The Dreaded / Fan Works

Characters who are The Dreaded in Fan Works.

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Ace Attorney

• Kristoph Gavin in Dirty Sympathy, he is feared by most of the main cast because they know how ruthless and cruel he can be while never losing his placid smile.

Arrowverse

• Never Be Silent: Distressingly, the Flash has become this to metahumans, because, as far as anyone was aware in Season One, any metahuman who had a confrontation with him 'disappeared', with those that returned having changed thanks to the psychological trauma induced from their time in the Pipeline. Some who are dead, such as Tony Woodward and Farooq Gibran, are still considered publicly missing, as Team Flash didn't think to turn over their bodies and inform their respective families and loved ones what happened to them. When Team Flash themselves learn this, they're understandably horrified.
• To Hell and Back (Arrowverse):
  • The Girl in Blue is feared by every villain thanks to her Combo Platter Powers and martial prowess.
  • The debut of the Justice League reduces the amount of crime around the world significantly.
  • Played for Laughs with Carter Bowen, who is feared by his peers for being an insufferable overachieving tool that's fawned over by their parents. When Oliver heard he had gotten worse during his disappearance, he half-jokingly suggested that he shouldn't have left Lian Yu.

A Certain Magical Index

• A Certain Droll Hivemind: Kuroko has attained this status among the Sisters, who fear her due to Misaka Mikoto constantly warning them away from her without explaining why. The rumors that she is somehow "augmented with experimental procedures" and is capable of recovering from having her neck snapped don't help. When Mikoto realizes that they think Kuroko would kill them if she ever found out about them, she decides it's safer to let them think that rather than try to explain the truth. Touma, after thinking about it for a second, agrees.

Command & Conquer: Tiberium Wars

• In Tiberium Wars:
  • The Black Hand inspire nearly reflexive terror in GDI troops, thanks to a combination of their fanaticism, combat skill, enormous black Powered Armor that resists anything short of anti-tank weapons, and flamethrowers.
  • On the other side of the fence, GDI Commandos get this reaction from the Black Hands themselves. They deserve every bit of that reputation. Nod Commandos would have a similar effect on GDI troops, except that comparatively few GDI troops encounter them.
  • They might not be living things, but Mammoth tanks are most definitely this.

