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| 7 | ->''"[[MadnessMantra Não posso dormir, o palhaço vai me devorar]]. [[MemeticMutation Não posso dormir, o palhaço vai me devorar]]. [[RuleOfThree Não posso dormir, o palhaço vai me devorar]]...."'' |
| 8 | -->-- '''Bart Simpson''', ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' |
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| 10 | Supõe-se que os palhaços sejam engraçados e façam toda a gente rir, especialmente as crianças. É a razão de eles existirem. [[NonIronicClown Um palhaço de verdade]] seria [[FriendToAllChildren amigo das crianças]]. Às vezes são mesmo. Mas, para alguns, os palhaços despertam [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coulrophobia um medo incontrolável]]. Há crianças que nem chegam perto de um palhaço sem gritarem. |
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| 12 | Eles têm uma cara... [[UncannyValley falsa, cadavérica]], a maquiagem muitas vezes [[UncannyValleyMakeup NÃO ajuda]], as emoções não são de verdade, o sorriso é só pintado. As roupas e sapatos grandes são grotescos. Para algumas pessoas, tem muita coisa errada com um palhaço, e isso ressoa lá no fundo, na nossa parte que acredita que tem [[ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight monstro no armário]], que vai sair a menos que você deixe a porta fechada. |
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| 14 | É raro achar personagens palhaços que sejam ''bonzinhos''. Mais frequentemente, os autores disparam o medo. O Palhaço Malvado é um vilão clássico. Ele vai parodiar o humor, tornando piadas clássicas mortais; tem ácido nas suas flores de lapela e os choquinhos elétricos dão pra matar, entre outras coisas. Se eles trabalham em um circo, pode apostar que será um [[CircusOfFear Circo dos Horrores]]. Da mesma forma, eles também vão soltar piadas de humor negro e gargalhar euforicamente enquanto cometem um assassinato. |
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| 16 | Às vezes, o Palhaço Malvado só tem CARA de palhaço, e não faz nada que um palhaço normal faria, como contar anedotas ou trabalhar em um circo ou animar festinhas de criança. Se há na estória um palhaço que só tem cara de palhaço, há grandes chances de que seja um Palhaço Malvado. Sabe como é, ninguém simplesmente se vezte de palhaço sem fazer nada de engraçado ou circense. |
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| 18 | Mais cedo ou mais tarde, nossos intrépidos heróis vão descer a porrada nesses palhaços. E às vezes [[JokerImmunity nem isso os detém]]. Note-se também que muitos desses palhaços podem ser [[AxCrazy doidos de pedra]] ou não, e também cometem seus crimes [[LaughingMad gargalhando loucamente]] [[TheHyena e o tempo todo]]. Também é esperado que eles, enquanto cometem vários crimes horríveis, ajam [[PsychopathicManchild de maneira similar a um crianção]]. |
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| 20 | No mundo real há tipos específicos de palhaço. Pode-se ter medo do ''[[http://famousclowns.org/history-of-clowns/clown-types-the-auguste-clown/ Auguste]]'', o clássico que tem o comportamento e as roupas mais doidonas. ''[[http://famousclowns.org/history-of-clowns/the-whiteface-clown-clown-types/ Whiteface]]'' clowns are unsettling because they are unexpectedly intelligent, even scheming. ''[[http://famousclowns.org/famous-clowns/happy-hobos-and-sad-tramps-character-of-the-tramp-and-hobo-clown/ Character clowns]]'' - like [[http://famousclowns.org/famous-clowns/emmett-kelly-sr-biography-world-famous-tramp-clown/ Emmett Kelly's "Weary Willie"]] - by contrast have very muted designs, and can be difficult to identify by the TV audience. You rarely see them anymore. |
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| 22 | Palhaços de verdade ''palhaçam'': a ideia é que seja engraçado, mas pode ser percebido como autoflagelação, e espectadores modernos podem até ficar enjoados. |
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| 24 | That [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy John Wayne Gacy]], one of the most famous serial killers in the United States, worked part-time as a clown doesn't really help their case. You don't want ''your'' kids around the Monster Clown, but the character's parents seem oblivious to their kid's fears. The AP once used a stock photo of Gacy for National Clown day. |
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| 26 | Um estudo realizado em 2007 pela [[http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7189401.stm Universidade de Sheffield]] apontou que crianças de qualquer idade têm medo de palhaços, ou não gostam deles. Agora, vão ter que repaginar as alas pediátricas de vários hospitais. |
| 27 | (Excerto do artigo da BBC: Dr Penny Curtis: "Como adultos, nós presumimos o que deve funcionar com crianças. Descobrimos que elas não gostam de palhaços. Algumas até têm medo.") |
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| 29 | Sympathetic clowns are generally a little more muted, whether or not this is faithful to the job. Surly clowns who tiredly work with ungrateful children are more common, probably because they speak to the average overworked audience; they may be an example of HatesTheJobLovesTheLimelight. |
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| 31 | EnemyMime is a sub-trope of Monster Clown. A villainous clown that is PlayedForLaughs instead of fear is a VillainousHarlequin. The DepravedKidsShowHost seems to be related. Clowns' ghastly white makeup puts them into WhiteMaskOfDoom territory. The Monster Clown is often AffablyEvil or FauxAffablyEvil. |
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| 33 | O oposto deste truque é o (talvez infelizmente) raríssimo NonIronicClown. |
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| 35 | ---- |
| 36 | !!Examples |
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| 38 | [[foldercontrol]] |
| 39 | |
| 40 | [[folder:Advertising]] |
| 41 | * The US Postal Service used this in an ad: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oKGKB5bc9DU "Because we have to get that out of this house." "Come on it's not that ba-eeeaaah! Oh, yeah, that has to go.]] |
| 42 | * In [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJqnitjqpuM this]] E -Trade commercial with the talking baby, the baby says he rented a clown named Bobo, who we see standing in the background making balloon animals, before getting a scared look on his face and saying "And I really underestimated the creepiness." |
| 43 | ** Subverted in that the clown doesn't actually do anything creepy other than just be there. Which may or may not be enough to be freaky for a clown. |
| 44 | * The [[http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc35pi_kgb-commercial-clowns_fun KGB commercial]] with two moms looking for clowns for their kids' birthday parties. The one using KGB finds Benny the clown, [[NonIronicClown a professional clown who cheerfully and successfully entertains the children]]. The second finds Biffo, a fat, hostile clown who scares all the children into running away and then randomly destroys the drink table. |
| 45 | * A Motel 6 commercial features a guy not being able to sleep because of all the disturbing clown paraphernalia decorating the guest room he's staying in. |
| 46 | * Krinkles the Clown, of Post's Sugar Rice Krinkles. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWXGcsMTHw Good Lord, where to begin?]] |
| 47 | * And then, there's, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=39ezYQCVwC4 this Wal-Mart advertisement]]. Those with coulrophobia, [[NightmareFuel do not watch.]] |
| 48 | * A Little Caesar's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bzv1KYjXHrI ad]] has two girls wandering in the woods. One of them mentions rumors that a deranged clown haunts the forest. As it turns out, they're right, but thankfully he has a liking for cheap pizza. |
| 49 | [[/folder]] |
| 50 | |
| 51 | [[folder:Anime]] |
| 52 | * [[CuteandPsycho Charlotte]] the witch from ''Anime/PuellaMagiMadokaMagica'' because her first form is rather innocuous until you provoke her like [[spoiler:poor Mami]] and then she reveals a second form that looks exactly like the clown from ''Literature/{{It}}'' and [[spoiler:bites her head off and consumes her whole.]] |
| 53 | * Hisoka from ''Manga/HunterXHunter''. |
| 54 | * In ''Manga/{{Akira}}'' there are two rival biker gangs. One gang, called the Clowns, dresses in clown-like outfits and acts very much like evil clowns. |
| 55 | * One appears in the circus scene in the beginning half of the animated movie ''Literature/{{Paprika}}''. |
| 56 | * [[BigBad Piemon]] from ''Anime/DigimonAdventure''. |
| 57 | ** Subverted by his ''Manga/DigimonVTamer01'' incarnation, who's little more than a PunchClockVillain who gets eliminated just as he and his partner are doing a HeelFaceTurn. |
| 58 | ** [[OurAngelsAreDifferent Cherubimon]] in the ''Anime/DigimonAdventure02'' movie. Though he also appears in ''Anime/DigimonFrontier'', his Monster Clown behavior and appearance there is downplayed. |
| 59 | * Tongpu, alias Mad Pierrot from ''Anime/CowboyBebop''. |
| 60 | * Mayuri Kurotsuchi, 12th division Captain from ''Manga/{{Bleach}}''. |
| 61 | * Although he's not actually a clown, the [[BigBad Millennium Earl]] from ''Manga/DGrayMan'' ''is'' a Monster Clown. He even refers to himself as the Auguste clown once. |
| 62 | ** Also, the lvl 2 akuma that could imitate shapes, Pierrot. |
| 63 | *** [[OhCrap "This is the final blow exorcist!"]] akuma. That bastard was scary enough to be the picture on ''Manga/DGrayMan'''s NightmareFuel page. |
| 64 | ** Inverted with [[spoiler:Allen himself, who uses the Innocence Crowned Clown. But his adoptive father, Mana, may have been a straight example...]] |
| 65 | ** And Allen was beaten up by clowns until he got adopted. |
| 66 | * Alan Gabriel from ''Anime/TheBigO'' has a clownish appearance to go along with his...[[PsychoForHire less than sane personality]]. |
| 67 | * The Clown in the ''Manga/SoulEater'' manga claims to be the AnthropomorphicPersonification of insanity itself. |
| 68 | ** [[FromBadToWorse And now there are several of them...]] |
| 69 | ** The anime had two robot guards modeled after him. The creators probably thought the show just wouldn't be complete if they didn't use the design. |
| 70 | * In ''Manga/YuGiOh'', Ryuji Otogi/Duke Devlin's father is a Monster Clown - apparently he was considered too scary for [[Anime/YuGiOh the anime]]. |
| 71 | ** There is also Saggi the Dark Clown, a monster card, as well as one of the Player Killers in the manga--who was apparently too creepy for the anime and 'toned down' to, as TheAbridgedSeries put it, "a gay clown". |
| 72 | *** Specifically, he was a different ''kind'' of clown; a ventriloquist with a PerversePuppet in the shape of Kaiba, who claimed that he had put Kaiba's soul into the doll. |
| 73 | * In ''Anime/MobileFighterGGundam'', Chibodee Crocket developed a pathological fear of clowns after an incident in his childhood when he was ''kidnapped'' by a Monster Clown, which lead to the loss of his mother. |
| 74 | ** Romano, the Gundam Fighter for Neo-Portugal, not only dresses up as a clown but has a ''mecha'' that looks like one. Naturally, he becomes Chibs's next opponent... |
| 75 | * ''Manga/{{Remote}}'' tem um palhaço que entoa uma cantiga popular toda vez que alguém o vê. E sempre deixa pra trás um corpo. Ou uma bomba. |
| 76 | * Em ''Anime/YuGiOhGX'', a terceira temporada introduz batalhas com três oponentes ao mesmo tempo - os três mais novos heróis contra três palhaços malvados. O Cavaleiro Mascarado da Impassividade utilizou [[DemonicDummy um baralho com tema de bonecas]] para atacar Jesse Anderson, o Cavaleiro Mascarado da Raiva usou um cavaleiro-âncora para atacar o atirador de fóssesis Jim Cook... e o Cavaleiro Mascarado do Riso tirou um sarro com [[SoUnfunnyItsFunny anedotas curtas]] pra cima do milico Axel Brodie com um baralho de palhaços malvados apresentando [[PerversePuppet O Tolo]] e [[ActionBomb O Risada Explosiva]]. |
| 77 | * In ''Anime/YuGiOh5Ds'' there was Jeagar, a former circus clown who became a member of Yliaster and a top-ranking henchman to Rex Godwin, the BigBad of season one. Calling him evil may be a stretch, however (selfish and arrogant, sure, but probably not evil) and he [[spoiler: made a HeelFaceTurn eventually]]. |
| 78 | * ''Anime/GaoGaiGar'' had the demonic and sleep-disturbing Penchinon. THIS is the clown that eats you. Or turns you into a rampaging monster. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RgIU5tgCkA BREEEEEE!]] *shudders* |
| 79 | ** Penchinon is a pirate. Pagliaccio, the {{robo speak}}ing Zonder doll that can fold herself into a sphere, is probably a better example. |
| 80 | *** Pagliaccio actually means "clown" in Italian. |
| 81 | * ''Webcomic/TowerOfGod'': The [[spoiler:PuppeteerParasite that took over Yeon]] was disguised as such. |
| 82 | * ''Manga/OnePiece'' tem Buggy O Palhaço, embora seja uma leve subversão porque ele é mais ou menos {{harmless|um vilão}}. |
| 83 | ** Lafitte, on the other hand, is an extremely soft-spoken, seemingly polite fellow with white face paint and a massive grin that was run out of his home territory for being too brutal in his role as a peace officer, and that's by the standards of an organization that is willing to burn an island and its inhabitants to deal with some snoopy archaeologists. |
| 84 | * That's practically the job description of Orgel from ''Manga/ViolinistOfHameln''. His title is Hell Clown, and making humans suffer and break for fun and profit, by exploiting their fears, weaknesses and insecurities, is not only his personal hobby, but also what his employers might see as a merry performance. [[spoiler: Also, he is a demonic parasite, whose true form is his clown mask and whose bodies are [[AndIMustScream dead and reanimated, but still retaining their consciousness, humans]]. He once takes over a little girl in this way, just because she was nice to [[TheHero Hamel]]. Then lets Hamel know that he did it, and why he did it.]] ''That's actually his idea of a hilarious prank.'' |
| 85 | ** Baroque from [[Manga/ViolinistOfHamelnShchelkunchik the sequel]] is a worthy spiritual successor of Orgel. Even their favored [[MagicMusic musical instruments]] are somewhat similar. Well, he is a DrunkOnTheDarkSide [[MadScientist madman]], instead of a [[ItsAllAboutMe selfish and cowardly]] [[ForTheEvulz sadist]] - similarity lies in the amount of death and suffering they cause. |
| 86 | * ''Manga/HellTeacherNube'': Pierrot in the second movie. Made worse by being voiced by Ryusei Nakao, the same voice actor as [[Manga/DragonBall Frieza]] and [[Manga/{{Bleach}} Mayuri Kurotsuchi]]. |
| 87 | * Tommyrod from ''Manga/{{Toriko}}''. [[NightmareFuel With heavy emphasis on]] [[BodyHorror the "monster" part]]. Bonus point for the fact, that his face - ''including eyes'' - often seems to be painted on. |
| 88 | * Near the end of the anime ''Manga/SkullMan'', a team of cyborg soldiers wearing body armor with deranged clown helmets is brought in to take out the titular character, including one [[ShellShockedVeteran insane, shell-shocked cyborg]] (who, unfortunately, is in charge of artillery and ends up shooting at friend and foe alike.) |
| 89 | * Subverted in ''Manga/YuYuHakusho''. Suzuki, a contestant in the Dark World Tournament, desperately wants to fit this trope, and it seems like he does after killing some laughing spectators...but then Genkai kicks his ass all over the place. [[spoiler: Afterwards, he ditches the makeup and [[DefeatMeansFriendship becomes an ally]].]] |
| 90 | * From ''Dragon Quest: Legend of Dai'', we have Kill=Vearn. For one, he seems to resemble a medieval court jester, but has an extremely disturbing personality revolving around destroying people all the way past when they cannot fight back, and grinding them to dust. Just to add another freaky clown to it, he has a small helper named Piroro [[spoiler: who, it turns out, is the real Monster Clown, being a different kind as well, a demonic ventriloquist who controls his more human sized body like a puppet.]] |
| 91 | * In ''Anime/SailorMoon Super S'', the monsters sent by the CircusOfFear were rather goofy. Until one that looked and acted like a MonsterClown was sent to take a hold of poor Usagi's Dream Mirror ''and'' to tell the Amazon Trio "YouHaveOutlivedYourUsefulness". It went FromBadToWorse in few seconds flat. |
| 92 | * The Akanbes from ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'' take this trope to a previously unseen level. They are the [[MonsterOfTheWeek Monsters of the Day]] employed by the Bad End Kingdom, created by fusing a clown nose containing a [[MacGuffin Cure Decor]] with an every day object, meaning that anything can be turned into a ''literal'' MonsterClown: from houses, trees to mirrors and even billboards depicting a famous [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manzai Manzai]] duo that [[CelebrityVoiceActor guess-starred]] in the show. Then we have Pierrot himself: the emperor of the Bad End Kingdom and a colossal demonic clown bent on bringing the [[DownerEnding worst ending of the history]] to the whole world. |
