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* Though ''on paper'' ''LetsPlay/{{Dream}}'' is at a disadvantage as the target of Manhunts, as many comments like to point out, ''in practice,'' the Hunters are more scared of Dream than he is of them, and for most of the Manhunts that fear proves to be fully justified as he picks the Hunters apart. This is especially the case when watching the earliest 1 Hunter videos from [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ck0rdFK54vE George's]] [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fo5D9jNwHs0 perspective]], showing exactly how terrifying it is to go up against Dream. Most of the time, ''he'll'' be hunting ''you''.

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* When there is a hacker in a multiplayer game, the other team will experience this trope, as they swiftly get cut down left and right by an [[ImplacableMan unstoppable killer]].
* ''VideoGame/AceCombat'' has this as a staple of the series once the player has progressed enough. What makes it interesting is that the enemy never know your callsign, only your insignia, leading to a variety of nicknames:
** ''VideoGame/AceCombat04ShatteredSkies'': After the furball over the Comona Islands, in which Möbius One can land a hit on the Yellow Squadron and force them to withdraw, the Eruseans start looking out for the "Blue Ribbon". This culminates over Megalith, their last holdout, when they see [[spoiler:the '' entire squadron'' bearing ribbon insignias]] and freak out.
** ''VideoGame/AceCombat5TheUnsungWar'' has this as a stronger focus, helped by an in-universe fairy tale about a demon rising from the North Sea:
*** After the [[spoiler:sinking of the Hrimfaxi]] at the North Sea, the Yuktobanians begin calling the squadron the [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Demons of Razgriz]]. It's not a nickname either - the bad guys seemingly believe the squadron to be ''real demons''. It gets to the point that merely ''mentioning'' the squadron among Yuke ranks is enough to cripple the morale of entire battalions. [[spoiler:President Harling decides to play on this after they rescue him by officially designating then Razgriz Squadron with a new all-black paintjob]].
---->'''Yuke Soldier:''' ''HELP US! IT'S THE '''RAZGRIZ!'''''
*** A specific example is after [[spoiler:the death of Chopper]], as the player's squadron fight all the more fiercely and the EnemyChatter becomes panicked.
*** The game also features the mission "Powder Keg", wherein the player's squadron is sent to take out an enemy weapon supply base out in the jungle. They start off rather confident that they can drive you off, but as you continue destroying the entrances to the base, they start getting more desperate and afraid as fires and explosions rock the base, destroy their supplies, and kill many of their men. By the end they're in a complete panic just before your last bomb completely destroys the entire facility.
** ''VideoGame/AceCombat7SkiesUnknown'' has this happen around the time [[spoiler: the first Arsenal Bird is destroyed]]. By this time Trigger has a new emblem featuring three clawmarks across his old one, so he's dubbed "Three Strikes"
--->'''Osean Ground:''' If you see Three Strikes in the sky, count to three and the enemy's gone!
* Occasionally, ThatOnePlayer becomes this to their gaming community. For instance, Dslyecxi, founder of ''VideoGame/{{Arma}}'' clan Creator/ShackTactical, is treated [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MZuvRiyIh6c&hd=1 as a terrifying specter of a man who can approach, make a kill, and escape without warning]]. Name-dropping him in a match is a great way to suddenly cause the other side to start making mistakes out of [[TheDreaded fear of him and his reputation]]. There's also been a few cases where he panicked the other team so badly just by his presence that they started [[FriendOrFoe killing each other]] by mistake trying to kill him. Please note that in at least one such instance, he had been confirmed down and out in the game for several minutes and his opponents were ''still'' causing friendly fire casualties because they were that worked up and paranoid after Dslyecxi had spent the prior 10 minutes or so picking them off one or two at a time.
* ''VideoGame/AssassinsCreedII'' has two separate instances where Ezio's main targets, Templars, are heard talking about Ezio Auditore da Firenze. The first man is completely paranoid, trying to talk himself into calming down ("He'll... he'll leave. He'll get bored, I'm sure...") and surrounding himself with guards. The second has a near-panic attack when he finds out that Ezio is simply ''in the same city'' that he is.
** While Ezio had yet to establish his reputation as a supernatural combatant, both targets had actually been in Ezio's presence -- the first had been one of the would-be killers of the Medici brothers, the second when Ezio trailed a conspirator to a secret meeting only to be revealed and escape -- so they knew already how close he had come to them before; in the time between the targets he'd also developed a reputation as ''the'' Assassin.
** In both the first game and the second, guards will throw down their weapons and ''flee'' in absolute terror after watching Altaïr or Ezio tear apart their comrades without so much as being scratched in return.
** In the case of the second target, it is all the more satisfying, considering you're sitting on the ledge ''right above him''.
** Or, in the case of the first, the game encourages you to hide inside the well he's currently pacing around.
** A commonly heard reaction to seeing Connor in [[VideoGame/AssassinsCreedIII the third game]] is "[[OhCrap Oh, Hell.]] We're gonna' need some help!" Said Redcoats could end up torn to pieces in seconds. It is also entirely possible to leave a few bodies hanging from the branches of trees in your wake, or thin their numbers by luring a {{bear|sAreBadNews}} to them.
* In ''VideoGame/AsurasWrath'', the soldiers that witness [[spoiler:Wrath Asura]] destroy their armies are absolutely terrified of him, and can only watch in horror as he rips through everything in his way.
* This is a staple of the ''Franchise/BatmanArkhamSeries''' "Invisible Predator" sections, where Batman takes on groups of armed enemies by stealthily picking them off one by one. As the fights wear on, the mooks get more and more terrified (you can even check their elevated heart rates via Detective Vision) and start behaving more erratically. And to make matters worse, their boss is often there to berate them via loudspeaker for their failure (Joker being the worst of the lot since, as seen by the page quote, he actually seems to ''[[BadBoss enjoy]]'' pointing out to his men how utterly screwed they are). Joker has been usurped as the worst person to ever be on Mook MissionControl duty by Scarecrow in ''[[VideoGame/BatmanArkhamKnight Arkham Knight]]''. He doesn't angrily berate his men for their incompetence. He doesn't gleefully taunt them about how screwed they are. Instead, he gives them a ''very'' detailed and "educational" lecture about the exact psychological nature of the fear they are currently experiencing, and how it will haunt them for years to come and perhaps the rest of their lives. No wonder he was only allowed to do this once in the entire game. All other times you are in a Predator section against militamen, it's the Arkham Knight himself on the radio. [[spoiler:Or Deathstroke, after the Knight is defeated.]]
* A video game mechanic in the ''Film/BatmanBegins'' games has you messing with the enemies' environment (using batarangs to break the lights, opening steam valves, activating heavy machinery, or simply performing stealth takedowns on their fellow mooks when they're not looking). When you max out their fear meter, Batman automatically steps out into the open as you see, from the mook's POV, a terrifying glowy-eyed demonic [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Bat Man]].
* In ''VideoGame/BionicCommando'', Area 12's baddies go into a panic when they spot [=SuperJoe=].
* The preview trailers for Krieg the Psycho, the sixth confirmed playable character in ''VideoGame/{{Borderlands 2}}'', show bandits being obliterated by his hulking silhouette in a dark crimson area, particularly as part of experiments being used on him.
* At the beginning of ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIII'', a baby dragon wakes up deep inside a mine, and then, under the player's control, proceeds to wreak havoc, slaughtering most of the miners it comes across and others who try to stop it. It is eventually captured, but when it escapes captivity it transforms into the main character, Ryu. Later, it's revealed that the mine incident was a nightmare for those that barely survived the ordeal.
* Ryu awakening the Kaiser Dragon for the very first time in ''VideoGame/BreathOfFireIV''. It was a RoaringRampageOfRevenge as a result of SociopathicSoldier Rasso taunting him the deaths of innocent women and children Rasso tortured. Rasso eventually reaped what he sowed, and the rest of the Imperial troops couldn't do a thing before the Kaiser slaughters them all. The only survivor was Captain Ursula (who, while on the same side as Rasso, [[EveryoneHasStandards abhorred his actions]]), and only because Nina gave Ryu a CooldownHug to finally calm him down.
* ''VideoGame/BrutalDoom'': Lower-tier demons like the zombies or imps have expressions of fear, pain and anguish as your character rips through them.
** In the ending sequence of ''Brutal Doom 64'', an army of demons enters the room after Doomguy kills the Mother Demon. Doomguy simply [[DramaticGunCock pumps his shotgun]], and the demons immediately turn tail and run away.
* A simple but nonetheless notable game feature in ''VideoGame/CityOfHeroes''. Sometimes an assassin's strike from a stalker will ''terrify'' enemies nearby, stopping them from fleeing.
* Some soldier enemies in ''VideoGame/CannonDancer'' run away from player character Kirin upon first sight, They are so terrified of him that, if there's a wall or obstacle preventing them from escaping further, they will squat down in place and put up their arms in front of them while trembling uncontrollably. In the 4th stage (set on a sinking battleship), the moment Kirin sets foot on the ship some soldiers ''jump off into the ocean'', preferring that rather than try fight him.
* ''VideoGame/CommandAndConquerRedAlert3'': The Imperial campaign gives you not one but two levels where you get utterly curbstomp an entire map with a ridiculously overpowered unit, rewarding you with the fearful screams of your enemies. The Shogun Executioner is a building-sized HumongousMecha with three torsos and three giant swords that can step on any enemy, slice any building dead in one or two hits, and doesn't need an AntiAir attack because it just needs to ''walk into air units'' to kill them. Enemies can only really deal ScratchDamage to it, but it does accumulate... good thing Tesla weaponry ''heals'' the monster.
* If you go for the [[spoiler:"Don't Fear The Reaper" ending]] in ''VideoGame/Cyberpunk2077'' then V is this due to [[spoiler:cutting down Arasaka's best left and right with no help, and some of the last defenders are so afraid that they try to run away, surrender or reluctantly engage in combat with V whilst pathetically begging "IDontWantToDie." If you're sufficiently leveled and geared then it's likely you'll be killing almost everything in one or two hits while [[MadeofIron they'll barely scratch you]]. The entire sequence is similar to Johnny Silverhand's flashback sequence from the beginning of Act 2 but with a much better outcome if you succeed.]]
* While his status as a hero is questionable at best, it's practically a given that Jackie Estacado from ''VideoGame/TheDarkness'' rips apart his opponents with complete animal brutality. By the end of the first game, all the mooks beg desperately for Jackie to spare their lives. This is even more noticeable in the sequel, which has you performing deeper levels of brutality. Lampshaded in-game, when Jackie recounts what using the Darkness does to a person.
-->'''Jackie:''' Once the Darkness gets ahold of you, you start to lose control. You start to wonder what the fuck you're doin'. Time slips away from you. And then, all of a sudden, its like you're sitting in a theater, watching a movie of your own life. You're up there, on the big screen, big as life. You're a fuckin' movie star. And you're killin' all the bad guys -- tearing them limb from limb. And you feel good. You look good. Fuck, you ARE good. And then you realize somethin'. Everyone else in the theater -- they're screamin', 'cuz they're watchin a horror movie. And you're not the hero. You're the monster.
* In ''VideoGame/DeadSpace3'', after Isaac Clarke's [[spoiler:love interest, Ellie, is apparently killed]] the scared man who had until that point just been desperately trying to survive goes away for awhile, as Isaac begins relentlessly slaughtering his way through Necromorph and Unitologist alike. The Unitologist radio chatter reveals their panic, because no matter what they throw at Clarke, ''he won't stop coming''.
* ''VideoGame/{{Destiny}}'' has a Grimoire entry presented as a Cabal tactical analysis of several recent firefights with the Guardians, all of which ended with the Cabal units being wiped out. The most notable is one wherein the Cabal troopers managed to kill the Guardian, [[ResurrectiveImmortality only for said Guardian to immediately rez thanks to their Ghost]], call in reinforcements, and kill them all. The Guardians don't even seem to be taking the fighting seriously, as one of the after-action reports notes that the survivors of one encounter saw the Guardian fireteam "foraging for equipment, dancing, and performing acrobatics with light vehicles." The report concludes that unless they can figure out some way of neutralizing the Ghosts, [[DeathOfAThousandCuts they're doomed to lose the war via sheer attrition]]. The whole thing drives home how it feels to be on the wrong end of a Guardian fireteam; [[Film/TheTerminator they can't be reasoned with, they don't feel pity or fear, and they don't stop, ever, until you're dead]], and once they've killed you they'll [[KleptomaniacHero steal all your stuff]] and [[ScrewTheWarWerePartying throw an impromptu dance party over your still-warm remains]].
* ''VideoGame/Destiny2'' brings back Saint-14, a BoisterousBruiser known as one of the [[LastBastion Last City's]] greatest heroes for his one-man crusade against the rapacious [[SpacePirates Fallen]] who want humanity exterminated. Then comes Season of the Splicer, in which the spotlight shines on the House of Light, a [[MySpeciesDothProtestTooMuch breakaway Fallen faction]] that wants peace with humanity and has been granted refuge in the City. But Saint-14 only knows the Fallen as blood-soaked monsters, and is willing to say as much to the face of Mithrax, the leader of the House. Mithrax responds by telling Saint-14 [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0B9v8VoZrMU the legend of a monster of their own]], a thing that hunted his people and slaughtered them relentlessly, who could be killed [[ResurrectiveImmortality but never for long]], and whose shadow the House of Light now lives beneath every single day... a monster called "the Saint." This shakes Saint-14, who's uncomfortable with being feared, and is the beginning of a chain of events that ends with him becoming BashBrothers with Mithrax.
* In the ''VideoGame/DeusExHumanRevolution'' DLC "The Missing Link," the Belltower soldiers will become gradually more and more terrified of Jensen as he pushes through the ship and Rifleman Bank Station, cutting down and shooting and blowing them up as he goes, and they ''know'' they can't stop him. Notably, they're ''just as terrified'' when he's getting around [[StealthRun totally unseen]]. It's made very clear that it's still an example to them, because Adam is a heavily-augmented super-soldier who, upon being forcibly woken from cryo-sleep, managed to kill five armed soldiers single-handedly after being surrounded and it still took ''eight more soldiers'' to bring him down. Now he's loose in the complex, he has all his gear back, and ''[[NothingIsScarier they don't know where he is]]''. Hell, even if you [[PacifistRun keep a low body count]], the soldiers will remark that that just means Jensen is "more resourceful and more ''dangerous''".
* An interesting point to ''VideoGame/DevilMayCry4'' switching away from Dante's perspective from the first half lets the player see the beloved hero as presumably everyone else does; a cocky, stylish, unstoppable ''killing machine'' that does not consider you a threat in any way and is wholly justified in doing so. Dante proving ThatOneBoss, far and away more dangerous than anything else Nero goes up against, lets the player see what it's like being on the ''receiving'' end of Dante's ShowyInvincibleHero shenanigans.
** The opening cutscene really serves to sell this. A mysterious man in a red coat smashes through the ceiling, murders your leader, and then assaults an army of trained swordsmen and slaughters the lot of them. He barely speaks, and when he does, it's only to mock you. When you shoot at him, he [[ShootTheBullet shoots your bullets out of the air]]. And this is the guy you played as in the last few games.
* ''VideoGame/DiabloIII'' has a scene where the men in Maghda's [[ReligionOfEvil Coven]] are hinted to see your character fighting them as this when you go on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against them following [[spoiler:Deckard Cain's death]]:
-->'''Coven Member:''' He's/She's unstoppable! No mortal could slaughter our brethren with such ease!
** A journal you find in Act II called "The Feared Hero" confirms that the remnants of Maghda's coven are scared shitless of you:
--->'''Dark Cultist:''' We camp, lying in wait for a hero of incredible prowess. My gut churns with the suspicion that we are simply fodder. I have heard tales of this hero wading through our ranks, slaughtering us as if we were children. I will not sleep again tonight, I fear.
* Corvo from ''VideoGame/{{Dishonored}}''. Using the FlashStep power to get behind an enemy makes them wonder "where'd he go?", and then you can strangle them unconscious, slit their throat, shoot them in the back, or feed them to a swarm of rats, and if you're good enough at sneaking about, you can do all that without them seeing much more than your terrifying visage and their life flashing before their eyes. That skull mask he's wearing is enough to reduce most bystanders to tears. And that's not even mentioning that you can use severed body parts as thrown weapons.
** The idle chatter that the [[EliteMooks assassins]] have make it absolutely clear they're scared by how skillful Corvo is. God only knows what the ordinary mooks think of him, seeing as they don't have access to supernatural powers.
** The stealth PacifistRun is if anything even more terrifying. The targets, as far as the public are concerned either vanish or have their crimes exposed without anyone realizing Corvo was even there in the first place. In the Mansion mission, Corvo can [[RefugeInAudacity sign his name on the guest book]] and the guards can't even decide if it was a bad prank or if Corvo really is good enough to sign his name and then not be noticed at all.
* ''Franchise/{{Doom}}'':
** In ''VideoGame/Doom2016'', several chronicles located in Hell detail how the player character, dubbed "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast the Doom Slayer]]," was considered [[TheDreaded the most terrifying thing]] in [[HorrifyingTheHorror all of Hell]] because of his tendency to rip and tear through absolutely everything he came across. It's eventually revealed that they only stopped him by dropping an entire temple on his head. And even that only lasted so long.
** Its sequel ''VideoGame/DoomEternal'' shows that the demons are still pissing terrified of the Doom Slayer. ''[[OneManArmy As well they should be]]''. Just use your Super Shotgun's Meathook to pull yourself towards one of the Imps and watch it throw up its arms in cowering terror as it realizes it's about to get a brief and horrifying demonstration of proper chainsaw technique. As shown in [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SfeUDj_53D0 this trailer]], even the humans he's trying to save are terrified of him: both ARC and UAC staff show obvious distress as the Doom Slayer walks through their facilities, treating him with instant unquestioning respect and a considerable degree of abject fear, basically permitting him to do what he wishes. Even the armed guards stop short when they realize what's happening. He is never once treated as anything other than something to be feared. As described in an off-the-cuff observation by Creator/BenCroshaw:
--->"It was like the start of ''VideoGame/Halo2'', but if Master Chief was a bear."
* In ''VideoGame/DragonAgeInquisition'', as you progress through the zones you pick up letters written by your enemies in camps you overrun. You get to read the terrified reports of enemy lieutenants who've seen you in action, and the slowly degrading sanity of enemy commanders whose entire operation is being razed by your implacable advance.
* In ''VideoGame/Drakengard3'', this is how most human soldiers react to Zero effortlessly slaughtering their friends left and right.
* While most of the enemies you fight in the original ''VideoGame/{{Drakengard}}'' are too BrainwashedAndCrazy to be frightened, the game makes no bones about Caim being a bloodthirsty psychopath who's only slightly better than the enemies he kills, and on the occasion he ''does'' fight a non-brainwashed enemy (for example, ''child'' conscripts that Caim [[WouldHurtAChild coldly slaughters just like any other enemy before him]]) they react with a more-than-appropriate amount of pants-wetting terror.
* ''VideoGame/TheElderScrollsVSkyrim'' casts [[PlayerCharacter you]] as a mook horror show. Sure, normal bandits and enemy soldiers will charge you at any time, but they don't matter. No, the [[TheChosenOne Dragonborn]] scares [[OurDragonsAreDifferent the]] [[PhysicalGod Dragons]]. When you fight and kill your first Dragon, as the beast dies you'll hear this:
-->'''Mirmulnir:''' [[OhCrap Dovahkiin?!]] ''[[BigNo No!!]]''
* ''VideoGame/EnemyMind'' is a side-schooling ShootEmUp where the player controls a mysterious entity that has to proceed through the level by possessing the pilots of enemy ships and turning them against their allies. In-between waves, the player can hear radio chatter of the other pilots freaking out over this weird...thing that keeps turning their allies against them.
