Killer Rabbit - Television Tropes & Idioms

The Puchuus in Excel Saga. They resemble adorable teddy bears, but plan to take over Earth by any means necessary, even if it means blowing up major population centers.
- They also have a piss-ugly Game Face when struck and/or in pain, which happen to look like Golgo 13's.
Galaxy Angel had a cute little pink hamster that was in fact a bioweapon that is capable of destroying worlds. It also had a penchant for exhibiting Glowing Eyes Of Doom and blowing things up with energy blasts from its mouth.
Ryo-Ohki from the Tenchi Muyo and company anime can transform from a cute little bunny-cat thing into a spaceship (or a mecha, depending on which permutation you're watching).
- How about the knife-shooting stuffed animals in Yuzuha's dimension from the second movie? Though that's borderline Nightmare Fuel as well.
In Paranoia Agent, one should stay VERY wary of the cute, pink, cuddly little plushie Maromi, who is nothing more than a powerful Chess Master.
- Don't you mean "nothing less than..." ?
Azumanga Daioh deserves mention for Kamineko, a.k.a. the Biting Cat. While he hasn't killed anyone, the facade of a cute, irresistible little gray kitty that poor Sakaki can't resist petting hides unearthly speed, a rotten attitude, and a set of teeth that resemble nothing so much as a bear trap. His life's mission seams to be to continually tease and beat up poor Sakaki. Most cats seem to attack her out of fright, but Kamineko tends to seek her out with malicious intent.
Kirara from Inuyasha is usually a small and cute kitty, but can transform into a giant, flying, saber-toothed, flaming version of itself at will.
The first episode of Slayers REVOLUTION introduced Pokota, a small creature entirely suitable as the possible Non Human Sidekick... until he was upgraded (almost immediately) to The Rival status with the town-destroying Dragon Slave spell in its arsenal.
- It's later revealed that his true form is a Cute Shotaro Prince of a lost kingdom.
- And let's not forget that the first season gave us Tiiba, who just looked like a chicken but was, in reality, a massively powerful Monster once he put on his mask.
Japoro from Shamanic Princess, being a ferret-like creature who is also the Battle Butler to Tiara.
Reinforce Zwei and Agito from Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha. Their adorable, six-inch tall stature belies the fact that they were designed to be weapons and can encase you in ice or launch giant fireballs even without their masters.
- And while we're on it? About half the freakin' cast could probably count. That adorable little girl in the frilly dress who hangs around with the talking ferret is not to be messed with.
Yachiru from Bleach might be one. While not yet shown in combat, she's a pink-haired six-year-old seeming Cheerful Child who's the vice-captain of a division of Blood Knights, was raised from a baby by the baddest Blood Knight of them all, and can scare grown men with her Battle Aura.
Rosine from Berserk appears as a cute little fairy with butterfly wings, antennae, a furry collar and a butterfly's proboscis on her forehead. But she's also an Apostle. Her proboscis is a Whip Sword, the dust of her wings is highly poisonous and if you really piss her off, she'll simply turn into a giant moth moth capable of supersonic speed among other things...
Full Metal Panic's Bonta-Kun, the series mascot which Sousuke Sagara just so happened to convert into Japan's most adorable little harbringer of destruction. And God help you if you ever have to face more than one...
Cat Shit One (Known in the US as Apocalypse Meow) replaces people with animals depending on their nationality. Americans are rabbits. Animated Series Trailer here
Hiyokokko from Tokimeki Memorial ~ Only Love definitely qualifies, though she doesn't actually kill anyone.
Satchii from Dennou Coil looks like a giant, squishy beanbag chair with a big smiley face that announces its own arrival with a bright, "Me Satchii!" every time. It also fires laser beams that kills kids' digital pets and breaks expensive cybernetic glasses.
See the ridiculously cute lion and kitty in this picture from Katekyo Hitman Reborn? Well, they sometimes turn into this and this.
Mappy from Dragon Half. Looks like a cat-sized ball of mousy fluff, but can spontaneously transform into a huge, bear-like hulk. Though admittedly this editor has yet to see it actually attack — just the threat of bodily harm seems to suffice.
Played straight when Hayate buys Maria-san a cute little bunny as a present. She then sees the bunny in its TV show, where it declares, "I am Muffy! An assassin from hell! Ok! Today, we'll happily cause chaos!"
Kyo Kara Maoh's tiny, yellow, and bred-by-humans Bearbees (which are actually mud with magic on it) will turn into fierce, dark colored beasts that try to kill you if you get them wet. If they're not wet, hey, they're freaking adorable and cuddly.
- Those are magical counterfit bearbees. Real bearbees are cute, huggable, completely non-dangerous, endangered, and their dung makes high-quality paint.
Mugetsu from xxxHolic is an adorable tube fox who takes to Watanuki and can be seen glomping him, slithering through his clothing, or hanging around his neck - until Watanuki is in danger, at which point he transforms into a normal Kitsune who can detect evil spirits and produce fire.
For a literal example, in Digimon, Terriermon transforms into a trigger-happy rabbit.
- And of course even earlier in Digimon Adventure: Patamon digivolve into... Angemon!
Kirby: Right Back At Ya! features the Devil (or Demon) Frog. Not quite a killer, but instead a mind possessor who infects the victim and forces it to go on a rampage (also increasing its physical capacities by quite a bit). An infected Kirby, due to his normal innocence, merely becomes a mean trickster bent on breaking everything and anything he sees. A (voluntarily) infected Dedede, on the other hand, becomes even more evil than normally, and comes dangerously close to killing Kirby.
Pet Shop Of Horrors features another literal example in its first episode "Daughter," which involves a rich couple that recently lost their daughter Alice paying a visit to Count D's eponymous shop. Count D sells them a very rare species of rabbit that looks just like Alice. Things go well for the couple until the mother concedes to the rabbit-Alice's request for sugar instead of the water and vegetables indicated in the rules of the contract. It goes very badly for the couple VERY quickly. It turns out that feeding sweets to this rabbit will cause it to "give birth" to (read: get eaten from within by) dozens of flesh-eating killer bunnies that go forth, kill, eat, and "give birth" to more killer bunnies until the town is overrun.

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In the Marvel Universe, a powerful hero is Squirrel Girl, a young woman with the powers of squirrel-agility and control. Thanos, Dr. Doom, MODOK, and Deadpool, among others, have all (somehow) fallen to her.
- To be fair, her defeat of Dr. Doom and Deadpool were the only ones that weren't in joke comics.
  - As Monkey Joe would say "it's canon fanboy!"
  - The fact that's said by a talking squirrel who breaks the fourth wall sort of deflates it.
  - Squirrel Girl is Marvel's Lethal Joke Character.
Also in a Marvel Vein, during Civil War (specifically Runaways and Young Avengers crossover) when the Young Avengers arrive to find the Runaways lair, they meet 11 year old Molly Hayes outside. Due to a mix up Molly assumes they are bad guys and 'hides under their car'. Now by 'hide under their car' I mean find a better place to lift the car and throw it at them. Yeah, they were not really expecting that.
- Well before, when Wolverine scared her at the front of a cathedral, the comic cuts from him starting to threaten her to shut her up...to him flying across the street outside.
In both the animated Sonic The Hedgehog and the Archie comic series, Bunnie Rabbot has brute strength coming from being a cyborg, although you probably won't see her killing anything more objectionable than a few (dozen) robots.
Nextwave features some "Unusual Weapons of Mass Destruction", including the Drop Bears - koala bears trained to kill, which are deployed by throwing them out of an aircraft. "Cuddly widdle bears of DEATH?!"
- This is based on a joke played by Australians on tourists. See the Real Life section below.
There was a Doctor Who Magazine Fourth Doctor comic, "The Star Beast", where the villain was named "Beep the Meep", a wide-eyed alien ball of fluff who just happened to be an unrepentant omnicidal bloodthirsty intergalactic war criminal. Beep proved memorable enough that he got two followup strips and an audio drama.
In The DCU, there is a Rival group to the Green Lantern Corps called The Red Lantern Corps, whose rings are powered by rage. One of the members of the Red Lanterns is a cute-looking kitty... and he is just as dangerous as any other member. Don't fall for his "innocent" act...
Knights Of The Dinner Table. There was the 'squirrel as a fifth level' monster from the strip "The Most Dangerous (Small) Game". Also llamas in B.A.'s campaign have horns and gore people.
Twisted Toyfare Theater usually brings in unpopular characters in order to gruesomely kill them for a Take That. The Ewoks, however, instead became a race of vicious, psychopathic Killer Rabbits who dismember, kill, and eat anything that crosses them.

