"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
Yikes! Oh! It's y-you! Sorry I f-f-freaked out like that! You just s-startled me! Well anyway, this t-trope is n-not to be confused with n-n-n-nightmare fuel, which is a popular page that describes various audience reactions, which also scares me! It's not tropes used in FEAR, though a few below are. It's not The Fear Index, even though this is one.
Compare Horror Tropes, Anxiety Tropes, and Weakness Tropes. Those really make me feel uneasy! Contrast Bravery Tropes. Oh, how I wish I were one of those! All these tropes are really scary! Let's hurry up and get this over with! I'm not sure how long I could sit through these!
Yikes! These tropes are way too scary!
Related:
- Absurd Phobia: I'm scared of something hilariously ridiculous!
- Acrophobic Bird: I'm a bird who's scared of flying!
- Afraid of Blood: Yikes! Blood!
- Afraid of Doctors: Help! The doctor's about to get me!
- Afraid of Needles: Somebody save me from those sharp, pointy things!
- Afraid of Their Own Strength: I'm scared of my own powers because they could hurt or kill people! I'm also a pacifist.
- Afraid to Hold the Baby: I'm scared of holding little ones!
- Allergic to Love: I'm so nervous due to having a crush that it's making me feel physically sick!
- Anger Born of Worry: How dare you put yourself in danger! I was worried sick about you!
- Anxiety Dreams: I just had the worst nightmare about something I feared in real life!
- Author Phobia: Yikes! This story that I wrote just scared me!
- Bat Scare: Help! Flying bats!
- "Brave the Ride" Plot: Wow that theme park ride there looks pretty uh... terrifying. Any chance we could y'know, skip it? No? Oh boy...
- Bring My Brown Pants: Yaaaaiiiiiii!! Oh great! I just soiled myself!
- Brown Note Being: I can't see it, even looking at this thing is dangerous.
- Cathartic Exhalation: *takes a deep breath* Whoa! That scary thing nearly took my breath away!
- Cat Scare: Aaahh!! Oh! It's just a cat.
- Cats Hate Water: MEEERRRRROOOOOOWWWWW!!note
- C.A.T. Trap: NOOO! I hate cat scans!
- Claustrophobia: Please don't close in on me! I get really nervous of closed spaces!
- Cowardly Lion: I'm scared of fighting! But I guess I have to do it anyway!
- Cowardly Mooks: That hero just beat up one of our virtual villain comrades! Please don't hurt me!
- Cowardly Sidekick: I'm so afraid! At least I have the hero as my partner!
- Cowardly Yellow: You can tell that I'm a coward by my association with the color yellow!
- Cower Power: I'll just hide behind someone else to protect myself!
- Creepy Cave: Get me out of here! I'm trapped in a terrifying cavern!
- Daylight Horror: Help! Evil is lurking in the morning sunlight!
- Deep Breath Reveals Tension: *inhale, hold, exhale* I'm calm. *inhale, hold, exhale* I am calm.
- Deer in the Headlights: I'm too afraid to move!
- Defanged Horrors: We're children! So all those things scares us more than the adults!
- Delayed "Oh, Crap!": Someone told me something scary. Okay. (Beat) Wait! Someone told me something scary! That means I'm doomed!
- Desperate Plea for Home: That's it! I can't take this scary place anymore! I wanna go home! NOW!
- Dirty Coward: I'm too afraid to save anyone else! I just want to save only myself because that's safer! So so long, suckers! You'll just have to pray you get out alive!
- The Dreaded: I'm a villain! Everyone fears me!
- Eldritch Abomination: Oh my god... what the hell is that weird, creepy thing?
- Elephants Are Scared of Mice: BhaaaaaaaHHHAAAaaaaaaaaa!! (Help! A mouse! I'm afraid of mice!)
- Face Your Fears: I'm scared of that thing! But it's time for me to face it like a man!
- Fake Kill Scare: No! Someone just got killed! Hey! Wait a minute! That was fake?!
