This troper would be scared of movies like Red Eye, Batman Begins, etc, except that she has a major crush on Cillian Murphy. *swoon*

This troper would usually shudder upon seeing Anton Chigurh on screen commiting atrocities, had it not been for one comment that Anton was ''Willy Wonka'' on his vacation time.

This troper, as a kid, had a quite scary nightmare with the exact same plot as ''Robot Monster''. You'd think a movie with the same plot as one of your nightmares would be scary as hell, which may explain the troper's extreme reaction to ''Eraserhead''. You'd think.

This Troper saw a community theater production of ''Jesus Christ: Superstar'', where in the scene where Judas is supposed to hang himself, the director got all artsy-fartsy and had a bunch of ladies dressed like angels draping Judas with ribbons and handing him a noose before the stage went black. This is likely due to an incident in the UK where the actor accidentally was hung for real the year before.

This troper is a scaredy cat, and was expecting to shit herself when her friend played the third ''SilentHill'' game. Then those weird little monsters that are a head, a tail, and two legs appeared, making mooing noises. I began going "[=MURRRRRRder=]," just to mimic them. The really tall monster in the clothing store looks like he has a penis for a head and makes squishy noises when he walks. Also, when Heather walks up to a payphone that has been ripped off the wall and is surrounded by gore and says, "This phone doesn't appear to be working," it helps diffuse the creepy.

Many a time when this troper has been browsing HighOctaneNightmareFuel or similar and found herself getting uneasy - perhaps imagining something watching from right behind her, now under her chair(hah! She is sitting on a wicker chest!), now from just inside her barely-open closet, now sloooooowly coming back and waiting for just the right moment - she imagines someone that she knows and loves walking in, hitting it, and sighing because they never learn. Hey, if she's going to imagine powerful fictional monsters, there might as well be equally(at least) powerful heroes around to stop them. It's worked since this troper was little and afraid of {{Goosebumps}} covers.

When this troper is haunted by some of those examples, he tells himself that since they are imaginary villains, he can fight them with imaginary heroes. Somehow, things are less threatening with Kenshiro and Nanoha protecting you.

Absolutely. Whenever I'm scared by something that someone else has thought up (such as Series/DoctorWho monsters) I always have a little voice in my head go "Ha! That's nothing!" and promptly fling some of my own psycho villians at it. My logic is, even though they're evil they've got to do what I say and protect me, because if they don't I won't write them any more.

Hell, ''everything's'' less threatening when you've got Kenshiro on your side. They're Already Dead!

Are you guys all me? ..Somehow?

What about ghosts and zombies?

This troper holds an imaginary AK-47 when he's scared of something imaginary. Of course, that might not work against endless zombie hordes, The Slender Man, or nameless horrors from the subconscious, but still...

And when that doesn't work, he likes to follow one of the above tropers and deploy massive battalions from his own writing against it, and by the time he's finished thinking of how Dr. Alexander Hsieh might decide to fight Alma and her armies of Inferi, he's forgotten what he's scared of.

This troper protecters include Goku and Captain America. Also her collection of Asian Ball-Jointed Dolls, because what better way to fight creepy than with more creepy? And if she ever faced a NightmareOnElmStreet Freddy Kruger YourMindMakesItReal situation, she'd summon a reality warping Joker to kick his ass, and a Batman to keep him in line.

Funny enought, i always imagine that im a kickass vampire, with the power to manipulate shadow and among other cool vampire powers, everytime i think there some monster in the dark i imagine myself turning into its worst nightmare and kick his ass while laughting evily, it has something to do it in order to fight a monster you must become one.

This troper has successfully cured herself utterly of fear from several NightmareFuel pictures, most notably Captain Howdy from TheExorcist and Goya's ''Saturn Devours His Son'' by copying them into photoshop and giving them bling, party hats, beer goggles, speech bubbles regarding their grandmothers' birthdays, etc.

Oh, you MUST still have those pictures somewhere...post them on photobucket or something, we wanna see!

I second that notion.