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The child-like alien miners in Galaxy Quest had surprisingly sharp teeth. Guy, being Genre Savvy, provides a Lampshade Hanging about how they may seem cute now but they'll turn out to be nasty and there'll suddenly be tons more... Yep, right on cue. Guy then notes that he hates being right.
Early in Barbarella, the title character is similarly menaced by a group of dolls whose mouths show very pointy teeth. Later in the movie, she is nearly killed by vicious killer budgies (parakeets).
The Mogwai in Gremlins, except the original Gizmo; fluffy and adorable, they are cruel tricksters who eventually turn into hideous (yet still somewhat cute) monsters which go on a deadly rampage. Indeed, every imaginable variant on this trope seems to run through most, if not all, Gremlin folklore.
Dennis Nedry in Jurassic Park gets killed by a fairly harmless-looking dilophosaurus... after it spits poison in his face, then ambushes him when he tries to get back to his truck.
- It should be noted that dilophosaurs probably couldn't do that. Then again, we really have no way of knowing But they certainly did not have those nifty-looking frills.
  - No, there is a way to know. Lizards with neck frills have ridiculously complex hyoid (tongue) bones that help support the frill. This is present both in lizards like anoles and in the infamous frilled lizard. Dilophosaurus did not have this.
  - Also, Dilophosaurs were much bigger than the one in the movie. Which is ironic, considering that the diminutive Velociraptors, actually the size of sheep and covered in feathers, were sized up by Rule Of Scary. In the movie, the "Velociraptors" looked more like Deinonychus, a big raptor (though related to Velociraptor) found in Montana (Velociraptor is from Asia). A more realistic raptor◊ would've been the perfect Killer Rabbit.
  - And they're fluffy! Fluffy raptors of DEATH!
  - Well, there are small, harmless-near-cute-looking Proscompnagthus in Jurassic Park: The Lost World, whose packs is enough to turn a male, healthy, adult Caucasian (Not that I hate Caucasians) into...
  - Did you find him?
  - ...Just the parts they didn't like.
Night of the Lepus, a movie about giant killer rabbits. It is intended as a horror film.
The Trope Namer White Rabbit in Monty Python And The Holy Grail. (Ironically Arthur and his knights are warned repeatedly by Tim about the power of the rabbit. They don't listen and he laments how no one listens to him because "it's just a harmless little bunny!")
- "Look at the bones!"
The gopher in Caddyshack.
Cats And Dogs had their antagonist Mr Tinkles—the cute cat who's also a Diabolical Master Mind.
Let's not forget Screamers. Can I come with you?
This troper made a film for a high school project that was inspired by the Monty Python killer rabbit with, obviously, a genetically altered killer rabbit as the antagonist. Can be seen in two parts on Youtube. The first part is here. Trust me though, it's only for the brave of heart.
The Vampire Pomeranian in Blade: Trinity named Pac-Man.
Hannibal King: You made a goddamn vampire... Pomeranian?!?
In Mom And Dad Save The World, Dick Nelson encounters a group of cute mushroom-like creatures which appear to be friendly... until he tries to pet one. It opens a huge mouth with sharklike teeth and almost takes off his hand.
Donnie Darko - the main character sees a demonic rabbit named Frank.
Ewoks. Yes, they're cute. Yes, they're fuzzy and huggable and all that. Yes, they're adorable minature bears. Think about that one. Miniature bears! With astonishing engineering skill for a neolithic technology, extensive knowledge of sophisticated warfare, and a willingness to kill and eat other sapient beings. Think of them as armed, sapient, and highly sophisticated bipedal giant koalas who regard you as potential food, and you'll start to understand exactly why the Ewoks qualify for this trope.
- Still don't believe us? Go read Apocalypse Endor (Star Wars Tales 14). That's right — Endor is The Empire's 'Nam.
The titular character in the Leprechaun series.
Mom & Dad Save the World! There's a veritable truckload of these in the form of adorable mushrooms!

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The Plague Star, by George R.R. Martin (of A Song Of Ice And Fire fame) featured creatures called "hellkittens." These were much like the Arduin "killkittens," (see below) except with paralytic venom in acidic saliva rather than in hollow claws.
Another literal killer rabbit is the Miraj (also rendered Al-Mi'raj, or various other variations on the two) of Islamic poetry. A yellow rabbit with a single large horn, it can kill and eat things much larger than itself. It appears in early editions of Dungeons And Dragons — with a third-party company porting it to 3e — where some of them have Psychic Powers. It also appears in Dragon Quest where, due to the translators apparently flipping coins, it's sometimes called the "bunnicorn".
Margaret Atwood's Oryx And Crake includes wolvogs, creatures that look like friendly dogs, but act like aggressive wolves.
- It's worse than that. 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.
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.
Norska in the Dragaera series are carnivorous rabbits that eat dragons.
In Terry Goodkind's 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.
- This was no chicken! This was evil manifest!
In the Robert Heinlein juvenile Tunnel in the Sky, 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.
EULALIA!
- And that's just the badgers. The other species like hares, mice, otters, squirrels, hedgehogs, and even moles are also quite capable of fucking up the shit of any vermin that threaten them.
- Although a badger isn't exactly in a Killer Rabbit scenario when what it's fighting is a rat.
Gen. Woundwort. As opposed to Bigwig, who is One Bad Ass Rabbit.
The bunnydogs from The War Against The Chtorr series by David Gerrold appear to be the only friendly Chtorrans encountered by the humans. Unfortunately they also 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 theorises that the excessively cute bunnydogs are meant to be the equivilent for humans.
Mr. Rabbit from Rainbows End qualifies as "the next bad thing" in the eyes of one expert character. The previous "bad thing" was a plaque 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.
The political satire The Year of the Angry Rabbit by Russell Braddon. The rabbits are infected with a highly toxic (to humans) strain of myxomatosis. Rather than trying to wipe them out however, the Australian government is more than happy to possess the most feared biological weapon in the world. Was the inspiration behind the classic B Movie Night of the Lepus.
Wig-wigs. 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.
Most of the "Furies" from the Star Trek novel series "Invasion" 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.
Treecats in David Weber's Honorverse 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.
In China Mieville's The Scar, the head of Armada's underwater police force is a sadistic dolphin named Bastard John.

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In one episode of Xena Warrior Princess, sidekick Gabrielle must fend off a vicious attack by what is essentially the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
The original Basil Brush.
The Furbie-esque Nubbins in Sanctuary are a variant of this—they're only dangerous in large groups and when being directly attacked, but their extremely high reproductive rate and lack of predators outside their natural environment make them potentially highly destructive to the ecosystem. Unfortunately, they're a Hive Mind far brighter than they seem, and are more than willing to sacrifice individual lives to escape and spread.

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Synth-Rock band The Birthday Massacre seem quite fond of this trope, as a cartoonish, silhouetted killer rabbit is featured prominently as the band's main logo
The titular critters in the Frank Hayes filk song Little Fuzzy Animals are examples of this trope.

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In the the radio show Old Harrys Game, Satan finds the most evil being in the world is a Dolphin. Called Chuckles.
In one episode of A Prairie Home Companion, cowboys Dusty and Lefty come across "The Free-Range Chicken", which they then engage, and nearly lose to, in a gunfight.

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The original Arduin Grimoire, a very early third-party supplement for Dungeons And Dragons, included among its bestiary a creature called the "killkitten". Resembling normal kittens, these beasts were actually cunning pack predators whose hollow claws could inject a paralytic poison. Their normal procedure was to set one of their number as bait to attract a potential victim by acting like an injured kitten, while the remainder of the pack lurked, hidden, nearby. When the unsuspecting schmuck picked the "kitten" up, it would paralyze him with its venom, after which the rest of the pack would swarm and eat him.
- Somewhat related, in the 3rd edition of Dungeons And Dragons, due to quirks in the system, a common house cat poses a serious threat to the average first level NPC and some of the physically weaker first level player characters. Given the large numbers of claws and teeth possessed by the common house cat, they would pose a serious threat to the average RealLife NPC and player characters.
- Your standard adult domestic housecat in 3.5E Dn D is also much more dangerous than one would think-between their bite and claw attacks, cats are entirely capable of fighting and killing entry-level characters.
- Two words: Tucker's Kobolds.
Deadlands: The Weird West features jackalopes, which are evil and carnivorous versions of the infamous "rabbits with antlers" from Wild West folklore. They kill their prey by cursing them with bad luck, then stalking them until they suffer a fatal accident.
GURPS IOU includes lethal versions of rats and squirrels.
The Unglued expansion set from Magic The Gathering gave us the Infernal Spawn of Evil, a powerful beast from the darkest pits of hell. This is what it looks like. Not to be outdone, the Unhinged set introduced its even stronger child, the demon known only as the Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil.
- Then there's that other Unhinged set card, When Fluffy Bunnies Attack.
- The real "killer rabbit" of the Magic world is the ''squirrel'. Some squirrel-themed cards, such as "Deranged Hermit" and "Squirrel Nest" have seen extensive Tournament Play.
- Also, Jackalope Herd. A bunch of bunnies with antlers, amazing combat stats for their mana cost, and a drawback (returning to your hand when you play another spell) that can be turned into an advantage fairly easily.
This troper once participated in a game of Dungeons And Dragons in which a party of first-level characters was slaughtered by rabbits. Said lapines had +4 attack/damage bonuses against first-level PCs but were otherwise perfectly normal.
- There's a long-standing semi-joke that an ordinary housecat can destroy a first-level wizard in Dungeons And Dragons. This thread over at the Order Of The Stick forums didn't make it past the first page before being hijacked by Snuggles the Death Kitty. (Later, Snuggles ascended to godhood).
- The 3.5E Monster Manual IV introduced the Skiurid-an evil squirrel from the Plane of Shadow, and generally regarded as one of the worst monsters Dn D ever introduced. Then an infamous column on the Wizards Of The Coast Dn D section came along, specifically looking for ways to make Skiurids lethal. The troper can attest that the squirrels are quite capable of bringing even a mid-level party of well-equipped adventurers to their knees.
- The giant shrew, a critter from Basic D&D, looked like a normal-sized grayish rat, yet could do a pretty good Vorpal Bunny impression on low-level adventurers.
- Quite a few fey arguably qualify-the well known nymph, for example, has one ability you don't hear about too often: if you happen to catch a sight of the nymph naked, she can force you to make a fortitude save or die on the spot. Other kinds of fey are more "harmlessly cute" than the nymph, but tend to have a wide range of powerful magical abilities.
  - Very few fey are harmless. In fact plenty of them will to horrible things to you given the chance.
Warhammer 40000, a setting known for a habit of Everything Trying To Kill You cropping up everywhere, brings us the Catachan Barking Toad: a large, sad-looking amphibian sometimes dubbed the "Ronery Toad". If attacked, hurt or even surprised, it explodes into a cloud of obscenely virulent toxins, killing absolutely everything for miles around and poisoning the earth so that nothing will ever grow there again.
- Which raises the question of how Catachan manages to be a jungle planet when it's stuffed to the gills with toads that render acres of land into blasted wasteland if you so much as give them a particularly mean look.
  - Because everything else on Catachan is just as mean.
Plenty of the weapons in the (coincidentally-named) Killer Bunnies And The Quest For The Magic Carrot game fall under this. Included:
- Quite Irascible Diffractable Cheese Balls
- (Bitter-Sweet) Chocolate Covered Anti-Matter Raisins
- Europan Robotic Titanium Termites
Munchkin has a level 2 monster that's basically a rabbit with a switchblade, where the Bad Stuff is "you die" (yes, a literal Killer Rabbit; not surprising since he's actually Bun-Bun, the Sluggy Freelance character mentioned below). One time in six, it turns into a level 15 monster, as "That One Rabbit From That One Movie", and it's too late to get help.

