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[[caption-width-right:306:''[[WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids I just wanted a movie about bunnies!]]'']]

->''"That's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on! It's got a vicious streak a mile wide, it's a killer! It's got huge sharp... it can leap about... ''look at the bones!''"''
-->-- '''Tim the Enchanter''', ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail'' on the KillerRabbit of Caerbannog

Ah, rabbits. Who could possibly think of a more cute, cuddly, and harmless creature? With their wriggling noses, comically long ears, and fuzzy little tails, they're just so adorable!

[[WellThisIsNotThatTrope Except, of course, when they aren't.]]

Twisting the easily-recognized and almost universally-beloved form of the rabbit into something terrifying is a common type of subverted cuteness, because we all have the expectation of rabbits as sweet and innocent. Sometimes this is done by making the rabbit [[KillerRabbit carnivorous or otherwise extremely dangerous]], but just making it look or act scary is enough to have it fall into this trope. Also, anything that plays the rabbit for horror falls in this trope, which means that stuffed animals and people in costumes all apply.

Of course, in RealLife, rabbits aren't always harmless. As wild animals, they can be pretty vicious when they need to be, particularly around mating season when fighting off rival suitors. Those big goofy teeth aren't just there to look cute and chop vegetables. They can really do some damage. Pet rabbits may also bite if you bug them enough, or accidentally hurt or frighten them, especially if you're not its owner.

The {{Trope Namer|s}} is the 1946 WesternAnimation/BugsBunny ''[[WesternAnimation/LooneyTunes Merrie Melodies]]'' cartoon short [[WesternAnimation/HairRaisingHare of the same name]], though the short itself doesn't really produce any examples.

See also GrotesqueCute, KillerRabbit (which, despite its name, covers all cute but deadly animals, not just rabbits), RascallyRabbit (where the rabbits use their wits, rather than violence, to overcome their enemies), as well as CatsAreMean and DeviousDolphins (for other instances of normally cute animals getting this treatment). Contrast RighteousRabbit.
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[[folder:Anime & Manga]]
* Inverted by Rukia of ''Manga/{{Bleach}}'s'' illustrations of the hollow as meaner versions of the same bunnies that depict regular souls. Despite depicting soul-eating monsters, they're ridiculously cute. [[FridgeLogic It is also justified because hollows are created from them.]]
* ''Manga/DeliciousInDungeon'': Dungeon Rabbits. They first appear like normal rabbits but are only found in the deepest level of the dungeon. As it turns out, they earned their place there, being ruthless killing machines. Their main strategy is to destroy someone's throat and is agile enough to do it quickly, some do it using a hidden claw on their leg to slash throats, while others give kicks on the neck powerful enough to result in BloodFromTheMouth and death. Because they're so small, fast, and attack in large groups, it's extremely hard to deal with them.
* ''Franchise/{{Digimon}}'':
** Cherubimon Vice combines this with FallenAngel, being a corrupted, evil monster. Versions of him appears as the BigBad in the third part of [[Anime/DigimonTheMovie the movie]] and [[Anime/DigimonFrontier Frontier]], [[spoiler: As the DiscOneFinalBoss of the latter.]]
** The Gazimon are also sort of this but wind up being too much UglyCute comic reliefs to be a major threat.
** Kokomon's evolved forms in [[Recap/DigimonAdventure02M1TranscendentEvolutionTheGoldenDigimentals the first Adventure 02 movie]] (and ''Anime/DigimonTheMovie'') are rabbit-like {{Humanoid Abomination}}. He first appears as {{Wendigo}}mon, a hulking brute with borderline {{Lovecraftian Superpower}}s and a rabbit's ears, eyes, and nose. His evolution is Antylamon, a lanky, rabbit-headed figure that backflips and {{Flash Step}}s every which way while chattering. His final evolution? The aforementioned Cherubimon Vice, here depicted as an insane and malevolent RealityWarper. All of his forms shimmer around the edges when agitated.
** Subverted with Antylamon's GoodCounterpart in ''Anime/DigimonTamers'', who looks nearly identical but is friendly and capable of human speech.
** ''Anime/DigimonGhostGame'':
*** [[BunniesForCuteness Angoramon]]'s Ultimate form Lamortmon is a massive feral beast resembling a cross between an owl, a rabbit, and a werewolf. When he first awakens to this form he nearly mauls the MonsterOfTheWeek [[OurManticoresAreSpinier Manticoremon]] to death before being stopped.
*** The MonsterOfTheWeek in Episode 44 are three Antylamon who craft items from buildings using their life energy, causing them to weaken and potentially collapse. Actually subverted; they might be the same Virus-type as the one in the first Adventure 02 movie, but they are Digimon who don't realize how much damage they're causing.
* ''Anime/DoraemonNobitasChronicleOfTheMoonExploration'' have a giant rabbit monster terrorizing the [[MoonRabbit Moonbit]] community, until it was tamed by Shizuka using the Forgetting Flower. Said monster later becomes one of the good guys and saves the heroes from certain death in the climax, and is seen becoming the protector of the Moonbit town at the end of the film.
* The manga ''Manga/{{Doubt}}'' is about a murder game called "Rabbit Doubt", and creepy rabbit masks are a common theme throughout.
* In ''Manga/Eyeshield21'', for the school sports festival, everyone had to dress in costume. Hiruma chose to dress as a rabbit. While wielding an AK-47.
* The children's horror anime ''Anime/GhostStories'' naturally has a couple of terrifying rabbits.
