Water (Aquaphobia)
- RWBY: When Teams NDGO and SSSN fight, their tournament arena consists of desert and water terrain. This is a big problem for Team SSSN due to Neptune's intense phobia of water, leading him to hog the desert terrain and provide almost no assistance to his team. Once Team NDGO realise, they gather in the water, hoping to be untouchable to Neptune. However, his weapon is electricity-based, allowing him to defeat them by (reluctantly) dipping his trident in the water only after intense cajoling by his team leader, Sun. The canon spin-off novel, RWBY: Before the Dawn, reveals that Neptune's phobia stems from his uncontrollable water-manipulation Semblance. If he's in the presence of even small amounts of water, he can potentially kill people by accident, and very nearly has.
- RWBY Chibi: This is Played for Laughs as Neptune is shown wearing various swimming gear when taking a bath and allowing Jaune to drown in the pool when he's made a lifeguard (don't worry, Jaune gets better). He can't even walk past a puddle without panicking.
- Battle for Dream Island: Firey is afraid of water, since it's his poison.
- OJ from Inanimate Insanity seems to have this fear too, which might be one of the reasons he's mostly compared to Firey.
Fire (pyrophobia)
- At the height of the Napster controversy, the folks at Camp Chaos created a series of flash animations featuring Metallica's Lars Ulrich and James Hetfield. James, aside from being a caveman mentally, was also terrified of fire. So naturally, in their Celebrity "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire?" parody, he gets lit on fire.
- Probably alluding to the fact that Hetfield was badly burned by stage pyrotechnics during Metallica's 1992 tour with Guns N' Roses, thus proving that no matter how much they called Metallica a bunch of dicks, their detractors could still out-dick them rather easily.
Flying (aviophobia) or Heights (acrophobia)
- Cloud from Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged has a fear of heights which he addresses whenever he has to deal with such situations such as being on a plane, walking across a broken cieling, or just climbing a ladder.
- In Red vs. Blue, season 9 reveals that back when the Meta was Agent Maine, he was afraid of heights, making his Disney Villain Death even more ironic in hindsight.Maine: Too high.
- Sarge is also afraid of heights. He has a Freudian Excuse;
Simmons: You have a fear of heights? Didn't you used to jump out of ships in high orbit during the war?
Sarge: And how do you think I developed that fear? That shit was crazy. - The Most Popular Girls in School: Trisha Cappelletti completely flips out on planes.Trisha: (screaming, kicking, and trying to open the emergency exit door) I need to be on land! I need to be on land!Brittnay: (holding Trisha back) Trisha! We're flying over the ocean!Mackenzie: (also holding Trisha back) Trisha 2!! Help us!Trisha 2: But the seatbelt sign is on!
Mice (murophobia/musophobia)
- Another RWBY example: Professor Peter Port, man's man extraordinaire, who laughs in the face of unfathomable soulless evil, is terrified of mice.
Bugs (insectophobia)
- Dreamscape: Anjren is terrified of giant bugs.
Spiders (arachnophobia)
- Final Fantasy VII: Machinabridged: Barret is scared of spiders. When Vincent joins the party and reveals he is filled with them, Barret is traumatized enough to not want anything to do with him.
Bats (Chriotophobia)
- Red vs. Blue: Grif is afraid of bats. When Simmons forces him to search an underground cavern for Sarge, Grif starts freaking out about bats, much to Simmons' annoyance.Simmons: Okay, idiot, let's assume I'm wrong. Let's assume there are bats. So what? You're wearing state-of-the art, biomechanical body-armour. It's designed to deflect bullets and absorb explosions. What can a five-ounce flying rodent possibly do?
Grif: ...So basically you're saying that you think there's bats!
Snakes (Ophidiophobia)
- Red vs. Blue: Simmons also has a fear of snakes. In season 15, the sight of a small snake was enough to make him faint.
Other
- AstroLOLogy: While Pisces is already prone to overreacting to anything, she's especially scared of cockroaches, to the point that it's a running gag for her to freak out over one.
- Mani Mani People: Mafumi
is afraid of blood due to an grisly accident that she witnessed.
