In The Holy Grail, however, fleeing from a rabbit is less about being a coward and more about the knights' stupidity. (At least this Notre Dame knight didn't pull a Robin his armor looks to be unsoiled.) This is not something you'd want on your resume as a knight. Maybe he was a smart man running from a murderous hare, but more than likely it was representative of cowardice, a bunny being just about the least threatening animal imaginable. The idea of the Killer Rabbit was reportedly taken from a carving in the Notre Dame cathedral in Paris which depicts a knight running away from… a rabbit. A cute harmless bunny ripping the heads off of knights in a ferocious display of savagery is truly awe-inspiring as is, but if we ignored some of the symbolism and historical allusion we wouldn't be doing our job. But sometimes a killer bunny… isn't just a killer bunny.
Sometimes a bunny is just a bunny… and sometimes it's a killer bunny.
