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Failed Attempt at Scaring

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Failed Attempt at Scaring	comment	When a character, usually a Harmless Villain, a Card-Carrying Jerkass, a Peek-a-Bogeyman, or a good guy around Halloween, tries to scare our protagonists but fails miserably. There can be many reasons for this, but expect it to be a requirement in the Find the Cure! part of a Hiccup Hijinks story. Why it fails depends on either the scarer or the would-be scared. The "scared" has been Conditioned to Accept Horror and it takes a lot to provoke them, are The Stoic or had Nerves of Steel. Maybe the scarer has a limited pool of Absurd Phobias to draw from and their attempts at frightening people just come across as hilarious or pathetic. Sometimes the would-be scarer is genuinely frightening and dangerous, but they're unaware that their target is even worse. Fear is a subjective thing, and things that would have frightened people a hundred years ago — like a cough or a sneeze or Communists giving you erectile dysfunction — wouldn't register with people in the present. Age is also a factor, as the ominous shadows the trees make in the window or the threat of cooties from the opposite sex wouldn't work on an adult, just as kindergarteners wouldn't exactly be trembling in their booties about the thought of paying rent and the socio-political impact of the next election. Super-Trope to Conditioned to Accept Horror and Immune to Jump Scares. Compare Cannot Tell a Joke, Failed Attempt at Drama, Horrifying the Horror, and Nightmare Retardant. Contrast Faux Horrific, where something not scary to the audience is treated as scary to characters In-Universe. See also No-Sell, Played for Horror and Rule of Scary.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_11b7db91	comment	Adventure Time: In the episode "Conquest of Cuteness", the main antagonists want to be taken seriously. The catch? Their race is named "Cuties" and they're Ineffectual Sympathetic Villains (to the point that even Finn and Jake want to help them). They even try Gaslighting Finn and Jake by pretending to be their dead mother. Finn and Jake are only annoyed by that trick.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_12fd5db0	comment	When the titular character from Megamind has Roxanne tied up in his lair, none of his death traps impress her, since he's threatened her so many times, and Metro Man has always managed to save her, that she's just bored by the whole thing. When a random spider appears hanging from the ceiling, Megamind pretends it's part of his plan, but Roxanne just blows the spider at his face and he freaks out.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_1d417633	comment	Monsters University: The main conflict of the prequel is Mike wanting to be a scarer despite the fact that he isn't naturally scary-looking. When he does sneak into the human world to scare some kids, they just laugh at him.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_1ec294c7	comment	The Ghost and Molly McGee: The Inciting Incident of the series is Scratch trying to scare Molly out of his house, and failing miserably because she is too darn cheerful (and desperate for friends) to be scared of him.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_25d25a39	comment	Full Metal Panic? Fumoffu: Zig-zagged in one episode. Kaname tells a scary story, which very much terrifies Kiyoko and Mizuki. However, Sousuke is unfazed. Suggesting that a trip to a real haunted location might prove more effective, Kaname and Mizuki take Sousuke to an abandoned hospital that is reputed to be haunted (Kiyoko is excused due to a recent run-in with a sex offender). Mizuki is immediately scared off when she sees an old woman in the hospital window. Kaname thinks Mizuki is just being paranoid...until Sousuke reveals he also saw the woman but wasn't frightened because she wasn't armed. Throughout the hospital, Kaname and Sousuke encounter classic haunted house tropes, like mysterious phone calls from people claiming to be burning in a fire (the hospital was closed after a fire), whispering voices, things moving in the shadows, ghostly apparitions, and even a blood-soaked girl holding a hammer saying "Go home or drop dead." in a Creepy Monotone. All of this has Kaname freaked out, but Sousuke, a veteran of numerous battlefields, is utterly unfazed. It turns out the whole thing was an effort by some local kids to do the hospital as a haunted house to keep teens and hooligans from using the hospital as a make-out spot or harassing the man who lived there (the son of the former hospital director).
