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Horrifying Hero

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Horrifying Hero	comment	When the protagonist of the work is itself some horrific being that sends people screaming in its wake. They might never have been human, or possibly might have been once, but now they are some inexplicable creature that has no place in this world. These Horrifying Heroes not only look frightening, they also have frightening abilities to match, and could just as easily be imagined as a bad guy in nearly any other story. They tend to be an Anti-Hero, or villains who have had a Heelâ€“Face Turn; however, whether they are true heroes or just a Villain Protagonist (or anything in between), they still get to be the effective hero of their story. Characters which qualify as a Horrifying Hero include the Eldritch Abomination, Cthulhumanoids, Humanoid Abominations, Starfish Aliens, a Living Shadow, a Demon and other such things which by their very nature are normally Obviously Evil. Characters which appear human part of the time can qualify, but only if their alternate form is such a thing, and is consistently described as Nightmare Fuel, not just weird or ugly in appearance, and they generally need the powers to match. After revealing the character's true nature, a person would have to be a Nightmare Fetishist and crazy to boot to find the character appealing. If there is a question of qualification on the basis of the character being scary but not exactly an Eldritch Abomination, then the character instead may be a Monster Adventurer. The differences between them can come down to portrayal. The Monster Adventurer is defined by being ugly or scary. The Horrifying Hero might be ugly and/or scary, but often he will also have frightening abilities. You are meant to feel bad for, and relate to, the Monster Adventurer, while the Horrifying Hero is a badass, and might be Wish-Fulfillment. Subtrope of Creepy Good, which is when any character on the side of good (not just the hero) is perceived by those around them as creepy. Tropes which might be associated with a Horrifying Hero include Dark Is Not Evil, Face of a Thug, What Measure Is a Non-Human?, What Measure Is a Non-Cute?, Hunter of His Own Kind and Stages of Monster Grief. This type of hero is probably more likely than any other to induce a Mook Horror Show. As for characters which are scary but don't qualify for this trope, you will likely find them under Reluctant Monster, Non-Malicious Monster or Ugly Hero, Good-Looking Villain. For characters whose behavior is horrifying, see Terror Hero.
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Horrifying Hero / int_10ddd3d5	comment	Wolf Link from The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess is a wolf with mysterious powers of darkness, ridden by Midna, a creepy imp with strange markings and a Fused Shadow helmet. Wolf Link and Midna aren't really horrifying to the player, but in-game, the two of them cause a general panic wherever they go. (The only people who aren't scared of them are the lady who operates a canoe minigame, and her brother who is more scared of her than he is of Wolf Link and Midna.) But they're definitely on the side of good.
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Horrifying Hero / int_12381dc	comment	Divinity: Original Sin II: The playable character Fane or a custom undead PC is a walking skeleton who has to hide their body to avoid being attacked on sight, and who wields the dreaded Source magic to boot. Despite this, they can save the world, do a lot of good along the way, and earn the title of Hero in-game.
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Horrifying Hero / int_1367cea0	comment	Invoked in Worm by Skitter, a teenage girl with total control over every insect in a massive radius. She regularly covers herself in insects to give herself the appearance of The Worm That Walks and normal battle tactics involve stuffing insects down people's throats. It's no wonder that the first superhero she runs into thinks that she's a supervillain!
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Horrifying Hero / int_13987c8a	comment	In Roger Zelazny's A Night in the Lonesome October, various supernatural creatures and horror villains draw battle lines about whether to complete a ritual that will allow certain creatures entry into our world (Openers wish to allow them through, Closers wish to stop them). The protagonist, strongly implied to be Jack the Ripper, isn't the viewpoint character; instead, the story is narrated by his dog to avoid humanizing him. He's a Closer. So is Count Dracula, to everyone's utter shock, who spends most of the story as The Dreaded and never receives any humanization.
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Horrifying Hero / int_13a1f3ff	comment	Phenomena stars a teenage Jennifer Connelly as a Creepy Child with psychic command over all insects. She uses her gift to try to track down a Serial Killer who has been terrorizing her school, and she's unambiguously heroic — but the movie also emphasizes just how unsettling her powers, and even her general demeanor, are to the people around her.
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Horrifying Hero / int_14ea03f2	comment	Ultraman Geed is the son of Ultraman Belial and looks a lot like his demonically twisted father. This is rather problematic, as it means 75% of the population is scared of him and uncertain of whether or not he's a good guy, despite him being The Cape personality wise. It takes kicking his old man's butt in front of all of Japan for them to finally realize he's the good guy.
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Horrifying Hero / int_14eb91c0	comment	Yuri Hyuuga, the Harmonixer, from the Shadow Hearts games. While most of the time he's a handsome young man, he mainly fights by transforming into demonic beasts and harnessing their powers. Particularly notable in the opening of Shadow Hearts Covenant where he's protecting the French town of Domremy where he's residing from the advance of the WWI German army using the demon form of Amon, Lord of Destruction; the opening FMV of the game sees him putting on a full-blown Mook Horror Show as he terrorises the German infantry. The cutscene is called "The Demon of Domremy".