* In the game ''[[VideoGame/EscapeFromButcherBay The Chronicles of Riddick: Escape from Butcher Bay]]'' there are a few instances in the course of the game which turn the situation into this for the guards in the prison. But none so much as the moment when Riddick gets into a fully kitted out [[FromBadToWorse battle armour with chainguns, rockets...]]
* By the middle stages of ''VideoGame/FableI'', anybody who witnesses the level of damage the [[OneManArmy Hero of Oakvale]] can deal is vocally terrified, even if the Hero is [[IncorruptiblePurePureness halo-and-butterflies Good]] and [[HundredPercentHeroismRating beloved by all the townspeople]]. Non-hostile bandits tend to beg for their lives when he looks at them.
* In ''VideoGame/FalloutNewVegas'', according to [[ActionSurvivor Boxcars]], the [[BombThrowingAnarchists Powder Gangers]] view [[PlayerCharacter The Courier]] as an equivalent to TheGrimReaper when they are [[AllianceMeter vilified]] by them for slaughtering their attack on Goodsprings.
** [[spoiler:Joshua Graham]] has this effect on both Caesar's legion (for the mere thought he might still be alive) and the White Legs (he is the reason they haven't overrun Zion). This was a hold over from his [[spoiler:"Malpais Legate"]] days as he destroyed anyone that stood in the way of [[spoiler:Ceaser's Legion]].
** You can invoke this if you have the [[ExactlyWhatItSaysOnTheTin Terrifying Presence]] perk.
** Any [[spoiler:post-''Old World Blues'']] random encounters double as this and RoboticReveal. Imagine that you're one of the Legion, tasked with bringing down a [[InsistentTerminology profligate]] who, after going off the grid for weeks, has finally turned up somewhere southwest of Vegas. Your team tracks him through the wilderness, noting that his footprints are heavier than normal and that he must be carrying an extra load. You find him wandering through the desert at midday, seemingly unburdened by either the extra load or the sun, and scope him down with the anti-material rifle (why they sent this with you for [[JustOneMan one man]], Caesar only knows). His head finally centered in the crosshairs, you pull the trigger, expecting a grisly red mist and the muted thump of a fresh corpse on the sand. Instead, you're treated to the metallic WHANG of a ricochet and the cold gaze of a newly-forged [[GameBreaker demigod]]. As he closes the distance to your contubernium with inhuman speed, you have just enough time to doubt the anti-material rifle was ''enough''.
* In ''VideoGame/Fallout4,'' you can become this to members of Sinjin's gang by leaving calling cards on their corpses, wearing the Silver Shroud costume, and speaking in-character as the Shroud. If you speak as the Shroud in the final confrontation, all of Sinjin's mooks run in terror.
** Played with during the mission Hunter/Hunted. You get treated to watching [[PsychoForHire the Gunners]] losing handily to an assault from a Courser, who you are in turn pursuing. You hear the commander getting more and more desperate as the Courser rips through their defenses.
* ''VideoGame/FarCry2'' turns into this once you get a decent reputation. Just listen to the EnemyChatter.
-->"Oh God, it's HIM! What do we do!?"
** Even more in ''VideoGame/FarCry3'', since the protagonist is a [[MaybeMagicMaybeMundane drug- and/or magic-powered]] killing machine who has escaped sure death numerous times and tears through swathes of both pirates and later better-equipped privateers with little difficulty, sometimes without any of them even being aware of what's going on until his machete is being stabbed through their chest; little would one suspect the name "Literature/SnowWhite" to inspire sheer unadulterated terror among that sort of crowd. Even if your reputation is low, foes tend to panic if they find a body and fail to find the killer.
** And in ''VideoGame/FarCry4'', the only thing more terrifying than the Son of Mohan is the [[WarElephants two-ton bullet-proof walking tank of death]] that he brought to play. You can make the elephant grab the nearest soldier with their trunk and slam his body into the ground. Or ram the elephant into a car with enough force to kill everyone inside.
*** Also, multiplayer Hunters have the power to turn invisible, use elemental powers, and can summon eagles / bears / elephants. If you're currently playing a golden path mook and your enemy isn't a noob, you may beg for mercy now.
---->'''Narrator:''' Fun Fact: Elephants love the taste of blood.
* Once Cloud mounts the iconic Hardy Daytona in ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'', we see a small scene from the perspective of a Security Officer and how he feels about the skinny, glaring guy with OccultBlueEyes who just hurled a six-foot sword directly at him.
* This is a major theme and gameplay mechanic in ''VideoGame/GhostOfTsushima'', tied in with the game's KarmaMeter. If you play as the honorable {{Samurai}} you were trained as, enemies will face you head on and in numbers, [[BeingGoodSucks obviously making battles more difficult]]. But if you play as [[CombatPragmatist the Ghost]], enemies will be subjected to the mother of all Mook Horror Shows as you stealthily sweep through their camps, [[TerrorHero quietly murdering them in cold blood or using theatrics to terrorize them to the point of madness]], with the result that many enemies will [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere just straight up run for their lives if they see you]]. Its [[EvilIsEasy easier and arguably more effective]] at driving the Mongols out of Japan... but [[ToBeLawfulOrGood is that really how a samurai should be acting, even in such trying times]]?
* Lampshaded by Zoe in ''VideoGame/{{Ghostrunner}}'' when she comments how ridiculously outmatched and underequipped the Keys really are to deal with Jack. You can have a lot of fun just deflecting all of their projectiles and jumping around them while they stand helpless.
* In ''VideoGame/GodOfWarIII'', you get to witness (and ''control'' via QuickTimeEvent) Kratos brutally killing [[spoiler:Poseidon]] from the ''latter's'' POV. It's every bit as disturbing as it sounds.
* ''VideoGame/GranblueFantasy'':
** In episode 13 of the anime, the Empire's soldiers get stomped by Djeeta's crew off screen. Instead, several character's have a horrified look on their face, and Katalina covers Lyria's eyes so as not to see the carnage the rest of Djeeta's crew is causing to the soldiers. They then run out of the cave with their tails tucked between their legs.
** Also occurs in the ''VideoGame/{{Shadowverse}}'' collab events when the imperial soldiers have the misfortune of trying to take down Mordecai, a powerful undying warrior.
* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', Trevor's introductory mission has him fighting a whole platoon of Lost gang members. Once you've killed a certain number of them, the remainder will immediately drop their guns and run for their lives. You can either let them flee, or kill them for the "No Survivors" condition being checked off at the mission's end.
* ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'':
** The intro to an ''SD Gundam G-Generation'' game featured a bunch of Zakus getting hunted and killed, ''Franchise/{{Predator}}''-style, by the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Deathscythe]].
** ''Journey to Jaburo'''s intro had the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundam original Gundam]] do much the same, though it starts partly Predator-style (shooting one Zaku through a high-rise, ambushing the second with the Hammer) and ends partly Superman-style (charging the third Zaku with beam saber in hand as it [[ShootingSuperman futilely fires its machine gun]]).
** The [=PS2=] title ''Gundam: Zeonic Front'' can have Mission 06: Trojan Horse turn into one if the player is careless. the player controls multiple teams of Zaku on a mission to gather data, but if discovered by White Base the enemy will unleash [[TheDreaded Amuro Ray piloting the RX-78-2]]. Quick demise usually follows as Amuro picks off your entire team one by one while counting his kills. The player can ever hear the iconic Newtype Flash Sound as their team dies one by one.
* In ''VideoGame/HalfLife2: Episode 2'', the G-Man coldly and bluntly tells you that the Vortigaunts (aliens from the first game that were aggressive toward you, but are now your friends in the sequels) barely had any experience with humanity, with their first experience being "[[IconicItem a crowbar]] coming at them from a steel corridor".
%%** It gets even easier if you use the Path of Nightmares outfit, which makes guards terrified by seeing ''any'' dead body (or even unconscious dogs.)
* In ''Franchise/{{Halo}}'' games, the [[{{Mooks}} Grunts]] will say things like "He's everywhere!" and run away when you kill a lot of them at once. The books also go into their point of view every so often, and they tend to be exactly that scared (if not more so). Additionally, Covenant troops often are heard referring to the Master Chief and his fellow Spartans as "demons", both in and out of the games.
* In ''VideoGame/TheHorde'', some of the cutscenes show that unlikely hero Chauncey has a reputation as a ruthless and terrifying warrior among some of the Hordelings.
* ''VideoGame/HotlineMiami'' is literally nothing but this taken to the extreme. Gameplay consists almost entirely of killing faceless goons by the buildingful. An expert player can [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2cuw0A5pexk beat a level in under a minute.]]
* If you take the violent route in ''{{VideoGame/Iji}}'' (straining poor Iji's already fragile sanity), you can read the logs the enemies leave behind. They vary between fear of the grunts, astonishment, and anger of the officers struggling to maintain the discipline.
** Even in a PacifistRun you'll find logs freaking out over this human anomaly just waltzing through the aliens' defenses without even killing anything (plus the fact that Iji is likely holding onto enough weapons and ammo to supply a small army.)
* In the promotional materials for ''VideoGame/JediKnightIIJediOutcast'', it tells of a previous mission to Tatooine where Kyle Katarn left a single survivor. The author of the message, a New Republic intelligence agent, expresses anger that said sole survivor was too traumatized to offer an vital information.
* Pretty much the only purpose of Waddle Dee is to be cannon fodder for Franchise/{{Kirby}}'s latest destructive ability. Except for those armed with spears or parasols, their only way of hurting Kirby is to bump into him. And they often panic and try to escape, given the chance.
** In ''Revenge of Meta Knight'' from ''VideoGame/KirbySuperStar''; while Kirby infiltrates Meta Knight's battleship and destroys it from the inside, his henchmen progress from calm self-assurance to complete havoc. (Except for [[MauveShirt Sailor Waddle Dee]], who's panicking from the start.)
* In ''VideoGame/TheLastOfUs'', Joel and Ellie, as they trek across America, begin to get a reputation as the "crazy old man and girl" who are unstoppable killing machines. In fact, in a sequence near the end of the game, when Joel is noticed, the human enemies start ''running away'' rather than rush in and attempt to gang up like they have done up to that point. And the best part? Joel was ''impaled'' only a short while ago and is severely weakened. The guy can barely walk on two feet and still sends people running for the hills.
* ''VideoGame/{{LISA}}'': At the end, [[spoiler:Brad Armstrong literally becomes one, tearing through 4 waves of an army plus their big boss whilst transforming into a Joy Mutant]].
* The introductory cinematic for the [[RaptorAttack Raptor]] in ''VideoGame/TheLostWorldJurassicParkConsole'' consists of a terrified hunter running for his life while being pursued by a pack of raptors, an ''Aliens''-style motion detector/radar screen indicating just how screwed he is.
* In ''VideoGame/MarkOfTheNinja'', this actually works as a gameplay mechanic. Usually, when a guard comes across a dead body, or sees you attack one of his fellows, he sounds the alarm. However, certain particularly brutal kills (such as hanging guards with the chain you use as a GrapplingHookPistol, hitting them with a portable spike trap or feeding them to flesh-eating bugs) causes an enemy to enter a terrified state where they can't sound the alert, just scream helplessly and fire blindly, often mowing down other enemies. If you're feeling particularly cruel, you can also accomplish this by dropping a corpse in front of a guard below, who will get scared ''absolutely'' shitless by the sight of his dead buddy plummeting on the floor in front of his very eyes. More generally, you are a blade-wielding StealthExpert sneaking about casually dismembering the mooks in horrible fashion, [[spoiler:and the target you spend the first half of the game hunting down is eventually reduced to cowering in a heavily secured panic room and pleading for his life as you cut down his guards and disable his automated defenses.]]. Really, it's Mook Horror Show: The Game.
* In the ''VideoGame/MassEffect2'' DLC "Arrival", the Project guards pretty much start panicking the second Shepard wakes up and [[CurbStompBattle then starts slaughtering his/her way through the entire complex]] [[OneManArmy by him/herself]].
-->'''Scientist:''' Readings indicate that Shepard is resisting the sedatives. Must be a glitch in the system...[[OhCrap Oh shit]]! It's not a glitch. SECURITY!
** Even before that, during the Korlus mission, you tap into the Blue Suns' radio early on, letting you listen to their increasing panic as you slaughter your way through their base.
** Any mission that involves the Eclipse or Blue Suns mercs tends to have com chatter from their bosses getting more and more freaked out as Shepard and co. effortlessly end everyone in their way. [[TooDumbToLive The Blood Pack on the other hand...]]
** There's also strong indication that this is how the Omega mercenaries viewed Archangel. Of the three gang leaders, only Garm (the BloodKnight Krogan in charge of the Blood Pack) isn't freaked out by how close Archangel has come to killing him. The other two are really pissed and afraid by his attempts on their lives, not to mention desperate enough to team up.
** Also during ''Arrival'', during the fight for [[ArtifactOfDoom Object Rho]], particularly notable if you're going for the "Last Stand" achievement.
--->'''Random Guard Chatter:''' [[WhyWontYouDie Shepard won't go down!]]
* The tradition is continued in the ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' DLC "Citadel" as you slaughter your way through the Mysterious Figure's army of mercenaries.
-->'''Random Merc Chatter:''' Guys, I think we chose the wrong [[spoiler:Shepard]]!
** This time it's also extended to Shepard's crew. [[spoiler:Note, in this DLC, the entire [=ME3=] squad + Wrex and Cortez are participating in the slaughter -- subverting ArbitraryHeadcountLimit (although Shepard him/herself only brings two squadmates as usual) -- which consist of some of the most badass people in the galaxy.]]
--->'''Random Merc Chatter:''' But they've got a [[ProudWarriorRaceGuy krogan]]! Why don't we have a krogan?\\
'''Wrex:''' Wouldn't want to be you, princesses! [=HAHAHA=]!\\
'''Random Merc Chatter:''' I think that turian with him/her is [[CowboyCop Archangel]]! How the hell are we supposed to kill him?!\\
'''Garrus:''' ''[BoomHeadshot]'' [[PostMortemOneLiner You're not.]]\\
'''Random Merc Chatter:''' Shit! That's a [[AbusivePrecursors Prothean]] over there!\\
'''Javik:''' And that's a future corpse over there!
** Additionally in the combat mission on Mars, Cerberus mooks (humans enhanced with Reaper augmentations) will exclaim "Holy shit! It's Shepard!" when Shepard attacks.
*** [[spoiler:The revelation that the mooks have been indoctrinated and can no longer fear for themselves implies that ''[[HorrifyingTheHorror the Reapers]]'' [[HorrifyingTheHorror are terrified of Shepard.]] This is pretty much confirmed in the Leviathan DLC.]]
** In the Multiplayer, the Cerberus troops start off professional, but as you kill more and more of them they get decidedly less so. For instance, earlier on, they'll say "Taking casualties" in a calm, professional manner. As you slaughter more of them, they'll scream that same line in panicked terror.
* ''VideoGame/MaxPayne'':
** The first ''VideoGame/MaxPayne1'' gets like this by the end. There's nothing like tearing through a building of guards and hearing their boss respond to their messages over the PA, "What do you ''mean'', 'he's unstoppable'?"
** This happens in parts of ''VideoGame/MaxPayne2TheFallOfMaxPayne'' with Mona as the killer.
** At one point in ''VideoGame/MaxPayne3'' at the tail end of tearing through a base full of EliteMooks, one of them drops his gun, drops to his knees and begs for mercy. There's also a minor mook-on-mook variation when Max lets [[spoiler:Serrano]] loose on [[spoiler:the doctor]].
* In the very first ''VideoGame/MedalOfHonor'' game, if you blew your cover in the U-Boat mission, Kriegsmarine officers would yell, "It's Jimmy Patterson!" and attempt to mow you down in a panic.
* The scene where Gray Fox slaughters the guards in ''VideoGame/MetalGearSolid: The Twin Snakes''. It makes a point of zooming in on one mook's face as he fires blindly at the invisible ''thing'' slaughtering his comrades so the player can see the absolute fear in his eyes, before ''said invisible thing runs him through and leaves him bleeding to death on the floor''.
* Enemies in ''VideoGame/MetalSlug'' often scream and run away when they see you coming. They do this automatically if you use a continue.
** The first game pulls this off on the player in the ending: A surviving enemy tosses a paper airplane, and the view follows it as it flies through the game's stages... littered with the bodies of the scores of soldiers you've slaughtered over the course of the game.
* Artyom's efficacy at combat or stealth in ''VideoGame/MetroExodus'' is remarked upon by [=NPCs=] on multiple occasions. If he manages to sneak past most of the Children of the Forest camps without raising an alert in the Taiga level, then [=NPCs=] at one of the last camps will comment on how impressed they are by his slipperiness. On a related note, if Artyom manages to eliminate almost an entire outpost of bandits or oilmen on his own, then the last survivors of his assault will lay down arms and attempt to surrender.
* ''Franchise/{{Metroid}}'':
** The ''VideoGame/MetroidPrimeTrilogy'', particularly the [[VideoGame/MetroidPrime first game]], highlights it if you read some of the {{Space Pirate|s}}'s [[ApocalypticLog mission logs]], increasingly desperate recordings of how "the Hunter" is tearing through their forces.[[note]]This includes, appropriately, the encryption on the logs themselves, which ''the player might not even have realized were encrypted''.[[/note]] This monster is of course Samus Aran, the player character.
** ''VideoGame/MetroidPrime2Echoes'''s recordings are even more tragilarious because the pirates on Aether are already under attack by a "[[EvilTwin Dark Hunter]]," and then... "Another Hunter, this wearing the traditional colors of Samus Aran, made planetfall today. [[OhCrap Horrific as it may sound]], [[FromBadToWorse there are TWO of them now.]]"
* The [[Creator/MonolithProductions developers]] of ''VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfMordor'' and its sequel ''[[VideoGame/MiddleEarthShadowOfWar Shadow Of War]]'' cite the Batman Arkham series as a shining example of good combat and purposefully invokes this trope.
** While chopping Orcs to bits is enough, [[PlayerCharacter Talion]] can use the surrounding environment to terrorize them. Like unleashing Morgai flies or Caragors on them. Getting your [=Hitstreak/Might=] meter enables more direct terror methods like setting Orcs on fire, freezing-shattering them, setting ''yourself'' on fire, slowly hacking them to pieces, [[FlashStep start teleporting]], or [[spoiler:raising up undead Orcs]]. Enough brutality thins the frequent huge militias the player fights to fair numbers. Without Meter you can come out of stealth and brutally stab an unlucky Orc causing witnesses to run and gives you a Meter bonus, allowing you to follow up with another vicious execution.
** [[BossInMookClothing Orc and Olog Captains]] are randomly generated and have brilliant AI, meaning they can develop exploitable fears based on their interactions with you; Like being set on fire, seeing mind-controlled Orcs betray his group, a Caragor, a rival Orc, watching their comrades being brutalized or [[MindRape mind raped]]-- Oh yeah! Did we forget to mention you can [[MindRape destroy an Orc's psyche]] in the middle of combat?
* ''VideoGame/{{NieR}}'' has [[spoiler:''The entire second playthrough.'' Just entire cutscenes with shades talking about how "that man" is going to come and none of them will be left]].
* ''VideoGame/NierAutomata'': The enemy robot mooks will occasionally chatter with either vengeful rage for what you've done to the rest of them, or about as much terror as a monotone robot voice can express due to what you've done to the rest of them. [[spoiler:This apparent display of emotion by the ''robots'' rattles 2B quite a bit.]]
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes'' has the Dark Side mode: the screen turns black-and-white (except for red for Travis's katana and the inevitable bloodshed) and all mooks in the area start cowering away from Travis as he walks menacingly towards them and systematically murders them for the duration of the mode.
* ''VideoGame/NoMoreHeroes2DesperateStruggle'': Travis' new Dark Side move allows him to transform into a tiger. While you're in this form, Mooks go from trying to beat ten shades of shit out of you to tripping over themselves in their efforts to get the hell away.
* The waterwraith in ''VideoGame/Pikmin2'' is a rare example of a ''boss'' horror show. Throughout the dungeon, the waterwraith has been terrorizing you with its relentless chase. It's completely invincible, and will kill any pikmin on contact, all while making an unholy gargling noise. Most players consider it the scariest thing in a game with no shortage of horror (seriously, [[NightmareFuel/{{Pikmin}} look how long its page is.]] WhatDoYouMeanItsForKids) But on the final floor, where you have to face it as a boss, you have purple pikmin with you now. It is ''terrified'' of that [[HellIsThatNoise "thud"]] sound that they make when thrown. Once you get it into its second phase, it is [[ZeroEffortBoss completely incapable of harming you]]. Its only movements are to either run the hell away, or to cower in fear of that noise.
* ''VideoGame/{{Piratez}}'': An indirect case with the 'The Attack Of Violent Flare Females' article in the [[PropagandaMachine Solar Courier]], which covers a typical raid mission observed from the enemy perspective. It focuses on how scary and overwhelming the pirates are, but also lampshades the typical player behavior of throwing light sources at random all over the place, which makes sense from the tactical perspective but probably looks puzzling in-universe.
