Horrifying the Horror in Fan Works.
Crossovers
- All For Luz: One side-effect of Luz's Quirk-stealing ability is that she also gains black, shadowy vestiges shaped like the original holders, that include echoes of their personalities. These are incomplete so long as the person Luz stole the Quirk from is still alive. Both she and Shigaraki are unnerved by their existence.
- Amazing Fantasy (My Hero Academia & Spider-Man): Natalie Essex reminisces about when her "brother" Nathaniel's experiments horrified Josef Mengele, all while she's busy humming and vivisecting people.
- The Chaotic Masters: Constantine has dealt with all sorts of horrifying monstrosities, and Circe has been imprisoned in Tartarus, both of them being The Dreaded to others in the magical community… and both are still thoroughly creeped out by Lumalee's cheerful nihilism.
- Child of the Storm:
- After their encounter in Paris, it's revealed that Gravemoss is left terrified of Harry Dresden (or, as the Lemony Narrator puts it, joined the "scared-of-Harry-Dresden" club).
- The Phoenix has this effect on pretty much everything evil and horrifying — even the proverbially indestructible Darkhold seems to shiver in genuine fear when it senses a mere flicker of Phoenix fire. Of course, this fear isn't just limited to the bad guys, and for very good reason.
- Magneto scares more or less everyone witless, including the aforementioned Harry Dresden — who tries to hide behind Wanda when Magneto looks like he's weighing him up. Since Wanda's 5'6' at best, and Dresden is nearly seven feet tall, he fails miserably. Since his first on-screen appearance in chapter 77 is heralded by a geomagnetic storm, Northern Lights style auroras, before he crumples HYDRA's vibranium hulled helicarrier like a tin can, his first major appearance in the sequel has him crippling the Winter Guard in less than two minutes and taking out the Red Son a.k.a. a Brainwashed and Crazy Harry with one figurative hand behind his back, combined with a reputation as a mostly reformed ex mutant supremacist terrorist, you can kind of see why.
- Harry Potter himself has shades of this, although unusually for this trope, it's less about what he is now and more about what he will become. While he starts out as little more than a moderately talented quick thinking 13-year-old Squishy Wizard, a mixture of training and rapid development of his powers (partly thanks to his circumstances) make him first a Glass Cannon, then, by Book II, a fully fledged Person of Mass Destruction. And the fact is that once he grows into his full powers, he'll be a Flying Brick, a monstrously powerful psychic and a wizard trained by people like Albus Dumbledore, Loki, and Doctor Strange to boot. And that's not even counting his skills in stealth and espionage, thanks to Bucky, Natasha, and the Red Room. Oh, and he's the firstborn son of the Crown Prince of Asgard, meaning that he's got a potentially huge amount of political power and influence to bring to bear (if he ever wanted to use it). This is a large part of why quite a few villains are after him in Books 1 and 2: They want to kill him before he can really become a threat.
- Nathaniel Essex horrified the Nazis, even creeping out those at freaking Auschwitz.
- Alucard admits in Daughter of Darkness
that Pinkie Pie freaks him out... and turns him on. - In The Doctor's Faith Healing, when the Doctor realises he's in a club full of vampires, he gets up on stage at the Bronze to deliver the following;"Is everyone having a good time?" (Vampires cheer) "Glad to hear it... Because I want to let you know that while I'm in town, this will probably be the last time any of you vampire half-breeds have any fun at all. I'm guessing that most of you have never heard of me, but I suggest that you go find something really old and really evil. When you do, ask it one simple question. Ask it 'When you have nightmares, what do you dream about?' I guarantee everyone of them will tell you the same thing...ME!"
- In Dog of War, the Kyuubi is completely horrified by the actions of Angron, Primarch of the World Eaters. So much so that while explaining what's to Naruto that his body is being changed into something more like Angron's, he warns Naruto that he will kill them both should he head down that man's path. Kyuubi later shows Angron's memories to Sarutobi, Jiraiya, Tsunade, and Shizune so they can both help Naruto keep from being like him and to prepare for the worst should he do so anyway.
- The Dragon and the Butterfly: Whiteout: While Dagur tends to act more of a wise-guy to Drago than anyone else, even he knows when to shut-up around him.
- In Echoes of the Fallen, Xander uses Magneto's memories to intimidate (or more accurately terrify) Angelus. Later, when Angel returns from Hell, he flees the moment he sees Xander.
- Guardians, Wizards, and Kung-Fu Fighters (Jackie Chan Adventures & W.I.T.C.H.): Calisto is one of the co-wardens of Cavigor, a Shapeshifter with an incredibly powerful tiger form which makes him one of the most dangerous fighters in the story. Yet when he realizes that Drago has escaped from his prison cell, he's left terrified.
