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It's small. It's fluffy. It's ''[[Ridiculously Cute Critter|adorable]]''. And if you get on its bad side, your death will be painful, but swift.

Related to but distinct from [[Fluffy the Terrible]], as well as being sort of a subtrope to [[Our Monsters Are Weird]], the [[Killer Rabbit]] is any monster that's [[Pint-Sized Powerhouse|far more dangerous than it looks]]. Maybe [[Cute Bruiser|it's strong for its size]], [[Poisonous Person|poisonous on a massive level]], has flesh-rending pointy bits that aren't readily apparent, or can just [[One-Winged Angel|turn into something far more dangerous]]. Either way, it can make a person wary of [[Pick on Someone Your Own Size|picking on small, defenseless animals]], much like the [[Old Master]] can make a person more eager to respect their elders. In many cases, the creature isn't even all that harmful unless you actually mess with it, whether intentionally or not.

 

 

This creature is also known as a "[[Fan Nickname|Vorpal Bunny]]", a name which comes from the monster of that name in the original ''[[Wizardry]]'' game from 1981, possibly inspired by the [[Monty Python]] movie and is named after "The Vorpal Blade", a fictional sword used to decapitate the title creature in the [[Lewis Carroll]] poem "Jabberwocky". The name also spread (via ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'') to other games such as ''[[Quest for Glory]]'' and ''[[Ultima Online]]''.

* ''[[Pet Shop of Horrors]]'' features another literal example in its first episode "Daughter," which involves a rich couple that recently lost their daughter Alice paying a visit to Count D's eponymous shop. Count D sells them a very rare species of rabbit that [[Replacement Goldfish|looks just like Alice]]. Things go well for the couple until the mother concedes to the rabbit-Alice's request for sugar instead of the water and vegetables indicated in the rules of the contract. It goes very badly for the couple VERY quickly. {{spoiler|It turns out that feeding sweets to this rabbit will cause it to "give birth" to (read: get eaten from within by) dozens of flesh-eating killer bunnies that go forth, kill, eat, and "give birth" to more killer bunnies until the town is overrun}}.

* The Teez in ''[[D.Gray-man]]'' are golems that look like pretty purple butterflies. And then they eat you. Or {{spoiler|Tyki places them inside you so that you can act as a nursery for them to grow and breed in}} and THEN they eat you {{spoiler|from the inside out}}.

* ''[[Mahou Sensei Negima]]''

** Negi himself. An extremely [[Adorably Precocious Child]], who can throw around [[Shock and Awe|spells]] which [[Person of Mass Destruction|annihilate armies]].

* A very early episode of ''[[Sailor Moon]]'' featured adorable "chanela," rabbit-like long-haired creatures that are pastel-colored, smell wonderful, and are adorable as they come. Oh, and they're evil little monsters; THEY GOT FANGS!

 

== Card Games ==

** The Unglued expansion set gave us the Infernal Spawn of Evil, a powerful beast from the darkest pits of hell. [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=9779 This is what it looks like]. Not to be outdone, the Unhinged set introduced its even stronger child, the demon known only as the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=73981 Infernal Spawn of Infernal Spawn of Evil].

** Then there's that other Unhinged set card, [http://ww2.wizards.com/Gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?name=when%20fluffy%20bunnies%20attack When Fluffy Bunnies Attack].

** [http://www.wizards.com/Magic/Magazine/Article.aspx?x=mtgcom/arcana/340 Hyalopterous Lemure]. The artist didn't know what a "lemure" is (a ghost) so he drew a "lemur" instead (a fuzzy rodent).

** Also, [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=6138 Jackalope Herd]. A bunch of bunnies with antlers, amazing combat stats for their mana cost, and a drawback (returning to your hand when you play another spell) that can be turned into an advantage fairly easily.

** The ''Munchkin Bites!'' expansion has 17th-level monster The Evil, also from ''[[Sluggy Freelance]]''. For those not versed in the webcomic, it's an adorable cute kitten. It steals a level from you just by ''meeting it''.

* ''Killer Bunnies and the Quest for the Magic Carrot''

* In both the animated ''[[Sonic the Hedgehog]]'' and the Archie comic series, Bunnie Rabbot has brute strength coming from being a cyborg, although you probably won't see her killing anything more objectionable than a few (dozen) robots.

