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A comedy trope where something is played up to be terrifying, and it clearly is not. It's not even something that sets off a common phobia. Sometimes the scene is shot like a horror film. Bonus points if the "Psycho" Strings are playing. Advertisements can do this, to show how either not using the product or using a rival product can be horrific. This trope can also be used to emphasize how disgusting a school lunch is. Often a Caustic Critic will do this with finding out he has to review some works he really hates, as a way to show that Suckiness Is Painful. Sometimes, even just holding the work in hand is enough to cause emotional scars. Often happens when a character has an Irritation Nightmare, too. A Super-Trope to Place Worse Than Death. Compare Absurd Phobia, Cool and Unusual Punishment, Evil Cannot Stand Cuteness, Felony Misdemeanor, Lightmare Fuel, Screaming at Squick, Nightmare Retardant, Mundane Ghost Story, Comical Overreacting, Trivial Tragedy, Mock Surprise Reaction, Arson, Murder, and Jaywalking, Played for Horror, and Anything but That!. Contrast Accidental Nightmare Fuel, Failed Attempt at Scaring and Fridge Horror (portrayed as not scary, but ends up being so). Compare and Contrast Mundane Horror. |
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In "Pumpkin Pageant," from Pete the Cat, Pete's dad decides to carve the scariest thing he can imagine on his pumpkin: the family's van with a flat tire. | |
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In the "Teeth of Naros" DLC for Kingdoms of Amalur: Reckoning, the Dwindling Party trope kicks in when the expedition the player has joined stumbles across the corpse of a recently killed Kollossae. The sight of a giant humanoid "statue" with blood and viscera leaking out of it freaks out the hired mage so much that he promptly turns and runs away, whilst even the expedition leader is unnerved by this sight. This reaction would make sense... except that Jottun and Trolls are already well-known monsters in the lands the expedition has come from, and they both have a very similar appearance — trolls in particular are essentially fae Elemental Embodiments of rock. | |
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Kingdom Hearts Ψ: The Seeker of Darkness: In Re:Adjustments, when Kairi initiates a prank war after getting annoyed with whoever keeps finishing off the coffee pot without making more for the next person, Sora and Riku start desperately begging her not to, before imploring whoever did it to fess up before it's too late. The thing is, not only are all the pranks completely harmless, Kairi and her allies immediately agree they have no have no interest in injuring or emotionally hurting anyone, though they do have no qualms about pranking people they've already eliminated from suspicion such as Sora and Roxas due to Rule of Fun. | |
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An episode of soccer-based BBC comedy Lenin of the Rovers features an Apocalypse Now parody in which the Colonel Kurtz character is driven insane not by the horrors of Vietnam, but by witnessing the (real-life) occasion when English soccer player Jeff Astle missed an open goal against Brazil in the 1970 World Cup on the TV in a G.I. bar. | |
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"Treehouse of Horror II": Bart has a dream about being a psychic boy in a twisted version of Springfield that must cater to his every whim a la The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "It’s a Good Life". At the end of the sequence, Bart spends some time bonding with Homer, undoes his transformation into a jack-in-the-box, and the two share a hug in a heartwarming moment between father and son. Since this is Bart we’re talking about, this immediately leads to a Catapult Nightmare. In the same episode, Lisa has a dream that's a take on "The Monkey's Paw." After several backfiring wishes, Homer decides to use the last of the paw's magic to wish for "a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard," then specifies that he doesn't want any "weird surprises." The sandwich in question manifests, and Homer digs in... |
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JonTron spoofed Final Fantasy XIII and its linearity in this video. | |
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X-Play did a review of a Disney Princess game as though it was the most horrifying game ever. They even interpreted Belle saying an outfit could melt Beast's heart as meaning it was so horrible, it would liquefy your internal organs. | |
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Robotomy: "No Child Left Benign": Dreadnot tells the class if they fail their exam, they will sold as slaves to rot in an acid mine where they will be driven insane. No one in the class cares in the slightest... until Dreadnot also mentions they'll repeat the ninth grade, causing everybody to have a Freak Out. | |
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The Simpsons: "Treehouse of Horror II": Bart has a dream about being a psychic boy in a twisted version of Springfield that must cater to his every whim a la The Twilight Zone (1959) episode "It’s a Good Life". At the end of the sequence, Bart spends some time bonding with Homer, undoes his transformation into a jack-in-the-box, and the two share a hug in a heartwarming moment between father and son. Since this is Bart we’re talking about, this immediately leads to a Catapult Nightmare. In the same episode, Lisa has a dream that's a take on "The Monkey's Paw." After several backfiring wishes, Homer decides to use the last of the paw's magic to wish for "a turkey sandwich, on rye bread, with lettuce and mustard," then specifies that he doesn't want any "weird surprises." The sandwich in question manifests, and Homer digs in... The framing device on "Treehouse of Horror IV" parodies Night Gallery; Bart directs the viewer's attention to a painting he claims is so horrific that "merely to gaze upon it is to go mad!" Cut to Homer looking at the 'Dogs Playing Poker'', freaking out and collapsing in hysterical laughter. Bart follows this by saying, "We had a story to go with this painting, but it was far too intense." So it turns out to be a lead into an unrelated vampire story. "Treehouse of Horror V", "Time and Punishment": Homer accidentally goes back in time and changes history, forcing him to repeatedly go back and change different things in the past trying to put everything back to