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** WebVideo/{{Ask That Guy|WithTheGlasses}} is a {{Depraved|Bisexual}} [[AnythingThatMoves Omnisexual]] [[CargoShip to ridiculous extremes]], works for the devil, apparently ''keeps souls under his robe'', and has a habit of [[CrossesTheLineTwice crossing lines no man was ever meant to cross]].

--->'''Ralph''': When I know there's going to be violence involved, I always, ''always'' make sure I have a bottle of lubricant and some paper towel on hand.

* The unnamed human protagonist from AudioPlay/AlienAbductionRolePlay is strongly implied to be a vorarephile, which is why they stop being frightened by Acktreal's threats to eat them rather quickly.
* Website/ThatGuyWithTheGlasses:

-->'''Ryan''': I gotta say, of all the serial killer cases I've read about -- and I've read a lot --\\
'''Shane''': [[HypocriticalHumor Because you're a sicko]].\\
'''Ryan''': I am not a sicko!\\

'''Shane''': Tell you what. I love when serial killers [[ThemeSerialKiller have a fun little thing]].
* This is the norm in ''WebOriginal/{{Mortasheen}}''. Consider that [[http://scythemantis.deviantart.com/gallery/5170865?offset=24#/d3cxrlz this]] is considered the city's "Handsomest Theoretically Male Organism" and that's not as much of an OverlyNarrowSuperlative as you might think.

-->-- ''VideoGame/GearsOfWar2''

-->"[[CatchPhrase How wonderful]]!"

* ''WesternAnimation/BobsBurgers'': [[CreepyChild Louise Belcher]] is the hilariously twisted youngest daughter. She's conniving, manipulative who finds amusement in anything [[EnfantTerrible remotely abhorrent]]. Luckily since she's cute, so she can get away with it, most of the time that is. Also her nerdy sister Tina is shown to have a fetish for zombies.

** [[SeekerArchetype Dipper]] tries to convince his sister [[{{Cloudcuckoolander}} Mabel]] that her new boyfriend is a zombie. She's mostly just excited by the idea that he might be a vampire instead. [[spoiler:They're both wrong -- he's five gnomes in a costume]].
** And then there's [[spoiler:Ford, the author of the journals, who is obsessed with supernatural weirdness, even more so than Dipper.]]
** [[spoiler:Main antagonist Bill Cipher is the definition of this trope. He gleefully tortures the bodies of those he possesses, like Dipper (declaring that [[SenseFreak "pain is hilarious"]]); finds teeth pulled from a live deer and a severed, always-screaming head as suitable ‘gifts’ for those who summoned him; and the complete [[TheEndOFTheWorldAsWeKnowIt destruction of the universe]] is [[ForTheEvulz similar to a college party]] to him. But then we have to remember that he is an EldritchAbomination from a [[AnotherDimension Nightmare World]] whose morals are essentially Blue and Orange.]]

** Princess Luna arrives on a spiked chariot pulled by bat-winged pegasi, heralded by lightning and swirling clouds, and wearing a cape made of ''living bats'', and sees nothing unusual about this. Ultimately it ends up working in her favour, as she fits in great at Nightmare Night ([[YouMeanXmas pony Halloween]]).

** Luz has more than a passing interest in everything macabre and mythological. She's absolutely thrilled when she arrives in [[EldritchLocation The Boiling Isles]].

