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Their face is... [[Uncanny Valley|fake, corpse-like,]] most often the makeup they use [[Uncanny Valley Makeup|does NOT help]], the emotions aren't real, the smile is just painted on. The outfit and big shoes are downright grotesque. There's something seriously wrong with a clown to some people, and this resonates deep within the part of us that still believes that there is a [[Things That Go Bump in the Night|monster in the closet]], that will get out if you don't keep the door closed.
 
It's uncommon to find clown characters who are genuinely ''good''. More commonly, writers tap into the fear: the [['''Monster Clown]]''' is a classic villain. Expect the [['''Monster Clown]]''' to parody humor, with classic jokes becoming deadly; acid in the plastic flowers pinned to their lapels and joy buzzers with fatal amounts of voltage, among other things. If they work in a circus, it'll be a [[Circus of Fear]]. Likewise, also expect them to crack dark jokes while killing them and laugh maniacally.
 
Sometimes, a [['''Monster Clown]]''' just LOOKS like a clown, and doesn't do what clowns normally do, like tell jokes or work in a circus or go to kids' parties. If there is a clown in a work that just looks like one, it's almost guaranteed that it is a [['''Monster Clown]]'''. Because, you know, you just don't go about dressing like a clown without doing anything clowny.
 
Sooner or later, our heroes will have to put these clowns to the sword. And sometimes [[Joker Immunity|not even that stops them]]. Also take note that many of these clowns may or may not be [[Ax Crazy|completely insane]] and also commit their crimes [[Laughing Mad|laughing crazily]] [[The Hyena|and frequently]]. Also, sometimes you can also expect them to, while committing various horrific crimes, also act [[Psychopathic Manchild|in a very similar manner to an overgrown child]].
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Real world clowns ''clown'': while clowning is intended to be funny, it can be received as ritualised (self) humiliation, and make modern audiences quite sick to the stomach.
 
That [[wikipedia:John Wayne Gacy|John Wayne Gacy]], one of the most famous serial killers in the United States, worked part-time as a clown doesn't really help their case. You don't want ''your'' kids around the [['''Monster Clown]]''', but the character's parents seem oblivious to their kid's fears. The AP [[Critical Research Failure|once used a stock photo of Gacy for National Clown day]].
 
A 2007 [http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/health/7189401.stm University of Sheffield study] found that both young and older children universally fear or dislike clown images. Now a lot of hospital wings for child patients will have to be repainted.
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Sympathetic clowns are generally a little more muted, whether or not this is faithful to the job. Surly clowns who tiredly work with ungrateful children are more common, probably because they speak to the average overworked audience; they may be an example of [[Hates the Job, Loves the Limelight]].
 
[[Enemy Mime]] is a sub-trope of [['''Monster Clown]]'''. A villainous clown that is [[Played for Laughs]] instead of fear is a [[Villainous Harlequin]]. The [[Depraved Kids' Show Host]] seems to be related. Clowns' ghastly white makeup puts them into [[White Mask of Doom]] territory. The [['''Monster Clown]]''' is often [[Affably Evil]] or [[Evilly Affable]].
 
The opposite of this trope is the (perhaps sadly) rarely seen any more [[Non-Ironic Clown]].
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* Tongpu, alias Mad Pierrot from ''[[Cowboy Bebop]]''.
* Mayuri Kurotsuchi, 12th division Captain from ''[[Bleach]]''.
* Although he's not actually a clown, the [[Big Bad|Millennium Earl]] from ''[[D.Gray-man|D Gray Man]]'' ''is'' a [[Monster Clown]]. He even refers to himself as the Auguste clown once.
** Also, the lvl 2 akuma that could imitate shapes, Pierrot.
*** [[Oh Crap|"This is the final blow exorcist!"]] [[Monster Clown|akuma.]] That bastard was scary enough to be the picture on ''[[D.Gray-man|D Gray Man]]'''s [[Nightmare Fuel]] page.
** Inverted with {{spoiler|Allen himself, who uses the Innocence Crowned Clown. But his adoptive father, Mana, may have been a straight example...}}
** And Allen was beaten up by clowns until he got adopted.
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** [[It Got Worse|And now there are several of them...]]
