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Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_3'); })It's small. It's fluffy. It's adorable. And if you get on its bad side, your death will be swift and painful. Beware the cute ones. Related to but distinct from Fluffy the Terrible, as well as being sort of a subtrope to Our Monsters Are Weird, the Killer Rabbit is any monster that's far more dangerous than it looks. Maybe it's strong for its size, poisonous on a massive level, has flesh-rending pointy bits that aren't readily apparent, or can just turn into something far more dangerous. Either way, it can make a person wary of picking on small, defenseless animals, much like the Old Master can make a person more eager to respect their elders. In many cases, the creature isn't even all that harmful unless you actually mess with it, whether intentionally or not. This trope takes its name from the "Dread Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog" in Monty Python and the Holy Grail, which seems to be a completely ordinary bunny rabbit, with the notably unusual ability to leap through the air at high speed and tear out people's throats. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_2'); })This creature is also known as a "Vorpal Bunny", a name which comes from the monster of that name in the original Wizardry game from 1981, possibly inspired by the Monty Python movie and is named after "The Vorpal Blade", a fictional sword used to decapitate the title creature in the Lewis Carroll poem "Jabberwocky". The name also spread (via Dungeons & Dragons) to other games such as Quest for Glory and Ultima Online. There's enough truth behind this that one of the first things many children are taught is "don't try to play with any animal until you know it's friendly." (Another lesson, learned later in life by many, sometimes too late, is: "Animals can become unfriendly pretty damn fast.") Specific types of Killer Rabbits include Evil Girl Scouts and Ridiculously Cute Critters that are secretly evil. Civilizations that are more dangerous than they look are Superweapon Surprises. Killer Rabbits are the most notable subversion of What Measure Is a Non-Cute?, which is pervasive enough for everyone to assume that cute animals are friendly. Advertisement:propertag.cmd.push(function() { proper_display('tvtropes_content_1'); })This trope is pervasive enough that if any of the Five Races in games seems to be cute and harmless, they would by definition have to be occasional Killer Rabbits to make them viable to play. For cases where the Killer Rabbit is a literal rabbit, see Hair-Raising Hare. Psycho Poodle is another subtrope of this. If it has a scary name, but not a scary demeanor, it's Deathbringer the Adorable. If it's scary-looking but innocent, it might be a Cute Monster. Compare: Happy Fun Ball, Beware the Nice Ones, Pint-Sized Powerhouse, The Catfish, Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass, Cute, but Cacophonic, Badass Adorable, Super-Fun Happy Thing of Doom, and The Not-So-Harmless Punishment. If the video game character becomes a Killer Rabbit only when you hamper him, then he's Savage Setpiece. Contrast Paper Tiger, which looks menacing but is virtually harmless. Not to be confused with Kill da Wabbit. |
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In Ranma ½ Fan Fic Girl Days, Nabiki got morphed into a literal bunny girl during an arc. And she was not happy about it. She rambled over killing the idiot had turned her into that, and fetched a lot of firearms to do right that. The author even reinforces the trope: Author Appeal: Kenko seems fond of this trope. In another fic of his, Paragon, Ranma describes rabbits like "Tough critters in the wild, you know, real fighters." |
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Bleak Expectations: A pack of under-water squirrles, who are capable of biting arms off, and chase Pip Bin, and his aunt, across the length of Britain for revenge after Pip ate several of them. Subverted with the killer sloth ("Nature's deadliest and slowest assassin!"), who is expected to violently kill Pip, his sister Pippa and best friend Harry Biscuit... only for it to remain asleep, even with the assistance of coffee. It then gets blown up along with the building it and the protagonists were in. |
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Umineko: When They Cry has the Chiester Sisters, very cute and innocent-looking rabbit girls… who can detect you, lock you on and shoot you dead with absolute precision from a kilometer away. Their arrows are homing and armor-piercing, so hiding is useless. | |
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Almost every spinoff of the Nuzlocke Challenge ends up with an adorable, harmless-looking, low-tier Pokemon that dishes out disproportionate amounts of hurt. A classic example is Petty's Butterfree, Lulu, who gleefully curbstomps two of Kanto's Elite Four under her own power. | |
