History Main / HorrifyingTheHorror

See also AlwaysABiggerFish, TheWorfEffect, EvilerThanThou, OutscareTheEnemy, RespectedByTheRespected.

** ''Deinosuchus'' is a genus containing several species of giant crocodiles estimated to have reached up to 30-40 feet in length and the weight of an elephant, which lived in North America 82 to 73 million years ago and would have preyed on ''dinosaurs'', including the various mid-sized [[KingOfTheDinosaurs tyrannosaurs]] alive at the time, like ''Daspletosaurus'' and ''Appalachiosaurus'', with the latter’s holotype specimen even sporting tooth marks attributed to ''Deinosuchus''.

** The Evronians are a whole species of {{Emotion Eater}}s who [[PoweredByAForsakenChild fuel their war machines with emotions]] and feel little emotions themselves (only the Emperor and the other two-headed Evronians, the Imperial Council, and some mutants have a full emotional spectrum, and the latter will be hunted down and exterminated if discovered), basically look like a beaked and tailless [[Franchise/{{Alien}} Xenomorph]], and are even more terrifying opponents than this description would make anyone think. Yet, even they are scared by a few things:

** This trope goes both ways--earlier in the film after realizing that Jason's fear is water, Freddy threw Jason into a nightmare where he was forced to relive his traumatic childhood memories of being relentlessly bullied and picked on and then pushed into Camp Crystal Lake to drown. After some exposure to these memories Jason devolves from a NighInvulnerable undead menace to a sobbing, terrified child.

** In the theatrical cut, Anne is attacked by a pair of ''Foetodon'', land crocodilians roughly around the size of tigers and crawls into a log to escape them. As she does, one is pulled offscreen and upwards by ''something'', and the second stares at whatever it was and promptly [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere beats it.]] Anne, exiting the log, finds a [[TRexpy V-Rex]] standing there staring at her, the remains of the first beast in its mouth.

* The BigBad from ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'', Reinhard, is a man said to have been born in the wrong universe and is so unreasonably powerful and has such an overwhelming presence that anyone who faces him can't help but shake in their boots, even those that are honest to goodness monsters themselves. He is just in a different league. Mercurius meanwhile tend to cause a different kind of fear in those same individuals. Instead of a fear based on awe, it is one based on hatred and disgust born from just how odd his entire existance is, like he is detached from the very fabric of reality in both body and spirit.

* ''VisualNovel/HatofulBoyfriend'' has The King trying to push Yuuya over the DespairEventHorizon by reminding him of [[MyGreatestFailure Yuuya's greatest failure]], in the hopes that Yuuya will agree to have his [[AssimilationPlot soul absorbed]] to forget the pain. Yuuya stands stalwart; he accepts what he's done, knows he can't change it, and wants to remember in order to go forwards. He's found meaning in the pain. The King retreats in a hurry.
* In the true ending of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', the villain, [[spoiler:Matt Engarde]] had nearly broken both the fake culprit, [[spoiler:Adrian]], nearly driving her to suicide, and Phoenix Wright himself... then [[spoiler:[[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal Shelly de Killer turns on him if Phoenix plays his cards right.]] The result is Matt freaking out and pleading to go to jail to be protected from the assasssin.]]

** The notorious Oskar Dirlewanger was nearly sentenced for war crimes, stripped of rank and imprisoned after an investigation ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards by an SS judge]]''. This [[SubvertedTrope didn't stop Himmler]] from employing him at the head of a penal battalion, however.

* In ''Webcomic/EldritchDarling'', the reason why CJ doesn't find any ghosts when she goes ghost-hunting with [[HumanoidAbomination Ina]] is because the latter scared them all away, with the promise to [[DeaderThanDead devour their souls]] if they lay a finger on CJ.

