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Circus of Fear

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Circus of Fear	comment	Overnight, the circus came to town. But something's wrong — very wrong. The ringmaster is abusing the animals and performers, and the circus music, which should be cheerful, seems menacing. The attractions (especially The Freakshow) seem off, the cotton candy is a sickly shade of green, the knife thrower doesn't miss, and the clowns... well, the less said about the clowns the better. And people are disappearing, either consumed by or turned into the circus denizens. This trope is the brother to The Little Shop That Wasn't There Yesterday, and often used in context with freaks, providing instances of either Red Right Hand or The Grotesque. A common variation on the theme is a killer amusement park, with homicidal costumed mascots and a fun house that's anything but. If it's in a video game, expect a roller coaster that acts an awful lot like a mine cart. Something Wicked This Way Comes, a novella written by Ray Bradbury and published in 1962 and turned into a movie in 1983, is a big inspiration for this trope, although the 1919 movie The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is probably the Trope Maker. Not to be confused with Carnival of Killers, which is when you have multiple mercenaries targeting one character. Of course, you never know, maybe the circus has fallen on hard times and needs a way to fund their mayhem.
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Circus of Fear / int_1331990c	comment	Puella Magi Madoka Magica: While most Witches hide in their barriers when they strike, Walpurgisnacht doesn't need to, likely due to her sheer power. As such, she and her familiars travel the world like a delirious circus troupe. Various trained animals pull Walpurgisnacht using strings of circus flags, and a personal army of clowns usually dance around the stage-setting Witch herself, who doubles as both the fire-breather and the apparent ringleader.
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Circus of Fear / int_17479864	comment	Something Wicked This Way Comes. Its carnival is strongly implied to thrive on fear and unhappiness.
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Circus of Fear / int_17c40956	comment	The first level of Dark Chronicle had one of these coming to Max's town, which culminated in a boss fight against the deranged clown Ringmaster and his pet elephant, Linda. And then he chases you onto a train and throws bombs at you until the whole train derails.
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Circus of Fear / int_19d0dcbb	comment	Mystery Case Files sets two of its games, Madame Fate and Fate's Carnival, in the titular Madame Fate's Carnival. The detective is tasked to investigate the death of Madame Fate herself and a curse that's engulfed her carnival.
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Circus of Fear / int_1be75747	comment	After the bus crash in Jack the Reaper, the teens find themselves next to a carnival in the middle of the desert. When they get there, all of the rides are lit up but the carnival is deserted.
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Circus of Fear / int_1cf99246	comment	The Carnivora from Ravenor is a Roman-style circus where gladiators fight to the death as the main event, while acrobats perform death-defying stunts without safety nets and drugged clowns get eaten alive by alien beasts as sideshows. Ravenorâ€™s people infiltrate the Carnivora as part of their investigation into the flect trade, getting into fights with some of the staff and beasts in the process.
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Circus of Fear / int_1de053b5	comment	Cyber Six: Jose's mechanical circus seems pretty cool to the audience but is actually an elaborate death drap for the titular character. Of course if you get out of line, like Lucas does, you get taken to the back and thrown to a massive two-headed robotic snake.
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Circus of Fear / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	A young Hellboy ran off one day and found one of these. It was run by one "A.T. Roth".
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Circus of Fear / int_1f920fe3	comment	In Spider-Man Noir, Norman "The Goblin" Osborn recruited his inner circle from the circus freak show. The Vulture was a geek who had become more animal than man, Kraven was an animal tamer, the Chameleon had the uncanny ability to alter his facial features, Ox was a strongman, Montana did rope tricks, and Fancy Dan was a promoter. As it turns out, Norman himself was a refugee from the same freak-show, where he had been put on display since childhood as "the Goblin" because of his thick, green, scaly skin. He hides it under a latex mask nowadays.
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Circus of Fear / int_20e8e9bd	comment	Also, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 had Carnival Night Zone. The music could be described as very catchy, and that damn barrel...
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Circus of Fear / int_22d74b2e	comment	Redwall's Slagar the Cruel runs a traveling show which seems perfectly benign (except that all the performers are weasels and stoats). The show is used to distract the good guys while a performer drugs their drinks and Slagar himself hypnotizes them, and when they wake up the "show" has vanished, taking their children with it.
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Circus of Fear / int_22e5872a	comment	Donkey Kong Country: This is the theme of two levels in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, the world Krazy Kremland. Interestingly, these circus levels have nice music, and a fun Minecart Madness design. However, levels in the same section of the game, including the boss fight, take place inside a giant beehive, which serves to show just how run down (or possibly deliberately dangerous) the park is. The Seal Pompy the Presumptuous in Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze is fought in one set up by the Snomads.
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Circus of Fear / int_2649580f	comment	In the Horseshoes and Hand Grenades sidestory Month of Sundays, Damballa transforms the Narumi Detective Agency into this and the main attractions just happen to be the fighting of Creepy Doll versions of three different Kamen Riders.
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Circus of Fear / int_2a826df6	comment	The Pale Moon clan of Cardfight!! Vanguard is less grisly than most other examples on the page, appearing to all intents and purposes a regular circus run by fetish-appealing performers, but these staff are monsters, the circus animals are chimera, and one stronger performer of note is a giant Uncanny Valley Girl. And considering they're also all top tier assassins for the Dark Zone Nation...
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Circus of Fear / int_2a8d8e6f	comment	In season three of Gotham, Jerome Valeska, a captain ersatz of the Joker who was actually raised in a circus, uses his followers to take over the carnival grounds in Gotham. He dresses as the ringmaster of a circus while his followers dress in clown-themed clothing, and they kidnap normal citizens of Gotham so they can kill and torture them by making them participate in deadly carnival games for their own amusement. Like the version of the Joker in The Dark Knight, Jerome is a straw nihilist who believes that everyone is just as terrible of a person as he is deep down, and he actually inspires some of his followers to turn on their neighbors and family members during this carnival.
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Circus of Fear / int_2af72b92	comment	The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is probably the Trope Maker. Caligari sets up a weird carnival show with his cabinet, which contains a semi-comatose sleepwalker who can, apparently, tell your fortune from his dreams. By night, the sleepwalker sneaks out into town to murder his master's enemies. The whole movie is dripping with a surreal, highly-stylized atmosphere.
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Circus of Fear / int_2b70efd4	comment	The Old World of Darkness has the Midnight Circus, a wandering circus of horrors and evil that eventually got its own sourcebook to reveal its secrets. It's literally packed with every kind of monster that exists in the World of Darkness, from vampires to werebeasts to faeries to Formori to witches to full-fledged demons. All of them are either evil, or so deformed and horrific that they have nowhere else to go. To put this in perspective, a Midnight Circus member who almost qualifies as a Token Good Teammate would be "Tub of Flesh", a Nosferatu who had the misfortune of falling into the hands of Sascha Vyskos. Consequently, whilst he deeply loves children and strives to protect them, he's basically a roiling mass of semi-liquid purple-black flesh that constantly forms and reabsorbs eyes and fanged mouths. And even then, he's still a vicious killer when he needs to be, and he has to feed on blood. That's right, one of the nicest members of the Midnight Circus is a blood-drinking Shoggoth-expy with a soft spot for kids. In the New World of Darkness, Vampire: The Requiem gives us the vampiric bloodline called the Carnival. Every last vampire of the bloodline bears a circus-freak deformity (their founder suffered from sirenalia, and was billed as "the Andalusian Mermaid"), and they often act as traveling or static carnivals, the better to hide in plain sight.
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Circus of Fear / int_2bb4ae0f	comment	Heroes headed in this direction in their final season. The season opened with the role of primary antagonists falling on a group of carnies, led by a man named Samuel who injected ink into people and manipulated it inside their bodies along with creating earthquakes and manipulating earth. In the end it turns out this is a subverted trope as the carnival was a protected home for people with powers where they could openly be themselves. Most of the carnies aren't really evil, just misguided by Samuel. He was manipulating them to give him more power. The carnies were just looking for an safe haven to openly use their abilities and earn a living.
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Circus of Fear / int_2cfe43cb	comment	G-rated example: The 54th album of Adventures in Odyssey features a carnival that is a front for a counterfeiting ring.
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Circus of Fear / int_2fc1b0a1	comment	The Tumblr-based webcomic Circus of Freaks is about two Victorian-era circus brats who join a freak show, with the impending doom that the two of them, who are able-bodied, will be mutilated into curiosities.
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Circus of Fear / int_3084658b	comment	There's also the circus setting for the third boss (Chortlebot) in Wario Land: Shake It!, although it's only ever used as a battle arena against said Monster Clown.
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Circus of Fear / int_31e24f1e	comment	Oddly enough, this has been mostly averted with The Joker in later live action outings—though he does come close in Batman (1989).