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Horrifying Hero / int_17dbf5ae	comment	Kamen Rider Amazons is a horror series specifically aimed at adult fans of the show, particularly middle aged fans who grew up with the early Amazon. When the hero, who has undeniably good intentions, has a kill-or-be-killed attitude and a Cannibalism Superpower where he literally eats his opponents, themselves all biologically augmented humans beings, it's hard not to be terrified. The hero of the second season, Amazon Neo, is much the same but also able to better control the monster cells in his body. They're father and son.
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Horrifying Hero / int_1bd46b9d	comment	During the AXIS event, Carnage was one of the villains affected by the inversion spell, which made heroes turn evil and villains turn good. While he is driven by an urge to do good, he's still brutally violent and is largely terrible at hero work.
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Horrifying Hero / int_1c1d7608	comment	Franken Fran: Leading lady Madaraki Fran normally resembles a teenaged girl version of Frankenstein's monster, but at times she adopts her multi-armed "Operation Mode." While the precise value of "hero" may come into question, the "horrifying" very much definite. Her sister Veronica seems to be much closer to human morality and is genuinely nice person. But while Fran was designed as an ideal surgeon, Veronica was designed as an assassin, and a fairly good one.
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Horrifying Hero / int_1f0bc3d3	comment	All cinematic versions of Hellboy, a Big Red Devil who was raised by humans to be good. The posters for Hellboy (2004) and Hellboy II: The Golden Army both stress the "Believe it or not, he's the good guy" angle.
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Horrifying Hero / int_237eae2f	comment	The image above comes from Cthulhu Saves the World, where it's Played for Laughs.
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Horrifying Hero / int_23e0dd0	comment	The protagonists of The Return, since they are all fascistic, cannibalistic-demons, in various stages of devolving into Humanoid Abominations. And they are our world's best hope for survival against a true Eldritch Abomination which might in fact be a whole 'nother universe in itself.
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Horrifying Hero / int_251899d5	comment	Kamen Rider Shin was Darker and Edgier Deconstruction of the franchise's heroes, being much more organic and frightening in appearance than they already were. The film was much more brutal than anything that had come before, and wouldn't be outdone for years until the aforementioned Amazons. The movie was considered too frightening and the series it was supposed to pilot was cancelled.
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Horrifying Hero / int_28f28baf	comment	Cameron Vale, the hero of Scanners, is a socially maladjusted telepath who speaks in a Creepy Monotone voice. Even as the stakes of the story become increasingly personal to him, he seems to barely care, and is really just going along with everything because it's something to do. The heroine of the movie even describes him as "barely human" at one point.
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Horrifying Hero / int_295048d5	comment	The Hunter from Bloodborne is somewhere between an Empowered Badass Normal, a vampire, a werewolf, and a Humanoid Abomination. They're still mostly good, depending on player choice.
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Horrifying Hero / int_29950026	comment	From Godzilla: The Series, the titular Godzilla is over 200 feet tall, looks like a cross between an iguana and a Tyrannosaurus rex, and breathes a stream of atomic fire. The citizens of New York are quite justifiably terrified of him. That being said, Godzilla protects his adoptive father, Nick Tatopalous, avoids hurting civilians, and focuses his attacks on other dangerous Kaiju. He's even hailed as a hero among the survivors of a Bad Future for fighting the D.R.A.G.M.A.s to his last breath, saving thousands of lives in the process.
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Horrifying Hero / int_2aabf115	comment	Hillbilly has a downplayed example in its main character, Rondel, a grim Witch Hunter with unnerving pitch-black eyes. His weapon of choice is a gigantic butcher knife taken from the Devil's own kitchen.
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Horrifying Hero / int_2d316bc0	comment	Surprisingly averted with the mutant "Muckman" in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (2012); After his mutation, his body becomes a mass of slime and tumours, with exposed bones (and even a gaping hole in his torso, leaving his organs and spinal cord clearly visible). When he saves a man from being mugged, the man reacts with gratitude rather than horror, even pointing out to an understandably freaked-out woman that Muckman is a hero. Muckman soon gains a legion of fans who follow him wherever he goes (to his chagrin).
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Horrifying Hero / int_331e009	comment	Krieg the Psycho, the second DLC character in Borderlands 2. As if looking like a slasher movie villain and having the most agressive style and most gruesomely disturbing abilities of all Vault Hunters weren't enough, he doesn't really help his case when he tries talking. While driven by bloodlust, his original personality is still present if passive and does his best to steer his murderous side away from the innocent and unarmed. Even his crazy side actively helps the Vault Hunters by fighting alongside them, and is even ready to put his life at risk for his allies — best emphasized by some of his quotes when reviving teammates ("You're in my spot !") and his ability Redeem The Soul that instantly revives an ally at the cost of downing him ("You don't die, I DIE !"). The dormant sane fragment of his mind even threatens to take over them and kill their body should someone undeserving be hurt in their rampage.
