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Owls possess several traits that make them creepy to humans. Firstly, they're nocturnal and permeate the dark of night with their spooky call. Secondly, they strike in silence and eat cute critters like little mice. Thirdly, not many creatures on this planet can spin their heads all the way around, and owls are among those few capable of this uncanny feat.note Not really, but they can turn their heads further around than most animals (270 degrees total compared to 180 degrees for a human). And then snap their heads around to the other side so quickly you could be forgiven for thinking they'd actually gone 360 And then there's also those wide, piercing eyes of theirs and claws that can badly hurt a human if an owl would choose to attack one. Rare, but not unheard of. Owls have long been viewed as harbingers of disease, death, destruction, and bad luck. To the Hopi, they were a symbol of evil sorcery; to the Romans, they were funerary birds, signaling ill will in the daytime (unless you were collecting their eggs, in which case they signaled a Hideous Hangover Cure); and the Aztec god of death, Mictlantecuhtli, was often portrayed with owls. In some Native North American traditions, owls are associated with the evil wintertime spirits most popularly known in English as wendigo, and a few languages used a single word to refer to both the bird and the spirit. Geoffrey Chaucer also had a thing for them. Harbinger is the key-word here, all too often the owls are used in films as normal, non-threatening (to humans) animals who merely enrich the eerie ambiance with their huge glistening eyes and especially their otherworldly hooting. So remember: if you ever see an owl, clutch your Tootsie Roll Pops tightly and run in the other direction. See also Brutal Bird of Prey, Creepy Crows, Vile Vulture, and Circling Vultures for other types of scary, creepy birds, as well as Bat Out of Hell for another scary nocturnal flyer, and The Owl-Knowing One (for when the owl is an Evil Genius). Contrast Cute Owl (though there might be some overlap when Cute Is Evil). |
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Justified in Poppy, since most of the cast are mice. However the mice and the owl, Mr. Ocax, have an odd relationship in which the mice are forced to pretend that Mr. Ocax is their kindly ruler/landlord. | |
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Tales from the Crypt had an episode with a man who gets the auditory system of an owl. | |
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Adventure Time: Cosmic Owl is a pretty chill dude, but when he appears to Jake in a dream that appears to predict his (Jake's) death, Jake calmly, completely, even *enthusiastically* accepts that he's going to die which freaks Finn out terribly. A more straightforward example comes from the episode "Up a Tree", which features a villainous owl as the leader of an animal cult that collects anything (or in Finn's case, anyone) that winds up in their tree. |
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Watchmen: The second Nite Owl was probably going for a heroic but still intimidating version of this imagery with his theme, but doesn't quite pull it off. | |
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Used for dramatic effect in Over the Garden Wall. Both Wirt and Beatrice, on different occasions, come across a spooky owl in sitting a dark tree, which serves to make the woods of the Unknown even scarier. | |
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Subverted in the Young Adult novel Hoot. While burrowing owls are tiny and adorable, their existence on a construction site spells doom for the pancake house that is supposed to be built on it. | |
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In Tokyo Ghoul, the Ghouls with this Animal Motif are particularly frightening. The legendary One-Eyed Owl, the most powerful Ghoul seen in the original series. Rumored to be a Half-Human Hybrid prone to committing cannibalism, it appeared suddenly a decade prior to the series and began a killing spree targeting Ghoul Investigators. It was only when The Ace challenged it that the Owl was forced to retreat even managed to defeat them but spared due to personal reasons, going into hiding. The mere thought that it could show up again terrifies CCG, and with good reason. When it finally appears, it becomes clear just how monstrous a Ghoul can become. Kind and grandfatherly Yoshimura — normally associated with The Owl-Knowing One — becomes this trope when sufficiently provoked into coming out of his peaceful retirement. When he fights, it is typically presented as a Mook Horror Show. The sequel gives us another such Ghoul, former Plucky Comic Relief Seidou Takizawa. Reforged into a Minion and driven mad, he gleefully murders everything in his path. That he looks like a strung-out Goth adds to his creepiness, as does him comparing human brains to jam. Another one who has this trope is no other than Koutaro Amon, who also received Yoshimura's kagune and thus his abilities, and suffers both of the pros as well as the cons. |
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B.P.R.D. 1946 and 1947 feature a vampire count who shapeshifts into an owl. Sometimes he does it to make murdering Nazis easier and sometimes he does it to get around faster. It's just his thing. | |
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Monster Hunter: Monster Hunter Generations: The Malfestio is a giant owl-like monster with an "evil jester" motif and the power to inflict Confusion and Sleep on your Hunter. Monster Hunter: Rise: To the monsters you pursue in the game, there is nothing more ominous than the Cohoot, as they track and scout out prey for Hunters, leading to the monster's death or capture. |
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Usagi Yojimbo: The comic reflects the Japanese idea that the Owl is a symbol of death. In one story, Usagi and Gen spot one perched near a hut. When they looked inside and found their old friend, Zato-Ino, in a hut and gravely wounded, that bird was a bad omen. However, they are able to successfully treat the pig and Gen spitefully goes out to taunt the bird and drive it away. Later the Owl is diving for a cute little lizard, but the little guy is saved by an attacking Tokage who tackles the Owl and eats it. There's a very mysterious assassin called "The Lord of Owls" who appears in one chapter. |
