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* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': There are very few things that superheroes and supervillains tend to be utterly terrified of, in that universe. The Endbringers are one, Contessa and the Number Man are another. A third, however, is the Slaughterhouse Nine, and even amongst ''them'', each and every one of them is very wary, very careful, and very ''scared'' of the Grey Boy.
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* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': There are very few things that superheroes and supervillains tend to be utterly terrified of, in that universe. The Endbringers are one, Contessa and the Number Man are another. A third, however, is the Slaughterhouse Nine, and even amongst ''them'', each and every one of them is very wary, very careful, and very ''scared'' of the Grey Boy.Gray Boy.
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* In "Literature/LoneHuntress" the entire Federation maintains a wary vigilance against [[{{The Greys}} the Fey]], a hive minded alien species controlled by the Overone, which attempted to conquer humanity the way it had countless other species. The first time Lisa goes up against them, the Overone deems Lisa to be weapons grade NightmareFuel to the extent that [[spoiler:the Fey actively make a point of harassing her, in the hopes of killing or traumatizing her before she can share her ability to resist their telepathic assaults with other humans]].
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** ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'': The Scissor Man, a monster made entirely of sharp edges that exists to scare children out of sucking their thumbs by threatening to sever them, is shown to tread ''very'' carefully around Susan Sto Helit in ''Literature/{{Hogfather}}'' after a previous incident where it came after one of the children she was caring for and learned the hard way that Susan 1) could see it because she's Death's granddaughter, 2) did not tolerate that kind of behaviour, and 3) was entirely willing to discourage monsters under the bed and things that go bump in the night from frightening the children in her care by [[MamaBear beating them into submission with a fire poker and throwing them out of the house]]. It becomes as polite as an unspeaking scissor monster can get at the mention of the poker.
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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': Normally, zombies will [[ZurgSwarm mindlessly swarm]] anything that moves, even if it's something like a squad of heavily-armed Marines who are mowing them down with gunfire. However, once Wolf Squadron gets ahold of a working Abrams tank in ''Strands of Sorrow'' and puts it to work [[CurbStompBattle easily cutting through]] a horde several ''thousand'' zombies strong, the surviving ones rediscover their survival instinct and flee as fast as they can, the narration noting that their feral brains are finally recognizing something other than themselves as a predator.
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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': Normally, zombies will [[ZurgSwarm [[ZergRush mindlessly swarm]] anything that moves, even if it's something like a squad of heavily-armed Marines who are mowing them down with gunfire. However, once Wolf Squadron gets ahold of a working Abrams tank in ''Strands of Sorrow'' and puts it to work [[CurbStompBattle easily cutting through]] a horde several ''thousand'' zombies strong, the surviving ones rediscover their survival instinct and flee as fast as they can, the narration noting that their feral brains are finally recognizing something other than themselves as a predator.
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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': Normally, zombies will [[ZergSwarm mindlessly swarm]] anything that moves, even if it's something like a squad of heavily-armed Marines who are mowing them down with gunfire. However, once Wolf Squadron gets ahold of a working Abrams tank in ''Strands of Sorrow'' and puts it to work [[CurbStompBattle easily cutting through]] a horde several ''thousand'' zombies strong, the surviving ones rediscover their survival instinct and flee as fast as they can, the narration noting that their feral brains are finally recognizing something other than themselves as a predator.
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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': Normally, zombies will [[ZergSwarm [[ZurgSwarm mindlessly swarm]] anything that moves, even if it's something like a squad of heavily-armed Marines who are mowing them down with gunfire. However, once Wolf Squadron gets ahold of a working Abrams tank in ''Strands of Sorrow'' and puts it to work [[CurbStompBattle easily cutting through]] a horde several ''thousand'' zombies strong, the surviving ones rediscover their survival instinct and flee as fast as they can, the narration noting that their feral brains are finally recognizing something other than themselves as a predator.
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* ''Literature/BlackTideRising'': Normally, zombies will [[ZergSwarm mindlessly swarm]] anything that moves, even if it's something like a squad of heavily-armed Marines who are mowing them down with gunfire. However, once Wolf Squadron gets ahold of a working Abrams tank in ''Strands of Sorrow'' and puts it to work [[CurbStompBattle easily cutting through]] a horde several ''thousand'' zombies strong, the surviving ones rediscover their survival instinct and flee as fast as they can, the narration noting that their feral brains are finally recognizing something other than themselves as a predator.
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* In Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath'', servants of Nyarlathotep, including (and especially) the monstrous [[GiantFlyer Shantak birds]] are absolutely terrified of Nightgaunts, because they serve Nodens, Nyarlathotep's [[JustForPun (im)mortal]] enemy and the only being who really poses any kind of threat to him in the Dreamlands.
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* In Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath'', servants of Nyarlathotep, including (and especially) the monstrous [[GiantFlyer Shantak birds]] are absolutely terrified of Nightgaunts, because they serve Nodens, Nyarlathotep's [[JustForPun (im)mortal]] (im)mortal enemy and the only being who really poses any kind of threat to him in the Dreamlands.
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* When Lord Nachtos materialises in the Cupid Homeworld in the ''Literature/TheCrewOfTheCopperColoredCupids'' story ''The Copper-Colored Cupids go Caroling'', his recurring fellow EldritchAbomination Lord Thymon locks himself in the nearest building without so much as a by-your-leave.
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* ''Literature/ChrysalisRinoZ'': When Crinis gets going with her razor-barbed tentacles operating like chainsaws, even giant monstrous spiders tend to run away in fear (but not always successfully). The fact that she has skills like Greater Fear Inspiration probably contributes, too. Oh, and she later develops a scream that has an associated psychic component, directly attacking the mind with terror. But then, to cap it off, she picks up "soul seeker cilia", allowing her to drive her tentacles into her enemies' brains and push them over the brink of insanity.
-->If I hadn't been paying such close attention, I might not have noticed how those root-like, ethereal appendages drilled down into the monsters, slipping straight through whatever hide, skeleton or mucous covered them and penetrating their brains. I held my breath as they grew still for a moment, each of the beasts frozen in place like a nightmare painting.\\
Then they screamed.
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': The high priest/ess of the Cult of Helgrind had all of their limbs amputated out of faith but is psychically strong enough to incapacitate a Dragon Rider, elven princess, and dragon simultaneously. When Angela manages to move enough to pose a threat, they begin freaking out. When Angela whispers her true name to them, they’re utterly horrified.
-->If I hadn't been paying such close attention, I might not have noticed how those root-like, ethereal appendages drilled down into the monsters, slipping straight through whatever hide, skeleton or mucous covered them and penetrating their brains. I held my breath as they grew still for a moment, each of the beasts frozen in place like a nightmare painting.\\
Then they screamed.
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': The high priest/ess of the Cult of Helgrind had all of their limbs amputated out of faith but is psychically strong enough to incapacitate a Dragon Rider, elven princess, and dragon simultaneously. When Angela manages to move enough to pose a threat, they begin freaking out. When Angela whispers her true name to them, they’re utterly horrified.
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** The sight of [[spoiler: Errand]] is enough to send a ''[[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Demon Lord]]'' fleeing in abject terror at one point.
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* In ''Literature/BlackLegion'', another group of Chaos Astartes, this time accompanied by a daemon and a Dark Eldar, is horrified at the sight of [[MadScientist Fabius Bile's]] experiments, especially [[spoiler:his attempts at cloning the Primarchs.]]
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* In ''Literature/BlackLegion'', another group of Chaos Astartes, this time accompanied by a daemon and a Dark Eldar, is horrified at the sight of [[MadScientist Fabius Bile's]] experiments, especially [[spoiler:his attempts at cloning the Primarchs.]]
Primarchs]].
*''Literature/{{Discworld}}''''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Aliens II'': The hostile aliens in ''George Pinkerton and the Space Waffles'' become absolutely terrified of humans when they discover, via Pinkerton and Billy, that they look just like a common breakfast item on Earth.
* ''Literature/ChrysalisRinoZ'': When Crinis gets going with her razor-barbed tentacles operating like chainsaws, even giant monstrous spiders tend to run away in fear (but not always successfully). The fact that she has skills like Greater Fear Inspiration probably contributes, too. Oh, and she later develops a scream that has an associated psychic component, directly attacking the mind with terror. But then, to cap it off, she picks up "soul seeker cilia", allowing her to drive her tentacles into her enemies' brains and push them over the brink of insanity.
-->If I hadn't been paying such close attention, I might not have noticed how those root-like, ethereal appendages drilled down into the monsters, slipping straight through whatever hide, skeleton or mucous covered them and penetrating their brains. I held my breath as they grew still for a moment, each of the beasts frozen in place like a nightmare painting.\\
Then they screamed.
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* ''Literature/ChrysalisRinoZ'': When Crinis gets going with her razor-barbed tentacles operating like chainsaws, even giant monstrous spiders tend to run away in fear (but not always successfully). The fact that she has skills like Greater Fear Inspiration probably contributes, too. Oh, and she later develops a scream that has an associated psychic component, directly attacking the mind with terror. But then, to cap it off, she picks up "soul seeker cilia", allowing her to drive her tentacles into her enemies' brains and push them over the brink of insanity.
