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''They've got them hoppy legs and twitchy little noses''
''And what's with all the carrots?''
''What do they need such good eyesight for anyway?"''
|'''Anya'''|''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S6/E07 Once More, With Feeling|Once More, With Feeling]]"}}
Ah, rabbits. Who could possibly think of a more cute, cuddly, and harmless creature? With their wriggling noses, comically long ears, and fuzzy little tails, they're just so adorable!
Except, of course, when they aren't. Then we have '''Hair-Raising Hares'''.
Twisting the easily-recognized and almost universally-beloved form of the rabbit into something terrifying is a common type of subverted cuteness, because we all have the expectation of rabbits as sweet and innocent. Sometimes this is done by making the rabbit [[Killer Rabbit|carnivorous or otherwise extremely dangerous]], but just making it look or act scary is enough to have it fall into this trope. Also, anything that plays the rabbit for horror falls in this trope, which means that stuffed animals and people in costumes all apply.
Of course, in [[Real Life]]
See also
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▲== Advertising ==
▲* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e6nDyeV0i6w This] rabbit is unnerving.
== Anime and Manga ==
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* In ''[[Yaiba]]'' we have [[Big Bad|Princess]] [[Moon Rabbit|Kaguya's]] [[One-Winged Angel|True form]], which looks like a freaky hydra-bunny with fangs and [[Eye Beams]].
* In ''[[Eyeshield 21]]'', for the school sports festival, everyone had to dress in costume. Hiruma chose to dress as a rabbit. While wielding an AK-47.
* The black bunnies in ''[[Mawaru Penguindrum]]''.
== Art ==
* Russian surrealist painter [[Vasya Lozhkin]] frequently includes [https://web.archive.org/web/20120504220754/http://vasya-lozhkin.ru/files/paintings/gimage_9.jpg examples of this] in his paintings.
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* Julie's wounded rabbit in ''[[The Maxx]]'' could easily be described as this.
* ''[[Tales of the Unexpected]]'': [http://aquamanrules.blogspot.com/2010/04/have-happy-easter-if-you-dare.html Have a Happy Easter - IF YOU DARE!]
* Max from ''[[Sam and Max]]'' is an adorable rabbity creature ([[Insistent Terminology|he prefers the term 'lagomorph']] which is [[Viewers Are Geniuses|the taxonomic family containing rabbits, hares and pikas]]), but he has razor-sharp, serrated carnivore teeth and 'dead, sharklike eyes'. He's also a [[Psychopathic Manchild]] who is referred to in his own series as a [[Heroic Sociopath|sociopath]]. The games suggest he has obscenely powerful psychic potential and show him as having an inherent connection to [[Cosmic Horror
== Film ==
* Frank from ''[[Donnie Darko]]''.
* The [[Killer Rabbit]] of
{{quote|'''''LOOK AT THE BONES!'''''}}
* General Woundwort of the animated adaptation of ''[[Watership Down]]''. (Pictured above)
* Boingo from ''[[Hoodwinked]]''.
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* ''[[Twilight Zone the Movie]]''. In the updated version of "[[It's a Good Life]]", the local [[Reality Warper]] asks his uncle to [[Pull a Rabbit Out of My Hat|pull a rabbit out of a hat]] as a magic trick, then the rabbit turns into a hairless, hulking, snarling monstrosity before it goes back into the hat.
* ''[[Night of the Lepus]]'' was an [[Narm|attempt]] a serious horror movie from this trope.
* The ''[[National Lampoon]]'' did a comic-book format version of ''[[Harvey]]'' as a scary, malicious type who goads Dowd into all sorts of bad behavior.
* The White Rabbit in [[Jan Svankmajer]]'s version of ''[[Alice in Wonderland]]'' is responsible for ''actually carrying out the Queen's executions''.
* The Claymation bunny in [[Michael Jackson]]'s ''[[Moonwalker]]'' unnerves some viewers, but this wasn't exactly the intention...
* Both the White Rabbit and the March Hare in [[Tim Burton]]'s ''[[Alice in Wonderland (film)|Alice in Wonderland]]'' are rather creepy-looking, but what else could we expect from Master Burton?