- In Harry and the Shipgirls, the Dementors of Harry Potter canon literally got scared shitless by Muramasa-no-Kagotsuruhe, the Sword of Hopelessness, who is arguably even scarier than they are.
- Xander and his "tenants" in Hotel California leave the Goa'uld possessing him so terrified that it begs SG1 to get it out of Xander.
- If Wishes Were Ponies (Harry Potter & My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic): Accidentally happens — the Cutie Mark Crusaders, after only spending less than a WEEK at Hogwarts Scootaloo accidentally informs Professor Binns that he's been dead all this time and allowing him to go on his Last Great Adventure because of it. After Professor McGonagall puts up a rule into effect to prevent further accidental exorcisms of Ghosts from the School, Twilight sends them a book about Ghosts; and they use it to bring Moaning Myrtle back to life. Peeves the Poltergeist rightfully avoids the CMC afterwards, completely terrified of what they might do to HIM!
- Infinity Train: Blossomverse:
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail
- Chloe Cerise is a well-known Nightmare Fetishist into demons and gory fates. But seeing a glimpse of Henry and Walter's abomination forms makes her terrified.
- Likewise, Grace Monroe, leader of the Apex, is shown to not be afraid of anything...until she also sees Henry and Walter's abomination forms. Walter's is so grotesque that the narration describes it as Grace running for her life.
- Infinity Train: Knight of the Orange Lily: Alex Shepherd is not seen as this in the slightest...until he becomes the juggernaut known as Pyramid Head. To state how horrifying Pyramid Head is, you know how in Yu-Gi-Oh! VRAINS, Specter is known to be a sadistic monster with a Nightmare Face so terrifying that it's currently the image of the VRAINS Nightmare Fuel page? When Pyramid Head learns that Specter kicked his denizen partner out of a window, the monster decides it's time to give him a taste of his own medicine. We're never really shown what it is, but apparently it's so horrible that when Paul London gets thrown into his torture cell by Pyramid Head hours later, Specter has been redued to a mumbling Nervous Wreck afraid of his own reflection.
- Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail
- Xander in Jedi Harris leaves a wraith (which feeds on negative emotions) in utter terror by not feeling any negative emotions at all. It's actually destroyed by him confronting it without feeling fear.
- In Justice Society of Japan, Mister Nobody completely freaks out when he tries to possess Shirley.
- A Knight's Tale as Inquisitor (Dragon Age & Fate Series): While in Arturia's mind in order to perform an Grand Theft Me on her, the Envy Demon ends up causing her dragon side to come to the forefront. This encounter is so overwhelming and traumatizing to Envy that it wants to vomit.
- A Loud Among Demons (Helluva Boss & The Loud House): Lincoln Loud manages to scare the crap out of Asmodeus (the demon king of lust and ruler of the lust ring) by forcing his way into the demon's mind and subjecting him of a horrific hallucination of Fizzarolli being burned to ashes and what is implied to be Lincoln's true demonic form. The experience left Asmodeus so traumatized that he instinctively trembled out of fear when Lincoln walks by, sensing the same presence that dragged him into the nightmarescape.
- Ben in Miraculous: Hero Time manages to horrify Zombizou, Hawkmoth, Marinette, and even Tikki by showing them Ghostfreak's true form.
- The MLP Loops: Pinkie Pie, starting from very early on when she sends Sovereign running on sight. Mainly because she's a Warp Goddess who got that job by eating Slaanesh. Conversely, if something manages to scare Pinkie Pie, that's Bad. Such as the Smooze, where Pinkie's only response is to run.Narration: Some monsters could be laughed at. The Smooze just laughed back.
- Outcry: Leviathan was freaked the hell out by the monster Taylor became and tried to flee. Keyword being tried.
- Nashandra was poking Taylor's soul fragment and threatening to crush it right up until Nadalia made it clear she would end her if she didn't cut it out right then and there.
- Starships Don't Go Indoors! Has a Reaper meet the Bydo.Reaper: ABOMINATION.
- In Takamachi Nanoha of 2814, Tsukuyomi breaking into Arkham to spend Christmas with her father the Joker so horrifies the rest of the inmates (apart from Harley, who had no previous experience with her) that they fall to their knees and start praying... to Batman.
- Taylor Varga (Luna Varga & Worm): the Endbringers are so scared of Taylor Hebert that the thought of her being even a stone's throw away is enough to make them just nope out of whatever they're doing and go hide on the exact opposite side of the planet.
- In Twenty Years Late, when a Sectoid attempts to mind-probe a Combine Elite-turned-MEC, it starts screaming. And it doesn't stop screaming in horror until its field commander pulls it aside and kills the mutilated cyborg it was trying to probe with a plasma cannon.
