"I will show you fear in a handful of dust."
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 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 FEAR, though a few below are. It's not The Fear Index, even though this is one.
Compare Horror Tropes, Anxiety Tropes, and Weakness Tropes. Those really make me feel uneasy! Contrast Bravery Tropes. 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!
Yikes! These tropes are way too scary!
Related:
- Absurd Phobia: I'm scared of something hilariously ridiculous!
- Acrophobic Bird: I'm a bird who's scared of flying!
- Afraid of Blood: Yikes! Blood!
- Afraid of Doctors: Help! The doctor's about to get me!
- Afraid of Needles: Somebody save me from those sharp, pointy things!
- Afraid of Their Own Strength: I'm scared of my own powers because they could hurt or kill people! I'm also a pacifist.
- Afraid to Hold the Baby: I'm scared of holding little ones!
- Allergic to Love: I'm so nervous due to having a crush that it's making me feel physically sick!
- Anger Born of Worry: How dare you put yourself in danger! I was worried sick about you!
- Another Man's Terror: I'm experiencing someone else's death, and the emotions that went along with it!
- Anxiety Dreams: I just had the worst nightmare about something I feared in real life!
- Author Phobia: Yikes! This story that I wrote just scared me!
- Bat Scare: Help! Flying bats!
- Better to Kill Than Frighten: Why should I settle for scaring them when killing them is so much more effective in achieving my goals?
- Boarding School of Horrors: Sadist Teachers, bullying students, and uncomfortable housing? Take me out of this school!
- "Brave the Ride" Plot: Wow, that theme park ride there looks pretty uh... terrifying. Any chance we could y'know, skip it? No? Oh boy...
- Bring My Brown Pants: Yaaaaiiiiiii!! Oh, great! I just soiled myself!
- Brown Note Being: I can't see it, even looking at this thing is dangerous.
- Cathartic Exhalation: *takes a deep breath* Whoa! That scary thing nearly took my breath away!
- Cat Scare: Aaahh!! Oh! It's just a cat.
- Cats Hate Water: MEEERRRRROOOOOOWWWWW!!note
- C.A.T. Trap: NOOO! I hate cat scans!
- Claustrophobia: Please don't close in on me! I get really nervous of closed spaces!
- Cowardice Callout: What is wrong with you? Can't you see? You've just proven you're nothing but a coward!
- Cowardly Lion: I'm scared of fighting! But I guess I have to do it anyway!
- Cowardly Mooks: That hero just beat up one of our virtual villain comrades! Please don't hurt me!
- Cowardly Sidekick: I'm so afraid! At least I have the hero as my partner!
- Cowardly Yellow: You can tell that I'm a coward by my association with the color yellow!
- Cower Power: I'll just hide behind someone else to protect myself!
- Creepy Cave: Get me out of here! I'm trapped in a terrifying cavern!
- Deep Breath Reveals Tension: *inhale, hold, exhale* I'm calm. *inhale, hold, exhale* I am calm.
- Deer in the Headlights: I'm too afraid to move!
- Defanged Horrors: We're children! So all those things scare us more than the adults!
- Delayed "Oh, Crap!": Someone told me something scary. Okay. [Beat] Wait! Someone told me something scary! That means I'm doomed!
- Desperate Plea for Home: That's it! I can't take this scary place anymore! I wanna go home! NOW!
- Dirty Coward: 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!
- Distressed Woodchopping: I am chopping wood because I'm scared!
- The Dreaded: I'm a villain! Everyone fears me!
- Eldritch Abomination: Oh my god... what the hell is that weird, creepy thing?
- Elephants Are Scared of Mice: BhaaaaaaaHHHAAAaaaaaaaaa!! (Help! A mouse! I'm afraid of mice!)
- Face Your Fears: I'm scared of that thing! But it's time for me to face it like a man!
- Failed Attempt at Scaring: Oh, please! You'll have to do better than that if you want to scare me.
- Fake Kill Scare: No! Someone just got killed! Hey! Wait a minute! That was fake?!
- Faux Horrific: Aaah!! Wait, what do you mean it isn't scary?
- Fear Is Normal: I may be scared, but I learned that it's normal and okay.
- Fear Is the Appropriate Response: I'm the hero! But I'm too scared to fight!