normal. He eventually ends up in a timeline that seems even better than normal: He's filthy rich, his kids are well-behaved, Patty and Selma are dead, you name it. It seems like Homer has his every wish come true, and is obviously very happy to stay in this timeline until he learns that donuts apparently don't exist here, at which point he runs screaming back to his time machine. However he Gave Up Too Soon, since moments later, donuts start falling from the sky by the hundreds. "The PTA Disbands!': Lisa says grimly that she won't get into Yale and might not even get into Vassar. Vassar College, while not on the level of Yale, is still a highly prestigious liberal arts school in its own right,note Forbes ranked it as the #32 best university in the USA in 2018 making this a non-letter version of The B Grade. "The Monkey Suit": Flanders can't stomach the idea of a museum teaching the world that humanity evolved from monkeys. His horrified reactions to the displays in the Hall of Man — and worse, a unisex bathroom — are played with horror music for comedic effect. |
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Mechamato: Amato, Deep and MechaBot are terrified to realise they are trapped in a library and desperately try to unlock the door, much to Mara's annoyance. | |
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A The Kids in the Hall sketch has some office workers becoming sick over innocent things like someone licking a stamp, or the name Mel. Interestingly, the idea of eating cow brains or licking the belly of a bloated dead rat does not bother them. | |
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Spooky's Jump Scare Mansion consists of you walking through a "haunted" house while cardboard cutouts of cutesy monsters occasionally pop out of the walls with a Scare Chord. The computers you can find in certain rooms say that they have managed to kill four people by giving them heart attacks. Also, this trope is subverted starting with room 50, where you start to encounter real, dangerous and scary monsters. | |
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Death Road to Canada: The "TRUE DESPAIR" event has your group of survivors coming across an unopened box of government rations...with dog poop on the handle. Unless you have a character who is Oblivious, an animal, a Friend of Dog or has a high Attitude stat, opening the box will cause a PERMANENT drop in morale. | |
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In Borderlands 2 DLC, at one point, you are tasked with telling a baby something terrible in order to make it cry. (It Makes Sense in Context, kind of.) The problem is that the Vault Hunters are Bunny Ears Lawyers who don't process the world in the same way as most people, leading to the most terrible things they can think of being things like: | |
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A Dash of Logic: In the rewritten "One Coarse Meal", Plankton gets payback on Mr. Krabs by capturing the latter and forcing him to watch as Plankton destroys dollar bills. Of course, this is Mr. Krabs we're talking about, so seeing money being destroyed is his greatest fear. | |
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In the remake of Randall and Hopkirk (Deceased), Jeff and Jeannie are shown various sinister experiments in the laboratories of the PAIN corporation, before they are shown something we don't initially see. Creepy music is played until their guide nonchalantly introduces the room as "...the gym". | |
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Wonder Woman: In the fourth wall-breaking backup story in Wonder Woman #158, the characters are all dreading editor Robert Kanigher's coming decision and who he will choose to Ret-Gone for the sake of raising the sales. One can never know what such a man might do - after all, he wears a yellow bowtie! | |
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In Puyo Puyo Tetris Ringo is terrified after witnessing the horrifying event of... Tetrimino blocks disappearing after falling into a line. | |
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An episode of the Animaniacs sees the Warner Siblings end up in Hell, where Satan threatens to punish them by subjecting with "an agony worse than all others" for an eternity, namely by forcing them to listen to "whiny protest songs from the 60's". The siblings scream and cringe in horror at the prospect. | |
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Angel Densetsu does this all the time, since its premise is that its good-hearted, gentle main character is scary to everyone around him. | |
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The SCP Foundation has quite a few examples, mostly joke SCPs: SCP-006-J are a bunch of normal insects considered to be Keter by the entomophobic researchers. SCP-5308-J are a bunch of normal objects (some granite, a piece of paper, a pen, a cat, and a young boy) with extremely complex security protocols. |
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Garfield: There's this: And this: And when cleaning out the fridge: The Halloween 2022 strip has Garfield, Odie and Jon scream in response to seeing a horror film that takes place before pizza delivery was a thing. |
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In Married... with Children, Peg redecorates the bathroom, and Al finds all the pink terrifying. He looks at some photos and instead sees the Grim Reaper. At one point in the episode, there's a POV shot of Al inspecting the bathroom, in a manner similar to the shower scene in Psycho. It ends with him fainting at the sight of knitted cozies on the toilet seat. | |
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In the Discworld books, the males of the Nac Mac Feegle (who outnumber the females about 100 to 1) live in fear of such feminine wiles as "the foldin' o' the arms", "the pursin' o' the lips", and "the tappin' o' the feet". Tiffany uses these tricks in Wintersmith when confronting them about stealing food from an elderly witch's "going-away party", and can't help but burst out laughing at the frenzy of guilt the Feegles work themselves into. Pyramids: The working stiffs of Djelibebyi have to endure such horrors as their well-meaning but clueless new pharaoh trying to Put Them At Ease, or spending half an hour Talking About Their Family. |
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The Chosen Four: The ghosts in the tunnel scare our heroes and the Runaway Five with ADVANCED CALCULUS and a COPY OF SUPERMAN 64! "AAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!" | |
