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Monster Clown
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Clowns are supposed to be funny, whimsical and silly. They're supposed to make everyone laugh, especially children. This is the entire point of their existence. A truly good clown is supposed to be a Friend to All Children. Sometimes they succeed. But for some people, clowns awaken some primal fear. There are children who won't go near a clown without shaking, freezing up or even screaming. Their face is... fake, corpse-like, most often the makeup they use does NOT help, the emotions aren't real, the smile is just painted on. The outfit and big shoes are downright grotesque. There's something seriously wrong with a clown to some people, and this resonates deep within the part of us that still believes that there is a monster in the closet, that will get out if you don't keep the door closed. Cue the Creepy Circus Music... It's startlingly uncommon to find clown characters who are genuinely good. More commonly, writers tap into the fear: the Monster Clown is a classic villain. Expect the Monster Clown to parody humor, with classic jokes becoming deadly; acid in the plastic flowers pinned to their lapels and joy buzzers with fatal amounts of voltage, among other things. If they work in a circus, it'll be a Circus of Fear. Likewise, also expect them to crack dark jokes while killing them and laughing maniacally. Sometimes, a Monster Clown just looks like a clown, and doesn't do what clowns normally do, like tell jokes or work in a circus or go to kids' parties. If there is a clown in a work that just looks like one, it's almost guaranteed that it is a Monster Clown. Because, you know, you just don't go about dressing like a clown without doing anything clowny. Sooner or later, our heroes will have to put these clowns to the sword. And sometimes not even that stops them. Also take note that many of these clowns may or may not be completely insane and also commit their horrific crimes laughing crazily and frequently, and often with a very high-pitched voice while acting in a very similar manner to an overgrown child. Sympathetic clowns are generally a little more muted in appearance and behavior, whether or not this is faithful to the job (in which case, see Sad Clown). Generally, audiences are more receptive to clowns who act more like ordinary people, and have less extravagant makeup. Surly clowns who tiredly work with ungrateful children are more common, probably because they speak to the average overworked audience; they may be an example of Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight. Enemy Mime is a sub-trope of Monster Clown. A villainous clown that is Played for Laughs instead of fear is a Villainous Harlequin. The Depraved Kids' Show Host and Creepy Mascot Suit seems to be related. May be combined with Scary Jack-in-the-Box, Creepy Doll, Perverse Puppet, or Evil Puppeteer. Clowns' ghastly white makeup puts them into White Mask of Doom territory. The Monster Clown is often Affably Evil or (far more likely) Faux Affably Evil. The Monster Clown is often seen with a Balloon of Doom. Compare Repulsive Ringmaster. For examples based on the Joker from Batman, see Practically Joker. The opposite of this trope is the (perhaps sadly) rarely seen any more Non-Ironic Clown. Of course, someone who's Afraid of Clowns wouldn't care either way; they're just creeped out by them no matter what. Despite the page name, Jesters can also apply to this trope as well, as Monster Jesters are also fairly common in media and often maintain similar traits that Monster Clowns posses, albeit sometimes combined with Villainous Harlequin at the same time. |
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Awful Hospital: Gooey Pink Eyes is revealed to be suffering from a strange plague of tiny, flea-sized clowns. | |
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The Far Side: One cartoon features a giant clown marching through a city; a squad of soldiers are behind a building ready to ambush him with a rocket launcher armed with a giant pie. Another cartoon features a group of angry clowns arguing with each other at a negotiation table; the caption reads, "At the strategic pie limitation talks". Implied with another strip that shows a clown being escorted to the electric chair. |
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Blind Guardian's music video for "Mr. Sandman" includes four monster clowns.'' Seriously, don't go to sleep after watching that. | |
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The appropriately-named Nightmares the Clown from the "Beyond Belief" segment of Thrilling Adventure Hour, a parody of Pennywise. He's rather annoyed by the fact that Sadie finds clowns hilarious and giggles constantly whenever she sees him. Frank Doyle has repeatedly battled Nightmares, first encountering him when he was a child and he and his friends investigated several dead and missing children. | |
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The Cyanide & Happiness Show has Silly the Clown, the connecting Big Bad of a building "saga" centered around his exploits. He's just a quiet, grotesque clown with a Pennywise-esque Lamprey Mouth who has New Job as the Plot Demands throughout the episodes he shows up in and he loves to pull a Hope Spot on his victims before either killing or snatching them. Subverted when it's revealed that he only brought victims to his planet just to have a birthday party, as he was lonely, his family mysteriously died and no one around has come to celebrate his birthday. | |
