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| 6 | [[caption-width-right:297:''[[ScreamingWoman AAAAAH!]]'']] |
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| 8 | ->''"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."'' |
| 9 | -->-- '''Creator/TSEliot''', ''Literature/TheWasteLand'' |
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| 11 | [[SelfDemonstratingArticle Yikes! Oh! It's y-you! Sorry I f-f-freaked out like that! You just s-startled me!]] Well anyway, this t-trope is n-not to be confused with [[NightmareFuel n-n-n-nightmare fuel]], which is a popular page that describes various audience reactions, which also scares me! It's not tropes used in ''[[VideoGame/FirstEncounterAssaultRecon FEAR]]'', though a few below are. It's not Literature/TheFearIndex, even though this is one. |
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| 13 | Compare HorrorTropes, AnxietyTropes, and WeaknessTropes. Those really make me feel uneasy! Contrast BraveryTropes. Oh, how I wish I were one of those! All these tropes are really scary! Let's hurry up and get this over with! I'm not sure how long I could sit through these! |
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| 15 | !!Yikes! These tropes are way too scary! |
| 16 | [[index]] |
| 17 | [floatboxright: |
| 18 | '''Related:''' |
| 19 | + HorrorTropes |
| 20 | + ScreamingTropes |
| 21 | ] |
| 22 | |
| 23 | * AbsurdPhobia: I'm scared of something hilariously ridiculous! |
| 24 | * AcrophobicBird: I'm a bird who's scared of flying! |
| 25 | * AfraidOfBlood: Yikes! Blood! |
| 26 | * AfraidOfClowns: Creepy clowns!!! No, thank you! |
| 27 | * AfraidOfDoctors: Help! The doctor's about to get me! |
| 28 | * AfraidOfNeedles: Somebody save me from those sharp, pointy things! |
| 29 | * AfraidOfTheirOwnStrength: I'm scared of my own powers because they could hurt or kill people! I'm also a pacifist. |
| 30 | * AfraidToHoldTheBaby: I'm scared of holding little ones! |
| 31 | * AllergicToLove: I'm so nervous due to having a crush that it's making me feel physically sick! |
| 32 | * AngerBornOfWorry: How dare you put yourself in danger! I was worried sick about you! |
| 33 | * AnotherMansTerror: I'm experiencing someone else's death, and the emotions that went along with it! |
| 34 | * AnxietyDreams: I just had the worst nightmare about something I feared in real life! |
| 35 | * AuthorPhobia: Yikes! This story that I wrote just scared me! |
| 36 | * BatScare: Help! Flying bats! |
| 37 | * BetterToKillThanFrighten: Why should I settle for scaring them when killing them is so much more effective in achieving my goals? |
| 38 | * BoardingSchoolOfHorrors: {{Sadist Teacher}}s, [[TheBully bullying students]], and uncomfortable housing? Take me out of this school! |
| 39 | * BraveTheRidePlot: Wow, that theme park ride there looks pretty uh... terrifying. Any chance we could y'know, skip it? No? [[ThisIsGonnaSuck Oh boy...]] |
| 40 | * BringMyBrownPants: Yaaaaiiiiiii!! Oh, great! [[PottyFailure I just soiled myself!]] |
| 41 | * BrownNoteBeing: I can't see it, even looking at this thing is dangerous. |
| 42 | * CatharticExhalation: *takes a deep breath* Whoa! That scary thing nearly took my breath away! |
| 43 | * CatScare: Aaahh!! Oh! It's just a cat. |
| 44 | * CatsHateWater: [[BigNo MEEERRRRROOOOOOWWWWW]]!![[note]]I am scared of water!!![[/note]] |
| 45 | * CATTrap: [[BigNo NOOO!]] I hate cat scans! |
| 46 | * {{Claustrophobia}}: Please don't close in on me! I get really nervous of closed spaces! |
| 47 | * CowardiceCallout: What is wrong with you? Can't you see? You've just proven you're nothing but a coward! |
| 48 | * CowardlyLion: I'm scared of fighting! But I guess I have to do it anyway! |
| 49 | * CowardlyMooks: That hero just beat up one of our virtual villain comrades! Please don't hurt me! |
| 50 | * CowardlySidekick: I'm so afraid! At least I have the hero as my partner! |
| 51 | * CowardlyYellow: You can tell that I'm a coward by my association with the color yellow! |