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Circus of Fear / int_32a01588	comment	Pinocchio: The Coachman locks about half the boys-turned-donkeys in crates that appear to be heading for a circus (the others are heading for the salt mines).
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Circus of Fear / int_33fd862c	comment	Battle Beast: The titular circus from "Circus of Doom" is frightening at first glance, but ultimately the biggest victims are the performers.
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Circus of Fear / int_3420647	comment	The game of Caraval takes place at night, giving it a bit of a spooky, mysterious atmosphere. Participants can never really be sure whom to trust, or whether anything that happens is real or an illusion. Some people have even gone mad or died while playing the game.
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Circus of Fear / int_34a70b48	comment	Batman Forever: Two-Face's goons dress up as two-sided clowns when they attack the circus.
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Circus of Fear / int_34fd3cf6	comment	Aqua Teen Hunger Force: In "Circus," Shake sells Meatwad to the circus for $2. Other acts include "Inside-out Boy," and the show does not go well for anyone, especially the audience.
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Circus of Fear / int_368a5a3b	comment	Also from Batman, in Batman and Robin (2009), the first arc features an evil circus troupe led by the Nightmare Fuel-inducing Professor Pyg. In the second issue, the new Robin visits the actual circus, and more Nightmare Fuel starts when he is attacked by Professor Pyg's masked henchmen. Pyg's major underlings all resemble sideshow freaks, as well, including a grossly overweight bearded lady in a tutu and a human flame act who can burn others but not himself.
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Circus of Fear / int_370a322b	comment	Loonatics Unleashed: One episodes has a circus where Mix-and-Match Critters are made and used to perform.
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Circus of Fear / int_37a15a81	comment	Nick Harkaway's The Gone-Away World subverts this by having a circus help and support the good guys.
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Circus of Fear / int_37b56f7	comment	Baldur's Gate II: The circus in Waukeen's Promenade starts out normal — until their disgruntled illusionist Kalah uses powers gained from some kind of an implied Deal with the Devil to turn the inside of the tent into a weird personal world of his own that is Bigger on the Inside and that no-one can escape until he is defeated.
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Circus of Fear / int_3ebfb0e1	comment	Okay, so it's a carnival, but Tokkentakker's little three-ring terror ride that is the basis of CarnEvil certainly fits the bill, complete with demonic floating clown head.
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Circus of Fear / int_3fc75903	comment	In Circus of Horrors, a plastic surgeon must beat a hasty retreat to France when one of his patients has ghastly problems with her surgery. Once there, he operates on a circus owner's daughter, deformed by bombs from the war. Later he becomes the owner of the circus, and continues transforming disfigured women into the beautiful stars of his show. The police and a nosy reporter (as well as Scotland Yard) become interested when the women who want out of the circus begin dying in freak accidents, and they begin suspecting the good doctor is responsible.
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Circus of Fear / int_40516fcb	comment	The Circus of Doctor Lao, the one novel by Charles G. Finney. One amazing novel.
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Circus of Fear / int_42ef3233	comment	Once you enter The Amazing Digital Circus, you can never leave, you lose your memories, you are trapped in the body of a wacky character, and you can't even die. The AI that runs the circus will try to help you stay sane by giving you "adventures" to do, but isn't very good at it, and if you lose your mind, you'll permanently turn into a glitched-up monster. As described by the show's creator, Gooseworx, it's like "I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream" set in a twisted Sugar Bowl.
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Circus of Fear / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: SCP-1323 ("A County Fair"). This appears to be a carnival run by The Fair Folk. Customers have to buy tickets by paying things like a cherished memory, or (ominously vague) "a favor", and anyone who eats food there has a 17% chance of staying there permanently as an employee. Herman Fuller's Circus of the Disquieting; the performers found by the SCP Foundation, while creepy, are pretty friendly (and mostly maltreated), but the Man With The Upside-down Face they keep mentioning is decidedly not. And the Repulsive Ringmaster, Herman Fuller himself, is friendly on the outside only. Also described as a little big top that wasn't there yesterday in a tale. After Herman is kicked out of the circus it actually becomes a much nicer place. While it is still a horror-themed circus that employs actual monsters and engages in some morally-gray actions, it has become more of a Rag Tag Bunch Of Misfits that just wants to entertain.
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Circus of Fear / int_43a9c333	comment	In the Cowboy Bebop episode "Pierrot le Fou", Spike faces off against Mad Pierrot in a creepy circus inspired by Batman: The Animated Series. It's also called Space Land and can be seen as a mockery of Bebop itself.
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Circus of Fear / int_43d5d8e7	comment	In the 2013 Broadway revival of Pippin, the Show Within a Show "Pippin, His Life and Times" is specifically being performed by a circus troupe (with performers from the Real Life Canadian troupe Les 7 Doigts de la Main). The reason it's this trope is that over the course of the production, particularly in the second act, matters become increasingly disturbing until the Grand Finale - where the players try to convince Pippin to commit a dramatic suicide in order to be "Extraordinary". When he refuses, the Lead Player becomes hostile and takes away the "magical illusions" of the show and he and the company encourage members of the audience to come and take Pippin's place. Because "we're right inside in your heads!".
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Circus of Fear / int_48c2633f	comment	The Peabody-Ozymandias Traveling Circus & Oddity Emporium of the eponymous novella in the Repairman Jack universe by F. Paul Wilson serves as this. Peabody is more or less a regular owner of a circus, but Ozymandias's freaks bear an otherworldly taint.
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Circus of Fear / int_49ad83ee	comment	In World of Warcraft: The Darkmoon Faire is a recurring event, and definitely qualifies for this trope. It is most assuredly not a wholesome thing; much of the staff is undead, the colours are flatly ugly, the designs on the tents are disturbing, and then there are the quests. With patch 4.3, it gets even creepier, as you now go to Darkmoon Island. When you enter the portal, you end up in a very ominous forest with gnarled, apparently dead trees. The signs that point you to the fair mention "ignoring the eyes" in the forest. There was some mention of never wandering too far into the woods... And if you decide to look around you might find some cages filled with humanoid skeletons, and a forsaken woman selling some rather questionable meat products. Then there's that all-seeing eye at the entry gate that looks a lot like it belongs to one of the raid bosses... and the NPC who stumbles over his words as he almost says that the Master would be interested in certain items. It is very heavily implied that the Faire is related to the Big Bad of that expansion. And then there's a Killer Rabbit based on the trope codifier. There's also a Darkmoon Eye collectible battle pet that is a dead ringer for the Eye of Sauron.
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Circus of Fear / int_49ff762	comment	Torchwood series 2 had the carnival performers known as the Night Travellers in "From Out of the Rain", who stole the souls of their audience members.
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Circus of Fear / int_4a10891d	comment	Circus Days features Spike joining a circus, after having a falling out with Twilight and friends. The circus actually seems great at first... till Spike's all alone and learns it's actually a front for poachers, who intend to make the little dragon their next trophy.
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Circus of Fear / int_4a3a41cc	comment	Serenity Falls from James A. Moore is a horror trilogy about the titular cursed town. After a number of horrific supernatural events, it climaxes with the sinister necromantic Circus of the Fantastic coming to Serenity Falls for revenge.
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Circus of Fear / int_4ae83f56	comment	An episode of the Flash series Xombie had Dirge and Zoe fighting a horde of zombie clowns in an abandoned amusement park, while Dirge's undead dog Cerberus faced off against a zombie tiger.
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Circus of Fear / int_4d48667e	comment	This is the theme of two levels in Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest, the world Krazy Kremland. Interestingly, these circus levels have nice music, and a fun Minecart Madness design. However, levels in the same section of the game, including the boss fight, take place inside a giant beehive, which serves to show just how run down (or possibly deliberately dangerous) the park is.
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Circus of Fear / int_4d6be05a	comment	Chargeman Ken!: As the episode's title implies, the circus in "The Devil's Circus" is not a good one. It's actually led by Jurals who disguise themselves as circus performers to kill Ken. At one point, they even unleash the lions upon the audience!
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Circus of Fear / int_4ea89245	comment	The movie Waxwork is about a group of teenagers coming across an evil wax museum.
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Circus of Fear / int_5030d3bb	comment	A.I.: Artificial Intelligence and its "Flesh Fair": a traveling circus-like event where obsolete Mecha are destroyed before jeering crowds who hate Mecha, believing them to be both dangerous and a cause of human unemployment.
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Circus of Fear / int_5063d8b4	comment	Pinocchio and the Emperor of the Night: A circus mysteriously appears from the ground in the middle of the night, hinted to be a creation by Sat-er, "the Emperor of the Night" themselves. Pinocchio in this version of the classic tale also takes a visit to this carnival, where after seeing Twinkle, a puppet belonging to the puppetmaster, Puppetino, who called her "The most beautiful puppet in the world", he becomes love-struck by her, loses his judgement and directly falls into Puppetino's scheme, being trapped in an Involuntary Dance as he turns poor Pinocchio right back into a puppet in a very disturbing sequence. Thankfully, the Blue Fairy does manage to turn him back into a real boy.