* ''[[Nextwave]]'' features some "Unusual Weapons of Mass Destruction", including the Drop Bears -- koala bears trained to kill, which are deployed by throwing them out of an aircraft. "Cuddly widdle bears of DEATH?!" This is based on a joke played by Australians on tourists. See the Real Life section below.

* The ''[[Doctor Who Magazine]]'' comic, "The Star Beast", features the villain "Beep the Meep", a [[Ridiculously Cute Critter|wide-eyed alien ball of fluff]] who just happened to be an unrepentant omnicidal bloodthirsty intergalactic war criminal. Beep proved memorable enough that he got two followup strips and an audio drama.

* In [[The DCU]], there is a [[Rival]] group to the [[Green Lantern]] Corps called The Red Lantern Corps, whose rings are powered by rage. One of the members of the Red Lanterns is a cute-looking kitty... and he is just as dangerous as any other member. Don't fall for Dex-Starr's "innocent" act....

* ''Pinocchio Vampire Slayer'' -- The Rabbits of Ill Portent. They don't actually kill but they are quite creepy.

* Max from ''[[Sam and Max Freelance Police]]'' mixes this with [[Psychopathic Manchild]] and [[Ax Crazy]] to an eerie extent...

* 3 from [[Grant Morrison]]'s ''[[WE 3]]'' is ''literally'' a [[Killer Rabbit]].

* ''Gold Digger: Tangent'' features the "Death Lepus", also known as Wabbits -- relatively small, rabbit-like creatures that look pretty cute, but are intelligent, pack-hunting carnivores capable of bringing down fully-grown [[Our Dragons Are Different|dragons]]. The cute is also negated somewhat by their prehensile tails all ending in deadly magically-enhanced bladed weapons.

== Films -- Animation ==

* The main villain of ''[[Toy Story|Toy Story 3]]'' is {{spoiler|an adorable pink teddy bear ("And he smells like strawberries!").}}

{{quote|'''Woundwort:''' I'll tear out every throat in the place!

'''Holly:''' Both his ears were ripped to shreds. He was lucky... }}

 

== Films -- Live-Action ==

{{quote|"Look at the ''bones''!"}}

* Given a [[Lampshade Hanging]] in ''[[Galaxy Quest]]'': while the rest of the crew is [[Squee|Squeeing]] about how adorable the child-like alien miners are, the very [[Genre Savvy]] Guy worries, "Oh, sure, they're cute now. But they're going to get mean. And they're going to get ugly somehow. And there's going to be thousands of them." Seconds later, he's proved right.

* In [[China Mieville]]'s ''[[The Scar]]'', the head of Armada's underwater police force is a sadistic dolphin named Bastard John.

* Found in James Thurber's [http://www.ommas-aarden.net/Last_Flower_page10.htm The Last Flower]

* In ''[[The Hunger Games]]'', there are carnivorous squirrels, poisonous butterflies, killer monkeys, and much much more.

 

* The original Basil Brush.

* The Furbie-esque Nubbins in ''[[Sanctuary]]'' are a variant of this -- they're only dangerous in large groups and when being directly attacked, but their extremely high reproductive rate and lack of predators outside their natural environment make them potentially highly destructive to the ecosystem. Unfortunately, {{spoiler|they're a [[Hive Mind]] far brighter than they seem, and are more than willing to sacrifice individual lives to escape and spread.}}

* An ''[[America's Funniest Home Videos]]'' episode features a rabbit fighting a snake. The rabbit kicks the snake's proverbial ass, forcing the reptile to retreat up a low-hanging tree, despite the rabbit attempting to yank the snake down for more.

* When Count Duckula asks a spaceman to take him to the most dangerous planet in the galaxy he gets to meet the Fluffy Bunnies of Planet Cute, who want everything to be sweet and pretty and cuddly, and get very mean when Duckula and co. persist in being grouchy and sour.

* "[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eh8U5lYbAEY Dogz Don't Kill People (Wabbitz Do)]" -- courtesy of Mouldie Lookin' Stain, a.k.a. Chris Moyles.

* "Chosen Ones" by [[Megadeth]] is all about the killer rabbit from Monty Python.

* Attack of the Radioactive Hamsters from a Planet near Mars, by [["Weird Al" Yankovic]].

 

** The slimes. Most of them actually aren't that dangerous, but given how incredibly adorable and harmless they look, it doesn't take a lot for them to be much more dangerous than they look. [[media:rocket.jpg|Tell me you'd think this could do any harm.]]

