Killer Rabbit

LOOK AT THE BONES!

"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

It's small. It's fluffy. It's adorable. But if you get on its bad side, your death will be swift and painful. Beware the cute ones.

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. Particularly devastating ones can even be Instakill Mooks. 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 & 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 by default.

This trope is pervasive enough that if any of the Standard Fantasy 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.

Psycho Poodle is another subtrope of this.

If it has a scary name, but not a scary demeanor (such as Tasmanian devils), it's Deathbringer the Adorable. If it's scary-looking but innocent, it might be a Cute Monster.

Compare: Happy Fun Ball, Beware the Nice Ones, Pint-Sized Powerhouse, The Catfish, Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, Cute, but Cacophonic, Badass Adorable, Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom, Cute Creature, Creepy Mouth, 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 Paper Tiger, which looks menacing but is virtually harmless.

Not to be confused with Kill da Wabbit.

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Other examples:

Advertising

• The Chainsaw Ferret Massacre Mountain.
• The Bud Ice Penguins.
• This Fruitsnackia commercial, "Claw Machine" involves Larry trying to win a cute plush toy for his girlfriend Gigi after failing to impress her with the high striker. However, the machine comes to life and puts Larry inside it. He then gets squeezed and fed to the plush toys that turn out to be violent little monsters.

Art

• Laser Kiwi flag: The flag features an adorable kiwi that would be assumed harmless. However, this kiwi is shown to be a major threat due to the lasers it shoots from its eyes.

Blogs

• Hamster's Paradise has the Harmsters, a race of sapient rodents that look like adorable long-tailed Ewoks— who also revel in war, genocide and cannibalism and are an entire race of sadistic, sociopathic psychos who take great joy in the act of killing.

Card Games

• Magic: The Gathering: There are a number of "cute" creatures who boast power enough to be playable, with some even appearing at the tournament level:
  • Deranged Hermit summons four 1/1 squirrel tokens when it enters play.
  • Squirrel Nest enchants a land so that when you tap it, you put a 1/1 squirrel token into play. Not a bad way to ensure that you always have a "chump blocker" ready to play.
  • Jackalope Herd is a 4/5 creature for a mere 4 mana, but has the drawback of being returned to your hand if you play a spell. Naturally, clever players have found a way to turn this into an advantage — if it gets hit with removal, just cast whatever utility spell you have handy to snatch it back to your hand. Alternatively, use its "drawback" in conjunction with post-attack spellcasting to give it a sort of jury-rigged "vigilance" ability.
  • Most sets feature a 1/1 for 1 Mana (usually black or green) with the Deathtouch ability. This means that the creature has the smallest possible statline that can deal damage, but the single damage it deals will kill anything not specifically protected from it. This includes things like Demon Lords, Archangels, Dragons, and two out of three of the Eldrazi titans, the setting's analog of Cthulhu.
  • Vizzerdrix is a bunny/piranha. Though a 6/6 creature, its high mana cost and lack of an ability make it pretty impractical. Still, it can defeat most dragons and angels in a straight up fight.
  • The various, non-tournament-legal "Un-" sets (Unglued, Unhinged, etc.) boast a number of these cards. 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. Finally, in the Unsanctioned box set, we see Infernius Spawnington III, Esq., the grandchild of the aforementioned Infernal Spawn of Evil, who's the strongest one yet.
• Munchkin:
  • There's 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). 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.
  • The Duck of Doom. You should know better than to pick up a duck in a dungeon!
• 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.
  • Injection Fairy Lily is a adorable little fairy nurse with 400 attack points. Pay 2000 life points, and the 3000 attack points she gains will let her trounce the legendary Blue Eyes White Dragon with ease.

Comic Strips

• 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.
• Twisted Toyfare Theatre usually brings in unpopular characters in order to gruesomely kill them for a Take That!. The Ewoks, however, instead became a race of vicious, psychopathic Killer Rabbits who dismember, kill, and eat anything that crosses them. Mostly because they are little carnivores with no regards for intelligent life, from the original canon.

