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Most apparently harmless yet dangerous in fiction?

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Which characters/locations are extremely dangerous but look extremely weak, innocent, not dangerous, unassuming etc..?
Try to provide some deatils of ass kicking :wink:

Super heroes out of costume do not count, people using permanent illusion magic do not count (Such as Alucard in Hellsing).

Some of my candidates:

The Beast from Kung fu hustle, a middle aged, pudgy man in a dirty shirt and blue sandals who can head butt through multiple rooms, concrete and a martial artist who uses normal thugs as literal pinballs.

Yoda that Little Green "Jedi baby;)", especially in ROTS When he pwns the uber red guards, or AOTC when the little Munchkin reveals his "Monkey on crack style)

Emperor Palpatine, an old man who needs help and a walking stick to get around, coughs constantly, yet wipes out traitors and their stormtrooper platoons in seconds without blinking.

Dr. Stephen Stranges little Greenwich village house in Marvel NY, which is almost infinitelly sized on the inside and has solo-d and defeated multiple top tiers (Such as Silver Surfer and another character, and summoned people from acroos the galaxy who would be the perfect defense against an invader).

The Fluffy thing that once accompanied Samurai Jack, when He (Jack) gets suckered by the Hill-billy Bounty hunters it gets angry and turns into a mountain sized ferocious spiky killing machine that eats them in seconds, before shrinking back to it's regular fluufy self.

Bruce Banner/Hulk- I know I said no heroes, but he's the classic "Puny on the outside, if Angry rips apart mountains" character.
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The classic example is the Guardian of the Cave of Cairbannow, and it's pseudo-ancestor Bun Bun from SLuggy Freelance.

Choo-choo bear from Something Posotive also seems to have potential.
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Simple, Nibbler from Futurama! Is there anything he CAN'T eat? And he's actually secretly the member of an ancient spacefaring race that was already 17 years old when the universe was created.

And he's so CUTE! :lol:
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How Could I forget this:
The Black Beast Arghhhh, From Monty Python and the knights of the holy grail.
A small cute White bunny you say :roll: :twisted: :twisted: .
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DEATH wrote:How Could I forget this:
The Black Beast Arghhhh, From Monty Python and the knights of the holy grail.
A small cute White bunny you say :roll: :twisted: :twisted: .
No, the bunny wasn't the Black Beast of Arghhhh; that was the big animated thingy. The bunny was unnamed, but it guarded the Cave of Caerbannog.

(Anyone know what that means?)
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My Mistake, I could have sworn they gave the Bunny a terrifying name... :?
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DEATH wrote:My Mistake, I could have sworn they gave the Bunny a terrifying name... :?
It's been referred to as the "Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog", I think...
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Molyneux wrote:
DEATH wrote:My Mistake, I could have sworn they gave the Bunny a terrifying name... :?
It's been referred to as the "Killer Rabbit of Caerbannog", I think...
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Lu Tze, the Sweeper (Discworld, Thief of Time).

A little old man who looks completely harmless, but knows deja fu.
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I just thought of a GOOD ONE.

The Mule in Issac Asimov's Second Foundation.


He looked like a rather ugly and pathetic physically, and apparently clumsy if I remember correctly, unasuming musician. Of course, he's not revealing his real identity, and he actually had a increadibly powerful ability to use his mental powers to manipulate emotions, and could use his music to manipulate massive crowds at once, and arranges the increadibly rapid conquest of the Foundation Worlds, starting with just a tiny pirate fleet he probably took command of quickly using his own abilities. He also has the ability to virtually instantly totally remake a person's feelings so that instead of being his mortal enemy, the individual becomes an increadibly loyal servant.

Its not that he actually had to alter his appearence to temperarily be believed to be a harmless and pathetic music player, he just had to make sure that even though people had heard of the Mule, they didn't know what he looked like.
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Omega18 wrote:I just thought of a GOOD ONE.

The Mule in Issac Asimov's Second Foundation.
That is a good one. I was going to post it, but you beat me. :P However, I have another. While not the most dangerous (compared to some mentioned here), he fits the bill perfectly.