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In Hellboy: The Corpse, when the Fairy King makes his first appearance, he has an owl perched on his arm. | |
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In SongBird Symphony, Birb's mentor, the Owl, is benevolent but rather spooky. His overall look is very realistic compared to the rest of the game's cartoonish art style, and as Birb comes closer to fulfilling his goals, he starts creepily staring ahead and wiggling his Feather Fingers in excitement. And then he turns out to be the Big Bad, having manipulated Birb into activating his artifact so he could claim ultimate power over the forest and silence the Lyrebirds once and for all. | |
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In two different Discworld novels, Reaper Man and Snuff, owl-shaped clocks in quiet country parlours create discomfiture in the leading characters. Death, temporarily rendered mortal, is reminded of the passage of time and his own impending mortality, whilst Sam Vimes decides he hates owl-shaped clocks on principle because of their sinister nature. | |
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In a story in The Muddle-Headed Wombat series, an owl antagonizes the protagonists for setting a tree house in its home tree. It decides not to bother the trio anymore when the treehouse ends up underneath the tree instead. | |
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The World is Filled with Monsters: Strygians, gigantic hawk owls turned into creatures of living shadow by exposure to dark magic. | |
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In the Thomas & Friends horror series The Horrors of Hawin Lake, the hauntings are heralded by owls. | |
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In Octopath Traveler II, Ochette's final boss is a creepy owl if Ochette selected Akala as her Animal Companion at the start of the game. Mahina then becomes corrupted into the Darkling after being tortured and experimented on for ten years. The Darkling has become giant and aggressive thanks to its experiences and went through some major Body Horror. Especially notable since Mahina is normally a Cute Owl if Ochette chooses her instead. | |
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In Kid Klown In Night Mayor World, a giant owl serves as the boss of the second level. It attacks Kid Klown by swooping down at him and tossing feathers.note The game was originally released in Japan as Mickey Mouse 3: Dream Balloon. In that version of the game, the boss was Ziggy the Vulture. | |
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The Shin Megami Tensei franchise has Andras, a demon with the body of a human, wings of an angel, and head of an owl. | |
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Stand Still, Stay Silent: The luonto of Onni, the most powerful mage among the recurring characters, is an Eurasian eagle-owl. | |
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Les Voyageurs Sans Souci: When the main characters arrive at the abandoned castle, they are said that it is haunted by ghosts. Sébastien and Agathe also learn those supposed ghosts are called the Lords/Princes of Night by the local birdlife, who take care to not fly near from the castle after sundown because they are terrified of them. Both kids decide to wait until night to climb the tower and spy on the ghosts, finding out they are a flock of eagle-owls. Unfortunately they are discovered, and have to flee from an angry and very scary eagle-owl. | |
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An owl appears during the Headless Horseman's introductory sequence from The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad, as the starting point of the course of classic scary Halloween motifs. | |
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Monster Hunter Generations: The Malfestio is a giant owl-like monster with an "evil jester" motif and the power to inflict Confusion and Sleep on your Hunter. | |
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Skyhold, the player character's home base for most of Dragon Age: Inquisition, has a recurring motif of stone owls in several rooms. They're not ominous in and of themselves; however, a codex entry found in the game may make them seem so, when it explains that the owl is an emblem of Falon'Din, the Dalish god of death. This is actually the very earliest subtle hint that Solas, the companion who showed the Inquisitor how to find the fortress, is actually Fen'Harel, the Dalish Trickster God. | |
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In Hedgehog in the Fog, an owl keeps following the hedgehog around. Subverted in that it doesn't harm anyone and it comes off as more of a Cloudcuckoolander. | |
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The villain of Nighttime Is My Time is a Serial Killer who uses an owl as his symbol. He calls himself the Owl and is referred to by this name in his narration to conceal his identity from the reader. The villain chose this alias because owls are stealthy nocturnal predators, like him. It also stems from an incident in his childhood where he had to play an owl in a school performance but was so nervous he ended up humiliating himself and was slapped by his father; he was later mocked for it in high school too, so he reclaims it as a symbol of his power and vengeance against those who have wronged him. The Owl also utilizes owl-shaped pins as his Calling Card and wears an owl mask while committing his crimes. | |
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The black owl seen at the start of Isle of Dogs appears to be this as it hangs around Trash Island. It's subverted when the owl proves useful when carrying messages for the island dogs. | |
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The Twins (2022): When Lake and Lucas hop the fence into the junkyard, eerie music begins to play, the whole scene is awash in blue, and an owl with glowing eyes appears hooting ominously before snatching a mouse in its beak to emphasize the looming danger. When Lake is startled by the owl, Lucas makes fun of him. After Lucas is killed, that same owl retuns, this time with glowing red eyes. | |