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An almost literal example from Odin Sphere is Prince Cornelius. He looks all cute and stuff, but easily he'll hand you your ass with his Zero like fighting style.
The slimes from Dragon Quest. Most of them actually aren't that dangerous, but given how incredibly adorable and harmless they look, it doesn't take a lot for them to be much more dangerous than they look. Tell me you'd think this could do any harm.◊
Similarly, the Rabites from the Seiken Densetsu or Mana series, which are sort of blobby killer rabbits◊. Although the yellow ones are little more than a nuisance, even to a small child, some of the other colors really are quite dangerous, especially the black ones.
- The Black Rabite, one of the adorable little creatures mentioned above, with the respective color, is the most dangerous thing in the game. It looks like a small black bunny slipper until it opens a can of whoop-ass on you.
The Fairy you can recruit in Romancing SaGa 3 is a very versatile character, good with Spears, and Bows.
The knife-carrying, explosive and possessed-by-the-souls-of-criminals penguins known as Prinnies from most of the Nippon Ichi games since Disgaea. And as if the regular ones weren't bad enough, the final ultimate form of Overlord Baal, the most powerful Bonus Boss in all said games is a prinny as well.
- Before even prinnies, we had Eryngi, cute little mushroom creatures that call up mushrooms to attack and say 'gii!' a lot. One of them actually demands that you kneel down and beg for your lives lest "your blood will rain on me, gii!" I don't need to say who.
- Prince Laharl counts as well. Given that he looks like a perpetually peeved Cute Shotaro Boy and doesn't even graze four and a half feet in height, it is very easy to forget that he's powerful enough to destroy an entire planet on an angry whim.
  - And in Prinny: Can I Really Be the Hero?, he's a Prinny, too. This is because Prinny follows the normal ending of Disgaea, while the other Disgaea games and all games in which Laharl appears as a Bonus Boss consider the good ending to be canon.
  - And closes it, making possible for both normal and good endings to be the real ending.
- That's a quirk of the game style—almost every character in your party in Disgaea looks perfectly cute and harmless, anything from Little Miss Badass and Double Agent Overlord-Wannabe Etna to any random unit such as the ever-moe archers can be level 9000 and able to take on the rulers of universes while still looking like twelve year olds. So, basically, in Disgaea anything, anything can be a Killer Rabbit. Caution is advised while in the Netherworld.
  - This is actually a quirk of Nippon Ichi games in general. Many of the characters and enemies are simply adorable, but very, very deadly.
Sackboy. He's adorable, perpetually happy and silly, and wants to pal around with his friends. He's also a reality altering God who can create whole worlds with pure thought, alter the state of any object, fly, control time, and has a mean right hook.
The old adventure-game series, Legend of Kyrandia, has the Kyrandian Killer Squirrels. In the third installment, Malcolm's Revenge, there's one on the very first screen—allowing you to produce one of the fastest Game Overs in videogame history, simply by teasing the squirrel twice—at which point it'll leap at your face, kill you, and drag off your corpse to feed its young.
The Tonberry and all its variations in the Final Fantasy series. Its first moves are to walk slowly towards one of the heroes, until it gets near enough and it "Doinks" him. Then you start taking it seriously.
- Lampshaded by Legendary Frog, when Cloud thinks that he can take on the cute little Tonberry, despite the Narrator's warnings telling him that this would be a good time to use the "Run Away" option.
- Also apropos to this, Final Fantasy XI features a number of cute-but-deadly monsters, including rabbits, composing families with level tiers reaching up to very high levels in most cases. Rabbits are one of the more powerful mob-families in general, leading to the saying: "No matter how powerful you are, somewhere in the world there is a rabbit that can kick your ass."
  - From the same game, the Tarutaru race are adorably short and cute; with adorable pointed ears and button noses to boot. They're every bit as powerful as any other player race, though, and especially skilled in magic. Of particular note is NPC Professor Shantotto, who flat-out scares a good number of the heroes and villains in Dissidia
- Mog from Final Fantasy VI can do quite a bit of damage with his dances. This◊ ad◊ for the SNES version of the game is a bit of an exaggeration, but just a bit...
- Final Fantasy XII has several classes of cutesy enemies, including mandragoras, onions, cacti, and some fiends that actually look like rabbits. The cute enemies your party encounters early in the game generally will not attack unless you attack them first, but later versions are more hostile and can inflict lots of nasty status effects. The king of them all is Fury, a cute little boss bunny who lives in the Necrohol of Nabudis.
  - There's also an enemy that's actually called the "Vorpal Bunny."
- Cactuars. They look like cute little cactus people. but they have an attack that can deal 1,000 damage, no matter what. Even worse is that some games have a second version that can do 10,000 damage, more than the normal HP cap, meaning instant death to anything it hits.
- In Final Fantasy V, there's a cave where you are attacked by "nut eaters"- squirrel monsters, who are not very dangerous, having only 1 hit point each... but frequently, you'll run into a "skull eater" instead, which looks identical (except for being black) and who is powerful enough to kill your whole party! (Ironically, it still only has one hit point, so if you manage to penetrate its defense, it goes down in one hit.)
- Chocobos can kick some ass too. Not so surprising really, with those big clawed feet.
The Cuccos in the Legend Of Zelda games are perfectly harmless chickens for the most part. If attacked, although they are clearly being hit and react with distress, they suffer no ill effect. If attacked persistently, the Cucco will begin to hit back, and an endless swarm of other, equally invulnerable Cuccos will come to its aid, pursuing the player and attempting to peck him to death.
- Their chicks are also masters of deception. In The Minish Cap, the bouncing yellow babies with their cute chirping noises appear to be completely harmless. That is, until you turn Minish-sized and enter Anju's house, where about fifteen or twenty chicks will take notice of you and chase you around in an attempt to eat you.
In Mortal Kombat 3 (and the Ultimate version), the characters have special finishing moves called "Animalities" where they turn into animals and attack their opponent. In Ultimate, the character Kitana turns into a white rabbit and then attacks the enemy in some savage manner.
The creature from The Last Guardian. This adorable thing that makes you love it just from the trailer also managed to splatter an armored guard against a wall with a swing of its claw.
The insanely difficult Bonus Boss in Neverwinter Nights 2: Mask of the Betrayer is a giant badger.
- Badgers are actually incredibly vicious and dangerous, a giant one even moreso.
  - This may be connected to a DND joke where people found a line the badgers monster manual entry highly amusing: "THIS CREATURE CANNOT END ITS RAGE VOLUNTARILY." http://fearthebadger.ytmnd.com/
The Hares from Monster Rancher, in a very literal sense. They're Glass Cannons who can deal very high amounts of damage. The Pixies are also pretty bad: Cute Monster Girls with Squishy Wizard powers. They can also breathe enormous sheets of flame, suck you of your Life Energy, and claw your friggin' eyes out.
In the MMORPG Asheron's Call, the second most powerful monster in the entire game was the level-666 White Rabbit, nicknamed "Pookie" by players. It was not uncommon for Pookie to slaughter entire parties of high-level characters using spells such as "Bunny Smite".
In the secret quest of Dungeon Siege II, you fight Killer Prairie Dogs.
- In the secret quest of the first game, you fight Killer Chickens.
Arguably, many Pokemon would fall under this. Several of the incredibly powerful "legendaries", like Mew and Jirachi, are certainly small and harmless-looking, although many of them (Mew especially) are also relatively harmless. For that matter, many Mons series critters and cute anime mascots fall into this trope.
- However, in the game, Mew has good stats and can learn every available technique.
- And we can't forget Pikachu itself. Those rosy cheeks pack enough power to kill darn near anything.
- Lets not forget FEAR, a special setup of a level 1 Pokemon that will take out at least 1 of the opponents
  - The only FEAR that can even remotely work against a good player is Swinub, however. I mean, THE WEATHER can remove the threat of a FEAR
  - FEAR only works on non-ghosts. Substitute also ruins it. Probably the thing that discourages it most is entry hazard, though (and Stealth Rock is pretty much omnipotent in any competitive matches). Cleffa is probably the best Endeavor user out there due to Magic Guard that negates those pesky passive damage, though it doesn't get priority and has to rely on weather to do the actual killing.
- Best example: Manaphy. That thing seems so harmless, but when it was recently tested in Over Used, it centralized the game so much that it was banned again. Basically, it is harmless without the rain, but as soon as, say, Kyogre sets up an infinite rainstorm, that thing becomes a little demon!
Commander Keen 4 features an enemy that looks like a teeny-tiny green ball that sorta looks like a particularly cute, though living, pet rock. Approach it and a gigantic mouth extends from it, killing you instantly (although if you know what you're doing, you can paralyze it in the split-second that it takes for the mouth to reach you).
- The above is actually described as a plant in the manual. There are actual deadly living rocks in the game, and plenty other creatures that look either goofy or cute, but can kill you with a mere (venomous) touch. Or by breathing fire. Or pushing you into a death trap. Or gobbling you up.
In the MMORPG Ever Quest there are certain fish considered sacred by a god. A god who sometimes poses as one of the fish. Attack them at your extreme peril.
World Of Warcraft parodies this trope in a Warlock class quest. After fulfilling the desires of a clearly insane Gnome warlock NPC, he attempts so summon a powerful demon... but gets a giant chicken named "El Pollo Grande" (The Great Chicken) instead which, despite its appearance, isn't much a challenge.
Kirby himself. Adorable little pink puffball with a black hole for a stomach.
- Don't forget Scarfy. Try to have Kirby inhale this cute little dog, and he gets ugly and chases you around until he explodes.
Pretty much every enemy in Maple Story falls into this trope. As a rule, the cuter the creature is the faster it will kill you.
- There are tons of high-leveled monsters that would like to object to that, but examples do exist, especially when low-leveled. See: Slime King, Mushmom, (Dark) Yeti and Pepe, and Bob the Snail. Be especially careful with that last one.
- The most recent addition to the Korean version is Pink Bean, a pink, Pikachu-like boss that eats, sleeps, and plants flowers during the first half of the fight, and then starts killing half of your party members off in a single attack.
- Don't forget the Elemental Kittens of Doom (Jr. Cellion, Sakura Cellion, Jr. Lioner, and Jr. Grupin). They act all pathetic when getting beat up and all but they mob like crazy and can spell doom for those who are more than a few levels below their Level 33.
The Rabbids from Rayman: Raving Rabbids aren't quite literal Killer Rabbits (their violence tends more towards slapstick Amusing Injuries), but they're still violently insane and insanely violent.
- And they're trying to take over the Earth and television. They're succeeding.
The Orz from Star Control II seem relatively harmless: they talk funny, and resemble disembodied heads with tentacles and parrotfish-like faces. But their ships are actually quite powerful. And then the game starts dropping hints that they're extensions of a sinister extradimensional monster and were responsible for the disappearance of the Androsynth... and if you continue to pester them with questions about the Androsynth, the Orz won't hesitate to silence you violently.
The Memaus in Startopia are cute little cat-like creatures that wander around the station. They eat litter, and any guests who pet one get a bonus to happiness. The problem is that, if it's been well-fed, it simultaneously infects the petter with a parasite which will transform the guest into a decidedly not cute "Skrasher" which cuts a swathe of destruction and can absorb a terrifying amount of damage before keeling over.
- And if your security can't kill the Skrasher fast enough, it explodes... into more Memaus.
Earthbound brings us the Clumsy Robot, whose combat actions include sweeping up dustbunnies, picking up nuts and bolts that jiggled loose from its body, eating bologna sandwiches, accidentally firing party-devastating beams and missiles while tripping over its own two feet and being completely unkillable by all normal forms of attack. The party eventually has to be bailed out by the Runaway Five... Who simply run in while it's distracted and turn it off.
Ratchet. Small, fuzzy, and carries around more firepower than even the Pentagon could dream of.
- Also from the second game in the Ratchet And Clank series, we have the Protopets—cute, Tribble like critters that have rows of shark-like teeth, a nasty temperment, and the tendency to eat anything or anyone they encounter. Oh, and they have the reproductive ability of the original Tribbles as well.
The Precursors from the Jak and Daxter games, the most powerful beings in the universe, are revealed towards the end of Jak 3 to be Ottsels, just like Daxter. Ever wondered why you never saw one?
In Earthworm Jim, there is a part in the level "Down The Tubes" where you ride on top of a huge hamster that can eat pretty much anything.