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Google Translate Sings gives us this line in its version of "Bohemian Rhapsody": A translation of "Heathens" includes the lines "Welcome to hell, all greenery for dinner". |
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In The Binding of Isaac, most things that happen to Isaac are actually horrific. However, one of his traumatizing memories is of a moment in which he was going to the bathroom and noticed there was no toilet paper left. His horrified reaction is the same as when he is actually being tortured. | |
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The Muppet Show: A horror-themed sketch with Vincent Price ends with the reveal that, at the stroke of midnight on New Year's Eve, Vincent Price's character turns into...Jack Parnell (the show's composer). The rest of the cast flee screaming from his rendition of "Auld Lang Syne". | |
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Atticus in Infinity Train: Blossoming Trail shudders when he tells Chloe the horrors of "The Ball Pit Car". While Chloe laughs at it, any fan of Infinity Train will tell you that "The Ball Pit Car" is not something to take lightly. | |
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Freakazoid!: The scariest thing in the world would be if they gave Sinbad another show. Government agencies have been established to prevent it from ever occurring again. Or if you went to reach for something... but it wasn't there. Because it turned into wood! Or if you were stupid enough to say "Candle Jack" and then he kidnapped you're not very nice. I'm quite scary. Also, I'm going to need some more rope. One episode has Freakazoid showing an enemy car (not the driver, the car) a television airing a seven-hour special with Tony Danza. The engine promptly self-detonated rather than have to deal with that. There was also the time that Guitierrez tortured Dexter's family by making them watch The Best of Marty Ingles. |
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Homestuck: "OH MY GOD THE HUMANITY. HOW THEY EXACT THEIR POUND OF FLESH." | |
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My Little Pony: A New Generation: The earth ponies of Maretime Bay are sent running and screaming in terror at the sight of adorable, friend-seeking, and cheerful Izzy Moonbow as if she were an evil fiend. Justified, considering the incredible Fantastic Racism that now divides the pony types. | |
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Trolls World Tour: When pointing out how different the other Troll tribes are compared to the Pop Trolls, King Peppy mentions that some are so different they can't even grasp the concept of Hammer Time. Cue a shot of Pop Trolls dancing to "U Can't Touch This" with horrified looks on their faces and promptly panicking. | |
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Infinity Train: Boiling Point has Luz initially worried about failing her Bard test because they're told if they fail, The Bat Queen will eat them. When Skara clarifies that this will only send them to Another Dimension where a smaller Bat Queen will lecture them on what they did wrong, Luz says she wishes she'd get eaten alive now. | |
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The Nostalgia Critic does this a few times, like the reveal that Good Burger would be his next review. "Wanna know what's really scary? Stephen King is writing Drama again!" *SKREEM!!* In the It review, the Critic was terrorized to death by a silly-looking red balloon with eyes. He and Phelous were once attacked by an evil toaster. (Well, they did ask what other common household objects could turn against you...) Naturally they pretended to be frightened before starting to laugh. |
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Ultra Fast Pony: In the episode "Derp and Destruction", the cast remains "on the verge of panic!" due to a visit by a creepy postman... with a letter for them. | |
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A translation of "Heathens" includes the lines "Welcome to hell, all greenery for dinner". | |
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Big Hero 6: The Series: In "The Bot Fighter", this is how the group reacts to a video of Yama dancing. It's perfectly benign, but they react like they just saw him naked or something. | |
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Monsters, Inc. offers a variation on the old canard, "He's more scared of you than you are of him." Namely, the monsters are all convinced that children are the most dangerous things in the world. "There is nothing more toxic or deadly than a human child!" Seeing as monsters use children's screams as a power source, their fear is somewhat understandable. You probably wouldn't feel great if a rod of active plutonium started following you around and calling you "Kitty." | |
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The squirrel scene from National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, where everyone reacts to the tiny rodent as if it were a knife-wielding lunatic. | |
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At the end of Sonic and the Death Cheese, Sonic runs and screams from Tails innocently offering cheese sandwiches. | |
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Shining Time Station: In one episode, the characters find Schemer distressed because he found a slug in one of his arcade machines. | |
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Pinky and the Brain: The Brain's attempt at a horror story. | |
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Steven Universe: In the episode "Keystone Motel", Steven is horrified that, on top of everything else that's gone wrong on their trip (thanks to Garnet de-fusing due to an argument between Ruby and Sapphire), the pizza places in Keystone serve square pizza. | |
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In Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes #10, Ant-Man's ants turn on the TV in order to watch a so-called 'horror documentary' on the Discovering Channel. Naturally, it turns out to be a documentary about ant-eaters. | |
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A Touch of Cloth: At a crime scene, both Oldman and Cloth nearly throw up when they see a framed photograph of Piers Morgan. | |