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Danganronpa V3: Killing Harmony: The D.I.C.E. organization consists of ten individuals masked as clowns going around causing mild pranks, vandalism, and petty theft For the Lulz. | |
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Secret Six: DC also has the Ragdoll dynasty. The father was a Golden Age villain with contortionist abilities, who would eventually become a Mansonesque cult leader and eventually regained his youth via a Deal with the Devil. The son lacked his father's natural flexibility, so he remedied it with a series of operations that's left him severely deformed, but with greater flexibility than even his father. And don't ask about the sister. | |
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The titular character of the Lumpy Touch video "Yum Yum" is a self-proclaimed "flavor clown" who is employed by Whoopsie Burger to sample flavors for new burgers, but demonstrates very strange behavior and is heavily implied to be a cannibal. | |
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While the weird-but-superheroic Jack-In-The-Box from Astro City is a Non-Ironic Clown, Jack's two Bad Future Knight Templar descendants definitely fit this trope. | |
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In Sink, a blue van filled with psychotic clowns drives around at night. Those unfortunate enough to be caught by them are mutilated, driven insane and turned into clowns as well. | |
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In Sluggy Freelance a paramilitary clown is a Knight Templar planning to take control of Satanic kittens. He's got a maniacal laugh to boot. Riff is apparently afraid of clowns. He can deal with this to some extent, but unresistingly hands over a gun when the clown asks for it, gets all flustered when questioned why, and later, when the clown grins at him, faints. He also has a nightmare about the Kitty-girl Clowney-devil. |
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Red Meat: Apparently dead clowns◊ are kinda◊ funny.◊ Maybe? | |
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DEATH BATTLE! has pitted two of the worst monster clowns against one another, The Joker vs. Needles Kane a.k.a. Sweet Tooth. | |
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Channel Awesome featured a video with Doug Walker doing a pretty damn good impression of Heath Ledger's Joker practicing his origin story. An attempt to spin this off into a series called "Melvin, Brother of the Joker" was not nearly as well received, and the character became The Scrappy among fans. Walker has engaged in a fair amount of Self-Deprecation about this, and Melvin was killed by other TGWTG contributors during one of the donation drives. | |
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JonTron hilariously subverted the trope in his The Howling Halloween episode. Jon enters his creepy, cobwebbed house and starts to read from a haunted book, but is interrupted by the demented laughter of a clown in his room. He reacts by casually murdering it. | |
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Subverted by Sting in TNA during his 2011 war against the Immortal faction. Slathering over his trademark black lipstick with a grotesquely smeared red Glasgow Grin, playing pranks, and laughing and carrying on maniacally, he seemed to be a Monster Clown but was actually more of a Lovable Rogue playing mind games with the villains. | |
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Unwanted Houseguest features one riding a bike in Episode 29 of "TRUE Scary Stories." The "Monster" part, however, may just be the narrator's paranoia. | |
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One of Riley's deep, subconscious fears in Inside Out is the enormous and horrifyingly manic Jangles the Clown. "Whooo's the birthday girl?!" In the Creative Closing Credits, he's revealed to be a Non-Ironic Clown who is not pleased with his job. | |
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The RPC Authority actually subverts this with RPC-235, a total of 13 living Matryoshkas with a clownish appearance who are completely harmless. If anything, they're Sad Clowns. Played straight with RPC-239, who is a Demonic Dummy possessed by a Serial Killer known as "Bobo the Clown". |
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Atop the Fourth Wall: Linkara is fed up with the negative portrayal of clowns in the media, and introduced Boffo the Clown (who is friendly, dignified and polite) as a deliberate subversion of this trope. | |
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Bug has a page dedicated to this — "It's becoming hard to find old-fashioned clowns". | |
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In 8-Bit Theater, Black Mage gains a clownlike outfit after becoming a blue mage. | |
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Wonders Of The World Wide Web: Parodied. In the GrubHub video, one of the restaurants featured is "Odium Burger." Its mascot is a clown with many sharp teeth and blood running down his chin. Kinna describes him as "adorable." It's unclear whether she's a Nightmare Fetishist or just cheerfully oblivious. Also, if you order from Odium Burger, you get a free knife! | |
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal In strip #3573, someone explains the attributes of clowns on the basis that they are creatures that have evolved in dark caves and sewers. In "Bedtime", an(other?) example of parental trolling claiming this trope: Adverse takes a look at the trope as a self-perpetuating matter of adverse selection, comparing it to healthy people dropping insurance leading to higher prices for sicker people: If kids started a bit scared of clowns, only people somewhat comfortable with scaring kids become clowns, leading to more frightening clowns in turn, which feeds back into the loop as kids are more frightened than before. Iterate enough, and any thinking kid has to assume anyone willing to be a clown today is objectively terrifying. And going by the clown in the comic, the kid would be right. |
