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(Quote from the BBC article: Researcher Dr Penny Curtis said: "As adults we make assumptions about what works for children. We found that clowns are universally disliked by children. Some found them quite frightening and unknowable.")
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
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== Advertising ==
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* In [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eJqnitjqpuM this] E -Trade commercial with the talking baby, the baby says he rented a clown named Bobo, who we see standing in the background making balloon animals, before getting a scared look on his face and saying "And I really underestimated the creepiness."
** Subverted in that the clown doesn't actually do anything creepy other than just be there. Which may or may not be enough to be freaky for a clown.
* The [http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xc35pi_kgb-commercial-clowns_fun KGB commercial] with two moms looking for clowns for their kids birthday parties. The one using KGB finds Benny the clown, [[Non
* A Motel 6 commercial features a guy not being able to sleep because of all the disturbing clown paraphernalia decorating the guest room he's staying in.
* Krinkles the Clown, of Post's Sugar Rice Krinkles. [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FDWXGcsMTHw Good Lord, where to begin?]
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* ''[[Remote (Manga)|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 -- 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]].
* ''[[
** Penchinon is a pirate. Pagliaccio, the [[Robo Speak|robo speaking]] Zonder doll that can fold herself into a sphere, is probably a better example.
*** Pagliaccio actually means "clown" in Italian.
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** Lafitte, on the other hand, is an extremely soft-spoken, seemingly polite fellow with white face paint and a massive grin that was run out of his home territory for being too brutal in his role as a peace officer, and that's by the standards of an organization that is willing to burn an entire island and its inhabitants to deal with some snoopy archaeologists.
* That's practically the job description of Orgel from ''[[Violinist of Hameln (Manga)|Violinist of Hameln]]''. His title is Hell Clown, and making humans suffer and break for fun and profit, by exploiting their fears, weaknesses and insecurities, [[Complete Monster|is not only his personal hobby, but also what his employers might see as a merry performance]]. {{spoiler|Also, he is a demonic parasyte, whose true form is his clown mask and whose bodies are [[And I Must Scream|dead and reanimated, but still retaining their consciousness, humans]]. He once takes over a little girl in this way, just because she was nice to [[The Hero|Hamel]]. [[Complete Monster|Then lets Hamel know that he did it, and why he did it.]]}} ''That's actually is his idea of a hilarious prank.''
** Baroque from [[Violinist of Hameln Shchelkunchik (Manga)|the sequel]] is a worthy spiritual successor of Orgel. Even their favored [[Magic Music|musical instruments]] are somewhat similar. Well, he is a [[Drunk On the Dark Side]] [[Mad Scientist|madman]], instead of a [[
* ''[[Hell Teacher Nube (Manga)|Hell Teacher Nube]]'': Pierrot in the second movie. Made worse by being voiced by Ryusei Nakao, the same voice actor as [[Dragonball|Freeza]] and [[Bleach|Mayuri Kurotsuchi]].
* [[Complete Monster|Tommyrod]] from ''[[Toriko]]'' is yet another example. [[Nightmare Fuel|With heavy emphasis on]] [[Body Horror|the "monster" part]]. Bonus point for the fact, that his entire face - ''including eyes'' - often seems to be painted on.
* Near the end of the anime ''[[Skull Man (Manga)|Skull Man]]'', a team of cyborg soldiers wearing body armor with deranged clown helmets is brought in to take out the titular character, including one [[Shell
* Subverted in ''[[Yu Yu Hakusho (Manga)|Yu Yu Hakusho]]''. Suzuki, a contestant in the Dark World Tournament, desperately wants to fit this trope, and it seems like he does after killing some laughing spectators...but then Genkai kicks his ass all over the place. {{spoiler|Afterwards, he ditches the makeup and [[Defeat Means Friendship|becomes an ally]].}}
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** Like the Joker's Glasgow smile in ''[[The Dark Knight Saga (Film)|The Dark Knight Saga]]'', the scar the Comedian gets in Vietnam is eerily reminiscent of a clown's painted smile.
* Protoclown from ''[[The Tick]]''
** And then the subversion: Protoclown was genetically engineered to be the perfect [[Non
* [[Deadpool]] sees all clowns as Monster Clowns.
* [[Blade (Comic Book)|Blade]] once fought ''vampire'' clowns. Really.