Fan Works

• In Naruto Genkyouien, the Kyuubi no Kitsune is revealed to be the kitsune version of a five year old, named Higashiyama Sayuri. An adorable girl, the youngest daughter of a large family of many sisters and nieces, who wouldn't have become a Kyuubi if it wasn't for Kitsune Poker Night. The rampage of destruction and the attack on Konoha? She discovered her giant fox form and chased her tails. However, she also happens to be really, really good with fire. Meaning she tends to set everything on fire or blow them up. And then there's the Pwetty Beam... She's still a little girl of course. Just a very powerful one. And clumsy...
• In a literal example from the same author as Naruto Genkyouien. The Tamers Forever Series does a very convincing job of showing BlackTerriermon to be a far more competent fighter than one would assume given his harmless-looking appearence.
  • Then there's the original Terriermon going toe to toe with Daemon during the second to last chapter.
• In Ranma ½ Fan Fic Girl Days, Nabiki got morphed into a literal bunny girl during an arc. And she was not happy about it. She rambled over killing the idiot had turned her into that, and fetched a lot of firearms to do right that. The author even reinforces the trope:
  Here the author inserts an explanation. Most people think of rabbits as cute peaceful creatures— unless they have read Watership Down.
  DOMESTIC rabbits may be that way, but wild rabbits can be quite belligerent, fight ruthlessly, and are pretty tough for something on their link of the food chain.
  And Nabiki, who would normally stay back and say that it's not her problem, was at the moment in full blown berserk wild rabbit mode.
  • Author Appeal: Kenko seems fond of this trope. In another fic of his, Paragon, Ranma describes rabbits like "Tough critters in the wild, you know, real fighters."
• Almost every spinoff of the Nuzlocke Challenge ends up with an adorable, harmless-looking, low-tier Pokemon that dishes out disproportionate amounts of hurt. A classic example is Petty's Butterfree, Lulu, who gleefully curbstomps two of Kanto's Elite Four under her own power.
• In The Black Bunny Voldemort's animagus form is a fluffy black bunny.
• In The Lion King Adventures, the wild Mambo beasts are deceptively cute critters who hunger for animal flesh.
  Simba: You can't just kill them. That's way too mean!
  Haiba: You've gotta be kidding me! They're wild Mambo beasts! They're vicious killers with a hunger for the fleshy... flesh of cubs like us.
• A Growing Affection has Sol, Hinata's preferred familiar. She is a three-foot long albino squirrel. Unlike many of the other ninja animal clans, the squirrels are more trackers, scouts, and messengers than fighters. Sol is an outcast among her (normally black furred) clan because her albinism causes her to stand out. As a result, she is even more timid and apologetic than her contractor. She also helped Hinata seal the Two-Tails Cat (to be fair, her brother, Neji, and Tenten also helped) and when her Berserk Button was pressed went toe-to-toe with an Impure World Resurrection version of Tayuya.
• In Fallout: Equestria, Angel Bunny becomes this, becoming known as "DoomBunny" to the Zebras. He even invents and regularly uses Stampede, the equivalent to Slasher.
• In The Sorting Hat's Stand one of the creatures Harry populates his mindscape with as a defensive measure is a vorpal bunny.
• In Harry Potter, Unexpected Animagus Luna's animagus form is a Very Carnivorous Rabbit.
• In Harry Potter and the Rune Stone Path Harry manages to find Luna a Crumple-Horned Snorkack, which turns out to be an adorable, docile sheep-like creature that likes to lick people. During the Final Battle the very same animal kills several of Voldemort's minions by tearing their throats out.
• We never see the battle against it, but in Sword Art Online Abridged, one of the floor bosses is "Sheeptar the Sheep King," a wall-crawling, acid-spitting nightmare.
  Kirito: We're still talking about a sheep, right? Not, like, a fluffy xenomorph?
  Asuna: It's a really stupid boss!
  Kirito: Apparently not that stupid if it killed seven of you...
  Asuna: (sigh) Twelve now, actually.
• Pokémon Reset Bloodlines makes it clear that cute/small Pokémon should not be underestimated:
  • In the Argenta Interlude, the title character's Pachirisu begins its day defeating a Garchomp, and later does the same to 398 more opponents in a row.
  • The Iris Gaiden mentions Dr. Julius Garonte, whose Sylveon (nicknamed "Princess Sparky Eyes") is confirmed to have mauled seventeen people to death.
• In Step back in time a potion mishap creates an unspecified number of vampire rabbits.
• In Deductive Thought a bunny in the Triwizard Tournament maze bites Harry on the finger when he tries petting it, then proceeds to rip open a blast-ended skrewt.
• Ruby Pair: As part of the chapter's parade of Shout Outs to Monty Python and the Holy Grail, the Beast King of "Gaols & Ghouls" turns out to be a fluffy white rabbit which is quickly revealed to be the deadliest fighter in the whole game world.
• Boldores And Boomsticks has Zwei. A cute adorable corgi from Remnant who meets Absol looking down from a pile of Grimm he'd just killed.
  Absol: Are you... sure you aren't, like, a Corgion or something?
• Voyages of the Wild Sea Horse has Shampoo, who was already a Badass Adorable, eat a Zoan-type Devil Fruit that merges with her original Jusenkyo curse to turn her into a adorable little cat-rabbit. It also amplified her Super-Strength and Super-Speed, allowing the "sweet little bunny-kitty" to dodge bullets and kick its way through the hull of a battleship.
• Ad-Owo-ble from The Arama Archives is themed around this trope. Kitcat and its army of OwOs are all themed around a "cute" emoticon and have appearances to match, but are incredibly dangerous to the point of staging a full-on invasion with massive damage dealt.