* Many horrific creatures are scared shitless of Doc Stearne, aka ''Mr. Monster''.
* As stated by the Trickster in ''ComicBook/UnderworldUnleashed'', in DC, when super-villains want to scare each other, they tell [[ComicBook/TheJoker Joker]] [[TheDreaded stories]].
** As is shown later on in Justice League Rebirth, [[spoiler:even ''The Joker'' has a villain he fears: [[HumanoidAbomination The Batman]] [[OmnicidalManiac Who Laughs.]] The Joker even says he may kill people, but the things The Batman Who Laughs does are just... wrong and do not belong. That this was one dark path he would refuse to let Lex Luthor tread!]]
* ''ComicBook/SquirrelGirl'':
** ComicBook/DoctorDoom fears nothing! ...Except for her. When she shows up to borrow his time machine, he just lets her have it, with a caption reaffirming that their [[CurbStompBattle previous encounter]] ''is'' canon. ComicBook/{{Deadpool}} finds her terrifying as well. In fact, she's slowly gaining a reputation as TheDreaded among Marvel's villains.
** The Titan of Death, Thanos, was once defeated by Squirrel Girl... or, at least, a copy of him as he claims. After it's pointed out that beating a perfect, exacting copy of him is no different than beating him for real, Thanos visibly pales and leaves.

* Even ComicBook/TheJoker is scared of ComicBook/TheCreeper and [[ComicBook/SecretSix Junior]]. And, as shown by ''ComicBook/DeathOfTheFamily'', [[spoiler:his own name.]]
** In ''Saga of the Swamp Thing'', the most disturbing omen of [[spoiler: Anton Arcane's resurrection and unleashing of the powers of Hell]] is that ''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness the Joker stops laughing]]'' at Arkham.

* ''ComicBook/TheShadow'' is a TerrorHero but in Dynamite's Special #1, he has a disturbed look when he learns just what his old comrade has been up to.
* ''ComicBook/PaperinikNewAdventures'' offer us a few examples:

* Allegedly (it's not entirely clear if the issue in question just made it up for a quick laugh) monsters scare their kids with stories about [[ComicBook/{{Vampirella}} Vampirella]]. Not entirely unreasonable, since she's often portrayed as a relentless HunterOfHerOwnKind a la Blade.
* [[ComicBook/TheTransformersMoreThanMeetsTheEye Megatron]] is ''still'' TheDreaded of many Autobot stories. He's directly responsible for the deaths of ''hundreds of billions'' of people. And ''he'' is absolutely pants-shittingly terrified of [[BrainwashingForTheGreaterGood mnemosurgeons]]. Just ''seeing'' one in prison (the sullen, depressive, and not particularly intimidating Chromedome) had him calling for guards and threatening that the only way they would read his memories would be after he was dead. The series makes it abundantly clear just how justified his fear is in several story arcs.
* Jordan Borchardt of ''ComicBook/{{Revival}}'' is a typical emotionally detached reviver, which makes her a textbook CreepyChild. Over the course of the series [[spoiler:her separated soul is destroyed, allowing her to imprison someone else's soul inside her.]] The Passengers find this terrifying.
* Nearly every sorcerer and supernatural being in the DC universe is afraid of ComicBook/JohnConstantine. Neatly shown in ''ComicBook/BooksOfMagic'' when an entire room of ''very'' evil magical entities stop dead when John enters and tells them Tim Hunter's coming with him.
** Later in the series, Tala, a "Queen of Evil", needs help from ComicBook/{{Zatanna}}, despite them normally being on opposing sides of the Good vs Evil magic thing. Tala tellingly reveals that Good can be just as scary to Evil as the reverse:
-->'''Tala:''' Don't look at me that way. ''Please.'' Do you know how terrifying you are to us? You creatures of the Light, with your pitiless eyes. You're so quick to judge us... but what do you know of the imperatives of Darkness? You've never seen past the Shadows.

'''ComicBook/BlueDevil''': It was obviously some kind of mind attack. Nothing to beat yourself up about Rags.