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Horrifying Hero / int_332e25e8	comment	Venom has the titular symbiote, a Blob Monster alien that binds to hosts and gives them monstrous Bio-Armor and Horror Hunger. Thankfully, it likes its host Eddie Brock, and Eddie wants to do the right thing.
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Horrifying Hero / int_35e05f2a	comment	Ruby in Of Red Petals and Black Feathers. She merged with Fiddlesticks, a fear demon, when she was young, and now she barely shows emotion, has the ability to induce fear in others (and just generally has an aura of creepiness even when she isn't using her powers), has trouble speaking (eventually revealed to be the result of brain damage caused by the merger), has No Social Skills, can summon hordes of crows to tear enemies apart, and has a crow that follows her around. However, she is still a good person who wants to help others, only uses her powers against bullies, monsters, and criminals, and genuinely wants to be friends with people.
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Horrifying Hero / int_36a99a80	comment	Though not horrifying to the audience, the hulking green ogre Shrek certainly is to the humans he meets. He enjoys acting the stereotype of a foul man-eating monster to scare people, and he does a good job of it. He causes a panic wherever he goes, and nearby human warriors spend a good deal of time trying to slay him like heroes in stories usually do to ogres. His main motive in scaring people away is peace and quiet, and once he starts to come out of his shell, everyone gets to know him and becomes less afraid of him. In fact, one of his frustrations in the fourth movie is that he's undergone Badass Decay: he's a Bumbling Dad and a beloved member of the community, and he longs for the days when everyone used to be afraid of him.
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Horrifying Hero / int_37efe01e	comment	In the early runs of Twitch Plays PokÃ©mon, some interpretations of Red had him as a lich controlled by a very large number of bickering spirits. Later protagonist Ao would be a walking anomaly that glitched the world around her, and it was speculated that her presence in Johto was the reason why Pokemon in the area didn't act the way they usually did.
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Horrifying Hero / int_3a678ae4	comment	Faust: Love of the Damned: John Jaspers' superhero form, in true Faustian Rebellion style, is a giant winged demon with Wolverine Claws. You would be forgiven for mistaking the character featured on the cover for the villain.
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Horrifying Hero / int_3be12f54	comment	Nemesis the Warlock: Nemesis is a powerful demonic alien with Bizarre Alien Biology. He is a Blood Knight Anti-Hero as well, but he's positively heroic compared to his genocidal arch-enemy Torquemada, leader of The Empire.
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Horrifying Hero / int_3e8c09b9	comment	Eren becomes this in this Attack on Titan after gaining the ability to transform into a Titan. He may be on their side, but that doesn't stop most people from being terrified the first time around.
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Horrifying Hero / int_42e71a9c	comment	The protagonist in Everybody Loves Large Chests evolves from a humble dungeon mimic to a flesh-devouring tentacled abomination.
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Horrifying Hero / int_438b63e4	comment	Noble Six in Wolves That Walk Alone does not waste time when it comes to cleaning up Remnant's seedy underbelly, which can result in some truly horrifying scenes after he finishes the job. The results of his raid at the White Fang hideout in Mountain Glenn are grisly enough to terrify Team RWBY and traumatizes Ruby and Yang while his second confrontation with the Branwen tribe results in widespread Gorn in the ensuing carnage.
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Horrifying Hero / int_474a2c24	comment	In The Darkness Series Harry in his snake form saves Fleur from the Grindylows.
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Horrifying Hero / int_47a34a01	comment	The original hero of Kamen Rider, Takeshi Hongo is an undeniably righteous person. Starting as a genius college student, bike enthusiast, and Judo black belt, he is abducted by Shocker, who turn him into a cyborg bioweapon with insectoid red eyes and a skull-like face. He escapes before he can be reprogrammed into a murderous killing machine and uses his new powers to fight Shocker's troops and other monsters, often with merciless and enthusiastic vigor.
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Horrifying Hero / int_47dfc6f	comment	In Total Drama Revenge Of The Island, Dakota becomes this after her mutation. Although Sam likes her better that way.
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Horrifying Hero / int_49a87cb3	comment	Vincent Valentine of Final Fantasy VII. He fights by invoking mutations in his body to turn him into monstrous creatures, which include: Galian Beast, a werewolf-gargoyle hybrid; Death Gigas, a hulking Frankenstein's Monster; Hell Masker, a Hockey Mask and Chainsaw freak; and Chaos, a demonic entity based on himself. He also invokes the image of a vampire, as the heroes find him sleeping in a coffin in the basement of a creepy haunted mansion, but they can recruit him to the party and it turns out he's a pretty decent guy, if a little broody and unsociable. Oh, and he was so popular that he managed to get his own game.