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In Reservation Dogs episode 3 has a fake owl outside Uncle Brownie's house. Since the kids are all Native they see this as an ill omen and try to avoid looking at it, and the owl's eyes are even pixellated (presumably for the sake of any Natives watching the show). | |
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He has been mentioned already under Comics, but the Owlman of Justice League: Crisis on Two Earths is an Omnicidal Maniac who thinks the only action that would have any meaning would be to destroy every single Earth there is in the multiverse. | |
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In the video for Neko Case's "Maybe Sparrow", a barn owl threatens the little songbird (even though the lyrics name a hawk as the enemy). | |
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In Cyborg 009, a mother owl and her babies actually live in an abandoned castle in Germany where Albert/004 fights a robot with his same looks and powers. During the fight, the nest gets knocked off its site and out of reflex 004 shields the owls with his own body... which saves his life, as the robot couldn't predict his human reaction and its programmed strategies are all screwed. | |
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SCP Foundation: SCP-1049 is an owl that is able to remove the bones of any human subject it attacks, causing their death. | |
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Would I Lie to You?: Greg Davies used a drawing of the "Hoot Owl of Death" as sort of a Black Spot when he was a child. | |
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The Discworld series makes fun of this trope (as it does virtually every trope in existence). The Epebian goddess of wisdom was supposed to have an owl as her signature animal. Unfortunately, due to her church hiring a sculptor who wasn't very good at doing birds for her statue, she ended up with a penguin. In two different Discworld novels, Reaper Man and Snuff, owl-shaped clocks in quiet country parlours create discomfiture in the leading characters. Death, temporarily rendered mortal, is reminded of the passage of time and his own impending mortality, whilst Sam Vimes decides he hates owl-shaped clocks on principle because of their sinister nature. |
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Gotham Knights (2022) centres around the Court of Owls mentioned under Comic Books above. | |
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World of Warcraft players flying in the Skettis area can testify to the truth of this trope. Gods all blast those Monstrous Kaliris.... | |
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A couple of Lindsey Stirling's videos, e.g. her Zelda medley, use owl hoots to set the scene and make it seem scary. | |
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A Darkness More Than Night: The killer leaves a porcelain owl at the murder scene as a token. | |
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In the Freakazoid! episode "Candle Jack," the first instance of "Scream-o-vision" occurs when an owl appears in the frame and hoots at the audie | |
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The Suite Life of Zack & Cody: In "The Arwin That Came To Dinner", the twins are trying to help Arwin after his mom moved out of the house, and they find a collection of owl statues that look like they are staring at you. The twins decide they have to get rid of them because of how creepy they look. Zack decides to find a new home for them, and places them in Mr. Moseby's office. Mr. Moseby sees the owls, and he's freaked out. | |
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In The Fourth Kind, the owls are actually Aliens coming to abduct you. | |
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Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time reveals that Clockwerk might just be the very first of owls, as he's been around since the ice age. | |
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As you might expect from the name Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams' DLC Rise of the Owlverlord features a vicious Ninja Pirate Owl who kidnaps you and attempts to conquer the dream world. | |
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The Ballad of Buster Scruggs. The mother owl in "All Gold Canyon" may or may not be some sort of supernatural guardian of the valley's peace. A Prospector steals one of its eggs and ends up being shot In the Back by a claim jumper. But when seeing the owl watching him, the prospector felt guilty and returned all but one of the eggs, which may be why the wound isn't fatal and he's allowed to leave with his gold. | |
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Mr. Willowby's Christmas Tree: The mice are terrified of owls. Fortunately for them, the owls are too busy celebrating their own holiday to notice the mice in their tree. | |
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Exalted: Meticulous Owl, Endless-Faced Spite. He gets bonuses for Hiding in Plain Sight. Also Lilith, a traumatized, horrifically powerful owl-totemed Lunar martial-arts master. |
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In the Obsidian & Blood trilogy, owls are the preferred sacrifice of Mictlantechtli, the Aztec God of the Underworld. | |
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The appearance of Jareth, the goblin king, in Labyrinth (and his departure at the end) involved his becoming an owl... actually, Labyrinth's entire opening shot is a (for the time) impressive CG sequence of said owl flying around the opening credit shots and eventually becoming a real owl with a carefully executed editing sweep shot into the first scene. | |
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In the Marvel Universe, there's a villain named The Owl, who's primarily a member of Daredevil's Rogues Gallery. He eventually had surgery done to make him look more like an owl. | |
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Molly of Denali: Subverted in "Bird in Hand." The scary sound coming from the dryer turns out to just be a boreal owl. A very cute boreal owl. | |
