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"Shirotabi, my friends over there think you're a rabbit serial killer. And in the movies, this would be the part where I foolishly trust you not to kill me, and stick my hand in the cage."
— Mio Imai, Ghost Stories English dub
Comic Books
"Cuddly widdle bears of death!?"
— Tabitha Smith, Nextwave
Fan Works
"Allow me to introduce myself... I am Illyasviel Von Einzbern. My family refers to me as 'Tiny Murder Machine.'"
"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."
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."
"Oh, I've always liked rabbits. Tough critters in the wild, you know, real fighters. Besides, dogs are too much trouble, compared to rabbits."
Asuna: Sheeptar the Sheep King, your reign is at an end...
Klein: If that thing hadn't already killed seven of us, I'd say this is a really stupid boss.
[...]
Asuna: Sooo... how is your day goin'? You're lookin' pretty relaxed there, buddy.
Kirito: Ah, pretty good. This grass feels amazing...
Asuna: Cool, cool. You, uh, you wanna know what I did today?
Kirito: Not particularly, but I suspect that wasn't a real question-
Asuna: I WAS FIGHTING GOD-DAMNED SHEEPTAR!! It was great! You shoulda been there! He was climbin' the walls, spittin' acid-
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.
Klein: If that thing hadn't already killed seven of us, I'd say this is a really stupid boss.
[...]
Asuna: Sooo... how is your day goin'? You're lookin' pretty relaxed there, buddy.
Kirito: Ah, pretty good. This grass feels amazing...
Asuna: Cool, cool. You, uh, you wanna know what I did today?
Kirito: Not particularly, but I suspect that wasn't a real question-
Asuna: I WAS FIGHTING GOD-DAMNED SHEEPTAR!! It was great! You shoulda been there! He was climbin' the walls, spittin' acid-
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.
Sophie, narrating the fight: Skitty's gonna do a hit.
Kai: Hyper Beam.
Sophie: Actually... yeah, so, that hits. Skitty does Hyper Beam for eight damage. You see Kabutops just launch back and sets a little ways away from both of you guys. Skitty is now in the battle and she's backing you guys up. She's in front of the cave where Soren and Abbie are and she's guarding them.
Parker: Dear... God.
Kai: What the fuck?
Kai: Hyper Beam.
Sophie: Actually... yeah, so, that hits. Skitty does Hyper Beam for eight damage. You see Kabutops just launch back and sets a little ways away from both of you guys. Skitty is now in the battle and she's backing you guys up. She's in front of the cave where Soren and Abbie are and she's guarding them.
Parker: Dear... God.
Kai: What the fuck?
— Mystery Dungeon with Critical Chaos
, Episode 1. For reference, Skitty is a two-foot-tall cat and Hyper Beam is Pokemon's take on the Wave-Motion Gun* .
, Episode 1. For reference, Skitty is a two-foot-tall cat and Hyper Beam is Pokemon's take on the Wave-Motion Gun* .Zelda: Up until the first Great Calamity, there's not much more detail than 'King Rauru and Queen Sonia', 'Imprisoning War', 'Settlement of Necluda', 'Mapping of Hebra and Akkala', 'Cucco War', 'Golden Age of the Sheikah'."
Link: I'm sorry, what was that about the cuccos?
Zelda: But that's just it. We don't know what that was about the cuccos, because there's not enough information. All we know is that at some point, Hyrule 'fought a war' against cuccos. And lost, apparently.
Link: I'm sorry, what was that about the cuccos?
Zelda: But that's just it. We don't know what that was about the cuccos, because there's not enough information. All we know is that at some point, Hyrule 'fought a war' against cuccos. And lost, apparently.
Film - Animated
Gobber: Meet the Terrible Terror.
(camera pans down to a chihuahua-sized dragon)
Tuffnut: Ha! It's like the size of my- OHHHH GET IT OFF!
(camera pans down to a chihuahua-sized dragon)
Tuffnut: Ha! It's like the size of my- OHHHH GET IT OFF!
Film - Live-Action
Tim the Enchanter: Behold! The Cave of Caerbannog!
King Arthur: Right. Keep me covered.
Sir Galahad: What with?
Arthur: ...Just keep me covered.
Tim: Too late! (Scare Chord) There it is!
Arthur: Where?
Tim: There! (points at a white rabbit)
Arthur: What, behind the rabbit?
Tim: It is the rabbit.
Arthur: (beat) You silly sod!
Tim: Wot?
Arthur: You got us all worked up!
Tim: Well that's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
Sir Robin: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
Tim: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Galahad: Get stuffed!
Tim: He'll do you up a treat, mate!
Galahad: Oh yeah?
Robin: You manky Scots git!
Tim: I'm warning you!
Robin: What's he do, nibble your bum?
Tim: He's got huge, sharp... he can leap about... look at the bones!
Arthur: C'mon Bors, chop its head off.