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Horrifying Hero / int_4c363bcc	comment	Sentinels of the Multiverse: Writhe is easily the creepiest person to have a hero deck. The majority of villain decks are actually less creepy. Once a scientist whose experiment with shadow energy went awry, as he moves into his Void Guard incarnation and starts wearing an OblivAeon shard on his forehead, he moves from "shadowy dude in a trenchcoat and hat" to "vaguely humanoid shadow creature that regularly sprouts tentacles, fights like a xenomorph and creates nightmare inventions". His deck has cards where he intimidates guards by throwing his voice, sucks people into dark vortices, creates shadowy reflections of his opponents, shrouds the sky in darkness, and drops from the ceiling to prey on his foes, and one of his Ongoings actually forces his opponents to take psychic damage when they hurt him.
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Horrifying Hero / int_4dd54482	comment	Season 3 of Ben 10: Alien Force has Kevin Levin get stuck covered in an amalgam of different hard materials when his absorption powers malfunction. Although the people around him treat him the same, he frequently broods over his condition and views himself as a monster.
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Horrifying Hero / int_5908ee91	comment	The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim: a Player Character who is a werewolf or a Vampire Lord gains access to gruesome-looking transformations into One-Winged Angel forms that can tear enemies limb by limb with razor-sharp claws and fangs (as well as fearsome Blood Magic for the latter). Transforming into either of these forms in public will net you a massive bounty (equivalent to killing someone!), but a Dragonborn wielding such powers is far from guaranteed to be a villain. You become a werewolf by joining the ranks of The Companions, an association of mercenaries that values honor above all, and it's also entirely possible to be a Friendly Neighborhood Vampire Lord, especially if you're turned by Serana and not Harkon.
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Horrifying Hero / int_5af72fd	comment	Street Sharks: Granted, the Street Sharks are actually pretty nice, but they still look like oversized, very threatening sharks on legs who can eat steel and concrete, are superhumanly strong, and have some anger issues, so they tend to scare everyone in sight. Really, it's not that surprising Paradigm has so little trouble convincing people that they're a threat.
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Horrifying Hero / int_5fc1f6df	comment	The eponymous character of Spawn, as befits the most iconic '90s Anti-Hero to survive out of the '90s. First, there's the look; taller than a human and prone to towering ominously over others, with a hugely collared, blood-red, shroud-like tattered cape framing a jet-black bodysuit adorned with Spikes of Villainy and bedecked with writhing chains. Eerie green eyes that glow with hellfire stare out of a blank-featured mask, brooding at all before him, while fingers grow into razor-sharp claws. Then you see how he fights; using chains and bare limbs to tear his opponents apart and rip off limbs, or emotionlessly gunning them down. Then you find out he's a Humanoid Abomination; a walking, rotting, undead corpse with a living demon serving as his (fiercely protective) costume and with enough Black Magic to wipe out armies singlehandedly.
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Horrifying Hero / int_5fe76d21	comment	Eddie Brock, famous for wearing a carnivorous alien symbiote with Lovecraftian superpowers as a costume, thinks of himself as being one of these. As Anti-Venom, he expresses shock that a Mook is more terrified of the Wraith than of him.
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Horrifying Hero / int_606e56fc	comment	Sin-Eaters, as far as supernatural beings go, usually are fairly benevolent, being essentially mediums trying to help ghosts move on in the afterlife. But since they are ex-dead people who were brought back to life by disturbing ghost-like creatures who then share their bodies, and use multiple ghost-like abilities, they tend to be seen as not exactly reassuring. One of the texts in Hunter: The Vigil supplement Mortal Remains describes a group of them fighting as seen from a regular joe's perspective; the description is absolutely horrifying, and insists on the fact the soldiers they had come to save end up almost just as traumatized as their enemies.
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Horrifying Hero / int_63e72a51	comment	2000 AD: Nemesis the Warlock: Nemesis is a powerful demonic alien with Bizarre Alien Biology. He is a Blood Knight Anti-Hero as well, but he's positively heroic compared to his genocidal arch-enemy Torquemada, leader of The Empire. Shakara: Shakara is a menacing Killer Robot with glowing red eyes, chains and spikes all over his body, and weapons for hands. In most other stories, he'd probably be either the villain himself or a robot mook for the hero to defeat, but he's simply the instrument of revenge against the evil aliens who wiped out his creators.
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Horrifying Hero / int_64854b49	comment	StarCraft II: Heart of the Swarm gives us Sarah Kerrigan, formerly known as the Queen of Blades and the self-proclaimed Queen Bitch of the Universe, as the protagonist. Kerrigan has been a Brainwashed and Crazy Fallen Hero and Omnicidal Maniac for most of StarCraft and all of Brood War, who only got recently turned back to normal in Wings of Liberty. She leads a Horde of Alien Locusts, possess creepy psychic powers and is motivated by a Roaring Rampage of Revenge. Over the course of the game, she gets an upgraded but just as creepy version of the powers she had as a villain, basically turning into a Humanoid Abomination Physical God. And yet, while she is on a thin line between Anti-Hero and Villain Protagonist, she still is a better person than Arcturus Mengsk, the perfectly human Villain with Good Publicity who she wants to make pay. She has also dropped the habit of backstabbing allies and executing rivals, and even goes out of her way to minimize collateral damage; things that Mengsk has done in the past without a shred of remorse.
