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Alice and Bob are in the cinema, watching a highly gory movie, [[Take Our Word for It|which we don't see]]. Alice is really scared, hiding behind the popcorn and holding Bob for comfort. Bob thinks he's in with a chance.
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This is often inverted for humorous purposes; the guy might ''think'' the girl will be scared, [[Screams Like a Little Girl|but he's the one who freaks out.]] There's also the possibility that she's [[Invoked Trope|putting on an act]] just to get closer to Bob (Similarly, when it's played straight, the guy might [[Invoked Trope|deliberately]] take his squeamish girlfriend to a scary movie so she'll freak out and want him to hold her). But for maximum [[Crowning Moment of Heartwarming|heartwarming]] points, combine the two; Alice can tell that Bob is terrified but too macho to admit it, and plays the [[Damsel in Distress]] to make ''him'' feel better.
This trope isn't usually true in real life, but is sometimes played with strangely. Given that, according to
Compare [[Kids Shouldn't Watch Horror Films]].
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== [[Anime]] and [[Manga]] ==▼
▲== Anime and Manga ==
* Subverted in ''[[Toradora!]]'': {{spoiler|Minori Kushieda}} pretends to be scared senseless by all things horror when, in fact, she [[Nightmare Fetishist|loves horror movies]] and thus, encourages others to try scaring her.
* Played straight in an episode of ''[[Kanon]]'' with Ayu and Yuuichi, during which Ayu displays an immense variety in her trademark "Uguu~!" [[Catch Phrase]].
* ''[[Ranma ½]]'': Akane gets scared stiff watching horror movies or other fake scary
* Kozue does it to Godai in ''[[Maison Ikkoku]]'' as part of her cunning yet innocent plot to ensnare him.
* Inverted in ''[[Urusei Yatsura]]'' chapter 36: when Ataru and Lum go for a ride on a "horror coaster", Lum actually frightens the "monsters" instead of being frightened by them. Whenever Ataru's paying attention, though, she pretends to be frightened, just to have a reason to cling to him.
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* Subverted in ''[[Yankee-kun to Megane-chan]]'': Shinagawa takes a date to a zombie movie with this in mind. Not only is the girl unaffected by the movie, two male friends they run into at the theater spend the entire movie clinging to Shinagawa in terror.
* ''[[The Idolmaster (anime)|THE iDOLM@STER]]'' - Yukiho and Makoto get really scared of Iori's ghost stories.
* ''[[Cardcaptor Sakura]]'': Among her circle of friends, only
== [[Comic Books]] ==▼
▲== Comic Books ==
* There's a comic in ''[[Archie Comics]]'' where Betty is a great fan of horror films... Veronica can't stand them, but on the advice of Jughead, she buys Betty a ticket to a marathon of 10 horror movies (to get it out of Betty's system). Betty at first asks Veronica to come with her; turns out the ticket's for two (too scary to watch on your own). Veronica says no way — can't Betty find someone else? Quick realization: The only person in town who really loves horror films the way Betty does is... Archie. And, of course, they use the shows as a great chance to cuddle in "terror". ("Think this'll be scarier than the last one?" "Oooh, Archie... I hope so!" kinda thing)
** Another ''Archie'' cover had Archie insisting that horror films didn't scare him, and Betty asking why, then, he was biting ''her'' nails.
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** In yet another comic, Archie decides to help Betty get over her fear of horror movies by renting the most terrifying ones at the store. By the time they get through all of them, Betty is in love with horror movies, but Archie can no longer enjoy them...
** One comic has a boy renting a horror video to watch with Sabrina, for the reason in the trope's description. Turns out she thinks it's hilarious, and the events in her house freak the guy out, and he bails.
* During a nine-part serial that reveal her to the world, the [[Silver Age]] [[Supergirl]]
== [[Fan
* In ''[[Kyon: Big Damn Hero]]'', Kyon's sister's friend Miyoko loves horror movies and invites him to see ''[[Saw]]'' with her. On the other hand, Haruhi invites herself and Mikuru along, and to say the least, [[Security Cling|they don't take it in as much stride]]-- [[Genre Savvy|exactly as Haruhi planned]].
* Inverted in one [[Naruto]]/Hinata fan comic, in which Naruto watches a movie with Team 8. Hinata thinks to herself that the movie is too badly made to scare her enough to jump into Naruto's lap. Eventually, however, Naruto jumps into hers, and [[Shipper on Deck|Shino thinks that it's an unexpected way of getting the desired outcome]].
== Films -- Live-Action ==▼
* Thoroughly subverted in ''[[Scream (film)|Scream]] 4'', where Kirby is a huge fan of horror movies.
** Also subverted with Casey and [[Final Girl|Sidney]] in the first film. The former was getting ready to watch one when Ghostface called, and while the latter doesn't like horror movies, that's mainly because she thinks they're [[Cliché Storm|cliched]] and [[Unfortunate Implications|misogynistic]] rather than scary.
* In ''Sergeant Bilko'':
{{quote|'''Major Thorn:''' If any of this is frightening, just hold onto me.
'''Rita:''' They're [[Let's All Go to the Lobby|dancing Raisinettes]].
'''Major Thorn:''' [[Nightmare Fuel|And you don't find that terrifying?]] }}
* Inverted with ''[[Mr. Bean]]''. Then again, he's [[The Ditz]].
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* In a variant, the young woman visiting Murderers' Row at a wax museum on ''[[The Twilight Zone]]'' gets scared by the realistic figures, and her date reassures her.