** Datto is the ghost of a little boy who ran on the track team, who now lobs off the feet of runners in the fourth lane of the track. While normally looking like a cute (if pale and red-eyed) kid, he attacks in the form of a rabbit's shadow with his ears being used as scythes. [[spoiler: Fortunately he has a change of heart after befriending the main character's little brother, and doesn't go through with dismembering him.]]
** Shirotabi was the pet of a student at a school, whose owner resurrected it via black magic. Unforunately for her, he CameBackWrong, transformed into a monstrous killer every night, and had to be vanquished by the KidHero main protagonists.
* In ''Literature/JuniTaisenZodiacWar'', the appropriately named Usagi is a psychotic man in a male version PlayboyBunny outfit. As a fighter, he's fast, he's efficient, and he enjoys killing a bit too much. [[spoiler:He also has the ability to control the movements of the corpses of the people he's killed and landed the first two kills of the 12th Zodiac War.]]
* ''Manga/MyHeroAcademia'' gives us the Rabbit Hero, Mirko, real name Rumi Usagiyama. Her Quirk is "Rabbit" and all that it implies, similar to Tsuyu's "Frog" Quirk. Mirko's also the number 5 hero, behind the likes of Endeavor and Hawks, and she goes on to show that she's more than ''earned'' her spot in the top 10.
* ''Manga/{{Naruto}}'': [[spoiler:[[GreaterScopeVillain Kaguya Otsutsuki]] used to be worshiped as the "Rabbit Goddess" before she turned evil and became known as "Demon". Her OneWingedAngel form, that is, the true form of the Ten Tails, is a gargantuan [[AnimalisticAbomination rabbit-like abomination]]]].
* ''Manga/OnePiece'' gives us Lapahn, a breed of giant, carnivorous, incredibly unpleasant rabbit-monster, as well as a sea monsters that looks like a Lapahn with the back end of a very large shark.
* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' features Apex Rabbit, a Dragon-level massive rabbit with multiple hinges.
* ''Manga/PandoraHearts'': the Bloody Black Rabbit will mess you up. The White Rabbit is worse.
* The black bunnies in ''Anime/{{Penguindrum}}''.
* The first episode of ''Manga/PetShopOfHorrors'' has a rich couple who lost a daughter visiting Count D's shop and taking home a very rare species of rabbit that looks exactly like said daughter. Unfortunately, their love for their daughter leads them to break one of the rules of Count D's contract, and much horrificness with flesh-eating Killer Rabbits ensues.
* The Oousagi from ''Literature/ReZero'', cute little unicorn-horned rabbits that are quite capable of swarming you and eating you alive, as poor Subaru finds out in the most gruesome way possible.
* Laplace's Demon from ''Manga/RozenMaiden'' manifests as an extremely creepy humanoid albino rabbit in tuxedo.
* King Kazma, Kazuma's avatar in ''Anime/SummerWars'', is a six-foot anthropomorphic rabbit that can kick some serious digital ass [[BareFistedMonk with his bare hands]] and looks pretty intimidating.
* In ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'', Touka dons a cute rabbit mask when she goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge and ends up murdering two [[HunterOfMonsters Ghoul Investigators]]. Later on, there's a mysterious Ghoul going around Tokyo murdering Investigators that is called "Black Rabbit" because of their rabbit mask. [[spoiler:It's her brother, Ayato, trying to direct attention away from her.]] By the sequel, Rabbit is considered a terrifying foe and commands [[TheSyndicate Aogiri]]'s troops from the front lines.
* ''Anime/{{Usavich}}'' gives us Kirenenko, although he's only dangerous if provoked.
* In ''Manga/{{Yaiba}}'' we have [[BigBad Princess]] [[MoonRabbit Kaguya's]] [[OneWingedAngel True form]], which looks like a freaky hydra-bunny with fangs and EyeBeams.
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[[folder:Art]]
* Russian surrealist painter Creator/VasyaLozhkin frequently includes examples of this in his paintings.
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[[folder:Comic Books]]
* ''ComicBook/AlbedoErmaFelnaEDF'' has the Independent Lepine Republic, a nation of rabbits who are engaged in a ruthlessly sophisticated military plan to conquer the opposing Interstellar Confederacy. In the course of their goal, those rabbits are guilty of massive and grotesque atrocities to anyone who opposes them, including any rabbits whom they brand as "race traitors" for daring to disagree with them.
* Julie's wounded rabbit in ''ComicBook/TheMaxx'' could easily be described as this.
* ''ComicBook/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagicIDW'' features a species called the "vampiric jackalope". Cute, colorful bunny-like creatures with deer antlers... who swarm their prey (including ponies) in packs to drain them dry of blood through their razor-sharp incisors.
* The ''National Lampoon'' did a comic-book format version of ''Theatre/{{Harvey}}'' as a scary, malicious type who goads Dowd into all sorts of bad behavior.
* Max from ''ComicBook/SamAndMax'' is an adorable rabbity creature ([[InsistentTerminology he prefers the term 'lagomorph']] which is [[ViewersAreGeniuses the taxonomic family containing rabbits, hares and pikas]]), but [[http://www.blogcdn.com/www.joystiq.com/media/2010/07/snmtdpbtaodmax_530x298.jpg he has razor-sharp, serrated carnivore teeth and 'dead, sharklike eyes']]. He's also a PsychopathicManchild who is referred to in his own series as a [[HeroicComedicSociopath sociopath]]. The games suggest he has obscenely powerful psychic potential and show him as having an inherent connection to monsters. He also exploits his own cuteness to gain favours from other characters, or get them to let their guard down for an attack.