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Circus of Fear / int_507dfb6a	comment	EarthBound (1994) has this in the city of Threed. It already starts off with a scary circus and a town overrun with undead/spectral monsters. The trope is inverted at first, as the big top is the sanctuary for townspeople. When another circus tent mysteriously shows up, there's a variation on the circus tent being where the monsters are held, as the tent itself is a monster.
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Circus of Fear / int_50bcf7a6	comment	Gamzee from Homestuck more or less has this as his overall intention now that he's "sane", a turn of events which could arguably be the most utterly terrifying moment in the comic to date. Just listen to "Midnight Calliope" or "The Carnival." It's recommended you have a spare pair of pants on hand.
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Circus of Fear / int_547de403	comment	Downplayed in Madeline. The circus appears to be pleasant, but the main performance is controlled by Russian gangsters posing as clowns who wish to kidnap Pepito, the son of the Spanish Ambassador to France for ransom. They do so by bringing the Ambassador and his wife to the stage, distracting them as the mobster posing as a tutor takes the boy away under the pretense of getting a balloon.
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Circus of Fear / int_550f5b20	comment	We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story: The Big Bad runs a literal Circus of Fear. Everything in it is geared towards horror. Except for the clown, ironically enough.
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Circus of Fear / int_56b563e4	comment	The Manual of Detection has Caligari's Travels-No-More Carnival, which is this trope in spades.
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Circus of Fear / int_57ad0c07	comment	Resident Evil: Fire and Ice opens with the main characters fighting a zombified circus troupe, which includes a car filled with zombie clowns.
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Circus of Fear / int_5980981f	comment	Darkhawk has an origin involving witnessing his father take a bribe inside a creepy, abandoned carnival and stumbling upon the mysterious amulet that would eventually give him his powers.
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Circus of Fear / int_5ada53ed	comment	In the James Bond film Octopussy, the titular female lead uses a circus as a cover for her criminal activities as well as using circus acrobats and aerialists to commit crimes for her, while a renegade Soviet general plants a nuke in her circus. Not necessarily evil, but initially misguided.
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Circus of Fear / int_5ae06982	comment	AAA's Psycho Circus and later, Mini Psycho Circus.
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Circus of Fear / int_5b686581	comment	Casino Park in Sonic Heroes. Not just a way to make Rings, but doubling as a death trap for Sonic.
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Circus of Fear / int_5c6db795	comment	Similarly, the 1960 William Castle original, 13 Ghosts, has two ghosts, The Tamer and The Lion, who would fit the theme: The Tamer seems to have lost his head in a lion-taming act gone wrong, an event reenacted by these ghosts in one of their scenes.
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Circus of Fear / int_5ce2f08b	comment	Black Butler has a whole arc in the manga where Ciel and Sebastian join Noah's Circus to investigate the whereabouts of children that have gone missing. Needless to say, what starts off as your average circus with jugglers, tightrope walkers, and acrobats turns much darker as we learn about the secrets behind it.
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Circus of Fear / int_5dff75cf	comment	The Oddities, in 1998 WWE, started as this, as a traveling carnival freak show complete with creepy music led by the Jackyl. The group turned Face (Good), and the Jackyl was replaced by Sable, and the Insane Clown Posse came on board and would rap their new theme song, "Oddities", as the group danced down to the ring. ICP later turned heel on their way out of WWE in late 1998. The Oddities, by early 1999 down to Golga (John Tenta), Kurrgan, the Giant Silva and George "The Animal" Steele, suffered through Badass Decay/Redemption Demotion and were released in February 1999.
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Circus of Fear / int_5e150650	comment	One of the canon Abyssal Exalted is The Melkin Fool in Red, who is the ringmaster of the Circus Moribund. Little information is available about the Circus itself, but much can be inferred from the fact that it is run by an Abyssal.
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Circus of Fear / int_5e32ed02	comment	Miracle of Sound's song "Call of Duty Circus" portrays Call of Duty as one of these.
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Circus of Fear / int_5ed0217f	comment	Downplayed in Paper Mario: Color Splash with The Emerald Circus—it is a deathtrap, and the most potent one on Prism Island, but it's targeted largely at Mario, and any other targets are active and known allies of Mario. Nevertheless, from Mario's perspective, he has to face down firebreathing Dino-Rhinos and their trainers, Shy Guy acrobats who can dodge Mario's attacks, juggling Hammer Brothers on tightropes Mario cannot cross, and Lemmy Koopa, a Stage Magician determined to make Mario "disappear" for good.
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Circus of Fear / int_6249060b	comment	Angela Carter's Nights at the Circus doesn't feature an evil circus per se, but some scary and strange crap definitely goes down.
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Circus of Fear / int_62570927	comment	Marvel Universe: Arcade's deadly amusement park, Murderworld, also has elements of the Circus of Fear, and so far hasn't fallen to Villain Decay. Probably because he has so many Murderworlds. The Awesome Slapstick got his start trying to save his classmates from Evil Clowns from Dimension X who were using a circus to kidnap people and turn them mediocre. No, really. Everything got righteously smashed up. The Circus of Crime is exactly what it sounds like, a circus troupe as a Gang of Hats. It consists of guys like Bruto the Strongman, Princess Python, the Human Cannonball, the Great Gambonnos, the Clown, Live Wire, and the variously threatening-and-not so much Ringmaster, whose hypnotic hat is often the key to his schemes. Generally less overtly creepy and homicidal than other examples of this trope, the Circus of Crime is mostly in it for the money. Darkhawk has an origin involving witnessing his father take a bribe inside a creepy, abandoned carnival and stumbling upon the mysterious amulet that would eventually give him his powers. Kid Colt twice fought groups known as the 'Circus of Crime'. In issue #106, he's forced to join a small travelling circus that visits small towns and uses their circus skills to rob them. In issue #127, Colt's Arch-Enemy Iron Mask organizes a Legion of Doom consisting of several other foes of Kid Colt (Bennington Brown, Dr. Danger, and the Fat Man) who pose as circus performers to rob the inauguration ball of the new governor of Arizona. In a New Mutants flashback, the team finds a circus run by Skrulls who are kidnapping humans and shrinking them. As expected, the New Mutants trash the place, including various structures that didn't need it. In Spider-Man Noir, Norman "The Goblin" Osborn recruited his inner circle from the circus freak show. The Vulture was a geek who had become more animal than man, Kraven was an animal tamer, the Chameleon had the uncanny ability to alter his facial features, Ox was a strongman, Montana did rope tricks, and Fancy Dan was a promoter. As it turns out, Norman himself was a refugee from the same freak-show, where he had been put on display since childhood as "the Goblin" because of his thick, green, scaly skin. He hides it under a latex mask nowadays. Wolverine and the X-Men (Marvel Comics) features Murder Circus, home to a witch who worshipped longtime X-Men villain Azazel and stole the souls of children... and that was before it was taken over by none other than the Frankenstein Monster, who has gone full-on Knight Templar and travels the country looking for relatives of his creator to kill. Creepy attractions feature zombie clowns and a sideshow made of brainwashed X-Men.
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Circus of Fear / int_6501d0bb	comment	Captain Caveman and the Teen Angels: In "Clownfoot", the episode's villainous clown, Clownfoot, uses a circus as his hideout. At said circus, Clownfoot also rigs a tandem bicycle Wilma and Betty are riding on a high-wire to fall apart, over a cage full of hungry saber-tooth tigers.
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Circus of Fear / int_65d9acd2	comment	The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 had Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus in The Day of the Clown.
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Circus of Fear / int_68237790	comment	The Pathfinder module Carnival of Tears showcases a carnival where icy fey have taken over, and are slaughtering the attending townsfolk in gruesomely creative ways. No one notices, due to powerful illusion magic that replaces every event of horror with a completely normal, even enjoyable, carnival scene. Second Edition has the Adventure Path "Extinction Curse", in which your group of circus performers has fled from one of these dubbed "The Celestial Managerie" to Start My Own competing circus.
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Circus of Fear / int_68ff28ca	comment	The theme park from Silent Hill 3 is the Dark Silent Hill version of a theme park. Come for the faceless fairytale characters, stay for the hooded, twitching carousel flesh-horses and dark echoes of previous lives!