* ''WesternAnimation/TheSimpsons'': Bart Simpson loves all things gross and gory, is tickled by the hyper-violent ''[[WesternAnimation/TheItchyAndScratchyShow Itchy & Scratchy Show]]'', was once misdiagnosed as [[TheSociopath a sociopath]] after he found the journal of a 19th century mental patient fitting the description and eagerly shared it with his classmates to their perturbation, and reacted to being [[ItMakesSenseInContext eaten alive and crapped out by the personification of his own guilt]] with an eager "[[WasntThatFun Again! Again]]!" His fondness for horror was the impetus and framing device for the very first WesternAnimation/TreehouseOfHorror installment. He has a few lines, namely [[KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms being genuinely shaken by the odd horror film]] and, as a younger child, deciding to NeverSleepAgain after his father built him an [[MemeticMutation unintentionally nightmarish clown bed]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': PlayedForDrama when Lapis admits that [[spoiler:she actually ''enjoyed'' being fused with [[BloodKnight Jasper]] and trapped at the bottom of the ocean for months, despite it being a horrifying experience that pushed her sanity to the brink. As she explains, as terrible as it was, it [[PowerHigh made her feel strong again]] and allowed her to vent all the anger and pain she felt from years of trauma.]] Even more disturbingly, [[spoiler:Jasper ''also'' [[TooKinkyToTorture liked it]], taking perverse joy in the sensation of [[AggressiveSubmissive being at someone else’s mercy]] after being the strongest person in the room her whole life. She literally ''begs'' for Lapis to fuse with and imprison her again, much to Lapis' horror.]]

-->'''Wolf:''' I just '''''love''''' the smell of ''fear!''

* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'': In the "Regarding Sayaka Saeki" spinoff light novel, Chie Yuzuki, Sayaka's [[SenpaiKohai sempai]] and FirstLove, enjoys Hayashi Renma's work, just like Koyomi in the main series. Since the work in question tends to be rather disturbing, Sayaka's surprised to see [[HiddenDepths this side of Chie]], having expected Chie would enjoy more lighthearted work.

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

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

* The ''VideoGame/SuperMarioBros'' fan comic [[https://www.deviantart.com/nintendrawer/gallery/381984/i-d-like-you-to-meet- I'd like you to meet]]'' portrays Daisy as a fan of horror movies. Luigi tries his best to endure watching one with her during their date, but unlike her, he gets progressively more and more terrified as it goes.

* Edith from ''WesternAnimation/DespicableMe''. Her bedtime prayers include the request to not let bugs go into their ears and lay eggs in their skulls/brains, she finds it "cooool!" that she and her sisters are sleeping in old, inactive bombs after Gru adopts them, and she is extremely excited to see that her pancake is shaped like a "dead guy."
* Lilo of ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitch'' practices voodoo, owns a handmade doll that she pretends has a bug-infested skull, and is generally considered a freak by her peers. While this is implied to be a coping mechanism to deal with her parents' deaths, she still ends up with her only true friends being from outer space, and ''WesternAnimation/LiloAndStitchTheSeries'' has her befriending dozens of weird alien experiments.
* ''WesternAnimation/ScoobyDooAndTheGhoulSchool'': Sybella, Winnie, Elsa, Phanty, and Tanis are all this, as is Miss Grimwood herself to an extent. Examples include enjoying rotten food (including fungus fudge, toadstool tea, swamp brownies chock full of mosquitoes, and poison ivy punch) and relishing the thought of swimming in quicksand.

* In the ''Film/GodzillaKingOfTheMonsters2019'' fanfic ''Fanfic/AbraxasHrodvitnon'', [[Characters/AbraxasHrodvitnonHumans Alan Jonah]] still has an interest in studying and exploiting Ghidorah's remains (namely San's severed head and Monster X) even after the three-headed dragon almost altogether ended the very world Jonah claimed he wanted to save, which is not out-of-character given the NotSoWellIntentionedExtremist Jonah is. Jonah's fascination with Ghidorah only gets more and more creepy and intense as he suffers SanitySlippage.

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

* Tokino Sora of ''WebAnimation/{{Hololive}}'' is known for liking horror media and, consequently, being difficult to scare. Beyond simply liking them, she finds them comforting and sometimes listens to horror streams as a sleep aid.

** Vaermina, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[YourWorstNightmare Nightmares]], is a ''literal'' case. In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]'', she keeps her mortal champion in her [[EldritchLocation Daedric realm]] of Quagmire, seeming not to care that simply ''being there'' can cause MindRape, or perhaps, actually seeing it as ''a show of affection''. Quagmire itself is a realm of horrors, where reality shifts upon itself in seemingly impossible ways. Every few minutes, lightning flashes and the realm morphs into a terrifying scene, each one more frightening than the last.

** ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyVIIRemake'' reimagines Aerith as one. She describes the giant construction robotic arms as 'cute', is playful and friendly to the ghosts that terrify Tifa and Cloud, and her battle chatter has her talk to the monsters she's fighting more like she's disciplining bratty pets. She instantly bonds with Red XIII, even seeing right through his persona (notably, in the original ''VII (PSX)'', she was afraid of him at first.) On top of that, there's also her taste in men - Cloud and Zack are both {{Humanoid Abomination}}s with OccultBlueEyes that (in the case of Cloud, at least) other people find unnerving, but Aerith finds pretty.

* ''LightNovel/{{Baccano}}'':

* ''LightNovel/{{Durarara}}'': Shinra makes it known that he thinks Celty is beautiful without a head. He also spent most of grade school and high school fanboying Shizuo's crazy rage fits.

* ''LightNovel/FullMetalPanic'': Gauron harbors quite a few ''unusual'' kinks. [[InterplayOfSexAndViolence Sadomasochism]], [[PaedoHunt pedophilia]], [[ALoveToDismember necrophilia]], [[InLoveWithYourCarnage hybristophilia]], [[DeathSeeker autassassinophilia]], [[TooKinkyToTorture erotic asphyxiation]]... most of it [[StalkerWithACrush aimed at Sousuke]].

* ''LightNovel/{{Toradora}}'': Minori goes so far as to trick people into scaring her and gets a nosebleed (complete with spurting blood) from the possibility of her class setting up a haunted house for the school festival.

* ''Manga/BloomIntoYou'': In the "Regarding Sayaka Saeki" spinoff light novel, Chie Yuzuki, Sayaka's [[SempaiKohai sempai]] and FirstLove, enjoys Hayashi Renma's work, just like Koyomi in the main series. Since the work in question tends to be rather disturbing, Sayaka's surprised to see [[HiddenDepths this side of Chie]], having expected Chie would enjoy more lighthearted work.

* ''VideoGame/{{Littlewood}}'': Ash's dream pet is a Womper, a creature whose main gameplay role is to be an InvincibleMinorMinion in the Dust Caverns. On top of that, if the PlayerCharacter marries neither him nor the woman in question, he starts dating [[spoiler:the one with a periodcally-manifesting SuperpoweredEvilSide that scares most other villagers]].

** In ''Anime/SmilePrettyCure'', the resident ShrinkingViolet and CowardlyLion [[TheChick Yayoi]] is the only one excited by ghosts and something related to them -- her eyes actually sparkle at one point -- in contrast to the usually tough [[TheBigGuy Nao]], who is very afraid of ghosts (and some other things).

** [[VampireMonarch Marceline]]'s idea of what constitutes fun and excitement is rather skewed by her being both half-demon and a vampire. This makes it [[HilarityEnsues hilariously bad]] when she tries to [[PlayingCyrano Play Cyrano]] for [[KidHero Finn]] and [[TheChick Princess Bubblegum]] in "Go With Me".

** [[BigBad Yhwach]] has a nightmare of [[TheHero Ichigo Kurosaki]] defeating him and cutting him in half. Yhwach promptly wakes up, grins, and declares that there is no better dream than a nightmare. [[spoiler:This bit him in the end, as his being this blinded him to the fact it wasn't a dream, but a ''vision'', something he doesn't realize until it happens for real.]]

** Uber-villain Thanos of Titan is literally in love with [[TheGrimReaper Death]], represented/embodied by an abstract entity that usually manifests as female when it chooses to personify. Most of the mad Titan's schemes involve genocide on planetary or universal scales (or at least mass murder) to please her in hopes that she will return his love and that they can be together. Thus far, his unrequited crush has continued to spurn him, though she doesn't seem to mind leading him on to the extent that it inspires him to cull a nice harvest of slain mortals for her. She has, however, been known to smack him down personally when he goes too far and threatens all life. This is due to the fact that Death needs life to exist, as only the living can die and thus without life there can be no Death.