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Garfield and Friends : "Uncle Roy to the Rescue" opens with Wade doing a Wild Take, fleeing, and hiding in a trashcan because he got a free sample of soap in the mail. Roy has a similar overreaction when he finds out his niece Chloe is coming for a visit. "Monday Misery": Garfield freaks out when he learns that it's Monday, his least favorite day of the week, and does all he can to escape from its wrath — including moving to Samoa, only to learn that, thanks to the International Date Line, it's still Monday. Oops. The opening begins with a mock horror movie trailer, complete with "Psycho" Strings: |
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Angela Nicely: In “Starstruck!�, Angela sneaks into her favourite boy band’s dressing room, and fears they’ll call security, the police, or Mrs. Nicely, the latter of which she feels is the worst. | |
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Juleka vs. the Forces of the Universe: Andre is utterly aghast when Juleka places an order at his ice-cream cart rather than letting him craft his sweetheart ice cream for her. Her friends are similarly horrified at the prospect of her choosing what kind of ice cream she wants for herself... though this bravery inspires Marinette to place their own order. | |
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The opening skit for The Rebel Set has the bots pestering Joel to tell them a really scary story — Joel perhaps goes too far, reading excerpts from "Life's Little Instruction Book", leaving the two whimpering in terror. Dr. Forrester added his two cents worth; | |
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In the It review, the Critic was terrorized to death by a silly-looking red balloon with eyes. | |
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In Percy Jackson and the Olympians: The Lightning Thief, Percy, while observing tortures in the Fields of Punishment, notes that one of the punishments is being forced to listen to opera music. | |
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Journey to Chaos: When Tiza offends Mia, the receptionist threatens to send Tiza on the most horrifying of missions — trying on dresses for a seamstress! Tiza immediately apologizes. | |
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The A Fistful of Yen sketch in The Kentucky Fried Movie has tinpot asian dictator Dr. Khlan exile a CIA agent to Detroit. The agent acts like he's been sentenced to 10 lashes and being dipped in lemon juice. | |
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The episode It Lives by Night begins with Mike showing the bots paint samples as they prepare to redecorate the satellite a bit. The bots have humorously weird reactions to the first colors, including one supposedly the color of dried blood that is said to make the viewer mad. (Tom: "I think it would be perfect for the can!") Both are frightened to the point of hiding, however, by the eggshell sample. | |
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The series in general runs on this trope, with a lot of the humor coming from Joel/Mike and the bots' over-the-top horrified reactions to the bad movies they watch. Even the Mads get in on the Faux Horrific action, such as with their reactions to the legendarily awful movies Manos: The Hands of Fate, The Beast of Yucca Flats, and Hobgoblins. | |
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Not Brand Echh: the Marvel superheroes react to the coming of the dread Forbush Man with utter horror. For reference, Forbush Man is a guy wearing tattered red tights and a frying pan. This seems to be a trend with Marvel's comedy books, as the Watcher reacted similarly to the contents of What If? #34. | |
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When Jason, Tim, Stephanie, and Cass are competing in a friendly video game tournament in Batman: Wayne Family Adventures, Barbara unveils what the loser of the tournament must do: wear Dick's old "Discowing" suit. Everyone reacts in horror: Notably, Dick himself doesn't see anything terrible about this, and honestly thinks it should a prize instead of a punishment. |
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Tarzan: Tantor, a Nervous Wreck of a Cowardly Elephant, freaks out at all the man-made objects he sees in the Porters' camp when he goes there for the first time, including such eldritch horrors as clocks, tents, and—GASP!—a tea set!!! | |
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In Ouran High School Host Club, Tamaki has a nightmare about the squalor Haruhi might be living in. The part that his nightmare treats as the most horrifying is when Haruhi reveals that she bought sushi from the supermarket instead of ordering it from a restaurant. When he and the other host club members visit Haruhi later on, it's revealed that the apartment she lives in is small but still clean and well-kept. | |
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Mystery Science Theater 3000: The episode It Lives by Night begins with Mike showing the bots paint samples as they prepare to redecorate the satellite a bit. The bots have humorously weird reactions to the first colors, including one supposedly the color of dried blood that is said to make the viewer mad. (Tom: "I think it would be perfect for the can!") Both are frightened to the point of hiding, however, by the eggshell sample. The opening skit for The Rebel Set has the bots pestering Joel to tell them a really scary story — Joel perhaps goes too far, reading excerpts from "Life's Little Instruction Book", leaving the two whimpering in terror. Dr. Forrester added his two cents worth; The series in general runs on this trope, with a lot of the humor coming from Joel/Mike and the bots' over-the-top horrified reactions to the bad movies they watch. Even the Mads get in on the Faux Horrific action, such as with their reactions to the legendarily awful movies Manos: The Hands of Fate, The Beast of Yucca Flats, and Hobgoblins. |
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Daria: Quinn tries to tell a scary story: | |
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Tealove's Steamy Adventure does this twice in one scene. First, Big Jim brushes Snowcatcher's mane, and her reaction is "You monster! My mane’s already fabulous! I don’t need your help!" Later, Big Jim hosts a tea party. Tealove takes one sip and spits the tea out, and says: | |
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Flipside plays this for laughs in an intermission segment, when evil sorcerer Melter demonstrates some images that will "disturb and sicken you". Very disturbing indeed. | |
