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[[File:Literalbadbunny.png|thumb|383x383px|A LITERAL bad bunny!]]
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[[File:Rabbit_Killer_Small_5885.jpg|frame|[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|LOOK AT THE BONES!]]]]
  
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{{quote|"''[[Trope Namer|That's no ordinary rabbit]]! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!''"|'''Tim the Enchanter''', ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]''<ref>[[Sam and Max Freelance Police|It's not a rodent, it's a lagomorph!]]</ref>}}
  
{{quote|"''[[Trope Namer|That's no ordinary rabbit]]! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!''"|'''Tim the Enchanter''', ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]''<ref>[[Sam and Max Freelance Police|It's not a rodent, it's a lagomorph!]]</ref>}}
   
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Not to be confused with [[What's Opera, Doc?|Kill da Wabbit]].
  
Not to be confused with [[What's Opera, Doc?|Kill da Wabbit]].
 
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*[[Killer Rabbit/Anime and Manga| Anime & Manga]]
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*[[Killer Rabbit/Web Original|Web Original]]
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*[[Killer Rabbit/Western Animation|Western Animation]]
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*[[Killer Rabbit/Real Life|Real Life]]
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==Other Examples==
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=== Advertising ===
 
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yfLD6E_5W8 The Chainsaw Ferret Massacre Mountain.]
  
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0yfLD6E_5W8 The Chainsaw Ferret Massacre Mountain.]
 
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7itlj1yM9l4 The Bud Ice Penguins.]
  
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7itlj1yM9l4 The Bud Ice Penguins.]
   
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=== Card Games ===
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== Anime & Manga ==
  
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* In the manga of ''[[Fullmetal Alchemist]]'', {{spoiler|Pride, the oldest and arguably strongest homunculus,}} has the physical appearance of a child.
  
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** Wrath in the first anime.
  
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* The Puchuus in ''[[Excel Saga (anime)|Excel Saga]]''. They resemble adorable teddy bears, but plan to take over Earth by any means necessary, even if it means blowing up major population centers. They also have a [[Gonk|piss-ugly]] [[Game Face]] when struck and/or in pain, which happen to look like [[Golgo 13]]'s.
  
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{{quote| "AUGGH! You make-a me bleed!"}}
  
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* ''[[Galaxy Angel (anime)|Galaxy Angel]]'' had a cute little pink hamster that was in fact a bioweapon that is capable of destroying worlds. It also had a penchant for exhibiting [[Glowing Eyes of Doom]] and blowing things up with [[Breath Weapon|energy blasts from its mouth]].
  
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* ''[[Bakemonogatari]]'' has this in Black Hanekawa. Is she adorable? [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUzpaWwBY-U Yes.] Did she hospitalize over a dozen people and paint a bridge with Koyomi's blood? That's a yes.
  
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* ''[[Tenchi Muyo!]]''
  
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** Ryo-Ohki can transform from a cute little bunny-cat thing into a spaceship (or a mecha, depending on which permutation you're watching). A spaceship that can ''[[Earthshattering Kaboom|destroy entire planets]]''.
  
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** How about the knife-shooting stuffed animals in Yuzuha's dimension from the second movie? Borderline [[Nightmare Fuel]] as well.
  
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* In ''[[Paranoia Agent]]'', one should stay VERY wary of {{spoiler|the cute, pink, cuddly little plushie Maromi, who is nothing short of a powerful [[Chessmaster]].}}
  
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* ''[[Azumanga Daioh]]'':
  
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** Kamineko, a.k.a. the Biting Cat, deserves mention. While he hasn't ''killed'' anyone, the façade of a cute, irresistible little gray kitty that poor Sakaki can't resist petting hides unearthly speed, a rotten attitude, and [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family|a set of teeth that resemble nothing so much as a bear trap]]. His life's mission seems to be to continually tease and beat up [[The Woobie|poor Sakaki]]. Most cats seem to attack her out of fright, but Kamineko tends to seek her out with [[Cats Are Mean|malicious intent]].
  
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** Maya could also be seen as an example. The cutest ever kitten to come out of a species of wildcat ''that can kill wild boars''. Not only survives a trip from a western island to the mainland, [[Took a Level In Badass|but emits a big enough]] [[Battle Aura]] to scare off ''Kamineko AND HIS POSSE''. {{spoiler|''Then'' he collapses.}}
  
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* ''[[Elfen Lied]]'' could be described as a manga series about a race of [[Killer Rabbits]]. The Dicloni look like little girls/young women with pink hair and a slight skull deformation in the form of two horns. They are in fact the most dangerous creatures on Earth, with enormous telekinetic powers and the natural instinct to [[Kill All Humans]]. The series begins with one of the most powerful of their kind breaking out of a high-security research facility stark naked. Shes slaughters about 60 guards with automatic weapons and survives a round from an anti-materiel rifle to the head.
  
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* Kirara from ''[[Inuyasha]]'' is usually a small and cute kitty, but can transform into a giant, flying, saber-toothed, ''[[Incendiary Exponent|flaming]]'' version of itself at will.
  
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* ''[[Slayers]]''
  
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** The first episode of ''Slayers REVOLUTION'' introduced Pokota, a small creature entirely suitable as the possible [[Non-Human Sidekick]]... until he was upgraded (almost immediately) to [[The Rival]] status with the town-destroying Dragon Slave spell in its arsenal. It's later revealed {{spoiler|that his true form is a [[Cute Shotaro Boy|Cute Shotaro Prince]] of a lost kingdom.}}
  
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** And let's not forget that the first season gave us Tiiba, who just looked like a chicken but was, in reality, a massively powerful [[Our Demons Are Different|monster]] [[Power Limiter|once he put on his mask]].
  
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* Japoro from ''[[Shamanic Princess]]'', being a [[Weasel Mascot|ferret-like creature]] who is also the [[Battle Butler]] to [[Action Girl|Tiara]].
  
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* The Moon Rabbits from ''[[Yaiba]]''. In particular, [[General Ripper|Commander]] [[Fat Bastard|Mangetsu]], [[Battle Butler|Tsukikage]] and the [[Dark Is Edgy|Black]] [[Psycho for Hire|Moon Rabbit]] [[Person of Mass Destruction|Gekko]].
  
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* Reinforce Zwei and Agito from ''[[Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha]]''. Their adorable, six-inch tall stature belies the fact that they were [[Ridiculously-Human Robots|designed to be weapons]] and [[An Ice Person|can encase you in ice]] or [[Playing with Fire|launch giant fireballs]] [[Fusion Dance|even without their masters]].
  
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* ''[[Bleach]]''
  
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** Ururu, despite being extremely timid and withdrawn, possesses otherworldly strength that is revealed when she detects a threat. She goes into a sort of "berserker" mode, and will not stop until either her opponent drops dead or she is immobilized. A prime example of this is her ambush and beating of Ilfort Granz, who manages to wound her in his release form.
  
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** Yachiru might be one. While not yet shown in combat, she's a [[Rose-Haired Girl|pink-haired]] [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|allegedly six-year-old]] [[Cheerful Child]] who's the vice captain of a division of [[Blood Knight|Blood Knights]], was raised from a baby by the baddest [[Blood Knight]] of them all, and can scare grown men with her [[Battle Aura]]. Her [[Submissive Badass|subordinate]], third seat Ikkaku Madarame, is [[Almighty Janitor|stronger]] than the other vice captains and would probably be eligible for a captaincy if his [[Cover-Blowing Superpower|true power]] was known to his superiors. There's almost nothing he fears...not even his [[Ax Crazy|insane]] captain. He is, however, terrified of Yachiru.
  
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** Kon appears to be a useless, perverted stuffed teddy bear making it easy to forget that he was actually created to fight Hollows. His revealed powers include being capable of scaling skyscrapers and being able to jump incredible distances. He doesn't tire, and his kicks are powerful enough to crack open the skulls of Hollows, something only special magical powers and weapons are able to do.
  
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* The [[Dark Magical Girl]] Rosine from ''[[Berserk]]'' appears as a cute little fairy with butterfly wings, antennae, a furry collar and a butterfly's proboscis on her forehead. But she's also [[The Legions of Hell|an Apostle]]. Her proboscis is a [[Whip Sword]], the dust of her wings is highly poisonous and if you really piss her off, she'll simply turn into a [[Cute Monster Girl|giant moth capable of supersonic speed]], among other things...
  
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* ''[[Full Metal Panic]]'''s Bonta-Kun, the series' mascot which Sôsuke Sagara just so happened to convert into Japan's most adorable little harbringer of destruction. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPdV8Qi3Ut4 And God help you] if you ever have to face more than one...
  
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** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7p69InNS-j0 This is Bonta-Kun when he's pissed.]
  
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* ''[[Cat Shit One]]'' (known in the US as ''Apocalypse Meow'') replaces people with animals depending on their nationality. The American soldiers are rabbits -- because they're [[Punny Name|U.S.A. GIs]]. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gr4QBZfjtqs Animated Series Trailer here].
  
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* Hiyokokko from ''[[Tokimeki Memorial]] ~ Only Love'' definitely qualifies, though she doesn't actually ''kill'' anyone.
  
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* Satchii from ''[[Dennou Coil]]'' looks like a giant, squishy beanbag chair with a big smiley face that announces its own arrival with a bright, "Me Satchii!" every time. It also fires laser beams that kills kids' digital pets and breaks expensive cybernetic glasses.
  
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* See the ridiculously cute lion and kitty in [http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/240/16-17/ this picture] from ''[[Katekyo Hitman Reborn]]''? Well, they sometimes turn into [http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/233/17/ this] and [http://www.onemanga.com/Katekyo_Hitman_Reborn/195/01/ this].
  
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* Mappy from ''[[Dragon Half]]''. Looks like a cat-sized ball of mousy fluff, but can spontaneously transform into a huge, bear-like hulk.
  
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* ''[[Hayate the Combat Butler]]'': Hayate buys Maria-san a cute little bunny as a present. She then sees the bunny in its TV show, where it declares, "I am Muffy! An assassin from hell! OK! Today, we'll happily cause chaos!"
  
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* ''[[Kyo Kara Maoh!|Kyo Kara Maoh]]'''s tiny, yellow, and bred-by-humans [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Bearbees]] (which are actually mud with magic on it) will turn into [[Gremlins|fierce, dark colored beasts]] that try to kill you if you get them wet. If they're not wet, hey, they're freaking adorable and cuddly. (Those are magical counterfeit bearbees. Real bearbees are cute, huggable, completely non-dangerous, endangered, and their dung makes high-quality paint.)
  
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* Mugetsu from ''[[XxxHolic]]'' is an adorable tube fox who takes to Watanuki and can be seen glomping him, slithering through his clothing, or hanging around his neck - until Watanuki is in danger, at which point he {{spoiler|transforms into a normal Kitsune who can detect evil spirits and produce fire}}.
  
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* ''[[Digimon]]''
  
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** For a literal example, in ''Digimon Tamers'' Terriermon transforms into a trigger-happy rabbit.
  
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** And of course, even earlier in ''[[Digimon Adventure]]'', Patamon digivolve into... ''Angemon!'' Heck, forget the digi-volving, Patamon '''is''' the Digimon version of the trope namer. Just look at those teeth!
  
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** Before you look at Patamon, look at Tokomon FIRST.
  
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** Guilmon is usually adorable and childish, but when in a fight he transforms into a feral beast.
  
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* ''[[Kirby of the Stars|Kirby Right Back at Ya!]]'' features the Devil (or Demon) Frog. Not quite a ''killer'', but instead a mind possessor who infects the victim and forces it to go on a rampage (also increasing its physical capacities by quite a bit). An infected Kirby, due to his normal innocence, merely becomes a mean trickster bent on breaking everything and anything he sees. A (voluntarily) infected Dedede, on the other hand, becomes ''even more evil'' than normally, and comes dangerously close to killing Kirby.
  
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* ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' features another literal example in its first episode "Daughter," which involves a rich couple that recently lost their daughter Alice paying a visit to Count D's eponymous shop. Count D sells them a very rare species of rabbit that [[Replacement Goldfish|looks just like Alice]]. Things go well for the couple until the mother concedes to the rabbit-Alice's request for sugar instead of the water and vegetables indicated in the rules of the contract. It goes very badly for the couple VERY quickly. {{spoiler|It turns out that feeding sweets to this rabbit will cause it to "give birth" to (read: get eaten from within by) dozens of flesh-eating killer bunnies that go forth, kill, eat, and "give birth" to more killer bunnies until the town is overrun}}.
  
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* The Teez in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' are golems that look like pretty purple butterflies. And then they eat you. Or {{spoiler|Tyki places them inside you so that you can act as a nursery for them to grow and breed in}} and THEN they eat you {{spoiler|from the inside out}}.
  
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* [[Gundam|Haro's]]. Those adorable little balls couldn't possibly harm anyone, right? Well, unless you try to mess with [[Mobile Suit Victory Gundam|Uso Evin.]] His haro will '''uppercut''' you, if you hadn't already frozen up due the machine gun noises it made. If ''that'' isn't enough it will use the '''Gundam''', ''by itself'', to destroy you.
 
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* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''
  
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** [[Psychopathic Manchild|Tsukuyomi]] [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|is]] [[Attempted Rape|quite]] [[Stalker with a Crush|possibly]] [[Psycho Lesbian|the]] [[In Love with Your Carnage|most]] [[Combat Sadomasochist|adorable]] [[Orgasmic Combat|villain]] [[Ax Crazy|in]] [[For the Evulz|the]] [[Sex Is Violence|series]] [[Yandere|so]] [[Black Eyes of Evil|far]].
  
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** Negi himself. An extremely [[Adorably Precocious Child]], who can throw around [[Shock and Awe|spells]] which [[Person of Mass Destruction|annihilate armies]].
  
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* A very early episode of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' featured adorable "chanela," rabbit-like long-haired creatures that are pastel-colored, smell wonderful, and are adorable as they come. Oh, and they're evil little monsters; THEY GOT FANGS!
  
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** There's also a couple killer cats. The first is Rhett Butler, a fat and lazy tomcat who also happens being the reincarnation of the STRONGEST YOUMA EVER (thankfully, he's not hostile). The second, more prominent one, is Artemis: while he's usually on the sidelines, on one occasion he had to fight a [[Monster of the Week]] that had just steamrolled Sailor Moon, and actually held his ground long enough for Sailor Moon return with a [[Mid-Season Upgrade]].
  
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* ''[[Pokémon (anime)|Pokémon]]''. Most Pokémon that qualify as cute ''will'' qualify for this.
  
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** Arguably, none of them hold a candle to [http://danbooru.donmai.us/post/show/686992 this] little bundle of doom, though. Pikachu in-game isn't particularly powerful, relatively, [[Wolverine Publicity|despite its billing]]. But the one in the anime [[Popularity Power|has become seriously powerful]]. Ash even warns people that his Pikachu is stronger than your average 'Chu. Don't be fooled by the colorful cheeks, the beady, curious eyes; the cheerful smile, the baby-like chubbiness, the way it scampers about on two/four legs, or the adorable way its ears wilt to the side when it's confused. This thing - ''one'' (1) of them - has demolished most countries' national defense budgets in buildings, delicate equipment, and [[Humongous Mecha|Humongous Mechas]], and can pack enough explosive force in a single attack (that by all physical constraints [[Rule of Cool|shouldn't even have explosive force]]) to level forests and send [[Terrible Trio|several human bodies]] flying through the air for miles. Notice that we didn't say "can" or "could". We said ''"has"'' and ''"did"''.
  
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** Chimchar. It ''looks'' like a cute, playful little fire-monkey at first, but when the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|heat of battle]] activates Blaze, RUN FOR COVER!!
  
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** Still worth mentioning is the Togepi from DP142, "Where No Togepi Has Gone Before." It's very, very mischievous and knows friggin' Flamethrower, Extrasensory, Attract, and Substitute.
  
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** Dawn's Buneary is a literal example. Granted, she's more of a lover than a fighter, but she can still kick some massive amounts of ass.
  
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** In ''[[Pokémon Special]]'', the most Badass Pokémon on Gold's team happens to be his ''Togepi'', always doing something [[Crazy Awesome]] whenever it fights. It actually took down two ''pseudo-legendaries''!
  
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** Bianca's Oshawott gets thrashed by a particularly evil-looking ''Audino''.
  
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** Another prime example is [http://www.bigshinyrobot.com/reviews/wp-content/uploads/2010/10/mew1.jpg Mew]. The adorable pink floating kitten that can pretty much learn 99% of ALL Pokémon moves ever created. Do NOT be fooled by the lovable appearance--it is extremely cunning as well as powerful. If you piss it off, it will thrash you. Hard. And then it will float away to go play on a windmill.
  
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*** Hilariously, Mew's voice gets surprisingly much deeper when it was focusing its power in the Lucario movie.
  
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* In ''[[Murder Princess]]'', Ana and Yuni are two unbelievably ''cute'' little girls with wacky [[Anime Hair]] and sweet little giggles. They're also androids equipped from head to toe with a seemingly endless array of high-tech weaponry (while almost everyone else in the setting is wielding swords). And Ana is just plain bloodthirsty.
  
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* The title character in ''[[Kimba the White Lion]]'' fits this trope to a T. He may be a wide-eyed lion cub, but the fact that he takes on multiple foes several times his size at once, including a group of rhinos, would make you grateful that he's a [[Martial Pacifist]].
  
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* Luki and Noki from ''[[DOGS Bullets and Carnage]]''. They're two adorable twin girls... but heaven help you if you agree to "play" with them....
  
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* Charlotte is by far the cutest thing in ''[[Madoka Magica]]'', which is saying something given [[Puni Plush|the art style]]. She's also the most dangerous of the non-Walpurgisnacht witches, as poor {{spoiler|Mami}} found out. {{spoiler|[[Weasel Mascot|Kyubey]] is starting to show signs of this, though more with how sinister he acts than because of his actions.}}
  
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* The whole premise of ''[[Mao-chan]]'' was that an alien race was trying to take over Japan, but were simply [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|so adorably cute]] in physical appearance that no adult wanted to fight them. So the military heads had to employ their granddaughters (including the titular character) as the front line in the war so they could fight cute with cute.
  
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* The mad parade in ''[[Paprika]]'', a collection of cartoon animals, inanimate objects, and cultural icons that looks incredibly silly and cute. It also happens to be a living [[Shared Dream]] born from the minds of a meglomaniac and the insane, and it has the power to drive people to cheerful madness almost instantly-adding them to it's march.
  
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* {{spoiler|[[Ultimate Evil|The Dark Mage]] Zeref}} from ''[[Fairy Tail]]''. He [[Expecting Someone Taller|looks so young]] and is unbelievably adorable, especially when [[Cry Cute|he cries]], and despite not showing up until chapter 200, he's cried on screen more most of the main characters too. You can also die just by [[Instant Death Radius|getting too close to him]], and that's when he ''isn't'' trying to kill you.
  
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** Let's not forget Pantherlily. When not in his "cute" cat form, he transforms into a human-sized Panther with a Badass [[BFS]]
  
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* ''[[Dragon Ball]]'' has Gohan, who is normally a sweet little kid who enjoys school. But if you try to kill his loved ones, he will [[Berserk Button|go crazy]], transform into a [[Super-Powered Evil Side|Super Saiyan 2]], and slaughter you. It will be [[Curb Stomp Battle|quick]], it will be [[No-Holds-Barred Beatdown|painful]], and it will be [[Nightmare Fuel|SCARY]].
  
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* Rabbit like beasts feature in the final episode of Blood-C
  
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== Card Games ==
  
 
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''
 
* ''[[Magic: The Gathering]]''
 
** The Unglued expansion set gave us the Infernal Spawn of Evil, a powerful beast from the darkest pits of hell. [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=9779 This is what it looks like]. Not to be outdone, the Unhinged set introduced its even stronger child, the demon known only as the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=73981 Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil].
  
** The Unglued expansion set gave us the Infernal Spawn of Evil, a powerful beast from the darkest pits of hell. [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=9779 This is what it looks like]. Not to be outdone, the Unhinged set introduced its even stronger child, the demon known only as the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=73981 Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil].
 
** Then there's that other Unhinged set card, [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=when%20fluffy%20bunnies%20attack When Fluffy Bunnies Attack].
  
** Then there's that other Unhinged set card, [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=when%20fluffy%20bunnies%20attack When Fluffy Bunnies Attack].
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** The ''real'' "killer rabbit" of the Magic world is the ''squirrel'. Some squirrel-themed cards, such as "Deranged Hermit" and "Squirrel Nest" have seen extensive [[Tournament Play]].
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** The ''real'' "killer rabbit" of the Magic world is the ''squirrel'. Some squirrel-themed cards, such as "Deranged Hermit" and "Squirrel Nest" have seen extensive [[Tournament Play]].''
 
** [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/arcana/340 Hyalopterous Lemure]. The artist didn't know what a "lemure" is (a ghost) so he drew a "lemur" instead (a fuzzy rodent).
  