- The big hamster? That was the least of the harmless-looking things in Earthworm Jim that can beat you to a bloody pulp. On that same level are small red creatures about half the size of Jim that resist gunfire and if he approaches too close, they slam him against the ground. In a later level, a slime-dwelling creature dwells at the bottom of a massive chasm that looks like a little tan balloon with a smile unless you get too close to it. If you do, it will swiftly start to resemble a tyrannosaur. Then, of course, there's quite possibly the reigning king of this trope (screw seniority) Peter Puppy. A little, pink puppy who, if he gets hurt, changes into a massive, purple, spikey monster with lots of teeth and drains a third of your heath as it literally chews you up and spits you out.
The deadliest monsters in Valkyrie Profile are neither dragons nor demons. No, the deadliest creatures in the game are... hamsters. And they will slaughter your party if you don't know how to handle them. In the Bonus Dungeon of both games, there is a possibility that you may fight hamsters right before the Bonus Boss. ....it's actually worth killing the Angel Iseria Queen, Bonus Boss of the game, 10 times to receive the Angel Slayer as it may give you a chance to hurt the hamsters.
Similarly, in another one of tri-Ace's games, Star Ocean: Till the End of Time, the Sooties (little balls of soot with eyes) are by far the most difficult regular monsters you'll ever meet. They're insanely fast and strong, and due to their tiny size are really difficult to hit. Incidentally, the first Star Ocean includes a "Vorpal Bunny" as one of its enemies. Though it does look cutesey, it's also twice the size of a human, so not all that cute.
This is pretty much the entire point behind the Gaia Online MMO: zOMG!. Yes, that is actually the name. The basic plot is that relatively harmless inanimate objects such as garden gnomes, cotton balls, and cloves of garlic are somehow becoming animated. A literal case of Everything Trying To Kill You, if you will.
- The result can be best summed up in a promotional poster featuring a musclebound, heavily armored Orc trapped up a tree by a Lawn Gnome, "Cute? Cute never tried to eat your leg."
- Not to mention those damn Cherry Fluffs, toward the beginning. After easily dispatching three other varieties of Fluffs, you might try your luck on one of these pink fluffy whatsits, only to have the entire thing blow up in your face.
- The Garlic Animated (a chubby garlic bulb with feet and Moe Moe eyes) might be even cuter than the Fluffs (cotton balls with Moe Moe eyes), but its breath weapon is a force to be reckoned with.
- Nobody's even mentioned the fact that Gaia's original Killer Rabbit, Grunny, is now piloting Humongous Mecha submarines in the last two areas? For shame, fellow Gaiafen.
- Arguably, Frank. He's effectively a male Meganekko of the "shy sweet Hollywood Nerd" variety. And he's a Mad Scientist working with the Big Bad to destroy Gaia For Science!
Braid: Killer Rabbits squared. Or cubed. Not only are these rabbits vicious, but they initially disguise themselves as flowers and sound like cats. No matter what you find cute and charming, there's a good chance Braid's rabbits will undermine it.
Pick a Fire Emblem game. If it's a cute little girl that looks to not belong in a battle, probably looks to be about 10. She's a Dragon, and can eat most enemies faces without ANY worry of being hurt. Otherwise characters like Est (Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light/Mystery of the Emblem/Shadow Dragon) and Nino (Fire Emblem) are Magikarp Power housed and fit this trope too.
- One exception: Mist from Path of Radiance. She looks no more than a petite 13, can't fight until she gets a class change, and then deals substandard damage. Not quite as young or ineffective in Radiant Dawn, but still unimpressive.
  - She's far from ineffective though, although it takes a bit of work and luck, she can be capable of almost soloing whole maps thanks to her high luck.
The MMO La Tale has so many of these that a good rule of thumb is "if it looks cute, run like hell." Especially annoying are the Prring Palette Swaps and Shaggies, which mob you and jump behind you to deliver devastating back attacks.
Kukuri in Magical Battle Arena. She's a Super Deformed sorceress that uses hillariously cute spells and out-adorables every other character by miles (which is saying something since this game is filled to the brim with Magical Girls), but good grief, she is deadly. Between the strawberry firing Strawberry Snake (read: Machine Gun), the smiling pink Mini-Planet (read: Gravity Mines), and the cat totem-pole Long Voiced Cat (read: Mana Drain), all of which she can cast nigh-instantaneously, she's a deceptively dangerous fighter in the battlefield.
Near the end of Wizardry VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge, you may run into faeries in the same areas you're routinly facing down dark crusaders, greater demons, elite samurai squads, and mind flayers. The faeries are much more dangerous than any of the enemies just mentioned, and indeed one of the toughest enemy types in the game. Just be glad these unassuming Demonic Spiders don't show up until around the final dungeon.
Perfect World has antelope. They look almost harmless compared to the typical werewolf or protoplasmic ooze, but they are both aggressive and equipped with a dangerous Mana burn.
Every single monster in the obscure Game Boy Color RPG Li'l Monster is like this. Although some of them are meant to be fierce and imposing, every monster in the game is rendered in a cute, Super Deformed style. Even the final boss, portrayed as a kind of Eldritch Abomination, still has a head that's half the size of his body and dewy eyes.
The Hairy Bulborb from Pikmin 2 has huge blue eyes, a tubby round body, and is covered all over in incredibly soft-looking white fuzz. It's downright cuddly. However, as with any enemy in Pikmin games, if you so much as look at it wrong, the Pik-carnage will be endless.
The Liir from Sword Of The Stars are a playable example. They look like friendly whales and dolphins, and are, whenever possible, Actual Pacifists. However, if you push them to the point that this is no longer possible, it can easily lead to bad things. The game's resident Abusive Precursors, the Suul'Ka did this by enslaving the Liir and threatening to pollute their oceans to an uninhabitable state. There are no more Suul'Ka in this sector of the galaxy, and possibly in the universe; the Liir used their talent for biotechnology to wipe them out with a genetically engineered retro-plague.
You know what rabbits stereotypically like to eat? Carrots. However, as anyone who has ever played Mushroom Men can attest, this is a damn lie. They actually enjoy eating tasty little mushroom boys. Take one step toward one of those Green Rocks-possessed, lapine monstrocities, and just watch how fast you die.
Mortal Kombat: Shaolin Monks, there is a secret, unlisted move called Unfriendly Rabbit. That thing is MURDEROUS! The enemy just sits there and pets it while you get the hell back, and then, out of nowhere, the little lagomorph suddenly tears INTO the enemy. When it says Fatality, the rabbit POPS out of the enemy's... I think it was stomach, sitting there as if nothing happened. Nightmare Fuel if I ever saw it
- And Kung Lao can use a bunny to beat his enemy to death.
The Rampage Rabbit from Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2. After you beat it the first time, it trains itself so that it can beat you afterwards, and is aiming to be the most powerful rabbit.
The original Paper Mario brings us Anti-Guys. So you're in the Shy Guy Toybox, and you've been running around fighting all these Shy Guys. They aren't too hard; there are a ton of different kinds, but most of them have between 7-9 HP and 2-4 attack. Nothing you can't handle. Then you see a Black Shy Guy with a gray mask, who tells you to get away from his treasure chest. You fight him anyway, and he proceeds to kick the stuffing out of you, because he is a Anti-Guy, and has 50HP, and 12 attack. So you learn from your mistake, and give him a Lemon Candy in exchange for his chest. And everything is right with the world. Until Bowser's Castle. You go through most of Bowser's Castle, and you get to a big talking door, who says he won't let you through unless you answer five questions correctly, and if you get three wrong before you get five right, he'll mess you up. So you get three wrong, but figure "What's he gonna do about it? He's just a door." But then, instead of fighting you himself, he releases three Anti-Guys into the room. The Anti-Squad is harder than the final boss and the Bonus Boss, so you almost invariably die in a horrible fashion. These are the only times Anti-Guys are ever encountered, and there is no warning that you are about to get your bum handed to you on a platter made of your friends' bums.
- Good thing the questions are so easy. Still, if you've properly Level Grinded, that could make for an interesting challenge... After all, the lone Anti-Guy in Shy Guy's Toybox wasn't that hard. (Kent C. Koopa was tougher, as he had 70 HP and a legitimate defense score.
- On the topic of the Paper Mario games (first and second), Amayzee Dayzees. Cute, shiny anthropomorphized flowers, have a tendency to just run away from the battle...and when they don't, WATCH OUT!!! 20 HP, 20 attack, and 1 defense. Good luck taking one out, as it'll either run before you get the chance, or kill you.
The Pig Butoh in The World Ends With You. Usually, pigs are cute, harmless Puzzle Mooks. Then you find the second-to-last of them. Unlike his fellows, he can be simply beaten to death... but can attack. And his attack stat is five times the final boss'.
In Dark Cloud 2, Dark Emperor Griffon's true form is that of an adorably cute bunny person. Even the protagonists are surprised. But then the boss battle starts, his true skill as a master mage surfaces, and the infinite power of his Cosmic Keystone shines forth. Hint: Max and Monica embody the Earth and Moon in their Atlamillia. Their foe wields the Sun.
One of Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake's most Guide Dang It obstacles is the MSX cartridge guarded by ' deadly poisonous Zanzibar hamsters'. At this point, Snake's life bar is as long as it can get, and he has shot down a Hind D helicopter, and Metal Gear D's guided missiles only take off about a sixth of his health bar, but touching one of the tiny brown rodents causes instant death. That said, they die in one hit, so once you've worked out the puzzle to lure them from their hiding place you only need to stand in front of the hole and fire.
Cave Story has the Mimigas, friendly anthropomorphic rabbits that are your main allies throughout the game. But, give a Mimiga a red flower to eat, and... they enter a "frenzied" state, which means they mutate into horrific, bloodthirsty, mindless monsters that simply kill and kill and kill until they die. Even the weakest Mimiga becomes powerful enough to be an early-game boss in this form. The Mimigas are aware of this power, but only use it as an absolute last resort.
- And then there's an optional late game boss, Ma Pignon, which is a small, smiling blue mushroom. A smiling blue mushroom that begins rocketing around the room hard enough to cause landslides to fall from the ceiling.
Max from Sam And Max Freelance Police mixes this with Psychopathic Manchild and Ax Crazy to an eeire extent...
The SNES action-RPG The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang features rabbits that will suddenly open their large mouths filled with sharp teeth in order to latch onto the hero. They are called Python Bunnies. This editor only recently got that joke.
The Nintendo DS game The Dark Spire features Killer Rabbits. Ok, bunnies. Close enough. Subversion in that they are not only not that dangerous but are the least dangerous enemies on any floors they appear.
Dwarf Fortress has carp.
Dwarf Fortress Wiki [T]here is only one thing to do if you come across a river full of carp and you don't want your dwarves to die... Run. Run and never look back.
The Chichifa from Star Flight 2. You never see a picture of them. But the Humna Humna trade buoy orbiting their homeworld describes them as "A race of highly prolific, small, furry creatures with long, upright ears and puffy tails. Extremely aggressive, they will swarm to any heat source and attack. Recommend caution."
Baragon in the game Godzilla: Unleashed certainly applies...even if he is a giant dinosaur-thing. Sure, he's the smallest monster in the entire game, and he is adorable in an odd sort of way, but he's more than able to take down his opponents including the biggest monster in the game, Biollante.
In the Guild Wars Eye Of The North expansion, the player can be lured by a cute little bunny into a small hollow filled with cute little bunnies... that then turn into a LOT of nasty Vaettir with a named boss in their midst.
Many of the animals in NetHack; it is quite easy to be "killed by a kitten, while helpless" early in the game, and easier to be killed by the chickens.
Okamiden, a Nintendo DS followup to Okami, stars Chibiterasu, a puppy replacement for Amaterasu. Being the main player character in an Action Adventure game, how couldn't it be a Killer Rabbit?
There's a Killer Rabbit terrain in Populous. Piglet World is a land of pleasant, grassy meadows and flowering trees...and is apparently so deadly that your little piggy people will start dying immediately after leaving their homes.
If you think about it, the Sparda family in Devil May Cry is a family of Pintsized Powerhouse Killer Rabbits for other demons, looking a lot like humans, until they are attacked and survive mortal wounds as if it was nothing, dash under their legs and slice them repeteadly to death. And they even can Devil Trigger. Of course, we can't say much about Sparda himself, but most of this is because Dante, Vergil and Nero are Weak But Skilled. Trish and Lucia also could qualify.
- Then there's Lady...
Arguably anyone from the Touhou Project series. If nobody else, Nazrin qualifies, being a mouse youkai.
Quest For Glory IV has actual killer rabbits. Then there's the old lady's pet kitty in the first game, if you're a thief. And those pesky antwerps...

