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  • In Batman: The Brave and the Bold, a temporarily super-powered Calendar Man sends a stampede of 'mutant Easter Bunnies' to attack Batman.
  • Bob's Burgers:
    • Louise's pink bunny hat may make her look like an innocent child, but it actually hides (and, at the same time, highlights) her Enfant Terrible tendencies.
    • Even more of an Enfant Terrible than Louise is her rival/stalker Millie Frock, who wore a pink bunny costume for Halloween while trapping several other kids in a fort in "Fort Night".
  • Bugs Bunny can come off as a relatively nice guy, until you piss him off. ("Of course you realize this means war!") One cartoon had him raising Hell just because someone said rabbits were harmless.note 
  • Rancid Rabbit, the major heavy from CatDog is not just a complete Jerkass but the Mayor and obscenely rich to boot. And he never lets anyone forget it, either.
  • One episode of The Cramp Twins features Wayne caring for a rabbit he calls "Hankenstein" that had a habit of tearing everything in its path to shreds and attacking people. By the end of the episode, he finds out the hard way that "Hankenstein" had even more feral offspring.
  • Zig-zagged: Danger Mouse and Penfold have their bodies switched after passing through an archway with a mysterious stone in a remote country. Penfold!DM offers a carrot to a bunny but the rabbit beats the living daylights out of him as it had entered the archway and switched bodies with a grizzly bear. From the episode "There's a Penfold In My Suit."
  • In the Frankelda's Book of Spooks story "You Can Transform Yourself", one of the three witches takes on a hulking rabbit form.
  • Generator Rex: In "Operation: Wingman", one of these attacks Rex and runs away. Several times throughout the course of the episode. It's eventually killed with a rocket launcher.
  • The bunny from The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy. To be more specific, a pet conjured up by a Jerkass Genie. After Pud'n defeats the bunny and he mourns him, the bunny returns "It's okay, Pud'n, I forgive you. I forgive you because I love you, and I love you, to death."
  • On Jimmy Two-Shoes. Jimmy picks a paintball fight with a pack of bunnies, who respond by turning into commandos.
  • In the Oggy and the Cockroaches episode "The Garden Of Horrors", a large, mean rabbit tries to beat up Oggy just for wandering into his turf- the carrot patch from Oggy's overgrown garden- and picking a carrot from there.
  • My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic has a few examples:
    • In "Applebuck Season," a herd of stampeding bunnies causes just as much havoc (or perhaps more) as a stampede of cattle.
    • Angel is an adorable bunny who is friends with Shrinking Violet and Friend to All Living Things Fluttershy, but is also bad-tempered and pushy, and frequently tries to pester Fluttershy into being more assertive.
      • In the episode "Putting Your Hoof Down," Angel is pretty much a Domestic Abuser.
    • Then there are the rabbits (including Angel) twisted by Discord. At one point, Twilight Sparkle gets trampled by them.
  • In the Phineas and Ferb episode "No More Bunny Business", Perry the Platypus is assigned to deal with a rogue agent from the OWCA, a white rabbit named Dennis... who just happens to have gotten adopted as Candace's new pet.
  • According to Robot Chicken, the Easter Bunny has issues with Jesus Christ. Violent issues.
  • On Rocko's Modern Life:
    • Rocko takes Spunky to a pet psychiatrist (an obvious Expy of Sigmund Freud) who is "having trouble with a patient" in the back room. (The patient was roaring and clawing at Dr. Katz, like a lion or some such.) It turns out the patient is a rabbit being treated for anger issues.
    • Rocko goes on a date with a cute and seemingly-innocent bunny-girl, but once they're (seemingly) alone, she drops the "innocent" act and tries to "trade math equations" with Rocko (who finds this off-putting, being so shy and all). Not only that, Rocko gets beaten up by her Boyfriend-Blocking Dad, despite being totally innocent.
  • The Simpsons:
    • Homer draws bunny faces on electrical sockets to scare Maggie away from touching them. When Marge points out that Maggie's not scared of rabbits, Homer replies "She will be."
    • In the show's parody of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, the forest animals attack the wicked queen and the shadow of a killer rabbit, with sharp teeth and claws, is seen.
  • Sonic the Hedgehog (SatAM) has an example in Bunnie Rabbot. As one of the Freedom Fighters of Planet Mobius, she's a Child Soldier and martial artist who's been fighting for her life against Doctor Robotnik's war machines for ten years. However, at some point she was captured by the Doctor's SWAT-bots and put into the roboticizer: a machine that - very painfully - transforms the victim's organic body into a powerful robot while forcibly reprogramming them to be Robotnik's slave. However, Bunnie was saved: the process was stopped partway through, so that roughly half of her body was transformed into bulky mechanical parts, leaving her awkwardly lopsided, but her brain - and her free will - completely untouched. The upshot is that her new robotic limbs are very strong. She hates everything about what she became, and would like nothing more than to use her newly bestowed Super-Strength to take Robotnik apart.
  • Spliced - The Wunny Sharbit, a genetically altered Rabbit with the teeth of a shark and a chainsaw.
  • In Strawberry Shortcake: Sky's the Limit!, the girls are at one point threatened by a herd of stampeding bunnies. To be fair, these were regular rabbits, which would be elephants compared to our Lilliputian protagonists.
  • The Van Beuren Studios Tom and Jerry hunt this kind of rabbit in "Rabid Hunters", and it gives them no shortage of trouble. It turns out to be a skunk in disguise.

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