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The Owl House: Eda is a witch with an owl motif, owning a staff ending in an owl figurine and living in the eponymous Owl House. In one episode, Luz directly asks how she initially got the moniker of Owl Lady; Eda herself claims that it's because she's incredibly wise, while Hooty and King suggest that the connection might be more literal, due to her tendency to cough up owl pellets and hoard shiny objects in a nest. While those are part of it, the main reason turns out to be she's been cursed to turn into a demonic owl creature if she doesn't regularly take an elixir to prevent the transformation. | |
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Pathfinder has the syrinx, who are xenophobic owl people who want to enslave all other sapient beings. On the other hand, there's Tanagaar, empyreal lord of vigilance, an unambiguously good — though somewhat solemn and ominous — owllike celestial being. | |
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The Myth of Link & Zelda: Breath of the Wild, a fanmade novelized adaptation of the game of the same name, there's an original entity called the Owl Spirit, or just the Owl. As its name implies, it takes the form of a giant golden owl. It's Zelda's spirit animal, expanding her sealing power from just a sealing power to wielding the power of this enormous spirit animal. It's not ominous on its own, except for one scene where Paya, empowered by the Sheikah Orb, has a vision where she sees the Owl as wielded by Zelda become suddenly corrupted by Malice in the same vein as Calamity Ganon. | |
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Dungeons & Dragons: Spellweavers are humanoids with six arms and the heads of barn owls. They're generally benevolent, but they don't talk and look kind of creepy. Subverted with the grim, a 2nd Edition good-aligned monster that often took the form of an owl. It hangs around cursed graveyards and other creepy locales, but does so to help keep evil forces from escaping such places. |
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Endling - Extinction is Forever: Even in this dark future where humans have utterly wrecked the ecosystem, owls are one of the species who managed to survive, and they pose a threat to the Mother Fox’s cubs. They can be found sleeping on the overworld and must be snuck past. If the Mother Fox fails to do so, it will wake up and try to take off with one of the baby foxes unless the Mother Fox fends them off. It's also notable for being (outside of hunger) one of the few ways that she can lose her children during the game. | |
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Stolas from the Ars Goetia also appears. He doesn't attack on his own, but summons various other monsters. He is also an example of The Owl-Knowing One. | |
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Avatar: The Last Airbender: The Knowledge Spirit, Wan Shi Tong, combines the inherent creepiness of a giant talking owl with the ability to stretch his neck like some sort of feathery snake. He makes a comeback in The Legend of Korra, even less tolerant of humans (especially Aang's descendants) and is even allied with Unalaq. The standard owls in this universe really are cats as birds; one was used to aid in the creepy atmosphere of "The Puppetmaster". |
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In Advance Wars: Days of Ruin, the symbol for military research company IDS (and thus, by extension Caulder/Stolos) is an owl. His European/Japanese name is a reference to the Ars Goetia demon (see Mythology). | |
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On MythQuest, Gwydion and Math sentence Blodeuwedd to spend eternity as an owl, shunned by both man and bird, for murdering Pixelmator. | |
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Owls in Twin Peaks are supposed to be the eyes of BOB and/or the Black Lodge, but their significance is never really explained. Then again, neither is anything else of consequence to the series' overall plot. | |
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Jack's Mission Control in Pumpkin Jack is an owl sent by the Devil to keep an eye on him. | |
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The Colbert Report: Owls are on notice. Stephen Colbert refuses to talk about it, saying "they know what they did". Possibly something to do with Owlbears? | |
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Phineas and Ferb had an episode where Candace dreamed that she was in The Wizard of Oz: When Candace and co. make it to the forest, one of the things that startles them is an owl... but not just any owl; it's actually a whacked-out version of an owl with Stacy's head... | |
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Muut (see Mythology, above) shows up in Gunnerkrigg Court, but here he's an owl-man. Later we also have an appearance by a Chickcharney. | |
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Legend of the Guardians: The Owls of Ga'Hoole has a cast made up almost entirely of owls like the book series it's based on, so naturally some are good and some are evil. The Pure Ones are a nasty bunch, a group of barn owl supremacists who want total power over the owl kingdoms. It's not just limited to the Pure Ones barn owls either; brothers Jutt and Jatt (long-eared owls), the traitorous Allomere (a great gray owl), and High Tyto Metal Beak (a sooty owl, which is ironic since in the books, sooty owls are low in Pure Ones ranking systems) are also pretty nasty owls. | |
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Sly Cooper: Clockwerk, the Big Bad of Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus, who has managed to achieve immortality through a combination of cybernetics and hatred of the Cooper clan. Sly Cooper: Thieves in Time reveals that Clockwerk might just be the very first of owls, as he's been around since the ice age. |
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RWBY: Fairy Tales of Remnant: in The Warrior in the Woods, the third Grimm the hero encounters are three huge owls who are jet black and possess deadly stares. They have razor sharp feathers and deadly talons. He manages to kill two of them, but is unable to finish off the third without help. | |
