The massive, open world of LEGO City lets players explore the city using numerous vehicles from the real-life play sets to pursue criminalmastermind Rex Fury.
Both take some of the broadest populist movements on the planet and suggest that their members are duped sheep being manipulated by a criminalmastermind whose goals are chaos and destruction.
Mr Carpenter said characters such as Pennywise, the murderous clown in Stephen King's novel It, and the evil criminalmastermind the Joker in Batman, had contributed to the view of clowns as "scary".