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The Good Place: A Running Gag is that the Bad Place is filled with classic torture, but also more mundane frustrations like college improv, children's dance recitals, and neverending franchise film sequels. When deciding on an eternal punishment for Michael, Shawn opts to lock him in an empty room for eternity with only a large stack of New Yorker magazines for entertainment. He asks Bad Janet to fart in the room, the smell of which would linger for ten million years. When contemplating what their punishments will be like in the Bad Place, Eleanor believes she'll be forced to be camping all the time, Jason thinks he'll be at a dance club waiting for a bass drop that will never come, and Tahani thinks she'll be forced to spend eternity in the Swiss Alps — during the off season. |
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Little Hands, Big Attitude: Mephiles, being deaged to a baby and a Fish out of Water, is completely terrified of the mighty beast that lives in the house of his adoptive family... which is Ozzie the golden retriever. | |
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Pyramids: The working stiffs of Djelibebyi have to endure such horrors as their well-meaning but clueless new pharaoh trying to Put Them At Ease, or spending half an hour Talking About Their Family. | |
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Futurama Farnsworth is rescued from a Lotus-Eater Machine at the Near Death Star. He describes what it's like as thus: "It was as though I were living in a facility in Florida with hundreds of other old people. All day long we'd play bingo, eat oatmeal and wait for our children to call." Cue gasps of horror from the crew. In "War is the H-Word", a ball alien tells a story that, judging by his tone of voice, is supposed to be a Scare 'Em Straight story: There's also Bender's campfire story in one episode, but on Bender's word it's only this trope if you're a human: |
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The Emperor's New Groove parodies this trope during the Pacha and Kuzco's final confrontation with Yzma. She hikes her skirt up, causing both men to scream in terror, only for her to reveal that she's actually drawing a wicked dagger from a thigh sheath. They both immediately calm down. | |
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The Nostalgia Chick has been known to scream or recoil in terror by what she has to review. Such as the time a frog in tits and heels came onscreen in Thumbelina. | |
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In Psychonauts, Sasha Nein is training Raz to use his Psy-Blast power, providing him with a target range to learn the basics. The targets he chose? Something so hideous and horrible, something so disgusting that it simply must die: Tacky stained-glass lamps! | |
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The Amazing World of Gumball: A robber holds up a gas station with only a spoon, which the other characters think is a lethal weapon. When he gets caught in the end, the cop laughs it off. | |
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SuperMarioLogan: "Bowser's Biggest Fear 3" has the movie "No Milk", where the protagonist absolutely panics and even calls 911 because there's no milk for his cereal. "Jeffy's Scary Movie" has Jeffy watching an R rated horror film titled The Scary Clown, which is about a scary looking birthday clown that... hits party guests with balloon swords (to which they react like he hit them with a blunt instrument), cuts the cake (something that is supposed to be done at parties), pops balloons (which upsets the guests, including a woman who reacts to her wiener dog balloon being popped as if the clown killed an actual dog she owned), chases after the birthday boy blowing a horn, and shoots him with confetti. Jeffy is horrified. |
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A Saturday Night Live sketch gave us David S. Pumpkins, a character on a 100 Floors of Frights ride who said he was going to "scare the hell out of you", but who only confused the people on the ride because he was so random. | |
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Young Sheldon: In "A Political Campaign and a Candy Land Cheater", Sheldon ultimately defeats Nell by revealing her darkest secret — she's not actually a Texan; she was born in New York and she even now has a Yankees pennant in her room. | |
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FoxTrot: Back when Apple released the first iMac, nerdy kid Jason dressed up as one for Halloween. His brother Peter didn't understand how it was supposed to be scary, to which Jason replied "I have no floppy drive!" which quickly reduces Peter to a quivering wreck. Roger is utterly terrified of the Halloween decorations Jason puts up. Not the spiders or ghosts; the fake credit cards with his teenage daughter Paige's name on them. Don't forget this line: "...and when she opened the closet door, all the clothes were polyester!" One Halloween, Jason obtains massive amounts of candy by dressing up as a Blue Screen of Death. Jason then says that he "should send Microsoft some of this [candy]". One of Jason's nightmares has him taking an extremely easy math test. One of Paige's nightmares is acing a test only to realize she is Jason. |
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In Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man, Venom threatens to reveal Spider-Man's greatest secret to the world. No, not his secret identity, he doesn't care about that. But he will reveal to Liz Allan who REALLY wrote all those secret admirer notes in her locker. Spider-Man treats it like a Fate Worse than Death. | |
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Invader Zim: Zig-zagged in "A Room with a Moose". Zim decides to send Dib and his classmates through a wormhole into a room with a moose. Initially, Dib appears to be terrified but soon realizes that a moose is not particularly frightening. Then, upon watching the moose eat some walnuts, Dib becomes inexplicably horrified and determined to escape the wormhole at all costs. |
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Barbie (2023): Stereotypical Barbie's existential crisis cements itself when her feet go from always on tiptoes to flat on the ground. Upon seeing them, the assorted Barbies scream "FLAT FEET!", shriek in horror, and retch (they can't actually vomit). They stop when a nearby Ken joins in on the retching. | |