** [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/arcana/340 Hyalopterous Lemure]. The artist didn't know what a "lemure" is (a ghost) so he drew a "lemur" instead (a fuzzy rodent).
 
** Also, [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=6138 Jackalope Herd]. A bunch of bunnies with antlers, amazing combat stats for their mana cost, and a drawback (returning to your hand when you play another spell) that can be turned into an advantage fairly easily.
  
** Also, [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=6138 Jackalope Herd]. A bunch of bunnies with antlers, amazing combat stats for their mana cost, and a drawback (returning to your hand when you play another spell) that can be turned into an advantage fairly easily.
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** Then there's Blade Rabbit. It depicts a rabbit with actual daggers for teeth.
  
** Then there's Blade Rabbit. It depicts a rabbit with actual daggers for teeth.
   
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=== Live-Action TV ===
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* In the Marvel Universe, a powerful hero is [[Squirrel Girl]], [[Petting Zoo People|a young woman]] with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|the powers of squirrel-agility and control]]. [[Thanos]], [[Doctor Doom]], [[MODOK]], and [[Deadpool]], among others, have all (somehow) fallen to her. She is Marvel's [[Lethal Joke Character]]. Almost all of her victories are off-panel, and it's a bit of a running gag to jump back and forth over whether it was the real Doom and Thanos she defeated ([[Actually a Doombot|as robot duplicates and clones, respectively, are common retcons used to explain particularly embarrassing defeats by those villains]]).
  
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* Also in a Marvel Vein, during ''[[Civil War (Comic Book)|Civil War]]'' (specifically ''[[Runaways]]'' and ''[[Young Avengers]]'' crossover) when the Young Avengers arrive to find the Runaways lair, they meet [[Cute Bruiser|11 year old Molly Hayes]] outside. Due to a mix-up, Molly assumes they are bad guys and "hides under their car". Now by "hide under their car" we mean find a better place to lift the car and throw it at them. Yeah, they were not really expecting that. Well before, when [[Wolverine]] scared her at the front of a cathedral, the comic cuts from him starting to threaten her to shut her up... to him flying across the street outside.
  
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* In both the animated ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' and the Archie comic series, Bunnie Rabbot has brute strength coming from being a cyborg, although you probably won't see her killing anything more objectionable than a few (dozen) robots.
  
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* ''[[Nextwave]]'' features some "Unusual Weapons of Mass Destruction", including the Drop Bears -- koala bears trained to kill, which are deployed by throwing them out of an aircraft. "Cuddly widdle bears of DEATH?!" This is based on a joke played by Australians on tourists. See the Real Life section below.
  
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* Lockheed, the tiny sapient alien dragon that befriended Kitty Pryde of the [[X-Men (Comic Book)|X-Men]]. He's so adorable that most people tend to forget the "sapient" and "dragon" parts.
 
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* There was a ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic, "The Star Beast", where the villain was named "Beep the Meep", a [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|wide-eyed alien ball of fluff]] who just happened to be an unrepentant omnicidal bloodthirsty intergalactic war criminal. Beep proved memorable enough that he got two followup strips and an audio drama.
  
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* In [[The DCU]], there is a [[Rival]] group to the [[Green Lantern]] Corps called The Red Lantern Corps, whose rings are powered by rage. One of the members of the Red Lanterns is a cute-looking kitty... and he is just as dangerous as any other member. Don't fall for Dex-Starr's "innocent" act....
  
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* ''[[Knights of the Dinner Table]]''. There was the 'squirrel as a fifth level' monster from the strip "The Most Dangerous (Small) Game". Also llamas in B.A.'s campaign have horns and gore people.
  
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* ''Pinocchio Vampire Slayer'' -- The Rabbits of Ill Portent. They don't actually kill but they are quite creepy.
  
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* Max from ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' mixes this with [[Psychopathic Manchild]] and [[Ax Crazy]] to an eerie extent...
  
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* Jahf, from Marvel Comics, is a little cute purple dwarf a bit toad-like android, which protects the M'Kraan Crystal. It kicked four X-Men's asses. At once.
 
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* 3 from [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[WE 3]]'' is ''literally'' a [[Killer Rabbit]].
  
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* ''Gold Digger: Tangent'' features the "Death Lepus", also known as Wabbits -- relatively small, rabbit-like creatures that look pretty cute, but are intelligent, pack-hunting carnivores capable of bringing down fully-grown [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]]. The cute is also negated somewhat by their prehensile tails all ending in deadly magically-enhanced bladed weapons.
  
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* Miyamoto Usagi of ''[[Usagi Yojimbo]]'', who, [[Exactly What It Says on the Tin|as you may have guessed]], actually is a rabbit. [[Everything's Better with Samurai|And a samurai.]]
  
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* The ''[[Mouse Guard]]'' is a band of skilled warriors who are also, as the title indicates, mice. They've been seen taking down predators many times their size, from snakes to owls and even a ''bear,'' although that was only seen in ''Legends of the Guard.''
 
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* ''[[Twisted Toyfare Theater]]'' usually brings in [[The Scrappy|unpopular characters]] in order to gruesomely kill them for a [[Take That]]. [[Star Wars|The Ewoks]], however, instead became a race of vicious, psychopathic Killer Rabbits who dismember, kill, and [[I'm a Humanitarian|eat]] anything that crosses them. Mostly because they '''are''' little carnivores with no regards for intelligent life, ''from the original canon''.
  
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* The main villain of ''[[Toy Story|Toy Story 3]]'' is {{spoiler|an adorable pink teddy bear.}}
  
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* ''[[Watership Down]]''. [In]famous for its rabbit violence.
 
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* ''[[Wallace and Gromit]] - The Curse of the Were-Rabbit''
  
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* After the end credits of ''[[Finding Nemo]]'', an [[Alluring Anglerfish|angler fish]] approaches a tiny fish... which then opens its jaws wide enough to swallow the angler in one gulp.
  
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* The title character in ''Riki Tiki Tavi''. Awww... he's so cute and fuzzy... HOLY SHIT LOOK WHAT HE DID TO THAT COBRA! However, Riki Tiki Tavi isn't malevolent. He's actually trying to kill the cobras because they're harming the humans, so this is a more traditional example of [[Reptiles Are Abhorrent]] and possibly also [[What Measure Is a Non-Cute?]]. He does display slight [[Heroic Sociopath]] tendencies, however. It was justified to kill the cobra and his eggs to protect his owner, it is a little darkly to outright gloat about it to his widow's face (especially since preserving her family was the whole point of their attack).
  
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{{quote| "And Nag was dead before the big man blew him up! ''I'' killed Nag! Come and fight with ''me'', Nagaina!"}}
  
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* The rabbit in the 2010 film ''[[The Illusionist (animation)|The Illusionist]]'' likes to bite people and snarls like a raving monster, though isn't as deadly and terrible as it believes it is.
  
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* Would [[Kung Fu Panda 2|Lord]] [[Gary Oldman|Shen]] count? He's a peacock, not something you expect to be a villain, but, [[Complete Monster|well...]]
  
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* The [[Trope Namer|Rabbit of Caerbannog]] in ''[[Monty Python and The Holy Grail]]''. Ironically, Arthur and his knights are [[Cassandra Truth|warned repeatedly by Tim about the power of the rabbit]]. They don't listen, and he laments how no-one listens to him because "it's just a harmless little bunny!"
  
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* Given a [[Lampshade Hanging]] in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'': while the rest of the crew is [[Squee|Squeeing]] about how adorable the child-like alien miners are, the very [[Genre Savvy]] Guy worries, "Oh, sure, they're cute now. But they're going to get mean. And they're going to get ugly somehow. And there's going to be thousands of them." Seconds later, he's proved right.
  
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* Early in ''[[Barbarella]]'', the title character is similarly menaced by a group of dolls whose mouths show very pointy teeth. Later in the movie, she is nearly killed by vicious killer budgies (parakeets).
  
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* The Mogwai in ''[[Gremlins]]'', except the original Gizmo; fluffy and adorable, they are cruel tricksters who eventually turn into hideous ([[Ugly Cute|yet still somewhat cute]]) monsters which go on a deadly rampage. Indeed, every imaginable variant on this trope seems to run through most, if not all, Gremlin folklore.
  
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* Dennis Nedry in ''[[Jurassic Park]]'' gets killed by a fairly harmless-looking dilophosaurus... after it spits poison in his face, then ambushes him when he tries to get back to his truck.
  
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** It should be noted that dilophosaurs probably [[Somewhere a Palaeontologist Is Crying|couldn't do that]]. Then again, we really have no way of knowing, but they certainly did ''not'' have those nifty-looking frills.
  
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** Also, Dilophosaurs were much bigger than the one in the movie. Which is ironic, considering that the diminutive Velociraptors, actually [[wikipedia:File:Vraptor Scale.svg|the size of a dog]] and covered in feathers, were sized up by [[Rule of Scary]]. In the movie, the "Velociraptors" looked more like ''Utahraptor'', a big raptor (related to Velociraptor) found in North America (Velociraptor is from Asia). A more [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/c/cd/Velociraptor_dinoguy2.jpg realistic raptor] would've been the ''perfect'' [[Killer Rabbit]].
  
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*** The first Utahraptor fossils weren't discovered until shortly after the book that the movie was based on was written. Presumably the movie version stuck with the book's name instead of calling them Utahraptors because [[Rule of Cool|Velociraptor sounds cooler]].
  
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*** The comment that the raptors look like turkeys becomes [[Hilarious in Hindsight]] in light of subsequent advances in palaeontology revealing that dinosaurs did indeed resemble birds a lot more than we thought.
  
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** Furthermore, there are small, harmless-near-cute-looking Procompsognathus/Compsognathus in ''Jurassic Park: The Lost World'', whose packs is enough to turn a healthy adult male into...
  
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** Still played straight in ''[[Trespasser]]''. The Velociraptors are still closer to Utahraptors. And the actual Utahraptor that's the [[Final Boss]]? It's closer to [[Primal Rage|Talon]] in scale.
  
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** And the newest addition to the list is {{spoiler|Troodon}}, which will make its debut in the upcoming ''Jurassic Park: The Game''. They're tiny (by dinosaur standards), but if even ONE of them bites you ({{spoiler|They're venomous too, just like the dilos!}}), it's probably too late to run away.
  
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* ''[[Night of the Lepus]],'' a movie about '''[[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|Giant]] [[Attack of the Killer Whatever|Killer Bunny Rabbits]]'''. It is [[Nightmare Retardant|intended as a horror film]].
  
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* The gopher in ''[[Caddyshack]]''.
  
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* ''[[Cats and Dogs]]'' had their antagonist Mr Tinkles--the cute cat who's also a [[Diabolical Mastermind]].
  
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* Let's not forget ''[[Screamers]]''. Can I come with you?
  
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* The Vampire Pomeranian in ''[[Blade]]: Trinity'' named Pac-Man.
  
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** It appears to have the split-mouth of a Reaper.
  
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* In ''[[Mom and Dad Save The World]]'', Dick Nelson encounters a group of cute mushroom-like creatures which appear to be friendly... until he tries to pet one. It opens a huge mouth with sharklike teeth and almost takes off his hand.
  
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* ''[[Star Wars]]''' Ewoks. Yes, they're cute. Yes, they're fuzzy and huggable and all that. Yes, they're adorable miniature bears. Think about that one. Miniature ''[[Everything's Worse with Bears|bears]]''! With astonishing engineering skill for a neolithic materials base, extensive knowledge of sophisticated warfare, and a willingness to kill and eat other sapient beings. Think of them as armed, sapient, and highly sophisticated sociopathic bipedal giant koalas who regard you as potential food, and you'll start to understand exactly why the Ewoks qualify for this trope.
  
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** Still don't believe us? Go read ''Apocalypse Endor'' (Star Wars Tales 14). {{spoiler|That's right -- Endor is [[The Empire]]'s [[The Vietnam War|'Nam]].}}
  
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** Also from [[Star Wars]] is Yoda, the cute little floppy-eared goblin that talks funny. Even Luke and R2-D2 thought he was harmless when they met him. In actuality, he is a [[Badass]] jedi that can pull a triple backflip and chop off your head before you blink
  
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* The title character in the ''[[Leprechaun (film)|Leprechaun]]'' series.
  
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* Chucky from the original ''[[Child's Play (film)|Childs Play]]'' films (before his Frankenstein makeover).
  
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* On the good ship ''[[Serenity]]'', who's the most dangerous crewman? Is it the wily and wary [[The Captain|captain Malcolm Reynolds]]? The calm, stoic, and deadly [[Lady of War|first mate Zoe]]? The [[The Big Guy|giant, burly Jayne]] with [[Wall of Weapons|enough weapons to outfit a revolution]]? Nope. Look behind them. Not at the [[Ace Pilot|pilot]], or the [[Good Shepherd|preacher]], though they're [[Let's Get Dangerous|deadly enough]] [[Badass Preacher|in their own right]]. Not at the [[Wrench Wench|mechanic]], and not the [[The Medic|doctor]] or [[Hooker with a Heart of Gold|the Companion]]. Yeah, ''There''. That teenage girl in the back, with the [[Messy Hair|unwashed hair]], [[Eerie Pale-Skinned Brunette|pale skin]], glazed and distracted eyes, [[Cloudcuckoolander|who's mumbling something about hummingbirds]]? Her name is River. Get on her bad side, and ''[[Tranquil Fury|she]] [[Waif Fu|will]] [[Super Soldier|fucking]] [[Psychic Powers|end]] [[One-Man Army|you]].''
  
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IzzUiEF86qA This Spanish student film] uses this trope quite deliberately with its genetically altered Death Rabbit.
  
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== Literature ==
  
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* ''[http://www.amazon.com/Tuf-Voyaging-George-R-Martin/dp/1592220045/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1/104-6117255-8583944?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1191036129&sr=8-1 The Plague Star]'', by George R.R. Martin (of ''[[A Song of Ice and Fire]]'' fame) featured creatures called "hellkittens." These were much like the Arduin "killkittens" (see their entry in the [[Tabletop RPG]] folder). Except rather than secreting their paralytic venom through hollow claws, they ''spat'' it in wads of powerfully acidic saliva.
  
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* Another ''literal'' killer rabbit is the Miraj (also rendered Al-Mi'raj, or various other variations on the two) of Islamic/Arabian poetry and folklore. A yellow rabbit with a single large horn, it can kill and eat things much larger than itself. It appears in early editions of ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' -- with a third-party company porting it to 3e -- where some of them have [[Psychic Powers]]. It also appears in ''[[Dragon Quest]]'' where, due to the translators apparently flipping coins, it's sometimes called the "bunnicorn".
  
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* Margaret Atwood's ''[[Oryx and Crake]]'' includes wolvogs, creatures that look like friendly dogs, and when they are not ruthlessly killing other creatures, they ''act'' like friendly dogs. They can go from friendly to homicidal, and back, quickly.
  
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* ''Bunnicula'' has a vampire-like rabbit that Chester ''assumes'' is a killer rabbit, but there's no evidence that he ever actually does any harm whatsoever besides draining vegetables.
  
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** Another author reimagined ''Bunnicula'' as an [[Evil Overlord]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4_oc8ITUOA&feature=results_main&playnext=1&list=PL2A287A964951D6AC which is pretty charming]
  
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* Norska in the ''[[Dragaera]]'' series are carnivorous rabbits that eat dragons.
  
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* In Terry Goodkind's ''Soul of the Fire'', an embodiment of evil either possesses or impersonates a chicken. Strangely, the main characters are capable of realizing this... which means you have two badasses who rule the known freaking world and who can alternately make people her slave or destroy armies with a wave of his hand ''scared shitless by a goddamn chicken''.
  
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* In the Robert Heinlein juvenile ''Tunnel in the Sky'', a group of teenagers on a survival-training exercise are stranded on an Earthlike planet when the wormhole they used to get there malfunctions. One local animal is the "Dopey Joe", a stupid, slow-moving cat-sized reptiloid which appears utterly harmless... until the season comes when it, well, swarms.
  
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* ''[[Redwall]]'': EULALIA! And that's just the badgers. The other species like hares, mice, otters, squirrels, hedgehogs, and even ''moles'' are also quite capable of fucking up the shit of any vermin that threaten them. (Although a badger isn't exactly in a [[Killer Rabbit]] scenario when what it's fighting is a rat.)
  
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* ''[[Watership Down]]'': Gen. Woundwort, who can fight (and beat) many of the beasts that prey on rabbits. As opposed to Bigwig, who is One [[Badass]] Rabbit. Also of mention would be the Black Rabbit of Inle, the most extreme version of this Trope, being he's basically the Grim Reaper in rabbit-form.
  
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* The bunnydogs from ''[[The War Against the Chtorr]]'' series by David Gerrold appear to be the only friendly Chtorrans encountered by the humans. Unfortunately they also {{spoiler|represent humanity's future in the Chtorran ecology: as passive, contented creatures who are [[Eat the Dog|glad to be eaten]] by higher members of the food chain.}} There are also meeps. A mother rabbit will reject her own young to nurse meeps, who will then suckle her to death. One character darkly theorizes that the excessively cute bunnydogs are meant to be the equivalent for humans.
  
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* Mr. Rabbit from ''Rainbows End'' qualifies as "the next bad thing" in the eyes of one expert character. The previous "bad thing" was a plaque worse than bubonic, and the one before that was the nuclear destruction of Chicago. It's never made clear how much rabbit-nature he actually has.
  
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* The political satire ''The Year of the Angry Rabbit'' by Russell Braddon. The rabbits are infected with a highly toxic (to humans) strain of myxomatosis. Rather than trying to wipe them out however, the Australian government is more than happy to possess the most feared biological weapon in the world. Was the inspiration behind the classic [[B-Movie]] ''[[Night of the Lepus]]''.
  
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* ''[[The Edge Chronicles]]'' is covered in [[The Lost Woods]] and full of [[Death World|all manner of horrific animals]] and [[Man-Eating Plant|plants]], but the effectively undisputed top of the foodchain are Wig-wigs. Small, orange fluffballs that also happen to be pack hunters that can and will kill anything they can reach, no matter how big or strong it is. Their only real weakness is their inability to climb.
  
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* Most of the "Furies" from the ''[[Star Trek]]'' [[Expanded Universe|novel series "Invasion"]] resemble demonic creatures (because they're the beings that spawned the legends). A few, however, are fluffy and cute. They're still vicious killers who want their ancestral home back, though.
  
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* Treecats in David Weber's ''[[Honor Harrington]]'' series are cute, fluffy, six-limbed felinoids who are great with children, wonderful, supportive companions for life who'll be with you through thick and thin... and will turn into fuzzy, flying ''buzz saws'' if they think you're a threat to their kittens or adopted humans. Treecats think that enemies come in only two states: those that have been properly dealt with, and those that are still alive.
  
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* In [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[The Scar]]'', the head of Armada's underwater police force is a sadistic dolphin named Bastard John.
  
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* Found in James Thurber's [http://www.ommas-aarden.net/Last_Flower_page10.htm The Last Flower]
  
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* The ''[[Sten]]'' series has Doc, an alien who resembles a cuddly koala bear. His species are in fact vicious predators which act cute to lure in prey; Doc is so bloodthirsty that he has to be fitted with a [[Restraining Bolt]] in order to interact with his teammates without killing them out of instinct.
 
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* In ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', there are carnivorous squirrels, poisonous butterflies, killer monkeys, and much much more.
  
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== Live-Action TV ==
  
 
* In one episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', sidekick Gabrielle must fend off a vicious attack by what is essentially the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
  
* In one episode of ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', sidekick Gabrielle must fend off a vicious attack by what is essentially the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
 
* The original Basil Brush.
  
* The original Basil Brush.
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* The Furbie-esque Nubbins in ''[[Sanctuary]]'' are a variant of this -- they're only dangerous in large groups and when being directly attacked, but their extremely high reproductive rate and lack of predators outside their natural environment make them potentially highly destructive to the ecosystem. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|they're a [[Hive Mind]] far brighter than they seem, and are more than willing to sacrifice individual lives to escape and spread.}}
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* The Furbie-esque Nubbins in ''[[Sanctuary]]'' are a variant of this — they're only dangerous in large groups and when being directly attacked, but their extremely high reproductive rate and lack of predators outside their natural environment make them potentially highly destructive to the ecosystem. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|they're a [[Hive Mind]] far brighter than they seem, and are more than willing to sacrifice individual lives to escape and spread.}}
 
* In an episode of ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'' called "Honey, the Bunny Bit It", Nick Szalinski revives the school mascot à la Frankenstein, and chaos ensues as it runs amok.
 
* In an episode of ''[[Honey I Shrunk the Kids (TV series)|Honey I Shrunk the Kids]]'' called "Honey, the Bunny Bit It", Nick Szalinski revives the school mascot à la Frankenstein, and chaos ensues as it runs amok.
 
