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** The Chief Clown has come to enjoy any spectacle of brutality or murder. He also taunts one of his former colleagues on supposedly not being able to stop the [[Big Bad|Big Bads]].
* Another ''Doctor Who'' episode, "The God Complex", features the apparition of a clown which is used to represent a person's greatest fear.
* ''[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer]]'': In the episode "[[Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Recap/S1
{{quote|'''Xander:''' (runs into Willow while fleeing, panicked) Remember my sixth birthday party?
'''Willow:''' Oh yeah! When the clown chased you, and you got so scared you went... oh. }}
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* Played for laughs with Doctor Blake Downs in ''[[Childrens Hospital]]'', a [[Patch Adams]] expy who believes he can cure anything with laughter despite being utterly unfunny, caustic and permanently soaked in blood.
* {{spoiler|Averted}} in ''[[The Haunting Hour the Series]]'' episode "Afraid of Clowns." Clowns are apparently a race of creepy humanoid creatures {{spoiler|but are relatively friendly and supportive of the coulrophobic main character, who is horrified when he becomes a clown himself at puberty.}}
* ''[[Noel
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* The ''[[Dungeons and 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 and 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 and 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 [[
* 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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* Let it not be said that ''[[Magic: The Gathering|Magic the Gathering]]'' doesn't know the monster potential in clowns. Say hello to the [http://ww2.wizards.com/gatherer/CardDetails.aspx?&id=3167 Chaos Harlequin].
** 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!]] LOVES this trope. There's:
** [http://yugioh.wikia.com/wiki/Dream_Clown Dream Clown], which is the key card in the infamous [[Game Breaker|Clown Control Deck]].
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** [[Villainous Harlequin|Quackerjack]] once made a [[Monster Clown]] toy that features [[Spider Limbs]], and they ended in [[An Axe to Grind|rather large axes]] to boot. It was probably [[Nightmare Fuel|the creepiest thing]] Quackerjack ever made. The kicker? It was made by an [[Alternate Universe]] counterpart who was actually ''a good guy''.
* In an episode of ''[[League of Super Evil]]'', the team revives Doktor Frogg's first invention, Chuckles the Robotic Clown, for his birthday. Frogg later reveals that he invented Chuckles when he was a kid to ruin all the birthday parties he was never invited to and [[Turned Against Their Masters|then Frogg's own birthday came]].
* Played with in ''[[American Dragon: Jake Long]]'', wherein Spud spends half an episode paralyzed by his fear of clowns. After finally realizing that the fear is irrational, he joyfully asks a troupe of clowns to make him laugh. Cue the clowns eating some magicked cupcakes, which transform them into hideous scorpion/clown/demon monsters. [[Nightmare Fuel]] all around!
* Subverted in ''[[Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!|Tim and Eric Awesome Show Great Job]]'' with "Steve Mahahanan's Child Clown Rentals", which combines natural terror of clowns with the horror/pity of '''CHILD SLAVERY'''. Child Clowns are rented out as SERVANTS rather than entertainers, and besides a disturbing advertisement in the usual Tim and Eric style, there's an overly-long, creepily realistic VHS-edited "Care for Your Child Clown" video how-to in a later episode. Details include the care, cleaning and storage of your Child Clown.
** Good to know: Child Clowns eat only Steve Mahahanan's Child Clown Wet Food Logs.
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