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Macbeth: The shriek of an owl makes Lady Macbeth think of a bellman who makes announcements about death: | |
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Digger: Considering owls' reputation as a death omen, having your elder healer named "Owl Caller" isn't a good sign. | |
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The freaking terrifying owl that attacks the furlings in Once Upon a Forest. | |
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Professor Hoot the Owl from Happy Happy Clover, while nice and helpful, does have moments where he comes across as very creepy and a bit unnerving. This is more notable in the Manga in one story where he warns students about humans and going outside the forest. | |
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Helluva Boss gives us Stolas, inspired by the owl demon of the same name from the Ars Goetia. His hobbies include astronomy, botany, cheating on his wife with an Imp and scaring the shit out of federal agents. | |
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In Wakfu, the main villain of season 3, Oropo, has his cloaked appearance modeled after owls, along with his security robots. | |
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In chapter 22 of The Cold Moons, the badgers come across a screech-owl and find it to be an omen. According to badger superstition, screech-owls often forebode death. | |
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Another Batman example is the vilainous organisation The Court of Owls introduced in Scott Snyder's run on Batman Volume 2. They're a clandestine society who have apparently secretly controlled Gotham for centuries, and the "owls prey on bats" imagery has been played up for all it's worth. | |
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Murder, She Wrote made extensive use of the "distant, hooting owl" effect especially in later seasons to herald the inevitable Body of the Week. | |
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Pokémon Hoothoot and Noctowl straddle the fine line between this and The Owl-Knowing One. For one thing, they aren't Dark/Flying type (That was reserved for the Murkrow line). However, they CAN learn a lot of good Psychic-type moves, may have as an ability either Insomnia (prevents sleep) or Keen Eye (prevents lowering of accuracy), and have two immunities. Ghost-types beware! Decidueye, Rowlet's final form in Pokémon Sun and Moon. It's the first Ghost-Type starter Pokémon, and its Signature Move is Spirit Shackle, which prevents opposing Pokémon from switching out by stitching their shadow to the ground. |
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The DCU: All-Star Comics: There is often a shadowy dark owl perched behind The Loreli while the cruel witch is giving orders. Owlman is the Evil Counterpart of Batman in the Crime Syndicate's Mirror Universe. Another Batman example is the vilainous organisation The Court of Owls introduced in Scott Snyder's run on Batman Volume 2. They're a clandestine society who have apparently secretly controlled Gotham for centuries, and the "owls prey on bats" imagery has been played up for all it's worth. |
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In the 31st-century New New York of Futurama, owls are pests, considered to be vermin like the rats and pigeons they were introduced to eliminate. They ended up filling the ecological niche those pests vacated. Owls can be domesticated, though, and trained to attack trespassers. | |
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Donkey Kong Country: Tropical Freeze: Skowl the Startling, the second boss. A master of ice magic, summons his owl minions to harass you, and comes complete with a very deep and creepy "WHOOOOOOOO!!". | |
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Scarfolk Council's Kak the Bird looks like an owl; he's the mascot of the town's DON'T program against "doing". | |
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Ultimate X-Men: There was an owl in a tree outside Weapon X when Nightcrawler broke free, to set the ominous nature of the place. | |
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The owls in Fez are of glorious example of this trope, as most characters claim that they are afraid of the owls. They are even somewhat worshiped. This might be because they are able to see all three dimensions by rotating their heads, unlike the majority of the game's characters. | |
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Macha the witch's overall motif in Song of the Sea. She's closely associated with owls, and the stories about her cast her as a Wicked Witch who turns people to stone. However, it turns out that she's not so ominous once she realizes the consequences of her actions. | |
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In Kung Fu Panda: Legends of Awesomeness, we learn that the owl Feng Huang, formerly the most powerful member of the previous Furious Five, was corrupted by her power, and turned evil. | |
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The Bible: At one point, Job complains that in the extremity of his misfortune, he has become "a brother to dragons and a companion to owls." Though some translations render it as "a companion to ostriches," which somehow reads as slightly less eerie. | |
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Mortasheen: Bemzull is a creepy-looking owl monster with freakishly huge eyes, capable of seeing things from a mile away. Bonus points for being able to Mind Rape its enemies when threatened. Mephilas is a Devil Bird pretty clearly based off Stolas mentioned above. Mephilas dramatically increases the intelligence of its master, but overexposure to him can induce existential horror and depression. Inducing this in victims is also Mephilas' signature attack. There is Gloomstone, a tombstone-like monster which releases headless owls. |
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Magic: The Gathering: On Alara, strixes are kept as pets in the bio-mechanical realm of Esper. As the name might suggest to any Latin scholars, they're venomous or parasitic evil clockwork owls. Mindshrieker, an owl spirit from Innistrad, feeds on spells that it tears right out of its victims' minds. |