-->If I hadn't been paying such close attention, I might not have noticed how those root-like, ethereal appendages drilled down into the monsters, slipping straight through whatever hide, skeleton or mucous covered them and penetrating their brains. I held my breath as they grew still for a moment, each of the beasts frozen in place like a nightmare painting.\\
Then they screamed.
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* In Act II of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' the first indication that [[WarriorMonk Father Kiyoshi]] is a force to be reckoned with is [[spoiler: his first encounter with the Osthan. To be specific, his very ''presence is enough to put them on edge. He then proceeds to slice their assault rifles in half, single-handedly hold all three of them off in a SwordFight, ''then'' summons a katana out of thin air -- which he then uses to slice the hand off of one Osthan. All three of them flee before him. For the record, the Osthan are MadeOfIndestructium {{Hero Killer}}s who have been known to take on entire armies and win]].
* The Children in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', a group of [[spoiler: somewhat sympathetic [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]]]], are terrified of a creature they call the Imp. [[spoiler: It's Yoda.]] They're willing to follow our heroes after giant knobby white spiders, but not where they think they've seen the Imp.
* The Children in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', a group of [[spoiler: somewhat sympathetic [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]]]], are terrified of a creature they call the Imp. [[spoiler: It's Yoda.]] They're willing to follow our heroes after giant knobby white spiders, but not where they think they've seen the Imp.
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* In Act II of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' the first indication that [[WarriorMonk Father Kiyoshi]] is a force to be reckoned with is [[spoiler: his [[spoiler:his first encounter with the Osthan. To be specific, his very ''presence is enough to put them on edge. He then proceeds to slice their assault rifles in half, single-handedly hold all three of them off in a SwordFight, ''then'' summons a katana out of thin air -- which he then uses to slice the hand off of one Osthan. All three of them flee before him. For the record, the Osthan are MadeOfIndestructium {{Hero Killer}}s who have been known to take on entire armies and win]].
* The Children in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', a group of[[spoiler: somewhat [[spoiler:somewhat sympathetic [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]]]], are terrified of a creature they call the Imp. [[spoiler: It's [[spoiler:It's Yoda.]] They're willing to follow our heroes after giant knobby white spiders, but not where they think they've seen the Imp.
* The Children in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', a group of
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': The high priest/ess of the Cult of Helgrind had all of their limbs amputated out of faith but is psychically strong enough to incapacitate a Dragon Rider, elven princess, and dragon simultaneously. When Angela manages to move enough to pose a threat, they begin freaking out. When Angela whispers her true name to them, they’re utterly horrified.
* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', [[spoiler:Class 6 Franchise/CthulhuMythos Horrors like Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu seems to be extremely afraid (and are at war with) the beings called the Cold Ones. Their attempts to take over governments (UK for Nyarlathotep, USA for Cthulhu) seem to partly be for getting extra resources for said war, and other part being to help fully wake them up]].
* In ''Literature/LogHorizon'', when Shiroe finally meets the final boss in a dungeon raid, he realizes that said boss is ''sweating in fear''. He then has the revelation that from the boss's perspective, Adventurer's like Shiroe are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are not only strong and smart enough to represent a threat, they're effectively unstoppable because no matter how many times the boss kills them, they just keep coming back ready to fight again but this time with strategies to counter whatever the boss threw at them before.
* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', [[spoiler:Class 6 Franchise/CthulhuMythos Horrors like Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu seems to be extremely afraid (and are at war with) the beings called the Cold Ones. Their attempts to take over governments (UK for Nyarlathotep, USA for Cthulhu) seem to partly be for getting extra resources for said war, and other part being to help fully wake them up]].
* In ''Literature/LogHorizon'', when Shiroe finally meets the final boss in a dungeon raid, he realizes that said boss is ''sweating in fear''. He then has the revelation that from the boss's perspective, Adventurer's like Shiroe are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are not only strong and smart enough to represent a threat, they're effectively unstoppable because no matter how many times the boss kills them, they just keep coming back ready to fight again but this time with strategies to counter whatever the boss threw at them before.
* ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'': Ryn, the immortal goddess of vengeance, so named because her entire existence is based on hunting down monsters and eating their hearts, which causes their souls to spend the rest of time burning in the fires that rage inside her body. At one point a demon freezes time as she attacks him, to try to talk her out of it. She calmly asks him what others call her. He says "The Implacable One" and promptly accepts his death.
* ''Literature/TheScholomance'': Early in ''The Golden Enclaves'', [[spoiler:four teenagers fresh out of the Scholomance venture into the underground passages within the London Enclave and come upon the [[TheDreaded maw-mouth]] that has penetrated the defenses in a chamber wearing away at some internal wards in order to get at some [[ToServeMan munchies]]. The gigantic BlobMonster [[EyesDoNotBelongThere looks]] at the newcomers, charges toward them at its deceptively impressive top speed, completely surrounds the shield one of them threw up on reflex for several terrifying seconds, and... keeps going out the way the kids came in and down the adjacent corridor out of sight as swiftly as it can manage. It was only then that it sank in, the NighInvulnerable building-sized manifestation of unending hunger was not actually ''attacking'' them so much as getting to the only available exit (behind them) into an area where it could maximize functional distance between them and break contact. Or to put the matter into LaymansTerms, the thing that had tanked everything the mightiest wizards of London could throw at it and was certain to hollow out their bespoke PocketDimension immediately '''ran away to hide''' upon taking one look at Galadriel 'El' Higgins]].
* In ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' the titular former sun god recounts a time when he attended one of [[TheCaligula Caligula's]] parties when the emperor was having "An off day." Apollo, [[JerkassGod as narcissistic and apathetic to the plight of mortals as he is]], is utterly terrified of Caligula, enough to the point that he momentarily forgets he's immortal and Caligula can't hurt him. He stays away from Rome for decades after that particular encounter.
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* In ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' the titular former sun god recounts a time when he attended one of [[TheCaligula Caligula's]] parties when the emperor was having "An off day." Apollo, [[JerkassGod as narcissistic and apathetic to the plight of mortals as he is]], is utterly terrified of Caligula, enough to the point that he momentarily forgets he's immortal and Caligula can't hurt him. He stays away from Rome for decades after that particular encounter.
* ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'': Ryn, the immortal goddess of vengeance, so named because her entire existence is based on hunting down monsters and eating their hearts, which causes their souls to spend the rest of time burning in the fires that rage inside her body. At one point a demon freezes time as she attacks him, to try to talk her out of it. She calmly asks him what others call her. He says "The Implacable One" and promptly accepts his death.
* In ''Literature/LogHorizon'', when Shiroe finally meets the final boss in a dungeon raid, he realizes that said boss is ''sweating in fear''. He then has the revelation that from the boss's perspective, Adventurer's like Shiroe are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are not only strong and smart enough to represent a threat, they're effectively unstoppable because no matter how many times the boss kills them, they just keep coming back ready to fight again but this time with strategies to counter whatever the boss threw at them before.
* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', [[spoiler:Class 6 Franchise/CthulhuMythos Horrors like Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu seems to be extremely afraid (and are at war with) the beings called the Cold Ones. Their attempts to take over governments (UK for Nyarlathotep, USA for Cthulhu) seem to partly be for getting extra resources for said war, and other part being to help fully wake them up.]]
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Aliens II'': The hostile aliens in ''George Pinkerton and the Space Waffles'' become absolutely terrified of humans when they discover, via Pinkerton and Billy, that they look just like a common breakfast item on Earth.
* Early in ''[[Literature/TheScholomance The Golden Enclaves]]'', [[spoiler:four teenagers fresh out of the Scholomance venture into the underground passages within the London Enclave and come upon the [[TheDreaded maw-mouth]] that has penetrated the defenses in a chamber wearing away at some internal wards in order to get at some [[ToServeMan munchies]]. The gigantic BlobMonster [[EyesDoNotBelongThere looks]] at the newcomers, charges toward them at its deceptively impressive top speed, completely surrounds the shield one of them threw up on reflex for several terrifying seconds, and... keeps going out the way the kids came in and down the adjacent corridor out of sight as swiftly as it can manage. It was only then that it sank in, the NighInvulnerable building-sized manifestation of unending hunger was not actually ''attacking'' them so much as getting to the only available exit (behind them) into an area where it could maximize functional distance between them and break contact. Or to put the matter into LaymansTerms, the thing that had tanked everything the mightiest wizards of London could throw at it and was certain to hollow out their bespoke PocketDimension immediately '''ran away to hide''' upon taking one look at Galadriel 'El' Higgins]].
* ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'': Ryn, the immortal goddess of vengeance, so named because her entire existence is based on hunting down monsters and eating their hearts, which causes their souls to spend the rest of time burning in the fires that rage inside her body. At one point a demon freezes time as she attacks him, to try to talk her out of it. She calmly asks him what others call her. He says "The Implacable One" and promptly accepts his death.
* In ''Literature/LogHorizon'', when Shiroe finally meets the final boss in a dungeon raid, he realizes that said boss is ''sweating in fear''. He then has the revelation that from the boss's perspective, Adventurer's like Shiroe are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are not only strong and smart enough to represent a threat, they're effectively unstoppable because no matter how many times the boss kills them, they just keep coming back ready to fight again but this time with strategies to counter whatever the boss threw at them before.
* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', [[spoiler:Class 6 Franchise/CthulhuMythos Horrors like Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu seems to be extremely afraid (and are at war with) the beings called the Cold Ones. Their attempts to take over governments (UK for Nyarlathotep, USA for Cthulhu) seem to partly be for getting extra resources for said war, and other part being to help fully wake them up.]]
