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{{quote|''"[[Madness Mantra|Can't sleep, clown will eat me]]. [[Memetic Mutation|Can't sleep, clown will eat me]]. [[Rule of Three|Can't sleep, clown will eat me]]...."''
|'''Bart Simpson'''|''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]''}}
{{quote|''"What's the matter kid, don't you like clowns? Why? Don't we make ya laugh? Aren't we fuckin' funny? You best come up with an answer, cause I'm gonna come back here and check on you and your mama, and if you ain't got a reason why you hate clowns, ''I'm gonna kill your whole fuckin' family.''"''|'''Captain Spaulding'''
|''[[The Devil's Rejects]]''}}
Clowns are ''supposed'' to be funny. They're supposed to make everyone laugh, especially children. This is the entire point of their existence. Sometimes they succeed. But for some people, clowns awaken [[wikipedia:Coulrophobia|some primal fear]]. There are children who won't go near a clown without screaming.
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{{examples}}
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* [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jwb9W51j7fo&eurl The original design of Ronald McDonald, as seen in this advertisement.]
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== Anime and Manga ==
* Hisoka from ''[[Hunter X Hunter]]''.
* In ''[[Akira]]'' there are two rival biker gangs. One gang, called the Clowns, dresses in clown-like outfits and acts very much like evil clowns.
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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
** Also, the lvl 2 akuma that could imitate shapes, Pierrot.
*** [[Oh Crap|"This is the final blow exorcist!"]] akuma. That bastard was scary enough to be the picture on ''[[D.Gray-man
** 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—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.
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** 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—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
** 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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* Eliot Franklin, from the [[Marvel Universe]], worked as a clown and wore his clown costume to commit crimes. He eventually became a professional hitman.
* The Clown Cenobite (aka "Winky Dink") from the ''[[Hellraiser]]'' comic story "Dead Things Rot".
* A recent{{when}} issue of the revamped CREEPY comic featured a murderous clown who killed "demons" wherever he saw them. He saw them everywhere.
* The Painted Doll, a Joker-expy from ''[[Promethea]]''.
* Frenchy from the National Lampoon's [http://ohdannyboy.blogspot.com/2007/10/looking-back-with-alan-kupperberg-evil.html Evil Clown Comics] feature which ran intermittently in the magazine in the late 80's and early 90's. He was the brainchild of Nick Bakay and Alan Kupperberg, and was not only totally bitter and diabolical but had... ahem, a way with the ladies as well. Sometimes he was too much even for the proudly non-PC Lampoon, which refused to publish one panel of a particular story.
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* "[https://web.archive.org/web/20120614043225/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{{when}} 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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