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Swan Lake: Rothbart is traditionally portrayed as a fearsome owl-like creature, conflating his role with Odette's stepmother, who in the earliest plays appeared as an owl. | |
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In The Chronicles of Ancient Darkness, Big Bad Eostra was once the mage of the Eagle Owl clan, so eagle owls are considered creepy bad omens. Other kinds of owls are cool, though. | |
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House of the Dead 2 has Moowls. Zombies that resemble owls, they attack the players from the air. | |
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Space Owls show up twice as of April 2012 in Questionable Content. They knock people unconscious, at least according to Faye, who is telling the story to cover up her own handiwork. However, it's not to be evil or creepy. | |
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The movie The Adventures of Milo and Otis, a story about a lost kitten and a puppy, has a scene in the treetops at nighttime where the kitten talks with a horned owl with glowing eyes who pops out of nowhere. Though he is friendly, he is, needless to say, quite terrifying for younger children. | |
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Kouichi from Nabari no Ou is actually an owl with a human heart. His partially transformed form after being shot in the heart is more than a little creepy. | |
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Monster Sanctuary: Stolbies are owl-like, occult-type monsters that were believed to be descendants of a demon prince in the Old World. In the present, some people fear that they're plotting something. | |
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The creepy opening sequence in the Peanuts Halloween Special It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown features an owl hooting into the camera just before the commercial break. | |
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Game of Thrones: This owl◊ is an enemy spy◊! (context). | |
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In Rock-A-Doodle, there is the sunlight-hating Duke of Owls and his minions who love to eat little animals. | |
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There is yet another Fukuro among the assassin group Trinity Raven in Fairy Tail, who is also noticeably creepy. He has a man's body but an owl's head (also two missiles on his back with the word "JUSTICE" printed on them), and one of his abilities is to swallow his opponents whole and use their magic until they digest fully. It's worth noting that "Fukuro" is Japanese for "owl." | |
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In the pilot episode of Longmire Walt is making coffee when he sees an owl perched outside his window in broad daylight, a pretty unusual occurrence, and when he turns his back for a moment it's gone. Later on a scene features a stuffed one in the background while he's unknowingly talking to the killer. In the folklore of the Cheyenne, who inhabit the part of Wyoming where the series is set, owls are an omen of evil things. | |
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In Mervyn Peake's Titus Groan, Lord Sepulchrave is driven mad by the destruction of his library, starts believing he is "The Death Owl", and eventually commits suicide by allowing himself to be eaten by owls. | |
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An owl in the famous Silly Symphony "The Skeleton Dance" managed to scare a freaking skeleton out of his lack-of-skin. (Though the skeleton DID pull himself together and knock the owl's feathers off with his own skull.) See for yourself.◊ | |
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El Goonish Shive used owls as a Running Gag. Moperville North high school has a mural warning "Read, or the Owl will Eat You". A big owl appears as an RTFM enforcer in Goonmanji arc out of continuity. Then in a guest comic the owls make good on their threat, devouring an Analfabets Anonymous meeting (well, not really, but close 'nuff). Subverted with Hedge, whose dramatic moments are always ruined by owls getting in the way. | |
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The Southern Reach Trilogy: In Acceptance, a letter written by the biologist about her time in Area X tells of how she found a peculiar owl on the island. It's never entirely disclosed, but due to the peculiar behavioral patterns of said owl — not taking flight when she approaches, bringing her a dead rabbit, nesting close to her — , she comes to suspect that this is what Area X transformed her husband into. | |
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Duo, the mascot of Duolingo, is supposed to be a Cute Owl and The Owl-Knowing One. The memes, on the other hand, make him evil. He is shown or implied to hold users' families hostage or threaten users' lives to make sure users don't skip a day on the app. | |
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Subverted by Owlowiscious in My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. Spike feels that way about him for supposedly stealing his place as "Twilight Sparkle's number 1 assistant" (he also thinks Owlowiscious' 180 degrees head rotation looks creepy). However otherwise Owlowiscious falls pretty squarely into The Owl-Knowing One. | |
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In Star Wars Rebels, the owl-like, long-tailed convor birds that show up here and there in the galaxy aren't malicious in any real way, but when they show up, it almost always means a lightsider is in danger from the Dark Side. | |
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Doku-Chan from Jagaaaaaan, a ball-shaped owl with a pair of pilot glasses, fulfills all requirements as he enters Jagasaki's life and gives him a roundabout briefing about what's going on after his first encounter with a Fractured Human. | |
