History Main / FauxHorrific

* ''Fanfic/KingdomHeartsPsiTheSeekerOfDarkness'': In ''[[https://archiveofourown.org/works/17795354 Re:Adjustments]]'', when Kairi initiates a prank war after getting annoyed with whoever keeps finishing off the coffee pot without making more for the next person, Sora and Riku start desperately begging her not to, before imploring whoever did it to fess up before it's too late. The thing is, not only are all the pranks completely harmless, Kairi and her allies immediately agree they have no have no interest in injuring or emotionally hurting anyone, though they do have no qualms about pranking people they've already eliminated from suspicion such as Sora and Roxas due to RuleOfFun.

** "The Inconveniencing": Stan gives out a BigNo when he loses the remote and has to watch the [[StylisticSuck Black and White Period Piece Old Lady Boring Movie Channel film "The Duchess Approves"]] (or, alternatively, stand up from his chair and try to find the remote). Subverted, as he's later shown to enjoy the film.

* An episode of the ''WesternAnimation/Animaniacs'' has the Warner Siblings up in Hell, where Satan threatens to punish them by subjecting with "an argony worse than all others" for an eternity, namely by forcing them to listen to "whiny {{protest song}}s from the 60's". The sibling scream and cringe in horror at the prospect.

* Wiki/{{Uncyclopedia}} parodies an infamous shock video, describing something involving two girls getting off on a [[https://en.uncyclopedia.co/wiki/2_Girls_1_Calculus_Equation "horrific, shocking perversion of mathematical law."]]

* ''VideoGame/SpookysHouseOfJumpScares'' consists of you walking through a "haunted" house while cardboard cutouts of cutesy monsters occasionally pop out of the walls with a ScareChord. [[spoiler:The computers you can find in certain rooms say that they have managed to kill four people by giving them heart attacks. Also, this trope is subverted starting with room 50 where you start to encounter real, dangerous and scary monsters.]]

* ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'' does this [[LargeHam all the time]]. As a particularly overblown example, one episode has Spoony coming back to [[HostileShowTakeover take back his show]] [[CloningBlues from his clone]]...until he realizes that he'd have to review ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyX'', and is DrivenToSuicide from the terror.

Compare AbsurdPhobia, CoolAndUnusualPunishment, EvilCannotStandCuteness, FelonyMisdemeanor, LightmareFuel, ScreamingAtSquick, NightmareRetardant, MundaneGhostStory, ComicalOverreacting, MockSurpriseReaction, ArsonMurderAndJaywalking, PlayedForHorror, and AnythingButThat.

* At the end of ''Film/{{Paddington}}'', the villain is sentenced to an unspecified amount of hours of community service at a local petting zoo as punishment. She reacts as if she's been sentenced to death after hours of torture, complete with DutchAngle and BigNo screams of "No, anything but that!" She ''really'' hates petting zoos.

->'''Berdly:''' You... you said I could trust you!! You said you were a GAMER!!!\\
'''Queen:''' Berdly\\
'''Queen:''' I Only Play Mobile Games\\
'''Berdly:''' NOOOOOOOO!!!!!!
-->-- ''VideoGame/{{Deltarune}}''

->'''Spoony:''' Can't we come up with something new and original for an evil computer to do other than launch nukes and crash the stock market? Something legitimately scary? Guys, please, I'm begging ya'.\\
'''Professor Roswell:''' He could make... Gary Coleman President.\\
'''Spoony:''' AHHHHHH! OH, MY GOD! RUN! PANIC! EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF! ''GOOOOOO!''
-->-- ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'' [[https://youtu.be/bH_BaOA604A?t=958 reviewing]] the film ''Film/GameOverControlAltDeath''

* ''WesternAnimation/TheEmperorsNewGroove'' [[ParodiedTrope parodies]] this trope during the Pacha and Kuzco's final confrontation with [[EvilOldFolks Yzma]]. She [[FanDisservice hikes her skirt up]], causing both men to scream in terror, only for her to reveal that she's actually drawing a wicked dagger from a thigh sheath. [[ComicallyMissingThePoint They both immediatly calm down]].

-> (The camera lingers on a very unremarkable-looking suburban home, while undeservedly scary music plays.)
-> '''Kevin''': (horrified) ''What?!''
-> '''Bill''': An AVERAGE SUBURBAN RANCH HOUSE?! NOOOOOOO!!!!
-> '''Mike''': AAAAAH! ''People may live lives of quiet desperation and alcoholism in there!!!!''
-> '''Kevin''': [[Literature/TheStoriesOfJohnCheever J-J-J-J-JOHN CHEEVER]] MIGHT WRITE POIGNANT SHORT STORIES ABOUT WHAT WE DO IN THERE!!!!!
-> '''All Three''': (SCREAM AND SOB HYSTERICALLY!!!)
--->-- ''Podcast/RiffTrax'', Film/RockNRollNightmare

->'''Spoony:''' Can't we come up with something new and original for an evil computer to do other than launch nukes and crash the stock market? Something legitimately scary? Guys, please, I'm begging ya'.\\
'''Professor Roswell:''' He could make... Gary Coleman President.\\
'''Spoony:''' AHHHHHH! OH, MY GOD! RUN! PANIC! EVERY MAN FOR HIMSELF! ''GOOOOOO!''
-->-- ''WebVideo/TheSpoonyExperiment'' [[https://youtu.be/bH_BaOA604A?t=958 reviewing]] the film ''Film/GameOverControlAltDeath''

** The framing device on "[[Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E5TreehouseOfHorrorIV Treehouse of Horror IV]]" parodies ''Series/NightGallery''; Bart directs the viewer's attention to a painting he claims is so horrific that "merely to ''[[BrownNote gaze upon it]]'' is to '''[[GoMadFromTheRevelation go mad]]'''!" Cut to Homer looking at the ''[[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dogs_Playing_Poker Dogs Playing Poker]]'', freaking out and collapsing in [[LaughingMad hysterical laughter]]. Bart follows this by saying, "We had a story to go with this painting, but it was far too intense." So it turns out to be a lead into an unrelated vampire story.

Contrast AccidentalNightmareFuel and FridgeHorror (portrayed as not scary, but ends up being so). Compare and Contrast MundaneHorror.

* ''{{Webcomic/Homestuck}}'': "OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY. [[http://www.mspaintadventures.com/?s=6&p=006173 HOW THEY EXACT THEIR POUND OF FLESH.]]"