| 52 | * CowerPower: I'll just hide behind someone else to protect myself! |
| 53 | * CreepyBasement: I hate going down to the cellar! It's dark and scary! |
| 54 | * CreepyCave: Get me out of here! I'm trapped in a terrifying cavern! |
| 55 | * DeepBreathRevealsTension: *inhale, hold, exhale* I'm calm. *inhale, hold, exhale* I am calm. |
| 56 | * DeerInTheHeadlights: I'm too afraid to move! |
| 57 | * DefangedHorrors: We're children! So all those things scare us more than the adults! |
| 58 | * DelayedOhCrap: Someone told me something scary. Okay. ''[{{Beat}}]'' Wait! Someone told me something scary! That means I'm doomed! |
| 59 | * DesperatePleaForHome: That's it! I can't take this scary place anymore! I wanna go home! NOW! |
| 60 | * DirtyCoward: I'm too afraid to save anyone else! I just want to save only myself because that's safer! So so long, suckers! You'll just have to pray you get out alive! |
| 61 | * DistressedDrinkJitters: I so scared, I can't keep my hands from shaking, and I'm spilling my drink! |
| 62 | * DistressedWoodchopping: I am chopping wood because I'm scared! |
| 63 | * TheDreaded: I'm a villain! Everyone fears me! |
| 64 | * EldritchAbomination: Oh my god... what the hell is that weird, creepy ''thing?'' |
| 65 | * ElephantsAreScaredOfMice: [=BhaaaaaaaHHHAAAaaaaaaaaa=]!! (Help! A mouse! I'm afraid of mice!) |
| 66 | * FaceYourFears: I'm scared of that thing! But it's time for me to face it like a man! |
| 67 | * FailedAttemptAtScaring: Oh, please! You'll have to do better than that if you want to scare me. |
| 68 | * FakeKillScare: No! Someone just got killed! Hey! Wait a minute! That was fake?! |
| 69 | * FauxHorrific: Aaah!! Wait, what do you mean it isn't scary? |
| 70 | * FearInducedIdiocy: D'oh! I just did something stupid because I'm blinded by fear! |
| 71 | * FearIsNormal: I may be scared, but I learned that it's normal and okay. |
| 72 | * FearIsTheAppropriateResponse: I'm the hero! But I'm too scared to fight! Therefore, I say that hiding instead of fighting is the right thing to do. |
| 73 | * FearOfThunder: Yikes! A thunderstorm! |
| 74 | * FearSong: I'm scared... all I can do is sing about it. |
| 75 | * FearlessFool: Pffft! I ain't scared of that thing! I'll take on it no matter how stupid it is of me! |
| 76 | * FearlessInfant: Yikes! This situation's so scary but the baby isn't even flinching! |
| 77 | * FearlessUndead: I'm TheUndead! I don't get scared that easily! |
| 78 | * FearsomeFoot: Help! A scary guy's foot! |
| 79 | * FlatScare: Yikes! Someone just shouted "Boo!" in a flat tone in my face! |
| 80 | * FrightDeathtrap: Help! A murderer tried to kill me by literally scaring me to death! |
| 81 | * FrightInducedBunkmate: I'm so scared I can't sleep alone! Can I please sleep with you? |
| 82 | * GhostStory: Yikes! That story you made up about ghosts scared me! |
| 83 | * HopeIsScary: Oh, dear! My hope is scaring me! |
| 84 | * HorrifyingTheHorror: Yeah, I'm scary, but that ''thing'' is scaring ''me''! |
| 85 | * HospitalVisitHesitation: I don't want to see my friend in a hospital with tubes and wires in them! |
| 86 | * HyperventilationBag: I'm so scared! I need a paper bag! ''[breathes through a paper bag]'' |
| 87 | * {{Hypochondria}}: Help! Help! I think I'm getting sick! |
| 88 | * ICantLookGesture: I can't look! I'm too scared! |
| 89 | * IKnowWhatYouFear: Great! Someone's gonna use my fear against me! I fear they're gonna tell everyone! |
| 90 | * TheILoveYouStigma: My greatest fear is using the word "love" to express my affection to another person! I really fear romance! |
| 91 | * ImNotAfraidOfYou: Please! You can't scare me just because you rely on fear! |
| 92 | * ImmortalsFearDeath: I don't want to die! I'm supposed to live forever! |
| 93 | * ImmuneToJumpScares: Oh, please! You'll have to come up with something much more clever than a cliché JumpScare to scare me. |
| 94 | * ImproperlyParanoid: What do you mean, I'm scared for no good reason?! |