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_2fcc38cb	comment	In How the Grinch Stole Christmas!, Cindy Lou Who invites herself into the Grinch's home in Mt. Crumpet to invite him to the town's Christmas festival as their guest of honor. The Grinch, in his usual Grinchy-flare, tries to act like the horrifying villain everyone thinks he is. All this accomplishes is making him look like an oafish weirdo and he ends up running out of steam very quickly.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_305d1c25	comment	Cucumber Quest: The Forsaken Master is a Disaster Master who has the ability to make one's greatest fears manifest, but due to him constantly misinterpreting the fears of other characters around him, the attempts always fail to genuinely frighten people, and the protagonists treat him as an Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_3269050e	comment	Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion: While alive, Spooky repeatedly attempted to scare people, but never succeeded. Her final attempt involved setting off firecrackers to help scare a PTSD victim. Unfortunately, it went too well, with her victim shooting her to death out of surprise.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_32c541e6	comment	Fullmetal Alchemist has Barry the Chopper, a sadistic killer made into Animated Armor and who should be plenty scary, but has the bad luck to run into Alphonse Elric, who is in the same state as him. He later tries to scare Riza Hawkeye, but she also stands firm and this seems to spark some attraction from him.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_33d00522	comment	Teacher's Pet: In "Let Sleeping-Over Dogs Lie", when the "sleepover" segment of the birthday party/sleepover starts, Ian starts trying to get a scare out of Leonard and Spot. However, his attempts (dressing up like a jungle native and dancing around, and describing things in a spooky voice) don't yield the desired results.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_341a1fd2	comment	Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Zig-zagged. Night Fright is trying to terrify Vincent Van Ghoul, and he's doing a very good job of it. Until Scooby and Shaggy remind Van Ghoul that he's a professional actor. He then walks around the house giving Shaggy and Scooby a tour while utterly ignoring Night Fright who keeps trying to scare them, except at one point turn to the demon and say, "Excuse me, you are being rude!"
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_383c39a5	comment	With This Ring: A Sheeda highborn warrior mistakes Paul for Harold Jordan, and tries to weaken him by intimidating him, then throws a magical spear through time and stabs him in the chest with it. However, with his ring keeping him together, Paul isn't seriously hurt, and with his past combat experience, he's not impressed either.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_3d58d686	comment	In the Uncle Grandpa Halloween Episode "Haunted RV", Uncle Grandpa implants Frankenstein's brain into the RV's engine, turning it into a shapeshifting Haunted House so scary that it winds up becoming dangerous, the RV feeding off of the fear of others. They all manage to defeat it by removing their own brains, leaving their mindless bodies for it to try and fail to scare, sapping it of its power.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_413d7fe6	comment	In a Dirty Bertie story, Bertie, Darren, and Eugene are camping and trying to scare one another with ghost stories. However, Eugene's story is just a parody of Goldilocks in which the bears are ghost bears. Not only are Bertie and Darren not scared, they laugh.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_42ffb88e	comment	Invoked with the SCP Foundation monster SCP-2006. SCP-2006 is a polymorphic entity that takes the form of what it thinks scares humans. The Foundation manages to contain it by convincing it that people are afraid of ineffectual, harmless things like the Ro-Man, training the staff that contain it to pretend that it's scary. This is done because the entity has no perceivable limits to its abilities, the Site Director citing the Fridge Horror of what would happen if it learned about things that genuinely scared people, like war or a nuclear holocaust.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_43f300b9	comment	Open Season opens up with Boog, our grizzly protagonist, sneaking out of the garage he lives in behind his owner, Beth the park ranger, and giving a Mighty Roar from behind her, in an attempt at being scary. Beth, however, just smirks and turns around before roaring right back at Boog, actually startling him, and telling him, "Now, that's a roar, Boog."