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Circus of Fear / int_6ac55ec7	comment	Dungeons & Dragons The titular organisation from Ravenloft's Carnival box set seems like this at first, with the workers divided roughly between mutated freaks and spooky, utterly silent folks in bizarre face paint, many of which work as rather disturbing clowns, but it actually subverts the trope. The Carnival is one of the most accepting and hospitable places in the Demiplane of Dread, and most of the workers are good people. Most of them... there are some members who are actually evil, though they've managed to hide this from their fellows. One of the options for the true nature of Isolde, their leader, (and which has more or less been adopted as the truth), is that she's a rogue angel who came to Ravenloft to pursue the incubus known as the Gentleman Caller, with the Twisting resulting from the interaction between her nature and the sheer corrupt nature of Ravenloft. The original workers for Isolade's Carnival, however, are escapees from a now-dead Darklord called "The Puppetmaster", who ruled a domain (the Carnival l'Morai) that played this trope straight (Carnival of Fear, mentioned in Literature above, deals with the original domain, not the current Carnival). Despite all this, as is only appropriate in Ravenloft, the Carnival's still very creepy. The Skurra are attendant Vistani who wear strange black and white facepaint (the Skurra-verra) that protects them from the Twisting at the cost of making them mute. The Twisting causes people who stay overlong in the Carnival to mutate, their form changing to reflect their hearts and souls- for example, the bitter and malevolent Professor Pacali's repressed plots take life as deformed midget "things" that grow from his flesh. This is the source of his "Pickled Punks". One of the "attractions" are the horrifically warped Chaos Spawn-like remnants of people who attacked the Carnival, entities referred to simply as The Abominations. And some of the populace were strange and unnatural before they entered the Carnival, like a bloodthirsty leopard with the ability to assume a humanoid form, a Seawolf (an amphibious werewolf), the Fetch of an evil wizard and a Wax Golem. 1st edition supplement Adventure Pack I, adventure "The Circus of Gandolfo". The title circus is just a cover for a Doctor Frankenstein-like Mad Scientist who likes to kidnap people and perform bizarre experiments on them. The Guildmasters' Guide To Ravnika has the Cult of Rakdos, mentioned below. As if being a cult full of sado-masachistic serial killers wasn't bad enough, most of the high level members and demons in the cult have the ability to inflict mindless fury and bloodlust on anyone in their vicinity, so there's a good chance that any given show of theirs ends with the audience members tearing each other apart. The third-party setting of Heckna! takes place in The Revelia, a magical realm that looks like a circus and drifts in and out of different planes. The Revalia's master, the Repulsive Ringmaster Heckna, likes to lure people to his carnival in his search for greater, more spectacular challenges. Some of The Revalia's notable residents include Puppeteer Parasites that look like clown noses and turn their hosts into zombie-like Clown Thralls, bloodthirsty and mischievous HumanoidAbominations that look like small, colorfully dressed children, and a giant Antlion Monster that lives under the ballpit.
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Circus of Fear / int_6da4c85c	comment	American Horror Story: Freak Show ran on this trope: some of the usual suspects include a freak show full of dark secrets, killer clowns, sadistic side-show managers, and the like.
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Circus of Fear / int_6ec3ba16	comment	An episode of Mutant X dealt with a travelling circus led by a man whose power was to trap people inside funhouse mirrors.
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Circus of Fear / int_6fe3e8a7	comment	Neopets has the flash game aptly named Carnival of Terror and has a world called The Deserted Fairground. Both are located in the Haunted Woods.
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Circus of Fear / int_70da6e51	comment	Goosebumps: A Nightmare on Clown Street has an interesting example. At first it seems like the circus itself is up to no good, when in reality the clowns are generally good guys and the real evil is a man named The Frightener who all bad clowns are sent to as punishement.
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Circus of Fear / int_72cf764f	comment	Rayman: The Animated Series has one of these as the whole plot setting. Did I mention half the cast are kids?
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Circus of Fear / int_7565a23b	comment	The yearly summer sideshow event in Killing Floor turns all the specimens into circus-themed versions of themselves. For instance, the flesh pound becomes the flesh clown, and the patriarch becomes a ringmaster. There is also a map made for said event called "Abusement Park."
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Circus of Fear / int_76c6804a	comment	The Nation of Fools from Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin. Enemy types include demonic clowns and evil acrobats. The circus appears to be in some post apocalyptic world surrounding a black hole. At the end of the level, the black hole turns out to be the level boss Legion. The creepy mock-circus music just to drive the point home. There is also another Circus Level at the Hub Level within the Hub Level.
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Circus of Fear / int_77d76e46	comment	Thir13en Ghosts has two ghosts, the Great Child and Dire Mother, that was in at least one of these. Specifically the Tall Man raped the mother and she gave birth to her son. They left (the stories are a little hard to follow) and were treated badly because of her son's disability, which was largely fueled by her being an extremely overprotective parent. They went to Jimbo's circus and conditions were so bad, that when she was kidnapped one night as a cruel prank, her mentally handicapped son destroyed the circus in search of his mom and axed the other freaks for killing her. The bodies were displayed for everyone to see and a mob later torn the Great Child apart, despite him being two years old in the head. Similarly, the 1960 William Castle original, 13 Ghosts, has two ghosts, The Tamer and The Lion, who would fit the theme: The Tamer seems to have lost his head in a lion-taming act gone wrong, an event reenacted by these ghosts in one of their scenes.
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Circus of Fear / int_788767ba	comment	In several Incarnations of Immortality books, ghosts run an ethereal amusement park, where the ghosts try, and often succeed, in scaring the visitors. Amusingly, people kissing seems to scare the ghosts, in return. However, the rest of the amusement park is typical, if ghostly, fare such as a smoke ring toss.
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Circus of Fear / int_791fca44	comment	Ryan Amusements in BioShock's Rapture is designed mostly as a propaganda device to scare children into never going to the surface.
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Circus of Fear / int_794d9734	comment	In the Mutant Chronicles Universe, the Dark Apostle Semai's method of obtaining sleeper agents in human society is by having carnivals in big cities abduct children to brainwash them.
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Circus of Fear / int_79579e28	comment	Resident Evil: Outbreak has a level that takes part in the Raccoon City Zoo, which happened to have a large Big Top set up in honor of Oscar the Elephant. Who's now zombified, hungry, and VERY persistent. While it's possible to evade him until the end, you can kill him at any point in the level if you're packing enough heat, but you can also distract him by playing his theme music over the loudspeaker which tricks him into instinctively marching around the Big Top and ignoring you. If a marching flesh-eating zombie elephant parading around the Big Top doesn't say "Circus of Fear", nothing does. Also, if you do kill him beforehand a pair of zombified African lions take his place in the final battle.
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Circus of Fear / int_7a5368c1	comment	Air Bud: The villains of the second movie are two sinister (albeit bumbling) Russians who own a run-down circus staffed solely by themselves and who aren't afraid to kidnap animal attractions.
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Circus of Fear / int_7aaf9e41	comment	The Joker likes doing variations of this in the various Batman incarnations. Most famously, he buys an Amusement Park of Doom in The Killing Joke and crews it with circus freaks, using it to attempt to drive Commissioner Gordon insane by showing him naked pictures he'd taken of Gordon's daughter after he shot her through the spine. And there was a song.
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Circus of Fear / int_7c48915b	comment	Gunnerkrigg Court: In his introductory chapter, Mort creates one of these at Antimony's suggestion to scare her classmate Paz.
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Circus of Fear / int_7e36333c	comment	Circus of Sour by Donovan doesn't sound like it's about a particularly nice circus.
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Circus of Fear / int_803beb04	comment	Earthworm Jim 2 provides an example with Circus Of The Scars, also known as Inflated Head, best summed up by Something Awful forumite Phiggle in his Let's Play of the game as such:
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Circus of Fear / int_8125b468	comment	Batman Batman Returns: The Penguin secretly runs the Red Triangle Circus Gang, a gang of crooks who, like him, were former circus performers. It is hinted that they abducted children when they were a legit circus, likely the reason they shut down. Batman Forever: Two-Face's goons dress up as two-sided clowns when they attack the circus. Oddly enough, this has been mostly averted with The Joker in later live action outings—though he does come close in Batman (1989).
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Circus of Fear / int_835501ca	comment	The movie Freaks both used and defied this trope. The freaks are all loving and caring people, the clowns are good-natured and charming (although one of them has a hilarious speech-impediment), and the animal trainer is frigging gorgeous. There's a bit of black comedy involving a pair of conjoined twins, one of who is getting married, and the soundtrack is slightly creepy, but that's about it. Unless you get them angry, as the evil female trapeze artist and misogynistic strong man do. Do NOT get the freaks angry.
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Circus of Fear / int_84e19652	comment	In Between My Brother and Me: Mors Omnibus, Yvonne and Yusho have to duel Yuya and Zarc in an Action Field called "Carnival of Lost Souls" while they all songs like "The Greatest Show Unearthed" (which itself is a reference to Something Wicked This Way Comes) and "The Circus Comes To Town" (the opening to Big Top Scooby-Doo!). Yuya's deck for this duel is known as "Nightmare Mirror Circus" which contain Evil Counterpart versions of people (Shuzo, Yoko and Yusho), pets (En and Core) and duel monsters (Odd-Eyes Pendulum Dragon) with a dark circus aesthetic.
