Killer clown

## Appearance and Physical Traits

Clowns have stark white skin, blood red lips, wear "clownish" clothing with clashing colors and patterns, face markings like triangles above and below there eyes, a red puffy nose, and a huge mass of curly hair in a variety of colors like blue or orange.

Clowns smell like "cotton candy and death"

## Socio-Cultural Characteristics

Clowns are generally feared even by other "tough" monsters like ogres due to their overtly violent sense of humor. Much like their style of dress a clowns decor tend to mimic a circus aesthetic with things like multicolored polka dots painted without regard to there placement  church pews colored in candy-striped pattern and giant jack-in-the-box used as an altar They live on a diet of sweets like jellybeans, malt balls, Zagnut bars, Bebop Cola and apparently live rats.

They have two types of cars marketed toward them an ice cream truck and an new Ford model "the size of an easy chair" that can "comfortably seat twenty clowns or one and a half people".

It is unknown if clowns have a preferred profession since the two clowns featured in the story so far, an unnamed baseball player and Reverend Bobo Gigglesworth, have very dissimilar forms of employment.

Clowns also seem to target children for the change and generally do not get along with Phantoms.

## Skills, Abilities and Weaknesses

**Cartoon Physics**: Able to do nearly anything that strikes them as funny although it does not seem to be automatic and requires some degree of deliberate intent to use, demonstrated Feats include...

* **Shapeshifting**
* **Objects Creation** ,
* **Teleportation**
* **Darkness Manipulation**
* **Malleable Anatomy**
* **Pain/Injury Suppression** .

**Sadistically Inventive:** Electrifying door handles etc

**Conversion:** Can turn humans into Killer clowns

**Opera:** phobia, opera music (written or played) will cause clowns to panic and flee

**Makeup Remover:** weakness, clowns are beings made of makeup contact with makeup remover will cause them to dissolve

**Witzelsucht:** possesses a compulsive urge to make everything funny and suppressing their humor can lead to them losing their powers.

**Sweetlessness:** non-sweet food like root vegetables are mildly poisonous to clowns

## References

1. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 939-941)
2. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 125-126)
3. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 4890)
4. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 306-307)
5. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 901-904)
6. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 919)
7. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 509-513)
8. ↑ A Touch of Verdigris
9. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1571-1572)
10. ↑ Clown & Out
11. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 1571-1572)
12. ↑ As a rule, clowns and phantoms mixed about as well as dogs and cats, but Holly was fine for the most part. - Clown & Out
13. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 454-457)
14. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (City of Devils Book 2) (Kindle Locations 4891-4893)
15. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Location 958)
16. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 936-938)
17. ↑ Wolfman Confidential (Kindle Locations 454-457)
18. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 966-969)
19. ↑  He picked up the pump, sticking the end of the hose into his mouth. [...] He was swelling. Now, flesh, or the facsimile he had as a clown, was pressing against his formerly baggy costume. - Clown & Out
20. ↑ Clowns had the durability of cartoons with crash helmets. An impact, no matter how bad, shouldn’t amount to worse than a little stumbling around stupidly with stars or birds orbiting your head for as long as that was funny - Clown & Out
21. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 912-914)
22. ↑  Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 907-909)
23. ↑ He curled his fingers through the wire and let out an agonized yowl as his fingers lit on fire. He pulled his hands back and found that bits of him had been erased in burning stripes. He peered at the wire, finding jellied bits of makeup remover clinging to it. - Clown & Out
24. ↑ Fifty Feet of Trouble (Kindle Locations 125-126)
25. ↑ But was he even a clown anymore? Somehow, with his humorless bender, he had been turning himself mortal. - Clown & Out
26. ↑ But Bobo had eaten so many root vegetables in the past several months he barely reacted, and instead of the fun drunk feeling of mildly poisoning his body, he merely stopped feeling so goddamn cold all the time - Clown & Out