** The Anime had two robot guards modeled after him. The creators probably thought the show just wouldn't be complete if they didn't use the design.
* In the ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh]]'' manga, Ryuji Otogi/Duke Devlin's father is a [[Monster Clown]] - apparently he was considered too scary for the anime.
** There is also Saggi the Dark Clown, a monster card, as well as one of the Player Killers in the manga--whomanga—who was apparently too creepy for the anime and 'toned down' to, as the [[Abridged Series]] put it, "a gay clown".
*** Specifically, he was a different ''kind'' of clown; a ventriloquist with a [[Perverse Puppet]] in the shape of Kaiba, who claimed that he had put Kaiba's soul into the doll.
* In ''[[Mobile Fighter G Gundam]]'', Chibodee Crocket developed a pathological fear of clowns after an incident in his childhood when he was ''kidnapped'' by a monster clown, which lead to the loss of his mother.
** Cranked [[Up to Eleven]] by Romano, the Gundam Fighter for Neo-Portugal, who not only dresses up as a clown but has a ''mecha'' that looks like one. Naturally, he becomes Chibs's next opponent...
* ''[[Remote]]'' has a clown that sings an old folk song whenever someone sees him. In his wake he always leaves a corpse. Or a bomb.
* In ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! GX (anime)|Yu-Gi-Oh GX]]'', the 3rd season treats us to three matches at the same time -- threetime—three of the newest heroes against three emotionally-themed Monster Clowns. The Masked Knight of Impassivity used cards with [[Demonic Dummy|doll-themed cards]] to push Jesse Anderson to the edge, the Masked Knight of Anger uses an anchor-themed knight to push around fossil-slinging Jim Cook... and the Masked Knight of Laughter hams it up with one-liners against military man Axel Brodie with an appropriate Monster Clown deck featuring [[Perverse Puppet|Fool Clown]] and [[Action Bomb|Laugh Exploder]].
* ''[[GaoGaiGar|Gao Gai Gar]]'' had the demonic and sleep-disturbing Penchinon. THIS is the clown that eats you. Or turns you into a rampaging monster. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RgIU5tgCkA BREEEEEE!] * shudders*
** Penchinon is a pirate. Pagliaccio, the [[Robo Speak|robo speaking]] Zonder doll that can fold herself into a sphere, is probably a better example.
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* ''Mr. Jingles'' and its sequel, ''Jingles the Clown''.
* Shivers the Clown from the ''Fear of Clowns'' duology.
* ''[[Blue Velvet]]'': Roy Orbison's "In Dreams" or "CANDY COLORED CLOWN!!!" is a [[Monster Clown]] in the form of a song. Interestingly enough, Dean Stockwell, who lip-synchs the song while wearing white make up and exotic clothing, comes across as a Monster Clown Pimp.
* ''Klown Kamp Massacre'' and 100 Tears both feature killers dressed as monster clowns.
* ''[[La Casa 3]]'' has the clown doll that Henriette carries around. On few occasions it turns into sharptoothed version of itself.
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* ''[[The Avengers (TV series)|The Avengers]]'' episode "Look (Stop Me if You've Heard This One) But There Were These Two Fellas..." has a pair of killer clowns whose boss is a Punch and Judy puppet.
* The robot clowns in the ''[[Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Greatest Show In The Galaxy".
** The Chief Clown has come to enjoy any spectacle of brutality or murder. He also taunts one of his former colleagues on supposedly not being able to stop the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]s.
* Another ''Doctor Who'' episode, "The God Complex", features the apparition of a clown which is used to represent a person's greatest fear.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': In the episode "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1/E10 Nightmares|Nightmares]]", everyone was menaced by [[Your Worst Nightmare|their worst dreams]], including public nudity, death, and of course...
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* In the [[Halloween Episode]] of ''[[iCarly]]'', when the iCarly trio is in a darkened apartment, they take cover in a closet and encounter a disembodied clown head, which leaves them terrified... {{spoiler|but eventually we find out that it was just a phone that is hardly ever used anymore.}} Plus, Nathan Kress, the actor who plays Freddie, has stated that he is afraid of clowns himself.