* In ''VideoGame/ProjectSylpheed'', Katana becomes this for the ADAN forces. He begins the game as a rookie who is barely able to take out a small enemy cruiser. After a few weapon upgrades and some player experience, he can (and if you want all the achievements, will) be the most effective weapon on his side, tearing through enemy fleets and having entire fighter squadrons directed his way, with most of the enemy ace squadrons either dead or resigned to not being able to touch him.
* ''VideoGame/{{Prototype}}'' has its main character Alex Mercer pull more than a few horror-movie tricks in cutscenes, just in case his powers weren't already scary enough in-game. They include OffscreenTeleportation, shrugging off being riddled with lead, leaving fingerprints and footprints in his targets' blood after he's done with them, popping back up after being "killed", mimicking people without inducing suspicion until he feels like it, and being oddly nonchalant about an enormous bullet hole in his face.
** Hell, the intro features him tearing apart an entire Blackwatch squad, rather easily.
** Moreover, the fact that you can later have people gunned down by accusing them of being you demonstrates the panic and paranoia you sow among the mooks even outside of your murderous rampages.
** And if you sneak into an army base, you can orchestrate it yourself, silently consuming and taking their places one by one, until there are none left.
*** Oh, as if watching your buddy get lassoed from across the room, yo-yo'd to death, and his liquefied remains getting slurped up through a proboscis sticking from a hoodie-wearing nobody's stomach wasn't worrisome enough. The fact that said nobody's ImmuneToBullets is just gravy.
** And then the sequel swaps out the FromNobodyToNightmare protagonist for a ScaryBlackMan PapaWolf whose raw, [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge vengeance-driven fury]] looks like something [[VideoGame/GodOfWar Kratos]] might invoke. Now give him an even better ability to disguise himself, new powers that include turning mooks into living hand grenades, the ability to rip vehicle-mounted weapons from their mounts and use them against his enemies and a tendril power that strings their mutilated bodies up to walls and buildings and...[[FromBadToWorse Oh, boy]].
* In ''VideoGame/ResidentEvil4'', Leon comes across an ApocalypticLog written by the murderous, parasite-controlled villagers that have been hounding him. It frames him as an unstoppable killing machine that is going to slaughter every single soul in their village before he's done. They're not....entirely wrong about that.
* ''VideoGame/ScarfaceTheWorldIsYours'' sometimes requires this if the player wants HundredPercentCompletion. Shoot ten out of twelve gang members who hang out at the gas station? The last two frantically run away. Many times Tony ends up mowing them down as they are trying to hijack a car and flee.
* ''VideoGame/ShadowComplex'', definitely. You are just this one random guy who is going through the base and slowly taking it out. Many of the guards at first are like "it's just one guy" but later on they realize how much damage he's doing. And then there's the ways to kill enemies -- normally, sneak fisticuffs, headshots, grenades, missiles, ground pounds, environmental factors... all while you slowly advance from civilian to a PoweredArmor badass.
* The opening of ''VideoGame/ShadowHeartsCovenant'' involves a unit of German soldiers invading the French village of Domremy. They enter the church, only to hear ''something'' taking out the rest of the unit outside. Then a massive, winged demon smashes through the window and proceeds to mop the floor with them. The last thing you see is the demon casually strolling away, and [[VoluntaryShapeShifting transforming]] back into beloved protagonist, Yuri.
* In ''VideoGame/SleepingDogs2012'', Wei Shen can cause any enemies around him in a fist fight to flinch by grabbing one of their friends and breaking their leg with a stomp to the side of the knee. He can also use the environment to do things like set mooks on fire, impale them on hooks or electrocute them. Typically, the drug bust side missions involve beating down a certain number of guards to hack surveillance devices and end when any remaining guards run for their lives.
* This can be initiated in ''VideoGame/Sly2BandOfThieves'' and ''VideoGame/Sly3HonorAmongThieves'' with Murray's Guttural Roar, which makes all enemies run away from him in fear for 6 seconds.
* This is done in ''VideoGame/SpecOpsTheLine'', only there is no Hero. First, there are the scared cries of enemy combatants during battle. Later, in one scene, a character is shown dying of terrible burns to the airway [[spoiler:from a white phosphorous attack you dropped on him]]. With eyes wide with terror, he just gargles out, "Why?" Near the end game, there is a whole memorial to all the men who've been killed. It's covered in dog tags and American flags. The pictures of the PlayerCharacter and the support NPC are found on it. The grief and hate is nearly palpable.
* ''VideoGame/SplinterCell'':
** Sam Fisher gets this sometimes. Especially prominent in ''[[VideoGame/SplinterCellConviction Conviction]]'', in which the enemies are occasionally people Sam likely trained and know [[OhCrap exactly what he's capable of]]. Even the less professional mercenaries can be heard loudly challenging Fisher in order to psych themselves up. Too bad it also gives away their positions, and is just irritating enough for the player to want to kill them to shut them up.
** In ''[[VideoGame/SplinterCellChaosTheory Chaos Theory]]'', doing things around mooks like whistling in the dark, destroying lights, knocking their comrades out/killing them and leaving the bodies for them to find and throwing cans and bottles around gradually builds the enemy's fear to the point where they fire blindly at where they last heard the noise or run away screaming. The interrogations also generally have Sam using threats of bodily harm to scare mooks into giving up information.
--->'''Sam:''' ''[after being asked if he is a spy]'' Yeah, the real kind, not the tuxedo kind. I'm the kind that makes you bleed all over your Andretti unless you give me information!\\
'''Mook:''' Oh, ''God!''\\
[...]\\
'''Sam:''' ''[being refused information]'' Are you crazy? We're on the sixtieth floor.\\
'''Mook:''' Wha-- What do you mean??\\
'''Sam:''' You know, it's not true that you go unconscious before you hit the ground. You see it coming the whole way.\\
'''Mook:''' You-- You ''wouldn't!''\\
'''Sam:''' You wanna convince me not to?
* Happens in ''Franchise/StarCraft'' when fighting the Zerg. The cinematic ''The Amerigo'' makes especially heavy use of this, and in the tie-in comic books, Marines often panic when fighting them.
** ''VideoGame/StarCraftIIHeartOfTheSwarm'', especially, takes the trope to a whole new level, thanks to Kerrigan becoming a GameBreaker / HumanoidAbomination / [[OneManArmy One-Woman Army]] ''in addition'' to still leading the Swarm. Not to mention that, while [[TheAtoner no longer as villainous as before]], she is still remembered by her enemies as one of the biggest mass-murderers in the Starcraft universe...
*** One mission actually has Kerrigan teaming up with Raynor's Raiders to free [[spoiler:Jim Raynor]] from a high security prison spaceship. Horner suggests sending Ghost Agents (or Tosh and a spec-ops squad) for stealth, but Kerrigan tells him not to bother. She then proceeds to gracefully waltz in through the front door, wave of Zerg following her. Nightmares ensue for the Dominion forces keeping the spaceship. And probably some of the Raiders, too.
*** There's also the final unit upgrade mission, starring [[{{Kaiju}} Ultralisks]]. You get to roll through a city with the biggest, meanest combat monsters the Zerg have to offer, and ''[[ImplacableMan they will not stop]]'', even as Mengsk launches warhead after warhead into your forces, [[VillainousBreakdown panicking and screaming to his men to fight for their lives]].
* ''VideoGame/StarFox64'' has the Area 6 mission, a [[Awesome/VideoGameLevelsNToS difficult but target-rich stage]] in which the four Arwings and support ship of the [=StarFox=] team blasts their way through Venom's fleet and orbital defenses. The whole time you're listening to EnemyChatter, which becomes increasingly desperate as they throw everything they've got your way ''[[OhCrap and nothing stops you]]''.
-->'''Caiman:''' ''They're through the second line!''\\
'''Commander:''' Fire! FIRE! Don't let them through!
* One of the trailers for ''Franchise/StarWars: VideoGame/TheForceUnleashed II'' shows the chained-up Starkiller about to be executed by Imperial stormtroopers. He uses the Force to free himself and knock out the lights. The guards start looking around, shooting at any shadow in near-total darkness, while Starkiller picks them off one-by-one. The last guard starts backing off towards the door, his every shot deflected, until Starkiller impales him with his lightsabers.
** In both installments of this series, it probably isn't a fun prospect being a Stormtrooper ordered to take out a renegade Sith.
* ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefront'' typically has players in the role of a common stormtrooper, clonetrooper, battle droid, Rebel soldier, etc. However, it's possible to bring important named characters from the story to the field, such as Jedi Knights, Sith Lords, bounty hunters, and Rebel heroes. [[http://imgur.com/gallery/N87lc7U This is what it looks like when the average trooper encounters a named character.]]
** ''VideoGame/StarWarsBattlefrontII2017'' has a battle mode called Ewok Hunt, in which the Stormtrooper team must survive a night in Endor. The Ewoks can see in the dark, whereas the Stormtroopers cannot. And each time a [[DwindlingParty Stormtrooper is killed]], that player joins the Ewok side. The Ewoks are finally vindicated: instead of cute teddy bears, they are a terrifying and formidable presence striking from the darkness.
* ''VideoGame/StrangerOfParadiseFinalFantasyOrigin'' has the main protagonist Jack finish off his opponents by turning them into crystals and destroying them in a plethora of horrific ways, ranging from simply shattering them with a punch to ripping their maws open and tearing them apart. He's so brutal that upon seeing him in action for the first time, most of the townsfolk are horrified comparing him to a demon even though he's technically protecting them.
* In [[VideoGame/StriderArcade the original Arcade version]] of ''VideoGame/{{Strider}}'', there's a random chance some of the Russian soldiers fighting you gets cold feet instead, falling into their backs when Hiryu stares at them and crawling away in abject horror if the player/Hiryu approaches them. Funny enough, turn Hiryu's back on them and they will gather enough bravery to [[LeeroyJenkins madly rush at him]] for a [[InTheBack cheap attack]].
* ''VideoGame/TeamFortress2'': Most of the "Meet the Team" promotional videos are interview-style showcases of the RED team members doing what they do best against the BLU team. "Meet the Spy", by contrast, is a more conventional short shot from the BLU's perspective as they try to [[WhackAMole figure out which one of them is the RED Spy]] while the Spy picks them off one by one.
** And in "Meet the Sandvich", a BLU Soldier and Scout are beaten to death (offscreen) by a RED Heavy.
** "Meet the Pyro" does this as well, [[SurrealHorror somehow made more disturbing]] by glimpses of [[SugarBowl how the Pyro apparently sees the carnage he creates]].
*** The Pyro ups the ante even further; even his allies, including the mentioned RED Spy, are terrified of him [[AmbiguousGender (or her)]].
* The extensive EnemyChatter in ''VideoGame/{{Titanfall}}'' make it clear that this is in full effect for the hapless [[{{Mooks}} Grunts]]. The mix of shock and terror in the grunt's voice after his squad gets wiped out can catch you off guard, and if you corner them with your Titan, they sometimes drop their weapons or go into the fetal position. If you ''[[WarIsHell kill a grunt dragging his injured comrade to cover]]'', [[WhatTheHellPlayer the other freaks out]].
* Lara Croft in ''VideoGame/TombRaider2013'', having spent the better part of the game scared out of her mind and trying to survive a bunch of crazed cultist maniacs out to murder her and her entire expedition, begins turning the tables on her tormentors, to the point that by about the midpoint of the game the mooks give a collective OhCrap when they see her coming and refer to her as "The Outsider". ''Especially'' when she picks up the grenade launcher, and beginning with her assault on the Solarii compound to rescue Sam, Alex and the others Lara begins actively hunting them down, making it abundantly clear that she is all out of fucks to give.
* Some trailers for ''VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammer'' and [[VideoGame/TotalWarWarhammerII its sequel]] have featured this:
** For the first game, we have the Warriors of Chaos and Vampire Counts trailers.
*** The first is shown from the perspective of an Empire soldier who's the SoleSurvivor of a battle with Chaos as he haplessly struggles to get away from an offscreen enemy while flashing back to the horrifying warriors charging into battle and chopping up his allies. Then at its apex, the trailer closes on him about to be HammeredIntoTheGround by Kholek Suneater.
*** The second shows a Witch Hunter and his underlings being ambushed by the Undead, lead by Mannfred von Carstein. While haunting music swells, the scenes of Vampire armies besieging human and Dwarf cities is intercut with the Witch Hunter fighting for his life while Mannfred [[OminousWalk slowly advances on him]], [[CurbStompBattle cutting down soldiers right and left]] [[OffhandBackhand without even looking at them]]. Finally, it's just him and the undead, and the Vampire appears behind him out of nowhere, then the Witch Hunter is ForcedToWatch while Mannfred raises his men as Zombies to fight in his army.
** The Dark Elves trailer for the second game features a near-direct homage to Vader's scene in ''Film/RogueOne'' with [[BigBad Malekith]] confronting and cutting down some steadily panicking High Elven {{red shirt}}s using his sword and magic powers in similar fashion.
* ''VideoGame/TransformersFallOfCybertron'' features Grimlock's levels, which feel very much like playing ''as'' the horror movie monster. His alternate mode is a [[AnimalMecha robotic]] [[DinosaursAreDragons fire-breathing]] UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex, gigantic even by Transformer standards and [[YouCannotGraspTheTrueForm completely unlike anything ever seen or conceived of on Cybertron]]. He's also got a reputation planet-wide as an [[UnstoppableRage anger-fueled]] [[TheBerserker berserker]], and [[MilitaryMaverick nearly impossible to control]] even for the long-suffering [[BigGood Optimus Prime]]. Battle-hardened Decepticons [[ThisIsNoTimeToPanic collectively go into blabbering panic]] at the sight of him, and even rocket launchers and laser cannons [[NoSell hardly faze him]]. His finishing moves include ramming a [[{{BFS}} twenty-foot-long sword]] (larger than his enemies are tall!) [[ImpaledWithExtremePrejudice through their chests or heads]], [[FinishingStomp crushing them underfoot]], [[HalfTheManHeUsedToBe biting them in half]], [[KillItWithFire melting them to slag]] [[BreathWeapon with his fire breath]], or [[GrievousHarmWithABody just beating on Decepticons with]] ''[[GrievousHarmWithABody other]]'' [[GrievousHarmWithABody Decepticons]].
* ''VideoGame/ValkyriaChronicles''' Chapter 4 battle has as its victory cutscene the heroes raising a drawbridge underneath an Imperial armor company. There's shots of the enemy tanks scrabbling to stay on the bridge and an infantryman hanging onto the bridge for dear life before the slope becomes too steep and they fall off.
* The Tenno are this to both the Grineer and the Corpus in ''VideoGame/{{Warframe}}''. Oh, sure, enemies might start to charge at you when a mission starts, but watch closely and you'll notice that the longer a mission runs, the more enemy soldiers flee at your mere presence, firing over their shoulder in their retreat. In fairness, a single Tenno can effortlessly infiltrate and slaughter an outpost or ship with over 150 personnel, performing feats such as aerial acrobatics, turning invisible, elemental summoning, resurrecting the dead, or defying death itself. On top of that, most Warframes have access to some kind of ability that allows them to simply destroy all opposition in a radius of up to 20 meters. Now consider that most Tenno operate in teams of four. No wonder Grineer and Corpus troops start panicking and fleeing at the sight of one. Notably, this fear response does not appear in robots or infested enemies, but it ''does'' show up in the Corrupted, implying that even total brainwashing wasn't enough to keep these soldiers from realizing they should be shitting themselves in fear and running at the sight of a Tenno.
* It's entirely possible to pull this off in ''VideoGame/WatchDogs'', particularly during gang hideout missions where lots of armed enemies are around, but so are lots of cameras and items that you can hack, including the mooks' own explosives! In some cases, it's possible to take down all or almost all of the enemies without even ''setting foot'' in the main part of the area: just follow the cameras and take out every last one of them by detonating the grenades strapped to their belts, or causing fuse boxes to explode as they walk by them, or [[ThereIsNoKillLikeOverkill dropping shipping crates on their heads]]. If you want to go for the more traditional route, start the mission at night and cause a blackout, then run in take them down with your billy club or shoot them in the head with a silenced pistol or machine gun, then set down explosives near the bodies so that you can blow up any remaining patrols when they come to investigate, all without ever being seen. Nobody is safe from the Vigilante...
* William J. "B.J." Blazkowicz gets this treatment in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinTheNewOrder'', but taken further in ''VideoGame/WolfensteinIITheNewColossus'', when his ability [[MadeOfIron to come back from any injury]] earns him [[RedBaron the moniker]] "[[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast Terror Billy]]".
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[[folder:Films -- Live-Action]]
* Pretty much any Creator/StevenSeagal film. Case in point, ''Film/HardToKill''. Yeah, the bad guys killed his wife and put him in a seven-year coma, but the way Mason Storm stalks and kills them one by one, taunting them the whole time, you can't help but pity them. Especially the one he runs down and publicly executes with a neck-snap in front of all of Chinatown and his own son.
* ''Film/TwentyEightDaysLater'', once the character [[BewareTheNiceOnes snaps]], plays very much like this trope -- up to him doing OffscreenTeleportation.
* In ''Film/ActOfValor'', all of the major gunfights the [=SEALs=] get in invoke this on the part of the terrorists/cartel soldiers. The parts shown from their perspective as they ([[CurbstompBattle try to]]) fight the [=SEALs=] shows them facing deadly squads of elite soldiers who are slipping among their positions in total silence, snipers picking off their men as they try to flee, and deadly-coordinated [=SEALs=] cutting down their troops with precise shots.
* A scene in ''Film/AirForceOne'' stages a shootout in the baggage hold of the eponymous plane; it's entirely from the perspective of the Russian baddies, while the hero, the President, is seen only as a vague silhouette delivering death to the terrified mooks.
* In ''Film/ApocalypseNow'', Willard embraces "the horror" by putting on face paint just like Kurtz, sneaking into the temple and hacking Kurtz to bits.
* At the end of the remake of ''Film/BangkokDangerous'' Joo stalks and efficiently kills many gangsters as they grow increasingly jumpy and frantic.
* The opening scene of Tim Burton's ''Film/Batman1989'' qualifies -- but then the trope is inverted in the movie's cathedral climax, with [[Characters/BatmanTheJoker The Joker]] ''inviting'' Batman ("Shall we dance?") to tangle with his stealthy, ''gongfu''-trained assassins. What makes the scenario especially ironic is that Batman has just survived being ''blown up'' and is already bleeding and at least partially physically weakened; he does manage to dispatch all three of the mooks -- indeed, even killing one of them! -- but it isn't easy.
* In ''Film/BatmanBegins'', some of Batman's first attacks on criminals are filmed this way. Not to mention their POV of him gliding over the city while they are under the effects of the Fear Toxin. Plus the scene of him interrogating Jonathan Crane, a.k.a. Scarecrow, who at the moment was being HoistByHisOwnPetard. This is exemplified by Bruce's statement of intent when he enters the League's headquarters:
-->'''Bruce:''' I seek the means to fight injustice, to turn fear against those who prey on the fearful.
* In ''Film/BatmanVSupermanDawnOfJustice'', [[Characters/BatmanTheCharacter Batman's]] first appearance plays out like this, except the POV characters are two Gotham cops rather than {{Mooks}}. First, they find the slaves who Batman saved from a human trafficker, refusing to leave their cell because the [[HorrifyingHero thing]] that saved them is still in the building. Then the cops hear the sounds of a fight and the human trafficker's terrified scream. The [[NewMeat rookie cop]], Officer Rucka, finds the human trafficker handcuffed to a radiator, badly beaten and branded with a Bat symbol. Rucka, already freaking out, suddenly realises that Batman is right behind him, causing him to panic and fire wildly at the Bat while Batman [[WallCrawl quickly crawls across the ceiling]] in a ''very'' creepy way and disappears.
** Whilst his later rescue of Martha Kent in the warehouse is more action heavy, it still manages to weave in this aspect. The mercenaries prepare for Batman, guns trained squarely on the door where they ''think'' he'll make his entrance, only for Batman to explode up from underneath the floor, pulling at least one guy down through it and start swiftly killing them off one by one. Anatoli, secure in the room holding Martha, quite visibly begins freaking out at hearing the gunfire and screams coming from outside, realising that his men (whom number close to two dozen) are ''not'' stopping Batman.
* ''Film/Bloodshot2020'': Ray confronts [[spoiler:Martin Axe]] in a tunnel by turning out the lights and deliberately crashing a truck containing flour to block off the road. This plays out as the target's bodyguards getting stalked by a {{Super Str|ength}}ong, super-{{Healing| Factor}} ImplacableMan through a dark area badly lit by flares and the red glow of his nanites, escaped flour in the air and on the ground like snow.