* In ''Fanfic/HopeForTheHeartless'', which is set after the events of ''WesternAnimation/TheBlackCauldron'', the [[ResurrectedForAJob resurrected]] [[VillainProtagonist Horned]] [[OurLichesAreDifferent King]] is revealed to have collected his slain soldiers for centuries ([[ContinuityNod as he stated in the movie]]) in preparation of using [[ArtifactOfDoom the Black Cauldron]] to make them [[AnimateDead Cauldron]]-[[DemBones Born]]. This was ''long before'' he was even certain of the Cauldron's existence, and the Cauldron-Born were his wicked joy. [[spoiler:It's revealed that he still values them to an extent: after removing the remainders of the Cauldron-Born from his lands to make [[MoralityPet Avalina]] feel more comfortable there, he stores them to his castle's dungeons where the girl never goes. He does this regardless of the fact that he could have arranged for the skeletons to vanish into thin air, and he ''knows'' that they're of no use to him anymore.]]

* Creator/HRGiger, who created the Xenomorph design for ''Film/{{Alien}}'', appears to be one, considering the sexual imagery common to his art and the fact that it was literally inspired by his subconscious night terrors. He even has a portfolio collection entitled ''Xenoerotica'', which is exactly what is sounds like.

* Although it's somewhat justified by the fact that he defuses bombs for a living, Sargent William James of ''Film/TheHurtLocker'' seems to enjoy playing with high explosives a bit more than can be considered strictly professional. And even the other bomb techs are a bit creeped out upon learning that he keeps souvenirs of every bomb he's ever handled in a box under his bed.

** Mary, too, in a way. Despite the fact she doesn't want to be InHarmsWay, she's not remotely creeped out by the kind of stuff Sherlock and John are used to. Helps that she [[spoiler: was an assassin for the CIA.]]

** Vaermina, the [[OurGodsAreDifferent Daedric Prince]] of [[YourWorstNightmare Nightmares]], is a ''literal'' case. In ''[[VideoGame/TheElderScrollsOnline Online]]'', she keeps her mortal champion in her [[EldritchLocation Daedric realm]] of Quagmire, seeming not to care of the fact that simply ''being there'' can cause MindRape, or perhaps, actually seeing it as ''a show of affection''. Quagmire itself is a realm of horrors, where reality shifts upon itself in seemingly impossible ways. Every few minutes, lightning flashes and the realm morphs into a terrifying scene, each one more frightening than the last.

** Shepard themselves can show shades of this; conversing with Jacob and Miranda about the acquisition of a krogan in a cloning tank, they can be outright gleeful about the fact that none of them know what this krogan is like. In the ''VideoGame/MassEffect3'' {{DLC}} "Leviathan", they can decide to take the severed animated head of what is either a Husk or a Cerberus trooper back to the Normandy to be installed in their cabin, at the suggestion of James Vega, who loves that thing even after it bites him and even suggests going bowling with it!

** Mikan Tsumiki in ''Goodbye Despair'' has [[ShrinkingViolet cripplingly low self-esteem]] and enjoys having power over those weaker than her, which is part of the reason she became a [[HospitalHottie nurse]] in the first place. She mentions she enjoys horror movies because [[WeaknessTurnsHerOn of how helpless the victims are]], and in the "Dangan Island" mode she [[{{Yandere}} contemplates crippling Hajime]] [[MunchausenSyndrome to keep him dependent on her]]. [[spoiler: Not to mention the fact that as Ultimate Despair, she was in a relationship of sorts with SatanicArchetype Junko Enoshima.]]