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Cracked: Subject Beef certainly fits. Seanbaby speculates on the cause-effect relationship of wearing clown makeup and killing people. All we can say for sure is that it's there, one way or another. | |
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The SCP Foundation has SCP-993, the "Bobble the Clown" show. Once the program starts, everyone in the room over the age of ten passes out, while children under the age of ten report that an animated clown gives how-tos on cannibalism, arson, and a number of other horrifying things; further, the children who watch a show will regularly perform whatever actions Bobble instructed them in until their memories of the show are removed with Easy Amnesia. Worse, whoever is creating the show (and there's a certain amount of evidence that the show itself is a sapient entity that creates and broadcasts itself) appears to be aware that the SCP Foundation has found a way to intercept and block its transmission, as the two most recent episodes are Bobble Hates Younote Bobble the Clown, sitting in a chair and glaring silently at the viewer for the entire episode. and *EXPLETIVE* YOU *EXPLETIVE* YOU *EXPLETIVE* YOUnote Bobble the Clown breaches classification on Foundation researchers, administrators, and SCPs, including detailed instructions on how to breach containment of a number of incredibly dangerous SCPs, with a special guest appearance by the animated version of an SCP researcher who happened to be passing by the room where the Foundation keeps the recordings they make of the show at the time shown on a clock in the episode. When Bobble eventually calmed down about the Foundation blocking him he turned out to be Faux Affably Evil, which was infinitely creepier than him being angry. They also have a wooden statue of a clown which giggles when it's in the dark. Or had, actually, since a clown-hating Foundation agent shot it 15 times with his gun, reducing it to nothing but splinters. |
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Demonbane: Tiberius wears a clown get-up, and is among the most monstrous characters (given that this game has Lovecraftian horrors in it, that is saying something). | |
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Xombie, a flash animation series which takes place After the End in a Zombie Apocalypse world at one point goes trough a circus. Guess what the protagonist has to face there. | |
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The music video to "Salvation" by The Cranberries features a creepy clown with a face full of needles and a glove with a syringe on each finger - since the song has a pretty blatant Drugs Are Bad message, he's apparently meant to be the Anthropomorphic Personification of addiction. | |
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Donald McBonald in The Adventures of Dr. McNinja qualifies. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Lincoln's Memories: In "A Very Loud Halloween", Luan dresses as a psycho clown by taking her normal clown suit and putting fake blood on it. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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The New Adventures of Invader Zim: In Season 2 Episode 5, Zim creates a Cyborg Death Clown and sends it after Dib and his friends as they investigate an allegedly haunted house. In Season 2 Episode 8, Nyx and Gaz's road trip to Arcadikon is sidetracked by doing a favor for Grissom in the form of eliminating a rival gang for him. Said gang for some reason all dress up like clowns, apparently on the basis that clowns are disturbing. |
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Batman: Endgame looks to be taking the Joker's escalating bloodlust and refusal to die to their logical conclusion by depicting the Joker as an Ambiguously Human scourge who has seemingly been menacing Gotham since it was founded. On top of that, the backup stories for the arc contribute several more options to the Joker's Multiple-Choice Past. It's telling that the most "normal" of them is that the Joker has a Healing Factor. | |
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Homestuck: Clowns and harlequins appear as a recurring motif associated with villains, monsters and unsettling themes. As Andrew Hussie points out in the Book 2 commentary, the flash where John walks around his house after it enters the Medium and everything is silent and the place is surrounded by void is made significantly more creepy by all the harlequins scattered around the house. A major mechanic of Sburb is that all items that a player places into their Kernelsprite before entering the Medium give their traits to the enemies spawned by Sburb thereafter. Due to John's giant harlequin doll being the first item used in this manner, all enemies and monsters in the game end up wearing colorful harlequin costumes. Gamzee, who wears clown facepaint and follows a bizarre clown-themed religion, first appears to be a comedic subversion, as he's simply goofy, lighthearted and harmless. However, he eventually undergoes a psychotic break and goes on a murderous rampage, afterwards vacillating between being a destructive killer and a whimsical but ominous free agent. Monster Clowndom appears to be the