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Absurd Phobia
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Everyone is afraid of something. While phobias are defined as irrational fears, most of the time they still make perfect sense. Fears of things that can hurt you like spiders, heights, needles, and snakes are perfectly understandable. A crippling fear of grass, on the other hand, not so much. Sometimes, in a work, a character has a phobia of something that is so ridiculous that people have a hard time comprehending it. Often comes in one of these flavors: A character being afraid of something so mundane and/or harmless that it borders on absurdity. (e.g., a fear of cardboard boxes) A character established as being extremely tough and imposing has an exaggerated common fear. (e.g., a proud warrior who's terrified of mice) A character has a crippling fear of something that they consciously deal with on a daily basis. (e.g., a circus owner who's afraid of clowns) A character has a phobia with extremely specific conditions. (e.g., a fear of prime-numbered Tuesdays... in March... during Leap Years) A character suffers from an exaggerated version of Panphobia*(Fear of everything. More commonly known as Generalized Anxiety Disorder.). (e.g., being afraid of literally everything, from bees to hardwood flooring) A Comedy Trope, this kind of phobia is usually Played for Laughs. In the rare instance that this phobia is Played for Drama or characters sympathize with the phobiac because of it, such as if the said phobia is a result of childhood trauma, then it is considered a subversion. Justified if a logical reason is given for said fear. Remember, however, that Reality Is Unrealistic. While an absurd phobia is played for humor in fiction, people in real life can have phobias and trauma triggers that seem ridiculous to others but have very logical origins — for instance, a person who has repressed memories of being abused by a man in a red cap could develop a phobia of red hats without knowing where it comes from. Ignoring or deliberately poking at the phobia because "it's silly" is cruelty, and helping someone get over a phobia requires psychiatric training and should not be attempted by non-professionals. Compare Faux Horrific, Nightmare Retardant, Fear-Induced Idiocy, and Weaksauce Weakness. An Ironic Fear can be considered one of these. If one of these phobias is a recurring plot point, then it is Why Did It Have to Be Snakes?; if it's a one-off gag, it's One-Episode Fear. In contemporary settings, when irrational fear causes magical creatures to hide from Muggles, it is a Masquerade Paradox. To the phobia sufferer, of course, it is always Serious Business. This can add some levity to a "What Do They Fear?" Episode. See also Elephants Are Scared of Mice, where a huge and powerful animal is irrationally afraid of a small and harmless one. |
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Happy Days: "Fearless Malph": Ralph admits to having literally every phobia in the book. The episode centers on Ralph becoming fearless through hypnotic suggestion. "The Muckrakers": Richie potentially exposes the Fonz's fear and disgust for liver. Fonzie eventually chokes down the fear and eats some. |
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Shin Megami Tensei IV: Walter, in a rather spectacular moment of drunken honesty: | |
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Genshin Impact: Every playable character has a voiceover where they bring up their least favorite food (except for Jean, who says that she can't afford to be a Picky Eater, and Xiangling, who says she'll eat anything). For Lisa, she claims to be afraid of pumpkins. One of Xinyan's Idle Animations suggests that she has some fear of frogs, or is at least easily startled by their croaking. |
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Ultimate Spider-Man (2012): In one episode, the villain Nightmare puts all of New York, except for Spider-Man and Iron Fist, to sleep and traps them in their worst fear. Some fears are logical/common, like Luke Cage's fear of letting his team down or White Tiger's fear of rejection/failure. What is Nova afraid of? Rabbits! | |
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Let's Go Luna!: In "Day of the Dead", Luna is helping Carmen to get over her understandable fear of skeletons and suggests laughing in the face of her fear to make it less scary. The whole gang explain the fears they laugh at, which are all pretty reasonable... except for Andy, who laughs in the face of asparagus. | |
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Transformers: Rescue Bots Academy: In "Tyrannosaurus Wrecked", Whirl mentions that she is afraid of spaghetti. | |
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In Zoey 101, Lola reveals during a psychology class that she has a fear of people in mascot costumes due to a man in a hot dog costume falling over and nearly trampling her when she was five. | |
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The Far Side had several cartoons describing implausibly detailed (in a slightly disconnected way) phobias, including: Anatidaephobia: The fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. Although in this case, it might actually be warranted. Luposlipophobia: The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly waxed floor. |
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In Littlewood, Dalton states he's terrified of vegetables due to what he describes as "the carrot incident." | |
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The Thrilling Adventure Hour: Frank and Sadie Doyle regularly face down supernatural threats, such as ghosts, genies, and even actual gods. Despite this, they both have a crippling fear of bees after a Noodle Incident in which a bee got into their apartment; every time it's mentioned it's with a touch of terror or dread. In "The Haunting of Howard Schroeder", the Doyles calmly explain to a Monster Clown that they see ghosts all the time, socially even, and there is nothing in the world that can frighten them; they completely freak out when Sadie notices that a bee has gotten in. | |
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Chase McCain from LEGO City Undercover, immediately after scaling a building and being thankful he doesn't have vertigo or some other ridiculous phobia, is revealed to be terrified of French parrots. | |
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Cool Air is a short story explaining why the narrator is afraid of the cold. Given that this is a Lovecraft story, this trope is naturally Played for Horror. | |
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Ranma of Ranma ½ has a crippling phobia of cats. It's often played for laughs for being a Weaksauce Weakness. But then it's revealed that this was the result of learning a particularly brutal martial art that activates his Berserk Mode whenever said fear reaches its limit. And, of course, the brutal martial art training, which entails being repeatedly thrown to the mercy of hungry cats by his asshole father as a child whilst wrapped in fish meat, kind of makes it very understandable why he is afraid of cats. | |
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In the Good Luck Charlie episode "Sleepless in Denver", one of the kids from Gabe's slumber party is afraid of going upstairs because he lives in a one-story apartment. | |
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PAW Patrol: Ryder is afraid not of daring rescues, his pups or himself being in danger, or any of the other various dangers involved with running a rescue force, but Brussels sprouts. He's even mentioned having nightmares from them. | |
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100 Things to Do Before High School: In "Run with the Bears Thing!", Fenwick reveals that Crispo has a phobia about orange juice pulp. | |
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Bleak Expectations: Mr. Benevolent is terrified of badgers. The mere thought of the "appallingly stripey" creatures is enough to drive him away, until series 3, where he without comment is no longer afraid of them. After the opening episode of series 3, Pip Bin develops a fear of cheese, thanks to Mr. Benevolent cheeseboarding him. |
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Doom Patrol: In Doom Patrol (2016), Flex Mentallo mentions that he is afraid of bicycles. | |
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In "The Champions' Ballad" DLC for The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild, Daruk is revealed to have a phobia of dogs. It stems from an incident in his childhood where he angered a dog by stepping on its tail. It's especially comedic when he curls up in fear upon seeing a dog less than a tenth his size that he had just saved from a pack of Bokoblins he fearlessly attacked right beforehand. | |
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Maury: Some episodes focus on people with weird fears, such as pickles and cotton balls. First they talk about the fear, then Maury has the thing that the guest fears brought out, guest freaks out and runs backstage. Somehow, they're all cured by the end of the show. | |
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Psych episode "Shawn Interrupted" featured a possibly crazy, possibly Obfuscating Insanity character with an Absurd Phobia of saxophones. Cue Gus putting on some Kenny G and the genuinely crazy man having a panic attack. | |
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Cheers: After Diane leaves, Carla's hatred of her turns into a full-blown fear of her, screaming in horror when anyone mentions her name, since she believes it will "summon" her. By the finale, Carla's fear of Diane is so extreme she'd rather believe she's near death in hospital rather than acknowledge she's seen her again, and when she's faced with Diane in the flesh repeatedly screams in horror. | |
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The Simpsons: In "Fear of Flying" it is revealed that Homer has a fear of sock puppets. | |