- Wizard Runemaster (Harry Potter & World of Warcraft): Harry Potter became a boogeyman for the Burning Legion after he not only survived their attempted assassinations but also constantly ran suicide missions against them and succeeding, including infiltrating their bases and butchering everyone there.
- A Moth to a Flame
- Despite being the one pressuring her to do so in the first place, King Andrias admits that he found Marcy's erratic Motive Rant hard to watch.
- After Marcy is out of her coma, King Andrias is cautious around the girl's shaky and unhinged demeanor.
- In It's a Stretch, Xander's plan for taking out the guards at a concentration camp (since they can't change the past), namely blowing the whole place sky high, causes Angelus to quickly reassure Xander that he's an opportunity killer and not a racist.
- In A Charmed Life the Shinigami Sidoh is utterly terrified by Ryuk's "pet human".
- In Death Note: The Abridged Series (kpts4tv) Light literally scares the crap out of Shinigami.Light: [with red Glowing Eyes of Doom] I loved you, L, and you smashed my heart into a million pieces. I will never love again.
Ryuk: Light, uh... you're scaring me.
Light: Oh, Ryuk, I haven't even begun to scare you yet! [Evil Laugh] - In the AU The Faceless (Disguise of Carnivorism) this happens thanks to Ryuk's boredom. Ryuk takes to telling horror stories that give the little Shinigami nightmares. Stories of a legendary human hero and Godslayer named "Light Yagami". It was just the name of some random human Ryuk once saw but never got around to killing. So now just the name "Light Yagami" strikes fear among the Shinigami and so when a real human shows up with that name, they surrender en masse.
- In Hope for the Heartless, the Horned King is a ruthless warlord lich and a Walking Wasteland whom about everyone fears instinctively. However, after he's released from the Black Cauldron for his only chance to earn his freedom, he remains haunted by the torment he endured in the Cauldron at the hands of his former master Arawn, the Death Lord of Annuvin.
Demon Slayer: Kimetsu no Yaiba
- What If I Know Too Many Reasons I Can Be Strong?: Tanjiro terrifies every demon he encounters, including even Muzan and the Twelve Kizuki. More often than not, it is mostly Played for Laughs.
- Walking in Circles: When Solas has been taken into the Ostwick Circle and has to go through Harrowing, within the Fade, a rage demon looks at him, he looks back and the demon just backs away without a single word.
- Remnant Inferis: DOOM (Doom (2016) & RWBY): The creatures of Grimm, as per canon, are animalistic abominations drawn to negative emotion like fear and rage. They outright show hesitance at the thought of facing the Doom Slayer, which stuns Winter Schnee, who thought such was impossible. Much later, Salem takes a peek into the Slayer's mind in an attempt to manipulate him, and is terrified beyond words at what she sees.
- Abraxas (Hrodvitnon):
- Remember the Skullcrawlers from Kong: Skull Island? Vicious, bloodthirsty, Horror Hunger-mad beasties that'll take Kong in a fight without hesitation? Well, what's lurking around the abandoned Monarch outpost following the Artificial Zombies' creation and the disappearance of Ghidorah's severed head is so terrible, even Skullcrawlers flee in terror when it's near them; in Chapter 11.
- As much of a Blood Knight with a fiery streak to his personality as Rodan is, he's given pause and almost unnerved when he sees from the sideline just how ferocious Monster X can get when enraged, in Chapter 13.
- In The Awakening of a Magus, the Lightning Patronus some Magi can cast is The Dreaded for the Dementors and their leader... not only can it destroy them, but it deprives the collective of all the souls the destroyed Dementor had ever consumed.
- For Love of Experimental Time Travel: At one point, Neville idly wonders if he's the Boy-Who-Lived simply because Voldemort was too intimidated of going after Harry. Of course, by this point Harry as outright enslaved Voldemort's soul, so Neville's not so much wrong as simply not right.
- In Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, Harry says "boo" and dementors flee in terror. This is because he's discovered the true form of the Patronus spell, which destroys dementors instead of just driving them away.Toronto Magical Tribune:
ENTIRE BRITISH WIZENGAMOT
REPORTS SEEING 'BOY-WHO-LIVED'
FRIGHTEN A DEMENTOR
EXPERT ON MAGICAL CREATURES:
"NOW YOU'RE JUST LYING"
- The Stronger Evil: The Demon Sorcerers imprisoned in the Netherworld, who are every bit as powerful here as in canon, have a total Oh, Crap! reaction when Shendu informs them that their lost mother, the primordial goddess Tiamat, is awakening. Even Tso Lan looks openly horrified.
- From Maim de Maim, what a twelve-year-old Nui did give even Ragyou — her mother, the one that created her — pause. To elaborated on what she did, she skinned another girl alive. What she did also horrified herself.