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Horrifying Hero / int_65db6938	comment	Lou Garou, the main character of WolfCop. He's a small town cop transformed into a Wolf Man via a dark magic ritual. Although he's definitely savage and has a habit of tearing apart his opponents, becoming a werewolf actually makes Lou into a better cop who starts cleaning up his Wretched Hive of a town.
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Horrifying Hero / int_692882cc	comment	The trio of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters, who attend a monster school at the dump and are assigned by their teacher, The Gromble, to scare the living daylights out of every human at the city out of surprise to show via viewfinder at the school.
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Horrifying Hero / int_694ab80	comment	Batman Beyond features this in an episode entitled "Heroes." The eponymous Heroes consist of a man with lava powers, a woman with ice powers and a man that can alter his shape. They call themselves the Terrific Trio and resorted to performing heroic acts after a lab accident granted them superpowers. When Magma rescues a small child from death, she's too horrified by his appearance to even notice and keeps shrieking that he's a monster.
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Horrifying Hero / int_69735f15	comment	Shakara: Shakara is a menacing Killer Robot with glowing red eyes, chains and spikes all over his body, and weapons for hands. In most other stories, he'd probably be either the villain himself or a robot mook for the hero to defeat, but he's simply the instrument of revenge against the evil aliens who wiped out his creators.
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Horrifying Hero / int_69a51847	comment	As a spirit of vengeance who could teach even Ghost Rider a thing or two, The Spectre hunts down evildoers who escaped justice and uses his vast magical powers to inflict nightmarish deaths and worse-than-deaths. Turning a villain's body into cheese but leaving his mind intact and then loosing the villain's trained rats to have dinner? That was in the Lighter and Softer Batman: The Brave and the Bold cartoon series. When he gets serious, he's even more cruel.
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Horrifying Hero / int_69ceb72e	comment	Devilman. Anyone who sees him in his full demonic aspect is instantly horrified. Jun, the female counterpart in Devilman Lady fares little better.
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Horrifying Hero / int_6cd819eb	comment	The eponymous character of Skulduggery Pleasant is a living skeleton. The cover of the American edition of the first book had a picture of him and a blurb saying "And he's the good guy!"
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Horrifying Hero / int_701f0ece	comment	Berserk: The Skull Knight is an undead, skeletal knight riding a Hellish Horse. His speech is rendered in the manga the same way as the speech of the demonic Apostles or the Godhand. More than one character who has met him has been absolutely terrified to be in his presence, and at least once he was mistaken for an avatar of Death itself. Despite all this, he is the closest thing the series has to a Big Good, and has been nothing but heroic in his deeds (at least, that the readers have seen). He also literally eats the resident Artifacts of Doom for breakfast. Guts himself is a monstrously large amputee with an even larger sword with a demonic wolf roosting in his psyche that gets let loose through Skull Knight's old armor, which has been retrofitted to its new host. It's implied that if he keeps down this path, Guts will become just like Skull Knight, an undead warrior in an endless battle against the Godhand's forces.
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Horrifying Hero / int_747d9a6f	comment	[PROTOTYPE]'s Alex Mercer is a living pile of general-purpose biomass sporting a multitude of Shapeshifter Weapons, Combat Tentacles, as well as the ability to perfectly mimic any person and assume their memories and knowledge by eating them. He's also the player character, and the one person who stands a chance at defeating an equally-horrifying personification of a different strain of The Virus.The same goes for James Heller of [PROTOTYPE 2]. Fits all of the criteria above, along with being a Scary Black Man who can not only summon up tendrils to tether enemies to each other but infest them with a biological bomb of sorts as well as control Elite Mooks to some extent. It's really shown in the finale, where his daughter is too terrified of him to approach him at first.
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Horrifying Hero / int_747f61fd	comment	Played for laughs in Fangface with the title character, a dim-witted werewolf who routinely attempts to eat his best friend Puggsy, The Chew Toy of the show (almost literally). It's never presented as a serious threat, however, as he can be dissuaded pretty easily by rubbing his foot or simply reminding him not to.
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Horrifying Hero / int_7ca08eba	comment	Darkrai (a Pokemon that controls nightmares) was actually portrayed as one in the film PokÃ©mon: The Rise of Darkrai.
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Horrifying Hero / int_7dbb8816	comment	A nebbishy janitor is transformed into a hideously deformed creature of superhuman size and strength after falling into a vat of nuclear waste. Though a monster, he realizes that with his newfound power, he can clean up the crime and corruption that has overtaken his city. Thus The Toxic Avenger is born.