* An ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' episode features a rabbit fighting a snake. The rabbit kicks the snake's proverbial ass, forcing the reptile to retreat up a low-hanging tree, despite the rabbit attempting to yank the snake down for more.
  
* An ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' episode features a rabbit fighting a snake. The rabbit kicks the snake's proverbial ass, forcing the reptile to retreat up a low-hanging tree, despite the rabbit attempting to yank the snake down for more.
 
* When Count Duckula asks a spaceman to take him to the most dangerous planet in the galaxy he gets to meet the Fluffy Bunnies of Planet Cute, who want everything to be sweet and pretty and cuddly, and get very mean when Duckula and co. persist in being grouchy and sour.
  
* When Count Duckula asks a spaceman to take him to the most dangerous planet in the galaxy he gets to meet the Fluffy Bunnies of Planet Cute, who want everything to be sweet and pretty and cuddly, and get very mean when Duckula and co. persist in being grouchy and sour.
   
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== Puppet Shows ==
  
 
* Fizgigg from ''[[The Dark Crystal]]''. If a tribble and a bear trap had a baby....
  
* Fizgigg from ''[[The Dark Crystal]]''. If a tribble and a bear trap had a baby....
 
* [[Muppet Viral Videos|"HI, I'M A BUNNY!"]] {{spoiler|This is a subversion. You don't need to be a genius to realize how dangerous Carl is...especially if you fit in his mouth.}}
  
* [[Muppet Viral Videos|"HI, I'M A BUNNY!"]] {{spoiler|This is a subversion. You don't need to be a genius to realize how dangerous Carl is...especially if you fit in his mouth.}}
   
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* Synth-Rock band [[The Birthday Massacre]] seem quite fond of this trope, as a cartoonish, silhouetted killer rabbit is featured prominently as the band's main logo.
  
* Synth-Rock band [[The Birthday Massacre]] seem quite fond of this trope, as a cartoonish, silhouetted killer rabbit is featured prominently as the band's main logo.
 
* The eponymous critters in the Frank Hayes filk song ''[http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/mid-ohio-filk/2005-October/000102.html Little Fuzzy Animals]'' are examples of this trope.
  
* The eponymous critters in the Frank Hayes filk song ''[http://www.pairlist.net/pipermail/mid-ohio-filk/2005-October/000102.html Little Fuzzy Animals]'' are examples of this trope.
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* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh8U5lYbAEY Dogz Don't Kill People (Wabbitz Do)]" -- courtesy of Mouldie Lookin' Stain, a.k.a. Chris Moyles.
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* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh8U5lYbAEY Dogz Don't Kill People (Wabbitz Do)]" — courtesy of Mouldie Lookin' Stain, a.k.a. Chris Moyles.
 
* "Chosen Ones" by [[Megadeth]] is all about the killer rabbit from Monty Python.
  
* "Chosen Ones" by [[Megadeth]] is all about the killer rabbit from Monty Python.
 
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjf2FKlZl9M Kitten Is Angry]" by [[Lemon Demon]]
 
* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zjf2FKlZl9M Kitten Is Angry]" by [[Lemon Demon]]
 
* Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet near Mars, by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].
  
* Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet near Mars, by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].
   
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* Not physically dangerous, but the subjects of the website [http://www.disapprovingrabbits.com/ Disapproving Rabbits] can cause a severe feeling of inferiority. Especially [http://www.disapprovingrabbits.com/2008/03/mr-browny-brown.html this one].
  
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* In the the radio show ''[[Old Harry's Game|Old Harrys Game]]'', Satan finds the most evil being in the world is a Dolphin. Called Chuckles.
  
* In the the radio show ''[[Old Harry's Game|Old Harrys Game]]'', Satan finds the most evil being in the world is a Dolphin. Called Chuckles.
 
* In one episode of ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'', cowboys Dusty and Lefty come across "The Free-Range Chicken", which they then engage, and nearly lose to, in a gunfight.
  
* In one episode of ''[[A Prairie Home Companion]]'', cowboys Dusty and Lefty come across "The Free-Range Chicken", which they then engage, and nearly lose to, in a gunfight.
   
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* The South Sydney Rabbitohs have won the more premierships than any other [[Rugby League]] team in Australia.
  
* The South Sydney Rabbitohs have won the more premierships than any other [[Rugby League]] team in Australia.
 
* The Pittsburgh Penguins. Penguins are not exactly known for their toughness.
  
* The Pittsburgh Penguins. Penguins are not exactly known for their toughness.
   
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* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
  
* ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]''
 
** The [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/cat.htm common housecat] in ''3.5'' is a serious threat to all 1st level characters, even those with class levels. This is because [[Scratch Damage|all successful attacks deal at least one point of damage]], and cats get up to three a round. A level-appropriate encounter of four stray cats can [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|easily wipe out a 1st level party]], ''especially'' if the cats use their racial stealth bonuses to launch a surprise attack. This is why 1st level [[NPC|Commoners]] don't walk down alleyways at night.
  
** The [http://www.d20srd.org/srd/monsters/cat.htm common housecat] in ''3.5'' is a serious threat to all 1st level characters, even those with class levels. This is because [[Scratch Damage|all successful attacks deal at least one point of damage]], and cats get up to three a round. A level-appropriate encounter of four stray cats can [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|easily wipe out a 1st level party]], ''especially'' if the cats use their racial stealth bonuses to launch a surprise attack. This is why 1st level [[NPC|Commoners]] don't walk down alleyways at night.
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** The 3.5E Monster Manual IV introduced the Skiurid, an evil squirrel from the Plane of Shadow, and generally regarded as one of the worst monsters ''D&D'' ever introduced. Then an infamous column on the [[Wizards of the Coast]] ''D&D'' section came along, specifically looking for ways to make Skiurids lethal. The squirrels are quite capable of bringing even a mid-level party of well-equipped adventurers to their knees.
  
** The 3.5E Monster Manual IV introduced the Skiurid, an evil squirrel from the Plane of Shadow, and generally regarded as one of the worst monsters ''D&D'' ever introduced. Then an infamous column on the [[Wizards of the Coast]] ''D&D'' section came along, specifically looking for ways to make Skiurids lethal. The squirrels are quite capable of bringing even a mid-level party of well-equipped adventurers to their knees.
 
** The giant shrew, a critter from Basic ''D&D'', looked like a normal-sized grayish rat, yet could do a pretty good [[Vorpal Bunny]] impression on low-level adventurers.
  
** The giant shrew, a critter from Basic ''D&D'', looked like a normal-sized grayish rat, yet could do a pretty good [[Vorpal Bunny]] impression on low-level adventurers.
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** Quite a few fey arguably qualify -- the well-known nymph, for example, has one ability you don't hear about too often: if you happen to catch a sight of the nymph naked, she can force you to make a fortitude save or die on the spot. Other kinds of fey are more "harmlessly cute" than the nymph, but tend to have a wide range of powerful magical abilities. Very few fey are harmless. In fact plenty of them will do horrible things to you given the chance.
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** Quite a few fey arguably qualify — the well-known nymph, for example, has one ability you don't hear about too often: if you happen to catch a sight of the nymph naked, she can force you to make a fortitude save or die on the spot. Other kinds of fey are more "harmlessly cute" than the nymph, but tend to have a wide range of powerful magical abilities. Very few fey are harmless. In fact plenty of them will do horrible things to you given the chance.
 
** Then there's the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing, a rival with the skiurid for one of ''D&D'''s worst monsters. It's not the bunny you need to beware, so much as the stump it's sitting on...
  
** Then there's the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing, a rival with the skiurid for one of ''D&D'''s worst monsters. It's not the bunny you need to beware, so much as the stump it's sitting on...
 
** "Blink bunny", called Al-mi'raj ("experiment 72") by the [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder|gnomes]] of [[Dragonlance|Krynn]]. It's just a stupid bunny, but it can teleport around, is nearly fearless and have an unicorn-like horn which it doesn't hesitate to use if threatened. Oh, and it's a herd animal. Now the bad news: one of ten adults have [[Psychic Powers]] with ridiculously large power pool. The dreaded rust monster may decay one's sword or armor if manages to hit it with antennae, but a psionic blink bunny can blast it into cloud of shrapnel just by looking at it. It also can set stuff afire and control flames so that it or its nest isn't hurt. While flying around. It first appeared in 1st/2nd edition ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' in the original ''Fiend Folio'', and is based on the Miraj (see Literature). The very first version of the Al-mi'raj was just an ordinary, very fast, dimwitted, unpredictable rabbit that appeared in packs of 2-20 and which could deal damage as per a dagger by stabbing someone with their horn.
  
** "Blink bunny", called Al-mi'raj ("experiment 72") by the [[Our Gnomes Are Weirder|gnomes]] of [[Dragonlance|Krynn]]. It's just a stupid bunny, but it can teleport around, is nearly fearless and have an unicorn-like horn which it doesn't hesitate to use if threatened. Oh, and it's a herd animal. Now the bad news: one of ten adults have [[Psychic Powers]] with ridiculously large power pool. The dreaded rust monster may decay one's sword or armor if manages to hit it with antennae, but a psionic blink bunny can blast it into cloud of shrapnel just by looking at it. It also can set stuff afire and control flames so that it or its nest isn't hurt. While flying around. It first appeared in 1st/2nd edition ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' in the original ''Fiend Folio'', and is based on the Miraj (see Literature). The very first version of the Al-mi'raj was just an ordinary, very fast, dimwitted, unpredictable rabbit that appeared in packs of 2-20 and which could deal damage as per a dagger by stabbing someone with their horn.
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** (Bitter-Sweet) Chocolate Covered Anti-Matter Raisins.
  
** (Bitter-Sweet) Chocolate Covered Anti-Matter Raisins.
 
** Europan Robotic Titanium Termites.
  
** Europan Robotic Titanium Termites.
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* Wastits in ''Human Occupied Landfill'' a.k.a. HoL -- small, cute waddling soft creatures resembling animated teddy bears that will suddenly "explode into a maw of teeth the diameter of a whale's privates". For added fun, until they attack they're almost indistinguishable from wastems, completely harmless creatures that are the primary food source of HoL's inhabitants.
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* Wastits in ''Human Occupied Landfill'' a.k.a. HoL — small, cute waddling soft creatures resembling animated teddy bears that will suddenly "explode into a maw of teeth the diameter of a whale's privates". For added fun, until they attack they're almost indistinguishable from wastems, completely harmless creatures that are the primary food source of HoL's inhabitants.
 
* Most of the creatures that ''[[Shadowrun]]'''s shapeshifters start out as are pretty dangerous on their own (lions, bears, eagles, etc.), but a fox magician character can lead to a cute little ten-pound fox hurling fireballs.
  
* Most of the creatures that ''[[Shadowrun]]'''s shapeshifters start out as are pretty dangerous on their own (lions, bears, eagles, etc.), but a fox magician character can lead to a cute little ten-pound fox hurling fireballs.
   
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=== Toys ===
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== Toys ==
  
 
* The Werebears toys were seemingly adorable teddy bears with reversible heads and paws that would reveal their "nasty" face when turned inside out.
  
* The Werebears toys were seemingly adorable teddy bears with reversible heads and paws that would reveal their "nasty" face when turned inside out.
   
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*The ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/212095 Bunnykill]'' web animation series. A liberal exercise in the trope of Killer Rabbitry (and [[Katanas Are Just Better]]).
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== Video Games ==
  
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*The ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mHKHKR8x6A "Crab Battle!"], where Naked Snake gets his ass handed to him by a Kenyan Mangrove Crab.
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* ''[[Dizzy (series)|Fantastic Dizzy]]'' has cute little snails. Yes, snails. These loveable, unkillible, little geranium-munching monsters are really good at chipping away at your health normally, but if you drop from any ledge on the right-hand side of Dizzy's village you risk the humiliation of being stripped of your entire health bar in moments as one cheerfully and aimlessly wanders past Dizzy while he is stunned. Do not mess with the snails.
  
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*''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' has several small animals that are for some reason vicious. Whistle, the man-eating puppy, a man-eating baby turtle, and a flock of man-eating ducks have all appeared. Plus, well, most of the cast.
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* ''[[Kingdom Hearts]]''
  
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*This short animated film [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gxrI5CPYIM&feature=related Red] where Little Red Riding Hood refuses the advances of the wolf (who looks like a [[Little Bit Beastly|slightly feral child]] wearing a wolf costume) after spilling the cakes she was going to bring to her grandmother. After leaving brokenhearted, Red encounters a unicorn-horned rabbit, which she hugs (not noticing the [[Revealing Hug|evil toothed grin it makes]] before mutating into a bear-sized horned monster that was ready to devour Red before the wolf comes back in time to save the day.
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** Several of the weaker [[The Heartless|Heartless]] fall under this, especially the Shadows, which are the first type of Heartless that you encounter in the original game.
  
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*** Wyverns too. Yes, they're man-sized dragons, but they're very cuddly-looking man-sized dragons.
  
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** And in the prequel game, ''[[Kingdom Hearts Birth By Sleep|Birth by Sleep]]'', some of the Unversed [[Your Mileage May Vary|may or may not qualify]], but they also notably feature a ''[[Hair-Raising Hare|literal]]'' [[Killer Rabbit]] amongst their ranks, called (amusingly enough) the Hareraiser, which is described as being "the anti-cuddly".
  
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** Pay [[The Lion King|the Pride Lands]] a visit in ''[[Kingdom Hearts II]]'' and Sora turns into one of these. A cute little lion cub who is more than cabable of taking on all the Heartless the world can offer, including the ''[[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|effing ginormous]]'' [[Attack of the 50 Foot Whatever|Groundshaker]].
  
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** The Me Me Bunny dream eater in ''[[Kingdom Hearts 3D]]'' is another literal killer rabbit, and it also has a nasty magic using cousin that appears in the final world.
  
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* An almost literal example from ''[[Odin Sphere]]'' is Prince Cornelius. He looks all cute and stuff, but easily he'll hand you your ass with his [[Mega Man Zero|Zero]]-like fighting style.
  
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* ''[[Dragon Quest]]''
  
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** The slimes. Most of them actually aren't that dangerous, but given how incredibly adorable and harmless they look, it doesn't take a lot for them to be much more dangerous than they look. [[media:rocket.jpg|Tell me you'd think this could do any harm.]]
  
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** They're far from the only cuddly-looking killers in the series, though. Quite possibly the best example would have to be the Sanguini family, which are cute little baby demons. So cute, that one optional quest has you fulfilling the request of [[The Knights Who Say Squee|a warrior who is smitten with them]] to deliver each type a scarf. Awwwwwwwwww. That said, aside from [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|wasting turns "fluffing around", they can be dangerous]].
  
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* ''[[Mana (series)]]''
 
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** Similarly, the Rabites from the ''Seiken Densetsu'' or ''Mana'' series, which are sort of [[media:Rabite_Mana.png|blobby killer rabbits]]. Although the yellow ones are little more than a nuisance, even to a small child, some of the other colors really are quite dangerous, especially the [[Bonus Boss|black ones]].
  
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** The Black Rabite, one of the adorable little creatures mentioned above, with the respective color, is the most dangerous thing in the game. It looks like a small black bunny slipper until it opens a can of whoop-ass on you. The Black Rabite can be tamed a great deal by avoiding the use of spells or any tech stronger than the basic one, as these will not trigger its ferocious counterattacks. It also helps to use stat-affecting magic like the Necromancer's Black Curse spell and the Nightblade's Deadly Weapon spell.
  
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* The Fairy you can recruit in ''[[Romancing SaGa 3]]'' is a very versatile character, good with Spears, and Bows.
  
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* [[Nippon Ichi]]
  
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** The knife-carrying, explosive and possessed-by-the-souls-of-criminals penguins known as Prinnies from most of the games since ''[[Disgaea]]''. {{spoiler|And as if the regular ones weren't bad enough, the [[One-Winged Angel|final ultimate form]] of Overlord Baal, the most powerful [[Bonus Boss]] in all said games is a prinny as well}}.
  
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** Starting with ''Dark Hero Days'', the position of most powerful bonus boss has been usurped by {{spoiler|Pringer X, a tiny robotic Prinny}} that doesn't look threatening, aside from its red angry eyes.
 
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** '''B'''efore even prinnies, we h'''a'''d Eryngi, cute little mushroom creatures that c'''a'''ll up mushrooms to attack and say 'gii!' a '''l'''ot. One of them actually demands that you kneel down and beg for your lives lest "your blood will rain on me, gii!" I don't need to say who. Another Eryngi appears in ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'' {{spoiler|as the [[True Final Boss]]. It is also [[a God Is Evil]].}}
  
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** The Catsabers, present in multiple [[Nippon Ichi]] games, resemble children in cat costumes, but are generally no less deadly than any of the other species of monsters you're likely to run into. They also have a more diabolical relative called the Deathsaber, with an appearance resembling a bat, rather than a cat.
  
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** Desco from ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'' Daw, isn't [[media:Desco_6996.jpg|she]] just the cutest little wannabe-[[Eldritch Abomination]] ever? You just cant help but want to give her a hug... at least until she pulls out her ultimate attack: [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1G90mo8_2bs#t=2m37s the very aptly titled Yog Sothoth].
  
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* ''[[Little Big Planet]]'': Sackboy. He's adorable, perpetually happy and silly, and wants to pal around with his friends. He's also a reality altering super-powered entity who can create whole worlds with pure thought, alter the state of any object, fly, control time, and has a mean right hook.
  
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* The old adventure-game series, ''Legend of Kyrandia'', has the Kyrandian Killer Squirrels. In the third installment, ''Malcolm's Revenge'', there's one on the very first screen--allowing you to produce one of the fastest Game Overs in video game history, simply by teasing the squirrel twice--at which point it'll leap at your face, kill you, and drag off your corpse to feed its young.
  
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* ''[[Final Fantasy]]''
  
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** The Tonberry and all its variations in the series. Tiny. [http://www.hiveworkshop.com/forums/attachments/requests-341/38061d1221349166-model-request-tonberry-tonberry-image.jpg Strangely cute.] Its first moves are to walk slowly towards one of the heroes, until it gets close enough, and... ''[[One-Hit Kill|doink.]]'' ''Then'' you start taking it seriously. Yeah you see that thing it's carrying that looks like a garden spade? [[Knife Nut|That's not a spade, that's not a spade at all!]]
  
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*** [[Lampshade Hanging|Lampshaded]] [http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/169933 by Legendary Frog], when Cloud thinks that he can take on the cute little Tonberry, despite the Narrator's warnings telling him that ''this'' would be a good time to use the "Run Away" option.
  
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*** Somewhere on [[Final Fantasy XIII|Gran Pulse]], you find an Undying Cie'th -- and people know what kind of bad news those are. And then he dies. Any thoughts of "O YAY" immediately disappear when you see who Doink'd him -- only to be replaced by "[[Oh Crap|O FUK]]". I don't need to explain any further, do I?
  
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** Also apropos to this, ''[[Final Fantasy XI]]'' features a number of cute-but-deadly monsters, including rabbits, composing families with level tiers reaching up to very high levels in most cases. Rabbits are one of the more powerful mob-families in general, leading to the saying: "No matter how powerful you are, somewhere in the world there is a rabbit that can kick your ass."
  
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** From the same game, the Tarutaru race are adorably short and cute; with adorable pointed ears and button noses to boot. They're every bit as powerful as any other player race, though, and especially skilled in magic. Of particular note is [[Breakout Character|NPC Professor Shantotto]], who flat-out ''scares'' a good number of the heroes and villains in ''[[Dissidia Final Fantasy]]''.
  
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** Mog from ''[[Final Fantasy VI]]'' can do quite a bit of damage with his dances. [http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/5270/ad1go6.jpg This] [http://img451.imageshack.us/img451/2893/ad2nn0.jpg ad] for the SNES version of the game is a bit of an exaggeration, but just ''a bit''...
  
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** ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' has several classes of cutesy enemies, including mandragoras, onions, cacti, and some fiends that actually look like rabbits. The cute enemies your party encounters early in the game generally will not attack unless you attack them first, but later versions are more hostile and can inflict lots of nasty status effects. The king of them all is Fury, a cute little boss bunny who lives in the Necrohol of Nabudis.
  
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** There's also an enemy that's actually called the "Vorpal Bunny".
  
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** The bunnies (okay, "Dreamhares") in ''[[Final Fantasy Tactics a 2]]'' aren't all that killer--they can mind-control your allies, but they're easily set on fire. In one mission, however, you encounter a slightly odd-looking [[Underground Monkey|variant of the species]] deep underground, and one of your moogle allies shakes in fear at the sight of it. Turns out it's a "Mooglebane," named for its favorite food.
 
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** Cactuars. They look like cute little cactus people. but they have a [[Fixed Damage Attack]] that can deal 1,000 damage, no matter what. Even worse is that some games have a second version that can do 10,000 damage, more than the normal HP cap, meaning instant death to anything it hits.
  