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The Patrick Star Show: In "The Patrick Show Cashes In", Patrick's mother Bunny suggests doing a Halloween Episode about "the horrors of dust." | |
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Bad Lip Reading did a Gag Dub of Mark Zuckerberg's Congressional hearing where a senator describes Mark's odd-looking smile as "just horrible" and begs him not to do that for the rest of the day. | |
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The Incredible Hercules: Phobos, god of fear, coerces Pluto to open a portal to his realm for him by showing him the most horrifying thing he could ever imagine: Cuddly ponies and teddy bears. | |
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Occurs in BattleBlock Theater on a few occasions with the Lemony Narrator. Since the game is presented as a cutout puppet-show in the cutscenes, there are often references to terror and horror (along with warnings) followed by totally underwhelming visuals. | |
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Tiny Toon Adventures did a similar gag in their Night Gallery spoof. The picture in question was Babs' third-grade school photo. | |
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SpongeBob SquarePants: Wormy, the caterpillar turned butterfly, is played like this, although the closeup shots of Wormy's face were of a horsefly, not a butterfly, to try to make it look more menacing. Happens again as SpongeBob and Patrick were chased by a grasshopper in scuba gear. "Oh my gosh...a FLOATING SHOPPING LIST!" "Krab-Borg!": SpongeBob is so utterly terrified from a B-Movie (what little we see is an obviously cardboard robot chasing a live-action man in side-view) so much that he sees Mr. Krabs as a robot. "Sing a Song of Patrick": Patrick's song is something of a Brown Note in-universe; to the viewers, it can range from "not that horrible, really" to "quite catchy". Justified that while the lyrics are very, very terrible to the point of killing the band, the band itself was legitimate. "Suds": SpongeBob reacts in horror of Patrick's description of the terrors of the doctor's office. "They make you read... OLD MAGAZINES!" "Hall Monitor": Patrick is so scared of the Maniac that just seeing a police sketch of him sends him into a screaming fit. Said sketch is clearly a stick figure rendering of SpongeBob, and they didn't even draw him scary-looking. "No Free Rides": SpongeBob hangs on to his stolen boat through a field of vicious giant clams and a field of cheesegraters without flinching, but loses it at the sight of the last obstacle: "EDUCATIONAL TELEVISION? OH NO!!!" "Shanghaied!": SpongeBob and Patrick are locked in the brig of the Flying Dutchman's ship, and their only way of escape is through... the perfume department. Cue the two of them running through a live-action background, cringing and flinching as they get doused with perfume samples. "Scaredy Pants": One of the things that terrifies SpongeBob is a kid in a cowboy costume. |
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In Unsounded, what does it take to creep out an undead Humanoid Abomination who gets off on cannibalism, rape, and general ultraviolence? | |
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Brawl in the Family: "Oh no, fake Kraid! Oh no, REAL Kraid! Oh no, real FAKE Kraid!" | |
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In Path To Munchies's April Fools Omake, Amy and Lisa are terrified to see Taylor and Victoria bonding. | |
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My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic: The ponies are terrified of the Everfree Forest, where plants grow wild, animals care for themselves, and the weather changes all on its own.note The In-Universe world runs on Painting the Frost on Windows; the ponies literally do everything from managing the weather to making sure animals hibernate on schedule. There are legitimately dangerous creatures living here, but this "wild" status is still considered the scariest. "Applebuck Season": The bunny stampede... "The horror... the horror!" "Bridle Gossip": Everypony is terrified of Zecora because she has stripes (she's a zebra), digs at the ground (a natural zebra habit), and "lurks around the shops", when she's just trying to buy medicine but the stores all close down whenever she comes around since ponies are so terrified of her. Twilight points out how ridiculous everypony is being. Not that anypony listens, or, when the truth comes out, acknowledges that Twilight was right. "Read It and Weep": Rainbow Dash has this reaction when she realizes she likes reading. "Magic Duel": Trixie uses her magic to torment various ponies via Body Horror (giving Rainbow Dash uneven wings, attaching Snips and Snails together by the horn, etc.) Then when she targets Rarity, she merely forces her to wear a tacky dress. Rarity's response? Faint. In general, this is Rarity's response to almost anything tacky. "Maud Pie": Rainbow Dash's reaction when Maud says she isn't into winning is a horrified gasp. "Do Princesses Dream of Magic Sheep?": The Tantabus warps the ponies' dreams into nightmares by making something they love become a monster. Rainbow Dash is already fighting Changelings in her dream, so what's her nightmare? ''Flowers singing to the tune of "This Old Man" while one of them plays a flute! |
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Doctor Who. In "Resolution", the Recon Dalek diverts all the power in the UK to send a signal to the Dalek fleet to invade Earth, knocking out the internet in the process. | |
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Uncyclopedia parodies an infamous shock video, describing something involving two girls getting off on a "horrific, shocking perversion of mathematical law." | |
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Throughout Beetlejuice, the titular Ghost with the Most revels in things like eating insects and disgusting "grooming habits" (phrase used very loosely here) but is horrified and almost physically repelled by classically "cute" things that he can't corrupt in some way. | |
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Tales from the Cryptkeeper: "The Sleeping Beauty" ends with vain Prince Charmless Chuck getting turned into a vampire, which to his horror means he can no longer admire himself in the mirror. "No more handsome checks!" | |