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Puffin Forest: Ben's character Alagaros is afraid of libraries. | |
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In Full House "The House Meets the Mouse, Part 2", as Joey freaks out over seeing a shark swimming around their underwater radio station, he says this: | |
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In For the People, Jay claims to have a legitimate fear of fluorescent colours because of Kate's propensity for neon tabs on her paperwork. | |
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Back at the Barnyard: In "Buyers Beware", Otis tries to scare away an old lady who he thinks is someone trying to buy the farm from them. Unfortunately, she isn't fazed by the underworld, zombies, earthquakes, locusts, or any of the creepy things Otis claims the barnyard contains. She doesn't even freak out when Otis admits he's a talking cow! Otis gives up and hands her the keys to the barn... and she freaks out and drives away because she's terrified of jingling keys. | |
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Wolf 359: In a season 3 episode, Jacobi has an "inexplicable, nearly pathological fear of ducks." | |
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Borderlands 3: In the DLC "Guns, Love, and Tentacles", Wainwright asks the Vault Hunters if there's anything that scares them. Moze is terrified of exploding bees, Amara fears her personal trainer on leg day, Zane is so terrified of birds that he can't even eat chicken nuggets, and FL4K admits to being afraid of... tapioca. | |
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In Community, Abed has a bizarre fear of Daylight Saving Time, claiming that it "makes no sense". He finds the change back to Mountain Standard Time even more frightening. | |
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Our RoboCop Remake hilariously gives Murph a fear of clowns. | |
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In I Have No Mouth, and I Must Scream, Ellen has a crippling fear of the color yellow. It's predictably a hindrance in her area, as AM has painted several rooms and things yellow. It's eventually revealed that Ellen was once raped by a stranger in a yellow jumpsuit, and the trauma broke her. She doesn't consciously remember the event, only the color yellow. On the upside, after AM forces her to confront the rapist again and she manages to defeat him, she no longer fears the color. | |
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We Bare Bears: In "More Everyone's Tube", Grizz and Panda discover that Ice Bear, usually the most fearless of the three, is afraid of cucumbers. They shoot a whole video of them pranking Ice Bear by placing cucumbers all over the house and watching him freak out. (Oddly enough, he reacts normally to a pickle.) It ends with Panda dressing up in a cucumber costume, which causes Ice Bear to throw him out the window and end up in traction at the hospital. | |
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The 100 Girlfriends Who Really, Really, Really, Really, Really Love You: Eira Kaho is a Kick Chick whose main phobia is anything she can't beat up with kicks. This comes in two distinct flavors, either anything very small or immaterial such as insects, germs, or ghosts, or things such as babies and animals that she regards as so fragile a mere touch is enough to break them, nevermind a kick. To heighten the absurdity, Eira has absolutely zero fear of anything she can defeat with a kick, such as an oncoming car. | |
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Ultraman Ginga S The Movie: Showdown! The 10 Ultra Warriors!: The supporting character, Gouki, is revealed to be deathly afraid of.... tomatoes. Naturally when attempting to infiltrate Etelgar's fortress, his fears then manifest themselves into giant, sentient tomatoes that bounce after him. | |
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Xiaolin Showdown: Omi is afraid of squirrels. Even Jack Spicer thought that was incredibly lame. | |
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Corner Gas: A "What Do They Fear?" Episode is sparked by the other characters learning that Lacey is globophobic (afraid of balloons), which is treated as a ridiculous fear. Although Hank seems to think the name is even more ridiculous than the actual fear. | |
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Rick and Morty: Rick mentions that he had a fear of wicker furniture before he transferred his consciousness into a Federation agent. He also has a fear of pirates (despite his passion project, the Pirates of the Pancreas, back in season 1). | |
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Cracked brings us 6 Absurd Phobias (And The People Who Actually Have Them). | |
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Love at First Sight (2023): Mayonnaise is one of Hadley's greatest fears. Coincidentally, her love interest Oliver doesn't care much for the condiment. | |
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Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends: While not "phobias", per se, Eduardo easily gets frightened of many ordinary things. One of the more absurd examples is when the friends are playing frisbee, and he is convinced that the disc is going to eat him. | |
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The title character of Yotsuba&! has an intense fear of targets and eyeballs, or anything that resembles either. This first comes up when she gets scared of a scarecrow with a target design on it, with her wanting to avoid being seen by "him" while walking with Miura. | |
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Supernatural: Dean Winchester, a man who grew up hunting ghosts, demons, and all manner of supernatural monsters and is one of the greatest hunters who ever lived, is so afraid of flying that it causes panic attacks. Sam Winchester, who also grew up hunting monsters, is also one of the greatest hunters who ever lived, has demon blood in his veins and is very, very tall, is afraid of clowns. There's also a pantophobia episode wherein Dean contracts ghost sickness and develops a fear of everything, including speeding, high floors, ghosts, cats, dogs, and teenagers, among others. |
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Best and Bester: In "Get the Hump", Bester is revealed to have a fear of camels. This becomes a problem when the prize for Diamondo's dance-off is a ride back home on a camel. | |
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King of the Hill: There is an episode where Hank develops a serious crippling fear of propane, the thing he sells for a living. Justified, in that he had survived a gas leak explosion in the previous episode. Played straight in another episode where the entire cast treats Hank's fear of bats like this. |
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Total Drama: In Island (2007), the episode "Phobia Factor" shows the castmates' worst fears. While some of them are common, like Owen and Izzy's fear of flying and DJ's fear of snakes, others are very absurd. Examples include Tyler's fear of chickens, Duncan's fear of Celine Dion music store cardboard standees, and Courtney's fear of green jello. Lindsay and Sadie both share the same fear, bad haircuts (Lindsay originally said her fear was walking through a minefield in heels before changing it). There are also some that are dangerous things but also rather odd, like Heather's (sumo wrestlers), Harold's (ninjas), and Cody's (having to defuse a time bomb). Part 2 of Island (2023) has the episode ''Off the Hook!", which also shows the campers' worst fears, with the two most absurd ones being Priya being afraid of thunder and lightning, and Julia being afraid of old people. The first of Wayne's fears, his best friend Raj playing for a different hockey team, is a subversion since it’s actually a pretty deep fear and a possible sign of separation anxiety. His second fear on the other hand plays the trope straight since it's his own hockey team's mascot, which is just a big cartoony owl costume. |
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Through Her Eyes: We don't see it at work, but Ren mentions that horses are one of the few things that make him lose his cool. One can only wonder why. | |
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Dragon City: In his description, the Gingerbread Dragon is said to be terrified of milk. | |
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Gaz from Two Pints of Lager and a Packet of Crisps has a crippling fear of sheep. He even sings a little ditty to himself before going to bed so that he doesn't dream about them. | |
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Final Fantasy XIV: Exdeath is stated to have a fear of turtles, a reference to Ghido the tortoise sage from Final Fantasy V. | |
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The ruthless ranger lord Nathanos Marris (who would become Nathanos Blightcaller, one of the most fearsome warriors of the Horde, after dying and being raised in undeath) is revealed, in the Dragonflight expansion for World of Warcraft, to have a phobia of ducks (and to also dislike most other birds, though not as much as he does ducks). | |
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In one [NAME REMOVED] strip, Rabish becomes afraid of birds after watching Rabid get eaten by a giant penguin. | |
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Mighty Morphin' Power Rangers: In addition to arachnophobia, Zack is not especially comfortable around mice, snakes, or most types of insects. If the plot calls for it, he can overcome the fear long enough to defeat the Monster of the Week, but the issues never fully go away and are often Played for Laughs. | |