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* Subverted in ''[[The Chase (Film)|The Chase]]'': [[Charlie Sheen]]'s character Jack Hammond is pegged for a felony because he works part-time as a clown, despite the fact that he was innocent. (He's convicted, however, because a crucial piece of evidence was deemed inadmissible, which led to the events of the titular car chase.)
* [[John Candy]] starred in a drama/horror film in the '70s titled ''The Clown Murders'' which was about a Halloween prank gone wrong. The main enemy was a guy in a clown mask but he only appears for a few seconds in the movie.
* A startling jack-in-the-box (that ''weeps'', apparently) turns up in the very first shot of ''[[What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (Film)|What Ever Happened to Baby Jane]]''
* In ''[[Diary of the Dead (Film)|Diary of the Dead]]'' (the Romero Zombie movie) there's a Zombie-Clown at a birthday party and he bites the birthday child's dad's ear off. It's hilarious and absolutely terrifying.
** It's telling that the child is shown to be instinctively afraid of the clown.
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* An original plan for ''[[Halloween (Film)|Halloween]]'' was to have The Shape wear a Weary Willie mask instead of the tweaked [[William Shatner]] one they ended up using. He does wear the clown mask for the film's opening scene.
* "The master and I are going to have words. He knows I hate clowns. God, I hate them. I hate them all. I hate Bozo, Ronald, Chuckles with their freakin' dumb noses and their lousy party hats!" - Violator from the movie, ''[[Spawn]]''.
* Near the end of ''[[Zombieland (Film)|Zombieland]]'', a zombie clown appears at Pacific Playland. Even though Columbus [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|is afraid of clowns]], [[Crowning Moment of Awesome|he kills it in two hits.]]
* Captain Spaulding (Sid Haig) in ''[[House of 1000 Corpses (Film)|House of 1000 Corpses]]''. Especially the first scene. He's more of a monster in ''The Devil's Rejects'' but ditches the clown makeup early in the film.
* The first segment of ''Amusement'' features a room '''filled''' with scary clown dolls and toys. Except one of them isn't...
* In ''[[Night of the Demon (Film)|Night of the Demon]]'' (1957), Crowley-esque cult leader Julian Karswell, who will blithely send critics to a horrible doom, holds children's parties at his estate, playing a magician/clown...pretty benign for this trope, but capable of bad stuff (and in the original story, quick to scare the daylights out of the kids).
* The second dream sequence in ''[[Pee
** Then there's that motorized clown dummy Pee-Wee chained his bike to...when he comes back and the bike's gone the clown has an evil grin and laughs mockingly!
* As mentioned under Comic Books above, the various film incarnations of [[The Joker]] are classic examples.
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* In the 1998 film ''The Clown at Midnight'', a murderous clown attacks several teenagers.
* ''[[Uncle Buck]]'' had "Pooter the Clown", who showed up to entertain children at a young [[Macaulay Culkin]]'s birthday party, ''while drunk'', but ends up trying to pick a fight with [[John Candy]] instead.
* ''[[Shakes the Clown (Film)]]'' is a comedy that treats clowns as a minority. Most of the characters have foul mouths and substance abuse problems, but one clown in particular, played by [[Tom Kenny]], loses it at the end, and holds a woman hostage.
* Angelique of ''[[Hellraiser Bloodline]]'' was supposed to be served by a troupe of these. Sadly the movie went through it's own [[Development Hell]], and they were one of the [[What Could Have Been|many casualties]].
* ''[[The Family Jewels]]'' is a vanity-piece movie for [[Jerry Lewis]], starring in seven roles, including a professional clown who, off the clock, has only contempt for the "squealing brats" he entertains.
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* ''S.I.C.K. Serial Insane Clown Killer'' features a killer who dresses in a clown suit.
* ''Out of the Dark'' features a killer who targets sex-line workers while wearing a clown mask.
* The killer in ''[[Slaughter High (Film)|Slaughter High]]'' wears a jester costume. Fitting, since the film takes place on [[April Fools' Day]].
* The Spanish film ''[[The Last Circus (Film)|The Last Circus]]'' has two insane, grotesquely disfigured clowns battling each other.
* The ''Camp Blood'' trilogy.