hat of the Subjugglators, judging by the Grand Highblood's facepaint and colorful paintings. Facepaint and colorful paintings made of the blood of slaughtered trolls. The Highblood's pre-Scratch incarnation, Kurloz, does not look as much like a clown as the rest of the Makara family, but he's in the same cult, uses terms inspired by ICP more frequently, and is just as insane. Notably, not many other examples of this trope act quite as subtly or in as much Machiavellian style as he does. The Insane Clown Posse have a significant influence on the backstory of the Post-Scratch universe. In addition to their entry above, they acted as the last presidents of the US, and were responsible for innumerable deaths before being assassinated by Dave's alternate self. Also, they (along with Dave and Betty Crocker) were indirectly responsible for Gamzee's aforementioned rampage. |
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Monster Clown | |
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One-Punch Man A Dragon - level monster known as the "Pesky Clown" showed up. He carried a bunch of balloons that could pop as a substitute for him taking damage, effectively making him invincible until he ran out of balloons. He was eventually defeated by Amai Mask, although he required revealing his true monster form to do so. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Whiteface from Supreme Power: Nighthawk is an absolutely psychopathic serial-poisoner with a body count in the thousands who dresses up as a clown. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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In Nodwick, after re-lived her fifth birthday several times: | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Dead Clown, Psycho Clown, Murder Clown and Monster Clown of AAA are most definitely not examples of this trope, NOT!. Neither is mini clown! | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Diamanda Hagan, who is a female Joker and enjoys slaying her minions when bored. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Rigoletto, kinda. Although he's portrayed in a sympathetic light at parts, he's still a crazy, bitter, grotesque jester who indirectly kills his daughter and Morality Pet, Gilda. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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On the Rifftrax for The Dark Knight, after the Joker flips the semi over and starts making goofy noises with his lips, the riffers say this: | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Blade once fought vampire clowns. Really. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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The villains from Hector's World are a group of clowns called the Info Gang. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Eliot Franklin, from the Marvel Universe, worked as a clown and wore his clown costume to commit crimes. He eventually became a professional hitman. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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In Robyn Hood: I Love NY #4, Robyn fights a gang of monster clowns who are abducting children. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Sognic: Mall-tiverse of Madness: Deconstructed in episode 3. During Airo's nightmare, he is suddenly faced with a huge, hulking, scary clown. Roter.exe claims that since clowns are scary, he should automatically "win" at scaring Airo just by summoning a clown. However, Airo points out that he has no reason to be afraid of clowns because he has already beaten up so many enemy clowns in his home game. He then knocks out the clown in one hit. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Ice And Fire: Kallen's Zero mask, unlike the one Lelouch wears in canon, makes her look like this. More specifically, it's an ornate clown mask that's happy on one side and sad on the other. Subverted in that, despite being ruthless at times, she's not actually evil. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Simon Keyes from Gyakuten Kenji 2, who reveals himself as the true Big Bad of the game, and easily manipulates multiple people similar to Matt Engarde, though he only reveals himself as a clown when he's performing. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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In Marco & the Galaxy Dragon, two aliens disguised as clowns kidnap a young Marco and seemingly murder her mother during the prologue. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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An issue of the revamped Creepy Magazine features a murderous clown who kills "demons" wherever he sees them. He sees them everywhere. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Pagliacci features Pinkie Pie as a Jokeresque character. You'll never look at that little pink pony the same way again. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Geiru Toneido, although she's a balloon artist, not a clown, from Spirit of Justice. She certainly seems this way having framed an innocent five-year-old, killed her master out of jealousy, and has a villainous clown look to her. | |
