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* ''WesternAnimation/BlueEyeSamurai: Abijah Fowler is probably the most dangerous man in Japan in 1657 due to his intelligence, expertise in weapons, criminal connections, a desire for power that is matched only by the depth of his LackOfEmpathy, and just plain being too ''physically'' powerful for any normal person to beat in a stand-up fight (he can, and will, break ribs with a BearHug). None of that seems to bother Mizu, who only cares that he might be her father and therefore needs to die. When Mizu manages to corner him in the final episode of the first season, Fowler gasps in terror as he watches her descend a flaming staircase towards him and realizes that if he is going to survive the encounter he will need to fight harder than he ''ever'' has.

-->'''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]]''': [[EvenEvilHasStandards Man, I do]] ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards not]]'' want to meet the kid that dreamt those things up.

* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars'', Darth Maul has already proven himself to be quite the badass. But when he senses Darth Sidious arriving, he looks ''terrified'' and almost grovels.

* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' is a parody of ''Film/TheBlob'' where a [[BlobMonster sentient mass of tapioca pudding]] is devouring the entire town. When they get pinned down by it in the Chok'lit Shoppe Jughead, [[BigEater being Jughead]], decides he's just going to eat the thing. He actually puts in a good effort, enough that the thing is recoiling in horror and actually backing off, but unfortunately it's just too much even for Jughead -- realizing he can't eat anymore, the blob swiftly devours him instead.

* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', the Joker is not afraid of the Dark Knight, but he would never ever dare cross the [[IntimidatingRevenueService IRS]].
** He also screams for Batman when Charlie Collins, whom he spent most of the episode terrorizing, threatens to blow them both up with a bomb and calls the man crazy. Granted, that's because Charlie guessed (correctly) that the Joker would hate [[UndignifiedDeath dying "next to some miserable little nobody"]].
** And when he crosses paths with ComicBook/TheCreeper, he infamously exclaims "He's a '''lunatic'''!" to Batman himself.
** At the beginning of "Lock-Up". the Scarecrow escapes from Arkham, not for any particular plot but because he's that terrified of the title character.

* PlayedForLaughs in a bumper for Creator/{{Disney}} home videos: even [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]] quakes in terror before his boss, (then) [=CEO=] Michael Eisner.
* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': During the HalloweenEpisode, the triplets and Webby end up in a haunted house run by actual monsters in order to steal children's candy. Then Launchpad shows up, wearing a hockey mask and wielding an ACTUAL buzzsaw, and is honestly on the warpath due to not knowing what Halloween is. The monsters end up running through their own haunted house terrified out of their wits, more so when they run into Della, Donald, and Scrooge (the former two they mistake for CreepyTwins, and the latter breaking through a door in a HeresJohnnyHomage). Once the misunderstanding is cleared up at the end, they thank Launchpad for the good scare, saying they hadn't had that kind of a rush in years.

* Implied in the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4SockOpera Sock Opera]]", when Bill Cipher addresses [[BrawnHilda Mabel's rather large and muscular female friend]] [[AccidentalMisnaming "Grendo"]] saying out of her earshot:
-->"Oh, I'LL hold my horses...I'LL hold them...[[HypocriticalHumor you monster."]]

* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In the episode "Frenemies", Chrysalis is climbing a mountain, when she finds herself stalked by [[TheDarknessGazesBack eyes gazing from the darkness]]. She turns around and ''screeches'' at them, causing the monsters and the darkness to whimper and flee.

* In season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' a pair of notorious villains [[spoiler:Sasha and Grime]] has just successfully betrayed the heroes, took over a kingdom, and arguably reached their lowest point, at least morally. Then they discover a hidden mural that makes them realize [[spoiler: the king Andrias]] [[EvilAllAlong was not a good person at all]] and his plans are [[EvenEvilhasStandards uncomfortable even for them]].

** Zombozo (again) when he kidnaps Ben and Gwen's family as part of a RevengeByProxy gets more than he asked for when a righteously pissed off Gwen confronts him instead of Ben. His threats to her family piss Gwen off so badly she breaks her promise to herself and [[OneWingedAngel turns into her Anodite form]]. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see what she does or says to Zombozo]], but whatever it is terrified him enough he disappeared until the next series.

** Speaking of Taz, his appearances in the shorts usually have him causing an AnimalStampede with his arrival. Among the animals fleeing are other apex predators like a lion, a wolf, a bear and a crocodile.

* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': [[WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode One short has Dexter taking lessons from Dee Dee to "loosen up"]] after Dee Dee gave him [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech a well-deserved speech about how much he's wasting his life, locked in his lab]]. The "final test" of her lessons is him cutting loose on the lab (to "remove his earthly connections" on the Zen sense)... and he becomes such a demented savage during this "cutting loose" that Dee Dee (who had so repeatedly trashed the lab herself ForTheLulz that she had become Dexter's idea of what a PersonOfMassDestruction was like) becomes ''seriously scared'' of Dexter and [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slaps him back to his senses]], and then tearfully tells him that she regrets trying to change him.

** Mandy herself is on the receiving end of this trope in ''WesternAnimation/BillyAndMandysBigBoogeyAdventure'', when she comes face-to-face with her worst fear--a future where she becomes a perky, kindhearted housewife... to ''[[AbhorrentAdmirer Irwin]]''.
--->'''Mandy:''' '')[[NotSoStoic very shaken]])'' You're not me! Y-You ''can't'' be me! I'm supposed to [[TakeOverTheWorld do something important!]]\\

** Rubilax in full rampage mode stops dead on his tracks at the mere sight of Goultard (and tries to ''inconspicuously slither away'' while in the body of a giant worm -- hilarious).

** He also screams for Batman when Charlie Collins, whom he spent most of the episode terrorizing, threatens to blow them both up with a bomb and calls the man crazy. Granted, that's because Charlie guessed (correctly) that the Joker would hate dying "next to some miserable little nobody".

* Implied in the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4TheSockOpera Sock Opera]]", when Bill Cipher addresses [[BrawnHilda Mabel's rather large and muscular female friend]] [[AccidentalMisnaming "Grendo"]] saying out of her earshot:

* ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'' has their version of Dr. Robotnik -- who is a ''far'' [[AdaptationalBadass cry from his usual portrayals]]. He's a [[DiabolicalMastermind seriously depraved mastermind]] who managed to conquer Mobius and turn it into a polluted wasteland, while [[UnwillingRoboticization robotcizing]] the majority of the populace. But when he learns his old boss [[EvilSorceror Naugus]] might [[SealedEvilInACan return from the Void]], Robotnik becomes seriously worried, to the point of actually agreeing with what [[TheDragon Snively]] suggests. When Naugus does confront him, Robotnik's ''quivering in fear'', outright ''groveling'' for mercy. (Naugus would've become the main villain of the show's third season had Creator/{{ABC}} renewed them, with Robotnik becoming the main target of his abuse.)

* While the main objective of the gang in the ''Franchise/ScoobyDoo'' franchise is to capture the horrifying villain, sometimes they do so by horrifying them, like for example with a witch doctor seeing his reflection in a mirror.
* Mandy from ''WesternAnimation/TheGrimAdventuresOfBillyAndMandy'' frequently scares off demons and the like with her terrifying aura. One even asks Grim, "is she [[HumanoidAbomination one of ours]]?"
** Mandy herself is on the receiving end of this trope in ''WesternAnimation/BillyAndMandysBigBoogeyAdventure'', when she comes face-to-face with her worst fear--a future where she becomes a perky, kindhearted housewife... to ''[[AbhorrentAdmirer Irwin]]''.
--->'''Mandy:''' (''[[NotSoStoic very shaken]]'') You're not me! Y-You ''can't'' be me! I'm supposed to [[TakeOverTheWorld do something important!]]\\
'''"Future Mandy":''' Nothing is more important than friendship! Except maybe LOVE! (''jumps into "future Irwin's" arms and kisses him'')\\
'''Mandy:''' (''[[OOCIsSeriousBusiness screams]]'')

* In ''WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfKorra'', Zaheer is generally established as a massive threat, even before getting his airbending. The third season finale shows him flying away for his life from an enraged Avatar Korra.
* ''WesternAnimation/BugsBunny''

* In the episode "Ultimate Deadpool" of ''[[WesternAnimation/UltimateSpiderMan2012 Ultimate Spider-Man]]'' there is only one person that the dreaded Taskmaster is afraid of: the merc with a mouth himself, Deadpool. This is likely due to a LogicalWeakness carried over from the comics; Taskmaster relies heavily on the ability to instantly memorize an opponent's fighting style, but Deadpool is so unpredictable that he never fights the same way twice.

