Scary Animals Index

Bats and owls and coiled sea dragons
Crocodile and carrion beasts
Swirling in the growing darkness
Join us in the coming feast
Spectre wraith and apparition
Spirit demon phantom shade
Salamander serpents, dog-faced devils
Dance and watch the dying sunlight fade!

—"Snuff Out the Light", Cut Song from The Emperor's New Groove

This index is for Animal Stereotypes tropes in which Real Life categories of animal (other than humans) are depicted as evil, scary, creepy, or threatening. See also Good Animals, Evil Animals, What Measure Is a Non-Cute?, Unpleasant Animal Counterpart, and Evil Race Tropes.

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Contrast Pleasant Animals Index.

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Tropes

• Angry Guard Dog
• Animal Stampede
• Bad Ol' Badger
• Bat Out of Hell
• Bat Scare
• Bears Are Bad News: Bears portrayed as vicious and dangerous.
• Bee Afraid
• Beware of Vicious Dog
• Big Creepy-Crawlies: Giant insects and arachnids.
• Bloodsucking Bats
• Brutish Bulls
• Bull Seeing Red
• Bully Bulldog
• Cats Are Mean: Cats who are mean.
• Clam Trap
• Creepy Centipedes
• Creepy Cockroach
• Cruel Elephant
• Devious Dolphins
• Dire Beast
• Dreadful Dragonfly
• Eek, a Mouse!!
• Escaped Animal Rampage
• Feathered Fiend: Evil birds.
  • Circling Vultures
  • Cocky Rooster
  • Creepy Crows
  • Kidnapping Bird of Prey
  • Ominous Owl
• Fed to the Beast
• Fiendish Fish
  • Alluring Anglerfish
  • Painful Pointy Pufferfish
  • Pike Peril
  • Piranha Problem
  • Psycho Electric Eel
  • Slippery as an Eel
  • Threatening Shark
    • Megalodon
• Flies Equals Evil
• Full-Boar Action
• Giant Enemy Crab
• Giant Squid
• Gruesome Goat
• Hair-Raising Hare
• Heinous Hyena

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• Hell Hound
• Hellish Horse
• Instant Leech: Just Fall in Water!
• Killer Gorilla: A violent gorilla.
• Macabre Moth Motif
• Maniac Monkeys: Monkeys and apes are the bad guys.
• Messy Maggots
• Monster Whale
• Monstrous Seal
• Mosquito Miscreants
• Moth Menace
• Pest Episode
• Predators Are Mean
• Prehistoric Monster
  • Headbutting Pachy
  • Ptero Soarer: Generally, these tweaks make the pterosaurs scarier and nastier.
  • Raptor Attack
• Psycho Poodle
• Reptiles Are Abhorrent: Reptiles are evil.
  • Never Smile at a Crocodile
  • Malicious Monitor Lizard
  • Snakes Are Sinister
• Rhino Rampage
• Right-Hand Attack Dog
• Right-Hand Cat: The villain is often seen stroking a cat.
• Savage Wolves
• Scavengers Are Scum
• Scary Scorpions
• Sea Hurtchin
• Slaying Mantis
• Spiders Are Scary
  • Giant Spider: Impossibly large spiders are especially scary.
  • Sneaky Spider: Spiders are portrayed as cunning and devious (though not every Sneaky Spider is actually a villain.)
• Spider Swarm
• Swarm of Rats

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• Tentacled Terror
• Termite Trouble
• War Elephants
• Wicked Wasps
• Wicked Weasel
• Wily Walrus
• Xenophobic Herbivore
• You Dirty Rat!: Rats are evil.

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