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* ''Manga/JoJosBizarreAdventureGoldenWind'': The ruthless Boss of Passione lead the mob organziation for many years, using his Stand King Crimson to hid his existence and ruthlessly kill anyone that defies him or try to find out his identity, as befell [[spoiler:[[HeroKiller three of the heroes, including the leader Buccarati]]]], by the end of the story. However, in the final battle, [[spoiler:Giorno's [[EleventhHourSuperpower Gold Experience Requiem]] send Diavolo into an [[FateWorseThanDeath infinite death loop]] without [[{{Depower}} King Crimson or even his sub-ability Epitaph]]. After a few loops, the [[TheParanoiac already-paranoid mob boss]] is left terrified of everything, even a little girl, fearing that she's another bringer of death through [=G.E.R.=]]].

* ''Manga/The100GirlfriendsWhoReallyReallyReallyReallyReallyLoveYou'': Chapters 136 and 137 feature the girlfriends pairing off and entering the school at night to seek out Rentarou after he vanishes inside of it and, in the process, encountering various {{Youkai}}. The girls react in various ways, some scared as expected, some not, some not even realizing they're encountering monsters, and one pair even takes selfies with them. Of those that scare the monsters themselves are Iku, who presents her behind to a kappa daring it to take the ''shirikodama'' that it's demanding and is supposed to be in humans' bottoms, Chiyo, whose OCD-induced cleaning brings a trash-loving youkai to tears, Eira, who is unafraid of the ghost she and Uto encounter because she believes she can take it out with a kick, Meme, who scares a slit-mouth woman when she flees the scene with her NinjaLog trick, and finally Rentarou himself, who charges to the rescue in a full-on UnstoppableRage when he hears Kishika crying. It is at this point it's revealed that [[spoiler:the youkai were themselves students, practicing for a haunted house]].

* Some characters in ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' can do this, such as the titular character and [[BadassGrandpa Jirou]]. Toriko's intimidation is such that it can quell a herd of angry, monstrous apes.

* ''Manga/{{Toriko}}'' can do this. His intimidation is such that it can quell a herd of angry, monstrous apes.

** Then played straight when, after a group of zombies have [[spoiler:abducted most of our protagonists and are about to do the same to the subdued Franky and Robin,]] an unseen Brook begins to sing and the undead collectively piss themselves in fear.

* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', dragons and many demons are absolutely terrified of Lina Inverse. When she gets a ''letter'' from her older sister Luna, ''Lina'' freaks out, trying to hide in a pyramid.

* Manga/{{Toriko}} can do this. His intimidation is such that it can quell a herd of angry, monstrous apes.

