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** In 3.5 and [[Pathfinder]], it's not a magical or psionic effect: dragons are just plain scary. Mechanically, if a dragon with greater hit dice than you does anything threatening, you have to roll your save.
* This is how Scarecrow, {{spoiler|and Ra'as Al Ghul, who is directing him,}} plans to destroy Gotham in ''[[Batman Begins]]''. His cronies dump the fear drug into the water supply and vaporize it to drive a large chunk of the city insane.
* One of these was used in the ''[[
* ''[[Charmed (TV)|Charmed]]'' gives us Barbas, the Demon of Fear, who is able to read the worst fear of his targets, and make them believe they are living it through illusions. He's even able to kill his victims his way.
** His flipped-universe counterpart is a hippie who lives in a beautiful garden and inspires the emotion of [[Care Bear Stare|hope]].
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=== [[Unstoppable Rage|Anger]] ===
Despite being one of the least subtle emotions, anger requires perhaps the most finesse to weaponize effectively. Afflicting someone you're already fighting with [[Unstoppable Rage]] is... unwise. (Though it can be used to your advantage if you remove their ability to think straight--some video game foes can cause absolute devestation by inflicting the Berserk [[Standard Status Effects|status]] (while others can have their ability to inflict damage or defend themselves completely nullified). But if you can deploy it from a safe distance before or between fights, especially if their alliance against you is already a case of [[Teeth
* This is its own subtrope, [[Hate Plague]], so examples go there.
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