Category:Nightmare Fuel: Difference between revisions

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This is an [[Audience Reaction]], so leave it on YMMV and '''Nightmare Fuel''' tabs and don't get too worked up about what specifically goes into it - what's [[Nightmare Retardant]] for one person may well be '''Nightmare Fuel''' for another.

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* [[Super-Persistent Predator|Being hunted]] '''[[Hunting the Most Dangerous Game|AND]]''' [[Implacable Man|chased endlessly.]]

* Think you're safe behind the [[Fourth Wall]] because it is Fiction? '''[[The Fourth Wall Will Not Protect You|THINK AGAIN!]]'''

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Tropes used to invoke this feeling are [[Horror Tropes]]. Tropes ''about'' fear are [[Fear Tropes]]. If it is meant to scare but fails to deliver, and [[Narm|becomes hilarious instead]], it devolves into [[Nightmare Retardant]]. Characters that are this [[In-Universe]] are [[The Dreaded]]. Personal examples are [[Troper Tales]] and do not belong here. ~~There may be real life things that induce fear, but [[No Real Life Examples, Please]] There's just too many to document as the degree of fear varies from person to person.~~

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Tropes used to invoke this feeling are [[Horror Tropes]]. Tropes ''about'' fear are [[Fear Tropes]]. If it is meant to scare but fails to deliver, and [[Narm|becomes hilarious instead]], it devolves into [[Nightmare Retardant]]. Characters that are this [[In-Universe]] are [[The Dreaded]]. Personal examples are [[Troper Tales]] and do not belong here.

There may be real life things that induce fear, but [[No Real Life Examples, Please]] There's just too many to document as the degree of fear varies from person to person.