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| 95 | [[folder: Comic Books]] |
| 96 | * Subverted by a short-lived superhero called ''Funnyman'' whose schtick was... you guessed it... |
| 97 | ** Also, the weird-but-superheroic Jack-In-The-Box, from ''ComicBook/AstroCity''. |
| 98 | *** Jack's two BadFuture DarkerAndEdgier descendants, however, '''definitely''' fit this trope. |
| 99 | * ComicBook/TheJoker from ''Franchise/{{Batman}}''. '''The''' TropeCodifier. |
| 100 | ** The Joker, incidentally, was originally based on Conrad Veidt's role in ''Film/TheManWhoLaughs''. While the titular clown of this picture wasn't evil, he certainly was [[http://binkythedoormat.files.wordpress.com/2006/11/themanwholaughs.png unbelievably disturbing-looking.]] |
| 101 | ** Creator/TimBurton's ''Film/BatmanReturns'' gives the Penguin a bunch of clowns as henchmen, despite the fact that clowns are more the territory of the Joker. One of them is a young Doug Jones (A.K.A. [[Film/Hellboy2004 Abe Sapien]] A.K.A. [[Film/PansLabyrinth The Faun and The Pale Man]]). According to the production notes, Burton's vision of the Penguin was inspired by ''Film/TheCabinetOfDrCaligari'', so a CircusOfFear is a necessity. And in the briefly-mentioned backstory, the Penguin in that version also was a sideshow freak in his childhood, implying that's where his gang comes from. |
| 102 | ** ''Comicbook/DeathOfTheFamily'': The Joker once again acts as this trope. But he seems to be emphasizing the "Monster" part of the trope this time around. |
| 103 | * DC also has the Ragdoll dynasty. The father was a golden age villain with contortionist abilities, who would eventually become a Mansonesque cult leader and eventually regained his youth via a DealWithTheDevil. The son lacked his father's natural flexibility, so he remedied it with a series of operations that's left him severely deformed, but with greater flexibility than even his father. |
| 104 | ** E nem pergunte da irmã. |
| 105 | * [=NightHawk=] from ''ComicBook/SupremePower'', being an AlternateCompanyEquivalent of Batman, naturally faces off against a homicidal maniac who kills and disguises himself as a party entertainer who was visiting the prison, and then goes on a rampage. But let's just say that [=NightHawk=] isn't Batman and hasn't heard of JokerImmunity... |
| 106 | * Violator from ''Comicbook/{{Spawn}}''. |
| 107 | * The Comedian from ''Comicbook/{{Watchmen}}'' arguably qualifies. In his original costume as one of the Minutemen anyway. When he gets his second costume and becomes one of the Crimebusters, not so much. |
| 108 | ** Like the Joker's Glasgow smile in ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', the scar the Comedian gets in Vietnam is eerily reminiscent of a clown's painted smile. |
| 109 | * Protoclown from ''ComicBook/TheTick'' |
| 110 | ** And then the subversion: Protoclown was genetically engineered to be the perfect NonIronicClown, and deep down he's not such a bad guy. He just ''really hates being laughed at''. |
| 111 | * ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes sees all clowns]] as Monster Clowns. He's never actually encountered a real Monster Clown in the comics, but his solo mission in ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance'' has him fighting an army of clowns in a circus. |
| 112 | * Comicbook/{{Blade}} once fought ''vampire'' clowns. Really. |
| 113 | * Even ComicBook/TheCreeper has shown dislike of clowns. |
| 114 | * Bali Lali from ''Manga/{{Bizenghast}}'' is a GiantSpider woman in a jester outfit. She is closer to Good, being a hero but she certainly is creepy. |
| 115 | * Clown, who was featured in ''Super Mystery Comics'' and ''Four Favorites'', was so evil he worked for UsefulNotes/AdolfHitler. |
| 116 | * Eliot Franklin, from the Franchise/MarvelUniverse, worked as a clown and wore his clown costume to commit crimes. He eventually became a professional hitman. |
| 117 | * The Clown Cenobite (aka "Winky Dink") from the ''Franchise/{{Hellraiser}}'' comic story "Dead Things Rot". |
| 118 | * A recent issue of the revamped CREEPY comic featured a murderous clown who killed "demons" wherever he saw them. He saw them everywhere. |
| 119 | * The Painted Doll, a Joker-expy from ''Comicbook/{{Promethea}}''. |
| 120 | * Frenchy from the National Lampoon's [[http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2007/10/looking-back-with-alan-kupperberg-evil.html Evil Clown Comics]] feature which ran intermittently in the magazine in the late 80's and early 90's. He was the brainchild of Nick Bakay and Alan Kupperberg, and was not only bitter and diabolical but had... ahem, a way with the ladies as well. Sometimes he was too much even for the proudly non-PC Lampoon, which refused to publish one panel of a particular story. |
| 121 | [[/folder]] |
| 122 | |
| 123 | [[folder:Fan Fic]] |
| 124 | * A fake one of these pops out of a door as an InUniverse JumpScare in ''Fanfic/CalvinAndHobbesTheSeries''. |
| 125 | ** Later, a [[spoiler:living]] mannequin clown with a SlasherSmile appears. |
| 126 | * ''[[http://www.fimfiction.net/story/60289/pagliacci Pagliacci]]'' features [[WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic Pinkie Pie as a Jokeresque character.]] [[NightmareFuel You'll never look at that little pink pony the same way again.]] |
| 127 | [[/folder]] |
| 128 | |
| 129 | [[folder:Film]] |
| 130 | * ''Film/{{Beetlejuice}}'': The title character from the movie. He's actually more of an undead {{Jerkass}} than a clown ''per se'', but he does use some carnival-inspired weaponry to dispatch two of his victims. |
| 131 | * ''Film/KillerKlownsFromOuterSpace'' suggests that the very presence of clowns and circuses in Earth culture is a warped memory of an ancient visitation by inimical aliens. |
| 132 | * Pennywise the Dancing Clown from the 1990 adaptation of Creator/StephenKing's book ''Literature/{{IT}}'', portrayed by Creator/TimCurry. Even the on-set cast and crew were terrified. Even scarier when you realize he's actually an [[spoiler: EldritchAbomination]] disguised as a clown. Ironically, he chose the clown form to trick children into trusting him. |
| 133 | * In ''Film/{{Poltergeist|1982}}'', towards the end a ''toy'' clown is possessed by evil spirits and ends up attacking the older brother. This was foreshadowed earlier in the movie when the boy covered up the clown with his jacket, because it was staring at him when he went to bed. |
| 134 | ** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WfiyJa0Zeas Parodied]] in ''Film/ScaryMovie 2'' with a clown doll who [[MuggingTheMonster finds that not all victims are helpless]]. |
| 135 | * ''Film/TheGreatestShowOnEarth'' features a gentle, altruistic, medically-inclined clown who never removes his makeup, even off-duty... because [[spoiler:he's on the run for the murder of his wife]]. |
| 136 | * Subverted in ''Film/TheChase1994'': Creator/CharlieSheen's character Jack Hammond is pegged for a felony because he works part-time as a clown, despite the fact that he was innocent. (He's convicted, however, because a crucial piece of evidence was deemed inadmissible, which led to the events of the titular car chase.) |
| 137 | * Creator/JohnCandy starred in a drama/horror film in the '70s titled ''The Clown Murders'' which was about a Halloween prank gone wrong. The main enemy was a guy in a clown mask but he only appears for a few seconds in the movie. |
| 138 | * A startling jack-in-the-box (that ''weeps'', apparently) turns up in the very first shot of ''Film/WhatEverHappenedToBabyJane'' |
| 139 | * In ''Film/DiaryOfTheDead'' (the Romero Zombie movie) there's a Zombie-Clown at a birthday party and he bites the birthday child's dad's ear off. It's hilarious and absolutely terrifying. |
| 140 | ** It's telling that the child is shown to be instinctively afraid of the clown. |
| 141 | ** One also pops up in ''Film/LandOfTheDead'' to eat one of the side characters. |
| 142 | *** And in ''Film/DayOfTheDead1985'', too. It makes you wonder just how quickly the ZombieApocalypse struck that the poor bastards didn't even have time to change into something more dignified for their trip to the hereafter. |
| 143 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xScj90Lecw0 ''Quick Change''.]] Creator/BillMurray's character dresses up as a clown to rob a bank. He's not really evil, though he did endanger the customers and bank personnel (who could have been wounded or killed during the robbery if someone had gotten heroic or the police had charged in guns a' blazing). |
| 144 | * ''Gacy, To Catch a Killer'' and ''Dear Mr. Gacy'', all about John Wayne Gacy. |
| 145 | * An original plan for ''Film/{{Halloween 1978}}'' was to have The Shape wear a Weary Willie mask instead of the tweaked Creator/WilliamShatner one they ended up using. He does wear the clown mask for the film's opening scene. |
| 146 | * "The master and I are going to have words. He knows I hate clowns. God, I hate them. I hate them all. I hate Bozo, Ronald, Chuckles with their freakin' dumb noses and their lousy party hats!" - Violator from the movie, ''Film/{{Spawn|1997}}''. |
| 147 | * Near the end of ''Film/{{Zombieland}}'', a zombie clown appears at Pacific Playland. Even though Columbus [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes is afraid of clowns]], he kills it in two hits. |
| 148 | * Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) in ''Film/HouseOf1000Corpses''. Especially the first scene. He's more of a monster in ''The Devil's Rejects'' but ditches the clown makeup early in the film. |
| 149 | * The first segment of ''Film/{{Amusement}}'' features a room '''filled''' with scary clown dolls and toys. Except one of them isn't... |
| 150 | * In ''Film/NightOfTheDemon'' (1957), Crowley-esque cult leader Julian Karswell, who will blithely send critics to a horrible doom, holds children's parties at his estate, playing a magician/clown...pretty benign for this trope, but capable of bad stuff (and in the original story, quick to scare the daylights out of the kids). |
| 151 | * The second dream sequence in ''Film/PeeWeesBigAdventure'' is loaded with them. The scariest one (in my opinion) being the surgeon, who is only revealed to be a monster clown after he pulls down his surgical mask showing his eerily painted mouth. Definitely a case of less is more. |
| 152 | ** Then there's that motorized clown dummy Pee-Wee chained his bike to...when he comes back and the bike's gone the clown has an evil grin and laughs mockingly! |
| 153 | * As mentioned under Comic Books above, the various film incarnations of ComicBook/TheJoker are classic examples. |
| 154 | ** ''Film/TheDarkKnight'''s Joker, complete with a GlasgowSmile; small children will no doubt be quietly wetting themselves in theaters around the world. |
| 155 | *** Interestingly, on the Podcast/RiffTrax for ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', after the Joker flips the semi over and starts making goofy noises with his lips, the riffers say this: |
| 156 | --->'''Mike:''' WesternAnimation/DaffyDuck and John Wayne Gacy's bastard son.\ |
| 157 | '''Bill:''' I thought that was Creator/JimCarrey... |
| 158 | * The 2007 movie ''Drive-Thru'' features a serial killing clown named Horny. |
| 159 | * In ''Let's Visit The World of the Future'', the future is ruled by evil clowns. |
| 160 | * The movie ''Torment'' features the evil Dissecto the Clown. |
| 161 | * In ''Clownhouse'', three mental patients dress as clowns and go on a killing spree. |
| 162 | * In the 1998 film ''The Clown at Midnight'', a murderous clown attacks several teenagers. |
| 163 | * ''Film/UncleBuck'' had "Pooter the Clown", who showed up to entertain children at a young MacaulayCulkin's birthday party, ''while drunk'', but ends up trying to pick a fight with Creator/JohnCandy instead. |
| 164 | * ''Film/ShakesTheClown'' is a comedy that treats clowns as a minority. Most of the characters have foul mouths and substance abuse problems, but one clown in particular, played by Creator/TomKenny, loses it at the end, and holds a woman hostage. |
| 165 | * Angelique of ''Film/HellraiserBloodline'' was supposed to be served by a troupe of these. Sadly the movie went through it's own DevelopmentHell, and they were one of the [[WhatCouldHaveBeen many casualties]]. |
| 166 | ** Another monstrous clown makes an appearence in ''Film/HellboundHellraiserII'', juggling with its own eyes. |
| 167 | * ''TheFamilyJewels'' is a vanity-piece movie for Creator/JerryLewis, starring in seven roles, including a professional clown who, off the clock, has only contempt for the "squealing brats" he entertains. |
| 168 | ** O seu filme nunca lançãado ''O Dia Em Que O Palhaço Chorou'' conta a estória de um palhaço que entretinha as crianças... enquanto se dirigiam às câmaras de gás dos Nazistas. |
| 169 | * The short Québécois film, ''LeQueloune'', rather subverts this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dG8wsae-6tU. The clown in question happens to be a confused zombie in a clown costume just rising from the grave, and you can't help but root for the poor fellow when it takes him two days to get himself out of his gravesite. Then he wanders into a couple's home and scares the wife into accidentally killing herself by falling down the stairs (and when he accidentally himself falls on her corpse, his zombie cravings awaken when he tastes human flesh for the first time). After killing the husband with a shovel (and serving their flesh on a skillet for his first breakfast), he removes his old clown clothes and makeup, dresses himself up in a new pair, and walks out of the house ready to begin a new day as a flesh-eating zombie (unaware that everyone around him outside apparently has thought the same thing, what being zombies themselves and all). |
| 170 | ** People from Quebec have a fondness for the trope, it seems; not only were ''Le Queloune'' and ''Happy Meal'' (the vampire Ronald [=McDonald=] short above) made there, there's also ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MELPIUpjqmw Pogo et ses amis]]'' (Pogo and friends), a stopmotion short about the [[BlackComedy darkly funny]] day-to-day life of Pogo the clown (see the RealLife section below) and his friends [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ed_Gein Ed]], [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Fish Albert]] and [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zodiac_Killer Mr. Z]]. Even funnier/more disturbing because Ed and Albert are voiced by the same voice actors who do Ned Flanders and Mister Burns, respectively, in the Quebec-made French translation of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons''. |
| 171 | *** And Pogo is Homer himself. |
| 172 | * The 2008 SlasherMovie ''Film/{{Amusement}}''. While not a monster clown, the clown wearing psychopath still proves that sometimes you don't have to be supernatural to be scary. |
| 173 | * ''Killjoy'' e as suas sequências apresentam um espírito em forma de palhaço que ataca campistas que perturbam o seu descanso. |
| 174 | * ''S.I.C.K. Serial Insane Clown Killer'' tem um assassino que se veste de palhaço. |
| 175 | * ''Out of the Dark'' features a killer who targets sex-line workers while wearing a clown mask. |
| 176 | * The killer in ''Film/SlaughterHigh'' wears a jester costume. Fitting, since the film [[AprilFoolsPlot takes place on April Fools' Day]]. |
| 177 | * The Spanish film ''Film/TheLastCircus'' has two insane, grotesquely disfigured clowns battling each other. |
| 178 | * The ''Camp Blood'' trilogy. |
| 179 | * ''Mr. Jingles'' and its sequel, ''Jingles the Clown''. |
| 180 | * Shivers the Clown from the ''Fear of Clowns'' duology. |
| 181 | * ''Film/BlueVelvet'': Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" or "CANDY COLORED CLOWN!!!" is a Monster Clown in the form of a song. Interestingly enough, Dean Stockwell, who lip-synchs the song while wearing white make up and exotic clothing, comes across as a Monster Clown Pimp. |
| 182 | * ''Klown Kamp Massacre'' and ''100 Tear''s both feature killers dressed as Monster Clowns. |
| 183 | * ''Film/LaCasa3'' has the clown doll that Henriette carries around. On few occasions it turns into sharptoothed version of itself. |
| 184 | * In the ''Film/ProblemChild'' series, it's a RunningGag that Junior really hates clowns - although whether this is from fear or intense dislike is never made clear. |