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The Bunnykill web animation series. A liberal exercise in the trope of Killer Rabbitry (and Katanas Are Just Better).

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Bun-bun from Sluggy Freelance, whom this author is convinced is portrayed by the same bunny with a dye job and his ears let down. He once skeletonized a shark that had the misfortune of attacking him, and went on a holiday-massacring rampage as part of his vendetta against Santa Claus.
- Also in Sluggy Freelance there's "The Evil", 18 (6 + 6 + 6) "demon kittens" that go on a killing spree if they have not had milk in the last 24 hours. Of course, these kittens are literally the spawn of Satan. They show up in two story arcs found here and here.
Keeping on the killer rabbit theme, Coney from Kevin And Kell, the child of a wolf and a fearless rabbit, Coney quickly became the top predator in her family before the age of 1, capable of (for example) eating a turtle right out of its shell while still crawling, and not even breaking stride recently, she saved her grandmother from a cat at least twice the size of her dad, and had reduced it to a pile of bones by the time she turned around to see what happened.
- Her dad, Kevin, might count as well. He's three times the size of any other rabbit we've seen in the strip (including his parents and sister) and mostly muscle. (In fact, he used to have a side job as a masked wrestler).
The superhero Furry Comic Supermegatopia features a number of characters who are more dangerous than they appear. The mute and docile-seeming Zippy the Sloth is able to defeat hulking supervillain Brute Force with one punch◊, while Anti Hero Hell Kitty of the Offenders is a bratty little girl... with razor-sharp claws, super-healing, and a hair-trigger temper.
- The creators of Supermegatopia also spoofed this trope in this◊ World Of Warcraft fan comic.
- Also, The Claw◊.
Subverted in an El Goonish Shive strip with Jeremy, who attacks Sensei Greg... Only to run facefirst into a ki forcefield. Ow. Of course, it was earlier stated that Jeremy did have some punch.
- Grace combines this with Beware The Nice Ones. A normally sweet and cute squirrel-girl who, once angered, destroys a self-proclaimed god.
In Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki, the Norse trickster god Loki walks the earth in the body of a stuffed animal.
8-Bit Theatre featured the diminutive but dreaded camel spider (based on a real-life arachnid, whose threat is greatly exaggerated), which "viciously attacks anything it perceives as a threat, which is anything it can perceive."
Arguably, the entirety of Bunny is based off this trope, particularly Orange Bunny.
Slim the Jackalope from NeverNever has sixguns. Very tiny sixguns. And he bites. Extremely hard.
Schlock Mercenary features a species of "cute and cuddly koalazoids" known as the Tausennigan Ob'Enn. The Ob'Enn, despite their small size and disarming appearance, are referred to as the "psycho bears" by every other species in the galaxy, as they have one of the most powerful and advanced interstellar militaries in the galaxy, and are led by a xenocidal doctrine that calls for the destruction of every other species in the galaxy.
Lepus, the awakened Fiendish rabbit from Dungeon Crawl, inc. As the page's title suggests, he was originally a homage to the original Killer Rabbit (before he became a full-fledged character).
Deadly venomous chipmunks in Loserz!
In Adventurers!, the Devilrabbit is mistaken for the mostly harmless Cuterabbit.
Reynardine, in Gunnerkrigg Court. He's apparently a cute little stuffed toy. He's actually a fearsome possessor demon that kills the body of whoever he takes over. He just happens to be stuck in Antimony's toy. For now. An illustrative example.
On the website Muse Blog, run far, far away if you see a Hot Pink Bunny. They are out to rule the world, can turn people into zombies, and can survive atomic blasts. This may or may not be where their powers come from.
The Racconans, in Tales Of The Questor. They're cute, fuzzy two foot tall talking raccoons... who turn into lightning-flinging shredding whirling balls of death when backed into a corner. A typical saying in the Questorverse is "there's no such thing as an unarmed Racconan." Alternatively, the Redcaps, who bear a marked resemblance to the little dancing mushrooms from Fantasia, till the needle-sharp claws and fangs come out and they leap into your face. Those bright red "mushroom caps" they wear are actually BLOOD SACS, and they've been known to drain an ox dry of blood in moments....
The Video Games section paid plenty of attention to Gaia Online's MMO aspect, but Grunny from the webcomic has yet to be mentioned. It is a predatory green rabbit that also carries the G-Virus and turns its victims into zombies.
Char Cole gives us Maoh the Magnificent. Not all Mew have pleasant temperments...
Dolphins in The Adventures Of Doctor Mc Ninja. You could punch out and kill all the gorillas, dinosaurs, giant lumberjacks, ninja, vampires, and ghosts you want, but if you treasure your continued existance, leave the dolphins alone.
Voo Doo Doll in The Repository of Dangerous Things. Little. Funny. Quiet. Won't get in the way. Does not object when grabbed and carried. When thrown around, gets really, really pissed off.
Coleman of Sore Thumbs. A tiny blue polar bear that served in Iraq alongside its owner. You've never seen such an adorable terrorist-slaughtering machine.
Digger and other wombats may look small and chubby, but they spend most of their lives swinging heavy pickaxes, and are, as she once put it, "like biceps with feet." When pressed into battle, Digger has shown herself to be an effective combatant, not only soundly defeated bandits, but also lecturing them on what poor condition their weapons are in.