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The Joker from Batman. The Trope Codifier. His shtick frequently involves jacket flowers that spray acid, hand buzzers that electrocute people, wind-up teeth that actually bite people, and a "Joker toxin" that kills people while leaving them with a Glasgow Grin. He serves as a major contrast with Batman himself, a brooding, stoic Dark Is Not Evil hero. The Joker, incidentally, was originally based on Conrad Veidt's role in The Man Who Laughs. While the titular clown of this picture wasn't evil, he certainly was unbelievably disturbing-looking◊. Tim Burton's Batman Returns gives the Penguin a bunch of clowns as henchmen, despite the fact that clowns are more the territory of the Joker. According to the production notes, Burton's vision of the Penguin was inspired by The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, so a Circus of Fear is a necessity. And in the briefly-mentioned backstory, the Penguin in that version also was a sideshow freak in his childhood, implying that's where his gang comes from. Death of the Family: The Joker once again acts as this trope. But he seems to be emphasizing the "Monster" part of the trope this time around. Although he denies it, saying he's not really a clown; despite his appearance and gag-themed weapons, he's not able to make someone laugh without his signature chemicals. Batman: Endgame looks to be taking the Joker's escalating bloodlust and refusal to die to their logical conclusion by depicting the Joker as an Ambiguously Human scourge who has seemingly been menacing Gotham since it was founded. On top of that, the backup stories for the arc contribute several more options to the Joker's Multiple-Choice Past. It's telling that the most "normal" of them is that the Joker has a Healing Factor. Even the Creeper has shown dislike of clowns. |
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Gunnerkrigg Court does a bit of Lampshade Hanging: | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Gop Donsterly from The Pink City is a gelatinous creature vaguely in the shape of a clown that is both a wanted criminal and has a supernatural game show in his gut. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Subverted in General Protection Fault, where The Gamester is portrayed as a benevolent, and rule-following cosmic being. (His Evil Twin, Pandemonium, on the other hand...) | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Flashback (MHA): In a conversation with Midnight, All Might notes that the most infamous American supervillain to this day was a clown-themed villain called "Mister Smiles", who was so terrifying that even now, American supervillains hate to be compared to clowns. All Might openly describes him as worse than his own Arch-Enemy, All For One, and summarizes him as a supervillain whose starting point was looking at the Joker and going "hold my beer". | |
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Invoked in the Rifftrax for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when a student casts a spell on a boggart to transform it from a giant snake into a giant, horrifying clown. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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In Minions, one of the supervillains who chases Kevin across the city is a bomb-juggling, Laughing Mad, unicycle-riding clown. | |
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Bugbo: Zig-Zagging Trope. The Hollow Clown in Under the Oak has a disturbing, masklike face that lives up to his name. He also has a creepy voice and mannerisms. However, he doesn't do anything evil that we see. He is actually a Non-Ironic Clown who is depressed because his circus was shut down by the mayor. On the other hand, a Freeze-Frame Bonus reveals that the circus contains a nuclear missile with a clown face on it. Did he put that there, and was he planning to use it? | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Girl Genius has a Jack-in-the-box in Heterodynes nursery combining the charm of Monster Clown with steel-clad brutality of an overengineered murder-bot. "It explains... so much..." We don't know yet who made this toy, though — it may well be local "young masters" themselves. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Wapsi Square demonstrated that there are few things scarier than a dog in a clown mask. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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One of the primary bad guys in the Madness Combat Flash series is Tricky the Clown. Originally appearing in Madness Redeemer as a minor villain, he was pinned to a giant marshmallow (don't ask) by Hank in Avenger with a stop sign and turned into a zombie before being taken down by Hank again. He donned a Jason-style hockey mask for Apotheosis, but did not take part in the fighting. But in Depredation, Antipathy and Consternation, the Clown took on the power to warp reality itself, making him virtually unstoppable even after getting the top of his head sliced off and being blown full of holes at point blank range by Hank. | |
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Monster Clown | |
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Dumbo is an early, downplayed example — the clowns genuinely like making their audience laugh, but they're a bunch of Jerkasses behind the scenes, humiliating Dumbo (and having a clown play his mother is pretty cruel, considering what happened to her) and not worrying about hurting him, or worse. One of the clowns does get a Pet the Dog moment, but that's about it. (When he insists "You'll hurt the little guy", the other clowns just laugh him off and say that elephants can't get hurt because "they're made of rubber.") | |
