History WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes / Comics

* ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'' has a crippling phobia regarding puppets. Not voodoo dolls or wax effigies, those she can handle with no problems, but with actual ''puppets'' with their hanging strings and painted-on eyes. Her fears extend back to her childhood and a traumatic incident she experienced with her father. When she tried to invoke SesameStreetCred by guest-starring on an episode of ''Series/SesameStreet'', reasoning that helping educate and entertain children was worth any sort of personal discomfort, backfires horribly and ends with her throwing up in Oscar the Grouch's garbage can. ''ComicBook/Zatanna2010'' has a story arc dealing with that and revealing there is a very good reason for this phobia -- [[spoiler:when she was a kid, her father Zatara turned Oscar Hampel, a children's entertainer, into a puppet [[PapaWolf for threatening Zatanna with a knife]], then erased Zatanna's memory of the incident]].

** ''ComicBook/SupergirlAdventuresGirlOfSteel'' features a ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} which suffers from cryophobia -fear of the cold- because her whole civilization was killed by an endless ice age. Even after being rescued and taken to Earth, where she is completely invulnerable to cold, she fears and refuses to go near the arctic Fortress of Solitude until she is facing a life-or-death situation.

* The [[ComicBook/Supergirl2005 Post-Crisis]] incarnation of ComicBook/{{Supergirl}} spent three decades trapped inside a space pod in suspended animation. She gets frightened or mad when she's stuck inside a tight, dark space. In ''ComicBook/GirlPower'' she explains this to Raven.

* Toro of ''ComicBook/The99'' is claustrophobic. Luckily, his Noor stone allows him to teleport.

* [[Characters/{{Superman}} Superboy-Prime]], despite being over-the-top, is deathly afraid of [[ComicBook/{{Impulse}} Bart Allen]] ever since the latter trapped him in the Speed Force during ''Comicbook/InfiniteCrisis''. Whilst he's not fond of speedsters in general following the incident, the moment he sees the BackFromTheDead Bart in ''ComicBook/FinalCrisis ComicBook/LegionOfThreeWorlds'', Superboy-Prime goes from to cocky to looking (Appropriately enough) like he'd seen a ghost. He's also terrified of the dark, because he doesn't like being cut off from sunlight and losing his powers.
* [[Franchise/TheFlash Heatwave]] has cryophobia, fear of the cold.
* The Marvel villain Titania had a fear of Comicbook/SpiderMan, following her defeat in ''Comicbook/SecretWars1984''. It wasn't so much that he scared her as she felt powerless and humiliated, causing her phobia which lasted about a year (real time).

* ''ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}'' has a phobia regarding puppets, which means that her attempt to invoke SesameStreetCred by guest starring on the show backfires horribly and ends with her throwing up in Oscar the Grouch's garbage can. It turns out, there is a very good reason for this phobia -- [[spoiler:when she was a kid, her father Zatara turned Oscar Hampel, a children's entertainer, into a puppet [[PapaWolf for threatening Zatanna with a knife]], then erased Zatanna's memory of the incident]].

* ''ComicBook/X-Men'': Storm is severely claustrophobic, the result of having been trapped under rubble after a botched aircraft attack that killed her parents.

* In an unpublished ''WesternAnimation/ThePowerpuffGirls'' story, "Mojo's Day Off," Mojo Jojo proclaims he hates snakes. It freaks him out how they can move without legs.
* In her third graphic novel, Sisters, Raina Telgemeier is revealed to be afraid of snakes. [[spoiler: She wouldn't be afraid of them, had she paid attention to where she was stepping in that berry-infested forest! (She actually stepped on a snake, to be honest.)]]