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Devilbunnies are an entire web community of people writing stories based on the idea that cute fluffy bunnies are taking over the entire world and making it cute and fluffy for their own nefarious purposes.
The Whateley Universe 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 passing through gaps in armor) when it's being animated by Jade.

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Watership Down. I'm sorry, in case I didn't say that loud enough, WATERSHIP DOWN. If you need this explained, you clearly haven't watched the movie.
In the Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends episode "Eddie Monster", "the Champ" at the imaginary friends fighting league is a harmless looking Pikachu-esque rodent... that sprouts huge electrified tentacles when provoked.
One episode of Men In Black, in an obvious jab at E. T., had a cute and cuddly alien... which could transform into a hideous behemoth on a second's notice when hungry, and was preparing to devour the young boy who had "bonded" with him.
Nibbler of Futurama. It's not his fault he's an unstoppable killing machine... who can devour several hundred times his own body weight in a matter of minutes. His entire species are superintelligent warriors working to save the universe, but it's a running gag in any episode they appear in that they're also adorable and cuddly.
- His very droppings are dark matter more dense than the material in a neutron star.
Several of Stitch's "cousins" from Lilo And Stitch The Series. Let's not forget Stitch himself, a synthetically crafted living war machine... In a cute fuzzy body.
One of the Aesop And Son segments from Rocky And Bullwinkle had a wolf attempting to steal the dentures from a sheepdog in order to render him harmless. After actually managing to succeed, he proceeds to attack one of the sheep, immediately getting fought off by one of the sheep since it also has dentures.
The Looney Tunes character Slowpoke Rodriguez is Speedy Gonzalez's cousin, and "the slowest mouse een all Mexico," but he knows hypnosis and carries a .45 revolver.
The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy in Dave The Barbarian, who is a cute little piggy and a dark lord of evil.
Played rather straight in The Grim Adventuresof Billyand Mandy when Pud'n wishes for a cute bunny that will love him forever...and it immediately reveals itself to be a psychotic, murderous nightmare.
- Also, the Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears, adorable stuffed bears that were created by Eris to sow chaos in the world by hypnotizing their owners to do their bidding. Eris' scheme is undone when one angers Mandy by saying that she'll be the 2nd most powerful in the world, at which point Mandy orders Grim to decapitate all of them.
- Subverted with Billy's "son" Jeffy, a huge, hideous spider who's extremely friendly and wants only to be loved.
The Chubb Chubbs, from the video of the same name, are the terror of the galaxy. They look like a combination of the cutest features of piglets and ducklings...except when they're baring their several rows of shark-like teeth and eating barbarian invaders alive. They also enjoy cuddling and karaoke.
Catscratch had an episode which had a duck in it—and Gordon was extremely terrified of said duck because of an incident that happened when he was a kitten (The duck beat the snot out of him with tremendous superhuman strength) but later on Gordon musters up the courage to defeat the duck.
Johnny Test has a cute kitty cat as one of its villains; said kitty cat possesses a cannon that turns people into cats.
The Fairly Oddparents played with this trope as well. The Gigglepies are a race of cute little bunny like creatures that are a cross between Care Bears in terms of looks and cuteness and Pokemon in terms that they are apparently collectible. They roam the galaxy, coming in cereal boxes and use their cuteness and mind-controlling rhymes to subjugate the population, force them to buy them in excess and eventually cost the planet its freedom. Of course with the Yugopotamians, who fear anything cute, making the populace afraid of them works just as well. Once they're done looting the planet they destroy it and move on to the next one. "ISN'T THAT CUTE!?"
- "No! It's horrible! And didn't rhyme!"
"Cujo" the ghost dog in Danny Phantom. A small, playful, super adorable ghost puppy...that can turn into a twenty-foot monster who's aggressive meter is off the charts. "Beware of Dog" signs would be an understatement.
Metalocalypse: the band buys an island full of nuclear mutants and converts it into a home for "wayward kitties." The kitties kill everyone on the island.
Ling Ling from Drawn Together, like the Fosters Home For Imaginary Friends example, is an adorable Pikachu-esque rodent...who is also a murderous Heroic Sociopath who kills at the drop of a hat (in the beginning of the show anyway). In just the first episode, he brutally kills and devours another house mate because his name is uttered 3 times. This applies to any of the Pokemon spoofing characters on the show though, as it takes the battling aspect of the series and cranks it up to Grotesque Cute levels.
Ed, Edd, and Eddy, quoting Johnny- "I told you bunnies would take over the world, Plank!
In the The Life And Times Of Juniper Lee episode "Welcome Bat Otter", the titular bat otter looks like an adorable little otter with bat wings. It's threat level is hyped by the antagonist of the episode, the corrupt businessman mummy Skeeter Khommen-Gettit. It turns out it's threat isn't just hype when it eats Skeeter. The expression on the bat otter's face at the end of the episode hints that its diet isn't limited to evil magical creatures...
Beast Wars had a flower that looked harmless, but got its point across to Proud Warrior Race Guy Dinobot, by nailing him with a spiky seed right where he couldn't reach.
Dinobot: From now on I shoot my dinner salad before I eat it!
"Attack of the Twonkies" says it all in Jimmy Neutron.
The "psycho duck" that Penny Proud adopts in one episode of The Proud Family. It even beat up the Gross Sisters, the neighborhood bullies!
The Pandemic episodes of South Park feature giant guinea pigs (which were actual guinea pigs filmed and placed into the cartoon), which are repelled by Peruvian pan flute bands. Several of the guinea pigs wear costumes, such as bee, dinosaur, mouse, and pirate costumes.
- Also the Woodland Critters, who seem cute but are actually rapists with satanic powers.
In the Earthworm Jim animated series, Jim's sidekick Peter Puppy◊ immediately goes One Winged Angel when he's pissed off◊.
- This also happens in the games — the levels where he appears consist solely of trying to keep him — or his puppies, in the sequel — from getting hurt so he doesn't turn into a horrifying mutant and maul Jim.
Bugs Bunny: once something means war, there's no stopping him.
An episode of Eek! The Cat featured a cute seemingly harmless bunny arriving at Eek's family door, as it turns out the bunny is a deranged psychopath who plots to kill Eek's family after they've thrown Eek out.
Wallace And Gromit - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
The Warners in Animaniacs three cute "puppy children" who are basically avatars of chaos. And you really don't want to piss off Wakko.
Duck Dodgers: In "Pet Peeved", Duck Dodger's selfish demand for a pet results in him adopting "Koo-koo", an energy mutator that happens to look like a cross between a puppy, rabbit, and kitten. It becomes larger, stronger, and uglier as it absorbs eletrical energy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gTtVu9Ik4kQ
The title character in Riki Tiki Tavi. Awww...he's so cute and fuzzy....HOLY SHIT LOOK WHAT HE DID TO THAT COBRA!
- However, Riki Tiki Tavi isn't malevolent. He's actually trying to kill the cobras because they're harming the humans, so this is a more traditional example of Reptiles Are Abhorrent and possibly also What Measure Is A Non Cute *grumbles*.
"Sabrina's Secret Life" - Sabrina conjures up an adorable pet, but Salem discovers that she has actually summoned an evil warlock who is trying to drain her of her powers. Unfortunately, Sabrina does not believe Salem which leads to further complications.