Crossovers

• Abyssal Plain has Skitter be this for the Undersiders and Breakthrough, after her brief stint as the mind-controlling Khepri.
• All For Luz:
  • All For One became this in his world that it got to the point where there was a resistance force created solely to try and kill him and still failed. He was also this in the Boiling Isles, too, for his many war crimes.
  • Riley considers Jonah to be this due to his brutal murders as a Psycho for Hire and Camila screams in terror at the sight of him due to being infamous for sheer size and brutal murder of his own wife.
  • Luz is seen as this in Gravesfield for her actions in "The Massacre Of Fools" and the lucky few that survive fighting her, something she's not happy about. Children would run away from her in fear, adults would run indoors after a mere glance of her. After the gory results of the supermarket fight, All For One notes that even her own mother looks afraid of her now.
• Avenger of Steel introduces Superman to the Marvel Cinematic Universe. Superman swiftly becomes so feared by the criminals of New York in particular that they avoid using guns and won't even risk saying his name in case it attracts his attention.
• In Avengers: Infinite Wars, all Avengers on Coruscant- even the ones who didn't face this foe already- are horrified when they realise that Ultron is alive and attacking the planet.
• Boldores And Boomsticks: Grendel is an ancient Beowolf alpha that is so old it has grown to an enormous scale and become a tactical genius. Civilian parents use it as a stand-in for the boogeyman.
• The Bridge (MLP):
  • Godzilla Junior is a hero, but seeing a 100 meter tall dinosaur has left over half of Equestria's population in a panic and paranoid. In his own world, he's feared by the Anteversers and the Alien Coalition for being so powerful and constantly wiping out their forces.
  • Back when he was alive, Junior's father Godzilla Senior was feared and hated by humans and Kaiju alike. Apparently, he was the only being to ever scare Destroyah, and Destroyah is Not Afraid to Die.
  • Grand King Ghidorah is feared throughout the cosmos for his tendency to wipe out planets For the Evulz and the fact he's powerful enough to curb-stomp Godzilla. He also emits a field that triggers beings' Primal Fear, which leads to their Survival Instinct telling them to get away from him as soon as possible.
  • Kaiser Ghidorah isn't very well known because he only surfaces rarely, but the few who know of him are terrified of him since he's a more powerful version of Grand King Ghidorah and completely insane. Even Grand King Ghidorah is scared of him.
  • Bagan isn't very well known because he's been a Sealed Evil in a Can for over 77000 years, but the few who know of him shudder to even speak his name.
  • Ever since the Canterlot Wedding incident, the ponies are terrified of Changelings, especially Queen Chrysalis. Since Mothra Lea has turned into a Changeling Queen, she must hide her appearance from the public or risk being mistaken for Chrysalis and starting a panic.
  • Like in canon, King Sombra is feared by all in the Crystal Empire. Key Ring nearly has a panic attack when Xenilla and Blade Dancer uncover evidence that he's returned.
  • In the spin-off The Bridge: Sound of Thunder, Princess Cadance's evil Mirror Universe counterpart Empress Cadenza is feared as a cruel and remorseless tyrant.
• The Chaotic Masters:
  • Given their sheer power and totally impulsive natures, the Chaotic Masters are rightfully feared by everyone who knows of them, except those dedicated to their service.
  • Even the Masters themselves are wary of Madame Mim, who was apparently their adoptive mother.
• Child of the Storm:
  • The Winter Soldier. A quintessential One-Man Army, he's so feared that even into the modern day, the age of superheroes, wherein wizards, aliens, mutants, other similarly super-powered beings, even gods, are considered the norm, he is still deemed to be indisputably the most dangerous man on the planet. Even Nick Fury has admitted that while he isn't afraid of him, he's 'terrified of what he's capable of', and Loki believes he may even be the most dangerous assassin in all of the Nine Realms. While part of this is his reputation having taken on a life of its own, when it comes down to it, he more than lives up to the rep.
  • Magneto, though he doesn't appear until the end of the first book, exerts a powerful influence on the plot beforehand. SHIELD's most powerful Special Agent, Alan Scott, the Green Lantern was specifically chosen/used as a countermeasure to him. One mention of his name has villains from the Hellfire Club to Narcissa Malfoy (who unwillingly shared a home with Gravemoss) absolutely terrified. Even the good guys regard him with respect, with Captain Luccio, head of the White Council's Badass Army, turning white when he's brought up.
    • And in that appearance, his entrance is epic: HYDRA's vibranium armoured Dreadnought Helicarrier is all set to give the heroes a real roasting, having shrugged off everything up to and including a repeatedly well-thrown Mjolnir. Magneto appears and crumples it like a ball of tinfoil. A huge geomagnetic storm appears as a mere side-effect of his cutting loose. He also singlehandedly demolishes the Winter Guard in less than two minutes, and later kills a former Denarian with no trouble whatsoever, before going toe-to-toe with a Physical God. As Jean Grey (herself a fellow Omega-class mutant, albeit one still growing into her power) notes, it's hard not to be nervous around him, even if he likes you.
  • His daughter, Wanda, is no slouch either, with a reputation for dropping meteors/satellites on people with pin-point precision. Her potential power was so feared that, as a child, the entire White Council was willing to throw everything at her to put her down and only Strange's intervention prevented. It's also revealed in Book II that the prophecy of the Scarlet Witch exists (though Strange has destroyed almost every copy and cowed into silence any being that would reveal it), and had the Council known of it, they would have had their assassin "re-enact Tunguska" on Hogwarts to get her.
  • The Avengers serve as this to most would-be villains, dictators (a throwaway line reveals that Tony helped track down Bin Laden and that the Avengers took down Gadaffi), and the remains of the Death Eaters after the reveal that Thor was incarnated as James Potter. However, it sometimes backfires: Lucius plays on this to draw the Death Eaters into his grand scheme, by pointing out that a) Thor has excellent reason to hate them, b) can control the weather, and c) has well over a thousand years of experience fighting much worse monsters than magical humans. In the sequel, this is elaborated upon, with Victor von Doom explaining that if, hypothetically, he had sent his less distinctive Doombots after the Avengers a few times, it would be to get their measure because he knows that he's the sort of leader they might decide to take exception to and depose some day. While no one he's talking to likes him very much, no one disputes his point.
  • Harry steadily evolves into this, thanks to a combination of vast Psychic Powers, a proclivity for inventive pyromania and repeatedly surviving the impossible. He's not just the Boy Who Lived, he's the Boy Who Continued To Live even after facing every bad guy on this list and then some, including beings who give Thor pause, and usually leaving them dead and buried - or worse. Being intermittently possessed by the Phoenix also has quite a lot to do with it, and in Ghosts of the Past, he evolves (unwillingly, it must be said) into a fully fledged Apocalypse Maiden.
  • Harry Dresden, whose reputation is only enhanced by his duel with Gravemoss under Paris. Sure, there were a few other factors in play such as Doctor Strange being willing to pull a Deus ex Machina to save Dresden after he used his Death Curse, but the fact remains that until the finale, he is the only person in the fic aside from Thor to land a clean hit on the bastard, and gives him one hell of a scare. Then, in the rematch he takes it a step further, being gifted Soulfire a few years early and having a fire/force spell come out his blasting rod as a lightsaber, which leads to him chopping Gravemoss' arm off. And this time, it doesn't grow back...
  • Doctor Strange. Most people don't know very much about him beyond the facts that he's ancient, incredibly powerful, and very definitely not to be messed with. Plus the fact that he's an epic scale Magnificent Bastard. Oh, and whatever you're planning, it's probably already part of his plan. The end of Book I shows what it looks like when he gets all his ducks in a row. In general, he's bad enough as it is - when everything goes off the rails in Book II in Forever Red, we see him with the Mask of Sanity ripped off. The result is a borderline Humanoid Abomination with an incredibly creepy Living Shadow and terrifying mood swings. At the end of that arc, he proves capable of cowing even the Council Elite of Skyfathers, each a Top God in their own right, into sullen, frightened obedience, having casually stolen the Tesseract and dragged them all to the Rock of Eternity, then freezing Zeus in crystals of time and letting fly with the reason why he's so feared.
  "I am the Sorcerer Supreme. I am the Evergreen Man, the Lord of Time, and I know my place perfectly well. I fight beings like you every single day. I have guarded reality against them for centuries, and for the most part, I have done it alone. For centuries I have stood, and I stand here still, now with an Infinity Stone in my hand. Do you really think that you, any of you, is a match for me? So how dare you? How dare any of you? How dare any of you raise your voices to me!"
  • Chthon/The Darkhold freaks out pretty much everyone who isn't Strange. The end of Book 1 shows exactly why. However, even it is afraid of the Phoenix and the other Endless.
  • The Phoenix is absolutely this, with all but high end Cosmic Entities and Doctor Strange treating Her with cautious respect or outright terror. Frigga states very plainly that she is not the sort of being you even try to compel or manipulate to do your bidding (and since the last time someone tried, they and pretty much everyone else they knew was incinerated, she's kind of right).
  • To a lesser extent, Sean Cassidy. We never do find out exactly what happened, but apparently he can do things with his Compelling Voice that even Nick Fury was horrified by when sufficiently motivated.
  • As a whole, there's the Red Room. Natasha, who rarely lets emotion show, is clearly traumatized by her past association with them, and everyone in the know — superhero, supervillain, and intelligence agents alike — have a Mass "Oh, Crap!" when rumors surface that they've been rebuilt in the modern day. As the Forever Red arc shows, this reaction is for very good reason.
  • Sinister elicits this reaction from everyone, even, to an extent, Strange himself, because Sinister is a blind spot in Strange's otherwise near complete omniscience. This is further underlined by the fact that a) this is the person who taught Arnim Zola everything the latter knows, and b) he's got the twin sister of Jean Grey, a Living Weapon, at his disposal.
  • And then there's Thanos. Physical Gods have a Mass "Oh, Crap!" when they hear he's coming.
• The Chronicles of Tanya the Holy: Tanya becomes feared by the Horde, not for her immense power as a priestess, but for her ability at negotiation, with Thrall remarking that every member of the Horde dreaded hearing her say, "I've come to negotiate." In the Alliance, Tanya's most well-known title is "Tanya the Holy". Among the Horde, she's better known as "Tanya the Cutthroat".
• In The dark never consumes all, for the light remains within its core, Lloyd is this to anyone in ninjago, or to anyone who has met him. He's an Oni prince and has a criminal biker gang, and is well known to dish out punishments to anyone who crossed him on the spot, accidentay or otherwise. In fact, his first encounter with the Akuma class has him telepathetically threw Adrien into a nearby swimming pool because he simply sat in his spot.
• Code Prime:
  • Megatron is the biggest threat in the story. From the beginning, the Autobots make sure to let the Black Knights know how dangerous an individual the Decepticon leader is, between his skills as a gladiator, his strategic mind, and his overall lack of empathy.
  • Soundwave is the second most dangerous Decepticon next to Megatron. Besides being the communications chief of the Decepticons, he possesses a tactical mindset and his army of Mini-Cons, and is capable of easily defeating his enemies in battle.
  • Being Megatron's top scientist known for multiple unethical experiments, and showing no empathy towards those he experiments on, Shockwave is just as feared by many as Megatron.
  • The Combaticons are some of Megatron's most dangerous soldiers. A five-man team that can take down small armies by themselves, their ability to combine into Bruticus also makes them a force to be reckoned with.
  • Airachnid is a Decepticon that many are afraid of, on account of her sadism and cruelty.
• In the multi-crossover Coming Home to Roost, pretty much everyone is terrified by Mana Tatsumiya. According to Sosuke Sagara she's known as SHEVAC, short for "Oh SHit it's her, EVAC-" followed by the speaker being killed by a sniper.
• In The Container, Xander decides to go as Naruto for Halloween, but since he doesn't know all the script for Naruto's seal, he simply adds all the Lantern Corps symbols in their corresponding colors. The resulting Xander is the jinchuuriki of the embodiments of each Corps emotion (Parallax, Ion, the Predator, etc.) and sent to the Naruto universe. After a mission gone horribly wrong, every country issues a Flee On Sight order for him, adding that "screaming like a little bitch is optional".
• In Danmachi: The Last King, Gorr the God Butcher is a source of fear for all the Gods and Goddesses due to his ability to kill them permanently. Even saying his name is considered bad luck.
• In the Harry Potter/Supernatural crossover series the Demented Verse, Voldemort is still this to Harry even when the Dark Lord has been dead for over a decade; learning that demon deals can bring people back from the dead briefly makes Harry panic that one of Voldemort's followers might use a deal to bring him back, but after Sam explains the terms of such deals, Harry assures himself that none of the surviving Death Eaters are selfless enough to go to Hell for Voldemort.
• A Divine (Romantic) Comedy: Lucifer may be a goofy divorced dad, but he's still the King of Hell for a reason. According to Vaggie, all of Heaven is taught to fear the Morning Star, and Blitzo, who's notably willing to backtalk the other six of the Sins, is utterly scared shitless when he realizes he and Loona are accidentally crashing his date with Camila.
• Ryuko in Don't Lose Your Heart becomes this to Maleficent by the time she becomes a Keyblade master. Pete is so afraid of her that nothing, neither money nor any form of power, will get him to fight her.
• Dungeon Keeper Ami features Mukrezar, Ami's foil; where most Keepers are addressed with their full titles (like 'Keeper Morrigan' and 'Keeper Alphel') Mukrezar is always simply Mukrezar.
• In the Devil May Cry and Dead or Alive crossover Dead or Alive 4: The Devil Factor, everyone in Dante's hometown is scared to death of him and won't dare mess with him or anyone else staying at Devil May Cry. Not only that, but the entire criminal underworld fears him as well. This includes The Mafia, The Mafiya, the Triads, the Colombians, and the Yakuza. It's to the point that, when he beats up an entire precinct of cops while helping Ayane and Kasumi spring their mom from DOATEC, no one even really tries to take any legal action against him.
• Fairy May Cry: Vergil is this for ALL of Fairy Tail. In his debut arc, he easily trounces all of their members, including Dante, Erza, Mirajane, and Natsu, kidnaps some of them, tries to kill Wendy, and gives Natsu a permanent scar on his chest. To note, he is the only individual Natsu is terrified of facing.
• Fairies of the Shattered Moon: The Ophiuchus aka End aka the awakened Etherious Natsu Dragneel. Repeatedly stated to be the most powerful of Salem's Gates with only the Grimm Queen herself being his equal in power, his very presence keeps Cinder and the rest of Team WTCH from taking their infighting too far, lest they provoke his wrath. When he makes his presence known during Happy's attack on Ruby's group at Oniyuri, Qrow immediately orders everyone to run. During discussions on what strategy to use regarding Haven, Ozpin worriedly assures Team RNJR, Pyrrha, Wendy, and Carla that it was unlikely Salem would send him to attack, as his full power would wipe out the city. When we finally see him actively attack someone, he wipes out the Branwen Tribe except for Raven (whose first instinct upon seeing him is to flee through a portal) in a single attack and then proceeds to annihilate Yang, whose magic specifically hurts demons like him, in a fight, explicitly not using his full power and taking the time to coach on how she can improve.
• Fate/Stay Night: Ultimate Master has a rather toned down and comedic example of this with none other than Ben Tennyson, of all people (yes, this Ben Tennyson). After seeing all his forms and what each one of them can do, he raises concerns and worries among other Masters. While he gets a Servant is strong enough to match Saber, he is already more powerful than most of the others thanks to the Ultimatrix. After the appearance of Way Big, Matou Zouken goes as far as sending True Assassin to kill Ben before he becomes to much of a threat. Ironically, Ben himself has little to no interest in the Holy Gail, as he was sent by the Plumbers to investigate what the hell was going on. The only character who isn't scared of him is Gilgamesh, since even the Ultimatrix's power pales in comparison to his.
• Fates Collide: Nearly every student is terrified of Bazett since she's an absolutely brutal fighter, even Gilgamesh and Mordred.
• In Father Goose and the Black Knight, Xander has enough of a reputation that when a pair of vampires try to attack a newly called Slayer's home, spotting Xander convinces both of them to simply leave instead (though another Slayer stakes them before they can). It's helped that they know that even if they succeed in killing Xander, it would bring Buffy, the most feared Slayer ever, out of retirement.
  • A later chapter has a new vampire refer to Xander as "Pirate Joe", not knowing his reputation. Said vampire's mentor warns her that if she wants to talk shit about a Scooby, fine by him, but if she does it anywhere in public, he doesn't know her.
• God of War: Chains of the Heart: Keyblade wielders are highly feared in the God of War universe due to the sheer power and potency of their magic rivalling, if not surpassing, the gods themselves. Kratos is immensely cautious the first time he runs into Sora, and even Yggdrasil itself wants the Keyblade wielder off their world as soon as possible. Considering Sora can casually sever the branches that connect the realms of Muspelheim and Niflheim, causing absurd damage to the World Tree itself that threatens the balance of all realms (and by complete accident at that), this fear is far from unfounded.
• The Good Hunter:
  • Being a mysterious foreigner wearing a weird hat and coat means that the common folk of the MGE 'verse are naturally wary of the Hunter. Especially so whenever he gets into a scuffle with someone else in front of a crowd of people, with the unfortunate one typically ending up with a limb bent in an impossible angle. Thus, it goes without saying that the people around him feel sickened upon witnessing the carnage he leaves behind with his Saw Cleaver, a deranged weapon in and of itself. According to the Wandering Scholar, few names and titles, such as the name of the man who calls himself the Hunter, strike fear into the hearts of man and monster alike. While he has become an infamous figure after the Sacking of Lescatie, it is only when Cyril establishes the Wild Hunt to stalwartly defend against the interests of both the Order and the Demon Lord, that cements his fearsome reputation.
  • Chapter 15 establishes Ancalagon the Grim as this, from how the lords and ladies reacted from her presence. It is said that The Black Dragon is capable of destroying entire bloodlines outright, and that no one dared to disappoint the First Founder twice and live to tell the tale. While it is obvious that Cyril does not fear her in any way, both the Chief God and the Monster Lord are wary of provoking her ire.
• Gospel of the Lost Gods: The Wards or "Lost Gods" are seen by this by many of the Westerosi politicians, both for their incredible and flashy superpowers, but also for their often unintentional upheavals of the social order.