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In Mako Mermaids: An H₂O Adventure, all mermaids not accustomed to life on land scream in terror upon seeing an ordinary house cat. No explanation is given, and over time all of the mermaids come to realize that cats aren't any sort of threat to them; in fact, the cat most commonly seen in the series (Poseidon) is owned by Rita, a mermaid who had been living on land for well over a decade before the series begins, and all other merpeople who are accustomed to life on land immediately declare their love of cats upon first seeing Poseidon. (The fear does not appear to extend to dogs, as an early episode has a dog bark at Lyla, and she only reacts with annoyance.) | |
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The Big Bang Theory: Sheldon has a fear of birds. The guys often tease him for it, particularly about the time he was chased up a tree by a chicken. Amy and Penny help him get over his fear when a bird flies into the apartment. Sheldon is also mentioned to be afraid of hamsters, spiders, dogs - in fact, pretty much all animals except cats (he gets 25 of those). |
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Ayakashi Triangle: Shadow Mei, who had recently been in stasis since the late 19th century, believes in the "cameras steal your soul" superstition so strongly she's deathly afraid of having her picture taken. | |
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In Castle Hangnail, the castle's cook has an irrational hatred of the letter Q as a result of a past trauma. This mainly manifests in a running gag about Molly finding books and bits of books missing whenever she goes to look anything up in the castle library. | |
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Batman: The Brave and the Bold: When Batman gets stuck in the body of a Captain Ersatz of Batwoman, he proves his identity to Nightwing by citing that the latter is "deathly afraid of monkeys". | |
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The Garfield Show: "Fraidy Cat" revolves around Dr. Whipple creating an invention that can be used to remove people's fears as well as give them fears they didn't have already. In a commercial where he advertises his service of using the device to cure people of their phobias, he mentions some rather ridiculous fears, including a fear of sitting on a grilled cheese sandwich and a fear of moving with your family to Peru and subsequently becoming a toboggan salesman. At the end of the episode, Garfield uses the invention to make Nermal afraid of being too cute and Dr. Whipple afraid of being in a cartoon. | |
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The Nomes from the Land of Oz series are terrified of eggs. They claim they're toxic to them, but it's heavily implied that's not true. | |
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Madeline in The Complex (2012) is afraid of even numbers. | |
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the secret lives of Princesses: Princess Hot-Head is only afraid of mini tree mice, which are even cuter than regular mice. | |
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Littlest Pet Shop: Russell apparently has a phobia of marshmallows, justifying it by claiming they're "soft and... squishy..." "Heart of Parkness": Sunil reveals that she's afraid of creatures with six or more legs, loud noises, curtains, avocados, and quiet jazz music — but she isn't scared of cobras. "Game of Groans": Youngmee reveals that she has a fear of jester hats. |
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Kenan & Kel: Until seeing a hypnotist for a cure, Chris had an irrational fear of sandwiches; Kenan thought it was ridiculous. | |
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The Order of the Stick: Durkon, like all other dwarves, is terrified of trees (the roots of which break into their tunnels and are thus seen as violent invaders). In dwarf culture, destroying a tree is an act of heroism. The argument goes something like this: Thor is the god of lightning. The vast majority of lightning bolts strike trees. Therefore, trees must be Thor's mortal enemies. I mean, Thor wouldn't waste a perfectly good lightning bolt on a supposedly harmless tree just for shits and giggles, would he? (Well, yes, actually he would...) Thor himself has tried to repeatedly explain this to his followers when they arrive in Valhalla and freak out at the trees dotting the landscape, but it's so ingrained in Dwarf culture they have difficulty grasping the concept. At this point, he usually just gives up and tells them that these trees are good-aligned individuals who have turned against their evil kin. | |
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My Little Pony: A New Generation: Most of the unicorns' taboo words make in-universe sense — "magic" reminds them of their lost powers and "wing" and "feather" of the pegasi — but it's unclear why exactly they're so terrified of saying or hearing "mayonnaise". | |
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The Pokémon Squad: It's not brought up that often, but RM is terrified of bronies. | |
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Soul Eater. Death The Kid has Asymmetriphobia (a fear or strong disgust towards asymmetrical things) due to being extremely obsessive-compulsive. Because of this, anything slightly out of place will cause him to freak out. And don't remind him that he only has stripes on one side of his hair. In the manga, they reveal this fear is due to being a lord of order, and as asymmetrical objects are disorderly, naturally he detests them. | |
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Family Skeleton Mysteries: Deborah is apparently afraid of inflatable arm-flailing tube men and the feel of rubber bands. | |
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In "The Masked Veggies" from Donkey Hodie, when Purple Panda goes on the The Masked Veggies game show, he has a fear that he might suddenly put on a Santa beard and sing Jingle Bells, though this stems from a deeper stage fright. Wackily enough, it turns out his fear is actually justified, as he ends up doing just this while Donkey is trying to help him. | |
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Venom: Minor villain Dementoid develops one towards buttocks and anuses after Venom turns his rear end into a set of jaws and nearly eats him in reverse. | |
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In Erma, the titular Stringy-Haired Ghost Girl, who has beaten It to a pulp and leaves the monster under her bed quivering in terror, is scared of Santa Claus. Just hearing what she thinks are sleigh bells will cause her to grab a knife for protection. | |
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American Dad!: Stan has an unexplained phobia of seagulls. He eventually conquers this fear when he and Roger are stranded on a small island atoll for several months, and seagulls are the only edible thing around. And his son Steve is shown to be afraid of moths. |
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Big Train did a sketch where one new office manager had a phobia of spoons and was explaining to his new co-workers about this by passing a piece of paper with the word "spoons" written on it so as not to even mention spoons himself. Sadly, one of the employees is late to the meeting and enters the room stirring a cup of tea. Cue the office manager diving out the three-storey window to get away from the spoon. | |
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Ultra Fast Pony: In "The Nightmoon Mare Zone": | |
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Schitt's Creek: David Rose has a number of phobias, including heights, moths and butterflies, and businesswomen in sneakers. | |
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Milo Murphy's Law plays with this — while Melissa's fear of roller coasters is perfectly commonplace, the reason WHY she's afraid of them (one fell out of the sky on the first day of summer and crushed her science project) is what's absurd. Zack's fear of fish (especially bagged ones) and Milo's fear of Chinese finger traps, however, play the trope straight. | |
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Super-Villainess Titania had a crippling fear of Spider-Man, despite the fact that she is far stronger than him and routinely takes on stronger heroes (She-Hulk in particular) with gusto. Her debut story in Secret Wars has her getting defeated in an embarrassing fashion by Spidey, and she fears he'll do it again every time she sees him. She gets over it when she realizes she's been in a battle with a disguised Spidey. | |
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Gerry in New Tricks has a phobia of woods and forests, due to being lost in one as a child when his friends ran away and abandoned him. His colleagues display as much sympathy as you might expect. | |
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Old Harry's Game: It's a minor Running Gag that Satan himself is creeped out by...motorcycle couriers. | |
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In Smallville, Clark Kent had a crippling fear of heights, despite his invulnerability. He eventually gets over it. | |
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The Necro Critic has an admitted fear of babies that is Played for Laughs in his Baby Geniuses review. | |
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So Awkward: In "Friendundancy", Ollie decides that due to his fear of clothes, he can't take the girls talking about clothes anymore. | |
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New Avengers: Terry the Henchman has a crippling fear of squirrels. Of course, in the Marvel Universe, such a fear is entirely justified, because squirrels can only mean Squirrel Girl. Though Terry's fear is mainly their fluffy tails. His second worst fear is his fear of betrayal. | |
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Arthur: In "The Squirrels", the kids in Elwood City all develop a temporary phobia of squirrels after seeing a movie called "The Squirrels" a la The Birds. | |