* A show called ''[[Masters of Horror]]'', the ghost of an ice cream-truck-driving clown who the main character and his [[Jerkass]] friend accidentally murdered when they were kids comes back for revenge with his disturbingly happy attitude. And because he drove an ice cream truck, everything around suddenly gets immeasurably cold. (by the way, the [[Jerkass]] friend inexplicably and gruesomely melted. It was a really weird episode.)
* Although not evil per se, [[In Living Color|Homey D. Clown]] is still one big jerk. The reason for his [[Jerkass|Jerkassery]]ery? He's actually an ex-convict working as a clown, which is part of his prison release work program, and his lifelong enemy is [[The Man]].
* In episode "18-5-4" of ''[[The Mentalist]]'', the victim's fear of clowns was used to give him a particularly traumatic death.
* Played for laughs with Doctor Blake Downs in ''[[Childrens Hospital]]'', a [[Patch Adams]] expy who believes he can cure anything with laughter despite being utterly unfunny, caustic and permanently soaked in blood.
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* [[Vocaloid]]: Len Kagamine, playing Lemy/Remy Abelard, in the [[Mothy]] song The Fifth: Pierrot/Gobanme no Piero, is a very unique example of this. First, he's just an assassin who has the nickname "Pierrot" and wears a clown outfit. Second, he's not really a monster. He's just {{spoiler|been raised wrong by Santa/Julia Abelard, his adoptive mother and leader of the organization he belongs to, Pere Noel}}.
* The appropriately titled song "Clown" by the band [[Korn]].
* [[Insane Clown Posse]] obviously takes their image from this and have built a mythology around themselves called "The Dark Carnival." In the band's mythology, they're actually [[Anti-Hero|AntiHeroes]] or [[Sociopathic Hero|Sociopathic Heroes]]es hunting their various villainous enemies. The afterlife story features an evil clown, Jack Jeckel and his good twin Jake Jeckel. Jack throws slippery, blood-soaked balls at Jake, each representing a sin. If Jake fails to juggle the balls and drops one, you're condemned to "Hell's Pit." Other [[Psychopathic Records]] artists that are examples of this trope include [[Anybody Killa]], [[Blaze Ya Dead Homie]], [[Boondox]] and [[Twiztid]].
** Boondox' status as this is questionable. From his songs (and upbringing) it's pretty evident that he's supposed to be a scarecrow.
* [[Blind Guardian]]'s music video for "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qDFmNgmaEe0 Mr. Sandman]" includes ''four'' monster clowns ''made of [[Nightmare Fuel]]''. Seriously, don't go to sleep after watching that.
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* Mr Bungle's self-titled album has a monster clown on the cover. And "Carousel", a song comparing life to a [[Circus of Fear]], contains a few references to a monster clown ("You know there's something lurking underneath the shape, with a mask over it's head and makeup on his face").
** There's also some really creepy clowns in the video for ''Quote [[Un Quote]]''; [[Nightmare Fuel|pretty par for the course considering the rest of the clip's visuals]].
* In the video for [[Pink]]'s song ''Please Don't Leave Me'', the boyfriend tries to leave and the girl character goes [[Stephen King]] on him, starting with ''Misery'' and ending with an [[Axe Crazy]] bit from ''The Shining''. The more psycho the girl goes, the more her make-up goes [[Monster Clown]], until she looks horribly like Pennywise from ''It''. [[Nightmare Fuel|* brrr*]]
** There's also a quick shot of one at :04.
** More Pink: from the same album, the song ''Funhouse'':
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== Professional Wrestling ==
* Doink the Clown in the [[WWE|WWF]], until his [[Heel Face Turn|face turn]]. Then it went downhill fast.
** Doink also gets point for the coolest entrance theme ever, which started with the first few bars of "Entrance of the Gladiators" (aka the [[Standard Snippet]] for clowns) before turning into a very bass-heavy, very ''evil'' piece dotted with [[Evil Laugh|Evil Laughter]]ter. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5UDkrGN19ns&feature=related Have a listen].