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*** Then there's ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'''s optional superboss version, King Cactuar. His version of the [[Fixed Damage Attack]] does 99,999 damage.
  
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** In ''[[Final Fantasy V]]'', there's a cave where you are attacked by "nut eaters"- squirrel monsters, who are not very dangerous, having only 1 hit point each... but frequently, you'll run into a "skull eater" instead, which looks identical (except for being black) and who is powerful enough to ''kill'' your whole party! (Ironically, it ''still'' only has one hit point, so if you manage to penetrate its defense, it goes down in one hit.) Not to mention that if you try to use magic against it, not will it not work, but you'll now be faced with five of them! The [[Updated Rerelease]] introduced another [[Palette Swap]] in the [[Bonus Dungeon]], called Soul Eater. However, this one is more like a [[Demonic Spider]], nasty but doable without special tricks.
  
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** Chocobos can take you to school too. Not so surprising really, with those big clawed feet. Taken [[Up to Eleven]] in ''[[Final Fantasy XIII]]'' with Sazh's [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|pet baby chocobo]], who is not only insanely intelligent, ''but takes out an armed soldier by itself.''
  
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** ''[[Final Fantasy IX]]'': Yan. They're so adorable... but they're the strongest monsters in the game, and can easily take out a full party in seconds with [[Useless Useful Spell|Comet]], which they [[The Computer Is a Cheating Bastard|will take full advantage of]], Virus Power, which will prevent the afflicted from gaining any EXP you get in the battle, and has Float/Snort combo, which blows away one of your party members and counts them as Dead.
  
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** The Fury creatures of ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' are rabbit-like creatures that are [[Fragile Speedster|insanely fast]] and have high attack power. One of them is even a hunting mark for a sidequest.
  
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* The Cuccos in ''[[The Legend of Zelda]]'' games are perfectly harmless chickens for the most part. If attacked though, they are clearly being hit and react with distress, they suffer no ill effect. If attacked persistently, the Cucco will begin to hit back, and an endless swarm of other, equally invulnerable Cuccos will come to its aid, pursuing the player and attempting to peck him to death.
  
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** Their chicks are also masters of deception. In ''[[The Minish Cap]]'', the bouncing yellow babies with their cute chirping noises appear to be completely harmless. That is, until you turn Minish-sized and enter Anju's house, where about fifteen or twenty chicks will take notice of you and chase you around in an attempt to eat you.
  
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*** So, essentially, this makes Link...a [[Incredibly Lame Pun|chick magnet.]]
  
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** In ''Skyward Sword'', we've got those little cat-raccoon-pet-things in Skyloft. During the day they meow, follow you around, and look absolutely adorable with those huge Bambi-eyes. During the night, they're actively trying to rip your guts out.
  
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* ''[[Mortal Kombat]]''
  
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** In ''[[Mortal Kombat Shaolin Monks]]'', there is a secret, unlisted move called Unfriendly Rabbit. That thing is MURDEROUS! The enemy just sits there and pets it while you get the hell back, and then, out of nowhere, the little lagomorph suddenly tears INTO the enemy. When it says Fatality, the rabbit POPS out of the enemy's... maybe it was stomach. Then it is sitting there as if nothing happened. [[Nightmare Fuel]] if you ever saw it.
  
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** And Kung Lao can use a bunny to beat his enemy to death. These are based on Kung Lao's Friendship where he pulls a bunny out of his hat. Only here, it's turned into a Fatality.
  
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** In ''[[Mortal Kombat 3]]'' (and the ''Ultimate'' version), the characters have special finishing moves called "Animalities" where they turn into animals and attack their opponent. In ''Ultimate'', the character Kitana turns into a white rabbit, [[Groin Attack|before mauling the enemy's happy sacks.]]
  
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* The creature from ''[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4E0e-ZCn14 The Last Guardian]''. This adorable thing that makes you love it just from the trailer also managed to splatter an armored guard against a wall with a swing of its claw.
  
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* The insanely difficult [[Bonus Boss]] in ''[[Neverwinter Nights 2]]: Mask of the Betrayer'' is a [http://www.badgerbadgerbadger.com/ giant badger]. Badgers are actually incredibly vicious and dangerous, a giant one even moreso.
  
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** This may be connected to a ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' joke where people found a line in the badger's monster manual entry highly amusing: "[http://fearthebadger.ytmnd.com/ THIS CREATURE CANNOT END ITS RAGE VOLUNTARILY]."
  
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* ''[[Monster Rancher]]''
  
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** The Hares, in a very literal sense. They're [[Glass Cannon|glass cannons]] who can deal very high amounts of damage.
  
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** The Pixies are also pretty bad: [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute Monster Girls]] with [[Squishy Wizard]] powers. They can also breathe enormous sheets of flame, suck you of your [[Life Energy]], and ''claw your friggin' eyes out''. Also, one particularly nasty spell pixies can use called appropriately "bang" which is a one hit kill on just about any monster and makes the same sound as the spell indicates when it knocks your monster flat on its ass and straight to the hospital.
 
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* In the MMORPG ''[[Asherons Call]]'', the second most powerful monster in the entire game was the level-666 White Rabbit, nicknamed "Pookie" by players. It was not uncommon for Pookie to slaughter entire parties of high-level characters using spells such as "Bunny Smite".
  
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* ''[[Dungeon Siege]]''
  
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** In the secret quest of the first game, you fight Killer Chickens.
  
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** In the secret quest of ''Dungeon Siege II'', you fight Killer Prairie Dogs.
  
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* Arguably, many [[Pokémon]] would fall under this. For that matter, many [[Mons]] series critters and cute anime mascots fall into this trope.
  
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** Several of the incredibly powerful "legendaries", like Mew and Jirachi, are certainly small and harmless-looking. However, in the game, Mew has good stats and can learn every available technique. And Jirachi has a powerful Steel-type [[Signature Move]] called ''Doom Desire'', which lets loose a devastating bundle of light on the foe.
 
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*** Victini, another example, seems to be all happy-go-lucky and such, yet it learns V-Create/V-Generate - the ''strongest [[Playing with Fire|Fire-type move]] in existence''.
  
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** Best example: Manaphy. That thing seems so harmless, but when it was recently tested in Over Used, it centralized the game so much that it was banned again. Basically, it is harmless without the rain, but as soon as, say, Kyogre sets up an infinite rainstorm via the Drizzle ability, that thing becomes a little monster!
  
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** The only Pokemon that can learn Metronome, an attack that can randomly use nearly any move in the game, by level up are cute Pokemon.
  
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* ''[[Commander Keen]] 4''
  
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** The game features an enemy that looks like a teeny-tiny green ball (described as a plant in the manual). Approach it and a gigantic mouth extends from it, killing you instantly -- although if you know what you're doing, you can paralyze it in the split-second that it takes for the mouth to reach you.
  
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** There are actual deadly living rocks in the game, and plenty other creatures that look either goofy or cute, but can kill you with a mere (venomous) touch. Or by breathing fire. Or pushing you into a death trap. Or gobbling you up.
  
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* In the MMORPG ''[[Ever Quest]]'' there are certain fish considered sacred by a god. A god who sometimes poses as one of the fish. Attack them at your extreme peril.
  
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* ''[[World of Warcraft]]''
  
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** This trope was parodied (before the Cataclysm) in a Warlock class quest. After fulfilling the desires of a clearly insane Gnome warlock NPC, he attempts so summon a powerful demon... but gets a giant chicken named "El Pollo Grande" (The Great Chicken) instead which, despite its appearance, isn't much a challenge.
  
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** Some gnome players. Yes, they may be small but that means they have the smallest game avatars to target and can pack the same punch as their peers in terms of class and level.
  
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** The female gnome Death Knight NPC with puffy pink ponytails, [http://www.wowhead.com/npc=30631 Darkrider Arly], deserves special mention. And [http://www.sonsofthestorm.com/viewer.php?artist=samwise&cat=warcraft&art=80 special art].
  
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** And then there was the accidental Bear Reaver. Normally, a bear isn't that small and non-threatening, but when that model accidentally, in a Beta realm, replaced the gigantic Fel Reaver model in Hellfire Peninsula, and the thing went around looking like a medium-sized, low-level beast but still shaking the ground as it walked and remained capable of killing players with one hit, that sounds like an example of this trope.
  
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* ''[[Kirby]]''
  
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** Kirby himself. Adorable little pink puffball with a [[Extreme Omnivore|black hole for a stomach]] that frequently trounces [[Eldritch Abomination|Eldritch Abominations]].
  
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** Scarfy. Try to have Kirby inhale this cute little cat, and he gets ugly and chases you around until he explodes.
  
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* Pretty much every enemy in ''[[Maple Story]]'' falls into this trope. As a rule, the cuter the creature is the faster it will kill you.
  
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** There are tons of high-leveled monsters that would like to object to that, but examples do exist, especially when low-leveled. See: Slime King, Mushmom, (Dark) Yeti and Pepe, and Bob the Snail. Be especially careful with that last one.
  
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** A more recent addition is Pink Bean, a pink, Pikachu-like boss that eats, sleeps, and plants flowers during the first half of the fight, and then starts killing half of your party members off in a single attack.
  
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** The Elemental Kittens of Doom (Jr. Cellion, Sakura Cellion, Jr. Lioner, and Jr. Grupin). They act all pathetic when getting beat up and all but they mob like crazy and can spell doom for those who are more than a few levels below their Level 33.
  
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* The Rabbids from ''[[Rayman]]: [[Raving Rabbids]]'' aren't quite literal killer rabbits (their violence tends more towards slapstick [[Amusing Injuries]]), but they're still violently insane and insanely violent. And they're trying to take over the Earth and television. ''They're succeeding.''
  
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** Back when ''Rayman: Raving Rabbids'' was going to be a platformer, the Rabbids were going to be hideous, vicious, and downright horrible creatures, instead of the insane but humorous critters they are today.
  
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* The Orz from ''[[Star Control]] II'' seem relatively harmless: they talk funny, and resemble disembodied heads with tentacles and parrotfish-like faces. But their ships are actually quite powerful. And then the game starts dropping hints that they're [[Eldritch Abomination|extensions of a sinister extradimensional monster]] and were responsible for the disappearance of the Androsynth... [[Berserk Button|and if you continue to pester them with questions about the Androsynth, the Orz won't hesitate to silence you]] ''[[Berserk Button|violently]]''.
  
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{{quote| '''Orz:''' Nnnnnggggaaaahhhhh!!!!!! It is ''dancing''!!!!}}
  
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* The Memaus in ''[[Startopia]]'' are cute little cat-like creatures that wander around the station. They eat litter, and any guests who pet one get a bonus to happiness. The problem is that, if it's been well-fed, it simultaneously infects the petter with a parasite which will transform the guest into a decidedly not cute "[[Big Creepy-Crawlies|Skrasher]]" which cuts a swathe of destruction and can absorb a terrifying amount of damage before keeling over. And if your security can't kill the Skrasher fast enough, it explodes... into ''more Memaus''.
  
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* ''[[Earthbound]]'' brings us the Clumsy Robot, whose combat actions include sweeping up dustbunnies, picking up nuts and bolts that jiggled loose from its body, eating bologna sandwiches, accidentally firing party-devastating beams and missiles while tripping over its own two feet and being completely unkillable by all normal forms of attack. The party eventually has to be bailed out by the Runaway Five...who simply run in while it's distracted and turn it off.
  
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* ''[[Ratchet and Clank]]''
  
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** Ratchet. Small, fuzzy, and carries around more firepower than even the Pentagon could dream of.
  
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** Also, from the second game in the series, we have the Protopets -- cute, Tribble-like critters that have rows of shark-like teeth, a nasty temperament, and the tendency to eat anything or anyone they encounter. Oh, and they have the reproductive ability of the original Tribbles as well.
  
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* The [[Precursors]] from the ''[[Jak and Daxter]]'' games, the most powerful beings in the universe, are revealed towards the end of ''Jak 3'' to be {{spoiler|Ottsels, just like Daxter.}} Ever wondered why you never saw one?
  
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* ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]''
  
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** There is a part in the level "Down The Tubes" where you ride on top of a huge hamster that can eat pretty much anything. And that's the least of the harmless-looking things in ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]'' that can beat you to a bloody pulp.
  
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** On that same level are small red creatures about half the size of Jim that resist gunfire and if he approaches too close, they slam him against the ground.
  
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** In a later level, a slime-dwelling creature dwells at the bottom of a massive chasm that looks like a little tan balloon with a smile unless you get too close to it. If you do, it will swiftly start to resemble a tyrannosaur.
  
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** Then, of course, there's quite possibly the reigning king of this trope (screw seniority) Peter Puppy. A little, pink puppy who, if he gets hurt, changes into a massive, purple, spikey monster with lots of teeth and drains a third of your heath as it literally chews you up and spits you out.
  
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* The deadliest monsters in ''[[Valkyrie Profile]]'' are neither dragons nor demons. No, the deadliest creatures in the game are... hamsters. [[Boss in Mook Clothing|And they will slaughter your party if you don't know how to handle them]]. In the [[Bonus Dungeon]] of both games, there is a possibility that you may fight hamsters right before the [[Bonus Boss]] ...it's actually ''worth'' killing the Angel Iseria Queen, [[Bonus Boss]] of the game, ''10 times'' to receive the [[Infinity+1 Sword|Angel Slayer]] as it may give you a chance to hurt the hamsters.
  
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* Similarly, in another one of tri-Ace's games, ''[[Star Ocean Till the End of Time]]'', the Sooties (little balls of soot with eyes) are by far the most difficult regular monsters you'll ever meet. They're insanely fast and strong, and due to their tiny size are really difficult to hit. Incidentally, the first ''[[Star Ocean 1]]'' includes a "Vorpal Bunny" as one of its enemies. Though it does look cutesey, it's also twice the size of a human, so not ''all'' that cute.
  
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* This is pretty much the entire point behind the ''[[Gaia Online]]'' MMO: ''zOMG!''. Yes, that is actually the name. The basic plot is that relatively harmless inanimate objects such as garden gnomes, cotton balls, and cloves of garlic are somehow becoming animated. A literal case of [[Everything Trying to Kill You]], if you will.
  
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** The result can be best summed up in a promotional poster featuring a musclebound, heavily armored Orc trapped up a tree by a ''Lawn Gnome'', "Cute? Cute never tried to eat your leg."
  
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** Not to mention those damn Cherry Fluffs, toward the beginning. After easily dispatching three other varieties of Fluffs, you might try your luck on one of these pink fluffy whatsits, only to have the entire thing [[Action Bomb|blow up in your face]].
  
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** The Garlic Animated (a chubby garlic bulb with feet and [[Moe]] eyes) might be even cuter than the Fluffs (cotton balls with [[Moe Moe]] eyes), but its breath weapon is a force to be reckoned with.
  
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** Gaia's ''original'' [[Killer Rabbit]], Grunny, is now piloting [[Humongous Mecha]] submarines in the last two areas.
  
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** Arguably, Frank. He's effectively a male [[Meganekko]] of the "shy sweet [[Hollywood Nerd]]" variety. {{spoiler|And he's a [[Mad Scientist]] working with the [[Big Bad]] to [[Endofthe World As We Know It|destroy Gaia]] [[For Science!]]!}}
  
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* ''[[Braid]]'': Killer Rabbits squared. Or cubed. Not only are these rabbits vicious, but they initially disguise themselves as flowers and sound like cats. No matter what you find cute and charming, there's a good chance Braid's rabbits will undermine it.
  
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* Pick a ''[[Fire Emblem]]'' game. If it's a cute little girl that doesn't seem to belong in a battle and looks to be about 10, she's most likely a dragon who can eat most enemies faces without ANY worry of being hurt. Otherwise characters like Est (''Shadow Dragons and the Blade of Light''/''Mystery of the Emblem''/''Shadow Dragon'') and Nino (''Fire Emblem'') are [[Magikarp Power]] housed and fit this trope too.
  
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** One exception: Mist from ''Path of Radiance''. She looks no more than a petite 13, can't fight until she gets a class change, and then deals substandard damage unless you give her a magic sword. (Luckily, if you can get her rank high enough her magic stat means she'll be dealing ''quite'' a bit of damage.) Not quite as young or ineffective in ''Radiant Dawn'', but still unimpressive. She's far from ineffective though, although it takes a bit of work and luck, she can be capable of almost soloing whole maps thanks to her high luck.
  
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* The MMO ''[[La Tale]]'' has so many of these that a good rule of thumb is "if it looks cute, run like hell." Especially annoying are the Prring [[Palette Swap|Palette Swaps]] and Shaggies, which mob you and jump behind you to deliver devastating back attacks.
  
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* [[Mahoujin Guru Guru|Kukuri]] in ''[[Magical Battle Arena]]''. She's a [[Super-Deformed]] sorceress that uses hilariously cute spells and out-adorables every other character by miles (which is saying something since this game is filled to the brim with [[Magical Girl|Magical Girls]]), but good grief, she is deadly. Between the strawberry firing Strawberry Snake (read: Machine Gun), the smiling pink Mini-Planet (read: [[Gravity Sucks]] Mines), and the cat totem-pole Long Voiced Cat (read: [[Mana Drain]]), all of which she can cast nigh-instantaneously, she's a deceptively dangerous fighter in the battlefield.
  
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* Near the end of ''[[Wizardry]] VI: Bane of the Cosmic Forge'', you may run into faeries in the same areas you're routinely facing down dark crusaders, greater demons, elite samurai squads, and mind flayers. The faeries are much more dangerous than any of the enemies just mentioned, and indeed one of the toughest enemy types in the game. Just be glad these unassuming [[Demonic Spiders]] don't show up until around the final dungeon.
  
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* ''Perfect World'' has antelope. They look almost harmless compared to the typical werewolf or protoplasmic ooze, but they are both aggressive and equipped with a dangerous [[Mana]] burn.
  
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* ''Every single monster'' in the obscure [[Game Boy Color]] RPG ''[[Lil Monster]]'' is like this. Although some of them are meant to be fierce and imposing, every monster in the game is rendered in a cute, [[Super-Deformed]] style. Even the final boss, portrayed as a kind of [[Eldritch Abomination]], still has a head that's half the size of his body and dewy eyes.
  
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* The Hairy Bulborb from ''[[Pikmin]] 2'' has huge blue eyes, a tubby round body, and is covered all over in incredibly soft-looking white fuzz. It's downright ''cuddly.'' However, as with any enemy in ''Pikmin'' games, if you so much as ''look'' at it wrong, the Pik-carnage ''will'' be endless.
  
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* The Liir from ''[[Sword of the Stars]]'' are a playable example. They look like friendly whales and dolphins, and are, whenever possible, [[Actual Pacifist|Actual Pacifists]]. However, if you push them to the point that this is no longer possible, it can easily lead to ''bad'' things. The game's resident [[Abusive Precursors]], the Suul'Ka did this by enslaving the Liir and threatening to pollute their oceans to an uninhabitable state. There are no more Suul'Ka in this sector of the galaxy, and possibly in the universe; the Liir used their talent for biotechnology to wipe them out with a genetically engineered retro-plague.
  
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* You know what rabbits [[Animal Stereotypes|stereotypically]] like to eat? Carrots. However, as anyone who has ever played ''[[Mushroom Men]]'' can attest, this is a ''damn lie.'' They actually enjoy eating tasty little mushroom boys. Take one step toward one of those [[Green Rocks]]-possessed, lapine monstrocities, and just ''watch'' how fast you die.
  
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* The Rampage Rabbit from ''Summon Night: Swordcraft Story 2''. After you beat it the first time, it trains itself so that it can beat you afterwards, and is aiming to be the most powerful rabbit.
  
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* ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]''
  
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** The original game brings us Anti-Guys. So you're in the Shy Guy Toybox, and you've been running around fighting all these Shy Guys. They aren't too hard; there are a ton of different kinds, but most of them have between 7-9 HP and 2-4 attack. Nothing you can't handle. Then you see a Black Shy Guy with a gray mask, who tells you to get away from his treasure chest. You fight him anyway, and he proceeds to kick the crap out of you, because he is an Anti-Guy, and has 50HP, and 12 attack. So you learn from your mistake, and give him a Lemon Candy in exchange for his chest. And everything is right with the world. Until Bowser's Castle. You go through most of Bowser's Castle, and you get to a big talking door, who says he won't let you through unless you answer five questions correctly, and if you get three wrong before you get five right, he'll mess you up. So you get three wrong, but figure "What's he gonna do about it? He's just a door." But then, instead of fighting you himself, he releases three Anti-Guys into the room. The Anti-Squad is harder than the final boss and the Bonus Boss, so you almost invariably die in a horrible fashion. These are the only times Anti-Guys are ever encountered, and there is no warning that you are about to get your ass handed to you on a platter made of your friends' asses. Good thing the questions are so easy. Still, if you've properly [[Level Grinding|level ground]], that could make for an interesting challenge... after all, the lone Anti-Guy in Shy Guy's Toybox wasn't ''that'' hard. (Kent C. Koopa was tougher, as he had 70 HP ''and'' a legitimate defense score.
  