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Horrifying Hero / int_81f5d35d	comment	Some of the various heroes of the Kamen Rider franchise could easily be confused for villains: The original hero of Kamen Rider, Takeshi Hongo is an undeniably righteous person. Starting as a genius college student, bike enthusiast, and Judo black belt, he is abducted by Shocker, who turn him into a cyborg bioweapon with insectoid red eyes and a skull-like face. He escapes before he can be reprogrammed into a murderous killing machine and uses his new powers to fight Shocker's troops and other monsters, often with merciless and enthusiastic vigor. The original Kamen Rider Amazon had a more insect-like design than even the original, and rather than having a cybernetic suit materialize from a belt, used an Incan curse to physically change his body. While Daisuke himself is normally a forgiving person, once forced into combat he doesn't hold back. Kamen Rider Shin was Darker and Edgier Deconstruction of the franchise's heroes, being much more organic and frightening in appearance than they already were. The film was much more brutal than anything that had come before, and wouldn't be outdone for years until the aforementioned Amazons. The movie was considered too frightening and the series it was supposed to pilot was cancelled. Tsukasa Kadoya of Kamen Rider Decade was born with a fragment of the immortal essence of the Great Leader of Shocker within him, and is even implied to be his direct reincarnation. He starts out as a world conquering villain, now leading the multi-dimensional Dai-Shocker organization. However, he ultimately ends up losing his memory while traveling to a new universe, which he agrees to protect. As a Kamen Rider, his task is to seek out alternate realities and decide whether or not they need to be destroyed For the Greater Good. Otherwise, he has to resolve the conflicts that exist in those worlds so that their threat to the greater multiverse can be stopped. Tsukasa shows little hesitation or remorse, even when he ends up in the world of Zi-O years later. Sougo Tokiwa of Kamen Rider Zi-O in 2018 is an ordinary high-school student with a childish dream of becoming king. However, he would become the Demon King Oma Zi-O in 2068 and rule the world with an iron fist, with the power of every Rider at his command. Throughout the series, Sougo tries to change the Bad Future by vowing to become the most benevolent Demon King and fighting as a hero, but his sheer potential and growth in strength leaves his fellow Riders quite wary of him. Kamen Rider Amazons is a horror series specifically aimed at adult fans of the show, particularly middle aged fans who grew up with the early Amazon. When the hero, who has undeniably good intentions, has a kill-or-be-killed attitude and a Cannibalism Superpower where he literally eats his opponents, themselves all biologically augmented humans beings, it's hard not to be terrified. The hero of the second season, Amazon Neo, is much the same but also able to better control the monster cells in his body. They're father and son.
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Horrifying Hero / int_89c084b2	comment	The Rolling Stones' "Sympathy for the Devil" subverts this. The singer is Satan, but he probably represents humanity. As it turns out, we're the really horrifying ones.
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Horrifying Hero / int_8f99cb4c	comment	American Dragon: Jake Long: Jake is a human most of the time, but can turn into a... well, guess. Still, he's not bad look transformed.
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Horrifying Hero / int_9247fa59	comment	Kaiman from Dorohedoro is a man with a Caiman's head who tracks down every magic user (in search of the one who turn his head into a caiman). If they're not, he kills them, brutally. Also there is a guy who lives in his mouth and can tell whether the victim is the responsible or not. And yet he is the hero. Kaiman is actually a human who became a brutal magic-user/gang leader (and currently trying to become a devil); fortunately Kaiman is now his own person thanks to magic resurrection while the guy in his mouth is the "Curse" of a seemingly non-magical magic-user "pre-Kaiman" betrayed and murdered (ditto on having his own body back). Pretty much every "heroic" character can be fairly horrifying given the setting. That kindly, enthusiastic doctor who's so much like Dr. Newt? He made a magic door out of magic-user body parts (magic-users are indistinguishable from normal humans except for a tiny devil-shaped tumor in their brains).
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Horrifying Hero / int_9322493f	comment	Sougo Tokiwa of Kamen Rider Zi-O in 2018 is an ordinary high-school student with a childish dream of becoming king. However, he would become the Demon King Oma Zi-O in 2068 and rule the world with an iron fist, with the power of every Rider at his command. Throughout the series, Sougo tries to change the Bad Future by vowing to become the most benevolent Demon King and fighting as a hero, but his sheer potential and growth in strength leaves his fellow Riders quite wary of him.
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Horrifying Hero / int_960062b7	comment	In My Hero Academia, Izuku Midoriya himself ends up getting a rather horrifying new look during the Villain Hunt Arc: as shown in Chapter 317 of the manga, his costume is tattered and ragged, his eyes look pitch-black, his gloves and boots now look like claws, and he's caked in blood and dirt. Adding to the horror factor is the fact that he's able to use multiple Quirks, which makes most people in this world think of All For One. Despite his disturbing appearance, he's just as set on helping civilians as he always is.