Films — Animation

• Epic (2013): Small creatures like mice for the Leafmen and presumably others like them. Also chipmunks, apparently.
• After the end credits of Finding Nemo, an anglerfish approaches a tiny fish... which then opens its jaws wide enough to swallow the angler in one gulp.
• How to Train Your Dragon (2010): The Terrible Terror: A character commented how small it was only to have his face and nose nearly ripped off by one of them. Only one while they usualy live in flocks as it can be seen later.
  • Toothless himself also qualifies. He's among the smaller species of dragon, and lacks the spines, armored skin, or long fangs or claws of species like Gronkles, Nadders, Zipplebacks, or Monstrous Nightmares, but is actually the most dangerous of all of them due to his stealth, speed, and long-ranged explosive Breath Weapon. Light furies from the third movie have all the same plus actually can become invisible and look even more cute.
• Kung Fu Panda 2: Lord Shen. He's a peacock, not something you'd expect to be a villain, but he is a genocidal would-be conqueror eager to kill anyone standing in his way and he is terrifying in personal combat.
• Lilo & Stitch: Stitch is a three foot tall, fluffy blue creature who can pass for a dog or koala (although most human characters besides Lilo consider him to be a very odd-looking one). Even when he isn't hiding his antennae and extra pair of arms, he doesn't look particularly dangerous. He's actually a genetically engineered alien superweapon designed to destroy cities, and is strong enough to stop a semi truck with his bare hands, extremely intelligent, and nearly impervious to most known forms of attack.
• Madagascar 3: Europe's Most Wanted has a group of dancing dogs in adorable outfits... that will attack anyone if they are called "cute".
• Momotaro's Sea Eagles and its sequel Momotaro's Divine Sea Warriors are military propaganda films made by Imperial Japan during World War II. They're targeted towards children, so the main characters are mostly adorable cartoon animals. The climaxes of both films involve said animals shooting, stabbing, and bayoneting Caucasian-looking, English-speaking demons. When you think about how real-life Japanese forces behaved during World War II, it becomes even more chilling.
• The title character in Rikki Tikki 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 sociopathic tendencies; it was justified to kill the cobra and his eggs to protect his owner, but it is a little dark to outright gloat about it to his widow's face (especially since preserving her family was the whole point of their attack). Then again, the taunt is as much about drawing her away from the human family as anything else.
  "And Nag was dead before the big man blew him up! I killed Nag! Come and fight with me, Nagaina!"
• A downplayed example with the Pest in Rocket Saves the Day. He isn't deadly, but he is a Ridiculously Cute Critter whose potential for mayhem is about as great as it gets for an animated movie targeted towards preschoolers.
• Strange Magic: Since the main characters are tiny fairies, even a small lizard is a kaiju to them.
• The main villain of Toy Story 3 is an adorable pink teddy bear who smells of Strawberry.
  • Sure, his name is Lotso.
• Turning Red: Fluffy and cuddly though the red panda form may be, there are several instances that remind the viewer that the form was granted to the Lee family line to be a weapon during wartime, specifically Mei nearly maiming Tyler after he pushes her too far and Ming turning into a kaiju-sized red panda and nearly levelling a stadium in the climax.
• Zootopia Judy Hopps might be a cute little bunny (just don't call her that) and is generally nice, but she is capable of knocking out a rhino during her Training Montage. She is also willing to use blackmail to gain the assistence of a reluctant witness.

