Face Your Fears: Difference between revisions

* This is basically a major theme of [[Green Lantern]] and its adaptations (especially the [[Live Action Adaptation]]). Basically, there's a warning to the worshipers of Evil's might: when a Green Lantern learns to do that, Beware his power!

** The Sinestro Corps work using the opposite. Just like Green Lanterns must face their worst fears, so they can overcome them and use the full potential of their rings, the Sinestros must embrace them. Usually, they fight using their own fears as well as the ones of their victims.

 

== [[Film]] ==

* This is a major theme in ''[[Batman Begins]]'', where [[Knight Templar|Henri Ducard]] tells Bruce Wanye to breathe in his fears, to become fear so as to conquer it, makes him open a case of bats during training, etc... but after Bruce leaves the League of Shadows he decides to walk into a cave where he surrounds himself with bats, and he learns to not let fear get in his way... hence his later courage in confronting crime.

* Kevin has to face his fear of his basement furnace in the first ''[[Home Alone]]'' movie.

{{quote| '''Raiden:''' ''Goro can be killed, and Shang Tsung's power can be destroyed by Mortal men and women. You can overcome any adversary, no matter what they are or what their powers may seem there is always a way. There is only one thing that can beat you: your own fear.'' }}

 

== [[Literature]] ==

** There is also the nerve-induction box, better known as the Gom Jabbar test. A student must place his hand in the box, which makes flesh feel like it's on fire. If he removes the hand, he'll be killed by the Gom Jabbar, a poisoned needle. The purpose of the test is to prove that the student is truly "human", in that their reason is more powerful than their instincts. The test is more about pain and instinct than fear, but fear plays into it somewhat.

* In ''[[The Wheel of Time]]'', the test to become accepted involves going through three archways which produce scenes that reflect the girl in question's fears.

{{quote| ''After a few weeks, when Freckles learned that he was still living, that he had a home, and the very first money he ever had possessed was safe in his pockets, he began to grow proud. He yet side-stepped, dodged, and hurried to avoid being late again, but he was gradually developing the fearlessness that men ever acquire of dangers to which they are hourly accustomed.<br />

His heart seemed to be leaping when his first rattler disputed the trail with him, but he mustered courage to attack it with his club. After its head had been crushed, he mastered an Irishman's inborn repugnance for snakes sufficiently to cut off its rattles to show Duncan. With this victory, his greatest fear of them was gone. '' }}

 

== [[Video Games]] ==

* Not necessarily fears, but most of ''[[Persona 4]]'' has to do with the main characters facing the manifestations of their insecurities. Although this is [[Shut UP, Hannibal|after they've rejected them]], and then the rest of the party [[Violence Is the Only Option|has to beat the crap out of the shadow]] to keep it from killing the original.

 

== [[Western Animation]] ==

* ''[[Scooby Doo]]'' has some moments when the [[Cowardly Lion|titular]] [[Lovable Coward|character]] would realize he was the only thing standing between his friends and the villain, and promptly curbstomps them in an incredible display of courage. One example is the second live-action movie, ''Monsters Unleashed'', where, backed into a corner he pretty much saves the day.

* ''[[Recess]]'': When TJ develops a fear of "The Box" (which is basically solitary confinement), Gretchen suggests framing TJ for a crime so he'll have to face his fear. However, she does lampshade the fact that this would either force him to face his fear or just make things worse.

{{quote| When I was a little filly and the sun was going down,<br />

the darkness, and the shadows, they would always make me frown.<br />

She said, Pinkie you gotta stand up tall, learn to face your fears,<br />

you'll see that they can't hurt you, just laugh to make them disappear! }}

 

== [[Real Life]] ==