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* ''[[Are You Afraid of the Dark]]'' had two: Zeebo the Clown, the ghost of a criminal who haunted a haunted house (go figure); and the Crimson Clown, something of a cross between a Monster Clown and a [[Demonic Dummy]].
** Don't forget [http://www.desperatethoughts.com/ioffer/areuafraidofthedark.gif The Ghastly Grinner.] He's a jester but he still fits the mark.
* The Clown in the ''[[Star Trek Voyager (TV)|Star Trek Voyager]]'' episode "The Thaw" was created as [[Lotus Eater Machine|virtual-reality entertainment for a race in suspended animation]]. The Clown [[Instant AI, Just Add Water|became self-aware]] and [[AI Is a Crapshoot|sadistically scared to death anyone who opposed it]].
* ''[[The Avengers (TV)|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 (TV)|Doctor Who]]'' episode "The Greatest Show In The Galaxy".
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{{quote| '''Xander:''' (runs into Willow while fleeing, panicked) Remember my sixth birthday party?<br />
'''Willow:''' Oh yeah! When the clown chased you, and you got so scared you went... oh. }}
* A [[Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?|special fear]] of Sam's on ''[[Supernatural (TV)|Supernatural]]''
** The show had a demon (a rakshasa, to be precise) that took the shape of a clown so children would trust it. (Yeah, 'cause nothing inspires trust like... oh, never mind.)
** Demonic clowns also served as enforcers for a [[Suck E.
* In "Sylvia," a bizarre two-part episode from the seventh season of ''[[Little House On the Prairie (TV)|Little House On the Prairie]]'' a man disguised as a clown rapes and impregnates Albert's girlfriend. The clown, his victim, and the unborn child all die in the end.
* ''[[Mighty Morphin Power Rangers]]'': In "No Clowning Around," the Yellow Ranger's cousin is harassed by an evil clown that turns out to be Rita's Pineoctopus monster.
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* [[Bones (TV)|Agent Seeley Booth]] has a problem with clowns. He shot one once. It was on top of an ice cream truck. He had to be psychoanalyzed.
** In a later Halloween episode Booth and Bones investigate a serial killer who terrifies victims to death. When Booth confronts the killer, said killer is dressed as a clown. Presumably because clowns terrify everyone.
* ''[[The League of Gentlemen (TV)|The League of Gentlemen]]'''s Papa Lazarou, a demonic, [[I Have You Now, My Pretty|polygamist]] blackface minstrel who runs a [[Circus of Fear]]. {{spoiler|Season 3 reveals that he [[Not a Mask|doesn't actually wear any makeup]]. That's his actual skin.}}
* For a more clownish but less monstrous example, look no further than Reece Shearsmith and Steve Pemberton's new show ''[[Psychoville]],'' and Mr. Jelly, a one-handed clown who makes balloon animals with his hook, who performs at kids parties and gives us "Mr. Jelly's Hundred Hands" act (although there's only 16, really.) Jelly is a grouchy, dysfunctional weirdo with a bad temper and the tendency to [[Nightmare Fuel
* [[Saturday Night Live (TV)|Jack Handey]] had the right idea: "To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus and a clown killed my Dad."
* ''[[Seinfeld (TV)|Seinfeld]]'' had a schizophrenic character at one point who was rather unstable, and was shown playing the role of Canio in ''Pagliaci'', a clown. While wandering the city in his clown makeup, he encounters a gang of toughs who should know better than to [[Bullying a Dragon|hassle a clown]].
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* Googler from ''[[Ace Lightning]]''. More of a Monster Jester really, but still close enough.
* Subverted in the ''[[Criminal Minds (TV)|Criminal Minds]]'' episode "Damaged". The killer turned out to be a clown... who was severely mentally retarded, and committed the double homicide during a tantrum.
* In the [[Halloween Episode]] of ''[[
* 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]]? 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]].
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* [[Vocaloid (Music)|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 (Music)|Korn]].
* [[Insane Clown Posse (Music)|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
** 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 (Music)|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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== Reality TV ==
* Used in a third-season episode of ''[[Scare Tactics (TV)|Scare Tactics]]'' for a teenager set to babysit a little girl, only instead of a clown statue, it's the little girl's [[Not
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** The notably Fiend-type [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ryu-Kishin_Clown Ryu-Kishin Clown].