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** On the topic of the ''[[Paper Mario (franchise)|Paper Mario]]'' games (first and second), Amayzee Dayzees. Cute, shiny anthropomorphized flowers, have a tendency to just run away from the battle... and when they don't, WATCH OUT!!! 20 HP, '''20 attack''', and 1 defense. Good luck taking one out, as it'll either run before you get the chance, or kill you.
  
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* The Pig Butoh in ''[[The World Ends With You]]''. Usually, pigs are cute, harmless [[Puzzle Boss|Puzzle Mooks]]. Then you find the second-to-last of them. Unlike his fellows, he can be simply beaten to death... but can attack. And his attack stat is [[Oh Crap|five times the final boss']].
  
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* In ''[[Dark Cloud]] 2'', {{spoiler|Dark Emperor Griffon's true form is that of an adorably cute bunny person}}. Even the protagonists are surprised. But then the boss battle starts, his true skill as a master mage surfaces, and the infinite ''power'' of his [[Cosmic Keystone]] shines forth. Hint: [[Gadgeteer Genius|Max]] and [[Action Girl|Monica]] embody the Earth and Moon in their Atlamillia. Their foe wields the ''Sun''.
  
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* One of ''[[Metal Gear 2 Solid Snake]]'''s most [[Guide Dang It]] obstacles is the [[Product Placement|MSX cartridge]] guarded by '{{spoiler|deadly poisonous}} Zanzibar hamsters'. At this point, Snake's life bar is as long as it can get, and he has shot down a Hind D helicopter, and Metal Gear D's guided missiles only take off about a sixth of his health bar, but ''touching one of the tiny brown rodents causes instant death''. That said, they [[Glass Cannon|die in one hit]], so once you've worked out the puzzle to lure them from their hiding place you only need to stand in front of the hole and fire.
  
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* ''[[Cave Story]]''
  
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** The Mimigas, friendly anthropomorphic rabbits that are your main allies throughout the game. But, give a Mimiga a red flower to eat, and... they enter a "frenzied" state, which means they mutate into horrific, bloodthirsty, mindless monsters that simply kill and kill and kill until they die. Even the weakest Mimiga becomes powerful enough to be an early-game boss in this form. The Mimigas are aware of this power, but only use it as an absolute last resort.
  
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** And then there's an optional late game boss, Ma Pignon, which is a small, smiling blue mushroom. A smiling blue mushroom that begins rocketing around the room hard enough to cause landslides to fall from the ceiling.
  
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* The SNES action-RPG ''The Twisted Tales of Spike McFang'' features rabbits that will suddenly open their large mouths filled with sharp teeth in order to latch onto the hero. They are called [[Late to The Punchline|Python Bunnies]].
  
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* The [[Nintendo DS]] game ''[[The Dark Spire]]'' features Killer Rabbits. Ok, bunnies. Close enough. Subversion in that they are not only not that dangerous but are the ''least'' dangerous enemies on any floors they appear.
  
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* ''[[Dwarf Fortress]]'' has carp. It became a [http://1d4chan.org/wiki/Carp memetic] fish -- as in ''"[[Oh Crap|Oh, carp!]]"''.
  
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{{quote| '''Dwarf Fortress Wiki:''' [T]here is only one thing to do if you come across a river full of carp and you don't want your dwarves to die... Run. Run and never look back.<br />
  
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'''[[Word of God|Toady One]]:''' I think I made the fish too hardcore. }}
  
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** Carp have stepped down from this position in favor of ''giant sponges'', which ''will'' kill your dwarves if they get close to it. Not bad for an animal who shouldn't be able to even move.
  
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** This deadliest arises from two things about the sponge; firstly, due to having only one body part, its effectively invincible to brute force. While it doesn't chase your dwarves down, if its located in a river, it's bound to cause mass job cancelations. The deadly part comes in when one realizes just how heavy giant sponges are; even with the pathetic push attack that a creature with no natural attacks recieves, a giant sponge can easily shatter a dwarf's spine. If you ever encounter the illusive vampire giant sponge, which can not only move but can also leave the water, may the gods protect you.
  
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** Also, giant keas are rampaging homicidal kleptomaniacal psychopaths, in the form of parrots.
  
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* The Chichifa from ''[[Starflight]] 2''. You never see a picture of them. But the Humna Humna trade buoy orbiting their homeworld describes them as "A race of highly prolific, small, furry creatures with long, upright ears and puffy tails. Extremely aggressive, they will swarm to any heat source and attack. Recommend caution."
  
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* Baragon in the game ''[[Godzilla]]: Unleashed'' certainly applies... even if he is a giant dinosaur-thing. Sure, he's the smallest monster in the entire game, and he is [[Ugly Cute|adorable in an odd sort of way]], but he's more than able to take down his opponents including the '''biggest''' monster in the game, Biollante.
  
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* In the ''[[Guild Wars]]: Eye of the North'' expansion, the player can be lured by a cute little bunny into a small hollow filled with cute little bunnies... that then turn into a LOT of nasty Vaettir with a named boss in their midst.
  
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** And in Nightfall, we have the beetles, basically spherical creatures that move by rolling around and make pretty cute noises. While the original beetles are a nuisance, the [[Palette Swap|Madness titans]] later on can mess your party up.
  
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* Since animals available as starting pets in ''[[Nethack]]'' are [[PVP-Balanced|designed to be viable combat escorts]] for the [[Player Character]], they tend to be disproportionately powerful. This includes ponies, dogs, and kittens; kittens that can kill a squad of grown men and clean the flesh from their bones in seconds. Oh, and the fluff quote for kittens? A passage from ''[[H.P. Lovecraft|The Cats of Ulthar]]''.
  
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* ''[[Ōkamiden|Okamiden]]'', a [[Nintendo DS]] followup to ''[[Ōkami|Okami]]'', stars Chibiterasu, [[Spin Offspring|a puppy replacement]] for Amaterasu. Being the main player character in an [[Action Adventure]] game, how couldn't it be a [[Killer Rabbit]]?
  
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* There's a Killer Rabbit ''terrain'' in ''[[Populous]].'' Piglet World is a land of pleasant, grassy meadows and flowering trees... and is apparently so deadly that your little piggy people will start dying immediately after leaving their homes.
  
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* If you think about it, the Sparda family in ''[[Devil May Cry]]'' is a family of [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse]] Killer Rabbits for other demons, [[Boss in Mook Clothing|looking a lot like humans]] until they are attacked and [[No One Could Survive That|survive mortal wounds]] [[Just a Flesh Wound|as if it was nothing]], [[Flash Step|dash under their legs]] and [[Death of a Thousand Cuts|slice them repeatedly to death]]. And they even can [[One-Winged Angel|Devil Trigger]]. Of course, we can't say much about Sparda himself, but most of this is because Dante, Vergil, and Nero are [[Weak but Skilled]]. Trish and Lucia also could qualify. Then there's [[Charles Atlas Superpower|Lady]]...
  
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* Arguably anyone from the ''[[Touhou Project]]'' series.
  
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** If nobody else, Nazrin qualifies, being a mouse youkai.
  
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** [[Cute Monster Girl|Cute girls]] possessing [[Superpower Lottery|ridonkulous levels of power]] (with [[What Kind of Lame Power Is Heart, Anyway?|a few exceptions]]) tend to be this trope by default. Perhaps the best example is Flandre Scarlet, [[Really Seven Hundred Years Old|by all appearances]] an eight-year-old girl with [[Cheerful Child|a personality to match]] who will ''[[Person of Mass Destruction|utterly destroy you]]''.
  
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** It is canon in ''[[Fantasy Kitchen Sink|Touhou]]'' that on the moon is an entire race of humanoid [[Moon Rabbit|lunar rabbit youkai]] that make up most, if not all, of the moon's army. This in essence plays it straight almost completely literally, but at the same time somewhat subverts it as they act like rabbits, lazy, carefree, and fun loving, so aren't quite as deadly as they could be. Though still deadly.
  
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* ''[[Quest for Glory]] IV'' has actual killer rabbits. Then there's the old lady's pet kitty in the first game, if you're a thief. And those pesky antwerps...
  
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* Lucky from ''Whacked!''
  
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* When you finally catch up to the Girl in Black in ''[[Persona]]'', she pulls out Robo-Rat. It's a giant mechanical rat that makes cat-like noises. Any females in your party will [[Squee]] over it... until it opens fire. Kei then mocks them for falling for it. Robo-Rat's the boss of the area.
  
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* Gameplay example in ''[[The King of Fighters]]''. Hotaru seems harmless and in terms of personality but is a monster in the hands of a skilled player (and is generally high to top tier).
  
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* While [[Personal Space Invader|headcrabs]] in ''[[Half-Life]]'' are generally not considered cute, with the possible exception of [[Ugly Cute|Lamarr]], they fit this trope by being small, innocuous, apparently harmless, and by far the most horrific thing in the series, latching onto an unfortunate host and commandeering its nervous system to create a delightful monstrosity known as a headcrab zombie. And the Fast and Poison variants are ''even worse''.
  
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* ''[[Arcanum]]''
 
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** The most powerful nature summon is an ordinary white rabbit. And by "ordinary" we mean that it's called a ''[[Jabberwocky|vorpal]] bunny''. It is level 50 (with level cap being 55) and can be summoned at [[Disc One Nuke|level 5]] with right [[Min-Maxing|character]]. At this level (and for the most of the game) it tends to invoke [[Chunky Salsa Rule]] in a single bite. And you can have several of them. And they gain levels if you don't unsummon them.
  
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** Also in ''Arcanum'' is the Stillwater Giant, a brutal and deadly monster whose default form is a small blue rabbit.
  
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* With enough modification, ''Forza 3'''s [[Incredibly Lame Pun|1964 Volkswagen Rabbit]] will eat Ferraris and Lamborghinis and crap them out as Yugos and Trabants.
  
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* In addition to Kirby, mentioned above already, ''[[Super Smash Bros]]'' has a few other innocent-looking death machines. [[Pokémon|Jigglypuff]] earned its place as a [[Lethal Joke Character]] for its ability to one-shot players at relatively low damage with its ''stupidly'' powerful "Rest" attack, along with an effective aerial moveset that [[Fan Nickname|players have dubbed]] the "[[Names to Run Away From Very Fast|Wall of Pain]]".
  
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** [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Toon Link]] also could count. He's a cute-looking kid with a toy sword who can also kick your ass eight ways to Sunday with an array of weaponry (and the skill to use it) that's just as impressive as his adult self.
  
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* Jubei from the ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' series is a traditional [[Youkai|nekomata]], appearing in the form of a small two-tailed cat that stands upright. He also happens to be one of the six heroes, carries the most powerful katana in the world (the Nox Nyctores Musashi), and is stated to be the most powerful living creature in existence. To give you an idea how strong he is, he turned back Iron Tager's attack effortlessly, and Tager outweighs him by about a ton.
  
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* ''[[Dubloon]]'' features Fire Ants. These small ants may and ''will'' [[Kill It with Fire|burn you to crisp]] if you don't act quick. There also literal killer bunnies, but they are [[Obviously Evil]].
  
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* ''[[Ys]]: The Ark of Napishtim'' has Majunun, a cute little robot so comically tiny he's not actually visible in most screenshots of him. [[False Reassurance|It's a lie to say he's the most powerful boss in the game]] -- "most powerful enemy, period" is more accurate, as he technically only counts as a miniboss. He's capable of one-hit-killing a Level 31 Adol... and to get one useful accessory, you have to either kill him, or manage not to be killed by him long enough to grab the chest and escape.
  
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* ''[[Metroid]]''
  
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** The eponymous Metroids themselves are an [[Inverted Trope|inversion]] of the trope, since your first impression is how deadly they are, but if you come across one that ''isn't'' trying to consume your soul... ''[[Cuteness Proximity|d'awwww]][[Ugly Cute|wwwww]]''. They're typically babies when encountered, make an adorable chirping sound, eat<ref>you</ref> by glomping, and if you're lucky enough to have one imprint on you, you don't even need to stick your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye.
  
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** ''[[Metroid: Other M]]'' gives us "Little Birdie", a little white fluffy thing that looks sort of like an armless mouse standing on chicken legs. It was considered to be a failure as a bioweapon, so the scientists kept him as a pet. And then it ate one of them. To be fair, it should have tipped them off with its [http://www.metroid-database.com/mom/choogle.jpg malevolent, soul-piercing gaze.] {{spoiler|And it wasn't a failure at all. The scientists who cloned the Space Pirates didn't realize that [[Oh Crap|Ridley had a larval stage]].}}
  
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* Both chapters of SSI's ''Wizard's Crown'' duology featured these, as "white rabbits" in the first game and "snow rabbits" in the second. In the former case, they're a set-piece encounter more dangerous than just about any other pure-melee opponent in the Ruins, and provide a ridiculous quantity of high-quality loot. In the latter, they're wandering monsters in the toughest of the three wilderness areas, so their lethality is rather less inappropriate.
  
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* Little Mac from ''[[Punch Out]]'' is roughly half the size of the majority of his opponents, yet he can throw lightning fast punches so powerful he can topple them with ease.
  
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* Gharbad, the Goat boss from ''[[Desktop Dungeons]]'', appears relatively harmless. Then you see his Base Attack. He has an attack score of ''255''. Nothing else in the game comes close. Unless you have some way to kill him indirectly, you've lost.
  
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* ''[[Mega Man Zero]] 3'' has a literal example with Childre Inarabbita. His battle form is that of a rabbit, and his humanoid form, is that of a child. He's also one of the Eight Judges that govern [[The Empire]] alongside ''[[Mega Man X]]'' and his [[Fake King]] replacement.
 
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* In the [[Down the Drain|Terra Tubes]] of ''[[Battletoads]]'', there are enemies that look like rubber ducks. Not only are they vicious menaces, they cannot be killed, only stunned.
  
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* The final boss of ''[[Let's Go Jungle]]'' is a giant killer ''butterfly''. Because after all the other giant creepy crawlies in this game, why not butterflies?
  
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* Usagi from ''[[Mr. Driller]]'' is literally this trope.
  
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* ''[[Dragon Age]]''
 
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** Deepstalkers from ''Dragon Age Origins'' are surprisingly cute for a bunch of flesh-eating, poison-spitting, lamprey-faced compies that burst from the ground in the dozens hoping to tear you limb from limb.
  
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** The baby dragons are almost too adorable to kill.
  
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** And in ''Awakening'', Anders tells the tale of his pet cat back in the Circle Tower, Mr. Wiggums, who was possessed by a rage demon and killed three templars.
  
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** A long-standing joke, even with the [[Word of God|creative staff]] is that your pet Mabari's name actually ''is'' Rabbit.
  
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* [[Mascot Mook|Jack Frost]] in the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' games, when he appears as a [[Bonus Boss]].
  
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** Even worse, [[Alice Allusion|Alice]]. [[Creepy Child|Cute]] [[Came Back Wrong|magical]] [[Nightmare Fuel|girl]]? Sure.
 
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* ''[[Golden Sun]]''
  
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** The games have the Djinn, cute little elemental [[Mons]] that you find and collect for stat boosts, [[Summon Magic]], and class changes. Some of the Djinn have to be fought and subdued before they join you. These are the ones that will use high-end Psynergy attacks and are effectively minibosses.
  
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** In ''The Lost Age'', there is also a [[Goo-Goo Godlike|toddler Adept]] not above [[Enfant Terrible|causing large amounts of property damage to break his convict father out of prison]], and [[Deliberately Cute Child|being adorable enough to get away with it]] (to the point that said father ''uses him for a [[Chewbacca Defense]]'' against [[Never Mess with Granny|an irate grandmother]]). {{spoiler|In ''Dark Dawn'', he grows up and becomes a player character, [[Fetish Fuel|less adorable]] but [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|no less]] [[Kill It with Fire|killer]].}}
  
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** Speaking of ''Dark Dawn'', we have Sveta, who is [[Petting Zoo People|unidentifiably furry]], weapons-grade [[Moe]]... and quite possibly ''the'' [[Game Breaker|most brokenly powerful player character in the series to date]]. [[Cuteness Proximity|And look at how her little ears twitch during cutscenes!]]
  
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* The player character in ''[[Rune Factory 3]]'' can turn into a powerful monster that can beat the crap out of his foes with brawling skills that would put a [[Bare-Fisted Monk]] to shame. [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_jmFnEtkYDW4/SoHvISGETKI/AAAAAAAAEFw/bk8w1JoiSq8/s320/rf3+screenshot+wooly.jpg It looks like this].
 
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* ''[[Divinity 2]]'' has the Killer Bunny, which appears if you kill enough bunnies. It has huge fangs and blood-mottled white fur, and is level 22. A particularly sadistic player can encounter it very early when they're likely dangerously underleveled, and score a massive XP reward... or, more likely, a brutal death. There's a special achievement for killing it, too.
  
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* ''[[Oddworld|Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee]]'''s Fuzzles, looking like furry cute big-eyed blob types... which happen to be voracious carnivores ''and can be used like attack animals'' by [[Last of His Kind|Munch]] with [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]].
  
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* ''[[Adventure Quest]]'' milks this trope for all it's worth.
  
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** With no exception, whenever you come across an opponent that looks small and cute, you'd better be prepared for a long, horrible, grueling and deadly fight. The dialogue in the game is rife with enemy descriptions saying, "this little creature looks harmless at first..." whereupon it proceeds to shred and/or cremate your ass big time. In fact, small creatures in this game are usually much, much tougher than most of the big and scary opponents due to the fact that they are usually given incredibly high evasion stats. Basically, if you come across an enemy with the word "dragon" in its name that takes up the entire other half of the screen, you'll probably breathe easy once you get used to the fact that big creatures in the game are generally fairly doable opponents. However, you'll groan whenever you encounter something tiny and cute-looking, because it's likely that the cute little "bun bit" you're fighting is going to be about three times as difficult to face as the previous so-called "behemoth".
  
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** And then we have Sally, the Supreme Necromantress of the Tower of Necromancy, in ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]''. Sure, she may be a little girl, but {{spoiler|she brought back Noxus as a lich and even helped create [[Hero-Killer]] Vordred}}.
  
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* Mokomoko from ''[[Lightning Legend Daigo no Daibouken]]'' is pretty much a near-literal example of this: it's a legendary creature looking like a big furball rabbit, [[Acrofatic|which runs at a blazing speed and can pull off strong and fast combos]].
  
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* ''[[God Hand]]'' has Poison Chihuahuas.
 
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* {{spoiler|Iris}} of ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' counts as well. While she may be a cute little girl, {{spoiler|she's more of a [[Complete Monster]] than expected because she delights in causing as much chaos as possible and [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulating others]] [[For the Evulz|because she thinks it's fun]]. And, being the [[Magnificent Bastard]] she is, she even manipulated RKS into attacking the Empire just for the fun of it! And no one knew she did just that because [[The Trickster|they all thought her to just be a kind, innocent girl]]. And since she's [[Affably Evil]], she just happens to be that damn proud of it. The only ones who could see through her were the Empire, Karl, and Grolla, but Iris, being [[The Chessmaster]], always has a backup strategy so that she outsmarts them at every turn. And her being "kidnapped" doesn't help, either}}.
  
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* The [[The Greys|Kamis]] from ''[[Ryzom]]'' are kinda cute, but if you do too much harvesting in one area, their magic shall fall on you like the hammer of god.
  
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* Peter the Puppy from ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]''. The levels where he appears consist solely of trying to keep him -- or his puppies, in the sequel -- from getting hurt so he doesn't turn into a horrifying mutant and maul Jim.
  
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* Later versions of ''[[Terraria]]'' feature bunny rabbits hopping around the landscape... which during a Blood Moon turn into Corrupt Bunnies, which can be fairly deadly foes for characters just starting out.
  
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* The 3DRealms game ''[[Shadow Warrior]]'' plays this entirely straight in a shout-out to [[Monty Python and The Holy Grail|the original]]. Through-out the game, you can find little rabbits running around and can even kill them without a problem. However, in one secret area, you will find a rabbit that's out for blood, complete with a discarded helmet and grail. Your character even exclaims "That's no ordinary rabbit," as the little furry menace rushes at you and begins to gnaw away your health!
  
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* In [[Enchanted Arms]], the golem APO looks like a couple of gumdrops with small, cartoon arms and legs. No, really. It's one of the most devastatingly-effective golems in the game.
  
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* The Basilisks in ''[[Dark Souls]]''. They look like deformed frogs with their small size and bulging eyes, but they're the first enemy that can inflict the dreaded Curse status effect, which instantly petrifies you and leaves you at half-health for the rest of your lives until you get an expensive cure.
  
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* In ''[[Fable]] II'', one of the contestants in the Crucible waiting room is Gorgoron, a cute little girl with [[Larynx Dissonance|a deep, menacing voice]] who claims to be a shape-shifter and master of disguise.
  