• Sinon and the Iron Valkyrie of Halkegenia Online Zero Hour start acquiring this reputation as they build up a triple digit body count... each.
• Harbinger (Finmonster) (Danny Phantom, ParaNorman): When Bill shows up at the Mystery Shack, Ember's powers cause her to start crying inky black tears, and Stan and Norman's uncle Mike are terrified.
• Harry and the Shipgirls has Masamune-no-Kotegiri, a tsukumogami who once served Oda Nobunaga and now serves as the Emperor's advisor...and, for cases where someone is a threat to Japan and the Emperor asks if any of the Oda will answer the call of the Chrysanthemum Thrune, she dons a red kimono with her First Master's crest on it and acts as the Emperor's executioner, with those she has been given carte blanche to exterminate being given a very close shave.
• Helluva Job:
  • La Squandra are among the most feared assassins in all of Hell. Moxxie is understandably afraid of St. Anger.
  • The Stardust Crusaders are renowned in Hell, Jotaro especially. Even St. Anger is intimidated by him.
• The Dalek Inquisitor General from A Hero is this, for other Daleks. To the point that Dalek Sec, survivor of the Time War, is careful not to think too hard of him, lest he suddenly be there.
• A Hero's Wrath: While Asura is perfectly fine with fighting, his reputation as an Unstoppable Rage monster is so palpable that some criminals would rather turn themselves in than face his wrath. There was even an incident where his wife was kidnapped, only for the kidnappers to turn themselves in, give up crime and spend their rest of their lives doing volunteer work when they found out who's wife they had kidnapped.
• The Ironborn in A Man of Iron hold Thor as their equivalent of Satan, a malicious Storm God that gave the Drowned God his name and delights in smashing Ironborn ships and torturing the survivors For the Evulz. So when he shows up in the flesh in A Crack of Thunder, Theon all but pisses himself in fear at the thought of standing in his presence (even if he doesn't really believe in Ironborn theology and Thor notes they are Sadly Mythtaken).
• In Incarnation of Legends, Oryou is feared as the "Mizuchi", the "Dragon Serpent of the Far East" and its mightiest adventurer. It's said that when she's angry, she could rouse storms and ruin mountains with a wave of her hand. Given her true serpent form, this is not an exaggeration. The fact that she's under Amaterasu's employ makes her the nuclear deterrent to outright Civil War, as she can easily crush any single adventurer from the other factions.
• The Infinite Loops: Loopers (especially Anchors), have lived for what is regarded as near eternity, and have gathered so much strength that the only people truly scare them are other Loopers that are a) more powerful or b) have ill intentions — more specifically, these types of Loopers are called MLEs, or Malicious Looping Entities. These are Loopers who started looping through no part of the admins and are legitimate and active threats to Yggdrasil and/or other Loopers.
  • Kyubey is considered to the most dangerous MLE to have ever existed, as he is responsible for the destruction of an entire branch of Yggdrasil — the one he destroyed was also his own home universe and all its variants. There's an active bounty on his head because of this.
  • Dio Brando, mainly because he causes problems wherever he goes. Pikachu, Anchor of the Pokemon Anime universe, holds a particular enmity for him, because when they first met, Dio killed Ash.
  • The Tick is an Anchor of his home universe. He's considered an annoyance more than anything else, as all his actions amount to him trying to "help". It never ends well (oftentimes the loops he's in crashes).
  • Billy is a strange case. He's not actively malicious, it's just that he's so stupid that he's a danger to himself and everyone else. It's because of this that he's widely hated, as his stupidity has allowed him to kill several near-omnipotent Loopers (Han Solo, Anakin Skywalker (twice), the entire Mane Six, etc.) and crash three safe-mode punishment loops. Safe-mode loops, especially those that function as punishment loops, are some of the most stable in Yggdrasil — crashing them is supposed to be downright impossible.
    • More humorously, Pinkie Pie seems to have ended up as this for a number of different beings. Apparently there is a support group for beings Pinkie has terrified.
  • The Trix aren't MLE, but anyone who knows them is terrified of what could happen if they learned Carmen Sandiego's thieving ways (in fact Kyubey was scared at the possibility) or became Sparks (this one was used by Bloom as a horror story. The screams from the others were heard at Cloud Tower, far away from where she was). Good thing they've mellowed out after they became Loopers]]...
• In the Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Heroes Interventions series, Sylar comes across as this; just hearing that the Slayers have discovered one of their number killed with her brain exposed sends Nikki into a panic at the idea that Sylar is hunting the Slayers.
• J-WITCH Series: Shendu isn't called the "Ultimate Evil" for nothing. When the heroes hear that Wong is resurrecting him, the Chans are utterly terrified, while the Guardians are scared just from what they've heard of him from the former.
• Yautja in Journeys are feared to the point that a Goa'uld flees from one on sight. Given the former's penchant for hunting the latter, it's understandable.
• King Ghidorah fills this role in Leviathan (Thuktun Flishithy). Though he has yet to appear in the story proper, just the mention of his name causes passerby to pause and murmur prayers. In a later epigraph, it's revealed that he killed forty-five million people in a single day, and would've caused the extinction of the human race if not for Godzilla, Anguirus, Rodan, and Mothra fighting him off in a battle that apparently took a chunk out of Mt. Fuji.
• In Magicae Est Potestas, an Artemis Fowl and Undertale crossover, Flowey quickly becomes this to the LEP for two reasons: he is able to sense shielded fairies through the vibrations, and because he attacked two Retrieval officers on separate occasion. We don't get to hear how it went with the first officer, but the second got vines stabbed through his feet.
• Metal Gear: Green: Snake (AKA Big Boss) is feared by criminals and mercenaries alike. When Madam President hires the African warlords to destroy Outer Heaven, Luan points out the leader of Outer Heaven is Big Boss. Just pointing it out was enough to cause several warlords to try and abandon the meeting altogether.
• Mirai SMP: At first, Techno is feared due to his occupation as the assistant to a hitman (despite this job only involving paperwork), his perfect stats of 5 across the board, and being the cause of the first death in the game. Despite this, he tries to remain friendly and welcoming. Near the end this becomes more justified due to his new Ax-Crazy nature.
• My Hero Academia: Unchained Predator: When the Doom Slayer arrived to the MHA world, people assumed he was a Pro Hero on patrol. That changed when he fought and mortally wounded Shigaraki. By the end of the Steel Sabers arc, both sides fear him. From his ruthless and unnatural slaughter of the Steel Sabers and Wolfram's group, to his one-sided non-lethal fight with forty-eight heroes and All Might, the Doom Slayer cannot be stopped.
  • This also applies to the Archangels, who have become aware that the Slayer exists upon the MHA world, but have no idea why he's been released when the demons have been defeated and the Dark Lord sealed away, and they have no idea what to do.
• My Huntsman Academia:
  • Toshinori is this for the criminal underworld. All White Fang members are given a flee-on-sight order around him, Roman's team explicitly avoids killing those caught up in their heists to avoid drawing Toshinori's ire, and Neo dismisses the notion of a raid on Vale's docks to steal Dust since Toshinori could be on them in minutes.
  • Adam Taurus is known for his Ax-Crazy tendencies and Blake prays that he doesn't take the field, lest there be massive civilian casualties.
  • And in the author's other story, Jotaro, Angelo, and Whitesnake all reach this status. Jotaro for both his time-stopping ability and his intelligence, Angelo for his sadistic, gruesome murderousness, and the villains don't even like to think about Whitesnake because of how much he scares them.
• In the The Lord of the Rings/Once Upon a Time crossover The Necromancer, just the hint that Sauron has returned to life is enough to prompt a panic from the residents of Middle-Earth who met the Storeybrooke residents.
• Neither a Bird nor a Plane, it's Deku!:
  • Captain Atom Shield's Reality Warper powers are so potent that she's a Physical God in her own universe and everyone terrified of provoking her wrath. Even Lady Inanna and the rest of 2014.50, who are bent on conquering the multiverse to "bringing everyone smiles" won't dare to try to invade Shield's world without finding a way to disrupt her powers.
  • Alan Scott, better known as Green Lantern, is this to every alien on Earth. After the Lantern War, he became extremely xenophobic and sought to oust, contain, or exterminate (the latter is the most likely option) every alien he could find with extreme prejudice. Because of this and the wave of public support for his measures, virtually all alien superheroes that weren't killed were forced into hiding. Even All Might is terrified of what Scott would do if he were to ever discover Izuku's existence.
• Everyone not named Morgan Blackhand rightly fears the title character of The New Man: An Adam Smasher SI. But even above him, there is Saburo Arasaka. Naturally, the fact that The Emperor wants to meet with Adam and his new wards terrifies Lucy like nothing else.
• The Night Unfurls:
  • The anti-heroic Hunter is so feared by his enemies, his allies, and even strangers seeing him for the first time due to his power, brutality and aura of lethality. Dread and wary stares are constants whenever he is nearby. In the original version, he is infamously known as "Sir Kyril the Bloody" among the populace that shows how much fear they have for him.
  • Discussed by Olga and later Hugh in the original version when Olga is on her way to the refugee camp to meet her people. She was once the most feared (and hated) person in the setting when she played the "fantasy dark lord / queen lurking in an ominous fortress" role. However, the events of the story, namely her defeat at the hands of Kyril, as well as the war against the Black Dogs going on, has led to her gradually losing that title (except the "hated" part — many people still hate her guts because of what she did). Olga muses how far she has fallen that her name now holds no special terror for Kyril's battle-hardened soldiers or even a fresh-faced boy like Soren, while Hugh sardonically remarks how there is no point being afraid of her anymore.
• In Opening Dangerous Gates, Kenpachi Zaraki is so powerful, crazy, and brutal that pretty much everybody becomes afraid of him, even Natsu, Gajeel, and Laxus. Gin Ichimaru also becomes this after he demonstrates his Bankai and wipes out a massive army of demons plus the trees and everything else in his path.
• A Peaceful Afterlife:
  • News of HOLY DIVER's return to Hell inspires an Oh, Crap! reaction from everyone who hears it; even Alastor is implied to be distressed by the thought of HOLY DIVER resurrecting his empire, not that he ever lets on.
  • Kira's persona of Mr. Clean is seen as this: a demon no one's ever met, but is credited with making his Boss's enemies disappear by the thousand. Upon learning of this, Angel is terrified, pondering how easy it would be for a nobody like Kira to touch a doorknob, or pose a mailman or delivery boy, or even just brush by someone on the street, and vaporize them completely. Mr. Clean was essentially the Boogeyman of Hell.
• Percy Jackson: Spirits:
  • Vaatu is a figure of dread and terror to the non-corrupted spirits, who will not even speak his name aloud.
  • The wolf spirit Amarok the Hungerer is well-known and deeply feared by the Water Tribes, to whom he is a savage force of destruction and a relentless predator that haunts the wastes and stalks and devours anyone who strays from the safety of their camps during the polar nights. Even Korra can't help but have a not-so-small part of her paralyzed with fear when she first sees him.
• Point Me at the Skyrim has Alduin and the Dragons be this to Skyrim, which is understandable considering they once conquered men and ruled as Gods. Victoria, not being from Skyrim (or the Elder Scrolls universe in general), is more terrified of the Stranger Titan, who is known for blasting out invisible beams of suicidal insanity.
• The Reaping of Hatsune Miku: Calne Cantus is the most feared Reaper in DIVA. She's the only known Game Master to have achieved 100% erasure during the Game and the only Reaper to have undergone a Cantus transformation. The Precedent of Hatsune Miku: Machine Muzik later reveals that she was getting this reputation even before she became Game Master, capable of getting Players screaming "It's her!" before the week was up.
• Remnant Inferis: DOOM:
  • The Doom Slayer is widely feared by all demon-kind. Even the Grimm, despite being drawn to his boundless anger, are hesitant to fight him, something Winter believed to be outright impossible. His own allies are also very much afraid of him, finding him to be just as terrifying as Hell itself. After their first encounter, even Cinder and Salem are terrified of him. And Atlas even programmed an entire alarm system around him.
  • The Marauder is the only demon that the Slayer outright tries to escape from. Even other demons avoid him like the plague.
• The renegade hero!!!....Invader Zim?: The Irkens are feared by the Galactic Guardians, and virtually everyone else in the universe, for their sheer destructive power.
• Running With Death: The Addams family is infamous among the wizarding community for numerous reasons. First of all, their clan existed long before the Statute of Secrecy, meaning they can use magic whenever or wherever they want without facing consequences. Second, they're capable of doing things that most wizards find impossible, such as allowing victims of Killing Curses to become ghosts or befriending kitsune. Third, they are able to dabble in Dark Magic without feeling any negative effects, as Addams magic predates any evil spell (some Dark creatures, like the Dementors, are afraid of them). Fourth, the Addams clan is considered absolutely nuts by pretty much every other magic user. Dumbledore has a very obvious Oh, Crap! moment the second he hears the name "Addams".
• RWBY: Epic of Remnant: After fighting her once and seeing her awesome power, most of the Servants of Chaldea are scared of Abigail Williams.
• RWBY: Rose In Black: Ruby herself. After bonding to the Crescent Rose symbiote, she quickly terrifies much of Beacon's student body with her newfound power and aggression, which works against her when it causes her relationship with her team, especially Weiss, to become shaky before she reveals her secret. However, her fearsome reputation also forces the villains to regard her as a serious threat, minus Cinder, who disbelieves her subordinates when they try to warn her that Ruby is dangerous and only realizes her mistake when Ruby has her on the receiving end of a brutal Roaring Rampage of Revenge over Pyrrha's murder.
• In the Danny Phantom / Beetlejuice Crossover Say It Thrice, Betelgeuse has a reputation as someone powerful enough and clever enough to be dangerous if provoked. That encourages other ghosts to stay out of his way when he's angry and motivated enough to be an actual threat and to avoid even mentioning his name at all costs when Danny Phantom starts asking.
• Shadows over Meridian: It takes only the first fight against the Shadowkhan to give them a feared reputation across Meridian. One of the soldiers marching to Cavigor under Vathek admits he'd rather face even Phobos himself than the "shadow demons". Even most of Phobos' soldiers are wary of them and admit feeling relieved they're on their side.
• In the Jackie Chan Adventures and Teen Titans crossover fanfiction A Shadow of the Titans, the Ax-Crazy Gadjo is so crazy, even his fellow HIVE students are put off by him.
• Son of Sparda D×D:
  • Just meeting Great Red caused Dante to freak out! He even admits that the Dragon of Dragon's power is leagues beyond leagues greater than his own.
  • Dante has this reputation in the Kabuki district where he lives and set up shop. As Rias and Sona learn, mention his name to anyone there, and they run away like their lives depend on it.
• The Doom Slayer in A Song of DOOM manages to become feared throughout Westeros and beyond after performing a one man attack on the Red Keep. Wanna know how bad it is? An army of Unsullied, who are trained to follow any orders (including killing themselves), flee in terror at the sight of him.
• In A Special Prescription Anna, the leader of the Visitors is doubtful of the stranger demanding her fleet leave Earth...until she realizes it's the man who is a living nightmare to her people.
  Anna: What gives you the right to make demands of me, human? You are nothing. You are an insect before our might, you are—-
  The Doctor: I'm the Doctor.
  Anna: No...
  The Doctor: Yes. I am the Oncoming Storm. The Lonely God. He Who Stands Alone. I am the man who brought disaster to your race once before, the Black Angel of the Skies. I'm the one who gave your priests nightmares for generations. Who convinced you it was easier not to believe in any God than accept me. I'm the man you mention when you want to give your recruits the fear of…well, you. I'm what your young think of when you try to explain to them what death is.
• Princess Jody from Super Milestone Wars has become this throughout The Multiverse ever since she became a Multiversal Conqueror.
• In Student 32: Sunset Shimmer, Sunset Shimmer hints that she was this back in Equestria-and at one point she outright boasts of the terror she caused among Equestria's enemies.
  "Warlocks and demons didn't stand a chance, and monsters? Hah! Monsters begged their mommies to check under their beds for ME!"
  • On the flip side, even she is terrified of Evangeline since she felt her sealed power-and that was before learning just how strong she'd be if her seal ever broke.
• From the There Was Once an Avenger From Krypton series:
  • Max Tennyson was highly feared during his time as a member of the Nova Corps and wielder of the Omnitrix. Many bounty hunters tried to gain the bounty on him but stopped altogether because he was too frightening to face in battle.
  • Vilgax. The Nova and Kree Empires are so terrified of him that they refuse to go to war with him. And these are factions willing to either destroy or buy out planets if it means expanding by a light-year or two. Further backing this is that he and Thanos fought in the past and Vilgax walked away from that scrap.
• In The Uncertainty Principle, there is a worse omen than the Grim, and that's the Crimson Fucker, Alucard.
  Sybil Trelawney: Speak not his name, or he will descent on us, to drink our blood, or tear us to bloody fragments, or taunt us for his own vile amusement!
• The Weaver Option:
  • Lelith Hesperax is feared by most of the galaxy with good cause; she has been killing the most dangerous beings in the galaxy for sport for millions of years and won't hesitate to kill even an ally or subordinate if they annoy her. The original wanted poster issued by the Imperium for Lelith advised not engaging her unless you had the support of a Primarch and their entire Legion. This was later revised to simply state Flee on Sight.
  • Taylor becomes this to the Eldar after the razing of Commorragh. Those craftworlds not already on her shit list agree the best course of action is to avoid Taylor at all costs and give her no reason to hunt them down.
• The Wizard in the Shadows: Harry Potter, the Black Wizard, a.k.a. The Moristar, the Darkness Slayer. Since he's vaporized people who pushed one or other of his Berserk Button and actively hunts the Nazgul, this is hardly surprising. The Dunlending's use him as a sort of Bogeyman for the children, sort of like a Batman who's willing to kill. This makes it a bit of a shock when one Dunlending actually meets him.
• In Wizard Runemaster, Harry Potter has become a boogeyman for the Burning Legion after constantly running suicide missions against them (such as attacking their bases in broad daylight) and succeeding each time for years, to the point they refer to Harry simply as "Him". It really shows that a ritual to summon and subjugate "the most deadly foe of the Legion" summoned Harry.