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Horrifying Hero / int_9ff4a8d9	comment	Godzilla himself, particularly in his most anti-heroic incarnations. He's a gigantic, mutant dinosaur who shoots atomic fire from his maw, yet he's nowhere as dangerous as beings like King Ghidorah or Space Godzilla. Downplayed, though, as his more heroic incarnations usually stress his awe-inspiring dinosaurian majesty, while the most overtly horrific versions of the character — such as Godzilla, Mothra, King Ghidorah: Giant Monsters All-Out Attack! and especially Shin Godzilla — also present him as unambiguously evil.
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Horrifying Hero / int_a3ef164b	comment	Ultimate X Men: For the same reasons as regular Nightcrawler, only with the addition that not only does Kurt look like a devil, he also breaths out smoke whenever he teleports, making him look even more sinister.
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Horrifying Hero / int_a48db2ae	comment	Creature of Havoc: The titular creature is a hulking, spiny, fanged, cannibalistic powerhouse of a Monstrous Humanoid, created from a human captive by the Big Bad via Forced Transformation. All the same, it becomes instrumental in saving the land from a depraved Sorcerous Overlord and can do some good for bewildered citizens along the way.
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Horrifying Hero / int_a5549ed0	comment	In The Bible, when angels aren't disguising themselves as humans, anyone they appear to tends to react in fear. Their descriptions by the prophets Daniel and Ezekiel involve strange descriptors like "faces made of lightning" or "fiery interlocking chariot wheels". Despite all this, one of the first things an angel usually says is "Do not be afraid", and they are after all the messengers and soldiers of Heaven, and are definitely on the side of good.
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Horrifying Hero / int_a6a7f785	comment	From the anime Hell Girl, we have Ai Enma, the titular Hell Girl. Her job is simple. She runs a website called Hell Correspondence. If you have been tormented and want to be avenged, you can visit her through this site and she'll offer to literally send your tormentor to Hell. Her way of doing this involves inflicting terrifying illusions on her victim before finally sending them to Hell. Is there a catch you ask? Oh, nothing grandiose. Just your own soul going to Hell when you die. That's not a problem is it?
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Horrifying Hero / int_b4816c2e	comment	Raziel of the Legacy of Kain series is basically the ghost of a vampire. His blue skin, glowing yellow eyes, clawed hands and feet, tattered wings, and lack of a lower jaw leave him looking more like a demon than anything else, although in the first Soul Reaver game he can convince humans that he's on their side by not killing them. His sire Kain may qualify as well, even if he straddles the line between Anti-Hero and Villain Protagonist. Although he looks mostly human, people's reactions in the first game (when he's not using disguise magic) make it clear that he's recognizable as a vampire on sight.
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Horrifying Hero / int_b50cc7e6	comment	The Incredible Hulk is an unfortunate victim of this trope, due to his traditionally low intelligence and bad temper. He has a tendency to lash out in incredibly destructive rampages whenever anything angers him, which is pretty much anything. It doesn't help that he's subject to a smear campaign by the U.S military, who make him look even more bestial than he really is, and follow him around to try and capture him even when he seeks out solitude.
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Horrifying Hero / int_bcadd7cb	comment	Warhammer 40,000 has a slight lack of personalities who could reasonably be described as heroic. Inasmuch as they're technically "good guys", the Legion of the Damned probably qualify as they are silent warriors whose black armour is adorned with chilling images of bone and fire, and they basically will appear out of nowhere and completely slaughter a losing imperial force's foes and then disappear. Mephiston, Lord of Death is generally considered a hero, but he's certainly a bit more... odd looking than the usual appearance of Space Marines. It is mentioned that the Primarch Vulkan and his Salamanders would often terrify those they came to save, what with their obsidian-black skin with the texture of rock, glowing red eyes, and penchant for burning everything in their path. Despite this, Vulkan was known as one of the kindest and most caring of all the Primarchs, and the Salamanders uphold his legacy of doing their utmost to protect the Imperium's citizens, and do not ignore those in need of help. From the point of view of the "bad guys", pretty much every Chaotic, Tyrannid or Necron "hero" counts.
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Horrifying Hero / int_bee47cbe	comment	Duane from Unsounded is a sentient skeleton with a zombie's perpetual predatory drive who occasionally grave-robs to replace broken limbs. He's also one of the most noble, lawful, moral characters in the story.
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Horrifying Hero / int_c73cdac2	comment	The Darkness is the living embodiment of primal darkness and chaos with the power to summon demons and tendrils that can tear humans in a variety of ways. Typically, it has sought criminals and warlords to serve as vessels so it can remain in position of powers, though its current host Jackie Estacado is a Noble Demon mobster that tries to do good in his way (preventing his power from falling into worse hands).
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Horrifying Hero / int_c8672055	comment	Demon Skin have you playing as a purple-skinned demonic Humanoid Abomination who rips apart monsters with ease. You're actually trying to locate the Demon Queen responsible for your predicament before the start of the game.
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Horrifying Hero / int_cb6abef3	comment	In The Avengers, the Hulk may ultimately fight against the villains, but he is very much a monster that strikes terror into the bravest of men. Even the normally expressionless Black Widow trembles in fear whenever the Hulk threatens to come out, and when Bruce first hulks out, he's writhing in pain as it sounds like his bones are breaking while a monster takes over his body.