* ''ComicBook/ImmortalHulk'': The titular version of the Hulk, already proven to be one of the most outright malevolent of the Hulks (maybe not out-and-out evil, but he sure as Hell ain't nice), screams in fear and terror when he encounters [[AbusiveParents Brian Banner]]. The fact the Hulks are born out of the trauma that was Bruce's childhood, [[spoiler:the Devil Hulk in particular from his desire for a loving dad]], feeds into this.

* ''Film/OsmosisJones'': Frank's childhood, lack of self-restraint, and outright mental insanity (all of which is NOT helped by his unhealthy lifestyle) freaks out Thrax, a serial killer virus (The RED DEATH) who has infected and killed over 12 people.
-->'''Thrax:''' This cat was sick before I even got here!
* ''WesternAnimation/TheLandBeforeTime'': In the first movie, Littlefoot, Petrie, Ducky, and Spike end up glued together after falling into a tar pit, and their combined form looks scary enough to frighten away a group of pachycephalosaurs that were attacking Cera.
* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Stoik realizes something's gone horribly wrong with the assault on the dragons' nest when the thousands of dragons occupying it take off flying as fast as their wings could carry them, paying no heed whatsoever to the Vikings. [[spoiler:Moments later, the furious Red Death comes barreling out of the side of the mountain.]]
* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Oogie Boogie, as his name suggests, is a version of the Boogeyman and is the only resident of Halloweentown who's actually evil, taking sadistic pleasure in torturing and killing people while everyone else is [[PeekABogeyman scary but harmless]] and any frights they give are all in good fun. Oh, and he's actually [[TheWormThatWalks a burlap sack filled with thousands of nasty bugs]]. In the climax, it turns out that Oogie himself is scared of just one thing: Jack Skellington.

* ''Film/{{Blade}}'' is this to vampires, creating a terrifying path of death as he slays whole legions of vampires. Nyssa actually brings this very fact up in ''Film/BladeII''.
* In ''Film/TheHungerGames'', like in the book, [[TheDragon Cl]][[DarkActionGirl ove]] is one of the most dreaded and skilled of the Tributes. Although she's a normal human like everyone else, she's an AxCrazy PsychoKnifeNut who has been raised TheSpartanWay to compete in the [[DeadlyGame Hunger Games]] and crosses the MoralEventHorizon by [[spoiler:gloating about killing [[{{Moe}} Rue]]]]. However, even she is visibly terrified of [[spoiler:[[ScaryBlackMan Thresh]]]], desperately screaming and pleading when [[spoiler:he grabs her by the throat, [[BewareTheQuietOnes enraged]] at the death of his district partner Rue]]. Justified by the fact that [[spoiler:he then proceeds to ''[[OneHitKill kill Clove in a single blow]]'']].
* ''Franchise/JohnWick'' is this to the criminal underworld. Even the head of the Russian Mafia presence in New York is stopped cold at the news that his son crossed Wick.
-->'''Viggo:''' They call him Baba Yaga.\\
'''Iosef:''' The Boogeyman?\\
'''Viggo:''' Well, John wasn't exactly the boogeyman. He was the one you sent to '''kill''' the fucking boogeyman.
* The extended edition of ''Film/KingKong2005'' has a sequence that starts with the rescue party being attacked on their makeshift rafts (they're in a swamp) by a pack of cat-sized [[BigCreepyCrawlies scorpio-pedes]], which abruptly break off the attack and flee moments before [[FoodChainOfEvil the arrival of]] a [[SeaMonster piranhadon -- a predatory fish the size of a small whale]].
** In the theatrical cut, Anne is attacked by a pair of ''Foetodon'', land crocodilians roughly around the size of tigers and crawls into a log to escape them. As she does, one is pulled offscreen and upwards by ''something'', and the second stares at whatever it was and promptly [[ScrewThisImOuttaHere beats it.]] Anne, exiting the log, finds a [[TRexpy V-Rex]] standing there staring at her, the remains of the first beast in its mouth.
* ''Film/InglouriousBasterds'': Pretty much the idea behind assembling the Basterds:
-->'''Aldo:''' We will be cruel to the Germans, and through our cruelty, they will know who we are. And they will find the evidence of our cruelty in the disemboweled, dismembered, and disfigured bodies of their brothers we leave behind us. And the German won't not be able to help themselves but to imagine the cruelty their brothers endured at our hands, and our boot heels, and the edge of our knives. And the German will be sickened by us, and the German will talk about us, and the German will fear us. And when the German closes their eyes at night and they're tortured by their subconscious for the evil they have done, it will be with thoughts of us they are tortured with. Sound good?
* ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing''. An ''army'' of goblins surround the Fellowship, only to immediately scurry off in fear after hearing the roar of the Balrog.
** Orcs and Goblins in general can be routed by their own shadow (although in this case, they ''did'' have good reason to run). See the example under Literature below.
* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'' [[BigBad the Operative]], who is an elite assassin given ''carte blanche'' and unlimited resources by his government to carry out his mission, nearly panics when he realizes Mal has [[spoiler:[[SummonBiggerFish lured]] a fleet of [[TheDreaded Reavers]] to his location.]]
-->'''The Operative:''' ''Target [[spoiler:the Reavers.]] Target [[spoiler:the Reavers!]] Target everyone! SOMEBODY FIRE!''
* In ''Film/StarshipTroopers'' the humans victoriously cheer when Carl Jenkins uses his telepathy to announce that the captured leader of the [[InsectoidAliens Arachnids]], the [[ItCanThink Brain Bug]], is literally afraid of them. Given that the film is meant to be a reversed alien invasion story in which [[HumansAreTheRealMonsters we humans are the warmongering bastards]], this isn't exactly something to feel proud of, but for the in-universe WarIsGlorious population, it's music for their ears.
* Many of the most hardened convicts aboard ''Film/ConAir'' are freaked when the SerialKiller Garland Greene joins them.

