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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]]''.
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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]].
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* 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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== Theater ==
* Before a significant [[Retool]] dropped them, [[Cirque Du Soleil
== Video Games ==
* From ''[[Kingdom Hearts]] : [[Birth By Sleep]]'', we have a type of enemy called the [[Incredibly Lame Pun|Hare]]raiser. Small, cuddly, and seemingly harmless. It shows up in one of the first levels avaliable to you when you play as Aqua, and are teeny-tiny compared to other early enemies. However, these things can attack multiple times with one move, do a lot of damage with every hit, and kill you before you can finish going "D'aww". Worse, they typically appear in packs of four or more. And there is usually [[It Got Worse|more than one pack]] in a given location.
* 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.
* Bonnie from ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's]]'' is a terrifying bunny animatronic, and due to his aggressive behavior is probably the one that will jump scare the player the most before Freddy joins in on the fun. He's especially unnerving in that he can sometimes be found staring directly into the backstage camera, his eyes looking [[Black Eyes of Evil|pitch-black]], and has a similar looking face show up as a very rare game over screen. Funnily enough, he's also the only animatronic who actually gave the creator Scott Cawthorn nightmares while the game was being developed.
** In the sequel, Bonnie is even more unnerving thanks to the fact that his face has been [[Body Horror|''completely ripped off'', and he's missing an arm as well.]] His eyes have been reduced to two red glowing pinpricks shining from his endoskeleton. Like the rest of the Fazbear gang, he has a more child-friendly looking counterpart in Toy Bonnie who is every bit as aggressive and kill-happy as his predecessor, and unique among the animatronics as he's the only one who will slide across the player's eyesight, staring right into their soul if you put on the Freddy mask around him. Also like his predecessor, he has a unique game-over screen that has his eyes pitch-black.
** 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.
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== 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]]s.
* In the same vein, a darker rendition of the Easter Bunny by a [[Deviant ART]] member portrays it as an evil abomination with two tumorous appendages on its head which its potential victims mistaken for ears before mutilating and feasting on their organs http://skinpupcoss.deviantart.com/art/Easter-Bunny-209353936. Then there's the buck rabbit... https://web.archive.org/web/20110920224831/http://karzrave.deviantart.com/gallery/#/d309kqn.
=== Troping Wikis ===
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* 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 [[Non Sequitur Scene]], [[Uncanny Valley]], and [[Nothing Is Scarier]]. As Rex said, "Creepy..."
* ''[[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", regular rabbits (including Angel) twisted by Discord. At one point, Twilight Sparkle gets trampled by them.
* In ''[[Batman: The Brave
* 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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