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Aliens II'': The hostile aliens in ''George Pinkerton and the Space Waffles'' become absolutely terrified of humans when they discover, via Pinkerton and Billy, that they look just like a common breakfast item on Earth.
* Early in ''[[Literature/TheScholomance The Golden Enclaves]]'', [[spoiler:four teenagers fresh out of the Scholomance venture into the underground passages within the London Enclave and come upon the [[TheDreaded maw-mouth]] that has penetrated the defenses in a chamber wearing away at some internal wards in order to get at some [[ToServeMan munchies]]. The gigantic BlobMonster [[EyesDoNotBelongThere looks]] at the newcomers, charges toward them at its deceptively impressive top speed, completely surrounds the shield one of them threw up on reflex for several terrifying seconds, and... keeps going out the way the kids came in and down the adjacent corridor out of sight as swiftly as it can manage. It was only then that it sank in, the NighInvulnerable building-sized manifestation of unending hunger was not actually ''attacking'' them so much as getting to the only available exit (behind them) into an area where it could maximize functional distance between them and break contact. Or to put the matter into LaymansTerms, the thing that had tanked everything the mightiest wizards of London could throw at it and was certain to hollow out their bespoke PocketDimension immediately '''ran away to hide''' upon taking one look at Galadriel 'El' Higgins]].
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* ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'': Ryn, the immortal goddess of vengeance, so named because her entire existence is based on hunting down monsters and eating their hearts, which causes their souls to spend the rest of time burning in the fires that rage inside her body. At one point a demon freezes time as she attacks him, to try to talk her out of it. She calmly asks him what others call her. He says "The Implacable One" and promptly accepts his death.
* In ''Literature/LogHorizon'', when Shiroe finally meets the final boss in a dungeon raid, he realizes that said boss is ''sweating in fear''. He then has the revelation that from the boss's perspective, Adventurer's like Shiroe are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are not only strong and smart enough to represent a threat, they're effectively unstoppable because no matter how many times the boss kills them, they just keep coming back ready to fight again but this time with strategies to counter whatever the boss threw at them before.
* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', [[spoiler:Class 6 Franchise/CthulhuMythos Horrors like Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu seems to be extremely afraid (and are at war with) the beings called the Cold Ones. Their attempts to take over governments (UK for Nyarlathotep, USA for Cthulhu) seem to partly be for getting extra resources for said war, and other part being to help fully wake them up.]]
* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Aliens II'': The hostile aliens in ''George Pinkerton and the Space Waffles'' become absolutely terrified of humans when they discover, via Pinkerton and Billy, that they look just like a common breakfast item on Earth.
* Early in ''[[Literature/TheScholomance The Golden Enclaves]]'', [[spoiler:four teenagers fresh out of the Scholomance venture into the underground passages within the London Enclave and come upon the [[TheDreaded maw-mouth]] that has penetrated the defenses in a chamber wearing away at some internal wards in order to get at some [[ToServeMan munchies]]. The gigantic BlobMonster [[EyesDoNotBelongThere looks]] at the newcomers, charges toward them at its deceptively impressive top speed, completely surrounds the shield one of them threw up on reflex for several terrifying seconds, and... keeps going out the way the kids came in and down the adjacent corridor out of sight as swiftly as it can manage. It was only then that it sank in, the NighInvulnerable building-sized manifestation of unending hunger was not actually ''attacking'' them so much as getting to the only available exit (behind them) into an area where it could maximize functional distance between them and break contact. Or to put the matter into LaymansTerms, the thing that had tanked everything the mightiest wizards of London could throw at it and was certain to hollow out their bespoke PocketDimension immediately '''ran away to hide''' upon taking one look at Galadriel 'El' Higgins]].
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* In ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'', when Shiroe finally meets the final boss in a dungeon raid, he realizes that said boss is ''sweating in fear''. He then has the revelation that from the boss's perspective, Adventurer's like Shiroe are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are not only strong and smart enough to represent a threat, they're effectively unstoppable because no matter how many times the boss kills them, they just keep coming back ready to fight again but this time with strategies to counter whatever the boss threw at them before.
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* In ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'', ''Literature/LogHorizon'', when Shiroe finally meets the final boss in a dungeon raid, he realizes that said boss is ''sweating in fear''. He then has the revelation that from the boss's perspective, Adventurer's like Shiroe are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are not only strong and smart enough to represent a threat, they're effectively unstoppable because no matter how many times the boss kills them, they just keep coming back ready to fight again but this time with strategies to counter whatever the boss threw at them before.
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* Brian Yi, Proxy, becomes this in ''Literature/TheInfected''. Brian has the power to take the place of people who are about to die, anywhere in the world, which is initially treated as a death sentence. Since Brian could be dropped into any number of bad situations at any moment with no support or weapons, he's trained from the beginning to go for the throat. After a few fights (including ripping out a superpowered serial killer's throat with his teeth) Proxy achieves a MemeticBadass state and becomes the boogieman to murderers, who now must forever wonder if their next victim is going to suddenly turn into an angry and buff Asian guy.
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* Brian Yi, Proxy, becomes this in ''Literature/TheInfected''. Brian has the power to take the place of people who are about to die, anywhere in the world, which is initially treated as a death sentence. Since Brian could be dropped into any number of bad situations at any moment with no support or weapons, he's trained from the beginning to go for the throat. After a few fights (including ripping out a superpowered serial killer's throat with his teeth) Proxy achieves a MemeticBadass state TheDreaded status and becomes the boogieman to murderers, who now must forever wonder if their next victim is going to suddenly turn into an angry and buff Asian guy.
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* Literature/TolkiensLegendarium:
** Goblins and Orcs of all stripes are ''very'' easily panicked and dismayed. They can certainly be bold if they think they're in a position of advantage or are attacking something weaker than themselves, but if the tables are turned or they don't have the Will of their master (either Morgoth or Sauron) behind them, they can and will collapse and rout at the drop of a hat (for example, when the Ring went into the fire at the end of ''Return of the King'', only the Men under Sauron's control continued to fight. The Orcs broke and ran). Boromir's horn ''alone'' was enough to hold off the Uruk-hai sent by Saruman to claim the Ring for a few moments, and they only regained their courage when they realized no help was coming. When Théoden later sounded Helm's Horn during the siege of the Hornburg, the Orcs threw themselves on the ground and stopped their ears, and only the Men of Dunland put up any sort of resistance. The ''very sight'' of an Elven blade such as [[CoolSword Sting or Glamdring]] is enough to terrify ''armies'' of Orcs, and very few Orcs were willing to stand against Andúril.
** Goblins and Orcs of all stripes are ''very'' easily panicked and dismayed. They can certainly be bold if they think they're in a position of advantage or are attacking something weaker than themselves, but if the tables are turned or they don't have the Will of their master (either Morgoth or Sauron) behind them, they can and will collapse and rout at the drop of a hat (for example, when the Ring went into the fire at the end of ''Return of the King'', only the Men under Sauron's control continued to fight. The Orcs broke and ran). Boromir's horn ''alone'' was enough to hold off the Uruk-hai sent by Saruman to claim the Ring for a few moments, and they only regained their courage when they realized no help was coming. When Théoden later sounded Helm's Horn during the siege of the Hornburg, the Orcs threw themselves on the ground and stopped their ears, and only the Men of Dunland put up any sort of resistance. The ''very sight'' of an Elven blade such as [[CoolSword Sting or Glamdring]] is enough to terrify ''armies'' of Orcs, and very few Orcs were willing to stand against Andúril.
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** Goblins and Orcs of all stripes are ''very'' easily panicked and dismayed. They can certainly be bold if they think they're in a position of advantage or are attacking something weaker than themselves, but if the tables are turned or they don't have the Will of their master(either Morgoth or Sauron) behind them, they can and will collapse and rout at the drop of a hat (for example, when the Ring went into the fire at the end of ''Return of the King'', only the Men under Sauron's control continued to fight. The Orcs broke and ran). Boromir's horn ''alone'' was enough to hold off the Uruk-hai sent by Saruman to claim the Ring for a few moments, and they only regained their courage when they realized no help was coming. When Théoden later sounded Helm's Horn during the siege of the Hornburg, the Orcs threw themselves on the ground and stopped their ears, and only the Men of Dunland put up any sort of resistance. The ''very sight'' of an Elven blade such as [[CoolSword Sting or Glamdring]] is enough to terrify ''armies'' of Orcs, and very few Orcs were willing to stand against Andúril.
** Goblins and Orcs of all stripes are ''very'' easily panicked and dismayed. They can certainly be bold if they think they're in a position of advantage or are attacking something weaker than themselves, but if the tables are turned or they don't have the Will of their master
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*** Sauron was also terrified by the army of Numenor, an army not of Maia and high Elves but of Men. Sauron then managed to convince the Numenoreans to attack Valinor and the ''gods'' (the Valar) were scared. Although maybe it was more that the Valar didn't want a war on their homeland. (Then the Valar did SummonBiggerFish, laying down their power and calling upon the Creator who did RocksFallEveryoneDies on the Numenoreans.)