Hellmaster Phibrizzo, from the Slayers. He takes the form of a little boy, but is in fact a demon lord of immense power with control over death and the spirits of the dead.
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The Mule is damn good, but the baby Alpha Plus Psyker in the Eisemhorn trilogy is even better bang for subterfuge.

Lu Tzu really is the epitome of this rule (If not as dangerous as some of the others), he invented Rule 1 after all :P
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Stitch, from Lilo and Stitch. That little critter can cause some serious havoc, and he's tough too; it's not entirely clear what kind of weapon you would need in order to kill him.
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Darth Wong wrote:Stitch, from Lilo and Stitch. That little critter can cause some serious havoc, and he's tough too; it's not entirely clear what kind of weapon you would need in order to kill him.
Yes, but someone who saw a four legged thing with Teeth, claws and antennae would not let their guard down as they would for a common sweeper bringing some Fish soup :wink: .
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Marvin, from Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Never underestimate a robot capable of causing other machinery to commit suicide simply by talking to it.
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The little girl from Firestarter. She fries and explodes lots of people, despite being a cute little girl.

The young lady Q from STNG who was raised as human. Harmless looking young woman who stopped a core breach explosion, changed a planets atmosphere and knocked Q across a room.

Kevin Uxbridge, the Douwd from STNG : Looks like an old guy, but "I didn't just kill one Husnock, or a hundred or a thousand. I killed them all Captain; all Husnock, everywhere."

Honorverse treecats. One moment, they're a cute little six legged felinoid the next, you've got it's claws it your eyes and your throat's ripped out.

Hellkittens from Tuff Voyaging; cute little kittens that spit powerfully corrosive venom and attack in swarms, eating you alive.
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While the tricky thing is to pick the right timeperiod, I'd say a teenage Peter Reidinger from Anne McCaffrey's talent universe also qualifies.

As a teenage boy, he's paralyzed completely from the neck down and has no voluntary movement ability. If you say him at the right stage in his life at the right time, you'd see a clearly completely paralyzed teenage boy.

However he also has the most powerful telekenetic abilities by far on the planet. This includes being able to literally launch a space shuttle into space through heavy weather practically on his own. (The mission control people who were not in on how this "new technology upgrade" for the shuttle worked and got concerned when he overdid it and the shuttle was moving too fast! :lol:) He also can use his telekenesis to have his body simulate normal movement, or simply move small objects. He eventually demonstrates the ability to instantly teleport object accurately across light years, and finally demonstrates the ability to teleport objects through time under certain circumstances.

The only catch is he doesn't use his abilities against other people very often. He uses teleportation to aphrehend a child kidnapper/slave trader, and there was one situation where a group of assault gun wielding thugs don't find things go the way they were supposted to in their plan. :twisted:
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Naturally, a lot of Pokemon fall into this category. :p

We can also add:

Ryo-oh-Ki(Tenchi Muyo!)
Sasami(Tenchi Muyo!)
Negi Springfield(Negima)

You know, if I go into anime, this could be a very, very long list... :mrgreen:
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How could anyone mentioned Lu Tzu for this, and not mention the Luggage. That thing would certainly look fairly innocent...right up until about the moment it starts to move and bites your head off anyway.
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LadyTevar wrote:Kitten (mew!) -- Sluggy Freelance
For that matter, add bun-bun to the list. See: "Aww, what a cute widdle. . ." *WHAM! WHAM! WHAM! WHAM!*
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Would mimics from D&D qualify?

And then there was an A.E. Van Vogy short story which had an menacing alien race conquering earth by blasting it light years away with lethal doses of cosmic radiation. The command crew of the alien invasion fleet lands and uses their resurrection technology to bring back one specimen of this pathic and weak species known as man. However, they did not realize that man had developed both telekinesis and precognition and when resurrected he sets into motion a series of events that results in the 'procurement' of all the alien technology (so that he can ressurrect mankind and finally have FTL drive) and the destruction of the entire invasion fleet.
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A.E. Van VOGT

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Medivh from Warcraft might one those characters.
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Lord Revan wrote:Medivh from Warcraft might one those characters.
A stooped old man with a cloak, a staff, and a raven? He almost screams dangerous wizard. Not harmless.
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