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Circus of Fear / int_871e640a	comment	The short lived series She-Wolf of London (aka Love & Curses) featured an episode during it's first season, Big Top She-Wolf, that dealt with a demonic circus.
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Circus of Fear / int_8bbb4ee8	comment	The monsters in Killer Klowns from Outer Space are aliens that look like monster clowns and come to Earth on a spaceship that looks like a circus tent.
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Circus of Fear / int_8c517364	comment	The Devil's Carnival is about a carnival run by... guess.
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Circus of Fear / int_8dd0bbcc	comment	A Series of Unfortunate Events: The Carnivorous Carnival has the Calligari Carnival where its freaks will be fed to hungry lions to increase audience interest.
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Circus of Fear / int_8e24da94	comment	Brother Power the Geek was once imprisoned as a circus freak at the villanious Psychedelic Circus.
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Circus of Fear / int_8e82c366	comment	The Real Ghostbusters fought a ghost-circus in their comic-book incarnation. The zombie elephants were somewhat creepy.
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Circus of Fear / int_8e898734	comment	Painkiller: Battle out of Hell has a circus/fun fair called Loony Park with killer clowns and monsters made out of snack food.
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Circus of Fear / int_909ca4b1	comment	ReBoot: The Funhouse. One of the rarest games on the Net (because only User children play it) and is nearly impossible for sprites to beat. Bob and Dot are the only confirmed sprites to escape it alive.
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Circus of Fear / int_93b6f384	comment	Ape Escape takes this trope and packs every element into the first half of the first game's monstrously huge Very Definitely Final Dungeon. The main area is an amusement park taken over by the Big Bad, with lots of separate areas branching off, including a crazy mine cart style roller coaster, and a more literal circus flavored area, where you must defeat an evil clown. The other sections are mostly other common video game settings, including The Wild West and a Big Boo's Haunt. This is only the first half of the level. The other, even longer, half is the Big Bad's flying castle, which includes elements of Tomorrowland. Yeah, this series really likes its location tropes.
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Circus of Fear / int_95a04983	comment	Savage Halloween have an abandoned, ghost-infested circus as one of the stages halfway through. Complete with a gigantic Monster Clown named Peanuts serving as an Advancing Boss of Doom.
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Circus of Fear / int_986e857e	comment	Ben 10: "Last Laugh" features a circus led by a Vampiric Draining Monster Clown named Zombozo, whose members included: Acid Breath, a zombie-looking man breathing acid; Thumbskull, a Dumb Muscle strong man with a broken horn on his head; and Frightwig, a Dark Action Girl with Combat Tentacles as hair.
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Circus of Fear / int_989506be	comment	The Theater des Vampires in The Vampire Chronicles, who are vampires hiding in plain sight. They manage to be both scary and complete jackasses at the same time. They act out vampires killing humans on stage while the human audience watches in oblivious entertainment, and sometimes even satirically offer themselves in place of the victim they don't believe is a victim.
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Circus of Fear / int_9a8bf274	comment	The second Soviet mission of Red Alert 3 which takes place in a vagrant carnival built on an abandoned rocket test site. It seems sparsely populated until the Soviets activate the abandoned launch facility upon which Japanese troops (including a Psychic Commando) burst out of the tents and surround the Soviets. The actual mission itself is called "Circus of Treachery".
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Circus of Fear / int_9c4642bb	comment	The main antagonists in Devil's Cape are the Cirque d'Obscurite, a group of carnies who developed superpowers based on their talents when they were exposed to the death of a superhero and murdered first one hero, then the rest of his team. They're led by the Behemoth, formerly part of the freakshow, but also include Hector Hell, Kraken, Werewolf, Osprey, and Gork.
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Circus of Fear / int_9d8af0	comment	Spider-Man 2: Mysterio creates a "Funhouse of Doom" to use against Spider-Man, which functions as one of these. It has robots, traps and illusions.
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Circus of Fear / int_9e2f90f4	comment	One Piece: Buggy the Clown's crew are themed around circus performance, including a lion-tamer and an acrobat. In the Netflix series, they hold an actual circus performance with Buggy as the Repulsive Ringmaster and villagers of the town they destroyed as a literally Captive Audience forced to applaud on demand.
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Circus of Fear / int_9e84c324	comment	Batman Returns: The Penguin secretly runs the Red Triangle Circus Gang, a gang of crooks who, like him, were former circus performers. It is hinted that they abducted children when they were a legit circus, likely the reason they shut down.
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Circus of Fear / int_a03824e8	comment	The DCU: The Joker likes doing variations of this in the various Batman incarnations. Most famously, he buys an Amusement Park of Doom in The Killing Joke and crews it with circus freaks, using it to attempt to drive Commissioner Gordon insane by showing him naked pictures he'd taken of Gordon's daughter after he shot her through the spine. And there was a song. Also from Batman, in Batman and Robin (2009), the first arc features an evil circus troupe led by the Nightmare Fuel-inducing Professor Pyg. In the second issue, the new Robin visits the actual circus, and more Nightmare Fuel starts when he is attacked by Professor Pyg's masked henchmen. Pyg's major underlings all resemble sideshow freaks, as well, including a grossly overweight bearded lady in a tutu and a human flame act who can burn others but not himself. Brother Power the Geek was once imprisoned as a circus freak at the villanious Psychedelic Circus. An early arc of Starman (DC Comics) features this type of circus. The "freaks" themselves are mostly nice people, but they are controlled by the ringmaster and his evil lieutenant. Because this is Starman, the lieutenant comes back during the invasion of Opal City.
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Circus of Fear / int_a0cc7ed4	comment	Gemini Journey's The Great Barley & Bay-Lily Cricus arc features a creepy circus with vulpine ringmasters.
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Circus of Fear / int_a5789c30	comment	The titular Robot Carnival is one of these. It used to be a normal circus, but years of wear turned it into this and it turns the citizens of the towns it visits into its new performers. Or just makes them explode.
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Circus of Fear / int_a5fec434	comment	Twisted Metal: Sweet Tooth's circus in 4 features such attractions as the "roller toaster", aside from being a battleground where the demented clown and a number of assorted psychos try to kill each other. The reboot gives us Sweet Tooth's Carnival of Carnage, built by his worshippers in remembrance of his death at the hands of Calypso's wish granting. Not only is it a mobile carnival, its a Circus Of Fear Humongous Mecha Base on Wheels Military Mash Up Machine flanked by many psychotic clowns carrying chainsaws, suicide bombs and/or piloting transforming ice cream trucks. And the entire thing is the Final Boss. Just friggin' look at it [1]◊
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Circus of Fear / int_a825da3e	comment	Magic: The Gathering has the sado-masochistic hedonist Cult of Rakdos on the plane of Ravnica, led by the giant demon Rakdos, with its circuses◊ of DOOM. They're the official Ravnican guild in charge of entertaining the masses.
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Circus of Fear / int_a90d239a	comment	The final level of Psychonauts is the Meat Circus, a creepy circus made of flesh and bone. The knife-throwers attempt to target Raz and cute bunnies fall into meat grinders and become horrible bunny mutants, who then proceed to target the child you have to protect as a part of the game's escort mission. The reason the final level is a frightening mish-mash of these elements is because Raz and the Big Bad Coach Oleander's minds have been merged. Raz's mind causes the world to look like the circus he grew up and performed in, while Oleander's mind causes the world to take on features that were part of his upringing as the son of a butcher. Raz thinks his dad hates him because of his psychic abilities, causing the circus to turn hostile. As a boy, Oleander saw his father demonstrate firsthand that he thought the bunnies he loved were only good for meat, causing the rabbits in the level to become bunny-mutants who attack the mental representation of Oleander as a child.
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Circus of Fear / int_a9cb14fc	comment	The titular organisation from Ravenloft's Carnival box set seems like this at first, with the workers divided roughly between mutated freaks and spooky, utterly silent folks in bizarre face paint, many of which work as rather disturbing clowns, but it actually subverts the trope. The Carnival is one of the most accepting and hospitable places in the Demiplane of Dread, and most of the workers are good people. Most of them... there are some members who are actually evil, though they've managed to hide this from their fellows. One of the options for the true nature of Isolde, their leader, (and which has more or less been adopted as the truth), is that she's a rogue angel who came to Ravenloft to pursue the incubus known as the Gentleman Caller, with the Twisting resulting from the interaction between her nature and the sheer corrupt nature of Ravenloft. The original workers for Isolade's Carnival, however, are escapees from a now-dead Darklord called "The Puppetmaster", who ruled a domain (the Carnival l'Morai) that played this trope straight (Carnival of Fear, mentioned in Literature above, deals with the original domain, not the current Carnival). Despite all this, as is only appropriate in Ravenloft, the Carnival's still very creepy. The Skurra are attendant Vistani who wear strange black and white facepaint (the Skurra-verra) that protects them from the Twisting at the cost of making them mute. The Twisting causes people who stay overlong in the Carnival to mutate, their form changing to reflect their hearts and souls- for example, the bitter and malevolent Professor Pacali's repressed plots take life as deformed midget "things" that grow from his flesh. This is the source of his "Pickled Punks". One of the "attractions" are the horrifically warped Chaos Spawn-like remnants of people who attacked the Carnival, entities referred to simply as The Abominations. And some of the populace were strange and unnatural before they entered the Carnival, like a bloodthirsty leopard with the ability to assume a humanoid form, a Seawolf (an amphibious werewolf), the Fetch of an evil wizard and a Wax Golem.