** Aragorn deliberately invokes this trope when he confronts Sauron in the Palantir in order to make Sauron focus on him and draw his attention away from Mordor where Frodo and Sam are sneaking towards Mount Doom. Purportedly, Sauron has a minor freak-out at the sight of both Isildur's Heir and the reforged Narsil.
** In the ''Silmarillion'', Ungoliant becomes so enormous and powerful after devouring the light of the Two Trees that Morgoth is scared of her. For good reason too, as she very nearly kills him shortly afterward, and only a whole bunch of Balrogs coming to his rescue prevented that. For those unfamiliar, Morgoth is Middle-Earth's version of ''Satan''.
** Morgoth was also sent running in terror by Tulkas
** Aragorn deliberately invokes this trope when he confronts Sauron in the Palantir in order to make Sauron focus on him and draw his attention away from Mordor where Frodo and Sam are sneaking towards Mount Doom. Purportedly, Sauron has a minor freak-out at the sight of both Isildur's Heir and the reforged Narsil.
** In the ''Silmarillion'', Ungoliant becomes so enormous and powerful after devouring the light of the Two Trees that Morgoth is scared of her. For good reason too, as she very nearly kills him shortly afterward, and only a whole bunch of Balrogs coming to his rescue prevented that. For those unfamiliar, Morgoth is Middle-Earth's version of ''Satan''.
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** In ''Literature/TheLordOfTheRings'', Aragorn deliberately invokes this trope when he confronts Sauron in the Palantir in order to make Sauron focus on him and draw his attention away from Mordor where Frodo and Sam are sneaking towards Mount Doom. Purportedly, Sauron has a minor freak-out at the sight of both Isildur's Heir and the reforged Narsil.
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** ''Literature/BerenAndLuthien'': When Lúthien sneaks into Angband disguised as a vampire, the legions of Morgoth's Orcs, Balrogs, Werewolves and other fell creatures can feel something unknown, weird and powerful (nominally, a half-Elf/half-angel) is lurking about unseen and start getting jittery and frightened.
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* In Anthony Reynolds's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novel ''[[Literature/WordBearers Dark Apostle]]'', a Chaos Space Marine is out-weirded-out by the architecture of [[spoiler:the Necron tomb]].
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* In Anthony Reynolds's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' ''TabletopGame/Warhammer40000'' novel ''[[Literature/WordBearers Dark Apostle]]'', a Chaos Space Marine is out-weirded-out by the architecture of [[spoiler:the Necron tomb]].
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* Ryn, the immortal goddess of vengeance and protagonist of ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'', so named because her entire existence is based on hunting down monsters and eating their hearts, which causes their souls to spend the rest of time burning in the fires that rage inside her body. At one point a demon freezes time as she attacks him, to try to talk her out of it. She calmly asks him what others call her. He says “The Implacable One” and promptly accepts his death.
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* ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'': Ryn, the immortal goddess of vengeance and protagonist of ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'', vengeance, so named because her entire existence is based on hunting down monsters and eating their hearts, which causes their souls to spend the rest of time burning in the fires that rage inside her body. At one point a demon freezes time as she attacks him, to try to talk her out of it. She calmly asks him what others call her. He says “The "The Implacable One” One" and promptly accepts his death.
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** Perhaps topping his list of achievements in this category is the fact that Nicodemus, an agent of evil [[Really700YearsOld thousands of years old]] who has bonded his soul with an honest to God fallen angel is actively terrified of Harry, as Harry is apparently the only person who has come even remotely close to actually killing him...on two occasions no less.
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** Perhaps topping his list of achievements in this category is the fact that Nicodemus, an agent of evil [[Really700YearsOld thousands of years old]] who has bonded his soul with an honest to God honest-to-God fallen angel is actively terrified of Harry, as Harry is apparently the only person who has come even remotely close to actually killing him...on two occasions no less.
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** On a similar note, before Voldemort's time there was the Dark Wizard Grindelwald who took over most of Europe in the 1940s but never attacked Great Britain because of Dumbledore. While it was partly due to their former friendship, it's also believed because he knew Dumbledore was still more skillful than himself. He presumed correctly, as when they eventually confronted each other, he lost to Dumbledore even while wielding the most powerful wand in the world.
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** On a similar note, before Voldemort's time there was the Dark Wizard Grindelwald who took over most of Europe in the 1940s but never attacked Great Britain because of Dumbledore. While it was partly due to their former friendship, it's also believed because that he knew Dumbledore was still more skillful than himself. He presumed correctly, as when they eventually confronted each other, he lost to Dumbledore even while wielding the most powerful wand in the world.
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* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', [[spoiler:Class 6 Franchise/CthulhuMythos Horrors like Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu seems to be extremely afraid (and are at war with) the beings called the Cold Ones. Their attempts to take over governments (UK for Nyarlathotep, USA for Cthulhu) seems to partly be for getting extra resources for said war, and other part being to help fully wake them up.]]
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* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', [[spoiler:Class 6 Franchise/CthulhuMythos Horrors like Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu seems to be extremely afraid (and are at war with) the beings called the Cold Ones. Their attempts to take over governments (UK for Nyarlathotep, USA for Cthulhu) seems seem to partly be for getting extra resources for said war, and other part being to help fully wake them up.]]
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* Early in ''[[Literature/TheScholomance The Golden Enclaves]]'', [[spoiler:four teenages fresh out of the Scholomance venture into the underground passages within the London Enclave and come upon the [[TheDreaded maw-mouth]] that has penetrated the defenses in a chamber wearing away at some internal wards in order to get at some [[ToServeMan munchies]]. The gigantic BlobMonster [[EyesDoNotBelongThere looks]] at the newcomers, charges toward them at it's deceptively impressive top speed, completely surrounds the shield one of them threw up on reflex for several terrifying seconds, and... keeps going out the way the kids came in and down the adjacent corridor out of sight as swiftly as it can manage. It was only then that it sank in, the NighInvulnerable building sized manifestation of unending hunger was not actually ''attacking'' them so much as getting to the only available exit (behind them) into an area where it could maximize functional distance between them and break contact. Or to put the matter into LaymansTerms, the thing that had tanked everything the mightest wizards of London could throw at it and was certain to hollow out their bespoke PocketDimension immediately '''ran away to hide''' upon taking one look at Galadriel 'El' Higgins]].
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* Early in ''[[Literature/TheScholomance The Golden Enclaves]]'', [[spoiler:four teenages teenagers fresh out of the Scholomance venture into the underground passages within the London Enclave and come upon the [[TheDreaded maw-mouth]] that has penetrated the defenses in a chamber wearing away at some internal wards in order to get at some [[ToServeMan munchies]]. The gigantic BlobMonster [[EyesDoNotBelongThere looks]] at the newcomers, charges toward them at it's its deceptively impressive top speed, completely surrounds the shield one of them threw up on reflex for several terrifying seconds, and... keeps going out the way the kids came in and down the adjacent corridor out of sight as swiftly as it can manage. It was only then that it sank in, the NighInvulnerable building sized building-sized manifestation of unending hunger was not actually ''attacking'' them so much as getting to the only available exit (behind them) into an area where it could maximize functional distance between them and break contact. Or to put the matter into LaymansTerms, the thing that had tanked everything the mightest mightiest wizards of London could throw at it and was certain to hollow out their bespoke PocketDimension immediately '''ran away to hide''' upon taking one look at Galadriel 'El' Higgins]].
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* Early in ''[[Literature/TheScholomance The Golden Enclaves]]'', [[spoiler:four teenages fresh out of the Scholomance ventures into the underground passages within the London Enclave to dicover the [[TheDreaded maw-mouth]] that has penetrated the defenses in a chamber wearing away at some internal wards in order to get at some [[ToServeMan munchies]]. The gigantic BlobMonster [[EyesDoNotBelongThere looks]] at the newcomers, charges toward them at it's deceptively impressive top speed, completely surrounds the shield one of them threw up on reflex for several terrifying seconds, and... keeps going out the way the kids came in and down the adjacent corridor out of sight as swiftly as it can manage. It was only then that it sank in, the NighInvulnerable building sized manifestation of unending hunger was not actually ''attacking'' them so much as getting to the only available exit (behind them) into an area where it could maximize functional distance between them and break contact. Or to put the matter into LaymansTerms, the thing that had tanked everything the mightest wizards of London could throw at it and was certain to hollow out their bespoke PocketDimension immediately '''ran away to hide''' upon taking one look at Galadriel 'El' Higgins]].
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* Early in ''[[Literature/TheScholomance The Golden Enclaves]]'', [[spoiler:four teenages fresh out of the Scholomance ventures venture into the underground passages within the London Enclave to dicover and come upon the [[TheDreaded maw-mouth]] that has penetrated the defenses in a chamber wearing away at some internal wards in order to get at some [[ToServeMan munchies]]. The gigantic BlobMonster [[EyesDoNotBelongThere looks]] at the newcomers, charges toward them at it's deceptively impressive top speed, completely surrounds the shield one of them threw up on reflex for several terrifying seconds, and... keeps going out the way the kids came in and down the adjacent corridor out of sight as swiftly as it can manage. It was only then that it sank in, the NighInvulnerable building sized manifestation of unending hunger was not actually ''attacking'' them so much as getting to the only available exit (behind them) into an area where it could maximize functional distance between them and break contact. Or to put the matter into LaymansTerms, the thing that had tanked everything the mightest wizards of London could throw at it and was certain to hollow out their bespoke PocketDimension immediately '''ran away to hide''' upon taking one look at Galadriel 'El' Higgins]].