* ''Anime/{{Mononoke}}'' displays the Medicine Seller, a man who slays demonic spirits for a living. Oh, and those aforementioned demonic spirits? They're absolutely terrified of him. When Nue, one of the demons, finally realizes who he is, it experiences a massive OhCrap
* ''Anime/NightWizard'' features a JourneyToTheCenterOfTheMind, where the BandOfBrothers faces off against a Devil-Queen of Nightmares who preys on dreams and devours the minds of the sleepers. Inside the mind of Elis Shiho, the mild-tempered FriendToAllLivingThings, she is defeated...but manages to survive and hide out in a weakened state, determined to bide her time as her powers return so she can seek vengeance. While looking for a good place to hide out, she finds a strange, black door in the dreamscape, and goes inside...followed by a StockScream, and her running wild-eyed out of there on the verge of a complete breakdown. What could possibly exist in the mind of such a [[BewareTheNiceOnes nice girl]], that is capable of terrifying a creature that lives off nightmares?
* Tanaka Punie of ''Anime/MagicalWitchPuniechan'' is scary in ways that defy categorization. She activates this trope when she takes on a huge Dark God/Demon-thing... with wrestling-techniques. As soon as it realizes who she is, the huge beast is terrified and flees screaming back to the other realm.
* ''Manga/OnePiece'':
** The first act of true Badassery in the series is when Shanks scares off a giant sea serpent just by looking at it. [[spoiler:It's revealed that he actually used his Haki of the Supreme King]].
** Played for comedic effects in the Thriller Bark Arc. When Usopp, Nami, and Chopper land on Thriller Bark, they're scared shitless by ALL the zombies. The favor is returned to the zombies when the other crew members arrive as well.
** Then played straight when, after a group of zombies have [[spoiler:abducted most of our protagonists and are about to do the same to the subdued Franky and Robin,]] an unseen Brook begins to sing and the undead collectively piss themselves in fear.
** During the Paramount War, the Marines have assembled much of their combined forces, including the Fleet Admiral, the three Admirals, legenday marine Vice Admiral Garp, and most of the Warlords of the Sea. Facing them is an alliance of Whitebeard's grand fleet, with thousands of deadly and feared pirates alongside Luffy's Impel Down escapees. The crew of Blackbeard also join the fray, which includes some of the deadliest and most wanted criminals in the world. All three sides are determined to fight to the death. Shanks and his small crew of less than a dozen men arrive and convince them all to stand down without firing a single shot.
*** This is after Shanks also faced down Kaido of the Beasts, the so called "strongest creature" in the world, with at least equal to Whitebeard's on his way to attack Whitebeard from the rear. Kaido also elects not to pick a pick with Shanks.
** The Seducing Woods on Whole Cake Island are filled with living plant life meant to befuddle, confuse, entrap, exhaust and terrify those who get lost in them until Big Mom's daughter Charlotte Brulee can find them and capture them or finish them off. When the Straw Hats barge in, an already upset Luffy decides the easiest way to get through these woods would be [[CuttingTheKnot tear them up until they get somewhere]], terrifying the Homies who inhabit the trees into backing off and getting their leader to lead the Straw Hats out so Luffy doesn't kill all of them.
* Manga/{{Toriko}} can do this. His intimidation is such that it can quell a herd of angry, monstrous apes.
* ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'': Alucard really enjoys knocking lesser monsters off their high horses.
** The AxCrazy murderous vampire Rip Van Winkle completely falls apart from fear upon just sensing that ''Alucard'' is approaching. Unlike most of the other Millennium vampires of the series in general, Rip has dealt with him before and knows ''exactly'' what this guy is capable of.
** Luke shits himself when he realizes just how outclassed he is by Alucard.
--->'''Luke Valentine:''' ''[a powerful vampire himself]'' [[WhatTheHellAreYou What]] ''[[WhatTheHellAreYou are]]'' [[WhatTheHellAreYou you?! WHAT IN THE]] ''[[WhatTheHellAreYou HELL ARE YOU?!]]''
** When [[spoiler:Seras finally becomes a full vampire]], the spectacle is enough to freeze [[spoiler:Nazi Vampires]] in their tracks with sheer pants-shitting ''terror''.
** But the most prominent example of this trope comes from Abraham Van Helsing, the mortal man who defeated Alucard when he was at the peak of his power. Alucard's defeat was so complete and traumatizing that he still has nightmares about that man. In fact, it was Abraham's strength that instilled in Alucard a new sense of respect and admiration for humanity, which he did not previously have.
* ''Manga/JujutsuKaisen'': Yuji's KillingIntent towards Mahito, a special grade curse and the embodiment of human hatred for each other, [[spoiler:after [[DefeatingTheUndefeatable defeating him]] and expressing his intent to keep on killing him every time he reincarnates has the once proud cursed spirit running away in absolute terror.]]

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Manga/DrSlump'' where one episode has a vampire named Trampire go to the Norimaki household where she tries to suck Arale's blood, but can't due to her being a RidiculouslyHumanRobot, causing Arale to get up half-asleep and [[BreathWeapon fire her N'Cha Cannon]] at the wall, scaring Trampire away.
* In ''LightNovel/{{Slayers}}'', dragons and many demons are absolutely terrified of Lina Inverse. When she gets a ''letter'' from her older sister Luna, ''Lina'' freaks out, trying to hide in a pyramid.
* ''Manga/TheWorldGodOnlyKnows'':
** Nora (an immortal demon) attempts to MindRape Keima (a human). After a bit of confusion as to the nature of his brain (it displays a loading screen and a ''copyright notice''), she tears apart his image of his [[PerverseSexualLust beloved Yokkyun]]. He gets ''pissed'', and chases Nora around like a maniac, demanding she bring Yokkyun back. Nora runs away screaming at the scary monster.
** Variant: Shortly after meeting Haqua (another demon), Keima [[SherlockScan casually deduces a few embarrassing facts]], and blackmails her without so much as looking up from his game. Haqua agrees but is annoyed.
--->'''Haqua:''' To blackmail a demon... what a human.\\
'''Keima:''' To be blackmailed by a human... what a demon.\\
'''Haqua:''' Sh--shut up!
* ''Manga/FrankenFran'': A group of Fran's former patients arrives at her home one night. Over the course of the evening, several of them are hideously maimed, requiring Fran's skills to survive. Then she figures out that [[spoiler:they're addicted to surgery, and are maiming ''themselves'' to force Fran to operate on them]]. Fran--who has very little in the way of ethics and ''extremely'' skewed morals--is absolutely ''horrified''.
** There's, of course, also the reaction many characters of varying horrifying-ness have to Fran herself. Like her {{foil}} and sister, Veronica, a remorseless assassin and LivingWeapon with an uncompromising MurderIsTheBestSolution approach to almost all of life's problems. When Veronica sees [[FateWorseThanDeath exactly how far Fran is willing to go]] in order to make sure [[ThouShaltNotKill no-one dies]], all she can do is stare in abject horror and plead with Fran to just let [[BodyHorror the pretzel made of screaming flesh that used to be her patients]] pass away. Fran ignores her for the most part, pointing out that Veronica's habit of [[DisproportionateRetribution killing people for calling her names]] takes away her moral high ground.
** PlayedForLaughs in an earlier chapter, when Fran's staff--a group that looks like the Universal Monsters line-up--recoil in terror at a horror movie Fran's watching.