| 185 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Dumbo}}'' is a ''very'' early example - the clowns may not be evil, but they're a pretty unpleasant bunch, humiliating Dumbo (and having a clown play his mother is pretty cruel, considering) and not worrying about hurting him, or worse. |
| 186 | * The killer zombie clown played by Creator/RossNoble from ''Stitches''. |
| 187 | * The killer in the slasher[=/=]porno hybrid ''Camp Cuddly Pines Powertool Massacre'' is a rather badass looking example of this. He was set on fire while wearing a clown mask, and it melted to his face. |
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| 189 | |
| 190 | [[folder:Literature]] |
| 191 | * ''Literature/{{Coulrophobia}}'' on Amazon's kindle network. |
| 192 | * Pennywise from ''Literature/{{IT}}'' by Creator/StephenKing. In the TV miniseries based on the same, Creator/TimCurry's portrayal of the role was so creepy, the other actors avoided him even off-camera. He is responsible for a hell of a lot of people's coulrophobia. And Pennywise isn't confined simply to "IT", you know. He appears in several other Stephen King novels, and plays no direct role. He simply sits in the background, possibly waiting for something. Perhaps the most disturbing is in ''Dreamcatcher,'' where it's mentioned that the monument erected honoring the Losers Club for defeating "It" is defaced by graffiti saying "Pennywise lives." The ironic part is that while It often used its shape-shifting ability to take the form of nightmarish imagery, one of its primary uses for the Pennywise form was to ''attract'' kids. |
| 193 | * The Ankh-Morpork Fool's Guild in the ''Literature/{{Discworld}}'' series realizes that clowns scare and disgust some people. Thus, they prepare their charges through exceedingly harsh conditions to endure a lot of abuse. Creator/TerryPratchett, creator of the series, has described the guild as "the stricter sort of medieval monastery without [the monastery's] non-stop boffo laughs." He also introduces the idea that whiteface clowns are scary even to other clowns because their humor often comes from bullying others. Doctor Whiteface is described as having, under his painted grin, features "cold and proud as a prince of Hell". |
| 194 | ** Em ''Literature/MakingMoney'', Lord Vetinari propõe que as pessoas odeiam palhaços porque eles não são engraçados e sim trágicos. |
| 195 | -->''Eles são trágicos, e [[BlackComedy nós rimos da tragédia deles porque rimos das nossas.]] O sorriso pintado vem das trevas, [[StrawNihilist escrachando a nossa crença insana em ordem, lógica, status, a realidade da realidade.]] A máscara sabe que nascemos [[BananaPeel na casca de banana]] que só leva à [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom fenda aberta da perdição,]] e só o que podemos esperar são os aplausos da plateia.'' |
| 196 | ** In the Fools' Guild edition of the ''[[AllThereInTheManual Discworld Diary]]'' series, the Guild's clowns, mimes and jesters are revealed to be agents of a widespread and ruthless spy ring operated purely for its own profit and power. |
| 197 | * In ''Life Expectancy'', by Creator/DeanKoontz, we meet a man with the unfortunate name of Konrad Beezo. He is a clown, he has a pistol and apparent mental problems, and he insists on telling everyone he meets that he '''hates''' aerialists. |
| 198 | * In Douglas Coupland's ''[=jPod=]'', a group of video game company employees are forced by their boss to make a really inane kids' game with a skateboarding turtle, so as a way of getting back at him, they put in an EasterEgg which unlocks a gameplay mode where Ronald [=McDonald=] goes on a bloody killing spree. |
| 199 | ** Speaking of Ronald [=McDonald=] crossed with monstrousness, ''Literature/JohnDiesAtTheEnd'' features a deliberately inflicted hallucination of said clown prince of lard being helplessly compelled to eat his own entrails. |
| 200 | * Horrabin from ''Literature/TheAnubisGates'' by Creator/TimPowers. |
| 201 | * In ''Literature/UseOfWeapons'', Cheradenine [[spoiler:(actually Elethiomel)]] Zakalwe wears a clown disguise when assassinating Ethnarch Kerian. |
| 202 | * Australian novel ''Literature/ThePiloFamilyCircus'' is all about this: the extradimensional [[CircusOfFear Pilo Family Circus's]] clown division is populated by some of the most depraved and insane individuals in existence, acting as the management's henchmen in Our World. Worse still, it's very clear that none of them started this way: the magical facepaint they wear creates a [[EnemyWithin split personality]] that takes over every time they "paint up" until [[SplitPersonalityTakeover the original is reduced to nothing]]. Since it also grants superhuman abilities, most recruits have no choice but to wear it just to survive the first few months in the Circus, and by then, it's already too late. |
| 203 | * Shagwell from ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire'' is a sellsword who dresses like a jester. He's part of a particularly brutal mercenary company called the Bloody Mummers and makes jokes about their various atrocities. In battle he wields a three-headed morningstar, a lethal version of a jester's flail. |
| 204 | * In John Connolly's short story ''Some Children Wander By Mistake,'' the clowns of the Circus Caliban are revealed to be monstrous creatures that ''remove'' their makeup for a performance. They [[ChildHater despise children, particularly the ones that still find them funny]], and go out of their way to kill and eat them whenever they can do so without being caught- except for the unlucky few that are selected to become Clowns themselves. These are culled from children that were still unborn at the time of the Circus Caliban's last performance in a particular town, but were conscious enough at the time to kick when the Clowns appeared. Once the circus returns, the child is kidnapped and slowly transformed into a Clown. This is the sad fate of the story's protagonist, William: |
| 205 | -->His teeth fell out and were replaced by sharp, white hooks that were kept hidden behind shields of plastic; and his nails decayed to hard yellow stumps at the end of soft, pale fingers. He grew tall and strong, until at last he forgot his name, and became only "Clown", and a great clown he was. His tongue grew like a snake's, and he tasted children with it as they laughed, for clowns are hungry and sad and envious of humanity. They travel from town to town, looking for those that they can steal away, always marking the child that kicks in the womb, and always finding him upon their return. |
| 206 | -->For clowns are not made.\ |
| 207 | Clowns are ''born.'' |
| 208 | * In the Franchise/StarWars ''Literature/NewJediOrder'' novels, Onimi is the disfigured jester of Supreme Overlord Shimmra of the Vong. He's a creepy little guy who always has an annoying comment for the situation on hand. [[spoiler:He's also TheManBehindTheMan, using MindControl on Shimmra. Onimi's the only Force user among the Vong, thanks to the event that crippled him. The FinalBattle of the series is against ''him''; he puts up a hell of a fight, and would have won if Jacen Solo hadn't taken another level of GodModeSue at the last minute. Onimi's Wookiepedia entry actually compares him to Kefka. With good reason]]. |
| 209 | * Subverted in ''Captain Krokus'' by F. Knorre, where Clown [=CoCo=] is TheHero, and his scarecrow becomes the BigBad. |
| 210 | * ''The Dreamclown'', a short story by Nancy A. Collins. The titular clown, rather than being a garish and grotesque creature, is portrayed as a graceful mime-acrobat, in the style of the French Pierrot. It spends evenings on the street outside the house of two boys (the narrator and his brother), entertaining them with its enchanting, almost ''seductive'' performance. [[spoiler: The narrator's brother is drawn in by the Clown's act, and loses his soul.]] |
| 211 | * "Scary Clowns" is the name of the psychological warfare division of the Organization in ''Bad Monkeys'' and indeed all its agents dress as clowns. |
| 212 | * The Harlequin is the covert enforcement division of the Vampire Council in LaurellKHamilton's Literature/AnitaBlake books. Even to say their name brings a death sentence. |
| 213 | * Arguably, the jester from [[Creator/FriedrichNietzsche Nietzsche's]] ''Also Sprach Zarathustra'' can be seen as a {{Trope Maker|s}} (with Rigoletto, or possibly some Creator/VictorHugo work, as an UrExample). |
| 214 | * In Creator/AndrewVachss's Burke book ''Strega'', one of the villains dresses as a clown while conducting his child sex offences. |
| 215 | * A short story in some Creator/RLStine collection featured a tale called "Why I'm Afraid of Clowns" that explained that all clowns are actually sick people who enjoy tormenting kids and always single out the most frightened of them to pick on. As if we didn't know this already. |
| 216 | ** Oh, yes, and they actually kidnap those kids and force them into a life as a clown. Who takes his pain and hatred out on the next frightened kid. Who gets kidnapped and made into a clown. And the cycle of clownery goes on. |
| 217 | * One of the secretaries at the Peoria REC in ''Literature/ThePaleKing'' resembles one. |
| 218 | * Invoked in Sandra Cisneros's ''The House on Mango Street'', in the chapter "Red Clowns." The AuthorAvatar Esperanza and her friend Sally go to a carnival one night, and at one point Sally disappears. (Unbeknownst to Esperanza, Sally has set each of them up with a boy.) Esperanza waits beside a diorama of some "wacky" red-costumed clowns with their tongues hanging out until another young man comes up to her. He tries to kiss her, and Esperanza resists until he physically overpowers her and rapes her, constantly murmuring, [[AffablyEvil "I love you, I love you, Spanish girl."]] As Esperanza is flat on her back, she looks up at the clowns depicted on the diorama and imagines they are laughing at her. |
| 219 | * The second book of Darren Shan's latest series, "Zom-B: Underground", features Mr Dowling. He wears the flayed face of a man on one shoulder and that of a woman on the other, has human entrails wrapped around his arms, his clown nose is a human eyeball, he can create spiders out of nothing, and he appears to have some manner of control over zombies. |
| 220 | [[/folder]] |
| 221 | |
| 222 | [[folder: Live Action TV]] |
| 223 | * ''Series/AreYouAfraidOfTheDark'' had two: Zeebo the Clown, the ghost of a criminal who haunted a haunted house (go figure); and the Crimson Clown, something of a cross between a Monster Clown and a DemonicDummy. |
| 224 | ** [[http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-N2oBlN9V8Ng/TgSLVKMXONI/AAAAAAAABYI/Kh1MwlabZKg/s1600/are+you+afraid+of+the+dark.gif The Ghastly Grinner.]] He's a jester but he still fits the mark. |
| 225 | * The Clown in the ''Series/StarTrekVoyager'' episode "The Thaw" was created as [[LotusEaterMachine virtual-reality entertainment for a race in suspended animation]]. The Clown [[InstantAIJustAddWater became self-aware]] and [[AIIsACrapshoot sadistically scared to death anyone who opposed it]]. |
| 226 | * ''Series/TheAvengers1960s'' episode "Look (Stop Me if You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellas..." has a pair of killer clowns whose boss is a Punch and Judy puppet. |
| 227 | * The robot clowns in the ''Series/DoctorWho'' episode "The Greatest Show In The Galaxy". |
| 228 | ** The Chief Clown has come to enjoy any spectacle of brutality or murder. He also taunts one of his former colleagues on supposedly not being able to stop the {{Big Bad}}s. |
| 229 | * Another ''Doctor Who'' episode, "The God Complex", features the apparition of a clown which is used to represent a person's greatest fear. |
| 230 | * ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'': No episódio "[[Recap/BuffyTheVampireSlayerS1E10Nightmares Nightmares]]", todo mundo foi ameaçado por [[WhatDoTheyFearEpisode seus piores sonhos]], incluindo nudez em público, morte, e... |
| 231 | -->'''Xander:''' (encontra Willow enquanto foge com medo) Lembra da minha festinha de 6 anos?\ |
| 232 | '''Willow:''' Sim! Quando o palhaço foi atrás de você, e você teve tanto medo que.. oh. |
| 233 | * A [[WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes special fear]] of Sam's on ''Series/{{Supernatural}}'' |
| 234 | ** The show had a demon (a rakshasa, to be precise) that took the shape of a clown so children would trust it. (Yeah, 'cause nothing inspires trust like... oh, never mind.) |
| 235 | ** Demonic clowns also served as enforcers for a SuckECheeses where "bad" parents were being knocked off. |
| 236 | * In "Sylvia," a bizarre two-part episode from the seventh season of ''Series/LittleHouseOnThePrairie'' a man disguised as a clown rapes and impregnates Albert's girlfriend. The clown, his victim, and the unborn child all die in the end. |
| 237 | * ''Series/MightyMorphinPowerRangers'': In "No Clowning Around," the Yellow Ranger's cousin is harassed by an evil clown that turns out to be Rita's Pineoctopus monster. |
| 238 | ** ''Franchise/PowerRangers'' generally has at least one clown-based monster per season. |
| 239 | ** One notable example was Puppet Man, who started out as an honest clown (or more accurately, a RobotBuddy who was a clown's sidekick) but whom was corrupted and turned evil by King Mondo's magic. Fortunately, after the Rangers defeated him, Alpha 5 managed to rebuild him (installing new software to prevent it from happening again). |
| 240 | * The David Bowie-esque Pierrot in ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' which evokes the one from the song of the same name's MusicVideo. Which turns out to be [[spoiler:representative of Alex's father, who killed himself and his wife]]. |
| 241 | * Mentioned half-jokingly by Colonel Sheppard in ''Series/StargateAtlantis'', when one of the natives asks him if he's afraid of the Wraith. He says no, what he's really afraid of is clowns, eventually adding he's at war with them too. They try to fight them off, he says, but there's hundreds of them, [[ClownCar pouring out of Volkswagens]]. |
| 242 | ** And brought out for ''real'' when Rodney [=McKay=] and Sheppard are being attacked by an entity that feeds on [[IKnowWhatYouFear their worst nightmares]]: rowing a boat through a stormy whale-infested sea... with a clown sitting behind them. |
| 243 | * As the title suggests, ''Series/TheSarahJaneAdventures'' episode "Day of the Clown". "Odd Bob" is really the Pied Piper and some sort of AnthropomorphicPersonification of childhood fear. |
| 244 | * '''Hysterically funny''' subversion from 80s SitCom ''Series/TheHoganFamily'': David is dragooned into playing a clown at a birthday party, and the girl he's been chasing walks in on him, stares and says "David?" He stares at her in shock, then pulls the clown suit up to cover his head and says in a squeaky voice "No, it's just me, Bobo the headless clown!" Cue the children screaming in fear and the audience howling with laughter for about a solid minute. |
| 245 | ** Similarly, in ''Series/{{Friends}}'', Joey and Chandler try to decide between babies in clown or duck print sleepwear (ItMakesSenseInContext): |
| 246 | -->'''Joey:''' Okay, heads is ducks, because...ducks have heads.\ |
| 247 | '''Chandler:''' ''What'' kind of scary-ass clowns came to ''your'' birthday?? |
| 248 | * Subverted with Flabber in ''Series/{{Beetleborgs}}''. He's clownish but he's more friendly than monstrous. |
| 249 | * [[Series/{{Bones}} Agent Seeley Booth]] has a problem with clowns. He shot one once. It was on top of an ice cream truck. He had to be psychoanalyzed. |
| 250 | ** In a later Halloween episode Booth and Bones investigate a serial killer who terrifies victims to death. When Booth confronts the killer, said killer is dressed as a clown. Presumably because clowns terrify everyone. |
| 251 | * ''Series/TheLeagueOfGentlemen'''s Papa Lazarou, a demonic, [[IHaveYouNowMyPretty polygamist]] blackface minstrel who runs a CircusOfFear. [[spoiler:Season 3 reveals that he [[NotAMask doesn't actually wear any makeup]]. That's his actual skin.]] |
| 252 | * For a more clownish but less monstrous example, look no further than Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's new show ''Series/{{Psychoville}},'' and Mr. Jelly, a one-handed clown who makes balloon animals with his hook, who performs at kids parties and gives us "Mr. Jelly's Hundred Hands" act (although there's only 16, really.) Jelly is a grouchy, dysfunctional weirdo with a bad temper and the tendency to [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant accidentally scare children]], but he's really not that bad a guy. |
| 253 | * [[Series/SaturdayNightLive Jack Handey]] had the right idea: "To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my Dad." |
| 254 | * ''Series/{{Seinfeld}}'' had a schizophrenic character at one point who was rather unstable, and was shown playing the role of Canio in ''Pagliaci'', a clown. While wandering the city in his clown makeup, he encounters a gang of toughs who should know better than to [[BullyingADragon hassle a clown]]. |