* MonsterClown Zombozo from ''WesternAnimation/Ben10'''s first series. Ben shows him what's underneath Ghostfreak's cowl, and he ''explodes''.
-->'''Ghostfreak:''' You want to see something ''really'' scary?
** Zombozo (Again) when he kidnaps Ben and Gwen's family as part of a RevengeByProxy gets more than he asked for when a righteously pissed off Gwen confronts him instead of Ben. His threats to her family piss Gwen off so badly she breaks her promise to herself and [[OneWingedAngel turns into her Anodite form]]. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see what she does or says to Zombozo]], but whatever it is terrified him enough he disappeared until the next series.
** Zombozo, [[RunningGag yet again]], in ''Omniverse'' where he had the displeasure of looking at Toepick's face. Humorously enough, they ''both'' scare the hell out of each other (yeah, ''Omniverse'' retconned a bit where Ben regained his fear of clowns).
-->'''Toepick:''' Stay away from me!
-->'''Zombozo:''' ''You'' stay away from ''me''!
** In the ''[[WesternAnimation/Ben102016 reboot]]'', Vilgax panics when Ben unlocks [[EnergyBeing Shock Rock]], since the alien [[spoiler:is a BatmanGambit from the Fulmini Empire to invade Earth through the Omnitrix.]]
** In Omniverse, Vilgax comes to earth to challenge Ben only to turn tail and leave at the sight of Ma Vreedle.

* ''WesternAnimation/AaahhRealMonsters'':
** Ickis has a record of scaring other monsters. And one ''grizzly bear''. Being able [[SizeShifter to grow to tremendous size]] certainly helps.
** The Gromble was terrified of a human he called the Sewer Eater (a plumber) when the man was cleaning toilets.
* In ''WesternAnimation/BatmanTheAnimatedSeries'', the Joker is not afraid of the Dark Knight, but he would never ever dare cross the [[IntimidatingRevenueService IRS]].
** He also screams for Batman when Charlie Collins, whom he spent most of the episode terrorizing, threatens to blow them both up with a bomb and calls the man crazy. Granted, that's because Charlie guessed (correctly) that the Joker would hate dying "next to some miserable little nobody".
** And when he crosses paths with ComicBook/TheCreeper, he infamously exclaims "He's a '''lunatic'''!" to Batman himself.
** At the beginning of "Lock-Up". the Scarecrow escapes from Arkham, not for any particular plot but because he's that terrified of the title character.
* Heloise from ''WesternAnimation/JimmyTwoShoes'' has terrified [[{{Satan}} Lucius]] on a few occasions.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/{{Mixels}}'' episode "Mixel Moon Madness", The [[PlayingWithFire Infernites]] and the [[TheKlutz Orbitons]] scaring off the [[DarkIsNotEvil Glowkies]] by using their cubits to mix which causing them to flee and goes back inside the cave.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAngryBeavers'': Evidently, sapient evil rivers are just as scared of heights as normal people are, as Norbert and Daggett exploit in "A Dam Too Far".
* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The Flying Dutchman runs away terrified at the end of the first Halloween special when [=SpongeBob=] reveals his enhanced Halloween costume. [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfBooKiniBottom He has a similar reaction in the second]] when he enters [=SpongeBob=]'s mind and sees a [[SickeninglySweet overly saccharine world that looks like a drug trip on sugar]].
* ''WesternAnimation/DextersLaboratory'': [[WalkOnTheWildSideEpisode One short has Dexter taking lessons from Dee Dee to "loosen up"]] after Dee Dee gave him [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech a well-deserved speech about how much he's wasting his life, locked in his lab]]. The "final test" of her lessons is him cutting loose on the lab (to "remove his earthly connections" on the Zen sense)... and he becomes such a demented savage during this "cutting loose" that Dee Dee (who had so repeatedly trashed the lab herself ForTheLulz that she had become Dexter's idea of what a PersonOfMassDestruction was like) becomes ''seriously scared'' of Dexter and [[GetAHoldOfYourselfMan slaps him back to his senses]], and then tearfully tells him that she regrets trying to change him.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheAmazingWorldOfGumball'':
** In "The Fight", a ''UsefulNotes/TyrannosaurusRex'' tells Gumball that his mom is pretty scary.
** In "The Sale", Gumball and his brother Darwin attack their mom with demonic faces and voices because she said their neighbor could be replaced by anyone else.
* ''WesternAnimation/MyLittlePonyFriendshipIsMagic'': In the episode "Frenemies", Chrysalis is climbing a mountain, when she finds herself stalked by [[TheDarknessGazesBack eyes gazing from the darkness]]. She turns around and ''screeches'' at them, causing the monsters and the darkness to whimper and flee.
* In ''WesternAnimation/StarWarsTheCloneWars,'' Darth Maul has already proven himself to be quite the badass. But when he senses Darth Sidious arriving, he looks ''terrified'' and almost grovels.
* Parodied in a Season 1 ''WesternAnimation/RickAndMorty'' episode. The two are basically attempting to pull off the plot of ''Film/{{Inception}}'' when they encounter "Scary Terry", a dream monster obviously based on Freddy Krueger from ''Franchise/ANightmareOnElmStreet''. The two manage to evade Terry, then follow him home where he's having a bad dream. They wonder what could scare a guy like Terry... and it turns out to be a NotWearingPantsDream combined with Terry failing in school.
* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has the Woodland Critters -- a bunch of chipper {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s... who worship Satan and hold blood orgies. When they make their second appearance in the "Imagination Land" arc alongside iconic villains and they begin talking about how cool it would be to rip out the eyes of their victims and piss on the empty socket to infect the wound, we get this line.
-->'''[[Franchise/FridayThe13th Jason]]''': [[EvenEvilHasStandards Man, I do]] ''[[EvenEvilHasStandards not]]'' want to meet the kid that dreamt those things up.
* Implied in the ''WesternAnimation/GravityFalls'' episode "[[Recap/GravityFallsS2E4TheSockOpera Sock Opera]]", when Bill Cipher addresses [[BrawnHilda Mabel's rather large and muscular female friend]] [[AccidentalMisnaming "Grendo"]] saying out of her earshot:
-->"Oh, I'LL hold my horses...I'LL hold them...[[HypocriticalHumor you monster."]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/TheAdventuresOfSuperMarioBros3'' episode "Misadventures in Babysitting", Luigi scares away two Boo Diddleys who attempted to scare him first.
* The whole premise of ''WesternAnimation/ErnestLeVampire'' is that the titular character (who is quite a disturbing-looking hybrid of a vampire and an elephant) is tormented and terrorized by all kinds of nightmarish things. [[spoiler:All the time they are literally nightmarish as they are bad dreams that ruin his sleep and make him close his coffin.]]
* In ''WesternAnimation/StevenUniverse'' [[spoiler:White Diamond]] is scary enough to frighten even Blue and Yellow Diamond.
** Downplayed since they're only startled and not really scared, but there is a brief moment where [[GenkiGirl Padparadscha]] manages to freak out ''all the Diamonds''.
* In the ''WesternAnimation/BeastWars'' episode "Bad Spark", Rampage manages to get a scream of terror out of ''Tarantulas''.
* One Halloween ThreeShorts episode of ''WesternAnimation/TinyToonAdventures'' had Elmyra wishing for her dead pets to come back to life, which they do as vengeance-seeking zombies [[ChronicPetKiller because she's responsible for every single one of their deaths]]. Unfortunately, Elmyra is [[AndCallHimGeorge so destructive when trying to "take care" of them]] that they decide to ''run'' back to their graves while they are still intact and (un)alive to do so.