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* Early in ''[[Literature/TheScholomance The Golden Enclaves]]'', [[spoiler:four teenages fresh out of the Scholomance ventures into the underground passages within the London Enclave to dicover the [[TheDreaded maw-mouth]] that has penetrated the defenses in a chamber wearing away at some internal wards in order to get at some [[ToServeMan munchies]]. The gigantic BlobMonster [[EyesDoNotBelongThere looks]] at the newcomers, charges toward them at it's deceptively impressive top speed, completely surrounds the shield one of them threw up on reflex for several terrifying seconds, and... keeps going out the way the kids came in and down the adjacent corridor out of sight as swiftly as it can manage. It was only then that it sank in, the NighInvulnerable building sized manifestation of unending hunger was not actually ''attacking'' them so much as getting to the only available exit (behind them) into an area where it could maximize functional distance between them and break contact. Or to put the matter into LaymansTerms, the thing that had tanked everything the mightest wizards of London could throw at it and was certain to hollow out their bespoke PocketDimension immediately '''ran away to hide''' upon taking one look at Galadriel 'El' Higgins]].
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* ''Literature/BruceCovillesBookOf Aliens II'': The hostile aliens in ''George Pinkerton and the Space Waffles'' become absolutely terrified of humans when they discover, via Pinkerton and Billy, that they look just like a common breakfast item on Earth.
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** According to ''Literature/FireAndBlood'', Alysanne Targaryen tried to venture beyond the Wall three times by riding her dragon, Silverwing, but she refused every time. Bear in mind that adult dragons are fire-breathing, airplane-sized monstrosities who are stil brave enough to go to the [[{{Mordor}} ruins of Valyria]] and back, so... [[NothingIsScarier just who or what it is that lives beyond the Wall?]]
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** According to ''Literature/FireAndBlood'', Alysanne Targaryen tried to venture beyond the Wall three times by riding her dragon, Silverwing, but she refused every time. Bear in mind that adult dragons are fire-breathing, airplane-sized monstrosities who are stil brave enough frequently compared to go nuclear weapons in their cultural significance to the [[{{Mordor}} ruins of Valyria]] Westeros, and back, so aggressive their fight-or-flight response is really just a fight response, so... [[NothingIsScarier just who or what it is that lives beyond the Wall?]]
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** In the ''Silmarillion'', Ungoliant becomes so enormous and powerful after devouring the light of the Two Trees that Morgoth is scared of her. For good reason too, as she very nearly kills him shortly afterward, and only a whole bunch of Balrogs coming to his rescue prevented that. For those unfamiliar, Morgoth is Middle-Earth's version of ''Satan''.
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* ''Literature/ChrysalisRinoZ'': When Crinis gets going with her razor-barbed tentacles operating like chainsaws, even giant monstrous spiders tend to run away in fear (but not always successfully). The fact that she has skills like Greater Fear Inspiration probably contributes, too. Oh, and she later develops a scream that has an associated psychic component, directly attacking the mind with terror. But then, to cap it off, she picks up "soul seeker cilia", allowing her to drive her tentacles into her enemies' brains and push them over the brink of insanity.
--> If I hadn't been paying such close attention, I might not have noticed how those root-like, ethereal appendages drilled down into the monsters, slipping straight through whatever hide, skeleton or mucous covered them and penetrating their brains. I held my breath as they grew still for a moment, each of the beasts frozen in place like a nightmare painting.\\\
Then they screamed.
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': The high priest/ess of the Cult of Helgrind had all of their limbs amputated out of faith but is psychically strong enough to incapacitate a Dragon Rider, elven princess, and dragon simultaneously. When Angela manages to move enough to pose a threat, they begin freaking out. When Angela whispers her true name to them, they’re utterly horrified.
* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' by David Eddings, Hettar qualifies for the entire [[ProudWarriorRace Murgo]] race, possibly even more so than even Belgarath himself.
** Speaking of whom, Belgarath ''more'' than qualifies for Angarak as a whole.
*** To be fair, the general Angarak populace isn’t really all that bad on the whole, but the military and especially the clergy? Yeah, they definitely qualify as horrors to be horrified by those two and a few others in the cast.
** The sight of [[spoiler: Errand]] is enough to send a ''[[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Demon Lord]]'' fleeing in abject terror at one point.
** [[AGodAmI Urvon]] is briefly snapped out of being BrainwashedAndCrazy when Beldin puts in an appearance.
* In ''Literature/BlackLegion'', another group of Chaos Astartes, this time accompanied by a daemon and a Dark Eldar, is horrified at the sight of [[MadScientist Fabius Bile's]] experiments, especially [[spoiler:his attempts at cloning the Primarchs.]]
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** In ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'', Rincewind (the ultimate coward) ends up fighting a creature from the Dungeon Dimensions (where everything Creator/HPLovecraft ever thought of lived), while it possesses a man that may be the most powerful wizard on the Disc at that moment in time. He fights it using nothing but his hands, feet, elbows, knees, and teeth. In the end, the author points out that this is the first time anything has ever run away from Rincewind instead of the other way around. He not only [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu beat up Cthulhu]], he actually ''scared away'' Cthulhu with a fist-fight. (It's made clear in the books that the Things don't really "get" the material world; a physical attack simply isn't something they're equipped to deal with.)
** Earlier, the first time a Thing From The Dungeon Dimensions is mentioned is at the Temple of Bel-Shamaroth in ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic''. The demon that powers Twoflower's iconograph complains that the place is "weird", leading to the following exchange:
--->'''Twoflower''': But you're a demon. Demons can't call things weird. I mean, what's weird to a demon?\\
'''Demon''': Oh you know, things. Stuff.\\
'''Twoflower''': What things?\\
'''Demon''': ''[nervous cough]'' Oh, things. Evil things. Things we don't talk about is the point I'm broadly trying to get across, master.
** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', the giant dragon's summoner-turned-lackey explains that the citizens of Anhk-Morpork will, in time, get used to the idea of sacrificing maidens to it, and even come to ''endorse'' the practice eventually. The dragon, in disbelief, reads the lackey's mind and discovers a litany of the awful things humans regularly do to one another ''without'' a dragon bullying them into doing it, and is utterly appalled.
* In Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath'', servants of Nyarlathotep, including (and especially) the monstrous [[GiantFlyer Shantak birds]] are absolutely terrified of Nightgaunts, because they serve Nodens, Nyarlathotep's [[JustForPun (im)mortal]] enemy and the only being who really poses any kind of threat to him in the Dreamlands.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Ghouls]] and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] have been known to run away screaming at the sight of Harry Dresden.
** Early in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'' Harry comes face-to-face with a Red Court vampire. Keep in mind, a Red Court vampire can disembowel a half dozen mortal combatants in a matter of seconds, and this one, in particular, is one of the Court's best assassins. On seeing Harry, it [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl shrieks in terror]] and ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bolts through a wall]]'' in the process of running for its life. Of course, over the course of the war, Harry has garnered himself [[TheDreaded a bit of a reputation]].
** As for the ghouls, one of them managed to get hold of two young Warden trainees that were being taught fire magic. [[spoiler:After killing the one that abducted them by ''lighting its body fat on fire'' and dropping it down a mineshaft, Harry blasted a captured ghoul into a hole he created, buried it up to the neck (melting the sand into glass as he did so) and laid a trail of orange juice to a nest of fire ants. He only put it out of its misery after he realised the other trainees were staring at him in horror.]] The only surviving ghoul was left to take a message to its kind. ''Never again.'' [[spoiler:Note that this incident occurred while Harry had the shadow of a FallenAngel secretly living in his head and whispering to his subconscious in an attempt to make him eviler. He had a very major MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when he actually realized what was happening.]] He was still happy to take advantage of the reputation it earned him.
** Perhaps topping his list of achievements in this category is the fact that Nicodemus, an agent of evil [[Really700YearsOld thousands of years old]] who has bonded his soul with an honest to God fallen angel is actively terrified of Harry, as Harry is apparently the only person who has come even remotely close to actually killing him...on two occasions no less.
*** Not Harry himself, but one of his closest companions, Mouse the Foo dog, deserves special mention: in ''Skin Game'', his arrival actually scares the living bejeebers out of [[spoiler: ''Anduriel'', the Fallen angel that's ''attached'' to Nicodemus. Anduriel was one of ''Lucifer's generals'' before being coin-bound for being TheStarscream.]]
** Several readers have noted that a certain Black Court vampire mage has not been seen or heard from since Harry gave her a brief rundown of all the things he could do to make her unlife Hell, should she try to target his friends ever again.
** Michael Carpenter also has this, especially in Literature/SkinGame. When [[ArchangelUriel Uriel]] [[spoiler:temporarily heals his leg by giving him his grace allowing him to briefly take back up the mantle of Knight of the Cross]] Nicodemus immediately backs down despite being on the verge of winning. Michael's one of the most successful Knights of the Cross just by surviving as long as he wields [[InfinityPlusOneSword Excalibur]]. Later, even though they knew he was coming Nicomedius' guards freak out at the very sight of him, HorrifyingTheHorror indeed.