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Helluva Boss: Blitzo is a former clown-turned-assassin operating a hitman service out of Hell. His crass, impulsive and inappropriate behavior has been the death of both his former career and many of his personal relationships. All of which return back to haunt him. The series also gives us another Imp clown: Fizzarolli. Unlike Blitzo, Fizzarolli is a very successful jester and celebrity in the Lust ring, selling robotic replicas of himself as both animatronics and sexbots with the added distinction of being the consort of King Asmodeus himself. What makes him truly monstrous however, is his willingness to publicly humiliate anyone who crosses him or his master. The Prince of Hell Mammon is the Anthropomorphic Personification of Greed and The Performer King who acts as a cross between this and a Corrupt Corporate Executive. As Hell's most famous clown, he acted as The Svengali to Fizzaroli and was the one who came up with the sexbot idea in order to make as much money off him as possible while emotionally blackmailing him into doing everything he says. |
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Pony POV Series: An Alternate Universe glimpsed in the Truth (as well as in Dark World) gives us Nightmare Granfalloon, Pinkie Pie's potential Superpowered Evil Side. | |
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Eric Draven, the protagonist of The Crow, is one of the few non-villainous examples of the Monster Clown, given that he wears facial makeup directly based on an old Pierrot mask of his, but is a tragic undead Villain Killer who goes after the criminals that murdered him and his Lost Lenore. | |
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Protoclown from The Tick. And then the subversion: Protoclown was genetically engineered to be the perfect Non-Ironic Clown, and deep down he's not such a bad guy. He just really hates being laughed at. | |
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RiffTrax: Fear of clowns is a Running Gag for Rifftrax, right behind their fear of monkeys. Check out the riffed shorts "The Creeps Machine" and "Story-Telling: Can You Tell It In Order?" for some good examples. This is a natural continuation from a similar fear on MST3K. Invoked in the Rifftrax for Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban, when a student casts a spell on a boggart to transform it from a giant snake into a giant, horrifying clown. On the Rifftrax for The Dark Knight, after the Joker flips the semi over and starts making goofy noises with his lips, the riffers say this: |
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Devil Pierrot #1 and Devil Pierrot #2 are a monster clown tag team of Fighting Opera HUSTLE fame. | |
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Mortasheen combines this with Mons and has a classification of creatures (Specifically the Joker class) based on this concept. Some of them are very weird. Like the eye-chicken-ventriloquist Opticaper, the straitjacket-snake-clown Insanititter and whatever Madcap is. | |
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Lady Death: Pagan is a demon dressed like a court jester and is one of Lucifer's servants. He is known to have a rather twisted sense of humor. | |
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Not the intended use (Zantetsuken Reverse): One of the monster souls that Soma has is Killer Clown. | |
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Jay Insano of the New Villain Order. Originally he even spoke in Mark Hamill voice clips. | |
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In If the Emperor Had a Text-to-Speech Device, Cegorach has milked his canon status as one of these for all it's worth, only stopping when he's trying to be a Scary Librarian instead. He's only been on screen for maybe 10 minutes total, but in that time single-handedly fought off a chaos invasion while trolling them and scarred for life a pair 10,000 year old custodies just for the hell of it. | |
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The appropriately titled song "Clown" by the band Korn. The lyrics aren't literally about a clown, they just compare the subject of the song to one... but there's some deliberate monster clown imagery in there, and the verse riff sounds like Creepy Circus Music. | |
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The Magnus Archives gives us a number of servants of The Stranger, the embodiment of the Uncanny Valley. As it represents the fears of things that look human but have something that makes them seem not, of course it has clowns in its retinue. It's said that Joseph Grimaldi, the most famous clown in British history, was one of its servants, and its current avatar, Nikola Orsinov, is usually depicted in fright makeup and ringleader's garb. | |
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Shawn "Clown" Crahan of Slipknot. All of his masks are clown-themed and take the concept to unique and disturbing extremes, from a relatively simple but ugly clown to one with a pentagram carved into its face to a BDSM mask. | |
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Trapped with Jester: Downplayed. Jester is a demon with a jester's appearance who isn't above murder, as he may tear apart the drivers of the carriage and invite the protagonist on a path of vengeance or to raze the world together. He's otherwise very amiable (although he may take you as a pet with or without your consent), which leaves his morality up in the air. | |
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Flower Angel: In Season 5 episode 24, Xiaoai and Eric end up in a candy world with a clown who lets them explore it and ride the carnival rides that are also there. The clown tricks them into thinking he's friendly, but lets Eric fall asleep from exhaustion before using the opportunity to forcibly control Xiaoai like a string puppet. | |