- Fear of Thunder: Yikes! A thunderstorm!
- Fear Song: I'm scared... all I can do is sing about it.
- Fearless Fool: Pffft! I ain't scared of that thing! I'll take on it no matter how stupid it is of me!
- Fearless Infant: Yikes! This situation's so scary but the baby isn't even flinching!
- Fearless Undead: I'm The Undead! I don't get scared that easily!
- Fearsome Foot: Help! A scary guy's foot!
- Flat Scare: Yikes! Someone just shouted "Boo!" in a flat tone in my face!
- Fright Deathtrap: Help! A murderer tried to kill me by literally scaring me to death!
- Fright-Induced Bunkmate: I'm so scared I can't sleep alone! Can I please sleep with you?
- Girls Are Really Scared of Horror Movies: I'm a woman, and I hate horror films! They're too scary for me!
- Ghost Story: Yikes! That story you made up about ghosts scared me!
- Hope Is Scary: Oh, dear! My hope is scaring me!
- Horrifying the Horror: Yeah, I'm scary, but that thing is scaring me!
- Hospital Visit Hesitation: I don't want to see my friend in a hospital with tubes and wires in them!
- Hyperventilation Bag: I'm so scared! I need a paper bag! [breathes through a paper bag]
- Hypochondria: Help! Help! I think I'm getting sick!
- "I Can't Look!" Gesture: I can't look! I'm too scared!
- I Know What You Fear: Great! Someone's gonna use my fear against me! I fear they're gonna tell everyone!
- The "I Love You" Stigma: My greatest fear is using the word "love" to express my affection to another person! I really fear romance!
- I'm Not Afraid of You: Please! You can't scare me just because you rely on fear!
- Immortals Fear Death: I don't want to die! I'm supposed to live forever!
- Immune to Jump Scares: Oh, please! You'll have to come up with something much more clever than a cliché Jump Scare to scare me.
- Improperly Paranoid: What do you mean, I'm scared for no good reason?!
- Ironic Fear: I got the abilities/species/job/etc. of something that I'm scared of! Now that's scary!
- I Want My Mommy!: Mommy! Save me from the scary thing!
- Jump Scare: Scary things come out of nowh-AAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH!!!!
- Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films: Help! My parents were right! I'm too young to be watching horror flicks!
- Lovable Coward: I'm scared! But that's why so many people love me!
- Major Coward: Let's kill some bad guys! Wait— no, screw this! Everyone else can do the fighting for me!
- Mass "Oh, Crap!": Oh, no! We're all doomed!
- Media Scaremongering: Aaaaahhh! These media articles are trying to scare me!
- Miles Gloriosus: Okay! I admit it! I'm no daredevil! I'm really a fraidy cat!
- Mirror Scare: Aaahh!! A reflection!
- Missing Child: Oh my God! My child is lost! I'm very scared!
- The Mob Boss Is Scarier: Help! A criminal!
- Mortality Phobia: I'm scared to die!
- Motivated by Fear: I'm afraid of this thing! But that's what motivated me!
- Nervous Wreck: Oh my God! I'm starting to become very nervous! Somebody please help me! I don't know what to do!
- Neverending Terror: Help! I'm in danger forever!
- Nightmare Fuel: Oh my God! That gave me nightmares!
- Nightmare Sequence: I can't sleep because I have nightmares!
- Nighttime Bathroom Phobia: I really have to go, but the bathroom is all the way at the end of a dark, scary hallway.
- Not Afraid of You Anymore: You have mistreated me for the last time! I no longer fear you!
- Not Afraid to Die: Go ahead! Kill me! I ain't scared to die!
- Nothing Is Scarier: There's nothing scarier than something I can't see! That's my biggest fear of all!
- Offering Another in Your Stead: Oh god, don't kill me! Take this other guy in my place!
- Oh, Crap!: Oh, no! I'm doomed!
- "Oh, Crap!" Fakeout: Oh, no! I'm doomed! Wait! This was a fakeout?!
- "Oh, Crap!" Smile: I'm smiling out of realizing I'm in a pickle!
- One-Episode Fear: I'm scared of that thing! Because the script said so for only this episode!
- Orphanage of Fear: I'm afraid of this orphanage! My parents were never this cruel to me like these "guardians"!