* ''Film/{{Commando}}'', especially the [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v7HfrbxTVEg toolshed scene]].
* A drawn out example in the second ''Film/CrocodileDundee'' movie. Once the bad guys follow Mick to Australia, he uses his knowledge of the terrain and the wildlife to take them out one at a time over the course of the second half of the movie.
* ''Film/TheCrow'' had a much more elaborate re-creation of the shootout on the street from the comic, set this time up in Top Dollar's penthouse suite above the nightclub he owns. Unlike in the comic, here Eric doesn't actually want to kill anyone except for Skank, one of his fiancée's rapists (all of whom were acting on Top Dollar's orders, but Eric doesn't know this yet) -- and was willing to let everyone else live, including Top Dollar and his half-sister, if they would just hand Skank over to him. But Top Dollar's extreme arrogance drives him to immediately order Eric's execution -- and the inevitable result is what looks like two dozen henchmen being slaughtered either by gunfire, [[BreakOutTheMuseumPiece Top Dollar's stash of antique weapons]], or simply being thrown out the window. Ridiculously, they all keep coming at Eric even when it should be clear that they are [[CurbStompBattle absolutely no match for him]] ''even when all together'', yet alone as one or two stubbornly persistent men.
* ''Film/DeadMansShoes'' follows the victims whenever the main character confronts them.
* In ''Film/{{Desperado}}'', the opening scene has El Mariachi's character reintroduced this way as Buscemi narrates over one of these.
* ''Film/DieHard'': Invoked. After John [=McClane=] accidentally kills one mook with a {{Neck Snap}}, he takes the opportunity to send the body down in the elevator, delivering a threatening message to Hans and the other terrorists written on the dead man's shirt in red marker: "NOW I HAVE A MACHINE GUN, HO HO HO". While the terrorists panic, John watches and takes notes on the perps from the ceiling above.
* ''Film/{{Dredd}}'' is basically an extended Mook Horror Show. Dredd and Anderson respond to a murder investigation, bust the perp and it escalates from there. Ma-Ma sends {{Mook}}s to kill the two judges. It's not enough. She busts out three [[GatlingGood massive gatling guns]] to wipe out an entire floor. All this succeeds in doing is pissing Dredd off. She sends her top enforcer after him. He unceremoniously throws him off a balcony. When Anderson is kidnapped, Dredd lures more {{Mooks}} to a convenient spot and literally [[KillItWithFire rains fire on them]]. Ma-Ma even tries bringing in [[DirtyCop Dirty Judges]] and this, thanks to Anderson's escape, only slows Dredd down for approximately two minutes with the net result of supplying him with more ammo. Her last resort of threatening to blow up Peach Trees itself ends in abject failure when Dredd simply shoots her and throws her off the 200th floor. The manner in which many {{Mook}}s die is quite brutal. [[BoomHeadshot Headshots]]. [[KillItWithFire Fire headshots]]. ''[[YourheadAsplode Hi-Ex]]'' headshots. Kay puts it best.
-->'''Kay:''' How the fuck are we gonna stop this guy?
* The retired government assassin turned protection for hire protagonist in ''Film/TheEqualizer'' films is a master at this. He stalks the Mooks, sets deadly traps often using normal household objects, along with deadly hand combat and weapons skills. Many Mooks and even the BigBad start panicking once the bodies pile up. Not to mention he often shows up out of nowhere and gives them a chance to do the right thing before he goes [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]] on them. He's so good at scaring them that the number one question a Mook ask before he kills them is: 'Who the hell are you?'
* ''Film/{{Groupie}}'': The plot involves a young woman ingratiating herself into the lives of a rock band whom she holds responsible for her brother's death. Once she's accepted in as a groupie, she kills each member off until there's one left to face her at the end.
* ''Film/{{Hancock}}'':
** The opening sequence where Hancock breaks into the back of an SUV at the head of a high-speed chase, sits there arguing with the robbers inside for a minute, then when they break his sunglasses, stops the car dead by slamming his feet through the floor into the roadway, then lifting it off and flying it onto the top of a building where he skewers it on a spire and ''leaves the robbers there''.
** Also, the scene where he intervenes in the HostageSituation inside a bank. We're shown the events from the bank robbers' POV, with Hancock just flying through the lobby and carrying off the {{mooks}} one at a time and the leader of the gang screaming, "''What is happening???''"
* In ''Film/IpMan'', the eponymous hero spends the first hour of the film obviously pulling his punches every time he's in a fight; when his first opponent pulls out a sword Ip Man defeats him with a feather duster, in a sparring match against another master later, he either only taps the master instead of hitting forcefully or calls "Hit" (as in, that would have been a hit) when he goes to take advantage of an opening in the martial artist's defense. Then the Japanese soldiers occupying his city kill one of Ip's fellow masters by shooting him when he has no hope of defending himself. A furious Ip Man answers a challenge from a Japanese Karate dojo by walking into the school and demanding to fight 10 of the students at once. [[BewareTheNiceOnes This time he's not holding back]]. He doles out a serious NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to the ten black belts, every punch and kick delivered full force, every move done with lethal efficiency and an [[TranquilFury ice cold rage]]. The fight isn't very long, only about a minute and a half from the first blow to the last, but even so it hasn't been going on for long before you see that the black belts who haven't been taken out yet are increasingly scared because they can't even touch him while he dishes out brutal injuries to them. By the time only one is left, that guy looks like he's doing his best to keep from shaking in fear as Ip Man approaches him. This reaction is entirely understandable considering the injuries Ip Man has inflicted include:
** Throwing a guy to the ground out of midair and stomping on his face
** Punching a man repeatedly in the face before dislocating his arm
** Dislocating a leg at the hip
** Beating down two men separately with RapidFireFisticuffs
** Flinging a man around and throwing him so hard he rotates in the air
** Stomping, kneeing, and elbowing a man in his back
** Various pressure point attacks, at one point while '''four''' of the remaining black belts attempt to attack him at once
** The most notable one however was when he held the survivor's head between his knees and slugged him presumably in the nose repeatedly
* The ''Film/JamesBond'' films rarely go here due to the necessity of keeping Bond a positive character. There have been exceptions:
** After Bond sends a mook on skis careening over a cliff in ''Film/OnHerMajestysSecretService'', the camera stays on the mook as he takes his long, final, fall to his death.
** The death scream uttered by the unnamed villain whose parachute Bond steals at the start of ''Film/{{Moonraker}}'' is one of the most disturbing sounds ever heard in cinema.
** The way Bond kills the bald man (i.e. the expy Blofeld) at the start of ''Film/ForYourEyesOnly'' could trigger this trope in anyone with claustrophobia (or acrophobia).
** The worst offender may be ''Film/GoldenEye'' in which Bond mows down a dozen Russian soldiers who just happened to be on duty at the wrong place and time. And then he gets a tank...
** Dr. Kaufman, in ''Film/TomorrowNeverDies'', is one of the only characters in the Bond film canon to be heard begging for his life before 007 kills him anyway.
** A very subtle one occurs in ''Film/CasinoRoyale2006''. When Bond shoots the corrupt section chief in his office, for a split second a close-up of a photograph on the man's desk is shown -- an image showing him with his family.
* ''Franchise/JohnWick''. Creator/BobChipman described the series as an inverted SlasherMovie franchise where the killer is the hero (even moreso than [[VillainBasedFranchise usual]]), and throughout the films, John is presented as a [[TheDreaded dreaded]] figure in the criminal underworld who we see absolutely earned his terrifying reputation. The young dumbass who convinces him to [[BullyingADragon come out of retirement]] gets a massive TheReasonYouSuckSpeech from his own father, a crime boss who knows how screwed he now is.
* ''Film/KickAss'':
** Hit-Girl, particularly during her night-vision FPS shootout scene where she's shooting gangsters left and right as they're unable to see her under cover of darkness. Done again in Frank D'Amico's penthouse when [[spoiler:she prepares to shoot a cowering mook on the floor, runs out of bullets and runs to the kitchen. The mook stands some distance away and unloads automatic fire on the spot she's hiding in, lowers his gun and looks away in assumed success, and gets a pair of flying kitchen knives in the chest]].
** Big Daddy's more literal "show", [[spoiler:the warehouse massacre,]] witnessed by Chris via a hidden cam is unsurprisingly terrifying from his point of view. Whilst more subdued in his reaction, his father is still clearly shaken by what he sees.
--->'''Frank D'Amico:''' Who the hell is this guy?!
* ''Film/KillBill'': The Bride's battle against the Crazy 88, in which she utterly spanks them (literally, in one case). It's nearly 20 minutes long!
* In ''Film/TheLongKissGoodnight'', Charlie's rampage through the farmhouse is not seen, only heard, from Mitch's perspective as he's locked in the basement.
* ''Film/{{Looper}}'': When Old Joe [[spoiler:gets loose in Abe's hideout]], the results play out like a horror movie; he shows [[spoiler:Abe's crew]] just [[OneManArmy what a Looper with decades of experience can be like]] by methodically slaughtering his way through the building, with all of the mooks utterly helpless to stop him.
* Many of these occur in ''Film/TheLordOfTheRings''. Several involve Legolas; for example:
*** When he rides down the stairs at Helm's Deep shooting Uruk-hai all over the place
*** When he kills the oliphaunt but must first take out the Haradrim riders controlling it
** Others include:
*** Aragorn and Gimli driving off the Uruk-Hai from the gate at Helm's Deep. It almost seems as if some of the Uruk-Hai simply fall off the high bridge in terror.
*** The Rohirrim cavalry when they finally arrive at the battle of Minas Tirith; as they come close to the orc army, we see the orcs' expressions go from fierce determination to sheer terror, down to even the uber-tough, cocky general Gothmog. The orcs in front are swept down and trampled instantly in the charge, and from there the Rohirrim just keep charging through, knocking down, slashing and trampling orcs by hundreds and thousands until finally the ones farther back start to flee, only to be also caught in the path of the horses and trampled.
* Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse:
** In ''Film/IronMan1'', Tony's escape from the cave in a huge, unstoppable suit of powered armor is played out a bit like a monster movie, especially the armor's debut; the lights go out, and a nightmarish, hulking metal ''thing'' looms behind one of the terrorists. He does it again when he goes back to Afghanistan and kills all the terrorists with his new upgraded armor.
** The first appearance of the Hulk in ''Film/{{The Incredible Hulk|2008}}'' is deliberately done in this way.
** ''Film/AvengersAgeOfUltron'' opens with soldiers rushing about because they're under attack... by the Avengers.
--->'''Henchman:''' Herr Strucker, it's the Avengers!\\
'''Strucker:''' Can we hold them?!\\
'''Henchman:''' They're [[CurbstompBattle the]] [[BadassCrew Avengers...]]
** ''Film/{{Black Panther|2018}}'': The African slavers attacked by Black Panther in the middle of the night. First their vehicles inexplicably stall all at once, then they spot a dog barking at... ''something'' in a tree, and one of them is sent flying into a car, hard enough to bend metal. Follow a brutal take-down by a mysterious, black-clad figure with an animalistic look that just shrugs off their bullets and kills them one by one with claws.
** ''Film/AvengersInfinityWar'': [[spoiler:Thor becomes this to the Outriders, Thanos' EliteMooks invading Wakanda. He unleashes such phenomenal devastation upon them with his axe Stormbreaker that they begin to flee in terror. Given that Thanos is a BadBoss who would kill them for failure and cowardice, they fear the God of Thunder more than they fear their own master]].
** ''Film/{{Captain Marvel|2019}}'':
*** A short one plays out as Fury and Maria are pursued by enemies and Maria runs out of ammo. [[spoiler:As the Starforce soldiers close in on them, Goose sprouts a bunch of giant tentacles from her mouth and grabs all the Kree. Cut to a shot from an adjacent hallway, where the waving tentacles pull them out of sight, and screaming and slurping are heard as they get eaten.]]
*** [[spoiler:Once Carol taps into her powers' full potential, she [[CurbstompBattle curbstomps]] an Accuser armada threatening the Earth, tearing through each ship like it's nothing. Not helped by the fact that the fight is partially viewed by the last Accuser standing, Ronan, who [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere wisely turns the remaining Kree around]].]]
** ''Film/AvengersEndgame'':
*** [[spoiler:Thoroughly broken after losing his wife and children, Clint Barton has a violent fall from grace. When we see him again after the TimeSkip, he's abandoned his Hawkeye identity to become the vicious vigilante Ronin, WalkingTheEarth to tear apart the Earth's surviving criminal population.]]
*** [[spoiler:Spider-Man finally decides to activate the Instant-Kill Mode of his Iron Spider armor, skewering Thanos' monsters left, right and center.]]
*** [[spoiler:Tony Stark swipes the Infinity Stones from Thanos and places them in a Gauntlet of his own. He [[BadassFingersnap snaps his fingers]] just as [[HoistByHisOwnPetard Thanos had done to wipe out half the universe in ''Infinity War'']], and suddenly every opponent on the battlefield, Thanos included, disintegrates into piles of ash in what proves to be Tony's [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Crowning]] (and [[DyingMomentOfAwesome Dying]]) [[SugarWiki/MomentOfAwesome Moment of Awesome]]]].
* The intro of ''Film/NinjaAssassin'' is a textbook example. [[spoiler:Except it's not the ''hero'' who's acting the part of the monster.]]
* The opening hit scene of ''Film/TheProfessional''. Leon knocks off the Fatman's henchmen one by one -- point blank headshot, garrote from the ceiling panel, pulled over the stairwell by a necktie, numerous shootings behind sun shades -- without anyone (the guards or viewer) ever laying eyes on him. "Those fuckers blocked both the exits," mutters the Fatman, when seeing Tonto hanging by the neck on CCTV. Finally, the Fatman ends up with a knife to his throat, produced by Leon's disembodied arm out of the shadow. Leon then reveals himself and makes the Fatman call the number of the man who's hired Leon to intimidate him into leaving town.
* There is always at lease one scene in every ''Franchise/{{Rambo}}'' movies.
** In the ''Film/FirstBlood'', the corrupt Sheriff's squad gets mangled one by one though non lethally and when the leader is the last one left, Rambo holds a knife to his throat while saying that he could have killed them all if he wanted to, before warning him not to push it and to let it go, or he will "give him a war he won't believe".
** In ''Film/RamboFirstBloodPartII'', Rambo stalks a Russian hit squad looking for him. In this scene we are often seeing through the mooks' eyes and, Rambo is depicted as a fearsome invisible stalker like the Franchise/{{Predator}}.
** In ''Film/RamboIII'', a group of Russian special forces chased Rambo into a cave. Likewise, we are often treated with the mooks' view as Rambo kills them one by one in the dark. It ends with the helicopter pilot giving out an OhCrap just before Rambo destroys his helicopter with an explosive arrow.
** In ''Film/RamboLastBlood'', Rambo lures Hugo and his men into the tunnels of his ranch, which results in every single mook falling victim to Rambo himself and his booby traps, except for Hugo, who Rambo later kills by [[AndShowItToYou ripping his heart out]].
* The assassination attempt on Moses in the beginning of ''Film/Red2010''. A CIA hit squad goes to eliminate a single retiree. They don't catch on to just how dangerous their target actually is until he's killed two of them and they haven't even ''seen'' him yet.
* In ''Film/ResidentEvilApocalypse'' the S.T.A.R.S. squad who are targeted by Nemesis who massacres all of them, except for the taxi driver who is spared.
* The second act of ''Film/{{Riddick}}'' is focused on the mercenaries trying to capture Riddick, with Riddick essentially taking the role of the murderer in a horror film.
** Also the opening scene of the previous film in the series ''Film/TheChroniclesOfRiddick2004'' has the mercenary crew hunting down Riddick. After they chase him into an ice canyon the scene plays out mostly from their perspective, panicking as crew mates disappear one by one, until only the last one is left, and he finds that Riddick has disarmed him already.
* ''Film/RoadHouse1989'' has Dalton attacking Wesley's mansion, picking off his mooks one by one before battling Wesley himself.
* Franchise/RoboCop has shades of this. He is effectively bulletproof, [[ImplacableMan slow but nigh-unstoppable]], more machine than man, and has perfect aim. Most bad guys try to run while [=RoboCop=] walks after them like a typical horror movie villain. His early arrests of Emil and Clarence in ''Film/{{RoboCop|1987}}'' both emphasize their utter helplessness when face-to-face with him.
* Joey's [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge actions]] in ''Film/RollingVengeance'' tends to play out this way. We hardly get any shots of him inside the truck, while his victims flee desperately in terror from him. The truck itself is demonic-looking, completely with flames spewing out its exhaust pipes and a giant drill on the front. This could just have easily been a horror movie if the monster truck was driven by a villain instead.
* In ''Film/{{The Rookie|1990}}'', Charlie Sheen's character instantly switches from coward to badass when his partner (Clint Eastwood) is kidnapped. The trope kicks in when he enters a bar in which he previously had the shit beaten out of him. First he breathes fire on the bartender, beats up half the patrons and fires off several rounds from his gun -- at this point, the patrons are standing in stunned silence. Then he trashes the place and sets fire to it, at which point they all flee in terror.
* In ''Film/TheScorpionKing'', the hero uses a sandstorm to force a bunch of Mooks into a cave, where he kills them one by one.
* ''Film/{{Serenity}}'': River's rampage in the Maidenhead bar is definitely one of these.
* Early in ''Film/TheShadow'', some mooks have fitted an old man with cement shoes and are about to drop him into a river when the title character shows up and picks them off unseen, taunting them with wisecracks and his signature laugh as he goes.
* ''Film/ShinKamenRider2023'' has the opening scene in which Takeshi Hongo/Batta Augment 01 saves Ruriko Midorikawa from Kumo Aug and the SHOCKER grunts. It ends up being a {{Deconstruction}} of the usual kind of battles in Kamen Rider, with LudicrousGibs and liberal splashes of blood emanating from every punch and kick, since Hongo's a physically-superior SuperSoldier with his restraints removed by the mask. Needless to say, he's [[MyGodWhatHaveIDone horrified by what he's done]] when it's all over.
* The ending of ''Film/{{Shooter}}''. [[spoiler:Swagger has escaped the GovernmentConspiracy framing him and succeeded in [[ClearMyName clearing his good name]], but the conspiracy's masterminds have seemingly [[KarmaHoudini gotten off scot-free]] as well, and are meeting up at a secluded hunting lodge to plot the whole thing all over again. Suddenly, one of their mooks drops dead in the middle of the meeting. Then TheDragon catches a bullet to the throat. Then the lights go out, and Swagger [[KarmaHoudiniWarranty really gets to work]].]]
* In ''Film/Solo1996'', he sneaks back to liberate the village and kills the rebels one by one. There's even an old woman that tells that Solo will kill them all.
* Film/SpiderMan1 of all people briefly causes this for the man who is believed to be Uncle Ben's killer, sneaking through the shadows in the background before attacking from behind.
* ''Franchise/StarWars'':
** ''Episode I -- Film/ThePhantomMenace'' shows the Trade Federation leaders panicking as the implacable Jedi make their way to the bridge, mowing down any droids they send against them.
** ''Episode III -- Film/RevengeOfTheSith'' shows dozens of clone troopers experiencing this when Yoda and Obi Wan re-enter the Jedi Temple. The Jedi hardly break stride as they slaughter them all without a scratch.
%% Reminder: This trope is for when heroes do it. Darth Vader does not have his place on this page unless ''he's'' the one being hunted down.
** ''Episode VI -- Film/ReturnOfTheJedi'':
*** The moment Luke Skywalker and his lightsaber are reunited at the Pit of Carkoon, everything goes downhill fast for Jabba the Hutt's assorted gangsters as they are blasted, sliced, sent flying headlong into the Sarlaac's gaping maw, or all three. Jabba himself is strangled to death in the dark by Princess Leia. It doesn't go much better for the Imperial stormtroopers on Endor's moon once the Ewoks get into the fight as they go from having the "Rebel scum" dead to rights to being massacred by a swarm of waist-high teddy bears and their booby traps.
*** There's also the crew of the ''Executor'' after a kamikaze Rebel fighter crashes into their bridge and sends them plummeting into the Death Star II.
* ''Film/SuckerPunch'':
** When Babydoll kills two of the demon samurai, the third is shown hesitating and trembling. When he finally draws his katana and charges, she kills him in a SingleStrokeBattle.
** In the WWI sequence, two German soldiers spot Babydoll walking toward them and try desperately to set up and load a massive lewis gun, but fail and are cut down. After he crashes, the German courier tries to ward off Babydoll with his gun, and is shocked when [[ParryingBullets she deflects his bullets]] [[MenacingStroll while marching toward him.]]
* Part and parcel of the ''Film/{{Taken}}'' series. Best example (or worst, for the mook in question) would be the scene in the first film where Mills tortures a guy with electricity, leaving it turned on as he departs.