Music

• The eponymous critters in the Frank Hayes filk song Little Fuzzy Animals are examples of this trope.
• "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.
• "Furever" by Marc Jungermann tells the story of a ferocious bunny with a sharp knife — thoroughly illustrated in the music video.
• "Kitten Is Angry" by Lemon Demon
• Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet near Mars, by "Weird Al" Yankovic.
• "Killa Bunnies" by Moloko is about exactly what it says in the title.
• The pink teddy bear in the music video for "Radioactive" by Imagine Dragons. It seems like it's getting curb-stomped by the monstrous stuffed gorilla like all the other living stuffed toys fighting in the arena, but then it takes it out in one glowing-energy-punch — and then destroys two human goons with Eye Beams.
• "Scuzzy Kizoozle Curl, the Homicidal Squirrel" by Hank Green.
• "Story about a Poor Blue Rabbit" describes how a child kills and eats his mother because he never wants her to leave him.

Mythology and Religion

• The Ur-Examples are marginalia in illuminated medieval manuscripts, depicting knights running away from rabbits as - yes - a sign of cowardice.
• Valak from the Ars Goetia manifests in the form of a small, innocent-looking child with wings, yet he is the Grand President of Hell.
• The Al-mi'raj, from Islamic poetry is a literal version of this... Maybe. It was given as a gift to Iskander - That is, the Arabic name for Alexander the Great - As a gift for slaying a goddamn dragon, and it was said to cause all other animals to flee on sight. This implies the Al-Mi'Raj is a very dangerous animal, but it's never actually described as fighting anything, so who knows, it might just have a defense mechanism that repulses other animals and not actually be all that dangerous after all.
• The Jackelope is another quite literal example. It looks like a jack rabbit with a tiny pair of deer antlers but eats the hearts of predators that normally eat rabbits.
• Greek Mythology had sheep with wool that shined like the sun. They were also partially carnivorous and venomous.
• Aztec Mythology's Huitzilopochtli is their god of war, conquest and sun who defeated his 400 other brothers and sisters after birth and the main reason for the religion's infamous Human Sacrifice. He's also strongly associated with the diminuitive hummingbirds — indeed, his very name means something to the effect of "Hummingbird's South/Left" — and hummingbirds on the Earth were said to be the Reincarnations of fallen warriors. The association comes from the hummingbird's energy, metabolism, and aggressive behavior defending its territory being in common with Huitzilopochtli's constant defence of his mother which required the Human Sacrifices to give him strength.

Pinball

• The Leapers in Scared Stiff, which resemble frogs but sport Lamprey Mouths and Eat the Camera when provoked.

Podcasts

• Krypto the Super Dog may be a cute white puppy, but as Plumbing the Death Star spins it, he's also an invincible, lightning-fast alien monster with the strength of a locomotive and no capacity. If anyone upset him, there'd be no way to calm him down before the amoral hound ripped out their jugular. There's a reason he gets voted the third most horrifying hero ahead of the likes of Wolverine.
• Pokémon World Tour: United: Rose's Togepi, Scramble, is as cute as any baby Pokemon could ever hope to be. It rides in Rose's backpack, acts as her secretary and keeps things organized, and is an overall Cheerful Child. However, its primary attack, Metronome, has an unsettling tendency to call upon the powers of large, imposing, and/or Legendary Pokemon. Over the course of the first act it uses attacks specific to Giratina, Mewtwo, Rayquaza, and Zygarde. Rose loves her little Scramble and sees her as an angel. Anyone else who's seen Scramble in action is just a little afraid of the power she can throw around.

Puppet Shows

• The Muppet Show: In the Alan Arkin episode, some bunnies drink Dr. Honeydew's Jekyll-Hyde potion and turn into vicious little critters that attack people.
• 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.

Radio

• Bleak Expectations: A pack of under-water squirrels, who are capable of biting arms off, and chase Pip Bin, and his aunt, across the length of Britain for revenge after Pip ate several of them.
  • Subverted with the killer sloth ("Nature's deadliest and slowest assassin!"), who is expected to violently kill Pip, his sister Pippa and best friend Harry Biscuit... only for it to remain asleep, even with the assistance of coffee. It then gets blown up along with the building it and the protagonists were in.
• In the the radio show Old Harry's 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.