** "Jared Kincaid" (almost certainly an alias, but we never find out his real name) is introduced as a CombatPragmatist and OneManArmy with ImprobableAimingSkills and centuries of experience. He's a very good ally to have in a fight, and definitely not someone you want coming after you. He explicitly states that if he'd known Harry was calling in his old mentor Ebenezar [=McCoy=], to work together on a job, he'd be in another state by now. [[spoiler: This is because Ebenezar is the Blackstaff, the White Council's assassin, who can pull off party tricks like an incredibly accurate ColonyDrop or '''setting off Krakatoa.''']] And for [[NoodleIncident some reason]], he's pissed off at Kincaid for something the latter did a hundred years before in Istanbul.
* At the end of Creator/FredSaberhagen's ''Empire of the East'' trilogy, the demon-prince Orcus, mightiest of all demons and founder of the eponymous [[TheEmpire empire]] realizes just [[LukeIAmYourFather what]] [[DeusEstMachina Ardneh]] is, and [[ThanatosGambit what Ardneh's plan is]], he flees screaming. Of course, by that point, it was much too late.
* In Act II of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' the first indication that [[WarriorMonk Father Kiyoshi]] is a force to be reckoned with is [[spoiler: his first encounter with the Osthan. To be specific, his very ''presence is enough to put them on edge. He then proceeds to slice their assault rifles in half, single-handedly hold all three of them off in a SwordFight, ''then'' summons a katana out of thin air -- which he then uses to slice the hand off of one Osthan. All three of them flee before him. For the record, the Osthan are MadeOfIndestructium {{Hero Killer}}s who have been known to take on entire armies and win]].
* The Children in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', a group of [[spoiler: somewhat sympathetic [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]]]], are terrified of a creature they call the Imp. [[spoiler: It's Yoda.]] They're willing to follow our heroes after giant knobby white spiders, but not where they think they've seen the Imp.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter''
** Professor [[BigGood Dumbledore]] is said to be the most powerful wizard in the world and the only person [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]] ever feared.
** On a similar note, before Voldemort's time there was the Dark Wizard Grindelwald who took over most of Europe in the 1940s but never attacked Great Britain because of Dumbledore. While it was partly due to their former friendship, it's also believed because he knew Dumbledore was still more skillful than himself. He presumed correctly, as when they eventually confronted each other, he lost to Dumbledore even while wielding the most powerful wand in the world.
** The basilisk in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' scares [[GiantSpider ten-foot-long]] talking spiders to death.
* This comes up at the end of ''Literature/IAmLegend'' following TheReveal that not all of the vampires are mindless, bloodthirsty monsters. The vampire-hunting protagonist realizes that, to the vampires, he has become a terrifying figure, a myth of godlike proportions. Basically, he's become a legendary monster that ''vampires'' tell each other ghost stories about.
* Brian Yi, Proxy, becomes this in ''Literature/TheInfected''. Brian has the power to take the place of people who are about to die, anywhere in the world, which is initially treated as a death sentence. Since Brian could be dropped into any number of bad situations at any moment with no support or weapons, he's trained from the beginning to go for the throat. After a few fights (including ripping out a superpowered serial killer's throat with his teeth) Proxy achieves a MemeticBadass state and becomes the boogieman to murderers, who now must forever wonder if their next victim is going to suddenly turn into an angry and buff Asian guy.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/TheMonsterBed''. Dennis protests going to bed one night, telling his mother he's afraid that humans will get him while he's asleep. Later, a young boy wanders into Dennis' cave. He checks under Dennis' bed before he goes to sleep on it, and gives them both a scare.
* Say the name of John Taylor anywhere in the {{Literature/Nightside}}, and most of the things that go bump in the night will fall over each other trying to get on the next train to Swindon.
* In ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', the Devil and his army of wicked semi-gods are so horrified by the gaze of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} that they throw themselves into Hell rather than wait for Son of God to annihilate them.
* In ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', the city authorities attempt to bargain with the forces of Hell to aid them against the escaped slake-moths. The demonic ambassador refuses point-blank, which its summoners deduce means that ''demons'' are scared of the consciousness-consuming moths.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''.
** Rorge is a serial killer and his companion Biter is a cannibal. What scares them? Their cellmate, the Faceless Man wearing the persona of Jaqen H'gar.
** The witch known as [[MadOracle The Ghost of High Heart]] is freaked whenever she meets Arya Stark's gaze. As CharacterDevelopment kicks in for Arya and the resulting casualties pile up, you kind of get why.
** EvilSorcerer Melisandre is frightened of the lackwit jester [[MadOracle Patchface]]. Nobody really knows why, beyond her having a seriously bad trip upon reading him.
** Roose Bolton, head of the most ruthless noble family in The North, is wary about the cannibalistic inhabitants of Skagos Island.
** The Ironborn, [[{{Pirate}} bona fide]] [[RapePillageAndBurn terrors of the seas]], aren't too keen about messing with the [[MasterPoisoner Crannogmen]]. Heck, [[ProperlyParanoid Roose Bolton]] is more than a bit warier than usual going anywhere near their home, the Neck, as well.
** Even the bulk of Gregor Clegane's [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock]] [[PsychoForHire Psychopaths]] know better than to even think about going against the Hound: they'd ''much'' rather leave that fight to the boss... with a major sigh of relief.
** According to ''Literature/FireAndBlood'', Alysanne Targaryen tried to venture beyond the Wall three times by riding her dragon, Silverwing, but she refused every time. Bear in mind that adult dragons are fire-breathing, airplane-sized monstrosities who are stil brave enough to go to the [[{{Mordor}} ruins of Valyria]] and back, so... [[NothingIsScarier just who or what it is that lives beyond the Wall?]]
* In ''Literature/{{Strata}}'', the explorers end up capturing a demon, which proves itself to be rather uncooperative. Marco, a particularly unbalanced member of a species that's already AxCrazy by default, gets fed up with it. "You said you can read minds? Then read ''mine''." The demon does so...and spends the rest of its time with the group absolutely ''horrified'' of the alien.
* Literature/TolkiensLegendarium:
** Goblins and Orcs of all stripes are ''very'' easily panicked and dismayed. They can certainly be bold if they think they're in a position of advantage or are attacking something weaker than themselves, but if the tables are turned or they don't have the Will of their master (either Morgoth or Sauron) behind them, they can and will collapse and rout at the drop of a hat (for example, when the Ring went into the fire at the end of ''Return of the King'', only the Men under Sauron's control continued to fight. The Orcs broke and ran). Boromir's horn ''alone'' was enough to hold off the Uruk-hai sent by Saruman to claim the Ring for a few moments, and they only regained their courage when they realized no help was coming. When Théoden later sounded Helm's Horn during the siege of the Hornburg, the Orcs threw themselves on the ground and stopped their ears, and only the Men of Dunland put up any sort of resistance. The ''very sight'' of an Elven blade such as [[CoolSword Sting or Glamdring]] is enough to terrify ''armies'' of Orcs, and very few Orcs were willing to stand against Andúril.
** Sauron himself was so terrified of the armies of Valinor led by Eonwe that he outright surrendered when they laid siege to Angband.
** Aragorn deliberately invokes this trope when he confronts Sauron in the Palantir in order to make Sauron focus on him and draw his attention away from Mordor where Frodo and Sam are sneaking towards Mount Doom. Purportedly, Sauron has a minor freak-out at the sight of both Isildur's Heir and the reforged Narsil.
** Morgoth was also sent running in terror by Tulkas
** The Watcher in the Water is a large, aquatic monster of enigmatic origin that threatens the Fellowship of the Ring as they approach Moria. Apparently it lived in the waterways far underneath Moria, just doing its thing, until the Balrog woke up and scared it out from under the mountain just by existing.
* ''Literature/{{Unique}}'' has werewolves terrified by vampires, vampires who recoil in horror from the light of the Magi, and all three of them feel a need to change their underwear in the presence of the Veiðimaðr. And ALL of them have a good reason to fear TheMenInBlack...
* In Anthony Reynolds's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novel ''[[Literature/WordBearers Dark Apostle]]'', a Chaos Space Marine is out-weirded-out by the architecture of [[spoiler:the Necron tomb]].
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': There are very few things that superheroes and supervillains tend to be utterly terrified of, in that universe. The Endbringers are one, Contessa and the Number Man are another. A third, however, is the Slaughterhouse Nine, and even amongst ''them'', each and every one of them is very wary, very careful, and very ''scared'' of the Grey Boy.
* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', Ibai Blackburn, a soul-eating HumanoidAbomination (albeit a well-raised one) nearly devoid of fear, is terrified when he comes face-to-face with [[TheDragon Gohvis]].
-->''Never had the aberration seen such demonic eyes. He'd never believed it was possible to stare into someone's soul, but with the way Gohvis was looking at him, he was beginning to have doubts. In fact, he was starting to think it might be possible to look at someone ''to death.
* In ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' the titular former sun god recounts a time when he attended one of [[TheCaligula Caligula's]] parties when the emperor was having "An off day." Apollo, [[JerkassGod as narcissistic and apathetic to the plight of mortals as he is]], is utterly terrified of Caligula, enough to the point that he momentarily forgets he's immortal and Caligula can't hurt him. He stays away from Rome for decades after that particular encounter.