The DCU

• Batman fanfiction Dance with the Demons has The Joker. In the seventh chapter, three thugs run into The Creeper, spot his green hair and grinning countenance, draw the wrong but understandable conclusion, and run away in sheer panic.
  Then a head hung upside down in their view. A head with a tremendous grin on it, and the clincher: grass-green hair.
  At that point, Blinky and his boys weren't too concerned with niceties like the head's skin color, or the fact that a red-dyed sheepskin was hanging down from the newcomer's shoulders on either side of the head. The three of them had processed two pertinent facts.
  1) Laughter.
  2) Green hair.
  They managed to get out a string of frightened obscenities, but the only really relevant thing they said was two words: "The Joker!"
  In such cases, you didn't stop to wonder why the Joker would want to horn in on you busting up an ATM and grabbing the money. Maybe it was his territory. Maybe he needed the dough, too. Maybe he just didn't like your looks, or it had been too long since he killed somebody. It really didn't matter.
  All that mattered was getting the hell out of there before he did something that left you on a slab with a toe tag and a big grin all over your face.
• one day at a time (Nyame):
  • Damian is completely horrified to learn that Cass is related to Lady Shiva. Jason himself wants to avoid Shiva's attention altogether, and while he has expressed hatred of her for her treatment of Cass, he never tries to directly antagonize her.
  • The Joker. It's fairly obvious Jason fears the Joker as much as he hates him, and that would also apply to almost all of Gotham. In particular, the Arkham Massacre caused a massive drop in supervillainy because none of the rising criminals at the time wanted to become supervillains and potentially face the Joker's wrath for distracting Batman from him.

Death Note

• In A Charmed Life the name of Kira evokes awe and fear even among the Shinigami. They are shocked that a mere human would kill that many other humans.
• In The Faceless (Disguise of Carnivorism) thanks to Ryuk's story-telling to the young Shinigami just the name "Light Yagami" strikes fear among the Shinigami—to Ryuk it's just the name of some random human he once saw and didn't get around to killing but in his stories he paints this character as a legendary human hero and slayer of Gods. So when a real human shows up with that name, they surrender en masse.
• Beyond Birthday is this in Welcome To The Family. The other kids at Wammy's House are afraid to even enter his room long after he had been arrested and, later, killed by Kira.

Doctor Who

• "Trial and Error" sees the Twelfth Doctor run into the Valeyard while seeking Missy's old TARDIS. When Nardole realises who he's facing, he is described as having ashen cheeks, and Bill reflects that she's never seen him look so afraid, demonstrating how terrifying just the concept of the Valeyard is to those who know about him.

Dragon Ball

• Dragon Ball Z Abridged:
  • Mr. Popo, who the rest of the cast are quietly terrified of (and in Goku's case, loudly terrified). The only ones who aren't scared of him are Kami and Piccolo (both of whom are just below Popo himself on Popo's "Pecking Order"), and later Kami's successor Dende. Because Popo actually likes them, while merely (sometimes) tolerating the rest of the cast.
  • The Ginyu Force and Freeza both scare Vegeta, who has spent most of his life living under Freeza's rule. When Vegeta realizes that Freeza has summoned the Ginyu Force to Namek, he panics. And when Freeza himself shows up during one of Vegeta's angry rants, he stops mid-sentence out of sheer terror. Though he manages to overcome his fear of both the Ginyus and Freeza and fight them.
  • In Dead Zone Abridged, Goku is this to Garlic Jr. Upon finding out that his minions just beat up his wife and kidnapped his son while stealing one of the Dragonballs, he understandably freaks out.

