Monster Clown: Difference between revisions

** [[Irony|Ironically]], while It often used its shape-shifting ability to take the form of nightmarish imagery, one of its primary uses for the Pennywise form was to ''attract'' kids. As such, It gives adults a new reason to fear clowns: [[Adult Fear|they lure children in with balloons and dancing, only to then do unthinkable things to them...]]

* The Ankh-Morpork Fool's Guild in the ''[[Discworld]]'' series realizes that clowns scare and disgust some people. Thus, they prepare their charges through exceedingly harsh conditions to endure a lot of abuse. [[Terry Pratchett]], creator of the series, has described the guild as "the stricter sort of medieval monastery without [the monastery's] non-stop boffo laughs." He also introduces the idea that whiteface clowns are scary even to other clowns because their humor often comes from bullying others. Doctor Whiteface is described as having, under his painted grin, features "cold and proud as a prince of Hell".

{{quote|''They are tragic, and [[Black Comedy|we laugh at their tragedy as we laugh at our own.]] The painted grin leers out at us from the darkness, [[Nietzsche Wannabe|mocking our insane belief in order, logic, status, the reality of reality.]] The mask knows that we are born on [[Banana Peel|the banana skin]] that leads only to [[Doomy Dooms of Doom|the open manhole cover of doom,]] and all we can hope for are the cheers of the crowd.''}}

** In the Fools' Guild edition of the ''[[All There in the Manual|Discworld Diary]]'' series, the Guild's clowns, mimes and jesters are revealed to be agents of a widespread and ruthless spy ring operated purely for its own profit and power.

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