** The 25th Anniversary version of the Max logo [[http://img.youtube.com/vi/VscFyhqSMtE/0.jpg shows more jaggedly overlapping teeth.]]
* "Clarence" [[spoiler: AKA "Green Jet"]] from ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Tron: Ghost in the Machine]]'' (part of the AlternateContinuity from ''[[VideoGame/TronTwoPointOh Tron 2.0]]'') is a malicious trickster, trying to derail and distract Jet from his mission at every turn and ends up in a heated battle with Jet at the end of the comic. It turns out that he doesn't much ''care'' if the system goes down around their ears [[spoiler: because the only way to save it would be to have all three "Jet" Programs merge, wiping out his existence]].
* Creator/DCComics' ''The Unexpected'': Issue #202 featured a story titled "Hopping Down the Bunny Trail", where an evil Easter Bunny kidnapped several children and dipped them in chocolate with the intent of eating them in revenge for every chocolate rabbit that was eaten on Easter.
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[[folder:Fairy Tales]]
* Creator/AlexanderAfanasyev's "Literature/{{Kolobok}}": One hungry rabbit tries to eat the main character.
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[[folder:Fan Works]]
* Killer rabbits, inspired by a cryptozoological creature in Islamic legend called the ''al'miraj'',and enhanced with a liberal dose of Caerbannog, appear in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' of Creator/AAPessimal. Travellers in the Klatchian desert have to fight off a pack of them in ''Fanfic/GapYearAdventures''.
* Angel Bunny in ''Fanfic/DividedRainbow'' is nothing short of merciless, uniting all his fellow animals against Rainbow Dash in a nonstop campaign of torment.
* Mirko in ''Fanfic/LockedInDigital'' shares some personality traits with Izuku, including his [[KillingIntent terror aura]], which is part of why he interns with her. Plus, her experience as a Pro means she is one of the few opponents to actually defeat Izuku in a straight fight, and the two bond over their shared personality traits.
* ''All'' of the Bonnie variants in ''Fanfic/SomethingAlwaysRemains'', particularly the [[VideoGame/FiveNightsAtFreddys current]] [[PurpleIsPowerful one]] InUniverse and [[spoiler: the once-human Bonnie who currently haunts the Spring Bonnie suit]].
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[[folder:Films -- Animated]]
* Subverted in ''WesternAnimation/BandsOnTheRun''. The bands are terrified of a giant (from their perspective) rabbit, but it just leaves them alone after sniffing them and determining that they're not edible.
* Blue, the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot nazi biker junkie bunny]] from ''WesternAnimation/FritzTheCat.'' He has a CreepyMonotone voice, is constantly strung out and twitching, and he has no qualms against ''domestic abuse.''
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Hoodwinked}}'', Boingo is a pink rabbit who is [[spoiler: also the Goody Bandit]]. He's implied to be an EasterBunny given that he writes a map on such an egg.
* ''WesternAnimation/IceAgeContinentalDrift'' had Squint, a rabbit pirate who is insane and extremely bloodthirsty. [[BerserkButton Mention his cute wiggly nose]] and you're bunny chow.
* Downplayed with Scamper from ''WesternAnimation/{{Igor}}''. He's a zombie bunny, but he's not at all physically intimidating, and while he is kind of a snide jerk, he wants to end his own life rather than hurt anyone else.
* The rabbit in the film ''WesternAnimation/TheIllusionist2010'' likes to bite people and snarls like a raving monster, though isn't as deadly and terrible as it believes it is.
* ''WesternAnimation/RiseOfTheGuardians'' has E. Aster Bunnymund, a six foot tall EasterBunny who will kick your ass if you dare harm the children he is sworn to protect.
* Snowball is a rabbit in ''WesternAnimation/TheSecretLifeOfPets'' who runs a vicious gang of abandoned pets (whose actions border on terrorism) and behaves how one would expect a gang leader to behave. He doesn't look the part physically, but he can still be incredibly intimidating through his [[HairTriggerTemper hare-trigger temper]], his total lack of fear, and his willingness to kill anyone who gets in his way.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/WallaceAndGromit'' film ''WesternAnimation/TheCurseOfTheWereRabbit'', the duo set up a pest control company after a swarm of rabbits invade their hometown and start devouring everyone's vegetable crops days before the annual giant vegetable contest, which they have success at keeping under control at first (with high-tech security systems guarding everyone's crops and all). Unfortunately, things go wrong when a supposed Were-Rabbit is spotted at night, bypassing the systems and savagely eating every crop in sight. Just to make matters worse, [[spoiler: it turns out the Were-Rabbit is Wallace, who becomes the title beast after an experiment to brainwash the captured rabbits into hating vegetables went wrong, though he manages to gain control of himself later on.]]
* General Woundwort of the animated adaptation of ''WesternAnimation/WatershipDown'', who is the trope picture.
* In ''WesternAnimation/{{Zootopia}}'', the trope is referenced: [[spoiler: Judy's parents tell her about her uncle Terry, who once ate a Night Howler flower, which made him turn savage and bite his sister Bonnie.]]
--> '''Judy:''' [[spoiler: A bunny can go savage!]]
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* The White Rabbit in Creator/JanSvankmajer's ''Film/{{Alice|1988}}'' is represented as a bug-eyed taxidermy rabbit animated in stop-motion who bleeds sawdust from a hole in his chest. He's also responsible for ''actually carrying out the Queen's executions''.