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Circus of Fear / int_aa9366f9	comment	Nightwish's: The song Scaretale has a part like this. As does the music video for Storytime.
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Circus of Fear / int_aabf6d1d	comment	A free update of Darkest Dungeon added the Butcher's Circus mode, a PVP mode. In it, the attraction is your set of heroes against an opposing set of heroes in a fight to the death in a gladiatorial arena. Character attacks, abilities, and trinkets have different properties, such as dealing stress to enemies or giving more balanced buffs/debuffs and damage-scaling.
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Circus of Fear / int_aaf2bdb5	comment	In Misunderstandings, the very human Peter Collins is captured by one of these, run by an evil unicorn named named Big Top. When he escapes, other ponies are concerned that this "alien" might be violent because of his poor treatment and both sides are overly cautious towards one another, especially due to a language barrier separating the two.
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Circus of Fear / int_ab42c63a	comment	An episode of Get Smart involves Max tracking down a murderer and jewel thief in a circus. Turns out most of the circus members are part of the crime ring.
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Circus of Fear / int_b21a1883	comment	Sinn Bodhi's Odditorium in Chikara
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Circus of Fear / int_b4501394	comment	The third campaign of Left 4 Dead 2 is "Dark Carnival", a dreary trek through the Whispering Oaks Amusement Park. While it wouldn't have actually been an evil carnival under normal circumstances, taking place during the Zombie Apocalypse means it's a dark, run-down place where hordes of undead are drawn into roaming packs by the squeaky shoes of the zombie clowns.
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Circus of Fear / int_b4967d43	comment	Sonic the Hedgehog: Take your average Circus Of Fear, add in untold volumes of molten rock for all the geothermal power you'll ever need, have the whole thing built in a week due to harnessing the powers of a monster, and staff it with robots out the ass. Welcome to Eggmanland. Enjoy your stay. Also, Sonic The Hedgehog 3 had Carnival Night Zone. The music could be described as very catchy, and that damn barrel... Casino Park in Sonic Heroes. Not just a way to make Rings, but doubling as a death trap for Sonic. Shadow the Hedgehog has Circus Park, overrun by GUN soldiers and aliens, which is also an Amusement Park of Doom. It was built by Eggman with rings stolen through his evil schemes, to finance his evil schemes, which is also a little scary because it shows Eggman's settling in for the long haul with his own business.
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Circus of Fear / int_b4ed82f9	comment	Not a circus, but an amusement park - Full Tilt by Neil Shusterman. Good god, Full Tilt.
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Circus of Fear / int_b5c06d08	comment	The Incredibly Strange Creatures Who Stopped Living and Became Mixed-Up Zombies, often considered one of the worst movies of all time, is set in a carnival where patrons are transformed into zombies. The film actually features surprisingly few zombies and much, much, MUCH more bad singing than would be expected.
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Circus of Fear / int_b6c9037f	comment	The Circus of the Other (more accurately translated from the original Russian as "Another Circus") from The Magnus Archives certainly qualifies as this. It has had disturbingly deformed freaks in its freak show (including people without heads), kidnapped a child and forced him to walk a tightrope as two clowns fought brutally below, and ripped an audience member's skin off as part of an advertisement. It toured in Russia in the 1940s and 50s and was never seen again, until it returned in London in 2013. It serves as the Arc Villain for Season 3, with its ringmaster being Nikola Orsinov, a mannequin who wears people's skins.
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Circus of Fear / int_b7e8e4b6	comment	My Little Pony 'n Friends: In "Somnambula", the titular witch invites the ponies into her illusory carnival, where she steals their youth.
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Circus of Fear / int_bb3fde3d	comment	Danny Phantom: Circus Gothica is a cover to rob towns, and the ringmaster (appropriately named Freakshow) uses his staff to brainwash ghosts and force them to work for him. Not to mention what almost happened to Sam when she was forced onto the tightrope...
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Circus of Fear / int_bbf1de57	comment	In The Winchesters (a spinoff of Supernatural), the episode "The Tears of a Clown" featured a Monster Clown named Limbo who went from carnival to carnival turning sad people into more Monster Clowns. This trope applies inside his own travelling tent, which is full of sinister clowns and funhouse mirrors.
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Circus of Fear / int_bc758ea9	comment	Tiny Toon Adventures: "Sawdust and Toonsil" has Gogo Dodo caught and imprisoned by a very-Satanic-looking ringmaster when he attempts to rescue some of his fellow Wackyland residents (a sphinx, a unicorn, etc.) from a circus. Babs, Buster, and Plucky have to rescue him. They never really show the rest of the circus, but the Ringmaster's treatment of the Wackylanders is pretty nightmare-inducing.
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Circus of Fear / int_bcadd7cb	comment	The Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game Dark Heresy introduces The Menagerie, which uses carnivals, revels and fetes as a cover to expose innocent people to sanity-blasting, flesh-warping horrors. Come and see! You must come and see!
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Circus of Fear / int_beac6ffb	comment	The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask has a giant music box that plays what can only described as scary circus music. It doesn't even help much that it also scares the mummies away.
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Circus of Fear / int_bfef9cdb	comment	Inverted in one episode of Welcome to Night Vale. A carnival arrives in the supernatural town of Night Vale, and the host on the local radio station, Cecil, clearly believes them to be the trope, using his program to repeatedly caution the local citizens against them by describing them as weird and disturbing. Eventually, Cecil's scaremongering leads to a mob gathering and chasing the carnival out of town, at which point it becomes obvious that the carnival was perfectly normal and benign all along, and that it was the townsfolk who were the scary weirdos antagonizing them.
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Circus of Fear / int_bff01809	comment	Appearing in the Warhammer spinoff game Mordheim, and referenced in Warhammer too, is the Carnival of Chaos, a circus staffed by Chaos worshippers and daemons of Nurgle (who, despite being the Chaos God of despair, is a rather jovial fellow). The show seems to be benign until the climax when the Carnival members and and their stage's true putrid corruption is revealed. At this point the entertainers slaughter anyone who hasn't already fallen to the diseases secretly spread during the performance. They then round up the women and children who survived, the Carnival Master taking a finger from each woman and taking them as his "wives". The Warhammer 40,000 roleplaying game Dark Heresy introduces The Menagerie, which uses carnivals, revels and fetes as a cover to expose innocent people to sanity-blasting, flesh-warping horrors. Come and see! You must come and see! The Carnivora from Ravenor is a Roman-style circus where gladiators fight to the death as the main event, while acrobats perform death-defying stunts without safety nets and drugged clowns get eaten alive by alien beasts as sideshows. Ravenorâ€™s people infiltrate the Carnivora as part of their investigation into the flect trade, getting into fights with some of the staff and beasts in the process.
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Circus of Fear / int_c0d295c4	comment	Parodied by the sixth Halloween update of Team Fortress 2. In the game's universe, the very first carnival was made to be evil and to appease the Clown God Boffo, and evil circuses have followed in this tradition ever since.
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Circus of Fear / int_c346fa94	comment	In a New Mutants flashback, the team finds a circus run by Skrulls who are kidnapping humans and shrinking them. As expected, the New Mutants trash the place, including various structures that didn't need it.
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Circus of Fear / int_c40ea93e	comment	Kid Colt twice fought groups known as the 'Circus of Crime'. In issue #106, he's forced to join a small travelling circus that visits small towns and uses their circus skills to rob them. In issue #127, Colt's Arch-Enemy Iron Mask organizes a Legion of Doom consisting of several other foes of Kid Colt (Bennington Brown, Dr. Danger, and the Fat Man) who pose as circus performers to rob the inauguration ball of the new governor of Arizona.
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Circus of Fear / int_c43df4d8	comment	Doctor Who: In Terror of the Autons, the Master takes over Rossini's Circus with a mixture of hypnotism and threats and forces the staff to act as his mooks. A downplayed example, as there is no actual circus performance in the story. Subverted in Carnival of Monsters, with the showman Vorg portrayed as ignorant of the horrors he's leading. There was an unmade script for a Sixth Doctor story called The Nightmare Fair, later released as a novel, then an audio play (unofficial) and then an audio drama (official). The circus in question belongs to an old enemy, the extra-dimensional Humanoid Abomination known as the Celestial Toymaker. The Greatest Show in the Galaxy featured the Psychic Circus. Initially a genuine circus staffed by kindly hippies, it was corrupted by a trio of Eldritch Abominations, the Gods of Ragnarok, who forced the performers to lure innocent people to take part in a "talent contest", and then to torture and kill them for their entertainment. The Sarah Jane Adventures series 2 had Spellman's Magical Museum of the Circus in The Day of the Clown. Torchwood series 2 had the carnival performers known as the Night Travellers in "From Out of the Rain", who stole the souls of their audience members.