** They're far from the only cuddly-looking killers in the series, though. Quite possibly the best example would have to be the Sanguini family, which are cute little baby demons. So cute, that one optional quest has you fulfilling the request of [[Even Heroes Have Heroes|a warrior who is smitten with them]] to deliver each type a scarf. Awwwwwwwwww. That said, aside from [[Crouching Moron, Hidden Badass|wasting turns "fluffing around", they can be dangerous]].

** Similarly, the Rabites from the ''Seiken Densetsu'' or ''Mana'' series, which are sort of [[media:Rabite_Mana.png|blobby killer rabbits]]. Although the yellow ones are little more than a nuisance, even to a small child, some of the other colors really are quite dangerous, especially the [[Bonus Boss|black ones]].

** The Black Rabite, one of the adorable little creatures mentioned above, with the respective color, is the most dangerous thing in the game. It looks like a small black bunny slipper until it opens a can of whoop-ass on you. The Black Rabite can be tamed a great deal by avoiding the use of spells or any tech stronger than the basic one, as these will not trigger its ferocious counterattacks. It also helps to use stat-affecting magic like the Necromancer's Black Curse spell and the Nightblade's Deadly Weapon spell.

* [[Nippon Ichi]]

** The knife-carrying, explosive and possessed-by-the-souls-of-criminals penguins known as Prinnies from most of the games since ''[[Disgaea]]''. {{spoiler|And as if the regular ones weren't bad enough, the [[One-Winged Angel|final ultimate form]] of Overlord Baal, the most powerful [[Bonus Boss]] in all said games is a prinny as well}}.

** '''B'''efore even prinnies, we h'''a'''d Eryngi, cute little mushroom creatures that c'''a'''ll up mushrooms to attack and say 'gii!' a '''l'''ot. One of them actually demands that you kneel down and beg for your lives lest "your blood will rain on me, gii!" I don't need to say who. Another Eryngi appears in ''[[Disgaea 4: A Promise Unforgotten]]'' {{spoiler|as the [[True Final Boss]]. It is also [[a God Is Evil]].}}

** The Catsabers, present in multiple [[Nippon Ichi]] games, resemble children in cat costumes, but are generally no less deadly than any of the other species of monsters you're likely to run into. They also have a more diabolical relative called the Deathsaber, with an appearance resembling a bat, rather than a cat.

** ''[[Final Fantasy XII]]'' has several classes of cutesy enemies, including mandragoras, onions, cacti, and some fiends that actually look like rabbits. The cute enemies your party encounters early in the game generally will not attack unless you attack them first, but later versions are more hostile and can inflict lots of nasty status effects. The king of them all is Fury, a cute little boss bunny who lives in the Necrohol of Nabudis.

** There's also an enemy that's actually called the "Vorpal Bunny".

** Cactuars. They look like cute little cactus people. but they have a [[Fixed Damage Attack]] that can deal 1,000 damage, no matter what. Even worse is that some games have a second version that can do 10,000 damage, more than the normal HP cap, meaning instant death to anything it hits.

*** Then there's ''[[Final Fantasy X]]'''s optional superboss version, King Cactuar. His version of the [[Fixed Damage Attack]] does 99,999 damage.

* ''[[Monster Rancher]]''

** The Hares, in a very literal sense. They're [[Glass Cannon|glass cannons]] who can deal very high amounts of damage.

* ''[[Dungeon Siege]]''

** In the secret quest of the first game, you fight Killer Chickens.

** In the secret quest of ''Dungeon Siege II'', you fight Killer Prairie Dogs.

* Arguably, many [[Pokémon]] would fall under this. For that matter, many [[Mons]] series critters and cute anime mascots fall into this trope.

*** Victini, another example, seems to be all happy-go-lucky and such, yet it learns V-Create/V-Generate - the ''strongest [[Playing with Fire|Fire-type move]] in existence''.

** Best example: Manaphy. That thing seems so harmless, but when it was recently tested in Over Used, it centralized the game so much that it was banned again. Basically, it is harmless without the rain, but as soon as, say, Kyogre sets up an infinite rainstorm via the Drizzle ability, that thing becomes a little monster!

** The game features an enemy that looks like a teeny-tiny green ball (described as a plant in the manual). Approach it and a gigantic mouth extends from it, killing you instantly -- although if you know what you're doing, you can paralyze it in the split-second that it takes for the mouth to reach you.