* In ''Anime/ParanoiaAgent'', three suicidal people are very excited to see the dangerous and potentially-eldritch serial assaulter, Lil Slugger, but he panics and runs away as fast as he can. This seems to be because his purpose is to attack those who are cornered, and these three were extremely happy despite being suicidal, and he doesn't know how to handle that. However, it also seems to be foreshadowing that [[spoiler:they are [[DeadAllAlong already dead]]]], meaning Lil Slugger [[spoiler:saw them as ghosts or some other horrifying undead thing.]]
* ''Manga/DeathNote:''
** Happens to at least one Shinigami: [[spoiler:Higuchi]] horrifies Rem so much through [[spoiler:his corruption, perversion, and plan to force Misa to marry him]] that she ''sympathizes with Light''.
** PlayedForLaughs when Misa's manager comes by to tell Misa to get back to work. Misa, Light, ''and'' L are all shown to be visibly unnerved by her. For reference: Two of these people are [[SerialKiller serial killers]] and the third is the [[BunnyEarsLawyer extremely unorthodox detective]] hired to catch them.
* In ''Manga/SleepyPrincessInTheDemonCastle'', the residents of the Demon King's Castle have nightmares about the Princess. [[IgnoredEpiphany She really couldn't give a shit.]]
* ''Manga/BlackLagoon'': [[NinjaMaid Roberta]], aka [[RedBaron the Bloodhound of Florencia]], is a superhuman assassin who can bring terror to the criminals of Roanapur, including a chainsaw-wielding madwoman, who was scared shitless when Roberta broke her chainsaw.
* In ''Manga/SailorMoon'', the Dark Kingdom is utterly terrified at Sailor V's sudden reappearance, due to [[Manga/CodenameSailorV her body count including an entire branch of the Dark Kingdom]], her successfully posing as the Moon Princess (that is, the one person that can use the Silver Crystal and thus annihilate [[EldritchAbomination Queen Metallia]]), and her reappearance being heralded by killing Zoisite ''messily''. Later Queen Beryl, once she's been outed as Sailor Venus, stops being scared of her... Only to resume the instant before she's GuttedLikeAFish.
* Saitama from ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' is a very unassuming figure and most of the monsters and villains he faces think nothing of him. [[OneHitKill Those monsters and villains die very quickly]]. In contrast, Carnage Kabuto and Geryuganshoop were able to recognize how dangerous he is and lasted marginally longer than most of the others, Carnage Kabuto because his animal instincts warned him and Geryuganshoop because he was watching Saitama effortlessly tear his way through the alien ship he was on and wanted nothing to do with him.

** In "Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly", Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta's constant assaults slowly manages to instill some fear in the berserk Super Saiyan (Full-Power) Broly, whom at this point is acting out of desperation than anger. By the time the Saiyan fully returns to his senses, he is truly horrified of at the thought of being killed.

* ''Manga/PopTeamEpic'': In one skit, Popuko gets a phone call from [[CreepyDoll Mary-san]], which leads [[HairTriggerTemper Popuko to charge out of her house with her nail-covered bat to look for her]]. When Popuko calls Mary back, the doll meekly tells her [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere ran for the nearest station]].

** In "Anime/DragonBallSuperBroly", Super Saiyan Blue Gogeta's constant assaults slowly manages to instill some fear in the berserk Super Saiyan (Full-Power) Broly and at this point is now acting out of desperation than anger. By the time the Saiyan fully returns to his senses, he is truly horrified of at the thought of being killed.

* ''Anime/YuGiOh'': Yami Marik is the sadistic and cruel SuperpoweredEvilSide of Marik. He shows the depths of his depravity by subjecting Mai to a horrifying [[MindRape Shadow Game designed to break her mind]], motivating Joey to duel him in order to set Mai free. Despite being at a disadvantage for much of the duel, Joey manages to make Marik sweat a few times, the best one being when he comes within a hair's breadth of winning the duel but faints before he can declare an attack. This is the first time Yami Marik shows actual fear, the second being when he is eventually defeated by Yami Yugi. That's right, Joey Wheeler, the guy with no shadow magic or god cards, scared Yami friggin Marik.