* Subverted by [[Wrestler/Sting|Sting]] in [[TNA]] during his 2011 war against the Immortal faction. Slathering over his trademark black lipstick with a grotesquely smeared red [[Glasgow Grin]], playing pranks, and [[The Hyena|laughing and carrying on maniacally]], he ''seemed'' to be a Monster Clown but was actually more of a [[Loveable Rogue]] playing mind games with the villains. Definitely a case of [[Love It or Hate It]], especially for longtime Sting fans.
* An episode of ''[[WWE Smackdown|SmackDown]]'' in April 2000 had the Mean Street Posse posing as a trio of circus clowns during a hardcore title match when they ambushed Crash Holly.
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** One of the first 2 bosses in ''Journey of Dreams'', Donbalon, is a more literal example of this trope.
* ''Fighters Destiny'' and it's sequel feature a French clown named Pierre- and to add the monster to this trope he fits there's a cheat you can use that turns him into a werewolf.
* The Deathjester from ''[[Seiken Densetsu 3]]'', [[The Dragon|Dragon]] to one of the game's three potential [[Big Bad|Big Bads]]s.
** Also, his [[Expy]], [[Sword of Mana|Goremand.]]
* Joka from the ''[[Klonoa]]'' series, a clown-faced balloon demon who ''never stops smiling'', even when visibly angry. He also has an odd tendency to die and come back without explanation.
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** In ''[[Kirby's Return to Dream Land]]'', {{spoiler|Magolor's first [[One-Winged Angel]] looks like a dark jester.}}
* Rudy the Clown in the ''[[Wario Land]]'' series, who's both a demon that transformed an entire world to monsters and steals life saving medicines from Doctor Mario (Although in the latter case [[Freudian Excuse|he did have somewhat of an excuse for why he stole it, as he did need it for his cold]]).
** There is also a [[Monster Clown]] called Clown-A-Round in the Wonky Circus level in ''[[Wario World]]'' and a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot monster clown]] called Chortlebot in ''[[Wario Land]]: Shake It!''
*** The Wonky Circus level also has the standard [[Mooks]] replaced by [[Monster Clown]] versions that lurch around like zombies and scratch with sharp claws. It's also home to a miniboss called an Electric Clown Fence.
*** It's also home to Clown Cannons that literally fire Clown Missiles. Yes, giant missiles with clown faces.
* One level of ''[[Hitman]]: Blood Money'' gives the player the opportunity to play as one, where you can disguise yourself as a clown to infiltrate your target's house...and eliminate him.
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* In ''[[Terraria]]'', unlocking hard mode causes Clown monsters to appear during a Blood Moon. Silly-looking as they are, they're also fairly tough, and they throw bombs that destroy blocks and can mess up any buildings you've made.
* [[Laughing Mad|Hecklar]] [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=su4s7oUOAVs from] ''[[Cardinal Syn]]''.
* [[The Joker]] as he appears in the ''Batman Arkham'' games is every bit as [[Complete Monster|monstrous]] and [[Laughably Evil|clownish]] as you'd expect, but he plans on making an army of literal [[Monster Clown|Monster Clowns]] in the first game by injecting his face-painted henchmen with Titan formula, which causes them to hulk out into Bane-like abominations. {{spoiler|He gets in on the fun himself by shooting himself with a Titan filled dart before the final boss fight}}. This series also gives us one of the franchise's crueler interpretations of Harley Quinn as well.
* ''Five Nights at Freddy's 2'' has two of these amongst its bloodthirsty animatronics: the Puppet/Marionette who resembles an incredibly tall and thin pierrot that will lie dormant in his prize corner box as long as you keep a music box wound up. If you don't, he WILL kill you, and there's nothing you can do about it. As the death minigames show, he is {{spoiler|directly behind the hauntings in the first place by somehow tethering the spirits of murdered children to the pizzeria's animatronics}}. And depending on if {{spoiler|he did murder the children in the flashback minigames}}, he could be [[Complete Monster|monstrous]] [[Bigger Bad|in]] [[Would Hurt a Child|more]] [[Fate Worse Than Death|ways]] [[Humanoid Abomination|than]] [[The Corrupter|one.]]