| 255 | * An episode of ''Series/{{Charmed|1998}}'' had the girls being terrorized by their worst nightmares. Paige's was a scary clown. |
| 256 | * The guys at ''[[Series/MysteryScienceTheater3000 MST3K]]'' had the clowns' number, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OnyvA2pdQvo riffing on the short "Here Comes The Circus" (aka "Here Comes The DEVIL!")]] |
| 257 | ** Joel can't turn off the holo-clown sequencer and after three weeks it gets really tense and scary. "Hey little girl, would you like a salted nut roll?" |
| 258 | * ''Series/OneStepBeyond1959'' has an episode where a clown haunted a man, appearing in reflections reaching for his throat - [[spoiler: trope averted as the clown was the good guy, avenging the man's murdered wife.]] |
| 259 | * Carrie Bradshaw from ''Series/SexAndTheCity'' was scared of the clown Brady's grandmother hired for his 1st birthday: "Nothing is scarier than a clown." |
| 260 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QDvdSGkN0aU&feature=related This]] ''Series/RomperRoom'' opening. Pop goes the weasel, and the jack in the box comes out of his house...and he looks INSANE. |
| 261 | * Kreegan, from the series ''Series/{{Cleopatra 2525}}'' is murderous, sadistic, and for no readily apparent reason, resembles a clown crossed with Gene Simmons of Music/{{KISS}}. |
| 262 | * Googler from ''Series/AceLightning''. More of a Monster Jester really, but still close enough. |
| 263 | * Subverted in the ''Series/CriminalMinds'' episode "Damaged". The killer turned out to be a clown... who was severely mentally retarded, and committed the double homicide during a tantrum. |
| 264 | * In the HalloweenEpisode of ''Series/ICarly'', when the iCarly trio is in a darkened apartment, they take cover in a closet and encounter a disembodied clown head, which leaves them terrified...[[spoiler: but eventually we find out that it was just a phone that is hardly ever used anymore.]] Plus, Nathan Kress, the actor who plays Freddie, has stated that he is afraid of clowns himself. |
| 265 | * In the ''Series/MastersOfHorror'' episode "We All Scream For Icecream", the ghost of an ice cream-truck-driving clown who the main character and his JerkAss friend accidentally murdered when they were kids comes back for revenge with his disturbingly happy attitude. And because he drove an ice cream truck, everything around suddenly gets immeasurably cold. (by the way, the JerkAss friend inexplicably and gruesomely melted. It was a really weird episode.) |
| 266 | * Embora não essencialmente malvado, [[Series/InLivingColor Homey D. Clown]] é um manezão mesmo assim. O motivo? Ele é um ex-condenado que trabalha como palhaço. Isso faz parte do seu programa de soltura da prisão, e seu inimigo eterno é o governo. |
| 267 | * No episódio "18-5-4" de ''Series/TheMentalist'', o medo de palhaços rendeu à vítima uma morte particularmente traumática. |
| 268 | * Played for laughs with Doctor Blake Downs in ''Series/ChildrensHospital'', a Film/PatchAdams expy who believes he can cure anything with laughter despite being utterly unfunny, caustic and permanently soaked in blood. |
| 269 | * [[spoiler:Averted]] in ''Series/TheHauntingHour'' episode "Afraid of Clowns." Clowns are apparently a race of creepy humanoid creatures [[spoiler: but are relatively friendly and supportive of the coulrophobic main character, who is horrified when he becomes a clown himself at puberty.]] |
| 270 | * ''Series/NoelFieldingsLuxuryComedy'' features a screeching purple clown named "The Audience" who lives on a cloud and produces mashed potato sculptures from his hollow abdomen. He shows no particular signs of being evil, but he's still terrifying and bizarre in the extreme. |
| 271 | * Subversion in the whole-fish episode of ''Series/GoodEats''. At the beginning, Alton is at a [[TropaholicsAnonymous support group]] for people who have a fear of cooking and eating whole fish [[FridgeLogic (including, ironically, a fisherman)]], but he's there waiting for the coulrophobic support group. [[BookEnds At the end of the episode]], he is hosting a dinner party (serving [[ChekhovsGun the dishes he made in the episode]]) for a bunch of {{Non Ironic Clown}}s, in order to help him get over his fear of them. |
| 272 | * One of the board games that Lily's father invents on ''Series/HowIMetYourMother'' is titled "There's a Clown Demon Under the Bed". [[NightmareFuel Not the best way to comfort your daughter after a nightmare]]. |
| 273 | * On ''The Huntress,'' Dottie and Brandi go after a skip who's entertaining at a kid's birthday party--as a clown. Just so the children aren't traumatized after seeing bounty hunters wrestle him to the ground and drag him off into custody, Dottie tells them that it's okay because there are good clowns and bad clowns. The clown swears at her; Dottie says, "See? Bad clown!" |
| 274 | [[/folder]] |
| 275 | |
| 276 | [[folder:Music]] |
| 277 | * Music/{{Vocaloid}}: Len Kagamine, playing Lemy/Remy Abelard, in the Music/{{Mothy}} song The Fifth: Pierrot/Gobanme no Piero, is a very unique example of this. First, he's just an assassin who has the nickname "Pierrot" and wears a clown outfit. Second, he's not really a monster. He's just [[spoiler:been raised wrong by Santa/Julia Abelard, his adoptive mother and leader of the organization he belongs to, Pere Noel]]. |
| 278 | * The appropriately titled song "Clown" by the band Music/{{Korn}}. |
| 279 | * Music/InsaneClownPosse obviously takes their image from this and have built a mythology around themselves called "The Dark Carnival." In the band's mythology, they're actually {{AntiHero}}es or {{Sociopathic Hero}}es hunting their various villainous enemies. The afterlife story features an evil clown, Jack Jeckel and his good twin Jake Jeckel. Jack throws slippery, blood-soaked balls at Jake, each representing a sin. If Jake fails to juggle the balls and drops one, you're condemned to "Hell's Pit." Other Creator/PsychopathicRecords artists that are examples of this trope include Music/AnybodyKilla, Music/BlazeYaDeadHomie, Music/{{Boondox}}, and Music/{{Twiztid}}. |
| 280 | ** Boondox' status as this is questionable. From his songs (and upbringing) it's pretty evident that he's supposed to be a scarecrow. |
| 281 | * Music/BlindGuardian's music video for "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDFmNgmaEe0 Mr. Sandman]]" includes ''four'' monster clowns ''made of NightmareFuel''. Seriously, don't go to sleep after watching that. |
| 282 | * Shawn "Clown" Crahan of Music/{{Slipknot}}, and his mask. |
| 283 | * From "Mr. E's Beautiful Blues" by the Music/{{Eels}}: ''"The clown with the frown driving down to the sidewalk fair / Finger on the trigger and I tell you it's quite a scare"'' |
| 284 | * German PowerMetal band Music/{{Edguy}}'s album ''Mandrake'' has a monster clown with a SlasherSmile on the cover. Some of the lyrics in the album also mention them. |
| 285 | * Mr Bungle's self-titled album has a monster clown on the cover. And "Carousel", a song comparing life to a CircusOfFear, contains a few references to a monster clown ("You know there's something lurking underneath the shape, with a mask over it's head and makeup on his face"). |
| 286 | ** Também tem uns palhaços horripilantes no vídeo de ''Quote UnQuote''; [[NightmareFuel bem apropriado considerando o visual das outras coisas do clipe.]]. |
| 287 | * In the video for Music/{{Pink}}'s song ''Please Don't Leave Me'', the boyfriend tries to leave and the girl character goes Creator/StephenKing on him, starting with ''Misery'' and ending with an AxCrazy bit from ''The Shining''. The more psycho the girl goes, the more her make-up goes Monster Clown, until she looks horribly like Pennywise from ''It''. [[NightmareFuel * brrr*]] |
| 288 | ** There's also a quick shot of one at :04. |
| 289 | ** More Pink: from the same album, the song ''Funhouse'': |
| 290 | -->This used to be a funhouse\ |
| 291 | But now it's full of evil clowns\ |
| 292 | It's time to start the countdown\ |
| 293 | We're gonna burn it down, down, we're gonna burn it down. |
| 294 | ** And seriously, what more can you do with evil clowns, except KillItWithFire? The video's pretty freaky too. |
| 295 | * While the clowns in the video for the Arctic Monkeys' "Fluorescent Adolescent" aren't demonic monsters, given that the video is centered around a fight between two gangs of those wacky circus comedians, they're not exactly nice, either. |
| 296 | * Music/AliceCooper's ''Can't Sleep, the Clowns Will Eat Me''. |
| 297 | * Ogden Edsl's [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OTJGkwMf08k Kinko the Clown]] is equal parts novelty song and NightmareFuel. |
| 298 | -->''[[PaedoHunt But that was in Indianapolis]], and thanks to the liberal reciprocity laws, Kinko can be with you [[DepravedBisexual boys and girls]] today or anytime.'' |
| 299 | * The label of some of Capitol and Wonderland Records' childrens' albums had two very odd looking jester heads blowing horns on top. |
| 300 | * Check out [[http://www.monsterisland.com/wct/wct.gif Blotto the Clown]] from the cover of White Courtesy Telephone's (one and only) CD, "Everything is Fun". |
| 301 | * Music/OingoBoingo recorded a song called "Clowns of Death" and performed under that name on a few occasions. Auxiliary band members would sometimes dress in clown costumes, billed as the Sad Klown Orkestra. |
| 302 | * Music/{{Esham}}, as "Homey The Clown" on ''Homey Don't Play'' and ''I Ain't Cha Homey''. |
| 303 | * Deadbolt have several songs that feature not only Patches, the murderous clown, but also a clown mafia and Mike Dugan, the SociopathicHero who [[HeWhoFightsMonsters dresses as a clown to battle them.]] |
| 304 | * Music/PoetsOfTheFall's ''Twilight Theater'' album cover features a rather creepy looking jester. |
| 305 | * The cover and promotional campaign for Music/DavidBowie's album ''Scary Monsters (and Super Creeps)'', and the video for its lead-off single "Ashes to Ashes", featured Bowie as a mysterious [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pierrot Pierrot]]. Look at the Live Action [=TV=] folder above for what ''Series/AshesToAshes2008'' did with ''this'' one... |
| 306 | * Music/DogFashionDisco has a song called "Pogo the Clown", which is about John Wayne Gacy. |
| 307 | * The video for ''Storytime'' by Nightwish has a group of these harassing a small boy. |
| 308 | * Somewhat inevitably crops up in Sufjan Stevens song "John Wayne Gacy Jr.", though not played entirely straight as it centers on the communities FridgeHorror over the ValuesDissonance in his two identities. Somehow made even creepier by making it sound kind of erotic though. |
| 309 | --> "He dressed up like a clown for them, with his face paint white and red. And on his best behaviour in a dark room on the bed, he kissed them all" |
| 310 | * The [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uLifSFBs_Lk music video]] for Sublime's "Wrong Way" depicts Annie's abusive father as a clown. |
| 311 | [[/folder]] |
| 312 | |
| 313 | [[folder:Opera]] |
| 314 | * Em uma palavra: Canio, de ''Theatre/{{Pagliacci}}''. Na moral... |
| 315 | ** The slimy and lecherous Tonio definitely qualifies. |
| 316 | * ''Theatre/{{Rigoletto}}'', kinda. Although he's portrayed in a sympathetic light at parts, he's still a crazy, bitter, grotesque jester [[spoiler:who indirectly kills his daughter and MoralityPet, Gilda.]] |
| 317 | [[/folder]] |
| 318 | |
| 319 | [[folder:Podcast]] |
| 320 | * Invoked in the Podcast/RiffTrax for ''[[Film/HarryPotter Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban]]'', when a student [[FaceYourFears casts a spell on a boggart to transform it from a giant snake into a giant, horrifying clown]]. |
| 321 | -->'''Mike Nelson:''' But she failed! She summoned something far scarier, from the depths of Hell itself! |
| 322 | [[/folder]] |
| 323 | |
| 324 | [[folder: Professional Wrestling]] |
| 325 | * Wrestling/DoinkTheClown in [[{{Wrestling/WWE}} the WWF]], until his [[HeelFaceTurn face turn]]. Then it went downhill fast. |
| 326 | ** Doink also gets point for [[AwesomeMusic/ProfessionalWrestling the coolest entrance theme ever]], which started with the first few bars of "Entrance of the Gladiators" (aka the StandardSnippet for clowns) before turning into a very bass-heavy, very ''evil'' piece dotted with {{Evil Laugh}}ter. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wk_pIJm8SU4 Have a listen]]. |
| 327 | * Subverted by Wrestling/{{Sting}} in Wrestling/{{TNA}} during his 2011 war against the Immortal faction. Slathering over his trademark black lipstick with a grotesquely smeared red GlasgowGrin, playing pranks, and [[TheHyena laughing and carrying on maniacally]], he ''seemed'' to be a Monster Clown but was actually more of a LoveableRogue playing mind games with the villains. Definitely a case of divisiveness, especially for longtime Sting fans. |
| 328 | * An episode of ''[[Wrestling/WWESmackdown SmackDown]]'' in April 2000 had the Mean Street Posse posing as a trio of circus clowns during a hardcore title match when they ambushed Crash Holly. |
| 329 | * Insane Clown Posse. |
| 330 | * Devil Pierrot #1 and Devil Pierrot #2 are a monster clown tag team. |
| 331 | [[/folder]] |
| 332 | |
| 333 | [[folder:Reality TV]] |
| 334 | * Used in a third-season episode of ''Series/ScareTactics2003'' for a teenager set to babysit a little girl, only instead of a clown statue, it's the little girl's NotSoImaginaryFriend. |
| 335 | [[/folder]] |
| 336 | |
| 337 | [[folder: Tabletop Games]] |
| 338 | * The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' supplement ''Heroes Of Horror'' is about infusing your games with anything from a touch to an overdose of the macabre, the frightening, and the unnerving. One of the monsters introduced? The "gray jester". One of the scenarios provided? A gray jester and a hag enslaving and eating children. |
| 339 | * The ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' third party world 'Scarred Lands'(by Sword & Sorcery Studios) features the 'Carnival Krewes' - a society of Monster Clowns. |
| 340 | * Also on the ''TabletopGame/DungeonsAndDragons'' front is House Phiarlan of TabletopGame/{{Eberron}}, an espionage-based clan/organization. One of their fronts is the Carnival of Shadows. The description claims they've enthralled Khorvaire for decades, but looking at the picture provided (Everyone has [[AngryEyebrows angry faces]] and the animal act includes an [[AlwaysChaoticEvil always Neutral Evil]] monster), I'm going to have to assume the description is literal and there's some Mass CharmPerson going on there. |
| 341 | * The Dilisnyas, one of the most treacherous and murderous of TabletopGame/{{Ravenloft}}'s great noble houses, trace their bloodline back to a fellow by the unlikely name of Pidlwik. In the original adventure module ''I6: Ravenloft'', which inspired the campaign setting, Pidlwik's crypt identifies him as the court jester. |
| 342 | ** The Skurra, of the Travelling Carnival, are one part this, one part EnemyMime, and all subversion; while extremely creepy (even the mutated Carnies are somewhat afraid of them, and there is a belief amongst them that some or even all of the Skurra are actually ghosts), they are not malevolent in the slightest. |
| 343 | *** They may not be malevolent, but they're INCREDIBLY protective of themselves and the carnival. One of them, The Crimson Rose, has no reservations about maiming or killing a carnival-goer that pays her a bit too much of the wrong kind of attention. |
| 344 | * The Eldar Harlequins of ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' are [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot space elf ninja killer clowns]], taking the scary clown to [[SerialEscalation the kind of demented levels only 40k can]]. They wear holographic multicoloured harlequin costumes which can scatter their images into thousands of confusing fragments, and death masks which psychically amplify the fears of their victims, form {{nightmare face}}s and project the death-screams of previous victims into the current victim's mind. Their weapons are horrifyingly nasty even by 40k standards; as an example, their usual squad support weapon fires molecule-edged crystal discs covered in toxins that make the target's ''blood explode'' and they often use a weapon that shoots a monomolecular fiber through the target and spins it around, reducing the victim's innards into mush. They worship the "Laughing God", and are the Eldar equivalent of a roving carnival, visiting the various Craftworlds and acting out tales from Eldar mythology with holographic, psychically-enhanced interpretive dance. When they're not killing people in unspeakably horrible ways. |
