"Your Worst Nightmare is about someone or something having a power to give someone else nightmares."
Note that Nightmare Weaver exists? Merge? EDIT: Laconics are different and says that Nightmare Weaver is "Lord Of Nightmares" instead of just "Power to make nightmares"?
EDIT: Wick check did note its existence, and Nightmare Weaver says:
"Particularly cruel ones like to pull you into Your Worst Nightmare, as well as alcohol poisoning to those who take a shot every time the word "nightmare" is mentioned in this article."
Implying that it's takes Your Worst Nightmare as literally "Your Worst Nightmare", not just a generic nightmare.
Edited by Malady on Mar 10th 2023 at 1:05:55 AM
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It does sound like Nightmare Weaver is just a better-named and better-written version of what Your Worst Nightmare is trying to be.
Since the wick check shows Your Worst Nightmare was mostly being misused as I Know What You Fear, maybe it's best to disambiguate Your Worst Nightmare between I Know What You Fear, Nightmare Weaver, and I'm Your Worst Nightmare.
Definitely changed my mind too. Your Worst Nightmare seems to be multiple tropes at the same time. Disambiguate.
Working on Sandbox.The Amazing Race TV Tropes Edition.Multiple preexistent tropes? Disambig.
Vehicle-Based Characterization | Grief-Induced Split | Locker MailDisambiguate. (I'm not sure there's a significant difference between various supernatural powers that target fear, anyway. Nightmare Weaver just sounds like the intersection of I Know What You Fear + Dream Weaver.)
ERROR: The current state of the world is unacceptable. Save anyway? YES/NODisambig between Nightmare Weaver, I Know What You Fear and I'm Your Worst Nightmare.
TroperWall / WikiMagic Cleanup460, cleaned out all Main/ wicks. Added "What Do They Fear?" Episode to the disambig.
EDIT: 400.
EDIT 2: Under 300.
Edited by Theriocephalus on Mar 22nd 2023 at 6:21:05 AM
Characters/ cleared out. Lots of ZCEs, a lot of which interpreted the name based on what "your worst nightmare" means in everyday usage, and I think I only found one example who was feared enough for the example to be moved to The Dreaded (which I added to the disambiguation page).
I got a rock for Halloween.

Your Worst Nightmare is about someone or something having a power to give someone else nightmares. However, some people have raised a couple of issues. Due to the stock phrase-y title, there were concerns that the trope is being misused as a stock phrase. There were also concerns that the trope is being misused for "discovering other people's fears" powers (like bringing them to life), which is already covered by I Know What You Fear. A wick check revealed the following statistics:
Pegasus Interviewer: Falling, in your dreams, the kitchen sink, and a forklift. Pothole mentions killing someone in their dreams.
From the results, only one wick was used in a stock phrase sense, so that concern... was not a concern. The other concern regarding misuse, however, seems to be supported by the statistics, and there are loads of Zero-Context Examples as well, since more than 1/5 of the wicks checked lack enough information.
My ideas I wish to propose are to clean the trope, and maybe even rename it.
Edited by Berrenta on Mar 24th 2023 at 10:26:47 AM
Working on Sandbox.The Amazing Race TV Tropes Edition.