** There are actual deadly living rocks in the game, and plenty other creatures that look either goofy or cute, but can kill you with a mere (venomous) touch. Or by breathing fire. Or pushing you into a death trap. Or gobbling you up.

* ''[[World of Warcraft]]''

** This trope was parodied (before the Cataclysm) in a Warlock class quest. After fulfilling the desires of a clearly insane Gnome warlock NPC, he attempts so summon a powerful demon... but gets a giant chicken named "El Pollo Grande" (The Great Chicken) instead which, despite its appearance, isn't much a challenge.

* Gameplay example in ''[[The King of Fighters]]''. Hotaru seems harmless and in terms of personality but is a monster in the hands of a skilled player (and is generally high to top tier).

* While [[Personal Space Invader|headcrabs]] in ''[[Half-Life]]'' are generally not considered cute, with the possible exception of [[Ugly Cute|Lamarr]], they fit this trope by being small, innocuous, apparently harmless, and by far the most horrific thing in the series, latching onto an unfortunate host and commandeering its nervous system to create a delightful monstrosity known as a headcrab zombie. And the Fast and Poison variants are ''even worse''.

** The most powerful nature summon is an ordinary white rabbit. And by "ordinary" we mean that it's called a ''[[Jabberwocky|vorpal]] bunny''. It is level 50 (with level cap being 55) and can be summoned at [[Disc One Nuke|level 5]] with right [[Min-Maxing|character]]. At this level (and for the most of the game) it tends to invoke [[Chunky Salsa Rule]] in a single bite. And you can have several of them. And they gain levels if you don't unsummon them.

** Also in ''Arcanum'' is the Stillwater Giant, a brutal and deadly monster whose default form is a small blue rabbit.

* With enough modification, ''Forza 3'''s [[Incredibly Lame Pun|1964 Volkswagen Rabbit]] will eat Ferraris and Lamborghinis and crap them out as Yugos and Trabants.

** [[The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker|Toon Link]] also could count. He's a cute-looking kid with a toy sword who can also kick your ass eight ways to Sunday with an array of weaponry (and the skill to use it) that's just as impressive as his adult self.

* Jubei from the ''[[Blaz Blue]]'' series is a traditional [[Youkai|nekomata]], appearing in the form of a small two-tailed cat that stands upright. He also happens to be one of the six heroes, carries the most powerful katana in the world (the Nox Nyctores Musashi), and is stated to be the most powerful living creature in existence. To give you an idea how strong he is, he turned back Iron Tager's attack effortlessly, and Tager outweighs him by about a ton.

* Little Mac from ''[[Punch-Out!!]]'' is roughly half the size of the majority of his opponents, yet he can throw lightning fast punches so powerful he can topple them with ease.

* Gharbad, the Goat boss from ''[[Desktop Dungeons]]'', appears relatively harmless. Then you see his Base Attack. He has an attack score of ''255''. Nothing else in the game comes close. Unless you have some way to kill him indirectly, you've lost.

* In the [[Down the Drain|Terra Tubes]] of ''[[Battletoads]]'', there are enemies that look like rubber ducks. Not only are they vicious menaces, they cannot be killed, only stunned.

* The final boss of ''[[Let's Go Jungle]]'' is a giant killer ''butterfly''. Because after all the other giant creepy crawlies in this game, why not butterflies?

* Usagi from ''[[Mr. Driller]]'' is literally this trope.

** Deepstalkers from ''Dragon Age Origins'' are surprisingly cute for a bunch of flesh-eating, poison-spitting, lamprey-faced compies that burst from the ground in the dozens hoping to tear you limb from limb.

** The baby dragons are almost too adorable to kill.

** A long-standing joke, even with the [[Word of God|creative staff]] is that your pet Mabari's name actually ''is'' Rabbit.

* [[Mascot Mook|Jack Frost]] in the ''[[Shin Megami Tensei]]'' games, when he appears as a [[Bonus Boss]].

* ''[[Golden Sun]]''

** The games have the Djinn, cute little elemental [[Mons]] that you find and collect for stat boosts, [[Summon Magic]], and class changes. Some of the Djinn have to be fought and subdued before they join you. These are the ones that will use high-end Psynergy attacks and are effectively minibosses.