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_468bebb0	comment	Discworld: Late in Hogfather, Susan finally gets to meet the Tooth Fairy herself... and is immediately suspicious because of how stereotypical the whole scene looks. Alarmed, the Tooth Fairy begins rapidly shapeshifting in an attempt to scare Susan off, becoming spiders, snakes, rats, and a few things that aren't even described in detail... but Susan is the granddaughter of Death, so she shrugs off the entire display, before grabbing the Tooth Fairy by the neck and forcing her to reveal her true form.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_47dfc6f	comment	Total Drama: In "The Sand Witch Project", for the horror movie themed-challenge, the teams have to have one person dress as the serial killer, and whoever makes their own team scream the loudest wins. Beth gets to be the killer for a scene that calls for two characters to make out. Izzy and Owen, who are already a couple, start making out and get really into it. When Beth tries to scare them with a long knife and announces, "I'm gonna chop you into little teriyaki bits!", they're not scared at all, do a tiny scream, and then get back to making out. (It doesn't help that Beth is a short, nerdy girl who isn't particularly scary to begin with.)
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_4b306707	comment	Hey Dude!: Played with in the episode "Ghost Stories", Brad declares she never gets scared by ghost stories, until Ted tells one that actually does scare her. She spends much of the episode trying to scare him back, but all her attempts fall flat, Ted dismissing them as gags. Then Lucy a story of an unsolved murder that occurred there on the ranch, though she doesn't make any attempt to up the fright factor. But that night, as a storm rolls in, Ted finds himself awake and thinking about the murders as strange noises fill his cabin (which it turns out were caused by yard tools he failed to put away himself, and Lucy and Mr. Ernst putting them away). His imagination runs wild and when Mr. Ernst appears at his door with a pair of pruning shears, he scares himself silly. It turns out the only one who could scare Ted was Ted himself. At the end, Ted makes one more scare attempt on the others... which falls flat.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_4e45b093	comment	The Big Bang Theory: After his colleagues prank him, Sheldon tries to scare each in turn. None of it goes well.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_576bff55	comment	Transformers: Robots in Disguise (2015): In "Even Robots Have Nightmares", Sideswipe, Grimlock, and Strongarm are amazed that Russell is not scared by a horror movie and decide to scare him themselves. Sideswipe dresses up as a zombie and Grimlock dresses up as an axe murderer Decepticon who apparently hacked Strongarm to pieces (she just buried most of herself in the ground), both of which fail because Russell can see through their disguises.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_5e384d4	comment	In Here Comes Peter Cottontail, our hero has encountered the Halloween witch Madame Esmerelda. She tries to scare him, but Peter treats her antics like a joke instead of something scary. She cries at failing in her mission, but he makes her feel better by befriending her with a Halloween Egg.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_605125d8	comment	Erma: As a half-ghost, Erma enjoys using her various powers to spook people. When she gets a new babysitter, Felicia, she of course tries to spook her too. Unfortunately for Erma, Felicia is a horror fan, so despite numerous attempts to scare her, Felicia remains completely unfazed. Erma has a cousin Emily. Emily is such a Genki Girl that all Erma's attempts to scare her horribly backfired: Erma is visibly scared of Emily after she laughs it all.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_6595c98a	comment	The Goes Wrong Show episode "The Lodge" is the Cornley Drama Society's latest attempt at a horror play, and just like all their other performances, the whole thing is greeted with gales of laughter by the studio audience. Quite apart from the cliched nature of the attempted scares, the horror is often undermined by Special Effect Failure, prop failure, or acting failure. Among other things, Albert's (Robert) attempt to make a menacing exit end with the stairlift repeatedly malfunctioning; the words "EXPECT MORE BOIDES" appear on the wall, closely followed by Trevor hastily repainting the sign; and last but not least, the spectacle of Emma (Vanessa) speaking in unison with the ghost (Sandra) possessing her would have been frightening... if Sandra had been able to get her lines right.