* Will Graham invokes this in the film adaptation of ''Literature/RedDragon'' when [[spoiler:Francis Dolarhyde holds his young son hostage]] by putting on a show of [[AbusiveParents parental abuse]] that hits the deranged SerialKiller right in the FreudianExcuse. [[spoiler:It unsettles Dolarhyde enough for Will's son to get away.]]
* ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'': Tie-in materials reveal the Big G himself is keeping a healthy distance from the site that contains Ghidorah. In the film proper, Rodan lets out a [[OhCrap panicked screech]] upon realizing he's flown right into Ghidorah's storm... [[HotBlooded right before battling him anyway]].
* In ''Film/AvengersEndgame'', Thanos the Mad Titan - GreaterScopeVillain of the Franchise/MarvelCinematicUniverse and TheDreaded to much of the known galaxy - is left staring in horrified dismay when [[spoiler:[[Film/CaptainMarvel2019 Carol Danvers]] singly takes on Thanos' dreadnought, and punches her way straight through ''yet another'' warship, bringing it crashing to the ground.]] Shortly before that, [[spoiler:he's nearly overpowered by a very angry Wanda, and panics just enough to call an airstrike from said warship to fend her off.]]

*** This concept is often borrowed from the Bill Brasky sketches on SNL, which predate the Chuck Norris memes by a couple of decades.
* On various circulated lists of "Why Kirk Is Better (or Badder, or Cooler) Than Picard", one of the reasons is stated to be "The Klingons didn't even have a ''word'' for 'surrender' until they met Kirk."

* Played for laughs in the "Dream Warriors" music video attached to ''Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet3DreamWarriors''. The only thing that scares the film's main villain Freddy Krueger is the band Music/{{Dokken}}.
-->'''Freddy:''' What a nightmare... who were those guys?!
* At the end of Leslie Fish's FilkSong "Music/BannedFromArgo", a gang of Klingons land on Argo, see the havoc wreaked by the crew of the ''[[Series/StarTrekTheOriginalSeries USS Enterprise]]'', and turn and run away. Years after the original song was written, a ''Series/{{Firefly}}'' variant was made, with the ''Serenity'' crew scaring off ''Reavers''.
*** Leslie Fish has another song called Where Has Cthulhu Gone? The premise is about the Great old ones fleeing earth in fear of the atomic bomb.

