Normally Nyan Cat is all about spreading spacey rainbow/Pop-Tart love. But in the "Real-Life Nyan Cat" video, the normally joyful feline gets vicious, shooting lasers from its eyes and turning people into toaster pastries.

The video (above) was created by Auckland, New Zealand high school student Calvin Sang and his friends as a way to have some fun after finishing a recent round of exams. The idea was to take something that was so very 2-D and bring it into the three-dimensional world, Sang said in an e-mail to Wired.com.

"Even though Nyan Cat is always happy, I thought it would be funny to add a darker side to him, just to show people he has more than one side, you know?" Sang said. "Also, I would be pretty pissed off if someone had mistaken me for a terrorist and shot a laser at me."

Sang, whose main actors, B.J. Mallinson and David Hubbard, are pretty convincing for a couple kids just making a video for kicks, created his vengeful Nyan Cat using Cinema 4D, then placed the animated bits into his footage using Adobe After Effects.

Now all we want to know is, does Peter Jackson need any interns? Check out more of Sang's videos on his YouTube channel.