Not so creepy until you see it with his red/blue heterochromia. Mukuro from Reborn! (2004) has a Snowy Owl as his box animal.Among other things, his mouth has a zipper on it that he has to unzip if he wants to talk. In One Piece, every member of CP 9 has an animal motif, and the creepiest one is definitely Fukuro who is based off of an owl.His partially transformed form after being shot in the heart is more than a little creepy. Kouichi from Nabari no Ou is actually an owl with a human heart.A recurring motif in Lupin III: The Woman Called Fujiko Mine, with normal ones appearing in the opening, as well as more nightmarish humanoid ones appearing in a flashback of Fujiko's.It took the efforts of a completely blind (courtesy of Minerva) expert hunter, a Batman Gambit, and a jet battle in midair to finally bring the wicked-eyed bird down. It was also nearly impossible to kill even with ranged weapons like guns, since it could sense its attackers' blood thirst. military aircraft carrier, it killed off the entire crew and decimated several Japanese cities just by flying over them. Its gaze was so potent that after escaping containment from a U.S. The manga Jagan wa Gachirin ni Tobu takes this trope to its worst possible conclusion in the form of Minerva, an owl shaped abomination whose eyes continuously spill blood from their sockets, and whose mere gaze can kill any living thing almost instantly after forcing them to expel blood from their eyes, ears and mouths.Doku-Chan from Jagaaaaaan, a ball-shaped owl with a pair of pilot glasses, fulfills all requirements as he enters Jagasaki's life and gives him a roundabout briefing about what's going on after his first encounter with a Fractured Human.This is more notable in the Manga in one story where he warns students about humans and going outside the forest. Professor Hoot the Owl from Happy Happy Clover, while nice and helpful, does have moments where he comes across as very creepy and a bit unnerving.It's worth noting that "Fukuro" is Japanese for "owl." He has a man's body but an owl's head (also two missiles on his back with the word "JUSTICE" printed on them), and one of his abilities is to swallow his opponents whole and use their magic until they digest fully. There is yet another Fukuro among the assassin group Trinity Raven in Fairy Tail, who is also noticeably creepy.Then he flies away like nothing happened! His unfortunate speech patterns takes the sting out of it a little (as does his talk of a "chicken of vengeance"), but he just stands there with those crazy eyes talking about the coming of the Devas like some goddamn Cheshire cat. just a talking owl that seems to exist only to give Takato and Henry nightmares. good God what the hell is up with that? He's not a Digimon or anything. Contrast Cute Owl (though there might be some overlap when Cute Is Evil). See also Brutal Bird of Prey, Creepy Crows, Vile Vulture, and Circling Vultures for other types of scary, creepy birds, as well as Bat Out of Hell for another scary nocturnal flyer, and The Owl-Knowing One (for when the owl is an Evil Genius). So remember: if you ever see an owl, clutch your Tootsie Roll Pops tightly and run in the other direction. Harbinger is the key-word here, all too often the owls are used in films as normal, non-threatening (to humans) animals who merely enrich the eerie ambiance with their huge glistening eyes and especially their otherworldly hooting. Geoffrey Chaucer also had a thing for them. In some Native North American traditions, owls were associated with the evil wintertime spirits most popularly known in English as wendigo, and a few languages used a single word to refer to both the bird and the spirit. To the Hopi, they were a symbol of evil sorcery to the Romans, they were funerary birds, signaling ill will in the daytime (unless you were collecting their eggs, in which case they signaled a Hideous Hangover Cure) and the Aztec god of death, Mictlantecuhtli, was often portrayed with owls. Owls have long been viewed as harbingers of disease, death, destruction, and bad luck. It doesn't really matter why they are creepy, they just are. Bad news for rodents), in the dark, when you're in the forest. Or perhaps it's the sounds they make at night (except for the beating of their wings, which are so soft and fluffy you'll never hear a thing. It could be those (relatively) gigantic, piercing eyes. And then snap their heads around to the other side so quickly you could be forgiven for thinking they'd actually gone 360. Perhaps it's because most of them are nocturnal or that they eat cute little mice or that they can spin their heads all the way around note Not really, but they can turn their heads further around than most animals (270 degrees total compared to 180 degrees for a human). John Hodgman, More Information Than You Require
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