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Koalas. It's not hard to piss them off, especially if you interrupt one of their 19 hours of sleep, and they have huge teeth and claws that can do some real damage when you rile them up. Please stay away from them.
- In Australian mythology there's dropbears which are the Evil Twin versions of the koala.
- Wombats can do a fair amount of damage too - one naturalist ended up with a 2cm deep bite in his leg. Through a gumboot, trousers, and thick socks. And if they get some speed up (40km/hr at maximum, despite being generally slow) they can knock grown men over. This being Australia, their main defence against predators is to hide in a hole and use their cartilage-heavy, armour-plated arse to keep themselves from serious harm.
Actual rabbits. They aren't ferocious at all, but they do have a nasty tendency to bite unwary fingertips clean off. Also, don't try to pick up a rabbit unless you know what you're doing, their back feet are powerful and their nails are better described as claws. Pick one up with the pointy bits toward you? Expect it to flail around and for you to bleed.
- This troper's rabbit weighs approximately one pound, is adorable and soft, and has given at least ten people scars, most of whom don't believe her when she says don't touch the rabbit.
- Hard to believe, but rabbits once defeated Napoleon. He made a hunting party for himself and his fellow generals. The gamekeeper bought over 1000 rabbits, which, alas, were tame - and hungry. When they were released they didn't scatter from shooting - rather they all ran towards Napoleon at 55 km/h. They overran the shooting party and forced Napoleon to flee.
The platypus. "Awww, lookit the cute little mixed-up thing! It's so adorable, it's like a little beaver-duck, let me pet you little beaver-duck and OH MY GOD POISON STINGER! MAKE THE HURTING STOP!!!"
- Two Words, Cone Snail.
- As in the Cracked article below: "Mother Nature's way of saying "I made this thing out of spare parts, and it can STILL horribly maim you." Pretty typical for Australia.
The kangaroo. Awww, itsh godda baby in itsh pouch, OH GOD THE KICKING AND RUPTURING OF ORGANS AND CRUSHING OF BONES.
The swamp rabbit trying to board ex US-President Jimmy Carter's fishing boat in 1979. It even was nicknamed "Killer rabbit" by the media.
The humor site Cracked has an article called "The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You". Self Explanatory.
- Is it any surprise that two thirds of the entries on the list can be found in Australia?
The frickin' Swan, not only because it's fiercely territorial, but you can't even explain that you got bit by a f#$^ing Swan. Not to mention their wingbeats are powerful enough to break bones...
- "A swan can break a man's arm, you know" became a running gag in one of the Adrian Mole books.
- Their bills _look_ soft, but they're not. They're not.
- All birds, really. Getting bit by any bird hurts like swear words. And if it's close enough to bite you, there's a good chance it will poop on you too.
  - This Pelican.
  - You wouldn't think a chicken would have talons, but having one placed on your head at age five will leave you with a different impression of the hateful little things.
  - There's a reason the ancient Romans considered roosters to be warrior animals...
This rabbit.
- This Troper's sister had a very vicious pigmy rabbit that attacked and killed a 2 ft long snake!
Due to causing of vehicular accidents, the deadliest animal in the USA is the deer. Repeat after me.
- Car crashes aside, there's still a distressing number of people who seem to think deer=Bambi. Come on, what do you think those huge pointy things on the top of its head are for?
- Though they seem to look mostly like large deers, elks are in fact more like FREAKING HUGE DEERS! Though it's difficult to judge their size correctly from a distance, it's highly unlikely to mistake them as cute and fuzzy animals as bulls can reach a height of 2,30m at the shoulder. Weighting up to a tonne and having a tentency to land on your roof in a car crash, accidents with elks often end up deadly for everyone involved. This makes them the deadliest animal in Skandinavia.
While emus don't fall under the generally accepted category of "cute", they are essentially human sized birds with fluffy feathers and big, expressive eyes. They can also kick you to death in a matter of seconds. Most of those tall, long-legged, flightless birds aren't that harmless. Ostriches are reputed to be able to disembowel a lion.
- And then there's the Cassowary, which is essentially a Velociraptor with a beak, insanely strong legs with claws and an attitude to match. Anyone still wondering where the dinosaurs went?
- This is the reason why this troper always laughs whenever people say that feathered dinosaurs are Nightmare Retardant.
  - A cassowary was used in an episode of Batman The Animated Series for The Penguin's ~~Aviary Of Doom~~ Big Birdhouse. Bruce Timm apparently had to first convince the rest of the writers that it really existed.
Not physically dangerous but the subjects of the website Disapproving Rabbits can cause a severe feeling of inferiority. Especially this one.
Wolves. They look like some breeds of dogs, e.g., German shepherds or Siberian huskies; many breeds of dogs are larger and/or more dangerous-looking. But wolves are not dogs. Dogs are wolves that have been selectively bred for thousands of years to be safe and tractable companions to humans. Wolves have been naturally selected to survive in the wild as apex predators. They are strong and they are fierce. Genetics matters. Even a wolf raised by humans from birth can prove rather . . . unpredictable. Never have anything to do with a wolf you might see in the wild; don't try to get it to fetch a stick, and definitely don't try to pet it. Never go near even a "domesticated" wolf unless its owner is very, very clear it's OK, and even then, with extreme caution.
- Cute or not, most people do think of wolves as being dangerous. Considering how many have been killed or hopitalized by domesticated dogs, it's safe to say that Fido is more of a Killer Rabbit than the Big Bad(ass) Wolf.
- For their SIZE, wolves are not that dangerous, rarely attacking humans unless in packs. Dog have much less respect for humans and are much more dangerous if trained on aggression. A bulldog can kill a wolf twise its mass.
- For that matter (see Cracked above), Dingos. They're essentially the Australian equivalent of wolves, in the outback.
  - Aren't dingos more like feral dogs?
  - No, wolves.
The blue-ringed octopus. Not exactly cute, but it definitely wouldn't look very threatening, despite being one of the most poisonous sea creatures known to man. As comedian Billy Connolly says "It wouldn't fit in the palm of your hand, but if this thing's in a bad mood you don't make it to the *** phone!"
- Maybe not cute, but definitely pretty. It's a golf-ball sized octopus, mostly white, with iridescent blue rings. (Hence the name...) Most of the time they are pretty docile, but if one bites you, you literally have only a few minutes before first aid has to be performed to artificially keep your lungs and heart working or you will die — there is no antivenin. And hey, the best part? Even while you are being ventilated and kept alive by machines, you're totally conscious and aware and totally paralyzed! Good times ...
Gorillas are quite peaceful and gentle creatures, but cross them and they'll rip your arms off. Seriously. They can do that. All that tree-climbing and knuckle-walking gives them unmatched upper-body strength.
- Personal testimony: this troper was once at a zoo's gorilla exhibit, which featured a large Plexiglases viewing window. Some human cretins were tapping on the glass, and one of the gorillas finally wandered over and idly punched the window. The glass held, but the impact sounded like a shotgun blast.
- Also in the ~~ape~~ primate category, mandrills are silly-looking rainbow-faced ~~apes~~ monkeys with big red bums and dewy eyes... as well as huge teeth able to tear through your flesh like pizza dough.
- Chimpanzees, the adorably human like ape often cast in popular culture as inconcequencial childlike roles, can also be quite dangerous when provoked, even when domesticated. A recent article featured a woman who was attacked by a 14 year old domesticated chimpanzee who she had known personally who could open doors, dress himself, and even eat at the dinner table..awww. By the time the chimp was subdued, he had literally torn off her face and was eating her.
- In fact, pretty every ape species shouldn't be pissed off. Keep a close eye on monkeys too.
  - It may not be wise to piss off one of those goofy-looking hairless apes you find wandering all over the place, while we're on the subject. They're a very short tempered race and of all the mean animals out there they're in charge. They're no nearly as strong as other members of Order Primates, but they're smarter, and unpredictable as hell, especially when in large groups. An apex social preditor, whose natural weapon is the club. Any wonder that domestic dispute calls make cops the most nervous?
- Pretty much all primates seem to share mankind's tendencies towards being dicks, but with super strength and huge fangs on top of it.
Ferrets, minks, weasels, martens, sables and all mustelids in general (which includes the wolverine) are unbelievably strong for their size. They are not afraid to fight back fiercely when threatened by greater predators, despite their cute, fluffy appearance and alleged cowardice, the latter being a completely false Urban Legend. Don't believe me? Watch This...
The Cassowary◊- sure, they look like something out of a Jurassic Park Marti Gras parade, but they hold the world record for "Most Dangerous Bird". Normally docile, but if they're threatened or cornered they will disembowel you with a single kick of their huge, taloned feet.
- Given their relation to emus and ostriches, this shouldn't come as a surprise.
  - Their deadliness is somewhat overrated, though, given that only one human death has been attributed to them, and that was a lucky shot to the neck on a really dumb teenager.
The Werebears toys were seemingly adorable teddy bears with reversible heads and paws that would reveal their "nasty" face when turned inside out.
Black bears. Arguably the cutest of the bears with their docile, innocent look and sleepy-looking eyes. The Teddy bear was actually based on this bear species. But they are incredibly dangerous and can seriously mess you up if you provoke them. And playing dead doesn't work on them, because if you do they will start to eat you.
- This is because black bears are essentially very large herbivores that evolved to eat a little meat, but would run away from larger predators... all of which happened to go extinct during the last ice age. Since the meat their ancestors generally ate was left behind by other predators, they've learned to eat the dead—or that which is playing dead. On the other hand, those herbivore instincts mean that they can be scared off by anything that makes confident aggressive moves.
  - But just to show you that nature is evil, brown bears (which look similar to the untrained eye) did evolve as apex predators and should be treated in the exact opposite fashion. Helpful hint—if you're about to go to an area where both bears are possible to meet, learn how to tell them apart.
  - You might also want to carry a gun. And an extra magazine or two. Or three. Thousand.
- This troper personally thinks that polar bears are the cutest bears by far, and their ability to mess people up kinda goes without saying. But... so... cute.
Polar bears deserve to be a first-level entry here. So cute in the Coke ads, and in zoos - but to a polar bear, all animals that are not polar bears are prey.
The panda. Another contender for "cutest bear" (it makes up for not being a bear by being extra cute), a truly ridiculous amount of time, effort and money has gone into saving these fat and lazy animals. Some people might think pandas are vegetarians because they only eat bamboo. They only eat bamboo because it's one of the only things that can't outrun them, being plants. Give an adult 200 pound panda a chance, and it will kill and eat small animals, possibly including children. Fortunately, no one has ever been stupid enough to allow a small child near a hungry panda (and if someone was, this Troper doesn't want to hear about it). Even a lazy panda can be dangerous if you let it. Though this troper loved Kung Fu Panda and Po, he hates real pandas.
- Fun fact: Pandas actually have a carnivore digestive system. Its round face is the result of powerful jaw muscles, which attach from the top of the head to the jaw.
  - This just in: Pandas are a species of bear, according to genetic analysis.