* Both the White Rabbit and the March Hare in Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/AliceInWonderland2010'' are rather creepy-looking, but what else could we expect from Master Burton?
* In ''Film/AntMan1'' Scott gives his daughter a truly hideous stuffed bunny for her birthday, which would be scary to any normal kid. Good thing she's not a normal kid.
--> '''Cassie:''' He's so UGLY! I love him!
* The killer in the South Korean slasher film ''Film/BloodyReunion'' wears a bunny mask.
* ''Film/CoolWorld'' has an unnamed grey bunny character seen gambling with Holli's goons. [[BunniesForCuteness It mostly acts innocent and cute]] until he tries reporting to the doodle police about getting cheated by the goons. He cries but then goes completely berserk by climbing up on to one cop's head and tells them to rip their faces apart then quickly goes back to his cute self by saying "Pretty Please" which convinces the cops to chase after them.
* Frank from ''Film/DonnieDarko'', a schizophreniac's imaginary friend who [[spoiler: is not really imaginary]] and looks like a man in a rabbit suit with a metal skull face.
* In ''Film/{{Dreamchild}}'', the elderly Alice thinks of the March Hare this way.
* The killer in ''Film/EasterBunnyKillKill'' wears a rather demented-looking Easter Bunny mask.
* ''Film/{{Kottentail}}'' and ''Film/PeterRottentail'' both feature humanoid rabbit monsters as antagonists.
* The Killer Rabbit of Caerbanog from ''Film/MontyPythonAndTheHolyGrail''. '''''LOOK AT THE BONES!'''''
* The {{Claymation}} bunny in ''Film/{{Moonwalker}}'' unnerves some viewers, but [[AccidentalNightmareFuel this wasn't exactly the intention...]]
* ''Film/NightOfTheLepus'' was an [[{{Narm}} attempt]] to make a serious horror movie from this trope, with giant rabbits. Not only are the effects poor (regular bunnies hopping through fake-looking miniatures so they'd look oversized), but there is a lack of a visual attempt to make the '''Giant Killer Bunny Rabbits''' look anything but the cute critters they are.
* ''Film/OneCrazySummer'': The Creator/WarnerBros LogoJoke isn't intended as horror but is somewhat unnerving. A crazed cartoon rabbit in a propeller beanie opens up the logo, screams and then "swallows" the viewer.
* ''Film/{{Rabbits}}'' by Creator/DavidLynch. "In a nameless city deluged by a continuous rain... three rabbits live with a fearful mystery." Originally web-based video, it was released as a film and features as a ShowWithinAShow in the film ''Film/InlandEmpire''. In true Lynchian fashion, ''Rabbits'' is more quietly unsettling than outright terrifying.
* In ''Film/SexyBeast'', the main character has a nightmare that a giant rabbit with a gun is coming to kill him.
* ''Film/TwilightZoneTheMovie''. In the updated version of "Literature/ItsAGoodLife", the local RealityWarper asks his uncle to [[PullARabbitOutOfMyHat pull a rabbit out of a hat]] as a magic trick, then the rabbit turns into a hairless, hulking, snarling monstrosity before it goes back into the hat.
* The opening credits of Jordan Peele's ''Film/{{Us}}'' features some creepy rabbit imagery, which you later find out the reason for.
* An unintentional example in ''Film/SantaAndTheIceCreamBunny''. The uncanny nature of the Ice Cream Bunny's GoofySuit and the [[AmusementParkOfDoom curiously dilapidated amusement park]] in which he makes his jarring first appearance ends up making him a lot less charming and a lot more terrifying than the filmmakers intended.
* ''Film/TheWitch'' has a rather unsettling hare, which lures young Caleb into [[DontGoInTheWoods the deep woods]] where he meets the title character. It's implied to be one of her familiars.
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[[folder:Literature]]
* Tends to be in a lot of DarkerAndEdgier incarnations of ''Literature/AliceInWonderland''. The original character is merely manic and unsettling.
* ''Literature/{{Bunnicula}}''. Half rabbit, half-vampire, all terror! He sucks the juice out of carrots. The funny thing is, he's something of a [[SubvertedTrope subversion]] in that he seems to be a pretty ordinary rabbit other than that. The paranoid cat Chester is nonetheless convinced that he's a danger to man and beast.
* ''Clockwork Boys'' by Creator/TKingfisher has a short and extremely unnerving scene with a cute talking rabbit...who sits up in the middle of the path, informs Brenner, "You'll die laughing, you know," and vanishes. [[spoiler:As it turns out, it isn't wrong. And it's [[KillTheHostBody even worse than it sounds]].]]
* In Creator/StephenKing's novel ''Literature/DoloresClaiborne'', Vera Donovan is tormented in her old age by visions of 'dust bunnies', which terrify her but that Dolores Claiborne herself can't see.
* In ''Literature/{{Fangirl}}'', Cath's version of the moon rabbit is rather murderous.
* Creator/RobertRankin's book ''The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse''.
* The ''Literature/{{Goosebumps}}'' book "Bad Hare Day". Or at least [[CoversAlwaysLie the cover]].
* ''[[Literature/TheMagicians The Magician King]]'' introduces the Seeing Hare, a hare with precognitive powers. It achieves hair-raising status by prophesying doom and despair for the protagonists.
* Islamic/Arabian poetry has the Miraj (or Al-mi'raj, or numerous other variations on the two), a one-horned, carnivorous yellow hare capable of killing and eating much larger prey, including humans. Also features in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''VideoGame/DragonQuest''.