* Pops up near the end of ''Film/{{Waterworld}}'', when the Mariner boards the Smoker vessel. After murdering one of them, a group of Smokers start hunting him throughout the ship. He slowly picks them off in a segment interspersed with scenes of the MoralityPet bragging about how the Mariner will kill them all.
* ''Film/WeAreTheNight'': The vampires kill a group of Russian gangsters with ease, and the sole survivor later is a paranoid wreck after seeing it.
* Dale from ''Film/WrongTurn2DeadEnd'' seems to have been lifted right from an action movie and put into this horror movie. After escaping capture by the mutant family that has been killing and eating anyone who goes into the woods, he starts killing them off one by one (mostly using explosives). It took getting shot with multiple arrows (which only pissed him off) and having razorwire thrown around his neck to bring him down. The surviving mutants are absolutely horrified to find the splattered remains of their family.
* ''Film/XMenFilmSeries'':
** ''Film/XMenFirstClass'': The Soviet soldiers who are suddenly attacked by barbed wire when Erik Lehnsherr (who hadn't turned villain yet) decides to invade the general's residence.
** ''Film/XMenApocalypse'': [[spoiler:Wolverine's]] run through Stryker's goons in lake Alkali. They grow more and more terrified as he continues to butcher his way through them.
** Two of them in ''Film/{{Logan}}'':
*** The first is at Laura's hands. After the fight breaks out at Logan's hideaway, she retreats back into the cover of the building that serves as Logan's house, but she's not running away. As several of Pierce's men pursue her, she works her way through the shadows, picking them off one-by-one in a way that makes it clear that she's not trying to run. She's ''hunting'' them.
*** Logan gets in on the act when Xavier has a seizure at the casino. Pierce's Reavers have located the room they're staying in, but are frozen in place when Xavier loses control of his power. Logan arrives, and though in great pain remains mobile. The hapless Reavers can only watch helplessly as he stalks towards them one-by-one, slaughtering them while unable to defend themselves.
* ''Film/YoureNext'': The FinalGirl Erin is the daughter of a CrazySurvivalist who learned a lot of his survival skills growing up in [[AwesomeAussie the Outback]]. About halfway into the film, she proceeds to turn the tables on the crew of killers [[ProtectThisHouse attacking the house]] and start slaughtering ''them'' from the shadows one by one.
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* In ''Manga/{{Aruosumente}}'', Dante single-handedly killing 300 enemy soldiers when he was a child does not make for a pretty scene.
* ''Manga/AttackOnTitan'':
** Chapter 64 clearly shows how utterly powerful the Survey Corps has become. A well-trained, fully equipped squad of 35 black-ops commandos in their element is decimated, outmaneuvered, and outwitted by seven teenagers with obsolete combat gear. The derailing train of thought from the squad leader's point of view says it all.
** Chapter 81 has one when [[spoiler:Levi ''[[CurbstompBattle shreds]]'' [[BigBad Zeke]] out of his Titan form. Zeke goes from being a SmugSuper to actually being ''freaked out'']]. Taken to another level in 83 when [[spoiler:Levi arrives again, having ripped through a small army of Titans singlehandedly to try and stop Zeke from escaping. Zeke's reaction is to call him a monster and ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere withdraw]]'' on the spot]].
* In ''Literature/{{Baccano}}'', [[spoiler:Claire Stanfield]] versus the Lemures and Ladd Russo.
** One flashback scene shows Jacuzzi being threatened by Russo's thugs, and true to his CowardlyLion nature, Jacuzzi ends up pleading with them to leave him alone so his friends won't kill them/pleading with his friends to show some mercy. The thugs, believing Jacuzzi is alone, don't take the hint and are taken out by Jacuzzi's gang, who all sport GlowingEyesOfDoom.
* In ''Manga/{{Berserk}}'', this befalls {{Mooks}} trying to arrest or kill Guts. Even ''Apostles'' aren't immune sometimes -- as the Black Swordsman, Guts can be easily seen as even ''worse'' than the beings he's going after.
* The gunfight between Revy and the Neo Nazis on board their ship in the ''Manga/BlackLagoon'' anime episode "Moonlight Hunting Grounds" quickly turns into this, with her cold-out murdering nearly everyone in her path while in the grip of full-on [[DullEyesOfUnhappiness dead-eyed]] [[AxCrazy Whitman Fever]]. It's even more so in the manga, where Revy goes so far as to [[spoiler:kill the main deck crew, who weren't even Neo Nazis, and were only doing it for the money]].
** In a later arc, Revy and her fellow badass Ginji start hunting mooks throughout a bowling alley. Revy herself {{lampshade|Hanging}}s this. [[PreMortemOneLiner "Better run or the bogeyman is going to get you!"]]
* ''Literature/BofuriIDontWantToGetHurtSoIllMaxOutMyDefense'':
** Most New World Online players are absolutely shocked and terrified when facing [[NighInvulnerability Maple]]. In the first event, a large number of players team up to take her down like she's a multiplayer raid boss and fail horribly. Her [[MightyGlacier ridiculous defense]] prevents anyone from dealing damage even if they manage to hit her, her Devour skill is a one-hit kill against anyone within arm's reach, and her Hydra skill deals massive poison damage even from a distance. The fight was so one-sided that the game developers soon patched the game specifically to nerf Maple and make it harder for other players to become like her.
** [[StrongAndSkilled Sally]] gains a reputation in chatroom rumors during the second event when she solos some in PVP. The shadows of the forests under the light of a red full moon gives a horror game vibe to her swift killing of loads of players.
* ''Anime/CasshernSins'': present in almost every fight scene and is a major plot point.
* ''Literature/ACertainMagicalIndex'':
** Whatever you do, do not seriously piss off Accelerator. He's a fairly laid back guy most of the time, but if you [[spoiler:try and harm [[MoralityPet Last Order]]]], this trope comes into effect in a BIG way. [[spoiler:Hound Dog]] had the misfortune of [[spoiler:kidnapping her and then trying to kill him]]: the result was absolutely horrifying.
** Some of Touma Kamijou's fights are shown from his opponents' point of view. Many incredibly powerful beings become terrified of the boy with the unheard of ability to [[PowerNullifier negate any ability]] or [[AntiMagic break any enchantment]], [[CharlesAtlasSuperpower punch hard enough to shatter concrete]], and [[MadeOfIron shrug off incredible punishment]].
* In ''Manga/{{Claymore}}'' when a high ranking warrior is sent against anything that is not an Awakened being (and sometimes even then) this trope is extremely likely to occur, there are however a couple of moments worth of a special mention.
** [[WorldsBestWarrior Teresa of the Faint Smile]] does this to a group of human bandits who previously [[MuggingTheMonster had done nothing but harass her]], when the bandits cross the line and hurt the child Teresa cared about. Teresa ''annihilates them'' even as they try to escape.
** Much later another powerful Claymore, [[WildChild Miata]], does this to a horde of Yoma who assaulted her after she ended up being disarmed. Miata merely tore the monsters apart ''with her bare hands'' and similarly to Teresa she cut her targets down even as they were running for their lives.
* The first two chapters of ''Manga/DanceInTheVampireBund'' featured a couple of these. A squad of fully equipped (although clueless) mercenaries end up fleeing a trio of [[NinjaMaid maids]] shrugging off machine-gun fire and tearing them bodily apart only to run into a contingent of Mina Tepes' personal werewolf guard. Meanwhile the assassins that were loaded for vampire and using the mercs as a distraction corner a [[UndeadChild seemingly preteen girl]] and her personal servant (who proves useless beyond giving a warning)... [[WaifFu it]] [[BulletproofHumanShield doesn't]] [[CurbStompBattle matter]].
* The [[AntiHero hero]] of ''Anime/DarkerThanBlack'' has a rather serious case of this. In his first appearance, we have a CatScare, OffscreenTeleportation, a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown, JackBauerInterrogationTechnique, and leaving a guy dead (with the police baffled as to the methods) just because he pissed him off. What with the [[WhiteMaskOfDoom scary]] {{mask|Power}} and [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast scarier]] [[RedBaron name]] (It's pretty safe to say that you don't want ''anything'' to do with someone called "The Black [[{{Shinigami}} Reaper]]"), you could very conceivably construe him as the villain until [[FirstEpisodeTwist the end of the second episode]].
* ''Franchise/DragonBall'':
** In the original ''Manga/DragonBall'', [[TheHero Goku]] got in on the action, and he did ''as early as his childhood adventures''. Just watch him plowing though the Red Ribbon Headquarters to get the Dragon Balls as proof. He dodged a projectile fired from a rocket launcher literally meters across, then slammed the soldiers into a wall; shrugged off a sniper shot as if it was a pellet from a BB gun, terrifying the sniper; then he kept punching through the ceiling to reach the leader's floor.
** ''Anime/DragonBallZ'':
*** Vegeta gets a scene when he stalks a completely outmatched Jeice throughout Frieza's ship horror movie style, including many instances of OffscreenTeleportation, before finally killing him as he vainly attempts to fly away. Neither of them are good guys at this point -- Vegeta's in the middle of an EnemyMine with the heroes, but doesn't let this stop him from being as sadistic as possible.
*** Vegeta is like this to many of Frieza's other Mooks. In particular Cui, Dodoria, and Appule, who was watching him heal in Frieza's ship.
*** And the only reason Trunks didn't achieve this with Frieza's henchmen was because it took him about 3 seconds to kill about 20 of them.
*** After undergoing rigorous training to try to take on Perfect Cell, Trunks invokes this when he returns to the future and takes on the evil Androids and Cell, intentionally [[OhCrap making them know just how screwed and helpless they are against him]], because this was exactly what they'd done to their victims.
*** Goku's arrival on Namek sees him mowing down the members of the Ginyu Force, leaving both Recoome and Burter down and Jeice visibly freaking out and forced to retreat.
*** Super Saiyan 2 Gohan, especially in the anime, where he takes his time killing the Cell Jrs. messing with his friends and family while they're shaking in fear. To drive the point home, the screen turns creepy blue whenever a mook dies.
* ''Manga/ElfenLied'' starts out with half an episode of this trope courtesy of [[TragicVillain Lucy]], who escapes from her cell, [[FullFrontalAssault strips naked]] (except for her creepy helmet), and cuts a bloody swath of destruction through the facility. She encounters dozens of heavily-armed guards and [[PersonOfMassDestruction kills them messily with what seems like very little effort]]. She also decapitates a bystander who had no idea what was going on and wouldn't have been an obstacle, just to make sure the audience finds it impossible to sympathize with Lucy... until her we learn of her [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds backstory]].
* ''Manga/FistOfTheNorthStar'' has this ''every single time Ken faces common {{Mooks}}'' due his ability to [[LudicrousGibs make them explode]] [[FingerPokeOfDoom with a single touch]].
** The greatest example of this is when Ken, madder than hell at Jackal and his gang for what they did to Taki and Toyo, utterly annihilates them, putting everyone involved through a showcase of just how horrifying Hokuto Shinken, an art explicitly designed for ''assassination'', can actually be. The chapters in question bear names like "Rage! To the Depths of Hell!", "Death to Mad Dogs!", and "A Challenge to the Devils!", though the TV series episode featuring Kenshiro's RoaringRampageOfRevenge is a lot more fitting -- "I am Death Itself! I'll Chase You to the Ends of Hell!"
* There's several instances of this in ''Manga/FullmetalAlchemist'':
** Lan Fan has a [[HesBack She's Back]] moment in which she shows that she's recovered from the loss of her arm by rescuing Ed and his group from Gluttony by cutting Gluttony to ribbons with the blade attached to her automail. It's an awesome scene, but it's initially shown from the perspective of Gluttony, an ObliviouslyEvil PsychopathicManchild who is overwhelmed with pain and fear.
** Toward the end of the series, Mustang goes on a RoaringRampageOfRevenge against Envy, and despite Envy being one of the most sadistically cruel characters in the series, you actually feel kind of bad for [[NoBiologicalSex it]].
** "Greedling" helps the rebel forces hold back the soldiers loyal to Central Command. This entails a Franchise/{{Terminator}}-inspired scene where Greedling is in his [[InstantArmor Ultimate Shield form]] and smashes tanks like toys while the enemy soldiers [[ImmuneToBullets futilely try to shoot him]]. Someone on the heroes' side even comments "Good thing he's on our side."
** BadassTeacher Izumi has a couple of scenes where she takes out soldiers while sporting GlowingEyesOfDoom, and it's shown from their perspective.
** In a humorous example, at one point, Ed is being hunted by soldiers from Central Command after going rogue. In a scene shown from their perspective, an unseen Ed calmly takes out the group looking for him, finishing up with the unfortunate soldier who, when describing Ed, just ''had'' to note his [[BerserkButton short stature]].
%% * ''Literature/{{Gate}}'' has at tendency to show enemy forces getting utterly annihilated by JSDF, often in very visible, violent ways, with their superior technology, leaving the few survivors shell-shocked. Later, when American, Russian, and Chinese soldiers infiltrate the place the people from the fantasy world are from, the viewer is treated to an [[{{Gorn}} ludicrously graphic depiction]] of said soldiers getting butchered by a wickedly grinning Rory with her halberd.
* ''Manga/{{Gintama}}'':
** Sougo facing off against Itou's traitors in the Shinsengumi Crisis arc ''definitely'' counts. As it sinks in just ''[[TheAce who]]'' it is that they are about to fight, the traitors collectively start sweating. To Sougo's credit, at least he has the decency of granting them quick deaths: by ordering them to charge him all at once. In a matter of seconds, the traitors' corpses lie scattered across the train wagon, their blood splattered and their swords littered, while Sougo, who has nary a scratch upon him, licks off a little blood from his face.
** [[BackToBackBadasses Gintoki and Jirocho]] singlehandedly slaughtering [[ArcVillain Kada's]] [[EliteMooks Shinra bodyguards]] in the Four Devas arc becomes this for her, outright calling them [[WhatTheHellAreYou monsters]] as the Shinra corpses begin to pile up. As the fight progresses, she becomes increasingly unnerved, and by the end of it Kada is utterly terrified, even though Gintoki and Jirocho are clearly on their last legs, and [[ThisCannotBe in complete disbelief]] that her strongest bodyguards were butchered by just two "[[PunyEarthlings base monkeys]]".
* ''Literature/GoblinSlayer'' is this in ''spades''.
** The goblins in the setting are the mookiest of monsters, considered rookie fodder but, at the same time, so dangerous and depraved that their numbers have exploded... or would have, if not for Goblin Slayer nearly single-handedly butchering every goblin he comes across. In fact, his introduction shot is shown from the perspective of a goblin, showing Goblin Slayer as this silent, imposing, unflinching monster... after which said goblin doesn't last 30 seconds before being crushed against a wall with a targe before having a flaming torch shoved through his face.
** The [[EliteMook Goblin Champion]] in Water Town's sewers gets hit with the full brunt of this trope when Goblin Slayer [[YouCanBarelyStand forces himself back to his feet from the brink of death]] and furiously [[ChokeHolds strangles it]] with hair collected from a nearby skeleton, akin to using a garrote. Unable to shake off the damn ''thing'' that's killing it, the Champion can only see Goblin Slayer as a nightmarish, formless shadow, which then proceeds to ''[[EyeScream punch one of its eyes off]]''. Terrified and roaring in abject pain, the Champion decides to cut its losses and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere get the hell out of there.]] The rest of the goblins in the room become just as terrified from seeing the whole thing, and become even more terrified when a half-dead Goblin Slayer ''dares'' them to keep fighting, upon which they promptly follow the Champion's example and run for their lives.
--->'''Goblin Slayer:''' [[BringIt Who's next?]] ''([[AndShowItToYou throws the Champion's eye at the goblins]])'' Is it you? Or ''you?!''
* Happens not-infrequently in ''Franchise/{{Gundam}}'', particularly the series with more powerful Gundams, like ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Wing]]'' and ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundam00 Gundam 00]]''.
** [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T9IQx4cZoO4 This cutscene]] from ''VideoGame/SDGundamGGeneration Neo'' depicts a team of [[Anime/MobileSuitZetaGundam Hizacks]] being slaughtered one by one by an invisible assailant, which is revealed at the very end to be the [[Anime/MobileSuitGundamWing Gundam Deathscythe]]. In many ways the video feels like an {{Homage}} to ''Film/{{Predator}}'', thanks to the jungle backdrop and infrared ImpendingDoomPOV.
** Often, the scene will include a {{Mook|s}} screaming some variation of "It's a GUNDAM!" MemeticMutation happened, and fans decided that saying this phrase means you are very quickly going to be killed by a Gundam.
** The original series did it very well, by giving us [[RedBaron Char 'Red Comet' Aznable]], so feared that his entering the battle provoked an OhCrap moment (and would continue doing so for the entire series), attacking the Gundam with everything he had and realizing he was ShootingSuperman. Later Zeon mechas had weapons that could theorically destroy the Gundam, but by that point Amuro's body count justified his nickname of [[NamesToRunAwayFromReallyFast White Devil]], and in one occasion we were treated to a Zeon force that outnumbered the heroes four to one and outgunned them by six to one being effortlessly destroyed by the Gundam, with the viewers' point of view being the one of the Zeon's commander having an OhCrap moment.
** ''[[Anime/MobileSuitGundamMSIGLOO MS IGLOO]]'' gives a nice example in the third episode, which takes place just a bit after the Gundam makes its debut on the battlefield. We see a three-second video of the Gundam chopping up a Zaku... from the Zaku's perspective. What with the Gundam's pitiless face, glowing yellow eyes, and the sheer terror in the pilot's voice, it's very obvious why Zeon decided to call it the "White Devil".
** ''Manga/MobileSuitGundamThunderbolt'' plays a similar clip, with a Zaku being mercilessly torn apart by a Gundam far more powerful than it is. In this case the Gundam pilot was deliberately toying with the Zaku to [[{{Jerkass}} maximize the pilot's fear before killing him]].
** ''Anime/GundamBuildFightersTry'' [[PlayedForLaughs plays it for laughs]] in Episode 8, where the [[TheTeaser Cold Opening]] shows the Try Fighters facing Team Angelfish, who [[CripplingOverspecialization only use amphibious mecha]]. However, the randomized battlefield they get is a tundra, so all the water is frozen over and far too thick to break. [[OhCrap As the horror sets in in]], Team Angelfish looks up and sees the silhouettes of the Try Fighters' Gundams through the snow and mist, walking slowly towards them with their eyes glowing...
* In ''Manga/{{Hellsing}}'', this is usually how battles between [[AntiHero Alucard]] and the mooks go. Indeed, Alucard seems to do this on purpose because [[EvilHasABadSenseOfHumor he thinks it's funny.]]
** Case in point: Walking ''very'' slowly down a corridor towards an elevator full of mooks despite having SuperSpeed, or allowing enemies to shoot him up a bit, just to make sure they know they have ''zero'' chance of survival when they realize their weapons barely inconvenience him.
** When Seras [[spoiler:drinks Pip's blood and becomes a full vampire]], her transformation is enough to terrify ''[[spoiler:[[HorrifyingTheHorror every Nazi vampire in the vicinity]]]]'', to the point of them being ''frozen stiff.''
** Two words: [[spoiler:'''[[OneWingedAngel Level Zero]]''']]. Both [[spoiler:the catholic paladins]] and [[spoiler:the nazi vampires]] ''immediately'' realize that, [[EnemyMine if they can't kill Alucard then and there]], they are all going to die.
* ''Literature/HighSchoolDXD'' has a few examples. In particular, [[TheHero Issei]] is often portrayed from the enemies perspective as a terrifying, inhuman monster who can rip through everything they throw at him with nothing but his fists.
* In ''VisualNovel/HigurashiWhenTheyCry'', [[EleventhHourRanger Mamoru Akasaka]] to the [[TheMenInBlack Mountain Hounds]]. While the battle is pretty cool in the anime, it's in the visual novel that it [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C--UM5UJFT0 truly is a Horror Show to the Mountain Hounds]], as the [[CurbStompBattle "fight"]] is told from [[TheDragon Tetsuro Okonogi's]] point of view and describes how one-sided the whole thing is for the group and the narration describes him as a monster more than once during the whole thing.
* ''Literature/TheIrregularAtMagicHighSchool'': Shiba Tatsuya, in his position as a special lieutenant of the JSDF, is known as "Maheshvara" (another name for Shiva, a Hindu deity) to the Chinese forces who tried to invade Japan in Okinawa and Yokohama. At the tender age of 13 he nearly single-handedly stopped the invasion of Okinawa, using his unique decomposition magic to quite literally erase the enemy soldiers from existence with his right hand, while resurrecting his allies with his left hand. This freaked the enemy out so much, they decided that the only way to salvage the situation would be to bring in the cruisers and bombard the beaches from afar. It didn't help them much. The higher ups even forbid the utterance of that name among the soldiers. Three years later China attacked again in Yokohama on 31 of October 2095, only to be repelled once more, this time also losing almost all of their land forces involved in the attack, a third of their entire fleet and an important naval base at the southern tip of the Korean peninsula. Along with a chunk of land which was obliterated in an event that was later called "The Scorched Halloween".