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Circus of Fear / int_c7c2113d	comment	Mighty Orbots had to deal with "The Cosmic Circus", a fake circus designed to duplicate key members in the Galactic Patrol. Was actually kinda creepy.
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Circus of Fear / int_c975f698	comment	The album cover of Strange Days by The Doors features some freaky note Well, not exactly freaky, but wearing dark clothing and appearing to be vaguely poor, which was unsettling enough for the 1960s. circus people too.
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Circus of Fear / int_cb2fdea1	comment	Copernicus Breathing may or may not fit neatly into this trope. Although it does not contain any supernatural elements, le Cirque de Soir is pretty gritty and the way it is visually portrayed is like a horrifying acid trip for a vast majority of the time and not to mention, the ringmaster pimps out several of the performers.
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Circus of Fear / int_cc2a7289	comment	Papa Lazarou's circus in The League of Gentlemen might qualify as a subversion. While Papa Lazarou's appearance is pure Nightmare Fuel and he spends all his spare time kidnapping women ("You're my wife now!") Royston Vasey is already so full of freaks that the circus soon flees in terror, as the town is too weird even for them.
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Circus of Fear / int_ce2c3c13	comment	LeChuck converts a part of Monkey Island into an amusement park of doom (the "Carnival of the Damned") in The Curse of Monkey Island as part of his master scheme: Reasoning that the first thing a sailor wants when he arrives to port is a family-oriented fun-park, he builds the Carnival of the Damned, and its centerpiece ride, the Rollercoaster of Death, leads straight into Big Whoop and converts everyone who boards the ride into a ghost pirate minion.
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Circus of Fear / int_d154285c	comment	Total Nonstop Action debuted "The Menagerie" in 2014, headed by Knux and including Rebel, Crazzy Steve, and The Freak as wrestling carnies.
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Circus of Fear / int_d3896703	comment	An early arc of Starman (DC Comics) features this type of circus. The "freaks" themselves are mostly nice people, but they are controlled by the ringmaster and his evil lieutenant. Because this is Starman, the lieutenant comes back during the invasion of Opal City.
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Circus of Fear / int_d3be9b24	comment	Wolverine and the X-Men (Marvel Comics) features Murder Circus, home to a witch who worshipped longtime X-Men villain Azazel and stole the souls of children... and that was before it was taken over by none other than the Frankenstein Monster, who has gone full-on Knight Templar and travels the country looking for relatives of his creator to kill. Creepy attractions feature zombie clowns and a sideshow made of brainwashed X-Men.
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Circus of Fear / int_d523f952	comment	The movie version of The Elephant Man involves the title character's escape from one of these. The movie was directed by David Lynch, who must have jumped at the chance to try his hand at this trope.
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Circus of Fear / int_d5e9e1db	comment	Wario: The aptly named Wonky Circus in Wario World. There's also the circus setting for the third boss (Chortlebot) in Wario Land: Shake It!, although it's only ever used as a battle arena against said Monster Clown.
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Circus of Fear / int_d88f41bb	comment	Inverted in The Traveling Triple-C Incorporeal Circus, when the main characters, one of whom is a mime, put on a circus show to calm some actual monsters.
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Circus of Fear / int_db06e0f1	comment	In Ring of Fear, The Clyde Beatty Circus seems jinxed, falling victim again and again to apparent accidents which are actually the acts of a murderous saboteur.
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Circus of Fear / int_dfe1eef5	comment	Jean-Claude, from the Anita Blake series, owns and runs a fully functioning vampire circus, clowns with fangs and all.
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Circus of Fear / int_e035d18d	comment	Blood (1997)'s "Dark Carnival" in the first episode is supremely twisted. Aside from a lantern-carrying statue of Death siccing zombies on you when you ignore his request for a ticket, the optional game where you kick a severed head through a slowly opening and closing mouth to win a prize, or the secret funhouse level that shoves rotting skeletons at you while maniacal laughter plays, there's also the fact that the whole place is built next to an evil temple filled with cultists who want you dead. Well, deader.
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Circus of Fear / int_e06ce4f	comment	In Equestria Divided we have the Cult of Laughter which combines the worst traits of necromancy, cosmic horror and this trope, and it's run by a Monster from Beyond the Veil Pinkie Pie
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Circus of Fear / int_e0ce3a77	comment	The aptly named Wonky Circus in Wario World.
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Circus of Fear / int_e293455a	comment	The Buffy the Vampire Slayer novel, 'Circus Of Souls'. She figures it out soon enough, but is then zapped by the brain-altering magics of the circus.
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Circus of Fear / int_e45ccf2e	comment	Nomad of Nowhere: It turns out the Twindleweed Brothers' Circus is composed of retired bounty hunters who capture the Nomad easily...but the only member who's actively evil is Twindleweed himself; the others are just desperate for money.
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Circus of Fear / int_e4852d71	comment	Near the end of the horror manga Gyo, the protagonist visits a circus where all the acts are composed of or powered by victims of the "death stench" gas-producing virus that has ravaged Japan.
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Circus of Fear / int_e5d0a163	comment	One of the playable "families" in Gloom is Darius Dark's Den of Deformity. The description for Darius Dark himself is: "The circus is in Darius' blood. And there is an awful lot of blood in Darius' circus." Although creepy and weird, the circus performers don't seem to be evil so much as incompetent, like a midget opera singer who can't sing, an illustrated lady who's far too modest to show off her tattoos, and a "bearded man". Then there's Mister Giggles...
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Circus of Fear / int_e6267766	comment	Star Wars Legends: According to the short story "A Boy and His Monster" in Tales from Jabba's Palace, Malakili the Rancor Keeper was previously employed by the Circus Horrificus, where Hutts paid to see weird creatures get tortured to death.
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Circus of Fear / int_e67a7d6c	comment	There were hints of something called a "Nightmare Circus" sub-arc within the Mahorafest arc of Negima! Magister Negi Magi. Sadly, it was cancelled due to the main story taking up much more time than expected.
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Circus of Fear / int_e8bc5852	comment	And Then Emily Was Gone has the Circus of the Night, led by Billy Styx.
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Circus of Fear / int_e9da3ef9	comment	The second arc in the first volume of I Hunt Monsters has the heroes dealing with a circus run by werewolves.
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Circus of Fear / int_ebaf064d	comment	The fourth level of the second world in Kirby: Triple Deluxe is an abandoned circus crawling and teeming with ghosts that can be only seen via reflective mirrors.
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Circus of Fear / int_ebc3ab1a	comment	The Awesome Slapstick got his start trying to save his classmates from Evil Clowns from Dimension X who were using a circus to kidnap people and turn them mediocre. No, really. Everything got righteously smashed up.
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Circus of Fear / int_ecc36299	comment	Shadow the Hedgehog has Circus Park, overrun by GUN soldiers and aliens, which is also an Amusement Park of Doom. It was built by Eggman with rings stolen through his evil schemes, to finance his evil schemes, which is also a little scary because it shows Eggman's settling in for the long haul with his own business.
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Circus of Fear / int_ef076a36	comment	The Star Trek: Voyager episode "The Thaw" has a circus run by an anthropomorphic manifestation of fear (depicted as a Monster Clown, naturally).
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Circus of Fear / int_f00d733b	comment	In the New World of Darkness, Vampire: The Requiem gives us the vampiric bloodline called the Carnival. Every last vampire of the bloodline bears a circus-freak deformity (their founder suffered from sirenalia, and was billed as "the Andalusian Mermaid"), and they often act as traveling or static carnivals, the better to hide in plain sight.
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Circus of Fear / int_f10106db	comment	Endless Quest also had an entry actually titled Circus of Fear. Decide for yourself whether the title's talking about the circus being run by bad guys or all the usual circus animals and attractions being replaced by creatures from the D&D bestiary.
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Circus of Fear / int_f25e1539	comment	The Pilo Family Circus. An extradimensional travelling circus of madmen, magicians, and monsters, where the employees are paid in bags of management-controlled wishing powder made from the crystalised remains of human souls- extracted from the audience. Oh, and the managers have a nasty habit of causing global chaos on Earth via the Fortune Teller and the Clown division, on behalf of a race of reptilian demigods imprisoned beneath the showgrounds.