Sir Bors: Right, silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew, comin' right up!
(Bors dons his helmet and marches towards the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog)
Tim: Look!
(Scare Chord as the rabbit squeaks and tears Bors' head off in a single pounce)
Arthur: JAY-SUS CHRIST!!
Tim: I warned you!
Robin: I've done it again!
King Arthur: Right. Keep me covered.
Sir Galahad: What with?
Arthur: ...Just keep me covered.
Tim: Too late! (Scare Chord) There it is!
Arthur: Where?
Tim: There! (points at a white rabbit)
Arthur: What, behind the rabbit?
Tim: It is the rabbit.
Arthur: (beat) You silly sod!
Tim: Wot?
Arthur: You got us all worked up!
Tim: Well that's no ordinary rabbit! That's the most foul, cruel and bad-tempered rodent you ever set eyes on!
Sir Robin: You tit! I soiled my armor I was so scared!
Tim: Look, that rabbit's got a vicious streak a mile wide! It's a killer!
Galahad: Get stuffed!
Tim: He'll do you up a treat, mate!
Galahad: Oh yeah?
Robin: You manky Scots git!
Tim: I'm warning you!
Robin: What's he do, nibble your bum?
Tim: He's got huge, sharp... he can leap about... look at the bones!
Arthur: C'mon Bors, chop its head off.
Sir Bors: Right, silly little bleeder. One rabbit stew, comin' right up!
(Bors dons his helmet and marches towards the Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog)
Tim: Look!
(Scare Chord as the rabbit squeaks and tears Bors' head off in a single pounce)
Arthur: JAY-SUS CHRIST!!
Tim: I warned you!
Robin: I've done it again!
"Pathetic? He's Hitler with a tail! This is The Omen with whiskers! Nostradamus didn't see this thing coming!"
— Ernie, MouseHunt
"Attention! Attention! Ladies and gentlemen, attention! There is a herd of killer rabbits headed this way and we desperately need your help!"
— Officer Lopez, Night of the Lepus
Literature
"Haymitch had his own troubles over in the woods, where the fluffy golden squirrels turned out to be carnivorous and attacked in packs, and the butterfly stings brought agony if not death."
— Katniss Everdeen, Catching Fire
Live-Action TV
Clarkson: That is a, um, rabbit. I think it's going to attack me, look, it's poised.
(camera focuses on a hare frozen and wide-eyed with terror)
May: It's very tame.
Clarkson: It isn't tame, it's never seen a Lancia Beta coupe before and it's stunned.
May: To be honest, I was pretty scared when I saw it. Why doesn't it just run off?
Clarkson: What if it leaps up and bites my throat out?
May: I'll laugh.
(camera focuses on a hare frozen and wide-eyed with terror)
May: It's very tame.
Clarkson: It isn't tame, it's never seen a Lancia Beta coupe before and it's stunned.
May: To be honest, I was pretty scared when I saw it. Why doesn't it just run off?
Clarkson: What if it leaps up and bites my throat out?
May: I'll laugh.
— Top Gear goes to Africa and is slightly disappointed by the quality of its wildlife encounters
Tabletop Games
"Amusingly enough, I once had [an Exalted] game where I had a rating 5 familiar listed on my sheet. When the other players asked what it was, I didn't tell them. When they saw that I carried a hamster with me, they laughed, and thought my Familiar was something else...
Well, right up until they saw the hamster rip an ocean dragon to shreds."
Well, right up until they saw the hamster rip an ocean dragon to shreds."
— Poster Nocte ex Mortis, this thread
"Suffer the little creatures, for they may yet rise up and beat you senseless."
"It's surprising how well cute and vicious go together."
— Squirrel token card, Magic: The Gathering
Video Games
"What a cute little girl."
Firion: She has the appearance of a child.
Tidus: And the aura of something from your nightmares.
Tidus: And the aura of something from your nightmares.
— Dissidia Final Fantasy NT, also on Shantotto.
"I think they are deadly poisonous Zanzibar hamsters."
— Yozef Norden, Metal Gear 2: Solid Snake
"But what about Li'l Judd? I'm not sure I trust him. That sweet angelic smile unnerves me. It's always the cute ones, you know..."
— Marina, Splatoon 2
"Its friendly face, its easy stride—
That's all a front. Let me be blunt;
It leaves you with nowhere to hide."
— Agent 8 on the Autobomb, Splatoon 2: Octo Expansion
Webcomics
Gabe: Don't just run over there and attack it. We should check him out first.
Gailgwynnych: It's a rabbit. Look how big I am. I'm huge. Plus, I've got this sword. I think I can handle a fucking rodent, you pussy...
(the big guy walks offscreen, but...)
Gailgwynnych: (offscreen) What are you doing? Help me! Cast a spell or something! HE IS THE RUINER OF WORLDS!
(later)
Kara: Did you help him?
