Even though IT's Pennywise brags about being  everything you're afraid of, there are plenty
  of clowns who may even be scarier than the  extra-dimensional terror monster.
  And we're not talking about those kinda-creepy  clowns from Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, or even
  the Insane Clown Posse.
  There are some very real reasons to develop  a serious case of Bozophobia; here are just
  a few.
  Sweet Tooth
  Needles Kane, better known to gamers as Sweet  Tooth, is a serial killer clown who drives
  a well-armed ice cream truck in an apocalyptic  demolition derby.
  He's been driving that terrible truck since  the first Twisted Metal game in 1995, and
  he's only gotten creepier since.
  Over the course of the original Twisted Metal  series, he evolved from a standard killer
  clown with green hair to a flaming, cursed  monster who's forced to carry the fires of
  hell around with him.
  Sure, the fires of hell are pretty scary,  but the 2012 Twisted Metal reboot made the
  clown even creepier, making him a guy who  tries to kill his entire family after going
  insane with boredom.
  Sweet Tooth spends years trying to find his  daughter, who escaped the killing spree, so
  he can finish what he started.
  It's just video game fun that causes other  people to get killed along the way.
  The Joker
  He's a force of pure chaos, and Batman's greatest  enemy.
  The Joker has had various origin stories over  the years and they tend to involve falling
  into a vat of chemicals while trying to escape  Batman, but who he was before that is up in
  the air.
  In his original 1951 origin, he was already  a villain known as the Red Hood. 1988's The
  Killing Joke graphic novel elaborated on this  story, making him an aspiring comedian who
  had only turned to crime to support his pregnant  wife.
  But even within that book, this sympathetic  backstory is called into question, with the
  Joker saying that he prefers his past to be  "multiple choice."
  For every new Joker, there's a new origin  story.
  The lack of a clear identity is what the Joker  is all about: He's dedicated to the idea that
  the world makes no sense, and will murder,  maim, and mutilate anyone who crosses his
  path to illustrate that there are no reasons.
  He's not just a mad clown, he's a clown that  embodies madness.
  "Haha."
  Twisty
  Few clowns have ever been as visually frightening  as Twisty, the deranged killer featured in
  Freak Show, the fourth season of American  Horror Story.
  Creator Ryan Murphy has even said that members  of the crew would leave during Twisty's scenes
  because he was just so frightening.
  Once a circus clown who loved to entertain  children, Twisty's career was ruined by false
  rumors of pedophilia.
  He failed at committing suicide with a shotgun,  but succeeded in blowing off his lower jaw,
  thus the half-mask with the terrifying smile.
  What's underneath it is even more horrific.
  Leaving reality entirely behind, Twisty begins  kidnapping children in a supposed effort to
  save them from their oppressive parents.
  He's convinced children still love him and  long to be entertained by his antics, even
  as every child who sees him screams and runs  away.
  Maybe that horrifying mask was a bad choice.
  Madcap
  The best thing about a killer clown is that  you can usually kill it, but that's not the
  case with Madcap, Marvel's clowniest supervillain.
  He first appeared in Captain America #307  as a nemesis to the all-American hero and
  his pal Nomad, but he doesn't seem to care  much about superheroes at all, until they
  get in the way of his goal of spreading chaos.
  Madcap has two superpowers.
  First, he can't be hurt or killed; any injury  he suffers heals almost instantly, and if
  he dies, he comes back to life.
  Second, he can make other people behave irrationally  by making eye contact with them, making ordinary
  citizens put themselves in danger, by dancing  through traffic or even leaping off of buildings.
  A clown who will kill you is scary, but a  clown who cuts off his own fingers just for
  fun is even scarier.
  The Poltergeist clown
  1982's Poltergeist is one of the all-time  greatest haunted house movies.
  And like most standard haunted houses, a lot  of the horror early in the film comes from
  inanimate objects moving on their own.
  So when young Robbie notices late at night  that a clown doll that was sitting in a chair
  by his bed has suddenly disappeared, that's  already scary.
  And then things get really bad.
  The 2015 Poltergeist remake overdoes its attempt  to one-up this scene, with multiple clown
  dolls in a much darker room, but nothing in  that film measures up to the scares of the
  original.
  Violator
  Few clowns are actually from hell, but the  Violator is a straight-up demon.
  He's the main antagonist in Todd McFarlane's  Spawn comics, as well as the 1997 Spawn movie.
  "Every time somebody farts a demon gets their  wings.
  Oops!
  Twins."
  His entire purpose is to mess with Spawn,  who was given his powers by the forces of
  Hell.
  Since those powers will eventually run out  and force Spawn's return to hell for all eternity,
  the role of Violator is not just to tempt  and corrupt Spawn into doing evil, it's to
  manipulate him into using his powers recklessly.
  Violator isn't just a murderous clown — he's  here to shepherd a soul toward eternal damnation,
  and he does it with a grin.
  Clown
  Perhaps no clown ever created is as terrifying  as the creature at the center of Clown, an
  ancient demon that devours children.
  Clown takes over anyone who puts on the cursed  clown costume, which is made from Clown's
  own skin and hair.
  In the film, this happens to Kent, a regular  dad who's just trying to provide last-minute
  entertainment at his son's birthday party.
  Once he puts on the suit, he begins transforming  into an inhuman, kid-chomping monster.
  At first, the horror of Clown comes from Kent's  loss of control as the demon takes over.
  But by the end of the film, there's no saving  him, and the horror comes from the rampaging
  monster clown that he's become.
  You can be sure of one thing: this is the  scariest clown in movie history.
  And there's never been a better advertisement  for Chuck E. Cheese.
  "Cannonball!"
  "Gross, somebody peed in here."
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