- Faux Horrific: Aaah!! Wait, what do you mean it isn't scary?
- Fear Is the Appropriate Response: I'm the hero! But I'm too scared to fight!
- Fear of Thunder: Yikes! A thunderstorm!
- Fear Song: I'm scared... all I can do is sing about it.
- Fearless Fool: Pffft! I ain't scared of that thing! I'll take on it no matter how stupid it is of me!
- Fearless Infant: Yikes! This situation's so scary but the baby isn't even flinching!
- Fearless Undead: I'm The Undead! I don't get scared that easily!
- Fearsome Foot: Help! A scary guy's foot!
- Flat Scare: Yikes! Someone just shouted "Boo!" in a flat tone in my face!
- Fright Death Trap: Help! A murderer tried to kill me by literally scaring me to death!
- Fright-Induced Bunkmate: I'm so scared I can't sleep alone! Can I please sleep with you?
- Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies: I'm a woman, and I hate horror films! They're too scary for me!
- Hope Is Scary: Oh dear! My hope is scaring me!
- Horrifying the Horror: Yeah, I'm scary, but that thing is scaring me!
- Hyperventilation Bag: I'm so scared! I need a paper bag! [breathes through a paper bag]
- "I Can't Look!" Gesture: I can't look! I'm too scared!
- I Know What You Fear: Great! Someone's gonna use my fear against me! I fear they're gonna tell everyone!
- The "I Love You" Stigma: My greatest fear is using the word "love" to express my affection to another person! I really fear romance!
- I'm Not Afraid of You: Please! You can't scare me just because you rely on fear!
- Immortals Fear Death: I don't want to die! I'm supposed to live forever!
- Immune to Jump Scares: Oh please! You'll have to come up with something much more clever than a cliche jump scare to scare me.
- Improperly Paranoid: What do you mean, I'm scared for no good reason?!
- Ironic Fear: I got the abilities/species/job/etc. of something that I'm scared of! Now that's scary!
- Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: Help! My parents were right! I'm too young to be watching horror flicks!
- Lovable Coward: I'm scared! But that's why so many people love me!
- Major Coward: Let's kill some bad guys! Wait— no, screw this! Everyone else can do the fighting for me!
- Miles Gloriosus: Okay! I admit it! I'm no daredevil! I'm really a fraidy cat!
- Mirror Scare: Aaahh!! A reflection!
- Missing Child: Oh my God! My child is lost! I'm very scared!
- The Mob Boss Is Scarier: Help! A criminal!
- Mortality Phobia: I'm scared to die!
- Motivated by Fear: I'm afraid of this thing! But that's what motivated me!
- Nervous Wreck: Oh my God! I'm starting to become very nervous! Somebody please help me! I don't know what to do!
- Neverending Terror: Help! I'm in danger forever!
- Nightmare Fuel: Oh my God! That gave me nightmares!
- Nightmare Sequence: I can't sleep because I have nightmares!
- Not Afraid of You Anymore: You have mistreated me for the last time! I no longer fear you!
- Not Afraid to Die: Go ahead! Kill me! I ain't scared to die!
- Nothing Is Scarier: There's nothing scarier than something I can't see! That's my biggest fear of all!
- Oh, Crap!: Oh, no! I'm doomed!
- "Oh, Crap!" Fakeout: Oh, no! I'm doomed! Wait! This was a fakeout?!
- "Oh, Crap!" Smile: I'm smiling out of realizing I'm in a pickle!
- One-Episode Fear: I'm scared of that thing! Because the script said so for only this episode!
- Orphanage of Fear: I'm afraid of this orphanage! My parents were never this cruel to me like these "guardians"!
- Outscare the Enemy: Yikes! That hero is even scarier than me!
- Pacifism Is Cowardice: Pacifism is either portrayed as cowardice by the narrative or viewed as such by certain characters In-Universe.
- Panicky Expectant Father: My wife's in labor! I'm starting to feel nervous!
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: I'm not asexual, but I'm very nervous to lose my virginity!