Gabe: No. It turns out it was the king of all rabbits, indeed of all rabbit-kind. Their lord. The single template from which all other rabbits were wrought.
Gailgwynnych: It's a rabbit. Look how big I am. I'm huge. Plus, I've got this sword. I think I can handle a fucking rodent, you pussy...
(the big guy walks offscreen, but...)
Gailgwynnych: (offscreen) What are you doing? Help me! Cast a spell or something! HE IS THE RUINER OF WORLDS!
(later)
Kara: Did you help him?
Gabe: No. It turns out it was the king of all rabbits, indeed of all rabbit-kind. Their lord. The single template from which all other rabbits were wrought.
Godhound: Do not attempt to run, little morsel! We are Godhounds and we can smell fear! (sniffs) Oh! It's me!
Bun-bun: (Ka-click) I'm counting to three. Onetwothree.
Bun-bun: (Ka-click) I'm counting to three. Onetwothree.
"Tell the ultimate bio-weapon to stop licking you."
— Ervoth von Lucifuge, Starslip Crisis
Web Original
"What kind of mocking God created creatures with poofy ears and big black noses that don't want belly rubs?"
— Lore Sjoberg, The Book Of Ratings, "Marsupials"
, "Marsupials""This is an animal so deliriously ridiculous, biologists refused to believe it could possibly be anything but an elaborate hoax when it was first discovered. To put this in perspective, these exact same biologists believed that rotting meat spontaneously generated maggots and saw nothing wrong with pouring liquid heroin down babies' throats. Platypi are that ridiculous. [...] The platypus is mother nature's way of saying, "I made this thing out of spare parts I found on the workshop floor, and it can still fucking cripple you.""
— Alex Levinton of Cracked, "The Six Cutest Creatures That Can Still Destroy You"
Web Video
"ARE YOU INSANE!?! A knife is useless against those massive claws! They could rip a tank apart! Jesus Christ!"
— Naked Snake, in a fatal encounter with a Kenyan Mangrove Crab, Crab Battle
"Don't twitch at me, buddy! I don't even have a name for you, yet! And I don't think it's within my right to name you!"
"They've even got pictures, and the books certainly do tell you that they're sadistic fish fuckers who will pump 1.21 gigawatts right up your ass. I don't even have an excuse here. I still can't believe it. I have no memory of this, and I've read the instruction books! ...And yeah, in the Ultima wiki it says seahorses in Runes of Virtue have no interest in starting a fight with you — but by God, they will fucking FINISH it."
it says seahorses in Runes of Virtue have no interest in starting a fight with you — but by God, they will fucking FINISH it."— Noah Antwiler on Ultima: Runes of Virtue
"Fun fact, every Kirby fan is afraid of butterflies. That's part of the canon."
— AntDude talking about Morpho Knight in Kirby and the Forgotten Land
Western Animation
"You should have hacked it to pieces when it was still adorable!"
— Marceline, after the Dimple Plant becomes a giant mutated monster, Adventure Time
Honeybee: How did a moose even get in here?!
Moon: Oh, moose can get in anywhere. Last fall, one got into the school gym during a basketball game.
Ham: He made the winning basket and then nearly killed the coach.
Wolf: Yeah, moose are super dangerous, my love.
Honeybee: But they're so big and cute, like Jason Momoa.
Wolf: I find him more brutally handsome than cute, but...
Moon: Oh, moose can get in anywhere. Last fall, one got into the school gym during a basketball game.
Ham: He made the winning basket and then nearly killed the coach.
Wolf: Yeah, moose are super dangerous, my love.
Honeybee: But they're so big and cute, like Jason Momoa.
Wolf: I find him more brutally handsome than cute, but...
[Two Pyrithian swamp gobblers—terrifying-looking creatures with scythes on their forearms—notice a moopsy, an absolutely adorable cat-like marshmallow thing, roaming free, and begin to instinctively cower in fear]
Narj: Hm? [does a Double Take and begins to freak out] Oh, f**k! The moopsy is free!
Mariner: Oh, no, your cuddliest prisoner is loose. Whatever shall we do?
Narj: You don't understand! Everything here is incredibly dangerous!
Moopsy: [shoves a drain grate aside and enters the swamp gobblers' enclosure] Moopsy.
Ransom: Can't be worse than the swamp gobblers.
Narj: Of course it's worse! They only gobble you; the moopsy drinks your bones!
Narj: Hm? [does a Double Take and begins to freak out] Oh, f**k! The moopsy is free!
Mariner: Oh, no, your cuddliest prisoner is loose. Whatever shall we do?
Narj: You don't understand! Everything here is incredibly dangerous!
Moopsy: [shoves a drain grate aside and enters the swamp gobblers' enclosure] Moopsy.
Ransom: Can't be worse than the swamp gobblers.
Narj: Of course it's worse! They only gobble you; the moopsy drinks your bones!