The Familiar of Zero

• Zero no Tsukaima: Saito the Onmyoji makes it clear that the Duchess de la Vallière (aka Karin of the Heavy Wind) is one of the most feared individuals in Tristain. When an arrogant Germanian noble decided to invade her kingdom, most of his army deserted when word got out that she'd been dispatched to counterattack.
  • To a similar extent, Johan von Leopold. He is vicious towards males and cannot use his magic abilities to kill or maim females because of a Geas contract.

Final Fantasy VII

• Epiphany:
  • Sephiroth of course, his presence still causes fear in those who recognize him.
  • A tonberry is dangerous enough that Sephiroth feels the need to personally intervene to keep it from killing Aerith.

Firefly / Serenity

• In the Firefly fanfic Forward, River has become one of these to those who know about the Academy. At one point a mercenary who was briefed on her recognizes her, and he practically pisses himself at the sight.

Fullmetal Alchemist

• Edward, Alphonse and other Ishvalans are terrified of Roy Mustang for his part in the Ishval Genocide in Son of the Desert.

Game of Thrones / A Song of Ice and Fire

• The King Nobody Wanted:
  • Khal Preisoo, often called the Headtaker by his fellow Dothraki for his habit of taking his opponents' heads and hanging them from his belt, is viewed as a violent, dangerous lunatic among his own people.
  • The Lhazarene prophet known as the Golden Ram is fast becoming this to the Dothraki, as his victories against them are not only impressive, but undermine their already shaken confidence in themselves following the destruction of Vaes Dothrak.
• Purple Days:
  • The Red Wolf (Robb Stark after losing his father and both of his sisters to King's Landing in one of the Groundhog Day Loops) terrifies Joffrey for a long time. It's only until the two meet in combat again in a later loop that Joffrey realizes Robb isn't inherently the terrifying force of nature that killed him before, just a scared kid.
  • The Silence, the all-consuming and omnicidal cosmic force brought about by the White Walkers and the Cycle that repeatedly seeks to destroy all life in the world whenever the Red Comet comes to Planetos. So horrific and overwhelming is its presence that a terrified Warlock of Qarth outright kills himself when he gets a glimpse of it through Joffrey's bone tablet.
• In Robb Returns, Stannis Baratheon is this to the Ironborn, as Balon Greyjoy refers to him as "The Butcher of Fair Isle" and is pained to even say his name out loud.

Godzilla

• Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
  • Ghidorah. Vivienne Graham held fear above all else of the three-headed Titan when it was still frozen in ice; humans who encountered Ghidorah during the Mass Awakening tend to have mild or treated levels of PTSD in the present; and both humans and Titans take the knowledge that Ghidorah will eventually regenerate after its death From a Single Head very gravely.
  • The Many to a lesser extent. Even Skullcrawlers of all creatures desperately flee in terror from their presence.

Good Omens

• Zirah from The Sacred and the Profane is so spectacularly batshit crazy that he makes other demons nervous.

Harry Potter

• Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality: Harry becomes this for Dementors after he learns how to destroy them. They follow his orders under threat of destruction, and one flees from him while begging everyone around them to "make him go away!" Harry also becomes this for Voldemort after the latter hears a prophecy interpreted as calling Harry the destroyer of the Universe. To avoid that future, he goes to extreme lengths to help Harry by resurrecting Hermione and ensuring she can't die again.
• Make a Wish has Harry on holiday going under the alias of Mr Black. Over the course of his holiday he becomes the most feared wizard in the world through a combination of magical artifacts, dumb luck, and general compounding of stories about him. Wizarding criminals are terrified when they learn Mr Black is in town, and magical law enforcement tends to be torn between being glad to get his help and wanting him out of their jurisdiction as soon as possible. The less said about what happens to the Death Eaters sent after him by Voldemort, the better.
• Inspected by #13 has Harry become this when he assumes the titular role of Ministry Inspector #13. The 13th Inspector #13.
• In the Dark Fic A Shattered Prophecy Harry is this, having been trained from infancy to be the Dark Lord's assassin. At one point he kills one of the aurors guarding him by shoving a feather quill into his throat.
• In Adorable Violence, Hermione has built up a reputation that has Dementors terrified to cross her, such as by cutting into her time spent with Harry.

High School D×D

• Issei: The Gaming Gear: Rias and Sona are so far above Issei in strength that he's flat-out terrified when he has to interact with them, forcing himself to keep his calm with Gamer's Mind so he doesn't end up blowing either his identity or his powers to them.
• High School Dx D Inheritor Of Malevolence: Most individuals who encounter Takeshi Ryuugamine, the fic's main character, are instinctively afraid of him due to the malicious aura his Sacred Gear releases at all times. As a result, he spent most of his middle school years and part of his high school years without making any friends due to his surroundings avoiding him like the plague.

How to Train Your Dragon

• The Blacksmith's Apprentice strongly implies that the Red Death is this to other dragons; scenes told from Toothlesses's POV have him refer to the Red Death as 'Her' in a tone that makes it clear he feels falling under her control.

Jak and Daxter

• In Torque (Jak and Daxter), having become Paxis’s Dark Warrior, Jak becomes this so much that people will avoid him and zoomers will fly away faster if he is patrolling the streets.

Kill la Kill

• Natural Selection:
  • Ryuko. Her arrival in any part of Honnouji means that people are about to die in droves, and the populous knows it.
    "Worse still, they knew what was coming. High heels clacked, and a phantom chill ran down the back of every man and woman in attendance".
  • Nui, to Nudist Beach. Only the Naked Nudists are willing to engage her, and that mostly involves a lot of self-detonation.

Kim Possible

• "Dark Legacy" presents Zorpox as this; the moment Shego realises he’s the one attacking her and Drakken in their current lair, she expresses fear even before he reveals that the gas he used as part of his dramatic entrance disabled Shego’s powers.

The Legend of Spyro

• The Legend of Spyro: A New Dawn: Drake is this to the Gargoyles and Naga, who are both rather frightened at the prospect of fighting him. Turns out that despite they've got every reason to be afraid of the guy, he's actually a very nice guy. Still counts, however, in that the Gargoyles still have every right to be terrified of him.

The Legend of Zelda

• The Legend of Link: Lucky Number 13: The Originals. They are the first generation of gods, created by Fate and Destiny tens of millions of years ago. They are insane, violent, and so powerful their own creators can't kill them. The current pantheon of gods, Fate and Destiny included, can only keep them contained by playing cat and mouse - as the mice.
  • Link himself later takes over this mantle after becoming the God of Fear and rewriting the divine rulebook by killing the aforementioned unkillables.

The Lord of the Rings

• In a meta way, the infamous fanfic Celebrian is this for the entire internet. This fanfiction scares the internet.

Lyrical Nanoha

• In Life After Hayate, the Wolkenritter were considered the Time-Space Administrative Bureau's nightmare scenario for more than sixty years, to the point that even now that they've been in Bureau service for several years many other Bureau personnel will display obvious signs of fear in their presence, including scrambling to get out of their way, instinctively grabbing for a weapon, and refusing to turn their backs.
  • Tiida Lanster's canonical death never happens, because rather than a losing fight against one of the Bureau's most wanted, Vita Yagami happens by as Tiida is about to confront them. Tiida points out who Vita is, and the criminal is so terrified that the main problem afterward seems to be convincing them it's safe to surrender.
  "I'm here to negotiate your surrender. She's a Wolkenritter. She's here to kill you if I fail."

Marvel Cinematic Universe

• The Devil's in the details: While Daredevil is feared by New York's criminal underworld, Matt Murdock has become famous as the lawyer that took down Wilson Fisk, making any institution guilty of anything nervous whenever they realize who he is.
• In Spider-Man: Finding Home, Thanos has naturally become this to Earth, with Kate and Yelena stunned when Peter reveals that he fought Thanos directly as Spider-Man with Iron Man, Doctor Strange and the Guardians even before the final battle on Earth.
• Everyone at Midtown is afraid of Michelle Jones in Don't touch MJ's stuff. This is not unjustified as MJ will go to extreme lengths, such as uncovering dark and/or embarrassing secrets to use as blackmail, if it will assist her in achieving her goals. The only person who isn't afraid of her is Peter Parker, and that's only because MJ will do whatever it takes to ensure her crush (and later boyfriend) remains blissfully ignorant of her more darker qualities.
• In Been There, Blown That Up, every alien who spots Goose reacts with unbridled terror, including Thor, Gamora, and Rocket. Seeing Nick Fury stroke Goose causes them to look at him with reverence and ask if he's the leader of Earth due to his bravery.

Marvel Universe

• A Crooked Man: Ginnungagap soon builds up a reputation that frightens and terrifies government agencies, SRA-sided superheroes, and others who are against him.
  • Legion gets this reaction from the X-Men when Xavier revealed his now sane son to everyone during Thanksgiving.
• Much like the Joker from DC Comics, the hideous monstrosity called Psyko terrifies even the other hardened psychopaths of Earth-2706. Psyko can emit deadly, murderous insanity, which causes the inanimate objects it affects to take on a twisted, perverted life of their own under his control, not unlike what Sleepwalker does with his own warp vision abilities. It's even worse when he affects other living creatures with them, as his victims suffer a brutal Mind Rape that forces them to continually experience their worst nightmares over and over again while he controls their bodies. His first attack on New York caused him to spread mass insanity and death across the city, and Sleepwalker only managed to subdue him after a bloodbath of a fight from which the alien hero emerged more dead than alive. For the second go-around, he mentally enslaved a horde of his fellow supervillains and turned them loose on New York City, even as he spread even more madness and suffering than he did the first time.
  • In the same universe, Spider-Woman's Arch-Enemy Jack O' Lantern is this both to her and his fellow supervillains. From his Ax-Crazy persona to his Obviously Evil appearance to his Stalker without a Crush harassment of Spider-Woman in her civilian identity as Mary Jane Watson to his interest in making her his heir to his attempts to Mind Rape her to his nearly killing her on multiple occasions, Jack O' Lantern is one of the few members of Spider-Woman's Rogues Gallery that truly frightens her. She has a full-out Oh, Crap! panic attack when she realizes that he's escaped from jail and is stalking her.

Miraculous Ladybug

• Cheshire (Miraculous Ladybug): Marinette as Cheshire is feared by other Miraculous Holders, including Master Fu and Hawk Moth, due to the bad history of the past Black Cat holders.
• The Three Aces has the titular Aces as this trope. In the past, College Francois Dupont was a Wretched Hive full of useless teachers and bullies. The Aces forced said useless teachers and bullies out of the school in a crusade that is remembered by everyone who was there at the time. Eventually, their battle won, the Aces disbanded, assuming the identities of perfectly normal students who acted nothing like the Aces did. Then Lila Rossi and the rest of Ms. Bustier's class reached the stage where Marinette-Dupain Chang, Chloe Bourgeois, and Nathanial Kurtzberg were forced to return to duty as Blue Ace, Yellow Ace, and Red Ace, respectively.