* The Music/{{Disturbed}} song [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W0ZX9L-vA70 "Fear"]] is written from the perspective of the victim... so now it's the criminal that is experiencing fear:

* Combining this trope with EvenEvilHasStandards, [[spoiler: Jimmy Aleister]] of ''VisualNovel/CodeRealize'' acknowledges how he is so unfathomably evil and twisted that the most hardened and depraved killers were themselves horrified at glimpsing his true nature.
* ''VisualNovel/FateStayNight'': The Shadow that appears in the Heaven's Feel storyline has such ominous powers that it creeps out even the servants, extremely powerful spirits themselves. However, even this nightmare flees in terror when faced with [[spoiler:Gilgamesh]]. When it actually manages to [[spoiler:devour him, it immediately breaks him down to magical energy, fearing that he could take control from the inside.]]
* The BigBad from ''VisualNovel/DiesIrae'', Reinhard, is a man said to have been born in the wrong universe and is so unreasonably powerful and has such an overwhelming presence that anyone who faces him can't help but shake in their boots, even those that are honest to goodness monsters themselves. He is just in a different league. Mercurius meanwhile tend to cause a different kind of fear in those same individuals. Instead of a fear based on awe, it is one based on hatred and disgust born from just how odd his entire existance is, like he is detached from the very fabric of reality in both body and spirit.
* In the true ending of ''[[VisualNovel/SuckerForLove Sucker For Love: First Date]]'', the player character manages to utterly terrify Nyanlathotep, the second-most powerful of all of the elder gods, with his sheer lust and desire to [[DidYouJustRomanceCthulu 'plant a wet one' on ALL of the elder gods]]. Including Nyanlathotep.
* In the true ending of ''VisualNovel/PhoenixWrightAceAttorneyJusticeForAll'', the villain, [[spoiler:Matt Engarde]] had nearly broken both the fake culprit, [[spoiler:Adrian]], nearly driving her to suicide, and Phoenix Wright himself... then [[spoiler:[[MistreatmentInducedBetrayal Shelly de Killer turns on him if Phoenix plays his cards right.]] The result is Matt freaking out and pleading to go to jail to be protected from the assasssin.]]

* ''Webcomic/UserFriendly'' has strips about Cthulhu being scared/bothered/worried/amazed about mundane things such as the RIAA's tactics, finance and accounting, etc.
* ''Webcomic/GunnerkriggCourt'':
** [[BedsheetGhost Mort's]] duties involve getting people frightened. But [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=68 this girl is really scary]]. And [[https://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=151 this one]] is just that sneaky.
** And then there's Zimmy, who even freaks out Reynardine, a [[GrandTheftMe body-snatching]] ''demon'', enough that he won't voluntarily touch anything that belongs to her.
** Zimmy is herself freaked out by Kat. [[http://www.gunnerkrigg.com/?p=1049 This]] is what Kat looks like to her.
* In ''Webcomic/{{Homestuck}}'', the Lovecraftian [[EldritchAbomination Horrorterrors]] turn out to be terrified of [[ManBehindTheMan something]] that's killing them, and their horrifying communications are pleas for help.
** The Horrorterrors themselves terrify the trolls, a culture of violent psychopathic {{Proud Warrior Race Guy}}s, to the point of sleeplessness.
* Malory from ''Webcomic/HeadTrip'' is plain AxCrazy [[http://headtrip.keenspot.com/d/20071112.html whenever]] any [[AssholeVictim deserving]] target is in sight. However, ''Literature/{{Twilight}}'' [[http://headtrip.keenspot.com/d/20080505.html scares]] her [[http://headtrip.keenspot.com/d/20080915.html reliably]].
* ''Webcomic/GirlGenius'':