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_692882cc	comment	Due to his own insecurities, Ickis from Aaahh!!! Real Monsters often has trouble scaring people. He frequently feels like he lives in his father's shadow, and his big ears make him look like a rabbit, which does not help him at all. When push comes to shove though, he can be scary when he absolutely needs to be.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_6a57777a	comment	The Quarry: In chapter 2, Emma will try and Jump Scare Jacob with an evil clown mask, and get zero reaction from him to her consternation. She does get a rise out of him when she starts pretending to seduce him after though.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_6bd0cf78	comment	Monsters, Inc.: A major plot point is that today's kids are harder for the monsters of M.I. to scare, resulting in an energy crisis caused by a scream shortage. Not helped by the fact that monsters think human kids are extremely toxic, making their jobs even tougher.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_6c9193a1	comment	The Venture Brothers: "A Very Venture Halloween" opens with a series of flashbacks showing Hank and Dean trying to scare their father and Brock on three different Halloweens. First as vampires, then as mummies, then by faking their deaths by pretending a bookcase crushed their heads. Dr. Venture isn't the least bit scared by any of these, and on the last attempt is more annoyed that he has to get their clones ready again, much to the confusion of the boys.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_727259ac	comment	The Ren & Stimpy Show: In "Haunted House", Ren and Stimpy shack up in an old house, where a ghost tries to scare them. Unfortunately, all his attempts at being scary end up failing miserably.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_74ce3b5b	comment	Beetlejuice: After the Deetzes move into their house, the ghosts of the Maitlands try to scare them away, but no matter how gruesome they make themselves, none of the Deetzes are aware of them except for Lydia, because ghosts are Invisible to Normals.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_77e22425	comment	Pinky and the Brain: In "Bah, Wilderness", the mice become counselors at Camp Davey, a summer camp for the kids of world leaders, and Brain attempts to tell a scary story around the campfire. His story proves to be too highbrow for everyone to understand the "implications."
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_7c038c18	comment	Phineas and Ferb: In "Phineas And Ferb One Good Scare Ought To Do It", Phineas set up a Haunted House to try and cure Isabella's hiccups. One of the rooms had Baljeet dressed up as the scariest thing he can imagine — a failed math test! Phineas and Isabella stare at him blankly before moving on. In the same episode, Buford dresses up as little Susie Johnson, declaring her the "face of evil". Phineas and Isabella are unimpressed, though, ironically this episode has already demonstrated where Buford's justifiable fear comes from.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_7c48915b	comment	Chapter 4 of Gunnerkrigg Court introduces Morty, a bedsheet ghost who tried to scare Annie with a trick. However, Annie pointed out the many cliches he used during his attempt.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_7ff3216c	comment	Garfield and Friends featured this trope a few times, with the titular fat cat's Deadpan Snarker attitude preventing him from being afraid. In "Mistakes Will Happen," Jon, Garfield, and Odie go camping, with Jon telling the pets that the nearby woods are supposed to be haunted. Garfield doesn't buy it, so Jon decides to dress up as a ghost to scare them. Later, an escaped convict who's hiding in the woods discovers an unconscious Jon and steals his bedsheet disguise to frighten off Garfield and Odie; an unimpressed Garfield fights back instead. In "Ghost of a Chance," it's revealed that there's a Celestial Bureaucracy of ghosts that are assigned to different regions of the country to scare people. A tiny phantom named McCraven has been unable to properly frighten anyone, and a larger ghost named Diablo says that he should be fired. McCraven is given one final chance to prove his merit and selects Jon's house, where all of his would-be horrors fail to faze Garfield. When Diablo shows up and starts genuinely terrifying everyone, though, Garfield teams up with McCraven to outspook the specter.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_8e82c366	comment	The Real Ghostbusters: The ghost of a dead gangster tells the Ghostbusters they'll never take him alive. They point out he's already dead. He acknowledges that, then makes a hideous, ghoulish face to try and scare them. Their response?