Mortal Kombat

• Mortal Kombat: Desperation: After the events of Mortal Kombat X, Raiden has Came Back Wrong, and instead of the benevolent protector of Earthrealm, he's now become a brutal warlord and sadistic psychopath in the veins of Shao Kahn and Shinnok. But that's just the beginning — at first, he starts out as a Well-Intentioned Extremist who's trying to protect Earthrealm at all costs by illegally invading Outworld but Kotal Kahn invokes the sacred Mortal Kombat tournament to stop him. As things go by, his allies, now realizing that he's slowly becoming an extremist and ruthless dictator, try to stop him but fail. His wrath knowing know bounds, he keeps his ex-allies in line by having Cassie Cage (the daughter of Johnny Cage and Sonya) kidnapped and tortured to near-death by electrocuting so she'll break and beg for mercy before him, threatening to have Jacqui Briggs (the daughter of Jax) tortured and raped by Kano, ransacking and burning down entire villages, towns, and cities in Outworld and Earthrealm to the ground and having their inhabitants killed, raped or tortured — in fact, when he ordered the destruction of Li Mei's village, knowing the devotion she has for her people, Elder Gods know how many innocents, including women and children, were slaughtered in the bloodbath — all just to spite his ex-allies and weaken their morale, and mass-zapping Sub-Zero and the Lin Kuei to near-death just because they refused his offer to join his side — some of the Lin Kuei he killed were around 10 to 12 years, showing that he has no regard for those who get killed or injured in the ensuing mayhem he's planning to create. He abuses most of his henchmen, threatening to torture them if they fail to please him, and things became so desperate that even the Elder Gods fear him more so than Shao Kahn or Shinnok, as they know that he's a walking and ticking time bomb that's perfectly willing to put the entire Mortal Kombat universe at risk if he merges Outworld and the Netherrealm with Earthrealm, going so far to revive a brainwashed Quan Chi as their minion. And his threat to have Jacqui and Takeda tortured is what caused Scorpion to fear him; Nitara also fears the scope of his wrath, knowing that if she refused to join his side, then he'll slaughter her people, and using her Fatal Flaw — the devotion she has to her people — to his advantage, Raiden coerces her to serve him. There's a reason why everybody, including his henchmen, former allies, and even the Elder Gods fear him, as he's a far more tyrannical and ruthless madman than Shinnok and Shao Kahn combined. And he finds it funny committing such atrocities — he has no regard for the wanton violence he's committed so far, and many of his allies find this a sickening trait of his.

My Hero Academia

• Izuku in Izuku's Catsuki is feared by first his classmates then later every other hero and villain for both how overpowered his Quirk is and how freely he uses it. What is his Story-Breaker Power that wins every fight with ease? Izuku can turn anyone he touches into an ordinary house cat and the effect lasts one day for every year they've lived.
• Leviathan (My Hero Academia): The Leviathan, Izuku's Superpowered Evil Side, leaves everyone who sees it paralyzed in fear. Even a partial transformation is able to make hardened, remorseless killers like Blade and the Sludge Villain shit bricks, while Pro Heroes and police officers just freeze in terror until Izuku leaves.

My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic

• Captain Rumble from Bad Future Crusaders is universally feared by enemies and allies alike mainly due to having taken on a gryphon in a one-on-one fight and winning. It seems the only two who aren't terrified of him are Babs, who was once engaged to him, and Dinky Doo who both outranks and is friends with him.
  • Dinky herself, while not as much as Rumble, also has a pretty harrowing (and well earned) reputation. Fortunately, she's Affably Evil, so as long as you don't piss her off, you probably have nothing to worry about.
• The Dark Side of the Mirror Verse has Mirror!Spitfire, at least for Rainbow Crash, and implied to be the one who made her the wreck she is today. Just mentioning her name is enough to make the poor girl Freak Out.
  • Mirror!Starlight Glimmer also qualifies. Even the Mirror Mane Six hold her in high regard, with even Pinkamena (the craziest of the bunch), showing her respect, and the moment two stallions who were beating up Rainbow Crash realize she's there and angry with them, they react in shock and fear, with one being so terrified of her he doesn't even try to help fight her and the other only really attacks her out of anger, which goes as well as one would expect. Fluttershy at least believes that Starlight could tie her into pony pretzel with her mind if she felt like it.
• Death is forced to take a vacation:
  • Fall Harvest doesn't like the Lords or Ladies of Laughter, since their unpredictableness can foul up his own powers related to Death. It takes everything he's got to keep from running out of his skin and back to his office when Pinkie shows up.
  • He's also terrified of what will happen if Celestia finds out he's back.
• A Diplomatic Visit:
  • Life, one of the Powers and the Opposite of Death. They do not like to be disturbed needlessly and are said to be more powerful than Death. As Celestia explains in the third story, the reason is that all souls that are still alive are under its purview, and it is the only one that can accelerate one's meeting with Death without any consequences on their part.
  • Unusually for the trope, it's later also applied to a place rather than a person. As noted in the first chapter of the fourth story, The Diplomat's Life, Celestia has never been to the Valley of the Alicorns, but knows that it holds great sorrow for her if she ever does, and is in no hurry to visit as a result.
• Fallout: Equestria: Snowfall: King Sombra. The main cast is terrified upon meeting him, every one in Stalliongrad fears him so much that he doesn't bother keeping guards in his castle, and when Clarity (who is a crystal pony) finds out he's still around, she very nearly crosses the Despair Event Horizon! That's right, 200 years later and the crystal ponies are still afraid of him!
• From Here to Eternity has Discord's younger brother, Animosity. He's SO ruthless, cruel, and powerful that even his own siblings (except Discord who is the only sibling more powerful then him) are afraid of him, even Tiff and Cacophony. And his mother is an ever bigger one! Animosity is terrified of crossing her and even Discord seems a little scared of her!
• In My Little Pony: The Mentally Advanced Series, Celestia is portrayed as a tyrant, who salts lands, slaughters civilians, pours silver down her advisers throats, and makes sure all her little ponies fear her. Especially her faithful student.
• Discord is this in The Nuptialverse. Of special note is the Keeper's comment to Twilight in Families.
  "If I told you half the things he wants to do to you once he's free, you'd have nightmares. I mean, even worse than you've been having."
  • To put that in perspective, the nightmares Twilight's been having at this point are all about her friends ignoring her when she's in danger, in one case even cheering for her death.
• The Pieces Lie Where They Fell: All of the captains from the various branches of the Royal Guard and their Captain General (who are all Dum Soluti):
  • Standing Wall, an Earth Pony and Captain of the Cadenza Guards, and the strongest Earth pony mage known to have ever lived;
  • Violet Lulamoon, a unicorn and Magi Supreme of the Magi-of-Stars Guards, and an expert thaumatic artificer who revolutionized the Guard's armor protection spells;
  • Blazen Sun, a unicorn and the Holy Corona of the Celestia Guards; especially feared by the dragons after what he did to one of them.
  • Sweet Surprise, a unicorn and the Full Moon of the Luna Guards, who held back a demon incursion on her own, is a master tactician and so adept at approved transformation magic that she can fly better than most naturally-winged ponies;
  • Gentle Step, a unicorn and Captain General of the Royal Guards, who's stronger than any of them and got her position after ten days in the Guard - five days as a normal guard and five fighting her way into and out of Tartarus to rescue some of her fellows, with her only wounds being a scar on her face and a broken snout.
  • Chapter 28 reveals there's a sixth captain: Captain Memorizing Gaze, Secret Protector of the Hidden Guards, who are Changelings working directly for Gentle Step and are descended from a group that betrayed Queen Chrysalis to the ponies after her invasion of Canterlot.
• Pony POV Series:
  • Discord's mother, Entropy, is this to everyone who knows her other than her fellow Top Gods. This is because she's a Jerkass Eldritch Abomination capable of erasing any being from existence with one word, and has enough of a Hair-Trigger Temper that provoking her into doing so can be as simple as stating something about her in her presence. While it eventually is revealed she's not quite so terrible (Celestia's account of her was understandably bias due to her experiences), she's still considered the Elder that you shouldn't buck with to the point even Discord (who is at worst the fifth strongest being in creation) refuses to break a promise made in her name out of fear of enraging her.
  • Havoc is also this to a degree. He is Fear itself, so everything is naturally afraid of him, but he's also a pretty nice guy otherwise. But what is feared is ticking him off, something even Discord is afraid of.
  • Professor Kabuto, the Changeling's Mad Scientist and by far the worst one of them all, is this. It's stated that half the hive is scared to death of him, and the other half hates him. This is because of his habit of performing horrific medical experiments with lethal results on other beings, including his own kind. While the Equestrians don't outright fear him at first, those that get to know what this psychopath is capable of are quickly disgusted and horrified by him.
• It is very hard to truly grasp just how much the ponies of RainbowDoubleDash's Lunaverse fear Corona. When confronted by the choice between using their Elements to stop a necromancer who's already casually slaughtered an entire nation and using them against Corona, the L6 choose to stop Corona.
  • Meanwhile, there's Tirek. In this setting, Luna and Celestia are Physical Gods in pony form. When it looks like Tirek might possibly escape his prison at Tambelon, they soil themselves, and Luna prepares to obliterate the entire island, Element Bearers and her sister included, in the hope it might stop him escaping.
• The Rise of Darth Vulcan: The eponymous protagonist becomes this. Of course, if you wear big, scary armor, it is not hard at all to become feared in Equestria. Then, he starts acting like a villain...
• Starlight Over Detrot has chief Iris Jade, feared by her subordinates of the Detrot Police Department by virtue of being a heavily medicated Unicorn of not inconsiderable telekinetic power and poor temperament. To the city's less savory elements, she's the pony that managed the first real drop in crime in decades.
• In The Witch of the Everfree, Sunset Shimmer eventually becomes this to the creatures of the Everfree Forest; as time goes on, they become increasingly prone to avoiding her, because attacking her is overwhelmingly likely to end with them being burned to a crisp.