- Ultimate Sleepwalker: The New Dreams features Psyko, an Evil Counterpart to Sleepwalker who terrifies even the other sadists and psychopaths who make up New York's supervillain population. This is because many of them have fallen victim to his mass Mind Rapes at one time or another and were forced to relive their worst nightmares over and over again while Psyko uses their bodies as People Puppets.
- BURN THE WITCH: While Plagg is the Kwami of Destruction, he's terrified by the murderous expression Adrien adopts upon learning just how much harm Lila was doing. Including how she was working with his Control Freak father to spy upon him at school, and working with Hawkmoth.
- When Reason Fails:
- Himiko is The Dreaded to all students due to her being a man-eating ghoul. Yagi is The Dreaded to Himiko.
- The Aberrant that Izuku encountered, that was causing them Corporeal and Sanity damage by its mere presence, is scared away when Izuku suppresses his Desire influence to let his other influence come out.
My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic
- Nightfall Eclipse in Crisis of Infinite Twilights is the leader of a group of alternate reality Twilights. She overthrew her version of Celestia and doesn't bat an eye at anything... but is utterly creeped out and scared of Twilight Twilight, a sparkly vampire Twilight who thinks an underage filly is her soulmate.
- Cultural Artifacts has the Big Guy. He grew up with World War II, he helped develop the Avro Arrow, he became more or less the equivalent of the badass — and when his mind was under assault by Tirek, Discord, Nightmare, and a half a dozen others, he showed them things that had Discord begging Twilight Sparkle and the rest of the Mane Six to open fire and get him back to normal. Nightmare tried to invade his mind again. It didn't go well for her. At least, at first.
- He Had No Fingers: The People Puppet Niki-Jiki is sentient, able to discern right from wrong... and utterly terrified of Naruto.
- Time Braid has Sakura of all people pull this off. Orochimaru summons his Kusanagi and stabs Sakura in the heart then promptly freaks out when she ignores it to study the seal he uses to contain his sword.
- In an omake of Don't Look, the Slender Man finds Rei Ayanami creepy.
- Read the Fine Print (Evangelion): Rei, Lilith's incarnation, feels somewhat disturbed by Shinji's lack of a soul. She blatantly asks, "What are you?" when she meets him.
- In This Bites!, Hogback, proponent of necromancy, is aghast at the capabilities of Lily Carnation, bringing an entire crew back to life with hardly any problems whatsoever. Ivankov, master of the Horm-Horm Fruit and witness to all its biological changes without batting an eye, throws up when he sees the Body Horror that is Lily Carnation with its embedded prey.
- In Pokémon Reset Bloodlines, Hunter J is as ruthless and effective as a mercenary as she is in the Pokémon anime, to the point she's feared even in the criminal underworld. However, when she's contacted by the Bloodline King's Emissary with a job, she makes it clear that she doesn't want anything to do with the man, and only accepts partly out of fear and partly because she needs the money. By the time she's done with it, all she wants is to cope with some alcohol to forget the whole ordeal.
- In Ned Stark Lives, the Great Other is so terrified of what Jon Snow could do that he hired the Faceless Men to kill him even before he arrived at the Wall.
- In The Raven's Plan Robert Baratheon is a terror and a brutal man, but interrogating a Lancel Lannister plucked straight out of his time in the Faith Militant disturbed him so badly that he lost all drive to interrogate anyone else for some time. Note his Robert had just been informed about a lot of Cersei's actions, yet dealing with Lancel was enough for him to put off confronting her for a while.
- My Ridonculous Race: Crimson and Ennui do this to several scare-actors when they go through a haunted house in a Japanese theme park. When they miss one of their challenge requirements and might have to go through the labyrinth again one of the workers tosses the sign they needed to find outside for them.
- In Gensokyo 20XXV, we have Yume Ni who the other kids tend to fear because she was noted to be a bully and she did what she did with a passion, however, she was noted to be terrified of Reimu, when the latter stabs her with pair of scissors.
- Blanket: The Faerie Queen, Glaistig Uaine, states that she eats souls, because she likes the flavour, and asks whether Blanket does the same. Blanket's response is that she doesn't eat them, "I chew them up and spit them out once the flavor is gone, with them not wanting to do bad things anymore." The Faerie Queen's teacup is shaking as she puts it back down.
- Happened offscreen in Yu-Gi-Oh! The Abridged Series. The Season 0 version of Yami Yugi has this exchange with a villain:Jirou the Yellow Spider: Let me ask you something kid: Have you ever danced with the devil in the pale moonlight?
Yami Yugi: As a matter of fact, I have. We were on a blind date. Unfortunately, he never returns my calls. Says I'm "too creepy".