Roleplay

• In The Gamer's Alliance, Plushiebunny's first form looks like a cute and harmless black rabbit. It couldn't be further from the truth as he quickly reveals that he is indeed one of the God of Beasts's deadliest creations. There are also the monsters of the woods who turn out to be pink and fluffy bunnies; they are so vicious and terrifying that they make even an archmage and a demigod flee in terror.

Sports

• The South Sydney Rabbitohs have won more premierships than any other Rugby League team in Australia. ^note  Although their mascot is indeed a rabbit, "rabbitohs" were, historically, trappers who sold freshly-killed rabbits for their meat (the name coming from their cries of solicitation) - a now long-gone occupation.
• The Pittsburgh Penguins. Penguins are not exactly known for their toughness.
  • The Youngstown State Penguins were the dominant team of The '90s on the I-AA/FCS level of Collegiate American Football.
• How exactly the Saints (New Orleans, St Kilda, Southampton) pull off a appropriately-tough brand and team image when their chosen name evokes beatific serenity, patience, and long suffering for their beliefs, is a tricky question. A few American colleges (Aquinas in Michigan, Saint Francis in Illinois, Santa Fe in Florida) even go a step further in this direction by using Saints, then having their mascot be that paragon of cuddly, Gentle Giant heroism, the Saint Bernard.
• The battle for "most kawaii college sports mascot" comes down to the Cal State Monterey Bay Sea Otters versus the Columbia College (of South Carolina) Koalas (Columbia's sports logo tries to avert High Koala-ty Cuteness, though).

Toys

• The Werebears toys were seemingly adorable teddy bears with reversible heads and paws that would reveal their "nasty" face when turned inside out.
• Aurora's Monster Scenes line of model kits featured a very fearsome-looking "sabre tooth rabbit" in a large jar as part of the Mad Scientist Laboratory kit "Gruesome Goodies."
• Fiesty Pets, which look like harmlessly cute animals at first, but when you squeeze their backs they bare their fangs and scowl.

Visual Novels

• After playing Hatoful Boyfriend to completion, Chukar partridges feel like singly terrifying little fluffy heretics.
  • Thanks to the other characters, the "Bad Boys Love" route, and the sequel Holiday Star, fantail pigeons and king quail are not far behind on the list of adorable birds that you will fear forever. Bad Boys Love reveals Yuuya and "Kazuaki" to be murderers, and Holiday Star ultimately reveals what happened to the real Nanaki Kazuaki.
• Umineko: When They Cry has the Chiester Sisters, very cute and innocent-looking rabbit girls… who can detect you, lock you on and shoot you dead with absolute precision from a kilometer away. Their arrows are homing and armor-piercing, so hiding is useless.

Web Animation

• The Bunnykill web animation series. A liberal exercise in the trope of Killer Rabbitry (and Katanas Are Just Better).
• Foof from the concept series Fuwa Fuwa Foof is a variant in that while she has a cutesy appearance that doesn't give away her past experience as a vicious criminal, she's been doing her best to be a genuinely nice person ever since she retired. Plus, she didn't try to look cute back when she was active in crime, wearing a biker outfit with skull symbols (one of which is humanly realistic rabbit skull, on the back of the jacket and used as her signature criminal symbol) and menacing-looking shades.
• 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.
• The Metal Gear Solid short "Crab Battle!", where Naked Snake gets his ass handed to him by a Kenyan Mangrove Crab.
• Ladies and Gentlemen, meet Puppy Bot, the friendly, child-sized, bulletproof axe murderer. If you survive, be sure to check out the man-eating ponies in his van.
• 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.
• Sock is an adorable ever-smiling hamster. He is also a demon that destroys an entire city with his army of monsters from hell.
• The series True Tail includes a small rabbit girl named Melody the Bard. Not only does she have a lute, she has a whole plethora of ninja daggers!