Naruto

• Naruto is The Dreaded in the Alternate Beginnings of an Uzumaki segment "A Different Type of Anger" because of his killing intent when angry. It's described as leaving everyone in the area unconscious or paralyzed with fear. After Neji was subjected to it, he had to quit as a shinobi and spend the rest of his life medicated to keep from being a gibbering wreck. The Invasion never occurs simply because everyone still conscious is far more interested in going home and never angering Naruto.
• Naruto himself in Black Flames Dance in the Wind: Rise of Naruto is for all intents and purposes the Boogeyman to the civilians in Konoha. Not only is he used as a threat to make children behave and children have nursery rhymes about how he'll brutally kill you, during an attack that manifested the civilians' and ninjas' worst fears, nightmarish forms of Naruto were everywhere.
  • Later, when Kurenai accidentally tells a secret Naruto threatened her into keeping, she wails in terror and begs Asuma not to tell anyone while pissing herself.
• Dreaming of Sunshine has Team 7 to the Mission Desk Ninja. Gets to the point where any member of Team 7 who touches anything in their office has "cursed" that particular mission... if not all of them.
• In the First Try Series, anyone with a shred of common sense is afraid of Danzo. Just the fact he's been around since the First Shinobi War and was crippled yet is still in active service make other ninja realize it's a death sentence to be on his bad side-and then there's the ones who know what he did in combat, or were just babysat by him (Sakura's father is convinced he eats people since the time he was babysat by Danzo. Who didn't act inappropriately at any moment). Consensus is that he'll die in his bed by old age or some natural illness after having buried anyone stupid enough to think that being in his deathbed makes him any less dangerous...
• I Am NOT Going Through Puberty Again!! has a humorous example in Hinata, thanks to "The Hinata Massacre" in the first chapter. During this "massacre", Hinata rampaged her way through the compound, putting a tenth of the clan in the hospital, a unholy glow in her eyes, which scared the shit out of everybody there. They are now under the belief that Hinata had finally snapped from all the pressure put on her as heiress of one the most prestigious clans of Konoha, and dread another possible violent episode. In reality, a recently time-traveled Hinata had noticed that husband Naruto was not in bed with her, and being horny, went to go find him. She hadn't realized where or when she was until she finally caught up to Naruto. This does not stop her from milking her clan's newly-found fear of her for kicks.
• The Kyuushingai in Kitsune no Ken: Fist of the Fox. In the back-story, two years prior to the start of the story, the Nine Terrors (the other name for the group) cut a bloody swath across numerous cities over exactly 365 days, and the fear that the populace felt was made worse because nobody knew what any of the Nine looked like. It was so bad that, during that time, cities that hadn't been impacted by the Nine Terrors made a point of being extremely courteous to people they didn't know, in case said strangers might turn out to be one of the Nine and cause upheaval if crossed. Furthermore, the terror they inspire was so great that Mizuki was able to take advantage of their reputation and use it to control most of Konoha Town for three months prior to Naruto's arrival there.
• The entire Uzumaki Clan in The Uzumaki Massacre. So vicious that even decades after they were wiped out, Oonoki insists that he wouldn't send any less than a hundred Jonin against a single Uzumaki. And even then he wouldn't expect them to come back. Given that a force of maybe 1,500 decimated an army of over a hundred times their number down to less than 100, it's fully justified.
• In Vapors the main character Aiko makes such a reputation for herself that, at an international summit where there are two kages, two jinchuriki, and a dozen other elite jonin, the seven-tails jinchuriki Fuu is more anxious about Aiko's presence than anyone else, even though Aiko (aged fifteen) knows she'd be stomped in a fight with some of the other people in the room.
• Yet again, with a little extra help has Ghost to the entire multiverse. Considered one of the only three "True Gods" in existence, angering him is something that no one who has even an inkling of an idea about his abilities wants to do. His most well-known and terrifying, yet awe-inspiring, title is "The God of None." It's also known that he hates that title, and calling him that in earshot is grounds for an immediate death match unless stated otherwise. In fact, it's heavily implied that Ghost is the strongest being in the universe barring the Sky-Mother herself. Thankfully, for the most part he is a perverted idiot not much unlike Naruto, so for the most part this is moot unless you piss him off.

Neon Genesis Evangelion

• Nobody Dies:
  • Zeruel is this to the other Angels, the people of NERV that know of him, and the readers on the forum. So much so that when he showed up in chapter 65 and finally started trashing Tokyo-3 at the end of chapter 68, the Rebuild track for him was cited.
  • And then there's ADAM, whose appearance induced a full-blown Heroic BSoD in Rei. If you're even slightly familiar with Nobody Dies, you know this is kind of a big deal. Also, ADAM might technically be God.
  • An honorable mention must also go to Iruel, partly because he's one of the few Angels to come really close to actually winning and the only one, so far, to reappear intent on a rematch, but mostly because his tactics... Well, you know how canon Eva is the Trope Namer for Mind Rape? What Iruel did to Asuka, Maya and Ichi was worse.

One Piece

• The Logia Brothers: The Kuro Kari criminal organization are feared by all Devil Fruit users who know of their existence, because they specialize in killing them and taking their fruits for re-sale.
• This Bites!:
  • Upon seeing four of the weaker members of the Straw Hat crew in Enies Lobby, every Marine present freaks out.
  • Cross knows most of the enemies the Straw Hats will fight and is usually calm to the point of being cocky around them. Blackbeard is the only enemy Cross is openly terrified of. It took all of his willpower just to act casual when he happened to walk by Blackbeard on Jaya and he takes every precaution he can to hide some of the more valuable Devil Fruit users on his crew from Blackbeard.
• Second Wind: The Straw Hat Pirates, especially Luffy, Zoro, and to a lesser extent, Sanji. Circumstances cause the feats they committed in canon that were initially covered up (such as defeating Crocodile) to be exposed to the public, or, in other cases, allow them to commit feats that surpass their canon ones (defeating Aokiji). By the time they reach Sabaody, they are unquestionably the strongest rookies in the world, and everyone short of an admiral or an Emperor is, at the very least, apprehensive of them.
• When the Tides Come In has Luffy from the post-canon 'verse, who by that point is the Pirate King and the World's Strongest Man. He is so terrifying to his enemies that literally no one wants to piss him off, with his haki so strong that it can easily knock out vice admirals and a temper that burns like a raging inferno. The Crocodile from his universe is so scared of him that he goes out of his way to stay out of his way and avoids Alabasta like the plague. He is completely aware that if he went anywhere Vivi or her country, Luffy would not hesitate to kill him.

One-Punch Man

• Every monster who survives him is terrified of Saitama in Hero's Harem. Even the ones who end up living with him for one reason or another and befriend him are still cowed by Saitama with a single word. After barely surviving her fight with Saitama, Deep Sea Queen (Deep Sea King's sister) reacts to the memory of the "battle" like she's having a PTSD flashback and decides to seek out the Monster's Association in the hopes of never seeing him again.
  • Later chapters extend this fear to anyone who's seen Saitama in action. The various heroes are stuck between awe and terror after witnessing Saitama easily dispatch a monster that was a match for Genos and Tanktop Master working together. Do-S doesn't even have to witness the "fight" because she was already cowed by Saitama's anger at learning Ki was injured by a monster.
• Because he's actually acknowledged as the World's Strongest Man in The Strongest Hero Saitama absolutely terrifies every monster and villain he meets, barring those who have never heard of him for one reason or another (such as Sonic and Deep Sea King). Most will surrender the moment they spot him, even if he hasn't noticed them yet.
  • Boros becomes one to most of mankind by the simple fact his fight with Saitama was broadcast by Metal Knight — and so he was seen rising from the first punch. Then he gives Saitama a work-out...

Persona Franchise

• Hours 'Verse: On the Other Side, the Children of Nyx are completely terrified of Tatsuya. Once he finally returns from his forced jaunt to This Side, the entire group gives up on causing armageddon and retreats on the spot.
• While they do eventually manage to start working things out, the Shadow Operatives initially become this to the Phantom Thieves in The Wish after they first meet each other when the Thieves go to Tatsumi Port Island. For starters, the Operatives are technically all police officers (something that the Thieves have trouble with, being outlaws), and also Persona-users who both outnumber them and generally have far more experience than any of the Thieves, even before the recently-returned Ryoji steps in on the side of the Operatives. After being ambushed twice in one night, with both fights ending with the Thieves losing and escaping by the skin of their teeth, Akira declares that none of them are going to even try to directly fight them again.
  "Before we go any further…” Akira turned around. “I suggest that if we see any of those guys again…” His shoulders stiffened. He would have to let go of his pride for a moment, and admit that he was in over his head. “...We run away. No fighting back, no clever tricks, we just run like hell.”

Pokémon

• ASH of all characters in Ashes of the Past, as this is a Peggy Sue story where Ash gets Aura training and the ability to restore people and Pokemon he knew well. In Pokemon, in particular, this includes their levels and abilities. The resultant insanity as they invent new moves (Volt Crash, an Electric-type variant of Hyper Beam), modify moves to make them more powerful (Blast Burn, the Fire-type Hyper Beam^note Said to be only behind the Move-equivalent of a nuclear bomb in power), do things that simply aren't possible under normal circumstances (everything Squirtle does), and wrecking every Gym in the process manage to make Ash much more popular as a result. He gets called Gym-Destroyer, and some leaders flat-out refuse to have him battle indoors. Then Legendaries get involved. And when he saves the world, again, it all happens on live-camera. When an egg hatches into a Mawile, in the middle of the Dragon Holy Land, there is panic - as Ash Ketchum has a Fairy-type -, which escalated to feelings of impeding doom since Mawile is immune to Poison, and culminates in running for their lives since she knows Ice Fang as an Egg Move. Then there's the fact Giovanni is willing to take on Mewtwo (that, as he loves to remember everyone, is the World's Strongest Pokemon) but has canceled the operation to recapture it because Ash was in the area, and when the young trainer came to Viridian Gym for Max' gym challenge he had a Psychic-type ready to teleport him away...
• Josh from Blood In The Water, specifically. In Dance Of Destiny and Let The Flames Begin, he was a Terror Hero, scaring the pants off any Plasma or Galactic Grunts he ran into. After he finally achieved Fallen Hero status, he began a reign of terror that was centered on Konar, but the aftereffects of his deeds reached the other regions and continued to inspire fear in people all across the world. He was so feared that the Konar Champion, Naomi, who was essentially the Big Good of the story, freaked out when the protagonists told her they wanted to take him on. Giovanni had a MASSIVE Oh, Crap! reaction when Josh appeared in his window. Even after his death, people were still terrified if they saw a Rayquaza flying around, and more than a few believed he wasn't actually dead.
  • Word of God also says that if Josh hadn't been killed in that final battle, he would have grown up to enslave the rest of the world with his power.
• Chosen One's Adventure with Legendaries: Ash gets a pair of Pokemon this status, before he even attends the Indigo League.
  • First is of course, Pikachu shocking Ground Types. Up to and including an Earth Plate Arceus.
  • Second is Butterfree. Originally called "Demon" by Mew as a joke... The Legendaries stop laughing about it when he explodes and burns down the Celadon Gym. (He used Solar Beam.) Later on, he mentally scars Blane's Magmar in the rematch for the Volcano Badge when he smiles as he uses Facade while on fire. A later conversation among Gym Leaders reveals that the fire type now refuses to fight Bug Types.
• Ash, again, becomes this in A New Chance Series. It's an extremely unintentional example though, since Ash is still the same naïve, energetic kid he always was, but due to a revised series of events he has a Latios and a Latias which he uses at the Silver Conference. To put it in perspective, Giovanni orders two of his agents, who also have a bone to pick with Ash, to infiltrate Team Aqua and Magma, but also to steer clear of Ash unless they are 100% sure they can beat him, aware of the defeats Ash has dealt Team Rocket before he got Latios and Latias. In other words, Giovanni is more apprehensive of a not-thirteen year old kid than another large criminal syndicate.
• Sabrina is given this treatment in Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, being deliberately avoided by everyone to the point that her gym is never suggested as an option by anyone. So far in fic however, Ash has not become the Dreaded.
  • A more comical example is the recurring Jigglypuff, who is this to Ash and the rest of his Pokémon. And when he runs into it, Ash ends up accidentally catching it!
• Pokémon Gold (Fanmade) gives Whitney this treatment. Everyone fears her, from fellow Gym Leaders to her own subordinates, and likens her to a demon when warning potential challengers not to underestimate her. Her reputation is shown to be well deserved: dozens of Trainers are shown running to the Pokemon Center to have the overworked nurses heal their Pokemon after getting thrashed by Whitney's Miltank, and Silver—who manages to walk all over the other trainers in her gym—gets demolished in seconds.