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Yuki of Ménage à 3 has her fear of phalluses, due to inadvertently reading a hentai doujinshi when she was very young. Not especially comic in itself, but played for (rather cruel) laughs in that she hallucinates tentacles whenever she sees a penis, and then goes into a berserk fugue state. Which is kind of rough on Gary, the Loser Protagonist who wants to date her. | |
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Seinfeld: George Costanza refuses to carry a pen around with him because he's afraid that it might accidentally puncture his scrotum. | |
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Batman: In Bruce Wayne: Not Super, Dick Grayson picks "Robin" as his alias because he is convinced that robins are scary after one of them pecked him. | |
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In Li'l Horrors, Webster Swampson is a fish man who is afraid of water. | |
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Phineas and Ferb: Dr. Heinz Doofenshmirtz has many fears, including heights, bats, and... shellfish. He freely admits that most of his fears are irrational, with the exception of his fear of vending machines, which he insists will one day gain sentience and enslave humanity. His Evil Overlord version from an alternate dimension shares this fear and finds it just as reasonable. His fantasy counterpart Malefishmirtz admits that he's afraid of unicorns, whales, octopuses, pegasi, scorpions, barnacles, and girls. Then a few seconds later a uni-whale-scorpio-Pega-squid-icorn Candace appears behind him, though he admits that when combined it's more ridiculous than scary. "Monster from the Id" shows that Baljeet is afraid of contractions (the Frankenstein monster of grammar) and Irving is afraid of the color lavender. Candace, for reasons unknown, fears the number seven. Probably because seven ate nine. |
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ACTUALLY HAPPENED: Due to her schizophrenia, Kylie from "I Am Schizophrenic and Stopped Taking My Pills" has some pretty strange fears. She's afraid of staircases, crosswalks, the colors red and yellow, and traffic lights. | |
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The Flintstones: The weak spot of the Hatrock family (a bunch of hard-core hillbilliesnote and by "hard-core" we mean "an Expy of The Addams Family is wrestled into submission" the Flintstones encounter in two episodes) is an Expy of The Beatles. | |
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Better Call Saul has a dramatic variation with Chuck McGill, who's developed a fear of electronics. Believing he has electromagnetic hypersensitivity, he's a shut-in who lives in a dark house devoid of any modern tech and relies on family to bring groceries and provide for the bills as he's too afraid to venture out into the world. What's more is that at several points, his condition is challenged (EHS isn't considered a diagnosable condition with scientific backing), and others consider that perhaps his symptoms are psychosomatic, but he's too much of a stubborn Control Freak to consider otherwise or believe he needs to seek treatment for it. This gets blown wide open when — during a disbarment hearing — Jimmy secretly plants a battery on an unknowing Chuck's shirt pocket, showing him to suffer zero symptoms for hours until he's informed of it, where only then does he freak out, suggesting that even if his condition isn't real, his fear of it certainly is and likely represents much more pertinent mental problems. | |
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Mera from Epithet Erased is terrified of ducks, though this is somewhat justified since her Epithet would make it easy for a duck to seriously injure her. In her words, "they're small, and fast, and they bite, okay?!" | |
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Garfield and Friends: Wade Duck is afraid of an incredibly large amount of things, and many fall into this category. Some of them include: chocolate donuts, finding out it's Tuesday, and being attacked by a legion of crazed Pat Sajak impersonators. | |
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In the Teenage Worrier books, Letty has a phobia of the word death and instead substitutes the word "banana." Her brother Benjy is terrified of floors, although Letty finds this justified, since the floors in the household are rarely cleaned. | |
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The Devils in Chainsaw Man are physical manifestations of different fears humans have, which include some really specific fears such as tomatoes, chickens, or even marshmallows. This works against them as each Devil's power are equal to how broadly humans fear the concept, meaning that Devils who represent absurd phobias tend to be really weak. | |
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Jumanji: The Next Level: Due to dying because of it in the previous movie, Fridge is absolutely terrified of cake. When an NPC offers it to him in-game, he runs off screaming, and he can't even eat it in the real world. | |
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Formula 1: The absurdity of Pascal Wehrlein's answer of waking up early in Grid Confessions: What Scares F1 Drivers? compared to the other drivers who gave far more normal fears like spiders and heights, is highlighted by him being placed last. | |
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To Daisy in Anansi Boys, it sure looks like Charlie's apprehension concerning birds is an Absurd Phobia: | |
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Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: There are a few of them here: Lunella's mother Adira has a fear of hair relaxers (chemicals that straighten curly hair). This is actually justified, as she used one of them as a child and it made all of her hair fall out. Her reaction to seeing a young Lunella with one, though, was a little unnecessary. Devil Dinosaur, a T. rex who is bigger than some of the buildings in the LES and will fight villains with no problem... is afraid of jellyfish. Specifically, he's afraid of being stung by a jellyfish. Lunella/Moon Girl, who is considered fearless by most of the LES and her friends, is afraid of Coney Island. The Beyonder actually helps her dissect her fear, revealing that she's actually afraid of losing someone she loves, and that she associated Coney Island with that fear because of an incident when she was five where she was separated from Mimi. |
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Transformers: Prime: Subverted in the episode "Scrapheap". At first, it seems ridiculous that the gigantic Autobot warriors would be terrified of the little (even by human standards), adorable Scraplet, and the kids openly question how the Autobots could be afraid of it. It's then revealed that they have a very logical reason for their fear: Scraplets are metal-eating parasites that can eat a Cybertronian alive in minutes. Considering how they possess several rows of razor-sharp teeth and are fast enough to avoid laser blasts, the kids quickly develop a healthy fear of them, too. | |
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When Momoko of Sumomo Mo Momo Mo was six years old, her father tried to increase her protein by putting her on a diet of hardboiled eggs. Momoko has since developed a trauma-induced phobia of them, to the point she won't even use eggs in the food she cooks. She can handle it if they're normal hardboiled eggs, but the trauma kicks into full gear if faces are drawn on them since her well-meaning father did that to all of the eggs to try and make it more enjoyable for her. | |
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Alice Asmodeus from Welcome to Demon School! Iruma-kun is afraid of fish. He can't even approach one without wearing a full hazmat suit. | |
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In the Murdoch Mysteries episode "Murdochophobia", the episode is spent surrounding a group of asylum patients being treated for their phobias, one of whom is afraid of feathers. However, beyond the initially absurd introduction, this aspect is Played for Drama as the episode's murderer is literally trying to scare the patients to death (the aforementioned patient suffers a terrible panic attack after a rigged pillow sets off in her room, showering her in feathers). Murdoch himself also admits he's phobic of butterflies; at first, Dr. Ogden believes he's rather patronizingly attempting to connect with her patients and starts laughing when she realizes he's serious. | |
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Indiana Jones: Raiders of the Lost Ark has Indiana Jones display epic bravery in the opening sequence, outrunning boulders and outsmarting booby traps. As he escapes in his friend's biplane, he freaks out over the presence of the man's pet snake. Fear of snakes isn't that absurd, but when you are as brave as Indy, it's a bit absurd. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade then reveals that when Indy was a kid, he wasn't afraid of snakes until a rather traumatic incident in a circus train when he fell into a pen holding about a thousand snakes. |
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Star vs. the Forces of Evil: Ludo appears to have a phobia of hair stemming from an early birthday party when he was assaulted by the Tickle-Monster. | |
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Coyote: Played for Drama with original character Riley Coyote and him being Afraid of Blood — or being more specific, him being afraid of hurting other people with his Quirk, a fear so great that he goes into a several-day Heroic BSoD and his subconscious nerfs his Quirk greatly on the meanwhile if he ever so much as thinks this happened. It is treated as absurd by the other members of Class 1 because physical hurt (inflicted or received) in a fight is an accepted risk of being a Hero, and Izuku Midoriya (Riley's best friend) knows that this is a great (read: may get him hurt/killed in a fight) issue, so he asks his classmates to help him wean it out of Riley. The only one who treats it as something worth mocking is Bakugo, and and he really comes to regret doing it within earshot of Izuku. | |