- Outscare the Enemy: Yikes! That hero is even scarier than me!
- Pacifism Is Cowardice: 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!
- Panicky Expectant Father: My wife's in labor! I'm starting to feel nervous!
- Paralyzing Fear of Sexuality: I'm not asexual, but I'm very nervous to lose my virginity!
- Paranoia Fuel: That work just terrified us viewers into thinking it may come true!
- Paranoia Gambit: 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?!
- The Paranoiac: Stay away from me! I don't trust anyone or anything!
- Performance Anxiety: I can't perform! I get stage fright!
- Poorly Lit Pareidolia: There are scary faces in the rocks and trees and furniture!
- Pregnancy Scare: I might be pregnant! I'm starting to become nervous! I'm not ready for childbirth!
- Previews Pulse: Yikes! That chord playing in the trailer just scared me!
- Primal Fear: This scares us all out of instinct!
- Properly Paranoid: I knew it! I told you I had an excellent reason to be nervous!
- Quaking with Fear: I'm so afraid, I'm shaking!
- Reactive Continuous Scream:
- Rule of Scary: I don't care if it doesn't make any sense! It still scares me!
- Safety Freak: Gotta make things safe at all costs! The world's too scary NOT to!!
- Safe Under Blankets: Scary! Better hide under here!
- Scare Campaign: Help! This political ad has convinced me the other one is scary! I'm staying away from it!
- Scare Chord: Aaahh! That music was the perfect chord to demonstrate my reaction!
- Scare Dare: O-okay! I g-g-g-guess I'll d-d-do what I was d-d-d-dared to!
- Scared of What's Behind You: Good! I scared that person away! [feels tap in the shoulder] Yikes!
- Scare 'Em Straight: This person just got me to do something by scaring me! It could happen if I don't comply!
- Scarily Specific Story: Whoa, that ghost story you just told sounds way too similar to what's going on right now!
- Scary Science Words: Ahh! Those technical words give me the creeps!
- Scary Shadow Fakeout: Help! That shadow's moving!
- Scary Teeth: Uh oh! That guy's teeth are really scaring me!
- Screaming Woman: I'm a woman! I can't help it if I scream a lot when I'm scared!
- Screams Like a Little Girl: Aaaaaaahhh! Okay, tell anyone that my scream sounded girly, and you're dead!
- Security Cling: Help! I have to grab onto my partner because I'm so scared!
- Shy Shelled Animal: I must hide inside my shell! Too nervous to come out!
- The So-Called Coward: They think I'm a coward, huh?! Well, it is time for me to refute them!
- So Hideous, It's Terrifying: Let's all stay away from that hideous creature! It's far too terrifying to be around with!
- Stress Vomit: I'm so scared that I just puked!
- Supernatural Fear Inducer: Yaaahh! A supernatural power is scary!
- Tears of Fear: I'm afraid! These tears I have in my eyes show this!
- Technophobia: No! Contemporary technology scares me!
- Terrified of Germs: Help! Germs! Sick disgusting germs! The worst thing to have around me!
- Terrifying Rescuer: At last, my gallant hero has co—AIIIIEEE! Someone save me from my rescuer!
- Terror Hero: Great! That hero is taking advantage of my fear! Why did I, a villain, have to be scared in front of him?!
- Things That Go "Bump" in the Night: Help! Monsters! I can hear them bumping in my bed! And now in my closet! Hell, they're everywhere!
- This Is No Time to Panic: Gah! That person gave us permission to freak out after previously telling us not to, so now we're all losing it!
- Up Close with the Monster: I'm feeling very uncomfortable facing this monster! I'm scared!
- Victory Through Intimidation: We can't fight! We're all too scared!
- The Villain Knows Where You Live: Help! The villain is everywhere! He found out where I live!
- "What Do They Fear?" Episode: Why are these people trying to find out what I fear?! They're wasting their time! [in the end] Yikes! They actually found it!
- Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?: I've got a very specific phobia that I'm too scared to even talk about!
- Wide Eyes and Shrunken Irises: My eyes are bulging in fear! My irises have also shrank!
- Worrying for the Wrong Reason: I'm starting to feel worried! Wait! Are you telling me to worry about something else?!
You were very brave, facing them all...
