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* Eleanor Bonneville from ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'' is [[TheCoroner a coroner]] working for the police department where a man with his head sliced in half comes in, kicking off the film and leading the detectives working the case to speculate that Jigsaw, although having been dead for ten years, is somehow back to putting people in traps. When the detectives start [[spoiler: suspecting Eleanor of being a [[JackTheRipoff copycat killer,]]]] Logan, the other coroner working in the office, sticks up for her and goes with her to her secret loft, only to [[spoiler" find it filled with recreations of old Jigsaw traps; she tells him that she's fascinated with his work, and that "A girl's gotta have a hobby." [[EveryoneHasStandards She does take offense]], however, when Logan asks her if she "gets off on this shit."]]

* Eleanor Bonneville from ''Film/{{Jigsaw}}'' is [[TheCoroner a coroner]] working for the police department where a man with his head sliced in half comes in, kicking off the film and leading the detectives working the case to speculate that Jigsaw, although having been dead for ten years, is somehow back to putting people in traps. When the detectives [[spoiler: start suspecting Eleanor of being a [[JackTheRipoff copycat killer,]] Logan, the other coroner working in the office, sticks up for her and goes with her to her secret loft, only to find it filled with recreations of old Jigsaw traps; she tells him that she's fascinated with his work, and that "A girl's gotta have a hobby." [[EveryoneHasStandards She does take offense]], however, when Logan asks her if she "gets off on this shit."]]

** Chloe's younger brother Parker also shares this trait. They regularly watched children's horror shows together, and she would also regale him with creepy bedtime stories upon request. It's later harshly deconstructed in Chapter 22 when [[spoiler:Zeno decides to place Parker in one of Chloe's stories. At first, Parker is excited to actually see all of the characters Chloe made...then Zeno shows off [[SarcasmMode the new and improved]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Revolver]], [[MonsterClown Playmaker]] and [[LivingShadow Soulburner]].]] He only enjoys scary things if they're happening to ''other people'', be it
imaginary characters in fiction or people he feels deserve it. As soon as ''he's'' living a situation that actually terrifies him, the fun abruptly stops.

** Chloe's younger brother Parker also shares this trait. They regularly watched children's horror shows together, and she would also regale him with creepy bedtime stories upon request. It's later harshly deconstructed in Chapter 22 when [[spoiler:Zeno decides to place Parker in one of Chloe's stories. At first, Parker is excited to actually see all of the characters Chloe made...then Zeno shows off [[SarcasmMode the new and improved]] [[OurZombiesAreDifferent Revolver]], [[MonsterClown Playmaker]] and [[LivingShadow Soulburner]].]] He only enjoys scary things if they're happening to ''other people'', be it imaginary characters in fiction or people he feels deserve it. As soon as ''he's'' living a situation that actually terrifies him, the fun abruptly stops.

* ''Series/KamenRiderGotchard'': In a trip to Kyoto, Rinne happily claps at being in a haunted house while her companions -- Hotaro and Kajiki, the latter being into the supernatural -- scream like girls. She later takes Kajiki, Sabimaru, and Renge into the same haunted house while having a blast.

** Light Yagami, to an extent. He thinks shinigami are cute, makes ''jokes'' about how being a shinigami might be interesting and his fascination with the [[ArtifactOfDoom Death Note]] is a little... eerie.

* DiscussedTrope in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire.'' The Mad King, Aerys Targaryen, had a fetish for burning people to death. His guard Jaime Lannister noted that it was only after doing so that he would visit his wife's chambers. And to add to it, he was so violent in bed with her that Jaime wondered if he was obligated to intervene. King's guard makes a vow to protect the king and royal family. But there's nothing in those vows about protecting the queen from the king... In short ,it is so horrible it becomes the first step of Jamie's journey from one of the youngest idealistic knights ever knighted and accepted into the King's guard to becoming a KnightInSourArmor.

* DiscussedTrope in ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire.'' The Mad King, Aerys Targaryen, had a fetish for burning people to death. His guard Jaime Lannister noted that it was only after doing so that he would visit his wife's chambers. And to add to it, he was so violent in bed with her that Jaime wondered if he was obligated to intervene. King's guard makes a vow to protect the king and royal family. But there's nothing in those vows about protecting the queen from the king... In short,it is so horrible it becomes the first step of Jamie's journey from one of the youngest idealistic knights ever knighted and accepted into the King's guard to becoming a KnightInSourArmor.

* The ''Film/GodzillaVsKong'' {{novelization}} portrays [[Characters/MonsterVerseRenSerizawa Ren Serizawa]] as this, as he very much has a fetish for the most violent and dangerous Titans such as Ghidorah and the Skullcrawlers. Ironic since he's allied with a MugglePower NebulousEvilOrganization, but fitting with the themes of hubris and arrogance surrounding Ren and the rest of Apex, especially since it's hinted that Ren's Nightmare Fetishism for [[spoiler:Ghidorah's surviving skull made him easy for the remnant consciousness to manipulate into giving it a new body]].