May I request a 'shop of the {{Eraserhead}} baby? That damned thing ''still'' creeps me out...

This troper and her housemate caught a scene of some horror film involving malevolent cats. Camera close-ups of cats staring, or hissing, intercut with shots of a bespectacled woman becoming increasingly panicked... and all we could say was, "Awww, kitties!"

What this troper found worst of all was the scene in ''The Ring 2'' where the heroine's car is violently attacked...by deer. Yeah, ''deer''. It's random, stupid, barely connected with the rest of the film, and ''there is no way to make deer scary''.

Wrong!

It's.. it's... SO CUTE! And evil! Cute little fangy deer thing!

Yeah, that's not really striking fear into my heart either...sorry.

It's so cute. I want to take it home.

BAMBI!

Cool! its a vampire deer! I want one!

For this troper, watching {{DeceasedCrab}} play through ''{{Eversion}}'' did little to offset {{Nightmare Fuel}}-y the last few worlds and the endings were. However, Let's Play La-Mulana 084 successfully turned the swimsuit scene into a CrowningMomentOfFunny.

This troper directed a one-act in which one of the leads (there's only two people in the show) had to fire a gun into the air. Since the Festival of One Acts is also a chance for the actors to try their hand at teching, the sound team ''could not'' cue the gunshot effect with the actual gunshot. One day during tech week (the day before opening night, I believe) the gunshot sound didn't work at all. It was HighOctaneNightmareFuel. Luckily, during the performances, they got it right.

The entire gun thing can be solved very easily: Don't use blanks or recorded gunshot sounds. My Drama teacher told us, along with a long story involving West Side Story, that he'd long ago decided to NEVER use blanks. Instead, get a 2x4, step on one end, lift up the other, and--when the gunshot is suposed to happen--let go. It sounds pretty well, and the only problem is if several gunshots in a row are needed.

The 10th Anniversary recording of ''Les Miserables'' had a problem with a gun going off too early, as in during the "Castle on a Cloud" number too early! The little girl playing Cosette jumped and blinked, but kept right on singing.

If only this troper knew the obvious 2x4 thing at the time. Three nights in a row an actor had to pull a gun out of his pocket and shoot it very quickly, and every single time the gunshot went off to soon or too late. The last night he pretended he had shot through his pocket.

I find it always helps to talk to the game or movie itself whenever something scary happens. It helps me keep my cool and stay calm. Usually this comes down to berating and teasing the game/movie. "Ooooh rattling lockers eh? Did you feel obliged to make that happen as soon as I came down this poorly-lit corridor Fear 2?"

A few years ago, this troper had a dream where he was being chased through a large house by Arlong. Yes, a dream. It ceased to be a nightmare when, after I left him outside the house, he sent a squirrel inside to give me a message.

What if it was this one?

Heh... then it would've been much different, I'm sure. As it was, it was the garden-variety squirrel that people tend to see everywhere in some areas.

This troper really isn't all that frightened or disturbed by the sight of the melting Nazi's face from RaidersOfTheLostArk. It looks like a pair of dentures shoved into a melting jelly donut.

Oh, ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ew-ew, god, no!

Psssh. What a baby.

Mai-Chan's Daily Life had this effect for this troper, the whole thing so over-the-top and narmtastic, that I could't help but to laugh. And that was way before the ... famous scenes.

This Troper would have absolutely terrifying and recurrent nightmares of being chased or otherwise attacked by an invisible being. So, one night, he dreams of being in a corporate building. A box full of vials of blood is brought. But the vials suddenly burst, causing people and the building itself to get possessed. Potential for some scare right? Wrong! The voice of the evil that does the possessing resembles that of a woman trying to imitate a scary man and failing spectacularly. It's "evil" involves things like stock taunts when I stumble and...yea thats pretty much it. Needless to say it was quite a funny dream.

This troper, while watching videos on YumeNikki, will mostly play another video on another tab to keep away the nightmare fuel, such as one called "Ed Edd Eddy censored party". Oh, the white desert is cre- "YEEEE HAW! GO BABY GO! WHEE-HE-HE-HOO! I'M A BUCKING BUCKARO!".