** In ''The Lost Age'', there is also a [[Goo-Goo Godlike|toddler Adept]] not above [[Enfant Terrible|causing large amounts of property damage to break his convict father out of prison]], and [[Deliberately Cute Child|being adorable enough to get away with it]] (to the point that said father ''uses him for a [[Chewbacca Defense]]'' against [[Never Mess with Granny|an irate grandmother]]). {{spoiler|In ''Dark Dawn'', he grows up and becomes a player character, [[Fetish Fuel|less adorable]] but [[Roaring Rampage of Revenge|no less]] [[Kill It with Fire|killer]].}}

** Speaking of ''Dark Dawn'', we have Sveta, who is [[Petting Zoo People|unidentifiably furry]], weapons-grade [[Moe]]... and quite possibly ''the'' [[Game Breaker|most brokenly powerful player character in the series to date]]. [[Cuteness Proximity|And look at how her little ears twitch during cutscenes!]]

* ''[[Divinity 2]]'' has the Killer Bunny, which appears if you kill enough bunnies. It has huge fangs and blood-mottled white fur, and is level 22. A particularly sadistic player can encounter it very early when they're likely dangerously underleveled, and score a massive XP reward... or, more likely, a brutal death. There's a special achievement for killing it, too.

* ''[[Oddworld|Oddworld: Munch's Oddysee]]'''s Fuzzles, looking like furry cute big-eyed blob types... which happen to be voracious carnivores ''and can be used like attack animals'' by [[Last of His Kind|Munch]] with [[More Teeth Than the Osmond Family]].

** And then we have Sally, the Supreme Necromantress of the Tower of Necromancy, in ''[[Adventure Quest Worlds]]''. Sure, she may be a little girl, but {{spoiler|she brought back Noxus as a lich and even helped create [[Hero-Killer]] Vordred}}.

* Mokomoko from ''[[Lightning Legend Daigo no Daibouken]]'' is pretty much a near-literal example of this: it's a legendary creature looking like a big furball rabbit, [[Acrofatic|which runs at a blazing speed and can pull off strong and fast combos]].

* {{spoiler|Iris}} of ''[[Rosenkreuzstilette]]'' counts as well. While she may be a cute little girl, {{spoiler|she's more of a [[Complete Monster]] than expected because she delights in causing as much chaos as possible and [[Manipulative Bastard|manipulating others]] [[For the Evulz|because she thinks it's fun]]. And, being the [[Magnificent Bastard]] she is, she even manipulated RKS into attacking the Empire just for the fun of it! And no one knew she did just that because [[The Trickster|they all thought her to just be a kind, innocent girl]]. And since she's [[Affably Evil]], she just happens to be that damn proud of it. The only ones who could see through her were the Empire, Karl, and Grolla, but Iris, being [[The Chessmaster]], always has a backup strategy so that she outsmarts them at every turn. And her being "kidnapped" doesn't help, either}}.

* The [[The Greys|Kamis]] from ''[[Ryzom]]'' are kinda cute, but if you do too much harvesting in one area, their magic shall fall on you like the hammer of god.

* Peter the Puppy from ''[[Earthworm Jim (video game)|Earthworm Jim]]''. The levels where he appears consist solely of trying to keep him -- or his puppies, in the sequel -- from getting hurt so he doesn't turn into a horrifying mutant and maul Jim.

* Later versions of ''[[Terraria]]'' feature bunny rabbits hopping around the landscape... which during a Blood Moon turn into Corrupt Bunnies, which can be fairly deadly foes for characters just starting out.

* In [[Enchanted Arms]], the golem APO looks like a couple of gumdrops with small, cartoon arms and legs. No, really. It's one of the most devastatingly-effective golems in the game.

* The Basilisks in ''[[Dark Souls]]''. They look like deformed frogs with their small size and bulging eyes, but they're the first enemy that can inflict the dreaded Curse status effect, which instantly petrifies you and leaves you at half-health for the rest of your lives until you get an expensive cure.

* The ''[[Metal Gear Solid]]'' short [http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mHKHKR8x6A "Crab Battle!"], where Naked Snake gets his ass handed to him by a Kenyan Mangrove Crab.

* ''[[Happy Tree Friends]]'' has several small animals that are for some reason vicious. Whistle, the man-eating puppy, a man-eating baby turtle, and a flock of man-eating ducks have all appeared. Plus, well, most of the cast.