| 345 | ** Which makes it all the more surprising that the Harlequins are, if probably not exactly ''good'', at least firmly opposed to Chaos and will join forces (temporarily) with anyone fighting it they come across. They also protect the [[MagicalLibrary Black Library]] from violators who would almost certainly use its powers for evil. |
| 346 | *** Added scary can be brought in by, if not the certainty, then at least the very possible implication that the "Laughing God" may in fact be [[EldritchAbomination the C'tan entity]] "The Deceiver", a being so much of a MagnificentBastard that he first persuaded his original worshippers to convert themselves into a soulless mechanical army, and then persuaded his ''own'' race of godlike beings to turn on and in some cases ''eat'' one another until only four were left. Suffice it to say that if this is true, really horrible things lie not just in the Harlequin's future, but probably the whole Eldar race's. |
| 347 | *** WordOfGod says that Cegorach the Laughing God, and the C'tan Deceiver are '''not''' the same being; although there's a certain amount of "professional respect" between the two. |
| 348 | ** For an idea of what their performances are like, they would make Creator/CirqueDuSoleil look like a bunch of overweight drunken fools who don't know how to work the stage lights. |
| 349 | *** When acting out a particular one, The Fall (the story of how the original Eldar empire came crashing down when they accidentally created a new Chaos God), the role of Slaanesh (the aforementioned Chaos God) can only be played by the strongest willed of the Harlequins, as even playing the part causes any lesser being attempting it to go completely insane. These Harlequins, called "Solitaires" and shunned for their fanatical (even by Harlequin standards) devotion to their art, are doomed to eternal torment upon death, as being so close in spirit to Slaanesh means he/she/it gets their souls as playthings when they die. |
| 350 | *** In past editions the Solitaire was only able to do this because they didn't ''have'' a soul any more. |
| 351 | ** For bonus points said monomolecular wire weapon is called the Harlequin's Kiss. |
| 352 | ** Their training also means they're the only Eldar who don't need a soulstone to keep them out of the hands of Slaneesh when they die. Yep, even the god of {{Squick}} is scared of clowns. |
| 353 | *** Similarly: the Dark Eldar, who would cheerfully torture you in a variety of horrible ways even if they ''didn't'' need to, crap their pants when the Harlequins show up. ''Even if they're just there to put on a show''. |
| 354 | * In the Warhammer fantasy universe isolated villages are sometimes visited by the Carnival of Chaos, what appears to be an innocuous troop of performers turn out to be the hideous daemonic servants of the god of despair, who hypnotise the simple village folk during the performance whilst they quite rapidly decompose. Models are brilliant though, complete with nurglings dressed up as circus animals. |
| 355 | * Let it not be said that ''TabletopGame/MagicTheGathering'' doesn't know the monster potential in clowns. Say hello to the [[http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=3167 Chaos Harlequin]]. |
| 356 | ** And then there's the Cult of Rakdos, from the Ravnica block. If the land [[http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=97082 Rakdos Carnarium]] doesn't make your blood freeze, you need to get your head examined. A cult of slash-happy killers who consider their parties a "flop" if someone survives to tell about it - and they have a ''{{circus|OfFear}}'' component to them, too? (And with a circus comes...) Thanks, Wizards, I may never sleep again. |
| 357 | * Naturally, there's at least one ''TabletopGame/CallOfCthulhu'' scenario (set in 1920s Germany) featuring a carnival jester who's really an EldritchAbomination that's been traveling with the show incognito for years and causing various tragedies and disasters wherever they went. |
| 358 | * ''Franchise/YuGiOh'' LOVES this trope. There's: |
| 359 | ** [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dream_Clown Dream Clown]], which is the key card in the infamous [[GameBreaker Clown Control Deck]]. |
| 360 | ** [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Peten_the_Dark_Clown Peten the Dark Clown]], who is very much beloved for his ability to keep monsters on the field (he summons another one of himself when he dies). |
| 361 | ** The notably Fiend-type [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ryu-Kishin_Clown Ryu-Kishin Clown]]. |
| 362 | ** Plus a few Normal Monsters including the famous Saggi the Dark Clown ([[TheRival Seto Kaiba's]] favorite Crush Card Virus carrier)... |
| 363 | ** ... and [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Crass_Clown Crass Clown]], known in Japan as [[MeaningfulName 'Murder]] [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Circus']] and suitably ugly already... but then becomes [[http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Clown_Zombie the even uglier Clown Zombie]], which in the anime [[NightmareFuelStationAttendant proved to be much nightmare fuel in how it JUST WOULDN'T DIE]]... [[NightmareFuel and the way it bloated grotesquely when it was fed extra power.]] |
| 364 | * In ''Cyberpunk2020,'' one street gang you can run into on the streets of [[MeaningfulName Night City]] is the Bozos. They are described as the sort of people who get ''plastic surgery'' to look like clowns permanently, who stay up all night watching horror flicks. And committing gruesome crimes. Advice for dealing with them is "Run!" |
| 365 | [[/folder]] |
| 366 | |
| 367 | [[folder:Theatre]] |
| 368 | * Essentially averted by Creator/CirqueDuSoleil in their specific clown acts. Traditional whitefaces and augustes are less intimidating than the popular conception, and some character-based clown acts largely eschew garish makeup and costuming. Indeed some clowns are downright ordinary-looking compared to the other characters. But there are villainous/mysterious characters who, intentionally or not, have appearances akin to this trope: Boum-Boum in ''Quidam'', Le Titan in ''Theatre/LaNouba'', etc. Closest to the trope is the bizarre emcee Fleur in ''Theatre/{{Alegria}}'': According to the AllThereInTheManual material, he was the court jester to the now-gone ruler of the kingdom, and now he wants to be king. |
| 369 | * In the "Beyond Belief" segments of Podcast/TheThrillingAdventureHour, Frank Doyle has repeatedly battled Nightmares the Clown (a parody of Pennywise from Stephen King's IT). Doyle first encountered Nightmares when he was a child and he and his friends investigated several dead and missing children: |
| 370 | --> '''Peter:''' Looks like we solved the mystery at least. |
| 371 | --> '''Nighmares:''' That's right boys, you did it! You really did it! You solved the mystery and found ''me''! You young boys went and tracked down the fellow who's been murdering young boys all these years! Do you young boys have a sense of irony yet? Probably not, you're from Maine. But my, how'd you be laughing if you did! |
| 372 | [[/folder]] |
| 373 | |
| 374 | [[folder: Video Games]] |
| 375 | * Joker-sama in ''VideoGame/{{Persona 2}}''. Unusual if only for his distinctive elegance... [[spoiler: and the fact he's the plaything of [[EldritchAbomination Nyarlathotep]] ]]. |
| 376 | * In ''VideoGame/LeagueOfLegends'', there is a ''playable'' monster clown named Shaco. He can set invisible jack in the boxes that cause terror and fire [[EnergyWeapon laser beams]], poof into invisibility with an evil laugh, backstab people with venomed knives, and make duplicates of himself. |
| 377 | * Kefka Palazzo from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVI'', complete with [[LaughingMad a creepy and weird, cackling laugh]], comical outfit, and whiteface makeup during battles... Plus his very quotable one-liners. In ''Dissidia'', they also apparently gave him a GlasgowGrin that was eerily similar to Heath Ledger's Joker incarnation from ''Film/TheDarkKnight'', and, in the English version at least, a voice similar to that of Creator/MarkHamill's Joker voice. |
| 378 | ** In the UpdatedRerelease, they rendered a full 3-D opening sequence, and Kefka's appearance in it is pure NightmareFuel. |
| 379 | ** [[FromBadToWorse It only got worse]] in ''VideoGame/DissidiaFinalFantasy'' when Kefka was given a voice and full animation. Though, sometimes his skipping and hand-gestures counter-balance Shigeru Chiba and Creator/DaveWittenberg's very convincing vocal performances. He also became the MetaGuy for the game, {{lampshad|eHanging}}ing tropes and BreakingTheFourthWall with glee. |
| 380 | ** It's more like this in [[{{Woolseyism}} the old Ted's]] script, in the original Japanese version he's more of an [[VillainousHarlequin idiot]], even after he [[spoiler:kills Leo, destroys the world, etc.]] When brought to America, he became ComicBook/TheJoker of video games. |
| 381 | * ''VideoGame/Left4Dead2'': Two words: zombie clowns. It makes honking noises where it goes, which in turn attracted the other infected to it and thus to the player. Meaning you have to make him your top priority lest you want more zombies to deal with. |
| 382 | * [=ColorMan=]''/''[=WackoMan=] from ''VideoGame/MegaManBattleNetwork 1'' and ''Anime/MegaManNTWarrior''. |
| 383 | ** For an even worse example from the same series, [=CircusMan.EXE=] from EXE Beast and ''Battle Network 6''. |
| 384 | *** Something perhaps creepier than his appearance is that one of his attacks involves transforming his body into a circular cage draped up like a circus tent, falling down on top of your character to entrap them, then several bulges appear rapidly all over the drapes implying being pummeled (dear god hopefully) all over. |
| 385 | *** Oh God, [=CircusMan=]. The first time you see him, you witness him doing some kind of creepy dance that drains the energy of everyone around him in that cutscene. He ''sucks up'' the energy, and then he soon uses the energy to revive [[SealedEvilInACan Gregar and Falzar.]] He then opens up his chest to reveal a powerful vacuum which he uses to absorb one of the two beasts! [[FromBadToWorse Oh wait, but he's not done with being a Monster Clown yet!]] [[spoiler:He later successfully uses the vacuum to capture Mega Man too, starting a rather long RescueArc.]] |
| 386 | *** [=CircusMan=]'s operator, Yuika. Yuika wears an outlandish outfit, has heart-like makeup on her cheeks, and overall acts like a stereotypical clown. She also lured several Navi Operators into Central City 3's area and thus arranged for [=CircusMan=] to steal their energy to unleash the Cybeasts in the first place, and having [=MegaMan=] kidnapped as well. |
| 387 | ** [=ClownMan=] from ''[[VideoGame/MegaMan8 8]]''. |
| 388 | ** Mash, the clown robot boss from ''7''. |
| 389 | * ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaDawnOfSorrow'' and subsequent games have the Killer Clown enemy, who juggles playing cards and throws them at you. (Get their ability and you can do that too! It's surprisingly awesome.) |
| 390 | ** In ''VideoGame/CastlevaniaPortraitOfRuin'' there's a level devoted to this trope called Nation of Fools. THEY'RE EVERYWHERE. |
| 391 | * Zorn and Thorn from ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyIX''. It gets better, [[spoiler: later we find out they're actually two halves to the same being, known as Meltigemini. The lack of any explanation makes it all the stranger. ]] |
| 392 | * One zone in ''VideoGame/KingdomOfLoathing'' is The "Fun" House, which is infested with evil clowns and reigned by the Evil Boss Clown Beelzebozo. There's also a "Spooky Clown" Valentine's Day Card which contains the following poem: "There is such a fine line/Between love and fear/Your love makes me float/But [[Creator/StephenKing we all float down here]]". |
| 393 | ** And there was also the BadFuture event where players could see a destroyed Seaside Town full of some of the [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot monsters turned into zombies]] (ex: Zombie Hippy, Zombie Frat Boy, Zombie Zmobie) And then the Zombie Clown. His in game description? "AIEEE! Ah! Gah! Sweet merciful God, no! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!" |
| 394 | ** Inverted with the wacky pirate: "You'd think a clown with an eyepatch and a hook hand would be even more terrifying than a normal clown, but somehow, the combination is pretty charming. There's [[CrazyIsCool something kind of awesome]] about a pirate with a rubber chicken on his shoulder." |
| 395 | ** There's also the clown minions encountered in the [=GameInformPowerDailyPro=] Dungeon. Not as scary as the clowns in the "Fun" House, but no less dangerous. |
| 396 | * One of the bosses in the Creator/{{Capcom}} game ''VideoGame/DeadRising'' is Adam, a deranged mall clown who attacks you with ''fire breath'', ''exploding balloons'', and ''chainsaws''. Oh, and he's in the middle of a shopping mall hit by a ZombieApocalypse. Apparently he went mad when they ate his audience, and now he runs a killer ride to keep the zombies at bay. |
| 397 | ** Made worse by the fact that, according to him, they were all ''laughing at him...'' |
| 398 | *** Oh, and his death scene. ''He falls onto his own chainsaws, [[LaughingMad laughing while they cut him up.]]'' |
| 399 | ** His brother, Evan, appears in ''VideoGame/DeadRising2: Off the Record''. |
| 400 | * Dhoulmagus, one of the main villains of ''VideoGame/DragonQuestVIII'', is a murderous and psychopathic jester. For once, the character's villainy is unrelated to clowning - taking a job as a jester was just a convenient way to get in position to steal a MacGuffin. But he still wears the costume constantly. |
| 401 | * Needles "Sweet Tooth" Kane from ''VideoGame/TwistedMetal'', who wears a flaming clown mask and stores the bodies of murdered children in his ice cream truck. The entirety of ''Twisted Metal: Black'' is actually [[spoiler:a psychotic delusion taking place inside his mind]]. |
| 402 | * Jester from ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry3DantesAwakening'' is pretty creepy, even ''before'' you find out that [[spoiler:he is TheManBehindTheMan Arkham.]] |
| 403 | * Malcolm the jester in the ''Kyrandia'' adventure game series. Suffers a [[HeelFaceTurn reluctant flipflop]] in the third and final game which does ...absolutely nothing at all. He retains the same personality. He still says incredibly evil and nasty things. He just stopped killing people. (which nobody believes, so it's up to you as Malcolm to clear your name in the third.) Most unconvincing HFT ever, most unrepentant villain ever too. Even with his personality set to ''"nice"'' and with him talking to the sorceress Zanthia, whom he has a bit of a crush on, everything he says still makes him sound like a spiteful misanthropic JerkAss just one dagger away from a multiple homicide. He's not so much an AntiHero as he is the same MagnificentBastard he was before, just without the murderous streak. [[FalseReassurance He claims.]] |
| 404 | * In the first chapter of ''VideoGame/DarkCloud 2'' (aka Dark Chronicle), the BigBad ([[spoiler:before we find out about TheManBehindTheMan]]) is Flotsam, creepy leader of a troupe of killer clowns. |
| 405 | ** Inexplicably, one of the outfits that Max (the main protagonist of the game) can trade for Medals is a complete clown outfit, with shoes and hat... and a ''whiteface'' makeup that is far more unnerving and disturbing than even Flotsam's most threatening appearance. |
| 406 | * ''VideoGame/ChronoCross'' features an interesting exception in from of Skelly: while he is both a monster due to being an animated skeleton as well as a clown, he's presented in a wholly sympathetic light, all except one of his body parts you need to collect to assemble him have complimenting item descriptions and he has a loving grandmother to boot. |
| 407 | ** Harle (short for "[[PunnyName harlequin]]") also counts, technically, as she's revealed to be [[spoiler:the Seventh Dragon.]] |
| 408 | * Booster, Knife Guy, and Grate Guy from ''VideoGame/SuperMarioRPG''. |
| 409 | ** And also [[GiantSpaceFleaFromNowhere Cloaker and Domino]] from the same game. |
| 410 | * Raz from ''VideoGame/{{Psychonauts}}'' is originally from a travelling gypsy circus; [[spoiler:his mental image of his father is a rather distressing caricature with clownish skin color, hair color, and outfit, and tends to divide his time between expressing his disdain for psychics in general and his son in particular, and attacking him with juggling clubs. Fortunately for Raz' relationship with his actual family his also-psychic father eventually manages to break into Raz' mind and turns out to be the kind, loving father he was made out explicitly NOT to be. It turns out that the behavior that led Raz to believe his father was a bigoted clown was actually intended to teach him control, discipline, and probably some physical skills so he wouldn't rely on psychic powers. It works, too-because of this misinterpreted training, Raz is able to defeat everything from a mad-scienced lungfish to a giant butcher to, yes, his incredibly dangerous clown of a mind-father.]] |