* The Lapinduce from D.M. Cornish's ''Literature/MonsterBloodTattoo'' series. He's over seven feet tall- almost nine feet, with the ears- and is introduced ''picking a man up by the face and shaking him until his neck snaps.'' However, he's also a True Neutral CulturedBadass who offers aid to the protagonist.
* Brian Jacques's ''Literature/{{Redwall}}'' books has the Long Patrol, a faction of soldier hares who are seen as some of the best fighters in the whole setting (and usually quite amiable when off-duty).
* The rabies outbreak of ''Literature/ScaryStoriesForYoungFoxes'': ''The City'', which leads to Dusty and many dogs becoming infected, and [[spoiler:very nearly kills Oleo]], was all started by a white rabbit who seemed...off.
* ''Son of Literature/{{Spellsinger}}'' features a cult of psychotic rabbits who are tired of being seen as "cute", and want to take revenge on, well, everyone. Their first victims are a society of marsupials, which has some interesting real world resonances.
* In ''Literature/WarriorCats'', though rabbits are considered prey, they can put up a fight: in ''Firestar's Quest'', Longtail is permanently blinded when a rabbit scratches his eyes, and in ''Leafpool's Wish'', Whitepaw is injured by one that she's trying to catch.
* ''Literature/WatershipDown,'' in which ninety percent of the characters are rabbits, naturally houses a couple. The heroes' group include three rabbits of the 'Owsla' or warrior caste, while the book's final adversary is a GeneralRipper in rabbit form. And their mythology includes a GrimReaper, the Black Rabbit of Inle, who is both a) a rabbit and b) inexorable, inevitable and invincible.
* ''Literature/WhatMovesTheDead'': The hares around the tarn are...weird. The village is full of stories about how they’re shapeshifted witches or possessed by the devil, and given how they all have a zombie-esque shuffle and tend to just stare at people, it’s not hard to see why. It gets worse when Alex shoots one for Denton to study, and the hare, with its half its head blown off, gets up and goes on with its business like nothing happened.
* In ''Literature/ThatIsAll'', one of the [[EldritchAbomination Ancient and Unspeakable Ones]] who tie into the MayanDoomsday is Oester-Rah, "the ragged, fertile rabbit-god whose dung will cover the world". Her faithful {{cult}} hope to be eaten by her, excreted, and then eaten again. When she takes too long to [[WhaleEgg hatch from her gigantic egg]], they give up and stew themselves into a hasenpfeffer.
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[[folder:Live-Action TV]]
* In the Creator/{{Syfy}} miniseries ''Series/{{Alice|2009}}'', the Red Queen's henchmen wear [[MalevolentMaskedMen white face masks]] designed to look like [[http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/23600000/alice-alice-syfy-original-movie-23653004-685-385.jpg rabbit heads]]. The rabbit heads become even creepier once you realize their true purpose: [[spoiler: those "masks" have replaced their ''actual heads'', and have hidden nozzles that they use to gas the Queen's chosen victims (or "Oysters") so they can abduct them (or kill them, if need be).]]
* ''Series/TheAmazingExtraordinaryFriends'': The most dangerous of the CarnivalOfKillers Renfield hired to take out Captain X in "Quality Time" turns out to be the Easter Bunny; a man in a rather sorry-looking rabbit costume.
* This would appear to what Sardo's pet rabbit is turned into in the ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' episode "The Tale of the Dark Dragon" when the main character tests a magic potion on him without Sardo's knowledge.
* In ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'', Anya has a pathological fear of bunnies. In the scene set during her mortal life, she shows no such fear (and in fact ''breeds'' rabbits), indicating ''something'' had happened in the intervening time.
** It's strongly hinted that she developed her fear as a result of her rabbits [[ExplosiveBreeder breeding excessively]], to the point of her house being full of rabbits.
* HBO had a special program once called ''[[Series/BunBun Bun-Bun]]'', which had possibly the most terrifying plush rabbit ever made, even though it didn't do anything directly; [[ArtifactOfAttraction any child that ran into it became obsessed with having it]], to the point of near killing themselves.
* Played for laughs in ''Series/HannahMontana'' when Jackson eats too much chocolate and he has nightmares about a Godzilla chocolate bunny.
* On ''Series/{{Misfits}}'', a giant serial killer acid-induced rabbit in a suit carrying a golf club goes after the crew. It's scarier than it sounds.
* There was 70s kids' show in Britain called ''Series/{{Pipkins}}'' which starred a puppet named Hartley Hare. Not meant to be a scary character, but it was such a freaking ugly thing it was probably scary for younger kids.
* One 70's-era Series/SesameStreet sketch created by Swiss artist Etienne Delessert ([[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUUtGICVeAU seen here]]) was that of three kids being chased by a giant rabbit.
* ''Series/TomorrowsPioneers'' was a children's show created by the [[UsefulNotes/{{Palestine}} Palestinian]] governing authority and [[UsefulNotes/TheWarOnTerror terrorist organization]] Hamas, [[TykeBomb seeking to groom their kids into warriors against Israel]]. The third CreepyMascotSuit cohost was "Assud the Martyrdom Rabbit", whose EstablishingCharacterMoment was promising to "[[EatTheRich eat up the Jews]]" in a CreepyHighPitchedVoice and encouraging their five-year-old target audience to become {{Inspirational Martyr}}s.
* ''Series/XenaWarriorPrincess'', Xena warned Gabriel to be careful of the rabbits, and Gabby didn't listen so ended up [[FunnyBackgroundEvent battling the rabbit in the background]].