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Circus of Fear / int_f4361135	comment	Beelzebub, the Sin of Gluttony, is a fox/bee hybrid demon who represents the animal tamer/animal shows, with her mansion decorated with various hoops and rings for her to fly through during her house parties. She also covers the confectionery stands going by all the sweets and alcohol she provides.
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Circus of Fear / int_f673ad61	comment	Cat Soup has one, featuring a woman getting dismembered and a giant bird that's swallowed clouds (that ends up causing a flood).
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Circus of Fear / int_f6c16bab	comment	Subverted in The Saga of Darren Shan, where the "Cirque Du Freak", though intended to be nightmarish and slightly horrifying (and potentially dangerous), actually provides a warning beforehand of what it will be like, and gives patrons an opportunity to leave. If any are injured, the show is halted until they are fixed up. Also, the "freaks" are rather friendly and personable people, and the Circusmaster, Mr. Tall, actually runs the cirque as a means of providing people with strange abilities with shelter, family, the opportunity to travel, and a circumstance where their unique abilities can inspire wonder rather than fear. The Cirque is a beacon of home and safety for the main characters to the point where it even becomes something of a sanctuary from the vampire wars of the later books - and when it is invaded, that is the clearest of signs that we've reached a point of no return.
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Circus of Fear / int_f88e66d6	comment	Mighty Max has an episode where an Evil clown named Freeko kidnaps children, and morphs them into creatures for his freakshow. This episode, as one would expect, is brimming with horror.
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Circus of Fear / int_fa5e90fd	comment	The higher levels of play in the MMORPG City of Heroes include a "Circus of Fear"-style villain group called the Carnival of Shadows. In addition to crime, the members of the Carnival feed on their patrons' souls.
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Circus of Fear / int_fa738078	comment	The Dead Moon Circus of Sailor Moon. If the name hasn't clued you in, the henchmen are all dressed like circus performers, and the Monsters of the Week (called Lemures) are themed after circus acts, props and animals.
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Circus of Fear / int_fa84fc2e	comment	Ace Lightning's appropriately named Carnival of Doom. The one seen in the actual show would be pretty innocuous if not for all the digital supervillains who happen to live there, though.
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Circus of Fear / int_fcf0b6c3	comment	Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers: "Wild" Bill Krebb's sideshow in "Showtime." The performers are slaves, the acts have zero safety nets, and he gladly exploits the fact that Andorians go feral in captivity.
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Circus of Fear / int_fcf43f47	comment	Fighting Fantasy books had Legend of the Shadow Warriors in which the Circus of Dreams had their performers replaced with evil Mandrakes, Howl of the Werewolf had a more benign version in the Carnivale which is a travelling show full of real supernaturals, runaways & freaks - they're dangerous but generally law-abiding people who take in all manner of outcasts, and Stormslayer where the hero could encounter the Menagerie of Monsters.
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Circus of Fear / int_fdef8938	comment	In The Freakmaker, Lynch runs a travelling carnival and freak show that he rules through fear and a fist of iron. He uses the freak show as a means of disposing of the experiments of Prof. Nolter that have gone wrong. The actual freaks who work for him are genuinely nice people, however, who only stay because they are afraid of Lynch and have nowhere else to go.
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Circus of Fear / int_fe429460	comment	The 1968 British horror film Berserk starring Joan Crawford and Michael Gough is set in a circus where there are a series of gruesome and unexplained murders.
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Circus of Fear / int_ff79ea69	comment	No prizes for guessing what the Hammer horror film Vampire Circus is about.
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Escape the Night Novelization (Fanfic) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Fighting Fantasy / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Geist Series / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Howl of the Werewolf / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Legend of the Shadow Warriors / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Mare / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Mattimeo / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Redwall / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Something Wicked This Way Comes / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Spectral Stalkers / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Tales from Jabba's Palace / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Gone-Away World / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Manual of Detection / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Pilo Family Circus / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Saga of Darren Shan / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Three Investigators / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Trapped in the Circus of Fear / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
AdditionalEvilOverlordListCellblockA	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
AllTheMyriadWays	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
BadDayOnTheMidway	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
CircusOffear	sameAs	Circus of Fear
CircusofFear	sameAs	Circus of Fear
CirqueDuNie	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
Deboss	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
MirrorMask	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
Tapestry Of Horror	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
TheAwesomeSlapstick	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
TheBeatlesLOVE	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
Copernicus Breathing (Manga) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Gyo (Manga) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Junji Ito Kyoufu Manga Collection (Manga) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Voynich Hotel (Manga) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Animal Alpha (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Carnival of Carnage (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Highway 61 Revisited (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Ice Nine Kills (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
MÃ¤go de Oz (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Miracle of Sound (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Mojo Nixon (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Nuclear Assault (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Ringmaster (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Strange Days (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Human League (Music) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Acquisitions Incorporated (Podcast) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Welcome to Night Vale (Podcast) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Adventures in Odyssey (Radio) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Cirque des Rêves (Roleplay) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Cirque Mystique (Roleplay) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
SerpentsHand	seeAlso	Circus of Fear
Creepshow / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Days of Our Lives / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Friday the 13th: The Series / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Grimm / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Mr. Bill / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Mutant X / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
One Piece (2023) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Star Trek: Voyager / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Tales from the Darkside / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The League of Gentlemen / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Letter People / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Sarah Jane Adventures / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Dark Heresy (Tabletop Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Mordheim (Tabletop Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Ravenloft (Tabletop Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Rifts (Tabletop Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Scarred Lands (Tabletop Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Strange (Tabletop Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Villains & Vigilantes (Tabletop Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Batman Live (Theatre) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Halloween Horror Nights (Theatre) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Howl-O-Scream (Theatre) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Midway of the Bizarre (Theatre) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Pippin (Theatre) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Beatles LOVE (Theatre) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Adventure Escape (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Age of Wonders 4 (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Anodyne (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Ayo the Clown (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Baby's Nightmare Circus (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Baldur's Gate II (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Baldur's Gate III (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Banjo-Tooie (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Batman Returns (Genesis) (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Bayonetta Origins: Cereza and the Lost Demon (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Beyond Skyrim (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Billy Hatcher and the Giant Egg (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Binky Show (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Blood (1997) (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Blood II: The Chosen (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
CarnEvil (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Casper: Spirit Dimensions (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Castlevania: Portrait of Ruin (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Chrono Ark (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
City of Heroes (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Dark Deception (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Dark Seed II (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Darkest Dungeon (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Death Smiles (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Deathtrap Dungeon (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Donkey Kong Country 2: Diddy's Kong Quest (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Dread X Collection (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Drowned God (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Dungeon Fighter Online (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Dungeons & Dragons Online (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Exhibit of Sorrows (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Fallen London (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Faust The Seven Games Of The Soul (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Flaming Zombooka (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Grezzo 2 (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Haunted Museum (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Incubo (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Jet Moto (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
JumpStart Adventures 4th Grade: Haunted Island (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Jumping Flash! (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Killing Floor (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Kirby: Triple Deluxe (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Kirby's Halloween Adventure (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
KISS: Psycho Circus: The Nightmare Child (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Knuckles' Chaotix (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Kung Fu Master (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
MediEvil 2 (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Nightmare Circus (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Nun Massacre (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Painkiller (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Paper Mario: Color Splash (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Paranormal Files (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Poptropica (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Psychonauts (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Psycutlery (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Red Dead Revolver (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Rocket: Robot on Wheels (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Samurai Shodown (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Sanitarium (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Scooby-Doo! First Frights (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Secret of Evermore (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Shadow the Hedgehog (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Shining Force (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
SpongeBob SquarePants: The Cosmic Shake (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Spore (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Super Mario 3D World (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
This Is The Police 2 (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
3D Monster Maze (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Urban Rivals (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Wario World (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Yume 2kki (Video Game) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Nomad of Nowhere (Web Animation) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Amazing Digital Circus (Web Animation) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Escape the Night (Web Video) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Joueur du Grenier (Web Video) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
My Hero Academia: Abridged (Web Video) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Xombie (Web Animation) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Gemini Journey (Webcomic) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Gunnerkrigg Court (Webcomic) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Monster of the Week (Webcomic) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Sparklecare (Webcomic) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Wilde Life (Webcomic) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
A Car's Life: Sparky's Big Adventure / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Batman: The Killing Joke / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Bear Story / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Ben 10: Omniverse / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Big Top Scooby-Doo! / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Colargol / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Cyberchase / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Cybersix / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Fangface / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Loonatics Unleashed / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Mighty Orbots / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Piggsburg Pigs! / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go! / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Team Galaxy / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The 13 Ghosts of Scooby-Doo / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
We're Back! A Dinosaur's Story / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
X-Men: Evolution / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Don Callis (Wrestling) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
John Tenta (Wrestling) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
Luna Vachon (Wrestling) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Oddities (Wrestling) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear
The Goon (Comic Book) / int_9ef57841	type	Circus of Fear
Gaia Online (Website) / int_685a6461	type	Circus of Fear

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