* The killer in ''[[Easter Bunny, Kill! Kill!]]'' wears a rather demented-looking Easter Bunny mask.
* ''Kottentail'' and ''Peter Rottentail'' both feature humanoid rabbit monsters as antagonists.
* ''[[One Crazy Summer]]'': The [[Warner Bros]] [[Logo Joke]] isn't intended as horror but is somewhat unnerving. A crazed cartoon rabbit in a propeller beanie opens up the logo, screams and then "swallows" the viewer.
** There are quite a few disturbing (and disturbed) animated rabbits in the rest of the film as well.
* ''[https://web.archive.org/web/20190927213834/http://b.dv1.us/p1/436/168436-d0.jpg Bunnyman]''.
* [[Played for Laughs]] with the stage rabbit from ''[[The Illusionist (animation)|The Illusionist]]''.
* The killer in the South Korean slasher film ''To Sir with Love'' wears a bunny mask.
* In ''[[Dreamchild
== Literature ==
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* ''The Black Rabbit of Inle'' from ''[[Watership Down]]'' short story of the same name, not to mention General Woundwort himself.
* In ''[[The Velveteen Rabbit]]'', the plush toy bunny gets saturated with germs when the Boy who owns it suffers from scarlet fever.
* In the ''[[Uncle Remus|Br'er Rabbit]]'' stories, there was once a council when the animals divided up into two groups: those who had sharp teeth and claws (predators, in other words), and those who didn't. Br'er Rabbit was in the first category.
* Islamic/Arabian poetry has the Miraj (or Al-mi'raj, or numerous other variations on the two), a one-horned, carnivorous yellow hare capable of killing and eating much larger prey, including humans. Also features in ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' and ''[[Dragon Quest]]''.
* The ''[[Goosebumps]]'' book "Bad Hare Day". Or at least [[Covers Always Lie|the cover]].
* ''[[The Magicians|The Magician King]]'' introduces the Seeing Hare, a hare with precognitive powers. It achieves hair-raising status by prophesying doom and despair for the protagonists.
▲== Live Action TV ==
* HBO had a special program once called ''Bun-Bun'', which had possibly the most terrifying plush rabbit ever made, even though it didn't do anything directly; any child that ran into it became obsessed with having it, to the point of near killing themselves.
* In ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'', Anya has a pathological fear of bunnies. In the scene set during her mortal life, she shows no such fear, indicating ''something'' had happened in the intervening time.
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* Played for laughs in ''[[Hannah Montana]]'' when Jackson eats too much chocolate and he has nightmares about a Godzilla chocolate bunny.
* ''[[Xena: Warrior Princess]]'', Xena warned Gabriel to be careful of the rabbits, and Gabby didn't listen so ended up battling the rabbit in the background.
== Music ==
* The electronica/darkwave band [[The Birthday Massacre]] practically live and breathe this trope. Every album art features at least one Franken-bunny. Usually feature several.
* The rabbits in ''Alice Human Sacrifice''.
* The music video for the song "Sour Girl" by the
* The artwork from Eths' 4th album, ''Teratologie'', features dead rabbits. ''Flayed'' dead rabbits.
* ''Echo and the Bunnymen'' is the name of a creepy, dark post-punk band.
== Mythology ==
* In the ''Popul Vuh'', a Maya epic story, the evil gods of the underworld have a rabbit scribe. Depictions of the court of the underworld usually include it.
== Tabletop Games ==
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** ''Devil Bunny Needs a Ham'': the same Bunny takes out his unresolved desires on acrobatic sous-chefs.
* The Theans in ''[[Strike Legion]]'' are humanoid rabbit-like creatures known for two things: being incredibly precognitive and thus able to predict their enemies' actions to the minutes, and piloting skyscraper-sized [[Humongous Mecha]] with stealth systems that let them sneak inside entire enemy space fleets and destroy them in seconds without warning. Yeah, precognitive mecha-driving ninja rabbits.