* ''Series/UltramanAce'': Lunaticks is the Kaiju, or rather Choju equivalent. A LunarRabbit monster who destroyed a civilisation on the Moon before the events of the series, only to then be sicced by [[BigBad Yapool]] on Earth, Lunaticks looks a bit like Frank from ''Film/DonnieDarko''. Lunaticks has a fearsome array of techniques, being no slouch in a physical fight, and he can also breathe fire, smoke, and even [[AbnormalAmmo fire off his eyes in the form of grenades, which regenerate near-instantly for the next use!]]
** The later series, ''Series/UltramanTiga'', has a more benevolent version, a rabbit-based monster called King Molerat, who spends most of the episode hibernating. It does eventually goes on a rampage because of hunger, but Tiga ultimately spares its life and shrinks it into the form of a regular rabbit.
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[[folder:Music]]
* The rabbits in ''Alice Human Sacrifice''.
* The electronica/darkwave band Music/TheBirthdayMassacre practically live and breathe this trope. Every album art features at least one Franken-bunny. Usually feature several.
* The artwork from Music/{{ETHS}}' 4th album, ''Teratologie'', features dead rabbits. ''Flayed'' dead rabbits.
* ''Music/EchoAndTheBunnymen'' is the name of a creepy, dark post-punk band.
* The music video to song ''Voracity'' by japanese pop rock band ''Myth & Roid'' shows a rabbit mask wearing HumanoidAbomination haunting [[EldritchLocation creepy woods]].
* The mascot for digital hardcore band ''Music/RabbitJunk'' is a grinning rabbit with razor-sharp teeth and a sutured forehead.
* The music video for the song "Sour Girl" by the ''Stone Temple Pilots'' features some Teletubby-esque rabbits that are pretty scary - or at least, creepy.
* ''Music/{{Voltaire}}'''s song ''Bunnypocalypse'' in which hordes of undead rabbits overrun the world.
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[[folder:Mythology & Folklore]]
* In the Popul Vuh, a Maya epic story, the evil gods of the underworld have a rabbit scribe. Depictions of the court of the underworld usually include it.
* The ''al'miraj'' of Islamic/Arabic legend inhabits a remote island and is said to resemble a rabbit, but with insane red eyes and a lethal spiked horn on its head. It is also so dangerous and territorial that sorcery is the recommended way to deal with it. [[GodzillaThreshold Please note that the Qu`ran strictly forbids all forms of sorcery.]]
* In some stories, the [[FearsomeCrittersOfAmericanFolklore jackalope]] is a savage and aggressive creature.
* [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bunny_Man The Bunny Man]] is a local boogieman found in the folklore around Fairfax, Virginia, about an axe-wielding maniac in a rabbit suit, usually lurking under the Colchester Overpass and [[TerrorAtMakeOutPoint scaring people who are looking for a place to make out.]]
* In European folklore, it was believed that hares and rabbits were the familiars of witches, or that witches could transform themselves into these animals to travel long distances quickly, steal from people and lead travellers astray.
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[[folder:Pinball]]
* The Enchanted Hares of ''Pinball/MagicGirl'' are anything but cute and fluffy.
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[[folder:Tabletop Games]]
* ''{{TabletopGame/Deadlands}}'' had Clovis the Devil Bunny, a demonic entity possessing the favored toy of young Lucifer Whateley.
** {{Jackalope}}s look like cute rabbits with antlers, but are carnivorous scavengers who use their ability to induce lethal bad luck to get humans killed in fatal accidents, so they can feed on their corpses.
* ''Devil Bunny Hates the Earth!'': the Bunny is attempting to use taffy to destroy the world.
** ''Devil Bunny Needs a Ham'': the same Bunny takes out his unresolved desires on acrobatic sous-chefs.
* Although uncommon, rabbit-like monsters have appeared in ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' and ''TabletopGame/{{Pathfinder}}'' on occasion.
** The Al'miraj is the most well-known of the rabbit monsters. Appearing as a rabbit with a {{unicorn}}-like horn, it's a predatory (or at least omnivorous) creature that can gore victims with its horn. The very first version had no depth beyond this and was more or less a joke creature -- it would return to this format in 4th and 5th edition. In 2nd and 3rd edition, al'miraji were commonly nicknamed "blink bunnies" due to their innate ability to teleport short distances... but, 1 in 10 had psionic abilities, with a lethal combination of telekinetic powers that earned them the nickname "Bunnies of the Abyss". In Pathfinder, the Al'miraj's horn petrifies what it stabs, so it disables its prey's limbs first and then eats them alive.
** The notorious Wolf-in-Sheep's-Clothing is an alien monster that pretends to be a bunny (or other small animal) sitting on a stump, only to reveal its true nature as a tentacled, shapeless abomination when prey gets close.
* Visit scenic ''TabletopGame/GammaWorld!'' But ''don't'' visit the Hoops: your skull will become a rabbit's plaything.
* The card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=94911 Vizzerdrix]] and its predecessor [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=4667 Kezzerdrix]] from ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering''. Also the ''Unhinged'' card [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=74274 When Fluffy Bunnies Attack]].
* In the ''TabletopGame/RedDwarf'' role-playing game, the Rabbit civilization are [[ANaziByAnyOtherName a fascist, militaristic species obsessed with ethnic purity and perfection]]. This being ''Red Dwarf'', it's PlayedForLaughs as their stats are actually pretty bad.