** Plus a few Normal Monsters including the famous Saggi the Dark Clown ([[The Rival|Seto Kaiba's]] favorite Crush Card Virus carrier)...
** ... and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Crass_Clown Crass Clown], known in Japan as [[Meaningful Name|'Murder]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Circus']] and suitably ugly already... but then becomes [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Clown_Zombie the even uglier Clown Zombie], which in the anime [[Nightmare Fuel
* In ''Cyberpunk2020,'' one street gang you can run into on the streets of [[Meaningful Name|Night City]] is the Bozos. They are described as the sort of people who get ''plastic surgery'' to look like clowns permanently, who stay up all night watching horror flicks. And committing gruesome crimes. Advice for dealing with them is "Run!"
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== Video Games ==
* Joker-sama in ''[[Persona 2 (Video Game)|Persona 2]]''. Unusual if only for his distinctive elegance... {{spoiler|and the fact he's the plaything of [[Eldritch Abomination|Nyarlathotep]] }}.
* In ''[[League of Legends]]'', there is a ''playable'' monster clown named Shaco. He can set invisible jack in the boxes that cause terror and fire [[Frickin' Laser Beams|laser beams]], poof into invisibility with an evil laugh, backstab people with venomed knives, and make duplicates of himself.
* Kefka Palazzo from ''[[Final Fantasy VI (Video Game)|Final Fantasy VI]]'', complete with [[Laughing Mad|a creepy and weird, cackling laugh]], comical outfit, and whiteface makeup during battles... Not to mention his very quotable one-liners. In Dissidia, they also apparently gave him a [[Glasgow Grin]] that was eerily similar to Heath Ledger's Joker incarnation from [[The Dark Knight]], and, in the English version at least, a voice similar to that of [[Mark Hamill]]'s Joker voice.
** In the [[Updated Rerelease]], they rendered a full 3-D opening sequence, and Kefka's appearance in it is pure [[Nightmare Fuel]].
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** A homicidal clown, he's essentially an [[Expy]] of [[The Joker]].
* The Jester from ''[[Devil May Cry (Video Game)|Devil May Cry]] 3'' is pretty creepy, even ''before'' you find out that {{spoiler|he is [[The Man Behind the Man]].}}
* Malcolm the jester in the ''Kyrandia'' adventure game series. Suffers a [[Heel Face Turn|reluctant flipflop]] in the third and final game which does ...absolutely nothing at all. He retains the same personality. He still says incredibly evil and nasty things. He just stopped killing people. (which of course nobody believes, so it's up to you as Malcolm to clear your name in the third.) Most unconvincing HFT ever, most unrepentant villain ever too. Even with his personality set to ''"nice"'' and with him talking to the sorceress Zanthia, whom he has a bit of a crush on, everything he says still makes him sound like a spiteful misanthropic [[Jerkass]] just one dagger away from a multiple homicide. He's not so much an [[Anti
* In the first chapter of ''[[Dark Cloud (Video Game)|Dark Cloud]] 2'' (aka Dark Chronicle), the [[Big Bad]] ({{spoiler|before we find out about [[The Man Behind the Man]]}}) is Flotsam, creepy leader of a troupe of killer clowns.
** Inexplicably, one of the outfits that Max (the main protagonist of the game) can trade for Medals is a complete clown outfit, with shoes and hat... and a ''whiteface'' makeup that is far more unnerving and disturbing than even Flotsam's most threatening appearance.
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* {{spoiler|Marx}} in the "Milky Way Wishes" portion of ''[[Kirby Super Star (Video Game)|Kirby Super Star]]'' giving Kirby access to a [[Forgotten Superweapon]]. He then sprouts wings and turns outright ''creepy''.
** Necrodeus from ''[[Kirby Mass Attack (Video Game)|Kirby Mass Attack]]'' has a [[Skull for A Head]] that looks a lot like a clown. He qualifies for "Monster" in that he tries to ''kill'' Kirby at the very beginning of the game.
** In ''[[Kirbys Return to Dream Land (Video Game)|Kirbys Return to Dream Land]]'', {{spoiler|Magolor's first [[One
* Rudy the Clown in the ''[[Wario Land (Video Game)|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 (Video Game)|Wario World]]'' and a [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|robot monster clown]] called Chortlebot in ''[[Wario Land (Video Game)|Wario Land]]: Shake It!''