| 95 | * IntimacyViaHorror: I'm a woman, and this is too scary for me! |
| 96 | * IronicFear: I got the abilities/species/job/etc. of something that I'm scared of! Now that's scary! |
| 97 | * IWantMyMommy: Mommy! Save me from the scary thing! |
| 98 | * JumpScare: Scary things come out of nowh-AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!! |
| 99 | * KidsShouldntWatchHorrorFilms: Help! My parents were right! I'm too young to be watching horror flicks! |
| 100 | * {{Kimodameshi}}: All right, sure! I can try to test my courage with Japanese spooks popping out in front of me! |
| 101 | * LovableCoward: I'm scared! But that's why so many people love me! |
| 102 | * MajorCoward: Let's kill some bad guys! Wait-- no, screw this! Everyone else can do the fighting for me! |
| 103 | * MassOhCrap: Oh, no! We're all doomed! |
| 104 | * MediaScaremongering: Aaaaahhh! These media articles are trying to scare me! |
| 105 | * MilesGloriosus: Okay! I admit it! I'm no daredevil! I'm really a fraidy cat! |
| 106 | * MirrorScare: Aaahh!! A reflection! |
| 107 | * MissingChild: Oh my God! My child is lost! I'm very scared! |
| 108 | * TheMobBossIsScarier: Help! A criminal! |
| 109 | * MortalityPhobia: I'm scared to die! |
| 110 | * MotivatedByFear: I'm afraid of this thing! But that's what motivated me! |
| 111 | * NervousWreck: Oh my God! I'm starting to become very nervous! Somebody please help me! I don't know what to do! |
| 112 | * NeverendingTerror: Help! I'm in danger forever! |
| 113 | * NightmareFuel: Oh my God! That gave me nightmares! |
| 114 | * NightmareSequence: I can't sleep because I have nightmares! |
| 115 | * NightmareFuelStationAttendant: Aaaa! Someone well intentioned is being scary! |
| 116 | * NighttimeBathroomPhobia: I really have to go, but the bathroom is all the way at the end of a dark, scary hallway. |
| 117 | * NotAfraidOfYouAnymore: You have mistreated me for the last time! I no longer fear you! |
| 118 | * NotAfraidToDie: Go ahead! Kill me! I ain't scared to die! |
| 119 | * NothingIsScarier: There's nothing scarier than something I can't see! That's my biggest fear of all! |
| 120 | * OfferingAnotherInYourStead: Oh god, don't kill me! Take this other guy in my place! |
| 121 | * OhCrap: Oh, no! I'm doomed! |
| 122 | * OhCrapFakeout: Oh, no! I'm doomed! Wait! This was a fakeout?! |
| 123 | * OhCrapSmile: I'm smiling out of realizing I'm in a pickle! |
| 124 | * OneEpisodeFear: I'm scared of that thing! [[SincerityMode Because the script said so for only this episode!]] |
| 125 | * OrphanageOfFear: I'm afraid of this orphanage! My parents were ''never'' this cruel to me like these "guardians"! |
| 126 | * OutscareTheEnemy: Yikes! That hero is even scarier than me! |
| 127 | * PacifismIsCowardice: Why the hell do you refuse to fight? It can't be because you think violence is wrong. You're just a cowardly traitor to our people! |
| 128 | * PanickyExpectantFather: My wife's in labor! I'm starting to feel nervous! |
| 129 | * ParalyzingFearOfSexuality: I'm not asexual, but I'm very nervous to lose my virginity! |
| 130 | * ParanoiaFuel: That work just terrified us viewers into thinking it may come true! |
| 131 | * ParanoiaGambit: [[BigOMG Oh my God!]] I'm starting to feel nervous! Someone help me! Wait! That person didn't actually do it?! This was all a way to make me feel scared for nothing?! |
| 132 | * TheParanoiac: Stay away from me! I don't trust anyone or anything! |
| 133 | * PerformanceAnxiety: I can't perform! I get stage fright! |
| 134 | * PoorlyLitPareidolia: There are scary faces in the rocks and trees and furniture! |
| 135 | * PregnancyScare: I might be pregnant! I'm starting to become nervous! I'm not ready for childbirth! |
| 136 | * PreviewsPulse: Yikes! That chord playing in the trailer just scared me! |
| 137 | * PrimalFear: This scares us all out of instinct! |
| 138 | * ProperlyParanoid: I knew it! I told you I had an excellent reason to be nervous! |
| 139 | * QuakingWithFear: I'm so afraid, I'm shaking! |
| 140 | * ReactiveContinuousScream: |