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Monk: Adrian Monk has a VERY long list of irrational fears, including milk, glaciers, clouds, chalk, bees, blenders, bees in blenders, soccer riots, round things, dryer lint, underwear, harmonicas, mixed vegetables, "the miracle of birth", and fear itself. | |
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Aunt Josephine from A Series of Unfortunate Events suffers from phobias of everything, tripping over the doormat, getting electrocuted by using a telephone, and finally, realtors. In The Film of the Book, her fears of them prove amusingly rational for just one evening, when a hurricane strikes her house and causes all her appliances to malfunction in exactly the way she claimed they would. Apart from the realtors. | |
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League of Super Redundant Heroes: Laser Pony is extremely arachnophobic. Made absurd by the fact that whenever he's made aware of the presence of spiders, he freaks out and lasers everything around him until it's dead. Considering the fact that he's blind... His friend and fellow hero Arachno-Dude points out that he's a spider-themed hero. The results aren't pretty. Good Girl is secretly afraid of being electrocuted whenever she vacuums. |
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The Brittas Empire: Tim is afraid of men in parkas, to the point that seeing one in “Walk On The Wild Side� sends him screaming. | |
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In Red vs. Blue, Grif is afraid of bats. Never mind that he's in Powered Armor that no bat could ever penetrate (as Simmons points out), he won't even go into the cave under Blood Gulch due to the possibility of there being bats. | |
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Kim Possible: "Roachie": Played with. The half-episode begins with Kim chiding Ron for being scared of ordinary bugs and then had Kim totally freaked out by giant roaches (which are actually harmless and friendly when separated from the influence of the story's villain, as shown by one that Ron develops a rapport with). Ron is also afraid of monkeys, one of several phobias he developed thanks to the trauma he experienced while attending Camp Wannaweep as a child, in this case due to the camp's aggressive and mean-spirited monkey mascot he was forced to share a cabin with. He gradually gets over this phobia as the show progresses, especially after he begins training in Monkey Kung-Fu, and unlocks a superpowered state known as Mystical Monkey Power, which he eventually uses to save the day in the Grand Finale. Ironically, this also nets him a monkey-themed archenemy: Monkey Fist. |
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Camp Lakebottom: In "Cheeks of Dread", after much needling, McGee finds out that Gretchen has a phobia of chipmunks. The episode's monster turns out to be a vicious chipmunk that keeps a giant pile of skulls from the people it has devoured. | |
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Arlene from Stick It to the Man! had a phobia of grapes up until she got therapy for it. | |
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In Phoenix Wright: Ace Attorney – Dual Destinies, in one conversation during the third act, Trucy states that, one time, presumably while making a magic act, she accidentally made a girl get prasinophobia, a fear of the color green. Problem is, that girl was a landscape artist, so her career was practically ruined, and made Trucy feel so bad she could not stand green things anymore, developing prasinophobia as well. Athena believes it's just an excuse, however. | |
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The Sketch Show: The "Phobias Workshop" sketch is about a support group for people with these. The group has one member who is afraid of the word "Aagh!", one who is afraid of apologies, one who is afraid of repetition, one who is afraid of awkward silences, and one who doesn't have a phobia but who compulsively barks at other people's. They keep setting one another off. | |
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Raiders of the Lost Ark has Indiana Jones display epic bravery in the opening sequence, outrunning boulders and outsmarting booby traps. As he escapes in his friend's biplane, he freaks out over the presence of the man's pet snake. Fear of snakes isn't that absurd, but when you are as brave as Indy, it's a bit absurd. | |
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Epithet Erased: Prison of Plastic: Phoenica has a crippling fear of Halloween, stemming from the time she got lost at a Halloween party during her childhood. Her fear also applies to common Halloween decorations, such as pumpkins, and the fear is specific to decorations — she'd find a real bat cute, but a cartoony bat decoration would terrify her. | |
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The Adventures of Jimmy Neutron, Boy Genius: An episode where Jimmy invents a Dream Walker machine to help Carl with his nightmares reveals that the "horrible spooky thing" that Carl doesn't want to talk about is lima beans. Jimmy thinks this is just a case of Does Not Like Spam at first, but when he meets a lima bean in Carl's dream, it grows to giant size and reveals itself as a terrifying Man-Eating Plant. (It is defeated by luring it out of the dream, where it becomes harmless and is semi-reluctantly eaten by Jimmy, Carl, and Sheen.) | |
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Walter the Softy from Dennis the Menace (UK) had a few of those, among others from things like butterflies as part of his extra-wimpy characterisation from the late '70s to the '90s. He'd run in tears to his mother for shelter whenever he encountered one of these. | |
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Bob's Burgers: "Bed and Breakfast" reveals that Teddy has an irrational fear of costumed mascots that stems from catching one in flagrante delecto with his ex-wife. After Louise sics a bunch of "Fuzzy Buddies" she hired from a party supply store on him in an effort to get her bedroom back, Teddy claims to have mostly worked out his issues. "House of 1000 Bounces": Bob has a fear of pigeons stemming from him being attacked by a flock of them in the attic of an old house. He got over it after he realized that he was describing a scene from The Birds. Apparently he watched it as a kid and it freaked him out. Teddy comments in the same episode that he used to be scared of babies. |
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Wade the Duck of U.S. Acres suffers from paranoia and the above-explained pantophobia. Both of which are almost always Played for Laughs. | |
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Mr. Saitou: Saitou has an unexplained fear of the giant, harmless birds called Minimori. He refuses to get anywhere near one, and whenever he finds himself in a room packed with Minimori, he screams in terror and burrows underground while Brandon assures him that there's nothing to worry about. | |
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Jack from Blackjack (1998) has a phobia of the colour white, because of a flash grenade exploding in front of him in the opening shootout nearly blinding him. The main villain takes advantage of this by tricking Jack into entering a room filled with white drapes in the final battle and attacking Jack there. | |
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Randy Cunningham: 9th Grade Ninja: One episode reveals that Randy is afraid of chickens, which gives us this priceless quote: | |
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One Piece: Sugar, a member of Donquixote Pirates, developed a phobia of long noses or anything that resembles them, due to the long-nosed Usopp accidentally scaring her with a Nightmare Face (after being unknowingly fed with a spicy pepper) that made her faint. | |
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In King of the Castle, the Spy Network ambition involves the King's Spymaster infiltrating the courts of the entire Council of Nobles with her spies, disguised as travelling bards. If the ambition succeeds, she tells the King that one of the nobles is irrationally terrified of lemons, and at the next Council meeting, she Blackmails the noble in question into doing as the King commands by casually offering them a glass of lemonade. | |
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An episode of Badman features the Scarecrow using his fear gas to fight Batman. The results are... unexpected. | |
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Rugrats: Chuckie has a long list of these; including shoes, green Jell-O, and "that guy on the oatmeal box." Exaggerated in another episode where Chuckie meets a kid who has even more ridiculous fears than he does, including the fear of being eaten by oatmeal. | |
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Parisa: Jiro is afraid of revolving doors, which proves to be a problem when he tries entering the wrestling stadium. | |
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Guido Mista from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind is afraid of the number four. He freaks out when a waiter serves his teammates four slices of cake and when he has only four bullets left. | |
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The Legend of Tarzan: Jane spends a whole episode trying to figure out what Tarzan is afraid of, which seems to be nothing whatsoever. But at the end of the episode, she picks up a powder puff, causing Tarzan to go wide-eyed, jump back, and run out of the room. He then reveals to Terk that he was faking it to get Jane to stop. | |
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Earthworm Jim: The Planet of Easily Frightened People is home to people terrified of just about everything they encounter. | |