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* ''[[Girl Genius (Webcomic)|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 -- 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 ''[[
* In ''[[The Word Weary]]'', Yorick's elf rogue character is disguised as a jester- and he's just as [http://wordwearycomic.blogspot.com/2011/04/28-april-2011.html acerbic and mean] as he is the in regular story.
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* [[The Grotesque|The Jester]], ringmaster of [[Circus of Fear|Le Cirque d'Abberations]] in ''[[The Tale of the Exile (Literature)|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 (Wiki)|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 [[SC Ps]], including detailed instructions on how to breach containment of a number of incredibly dangerous [[SC Ps]], 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 (Website)|That Guy With the Glasses]] featured a video with [[Doug Walker (Creator)|Doug Walker]] doing a pretty damn good impression of [[Heath Ledger]][[The Dark Knight Saga (Film)|'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
** [[The Spoony Experiment (Web Video)|The Spoony Experiment]] featured [[Noah Antwiler]] playing "Chuckles the Fucking Jester", a character from the ''[[Ultima (Video Game)|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]].
** [[Diamanda Hagan]], who is basically a female Joker and enjoys slaying her minions when bored.
** [[Atop the Fourth Wall (Web Video)|Linkara]], on the other hand, is fed up with the negative portrayal of clowns in the media, and introduced [[Non
* ''[[Skippys List (Literature)|Skippys List]]'' has examples:
{{quote| 65. There are no evil clowns living under my bed.}}
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== Western Animation ==
* Can't forget Joker from ''[[The Batman (Animation)|The Batman]]''. Especially "Vampire Joker" in ''[[The Batman vs. Dracula]]''.
** And the Joker from ''[[Batman:
*** Arguably the goofy, baggy clown-outfit made him look even creepier than his normal purple tux, since it twisted his reasonably normal human proportions into the depths of [[Uncanny Valley]].
* Frankly, there are countless times ('''not''' including that stint in ''Treehouse of Horrors'') that Krusty the Klown of ''[[The Simpsons (Animation)|The Simpsons]]'' fits neatly into the oversized shoes of this trope. Point in fact he is scary enough to provoke heart-attacks in patients with heart conditions (namely Homer).
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{{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.'''''
*** Ironically, the clown is a genuinely [[Non
* In the ''[[Legion of Super Heroes (Animation)|Legion of Super Heroes]]'', episode "Fear Factory", Lightning Lad is terrified of a clownlike doll from his childhood called "[[The Exorcist (Film)|Captain Howdy]]".
* ''[[Mighty Max]]'' had an episode (and a micro playset) involving Freako the Clown.
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* 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 [http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TurnedAgainstTheirMasters then Frogg's own birthday came].
* Played with in ''[[American Dragon Jake Long (Animation)|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!
* Subverted in ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (TV)|Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job]]'' with "Steve Mahahanan's Child Clown Rentals", which combines natural terror of clowns with the horror/pity of '''CHILD SLAVERY'''. Child Clowns are rented out as SERVANTS rather than entertainers, and besides a disturbing advertisement in the usual Tim and Eric style, there's an overly-long, creepily realistic VHS-edited "Care for Your Child Clown" video how-to in a later episode. Details include the care, cleaning and storage of your Child Clown.
** Good to know: Child Clowns eat only Steve Mahahanan's Child Clown Wet Food Logs.
* ''[[Re Boot]]'' has ''The Funhouse'' game with a monster clown as the User character. In the one game that's supposed to be impossible for sprites to win. Since the sprites that lose a game turn into [[And I Must Scream|nulls]], this just adds to the creepiness of the character.
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* Scuzzo, and his large mute brother Fuzzo, in ''[[Beetlejuice (Animation)|Beetlejuice]]'', is the Ghost with the Most's (im)mortal enemy. Debatably BJ is the lesser of two evils there.
* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ivk_LPQP6Ag This] computer animation demo reel from 1984 opens with an evil juggling clown so scary, he has the power to terrify even those not normally afraid of clowns!
* ''[[The Powerpuff Girls (Animation)|The Powerpuff Girls]]'' had Rainbow the Clown. He's somewhat of a subversion though, since he's neither scary, nor evil. His [[Super
* ''[[The Tick]]'' 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
* ''[[Adventure Time (Animation)|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]] ever.
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