 

 

** Grace combines this with [[Beware the Nice Ones]]. A normally sweet and cute squirrel-girl who, once angered, destroys a [[With Great Power Comes Great Insanity|self-proclaimed]] god.

* In ''[[Sparkling Generation Valkyrie Yuuki]]'', the [[Norse Mythology|Norse trickster god Loki]] walks the earth in the body of a ''stuffed animal''.

* Arguably, the entirety of ''[http://bunny.frozenreality.co.uk/ Bunny]'' is based off this trope, particularly Orange Bunny.

* Slim the Jackalope from ''[http://www.mopsy.com NeverNever]'' has sixguns. Very tiny sixguns. And he bites. Extremely hard.

* Lepus, the awakened Fiendish rabbit from ''[http://www.dungeoncrawlinc.com/comic6.html Dungeon Crawl, inc.]'' As the page's title suggests, he was originally a homage to the original Killer Rabbit (before he became a full-fledged character).

* [http://bukucomics.com/loserz/index.php?comicID=478 Deadly venomous chipmunks] in ''[[Loserz]]''!

* Reynardine, in ''[[Gunnerkrigg Court]]''. He's apparently a cute little stuffed toy. He's actually a fearsome possessor demon that kills the body of whoever he takes over. He just happens to be stuck in Antimony's toy. For now. An illustrative [http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/archive_page.php?comicID=407 example].

* ''[[Tales of the Questor]]''

* ''[http://ne.tsunami-art.com/view.aspx?Rec=3 Northern Edge]'', Fred perry's web original ''[[Gold Digger]]'' tie-in prominently features Wabbits. Cute little rabits with sharp weapons on their tails and mostly nasty personalities.

* ''[[Yet Another Fantasy Gamer Comic]]'' goblins created a funny [http://yafgc.net/?id=65 midget direwolf breed], Wargi. The little bastards are nastier than they appears. Their cuteness is [http://yafgc.net/?id=68 weaponized] too.

* ''[[Erfworld]]'s'' Transilvitoan bats are among the weakest units in the world (generally only useful as scouts). However, when boosted by the right leadership bonus (and with sheer weight of numbers), they become capable of taking on boosted dwagons.

* Swedish online RPG satire ''Rubicon survival guide'' use a [http://www.rollspel.com/humor/handbok/handbok.htm killer hamster] to demonstrate the dangers of taking the rules too literally:

'''Horrified Barbarian:''' A hamster bite is one damage point, and it bites and bites and bites! It can take hours before you die! A slow, agonizing death ... LOOK OUT, IT'S ATTACKING!!! }}

* ''[[The Order of the Stick|Order of the Stick]]'' gives us {{spoiler|Mr Scruffy}} in this [http://www.giantitp.com/comics/oots0780.html strip], in a direct shout-out to the example noted in the ''[[Dungeons and Dragons]]'' section above.

** The Trolls look awfully cute on first glance until you realize they're junior members of a [[Proud Warrior Race]]. Karkat even dubs them "Team Adorabloodthirsty".

** And then there's the actual Killer Rabbit, a small stuffed bunny that can handle several large weapons at once that John names after Liv Tyler.

* ''[[Sabrina the Animated Series|Sabrina's Secret Life]]''. Sabrina conjures up an adorable pet, but Salem discovers that she has actually summoned an evil warlock who is trying to drain her of her powers. Unfortunately, Sabrina does not believe Salem which leads to further complications.

* The Snork-Eater-Eater from ''[[The Snorks]]''. Said creature was a tiny fish that could open its mouth to a massive size in order to devour the enormous Snork-Eater.

* ''[[Total Drama World Tour]]''

** The panda pair. Played straight with the panda that clobbered [[Friend to All Living Things|DJ]], subverted with the panda that was given to [[Even the Guys Want Him|Alejandro]].

** Any small and cute animal in general, for example, the baby seal. It bites Izzy in the intro.

* ''[[Invader Zim]]'' has Ultra Peepi, a classroom hamster that Zim affects to grow to the size of Godzilla. Why it grows spikes, has cybernetic parts, and breathes fire is probably [[Rule of Cool]]. However, even at his enormous size, with him rampaging the city, everyone stops to say how incredibly adorable is. In one case, as he's using a skyscraper as a toothpick after he just ate a school bus.