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Dilbert: "The Gift" reveals that Dilbert is terrified of the local mall, due to losing his father there as a child. He didn't die or anything, he was distracted by the Red Oyster seafood buffet, taking their All You Can eat offer as a personal challenge and completely forgot about his son, who ended up alone and traumatized in the crowd. He's still there over 20 years later when Dilbert finally returns to conquer his phobia once and for all (and find a birthday gift for Dilmom). | |
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Vester And Friends: Red Yoshi is scared of Minecraft because it is too pixelated. While it looks like Blue Yoshi is scared of Brum, in episode 7 of Total Drama Plush Season 1 it is revealed he was faking it the whole time. Subverting this trope. Yellow Yoshi is scared of the PlayStation 2 Red Screen Of Death. Black Yoshi is afraid of the Nintendo Switch because he thinks it will beat Sony. |
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The Fairly OddParents!: The Yugopotamians have a species-wide phobia of such innocent things as candy, flowers, small children, displays of affection, and anything cute, safe, or fun. Justified in that, biologically, these things can actually hurt and/or kill them. "Déjà Vu": Francis appears to have a phobia of getting wet. "A Bad Case of Diary-Uh!": One of the embarrassing secrets revealed in Vicky's journal is her fear of cows. In the same episode, Timmy is revealed to have a fear of both clowns and feet. Vicky manages to use both (along with his allergy to oranges) against him by going to his school and declaring "Barefoot Orange-Juggling Clown Day". Also in the same episode, One-Shot Character Winston Dunsworth is revealed to be scared of the color pink, which Timmy has Wanda exploit so Vicky could save him from the "cute, pink squirrel she thinks is overweight". It's not known exactly why, but Cosmo will have a breakdown hearing the words "Super Toilet". "Wishing Well": Timmy goes to a boot camp with two other kids, Molly and Dwight, to learn to deal with things without wishing. One of the challenges has all the kids face their fears. While Timmy and Molly have reasonable fears (Vicky and snakes, respectively), Dwight is afraid of a harpoon. |
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The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A VeggieTales Movie: Elliot has an ever-increasing list of phobias, ranging from the mundane to the absurd. | |
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SuperMarioLogan's version of Bowser becomes afraid of bananas after his son Junior forces him to watch a scary movie with him. On the 3rd time, Bowser gets a fear of milk. A justified example in "Bowser Junior's Biggest Fear". Junior is paranoid that cotton balls would kill him due to Bowser shoving cotton balls in his mouth when he was a baby in an attempt to substitute a pacifier. "Jeffy's Biggest Fear" has Jeffy be afraid of the number 7 the day after Junior tells him the classic "why is 6 afraid of 7?" joke. Hilarity ensues. |
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Kaamelott: Guenièvre is afraid of birds because they don't have arms. Later, it's revealed that Arthur is afraid of snakes. While it's a common fear, his reason isn't: |
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The Wacky Adventures of Ronald McDonald had Grimace reveal in his video call from the live-action portion of Scared Silly that he is afraid of baby ducks. | |
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A.N.T. Farm: Olive Doyle claims she has many phobias, including "ghosts, vampires, witches, zombies, leprechauns, giraffes, double-decker buses, balloons and... (shudders) curly fries." Cue Fletcher sitting next to her with a tray of curly fries. | |
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A guy in ASDF Movie 8 has a fear of backstories. When he consults a doctor who asks how said phobia began, he starts screaming in terror. | |
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JoJo's Bizarre Adventure Josuke Higashikata from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable has a fear of reptiles - including turtles. This didn't stop him from healing one that was wounded by jerkass upperclassmen. Guido Mista from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Golden Wind is afraid of the number four. He freaks out when a waiter serves his teammates four slices of cake and when he has only four bullets left. |
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Peanuts: In the various specials, Charlie Brown admits he's afraid of all sorts of things that seem silly. Partly this is justified as he often tries and fails at things to better himself. However, he does rise up to the challenge despite the odds and tries again. | |
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Josuke Higashikata from JoJo's Bizarre Adventure: Diamond is Unbreakable has a fear of reptiles - including turtles. This didn't stop him from healing one that was wounded by jerkass upperclassmen. | |
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In Ikemen Sengoku, it's revealed in Sasuke's Dramatic route that the normally stoic, intelligent, and rational Sasuke has a deep fear of butterflies. The main character, upon learning this, tries and utterly fails to hold back her laughter. | |
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Spider-Man: Super-Villainess Titania had a crippling fear of Spider-Man, despite the fact that she is far stronger than him and routinely takes on stronger heroes (She-Hulk in particular) with gusto. Her debut story in Secret Wars has her getting defeated in an embarrassing fashion by Spidey, and she fears he'll do it again every time she sees him. She gets over it when she realizes she's been in a battle with a disguised Spidey. Doctor Octopus also had, at one point, a fear of spiders. He needed psychiatric counseling to overcome it. |
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Invader Zim: The plots of many episodes revolve around Zim developing an insane phobia of a random mundane Earth object/group/action, and taking drastic measures to be rid of it. In some cases, this is justified; for example, his fears of water and meat are because they're corrosive to his alien skin. | |
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Infinity Train: Blossomverse: Any story that has Atticus in it will have him note that he's terrified of ball pits. Albeit this is justified because the last time he was in a ball pit it had him turned into a Ghom. | |
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The IT Crowd: Roy is afraid of balloons. | |
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Bugs Bunny Builders: In "Dino Fright", when Tweety reveals to the other Looney Builders that he is afraid of dinosaurs during the task of assembling a dinosaur skeleton, they try to help him overcome his fear by revealing their fears. Porky reveals that he's afraid of jack-in-the-boxes, being sung to on his birthday, and flushing toilets. He also reveals that Daffy is afraid of kites, to which Daffy tells him that was supposed to be kept a secret. | |
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Tohru of Miss Kobayashi's Dragon Maid is afraid of the shopping mall, due to it resembling a castle to her. The white color in particular reminds her of the fortresses of the crusaders who'd try to kill her on a regular basis. | |
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The girl from Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk and its sequel is afraid of the letter O. This is just one of her many crippling insecurities and mental issues. And naturally she has to face it. | |
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Finn of Warrior U has a phobia of horses. Justified since during his childhood he was attacked by a psychopathic unicorn | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: In "Fear of a Krabby Patty", SpongeBob becomes afraid of Krabby Patties after working nonstop and not getting any sleep. | |
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Warhammer 40,000: Phobiak Madboyz are commonly afraid of something small and insignificant, such as insects or other small animals, the sight of which will send them into paroxysms of terror. | |
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Transformers: Animated: Optimus Prime is shown to have a fear of spiders (despite being a giant robot who can't possibly be hurt by an Earth spider), to the amusement of Sari, Bumblebee, and Bulkhead. However, the episode quickly shows that he isn't so much afraid of spiders as he is triggered by them: he lost his friend, Elita-1, on a planet full of gigantic spiders (who were big and deadly enough to kill a Cybertronian). Jazz was also afraid of humans in "The Elite Guard", having been told Blatant Lies about them by Sentinel Prime. Fortunately, Bulkhead and Bumblebee helped Jazz see better. |
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Scott of Basic Instructions once mentioned a fear of birds. The "absurd" part was that it included pigeons and Big Bird. According to later commentary, the real Scott apparently developed a dislike of birds from having been around raised peacocks in his youth. | |
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The RWBY Loops shows that Ruby Rose has developed what she calls a healthy respect for rabbits, hares, and all things lagomorph. She attempts to justify it by pointing out the multiverse is filled with literal killer rabbits who can pass for "harmlessly cute" until it's far too late, but while other Remnant loopers are portrayed as being somewhat wary around errant bunnies and bunny-themed individuals Ruby is consistently terrified of them (unless they are people she already knows are decent). | |