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* In ''[[Ragnarok Online]]'', everything is cute. And higher level monsters love to occasionally hang out in lower level areas - while looking just as cute. A newbie character goes out in the field and merrily slaughters giant pink blobs, caterpillars and bunnies - but death awaits him, dare he lay a hand on a butterfly or a rare big blue bunny. A quest to become an acolyte entails a pilgrimage across a couple zones to a monastery - and those who undertake it should ''not'' attack the cute little monkeys, no matter how annoying the are, lest they will be torn to shreds by them. Later, after taking down ferocious looking wolves (and some giant violinist grasshoppers) you may think that you can take on the ladybug that stole the drops from said wolves? [http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=56 Nope]. The list goes on.
  
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* [[Planescape: Torment]] has the Lim-lim. You can buy one on the market as a cute pet, and it doesn't do much. Then in a different area of town, you meet a circle of magicians that attempt to summon a wild one... and it promptly slaughters all of them. It's also pretty dangerous to ''you'' should you provoke it.
  
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** From the same game, both Morte the floating skull and Nordom the four-armed cube thingy are much more dangerous than they seem.
  
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* [[Phantasy Star]] has giant zombie rabbits that despite being, you know, undead, still look pretty cute with their missing ear and all, then they [[Nightmare Fuel|split in half and fire acid at you]].
  
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* ''[[Galactic Civilizations]]'' has a race of evil space squirrels known as the Snathi, whose portrait is available to player empires. Some famous [[Let's Plays]] featured the "suspiciously rabbit-like" Spectres of Agony, who ate their enemies' eyeballs and ended up [[Ascend to a Higher Plane of Existence|ascending to godhood]], and their distant relatives, the Spatial Hares, who were ''supposed'' to be diplomatic and peaceful, and ended up destroying no less than 21 stars - making them the rabbits with the highest killcount on this page, measuring in the ''tens of billions''.
  
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* ''[[Maximo]] vs. Army of Zin'' has the Rarbite, an ordinary looking rabbit that, when attacked, [[This Was His True Form|transforms into a vicious demon]] that latches onto your ankle and gradually drains your health until removed.
  
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* Any Yordle character in ''[[League of Legends]]'' would qualify for this trope, but easily the best example would have to be Teemo, a huggably adorable little chipmunk-like boy scout who will pump you full of poison darts and trap you in a minefield of toxic mushrooms. Bonus points for his Cottontail skin, making him even more of a literal killer rabbit.
  
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* ''[[Fantasy Quest]]'' offers a giant bunny rabbit that proves surprisingly lethal. The sequel kicks it up a notch with a herd of carnivorous ''giraffes''.
  
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* Another literal example: the rabbit-people in ''[[Utawarerumono]]'' seem peaceful and diplomatic, at least compared to all the [[Blood Knight]] nations around them. People wonder how they haven't been conquered yet. Then, when they get attacked, they show it's because {{spoiler|they still have [[Humongous Mecha]] from before the apocalypse.}}
  
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== Web Animation ==
  
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* The ''[http://www.newgrounds.com/portal/view/212095 Bunnykill]'' web animation series. A liberal exercise in the trope of Killer Rabbitry (and [[Katanas Are Just Better]]).
  
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* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mHKHKR8x6A "Crab Battle!"], where Naked Snake gets his ass handed to him by a Kenyan Mangrove Crab.
  
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* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' has several small animals that are for some reason vicious. Whistle, the man-eating puppy, a man-eating baby turtle, and a flock of man-eating ducks have all appeared. Plus, well, most of the cast.
  
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* This short animated film [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2gxrI5CPYIM&feature=related Red] where Little Red Riding Hood refuses the advances of the wolf (who looks like a [[Little Bit Beastly|slightly feral child]] wearing a wolf costume) after spilling the cakes she was going to bring to her grandmother. After leaving brokenhearted, Red encounters a unicorn-horned rabbit, which she hugs (not noticing the [[Revealing Hug|evil toothed grin it makes]] before mutating into a bear-sized horned monster that was ready to devour Red before the wolf comes back in time to save the day.
 
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== Web Comics ==
  
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* ''[[Kevin and Kell]]''
  
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** Coney Dewclaw might as well be the [[Trope Codifier]]. Nobody who doesn't know her beforehand would be able to tell via looks alone that [[Lego Genetics|her mother is not only a wolf, but a top-notch hunter]]. She definitely got her appetite from the same, having left a long trail of the blood and bones of anybody who has attempted to prey on her, her family and her friends in her wake. The picture at the top might as well be a real-life image of what she is capable of. She has directly saved her siblings, her father, her grandmothers, her grandfather, the entire Rabbit Council, R.L., and many others in separate incidents via her skills/appetite.
  
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** Her dad, Kevin, might count as well. He's three times the size of any other rabbit we've seen in the strip (including his parents and sister) and mostly muscle (in fact, he used to have a side job as a masked wrestler).
  
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* ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''
  
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** Bun-Bun. He once skeletonized a shark that had the misfortune of attacking him, and went on a holiday-massacring rampage as part of his vendetta against Santa Claus.
  
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** Also in ''Sluggy Freelance'' there's "The Evil", 18 ([[Number of the Beast|6 + 6 + 6]]) "demon kittens" that go on a killing spree if they have not had milk in the last 24 hours. Of course, these kittens are literally the spawn of [[Satan]]. They show up in two story arcs found [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=000626 here] and [http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=021021 here].
  
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{{quote| "Kicking a kitten... A grown man punting a kitten who was looking the other way... It was the bravest thing I've ever seen."}}
  
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* Kieri from ''[[Slightly Damned]]''. When she first meets Buwaro, she changes into a bunny and then chases him around Rhea's house with a steak knife. [http://www.sdamned.com/2006/04/04232006/ Link].
  
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* The superhero [[Furry Comic]] ''[[Supermegatopia]]'' features a number of characters who are more dangerous than they appear. The [[The Speechless|mute]] and docile-seeming Zippy the Sloth is able to [http://www.supermegatopia.com/comics/zippy.php?thisLink=zippy-03.gif defeat hulking supervillain Brute Force with one punch], while [[Anti-Hero]] Hell Kitty of the Offenders is a bratty little girl... with razor-sharp claws, super-healing, and a hair-trigger temper.
  
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* ''[[El Goonish Shive]]''
  
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** Subverted in a strip with Jeremy, who attacks Sensei Greg... Only to [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-07-18 run facefirst into a ki forcefield.] Ow. Of course, it was [http://www.egscomics.com/?date=2002-05-13 earlier stated] that Jeremy did have some punch.
  
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** Grace combines this with [[Beware the Nice Ones]]. A normally sweet and cute squirrel-girl who, once angered, destroys a [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|self-proclaimed]] god.
  
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* In ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]'', the [[Norse Mythology|Norse trickster god Loki]] walks the earth in the body of a ''stuffed animal''.
  
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* ''[[8-Bit Theater (Webcomic)|Eight Bit Theater]]'' featured the diminutive but dreaded camel spider (based on a real-life arachnid, whose threat is greatly exaggerated), which "viciously attacks anything it perceives as a threat, which is anything it can perceive."
  
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* Arguably, the entirety of ''[http://bunny.frozenreality.co.uk/ Bunny]'' is based off this trope, particularly Orange Bunny.
  
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* Slim the Jackalope from ''[http://www.mopsy.com NeverNever]'' has sixguns. Very tiny sixguns. And he bites. Extremely hard.
  
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* ''[[Schlock Mercenary]]'' features a species of "cute and cuddly koalazoids" known as the Tausennigan Ob'Enn. The Ob'Enn, despite their small size and disarming appearance, are referred to as the "psycho bears" by every other species in the galaxy, as they have one of the most powerful and advanced interstellar militaries in the galaxy, and are led by a xenocidal doctrine that calls for the destruction of every other species in the galaxy. At one point a mob boss even mockingly calls Petey -- an A.I. created by and resembling the Ob'Enn -- a "hairy, scary drop bear."
  
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* Lepus, the awakened Fiendish rabbit from ''[http://www.dungeoncrawlinc.com/comic6.html Dungeon Crawl, inc.]'' As the page's title suggests, he was originally a homage to the original Killer Rabbit (before he became a full-fledged character).
  
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* [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=478 Deadly venomous chipmunks] in ''[[Loserz]]''!
  
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* In ''[[Adventurers]]'', Ardam finds out the painful way that a [http://www.adventurers-comic.com/d/0302.html Devilrabbit] is no ordinary Cuterabbit.
  
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* Reynardine, in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. He's apparently a cute little stuffed toy. He's actually a fearsome possessor demon that kills the body of whoever he takes over. He just happens to be stuck in Antimony's toy. For now. An illustrative [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=407 example].
  
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* ''[[Tales of the Questor]]''
  
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** The Racconans. They're cute, fuzzy two-foot tall talking raccoons... who turn into lightning-flinging shredding whirling balls of death when backed into a corner. A typical saying in the Questorverse is "there's no such thing as an unarmed Racconan."
  
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** And ''Quentin Quinn, Space Ranger'' lampshades [http://www.rhjunior.com/QQSR/00031.html it about the title character's own race] to a guard suffering from [[Suicidal Overconfidence]]...
  
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{{quote| '''Quentin:''' You know, Groonch, there is an old saying in the seven systems about an unarmed Racoonan... [[Pre-Ass-Kicking One-Liner|pity you never heard it]]. }}
  
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** Alternatively, the Redcaps, who bear a marked resemblance to the little dancing mushrooms from ''[[Fantasia]]'', till the needle-sharp claws and fangs come out and they leap into your face. Those bright red "mushroom caps" they wear are actually BLOOD SACS, and they've been known to drain an ox dry of blood in moments...
  
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* The Video Games section paid plenty of attention to ''[[Gaia Online]]'''s MMO aspect, but Grunny from the webcomic has yet to be mentioned. It is a predatory green rabbit that also carries [[The Virus|the G-Virus]] and turns its victims into zombies.
  
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* ''[[Char Cole]]'' gives us [http://kyrio.deviantart.com/art/CharCole-67-116061624 Maoh] the [http://kyrio.deviantart.com/art/CharCole-73-116777367 Magnificent]. Not ''all'' Mew have pleasant temperments...
  
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* {{spoiler|Dolphins}} in ''[[The Adventures of Dr. McNinja]]''. You could punch out and kill all the gorillas, dinosaurs, giant lumberjacks, ninja, vampires, and ghosts you want, but if you treasure your continued existence, leave the {{spoiler|1=[http://drmcninja.com/page.php?pageNum=70&issue=14 dolphins]}} alone.
  
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* [[Voodoo Doll]] in ''The Repository of Dangerous Things''. Little. Funny. Quiet. Won't get in the way. [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Repository_of_Dangerous_Things/4855129/ Does not object when grabbed and carried]. But [http://www.drunkduck.com/The_Repository_of_Dangerous_Things/4859522/ throwing it] around is a ''[[Berserk Button|really bad]]'' idea. Even for a vampire.
  
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* Coleman of ''Sore Thumbs''. A tiny blue polar bear that served in Iraq alongside its owner. [http://sorethumbs.keenspot.com/d/20050523.html You've never seen such an adorable terrorist-slaughtering machine].
  
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* ''[[Digger]]'' and other wombats may look small and chubby, but they spend most of their lives swinging heavy pickaxes, and are, as she once put it, "like biceps with feet." When pressed into battle, Digger has shown herself to be an effective combatant, not only soundly defeating a gang of bandits, but also lecturing them on what poor condition their weapons are in.
  
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* Mr. Boodles, an average-looking cat from ''[[Eerie Cuties]]'', proved to be this in the November 18th update. He is also the pet of a vampire queen.
  
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* ''[[Nature of Nature's Art]]'' is populated almost ''entirely'' by killer animals. Literally, they live to fight!
  
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* In a filler strip for ''[[Something Positive]]'', Peter Rabbit gets his [http://www.somethingpositive.net/sp03202010.shtml revenge].
  
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* [http://Girl-on-the-Moon.deviantart.com/art/Character-Sheet-Lars-134911277 Lars]
  
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* ''[http://ne.tsunami-art.com/view.aspx?Rec=3 Northern Edge]'', Fred perry's web original ''[[Gold Digger]]'' tie-in prominently features Wabbits. Cute little rabits with sharp weapons on their tails and mostly nasty personalities.
  
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* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' goblins created a funny [http://yafgc.net/?id=65 midget direwolf breed], Wargi. The little bastards are nastier than they appears. Their cuteness is [http://yafgc.net/?id=68 weaponized] too.
  
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* ''Subverted'' in [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-07-16 these] [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-07-19 two] ''[[Dominic Deegan]]'' strips. At first it seems everyone's just being [[Genre Savvy]], given how deceptive appearances can be on the Wild Edge. {{spoiler|1=Turns out the little furballs really ''are'' harmless. They're just accompanied by [http://www.dominic-deegan.com/view.php?date=2010-07-20 Big shaggy parents] who will ''[[Papa Wolf|rip your head off]]'' if you mess with them.}}
 
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* ''[[Erfworld]]'s'' Transilvitoan bats are among the weakest units in the world (generally only useful as scouts). However, when boosted by the right leadership bonus (and with sheer weight of numbers), they become capable of taking on boosted dwagons.
  
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* Swedish online RPG satire ''Rubicon survival guide'' use a [http://www.rollspel.com/humor/handbok/handbok.htm killer hamster] to demonstrate the dangers of taking the rules too literally:
  
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{{quote| '''Horrified Barbarian:''' A HAMSTER!!! OH MY GOD!!!<br />
  
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'''Confused Wizard:''' What????<br />
  
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'''Horrified Barbarian:''' A hamster bite is one damage point, and it bites and bites and bites! It can take hours before you die! A slow, agonizing death ... LOOK OUT, IT'S ATTACKING!!! }}
  
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* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' gives us {{spoiler|Mr Scruffy}} in this [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0780.html strip], in a direct shout-out to the example noted in the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' section above.
  
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* ''[[Homestuck]]''
 
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** The Trolls look awfully cute on first glance until you realize they're junior members of a [[Proud Warrior Race]]. Karkat even dubs them "Team Adorabloodthirsty".
  
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** And then there's the actual Killer Rabbit, a small stuffed bunny that can handle several large weapons at once that John names after Liv Tyler.
  
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* From ''[[Fafnir the Dragon]]'', we give you Frogzerkers. As in, normal-sized frogs with spiked collars that can eats the faces off of vampires.
  
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* Not cute, but definitly Killer Bunnies: the giant rabbits of Ferrettina, the ''[[Girl Genius|Weasel Queen]]''.
  
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* ''[[VG Cats]]'' had fun with usual [[Rat Stomp]] grade adventure running into [[Underground Monkey|less than obvious monster variations]]. Leo [[Tempting Fate|just had to say]] he's "[http://www.vgcats.com/comics/?strip_id=56 on a roll today]".
  
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* [http://www.airshipentertainment.com/buckcomic.php?date=20081120 Beemahs] from ''[[Buck Godot: Zap Gun for Hire]]'' are [[Armless Biped]] folk the size of a big rabbit. They were [[Attack Animal|created as spies and assassins]] and eventually [[Turned Against Their Masters|turned their masters extinct species]] despite all safeguards.
  
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== Web Original ==
  
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* It appears that [[Ruby Quest|Ruby]] didn't want to hug Tom {{spoiler|[http://suptg.thisisnotatrueending.com/archive/3381692/images/1231770414578.gif this time]}}..
  
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* [http://www.devilbunnies.org/ Devilbunnies] are an entire web community of people writing stories based on the idea that cute fluffy bunnies are taking over the entire world and making it cute and fluffy for their own nefarious purposes.
  
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* The ''[[Whateley Universe]]'' has a toy cabbit owned by Tennyo -- which conceals quite a few blades and needles inside itself, and can exert three hundred pounds of force through each (while unerringly [[Armor Is Useless|passing through gaps in armor]]) when it's being animated by [[Beware the Nice Ones|Jade]].
  
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* On the website Muse Blog, run far, far away if you see a Hot Pink Bunny. They are [[Take Over the World|out to rule the world]], can turn people into [[Zombie Apocalypse|zombies]], and [[Made of Iron|can survive atomic blasts]]. This may or may not be where their powers come from.
  
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* "[http://andersson.elfwood.com/The-Dragon-Fly.2524313.html The Dragon Fly]" by Fredrik K.T.Andersson.
  
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* ''[[Zombie Roadkill]]'' does this with several small woodland creatures.
  
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FiyAWh4zWB0#t=3m34s The Kryton] from ''Threebrain''.
  
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* [http://scp-wiki.net/scp-524 SCP-524] from the ''[[SCP Foundation]]'' is a docile bunny rabbit that can eat [[Extreme Omnivore|anything]]. Metal, plastic, radioactive waste, ''[[Omnicidal Maniac|SCP-682]]''...
  
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** It actually is the one thing that 682 was unable to adapt a defense for, and only survived being eaten by climbing up higher than the bunny could jump.
  
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* [http://www.theonion.com/content/opinion/you_follow_one_kid_home_rip_out This (not actually killer) squirrel].
  
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* The humor site [http://www.cracked.com/ Cracked] has an article called "[http://www.cracked.com/article_15853_6-cutest-animals-that-can-still-destroy-you.html The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You"]. [[Self Explanatory]]. Two-thirds are Australian, of course.
  
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* Despite its inherent emphasis on all things ugly and disgusting, from simply distasteful little critters to [[Nightmare Fuel]]-filled [[Eldritch Abominations]], a good number of the monsters of the [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen.htm Mortasheen] franchise are cute enough (relatively speaking) to pass as these. Don't believe me? Check out the [[Chainsaw Good|Chainsaw]] [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/chainsawkid.htm Kid]. It's about as cute as a creature with a chainsaw on its face can get, but [[Ax Crazy|piss it off for any reason whatsoever and your internal organs will invariably end up getting rearranged.]]
  
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* "[http://www.worth1000.com/contests/555/evil-animals Evil Animals]" contest on worth1000.com got a handful of such things, including literal as a pair of "[http://www.worth1000.com/entries/22782/bad-rabbits bad rabbits]".
  
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* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4r7wHMg5Yjg Honey badger don't care. Honey badger don't give a shit]"
  
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* [http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Stadium/8421/puppy1.gif Peter the Puppy] from ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'' fits in here nicely. Usually an affable, even borderline-cute sidekick, but get him pissed and he immediately [[One-Winged Angel|transforms]] [http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Stadium/8421/puppy4.gif into a super-strong, slavering, werewolf-like critter]...
  
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* In the ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' episode "Eddie Monster", "the Champ" of the imaginary friends fighting league is a harmless looking Pikachu-esque rabbit thing... that sprouts huge electrified tentacles when provoked.
  
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* One episode of ''[[Men in Black (animation)|Men in Black]]'', in an obvious jab at ''[[E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial|ET the Extraterrestrial]]'', has a cute and cuddly alien... which could transform into a hideous behemoth on a second's notice when hungry, and was preparing to devour the young boy who had "bonded" with him.
  
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* Nibbler of ''[[Futurama]].'' It's not his fault he's an unstoppable killing machine... who can devour several hundred times his own body weight in a matter of minutes. His entire species are superintelligent warriors working to save the universe, but it's a [[Running Gag]] in any episode they appear in that they're also adorable and cuddly. His very droppings are ''dark matter'' more dense than the material in a neutron star.
  
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* Several of Stitch's "cousins" from ''[[Lilo and Stitch: The Series]]''. Let's not forget Stitch himself, a synthetically crafted living war machine... In a cute fuzzy body. According to Jumba, this was an accident.
  
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{{quote| '''Jumba Jukiba:''' I tried to give you my good looks, but let's face it, something... went wrong.}}
  
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** A ''[[Disney Adventures]]'' comic showed that this is because somehow one of the creatures he was created from was... a puppy.
  
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* One of the "Aesop and Son" segments from ''[[Rocky and Bullwinkle]]'' has a wolf attempting to steal the dentures from a sheepdog in order to render him harmless. After actually managing to succeed, he proceeds to attack one of the sheep, immediately getting fought off by one of the sheep since it also has dentures.
  
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* ''[[Aqua Teen Hunger Force]]'' uses this trope a lot, whether it's [[Black Comedy Rape|a little yellow dog that assrapes guys]], a murderous, cokehead duck made out of used condoms and drug needles, little midgets who look like white rice and carry fishhooks to rip your dick off with...
  
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* ''[[Looney Tunes]]''
  
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** The character Slowpoke Rodriguez is Speedy Gonzalez's cousin, and "the slowest mouse een all Mexico," but he knows hypnosis and carries a .45 revolver.
  
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** [[Bugs Bunny]]. Once something means war, there's no stopping him. To make that point all the clearer, at the end of [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P9jHa-y24hM this clip] there's even an ominous drum boom as he says it.
  