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Horrifying Hero / int_cb7e4986	comment	There are a few in One-Punch Man. Pig God is a gigantic obese man who literally devours monsters whole, Metal Knight's robots have been known to terrify even other heroes, Zombieman (who looks like a normal guy but when you see him regenerate in seconds from having his brains blown across the room, it can be quite unnerving). There are also the psychic sisters, who have been given the appellations 'Blizzard of Hell' and 'Tornado of Terror'. Their physical appearances don't qualify them for this trope, rather their extreme methods and ruthless attitudes towards even other heroes.
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Horrifying Hero / int_d616724d	comment	League of Legends has Kai'Sa, a Heroic Host to a Voidspawn symbiote who uses the powers it gives her to hunt down other, more dangerous Voidspawn that threaten humanity. She actually is a fairly (and somewhat inexplicably) attractive young woman, but as her symbiote manifests effectively as a bodysuit of Void matter, it's not surprising that normal humans think she's one of them and reject her.
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Horrifying Hero / int_d803ecde	comment	In Ben 10: Omniverse we get the debut of Toepick. An alien whose primary power is that behind his cage mask is something nearly every character in the series is afraid of. Other Anur system aliens Ben has access to could also count, as they look like different Horror monsters like a Werewolf or a Mummy, but they always do good when Ben turns into them.
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Horrifying Hero / int_ddad77ae	comment	Astro City mainstay The Hanged Man definitely qualifies, being a silent black spectre whose only features are a burlap sack on his head and a noose around his neck.
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Horrifying Hero / int_e37dc3e2	comment	James P. "Sulley" Sullivan and Mike Wazowski from the Monsters, Inc. movies are monsters whose job it is to scare children, though Sulley is more talented at it (while Mike understands the principles of scaring but isn't good at doing it himself).
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Horrifying Hero / int_e45432dc	comment	Stephen Lynch's "Beelz," also from Satan's viewpoint, subverts this one too. Lynch's voice starts out deep and guttural, presenting Satan as an ancient and sinister presence, but then it abruptly shifts several octaves higher and acquires a feminine lisp. The rest of the song presents Satan as a Laughably Evil Flaming Devil.
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Horrifying Hero / int_e7a27429	comment	In The Bridge, say you're an Equestrian native. You see a giant Pillar of Light shoot out in front of your capital city and a forty story tall, razor clawed, multi-fanged, giant dinosaur with sharp spines down its back appears from the light and promptly starts mauling another giant creature that was on the attack. Congrats, the dino is the good guy.
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Horrifying Hero / int_ef7b3325	comment	Fantastic Four: The Thing started off like this, but after a few decades of Character Development, the public have gotten used to an orange, rocky hero, and they love him. In-Universe, the Thing is considered the most beloved Marvel hero, tied only with Captain America (in some versions, this is because the Fantastic Four is secretly Reed Richards's wildly successful PR campaign. He may not have been able to undo mutating his family, but he could rebrand them as heroes instead of freaks).
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Horrifying Hero / int_f1121a29	comment	Cody Giles in Angel of Death is a lich which, in his universe, entails devouring human souls. He smells like a noxious corpse, and his powers include smelling fear, surrounding himself with a dark shadowy cloud by draining light out of the area, and inflicting any disease or injury on anyone with a mere touch. He is extremely moral, and is always very concerned about hurting as few people as possible.
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Horrifying Hero / int_f8705c18	comment	Alucard from Hellsing is already a vampire in his least terrifying form; he can also turn into a roiling mass of shadows, hellhounds, eyeballs, Slasher Smiles and some kind of stampede of black knights that kill people on contact.
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Horrifying Hero / int_f882f765	comment	The original Kamen Rider Amazon had a more insect-like design than even the original, and rather than having a cybernetic suit materialize from a belt, used an Incan curse to physically change his body. While Daisuke himself is normally a forgiving person, once forced into combat he doesn't hold back.
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Horrifying Hero / int_fbc58609	comment	The Nightmare Before Christmas stars Halloween Town's local hero, Jack Skellington the Pumpkin King.
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Horrifying Hero / int_fd314ec1	comment	Tsukasa Kadoya of Kamen Rider Decade was born with a fragment of the immortal essence of the Great Leader of Shocker within him, and is even implied to be his direct reincarnation. He starts out as a world conquering villain, now leading the multi-dimensional Dai-Shocker organization. However, he ultimately ends up losing his memory while traveling to a new universe, which he agrees to protect. As a Kamen Rider, his task is to seek out alternate realities and decide whether or not they need to be destroyed For the Greater Good. Otherwise, he has to resolve the conflicts that exist in those worlds so that their threat to the greater multiverse can be stopped. Tsukasa shows little hesitation or remorse, even when he ends up in the world of Zi-O years later.
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My Instant Death Ability is So Overpowered... / int_682c066c	type	Horrifying Hero
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