* Yuri in ''VisualNovel/DokiDokiLiteratureClub'', whose elegant yet ShrinkingViolet nature is juxtaposed by her love of horror novels, knife collection, and the fact that to write poetry that she likes you have to choose more complex, darker words like "massacre" and "entropy". [[spoiler: When Act 2 rolls around, her SanitySlippage greatly exaggerates certain parts of Yuri's personality, including this one, until she becomes an obsessive {{Yandere}} who cuts herself for sexual gratification (something that might've already been happening before but only implied) and who eventually, after creepily confessing her love to the player character, stabs herself to death in front of him with a wide-eyed, ecstatic grin on her face, whether her confession is accepted or not.]]

* ''WesternAnimation/ATaleDarkAndGrimm'': Despite the fact that she is a [[NiceGirl good raven]] and also a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Dotty]] ''loves'' blood, gore and thickness, and often tries to encourage [[TheStoryteller William]] to focus more on it.

*** The Tenth Doctor constantly ruins his own life due to the size of his Nightmare Fetish. [[Recap/DoctorWhoS28E2ToothAndClaw When]] the Doctor encounters a werewolf and it begins to break out of its cage, the look on his face is of obscene curiosity, even when everyone else is running in terror. (To be fair, it was a ''hypnotic'' werewolf.) Rose and the Doctor grin and hug over the novelty of being attacked by a werewolf when they get a moment to breathe in the midst of being chased by said werewolf. Queen Victoria berates the Doctor and Rose for their light-hearted attitude to horrifying situations, and decides to found ''Series/{{Torchwood}}'', the organisation eventually responsible for their separation, to specifically avoid that sort of thing in the future. In [[Recap/DoctorWhoS30E10Midnight "Midnight"]], his merry interest in the entity makes everyone else terrified of him, nearly resulting in his death.

* A classic Creator/CharlesAddams cartoon shows a movie audience all with somber, teary-eyed faces... except for Uncle Fester, who's grinning delightedly. Of course, [[ComicStrip/TheAddamsFamily the rest of the family]] shares his tastes.

* As mentioned in Film, Lydia in the [[RecycledTheSeries 'toon version of]] ''WesternAnimation/{{Beetlejuice}}'' not only became best friends with the gentler (but [[NauseaFuel still revolting]]) Beej, she's been shown to own spiders and worms; and everything she does from starting a band ("The Brides of Funkenstein") to designing Shakespearean costumes (which got [[Creator/WilliamShakespeare Ol' Will's]] thumbs up of approval) has strong Gothic undertones. She also spends a lot of time in the Neitherworld, where she has several other ghostly pals in addition to the B-guy.

** [[SeekerArchetype Dipper]] tries to convince his sister [[CloudCuckooLander Mabel]] that her new boyfriend is a zombie. She's mostly just excited by the idea that he might be a vampire instead. [[spoiler:They're both wrong -- he's five gnomes in a costume]].

* ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'': PlayedForDrama when Lapis admits that [[spoiler:she actually ''enjoyed'' being fused with [[BloodKnight Jasper]] and trapped at the bottom of the ocean for months, despite it being a horrifying experience that pushed her sanity to the brink. As she explains, as terrible as it was, it [[PowerHigh made her feel strong again]] and allowed her to vent all the anger and pain she felt from years of trauma.]] Even more disturbingly, [[spoiler:Jasper ''also'' [[TooKinkyToTorture liked it]], taking perverse joy in the sensation of [[AggressiveSubmissive being at someone else’s mercy]] after being the strongest person in the room her whole life. She literally ''begs'' for Lapis to fuse with and imprison her again, much to Lapis’ horror.]]
* In the ''WesternAnimation/SupermanTheAnimatedSeries'' episode "Absolute Power", Jax-Ur admires the nearby black hole into which he plans to hurl Superman. To him, it is the embodiment of absolute power. [[spoiler:Fittingly, he and Mala meet their ends in the black hole.]]
* [[TheSmurfettePrinciple Dotty]] from ''WesternAnimation/ATaleDarkAndGrimm''. Despite the fact that she is a [[NiceGirl good raven]] and also a {{Cloudcuckoolander}}, Dotty ''loves'' blood, gore and thickness, and often tries to encourage [[TheStoryteller William]] to focus more on it.