== Theater ==
* Before a significant [[Retool]] dropped them, [[Cirque Du Soleil
* [[media:easter-fun.jpg|This image]] from the [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] page.▼
** To hammer the point in even further, there appears to be a severed leg with a child's sneaker below the table besides him.▼
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* From ''[[Kingdom Hearts]] : [[Birth By Sleep]]'', we have a type of enemy called the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Hare]]
* The Black Rabite from ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]''. Rabites are mostly harmless, even though they can have levels in [[SD 3]] and can occasionally outclass you, but the black rabite is the [[Bonus Boss|hardest boss in the game.]] You will never feel safe around a one-footed rabbit again.
* ''[[BioShock (series)|BioShock]]'' makes strong use of this trope. Splicers wear bloodied bunny masks. The mad artist Sander Cohen is fixated with rabbits, using rabbit masks in his tableaux and rabbits in his... poetry.
* An Easter Egg Hunt themed ''[[Warcraft|Warcraft 3]]'' map has seriously horrifying bunnies.
* Robbie the Rabbit from the ''[[Silent Hill]]'' games.
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* Rabbits and rabbit-mechas in the [[NES]] [[Shmup]], ''Gun-Nac''
* ''[[Cave Story]]'': Mimigas + red flowers = Good God! It's dashing at me and/or shooting at me!
* The [[Cosmic Horror]] Nahatomb in ''[[Klonoa
* ''[[Irisu Syndrome]]'' has a very prevalent bunny motif.
* The Social Bunny in ''[[The Sims|The Sims 2]]''.
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** [[Trickster|Tewi]] [[Screwy Squirrel|Inaba]] becomes a little frightening if you read the supplemental material and [[Fridge Logic|think about it for a while]]. Among other things, it's implied that ''being in her good grace is the only reason the moon fugitives can stay at Eientei'', and that she's [[Almighty Janitor|far more powerful]] than she lets on.
* T-Hoppy from the ''[[Clay Fighter]]'' series is a musclebound rabbit with a machine gun for an arm. He seems to be the most verbally abusive character in a game full of verbally abusive characters.
* The Rabbit from ''[[Alice Is Dead]]'' is a [[Career Killers|Career Killer]] working with the Mad Hatter.
* Members of the virtually extinct Taguel race in ''[[Fire Emblem: Awakening]]'' are capable of transforming into sleek rabbit beasts with some wolf-like characteristics. They're talented at taking down ground cavalry, and focus more on speed and skill then their fellow shapeshifters, the Manaketes.
* ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's]]'' series:
**
** In
** And to make things worse, there's an [[Eldritch Abomination]] [[Living Shadow]] version of Bonnie simply dubbed Shadow Bonnie, who is completely pitch black with glowing white eyes and teeth who has a very small chance of appearing in the player's office and will crash the game if looked at for too long. In total, there are ''three'' scary rabbits in the second game alone.
** In ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's 3]]'', we have what fans have dubbed [[Fan Nickname|Golden Bonnie]] - An absolutely ''horrifying'' animatronic who has usurped the [[Big Bad]] position from Freddy Fazbear, and flat-out looks like a decaying corpse. His eyes are incredibly veiny and realistic and he has what may be exposed brain matter peeking out of his head, and the trailer where he makes his debut shows him thrashing and twitching like an insane asylum patient. And from what we see in the trailer, he doesn't scream in your face or roar like the animatronics from the previous games, he makes a disturbing hissing noise while he approaches you. {{spoiler|The game eventually reveals that he's ''the original murderer.''}}
==Web Comics==
* Weasel Queen's Lapinomorphs from ''[[Girl Genius]]''.
* [https://web.archive.org/web/20100505080940/http://zebragirl.keenspot.com/d/20091123.html Black Betty] from ''[[Zebra Girl]]''. Not to mention at least one other character who appears to be a compatriot.
* ''[[
* The episode "Now you see her" of ''[[The Wotch]]'', involves {{spoiler|a stage magician's rabbit getting trapped in the hat's pocket dimension, growing to enormous proportions and kidnapping magicians' assistants}}.
* The French [[Easter Bunny]] from ''[[Scary Go Round]]'', who is actually {{spoiler|a [[Wendigo]] in a costume.}} [[Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking|And from Canada.]]