This troper wound up doing this when he first tried watching {{Torchwood}}. Even when this werewolf-vampire thing came out and bit a person, as blood went everywhere, my only though was "It's just a flesh wound"

{{Lets Play}}s in general tend to soften the creepier scenes in games with the LPer's funny reactions.

The Something Awful forums have an automatic word censor that appears for non-members, turning swears into related silly words. Since this editor isn't registered, I find it considerably easier to sleep after reading {{The Slender Man Mythos}} when the victims's recounts of their encounters with the Slender Man involve them saying "gently caress" and "poo poo".

Also in the original thread, someone pointed out that they were having a hard time being scared because they kept thinking of Guy}} Wacky Waving Inflatable Arms Flailing Tube Man. As someone else commented: "If he feeds on fear we have just found his kryptonite."

This troper was absolutly terrified of the Slenderman, especially the suggested YourMindMakesItReal aspect, as she has a very active imagination. Then she saw Concrete Giraffes, by LittleKuriboh. She is not scared anymore.

(If the channel is down again, it can be found on the main Yu-Gi-OhTheAbridgedSeries site as well.)

"Hey guys, can I be in your movie?"

Jacob's Ladder just doesn't have the same effect if the first time you've seen it is on an iPod screen less than two inches wide....

FEAR isn't nearly as tense when I play it while listening to this song. Swedish pop to the rescue!

This troper finds {{Predator}}s ridiculously creepy, whether they're on our side or not. This troper stopped finding them creepy after watching a friend play Alien vs Predator (the 2010 one) during the Predator campaign. Not because he was playing as the predator, but because this troper read all of the subtitles in a ridiculously squeaky voice while ad-libbing lines about "fixing your faulty translator" and yelling at him to stop sucking, and now cannot watch any thing with them in without hearing that voice.

"Stop sucking and kill them, Yoooounnnggbllluuuuddd!"

This troper when he was a year younger refused to watch the the rest of TheDarkKnight once he realized Two-Face was on the scene. Later, he took a look at him and burst out laughing and the sheer ridiculousness of his appearence. This troper is now kicking himself for not seeing the rest of the movie, considering how good it was.

This troper isn't into horror games, but he and the rest of his class were seriously, seriously frightened when our teacher, on the last day of school, decided to play ''Hotel 626'' on the computer, linked into the proejctor. Needless to say, that meant nightmares for the weekend. On the flip side, it acted as a major NightmareRetardant when another student plugged in his Wii with ''ResidentEvil''.

"See, there's a big difference between when you're helpless, and when you have a gun."

For This troper, it's the walrus scene in {{Pingu}}. That's only because of TV Tropes saying it's Jamie's one winged angel form.

I'll tell you what, I can't take any image of an anime character doing something intended to be scary or threatening seriously. Especially "bishies". The alleged "NightmareFace" on the Yugioh HighOctaneNightmareFuel page just made frown. There's just something about the spiky hair, ski-jump noses and tear-drop shaped heads that nullifies any attempts to make anime characters scary.

An ice cream van with a very annoying jingle will play it at least once when passing this troper's house. Said jingle is very loud, very cheery, and has a habit of playing during inappropriate moments. Needless to say, the bad atmosphere is immediately dispelled as this troper and her family laugh at the incongruity.

in an online RP that this troper partakes in, one of the [=OCs=] is ARGO, an insane AI that, for most, is NightmareFuelUnleaded. He controls numerous frightening androids, has a voice ''very'' reminiscent of Lord Voldemort, can't be seen at all, and people screaming in terror is music to his sound cards. For this troper and another [=RPer=](who happens to be the AI's creator), however, he's this trope. Why? Enter Tempest; another AI with almost the exact same capabilities and just so happens to have ARGO's termination sequence in her code. She can defeat him with surprising ease, either by activating the termination code or electrocuting him until he deactivates. and here's the thing:''he can't fight back''. the only thing he can ''try'' to do to her is zap her back, and she has the ability to send the shocks right back at him! Yeah, it's hard to be afraid of someone that's beaten so easily, and who keeps getting himself from the frying pan to the oven.