| 411 | * Although the titular [=NiGHTS=] and other humanoid Nightmaren from ''VideoGame/NightsIntoDreams'' and its sequel are technically not clowns, their designs make them look a lot like jester/clown meldings. Especially [[EvilCounterpart Reala]] and Jackle, the two who are most capable of this trope in the games. |
| 412 | ** One of the first 2 bosses in ''Journey of Dreams'', Donbalon, is a more literal example of this trope. |
| 413 | * ''VideoGame/FightersDestiny'' and it's sequel feature a French clown named Pierre- and to add the monster to this trope he fits there's a cheat you can use that turns him into a werewolf. |
| 414 | * The Deathjester from ''VideoGame/TrialsOfMana'', [[TheDragon Dragon]] to one of the game's three potential {{Big Bad}}s. |
| 415 | ** Also, his {{Expy}}, [[VideoGame/SwordOfMana Goremand.]] |
| 416 | * Joka from the ''VideoGame/{{Klonoa}}'' series, a clown-faced balloon demon who ''never stops smiling'', even when visibly angry. He also has an odd tendency to die and come back without explanation. |
| 417 | * The final stage of ''VideoGame/CarnEvil'' is the Big Top, which is absolutely crawling with midget clowns, overly beefed up jokers, and rabid dogs in clown gear. The former two being even creepier then the torture victim enemies found in the Freakshow stage. The sight of the smaller clowns popping up from the sides of the screen at point blank range while his friends close in on you even after half their faces and bodies have been blown away is shuddersome. |
| 418 | ** Tokkentakker, the end boss. Though he's relatively mild compared to [[NightmareFuel the rest of the game]]. |
| 419 | ** Umlaut, the flying Jester Skull with the SHARK TEETH. Who shows up at the beginning of EVERY LEVEL with a cryptic rhyme about the stage you're about to play on. And then you have him to fight as a miniboss before the BigBad, there he bites and practically teleports around the arena. NightmareFuel if there ever was anything that could fit there. |
| 420 | * The Jester Spirit [[spoiler:Laughlin]] in the SNES and Genesis game ''TabletopGame/{{Shadowrun}}''. |
| 421 | -->'''Jester Spirit''': Boys and girls come out to play! On the busy motorway! |
| 422 | * [[spoiler:Marx]] in the "Milky Way Wishes" portion of ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar'' giving Kirby access to a ForgottenSuperweapon. He then sprouts wings and turns outright ''creepy''. |
| 423 | ** Necrodeus from ''VideoGame/KirbyMassAttack'' has a SkullForAHead that looks a lot like a clown. He qualifies for "Monster" in that he tries to ''kill'' Kirby in his sleep at the very beginning of the game. |
| 424 | ** In ''VideoGame/KirbysReturnToDreamLand'', [[spoiler:Magolor's first OneWingedAngel looks like a dark jester. His second form sports a jester-like hat, juggles enemies, and has a creepy perpetual smile that's later revealed to actually be an eye. ]] |
| 425 | * Rudy the Clown in the ''VideoGame/WarioLand'' series, who's both a demon that transformed a world to monsters and steals life saving medicines from Doctor Mario (Although in the latter case [[FreudianExcuse he did have somewhat of an excuse for why he stole it, as he did need it for his cold]]). |
| 426 | ** There is also a Monster Clown called Clown-A-Round in the Wonky Circus level in ''VideoGame/WarioWorld'' and a [[NinjaPirateZombieRobot robot monster clown]] called Chortlebot in ''VideoGame/WarioLand: Shake It!'' |
| 427 | *** The Wonky Circus level also has the standard {{mooks}} replaced by Monster Clown versions that lurch around like zombies and scratch with sharp claws. It's also home to a miniboss called an Electric Clown Fence. |
| 428 | *** It's also home to Clown Cannons that fire Clown Missiles. Yes, giant missiles with clown faces. |
| 429 | * One level of ''VideoGame/{{Hitman}}: Blood Money'' gives the player the opportunity to play as one, where you can disguise yourself as a clown to infiltrate your target's house...and eliminate him. |
| 430 | ** Agent 47 was even awarded Clown Of The Year once. |
| 431 | * ''KISS Psycho Circus'' wholly revolved around Music/{{KISS}} fighting monster clowns and other monstrosities spawned from a twisted circus theme. |
| 432 | * In a weird twist, one of the levels in ''VideoGame/MarvelVsCapcom2'' is a circus with a large eerie clown in the background. In college, a friend's girlfriend would have to leave the room whenever this level randomly came up. |
| 433 | * Played for laughs in the ''VideoGame/TimeSplitters'' series. One of the characters is "Mr Giggles", a monster clown who was raised by a New England family but apparently wasn't truly happy until he "Ate them and ran away to join the circus". |
| 434 | * Spike, the cover star of ''VideoGame/{{Toonstruck}}''. |
| 435 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Painkiller}}: Battle Out of Hell'' one of the levels are set in a hellish carnival complete with demon clowns. |
| 436 | * At the beginning of point-and-click adventure game ''VideoGame/BrokenSword: The Shadow of the Templars'' (known as ''Circle of Blood'' in the US), an assassin dressed as a clown runs into a Parisian street cafe, places an accordion on a bar stool, then runs back out again. A small red light on the accordion flashes, and [[MadBomber the cafe explodes]]. |
| 437 | * In ''VideoGame/HouseOfTheDead: Overkill'' there is a stage called "Carny" set in a carnival crawling with [[NotUsingTheZWord mutants]], the most disturbing of which are waves of hideous clowns that backflip obscenely quickly towards the player(s). The first time a player dispatches one of the clowns, the character Agent G quips, "quit clowning around." |
| 438 | ** This stage is almost definitely inspired by ''House of the Dead'''s fellow arcade rail shooter classic ''Carnevil''. |
| 439 | * The Joker from the ''VideoGame/MonsterRancher'' series combines this with TheGrimReaper. |
| 440 | * [[http://www.mobygames.com/game/narc ''NARC'']]. During the fourth level, [[BadassNormal Max Force and Hit Man]] encounter the knife-wielding, maiden-kidnapping, pornography-addicted clown Kinky Pinky. Or rather, [[EliteMooks several of him]]. In the arcade version in particular, Kinky Pinky is difficult to destroy by normal means (submachinegun fire). If he closes to stabbing range, your choices are 1) fire a rocket or 2) die. |
| 441 | * ''VisualNovel/GoreScreamingShow'', the EldritchAbomination from the visual novel of the same name by Black Cyc. Yes, [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin it does include lots of gore and screaming]]. |
| 442 | * Mad Jack, a jack-in-the-box boss from ''VideoGame/DonkeyKong64'' who also has a magnificent EvilLaugh. |
| 443 | * The sixth boss of the unlicensed piece of garbage ''Silent Assault'' is a giant scary clown head. |
| 444 | * In the online flash game ''Videogame/TheLastStand'', on one of the final levels there is a single zombie clown. This is the only pre-rendered zombie in the whole game. |
| 445 | * Jack from the Platform/SegaDreamcast FightingGame ''VideoGame/PowerStone'' combines this with UsefulNotes/JackTheRipper. |
| 446 | * Barry Dejay from ''VideoGame/BackyardSports'' has a fear of clowns, so he must have had an encounter with one. |
| 447 | * Sebastian the masochist from ''VideoGame/RumbleRoses''. |
| 448 | * The ComicBook/{{Wolverine}} levels in ''VideoGame/SpiderManAndTheXMenInArcadesRevenge'' are a complete CircusOfFear with ball pits of [[DoomyDoomsOfDoom DOOM]], big bright colours, [[AnvilOnHead anvils on flimsy ropes]], and has Monster clowns as enemies in abundance. |
| 449 | ** Arcade also dispatches them during the Murderworld stage of ''VideoGame/MarvelUltimateAlliance''. |
| 450 | * ''VideoGame/{{Infectonator}}: World Dominator'' has [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Zombie]] Ronald [=McDonald=], who can drop diseased burgers ([[{{Squick}} Or is it really poop?]]) in the way of people to turn ''them'' into zombies. Not a pretty sight for our fast-food-loving world. |
| 451 | * Mr. Crow of ''VideoGame/UnrealTournament2004'' and his team. "Ever wonder why children are afraid of clowns? Now you know." is all his bio has to say about him. |
| 452 | * Clown enemies in ''VideoGame/StarOceanTheLastHope'' fit this to a tee: they fire explosive confetti, bowl you over with a balance ball and throw hoops at you that turn you into a pumpkin. They're all classed as demon types. |
| 453 | * ''[[VideoGame/{{Spore}} Spore: Galactic Adventures]]'' has Shenanigans, a sharp-toothed monstrosity who is also the size of a tyrannosaur and can [[PlayingWithFire breathe fire]]. |
| 454 | * Early on in ''VideoGame/RedDeadRevolver'' you face off against an army of shotgun-wielding midget clowns. |
| 455 | * Dimentio from ''VideoGame/SuperPaperMario'' certainly qualifies under this. Well, ok, he's more like a Monster Jester, but still, he intends to stab the perceived BigBad Count Bleck in the back so he could use the Chaos Heart to destroy all worlds and remake them in his image, and then when he dies, he intends to ensure their destruction anyways. He possesses [[spoiler:Luigi]] for the final battle. This is the Mario version of Kefka Palazzo. |
| 456 | ** Tippy even refers to Dimentio in a scan (sort of: It's one of his clones before fighting him at Bleck's castle) as an Evil Clown. |
| 457 | * ''Videogame/AssassinsCreedBrotherhood'' multiplayer has the creepy-ass Harlequin character and his twin sister the Hellequin. |
| 458 | * The PC version of ''VideoGame/KillingTime'' has a fairly standard "Pennywise" style mutant clown as an enemy. The Panasonic 3DO version, however, features a more normal-looking clown that squeals "It's TICKLE TIME!!" in a high-pitched voice while thrusting its hands out [[PersonalSpaceInvader into the player's face]], represented by two '''enormous''' hand sprites appearing in front of the clown. [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSfB2p2oTks The second one is scarier by far.]] |
| 459 | * ''VideoGame/BatmanDoom'' has the Joker, obviously, but also rather tough {{mooks}} dressed in mime/clown attire who throw darts at you; they pop up in both the Scarecrow's and Joker's chapter. |
| 460 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Rayman}} 1'' the [[LevelAte Candy Château]] is full of clowns doing their best to kill you. |
| 461 | * The GAC clowns in ''VideoGame/DeadToRights''. |
| 462 | * ''VideoGame/{{Splatterhouse}} 2010'' has a level set at a theme park populated by demonic clowns that spin their heads, split fire, twirl upside-down on their hands kicking you with their legs and crawl along backwards on the floor if you knock them down. |
| 463 | * In ''VideoGame/TheLegendOfZeldaLinksAwakening'', the second boss is a bottle genie that looks and behaves in a manner similar to a clown. |
| 464 | * ''VideoGame/SeriousSam II'' has weird looking, unicycling, manically laughing, suicide bombing clowns that attack in groups. Yeah... |
| 465 | * Cicero in ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' is an insane assassin who maintains a persona of a jester when out in public. |
| 466 | * In ''VideoGame/{{Terraria}}'', unlocking hard mode causes Clown monsters to appear during a Blood Moon. Silly-looking as they are, they're also fairly tough, and they throw bombs that destroy blocks and can mess up any buildings you've made. |
| 467 | * [[LaughingMad Hecklar]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4s7oUOAVs from]] ''VideoGame/CardinalSyn''. |
| 468 | * The Nintendo 64 game ''VideoGame/{{Glover}}'' has one as the boss of the carnival world, fought on a spinning arena that it isn't affected by. [[spoiler:You hurt it with a pie and a boxing glove, and finish it off by dropping a piano on it.]] |
| 469 | * ''VideoGame/BioShock1'': While the game has no clown enemies, the terrifying [[LaughingMad vending machines]] more than make up for that. |
| 470 | * ComicBook/TheJoker and his minions certainly qualify in the ''Batman: Arkham'' series. In [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamAsylum the first game]], Joker, all because he wanted a party, arranged for a revolt of Arkham Asylum, [[spoiler: as well as the creation of Titan to cause wanton amounts of destruction in Gotham.]] His actions in that game caused at least 113 personnel casualties, 103 of which were security personnel, as well as an unknown amount of deaths of inmates as well. In addition, he was also implied to have killed 3 personnel when he first escaped from the start of the game, something that he not only doesn't have any regrets to killing them, he decides that he'll try to kill 100 more next time. [[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamCity The second game]] also has him killing several personnel and doctors as well, [[spoiler: and he also has several hospitals given Batman's blood (which was at that time tainted with his poisoned blood) that would have resulted in hundreds of casualties in order to force Batman into finding him a cure. After death, he also posthumously manages to singlehandedly cause huge riots both in Gotham City and Arkham City with a single radio broadcast that was likely to result in countless casualties, and long beforehand, he also on Independence Day committed a massacre where he has several fireworks laced with toxins that resulted in, after their being set off, several hundreds of men, women, and childrens' deaths, which was heinous enough to force Batman into locking him up in an isolated part of Arkham.]] |
| 471 | * Uma das telas de carregamento em ''VideoGame/{{Fallout 3}}'' versa sobre um assassino serial de crianças que atuava antes da guerra. Seu apelido era Nanico Estripador (no original, Pint-Sized Slasher) e ele tinha uma máscara de palhaço medonha. Na solução mal para a quest Tranquility Lane, você usa a máscara e estraçalha os moradores da simulação. |
| 472 | [[/folder]] |
| 473 | |
| 474 | [[folder:Web Animation]] |
| 475 | * One of the primary bad guys in the ''WebAnimation/MadnessCombat'' Flash series is Tricky the Clown. Originally appearing in ''Madness Redeemer'' as a minor villain, he was pinned to a giant marshmallow (don't ask) by Hank in ''Avenger'' with a stop sign and turned into a zombie before being taken down by Hank again. He donned a Jason-style hockey mask for ''Apotheosis'', but did not take part in the fighting. But in ''Depredation'', ''Antipathy'' and ''Consternation'', the Clown took on the power to [[RealityWarper warp reality itself]], making him virtually unstoppable even after getting the top of his head sliced off and being blown full of holes at point blank range by Hank. However, we've probably seen the last of Tricky as [[spoiler:at the end of ''Consternation'', [[KungFuJesus Jebus]] destroyed Tricky's portable [[Franchise/TheHitchhikersGuideToTheGalaxy Improbability Drive]] and killed him.]] (Spoilered not because his death is a surprise but the way it comes about is.) |
| 476 | * ''WebAnimation/{{Xombie}}'', a flash animation series which takes place AfterTheEnd in a ZombieApocalypse world at one point goes trough a circus. Guess what the protagonist has to face there. |
| 477 | --> "Even undead, clowns are annoying." |
| 478 | * Strong Man, the Old-Timey version of Strong Mad from ''WebAnimation/HomestarRunner''. As his name suggests, he is actually an unintelligent circus strongman who for some reason ''is always facing the camera'' and is working for [[DastardlyWhiplash Sir Strong Bad]], The Homestar Runner's archnemesis. |
| 479 | [[/folder]] |
| 480 | |
| 481 | [[folder: Web Comics]] |
| 482 | * ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'' does a bit of LampshadeHanging: |
| 483 | -->'''Mort:''' And how did you know that girl didn't like [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=66 clowns]]? |
| 484 | -->'''Antimony:''' Nobody likes clowns. |
| 485 | * Subverted in ''Webcomic/GeneralProtectionFault'', where The Gamester is portrayed as a benevolent LawfulGood cosmic being. (His EvilTwin, Pandemonium, on the other hand...) |
| 486 | * ''Webcomic/InWilysDefense'' does some LampshadeHanging as well, [[http://www.incomprehensibility.com/archives.php?type=iwd&c=512 a comic]] being devoted to how terrifying clowns can be, in order to further Cut Man's argument that [[Characters/FinalFantasyVI Kefka]] is a better villain than [[Characters/FinalFantasyVII Sephiroth]]. |
| 487 | * Donald [=McBonald=] in ''Webcomic/TheAdventuresOfDrMcNinja'' qualifies. |
