History Literature / AppointmentWithFEAR

** Even more true in the electronic version, where picking that power sticks you with a crummy Skill score of 8, the lowest of any power choice.

* ThouShaltNotKill: Because you're a superhero, you're supposed to capture the villains, not kill them, and they give up at 2 Stamina.

* FunWithAcronyms: F.E.A.R itself.

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* HeroicBystander: [[spoiler:If you are fighting The Poisoner and are unable to attack him, a hostage you rescued earlier will come to your aid and kill the Poisoner.]] Doubles as a SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome.
* ItsAWonderfulFailure: Contains one of the darkest bad endings that you can possibly get in a ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebook. FEAR destroys several major cities with their orbital death ray to demonstrate their power, starting with the one you're in.

* RankScalesWithAsskicking: Titanium Cyborg, leader of FEAR, is the most powerful enemy in the book and the FinalBoss.

* SkewedPriorities: One of the more baffling choices you can make in the book - one early encounter have a chainsaw-wielding maniac on the loose, just as you're petting a random stray cat, at which point the book actually gives you the option to 1. stop the maniac who's threatening an old lady with his weapon 2.bring the cat to an animal shelter. [[spoiler: The real hell of it is, prioritizing the cat is the only way to get one of the clues to the FEAR meeting in one path.]]

* TheBeastmaster: The Ringmaster, a supervillain. The hero learns that he has escaped, but because the plot branches based on the players choice of superpowers, there's a 50:50 chance he won't show up later.

** The Silver Crusader himself, as well. Picking Super Strength/Flight makes you very much like Franchise/{{Superman}}, while Gadgeteering Genius plays out a lot like Franchise/{{Batman}}.

* ChainsawGood: Chainsaw Bronski is a criminal whose weapon and tool of choice is, as you'd guess, [[ShapedLikeItself a chainsaw]], though if you attack him it says he wields an electric knife in the fight. The illustration for the 2018 version changes his weapon into a knife with the teeth of a chainsaw to accommodate both.
* ChineseLaunderer: He seems to also serve food if you ask him too. This location was changed to a martial arts school in the mobile game version, seemingly to go for something less potentially offensive (although the 2018 reprint leaves it a Chinese laundry)

%%* DevelopersForesight: Most of the endgame sections where you're looking for the F.E.A.R. meeting are unique to one %%specific superpower, but the game disguises this by having options for all four superpowers. (Using one you can't have will either kill %%you instantly or lead you to the bad ending where F.E.A.R. takes over Earth.)

* WaterSupplyTampering: What the Poisoner will be trying to do if the Silver Crusader tracks him down.

* PoweredArmor: A little misleadingly, the Titanium Cyborg who's the book's BigBad isn't actually a {{Cyborg}} with implanted mechanical parts. The Silver Crusader can encounter him in disguise earlier in the book, and it's evident from that he's a normal man who wears a mechanized suit of armor. Mainly in how he turns a killer robot loose and runs off. Whereas when he takes on the reader as the proper FinalBoss, he's rightly confident he can take the Crusader.

In 2014, the book was adapted for an electronic format by Tin Man Games, and released on [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS]] and [[UsefulNotes/AndroidGames Android]]. This particular version of the game features a limited form of character name and appearance customization on top of the choice of superpowers originally in the book. It's also available on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}} as part of the ''Fighting Fantasy Classics'' package.

* OddballInTheSeries: The only superhero-themed book in the entire ''Fighting Fantasy'' series.

In 2014, the book was adapted for an electronic format by Tin Man Games, and released on UsefulNotes/{{Steam}}, [[UsefulNotes/IOSGames iOS]] and [[UsefulNotes/AndroidGames Android]]. This particular version of the game features a limited form of character name and appearance customization on top of the choice of superpowers originally in the book.

* PoweredArmor: A little misleadingly, the Titanium Cyborg who's the book's BigBad isn't actually a {{Cyborg}} with implanted mechanical parts. The Silver Crusader can encounter him in disguise earlier in the book, and it's evident from that he's a normal man who wears a mechanized suit of armor. Mainly in how he turns a killer robot loose and runs off, when in their actual fight he's rightly confident he can take the Crusader.

The book is slightly longer than a normal ''Fighting Fantasy'' book with 440 references compared to the standard 400. A 200-reference sequel not written by Jackson but using the same rules, ''Deadline to Destruction'', appeared in an edition of ''Warlock'' magazine.

* OffModel: The mobile game adaptation uses the original -[[UsefulNotes/TheSilverAgeOfComicBooks Silver Age]]-inspired - Declan Considine illustrations and pairs them with new original character art that has a ''very'' different art style, closer to [[UsefulNotes/TheModernAgeOfComicBooks modern comic books]].

* SkewedPriorities: One of the more baffling choices you can make in the book - one early encounter have a chainsaw-wielding maniac on the loose, just as you're petting a random stray cat, at which point the book actually gives you the option to 1. stop the maniac who's threatening an old lady with his weapon 2.bring the cat to an animal shelter. [[spoiler: The hell of it is, prioritizing the cat is the only way to get one of the clues to the FEAR meeting in one path.]]

* SkewedPriorities: One of the more baffling choices you can make in the book - one early encounter have a chainsaw-wielding maniac on the loose, just as you're petting a random stray cat, at which point the book actually gives you the option to 1. stop the maniac who's threatening an old lady with his weapon 2.bring the cat to an animal shelter.

** In "Deadline to Destruction" it straight up has one of the ETS gadgets be a web-shooter the Silver Crusader made in imitation of his "comic book rival", Spider-Man!

* ItsAWonderfulFailure: Contains one of the darkest bad endings that you can possibly get in a ''Literature/FightingFantasy'' gamebook.

* FlyingBrick: One of the four superpowers you can choose from, and the one that makes the game easier to beat because you automatically have a superhuman Skill score. [[spoiler: However you are not at a Superman level of invulnerability - you can be shot dead by an ordinary handgun with a single shot or roasted by a vehicle mounted flamethrower or killed by a laser cannon.]]