- Paranoia Gambit: Oh my God! I'm starting to feel nervous! Someone help me! Wait! That person didn't actually do it?! This was all a way to make me feel scared for nothing?!
- The Paranoiac: Stay away from me! I don't trust anyone or anything!
- Performance Anxiety: I can't perform! I get stage fright!
- Poorly Lit Pareidolia: There are scary faces in the rocks and trees and furniture!
- Pregnancy Scare: I might be pregnant! I'm starting to become nervous! I'm not ready for child birth!
- Previews Pulse: Yikes! That chord playing in the trailer just scared me!
- Primal Fear: This scares us all out of instinct!
- Properly Paranoid: I knew it! I told you I had an excellent reason to be nervous!
- Quaking with Fear: I'm so afraid, I'm shaking!
- Reactive Continuous Scream:
- Realism-Induced Horror: This seems way too plausible.
- Rule of Scary: I don't care if it doesn't make any sense! It still scares me!
- Safety Freak: Gotta make things safe at all costs! The world's too scary NOT to!!
- Safe Under Blankets: Scary! Better hide under here!
- Scare Chord: Aaahh! That music was the perfect chord to demonstrate my reaction!
- Scare Campaign: Help! This political ad has convinced me the other one is scary! I'm staying away from it!
- Scare Dare: O-okay! I g-g-g-guess I'll d-d-do what I was d-d-d-dared to!
- Scared of What's Behind You: Good! I scared that person away! [feels tap in the shoulder] Yikes!
- Scare 'Em Straight: This person just got me to do something by scaring me! It could happen if I don't comply!
- Scarily Specific Story: Whoa, that ghost story you just told sounds way too similar to what's going on right now!
- Scary Science Words: Ahh! Those technical words give me the creeps!
- Scary Shadow Fakeout: Help! That shadow's moving!
- Scary Teeth: Uh oh! That guy's teeth is really scaring me!
- Screaming Woman: I'm a woman! I can't help it if I scream a lot when I'm scared!
- Screams Like a Little Girl: Aaaaaaahhh! Okay, tell anyone that my scream sounded girly, and you're dead!
- Security Cling: Help! I have to grab onto my partner because I'm so scared!
- So Hideous, It's Terrifying: Let's all stay away from that hideous creature! It's far too terrifying to be around with!
- Shy Shelled Animal: I must hide inside my shell! Too nervous to come out!
- The So-Called Coward: They think I'm a coward, huh?! Well, it time for me to refute them!
- Stress Vomit: I'm so scared that I just puked!
- Supernatural Fear Inducer: Yaaahh! A supernatural power is scary!
- Tears of Fear: I'm afraid! These tears I have in my eyes show this!
- Technophobia: No! Contemporary technology scares me!
- Terrified of Germs: Help! Germs! Sick disgusting germs! The worst thing to have around me!
- Terror Hero: Great! That hero is taking advantage of my fear! Why did I, a villain, have to be scared in front of him?!
- Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: Help! Monsters! I can hear them bumping in my bed! And now in my closet! Hell, they're everywhere!
- This Is No Time to Panic: Gah! That person gave us permission to freak out after previously telling us not to, so now we're all losing it!
- Up Close with the Monster: I'm feeling very uncomfortable facing this monster! I'm scared!
- Victory Through Intimidation: We can't fight! We're all too scared!
- The Villain Knows Where You Live: Help! The villain is everywhere! He found out where I live!
- "What Do They Fear?" Episode: Why are these people trying to find out what I fear?! They're wasting their time! [in the end] Yikes! They actually found it!
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: I've got a very specific phobia that I'm too scared to even talk about!
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: My eyes are bulging in fear! My irises have also shrank!
- Worrying for the Wrong Reason: I'm starting to feel worried! Wait! Are you telling me to worry about something else?!
- You Can Panic Now: Aaaaahhh! These media articles scare me!
- Your Worst Nightmare: How did that villain get into my nightmares?! I'm even more scared!
You were very brave, facing them all...