** Furthermore, there is the giant rabbit who is an associate of [[No Celebrities Were Harmed|Bob]] [[Aleister Crowley|Crowley]]. His scariness leaves a lot to be desired, though. [[Too Dumb to Live|He even lets himself get caught by two school kids.]]
* ''[[Kevin and Kell]]'': Kevin is a rabbit that used to be a professional wrestler. His daughter, Coney, is carnivorous and has eaten predators that out-mass her.
== Web Original ==
* ''[http://sketchybunnies.failblog.org/ Sketchy Bunnies]'' is a new{{when}} section of the Cheezburger Network dedicated entirely to pictures of terrifying Easter Bunnies. Most examples are people in rabbit suits that unintentionally descend right through the depths of [[Uncanny Valley]] and come out via the realm of [[Eldritch Abomination
* In the same vein, a darker rendition of the Easter Bunny by a [[
=== Troping Wikis ===
▲* [[media:easter-fun.jpg|This image]] from the [[Accidental Nightmare Fuel]] page.
▲** To hammer the point in even further, there appears to be a severed leg with a child's sneaker below the table besides him.
== Western Animation ==
* In ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'', Homer draws bunny faces on electrical sockets to scare Maggie away from touching them. When Marge points out that Maggie's not scared of rabbits, Homer replies "She will be." In their parody of ''[[Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (Disney film)|Snow White and The Seven Dwarves]]'', the forest animals attack the wicked queen and the shadow of a killer rabbit, with sharp teeth and claws, is seen.
* In ''[[Strawberry Shortcake|Strawberry Shortcake: Sky's the Limit!]]'', the girls are at one point threatened by a herd of stampeding bunnies.
* [[Bugs Bunny]] can come off as a relatively nice guy, until you piss him off. ("Of course you realize this means war!") One cartoon had him raising Hell just because someone said rabbits were harmless.
* The bunny from ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* Rancid Rabbit, the major heavy from ''[[CatDog]]'' is not just a complete [[Jerkass]] but the Mayor and obscenely rich to boot. And he never lets anyone forget it, either.
* ''[[Spliced]]'' - The Wunny Sharbit, a genetically altered Rabbit with the teeth of a shark and a chainsaw.
* In the ''[[Generator Rex]]'' episode "Operation: Wingman", one of these wtfpwns Rex and runs away. Several times throughout the course of the episode. It's eventually killed with a rocket launcher. Did I mention it's a giant mutant monster bunny with sharp teeth and six legs?
** What about the episode Breach with that one disturbingly realistic rabbit suit standing upright? And the fact that it doesn't show up ever again makes it a mix of [[
* ''[[My Little Pony:
** In "Applebuck Season," a herd of stampeding bunnies causes just as much havoc (or perhaps more) as a stampede of cattle.
** Angel is an adorable bunny who is friends with [[Shrinking Violet]] and [[Friend to All Living Things]] Fluttershy, but is also bad-tempered and pushy, and frequently tries to pester Fluttershy into being more assertive. As of "Putting Your Hoof Down," Angel is pretty much a [[Domestic Abuser]].
** Then there are the "Slenderbunnies", who are regular rabbits (including Angel) twisted by Discord. At one point, Twilight Sparkle gets trampled by them.▼
* In ''[[Batman: The Brave
▲** Then there are the "Slenderbunnies", regular rabbits (including Angel) twisted by Discord. At one point, Twilight Sparkle gets trampled by them.
▲* In ''[[Batman: The Brave And The Bold|Batman the Brave And The Bold]]'', a temporarily super-powered Calendar Man sends a stampede of 'killer Easter Bunnies' to attack Batman.
* One episode of ''[[The Cramp Twins]]'' features Wayne caring for a rabbit he calls "Hankenstein" that had a habit of tearing everything in its path to shreds and attacking people. By the end of the episode, [[Curb Stomp Battle|he finds out the hard way]] that "Hankenstein" had even more feral offspring.
* According to ''[[Robot Chicken]]'', the Easter Bunny has issues with Jesus Christ. Violent issues.
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