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Fable: The Warden of Bargate Prison picks one inmate per year to take to his private office and subject to a fate that even hardened criminals, inured to the Prison's normal tortures, fear to name... | |
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Monty Python's Flying Circus: In "The Spanish Inquisition", the Inquisitors have an unusual idea of torture involving comfortable furniture, soft cushions, and breaks for beverages. In the "Piranha Brothers" sketch, Luigi Vercotti is being interviewed about Doug Piranha. When asked what Doug's methods of brutality were, Luigi's eyes grow wide with the horror as he recounts "He used...sarcasm!" A sketch exclusive to their "Matching Tie and Handkerchief" album is a dramatic narration of an occurrence where there was emphatically no mayhem, violence, or other criminal activity whatever, narrated with an ominous, emphatic voice and plenty of alarming background music. |
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The Spoony Experiment does this all the time. As a particularly overblown example, one episode has Spoony coming back to take back his show from his clone... until he realizes that he'd have to review Final Fantasy X, and is Driven to Suicide from the terror. | |
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In The Curse of Monkey Island: Guybrush is afraid of porcelain. He says “When will this nightmare end!� And Skull Island: |
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In Jasper in Deadland, Persephone's noble sacrifice to let Jasper and Agnes go back is...spending one day extra with Pluto, who's completely overjoyed and plans super fun activities. | |
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The Hobo Bros do this a lot. One example is their video on "Barney's Hide and Seek Game", where they make up a backstory about Barney being a Satanic Creepy Doll, and react with mock horror with almost everything Barney does in-game. | |
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At the end of Paddington (2014), the villain is sentenced to an unspecified amount of hours of community service at a local petting zoo as punishment. She reacts as if she's been sentenced to death after hours of torture, complete with Dutch Angle and Big "NO!" screams of "No, anything but that!" She really hates petting zoos. | |
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Codename: Kids Next Door: A big part of the show's comedy is mixing this trope with Serious Business and a child's perspective. Things like a trip to the dentist, running out of breakfast cereal, or piano lessons are treated as if they're crimes against humanity as opposed to minor inconveniences. In "Operation: U.N.C.O.O.L.", Sector V squares off against "nerd zombies" and deals with a Dwindling Party as they're captured. At the end, it's revealed that anyone who's caught by the nerds is subjected to the horrific fate of...being forced to watch Doctor Timespace and the Continuums, a Doctor Who Expy. |
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An episode of Sailor Moon does this with going to the dentist. Usagi and her daughter from the future imagined it to be practically going to a serial killer's house. Then it's subverted when the dentist is revealed to be legitimately dangerous, being a Monster of the Week. | |
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Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt had Titus getting some money by singing backing vocals for a Conspiracy Theorist's songs. He is willing to ignore the content and collect his paycheck, until one song offends him so much he wants to quit. It turns out to be a lowbrow beach-pop song called "Boobs in California". | |
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Marvel Adventures: In Marvel Adventures: Spider-Man, Venom threatens to reveal Spider-Man's greatest secret to the world. No, not his secret identity, he doesn't care about that. But he will reveal to Liz Allan who REALLY wrote all those secret admirer notes in her locker. Spider-Man treats it like a Fate Worse than Death. In Marvel Adventures: Super Heroes #10, Ant-Man's ants turn on the TV in order to watch a so-called 'horror documentary' on the Discovering Channel. Naturally, it turns out to be a documentary about ant-eaters. |
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South Park: "I Should Have Never Gone Ziplining" does this to camp. Not only is the boredom of ziplining (and other camping activities) enough to torture and traumatize, it can even kill you. Or at least Kenny. | |
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T.U.F.F. Puppy: When Larry takes over D.O.O.M. and changes his name to Murray, everyone in T.U.F.F. gasps in fear at the sound of it. | |
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Jaune Arc, Lord of Hunger: When Jaune visits Nora in the hospital after she was heavily injured during the Breach, Nora is reduced to Inelegant Blubbering and begs Jaune to get her out of there... because the hospital had been feeding her vegetables and applesauce. When a confused Jaune attempts to console her by saying that applesauce doesn't taste that bad, she only cries into his chest even harder. | |
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Mike, Lu & Og: Mike has a flashback to her life in Manhattan where she reveals that she's always hated going shoe shopping, describing it as if it was a claustrophobic nightmare. | |
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RWBY Chibi: An In-Universe example where several characters are debating on what to watch. Ruby wants to see the horror movie Dog Rain, where a bunch of adorable puppies fall from the sky. The others question how that qualifies as horror, and are unimpressed with Ruby's explanation that the heroine doesn't get to keep the puppies. | |
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Wednesday has the title character going on a date, where the guy, showing some knowledge of the Goth Creepy Loner Girl, decides to screen what he describes as a scary movie... Legally Blonde. And indeed, Wednesday is visibly horrified, and once the movie ends she remarks "That was torture. Thank you." | |
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ContraPoints steps into the persona of hammy late-night horror hostess Lenora LaVey early in her video "Pronouns", to revel in the destruction brought forth by using gender-identity appropriate pronouns: | |