** The second is Foxy's Toy counterpart, Mangle, who is pretty much a female Foxy wearing a bunch of garishly-colored makeup along with a whacky over-sized glove. She especially fits the monstrous criteria in a literal way as she's been reduced to a tangled spider-like mess of broken machinery thanks to being abused by rambunctious visiting children.
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** Monster Clowndom appears to be the [[Gang of Hats|hat]] of the Subjugglators, judging by The Grand Highblood's facepaint and colorful paintings. [[Nightmare Fuel|Facepaint and colorful paintings made of the blood of slaughtered trolls.]]
* ''[[Wapsi Square]]'' demonstrated that there are few things scarier than a [http://wapsisquare.com/comic/11282003/ dog in a clown mask.]
* ''[[Girl Genius]]'' has a [http://www.girlgeniusonline.com/comic.php?date=20110209 Jack-in-the-box] in Heterodynes nursery combining the charm of Monster Clown with steel-clad brutality of an overengineered murder-bot. "It explains... ''so much''..." We don't know yet who made this toy, though -- itthough—it may well be local "young masters" [[Mad Scientist|themselves]].
* Jason Love cartoons [http://www.jasonlove.com/cartoons/00724-funny-cartoons-mafia-clown.gif warns us] about [[The Mafia|Mafia]] clowns.
* In ''[[8-Bit Theater|Eight Bit Theater]]'', Black Mage gains a clownlike outfit after becoming a blue mage.
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* "[http://loneanimator.elfwood.com/Nightmare-Clown.2978047.html Nightmare Clown]" by Richard Svensson.
* [[The Grotesque|The Jester]], ringmaster of [[Circus of Fear|Le Cirque d'Abberations]] in ''[[The Tale of the Exile]]'', is one of these. He has a magically-induced deformity that gives him a permanent [[Slasher Smile]] and a tendency to mutilate others as a form of art.
* [[SCP Foundation|SCP-993]], the "Bobble the Clown" show. Once the program starts, everyone in the room over the age of ten passes out; children under the age of ten report that an animated clown gives how-tos on cannibalism, arson, and a number of other horrifying things. Worse, whoever is creating the show (and there's a certain amount of evidence that the show itself is a sapient entity that creates and broadcasts itself) appears to be aware that the SCP Foundation has found a way to intercept and block its transmission, as the two most recent episodes are <ref> Bobble the Clown, sitting in a chair and glaring silently at the viewer for the entire episode.</ref> and <ref> Bobble the Clown breaches classification on Foundation researchers, administrators, and SCPs, including detailed instructions on how to breach containment of a number of incredibly dangerous SCPs, with a special guest appearance by the animated version of an SCP researcher who happened to be passing by the room where the Foundation keeps the recordings they make of the show at the time shown on a clock in the episode.</ref>
* [[That Guy With The Glasses]] featured a video with [[Doug Walker]] doing a pretty damn good impression of [[Heath Ledger]][[The Dark Knight Saga|'s Joker]] practicing his origin story. An attempt to spin this off into a series called "Melvin, Brother of the Joker" was not nearly as well received, and the character became [[The Scrappy]] among fans. Walker has engaged in a fair amount of [[Self-Deprecation]] about this, and Melvin was killed by other TGWTG contributors during one of the donation drives.
** [[The Spoony Experiment]] featured [[Noah Antwiler]] playing "Chuckles the Fucking Jester", a character from the ''[[Ultima]]'' series. Spoony finds him creepy, screaming when he enters the room. He is also relentlessly obnoxious, making bad jokes and beating Noah with a rubber chicken for not playing "The Game" correctly. After [[It Makes Sense in Context|Spoony's robot blasts him with a laser beam]], Chuckles flees, and a mysterious figure points out his ability to cause great fear, giving him [[Blackest Night|a Yellow Lantern ring]].
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* Darph Bobo, and the entire Clown Empire, from ''[[Tripping the Rift]]''
* In ''[[Animaniacs]]'', Wakko Warner had an irrational fear of clowns, which often caused him to apply his [[Hyperspace Mallet]] before he ran screaming.