* The Theans in ''TabletopGame/StrikeLegion'' are humanoid rabbit-like creatures known for two things: being incredibly precognitive and thus able to predict their enemies' actions to the minutes, and piloting skyscraper-sized HumongousMecha with stealth systems that let them sneak inside entire enemy space fleets and destroy them in seconds without warning. Yeah, precognitive mecha-driving ninja rabbits.
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[[folder:Theater]]
* Before a significant {{Retool}} dropped them, Creator/CirqueDuSoleil's magic show effort ''Theatre/CrissAngelBelieve'' had tons of these once the action shifted to Angel's mind when he was "injured" in a stunt gone wrong.
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[[folder:Toys]]
* One kit in Aurora's Monster Scenes line of models, entitled "Gruesome Goodies," was a kind of MadScientistLaboratory set which featured among other thing a fierce-looking rabbit in a big jar. Although most of the stuff in the kit was intended to be used with Monster Scenes' [[MadScientist Dr. Deadly]], some promotional materials suggested the rabbit was apparently supposed to be used as an accessory for the [[Literature/TheStrangeCaseOfDrJekyllAndMrHyde Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde]] kit (which was [[NoExportForYou only released in Canada]] for some reason); the idea being that the rabbit had been given some of the "Jekyll juice" as a test.
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[[folder:TV Tropes]]
* [[https://static.tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/images/easter-fun.jpg The Easter Bunny image]] on AccidentalNightmareFuel. To hammer the point in even further, there appears to be a severed leg with a child's sneaker below the table beside him.
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[[folder:Webcomics]]
* ''Webcomic/AngelMoxie'': [[http://www.venisproductions.com/angelmoxie/archives/2/3/238.html "This is my servant, Cottontail. Cute, furry,... and evil."]]
* ''Webcomic/AxeCop'' features a rabbit gun that shoots rabbits that attack the user. Axe Cop says it was the worst weapon he ever tried.
* Weasel Queen's Lapinomorphs from ''Webcomic/GirlGenius''.
* The hare from ''Webcomic/TheHaresBride'' is a menacing figure who tries to force the girl into marrying him and eventually becomes violent. And that's not even getting into the implications of his words about the wedding guests being "hungry" coupled with his bared teeth.
* The first arc of ''Webcomic/MelvinasTherapy'' features a woman terrified of rabbits who experiences traumatic flashbacks to an encounter with some kind of rabbit-eared creature when she was a child.
* Ruby from ''Webcomic/RubyQuest'' is usually a RighteousRabbit, but in the backstory ([[spoiler:when she was under the mental influence of Cjopaze]]), she [[spoiler:killed both Stitches and Tom and gave Red a GlasgowGrin]].
* The French EasterBunny from ''Webcomic/ScaryGoRound'' who is actually [[spoiler:a {{Wendigo}} in a costume.]] [[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking And from Canada.]]
** Furthermore, there is the giant rabbit who is an associate of [[NoCelebritiesWereHarmed Bob]] [[Creator/AleisterCrowley Crowley]]. His scariness leaves a lot to be desired, though. [[TooDumbToLive He even lets himself get caught by two school kids.]]
* ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'': Early on, Torg decides the strip needs a cute talking animal, so he buys a mini-lop rabbit called Bun-bun. Bun-bun refuses to talk at first, but when he does, it's to start insulting people and getting Torg into trouble by saying things to other people they think Torg did. ("It was the rabbit" never really works as an explanation.) That's only the start, though, as Bun-bun turns out to be psychopathically sadistic, an intelligent ManipulativeBastard, and an incredibly badass switchblade-wielding PintsizedPowerhouse capable of defeating vampires and demons. Basically, Torg is stuck with an exceptionally vicious and powerful villain as a pet (as Bun-bun has no intention of giving up the free food and lodgings). He ''still'' grows fond of his pet. He gets used to living with him:
-->'''Demon Lord Horribus of the Dimension of Pain''': Electrocution, stretched limbs, and whipping! Is your will broken yet?\\
'''Torg''': No, but it's starting to ''really'' tick me off!\\
'''Lord Horribus''': You must have had serious military training.\\
'''Torg''': Nope. Pet bunny.
* [[PhysicalGod Headon]] from ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'' [[http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20111025081143/towerofgod/images/thumb/e/e1/Headon.PNG/270px-Headon.PNG]], a humanoid being who looks kind of like a rabbit. Brutally honest, unless he is [[CrypticallyUnhelpfulAnswer withholding information that you don't know you need]], has his own unknowable plans and ungodly SlasherSmile with… wait… are his eyes inside his mouth?
* ''Webcomic/VegfolkFables'': Rabbit attacks are viewed with horror in universe as the world is populated with sentient vegetables.
* The episode "Now you see her" of ''Webcomic/TheWotch'', involves [[spoiler: a stage magician's rabbit getting trapped in the hat's pocket dimension, growing to enormous proportions and kidnapping magicians' assistants]].
* ''Webcomic/ZebraGirl'' features [[http://www.zebragirl.thecomicseries.com/comics/632#content-start Black Betty]] and Pooka Zin, who are members of an entire ''species'' of these, the Vorpal Pook. Betty claimed once that they were also the [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Aztec_pulque_gods Centzon Totochtin]] of Aztec myth.
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[[folder:Web Original]]
* ''[[WebAnimation/AnimatorVsAnimation Animation vs. Minecraft]]'': In Episode 12, ''TNT Land'', the MonsterOfTheWeek is a killer rabbit. It even has tons of rabbit corpses piled on the dinner table at first. TSC ends up luring it away by throwing one of the rabbit corpses in the other direction.
* ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gjGpzhcnA64 Fuwa Fuwa Foof]]'': The titular Foof attempts to subvert this, being an ex-criminal rabbit with a notorious career who's been trying to do good ever since she was arrested once. Her former cohorts Giri Giri and Kiri Kiri, on the other hand, play the trope entirely straight, since they're still involved in crime in the present and are trying to get Foof back as their gang leader.
* [[http://sketchybunnies.failblog.org/ Sketchy Bunnies]] is a new section of the Cheezburger Network dedicated entirely to pictures of terrifying Easter Bunnies. Most examples are people in rabbit suits that descend right through the depths of UnintentionalUncannyValley and come out via the realm of [[EldritchAbomination Eldritch Abominations]]. [[invoked]]
* In the same vein, a darker [[http://skinpupcoss.deviantart.com/art/Easter-Bunny-209353936 rendition of the Easter Bunny]] by a Website/{{Deviantart}} member portrays it as an evil abomination with two tumorous appendages on its head which its potential victims mistake for ears--before it mutilates them and feasts on their organs. Then there's [[http://karzrave.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d309kqn the buck rabbit...]]
* Inverted with WebVideo/EverymanHYBRID's spectral serial killer HABIT, who often refers to his victims as "rabbits". Played straight with his Twitter avatar, which features a sinister-looking, [[RedEyesTakeWarning red-eyed]] rabbit, and in FanArt (much of which depicts "Mr. H" as either an evil anthropomorphic rabbit or a human with rabbit-like features).
* Website/GaiaOnline's Grunny, a fast-reproducing mutant zombie rabbit. One memorable Halloween event had a number of them escape the G-Corps labs and attack Gaians to feed on their gooey brains. As of ''[=zOMG!=]'', Grunnies are also apparently sapient and capable of [[spoiler: piloting HumongousMecha submarines]].
** A recent new character, Diedrich, claims to be a Grunny, but is so far from Grunny norms that many fans think he's something else completely. Nonetheless, Diedrich is [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant disturbing]] [[NauseaFuel enough]] on his own terms to qualify for this trope.
* PlayedForLaughs in the subreddit [[https://www.reddit.com/r/MurderBuns/ r/murderbuns]], which primarily showcases pictures of actual pet rabbits in poses that look menacing (such as giving a DeathGlare towards the camera).
* ''Website/SCPFoundation'':
** [[https://scp-wiki.wikidot.com/scp-1903 SCP-1903]] is a PlayboyBunny escort who [[WasOnceAMan was cursed]] into becoming a HumanoidAbomination with a bloody paper mâché-styled rabbit mask replacing her face.
** One component of SCP-[[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-2999 2999.]] The desktop that SCP-2999-A uses prominently features an illustration of some kind of disturbing rabbit girl staring into your soul with a toothy, bloodied smile. Clicking to enlarge the image doesn't do much, except that it reveals the image to be animated, showing the desktop very quickly change to a horrifying image of a skeletal, rabbit-like, metallic-limbed HumanoidAbomination standing in a darkened room soaked in blood, before reverting back to the original desktop image.
* Till from the creepypastas of ''[[https://www.youtube.com/user/ProyectoCabra Proyecto Cabra]]'' is an [[AnimalisticAbomination Animalistic Abomination]] shapped like a rabbit as a twisted joke by his creator, he also happens to be his Mythos's [[GodOfEvil God of Evil]], a more complete info [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8vx0BA3yc_w&t=812s "here at post 1"]] if you can understand Spanish.
* Literature/{{Zoofights}} VI's Hare Metal AKA [[spoiler: Black Rabbath]] AKA [[spoiler: Thumperstruck]].
--->"Hare Metal is an [[CosmicHorror eldritch]] blend of British steel and forbidden rural energies that, frankly, we do not understand."
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[[folder:Real Life]]
* Bunnies [[http://www.inquisitr.com/525844/bunnies-attacking-cars-at-denver-airport/ have attacked parked cars]] at a Denver Airport.
* A [[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swamp_rabbit swamp rabbit]] - a species of large cottontail rabbit that is a very strong swimmer - once tried to climb onto then-President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat. Contrary to popular belief, Carter shooed it away using an oar before it got the chance to actually attack him. The White House Press Office tried to keep the pictures out of press view, for fear that the image of the President trying to defend himself from a rabbit would be fodder for late-night comedians to ridicule the President. Instead, when the photos ''did'' leak, the press ended up portraying Carter as heroically defending himself against a "killer rabbit" (''Monty Python and the Holy Grail'' had recently been released stateside, incidentally).
* There was one time when Napoleon won a major victory, and he ordered a rabbit hunt in celebration. Depending on the source, there were either several hundred or up to three thousand rabbits brought to the grounds and set loose, but what they all agree happen was that they made a beeline for the Emperor and continued to mob him despite bullets, riding crops and horsewhips being used by his hunting party to dissuade them. Eventually, the scourge of Europe was forced to jump in his coach and hightail it out of there. The problem was that instead of capturing wild rabbits, the man who organised the hunt used farm-raised animals who, far from being scared of humans, expected to be fed when they saw them and were quite happy to approach en masse.
* Arctic hares have occasionally been sighted feeding on the eviscerated remains of caribou. Subverted in that the caribou in question had been killed by wolves or bears, and the hares were merely scrounging plant matter spilled out from the dead animals' torn-open guts.
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