* ''Literature/{{Katanagatari}}'': Episode 4 segues away from the main duo to focus on the [[QuirkyMiniBossSquad Maniwa Insect Squad]] attempting to abduct [[spoiler:Shichika's sister Nanami]], to use her as a hostage. The episode takes the viewpoint of the Insect Squad, who are all fairly decent people for assassins. They all somewhat like each other, and [[TemptingFate one of them is even getting married after this mission]]. [[spoiler:And then Nanami turns out to be an unstoppable, [[TheGift gifted,]] CuteAndPsycho InstantExpert who just happens to look like a little ill girl. She tortures one for information, and then murders them all by mastering and then using their own ninjutsu against them.]]
-->"There's no point in trying to commit suicide. I removed your poison molar while you were sleeping. ...I'm afraid I'm going to have to torture you now."
* In ''Literature/LogHorizon'' Shiroe realizes that to [[spoiler:Kinjo and the rest of the Kunie clan]] the raid on their base of operations must have been horrifying: Two dozen warriors with inhuman abilities appear and start wiping out their defenses, and even if they die they'll get back up and keep fighting like zombies.
* During a flashback in ''Anime/LycorisRecoil'', the attack on the old radio tower is finally shown. At first, [[BigBad Majima's]] terrorists are actually winning against the Lycoris deployed to supress them due to his SuperHearing letting him pinpoint their locations and give orders to counter them. And then [[TheAce Chisato]] shows up, effortlessly incapacitating every one of Majima's men while he is helpless to do anything about it, even [[DodgeTheBullet dodging when he shoots her]] from near point-blank range. When his blindfold comes off, the first thing he sees is her [[RedEyesTakeWarning red eyes]] seeming like they're glowing as they reflect the light. The real kicker is that Chisato was [[ChildSoldiers seven years old]] at the time.
* An interesting example on ''Anime/MetalFightBeyblade''. Reiji loves to torment and scare his enemies into broken wrecks during his battle. [[spoiler:Gingka turns the tables on him during their fight by exploiting Reiji's own fear of his enemies ''not'' being afraid of him, sending him into a fear-induced VillainousBreakdown.]]
* Manga/{{Naruto}} of all people manages this during his fight with Pain, where he appears as a pair of glowing eyes in the darkness (Gamabunta's mouth) before killing one of Pain's bodies.
* [[CuteGhostGirl Sayo]] being hunted as a dangerous ghost in ''Manga/NegimaMagisterNegiMagi'' plays this up, giving a terrifying insight into how Setsuna and Mana handle their "[[DemonSlaying work]]".
* ''Literature/NoGameNoLife'' introduces the two BadassBookworm protagonists by witnessing their victory from a game master's point of view, along with multiple accounts of how this group of people is unbeatable and has set multiple world records, crushing lifelong professional players after studying / playing their game for less than 72 hours. Then we find out that said protagonists are two NEETS whose weakness is the real world.
* This usually happens in ''Manga/OnePiece'' when a notable character launches a one-man charge on his enemies. A more literal example would be during a flashback on Thriller Bark, at the time of Brook's rampage as the [[RedBaron Humming Swordsman]] five years prior to the story. Hilariously enough, the one doing the scaring is ''also'' scared (Having an admitted fear of ghosts) and is only moving with the speed and lightness of a skeleton so he won't have to look at the zombies.
** Perhaps one of the biggest examples is Luffy charging into Enies Lobby and spending many chapters just running around and annihilating everything in his path while the Marines panic.
** Heck, one of the best examples in the series has got to be the Straw Hats vs. the Franky Family, well, it can potentially be called [[CurbstompBattle a fight]]. Early in the Water 7 arc, the Franky family steals a sizable amount of money Usopp had been guarding, and proceed to beat him up and mock him when he shows up at their hideout to try and get it back. When Luffy, Zoro, Sanji, and Chopper learn of this, they immediately head off to said hideout themselves, and kick off their entrance by punching out a GiantMook unlucky enough to have been leaving for an errand right when they get to the front door. After that, the four proceed to blow though the Franky Family's best defenses like they weren't even there, swatted aside their best attacks effortlessly, and then systematically block off every one of their escape routes, all the while beating the everliving crap out of them one by one. When one tries to point out that the stolen money isn't with them and beating them up won't solve anything, Luffy [[ShutUpHannibal simply punches him out]] and informs the remaining members that he couldn't give a rat's ass; all he's interested in is revenge for Usopp. This sequence definitively shows that, as goofy as the Straw Hats are, it is a terrible, ''terrible'' idea to make enemies out of them.
** A more recent anime example in the Punk Hazard arc. Luffy, Zoro, Robin, and Usopp are leaving the "fire" portion of a HailfirePeaks-style island, and are crossing a freezing cold, shark infested lake to get to the "hail" side. On the way, Brownbeard and several {{Mooks}} manage to capsize their boat, sending them into the water. After Brook manages [[BigDamnHeroes to distract the group at a critical moment]], they then find that Zoro had easily cut apart all of the sharks that were after them, and all four are on a plateau above. They're all half-frozen over and look like death, but they still manage prominent {{Slasher Smile}}s at the group as they each calmly point out which Mook they're going to steal a set of winter clothes from, freaking said Mooks out to no end. Finally, Brownbeard recognizes [[TheDreaded Luffy]], which is enough to convince everyone to just get the hell out of there, though too late to prevent the winter clothes from getting stolen anyway.
** How [[LovableCoward Usopp]] beats most of his enemies (the most well known example being [[HorrifyingTheHorror Perona]]).
** Most of the time the Straw Hat Pirates have been in Totto Land has involved Big Mom and her family and crew relentlessly sending combatants, and waves of ordinary goons, at Luffy and his crewmates -- whatever she sends out never seems to be enough, and as she and her personal army pursue them out to sea, they only become greater in number and raw strength...and Luffy and the others ''still'' pummel them all. You even get the occasional short scene of the Big Mom Pirates' rank-and-file, and citizens of Totto Land, asking just how scared the family must be of the Straw Hats as they see large crowds of Big Mom's fighters mobilize where they anticipate Luffy will go.
** During her fight with Black Maria, Nico Robin utilizes a new technique called "Demonio Fleur" where she creates a gigantic and demonic-looking copy of her torso, complete with bat wings, horns and fangs. She then proceeds to [[CurbStompBattle wail on the Tobiroppo with total impunity]] culminating with her using "Grand Jacuzzi Clutch" to break Black Maria's back, to the sheer horror of all the mooks who witnesses that, truly living up to her epithet as the "[[RedBaron Devil Child]]".
* ''Webcomic/OnePunchMan'' goes in to a mook's (Ground Dragon) point of view as he tries to escape [[ComicallyInvincibleHero Saitama]] by digging through the ground. In the anime, the viewer sees Saitama's face [[JumpScare suddenly pop in to view]], and in both the anime and manga [[SurprisinglyCreepyMoment he's deliberately drawn in an uncanny way]]. From Saitama's perspective, these were just some animal-beings that annoyed him by attacking him at his place and wrecking his apartment. From Ground Dragon's perspective, he's running for dear life from an unstoppable force of power, and suddenly found the guy staring right at him in a dark tunnel.
* ''Literature/Overlord2012'':
** Ainz Ooal Gown is a level 100 MMORPG character TrappedInAnotherWorld where even something around level 60 would be considered godly, and most of his direct subordinates are either as powerful or really close. As such, any fight they get into usually devolves into either Ainz or one of his minions horrifically massacring everyone in their way as onlookers watch in terror, or their opponents exhausting every attack at their disposal only to find that they haven't put a single scratch on any of them.
** Ainz spends most of his fight against the Sunlight Scripture [[NighInvulnerability effortlessly tanking everything they can throw at him.]] The one attack that manages to damage him? ''It elicits laughter.'' Nigun's reaction is that of sheer horror, since the [[EliteMook Dominion Authority]] he summoned to attack Ainz was believed to be an invincible trump card by New World standards.
--->'''Ainz:''' So ''this'' is what it feels like to take damage!
** [[BattleButler Sebas]] pays a visit to an [[TheSyndicate Eight Fingers]] building where he believes [[DamselInDistress Tuare]] has been taken. He's greeted by four of the Six Arms, the Eight Fingers security division and some of the strongest fighters in the Re-Estize Kingdom. Sebas [[YourHeadAsplode doesn't give them the time]] to [[CurbStompBattle process their horror.]]
** Sebas's fight against [[TheAce Zero]], the last of the Six Arms, starts with Zero [[BeginWithAFinisher charging up and unleashing his strongest attack]], [[TheWorfBarrage which does]] ''[[Film/MenInBlack precisely dick]]'', and ends with Sebas [[FingerPokeOfDoom lightly tapping Zero in the head with his foot.]] Zero can only weakly mutter "WhatTheHellAreYou" as he dies.
** Volume 7 is an exercise in Mook Horror Show, the problem being that very few of the mooks are {{Asshole Victim}}s. Even worse, [[spoiler:Ainz had to set them up so they'd actually go to the tomb (he'd ordered it hidden away previously) to see how it'd perform against intruders, but the difference in power is still such that he barely learned anything past "we're much stronger than these guys"]].
*** One team runs into a swarm of zombies, and only gets past them with a barrage of spells. This triggers a trap where they're about to be crushed by exploding zombies, from which they barely escape. And ''then'' they run into an elder lich, an undead powerful enough to commands the vast swarms of zombies they fought. Seeing as it isn't attacking, they try to negotiate with it, addressing it as the tomb's master... only to see ''six more'' coming up behind them. The team breaks and runs, only to fall into a teleport trap and end up in a room full of cockroaches. The cockroach king is kind enough to tell them that they made it as far as the ''second'' floor before sending his minions to eat them alive.
*** One team consists of a SmugSnake and his team of mentally-broken elf slaves. He is effortlessly beaten by a giant hamster, and when he loses his arms, they make no effort to heal him, even kicking his corpse for good measure.
*** The last team faces off against Ainz himself. Not only does he fight them to a standstill, he then reveals he's not a warrior but a caster, and takes off the ring that was hiding his {{Power Level|s}}. The team's caster immediately vomits on [[OhCrap realizing just how badly screwed they are]]. Oh, and then he shows that he can cast [[TimeStandsStill Time Stop...]]
** Volume 9 provides, for everyone who isn't Ainz or one of his subordinates, the Battle of Katze Plains. ''[[SerialEscalation Good lord, the Battle of Katze Plains...]]''
*** For a little context, Emperor Jircniv of the Baharuth Empire formed an alliance with Ainz and roped him into participating in one of his annual wars with the Re-Estize Kingdom in order to show his power to the world and unite all of humanity against him. To say that [[GoneHorriblyRight it worked too well]] would be an {{understatement}}: because Jircniv asked Ainz to start the battle using his strongest spell, [[TheArchmage Ainz]] goes and [[BeCarefulWhatYouWishFor casts a Super Tier spell]] that [[OneHitKill instantly kills]] ''70,000 soldiers'' from the Kingdom. Both the remaining Kingdom brass and soldiers, along with the onlooking Imperial Knights, become absolutely horrified. Nimble, one of Jircniv's [[PraetorianGuard elite guards]], tries to mask his fear by commenting to Ainz that it was a magnificent spell. When Ainz starts laughing at this, Nimble becomes terrified that he may have offended Ainz somehow, but Ainz gives him an answer that makes him realize this was just the tip of the iceberg:
---->'''Ainz:''' You said that ''[[SuspiciouslySpecificTense was]]'' a magnificent spell, just now? There's no need for you to be so wary, but... ''[[FromBadToWorse My spell is not over yet, you know?]]''
*** While Ainz's spell did kill 70,000 soldiers, their deaths were just [[HumanSacrifice fuel]] to [[SummoningRitual summon]] five [[EldritchAbomination Dark Young]]: [[AttackOfThe50FootWhatever gigantic]] [[GruesomeGoat goat-like monstrosities]] filled with [[TooManyMouths mouths]] and [[TentacledTerror tentacles]] that proceed to trample the Kingdom's army underhoof while their [[HellIsThatNoise bleating]] and [[SickeningCrunch the sound of the soldiers being crushed]] try to drown one another. After-battle reports would indicate that the Dark Young went on to crush over ''100,000 soldiers'', with the total killcount adding up to around ''180,000''. Some of the survivors of the battle would end up suffering PTSD attacks [[TraumaButton at the sound of a goat's bleating]], and a seer from the Slane Theocracy, who bore witness to the battle, would end up [[TheShutIn locking herself in her room]], [[ShellShockedVeteran becoming too traumatized to ever dare leave.]]
*** If you think the Empire suffered no casualties, [[WrongGenreSavvy then clearly you haven't been paying attention]]: one of the Dark Young heads towards their camp in order to collect Ainz so that he may clean up the battlefield personally. The sight of the damn thing walking towards them makes the knights break formation and [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere run for their lives]]; at least 100 knights were trampled to death by their comrades, who were too desperate to get away to notice or care.
*** And just in case it wasn't clear enough what kind of horror Ainz unleashed upon the battlefield... The name of the spell he used? ''"[[Creator/HPLovecraft Iä! Shub-Niggurath!]]"''. As in, ''the MotherOfAThousandYoung herself.'' Ainz describes the Dark Young as her "[[NightmareFetishist adorable little babies]]", and becomes elated at being able to summon five, calling it [[SkewedPriorities a new record]]. ''[[NightmareFuel And it wasn't even his strongest spell!]]''
*** Jircniv comes dangerously close to losing his sanity upon hearing the battle reports, and the anime portrays him LaughingMad at [[EvilIsNotAToy how badly he screwed up.]]
* At one point in the anime of ''[[VisualNovel/PhantomOfInferno Phantom ~ Requiem for the Phantom]]'', Zwei is chasing after [[BigBad Scythe Master]] completely from Scythe's perspective, with Zwei laughing creepily and flashing a deranged SlasherSmile the entire scene.
* ''Manga/PumpkinScissors'': Randel Oland is very much a GentleGiant... until he opens his blue lantern, a literal BerserkButton that sends him into a hypnotic trance in which he becomes an [[ImplacableMan unstoppable killing machine who knows no pain or fear of death]]. As he slowly advances toward his targets, expect a lot of loss of confidence, quite a bit of pants-wetting, and screams to "Kill him! ''For the love of god, KILL HIM!''"
* ''Anime/{{Scryed}}'': Kazuma has been pictured like this on at least one occasion -- during his UnstoppableRage following [[spoiler:Kimishima's death]], when he tears into a squad of [[{{Mooks}} ordinary HOLD troops]]. We get to see his approach from Scheris's viewpoint -- an unstoppable monster stalking out of the flames, spreading death and destruction in his wake...
* Both seasons of the anime ''Manga/{{Sekirei}}'' begin with one of these, as human soldiers come face-to-face with super-powered aliens. The second season, in particular, is noteworthy since the same incident is shown from the point of view of the Sekirei a few episodes later. This incident is the reason the [[SuperPrototype Single]] [[PersonOfMassDestruction Numbers]] inspire so much fear among the younger Sekirei. [[spoiler:The first five wiped out a multi-national invasion force in a matter of minutes, with barely any effort. Witnessing the destructive power of their subjects filled Takehito with horror, triggering a MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment. BigBad Minaka, on the other hand, is inspired to begin the Sekirei Plan with the intention of forging a "New Age of the Gods".]]
* ''Anime/TenchiMuyoWarOnGeminar'' has Kenshi scaring the crap out of his enemies in Episodes 8 and 11. Episode 8 even shows closeups of two random Mooks crying and shivering in pure terror as Kenshi rips through them like tissue paper; he also does a convincing imitation of the tactics of the creature from ''Franchise/{{Alien}}'' to take down a squad of mecha trying to hunt him down. (It's mentioned survivors of his attack quit even though their side actually ''won'' at the end of the episode.) In Episode 11, he goes ''berserk'' in response to a particularly dirty tactic and [[spoiler:actually ''kills'' the guy who came up with that plan in the first place]].
* ''Manga/TokyoGhoul'' features multiple examples reminding the audience just how scary Ghouls really are, when viewed through the eyes of [[HunterOfMonsters CCG]] mooks.
** Kaneki disarms several soldiers and then looms over them, drawn as a black figure with one glowing eye and a SlasherSmile. One mook promptly starts weeping and loses control over his bladder.
** Whenever Yoshimura comes out of {{retire|dBadass}}ment to fight, the focus shifts to the Investigators facing him. It is a healthy reminder that even though he is a VegetarianVampire, Yoshimura is also considered to be [[TheDreaded one of the most]] dangerous Ghouls in Tokyo. Several mooks are seen weeping in terror, and more than one starts urinating when faced with the full horror of [[spoiler:the elder of the two Owls]].
* In ''Manga/{{Trigun}}'', Vash the Stampede sometimes plays up the horror factor that his reputation gives him, since it gets him out of fights and he actually has a strict moral code against killing. He's done the sneak-around-and-pick-your-dudes-off thing and the ImplacableMan advance-while-singing-a-terrifying-ditty-about-genocide song: ''"Total Slaughter, Total Slaughter, I won't leave a single man alive. Ladi-Ladi-Die, Genocide. Ladi-Ladi-dud, an Ocean of Blood. Let's begin the killing time."'' '''It didn't work''', though kicking a rocket fired from an RPG by the terrified mook, AFTER singing that, into the ceiling DID work.
** This is most explicitly shown in one episode, where Monev the Gale found out the hard way how scary a genuinely angry Vash can be when Monev gunned down a bunch of innocent civilians. He compared Vash's GlowingEyesOfDoom to the eyes of the devil himself.
* ''Anime/TheVisionOfEscaflowne'' has a scene in which [[spoiler:Van goes completely apeshit and [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown effortlessly slaughters]] all of Dilandau's Dragonslayers]]. Most of the action isn't shown -- there is only the sound of [[spoiler:the unfortunate soldiers' screams]] over Dilandau's intercom. Hint: when your heroic protagonist can make the villain (who's been established as a [[PyroManiac complete]] and utter ''[[AxCrazy lunatic]]'') freak out, it's a sign that things have gone [[HeWhoFightsMonsters very, very wrong]].
* It happens twice ''Anime/YuGiOhArcV'', with Yuya being the monster. The first time had him first go into [[SuperPoweredEvilSide Awakening]], where he brushes off the Obelisk Force's attacks with an inhuman indifference. At first unnerved by this, the Obelisk Force keep attacking. But when Yuya unleashes his Odd-Eyes Rebellion Dragon, they're all wiped out at once.
** The second time had [[BrainwashedAndCrazy Serena and Ruri]] duel against Yuya, who was entering his Awakened state after a villain threatened Yuzu. Serena and Ruri's monsters actually back away and whimper in fear of Yuya. Yuya unleashes Odd-Eyes Raging Dragon, who viciously destroys every other card on the field and attacks the girls with an inferno.
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* The ''ComicBook/TwoThousandAD'' series ''Jaegir'' is set in the universe of ''ComicBook/RogueTrooper''. Jaegir was once a soldier stationed on Nu Earth, and she remembers Rogue as, in her own words, a "blue demon" who [[SympatheticPOV tore through her comrades]], ripping their throats out, while his allies' ghosts laughed and joked.
* ''ComicBook/AnimalMan'': After Lennox [[spoiler:murders Buddy's family]] on orders from some [[CorruptCorporateExecutive corrupt executives]], Animal Man snaps and hunts them all down for revenge. It's played like a horror movie, with him using his powers to brutally murder each of them one by one -- pulling one off his boat and drowning him, burying another alive, using his super strength to punch the elevator yet another one is riding in clear out the building, and then finally killing Lennox himself by viciously electrocuting and mauling him. [[ImplacableMan Nothing they do or say can stop him]].
* ''ComicBook/AstroCity'':
** In "A Little Knowledge", a small-time crook sees the superhero Jack-in-the-Box change into his civilian clothes. At first, he thinks that he's struck gold by discovering this potentially valuable information, but then starts to imagine all the ways in which selling the info could go wrong, including nightmares of being pursued by [[MonsterClown a vengeful Jack]]. He eventually gets so stressed out he leaves town without revealing the secret to anyone.
** In the first issue of "The Dark Age", petty criminal Royal Williams is part of an armoured car robbery that is foiled by Jack-In-The-Box. The whole thing is played like a horror movie monster attack, with Royal cowering in fear under a truck while Jack takes the others apart.
** This effect is also used by the Confessor, a ComicBook/{{Batman}} {{Expy}} who relies on the fear he gets from {{mooks}} -- especially for [[spoiler:the first Confessor, who was actually a vampire with all of the associated powers]].
* ''ComicBook/AtomicRobo'' does this with [[ItMakesSenseInContext vampires from another dimension]]. Robo seals off the lab as Jenkins re-enacts just about every classic horror scene upon the vamps.
-->'''New Guy:''' We're trapped in here with them?\\
'''Robo:''' Oh, no. We're not trapped in here with them. ''They're'' trapped in here with ''Jenkins''.
* ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'':
** Striking fear into criminals is kind of Batman's [[TerrorHero whole shtick]], to the point that a yellow ring tried to conscript him into the [[Characters/GLSinestroCorps Sinestro Corps]], which is powered by fear. In other words, the ring decided that Batman was the scariest thing in the ''entire space sector''. And the only reason it didn't take was because it detected Batman is equal parts fear and sheer force of will, a green ring alignment. Later, during ''ComicBook/BlackestNight'', a Sinestro Corps ring decided to settle for Scarecrow. Granted, Batman was going on his exodus through time during that event, so the ring wasn't able to try for the Caped Crusader again.
** In the ''Season 11'' ''Series/{{Smallville}}'' comics, something similar happened, with Parallax controlling Yellow Rings into taking hosts on Earth, even pre-existing Green Lanterns. Except that this time, when the Yellow Ring started its usual spiel about how he can inspire great fear, Batman interrupted it with a DeathGlare and the words, "take a deeper look. Let it ''linger.''" The Yellow Lantern paused, did so, then immediately went quiet. That's right: Batman ''scared a weapon powered by fear'', controlled by the ''embodiment'' of fear, ''into submission.''
* ''ComicBook/TheCrow'': The goons Eric slaughters believe him until the very end to be simply a maniac who is NotAfraidToDie, so they just keep coming at him, figuring that he'll eventually go down if they hit him enough times.
-->'''[[FinalGirl Final Boy]]:''' ''[shooting Eric point-blank in the head, splattering blood all over him]'' Walk away from ''that'', [[CurseCutShort mother]]--\\
'''Eric:''' ''[covered with blood yet completely unharmed]'' Scared?\\
'''Final Boy:''' No.\\
'''Eric:''' You should be. ''[shoves the mook's head into a wall with so much force that it immediately explodes in blood]''
* Whenever any ComicBook/GhostRider loses control on his Spirit of Vengeance, expect this trope to be played in full force. Johnny and Danny have theirs on tighter leashes, so it's rarer for them. Robbie has less control and so far all we see of him as ComicBook/AllNewGhostRider feels like watching a SlasherMovie except every victim is [[AssholeVictim a criminal]].
* ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk:''
** The first issue has the Hulk ripping through a biker gang. We don't see what he does to them, but we do get to hear it. Hulk himself doesn't even appear on-page until he gets to his target, the last person left in the building.
** Much later on, Betty Ross [[spoiler:(as Red Harpy)]] tears through several of Fortean's hired goons, while a terrified Jackie [=McGee=] watches.
* Scrooge in ''ComicBook/TheLifeAndTimesOfScroogeMcDuck'' is often quite good in scaring the shit out of his enemies. The most egregious examples come from the ending chapter and a side story: in the ending chapter the Beagle Boys, numbering eight with Granpa Beagle, are running from the Money Bin with some stolen money, only to discover that they're being chased by ''Scrooge'', causing Granpa Beagle (then the only one to have met him before) to faint in terror before Scrooge effortlessly knocks them out while complaining of old age; in a side story set in Klondike a group of mooks who had already faced him once learns they can steal Scrooge's mining claim if they prevent him from talking with Goldie, decides to beat him up and give him to the Mounties (ItMakesSenseInContext), but upon learning there's only two dozen of them they try and search for some other people.
* ''ComicBook/{{Marvelman}}'' is an early example of this being done intentionally. When the title character is invading a secret government base, we're treated to {{mooks}} describing him as some sort of monster.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Newuniversal}}'', John Tensen -- now empowered as Justice -- hunts down the gang who shot him and finds them in a darkened warehouse. First there's a voice from the dark, then he dismembers them with the LaserBlade that his new powers project.
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'':
** [[PhysicalGod Xadhoom]] is one of the very few people in a Disney comic allowed to break the ThouShaltNotKill rule... And boy does she take advantage of it every time she meets the Evronians. The series' protagonist Paperinik is no slouch himself. Usually it's masked by the AmusingInjuries of the {{Mooks}}, but those who escaped have ''nightmares'' about him. ''Even the emotionally-crippled Evronians'' (upon seeing him on their freakin' ''[[BigDumbObject mobile homeworld]]'', one of them who had a previous run-in with Paperinik [[ThisIsGonnaSuck started trying to convince himself it was another nightmare]]). And ''then'', in the reboot series, we once enjoyed Paperinik getting ''really'' pissed, and it was downright scary. Oh, did we mention that Paperinik is the AntiHero identity assumed in some Italian stories by ''WesternAnimation/DonaldDuck''?
** In 'classic' Paperinik stories, this seems {{subverted|Trope}}, as [[FriendlyEnemy Paperinik and most crooks have an amiable chat when the latter are caught in the act before the criminals go to give themselves up to the police]], but whenever the Beagle Boys or someone new commit a crime the DoubleSubversion becomes clear: Paperinik ''will'' defeat them anyway (and in a few occasions has beaten up and caught ''hundreds of criminals at once'') and isn't shy to repeat the performance with criminals from out of town or the Beagle Boys (who are simply too stubborn to know when to quit), [[KnowWhenToFoldEm so the other criminals choose a way that allows them to dodge at least the beating]].
** Paperinik is also prone to do this literally. As in going at the homes of criminals from out of town who plan to come in his city, show them a video of what he did to criminals stupid enough to commit crimes in Duckburg, and ask them if they really want to come to Duckburg. [[TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive The fact a sadistic superhero just proved he knows where they live]] only amps up the terror factor.
** In comic books Donald can do it even without dressing as Paperinik, as shown in "Donald and Reginella's Wedding". Just the sight early in the story of Donald starting loading plenty of salt shells for his ''shotgun'' should be enough to warn the reader shit would go down, let alone him furiously shouting threats at the BigBad while wielding it (and after having ''shot him in the ass '''twice''''')... And indeed, the first encounter was so bad that the villains then come at him with ''an entire army''. [[OneManArmy It wasn't enough]], and afterward Donald can dictate rather harsh terms on pain of him finishing the job -- [[FateWorseThanDeath without killing them]].
* Creator/RobLiefeld's ''Prophet'' character did this a couple times. Once to be like Franchise/{{Batman}} and once to be like Franchise/{{Rambo}}.
* ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'': Korg was one of the [[AlienInvasion Kronan Invaders]] who served as the antagonists in [[Characters/MarvelComicsThorOdinson Thor]]'s debut issue in ''ComicBook/JourneyIntoMystery''. Many years later, after befriending [[Characters/MarvelComicsBruceBanner the Hulk]], he [[CharacterDevelopment developed into]] [[HeelFaceTurn a somewhat more heroic character]], but he was still terrified of the thunder god, and, in a flashback from his point of view, we saw the Kronans' battle with Thor depicted as one of these.
* ''ComicBook/ThePunisher'':
** An annual issue of ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'' shows the story from the POV of an arsonist, being pursued by the Punisher through Manhattan. It never once gave the Punisher's perspective; he was presented as simply an unstoppable force that the criminal just couldn't get away from. Earlier in the same issue, the CIA was treated to a very literal horror show when they witnessed Frank massacre dozens of mobsters via satellite. Even Frank's old buddy Microchip is shaken up by what he sees.
** Also from ''ComicBook/ThePunisherMAX'', "The Cell" has Frank get arrested and sent to [[HellholePrison Ryker's Island]]. From there he instigates a massive riot to cause his real targets (the mobsters indirectly responsible for his family's deaths) to panic and run for an exit... except that at every exit is a sobbing convict telling them to turn back before getting headshotted by Frank. The mobsters flee back to their original cell, wonder why Frank has it in for them personally and are about to turn on each other when Frank comes in.
** Arguably, Punisher is on the ''receiving'' end of this when he goes up against Daken in ''ComicBook/DarkReign''. He survives the battle for several hours only because Daken [[ItAmusedMe finds Punisher's efforts at stopping him with mere bullets to be entertaining]]. Daken slowly dismantles Punisher over that time, then gets sick of it and reduces him to a pile of severed body parts tumbling down into the sewer with a few quick blows.
** Later on, in an act of [[LaserGuidedKarma poetic justice]], it is now Daken ''himself'' who is on the receiving end of this, courtesy of a [[BackFromTheDead newly revived]], [[CameBackStrong Bloodstone-powered]], and ''[[RoaringRampageOfRevenge very pissed off]]'' Punisher (now going by the moniker ''[[FrankensteinsMonster Franken-Castle]]'').
** ''ComicBook/ThePunisherTheEnd'' has a very short implied one: Sometime after a global nuclear war is about to start, the guards at Sing-Sing are ordered to execute the prisoners, saving the Punisher for last. As they're about to enter Frank's cell, the bombs hit, and the lights go out. Then one of the guards yells at his squadmate to let go of his rifle...
* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', you wouldn't think that a sweet little girl who [[TalkingToPlants talks to plants]] could be all that terrifying, but Klara once ''accidentally'' tore apart a squad of paramilitary goons and managed to catch the son of ''[[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]]'' unawares. A mock psych-profile released in advance of the team's guest appearance in ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'' suggested that the Marvel Universe at large sees her as a CreepyChild and prefers to give her a wide berth.
* ''ComicBook/SinCity'' loves this trope. Wallace, Miho, and Marv have all inspired a great deal of dread in their enemies.
** When Marv killed the police death-squad goons at the Farm after they had just [[spoiler:blown away his parole officer Lucille]], he faced the last one and said "That there is one damn fine coat you're wearing." The next page showed him chasing the guy down with a hatchet while cackling like a lunatic.
** Miho has an entire mob family quaking in fear throughout ''Family Values''. She even intimidates one {{mook|s}} into killing his own brother.
** Wallace had a guild of assassins running scared to the point where the mob boss running the organization decided just to leave him alone and not try to get revenge.
* ComicBook/TheSpectre does this as his shtick in most incarnations. Unlike many comic book supers, he is perfectly willing to kill and often does, and usually has the reality warping powers to make the event horrific and terrifying for the evildoers.
* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': It's easy to forget because of his family-friendly portrayals, but [[Characters/MarvelComicsPeterParker Spider-Man]] sometimes comes across this way, especially when he intervenes in muggings. Just imagine how you'd react to a gruesomely contorting silhouette with wide, staring eyes scuttling down the wall at you...
** In one particular Spider-Man instance, he was fighting a costumed mercenary in a secure medical facility. The mercenary didn't realize that he was out-matched, until Spidey [[SuperStrength tore a reinforced steel fire door from the wall and threw it at him]]. ''Effortlessly.'' After that, the mercenary was fleeing in terror. Ordinary opponents generally don't realize what the "friendly neighborhood" Spider-Man is capable of.
** There's another bit where one of his enemies has hired a professional merc team to take Spider-Man out. They [[DefensiveFeintTrap "chase" him]] into Central Park and, while the leader is giving a rousing speech about how Spider-Man's rep had to be overblown and that he was just an amateur, Spider-Man is taking out each of the other mercs behind the leader one at a time, while they're traveling in a tight formation and looking just about every direction except the one that matters (up). The leader ends his speech to turn around and gauge its impact on his men only to find them all gone... and then he goes berserk. Spider-Man ends up leaving the unconscious mercs webbed up around the house of the enemy who'd hired them.
** Titania was on the receiving end of one of these during the ''ComicBook/SecretWars1984''. Coming fresh off of a NoHoldsBarredBeatdown of ComicBook/SheHulk, Titania was feeling pretty smug and superior... and then Spider-Man showed her just what smug and superior really meant by using his agility to dodge all of her attacks, slugging her hard enough for her to feel it with absolute impunity, and tearing into all the psychological fault lines papered over with her newfound power mere weeks ago. It culminated in Spidey tossing her through a wall and over a cliff ''casually'', and Titania having a phobia about facing the web-slinger that lasted for years.
** In his AntiHero days, ComicBook/{{Venom}} has this trope even more strongly. He even threatens to eat your brains! Backfired once, though. Rescuing an innocent girl from perceived danger? Okay, cool. Being [[TerrifyingRescuer a giant slime monster with foot long teeth]] gave the girl horrible nightmares.
** ''ComicBook/ScarletSpider'': Kaine is a living demonstration of what a Spider-Man who doesn't play nice looks like. During ''ComicBook/TheCloneSaga'', he terrifies pretty much everyone he comes across, leaving a trail of bodies killed by his signature move, 'The Mark of Kaine', which essentially uses his enhanced wall-crawling powers to burn handprints in people's faces. On his return in ''ComicBook/SpiderIsland'', he's arguably even scarier, since he looks and dresses enough like Spidey that everyone mistakes him for the web-slinger ([[BerserkButton much to his irritation]]), [[WolverineClaws has stingers that emerge from beneath his wrists]] and [[PestController controls spiders]]. Add all that to the terror that Spidey sometimes inspires, the fact he can transform into [[OneWingedAngel The Other]] following his second resurrection, that he's prone to UnstoppableRage, has no problem with killing or torture and he's noticeably faster and stronger than Spider-Man and you get a TerrorHero that has drug cartels wetting themselves, the 'Superior' Spider-Man engaging in a massive freak-out and is capable of tearing through the X-Men and (briefly) ''killing'' Wolverine.
** Once PlayedForLaughs when Spidey threatens a mook by pretending to summon an army of spiders to swarm him (because he's ''SPIDER-MAN''). Unaware that this is not something Spider-Man can do, the mook promptly releases his hostage, drops his gun and surrenders before the non-existent swarm shows up.
* ''ComicBook/TheStrangeTalentOfLutherStrode'': Luther Strode is the purposeful embodiment of this trope, being the result of the thought "What if Peter Parker never had Uncle Ben in his life but still got superpowers?" Luther shows very little restraint when his or others lives are in danger after attempting to be a nonlethal vigilante , and with notable super strength he's able to gib/blow to pieces the average human torso with a glancing blow. This isn't helped by the fact his powers have made him a near 7 foot wall of muscle, meaning when he appears, he's towering above most enemies he faces. The trope is especially played up in the first two volumes where several average criminals and police are left with him or another super powered character.
* ''ComicBook/{{Superman}}'':
** Once done when an enemy had made him very sick. He reminds the villains that he now [[NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech cannot control the force of his blows]].
** ''ComicBook/WhatsSoFunnyAboutTruthJusticeAndTheAmericanWay'' has Superman [[spoiler:doing this to [[NinetiesAntiHero the Elite]] to show them why a superhero shouldn't kill people]]. [[BewareTheSuperman The result is downright terrifying]].
--->'''[[spoiler:Superman]]:''' He went into orbit at Mach 7. If you had SuperHearing, any second you will hear the... ''[{{Beat}}]'' [[ExplosiveDecompression Pop]]![[note]]Thankfully, he's lying.[[/note]]
** Happened off-panel, but one issue of ''ComicBook/{{Batman}}'' had a thug explaining why he moved back to Gotham from Metropolis: one second, he was in the middle of a job, the next he was two miles up in the air, with a calm, gentle voice in his ear telling him to reexamine his life choices. Even facing [[TerrorHero the goddamned Batman]] would be better than to risk testing the patience of a guy who could do that, he decided.
** In ''ComicBook/SupergirlWomanOfTomorrow'', [[BigBad Krem]] ambushes Ruthye and Characters/{{Supergirl|TheCharacter}} and shoots one arrow at the latter. Then he watches how she calmly gets up and walks towards him, ignoring several more arrows becoming embedded in her bust. Krem's crony swings his sword at her, but the woman nonchalantly catches the blade. Then her eyes glow red, and she states she could not care less for their weapons before delivering a beatdown.
** ''ComicBook/TheStrangeRevengeOfLenaLuthor'': Supergirl tracking down the members of the criminal gang who tried to gaslight her friend Lena into madness is depicted, from their viewpoint, as being hunted by a relentless invulnerable monster who will find them anywhere and cannot be outraced, fooled, stopped or hurt. Kara is even depicted in one panel as one would expect from a vampire or movie monster: she is swooping down from high, at night, with her arms outstretched and her hands curled into a claw-like position as she lunges towards her runaway frightened prey.
** In ''ComicBook/WayOfTheWorld'', Dolok time-travels once and again to escape from Supergirl; however, every time he believes he is finally safe, she shows up out of nowhere and starts hitting him with gusto.
** ''ComicBook/TheSupergirlFromKrypton2004'': When the Earth's heroes invade Apokolips, a legion of parademons turn themselves into suicide bombers in a futile effort to stop Superman. Their comrades can do nothing but watch how dozens of parademons detonate upon impact against Superman's body while the Kryptonian hero relentlessly strides forward, unharmed and unhindered.
** ''ComicBook/DayOfTheDollmaker'': The titular villain is visibly terrified when Supergirl crashes into his lair, trashes his army of murderous toys and approaches him slowly and calmly, her glowing eyes blasting every weapon he tries to fetch.
** ''ComicBook/TheDeathOfLuthor'': The titular villain's mooks are not overly concerned about the police car chasing after them, but they become frightened out of their witts when they notice Supergirl flying towards them.
** Played with in ''ComicBook/LexLuthorManOfSteel'', a PerspectiveFlip of the DC Universe from the perspective of Superman's arch-nemesis Lex Luthor. As seen in the page image, there are several scenes where Superman is depicted as a terrifying, alien and unstoppable menace to the world and the humans around him... but then, those words 'Perspective Flip' are relevant here. We're seeing him from the skewed and twisted perspective of Lex Luthor, who is of course going to be distorting him.
* A comedic variant occurs in one issue of ''ComicBook/TheUnbeatableSquirrelGirl'' in which a base full of A.I.M. agents go into a panic when they hear that Squirrel Girl has just shown up.
* In ''ComicBook/{{Watchmen}}'', the scene in Rorschach's backstory in which the kidnapper comes home plays out something like this.
** Dr. Manhattan does this in the Vietnam War where he effortlessly vaporizes Vietcong as he rolls.
** Rorschach actually outdoes Dr. Manhattan in this during the riots. Where as the rioters argued with Dr. Manhattan, the people left immediately when Rorschach just made his presences known to them.
* ''ComicBook/XMen'':
** [[Characters/MarvelComicsLogan Wolverine]] has a few of these under his own belt. One of the most notorious events happened during the Hellfire Club's abduction of Jean Grey/Phoenix in ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga''. All the other X-Men were either captured or incapacitated; Wolvie's sent down a storm drain in a flood. He washes up in the basement, and proceeds to stealthily go up level by level, since even HE can't fight the whole club at once. "Stealthy", in this case, meaning "gut everyone in the room before they can make noise." He grabs one poor schlub to interrogate him, starts off by giving him an utterly ''terrifying'' [[NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech description of what he and his claws can do]], and mentally notes to himself that he's ''toned down'' since joining the X-Men, since he actually let this one ''live long enough to even answer his questions''. AFTER, it must be reminded, he just eviscerated a few dozen other guards on the way up. This scene also shows up in the [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries animated series]] -- the series obviously cut out the slaughter but still had Wolverine telling the mook that his adamantium claws could cut through the mook's armor like a hot knife through butter and implying that they could do worse to flesh.
** SuperSoldier {{TykeBomb}} [[Characters/MarvelComicsLauraKinney X-23]] inflicts more than a few of these. Wiry teenage girl (or worse, skinny pre-teen) she may be, but a trained assassin with a fearsome HealingFactor and implanted {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s is what nightmares are made of... assuming that you live. And that is when she is '''not''' hopped up on the [[BerserkButton Trigger]] [[KryptoniteFactor Scent]]. Probably the most epic example comes from ''ComicBook/XForce'': After having been recaptured by Kimura and tortured, Laura makes her escape by ''flooding the entire base with the trigger scent'' via the sprinkler system. Even ''[[AxCrazy Kimura]]'', who Laura can't even harm to begin with, responded with an OhCrap. We should probably also mention that Laura [[HandicappedBadass only has one arm at the time]] thanks to Kimura doing some work on her ''with a chainsaw'' before she got loose.
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* In ''Film/{{Solo}}, he sneaks back to liberate the village and kills the rebels one by one. There's even an old woman that tells that Solo will kill them all.