* ''Webcomic/AmazingSuperPowers'' in the [[http://www.amazingsuperpowers.com/2009/12/ghosts-of-christmas/ Ghosts Of Christmas]] [[YetAnotherChristmasCarol episode]].
* ''Webcomic/DaughterOfTheLilies'': Whatever protagonist Thistle's face looks like, it's enough to send one of the cannibalistic night elves running away in panic. There's a reason she always wears a hood. [[spoiler:It turns out the Cave Elf was just horrified that he had attacked and tried to eat a fellow Cave Elf -- a female one at that (Cave Elves have a matriarchal society).]]

* In ''WebComic/StandStillStaySilent'', the main threat in the DeathWorld ForbiddenZone that the main characters are exploring are PlagueZombie monsters that mutated from humans (trolls) and animals (beasts). Later in the story, they start running into ghosts that are a danger to all living beings. Chapter 10 showed that animals sharing space with ghosts tend to avoid the rooms in which they dwell. Chapter 12 shows that trolls that roam in an AbandonedHospital with a ghost-room avoid the place as well.
* In ''WebComic/OwMySanity'', "Nancy" is a HumanoidAbomination, who ''discovered fear'' at the hands of the [[http://owmysanity.comicgenesis.com/d/20100531.html art building's manager]].
* ''Webcomic/BoyfriendOfTheDead'': A ZombieApocalypse happens, turning most of Tokyo into an undead wasteland. The zombies view the humans as nothing but food -- that is until they meet Alex. Alex is an ordinary girl who [[SkewedPriorities wants to go shopping now that there are no crowds]]. She kills over a hundred zombies without breaking a sweat, to the point that she befriends a couple of them because they're so little threat to her it doesn't occur to her to be scared. The zombies, on the other hand, see her as a horrifying monster and flee from her whenever they can. At least a few zombies ''regain their sanity'' out of sheer terror.
* ''Webcomic/KillSixBillionDemons'': The multiverse is split into 7 parts, each ruled by one of the seven Demiurges, including a [[DecadentCourt decadent witch queen]], a [[OurDragonsAreDifferent titanic dragon banker]], an [[EldritchAbomination eldritch abomination made of worms]], a [[ArrogantKungFuGuy kung-fu god-king]], a [[DreamWalker master of dreams]], and an [[TheOmniscient all-knowing corpse entombed in glass]]. All of them powerful enough to rule one-seventh of the multiverse, all of them deathly afraid of the last Demiurge, a [[NighInvulnerable nigh-invulnerable]] warlord zealot dead set on [[OmnicidalManiac destroying all existence]].
** Also Zoss. Incubus is understandably scared when Zoss shows up in the same dream as he's visiting. Zoss is the one who used to rule ''all'' the multiverse before vanishing without a trace, allowing the demiurges split it between themselves.
* ''Webcomic/ImTheGrimReaper'': Scarlet's demon form is powerful enough to scare [[spoiler: Brook]] badly, far more than he would like to admit. It's implied he would much rather ignore her than risk her going out of control again.
** Judah, despite being a mere human, is able to horrify Scarlet [[spoiler: with what few memories she has of him as Ante.]] Later, [[spoiler: after being sliced into pieces and melted down into liquid except for his hand by him, even Brook is terrified of him.]]

* ''Webcomic/{{Polandball}}'': [[AlwaysChaoticEvil ISIS]] makes the mistake of [[BullyingADragon provoking Germany]] into turning into [[SuperpoweredEvilSide Reichtangle]]. Cue the latter looming over a [[OhCrap terrified]] ISIS.
-->'''''[[https://imgur.com/gallery/8OWYj GUTEN TAG]]'''''

* [[Blog/{{Slimyswampghost}} Trevor Henderson's]] monster [[InkblotCartoonStyle Cartoon Cat]] is only one of many monsters he depicts in his artwork, but according to him, all the others are so terrified of it that they actively avoid the [[SealedEvilInACan dirt mall it's trapped in]] "if they know what's good for them".