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* Droopy the dog looks like he is an innocent helpless little dog but when he gets angry he will slam the villain many times before tossing them away into something that hurts even more like a cactus.
  
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* [[Tom and Jerry]] and friends are a cat and mouse who always have something to argue about including sometimes trying to kill one another over the simplest things how ever in certain cartoons if there is a bigger problem they are usually working together
  
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** Two episodes had Jerry buy a dog that was SMALLER THAN HE IS. But this dog was so fast and violent that Tom was overwelmed. The dog is actually stronger than Tom despite being 20 times smaller.
  
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* The deadpan little Mynah Bird in [[Chuck Jones]]' ''Inki'' series. He can demolish anything up to and including a brontosaurus, but always offscreen.
  
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* The Dark Lord Chuckles the Silly Piggy in ''[[Dave the Barbarian]]'', who is a cute little piggy and a dark lord of evil.
  
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* ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy]]''
  
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** Played rather straight when Pud'n [[Be Careful What You Wish For|wishes]] for a cute bunny that will love him forever... and it immediately reveals itself to be a [[Ax Crazy|psychotic]], [[Love Makes You Evil|murderous]] nightmare.
  
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** Also, the Happy Huggy Stuffy Bears, adorable stuffed bears that were {{spoiler|created by Eris to sow chaos in the world by hypnotizing their owners to do their bidding. Eris' scheme is undone when one angers Mandy by saying that she'll be only the ''second'' most powerful in the world, at which point Mandy orders Grim to decapitate all of them.}}
  
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** Inverted with Billy's "son" Jeffy, a huge, hideous spider who's extremely friendly and wants only to be loved.
  
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* The Chubb Chubbs, from the [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wzqi1bfflDg video] of the same name, are the terror of the galaxy. {{spoiler|They look like a combination of the cutest features of piglets and ducklings... except when they're baring their several rows of shark-like teeth and eating barbarian invaders alive. They also enjoy cuddling and karaoke.}}
  
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* ''[[Catscratch]]'' had an episode which had a duckling in it -- and Gordon was extremely terrified of said duckling because of an incident that happened when he was a kitten (the duckling beat the snot out of him with tremendous superhuman strength and horrific fighting skills), but later on Gordon musters up the courage to finally defeat the duckling -- after it's beaten the snot out of him AGAIN.
  
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* ''[[Johnny Test]]'' has a cute kitty cat as one of its villains; said kitty cat possesses a cannon that turns people into cats.
  
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* ''[[The Fairly Odd Parents]]'' played with this trope as well. The Gigglepies are a race of cute little bunny like creatures that are a cross between Care Bears in terms of looks and cuteness and Pokémon in terms that they are apparently collectible. They roam the galaxy, coming in cereal boxes and use their cuteness and mind-controlling rhymes to subjugate the population, force them to buy them in excess and eventually cost the planet its freedom. Of course with the Yugopotamians, who fear anything cute, making the populace afraid of them works just as well. Once they're done looting the planet they destroy it and move on to the next one.
  
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{{quote| "ISN'T THAT CUTE!?"<br />
  
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* [[Fan Nickname|"Cujo"]] the ghost dog in ''[[Danny Phantom]]''. A small, playful, super adorable ghost puppy... that can turn into a twenty-foot monster who's aggressive meter is off the charts. "Beware of Dog" signs would be an ''understatement''.
  
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* ''[[Metalocalypse]]'': The band buys an island full of nuclear mutants and converts it into a home for "wayward kitties." The kitties kill everyone on the island.
  
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* Ling Ling from ''[[Drawn Together]]'', like the ''[[Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends]]'' example, is an adorable Pikachu-esque rodent... who is also a murderous [[Heroic Sociopath]] who kills at the drop of a hat (in the beginning of the show anyway). In just the first episode, he brutally kills and devours another house mate because his name is uttered 3 times. This applies to any of the ''[[Pokémon]]'' spoofing characters on the show though, as it takes the battling aspect of the series and cranks it up to [[Grotesque Cute]] levels.
  
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* ''[[Ed, Edd 'n' Eddy]]'', quoting Johnny: "I told you bunnies would take over the world, Plank!"
  
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** In that instance, the bunnies weren't so much attacking as they had reproduced so much that they flooded the cul-de-sac. A better example would be the rooster Rowlf sics on Eddy in the episode when Eddy loses his voice.
  
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* In the ''[[The Life and Times of Juniper Lee]]'' episode "Welcome Bat Otter", the eponymous bat otter looks like an adorable little otter with bat wings. It's threat level is hyped by the antagonist of the episode, the corrupt businessman mummy Skeeter Khommen-Gettit. It turns out it's threat isn't just hype when it ''eats'' Skeeter. The expression on the bat otter's face at the end of the episode hints that its diet isn't limited to evil magical creatures...
  
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* ''[[Beast Wars]]'' had a ''flower'' that looked harmless, but got its point across to [[Proud Warrior Race Guy]] Dinobot, by nailing him with a spiky seed right where he couldn't reach.
  
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{{quote| '''Dinobot:''' From now on I ''shoot'' my dinner salad before I eat it!}}
  
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* "Attack of the Twonkies" says it all in ''[[The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron]]''.
  
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* The "psycho duck" that Penny Proud adopts in one episode of ''[[The Proud Family]]''. It even beat up the Gross Sisters, the neighborhood bullies!
  
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* ''[[South Park]]''
  
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** The Pandemic episodes feature giant guinea pigs (which were actual guinea pigs filmed and placed into the cartoon), which are repelled by Peruvian pan flute bands. Several of the guinea pigs wear costumes, such as bee, dinosaur, mouse, and pirate costumes.
  
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** Also the Woodland Critters, who seem cute but are actually rapists with satanic powers.
  
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** And the cute, little goldfish who wrote murderous messages on its bowl and then followed through with them.
  
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* An episode of ''[[Eek the Cat]]'' features a cute, seemingly-harmless bunny arriving at Eek's family door, as it turns out the bunny is a deranged psychopath who plots to kill Eek's family after they've thrown Eek out.
  
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* The Warners in ''[[Animaniacs]]'', three cute "puppy children" who are basically avatars of chaos. And you ''really'' don't want to piss off Wakko.
  
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* ''[[Duck Dodgers]]'': In "Pet Peeved", Duck Dodger's selfish demand for a pet results in him adopting "Koo-koo", an energy mutator that happens to look like a cross between a puppy, rabbit, and kitten. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JMvj81ipK4A It becomes larger, stronger, and uglier as it absorbs electrical energy].
  
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* ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series|Sabrina's Secret Life]]''. Sabrina conjures up an adorable pet, but Salem discovers that she has actually summoned an evil warlock who is trying to drain her of her powers. Unfortunately, Sabrina does not believe Salem which leads to further complications.
  
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* The Snork-Eater-Eater from ''[[The Snorks]]''. Said creature was a tiny fish that could open its mouth to a massive size in order to devour the enormous Snork-Eater.
  
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* The Wunny Sharbit from ''[[Spliced]]'' is a cute little rabbit, WITH THE TEETH OF A SHARK AND A CHAINSAW!
 
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* ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]''
  
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** The panda pair. Played straight with the panda that clobbered [[Friend to All Living Things|DJ]], subverted with the panda that was given to [[Even the Guys Want Him|Alejandro]].
  
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** Any small and cute animal in general, for example, the baby seal. It bites Izzy in the intro.
  
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** Plus in "Walk like an Egyptian Part 2", Chef sent scarab beetles after the contestants. Sounds harmless, right? Wrong, a few crawled onto an intern and they ate him alive into just a skeleton in less then ten seconds
 
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* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' has Ultra Peepi, a classroom hamster that Zim affects to grow to the size of Godzilla. Why it grows spikes, has cybernetic parts, and breathes fire is probably [[Rule of Cool]]. However, even at his enormous size, with him rampaging the city, everyone stops to say how incredibly adorable is. In one case, as he's using a skyscraper as a toothpick after he just ate a school bus.
  
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* ''[[Dragon Hunters]]'' (''Chasseurs de dragons''), a French/Chinese cartoon series (plus one CGI movie) produced by Futurikon, has Hector, a blue-furred, dog-sized tame pet dragon with rabbit ears who accompanies the two protagonists Lian-Chu and Gwizdo on their quests and carries their weapons and equipment. (In the world of Dragon Hunters, "dragon" is merely a catch-all term for all monsters of various sizes that are not normal animals.) Hector is often mistaken for a dog by bystanders, although normal dogs do exist too and Hector can walk on his hind legs, has small fingers, is at least semi-intelligent, often sarcastic, and [[You No Take Candle|talks in pidgin language]]. In somewhat of an inversion, while he ''looks'' the part of killer rabbit, fluffy but with very sharp teeth and the ability to create small fires and explosions by piddling on things, he is a bit of a coward and serves as comic relief. In one episode Hector meets a fully grown member of his species, Big Blue, who is the size of a house and, while not very aggressive, slowly wanders around the countryside gobbling down everything he comes across in one gulp: whole cows, horses, trees, dung heaps, other dragons, people... Hector on the other hand is thoroughly domesticated; he prefers his food cooked and has shown no inclination to devour actual people.
  
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* "Mist Opportunities," an episode of ''[[My Life as a Teenage Robot]],'' there is said to be a fire-breathing monster downtown, and Jenny goes there and finds a little bunny. Said bunny turns out to ''be'' the monster. So, she unsuccessfully attempts to fight it. Later on it is defeated, [[Cliff Hanger|but now there's several more of them...]]
  
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* On ''[[Jimmy Two-Shoes]]'', in an animal prison, a fox tries to pick a fight with a chicken. The chicken responds by ''eating him whole''.
  
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* ''[[Sym-Bionic Titan]]'' gives up Mushy/Terax/497, an adorable little alien blob like thing. Did i also mention that when he dies, and no matter how that happens, he explodes with enough force to destroy an entire planet? Yeah.
  
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* ''[[Garfield and Friends|U.S. Acres]]'' has an episode where a little creature named Al wanders onto the farm from underground. He's small, well-mannered, and speaks with a timid voice, but when Orson's evil brothers show up to steal the farm's previous water supply, he drives them off by ''shooting laser beams from his eyestalks.''
  
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* In the ''[[Samurai Jack]]'' episode ''Jack and the Creature'', an annoying but seemingly harmless creature hulks out when Jack is wounded by a robot gang.
  
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* In ''[[Krypto the Superdog (animation)|Krypto the Superdog]]'', Mechanikat's minion Snookey Wookums, though cute-looking, is a cunning and vicious little thing.
  
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* In ''[[The Twisted Whiskers Show]]'', a kitten named Cutie Snoot, although cute and sweet, she causes trouble for a dog named Goosers to earn the affection of her master.
  
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* ''[[Sidekicks]]'' has [[Fricking Laser Beams|Laser]] Rabbits.
  
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* Snarf from Trollz is an example of this. He normally appears as a red cute-looking puppy/wombat creature, but get him mad and he turns into a vicious, hulking ogre.
 
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* [http://imgur.com/gallery/lIJE1 THIS rabbit.]
  
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** Indeed, rabbits are an actual example. With those teeth, they can inflict quite a bit of damage, and rabbits are hardly docile creatures. Male rabbits will ''castrate'' rival males to ensure their own breeding rights. Yeah. Rabbits castrate each other. They also headbutt, and their kicks pack quite a bit of power for their size, to the point that they can break their own spine if they kick hard enough. Some rabbits are known to [http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/09/15/63975_local-news.html attack snakes]. One gained fame for trying to [[wikipedia:Jimmy Carter rabbit incident|board Jimmy Carter's fishing boat]] in 1979. It even was nicknamed "Killer Rabbit" by the media.
  
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* Domesticated dogs and cats still have hunter's instincts, and will often attack small animals they come across even if they're not hungry. Cats in particular, due to their mobility and stealthiness, are well equipped to hunt down various small animals such as birds and rodents that might be lurking in your back yard. Because they don't need the food, cats will often just play with their catches rather than eat them. For an added bonus, cats have a lot of bacteria in their mouths, which can make their bites surprisingly nasty.
 
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* [[wikipedia:Koala#Ecology and behaviour|Koalas]]. It's not hard to piss them off, especially if you interrupt one of their 19 hours of sleep, and they have huge teeth and claws that can do some real damage when you rile them up. [[Land Down Under|Please stay away from them.]] Fun fact: they are always POed at you because they're coming down from a high. Eucalyptus leaves actually contain a mild toxin, to which they have built up a resistance that instead makes them stoned. Hence the sleeping 19 hours a day.
  
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* [[wikipedia:Wombat#Wombats and humans|Wombats]] can do a fair amount of damage too - one naturalist ended up with a 2cm deep bite in his leg. Through a gumboot, trousers, and thick socks. And if they get some speed up (40km/hr at maximum, despite being generally slow) they can knock grown men over. This being [[Death World|Australia]], their main defence against predators is to hide in a hole and use their cartilage-heavy, armour-plated arse to keep themselves from serious harm -- and their modified pelvic bone that forms the aforementioned armor-plating is sturdy enough to crush a dingo's skull, if one manages to get its head into the hole before it's completely blocked off. Australia is potholed to [[Death World]] for a reason.
  
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* The platypus looks like an adorable beaver-duck, but the poisonous stinger of the males contains one of the nastier venoms known to man. It causes immediate hyperalgesia in humans, which is acute hypersensitivity to ''pain'' that can't be dulled by painkillers and can last weeks to months. Yikes!
  
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* The kangaroo. Awww, itsh godda baby in itsh pou[[Oh God, with the Verbing!|OH GOD, THE PAIN, WHAT WITH THE KICKING AND THE RUPTURING OF THE ORGANS AND THE CRUSHING OF THE BONES!]]
  
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** You know how a kangaroo likes to deal with dingo predators? By luring them to a lake, pulling them in one by one, and ''drowning them''. Kangas are not afraid to kill.
  
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* Due to causing vehicular accidents, the deadliest animal in the USA is the deer. Moose are even worse. Think you're safe in your two-ton cage of speeding metal? Think again! Hitting a deer or moose can easily cause a fatal accident. Moose legs are also uniquely suited to slide up a car hood and through the windshield in a collision.
  
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** Not to mention their antlers, sharp hooves, and teeth. An annoyed horse will just bite your hand really hard then let go, to tell you stay away. A deer that thinks you're trying to kill it, however, bites your hand ''then tries to rip your hand off''.
  
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* While emus don't fall under the generally accepted category of "cute", they are essentially human sized birds with fluffy feathers and big, expressive eyes. They can also kick you to death in a matter of seconds. Most of those tall, long-legged, flightless birds aren't that harmless. Ostriches are reputed to be able to disembowel a lion. The emu's relative the Cassowary is essentially a Velociraptor with a beak. Also, [[Eye Scream]], they are attracted to shiny objects, like human eyes. Which are at beak level.
  
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* The blue-ringed octopus. Not exactly cute, but it definitely wouldn't look very threatening, despite being one of the most poisonous sea creatures known to man. As comedian Billy Connolly says "It wouldn't fit in the palm of your hand, but if this thing's in a bad mood ''you don't make it to the ****** phone!''"
  
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* Octopi are mostly known as tiny and occasionally even cute little animals that have amazing abilities of fitting into the smallest cracks and change their skin to match any surface. So when the staff of a marine aquarium decided to move their North Pacific Giant Octopus into a tank with their sharks, they didn't expect it to have any trouble staying safe. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cA8zQw6gDNI And then each night more and more of the sharks were disappearing or found dead].
  
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* Ferrets, minks, weasels, martens, sables, badgers and wolverines are unbelievably strong for their size. They are not afraid to fight back fiercely when [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WGF-pofc-lQ threatened by greater predators], despite their cute, fluffy appearance. There's a reason why [[Person as Verb|badger is a verb]] and [[Wolverine]] is a superhero.
  
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** It should be noted, though, that the European Badger is a shy social animal (they live in small family groups) that prefers to avoid confrontation and will only fight back when it is unable to escape. The badger's dubious reputation as a feriocious animal actually comes from the old "sport" of "Badger Baiting". Which, sadly, pretty much consisted of trapping a badger and forcing it to fight to the death against hunting dogs.
  
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* The Giant Panda. Another contender for "cutest bear" (it ''is'' a card-carrying member of the bear family, as shown by molecular genetics), a truly ridiculous amount of time, effort, and money has gone into saving these fat and lazy animals. Some people might think pandas are vegetarians because they only eat bamboo. They only eat bamboo because it's one of the only things that can't outrun them, being plants. Give an adult 200 pound panda a chance, and it will kill and eat small animals, possibly including children. Fun fact: Pandas actually have a carnivore digestive system. Its round face is the result of powerful jaw muscles, which attach from the top of the head to the jaw.
  
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* A article in the London newspaper ''Metro'' involved a viper that was rescued from a house in China. The rescuers tried to feed it a live mouse and the mouse ''killed it'' after a half-hour struggle. They could only theorise it had run out of venom during the capture.
  
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* [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|Raccoons]], anyone? They look like fuzzy little puppy-cat things with domino masks, but their teeth and claws can kill pets and send people to the emergency room. To top it off, they're the biggest carrier of rabies in North America (though domestic dogs are the biggest rabies vector in general). That's not mentioning the fact that they also tend to have really, really nasty tempers and utterly zero fear of humans.
  
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* Dachshunds, a.k.a. wiener dogs. They look ''adorable''. They're also bred to go into badger holes and ''lure the badger out'', making them cute Killer-Rabbit Killers, or at least the [[Hypercompetent Sidekick|Hyper Competent Sidekicks]] thereof. [http://www.cracked.com/article_16471_wolves-in-sheeps-clothing-badass-roots-5-sissy-dogs.html "It should be no surprise the dachshund was also used to hunt wild boar in some instances. Hell, drag them to Africa and take them on a big cat safari. They just don't give a fuck. It is a good day to die.]
  
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* Popular perception of dolphins pictures them as happy and cheerful, but their bodies have more than enough strength to severely hurt and even kill sharks and humans, two species that generally have no natural enemies. And then there are the bottlenose dolphins, which could very well be described as Flipper's evil twin. They are also known for hunting female dolphins to rape them.
  
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** Also, dolphins will try to have sex with [[Anything That Moves]], and will rape ''you'' if they get half a chance.
  
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*** [[Rule 34|Turnabout is fair play!]]
  
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* There are some tree frogs, small and rather beautiful. And whether they are alive or dead, merely ''touching'' them with one's bare skin is a bad idea. With [[Poisoned Weapons|a tip of blowgun dart]], on the other hand.... Fortunately, the ones in captivity are not fed the ants that cause them to produce said toxins.
  
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* Shrews are fuzzy and tiny, which is a recipe for textbook cuteness. Gram for gram, they're also the most voraciously-bloodthirsty predators on the planet, killing prey many times their own size and eating anything that moves, and consuming triple their body weight ''daily.'' Some of them have venomous saliva as well, so be ''glad'' these things are so little.
  
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* The [[wikipedia:Honey Badger|honey badger]] is kinda cute, but it has thick, tough skin that acts as some sort of body armor, giving it some protection against the claws of large animals such as lions. Its skin is too thick for the fangs of venomous snakes to penetrate, so it can eat those. It sometimes attacks (small) crocodiles.
  
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** these things have been know to chase off, if not kill full grown ''lions''. How? it uses it's small size and speed to run right under the lion, [[Groin Attack|and try to rip it's balls off]]. Oh, and the name? Comes from the fact that they really like honey, how does it get said honey? by shoving it's face into an occupied bee hive and chowing down while ignoring the bees protests, and keep in mind, these are African honey bees, aka ''Killer Bees''.
  
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*** Actually, there is no conclusive evidence that the Honey Badger rips the balls off of predators to drive them away. What they really do is no less badass, though. These little guys will growl hiss and charge at their attackers to frighten them away. And, if that doesn't work? They produce a rather foul smell from their behinds, much like skunks. And, yes, it's quite effective in driving predators away.
  
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** They're also very smart, being one of the few animals that have been documented using tools (A Honey Badger was filmed using a log to help it reach a small bird that was tangled in some vines).
  
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** However, it should be noted that the Honey Badger's [[Memetic Badass]] status has been exaggerated somewhat. While they are fearless and will fiercely defend themselves when cornered, they prefer to avoid confrontation and will often try to burrow/run away if they can.
  
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* Chimpanzees. Most funny and human among the whole lot of [[Everything's Better with Monkeys|funny monkeys]], right? In reality they are insanely strong (a 70 kg male can lift up to 300 kg; less surprising when you take a look at [http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3202/3024567966_4ffe563ebd.jpg those muscles]) and ''very'' dangerous when pissed off. Some have killed adult people and even kidnapped and eaten human babies. Intra-species murder, wars between bands, and even cannibalism aren't unknown in them either. And yet people still think worse of the comparatively [[Gentle Giant|harmless gorilla]]...
  
