrath of the Librarian", who casts a spell on the book Courage turns in late so that it turns whoever touches it (Eustace and Muriel, in this case) into the book's characters, and won't lift the curse until Courage pays the late fee.
177	* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' dabbles in this with Dexter becoming a very scary librarian while assisting the actual librarian. This involved installing creepy robots, changing requested books for something more cerebral like paleobiology.
178	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Kaeloo}}'': One episode featured Kaeloo as a librarian. Kaeloo has the power of HulkingOut, so she threatens to beat up anyone who dares to make noise inside her library. [[spoiler: She ends up setting half the books on fire.]]
179	* ''WesternAnimation/DuckTales2017'': In "The Great Dime Chase!" we meet Miss Quackfaster, who in this continuity is Scrooge's archivist. She takes her job ''very'' seriously and [[LargeHam dramatically]]; at one point she threatens Dewey and Webby with ''a huge sword'' for "disrespecting the archives."
180	* ''WesternAnimation/GetAce'': The school's librarian is nicknamed "The Velmanator", who is ''very'' serious about silence in the library and returning overdue books on time. When she gets angry, she gains [[FangsAreEvil sharp teeth]] and crazy-looking eyes.
181	* ''WesternAnimation/{{Hilda}}'': Kaisa the librarian has shades of this, most explicitly when she reveals that she's memorized who's buried in which grave at which cemetery. Season 2 fleshes out this aspect of her by revealing [[spoiler:that she's a witch.]]
182	* ''WesternAnimation/KickButtowskiSuburbanDaredevil'': Kick Buttowski once has to deal with a crazy librarian who insisted that every thing that went inside her library (book or not) is hers. He has to break into the library to get a book of his that was accidentally returned.
183	* Mrs. Hatchett, from the ''WesternAnimation/KimPossible'' episode "Overdue". Even after the book was returned, she warns Kim that she might not be so lucky next time.
184	* ''WesternAnimation/MartinMystery'' Martin has one at his university, who growled at him for messing with the books in one episode.
185	* ''WesternAnimation/MoralOrel'' 's school librarian is a scary old woman whose hobbies include burning books and picketing in front of a cinema.
186	* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'' with Malphas the Master Librarian, who looks the part with his gargoyle like body and glowing yellow eyes, but his personality and campy voice are anything but scary. Amity even describes him as being a pretty nice guy so long as you're not breaking the library rules.
187	* The librarian replaced by Miss Osborne in ''WesternAnimation/TheReplacements'' episode "Quiet Riot", who fits every stereotype of the scary librarian.
188	* Libro Shushman from ''WesternAnimation/TeamoSupremo'', who becomes a fully-fledged supervillain.
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192	* Professor Peter (of ThePeterPrinciple fame) mentioned one librarian who loved her neatly ordered books so much that she spent most of her time preventing the students from reading them.
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