Characters who seem like sweet lil bunnies but are actually psycho whackjobs

I would shag her absaloutly rigid even if she didn’t ask …and not out of fear.

In fact I’ve gone all hot and bothered and think that I’ll need to lie down for a little while.

Bonanza’s Ben Cartwright has him beat. His three wives all died, he keeps his grown sons living at home, and any girl they hook up with manages to die.

That’s beyong plausible and goes into psycho whackjob land.

This contains spoilers for Garret novel Old Tin Sorrows :

Jennifer. She’s all small and naive and young and pretty; and it turns out that all through the novel she’s been systematically murdering ex-Marines. Including one she strangled with a “Kef Sidhe strangling cord”. and another crushed by a suit of armor shoved off a balcony. Plus, she indulged in some arson, and apparently killed some more before the book started. She also tried to murder Garret in his sleep with an axe at one point ( he’d sneakily stuck an old suit of armor in the bed instead, and found the axe embedded in it ).

The spinster Brewster sisters in Arsenic and Old Lace. Sweet little old ladies with a basement full of corpses.

If Abby from NCIS suddenly went on a killing spree, would anyone be surprised?
Or Sheldon Cooper from Big Bang?

ETA: Stepford husbands, and Guy Wodehouse, Rosemary’s husband (but NOT the father of her baby). “I sold my wife to the devil so I could get a show business break.”

While not psychotically evil (perhaps), Ryan on the Office first appeared as the put-upon office temp who at least seemed like a normal guy having to suffer through dealing with an office full of wack-jobs. Every once in a while, we get a hint that he might not be as ‘nicey-nice’ as he seems (mostly in his on-again/off-again relationship with Kelli.) Then at the end of s.3, he gets revealed to be a back-stabbing, self-centered, grade A asshole. It was a great switcheroo.

I would say that any female character is a sweet little bunny just waiting to become a psycho wackjob. They’re females, after all.

Another one from Ira Levine: Bud Corliss from his first book “A Kiss Before Dying.”

He has a better grip on reality and basic decency than most people in that town, despite what his parents and Cartman have put him through. I vote No.

There was a thread not long ago about whether Butters or Milhouse was more likely to become a psycho killer.

I love you, Pumpkin.
I love you, Honey Bunny.
All right, everybody be cool, this is a robbery!
Any of you fucking pricks move, and I’ll execute every motherfucking last one of ya!

Would anyone be able to tell? Remember Abby told McGee (last night, in fact) that she is one of the only people in the world who could “kill [him] and leave no forensic evidence”.

Agree on Willow, much as I love her. From the second season on, she saw magic mainly as a tool for getting her way. It just got worse as she went on.

Anybody who could do what she did at band camp is worth worrying about.

Sheila Keefe on “Rescue Me”, as long as she stays medicated.

I think people started mentioning Willow because of the who started the thread rather than any outstanding nuttiness on her part. :wink:

Oh, you are so right. I agree with you 100%…though it’s like saying you kick babies for fun.

Nah. Even if you take out my incredulous first post, you have silenus mentioning her in the second. This is just a variant of Godwin’s Law specific to this board – as a Cafe Society discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving Buffy or Willow approaches 1.

Serial Mom of course – psycho-in-bunny’s-clothing is what the whole story is about – and both protagonists in Eating Raoul.

TVTropes ought to have a trope-page on this, but I can’t seem to find one.

The way Wesley Wyndham-Price’s name comes up immediately when the thread topic is “skillful character development,” eh?

:: shrugging ::

No way to prove it at this point.

Anyway, I still don’t think Willow is mentally unbalanced in the way that Greg House and Adrian Monk clearly are, and in the way that Alison Cameron clearly is when you spend more than two days watching her. I think she’s evil but doesn’t like to admit it.

I always took the “gormless bimbo” angle – or, rather, “woman befuddled by a love triangle”; never got the vibe she was trying to manipulate Rick – she looks perfectly and entirely surprised when Rick announces he’s not boarding the plane with her. (Actually, BTW, they wrote and filmed several alternate endings, including one where Rick gets the girl and one where she ditches him.)

Well, by Buffy, I meant the extended universe of the show, and Willow seems to be this board’s favorite character.

Actually, just change Buffy and Willow to Joss Whedon. Firefly comes up just as often, and I’m sure Dollhouse will eventually find its footing as another “OMG FOX SUX” favorite despite its current tepidness.

And I still don’t believe Willow is evil, but short-sighted and impulsive. Mileage varies, though.