...it's like TV Tropes, but LINKED DATA!
Peek-a-Bogeyman
- 120 statements
- 22 feature instances
- 14 referencing feature instances
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | type |
FeatureClass | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | label |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | page |
PeekABogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | comment |
The Peek-a-Bogeyman is one level more harmless than the Harmless Villain. He's (almost always) a cartoon monster who is more of a jerk than "evil". He takes advantage of the frightening image for which other more industrious of his kind have labored, and uses his existence to frighten people. "Boo!" And then he laughs when they run away. This is all he does. Sometimes it's his designated job. He probably wouldn't know what to do if someone wasn't frightened of him, which is often An Aesop. Characters should be careful about what genre they are in, because true horror movie ghosts often pretend to be this to lull their so-called "Genre Savvy" prey into a false sense of security. Alternately, all it takes is one good scare to trigger a Fright Deathtrap. Sometimes overlaps with Things That Go "Bump" in the Night, but not always. Often the foil of the Reluctant Monster. Compare to the Noble Demon, who is a more serious version of this. Shouldn't be confused with the real Bogeyman. Not to be confused with the actually scary Peek-a-Boo Corpse. See also Face of a Thug, when a character is (usually unwillingly) frightening-looking but is otherwise non-malicious. |
|
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | fetched |
2024-04-06T23:02:14Z | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | parsed |
2024-04-06T23:02:14Z | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | processingComment |
Dropped link to RealLife: Not an Item - FEATURE | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | processingComment |
Dropped link to XXXenophile: Not an Item - UNKNOWN | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | processingUnknown |
XXXenophile | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman | isPartOf |
DBTropes | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_17a21982 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_17a21982 | comment |
Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon: Gold Greenies are like the Blue ghosts in the first game, except the two that come out of the hockey goal in the fourth mansion, which do attack. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_17a21982 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_17a21982 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_17a21982 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_1fc7499e | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_1fc7499e | comment |
Schleppel the bogeyman in Reaper Man doesn't even do that. Other bogeymen hide under beds or in wardrobes and then leap out to scare people. Schleppel just stays there... at first. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_1fc7499e | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_1fc7499e | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Reaper Man | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_1fc7499e | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_468bebb0 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_468bebb0 | comment |
Discworld: Schleppel the bogeyman in Reaper Man doesn't even do that. Other bogeymen hide under beds or in wardrobes and then leap out to scare people. Schleppel just stays there... at first. In Hogfather, we meet the original bogeyman, who apparently used to be legitimately terrifying, but has had his power sapped by old age and younger pretenders sapping the amount of belief available for him to subsist on. As he grew old, he took the job of the Tooth Fairy, collecting children's teeth and keeping them safe so those teeth won't be used by someone trying Sympathetic Magic, which Archancellor Ridcully describes as "Magic so old it's barely magic". The bogeymen who are around these days are banished when their prey hides under bedclothes. As Feet of Clay demonstrates, the City Watch have a protocol of dealing with belligerent bogeymen by putting a blanket over the bogeyman's own head, thus giving it a brief existential crisis. |
|
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_468bebb0 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_468bebb0 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Discworld | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_468bebb0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_56f42de7 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_56f42de7 | comment |
Other ghosts besides Casper the Friendly Ghost in any medium he appears in. In fact, scaring is Serious Business. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_56f42de7 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_56f42de7 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Casper the Friendly Ghost | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_56f42de7 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6415595c | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6415595c | comment |
This is what the Harvesters in The Deaths of Ian Stone used to be, with a side order of Physical God—Emotion Eaters by nature, they instilled fear of themselves in humanity so they'd always have a ready supply of food. By the film's beginning, they've mostly abandoned this (having discovered the addictiveness of the fear humans feel in the moments before death), but Gray is still at it, keeping his conscience pure. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6415595c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6415595c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Deaths of Ian Stone | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6415595c | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_692882cc | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_692882cc | comment |
The monsters of Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_692882cc | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_692882cc | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Aaahh!!! Real Monsters | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_692882cc | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6bd0cf78 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6bd0cf78 | comment |
Monsters, Inc. is about a society of monsters who do this to gather power from the screams of frightened children. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6bd0cf78 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6bd0cf78 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Monsters, Inc. | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6bd0cf78 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6d10ab0b | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6d10ab0b | comment |
Spend too long in the Krypt in Mortal Kombat 9, and the Krypt Monster will appear; he's an ugly looking guy, but all he does is scare the player and run away. He sometimes even leaves a few Koins. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6d10ab0b | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6d10ab0b | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Mortal Kombat 9 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_6d10ab0b | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_7ff3216c | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_7ff3216c | comment |
In Garfield and Friends in the episode "Ghost Of A Chance", there is a platoon of ghosts whose job is to scare people. McCraven is a harmless ghost and is friendly enough but his rival Diablo is this trope to a T. He does nothing more than scare Garfield, Odie, and Jon, never showing intent to actually harm them. He's even friendly enough to agree to watch TV with Garfield until he's scared off by the program choices Garfield puts on. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_7ff3216c | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_7ff3216c | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Garfield and Friends | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_7ff3216c | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_9004922f | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_9004922f | comment |
In Hogfather, we meet the original bogeyman, who apparently used to be legitimately terrifying, but has had his power sapped by old age and younger pretenders sapping the amount of belief available for him to subsist on. As he grew old, he took the job of the Tooth Fairy, collecting children's teeth and keeping them safe so those teeth won't be used by someone trying Sympathetic Magic, which Archancellor Ridcully describes as "Magic so old it's barely magic". | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_9004922f | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_9004922f | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Hogfather | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_9004922f | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_92916f5a | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_92916f5a | comment |