Websites

• Cracked:
  • "5 Adorable Animals That Are Turning to the Dark Side".
  • "The 6 Cutest Animals That Can Still Destroy You". Two-thirds are Australian, of course.
• 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.
• Not physically dangerous, but the subjects of the website Disapproving Rabbits can cause a severe feeling of inferiority. Especially this one.
• "Evil Animals" contest on worth1000.com got a handful of such things, including literal as a pair of "bad rabbits".
• Killerbunnies and, yes, they are literal killer bunny girls of varying ages and straddles the lines between cute, horrifying, and utmostly creepy. Some of them are rather cute or Ugly Cute and wouldn't seem like a threat, that is, until one learns the hard way.
  • Of course, This seems to be played to a hilt with Jeanne, in that while Creepy Cute, a normal person wouldn't suspect that she's dangerous, especially since some either think she is a doll or a little girl. In that vein, Valeriemissy is not someone would think twice of, until it is too late. However, that depends on whether or not she says something that one may find unsettling.
  • Reverie doesn't look too dangerous, actually, she kind of verges on being rather Creepy Cute, even with the Exotic Eye Designs and whatnot, however, she wears a biohazard symbol for a reason, as she is some kind of plaguemistress. To top it off, her backstory mentions her as being the apparent Patient Zero in a sudden rabies outbreak. What doesn't help this is that, according to her profile, she likes hugging.
• Despite its inherent emphasis on all things ugly and disgusting, from simply distasteful little critters to nightmarish Eldritch Abominations, a good number of the monsters of the Mortasheen franchise are cute enough (relatively speaking) to pass as these. Don't believe me? Check out the Chainsaw Kid. It's about as cute as a creature with a chainsaw on its face can get, but piss it off for any reason whatsoever and your internal organs will invariably end up getting rearranged.
• On the website Muse Blog, run far, far away if you see a Hot Pink Bunny. They are out to rule the world, can turn people into zombies, and can survive atomic blasts. This may or may not be where their powers come from.
• From Not Always Right, this guy's last tetanus shot was from being bitten by a duck.
• SCP Foundation:
  • SCP-247 is a tiger that appears to observers as a tiny orange-and-black kitten, and exudes a psychic effect that makes people believe it's completely harmless, even as it's eating them. Disturbingly humorous chaos ensues.
  • At first glance, SCP-524 wouldn't seem to be much of one. Though it's a literal bunny which is such an Extreme Omnivore that it will eat living flesh, it's docile and easy to escape (or pick up by the scruff of the neck) if it decides to start nibbling on you. But then you learn that SCP-682, the regenerating Omnicidal Maniac who can adapt to anything, climbed a wall to get away from it.
• As a general rule, messageboards such as Spacebattles.com generally agree that the sillier a character is, the more dangerous they are because they are not bound by the laws of reality and able to do things like shrug off nuclear explosions and swallow man-sized creatures whole. If a "wacky cartoon" character appears in Real Life, it would be considered, as an entity above and beyond the laws of physics, an Eldritch Abomination that will shatter all science but simply taking A Form You Are Comfortable With. As a result, the higher they place on a Cool Versus Awesome combat tier, and folks such as Bugs Bunny and Kirby are described as being able to Curb-Stomp Battle more (relatively) "realistic" characters like Space Marines, Jedi or Master Chief.

Web Video

• In Epic NPC Man, Ben is taken down by a cute little mouse in the "Danger Music" episode. In one of the Muggers' segments, the Honeywood muggers trick their rivals into mugging a chicken, inciting all the other chickens in town to dogpile the rivals and take them apart.
• "Honey badger don't care. Honey badger don't give a shit"
• According to this video, mocking the pug of Tess Masazza of the Italian Web Series Insopportabilmente Donna is a bad idea and immediately leads to a Disproportionate Retribution.
• Left POOR Dead: In this case Mr Snuffles who counts as a Killer Teddy Bear.
• Origins SMP: On the surface, Tubbo is perhaps one of the most innocent-looking members of the server, as his Origin is a Bumblebee, and his initial skin put him in a striped sweater, dungarees with a bee on the front, and fluffy bee slippers (at least, before his Evil Costume Switch in Season 3). However, Tubbo regularly kills people for fun, and has plans to become the server's main villain.

Other

• The unofficial mascot "Commie Bunny" for China's armed forces is a rabbit, because Tǔgòng (土共; "Rural Communists") can be seen as a pun of tù, "rabbit" (兔). There has been a web series on China's modern history Call of the Rabbit: Modern Communism which depicts China as a rabbit while all other countries used more traditional animal stereotypes.

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"Aaaaaawwwwww, look at the cute little AAAAH OH GOD MY ARM IT ATE MY ARM OH GOD THE PAIN!"

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