| 488 | * In ''Webcomic/SluggyFreelance'' [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/021115 a paramilitary clown]] is a KnightTemplar planning to [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/021116 take control of]] Satanic kittens. He's got a [[http://sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/021117 maniacal laugh]] to boot. |
| 489 | ** Riff is apparently afraid of clowns. He can deal with this to some extent, but [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/021109 unresistingly hands over a gun]] when the clown asks for it, gets all flustered when questioned why, and later, when the clown grins at him, [[http://www.sluggy.com/comics/archives/daily/021115 faints]]. |
| 490 | * In ''Webcomic/{{Nodwick}}'', after re-lived her fifth birthday several times: |
| 491 | --> '''Piffany''': I had to watch the ''clown'' they hired for my party. I'm going to need a few more ''teddy bears'' to get to sleep tonight! |
| 492 | * ''Webcomic/BugMartini'' has a page dedicated to this -- "[[http://www.bugcomic.com/comics/clowns/ It's becoming hard to find old-fashioned clowns]]". |
| 493 | * [[spoiler: Gamzee Makara]] from ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'' first appeared to be a comedic subversion. [[BewareTheSillyOnes Not]] [[ChaoticEvil any]] [[FromNobodyToNightmare more,]] [[AxCrazy to]] [[NoMedicationForMe say]] [[OmnicidalManiac the]] [[LethalJokeCharacter least.]] [[spoiler:Luckily, Karkat manages to calm his ass down through [[ThePowerOfFriendship The Power of Moirallegiance]].]] |
| 494 | ** Monster Clowndom appears to be the [[GangOfHats hat]] of the Subjugglators, judging by The Grand Highblood's facepaint and colorful paintings. [[NightmareFuel Facepaint and colorful paintings made of the blood of slaughtered trolls.]] |
| 495 | *** The Highblood's pre-Scratch incarnation, [[EnemyMime Kurloz]], does not look as much like a clown as the rest of the Makara family, but he's in the same cult, uses terms inspired by ICP more frequently, and is just as insane. Notably, not many other examples of this trope act quite as subtly or in as much Machiavellian style as he does. |
| 496 | ** Also, as Creator/AndrewHussie points out in the book 2 commentary, the flash where John walks around his house after it enters the medium and everything is silent and the place is surrounded by void is made significantly more creepy by all the ''[[InsistentTerminology harlequins]]'' scattered around the house. |
| 497 | ** The Music/InsaneClownPosse have a significant influence on the backstory of the [[CosmicRetcon Post-Scratch]] universe. In addition to their entry above, they acted as the last presidents of the US, and were responsible for innumerable deaths [[spoiler: before being assassinated by Dave's alternate self]]. Also, they (along with Dave and Betty Crocker) were indirectly responsible for [[spoiler: Gamzee]]'s aforementioned rampage. |
| 498 | * ''Webcomic/WapsiSquare'' demonstrated that there are few things scarier than a [[http://wapsisquare.com/comic/11282003/ dog in a clown mask.]] |
| 499 | * ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'' has a [[http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110209 Jack-in-the-box]] in Heterodynes nursery combining the charm of Monster Clown with steel-clad brutality of an overengineered murder-bot. "It explains... ''so much''..." We don't know yet who made this toy, though -- it may well be local "young masters" [[MadScientist themselves]]. |
| 500 | * Jason Love cartoons [[http://www.jasonlove.com/cartoons/00724-funny-cartoons-mafia-clown.gif warns us]] about [[TheMafia Mafia]] clowns. |
| 501 | * In ''Webcomic/EightBitTheater'', Black Mage gains a clownlike outfit after becoming a blue mage. |
| 502 | * In ''Webcomic/TheWordWeary'', Yorick's elf rogue character is disguised as a jester- and he's just as [[http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/04/28-april-2011.html acerbic and mean]] as he is the in regular story. |
| 503 | [[/folder]] |
| 504 | |
| 505 | [[folder: Web Original]] |
| 506 | * "Clowns: Satan's idea of what's funny" [[http://verydemotivational.com/2008/06/05/funny-demotivational-posters-clowns/ poster]] |
| 507 | * Here's a particularly scary example of a monster clown jack-in-the-box, just scroll a bit down to see it (but be warned, it is ''very'' unnerving). Click if you dare: [[http://www.bogleech.com/halloween-2009sept.html]] |
| 508 | * Just a fair warning: [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P-SamlxVgnc&feature=related This may keep you up tonight.]] |
| 509 | * There's a viral comment being spread on Website/YouTube warning, "a clown will kill u at 3:00 A.M. tomorrow morning if u dont pass this 2 10 vids ''[sic]''." |
| 510 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MItzvEjNURA Behold Baby Ronald McDonald]]. |
| 511 | * The Cheezburger Network's newest website, [[http://72.47.209.134/ Clown Fails]], is nothing but this. |
| 512 | * [[http://www.cracked.com/blog/exploring-the-mysteries-of-the-mind-with-the-sims-3/ Subject Beef]] certainly fits. Seanbaby speculates on the cause-effect relationship of wearing clown makeup and killing people. All we can say for sure is that it's there, one way or another. |
| 513 | * "[[http://loneanimator.elfwood.com/Nightmare-Clown.2978047.html Nightmare Clown]]" by Richard Svensson. |
| 514 | * [[TheGrotesque The Jester]], ringmaster of [[CircusOfFear Le Cirque d'Abberations]] in ''Literature/TheTaleOfTheExile'', is one of these. He has a magically-induced deformity that gives him a permanent SlasherSmile and a tendency to mutilate others as a form of art. |
| 515 | * The Website/SCPFoundation has [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/scp-993 SCP-993]], the "Bobble the Clown" show. Once the program starts, everyone in the room over the age of ten passes out, while children under the age of ten report that an animated clown gives how-tos on cannibalism, arson, and a number of other horrifying things; further, the children who watch a show will [[{{Brainwashed}} regularly perform whatever actions Bobble instructed them in]] until the memory of the show is removed with LaserGuidedAmnesia. Worse, whoever is creating the show (and there's a certain amount of evidence that the show itself is a sapient entity that creates and broadcasts itself) appears to be aware that the SCP Foundation has found a way to intercept and block its transmission, as the two most recent episodes are [[labelnote:Bobble Hates You]] Bobble the Clown, sitting in a chair and glaring silently at the viewer for the entire episode.[[/labelnote]] and [[labelnote:*EXPLETIVE* YOU *EXPLETIVE* YOU *EXPLETIVE* YOU]] Bobble the Clown breaches classification on Foundation researchers, administrators, and [=SCPs=], including detailed instructions on how to breach containment of a number of incredibly dangerous [=SCPs=], with a special guest appearance by the animated version of an SCP researcher who happened to be passing by the room where the Foundation keeps the recordings they make of the show at the time shown on a clock in the episode.[[/labelnote]] |
| 516 | ** [[http://www.scp-wiki.net/behind-the-scenes When Bobble eventually calmed down about the Foundation blocking him]] he turned out to be FauxAffablyEvil, which was infinitely creepier than him being angry. |
| 517 | * Website/ChannelAwesome featured a video with Creator/DougWalker doing a pretty damn good impression of Creator/HeathLedger[[Film/TheDarkKnight 's Joker]] practicing his origin story. An attempt to spin this off into a series called "Melvin, Brother of the Joker" was not nearly as well received, and the character became TheScrappy among fans. Walker has engaged in a fair amount of SelfDeprecation about this, and Melvin was killed by other TGWTG contributors during one of the donation drives. |
| 518 | ** WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment featured Creator/{{Noah|Antwiler}} playing "Chuckles the Fucking Jester", a character from the ''VideoGame/{{Ultima}}'' series. Spoony finds him creepy, screaming when he enters the room. He is also relentlessly obnoxious, making bad jokes and beating Noah with a rubber chicken for not playing "The Game" correctly. After [[ItMakesSenseInContext Spoony's robot blasts him with a laser beam]], Chuckles flees, and a mysterious figure points out his ability to cause great fear, giving him [[Comicbook/BlackestNight a Yellow Lantern ring]]. |
| 519 | ** WebVideo/DiamandaHagan, who is a female Joker and enjoys slaying her minions when bored. |
| 520 | ** [[WebVideo/AtopTheFourthWall Linkara]], on the other hand, is fed up with the negative portrayal of clowns in the media, and introduced [[NonIronicClown Boffo the Clown]] (who is friendly, dignified and polite) as a deliberate subversion of this trope. |
| 521 | * ''Literature/SkippysList'' has examples: |
| 522 | --> 65. There are no evil clowns living under my bed. |
| 523 | * Franchise/TheFearMythos gives us the Jester, a masked psychopath who serves the [[PerversePuppet Wooden Girl]]. He sees himself as an artist who has mastered comedy, and views comedy as being anything unexpected. So if you were, say, walking your dog on a pleasant summer day, he might pop out of a bush and blow your brains out just ForTheEvulz. The fact that the Jester is one of the few humans who serves the Wooden Girl willingly (as opposed to being unable to control his own body like the majority of her servants) just makes him even more horrific. [[http://strangeandsecretfaces.blogspot.com/2012/01/laughter-is-best-medicine.html This creepypasta]] gives a pretty clear indication of how utterly insane he is. |
| 524 | * Jay Insano of the WebVideo/NewVillainOrder. Originally he even spoke in Creator/MarkHamill voice clips. |
| 525 | * ''Website/{{Mortasheen}}'' combines this with {{Mon}}s and has a classification of creatures (Specifically the Joker class) based on this concept. Some of them are very weird. Like the eye-chicken-ventriloquist [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/opticaper.htm Opticaper]], the straitjacket-snake-clown [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/insanititter.htm Insanititter]] and whatever [[http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/madcap.htm Madcap]] is. |
| 526 | [[/folder]] |
| 527 | |
| 528 | [[folder: Western Animation]] |
| 529 | * Joker from ''WesternAnimation/TheBatman''. Especially "Vampire Joker" in ''TheBatmanVsDracula''. |
| 530 | * The Joker from ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries''. As if being a monster clown every day isn't bad enough, the episode "Be A Clown" has him disguised as a slightly less creepy party clown to deliver a cake with an explosive as a candle to a party full of kids. |
| 531 | ** Arguably the goofy, baggy clown-outfit made him look even creepier than his normal purple tux, since it twisted his reasonably normal human proportions into the depths of UncannyValley. |
| 532 | * Frankly, there are countless times ('''not''' including that stint in ''Treehouse of Horrors'') that Krusty the Klown of ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'' fits neatly into the oversized shoes of this trope. Point in fact he is scary enough to provoke heart-attacks in patients with heart conditions (namely Homer). |
| 533 | ** "What's wrong? Oh right... My ''grotesque appearance!"'' |
| 534 | *** Also: "Well I got news for you, buddy: This ain't make up!" |
| 535 | *** He tried broadcasting his show in High Definition without testing it first; [[NightmareFuel BIG mistake.]] |
| 536 | ** The haunted Krusty doll. |
| 537 | -->"Hi, I'm Krusty the Clown and I don't like you." "Hi, I'm Krusty the Clown and I'm going to kill you." |
| 538 | ** Bart's clown bed in "Lisa's First Word". |
| 539 | *** Say it with me now. "'''''[[SickbedSlaying If You Should Die Before You Wake!]]'''''" |
| 540 | *** [[MadnessMantra '''Can't sleep, clown will eat me''']] |
| 541 | ** In the DVDCommentary of that episode, members of writing staff discussed this trope, coming to the conclusion that, "Adults hate clowns and children are afraid of them, so what the hell good are they?" |
| 542 | ** In the supplement book ''Flanders Book of Faith'', one of Ned's Humble figurines has a little girl being frightened by a clown. The title: ''First visit to the Circus''. |
| 543 | ** Sideshow Bob. Okay, he's more like a Monster Ex Clown, but still, he tries to murder multiple characters and gets involved in semi elaborate revenge schemes after Bart and such foiled his framing of Krusty for armed robbery. |
| 544 | *** The NightmareFuel aspect of Sideshow Bob was turned up a notch in "The Bob Next Door". In one of his escape attempts, Bob visibly surgically removes the face of one of his cell mates and then switches it with his own, while still being fully conscious and screaming. The worst part is when Sideshow Bob stops at a rest stop and a waitress who takes an interest in him manages to pull off a loose thread used to keep his face on, causing his entire face to flap down, exposing all of his muscles and tissue. And then moments later, it happens again with his cellmate he switched faces with. |
| 545 | * Zombozo the Clown from ''WesternAnimation/{{Ben 10}}''. |
| 546 | * Although ''WesternAnimation/PepperAnn'' didn't feature any actual monster clowns, there was one episode where Pepper Ann watched a movie that revolves around this trope: Gutter Clowns. She had nightmares about that movie. |
| 547 | * Darph Bobo, and the entire Clown Empire, from ''WesternAnimation/TrippingTheRift''. |
| 548 | * In ''WesternAnimation/{{Animaniacs}}'', Wakko Warner had an irrational fear of clowns, which often caused him to apply his HyperspaceMallet before he ran screaming. |
| 549 | ** Studio boss Seymour Plotz doesn't know this, so he sends a Creator/JerryLewis-style clown to the water tower to entertain Wakko on his birthday. Plotz doesn't like clowns, either, so when he finds out -- he does nothing. True HilarityEnsues. |
| 550 | --->'''Dr. Scratchnsniff:''' Wakko, repeat after me: "A clown is my friend. A clown will not bite me and throw me in the basement... A clown is not a big spider." |
| 551 | *** Is it just me, or does that "spider" line sound like an indirect Pennywise reference? |
| 552 | ** '''''HE LIES.''''' |
| 553 | *** Ironically, the clown is a genuinely NonIronicClown who only tries to entertain Wakko with song and dance. [[spoiler:He earns a happy ending.]] |
| 554 | * In the ''WesternAnimation/LegionOfSuperHeroes'', episode "Fear Factory", Lightning Lad is terrified of a clownlike doll from his childhood called "[[Film/TheExorcist Captain Howdy]]". |
| 555 | * ''WesternAnimation/MightyMax'' had an episode (and a micro playset) involving Freako the Clown. |
| 556 | * In one episode of ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'', Billy displays a fear of clowns, thinking they're out to conquer the world and [[OverlyLongGag "Destroy us all! Destroy us all! Destroy us all!"]] After much prodding from Grim and Mandy and a trip to his HappyPlace, he eventually gets over his fear... by becoming homicidally angry with clowns instead of afraid. This doesn't save him from the giant clown monster Grim made earlier, which proceeded to eat them all. |
| 557 | ** "So, it's agreed? We all hate clowns." |
| 558 | * Freakshow from ''WesternAnimation/DannyPhantom''. |
| 559 | * Dr. Rockzo, the rock n' roll clown (he does cocaine!) [[spoiler: seriously, dude; ''a lot'' of cocaine]] from ''WesternAnimation/{{Metalocalypse}}''. He's a clown that's designed to be scary (in more ways than one). Ironically, Toki loves him despite being the most childlike of Dethklok's members. |
| 560 | ** Toki was shown to have a long-time love of clowns - there was a shot of him as a child sitting on [[SerialKiller Gacy the Clown's]] lap (shudder). Besides, it's metal to like clowns! Apparently it all stemmed from his childhood, where a clown doll he kept hidden from his parents was the only toy he had. |
| 561 | * ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'' had Dexter become this in the episode "The Laughing" after being bitten by a pair of dentures belonging to a clown performing at Deedee's birthday party. |
| 562 | ** Also partially subverted in this episode, in that Deedee stops Dexter by learning the ways of an order of benign mimes. Not to be confused with a HeroicMime. |
| 563 | * Binky The Clown from ''WesternAnimation/GarfieldAndFriends'' isn't really evil, but he is incredibly obnoxious and somewhat creepy, and provides a recurring source of irritation for Garfield. |
| 564 | ** While annoying, Binky is for the most part a NonIronicClown. In the episode of "Binky Goes Bad" he is framed for a multitude of crimes by a genuinely evil clown. |