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In Midnight Tides, book five of the Malazan Book of the Fallen, owls make noticeably frequent appearances. One pattern is certain: they get progressively deader and appear in connection to Reluctant Warrior Trull Sengar and may be a symbol for his growing enstrangement from his people. Owl #1 is seen happily munching on a freshly caught mouse while Trull's world is still alright. Owl #2 has both a bloodied beak and bloodied claws and is seen in hurried flight, at a point where Trull's world is starting to come apart at the seams. He finds owl #3, freshly dead, shortly before realizing how there's no going back, and owl #4, long dead and decaying, is found by his betrothed in her empty house, right about the time everything's clearly gone downhill. | |
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A recurring motif in Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, with normal ones appearing in the opening, as well as more nightmarish humanoid ones appearing in a flashback of Fujiko's. | |
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Ragnarok Online brings us an Owl Duke and Owl Baron. They are walking, aristocratically clothed demonic owls that attack you with lighting. And Baron also summons a bunch of Dukes. note Yes, Gravity dropped the ball on that one. Baron is one of the lowest ranks, while the Duke is one of the highest. | |
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The killer in StageFright -Aquarius- wears an owl mask, which was part of the theatre production he crashes. | |
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Olcadan from the Soul Series is a man with the head and feet of an owl, and is adept in various weapon styles. | |
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Monster Hunter: Rise: To the monsters you pursue in the game, there is nothing more ominous than the Cohoot, as they track and scout out prey for Hunters, leading to the monster's death or capture. | |
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In Killers of the Flower Moon Mollie's mother sees a vision of an owl flying into her bedroom shortly before her death. | |
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Decidueye, Rowlet's final form in Pokémon Sun and Moon. It's the first Ghost-Type starter Pokémon, and its Signature Move is Spirit Shackle, which prevents opposing Pokémon from switching out by stitching their shadow to the ground. | |
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In the Outer Wilds: Echoes of the Eye DLC, the Stranger's inhabitants are towering bipedal antlered owl-like aliens, whose "beak" is more of a nose, and the feathers of their neck conceal an unnervingly wide black mouth. Fortunately for you, by the time you're exploring the Stranger, all that's left of its builders are faded portraits on the walls of ruined homes, damaged slide reels explaining their history, and their mummified corpses in hidden rooms. Unfortunately for you, you'll eventually have to enter the ringworld's Lotus-Eater Machine and discover that while the owl aliens are dead in reality, in virtual reality they're still quite alive, and don't like intruders. Much of the latter half of the DLC involves playing hide-and-seek with owl creatures searching for you by lamplight, which is why it comes with the option to reduce the fright factor. | |
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Nioh 2 features Tatarimokke as a giant owl Youkai made of rancor-filled souls with three, gleaming, human eyes and powers over darkness. | |
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Lechku and his buddy Nechku from Ōkami count, even though, technically, they're not real owls, but they're demonic clockwork owls. With hats. In feudal Japan. | |
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Castle in the Darkness: A giant owl named Razor Wing is fought as an Optional Boss twice in the game. It attacks by swooping at the hero and creating strong, cutting gusts of wind with its wings. Though in both endings, Princess Isabelle manages to tame it and use it as a steed either to escape the collapsing castle with the hero in the bad ending or to save the hero's life at the crucial moment in the Golden Ending. | |
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Silent Forest Act 2 in Sonic Lost World has a spiral layout with a huge robotic owl in the middle, always turning to face Sonic at all times, as well as its three organic minions found at varying points in the stage. The last third of the stage becomes a Stealth-Based Mission where Sonic must avoid the owl's spotlight gaze; failure to do so is instant death. This stage, naturally, ends in a boss fight with the owl robot. The owl robot returns in the boss fight for Silent Forest Act 4, though considerably less creepy as it stays in the background, barely functioning thanks to Sonic's ruining it. It also has to be kept aloft by its owl minions and does not participate in the boss fight at all. | |
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The 1960s-era secret agent spoof Cool McCool had a villain named The Owl, seen in the opening credits. | |
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Age of Aquarius: The owl-like Goetic demon Stolas appears in a piece of narrative text about the Utopists. Played for Laughs in that they summon him only to pick a feather from his tail, making him comically angry. | |
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Guardians Of Gahoole has most of the characters being owls, so some are bound to be evil as they oppose the good owls. Besides the Pure Ones (barn owl supremasists), Saint Aggies, has some nasty owls too. One of the most sinister owls has to be Nurse Finny, a snowy owl who acts sweet but really eats eggs and owlets. | |
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In the South Park episode "Insheeption", Mr. Mackey is revealed to have a hoarding problem stemming from a childhood incident when he was molested by a Woodsy Owl mascot ("Give a hoot, don't pollute!"). When Mr. Mackey faces up to this traumatic memory in a dream, the owl mascot turns into a monstrous embodiment of Mr. Mackey's trauma. Eventually, believe it or not, the other people in the dream have to bring in Freddy Krueger from A Nightmare on Elm Street to stop the owl. | |
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In the Warrior Cats series, owls are often thought of as ill omens. Justified, since an owl seems quite large to a cat, and owls have been known to carry off kits. However, ThunderClan does occasionally look for owls at night, because if it's windy and they're having trouble scenting prey, they can follow an owl and find prey that way. | |