This is what Shrek was in the beginning of the film, scaring others as a device to maintain his privacy. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_92916f5a | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_92916f5a | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Shrek | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_92916f5a | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_a6543322 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_a6543322 | comment |
Tatara Kogasa from Touhou Project is probably the most harmless non-human in the whole franchise. She's a karakasa that eats surprise, and she always try to surprise people. However, she's actually pretty bad at it, and will sulk if she fails. Akyuu even suggested to the townspeople to pretend to be surprised just so they won't feel bad seeing her sulking. Other than harmless surprises, she doesn't actually attack any humans at all. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_a6543322 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_a6543322 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Touhou Project (Franchise) | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_a6543322 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_aa88317d | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_aa88317d | comment |
Trailer Park Boys: The Bottle Kids. Children who randomly show up, throw bottles at people and run off. The other characters treat them as simply a fact of life and just duck, then continue whatever they were doing afterwards. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_aa88317d | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_aa88317d | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Trailer Park Boys | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_aa88317d | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b29621f3 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b29621f3 | comment |
The bogeymen who are around these days are banished when their prey hides under bedclothes. As Feet of Clay demonstrates, the City Watch have a protocol of dealing with belligerent bogeymen by putting a blanket over the bogeyman's own head, thus giving it a brief existential crisis. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b29621f3 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b29621f3 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Feet of Clay | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b29621f3 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc6 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc6 | comment |
Luigi's Mansion: The normal species of ghosts that hang from the ceiling. All they do is drop down to scare Luigi, and then vanish (however, there is a subspecies that attacks with bombs). Blue ghosts also act like this; they pop out to scare Luigi, then run. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc6 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc6 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| LuigisMansion1 | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc6 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc8 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc8 | comment |
Luigi's Mansion 3 continues the trend with not one, but two Money Spider ghost species — the Gold Goob, and the Crystal Goob. The former, like its aforementioned counterparts, drops money if you chase it down, whereas the latter will drop one of the respective floor's Gems, which are a collectible set of unique pieces. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc8 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc8 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Luigi's Mansion 3 (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_b35adcc8 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bb444181 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bb444181 | comment |
Squidge the Bogey from Tales of the Questor. It's implied that his people have an entire culture/economy based around scaring children and extorting food and trinkets out of them. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bb444181 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bb444181 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Tales of the Questor (Webcomic) | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bb444181 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bc848d30 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bc848d30 | comment |
The Flying Dutchman of SpongeBob SquarePants is sometimes shown as just wanting to scare people. Other times, he's done things like forcing people to be his crew members, eating them, and carrying the dead to Davey Jones' locker. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bc848d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bc848d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| SpongeBob SquarePants | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_bc848d30 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_d43cbccb | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_d43cbccb | comment |
Luigi's Mansion: Luigi's Mansion: The normal species of ghosts that hang from the ceiling. All they do is drop down to scare Luigi, and then vanish (however, there is a subspecies that attacks with bombs). Blue ghosts also act like this; they pop out to scare Luigi, then run. Luigi's Mansion: Dark Moon: Gold Greenies are like the Blue ghosts in the first game, except the two that come out of the hockey goal in the fourth mansion, which do attack. Luigi's Mansion 3 continues the trend with not one, but two Money Spider ghost species — the Gold Goob, and the Crystal Goob. The former, like its aforementioned counterparts, drops money if you chase it down, whereas the latter will drop one of the respective floor's Gems, which are a collectible set of unique pieces. |
|
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_d43cbccb | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_d43cbccb | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Luigi's Mansion (Video Game) | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_d43cbccb | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_ece42231 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_ece42231 | comment |
Any and all ghosts in Filmation's Ghostbusters dabble into this from time to time, though Prime Evil despises the entertainment value of fear for humans and the ghosts who don't go all the way into outright bullying and intimidation tactics. And depending on how much an episode tries to be kid-friendly, he can forsake scares entirely and get into typical villain world domination stuff including brainwashing, terrorism, attempted mass murder, zombie-making bombs,ghost-making gasses, the list goes on... | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_ece42231 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_ece42231 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| Filmation's Ghostbusters | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_ece42231 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_edd35d30 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_edd35d30 | comment |
Stuart, Cyrus, and Judge in The Frighteners. | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_edd35d30 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_edd35d30 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Frighteners | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_edd35d30 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_fbc58609 | type |
Peek-a-Bogeyman | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_fbc58609 | comment |
The citizens of Halloween Town in The Nightmare Before Christmas scare people for fun; it's a tradition. The scale of meanness in the scaring varies between the citizens from harmless (Jack Skellington) to sadistic (Oogie Boogie). | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_fbc58609 | featureApplicability |
1.0 | |
| Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_fbc58609 | featureConfidence |
1.0 | |
| The Nightmare Before Christmas | hasFeature |
Peek-a-Bogeyman / int_fbc58609 |
The following is a list of statements referring to the current page from other pages.
Copyright of DBTropes.org wrapper 2009-2013 DFKI Knowledge Management. Imprint. - Thanks to Bakken&Baeck for hosting. Contact.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.
Copyright of data TVTropes.org contributors under Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported License.