| 141 | -->'''Person #1:''' [[OverlyLongScream AAAAAAAAAH!!]]\ |
| 142 | '''Person #2:''' [[BigNo NOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!]]\ |
| 143 | '''[[RuleOfThree Person #3:]]''' [[BigWhy WHYYYYYYYYYYYYYYY??!!]] |
| 144 | * RuleOfScary: I don't care if it doesn't make any sense! It still scares me! |
| 145 | * SafetyFreak: Gotta make things safe at all costs! The world's too scary NOT to!! |
| 146 | * SafeUnderBlankets: Scary! Better hide under here! |
| 147 | * ScareCampaign: Help! This political ad has convinced me the other one is scary! I'm staying away from it! |
| 148 | * ScareChord: Aaahh! That music was the perfect chord to demonstrate my reaction! |
| 149 | * ScareDare: O-okay! I g-g-g-guess I'll d-d-do what I was d-d-d-dared to! |
| 150 | * ScaredOfWhatsBehindYou: Good! I scared that person away! ''[feels tap in the shoulder]'' Yikes! |
| 151 | * ScareEmStraight: This person just got me to do something by scaring me! It could happen if I don't comply! |
| 152 | * ScarilySpecificStory: Whoa, that ghost story you just told sounds way too similar to what's going on right now! |
| 153 | * ScaryScienceWords: Ahh! Those technical words give me the creeps! |
| 154 | * ScaryShadowFakeout: Help! That shadow's moving! |
| 155 | * ScaryTeeth: Uh oh! That guy's teeth are really scaring me! |
| 156 | * ScreamingWoman: I'm a woman! I can't help it if I scream a lot when I'm scared! |
| 157 | * ScreamsLikeALittleGirl: Aaaaaaahhh! Okay, tell anyone that my scream sounded girly, and [[DisproportionateRetribution you're dead]]! |
| 158 | * SecurityCling: Help! I have to grab onto my partner because I'm so scared! |
| 159 | * ShyShelledAnimal: I must hide inside my shell! Too nervous to come out! |
| 160 | * TheSoCalledCoward: They think I'm a coward, huh?! Well, it is time for me to refute them! |
| 161 | * SoHideousItsTerrifying: Let's all stay away from that hideous creature! It's far too terrifying to be around with! |
| 162 | * SpidersAreScary: Aaahh! Get those creepy arachnids away from me! |
| 163 | * StressVomit: I'm so scared that I just puked! |
| 164 | * SupernaturalFearInducer: Yaaahh! A supernatural power is scary! |
| 165 | * TallIsIntimidating: Aaa! So tall! How could I ever face them! |
| 166 | * TearsOfFear: I'm afraid! These tears I have in my eyes show this! |
| 167 | * {{Technophobia}}: [[BigNo No!]] Contemporary technology scares me! |
| 168 | * TerrifiedOfGerms: Help! Germs! Sick disgusting germs! The worst thing to have around me! |
| 169 | * TerrifyingRescuer: At last, my gallant hero has co--AIIIIEEE! Someone save me from my rescuer! |
| 170 | * TerrorHero: Great! That hero is taking advantage of my fear! Why did I, a villain, have to be scared in front of him?! |
| 171 | * ThingsThatGoBumpInTheNight: Help! Monsters! I can hear them bumping in my bed! And now in my closet! Hell, they're everywhere! |
| 172 | * ThisIsNoTimeToPanic: Gah! That person gave us permission to freak out after previously telling us not to, so now we're all losing it! |
| 173 | * UpCloseWithTheMonster: I'm feeling very uncomfortable facing this monster! I'm scared! |
| 174 | * VictoryThroughIntimidation: We can't fight! We're all too scared! |
| 175 | * TheVillainKnowsWhereYouLive: Help! The villain is everywhere! He found out where I live! |
| 176 | * WhatDoTheyFearEpisode: Why are these people trying to find out what I fear?! They're wasting their time! ''[in the end]'' Yikes! They actually found it! |
| 177 | * WhyDidItHaveToBeSnakes: I've got a very specific phobia that I'm too scared to even talk about! |
| 178 | * WideEyesAndShrunkenIrises: My eyes are bulging in fear! My irises have also shrank! |
| 179 | * WorryingForTheWrongReason: I'm starting to feel worried! Wait! Are you telling me to worry about something else?! |
| 180 | [[/index]] |
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| 183 | |
| 184 | ->''You were very brave, facing them all...'' |
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