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In Fallout: Equestria, Angel Bunny becomes this, becoming known as "DoomBunny" to the Zebras. He even invents and regularly uses Stampede, the equivalent to Slasher. | |
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The series True Tail includes a small rabbit girl named Melody the Bard. Not only does she have a lute, she has a whole plethora of ninja daggers! | |
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"HI, I'M A BUNNY!" This is a subversion. You don't need to be a genius to realize how dangerous Carl is...especially if you fit in his mouth. | |
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A Growing Affection has Sol, Hinata's preferred familiar. She is a three-foot long albino squirrel. Unlike many of the other ninja animal clans, the squirrels are more trackers, scouts, and messengers than fighters. Sol is an outcast among her (normally black furred) clan because her albinism causes her to stand out. As a result, she is even more timid and apologetic than her contractor. She also helped Hinata seal the Two-Tails Cat (to be fair, her brother, Neji, and Tenten also helped) and when her Berserk Button was pressed went toe-to-toe with an Impure World Resurrection version of Tayuya. | |
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In The Lion King Adventures, the wild Mambo beasts are deceptively cute critters who hunger for animal flesh. | |
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In the the radio show Old Harry's Game, Satan finds the most evil being in the world is a Dolphin. Called Chuckles. | |
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Valak from the Ars Goetia manifests in the form of small, innocent-looking child with wings, yet he is the Grand President of Hell. | |
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We never see the battle against it, but in Sword Art Online Abridged, one of the floor bosses is "Sheeptar the Sheep King," a wall-crawling, acid-spitting nightmare. | |
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Knights of the Dinner Table. There was the 'squirrel as a fifth level monster' from the strip "The Most Dangerous (Small) Game". Also llamas in B.A.'s campaign have horns and gore people. | |
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Twisted Toyfare Theatre usually brings in unpopular characters in order to gruesomely kill them for a Take That!. The Ewoks, however, instead became a race of vicious, psychopathic Killer Rabbits who dismember, kill, and eat anything that crosses them. Mostly because they are little carnivores with no regards for intelligent life, from the original canon. | |
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The Metal Gear Solid short "Crab Battle!", where Naked Snake gets his ass handed to him by a Kenyan Mangrove Crab. | |
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After playing Hatoful Boyfriend to completion, Chukar partridges feel like singly terrifying little fluffy heretics. Thanks to the other characters, the "Bad Boys Love" route, and the sequel Holiday Star, fantail pigeons and king quail are not far behind on the list of adorable birds that you will fear forever. Bad Boys Love reveals Yuuya and "Kazuaki" to be murderers, and Holiday Star ultimately reveals what happened to the real Nanaki Kazuaki. |
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In one episode of A Prairie Home Companion, cowboys Dusty and Lefty come across "The Free-Range Chicken", which they then engage, and nearly lose to, in a gunfight. | |
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Fizgigg from The Dark Crystal. If a tribble and a bear trap had a baby.... | |
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Krypto the Super Dog may be a cute white puppy, but as Plumbing the Death Star spins it, he's also an invincible, lightning-fast alien monster with the strength of a locomotive and no capacity. If anyone upset him, there'd be no way to calm him down before the amoral hound ripped out their jugular. There's a reason he gets voted the third most horrifying hero ahead of the likes of Wolverine. | |
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Pokémon Reset Bloodlines makes it clear that cute/small Pokémon should not be underestimated: In the Argenta Interlude, the title character's Pachirisu begins its day defeating a Garchomp, and later does the same to 398 more opponents in a row. The Iris Gaiden mentions Dr. Julius Garonte, whose Sylveon (nicknamed "Princess Sparky Eyes") is confirmed to have mauled seventeen people to death. |
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Happy Tree Friends has several small animals that are for some reason vicious. Whistle, the man-eating puppy, a man-eating baby turtle, and a flock of man-eating ducks have all appeared. Plus, well, most of the cast. | |
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Sock is an adorable ever-smiling hamster. He is also a demon that destroys an entire city with his army of monsters from hell. | |
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