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Annihilators: The plot of the backup story is kicked off when a gun-toting wooden clown attacks Rocket Raccoon at his workplace. Later, a whole hit squad of similar clowns comes after him on Planet X. | |
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Fantasia 2000 has the Jack-In-The-Box from the Piano Concerto No. 2 in F Major segment. He's a Scary Jack-in-the-Box with the outfit of a jester, and he develops a Villainous Crush on the Ballerina. He's quite frightening and cruel in his attempts to kill the Tin Soldier. | |
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Death of the Family: The Joker once again acts as this trope. But he seems to be emphasizing the "Monster" part of the trope this time around. Although he denies it, saying he's not really a clown; despite his appearance and gag-themed weapons, he's not able to make someone laugh without his signature chemicals. | |
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Rotting Camellias has four of them, portrayed by Teto, Tei, Ruko, and Ritsu. | |
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There's a viral comment being spread on YouTube warning, "a clown will kill u at 3:00 A.M. tomorrow morning if u dont pass this 2 10 vids [sic]." | |
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In Nobody Scores! the cast is too horribly jaded even for this. | |
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The Spoony Experiment features Noah playing "Chuckles the Fucking Jester", a character from the Ultima series. Spoony finds him creepy, screaming when he enters the room. He is also relentlessly obnoxious, making bad jokes and beating Noah with a rubber chicken for not playing "The Game" correctly. After Spoony's robot blasts him with a laser beam, Chuckles flees, and a mysterious figure points out his ability to cause great fear, giving him a Yellow Lantern ring. | |
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Lordi on their album 'Scare Force One' have a song dedicated to this trope appropriately called 'Hell Sent In The Clowns', accompanied by Creepy Circus Music throughout the song. | |
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Star Wars: Galactic Folklore and Mythology: The ancient Gungans worshiped a mad laughing god called Har Har, whose priests also served as court jesters and performed sacrifices "as hilarious as they were brutal". | |
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In the Seeso series of My Brother, My Brother and Me, Griffin tries to get some local teens to give up their phones by giving them to the Clown Box: a chained-up box with a picture of a clown on it in the middle of the woods.Inside is apparently a clown, who gives gifts in exchange for phones.When it doesn't receive a phone, it becomes enraged, escapes, and kills Griffin, his brothers, and the teens. | |
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If: In it the then UK prime Minister Theresa May is portrayed as, in Steve Bells own words, an "evil,scary clown". | |
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Evillious Chronicles In "Five the Pierrot/Gobanme no Piero", Lemy/Remy Abelard is a very unique example of this. First, he's just an assassin who has the nickname "Pierrot" and wears a clown outfit. Second, he's not really a monster. He's just been raised wrong by Santa/Julia Abelard, his adoptive mother and leader of the organization he belongs to, Pere Noel. | |
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Talked about in the Sick Sad World episode "Origins Of Scary Things". Jasmine developed a fear of clowns after a childhood incident where she saw an older child dressed as a scary clown. The hosts mention the then-common clown pranksters, and say people who try jokes like that should be prepared for their victims to know self-defense moves. |
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Equestria Divided: The Cult of Laughter is an entire army of these run by a Monster from Beyond the Veil Pinkie Pie. | |
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Calvin & Hobbes: The Series: A fake one of these pops out of a door as an In-Universe Jump Scare. Later, a living mannequin clown with a Slasher Smile appears. | |
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Strong Man, the Old-Timey version of Strong Mad from Homestar Runner. As his name suggests, he is actually an unintelligent circus strongman who for some reason is always facing the camera and is working for Sir Strong Bad, The Homestar Runner's archnemesis. | |
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The Comedian from Watchmen arguably qualifies. In his original costume as one of the Minutemen anyway. When he gets his second costume and becomes one of the Crimebusters, not so much. Like the Joker's Glasgow smile in The Dark Knight, the scar the Comedian gets in Vietnam is eerily reminiscent of a clown's painted smile. |
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In 2014, "The World Famous" Kana started wearing clown makeup and became a "consultant" for joshi fed REINA. Soon enough, she used her new authority, and money, to give herself a title belt and form a stable known as Piero-gun. | |
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Scuzzo the Clown appears in Cobweb and Stripes, which is partially based on the Beetlejuice cartoon. He's only shown up briefly thus far, but it's clear that he and Betelgeuse don't like each other. | |
