Basic Trope: You didn't scare them. Whatever is behind you did.
- Straight: Bob brandishes a stake at Alice the vampire and she develops Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises...but it turns out that Charlie, a skilled Hunter of Monsters, had come up behind Bob.
- Exaggerated: Bob brandishes a stake at Alice the vampire and she dies (again) of fright...but it turns out that an Eldritch Abomination known for inflicting fates worse than death was behind him.
- Downplayed: ???
- Justified: ???
- Inverted: ???
- Subverted: Bob brandishes a stake at Alice the vampire and she gets scared. Charlie had come up behind him, but that's not why she freaked out. The stake is some artifact that's very effective against vampires.
- Double Subverted:...And then Vampire Refugee Dracone comes up behind them and Alice runs for her life, afraid of dealing with the artifact and one of her own kind who's turned against her.
- Zig-Zagged: ???
- Parodied: ???
- Lampshaded:Bob: Ha! Scared of me, are you?Alice: [pointing] Guess again.
- Invoked: ???
- Exploited: ???
- Defied: Bob stands with his back against something so that he'll know whether he scared Alice.
- Discussed: ???
- Conversed: Bob is watching Attack of the Grisly Ghouls and says, "Get a load of this weedy guy who thinks he scared the monster! I bet the camera cuts to show something behind him."
Ha! Even a subpage can scare someone...wait, is the main page behind me?
