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** Note that it's more like this in [[Woolseyism|the old Ted]]'s script, in the original japanese version he's more of an [[Villainous Harlequin|idiot]], even after he {{spoiler|kills Leo, destroys the world, etc.}} When brought to America, he pretty much became [[The Joker]] of video games.
* ''[[Left 4 Dead 2]]'': Two words: zombie clowns. It makes honking noises where it goes, which in turn attracted the other infected to it and thus to the player. Meaning you have to make him your top priority lest you want more zombies to deal with.
* ColorMan''/''WackoMan from ''[[Mega Man Battle Network]] 1'' and ''[[Mega Man NT Warrior]]''. He looks and acts silly and harmless, but he's A-OK with trying to kill an entire bus full of people, and even tortures Roll before MegaMan deletes him. He's a lot less vile in ''Network Transmission'', but he's also the ony Net Navi causing trouble independently of the Zero Virus or the Professor's orders.
** For an even worse example from the same series, CircusMan.EXE from EXE Beast and ''Battle Network 6''.
*** Something perhaps creepier than his appearance is that one of his attacks involves transforming his body into a circular cage draped up like a circus tent, falling down on top of your character to entrap them, then several bulges appear rapidly all over the drapes implying being pummeled (dear god hopefully) all over.
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** And there was also the [[Bad Future]] event where players could see a destroyed Seaside Town full of some of the [[Ninja Pirate Zombie Robot|monsters turned into zombies]] (ex: Zombie Hippy, Zombie Frat Boy, Zombie Zombie) And then the Zombie Clown. His in game description? "AIEEE! Ah! Gah! Sweet merciful God, no! AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH!"
** Inverted with the wacky pirate: "You'd think a clown with an eyepatch and a hook hand would be even more terrifying than a normal clown, but somehow, the combination is pretty charming"
* One of the bosses in the [[Capcom]] game ''[[Dead Rising]]'' is Adam, a deranged mall clown who
** Made worse by the fact that, according to him, they were all ''laughing at him...''
*** Oh, and his death scene. ''He falls onto his own chainsaws, [[Laughing Mad|laughing while they cut him up.]]''
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* In ''[[The Legend of Zelda: Link's Awakening|The Legend of Zelda Links Awakening]]'', the second boss is a bottle genie that looks and behaves in a manner similar to a clown.
* ''[[Serious Sam]]'' II has weird looking, unicycling, manically laughing, suicide bombing clowns that attack in groups. Yeah...
* Cicero in ''[[The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim]]'' is an insane assassin who maintains a persona of a jester when out in public. You can also get in on the fun if you decide to wear his outfit.
* 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 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.
* As if the killer animatronics of the ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's]]'' series weren't frightening enough, there are quite a few with a clown motif as well.
** Introduced in the second game is the Puppet, who stands out among the animatronics by looking less like an anthropomorphic [[Funny Animal]] and more like an unnaturally thin and lanky [[Humanoid Abomination]] dressed like a pierrot. She's the biggest threat you'll face because one of the game's most important gimmicks revolves around keeping her pacified. If you fail to keep her music box wound up and focus too much on fending off the other animatronics, she'll come flying at you from the darkness like a bat out of hell, and there's no way to put her back in her box. {{spoiler|Interestingly, later games would reveal that she's an unconventional ''[[Big Good]]'' trying to help the other ghosts of murdered children like her get revenge on the man who killed them. Unfortunately, that doesn't stop her from being a menace to any and all innocent night guards who get in her way}}.
** Also introduced in the second game is Foxy's Toy counterpart, Mangle. [[Ambiguous Gender|He]]/[[Pronoun Trouble|she]]/[[Memetic Mutation|yes]] has abandoned Foxy's original pirate motif in favor of a clownish one, and his bright colors, makeup, and whacky cartoon glove reflect upon her new career choice. She especially fits the monstrous criteria in a literal way, as he's been reduced to a tangled spider-like mess of broken machinery thanks to being abused by rambunctious visiting children. {{spoiler|He's also very likely to have been the culprit behind the Bite of '87, where an animatronic attacked someone in broad daylight and tore out their frontal lobe}}.
*** And if you thought these clownlike animatronics weren't monstrous enough, they get Phantom and Nightmare incarnations in the the third and fourth games! Like all Phantom Animatronics, Phantom Puppet and Mangle can't kill you, but they act as [[Support Party Member|Support Party Members]] to Springtrap, who ''can''. Nightmare Mangle also looks every bit as monstrous as the other Nightmare Animatronics, while Nightmarrione looks like an [[Eldritch Abomination]] that only vaguely resembles a clown, complete with tentacley appendages and the ability to [[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|reset your game!]]
** Speaking of Springtrap, he gets a clown-themed skin in the spinoff game ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's AR: Special Delivery]]'' that makes him look like a cross between a deranged fursuiter and Joaquin Phoenix's Joker.
** Almost every animatronic in Circus Baby's Pizza World, the titular Sister Location in ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's: Sister Location]]'' is a Monster Clown in some form. They're hammy, theatrical entertainers who boast bright colors, while Circus Baby herself is a cute clown girl. And not only are they as murderous as the rest, but {{spoiler|they're ''designed'' to lure away children and kill them on behalf of William Afton, their creator}}.
** The Fruit Punch and Lemonade Clowns from ''[[Freddy Fazbear's Pizzeria Simulator]]'' are a parody of this. Their minigame has you jumpscare hyperactive children, but their "jumpscare" is a bunch of airhorn noises, and they're otherwise harmless and goofy-looking. {{spoiler|The Fruit Punch Clown ''does'' have a rare voice line where he threatens to slit your throat, but even that is delivered in a [[Stylistic Suck|heavily accented, borderline incomprehensible text-to-speech voice]]}}.
** The Daycare Attendant from ''[[Five Nights at Freddy's: Security Breach]]'' has two personas that invoke this trope in different ways. His Sun persona is an [[Nice Guy|aggressively friendly]] [[Non-Ironic Clown]] whose manic behavior, [[No Sense of Personal Space]], and [[Uncanny Valley]] design terrify the children left in his care. But while he doesn't ''try'' to be scary, his Moon persona ''does'', and aggressively hounds and punishes any children who stay up past their bedtime while speaking in a growly, raspy voice. When Gregory gets locked in the Pizzaplex after dark, he proves to be just as murderous as the other animatronics, and is among the most dangerous due to how hard it is to hide from him.
* The Jester in ''[[Darkest Dungeon]]'' is a rare heroic example, insomuch as ''any'' of the classes can be called heroic. Sort of a cross between a rogue, minstrel, and this Trope, he can be an invaluable asset in some situations, his singing able to calm the rest of the party and prevent the stress from doing them in. Or it can inspire them and buff their - and his - attacks.
* Lola Pop from ''[[ARMS]]'' was never intended to be this; producer Kosuke Yabuki intended her to just be a silly, fun-loving circus clown who just happened to a contender in a [[Fighting Game]] where ''every'' playable character was silly, but players were terrified of her regardless. Kosuke later said half-jokingly that he had "learned a weakness in Americans" due to them being scared of such a thing. So... if he ever decides to greenlight less lighthearted game, coulrophobia sufferers be warned...
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