* ''[[Dragon Hunters]]'' (''Chasseurs de dragons''), a French/Chinese cartoon series (plus one CGI movie) produced by Futurikon, has Hector, a blue-furred, dog-sized tame pet dragon with rabbit ears who accompanies the two protagonists Lian-Chu and Gwizdo on their quests and carries their weapons and equipment. (In the world of Dragon Hunters, "dragon" is merely a catch-all term for all monsters of various sizes that are not normal animals.) Hector is often mistaken for a dog by bystanders, although normal dogs do exist too and Hector can walk on his hind legs, has small fingers, is at least semi-intelligent, often sarcastic, and [[You No Take Candle|talks in pidgin language]]. In somewhat of an inversion, while he ''looks'' the part of killer rabbit, fluffy but with very sharp teeth and the ability to create small fires and explosions by piddling on things, he is a bit of a coward and serves as comic relief. In one episode Hector meets a fully grown member of his species, Big Blue, who is the size of a house and, while not very aggressive, slowly wanders around the countryside gobbling down everything he comes across in one gulp: whole cows, horses, trees, dung heaps, other dragons, people... Hector on the other hand is thoroughly domesticated; he prefers his food cooked and has shown no inclination to devour actual people.

* In ''[[The Twisted Whiskers Show]]'', a kitten named Cutie Snoot, although cute and sweet, she causes trouble for a dog named Goosers to earn the affection of her master.

* ''[[Sidekicks]]'' has [[Fricking Laser Beams|Laser]] Rabbits.

 

 

* [http://imgur.com/gallery/lIJE1 THIS rabbit.]

** Indeed, rabbits are an actual example. With those teeth, they can inflict quite a bit of damage, and rabbits are hardly docile creatures. Male rabbits will ''castrate'' rival males to ensure their own breeding rights. Yeah. Rabbits castrate each other. They also headbutt, and their kicks pack quite a bit of power for their size, to the point that they can break their own spine if they kick hard enough. Some rabbits are known to [http://www.cairns.com.au/article/2009/09/15/63975_local-news.html attack snakes]. One gained fame for trying to [[wikipedia:Jimmy Carter rabbit incident|board Jimmy Carter's fishing boat]] in 1979. It even was nicknamed "Killer Rabbit" by the media.

* [[wikipedia:Koala#Ecology and behaviour|Koalas]]. It's not hard to piss them off, especially if you interrupt one of their 19 hours of sleep, and they have huge teeth and claws that can do some real damage when you rile them up. [[Land Down Under|Please stay away from them.]] Fun fact: they are always POed at you because they're coming down from a high. Eucalyptus leaves actually contain a mild toxin, to which they have built up a resistance that instead makes them stoned. Hence the sleeping 19 hours a day.

* [[wikipedia:Wombat#Wombats and humans|Wombats]] can do a fair amount of damage too - one naturalist ended up with a 2cm deep bite in his leg. Through a gumboot, trousers, and thick socks. And if they get some speed up (40km/hr at maximum, despite being generally slow) they can knock grown men over. This being [[Death World|Australia]], their main defence against predators is to hide in a hole and use their cartilage-heavy, armour-plated arse to keep themselves from serious harm -- and their modified pelvic bone that forms the aforementioned armor-plating is sturdy enough to crush a dingo's skull, if one manages to get its head into the hole before it's completely blocked off. Australia is potholed to [[Death World]] for a reason.

* Squirrels are cute, nervous, and fuzzy. Harmless, right? Or are they [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/4489792.stm arboreal piranhas]?

* The [[wikipedia:Conus|Cone Snail]]. Many people pick them up because they're pretty... and get a deadly neurotoxic harpoon stuck right into them! Due to the speed at which the snail fires the harpoon, they are actually the ''fastest snails on earth''.

* Man-o-wars. Look like jellyfish but are really a colony of different organisms where one is a purple floating sac and the rest are tentacles that make digestion and attack. From outside the water, [http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/c/c3/Portuguese_Man-O-War_(Physalia_physalis).jpg/437px-Portuguese_Man-O-War_(Physalia_physalis).jpg it looks beautiful]. Under the water, they are goddamn painful and, in some cases, can kill a person.

* [http://scienceblogs.com/tetrapodzoology/2009/09/great_tits_murderous_rapacious.php Great tits]. They're relatives of the chickadees, have a [[Have a Gay Old Time|name that induces giggles]], and in winter they prey on hibernating bats by ''ripping their heads off''.