Evil Clown - Notable Evil Clowns

Notable Evil Clowns

• The Joker, a notable enemy in the Batman franchise whose key features are a clown-like disguise, clown-like disfigured face, and permanent smile.
• Pennywise the Dancing Clown, a common form taken by the mysterious monster in Stephen King's novel It and its film adaptation.
• Shakes the Clown, a depressed, alcoholic clown framed for murder and coming into conflict with other clowns, in the eponymous film by Bobcat Goldthwait.
• The Bicycle Doctor, a laughing, malevolent clown disguised as a doctor who destroys the protagonist's beloved bicycle after feigning attempts to repair it in a nightmare experienced by Pee-Wee Herman in the film Pee-Wee's Big Adventure. The doctor is assisted by several grotesque clowns who act as medical technicians. Earlier in the film, Pee-Wee chains his bicycle to a smiling animatronic clown statue; when the bicycle is stolen, Pee-Wee imagines the clown's smile changing to a grimace as it utters a menacing cackle.
• Captain Spaulding, a gas-station owner, museum operator, and patriarch of the murderous Firefly family, featured in the Rob Zombie films House of 1000 Corpses and its sequel, The Devil's Rejects. Captain Spaulding is portrayed by actor Sid Haig.
• Violator, a demon from hell who takes the appearance of a balding, middle-aged clown, and an enemy of Spawn in the comic franchise by Todd McFarlane.
• Doink the Clown, a professional wrestling character portrayed by a number of wrestlers. He is frequently depicted as malevolent, playing malicious pranks and cheating in unusual ways to win.
• Kefka Palazzo, the main antagonist of Final Fantasy VI, a nihilistic psychopath with the outfit and mannerisms of an insane jester.
• Sweet Tooth, a sociopathic serial killer who is a primary anti-hero in the Twisted Metal franchise.
• Killer Klowns from Outer Space, the 1988 Midnight Horror Comedy about carnivorous aliens, that resemble clowns from outer space.
• The Ghost Clown, a faux evil supernatural circus clown in an early episode of the Scooby-Doo, Where Are You! television show episode Bedlam in the Bigtop circa 1970. He actually is a human criminal working in the circus. He has power over people and Scooby by hyptnotizing them with a magic pendulum. Most notably he puts in a trance Daphne Blake and has her risk her life on a unicycle and high wire.
• Killjoy (2000 film), a demonic clown who is summoned to assist revenge plots.
• Clownhouse, three mental patients escape and stalk a young boy home from the circus dressed in clown costumes.
• Odd Bob the Clown, an evil alien clown based on the legendary Pied Piper of Hamelin from Sarah Jane Adventures that feeds on children's fears (in the episode The Day of the Clown).
• Gamzee Makara, an alien character from the webcomic Homestuck that is based on Juggalos and general evil clown cliches.
• Craig Russell wrote a novel The carnival master about the hunt after a clown who comes out every Cologne carnival to kill women.
• Piedmon, a mega-lvel digimon from Digimon franchise and one of the Dark Masters and designed based on evil clowns.
• Freddy Krueger, was a killer clown in his behaviour in the later Nightmare on Elm Street films especially has he used humour to terrorise his victims. He is never referred to as a clown and does not have a clown appearance.