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** And some of them are very weird. Like the eye-chicken-ventriloquist [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/opticaper.htm Opticaper], the straitjacket-snake-clown [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/insanititter.htm Insanititter] and whatever the hell [http://www.bogleech.com/mortasheen/madcap.htm Madcap] is.
* The ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' supplement ''Heroes Of Horror'' is about infusing your games with anything from a touch to an overdose of the macabre, the frightening, and the unnerving. One of the monsters introduced? The "gray jester". One of the scenarios provided? A gray jester and a hag enslaving and eating children.
* The ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' third party world 'Scarred Lands' (by Sword & Sorcery Studios) features the 'Carnival Krewes' - an entire society of Monster Clowns. Literally in <s>some</s> most cases.
* Also on the ''[[Dungeons & Dragons]]'' front is House Phiarlan of [[Eberron]], an espionage-based clan/organization. One of their fronts is the Carnival of Shadows. The description claims they've enthralled Khorvaire for decades, but looking at the picture provided (Everyone has [[Angry Eyebrows|angry faces]] and the animal act includes an [[Exclusively Evil|always Neutral Evil]] monster), I'm going to have to assume the description is literal and there's some Mass [[Charm Person]] going on there.
* The Dilisnyas, one of the most treacherous and murderous of [[Ravenloft]]'s great noble houses, trace their bloodline back to a fellow by the unlikely name of Pidlwik. In the original adventure module ''I6: Ravenloft'', which inspired the campaign setting, Pidlwik's crypt identifies him as the court jester.
** The Skurra, of the Travelling Carnival, are one part this, one part [[Enemy Mime]], and all subversion; while extremely creepy (even the mutated Carnies are somewhat afraid of them, and there is a belief amongst them that some or even all of the Skurra are actually ghosts), they are not malevolent in the slightest.
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** And then there's the Cult of Rakdos, from the Ravnica block. If the land [http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Card/Details.aspx?multiverseid=97082 Rakdos Carnarium] doesn't make your blood freeze, you need to get your head examined. A cult of slash-happy killers who consider their parties a "flop" if someone survives to tell about it - and they have a ''[[Circus of Fear|circus]]'' component to them, too? (And with a circus comes...) Thanks, Wizards, I may never sleep again.
* Naturally, there's at least one ''[[Call of Cthulhu (tabletop game)]]'' scenario (set in 1920s Germany) featuring a carnival jester who's really an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that's been traveling with the show incognito for years and causing various tragedies and disasters wherever they went.
* ''[[Yu-Gi-Oh! (Tabletop Game)|Yu-Gi-Oh!]]'' LOVES this trope. There's:
** [http://yugioh.wikiayugipedia.com/wiki/Dream_Clown Dream Clown], which is the key card in the infamous [[Game Breaker|Clown Control Deck]].
** [http://yugioh.wikiayugipedia.com/wiki/Peten_the_Dark_Clown Peten the Dark Clown], who is very much beloved for his ability to keep monsters on the field (he summons another one of himself when he dies). While not the type of monster you want to attack with (only 500 ATK) the anime gives him a [[KnifeSlasher NutSmile|pretty creepy way]] [[Back Stab|of doing so]] when he does.
** The notably Fiend-type [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Ryu-Kishin_Clown Ryu-Kishin Clown].
** Plus aA few Normal Monsters includingfit the famousmotif, including Saggi the Dark Clown (best known as [[The Rival|Seto Kaiba's]] favorite Crush Card Virus carrier)...
** ... and [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Crass_Clown Crass Clown], is known in Japan as [[Meaningful Name|'Murder]] [[Names to Run Away From Really Fast|Circus']] and suitably ugly already... [[Everything's Deader with Zombies|but then becomes]] [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Clown_Zombie the even uglier Clown Zombie],. which inIn the anime, [[Nightmareit Fuelbecame Stationthis Attendant|provedas toa beresult muchof nightmareCall fuelof inthe Haunted, which not howonly ensured that it JUSTjust WOULDNwouldn'Tt DIE]]...die, but it also [[NightmareNausea Fuel|and the way it bloated grotesquely when it was fed extra power.]]
* In ''Cyberpunk2020,[[Cyberpunk 2020]]'', 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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