* ''Film/IpMan'' doled out a serious NoHoldsBarredBeatdown to ten black belts. [[BewareTheNiceOnes While normally very a very calm, and patient man]], the pain Ip Man had inflicted upon the black belts in his TranquilFury include:
** A stomp to the face
** Punching a man several times in the face before dislocating his arm

** Flinging a man around

** Various pressure point attacks, at one point while fighting '''four''' black belts at once

** Though it didn't involve a villain, ''WesternAnimation/Ben10AlienForce'' also had a full episode with Ben doing this to his own allies [[spoiler:as part of a test to see how good they had become]]. For the whole episode, they were trapped on a space station with Ben doing several times OffscreenTeleportation and beating them up in various form while mocking them with a PsychoticSmirk. It was creepy as hell.
** During Kevin's brief return to insanity and thus villainy in ''WesternAnimation/Ben10UltimateAlien'' we have Ben pursuing any lead on his whereabouts via his villains. He does this by tracking them down and beating any information out of them, with one noticeable example of him grabbing a bunch of Forever Knights as Lodestar, a magnetic using alien, and slamming them into walls and each other until they talk. The first thing we see of this are the knights running away and one of them being 'dragged' back to Ben via magnetism.

* [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pI5IWcaI8ac This video]] by WebAnimation/SuperSmashBrosMALR shows Batman through the eyes of inexperienced thugs, much like many of the other examples on this page.

* In ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'', Stitch's escape scene in the first looks like this way apart from the fact that [[VillainProtagonist he's arguably a villain]] [[AntiHero at this point]].
* ''WesternAnimation/MonstersVsAliens'' has the scene where Gallaxhar tries to capture Susan. He underestimates just how strong she is, and ends up fleeing for his life in terror as she tears his ship appart trying to squash him like a bug. He only regains his composure when he manages to capture Susan again and [[DePower extract the Quantonium from her body]].

* ''Fanfic/TheWeavingForce'': Taylor, already a TerrorHero in canon, is shown in action from the perspective of a hapless mook. Deconstructed - confronting her memories of Khepri sends her into a Heroic BSoD.

* Likewise, in the ''Series/BuffyTheVampireSlayer'' / ''ComicBook/PowerGirl'' fanfic ''Fanfic/OriginStory'', fugitive Kryptonian Alex Harris's fight against the Thunderbolts acts as one between Venom struggling to contain her and Moonstone's panicked thoughts of how Alex is going to kill them all.

* In ''VideoGame/GrandTheftAutoV'', Trevor's introductory mission has him fighting a whole platoon of Lost gang members. Once you've killed a certain number of them, the remainder will immediately drop their guns and run for their lives.

*** The first is shown from the perspective of an Empire soldier who's the SoleSurvivor of a battle with Chaos as he haplessly struggles to get away from an offscreen enemy while flashing back to the horrifying warriors charging into battle and chopping up his allies. Then at its apex, the trailer closes on him about to be [[DropTheHammer hammered into the ground]] by Kholek Suneater.

* This creative new advert for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ0aksbiiXw Stand Up to Cancer.]] It depicts [[spoiler: a researcher dripping an experimental medicine onto a sample of [=HeLa=]]] to a [[CameFromTheSky the Star of Wormwood]] bringing an apocalyptic plague unto the cities of... erm... cancer, actually.

* This creative new advert for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ0aksbiiXw Stand Up to Cancer.]] It depicts [[spoiler: a researcher dripping an experimental medicine onto a sample of [=HeLa=]]] to a [[CameFromTheSky the Star of Wormwood]] bringing a plague unto the cities of... erm... cancer, actually.

* This creative new advert for [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xZ0aksbiiXw Stand Up to Cancer.]]

* ''ComicBook/PlanetHulk'': Korg was one of the [[AlienInvasion Kronan Invaders]] who served as the antagonists in [[ComicBook/TheMightyThor Thor]]'s debut issue. Many years later, after befriending [[Characters/IncredibleHulkBruceBanner the Hulk]], he [[CharacterDevelopment developed into]] [[HeelFaceTurn a somewhat more heroic character]], but he was still terrified of the thunder god, and, in a flashback from his point of view, we saw the Kronans' battle with Thor depicted as one of these.

* In ''ComicBook/{{Runaways}}'', you wouldn't think that a sweet little girl who [[TalkingToPlants talks to plants]] could be all that terrifying, but Klara once ''accidentally'' tore apart a squad of paramilitary goons and managed to catch the son of ''Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}}'' unawares. A mock psych-profile released in advance of the team's guest appearance in ''ComicBook/AvengersAcademy'' suggested that the Marvel Universe at large sees her as a CreepyChild and prefers to give her a wide berth.

* ''ComicBook/SpiderMan'': It's easy to forget because of his family-friendly portrayals, but [[Characters/SpiderManPeterParker Spider-Man]] sometimes comes across this way, especially when he intervenes in muggings. Just imagine how you'd react to a gruesomely contorting silhouette with wide, staring eyes scuttling down the wall at you...

** Characters/{{Wolverine|JamesLoganHowlett}} has a few of these under his own belt. One of the most notorious events happened during the Hellfire Club's abduction of Jean Grey/Phoenix in ''ComicBook/TheDarkPhoenixSaga''. All the other X-Men were either captured or incapacitated; Wolvie's sent down a storm drain in a flood. He washes up in the basement, and proceeds to stealthily go up level by level, since even HE can't fight the whole club at once. "Stealthy", in this case, meaning "gut everyone in the room before they can make noise." He grabs one poor schlub to interrogate him, starts off by giving him an utterly ''terrifying'' [[NoMoreHoldingBackSpeech description of what he and his claws can do]], and mentally notes to himself that he's ''toned down'' since joining the X-Men, since he actually let this one ''live long enough to even answer his questions''. AFTER, it must be reminded, he just eviscerated a few dozen other guards on the way up. This scene also shows up in the [[WesternAnimation/XMenTheAnimatedSeries animated series]] -- the series obviously cut out the slaughter but still had Wolverine telling the mook that his adamantium claws could cut through the mook's armor like a hot knife through butter and implying that they could do worse to flesh.
** SuperSoldier {{TykeBomb}} [[Characters/X23LauraKinney X-23]] inflicts more than a few of these. Wiry teenage girl (or worse, skinny pre-teen) she may be, but a trained assassin with a fearsome HealingFactor and implanted {{Absurdly Sharp Blade}}s is what nightmares are made of... assuming that you live. And that is when she is '''not''' hopped up on the [[BerserkButton Trigger]] [[KryptoniteFactor Scent]]. Probably the most epic example comes from ''ComicBook/XForce'': After having been recaptured by Kimura and tortured, Laura makes her escape by ''flooding the entire base with the trigger scent'' via the sprinkler system. Even ''[[AxCrazy Kimura]]'', who Laura can't even harm to begin with, responded with an OhCrap. We should probably also mention that Laura [[HandicappedBadass only has one arm at the time]] thanks to Kimura doing some work on her ''with a chainsaw'' before she got loose.

* ''ComicBook/TheStrangeTalentOfLutherStrode'' is the purposeful embodiment of this trope, being the result of the thought "What if Peter Parker never had Uncle Ben in his life but still got superpowers?" Luther shows very little restraint when his or others lives are in danger after attempting to be a nonlethal vigilante , and with notable super strength he's able to gib/blow to pieces the average human torso with a glancing blow. This isn't helped by the fact his powers have made him a near 7 foot wall of muscle, meaning when he appears, he's towering above most enemies he faces. The trope is especially played up in the first two volumes where several average criminals and police are left with him or another super powered character.

* ''FanFic/HeroesOfTheNewWorld''; after defeating the main body of the Finalem Pirates, Izuku and Yamato go to the MArine base and town the pirates captured prior to their arrival and proceed to pick off the skeleton crew left to guard their hostages- Izuku uses Black Whip to yank the mooks out of sight, while Yamato dons her hannya mask and ambushes whoever's left from the shadows.