** He has committed literal acts of BlackComedy. Even ''he'' is horrified by the stuff WebVideo/BennettTheSage says.

* The idea behind "[[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aR21dBPdqRw Pyro's Night at Freddy's]]". By the second night, the robots are huddled in the security room checking the cameras for Pyro.
* The {{Creepypasta}} "''It Has No Face''" features a HumanoidAbomination that [[spoiler: has mutilated and killed countless victims panicking as it encounters a man who (seemingly) has no face and (seemingly) doesn't fear it. Taken even further when the man scares it away with the noise and flashlight coming from his phone]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Oogie Boogie, as his name suggests, is a version of the Boogeyman and is the only resident of Halloweentown who's actually evil, taking sadistic pleasure in torturing and killing people while everyone else is [[PeekABogeyman scary but harmless]] and any frights they give are all in good fun. Oh, and he's actually [[TheWormThatWalks a burlap sack filled with a thousands of nasty bugs]]. In the climax, it turns out that Oogie himself is scared of just one thing: Jack Skellington.

** In the final battle, sadistic [[DreamWalker dream stalking]] SerialKiller [[Film/ANightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Krueger]] looks like he's about to [[BringMyBrownPants wet himself]] when he realizes that he's been pulled into the real world - where an extremely [[RoaringRampageOfRevenge pissed off]] [[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason Voorhees]] is approaching him with a machete.
** Goes both ways--after realizing that Jason's fear is water, Freddy throws him into a nightmare where he's forced to relive his traumatic childhood memories, being relentlessly bullied and picked on and then pushed into Camp Crystal Lake to drown.

* In ''Film/{{Serenity}}'', [[BigBad the Operative]] has a small panic attack when he realizes Mal has [[spoiler:[[SummonBiggerFish lured]] a fleet of [[TheDreaded Reavers]] to his location.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/HowToTrainYourDragon'': Stoik realizes something's gone horribly wrong with the assault on the dragons' nest when the thousands of dragons occupying it take off flying as fast as their wings could carry them, paying no heed whatsoever to the vikings. [[spoiler:Moments later, the furious Green Death comes barreling out of the side of the mountain.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/TheNightmareBeforeChristmas'': Oogie Boogie, as his name suggests, is a version of the Boogeyman and is the only resident of Halloweentown who's actually evil, taking sadistic pleasure in torturing and killing people while everyone else is scary but harmless and any frights they give are all in good fun. Oh, and he's actually [[TheWormThatWalks a burlap sack filled with a thousands of nasty bugs]]. In the climax, it turns out that Oogie himself is scared of just one thing: Jack Skellington.

** The Other, the genocidal entity that wiped out major parts of Europe and created MadScience monstrosities of every stripe, is afraid of the mere mention of the ''name'' Barry Heterodyne.
** The Jägergenerals, massive {{Lightning Bruiser}}s, are absolutely ''terrified'' of the Dreen.

See also AlwaysABiggerFish, TheWorfEffect, EvilerThanThou, RespectedByTheRespected.

* Wiki/SCPFoundation:

** [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1730 SCP-1730]] is a Foundation site from an AlternateHistory where they had a merger with the GOC and became something utterly horrifying, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming endlessly worse than the monsters they fought]]. In our reality [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-993 Bobble the Clown]] is some kind of signal-born abomination that has been meddling with humanity from the start and now teaches children murder and violence through a brainwashing TV show the Foundation has to contain. In this alternate site, he was one of the "lucky ones" who was merely locked up and experimented with, and is still a mangled, crippled, and ''utterly traumatized'' survivor, who witnessed atrocities so huge burning [[Wiki/TheWanderersLibrary an entire alternate dimension]] to the ground and salting the ashes was just the start.