This Troper is working on a StylisticSuck Webcomic series, where a detective and his assistant Ben (yeah, that Ben) go and solve mysteries based on creepy pasta. So far the comic has done stories based on Suicide Mouse, Slender Man, and the Wyoming Incident. He hopes it works. (Now has it's own page.)

For this troper, who knows he's probably alone on this, Scroop from TreasurePlanet. Michael Wincott does a good job voicing him and the first time we see him, when he crawls down the rigging towards Jim, is pretty unsettling, but when he stood or walked upright he just looked silly. The fact that the last fight with him comprised mostly of slapstick didn't help much either. It's almost like they were trying to downplay... Wait, no... forget that last bit.

You know the Weeping Angels from Doctor Who? I find that a good way to get past their inherent scariness is to imagine Toph Bei Fong beating the crap out of them. Not just because it's funny, but because her powers would make her the Angel's worst nightmare.

Or better yet, imagine kicking one in the groin, blinking and the seeing them real in pain

Looking at all these comments about Jabu-Jabu's belly, I still didn't understand how a level that isn't so detailed despite being a WombLevel can be nauseating.

Like a lot of people who've played EpicMickey, this troper was quite freaked out by the Clock Tower boss, and she chose to destroy it with thinner. And while she's sure that the cutscene where it looks like it's having a seizure and bleeding everywhere as it falls apart was meant to freak the kids out the most, the mishmash of 'broken clock' sound effects as well as ''sped-up cuckoo clock noises'' it was making sort of ruined that effect for this troper and just made it more hilarious than disturbing.

Leycira got some NightmareRetardant for smile.dog on DeviantArt. Now she kinda wants one as a pet. Would make a good watchdog.

I had a ''double subversion''. I read the HighOctaneNightmareFuel page for FirstEncounterAssaultRecon, thought it was okay...until I started walking around in the dark and imagining Alma jumping out from doors and sneaking up behind me. ''This was just from reading the HONF page'', without ever playing the game or indeed even seeing any gameplay. Then I had a dream about Alma...in which she was a slightly cute {{Tsundere}} whose biggest frightening aspect was that she kept reminding me that she COULD! KILL! ME! AT ANY SECOND! Bye-bye, Alma fears.

I was playing TheLegendOfZeldaTwilightPrincess, watched by my seven-year-old sister. She had reached the cutscene pertaining to the Mirror of Twilight, and at one point in it, Ganon is seen riding a demonic horse with flaming eyes. This didn't really freak her out all that much, but any drama in that moment was stripped by the seven-year-old calling it a "bad horse", which has a very different connotation in her mind.

This picture from this article made a couple friends use profanity. I was giggling my head off. The others, on the other hand...

I just read the Comic Horror and Eschatology page, for HighOctaneNightmareFuel. So, at first, I was as scared as the other tropers by all the things described there : how much we're insignificant, how freaking big the universe is, how mind boggling it is... And then, I remembered I freaking loved TengenToppaGurrenLagann and Warhammer40000. What's the point ? Well, I started to think with a combination of the way humans acts in those settings. So, we're ridiculous specks compared to the rest of universe... Mere drops of water in an ocean... Yeah, that's bad. But you know what ? I don't give a ''damn''. Once, we were nothing but animals, screaming apes only caring about finding food for living another day. But one day, we stood up. We looked at the position nature wanted us to stay, and we collectively thought "well, ''fuck it''". So, we evolved. We became sentient. We studied the world around us, and with this knowledge we managed not only to dominate the other creatures of this planet, but also to become unique beings who create, who invent, who master the very elements themselves. Some think that we're doomed to stay on this planet, that our technology will never allow us to reach the stars. I laugh at this thought. Compared to this world, we're extremely young, and yet in a blink (on an astronomical scale) we managed to master the atom and to build a technology that allowed us to step on our moon. As long as we never forget our desire to evolve, what allowed us to become the sophisticated species we are now today, we will find a way. And then, the real fight will begin. So we're just dusts ? Fine. Then let's just drown the stars themselves with this dust. Let's explore the universe so that there won't be a single celestial body that won't have been marked - if not ''enslaved'' - by us. Let's prove to the stars that we are no longer apes - That we are MEN, and that we have the power within ourselves to conquer ALL. If we are alone in the universe, then nothing is stopping us from claiming it as our own. If we ever feel lonely, then we'll create life itself - I'm not talking about reproduction, but of making other planets fit for life and to make it develop, and even push it for allowing sentient beings to emerge. If we are not alone, then let's collaborate with those others so that we'd both continue on our evolution and, who knows ? Transcend our condition. But if they ever prove themselves to be hostile, then let them FEAR the wrath of Mankind. That power is within us, and we're the only ones who can decide when to stop. We will explore. We will discover. We will ''conquer''. WE. WILL. RULE.