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Roys Bedoys: "Don't Be Afraid of the Dark, Roys Bedoys!" reveals that Loys is scared of feathers (or at least one particular feather). | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: "Party Pooped": According to one of Pinkie Pie's party files, Twilight Sparkle has a fear of quesadillas. "Starlight the Hypnotist": Twilight reveals that she's terrified of ladybugs because when she was a filly, a swarm of them invaded her family home and her brother, Shining Armor, joked that their spots were actually extra eyes. "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?": We learn that Rainbow Dash has a phobia of the ultra-saccharine. "Between Dark and Dawn" reveals that Princess Celestia is deathly afraid of chickens and needs her little sister, Princess Luna, to scare them away for her. |
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Doctor Who:In "The Woman Who Fell to Earth", Karl is a tower crane operator who is afraid of heights. While a common fear, it makes it nearly impossible for him to do his job. | |
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The Psychostick song "Quack Kills" is about a man who's afraid of ducks and convinced they're trying to kill him. The song ends with him being attacked by a massive flock of ducks. Twice. | |
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Jimmy Two-Shoes: Jimmy is afraid of pickles, which he claims are evil and out to get him. He claims it was due to an incident where fell into a pickle truck and was drenched in pickle brine, but even Beezy and Heloise find his fear to be silly. Ironically, it's less unjustified than it seems, given that his neighbor across the street actually is a pickle monster bent on destroying everyone. | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: In the Barber Shop Sketch the barber has a fear of cutting hair, which makes him murder every client he gets. As it turns out he would have rather been a lumberjack... | |
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A Witch In Broad Daylight: Fluttershy has a crippling fear of ghosts despite being one herself. | |
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Dan Mott in Without a Paddle divulges to his friends that he's terrified of (among other more mundane things) Saran Wrap. | |
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Monkey Island: Guybrush Threepwood has a crippling fear of porcelain that is never explained. Meathook is terrified of the beast that supposedly claimed his hands long ago, and which he forces Guybrush to confront if the latter wants to prove himself worthy. The beast turns out to be an ordinary parrot and is harmless. |
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FETCH! with Ruff Ruffman: Ruff's fear of ballet and spiders is somewhat Played for Drama via a Dark and Troubled Past. Back then, Ruff was going to star in a ballet that involved fake spiders, but on opening night, Spotnik snuck in, replaced the fake spiders with real spiders, and dumped them onto Ruff; which ruined the show and severely traumatized Ruff ever since. It took Brian, Sterling, and Bethany's efforts in their challenges to help Ruff love ballet again. | |
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Afterlife: The "Fear, Unlimited" generic punishment dedicates itself to inventing new kinds of phobia, then testing them out and implementing them on the damned souls that are tossed their way to torment them more and more. Given as examples are the fear of characters in a movie stepping out of the screen to murder you and the fear of fizzy drinks. | |
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Scarlet Lady: "Sandboy" reveals that both Chloé and Rose are afraid of having their possessions come to life and turn against them, which is used to highlight their differences: for Chloé, the idea stems from a fear of the things she owns proving to be uncontrollable, while Rose sincerely loves all her stuffed animals and is afraid her affection might not be returned. As Scarlet Lady, Chloé also mocks Rose's fear despite its similarity to her own. | |
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One segment in The ABCs of Death features a child who is literally afraid of the toilet, to the point of having nightmares about it turning into a monster and killing his parents. Justified at the end, when the toilet ends up falling apart and crushing him to death. | |
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Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Greg admits in Cabin Fever that he developed a fear of puzzles, ever since he opened a puzzle box filled with crickets. He seems to have gotten over this fear in The Deep End, as he was shown doing puzzles without any problems. An earlier book saw Greg admit to having a fear of Shel Silverstein when he was younger, to the point that his dad was able to stop him from getting out of bed at night by claiming he'd probably run into Shel in the hallway. |
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Battle Angel Alita: Alita is a fearless warrior, but it turns out that she has a phobia of owl-eye moths because the "eyes" on the wings unsettle her. (Author Yukito Ishiro shared this phobia.) She accidentally reveals herself to a roaming warband the only time this phobia affects the plot by emptying her Hand Cannon trying to kill one of these moths. | |
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Stanley's Dinosaur Roundup: After Stanley admits to being afraid of riding on a horse, his pets try to comfort him. Dennis, a goldfish, tells him he felt afraid the first time he tried to ride on a seahorse. Elsie, a cat, says that she used to be afraid of mice. Harry, a dog, tells him he used to be afraid of cheese and still gets a little nervous around Gouda. | |
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Wiley from B.C. is terrified of water. Not bodies of water, the substance; he tries to run away from his own sweat on a hot day. | |
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Ed, Edd n Eddy: Ed is shown to be afraid of soap and deodorant in "Once Upon an Ed", and the fear of soap becomes a plot point in "Run For Your Ed" when Double D's solution to removing a ship in a bottle stuck on his finger being to lubricate it with soap to slip it off. He also has a fear of wigs and hairpieces as shown in "X Marks the Ed"; for context, Eddy had a pimple on his head that he tried to cover up with his dad's toupee. | |
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Chop Socky Chooks: In one episode, we learn that Chucky Chan is afraid of a toy duck called Mr. Quackers for unknown reasons while K.O. Joe is afraid of jelly beans due to getting one stuck up his nose as a baby. | |
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My Balls. Elyse has a literal fear of penises, picturing a horrifying monster whenever she looks at one. | |
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In The Savannah Reid Mysteries, the tough, manly-man cop Dirk is terrified of chickens. Savannah finds this amusing. | |
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In Sasami's route of Little Busters!, Masato develops a fear of cats after Sasami knocks him out in her cat form twice. No one except Riki (who knows the context behind it) takes his fear seriously. | |
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In The Infernal Devices Will Herondale is scared of ducks - "Bloodthirsty little beasts. Never trust a duck." This becomes a running joke as some of his Herondale descendants also have a strong dislike of ducks, implying that this fear of ducks is hereditary. | |
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Buddy of MySims Agents is afraid of pudding, and casually mentions Pudding War I. Justified, as he's allergic to it. | |
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In Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt one of the lasting effects of Kimmy's fifteen years in the bunker is a fear of Velcro. Eventually explained as related to the moment when she was first abducted: she was alone and vulnerable because she fell behind her friends while struggling to deal with Velcro straps on her shoes. | |
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Total Drama Presents: The Ridonculous Race gives several to the Adversity Twins, particularly Mickey. Sometimes these include a Freudian Excuse: for example, he's afraid of pencils because he once tripped on a bunch and tumbled down the stairs, and he's afraid of being on stage because of a serious accident he had during a school play. | |
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Princess Zelda from The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks is afraid of mice. This may seem rather reasonable for a young princess, but this keeps an issue when she's turned into a ghost and has to take over the big, heavily armored phantoms to have a physical body. So you'll have the sight of a terrifying armor with a huge sword stopping dead with fear until you kill the nearby mice. This even extends to one of the phases of the final battle, when the Big Bad surrounds her with ghostly mice to incapacitate her. | |
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Mega Man 9: Splash Woman is weak to Hornet Man's Bee Chaser, so (or since) bees are her worst enemy. But, since she is a mermaid, she should have the water to protect her, since bees cannot tolerate her natural environment. | |
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Mickey Mouse: There is a comic that shows Minnie being afraid of mice. This makes more sense than it sounds as most people would scream too, if they found a primitive hominid like say an Australopithecus waiting for them in their living room. | |
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Peter Parker Needs A Hug: Red Hood, a fearless and occasionally ruthless vigilante, was afraid of Spider-Man for a while (he thought that Spider was a Man-Bat, only with spider DNA instead of bat). Even when Oracle and Red Robin told him this was impossible, Hood held on to his fear until Batman adopted Peter Parker into the family, proving to Jason that Spider-Man is just a metahuman and nothing to be afraid of. | |
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Manly Guys Doing Manly Things. These three comics talk about Commander's irrational millipede phobia. | |