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* Pigs are generally thought of as ugly, fat, listless, and generally harmless creatures... unless you are a pig farmer. Editor has been told that a farmer being trampled (and subsequently ''eaten'') is not unheard-of.
  
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* While [[A Load of Bull|Bulls]] are already perceived for being badasses, ''[http://www.themorningstarr.co.uk/2009/08/18/farmer-killed-by-his-cows/ Cows]'' aren't that much far behind in that regard.
  
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* Squirrels are cute, nervous, and fuzzy. Harmless, right? Or are they [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4489792.stm arboreal piranhas]?
  
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* The [[wikipedia:Conus|Cone Snail]]. Many people pick them up because they're pretty... and get a deadly neurotoxic harpoon stuck right into them! Due to the speed at which the snail fires the harpoon, they are actually the ''fastest snails on earth''.
  
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* From the right perspective, jellyfish can look like gracefully-flowing gossamer, living chandeliers. But one touch and you'll know what days of agony is like ''if you're lucky''; if not, and it's one of the nastier species, you'll learn what a few minutes of agony ''and'' the afterlife are like.
 
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* Man-o-wars. Look like jellyfish but are really a colony of different organisms where one is a purple floating sac and the rest are tentacles that make digestion and attack. From outside the water, [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Portuguese_Man-O-War_(Physalia_physalis).jpg/437px-Portuguese_Man-O-War_(Physalia_physalis).jpg it looks beautiful]. Under the water, they are goddamn painful and, in some cases, can kill a person.
  
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* [http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/09/great_tits_murderous_rapacious.php Great tits]. They're relatives of the chickadees, have a [[Have a Gay Old Time|name that induces giggles]], and in winter they prey on hibernating bats by ''ripping their heads off''.
  
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* Chow Chows basically just look like big balls of fluff, but they have a reputation for being aggressive - to the point that the words "chow" or "chow mix" are basically code for "''be on your guard''" in your average veterinary clinic.
  
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* Sloths. They're big, sleepy, slow-moving critters... living in jungles. Y'know, where EVERYTHING tries to eat you. Think about that for a second.
  
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** Not to mention that their ancestors were roughly the size of elephants and could basically do whatever the fuck they wanted without having to fear predators.
  
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* Anteaters don't even have teeth, but they've got claws to compensate. And if you ever see one of these walking on their hind legs, run. It wants to hug you, and if you put two and two together, you'll realize it isn't a friendly hug (the biggest anteaters kill predators that way).
  
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* The [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vB5recdpPaI clione,] nicknamed the "sea angel," sure looks pretty as it peacefully swims through the water...until it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xlc7r34Sh-c opens its many-tendriled mouth to catch its prey.]
  
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* Poison ivy is gorgeous. It has glossy green leaves which are red when new, and a stunning purple fall color. It also has attractive white berries that birds love. It causes ferocious allergic reactions. Once it's on the skin, most efforts to alleviate the pain will only serve to spread the irritant oils. It grows quickly, and with its berries so appealing to birds, spreads rapidly. If burned, its irritants will be carried in the smoke, and will tear up the lungs of anyone who inhales that smoke. It also seems to be responding to elevating atmospheric carbon dioxide levels by increasing the potency of its irritants.
  
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** On the other hand, half of the population likely to be exposed to it is just flat out immune. Amusingly, when the ''[[Myth Busters]]'' attempted to test poison ivy home remedies, none of them proved to be susceptible, though admittedly it could conceivably have been a false negative, as it's possible they had never been exposed to it before; like all allergic responses, the initial exposure does not produce an effect but every exposure thereafter does.
  
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* Skunks. They're cute, gentle, and will totally ruin your day if you even make a wrong move around them.
  
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* A ''lot'' of plants look totally harmless but are actually quite dangerous. For instance, [[wikipedia:Nerium oleander|Oleander]] has beautiful flowers but it is ''very'' toxic.
  
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** Special mention should go to teddy bear cholla, a cactus which, despite the name, is phenomenally un-cuddly. The name comes from the fact that it looks almost fuzzy, which, combined with the strange shapes it tends to grow in, makes it look kind of comical. The "fuzz," however, is actually thousands upon thousands of hair-thin, transparent, barbed thorns that come out at the slightest touch and lodge in your skin. Guess [[Everything's Worse with Bears|everything really IS worse with bears]].
  
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*** Honourable mention must go to the giant stinging tree. It does the same while looking EVEN more unassuming. One slight breeze and everything in a 3 block radius suddenly feels like it's ON FIRE!
  
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* [[wikipedia:Grasshopper mouse|Grasshopper mice]] are tiny, fuzzy, and cute. They also howl like wolves and supplement their usual diet of insects with the occasional snake.
  
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* Inverted with the Hickory Horned Devil caterpillar, the largest caterpillar in North America and larval form of the [[wikipedia:Citheronia regalis|regal or royal walnut moth]]. It's five inches long, covered in menacing-looking spines from head to end, and yet it's completely and totally harmless.
  
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* Show breeds of Cocker Spaniel are subject to a phenomenon known as "Cocker Spaniel Rage," in which they flip out and attack for no apparent reason. That's right, ''[[Lady and the Tramp|Lady]]'' may one day try to kill you out of the blue.
  
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* Leopard Geckos are adorable, harmless-looking desert lizards, more well-known for their easygoing nature as a pet than for their '''[[Badass Adorable|ability to kill venomous scorpions twice their size]]'''.
  
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* The cassowary, a [http://www.thewonderofbirds.com/cassowary/cassowary.gif rather silly-looking] flightless bird best known for having an oddly-shaped head, also sports a set of claws that make it pretty much [http://i65.photobucket.com/albums/h225/centrarchid/6a00e398be6a750005011016c13c18860d-500pi.jpg the closest modern-day equivalent of a velociraptor]. If you manage to piss one off, it can and will eviscerate you, and there are numerous cases of death-by-cassowary on record.
  
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* [[Swans-a-Swimming|Swans]]: graceful, regal, a symbol of love ... and equipped with wings strong enough to break your arm at a blow if you come near their eggs.
  
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* [http://www.wired.com/wiredscience/2011/02/in-the-web-of-the-velvet-worm/ Velvet worms.] Probably another [[Ugly Cute]] example, but they're soft and squishy things that crawl slowly over the forest floor on stubby legs. And are predators. That can kill prey the size of tarantulas. (They do it by spraying a [[Crazy Awesome|sticky slime that quickly hardens into a net]] to trap their prey. And then they close in and eat the helpless prey alive.)
  
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* [http://icanhascheezburger.com/2011/10/08/funny-pictures-videos-lemming-fury/ Norway lemmings.] Some local names for them reportedly translate to killer mice!
  
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* Moles. That's right, the blinky/blind, fuzzy, [[The Wind in the Willows|shy-but-friendly]] little guys. These guys may be cute, but they are vicious little blighters: they are predators capable of hunting underground, and burrowing their own tunnels to do so, and are incredibly territorial. Oh, and cannibalistic- put two moles together for any length of time and you end up with one fat mole.
  
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* Do not go to pet a dingo. They might look like Labrador Retrievers, but they're [[Big Badass Wolf|very much not domesticated]], so for the love of god and for the love of your future children, do NOT pet it!
  
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* Tasmanian devils. They're actually much cuter [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f0/Young_tasmanian_devil.jpg in real life] than the cartoon character, but they are obligate carnivores with the strongest bite of any mammal, able to take down prey as large as a kangaroo. Not to mention they're ''extremely'' tempermental and loud.
  
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* Inverted with the Horseshoe Crab. They have dangerous-looking spikes on their tails and bodies and tails that look like stingray tails, but they're harmless and can't really hurt you.
  
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* The mantis shrimp is a small, often colorful little critter that lives in coral dens and mostly keeps to itself. To eat it's dinner of molluscs and crustaceans though, the mantis shrimp doesn't bother with prying them open: it [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i-ahuZEvWH8 BLASTS] them open with it's clublike arms, which strike with the acceleration of a .22 BULLET. The force generated per area is so powerful that the mantis shrimp can [[wikipedia:Mantis shrimp|COMPLETELY MISS it's target and STILL do damage]] by force alone. Captive mantis shrimp have been known to crack or shatter aquarium glass with a single blow.
  
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* An awful lot of tropical reef fishes and invertebrates, including the drop-dead gorgeous ones popular for saltwater aquaria, are deadly poisonous, and even the nonvenomous species may sport razor-sharp spines for protection. Heck, even the ''coral'' can cut you to ribbons if the current makes you bump into it.
  
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* Shrikes are small, cute songbirds that kill mice and lizards by [[Impaled with Extreme Prejudice|impaling them on thorns]], then use the neatly strung-up corpses as a larder.
  
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A LITERAL bad bunny!

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"That's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel, and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!"
—Tim the Enchanter, Monty Python and The Holy Grail[1]
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It's small. It's fluffy. It's adorable. And if you get on its bad side, your death will be painful, but swift.

Related to but distinct from Fluffy the Terrible, as well as being sort of a subtrope to Our Monsters Are Weird, the Killer Rabbit is any monster that's far more dangerous than it looks. Maybe it's strong for its size, poisonous on a massive level, has flesh-rending pointy bits that aren't readily apparent, or can just turn into something far more dangerous. Either way, it can make a person wary of picking on small, defenseless animals, much like the Old Master can make a person more eager to respect their elders. In many cases, the creature isn't even all that harmful unless you actually mess with it, whether intentionally or not.

This trope takes its name from the "Dread Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog" in Monty Python and The Holy Grail, which seems to be a completely ordinary bunny rabbit, with the notably unusual ability to leap through the air at high speed and tear out people's throats.

This creature is also known as a "Vorpal Bunny", a name which comes from the monster of that name in the original Wizardry game from 1981, possibly inspired by the Monty Python movie and is named after "The Vorpal Blade", a fictional sword used to decapitate the title creature in the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky". The name also spread (via Dungeons and Dragons) to other games such as Quest for Glory and Ultima Online.

There's enough truth behind this that one of the first things many children are taught is "don't try to play with any animal until you know it's friendly." (Another lesson, learned later in life by many, sometimes too late, is: "Animals can become unfriendly pretty damn fast.")

Specific types of Killer Rabbits include Evil Girl Scouts and Ridiculously Cute Critters that are secretly evil. Civilizations that are more dangerous than they look are Superweapon Surprises. Killer Rabbits are the most notable subversion of What Measure Is a Non-Cute?, which is pervasive enough for everyone to assume that cute animals are friendly.

This trope is pervasive enough that if any of the Five Races in games seems to be cute and harmless, they would by definition have to be occasional Killer Rabbits to make them viable to play.

For cases where the Killer Rabbit is a literal rabbit, see Hair-Raising Hare.

If it has a scary name, but not a scary demeanor, it's Deathbringer the Adorable.

Compare: Happy Fun Ball; Beware the Nice Ones; The Catfish; Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass; Cute but Cacophonic; Badass Adorable; Super Fun Happy Thing of Doom; and The Not-So-Harmless Punishment. If the video game character becomes a Killer Rabbit only when you hamper him, then he's Savage Setpiece.

Contrast: Level Five Onix; Holy Hand Grenade (which is often the most effective way to deal with this).

Not to be confused with Kill da Wabbit.

Examples of Killer Rabbit include:

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Card Games

  • Magic: The Gathering
    • The Unglued expansion set gave us the Infernal Spawn of Evil, a powerful beast from the darkest pits of hell. This is what it looks like. Not to be outdone, the Unhinged set introduced its even stronger child, the demon known only as the Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil.
    • Then there's that other Unhinged set card, When Fluffy Bunnies Attack.
    • The real "killer rabbit" of the Magic world is the squirrel'. Some squirrel-themed cards, such as "Deranged Hermit" and "Squirrel Nest" have seen extensive Tournament Play.
    • Hyalopterous Lemure. The artist didn't know what a "lemure" is (a ghost) so he drew a "lemur" instead (a fuzzy rodent).
    • Also, Jackalope Herd. A bunch of bunnies with antlers, amazing combat stats for their mana cost, and a drawback (returning to your hand when you play another spell) that can be turned into an advantage fairly easily.
  • Munchkin has a level 2 monster that's basically a rabbit with a switchblade, where the Bad Stuff is "you die" (yes, a literal Killer Rabbit; not surprising since he's actually Bun-bun, the Sluggy Freelance character mentioned below). One time in six, it turns into a level 15 monster, as "That One Rabbit from That One Movie", and it's too late to get help.
    • The Munchkin Bites! expansion has 17th-level monster The Evil, also from Sluggy Freelance. For those not versed in the webcomic, it's an adorable cute kitten. It steals a level from you just by meeting it.
  • Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot
  • Yu-Gi-Oh! gives us Mokey Mokey. It looks cute and harmless, and it is, but with this card present on the field at the same time, you will not want it to get angry.
    • Then there's Blade Rabbit. It depicts a rabbit with actual daggers for teeth.

Live-Action TV

  • In one episode of Xena: Warrior Princess, sidekick Gabrielle must fend off a vicious attack by what is essentially the Rabbit of Caerbannog.
  • The original Basil Brush.
  • The Furbie-esque Nubbins in Sanctuary are a variant of this — they're only dangerous in large groups and when being directly attacked, but their extremely high reproductive rate and lack of predators outside their natural environment make them potentially highly destructive to the ecosystem. Unfortunately, they're a Hive Mind far brighter than they seem, and are more than willing to sacrifice individual lives to escape and spread.
  • In an episode of Honey I Shrunk the Kids called "Honey, the Bunny Bit It", Nick Szalinski revives the school mascot à la Frankenstein, and chaos ensues as it runs amok.
  • An America's Funniest Home Videos episode features a rabbit fighting a snake. The rabbit kicks the snake's proverbial ass, forcing the reptile to retreat up a low-hanging tree, despite the rabbit attempting to yank the snake down for more.
  • When Count Duckula asks a spaceman to take him to the most dangerous planet in the galaxy he gets to meet the Fluffy Bunnies of Planet Cute, who want everything to be sweet and pretty and cuddly, and get very mean when Duckula and co. persist in being grouchy and sour.

Puppet Shows

  • Fizgigg from The Dark Crystal. If a tribble and a bear trap had a baby....
  • "HI, I'M A BUNNY!" This is a subversion. You don't need to be a genius to realize how dangerous Carl is...especially if you fit in his mouth.

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Radio

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

Sports

  • The South Sydney Rabbitohs have won the more premierships than any other Rugby League team in Australia.
  • The Pittsburgh Penguins. Penguins are not exactly known for their toughness.

Tabletop Games

  • Dungeons and Dragons
    • The common housecat in 3.5 is a serious threat to all 1st level characters, even those with class levels. This is because all successful attacks deal at least one point of damage, and cats get up to three a round. A level-appropriate encounter of four stray cats can easily wipe out a 1st level party, especially if the cats use their racial stealth bonuses to launch a surprise attack. This is why 1st level Commoners don't walk down alleyways at night.
    • The original "Arduin Grimoire", a very early third-party supplement, included among its bestiary a creature called the "killkitten". Resembling normal kittens, these beasts were actually cunning pack predators whose hollow claws could inject a paralytic poison. Their normal procedure was to set one of their number as bait to attract a potential victim by acting like an injured kitten, while the remainder of the pack lurked, hidden, nearby. When the unsuspecting schmuck picked the "kitten" up, it would paralyze him with its venom, after which the rest of the pack would swarm and eat him.
    • The Tibbit, a player race introduced in Dragon Magazine, are perfectly normal humanoids that happen to be able to take on housecat form at will. One of the illustrations on their section in the Dragon Compendium is man lying facedown in a pool of blood, with a metric ton of cutlery jutting from his back and a glowering kitty crouched on top of him.
    • Kobolds, having low HP and a reputation for cowardice, are frequently slaughtered in the open by first-level parties. They're also known for their trap-designing prowess, meaning that a clever DM can make a trap-filled death maze that can frighten well-prepared parties. The most popular recount of this happening is "Tucker's Kobolds", named after a particularly nefarious DM.
    • The 3.5E Monster Manual IV introduced the Skiurid, an evil squirrel from the Plane of Shadow, and generally regarded as one of the worst monsters D&D ever introduced. Then an infamous column on the Wizards of the Coast D&D section came along, specifically looking for ways to make Skiurids lethal. The squirrels are quite capable of bringing even a mid-level party of well-equipped adventurers to their knees.
    • The giant shrew, a critter from Basic D&D, looked like a normal-sized grayish rat, yet could do a pretty good Vorpal Bunny impression on low-level adventurers.
    • Quite a few fey arguably qualify — the well-known nymph, for example, has one ability you don't hear about too often: if you happen to catch a sight of the nymph naked, she can force you to make a fortitude save or die on the spot. Other kinds of fey are more "harmlessly cute" than the nymph, but tend to have a wide range of powerful magical abilities. Very few fey are harmless. In fact plenty of them will do horrible things to you given the chance.
    • Then there's the wolf-in-sheep's-clothing, a rival with the skiurid for one of D&D's worst monsters. It's not the bunny you need to beware, so much as the stump it's sitting on...
    • "Blink bunny", called Al-mi'raj ("experiment 72") by the gnomes of Krynn. It's just a stupid bunny, but it can teleport around, is nearly fearless and have an unicorn-like horn which it doesn't hesitate to use if threatened. Oh, and it's a herd animal. Now the bad news: one of ten adults have Psychic Powers with ridiculously large power pool. The dreaded rust monster may decay one's sword or armor if manages to hit it with antennae, but a psionic blink bunny can blast it into cloud of shrapnel just by looking at it. It also can set stuff afire and control flames so that it or its nest isn't hurt. While flying around. It first appeared in 1st/2nd edition Dungeons and Dragons in the original Fiend Folio, and is based on the Miraj (see Literature). The very first version of the Al-mi'raj was just an ordinary, very fast, dimwitted, unpredictable rabbit that appeared in packs of 2-20 and which could deal damage as per a dagger by stabbing someone with their horn.
    • Brain moles, which absorb energy from psions to turn them into life, and which spread a psionic disease. They're not hugely lethal, but their challenge rating is still about on par with that of a level one warrior.
  • Deadlands: The Weird West features jackalopes, which are evil and carnivorous versions of the infamous "rabbits with antlers" from Wild West folklore. They kill their prey by cursing them with bad luck, then stalking them until they suffer a fatal accident.
  • GURPS IOU includes lethal versions of rats and squirrels.
  • Gamma World has a hilariously literal version with the Hoops, a race of bunnymen who "want to be the master race" and who can turn metal into rubber by touching it.
  • Warhammer 40000
    • The setting, known for a habit of Everything Trying to Kill You cropping up everywhere, brings us the Catachan Barking Toad: a large, sad-looking amphibian sometimes dubbed the "Ronery Toad". If attacked, hurt or even surprised, it explodes into a cloud of obscenely virulent toxins, killing absolutely everything for miles around and poisoning the earth so that nothing will ever grow there again.
    • The original "Rogue Trader" book for Warhammer 40K also featured the "Catachan Face Eater" a carnivorous creature that looked quite a bit like an ordinary wash cloth.
  • Plenty of the weapons in the (coincidentally-named) Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot game fall under this. Included:
    • Quite Irascible Diffractable Cheese Balls.
    • (Bitter-Sweet) Chocolate Covered Anti-Matter Raisins.
    • Europan Robotic Titanium Termites.
  • Wastits in Human Occupied Landfill a.k.a. HoL — small, cute waddling soft creatures resembling animated teddy bears that will suddenly "explode into a maw of teeth the diameter of a whale's privates". For added fun, until they attack they're almost indistinguishable from wastems, completely harmless creatures that are the primary food source of HoL's inhabitants.
  • Most of the creatures that Shadowrun's shapeshifters start out as are pretty dangerous on their own (lions, bears, eagles, etc.), but a fox magician character can lead to a cute little ten-pound fox hurling fireballs.

Toys

  • The Werebears toys were seemingly adorable teddy bears with reversible heads and paws that would reveal their "nasty" face when turned inside out.

Web Animation

  • The Bunnykill web animation series. A liberal exercise in the trope of Killer Rabbitry (and Katanas Are Just Better).
  • The Metal Gear Solid short "Crab Battle!", where Naked Snake gets his ass handed to him by a Kenyan Mangrove Crab.
  • Happy Tree Friends has several small animals that are for some reason vicious. Whistle, the man-eating puppy, a man-eating baby turtle, and a flock of man-eating ducks have all appeared. Plus, well, most of the cast.
  • This short animated film Red where Little Red Riding Hood refuses the advances of the wolf (who looks like a slightly feral child wearing a wolf costume) after spilling the cakes she was going to bring to her grandmother. After leaving brokenhearted, Red encounters a unicorn-horned rabbit, which she hugs (not noticing the evil toothed grin it makes before mutating into a bear-sized horned monster that was ready to devour Red before the wolf comes back in time to save the day.

Notes

  1. ↑ It's not a rodent, it's a lagomorph!
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