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Homestar Runner: In the Strong Bad Email "date", the Cheat is scared off by a crude cardboard cut-out of a Bear Holding a Shark. The 2015 Halloween cartoon "The House that Gave Sucky Tricks" is loaded with this. Homestar's haunted house has attractions like a handkerchief made to look like a ghost, a tennis racket decorated to look like a monster, a pile of "scary shoes" (not to be confused with the "spooky shoes"), and an incomplete jigsaw puzzle (which seems to actually scare the Cheat). Meanwhile, Strong Bad imagines up "St. Cadaverstump's Totally Not Just an Old Furniture Warehouse Morgue-tuary", with such attractions as the Horrible Painting of Somebody's Dad, a room that smells like "Strong Mad oyster-smoothie-breath-caked-armpit-latte", a crappy two-star bed-and-breakfast, and "the new face of terror, Large Bean!" |
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In episode 2 of Season 2 of K-On!, after cleaning out the closet of the music room, Mio and Asuza find out that Yui left a lot of things behind and get mad at her. Yui pouts and claims that Ui would get mad and make a scary face if the latter brought more stuff home. Cut to a "scary" Ui giving a thumbs up to Yui, after the latter had dropped other stuff she took home earlier and apologized profusely. Both Mio and Asuza wonder if Ui isn't the older, more responsible sister after all. | |
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Family Guy: "Baby Not on Board": Stewie finds a Hustler and, upon seeing a picture of a fully nude woman, he screams in terror and shoots the magazine with a machine gun. Quagmire tells a Ghost Story about a man whose lover is still in bed with him the morning after. And worse yet, she wanted to make him eggs! And introduce him to her kid!! The horror. The bachelor horror. Let's don't forget the Cutaway Gag where Peter got shocked of fear after wathcing Mannequin. |
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Like Spoony and Critic mentioned above, Yahtzee of Zero Punctuation constantly employs this trope as part of his general Accentuate the Negative tactics, often explaining in detail the excessive and disgusting bout of self-mutilation brought on by the latest game. Though unlike those two, he tends to do so in a deadpan tone of voice. | |
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In the Strong Bad Email "date", the Cheat is scared off by a crude cardboard cut-out of a Bear Holding a Shark. | |
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An episode of My Family has Ben react this way when Susan plays the cello after Janey moves out. The music causes him to back into a corner, making the cross sign with his fingers. | |
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In Green Tea Rescue: Eri reflects on her telling her brother Toshi the story of how their parents became heroes, and that as much as she dreads telling him about the fighting and the blood, she knows he would be just as (or more) horrified about the kissing and hand-holding and stuff. | |
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Voltron: Legendary Defender: One episode has Coran and Allura see an Earth cow being milked for the first time. It terrifies and squicks them out all at once. | |
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In an episode of How I Met Your Mother, the gang visit a hippie-run resort, and when they find out there's no meat or alcohol available, their reactions come complete with a Scare Chord. | |
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Chapter 59 of You Got HaruhiRolled! is called "The Scariest Chapter Yet". It's only scary if you think the edited translations of 4Kids Entertainment are frightening instead of silly. Further cementing this trope is that the chapter was written as the Grand Finale of a special week of horror-story chapters in the lead-up to Halloween. | |
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NCHProductions: In "MHWorld Shots: [[Arch-Tempered Zorah in a Nutshell]]", Zorah Magdaros is apparently too terrified to move by Nergigante doing the Default Dance on its back. | |
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Taya in Diaries of a Madman views getting dressed up like this. After being forced to do so for the Gala, you'd almost think the girl went through a war zone. | |
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Deadpool Vol 1 #45: Deadpool dramatically unmasks to show what Christopher Priest did to him: His face... is perfectly fine. But the other characters present exclaim that he has disfigured Deadpool (one of them remarks it's "worse than the Goat Incident"). It could be a Self Deprecating reference to Canon Defilement. | |
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FLCL: Kitsurubami thinks Commander Amarao looks weird with his fake Big Ol' Eyebrows, but seeing one fall off leaves her almost shrieking. | |
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Gravity Falls: "The Inconveniencing": Stan gives out a Big "NO!" when he loses the remote and has to watch the Black and White Period Piece Old Lady Boring Movie Channel film "The Duchess Approves" (or, alternatively, stand up from his chair and try to find the remote). Subverted, as he's later shown to enjoy the film. In the same episode, the ghosts haunting the abandoned convenience store are revealed to be an elderly couple who died from simultaneous heart attacks brought on by the "shocking" and "hateful" lyrics of the rap music some local teens played outside their store. Said lyrics: "Dungeons Dungeons and More Dungeons" sees Grenda having a freak out over the sight of graphed paper. Preston Northwest staked his whole fortune on Bill Cypher's continued dominance during "Weirdmageddon" and lost it when (relative) normality is restored. He had to sell his extremely valuable house to regain some money, so his family just went from obscenely wealthy to very well-off. He reacts like he had become utterly destitute. His family didn't take the news any better (his daughter Pacifica is horrified upon learning she can't keep more than one pony). |
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Barbie: Life in the Dreamhouse: Raquelle fails to enjoy getting dragged to Barbie's camping trip after mistaking butterflies, daisies, and Blissa the housecat for killer bees, poison ivy, and a bear, respectively. Though, when Raquelle finds an actual bear in the jacuzzi, she decides not to freak out about it. | |
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