* Ryn, the immortal goddess of vengeance and protagonist of ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'', so named because her entire existence is based on hunting down monsters and eating their hearts, which causes their souls to spend the rest of time burning in the fires that rage inside her body. At one point a demon freezes time as she attacks him, to try to talk her out of it. She calmly asks him what others call her. He says “The Implacable One” and promptly accepts his death.
* In ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'', when Shiroe finally meets the final boss in a dungeon raid, he realizes that said boss is ''sweating in fear''. He then has the revelation that from the boss's perspective, Adventurer's like Shiroe are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are not only strong and smart enough to represent a threat, they're effectively unstoppable because no matter how many times the boss kills them, they just keep coming back ready to fight again but this time with strategies to counter whatever the boss threw at them before.
* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', [[spoiler:Class 6 Franchise/CthulhuMythos Horrors like Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu seems to be extremely afraid (and are at war with) the beings called the Cold Ones. Their attempts to take over governments (UK for Nyarlathotep, USA for Cthulhu) seems to partly be for getting extra resources for said war, and other part being to help fully wake them up.]]
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--> If I hadn't been paying such close attention, I might not have noticed how those root-like, ethereal appendages drilled down into the monsters, slipping straight through whatever hide, skeleton or mucous covered them and penetrating their brains. I held my breath as they grew still for a moment, each of the beasts frozen in place like a nightmare painting.\\\
Then they screamed.
* ''Literature/InheritanceCycle'': The high priest/ess of the Cult of Helgrind had all of their limbs amputated out of faith but is psychically strong enough to incapacitate a Dragon Rider, elven princess, and dragon simultaneously. When Angela manages to move enough to pose a threat, they begin freaking out. When Angela whispers her true name to them, they’re utterly horrified.
* In ''Literature/TheBelgariad'' by David Eddings, Hettar qualifies for the entire [[ProudWarriorRace Murgo]] race, possibly even more so than even Belgarath himself.
** Speaking of whom, Belgarath ''more'' than qualifies for Angarak as a whole.
*** To be fair, the general Angarak populace isn’t really all that bad on the whole, but the military and especially the clergy? Yeah, they definitely qualify as horrors to be horrified by those two and a few others in the cast.
** The sight of [[spoiler: Errand]] is enough to send a ''[[DemonLordsAndArchDevils Demon Lord]]'' fleeing in abject terror at one point.
** [[AGodAmI Urvon]] is briefly snapped out of being BrainwashedAndCrazy when Beldin puts in an appearance.
* In ''Literature/BlackLegion'', another group of Chaos Astartes, this time accompanied by a daemon and a Dark Eldar, is horrified at the sight of [[MadScientist Fabius Bile's]] experiments, especially [[spoiler:his attempts at cloning the Primarchs.]]
* ''Literature/{{Discworld}}''
** In ''Literature/TheLightFantastic'', Rincewind (the ultimate coward) ends up fighting a creature from the Dungeon Dimensions (where everything Creator/HPLovecraft ever thought of lived), while it possesses a man that may be the most powerful wizard on the Disc at that moment in time. He fights it using nothing but his hands, feet, elbows, knees, and teeth. In the end, the author points out that this is the first time anything has ever run away from Rincewind instead of the other way around. He not only [[DidYouJustPunchOutCthulhu beat up Cthulhu]], he actually ''scared away'' Cthulhu with a fist-fight. (It's made clear in the books that the Things don't really "get" the material world; a physical attack simply isn't something they're equipped to deal with.)
** Earlier, the first time a Thing From The Dungeon Dimensions is mentioned is at the Temple of Bel-Shamaroth in ''Literature/TheColourOfMagic''. The demon that powers Twoflower's iconograph complains that the place is "weird", leading to the following exchange:
--->'''Twoflower''': But you're a demon. Demons can't call things weird. I mean, what's weird to a demon?\\
'''Demon''': Oh you know, things. Stuff.\\
'''Twoflower''': What things?\\
'''Demon''': ''[nervous cough]'' Oh, things. Evil things. Things we don't talk about is the point I'm broadly trying to get across, master.
** In ''Literature/GuardsGuards'', the giant dragon's summoner-turned-lackey explains that the citizens of Anhk-Morpork will, in time, get used to the idea of sacrificing maidens to it, and even come to ''endorse'' the practice eventually. The dragon, in disbelief, reads the lackey's mind and discovers a litany of the awful things humans regularly do to one another ''without'' a dragon bullying them into doing it, and is utterly appalled.
* In Creator/HPLovecraft's ''Literature/TheDreamQuestOfUnknownKadath'', servants of Nyarlathotep, including (and especially) the monstrous [[GiantFlyer Shantak birds]] are absolutely terrified of Nightgaunts, because they serve Nodens, Nyarlathotep's [[JustForPun (im)mortal]] enemy and the only being who really poses any kind of threat to him in the Dreamlands.
* ''Literature/TheDresdenFiles'': [[OurGhoulsAreCreepier Ghouls]] and [[OurVampiresAreDifferent vampires]] have been known to run away screaming at the sight of Harry Dresden.
** Early in ''Literature/{{Changes}}'' Harry comes face-to-face with a Red Court vampire. Keep in mind, a Red Court vampire can disembowel a half dozen mortal combatants in a matter of seconds, and this one, in particular, is one of the Court's best assassins. On seeing Harry, it [[ScreamsLikeALittleGirl shrieks in terror]] and ''[[ScrewThisImOuttaHere bolts through a wall]]'' in the process of running for its life. Of course, over the course of the war, Harry has garnered himself [[TheDreaded a bit of a reputation]].
** As for the ghouls, one of them managed to get hold of two young Warden trainees that were being taught fire magic. [[spoiler:After killing the one that abducted them by ''lighting its body fat on fire'' and dropping it down a mineshaft, Harry blasted a captured ghoul into a hole he created, buried it up to the neck (melting the sand into glass as he did so) and laid a trail of orange juice to a nest of fire ants. He only put it out of its misery after he realised the other trainees were staring at him in horror.]] The only surviving ghoul was left to take a message to its kind. ''Never again.'' [[spoiler:Note that this incident occurred while Harry had the shadow of a FallenAngel secretly living in his head and whispering to his subconscious in an attempt to make him eviler. He had a very major MyGodWhatHaveIDone moment when he actually realized what was happening.]] He was still happy to take advantage of the reputation it earned him.
** Perhaps topping his list of achievements in this category is the fact that Nicodemus, an agent of evil [[Really700YearsOld thousands of years old]] who has bonded his soul with an honest to God fallen angel is actively terrified of Harry, as Harry is apparently the only person who has come even remotely close to actually killing him...on two occasions no less.
*** Not Harry himself, but one of his closest companions, Mouse the Foo dog, deserves special mention: in ''Skin Game'', his arrival actually scares the living bejeebers out of [[spoiler: ''Anduriel'', the Fallen angel that's ''attached'' to Nicodemus. Anduriel was one of ''Lucifer's generals'' before being coin-bound for being TheStarscream.]]
** Several readers have noted that a certain Black Court vampire mage has not been seen or heard from since Harry gave her a brief rundown of all the things he could do to make her unlife Hell, should she try to target his friends ever again.
** Michael Carpenter also has this, especially in Literature/SkinGame. When [[ArchangelUriel Uriel]] [[spoiler:temporarily heals his leg by giving him his grace allowing him to briefly take back up the mantle of Knight of the Cross]] Nicodemus immediately backs down despite being on the verge of winning. Michael's one of the most successful Knights of the Cross just by surviving as long as he wields [[InfinityPlusOneSword Excalibur]]. Later, even though they knew he was coming Nicomedius' guards freak out at the very sight of him, HorrifyingTheHorror indeed.
** "Jared Kincaid" (almost certainly an alias, but we never find out his real name) is introduced as a CombatPragmatist and OneManArmy with ImprobableAimingSkills and centuries of experience. He's a very good ally to have in a fight, and definitely not someone you want coming after you. He explicitly states that if he'd known Harry was calling in his old mentor Ebenezar [=McCoy=], to work together on a job, he'd be in another state by now. [[spoiler: This is because Ebenezar is the Blackstaff, the White Council's assassin, who can pull off party tricks like an incredibly accurate ColonyDrop or '''setting off Krakatoa.''']] And for [[NoodleIncident some reason]], he's pissed off at Kincaid for something the latter did a hundred years before in Istanbul.
* At the end of Creator/FredSaberhagen's ''Empire of the East'' trilogy, the demon-prince Orcus, mightiest of all demons and founder of the eponymous [[TheEmpire empire]] realizes just [[LukeIAmYourFather what]] [[DeusEstMachina Ardneh]] is, and [[ThanatosGambit what Ardneh's plan is]], he flees screaming. Of course, by that point, it was much too late.
* In Act II of ''Literature/TheFirstDwarfKing'' the first indication that [[WarriorMonk Father Kiyoshi]] is a force to be reckoned with is [[spoiler: his first encounter with the Osthan. To be specific, his very ''presence is enough to put them on edge. He then proceeds to slice their assault rifles in half, single-handedly hold all three of them off in a SwordFight, ''then'' summons a katana out of thin air -- which he then uses to slice the hand off of one Osthan. All three of them flee before him. For the record, the Osthan are MadeOfIndestructium {{Hero Killer}}s who have been known to take on entire armies and win]].