* PlayedForLaughs in ''Machinima/RedVsBlue'': During ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheChorusTrilogy The Chorus Trilogy]]'', [[EvilIsHammy O'Malley]], the BigBad of ''[[Machinima/RedVsBlueTheBloodGulchChronicles The Blood Gulch Chronicles]]'' and the literal AnthropomorphicPersonification of UnstoppableRage, is absolutely terrified of [[MadDoctor Doctor]] [[GenkiGirl Emily Grey]] after interacting with her for barely ten seconds.

* In the CreepyPasta ''It Has no Face!,'' the narrator spends a winter night on the road in a HauntedHouse that has a malevolent ghost dwelling in the bedroom closet. The creature doesn't realize that he's wearing a ski mask, and thinks that he's a fearless, faceless monster worse than it is. [[HumiliationConga Then the narrator's phone goes off, scaring the monster into shrieking terror, and then it gets driven away by him strobing the phone's flashlight in its eyes.]]

* In the CreepyPasta ''It Has no Face!,'' the narrator spends a winter night on the road in a HauntedHouse that has a malevolent ghost dwelling in the bedroom closet. The creature doesn't realize that he's wearing a skii mask, and thinks that he's a fearless, faceless monster worse than it is. [[HumiliationConga Then the narrator's phine goes off, scaring the monster into shreiking terror, and then it gets driven away by him strobing the phone's flashlight in its eyes.]]

* In the CreepyPasta ''It Has no Face!,'' the narrator spends a winter night on the road in a CreepyAbandonedHouse that has a malevolent ghost dwelling in the bedroom closet. The creature doesn't realize that he's wearing a skii mask, and thinks that he's a fearless, faceless monster worse than it is. [[HumilliationConga Then the narrator's phine goes off, scaring the monster into shreiking terror, and then it gets driven away by him strobing the phone's flashlight in its eyes.]]

[[caption-width-right:350: The monsters are lucky, he's [[DrivesLikeCrazy much scarier behind the wheel]].]]

** And something worse than that may be coming, now that the original incident that revealed that something has been replicated in an even worse fashion. When [[MechanicalAbomination Castle Heterodyne]] gets a good look at what exactly [[spoiler:is coming from the new rift caused by the Baron stopping time, ''it starts screaming''. Sure, the Dreen were dozens and [[NiceHat had hats]], but they were ''much'' smaller than whatever is coming this time.]]

** [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-1730 SCP-1730]] is a Foundation site from an alternate reality where they had a merger with the GOC and became something utterly horrifying, [[HeWhoFightsMonsters becoming endlessly worse than the monsters they fought]]. In our reality [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-993 Bobble the Clown]] is some kind of signal-born abomination that has been meddling with humanity from the start and now teaches children murder and violence through a brainwashing TV show the Foundation has to contain. In this alternate site, he was one of the "lucky ones" who was merely locked up and experimented with, and is still a mangled, crippled, and ''utterly traumatized'' survivor, who witnessed atrocities so huge burning an entire alternate dimension to the ground and salting the ashes was just the start.
** [[http://www.scpwiki.com/scp-5000 SCP-5000]] is 1730 on steroids, an AlternateTimeline in which the Foundation actively started working to KillAllHumans alongside every anomaly that wouldn't get with the program (which was most of the ones that were still capable of reason).

* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': When the Pastel Princesses and the Plaid Princes go to an amusement park haunted house full of {{Monster Clown}}s, one "vampire clown" jumps out to scare them, only for [[ActionGirl Lorena]] to reflexively kick him in the head. Then [[FaceOfAThug Gwendolyn]] goes to see if he's okay, and he's so terrified of her apparent SlasherSmile that he passes out.

* ''Webcomic/CursedPrincessClub'': When the Pastel Princesses and the Plaid Princes go to an amusement park haunted house full of {{Monster Clown}}s, one "vampire clown" jumps out to scare them, only for Lorena to reflexively kick him in the head. Then [[FaceOfAThug Gwendolyn]] goes to see if he's okay, and he's so terrified of her apparent SlasherSmile that he passes out.