This Troper has a horrible history with the horror genre, to the point where even amusing LPs sometimes cause nightmares. Then one night she had a dream where she was being chased by the Scissorman from Clock Tower... until Optimus Prime stepped on him. They then had a tea party, except the Scissorman wouldn't stop bleeding all over the nice table, so he got thrown off the Golden Gate Bridge. Now, most horror LPs have become watchable, because if anything becomes a bit scary... BAM. OPTIMUS PRIME STEPPING ON THE OFFENDING MONSTER.

It's this Troper's superpower.

This troper finds ''LegendOfZeldaMajorasMask'' frightening as all hell, especially the villain itself. But the horror of it turned to an odd sense of amusement when it turned into it's second form, Majora's Incarnation, mainly due to the fact that the villain was moonwalking while making funny noises. It was hard to keep a straight face when a villain planning to destroy the whole world starts imitating MichaelJackson for no reason.

This troper cannot read Stephen King's works at all - not because they're too scary, but because the gigantic amount of swearing going on ruins the entire atmosphere for me.

This troper recently had a dream that would have been pretty scary if it weren't for this one creature. It looked like a relatively giant leech with the mouth of a headcrab on its face, and acted like a headcrab. Now, just to make it clear to those of you that don't know, "acting like a headcrab" means leaping at and latching onto people's heads and controlling them while slowly eating them. The Nightmare Retardant kicked in when I heard its cry. It was... unexpected.

It's hard for me to show fear against Lord Saddler when I found out he was voiced by a certain gopher.

This troper normally scares easy (he literally can't watch Flubber because he can't stand seeing anything living being eaten on screen), yet he can read some pretty horrifying stuff (the key word is READ) without batting an eyelid. Why? The written word has little power over him unless the emotion is particularly strong. Examples which he does find chilling are the descriptions of the film "The Human Centiped", examples which he does not find chilling include large amounts of H P Lovecraft (who is otherwise a pretty good writer), Stephen King and lyrics for songs (until he hears them, that is). Sadly, this leaves him open to lots of FridgeHorror.

This torper used to be scared of the slenderman, well until he heard the Slenderman wants 20 dollars joke , and i heard the theme song [[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-rwyCtbV5o]] , now everytime im alone and think that the slenderman is behind me i put on this song and picture the slenderman doing breakdance

The video of the screaming episode of Candle Cove would be creepy except that the red muppet with the Christmas tree is so funny in the way it contrasts with everything else, and the fact that it does not fit at all with the rest of the video makes it so funny that it's impossible to be scared.

I honestly thought the North American boss theme from ''SonicCD'' was funny. Yes, nowadays I can see why people find it creepy, but I never took it seriously because at one point, it sounds like Eggman is belching loudly.

This troper is normally a ''very'' severe pyrophobe, but Father's ability to burst into flame doesn't scare her much anymore. Why? In one episode in the arctic base, he got drenched in water every time he turned his flame on due to the ice above him melting.