* The Children in ''Literature/GalaxyOfFear'', a group of [[spoiler: somewhat sympathetic [[ImAHumanitarian cannibals]]]], are terrified of a creature they call the Imp. [[spoiler: It's Yoda.]] They're willing to follow our heroes after giant knobby white spiders, but not where they think they've seen the Imp.
* ''Literature/HarryPotter''
** Professor [[BigGood Dumbledore]] is said to be the most powerful wizard in the world and the only person [[BigBad Lord Voldemort]] ever feared.
** On a similar note, before Voldemort's time there was the Dark Wizard Grindelwald who took over most of Europe in the 1940s but never attacked Great Britain because of Dumbledore. While it was partly due to their former friendship, it's also believed because he knew Dumbledore was still more skillful than himself. He presumed correctly, as when they eventually confronted each other, he lost to Dumbledore even while wielding the most powerful wand in the world.
** The basilisk in ''Literature/HarryPotterAndTheChamberOfSecrets'' scares [[GiantSpider ten-foot-long]] talking spiders to death.
* This comes up at the end of ''Literature/IAmLegend'' following TheReveal that not all of the vampires are mindless, bloodthirsty monsters. The vampire-hunting protagonist realizes that, to the vampires, he has become a terrifying figure, a myth of godlike proportions. Basically, he's become a legendary monster that ''vampires'' tell each other ghost stories about.
* Brian Yi, Proxy, becomes this in ''Literature/TheInfected''. Brian has the power to take the place of people who are about to die, anywhere in the world, which is initially treated as a death sentence. Since Brian could be dropped into any number of bad situations at any moment with no support or weapons, he's trained from the beginning to go for the throat. After a few fights (including ripping out a superpowered serial killer's throat with his teeth) Proxy achieves a MemeticBadass state and becomes the boogieman to murderers, who now must forever wonder if their next victim is going to suddenly turn into an angry and buff Asian guy.
* PlayedForLaughs in ''Literature/TheMonsterBed''. Dennis protests going to bed one night, telling his mother he's afraid that humans will get him while he's asleep. Later, a young boy wanders into Dennis' cave. He checks under Dennis' bed before he goes to sleep on it, and gives them both a scare.
* Say the name of John Taylor anywhere in the {{Literature/Nightside}}, and most of the things that go bump in the night will fall over each other trying to get on the next train to Swindon.
* In ''Literature/ParadiseLost'', the Devil and his army of wicked semi-gods are so horrified by the gaze of UsefulNotes/{{Jesus}} that they throw themselves into Hell rather than wait for Son of God to annihilate them.
* In ''Literature/PerdidoStreetStation'', the city authorities attempt to bargain with the forces of Hell to aid them against the escaped slake-moths. The demonic ambassador refuses point-blank, which its summoners deduce means that ''demons'' are scared of the consciousness-consuming moths.
* ''Literature/ASongOfIceAndFire''.
** Rorge is a serial killer and his companion Biter is a cannibal. What scares them? Their cellmate, the Faceless Man wearing the persona of Jaqen H'gar.
** The witch known as [[MadOracle The Ghost of High Heart]] is freaked whenever she meets Arya Stark's gaze. As CharacterDevelopment kicks in for Arya and the resulting casualties pile up, you kind of get why.
** EvilSorcerer Melisandre is frightened of the lackwit jester [[MadOracle Patchface]]. Nobody really knows why, beyond her having a seriously bad trip upon reading him.
** Roose Bolton, head of the most ruthless noble family in The North, is wary about the cannibalistic inhabitants of Skagos Island.
** The Ironborn, [[{{Pirate}} bona fide]] [[RapePillageAndBurn terrors of the seas]], aren't too keen about messing with the [[MasterPoisoner Crannogmen]]. Heck, [[ProperlyParanoid Roose Bolton]] is more than a bit warier than usual going anywhere near their home, the Neck, as well.
** Even the bulk of Gregor Clegane's [[PunchClockVillain Punch Clock]] [[PsychoForHire Psychopaths]] know better than to even think about going against the Hound: they'd ''much'' rather leave that fight to the boss... with a major sigh of relief.
** According to ''Literature/FireAndBlood'', Alysanne Targaryen tried to venture beyond the Wall three times by riding her dragon, Silverwing, but she refused every time. Bear in mind that adult dragons are fire-breathing, airplane-sized monstrosities who are stil brave enough to go to the [[{{Mordor}} ruins of Valyria]] and back, so... [[NothingIsScarier just who or what it is that lives beyond the Wall?]]
* In ''Literature/{{Strata}}'', the explorers end up capturing a demon, which proves itself to be rather uncooperative. Marco, a particularly unbalanced member of a species that's already AxCrazy by default, gets fed up with it. "You said you can read minds? Then read ''mine''." The demon does so...and spends the rest of its time with the group absolutely ''horrified'' of the alien.
* Literature/TolkiensLegendarium:
** Goblins and Orcs of all stripes are ''very'' easily panicked and dismayed. They can certainly be bold if they think they're in a position of advantage or are attacking something weaker than themselves, but if the tables are turned or they don't have the Will of their master (either Morgoth or Sauron) behind them, they can and will collapse and rout at the drop of a hat (for example, when the Ring went into the fire at the end of ''Return of the King'', only the Men under Sauron's control continued to fight. The Orcs broke and ran). Boromir's horn ''alone'' was enough to hold off the Uruk-hai sent by Saruman to claim the Ring for a few moments, and they only regained their courage when they realized no help was coming. When Théoden later sounded Helm's Horn during the siege of the Hornburg, the Orcs threw themselves on the ground and stopped their ears, and only the Men of Dunland put up any sort of resistance. The ''very sight'' of an Elven blade such as [[CoolSword Sting or Glamdring]] is enough to terrify ''armies'' of Orcs, and very few Orcs were willing to stand against Andúril.
** Sauron himself was so terrified of the armies of Valinor led by Eonwe that he outright surrendered when they laid siege to Angband.
** Aragorn deliberately invokes this trope when he confronts Sauron in the Palantir in order to make Sauron focus on him and draw his attention away from Mordor where Frodo and Sam are sneaking towards Mount Doom. Purportedly, Sauron has a minor freak-out at the sight of both Isildur's Heir and the reforged Narsil.
** Morgoth was also sent running in terror by Tulkas
** The Watcher in the Water is a large, aquatic monster of enigmatic origin that threatens the Fellowship of the Ring as they approach Moria. Apparently it lived in the waterways far underneath Moria, just doing its thing, until the Balrog woke up and scared it out from under the mountain just by existing.
* ''Literature/{{Unique}}'' has werewolves terrified by vampires, vampires who recoil in horror from the light of the Magi, and all three of them feel a need to change their underwear in the presence of the Veiðimaðr. And ALL of them have a good reason to fear TheMenInBlack...
* In Anthony Reynolds's ''TabletopGame/{{Warhammer 40000}}'' novel ''[[Literature/WordBearers Dark Apostle]]'', a Chaos Space Marine is out-weirded-out by the architecture of [[spoiler:the Necron tomb]].
* ''Literature/{{Worm}}'': There are very few things that superheroes and supervillains tend to be utterly terrified of, in that universe. The Endbringers are one, Contessa and the Number Man are another. A third, however, is the Slaughterhouse Nine, and even amongst ''them'', each and every one of them is very wary, very careful, and very ''scared'' of the Grey Boy.
* In ''Literature/TheZombieKnight'', Ibai Blackburn, a soul-eating HumanoidAbomination (albeit a well-raised one) nearly devoid of fear, is terrified when he comes face-to-face with [[TheDragon Gohvis]].
-->''Never had the aberration seen such demonic eyes. He'd never believed it was possible to stare into someone's soul, but with the way Gohvis was looking at him, he was beginning to have doubts. In fact, he was starting to think it might be possible to look at someone ''to death.
* In ''Literature/TheTrialsOfApollo'' the titular former sun god recounts a time when he attended one of [[TheCaligula Caligula's]] parties when the emperor was having "An off day." Apollo, [[JerkassGod as narcissistic and apathetic to the plight of mortals as he is]], is utterly terrified of Caligula, enough to the point that he momentarily forgets he's immortal and Caligula can't hurt him. He stays away from Rome for decades after that particular encounter.
* Ryn, the immortal goddess of vengeance and protagonist of ''Literature/TheOneWhoEatsMonsters'', so named because her entire existence is based on hunting down monsters and eating their hearts, which causes their souls to spend the rest of time burning in the fires that rage inside her body. At one point a demon freezes time as she attacks him, to try to talk her out of it. She calmly asks him what others call her. He says “The Implacable One” and promptly accepts his death.
* In ''LightNovel/LogHorizon'', when Shiroe finally meets the final boss in a dungeon raid, he realizes that said boss is ''sweating in fear''. He then has the revelation that from the boss's perspective, Adventurer's like Shiroe are {{Humanoid Abomination}}s that are not only strong and smart enough to represent a threat, they're effectively unstoppable because no matter how many times the boss kills them, they just keep coming back ready to fight again but this time with strategies to counter whatever the boss threw at them before.
* In ''Literature/TheLaundryFiles'', [[spoiler:Class 6 Franchise/CthulhuMythos Horrors like Nyarlathotep and Cthulhu seems to be extremely afraid (and are at war with) the beings called the Cold Ones. Their attempts to take over governments (UK for Nyarlathotep, USA for Cthulhu) seems to partly be for getting extra resources for said war, and other part being to help fully wake them up.]]
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