- Recently, an adult human jumped a fence into a panda cage at a zoo and attempted to hug the creature. He was hospitalized, but survived.
The orca. Despite its cute panda like appearance and entertaining performances at marine parks, the orca lives up to its nickname "killer whale". Basically take a shark, give it a warm blooded body and an intelligent mammmalian brain and a good bit of muscle and you've got an orca. Add to that the orcas' tendency to hunt in packs and they basically take the title of apex predator of the ocean. Though this troper hated Free Willy given what happened to the whale in Real Life, he loves real orcas...but stays clear of them all the same.
- Two things to think about—first, "killer whale" is a corruption of "whale killer". Yes, this thing takes down the biggest things ~~since the dinosaurs~~ ever. Second, it's one vowel away from an almost universally evil fantasy race.
- They also kill sharks. For fun, as near as science can tell.
- Better than that, its species name (orcinus) is Latin for "FROM HELL". Everything in the universe is trying to tell you this things will kill you.
- Their name comes also from the Greek Orcus. Meaning demon.
  - Interestingly, there have been no documented instances of Orca attacking humans in the water, ever.
  - That's because we're tiny, bony, and have freaky limbs all over the place, instead of proper fins. We are extremely far cry from these creatures' ideal prey. You still may want to think twice whether to stick your hand in one's mouth.
  - ...Or, to quote Gaspode, "what you just said is basically that no humans in the water ever returned to tell the tale".
  - Two things: first, Orcas are technically dolphins. Dolphins on steroids, but dolphins none the less. Second, Stephan Pastis (creator of Pearls Before Swine) once introduced a killer whale character into the strip. His prey, Johnathan Seal (a seal) was watching a wildlife program on television, where the killer whale on screen partially beached itself so it could reach and chow down on a seal that was basking in the sunlight. Pastis' comment to this strip was "Makes you think twice about volunteering to be kissed by Shamu the next time you're at Sea World."
  - At least they're smart enough to cooperate with humans.
  - And in fact have in the wild in at least one place (alerting whalers to whales in exchange for some choice bits of the carcasses)
  - Which says something interesting, doesn't it? Thanks to their apparent affection for us, and us returning it, Orcas have no natural predators. None. Barring a sudden human interest in killing them for whatever reason, Orcas are the highest species on the food chain that doesn't have nuclear capability.
This troper believes that every "cute" animal on Earth is a potential Killer Rabbit, due to all animals possessing a 'fight or flight' response. Wild animals are hardwired to consider nearly anything they can't eat a threat (like us). If we deny them the option of 'flight' by trying to cuddle them too much, they can and will 'fight' with everything at their disposal. Even a little mouse can cause significant damage if you let it with its sharp teeth, possibly infecting you with disease in the process.
A recent article in the London newspaper Metro involved a viper that was rescued from a house in China. The rescuers tried to feed it a live mouse and the mouse killed it after a half-hour struggle. They could only theorise it had run out of venom during the capture.
This Troper's friend has a Cockatoo Attack Squad. They not only have sharp pointy bits, but they have SONIC WEAPONRY. THEY WILL FIND YOU. AND THEY WILL END YOU.
Hamsters. "Aww itsa widdle tribble lookalike fluffyball! C'mere little fluffyball and OWJESUSBLEEDINGFINGER!!" After five years of living with the adorable little buggers, this troper has learned how to deal with them. Do yourselves a favor and don't pick up that adorable little fluffyball unless you're sure you know what you're doing.
- This editor is particularly wary of the little beasts after one of them pissed on him while he was cuddling it. Ungrateful bastard.
- Dwarf hamsters (possibly excluding the usually-docile Roborovski breed) are the spawn of Satan. This troper used to work at a pet store and dreaded handling them. Fast, nasty, and quick to bite.
Arguably, some human beings can fit into this category (humans technically count as animals). See, for instance, Cute Bruiser.
- There are arguably a few charming children out there who are evil enough, vile enough, and sugary enough to drive any sane person to suicide. This troper's first grade cousin certainly qualifies for all three categories.
- What harm could a bunch of science geeks possibly do? So Yeah, don't underestimate people who plumb the secrets of the universe for a living.
Raccoons, anyone? They look like fuzzy little puppy-cat things with domino masks, but their teeth and claws can kill pets and send people to the emergency room. To top it off, they're the biggest carrier of rabies in North America.
Dachshunds, aka wiener dogs. They look adorable. They're also bred to go into badger holes and eat the badger, making them cute Killer Rabbit Killers.
Popular depictions in media notwithstanding, dolphins can be very dangerous. They use those "cute" pointy faces of theirs like billy clubs to beat up helpless porpoises, baby dolphins, and the occasional human to death. And that's when they're not trying to rape them.
- Not only that, but dolphins have been found to kill baby dolphins of other species. For no reason.
- Also, they can kill sharks.
- Oh if you're woundering, not this isn't something males do (like male Loins) females will kill their own young for "Shits and giggles"
  - That's supposed to be spelt "wondering", but that way is much funnier.
- Also, as mentioned above, orcas are a type of dolphin. Yeah, exactly.
  - Not to mention in Greek mythology, dolphins used to be pirates. Look up some of the myths of Dionysus.
- They're basically the humans of the sea, really
The moral of this trope? Don't Let Things Bite You.
- Or maim you!
Given the sheer number of real life examples in this trope, it's safe to say that Earth is a killer rabbit planet - there's always something down here more than capable of making you wish you never came down from space.
- Well, since a big part of nature is "kill or be killed", it's no surprise.
Also cats. This troper's cat had his front claws removed and he still puts lots of scratches on me.
- You think Everythings Cuter With Kittens? Imagine a full-grown cat with no restraint. When this troper got her cat when she was kitten, her hands were so badly beaten up that a teacher pulled her asside and asked her what happened.
- It's not uncommon for cats to become more dangerous after being declawed, because they've lost their main form of defense. Also, declawing is terribly inhumane, but I won't get started on that one.
Not just animals, but a few plants out there are pretty nasty:
- Mistletoe and holly- both lovely plants generally associated with holiday romance as well as internal bleeding, cramps, vomiting and diarrhea if eaten. Fun fact: Mistletoe is parasitic.
  - Mistletoe even killed a god in Norse Mythology.
- The seeds of several edible plants, such as apples, cherries, apricots, peaches and plums all contain cyanide-based poisons.
  - Doesn't it take about sixteen million apple seeds to make a lethal dose, though?
- Pineapples are delicious, nutritious, and covered with razor-sharp spikes. Yum yum.
  - And that's without even bringing up Pineapple Salad.
- Brazil nuts, coconuts and durians can cause severe injuries or death if they fall on you...and they can fall on you with no warning.
  - And House taught us that eating too many brazil nuts will mess you up.
  - Don't forget Coco de Mer, the "seeds" of which can weigh as much as 65 pounds.
- Foxglove is a very common decorative flowering plant with the scientific name Digitalis purpurea. As you might gather, the roots of the Foxglove contain large amounts of digitalis. Not that you are likely to eat it, but if you did, you'd probably have a heart attack and die.
- Oh look! Such nutritious dark berries that looks like cherries! With a sweet taste to top it all! Congratulations! You've just eaten the delicious yet highly toxic berries of the Belladonna, also know as... the Deadly Nightshade!! Better go to the hospital quick if you don't want to die delirious once your nervous system gets permanently disrupted by the extremely potent alkaloids contained in the apparently harmless berries.
- The Monkshood (Also known as Aconite and Wolvesbane) is another decorative flowering plant that contains a powerful neurotoxin called aconitum in just about all parts of the plant. It's strong enough that you can experience tingling and numbness in hands and arms and cardiac arrythmia just from getting sap from picked leaves on your skin. If for some unholy reason you ate it, you'd start to feel numbness and gastrointestinal pain in a few minutes, start vomiting profusely within an hour or so, start to lose motor control, your lungs and heart would stop working and then you'd die. There are reported deaths from accidental aconite poisoning.
There are some tree frogs, small and rather beatiful. And whether they are alive or dead, merely touching them with one's bare skin is a bad idea. With a tip of blowgun dart, on the other hand...
Hippos. This troper once went to a zoo with a hippo tank (Calgary, Alberta) and happened to be in the room when the zookeeper came out and did his talk on them. Two minutes about the tank, two minutes about how they get fed and poop, twenty minutes on how they will kill you. Hippos are highly territorial, aggressive creatures that can indeed run on land, have de-facto armor exceeding that of elephants, and kill more humans than any non-domesticated species of vertebrate out there per year. Steve Irwin 's moment of greatest fear during his career, he once said in an interview, was simply crossing a river at dusk ... in an area known to have hippos.
Skunks, while they can't kill you, can certainly make you wish they had. That doesn't stop them from being incredibly cute as babies, all the moreso in that they're not afraid of anything.
- Except for Owls. By GOD the Owls. They look so damn wise and cuddly with their giant eyes and noble plumage that we sometimes mistake them for cute things in the forest who hoot at night. Dead wrong. These things are the terrors of the night and even Skunks steer clear of them because of their plumage. it is built to not make a sound when it is in flight, a virtual ninja in the night. You can't spray what you can't see which is why Owls are considered the natural predator of Skunks.
  - Also, they're immune to skunk stink.
Shrews are fuzzy and tiny, which is a recipe for textbook cuteness. Gram for gram, they're also the most voraciously-bloodthirsty predators on the planet, killing prey many times their own size and eating anything that moves. Some of them have venomous saliva as well, so be glad these things are so little.
Ever hear of the honey badger? Cute, adorable, and capable of killing several creatures much bigger in size, including crocodiles. This troper once saw a video where a honey badger attacked a venomous snake, killing it while sustaining several bites, eating it, and then taking a nap to sleep off the venom. Two hours later, it was up and about like nothing had happened. You do NOT want to mess with these things, EVER.
Dromaeosaurs (better known as "Raptors" to most people). A group of (mostly) small feathered carnivorous dinosaurs. Aww, look at how cute it is....◊ OH, GOD, IT'S TEARING ME APART WITH ITS CLAWS!!! Good thing they're extinct.
- Heck, modern day birds certainly apply since they're essentially present-day dinosaurs. You know those cute lil' chickens you see in petting zoos? Those adorable lil' finches and whatnot you see hopping about in the cities? Those fat robins snacking on worms in the backyard? Yeah, you're pretty much looking at the descendants of ancient Theropod dinosaurs (IE: Tyrannosaurus rex, Velociraptor, etc.).
  - They are no less as fearsome as now they sacrificed their size for the ability to fly. Flying raptors. Now imagine if they still hunted in packs and were the size bigger than a sheep. The world is doomed if they existed now.
Nothing worse than being attacked by a rapid squirrel http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,226760,00.html http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/article.html?in_article_id=2821&in_page_id=2 .
Killer squirrel eats a live bird! Soon he'll take your nuts! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L8pT_8FwmVg&feature=related
The mongoose. See entry on Rikki Tiki Tavi.

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This (not actually killer) squirrel

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