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The Knowledge Spirit, Wan Shi Tong, combines the inherent creepiness of a giant talking owl with the ability to stretch his neck like some sort of feathery snake. He makes a comeback in The Legend of Korra, even less tolerant of humans (especially Aang's descendants) and is even allied with Unalaq. | |
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Ori and the Blind Forest has Kuro, a large, black owl who attacks the Tree of Light and repeatedly chases Ori. As the game goes on, she becomes a Woobie, Destroyer of Worlds when we find out why she's so angry at the Tree of Light. The sequel Ori and the Will of the Wisps, averts this with her daughter Ku. However, it still gets in its evil owl quota with Shriek, who is so twisted by The Decay that it's difficult to even recognize her as an owl. Like Kuro she has a sympathetic backstory, but outright refuses when offered a hand. Staying a villainous Iron Woobie to the end. | |
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An episode of The Scooby-Doo Shownote Originally made as a revival of Scooby-Doo, Where Are You!, but that's just nitpicking had a Monster of the Week called the Willawaw, whose attacks on a person were heralded by an owl hooting the pending victim's name. In addition, the Willawaw had a pair of Owl Men to act as its minions. Since the episode included Native American characters, the lore was likely inspired by the Native American traditions listed in the "Myths & Religion" folder above. | |
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An episode of Digimon Tamers had a creepy (complete with glowing red eyes) talking owl who creepily tells the protagonists about the Devas. The entire scene is very odd, as one review can attest: | |
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The Wolf's Rain anime series had a creepy owl that made appearances at times, most likely as a symbol for death. | |
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Miitopia features an owl boss and miniature versions of it called Owlets, which can hypnotize the Miis and inflict nightmares upon them. | |
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Stephen Bauer's fantasy novel Satyrday centers on the attempts of the protagonists — an orphaned boy, the satyr who raised him, a fox-spirit, and a sympathetic raven — to combat a malevolent owl and his plot to kidnap the Moon (who is a character in her own right). The owl is tyrannical and very cruel, a prime example of this trope. | |
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The Owls in I Know Who Killed Me. They don't mean anything, nor are they particularly foreboding. They're just there. | |
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Alice in Wonderland: While traveling through a spooky forest, Alice encounters an owl with a neck like an accordion that makes music as it flies, as it is still a Wonderland forest. | |
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One of the statues the player has to reactivate in Secrets of Rætikon resembles a gigantic owl. It's so large that its wingspan is enough to break apart the walls of the cave it was housed within. | |
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Thistil Mistil Kistil One of Loki's forms | |
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As explained in the above quote, owls are symbols that you've been abducted by aliens in More Information Than You Require. The book also contains instructions on how to cook an owl. One of the steps is to remove their clockwork innards. | |
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Yu-Gi-Oh!: The Raidraptor archetype consists of cybernetic birds of prey, including Strixes. While not evil, their owner in the anime is still a brutal '90s Anti-Hero, and the owls look scary. | |
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The Peepsta Hoo Dream Eater in Kingdom Hearts 3D [Dream Drop Distance]. It tends to be little more than an annoyance at first, simply throwing weak, homing feather shurikens at you and trying to perform an Enemy Scan on you. Should it complete the scan, however, it'll start blasting you with high-tier magic and evading your attacks. The creepiness mostly applies to its Nightmare version, thanks to its soulless red eyes and sinister color scheme. | |
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One of these serves as an enemy in One Night at Flumpty's 2; it can attack from either vent, requiring the player to figure out which one it's in once it disappears from its usual resting place in order to seal it off. | |
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All-Star Comics: There is often a shadowy dark owl perched behind The Loreli while the cruel witch is giving orders. | |
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Vampire: The Requiem (and its historical setting, "Requiem for Rome") has the Strix: strange, ghostly owl-like beings who may be responsible for, among other things, the fall of the Roman Empire, and the creation, followed by subsequent destruction, of a Clan of vampires. They possess corpses, and sleeping vampires, and walk about causing mischief. Needless to say, they're the bad guys and the boogeymen. They're also based on an actual Roman myth. They also appear in the Hunter: The Vigil sourcebook on taking on vampires. They make a guy murder his girlfriend so they can ride the corpse. Second Edition expands on the creepiness of the strix by going into their ethos: They are closely tied to the Beast that embodies a vampire's predatory urges. They believe vampires are just corpses pretending to be human, and their actions are often aimed at disabusing vampires of the notions of humanity, which is pretty much the only thing keeping the Beast in check. |
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Weebl & Bob: According to Weebl, Owls hate Simon Cowell and want to tear his legs off. Besides him, however, everyone likes them and they actually have good cause for the leg-tearing. | |
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