** Studio boss Seymour Plotz doesn't know this, so he sends a [[Jerry Lewis]]-style clown to the water tower to entertain Wakko on his birthday. Plotz doesn't like clowns, either, so when he finds out -- heout—he does nothing. True [[Hilarity Ensues]].
{{quote|'''Dr. Scratchnsniff:''' Wakko, repeat after me: "A clown is my friend. A clown will not bite me and throw me in the basement... A clown is not a big spider."}}
** '''''HE LIES.'''''
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*** Another episode called "The Trial" featured a creepy clown lamp with a giant perpetual grin and an evil countenance.
*** Or the episode "The Mysterious Mr. Fiend" which had a talking clown doll depicted [http://cust.idl.com.au/boyd/images/bfriend.gif here].
*** The episode "Clown Around" had plenty of [[Monster Clown]]'s for all.
*** To keep this list from getting longer, lets just say that ''[[Rugrats]]'' was ''very'' fond of [[Monster Clown|Monster Clowns]].
* The Beast Which Dares Not Speak Its Name, from the ''[[Earthworm Jim (animation)|Earthworm Jim]]'' episode "Evil in Love". Far too powerful and evil for the titular hero to hope to defeat, but fortunately thwarted by bureaucracy.
* Madkat from ''[[Swat Kats]]''. The spirit of an evil jester from medieval times that merged with a failed comedian whose hardships mirrored [[Madk Kat]]'s own. For a one shot villain, he's pretty effective, and came damn close to winning.
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** Considering it was a toaster's nightmare, and the clown was armed with a ''fire hose'' and a ''fork''...
*** [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YEdZh8a4ZvE Click it]. [[Shmuck Bait|Go on. Do it]].
* ''[[Scooby-Doo (animation)|Scooby Doo]]'' has featured various such examples, among others including Zombo the "clown ghost" (from ''[[A Pup Named Scooby Doo]]''). ''[[What's New Scooby Doo]]'' even [[Retcon|retconnedretcon]]ned Velma into having had a fear of clowns.
** Villain of the week Harry the Hypnotist used a clown getup as both [[Scooby-Doo Hoax|a gimmick and a way to mask his identity]]. Throughout the episode, he's referred to simply as Ghost Clown, until he's finally caught by the gang, and identified by his boss.
*** Harry was a [[Complete Monster]], who hypnotised Scooby into walking a tightrope and then snapped him out of the trance when he was halfway across. And then hypnotised Shaggy into being a lion tamer:
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*** Considering that {{spoiler|Peter accidentally killed the man he thought was his father (Francis, not the town drunk from Ireland) while performing as Pee Pants}}, no, nothing could have gone right from there.
** ''[http://youtu.be/-LjwCjaqSO4?t=1m52s I wish that scary looking clown at the end of my bed would go away!]
* The short-lived American adaptation of Australia's teacher sitcom ''[[Sit Down, Shut Up]]'' has a [[Monster Clown]] in the form of the overly cheerful (and mentally unstable) vice principal Stuart Proszakian (voiced by Will Forte from ''[[Saturday Night Live]]''). Before he was vice principal, Stuart was a clown entertaining at a Florida prison. The second episode (where the teachers run a schoolwide fair) even had Stuart dressed in prison stripes and clown make-up (making him look more like [[Beetlejuice]]) and singing this song (set to folksy banjo music) with the following lyrics:
{{quote|Well, you were beaten mercilessly in the shower.
You took an old-fashioned shiv in the crown.
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A prison clown -- }}
** If anyone buys you or barters you a prison clown, scream as loud as you can and call the proper authorities. For me...
*** It should also be of note that Will Forte also plays mentally unstable characters -- includingcharacters—including those who have been convicted of sexual offenses -- onoffenses—on ''SNL'' so his role on ''[[Sit Down, Shut Up]]'' isn't much of a stretch.
* An episode of ''[[Extreme Ghostbusters]]'' had the ghostbusters hunting vampire-like monsters who feed on laughter and disguise themselves as clowns, because as this page tells us, there's nothing funnier than an ominous clown with an [[Evil Laugh]] following you by night.