Ranma ½

• Desperately Seeking Ranma features Ms Aoyama. Her appearing tends to cause ice to form. Cologne called her a woman-shaped abomination. She frightens people who know her secret identity.
• In Ranma Saotome, Chi Master, Ranma's mentor is widely feared by Hong Kong's criminal elements.

Real-Person Fic

• Several in The Keys Stand Alone:
  • The Black Tower and its minions the Tayhil. Both are synonymous with death and destruction.
  • The Animals, especially among the Geddies.
  • Trelayna of the Rock who is ''very good'', and who is the only other individual in C'hou that the four consider a Nine Thousand and are afraid to meet again. (Or at least John is.)

Reborn! (2004)

• Vigilante Tendency: The most feared member of the PNC is neither Hibari nor even Tsuna himself — it's Kyoko. Even Hibari is terrified of her wrath, and justifiably so.

Rosario + Vampire

• He Who Fights Monsters has Tsukune of all people becoming one of these after singlehandely killing, in self defense of course, five students, including Inner Moka herself!!.

RWBY

• Winter in War of Remnant: A RWBY Anthology was feared by the criminals of Atlas back when she was a simple patrolman. After losing her family, Winter becomes more ruthless towards crime, causing the fear to grow exponentially.

Sly Cooper

• When Clockwerk calls Muggshot to inform him of Raleigh's incarceration in Sly Cooper and Carmelita Fox and the Thievius raccoonus, Muggshot is visibly intimidated by his boss despite being the Five's most physically imposing member and their conversation happening over the phone.

Sonic the Hedgehog

• Sonic X: Dark Chaos has Tsali. According to Cosmo, a large group of the Seedrian refugees actually turned their fear of him into a Evil Luddite religion that considered Tsali divine punishment from Tryphon herself for their use of technology. It's taken to the point where when Cosmo first met Tails, she nearly voided her bowels on the spot simply because she mistook him for Tsali.
  • The Shroud. They're not called The Great Devourer for nothing. The fact that they regularly eat galaxies is just the icing on the cake. Both Jesus and Maledict alike consider them the number-one threat to the universe even more than each other. Even the Prophet Muhammad of all people is utterly terrified of Shroud and Shroud infestation, and Tsali also secretly fears them.

Star Wars

• In Rise Of The Red Eclipse, Abyss's mere name is enough to inspire fear in the hearts of anyone in the Eclipse Republic, the main characters especially since his debut appearance involved him ripping and tearing off their limbs or breaking them with enough force to turn the bones into mulch. Needless to say, even after his defeat in the second season, he's still the cause for the protagonist's main nightmares nearly eight years after first contact with him.
• For most of Roger, Roger, the Republic has nearly no knowledge of 711. That changes after the Battle of Kamino, where 711 nearly destroys Kamino's cloning facilities and succeeds in destroying the Republic's reinforcing fleet despite being massively outnumbered. The aspect of 711 that terrifies the people of the Republic the most, though, is that he's a droid. If he was an organic being, he would just be one terrifyingly competent Separatist commander, dangerous but limited in scope. But because he's a droid, the people of the Republic see the mass production of Droid Generals as an inevitability, and given how much damage one did to the war effort, it's an absolute nightmare scenario for them.

Supergirl

• Hellsister Trilogy: Everybody -Legionnaires and villains- are frightened of Mordru and unwilling to face him. In the second arc, everybody has an Oh, Crap! moment when they find out Darkseid is putting one of his plans in motion.

Super Mario Bros.

• Mario Brothers has King Koopa, who is portrayed as a terrifying, nigh-unstoppable villain.

Super Smash Bros.

• Kirby from There Will Be Brawl, or as he is known in the series, "The Cannibal". Suffice to say Mario is rather reluctant to let Peach visit him when she looks for information about The Butcher.

Team Fortress 2

• In The Lessons, Frank the Pyro is so feared by everyone in the story to the extent that the narrator at first doubts his existence due to Frank's Shrouded in Myth status. Then the narrator meets Frank...

Temeraire

• In Black Wings, Black Sails, William Laurence is introduced as the most feared pirate and enemy of slavers in the Western world. He combines his guerilla tactics of attacking under the cover of night with his skills as a prize-taking naval captain.

Touhou Project

• More humorously, Eiki Shiki receives this status in Fantasy Kaleidoscope — no-one wants to stop to talk to her due to her infamous, long-winded lectures.
• Imperfect Metamorphosis has both Yuuka Kazami and the Shadow Youkai. The former is an impossibly ancient and powerful force of nature that even the local Reality Warper has trouble dealing with, with numerous characters voiding themselves at the very mention of her name, a reputation that she very much earns. And while the latter is known only by a few, having a habit of leaving no survivors of its rampages, as basically the Anthropomorphic Personification of death and destruction those that do know of it have no desire to face it again.

Town of Salem

• An Affectionate Parody of Town of Salem shows what Town of Salem would look like in real life. The third episode is a Coven game, and even the Lemony Narrator is scared to death of Pestilence.

Total War

• Skantarios from I Am Skantarios. He repels multiple djihads on Constantinople, to the point where it gets nicknamed "the place where Muslims go to die".
• The Scots in general in A Scotsman in Egypt, but especially their generals. When you're led by dudes who took a capital city with a single charge, defeated Mongol hordes, drive one king to suicide and another to cardiac arrest through reputation alone (the Scottish assassin is unsure whether or not he's allowed to take credit on that last one) or manage to counter enemy plots despite being dead, you don't really have a choice.

Teen Titans

• Slade has always been this for the Teen Titans but in The Masks We Wear Slade's real identity is John Grayson who was recruited into the Court of Owls as a Talon since the day Dick was born. He's already slaughtered members of the Court before escaping to Jump City and encountering Dick Grayson, his son who is now a hero as Robin and the Teen Titans.

Unsorted

• Mr.Evil's Original Character Fredi Heat. His own teammates are terrified of him and would consider drinking battery acid than go against him (this due to the higher chance of survival).
• Lady Wu is this in Farce of the Three Kingdoms. Sun Quan struggles to find a general who's willing to cross her daughter, and no one, not even him, dares to cross her.

Warhammer

• In the quest ''Warhammer Fantasy: Divided Loyalties'', main character Mathilde Weber's tenure as Spymistress of Stirland involved a fair amount of traveling about on her Uglu spell "Shadowsteed", usually with very unhappy results for her targets. She is shocked to discover that her activities have gained her quite the reputation amongst Stirland's citizenry and the nickname Dämmerlichtreiter, or "Rider of Dusk".
  • Later on it becomes a little more literal when Mathilde learns the spell "Dread Aspect", which projects a supernaturally terrifying aura around her. Mathilde uses it to great effect when causing chaos behind enemy lines.

The Witcher

• In The Accidental Warlord And His Pack and its spinoff Wolfblood most of the world outside Kaer Morhen and Kaedwen are terrified of Geralt and the Witchers, and consider them to be violent barbaric monsters.

Worm

• Are You Afraid of the Dark?: For anyone with half a brain, the answer is a resounding "yes", as the Professional Killer known only as "The Dark" is probably one of the most dangerous people in all of Brockton Bay despite the fact that he doesn't have any obvious superpowers, as Hookwolf and Cricket discovered to their cost.
• Weaver Nine: PRT propaganda would have you believe Weaver's Society has a habit of forcing innocents into its service. While it is unequivocally true the the Society has a lot of shady dealings and dubious methods, they are nothing approaching the bloodthirsty baby-eaters the PRT portrays them as. That said: Everyone knows to give them a wide berth when they show up, and it is well deserved. The Society is constantly besieged by bounty hunters, rival villain organizations, the Yangban, Cauldron and their puppets in the PRT and Protectorate. They survive because they are harder, stronger, and both more ruthless and more vicious than their opposition and willing to use every asset at their disposal. Up to, and including, the lobotomized bodies of their attackers.
• The titular cape in Information is a Knowledge Broker who quickly gains a reputation as The Omniscient, causing a number of people (especially online) to be afraid to even say their name. Given one online poster only mentioned her in a roundabout way, apologizing for any offense while doing so, only to receive a private message four seconds later stating there was no offense taken, Information is clearly as close to all knowing as is possible without actually being so. It helps that she employs both Tattletail and Dinah. Some like Tattletail are terrified of Information because they have an idea of what she's capable of beyond simply gathering intelligence, such as having Coil eaten alive by a swarm of insects.

Xenoblade Chronicles

• Where We Don't Belong: Unsurprisingly, Mórag and Brighid are viewed with equal parts fear and respect by the Ardainian military for their roles as the Special Inquisitor and the "Jewel of Mor Ardain" respectively. Dirk goes from ready to escalate his fight with Taion to the death to all but pissing himself when she shows up, and even Taion is shocked by how quickly he obeys her orders without complaint.

Yu-Gi-Oh!

• The Dimensional Drifter: Yoko Sakaki of all people, Yuya's mom. Everyone, from the Broken Ace Experienced Protagonist to the Child Soldier spy to the Shell-Shocked Veteran genocide refugees (and obviously people with less tragic pasts), ends up doing exactly what she orders them to do.

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