| 565 | * Chuckie from ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' is extremely coulrophobic, and in one episode he kept having nightmares about clowns, in which he would approach Tommy (who was facing away from the camera) and tap him on the shoulder, only to have Tommy turn around to reveal the most [[NightmareFuel Nightmare Fuel-rific]] clown face and declare in the most disturbing voice ever, ''"I'm not Tommy!"'' * giggles* |
| 566 | ** The end of the episode had Mr. Finster walk out of Chuckie's room after tucking him in and noticing Stu turned away from him. He says, "Stu, I didn't know you were coming over," only to have clown faced Stu turn around and do the exact same thing that the clown faced Tommy did except he says, "''I'm not Stu...''" * laughs* |
| 567 | *** Another episode called "The Trial" featured a creepy clown lamp with a giant perpetual grin and an evil countenance. |
| 568 | *** Or the episode "The Mysterious Mr. Fiend" which had a talking clown doll depicted [[http://cust.idl.com.au/boyd/images/bfriend.gif here]]. |
| 569 | *** The episode "Clown Around" had plenty of Monster Clowns for all. |
| 570 | *** To keep this list from getting longer, lets just say that ''WesternAnimation/{{Rugrats}}'' was ''very'' fond of {{Monster Clown}}s. |
| 571 | *** In a moment of CharacterisationMarchesOn, in an early season 1 episode it is actually ''Didi'' who is scared of clowns. A clown at a carnival sneaks up behind her and scares her, albeit accidentally. |
| 572 | * The Beast Which Dares Not Speak Its Name, from the ''WesternAnimation/EarthwormJim'' episode "Evil in Love". Far too powerful and evil for the titular hero to hope to defeat, but fortunately thwarted by bureaucracy. |
| 573 | * Madkat from ''WesternAnimation/SWATKats''. The spirit of an evil jester from medieval times that merged with a failed comedian whose hardships mirrored Madkat's own. For a one shot villain, he's pretty effective, and came damn close to winning. |
| 574 | * The Clown With The Tearaway Face from ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas''. |
| 575 | ** Subverted in that [[DarkIsNotEvil he isn't that scary]] once you get to know him, just like the other denizens of Halloween Town. |
| 576 | * WesternAnimation/TheBraveLittleToaster had a nightmare about a fireman-clown trying to chase it into a filled bathtub. His only line was "Run!". [[NightmareFuel Sound advice!]] |
| 577 | ** Considering it was a toaster's nightmare, and the clown was armed with a ''fire hose'' and a ''fork''... |
| 578 | *** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdZh8a4ZvE Click it]]. [[ShmuckBait Go on. Do it]]. |
| 579 | * ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' has featured various such examples, among others including Zombo the "clown ghost" (from ''WesternAnimation/APupNamedScoobyDoo''). ''WesternAnimation/WhatsNewScoobyDoo'' even {{retcon}}ned Velma into having had a fear of clowns. |
| 580 | ** Villain of the week Harry the Hypnotist used a clown getup as both [[ScoobyDooHoax a gimmick and a way to mask his identity]]. Throughout the episode, he's referred to simply as Ghost Clown, until he's finally caught by the gang, and identified by his boss. |
| 581 | *** Harry hypnotised Scooby into walking a tightrope and then snapped him out of the trance when he was halfway across. And then hypnotised Shaggy into being a lion tamer: |
| 582 | -->'''Ghost Clown:''' When I blow this whistle, you won't be a lion tamer. Just food for a hungry lion! (''EvilLaugh'') |
| 583 | ** ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooMysteryIncorporated'' also gives us Crybaby Clown, a giant fat clown in a diaper who drives around in his huge car bombing buildings and neighborhoods with grenades shaped like milk bottles. |
| 584 | * Clownfoot, a villainous clown from a ''{{WesternAnimation/Captain Caveman|AndTheTeenAngels}}'' episode of ''The Flintstone Comedy Show'' probably qualifies here, complete with a CircusOfFear (which he uses as a hideout for his robberies and to lure Wilma and Betty into a saber-toothed-tiger filled trap). |
| 585 | * A later-season episode of ''WesternAnimation/SuperRobotMonkeyTeamHyperforceGo'' features villains who are members of a circus possessed by BigBad Skeleton King, which features not one, but THREE evil clowns, who end up merging into one really big, really creepy one. This is then subverted at the end when the circus is freed from evil and it turns out all the performers, including the no-longer-evil clowns are actually pretty nice people. |
| 586 | * One Man Circus from ''WesternAnimation/{{Scruff}}''. |
| 587 | * Peter dresses up as "Pee Pants the Inebriated Hobo Clown" in an episode of ''WesternAnimation/FamilyGuy''. This being Peter, it [[GoneHorriblyWrong goes horribly wrong]]. |
| 588 | ** Is there any way that could have gone ''right''? |
| 589 | *** Considering that [[spoiler: Peter accidentally killed the man he thought was his father (Francis, not the town drunk from Ireland) while performing as Pee Pants]], no, nothing could have gone right from there. |
| 590 | ** ''[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQRsVr3kQCM I wish that scary looking clown at the end of my bed would go away!]] |
| 591 | * The short-lived American adaptation of Australia's teacher sitcom ''WesternAnimation/SitDownShutUp'' has a Monster Clown in the form of the overly cheerful (and mentally unstable) vice principal Stuart Proszakian (voiced by Will Forte from ''Series/SaturdayNightLive''). Before he was vice principal, Stuart was a clown entertaining at a Florida prison. The second episode (where the teachers run a schoolwide fair) even had Stuart dressed in prison stripes and clown make-up (making him look more like Film/{{Beetlejuice}}) and singing this song (set to folksy banjo music) with the following lyrics: |
| 592 | -->Well, you were beaten mercilessly in the shower.\ |
| 593 | You took an old-fashioned shiv in the crown.\ |
| 594 | They fired tear gas on your ass from the tower.\ |
| 595 | And when you got back up\ |
| 596 | You were feelin' down.\ |
| 597 | So...\ |
| 598 | Someone sent you a prison clown\ |
| 599 | Someone bought you\ |
| 600 | Or bartered you\ |
| 601 | A prison clown -- |
| 602 | ** If anyone buys you or barters you a prison clown, scream as loud as you can and call the proper authorities. For me... |
| 603 | *** Will Forte also plays mentally unstable characters -- including those who have been convicted of sexual offenses -- on ''SNL'' so his role on ''WesternAnimation/SitDownShutUp'' isn't much of a stretch. |
| 604 | * An episode of ''WesternAnimation/ExtremeGhostbusters'' had the ghostbusters hunting vampire-like monsters who feed on laughter and disguise themselves as clowns, because as this page tells us, there's nothing funnier than an ominous clown that can only speak in [[EvilLaugh Evil Laughter]] following you by night. |
| 605 | ** Unless there's a whole pack of them looking to [[TheVirus recruit you]]. |
| 606 | * Paddywack from ''WesternAnimation/DarkwingDuck''. Beady red eyes, long grasping limbs, fangs and a bottom of the well voice. He was an [[SealedEvilInACan otherworldly evil entity]] that fed on fear or chaos or some other kind of metaphysical claptrap and had [[MindOverMatter poltergeist]] [[{{Invisibility}} powers]] [[DemonicPossession galore]]. |
| 607 | ** [[VillainousHarlequin Quackerjack]] once made a Monster Clown toy that features SpiderLimbs, and they ended in rather large axes to boot. It was probably [[NightmareFuel the creepiest thing]] Quackerjack ever made. The kicker? It was made by an AlternateUniverse counterpart who was actually ''a good guy''. |
| 608 | * In an episode of ''WesternAnimation/LeagueOfSuperEvil'', the team revives Doktor Frogg's first invention, Chuckles the Robotic Clown, for his birthday. Frogg later reveals that he invented Chuckles when he was a kid to ruin all the birthday parties he was never invited to and [[TurnedAgainstTheirMasters then Frogg's own birthday came]]. |
| 609 | * Played with in ''WesternAnimation/AmericanDragonJakeLong'', wherein Spud spends half an episode paralyzed by his fear of clowns. After finally realizing that the fear is irrational, he joyfully asks a troupe of clowns to make him laugh. Cue the clowns eating some magicked cupcakes, which transform them into hideous scorpion/clown/demon monsters. NightmareFuel all around! |
| 610 | * Subverted in ''Series/TimAndEricAwesomeShowGreatJob'' with "Steve Mahahanan's Child Clown Rentals", which combines natural terror of clowns with the horror/pity of '''CHILD SLAVERY'''. Child Clowns are rented out as SERVANTS rather than entertainers, and besides a disturbing advertisement in the usual Tim and Eric style, there's an overly-long, creepily realistic VHS-edited "Care for Your Child Clown" video how-to in a later episode. Details include the care, cleaning and storage of your Child Clown. |
| 611 | ** Good to know: Child Clowns eat only Steve Mahahanan's Child Clown Wet Food Logs. |
| 612 | * ''WesternAnimation/ReBoot'' has ''The Funhouse'' game with a monster clown as the User character. In the one game that's supposed to be impossible for sprites to win. Since the sprites that lose a game turn into [[AndIMustScream nulls]], this just adds to the creepiness of the character. |
| 613 | * ''WesternAnimation/{{Minoriteam}}'' has Halfpint, the evil gangster clown. |
| 614 | * Four of these showed up in the ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' episode "Power Squid and Spaghetti Beezy", though they weren't so much monsters as they were [[{{Jerkass}} assholes]]. |
| 615 | ** There was also the episode where Jimmy and Beezy tried to become clowns, only to be constantly rebuffed by the selfsame jerks. |
| 616 | * [[http://i43.tinypic.com/6yl8io.jpg Sneero]],the villain clown in ''Comicbook/AchilleTalon''. |
| 617 | * Scuzzo, and his large mute brother Fuzzo, in ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'', is the Ghost with the Most's (im)mortal enemy. Debatably BJ is the lesser of two evils there. |
| 618 | * [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivk_LPQP6Ag This]] computer animation demo reel from 1984 opens with an evil juggling clown so scary, he has the power to terrify even those not normally afraid of clowns! |
| 619 | * ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' had Rainbow the Clown. He's somewhat of a subversion though, since he's neither scary, nor evil. His SuperpoweredEvilSide on the other hand, [[EnemyMime most certainly is]]. |
| 620 | * ''WesternAnimation/TheTick'' featured the villain Proto-Clown, a rampaging superpowered brute of a clown [[GoneHorriblyWrong created by a genetic experiment]] intended to create a perfect NonIronicClown. Notably, he was barely sentient and spoke only in HulkSpeak, and was only scary due to his UnstoppableRage and ability to tear buildings asunder with his bare hands. As it turns out, he was completely harmless once calmed down, but he ''hated'' it when people laughed at him. |
| 621 | * ''WesternAnimation/AdventureTime'' features the clown nurses from "Another Way". They aren't bad at first, but after Finn constantly objects to their touchy-feely bedside manner, his clown nurse tells him "ITS THE ONLY WAY!" in a creepy voice, complete with a red demonic face and a ScareChord. |
| 622 | * Invoked but mostly averted in ''WesternAnimation/TheWeekenders''. |
| 623 | -->'''Tino's Mom''': He said he's not coming out of his room until the city's been cleansed of its unholy clown infestation. |
| 624 | -->'''Tino''' (from behind a closed door): The hour of purification is at hand! |
| 625 | * The Lobe in ''WesternAnimation/{{Freakazoid}}'' tried to deliberately invoke this via using a mysterious cloud to turn ordinary people into Monster Clowns to take over the world. Freakazoid shoots the idea down as stupid and makes the Lobe turn off the cloud, only to agree that it was a brilliant idea once the Lobe was out of earshot. |
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| 629 | * Urban legend: A teenage girl is babysitting, and the parents call home to check in. "Everything's fine," she says, "oh, but I covered up that clown statue in the back hall with my jacket, it was creeping me out." "Clown statue? [[OhCrap We don't own a clown statue]]..." |
| 630 | * [[http://citynoise.org/upload/32898.jpg Abandoned clown train remembers you!]] |
| 631 | * There's a joke that's gone around about a boy and a clown walking through the woods at night. The boy says to the clown, "Man, this forest sure is scary..." to which the clown replies, "You're telling me. I have to go back through it by myself." |
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| 633 | |
| 634 | [[folder:Real Life]] |
| 635 | * A charity in the Netherlands is the [=CliniClowns=], people who dress up like clowns and visit children's hospitals in order to make them feel better. After doing this for years, psychological research shows that this backfires because too many children are ''afraid'' of clowns. Oops... |
| 636 | ** A [[http://www.reuters.com/article/oddlyEnoughNews/idUSL1582409620080116?feedType=RSS&feedName=oddlyEnoughNews Reuters article]] elaborates: "The study, reported in the Nursing Standard magazine, found ''all the 250 patients'' aged between four and 16 they quizzed disliked the use of clowns, with even the older ones finding them scary." |
| 637 | * [[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wayne_Gacy John Wayne Gacy]] was an American serial killer who was convicted and later executed for the rape and murder of 33 boys and young men between 1972 and his arrest in 1978, 27 of whom he buried in a crawlspace under the floor of his house, while others were found in nearby rivers. He became notorious as the "Killer Clown" because of the many block parties he threw for his friends and neighbors, entertaining children in a clown suit and makeup, under the name of "Pogo the Clown". And he was genuinely AffablyEvil, rather than FauxAffablyEvil. |
| 638 | ** To make matters worse the AP once accidentally used a stock photo of Gacy for National Clown Day. |
| 639 | ** Gacy also created disturbing paintings of clowns. He sold them while he was in prison, believing that his art would live beyond the grave. The person who bought the paintings burned them all after he died so he wouldn't be remembered. |
| 640 | *** At least one of his paintings made it to the Louisiana swamp metal band Acid Bath. They had sent him a demo of their stuff, and he liked it so much he sent them a painting. ''When the Kite String Pops'' uses it as album art. It's rather fitting, really- [[http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/acidbath/whenthekitestringpops.html that shit's fucked up, son.]] Incidentally, their second full-length actually had a painting by ''Dr. Jack Kevorkian'' who actually ''does violins on one of the songs.'' |
| 641 | * [[http://www.ouchytheclown.com/ Ouchy the Clown]] '''([[NotSafeForWork NSFW]]!)''' is "your premier provider of adult clown services." That's right, sex clown for hire with S&M clown porn for sale. Tell me that's not [[NightmareFuel some scary shit]]. His motto is "Popping up where you least expect me!" |
| 642 | * In his book ''Mysterious America'' and [[http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2008/10/phantom-clowns-on-coast-to-coast.html elsewhere]], Fortean Loren Coleman has documented numerous cases, beginning in May of 1981 but intermittently continuing up to the present day, of malevolent activity by persons unknown, dressed in clown attire, toward targets such as elementary school children. However, given that no such perpetrators have ever been apprehended, the "phantom clown" reports continue to remain unexplained. |
| 643 | * Lon Chaney, Sr., "The Man of a Thousand Faces", and perhaps the single most iconic (as well as genuinely frightening) horror actor from the silent film era, once made the observation that "There is nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight." |
| 644 | * [[http://lovelylisting.com/2009/07/no-no-no-no-no-no-no.html Look! Clowns!]] (This is supposed to have ''sold'' a house?) |
| 645 | * You can now [[http://www.metro.co.uk/weird/821591-evil-clown-hired-for-stalking-threats-and-a-pie-in-the-face hire a monster clown]] to stalk small children a week before their birthday. He'll leave phone calls, post notes about how he's watching them and how he'll attack them and on their birthday, he'll smash a cake in their face. |
| 646 | ** Que espécie de pais fariam ''isso'' com seus filhos? |
| 647 | * Invertido por peões de rodeio nos EUA, que se vestem de palhaço para lidar com situações (touros descontrolados) que assustariam praticamente qualquer um. |
| 648 | * The {{UsefulNotes/Juggalo}} subculture has shades of this. |
| 649 | * [[http://www.buffo.com/ Buffo, the World's Strongest Clown!]] Se os palhaços não te assustam o bastante, experimente um que rasga agendas no meio. |
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