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Bray Wyatt could be considered a Monster Clown of a sort. His clothing is much too colorful for such an angsty individual, he has a bone-chilling Evil Laugh, many of his speech patterns seem to have been inspired by Heath Ledger's Joker, and he calls himself "the eater of worlds" - one of the titles Pennywise the Dancing Clown applies to himself in It. Add a dash of Mister Rogers and you get his 2019 gimmick as the Depraved Kids' Show Host of "Firefly Fun House", a run which ultimately culminated in Bray becoming the Fiend, the monstrous, golden-eyed demon. | |
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Ace Attorney has two: Simon Keyes from Gyakuten Kenji 2, who reveals himself as the true Big Bad of the game, and easily manipulates multiple people similar to Matt Engarde, though he only reveals himself as a clown when he's performing. Geiru Toneido, although she's a balloon artist, not a clown, from Spirit of Justice. She certainly seems this way having framed an innocent five-year-old, killed her master out of jealousy, and has a villainous clown look to her. |
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In 2014, there was the ice cream clown family Sweet Licks, Cutty and Bubba from the haunted house, Clowns 3D: Music by Slash. Once, they were ordinary clowns working at the Sweet Licks Frozen Clown Pops ice cream factory/roadside attraction, but the negative portrayal of clowns in the media and the USA's demand for treats low in fat and calories drove them out of business...and insane and desperate for money. So, the clowns came up with a wicked plan to save their business: trick people into coming into their ice cream factory with the promise of free ice cream for one day, kill them, turn their bodies into "healthy" ice cream and sell it to the public. | |
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Violator from Spawn. At first, he's just a Fat Bastard Depraved Dwarf clown who delights in murder and mayhem. Then it turns out that the grotesque human is just a skin-suit over a Lean and Mean demon from hell. | |
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Gaming All-Stars has the highly-sadistic Needles "Sweet Tooth" Kane, who is also one of the few characters in The Ultimate Crossover and Remastered to outright kill a character for real rather than trophifying them. He's also one of the few villains in Remastered to survive Andross' attack on Earth, only getting Killed Off for Real during the third season of 2. | |
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The Brave Little Toaster had a nightmare about a fireman-clown trying to chase her into a filled bathtub. His only line was "Run!". Sound advice! Considering it was a toaster's nightmare, and the clown was armed with a fire hose and a fork... Heck, the way his hair is shaped, he looks like the Devil! | |
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Pagliacci: An Unbuilt Trope. The opera involves Canio trying to play a Non-Ironic Clown, when in fact he is a Sad Clown because his wife is cheating on him, but The Show Must Go On. Finally he snaps and stabs his wife and her lover to death on stage in front of a live audience. The whole point is that he's not a monster or a psychopath just because he's a clown; if anything, his clown role is meant for Dramatic Irony. On the other hand, the evil hunchback clown Tonio plays the trope much straighter, being a Manipulative Bastard (and attempted rapist) who spitefully engineers the events that lead to the deaths at the end. | |
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In Wily's Defense does some Lampshade Hanging as well, a comic being devoted to how terrifying clowns can be, in order to further Cut Man's argument that Kefka is a better villain than Sephiroth. | |
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In The Word Weary, Yorick's elf rogue character is disguised as a jester- and he's just as acerbic and mean as he is the in regular story. | |
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Deadpool sees all clowns as Monster Clowns. He's never actually encountered a real Monster Clown in the comics, but his solo mission in Marvel Ultimate Alliance has him fighting an army of clowns in a circus. | |
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| Deadpool (Comic Book) | hasFeature |
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Monster Clown | |
| Monster Clown / int_fbc58609 | comment |
The Clown With The Tearaway Face from The Nightmare Before Christmas. Subverted in that he isn't that scary once you get to know him, just like the other denizens of Halloween Town. | |
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1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
Monster Clown / int_fbc58609 | |
| Monster Clown / int_fc451dc6 | type |
Monster Clown | |
| Monster Clown / int_fc451dc6 | comment |
Cinderjuice: Scuzzo the Clown assists the primary villains in the first installment of the Contractually Obligated Chaos series. | |
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Monster Clown / int_fc451dc6 | |
| Monster Clown / int_fe16b92c | type |
Monster Clown | |
| Monster Clown / int_fe16b92c | comment |
Happy Heroes: Season 7 episode 13 features a clown villain whose name is, in fact, Monster Clown (or Clown Monsternote both English names are official translations; "Monster Clown" is used by Miao Mi for its official English description of the episode while "Clown Monster" is used in the actual episode itself for their English dub). In the episode, Big M. releases him from a high-security prison for especially dangerously criminals to have him help in a evil plan of his, only to be Taken for Granite by the clown along with many others - Clown Monster's special power is to absorb energy from people's laughing and using it to turn the laughing person or people into stone. | |
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