* ''WesternAnimation/Ducktales2017'': During the HalloweenEpisode, the triplets and Webby end up in a haunted house run by actual monsters in order to steal children's candy. Then Launchpad shows up, wearing a hockey mask and wielding an ACTUAL buzzsaw, and is honestly on the warpath due to not knowing what Halloween is. The monsters end up running through their own haunted house terrified out of their wits, more so when they run into Della, Donald, and Scrooge (the former two they mistake for CreepyTwins, and the latter breaking through a door in a HeresJohnnyHomage). Once the misunderstanding is cleared up at the end, they thank Launchpad for the good scare, saying they hadn't had that kind of a rush in years.
-->'''Witch''': Bravo! You black-hearted devil!\\
'''Vampire''': I haven't felt so undead in centuries!\\
'''Frankenstein's Monster''': We learn from you.\\
'''Werewolf''': Evil Mechanic is the true master of Halloween.
* In season 2 finale of ''WesternAnimation/{{Amphibia}}'' a pair of notorious villains [[spoiler: Sasha and Grime]] has just successfully betrayed the heroes, took over a kingdom, and arguably reached their lowest point, at least morally. Then they discover a hidden mural that makes them realize [[spoiler: the king Andrias]] [[EvilAllAlong was not a good person at all]] and his plans are [[EvenEvilhasStandards uncomfortable even for them]].
-->'''[[spoiler: Sasha]]:''' Woah… Is that [[spoiler: the king]]? With the music box?
-->'''[[spoiler: Grime]]:''' If it is, [[AccidentalHero it’s a really good thing we stopped him]].
* One episode of ''WesternAnimation/ArchiesWeirdMysteries'' is a parody of ''Film/TheBlob'' where a [[BlobMonster sentient mass of tapioca pudding]] is devouring the entire town. When they get pinned down by it in the Chok'lit Shoppe Jughead, [[BigEater being Jughead]], decides he's just going to eat the thing. He actually puts in a good effort, enough that the thing is recoiling in horror and actually backing off, but unfortunately it's just too much even for Jughead -- realizing he can't eat anymore the blob swiftly devours him instead.
* ''WesternAnimation/TheOwlHouse'': The Season 2 finale reveals that [[BigBad Belos]], [[spoiler:a religious extremist who seeks the genocide of witches and demons in the Boiling Isles, a SerialKiller who has indirectly murdered denizens over the years as well as killed countless Golden Guards under the delusion that they've "betrayed him", and someone who turned himself into a HumanoidAbomination from consuming so many Palisman Souls to the point he turns into a horrifying monster made of OminousObsidianOoze whenever he loses control of his power, is utterly terrified of the Collector because he is the only being more powerful than him. When he sees the Collector freed after he had double-crossed him, he [[OhCrap is utterly horrified]] as he tries to save himself with a weak lie that he freed him. The Collector quickly reduces him to a smear on the wall in retaliation for his betrayal]].
* ''WesternAnimation/SonicSatAM'' has their version of Dr. Robotnik -- who is a ''far'' [[AdaptationalBadass cry from his usual portrayals]]. He's a [[DiabolicalMastermind seriously depraved mastermind]] who managed to conquer Mobius and turn it into a polluted wasteland, while [[UnwillingRoboticization robotcizing]] the majority of the populace. But when he learns his old boss [[EvilSorceror Naugus]] might [[SealedEvilInACan return from the Void]], Robotnik becomes seriously worried, to the point of actually agreeing with what [[TheDragon Snively]] suggests. When Naugus does confront him, Robotnik's ''quivering in fear'', outright ''groveling'' for mercy. (Naugus would've become the main villain of the show's third season had Creator/{{ABC}} renewed them, with Robotnik becoming the main target of his abuse.)
* ''WesternAnimation/TransformersCyberverse'': Megatron is still the planet-conquering tyrant and undisputed overlord of the Decepticons, and is feared for his brutality and ruthlessness. And yet, [[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-r7O-_lrbA Macadam's transformation]] ''still'' shocks him into stunned silence--and seeing it is enough to make him ''back down''. [[TakeOurWordForIt We don't even get to see what Macadam's alt-mode is]], only that it utterly dwarfs every other Cybertronian and ''bristles'' with firepower.
* ''WesternAnimation/EekTheCat'': The only thing the Evil Cat Sisters' army of lawyers fear is Sharky the Sharkdog.
* PlayedForLaughs in a bumper for Creator/{{Disney}} home videos: even [[WesternAnimation/{{Fantasia}} Chernabog]] quakes in terror before his boss, (then) [=CEO=] Michael Eisner.