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_9a0cb5f4	comment	The Bob's Burgers Halloween Episode "The Hauntening" starts with this trope as its premise; Louis does not scare easily and every year her parents try to make a haunted house that can finally terrify her, only for their efforts to be too tongue-in-cheek to take seriously. This year's Halloween they try and go all-out, only to wind up being put in danger by a band of hooded men that trap them in the house. Then it turns out that the "failed" haunted house was deliberately done to put her into a false sense of security so that the real haunted house experience could catch her off-guard, the hooded men being Teddy, Mort, Mort's mother, and a neighbor who were in on the act.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_9dab421d	comment	Pirates of the Caribbean: The Curse of the Black Pearl: When Elizabeth first sees the skeletal pirates, she is shown running around the Pearl in a vain attempt to find somewhere to hide, capped off with her being frightened out of her hiding place by Barbossa's pet monkey, Jack (also an undead skeleton). At the end, when she sneaks back onto the Black Pearl to free the crew, she is again surprised by the undead monkey, but this time she just gets annoyed and throws Jack overboard.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_9f1766e4	comment	The Brady Bunch: One episode sees Marcia throwing a girls-only slumber party, so naturally Greg, Peter, and Bobby decide to play pranks and scare them. At one point, they don monster masks and bedsheets and prepare to sneak into the living room, only to be met by Alice, who doesn't even blink as they walk by: "Any of you monsters want a hot dog?"
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_a0ae46e	comment	Toy Story: Rex's Establishing Character Moment is him jumping in front of Woody and roaring at him. Woody barely reacts, leaving Rex to wonder what he's doing wrong.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_a609791a	comment	Scooby-Doo: Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: The Halloween Witch finds Fred calmly waiting for her, and when she tries to scare him, he actively yawns. She tries to approach him, only for a pair of Zombie Velmas (one of them Daphne dressing as Velma since Velma won't celebrate Halloween) to jump at her out of a pile of leaves, scaring the witch. Fred says it best. The New Scooby-Doo Movies: Grandma Frickert is not scared of the scarecrow that seems to be haunting her farm, just annoyed that it ran off with her farm hand's Sunday best. Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated: Zig-zagged. Night Fright is trying to terrify Vincent Van Ghoul, and he's doing a very good job of it. Until Scooby and Shaggy remind Van Ghoul that he's a professional actor. He then walks around the house giving Shaggy and Scooby a tour while utterly ignoring Night Fright who keeps trying to scare them, except at one point turn to the demon and say, "Excuse me, you are being rude!"
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_a7ef8e84	comment	Pinky Dinky Doo: In one episode, Tyler dresses as a banana for Halloween and wants to be scary, but everyone just finds him cute. A guy dressed as a vampire tells him to make a "scary noise", so he shouts, "Bleeeeyy!" but it doesn't work.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_aa6e878e	comment	Living Books: In "The Tortoise and the Hare", a sentient scarecrow says, "Boo!" to Simon, a bird. Simon isn't scared and scares the scarecrow by yelling "Boo!" back.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_ae0356e0	comment	Courage the Cowardly Dog: The titular scarecrow from "Night of the Scarecrow" tries hard to be scary like the rest of his family, but it just doesn't work for him. In the end, the Bagges convince him to become a hay ride driver who is liked by children instead. In "Remembrance of Courage's Past", Courage has gone into a Thousand-Yard Stare overnight from his repressed memories of losing his parents. When Muriel expresses concern, Eustace meanly offers a "cure" and pulls out his Ooga-Booga-Booga mask. Courage doesn't even flinch or acknowledge the scare. At that point, even Eustace is surprised at the odd behavior.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_b4196ef8	comment	Living Single had a Halloween Episode where Overton, Synclaire and Kyle all attempt to scare Max with various tricks and pranks that she manages to brush off until Overton falls down a flight of stairs and goes into shock. As she freaks out over the situation, that also ended up being a prank that apparently scared her to death, leaving her with the last laugh.