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Out of This World (1987): Donna has a fear of gelatin. | |
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Homestar Runner: In "That a Ghost", Old-Timey Marzipan is "suh-suh-suh-suh-suh-scared" of pumpkins. Not even jack-o-lanterns, just pumpkins growing on the vine. She's actually relieved when The Homestar Runner suggests leaving the "Punkin Patch" to go to a graveyard. In the 2019 Halloween episode "The Homestar Runner Enters the Spooky Woods", The Homestar Runner must travel through the spooky woods and face his fears... which take the form of a middle-school life science textbook, decorative toothpicks, and the more-understandable but still oddly-specific "dead raccoon being held by a family of wet pigeons". |
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Buffy the Vampire Slayer: Anya is afraid of bunnies. | |
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Super Robot Monkey Team Hyperforce Go!: In one episode, the whole team has to face their fears. While most of the team had understandable fears, turns out Otto is afraid of clams with feet. | |
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Mio Akiyama in K-On! (mostly the anime) has a fear of barnacles, mold, crayfish, other people's blisters, the covers of horror films, and pretty much any string of scary words involving blood, injury, or ghosts. In The Movie, she gains a fear of things that turn (including conveyor belt sushi and The London Eye of all things). | |
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Monica's Gang: Cascão has an extreme hatred of water to the point of it becoming his one weakness. He basically sees it like a normal person would view acid, even though you need water to survive. | |
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Family Guy: Playing with the Sliding Scale of Anthropomorphism, Brian, an erudite talking dog, freaks out when Lois turns on the vacuum and chases him around the room with it. He also has a fear of the sound of nickels rattling in a can, ambulance sirens, and helicopters. "Ready, Willing and Disabled": One of the "Special Peoples' Games", one of the events is "100 Meter Mash for People Afraid of Yellow Tape". It ends up being a close finish, largely because everyone is too panicked to cross the line until one of them powers through it and wins. |
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Sea Princesses: Isa, the Princess of the Penguins, was afraid of water, but with the help of Santa Claus, she overcame her fear. | |
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Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade then reveals that when Indy was a kid, he wasn't afraid of snakes until a rather traumatic incident in a circus train when he fell into a pen holding about a thousand snakes. | |
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Austin & Ally: Austin is terrified of umbrellas since he had his pants ripped off by an umbrella in 4th grade. This becomes a problem in the episode "Filmmaking & Fear Breaking" when he's starring in Dez's movie which is on a beach full of umbrellas. | |
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In Hogwarts Legacy, one sidequest involves helping a student named Duncan who's become a laughingstock after people find out he's afraid of Puffskeins, which are basically balls of fur with Puppy-Dog Eyes. This led to him earning the Embarrassing Nickname of "Puffskein Dunkein". | |
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Sara of Jewelpet Twinkle☆ has a fear of mushrooms due to the little gills under their caps and will invariably do a Wild Take if she sees one. This is the same girl who thinks snakes are cute, by the way. | |
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House of Anubis: One episode has the Sibuna characters admitting and discussing their fears. Patricia's turns out to be feet, which immediately garners weird looks from the others, who are afraid of things like bugs, skulls, and tight spaces. | |
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Durarara!!: Celty has several odd fears, in fact there's a whole chapter of Shinra explaining that no, the world will not end in 2012, the photon belt is not sentient and will not kill everyone, tesseracts from the fourth dimension will not destroy the earth and aliens did not kill the dinosaurs. Celty herself is a dullahan. Izaya is afraid of dogs and dead fish eyes. Later, in his spin-off, due to being traumatized from nearly being killed by Shizuo, he develops a fear of anything remotely related to Shizuo. The mere sight of a woman wearing a bartender uniform was enough to make him freeze up, and he panicked after hearing about a man capable of lifting a vending machine. |
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How I Met Your Mother: While not explicitly described as a phobia, Marshall has an extremely strict rule about having food, any food, in his Fiero car, even something as basic as a bottle of water or a granola bar. The reason for this? He got the car from his older brothers, who wouldn't sell it to him unless he performed a dare; drive up naked to a McDonald's drive-through and order a bunch of coffees with no lids. They then hid in the backseat and jumped up, scaring him and causing him to drop all the scalding coffee right in his naked lap. | |
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Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: Something of a subversion, in that the gang takes it seriously when he's confronted by it, but they aren't above mocking him when he isn't. Fred isn't afraid of heights. He's afraid of widths. He believes it's more rational than Velma's more traditional fear of water because: | |
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Destroy the Godmodder: The titular antagonist is terrified of tubas, to the point where seeing one in his chronologically early incarnations could easily be used to deal damage. He's gotten less scared of them as he continues fighting the Descendants, however. | |
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The Slammer has a Tyrant Takes the Helm episode where the Governor is replaced by Mr. Beltsem, who suffers from 'show-biz phobia': a crippling affliction for someone running a prison for show-biz offenders. | |
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Friends: "The One with the Embryos": Michael Flatley, Lord of the Dance, scares the bejeezus out of Chandler. In "The One With The Home Study", Rachel reveals that she's been terrified of swingsets ever since she got her hair caught in the chain as a child. Ross makes no attempt to hide how ridiculous he thinks it is. |
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One strip (later adapted for a scene in A Charlie Brown Christmas) has Lucy trying to assign various phobias to Charlie Brown. Eventually she arrives at pantophobia. | |
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Returning gives us Scorpius Malfoy, a wizard who is afraid of flying. | |
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Mighty Max: Norman has arachnophobia so extreme that he once jumped through a ceiling in response to a tiny spider landing on his shoulder. Justified when you learn that he is destined to die by being eaten by a giant spider. | |
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In A little dinner scandal, Camilo really dislikes sheep and hates it when asked to handle them. | |
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Riding a Sunset: Ultra Magnus is a large, powerful, respected Autobot warrior who serves as Optimus Prime's second-in-command until Prowl comes back. But Chapter 11 shows that he's afraid of spiders. This wouldn't be considered an absurd phobia if he wasn't a giant robot who a spider couldn't possibly hurt. | |
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A Growing Fire In My Heart: All the dragons in the barracks in chapter 14, despite dragons being huge fire-breathing monsters and many being depicted as a Proud Warrior Race Guy, are shown to be absolutely terrified of mice. When they spot a changeling disguised as a pony-sized mouse, they all scream like little girls and run around the room, trying to stay away from it with only a few trying to kill it. Then when they lose track of it they all try Playing Possum until they are sure it is gone. | |
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Deadpool: Deadpool is afraid of cows. As he puts it: Conversely, him admitting this got Domino to open up and confess she's afraid of chickens... Which factors in his Zany Scheme to get the X-Men in the clear when Norman Osborn is trying to make them out as murderers during Dark Reign. And it works. Deadpool has also expressed an extreme fear of clowns, considering them a greater threat than Galactus. |
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Gravity Falls: One Halloween special reveals that Mabel is afraid of Claymation. Grunkle Stan takes the kids to visit the Claymation animator who is living in Gravity Falls to help her get over it. It's then revealed, that the animator used dark magic to make his clay models move, and they attack the group when they enter his house. Mabel is able to save everyone with a clay monster of her own. She doesn't get over her fear, but she feels vindicated that her fear is justified. "Dreamscaperers": When Bill Chipher declares that he can turn the worst nightmares of people Soos says he hopes he's not talking about the "British Dog Man" he sees in his dreams. Immediately a bulldog in a fancy suit, a monocle, and a walking cane appears. |
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Pepper Ann: Nicky's fear of swans is a running gag. This fear, which her older sister secretly shared, is revealed to have a specific cause: they both had the same exceedingly creepy toy swan when they were kids. To be fair, swans are some of the most violently territorial animals on Earth. | |
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