Basic Trope: A rabbit/hare is portrayed as evil, frightening, and/or dangerous.
- Straight: Rodney the Rabbit is a dangerous sadist.
- Exaggerated:
- Rodney is an outright Card-Carrying Villain who murders just for fun.
- All rabbits/hares are portrayed in this way.
- Downplayed:
- Rodney is a Jerkass, and can prove to be a force to not be trifled with if he needs to be. However, he's not necessarily evil.
- Rodney is villainous, but not scary-looking in the slightest.
- Justified:
- Rodney had abusive owners (or parents/family, if he's a Funny Animal).
- Despite being cute, lagomorphs can be fairly dangerous, especially undomesticated/wild ones.
- Inverted: Righteous Rabbit
- Subverted: Rodney brandishes a knife... but is soon shown to just be chopping a carrot.
- Double Subverted: After chopping the carrot, he stabs someone with the knife.
- Parodied: A "Wanted!" Poster of Rodney the Rabbit is shown, only to zoom out to a society of anthropomorphic carrots.
- Zig-Zagged: Some rabbits and hares shown fit into this trope, while some don't.
- Averted:
- There are no rabbits in the work.
- Rabbits aren't presented clearly as good or evil.
- Enforced:
- The creator of the work thinks that it would be interesting to see the contrast of a cute animal being dangerous.
- The author has a fear of rabbits.
- Lampshaded:
- "Have you ever met Rodney? Be glad if you haven't."
- "Watch out those rabbits. They can assassinate a human in quick succession."
- Invoked: Rodney is violent to fend off animals that want to eat him.
- Exploited: A villain breeds rabbits and use them as their Attack Animal of choice.
- Defied:
- Discussed: "Rabbits are no substitute for human affection. And why rabbits anyway?"
- Conversed:
- "How can such a cute creature be so evil?"
- "Rabbits are assholes."
- Deconstructed:
- Reconstructed:
Back to Hair-Raising Hare.