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_b962c879	comment	Fairy Tail: Near the end of the Edolas Arc, Wendy tries to help out Natsu with his plan to take the blame for all the magic disappearing from Edolas by pretending to be one of his demon underlings who are supposed to scare the people. Unfortunately for Wendy, her attempts at trying to scare an Edolas citizen fail as in spite of her best attempts the citizen is unfazed by Wendy which results in Gajeel sneaking up behind Wendy in order to scare said citizen while making it look like Wendy did it.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_b9e6e305	comment	The New Scooby-Doo Movies: Grandma Frickert is not scared of the scarecrow that seems to be haunting her farm, just annoyed that it ran off with her farm hand's Sunday best.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_bb3fde3d	comment	The Box Ghost from Danny Phantom is the show's recurring Ineffectual Sympathetic Villain, being a ghost with power over boxes and other containers. As a ghost and a bad guy, he desires to terrorize humanity and be respected amongst other more threatening ghosts in the Ghost Zone, but he is so non-threatening that Danny treats him more as a nuisance than a genuine threat. Even when the existence of ghosts becomes more commonplace and people react accordingly (that is, with blind terror), people are prone to ignore his empty threats.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_bba5f0d9	comment	Starter Squad: While trying to find where Caterpie took Squirtle, Charmander, and Bulbasaur are convinced by a Haunter to go to the top of Poke Tower to get a better view. There Haunter makes attempts to scare Charmander, who remains unfazed due to none of it being real. The one time Haunter comes close to scaring Charmander is ruined by a Gastly jumpscaring the lizard, much to Haunter's frustration.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: The Flying Dutchman is often considered a being of terror, but there are moments where his horror fails. In "Shanghaied", The Dutchman takes SpongBob and Patrick as crewmates to instill fear into others. However, the two are so bad at being scary that it kills the fright the Dutchman himself brings to people. When the Flying Dutchman moves into SpongeBob's home in the episode "Ghost Host", SpongeBob is genuinely terrified by all of the scary stuff the Dutchman throws at him, he becomes Conditioned to Accept Horror due to him reusing his tricks and SpongeBob starts ignoring him entirely. Afterward, SpongeBob attempts to help him be scary again by having him go after other folks, only for him to be ignored by everybody. It only gets subverted when SpongeBob convinces him to go after the ghost skeptic Squidward.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_c4282b71	comment	My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: In "Elements of Harmony", Nightmare Moon's efforts to create a scary haunted forest scared most of the main/mane cast, except for Pinkie Pie, who encouraged the others to "Giggle at the Ghostly". In "Sleepless in Ponyville", Rainbow Dash tells a Ghost Story about a headless pony. This scares Scootaloo, but Applejack just heckles the story by asking where the horse's brain is if it has no head. In "Scare Master", the others try to get the shy and easily frightened Fluttershy to enjoy Nightmare Night by having her set up the haunted house. But the scariest things Fluttershy can think of are social anxieties rather than monsters. Ponies looking for scares are unimpressed by the awkward tea party with uninvited guests that Fluttershy sets up for them.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_cde16bbf	comment	Emily's Runaway Imagination: Subverted. Emily tells her cousin June that her (Emily's) house is haunted during a sleepover, and initially June doesn't buy it, but eventually both girls become scared when they hear scary noises and are convinced the house really is haunted.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_d43cbccb	comment	Luigi's Mansion: A portrait ghost known as "Uncle Grimmly" likes to practice making scary faces, but when Luigi encounters him, all Grimmly does is wave his arms and make soft sounds ghost moans. Luigi having been screaming from nearly everything else, has no reaction and merely captures him with the Poltergust. Ironically, this is during a genuinely horrific moment in the game as a lightning bolt caused a blackout in the mansion allowing the ghosts to ambush Luigi in nearly every mansion room.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_db30cf92	comment	In the first Warrior Cats book, Graypaw tries to sneak up on his friend Firepaw using his best "stealth crouch". Unfortunately he isn't as stealthy as he thinks he is, so Firepaw hears something that sounds large moving through the brush, and, thinking it's an enemy warrior or predator, attacks, resulting in Graypaw being startled instead.