** Speaking of Taz, his appearances in the shorts usually have him causing an AnimalStampede with his rampages. Among the animals fleeing are other apex predators like a lion, a wolf, a bear and a crocodile.

** Zombozo (Again) when he kidnaps Ben and Gwen's family as part of a RevengeByProxy gets more than he asked for when a righteously pissed off Gwen confronts him instead of Ben. His threats to her family piss Gwen off so badly she breaks her promise to herself and [[OneWingedAngel turns into her Anodite form]]. [[NothingIsScarier We don't see what she does or says to Zombozo]], but whatever it is terrified him enough he disappeared from the franchise entirely until the reboot.

* ''WesternAnimation/SouthPark'' has the Woodland Critters -- a bunch of chipper {{Ridiculously Cute Critter}}s... who worship Satan and hold blood orgies. When they make their second appearance in the "Imagination Land" arc alongside iconic villains, we get this line.

* ''WesternAnimation/SpongeBobSquarePants'': The Flying Dutchman runs away terrified at the end of the first Halloween special when [=SpongeBob=] reveals his enhanced Halloween costume. [[WesternAnimation/TheLegendOfBooKiniBottom He has a similar reaction in the second]] when he enters [=SpongeBob=]'s mind and sees a [[SugarBowl overly saccharine]] [[TastesLikeDiabetes world that looks like a drug trip on sugar]].