* Paddywack from ''[[Darkwing Duck (animation)|Darkwing Duck]]''. Beady red eyes, long grasping limbs, fangs and a bottom of the well voice. Not to mention that he was an [[Sealed Evil in a Can|otherworldly evil entity]] that fed on fear or chaos or some other kind of metaphysical claptrap and had [[Mind Over Matter|poltergeist]] [[Invisibility|powers]] [[Demonic Possession|galore]].
** [[Villainous Harlequin|Quackerjack]] once made a [[Monster Clown]] toy that features [[Spider Limbs]], and they ended in [[An Axe to Grind|rather large axes]] to boot. It was probably [[Nightmare Fuel|the creepiest thing]] Quackerjack ever made. The kicker? It was made by an [[Alternate Universe]] counterpart who was actually ''a good guy''.
* In an episode of ''[[League of Super Evil]]'', the team revives Doktor Frogg's first invention, Chuckles the Robotic Clown, for his birthday. Frogg later reveals that he invented Chuckles when he was a kid to ruin all the birthday parties he was never invited to and [[Turned Against Their Masters|then Frogg's own birthday came]].
* Played with in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'', wherein Spud spends half an episode paralyzed by his fear of clowns. After finally realizing that the fear is irrational, he joyfully asks a troupe of clowns to make him laugh. Cue the clowns eating some magicked cupcakes, which transform them into hideous scorpion/clown/demon monsters. [[Nightmare Fuel]] all around!
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* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls]]'' had Rainbow the Clown. He's somewhat of a subversion though, since he's neither scary, nor evil. His [[Super-Powered Evil Side]] on the other hand, [[Enemy Mime|most certainly is]].
* ''[[The Tick (animation)]]'' featured the villain Proto-Clown, a rampaging superpowered brute of a clown [[Gone Horribly Wrong|created by a genetic experiment]] intended to create a perfect [[Non-Ironic Clown]]. Notably, he was barely sentient and spoke only in [[Hulk Speak]], and was only scary due to his [[Unstoppable Rage]] and ability to tear buildings asunder with his bare hands. As it turns out, he was completely harmless once calmed down, but he ''hated'' it when people laughed at him.
* ''[[Adventure Time]]'' features clown nurses, which aren't bad at first, but after Finn constantly objects, his clown nurse tells him "ITS THE ONLY WAY!" with a red demonic face accompanied by one of the worst [[Scare Chord|Scare Chords]]s ever.
 
 
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*** At least one of his paintings made it to the Louisiana swamp metal band Acid Bath. They had sent him a demo of their stuff, and he liked it so much he sent them a painting. ''When the Kite String Pops'' uses it as album art. It's rather fitting, really- [http://www.darklyrics.com/lyrics/acidbath/whenthekitestringpops.html that shit's fucked up, son.] Incidentally, their second full-length actually had a painting by ''Dr. Jack Kevorkian'' who actually ''does violins on one of the songs.''
* [http://www.ouchytheclown.com/ Ouchy the Clown] '''([[Not Safe for Work|NSFW]]!)''' is "your premier provider of adult clown services." That's right, sex clown for hire with S&M clown porn for sale. Tell me that's not [[Nightmare Fuel|some scary shit]]. His motto is "Popping up where you least expect me!"
* In his book ''Mysterious America'' and [http://copycateffect.blogspot.com/2008/10/phantom-clowns-on-coast-to-coast.html elsewhere], Fortean Loren Coleman has documented numerous cases, beginning in May of 1981 but intermittently continuing up to the present day, of malevolent activity by persons unknown, dressed in clown attire, toward targets such as elementary school children. However, given that no such perpetrators have ever been apprehended, the "phantom clown" reports continue to remain unexplained.
* Lon Chaney, Sr., "The Man of a Thousand Faces", and perhaps the single most iconic (as well as genuinely frightening) horror actor from the silent film era, once made the observation that "There is nothing funny about a clown in the moonlight."
* [http://lovelylisting.com/2009/07/no-no-no-no-no-no-no.html Look! Clowns!] (This is supposed to have ''sold'' a house?)
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