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: The Halloween toon "Mr. Poofers Must Die" plays this for horror. Homestar attempts to tell a "4 1/2 stars with over 600 reviews-quality" ghost story that involves Mr. Poofers, a fictional cloud-like dog, dying. However, whenever Homestar tries to harm Mr. Poofers, his narration turns into lighthearted nonsense. Other characters tried taking a whack at telling the story, all of them failing to harm Mr. Poofers in any way. They break out into a cold sweat upon finishing their narration, horrified about how the story seems to have a mind of its own.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_ea4f62db	comment	Family Guy: The episode "It Takes a Village Idiot, and I Married One", the Griffins go to Quagmire's cabin to spend some time outdoors and interrupt him about to have sex with a woman because he forgot that was the weekend he let them borrow his cabin. That night, as they sit around the campfire telling scary stories, Quagmire's turn is about a woman not leaving the morning after a one-night stand, which cause the Griffins to just stare at him blankly.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_ead5db3a	comment	Slartibartfast, in The Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy, makes a spectacularly feeble threat to Arthur Dent, realises it hasn't worked, and deflatedly remarks
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_ef076a36	comment	Star Trek: Voyager: In one episode, Tom Paris tries to scare Tuvok by suggesting that the starship they're on is haunted. Tuvok just says that's highly improbable, causing Paris to quip that there are probably no ghost stories on Tuvok's planet.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_f1c2ef05	comment	Be Cool, Scooby-Doo!: The Halloween Witch finds Fred calmly waiting for her, and when she tries to scare him, he actively yawns. She tries to approach him, only for a pair of Zombie Velmas (one of them Daphne dressing as Velma since Velma won't celebrate Halloween) to jump at her out of a pile of leaves, scaring the witch. Fred says it best.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_f4e75085	comment	The LEGO Batman Movie: In the film's opening, where the Joker and his crew hijack a plane full of explosives, the Joker tries to intimidate Pilot Bill by telling him his copilot Captain Dale was ejected and giving him a Slasher Smile. However, Pilot Bill is not intimidated as he's confident that Batman will be able to foil his plans like always.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_fa5dc503	comment	Minilife TV: A short on the channel made for a video contest, "The Spook Contest", centers around Skipper the Swamp Monster, Boris the Frankenstein, and Radley the Ghost trying to scare Jack Pierce, who is believed to be unscareable, for a chance to win a LEGO Monster Fighters Haunted House set. Their attempts to scare him are ineffective and they get scared instead when he's revealed to be a werewolf. He ends up winning the contest.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_fc83a067	comment	Scooby-Doo: Monsters Unleashed: When Shaggy and Scooby get separated from the group by ghosts and locked the door, The Cotton Candy Glob shows himself. The duo a scared for a second... before realizing that he literally made of cotton candy. The duo (who are Big Eaters) quickly brighten up in delight, scaring the monster before eating him alive.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_fd6b2fd9	comment	Salute Your Shorts: After Budnick tells the other kids a ghost story, they make plans to get him back. They challenge him to spend the night alone out in the woods while they devise various means to try and scare him. Budnick anticipates this and leaves a number of warnings that will alert him to their presence, so he hears them coming and is able to foil all their attempts. Except for the last one, where they trick him into walking into some spiderwebs. He hates spiders.
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Failed Attempt at Scaring / int_fdbace96	comment	Gravity Falls: The subplot of "Summerween" has Grunkle Stan trying and failing to scare a bratty pair of trick-or-treaters who've come to his door so that he doesn't have to give them candy. No matter what trick he tries, they aren't fazed. Upon breaking in to confront Stan about their candy, the boys are finally scared off by the sight of the old man half-naked and preparing to take a shower.
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