* [[Michael Jackson]]'s video for "[[Thriller (song)|Thriller]]".▼
{{quote|''Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together/All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen''}}▼
== [[Newspaper Comics]] ==
* Norwegian comic strip ''[[Nemi]]'' has one comic where this is inverted. The scene is pretty much as described above, except gender-flipped, and the titular character herself is thinking, "Well, this isn't exactly what I had in mind when I suggested seeing a horror movie, but I suppose the results are the same..."
* Jon hopes to comfort Liz in this manner in ''[[Garfield]]'', but he ends up frightened instead.
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{{quote|'''Roger:'''...and if the movie got even a little bit scary, you would practically jump into my arms. Like you needed an excuse.}}
== [[Radio]] ==
▲== Music Videos ==
▲* [[Michael Jackson]]'s video for "Thriller".
▲{{quote|''Now is the time for you and I to cuddle close together/All through the night I'll save you from the terror on the screen''}}
▲== Radio ==
* An episode of ''[[Adventures in Odyssey]]'' bring a scary movie over for a sleepover. The girls started to get freaked, although they tried not to show it.
== [[Video Games]] ==
* Lampshaded in ''[[Da Capo]]'' during Junichi's date with Mako. His reaction to her terror at having to see the movie is basically an incredulous, "Seriously? What are you, one of the main heroines of some dating sim?"
* The final rank of [[Defrosting Ice Queen|Mitsuru Kirijo]]'s [[Level Up At Intimacy 5|Social]] [[The Power of Friendship|Link]] involves watching a horror movie in her room. Mitsuru asks [[Les Yay|if the Female Protagonist would mind holding her hand]]. The Female Protagonist herself seems quite eager to watch the movie.
== [[Web Comics]] ==
* While this trope [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20081216.html pays off] for [[Unlucky Everydude|Gary]] in ''[[
* Inverted [https://web.archive.org/web/20110907064204/http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=341 here] in [[Fanboys (webcomic)|Fanboys]].▼
▲* While this trope [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20081216.html pays off] for [[Unlucky Everydude|Gary]] in ''[[MenageA3|Ménage à 3]]'', the next movie [[Depraved Bisexual|Zii]] and [[Innocent Fanservice Girl|Di]][[Marshmallow Hell|Di]] watch is notorious Spanish horror flick [[REC]]. That goes [http://www.menagea3.net/d/20090101.html rather less well], or alternately, [[Girl-On-Girl Is Hot|even better]].
▲* Inverted [http://fanboys-online.com/index.php?comic=341 here] in [[Fanboys (webcomic)|Fanboys]].
* [[Played for Laughs]] in ''Dangerously Chloe'' when Naomi on a date with Teddy shrieks at a silly movie about invasion of busty, shapeshifting "Killer Bikini Babes From Neptune" with horns and tails. Of course, this ''could'' have ''something'' to do with Naomi earlier catching a glimpse of two shapeshifting, large-chested, with horns and tails [[Horny Devils|succubi]] who live in his house and [[Mistaken for Aliens|jumping to a reasonable, but slightly wrong conclusion]]...
== [[Western Animation]] ==▼
* ''[[The Simpsons (animation)|The Simpsons]]'' The episode "Colonel Homer" has one scene in which Bart and Lisa go to see Space Mutants VI:▼
▲== Western Animation ==
▲* ''[[The Simpsons]]'' The episode "Colonel Homer" has one scene in which Bart and Lisa go to see Space Mutants VI:
{{quote|'''Bart''': If you don't watch the violence, you'll never get desensitized to it.
'''Lisa (covering her eyes):''' Just tell me when the scary part's over.
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** Factor in age and it stops falling into this trope.
** There was also one of the original [[Old Shame|Tracey Ullman Simpsons shorts]] were Bart and Lisa went to a horror movie. Bart pesters Lisa to not act "like a girl" during the scary parts. Naturally, Bart is the one who freaks out.
* In an episode of ''[[The Grim Adventures of Billy
* An episode of ''[[
* ''[[The Little Rascals]]'' cartoon episode "Wash and Werewolf" begins at one of Greenpoint's movie theaters, where the boys took Darla to a 3D horror movie, despite her wanting to see a romantic film at a different theater. What scared Darla was not the film itself (she didn't stay to watch it), but Alfalfa's prank before the film began.
* Averted in ''[[Total Drama Island]]'', where the most scared character was [[Gentle Giant]] DJ. Gwen and Izzy both liked it (along with Duncan), while Heather and Leshawna didn't seem any more bothered than the remaining guys.
* Backfired when attempted in ''[[Generator Rex]]''. Instead of one girl clinging to each of the boys, both latched onto Rex. Didn't work well when tried with a haunted house either.
== [[Real Life]] ==▼
▲== Real Life ==
* Though this trope isn't [[Truth in Television]] most of the time, you are probably more likely to find a girl who'll admit that she's scared of horror movies, probably because many people think this trope exists in [[Real Life]].
* Subverted, in that a number of horror franchises marketed towards girls. It's a tv series, of course, but almost every episode in series 1-3 ''Supernatural'' was structured like a horror movie (with a good number of scares) , and this didn't stop it having a strong (possibly rabid) female base. There might have been [[Mr. Fanservice|other reasons]] [[Ho Yay|why this occurred]], but it wouldn't have happened at all if all girls were really scared of horror movies. In terms of actual horror movie franchises that have been successfully aimed at girls, you have the ''[[Ginger Snaps]]'' and ''Whispering Corridors'' movies, among others.
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[[Category:Double Standard]]
[[Category:Fear Tropes]]
[[Category:Gender and Sexuality Tropes]]▼
[[Category:Stereotype]]
[[Category:Women Are Delicate]]
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