Deathbringer the Adorable: Difference between revisions

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== Live-Action TV ==

* Doña Clotilde from ''[[El Chavo ~~Del~~ Ocho]]'' likes to adopt puppies and baptize them as "Satan" and "Lucifer". Her poor pets also have a tendency to run off, so she tries to bring them back by calling their names loudly. Add this to the fact that her neighbors doesn't always know she has a pet, and [[Hilarity Ensues]] (she's called The Witch of Apartment 71...)

* Doña Clotilde from ''[[El Chavo del Ocho]]'' likes to adopt puppies and baptize them as "Satan" and "Lucifer". Her poor pets also have a tendency to run off, so she tries to bring them back by calling their names loudly. Add this to the fact that her neighbors doesn't always know she has a pet, and [[Hilarity Ensues]] (she's called The Witch of Apartment 71...)

* Subverted in an episode of ''[[That's So Raven]]'' which featured a Yorkshire terrier named Monster.

{{quote|'''Raven:''' Aww, they named it Monster because it's so cute?

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* ''[[Flintlocke's Guide to Azeroth|Flintlocke vs. The Horde]]'' has [http://pc.gamespy.com/flintlocke-vs-the-horde/hares-and-heroines-/913756p1.html Bun'kar, the warrior bunny]. Being a hunter's pet, it might become [[Killer Rabbit]] later, though. While Bun'kar, the warrior bunny, never fights, he and his hunter manage to overpower at least three characters, one of which was significantly stronger. The healer(Doc) remarks "That rabbit was dynamite."

* When ''[[8-Bit Theater ~~(Webcomic)~~|Eight Bit Theater]]'''s Light Warriors had Drizzl surrounded and down for the count, Drizzl attempted to summon the "True Guardian" of the cave, which he had bought from [[Con Man]] Akbar based on its description as a fierce [[Biological Mashup|chimera]] with claws, fire breath, and potent venom. Drizzl discovers at the worst possible moment that the creature was just a platypus with a makeshift flamethrower strapped to its underbelly.

* When ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'''s Light Warriors had Drizzl surrounded and down for the count, Drizzl attempted to summon the "True Guardian" of the cave, which he had bought from [[Con Man]] Akbar based on its description as a fierce [[Biological Mashup|chimera]] with claws, fire breath, and potent venom. Drizzl discovers at the worst possible moment that the creature was just a platypus with a makeshift flamethrower strapped to its underbelly.

* Strange variation: there's a song on one of the ''[[Homestuck]]'' soundtrack albums titled "[http://homestuck.bandcamp.com/track/walls-covered-in-blood Walls Covered in Blood]." Where the title might imply [[Paint the Town Red|a murderous rampage]], it's actually the [[Leitmotif]] of [[Moe]] [[Catgirl]] Nepeta Leijon, whose bedroom walls are indeed covered in blood because [[Shipper on Deck|she uses it to draw charts shipping all her friends]], and the song itself is a [[Tastes Like Diabetes|painfully cutesy]] upbeat [[Mario Paint]] track.

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== Real Life ==

* The Great Shrike-Tyrant. Sounds like some sort of Lovecraftian shark, right? Nope -- it's a cute little bird. The whole genus is called 'tyrannus' because they aggressively chase other birds out of their territories.

* Actual shrikes are also cute little birds whose Latin name means "butcher," and they're often called "butcher birds." Why? Because they ''impale their prey'' on thorns. It sounds nastier than it is. They're really just saving bugs for later.

* Bloodhounds are among the gentler dog breeds. They actually got their names because they are hunting dogs with the main purpose of following blood trails.

* The ominously named ''[[wikipedia:Purgatorius|Purgatorius]]'' was a small mammal that was one of the first species to emerge after the death of the dinosaurs, and the ancestor of the primates.